Baby Dramatics

Summary

The Read – Episode: “Baby Dramatics”
Hosts: Kid Fury & Crissle
Release Date: September 18, 2025

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Episode Overview

In “Baby Dramatics,” Kid Fury and Crissle return with their signature blend of pop culture shade, candid personal updates, and real-talk therapy. From celebrating Black excellence in the entertainment industry to unpacking viral dances, questionable celebrity life choices, the politics of parenthood, and (in a momentous centerpiece) the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s death, this episode’s tone is sharply hilarious yet deeply incisive. As always, therapy, boundaries, grief, and Black joy run thematically throughout.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Personal Updates and Birthdays

Timestamps: 01:57 – 02:43

• Crissle reflects on her recent quiet birthday, grateful for the calm:
  “It was lovely and quiet just like I wanted it to be. I spent the day overthinking and being a mother. But yeah, it was exactly what I needed it to be.” (01:59, Crissle)
• The duo share mutual exhaustion from recent friend celebrations, setting the relatable tone for the show.

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2. Black Excellence: Tramell Tillman’s Emmy Win

Timestamps: 02:43 – 05:52

• Kid Fury praises Tramell Tillman’s historic Emmy win for “Severance,” noting he’s the first Black and openly gay winner for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama.
  “First black person to win supporting actor in a drama series. First openly gay person to win this award. Did not even know this man was gay.” (04:02, Kid Fury)
• Discussion on the slow pace of recognition for Black actors and Apple TV’s minimal but effective marketing:
  “Apple TV not Promoting, like, zero marketing in their programming. They’re like, no sweeping.” (06:13, Kid Fury)
• Crissle jokes about Apple firing their head of marketing:
  “I did not know y’all had one.” (06:36, Crissle)

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3. Atlanta Virality: “Innit” Dance & Internet Trends

Timestamps: 07:13 – 11:12

• Kid Fury tries decoding the popular “Innit” dance and ATL music trends after witnessing Rumi Carter do the viral dance.
• Crissle explains the nuances of how viral dances migrate between songs and platforms, especially through TikTok.
• Spirited back-and-forth about generational internet confusion:
  “This is the most unk ass conversation.” (11:02, Crissle)

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4. Roblox, Bratz & Gaming as Grown-Ups

Timestamps: 11:12 – 18:55

• Kid Fury admits to discovering “Dress to Impress” on Roblox, detailing hilarities of being a grown-up among child players:
  “I assume that most of those people 11 years old are single digits. Yes. Like, I’m not talking to you. I’m giving you your little stars.” (12:15, Kid Fury)
• Reflection on the wholesome appeal of doll dress-up games, despite expectation never to play them as adults.
• Crissle rejects gaming fads geared at kids, draws the line at Bratz and “urban Barbie doll games,” but acknowledges playing the Bluey videogame.

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5. Toy & Plushie Antics: Gen-Z Kitsch

Timestamps: 15:48 – 18:55

• Kid Fury debuts a new (potentially demonic) plushie named Labeija, invoking “Where The Wild Things Are” references.
• Crissle is horrified:
  “Not this demon. Get that out of my face. Why is it so Big. Why is it so big? Oh, no.” (15:48, Crissle)
• The duo reflect on the joys (and perils) of adult toy collecting.

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6. “Scary Movie” Reboot & Edgy Comedy Discourse

Timestamps: 19:09 – 24:45

• Discussion of Marlon Wayans’ upcoming “Scary Movie," with concerns the humor will "offend" marginalized groups, especially with transphobic jokes.
  “Is this setting us up with some transphobia?... I hope that’s not a setup for pissing off people who are already disenfranchised by the system.” (19:46–20:04, Crissle)
• Reflection on whether comedians, especially from the Wayans legacy, have learned to balance boundary-pushing with not harming disenfranchised groups:
  “There are very smart ways to make jokes about any damn group of people without that group watching your thing and going, wow, I feel some type of way, right?” (23:24, Kid Fury)

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7. Riff on Nick Cannon’s “Trauma Response” Parenting

Timestamps: 27:31 – 31:46

• Kid Fury and Crissle react to Nick Cannon’s claim that fathering many children was a “trauma response” to his divorce from Mariah Carey.
• Crissle is dismissive:
  “Niggas will say any fucking thing.” (29:38, Crissle)
• The segment critiques the celebrity trope of using trauma as a scapegoat for questionable lifestyle decisions, especially when parental accountability is absent.

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8. Cardi B’s Pregnancy, Tour Plans & “Bird Behavior”

Timestamps: 31:59 – 47:50

• Cardi B’s public announcement of pregnancy with her new boyfriend, plans to tour right after gives birth, and her “I stretch” preparation become a running joke:
  “I stretch. I stretch. And right after stretches, she did not. Say she worked out. She said, I’ve been stretching.” (33:36, Kid Fury; 33:39–34:19, Crissle)
• Crissle delivers a passionate and critical monologue about the responsibilities of motherhood and the dangers of “cavalier” celebrity parenting: “Kids aren’t toys. If you don't believe in abortion, then you need to believe in contraceptive. Use your butt. Use your throat.” (47:43, Crissle)
• The discussion indicts both men and women for messy public family planning.
• Notable shade is thrown at Cardi and Offset’s relationship patterns, as well as broader “bird” stereotypes in hip-hop culture.

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9. Pop Culture & AI Antics

Timestamps: 49:51 – 54:57

• Reflection on the rise of AI-generated music responses (e.g., Mariah the Scientist), and the absurdity of using planetary resources to make these “fakes.”
• GloRilla’s diss check for Brianna is celebrated, with Crissle highlighting the humor: “She chewed that nigga up; she’s great and he deserved it.” (53:31, Crissle)

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10. Celebrity Gossip Briefs

Timestamps: 55:03 – 62:01

• Lil Nas X’s legal troubles and subsequent entry into treatment after a public incident is discussed with empathy:
  “So somewhere, hopefully getting help that he needs.” (55:53, Kid Fury)
• Chris Brown’s social media meltdown after colorism accusations, and Kayla Nicole’s public Chris Brown stage appearance, are both roasted.
  “That Brown girl's comment, I guess, reignited the controversy because we know Chris Brown do not like him darker than no paper bag.” (60:24, Crissle)
• The hosts candidly critique performative social media empowerment and colorist histories in R&B.

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11. Listener Letters: Boundaries, Mental Health, and Parental Guilt

Timestamps: 69:09 – 109:31

• Bettina asks about workplace ambition vs. mental health after a bipolar diagnosis; both hosts stress prioritizing health, setting boundaries, and normalizing professional pullback:
  “It’s always for the best to just make the healthy decision because more often than not, the work and the passion will not leave you behind.” (72:14, Kid Fury) “You have to be realistic about what you’re going through and adjust your expectations for that. There’s nothing wrong with doing your best while working within your limitations.” (85:14, Crissle)
• Ziana asks if she should feel guilty for preparing to evict her mother after years of unpaid support; both hosts absolve her, highlighting the difference between supportive care and unhealthy enablement.

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12. The Read: Charlie Kirk’s Death and Conservative Hypocrisy

Timestamps: 111:01 – 140:41

• The show’s signature “Read” segment unleashes unapologetic critical commentary on the public and political reaction to far-right commentator Charlie Kirk’s death.
• Kid Fury and Crissle dissect the absurdity of demands for public mourning, especially from those who championed hate and violence:
  “Not nary one of y’all bitches are going to force anybody to grieve that piece of shit. We just weren’t.” (115:35, Kid Fury) “Proverbs 11:10 says, ‘When the righteous prosper, the city rejoices. When the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.’ You have heard shouts of joy over the past seven days because a wicked person perished.” (127:19, Crissle)
• They highlight the disconnect between mainstream media, celebrity, and marginalized communities:
  “I'm supposed to mourn that? … His children are better off. They're better off.” (136:46, Crissle)
• The reading ends on a resounding note:
  “Rest in hell. Marinate in pig for the rest of all time. As far as I’m concerned, Charlie Kirk, we are better. We’re better off without you.” (140:41, Crissle)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “First black person to win supporting actor in a drama series. First openly gay person to win this award. Did not even know this man was gay.” – Kid Fury, 04:02
• “This is the most unk ass conversation.” – Crissle, 11:02 (reacting to their confusion with TikTok dance trends)
• “What do I look like arguing with somebody who was born in 2012?” – Crissle, 12:29
• “Kids aren’t toys. If you don't believe in abortion, then you need to believe in contraceptive. Use your butt. Use your throat.” – Crissle, 47:43
• “Not nary one of y’all bitches are going to force anybody to grieve that piece of shit. We just weren’t.” – Kid Fury, 115:35
• “Rest in hell. Marinate in pig for the rest of all time. As far as I’m concerned, Charlie Kirk, we are better. We’re better off without you.” – Crissle, 140:41

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Episode Tone & Takeaways

• Tone: Flippant, candid, irreverent, but deeply empathetic when addressing mental health, boundaries, and the realities of Black life.
• Themes: Intergenerational internet culture, Black joy/recognition, the burdens of celebrity, navigating trauma, parental guilt, anti-Black violence and public hypocrisy, boundaries at work & at home.

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For First-time Listeners

This episode of “The Read” is a pitch-perfect example of Kid Fury and Crissle’s signature blend of pop culture commentary, scathing social analysis, and vulnerable truth-telling. It’s laugh-out-loud funny, emotionally resonant, and refreshingly honest – particularly in addressing issues of mental health, parental boundaries, and collective grief (or the lack thereof) for public figures who have harmed marginalized communities. No topic is off-limits, and no “trying star” is safe.

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Advertisements, intro, and outro have been omitted for brevity and content continuity.

Transcript

[Kfury]

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[Crystal]

Great.

[Kfury]

Wait, mostly not you. Okay, well.

[Crystal]

Oh, no, I am. I just, I, you know, I feel like most of us are.

[Kfury]

I was talking about the other, the person who said no, not you.

[Crystal]

I can never tell when it's a bit and when you're actually. Somebody said no, I actually don't. Real bad. Oh, no.

[Kfury]

How are you? How was your birthday?

[Crystal]

It was lovely and quiet just like I wanted it to be. I spent the day overthinking and being a mother. But yeah, it was exactly what I needed it to be. Thank you so much to everybody who reached out with well wishes and all of that. But you know, Jade's big 40th birthday celebration was this past weekend. So it was like this kind of both of our birthday party, girl.

[Kfury]

Yeah, it's partying enough for the both of us, if that makes sense.

[Crystal]

It was party and like we went to dinner on Tuesday and that was all. I could not have asked for shit else after all the brunches and parties we did this weekend. So. But yeah, you know, it's a new year for me and I'm looking forward to it.

[Kfury]

Great. That's good to hear. Well, folks, let's get our usual suspects lined up here. We're gonna start with some black excellence that I am going to give black excellence this week over to talented, the successful and handsome Tramell Tillman, who won the primetime annually world outstanding supporting actor in a series that is drama for his portrayal of Mr. Milchick on Apple TV's Severance. Very celebrated show and very well deserved win for Mr. Tillman because Seth Milchick, if you watch Severance, this man does a very good job of capturing the simultaneous levels of charm and uncanny terror that exists within that character.

[Crystal]

Got you. Yikes.

[Kfury]

And then eventually there's a little sympathy you get for him, but then also, like, it's just a really great ride. You get to watch a supporting character.

[Crystal]

Sounds like Ava.

[Kfury]

Go on in a show fair.

[Crystal]

Sounds like Ava's journey.

[Kfury]

And yeah, first black person to win supporting actor in a drama series. First openly gay person to win this award. Did not even know this man was gay.

[Crystal]

Right.

[Kfury]

Same. So. And I also read that this is like the. Finally, the Emmy has given away awards to black people across the board. I feel like this was like the. I think I read that this was like the one category that still ain't have a black winner.

[Crystal]

Damn. Okay, so they said here. Damn. Shut up. But it sounds like he's very deserving. I've never seen that show. Despite all of the incredible reviews it's gotten, I've still never seen not Succession, Severance. But now that I know y' all are giving black people their well deserved awards for their performances, I might need to tune in.

[Kfury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kfury]

And I mean, that category, by the way, funny enough, was like Severance and White Lotus. It was like three people from Severance, three people from White Lotus, and there was like one other person maybe from, like, the Pit. Okay. So they. It was just like, somebody from White Lotus is gonna win or somebody from Severance is gonna win this.

[Crystal]

Just prepare yourselves for that.

[Kfury]

Okay.

[Crystal]

Yeah, why not?

[Kfury]

But he deserved it. Cause his character, like I said, goes from you being like, oh, he's cool and so nice, and his hair is so excellently done. And then it's like, I'm kind of frightened. But that show's just. That's kind of the show. It's weird. It's peculiar. It's. Yeah, it's a good show. And also it's probably one of those that you could watch. Like, I don't think if you turned it off, I don't think it would be like, oh, this is too violent.

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kfury]

I think you might turn it off because it's like, this is creepy in a way that I'm not sure I can explain yet. But I'm not gonna.

[Crystal]

I'm not gonna stick around. So, like, something weird is going on up in here. I could tell.

[Kfury]

I don't like it.

[Crystal]

I don't like that. That's very valid. Good to know.

[Kfury]

Apple tv not Promoting, like, zero marketing in their programming. They're like, no sweeping.

[Crystal]

Find out the app. You'll just find out about it. You'll just find out everything.

[Kfury]

Actor, writer, director. They're winning. They the studio severance, bitch. They cleared the board. Work with an Apple show. It's word of mouth. They're not putting a billboard anywhere.

[Crystal]

Yeah, I saw some months ago that they fired whoever their head of marketing was. And I'm like, I did not know y' all had one.

[Kfury]

Correct.

[Crystal]

What did that nigga have to do?

[Kfury]

Nothing.

[Crystal]

He just showed up, got on teams, meetings. Good job, everybody. Keep it up. We have good show. The shows advertise themselves, which it seems that way. I mean, y' all are doing quite well. So congratulations.

[Kfury]

Okay, let's get into some hot tops this week, and let's talk about what's going on in the world of everything else.

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kfury]

First of all, a couple of updates for me. Personal updates. I went on quest for discovery behind the origins of I'm talking about in it.

[Crystal]

Oh, wow.

[Kfury]

Now, I know y' all talked. I know y' all tell me, oh, I'm so atl. And y' all tell me, oh, it's a dance. And I don't remember what I heard it again referenced this past weekend. And I was like, all right, I have to see this done. I have to just see where this came from, because I still haven't. So I went and I looked up the videos, and I'm still confused. I don't know what y' all talking about. I've heard. First of all, I listened to the whim whammy song Udo and YK Nie. YK Amazing. Amazing. Yk neice Amazing. I mean, and that's where the in it comes from.

[Crystal]

Yeah. Like.

[Kfury]

Cause y' all said, I'm so atl, which is also a great song. Bankroll Nye.

[Crystal]

But people do this dance, and then the.

[Kfury]

They do the dance.

[Crystal]

Yes.

[Kfury]

So that's why I think the dance is from her song.

[Crystal]

Well, yes. So. Right. I'm talking about any. Right.

[Kfury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

Yes. So people were doing that same dance for the I'm so atl. But then I think you saw it when Rumi did it. So then it was.

[Kfury]

Yeah, that's how I saw it.

[Crystal]

Right. So then it was a question of. Was Rumi doing. I'm talking about in it. Like. No, she probably doing I'm so atl. Cause they were in Atlanta. It's more likely that blue let her see the I'm so atl. Like, we gonna do it Together, me and you, when we go on stage. So, yeah, that's.

[Kfury]

And watch the video for I'm so atl. And it starts with the girl who I love. I loved all of these young ladies saying, like, I'm gonna show you. She talked to little girl. I'll show you how to get in there. And she does her little eat it up dance. And that's. And so I'm waiting for the part in the song where she says, I'm talking about in it. And I didn't hear it right.

[Crystal]

No.

[Kfury]

I was like, okay, so wait, what? I'm confused. So they went back to the Wim Whammy song. Oh, Lord.

[Crystal]

All right.

[Kfury]

And the dance is not in that song. And so I'm like, what are y' all talking about? And I had to listen to it. First of all, I had heard both of these songs prior to this.

[Crystal]

This is TikTok. TikTok. TikTok. You have to watch these things.

[Kfury]

I have to be on the phone.

[Crystal]

You have to be on the talk.

[Kfury]

That's right.

[Crystal]

You gotta log into the talk. Doc. Got to.

[Kfury]

Cause the innit is an ad lib.

[Crystal]

Yeah, I'm talking about in it, she.

[Kfury]

Said something about, put this pussy right in his face. I'm talking about, innit, girl? But I had to listen, like, three times because I'm like, where's the innit part? And then I'm like, oh, there it is. Oh, that's delightful. Yeah, that's delightful.

[Crystal]

Yeah, it's great.

[Kfury]

So, yeah, if I had been on TikTok, 2 and 2 would have been 4.

[Crystal]

It would have been. But you wasn't.

[Kfury]

But instead, I got to see the young people out in atl. It reminded me so much of growing up on Crime Mob.

[Crystal]

Ooh. Yep. I could see that with the Stiletto Pups it The club. I know y' all was acting down.

[Kfury]

Oh, bitch, honey.

[Crystal]

I'm coming to the.

[Kfury]

Club shaking my trans. But, you know, like, I love that for the young people. But I was just like, what? I was in there doing. Like, I was the. What's that basketball nigga name with the meme with the calculus in front of his face? You know, where he makes that funny face and they put, like, calculus on the screen. Yes, but I.

[Crystal]

They do that with so many people's gifts and stuff.

[Kfury]

He has, like, a dumb nickname.

[Crystal]

You got to be more.

[Kfury]

Whatever. It doesn't matter.

[Crystal]

It was.

[Kfury]

I was in there taking notes.

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kfury]

I was in there freshman year.

[Crystal]

Okay. All right, all right.

[Kfury]

I just want to understand.

[Crystal]

Cause you did Not.

[Kfury]

And I kind of get it.

[Crystal]

Ok. This is the most unk ass conversation.

[Kfury]

Speaking of, I'm on the Roblox.

[Crystal]

You're on the Roblox.

[Kfury]

I'm on the Roadblocks. Just now for the first time, that dress to be pressed. They got me.

[Crystal]

Are you. Are you in there creating little worlds and such?

[Kfury]

No, there's this game, I guess that exists within the game. Oh there's so many called Dress to Impress.

[Crystal]

Oh, you're playing Dress to Impress.

[Kfury]

Okay, I'm just playing Dress to Impress on the game.

[Crystal]

Got you. And this is. This is fascinating. You and Noah should link up when she's allowed to get on that iPad. Cause Jay said she.

[Kfury]

Yeah, I heard Noah.

[Crystal]

Okay, so she told you. She said I'm gonna have to. You can't get on that iPad until I check your homework first. Cause you in here fucking wilding. So. But when she allowed to get on that iPad, y' all should link up. She said.

[Kfury]

And I know Noah be in that chat reading.

[Crystal]

I pray she don't actually talk to Noah. Every now and then I'm like, Noah, you know you're not supposed to talk to nobody online, right? You don't tell them your real name. You don't tell them you live in Brooklyn or nothing else.

[Kfury]

Like I don't get in that chat at all.

[Crystal]

That's for the best. That's for the best. Cause you grown, so you just start.

[Kfury]

I assume that most of those people 11 years old are single digits. Yes. Like, I'm not talking to you. I'm not talking to you. I'm giving you your little stars.

[Crystal]

What do I look like arguing with somebody who was born in 2012?

[Kfury]

I'm not doing it over a Barbie doll game. I'm not doing. I refuse to engage. I do. See sometimes when the chat pops up, it censors words. So I guess that's what's in there. But I've also heard separately that Roblox has come under fire a lot for not like maybe needing to do more.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kfury]

In terms of boundaries between kids on there and the not kids on there. Yes, I've heard the Barbie doll dress up game got me babes.

[Crystal]

So how are you? Do you be putting together the fits in five minutes or less?

[Kfury]

Oh, Project Runway. Oh, I'm Tim Gunn. Not your Tim Gunn branch. Yeah, well, yeah, I'm sending Zendaya out there to eat it up.

[Crystal]

Oh, okay. Work, work. So you be beating them kids asses.

[Kfury]

Oh no, I don't think I've ever heard. I think I maybe placed. Cause it's like a top three at the end of each other. I think I've been in a top three, like, once.

[Crystal]

Wow.

[Kfury]

But I just have fun doing it and watching the other. It's just for something. For a piece of software that I truly expected to never, ever engage with, ever, ever. And not from a bitter place, but just like, oh, yeah, that's not for me. I'm surprised that I found a section of it that I not only enjoy, I really enjoy.

[Crystal]

Ye. Okay, good.

[Kfury]

There's a Bratz game on Switch that is the same thing I'm on there.

[Crystal]

No, thank you. No, thank you. I'm not playing the Bratz. I'm not playing the urban Barbie doll game. I'm not playing that. Y' all got it. Actually, that's where Ainy Tap stops.

[Kfury]

And you played Bluey the game, you.

[Crystal]

Know, and I didn't get as much leverage and fun out of that as I thought I would. It really.

[Kfury]

It was Bluey the game.

[Crystal]

It was Bluey for kids.

[Kfury]

For real.

[Crystal]

I'm like, oh, it's not like how the show is for adults and kids in a sneaky way. Like, no, this is legit for your children.

[Kfury]

This Bratz game is like Kylie Jenner online. I don't know.

[Crystal]

There we go.

[Kfury]

It's literally just like, where are the Bratz? Which are like a. I don't know. Are they a socialite group? I don't know what the fuck they do, but people know who they are, I guess. And they're like, oh, there's a casting in Paris. We have to fly to Paris and talk to all the people in Paris about what the hottest trend in Paris is.

[Crystal]

Oh, it's the Kim Kardashian game.

[Kfury]

It's leather and.

[Crystal]

Or wool.

[Kfury]

And we have to go get. And then you.

[Crystal]

You have to go dress them up.

[Kfury]

And walk the Runway and then do a rhythm game and outpose the rest of these bitches. Okay, okay. And then they also like, I'm coming back.

[Crystal]

I'm coming back. Yeah, sure.

[Kfury]

You do their hair, makeup, shoes, customized clothing work and send them out in the world to be cunt. It is speaking to the young female. So you're a r. Allowed to play with dolls? Yeah, because. Ooh, you're a boy.

[Crystal]

Conservative parents. Yeah.

[Kfury]

I'm like, this is a toy, and it's fun.

[Crystal]

That don't matter anyway. That don't matter.

[Kfury]

No, it didn't. Last but not least, they got me, gal.

[Crystal]

Not this demon. Get that out of my face. Why is it so Big. Why is it so big? Oh, no.

[Kfury]

I love him so much.

[Crystal]

He got a big demon labubu and is staring dead at me. Why is it so big?

[Kfury]

I love him so much.

[Crystal]

No, it's supposed to be a purse charm. Why is that nigga full size? That's bigger than Link? Why is it so big?

[Kfury]

His name's Labeija.

[Crystal]

Absolutely the fuck not. Why.

[Kfury]

They got me. You know something?

[Crystal]

It's so scary.

[Kfury]

The nail on the head with. With this for me. Because she's like, that's not a labubu. I wish there was that. That's where the wild things are.

[Crystal]

Yes. I was like, oh my God, that's exactly what they are.

[Kfury]

I was like, jade, Jade, the head of the nail.

[Crystal]

The prophet.

[Kfury]

That girl.

[Crystal]

Yes, that's exactly what they're.

[Kfury]

No wonder they got me.

[Crystal]

No, this is the.

[Kfury]

This is. That's where the wall things are.

[Crystal]

Did you buy that after Jade said that or you showed?

[Kfury]

I showed it to her first and she was like, that's not a labubu. It's the word of the wild things.

[Crystal]

Damn. She's correct.

[Kfury]

Girl gagged, flummoxed on the floor. I was like, bitch, you're right.

[Crystal]

So then how did they get you? Because that is so scary and unattractive.

[Kfury]

I just think it's cute.

[Crystal]

Why? What about it is cute?

[Kfury]

He's colorful. He has a little bust down chain here. It's actually a lot more plushy than I thought it would be.

[Crystal]

Well, cause again, most of them are purse charms. They're not supposed to be teddy bears.

[Kfury]

I think he's cute.

[Crystal]

Oh, okay. Them eyes don't scare me, but in.

[Kfury]

A way that the. No, the eyes are probably the cutest part. If anything, the teeth are what's terrifying. The wide toothy, fanged mouth.

[Crystal]

Yeah. Okay.

[Kfury]

Is probably the scary part. The rest of it is very furby adjacent. But where the wild things are. Hit it right. That is really demonic because those things are scary looking. But then you're like, oh, they're sweet. And they want to go on adventure with little tiny children.

[Crystal]

Well, you know, that was a book for kids and was so fun as a child. And that thing you have. I just cannot. What?

[Kfury]

I mean, well, if you look at this room.

[Crystal]

Oh, yes. Okay. It does kind of look like all.

[Kfury]

The children's things in it. Yeah.

[Crystal]

But it looks like an adult who enjoys children's things, not a child.

[Kfury]

There you go.

[Crystal]

Cause you have them. You have them set up. You know, you don't have a toy box. It would be Different. If you had them all in some chest shaped like a pirate's chest or something, that would be different.

[Kfury]

And every year around the holidays, I'm like, okay, this should be for a child. Like, the ones that are boxed. Like, I have a couple of. Like, I'm looking at a one piece figure that's still in the box. A couple of Sailor Moon toys that are still in the box. Sometimes I'm like, okay, cool. That I'm an adult and I love these things and I can have them. A child would play with them.

[Crystal]

Yeah, would really.

[Kfury]

And I'm keeping them. So I usually give some of these stuff away every year, but until then, this looks.

[Crystal]

Oh, God, how scary. Well, I mean, it's your house. You can invite the devil in if you want to.

[Kfury]

That's true. I've lived here this whole time. So what? Different.

[Crystal]

All right.

[Kfury]

Okay. Marlon Wayans says the new scary movie will offend with its jokes, content, and comedy.

[Crystal]

Offend who?

[Kfury]

I don't know. Well, never seen the first two scary movies.

[Crystal]

Okay. I was about to say, because scary movie was never what anybody would call politically correct any fucking way. Hello. So I just want to know who it is you are targeting with these jokes.

[Kfury]

Is this Marlon?

[Crystal]

Is this setting us up with some transphobia?

[Kfury]

That's what I'm thinking. That's what I want to know.

[Crystal]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kfury]

How far are we going?

[Crystal]

Or is it going to be like, Charlie Kirk?

[Kfury]

But doesn't Marlon have.

[Crystal]

Where we can all at?

[Kfury]

Doesn't Marlon have a child that's trans?

[Crystal]

Right. Yes, he does, but.

[Kfury]

So maybe and maybe not.

[Crystal]

But there's been mixed, if I recall correctly. At first it was like, oh, yeah, Marlon's so supportive. And then he said something real stupid, and it was like, wait a minute. I thought she was. You were so supportive. So I'm not. I'm not really sure it was. I don't remember the details because so many niggas say so many stupid things on a weekly basis. But, yeah, I hope that's not a setup for pissing off people who are already disenfranchised by the system. Like, let's make Turning Point USA jokes. Let's talk about Nick Fuentes. You know, I have learned so much this past week when I tell you this. Charlie Kirk nigga, thanks to have you.

[Kfury]

I'm happy to have you. Thanks for coming. Now you understand why.

[Crystal]

Now I see why you were so transfixed.

[Kfury]

Keep it together.

[Crystal]

Right? I'm over here like, okay, some white boy. Who cares? Child, I had no idea. Yeah, right.

[Kfury]

One of the living worst.

[Crystal]

We'll get to it. Well, I don't even want to get into that now, because there's so much to say about all that.

[Kfury]

There's a lot.

[Crystal]

So much.

[Kfury]

Marlon says. It's how we always do it. We just want to make everybody laugh. And we don't care if you're sensitive. Even sensitive people need to laugh at themselves.

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kfury]

Just know that we're not just laughing at you. You get the chance to laugh at others. When we did white chicks, we made fun of everybody. We made fun of black people, white people. We made fun of Hispanic people. That's just what we do. We make fun of the world, make lie to the world. It's not to do harm. It's to bring humor. You may offend people here and there, but, hey, not everyone's joke's gonna land 100%. I feel like you're prepar. Or a pet detective.

[Crystal]

Yep, yep, yep.

[Kfury]

And I gotta tell you, Marlon, I love the fam. I love a lot of what you have given me in terms of comedy growing up.

[Crystal]

Absolutely.

[Kfury]

I'm really looking forward to the new film. The new the him. Jordan. Yeah.

[Crystal]

It scares me. Oh, it scares me because what y' all finna do? Y' all willing to do it?

[Kfury]

You know what they're gonna do?

[Crystal]

Oh, God.

[Kfury]

Broken bones.

[Crystal]

Yep.

[Kfury]

Blood. Cte. Ritual sacrifice.

[Crystal]

Butt sex.

[Kfury]

Probably white people use. Sucking the life force out of niggas.

[Crystal]

No. It's gonna be something.

[Kfury]

The creation of Tom Brady in a.

[Crystal]

Laugh between all of that.

[Kfury]

I'm excited.

[Crystal]

Okay. Yeah. But you were saying about Marlon.

[Kfury]

Yeah, I just. It feels kind of like they are setting us up to be like, yeah, we're going to make fun of those groups and be prepared to feel some type of way. But when you do think about it like this. We're making fun of everybody. That's you, bitch. So there's a way to tell jokes about. It's not the 90s at all.

[Crystal]

It's just very possible to make jokes about people that, you know, groups you're not a part of, et cetera, et cetera, without pissing everybody off. And I'm just hoping that these people who have been doing comedy all of my life and then some, have figured out the lane where you can tell these jokes without bringing real life harm or disdain or mockery to. I'm just saying. I know y' all are capable of it.

[Kfury]

Just let me tell you.

[Crystal]

You're not gonna get it. You're not gonna get it.

[Kfury]

I know you're not getting married.

[Crystal]

Oh, God, let me.

[Kfury]

But you are right, of course. There are very smart ways to make jokes about any damn group of people without that group watching your thing and going, wow, I feel some type of way, right? You can make a joke about someone's identity where the end of the joke, maybe they get the upper hand or someone else looks fucking ridiculous. Or you can do it without being like, aren't these people kind of weird? We're all weird. Right?

[Crystal]

Right. It just don't do that.

[Kfury]

And parody films have done that forever and ever and ever. I heard even the new Naked Gun had a couple offensive jokes in it, which is like, why I didn't even need to make that. Nobody was asking for that at all. So that's interesting.

[Crystal]

All right.

[Kfury]

But, you know, I guess we'll see when we when it comes out. And it will likely, even if it pisses me off and I don't want to talk about it, it'll probably still be leagues funnier than 3, 4, and 5, because those movies should have never been married.

[Crystal]

Well, Harvey Weinstein, I will not argue.

[Kfury]

With you during.

[Crystal]

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[Crystal]

Well, okay.

[Kfury]

And it was a trauma response to losing the baddest bitch, Mariah Carey.

[Crystal]

Um, so. No, no, you had me. How can that be? Having all those kids was a response to your trauma. Yeah, now that.

[Kfury]

Now I'm learning that now. Yeah. And it wasn't. And it wasn't like I was acting out. It was more of acting in, being careless, being frivolous with my process because I could do it because I had the money, because I had the access to whoever and however I wanted to move. And, you know, okay, I'm good. So what? I don't know.

[Crystal]

So he was traumatized by Mariah leaving him and decided he was gonna go have 16 other kids because of that.

[Kfury]

Yeah, because he could.

[Crystal]

Well, that's the same reason all of y' all have children indiscriminately with who the fuck ever Cardi. This is why all of y' all do it, because you can. Because you feel like, oh, I have enough money to have kids, therefore ain't no issue with me having as many kids as I want to. False. But all right. It was one thing you had. You legit had me at first with having all these kids was irresponsible And I was really hoping this back half of that statement was going to be, so this is how I'm taking accountability. This is how I'm growing up. I went and got snipped. I obviously should have did that eight kids ago, but you live and learn. And now I'm on, like, very strict visitation schedules with all these kids. Cause I need to be a part of their lives, even though they're spread across counties and states and time zones. Like, I was hoping that the rest of that was gonna be. And here's how I've changed. This is. You know, that was the nut shit I did irresponsibly. But this is what I'm doing. Not. It was. It was a trauma response from getting divorced. What? Niggas will say any fucking thing.

[Kfury]

And, like, I'm sitting here trying to.

[Crystal]

Well, how.

[Kfury]

Follow footprints and be like, all right, where is this nigga going?

[Crystal]

What was the goal here? To embarrass Mariah Carey by having a bunch of kids? Well, how. How did her leaving trigger this and being like, well, I mean, I had the access. I have the money, and I have a lot of bitches who are willing to let me nut in them. Like, that's. Even people who don't have money have bitches who'll let them nut in them. That's. What is the. What does the divorce have to do with that?

[Kfury]

I don't know.

[Crystal]

Is that because I'm not. It's really not clicking. God damn it.

[Kfury]

I mean, I think it makes sense that some people could grieve after a divorce or even have trauma connected to a divorce. And, I mean, we're talking about Mariah Carey. Losing Mariah Carey probably sucks.

[Crystal]

I'm sure that hurt.

[Kfury]

On top of the fact that Mariah Carey has left the nigga and then sued her for wasting his time and then won. So, like, for wasting her time and then won million.

[Crystal]

So give me some money.

[Kfury]

It's probably not a blast to be in that rear view, but. Yeah, I don't under. I'm not understanding.

[Crystal]

This isn't making sense to me.

[Kfury]

How the connection. I don't. I'm not understanding the connection of, like, that possible trauma. And I'm going to have as many children as I can humanly.

[Crystal]

Right.

[Kfury]

Especially not with this explanation, because I did cut it off because.

[Crystal]

No, no, I didn't need to know that.

[Kfury]

But if it wasn't going to the place of. And here is why. That was ridiculously irresponsible and doesn't make any sense. And I know now That I know now because of this result. That result, that result, that result. This didn't make no sense. Cautionary tale. Let it be one I don't know. That are excuses, and I don't really care, okay? But God bless all 12.

[Crystal]

Yeah. Yeah, God bless them kids who have to deal with the aftermath of you and your ridiculously stupid decisions. You not the only dumb bitch out here just having kids for the fucking fun of it.

[Kfury]

Cardi B. Was on Gayle King promoting her upcoming album, Am I Pregnant? And all right.

[Crystal]

God damn it.

[Kfury]

Okay, so during the interview, Gayle went ahead and asked her, and she said yes. Like, I mean, this is the long and short of it. She's prepared to finally, I guess, tell the truth. Go ahead and admit it and tell the truth and stop wasting people's time and trolling. And, yeah, Gil King asks her if she's. If there's anything that she'd like to share with the class. That's literally how she works.

[Crystal]

She did say that.

[Kfury]

And Cardi said yes. She is pregnant with her boyfriend, Stephan Diggs. She said, I feel very strong, I feel very powerful that she's still doing all of this work and doing it while creating a baby. Gail asked her. Gail said something to the effect of like, yeah, you know, you have this album coming out and you're doing all of this work. I'm not gonna ask you for a due date, but is the baby due this year next? And Cardi just said, the baby is due before I start tour. Kel's like, when's that? February. Gail's like, so you're going on tour in February right after having a baby? She was like, yeah, I'm ready. I'm working now. I stretch.

[Crystal]

I stretch.

[Kfury]

And right after stretches, she did not.

[Crystal]

Say she worked out. She said, I've been stretching.

[Kfury]

I think maybe she said exercise.

[Crystal]

No, you wanted her to say exercise. She said stretch. That bitch said, I stretch. Please find it, because I was agog. Just could not believe it.

[Kfury]

Whoa. Cardi, you're going. You're going to go on tour in February? Yeah. You ready? I'm very ready.

[Crystal]

You.

[Kfury]

Oh, my God. She really did say, I told you.

[Crystal]

I'm getting my body ready.

[Kfury]

That means she just said, I'm getting my body ready. I stretch it out.

[Crystal]

Yep.

[Kfury]

I told you my brain.

[Crystal]

You. You wanted to hear exercise so bad.

[Kfury]

I wanted. I wanted to hear. I didn't hear it.

[Crystal]

No. Cuz she's not doing that. Cuz she's not doing that. She's telling the truth. She's Stretched. She's stretching.

[Kfury]

Okay. She's stretching.

[Crystal]

Yep.

[Kfury]

And she said as soon as she gives birth, it's to a rehearsal. Now, let me tell you something, okay. People who get pregnant, people who have been pregnant, people who work while pregnant work adjoining. I think you're all the wizards. You're a wizard, Harry. Like, I think all of you are magic. And, you know, I respect the fuck out of y' all and your bodies and your abilities.

[Crystal]

Mm.

[Kfury]

Um, this is. That's that how. Because.

[Crystal]

Here you go asking questions you already have.

[Kfury]

You have three.

[Crystal]

Right. Including an actual baby who just turned out a couple of weeks ago.

[Kfury]

A baby. Like, your kids are little.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kfury]

And you're gonna have a newborn.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kfury]

That you're gonna travel around and tour with four kids.

[Crystal]

Under nine, under ten. Okay. All right.

[Kfury]

She did, you know, say or imply here she has the ability to do it. Kind of like what we were just saying about. Like I said, I guess I'm rich. So nanny.

[Crystal]

The nanny will be right there. Yeah.

[Kfury]

And she also said something, when talking about Stephan, about how, like, both of them. It sounds like they're both workhorses and addicted to constantly working or doing the next thing. That's. But when you have four babies, child, and you can't.

[Crystal]

Like, that's not even counting all his kids. Oh. He allegedly. Allegedly has two or three on the way as well. Or just.

[Kfury]

Excuse me, alleged.

[Crystal]

Now, again, this is alleged legit allegedly. Because anybody can go on Instagram and say that.

[Kfury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

But he for sure already has one or two. And she has the three, plus this one. That's bacon now. So. Okay.

[Kfury]

All right, look, I just feel like, ma', am, it's your pussy. I'm not. This isn't, like, make or break an image, like, your image for me. It's just like, if Offset was to go and get some new bitch pregnant or whatever, I'd be like, yep, bird.

[Crystal]

Sound like the type of bird.

[Kfury]

So this is just like, you a bird. Bird shit.

[Crystal]

And this is what birds do.

[Kfury]

I. To be honest with you, as far as Cardi B is concerned, I just hope this album is good and hope her kids get the parenting that they need. Well, and I don't have any immediate. I don't know about this album, but I don't have any immediate concern about the welfare of the children. It is just. I'm just like, girl, you have three babies already by a nigga that you admittedly hate.

[Crystal]

Right.

[Kfury]

And have said that you wanted to.

[Crystal]

Murder and not even divorced from.

[Kfury]

And not even divorced from Yet.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kfury]

And you just met this new nigga, kids that you're still getting to know, and you're like, yep, sign me up for another one. That's not a decision I would make or suggest, but hey, no, I. I'm.

[Crystal]

Not okay with this. I can't. I can't just, oh, it's your pussy, so it's your business. Like, technically, yes, that's true. And a lot of the Cardi Stans are gonna respond, well, she got the money. I'm not talking about. If money was all it took to raise kids, the Trump kids wouldn't be hell like they are. Trump wouldn't be hell like he is. It's not just money. You also need parents who are very mindful and deliberate about bringing you into the world and. And choosing to guide you to adulthood. That is how we raise decent, good people. Yo mama out here giving her pussy to whoever the fuck she wants to and keeping whatever y' all drop off in her fucking uterus is crazy. I was expecting so much more out of Cardi B. Because you are not just some broke, bored bitch in the Bronx who don't have shit else to do. Oh, I ain't got nothing to do today. I ain't got no money to go out. Let me just fucking get pregnant. Like, you have a life, you have a career. You have things to work towards and work for. Like, I just cannot.

[Kfury]

Well, she's a street bitch. I think this show is older than her. Her time in a strip club. Like, she, she. You know what I mean? Like, she's Cardi B. Yes. And met Gala now. And you would like to think that people will go, oh, wow. Things to live for, access time to do better and be better.

[Crystal]

Or having three kids already, maybe because you have so much money, it's not really hitting you because other people are doing so much of the actual day to day childcare work. Maybe it's not hitting you how much. Kids really do need a solid foundation and need their parents to be locked in and engaged with them. You say, oh, well, my kids are fine because it's an assortment of nannies to take care of them 24 7. Your children will be hurting for the lack of their father's presence in their life. If their father is a either lacking because he's a healthy, great dad who's simply not around anymore, or lacking because they deserve a healthy, great dad who's not there and never was there because that's not offset, or who he is or what he does. Either way, the children lose Blossom just turned one, meaning you were fully pregnant. You talking about going on tour in February? All right, it's mid September now, so I'm guessing that means you're knocking on your last trimester, right?

[Kfury]

I would guess so.

[Crystal]

You're going to give birth to this baby probably near the end of the year. Towards the top of the year. And then spend six weeks in surgery and tour rehearsal to then do what? Go on stage and do fucking nothing. I went back and watched Cardi B's performances after she came back after having culture some of the most boring shit you ever seen in your life. And not because of the performance itself. Oh, it's great colors and costumes and dancers and musicians. It's a bunch of shit going on. You know who not doing nothing? Cardi laying down on a fucking round table and letting that shit spin around for half the fucking performance and then getting up and having niggas salsa dance her and twirl her ass around on stage for a little while. She don't do shit. You waited all this God damn time to release another album just to get pregnant in the middle of this album being done and preparing for the. Why? Why, bitch, why? You don't know how to use your butt. You never heard of condoms? You never heard of the iud? You never heard of the pill? You decided to get pregnant by the nigga you cheated on your husband with. Why? This is just dumb bitch shit. This is so fucking stupid. You are bringing a whole new person into the world, girl. It's not playtime. It's not that ugly ass laboo kid Fury just got. It's not some toy you can just toss around. And it don't matter how it feel about nothing. It don't matter about its circumstances. This is a human being.

[Kfury]

Don't listen to her. It's completely fine.

[Crystal]

I just can't believe this dumb bitch of all the time. You had so much time to push out however many kids you fucking wanted to. You chose the most pivotal moment. Getting ready to release your sophomore album and finally go on tour because you canceled it the last time. Why kids to finally do that shit. And now you're like, as soon as I had a bath, I'm ready. I've been stretching. I'm getting my body ready. You getting ready to go lay down and pray that mommy makeover don't kill you like it do so many other women and then do you a little boom kack 1, 2, sidestep on that fucking tour. I hope you girls are ready for her to give you Fucking nothing but unnatural hips. A ridiculous looking what I guarantee you. Like she said she gonna have. Well, Hennessy put her in that faja three seconds after she's done giving birth. Because don't nothing matter to her more than the way she looks. An actual show, you can forget about it.

[Kfury]

Put in what a faja.

[Crystal]

You know the girdle that the. The girl? Yeah, that's the Spanish word for. Yeah, for the. The girdle. Waist trainer thing. Like Hennessy, give me the faja. Yes. Cause don't nothing matter to you more than that. I'm sure you got the surgery already scheduled. And that'll be what you consider tour prep this after we have waited at.

[Kfury]

Home seven, eight years folding laundry. Just wear this shit all day long.

[Crystal]

Yeah, they do. Yeah, they do. And it's like, whatever. You bitches care a lot about that. And that's yalls prerogative. I just don't understand. So being so cavalier about creating a new life and then being like, I'm so proud of myself. I'm working so hard and I'm doing all this while I'm making a baby. That was optional. You did not have to fucking make a baby right now. Only God knows why you did that stupid shit.

[Kfury]

I. God knows I have like a guess I'd put some money on. But I already said it.

[Crystal]

Talking about my. Me and my man. You know, he make me feel so safe. Obviously. Cause he like bigger than me, but you know, also just, you know, he was like, let me heal you. And I was like, okay, all right. So you were tired of the lying, cheating, scamming ass rapper. And you said, let me go get me an ugly ass athlete with rape allegations and multiple kids on the way. Allegations, all kinds of impropriety. Again, allegations. Because anybody could say anything, but they are allegations. They're out there. You said, let me go get me a professional athlete instead. And then getting on video and stuff, talking about it's so crazy having my man. Cause like I work, but I don't work. Like he work. Like he very strict. He get up at the same time and he eat very specific food. And I'm like, yeah, he takes his job seriously. Girl, that man is an athlete.

[Kfury]

That's like bare minimum, he's a professional athlete.

[Crystal]

He has to take care of his body. You don't work out, you don't wake.

[Kfury]

Up and eat breakfast.

[Crystal]

You stretch. You stretch.

[Kfury]

What the.

[Crystal]

And then go lay down.

[Kfury]

Knee process. Okay, yeah, she's exercising, she's doing her lunges. No, that bitch said this Morning she told. I heard her, Crystal, this morning, she told Gayle Kid, she does her bent over rows.

[Crystal]

You wanted to hear that.

[Kfury]

She does. She does.

[Crystal]

No. Cause I watched it twice.

[Kfury]

That bitch said she takes care of her body. She stretches it out. Excuse me.

[Crystal]

That lets you know how much movement she plans on doing on that stage for this tour. Y' all have fun. I'mma listen to the album. I am. But I cannot imagine. I can't picture me spending money on a ticket to go see that girl get on stage and have everybody else put on the show. I don't see that because I know.

[Kfury]

There are some women who are performers who've had babies or rehearsed or had, you know, like women who have been in similar situations where they either just had a baby or about to have a baby and going on tour or have a big show coming up. And yeah, exercising is something huge that they. So it is huge.

[Crystal]

You're supposed to exercise while pregnant. It's good for you. It's good. It helps with delivery. All that bullshit.

[Kfury]

Yeah. So I guess that's why I just. When she said that, yeah, I'm ready. So confident, you know, I've got my body ready. I'm stretching. I'm like my brain just processed it. Oh, yeah. She's doing the thing that moms are encouraged to do, especially if you have to go be active or whatever afterwards. Crystal said, uh, oh, no, go back, go back.

[Crystal]

Cause you missed it.

[Kfury]

You wanted to hear something? The beginning of Big comfy couch. Lunair lay on that rug and dust the clock. Yeah, Big comfy couch was tea.

[Crystal]

This ain't Megan working out with Klay Thompson doing NBA player workout. No, you thought she was in the. You thought she was in the weight room with Stefan. No.

[Kfury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

No.

[Kfury]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking of.

[Crystal]

That bitch is getting up at 10:30, starting her day off with Cheetos after the nannies get them kids to school, and rubbing olive oil on her pussy to help the delivery go easier. That's what she's doing. When she says her body's ready, she means the surgeon knows to expect her one week after she delivers. Whoever the fuck is in there now, that's what she means by that. I'm just really disgusted. Child. Kids aren't toys. If you don't believe in abortion, then you need to believe in contraceptive. Use your butt. Use your throat.

[Kfury]

The butts, the butts. The butt's a challenge.

[Crystal]

Everybody told me. Everybody told me, have fun. You know, you getting divorced. Have fun. Go out There. We just had a little too much fun. No, you're fucking 30. You're not a 16 year old who got caught up and didn't really understand what you were doing. This is your fourth kid.

[Kfury]

I was gonna make jokes about anal. Anal being rough as an alternative. And then I'm like, well, giving birth to a person often rips that hole, right? Right from the rooted to the two danglings.

[Crystal]

So, like, so that you know about pain. And your throat's always.

[Kfury]

You know, it hurts.

[Crystal]

How did someone chainsaw you open, right?

[Kfury]

Because that human is upside down or something, right?

[Crystal]

What if there's complications and you have to have a C section? Good fucking luck recovering that quick, girl. All right. All right, man. All right. Y' all fucking got it. I can't believe this shit. Dumb ass bitch. What the fuck? You did not have to have a baby right fucking now. But I can't care more about your career than you do. That's why I'm not making it about your career. I'm making it about the importance of being mindful about who you have children with and bringing kids into this incredibly fucked up world. Just take a look around hard enough and understanding that your money is not enough to shield them from the realities of this world. Money ain't enough.

[Kfury]

Again. So.

[Crystal]

All right, all right. You fucking got it, girl. Good luck. And I don't want to hear shit about this man cheating on you. I don't want to see nothing about DMs. I don't want your stupid ass fighting no baby mamas and shit behind this nigga. She's done all this already, bitch. I don't want to see it. Me and my boy.

[Kfury]

Well, in other news, young thug says the gel calls her AI and so we're done.

[Crystal]

So then why did you apologize?

[Kfury]

I don't know.

[Crystal]

Okay. See, I'm sick of niggas.

[Kfury]

I promise you, though, that one with the. Oh, the CEO gave up the box Wicket and the Fed is. I listened to that. I was like, this is not real. This isn't real. It's too funny. It's too tight. It's too like.

[Crystal]

That is too funny.

[Kfury]

Like, this one's not real. I feel like this one isn't real.

[Crystal]

Why apologize? Oh, my bad. Mariah. You a sweet girl. You don't deserve nothing. Why would you apologize if you didn't say that shit?

[Kfury]

No, I think he's lying, right? I just think it's funny that he's lying. And I also was like, this shit sounds so AI to me, you know?

[Crystal]

Why it's funny? Because somebody else told him that joke and he repeated it. He didn't come up with that exactly. He recycled that line. Somebody told him that. That's why you like. No, you ain't never wrote nothing that was that funny and that coherent. That didn't come from you. You didn't come. That. That didn't come off the dome. Shut up. N. So which one exactly is AI? Let us know.

[Kfury]

Right? Point it out.

[Crystal]

Right. Because I'm not believing you.

[Kfury]

He also has a new song where he calls called Man, I Miss My Dogs. He also tweeted today, one of them days. Heartbreak Emoji. Going through it a little. But Uma be all right. Yeah. I Love Kill Bill 1 and 2.

[Crystal]

Please.

[Kfury]

Pulp Fiction. Uma does. Uma is gonna be all right. We're just waiting for Kill Bill 3. But other than that, I don't know what she's talking about.

[Crystal]

No, thank you. No, thank you. Did you hear Glorillas dis check Brianna?

[Kfury]

And there was an AI Mariah the Scientist response.

[Crystal]

No.

[Kfury]

And the reason I know was AI, because I've never heard that lady's voice before. I didn't know that she was a singer until you told me last week or whatever. So the only reason I know that it was AI is because after I listened to it, I looked at the comments, and all the comments were like, now, bitch, we know this is AI. Cause Mariah ain't never sounded this good. She's never made anything that sounds this good. Her vocals have never been this good. So keep this.

[Crystal]

Y' all are frying the planet for Mariah Buckley. Mariah Buckles.

[Kfury]

Buckles.

[Crystal]

Y' all are frying up planet Earth to make AI of Mariah Buckles.

[Kfury]

Music for what?

[Crystal]

This is a good use of the ozone to you. We already have, like, three gallons of oxygen left on this planet. What are you niggas doing? Y' all said, fuck it.

[Kfury]

Carbon emission.

[Crystal]

Turn up that temperature in the ocean another 2 degrees. I don't give a fuck for Mariah Buckles, all right?

[Kfury]

Also, why didn't you just go buy Mariah Buckles?

[Crystal]

I don't.

[Kfury]

Buckles. Buckles is a cool stage name.

[Crystal]

I mean, I don't know. But you. You know how I feel about science. I'm not calling her that.

[Kfury]

Yeah, you shouldn't.

[Crystal]

And I won't, and I won't. And I don't feel bad about that either. But Glorilla chewed both of y' all up on that track, and I thought it was so funny that she Called herself Brianna like yeah we off in a ha Jokey joke let's all laugh she when I tell you she chewed that nigga up she's great and he deserved it yeah he did hit the wrong black and mild looking ass nigg Pepsi looking ass nigga.

[Kfury]

I love it I love it.

[Crystal]

She really a bug on the ground about to chirp Looking ass nigga a pain in the ass trying to hurt looking ass nigga glow ugly imma still flirt miss Netta looking ass nigga miss.

[Kfury]

Now netta why netta.

[Crystal]

Happen well snitch still ain't beat the case looking ass nigga Whoopi Goldberg by the face looking like she and that's.

[Kfury]

Why this I love this because it's kind of just like the audacity of you.

[Crystal]

The audacity to call her twin. Nah, I would have did the same thing, Glo. I would have did the same thing. Ain't no way a nigga that ugly finna call me twin and you in my text talking about his axe. You got hazel in your eyes, nigga. I swear to God, if you don't get off my get off my phone. The fact that a bitch like you even think you can speak to me, much less he with Mariah off Burn it blue when I tell you glow I put it on streaming girl Take that shit on soundcloud I want it on streaming.

[Kfury]

No please put it.

[Crystal]

Please, please.

[Kfury]

That shit so funny I need it but thank you.

[Crystal]

And they deserved it. And they deserved it.

[Kfury]

Bring me a much needed smile Bringing.

[Crystal]

That girl into it for no fucking reason. Lame ass.

[Kfury]

For no reason but to glaze a flop that she was cheating on anyway.

[Crystal]

Didn'T do right.

[Kfury]

Like okay. Lil Nas X has reportedly entered treatment after his arrest and his team says that he will make it over this hump. They're wishing him the well, wishing him well. Defendant is allowed to remain out of state as long as he remains in treatment, Los Angeles County Superior Court judge said, noting that if his treatment changes and he becomes outpatient, then we can talk. So somewhere, hopefully getting help that he needs. And we will not have an incident like the unfortunate one we briefly mentioned because I forgot about it whenever it happened. Where he was outside in his drawers.

[Crystal]

Yes. On the highway. Right.

[Kfury]

And then eventually got into an altercation with police and caught four felonies.

[Crystal]

Yeah. Didn't seem to be in his right mind during that whole thing.

[Kfury]

Yeah, this place is crazy. You got to be careful out here. And the City of Angels. Last but not least, ex girlfriend of Taylor Swift's fiance, Kayla Nicole.

[Crystal]

Lord, what is this? What is this?

[Kfury]

Of course we're on concert. Kayla Nicole, Travis Kelce's ex was at. I think it's one of the LA stops. She was at Chris Brown's content, of course, his latest shows. And he's still doing this thing where he bring somebody up on stage and then grinds his pelvis into them, simulate sex on stage doing his slow songs.

[Crystal]

Wonderful.

[Kfury]

I'm surprised pop stars still do this, but all right, fans still.

[Crystal]

This is the fact as far as.

[Kfury]

Right. That's what I'm saying. Like, Janet watched grown men nut on stage. Baby, baby.

[Crystal]

Ejaculation ejaculated on stage from Janet just touching them lightly on the forearm. That nigga said. And unfortunately, I'm finna embarrass myself.

[Kfury]

But that was sexy.

[Crystal]

It was. I mean, to somebody. But again, these are all Janet's kids.

[Kfury]

Um, yes. Anyways, Kaelyn Kog is up on stage, sits on this red partition couch and.

[Crystal]

All right, see, you see?

[Kfury]

I can't ever just take something seriously. Chiral, the partition, please. And then, yeah, Chris Brown gets on stage and this like LED football gear, I don't know what this hockey, whatever, some lights and shit, starts grinding on her and getting all freaky. Whatever. Kayla Nicole went on Instagram and said, well, that was fun. Had to really do it for the teenage me blasting Chris Brown in her bedroom. For the mini me who saw him at one of her first concerts. For the woman who sometimes feel like she has to be a monolith instead of multi layered. I did it for smart girls, cool girls, sexy girls and fun girls. You did for all of us who are all those things at once. And I overly did it for my Brown girls. Thank you. You think that she, like. You'd think that she, like, pulled a bus of elementary school kids off of a burning bridge, literally.

[Crystal]

The way you talking, I thought you accomplished something. What? Like you didn't even perform.

[Kfury]

You just sat there.

[Crystal]

That's what you say when you walk across the stage and get your degree. Yes, yes. That's what you say when you interrupt a mass shooter and save 30 people's lives. Like, that is not.

[Kfury]

Oh, here you go. The cure.

[Crystal]

You were invited on stage.

[Kfury]

What's aids, right? I fixed it.

[Crystal]

I have eradicated that. That's not even a thing no more. What are you girls even talking about? Like you. You didn't.

[Kfury]

I did it for the smart girls, the cool girls, the sex.

[Crystal]

You did what? You didn't even make the half court shot that they be doing. You know how halftime at basketball games they be having little random fans come down and try to shoot a certain number of baskets and you win.

[Kfury]

I worked at triple. I worked at the American Airlines.

[Crystal]

You made the half court shot and won $50,000. Girl, you did not. You were invited on stage, girl, and were on stage.

[Kfury]

I probably saw a fan make that shit once.

[Crystal]

But the way everybody goes up when it happens like that, you didn't accomplish a single thing, baby girl, this took almost no effort from you, even if you're a Porsche.

[Kfury]

And you said this at the TGI Fridays after, I'd have been like, okay, calm down, calm down.

[Crystal]

I did it for the proud girls who never get to see themselves winning the jackpot at these basketball games.

[Kfury]

We're still trying to free guys. So, like, you should forgive us if.

[Crystal]

We'Re not moved that you didn't win $40 at the Liberty Game. Girl, we don't care anyhow.

[Kfury]

That Brown girl's comment, I guess, reignited.

[Crystal]

The controversy because we know Chris Brown do not like him darker than no paper bag.

[Kfury]

But he doesn't want you to talk about it.

[Crystal]

Oh, okay.

[Kfury]

But you have been talking about it. And so he deleted his Instagram.

[Crystal]

Damn.

[Kfury]

But not before. But not before he posted on his story. Miss me with a colorist. Rage baiting.

[Crystal]

Um, rage baiting.

[Kfury]

Every show packed. Every hater pissed. I fucking love this shit. Y' all can spin whatever narrative you want, and I'mma still be that nigga.

[Crystal]

Correct.

[Kfury]

I'm gonna take a break from social media, though. Y' all been pissing me off long enough.

[Crystal]

All right, girl, you're not lying.

[Kfury]

So they can say whatever they want, spend whatever narrative, and they are gonna. And you're still gonna be that negative. Why'd you take her break from.

[Crystal]

That's really the only question. Because it's quite clear at this point that you can literally do whatever you want, be whoever ass you want to. And there are millions and millions of people who will line up to give you more money. So why even care when people correctly point out that you don't like nobody darker than a Kroger paper bag? We know that. Girl. What is there even to argue about? You being colorist is, like, number 14 on the list of bad things about you.

[Kfury]

Like, girl, it's not even tough. You broke up one fight. And we treated you.

[Crystal]

We did.

[Kfury]

We treated you like you've been saving lives across the spider verse. That's how bad Happy Chris Brown.

[Crystal]

I've been in therapy. Y' all just don't understand. This man is delivered. He is redeemed. He is baptized in the blood. Jesus Christ is working through Chris Brown right now, okay? He showed up and stopped a fight and said, you guys go home. He's. Mr. Clark. What are y' all talking about? Like, we literally let you put it back.

[Kfury]

Sam's. Sam's put it back. This is my favorite part of the.

[Crystal]

Oh, God.

[Kfury]

When Sam goes in, like, walks up to that random girl at lunch and takes. Just takes a piece of food off of her plate.

[Crystal]

Sam took her shit just, like, for nothing.

[Kfury]

Sam, put it back.

[Crystal]

Put it back.

[Kfury]

Sam, put it back. That part makes me cry like that.

[Crystal]

Let me tell you something. As an adult watching Lean on Me.

[Kfury]

You know what I mean?

[Crystal]

I would have took my child out that school so fast. Nigga, are you out your mind?

[Kfury]

What are we doing here? They're doing coke off the meatloaf. This is like every. It's. That shit was bad.

[Crystal]

Oh, it was so bad. Chaining the door shut, nigga. That is a violation of the fire code. You will indeed have to set my child free from this building. And we are going to the next school today, girl.

[Kfury]

Parents were coming down to the school, too. Like, that nigga is insane. And Margaret people was like, how about you suck my dick because I do what the fuck I want in this?

[Crystal]

True, true.

[Kfury]

They were like, well, y' all are.

[Crystal]

And your children are doing bad, so it's your fault. And yet you're also awful parents. And so, Mr. Clark. Mr. Clark care about us. Don't nobody else care about, like, child. Them kids. I said, whoa. You know, watching this movie as an adult in 2020.

[Kfury]

Yeah, watching it as an adult is very funny. Cause he definitely went way too far.

[Crystal]

Way too far, Nigga, you belong in jail. You do not have no business.

[Kfury]

Oh, they sent. They locked his black ass up. Another one of my favorite lines and moments. He ain't gotta do shit but stay black ass.

[Crystal]

As a kid. I'm like, Mr. Clark, the only person actually gave a shit about them kids, and y' all sent him to jail. The fuck. Yeah, Mr. Clark needed to go to jail.

[Kfury]

Great film.

[Crystal]

These kids.

[Kfury]

I hope they never remake it.

[Crystal]

Oh, no, they can't. Please, please, please. No, that belonged at a very specific point in time. But. Yeah, how did you.

[Kfury]

So when do you think Chris will be back?

[Crystal]

Chris? Oh, is he still on tour? Yeah, well, within. Within two weeks. This won't take long. Yeah, I know this will not take long. Especially you can. I'm sorry. When people are as famous as Chris Brown. And they throw fits online about people tagging them in mean comments. I'm always just like, do you know you can put the phone down? Like, yeah, people are mean. You're also one of the most famous people on the planet Earth. And you can just not look like. You can just not be on Instagram. You can just not be on TikTok or Twitter or whatever else. You can just not do it. Like, do you know that I went.

[Kfury]

On a national museum style quest to figure out. What I'm talking about in it is you just put that on there. Like you don't have to be in the mirror.

[Crystal]

It's just, just put the phone down, girl. And being mad because people correctly point out the way you act. You're simply telling on yourself. Like, it's not like we can go back through some long list of dark skinned women that you've treated with kindness and respect. We can't even do that with light skinned women. You don't even do that with light skinned women. So what we supposed to. All right, girl. You're doing just fine, Christopher. And you know that you, you included that in your little speech. So eventually this little fit will be.

[Kfury]

Better than just fine.

[Crystal]

Like, I'm honestly shocked at how he.

[Kfury]

All things considered, he's selling things out.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kfury]

Everywhere.

[Crystal]

Everywhere.

[Kfury]

Store's doing excellent things.

[Crystal]

I said, oh, it's just me. I'm the only one who don't like Chris Brown. It's just me. Everybody else is at that show. So. Okay, all right. I have no problem standing alone. No problem at all. That's.

[Kfury]

I can't believe this is the thing that frustrated you off of social media in the mix in the midst of it. It's not like you brought up some fair skinned girl or you know, racially ambiguous girl. And that's why like you edited with this, this girl who's like, I did it for the brown skinned girls. You posted a picture of it. If people are saying anything about it for, you know, obvious reasons, they're bringing up your history. Why wouldn't this be a moment of. Well, look, anyway, let me just. Next stop, tomorrow. I don't understand the crash out.

[Crystal]

Yeah. Kayla Nicole is not.

[Kfury]

She's not chocolate.

[Crystal]

Right. This is what I'm saying. Like if this is our example of Chris Brown liking dark skinned girls, then we need to go back to the drawing board.

[Kfury]

No.

[Crystal]

Cause that girl, I mean, I feel like she's my color. So let's just all be for real. Yeah, let's just all be fucking for real.

[Kfury]

Girl.

[Crystal]

Oh, Chris, get off Instagram.

[Kfury]

Yeah, that should help.

[Crystal]

I should.

[Kfury]

That's gonna be it for the hot tops today.

[Crystal]

Amen.

[Kfury]

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[Crystal]

Yes, it is. Send your questions to askthereadmail.com we may read them aloud on the show. Our first letter this week comes from. Oh, who shall it be? I think Bettina this week. So Bettina says, first off, thank you both so much. I've been listening since 2018 and y' all have been a consistent part of my healing and my growth and my daily escape. I even went back and started the episodes from the beginning. So yes, I've been through Kiffury versus TSA and the flight attendant, the Blue Ivy praise from birth and every breakup with him story along the way. This summer my job tapped me to help launch a brand new location in another state. I work in a super specialized field and I'm literally the only person in my department involved in this multi million dollar rollout. I've been with this company for three years and like many people with gifted kid syndrome, I've made the mistake of letting them pile on responsibilities without adjusting my pay or my title My perfectionist, overachieving ass has higher standards for my work than they do and they love to take advantage of that. I've tried multiple times to clarify my role and ask for appropriate compensation. And while they nod and smile, nothing actually changes. Here's the real twist. I was diagnosed with bipolar 1 after a severe mental health crisis in college. Since then, it's been a long, exhausting journey towards stability. I've put in the work with meds, therapy and boundaries, but I still find myself trying to live up to that version of me that existed before treatment. It's like I can't stop proving that I'm still that girl even when it cost me my piece. I struggle with intense negative self talk and feeling like I'm never doing enough. So when I try to set boundaries at work, part of me feels guilty for not being stronger, while the other part is genuinely scared for my health. I've had suicidal ideations in the past and I know that pushing myself too far could send me spiraling again. So my question is, how have y' all navigated the balance between ambition and mental health? Have you ever had to pull back professionally for the sake of your well being? And do you have any advice on how to advocate for myself at work without disclosing my full diagnosis? I'm at a crossroads of keep pushing for more and risk a breakdown or slow down and risk being overlooked and underpaid. I don't want to lose myself either way. Thanks again for being the voices I didn't know I needed. You've helped me feel seen in ways I never expected and I appreciate you both more than I can say. Love, Bettina. Thank you, baby. What a sweet, sweet letter. Very sweet sentiments here.

[Kfury]

Yeah, thank you. To answer the question, I mean, I don't really have an answer, to be honest with you. The question's a bit triggering. I'm still dealing with it. And I think also if you have listened to the show, my dealings with it have been pretty public. I did have to take a step back a couple of times. I had to be hospitalized when I wanted to be working and be productive and that's probably why I'm still alive.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kfury]

So, yeah, it's difficult. It's always going to be difficult and it's hard not to get caught up in your head and destructive thoughts around it. But it's always for the best to just make the healthy decision because more often than not, the work and the passion will not leave you behind. It will be there.

[Crystal]

Yeah. I think when it comes to the Question of navigating a balance between ambition and mental health. There have been so many times that I have simply focused on my mental health. Like over the past seven and a half, eight years in therapy, however long it's been, I have slowed down significantly on outside projects that I do for that exact reason. Like I still show up to do the read. The read is like my, it feels like, you know, my full time regular job. But other stuff that I don't have to do I simply didn't do because I was way too focused on, you know, trying to. Well, not too focused, but my focus was on taking care of myself, healing the shit that I've been through, all that, like doing that work in therapy. And it's not really the sort of thing where I could attack both with all of my strength and energy. So as far as like, have I ever had to pull back professionally for the sake of my well being? Maybe not in like a crisis sort of way, but I have limited the things I do outside of the show. In the times where I felt like, you know, all I can do is the show or all I can do is school and the show, like I don't have it to also go out and do, you know, all these other appearances and other shows and interviews and stuff like that, I just don't have it. Like my energy is going towards radio. Yeah. Oh yes. When I was doing Apple, when they first launched Apple Music and being live on the radio, like I actually quit that Apple job. It's so funny you bring that up. Cause I quit that Apple job after the incident with my ex boyfriend happened and all that. It was like I could no longer get up and go to that job anymore. So baby, anytime you've asked where is Crystal? Or why is Crystal not doing such and such, the answer has been because she is focused on not being depressed, working through trauma, working through childhood. Like that is, that's simply been what it is. And I've been very fortunate to be able to spend this kind of time focusing on that. But you know, it's work regardless and it's not easy to do regardless. So as far as advocating for yourself at work without disclosing your diagnosis, that's trickier because, yeah, because these employers, they only have to do what legally they have to do. And so I think for most of us in most states, most employers is something like reasonable accommodation if you have some sort of disability or something that hinders you from doing your job. And so I don't know if being a perfectionist would count as that. But when you said, I'm the sort of overachieving perfectionist person who cares more about this job than they care about me doing this job, baby, I felt that I have been that girl so many times, pushing myself and pushing myself for this standard of excellence that these people were not compensating me for with title or salary or anything else. It was just me or just good vibes or even just a fun workplace. And it was almost like the worst the workplace. The more I pushed myself to be like the top bitch and no mistakes and all, and all of that just contributes to the crash or the downfall or for me, for really scary health situations where I was basically just living off of coffee and, and extra strength Advils and shit like that. Like, that's not good either. Like, so I don't know about advocating for yourself at work without, you know, giving away your diagnosis, but I do think that people with power and options have a lot more control over their workplace or work situations than people who don't. Are you really that indispensable? Because you probably are. Sounds like you are. And so if you can, I don't know if you're at that job for long enough where you can say, you know, I need some time away, if you can go on fmla, if your doctor would sign off on that, where they can't fire you for taking leave, but they also don't have to pay you, just something where you can take some sort of step back or where you can start to delegate tests to other people. I'm thinking of what you can probably realistically do without sharing your diagnosis. But I also don't think. I don't know. But yeah, I don't think that a diagnosis of bipolar will necessarily have HR being like, oh, okay, well, let's get you three more extra weeks of vacation time and a soundproof office so you don't have to hear your boss ever. And like, I don't think so. So the best I can say is that, like, you've earned your place at this job being the baddest bitch. And so take, take advantage of that if you can. You're in a super specialized field, you're the only person in your department of this multi million dollar rollout that a lot is falling on you. So, you know, once y' all are at a place, if you're at a place now where it's like, somebody else can take over this or somebody else can do that like you, you are gonna have to speak up if you need that time and that ability to step away. And if you're that indispensable again, which it sounds like you are, then they will simply be waiting, begging, you know, mouths open, tongues hanging, waiting on you to bring your ass back. But that's hard.

[Kfury]

One would think, too.

[Crystal]

I mean, especially in this economy with the way things are going and the unemployment rate, that can be hard to do. But the job's not worth your life. The job's not literally worth your. And this is, you know, things I have had to tell other friends. Like, it's not worth your ability to get up the next day, girl, what the fuck is the point of the job if you not gonna wake up to go to the job you are in? You are in a position now where you might not wake up to go to this job tomorrow. Like, something needs to be done that.

[Kfury]

Is so, like, C is the letter after A and B. Yeah. But for most of us, especially here, it's like, well, no, I have to.

[Crystal]

You need to hear that. Right.

[Kfury]

Because I need to leave to live and I have to eat food and I have to da, da, da, da.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kfury]

But the economy is like. It's so shit.

[Crystal]

Things are bad.

[Kfury]

Systems are so shit.

[Crystal]

Correct.

[Kfury]

And people especially. And powerful businesses and corporations have less. It's less likely that you can.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kfury]

You know, bump into someone who will expect that they can go to their boss, even if they are indispensable and the baddest bitch and be like, I'm struggling mentally. And their boss will be like, oh, totally respect it. You're human. Take some time off. Right.

[Crystal]

Like, good luck.

[Kfury]

A lot of these motherfuckers do. They just like, so what does that have to do with. Your fingers? Don't work.

[Crystal]

We all struggling mentally, girl. And I still come in here every day. Right. Yeah.

[Kfury]

So I could see some people that being a part of the anxiety as well. But I 1000% agree with your ABC sentiment. Like, if you do, it is not the job is not worth you giving up your ability to get out of your bed, put a smile on, and seize the day.

[Crystal]

Right.

[Kfury]

It just isn't.

[Crystal]

Yeah. And you said that you have. You. You're on meds, you're in therapy, you're enacting boundaries, all this, and yet you still find yourself trying to live up to this version of you that isn't really real, this version of you that you were killing yourself to attain. So a part of you is gonna have to be accepting and willing to let go of these standards. You have to let go of these. I Should be able to do everything. As if I didn't have a mental illness. But you do have a mental. That is like breaking your foot and being like. But I should still be able to go run in the Olympics.

[Kfury]

Yeah. What's the problem?

[Crystal]

All right, so let's just sit here and wish together and see what happens there.

[Kfury]

Right.

[Crystal]

Something's going on up here. It does get in the way of capitalist productivity. It just does. It does. And so trying to hold yourself to this non mentally ill standard, you're just gonna stress yourself out further. So.

[Kfury]

And that's. If you worked at rap shit, where every day, why would you talk about you? Pretty much, I just. I was thinking of, like. Because I always reference rap shit as, like, how lucky I was to have been in a room and on a set and with people that I just want. It was a good working environment with gay people. I still have a mental health issue. That can still. As much as I love being there and love work, I still have to take. I still have to acknowledge.

[Crystal]

Yes.

[Kfury]

And I still have to take care of so that I can do the work I need to do and enjoy the workplace. Now imagine if I hated it.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kfury]

Imagine if I wrote for like the Oval. Well, no, I wouldn't. Right. I wouldn't write for that. Obviously I'd be Tyler Perry. But, you know, it's like, imagine if I worked for some place, like many titles I can name. Cause I know people who work there will say it's been a nightmare or just any other place. And you still have that thing, girls, super. Take care of yourself. But like you said, so many of us are like, oh, I'm gonna bust my ass and break my back and twist my brain and do all these things and then the grass will be greener. And what can happen is you do all those things and maybe you do, maybe you. You rise to the tippity top of it. But then you look back at yourself, however many years, you know, you look back at your present self.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kfury]

And you're like, like, nigga, you could have calmed down.

[Crystal]

You could have.

[Kfury]

You could have taken a break. You could have like, woosahed.

[Crystal]

Yeah. And this is not sustainable.

[Kfury]

And it's not sustainable.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kfury]

You were beating yourself up, killing yourself, crying blood.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kfury]

And you did not need to. And these bitches never deserved it.

[Crystal]

Right.

[Kfury]

You do. Don't get to that place.

[Crystal]

Yeah. So I think it's going to be really huge for you to accept that you do have this diagnosis and it is affecting your life in so many ways. Like, you can spell it out for yourself. Like, yes, I know I have bipolar because this, this, this, this, and this. And since I started meds and started going to therapy, a lot of these things have lessened up and they've eased up on my ass. So there's every reason for me to believe that I have this and to sort of, you know, look at your mental illness as if it was a physical illness. Sometimes it is literally something in the brain, sometimes it isn't. But regardless, it is getting in the way of, you know, this capitalist rat race that we all have to be a part of. So, yeah, if you can take some time away, especially if it's paid time away, I would do that. But those people are going to take and take and take from you until there is nothing left for them to take. And then when you're dead and gone, they'll simply hire somebody else to be there in three days and that'll be it. So you have to. You have to be the one to protect you. And you can't protect yourself if you're beating yourself up for not being this mentally healthy, perfect girl, that it doesn't.

[Kfury]

Really exist, and convincing yourself that you ain't beat up, you aren't hurt.

[Crystal]

Right?

[Kfury]

Everything's completely fine. My foot. Like Crystal said, my foot's not broken.

[Crystal]

No. I can go, run, stretch. Right now.

[Kfury]

I'm going on tour.

[Crystal]

I can go on tour even though I'm pregnant right now. I stretch every day.

[Kfury]

I'm sorry. This isn't about her.

[Crystal]

It isn't. But the point is a good one. That you have to be realistic about what you're going through and adjust your expectations for that. There's nothing wrong with doing your best while working within your limitations. That's what we're all doing. We all have limitations in one way or another. So whoever you're comparing yourself to, even if it's you from before, let that go. Because that girl was killing herself to achieve those things. And it's not worth your actual, literal life. It's not working. It isn't. It isn't. Who the hell cares how good you're doing at work when you're not here no more.

[Kfury]

Or happy or hap.

[Crystal]

This is what I'm saying. It's not worth your life and it's not worth your health. It's not worth your actual happiness. Like, there's a line there. Obviously, nobody is happy at work all the time, every day, right? But you know when you start having suicidal ideations behind your job, that's A huge sign, baby, that it's either too much pressure on you coming from the work or too much pressure on you coming from you. And it sounds like in your case it's both of them. So I would ease up on my. Yeah, I would ease up on myself first. And that's hot, baby. It's so much easier said than done. It took me so long.

[Kfury]

Oh my God.

[Crystal]

To stop trying to hold myself to the standards of Crystal from 2012.

[Kfury]

Ridiculous.

[Crystal]

That girl isn't here anymore.

[Kfury]

Ridiculous. We all thought that we were going to be Beyonce, Gisele, Power Rangers, Sailor Moon Universe.

[Crystal]

We all thought that.

[Kfury]

And sometimes it works. And sometimes you have to just be like, okay, let me take my expectations. Not your passion, not your desire, not your confidence.

[Crystal]

Exactly, exactly.

[Kfury]

But your overall expectations. Let me take them down to a.

[Crystal]

Reasonable, a reasonable realistic level.

[Kfury]

Realistic level, yes. And then let me make sure that I prioritize my health and my happiness first. Anything that compromises those two things is going to have to either be discarded or there has to be an alternative that does not cause those things.

[Crystal]

Yes, it has to be a separation in your mind of. I know when I go to work today I'mma have to go to a meeting with fucking Kathy. And I swear to God, I hate.

[Kfury]

Kathy, but it's going to be wonderful.

[Crystal]

I'mma suffer through these 95 minutes because I have to work with Kathy. And then once that's done, I could text my homegirl and be like, let me tell you about this stupid bitch Kathy. And she'd be like, meet me after work and then we can go have nachos and talk about this dumb bitch Kathy. Like, oh yeah, love this. Like we all have to play those sort of little games with ourselves. Things aren't always going to be easy, but you have to, you have to recognize that line of like, this is killing me and it's not worth it at that point. And again, when you that highly specialized, you can dust off your resume, update some things and start shopping that bitch out, being like, well, who else want a bad bitch? Cause these niggas act like they don't understand that anybody other than me can do any fucking thing.

[Kfury]

So who else want that for you?

[Crystal]

Yes, I do too. So best of luck to you, Bettina. I hope it works out for you. Our last letter comes from Ziana who says, Dear care fearing Crystal, my 64 year old mother has untreated depression and paranoia after my parents. Right after my parents divorce years ago, she became estranged from her entire family. She lived with all three of her sisters and my grandmother, but each one of them eventually kicked her out because she actually an entire fool. I let her live with me for a year, but my mental health couldn't take it either, and I moved into an apartment while I let her.

[Kfury]

Ah, damn.

[Crystal]

While I let her stay in my house rent free for four years so she could have some stability and get on her feet.

[Kfury]

You let your mom move into your house and she got on your nerves so bad that you moved into an apartment and let her stay in the house and.

[Crystal]

Oh, my God. So you was paying rent and the mortgage.

[Kfury]

Jesus alive.

[Crystal]

All right, My brother and I even.

[Kfury]

Can I borrow some?

[Crystal]

Like, you want to be my child?

[Kfury]

Like what?

[Crystal]

I would love a baby. Lainey needs a sibling.

[Kfury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

Okay. My brother and I even got her two jobs, but she quit both of them and now I honestly don't know what she does all day besides read her bible and watch YouTube videos.

[Kfury]

Jesus.

[Crystal]

Okay. I told her back in January that I would be selling my house because I cannot afford two places anymore and she needs to find somewhere to live. My brother secured. My brother secured an affordable apartment for her, but she refused to sign the lease because she said that she can't afford it, even though she gets Social Security and the two of us agreed to supplement the rent so that she would only have to pay $500. Now she says she wants either a cheaper apartment or a van to live in, but she hasn't made a single move to secure either one. And my brother and the efforts from me and my brother to help have largely gone ignored when the contract for the house goes through in late August. Oh, shit. So this may have gone through. She may be homeless. I feel bad, but I'm also completely drained because no matter how much I help, my mother will not help herself. Should I feel guilty for stepping back? I'm almost 30 and I need to get my finances in check, which this is allowing me to do. But the guilt is a lot. Thanks and I appreciate any advice you may have. Zionna. Woo.

[Kfury]

Zionna.

[Crystal]

Oh, baby. Four years rent free.

[Kfury]

Okay, so, um, Are you wrong for wanting to take a step back? Um, not only you. Correct. I want you to slide to the left. Slide to the right. Take it all the way back. Say it now.

[Crystal]

Say it.

[Kfury]

And then cha cha. Real smooth, babycakes. You're almost 30 and you, for whatever reason, were able to pay a mortgage for your mama who got kicked out three previous times by other family members to stay in your house that you paid for while also paying rent. On an apartment.

[Crystal]

Three sisters and the mama all kicked you out. The mama has three sisters and a mama, and all four of them kicked her out of here.

[Kfury]

I thought it was just the three sisters.

[Crystal]

No. Okay, no. Everybody, everybody.

[Kfury]

So you've been kicked out of four homes. Your mother kicked your ass out, your sister kicked you out. Now you standing at your baby house.

[Crystal]

Girl.

[Kfury]

Zionna, you were able to balance both of these properties not because it was necessary or because something you wanted to do, but because this lady is so inside you, like, I have to get out.

[Crystal]

She's not bad.

[Kfury]

That. You have no business feeling bad. You should feel great that you not only opened your home up to your mother who needed a place to stay, you've had successes enough that you could let her stay there rent free, get another place to stay for yourself because she aggravating the out of you.

[Crystal]

Mm, mm, mm.

[Kfury]

And you also have been working with another family member to try and find her someplace else. And she is continuing to make things difficult as she's made with things with you, right? Her sister, her other sister, her other sister, or even her mom.

[Crystal]

It's not funny, but God damn, at.

[Kfury]

This point, that lady gonna go where she go. I'm so sorry. Like, the guilt part of it I get, but the guilt part of it is ingrained in a lot of us simply because that is mom, that is dad, that is a person who is taking wild advantage of you. You have four other family members that had the bravery, space, and sense to say, get out of my house. I don't know where you're going, but you're not staying here.

[Crystal]

Not in my African American home.

[Kfury]

If you need to, reach out to one of them, Auntie, Grandma, whoever, and ask for advice, maybe that I don't know what it is, but she has to leave. And if you do feel guilty about it, fair. Speak to a professional about it if you want to get some therapy. Oh, I feel bad I had to throw my mama out on the streets like Hustle and Flow. But I feel similarly to the letter about this job. It's like, girl, you have to still get up and have a somewhat level headed mind so that you can go out and be active. Your mother is sucking life force out of you as well as electricity from your Chromecast so that she could watch or whatever the fuck. Yeah, Madea's black girls, whatever. So, yeah, I think that while I understand you feeling reluctant and feeling guilty and possibly throwing your mama out, it sounds like it's what your mother needs. Your mother has now bounced around to her fifth family member to take advantage of this and doesn't seem to have any idea, sense desire to, like, get up on her own feet. Yeah, you can't take care of your mama. Your mama was supposed to do that for you. Whatever. Your raising was done.

[Crystal]

That'll do it. That'll do it.

[Kfury]

However you're raising whoever raised you or whatever to get you to this place. Yeah, great. It sounds like you individually are doing fine. Your mother's life and food and electrics and all that stuff is not your responsibility. That's what she was supposed to do for you. All right? And now you do for yourself and maybe the children that you have this backwards ass shit. No, if she. If this was like a Shady Pines. Oh, she needs someone to take care of her because she cannot take care of herself. We might remix this conversation, but, oh, we found you an apartment and we gonna pay for most of it. All you gotta do is come off of 500amonth. Get me a van, bitch. Get out. Just get out. Just take. Take your iPad. Cause what are you doing?

[Crystal]

It ain't Nothing cheaper than $500, girl. Not nowhere in America you're not getting Nothing cheaper than $500. Be for real for your own channel.

[Kfury]

Just saying that you wanna live for free like you are right now. And you are a grown asshole.

[Crystal]

Yeah, yeah. And you are a grown ass woman. Exactly, girl. Zianna, I agree with Kifieri. I don't even have too much to add to that. This. You paid that lady's rent for four years. You probably lasted three and a half years longer than all your aunties and your grandma. Because everybody else said she has to get out of my house. She do not know how to act. Her to the curb did and had to. Now, it's not that I don't have empathy for whatever your mother may be going through, but four years of free rent, Baby, let somebody tell me right now, they coming to pay my rent for four fucking years. Four years of free housing in America.

[Kfury]

And it low key. Sounds like she would make it to year five and six if she didn't get on Zionna's everlasting nerves.

[Crystal]

Well, there's that. And there's also Zionna. Right? So here's the thing. If your mother wasn't such a pain in the ass, you would have stayed living with her. You would have never felt like you needed to go get your own apartment in the first place. The fact that you left your home and rented an apartment and paid the mortgage and the rent for Four fucking years, girl. Should I feel bad? Absolutely. The fuck not. Let me tell you what. My parents own their homes and they need to be glad about it because it would not be me be glad them niggas own their houses because it would not be. Not for four years if I'm taking you into my home, which you know I can't see me letting my mother be homeless on the streets. So I get that. But if I'm taking you into my home, you gonna act like you have some goddamn sense. Why, baby, so for free. Here's the thing. When your mother says, after being kicked.

[Kfury]

Out of four other family homes, when.

[Crystal]

Your mother says she wanted something cheaper or to live in a van, that's when I knew your mother didn't care about whether she stayed housed. Cause. What do you mean a van?

[Kfury]

A van. We're offering you an apartment for $500.

[Crystal]

For $500 a month.

[Kfury]

Your children get me cheaper or buy me a van. Oh, so you don't care?

[Crystal]

So you don't. Where are you supposed to find a cheaper lodging than $500 a month in the United States?

[Kfury]

Unless the van was a guilt trip.

[Crystal]

Okay, but you know what? That's such a fucked up thing to do to your own kids. That's so manipulative.

[Kfury]

That's not fair.

[Crystal]

I'm not buying you no fucking van. I've paid your rent for four years. You should have saved up van money by now. Why the fuck you don't have van money, bro?

[Kfury]

Bro.

[Crystal]

Again? You know what I can do in four years of free housing? Please, somebody come challenge me to do something with four years of free rent. Bitch, I live in New York City.

[Kfury]

I done told the bitch. Listen, let me tell you why Nissan calls it a quit. Cause you're out of here. You're out of here.

[Crystal]

Cause you finna go on a journey.

[Kfury]

Bitch, you are out.

[Crystal]

You better go park down by the riverside. Study war no more. Girl, I don't know what you finna do. Stand down by the river. No, baby, you shouldn't feel. I get it, though. That's your mama. Nobody wants to see. Most people don't want to see their parents in that situation, but.

[Kfury]

And she has undiagnosed. What is it? Depression and whatever.

[Crystal]

Depression and paranoia. Which paranoia in and of itself is not a mental illness. It makes me wonder what else might be going on there. So that is. That's real. It sounds like your mother has real mental health issues that are keeping her from making sound decisions. But if she's also not willing to get help. What the fuck are you supposed to do? What. What are you realistically supposed to do? Live with a woman who drives you crazy? Pay two rents for all eternity, even though that's not feasible. And you're struggling financially now because of that exact reason. What are you supposed to do? Her own mama kicked her out. That when I say red flags, it don't get bigger or redder than that.

[Kfury]

Your own mama says, you, your mama got a place and you got three sisters and all of us, all of them.

[Crystal]

And black women be the main ones to let somebody trifling stay in their house. The main ones we love doing too much for somebody who don't deserve it. The fact that four black women kicked her out.

[Kfury]

Oh, my God. Black women will open their every time, every time. Family, friends, home, wash, children of a family, everything.

[Crystal]

Yes to any fucking body, bitch. The four people closest to you in this world said, I can't do it no more. I'm sorry.

[Kfury]

Get out.

[Crystal]

No, I'm sorry, you gonna have to get out.

[Kfury]

And you stayed with your G. And she let you live in a house four years, ain't paid rent. You know, she ain't got no. Yeah, I think, Ziana, you have done not only your best, you've done the very best ever.

[Crystal]

Was not just your best, the best. Nobody would have done better than this. Nobody would have done better than this girl, like.

[Kfury]

Phenomenal.

[Crystal]

And you said, no matter how much I help, she won't help herself. So then that means you either willingly step into a caretaker role for your mother, and is she willing to do that? Will she give you power of attorney and that sort of thing? Because that might make it easier for you. Then you can sign a lease for her and you take over her Social Security. And so you, like, yeah, you don't want to pay $500, but you paying this $500 because we are supplementing your rent and you don't know how to take care of yourself. Like, is she willing to let you lean into that caretaker role? And do you want to do that? Because that's a lot of fucking work for somebody who you're almost 30. Meaning your mom is probably 50 plus. So are you willing to take care of this woman quite literally, as if she's a child?

[Kfury]

I can't believe she said no to the apartment. That the siblings were like, baby, I.

[Crystal]

Wish somebody would say, I'll cover all your rent by $500. No idea the things I would do.

[Kfury]

She's in a house too. Like.

[Crystal]

I. I have to stop looking at this from my relatively sane point of view, because. Yeah, because I keep thinking about what I could have done with four years of free rent. Like, that's.

[Kfury]

How did she react when you moved out of the house?

[Crystal]

Probably was like, oh, well, at least I don't have to leave. Cause you have to know you don't act right.

[Kfury]

That's what I'm thinking. You were just like. She's just like, well, I get to have a place to myself.

[Crystal]

Yep. You was like, okay, well, another one bites the dust, but at least I still got a roof over my head.

[Kfury]

That sucks. I.

[Crystal]

Whatever you decide to do, I understand. I do. That's true.

[Kfury]

I do too.

[Crystal]

I do. But unnecessarily.

[Kfury]

She's not just a bitch. Sounds like she's a bitch that's a little bit broke.

[Crystal]

That has some issues. Right. And you want. I. I've begged my mother to get mental health support. I have repeatedly, explicitly asked my mother multiple times, please go call the lady. You have a very good. Your job. You don't have a good job. Cause you're a public school teacher in Oklahoma, but you have good benefits. That's the one thing they do give y' all is a bunch of insurance for like $3 a month. And you get like 10 sessions with the lady. Please go call the lady. Like, this is.

[Kfury]

Reminded me of this joke from Golden Girls this morning when Dorothy tricked Sophia to go to therapy.

[Crystal]

Oh, Lord.

[Kfury]

And she. They walk into the therapist's office, and.

[Crystal]

So I think I remember this.

[Kfury]

She has like a life raft, or what should we call it? A flotation device around her neck. And she looks around the office and she goes, this is a splash mountain. And literally takes the flotation device off. And she's like, just sit down. That's literally how you have to.

[Crystal]

Yeah. You have to lure them in. You have to be like, oh, girl, it's Bible study behind this door.

[Kfury]

Girl. We're going. Guess who's going to chili. Me and you.

[Crystal]

You and all your best girlfriends from church finna go have you some wine spritzers.

[Kfury]

I call all the church sisters, all the elders. They down at the crack of.

[Crystal]

That's really what you have. Like you. There's only so much you can do if your mother's not willing to help herself. So you are really stuck between a rock and a hard place. I don't envy you. I wish you the best of luck. Cause that is so hard. But as far as any extra guilt, I urge you to let that go because just. Just keep telling yourself. Four years free rent. Four years free rent. She's turning down a $500 apartment you could offer to move me to into a $500 apartment right now. I'm going.

[Kfury]

Do you know the capital? Like, I'm going. One year of free rent, please. What? You could have saved up and done the van.

[Crystal]

You could have got that van. At the end of year one, if you really wanted a van, you could have got that van. You could have been Greg Universe out there making songs, half bald, half fat.

[Kfury]

Spray painting the side of a Rivian feeling. Just wealthy, literally. That's crazy.

[Crystal]

If you can't find me cheaper rhythm, just put me in a van. Girl, shut up. I'm not putting you in no fucking van. Take that $500 apartment. Or figure it out, Alexander.

[Kfury]

Or figure it out.

[Crystal]

You're the mama. I'm not the mama.

[Kfury]

That's. Yeah. I honestly would. After the moving out, after all of that stuff and going to her like, hey, we found you an apartment and we're going. All this stuff that she's still pushing back, I would get firm. Yeah, I'm getting firm, mama and all guilt and all. I'm gonna get firm.

[Crystal]

I'm getting firm because you lose it.

[Kfury]

You don't love here. I do. I helped. I've tried to continue help. You don't want it. So peace in the Middle east, goodbye.

[Crystal]

Or, you know, you let her live in your house for four years, maybe now it's your brother's turn and she can go stay in your brother's house for four years.

[Kfury]

I guarantee you that brother is gonna be like nice frights later and checks out this bitch.

[Crystal]

And she's up.

[Kfury]

I'm on Facebook, Marketplace, looking at van. Because she's not coming over here.

[Crystal]

I'm looking for rooms. I'm looking at who. Who want an old lady who sometimes she a little bit wrong about what she think is really going on, but other than that, she's cool.

[Kfury]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Crystal]

She probably not even at all.

[Kfury]

She's a foster child.

[Crystal]

Your mama probably not even 16.

[Kfury]

She doesn't sound like she's that old yet.

[Crystal]

Child. Best of.

[Kfury]

But she does sound like she needs help that she won't go get.

[Crystal]

That she won't go get. Yes. So whatever you decide to do, I'm with you. Keep us. Keep us. I do. I do. Cause it's parents, you know.

[Kfury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

Most of us will let our parents get away with shit that nobody else can get away with.

[Kfury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

But it comes to a point. It comes.

[Kfury]

It comes to a point. You having two homes for them, right? That's a big one.

[Crystal]

It's not like your mama can't work, but she's the sweetest, kindest, nicest old lady. And she helps out. It's home cooked meals every night. And she's just a delight to have around. Sweet. Sweet potato.

[Kfury]

No sweet potato.

[Crystal]

Yo mama.

[Kfury]

Every day a new pie.

[Crystal]

Yo mama is hell to be around. Her sisters put her out. I can't imagine my aunties putting my mama out. I really can't. I really cannot. I cannot even picture that. You know how fucking irritating you have.

[Kfury]

To be for your three different ones.

[Crystal]

And your mama, y'. All.

[Kfury]

And your mama.

[Crystal]

Okay. All right. So. Yeah, baby, you. You've heard what we had to say. We're wishing you the best of luck in this, but let us know what you decide to do. And that's gonna wrap up the letters this week. If you have a question for us, send it on over to askthereadmail.com. we'll be right back.

[Kfury]

The sports horror event of the fall is none other than Universal Pictures. Hand produced by Jordan Peele and starring Marlon Williams and Tyree Quithers. Directed by Justin Tipping. Horror meets football in him, which will shake audiences to the core. And I can't wait when football's life. You have to be willing to sacrifice everything to be the greatest of all time. Marlon Wayne stars as Isaiah White, AKA The Goat, in the performance of his career. Tyreek Withers also stars in his is equally intense as Cameron Cade, a college football star who faces a career ending injury. He's called upon by Marlin's Isaiah, his hero, to train at a mysterious compound. When things don't go as planned, Cam is faced with the choice to sacrifice everything and make a deal with something sinister to become the go the greatest of all time. Never meet your heroes. Not him. A truly terrifying experience to see in theaters September 19th.

[Crystal]

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[Kfury]

Hello, everyone. We are back and it is time now for the read. I don't have anything real, so I'll Start and just try to make it very quickly.

[Crystal]

We probably have the same one.

[Kfury]

Yeah. So I'll just start with the, like, sillier one.

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kfury]

Which is. I was playing this new game. Well, it's not really new anymore, but it's from the creators of Life is Strange. It's called Lost Records.

[Crystal]

I do love that.

[Kfury]

Gloom and rage.

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kfury]

Similar, you know, teen figuring out I'm a lesbian. Strange adventure.

[Crystal]

I get it.

[Kfury]

Cute.

[Crystal]

Oh, I get it.

[Kfury]

Set in, like, I think, 1995. And there's a part where you're in, like, the garage with your new homegirls and they're in a band and they're playing, just, like, going around examining stuff. If you played these types of games before, you know, the different decisions you make will have different reactions depending on who it's with or the character. Sometimes they can even change the story. This part was not a big one. You're in the garage. I'm looking at just, like, a bunch of nostalgic stuff, like a cartridge for a game. When you examine it, it had a button that let you blow in it. Like, you just hear a blowing sound.

[Crystal]

It's a ledger.

[Kfury]

No, like, when we were kids, like, Nintendo cartridges and stuff.

[Crystal]

Oh, the blowing in it. Cause they weren't working right.

[Kfury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

And then it had, like, a little down a million times. Okay, okay.

[Kfury]

They said, press square blow.

[Crystal]

Okay. Got you.

[Kfury]

That was cute the way it worked. And there was another.

[Crystal]

It really worked, though.

[Kfury]

I don't know why. I don't know why it did.

[Crystal]

Shit got dusty sitting in that Nintendo all damn day or something.

[Kfury]

That's what it was.

[Crystal]

Because it really blowing. It would really fix. But this was before you could save. So if you took it out, that was the end of your game. So you had to. Right. You understand we see each other.

[Kfury]

Yeah, we do.

[Crystal]

We do. We do.

[Kfury]

There's another part in there where you're looking through, like, a VH TO. You're looking for something, and you come across some weed that one of them has. And the main character is kind of like Pollyanna, awkward girl. So you have, like, two different options when you see the weed and they react to it. One of them is like. One of them is like, it smells like a skunk. And the other one is something like, oh, I don't smoke weed. Or I've never smoked weed before, or something like that. So I'm thinking, like, that's, like, the lame one. And, you know, n be like, oh, that should smell like a skunk. That's like a good Thing.

[Crystal]

If it's loud, if it's stanking, If I could smell it from inside your bag, baby. Roll that up and hurry up.

[Kfury]

So I chose the skunk one.

[Crystal]

Of course you did.

[Kfury]

And the response I got was like, not positive. It was just like, well, yeah, it doesn't smell good, but it's not supposed to. But they explained it in a way that I was like, this is one of those nigga nacula barriers.

[Crystal]

I was about to say. What do you mean? Cause I'm lost.

[Kfury]

Cause niggas would have been like, you bet it does smell like.

[Crystal]

It don't smell good to you. It smells great to me.

[Kfury]

Veganacular.

[Crystal]

Cause I know what it's finna do in my brain, baby girl. I know what it's gonna do to that cranial tissue.

[Kfury]

I'm excited, but this white ass game made me feel like I made the wrong goddamn decisions for. It was like the white girl was.

[Crystal]

Saying, oh, it stinks.

[Kfury]

And they treated it like it was an offense offensive thing. I was like, this is why black writers matter, you know?

[Crystal]

And I think part of that is also white people and they vapes and they want strawberry scented weed and all that. Y' all don't know what y' all want. You smoking gas? I don't. That's none of my fucking business. If we talking about marijuana, I want that bitch stanking. The whole goddamn room. Should know when I walk in with that weed. The fuck do you mean? No, I don't want it to smell like mango delight. I don't want to pass your fruit spritzer. This shit is supposed to be stunking Peach sorbet. No, fuck that.

[Kfury]

Orange creamsicle.

[Crystal]

All you kids in your electronics doing drugs with electronics in my day.

[Kfury]

Smoke the weed and then go get an or. You're gonna want one. Like, why have to taste like the dessert, right?

[Crystal]

It's not.

[Kfury]

So you smoke the weed and eat the dessert.

[Crystal]

All right, y' all got it.

[Kfury]

The only other thing I'm gonna say, and I think that this can just bleed into what I'm sure you have to offer, is that that man's dead. Don't miss him. I. In fact, around Saturday, I was like, he's gotta be in hell now, right?

[Crystal]

He made it.

[Kfury]

I'm sure he tried to, like, file an appeal and was probably like, oh, my God. Like, I was really important. Like, someone has to hear out my case. But, like, Saturday, I was like, he's gotta be in hell by then. Um, so I really just have two things. One, not nary one of y' all bitches are going to force anybody to grieve that piece of shit. We just weren't.

[Crystal]

Say it.

[Kfury]

If you're grieving, that's your business. I find it laughable, but you're allowed to. We don't all will have to agree on the same sociopolitical things. And we all can't be decent humans. It would make the world probably pretty boring. I'd like it, I mean, but boring.

[Crystal]

In a great way.

[Kfury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

We'Ll never know, but, yeah, we'll never know. We'll never know.

[Kfury]

Um, but I, I, I find it particularly baffling and humorous, surprisingly not very frustrating, but very baffling, very confusing, very humorous that you all who support Charlie Kirk, who love Charlie Kirk, who are mourning his wild, wild public, incredibly bloody dad. Um, but also you're like, demanding that everybody take part in the grieving. And you also have an issue with people mentioning the things that Charlie Kirk has said, stood on and was very proud of, things that he would still say, stand on and be very proud of. Things that many of you Republicans and many of you people in the administration agree with from the top and the bottom. You just never would say it out of your goddamn mouth because you didn't want to catch one as Charlie did. They even said out loud many times that Charlie Kerr could have been a part of the current administration, but they felt like he did more good being political activist everyman, going around to college campuses trying to argue with children in an attempt to humiliate them and get clicks so people could listen to his little backwards, bucktooth, drooly mouth ass podcast again. If you are a fan, you're right. But I just find it really interesting that you want people to shut up about the things that he said right when he'd say it again. Can't. He's dead. But he would say it again if he wasn't. He'd be proud to say it again if he wasn't. And you were proud of those very things, ideologies that he stood steadfast on, that he believed up until his actual death, he believed these vile things on, repeated these vile things, and said them out loud all of the time in smarmy, despicable tone. So why is it an issue that people are recapping it?

[Crystal]

It is.

[Kfury]

People often, when someone passes away, say, hey, let's go on a journey through some of their moments.

[Crystal]

Yep. And it happens.

[Kfury]

Not our fault. Every one of us. Not our fault. That Charlie Kirk's journey is filled with a bunch of fuckery, hate, homophobia, racism, and a lot of calls for gun violence. A lot of excuses for gun violence. A lot of supporting of mass shooting.

[Crystal]

Correct.

[Kfury]

It's the kind of comical that you think people shouldn't include that in his memory. And it's comical that you now all of a sudden have a problem with these same thoughts and sentiments that you agreed with being brought up. It's interesting.

[Crystal]

It is indeed.

[Kfury]

I'm gonna just go ahead and end with this. Cause I don't give a fuck about y' all or your grief or that dead man or his wife or her.

[Crystal]

To be very her as well.

[Kfury]

Fuck her too.

[Crystal]

Fuck her as well.

[Kfury]

To be honest with you, I'm going to say fuck the babies because I don't even know if they can speak yet. But when they start, I'm sure they'll learn it. I will, though. Say I have an anti. Well, it's not really an anti DEI plan, but I have a plan for those of you who make DEI the problem of everything, who are blaming this shooting on trans dei, whatever child. Also love how at first the shooter was trans, then the bullets were trans, then his roommate's.

[Crystal]

He's the trans roommate that he's fucking.

[Kfury]

But his roommate is actually they're fucking. And so the trans roommate was gonna give him the trans. And then it's just like, what?

[Crystal]

Anything other than this is white on white violence and none of our goddamn business.

[Kfury]

And 10 seconds before a bullet caught Charlie Kirk's neck, he was asked, do you know how many trans people have been involved in mass shootings in the past 10 years? He said, too many or something like that.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kfury]

And the president respond, it's been five anyway. And y' all are still like, yep, this is a radical left.

[Crystal]

You know how many trans in this country, including gang violence? And then pop, that was the last thing you said.

[Kfury]

I think the reverse. I think we should have like a reverse DEI thing where a whole bunch of y' all bitches who hate it just go back to school. Because really, outside of dei, you needed an education anyway. Y' all are wide open outdoor. Stupid charm. Stupid, stupid baby stupid. And Charlie Kirk was assigned the job to continue the stupidity, to make sure that your new baby, not your new baby, but your baby and their new sense of like freedom and autonomy and. Or whatever, would get sucked up into all the fuck ass Outlaw Red Dead redemption, tobacco spitting bullshit that y' all are still trying to pump out everywhere. Yeah, you agreed with the things that he said, but you also understood that they were so extreme, so radical and so evil that you wouldn't say it next to his ass. You wouldn't want him to say it in the office.

[Crystal]

Right? Right.

[Kfury]

But go ahead to all of them damn college campuses and go say whatever. I think rather than complaining about dei, which I guess is giving chops to people who oftentimes are far more educated and capable than you, most of y' all really should just get an education. Get a real one. Start again. Start again. Texas. Those of y' all listening, I'm probably not talking to you, but your governor over here posting clips of black girls getting arrested because they had, you know, they were rage. Actually rage baited. Right. By some stunned ass Charlie Kirk. Like, y' all do you actually have. Have young people who were fans of Charlie Kirk because he said fuck black people and trans people and was really it.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kfury]

And they were like going out and now trying to incite rage from black folks so they can get in trouble. And you have the governor of Texas being like, this is what happens to people who taunt Charlie Kirk's death. Girl, first of all, fuck you and Charlie Kirk's death. This should even be something to brag about. You arrested somebody because they don't give a fuck that somebody else died. Right.

[Crystal]

You're kicking somebody out. Cuz she don't give a. That somebody else died. Somebody who would have rejoiced over her death, mind you. Like, all right, all right.

[Kfury]

Would have had an actual party.

[Crystal]

Yeah. Would have got on his. Someone who. She deserved it. Yes.

[Kfury]

The death of numerous people.

[Crystal]

Exactly.

[Kfury]

In just the past, like 10 years. Mocked them. Y'. All like, oh, we shouldn't.

[Crystal]

Even.

[Kfury]

People on the left are like, oh, I'm not gonna celebrate his death or whatever. Like, nobody's telling you to go get a sheet cake, bitch.

[Crystal]

Well, you should, though, like, but you should.

[Kfury]

There's nothing wrong with if you did.

[Crystal]

You would be wealthy in your rights.

[Kfury]

I would double tap.

[Crystal]

Like, yeah, yeah.

[Kfury]

He was a piece of shit and a horrible person and perpetuated violence, including the violence that got him killed. We can talk about both of those things. We can say, hey, don't go out with a fucking rifle or any other and just start blasting people. Because you know what? I thought, thank God that this person didn't go, I'm gonna also aim this gun. And anybody with a hat on that looked like he got it from Charlie Kirk or a Charlie Kirk shit on and just start shooting kids too.

[Crystal]

Didn't do that.

[Kfury]

Didn't do that.

[Crystal]

It's one bitch that I Want to.

[Kfury]

I hate that bitch right there.

[Crystal]

Leave her alone. Right.

[Kfury]

Okay, now, sissy. That wrong. So you know it's a joke, and I knew that. I'm not surprised that they're using this death to try and further their political ideologies and agendas and shit like that. But it is funny to be doing it while also being like, you don't get to post that meme.

[Crystal]

Yes, the fuck I do.

[Kfury]

You don't get to. Like. There's this really highly anticipated video game sequel coming out next month called Ghost of Yotai, and I guess not even someone from the head of the developers, but I think one of, like, the lead artists or something tweeted something like, well, I hope the shooter. I. She said something like, I hope the shooter's name is Mario so that I can say Luigi's goddess God. Something like that.

[Crystal]

I saw where that was going.

[Kfury]

All the little Charlie Kirk fans. Pissed. Yeah, pissed. Harassing. Sony harassing. Sucker punch. Ended up getting the person fired.

[Crystal]

Wow.

[Kfury]

Also, like, they've been firing many teachers. Many.

[Crystal]

MSNBC fired an analyst for quoting Charlie Kirk. Yeah, that's what's. That's what's really chapping me. Okay. Cause, you know, we was on the same page when I actually learned about this son of a bitch. And the girls told me he was the. He was the one who said, you body, my choice. Now, I did remember that. Cause that was the exact moment I said, oh, Charlie Kirk. Let me put this name out my mind. This person is not saying anything that I want to hear, therefore I'll never pay attention to him again.

[Kfury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

I said this on getting grown. So forgive me for repeating the joke, but that's the exact same thing that Shuda said. Your body. Pew, pew, pew. My choice. Girly, pop your aorta. My fun Tuesday afternoon.

[Kfury]

Like, girl, that's a fantastic.

[Crystal]

I mean, it is what it is. Proverbs, chapter 11.

[Kfury]

I'm fired.

[Crystal]

You're gonna have to call whoever's in charge of the read and tell them that you want Crystal gone from the read. Good luck with that. That Proverbs 11:10 says, when the righteous prosper, the city rejoices. When the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy. You have heard sh. Shouts of joy over the past seven days because a wicked person perished.

[Kfury]

Charlie Kirk, also huge alleged Christian. So this.

[Crystal]

This is. I'm starting off with a Bible verse because a lot of people have been saying, well, he was a man of faith. Not really.

[Kfury]

Whose.

[Crystal]

Not really. Not really. When you look at the teachings of Jesus Christ and Then you look at the teachings of Charlie Clark. Those don't go together. Not to miss.

[Kfury]

They were on the news talking about he's doing them, doing God's work.

[Crystal]

Which God? Which God trumps God? Not my God. It's no way in the world.

[Kfury]

My God Aries, the God of war.

[Crystal]

My God would have never said, I think it's worth it to have a cost of unfortunately some gun debt every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God given rights. That's a prudent deal. It is rational. My God wouldn't have said that. My God would crack up if you said that. And then you were a victim of gun violence though, because you justified your own murder.

[Kfury]

And he has a sense of humor. I think a lot of people forget that God is funny.

[Crystal]

And yet people quoting Charlie Kirk are being harassed and targeted for having the same views that Charlie Kirk had about Charlie Kirk. It's Trump's big stupid ass ordering the flags at half mast when he didn't do the same thing a few months ago for them. For that lawmaker in Minnesota who her and her husband and the dog got killed and them other two got shot too. Wasn't no flags that have staff for that shit, but it's for this nigga who's not even an elected representative. This person is not even a politician.

[Kfury]

This is just some prepared to punish people who did not do the flag thing.

[Crystal]

By the way, this is the same person who said if he saw a black pilot, he would be nervous and he don't want Laquesha operating on him in the hospital. Laquesha didn't even get the chance, baby. You bled out before Laquesha even had the chance to try to do a patch job on that baby.

[Kfury]

You were very dead in that.

[Crystal]

You were dead before they even made it to the parking lot. Your soul was out of here.

[Kfury]

They took so long. Actually, I do know why they took so long to tell us. Because it had to be tried. Yeah, y' all were waiting for Trump to get on Truth Social so he could say it first, right?

[Crystal]

The fact that J.D. vance used taxpayer money to go get that nigga's body and we are paying for his funeral and all this. Skip the 911 memorial where Trump was sitting there with his very obvious stroke face. Did you see that nigga at the 911 memorial? Half of his face looking normal, the other half drooping off on this sharp incline like that nigga, you're all right. We know what this is talking about. Joy Ann Reid And Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson and how they're all affirmative action picks and they don't have the brain processing power to be taken seriously and they had to take a white person's slot. This is somebody who dropped out after one semester of college.

[Kfury]

An absolute idiot. He talked about George Floyd like a dog.

[Crystal]

Joy Ann Reed and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson are all more qualified in the tiptoe of their pinky toenail than you are in your entire body to do any fucking thing at any point in time.

[Kfury]

He also said once, and this is another quote that I guess is getting the girls fired.

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kfury]

He said, I can't stand the word empathy, actually. Oh yes, I think empathy is a made up New age term that it does a lot of damage. What a dumbass. You think, you think empathy is a made up New age term? Empathy.

[Crystal]

Empathy is a very old word. We didn't just come up with it. What it's. What is shocking about this is that Charlie Kirk said it was okay for people to die from gun violence so that we can keep our guns. And Charlie Kirk said being empathetic about it is new age and stupid. And it just gets in the way of real pro of real progress. And yet y' all are trying to take away jobs and livelihoods and homes from people who are saying the exact same fucking thing about him.

[Kfury]

If it had been, he would still.

[Crystal]

Say any one of you could have also died and he would have said the same thing. Any of y'. All.

[Kfury]

Some of you did. Baby Stephen Miller, who's still living with family members who've lost like, who have to hear bullshit like this. I don't give two living fucks who don't like the fact that there are plenty of people who not only don't give a fuck that Charlie Kirk died, there are plenty of people who are happy about it because it is genuinely a better place.

[Crystal]

Yes, it's a better world without him. His children are better off without him. I saw that quote about if his daughter was raped, she would have to have the baby.

[Kfury]

First of all, yeah, he did say that.

[Crystal]

First of all, yeah, you said that. But if her rapist was anything other than white, I very much fucking doubt it. You would have been paying for that private abortion somewhere where nobody ever knew. Cause you not bringing no damn biracial, triracial, multiracial baby into this world via rap rape. You're not doing that. You probably would have disowned your daughter if she was with anybody who wasn't white in the first freaking place. But y' all say one thing and then do something else privately all the fucking time.

[Kfury]

So all the time.

[Crystal]

I just. It's not. You know, I expected regular degular everyday people to be weird about Charlie Kirk. For the United States government to chime in on this shit. For multiple major league sports teams, MLB and NFL, to take moments of silence. I am officially. Y' all know, when I moved to New York, I said, I'm gonna be a Liberty fan and a Yankees fan. I am now a Mets fan. Respect my privacy. I simply cannot support an organization that took a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk. But not for the kids who die in a school shooting that same goddamn day.

[Kfury]

Wow.

[Crystal]

There are real victims in this world. And y' all picked to. Y' all decided to honor and mourn the bitch who said it was worth it. It for people like him to die. He said it was worth it. He said empathy was bullshit. And y' all mad at I. Okay. All right. I'm in the fucking twilight zone. We in the twilight zone.

[Kfury]

I love this meme on. I saw on Twitter, oh, God. That says in quotations, a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk. And then they posted. It's literally just Patti LaBelle over Mariah Carey over Beyonce over Christina Aguilera. It's like every powerhouse vocalist belting Aretha Franklin hollering, like, a moment of silence for who?

[Crystal]

If I'm anywhere, and I do mean if I am anywhere in public and somebody asks for a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk, I'm gonna get a response. Arrested. I'm going to be arrested. I will be locked up and carted away because the way I'm f to act a fool, y' all finna be like, I know that colored girl didn't come out here hooting and hollering and causing a ruckus in this way, yes, the I did. I'm supposed to mourn that? Who would have sat there on his. On his program and made fun of me if the same shit happened to me, would have denied it in the first place? Actually, Charlie Kirk wasn't shot in the neck. Actually, it was a drug overdose. And that video is just AI and you guys are all sheep and simpletons for believing it. And it's just another white man with a drug problem. And why don't you guys just be fucking for real and acknowledge the drug problem that white men have in this country, since that's what you can do about George Floyd, then we can do that about you. We can simply lie about it and all the people. And again, when I found out that there is a group of white people that are so far to the right that they think that Charlie Kirk is too liberal, I said, please. Leave niggas out there. Yes. I said leave niggas out of this. I had never heard the name Quintus in my life. I said, please.

[Kfury]

The kids are figuring out. I mean, every. Like grown ups are familiar with grown up gropers are this week.

[Crystal]

We don't have nothing to do with that. This is cracker nonsense. Leave us out of it. White man shot another white man. So why are y' all going around threatening HBCUs? Why is a black man all of a sudden found strung up in the middle of campus in Mississippi? What the fuck is going on there? Leave us out of this shit. Niggas don't have nothing to do with it. You didn't want black pilots. You didn't want Laquisha in the operating room. And we wasn't. This don't have nothing to do with us. It wasn't no black, trans, immigrant, liberal, none of that shit. It was a maga crazy, white, dumbass boy who did that shit. Exactly as it should have been. You want me to mourn that? You think I'm gonna shed a tear over that bitch? His children are better off. They're better off.

[Kfury]

We're gonna say a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk. Girl, I would pull out my iPhone and play one shot by Danity Kane.

[Crystal]

I'm. I'm playing my shot from the Hamilton soundtrack. I'm being as disrespectful as fucking possible because y' all got me up. And all the people being like, well, this is just gonna make things so much worse. They're gonna use this as an excuse to come after us, baby. No shade. Cause they probably are.

[Kfury]

Use everything.

[Crystal]

They probably are. But. But if it turns out that Crystal got killed by some white murderous gunman, nobody will be shocked by that. That's exactly what we expect to happen to me as a black woman in America. We expect some crazy white man to hate what I have to say and come after me. That nobody will be shocked by that. Y' all are not all of a sudden gonna start coming after black people and trans people and immigrants and all this. You been doing it. It. You don't even need an excuse. You don't need a reason. You're going to keep doing it. It's what y' all do any fucking way.

[Kfury]

Right?

[Crystal]

Nothing about that is. Oh, A white man killing people who disagree with him. Groundbreaking. Girl, be for real. This is what y' all do.

[Kfury]

Handle your shit is an opportunity.

[Crystal]

This is white people's issue. This is yalls shit. This is yalls problem. You see how the rest of us. Wasn't nobody brown involved in none of this shit. Leave us alone. This is yalls pathology. This is yalls fucked upness. So y' all need to fucking handle it. Ain't no place for this kind of violence. Since when? Since the fuck when? Cause Charlie Cox said there was a lot of space for this kind of violence. So what the F are y' all talking about? Like, if that was any place, place on the planet where there is space for this kind of violence, it's America. So be fucking for real and leave us out of it. I couldn't believe. Okay, all right. When I saw them quotes about black women and DEI and taking the spots from a white man, I said, not a bitch who dropped out. Not a bitch who dropped out. He was like, girl, get out my face.

[Kfury]

Professionally, he was. Was. He was a joke and a grit.

[Crystal]

Yes, yes.

[Kfury]

Literally, many people in politics today and similar positions are.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kfury]

And when you all. He just was one of those white men who could put on a suit and have, like, a hoorah.

[Crystal]

I just believe anything. Y' all just believe anything.

[Kfury]

You would just be like, oh, yeah. No. He's well spoken and so smart. Even though he says the dumbest shit, contradicts himself all the time. Yeah. Says a lot of this extreme stuff. He. Because he knows that it farms views, which gets him money, which gets him power, et cetera, et cetera. And y' all just eat that whole shit up. Now he's dead.

[Crystal]

Yep.

[Kfury]

Many of us won't ever, ever, ever miss him.

[Crystal]

Never.

[Kfury]

Or care.

[Crystal]

Never.

[Kfury]

And you trying to punish people for being completely okay with or happy with the death of a horrible, horrible person.

[Crystal]

It's crazy. Which is America really, in a nutshell, making absolutely zero sense on a daily basis. That is what this country is about. So every last one of y' all defending that piece of. That goes for every last celebrity. Jamie Lee Curtis on Down Child, all y'. All. I didn't agree with anything he said. I didn't agree with Kristen Chenoweth. I couldn't believe that shit. Bitch, your whole career is the gays. Your whole career is gays and trans and LGBTQ and all. Like, what? What? That nigga hated us. He.

[Kfury]

Wyatt.

[Crystal]

I didn't agree with much of what he said, but he's still a Man of faith. Yeah, his faith was in Satan. He was a horrible fucking person. He's still a husband and a dad. All husbands and all dads are not good people. You can't be that fucking stupid. All right, all right. I'm done. I'm done. Rest in hell. Marinate in pig for the rest of all time. As far as I'm concerned, Charlie Kirk, we are better. We're better off without you. I saw a white girl, she did a little TikTok about Satan getting Charlie Kirk, like, delivered to hell. I was like, this is. So then Satan called. God called Satan, like, girl, did you hear? And so then God and Satan are, like, cackling back and forth about how horrible Charlie Kirk is anyway. That nigga was a waste of space, a horrible person to anybody who wasn't a straight cisgender white man. And so you all are telling on yourselves, you can't call him racist and a fascist because you're also a racist and a fascist. And we see right through you, you stupid son of a bitch. And that'll wrap up this week's episode of the Read. Follow us on social media at this is the Read. Our website is. This is the read.com. thank you so much to my sisters over at Gettin Grown for having me on this week's episode of the show. Go check them out at Getting Grown. Jade, Kia, I love y' all so big, so deep. Any other news from you, Kfuri?

[Kfury]

No, nothing much here. You can find me at patreon.com kfury Happy birthday, Crystal. Happy birthday, Jade. Hope you guys had fun. And happy birthday, Frank. Miss you a lot. I hope heaven is as. As fancy and gold. I. I see gold and white.

[Crystal]

Yeah, I think a lot of us do.

[Kfury]

So we miss you. Happy birthday to you, too. Take care of yourselves out there. Don't let anybody tell you how to feel about fudge.

[Crystal]

Exactly that. All right, we'll see y' all next week. I've never felt like this before.

[Kfury]

It's like you just get me.

[Crystal]

I feel like my true self. You. Does that sound crazy? And it doesn't hurt that you're gorgeous. Okay, that's it. I'm taking you home with me. I mean, you can't find shoes this good just anywhere.

[Kfury]

Find a shoe for every you from.

[Crystal]

Brands you love, like Birkenstock, Nike, Adidas.

[Kfury]

And more at your DSW store or dsw.com.

[Crystal]

Hey, y'. All, Chris Lynn Kiffuri here. Thank you for tuning into the Read each week. If you want to hear new episodes ad free. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcast plus on Apple Podcasts or visit siriusxm.com podcastplus to listen with Spotify or another app of your choice.