Can Of Oil

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Read – Episode "Can Of Oil" (June 26, 2025)

Hosted by Kid Fury and Crystal (Crissle), The Read delivers a blend of humor, cultural critique, and personal anecdotes, focusing primarily on hip-hop, pop culture, and the hosts' experiences navigating life in New York City.

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1. Celebrating the Oklahoma City Thunder's Championship Victory

The episode kicks off with a jubilant celebration of the Oklahoma City Thunder's triumphant NBA season. Crystal exuberantly shares her satisfaction with the team's performance, highlighting the emotional rollercoaster of a seven-game series.

Notable Quote:

• Crystal (02:20): "I literally was pacing the whole fucking game. My friend, like you, I. You need to be on medication. Like, this is not. You're not."

Kid Fury joins in the excitement, affectionately nicknaming himself “Lightning McCloud” and commending Crystal for her unwavering support throughout the season.

Notable Quote:

• Kid Fury (03:18): "I was gonna Introduce myself as Lightning McCloud. But I thought you wouldn't get it."

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2. Highlighting Black Excellence: Debbie Allen and Marla Gibbs

Shifting focus, the hosts celebrate black legends, beginning with Debbie Allen's upcoming honorary Oscar for her extraordinary contributions to black art and entertainment.

Notable Quote:

• Kid Fury (10:49): "Debbie Allen's gonna be receiving an honorary Oscar... She's that girl."

They also spotlight Marla Gibbs, who is set to release her memoir, "It's Never Too Late," at the age of 94. The hosts delve into Gibbs' illustrious career, her influence on black television, and her personal resilience.

Notable Quote:

• Crystal (12:30): "I maintain that that white. I forgot something. Dixon shout out to him though. Cause that's a lot of money and power to consistently turn down."

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3. Listener Letters: Navigating Workplace Relationships

The segment features two listener letters seeking advice on complex workplace relationships.

First Letter (Pam): Pam, a 29-year-old nature center employee, grapples with developing feelings for her boss amidst a past of abusive relationships. She describes intimate conversations and seeks guidance on whether pursuing this relationship is advisable.

Hosts' Response:

• Kid Fury (78:57): "My vote is no."
• Crystal (79:23): "Take care of your peace and avoiding confusion... Don't fuck your boss."

Second Letter (Soft but Not Stupid): This listener contemplates doubts about her new relationship after noticing unusual text messages and sensing tension from another woman in her partner's friend group.

Hosts' Response:

• Crystal (85:46): "He's a white man in the workplace... You don't want to put that in jeopardy."
• Kid Fury (86:43): "He introduced me to all of his frat brothers."

The hosts emphasize the importance of maintaining professional boundaries and prioritizing personal well-being over potential romantic entanglements in the workplace.

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4. Discussion on Reality TV: Love Island and Temptation Island

Kid Fury and Crystal critique modern reality TV shows, particularly "Love Island" and "Temptation Island," highlighting their lack of authenticity and the often toxic dynamics portrayed.

Notable Quotes:

• Kid Fury (56:19): "Love is blind. Isn't even that bad."
• Crystal (57:12): "It's like, nope, no, no."

They lament the unrealistic scenarios and behaviors encouraged by these shows, drawing parallels to older reality formats like "Flavor of Love."

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5. Music Spotlight: Cardi B and Halle Bailey

The hosts discuss Cardi B's upcoming album, "Am I the Drama," expressing mixed feelings about its anticipation and production strategy. They dissect specific lyrics and the portrayal of relationships in her music videos.

Notable Quote:

• Kid Fury (27:37): "I want to just put her into my bosom. I want to put her into my."

They also touch on Halle Bailey's new song "Brave," praising its emotional depth and relatability, especially for mothers juggling personal struggles.

Notable Quote:

• Crystal (47:15): "I hug her."

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6. Critical Examination of Public Figures: Draymond Green

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to analyzing Draymond Green's behavior post an altercation with teammate Jordan Poole. The hosts express frustration over Green's inability to take accountability despite attending therapy sessions.

Notable Quotes:

• Kid Fury (110:32): "Like, if Barack Obama. Photographed wearing an extra, extra large Chicago Cubs snapback..."
• Crystal (124:00): "It's not something you can completely avoid unless you completely avoid dating."

The discussion underscores the importance of genuine personal growth and accountability, especially for individuals in influential positions.

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7. Closing Remarks and Milestone Celebration

The episode concludes with the hosts expressing gratitude for being honored by Apple Podcasts on their 20th anniversary. They acknowledge their loyal listeners and reflect on the podcast's journey.

Notable Quote:

• Crystal (130:53): "We are beyond honored to have been included in this."

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8. Advertisements and Sponsor Segments (Excluded from Summary)

Throughout the episode, various advertisements for NetCredit, Audible, HelloFresh, True Religion, Squarespace, Instacart, and Carvana Value Tracker are interspersed. These segments are promotional in nature and have been excluded from the content-focused summary.

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Conclusion

In this episode of The Read, Kid Fury and Crystal adeptly balance celebratory discussions of black excellence with critical analyses of contemporary media and public figures. Through engaging conversations and thoughtful listener interactions, they offer insights into personal relationships, professional boundaries, and the importance of accountability, all delivered with their signature humor and candidness.

Transcript

[Crystal]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Crystal]

And I am your 2025 NBA champions, the Oklahoma City Thunder. And this is the read. Thanks for coming back. Period. I'm so. I'm literally so happy. I'm so full. It has been an incredible.

[Kid Fury]

I knew it was coming for you.

[Crystal]

I mean, I. You did. I mean, and I appreciated that positive energy, but it was so fucking nerve wracking to have this series go to seven games. But it's official. I am satisfied as a sports fan. I literally have nothing else to ask for.

[Kid Fury]

What else is there?

[Crystal]

There's nothing. And really, as a fan, you have to get to a point of being satisfied with something because you're not on the team. You're not on the team, girl.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, that's true.

[Crystal]

You're not the athlete. The athletes can say, oh no, you're the one championship. Not enough. I got to go for another one. No, I got my one championship. I got to witness a championship from all of my teams and I truly have nothing else to ask for. And your prime shout out to us for being that girl all God damn season and you bitches hated on us. So fucking bad. So fucking bad. Shout out to.

[Kid Fury]

I was gonna Introduce myself as Lightning McCloud. But I thought you wouldn't get it.

[Crystal]

The. From the Cars movie.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. But like Lightning Thunder.

[Crystal]

Oh, you're right. I would not have got it. I'm like, what his name? Lightning McQueen. Yeah. I would not have gotten that. I absolutely would not have gotten it. So I think it is McQueen.

[Kid Fury]

I didn't say McCloud.

[Crystal]

I don't know. Like, I would have never made that.

[Kid Fury]

Connection, but I didn't like Cars. Anyway. Congratulations.

[Crystal]

Thank you. It means a lot.

[Kid Fury]

I was similarly. I mean, clearly not as much, but I was similarly nervous. I wanted you to win.

[Crystal]

Thank you. I was. We were all together, just. I. I literally could not even sit. I was pacing the whole fucking game. My friend. Like you, I. You need to be on medication. Like, this is not. You're not.

[Kid Fury]

Well, that's sports fandom. I have seen my father. It is the light in his soul just be extinguished at home watching a game.

[Crystal]

It can do that to you. It really can.

[Kid Fury]

And it thankfully would not go further than that. But he would sometimes, just by the grace of God, come home and seemingly be in a good half decent mood.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Dark skinned Jamaican immigrant working in the streets of South Florida. My God. How could you?

[Crystal]

Right, right. You had a lot going on.

[Kid Fury]

His piece was coming home and sitting on that fucking reclining sofa that he worked his ass off to buy and watching sports.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And when they would not have their asses in gear and just do what he suggests.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Cause he's the coach.

[Crystal]

Right, right, right, right.

[Kid Fury]

And a professional athlete.

[Crystal]

Absolutely.

[Kid Fury]

Five times super bowl winner.

[Crystal]

And they should be able to detect the vibes.

[Kid Fury]

And they know, like, why aren't you listening to what he's saying?

[Crystal]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

He would get frustrated.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And I would see him become like, disappointed because his team lost.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And I, I got it. But I like, I say all that to say I completely understand the energy. And even the. The few times I've tapped into a sporting event, especially championships or finals.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And if I don't have a team to root for, I still feel the thrill of it.

[Crystal]

Yeah. I, I love. I was just watching the sky and Sparks game last night, which was actually really good. And it was a great game. After the second quarter, the sky had this big comeback. And I'm watching it. It's coming down to it in the fourth and I was like, if this was my team, I would be shitting bricks right now. But this is so fun when you don't really care who wins.

[Kid Fury]

When you don't care.

[Crystal]

It's so much nicer. But yes, it was an incredible series Shout out to the Pacers, y' all. I mean, I knew it was gone once y' all started making y' all way through the East. I knew it was gonna be y' all. Um, I hate that Halliburton went down like that. That really was deeply disturbing. To see that injury and to see ABC replay it 38,000 times during the game.

[Kid Fury]

Why do they do that?

[Crystal]

I really don't know. Like, we. The nigga laid on the floor pounding his hand on the fucking court and, like, crying. I think we can. I think we all know what happened and we can just not do that, you know? Like, I.

[Kid Fury]

Like, we're here to watch Sportsball, not saw.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Why do you want us to.

[Crystal]

Yeah, and I. So I. First of all, I hate to see that. I actually do like Halliburton. Obviously not when he's playing us, but otherwise I like him as a player. I hated to see it, and I knew it was going to fuel all of y' all. Oh, this. This win got an asterisk. If Halliburton didn't get hurt, blah, blah. If shoulda coulda, anything could happen, girl. But at the same fucking time, it wasn't no miracle. It wasn't like, oh, my God, the Thunder skated into the finals by the skin of their teeth. We was that bitch all season long. So why y' all acting like it didn't make sense? We were the favors, the favorites at the start of the fucking playoffs. So I don't know why y' all acting like somehow we didn't actually deserve it or didn't work. I'm not. I'm not.

[Kid Fury]

And if the spirit of sports shorts could come out for two seconds. Thunder. What? It does. Oh, boy.

[Crystal]

Oh, boy.

[Kid Fury]

Thunder is a herald. It represents a dangerous and disastrous and quick coming of destruction.

[Crystal]

Okay, Preacher.

[Kid Fury]

It's natural. It's unstoppable. It's going to take place. So what you do when you hear the thunder is you make way for the poo.

[Crystal]

Period.

[Kid Fury]

This has been Sports shots. You're welcome.

[Crystal]

Cause you might hear it coming, you might feel it coming, but somehow you niggas didn't see us coming. And we just had to come through and whack every last one of you bitch ass niggas on our way to the castle.

[Kid Fury]

And what happened?

[Crystal]

And that's exactly what we did.

[Kid Fury]

It gets louder and louder. And the louder it is, the closer the problem is. I'm finished.

[Crystal]

Come on now. It's a word here for somebody I.

[Kid Fury]

Might just have to preach instead. Because, like, I'm just trying to inform you.

[Crystal]

It's been a great week for me. Between the thunder and my mayoral candidate.

[Kid Fury]

One, I cannot. I'm gagging. The girls are out here talking about, can we. Let's move to New York.

[Crystal]

Which time are you going to?

[Kid Fury]

Because in the matter of like, a week or two.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Mama's over here sending the marines to pluck abuelas out of their goddamn house.

[Crystal]

Please, please.

[Kid Fury]

This whole event and New York was like, we're fine. We're. We're tired.

[Crystal]

We're not doing this. We're not. I'm so, so proud of this city. This is why I live here. When people say, wow, living in New York, you pay federal, state, and city taxes, local tax. You paid, like, five different kinds of taxes. Yes, I do.

[Kid Fury]

You pay everything I do.

[Crystal]

Correct, Correct. And this is why. This is why I. I left where I came from because it was too conservative and moving backwards for me. I moved here for progressive people pushing society in the direction that I thought it was supposed to.

[Kid Fury]

And that's why they can't pry you out.

[Crystal]

And that's why you cannot get me about this, bitch. You cannot do it. But I'm very, very excited. I was so proud to go vote yesterday. I even took a picture of my ballot, which I just felt so childish, but I took a picture of it.

[Kid Fury]

That's cute.

[Crystal]

Some rapper. I guess he got his fans. I guess he had enough people to sign a petition or whatever to get himself on the ballot. His name, like, Paper Bag Love Boy or something like that. His name is just on the ballot next to, like, actual serious people who have a shot in hell. I was like, can you n. Quit playing with democracy? Like, can you stop fucking playing?

[Kid Fury]

Because why we in the position we in now? Can y' all find something to do?

[Crystal]

Eric Adams, dumbass. Talking about, he ranked himself 1 through 5. So you just wrote yourself in and then. Do you think that works that way? Do you think you're funny or. I cannot wait to get that bitch up out there.

[Kid Fury]

Girl, just buy. Just go.

[Crystal]

It's a new dawn and a new day.

[Kid Fury]

I'm out here, Felicia, is how I'd say. And don't forget to leave.

[Crystal]

Don't forget to leave when you go, or don't forget to go when you leave. One or the other.

[Kid Fury]

Something like that.

[Crystal]

Either way.

[Kid Fury]

That line was crunchy.

[Crystal]

It was. It was. So. Yeah, my. My people, my choices, my things, they have been winning lately. I'm very, very Excited. Very, very happy.

[Kid Fury]

Good. That's good to hear. Let's do some black excellence, which also contain happy black things. And this week, happy black things. Four awesome black legends. First of all, Debbie Allen's gonna be receiving an honorary Oscar at the Governor Awards. The honorary Oscar is reserved for individuals who've made, quote, extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement, which Debbie Allen, Duh. I mean, if you don't know, Google her.

[Crystal]

You do you know who Debbie Allen is?

[Kid Fury]

You, you know, we're aged and so some of the kids.

[Crystal]

Figure it out.

[Kid Fury]

Ask your mama. Ask the part, the lady who introduced this podcast. Ask them who Debbie Allen is and you're going to have a weekend, baby. She's done it in terms of black art. She's been there, she's done it, and she's done it expertly. So expertly that people within the art form say, can you come back and be in charge of it? She's that girl.

[Crystal]

She is. So this is very much deserved Debbie Allen.

[Kid Fury]

It's so deserved.

[Crystal]

Absolutely.

[Kid Fury]

One of our legends celebrated across. Across the world, across media. She's fierce. Also celebrated and fierce is the one Marla Gibbs, who's going to be releasing a memoir called It's Never Too Late. Now at the age of 94 years old. Wow. Once again, you don't know who Marla Gibbs is.

[Crystal]

That one you really might not know, but you should, baby.

[Kid Fury]

You should.

[Crystal]

You really should.

[Kid Fury]

You should. We're talking about the Jefferson. I mean, we're talking about really everybody 227 you've ever heard of in your life? Yeah, two hundred and twenty seven. She's guest starred on a million things, she's acted a million things. She's been a fave and hilarious. I actually just randomly, I don't know why YouTube suggested this to me, but literally yesterday, YouTube suggested this. I don't know, some channel, I guess, that does like short, classic jokes, like clips from like standup comedies, especially when it's like minute long jokes. And it was Marla Gibbs and she told this joke about a gorilla walking into a bar, how it ordered a drink and the bartender, I guess assuming because it was a gorilla and was stupid, overcharged it because they put a 10 on the bar. So he gave him back 15 cents and the gorilla took the drink, sipped it and minded his business. And another person behind the bar was like, I should go talk to him. He seems very friendly. We don't get that many gorillas in here. So he goes over to the gorillas and says, hey, just wanted to say hi. To you. You don't get that, man. You're like the first gorilla we've ever had in here. And the gorilla says back to him for 98, 5 $9.85 a drink. I won't be back either. Something like that. Like I stupid. And that was the end of it. And it was just such a clean old school joke while she's behind the bar. I don' Gorgeous, funny, cute. Just Marla again. I don't know why YouTube suggested this to me yesterday, but I would love to read this book because I can't imagine all the things she must have to say from not just Hollywood, just her life in general and being a black woman through whose seen and been a part of so many different things. And also just what she is thinking now. Yeah, I just, I'm, I, I'd love to see what this book has to offer. Set to be released early next year, and then says that it reflects on her difficult childhood, bold move to Los Angeles, tireless fight for fairness and creative freedom in Hollywood. And it's more than just a personal story. It's a blueprint for resilience and reinvention.

[Crystal]

So again, the things the girls need.

[Kid Fury]

The things the girls need so desperately.

[Crystal]

Right now, especially just let me knock.

[Kid Fury]

Everything off the coffee table and spread this across. Like resilience, reinvention. Yes, please. Yes, ma' am. And who better to get it from than a 94 year old icon, right? That I would roll out a red carpet for if she was at Gelson's.

[Crystal]

Yeah. And who, I mean, as somebody who was just a kid when she was doing her probably most popular work on, you know, 227 and the Jeffersons and all that. I'm pretty sure the Jeffersons is even older. But Jefferson's older than you. The point being that story about how her lawyer got her all the rights and privileges of an EP on 227 because she was developing the show even though she didn't get the EP credit. That part that they put in there and the little blurb about her book and how, you know, the fact that she was a black woman in like the 70s and 80s, like coming up with this sort of power and influence and that laying the groundwork for showrunners like Issa and Shonda Rhymes, I was just like, that's so crazy because I'm so familiar with your work and yet I never knew that part of it. And so it's stuff like that that makes me really want to read this book and get into it because it's it is such an incredible privilege to make it to 90 plus, especially as a black person. We do.

[Kid Fury]

We.

[Crystal]

Between institutional racism and food deserts and police, we do not let that.

[Kid Fury]

Literally.

[Crystal]

Girl, Literally, those three things, like, in that order. It's not funny.

[Kid Fury]

But it is true, though.

[Crystal]

Yeah. So it just makes me so curious, like, oh, my God, what else do you have to talk about? Like, I just so desperately want to. Want to read it and learn from her and hear about her experiences.

[Kid Fury]

I feel like. Like the way that I felt when I finished Miss Tina's book.

[Crystal]

Yes.

[Kid Fury]

Like, this is so much bigger than the star that I recognize and celebrate. Like, this. This connected with me. And I. It felt like without being preachy or taking the perspective of, like, I'm gonna give you some lessons. I got lessons from it.

[Crystal]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And it felt like, like. Like familiar.

[Crystal]

Like, I have recommended Ms. Tina's memoir to so many people. Like, if you. Because especially to people who are like, oh, you know, people of a certain age, they can't change, they can't grow, they don't evolve, they don't this, they don't that. I'm like, you need to. Actually. Just because the people, you know, of certain generations don't do that does not mean it's impossible. And here is a lady talking about, I mean, very frankly and candidly about a lot of the struggles she went through just being a wife and mother and black girl in the south in that time. But anyway, yes, I felt the same way when I was reading the blurb for this. I'm like, oh, this is giving Ms. Tina's memoirs type of vibes. And so I cannot wait to read it. Shout out to our. We just man our black icons, for real. I cherish them. I do, too, because they won't always be here.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, let's do the Hot Box where I talk about whatever the fuck I want to talk about. I'm going to start with something because you just had me when you mentioned her fight for EP credit and so on. I just read this yesterday, or I read this this morning that Christian Keys made a video on TikTok, I think, where he said that. Again, he didn't mention any very wealthy filmmakers in this.

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

What he did say, though, was that he's taking all the Queen's Men, the show he created. He's taking that universe and show and moving it away from bet. Now, Tyler Perry is usually credited, I think, for all the Queens Men. Um, I don't know what exactly his involvement is with the show.

[Crystal]

Wikipedia says ep.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crystal]

Which makes sense to me, honestly.

[Kid Fury]

But I think a lot of people, I guess, have assumed it's another one of his shows or whatever. So I know.

[Crystal]

Well, he writes it. It was just created and inspired by Christian's work, but I think Tyler is the one. So you know how good it is is to be determined. Well, Christian probably like, let me take my back. Let me take my back and write it myself, because what the.

[Kid Fury]

Well, interestingly, I didn't know this because why would I be watching it? But he said that on season two, they removed his credit created by.

[Crystal]

Oh, did they show?

[Kid Fury]

And he said that he went to them about it, about putting it back, and they wouldn't do it. And he had to go to the Guild.

[Crystal]

Wow.

[Kid Fury]

He had to contact the writers union.

[Crystal]

Now, remember when that happened and get.

[Kid Fury]

Them to do what they had.

[Crystal]

Remember when that white man said that if you piss off Tyler, he'll threaten to take stuff away or just outright do it? Remember when that white boy said that just last week.

[Kid Fury]

He had to call contact wga. Oh, my God. And say, these people are breaking the rules.

[Crystal]

Wow.

[Kid Fury]

Like you can't. Like they weren't permitted to do. Like you can't do anyway.

[Crystal]

No, but it's the sort of thing you so obviously can't do. It's like, once again, Tyler Perry has zero attorneys working over there. Like, who's in hr, Who. Who. Who do you. Who do you run things by before you make decisions? Like, it needs to be somebody.

[Kid Fury]

And what would be the problem exactly, for you to take the person's created by credit off between the first and second season? Oh. So anyway, he said he called the girlies and said they over there playing games and then they shut that shit down, he said. So I guess he's had for a while now. He's very attached to it. Cause he said he started work on it 15 years ago. He considered like his baby, and he wants to make spinoffs. He wants to create, like a world around it. He really wants to make a lady power. But he said that those things would very likely not happen with BET and that he's already speaking to people who are very interested in picking up those things somewhere else. Now, he. It didn't sound like he said anything about all the Queen's Men, specifically, like the show that is already out. Yeah, it sounds like that might stay on Beth, but then he would continue to take other shows elsewhere, which might actually be the best thing for it. Because then somebody else would maybe be riding.

[Crystal]

Yeah, because isn't BET Just Tyler Perry plus, really? Isn't it just. I think I'm sorry to see that program. I really do think. Because I remember when they were launching it, I think a big selling point was, you want to stream all the Madea plays, bitch, you got to go to bts.

[Kid Fury]

So, yeah, it was. The only other things I think I know of on BC that I don't believe are affiliated with him in any way are Kev's show. Kev on the show. And I think Ms. Pat is Ms. Pat.

[Crystal]

Yeah. Yep.

[Kid Fury]

Those are the only ones.

[Crystal]

That's probably it.

[Kid Fury]

I know of.

[Crystal]

Yeah. I can't think of any others off the top of my head.

[Kid Fury]

Shows I've heard, actually. First of all, Ms. Pet is funny.

[Crystal]

Extremely.

[Kid Fury]

I haven't watched Churchy, but I've heard it's good. So.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But yeah, it feels like BET to me has always. Every time I see an ad for an original, it's one of his things.

[Crystal]

Yeah. I told y' all how I felt about that, man. And those deeply pathetic text messages. I still. Just yesterday I thought about that and I physically cringed thinking about. I'm like, imagine being worth billions. And I can't being this thirsty behind a regular ass looking white man. Like, I just don't get it. I really can't fathom acting like that. But I have a therapist and we're.

[Kid Fury]

Men and masculine beings. When you're a billionaire, you can literally have a dozen of consensual, willing girls in jock strats. Like, what do you offer to do?

[Crystal]

You could book 50 white boys who look just like that to come be on a yacht. Yes. In Speedos and call you Mandingo Daddy. Like, you can have whatever freaky NDA signs.

[Kid Fury]

Like, what are you? What? What?

[Crystal]

Because it's never about consent. It's never about fairness or equity. It's always about power and the abuse.

[Kid Fury]

Power. I don't. Yep.

[Crystal]

Yep. That's it. So we.

[Kid Fury]

We. I guess we couldn't even have been Aaron Pierre. That's Mufasa looking ass nigga. I mean, Ben Feldman.

[Crystal]

Somebody super fine.

[Kid Fury]

Like Jonathan Taylor Thomas.

[Crystal]

I maintain that that white. I forgot something. Dixon shout out to him though. Cause that's a lot of money and power to consistently turn down. To consistently be like, I don't want to be bothered knowing that this man holds your career in his hands.

[Kid Fury]

And the gag is like. Even if it was like a Beauty and the Beast, that's not a good comparison.

[Crystal]

It's not. It's not. Because Belle was a hot.

[Kid Fury]

I only think.

[Crystal]

That girl was held against her will. I only.

[Kid Fury]

I only thought of it. She eventually is like, oh, this nigga ain't there.

[Crystal]

He wore her down.

[Kid Fury]

He actually, you know, like, kidnapped her, imprisoned her, was incredibly abusive. Anyway.

[Crystal]

Stockholm syndrome.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, like, 1,000% is what that story is about from the beginning to the end. Um, but the gang is like, I. I don't even know if this was sheer. I'm not attracted to you. Could never be attracted to you, versus, like, maybe something could have happened if all of this wasn't so weird and tense and blink thrice and it could.

[Crystal]

Just be, yes, I'm gay, but I'm an actor and I genuinely want to act. I don't actually want to go to work and get fucked in the back, you know, during the breaks. I want to come to work and work and feel proud of myself and feel like I'm doing a good job. I don't come to work to be sexually harassed. Can you believe it? Some people just want to make money. And.

[Kid Fury]

Again, perhaps you ain't even unattractive. Perhaps.

[Crystal]

Perhaps you're not.

[Kid Fury]

This ain't even outside of the thing. Perhaps I genuinely want to work in this industry. You are a huge beacon in the industry.

[Crystal]

You're a big employer.

[Kid Fury]

What do I look like fucking on you before I have both feet in the door?

[Crystal]

Literally, that. Literally that. But you just could not help but be a crazy weirdo. You just had to. The texts alone are so embarrassing. If I was telling, I would've gave that man whatever he wanted. Just please don't. Please don't file a lawsuit. Please don't take no screenshot.

[Kid Fury]

What he's gonna take. How.

[Crystal]

What about that nigga mansion shit? You. You one Jeep. You have a fleet of Jeep? You can have a Jeep dealership, bitch. Just please don't tell nobody. I was thirsting after you like this.

[Kid Fury]

Call Stefan Diggs and ask him to find you a castle.

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

All right, let's talk about that.

[Crystal]

Oh, Christ.

[Kid Fury]

Cardi B has a new album that she's.

[Crystal]

Oh, yes.

[Kid Fury]

Her new album comes out September 19th. It is called I Am the Drum. Am I the Drum?

[Crystal]

You answered the question. Asked and answered correct.

[Kid Fury]

Was that a Freudian slip? The album is called Am I the drama? Out on September 19th.

[Crystal]

Ooh, my cousin's birthday already.

[Kid Fury]

Preorderable 23 some on tracks. The last two are up and wide.

[Crystal]

That's very deliberate.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crystal]

You know, the girls do that to keep the numbers for the album up. The album is probably already platinum because of that. Oh, yeah, that's a. That's a trick of the streaming era to make your numbers look better. No, not you just now.

[Kid Fury]

Fuck you.

[Crystal]

Not it just now clicking.

[Kid Fury]

Bitch, are you kidding me? This whole time I am like, why are niggas releasing all these token ass albums? Why is this album War and Peace? Why is this album the old and the new Testament? Bitch, why are these albums so long? Cause, oh, my God, in three seconds you were like, his money, cuz.

[Crystal]

Money. Why else would you do that? Up and Wap are so old.

[Kid Fury]

Five years.

[Crystal]

Yeah. So there's no other reason.

[Kid Fury]

What came out in Covid.

[Crystal]

You did that to get the numbers for the album looking right.

[Kid Fury]

I feel like just moving on to letters. I'm gay, okay? So I. I cannot believe that I never even put that together. I was just like, I guess today is. It's just trendy now to make.

[Crystal]

Oh, it definitely is.

[Kid Fury]

Songs that are 25, but I didn't think of. Okay.

[Crystal]

Yep. Woo.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, well, I heard a new song.

[Crystal]

You were not ready. You heard Outside?

[Kid Fury]

Yes, I heard the one you mentioned there being like a sound of it or whatever out on TikTok.

[Crystal]

Oh, yeah. Yep, yep.

[Kid Fury]

I immediately forgot about it. And then I was on the Internet listening to music I wanted to, and Apple was like, oh, hey, Cardi B has a new song. It just came out. It's called Outside. And I was like, oh, this is about to be some mess. So I went and I listened to it. I'm gonna be perfectly honest with you because I don't dislike Cardi B. I. The song is fine. It sounds to me like a song she's already made. It sounds like up or like, I don't know if I could place my finger on it yet, but it sounds very, very familiar. But then I do feel like if I ever, for whatever reason in this era, find myself outside drunk and the song, come on, I might go, we are out, Sarah. You know, I probably will, you know, be bopping along to it. Okay, two things. One, I feel like in Follow me or Help me if you understand if this makes sense to you. I feel like the lyrical subject matter, like, I feel like it hits a little bit different for me when I'm this deep in your business.

[Crystal]

Does that make sense? Okay, that's fair. That is fair.

[Kid Fury]

Like, if I knew that you and Offset had separated and it wasn't so great and you have a new man and that was kind of it. And then boom, this ball drops. That Offset has been a hot mess and deserves this or whatever. And then you have this record come out where you're addressing it would be. I don't know. I feel like it would hit different if it hadn't been, like, weeks and months of y' all threatening each other back and forth online, talking about you thought you were gonna kill him, so you left him threatening your new boyfriend over braids. Now she's talking. She was just in France, like, oh, y' all. This nigga, he got me a castle. This a real castle, y' all look. And it was legitimately, like.

[Crystal]

Sure.

[Kid Fury]

A small castle somewhere in France with a moat and everything. She said it was crocodiles in the moat.

[Crystal]

Oh, God.

[Kid Fury]

Beautiful inside. They're, you know, joking and playing around like a couple in their late teens in college. It's just, you know. So, yeah, I feel like one. I'm all about records by femmes that are like, fuck these niggas. And I can do any and everything I want to, especially with my genitals. I love that shit. Yeah, I love that shit. That's what I was raised on. But I do feel like maybe it's because I'm getting older, too. It just hit different because I'm too deep in your business.

[Crystal]

Yeah. And I think for me, it hits different because I don't really want to hear you trying to admonish the girls and tell them, you know, when I tell you niggas ain't shit, believe me, they gonna fuck on anything. Can't wait to tell your mama how she raised a bitch. These are all the same things people said to you about Offset when y' all first started fucking around, like, eight years ago.

[Kid Fury]

Sometimes you gotta learn yourself. Sometimes you gotta get.

[Crystal]

Sometimes, sure, sure. Sometimes you do, sure.

[Kid Fury]

But you touched yourself 8, 3, 4.

[Crystal]

5 times over and over. That. Here's the problem. It wasn't just back then. We said it, and now we finding out. Yeah, y' all have been through it publicly, so God only knows what all has happened privately, but the shit that has made it to us has been insane. And it's been up and down for years.

[Kid Fury]

When he brought Nick Cannon and the cast of Drumline on stage for your performance.

[Crystal]

Oh, my God.

[Kid Fury]

Girl with a Publix cake. That should have been the day, but here we are, you know, and that's fine.

[Crystal]

But the song is fun. I do like being mean to men. I like anything that degrades men for the way they act. So like you. When I'm drinking out somewhere and I hear it, I'mma turn up, but I can't be, like, on my favorite cardi Song?

[Kid Fury]

No, not even early. I figure the album will come out.

[Crystal]

And I'll find that my favorite Cardi song will probably always be money.

[Kid Fury]

Really?

[Crystal]

We'll see if she comes up with a money. Well, first of all, I love the song.

[Kid Fury]

I don't dislike it.

[Crystal]

No. Lyrically, I think it's very solid. But the video is so good. That video is the song. So much better.

[Kid Fury]

Fair.

[Crystal]

The video, really good video on top of an already good song pushes the whole thing up for me.

[Kid Fury]

That's fair. That's fair. The other thing for me was listening to it. I forgot. But I then was immediately reminded of the line you mentioned. I'm so small and tiny. He's so big and tall Might let him dunk his pussy like he dunked the ball. And for half a second, I laughed because that was so stupid. But then for half a second, I was like, okay, maybe she was just trying to. Like, she was trying to make a play on the ball part.

[Crystal]

Sure.

[Kid Fury]

Like the rhyme scheme of it. But then I'm like, I. I couldn't help but kind of dig into the soil of that thought a bit and be like, why is that even a statement? Like, why is that even a thought? Why is that even. Why? The average woman is much smaller than the average athlete.

[Crystal]

Correct.

[Kid Fury]

Right. So it's like, is there a reason that the athlete is then coveted by, like, do you. That has to be a part that you, like, fetishize. You know what I mean? That you're attracted to. But then I'm. So. Then my mind goes, like, why?

[Crystal]

Well, there's so many reasons that could be for that. But, yeah, that. I feel the same way. It's like you next to a nigga in the NFL. You already not tall or anything. You know, you not. You're not Kylie Kelce or like, you're like five' four or some shit, Right? So you so small and tiny, girl, next to anybody in any professional league other than, like, polo, you gonna say short and tiny? I don't know.

[Kid Fury]

Maybe. Cause if offset is short, then it's definitely a ring.

[Crystal]

You know how tiny makes TI look tall? It might be a situation. TI has never looked tall next to nobody but tiny. Or, you know, children are the age of 13, so it might be a situation.

[Kid Fury]

Like, that is actually T. Offset's five' nine.

[Crystal]

I was about to say maybe he's like five' ten. But then next to Cardi, perhaps you just look taller. Yes. So he's not tall.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

He's not.

[Crystal]

No, he isn't. But that's fine. Nothing wrong with being a short. Are you watching? This is a complete, complete distraction from what we talking about. But are you watching Love Island?

[Kid Fury]

No, but do you want to know that I was about to bring up the perfect match?

[Crystal]

What is that another reality show?

[Kid Fury]

It's the same thing.

[Crystal]

Oh, God.

[Kid Fury]

Go ahead.

[Crystal]

Okay. Well, no, that was it. Because there's a short king on that show who is truly on my nerves. Yes. On Love island usa, who is getting on my nerves. But I'm not completely caught up on the show. So maybe he's redeemed himself. But I have noticed that they tend to be a little more insecure and they feel like they kind of got like puff up their chest and try to do more when a tall women come around. Yeah, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So 1,000%, I'm sure Cardi. It could be in essence. Yeah. Like, I don't know. I'm reaching here. Going like.

[Crystal]

I just didn't like.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, maybe she's also. But yeah, I think for me it's just. I find it interesting, like, why, you know.

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[Kid Fury]

Thanks.

[Crystal]

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[Kid Fury]

There's always a trade in.

[Crystal]

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[Kid Fury]

I feel like I have to give.

[Crystal]

You something in return for karma. That's okay.

[Kid Fury]

I don't really have much in my purse. Oh, let's see. Hand sanitizer. It's lavender.

[Crystal]

I'm good. Seriously.

[Kid Fury]

Let me check this pocket. Oh, mints.

[Crystal]

Really, I'm fine.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, I have raisins. I'm a mom. Wait, wait one sec.

[Crystal]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Crystal]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Crystal]

You are obsessed with them.

[Kid Fury]

They're such a great duo but they're recaps of anything. TV and cinema to me is delightful and so Netflix hat giving them this series is just I can't get enough. I want Katya to do a spinoff film podcast, but that's separate. They did an episode on the one season of the Perfect Match and there was this white girl on there named Carousel and she went on a like.

[Crystal]

Ring around the Rosie.

[Kid Fury]

Yes, but spelled like Carrie self fun. She went on a date with this light skinned boy or whatever who I guess was much taller than she is. And then after they dated an interview, she's like off to the side and she says something like, he's just like so, so tall and I'm so tidy. He's like, we would have so much fun in the bedroom. He just like throw me around. Oh my God. It would have like, it would be so much fun. She says it like that, like I'm not being the girl. No, she said it just.

[Crystal]

I know she, the girls love that. It makes them feel.

[Kid Fury]

Katya turns to Trixie. She goes, he's just like, fuck me my ass and like finger my butthole and like squeeze my titties like just like so she just like mocked her for being like, why are you like so giddy about him? Being larger than you and talking about it would be fun for him to throw you around in the bedroom. I'm not kink shaming anyone. I'm just fine.

[Crystal]

Like, I honestly don't.

[Kid Fury]

It's fascinating.

[Crystal]

That is so such a common attitude amongst straight women that I don't even think it's a kink. The girls, really, there's something about being with a taller or wider, for lack of a better word, man, that makes them feel smaller in comparison. And I think they link that to femininity in real estate ways. That's my issue. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

That's my disconnect.

[Crystal]

Same.

[Kid Fury]

Because I understand the first part of it. I'm gay. But for me, it's like when men, I don't know, murder you guys all the time when they're constantly a physical threat for nothing. It's just fascinating to me that this is, like, sexy and, like, you said, connect. Yeah. And you value and attribute to your femininity.

[Crystal]

Meanwhile, I'm over here. Y' all need to be building up muscle so that can't nobody pick you up in the Walmart parking lot and throw you in the back of a van somewhere. Like, that's how I think of it. But also, I don't think any of this would have even stood out to me until the thing with Megan and Nikki and Bigfoot came out. And then all the tall girls were like, the short girls have been doing this all of our lives. They act like we're less of women because we're taller than they are. And I had. I mean, as a short person, I just had no context for that. And so since then, every time something like that comes up, I'm just like, oh, no, you bitches are problematic. You're not more feminine because you're short and skinny. People come in all different shapes and sizes. A woman can be six five and delicate and feminine. You can't take that away from her because of her height.

[Kid Fury]

Imagine that. Did you bitches watch Wonder Woman?

[Crystal]

This is how you're. This is just. We're born and racist. Do you watch the Olympics? You don't see all them women of all different kinds of bodies out there winning medals. Like, it's just queer.

[Kid Fury]

Sha' Carri running in a wig, much like the wigs that you wear to go get coffee at Dunkin' Running with acrylics, looking just like you.

[Crystal]

The track and field girls, the rugby girls. It's like there's just all different kinds.

[Kid Fury]

Of body tennis girls, basketball girls.

[Crystal]

And you know what? Almost all of them have in common. Muscles, strength.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

Almost nobody is like, my job at the Olympics is to be the skinniest bitch anybody's ever seen.

[Kid Fury]

And so literally walk in the room and very small.

[Crystal]

Sideways. And everybody's like, oh, my God, you didn't care.

[Kid Fury]

I just. The key to winning is to be petite.

[Crystal]

I have to credit this gold medal to my eating disorder and ozempy. Thank you so much. Like, that's how y' all act. Like it's some sort of achievement to be small. Meanwhile, the average man is bigger than you, Cardi. You're like, five. Five.

[Kid Fury]

That's just science.

[Crystal]

It's weird the way y' all act. I was. They got shout out to the tall girls for telling me about.

[Kid Fury]

Meanwhile, I'm just like, all. I wanted to see you turning to literally a giant woman.

[Crystal]

A giant woman.

[Kid Fury]

He was like, oh, you can get really. That's awesome.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

The world is stupid.

[Crystal]

It is. It's very backwards. But, yeah, it's the one we live in.

[Kid Fury]

It is. Well, we'll see what that album sounds like. I'm not gonna front. Like, I'm not gonna listen to it.

[Crystal]

Oh, right. I'm definitely gonna listen. But, girl, it better be Good after these 18 years we've been waiting.

[Kid Fury]

Have you heard Halle's new song? Watched your video. Halle Bailey?

[Crystal]

I haven't. I didn't know she had one out.

[Kid Fury]

It's a new song called Brave. Oh, girl. I want to just put her into my bosom. I want to put her into my.

[Crystal]

Let me look up the link.

[Kid Fury]

Ask her if she's ever been hugged by Brave Face.

[Crystal]

This is probably so sad.

[Kid Fury]

It's emotional. It's very. For the girls, and it's just. Yeah. Like, I'm tired of feeling like shit. I just want to feel good, but I got to go do the thing. So let me put on a little foundation. Let me put on a little concealer. It is really gut wrenching, but it's also her voice, so it's beautiful. I love her so much.

[Crystal]

Yeah. I hug her.

[Kid Fury]

I want to hug her.

[Crystal]

Yeah. I'm looking through the lyrics now, and it's. Oh, God.

[Kid Fury]

The video is also, like, it's her. It's other women. It's her with, you know, no makeup on. It's just. It's. It's Halle. It's very her brand, but it's. You can tell it's personal.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

It's very emotional. I feel like it's really relatable for a lot of women.

[Crystal]

I think so, too. Especially. Especially mothers, because There's a lot of covering up your pain when you're a mother for the sake of your children. Not just so they don't see what all is going on, but also so that you can just show up for them in the way that they, like, imagine having the worst goddamn day of your life. And this, man, there's just nothing worse in the entire world. And then your baby is like, and where's my Cheez Its? And you're like, and now I gotta get up and, like, look like I give a fuck about anything and kind of push myself through.

[Kid Fury]

What if it's something interactive, like your baby wants for you to sing them something or read you this book that they always read, this voice or whatever. Now you have to act. Yes. And she says that. I think she has a line in there about being a good actor or calling.

[Crystal]

Yeah, she did. Or your baby is like, let's call daddy. And you. Like, I actually have daddy blocked, but.

[Kid Fury]

How about we call the police? Oh, okay. No.

[Crystal]

Oh, this reminds. I just saw a TikTok of a girl who was like, yeah, it really hurts that my daughter is as. She. She's missing her dad's presence so much that she's sort of creating these false memories where it'll be like, you know, we went to Six Flags, but the little girl would be like, oh, my dad took me to Six Flags, like, last summer. Like, she kind of is taking these memories and inserting her dad in them as a way to, like, cope with him not being there. And I'm like, as a mother, I don't know that I can handle that because I'm the one in the church.

[Kid Fury]

I don't know what I would do.

[Crystal]

Every day I'm in it with you every fucking day. You know how many hours of overtime I had to work to take your ass to Six Flags? Like, on the one hand, it has to be like, wow, so fuck my drag. But then on the other, you have to have this empathy for your baby who just wants her standard.

[Kid Fury]

That's the first drag I'm thinking of.

[Crystal]

And it's a human.

[Kid Fury]

I don't even know. Yeah, I don't even know how I would. What do you do? I would have to contact someone.

[Crystal]

You're gonna rub your foundation on and put on a brave face.

[Kid Fury]

A brave face, bitch. Until I talk to that lady. Because I don't know. I can't let my baby be creating memories to cope with trauma. And I.

[Crystal]

Well, I. It's definitely disturbing. Like, I would get that child in to see A therapist if I could, but I wouldn't be like, oh, no, don't do that. Cause I don't want you to feel shamed for it either.

[Kid Fury]

Stop it. But I would be worried.

[Crystal]

Oh, absolutely. Oh, as soon as my child said that, I would be like and child psychologist near me because we are nipping this in my damn bud.

[Kid Fury]

Yes.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So I'm not gonna intervene or tell you what not to do, but I would probably feel a shudder in my feet and be like, fuck, we need to address this because this is gonna be good.

[Crystal]

And you have to push aside whatever feelings you might be having personally about it to focus on the well being of your child. Even though you're triggered as all fuck.

[Kid Fury]

Even though you still have your personal. And you are permitted to. And that has to also be addressed because you are human and you have to show up for this person that loves and needs you, but you're still in pain. And it is thankless. It is thankless being a mom. Especially a black mom, especially a brown mom. Nobody gives a living fuck what you're doing or going God damn through. And bitch, how dare this baby be in the airport with you and not have on socks. It's like, what do you want from me?

[Crystal]

You're going through hell. And then somebody is like, can you get your baby, bitch?

[Kid Fury]

I can get you.

[Crystal]

We're right. We're at the goddamn Kroger. If she screams, I am so sorry, but I. This isn't. This isn't Legoland. I can't be like, oh, you're on punishment. Like, I have to get the pork chops and the green beans. Like, I have to. So what the fuck do you want from me? It's just, you cannot win as a mom. And when you complain, people will say, well, did nobody tell you to have a kid? And you just like, okay, well, this is why.

[Kid Fury]

I don't understand why there is talion of mothers who just go around treating.

[Crystal]

Because they're putting on their brave face and taking care of their kids. I really feel for Halle. I do. I do. Because all of that, the way DDG was acting on top of postpartum, we're. It's an extremely fortunate thing that she didn't.

[Kid Fury]

You just got to go ahead to fly to Italy. DDG did to visit the baby.

[Crystal]

Oh, well, I mean, they're not likely to be like, no, you can't be around your child no more, period. Unless.

[Kid Fury]

Well, yeah, at first he was trying not to. Like, he was trying to keep the baby from going to Italy with her to work. And judge was like, girl, shut up. And so, like, he placed a restraining order on her so she couldn't take her. The judge was like, girl, no. And so now he, like, requested to go visit the baby in Italy even though she has a restraining order. And the judge was like, okay. And he and the attorney requested that she be the supervisor. She and her team were like, absolutely not. She and her team.

[Crystal]

Oh, that's how you know it's not about the baby. It's not about the baby.

[Kid Fury]

Exactly, exactly.

[Crystal]

It's about keeping Claus in her circle.

[Kid Fury]

Thank you.

[Crystal]

Oh, I hate niggas.

[Kid Fury]

Thank you. She and her team said, absolutely the wow. Fuck not. No, because he will have a professional supervisor. That is it. Or he can stay right where the fuck he at. And a judge said, you and your people, we'll give you guys some time to go ahead and find the.

[Crystal]

Find somebody supervisor. But it's not going to be her. And why didn't it be when you first said it? I'm like, well, yeah, despite the parents beef, you know, if it's not documented abuse or something like that, he does still have a right to see his child. But then when you bring in the whole he wants her to be the supervisor thing, it's like, this wasn't about seeing your baby at all. You hate this girl so much, you done leaked her text messages and you got a restraining order. She got a restraining order. Why wouldn't you want there to be a professional mediator involved?

[Kid Fury]

Exactly. Why.

[Crystal]

Why would you want to. To torture her?

[Kid Fury]

Why would you want to fly out the country and be with your baby in the presence of your baby and somebody that you just attempted to put a restraining word around to 200 with this baby that you can't stand that can't stand you. Why would you want. Why would you want that?

[Crystal]

If you really wanted to see your child, I would think you would tell the judge, listen, I want to go to Italy for a long weekend and have my baby with supervision or whatever. But, like, I would like to have my child for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday if that's how you really felt. But when you make it about Halle, that's how I know it's not about Halo.

[Kid Fury]

So dumbass can't stand this nigga.

[Crystal]

I saw. I saw that he compared himself to Bobby Brown as somebody what round Bobby.

[Kid Fury]

Brown did something for a living.

[Crystal]

Somebody posted that clip of Shananay being like, you not Bobby. You not Whitney Houston. You not even Bobby Brown.

[Kid Fury]

Bobby Brown.

[Crystal]

You're not even Houston.

[Kid Fury]

You're not even Bobby Brown. Ok. I don't know. You go get me a picture of. Who did you say? Sinead o' Connor. And we could talk. I don't know if it was Sinead o' Connor.

[Crystal]

Yeah, I'm not super clear on that. I saw that TikTok a while ago. But it did make me laugh because, like, don't. Don't do that. You can't possibly be comparing yourself.

[Kid Fury]

Flavor Flav.

[Crystal]

People with real jobs or anything. Ah, Flavor.

[Kid Fury]

Flavor. Go get a picture of Flavor Flavor. We could talk. I knew it was gonna come back to me.

[Crystal]

That nigga has been a punchline for so long.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, he has. And bitches still went into a house.

[Crystal]

And lobbed him down. That's. I'm like watching Love island is crazy. But it's not crazier than Flavor of Love.

[Kid Fury]

It's not. None of them have. None of them are. Love is blind. Isn't even that bad.

[Crystal]

It's not. Not ultimatum. None of them are bad. None of them are sp. Flavor of Love.

[Kid Fury]

Flavor of Love was insanity. Three seasons, I don't had them girls.

[Crystal]

Fighting over who was really here for Flav. None of you bitches are here.

[Kid Fury]

None of us. What are we talking about with a group player?

[Crystal]

We would not be here.

[Kid Fury]

There wasn't even a cash prize.

[Crystal]

And the cash prize is, like, but $500 or something. You're humiliating yourself for $20 per episode and some chicken fingers. It's not worth it, but that's what I'm saying. We'll never get that golden age of reality trash back. Although Love island is really wretched.

[Kid Fury]

God damn bad. Temptation Island.

[Crystal]

Oh, I've never seen that one. Is it worser?

[Kid Fury]

Is it worser? Temptation island is Love Island. If you went to Love island with your boyfriend, girlfriend, whoever you're in a relationship with.

[Crystal]

Oh, okay.

[Kid Fury]

And then you have tempters, whatever. You have these people who come and their whole job is to try to get your partner to cheat on you while you're in a villa.

[Crystal]

Wow.

[Kid Fury]

Right next door. And then they. And so, of course, the men always. Of course they do, like, two episodes in DPs. DPs bukkake.

[Crystal]

Like, no, no, no.

[Kid Fury]

Two days in, they're having orgies and the girls are, like, doing crossword puzzles and talking about their feelings with these guys.

[Crystal]

Of course they are.

[Kid Fury]

But then the gag is, like, they always bring them out. They'll bring out, like, one villa. So, like, all the girls would be there, all the guys, and they'll have, like, an iPad or whatever. And make the couple, like, make the other person watch what their partner has been doing, period. So they, like, see them cheating, see them kissing somebody else. And then in the end, he chooses if you wanna, like, stay with the person or if you wanna go home alone or if you wanna go home with the person that you.

[Crystal]

I know. That's right.

[Kid Fury]

That was tempting you. It is trash. It's trash. It's so trashy. It's so bad. And the excuses it gives. Like the men on that. Our infamous letter compilation. Oh, like the excuse level. The depth of excuses and lies.

[Crystal]

Yeah, that's pretty. She's like, yes, that's pretty bad.

[Kid Fury]

I fucked that girl in both her nostrils. But you hugged that one blonde guy because I hurt your feelings. How do you think I feel? It's sick.

[Crystal]

Anyway, it sounds like an episode of Maury. Really? With a sexy decoy in the green room.

[Kid Fury]

Yes.

[Crystal]

And then they show you the video and be like, you still. You got to keep. The way niggas was falling for the decoy in the green room was really like, this has to be. Y' all can't be this dumb, like, in the green backstage, nigga. Oh, no. The problem with Love island is all those people are, like, between 22 and 28, so they're making horrible decisions anyway and drunk and. Well, I don't even. I haven't seen too much drinking on Love Island. I've not seen them. I was gonna say I've not seen them do things drunkenly where I would be like, oh, you did that cause you were drunk. I keep thinking you did that cause you're young and you're beautiful and you're on an island in fucking Fiji with a bunch of other beautiful people.

[Kid Fury]

It's often that. And they're cast specifically based on personality, too.

[Crystal]

Yeah. But I would have never watched it if Megan didn't go on the show. I would have never seen it if Megan thee stallion didn't post that. She was on it. And I was like, okay, let me get into this. And I was hooked. And I was hooked.

[Kid Fury]

Megan is the type of celebrity who she, like, finds a way to really get involved in her interests. Yeah, I think that's kind of fun.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Like, real anime fan has an anime coming out. Probably watches Love's Love island on Love Island.

[Crystal]

Oh, she truly loves it.

[Kid Fury]

Fucking loves it. Loves. Real Housewives of Atlanta invites the bitches to her show. They're all at the show. She just finds a way to cement herself into the stuff she likes.

[Crystal]

The girls on Love island were like, oh, my God, Meg. You really watch us? Cause Meg was in there like, okay, let me tell you what's wrong with you? What you doing? Crazy. Love you. Love you, girl. Get it together. Like, she was really sitting there telling them about themselves. It was like Ali Wong on. On Drag Race, where it was like, she is so fun. She loves this fucking show. She knows all the girls.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, she does.

[Crystal]

It reminded me of that. Yeah, she is.

[Kid Fury]

Nelly and Ashanti have a show coming out called We Belong Together. I watched the trailer for it. They're cute.

[Crystal]

Yeah, they are.

[Kid Fury]

They're cute. I didn't realize that baby was still so, so small. I mean, I guess she did have the baby not very long ago. Is one of those pregnant people who felt like she was pregnant for years.

[Crystal]

Yeah, I don't even think that child's a year yet.

[Kid Fury]

No.

[Crystal]

So they must have started filming when she was like six months. Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

[Kid Fury]

They're a cute couple. I'm not really gonna watch it. Cause I don't care for, like, the. The show centered on a couple where it's like, we're together and this is how we make it work. And we're famous. Like, I think I grew out of that.

[Crystal]

I mean, they're just so not real. They're so produced. Like, this is you and your man in different setups that the producers came up with. It's just. It does not give authentic.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, I don't super blame you. Why would you want to film you and this Nigga arguing at 5:15 in the morning? Because the baby won't stop screaming. And you don't understand why this nigga can't just get up, up for once in his country grammar life and do something about. Like, why would you.

[Crystal]

Oh, Lord, I've seen a couple of girls. Yeah, it does look cute. But I. Yeah, I can't say I'm interested. Even if I did want to see a show about a couple, it wouldn't be that one.

[Kid Fury]

I finished the Trailing Room and I just went, aw, they're cute.

[Crystal]

And then you moved on with your life. Yep, that's it.

[Kid Fury]

No, it else has been cute and nostalgic. A duo working together.

[Crystal]

Oh, God.

[Kid Fury]

And Monica are going on tour, baby.

[Crystal]

The old tour. I'm here for it. I said that because I'm going. I said that.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, I know. You're talking about the audiences.

[Crystal]

I am talking about those of us who will be there. I'm pretty sure we're 32 to 48 somewhere.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I think about right.

[Crystal]

That sounds about right.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. It kind of feels like a tour that has made sense for decades, but we never thought would happen.

[Crystal]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

I thought the trailer that they released for it was like, I could have watched fucking Jordan Peele, Brandon espy, um, what's Mama's name? Who did. I can't remember this. I could have watched a director make a whole horror movie based off of that premise. And it could have star. It could start Brandi and Monica. Or it could just be about two sirens or two black women with some kind of special voices where it's like, whatever you do, make sure that these frequencies don't take place at the same time, because such and such would happen now in this trailer, obviously, this is promoting a tour. So they both sing. Or this cute, pretty black girl puts these wires together.

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

And then, like, the glass breaks that, like, releases Brandi and Monica from this, like, this X Men prison that they've been trapped in. Okay. And then they constantly look at each other, and Brandi says something like, you ready? And Monica goes, I've been ready.

[Crystal]

Let's go get him.

[Kid Fury]

What we waiting for? Not, let's go get him.

[Crystal]

That's a different diva.

[Kid Fury]

She. Yeah. And then it's just like, yeah, the boys. I think it's called the Boys Mind Tour. And, yeah, I might try to go. I think it might be good. But I could not get over the humor and the budget and cinematic quality of that trailer. I would watch Ahmed.

[Crystal]

I didn't see it. It sounds so funny.

[Kid Fury]

Just check it out. It's very short. It's really ridiculous. Cause it's like. It's full of jokes about their. Oh, shit. Tumultuous relationship. And it's like this white guy who looks like. What's that guy's name? From Stranger Things.

[Crystal]

Don't have sex with. No, I don't.

[Kid Fury]

David harbor, whatever. Is this white guy who's talking to this, like, young black girl and he's, like, walking her through this asylum or some. And he's just like, these two. He. She tried to keep them separate for decades and decades. What happened in the 90s and what happened in 20, we can't let that happen again. It's just like. It's full of, like, little references to, you know, their time and, like, little. They make little jokes about it. I thought it was really funny, but it was grounded enough that I was like, there's a premise here that's kind of fun. And I could see someone, like, turning this into a really fun sci fi Horror. Anyways.

[Crystal]

Yeah, Good job, y' all.

[Kid Fury]

That was a piece of. I loved the little promo.

[Crystal]

All I had to see was the graphic. And immediately I set a timer for when the tickets were gonna go on pre sale and then bought them. I said, I actually don't need to see shit else. You Kelly. Kelly Rowland opening for Brandi and Monica. Yes. Bitch, I'm sat. You do not have to worry about me. I am in that bitch.

[Kid Fury]

That's gonna be so fun.

[Crystal]

It is going to be fun. Yes. Like you said, way overdue.

[Kid Fury]

Yes, very way overdue. And do I have anything else? I was gonna talk.

[Crystal]

Oh, Lord.

[Kid Fury]

I saw Miley was on stage in Paris.

[Crystal]

Oh, yes. Oh, Beyonce, Really? She either really loves Paris or really hates the rest of us, man.

[Kid Fury]

Or both.

[Crystal]

Because. Because Miley and your husband, it feels unfair. Girl, Tick Tock is in shambles. Tick Tock is in shambles. Like, how dare this bitch? And when you come back stateside, you better have that man and that white girl in your back pocket, too. Don't play with me. I'm like, y' all, she can't make Miley Cyrus do nothing. She might tell Jay Z. Now it's time for you to. Have you seen the guy? You haven't because you don't be on TikTok. I need to. I'm not even gonna say his. I'm gonna go look up his name so I can make sure I get it right. But there is this guy who does, like, parody videos of Blue Ivy after every show, and it's like, her typing up emails about, like, what went wrong, what y' all need to do better because, you know, she's like the manager, but his keyboard is just a giant bag of rice. And so the way he's, like, typing and, like, doing attachments and shit is so funny. It's, like, legit me legitimately so hilarious. And there have been so many TikToks about how Beyonce is simply playing with us and don't give a fuck about us, and America has a problem. Like, we're just in trouble, and she doesn't. She don't give a. And it's nothing y' all can do but go to Paris the next time. But does Paris now? Let's think of. The French are not innocent in this. Let's not. Let's not do that now, God damn it. The French have made their trouble as well. But clearly Paris means a lot to that girl.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, it does. I was actually laughing because I was going to mention Malika Hawk and something that she Said Malika Hawke, the ATL twins. The one who had a baby with OT Genisis and was friends with Khloe Kardashian. Um, when you said the twins from the movie atl.

[Crystal]

Sure, sure, sure. But when you said Malika Hawke, I'm thinking, oh, daughter of Ethan Hawke's sibling of Maya Hawke. Like, I thought she was saying, like, Hawk.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, is it hack?

[Crystal]

I have no idea. I don't know that bitch name. You should have said Malika, one of Chloe's little black Negro handmaidens. And I would have said, oh, right, right, right, right. What did she do?

[Kid Fury]

Well, she famously had a baby with OT Genesis. She has said the nigga ain't shit. He's.

[Crystal]

I did not know that he.

[Kid Fury]

Oh yeah, he recently posted or someone. No, she posted like a screenshot from I think Us magazine that said something like OT Genesis talks his co parenting skills or how he co parents. And she captioned it something like, I'm sick of this fake shit. Or this fake shit irks me. He responded on Instagram stories saying, you offered me $100,000 to have another baby with you. I said, no, but still speak highly of you. Nothing but love.

[Crystal]

Something like, oh, that's the worst thing I've ever heard.

[Kid Fury]

I was just like, what do you mean, sister? I was like the black lady on get out. No.

[Crystal]

No, that's so embarrassing. You offered a man $100,000 for some sperm and he said, no.

[Kid Fury]

I can't believe it.

[Crystal]

No, I cannot. And I don't want to.

[Kid Fury]

I don't. I refuse to believe it. Anyway, that's why I was bringing her up. I was bringing her up because she was. She was randomly. I don't know, I think this was on her Instagram too. And she's like, the setup is so funny because she takes this minute to go like, oh, I was talking to my friends about war for obvious reasons. And like. And I said, you know, if we're sending people out or if we have to send people out to war, I think that it's a very clear group of people who should be going first. Fathers that don't take care of their kids.

[Crystal]

Oh, period. Pooh.

[Kid Fury]

She was like, you don't have any connection to anyone. You're not here, you know, looking after someone, making sure, go on out there and get on the front line. Now. The fathers who are in your kids lives taking care of your kids, they need you. Stay here. You shouldn't have to go and fight the Smiths. But you guys who aren't taking Care of your children.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

You should be the ones who got. That's why I brought it up.

[Crystal]

Yeah, y' all can go third. Dads who don't take care of their kids are first, and moms who don't take care of their kids are second. Everybody who doesn't. I was actually just having this thought earlier, like, what if. If you. Let's say you had kids, and then just the way that humans biology works, if you aren't a good parent, you don't take good care of your children physically, emotionally, et cetera, then you die at age 55, where the human body is just like, you fucked this up real bad. And so the day before you turn 55, we're gonna poll all your children. And if you didn't do a good job and they're all at least 18, then guess what? You're out of here.

[Kid Fury]

It would be fierce.

[Crystal]

80% of Congress would be gone. We wouldn't have. Girl, we wouldn't have an executive branch, a recording industry. The planet would be decimated. Actually, Hollywood. But I tell you what, in one generation, we would solve every parenting problem we have, girl.

[Kid Fury]

Every problem.

[Crystal]

When all of a sudden, you have a biological incentive to treat your children right because you would like to stay alive.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, my gosh. That would be.

[Crystal]

Watch y' all get over your bullshit. Yeah, that's where my mind goes. The person I was Talking about on TikTok, their username is thestevensteven, and they have a whole series of emails from Bea's manager, which is obviously blue. But when I tell you that series is so funny, I do not skip a video. That person is hilarious. So funny. God. Oh, TikTok is my favorite. If it's not on Tik Tok, I didn't see it. I'm so serious.

[Kid Fury]

If it's on TikTok, I didn't see it. That's it for the Hot box. We're gonna take a break and come back. Yay.

[Crystal]

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[Kid Fury]

All right folks, it is time now for your letters.

[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 Pam, who says, hey, y' all, I'm 29 years old, and I work at a nature center caring for animals. So naturally, I'm the only black person at my job, which doesn't bother me too much. Most of the people I work with are progressive thinkers and liberal in their views. The department in which I work consists of three people. Me, Angela, and our boss, Jim. There are a few at this point is when I realized she was using names from the office.

[Kid Fury]

Okay. Yeah, I did, too.

[Crystal]

Took me a second.

[Kid Fury]

I was like, wait a minute.

[Crystal]

Wait a second, Pam. There are a few days out of the week where it's just Gemini, and we have fallen into a pattern of talking about anything and everything. Over the last year, we've opened up to each other about our struggles in our relationships and found that we have a lot in common. Right now, we're both single, and last week, we had a convo that was really intimate and, honestly, not safe for work. I was surprised that he felt so. I was surprised that he felt so comfortable talking to me and even more surprised that I felt comfortable talking about it with him. It seems like nothing is off limits when we talk, and we talk for hours while working side by side. It's honestly refreshing after being in a verbally and sometimes physically abusive relationship with my baby daddy. My sister and best friend are encouraging me to see where it goes from what I've told them about him. They say he's a green flag until I remind them that he is my boss. I don't know what to do.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, your green flag.

[Crystal]

Because when talking about men, when. When does that come up? I don't know what to do, and I need somebody to tell me that this isn't a good idea. I know it can't go anywhere or won't end well at least, but I can't stop myself from thinking about this white man even when I'm off work. Please help Pam.

[Kid Fury]

Think about this white man even when I'm off work. Oh, we're funny.

[Crystal]

In a trip, you're in it.

[Kid Fury]

No. No, Pam. My vote is no. Yeah, I vote no.

[Crystal]

I'm gonna vote, though.

[Kid Fury]

I vote no for two reasons I don't even really feel like I have to expand very far on. The first one is he's a white man. The second one is.

[Crystal]

I don't care about him being white. I care deeply about him being your boss. And not just that, but the fact that he has crossed the line by having what sounds like a Sexual conversation with you at work.

[Kid Fury]

That's what I assume.

[Crystal]

Because when you said it was intimate and not safe for work, I'm like, so y' all was talking about. You weren't talking about bouncing on dicks cream pies? Like, what do you mean?

[Kid Fury]

Like Temptation Islands.

[Crystal]

So I can't believe.

[Kid Fury]

You'Ve never seen Montoya. Por favor. Why did I say it like that when I'm from Miami? I didn't want to say it with an accent because I thought you'd make fun of me.

[Crystal]

Oh, I probably would, yeah. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father.

[Kid Fury]

I'll send it to you.

[Crystal]

Okay. I don't know what you mean, but yes. So the fact that this is your boss and he's already crossed the line. Y' all have already crossed this line at work with. Far as far as, like, being professional is concerned, that's really the red flag to me, because, let's be real, a lot of people meet their partners at work. You spend some time at work. It makes sense.

[Kid Fury]

That's true.

[Crystal]

But this man is in a position of power over you, and if this was something y' all wanted to pursue, then he. I feel like if he was going to do it in a professional way, he would have been much more intentional about not crossing that line with you in the workplace. So the fact that he did makes me feel like he's primarily thinking with his dick, and that if and. Or when things go south between the two of you, you are going to be in an extremely uncomfortable work environment.

[Kid Fury]

Extremely.

[Crystal]

And probably will just feel like you need to go find another job. So it's not even just the co worker thing. It's the fact that he's specifically your boss and that y' all have gotten to this place of, I don't know, talking about nipple rings or whatever at work. That's what makes me feel like. I don't. Yeah, I don't think this is a good idea, baby girl. Maybe this is just a sign, because, you know what? You said you've been in, like, a previous relationship that was abusive verbally and sometimes physically. It could just be that you're talking to somebody who's nice and showing interest in you, and that's why your feelings are so strong.

[Kid Fury]

Not shade. I was thinking that, too.

[Crystal]

I mean, it's really not shade, but when you have been through nothing but hell and garbage, somebody just being decent to you looks like the perfect man. But I can't caution you enough to not do this, I have to say. Don't do this. And if you do, be prepared to go work somewhere else. Cause, oh, yes, bae, you just don't want this to affect your work environment at all. That would be my number one concern. I'm sure HR would have different concerns, but that's mine. It's like, it seems like you really love this job. You black and work at a nature center. Black people already don't do that. So you really love animals. You really love this job. You do.

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Crystal]

You probably don't wanna put that in jeopardy. It might be the only nature center in the city you live in, and the zoo ain't hiring. And so you. You don't have nothing else to do, you know, in your field. So I would just really be careful about that. Maybe work somewhere else and then pursue a relationship with him or, you know, go ahead and go for it, but just have that resume prepped and know that if things go as bad as they could, you're gonna have to look out for yourself, because I wouldn't trust this man to do that at all. A white man in the workplace.

[Kid Fury]

White, purple, green, Any man, really.

[Crystal]

No, baby girl.

[Kid Fury]

Especially because of what Gristle pointed. Like the. I don't know. Something about the willingness to have whatever intimate, not safe for work conversation. I don't know. It's like, green flag or not. I would constantly be like, whoa, you know, like when you start dating someone or you start talking to someone or whatever, and you're like, what's our first fight gonna be?

[Crystal]

Is that a conversation?

[Kid Fury]

Or you just think, no, not a conversation.

[Crystal]

Oh, I was about to say, oh, no. Call the late.

[Kid Fury]

No. When you, like, are wondering, like, I wonder what our first disagreement is gonna be because you're gonna have one. This is like, I feel like that would come with, well, I want to eat at Outback. He wants to eat at Chili's. We get into an argument, and now my desk is in the closet at work. I would constantly be like, what does a disagreement in this relationship mean now? And why? For what? Why even put yourself in that situation? I do agree that maybe there's something to examine within the past to develop the future, if you will. I think the mentioning, like Crystal said of past relationships and experiences in those can kind of help. Help you to properly form protection and boundaries.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

In your dating journey, you know, because it is very possible that you're just meeting a half decent.

[Crystal]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

Motherfucker that's not showing you any immediate signs of being an asshole. And you're like, let me mount a flag here and you don't have to.

[Crystal]

You don't have to.

[Kid Fury]

You don't have to.

[Crystal]

You don't have to attach yourself to the first nice man you meet.

[Kid Fury]

Please don't.

[Crystal]

Please don't. Yeah, actually. Because what if. What if you decide to go there with this man, and then y' all are hanging out his house, and he's like, how do you feel about me freezing some giant chunks of watermelon and having you pose in the tub in blackface? And he like, well, here's a pickle. What the fuck have I gotten myself into? That white boy could be into anything. Girl, I just. Don't fuck your boss. Don't fuck your boss. It's a nice man out there that you don't work with. I promise. Good luck, babe.

[Kid Fury]

We can't all be. Whatever, Dixon, whatever. That one man.

[Crystal]

Good luck, though. And. And.

[Kid Fury]

Cause he's getting paid.

[Crystal]

Let us know what you decide to do. Absolutely.

[Kid Fury]

Like, I don't know how much.

[Crystal]

It'S happening. Happening. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Good luck, mama.

[Crystal]

All right, our next letter comes from somebody who calls herself soft but not stupid.

[Kid Fury]

And amen.

[Crystal]

SBNs says, Hey, y' all, I don't know if I'm being intuitive or delusional. That's so real. I've been seeing this guy, Anthony. He introduced me to his grandma, his mama, his auntie, Sprout, brothers, and the whole family. He's at my house constantly. We talk daily. He checks in throughout the day with random little calls to tell me about everything from what he ate for lunch to his line brothers drama.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, so y' all learned in college.

[Crystal]

We've talked about our upbringings, our families, and even what our future weddings might look like. We've had real conversations about our pace, conflict, goals, and our bond. So it's definitely given something. But this is such a young letter. The wording.

[Kid Fury]

The wording.

[Crystal]

So I don't think they're in college, but I don't think they're too far out of it. But you never know.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. No, the wording alone is very young.

[Crystal]

Well, black people and their fraternities and sororities, they be calling. They be talking about.

[Kid Fury]

They do say line brothers forever when they're 58. You're right. Cause they are. They're your line brothers for life. You're right.

[Crystal]

White people forget, like, two days after they join their fraternity. And y' all never forget they ever did it. They don't. White people use that for, like, niggas.

[Kid Fury]

At Publix in the produce with their letters on.

[Crystal]

You just like, sir you really felt like the gold boots was needed right now. Like, wow, where are you going?

[Kid Fury]

Just twirling a cane through the cereal aisle. Love it. I love it.

[Crystal]

So. But there's this woman in his circle who I've met once in a group setting. She didn't do or say anything overt, but something in her energy stood out to me. You know, when another woman silently clocks you? Without making it obvious, this was that. Anthony has previously mentioned that there's been tension in their friend group because of this woman's dynamic with one of his other male friends, a man who is in a relationship. He told me that this girl, who I'm gonna call Portia and that guy have never crossed boundaries and that the girlfriend is the real issue, not Porsha. He even described their whole relationship as toxic and said it's to the point that they don't hang out with that male friend anymore just to avoid all the drama with his girlfriend. So the way he explained it, Porsha is not the mistress type of girl. Cool. I filed it away right then. One night, we were on the couch at my place and a text popped up on his phone from Porsha with a screenshot of his location and a message saying, nigga, you ain't slick, which he just chuckled at. I didn't say anything in the moment because I didn't want to start a scene, but internally, I shut down. It felt like she was checking him in a way that didn't match up with just friends. It's not like he lied about where he was because she knew he was at my house. But why send that message like she was keeping tabs on him? Am I tripping or is that weird? I've since told him I need to focus on work and that I might need a little space, which is partly true, but it's also me trying to create distance so I can think clearly. He keeps telling me not to pull away from him and says he barely notices my coldness, but I can feel the shift. I just don't want to end up looking stupid. It's not even about jealousy. It's about protecting my peace and avoiding confusion. But I can't tell if I'm being intuitive or insecure. The man introduced me to his entire family, and he's consistent and affectionate and present, but something just don't sit right. So please tell me, am I doing too much? Or is this man not doing enough to make me feel secure? Is it worth having a real convo about, or do I just trust what he's Shown me so far. Should I stay the course or hit my usual Sagittarius eject button and ghost him into oblivion? Love y' all forever. Thanks. Soft, but not stupid.

[Kid Fury]

You didn't have to accurately come from my sign like that. Oh, both of y' all like good deuces, good riddance and fuck where you came from. No, I think that, first of all, I love that you gave everybody name but you. Sophie, she really did like. But there's no way you're out of your 20s yet. This just sounds like so, but it's possible maybe. All right, I'll stay focused. I don't think that you need to pull away yet. I think you described all of these things that you like. You're saying he's consistent. You're saying he values you. You spend a lot of time together. He's told you, you don't have to worry about this girl. Even though, girl, you have to worry about. I think the ghosting route is not going to help you. It's not going to make you happy. It's not going to get you answers. It could be nothing. You don't even really have context for what it is that you saw. Now, let's discuss intuition. Like, let's. Because I would also have questions. But I think the thing that I have rested on in the amount of time that God has blessed me with here on Earth, I have accepted that. Oh, it's coming out in that rinse, baby. I don't have to go. I don't have to go. That's why I have the washing machine.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

I gotta go wade in the water and grab a rock. It's gonna come right on out. I'll see if there's a stain there. So I think that it isn't immediately something, I think, for you to switch your mood around or for you to pull away from someone you're saying you value in all of these ways outside of this one thing that's kind of been picking at you. Chill with this nigga. But keep your eyes open in your ears. You know what I'm saying? And the next sniff of something that you get, that's like, okay, then maybe you go and you bounce out. And I say that because she didn't say nothing about. What did she say? She said he downplayed the text. Or did she address it?

[Crystal]

No, that he just chuckled at it when he saw it. And she didn't address it. Cause she didn't wanna start a scene.

[Kid Fury]

Okay. And she still hasn't said she chuckled in person.

[Crystal]

Yeah. He chuckled. Yeah, he chuckled aloud when he saw it.

[Kid Fury]

I think you should choke. I don't think this is immediately like, I don't think this is immediately especially. He's also like, I found it interesting, the story that you saying he told you about her, but with one of the other friends or lion brothers or whoever, and his girlfriend, but that Portia wasn't the issue, it was the girlfriend that was. Now you taking your niggas nigga's word for that.

[Crystal]

Right? Right.

[Kid Fury]

So there's that. But I don't know, I think I would still just try in the here and now, my big age, I think I would just make a mental note and I would continue watching Love island with this nigga and I would just keep my eyes open.

[Crystal]

Yeah, I, Yeah, I think I pretty much agree with that. I. This is not something I would crash out about, although it takes a lot to take me that far. I'm just level headed in general. But I think it's very interesting. What popped out, what jumped out at me is that you saw this text of a screenshot of his location and a message saying, n you not slick. And you felt like it was something wrong with her, that she was doing something wrong, that she was being weird. That's just interesting. Not necessarily that you're wrong, but if it were me, if it were me, I would have thought, huh, what has this nigga been telling his friends about me and our dynamic? Like, my first thought would have been, because if I. Let's say I'm the friend, I'm Portia. If I screenshot your location and say, bitch, you not slick, that means you've been telling me about how you need to stop fucking with this man or, you know, it's not gonna work, but the dick is so good and you just don't wanna leave him alone or whatever. And so then I saw you was at his house. So I was like, okay, bitch, quit playing. You know, like, that would be. That would be why I would send a message like that. So I think my first thought would have been, how is he talking about you to his friends when you're not around?

[Kid Fury]

It could also not be a negative thing.

[Crystal]

It could be nothing. I'm just saying it's interesting that you, you were like, oh, Portia, like, why, why are you being weird?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, no, I completely.

[Crystal]

Why are you keeping tapping? But. And she said that when you. There was another thing when you said you met her in a group setting, she didn't do or say anything overt, but something in her energy Stood out to you. To me, that's a giant red flag. And not necessarily about her. Because a lot of people who are paranoid will think that they picked up on a vibe and then they'll roll with it as if it's the truth.

[Kid Fury]

And so you didn't pick anything. You created it.

[Crystal]

It could just be. Could. Not necessarily saying it is, but it could just be that you're threatened that he has a woman in his friend group and so you. And so immediately you were like, no, something about her don't sit right with me. It could be that this girl is just a very cool, chill person. And the. I just, you know, like you said, you know, when another woman silently clocks you without making it obvious. I have no idea what you're talking about.

[Kid Fury]

She gags at that.

[Crystal]

What does that mean?

[Kid Fury]

I literally saw her like, no, I don't.

[Crystal]

I have no idea what you're talking about. When another woman silently clocks.

[Kid Fury]

Silently clocks. Clocks you about making.

[Crystal]

What does that mean? How can another woman silently clock me without making it obvious? What does that mean?

[Kid Fury]

Are you an assassin? Are you both assassins?

[Crystal]

I think for that to. For me to feel like somebody silently clocked me, I would have to be very intensely clocking them.

[Kid Fury]

I don't. I did not understand what happened.

[Crystal]

How did you pick up on that? How else? I did not understand what you meant by that. And that's what made me think this might just be you being insecure or paranoid.

[Kid Fury]

I live for corsa.

[Crystal]

But. But quietly. On the other hand, I don't really believe in trusting men. But on the first foot, I do believe because I ran out of hands, but on my left foot, I do believe that if you go and date somebody, including men, then you have to go into it with an attitude of trust until they give you a reason to. Not because you are setting the relationship up to fail from the beginning. If you're not prepared in that way, if you are immediately distrustful of whoever you're connected with, that is going to. It's going to set a tone of suspicion over your relationship that's going to.

[Kid Fury]

Be hard for you to get away from 1000% so. And the next thing you know, you're standing in self fulfilling prophecy.

[Crystal]

Yeah, I do. I agree that seeing the text of nigga, you not slick would raise an eyebrow for me, but not in the way that it did. Like, I wouldn't have blamed Portia for that. I would have blamed my man.

[Kid Fury]

I would have. I agree. I would be thinking, well, like, what are you saying about our dynamic or whatever, Right? But also, I might think it could be a thing where it's like, hey, nigga, we all going to the club tonight, whatever, blah, blah, blah, blah. And he was like, oh, I can't. I'm with my grandma. Da da da. I don't want to, like, simp out.

[Crystal]

Yes, it could be.

[Kid Fury]

And admit that he was at his girlfriend house again or whatever. And she was like, nigga, you ain't slick. You with your girl. You could have just said that you in love, good night.

[Crystal]

You did not. It could have been.

[Kid Fury]

And that's why he chuckled.

[Crystal]

They were going to hang out with that male friend whose girlfriend is really jealous and insecure. And so your man was like, child, no, I'mma God, I have to go study with my grandma. And Right. And so then she was like, bitch, you're not with your grandma.

[Kid Fury]

You over there.

[Crystal]

Like, it doesn't have to be nefarious. It could be so many reasons why he said that, but you saw it. You smartly didn't say anything, but you internalized it. And you're now spiraling and getting ready to leave this man or end this connection when you don't even know what happened. And that's.

[Kid Fury]

He introduced me to all of his frat brothers.

[Crystal]

That has to mean something. Stop. But not stupid.

[Kid Fury]

So seriously.

[Crystal]

Well, it doesn't, actually. Men can. That's the thing. Like, I. It's. It's crazy because I have to advocate for, like, doing the healthy thing, doing the mature thing. But men give you so many reasons to not do that.

[Kid Fury]

They make it difficult.

[Crystal]

They do. But I do believe if you don't, if you're going into dating with this whole feeling of, like, just don't embarrass me. Just don't make me look stupid. That's understandable. And the risk of being played or being hurt is inherent in every romantic connection. And if you can't accept that and be okay with that possibility and know that you're gonna take care of yourself, no matter how bad a nigga dog you out, you're not ready to date.

[Kid Fury]

It's just true. So. And that's fine. That's like. That's okay.

[Crystal]

It is. It's great to spend time with yourself and not completely in isolation, but you do have to spend some time with yourself, working on yourself, and then test out these new skills when you start dating again. Because there is only so much healing you can do in isolation. You do need to be triggered by the dating world, but hopefully you've learned enough to where you respond differently to these situations. So, yeah, I would let. I would keep my eye open, but I would let this go, especially because he has not done anything. In your own words, like, according to you, this man is like, there's just no reason to jump out of the window at this point.

[Kid Fury]

So I thought the screenshot with the location was gonna have a message that was sexual or something.

[Crystal]

Right? Something like, come see me when you done with that.

[Kid Fury]

One of his niggas could have did the same thing. Like, look at you. I said, cute with your girl.

[Crystal]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So best of luck, babes. I. I get it. I do. But you. This could just be something that you could be real, could be something that you completely fabricated in your mind.

[Kid Fury]

But like Crystal said, don't create this environment of tension and distress.

[Crystal]

Right, Right. And it. And if you can't help it, because a lot of people. When I worked with clients and couples and in group therapy, I can't tell you how many times I've heard people say, well, I can't control it. I can't help it. That may be true. You may genuinely struggle to have control over your behaviors, but that doesn't mean other people don't deserve for you to act like you have control over your behavior. It's like, it's not. It's a reason. It's not an excuse or a justification. It doesn't make that okay, well, I can't help it. Okay, well, then callthelady.com because you need to learn how to help it.

[Kid Fury]

There's help with that?

[Crystal]

There's help for that. Yeah. Go call somebody so you can learn how to do that. You really. You're an adult, and that's something you need to learn how to it do. So best of luck, though, babes. I think probably most of us have been there before. Nobody wants to feel stupid. Nobody wants to feel pleased. Yeah, but it's. It. But it's not something you can completely avoid unless you completely avoid dating.

[Kid Fury]

So, yeah.

[Crystal]

I'm sorry.

[Kid Fury]

There it is. An update. Us.

[Crystal]

Yes, please.

[Kid Fury]

I feel like you're gonna have an.

[Crystal]

Update for us, because, I mean, honestly, I might bring it up and be like, you know, the other day when we were watching Moesha, and Portia texted you and said, nigga, you not slick. I saw that on your phone, and I didn't want to crash out, but what does that mean? And just see what he says. Like, I would be highly tempted to do that. But I'm also not scared of losing niggas. I'm actually waiting for you to say the wrong thing. I'm waiting for you to say the wrong thing so I can leave. That's not good either. That's not good. But it's like I'm trying to confront you. I'm trying to. I'm letting it all out because I. I want to hear it. What is it?

[Kid Fury]

I think if you really, after listening to this, if you really still like a week from now, two weeks from now, you really still cannot get out of your head, then ask.

[Crystal]

Yeah. But good luck to you, doll. Please update us and let us know how that goes. That'll wrap up the letters this week. Again, if you have a question for us or you'd like some advice, send that on over to askthereadmail.com, we'll be right back.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crystal]

Hey Kristen, how's it tracking with Carvana value tracker?

[Kid Fury]

What else?

[Crystal]

Oh, it's tracking in fact. Value surge alert. Trucks up 2.5%. Vans down 1.7.

[Kid Fury]

Just as predicted.

[Crystal]

So we gonna. I don't know, could sell.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crystal]

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[Kid Fury]

We're back folks and it is now time for the read. I'll start because I'm actually. I think this is going to be relatively short cause it's more of a joke. Although the serious the situation isn't.

[Crystal]

Oh no.

[Kid Fury]

I just want to say as I've been paying attention to the news, unfortunately I told myself I would do less of that.

[Crystal]

Oh no, you can't.

[Kid Fury]

You just can't.

[Crystal]

It's so bad. Every day, every few hours, it's another headline.

[Kid Fury]

It's like how can it get worse? And then he's like here, don't even ask no more.

[Crystal]

Don't even ask no more. Oh God.

[Kid Fury]

So I will just say this right. So I was paying attention. I was looking at this absolutely ridiculous stuff. That yalls incredibly rust colored president. What he's been doing in Iran and how he's responded to the bombing of or attempted bombs on Iran's nuclear facilities, meddling or continuing to meddle in Israeli affairs. Coming out and being like, there's a ceasefire. No, yeah, no, there's a ceasefire. Ceasefire. You're welcome. I save the world. Bye, guys. Only to then come back and then be like, I'm very upset with Israel because ceasefire. But don't worry, everything's great. Everything is so great. Everything's so great. That's not the point, really. What I wanted to just say is, like, one of the first images that I saw of him during this was him sitting in the lighthouse discussing this entire affair. And I had to. When I was. I'm looking at him and what he's wearing, and I see this giant red hat, as usual. And, you know, I'm. I wish I could say I'm accustomed to seeing him with the hat on. He wears it a lot. Not as much as his followers. Do they sleep in them?

[Crystal]

Yeah, they do. It's pretty gross.

[Kid Fury]

But to see the President of the United States with this oversized baseball hat on discussing these bombings, to me was like. I immediately thought, nigga, if Barack Obama.

[Crystal]

Oh, so many times, was.

[Kid Fury]

Photographed wearing an extra, extra large Chicago Cubs snapback while discussing nuclear war and cussing, talking.

[Crystal]

About, what the fuck, girl?

[Kid Fury]

All right. Impeachment, assassination.

[Crystal]

Get him out of here.

[Kid Fury]

Hostages. Tyler Perry Studios found dead on fire burned to the ground. BET dismantled. Scandal ripped off of Netflix again when we just got it back. Like, bitch, when I tell you, girl, why with this bright blue suit and this bright red tie, even Disney said, girl, let's bring the brightness down on Captain America. He looks ridiculous. It's too bright. He looked like a cartoon. And fans were like, he is a cartoon. Like, it's fine. He's based on a comic book character. The colors can be bright, and they're like, oh, we'll meet in the middle. You're not a cartoon. You are the Captain of America. Why are you wearing his big stupid ass hat and, and, and, and. And taking us into war for funsies? That's it. I'm. I'm genuinely finished. I just.

[Crystal]

You're playing with real. These are real people. These are real lives. Like, this isn't some sort of goddamn game.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I'm done.

[Crystal]

I've been flummoxed.

[Kid Fury]

It's the seriousness of the situation, the gravity of the situation imprinted with this king of the hill wart on society.

[Crystal]

And that's precisely what it is.

[Kid Fury]

I'm finished. I just finished this game called Death Stranding. Because there's a new one coming out called Death Stranding 2. It's like a sci fi game that this Japanese guy made and one of the pro. It's like a post apocalyptic. One of the themes of that comes up in the first game is the sixth extinction. Or like the upcoming sixth extinct extinction. And how there's been these great five extinctions and yikes, Earth's history. And like they're trying to prevent the sixth one, the five extensions, real thing. But I'm like, oh, is this the sixth? Are we in this, the sixth extinction?

[Crystal]

Probably, yeah, probably.

[Kid Fury]

Are we getting ready to start it?

[Crystal]

Because every few thousand years, the Earth is just like, you know what? This was a mistake.

[Kid Fury]

Earth is jump the shark. This Earth is jump the shark, babe. God gotta be bored. Like, I know the other Earths, the other Earths in the multiverse is probably doing really fun stuff, okay?

[Crystal]

Specifically Earth.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah. Planets to other, you know, out there in the cosmos, other intelligent life. And I have always assumed that this particular planet in this reality is God's baddies. This is his Zeus network. You know, he wants to watch Love island too. But, baby, I'm just. I'm thinking, even for Christ the King, this has got to be like, okay, this show sucks now.

[Crystal]

I don't know. Don't y' all think it's getting a little derivative? Like, I'm just kind of feel the writing here is lazy.

[Kid Fury]

The Secretary of Education is a bitch. I used to watch on wrestling television when I was a child. And she can't pronounce AI.

[Crystal]

But AI is an acronym.

[Kid Fury]

Exactly.

[Crystal]

She doesn't know the letter. Excuse the hot mess.

[Kid Fury]

You can Google it. It's right there. The US Secretary of Education called AIA one in support of AI.

[Crystal]

All right. I just feel like AI is so ubiquitous.

[Kid Fury]

Former actor on the wwf.

[Crystal]

I don't understand how you even accidentally call A one. How do you even act?

[Kid Fury]

I don't know. I don't.

[Crystal]

No one isn't even a letter.

[Kid Fury]

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Why did you think that was a Roman numeral bitch?

[Crystal]

And aren't we talking about AI? Like, I don't understand why A1 did context clues not tell you it was AI? As the.

[Kid Fury]

Were you hungry?

[Crystal]

And as the Secretary of the Department of Education, shouldn't you know better than anybody how to.

[Kid Fury]

This is my point, Crystal.

[Crystal]

Oh, it's bad over here. It's a clown car. We're not serious. We're not this country.

[Kid Fury]

I don't know what to do. I don't know what else to do.

[Crystal]

Getting worse.

[Kid Fury]

I think my time, it was quite.

[Crystal]

Crazy for me to be, like, with my friends in Vegas, having a great time, Thunder winning, like, all of this, and then at the same time, we getting these news alerts, like, enjoy your joy while you can, because it'll be gone in two to four weeks. Like, when Iran said, the US has started some shit, and now we'll determine when and how we respond to it. I said, and when y' all do that, please just remember that New York literally just primaried Mamdani like, New York City. Not with the Trump shit. Please understand, like, it isn't me, doll. If. If y' all. If y' all want to retaliate. I know his address. That's all I'm saying.

[Kid Fury]

Me too.

[Crystal]

That's all I'm saying. You don't have to find me, girl.

[Kid Fury]

Like, girl, you know his address. Like, let's be clear. Just remember that we hate that bitch. Same.

[Crystal]

Yes. Well, speaking of giant man children who need to grow up, Draymond Green went on Girl, a podcast, which shout out to Tyler, the creator, for saying it's too many podcasts. No shade, but all shade. Anyway, he went on the Pivot podcast and talked about that altercation with Jordan Poole back in the 2022, 2023 season, where he very famously just sucker punched that nigga in the face during practice, and that leaked out. And so he talked about how after that happened, he just assumed that he was gonna punch this nigga in the face, and then everybody was gonna go to back, and everybody was gonna be chill and blow it off, and it wasn't gonna be no big deal. So he was like, you know, he's so stupid. When Jordan Poole was, like, still having an attitude with me after, you know, days or weeks, I was like, huh? That made me realize, wow, this nigga not like me. Like, you know, I'm 33, 34, 35. And I'm thinking, okay, you know, shit like, this happens. It's cool. We move on. And so when we couldn't, I was just like, oh, well, this nigga is nothing like me. And. And then I realized, you right. He's not like me. He's not where I come from. He's not from where I'm from. And the things I went through, the shit I had to do growing up, he didn't have to come up like that. So he did wrap it up by saying, you know, yes. People said, draymond, you too goddamn Old for this. And he was like, yeah, yeah. Everybody did say, draymond, you've been in the league nine fucking years. And he was like, yeah, but you know, I'm still learning. And them lessons ultimately make me who I am to this day. And he did say, man, I fucked that up. Which, okay, yes, you did fuck that up. Jordan Poole left the warriors after that season and is going on about his life. But this really stuck out to me because Draymond has been a menace behaviorally in the league for a while. This has been going on for a while. Well, so there's that. How. How deep in your own shit do you have to be to think you can sock somebody in they fucking face?

[Kid Fury]

Great question.

[Crystal]

And y' all just gonna be cool and move on. Especially when you know that you're a giant hothead and a crash out. And if somebody has socked you in the face, if Jordan Poole turn the stadium down, if Jordan Poole had did that to you, not even somebody you admire or respect. Respect. Somebody you clearly didn't give a fuck about or you thought was beneath you. Like Jordan Poole, if that nigga had done it. Please be fucking for real. Nobody thinks you would have been like, oh, all right, cool, we move on, right? No, you would have been arranging to have his car blown up, trying to go fuck his baby mama. Like, it would have been scorched fucking earth. So it's so many things here, sir. You don't get to mistreat people and then expect them to turn around and act like everything is okay because you're now over it. That's not how that works. You fucked up in a fundamental way, a huge way. This was supposed. Jordan Poole was supposed to be the future of the Warriors. You know, Steph, getting old. It's time to bring in the new talent, have them work with our vets, build them up to continue the Warriors. Like, you shat all over that because you, as a 34, 35 year old man, still don't know how to regulate yourself. You've been in the league for nine, 10 years, you've made however many millions of dollars you've claimed to be in therapy all this fucking time, and still. And I don't even think it's the therapist, maybe you need to start telling that therapist the whole fucking truth. I'm just saying, like, for five seconds, I forgot where I was at. You forgot? You forgot where you were at for 5 seconds? Guess what the. The rest of us don't get to do when we're at work? Forget that we're at work. You haul off and punch a co worker, you're getting fired and possibly arrested. You don't. You don't get to do shit like that, nigga. Like. And, well, you know, I'm still growing. I'm still learning. You're not. You're not 22.

[Kid Fury]

Here's the thing, right? You're always growing and learning, but when you're not 22, don't nobody want to hear that.

[Crystal]

That's literally it. Come on. We're all growing up. We're all still learning things. Nobody has learned everything there is to know. Hopefully. I continue to learn and change as I age, but the grace period for fucking with other people has expired. Because you're 35, that is. And it.

[Kid Fury]

I'm learning as an excuse doesn't work for things like hitting someone. If you would have called that nigga a bitch, sure, he could still have a problem. He could still not be over it when he see you again because you disrespected him, right? You put hands on somebody and you thought they were just gonna be like, oh, oh, okay. Like, no consequences.

[Crystal]

All right, big bro.

[Kid Fury]

I think you.

[Crystal]

There's consequences. The consequences that I don't fuck with you and still don't and never will again.

[Kid Fury]

And never will again.

[Crystal]

It's nothing you can say or do to make that up to me. Nigga, you fucking.

[Kid Fury]

You asked the perfect question. How deep in your own shit, in your own shit, in your own universe, make believe world, do you have to exist for you to think this is what's happening?

[Crystal]

To think that you can do that and be like, all right, cool, we move on.

[Kid Fury]

What?

[Crystal]

Let's have niggas line up and slap you in your fucking face and see.

[Kid Fury]

How quickly you know, you would not, right?

[Crystal]

So I just said, you know what? I try.

[Kid Fury]

That's wild.

[Crystal]

I really do try with Draymond Green. I really do. Especially because anytime somebody says they're in therapy, I want to give them the grace to learn, grow, et blah, blah, blah. Like, I want to give you that space, but you are still responsible and accountable for your behaviors. And sounds like Draymond Green. Still.

[Kid Fury]

Still.

[Crystal]

Because it took him way too long to get to the. I fucked up. He went through all this.

[Kid Fury]

It's true. That's true.

[Crystal]

I'm 38. I'm still growing up, nigga. No, nigga, I. You. You. You desperately have to learn how to feel something and not immediately react based off that feeling.

[Kid Fury]

Especially with violence. Especially with that you shouldn't immediately react with yelling or harsh language, Especially at work. Especially at work. Hitting people. It makes me think how many people you must have hit and nothing was done about it.

[Crystal]

Yes. And how many people felt coerced or like they had to accept your apology and pretend like everything was cool because you're Draymond Green. You're part of the big three. Steve Kerr. And the warrior is not gonna get rid of. How many times have you been a menace to somebody who was showing up just to do their fucking job and then. And then made it seem like it was something wrong with them for not going along with your bullshit? Girl, no. Pack it up. That man was well within his rights to be like, fuck Draymond, and I ain't never gonna be cool with that. Nigga passes rights.

[Kid Fury]

Absolutely.

[Crystal]

I would have did the same thing. You damn right we not. And I could be from where you from. I could have grew up next door to you. I could have grew up in the same house as you. But I don't fucking act like that. T. T, I don't act like that because I'm an adult.

[Kid Fury]

And you hit the nail on the head with tell the therapist the truth.

[Crystal]

Tell that therapist the whole truth. Don't go in there telling that therapist half the story, trying to make it seem like Jordan Poole really agitated you first and he stuck his finger in your yogurt, and so you was like, nah, I'm getting my revenge.

[Kid Fury]

Like, no, that is a therapist, not a medium. They're not a psychic. They're working with what you give them.

[Crystal]

Yes. And it takes. It takes a while to know a client well enough to know when they're lying or not telling you the whole truth. And up until that point, like, and maybe even beyond that point, therapists can only treat you based off what you say. This is what we mean when we say therapy works as well as you work on it. How much effort are you genuinely putting into growing up? Because it doesn't seem like much. And the way you acted last season, it still doesn't seem like much.

[Kid Fury]

Things are clearly like, oh, yeah, you know, I'm in therapy.

[Crystal]

Sure.

[Kid Fury]

Meanwhile, your therapy sessions have been months of this person looking at you like, hmm. And you looking back at them like.

[Crystal]

I'm not seeing the problem.

[Kid Fury]

Answering every question they have with one word.

[Crystal]

Oh, yeah, you got attitude.

[Kid Fury]

I'm good.

[Crystal]

Like, the therapist made you beat her.

[Kid Fury]

Like, this is flat out lying.

[Crystal]

Flat out lying. Telling half truth, all kind of bullshit. Go in there and tell whoever that is the whole fucking truth about how you act. Get into You. What do you think?

[Kid Fury]

They are not some.

[Crystal]

They're not going to whoop you. You're not.

[Kid Fury]

They don't have any kind of obligation to try and pull it out of you either.

[Crystal]

And they.

[Kid Fury]

They have hundreds of other clients that they also have to work on. They not gonna sit up here and beg you and bleed out for you to tell them what's actually going on so they can help. You gotta open your mouth and want to be helped.

[Crystal]

Yes. Yes. If you don't want the help, if you are not invested in your own growth, you can go to therapy for decades and it won't make not one shred of you.

[Kid Fury]

Literally. Literally decades.

[Crystal]

That's why sometimes people be like this.

[Kid Fury]

Motherfucker, just looking at you like, I don't even know why you still here.

[Crystal]

The therapist is just like. I mean, I'm taking your copay every week, hoping that eventually, one day you'll tell me the truth. That eventually, one day you will be real with me about what's really going on. Or the therapist will simply be like, you know what? I've worked with you for a few years. I don't think I'm the therapist. Yes, they're. And they're supposed to. Ethically. They're supposed to be like, I've been working with you all this time, and you aren't improving, so I'm not the therapist for you. Let's find you somebody else. Because you're not. Nothing's changing. Nothing's changing. You coming in here every week giving me your cash, and nothing's changing. I'm speaking, but the words are not landing or they're not really applicable to what you're going through, because you coming in here saying the things you think you're supposed to say. Some of y' all actually go to therapy trying to look good in therapy. Nobody can help you if you showing up like, ain't nothing wrong. Go in there and be like, otherwise.

[Kid Fury]

Why are you here?

[Crystal]

I feel like an earthworm swimming in a pile of turds this week because I have done some really terrible things that are outside of my character. The guilt is whooping my ass. The shame is whooping my ass. And I don't know how to pro. Like, go in there and tell. Just. If you have to spit it out, just be real. We can't magically fix you. We don't know what's in your head.

[Kid Fury]

And they also are not going to judge you if you're not implicating them or yourself in some sort of a crime. If you're not saying, I killed my wife last night. She's underneath the swing set, right? They're not gonna be like.

[Crystal]

Okay, weirdo.

[Kid Fury]

You're not gonna tell them, like, oh, I haven't seen my kid in five years. And da, da, da. And they'll be like, how dare you. Get out. You think? They're not like, they're going to.

[Crystal]

Yes, therapists are very. They're very prepared to help people who aren't showing up the way they're. They want to or the way they're supposed to, because that's the fucking job.

[Kid Fury]

That's what they do.

[Crystal]

People who have their together and aren't hurting others and not hurting themselves and are happy need to come to therapy. That's not you. And you know that about you. So who are you really lying to, right? I don't know why y' all do that, but please look at Draymond Green and say to yourself, I'm tired of wasting my co pay. I'm not gonna do this no more. Go in there and tell the truth, T. Cause Draymond been talking about therapy for too fucking long to still be acting the way he act on the court.

[Kid Fury]

It doesn't make sense.

[Crystal]

It does not clean it up.

[Kid Fury]

Alexander hitting niggas at 38 and then being like, oh, and what.

[Crystal]

What do you mean? Stuff like that happen? We move on. We cool. You. You punched Steph Curry in the face. Did. Did you. You punched LeBron or you punched somebody that you thought you could son, like that you punched somebody you thought would have to just get over it because you're Draymond and he's some other player on the team, somebody not very important.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, furthermore, ain't no oh, shit like that happened, and we move on the fuck where sometimes younger men, when they are boys, like close friends, might fight and then get over it. Or two niggas when they're young might feud and fight and then get over it, like. Cause you in school together or your friend, we co workers and I don't.

[Crystal]

Even know you, and I don't like you, and I don't like you. First impression isn't a great one.

[Kid Fury]

And why would you think, let me.

[Crystal]

Tell you, when we can just forget and move on, when it's like a one off, everybody's hot, tired, hungry, your friend snaps out at you or, you know, little things. Not disrespect, not fuck you and your mama, but like, you have a short tone of voice or, you know, something like that because of extenuating circumstances, it's not a regular occurrence. That's when we can be like, you know what? I get it. I too, get hangry, you know, here, Snickers. But even in those situations, you have to apologize and be accountable. You can't just keep doing it true and be like, oh, it's fine. So again, Draymond, I'm coming back. Draymond.

[Kid Fury]

Exactly. Like, why would you. Oh, my God.

[Crystal]

And I know Draymond's therapist is so wild. It's not no regular Degular Betterhelp therapist. Like, I know you got some $500 person session therapy.

[Kid Fury]

But if you were willing, if you're open and willing to go on a. A podcast and say that.

[Crystal]

Let's talk about this. Yeah, not the first time.

[Kid Fury]

Then imagine what the fuck you say to your therapist. You ain't telling that person nothing they can help you with.

[Crystal]

Maybe you have in this off season since the warriors were eliminated from the playoffs. Maybe you, like, you know what?

[Kid Fury]

Maybe this is the one.

[Crystal]

Maybe Steph and Aisha sat you down and Riley. Riley had a little PowerPoint that said, you know what, Dre? Uncle Drake.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

Daddy's trying to get one more ring before he retires, and you're really fucking it up. So if you could just act like a goddamn adult so we. Because I bet you're not punching Jimmy fucking Butler in the face. I bet you not doing that. Like, sometimes y' all know who you can try, or you thought you knew who you could try. And Jordan Poole said, bitch, not today. Don't let the light skin fool you, not putting up with that monkey shit. Nigga, leave me the fuck, Al. So anyway, that's my read for this week. And that will wrap up this week's episode of the Read. Thank you so much for tuning in. Find us on social media at this is the Read. And thank you again. A massive thank you to Apple Podcasts for including us in their special 20 year anniversary. I just. We are beyond honored to have been included in this. Of all the shows y' all could have pulled up, like.

[Kid Fury]

That'S so cool.

[Crystal]

All the shows that y' all could have have honored in this way. I just am so humbled. 20 podcasts.

[Kid Fury]

There's so many of them, I don't even want to think about it.

[Crystal]

Of the millions of podcasts, y' all said, you know what? Them too. Let's go ahead and be like, you.

[Kid Fury]

Know, still worth mentioning.

[Crystal]

And it's really. It is such an honor. So thank you again to Apple. Thank you to all of you who have been listening to the show, especially the day ones, and those of you who have spread the word about the show, it would not be what it is without you. So, yeah, thank you so much. Anything else from you, Kay Fury, before we wrap up?

[Kid Fury]

No, I think that was an excellent ending. Congratulations on your championship.

[Crystal]

Congratulations on your mayor, period, period, period.

[Kid Fury]

And yeah, everyone out there, be good to yourselves, take easy. We'll see you next week.

[Crystal]

Goodbye.