Harlem Hometrotter

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Read — "Harlem Hometrotter" (Sept 25, 2025)

Hosts: Kid Fury & Crissle
Podcast: The Read (Loud Speakers Network)
Episode: Harlem Hometrotter
Date: September 25, 2025

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Episode Overview

This episode is signature The Read: a candid, hilarious, and unfiltered take on Black pop culture, music, and current events, alongside listener questions and some pointedly personal commentary. Kid Fury and Crissle deliver their weekly blend of humor, shade, and real talk about everything from sports feats to celebrity scandals, public controversies, and listener dilemmas.

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Main Topics & Key Insights

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I. Black Excellence Spotlight: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone

(03:00)

• Achievement: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone becomes the first American woman to run 400 meters in under 48 seconds—a feat described as “insane,” “fierce,” and “record-breaking.”
• Discussion: The podium for the race was all Black women, prompting celebration of "Black girl magic."
• Notable Quotes:
  • Kid Fury: “This human being person, what, ran 400 meters flat... in 48 seconds. I want you to understand how long like girl, babies. This is nuts... but it's excellent. It's fierce. First American woman to do so.” (03:29)
  • Crissle: “400 meters is like three and a half football fields. That is insane.” (04:17)

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II. Pop Culture Current Events

1. "The Bear" Writer Detained on NYC Train

(05:04)

• Story: Alex O’Keefe, writer for “The Bear,” detained by MTA for occupying two train seats with his feet up.
• Hosts' Take: Both describe it as “not really a big deal,” but dissect NYC social rules and speculate about the involvement of alcohol or tiredness.
• Crissle:

  "Unfortunately, I might have to side with the whites. There has to be more information to this story because I'm really not getting it." (08:16)

2. D4VD (David Burke) and Disturbing Allegations

(09:55)

• Story: Emerging artist D4VD implicated after a missing teen, Celeste Rivas, is found deceased in his car, with his abrupt actions arousing suspicion.
• Hosts' Tone: Shock, somberness, and strong condemnation.
• Kid Fury: “It's so Criminal Minds. It's so scary. It's so sad. It's just—what is t?” (11:45)

3. Young Thug’s Forfeiture Legal Battle

(16:37)

• Topics: Young Thug fights state seizure of assets amid RICO case; new album release coincides with a rival’s release.
• Crissle wonders: “I would think the guns would be the last thing you need to have around you... that $145,000 in cash would be the number one thing I'm looking at you for.” (18:39)

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4. Marlon Wayans' "Him": Movie Review & Cultural Commentary

(21:05)

• Issue: Marlon Wayans’ new film slammed by critics; he responds by urging people to judge for themselves.
• Kid Fury reviews the film: Less scathing than critics, finds it middling and likely to become a cult classic; sees anti-black bias in criticism when compared to Jordan Peele projects.
• Crissle on reviews: “But I think maybe even movies in general... I don't think most people choose whether to go see a movie based off critic reviews.” (29:09)

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III. Music News & Female Rap Updates

1. Nicki Minaj & Cardi B Album Drama

(40:10)

• Nicki announces sixth album: Six months in advance, suspect timing — possibly in response to Cardi’s drop.
• Crissle speculates: “Do you think it has something to do with that other girl putting out her album this past week?” (41:14)
• Discussing Cardi's "Am I the Drama:” Dissection of diss tracks, rapping about rivals, and personal controversies involving JT, BIA, and more.
• Memorable Quote:
  • Kid Fury: “There’s been a lot circulating around this album... it’s a rap album featuring a girl who has a lot of bitches on her hit list.” (47:28)

2. Social Media Backlash: Crissle Defends Her Comments

(49:22)

• Crissle addresses being “the drama” online following harsh comments about Cardi B’s family choices, discussing why she stands by her critical opinions, and reflects on stan culture and overreactions.
• Crissle: “This is the dumbest thing y’ all have ever gotten riled up about... This isn’t Sesame Street. It was harsh, correct. No, no. But yeah, Cardi’s also mean.” (50:03)

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IV. Listener Letters & Advice

(56:47)

1. Supporting Conservative Homophobic Family in Medical Crisis

• Victor (Boston/NC): Struggles with parents’ financial hardship, former homophobia, and whether to make sacrifices to support them.
• Advice: Prioritize own well-being and boundaries; send financial help only when directly requested, but avoid uprooting life or moving back to a toxic environment.
• Kid Fury: “I would prioritize myself, my health, my wealth, my well-being, and I would wish everybody the living better…” (60:10)
• Crissle: “I'll send you some money. I'm not going to disrupt my peace of mind and my happiness for you, though. That's what I'm not gonna do.” (66:36)

2. Stepchild’s Behavioral Issues & Custody Struggles

• Rayya’s letter: Navigating child’s behavioral issues, mother’s denial, and blocked attempts at medical/therapeutic intervention.
• Hosts’ suggestions: Explore alternative therapists who work with younger children; consider legal documentation and family court for custody/medical decision rights; validate the child’s internal distress.
• Crissle: “Your concern that his mother will corrupt this therapy experience... is valid and shared.” (71:45)

3. Best Friend Betrayal: Secret Friendship with Friend’s Ex

• Harlem’s Dilemma: Has become clandestinely close to best friend’s ex (now jailed), forming an unlikely jailhouse book club.
• Advice: Strong condemnation for secrecy; urged to "come clean" and consider the fundamental value of a 20-year friendship over a sketchy new relationship.
• Kid Fury: “This is a fool. I don't even believe that you're just trying to lift this motherfucker's spirits because he's in jail... I don't buy none of that shit.” (87:59)
• Crissle: “The fact that you are keeping it from your friend makes it seem so much more sinister and nefarious than what you described in this letter.” (86:11)

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V. The Reads (Rants & Final Thoughts)

1. Free Speech & Jimmy Kimmel’s Suspension

(98:51)

• Trump administration called out for suspending Jimmy Kimmel’s show under the guise of “offending” Charlie Kirk; labeled as clownish fascism and hypocrisy re: free speech.
• Notable quote: Kid Fury: “It is so mind blowing to me how much space and opportunity you guys have to do whatever the fuck you want and you're still so bad at being evil.” (97:14)

2. Oklahoma Politics & Turning Point USA in Schools

• Crissle tears into Oklahoma’s new mandate to put far-right clubs (Charlie Kirk’s org) in all high schools while students lag academically:
  • “We have real problems. Put a math club in every school... Turning Point USA?” (117:43)

3. New York Liberty Fire Sandy Brondello

• Expresses confusion and disappointment at the Liberty firing their coach post-championship:
  • “She was the first coach to get us a championship... I just do not understand.” (121:38)

4. Beyoncé/Jay-Z & Event With Ivanka Trump

(123:43)

• Recaps online outrage at Beyoncé being pictured at the same table as Ivanka at a Jay-Z event, clarifies context, and criticizes misplaced internet fury.
• “You act like she posed for a picture with this girl and invited her to her baby shower... you bitches meant that they were seated at the same fucking table at a charity event.” (123:59)

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Memorable Moments & Standout Quotes

• Kid Fury on Marlon Wayans' “Him”: “For horror, [it’s] somewhere between the teacup rides and, maybe, Splash Mountain — it was fine.” (25:21)
• Crissle roasting stepkid’s mother: “Lying to medical professionals about what your child is doing... only makes things worse for your kid in the long run... This could easily turn into him getting locked up and being in and out of jail for the rest of his life, bro.” (75:45)
• Crissle, on her own online controversy: “This isn't Sesame Street. It was harsh, correct. No, no. But yeah, Cardi's also mean.” (50:03)
• Kid Fury, on The Read's tone: “This podcast is not for the mild. This is not Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. This is the read.”

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Notable Timestamps

• 03:00 — Black Excellence: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone
• 05:04 — "The Bear" writer Alex O’Keefe train incident
• 09:55 — D4VD (David Burke) missing teen controversy
• 16:37 — Young Thug legal drama and album
• 21:05 — Marlon Wayans' "Him" reviews, Jordan Peele parallels
• 40:10 — Nicki Minaj/Carbi "Am I the Drama" discussion
• 49:22 — Online backlash to Crissle’s comments
• 56:47 — Listener letters and advice segment
• 98:51 — The Read: Trump admin, Jimmy Kimmel, and media censorship
• 115:26 — Oklahoma politics and right-wing curriculum
• 121:38 — Liberty, Sandy Brondello firing
• 123:43 — Beyoncé, Jay-Z, and Ivanka Trump event photo furor

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Episode Tone & Style

• Voice: Direct, irreverent, honest, and deeply rooted in Black pop culture.
• Tone: Shade-heavy but affectionate; unapologetic and often laugh-out-loud funny even when confronting serious issues.
• Approach: Willing to “read” (call out) anyone and everyone, with exceptions only for Beyoncé and Blue Ivy.

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Final Thoughts

“Harlem Hometrotter” delivers quintessential The Read: a blend of sharp humor, pointed cultural critique, honest personal advice, and fearless social commentary. If you missed the episode, this summary gives you the jokes, drama, and the unapologetic opinions that make Kid Fury and Crissle beloved by listeners—plus, all the insight to join in the week’s pop culture debates.

Transcript

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[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

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[Kid Fury]

All right. My sins. The way he watched them. Indeed he did. Welcome back to the program, everyone. I am Floyd Lawton.

[Crissle West]

And I am Alyssa Thomas. And this is the Read. Thanks for coming back.

[Kid Fury]

It is indeed. This is the Read. It is a satirical comedy program where you come on to the Internet.

[Crissle West]

Here you go.

[Kid Fury]

And we just say things and nothing bad ever happens.

[Crissle West]

That's correct.

[Kid Fury]

All righty. Let's start with, you know, our usual recipe and through line, blog line of the show, if you will. Black positivity and uplifting. Mm, Black excellence. This week goes to Sydney McLaughlin LaVrone.

[Crissle West]

Is that the Olympian?

[Kid Fury]

That's it.

[Crissle West]

Okay, Now I actually got it right. Work.

[Kid Fury]

Yes, indeedy. She just became the first American woman to run 400 meters under 48 seconds. I would like to repeat that. This human being person, what, ran 400 meters flat.

[Crissle West]

Insane.

[Kid Fury]

And 48 seconds. I want you to understand how long like girl babies. This is nuts, but it's excellent. It's fierce. First American woman to do so. The podium for this race was all black girls. All black girl magic. I think she's the second fastest time in history.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Cause that's fucking crazy. 400 meters is like three and a half football fields. That is. That is insane.

[Kid Fury]

It's crazy.

[Crissle West]

Wow.

[Kid Fury]

It's the fastest anyone's run in this event in 40 years. And yeah, it's record breaking and fierce and sickening. I saw that sha' Carri also scalped Jamaica. I don't remember what race it was though, which is why I ain't bringing it up. But she's, you know, still sprinting through things, I guess, and winning and pissing Jamaica off. Well, okay.

[Crissle West]

She got sprint through.

[Kid Fury]

It was just like. The headline was just like, oh, Sha' Carri shuts Jamaica out again. They're enslaved once again.

[Crissle West]

Oh, right.

[Kid Fury]

Whatever. Took back independent. That's it. Yeah. Okay, so congratulations to you being fierce and awesome and sickening. Let's get into a pop culture segment of the show where we talk about whatever the fuck. Starting with this story I read about a writer named Alex o', Keefe, famed for his participation in the show the Bear. This light skinned brother was apparently detained by MTA police.

[Crissle West]

Uh oh.

[Kid Fury]

Cause he was on a train and had his legs stretched out on like, I guess a seat in front of him, occupying two seats. You know, we hate you. Like, I mean, but if it's. You've been in New York long enough.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Or just, you know. Okay, you don't do that.

[Crissle West]

I mean, especially if the train is full. I could see if it was empty.

[Kid Fury]

But now, see, I don't know about this portion because he was snitched upon.

[Crissle West]

Snitched upon? Well, yeah, because yes, the police probably wouldn't have did nothing unless somebody called him.

[Kid Fury]

Someone, I guess another passenger was like.

[Crissle West]

Who calls the police behind that?

[Kid Fury]

Okay, all right, well, the people on the actual train, I get like the conductors or whoever. Who I guess told him you can't put your feet up on the seat.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Basically like, fuck y'. All.

[Crissle West]

Oh, I had to Google it. I'm like, there's no way. This was like the 4 train. He was on the Metro North. Okay. That meant that.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. No, not the train.

[Crissle West]

God. I was like, there is no way that you. Okay, okay, I'm with you. Now, I'm with you now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Got you.

[Kid Fury]

I see the confusion.

[Crissle West]

All right.

[Kid Fury]

But yeah, anyway, they apparently claim that they had a hard time getting him to comply, and then they tried to get him off of the train and he refused to get off of the train, which delayed service by six minutes. Which I'm like, girl, wow, that's the one who was there for a decade. A harsh breeze, a delay, transit for six minutes.

[Crissle West]

Very true.

[Kid Fury]

Let's just be very clear. So real concise. But yeah, apparently they had to handcuff, get him off of the train. They say they didn't actually arrest him just to send him. He was able to get the next train. Yeah. Not sure what more to make of this outside of. I guess this is a story because this is a famous writer.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Because, you know, I hate to be on a white woman's side, but you really can't just have your feet stretched up on other seats when it's people trying to sit down. Like, I'm just really confused by this. I don't. And if it got so far for the police to show up, why wouldn't you just move your feet? Like, I'm not.

[Kid Fury]

Maybe he wasn't sober.

[Crissle West]

Right. Okay, that. I mean, that would make sense, but.

[Kid Fury]

I was just really tired.

[Crissle West]

Well, that's too damn bad.

[Kid Fury]

I'm sick of everything.

[Crissle West]

If you that tired, you gotta. You gotta call an Uber or have a driver or something somewhere where you can lay down. But yeah, just these few details. Unfortunately, I might have to side with the whites. There has to be more information to this story because I'm really not getting it.

[Kid Fury]

Go super left. Cuffed him, took him off the train. Train kept moving, got on the next train. Amen.

[Crissle West]

And that was the.

[Kid Fury]

I. I'm glad that was. Was that. Cause it could have gone super, super left. I am curious, though. Was it like, there's nowhere else to sit. Yeah, move your feet, T. Or was it like, well, I don't like it.

[Crissle West]

You're breaking the rules. Right, Right. Because if it's just.

[Kid Fury]

If it was that.

[Crissle West]

Exactly.

[Kid Fury]

Barbara, get your dumb ass in the bin and shut your ass up. I hate bitches like you.

[Crissle West]

Right. Like, you don't have to like it to be like, okay, well, but I gotta see, so. Oh, well, like, I would not be tripping off of that. But I'm think when you first said it, I'm thinking rush hour traffic and this nigga spread out like you and your bags.

[Kid Fury]

Like. So that's.

[Crissle West]

That is completely different situation. Right, Right. So, okay. Well, I'm glad. Right. This sounds like it wasn't even really a big deal, so.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, thank God. Okay. What is a big deal is this David person that. I don't know.

[Crissle West]

The youth made that up. The youth made that up.

[Kid Fury]

I'm aged and so this feel like it don't have much to do with me, but it is very, very alarming.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So there is a recording artist by the name of David Burke. His Stage name is D4VD, which is David.

[Crissle West]

Sure.

[Kid Fury]

I think that the girlies say he's a singer. He does something in music. I'm hearing for him for the. Or hearing of him for the first time in my life. Because amidst his current tour, you know, recently canceled tour, a story comes out about a missing 15 year old by the name of Celeste Rivas. Sorry if I'm saying her last name wrong, but a 15 year old girl was missing and police apparently found her decomposing body.

[Crissle West]

Yuck.

[Kid Fury]

Dismembered in his Tesla. Taylor Mill says David and his manager abruptly broke in their 20,000. Oh, yeah, he broke his lease after the Hollywood. After police raided his house in. In the Hills.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

They I guess did their thing in there. He broke the lease and moved. Well, canceled the tour.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Sold the car, changed his fingerprint. I don't know.

[Crissle West]

And they just found this because that girl was missing since last year. So that sounds.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Rancid. Like that would be like this just sounds extremely disturbing. Who is this man?

[Kid Fury]

It's so. It's so Criminal Minds. It's so scary.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

It's so sad. It's. It's so. It's just. What is t. And I don't even know if he's been arrested or anything because like when I first heard about this story and then they were talking about finding the body and raiding the house and stuff, he wasn't like an official suspect. I don't even know if they were calling him a person of interest. But it was kind of like, oh, we're working on it. I really don't. I don't know like where they're at with things right now, but I did see that the Internet found photos of him and Celeste together at some point. Um, like I said, they found her body in his car.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

Which if you.

[Crissle West]

Assuming she was 15 when she went missing, you were what, 19? That's still 19.

[Kid Fury]

He's 20 now.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. So that's still inappropriate and wrong. I'm assuming they had some sort of romantic.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Connection. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Possible homicide.

[Crissle West]

Right, Right. So that was already weird. Nigga, what you doing with a 15 year old girl?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, this is one of those things where it's like, you know, I'm. I'm okay. Sometimes with just 30 minutes of dress to impress, get on.

[Crissle West]

Getting right back on Roblox, Chase link around the apartment.

[Kid Fury]

Write about nothing. Something that'll never get made.

[Crissle West]

Don't do that.

[Kid Fury]

Eat chips, like. Cause I tap in and I'm like, oh, let me tap right back. TikTok singer has a child's dead body. And I don't know who this is. I don't know, like, what in the jigsaw?

[Crissle West]

So it's very straight. Was the Tesla just in a parking lot for this whole year? Like, why there's. I feel like there's a lot of questions here that haven't yet been answered, but him canceling all these tour dates seems to be. I don't know, it feels like a sign. It feels like a sign that his involvement is not circumstantial. Hmm. I'm just saying it doesn't look good, nigga.

[Kid Fury]

I can only think of the family and friends of this, right? Teenage girl when she went missing.

[Crissle West]

Jesus. Right?

[Kid Fury]

Who are like, oh yeah, this celebrity or whatever who's grown, apparently had her body in his car. They're working on it. He's in Copenhagen stage right now. Like, what?

[Crissle West]

And got millions of strangers online speculating about your child. That has to be horrible.

[Kid Fury]

How about Donkey Kong Bonanza? How about Bratz Rhythm and Style? How about the Legend of Tears of the Kingdom with Zelda notes?

[Crissle West]

Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And accompanying Nintendo app? Because it's inoperable without that. Okay, I just won't.

[Crissle West]

You don't, right? No, because you've already done that.

[Kid Fury]

I hope that they figure this out because this story is really, really disturbing. It's very sad to me. I would really like to know what happened to this young lady. And that some dickhead didn't do something really awful and just feel like he could just parade around with a microphone in his hand, right?

[Crissle West]

This little nigga I've never heard of. But if he did miss it, you can go ahead and take him. Go ahead and take him, girl.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah, you can have him.

[Crissle West]

One missing thugger.

[Kid Fury]

Thugger is battling the state of Georgia again. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. The judge down in Georgia is apparently attempting to seize a property of his. Roughly $145,000 in assets, to be specific. And thug's not going for it. They say they sought a delay in forfeiture hearing as a reason to dismiss a Civil forfeiture lawsuit tied to the RICO case. Okay? So if you would kindly allow this man to keep his Corvette, Jeep, Grand Cherokee, Mercedes Benz, several firearms, assorted jewelry, and $140,000 in cash.

[Crissle West]

Wow.

[Kid Fury]

They would greatly appreciate it. I mean, that judge was like, denzel, I'm leaving here with something.

[Crissle West]

Give him his shit back.

[Kid Fury]

I'm leaving here with everything.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Young Thug has a new album that's supposed to be coming out this Friday. I don't know how to pronounce it and I'm not going to try. U, Y, space, S, C, U, T, I. You can have a blast. I don't know what that says.

[Crissle West]

Ooey Scooty.

[Kid Fury]

Sure, sure.

[Crissle West]

Oh, it's a red hypergiant, which is a type of red supergiant. Star.

[Kid Fury]

Pierce. Thug. Oh, Thug Degrasse Tyson.

[Crissle West]

It's the biggest known star in the universe. So I think we know why he chose that. That's pretty lofty. Are you sure? You sure that. Okay, so wait.

[Kid Fury]

Him taking me to school, they giving his.

[Crissle West]

They giving him his shit back or. No.

[Kid Fury]

Judge Whitaker noted that the state could appeal. About a month after the initial ruling. The state filed its appeal on September 19th. This is on wrapup.com. the plaintiffs contend that a motion that Young Thug's legal team previously filed is what caused the delay. While we are gratified that the defendant will not be receiving gang related jewelry back, we are perplexed that Judge Whitaker dismissed the case based on a timeline requested by defense counsel and a date the court set for trial, reevaluating the case for possible appeal. Considering that strange procedural history. This is the da.

[Crissle West]

Okay, got you.

[Kid Fury]

So, no, he's not getting a lot of these things met like he's not, but he wants them.

[Crissle West]

Well, I don't blame three fucking cars. He probably want his guns and his money more than anything else.

[Kid Fury]

I think so, yeah.

[Crissle West]

But I would think the guns would be the last thing you need to have around you. Like you have to walk such a fine line right now. It seems like maybe you want to stay away from top priority, right? That cash. I want that cash first. He got a lot of kids, right?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, he's got a couple.

[Crissle West]

I'm always. Never mind. He got multiple cars. It don't matter. Yeah. Cat gun. And actually give me my money first and then my cars and then we could talk about the rest the jewelry, you know, if it's sentimental, stuff like that. But that hundred and forty five thousand dollars in cash would be the number one thing I'm looking at. You for, like, you can go ahead and give me my back. My bills are marked, so don't play with me. Um, but the rest of this, I don't even really understand this procedural history. I don't know if this is strange procedural history or not. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know if that's normal shit or. Or what. But I guess the attorneys will be battling to figure that one out.

[Kid Fury]

Um, he is dropping his album the same day as YFN Lucci, who is, I guess, arrival, who is dropping his first post prison album on the same day. So I guess they're not going back and forth with each other. I paid very little attention to this part, to be honest with you, because I wasn't as interested. It seemed like those of you who are waiting for waited with bated breath for the new Paid in Full series. This feels like it's more your speed. And I urge you to go wherever they're going to break this down so that you can get your, you know, your dessert on. I don't care. I barely remember who YFN Lucci is, but I wish everybody the living best, and I hope that they don't have a reason to go back.

[Crissle West]

That's Reginae's ex boyfriend.

[Kid Fury]

That's as much as I know that that is. And that was what, only, oh, 50 years ago?

[Crissle West]

45 years old. But I remember this conversation coming up before. Cause I thought YFN was young fuck nigga, and it's not. But yeah, him being connected to Reginae is all I know about him. I do not know. Not one song. Gun to your head. Name five YFN Lucci songs.

[Kid Fury]

I couldn't name half of it. Pow.

[Crissle West]

Nope, not a damn one. So. Okay.

[Kid Fury]

God bless.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, good luck.

[Kid Fury]

Marlon Wayne's is responding to, I guess, criticism reviews of his latest film, him, the football thriller horror thriller that just came out this past weekend. He passed 13 million at the box office. The critics have been absolutely shredding this movie.

[Crissle West]

Okay. Damn.

[Kid Fury]

Ripping this movie to absolutely.

[Crissle West]

Damn.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, they hate it. So Marlon says this just to be clear. I respect critics. Their job is to critique. Is it?

[Crissle West]

That's incredible. Look at you.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, my God. I didn't consider that.

[Crissle West]

That is indeed their job.

[Kid Fury]

I respect their work. It shapes our industry. But an opinion doesn't. An opinion does not always mean it's everyone's opinion.

[Crissle West]

Oh, it never.

[Kid Fury]

Some movies are ahead of the. Like, it just does it. Like that's an opinion.

[Crissle West]

It never means it's everyone's opinion.

[Kid Fury]

It's baked into the definition that is like, oh, bless that some movies are ahead of the curve. Innovation is not always embraced and art is to be interpreted and it's subjective. This just feels like a series of facts. I've had a career of making classic movies that weren't critically received and those movies went on to be classics.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

So don't take anyone's opinion. Just go see for yourself. Love to all him in theaters now. I saw the movie.

[Crissle West]

You did?

[Kid Fury]

Yes. I didn't think it was as bad as people are as the reviews are.

[Crissle West]

Okay, like, okay.

[Kid Fury]

I didn't think it was fanta. Like I.

[Crissle West]

Let me check Rotten Tomatoes.

[Kid Fury]

Have a couple of like, oh, maybe don't.

[Crissle West]

But oh, damn, 28% that is not good.

[Kid Fury]

I don't think it was that bad. I really don't. I feel like the ending felt a little rushed.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Like I would have liked to kind of explore or just. I don't even. Because I don't want to spoil anything. But I don't think it was as bad as these reviews are making it seem like it was okay to me.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Well, if you were expecting like get out or nope or something, then.

[Crissle West]

Well, it's Jordan Peele. Right.

[Kid Fury]

But he didn't write it. Or it's not. He's just producing it.

[Crissle West]

Okay, never mind.

[Kid Fury]

Justin Tipping's directing it.

[Crissle West]

Got it.

[Kid Fury]

I think like co wrote with two other folks. But yeah, if you're going into expecting like the follow up to know. Yeah. I'd urge you to like read.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Just credits like, no, this isn't that.

[Crissle West]

We just put the money behind it. Okay. Well, so do you. Do you feel like you and the critics normally agree when it comes to horror movies or do you normally feel like you enjoy the movie more than the critics did?

[Kid Fury]

I think that I usually agree with critics when it comes to horror movies. There aren't many horror movies that have been reviewed terribly and I like them.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

It's maybe more the opposite sometimes where our movie might get really good reviews or great reviews. I'd be like, I didn't think I was that good.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But it's rare that they get trashed. And I'm like, it was fierce. What are you talking about?

[Crissle West]

Got you.

[Kid Fury]

But I watch a lot of them, so I'm also used to watching scary movies sometimes that are kind of like, oh, that wasn't that great. But yeah, you know, like if you ever go to a theme park and you go. You get on some rides that are like, that was really fun. Let's do this one three more times. Back to back.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

You get on another one. That was like. That was terrifying. I never, ever, ever want to do that ever again.

[Crissle West]

Got you. Yes.

[Kid Fury]

You get on some. That was like. That was one of the most boring things I've ever experienced. But the kids enjoyed it.

[Crissle West]

Like teacup ride.

[Kid Fury]

Yes.

[Crissle West]

Yes. Got you.

[Kid Fury]

This kind of felt like for horror, somewhere between, like the teacup rides and maybe like, I don't know, Splash Mountain, it was like, fine.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

It wasn't.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

I didn't expect for people to be like, ripping it to shreds and shit. And I also had the same thought before I read this comment from Marlon that I think it's going to be one of those movies that after a while, people are going to come. I think it's going to be a cult classic.

[Crissle West]

Right. I mean, and he's right about the weigh ins is. Or maybe he just meant him specifically. But y' all definitely do make movies where at first it's like, girl, what is this? But also, black people tend to really love those movies regardless of what critics say. So I would be really interested in hearing what black people who love horror have to say about him. And since you like it looking okay.

[Kid Fury]

They don't like it either.

[Crissle West]

Damn. I'm trying so hard. I'm trying so hard. Jesus.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, I haven't paid like, super, super close attention. I'm sure it's a lot of niggas like me who feel the same way. But I did see some comments from horror, like black horror fans who were like, eh, I did not like this.

[Crissle West]

Oh.

[Kid Fury]

You know, but like genuine criticisms, which I think is fair. It's not a perfect movie, but I think it was getting shredded unnecessarily by some critics. And part of me wonders if it is because of Jordan Peele.

[Crissle West]

Oh, man. And that everybody had higher expectations.

[Kid Fury]

Maybe not just that. I think Jordan Peele now has this reputation of, well, he's just making some blackest DEI movie. So fuck mama. I promise you.

[Crissle West]

Wow.

[Kid Fury]

I promise you weapons. The movie that just came out, Zach Kreger film that everybody loves that somebody remember there was a person who wrote a letter in like, oh, I'm pregnant.

[Crissle West]

Sorry. I googled it again.

[Kid Fury]

This is happening. I googled this is the third time that you did this. This is the third time you did this.

[Crissle West]

That poster is so scary.

[Kid Fury]

There's a rumor, I don't know how true it is, that Jordan Peele tried to acquire that script.

[Crissle West]

Oh.

[Kid Fury]

And that it went elsewhere. And a lot of comments were like, good. Cause he would have hired Will Smith instead of Josh Brolin and made it some racial shit. Like, Turnpeel has one movie that's really centered around race. 1. And it's get out. And it's the best one, right? So, like, it is.

[Crissle West]

Get out is excellent. Get out shifted everybody's wig. So I wouldn't even be. I don't. I feel like maybe y' all missed something.

[Kid Fury]

So one could argue maybe he should make some.

[Crissle West]

Maybe, you know, Right. Like, maybe you oughta keep doing that. But yeah, I'm looking at the reviews now, and I am seeing black faces. Him is one of the worst movies of the year. I don't know what this movie is.

[Kid Fury]

No, it is not.

[Crissle West]

That's what Lucas Moore of JVS Media and Production said.

[Kid Fury]

Never heard of them. God bless you, Lucas. I disagree.

[Crissle West]

There's. Yeah, niggas are tearing this up. You right? This one says him is more stylish than scary in the traditional horror sense. But even though. Even though the movie starts to fall apart in the final acts, it works as a thought exercise about the prices to people are willing to pay for one of America's favorite pastimes. That is from Charles William Moore at the Verge.

[Kid Fury]

My complete opinion. That was a complete opinion right there.

[Crissle West]

Got it.

[Kid Fury]

Worst movie of the year. Have you watched any others? I mean, I can name, like, five worst movies right now.

[Crissle West]

Lucas Moore gave it an F, and.

[Kid Fury]

He'S entitled to his opinion.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, Lucas Moore said this was garbage. Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Yikes.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Damn. That's strong words. But, you know, I. I respect being bold enough to share your opinion. I mean, there's a few positive reviews here, but you're right. Most of this is like, what the fuck is going on in this movie? But also, especially when it comes to horror films. But I think maybe even movies in general. I don't think most people choose whether to go see a movie based off critic reviews. I think you go whether you think it's good or if your friends want to go, and you ain't got nothing else to do. Like, I think that's. I think that's the reason people go to the movies anyway, so. But yeah, I, I. Artists are sensitive about they shit. They definitely gonna defend it when people are ripping it to shreds and critical reviews.

[Kid Fury]

While they may not, it may not be the reason that someone decides to go see a movie that's at the box office right now. It will certainly decide or take part in the future of the artist within the industry, especially black ones. Because these crackers can't wait for a reason to be like, oh, ain't nobody watched that? Oh, yeah, no, we're not spending. We don't have any money.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, that's true. They love to be like, mm. One black movie didn't live up to what we thought it was gonna do. Therefore we won't make another one for the next six and a half.

[Kid Fury]

So Sinners was tearing pubic hair out.

[Crissle West]

And it's coming back.

[Kid Fury]

White people were like, oh, it's just not making money fast enough. It's got a long way.

[Crissle West]

After like two days, they were like, sinners still hasn't made back its budget. Girl, give it a week. Like, give our girls a week. Even so. But yeah, I did see Centers is coming back in theaters for Halloween, right. As it should. I might go see it again. I just have to leave. I have to leave once the white girl gets bit. I have to leave once Hailee Steinfeld gets bit. Cause then it. I mean, it's a great movie, but it's just too gory for me after that. But God is beautiful up to that point.

[Kid Fury]

Wow. I just love all of it.

[Crissle West]

I. No, well, of course I love the blood.

[Kid Fury]

I love the violence.

[Crissle West]

Nah, when she was fucking him and then she ripped out that man's whole fucking throat. Oh, my God, I can't do it.

[Kid Fury]

I love cornbread coming back to the door.

[Crissle West]

Oh, now that was.

[Kid Fury]

Love each other.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Okay.

[Kid Fury]

What was his. What was. What did he think they were like, girl, that's hilarious.

[Crissle West]

Why you can't just walk your big ass up in here like you been doing all night?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, you go love your black ass on somewhere else. You're not coming here. You should possess ass, dude.

[Crissle West]

Yikes.

[Kid Fury]

Fierce.

[Crissle West]

Yikes.

[Kid Fury]

Pretty fierce piece of cinema.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Maybe that's what you guys were holding the rest of this to. Sometimes you go see a scary movie and you're like, that wasn't Silence of the Lambs, but I had a good time. But maybe you didn't. Maybe you didn't. Maybe you really hated it. You know something else? I don't give a fuck about football, okay?

[Crissle West]

Yeah, you don't.

[Kid Fury]

So I was looking at this as commentary on. Yeah. Sacrificing, like your humanity, your safety, your mental health for success in that sport and adoration specifically within that sport and all of the actual non supernatural. The supernatural is used here to whatever.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

Artsy that. What all the non supernatural, fucked up mental things that can happen to you when you, I don't know, crash your skull into Another person, like, yeah, a hundred thousand times. Yeah, but if you're like a real red blooded American football fan too, then maybe you also have a different perspective on this. Like, this doesn't even give football trash. Do you see what I'm saying? Like, there could be a whole layer to this that I miss that you're.

[Crissle West]

Missing because you're like, you are. Despite what you be doing on sports shorts, you really do not be knowing.

[Kid Fury]

So that's a football or running.

[Crissle West]

Okay, well, I mean, I think it's unfair to compare this to sinners because that was Ryan Coogler and that man is on a different level than most other filmmakers, writing, directing, whatever it may be. So, like, maybe just temper your expectations. But okay, yeah, I'm not mad. I'm not mad at Marlon advocating for his movie and for people going to see it anyway.

[Kid Fury]

No, no, no. He didn't even say nothing wrong. I mean, he didn't say. He said a whole bunch of things that were just like A, B, C and then after that is D. Yeah, right. But his point was. I do agree with. Hey, y'.

[Crissle West]

All.

[Kid Fury]

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[Kid Fury]

Somebody got Keke Wyatt on the TikTok looking at sounding a fool. And I have to ask, you know, is this karma or whatever it is that you said about your son? What did she say? I don't even remember. Is this God coming? Cause she. Oh, right. Her son said that he told her after he was diagnosed with cancer that it was like some sort of carmaic thing.

[Crissle West]

Oh, right. And that she would have never raised money. Right. For his treatment.

[Kid Fury]

She is on here in the worst bodysuit I've ever seen before she goes on to a song that it seems like she can't remember the lyrics to. She's talking about how her voice is sore, her kids are sick, and, you know, so if she don't hit the note, you know, don't say nothing. The audio quality sounds off. She turned into them because the backtrack comes on before she starts singing what's giving? Like, it was just a whole mess. And then the person who was making the TikTok gonna flip the camera around as this. This black nigga, okay, who looked like that one guy whose name I can't remember for my view right now, but he's just making this fucking TJ Henderson face in the camera. Like, is this bitch serious? Got you with the caption. We paid for that.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So I just think, you know, hmm.

[Crissle West]

Because, I mean, the thing about it, Keke, is that people only pay to see you to hear your voice. There's nothing. We don't come for anything else. Not looks, not choreography, not background dancing, not a single other, not one thing. So if your voice isn't up to par, the show should not happen as far as I'm concerned. Cause we don't come here for anything else. So don't be mad if I sound off, bitch. I'm going to be mad. What do you think? What do you think? I came here to.

[Kid Fury]

I spent money.

[Crissle West]

I gave my money to a homophobe so I could hear you sound good. You can sing. You can really fucking sing. That's why people have been looking past all of your mess and supporting you anyway for however long you have good music. You have an incredible voice. If the voice isn't there, there's nothing else for us.

[Kid Fury]

So my throat feels. It feels sore. My kids are sick. Girl, you have 36. One of them is gonna be sick of their all the time. That's just how, like, right?

[Crissle West]

So then what are you talking about? I get that canceling shows is a pain in the ass, and that would've pissed people off too, but I think I'd rather y' all be mad that I canceled than mad that I sounded the fool. That might just be me, though.

[Kid Fury]

No, I think even those of you who may not realize it, that's what you would rather have as well.

[Crissle West]

You would rather wait six weeks and try again.

[Kid Fury]

You would, you would, you would. You would. Even if you gotta call up Southwest, Delta America, whoever, and say, I'm not coming and you are pissed. Imagine if you would have gone on that flight, caught Covid, went to the, you know, the Keke Wyatt show, and she sound a fool talking about she sounded fool because her kids sick.

[Crissle West]

Okay, bitch, I don't care.

[Kid Fury]

Weigh out the anger. A canceled flight or a flight to miss. Well, okay, then you gotta do what you and your friends do after a trash ass event that everybody put their heart and expectations into and try and find bar hop. Find a bar to like our bar community to hop around into. Or just go down to the Chili's and try and make it a, you know, with a huge dessert that everybody share with four spoons, one of them.

[Crissle West]

Big ass cookies or something.

[Kid Fury]

Something you just take control of the night. Nicki Minaj tweeted 3.27.26 CD emoji.

[Crissle West]

That's a long ways away.

[Kid Fury]

It should be.

[Crissle West]

I mean, that's. That's a good six months. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So great. That means it's in the works. That means you can hopefully have, you know, ideas, clarity, therapy, and all of the necessary things that need to happen before you get into official album mode. But here you have teased your adoring fans with the date for album six, I think. Good for you, ma'. Am. Can't wait to hear what you have to say about all of the things that you've had to say. My God. Interesting time to announce it as well.

[Crissle West]

That's all I'm saying. Cause why is six months away? You're teasing an album? Why? That's so far. Hmm. Do you think it has something to do with that other girl putting out her album this past week?

[Kid Fury]

Yes, yes. Yes, I do. Okay, so that Other girls album dropped on Friday AM I. The drama. And this was what, like two days later?

[Crissle West]

This tweet. Okay, well, all right.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. Literally two days, so. Oh, midnight on the dot. What a freak.

[Crissle West]

You think she did that on purpose?

[Kid Fury]

I don't know. Maybe. This is interesting. But yeah, I guess, you know, here we are back in female rapper mode. Who else just dropped an album? Oh, my God, I'm forgetting somebody else. Oh, no. Doja's album comes out this week, I think.

[Crissle West]

Let me see.

[Kid Fury]

We'll see how rap that's gonna be. Because the. I think she's going back to like the pop. Pop rap, the at home sound, just like 80s funk rock thing with it or whatever. I like the lead single, but. Oh, yeah, yeah. Gonna be an interesting little time that.

[Crissle West]

Is scheduled to come out this week. You right? Did you hear Am I the drama? Did you play it?

[Kid Fury]

I did. I listened to. Up to, I think, like maybe the second or third song, the one she dissing, jt. And I was like, oh, wow, this is so wild. And I went to. I was like, I'm so curious to see what people were saying about this. And then I went to social media to see what people were saying about it, and they were mostly saying things about me and you.

[Crissle West]

Yes, we were the drama this past week.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Wait, she was dissing Jay Z on that song?

[Kid Fury]

Is that what you said, jt?

[Crissle West]

Oh, I was about to say. What? I missed that. Yeah, I started it. I haven't finished it, but yeah, it.

[Kid Fury]

So far I like it.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, it's not.

[Kid Fury]

I started only listening like three or four songs.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, the first, like seven songs are all like these. I'm better than these, you can't out dress me, all you whores should die, you're a lace front is cheap, etc. Etc. So I'm like, okay. I mean, all right. But it's very long. There's a lot of tracks on that album, so I couldn't get albums long now. I couldn't get through it all in one sitting.

[Kid Fury]

And 11:12.

[Crissle West]

But the people I know, like my actual friends, said that they enjoy it, that it's, you know, it's a bop. Cardi got her one. So I'll finish it.

[Kid Fury]

Eventually I'll finish it. But what I heard of it so far, I'm like, she just knows her sound. She gets her sound. She just leans into that. It feels like it's probably gonna be relatively cohesive. So that was very fascinating. And I kind of like that some of like one of these records is just a diss record. Like there's some of these is just like, this whole thing. I'm just talking about you, bitch. And I think that that's kind of entertaining and fascinating, especially naming your album Am I the Drama? Like, yeah, so definitely are.

[Crissle West]

That's not a question.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, that was about as far as it got from me. I started listening to it, and I was like, oh, this is fierce. And so let me go see what the Internet is talking about. You bitch. I also see that she and JT have now been going back and forth again, and the men have been involved in this.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, I think JT brought up the man who accused Stephan Diggs of sexual.

[Kid Fury]

Assault, which I just heard about today.

[Crissle West]

Oh, well, I thought I mentioned it.

[Kid Fury]

I don't know nothing about it last week.

[Crissle West]

But, you know, I said a lot of things last week that got the girls in a tizzy. But, yeah, I think JT was like, said something like, y' all need to pay more attention to gay men's stories. This is so sad. And all this. I'm like, okay. I also. I heard. I haven't played the song itself, but I heard a lot of people have been repeating that line about bias and, you know, name five BIA songs. Gun to your head. And then it's a gunshot sound shortly after that, because can't nobody name five BIA songs. I actually cannot even name one. Does BIA have that? I put on my jewelry just to go to the bodega. Is that how.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, that's right.

[Crissle West]

Okay, so I don't. Maybe that's called bodega, but. Yeah, that is all I got.

[Kid Fury]

No, that's called. That's called a whole lot of money.

[Crissle West]

Okay, you right.

[Kid Fury]

Or a lot of money.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, you're right. So, yeah, I've heard good things about it, though. Just haven't finished it.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, me neither. Good for her, though. Yeah, I talked about there's been, like, a lot of stuff with her in this, because between JT being like, I'm not getting up off your ass and going back and forth with her behind Uzi and Stephanie.

[Crissle West]

Oh, right. I almost forgot about the lines about Uzi, which I thought were kind of ridiculous because I'd rather my man, you know, have designer bags and like, to get pegged than cheat on me constantly, it was like, I don't know why you bragging about that. That is just really indicative of bird brain type of behavior. But, yeah, I. Until you said it, I had completely forgotten about that.

[Kid Fury]

Then there's also, of course, the husband. I almost said ex. I forgot there's some there. And she said the bitch won't sign the divorce papers before he gets, like. He wants, like, a multi million dollar lump sum, one of the properties. Something like. He's not even gonna sign the divorce papers.

[Crissle West]

Like, oh, wow.

[Kid Fury]

There's laughing at her interviews. Like, just being petty. Like, it's. It's a lot of no pun intended. Drama, okay. Just surrounding her and this album this weekend. But she kept it much cuter with you.

[Crissle West]

I was about to say. I don't even. What did. What did they say about you? Cause I. They've been chewing me up. I don't know what they said about you.

[Kid Fury]

Irrelevant stuff. To be perfectly honest, I kind of just, like, rolled my eyes and went back to playing my Nintendo.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But, yeah, it's just like, there's been a lot circulating around this album so far, but I'm not surprised. Yeah, it's a rap album featuring a girl who has a lot of bitches on her hit list. And, yeah, I'm mostly just glad that apparently it's good. I have to finish it. They've been dragging that one girl who has the. She has Lourdes or Lordes. She has a song on this album. I haven't listened to it yet, but she also has that song on Pink Friday, too, that I love called Cowgirl. I guess she maybe, like, wrote the hook for that or something. I don't know. But the barbs want that lady's bone marrow.

[Crissle West]

Why?

[Kid Fury]

Like, they are.

[Crissle West]

Oh, never mind. Stupid question, right? Stupid fucking question, girl. You know why. Oh, Lord, the stands are. This has been so ridiculous. Like, all of this. I'll just. I'll just. I'll just address it. This is the single dumbest reason y' all have ever made me trend. This is. This is the dumbest thing y' all have ever gotten riled up about before that I have said or done ever. This is so. First of all, I did not. Charlie Kirk got it worse than Cardi did in that episode.

[Kid Fury]

Like, way worse.

[Crissle West]

It was not personal to Cardi. I say this about everybody who haphazardly brings children onto this planet. I just said it about Kiki Wyatt two, three weeks ago. I don't play about kids. So if you were offended, I suggest you check your own life. Or check. You know, perhaps you are sensitive because you saw. You see yourself or your mama in Cardi and her behavior. I really don't know. But that is a personal problem for you to address and work on with your therapist. I would like to apologize to your labubu because even though it is horrifying, it didn't deserve that. I was just caught up in the moment and my emotions got the better of me. But, yeah, y', all. Was it mean? Was it harsh? Of course it was. Of course it was mean and harsh. Girl, this is the read isn't fucking Sesame Street. It was harsh, correct? No, no. But yeah, Cardi's also mean. The same bitch who just bullied Samira off a TikTok like, a month ago. Y' all act like Samyra is this plus size influencer. This girl, she went to Harvard, she sings, she does all these videos about, like, brands making more clothes and plus sizes, stuff like that. And she called Cardi out for something fat phobic that she said. And Cardi was like, it's not that big of a deal. You bitches so sensitive. You couldn't have never grew up in my house. Because we say way worse than this just for the carbs to turn around and be the exact same level of sensitive because I said something critical about that girl. So I'mma need y' all to act like I said something about Cardi B and not about Ms. Rachel or something, because that bitch is also mean and I did not wish death on her. Please go back and listen again with your listening ears. Sometimes y' all hear what you want to hear and not what was said. I said she would be praying that she wakes up from her next surgery, which is a reference to when Cardi herself said that she would rather die on the operating table than have an undesirable body. So again, if you mad at me for that, you need to go be madder at her first because that bitch said it. Y' all are being so weird about this. It was really ridiculous. I couldn't do nothing but laugh at you niggas. The research and the science is on my side. Girls, think twice and then two more times before you have kids. Thanks.

[Kid Fury]

Like.

[Crissle West]

Like, it's just not that it. Nothing about this was that serious. It was not. The people who actually listened to this show were like, I actually thought you was gonna go way harder. I cannot believe of all the things that you have said on this show, this is what pissed them off. But, you know, the Cardi Stans and the crystal haters came together and was like, bitch, we are going to form an alliance and we are going to make this trend on threads. And my whole TikTok algorithm is just people talking about me. I said, well, the fan, the fame of it all. This is. I couldn't do Nothing but laugh. This is so fucking stupid because, mind you, this girl is pregnant again by somebody who isn't her husband when her youngest child just turned one. And that nigga got two other kids born this year and allegedly some more on the way and sexual assault allegations. But I'm wrong. But oh, before we move on, I do want to say thank you. A sincere thank you to everybody who tried to fight the good fight. You really don't have to do that ever because I don't believe in explaining myself to these bitches. But I. I really appreciate y' all defending me. Everybody who wrote comments, posted videos, thank you. I do. I really appreciate y' all doing that. Everybody who reached out, but this was simply not that deep.

[Kid Fury]

All right, that's it for Hot Tops this week. We're gonna take a break and come back and read your garbage. Hey, y'. All. So listen, I'm approaching four zero. And my body has told me before my mind that I gotta get it together in pretty much every health department. Cause I'm not a spring chicken anymore. Hydration is an essential department in that realm. Vitamin Water. Zero sugar is the ultimate lifestyle water for people who want both fun and functionality. There's a variety of fun flavors that offer all the taste without the trade off. Vitamin Zero sugar flavors like rehydrate pineapple, Passion fruit squeezed lemonade, which is my favorite. And Triple x, acai, blueberry, pomegranate. If you're nasty, they're all packed with essential vitamins to help you throughout your day. Personally, I'm a water girl anyway. I just drink water all the time, but every now and then with like a meal or just, you know, workout or something if I want a little bit of flavor in it. This is a night option. Grab a Vitamin water today. Copyright 2025 Glass O Vitamin Water is a registered trademark of Glasso.

[Crissle West]

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[Kid Fury]

Hey niggas and friends. Rebecca, it's time for your letters.

[Crissle West]

Yes it is. Send your questions to asktheread gmail.com we may read them aloud on the show. Our first letter this week comes from Victor who says hi Crystal and kefiri. I'm a 28 year old black man and I live in Boston. I moved here with my now ex in 2022 and although this city can be brutal, I've built a community of queer friends and allies. My immediate family lives in a very small town in North Carolina. My father, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer this past Christmas, has been fired from his job of the last 15 years right at the start of the treatment for his illness. He does not know that I know this because my mother has been telling me all his business behind his back. My dad is in his early 70s and he's very conservative, just like many old heads. He doesn't believe anybody has the right to know about his business. My dad has also not saved any money for retirement or emergencies, so this, along with his unemployment and loss of health insurance places immense stress on my mom. My mother has not actually asked me for help yet. She's called to vent about the situation and spoken to me about how overwhelming it is to be going through it alone and how she wishes that our family had stayed living in the same house in order to support each other. But in the same breath she'll say she's fine, that she'll handle it and she doesn't need help. She does have some retirement savings and an emergency fund, but it's very little given my dad's age and health. I'm an engineer and blessed to be in a position to live by myself in this expensive ass city and save some money every month. I love my parents and I'm only where I am now because of the many sacrifices they've made for me and my siblings. I cannot live in good conscience knowing that I'm fine and they're hurting, but I do have some reservations. I can't help anyone in this situation if no one is being honest with themselves or with me. I dealt with a lot of homophobia from both of them as a child, especially from my dad. So I left home for college at 18 and never looked back. Navigating my relationship with them as an adult has been tough. They're the type of parents who expect me to stay in a child's place no matter how old I am. So if I'm too.

[Kid Fury]

Never mind.

[Crissle West]

So if I'm to be involved in their finances, that simply won't fly. If worse comes to worst and I need to move in for some period of time, I have no idea how I'm going to do it and maintain a healthy environment. For me, my queer family here in Boston is essential in my life. And I'm finally at the point where I'm making decisions that are best for me and only me. If you were in my shoes, how would you approach this situation? Any and all input you're willing to give is so appreciated. You have both been consistent voices in my life for almost a decade and I'm forever grateful. Thank you so much, Victor.

[Kid Fury]

Thanks, Victor, for your kind words and for your letter and for considering that two people who are not experts in anything or therapists.

[Crissle West]

Correct.

[Kid Fury]

Could possibly provide you with some advice that could be helpful. No, what I would. What I think I would do in this situation, I'm gonna give you harsh truth here. I don't know. Tough love, heart.

[Crissle West]

Okay. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

I would prioritize myself, my health, my wealth, my well being, and I would wish everybody the living better. I remember, I don't remember specifically why my dad and I got into it or what he did at one point when I was in my teens.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

But he was wrong. And I knew he knew it. My mama knew it. And I don't remember how this conversation started, but my mother was outside, I think she was going to work, she was going somewhere and I was outside crying. And she's talking to me about it. And I was like, it's fine because when I leave, when I move out of this place and I'm gone and I have my own life, he's never going to hear from me. Like, once I'm gone, if this isn't fixed, it's a wrap.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And that will just be that. And I meant it.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Thankfully that didn't happen. However, I was prepared for it too. And I would have stood. Stood on it if it did. So my thing is, outside of the trauma that you sort of discussed from your childhood, trauma from both parents, then there's just the frustration of seeing someone you care about who is sick, not care about being sick.

[Crissle West]

Oof. Damn. And that happens with the elders so often. Girl, it's so bad. It's the way my grandma would be like, bring me a Pepsi, girl. You are diabetic. No high blood pressure. Every fucking. I'm not bringing you no Pepsi.

[Kid Fury]

I shouldn't even drink a Pepsi. You can't have it.

[Crissle West]

I'm not bringing you no pop. Memaw. Be for real.

[Kid Fury]

No, you're right though. It is like our parents, grandparents aged them and stuff too. Like the doctor is like, okay, you will die next week if you eat one more strip of paste. And they're just like, all right, fry it up. Come home next morning, eight strips in the pan, you're waking up to pork in the air. And you come out like, bitch, did you not like, I've been eating bacon my whole life. And the doctor said you may not have bacon anymore. That's why your life, that's probably why we're here. No more bacon.

[Crissle West]

Like no, girl, damn. So.

[Kid Fury]

All that to say there's only so much that you can do when it comes to, to this certain sort of thing. And making sure that they are at least just following medical orders and things like that. Suggestions, taking their medication, changing their diet, all this stuff. Like all folks are older folks, older black folks especially hardheaded, hard headed, but stubborn, set in their ways. Don't want to hear it. Don't like anything that makes them uncomfortable. Think every vaccine is like mind controlling poison.

[Crissle West]

Jeez, my God.

[Kid Fury]

So I think after a while you have to just be like, okay, well daddy knows that two plus two is four and that four will keep him alive longer. But he wants two and two to equal five. And also it just don't. I fought tooth and nail to get up right here outside of what daddy and mommy placed into my journey. Yeah, what do I directly look like breaking my back some more to save your life, nigga. Yeah, well, you almost fucked up mine. And you don't want to listen to very clear basic direction on how to keep yours around, right? Look, patty cake, patty cake, we can do whatever the fuck you want to in this bitch until it's your time to go. But I'm not going to lose no sleep because you won't take your medication or you won't listen to directions. Maybe you want to go. No shade. No shade.

[Crissle West]

Oh Lord. Sometimes I think they are like, look, I've lived a long time, I've seen enough. And it looked like Things are getting worse. Like, you take a look at what's going on, they like, yeah, I don't think I need to. To stay around for all this. I think I can clock out.

[Kid Fury]

You can only want what you want. That's not what I meant to say. You can only want for them as much as they want. Well, that might not be good at.

[Crissle West]

Either, but I know what you mean. I'm picking up what you're putting down. And I think we all have to balance the good that our parents did for us with the ways that they hurt us. Just part of being an adult, we all come to terms with that. But some parents did more harm than good. Some parents hurt more than they helped. And so if I were you, Victor, in this very specific set of circumstances, I would absolutely not leave Boston. You have a supportive community there. You do not have that back in North Carolina. You go back to North Carolina, it's gonna be niggas talking about you still. You still doing that sissy shit and telling you that you can't be in their business, but asking you to pay the bills at the same fucking time. Like, bitch, that don't work. I'm grown. So I would stay where my community and my chosen family is. But once they open their mouths and ask for help, I would send money that I could afford to send. I'm going to pay all my bills first and make sure that I'm taken care of in my home. But, you know, if you got an extra few hundred dollars or something like that that you can send to your mama once, once your parents swallow their pride and actually ask, then I would do that. Because you do. You said you love them. You said you wouldn't even be in this position without them. They've made a lot of sacrifices for you and your siblings. That's valid. So, yeah, I would do that. But what. I'm not going. I'll send you some money. I'm not going to disrupt my peace of mind and my happiness for you, though. That's what I'm not gonna do.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Cause them niggas probably still homophobic to this day. Now, what I. What I look like.

[Kid Fury]

Uprooting my life and sanctuary, right, to come and argue with you about why you can't have a pork chop sandwich today or whatever. You know what I'm saying? Like, no, I agree with Chris. I wouldn't, like, cut them off completely.

[Crissle West]

No.

[Kid Fury]

Because they don't listen or whatever. I would be available in the ways that I could be available while also prioritizing my Safety and sanity and even in the frustration of whatever is going on would be, you know, on my therapist's neck like. And I watched him take a bite. I watched him take a bite. I told him, don't eat it right on the FaceTime. And I just done. You know what I mean? Yeah.

[Crissle West]

And Victor did put in a PS that he has a therapist book to see bi weekly for the next few months. I'm like, yep, words. So you, you're taking very good care of yourself. Keep doing that. And yeah, but I don't think there's anything wrong with, you know, sending some money or even if you want to go home and visit for a weekend or something like that. Nothing wrong with that. But uprooting your life for these, for this. I now that I would really caution you against doing something like that. You're very fortunate to have a good job and be able to afford to live by yourself in a major city in this country. And you have friends, baby. Rich, you're rich. I wouldn't do it. I would not shake that shit up for this. But best of luck to you, Victor. Let us know what you decide to do. Our next letter comes from Raya, who says. Hey y'. All. I'm a 32 year old mom of four where two of my kids are my husbands from a previous relationship. Co parenting with his ex has been absolute hell for the both of us from the very beginning. One of my bonus kids is an 11 year old boy who is truly one of the smartest children I've ever known in my entire life. Unfortunately, his intellect is coupled with bullying, lying, stealing, sneakiness, defiance and manipulation. We've gone up to the school numerous times for him, being a constant disruption and persistently getting in trouble in the classroom. We've caught him stealing on multiple occasions, which has ranged from snacks out of our work lunch boxes, money from family members, houses and electronics from our bedside table. To address the school issue, I suggested having him evaluated for ADHD because I see a lot of his struggles in myself as an adult with adhd. Like having a hard time staying focused and taking a really long time to complete tasks. He has even expressed to me that he feels like his brain is thinking about a hundred things at once. Same my husband agreed to have. My husband agreed to have him evaluated for adhd, but his ex did not.

[Kid Fury]

God, fuck. Are you really? I don't know why I thought it was going to be the dad. Okay.

[Crissle West]

It got so bad that he went to the judge and the judge had a court order that his Son be evaluated to express her disagreement. My husband's ex scheduled the appointment without informing my husband and then hijacked the evaluation. It was supposed to be for the child, but the final report from the evaluation was filled with untruthful statements from her such as my stepson not having any issues with concentration and that all of the behavioral reports and write ups at school were because of teachers targeting him and that he doesn't cause any issues or get into trouble at home. All of this was last year and now his issues have gotten much worse. Of course they have. We tried to use my husband's work benefits to get him some non medical therapy, but they said he would have to be 13 years old or older and suggested we take him to his pediatrician to get a referral for medical therapy. The issue with that, so stupid. Is that during their 5050 custody battle, the judge concluded that the ex would be the medical parent, meaning anything. Oh, medical. Dom. Domiciliary. Domiciliary, okay. That legal term, right. Meaning anything medical has to go through her. This wouldn't be an issue if she hadn't disrupted his ADHD eval the way she did. And if she didn't respond to my husband's request to put the children in therapy with a condition that she would only go if he went to therapy with her as well. Our concern is that she will forcibly involve herself in his therapy sessions just like she did with the ADHD evaluation. And this will cause him to not want to be honest with the therapist because it will no longer be a safe space. Correct. We are also concerned that this will damage his initial impressions of what therapy should be and those feelings will follow him into adulthood. My question is, what would you do if you were desperately trying to get your kids some help but the co parent persistently kept you from doing so? And what else could my husband do to get this baby the help that he needs? Thank you so much. Love you guys. Raya, what a mess.

[Kid Fury]

I don't.

[Crissle West]

She sounds. Rayya, you sound like an angel of a stepmother. You really do. Because you are advocating for this child as if you gave birth to him yourself. And that's really beautiful. And your concern. I share your same concerns that his mother, the child's mother, will corrupt this therapy experience like she did the ADHD evaluation and that he gonna be like, oh, therapy is bullshit. And then not go again even though it sounds like he needs it real, real bad.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, that's it. Like I. How you. Okay. How do you have this kid? Your husband is like oh, yeah. The kid is saying, I need help. The husband is saying, the kid needs help. And the ex of the husband is saying, oh, yeah, for sure. How you the one who wants to, like, jump in. In front of every road to this kid, possibly the child's own mother, some assistance. Yeah, it. I don't. You know, how do you sleep?

[Crissle West]

Some people really believe they're doing right by their kids for this, because it's like, well, ain't nothing wrong. Cause they really believe ain't nothing wrong with my baby. Y' all just not treating him right. If y' all call him adhd, y' all gonna put him in the special classes, and he not gonna. It's about what other people will think about their child or how other people will perceive their child and not about what the kid actually needs.

[Kid Fury]

That is ridiculous.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, it is.

[Kid Fury]

If it was fucking 1950. Who. Whatever. And, you know, we're talking about old heads again. You still wrong. But with all this goddamn information and a parent and a step parent.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

Being like, oh, yeah, take this kid to a pediatrician or go, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah. You like, nah, ain't nothing wrong with my kid. I'm sorry, Are you.

[Crissle West]

Girl, did you hear what I said? The boy bullies, lies, steals, sneaks around, is defiant and manipulative.

[Kid Fury]

He said he feels like there are a ton of thoughts going on in his head at the same time. And you're just like, oh, nothing. Like, why do you. I mean, you already kind of said it, but I was like, why do y' all feel like getting your kid help like this or even just having them be evaluated is like, stabbing them or something.

[Crissle West]

Right? Right. Yeah. Like you're hurting them.

[Kid Fury]

Just for argument's sake, you could take them to a specialist and they'd be like, oh, no, your kid's cool. Just got, you know, sticky fingers. I don't know. I'm just talking.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Or they could be like, oh, yeah, here's this thing. We see it all of the time. Here's how you deal with it. So they'll be well adjusted and so on and so forth. And you get over the fuck. Get over whatever the fuck it is going on in your mind and soul.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

That makes you feel some type of way about your kid having the need for a different form of health care or education or development or whatever. Like, because that knee doesn't go away.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

It just progresses differently, evolves differently. Like, it manifests another way.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yes, it does.

[Kid Fury]

To just be like, no, my kid's fine. Who are you, Dr. Manhattan? Are you a God?

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

You a brain? So are you a neurologist? Like you don't know what the fuck.

[Crissle West]

You'Re talking about exactly. Well, a lot of people are very inadequate at parenting. This is so ridiculous. Your child. Lying to medical professionals about what your child is doing and the, the harm that they're causing only makes things worse for your kid in the long run. He's 11 now. One day he'll be 18. If he's still out here stealing and lying and bullying people. And however else that manifests when he's 18, this could easily turn into him getting locked up and being in and out of jail for the rest of his life, bro. So I, I, I feel for you. Cause you're the stepmother. You don't really have too much, you know, say, in this situation. Um, and your husband did try to use his insurance to get the baby some outside therapy. That place said that he had to be at least 13. I would keep that in mind. But also, is there anybody else, like, there are. Maybe the place you were thinking of taking him was, like, specific for ADHD, but they didn't work with kids under 13. But there's therapists, depending on where y' all are, that work with kids of all ages. There's probably some other stuff going on. It might have something to do with the parenting he's been exposed to up into this point in his life. Sounds like his biological mother is a real piece of work. So can you all gather evidence and take it back to family court and get visitation or whatever else, legal custody and, you know, medical decisions and all that? Can y' all go back and have that redone, have that, you know, switched, revoked, whatever, to put it more in your husband's favor like that sounds like it will probably take a while, and the courts are very reluctant to do that sort of thing anyway. But unfortunately, other than, you know, going through the legal system, I really don't know how else you can do. You could try to talk to this the mother until you blew in the face. But some people simply do not believe in anything that's wrong that they can't actually see for themselves. And I mean, like, broken bones and like, bleeding, stuff like that. So, yeah, yeah, it, it is a damn shame because I'm sure if you're, if this boy, you know, tripped and fell and broke his hand, she wouldn't be in the ER telling the doctor, ain't nothing wrong with his hand. My baby is fine. Blah, blah, Blah.

[Kid Fury]

But you'd be surprised.

[Crissle West]

You right? That is. So meanwhile, he can't hold it up. The shit is broken. He literally can't. It's flopping like he can't. I don't have no control over my wrist no more.

[Kid Fury]

A little diamond tap on it. Little rope testing, I think, you know, apple cider vinegar.

[Crissle West]

It sounds like y' all are gonna have to collect evidence here of these instances of neglect and mistreatment and outright lying to medical professionals. But, yeah, I would. I would look around that one place. Couldn't see him until he would turn 13. I would look around for somebody who could see him now. I wouldn't wait the next two years and just pray that it gets straightened out. Cause, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

No, he's only 11. That. Yeah. No.

[Kid Fury]

So he should try and find an alternative option for now rather than waiting around or just go for it now. The kid needs help in that brain and body every day.

[Crissle West]

Right, that. Thank you for saying that. Because that is a point that I meant to bring up and completely forgot. As much as he's causing hell for everybody around him and his teachers and friends at school and all that, it sounds like he's going through hell mentally. Like, it sounds like he doesn't feel good in his body. It does sounds like his brain isn't at rest. So this is just extremely inadequate parenting as far as I'm concerned.

[Kid Fury]

But, yeah, I think the more you push back, the harder it's gonna get for his mama to play ball.

[Crissle West]

You know? What?

[Kid Fury]

You know?

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Cause it sounds like she want the husband back. Cause what is this? He can only go to therapy if you come to therapy with me, girl. What? Now why would I go to therapy with you? Like. Like a couple. We can do family therapy, right? And you probably should do family therapy, actually, where all three of y'. All. And if there are any other children. Yeah, sounds like family therapy would be great. But why is she asking for the husband to come to therapy with her? And that's the condition for the child to get some help. Like she. This lady sound real up. She does. It's just a damn shame when. Because children are the ones who have to pay the price for poor parenting, which was the point last week, and somehow that skipped right on over yalls heads. So, yeah, Raya, good luck. But I think, like Hip Fury said, it's probably going to have to come from the husband to be effective. And she can make. She can make this hard on y', all, which makes it hard on her own child. And you would think a mother would be the last person to do that. But some people are amiss. But some people are. Yeah. Good luck to you. Our last letter comes from Harlem. Who says hi Chris Lynn Kefieri. I fear I may be destroying a 20 year friendship and I need your guidance and advice. My best friend and I are more like sisters. I know people say that all the time, but she is literally my emergency contact. She helped me move into my current apartment owned by a nice old couple, met their son, and she and their son have been inseparable for the past three years. During those three years, we all became close. We would have the occasional Sunday dinner at his parents place downstairs. But unfortunately their son cheated on my best friend and she ended things back in June. Of course, I also stopped talking to him, which was difficult because he still came to my apartment at times to do maintenance for his parents. He also continued to do the nice things he was doing before they broke up, like installing a ring camera in my apartment after some packages were stolen and bringing me paper towels when he knew I ran out. My friend has been wanting to sell the car that he gave her and asked me to leave the paperwork with his parents so he could sign it. His parents informed me that I would have to contact his lawyer since right now he is in jail for fraud work they went on to. That's probably how he got you that car. Don't sell that car, girl. The police will be looking for that here in just a minute. They went on to say how difficult it has been going to see him since they are too old to drive very far and how he's been depressed and lonely in jail. Jail. When I told my friend about what's going on, she said, oh, sounds like his cheating ass is exactly where he need to be. I told her that I did agree to drive his parents to the prison and will get the car documents signed. When we got there, he was exactly how they described. Depressed, lonely and broken. He has not heard from any friends and expressed feeling guilty about leaving his parents. I wish I could say that I never saw him again after that visit, but I've been back several times with and without his parents. We talk often on the phone and we've started a book club to lift his spirits. All without my.

[Kid Fury]

I'm sorry.

[Crissle West]

We talk often on the phone and we've started a book. Oh no. Oh. All without my friend's knowledge. Our conversations are strictly platonic.

[Kid Fury]

Mm.

[Crissle West]

But he has commissioned a fellow prisoner to draw me portraits of us as book characters.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, you done? Lost your damn mind.

[Crissle West]

Due to our visits and how much time we spend on the phone, My friend is under the impression that I am seeing someone. And I have not refuted this.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, you are.

[Crissle West]

I feel terrible for misleading her and for having such a complex friendship with someone who betrayed her. I understand that he did this to himself, but I can't fathom him being in prison for four years and dealing with this all alone. Do I come clean to my friend?

[Kid Fury]

He won't be alone, girl, unless he ain't solitary.

[Crissle West]

Do I come clean to my friend? Oh, that is an excellent point. Do I come clean to my friend even though it may end our friendship? Or do you think this is an okay secret to keep? Love you both. Thanks so much. Harlem.

[Kid Fury]

I've lived in Harlem. I lived there for quite a while. And in fact very rich in culture and pride and self love. And so if that's not your birth name, I feel like some people gonna have a problem with you. What the fuck was this? What are you talking about? What do you mean? What do you mean your best friend gave you a place to stay? She break up with a nigga for cheating on her. A scammer at that. And you're like, oh, but he installed a ring camera that one time that Malibu boo got stolen from off the porch. And so he's t. Sure he's in prison right now, but, you know, we just started the Cash on a ride. I mean, we just really started.

[Crissle West]

You.

[Kid Fury]

Know, a couple of Zane novels and things of that nature. And I've just been getting this amazing artwork. These beautiful portraits sure look like the diary of a wimpy kid. But at the same time, there's heart in it, in the artistry. And so like, please, this is fine, right? Let me look this girl. Goodbye. Goodbye. I don't have nothing to talk to you about. I don't have nothing to say to you about. Like I have nothing to say to you. Is it okay to secret to keep from your friend? Are you or should she that you're reading Twilight with her scamming ex boyfriend in prison? That he's commissioning portraits from some other jailbird.

[Crissle West]

To draw the two of you?

[Kid Fury]

Is this an okay secret? Harlem, I'm done talking to you. I'm not else.

[Crissle West]

Harlem. I. I'm gonna ask you which. Which is worth more to you. A 20 year friendship with someone who you say is more like a sister to you. Again, two. We're talking about two decades of somebody who has been there for you and vice versa. You guys have nurtured this incredibly close connection where you could not be closer if you were blood related or a man that you've known of for the past three years who used to live downstairs and did odd jobs for you because you lived in his parents house. Like, I hope me phrasing it like that gets you to see what you're willing to risk behind this man. And the thing about it is, it's the fact that you are keeping it from your friend makes it seem so much more sinister and nefarious than what you described in this letter. If it is strictly platonic and you're just trying to lift his spirits because he's in jail and you know, of course that's lonely and isolating because it's fucking jail, why wouldn't you be honest with your friend about it from the very beginning?

[Kid Fury]

Cause it's fucking weird.

[Crissle West]

Cause it's fucking weird.

[Kid Fury]

I get she would have a problem with that.

[Crissle West]

You have a big heart, you're so empathetic, et cetera, et cetera, all that. Yes. And this wasn't your man. This was her man. And as much as you might like the super in your building, that's not somebody you choose over your fucking sister. I just don't. I'm really struggling.

[Kid Fury]

I don't know. Sweetie, sweetie. This is probably one of those situations where you're like, I'm not going to say anything unless Kid Fury and Crystal drag me. Because I think there's like a handful of y' all throughout the lifetime of this program who have built like I have done something devastating. And I'm not gonna make any movement in doing the right thing here unless complete strangers absolutely rip me to shreds about it. So here you go, girl. You're a mess. This is a fool. I don't even believe that you're just trying to lift this motherfucker's spirits because he's in jail. He's a scammer. He's in jail. It's not the White Lotus there, bitch. It's supposed to be depressing. It's punishment, okay? If he wants something to lift, tell him to hit the yard and grab them weights. Lift that. Make some. Make this time productive, bitch. The fuck do you need to be in here going through the philosopher's stone with this bitch so that he feel better. What the fuck are you talking about? I don't buy none of that shit. I think that you had this motherfucker coming over doing some little odd jobs and stuff around the house. Maybe you think he cute and you like this little relationship.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

He got the riddler next door in the cell next door to him doing fucking stick figures, sending it to your dumb ass on WhatsApp so that you could be like, oh, my goodness, he's got art. He's big heart. You sound a fool.

[Crissle West]

You do.

[Kid Fury]

This letter was a fool. This is ridiculous. And you, I would at the very least. No, I'm sorry. At most, what I will give you is that not if, not if, but when your friend finds out about this, I hope at most that it is not devastating for her, that it does not take her too long to climb out of the pit of pythons and serpents that is your friendship. Imagine a nigga that was never yours that cheated on her. So she left him. That is now in jail in the prison.

[Crissle West]

You can't fathom him being sad in prison where, you know, people aren't there to feel good. But you can fathom losing your best friend of 20 years behind this nigga. Are you sure, sister? I, I, I absolutely think you should come clean about it. You may even be able to save your friendship with her, but it can't be that she finds out about it. You need to tell her. But the fact that you spend so much time on the phone with this man that she's like, oh, you must have you a new nigga. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, girl, it's, I'm really trying to give you the benefit of the doubt. But the more, the more I'm thinking about it. It's like, I really, I think you like this man and Harlem. It doesn't sound like he's the only one who's lonely because of all the niggas in the world for you to decide to get attached to, you picked the one who cheated on your very best friend and then went to jail for theft and lying and fuckery and trickery.

[Kid Fury]

And it's not even just like, oh, yeah, I feel bad for him. Cause he actually, you know, had some cool qualities. So we chat. Every now and then, I catch him up on Love island and tell him, you know, who fucking on who, right? And that's it. We started a book club. He sends me portraits of us. What the fuck are you talking about?

[Crissle West]

You need to be honest about this. The fact that you're not telling your friend, that's how you know you doing something you don't have no business doing, baby. So. And that, yeah, anytime you have to keep shit from people like that, as if you're doing something wrong, you are probably doing something wrong.

[Kid Fury]

So and you know what pissed me off, Simone? Is that you aren't even just like, oh, how do I approach fixing this fucked up situation that I, you know, created? Yeah, you're like, tea or not tea. Girl, get out my face. Get out my face.

[Crissle West]

Tell. Please tell your. Your bestie sister what you've been doing. You can. I'm. I'm. I'm trying to help you, but I keep thinking of if this was me, and my best friend told me that this is what she had been doing, I would be so pissed. So you're nurturing this nigga in jail. You supposed to be my best friend. The nigga who hurt me, devastated me before he even got caught up on that shit. And you coddling him from behind bars, bitch, are you for real? Yeah. All right, Harlem, come clean, please. Tell the whole truth, and hopefully you can salvage your friendship. But if you don't really care about losing this friend, then keep going. Keep on putting money on his jpay and spending your weekends driving up there with and without his parents. That's your man. Oh, Harlem.

[Kid Fury]

I bet you she ain't from Harlem. She's probably from Harlem, right?

[Crissle West]

Don't let Tyler Perry hear this. Tell. Tell the truth, please. Come clean and really reevaluate the way you are choosing to move throughout this friendship. Because this is really. This is grimy as shit. Girl. I'm sorry. I'm trying to say it nicely. And I'm really struggling to come up with any additional words for. You have got to be a better friend than this. This 20 year friendship. So y' all are. You're a minimum of. Nevermind, never mind. Okay, I'm gonna leave it right there. Tell your friend what you did. That's gonna wrap up the questions for this week. Again, if you have something that you would like to ask us, send that to asktheread gmail.com. we'll be right back. Hey, y'. All, Everybody knows how expensive things are right now. Groceries, gas, taking your family out, Everything, baby. It is a real struggle. Donald Trump and the Republicans in Congress promised they'd make life cheaper, but instead they passed and signed a law that will make things even more expensive. And we're seeing all that right now. Tariffs are hurting the economy and driving up prices. And now Republicans passed a partisan bill to cut your Medicaid by billions, taking away health care from millions of regular, everyday Americans just so they can give even more tax breaks to the ultra rich who absolutely don't need them. While people are struggling to get by, these career politicians are Putting the elite first, putting profits over family's health, our well being and our ability to afford everyday life that is just wrong and stank and terrible and immoral. We need our leaders to protect Medicaid, lower costs and to invest in our communities, not help the rich get richer at our expense. It's time we demand solutions that make life more affordable. Call your member of Congress and tell them to restore Medicaid paid for by.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

Oh, the way I almost forgot about.

[Kid Fury]

This because it is that stupid.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, but it.

[Kid Fury]

Jimmy Kimmel. The Jimmy Kimmel show made headlines less than a week ago now because basically Donald Trump had the show suspended indefinitely through Disney Nextar, whoever, some folks that CEO or chairman of FCC or whatever that.

[Crissle West]

What happened to free speech?

[Kid Fury]

Exactly.

[Crissle West]

Do we still have a constitution?

[Kid Fury]

The thing is, for that particular. For this offense. Right there's. And to take it back to my initial point, y' all couldn't even laser in on a reason for this corruption. It's like the headline comes out, oh, the Kimmel show is suspended for making fun of Charlie Kirk. Well, then people watched the clip. He didn't make fun of Charlie Kirk at all. Oh, well, he was suspended because he implied that the shooter was maga. You didn't do that one either. And I know that that one might be tricky for some of you who aren't overly educated, as Tommy Lorenn likes to call people who read. But the comment was something to the tune of MAGA has been desperately trying to label the shooter as any but one of theirs.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, they have.

[Kid Fury]

That isn't implying that the person is maga. That's just an observation. It's just a recap. It's just stating what happened. You lit when the thing happened. It was shooter's trans. The bullets are trans. The shooter has a trans friend, partner, lover. They're radical left. They're a dog, cat, centaur, mermaid, merman, mermaid, butterfly. Like you.

[Crissle West]

It just was insane.

[Kid Fury]

All around the world and back. So that wasn't even, like, inflammatory. It wasn't untrue. It was just a statement. But the thing that actually pissed you girls off, specifically President 20 steps back, is the part in the clip where Jimmy. The actual joke where Jimmy plays a clip of Trump's response. I think he's out on the lawn of the house and they asked an inter. A reporter asked him how he was holding up or how he was coping with the loss of Charlie Kirk. And the president just threw the question away and immediately pivoted to like, yeah, whatever. The ballroom is almost finished. We've never seen a more. A bigger, more beautiful ballroom.

[Crissle West]

Gross.

[Kid Fury]

It was just like, I think for both sides it was a peculiar response.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So that's the thing that really got you up in a tizzy on top of the fact that there was just some business. Like, there's literally also money.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

There's like a deal similar to Colbert.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah. Yep.

[Kid Fury]

There's just a lot of shaking hands on money thing. He's really just turning the country into his business.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

Not a business, but it is.

[Crissle West]

Right. And this is so obvious. This is really crazy that y' all are pretending it's anything else.

[Kid Fury]

That's what I'm saying. Same.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Like, yeah, even so when you jump out the window and like, well, we fired or we suspended him because he made fun of Charlie Kirk and then changed the story, Even your voters will watch this clip and be like, well.

[Crissle West]

What the fuck did he say? Oh, I don't know, Marsha. I watched the same video that you did.

[Kid Fury]

Like, they're even. They had been coming around to. Now, what the fuck are you talking about? And why are you like, people have actually been frying Charlie up. People have actually been saying that Charlie Kirk and Erica can hold their nuts.

[Crissle West]

I was about to say, stop that man.

[Kid Fury]

Didn't say shit.

[Crissle West]

Satan said, I'm deep frying that nigga, actually, right as we speak.

[Kid Fury]

There you go. So your voters are going to be like, you pulled him off the air for that.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So it really just brings. It helps to validate what people are saying. When they call you fascist, when they say that you. When they compare you to Hitler, when they call you a Nazi, when they.

[Crissle West]

Say you're using the presidency to go at your enemies. That's literally what you're doing to get.

[Kid Fury]

Reporters fired, to deplatform people.

[Crissle West]

It's happening right in front of us.

[Kid Fury]

Create a culture of canceling of. Actually, you see, when n said cancel, it was fun.

[Crissle West]

It was just a personal thing. I personally don't rock with this.

[Kid Fury]

You know, when the woke was ours.

[Crissle West]

We have to stop talking around them. I think it's the only solution. They take everything we have and bastardize it.

[Kid Fury]

This is why I don't TikTok.

[Crissle West]

Oh, you need to though. TikTok is the best social platform.

[Kid Fury]

I really find it insane. And at this point, I've just decided to zoom out and look at this world as. Especially this part of it, as the sitcom that it is. I grew up a black butch queen, been a fag since birth. So I the world being unkind and unfair.

[Crissle West]

Used to that.

[Kid Fury]

Used to it regular shit. This is y' all problem. Y' all went out and chose to vote for this criminal twice. Um, you have. You know what I mean? I. I don't get it. More of you are now starting to see that he's deranged. Um, and here's what really pissed me off. Because outside of the fact that you. Yes, you were trying to censor people while also, mind you, the person who you claim that you're defending the honor.

[Crissle West]

Of.

[Kid Fury]

Had a platform where he said some of the most inhumane, disgusting, vile things about people living and dead. And he had the right to do it. He got paid to do it.

[Crissle West]

We all. We all used to have the right to free speech. We all used to could say whatever we wanted to say as long as it didn't incite violence or, you know, riots, things of that nature. There are some limitations, but free speech used to be a thing we had in this country. It used to be.

[Kid Fury]

So then someone who tells jokes and didn't even coming behind it and saying, isn't it weird how the guy who announced the death, who acts like he birthed this person, was asked how he's dealing with it and instead said, oh, you know what? I think we're gonna have the Rockettes perform at the. Like. That's who they were talking about. You. Anybody say nothing about him? Censored. You're canceled. Of course they put the man back on tv. But the thing that really pissed me off is that y' all also try to bully this man and be like, oh, well, he's not funny and the ratings aren't good, and da, da, da, da, da. All of those things could be true. I couldn't give a fuck about Jimmy Kibble Monday to Monday.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Especially after he shed living human tears for a lion or a tiger or a bear or whatever the fuck that was that got killed. Don't you remember the time they, like. I don't remember. It was after George, Floyd or what we were deep in, and someone killed an animal. I think it was a lion. And Jimmy Cable went on.

[Crissle West]

Oh, okay.

[Kid Fury]

On his show. And cried.

[Crissle West]

I thought you meant Trump cried. I'm like, yeah, I missed this.

[Kid Fury]

No Jimmy Cable.

[Crissle West]

Okay, okay. Well, he cried overhead. I'm like, y' all can't be for real. He just cried over. Yes, he just cried over her.

[Kid Fury]

That makes this even weirder. So that's like. Y' all then try to, like, bully him and make this, like, a Jimmy Kimmel victim thing.

[Crissle West]

But girl, Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe.

[Kid Fury]

Trying to get me to feel bad for Jimmy Kimmel is where I'm drawing the Line. I will speak about this censorship, and I will speak about y' all being the worst.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

At being villains.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

The worst. Chop the girls who are just being like. Yeah. Like that fierce joke that Crystal just made. Like, these people actually.

[Crissle West]

Us flaming these people.

[Kid Fury]

And we have the right to do it. Right.

[Crissle West]

We chewed that bitch up. It was no respect.

[Kid Fury]

And we have the right to do that.

[Crissle West]

We used to.

[Kid Fury]

That is like Constitution.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Have you heard of it? They chopping it. They ripping the constitution into little strips, rolling it up and using it to snort cocaine off of different surfaces in the White House. That's what they doing with that.

[Kid Fury]

Going for this fucking Labrador retriever of a comic who apparently, I guess, just also cried tears over. Over Erica Kirk, old boy's wife.

[Crissle West]

Yes.

[Kid Fury]

It's just like, why would you choose that as the way to try and flex it? Makes you look crazy to your. But again, like I said, trying to make me feel bad for Jimmy Killwell. That's too far. That I'm not doing that.

[Crissle West]

But, oh, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

No, I'm not gonna be playing in people's face.

[Crissle West]

I didn't watch that show. No way. I didn't watch that shit. No way, child.

[Kid Fury]

But you put me in a precarious situation of saying of feeling like, give that man his goddamn show back, because this is not. It's unconstitutional. And I don't like that.

[Crissle West]

Correct.

[Kid Fury]

I'm not fighting for no motherfucking Jenny Campbell.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Who the fuck do you bitches think that y' all are?

[Crissle West]

It's been. Well, you know, Disney lost. I think I saw that Disney lost something like three and a half billion dollars over this past week behind that decision.

[Kid Fury]

I heard that, too.

[Crissle West]

That. I mean, everybody said, cancel. All of. I've seen tiktoks of people being like, I canceled my $125,000 wedding at Disney. Why do I want to call her Miranda? The actress who played Miranda on Sex and the City, she did a video of herself canceling her Hulu. And when she canceled, they asked, you know, why you are canceling your Hulu, Disney plus all this stuff. Everybody said, oh, because we believe in free speech. Put Jimmy Kimmel back on the fucking air. Yes. Yes. People was like, so stupid, bitch. We will cancel. We will simply bootleg. And she was saying, you know, my family is gonna miss only murders in. The family's going to miss Abbott Elementary. I know. Quinta was like, why would y' all do this right before the new season of my Is going to come out? Like, why would y'? All. Why would Y' all risk my right now. But yeah, it was. They. They lost a ton of money over this past week behind this. And it's what shout out to y' all for actually deciding like, oh, hm. I think we do care more about our bottom line than we do about stroking the president's dick right now. But this is. Y' all are enabling fascism. This. That's what y' all are doing. And you put Jimmy Kimmel back on the air just for him to cry about this. Talking about she forgave the man who shot her husband. That is the example we should follow. That is the. The teachings of Jesus. That is a selfless act of grace from a grieving widow. And it touched me deeply that walked out to his memorial with pyrotechnics shooting up from the stage. That was amazing.

[Kid Fury]

What. What the. Why did they do that? Why did they do that?

[Crissle West]

How come you didn't allow guns?

[Kid Fury]

Maybe it's just like American today.

[Crissle West]

Why weren't there any guns allowed at the memorial? I don't understand.

[Kid Fury]

That was weird. If guns are capable pyrotechnic.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, yeah. Why. Why are y' all doing that?

[Kid Fury]

Maybe he liked him.

[Crissle West]

I don't care. This is. That was so I said this bitch don't care.

[Kid Fury]

I saw that clip of her watching. I was just like.

[Crissle West]

Please.

[Kid Fury]

Cause you know our Secretary of Education.

[Crissle West]

Do we still have one? Well, do we have a Department of Education? Is there anything.

[Kid Fury]

She used to be part owner of the WWF or maybe still does have stake.

[Crissle West]

Oh, that's right. Oh my God. The entire administration is so foolish thing.

[Kid Fury]

Is that actually I be for that might explain it.

[Crissle West]

She said, when y' all have this memorial, let me know because I can get you 75% off of some firecrackers.

[Kid Fury]

Exactly. Yeah. Oh yeah.

[Crissle West]

This is. These are clown. Three days after her husband died, Erica is selling merch for his funeral and that type of shit. This is so ridiculous. And these are the people y' all are bowing down to for real?

[Kid Fury]

Nah, she just had two very young kids and is like now left with the mantle of I guess making the money for them.

[Crissle West]

So you was gonna be fine anyway use.

[Kid Fury]

I mean right? She said she's gonna further his mission or however.

[Crissle West]

She's worse than his. She's worse than he is. So I'm not. Hell yeah, she's gonna talk about her.

[Kid Fury]

But I am not shocked.

[Crissle West]

Hell yeah, she's gonna further his mission. Of course she is. She was fully on. But I've seen a lot of people be like, oh, you know hopefully now that her husband's dead, Erica can be free and raise her children differently.

[Kid Fury]

Who would think that she wouldn't?

[Crissle West]

Y' all learned. Y' all learned nothing from. Get out. Y' all saw that bitch.

[Kid Fury]

Nothing.

[Crissle West]

Y' all saw that bitch eating Froot Loops and drinking the milk separate and said, she's just a girl.

[Kid Fury]

She's just autistic girly pop.

[Crissle West]

White women be the main ones. Hello?

[Kid Fury]

Are you kidding?

[Crissle West]

Now you know, now I have some conspiracy ideas in my brain swirling around, but I probably shouldn't say those publicly, but a lot of this behavior after he died. I'm sorry. I'm sniffing a rat, and I'm sniffing one. It don't. Something in the milk ain't clean, and I'm gonna leave it there.

[Kid Fury]

But the way that this fucking administration treats the nation like a bop. It. It's hard to keep up with. Like, of course we're gonna just start smelling rats, bitches, just tossing rodents around like.

[Crissle West]

Like a bop. It took me back to age 10. My God.

[Kid Fury]

You know, it's a video game now.

[Crissle West]

That sounds. The whole point is that you physically twist people. And these children are so fucking lazy.

[Kid Fury]

They just came out on the switch, okay? Like, a week ago.

[Crissle West]

So you just mash the buttons on the controller instead of. I guess, baby, if y' all don't go online and get that fucking toy off of ebay or Amazon or something and quit fucking playing. Just buy the toy.

[Kid Fury]

It's cheaper than the game. Just.

[Crissle West]

Right. Just buy the fucking toy.

[Kid Fury]

They still make, though.

[Crissle West]

They do. I have one.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. Would you have, like, the stick one or like the.

[Crissle West]

I have, like, the original. The. Yeah. No, not this. Not the long stick one. The one with all the. It's shaped crazy, like a. Like that W. Or whatever. Whatever it is.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. So, yeah, that's the one.

[Crissle West]

Oh, man, I actually completely forgot about that. Thank you for bringing that up. What a riot. Well, I have a few short things to bring up this week, and then I'll be out your way. First of all, the state of Oklahoma continuously embarrassing me.

[Kid Fury]

Oklahoma and Florida, man, it.

[Crissle West]

You know, don't ever ask me why I left. Don't ever ask me why I left. The state superintendent, the same one who just got caught watching porn during a board meeting last month or whenever.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, shit. That was so fucking funny.

[Crissle West]

That same man just announced that they will be putting Turning Point USA chapters in every high school in the state. Turning Point USA is, of course, Charlie Kirk's organization.

[Kid Fury]

Are you kidding me?

[Crissle West]

I wish I was. He said that Charlie inspired this generation to love America and speak boldly and that the kids must get involved and fight back against the liberal propaganda that is pushed by the radical left. And the teachers unions and the radical leftists have been dominating classrooms and pushing woke indoctrination and fighting parents rights. And so turning point chapters will allow these kids to participate in dialogue about American greatness and American values. So here's the thing. Kids can already participate in dialogue about America and different aspects of America because the children are capable of speech. They. If they want to talk about politics. We have, or at least we used to have 25 years ago. When I was in high school in Oklahoma, we had clubs for people who were interested in political science. We have Model un If you were. If we had Young Democrats and Young Republicans, you could do that if you wanted to. Why would we need a super right wing bullshit MAGA fascist organization, a club to be in every high school. The kids can already talk about politics. So a reporter asked him what happened if there's a school that said we simply not gonna put this club in the school. And he said they would be in danger of not being a school district. They would go after the school's accreditation and everything would quote unquote, be on the table in that scenario.

[Kid Fury]

Wow.

[Crissle West]

I just gave y' all the stats last month about how these kids are doing academically in Oklahoma. We have real problems. Put a math club in every school.

[Kid Fury]

Jesus.

[Crissle West]

Put a I can read at grade level challenge in every school. Let's do that. Turning Point usa. You know what? Every classroom has a leather bound Trump Bible. That's what our classrooms in Oklahoma have. A God bless the USA Trump Bible that costs $60 that you can buy on some bullshit website. That's what we're prioritizing.

[Kid Fury]

Love it. So how long do you think until we get fire hosed again next year?

[Crissle West]

This same man put out a press release saying that any teachers who made any kind of critical comments about Charlie Kirk would be fired. It has just been stupid. People have been. They had a moment of silence in all the schools and they reported teachers and staff who didn't observe this moment of silence. We.

[Kid Fury]

That part I don't really care about. I think it's funny when people don't. And I think it's ridiculous to like mandate it or whatever. Yeah, but girl, someone you cared about died. You want us to be quiet for a little bit?

[Crissle West]

I. I'll be quiet during your moment of silence. What I won't do is stand or show any sort of reverence oh, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

I'm not doing anything.

[Crissle West]

I'm not doing none of that.

[Kid Fury]

I'll say that.

[Crissle West]

But I probably wasn't gonna talk. No way. I wasn't finna talk. No fucking way. But, yeah. Ryan Walters. Our kids can't read. Our kids can't add. Our kids don't know English, even though it's the only language that anyone around them can speak. They don't know shit about history. They don't know shit about science. And you said to address these problems, I'mma put Turning Point USA in every Oklahoma high school. All right, girl. All right. All right. Again, we're ranked 50th in education, which would be dead last if we weren't including dc. Do you understand, bitch? It's bad out here. Secondly, the New York Liberty. I'm really. I'm not gonna cuss out my team, but I'm really struggling to understand why we got rid of Sandy. I am. I'm struggling. I don't get it. She was the first coach to get us a championship. She's the winningest coach in franchise history. I understand we didn't live up to the expectations of this season, getting bounced in the first round. Oh, I'm sure Sandy didn't coach to the best of her ability for every game. But this seems like we are running a very strict ship, considering we won that ring last season. It's not like we missed the playoffs altogether. We not the sky. We not the wings. I don't understand. Well, I'm just saying we did. We're not at the bottom of the fucking league. At least we made the playoffs. Girl, to fire her for this. Imagine if Minnesota fired Cheryl Reed the first time she didn't score a champion. She didn't get a championship after she did. She wouldn't be the winningest coach in the wnba. I just feel like this. I. I. Please make it make sense to me. Like, who's coming instead? Who's who? Who are we hiring? Is Don Staley coming? I just really want y'. All. I. I need somebody to explain this to me. It can't be that strict over there to where winning a championship and then making it to the playoffs the next season means that a coach gets fired. I'm just re. I'm struggling to get it.

[Kid Fury]

Women in power, especially black and brown women in power have to be fallen all of the time. Because if you're ever. If there's ever a moment where you're even just, like, average or mediocre, just, like, why don't I just Try something new. You know, guys. Like, I just feel like black girls never have the opportunity to be like, all right, better. Much less, like, fail. They're just like, oh, yeah, okay.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Knew it.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Anyways, next.

[Crissle West]

Well, so that is all true. Sandy is a white woman from Australia. But your point is still valid.

[Kid Fury]

Um, I started with women, and then I started. I went back to my room. I know I don't know anything about.

[Crissle West]

Sandy, but this just. I'm really. I'm really, really struggling to understand it. And, of course, y' all announced this right after we renewed our season tickets for next year. But whoever you bring in is the expectation that they take us straight to a championship. Cause I feel like Sandy would have had a better chance of that than some brand new coach with whatever new coaching staff will be there. Plus, with the expansion draft and everything, we're going to lose. Like, we're not going to have the same team. I just. I'm not. Please. I don't. I really do not understand, Baby. When I logged on the threads and saw this Ari Ivory post about the New York Liberty have released Sandy Brondello, I just knew. I said, this is a joke. This is a joke. You cannot be serious. How. How? We had injuries all throughout the season like so many other teams did. Yes. And again, I'm not saying she coached perfectly, but not renewing her contract behind this season. Really? She just got us our very first ring in franchise history last year. We just all were at the top of this summer in fucking Barclays watching the banner go up.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, it smells a little off.

[Crissle West]

I'm not understanding. And finally, for those of you who were like, why you didn't talk about Beyonce and Jay Z, why you didn't bring up.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, my God, I forgot to bring that up.

[Crissle West]

First of all, bitch, we forget.

[Kid Fury]

I literally had a tab here that I completely forgot about this.

[Crissle West]

Oh, my God. Like, please consider that everybody don't live online. I don't see everything you see at the exact same time, you see it. But also, we simply don't discuss every fucking thing that has happened in the world on this show. And thirdly, what do you want me to say? Beyonce's at a table with very rich, conservative white people, okay? You act like she posed for a picture with this girl and invited her to her baby shower and posted. When people said, what do you think about this Beyonce and Jay Z picture with Ivanka? I went and looked at her Instagram. I'm like, what are you. Beyonce posted Ivanka Trump. What the fuck are you Talking about. Come to find out you niggas are talking about a Jay Z's fundraiser for the Whatever the fuck he's. Because his casino. Some shit with Meek Mill and criminal reform. Whatever the fuck it is. Fundraiser where they raise. Yes, all that bullshit. Whatever this. Of course, extremely rich people were there, regardless of politics, because one thing that the very wealthy have that the rest of us do not is class solidarity. They stick together when it comes to them dollar signs. So, yes, Ivanka and Jared are going to be invited when they're writing a check. Sorry, I don't know what y' all want me to say. I thought y' all meant that Beyonce was arm in arm with Ivanka, strolling around the building, that they was doing tiktoks together and taking shots and licking each other's toes. You bitches meant that they were seated at the same fucking table at a charity event. Girl, you cussing me out behind that. Really?

[Kid Fury]

I'd love to know who is in charge of seating arrangements at the Reform. The Reform place. I understand how capitalism works. And Rich tivity, I would like to request in the future that you keep the public wide open. Demons that we know about seated elsewhere, away from her at the very least. Thank you so very much. I appreciate that. Thank you so much for reminding me, because I fully intended to cap the hot tops off by.

[Crissle West]

Let's talk about it.

[Kid Fury]

Right, Mr. Jay Z. I just want to talk to who picks the seats. I just want to have a conversation with them. I just have a couple of questions. I have maybe one or two comments. I would just like to know about the seating. That's it. And I would like it to not happen again.

[Crissle West]

I mean, yes, of course, but people were tagging me in this like Beyonce had committed some mortal sin. She was just literally at the same table as this bitch. I'm like, this is what y' all are pressing me over. For real.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. No, I don't think it is immediately indicative of anything other than go take.

[Crissle West]

A breath of fresh air. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Healthy capitalist people being in the same room.

[Crissle West]

Literally that.

[Kid Fury]

But at the same time, I cannot like it.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

I ain't like it when. When they had Kim Kardashian sitting next to the lady all the time at every fashion show.

[Crissle West]

Correct.

[Kid Fury]

With the baby screaming and all that.

[Crissle West]

Oh, my God. Yes.

[Kid Fury]

And that's Kim Kardashian, right? Ivanka and Jerry Kushner are actual terrible people. I don't want them sitting next to her.

[Crissle West]

Kim is a maga as well. Kim is a Trump supporter as well. They're all trash. So I just don't. I could not believe y' all was pressing me behind this. Like, I really thought Beyonce had did something to, like, endorse Ivanka Trump. Girl, get out my face. I'm sure everybody with at least a $500,000 donation or whatever was allowed in the room that night. And it sounds like crazy, the number of performers they had. And I'm like, damn, this is. What the fuck is y' all doing? This is the. I mean, I don't really get it, but I think this is the organization he started when they was, like, Free Meek Mill, and he actually did something about that. I think it's that I know Robert Kraft is a part of it, and I know that the. The city shut down that casino that Jay Z wanted to put in Times Square. And I said, thank God for that, actually. Sorry, brother. We did not need no fucking casino in Times Square, girl. What do you mean, no?

[Kid Fury]

The Jay Z.

[Crissle West]

Absolutely not. Hell no. Keep that shit in Jersey, please. Fuck no. Fuck, no.

[Kid Fury]

That would have. Oh, my. Oh, my.

[Crissle West]

Talking about this is gonna be good for black people. Yeah. And the black people are you.

[Kid Fury]

Which one?

[Crissle West]

Him, his wife and children.

[Kid Fury]

Girl, I'll probably never touch Manhattan if they. If I live there and they put a computer.

[Crissle West]

There's enough going on in Times fucking Square, girl. There's enough going on. I already only go for Broadway shows because Times Square is hell. It's hell on earth. I only go for Broadway if they had put a casino in there. So I'm so glad that they didn't. But, yeah. Everybody calm your fucking pussies down. It was not that deep. Ain't nobody afraid to talk about Beyonce in the same picture as Ivanka Trump, girl. It was.

[Kid Fury]

I literally just forgot, like, it. But I forget things all the. Like, to your point, there are topics some weeks that I want to talk about, and I just forget because we rant. I go on tangents.

[Crissle West]

We go on tangents. Real bad. Adhd. Real bad. Real bad. So hope that satisfies you. Hope that that was the response you girls were looking for. And that will wrap up this week's episode of the Read. You can find us on social media at. This is the Reading. Our website is. This is the read.com. any other news from you or announcements or final words?

[Kid Fury]

Kipuri, everyone. Take care of yourselves. I will see you when I see you. I will be live on patreon.com kipuri this Saturday. And, yeah, we'll see you next week.

[Crissle West]

Bye, girls.

[Kid Fury]

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