Janet's Third Album

Summary

The Read: “Janet’s Third Album”

Episode Date: September 4, 2025
Hosts: Kid Fury & Crissle

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Overview

In this robust and fiercely funny episode, Kid Fury and Crissle return from Virgo Season birthday festivities to tackle hip-hop and pop culture’s latest drama, dissect audience questions, and deliver scorching reads. In classic Read fashion, no star is safe (unless their name is Beyoncé), as the pair break down Tamar Braxton’s drama, Cardi B’s courthouse antics, music industry feature snubs, August Alsina’s relationship controversy, and much more—all sprinkled with therapeutic doses of Black excellence, personal empathy, and sidesplitting laughter.

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Key Segments

1. Virgo Season & Black Excellence

[02:18 – 07:00]

• The Virgos are out in full force. Kid Fury marks his mom’s birthday while Crissle’s is on the horizon.
• Black Excellence:
  • Kid Fury shines the spotlight on Kendall Ray Johnson, Georgia’s youngest certified farmer, now 10, who received a full ride to South Carolina State University at age ten.
  • “They awarded her a full scholarship valued at $83,000. Man, those United States dollars.” – Kid Fury [04:37]
  • Kendall’s maturity and commitment to agriculture are celebrated as the future of Black excellence.
• The duo reflect on the rigors of real-life farming and living sustainably, then make a quick detour to Khalis’ fineness.

2. Trump, Memes, and Morbidity

[07:12 – 12:22]

• Crissle and Kid Fury discuss recent Trump death/illness memes and the public’s collective schadenfreude.
• Memes about Trump's health are dissected in relation to previous “Princess Kate is dead” conspiracies.
  • “I want him to rot.” – Crissle [12:16]
• The hosts joke about how New York will be celebrating in the streets whenever Trump passes, likening it to carnival season.

3. Hot Tops

[12:22 – 36:00]
Your weekly culture rundown—the messiest in the business.

a. Tamar Braxton’s Drama

[12:22 – 17:24]

• Tamar’s alarming posts about an accident, subsequent music drop, and fan skepticism over her intentions.
• Crissle empathizes: “It must be hard to deal with all your fans being like, ‘bitch, we don't believe you.’”
• Discussion around giving grace amidst Tamar’s dramatic timing.

b. Cardi B’s Courtroom Chaos

[17:27 – 29:44]

• Cardi B dodges a $24 million lawsuit, then immediately throws an object at a disrespectful reporter outside the courthouse—while pregnant.
• Both hosts criticize Cardi’s lack of self-restraint:
  • “You stay in court… when is the self-restraint course?” – Kid Fury [21:41]
  • They highlight the irony of Cardi telling Billboard she’s learned “to control my emotions,” only to instantly demonstrate the contrary.
• Discussion turns to the performativity of Cardi’s rumored pregnancy via TikTok teasers: “I’m not a big enough Cardi B fan to go back and forth with tricks and games.” – Kid Fury [26:04]

c. Karen Huger DUI & Return

• Quick acknowledgment of Real Housewives of Potomac star Karen Huger’s release from serving time for DUI, with advice: hire a driver next time.

d. Lil Yachty’s Meet & Greet Disparities

[34:04 – 36:32]

• Viral TikToks show Lil Yachty charming women and ignoring male fans at meet-and-greets.
  • “It’s insane anybody’s spending their hard-earned money to meet Lil Yachty.” – Kid Fury [34:27]
• Crissle points out: “Simple shit… paying money to meet Lil Yachty, it’s almost like just, which is what you get because why did you do that?”

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4. Music Industry Woes: Feature Snubs & Entitlement

[36:32 – 53:12]

a. Tyrese vs. Mary J. Blige

[36:32 – 41:15]

• Tyrese vents publicly after Mary J. Blige turns down his feature request.
• Crissle and Kid Fury mock Tyrese’s attempts to recruit the internet to pressure Mary:
  • “She heard this custom made song and said, no thank you.” – Crissle [38:27]
  • “No one… is going to pressure Mary J. Blige to do something.” – Kid Fury [38:31]

b. Young Thug vs. Kendrick Lamar

[41:15 – 53:12]

• Young Thug laments Kendrick’s refusal to collaborate, claiming Kendrick needs “street” features.
• The hosts eviscerate this logic:
  • “This man has 78 Grammys, 35 Pulitzer prizes… He’s not up at night because he hasn’t got Atlanta n****s.” – Kid Fury [45:14]
  • “You asking him for a feature, not the other way around.” – Crissle [45:57]
• Jabs at Thug’s “delusional” reasoning and the broader trend of artists broadcasting their feature rejections as personal slights.

5. August Alsina’s Relationship Controversy

[53:43 – 59:59]

• Discussion about August Alsina’s five-year relationship with 22-year-old Zoo, raising eyebrows due to their ages and the timeline.
  • “You’re saying that the two of y’all… started talking when you were, like, freshly 18 is the best.” – Kid Fury [55:01]
• Crissle and Kid Fury parse out age dynamics, grooming concerns, and why “just because it’s legal don’t make it not weird.”
• “A lot of people… look back at relationships like this and go, wow, I'm processing this differently than I did at the time.” – Kid Fury [58:00]

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Advice Segment: Listener Letters

[63:47 – 99:47]

• Carrie and Sandra Updates:
  – Carrie reflects on being “a ginormous idiot” for confronting a reckless driver while her kid was in the car.
  – Sandra clarifies her disappointment in her fiancé's proposal and vows to show appreciation instead.
• Letter 1 (Lex, Lesbian Bed Death):
  – Lex, a femme lesbian, laments her partner’s declining sexual interest.
  – The hosts counsel empathy: “Instead of telling her why she shouldn't feel the way she feels, try empathizing with the way she feels.” – Crissle [77:30] – Stress, body image, and financial worries are cited as real barriers (“Excuses and reasons are very different.”). – Kid Fury suggests, “Focus on meeting her emotional needs... because once they're addressed, you’ll get right back to it.” [74:04]
• Letter 2 (Janet, Friendship Snub):
  – Janet is hurt after her longtime friends ignore her son’s graduation, despite celebrating another’s in the group. – Both hosts agree Janet’s irritation is valid and speculate that the friends’ excuses (“I just like posts without reading them!”) feel disingenuous. – “You comment congratulations, nephew, without reading the post, bitch?” – Crissle [87:30] – Final advice: Bring it up once more, but if the bond isn’t reciprocated, consider distancing emotionally.

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The Read (Signature Rant Segment)

[101:12 – End]

• Kid Fury’s Reads:

  • James Gunn/Viola Davis & DC TV – Pleads for proper investment in Black women–led superhero shows—"Please don't waste that lady's time. Don't waste my time."
  • Jinkx Monsoon as Mystique Idea – Bemoans Marvel's lack of courage to cast a trans woman as Mystique, calling it a “perfect idea that will never happen.”
    • “Disney doesn’t have the balls. They don’t have the goddamn nerve.” – Kid Fury [109:04]
  • Latvian Tennis Player's Outburst – Defends Taylor Townsend, denounces tennis’s ongoing double standard and racism:
    • “Yelena Ostapenko, you lost… How you gonna try and speak to somebody else about class?” – [109:57]

• Crissle’s Reads:

  • The Texas Ding Dong Ditch Murder – Eviscerates grown men who murder children for childish pranks, underscores the need for self-control:
    • “Your big grown ass 42 years is supposed to be able to put some distance between how you feel and how you react.” – [117:17]
  • Rabies Vaccine Denial for Dogs – Scathingly drags anti-vaxxers applying their philosophy to dogs:
    • “There’s no such thing as an autistic dog! …You stupid bitches are declining to give your dog a mandatory vaccine because you think the dog might be a little weird.” – [125:09]
  • Netflix’s “Unknown Number: The High School Catfish”
    • Outlines the mother’s abuse and a system that allowed nearly no consequence:
      • “Who does this?...You have an obligation to not harm others, especially your own child.” [145:06]
    • Furious at production for platforming the perpetrator.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Crissle on Trump’s demise (Block Party):
  • “I'm having a festival and, baby, I already know Nueva York, we finna turn up.” [11:44]
• Kid Fury on Cardi B’s restraint:
  • “When is the self-restraint course?” [21:39]
• Crissle on friendship snubs:
  • “You comment congratulations, nephew, without reading the post, bitch?...So fuck my baby. And I'm stupid.” [87:30]
• Kid Fury on music feature entitlement:
  • “This man has 78 Grammys… Imagine him being up at night because he has not yet received the approval of street niggas and hoes.” [45:14]
• Crissle on self-control as the episode’s theme:
  • “Your big grown ass 42 years is supposed to be able to put some distance between how you feel and how you react.” [117:17]

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Final Thoughts

This episode of The Read is a classic showcase of Kid Fury and Crissle’s wit, cultural insight, and empathy. Beneath their shade-throwing humor lies a consistent call for empathy, self-control, and confronting the real reasons behind our actions—be it in music, relationships, or daily life.

Listen for:

• Savage but insightful hot takes.
• A masterclass in holding the culture and each other accountable.
• Hilarious banter and quotables for days.

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“Thank you for returning indeed, to The Read podcast, where we read, but we also listen.” —Kid Fury [02:18]

Transcript

[Kia Fury]

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[Crystal]

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[Kia Fury]

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[Crystal]

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[Kia Fury]

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[Crystal]

Well, howdy. My name is Millianne Crockett, hand makeup artist to the Donald J. Trump and I am Taylor Townsend and this is the Read. Thanks for coming back.

[Kia Fury]

Thank you for returning indeed to the Read podcast where we read, but we also listen. No, that's not okay. Welcome. It is September. It is. I think today's Virgo day. I think today's big Virgo day, ain't it?

[Crystal]

It will be, yeah. When this comes out. When this comes out. It will be indeed. Yeah.

[Kia Fury]

Lovely.

[Crystal]

It's the big Virgo's birthday. The Virgo's birthday.

[Kia Fury]

My mommy's birthday was yesterday.

[Crystal]

Oh.

[Kia Fury]

And Krystal's birthday is coming up too.

[Crystal]

Oh, yes, I do have a birthday. There's a lot going on. I mean, it's a very popular season for birthdays. Unfortunately, it's a bunch of people out here with the Virgo tag who don't deserve it. But yeah, it's a good time.

[Kia Fury]

Really?

[Crystal]

Oh yeah.

[Kia Fury]

I wonder if I know any.

[Crystal]

Well, none that I can think of. Off the top of my Head. But Virgo men tend to be a mess. So. Mom.

[Kia Fury]

Yeah. All the Virgos I'm thinking of are women.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kia Fury]

So I guess there's that.

[Crystal]

There is that.

[Kia Fury]

Let us do some black excellence. I'm going to give black excellence over to Kendall Ray Johnson, who four years ago earned title of Georgia's youngest certified farmer, breaking ground in agriculture ever since. Now 10 years old, Kendall's receiving a full ride scholarship into an HBCU at that. Okay. Yes. She most recently was part of a national college Tour with the U.S. department of Agriculture and she visited Southern California, so. Ah, I'm sorry. She visited South Carolina State University and blew everyone away because she's sickening, fierce, impressive, knowledgeable and focused. They awarded her a Full scholarship valued at 83 000. Man, those United States dollars.

[Crystal]

I know.

[Kia Fury]

That's right. In South Carolina State President Alexander Conyer said that we were genuinely inspired by Kendall Ray's focus and maturity. At 10 years old, college university is already secured for her. And baby, I know them greens are not gonna be playing no games.

[Crystal]

I mean tennis is grown with care. Wow, wow, wow.

[Kia Fury]

I love that.

[Crystal]

Yeah. Is she going now or is this for like when she graduates high school?

[Kia Fury]

Because maybe this is for when she's right.

[Crystal]

Okay. Because it sound like they was like, girl, come start growing immediately, please.

[Kia Fury]

You know, help. We can get every good for her.

[Crystal]

I know her parents are like, thank you God. Thank you, God. Our baby was like, yeah, let's figure out how to grow them berries and such because this is a huge relief to not have to worry about college costs.

[Kia Fury]

So girl, baby alive, man.

[Crystal]

Congrats.

[Kia Fury]

Well, shout out to this little princess in Georgia and. And raising cattle and doing all the cool farming. Farming's fun. I've had like when I was in the hospital for a bit, I was like, maybe I could just tap into my ancestry and run away and live off the fat of the land and. Cause I know how to do it.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kia Fury]

I mean for the most like, I know how to like tend. Right. I really didn't get into the business aspect of it. Didn't go into town and shit.

[Crystal]

Yeah. It is not something I would ever want to do.

[Kia Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

Full time farming and living off the land, as people say, that is some extremely backbreaking work. Tending to animals and crops and things like that. You got a lot of shit to work. I think a lot of people got.

[Kia Fury]

An idea of why is Khalis so fine? I'm just joking.

[Crystal]

I was about to say please.

[Kia Fury]

Khalif's been fine.

[Crystal]

I don't think she could not be fine, but.

[Kia Fury]

Yeah, right.

[Crystal]

This is very impressive for a 10 year old to take such an interest in something that you know everybody. We're always gonna need agriculture, people are always gonna need food.

[Kia Fury]

So when you wouldn't, you know it.

[Crystal]

Can you believe it? So, yeah, this is. This is great. Cause, baby, I have to look towards the future. Cause the people in charge of things right now, I think they know less about science and nutrition than this child does.

[Kia Fury]

I'll be a complete science, nutrition, spelling, arithmetic, grant. Like, I don't.

[Crystal]

I can't believe Trump is even alive. Child. I don't know what they had to.

[Kia Fury]

Shoot him for if Trump did. Was a great meme. I had a good time with it. I didn't believe it.

[Crystal]

No.

[Kia Fury]

I think that's why.

[Crystal]

Same, same. Cause y' all did the same thing with Princess. What's her name? William's wife. Remember when they thought Princess Kate was dead? No.

[Kia Fury]

Oh, Kate Middleton. Kate Middleton.

[Crystal]

Remember when they thought Kate Middleton was dead and she was like, I've just been in the cut cause I have cancer. Please mind your business. But for a while, y' all was like, nah, she's dead. That's a fake. Y' all done pulled out a replacement. A clone. You can't fool me. And it's like, I get it. We all want Trump to be dead. We do. We want it bad. But I couldn't let my hopes get that far up.

[Kia Fury]

Me neither.

[Crystal]

Right? See, I couldn't let my hopes get. Yeah. Because, you know, it looks like it's not too far away. Like, I don't see him finishing out. He's old.

[Kia Fury]

He's old and a horrible person.

[Crystal]

And a horrible person. So.

[Kia Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

And even in that press conference, he didn't look right. Like he. I get it though. I do.

[Kia Fury]

Cause nobody to celebrate harder than I do. Was it last week that you said that shit and made me laugh? That same day I went to the gym and one of my friends at the gym was like, I think that N is dying. No, like, I think he's like, right at the I bust. I laughed because I was like, my co host said the same thing. We all wanted crying.

[Crystal]

We all wanted it.

[Kia Fury]

Of course. It's a huge possibility. He's a terrible old bitch.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kia Fury]

Like it's only a matter of time.

[Crystal]

I didn't think he was dead, so.

[Kia Fury]

The meme was really fun. I didn't. Yeah, yeah, I think he's sick, but yeah, he's old and awful. Why wouldn't he be. Yeah, but the meme is he dead? Really was fun for me. Cause I'm like, of course he's not. But this is really funny because no one was like, what do we do? It was all just like, oh, well, that hand.

[Crystal]

Like, look at it. Yep. And it's turning colors. It's gonna fall off like it's J.D.

[Kia Fury]

Vance giving him the well built trip.

[Crystal]

And J.D. vance talking about he can't wait to be president. Excuse us. What do you mean by that? I want that bitch out of here bad, though. Y', all, y', all, please. I'm. I have a bottle of champagne waiting. Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Them girls said, and find the list or we'll put it out our damn selves. So please don't fucking play with us.

[Kia Fury]

That one lady, I think her name was like Haley or something. She stepped up to the mic who said, donald Trump. I'm a registered Republican. Not that that matters, because this isn't political. But I just want you to know from that perspective. I cordially invite you to come and speak with me so that you know this is not a hoax. This is real trauma.

[Crystal]

And we all know that that man just be saying shit. We all know good and goddamn well it's real. That's not even up for debate. Yeah, yeah.

[Kia Fury]

He said it was irrelevant.

[Crystal]

Okay? He said the same thing about the woman who was suing him for sexual assault too. And she won.

[Kia Fury]

So.

[Crystal]

All right, all right. Called her ugly and a lesbian. And all this. And all of that is inconsequential because you were absolute. You did what she said you did. So the rest of that matters. Not you.

[Kia Fury]

It just doesn't.

[Crystal]

Old decrepit bitch. I can't. You're the worst. I cannot wait for him to actually meet up.

[Kia Fury]

Like, not even, like, not even. Just like, hyperbolic extra. The worst. Like when you know, link farts. And I'm like, you are the worst. She's the best.

[Crystal]

Right?

[Kia Fury]

But you are like, you are actually like, on the list.

[Crystal]

You are the worst. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kia Fury]

Like, you. You are the worst. Right?

[Crystal]

Like, if Satan is keeping track, you're one of his faves. I have to believe you like Todd S Tier.

[Kia Fury]

You suck, child.

[Crystal]

Because the way the country is going to erupt, it's gonna be block parties in this bitch. I saw a post on Threads. I was like, I hope it happened on 9 11, so people whose birthday is on that day can have something to celebrate because it's been. I'm having a festival and, baby, I already Know Nueva York, we finna turn up. It's gonna be just like the West Indian Day Parade was.

[Kia Fury]

I was about to say Puerto Rican Day Parade. Same shit. Same shit.

[Crystal]

Cause it just happened over Labor Day weekend, baby. It's gonna be just like Parkway.

[Kia Fury]

All costumes, dancing.

[Crystal]

Niggas gonna be out there like it's Fett, it's Java. I don't know what you mean. Bitch ain't like niggas finna be grilling.

[Kia Fury]

On the sidewalks this carnival Nathan time.

[Crystal]

And I cannot wait. I'm. I don't care if that make me a bad person. That bitch is a worse person.

[Kia Fury]

I don't give a shit either.

[Crystal]

No, no, fuck him. I want him to rot.

[Kia Fury]

Okay, let's get into our hot tops this week. Where to begin? Okay, so I'll start with Tamar. Tamar, we spoke about this post that she put on Instagram that was really alarming. She said that she had an accident. She woke up after seeing me losing consciousness at home. Or her friend found her and meant she was bloody and she had to get like surgery. Something like, like her teeth got hurt and all of this other stuff. Not long after that, there was like a mini trailer that came out for, I guess a new EP that she has coming out.

[Crystal]

Right?

[Kia Fury]

Where like Mendeeti plays her love interest, I guess.

[Crystal]

So weird.

[Kia Fury]

Really random.

[Crystal]

It was no other I would have rather hired some random fine nigga than men. D okay, anyway, anyway.

[Kia Fury]

Or what's her name? Tae Young.

[Crystal]

Who?

[Kia Fury]

Don't they all live in Atlanta? That one tall light skinned lesbian that used to date Mimi.

[Crystal]

Her name is Ty.

[Kia Fury]

I think she played basketball. Isn't her name not Tae Young?

[Crystal]

Ty. Oh, Ty Young, Yes. I thought you were saying Tyya like Tyler. I'm like, who the fuck is Ty?

[Kia Fury]

Oh, no, Ty.

[Crystal]

Oh yeah, no, Ty Young. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kia Fury]

I would even just have been like, oh yeah, because this is for this album. This is my. It would be Mendy just felt random. Anyway, the timing of it made people start going, girl, this better not me. Have been some attendance at promoting music, bitch. It better not have been. It better not. She insists that she's not promoting anything, that she really did get hurt. She still isn't entirely sure what happened. She was like on live, I think, doing her makeup and talking about it and just being like, what? What am I, what kind of drama am I creating here? Like, I am still trying to figure this whole thing out. It's really scary. She starts getting really emotional and crying and even that people were like, well, I don't see any bruising or swelling on her face. So I'm a believer. And I'm like, well, she's putting makeup on.

[Crystal]

You might not see bruising. Especially if. Yeah, I mean. And how long ago was this fall? Maybe three weeks, over a week ago. Yeah. Cause we talk. We've been talking about on the show for the past two weeks. So I'm thinking the fall was three or four weeks ago.

[Kia Fury]

I think she. Yeah, yeah.

[Crystal]

And I did see.

[Kia Fury]

So you wouldn't see swelling for sure.

[Crystal]

You probably wouldn't see swelling. Right. And she probably didn't get on Instagram live with a completely bare face. I will give the benefit of the doubt.

[Kia Fury]

I'm. I'm holding out just like with that other one.

[Crystal]

Still believe it especially. Cause Tamar.

[Kia Fury]

Oh, she's pregnant.

[Crystal]

Did you see that TikTok she just posted today?

[Kia Fury]

I'll get. We're getting her. She's next.

[Crystal]

So I. I did see that Tamar did like a joint post with some. Some plastic surgeon, oral surgeon, something like that. Somebody who was like, I did. It was on her Instagram where this doctor was like, hi, I'm a such and such oral surgeon, plastic surgeon, doctor, and I fix teeth and Tamar is my client or something like that. So I'm hoping this person wouldn't put her professional name and reputation at risk for a stunt for Tamar Braxton. You know, like, if you. If you get on Instagram crying about how people don't believe you, which I understand how hurtful that could be, like. Like, damn, something happened to me. I'm having some sort of medical emergency. I don't even understand what's going on. And the first thing you say is, this better not be fake for prom.

[Kia Fury]

But if you release promo for an ep, like two days after you tell us about things, you have to know some people are gonna go, er, well.

[Crystal]

Especially when you're known to have a flair for the dramatic and the messy and the ridiculous.

[Kia Fury]

I didn't even consider that flair.

[Crystal]

If I were you. I probably would've put out that trailer or whatever and been like, so weird to be promoting shit when I still got a bloody mouth and stitches. But I do have an album coming out. I hope y' all support it. Even though I won't be a tour for a while while I finish healing or whatever. I probably would have said something like that just to get around. But, you know, I'm also not one of them people who gonna go type to Tamar and like, harass her about it. I'M over here, nowhere near Tamar, speaking my opinion, so.

[Kia Fury]

Right.

[Crystal]

I also don't consider it harmful necessarily for. But I, I, I do empathize with her because that must be hard to deal with all your fans being like, bitch, we don't believe you, or you better not be fucking playing with me. Like, okay, girl.

[Kia Fury]

We shall see.

[Crystal]

We shall.

[Kia Fury]

So buckle is the court said that.

[Crystal]

This girl. Please, please.

[Kia Fury]

I'm trying.

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kia Fury]

Okay. So, Susie. The court and the court ruled that in the case of assault on one Imani Ellis, a security guard at the office or office building for an OB GYN working with Cardi B the time that she was pregnant a few years ago with, I believe, culture.

[Crystal]

Yep.

[Kia Fury]

They went ahead and threw that on out and said that she was very much innocent and did not have to pay the $24 million in the civil lawsuit for assault against Imani Lewis. Hooray. But wait, child.

[Crystal]

God.

[Kia Fury]

She didn't touch the curb.

[Crystal]

Child. I couldn't believe this shit. I did not believe this shit. My nigga. I could not. There's no way I'm witnessing this.

[Kia Fury]

This planet is the funniest goddamn spec. It is a joke in the cosmos. It is hilarious. This is the funniest place in the universe. This lady did not touch the curb before she threw some shit at somebody else. I'm delighted. This was fierce. I can't believe it. So she's walking out in a very. Another cunt Y. Tim Burton esque.

[Crystal]

She always looks great.

[Kia Fury]

Always looks great. And, I mean, this lady's pregnant. Let's just. She's pregnant. This lady's pregnant. But, like, I personally don't give a shit, and I'm not surprised. So, like. Or invested. So some people are. One of them is an alleged reporter who decided to scream at her if the baby was Offset's or Stephon Diggs. Insiders are claiming that Offset is publicly bragging about getting you pregnant for the fourth time. Do you foresee any paternity issues with Stephan Diggs? Stop just suspecting me. I don't know if it was a pen. I don't know what this thing, whatever was in her hand, she tossed it in the direction. Yeah, and she tossed it in the direction of the reporter. And then she, you know, chastised him and said, you know, do you hear any women ask me questions like that? Why do you feel like, as a man, it's your place to ask me something like that? That's fucked up. You don't have no manners. Act like somebody raised you. The she leave yeah.

[Crystal]

Act like somebody raised you is funny coming from someone who just threw an ink pen at somebody else or asking her a question like, when are you gonna act like somebody raised you? You stay in court.

[Kia Fury]

You're wearing the same outfit. Like, minutes ago, girl, you dodged 24 M's.

[Crystal]

And you got another for this same shit. You stay in court, you are always getting sued.

[Kia Fury]

The lady suing you came out right behind you and said, well, baby, you better know that we're writing that appeal today. It'll be in the hands of the girlies today. I'll see her next week, of course. Lord God, let's see how that goes. You gonna write back into court with this same lady now who feels empowered because you could not help. Yeah, but throw something at somebody who, yes, asked you a shady and disrespectful question.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kia Fury]

But you have been cardi b now for a while. You caught a few of these cases. Now, when is the self restraint course? When is the where? When is the anger management session? When do you talk to the lady about controlling yourself if for nothing else but staying out the courthouse so you have to pay people millions of dollars. You just like, you couldn't even get in the car.

[Crystal]

I couldn't believe that shit. Like, girl, you are leaving the courthouse. The security was looking like, I know. You know what? I'm never not gonna have a job.

[Kia Fury]

I know. That security guard bent down to her and said, bitch, are you absolutely serious?

[Crystal]

That was her lawyers. Her lawyers were like, so you just want to keep. So we just. We can't work for nobody else. We just constantly gonna be putting out your fires. Girl, what are you doing?

[Kia Fury]

So her turn. He said, get in the fucking car. Shut up. Get in the car.

[Crystal]

You know how most people would just ignore that? While reporters are shouting whatever to them and cameras are flashing, they just kind of hide their head or walk out with their head high, either way. But they march towards their vehicle, get in and speed off somewhere. They literally don't talk to them. Reporters, journalists, nosy fans, whoever else that's sitting outside the courthouse waiting like, they got they shot. That's all that matters. Why did you even speak back? And you know what really killed me? So she just did an interview with Billboard. And they said, you know, it's been seven years since invasion of privacy. What has changed about you since then? How have you grown? And she said, I've learned to control my emotions and understand how life works and how to play chess better. You've learned to control your emotions. Are you. Are you sure? Because somebody just got on your nerves asking a question that you've read probably millions of times online. This question of like, are you pregnant? And if so, by who? You came across that in real life and immediately threw an ink pen at the person who asked it. But you've learned to control your emotions. That must be you. You must be controlling your emotions in private where can't nobody else see it, because in public you're acting like the exact same girl.

[Kia Fury]

Yeah, that's what really matters, honey.

[Crystal]

And it, I mean it especially as far as the courts are concerned. I, I'm, I, So she did a TikTok. Did you see this TikTok she did after court where she took off her blazer and she's very clearly wearing this padding?

[Kia Fury]

No.

[Crystal]

So she, so she did put out that TikTok yesterday and she's dancing to whatever her new song is. Bodega Barbie or whatever it's called.

[Kia Fury]

Not the Jay Z song.

[Crystal]

No, not Imaginary Players. It's some song she's teasing, I guess she's teasing some song from her new album. But she's obviously wearing some kind of square shaped padding under her outfit, which, so either she's pregnant, so. Right. My first thought is you are pregnant. You're just playing it up for the drama or to throw people off about how far along you are, whatever else. And you know, people are speculating. So you wore this padding knowing everybody was able to see it in this outfit. Like the way she got out the car when she was going to court, she, it was almost like she wanted to put her hand on her belly and she was waddling up in that bitch. So I think she wants to drive confusion about it. I think she wants to troll people about whether she's pregnant.

[Kia Fury]

Maybe she's not. And am I the drama is the thing, perhaps.

[Crystal]

Which like I already said, would be deeply annoying. But I didn't even consider that there was a third possibility of her not being pregnant and also not doing this for the sake of promoting an album, but doing it because she's just childish and thinks it's funny. That didn't even occur to me. But I, I think now, now I'm thinking like that might be it. I, I, but I'm, I'm tapping out.

[Kia Fury]

Because Cardi B, maybe it's a merging up too where it started as that and then someone could be was like, hey, what if we just make the album, call it Am I the Drama and do a whole thing with it.

[Crystal]

Sure. My thing is I'm not a big enough Cardi B fan to go back and forth with tricks and games. I don't like that. That's not funny to me.

[Kia Fury]

Yeah, me neither.

[Crystal]

I'm not entertained by it. Even if I was, I don't find it funny. So you can go over there, be a troll, be immature and act like a little kid all you want to. It's a free country. My point is you're 32 with three and a possible kids, and I don't. I'm not seeing the growth here. And so all the things I said about Nicki Minaj when I. When Nicki was acting like a fucking dumbass in every interaction with you and taunting you and trolling you and all that shit, you. All of that is applying to you as you are now in your 30s, a grown ass woman with multiple fucking kids and still acting like you did when you first came out. I'm not talking about showing your real personality, being a ghetto bitch, cussing in interviews, blah, blah. I don't care about none of that. I'm talking about your fucking antics. The shit that keeps you in court. I'm mildly annoyed by this Is she. Is she not pregnant thing for you to leave court after just getting away from a case and immediately opening yourself up for another case. When are you gonna grow up?

[Kia Fury]

Mind blowing. Mind blowing.

[Crystal]

Oh, my God.

[Kia Fury]

Mind blowing. If I was a driver, I wouldn't have took her home. I would have just dropped her.

[Crystal]

I'm taking you around.

[Kia Fury]

I would have dropped her off at the place.

[Crystal]

Bitch, you're out of your fucking mind. I don't know.

[Kia Fury]

Clearly home is not where the heart is. You need to go to the place. And in this billboard, you just dodged $24 million and threw a pen and stuff. You couldn't ignore a question without throwing.

[Crystal]

Some shit at them. Is this not felony ground? What are you doing? Sweetie?

[Kia Fury]

You need. This needs to be addressed today.

[Crystal]

You have to call that therapist back today and say, I'm actually not done. I thought I was done. I'm not done.

[Kia Fury]

In some cases, they will pencil you in somewhere, like if they have an emergency, or they will find somebody else if it's a practice, who might be available. You need to find like girl baby. $24 million you could have easily given to Imani and probably still will now. I mean, you couldn't get into the width. You couldn't hit the curb. You were barely on the sidewalk before you threw some shit at somebody else.

[Crystal]

But told Billboard how she's matured and grown up so much and she has better control over her emotions. Where. Where is she?

[Kia Fury]

The trauma.

[Crystal]

Yes.

[Kia Fury]

Also walking out the system is one Grandam, Karen Huger.

[Crystal]

Oh, God.

[Kia Fury]

After serving six months for a dui and you know, she's already in her fatal instinct drags and filming for the next season.

[Crystal]

Is she really?

[Kia Fury]

Yeah, they're already filming and she looks great.

[Crystal]

Oh, they were probably there when she left. When she left prison.

[Kia Fury]

Oh, yeah, 1,000% they filmed it.

[Crystal]

I was about to say she's done already, I think. Wasn't she supposed to be there for a year?

[Kia Fury]

Yeah, she did six months.

[Crystal]

Okay, well, I mean, I think we all know you either gotta stay away from the alcohol or give up them car keys.

[Kia Fury]

I do both. I mean, at this point, I would suggest both.

[Crystal]

Cause you like 65 and just got out of jail for DUI, sweetie. That's embarrassing. So.

[Kia Fury]

And rich, Hire a driver, stop drinking.

[Crystal]

Hire a driver and stop. Why not do both? But if you are going to drink, probably not on camera, you probably won't drink on camera. I don't blame you for not. But if you are a girl, please familiarize yourself with Uber Lyft, calling your husband, asking a friend for a ride. Anything but drinking and driving.

[Kia Fury]

You should take a break from drinking.

[Crystal]

You wait. Well, and that's what prison is. Hopefully. Hopefully you wasn't drinking prison.

[Kia Fury]

That's a good point.

[Crystal]

Hopefully you wasn't drinking none of that jail toilet water concoctions them niggas be coming up with behind bars. You don't need rehab. You was just in rehab. You should be sober.

[Kia Fury]

You should be clean from booty chubby.

[Crystal]

But this is so avoidable. Especially when you have money. DUI is so stupid. Especially when you have money.

[Kia Fury]

Yeah, it was a terrible thing.

[Crystal]

So avoidable. But okay. I mean, I will probably. I will probably tune in to Real Housewives of Potomac though, to see the storyline from here. So I know Andy Cohen somewhere rubbing his hands together, kicking his hair though.

[Kia Fury]

You know it on sniffies right now.

[Crystal]

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[Kia Fury]

Hey y'.

[Crystal]

All.

[Kia Fury]

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[Crystal]

Yep.

[Kia Fury]

Gives them a simple dab. Don't even look to these niggas. Speak to these niggas. And of course, most of the people who are like, well, what's the big deal? Are guys because they're like, is he supposed to make out with them? What do you want him to do? Okay, so two things for that, right? In my opinion. One, it's insane anybody's spending their hard earned money to meet lil Yarn.

[Crystal]

There you go. There you go.

[Kia Fury]

No, he does not need to make out with any of them or pull his dick out or do whatever Chris Brown does at his meeting group.

[Crystal]

No.

[Kia Fury]

But he could at the very least put his phone away, look them in the face and say, hello. Hello.

[Crystal]

Nice to meet you, man. Thanks for coming to the show. Blah, blah, blah. Hope you have a great time. Simple, simple.

[Kia Fury]

I appreciate that you reached down into your pockets in the middle of whatever the fuck this economy is and spent more money on top of your concert ticket to just be in my presence. High.

[Crystal]

Yeah, simple shit. This is not. I mean, I'm not surprised that he is blatantly being more warm to women because I would expect that out of most men. But the. The difference in like, he. He legit. People are walking up to him. He don't even look away from his phone. It's not even that the phone is in his hand. He's staring at that bitch and, like, staring at niggas up, not even looking at them. So, yeah, I. This seems ridiculous, but also what is even more ridiculous is paying money to meet and greet Lil Yachty. I can't believe y' all did that. It's almost like just. Which is what you get because why did you do that? But okay.

[Kia Fury]

Like, why would I ever. Girl, anyways, Little Yachty, no thanks.

[Crystal]

Not my dollars. I've met Beyonce. I can't. And I didn't have to pay for that, so.

[Kia Fury]

And that was free.

[Crystal]

And that was free. She flew me out. So I can't. I can't picture it. I can't picture spending probably hundreds to meet a nigga who won't even look up from his phone to say hello.

[Kia Fury]

I want to fight. Like, I might even go hold You?

[Crystal]

Yeah, I'm ready to go home. Let's. Let's sell these tickets real quick. I'm going home. Fuck this.

[Kia Fury]

Our good brother Tyrese, or as y' all call him, cry Reese, is very hurt.

[Crystal]

Oh, God.

[Kia Fury]

He's very hurt. Again, he can't lie as he talks about being snubbed by Mary J. Blige for a feature. He. Okay.

[Crystal]

Please.

[Kia Fury]

I'm not gonna laugh at people's misfortune today.

[Crystal]

Well, is it really a misfortune?

[Kia Fury]

And what difference would that be from any other week?

[Crystal]

Exactly.

[Kia Fury]

Tyrese's guest is working on a new album. He reached out to Mary J. Blige to get a feature. It sounds like he says two songs he wanted her on, and she said no. And he said it really hurt because he crafted one of these records with great care and specificity to be, like, perfect for Mary, like, a perfect Mary J. Blige song. And she said no. And so that hurt. And he decided to share it with us. Now, what we do about it, I don't know, but we know he was.

[Crystal]

Like, yeah, I want y' all to get this message out to my Capricorn sister. She's already received the message, and she said no.

[Kia Fury]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Crystal]

So what are we, anonymous people online? We supposed to just type to Mary, who's probably not even managing her socials. We supposed to type to her about it. Nigga, you called her. You got in touch with her people. She heard this custom made song and said, no, thank you.

[Kia Fury]

She's not going to feel bad after watching.

[Crystal]

She already said no.

[Kia Fury]

No one in the fan base of yours or hers is going to pressure Mary J. Blige to do something.

[Crystal]

We're not doing that. We're not doing that.

[Kia Fury]

You have to tell the person you're speaking to hourly about this.

[Crystal]

And.

[Kia Fury]

Cause they are gonna. They'll help unpack. I'm not gonna do nothing but make fun of you.

[Crystal]

Right? Because I can understand being like, oh, you know, I did want Mary for the album, but it didn't work out, something like that. So that was kind of disappointing. But blah, blah, blah, yes, I'm her, and I want y' all to get this message to her. It's like, so you want us to go harass her over something she already said she didn't want to do? Why?

[Kia Fury]

And the former. And the former would be like, the album's out. I'm doing Zane Low or whatever, and we're breaking down their albums or something. And we get to one song, and I'm like, oh, I really wanted Mary for this record. It didn't work out, which is a little disappointing, but I'm still proud of it. You know what I mean? You're talking about the album. It's just like when someone's talking about some movie and they're like, oh, yeah, this was gonna be Pedro Pascal. But he was busy, and so Zach Kreger just did that too. And low key, but fans did kind of give. I think they kind of gave Pedro a hard time with this because people are on Pedro's disc right now, but he was like, the strike happened. Pedro's schedule changed, and I had to recast the full movie. But he wasn't blaming him. He was just being like, you know, business, and that's, like, a part of it. Unfortunate, but you literally, from your living room or whatever was just like, let me tell on Mary J. Blige. And.

[Crystal]

And we don't. I don't.

[Kia Fury]

We just. In here.

[Crystal]

I actually did not even know Tyrese put an album out, so I'm learning so many things today. But I was for sure not gonna go harass one of our black legends because she already said no to working with Tyrese. Stupid ass. And, you know, don't Mary have, like. I don't. I don't want to say financial problems, but is she paying that ex husband some kind of alimony or spousal or some type of shit? Like, I imagine if she turned.

[Kia Fury]

I haven't heard of thought of Kendall in so long. I don't know what I forget.

[Crystal]

I think she still has to pay that nigga some money or something, which. Which tells me that even if Mary did need money, not bad enough to do a song with you. So if I was you, I would. I would really.

[Kia Fury]

It's never.

[Crystal]

I would. I think I would have kept that l close to my chest if I was you. But we are different people.

[Kia Fury]

Similar sentiment coming from one young thug who, on a phone recording, was heard criticizing Kendrick Lamar for not doing features with him. He kind of. He dresses it up in this at least 4 minute rant. As you know, Kendrick not working with anybody and not wanting to do features with niggas and blah, blah, blah. But it's very obvious that you reached out to Kendrick. He wanted to do Naomi. He says that part too. Kendrick, he didn't want to do a record with you, and you're tight about it. But the way that he went about describing this to me was just like, niggas are their own poison. You are so like, you bitch. What are you fucking Talking about? What are you talking about? He tried to say that, you know, you supposed to be, you know, blessing N. You keeping all the niggas to your. All the blessings to yourself. You supposed to be, you know, blessing all these other N. And that's why N will never be bigger than Drake ever in life. And so I don't know how old this commentary is, but not that. Yeah, it's not that old. But, you know. Oh, you. You know, if you did a song with me, if he did a song with Lil Baby or 21 Savage or MoneyBagg, yo, that's how you get the world to fuck with him. And I like a lot of money back yo songs. I've never heard a song and been like, oh, Moneybag, yo should have been on this. Or Kendrick Lamar should have been on this money bag, though song like. But he's like, oh, if you do songs with these people, that's how you get the world to with you. Not just the rat world. That's how you get players to with you and, you know, the bad hoes with you and. And I'm just listening to this poor dumbass.

[Crystal]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kia Fury]

Y' all really have to get help. You have to get real help. Because you a lot like cry. Reese are upset because someone with immense talent and immense respect in the industry passed up on collaborating with you. You've taken that very personal. When in fact, it doesn't need to be personal. People could just not want to. People can be busy. People can hear a song and just not like. Doesn't mean your mama should have never had you. Like, it's just. I don't.

[Crystal]

I mean, I'm not saying that, but. Okay. Right. That doesn't mean Kendrick is saying that.

[Kia Fury]

You crying about it is a waste of your own time and your own energy. Especially when the crying consists of pretty much deflections, all in all.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kia Fury]

Cause none of this shit that you make. You saying it makes any motherfucking sense. So you're saying that the streets don't fuck with him and real whatever. You need this person and that person and that person and that person and that person to be success, to be successful. But at the same time, you're saying he's keeping all these blessings to himself. He's supposed to be blessing other niggas.

[Crystal]

You're not helping N. Yeah, you got your M's up, but who else did you help? How is it that he needs your help but you asking for his help at the same time? Thug, how can that be?

[Kia Fury]

This man has 78 Grammys, 35 Pulitzer prizes. Bitch, he was at the birth of a ruby. And sir, this n know like you.

[Crystal]

A Super bowl solo, sold out tours.

[Kia Fury]

Like you imagine him being up at night because he has not yet received the approval of street niggas and hoes.

[Crystal]

Talking about the east Coast. Don't fuck with him. There is a bigger world outside of Atlanta and its surrounding areas.

[Kia Fury]

Also. That's not true.

[Crystal]

And do you think you're bigger than Kendrick? Again, it don't make sense for you to be like, yeah, you need me and niggas like me to get put on, get respect, blah blah, blah, blah, blah. You asking him for a feature, not the other way around.

[Kia Fury]

Girl, Kendrick will will get bigger live numbers than you.

[Crystal]

Kendrick's a lyricist. Kendrick is a good writer.

[Kia Fury]

That is why you wanted a feature with him.

[Crystal]

You niggas.

[Kia Fury]

I don't understand it.

[Crystal]

It's popular rap music, but is it well written, well rapped? I wouldn't say that. You like it. Sure, it's a bop, et cetera. It's not on Kendrick's level.

[Kia Fury]

I'm just not even to discredit whatever the fuck it is that you're making. But not every artist, especially a successful one who can have immense success and not have a feature on their record, they're not going to feel pressured or even likely be pressured to go make a a popcorn ass summer bop with whoever the so that they can be relevant. They don't have to. Jcole boasts about never doing features with niggas all the time. I don't. He doesn't have to. People listen to it regardless of if he's on a feature or not. And in fact, I don't want Kendrick to do a bunch of features with everybody.

[Crystal]

Same.

[Kia Fury]

I don't want or need him to do that. And you try to glorify Drake is be like, oh, niggas are never going to be over Drake. Everybody love Drake. That's why I'm questioning when this came out.

[Crystal]

Are you right? Are you. Who are you referring to here?

[Kia Fury]

Because the last year and a half would show that a lot of these same niggas you named don't like that. Man.

[Crystal]

I, I want to know which one of you messy bitches is paying to have these jail phone calls released. That's what I want to know.

[Kia Fury]

Cause first I'd love to know too.

[Crystal]

First it was the Gunna stuff and then it was the Migo stuff and the Gucci stuff. It's like you niggas are just dropping A new clip every other day. Make it like it's been a bad week for a week and a half, whatever. For Thug's image in that way. But yeah, I just. When I heard this, I was like, you're contradicting yourself in this little four minute clip. Like it cannot be both. A who has done a feature on Taylor Swift but needs you? How, How? Imagine how can that the entire recording academy was just talking about probably done this, probably a minor. Everybody, all them artists, producers, execs, everybody was just singing that nigga's hit right in front of him at the Grammys. Had the whole globe tapped in for the super bowl. And he needs you for so more niggas in Atlanta like him? I don't think so.

[Kia Fury]

Imagine him leaving the Grammys and getting embedded and being. And being unable to sleep because he's like, gotta get Atlanta nickers.

[Crystal]

I need that, though. Need a bed. I need that money back.

[Kia Fury]

Fan base.

[Crystal]

What am I gonna do without a little baby on a song? Oh, God, niggas are delusional.

[Kia Fury]

People can just say like one thing. He was like, who wouldn't wanna. Who would say no to a superstar? Like, why wouldn't you want to work with a superstar like that?

[Crystal]

A bigger star. A bigger star. You're a superstar in the Atlanta metro area and perhaps certain other pockets of the country. I'm not trying to take that away from you, but you act like you just can't fathom that somebody wouldn't want to work with you. Why not?

[Kia Fury]

And if they don't? So why does it have to. Why do we then have to take some measurement of you or that person or whatever else? This is a huge, huge industry. A lot of people recording music within it. Not every single one of them is gonna wanna work with Young Thug, regardless of how much of a superstar he is. Made me think of when Nicki Minaj pressed Tracy Chapman to clear a song or whatever. And Tracy was like, I don't give them games.

[Crystal]

The games you play. I don't and I don't know. You can send every last barb. I don't care.

[Kia Fury]

Bitch sure did. And that lady looked in each one of their nostrils and said, no, no, no, no, no, I don't care. No, I don't even have to be with nothing. Have nothing to do with that lady. God bless her. Yes, but no. This is my art. That is her art. They don't have to co mingle and mix and mesh just because. Oh, God bless you. Have a great day.

[Crystal]

I don't care. And Granted, Thug was not giving an interview, but every jail phone call everybody knows is recorded, and there is a reminder throughout the call that this bitch is being recorded. So do niggas not think? Do niggas not think?

[Kia Fury]

Because the nigga on the other line is, you know, interestingly, not saying a goddamn thing right.

[Crystal]

Which I love.

[Kia Fury]

When you niggas do, you hear somebody say some shit that you know is false, and y' all are so scared of each other that y' all just be like, yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kia Fury]

Yep. Especially if it's being recorded and you can use it for some messy shit later.

[Crystal]

Right.

[Kia Fury]

Anyway, Thug, you sound and look a goddamn fool. God bless all of this. And you've been out for a while now. I mean, and if you sneeze.

[Crystal]

If you sneeze wrong, you going right to jail. So I'm just not surprised that somebody wouldn't want to be associated.

[Kia Fury]

I'm not like, why wouldn't you just say? I feel Tyrese left it. I wanted this song. I didn't get it. I am sad he didn't try to have the goddamn nerve. Gall. The impudence.

[Crystal]

Oh, okay.

[Kia Fury]

The Grinch, when he is like. To be like, well, who does she think she is with her boots? And I'm a superstar. I was in the. I'm in the fast family. What family?

[Crystal]

I did the coke commercial. You say coke commercial? Niggas like me.

[Kia Fury]

Did you really think that you were gonna try to use some Debo hypnotization on us or. It was the other way around.

[Crystal]

It just. That didn't make sense. I. Oh, Thug. Okay.

[Kia Fury]

He even brought up Keem. Talk about some. You can't even put on, baby. Keem. You can't even. Keem sells out. Are you stupid? Are you, like. Are you stupid?

[Crystal]

We're talking about.

[Kia Fury]

Just because the only people you speak to are the same four rappers and the people who make the lemon pe. Down and honest.

[Crystal]

Right.

[Kia Fury]

Doesn't mean that, like, you do not have a scope of what's going on, sis. You don't. You don't. Keem is performing in arenas and stadiums in Paris and shit. Are you good?

[Crystal]

No.

[Kia Fury]

And he's a better rapper than you.

[Crystal]

The world is bigger than Atlanta, Georgia. I don't think young Thug Atlanta's big and influential.

[Kia Fury]

That's probably the problem. But that might be the issue. But it's so big, it's so fierce, it's so influential that maybe you forget.

[Crystal]

Yeah. But there is a whole wide world outside of Atlanta, and it doesn't revolve around you who don't want and moneybagg.

[Kia Fury]

You ain't from Atlanta.

[Crystal]

I am. And neither is thug.

[Kia Fury]

Neither is 21 Savage. He's from Yorkshire. He's from Essex, right?

[Crystal]

He in it, so get us out of here. What an idiot.

[Kia Fury]

21. 21 was talking about in it. Literally.

[Crystal]

Literally.

[Kia Fury]

Nigga, that was brilliant.

[Crystal]

God, what a dumbass.

[Kia Fury]

Did you hear about this August Alcina shit?

[Crystal]

No. Let me Google how bad is it?

[Kia Fury]

So August Alcine. It's bad. August. Alsina is dating this very handsome young man that I did not realize was as young as he is. Oh, God, he's 22 years old.

[Crystal]

How old is he?

[Kia Fury]

Found this out today. 32.

[Crystal]

Oh. Ooh. 33.

[Kia Fury]

Today's his birthday, right? I didn't know that. Yeah, he just spoke about Virgo, man. Here it is right here in the sauce. God will always show up.

[Crystal]

No, God is like, wait a second, wait a second. Not so that. Oh, and he got a baby for him.

[Kia Fury]

I read the ages thing first before I even got into what the story was about. And that's why I realized that this boy was so much younger than him and so young, you know? And I was like, oh, 3222 is interesting. August, baby. How about. He posted like a. I guess it was like an anniversary thing or maybe they're engaged or something.

[Crystal]

Whoa.

[Kia Fury]

And he put somewhere in the caption, five years in.

[Crystal]

We. We will have known each other for five years towards the end.

[Kia Fury]

That's what he's saying now. That's what the boyfriend is saying.

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kia Fury]

But he. August, commented that they were five years old.

[Crystal]

Okay, Got it.

[Kia Fury]

So niggas were like, okay, I don't know much about algebra.

[Crystal]

He just turned 18.

[Kia Fury]

But I know, like, so, yeah, the boyfriend did this long OL iOS press release where basically he said, look, I don't speak much because I don't do the Internet shit. But for clarity, I was of age when we met. When we started talking, and it was more than five. It was five years of us knowing each other or something like that. Whatever. Like, basically, when I finished reading this, what I got from it is you're saying that the two of y' all came together, first started talking when you were, like, freshly 18 is the best, right? That it would be.

[Crystal]

Yes.

[Kia Fury]

And then August was, what, 28.

[Crystal]

Oh. Oh, boy.

[Kia Fury]

Because again, before the question of was this illegal? Came into my view, I was like, ooh, that age gap is something.

[Crystal]

It's kind of strange, right? Right.

[Kia Fury]

I mean, so that's kind of where they're at.

[Crystal]

I try to let grown people do what they want to do because Lord knows every time I talk about age gap, she'll tell me I'm too strict. So.

[Kia Fury]

Too strict.

[Crystal]

Too strict? Yes. That I'm too strict. That I am. As long as everybody involved is over 18, then everybody is grown and it's like, girl. Right? And that's immediately where y' all lose me. I think 22 and 32 is inappropriate, especially if y' all have been together for five fucking years. But holy fuck, if you gonna get up here and both of y' all are on different. I'm looking at vibes right up of it, and it look like August is on Twitter talking about. Zoo lied to me about how old he was when we first clicked up.

[Kia Fury]

Yeah, he did say that.

[Crystal]

Granted, he was over 18.

[Kia Fury]

He was like. But me saying that would have had to. Would be. Would require me to throw my man under the bus. I wasn't gonna say that. Or blah, blah, blah. But you said five years in, right?

[Crystal]

So. So then n Be so desperate to project their unhappiness and spin a narrative is truly a reflection of the deeply unhealed inner child. You're the one dating someone who's 22 years old, but you talking about our inner child. My inner child, our inner children. That's. It's just. The math is looking funny, girl. But I don't know neither one of you niggas, so.

[Kia Fury]

All I can say is this, right?

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kia Fury]

It is very, very common that although this is not legal and plenty people can say, oh, they're both over 18. They're grown. Let people do whatever they want to. Sure. Nobody's saying that they can't. Many people in situations like this who are the 22 year old later in life look back at the relationship and go, oh, that one.

[Crystal]

Right. I was groomed. Oh, I was coerced. Oh, I didn't.

[Kia Fury]

It doesn't have to have had violent incidents. It doesn't have had to have had, like, some really messy, crazy ending or breakup to it. But a lot of people when they get older, look back at relationships like this and go, wow, I'm processing this differently than I did at the time. Because at the time, I had an 18 year old or a 22 year old brain that was still working on it.

[Crystal]

Right.

[Kia Fury]

I just felt. I don't understand how y' all are missing it. That's the point that we be trying to make.

[Crystal]

But, well, you know, and hopefully when. What's his name? Zah. Hopefully when he. Zoo.

[Kia Fury]

When I mean, I wish it was Zah.

[Crystal]

Hopefully when you're 42, you'll be like, yeah, that was fully a relationship that I was grown and knew what I was doing, blah blah, blah. Like, hopefully you won't look back on it and be like, damn, what was I doing?

[Kia Fury]

Yeah, I hope not.

[Crystal]

But.

[Kia Fury]

But that's what a lot of people's concern is when they see things and express it. Sure, some people just mouth and off for, you know, shade room antics and stuff, but a lot of people who do have something to say about these relationships that someone consider crystal strict forgotten aren't being strict as much as they're saying, hey girl, why would a grown ass, motherfucking, almost 30 year old nigga be in your 18 year old face especially?

[Crystal]

Cause the older you are, the less I care.

[Kia Fury]

You know, I don't.

[Crystal]

42 and 32, I would not be blinking. You can do what you want to do.

[Kia Fury]

Yes.

[Crystal]

35, 45, 55, 65, et cetera, et cetera.

[Kia Fury]

Deion Sanders and Karrueche.

[Crystal]

Deion Sanders and Karrueche. I don't understand how she's licking them wrinkled balls, but if she wants to.

[Kia Fury]

Oh, they're all a little wrinkly.

[Crystal]

Right, right. Somebody heard that and said, which balls are smooth, bitch.

[Kia Fury]

Yeah, bitch.

[Crystal]

Whatever. Whatever, bro. I wouldn't have told nobody that he lied to me about how old he was when we got together, but he was still over 18, so why the fuck did he lie? Something seems off here, girls, but all right, y' all fucking got.

[Kia Fury]

Yeah, that doesn't help either.

[Crystal]

It does not.

[Kia Fury]

I hope that they are having a good gay time over there and everyone is safe.

[Crystal]

Yeah, I hope it is a healthy dynamic. I don't have high hopes, but I do hope it.

[Kia Fury]

Okay, that's a read. This I haven't really watched yet. It's Drake talking about his abs. And that's it. Okay, I'm done.

[Crystal]

Okay. Amen. Thank God.

[Kia Fury]

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[Crystal]

Hey guys. Over at Metro, they've got your back. They've lowered their prices and they're giving you a five year price guarantee on talk, text and data. Now listen, I know like y' all know like my mama, cousins and everybody else knows that the prices lately they have been through the roof. I thought we were all worried about grocery prices a few months ago. Girl, everything has gotten worse as far as I'm concerned. At the gas pump, grocery store, the rent's going up, the bus tickets, clothes, everything is going up. It would be nice if prices went down for a change. Metro said, I got you. That ain't no problem. One line 20% lower. Family plans also lowered and you get a free 5G phone, all with no ID required and no activation fees. So stop by your neighborhood Metro store, visit metroby t-mobile.com or call to find out about their amazing offers. That's right, bring your number. Not available if currently at T Mobile or with Metro in the past 180 days. Guarantee covers monthly price of on network, Talk, text and 5G data for customers activating on an eligible plan. Exclusions apply. Details metro by t-mobile.com.

[Kia Fury]

All right folks, we're back and it's time for your mess.

[Crystal]

Lord. Yes it is. Send your letters to asktheread gmail.com we may read them aloud on the show. We do have a couple of updates this week. One is from Carrie if you'll remember. A few weeks ago Carrie wrote to us about how somebody flipped off her daughter honked the horn and so she followed that woman into her driveway and had a confrontation and wanted to know if she was being a Karen, what she got. So Carrie wrote back and said oh child, almost reread the letter. Hi again. Thanks for choosing my letter. First, I fully agree with your read. I was an idiot, a ginormous idiot that totally forgot everything. I have told my daughters for years about being a defensive driver and to not flip people the bird or curse at them because they can literally shoot you through that window while driving away.

[Kia Fury]

Well, I Mean, you were.

[Crystal]

In a way, though. I'm glad to hear that. What I thought I did wrong, which was being a Karen, was not what you guys thought I did wrong, which was, of course, being reckless. However, your read. She keeps calling it a read, which is so funny cause we were just answering the question.

[Kia Fury]

But yeah, we didn't read you, but I guess we did.

[Crystal]

However, your read made me realize that even when I wrote the letter, I was still in my feelings and hadn't fully acknowledged how stupid I was and how different the confrontation could have gone. Thank you again for choosing to read this and for sure, from now on, my lesson is learned. I will control my big feelings for the sake of my kids and do better next time. Thank you so much. I love your show, Carrie. Love to hear that, Carrie. I was just about to say this message of controlling your big feelings for the sake of your kids. Passed that along to one felt Khalees. She could really use it. We also have another update from Still Astonished Sandra. Sandra wrote us last week about the fiance and the proposal, and it was not the proposal she wanted. Bitch.

[Kia Fury]

Fierce.

[Crystal]

And Sandra said.

[Kia Fury]

Fierce. Sandra said, I hope she hates us.

[Crystal]

I think I understand why y' all call it the read. Cause y' all read me the filth.

[Kia Fury]

Sure did.

[Crystal]

Anyway, after listening to y' all and reading some comments, Girl, never read the comments.

[Kia Fury]

Oh, you shouldn't have done that.

[Crystal]

And reading some. I just want to clear some things up. I should have worded the whole Covid thing better. That was my bad. But I meant that our first date was during the peak of COVID in 2020, so everything was closed. It wasn't ideal, but we made it work. When he proposed in 2022, pretty much everything was back open, so there were a lot more places he could have proposed. Also, this was my first time paying rent, so I had some weeks where I was looking like, the struggle. But I at least get my hair and nails done once every other month. And I dress up when we go out to dinner. So I was hoping he'd do it when my hair and nails were freshly done after a night out or something. And I do have a job. Dang. Cause I was like, you don't get to make. You don't get to ask questions when you don't have a job. She was like, bitch, I do. Leave me alone. He's just paying the bills so I can focus on our business. Because when I have too much going on at once, I tend to get exhausted quickly. I do feel bad for metaphorically beating him up about this, so I think I'll surprise him for our five year anniversary with a trip. Thanks again for what y' all said. I needed to hear it, Sandra.

[Kia Fury]

Yeah, you did.

[Crystal]

All right. Well, I'm so glad, girly pops, both of y', all, actually, that you got something out of us being, you know, we may not always be nice, but we are kind and we do want the best.

[Kia Fury]

I wouldn't say for y', all, Crystal is usually I'm.

[Crystal]

Usually I may not say it in the. The sweetest way, but I'm.

[Kia Fury]

I'm 9.9.

[Crystal]

I'm being kind about it instead of calling you, you know, like a. Not that I feel this way about y', all, but, you know, it's not us going over here and be like, you stupid, worthless. Why would you. Blah, blah, like, we don't do that.

[Kia Fury]

Yeah, I'm not gonna.

[Crystal]

We save that for your men, your boyfriends, your baby daddies, your husbands, right?

[Kia Fury]

About half the time y' all going through it.

[Crystal]

Men have all the right in the world to be like, nah, that bitch is not. Yeah, correct, correct. I'm much stricter on niggas every time, so. Oh, well, I gotta be. I have to make up for the slack. Cause you bitches not doing it.

[Kia Fury]

You're not.

[Crystal]

Thanks for the update, girly pops. Ahmad, you know we are ever waiting on you, baby. But anyway, let's get to when I tell you every time I check the inbox, I'm like, ahmad, is it you? Is it you?

[Kia Fury]

Is it you? I half hate the chicken.

[Crystal]

I need to know so bad, Ahmad. Okay, our first letter this week comes from Lex, who says, Dear Chris on Kia Fury. I'm a 27 year old femme lesbian and I've been dating my 29 year old stud girlfriend for almost 3 years. We started off as long distance friends, which led to us dating and eventually moving in together about six months into our relationship. It was a bit fast for the both of us, but it felt right. So like most young lesbians, we u hauled.

[Kia Fury]

It was real slow for lesbians.

[Crystal]

I'm sure for the most part, us living together has been very good. It's not perfect, and we definitely have our differences, but we have so much fun together, and I couldn't picture my life without her. My issue is that we no longer have sex. As of today, we've gone two months without having sex. And it's not the first time that we've gone weeks without sexual intimacy. When we first started dating, we both had very high sex drives before Moving in together, we'd have FaceTime sessions, always had sex whenever we visited each other, and when we moved in together, it was multiple times a week. Slowly it has diminished and I'm getting extremely frustrated. I've expressed my concern on this topic multiple times. She put that in caps throughout these last few months. And she said she'd try to initiate more, but then follows up with lots of excuses like she's too tired for sex, which is understanding since her job is understandable since her job is demanding. But even on our days off, there's no effort. She also says she's too broke right now to think about sex, which I don't understand at all, and that she's gained weight and doesn't feel attractive, which I kind of understand but struggle to accept since I still find her extremely attractive. Those are just some of her many excuses. At this point, it's starting to feel like she's just not interested in me anymore, even though she's always complimenting me and is very affectionate in other ways. I'm trying to be an understanding and patient partner, but I would be lying if I said my patience isn't wearing thin. It's been a serious problem for almost a year and I feel like we're entering the lesbian bed death stage and I hate it. I love her so much and I want to respect her space and feelings, but I desperately need to get by my girlfriend.

[Kia Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

Yeah. What do y' all think I should do? Am I being too impatient? Any advice is appreciated, by the way. Thank you guys so, so much for bringing light and laughter to this world. Y' all have kept me sane for the last nine years. And when I was severely depressed and lonely, your voices are what carried me through. I am forever grateful and love you both so much. Thanks. Love you guys. Lex, how sweet.

[Kia Fury]

Okay, thank you so much. Lex, quick question. Lesbian bed death sentence, You've not heard of it? Can you help?

[Crystal]

I almost said you've never heard of lesbian bed death, but why would you have? So it is this, this concept that after a while, a year or two, something like that, lesbians just really stop having sex. And the longer you go on, the more you just don't have sex. And I don't. I don't know that that's really a lesbian thing as much as it is a long term partnership thing. Like I think most people fuck, right? But. So I love that you haven't heard this, but it's something that I have heard discussed many, many times in my life. I just don't I don't know that that's a real thing for lesbians specifically. But your problem.

[Kia Fury]

I understand. Yeah, yeah. Well, yeah, I can. I understand your sentiment. I would be incredibly sexually frustrated, especially if we're living together now. So we're together all the time and she is affectionate and compliments you in other ways. So it's not like you feel nothing from this person. You just need to get fud.

[Crystal]

Straight like that.

[Kia Fury]

I think that just based on what I was listening to, maybe you should take back. Take a couple steps back from some assumptions or like things that are a bit selfish. Because some of these could sound like excuses to you. And it could be because they don't make no damn sense like you. Or they don't make no sense to you, Right? Like you saying that she said that she's gained some weight and so she doesn't feel as attractive or whatever. And that impacts her willingness or desire to have sex. But like, you don't get it. Cause you still think she's fine as fuck. Well, great, that's awesome. But it's not going to decide if and when I initiate or how I feel. It is my mind, my body, my perception. And she can be over the moon that you still think she's sexy, but it's gonna probably in her mind affect, even if you do have sex, affect her efficiency, for lack of a better term. Or how, you know what I mean? Like, she's not gonna be able to fuck your brains out if she is feeling in her mind. She doesn't feel confident. I would say the same thing about her saying that she's broke and that affecting you too. Like, that might not make sense to you. Maybe you ain't broke, maybe you ain't been broke or ain't been broke in a while. Yeah, but that's another thing. Like, and this is a stud.

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kia Fury]

She wants to lay that strap down. But maybe instead of hyper focusing on the lack of sex right now, you should focus on meeting her emotional needs or helping her find a professional that can help her meet her emotional needs. Because I don't. Obviously, I don't think that her being broke or heavier should stand in the way of y' all having a sex. A sex life. Obviously, I think you can and should be having sex regularly if it sounds like everything else has been going well. But I just want you to understand that the things you're describing could be real hurdles. And I think you should address them with care so you can get to having sex. You ain't gotta lose no weight or to hit the lotto or there's nothing for you to get fucked up. But I think you want to talk to those things and be really considerate with her about those things. And if not you, then someone else. Because once they're addressed. Yeah, I think you'll get right back to it. Low. Yeah, I think we'll get right back to it.

[Crystal]

Yeah. If I think you really hit the nail on the head with a lot of this, especially the. You're calling, Lex, you're, you're calling the examples that you gave here. Except excuses. When I think they're reasons. Yeah, these are because excuses. This is going to come up later during my read. But excuses and reasons are very different. Excuses are meant to excuse whatever has been said or done. They're meant to take away the blame and be like, oh, don't be mad at me, blah, blah. Whereas reasons are such and such has happened and this is why it happened. Not saying anybody is at fault, but this is what it is. Being too tired for sex because her job is very demanding. And you talking about. But even on our days off, there's no effort, okay. Stress from work don't just go away when people clock out. If she has a very demanding, high stress job, she's probably going to carry that stress with her throughout the week, regardless. Being too broke to have sex, it may be again, stress about finances. Stress has a huge impact on sex drive for a lot of people. And then the issue with gaining weight and not feeling attractive, like you said, another huge thing that can get in the way. So if, if y' all had come to me when I was a practicing therapist to talk to me about this, I would have, I would have listened to these reasons and I would have probably tried to get you, Lex, to not take them personally because you're hearing them and you're deciding that all these really mean is that she's not interested in you.

[Kia Fury]

And yeah.

[Crystal]

Even though she's constantly complimenting you and trying to be affectionate in other ways. When intimacy is not present in the bedroom, increase it outside of the bedroom more. Not platonic obviously, but you know, more hand holding, more kisses, more physical closeness. And instead of being like, well, I don't understand why you don't like your body no more like, I still think you sexy. Come fuck me. Maybe try empathizing with her.

[Kia Fury]

Come on, man.

[Crystal]

It's not, and I probably should have said this first, but don't underestimate the reality that most people's sex lives drop off when they live Together. Like, yeah. When y' all first moved in together, you was multiple times a week. Cause y' all went from long distance to living together. You was getting whatever the strap down, right? Whatever y' all doing, riding, etc, you was getting it, like, once every couple of months. And then it was all of a sudden, they're on demand 24 7. So, yeah, y' all was, like, crazy at first. It. We don't even really. I think clinically it's not even a problem as long as you're having sex at least once a week. It might even be every two weeks, something like that. I think it's not considered a problem unless you're having sex 12 or fewer times a year. So it could be once a month. So, I mean, it's a problem for you, and that's understandable. I'm not saying it shouldn't be, but instead of telling her why she shouldn't feel the way she feels, try empathizing with the way she feels.

[Kia Fury]

Yeah. And not taking it personal.

[Crystal]

And not taking part taking it personally because she. You. You need to hold on to the belief that your partner would love to have a high sex drive again. She don't want to be stressed at work and carrying that shit at home. She wishes the stress went away as soon as she got in the car and came back home. She don't want to be worried about money. She don't want to be feeling bad about herself because of her body. Right. And what, does she work for the CDC or something? Because I could see why she would be stressed. I really could understand. Does she work for the feds? Cause look at who's in charge, girl. Like, look at the state of the world. It's a lot.

[Kia Fury]

It really is any industry.

[Crystal]

Any industry.

[Kia Fury]

It's kind of like anything at this point who ain't tired, bitch.

[Crystal]

Right? So maybe just, you know, okay, I understand. You know, I've gained weight before and felt a little uncomfortable in my body. Is there anything I can do to make you more comfortable? Would it help, you know, if I touched you certain places or didn't touch you some places? Like, a little empathy for how she's feeling instead of, I need to get fucked can really go a long way.

[Kia Fury]

I would be such a serious point. I'm like, I would do the stupid rom com shit, even though I don't care for rom coms. Where it would be like, you come home from work one day and I'm just fully nude with, like, body paint. And I'm like, I've planned a Date first. We're gonna paint hearts on our Instagram. I don't know. I'm in a rubble.

[Crystal]

You. Are you just saying something?

[Kia Fury]

Spitballing.

[Crystal]

You are.

[Kia Fury]

But I would just, like, be like, aw, you feel this way, I'm gonna come up with some cheesy ass dumb shit to just let you know that you're still fire. I'm talking about when we move in. It's a year and things, you know, sex starts to dwindle. I'm buying costumes. Yeah, you're showing up and I'm. I'm dressed like Django.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kia Fury]

And I'm not unchained.

[Crystal]

All right, so. So I'm. I'm gonna just come right back in here and wrap this up by saying, I would. I would not. I would not set myself up to be disappointed by being butt naked with some body paint when she come home. Cause then you're putting pressure on her. It's clear what you're trying to do.

[Kia Fury]

That was not a suggestion. I was just talking about me.

[Crystal]

Bring it up. I know. That's why I said, let me say something for somebody to be like, oh, yeah, write that down. Don't write that down. Bring it up outside of a sexual context. Don't be initiating sex and get rejected and then be like, okay, let's talk about it. Like, no, let's talk about it when sex is.

[Kia Fury]

Not sex. No, not sex. I didn't mean it like. I didn't mean nude for sex. I meant this is my body and this is your. I wouldn't even be an initiation of sex as much as it is just us looking at each other in our bodies and then finding a cute way with paint to just go, and here's a heart on my belly and that birthmark that I hate. And then after that, we wash it off and fucking, I don't know, watch Alien Earth. Yeah, I wasn't talking about trying to initiate sex.

[Crystal]

Right.

[Kia Fury]

Just thinking of stupid, random acts of kindness.

[Crystal]

Yeah, I get that. I just don't think somebody who's feeling bad about their bodies is gonna want to strip naked and paint stars and stripes all over themselves. But, yeah, that's a suggestion. I would maybe wait till she got home from work, and then, like, in the evening or something, let's go take a stroll around the neighborhood. That helps relieve stress and it gets us outside of the house. We can start talking. You know, a lot of people are able to process things better while they're moving, so, like, a nice, relaxing walk, things like that, that you can do together. Intimacy. You can increase intimacy in so many ways. But if you approach it with curiosity instead of, well, why you don't want me no more, it's a lot more likely that you all are able to to come around and find something that and y' all can get back into a sexual groove. But don't disturb. Don't dismiss the importance of like, stress and finances and weight. Like, you listed three very popular reasons why people sex drive. Girl, that's like the top three. So. Okay. Good luck, baby. Let us know how it goes. Hmm. What what to do here. You know what? Let's let's talk to. Let's talk to Janet. Janet says hi. Crystal and Kufuri. I need to know if I'm overreacting. There's a friend group I've had since junior high and we've been girls for over 30 years. We all grew up together and we've been there for each other through all kinds of life experiences. My son graduated from college last year and I made several posts on Facebook with all the graduation information just so all of our friends and family could get the same info at the same time. However, no one in my friend group came. My son has a stepbrother who also graduated from college last year, so my son's father and his wife had a dual graduation party for them both. I mentioned to my friends that they were welcome to come, but none of them did. I made a post on Facebook shortly after my son graduated letting people know that if they wanted to bless him with a card or anything, they could inbox me for my address and I included his cash app info if they wanted to give him something directly, but he never received anything from any of my friends. I brushed it off as I often do, but I was a little hurt. I know that giving a graduation gift is not mandatory, but I did think close friends would have given a little something considering they did not come to his ceremony or party. Especially since a few years ago one of my friend's sons also graduated from college and we all flew oh graduated from college in Atlanta and we all flew there to celebrate him and chipped in on a group gift. Fast forward to this year and we were having a little friend spat and we encouraged each other to bring up anything that was bothering us or anything we had been holding on to since we were sharing. Since we were sharing feelings, I took it upon myself to mention that I did feel away about nobody coming to my son's graduation or his party or giving him a gift. They told me that since I did not invite them personally through text or mail. They didn't know. When I mentioned the several posts I wrote on Facebook that they all liked and even commented on with a congratulations nephew. They tell me that they like all kind of posts on Facebook without reading them. That just pissed me off even more than them not coming. They did apologize and said they would and said for me to send them my son's cash app information and said that they would send him something. That was three weeks ago and still nobody has sent him anything. And it's clearly not because of finances because during this time they've been in the group chat talking about going to get drinks, going to get dinner, going to a show and other outings. Now let me be clear. It's not about the money for my son especially. Cause it's already been over a year. It's about the gesture when we celebrated another friend's son. It's hurtful that my son gets paid thus for the exact same accomplishment. I'm trying to learn that not everybody is going to do things like I would, but if someone told me they were hurt by this, I would try to rectify it as soon as possible. Am I doing too much by being mad? I've given everyone the silent treatment because I'm just irritated and I don't feel like talking to nobody. Am I being petty? Is this deep enough to throw away a 30 year friendship? Should I mention it again? It's obviously already been disregarded once. Do I need to keep bringing it up or just let it go? What do y' all think? Love y' all and the show. Been listening since day one. Be blessed. Janet. Janet, thank you for listening since day one. That's a long time.

[Kia Fury]

Yeah, 600 some odd episodes you've been locked in.

[Crystal]

Damn.

[Kia Fury]

What do you think?

[Crystal]

Yo? Baby was like five when we started this show. That's fucking crazy.

[Kia Fury]

We don't have to keep doing that.

[Crystal]

I just did the math real quick. Like, wait a minute. Oh, what do I think? Well, I would be. I think the irritation here is completely understandable. Especially given somebody else's kid graduated and it was a whole big thing. But your kid, it was dust and nobody gave a shit. That would make me feel like, oh, it's me that y' all don't like. It's me y' all don't fuck with. Right? You. Man, this is rough because.

[Kia Fury]

And then it was brought up in an excellent setting, literally when it was.

[Crystal]

Like, hey, everybody, you know, we've been beefing, We've been having little arguments here. And there. So let's just all get everything off our chest. You said something they. They had.

[Kia Fury]

It sounds like they played in your face to me.

[Crystal]

I like Facebook posts all the time. Without reading them. I. I mean, okay.

[Kia Fury]

And comment. Congrats, nephew, but I don't know what I'm talking about.

[Crystal]

You don't comment. Congratulations, nephew. Without reading the post, bitch. Like you. Because how else would you have known to write the post?

[Kia Fury]

So fuck my baby. And I'm stupid. That's what you're saying.

[Crystal]

So I maybe would not go that far. However, being mad about it, I think is completely understandable. And I would, as much as I would try to tell you not to take it personally, I absolutely would take it personally. Like this. It's. It's hard to come to any other conclusion other than it's just something about me or my son. Y' all don't give up. Like, maybe. I don't know. Well, hold on. Yes, I do. A friend group you've had since junior high school. Y' all all grew up together. Okay, so it's not like you joined the friend group 10 years in.

[Kia Fury]

These are old friends, right?

[Crystal]

Cause I was about to say, maybe they're closer to this other girl because she's been friends with them longer. No, y' all been friends since y' all were kids.

[Kia Fury]

There is something unsaid, and the time was brought for it to be said. No, it wasn't even directed at anything or incident happened. And so it was like, friend group got together. Let's put anything on the table. Tight baddies, Real Housewives of Tea. And you bring this thing up, and the girls are trying to act like they don't know what you're talking about. So it's like something's going on and you don't want to say what it is. I would. I would. I'd like to not take it personally, but it would be very difficult not to.

[Crystal]

I agree.

[Kia Fury]

Before that, and once I bring it up, no one's even like, holy shit. I completely see why you would feel that way, but, girl, no. It's like, oh, no. We like shit all the time and leave comments that say, congrats, nephew, all the time. Didn't you know it's 2025? Everyone says nephew.

[Crystal]

That's what don't make sense. Like, I can understand, you know, the Facebook algorithm. Maybe you just didn't see her posts or even I like posts without reading them all the way. However, you don't comment, and then you don't write a comment, and then Feel like you could say, oh, well, I didn't know, girl. No, I'm sorry. It slipped my mind. I didn't have no money when he graduated. Blah, blah, blah. They did apologize, so that was good. They said, send him his. Send us his cash app. And you did. The fact that nobody sent him anything. Why. So why even ask for the Cash app if y' all wasn't gonna send nothing?

[Kia Fury]

Did you fuck somebody's man? And everybody agreed to get over it, but they didn't, like, what. What's tea?

[Crystal]

Right? Cause everybody flew to Atlanta for this other boy's graduation and chipped in on a group gift and all this. So, like.

[Kia Fury]

But fuck your baby.

[Crystal]

So, right? It's. No, I mean, the frustrating. Cause what do you mean? I'm. This don't make sense.

[Kia Fury]

What's going on? I think the frustrating thing for me would be. Cause, like, I don't know what you do next. You had the opportunity to talk about it in the perfect setting to talk about whatever it is that seems to be going on, and nobody wanted to step up to the accountability plate, right? So it's like, do I just back off from this group? Do I continue on as if this didn't happen or. Because I imagine if this is a good. And as long as y' all have been friends and you have families now and everything, I imagine, you know, excommunicating yourself from the group would be difficult, not just for. From the perspective of grieving lost friendships, but also, I don't know how many other friends you have, right? So it's like, you gotta go make new friends, all that. I guess it just depends on how deep this goes, how personal it is or how it feels like. I don't know what I would do next.

[Crystal]

I would probably put in the group chat. Now, why would not y' all ask him for his cash app just to not send him nothing? I probably would because.

[Kia Fury]

Oh, yeah, for sure that, like, at.

[Crystal]

The very they you said they apologized. If you felt like it was a sincere apology, I would accept that. And I would have preferred y' all not ask for his Cash app because again, you don't have to send him nothing.

[Kia Fury]

Right?

[Crystal]

You don't have to. But don't ask for the cash app to not send him nothing. And Imma just say, I have friends whose kids are getting to that place of graduating from high school, graduated from college. I got so many cousins who are all graduating. I send them all. 20, 50, 100, depending on how close we are. I send all of them a little Something when they graduate, all of them, every last one.

[Kia Fury]

And she said she has no doubt that they can because the girls be at. No.

[Crystal]

Right. And it, I mean, we talking. We're talking $20. We're not talking, you know, it's not a $2,500 graduation gift. We're not saying buy him a new computer for college, move him into his dorm room. Like, I would, I would feel away. Especially because everybody did something completely different a few years ago for the other friend's son. So I would get. I would type in the group chat, not y' all asking for his cash app, just to not send him nothing.

[Kia Fury]

And noted.

[Crystal]

Right. Like, I wouldn't say noted right. But. But I would send that. And then. Is it deep enough to throw away a 30, all these 30 year friendships? I think only you can really answer that. I. I feel like I'm struggling to agree with that, but that's because I don't have kids. And I don't understand how hurtful this would be personal.

[Kia Fury]

Right. That's what I'm saying. Like, I don't know what the fuck.

[Crystal]

Yeah, but if you're not doing. You asked if you're overreacting, are you doing too much by being mad? You're never doing too much by having your feelings. It's what you do with your feelings that might be too much. But you're not too much for being mad. You're not too much for being irritated. This is irritable. So. It is. It really is. I would be perturbed and I would think, these bitches don't like me. It's something about me y' all don't like.

[Kia Fury]

And how could you not think that?

[Crystal]

Yeah. And so if I said, if I sent that text about the cash app and they were like, oh, my God, girl, not me forgetting again, worst friend on earth. And then they sent him some money, that would be one thing. If they just paid it and kept on talking about the concert, I would. I would then distance myself. And I. I think I would distance myself. And not that I have to cut these friends off, but they clearly not the close bosom buddies, golden girls, besties that I thought we were. We clearly not that because I brought it up. I straight up said something about it. And that should have been where it was resolved as far as I'm concerned. So, yeah, I don't think you have to cut them off, but I would distance myself emotionally, probably in this situation, as painful as that would be, because I don't. I really am not understanding why they could do all that for the other friend's kid, but not for yours.

[Kia Fury]

And like you said, be like, oh, shit, my bad. Give me the cash app. I'll send him something dust. Are you cool?

[Crystal]

Do y' all not like my son? Did he get on your nerves real bad during adolescence? Cause that's real. But, like. But I mean, we supposed to all have some understanding for kids. And, you know, it's just. It's strange. It is strange.

[Kia Fury]

And I mean, girlfriends. The show happened. Insecure. The show happened. If you bitches can't joke about one of these kids being bad and writing bitch and crayon on somebody else's wall and get. And what are we doing here? Like, girl, what are we doing here?

[Crystal]

At first when I saw it, I just kind of rolled my eyes. Cause I ain't forgot the time that your child came in my house and pulled it all up in my bed and thought it was funny or something. You know, just something stupid.

[Kia Fury]

Tony never said Maya's son name, right? Not once.

[Crystal]

And Maya would have been well within her rights to smack the shit out of Tony for disrespecting her child like that the way that she did.

[Kia Fury]

She said something shady back.

[Crystal]

Those were actually horrible. They were not great friends.

[Kia Fury]

They weren't. They really weren't. We watched the Girlfriends like, oh, my.

[Crystal]

God, these bitches stop being friends.

[Kia Fury]

We're so awful to each other all the time.

[Crystal]

This is not what.

[Kia Fury]

She's constantly jealous. A hot mess ruining her own life. Hate anybody else to be happy. Tony, you know, Happy Tony.

[Crystal]

Jesus. God. Might have been the worst of all women. That's saying, Lynn.

[Kia Fury]

Grown biracial privilege, Allergic to a job, allergic to her own income. You got four degrees. Get a fucking addicted to somebody.

[Crystal]

Get the biggest mooch. Get a job, Lynn.

[Kia Fury]

God, that show is good.

[Crystal]

Maya. Maya act like she's entitled to have a job. You up here at Joan's workplace talking to this bitch. Crazy. Coming in whenever you want to. Being disrespect. Maya. Maya.

[Kia Fury]

This is feeling well within your route. Your right to raise your voice at anybody.

[Crystal]

Who are you talking to, sweetie?

[Kia Fury]

And going back and forth with the same nigga that was never gonna be.

[Crystal]

Y' all were girlfriends. Was really. I mean, as entertaining as some of them seasons were. My God, these were horrible friends.

[Kia Fury]

I need the movie.

[Crystal]

Insecure had a much better character arc. As far as these girls growing up but still being messy and having conflict, it was much more real.

[Kia Fury]

It was a bit more grounded. It was a different time.

[Crystal]

Well, and they grew. We Watched Issa and Molly grow up. We watched them mature, Both of them. They went through each other.

[Kia Fury]

Yeah, it felt like a more realistic depiction of up and downs because there.

[Crystal]

Were times because, girl, the girlfriends tolerated way too much disrespect on a regular basis.

[Kia Fury]

Like, but it was a sitcom. Like, it was a Tony.

[Crystal]

And that jabubu and all that shit. Bitch, you got. I would have been smack the shit out of Tony for the way she talked about my child. Maya was better than me. But there was times when Issa and Molly were not talking because they were beefing that bad. Like, it is like that sometimes. Or hopefully everybody involved can grow up, understand what they did wrong. Sometimes you gotta be like Molly and go call the goddamn lady. Right? And so, you know, that's great, and that is beautiful, but, ooh, girl. Yeah, Janet.

[Kia Fury]

Ooh, girl. Poor Yvonne.

[Crystal]

Oh, y' all chewed Yvonne.

[Kia Fury]

They did not. Even when they wrapped up that whole storyline, and the girls were still like, no, fuck Molly. I don't ever want to see that bitch smile again.

[Crystal]

It was like the weirdest.

[Kia Fury]

Like, girl, she's not the friend that hurt you in real life.

[Crystal]

Yvonne, girl, take it as a compliment.

[Kia Fury]

That people, yeah, they believe you.

[Crystal]

You're doing a great job.

[Kia Fury]

They cannot stand it, lady.

[Crystal]

Anyway, yeah, this, Yeah, I, I, I.

[Kia Fury]

Do think, at the very least, sending the. Oh, so about that Cash app, Like.

[Crystal]

I'm just so confused why y' all asked for the Cash app to just not send him nothing, right? Cause you know, I have adhd, and if I don't do something, the moment I'm thinking about it, I will not remember.

[Kia Fury]

Girl, you can talk right about it.

[Crystal]

As soon as I get these invitations and these announcements that the kids are graduating, right in that moment, I pull out the phone and Zell Cash app, whatever, because I will forget.

[Kia Fury]

You will forget.

[Crystal]

I will do it. But good luck, baby. I understand taking this personally because I would, too, to be very honest about it. All right.

[Kia Fury]

You're only human.

[Crystal]

Yep.

[Kia Fury]

You bleed when you fall down.

[Crystal]

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[Kia Fury]

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[Crystal]

What?

[Kia Fury]

Let me tell you what this bitch did.

[Crystal]

No. What? Not Jinx.

[Kia Fury]

Jinx Monsoon had the nerve to suggest an idea so fierce.

[Crystal]

Oh, my God. Why would you play with me like that?

[Kia Fury]

Because it's fun.

[Crystal]

That's not fun, Cardi. It's not fun to play with my emotions like that, Cardi.

[Kia Fury]

That I can't have anything but that, okay? And it will never happen.

[Crystal]

All right?

[Kia Fury]

I'm pissed, so.

[Crystal]

I'm so relieved.

[Kia Fury]

Jesus Christ. I'm sharp.

[Crystal]

I'm. My favorite white woman. Why would you do that? Okay. Okay. What'd she do?

[Kia Fury]

So Jinkx Monsoon, I think she's still doing Omari on Broadway. Made A joke about being well said that they need to start dropping my name for Marvel Studios.

[Crystal]

Ooh, fun.

[Kia Fury]

When asked who she would. This was on a Vulture podcast, I think on Goodwin. Who she would want to play in the mcu, she said Mystique. Mystique is a character on Live Action, first played by Rebecca Romaine, last played by Jennifer Lawrence. Jinx said, can I manifest something? Marvel has now regained the rights to X Men. I think it would be really cool to have a trans woman be my stink. Be Mystique. Did I think Mystique?

[Crystal]

It sound the same to me.

[Kia Fury]

I think it'd be really cool to have a trans woman be Mystique. She is my favorite Marvel character of all time, and I relate to her so much. So if you don't know, Mystique is a shapeshifter. She's a mutant who I think naturally appears with blue skin, bright yellow eyes, red hair. I mean, she's gorgeous.

[Crystal]

I mean, I just Googled it.

[Kia Fury]

Her skin is just blue. Unless you're the Jennifer Lawrence version, which I feel like they made ugly on purpose. But anyway.

[Crystal]

Damn.

[Kia Fury]

Okay, she's typically hot, but she can morph into anybody, and she's typically looked at as a bad guy. Works with Magneto, and she would use her ability to morph into anybody and get into the Pentagon or, you know, pretend to be the president after they've kidnapped the president. So she grew up kind of using that ability to assimilate into society because, you know, the world, especially the Western world, is out to kill all mutants so she can kind of look like who she wants to look like so that she can exist and be the first person that she is. This should have been a transition.

[Crystal]

That's an idea. Oh, my God, I. I love this.

[Kia Fury]

Especially in the last one, where the Jennifer Lawrence story, like, the center of that story with the Jennifer Lawrence one was her ending with, like, I'm not gonna look like a human Mystique. My blue skin is just fine. And she mostly would just go about being blue and just change into somebody when it was important, whereas for the top half of it, she just looked like Jennifer Lawrence.

[Crystal]

Gotcha.

[Kia Fury]

That would have been perfect to have cast a trend woman as the actor, but they were like, let's get an A list. Whatever. Whatever. Anyway, Jinx, Monsoon. You're on my read this week, bitch. Because now, you know, Disney doesn't have the balls. They don't have the goddamn nerve or the goddamn gunshot.

[Crystal]

They don't.

[Kia Fury]

You know that even if they did, motherfucking fans and the right would rip them. You know it's not gonna happen. You know it. And you put it in my head anyway. And I'm not gonna be happy with anything but this. Damn it.

[Crystal]

Fuck. Oh, it's such a good idea. It is a.

[Kia Fury]

It is the perfect idea.

[Crystal]

That bitch is so good.

[Kia Fury]

Oh, she's great at everything. Shit.

[Crystal]

You'Re a piss.

[Kia Fury]

We're not going to do it. It is a perfect idea. God damn.

[Crystal]

Is a perfect. Wow.

[Kia Fury]

Lastly, I just want to speak to this Latvian bitch who felt like she could speak to Taylor Townsend however the fuck she wanted to at the usa.

[Crystal]

Amen. Amen.

[Kia Fury]

Yelena Ostapenko, whatever the fuck it is that your name is, you lost. You got your ass beat. How are you gonna try and speak to somebody else about class?

[Crystal]

True.

[Kia Fury]

When you lost the game, as people who play games do, someone loses and someone wins, you lost. Okay? Class isn't screaming in the face of someone who is telling you good job because you got your ass beat. Or you disagree. So why you're bringing it up? I'm not sure. Education, man.

[Crystal]

That's what pissed me off.

[Kia Fury]

And of course, she tried to use the. Oh, I. English is not my first language. And I was talking about tennis etiquette. I understand that that has a different meaning. Okay, let's talk about tennis etiquette, then. Okay. Because I watch tennis, and I know that when you're playing tennis, especially professionally, there are people who know the rules, who watch the game, who have an education in tennis etiquette. Many of them who are witnessing the game.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kia Fury]

And making sure that those things are in place.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kia Fury]

Those people say that Taylor Townsend whipped your natural ass. Suck it up, Pack up your things and hit the road, Jacqueline. And Taylor still said to you with a smile, you can learn how to take a loss better. Good job. Great play. And she went on to thanking her fans and enjoying her win. And you went home looking like a doofus and having to jump on Instagram stories and apologize because then you know how to control yourself. Is controlling yourself the FEMA today?

[Crystal]

I think it is.

[Kia Fury]

Who the fuck do you think that you are? Some of y', all, really, you really cannot look into a black face and accept that it beat you, even if it is fair and square. Fair and square right there, girl.

[Crystal]

It was the fairest and squarest.

[Kia Fury]

And it's so common in this sector of sports, this particular sport, for people to just absolutely rage and spew hatred towards black women, most of them whipping all y' all asses back to back. That y' all really feel like you can just get into somebody face and scream whatever the fuck you want to because you're in your feelings. She beat your ass. Get back better.

[Crystal]

And when she said you should learn to take a loss better, I said, oh, Taylor, Taylor. They don't know how to do that, baby. They are not mentally prepared to lose to one of us. And I don't understand it because we.

[Kia Fury]

Okay, you, you just said it right? So it's so common. We do it all the time.

[Crystal]

It happens frequently enough that, I mean, it seems like every time there's a US Open, some white girl has to turn around and be like, oh, I'm sorry for the things I said after the match when the black girl beat my head.

[Kia Fury]

Like every time. Every time.

[Crystal]

Y' all always have to do this.

[Kia Fury]

They need to have a diversity training course in some of these goddamn places where they training for tennis too. At least you have to watch a 30 minute video that says now when, not if, but when a black bitch beats your ass. Save it for the group chat. Don't say nothing to her. Don't say nothing to her because you will be apologizing.

[Crystal]

Yeah, just. You won't shake that black girl's hand and walk away. And save your feelings for when you are somewhere privately because y' all keep fucking this up. And as far as tennis etiquette goes, I'm gonna have to say I don't understand it and I don't agree with it. Why if she had a netball in the deciding moment or whatever it was that you. That. I guess tennis etiquette is when somebody does that, they apologize. Why do they have to do that? Why do. Why do. Why is it tennis etiquette to apologize when she has a net ball? I don't care about her honoring that. I don't care that all players start warming up on the baseline, but she started out warming up somewhere else. I don't give a fuck about that.

[Kia Fury]

That's like if you and I were competing to make a cheesecake.

[Crystal]

Okay, good luck.

[Kia Fury]

And then, and then when you beat.

[Crystal]

Cause have you ever made a cheesecake?

[Kia Fury]

No. This whole thing I ever had, but when you beat me, I'm like, well, you put the fork on the wrong side so you really have no class or education. And bitch, I don't even know what the fuck you're doing in the kitchen.

[Crystal]

You need to put no little sprigs of mint on the side to make it cute like, okay, bitch, did you try the fucking cheesecake?

[Kia Fury]

You Kia and all the rest of the judges, like, you lost Jade over.

[Crystal]

There, like I'm eating the cheesecake.

[Kia Fury]

Yeah. And unfortunately, to be honest, I didn't even notice the fork.

[Crystal]

You left out the cheese and the cake. So we gonna have to give it to her. You know, better luck. You lost, girl. You just lost.

[Kia Fury]

You just lost.

[Crystal]

When Taylor said, learn to take a L better than this, that, that really you should have held on to.

[Kia Fury]

And she meant it. And she meant it and she was correct.

[Crystal]

You bitches are ridiculous. That pissed me off so bad. Well, I have a few things to talk about this week that have really gotten on my nerves. First of all, this 42 year old grown ass man named Gonzalo Leon Jr. Who shot and killed an 11 year old boy for playing ding dong ditch, also known as nigger knocking or ding dong doorbell or whatever y' all call it. In Houston over the weekend, an 11 year old boy and his cousin was playing ding dong ditch rang. This person did that. Well, they do. The kids have continued the tradition and this man got so upset by these kids ringing the doorbell and running away that he went outside, let two shots ring out. One of them hit the young boy in the back. He died the next day in the hospital. This man has now been charged with capital murder. And you know, we'll see what happens because of course this happened in Texas and we just talked about Texas and Florida and these guns and how you can do whatever you want to in these states with these guns. If somebody even sniffs at your property. So we'll see. I just want to remember how you just said like just a few minutes ago that the theme of today's episode is control.

[Kia Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

And being able to manage what the fuck you do. I'll say this. Yes. Somebody ringing on your doorbell just to get you to come to the door and then they're not there is very annoying. Yes, I would be irritated by that. I would also probably just build a big ass fence so couldn't nobody just access my fucking door if I was gonna be that mad about it. But yes, that's annoying. The point is to frustrate other people. The point is to be childish. This is why kids do it. It's a childish game. Adults don't see the fun in this. It's not. This isn't cute. Like, this is childish. It's immature.

[Kia Fury]

Exactly.

[Crystal]

That's why they do it, because they're children. They're immature. Right?

[Kia Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

You with a prank, you right. And I hate pranks. And I always have even.

[Kia Fury]

Yeah, you're in the right to hate pranks.

[Crystal]

I mean, I really, most pranks are harmless, especially from strangers, but I just hate them. And even as a kid, I hated them. And there's been lots of comments online of like, we all played ding dong ditch when we were kids. We've all done shit like this. We all have not, baby. I, at 11 years old, I was not going off nowhere in throughout the neighborhood with nobody to ring on people's doorbells and then run away in Florida. But that does not change the fact that this child should not have died from playing a stupid prank. And this was completely avoidable, right? This was completely avoidable because your big grown ass 42 years is supposed to be able to put some distance between how you feel and how you react. Yeah, I would have also been annoyed. What I would not have done is go got a gun and killed a child. There's so many other things you can do. Instead. Open the door. You damn kids better stay off my porch. Or take the ring footage. If you got a ring camera or one of them other cameras, take the.

[Kia Fury]

Ring footage and show his face. I was literally googling the price of a ring camera.

[Crystal]

They not that high. Get a fucking ring camera. Or if you already have one, cut it on. I'm sure you did have some kind of something because he. This man is former US army and I think had something like 20 or 30 different semi, whatever, assault rifles and shit in the house. Beyond armed. So here's the thing. If you know that you get annoyed easily and that you have a temper problem, you don't need to own guns. You should not own guns. You should not.

[Kia Fury]

You should control yourself. Or you have a temper problem.

[Crystal]

You have a temper problem, you get annoyed easily. A and B equal. You can't have C, you can't.

[Kia Fury]

You can get a ring on Jeff Bezos for $55. It's on sale.

[Crystal]

I would have took video of these kids fucking around with my house right today, mama. Cause these are neighbors, this is. They live a couple of streets over. I would have took that shit.

[Kia Fury]

Also, they're so familiar with ring doorbells that if they saw it, they probably wouldn't do it.

[Crystal]

Probably would not even do it if they had seen. But. But either way, right? That's the thing. All of this is fucking insane. It is insane to murder a child who is running away from your home because they played a little jokey joke on you.

[Kia Fury]

It's insane to have to have like aimed the gun into the air and shot off.

[Crystal]

Right?

[Kia Fury]

It is insane that this Happened. And your response is, I'm gonna get my gun and then actually fire it. Even if it was so.

[Crystal]

There was a witness who said that man came outside dressed in all black. Like he, like he was. Like this was what he was finna do. And apparently let off the first shot towards the ground and then the second one again. This man is former US Army. Meaning if you want to kill somebody, you probably know how to do it right. You don't have the mental fortitude to be a responsible gun owner. You don't. You don't have it. I don't wanna hear nothing about feeling like your home, your wife, your daughter, none of that shit was threatened because they did not try to break into your house. They didn't have no weapons, they wasn't trying to get into the windows or no shit like that. Wasn't nobody playing around like setting fire on your property or no shit like that. They weren't trying to break into your car. They were playing an admittedly childish game.

[Kia Fury]

Very childish.

[Crystal]

But I'm gonna remind you that their children. This is not like Cardi, who's too old to be playing childish games. These are 11 year olds.

[Kia Fury]

And unnecessary.

[Crystal]

These are 11 year olds. I would have been annoyed by that. I would not have murdered a baby for that. And you got 30 some weapons in your house. Yeah. No. Go on and wrap this up. Go on and take this nigga and put him away. Put him away. Put him away. Put him away. And yes, y' all can talk all day long about parents keeping an eye on their kids. Okay? It's Labor Day weekend and the family is having a birthday party. We had countless family get togethers that went on into the night. This is not. This is not. None of this is a reason. You can say all of it. The kids shouldn't be playing. The kids shouldn't be this. You live in Texas, you live in Florida, you live in Oklahoma. Yes. That's all that is true. And you should not die for something this fucking stupid. A child. We're talking about a child 11. Somebody who you know is a child. Your temper can't be that short that you're willing to murder a little boy.

[Kia Fury]

And let's. Let's again to focus on the extremity and danger of your level of anger and lack of self restraint. Let's just for argument's sake, say that a child was not killed or hurt in this situation. But you did respond to the prank by shooting your gun off. I'm next door trying to watch 90 Day Hunt for love And I hear gunfire coming from outside. Now I have to worry about what the fuck is going on right next door to me. What's going on outside? Do I need to grab my piece? Do I need to call the police? What the fuck? Oh. 42 year old Gonzalez next door just decided to fire off his gun because some babies were playing Ding Dong Ding.

[Crystal]

It's unbelievable, man. It's unbelievable.

[Kia Fury]

I want him removed from the neighborhood.

[Crystal]

Yes. I want you removed from society. You cannot be around the rest of us.

[Kia Fury]

And that is me saying, just again, I want you to remember I'm saying this considering or of a child not being tragically murdered. You did this and murdered an 11 year old. Keep him, right?

[Crystal]

Keep him. Keep him. At first he was questioned and then released. And then once they gathered more evidence, witness stories, et cetera, they came back and arrested that nigga. Correct. I think he's on a $1 million bond and. And has to stay at home. It might be safer for you to be in the prison or in the jail right now. It really might. Cause I can't imagine the neighborhood is on your side about this. You not the only person whose doorbell got rang on that night. But you're the only one who pulled out a gun and shot at some kids. Send his ass to prison. I don't want to hear nothing else about it. Number two, I read a story on NBC News about rabies and how rabies is spreading in this country.

[Kia Fury]

Oh yeah, I heard about that.

[Crystal]

So that's fun. And of course, we have pretty much eliminated canine rabies in this country thanks to vaccines work. Turns out a lot of you are really fucking stupid, though. And where is it? A 2023 study published in the journal Vaccine found in a nationally representative sample of Americans that nearly 40% believe canine vaccines are unsafe. And 37% believe that vaccines could lead their dog to develop cognitive issues such as autism.

[Kia Fury]

Oh, my God. Y' all are doing the vaccine thing for the dogs too.

[Crystal]

If. If rabies gets to the dogs. Do y' all understand? All right, all right. First of all, first of all, there's no such thing as an autistic dog. I cannot even believe that is a sentence that came out of my mouth. I actually went and looked it up because I said, I know there isn't, but please help me understand. There is a condition called canine dysfunctional behavior. It appears to be related to a lack of mirror neurons. It inhibits the dog's ability to learn certain social skills. It's very rare in dogs. Dogs with CDB are Born with it. And it is obvious during puppyhood, does not show up later than life. It does not show up when they get vaccinated. You stupid bitches are declining to give your dog a mandatory vaccine because you think the dog might be a little weird around other dogs not know how to. What. What are you afraid of with an autistic dog? What does an autistic dog look like? You stupid bitch? Do you understand that if your dog has rabies, if. If your dog. Not even if it has rabies, if your dog bites another dog or a human being, and you can't prove that that dog is vaccinated against rabies, guess what? You'll never see me again. Yeah, your dog is going to the chop shop. That's actually the end of your dog. Your dog's gonna die that day. They don't do blood tests, urine tests. They have to test the brain for rabies. And they might come back in a couple of months and be like, huh, Dog didn't have rabies. But I guess you should have had it vaccinated, because we didn't know that. And we can't run the risk because so many of us have domesticated dogs as pets. We cannot run the risk that your dog then spread rabies to have many other dogs who then became rabid and started biting kids. And then we have a real fucking zombie problem on our hands, bitch. We're not doing it. We're gonna eliminate the problem at the source.

[Kia Fury]

Sometimes I wish I could get into, like, the little phone booth from doctor who or something and go to, like, Time of the Plague, or it was like, way, way, way, where like, a common cold was, baby, and say, hey, let me tell you a little secret about the future. So, like, all kinds of medicine.

[Crystal]

Yeah, all kinds. Y' all not gonna believe it.

[Kia Fury]

A Mexican give you a little shot. Never even heard of. People get a cold every week, and they're just fine. Influenza. What is that? But we never heard of it. People have elected to not take them because they don't believe in it.

[Crystal]

Because the Kennedy said. I think not. You guys, we're just going to go ahead and just stop eating gluten or actually eat more gluten. We don't know what y' all are. Y' all are so afraid of autism that you're not vaccinating your fucking dogs. America. I did not do that.

[Kia Fury]

And before some of y' all blow out your ancestors or whatever the fuck, like, I understand that there have been historical things.

[Crystal]

Oh, yeah.

[Kia Fury]

That have gone on in medicine.

[Crystal]

Right, right, right, right, right.

[Kia Fury]

And so on.

[Crystal]

But not with dogs.

[Kia Fury]

But if you think there is a conspiracy to make your damn dog autistic, you think I met.

[Crystal]

What? What are we.

[Kia Fury]

I don't know what else.

[Crystal]

He's a little awkward, you guys. He's autistic. He's a dog. He's a dog. Y' all cannot be so afraid of neurodivergence that you skip vaccines. And it was dumb enough in humans. It is even dumber in dogs. You don't deserve dogs. I honestly think if lady was autistic, I would not be able to tell the difference between how she act right now and how she act autistic because she's a dog. She's a dog.

[Kia Fury]

I'm honestly trying to tell you. I'm honestly trying to tell you. I could not believe it.

[Crystal]

Also.

[Kia Fury]

Exactly what you said. What is this fear of neurodivergence or autism or whatever? And the fuck.

[Crystal]

Oh, y' all are so weird.

[Kia Fury]

As if your child, dog, or goldfish could be autistic. And then what, the apocalypse is nigh? Most of them are better at life and more successful at being a human being than you, bitch. So.

[Crystal]

I really. I read that, like, this has got to be something. This is peak American. This is. Don't get dumber than this.

[Kia Fury]

It's so, so stupid.

[Crystal]

It's so stupid.

[Kia Fury]

And we want it American. It's like you. It's like, here's the door. You walk through this door, you, like, know things and can be better, make the world a better place. Or you can walk over this bed of nails and continue to be stupid. And Americans are like, nails, Please.

[Crystal]

Life of nails actually tickles my feet. Get your. Get your fucking dog vaccinated against rabies for the love of nothing else, you dumb cunts. For the love of Lainey's vet, just email me. Lainey needs her rabies vaccine in six weeks. I immediately scheduled that shit. She will never go without a vaccine.

[Kia Fury]

This Nick is getting Bordetella today.

[Crystal]

Lady just got her bortella two weeks ago. I don't play with none of them vaccines. The problem is, y' all haven't. Y' all are so far removed from rabies, you have no idea how fucking serious it is. Do you understand? Death occurs. It's death, girl. It's death.

[Kia Fury]

Death.

[Crystal]

It's death.

[Kia Fury]

It's for the dog's life.

[Crystal]

If you get bit by something rabid, you have a few days to take a medication, because once them symptoms develop, that's it for you. They. They Cannot save you. It isn't something to fuck around with. I don't care if your dog never goes outside. I don't care if your dog don't go to daycare. You don't travel with it. Nothing. Vaccinate your fucking dog.

[Kia Fury]

How is this not a thing? Where they're like, there needs to be a website somewhere that we popularize. It's like this is a glaring red flag we're ignoring on purpose. And today's entry would be, we are wide open, welcoming rabies.

[Crystal]

Rabies.

[Kia Fury]

We're like, come on, Rabes.

[Crystal]

Polio. We bringing back polio. Cuz y' all don't believe in vaccines, bro. Okay, all right. I say NBC News, thank you for telling me that Americans had reached a new level of fucking stupidity because I was unaware. Last but not least, I'm gonna put a spoiler alert right here for a documentary on Netflix called Unknown Number the High School Catfish.

[Kia Fury]

I haven't watched this yet. Maybe I won't depending on how this goes.

[Crystal]

If you wanna watch it, then I'll skip this and I won't talk about it this week.

[Kia Fury]

But no, I don't give a shit.

[Crystal]

Okay? This is the story of two 13 year old kids. This is when they started receiving anonymous harassing text messages. These kids were dating Lauren and Owen and all of a sudden one day they start getting these texts saying like to Lauren, saying stuff like, bitch, your anorexic body is not sexy. Owen don't want you. He gonna leave you. You not fucking him. He wants my creamy pussy, his dick and his fingers. And these are 13 year old kids texting Owens similar stuff, like very sexually explicit. Telling these, telling Lauren a bitch. Kill yourself. He don't want you. You're fucking jealous, bitch. I told you he don't want you. He's playing with my pussy while. And he's breaking up with you. He don't like you. I'm going to ruin your fucking life, bitch. Kill yourself before I do it. All this shit, this went on for almost two years. Come to find out that the person sending the text is Lauren's own mother.

[Kia Fury]

You are fucking. And I was like.

[Crystal]

Lauren's mother, Kendra Lakari, was sending up to 50 texts a day. When I say harassing, I don't mean one every now and then. Constantly texting these kids from burner phones, using burner apps that hide your number and all this shit. Extremely sexually explicit things. Stop telling them. Telling her own daughter to kill herself multiple times. Talking about how ugly she is, how terrible her body looks, calling her by her nickname, so she knew it was somebody close to her. Talking about how everybody is sick of them being together, sending her pictures of, like, the two of them, but putting, like, the vomit emoji over her face and calling her anorexic trash, garbage. Her own goddamn mother. In addition to sending sexually explicit texts to Owen saying very similar things. And after, because the stress of this broke up these young kids, Owen starts dating somebody else. Over a year later, this psycho bitch reaches out to the new girlfriend's mama and starts sending her anonymous texts.

[Kia Fury]

This new girlfriend, the new girlfriend's mom.

[Crystal]

The new girlfriend's mama. Yes. And so the girlfriend, the new girlfriend is texting Owen, like, what the fuck is this? And Owen's like, yeah, I don't know. I have a stalker. Somebody's being super weird. I don't know what's going on. That new girlfriend was like, yeah, I don't play these games. We breaking up. Like, I don't know who the fuck is harassing my mama behind you. But no, right? This woman. So the police, it took them way too long to figure this out, in my opinion. But when the police come to arrest this bitch, first of all, it's like 90 bottles of alcohol on they kitchen table. That's extremely weird. Never gets addressed. But she.

[Kia Fury]

It never gets addressed.

[Crystal]

No, these. No, these.

[Kia Fury]

I guess they feel like they didn't need to.

[Crystal]

I mean, baby. I mean, this is deep in Trump country, so I don't know. But her. Anyway, it turns out she has, like three different phones, I guess, so she can. Because while she's also being, like, a huge source of support for her daughter during this time, understandably. So what? So she's texting her daughter during school hours. Kill yourself, you horrible, skinny bitch. Don't nobody want you. Your body's terrible. Saying all these things to her child and then comforting her child on another phone at the same fucking time. Oh, my God, baby, this is so terrible. Mine will be here for you. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. There's been a lot of speculation about what's wrong with her. Munchausen by proxy has come up, which is where you make somebody close to you sick or think that they're sick so that they'll need you. And she did say when she was being sentenced that she just found out. She just is now realizing that she's mentally ill from some sexual assault trauma she went through around that same age. And. And she's been, you know, in psychosis. Not in psychosis, but having mental issues for a while now.

[Kia Fury]

Okay.

[Crystal]

Now I felt like dubbage. Dubbage. Cause, yeah, the things you are saying about your own fucking. Calling your baby a skank and a hoe, but also saying Owen's gonna break up with you. Cause he don't. He don't want your nasty pussy. He want my creamy pussy. And all.

[Kia Fury]

13.

[Crystal]

This went on from them being 13 to 15.

[Kia Fury]

I mean, she could have been 33 and it would have been. You would be great.

[Crystal]

But like, your baby, your baby, it's bad enough. So what I think is that this woman developed some sort of obsession with Owen. Because why?

[Kia Fury]

That's what I was guessing.

[Crystal]

Cause why would you go after the new girlfriend's mama, right? Your big grown ass had real feelings for that little boy.

[Kia Fury]

That was what I was thinking.

[Crystal]

Histrionic personality disorder. Narcissistic personality disorder. I don't know. Either one of those or both of those would make sense. Sense to me. What I don't understand is why this bitch only went to jail for one year.

[Kia Fury]

You are kidding.

[Crystal]

No, I think it was 18 or 19 months. And now she's. She's out right now on parole. She's in the documentary. I didn't know it was her. Because the person who does it is never in the documentary. Never. So I'm sitting here watching it like, okay, my first thought was the parents. It's not none of the parents. Maybe it's an auntie. Maybe it's a coach or a teacher at school. Baby, the mama right there, the whole fucking time, busted into these little fake tears, talking about, oh, you know my daughter. I would never.

[Kia Fury]

So wait, she's like, in interviews before they reveal that it was her?

[Crystal]

Yes, she's doing interviews.

[Kia Fury]

That is psycho, baby. From a production level, that is.

[Crystal]

It really don't make sense. It really don't. And then she's talking about how well, we've all made mistakes. Nobody's lived a perfect life. Everybody shut the fuck up. Everybody breaks the law. Sometimes it's just that I got caught. Yeah, bitch. Sometimes we don't come to a full stop at the stop sign. Sometimes, you know, we get four pieces of Bubble Yum, but we pay for three.

[Kia Fury]

Yeah, girl, just wanna say, yeah, some of us steal a Snickers outside of the 7 11.

[Crystal]

Yeah, girl.

[Kia Fury]

Are you.

[Crystal]

I jaywalk every day. Yes, girl, yes. We all do break the law. We don't all sexually harass our children and their friends for years.

[Kia Fury]

You know what's crazy? When you first. I'm talking about when you first said that it was the mom Chile My response immediately was gonna be, so I vote firing squad. But, like, literally, my vote is the firing squad. As it started to go, I'm thinking, okay, maybe they should put her in a mental asylum or something. Get her on some, I don't know, whatever. Figure her shit out. There's something going on there, right? They locked this bitch up for a year, and she's in the picture, I.

[Crystal]

Think 18 or 19 months max. And now she's on probation. And while she was in jail, she was allowed to have access to Internet. And she was emailing her daughter.

[Kia Fury]

What are we talking about?

[Crystal]

Stuff like, I'm so mad at you. Cause when we said goodbye, you only said, bye. You didn't say, I love you, but I forgive you, bitch. I.

[Kia Fury]

She said that to the mom? She said that to her daughter?

[Crystal]

Mama said that to the little girl from prison. I didn't say I, you girl even speak to you girl.

[Kia Fury]

Me, 13 and a half on my MacBook typing bag, girl, in all of God's honesty, fuck you. I don't know what you're paying to see.

[Crystal]

And of course, Lauryn doesn't actually feel that way. She is probably. I mean, I think. Well, so there's interviews from, I think when the mama first went to jail, and then there's some that are more recent. Cause at first she was like. Like, you know, I miss my mom. I don't really understand what's going on. Which is understandable because who the fuck can wrap their mind around they mama doing some shit like this? And this bitch is talking about, well, you know, I know Lauren. I knew she would never really kill herself. So you told her to do it for funsies? Yeah. You didn't have to say you were mentally ill. I knew you were mentally ill, but am I?

[Kia Fury]

There's so many parents who have kids who've lost their life. Girl suicide, say the same exact thing. And Owen said it, shut your ass up.

[Crystal]

The boyfriend, he told his mama, like, this is actually. They saw such a shift in the way that child started having all of a sudden problems at school, taking out his aggression on the basketball court, talking back at home like, of course, that child said he is struggling with thoughts of hurting himself because he's being harassed. Tense when I tell you, they said.

[Kia Fury]

I cannot believe this.

[Crystal]

Up to 50 text messages a day from your own mama sexually harassing you, telling you how ugly your body is and how nasty you are and how don't nobody want you and you should just kill yourself.

[Kia Fury]

And again, as I said, as you're describing this. There is a part of me that still, I guess, has like the sympathy, empathy, whatever you call it, to be like, put this person someplace where, you know, officials, people in charge can look after them.

[Crystal]

But you see how they didn't do that.

[Kia Fury]

But you see how they didn't do that. Like, they let her out after a wild. A wisely transition.

[Crystal]

It was three weeks really, compared to what it.

[Kia Fury]

And they were like, here's a platform for you to be a celebrity.

[Crystal]

And said, well, I was stressed out. You know, we had financial problems. She had been lying to her husband for the past year about where she worked. That's how she had the time. And she got fired from her last job because she was spending too much time on personal phones and email. It's almost like, no, no, no. Because of course I watched the documentary. I said, this ain't good enough. I need to read more about this. I done found all kinds. The Cut did an excellent story. It's actually better than the documentary about this.

[Kia Fury]

This is.

[Crystal]

It is. No, it is. They go into way more detail about how she was. She really seems to be stunted. She was like. Like befriending all these other kids at the school and she just kept way too close tabs on Owen. All of this shit, it was just really. When I say vile. But nothing was worse than this bitch blaming it on them having financial stress. Mind you, we have financial stress because you're committing insurance fraud in order to pay our bills and you're lying about having a job when you don't. And instead of getting a job, you're sending sexually explicit, harassing texts to me and other teenagers throughout the day. And then at the exact same time turning around and acting like you're so concerned. And everybody said, oh, she's just. She's super mom. Like, she's always volunteering. She. She talked about Lauren being a terrible basketball player and was Lauren's basketball coach. Tried to frame another girl at the school. Tried to make it seem like it was this girl Chloe, when. And everybody thought it was Chloe because Chloe was kind of a. And a bully anyway. So they was like, chloe, this kind of. You know, this seemed like you and Chloe, like, damn. Like, I know I'm not the nicest, but I wouldn't do no heinous. Like, this whole time it's this girl's mama and she was in jail for a minute and a half and now she's out. That is crazy. Lock. I texted Cuz Kia. Kia texted me and said, sister, do not watch it. And I said, I'm gonna. I'm gonna. And she said, let me know when you do. And so I texted her and I said, I want her back in prison tonight. I want her in a facility where she is under 24. 7 surveillance and has zero access to. To telephones or computers. The fact that she was allowed to email her daughter while she was in prison. Baby, and I'mma say it.

[Kia Fury]

She's obviously a failure as a mom.

[Crystal]

Oh, no, she. No, she absolutely is. There's no word strong enough to describe how much she failed this child. And I'm so glad Lauren is apparently going off to college and planning to major in criminology. The more distance she has from her mother. Cause the. I think the terms of the probation communication is actually stricter now than it was while she was in jail. Like, she does not talk to her mother at all. Thank God. Thank God. Because the longer you're away from this bitch, the more you'll be able to process just how fucked up this is. And it might not be till you're in your late 20s, early 30s or later. Yes. Because this is beyond a mind fuck. Who does this? I don't know what all's wrong with you. Clearly something's wrong with you. That's not the point. It's really not.

[Kia Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

You have an obligation to not harm others, especially your own child. I can't get over this is your baby talking about, I just fed off of it. She loved the attention from it. She saw how people were gathering around them and showing up. Remember that? The whole Munchausen by Proxy. She saw how people were showing all this concern, everybody rallying together. It's all these meetings with the school superintendent and the principal and the FBI and the police and all this. And she is loving all the attention she's getting from this. And she's keeping her dogs. And her daughter is at an age where kids start to break away from their parents. 13, 14, they start dating. They start establishing their own identity. That's developmentally appropriate. You weird bitch. The wrong thing to do is then try to coerce your child into. Anyway, anyway, I'm gonna end it there. Cause I've gone on for too long about this show. But yeah, yeah, we knew you were.

[Kia Fury]

Mentally ill. She's a failure as a mother for obvious reasons. The system is an obvious failure for keeping her. As for the time that they did and just saying, why don't you also be a student? Are on TikTok in the meantime.

[Crystal]

Yes.

[Kia Fury]

And whoever produced and directed this docu series or Docu.

[Crystal]

It's just one. It's just one episode.

[Kia Fury]

Flopping. A fail too, because you decided to make the whole story an M. Night Shyamalan film. You wanted to go ahead and do a little twisty and be like, oh yeah, this lady has been in it. And also is the terrible person get.

[Crystal]

To know like Netflix. I can't understand why y' all allowed. Why did y' all allow that to happen? Somebody who feeds. You let a bitch who feeds off of attention star in the Netflix documentary about how she. I want her.

[Kia Fury]

She destroyed her own daughter's life.

[Crystal]

I want her on charges of pedophilia and I want her out of here. Yes, like you said, in some sort of mental health facility. You're clearly. You are clearly not fit to be around the rest of us. Obsessed with a 13 year old boy where you would talk about his penis and him fucking you, fingering you, you big grown nasty bitch. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kia Fury]

I felt like they should have just lined you, gave you a big can of your eyes, a cigarette and let the rifles fly. But I'll just take it back a step and say that you should be at Arkham.

[Crystal]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm gonna leave it there. If you've watched it, let me know what you thought about it. But that is going to wrap up this week's episode of the Read. Make sure you check us out on social media at. This is at. This is the Read. Our website is. This is the read dot com. Anything else from you before we head out?

[Kia Fury]

Can you believe that? Like capital punishment.

[Crystal]

You know, And I'm. I'm starting to understand why. I mean, I don't want to say that.

[Kia Fury]

Eight of us at once are just gonna conquer, right. With you blindfolded and blast your ass.

[Crystal]

Right? The problem is y' all was killing innocent people. And you know, we don't.

[Kia Fury]

Right.

[Crystal]

We don't take people's lives for committing crimes. But I mean, maybe sometimes we should.

[Kia Fury]

You think about it. All right, we're done. It's fine. I don't have anything else.

[Crystal]

Because, I mean, we've mentioned a couple of people this episode where it's like. But anyway.

[Kia Fury]

And if you just thought about it.

[Crystal]

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