Meat Lovers

Summary

The Read: “Meat Lovers” (Nov 25, 2025)

Podcast: The Read
Hosts: Kid Fury & Crissle West
Episode: "Meat Lovers"
Date: November 25, 2025

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Episode Overview

In this hilariously incisive episode, Kid Fury and Crissle West return with their signature blend of pop culture commentary, Black excellence spotlights, shade, and unfiltered advice. From their ever-adoring Beyoncé stanning to deep dives on B2K reunions, celebrity drama, and the everyday absurdities of grown-up friendships, this episode delivers all the laughs and “can you believe?” moments the duo is known for. They also explore topics like parenting while divorcing, the state of queer family acceptance, and the eternal struggle of casting non-singers in movie musicals.

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Key Discussion Points & Segments

1. Beyoncé and Kelly Rowland Rave (01:05–04:12)

• The show opens with over-the-top worship of Beyoncé’s latest racetrack appearance.
  • Kid Fury: "I am aspiring to sit as high and confident as Beyoncé’s breasts." [01:05]
  • Crissle: “It’s the whole fucking body for me. Can we breathe? Can we breathe?” [02:36]
• Kelly Rowland receives her own flowers, with Crissle raving after seeing her live: “Just don’t make no sense for her to be as beautiful as she is.” [03:40]

2. Black Excellence: Blake Cameron James (04:12–08:37)

• Kid Fury highlights young actor Blake Cameron James from “Welcome to Derry,” describing a sweet scene centered on Black joy and science.
  • Kid Fury (paraphrasing the show): “To you, I might smell like a stink bomb, but maybe I’m covered in stardust.” [06:01]
  • Commentary on how rare it is to see nuanced Black childhood experiences in period dramas not focused on tragedy.

3. Hot Tops: Pop Culture Run-Down (08:37–69:48)

a) Iyanla Vanzant Returns… to Recap Herself (08:37–15:04)

• Iyanla’s new OWN series is revealed to be a rehash of old episodes with added commentary.
  • Crissle: “It’s just her recapping all of you. Arianla, fuck you. I was excited. I thought this was new stuff.” [11:25]
  • Both hosts joke about therapy versus TV spectacle, and the “legend” of Iyanla’s reality TV methods.

b) B2K Reunion (?) and Boy Band Dynamics (15:04–21:17)

• New B2K music is teased; the hosts question the viability and artistic motivation behind it.
  • Crissle: “I feel like if you’re a fan of B2K, there is just no way you’re gonna be a fan of new B2K music.” [17:33]
  • Kid Fury compares Omarion to “Nicole Schweppes Ginger Ale” as the group’s clear leader. [16:09]

c) Usher v. Brian Michael Cox: The Atlanta Restaurant Saga (21:20–29:46)

• Usher is suing his longtime producer over a failed restaurant loan.
  • Kid Fury: “You admitted that you used my money for other purposes than what I lent it to you.” [23:58]
  • Both hosts joke about Atlanta’s notorious “grifter” scene and restaurants as money pits.

d) Offset & Cardi B Drama: Public Shade, Private Pain (30:00–36:53)

• Drama over alleged social media posts, custody, and the challenges of co-parenting in public.
  • Crissle: “Somebody gotta be the grown one in this situation. Somebody gotta look out for them kids.” [35:24]

e) Toni Braxton’s Quiet Marriage to Birdman + Halloween Sidelines (41:13–48:10)

• Discussion on Toni Braxton’s secret marriage to Birdman, keeping private things private, and the recent viral Toni Braxton Halloween costume.
  • Crissle: “Of course you didn’t want us to know you were married to Birdman because, like, who would. Yuck.” [44:15]

f) Kandi Burruss Divorce News: Adulting Through Separation (48:10–56:58)

• Recent split between RHOA’s Kandi and husband Todd; on amicable co-parenting and breaking generational trauma.
  • Kid Fury: “That’s the way to do it. That’s the responsibility of parenthood.” [54:24]
  • Crissle: “You see how parents can split up and then still be cool and chill for the sake of the kids?” [51:27]

g) Summer Walker vs. “Pizza Hut”: Cheating Scandals, Petty Delivery Wars (57:30–69:25)

• The hosts dissect leaked audio, social media back-and-forth, and pizza deliveries amidst a cheating scandal.
  • Summer Walker: "Call me Ms. Pizza Hut from now on. I don’t give a fuck." [60:36]
  • Tori Bricks: “If I send some to her crib, it wouldn’t be pizza.” [65:08]
  • Crissle: “One thing about Summer she cannot read. It is not M-I-S-S dot. What the fuck bro?” [68:19]

h) Friendship & Adulthood, Passing the "Outside" Era (79:55–87:17)

• Listener question about maintaining friendships when lifestyles diverge (marriage vs. “outside” life).
  • Kid Fury: “You have to be a friend to have a friend.” [86:00]
  • Crissle: “People...to go out of your way to invite somebody who is just going to turn you down every single time. You’re not the only one with feelings.” [84:30]

i) Queer Family Trauma & Dating: Finding Love Anyway (87:17–99:20)

• Listener letter from a lesbian struggling with parents’ rejection and how it affects relationships.
  • Kid Fury: “Don’t let...your imperfect parents stop you from finding love, exploring love, and being your goddamn self.” [95:12]
  • Crissle: “You’re 24. ...The older you get, the more clear this will become to you.” [96:21]

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4. The Read: Listener-Submitted Rants (101:15–117:14)

• A powerful letter from “Grim,” eviscerating her abusive brother with scathing, creative curses and a call for accountability.
  • “I hope you drop the last of your weed in the carpet as you’re rolling your last blunt.” [103:17]
  • Both hosts salute her healing and wish the brother “all the worst luck in life.”

5. Big Reads: Hollywood Must Stop Casting Non-Singers in Musicals (108:31–117:14)

• Listener Rashad vents about Wicked casting Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Yeoh (“a very bad singer”) instead of Broadway legends like Sheryl Lee Ralph.
  • Kid Fury: “I was just very—and I still am—confused with that choice.” [114:22]
  • Crissle: “She was in the booth countless times not being able to sing. Why didn’t somebody say...we’re gonna have to send you home?” [113:46]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Beyoncé:
  “They’re saying hello.” —Kid Fury on Beyoncé’s “perked” body [02:33]
• On nostalgia comebacks:
  “We’re going to reheat the same nachos until they stop paying for tickets.” —Crissle, on B2K [18:48]
• On friendship transitions:
  “To have a friend, you have to be a friend.” —Kid Fury [86:00]
• On Summer Walker’s drama:
  “Why would I ever want to be main? Look at your life. This must be so stressful for you.” —Summer, via Kid Fury [64:14]
• On divorced co-parenting:
  “Children well-adjusted.” —Crissle, summarizing Kandi & Todd’s example [52:20]
• On queer family trauma:
  “It's just so baked into our experience to have parents that suck to one degree.” —Kid Fury [91:18]
• On movie musical casting:
  “Please make it stop. Love, Rashad.” —Listener’s plea for only casting legit singers in film musicals [109:44]

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Tone & Style

• Unapologetically Black, Queer, and Hilarious: The episode’s language and references are as irreverent and sharp as ever, with plenty of cursing, inside jokes, and pop culture riffs.
• Vulnerable Where It Counts: In discussing family hurt, divorce, or therapy, both hosts deliver sincerity and tough love alongside the laughs.
• Pop-Literate and Shady: Every news item is filtered through the lens of decades of hip-hop/R&B fandom, especially when “clowning” reality TV stars or aging boy bands.

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Beyoncé Banter & Kelly Rowland Praise — 01:05–04:12
• Black Excellence (Blake Cameron James) — 04:12–08:37
• Iyanla Vanzant Recap Mockery — 08:37–15:04
• B2K Reunion — 15:04–21:17
• Usher v. Brian Michael Cox — 21:20–29:46
• Offset & Cardi B — 30:00–36:53
• Toni Braxton’s Private Life — 41:13–48:10
• Kandi & Todd Divorce — 48:10–56:58
• Summer Walker/Pizza Hut Saga — 57:30–69:25
• Listener Letter: Friendship & Adulting — 79:55–87:17
• Listener Letter: Queer Family Trauma — 87:17–99:20
• Passed Reads (Abusive Sibling Rant) — 101:15–106:56
• Hollywood Casting (Wicked Rant) — 108:31–117:14

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Summary Takeaways

• The Read is still podcasting gold: plenty of “reads,” pop references, and heartfelt listener advice.
• The hosts continue to balance levity and truth, especially when critiquing the entertainment industry and handling tough audience questions.
• Despite evolving adult priorities, friendships can be maintained with intention and flexibility—a recurring theme this episode.
• Family wounds linger, but found family and healing are within reach.
• Never trust a musical with non-singers in lead roles—Rashad (and musical theater fans everywhere) beg Hollywood to do better.

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Original, memorable, and always on time with the tea, this episode is The Read at its best: a gonzo mix of shade, sincerity, and Black pop culture wit.

Transcript

[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

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[Kid Fury]

Happy. Oh, hi. Welcome back. We're just, you know, wrapping up the end of November here. Maybe a little bird, maybe a little stuffing, maybe a little, you know, dressing aside, things of that nature. Hmm. I am aspiring to sit as high and confident as Beyonce's breasts.

[Crissle West]

Woo. And I am Christy Toliver and this is the read. Jesus God. Beyonce. Fuck, bro.

[Kid Fury]

She's now at the car racing. She's been out seeing her sister before.

[Crissle West]

Oh my God.

[Kid Fury]

She's shared photographs and I'm sorry other mommy, but. Oh my God, that those titties are up. Okay.

[Crissle West]

Perked baby.

[Kid Fury]

They're saying hello.

[Crissle West]

It's the whole fucking body for me. I can't get over her at that racetrack. I said Giselle can. Hello. Like can we breathe? Can we breathe?

[Kid Fury]

God damn, can they breathe is what she says.

[Crissle West]

She had her titties poking out all up in the middle that man car. I know. That's right. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So you them titties said this ain't Texas and there ain't no hold them. We all ourselves.

[Crissle West]

She looks so good. Beyonce said, I don't care if the whole planet is on oic. I'm not. She looks so good.

[Kid Fury]

She and Kelly are so gorgeous. And calendria while we're here.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, let's just.

[Kid Fury]

And I'm seeing these little clips of you performing the things and stuff again. And I'm just like what a. What about an Al Biche? Can we get maybe an Ipisha? I'm just saying like yes, Jag. Whenever you're ready.

[Crissle West]

We went to the Boy's Mind in Brooklyn the other day, and I got to see Kelly and all of that up close. And when I tell you the finest of ones, Kelly Rowland, so phenomenal. Just don't make no sense for her to be as. As beautiful as she is. She killed her. The whole show was great. It was just n smoking and vibing and, you know, we had a time. But yeah, that Kelly Rowland. That Kelly Rowland. Them Children of Destiny, they look good. They just do.

[Kid Fury]

It is true. That is true. Okay, well, we're gonna go ahead and jump into some block excellence very quickly. I'm gonna give block excellence over to a new fave of mine by the name of Blake Cameron James. Blake Cameron James is currently starring in hbo, formerly known as Maxine. Their new series it welcome to Derry. I've discussed it in a read recently. It is a prequel to the it story. And Blake plays a young boy named Will Hanlon. And I just wanted to make him Black Excellence because we're now at, what, episode five, I think came on last night, and he's just the light. The Singing man is an excellent, excellent actor, especially being so young. When they film us, he is cute as a button. Like, his little grin makes my heart grow, and my heart could use it. And he had a scene in an episode, maybe episode two, that was so cute, I almost cried. And it was him. It was a scene where he's speaking to the girl. I read the little black girl. I read Ronnie Damn. Who I think he has a crush on. I've seen the films, the TV movie, read the book. I kind of know where this is going for Will, but it's. Yeah. And so he kind of got bullied because he loves science.

[Crissle West]

He's a bookworm, okay?

[Kid Fury]

You know, loves science, loves astrology, those types of things. And so you got, like, stink bomb because he's, you know, little black kid. He got sent to detention. Ronnie got sent to detention because she's actually bad, okay? And so they were in there and he was, like, reading his signs, the book, and she kind of, like, made a. Like, a firm little slick comment. Like, you are the only kids I've ever seen reading a textbook on purpose or reading it really, like, nothing. And he, in his own way, was just explaining why he finds signs fascinating and used the stink bomb that he got hit with as an example. And, like, the chemicals in it are also found on this planet and on that planet. So he's like, sure, to you, I might smell like a stink bomb, but Maybe I'm covered in stardust or something like that. And then he just makes this little, like, shy grin, like, that's why I like science. And she kind of looks back at him, like, I guess that's cool. And it is the cute. It was like, so cute, so innocent. So nice to see, like, a little brown child in a big production scripted series like this being like, I love science. And here's, like, some really nice wording to go along. Like, here's a good, cute little monologue to go along with it. I just. Especially because I said this on Instagram. When you get a scripted show with black people in it that is set anytime in the American past, but my God, the 80s and before, just prepare for them to get lynched. It don't matter. Like, you just know our experiences that's coming along with the black characters.

[Crissle West]

Got to. Got to.

[Kid Fury]

So in the midst of all of that, it was very sweet to see this very cute moment with this black kid who it seems like is also going to have like, a. A tiny, cute kid love story with another black person.

[Crissle West]

Amazing. Didn't know it could be done. Y' all love it.

[Kid Fury]

And it's white girls to choose from in the cast. So I'm like, okay, that's delightful. So, yeah, I wanted to make this young man black excellence. Every time he's on, it's discreet and I feel proud. And I never met the kid in my life. I think you're going places, sir. Keep at it. And stay away from those drains and those clowns.

[Crissle West]

I just googled him. He is adorable.

[Kid Fury]

Just cute as a button.

[Crissle West]

Yes, he is.

[Kid Fury]

All right, let us start our regular programming in a segment that we call Hot Tops. It is now time for our pop culture segment. And what a gift to me. We're going to start with what a present. In the news war in the media reports that one Iyanla Van Zing, all right. Is on her way back to television to do what?

[Crissle West]

She did this just for you for your birthday. She said, it's Kiff Fury. And I. I've come. I come with a gift for you. Should. You should go on Iyanla fix my loan. You probably don't even need no life.

[Kid Fury]

Fixing, but you should go on.

[Crissle West]

You should go anyway. Do you know I got a comment on my YouTube on the Crystal's couch YouTube that was like, it's funny how you made fun of Iyanla for doing this all these years, and now you're doing the exact same thing. And I said, I just love that you Think what I'm doing and what Iyan. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. But that's not what matters. You think I'm walking around with bitches, having them look at pictures of Harriet Tubman and Harry and little baby dolls and having them spit into holes?

[Kid Fury]

Right? Did you shove Mama from Breakfast Club? Did you prefer a hole carved out in her front yard? Right? Think about the answer.

[Crissle West]

Did I make Lori LaRosa repeat affirmations? I said. I just love that you think me and Iyanla are doing the same thing. This is how I. This is why you gotta be so careful of what you call therapy. Because y' all think Iyanla is therapy. Y' all really do.

[Kid Fury]

She doesn't. Because, look, this is what she posted on her Instagram. The blurb from, I guess, the press releases. It says, renowned spiritual coach and best settling off.

[Crissle West]

Oh, God.

[Kid Fury]

Therapy ain't nowhere that word is not nowhere near she not.

[Crissle West]

Because she knows none of it.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. Bestselling author Iyanla Van Zand returns to own with the powerful new series, Iyanla the Inside Fix. Oh, yeah. The other one was called Fix My Life.

[Crissle West]

Right?

[Kid Fury]

Well, I guess, you know, that didn't really stick either.

[Crissle West]

So it's like, well, she didn't fix nobody's life. She made it so much worse for Ring.

[Kid Fury]

Saturday, January 17th. Ugh. Can't wait. TiVo set. This fresh take revisits 12 of the most unforgettable episodes.

[Crissle West]

Oh, God. So it's not even a new show. It's just her recapping all of you.

[Kid Fury]

Arianla, fuck you. I was excited. I thought this was new stuff. Wait, Offering deeper reflect. Oh, so this is gonna be like a. I'm reacting to my old YouTube.

[Crissle West]

Videos, to my reactions, right? Yes. Like, oh, my God, just like, when YouTubers be like, Let me react to my first video. Thirteen years.

[Kid Fury]

That's what I'm saying. Whatever.

[Crissle West]

Yep. Yep. That's what that is. In hindsight, I shouldn't have told that girl that she was a whore slut of a mother. And because she got that from her whore slut of a mother, oh, my goodness.

[Kid Fury]

It would be so furious if they bring back some of the people too, and they, like, sit in front of YAML at the end of the episode, she's another comedy, and she's like, hey. They're like, hey, Iyanla, here are all the ways you didn't fix my life.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Here are all the ways you actually made it markedly worse.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. I had to go hire somebody who actually know what they're doing with mental health after I was publicly humiliated on your television program. So thanks a lot for that.

[Kid Fury]

The first 12 months was really just unpacking being on your show, and we had to go do more. It says, the inside fix is a deepening. That's just the sentence.

[Crissle West]

No, it's not.

[Kid Fury]

I think she wrote that part.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Where Fix my life invited us to confront the pain that shaped us. The inside fix invites us to meet the truths that can free us. This is the quote from her.

[Crissle West]

So fix my life wasn't about inviting the truths that can free us. That's.

[Kid Fury]

I don't know.

[Crissle West]

What was the fix then?

[Kid Fury]

Oh. In a time when the world feels increasingly disconnected, we need to return to what matters. Me, who doesn't say that? Truth, empathy, and self awareness. Real healing isn't about repairing what's broken, but about reconnecting with our sense of self, our identity, our worth, and our ability to start fresh. This series is a reminder that transformation is possible, and the journey toward healing and wholeness is one worth taking. I wonder if Iyana's gonna trans. This isn't until, like, someone helpful.

[Crissle West]

Okay. Right. Because I. I really. I'm stuck on what these people. First of all, it sounds like there's zero new material actually going on here other than Iyanla sitting in front of a camera telling y' all how she fucked it up or got it right.

[Kid Fury]

Maybe.

[Crissle West]

Maybe she thinks she got something right. Right. That's really all that. It sounds like. Like, you know what? Y' all actually. Times are getting kind of hard and them Oprah checks don't run the way they used to, so I'm actually gonna have to come back and maybe dig through some of that footage. Legally, I cannot do what I was doing no more. The state of Georgia has asked me to stop. But. Yeah, can I get some money, please?

[Kid Fury]

I was hoping she was gonna have some new baby daddies, put together a Fisher Price bike or fucking.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, that's what you wanted. You wanted somebody to read the Diary.

[Kid Fury]

Of Malcolm X. Yeah.

[Crissle West]

You wanted to be entertained by somebody else's circumstances and the way that Iyanla was going to manipulate those for a television audience. That's what you wanted. You wanted to watch.

[Kid Fury]

Specifically, here's this person with this deep, real trauma.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah. Bad shit. Bad shit every episode.

[Kid Fury]

And how can Iyanla turn it into Universal Studios? That's what I want. But I'm sure I'll find a delightful clip or meme in here somewhere. Cause she can't Help herself when it comes to that. So either way, I win because.

[Crissle West]

Okay, that's a good way of looking at it.

[Kid Fury]

This is gonna be funny, I think. Also winning, baby, if you are an Iyanla fan and you've been on the lookout for some new B2K music, girl, it might as well be your goddamn birthday. Because the B2K children, I don't know who that could possibly be, but the B2K children are preparing new music for the Dolls. I can't imagine why, but it's happening. Omarion posted on his Instagram because I guess he's like the. The Trump of the leader. Like, I don't know, the main nigga. I don't know, the spokesperson. He's like the Nicole Schweppes Ginger Ale. Yeah. You know how Nicole Schweppes Ginger Ale would like, speak, sing, dance, dress, and then if any one of them even like raised their hand during an interview, she'd shoot them.

[Crissle West]

There can only be one bitch. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. Stress your ass up. Yeah. She went out of her way to be like, them bitches can't sing. See, write, read. And I hate that. Our album comes out next week. It was so fascinating. Yeah. B2K with a picture that I guess is a new one in a style of one of their old ones. This looks nostalgic for some reason I can't remember. I don't know if this is. Whatever. It's them and some matrixy looking thing and it says new music. Loading. Oh, I just noticed there's a date here. February 13th.

[Crissle West]

Oh, Valentine's Day for the host.

[Kid Fury]

Is the 14th a bad release date day or. It was just like right before it. So you can pick which one's your favorite for tomorrow. I know.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, that's probably actually what it is. I was thinking the 13th must be a Friday, which it is. So. Yeah, it must be an album or something. But yeah, that's. That's right before Valentine's Day. On purpose to try to get all you millennials who are just speeding towards 30 or just turned 30. They are on yalls asses with yet another tour. And now some songs for y'. All. Here's the thing.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

I feel like if you're a fan of B2K, there is just no way you're gonna be right. You're just not gonna be a fan of new B2K music. Like, I don't know how nothing about none of you niggas, and I do mean none of you niggas gives music like. Like, it just Don't. I don't. Not a single one of you do. I look at and think there's a musician. Like, there's somebody with a specific artistic musical voice who has something to say and needs to express it through song.

[Kid Fury]

Like, I feel. I. I feel music from Omarion probably because he tries the most, because he's.

[Crissle West]

He's. Because he's right there in the front. That's carefully.

[Kid Fury]

I don't need from Omarion, you know, But I. And I. I don't think that I've heard anything from Omarion in a while that I've connected to. But every now and then there'll be a song and be like, oh, that's cute. So it again, like, Nicole is giving. Okay, let me go back to these dolls. Let's get this fucking money.

[Crissle West]

That's it. Just like Iyanla. And let's go back to 12 of my craziest episodes. Let's just go get this money. We're gonna reheat the same nachos until the stop paying for tickets.

[Kid Fury]

I don't know how they finished more than one tour, I believe, because everybody got over this one.

[Crissle West]

Everybody need that check. Yeah, yeah. Because every last one of them got the over it when they got their first check. That's exactly what it is.

[Kid Fury]

To the initial point, though. I am fascinated on what music from a former boy band of boys 20.

[Crissle West]

Fucking years ago.

[Kid Fury]

What that music and visual component will be like with them all now being adults.

[Crissle West]

Right. Is this gonna be grown woman music?

[Kid Fury]

Music, Right. That has matured a bit. But also, y' all don't really get along very well or often.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. And have any of you made mature music?

[Kid Fury]

Well. Oh, Marion has either booty like groceries.

[Crissle West]

All right, so that answers the question, doesn't it?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. And because that wasn't even his line, but it wasn't this. Sorry that this sounds terrible. This sounds like a horrible idea. I would almost rather y' all just keep touring on the old. But okay, good luck. It's not for me.

[Kid Fury]

It'll be for.

[Crissle West]

You'll be there. You'll be there. You'll be. You. You might not be at the show, but I think you'll. I think you'll stream it when the music hits the. The airwaves or whatever they call streaming service.

[Kid Fury]

I don't know what you're thinking.

[Crissle West]

Oh, never mind. It.

[Kid Fury]

I just really don't. I will not be going out of my way to listen to this. But if someone's like, oh, my God, the B2B2K album is actually fierce. Then I will like how many people. If it gets good reviews, then I will check it out. How many people have to say it?

[Crissle West]

How many people have to say it's good before you go check it out?

[Kid Fury]

Three.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Reputable sources.

[Crissle West]

Reputable. All right. Not just any old gays. All right.

[Kid Fury]

Hell, no.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

If you're coming From a Day 26 perspective, I'm not interested. All right, well, you can take that how you like.

[Crissle West]

Okay. That's fair enough.

[Kid Fury]

Speaking of that realm of music, did you know that Usher is suing Brian Michael Cox?

[Crissle West]

No.

[Kid Fury]

Have you heard the name Brian Michael Cox since Danny D. Kane was a group?

[Crissle West]

Is that the man from.

[Kid Fury]

All right.

[Crissle West]

Okay, so. No.

[Kid Fury]

Which man?

[Crissle West]

Oh, never mind.

[Kid Fury]

Mr. Seducer.

[Crissle West]

What? I thought that was the name of an actor on, like, Succession or something. Who am I thinking of?

[Kid Fury]

You're thinking of Brian Cox.

[Crissle West]

Okay. Okay. See, I be there. I just don't be all the way there, but I be there. Okay. So this is a different person.

[Kid Fury]

Yep.

[Crissle West]

Now, why is Usher suing this nigga?

[Kid Fury]

I think he said that Brian Michael Cox owes him for a loan. Yeah. 1.7 million. Suing longtime music producer, other associates in their attorney over a loan he says he gave them for a Buckhead restaurant that never opens. See these Atlanta restaurants.

[Crissle West]

Oh, restaurant.

[Kid Fury]

I'll get you.

[Crissle West]

Famously hard to to keep afloat.

[Kid Fury]

He filed in Fulton County. Inspiring Michael Cox, Keith Thomas Traheyes and entertainment lawyer Alcide Honore. I'm sorry if I said that wrong. I was just. The group came to him last year with the idea to open a restaurant and lounge called Homage atl. The group looked to purchase property at such and such Piedmont Road and Buckhead, former site of Ocean prime that closed in 2015. So some you atlns will probably know where I'm talking about. I don't, but I'm sure you. The singer did not want to be an investor, but agrees to loan the group $1.7 million and wired it to a trust account in January.

[Crissle West]

Damn.

[Kid Fury]

Months later, the property still hadn't been purchased. Yuck. And over the summer, Usher asked for the loan to be repaid. He received 1 million in August, but said he hasn't received the remaining balance of 700,000. Flossu accuses Alcide of admitting that giving the money back was not easy because it had been used for other purposes. Which is a quote. Wow. Well, you admitted that you used my money for other purposes than what I lent it to you.

[Crissle West]

Right? Not the restaurant.

[Kid Fury]

Purposely go, well, that's okay, bitch, I let you niggas almost $2 million, and the place hasn't even been purchased.

[Crissle West]

Don't this just sound so niggardly? Don't this just.

[Kid Fury]

It does sound like Bravo. It sounds like.

[Crissle West]

Really? This sounds like a housewife storyline, Man.

[Kid Fury]

I feel like it's somewhere in here.

[Crissle West]

I sent the girls 1.7 million. I didn't even want to invest, but they begged me. They said, oh, my God, a lounge right in the middle of Buckhead. How can it fail?

[Kid Fury]

How much would they have to pay you to work BravoCon to, like, mediate Potomac live at BravoCon?

[Crissle West]

How many days? BravoCon?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I think it's a week.

[Crissle West]

A weekend.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, God, I think it's a weekend.

[Crissle West]

Okay. A weekend. I would do a weekend at BravoCon for 350,000. Obviously before somebody thought I meant dollars. No.

[Kid Fury]

Whoever you are.

[Crissle West]

No, no, no, no, no, no. Because them bitches. No, no, no.

[Kid Fury]

Mm.

[Crissle West]

Mm. I'm gonna have to take an ibuprofen before I even get there. I know that for a fact.

[Kid Fury]

It's too.

[Crissle West]

Y' all finna be talking in circles and not just directly answering the question and being snippy and shady, all of that. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[Kid Fury]

But I mean, the entire establishment is also filled to the brim with wine drunk Karens. I would rather be in a shallow grave.

[Crissle West]

It's not just the housewives. It's the housewife stands.

[Kid Fury]

Exactly.

[Crissle West]

The kind who would come to BravoCon with wine and a fucking Stanley Cup.

[Kid Fury]

Exactly.

[Crissle West]

Pushing bitches aside because they need a picture with Teresa and Doja Cat or absolutely Doja Darby. Leave me alone. Get out my face.

[Kid Fury]

Doja Darby is where I draw the line into a smiley face because it pleases me. Brian Michael Cox said to this lawsuit on his Instagram, where he posted a throwback photo of him with his arm around Usher. He wearing a Billionaire boys club shirt. Probably super old.

[Crissle West]

Got to be.

[Kid Fury]

But, you know, they also every now and then, poke their head out in the fashion world. He said. I've learned a lot recently about being careful with who you choose to invest in a business with. So. Andy Cohen, Sheree Parks. No matter how small the investment. Well, it wasn't very small. No, quite large.

[Crissle West]

Quite a lot of money, actually.

[Kid Fury]

It's the problem. I'm currently in the middle of a failed deal that I didn't orchestrate. And while the situation has been disappointing, I know my name will be cleared by both sides. It's just unfortunate this clarity did come sooner. My legal team has also advised me of a lawsuit involving company where I am only a passive minority shareholder. I was not a participant in the business transaction. I've known involvement in the ongoing legal process. While I'm unable to share more details right now, I want to make one thing absolutely clear. My 27 year friendship with Usher remains fully intact. I appreciate everyone who has reached out with concern. Thank you for the love, patience and the understanding. Amazing and incredibly fascinating that your 27 year friendship can remain fully intact while this person is suing. You don't know that life.

[Crissle West]

Are you sure about that? Because you make it sound like, oh, I should just sue in everybody, you guys. But don't worry, we'll figure it out. Yeah, Usher didn't post no picture talking about, hey, don't pay attention to the headlines. Brian Michael Cox still my nigga. I just have to sue him because he owned the documents with everybody. Like, he didn't say that. So it just feels kind of weird and awkward for. For you to be saying that. But is he saying he got scammed as well?

[Kid Fury]

It seems like he's alluding to, you know, just being a part of this group venture for the restaurant. He is now learning that he should do business with certain people or better business or what have you. It sounds like he's passing blame off to other people in this lawsuit and essentially just saying, I was a part of the idea or the business venture. I didn't fuck up the actual handling or mishandling of the money. And I'm sure once this gets cleared up, you will see that. And to be honest with you, I believe that, that he wasn't actively responsible in this, but.

[Crissle West]

Cause why would you do that to Usher? Why would you? You know, I don't think it's worth it to fuck up your. Your relationship and your dynamic with Usher. Over a million dollars.

[Kid Fury]

Like a 27 year friendship.

[Crissle West]

Well, almost 2 million. Right. It just don't seem worth it to, you know, that that person, that relationship with that person is worth far more than that. But yeah, I can't start in a.

[Kid Fury]

Restaurant or trying to open a restaurant literally in a bitch. You background check everybody.

[Crissle West]

That's literally where I was going. Like you opening up anything in Atlanta is automatically a red flag. It's just that place has a reputation.

[Kid Fury]

For too many grifters.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Playing games in a restaurant business out there.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

It's crazy.

[Crissle West]

Yes.

[Kid Fury]

And fucking. There's this actual good food.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

Or with good places to eat.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Well, you know, hopefully it actually does get cleared up and then Usher will post the picture of him and this man and. And everybody will be happy. But yeah, I just said, do run me my money back. Do. Do that right now. Thank you so much.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, if he's hurting for it, then Russell Simmons could probably give a tone now.

[Crissle West]

You know that man, he can't even sniff the United States.

[Kid Fury]

Offset has an explanation.

[Crissle West]

And.

[Kid Fury]

And he's innocent. So he deactivated his social media accounts, many of them, I think, last week, in the midst of him spiraling out of his control, his wife got a baby with a new nigga. Now she seems to be quite content with never, ever hearing his ass voice again. He's got new baby rumors his mixtape flopped into the soil. And, you know, he's trying to figure out how he went from being one of the the Beatles or Guns N Roses or whoever the them niggas compared themselves to all the time. And now he's Rodman. Whatever. The. I don't know, Michael Jackson, you know, Michael Jack. I don't. Whatever. Not even that.

[Crissle West]

No. But that he maybe remember when he had the jacket on? Remember when somebody let him wear that jacket?

[Kid Fury]

He did use a dance for Paula Duel or whatever. So he said someone on Instagram said, he's losing his good job. Cardi. True. He responded to this.

[Crissle West]

Oh, no.

[Kid Fury]

I said, I'm not. This Internet is fucking up at my chances as a black man to see my kids with false accusations. Not even mad at her for her response because you don't play with certain shit, especially kids. I'm a mad cause this fucks up at my Thanksgiving with my kids. This is the first period that I've seen in this so far.

[Crissle West]

Okay, okay. Yep.

[Kid Fury]

So all of that was.

[Crissle West]

Yep, yep, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

All fake post shit. Not fair to me or her or them. Smh. I'm sorry this what you guys thought I did. I'm innocent.

[Crissle West]

But innocent of what? What is this in response to?

[Kid Fury]

So he's saying that when after Cardi had the baby, there was a screenshot that came out of what seemed to be his Instagram stories where he said, my kid. Lol. And it was just like that caption over.

[Crissle West]

Right, right, right, right.

[Kid Fury]

And so everybody, including Cardi, responded like, nigga, you have got to get off whatever it is in your bloodstream and go directly to the people then. Cause you've lost it.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So then he claimed that that wasn't real. That was like Photoshopped. He never posted that. And somebody did that shit really? To like, start some shit. Now here's the thing. I Don't know if anyone actually saw that on his Instagram.

[Crissle West]

Right. I was gonna say. Who's saying that was the screenshot. Okay, well. And that's very easy to do. Make us scream.

[Kid Fury]

It is.

[Crissle West]

It is almost too easy. So.

[Kid Fury]

So that's here he's saying, you know, not even mad at her for her response. Cardi, because you don't play with certain shit, especially kids, right? But he's claiming that he's mad because false accusations and that type of stuff fucks up his chances as a black man to see my kids. He says, I'm a mad cause this fucks up at my Thanksgiving with my kids. So I'm gonna say, like, the. One of the first things I thought when I finished reading this, I mean, it took me about 27 minutes, but once I got through, you know, my deciphering, I was like, how does Thanksgiving work when you got seven kids with, like, three, four people? Like, wouldn't it be kind of fucked up? Regard. Like, I don't. Like, Nick Cannon can't have Thanksgiving with all his kids, so he just doesn't.

[Crissle West]

Have it with any of them. That's how you solve that problem. So, like, I hope you spend it with your niggas. You spend it at the strip club. Yuck. Yeah, so there's that. Was. Was he gonna be with all of his kids anyway? Probably not in the first place, right? Sansha Cardi is like, yeah, you won't see the three you have with me. Go see the four you have with them other hoes. You be all right.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, I'm just like, what do you. What do you want?

[Crissle West]

Also offset, if I may offer this, if the one and only thing you had done was post and delete this, or somebody lied and said that you did that, if that was the only thing you had done. Since the two of you have been separated for like a year now, or I guess over a year, however long it's been. I really doubt that this would have any effect on custody battles or who's seeing who for the holidays or any of that other shit. It's probably your pattern of behavior, the repeated things you have done to antagonize this woman while y' all were together and after you separated throughout the duration of her last two pregnancies. It's probably, though, those things that are keeping that woman from wanting to be cordial with you straight up, telling you, don't call my fucking line. Do not darken my door. We can communicate through the attorneys. Like Halle had to do with that. Little young nigga, we simply are going to have to communicate through the attorneys because you do not know how to fucking act.

[Kid Fury]

See you in court and I'm not talking to you about it.

[Crissle West]

And that's what I can't blame that girl for. Because somebody got to be the grown one in this situation. Somebody gotta look out for them kids and yeah, yeah, yeah, you're completely correct. Yeah, it's all the shit offset.

[Kid Fury]

It's all the. Let's say that picture was photoshopped and it was fake, first of all. Thank God.

[Crissle West]

Yes.

[Kid Fury]

Because that was wild.

[Crissle West]

Messy. Messy.

[Kid Fury]

But we can then point to the three faux diss records while this lady was pregnant. We can point to the countless affairs. We can point to the wanton harassment. We can point to the alleged threat. Like, there are so many things.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

In here outside of a possible Photoshop AI picture. Cardi, the mother of your dumb kids, as well as a judge would go. No.

[Crissle West]

Yes.

[Kid Fury]

No.

[Crissle West]

Not to mention the things you've probably said and done to her in real life. Not to mention the text messages you've probably sent her privately, directly to her phone, or the things you've gotten on FaceTime instead. Like, it's just. It's not this one thing, nigga. You need to take a look at the way you've been acting and understand that all of this is coming together and causing you problems now.

[Kid Fury]

Hey, y'.

[Crissle West]

All.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

No baby, right?

[Kid Fury]

No babe. She posted photos with the her and the baby on her Instagram recently and yeah, I'm satisfied now. Little brown nugget wrapped up obviously in Patriots. His daddy last name on it.

[Crissle West]

The police. Course he is. I'm sure the team gave her that looks cute.

[Kid Fury]

That's what I'm like. Like that is the exact same thought I when I I was like, where does one get like a newborn swaddle blanket rep? Where I was like, yeah, the team printed that up.

[Crissle West]

I just don't know if they do it for all of his kids. But that's very sweet. That's really cute. A little Stephie Diggs Jr. Aw.

[Kid Fury]

Super cute little Scorpio baby. It says 114 here. So I he was born on the 4th and on the last photo on this slide, lots of people noticed a huge diamond ring on Cardi's finger.

[Crissle West]

Ooh, okay. Why not? Sure.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, fuck it. Why.

[Crissle West]

Don'T we just get engaged again? Are we even divorced? It don't matter. Let's do it again.

[Kid Fury]

Who cares?

[Crissle West]

Oh, sweet baby though. I'm glad I'm here safely and et cetera and all that.

[Kid Fury]

Very, very cool yeah, yeah, yeah. The other option in marriage wise, I guess you could go is the Toni Braxton one. She told Entertainment Tonight that she didn't want people to know she was married to Birdman. Not for the reasons that, you know are obvious. Yeah. Like him.

[Crissle West]

Cause gross. Right.

[Kid Fury]

Completely unsightly and hard to look at.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But mostly because, you know, typical reasons I relate with. You don't want people all up in your business, they know as much as you tell them, et cetera, et cetera.

[Crissle West]

I get that.

[Kid Fury]

And Toni has seemed that way for most of her life or career. I don't remember many times where she's been like, my man, my man, my man. You just kind of know if you know.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, yeah. I can't remember her. Hold on, hold on. I'm confusing her with Holly Robinson.

[Kid Fury]

Pete.

[Crissle West]

Nope. I can't remember why.

[Kid Fury]

Why?

[Crissle West]

It's like, similar.

[Kid Fury]

I love this. And Holly Robb.

[Crissle West]

No, but it's like similar era. And so for some reason, they're just kind of like. In my head, they kind of look like cousins type situation. But. No, you right. I have not.

[Kid Fury]

They do look like they could be cousins.

[Crissle West]

I can't think of somebody that Tony has like, stepped out with that the rest of us knew about.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, she's been in relation, like we've seen. But yeah, she's just usually not like. And so this. This fall.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

Do a little like. Yeah, So I get that. I didn't realize that. I guess she's still with him because I thought that they weren't together anymore. But I guess that this speaks to exactly what it is we're saying. Tony is like, who invited you? I didn't say that I was going to tell you anything about my relationship, but I think I just remember reading some time ago that they had separated. Maybe they did, and they got back together and, you know, just kept it private. And there's also the cash money, no limit. Versus the other day where Tony's sister was there with Birdman. And people were like, this is kind of weird. And then Tamar made it weirder by not just being like, girl, ain't nobody fucking Birdman. I was just there because that's my homie. We hang out all the time. We go to the casino, we smoke cigars and shit. Like, that's my brother. And people would have still had something to say. But she was like, me weird about it, of course. Right. So. But this little interview made it seem like. Yeah. She said they are married. They've been married. And essentially she has been keeping it to her goddamn self. Also, she's starring in a movie on Lifetime that just came out called He Wasn't Man Enough. In case you'd like to.

[Crissle West]

No, I wouldn't actually.

[Kid Fury]

I think you want to watch it.

[Crissle West]

No, I don't think so.

[Kid Fury]

Go ahead and check it out.

[Crissle West]

I think I know exactly how I'm go. No, I think I know already that I can. I'm trying not to laugh at. Of course you didn't want us to know you were married to Birdman because, like, who would. Yuck. Birdman. Just. I wouldn't be surprised if his breasts smell like mothballs, you know, it's just. That's just the look he has. So. Yes. I thought you was going to talk when you said Toni. I thought she was going to talk about her talking about the Kayla Nicole Halloween costume thing. Because what you're talking about, you didn't see Kayla Nicole's Halloween costume the. When she did Toni Braxton.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah. Yes, I paid that. What was. Okay, I saw what she was dressed up, but I didn't see any response to it or anything.

[Crissle West]

Well, Kayla is Travis Kelsey's ex girlfriend.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Travis Kelsey is engaged to Taylor Swift.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Taylor Swift put out that whole Flop album.

[Kid Fury]

And yeah, I know what the meaning of it was.

[Crissle West]

Okay, Right. So. So it Kayla. So Kayla's costume went viral because everybody was like, oh, this is her response to Taylor being like, oh, I don't have a fat ass and I'm not a bad bitch, blah, blah, blah.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah. And the movie's called He Wasn't Man Enough.

[Crissle West]

Right. So I figured she was doing promo for that and somebody asked her about the Kayla costume because she was on camera talking about. Well, you know, I didn't even really know too much about it. They just told me, you know, this young girl did my video. So I watched it. She looks so good and I commented on it. I didn't know all the backstory, so, you know, I'm old. My bad.

[Kid Fury]

Why the fuck does she apologize like you bad? What, because they dressed up as you? No, no, that doesn't have nothing to do with Tony.

[Crissle West]

Right, but Tony commented something on the girl's Instagram like, oh, you look so cute or whatever. And the Swifties thought Toni Braxton was taking sides in Kayla Nicole versus.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That is absolutely ridicul.

[Crissle West]

Right. Toni Braxton is like 58 years old. She is not playing Yalls Internet games.

[Kid Fury]

If she knew that that was Shade, why should that have anything to do with Me to the point where I'm not going to say, hey, girl, thanks for giving me a flower. I don't give a fuck that you were being petty. You dressed up as me in a Halloween thing. I think you look nice. I think the clip or whatever is nice. Hey, hey, hey, hey, black girl. Flowers, of course, asked to turn into such and such and such and such. First of all, I will never listen to the lifetimes and sex and videotapes of Pamela Anderson, whatever the fuck that album called. I'm not gonna listen to that for obvious reasons. But what I heard was that she's on there talking about, I'm not a bad bitch and I'm not a savage and I'm not melanated. And perhaps I've never, you know, I don't know how Taraji got on the boat, Whatever. So it's like, if you can do all of that, I can't dress up as Toni Braxton, right?

[Crissle West]

And of course you can. Of course you can.

[Kid Fury]

But, you know, it's more of a diss to him anyway.

[Crissle West]

It absolutely is. Yes.

[Kid Fury]

Have you heard the song?

[Crissle West]

Have you heard and did you pay attention to the chorus? Especially lyrically? Did you. Did that resonate for everybody? Because I'm saying your man is just not you. You got a whole song about how the wood changed your life, and I'm like, I mean, you know, it sticks aplenty, girl. I don't. Didn't really cause no stars and stripes over here or whatever, but yeah, good for Tony, I guess. I'm glad that whole situation with Tamar was cleared up because remember, niggas was like, nah, why was you at the verses wiping that nigga forehead and giving him a little butterfly? Right? I had questions about what she was doing with your sister's husband. So glad we all know.

[Kid Fury]

Well. Trouble in the sex dungeon as Candy Burris is reportedly filing for divorce. She and her husband Todd apparently splitting after being married for 11 years and having to children together. What did Candy say? Candy said, after deep thought and a lot of prayer, I've made the decision to move forward with the divorce. This is a difficult and emotional time, but my focus remains on protecting my peace, being the best mother I can be, and co parenting with love and respect, I'm stepping into a new chapter, pouring into my work, my family, and my own growth. I'm grateful to everyone who supported us throughout the years. And as for privacy, grace, and understanding as we navigate this transition with our family, good luck with that. Kandy. I haven't looked, but I'M sure that you are being blasted with. It was all a scheme by Ty.

[Crissle West]

I know they have.

[Kid Fury]

I know they have Mama joy.

[Crissle West]

All the Mama Joy shit. Oh, my God.

[Kid Fury]

I know it is an avalanche of that shit in all of your socials right now, so.

[Crissle West]

Yes. And I will spare you my Mama Joyce impression.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, same.

[Crissle West]

But, yeah, I'm sure Kandi had a tight prenup. I'm sure Mama Joyce made sure that she had the strictest of prenups.

[Kid Fury]

You know, I mean, they have so many businesses together that he's gonna eat regardless.

[Crissle West]

Right, so. Exactly.

[Kid Fury]

But as far as her money that she walked into that bitch with.

[Crissle West]

As far as no spirit adventures. Right. You will be taking not one dime. No scrub. Right.

[Kid Fury]

Get it together, miss.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Todd's response was more nakedly. It was more of the naked direction. He just posted on his Instagram stories a quote from. I don't know, one of some quote Instagram. I was trying to give you a credit. I can't read it. You are the CEO of your life. Hire fire and promote accordingly. He posted with James Brown's the Boss playing over it.

[Crissle West]

You are the CEO of your life.

[Kid Fury]

Yep. Hire fire and promote accordingly, babes. O. Okay. That's what he said.

[Crissle West]

All right. Oh, that little girl looked just like candy.

[Kid Fury]

How cute are these kids?

[Crissle West]

Oh, my God.

[Kid Fury]

Just a day after this, Kandi and Todd were photographed together, all smiles, looking very, you know, looking like they were in good spirits for their daughter Blaze's sixth birthday. Um, and yes, Blaze, Ace, Riley. My God, they look like they're children out. They.

[Crissle West]

Jesus.

[Kid Fury]

Todd had none of. No chance. No chance.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

That kid look just like their mama.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So cute, but little.

[Crissle West]

I love. I actually do love this. If they are. You see? You see how parents can split up and then still be cool and chill for the sake of the kids.

[Kid Fury]

A day later, photographed smiling like you wouldn't even know if they didn't tell you. It is the baby's sixth birthday. It is Snow White themed. We're here as adults, being adults and not passing down garbage, vitriol, and trauma to these kids who I haven't even reached double digits yet.

[Crissle West]

Well, sometimes the two of you can look at each other and say, you know what? This relationship has actually run its course. I was already rich. You're now also rich. So it's not like I think we're good. We're not. Right? We're not going to some destitute life after this. You'll be just fine.

[Kid Fury]

Children well adjusted.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, the. We got Them two older ones off to New York shooting their own reality shows. And yeah, these babies are just fine. So, yeah, we can. When. When you see how Todd. For all the shit that y' all gave Todd, including and especially Candy's family, Todd actually did work. Okay? Todd did not pull an offset girl.

[Kid Fury]

Damn near just as hard as her, if not harder.

[Crissle West]

That nigga Todd kept a job, okay? He continued to hustle, yes, in entertainment, but he actually worked throughout the duration of his marriage. And so, yeah, if this is true and they've been separated for a few months anyway, then they probably are like, okay, fine, now y' all get to know. But, yeah, it's over.

[Kid Fury]

Far be it from me for giving a heterosexual nigga points, but sticking through Joyce and the rest.

[Crissle West]

Oh, okay. Now listen.

[Kid Fury]

All of their shenanies.

[Crissle West]

Cause I would have slapped one of them aunties. And I'm so for real. I am so for real. I would have smacked the shit out of Joyce.

[Kid Fury]

He really battened down the hatches and stayed as close to God as possible.

[Crissle West]

Right?

[Kid Fury]

He stuck with that lady.

[Crissle West]

The shit they did on camera, I know they was disrespectful off camera, I.

[Kid Fury]

Know the stuff that we didn't hear about must have just been intense, but. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they stuck it out. Started. He literally owns a restaurant that is essentially. It is named after them to a tribute to them, all that other type of shit. Putting money back into the like. Listen, and now divorce could be what it is, I'm sure personally, outside of these pictures, it is rough because what divorce is not right. But to your point, a day after posting these difficult things, they showed up to the baby birthday, taking photos, the kids were smiling. That's the way to do it.

[Crissle West]

That's the responsibility of parenthood.

[Kid Fury]

Right, Right.

[Crissle West]

And claiming paternity over her new kids. Not that.

[Kid Fury]

Not that he didn't do that. Allegedly, he's the same monster.

[Crissle West]

Allegedly, he didn't do that.

[Kid Fury]

This is why you can't have Thanksgiving.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah. Not the blatant harassment. It's this. One post and delete.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crissle West]

All right. Yeah. This is what parents supposed to do, no matter what issues y' all have. Blaze, Ace, I don't even know which child this is. That child turned six. And so it's time, Blaze. And so everybody better put on their fucking Mad Hatter outfit. Or Alison, whatever the fuck we doing. Wonder Woman, whatever it is, put on your fucking outfit, Snow White. Okay, so I need to see Grumpy Sneezy, whoever else, them other Sleepy and all them Other niggas like, damn, y'.

[Kid Fury]

All really don't know them names.

[Crissle West]

Dopey, Sneezy, Doc, Grumpy.

[Kid Fury]

Happy.

[Crissle West]

Oh, okay. Happy, Sad. No, Depressed. Bashful, Bashful, Blush. My colors are Blush and Bashful. No, I don't know all them, girl. Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey.

[Kid Fury]

I think you said Sneezy, didn't you?

[Crissle West]

Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, Dopey. I definitely did not say Sneezy. Okay.

[Kid Fury]

I think Sneezy's the one he missed.

[Crissle West]

The point being, y' all better round up all them niggas, plus Snow White and somebody to play the evil queen. And I need to see apples and I need to see cottages. Yes. And everybody needs to show up. The adults got better be the ready. Her daddy better have put on his Prince Charming outfit or whatever.

[Kid Fury]

And everybody, birds better sing Escape, period.

[Crissle West]

I want to see Terrace performing at the birthday party, period.

[Kid Fury]

Eris live.

[Crissle West]

And y' all better have booked Harris.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. No, for real. Because what does this have to do with the babies? The babies don't. They ain't got nothing to do with them. And, you know, the parents growing apart and everything like that, they're gonna feel it and see it and, you know, have to adjust and adapt. Anyway. Might as well in the midst of that, make every day.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Frosting.

[Crissle West]

You know who not finna cry on Instagram about who's seeing their kids on which holidays?

[Kid Fury]

Todd.

[Crissle West]

Candy and Todd, y'.

[Kid Fury]

All.

[Crissle West]

I had. I had to Google Todd Burris. Cause I didn't know his last name. And then Google told me it was Tucker. I was like, do you mean Todd Tucker? I'm like, I guess I do, child. I guess I do.

[Kid Fury]

Ace and Blaze got his last name.

[Crissle West]

Of course they do. Andy, is that that lady? Most women give their children their father the father's last name, so turn it off.

[Kid Fury]

So have you heard about Pizza Hut? Summer Walker and Pizza Hut?

[Crissle West]

No one out Pizzas the Hut. No. Summer Walker.

[Kid Fury]

Have you heard why Summer Walker's new name is? Guess it's Pizza Hut.

[Crissle West]

No. What part of the Internet do you be on, bro? Cause what is this? Who the is Tori Bricks? Why she spell her name like a porn star?

[Kid Fury]

I don't know. Maybe she used to do porn.

[Crissle West]

Summer Walker claims Tory Bricks sent her Pizza Hut over Rich the Kid drama.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, Jesus Christ. So there was a phone message featuring one Summer Walker that at some point.

[Crissle West]

Leaked.

[Kid Fury]

This message was at some time sent to rapper Rich the Kid. And on the message, you can hear Summer basically saying that she really enjoys spending time with Rich. They always have a good time together, but he wants her. He knows that she. He. She knew that Rich has a family, has a baby mama. He has this girl that he's with, Tori, and essentially saying, like, I want you to be with her. I don't have a problem, you know, with you being with her, but also kind of giving, you know, when we see each other, we'll see each other type thing. And even says that she alludes to him getting a burner phone for her. Or a burner. Yeah, getting a burner phone and having her saved under the phone is pizza. Like, she was like, I don't care if you just call me Pizza Hut or whatever. The. She also admits on this leaked message that she's tipsy. And, you know, when you tipsy, the truth come out. So she drunk dialed this that she was with while he had a woman and she knew and essentially suggests that he gets another phone so they could continue doing whatever they do when they can do it while he stays with his fiance, wife, baby mama, whatever.

[Crissle West]

Got you. Gotcha.

[Kid Fury]

How this message leaked? Not entirely sure, but it came out. Since then, the girlies have been calling Summer Walker Pizza Hut, leaving her pizza emojis. So on such which it's not looking great, Summer posted on her Instagram a bouquet of roses with the caption, I ain't gave that man none in so long. Ain't been in the mood. That voice memo drunk. But if y' all think I care or feel bad, I don't. He mess with hella people. But I'm supposed to be the one to take the blame and feel bad. Get a grip. LOL. Call me Ms. Pizza Hut from now on. I don't give a fuck.

[Crissle West]

Well, I mean, you did tell the man to save your number as Pizza Hut. That is crazy.

[Kid Fury]

It's pretty wild, sis.

[Crissle West]

Who gets a phone call from Pizza Hut?

[Kid Fury]

Like, that's the thing, too.

[Crissle West]

Like, when does Pizza Hut ever call anybody? Like, why. Why would I be texting Pizza Hut? Why would. Yeah, you was drunk. You didn't think that through at all.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, but niggas do it. It's ineffective.

[Crissle West]

That's just so stupid.

[Kid Fury]

But okay, why is she. Oh, Tory, Brick says, why is she coming at me, though? Now when I dig in your shit, don't play victim. We are engaged. And you know that. It was my choice to not get married because Rich and I had a few hiccups and I knew we had a few things we needed to work on as a family. I'm not in a rush to get married and then have to get a divorce. But what I do with my man in my household is a near business Pizza Hut. Then she posted a screenshot of a text message between Summer allegedly and enrich the kid. And it's Summer posting one of Rich's kids backpack like his son's backpack. And Rich sends back lol baby D's bag with a laughing emoji and she says I'm finna send it to Tori. So Tori reposted Torey post this screenshot on her Instagram and she said this woman has literally been harassing me for like two years asking to hang and link up and etc. She even went as far as trying to insinuate that she was around my children when she wasn't. Summer was around Rich one day and he accidentally left my son's backpack. As a mother who don't post the face of her children and get upset at her baby daddy for posting them to protect them, why would you play with mine?

[Crissle West]

But she didn't post your child. That's just the backpack. But I get it. But she didn't post. But okay, all right.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, she's the same playing with mine I guess.

[Crissle West]

Okay, sure.

[Kid Fury]

So then Summer posted a video and a big furry hat or she at home or something I guess and essentially says that. Long story short, she basically said that Tori need to go after all the other bitches that Rich the kid was cheating on her with. If you just singling her out as soon as her album came out, when all of this shit is old and she ain't fuck with that nigga or talk to that nigga in forever, then you really just clout chasing like you really just want attention or you just picking at her specifically, which doesn't make any sense to her because she's one of many people who've been doing this to her.

[Crissle West]

Okay, okay.

[Kid Fury]

Well then Summer posted a picture of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, like about seven Pizza Hut pieces that were allegedly delivered to her house and said so you harassed me off text free app while I was in the club last night having a time not even thinking about you. And now you send me pieces to my house after telling me you have my address. So it's giving restraining order like you literally have a psych. You literally having a psychotic break over a man who literally is obsessed with me and 14 other. Like I really can't figure out your issue with me specifically. Instead of taking taking it up with him, I gave him Back yesterday, babe. Now you dragging it like I'm really over the Internet stuff, but I' ma put this here for the world and the police to see in case you really decide to lose your mind. You was posting stuff from 2023 and decided to start randomly harassing me publicly three years later when my album dropped. Oh, okay. I was trying to do that math. But no, very weird. Like, really, what's the point? This. This while. This while want to be the side. Why would. Why would I ever want to be Maine? Look at your life. This must be so stressful for you. Up every night going through that man phone. Finding a new bitch every week to embarrass you. Lol. Sad. Very sad. Life to live. Tori said on an Instagram post that I guess was about this very thing. I didn't send this hoe no pizzas. If I send some to her crib, it wouldn't be pizza. Call the police and have them check the cameras.

[Crissle West]

It would not be pizza.

[Kid Fury]

Call the police and have them check the cameras or card for purchase. This hoe is having a breakdown. I wasn't in the way of anything she had going on. She just didn't like the truth once it was out. How's she upset with me? Because the audio comes out of her begging. I didn't leak the audio, Love. Ask academics. Well, well, I have receipts from 2023 to 2025 last week of you crying about me. Just stop, Summer, you weird as fuck. And please don't go digging in your closet to get one of those big ass feather hats to go live and continue to talk about me for hours. Nobody cares.

[Crissle West]

Okay? I like her.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I'm not going to hold you. That last one.

[Crissle West]

That's pretty funny. She might have got you with that one.

[Kid Fury]

And on top of that, don't ever go put that on ever again to talk about me wearing.

[Crissle West]

You think I pulled out my Amex to purchase seven pizzas to send to your home with. With fees and delivery fee and tip and all that bitch, be for real. Like, you need to. You need to call Pizza Hut, ask for a copy of the receipt. If you. If you gonna take it that far, you know, you need to call a bank or two and see who sent this.

[Kid Fury]

But girl, I'm like, did you come home tipsy again? Cause you said you just got home from the club when you saw this or whatever and just automatically be like, it must be that odd bitch. Like, everyone's not calling you pizza. Like, anybody could have sent you that.

[Crissle West]

Now anybody with your address could have sent you not actually a weeping. Right. And how you know, Bubbles didn't do it. Bubbles said, actually I could go for a little peek at my damn self.

[Kid Fury]

So let's just get.

[Crissle West]

And you got these other kids here, right? You didn't even know Bubbles was having a sleepover.

[Kid Fury]

She ordered something you in Atlanta. I know she got a Jeep. So Bubbles was like, listen, let's just go ahead and take care of this pizza issue.

[Crissle West]

Oh, Summer girl.

[Kid Fury]

I don't know, man.

[Crissle West]

I mean, it may be true that Summer is getting most of, you know, whatever backlash or whatever it is because Summer is the most famous of the hoes, right? But that's why that's happening. It's not like, oh, you know, I'm Summer Walker and everybody is just against me. No, you're the most famous of his hoes, so you're getting this attention. I just think it's very interesting that at no point were you like, oh, I didn't fuck your man. Why would I fuck that man? Knowing he was in a relationship with somebody else. No, you seem to have swung all the way to the other side of things and said, well, this is exactly why I would rather be the side ho. Because main hoes have to worry about side hoes. It's like, did you know none of you can actually just date mature adult men? Did you know you could do that? Like you could stop all these rappers and athletes and other known and maybe just grow up a little bit and go find you somebody also ready to be grown. Like you don't have to play this game of like this lying. So I'm a lie first. This cheating. So I' ma cheat first. You don't have to do that silly goofy. Everybody can act like an adult if they want to. Like you don't. She changed her name on Instagram to Miss Pizza Hut and everything and put a dot after Miss Child. One thing about Summer she cannot read. It is not M I s s dot. What the fuck bro? The dot is for Ms. Christ. Jesus. All them surgeries and nips I shooting had. I wish to God somebody could download some fucking leapfrog into you bitches brains. Cause this shit is basic sucks. Well, I mean a hoe is as a hoe does I'm supposed to feel bad she chewed you right up.

[Kid Fury]

It's just the like why after everything be like, yeah, let me go ahead and you know, call me peachy. Like why would you assign that to your.

[Crissle West]

She's a fucking. She has no as she said she.

[Kid Fury]

Don'T Care if we call her that either.

[Crissle West]

Of course you don't, because the the fucking tweet fix. You are her. You literally act like that. You ain't did one non bird thing yet.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, well, yeah, there's that. That's gonna just about wrap up.

[Crissle West]

Oh, thank God.

[Kid Fury]

Hot tops. This week we're gonna head and take a break right after we do.

[Crissle West]

No way.

[Kid Fury]

Kid Furies sport shorts. Welcome back everyone to Kid Fury Sports Shorts. Coming to you live and direct with everything hot in the realm of athleticism. So this week we have spicing hot tea between the Memphis Grizzlies and the Mavericks of Dallas. After a recent game, some nigga in a tech suit named Ja Morant pointed his finger ever so aggressively in player Klay Thompson's face while calling him a bum. You a bum now? He screamed to Thompson after they lost to Memphis and their Grizzlies. It was aggressive, it was unnecessary, it was petty. People had to come and separate the two in typical they about to fight on the court fashion. And this is just another pylon to the idea that Klay Thompson is the association's latest punching bag. After the game, press caught up with Klay Thompson to ask him about things. And he said the following. He said of Ja, he said, he's a funny guy. He's a funny guy. Especially for a guy who rarely takes accountability. Asked what he was doing or what he was saying, Klay Thompson said, he's just running his mouth. He's been running his mouth a long time. It's funny when you run your mouth when you're on the bench. It's kind of been story of his career so far. This explained a lot to me about why during this finger pointing fiasco, Klay Thompson was in a basketball uniform and Ja looked like he was shopping for Foamposits. That answered my question. It's because Shyamauran was not playing.

[Crissle West]

Right, right, right.

[Kid Fury]

Which leaves me with the question, how doth one hate from the sidelines? Thank you all so much for listening.

[Crissle West]

Oh.

[Kid Fury]

To today's Sports Shorts. Any questions?

[Crissle West]

Yeah, what do you think is going on with the Grizzlies this season? How come Jaws in and out?

[Kid Fury]

I mean, well, with an attitude like this, it could be anything. It could be a conjuring.

[Crissle West]

Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Really a copious amount of, of issues outside of, of the arena, outside of practice. Such as, you know, a Zeus account, such as, you know, Jameson Irish whiskey, who knows? But I will say this, with this type of attitude, in these shade room goings on it's not looking great.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Because hasn't he suspended. He's been suspended in each of like the last three or four seasons. Right. Like, he just keeps getting suspended.

[Kid Fury]

It's really unbelievable, this person's trajectory with all things considered, you know, it's just like, wow, you've made it this far. We all want to see you rise to the occasion, but it just seems as though like his, his energy and his intention is misplaced. And when that happens, you know, you get things like this.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, I agree. You know, all the Grizzly fans thought John Moran. Oh, well, if we, if that's what we really doing, I would love to hear actually your opinion on the Oklahoma City Thunder and what they've been doing this season.

[Kid Fury]

What they have been doing this season is absolutely indescribable. It's kind of out of, out of my mind what they've been this season and you know, leave it to Oklahoma City and the Thunder as well to be shocking.

[Crissle West]

And the Thunder as well.

[Kid Fury]

Yep, yep, yep. Well, that's been Kid Fury.

[Crissle West]

And Luka and LeBron.

[Kid Fury]

I'm sorry, we're finished.

[Crissle West]

Oh, oh, did we run out of time?

[Kid Fury]

Words, shorts.

[Crissle West]

Oh, great. And I always make it a short, long.

[Kid Fury]

So thank you guys for listening to another moment, another highlight in your favorite sports analyst and athletic historian. We'll be right back. Hey, guys. This episode is brought to you by Squarespace. Squarespace is the all in one website platform designed to help your business stand out and succeed online. Every dream needs a domain. It's a thing, girl. Squarespace domains make it easy to find the best name for your business at one fair, all inclusive price without hidden fees or add ons required. And with Squarespace collection of cutting edge design tools, anyone can build a beautiful professional online presence that perfectly fits their brand or business. I've used it quite a few times for a few different websites and it truly is incredibly easy going from the old days living in my own house learning HTML and coding. So I just put a blog spot page up together that look half decent and going from this, which is essentially click, click. Oh, do you have a photograph? Oh, that's fine, we can give you one. It's just, it's so easy and quick. So if you're Interested, head to squarespace.com theread for a free trial and when you're ready to launch, use offer code theread1word to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or a domain. Let them know we sent you. Let's get back to the show at Etsy, we know the holidays are already exciting.

[Crissle West]

We don't need to fan the festive flames by saying Etsy has one of.

[Kid Fury]

A kind gifts for all budgets. Oh, no. We just added to the excitement. Well, guess the only thing left to say is get up to 60% off gifts from small shops with Etsy cyber specials. Terms apply for gifts that say I get you shop. Etsy. We're back. It is time for listener letters. Oh, I just forgot. I haven't seen the witches yet, which is why we haven't talked about it. Okay, I'll be going to see it tonight or tomorrow, so I guess we'll talk about that next week.

[Crissle West]

Okay. All right. I mean, I wasn't even gonna do any spoilers or anything, obviously, because I'm sure it just came out, but our.

[Kid Fury]

Folks haven't seen it.

[Crissle West]

As someone who, you know, this was my first wicked experience. I have so many feelings. But all that can wait. Yes, indeed. Send your questions to asktheread gmail.com. we may read them aloud on the show. Our first letter this week comes from Noel, who says, hi, Kifuran. Crystal. I've been happily married for three years, and as I've settled into this stage of life, my friendships have started to feel tricky. All of my close friends who are also my cousins are still in the outside era. They love bar hopping, rosters and living that carefree single life. I love that for them, but I'm just not in that space anymore. These days, my idea of fun looks more like arts and crafts nights, workshops and cozy dinners. I love quality time and intentional experiences. But because I don't go out drinking, partying or bar hopping with them, they've started assuming that I'll always say no. And now they barely invite me to anything or they automatically assume that I'll decline. I get that our lifestyles are different, but it honestly hurts my feelings. I still want to be included even if I say no. Most of the time, I still want to feel like I'm part of the group, not like I've aged out of my own friendships. I know that my girls can fill my cup in ways that my husband cannot, and I genuinely love them so.

[Kid Fury]

Much I know they can't do, but.

[Crissle West]

It'S hard to balance. And now I'm torn. I feel guilty for not wanting the same things they enjoy, but I also feel left out when they don't include me. Am I wrong for wanting to show up for my friends in different ways? How do I stay a good friend while honoring where I am in Life. And how do I keep these friendships strong without making my single friends feel judged? Or without pretending that I'm in a stage that I'm not? Any advice would mean a lot. I love y' all so much. You have been lights in my times of darkness. Love, Noelle.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, shut up. I'm the darkest shadow on the planet.

[Crissle West]

It's your fucking birthday. We're not having that bullshit today.

[Kid Fury]

I like bee and duck. I don't like out like.

[Crissle West]

Is that why you shit me?

[Kid Fury]

I think this is. Yeah, I think this has got a couple of possibly easy steps or options here, right? I think this is pretty common in friendships, especially friend groups of a certain size. Because people's lives are all different. You in a relationship, this one ain't in a relationship, that one's in a situationship, this one's relationship over, this one in a brand new relationship, this one moving, this one moving back. Like, it just. Life has ways of people being in different spaces and then wanting to hang out and, you know, share space in different ways. Some of us honestly just have spells where we stop drinking or stop smoking for reasons that have nothing to do with judgment. Just health reasons. This, whatever you get 12%.

[Crissle West]

Shit at some point, girl, it's not even fun no more. At a certain point.

[Kid Fury]

Especially the outside of it. Like, what is this person's name?

[Crissle West]

Noel.

[Kid Fury]

Like, Noel is describing, right? So I think what. First of all, you want to not take the lack of invites personally. It's just adapting, you know, like they're going after a certain number of no's or no shows. They're gonna be like, oh, she wanna come and they're not gonna invite you, Right?

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

And as someone who has been there, my younger self, I get feeling away about it. But girl, you have to like, that's just science. It's like math like that. It's just. That's just how that is.

[Crissle West]

Yes.

[Kid Fury]

So I think your options, first ones that come to mind for me anyway are as follows, right? You've got the option to go out to a little bar and be like, hey, girls, I will be headed home at this time. Cause I know by 9:45, y' all lose y' all mind. 945. I don't know. I'm just at a random number at a random time. Well, mom, it sounds like she'd be inside the house. Like, does this lady sound like she wanted to be outside at 10?

[Crissle West]

Especially in the winter when the sun set at 5? Bitch, I'd like to go out at 10pm I'm asleep.

[Kid Fury]

Thank you. We might as well just be putting on invisibility cloaks and sneaking into. What's the candy shop called again? Zonko's is the place where they. Doesn't matter. Honeydukes. Whatever.

[Crissle West]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

So there's that. Where you just kind of be like you say yes. To get yourself back into the swing of things. I think you are going to want to just set up a get together. Like you're going to have to make the decision or take the initiative to go miss you girls. You know, I'm in my. My grown auntie era. I can't do the bar crawling shit no more. I will pass out at. At 8.

[Crissle West]

I am elderly.

[Kid Fury]

But if anyone is interested in coming over for a bit of wine, a bit of cheese and a bit of, I don't know, whatever y' all watch on tv.

[Crissle West]

Abbott, Abbott Elementary. If anybody would like to come over and watch Abbott elementary with me and.

[Kid Fury]

Have dinner, let's do that now. If all your friends are like you don't want to get. If. If we can get plastered and. And go out in the street and get arrested or not coming and you know where you need to be putting your energy. But it sounds like something that you might want to just A, like I said, don't take anything personal here and B, take initiative to set up a gathering with you and the friends that is more in tune with your interests. That feels safer for you because it. I doubt the way that you describe these people in your friendship that they would have a problem coming to kick it with you. Having a little charcuterie, watching Abbott and making jokes about, I don't know, college or whatever.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

You know.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

You just gotta make the initiative and I think that could turn into something that would be a whole lot of fun. It might even be a regular thing.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. I don't see why they couldn't come pre game at your house.

[Kid Fury]

That's a great idea.

[Crissle West]

Like, yeah, we'll come over and watch something cozy with you and do shots. We're not watching nothing cozy, bitch. But you can sip on your wine. We'll drink shots and play board games or whatever. Yeah. Have us a little time. And then you want to stay here cuddled up with your man. We going to the club and we see you next time.

[Kid Fury]

That's a good idea too.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, I think. I think if you gave you excellent advice. I'm hearing a lot. There's a lot in this letter about they don't invite me. But I haven't heard you invite them to anything.

[Kid Fury]

That's what I'm saying.

[Crissle West]

Have you literally invited them to do any one of your boring married bitch activities? Like, just one. Like, I. I would love to. You know, if you want to do something Saturday afternoon at 2 o' clock or whatever, because that's when you awake, then, yeah, girl, let's go to a paint sip or. Or whatever you like to do. But yeah, you people who say, invite me, even though I'm gonna say no. Respectfully, no.

[Kid Fury]

It just doesn't make sense because y'.

[Crissle West]

All go on and on about how it hurts your feelings to not be invited. It hurts other people's feelings to constantly be told no to go out of your way to invite somebody who is just going to turn you down every single time. You're not the only one with feelings. That's why people eventually just stop. Like, you can either say yes sometimes or invite them to do things with you or find some new third thing that all of you like to do. Like, I don't know what that might be. Going to Bible study drunk or something. Y', all. You figure it out for yourselves. You know, me and my, we was in Oklahoma. We used to like to get drunk and go to the rodeo. So you sounds like so nigga when I tell you I have had the best days of my life watching the pony Express with my niggas, drinking some cheap and just having a good time. You know, just things that everybody has in common, things that everybody likes to do.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. Or yet making some new shit up, right? Oh, my God, Peyton. Sips are fun. Who knew? Oh, my goodness. Everyone getting together on the last Saturday of the month and putting together a 1000 piece puzzle.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, fun.

[Kid Fury]

Who knows? Maybe you'll find traveling pants. But it sounds like you the only one who don't want to go get fucked up. So you have to come up with something there, too. And don't put the onus on others to, like finagle something for you. Because you always say that you don't want to do something. Then you.

[Crissle West]

Or they send you the itinerary every weekend and you like, yeah, I'm not doing none of that. See y' all for next week's check in, bitch. No. So you can tell me no again. Like, you are to have a friend. You have to be a friend. How are you being a friend? You don't have to go out every night or every weekend, but can you go out once a month or every couple of months? And can you, like we've been saying, introduce other things for y' all to do together. And if it turns out that you and your cousins, who I really struggle to think you have nothing else in common with.

[Kid Fury]

Right?

[Crissle West]

But if y' all can't find nothing else to bring you together other than going to Meemaw's house for Thanksgiving and Christmas, then you might need new friends, right? You might need homebody. I'm just with my man. Happily married. We cozy and it's dark outside, so we in the house all the time. You might need friends who do that same thing. Couple friends. Mom friends. I don't think you're a mother. But you, I don't know, you kind of acting like one, so. Something like that. Maybe there are friends at your arts and crafts nights, but yeah, you might just need to expand your friend circle too. And there's nothing wrong with that either, but.

[Kid Fury]

Exactly.

[Crissle West]

You are going to have to put some effort in since, I mean, frankly, you're the one who's. Whose interests have changed here, so.

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Crissle West]

And it's nothing wrong with that. I too am out of my clubbing every night era.

[Kid Fury]

But you know, cause to further the point, right? Like, let's say one of them was like, okay, Noelle isn't like into drinking and stuff or whatever. Let's come up with something to do next weekend that we feel like would be better for her. And then it's like, not your tea or they don't do it right. Or whatever. Like further reason, they know what they like, which is going out bar hopping and getting fucked up or whatever. Being outside, you know what you like. So it's just further reason for you to take more control and be like, because I am the one who is like, not for this. Yeah, what about this? You can't leave it up to everybody else. Especially after every time they try to hang out with you, you're like, no, full stop.

[Crissle West]

Exactly. So good luck to you, Noel. That was my name in French class when we had to pick French names.

[Kid Fury]

Why did that. Oh, I was like, why do they make us do that but go right.

[Crissle West]

I feel like they did it in Spanish too.

[Kid Fury]

They sure did.

[Crissle West]

My friends took Spanish. Was like, I'm Miguel. No, you're not. Marco, please. Yes, but good luck, Noel. Let us know how it goes. Our next letter. Our next letter comes from Maverick, who says, hi, Crystal and Kiff Fury. I'm a 24 year old queer woman who is currently unpacking my emotions from my first breakup. My ex is a wonderful woman and the reasons for our breakup were truly out of my control. I met her parents a couple of times, but my parents refused to meet her. This caused her a lot of stress, which caused our relationship to stagnate. Stagnate from her point of view since our breakup. I wish her the best, and I hope she finds someone who has everything she's looking for and more. My issue is my parents. 90% of me believes that they dislike me. I've always been the black sheep of the family. Oh, boy. My mother's been calling me a bitch since the sixth grade, and my dad has also been abusive. So is my brother. Blah, blah, woe is me. She literally wrote, blah, blah, blah, woe is me.

[Kid Fury]

I figured I was gonna.

[Crissle West]

All in all, it's been a lot. And the only family that I trust is my sister, who I love more than words can describe. Now that the dust has settled, I'm no contact with my dad and brother and low contact with my mom. How the fuck am I gonna date as a lesbian with parents who don't give two fucks or a rat's ass about me? I don't know why it never occurred to me, but in relationships, people do want to meet your parents. I started asking my queer friends about their relationships with their parents and how it affects their dating life, but apparently everybody I know is loved unconditionally by their parents. I'm happy for them and I believe that everybody deserves it. Right? My friends also say how much they wouldn't want to date someone whose parents would refuse to meet them. So talking to them just makes me feel more alone and like a freak. I understand how. How off putting this is, and I've always had the mindset that there is somebody for everybody, but that voice is becoming fainter and fainter by the day. Overall, I'm pretty bummed because my ex was my love for a while and I couldn't give her the most obvious thing everyone else around me has no problem giving. Now I know that that's something I probably can't give any future partners, which makes dating even scarier because why be vulnerable just to get my heart broken? Because of my parents, Their actions are like a dark cloud following me everywhere I go. I just really don't know what to do at this point and would appreciate any advice you might have with love. Maverick. You're so 24.

[Kid Fury]

I was about to say that.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

I'm so sorry that you're, you know, in the throes of this nonsense and grappling with this fuckery. I will say, first of all, keep hope alive, babe. Like, not every Person that you meet that has feelings for you is going to find your parents ignorance, homophobia, or what have you to be a deal breaker. Like not everyone is going to be like, well, your parents don't want to meet me or I can't meet your parents, so this isn't going to work. Like personally speaking from me, a person who's not a lesbian or in a relationship, if I was in a relationship, I would not give two fucks whether or not that my partner's parents wanted to meet me. I would not be in a rush to meet them either. If we do, cool. And I would be on my best behavior. And so if they meet me and they don't like me, yikes, that sucks. If it starts them not liking me bleeds into our relationship or even without being around them every day you bring that in to our. You know what I mean? Every argument somehow leads back to that toxicity or every then that is a problem. Yeah, but just like, oh, your parents don't like me. I feel like that's so folded into being queer trans non bi. It's just so baked into our experience to have parents that suck to one degree. Look at Tammy. Yeah, so I would say not to. Don't be too hard on yourself. Try not to be too pessimistic about it because I don't think it's like, what's the point in finding love? I'm gonna have my heart broken because my parents are gonna ruin it. You're likely going to meet someone who will understand exactly what you're going through and love you regardless and love you through all of that bullshit. So I would say other than that, really stay focused on you therapy and peeling back all the layers of your trash ass. Parents calling you a bitch since grade being abusive. Like, these people suck. And they are further evidence that some people just should not have children. I'm glad you're here. Don't get me right. But some people are absolutely inept, absolutely out of their depth when it comes to parenting. And to be quite honest with you, they're given the way that you've described them, their opinion on you or anybody that you fall in love with I think should be pretty invalid because they're trash. I wouldn't give a fuck about the opinion of anybody calling their daughter a bitch since they were what, like, come.

[Crissle West]

On, come on, girl.

[Kid Fury]

You couldn't tell me how hot it is outside, so. But that's me. She's not my mama. You know what I'm saying? Like, I get the complications, but I do think you're young and you're going to. This is your first love also, I think she said, like your first relationship.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Your first sucks.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Yeah, it does.

[Kid Fury]

And gay woman, hell. Hell on earth. So that's difficult enough as well as you being in the age range where you're kind of putting the puzzle pieces of all of this shit together anyway. But don't let your. The dark cloud that is your imperfect parents, you know, stop you from finding love, exploring love, and being your goddamn self. Because that's their issue. Ain't got shit to do with you.

[Crissle West]

Yes. And I think the older you get, the more clear this will become to you, 100%. I just love that, you know, you. Maybe you were just gay in the wrong era because let me tell you, in the 90s, none of our parents were fucking with that shit. So I'm saying we all kind of bonded together over the fact that pretty much nobody had accepting parents and it was like the one thing we all had in common. So it's quite interesting now to see the pendulum go so far in the other direction that this person is like, why am I the only one whose parents don't love her? Which is heartbreaking.

[Kid Fury]

But straight people and those who didn't watch pose. That's why houses have mothers.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And fathers.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Because people for the many, many, many queer people who didn't have them.

[Crissle West]

Yes. But you, you are going to continue to date and simply explaining to people like, hey, you know, I love that your parents are cool. Mine are not, and they're never gonna wanna meet you and I don't really have a relationship with them. That's pretty normal.

[Kid Fury]

Like, it is.

[Crissle West]

A lot of people will still wanna date you even though you don't have a relationship with your parents. Especially when you tell them some of the things your parents have said and done. It'll be like, yeah, not only should you not have a relationship with them, if I ever saw them on the street, I might be inclined to smack the fuck out of one or both of them.

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Crissle West]

So, yeah, you're not going to. It's not going to be, oh, God, nobody will ever want to be with me because my parents are trash. Like, it might feel that way in this very moment. Also, you're heartbroken. So it can be like, oh, I have my one chance at love and now it's gone. No, it isn't.

[Kid Fury]

There you go play this episode back one day and be like.

[Crissle West]

Yes, it's an early 30something queer woman right now going, oh, my God, that was me in 2016. And it. Yeah, it has a way of working itself out. If you're not already in therapy, I would recommend it just to get some healing from what these people have done to you. But yeah, this, your parents are not. And, and the things that they've done with their lives, the ways they've hurt you, that is not going to be the number one driver of your life. You at all are going to continue to grow up and away from them and they influence. And you will find the family, the friends, the dating life, all of that, that is, that is meant for you. So.

[Kid Fury]

And I hope you hold them accountable one day too.

[Crissle West]

If you haven't already, if you can.

[Kid Fury]

There's.

[Crissle West]

There's really nothing like that confrontation with your parents where you like, you know what, actually, let's talk about exactly how you had me up. And here we go. Feel like you thought you was getting out of here scot free, and you're not. So. Okay.

[Kid Fury]

You thought she was out of here, didn't you? You thought I was never gonna clock you, didn't you?

[Crissle West]

You thought I was just gonna grow up and forget about all that and just send money home and take care of the boy.

[Kid Fury]

And it was stay in a child's place. Yeah, well, this child is now an adult. And you're getting dragged and you're getting.

[Crissle West]

Dragged and it's what you deserve.

[Kid Fury]

It's what you deserve.

[Crissle West]

And what you do with that dragging, that's. So we actually have. There's a similar letter about this coming up on Crystal's couch soon. But yeah, good. Good luck to everybody. And this is perfect timing because a lot of people are going home this week and over the next month. You don't. You're grown now and you can just remind yourself of that. Especially when you don't live with them people. You can say exactly what is on your heart. Yes, you can. You do not have to stay in a child's place because news flash, you are not a child. And now your place is wherever you want it to be. But good luck, Maverick.

[Kid Fury]

Nobody manipulates you into thinking that you gotta shut your ass up or you can't speak up. Because you're what, a generation underneath them, right?

[Crissle West]

Because your DNA.

[Kid Fury]

I'm not paying my own bills and you ain't helping me do it.

[Crissle West]

Cause I have half of your DNA. You act like I signed up for that. So once again, just calling the child addiction or something, right? So once again, you got one chance to say something crazy to me, Baby. What's up. All right, Maverick. Good luck. But I think you'll be okay, baby. Just. Just healing and staying away from them niggas.

[Kid Fury]

Yes.

[Crissle West]

All right, let's wrap it up there so we can get out of here on time again. If you have a question for us, send it to asktheread gmail.com. we'll be right back.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

We don't need to fan the festive flames by saying Etsy has one of.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

Pass the read like we used to.

[Kid Fury]

This read is titled so all of our brothers don't choke us. Oh says hey y'. All. I contemplated writing a letter for advice, but talked myself up after hearing the Patrick Beverly story and chose violence. I just want to say how I fucking hate these abusive ass, weird ass, obsessed ass, fake family protector ass, sorry ass excuse some of us have as brothers. They claim to be our ultimate protectors but end up being our biggest abusers. The story of Patrick Beverly rang home to me and made me realize how fucking much I hate my brother. Growing up, he beat me, sa'd me, choked me, and ultimately almost killed me. I literally had the same story, except I was 25 and it was completely unprovoked. My boyfriend was just staying the night with me and according to him, I was disrespecting the house, our mom, and most importantly, him. Anywho, I want to give a shout out to all the abusive men that are finally being held accountable for their actions. And an even bigger applause for the women that are finally brave enough to tell on these bitch ass niggas. Brother, though, you're not listening. I'm sure one of your women or men is Listening. This sweet shout out is especially for you. I want to give a fat fuck you to my brother, the true barber, but better known as the fake fuck. Though I'm healed, I'm not that healed. And I wish that all the worst things could happen to you does. I hope the bottom of your right foot always issues when you're driving in rush hour traffic. I hope you drop the last of your weed in a carpet as you rolling your last blunt. I hope the corner of your fitted sheet pops up every fucking night. I hope you feel a rock in your shoe but can't find it when you take your shoe off. I hope your Internet starts buffering every time you're secretly watching your favorite gay porn. Give it up. Whole New Orleans know you gay. I hope you step barefoot on your son's Lego every time you sneak out in the middle of the night and your wife go to sleep. I hope you have to immediately clean dog shit every day when you walk in the house from work. Maybe in the process you'll learn how to clean yourself up. Lastly, you dirty burning booty bottom bitch. I will likely be fucked up for the rest of my life from the things that you did to me, but it still fucking beats the thought of having to be you. You fight demons that you don't that. You fight demons that don't even know your name. You insignificant Peabody twink. Though I am bigger than you, I will never be big enough to forgive or forget when you die. I hope you live a hell where you constantly feel like you have to sneeze but you can't. I wish the worst luck in life and I will always be praying for your downfall. You aren't worth the fuck it took to make you and you won't be worth the fire they'll use to burn you. Then again, you've had so many diseases you probably immune to fire. Anyway, I'll end this by saying I hate your stinking guts and you're the scum between my ass cheeks.

[Crissle West]

Wow.

[Kid Fury]

Scott signed my brother's grim reaper. Thank you for writing that in Grim.

[Crissle West]

Wow. Wow. Wow.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, sorry your brother fucking sucks. But it seems like you are squaring in on a lot of facts here, so thank you for sharing. Shoot that nigga for a properly passed read. Thanks.

[Crissle West]

She hates his ass and should damn I should I. You know, for all of my issues with my brothers, it's never been like like that. You know, we. It's not like that. Not like that. Like. Okay, chew that nigga up though.

[Kid Fury]

It's Adam will Start banging on a washer and dryer. Adam.

[Crissle West]

What did I tell you about Adam 3?

[Kid Fury]

And if you bring this up again, this is one of the funniest things.

[Crissle West]

I've ever heard, I swear to God. I'm not understanding what you not understanding about that nigga being three. But me and my other brother, Brock, we're only 18 months apart, so we. We used to pull knives on each other, but, you know, that's. We ain't did that since we was, like, 17. Listen, if you've never tried to kill a sibling, are you. Are you even kidding? Oh, I'll never forget, because I had came home with this. We was both old enough to drive at this point. I came home, and that nigga came home after me and blocked me in the driveway and then wouldn't leave so I could leave. And I was like, well, just give me your keys. I'll move your car. And he was like, no, you're just not leaving. And I was like, I'll fucking kill you before I miss this party. Like, I will murder you before I miss this.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, so you've chosen death.

[Crissle West]

I was so angry, I legitimately went, that's what, brother. Anyway. Anyway, your brother's way worse, Miss girls.

[Kid Fury]

So there are a lot. Thank you for passing your read that do have this unfortunate experience with brothers, especially older brothers or brothers that are larger, who abuse them in this false sense of, I don't know, being the man of the family or some sort of masculine, representative family reputation, when it's like, yeah, have you seen.

[Crissle West]

Seen you. What happened?

[Kid Fury]

I know you don't brush your teeth or wash your face, but do you ever look in the mirror?

[Crissle West]

Yeah, the crust is still present on your face. Like, right now in this very moment. Ain't no way you talking to or about me, nigga. Oh, boy.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, thank you again. Pass the read to Gmail.

[Crissle West]

Yes. And speaking of pass the reads, I'm also going to pass mine this week. I was gonna talk about Zuron and Trump, but honestly, I still don't know what the fuck that was.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, my go. I don't. Okay, good. That makes you feel better. I don't either.

[Crissle West]

I still don't. Is Zuron that charismatic where as soon as he walked in the White House, Trump was just like, oh, what do you mean, jihadist? I never even heard that word. What are you doing tonight?

[Kid Fury]

You want to make out?

[Crissle West]

Smiling up at that man all big. The reporter was like, so, Mr. Mamdani, do you still think Trump is a fascist? And he was like, well, And Trump was like, oh, you can say it.

[Kid Fury]

Like, what the fuck? Trump was like, now that the Bubba thing is out, have you ever been swallowed up?

[Crissle West]

What about behind a White castle at, say, 3am? Have you ever met somebody in the dumpsters behind the White Castle?

[Kid Fury]

I've got a brand new ballroom, so now that means I've got whole new.

[Crissle West]

Definition for ballroom, right? All right. Leave me alone. But that was. That was deeply disturbing. I'm not gonna get into it.

[Kid Fury]

It was very strange.

[Crissle West]

So I am also going to pass my read this week. Now, this is about Wicked 2, but it also applies to Wicked 1. And there's no spoilers.

[Kid Fury]

I know how the story ends.

[Crissle West]

Oh, right.

[Kid Fury]

It won't be a spoiler.

[Crissle West]

This is about the movie. In particular, it's from Rashad, who says, hey, y', all, I love both of you and the podcast so much. I listen to many shows and the read is definitely my number one favorite. Thank you for the laughs, the advice, the inspiration, and the empowerment. Being able to see two queer black people killing the podcasting game means everything to me as someone working towards starting a podcast myself. Thank you, Rashad.

[Kid Fury]

Go forehead.

[Crissle West]

This read is for the director of Wicked Part 1 and Wicked for Good, John M. Chu.

[Kid Fury]

Ooh, I feel like I know what.

[Crissle West]

This is gonna be about, as well as the casting department.

[Kid Fury]

If this is what I think it is. Eat.

[Crissle West]

Wicked is my all time favorite Broadway musical. And last year I saw Wicked Part 1 eight times in theaters, and now I've seen Wicked for good three times so far.

[Kid Fury]

What, bitch? It came out two date two seconds ago.

[Crissle West]

He goes every day. I love and adore both films very much. However, there are two issues that I have with both of them.

[Kid Fury]

This is exactly what it is.

[Crissle West]

The casting of Michelle Yeoh as Madam Morris and Jeff Goldblum as the Wizard.

[Kid Fury]

Literally no shade.

[Crissle West]

Michelle is actually a really good actress, but the bitch is a very bad singer. And the thing that makes me even more pissed off is the fact that I just read online that Cheryl Lee Rowe.

[Kid Fury]

Yes. Oh, my God. I was gonna do this as my. But I didn't want to be Betty.

[Crissle West]

Who played Madam Marble on Broadway.

[Kid Fury]

Yes.

[Crissle West]

Actually auditioned for the role in the movie. Imagine what we could have had. Cheryl would have eaten that roll up.

[Kid Fury]

Michelle. Yo. Turned the roll down like three times. John. Who begged her to do it.

[Crissle West]

And so did the. The. The. The Olympic twins. And I'm like, why? Why did y' all beg her to be in this movie when you could? Anyway, let me get back to Rashad.

[Kid Fury]

Did you see the clip of Sheryl Lee Roth singing that? Singing a clip?

[Crissle West]

Yes, I saw it when the. Because me and Rashad both saw this news about Sheryl Lee Ralph actually auditioned for the movie. And I'm like, why the fuck wasn't she cast? Or even if not her, somebody who can hold a tune. Michelle literally cannot sing. Okay. Anyway, Rashad not even done.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, he's not.

[Crissle West]

And then there's Jeff. Is he a fun, silly, charming personality? Yes, absolutely. But he's also a pretty fucking awful singer, in my opinion. Keith David would have been a fantastic choice as the Wizard. And I'm just so. Why the hell would Jon M. Chu and the casting team put Jeff and Michelle in the same film as singing heavyweights Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, and Jonathan Bailey? It makes no sense. I desperately need Hollywood to stop casting actors and actresses that can't sing in these damn movie musicals. Please make it stop. Love, Rashad. Now, Rashad, I'm going to gently correct you here. Jonathan Bailey is not in the same category as Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, but he's also not in the same category as Michelle and Jeff Goldblum either. He's a secret third thing true. He has a lovely voice. He can really. He can carry a tune. Absolutely.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

I, too, cannot. And I thought that little bit of singing Morrible did in the first movie was all she was gonna have to do. I didn't realize she was supposed to be carrying a much bigger number in the second movie, so there were so many opportunities. Like, I didn't realize Ariana Glinda doesn't Is not in the original version of Wonderful, and they have her in it.

[Kid Fury]

It.

[Crissle West]

They might have her ended in the movie. I said I wouldn't do any spoilers.

[Kid Fury]

I think the soundtrack is out.

[Crissle West]

Okay. All right. But I did see some people on Tick Tock saying, yeah, they did that because Jeff Goldblum cannot sing that song. It. I didn't expect the second half to be the second movie to have the same impact as the first one. Obviously, it's wrapping up the story, but I definitely feel if I had known when I watched the first one what music to expect for the second one, I would have been a lot angrier at the casting from the beginning. So I'm sure you Broadway, you theater people, I know y' all were irate thinking about the back half of this soundtrack and what them 22 people was fitting to be tasked to do. Cheryl Lee Ralph. Yeah, y' all could have had Cheryl Lee Ralph singing them songs. And please don't make us disrespect Michelle Yeoh. Like, I think she's.

[Kid Fury]

I don't want to do it.

[Crissle West]

I don't either.

[Kid Fury]

Absolutely.

[Crissle West]

But she sounds the fuck terrible, just like she felt. And she told y' all she couldn't sing. Y' all heard her open her mouth and not be able to sing. She was in the booth countless times not being able to sing. Why didn't somebody say, you know, we actually did beg you to do this, and for that, we are sorry, but we're gonna have to send you home?

[Kid Fury]

She doesn't give me Madame Morrible.

[Crissle West]

No.

[Kid Fury]

Madame Morrible is kind of like a kooky character. Like, she. I just never really got what I expected, knowing that character from her, but. And then it's like, oh, she can't sing, too. So I don't know if I ever said anything when we talked about the first movie, but I definitely was watching that movie, like, what are they pointing? Like, it's such a. I know that Michelle Yoh is deservedly, rightfully celebrated.

[Crissle West]

Mm.

[Kid Fury]

But I was just very. And I still am confused with that choice. And then seeing Sheryl Lee Ralph knowing she's played the role so she knows it has heart in it and knowing she auditioned for it and it was given to somebody who wasn't even really interested in playing it. And Jeff Goldblum, too. I'm like, I think it's a Hollywood thing. Part of it is the stunt casting of. Here's this person from this incredible movie. Everything everywhere, all at once, just one beautiful man put butt in seat. Jeff Goldblum. Everybody still loves Jeff Goldblum. Him button seat. So I just feel like Abbott elementary.

[Crissle West]

Top show on television right now. I'm not. And Sheryl Lee Ralph can actually fucking sing. I'm really, like, originally not understand if you don't get. You know what. And now I know why they didn't give you Best Picture. Because they knew who you had cast to sing these songs, and they said, you do not deserve it. You do not deserve it. You should have put people who can sing in the movie musical.

[Kid Fury]

The people in the academy were really big, wicked fans, and they were like. They were huge fans of Metal Oracle.

[Crissle West]

And they were like, you should have AI'd her voice. I'm sorry. You should have AI'd it. You should. No, you should have cast somebody who could sing.

[Kid Fury]

I think that really is just the long and short of it, is to just cast someone, because there have been a lot of movie musicals lately. A Lot of them.

[Crissle West]

And I love them. I love them.

[Kid Fury]

And they can be fun. And I think a lot of them have people in them, especially stunt cast who can't sing. But audiences rarely go, you know, the fish in Little Mermaid sounded awful or whatever. Like. Like there aren't that many people who are buying tickets who are, like, holding ass to fire about. About it. But that's like, I don't know, Snow White Live or the Hunger Games for. Or whatever. Wicked. Wicked, right? Why wouldn't you just make sure everybody can sing? But Michelle, yo. Is a legend and I love her. And I can't wait to see for good. Borgood. Borgood.

[Crissle West]

Well, I. Like I said, I've seen it. I will see it again. I really cannot wait for both of them for this second one to be out on at home so I can watch them at home. But, yeah, the. The music would have hit way harder if voices that could sing were part of it.

[Kid Fury]

I just don't understand how. And it's like you have screenings. You have.

[Crissle West]

You had a million opportunities to not.

[Kid Fury]

Do this in the edit. You watch this back and you're like, yeah, we're gonna do. Even to your point, like, she went to the studio, or at any point, you were like, can you sing this? And she did. And then you were like, no, I guess you can't.

[Crissle West]

We're gonna go ahead and pay you your day rate, but if you could go home. Sorry, girl. Sorry, girl.

[Kid Fury]

Michelle, it's just not your fault. It has nothing to do with you. You told them no. You said you ain't wanna do it cause you can't sing. And they badged you and gave you all this money. What were you supposed to do? So you did it. You did the thing. I don't blame you. I blame Hollywood's insistence on trying to sell movie tickets by putting big, familiar famous faces up to it. No matter what. I think it's dumb. I don't think it makes any sense. Look at Miles from Sinners introducing or whatever.

[Crissle West]

Speaking of, did you see that clip of Sammy the singer? Sammy?

[Kid Fury]

No.

[Crissle West]

He was on Cam Newton's show, so, you know, something dumb happened. And he was saying how the character in the movie centers is named Sammy, and he spelled it like I do with S A M M I E, not S A M M Y.

[Kid Fury]

He's your great granddaddy and he.

[Crissle West]

And. And the.

[Kid Fury]

And he believes that.

[Crissle West]

And the devil would have never came by the club if Sammy wasn't in there singing. So, you know, I do feel like, either directly or Indirectly. That movie is about my life.

[Kid Fury]

He was joking. Please tell me that he was joking.

[Crissle West]

Now, granted, I only saw a clip, but I said, nigga, there's no way that you. I think Ryan Coogler was like, you know what?

[Kid Fury]

I think that Ryan Coogler was, what, listening to your debut single and was like, I have. I have something for this. What?

[Crissle West]

If you say Sammy, I'm gonna think of like five other people before that one.

[Kid Fury]

I really.

[Crissle West]

Davis Jr. Like, just not you, brother. I don't know what you mean, but yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Cause he spells it like, I. A lot of people.

[Crissle West]

He said, yeah. He was like. And he spell it how I do. So he said, directly or indirectly, the movie. So even if Ryan Coogler didn't realize what he was doing, he made a movie about.

[Kid Fury]

It was an inception. It was an inception. I said, what you went into.

[Crissle West]

I really want that level of delusion. I want it in my life. I want to be delusional about things like that that are going on in my everyday life. And I want to feel confident enough to go on camera and say it.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah. In wide open public and just tell everybody. That's how I feel.

[Crissle West]

I just feel like in the 90s, when Pepsi decided to make that clear version of Pepsi and call it Crystal Pepsi, they thought, there's a little black girl named Crystal in Oklahoma somewhere and this Pepsi is named after her. And so therefore that clear Pepsi, it's.

[Kid Fury]

Clear that when Mar Vell Studios decides to take the character Nick Fury and make him black and similar to my complexion and Samuel, it's very clearly that they were inspired by me. Now, Disney, I will take a cool 500 million. Like, what the fuck is Sammy talking about? What?

[Crissle West]

I don't know. He. I, I could not stop laughing. I said, I'm. Do I care enough to go and why? Stuck in full. No, I don't. But his face was dead serious. His face was dead serious.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, that sucks. That sucks so bad.

[Crissle West]

I don't think that you're thinking about you. I really don't.

[Kid Fury]

He must have, like, Ryan Cooler must, like, fell asleep in front of Final Draft while Vivo R and B was playing in the background.

[Crissle West]

All right.

[Kid Fury]

As Sammy came on and like, he was, you know, spiritually and physically. He was working on Black Panther 3. But then he heard some Sammy and was like, oh, let me make a story where Michael B. Jordan is a twin and that vampires kill Sammy me or try to kill Sammy. What? Like, you don't. The drugs are getting.

[Crissle West]

Yep, they are. Oh, y' all Doing all kind of. Man. I don't even know which drug to blame this on for real.

[Kid Fury]

But, yeah, whoever they're cottoning things out here in the streets with these days, it's lethal.

[Crissle West]

You need to reach out to somebody you trust and come on back to reality babes that movie ain't got. And I mean, first of all, with all due respect, do you think you sound like Miles with. Why?

[Kid Fury]

If it was like that, boy? Like on rap. Shit, Rap SH T has a lot of characters that are named after rappers. It is intentional. Let's say that this character was like, oh, Sammy was inspired. I would assume Sammy Davis. Like, why you.

[Crissle West]

What?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, yeah, that is like a fun thing that you just. You had some shroom chocolate or a fierce blunt, and you just think that to yourself in the pool outside. Yeah, like, what if.

[Crissle West]

And then all your friends say, wow, nigga, what's the strain?

[Kid Fury]

No, not when your friends are over to yourself. No, you don't dare say this. Damn.

[Crissle West]

You can't even say this to me.

[Kid Fury]

No, you don't say this to anybody. I'm saying alone. You are. You don't say it's outside.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Just by yourself, counting stars.

[Kid Fury]

And you think I am among them, as seen in Sinners. You don't ever tell that to anybody. That's one thought for you. Wow. Camden Newton's podcast is where people's sanity goes to die.

[Crissle West]

Yep, yep, yep, yep. I really couldn't believe the audacity of that statement. But again, I didn't go look it up. Somebody tell me if he was just. Oh, and speaking of somebody, tell me approximately 900,000 of you let me know that the Rock did indeed do a Tyler Perry movie.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah, they told me too.

[Crissle West]

My bad, my bad.

[Kid Fury]

I. I had a feeling he popped up in some terrible shit. They could not wait to put that shit in our goddamn entrance.

[Crissle West]

Well, I mean, thank you for reminding me, because, yes, I did not see why did I get married up on that mountain or whatever. If I saw it, I saw it a trillion years ago and I completely forgot that the Rock came in at the very end or something. So, yeah, he can have the American Black movie or whatever. The. You sure? Why not?

[Kid Fury]

Okay, whatever.

[Crissle West]

All right, girls, that is gonna wrap up this holiday.

[Kid Fury]

That Moana movie. It's another live action Moana.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah. Okay, well, we'll see who gets cast.

[Kid Fury]

Pretty much like Moana.

[Crissle West]

Oh, the little girl.

[Kid Fury]

The little girl. The young lady's in the teaser or whatever. You can hear her voice sound like she can actually sing I mean, even.

[Crissle West]

The rock can sing. Like, the rock is the Jonathan Bailey. He sounds just fine. But, you know, are y' all gonna throw a Jeff Goldblum or a Michelle Yeoh in there? And if you do, please don't. I still John and whoever else. I mean, the casting director. If the. If the. If the two stars and the director want to want one person in particular, then you know, it's pretty much going to be that person. But I just cannot. Can Cynthia, Ariana and John please explain to us why y' all insisted that these people who can't sing have big singing parts in the show? Why did y' all do that?

[Kid Fury]

I.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

I didn't know that Cynthia and Ariana were involved.

[Crissle West]

Yes. Cynthia and Ariana also were like, michelle, no, come do it, please. Michelle, you'll be great. We love you. Oh, our Morrible. Our Morrible. Did y' all know Cheryl Lee Ralph? Like, I feel like y' all did not even know he auditioned.

[Kid Fury]

Pink and Green were like, we shall be the singers and no one else.

[Crissle West]

You know what? I had that thought ever so briefly. I did.

[Kid Fury]

None shall come between Glenda and Elliot. Alfie.

[Crissle West]

Anyway.

[Kid Fury]

Cynthia sang Alfie for Dionne Warwick of the Kennedy Center Honors. Ooh, this is many, many years ago. I watch it all the time. Yeah, maybe it is extraordinary, but I only bring it up because now that she's played Elphaba, every time I play play it, I hear her say Elfie instead of Alfie.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah, funny.

[Kid Fury]

She'll check it out. She. It's. Her voice is stupid. Her voice is stupid. Dionne Ward was up there crying. Queen Latifah was up there also honored looking.

[Crissle West]

No, that's great thing that. Them especially. I mean, I. I knew Ariana could sing, but Cynthia. I saw Cynthia Revo on Broadway and I lost my mind. It just don't even. You wouldn't even think a voice that big could come out of somebody that small. And so again, I just wanna understand that, like, as a bitch who can really, really sing, why you wanted non singing people in this movie? I just. I don't get it.

[Kid Fury]

They might have really wanted the leads to be the highlighting voices of the. Of the thing. I just don't know why. I don't know why. To the point show where everybody can.

[Crissle West]

Sing for people who know the music of Wicked. I'm sure y' all were like, oh, this is going to take away greatly from the film. Like, this is going to impact the film in a negative way.

[Kid Fury]

It breaks immersion.

[Crissle West]

It does, yes. And that is I can't wait for you to see part two. That is my Whereas the first one had me enthralled, the second one, I kept coming out of it. I kept being brought out of the movie.

[Kid Fury]

So I get that.

[Crissle West]

But we will discuss at another date and time. As for now, that will wrap up this week's episode of the Reading. Check us out on social media at this is the Read. Our website is this is the read.com you can find my show Chrysalis Couch wherever you get your favorite podcasts on YouTube Crystal's couch.com yeah advice crystalscouch.com anything else from you Kid Fury before we wrap up?

[Kid Fury]

You find me at kidfury.com you can find me at patreon.com kid fury this month we've got some wicked themed festivities going on. I just gave away some, did an unboxing for the limited edition film set of the first part and I gave away the gifts inside that box to some lucky Patreon subscribers. So for that and some live streams and other things, you can find me there as well as some goodies to come and yeah, have a happy and safe holiday here. And Krista kind of already said it. Those of you going to share space with people, get on your damn nerves. Keep those those feet planted and that chest and chin high. Don't let them break you.

[Crissle West]

Amen. Take care of yourselves girls. We'll see y' all next week.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

So why would I pay for stuff.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

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