Million Dollar Eggs

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Read - "Million Dollar Eggs" (April 10, 2025)

Hosted by Loud Speakers Network’s Tedramosis and Sarah Strong, "The Read" delivers sharp, humorous, and insightful commentary on hip-hop, pop culture, and the personal lives of its hosts as they navigate life in New York City. In the "Million Dollar Eggs" episode, aired on April 10, 2025, Ted and Sarah delve into a diverse range of topics, from celebrating black excellence to dissecting the latest in pop culture and responding to listener letters. Below is a comprehensive summary capturing the episode's key discussions, insights, and notable moments.

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1. Black Excellence: Morehouse College Boxing Club [00:04 - 03:14]

Tedramosis opens the episode by celebrating black excellence, highlighting Morehouse College's boxing club achievements. He mentions that it's the first HBCU boxing club to compete in the U.S. Intercollegiate Boxing Association National Tournament, with fighters Elijah McLean and Caleb Hudson securing national titles.

• Tedramosis [00:54]: “It’s in us. It’s not on us.”
• Sarah Strong [02:00]: “Boxing is pretty barbaric.”
• Tedramosis [02:38]: “Boxing is not the same, girl. It does take some skill.”

The discussion emphasizes the resilience and talent of the student-athletes, despite boxing no longer being sanctioned by the NCAA.

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2. Pop Culture: The Hot Box Segment [03:14 - 44:07]

a. James Gunn and DC Universe's Superman Movie [03:14 - 07:57]

Ted and Sarah shift to their "Hot Box" segment, starting with James Gunn's role as the head of the DC Universe and his upcoming Superman movie. They discuss the teaser featuring Superman's dog, Crypto, and express cautious optimism about the film's direction.

• Tedramosis [05:53]: “This dog, rather than being a big old strong dog’s, kind of looks like a stray. Still white, like Krypto’s dog.”
• Sarah Strong [07:57]: “He looks very cute. Maybe things are looking up for Superman.”

b. Billboard’s Top 25 Female Rappers [07:57 - 15:30]

Billboard's list of the top 25 female rappers of all time sparks a lively debate. Ted lists the artists, leading to a discussion on cultural impact versus current relevance.

• Tedramosis [08:09]: “Number one spot is Nicki Minaj. She’s the only person on this list whose entry has more than one paragraph.”
• Sarah Strong [12:35]: “They’re looking at overall impact. Rap from the '80s wasn’t great, but the greats opened doors.”

They critique placements towards the end of the list, debating the inclusion of newer artists like Doja Cat and Tierra Whack.

c. Young Thug’s Legal Issues [16:36 - 24:47]

The hosts discuss Young Thug's legal troubles, focusing on his probation issues and problematic social media behavior.

• Tedramosis [17:38]: “A judge in Atlanta declined to revoke Young Thug’s probation after he threatened the DA’s investigator on social media.”
• Sarah Strong [19:11]: “Why would you post that? It’s beyond me.”

They emphasize the importance of responsible social media use, especially for individuals on probation.

d. Bow Wow and Omarion’s Millennium Tour [34:07 - 37:50]

Ted and Sarah analyze the renewed tour featuring Bow Wow and Omarion, noting the ongoing tensions and marketing strategies centered around their strained relationship.

• Tedramosis [34:10]: “Bow Wow went on Cam Newton’s podcast and said, ‘It’s complicated.’”
• Sarah Strong [35:14]: “They market how much they hate each other as part of the tour.”

e. Listener Letters [44:07 - 77:35]

i. Bresha’s Update [46:17 - 46:33]

Bresha shares her journey of cutting ties with her ex and the aftermath, expressing gratitude for the hosts' advice.

• Bresha [46:17]: “Thanks for talking me off the ledge.”
• Tedramosis [46:15]: “Thank you. Appreciate it.”

ii. Dr. Lonely’s Dilemma [50:02 - 75:22]

Dr. Lonely, a 38-year-old physician, seeks advice on handling a persistent and manipulative ex-boyfriend. Ted and Sarah offer candid, no-nonsense guidance, emphasizing the importance of self-care and setting firm boundaries.

• Sarah Strong [53:06]: “You don’t deserve to be treated like this at all.”
• Tedramosis [72:29]: “He’s a white man messing up your life. Move on.”

iii. Dosha’s Toxic Relationship Experience [75:07 - 77:35]

Dosha, a 20-year-old gay black man, recounts his turbulent relationship with Chris, marked by emotional manipulation and unresolved issues. The hosts advise Dosha to prioritize his well-being and sever ties with the toxic partner.

• Sarah Strong [77:35]: “Do not engage because you deserve better.”
• Tedramosis [75:22]: “Focus on you and your own survival.”

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3. Nintendo Switch 2 and Mario Kart Updates [77:35 - 83:29]

Ted excitedly discusses the new Nintendo Switch 2 and the latest Mario Kart preview, highlighting improved graphics and innovative features.

• Tedramosis [78:13]: “Nintendo Switch 2 looks beautiful, with PS4-level graphics and magnetic Joy-Cons.”
• Sarah Strong [48:39]: “Very excited for the new Mario Kart.”

They humorously critique the anticipated price hikes and mock the influence of tariffs on gaming costs.

• Tedramosis [80:03]: “Nintendo Switch 2 is gonna be $2,500 a pop. I’m disgusted, annoyed, aggravated.”
• Sarah Strong [81:25]: “When you have to use Klarna and Afterpay for groceries…”

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4. Social Media, TikTok, and Political Commentary [28:22 - 84:35]

Ted and Sarah address the extension of TikTok's deadline amid political pressures, criticizing President Trump’s actions affecting the platform.

• Tedramosis [28:22]: “TikTok got extended for another 75 days according to Trump.”
• Sarah Strong [30:48]: “We are simply not going to have anything on TikTok.”

They further lament the rising costs of goods due to tariffs and the government's disregard for basic needs, intertwining personal frustrations with broader societal critiques.

• Sarah Strong [90:06]: “What y'all are doing is targeting students, particularly Muslim students…”
• Tedramosis [92:57]: “We would have done that already. Stupid.”

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5. Final Thoughts and Wrap-Up [84:35 - 102:32]

In the concluding segments, Ted and Sarah continue their blend of humor and harsh truths, touching on topics like anti-Semitism, Trump's policies, and the impact on everyday life. They maintain their signature style, blending serious commentary with irreverent banter.

• Sarah Strong [85:07]: “It must be tough seeing the devastation.”
• Tedramosis [100:05]: “I just want juice and games. It’s a nice life, piss.”

They end the episode by encouraging listeners to stay informed, prioritize well-being, and navigate life's challenges with resilience and humor.

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Notable Quotes and Moments

• Tedramosis [00:35]: “Congratulations for yet being alive in Trump world 2. The reckoning, the reawakening, the lightning. I hate all of it.”
• Sarah Strong [12:35]: “They were door openers… Salt N Pepa gave us hip hop in a female form that was in a completely new aesthetic and vibe.”
• Tedramosis [20:02]: “You’re not that dumb.”
• Sarah Strong [74:56]: “Putting yourself first is important.”
• Tedramosis [83:30]: “Juice and video games. I just want juice and games.”

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Conclusion

The "Million Dollar Eggs" episode of "The Read" offers a compelling mix of cultural critique, personal advice, and unabashed honesty. Tedramosis and Sarah Strong tackle significant issues with their trademark humor and bluntness, providing listeners both entertainment and valuable insights. Whether discussing the achievements of Morehouse's boxing club or navigating toxic relationships, the hosts maintain a balance of levity and seriousness, making "The Read" a must-listen for those seeking candid conversations on contemporary issues.

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Transcript

[Tedramosis]

Happy. Hello, hello, friends. Hello, haters and other. I am Tedramosis. Welcome back.

[Sarah Strong]

And I am Sarah Strong. This is the Read. Thanks for returning.

[Tedramosis]

Yes, indeed, thank you for returning and congratulations for yet being alive in Trump world 2. The reckoning, the reawakening, the lightning. I hate all of it.

[Sarah Strong]

Same.

[Tedramosis]

So this. Let's do some black excellence as we do each week. This week we're gonna go ahead, give black excellence to the school of Morehouse College, Specifically their boxing club, which has become the first ever HBCU boxing club to compete in the U.S. intercollegiate Boxing Association National Tournament. Two of the fighters from the club, Elijah McLean and Caleb Hudson, won national titles. I know that's right because I'm certain outside of their training, athleticism, initiative and capability, that group of Negro men standing across from them, other people getting ready to put bell to ask was enough to send shivers down spines and secure victory. It's in us. It's not on us. Boxing is no longer sanctioned by the ncaa. Wonder why.

[Sarah Strong]

No, it's pretty barbaric.

[Tedramosis]

So funding and logistics are primarily on the school to figure out, however, Morehouse's college. The chief of police at Morehouse College, Charles Prescott, says victory is a testament to the student athletes dedication to and resilience as well as capability, ability and talent from knocking heads and bodies down. Amen. We celebrate them.

[Sarah Strong]

Yes. Congratulations, you young men. I'm not surprised that it's not sanctioned by the NCAA anymore. Of course not. But yeah, this.

[Tedramosis]

I'm not going to let you literally beat our ass and get that tonight.

[Sarah Strong]

And the NCAA is like, yeah, scholarships and everything. Sure, why not? Football is bad enough. Football, yeah, is. Anyway, congratulations to these young men because it does take talent. Everybody think they can fight. Boxing is not the same girl. It does take some skill.

[Tedramosis]

Can you do me just a favor? Can you do me a favor and just say that one more time?

[Sarah Strong]

The part about everybody think they can fight, but boxing is not the same.

[Tedramosis]

Thank you so much.

[Sarah Strong]

It's not the same. So, yeah, congratulations to those young men. Good for y'all.

[Tedramosis]

Yay. Okay, let's get into our pop culture all About Us segment that we call the Hot Box. Starting off with. Where do I want to begin? Oh, okay. Start with something fun. So James Gunn, who did the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, directed those movies for Mar Vell.

[Sarah Strong]

Yes, correct.

[Tedramosis]

Now he's the head of the DC universe, Mo, because you know, those have been awful outside of the first Wonder Woman movie. And so. And you know, now Gal Gadot is Gal Gadot. Sorry, I'M just gonna. What did Beyonce say? Let's not even talk about it.

[Sarah Strong]

I saw a clip from somebody on TikTok who was like, they had put together all of Gal Gadot's movies, and they're like, this woman's the worst actress in the world.

[Tedramosis]

She's not great.

[Sarah Strong]

It only worked for the first Wonder Woman because she is somebody. Wonder Woman doesn't know other people. And she's supposed to be, like, awkward and dead.

[Tedramosis]

The eyes, it really works. Also, she's. She's a soldier lady, so being a badass Amazonian kind of works too. But yeah, there wasn't really acting required of. Of her in that first one. And so we, we got. She was barely in the Batman movie.

[Sarah Strong]

And so there she. And so somehow she just skated right on by.

[Tedramosis]

God bless whoever picks up the tiara next.

[Sarah Strong]

Oh, her little headband thing. Yeah.

[Tedramosis]

Yeah.

[Sarah Strong]

So James Gunn is gonna try to turn that ship around.

[Tedramosis]

Yeah. So he's got a Superman movie coming out this year. And the reason I'm bringing it up right, is because of Crypto, Superman's dog. Crypto is typically like, I feel like he's usually. He's usually drawn to like a big, big dog. Like, I don't know, maybe like a, like an American bulldog or maybe like a PID or, you know, like a big superhero style dog. James Gunn said his inspiration for this Crypto was a rescue that they, he and his family got. And he's like, that dog was essentially the hottest of mess, like, just a chaotic nuisance for maybe like the first year. Like, early part of them having a dog because he was a rescue and needed training and to know that he was safe and so on and so forth and so a lot of that. And now he's like their best friend. They love him. They will jump in front of a bus for him. You know, you're a mother. So you get it.

[Sarah Strong]

I get it.

[Tedramosis]

And so this dog, rather than being a big old strong, powerful dog's little scruffy, looks kind of like a stray. Still white, like Krypto's dog. And they released a teaser of the movie this past week, and it's some scene where Superman just got done getting his natural ass whooped. I'm not sure why, but he's broken and a mess. And he whistles out for Krypto to come save him. And then you just see this, like, out in the distance, you just see this snow, like, just flying up in the sky, just showing this trail of something speeding in his direction. And then it gets closer and it's Crypto. And the first thing that Crypto does on this man with his broken body is leap on top of him in excitement, jumping all over him. And Superman is like, oh, no. Oh, Crypto. Stop, please. Sit, sit, stop. And crypto's just like, what are you talking about? I'm excited. I'm here to see you. Let's have a good time. That sold me. I don't know what else is gonna. Cause this is their first real. Like, this is the first chapter in there. Here we go at this. Trying this thing again. So this is the beginning. So a lot of people are crossing their fingers. DC fans especially. I'm not a huge Superman person, but I am hoping that the films do well. But bitch, if I was reluctant or whatever before that 10 seconds of Krypto being a dog and dragged his ass away and finally was like, oh, okay. And dragged his ass to go get him some help. Yeah.

[Sarah Strong]

I mean, the blood pouring out of that man's face and mouth wasn't enough for this dog. He like, I feel like I didn't peep that. We should be having a great time. So, yeah, this does. He looks very cute. And so, yeah, maybe that is a good sign for the Superman world that things are going to be looking up.

[Tedramosis]

Um, Billboard released their top 25 best female rappers of all time list this past week.

[Sarah Strong]

They did.

[Tedramosis]

It's interesting. Um, I don't disagree with like a lot of the early, like one of the top picks. It gets a bit peculiar, but, you know, it is. It says right here in the headlines, staff picks. This is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Eight individuals from one company that shared their opinion.

[Sarah Strong]

That's right.

[Tedramosis]

Okay, so just read a couple of them. Number one spot is Nicolas Minaj. This is not a shock. She's also, I think, the only person on this list whose entry has more than one paragraph.

[Sarah Strong]

Okay. I mean, I'm not surprised. And that's not even something I would argue about. Nikki's talent as a rapper has never been the problem with her.

[Tedramosis]

So.

[Sarah Strong]

Okay, sure.

[Tedramosis]

Minaj quickly usurped the throne and stylistically rewrote the playbook for female rappers while becoming an architect. Architect of pop music. In the process, Queen's icon became the first female rapper to eclipse triple digit Billboard Hot 100 hits in 2018 with 149 entries to her name as of publishing. And the Pink Friday World tour. Pink Friday 2 World Tour became the highest grossing tour for a female rapper in history. And then this is One thing's for sure. The road to the crown on a list like this still runs through Gag City. Okay, Number two is Missy Elliott. Yep, yep.

[Sarah Strong]

Correct. Would not have wanted to see her much lower than that. So good for you.

[Tedramosis]

I mean, I wouldn't have accepted it, to be honest.

[Sarah Strong]

She has to be in top three. I'm just gone. Keep it real with you.

[Tedramosis]

Let's just. Just to be for real, and we'll be honest. Number three is the miseducation of Ms. Lauryn Hill. Again, top three. Yeah, I'm not gonna argue with that. Four is Lil Kim. Five is the queen Latifah. My dad, you and I. T U I. Who are you calling a. Why has nobody even made that?

[Sarah Strong]

Because don't nobody care no more. These kids call each other and they mean it lovingly.

[Tedramosis]

They call and like, when they're calling.

[Sarah Strong]

A little type, shit, fine. Like, calling somebody your little. Is like saying, that's my boo.

[Tedramosis]

Absolutely nobody says that. Nobody says that.

[Sarah Strong]

You're going to six.

[Tedramosis]

Like, I like it in where. Right where I am.

[Sarah Strong]

You're going to.

[Tedramosis]

I'm not. I am. I'm not. I'm not.

[Sarah Strong]

Okay.

[Tedramosis]

And so I'll figure out how to block it. There has to be a way. Or just. I won't. I'm lil. Shit is, I think where. I'm drawing the line.

[Sarah Strong]

Okay.

[Tedramosis]

I think I'm drawing the line a little. Shit. I got past thought. I got past thought. Well, that hoe over there.

[Sarah Strong]

Do niggas call they girls they thoughts? I'm saying they say, like, little shit. Like, that's my little shit.

[Tedramosis]

No, that makes it worse. I'm simply saying the existence of the term bodies.

[Sarah Strong]

Oh, got you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, well. Sorry.

[Tedramosis]

Oh, my God.

[Sarah Strong]

Sorry.

[Tedramosis]

Okay. MC Light is six. Salt N Pepa is seven. Roxanne Shantae is eight. See, this is where I felt like we were starting to be, like, nostalgic and historian. Y. Cause like.

[Sarah Strong]

I think they're looking at overall impact.

[Tedramosis]

Impact, yes.

[Sarah Strong]

Cause when you. A lot of that rap from the 80s was not great. But the people we consider the greats would have never got here without.

[Tedramosis]

Oh, yeah, they're door openers. Roxanne Shantae cleared the scene. Salt N Pepa gave us hip hop in a female form that was in completely new, like, aesthetic and vibe and call and response and everything. Like that MC Lyte. Nobody could beat her, right?

[Sarah Strong]

So, yeah, they put there, like, it's not just about the body of work and what they've achieved. It's Also about their cultural impact and influence, the longevity, the lyrics. So I'm not surprised to see a bunch of older artists that most of us probably don't listen to on a regular basis popping up on this list.

[Tedramosis]

You're correct. 9 is Eve. 10 is Foxy Brown.

[Sarah Strong]

Sure.

[Tedramosis]

11 is Cardi B. Yep. 12 is the Brat. 13 is Trina. 14 is Left Eye. I would have switched Left Eye and Brat.

[Sarah Strong]

Yeah.

[Tedramosis]

Or I would have switched. I would have either. I think I would have gone Left Eye Trina, Brat, or Left Eye Brat, Trina. No Shade.

[Sarah Strong]

Okay.

[Tedramosis]

Left Eye.

[Sarah Strong]

I mean, yeah. It's funny because in the conversation of rappers, I don't even really think of her, honestly. Like, she's not.

[Tedramosis]

I think it's because she's a part of a group that's not a rap group. But she was the rap. She's a rapper.

[Sarah Strong]

Yeah. And not bad at it either. It's just, you know, ladies night. Sure. Yep. That was a great song.

[Tedramosis]

Well, Angie Martinez is on that song too. 15 is Megan Thee Stallion, followed by Doja Cat, followed by Rhapsody.

[Sarah Strong]

Okay.

[Tedramosis]

Followed by Remy Ma.

[Sarah Strong]

Remy Ma. Sure. Reminisce.

[Tedramosis]

Remy ma. Lato is 19. Moni Love is 20. Oh, my God. So cute.

[Sarah Strong]

Wow. Oh, my God. Moni Love. Ladies first. Ladies first.

[Tedramosis]

21 is year ago, Gloria. Hallelujah. Work for being on the list, Young lady.

[Sarah Strong]

Yeah.

[Tedramosis]

Followed by lady of Rage, followed by Gangsta Boo, followed by Dochi, followed by Tierra Wack.

[Sarah Strong]

Okay. So, yes, I personally would have mixed some of these up. Like, I don't think Dochi deserves a 25.

[Tedramosis]

24. 24 on a 25 list.

[Sarah Strong]

I am so sorry. Dochi Latto being five or six spots ahead of Dochi, not making sense to your girl.

[Tedramosis]

But is Denial is a River the only song by her, y'all of her, like, what is happening?

[Sarah Strong]

So to me, that don't make sense. But overall, this list is fine. I'm not really mad at it.

[Tedramosis]

Tarot Action B. 25. I mean, but it's not. It's not a bad list.

[Sarah Strong]

Again, again, I. I fully agree. I think for some of these people, they are really weighting the cultural impact. And I think that list of what they did, like, Body of Work, Impact, Influen. I think that's like, the order in which they considered these things. But maybe not, because, you know, Tierra Whack and Dochi's careers are relatively new and still beginning. Really. Like, I don't think Dochi has hit her peak, which is.

[Tedramosis]

And longevity is a criteria thing.

[Sarah Strong]

Right. So yeah, so that's fine.

[Tedramosis]

Fair, fair, fair.

[Sarah Strong]

Not mad. At least y'all didn't do something real dumb like putting bad baby at number three or something. Like y'all didn't do something to piss us off. I feel like the blog's used to do it.

[Tedramosis]

Really wasn't that bad. They did.

[Sarah Strong]

They used to do stuff just to get me. People mad. Just to get people talking about it.

[Tedramosis]

Yeah, people would talk about it and click on it. Oh God, that she used to be so annoying, cuz. Motherfuckers don't fall for it every time. It's like, this is like the opinion of five thirty something year olds who couldn't give two living bucks. Like, we don't have to be this upset. You're going to drive to Temecula. Temecula.

[Sarah Strong]

Oh, no.

[Tedramosis]

That was about something far more serious.

[Sarah Strong]

Was it? I was gonna say.

[Tedramosis]

I mean, athletes are like religion.

[Sarah Strong]

The Kobe thing. The Kobe thing. I'll swim across a sea of dicks. It's coming back to me on the Internet. That man said he would swim across a sea of dicks to dot that nigga's eye or something like that. Was that over Kobe? Was that the meet me in Temecula? Yeah.

[Tedramosis]

No. Yeah.

[Sarah Strong]

Oh my God. How crazy you just said that. And it brought back all these memories.

[Tedramosis]

Ah. A judge in Atlanta, Georgia has declined prosecutors request to revoke the probation of one young thug and sent him back to prison. Fulton County DA Fanny Willis, who was involved in the case quite a bit, claimed that young thug engaged in conduct that directly threatened the safety of prosecutors when he posted a photo of an investigator from the DA's office and placed a caption that said, the biggest liar in the DA's office. This post amassed over 2 million views and comments of the post. The investigators home address and parents home address were shared. There are even comments threatening violence. Young thug tweeted in response to this, I don't make threats to people. I'm a good person. I would never condone any threatening anyone. Anyone threatening anyone, or definitely participating in threatening anyone. I'm all about peace and love. And then says, hey, have you played the new hello Kitty game? I'm level 15 friendship with hello Kitty. It doesn't say that.

[Sarah Strong]

It does not.

[Tedramosis]

The judge apparently said, young thug, bitch, tread lightly, ho. Essentially he said, exercise restraint and be mindful of your social media use. You're not that dumb.

[Sarah Strong]

Are you though? Are you that dumb?

[Tedramosis]

He didn't say that last part.

[Sarah Strong]

I just said it's godlike. Sweetie, why are you Even on Twitter. Like, why are you. Why are you.

[Tedramosis]

I would write letters.

[Sarah Strong]

I wouldn't have a phone on Twitter. And if you insist on having Twitter or Instagram or TikTok or any other social. Why are you talking about anything other than your music, your tour, you in the studio, like, you working. Why on earth would you post a picture of an investigator in the DA's office that you just cut a deal with a few months ago, talking about the biggest liar in the. Like, why would you even invite that?

[Tedramosis]

I wouldn't even post my own music unless it was written and produced by CeCe Winans. I'm not doing it. Like, my social media is going to be nature walks and my dinner until. Until at least my whatchamacallit is. Is a probation and shit. But why you have. How long you think it's gonna take for him to go?

[Sarah Strong]

I mean, I am. Cause you have 15 year probation. Your probation is 15 years. I don't see you making it two if you already getting caught up on stupid shit. Like, thankfully, the judge was like, okay, y'all are doing a lot. Like, this is a bit of a reach, but it's not that much of a reach because, again, why post it this. You were talking in relation to a case that had absolutely nothing to do with you or anybody. Like, it was something that was completely unrelated to you. Why you chose to post this is. Is beyond me. And, no, you're not responsible for what your fans do or for what people do when they see you doing that. But that's all the more reason to stay away from doing shit that might lead to other people doing dumber shit.

[Tedramosis]

Like, yeah, it's like, you're not responsible for. You are aware of how it works.

[Sarah Strong]

You know how the Internet works, right?

[Tedramosis]

So, I mean, that's why you did it. You didn't do it expecting people to go, oh, that's interesting. Anyway, no, like, you expected. You wanted for people to be upset by. In your name, and you called a.

[Sarah Strong]

Prosecutor a liar like you. I don't know, it just doesn't seem like a good idea when you are on probation in the state of Georgia, which already just loves to lock niggas up. You know, it just don't seem. Why would you do that? It's. Oh, Jeffrey, you got so lucky.

[Tedramosis]

I would lie. You didn't watch Martin. I would literally. You didn't like Martin the character. Sorry.

[Sarah Strong]

Oh, yes.

[Tedramosis]

Do you remember. Do you remember the episode. It was the premiere of, I Want to say season three, where they were looking for Martin. And they found him in a cult. And half his hair was shaved, and he was like, oh, I don't do any of that secular nonsense anymore. And he wouldn't tell jokes when I paid. That would be me. If I was thug, they would find me in the woods somewhere out in Georgia.

[Sarah Strong]

I don't even know what y'all talking about. Comedy.

[Tedramosis]

Sitting with my legs crossed with a tunic made out of wheat and rhubarb, drinking tea. Just yes, and spray it. Oh, I don't do the Internet. We don't have electricity.

[Sarah Strong]

I'm just out here talking. I'm just out here talking to God.

[Tedramosis]

We beat these two rocks together and we tell each other stories about and our ancestors. That's it.

[Sarah Strong]

I make a. I make a simple bread, and I live. I live a quiet life.

[Tedramosis]

It's just me no longer. Trust me, that is just gonna have to be.

[Sarah Strong]

That's fine.

[Tedramosis]

What it is.

[Sarah Strong]

That's his prerogative, because I chose a new life. Can't go to prison. So maybe just like, what, they let you out?

[Tedramosis]

And when they. When the motherfuckers let him out, they were just like, sweetie, sweetie, we want you to know before we even take the cuffs off, bitch, if you belch offbeat, we're locking you up. Like some.

[Sarah Strong]

Like, you know that.

[Tedramosis]

So why are you.

[Sarah Strong]

Cause the.

[Tedramosis]

I thought it would be, like, so strong. I thought it would be like, oh, he went out to a party, fucked around, and forgot. You're not supposed to be next to this criminal. Oh, he smoked some weed. Oh, he popped a perk.

[Sarah Strong]

Oh, he went to Atlanta without permission.

[Tedramosis]

Right?

[Sarah Strong]

Something this avoidable, something that you could have just. Just take the app off your phone. If you just take it off your phone, just delete the app from your phone. Like, social media is fun, but it's supposed to be like, an add on to your real life. It's not supposed to be. Your life isn't supposed to run around these apps.

[Tedramosis]

So it's just so true.

[Sarah Strong]

I'm just not understanding why you felt so true. You. You don't have a group chat of fun rapper niggas that you could drop that in and be like the biggest liar in a D. Like, you don't.

[Tedramosis]

Kendrick fucked all that up. None of these niggas trashed each other.

[Sarah Strong]

I mean, then. Then airplay it. Put it on the house. Put it up on the screen in.

[Tedramosis]

The house, nigga, go frolic.

[Sarah Strong]

A lot of people in your house laugh at it. Like, this is.

[Tedramosis]

Just put on some sandals. Go run around in a Meadow.

[Sarah Strong]

Because let me tell you something else. You get caught up again behind some tweets. I'm not finna be talking about no free thug. I'm not. I am not going to be talking about how the justice system and black men and over criminal. I'm not doing it. Because you had multiple opportunities to not get caught up on something dumb. Now, at what point are you as an adult going to choose to not do the dumb thing.

[Tedramosis]

As a hood nigga, 15 years of probation sounds boring, but I'm sure it does. You can make a way. I mean, now's the time. Mm.

[Sarah Strong]

Cause it. You're right, it does sound boring. But it sounds more fun than 20 years in the clink.

[Tedramosis]

And I'm just agreeing. I have to agree. I agree with that. It just does.

[Sarah Strong]

It sounds more fun than even 5. 5. 5 years. It sounds 15 years.

[Tedramosis]

I would rather be bored for 15 years than incarcerated for 5 months.

[Sarah Strong]

I'd rather be bored at home than bored in prison. I just have a feeling. Bored in prison.

[Tedramosis]

Yeah.

[Sarah Strong]

Because what are you supposed to do about it? Read the same books in that library that they finna close? Because Trump said inmates don't deserve to read.

[Tedramosis]

And honestly, you're gonna want the board in prison over the excitement in prison, bitch. So you're fucked either way, right?

[Sarah Strong]

You don't want things to be exciting and a whole bunch of shit going off in prison either. So it's like, bitch, if you don't.

[Tedramosis]

Hire a young intern, what do you.

[Sarah Strong]

Want for your life? Does young thug even need an intern.

[Tedramosis]

To run his Twitter?

[Sarah Strong]

Question, what do you want your life to look like? You can't ask niggas that you're going to have to. It's a question you need to know. Well, you then sit with it. Ask yourself, because I can't answer it for you. What do you want it to look like?

[Tedramosis]

They want what they do for a living.

[Sarah Strong]

Okay. And you can have that.

[Tedramosis]

Yeah, but. But I want perks and. And criminal engagement.

[Sarah Strong]

Okay. See, no, you could.

[Tedramosis]

And little five points and Cascade.

[Sarah Strong]

So you know what you need to do at that point is make a list of all the things you want in this life and then rank them. And you can even do tiers, like most important, second important. And if you say, drinking lean is my number one priority in this world, then I know how to work with you. If that's what you say to me. If you say, I got to have that mixture in my system, I cannot. I have to have that Sprite.

[Tedramosis]

Fifteen Jolly Ranchers, one Sprite.

[Sarah Strong]

At that point I know how to work with you. Like it's just a matter of time for the law. Catch up with you then baby. Cause this can't be your top priority in this life. It cannot get off Twitter. Please delete it off of your phone. Just delete it off of your phone. This is insane.

[Tedramosis]

Imagine if the judge would have been like yep. And sent her ass like. And I wouldn't argue, but I would laugh a lot for a long time.

[Sarah Strong]

Because you incited this against this person. The address of this person and their parents being leaked because of you because you posted a picture of them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got really lucky with that judge.

[Tedramosis]

Super lucky. The laugh that would have erupted for me. I am so sorry. If they would have took this nigga back after he just got out over.

[Sarah Strong]

This dumb shit and everybody else just beat the case. So you could have beat the rico but instead you took a plea deal. You got this fucking I can't want you to be free more than you do child.

[Tedramosis]

And that is it. And that's it. Try Christ. Christ, Christ, Christ.

[Sarah Strong]

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[Tedramosis]

Speaking of your tiktoks, it got extended for another 75 days according to you have Donald Trump to thank.

[Sarah Strong]

No I won't be doing that.

[Tedramosis]

After he announced his truth. The extension of his truth social platform, TikTok's deadline requiring ByteDance to sell its operations has been extended for 75 days to make sure the necessary approvals are signed. Lumpy.

[Sarah Strong]

Okay, that doesn't really make sense, but all right.

[Tedramosis]

President Lump says that he believes that they can continue to do this in good faith with China, even though he's charging the whole world to exist, especially China. So there you go, guys. The Clock app, Tick Tock and Zae Zay and Lil.

[Sarah Strong]

I mean, I'm happy for Tick Tock because it is my favorite social platform, but Trump is finna ruin absolutely everything. We love and enjoy everything. So I'm not holding on too tight because in a minute, baby, y'all eggs were expensive the way. We're simply not going to have anything on Tick Tock. Somebody did a video. You remember the. The Animaniacs video where what's his name? Yakko? Or somebody would do the. All the countries in the world.

[Tedramosis]

Oh, yeah, that's the country.

[Sarah Strong]

Right? So somebody did that, but they muted his name every time it was a country. Trump was gonna put tariffs on. Baby. It wasn't no song. It wasn't no song.

[Tedramosis]

That is. Okay. Okay. I'm gonna TikTok sometime this weekend. Cause that's really funny, y'all. That's really funny.

[Sarah Strong]

We're finna not have a fucking thing to eat.

[Tedramosis]

That's so funny.

[Sarah Strong]

Where y'all don't. 80% of the. The things we put in our homes and on our bodies come from another country, sweetie.

[Tedramosis]

And like what you think you're doing?

[Sarah Strong]

We're fucked.

[Tedramosis]

What do you think you're doing?

[Sarah Strong]

Yalls little sheen and teemu halls. You can say goodbye to that. When Trump put 125 tariff on everything. You're not getting 90 outfits for. For $4. No more bitch like Donald. Okay, Anyway.

[Tedramosis]

Anyway, I hate him.

[Sarah Strong]

Yes, same. And so this TikTok thing, I.

[Tedramosis]

If it comes with its benefits, I.

[Sarah Strong]

Mean, because I know they're talking about Amazon Potentially buying TikTok, which that's the last thing I want. I.

[Tedramosis]

They already trying to sell you shit every time you swipe up, bitch.

[Sarah Strong]

Now the TikTok shop. When Amazon buys that bitch.

[Tedramosis]

Oh, it is a wrap.

[Sarah Strong]

It is going to be so bad.

[Tedramosis]

First of all, you won't be able to log in without connecting to your.

[Sarah Strong]

You're going to have to log into Amazon first before you log into TikTok. Right. Right you are. And just so I. Oh, God, I'm. I'd rather Amazon simply just go ahead and destroy all the things I love, because you're going. That's where we're going to end up anyway. So just go ahead and do it.

[Tedramosis]

I knew he was going to, but eight weeks. God.

[Sarah Strong]

Like, okay, he told y'all to just hold on. America will be bigger and better than ever. Don't trip.

[Tedramosis]

So I'm. I'm thinking we're going to get to our first Purge probably by like, summer of next year.

[Sarah Strong]

And I'm not trying to live like that. I'm really not. I'm finna just dig me a hole and me and Lainey just finna stay in that bitch until it's over. Because I'm not living like that.

[Tedramosis]

Do you see that sword right there on that wall?

[Sarah Strong]

You and your katana?

[Tedramosis]

Yeah. That is 100% real Japanese steel.

[Sarah Strong]

Okay, so you are ready to take.

[Tedramosis]

The Glocks in the bedroom. So anybody who wants to come and try and get froggy when they hear that siren outside, I'm coming for the head. I'm coming for both kneecaps.

[Sarah Strong]

And you're going to take all three with them weapons.

[Tedramosis]

So I also have throwing knives.

[Sarah Strong]

Lainey and I will simply be hiding in an attic somewhere like Anne Frank. And when it's over, it's over.

[Tedramosis]

Oh, you've got to. You knife. One knife. But you hide with knife. You hide with knife. Cause Lainey's gonna hear someone at the door, that she's gonna bark and they're gonna know.

[Sarah Strong]

Okay, No, I already. I've just ordered a muzzle for her. Cause I know.

[Tedramosis]

Oh, great.

[Sarah Strong]

She's going to have to shut the hell up. And she won't.

[Tedramosis]

You're fine.

[Sarah Strong]

She's got things.

[Tedramosis]

She's hide in a little cupboard with knife. Yeah, that'll be me back against wall. Just knife.

[Sarah Strong]

Knife right here.

[Tedramosis]

Like, don't open that door first thing that opens. Stab.

[Sarah Strong]

I don't know. This world. Not all that great. I'm not sure how hard I'm going to fight to stay in this bitch, to be honest.

[Tedramosis]

That's fair to him. Been there.

[Sarah Strong]

I said that about COVID and then tried so hard to avoid it. So I just be talking.

[Tedramosis]

Yeah, but Covid was like, scary. Well, I guess. The Purge.

[Sarah Strong]

The Purge? You're like the Purge I've been waiting on.

[Tedramosis]

I can like, conceptualize someone wanting to harm me. You know what I mean? Like catching this virus nobody gets that's killing people with scary shit.

[Sarah Strong]

Free murder. I got a list. Let's get.

[Tedramosis]

I don't want to take part. I would defend myself.

[Sarah Strong]

Right, right.

[Tedramosis]

That's what I'm saying. And I'm sure there would be at least three people within a couple of miles that'd be like, today's the day that I kill that bitch. So I have to be prepared.

[Sarah Strong]

Okay, well, yeah, that's fair.

[Tedramosis]

Yeah. Bow wow and Omarion are not on good terms. Bow wow and on. I think they're doing the millennium tour again.

[Sarah Strong]

I was about to say, and how did we find this out?

[Tedramosis]

Bow wow went on Cam Newton's podcast and talked about Omarion and said, it's complicated. I don't want to talk. It's nothing to talk about. Not even in a bad way. It's just when you lend your hand out and you try to be the bigger person and try to rap, but you get no response, you just go, okay, we'll leave it right there. You do your thing, I do my thing. It's no beef. We've been through this for a long time. He's 40 and I'm 38. We don't have to do that now. We're kids. We got kids. We got our own lives. I wish him nothing but the best. Best revenge is time. You don't have to do much. Have these n ever gotten along? It feels like whenever they're doing one of these tours, a huge part of the marketing for it is how much they all hate each other.

[Sarah Strong]

Okay.

[Tedramosis]

Like, I don't think, like, what? And the first one they did, it was like, oh, yeah, why not? Let's all, like, live out this nostalgia. Woo. Do. Do so for Millennium Tour 6 now. I don't like, what are you. Is this, like, people who missed the first five or did you? Because you know something? I also don't know if I have. I don't know if I remember hearing, like, reviews from it. I haven't heard anybody. Never heard anybody say that they didn't enjoy it. Like, I never heard anyone say they had a bad time, but I don't remember anybody saying, oh, my God, it was amazing either, right? But it's. I remembered, like, when they did it way back when, when Luffy's and Omarion's big mama were fucking. They were selling crazy tickets. So I did see a video, like, a couple of days ago of Marianne's kids. He brought his daughter and his son up on stage, and they both, like, performed, danced, sang his songs. And when I tell you they tore. It wasn't just like, oh, play, play. The kids. They tore Their stage.

[Sarah Strong]

They came to work. Damn, I love that. I do love that.

[Tedramosis]

It was adorable. But I was also like, oh, wow, this motherfucker got two big kids that can dance and sing and rap and shit. Yeah. I just watched you got served for Patreon last week or so and saw them when they were children again, so it's kind of like an interesting contrast. Wow, that movie is inexcusable. That movie is. There are no terrible. I said that that shit made Tyler Perry films look like anora. Like, it made. It made me want to watch acrimony to cleanse my palette. Wow, that movie was horrible.

[Sarah Strong]

You were not doing well. Because that is an insane thing to say. Yeah, it's not good. But I. You know, clearly everybody still needs the money enough to go out on this endless tour. So if this actually sounds fine, like you tried to fix whatever. He wasn't really feeling it. So you said fine, like, you do you, I do me. It happens like that sometimes.

[Tedramosis]

Yeah, it was pretty cool. Very honest and not messy.

[Sarah Strong]

Yeah.

[Tedramosis]

Rapper Bacchanat Nice alleges that he did not respond to Kendrick's mention of him on Not Like Us because Drake advised him not to and in fact, told him that most of the comments were bots. Baca from Canada went on the Hot Freestyle podcast and said, my first initial thing was to respond and respond quickly, very efficiently and very to the point, because where I come from, that doesn't happen. You can't just call out a man and not have paperwork to back up your talks. That's ludicrous. Then to say, I heard Mike Tyson say it. Then to say, like, a whole nation behind it and celebrating like it's a true story is unbelievable. I have a kid. Drake has a kid. You know what I mean? So making accusations like that are ridiculous and out of this world. He said he got a call from Drake when he was just about to respond. He's like, yo, I know what you're feeling. I know you as an individual, and I know how you get down. But I'm just letting you know, don't listen to. To the noise, because it's noise. If you go back and look at all these people that are saying things or have anything to say, they're not even actual real people. They're like bots. So don't let that bother you, bro. Is what Baca alleges Drake said to him about the Not Like Us backlash, and that is why he didn't respond to a Grammy loaded, Pulitzer Prize rapping beast. So in 2014, Baca was arrested. I'm reading his Wikipedia. Baca was arrested and charged with forcing a 22 year old woman into prostitution and taking her money. In 2015, he pleaded guilty to assaulting the woman and an unrelated weapons charge. He was sentenced to six months, but since he had already spent 10 months in custody, he was not required to serve any additional time. The woman refused to test, which led to charges being dropped. Charges for procuring, prostitution and human trafficking. She was working as an escort and had an off on and off again relationship with Baca. She moved from Toronto by the time the trial was underway.

[Sarah Strong]

So Bacca does have a weird case. Why is he around? I mean, that is indeed a weird case.

[Tedramosis]

Like just in case you needed reference.

[Sarah Strong]

I think we all. But I think when this came, when not like us came out, I think the rest of us looked that up. Like, who is this nigga? Right? So you wanted to.

[Tedramosis]

I had heard of it.

[Sarah Strong]

I want to hear this response. I do. I want to know what you thought you was going to say that was going to shut everything down and shut Kenny up.

[Tedramosis]

Please don't. Drake was like, no, just tell him. It's. I'm just going to tell them they're bots.

[Sarah Strong]

Because somebody told him they're bots. Somebody told Drake, don't worry, it's all bots. He's like, yeah, mommy, that's right, they are all bots. And so then Nicole Baka saying the same thing. You girls tell yourselves whatever you need to in order to feel better and sleep soundly at night. I think it was for the best that you didn't respond because I think there's a 0% chance that you actually out wrapped Kendrick or did something that would make me not like us. I think it's for the best that you didn't. But I would love to hear what this man thought he was gonna say in response to this because I, I didn't necessarily take it to mean that Kendrick was calling him a pedophile, just that you're a weirdo and that a lot of the around Drake are weirdos. The certified lover boy is certified pedophile. Now that is definitely about Drake because he has an album by that name. So why he being him being like, well, you know, serious accusations like that, you need to be able to back that up, blah, blah, blah. Yes, but he wasn't talking about you. The weird cases about you. And you do, and you do. Where's the. I didn't brutalize that woman. I didn't assault her. I didn't like there's none of that, because you know good and goddamn well you did. Ain't no lover boy over here. So somebody leave what that man thought he was going to do.

[Tedramosis]

Please don't do it.

[Sarah Strong]

Just do it. I'm actually begging. I will really, really need to hear it, because I'm sure it's terrible.

[Tedramosis]

I know.

[Sarah Strong]

That is warm doo on the pavement.

[Tedramosis]

Cassie's planning to testify against Diddy using her own name.

[Sarah Strong]

Amen.

[Tedramosis]

Three other alleged victims have requested that their identities remain secret during the trial to prevent harassment and other consequences. The trial is set to begin on the 5th of May. I mean, it's the information I have. Cassie said, let's. Let's get started.

[Sarah Strong]

Let's. I mean, because what are y'all gonna say about her that you haven't already said? I feel like most of y'all shut up after that video in the hotel came out. I feel like most of y'all was like, oh, yeah, okay, so she was telling the truth. And so, you know, maybe she's just like, I don't even know what y'all saying because y'all are obsessed with the Internet. I'm not. I. I take telephone calls from my attorney, and I respond accordingly. I'm not getting my information from Instagram stories. So go ahead and. And say it about me. If you need to let out whatever you need to let out. You feeling away about a woman speaking up about the she went through, go ahead and say it. But, you know, of all the victims, Cassie is probably the most resourced and the most protected, so.

[Tedramosis]

And recognize, like, we know her name.

[Sarah Strong]

And face involvement, you know, easily recognizable.

[Tedramosis]

Yeah, but you're right. Like, you done already rang your mouth about me, said all these unthinkable things about me or whatever. Now we're at the point of protecting people, so.

[Sarah Strong]

And y'all have made it clear you don't give a fuck about Cassie, so I'm sure her husband and the people around her are taking care of that, but good for her. Proud of her.

[Tedramosis]

Yeah. Agreed. I think that's going to be it for my hot box this week.

[Sarah Strong]

Okie doke.

[Tedramosis]

Thank you so much for listening. We're going to take a break, and we'll be right back. Okay, we're back, guys. It is time for the listener letters.

[Sarah Strong]

Yes, it is. Send your questions to ask the readmail.com. we may read them aloud on the show. We do have an update this week from Bresha. If you remember, Bresha emailed us a while back, and she was mad at her baby daddy. He did some shit with his new girlfriend where she was stalking her and all this, and so she fucked his brother, and she had been fucking that man's brother, and she was like, oh, I want to tell him because I want to piss him off, and I know that'll hurt him. And we said, don't do that. That's. You know, you're just being petty. You're just mad. So Bresha said, hey, Chris Linkifier. I took Yalls advice, and I did not tell him. Not because I wasn't sure how he'd react, but because y'all were right. I mainly just wanted to hurt his feelings. Instead, I sat down with my support group and made it clear that I no longer want that man in my or my daughter's life. I also spilled the details on all the shit he has done to me throughout the years so that they could understand where I'm coming from. For the most part, they were receptive, but I have had to check a few people because they felt like I was wrong for cutting him out of my daughter's life. We've all adjusted and are doing well, at least on my end. However, I'm not sure that choosing not to confirm what happened even mattered all that much to my baby daddy. He has always accused his brother and I of hooking up, which wasn't the case until well after we were no longer together. And while he can't continue to harass me about it, the accusations and fights have escalated between him and his brother. I feel kind of bad for exasperating their already strained relationship, but at the same time, I'm incredibly happy to not have to deal with either one of them anymore. At this point, I'm focusing on me, my child, and my new, wonderful boyfriend, who, yes, knows all about this craziness and accepts me. Anyway, thanks for talking me off the ledge. And if that nigga. If that nigga ever really finds out, y'all will be the first ones to know. Work, Bresha.

[Tedramosis]

Thank you. Appreciate it.

[Sarah Strong]

Congratulations. And, yeah, if he knew. If your baby daddy knew that you and his brother were actually, like, y'all actually did do, that probably would crash out, but I'm glad he's taking that out on his brother and not you. You just.

[Tedramosis]

I agree.

[Sarah Strong]

Go take care of your baby.

[Tedramosis]

I mean, he you as well. It's like, you didn't.

[Sarah Strong]

What y'all really gonna do, Y'all.

[Tedramosis]

You're not his brother.

[Sarah Strong]

The baby's still gone. She's still coming over for Christmas to say hi and then go back with me, so. Oh, y'all better figure it out. Okay, let's jump into our questions this week. The first one comes from Marco and says, I know y'all love Mario Kart. Have you seen the preview for the new Mario Kart? What are your thoughts? Also, are you going to get the Switch 2?

[Tedramosis]

It's part of my read.

[Sarah Strong]

Oh, okay. So we will talk about that later.

[Tedramosis]

We can talk about Mario Kart. Switch 2 is part of Married.

[Sarah Strong]

Okay, well, have. So have you seen the preview for the new Mario Kart?

[Tedramosis]

Yes, I have, and it looks awesome.

[Sarah Strong]

It does. Now it is $80. I'm like, do I want to spend $80 on that game? But I think the answer is, yes, I do. I get a lot, and I do mean a lot of joy out of Mario Kart. I have spent so many hours on that game playing with people around the world and getting better and better, forcing my friends to play when they come over, even though, like, girl, we don't. We don't want to do this. I'm like, no, you're finna. Because I charge the chargers. So you're gonna. Yeah, so I probably will still pay that in the car.

[Tedramosis]

This one is gonna be. This one's gonna be even more primed for that, I think, because I love. The thing I love about this one is the open world aspect of it. The fact that outside of matches, you can kind of you and friends, you can just drive about the world if you want to take pictures with each other, drive to the next course to race. Again, fun. Like, it doesn't have to be just race, race, race, race, race. You can just drive around the world and explore a bit and then drive to the next race and do that with friends. And so, yeah, it being kind of, like, open ended and being able to do that online with friends is exciting. So.

[Sarah Strong]

Okay.

[Tedramosis]

Yeah. So be way more hijinks.

[Sarah Strong]

Yeah. Yes to the first part of that question. Very excited for the new Mario Kart. And we will just have to wait and hear Kill Fury's thoughts on the new Nintendo coming up later this episode. All right, our next letter comes from Dr. Lonely, who says, I dated this man during my senior year of college, which was about 15 years ago. I was 23 and he was 36. He was a little weird and creepy and very possessive and. And obsessed with me back then, but he was also the best sex in my life. After I finished undergrad, I moved to a different state to go to medical school. I was too Focused on my own personal goals to maintain a relationship with him. So we pretty much ended over the years. We didn't stay in touch and in fact I think he actually had me blocked on social media. I survived medical school and residency and now I'm 38 with a beautiful integration, successful career as a physician, but like many ambitious, successful black women, my love life is essentially non existent. One day this man showed up on my Facebook in the people you may know section and it made me think of all the times we had. So I reached out, we messaged a little bit, discovered that we live about two hours away from each other and agreed to meet up for coffee. The coffee meetup went well and during conversation I basically admitted to him that he was the best sex I ever had and that'd be that I'd be down to fuck again in the future. Which I now regret saying.

[Tedramosis]

Oh God.

[Sarah Strong]

Later that evening when I got home, I started reflecting on how young I was back then compared to him. And the thought made me sick. Even though I was a full consenting adult at 23, I just feel like he was kind of grooming me. A lot of anxiety and negative thoughts I had about that time came up that I don't even remember having back then. But of course because of what I said, this man will not leave me alone now. He has been in my DMs and texting me non stop and basically talking to himself because I haven't responded.

[Tedramosis]

Talking to himself.

[Sarah Strong]

I realized that spinning the block with him might not be the best thing for me. I was hoping that eventually he would just leave me alone, but he still hasn't. I don't feel right just ghosting him and I could use some help on what to say. I feel bad that I had a change of heart, especially since I'm the one to initiate contact. But I do have that right, right? What do I say to him though? Thanks so much, I appreciate it.

[Tedramosis]

Dr. Lonely, sweetie, I'm so sorry that I feel like you, many if not most women like you, have at least one or far too many moments in their lives where they consider so many aspects of a nigga's feelings and reaction in a way that many, if not most niggas would never consider for you. Never consider for you what to say to them. Who gives a fuck? Your foot fell off, you gotta wash your hair. You had three babies, your cat had a dog. Who cares? You're not fucking this man. That's it. Like, you know what I mean? You could be wholly honest about what's bothering you here, but would that be productive, a conversation with this man? Do you even know him well enough to know how he would process or receive that? Is healing or closure even involved or on the other end of that? Or would that be better dealt with like a therapist? Psychiatrist, Some sort of a counselor or something like that? I just think that it's very interesting that you can recognize that you were 23 years old, dating a guy or fucking a guy who's 36, who you admit was creepy then, and now it's creeping you out and actually having you relive moments, traumas, triggers that you didn't even know about, remember about, and you're thinking, well, how can I very. I feel bad that, like, I told him he had good day and now he wants to fog and he's like talking to himself and that like, red flag, red flag, red flag, red flag, red flag. Why your flag got to be green? Tell this nigga whatever the fuck you. UFO landed right there on top of your house and the aliens came in and I got to make them breakfast. Who gives a fuck? Fuck him.

[Sarah Strong]

Yeah, is.

[Tedramosis]

How is my opinion?

[Sarah Strong]

Well, that, I mean, you're, you're making a lot of excellent points. This girl. You, you know, he was the best sex of your life because he was 36 fucking 23 year olds. So dick was all I had to offer. He had to be good at sex because he had nothing else to give. And if you over. So you're like, you know, 15 years have passed. I thought you were going to say, I met up with this man, you know, now he's 51 and I'm. Or I don't know, however old y'all are, however old you are versus him. Whatever. The point being, he's old as shit. Not old as shit. Sorry, sorry. Not old as shit. I'm closer to 15 and 20. Let me. Shut up, because that's really not what I mean. Oh. What I'm trying to say is 15 years, a lot can happen. You were in undergrad and now you're a physician. So perhaps this man did something similar. Maybe he went to school and grad school and got established. Like I thought you were gonna say, he's a professor now. We met up for coffee and now that I'm really 36, when they was.

[Tedramosis]

Fucking, he went to school.

[Sarah Strong]

I mean, he could have, right? But I'm just, I, I, I was hoping that this was gonna be. Now that I'm an actual grown woman, this relationship feels much better and blah, blah, blah. You 15 years later, that nigga is still acting the way he did when he was 36.

[Tedramosis]

But here's the thing she did. I don't even think that she said that. It sounded like. Cause she said that the. The thing that the coffee was great and she was down to fuck. But then she started thinking about it more and unpacking the history more, and then it was just like, actually, I don't like this. I'm sure his personality was not that different, so that's probably that, too. But it's just like, girl, even if you guys did hit it off and he was, like, different, it sounds like you would have still been like, mm, I don't like the way that we initially connected, and I'm kind of creeped out. And maybe if you did hit it off, you would have maybe could have had that conversation. But again, it doesn't sound like there's mending that with him and there's gray dick all over the place.

[Sarah Strong]

Right? So in that case, you can say, well, I was simply lonely. And so I thought back to the last time somebody made me feel good and your name came up or, like, you can say all that. My bad. I mean. Cause I've been there. I've been there.

[Tedramosis]

I could be aliens.

[Sarah Strong]

I have been there where I hit up an ex. Not even hit up. Just responded to this nigga's DMs. This nigga regularly DMed me. And so finally one time, I was like, yeah, okay, I'm bored today. What you doing? And then that nigga kept wanting to talk to me after that day, and I was like, oh, no.

[Tedramosis]

I.

[Sarah Strong]

I was like, oh, we live in different states, so you just focus on the cinnamon girls, and I'm gonna be over here worried about me and, you know, take care of yourself, basically. So I, you know, I blew. I blew them off like that. Just kind of like, yeah, it was nice to talk and catch up. That was so nice. And now we're.

[Tedramosis]

See, now that the Band Aid's off, it's just off.

[Sarah Strong]

You don't. I mean, you feel bad for, quote, unquote, ghosting, but I don't even really feel.

[Tedramosis]

But for, like, two seconds. Yeah, yeah.

[Sarah Strong]

Nah, nah.

[Tedramosis]

That definitely felt like a Band Aid ramp. It was like, oh, actually, I was just lonely. And that's just like. But actually, you stay over there and everything, and God bless. And then it's off.

[Sarah Strong]

Yeah.

[Tedramosis]

Like, all right. It's really not that bad.

[Sarah Strong]

We're just being real. Like, that's the truth. If it was some fine black doctors around me. I would have never even thought about looking at you. Let's be so honest.

[Tedramosis]

Oh my God.

[Sarah Strong]

Would have never even considered you my nigga.

[Tedramosis]

But I was girl. I went. I actually used them this time 10 years ago feature on Facebook. I used the People youe May Know shit. That's why we're speaking.

[Sarah Strong]

I don't like the algorithm brought you to me. I didn't really. Oh, that man still got your number in his phone.

[Tedramosis]

Dr. Lindley is not gonna say none of this. I think that the. I think you can just be honest like. Oh, you know, I'm not really like.

[Sarah Strong]

It was nice to meet up but I don't want to pursue anything past that.

[Tedramosis]

Yeah, well actually, yeah.

[Sarah Strong]

Yeah, but you could and I dare say maybe even you should say meeting up with you made me realize how fucking predatory and gross it was that you were going after a 23 year old girl when you were 36. And I can't get that out of my head. So yeah, even now why you not. Why are you not dating other 51 year olds? Like why, why? Where are the women your age and how come they don't want you? Because I do fully believe that those of you who deliberately go after people whose frontal lobes aren't done developing. Those of you who are over 30, but you date people under 25, it's either to. To groom them like Dr. Lonely felt like it's because you want somebody young that you can manipulate and mold into what you want them to be or it's because you're a fucking loser and women your own age don't want you.

[Tedramosis]

It's usually both.

[Sarah Strong]

It could very well be both.

[Tedramosis]

It really because at 36 he's on 23 year old girls because he allegedly has good dick. First of all, you 23, you don't know what good dick looks or feels like that.

[Sarah Strong]

Well, she did say to this day this man is still the best she's ever had.

[Tedramosis]

Okay, well fine. However. But 36 year old bitch is going to be like okay, that dick was great. Now what else? Where's the ring?

[Sarah Strong]

Yep, yep.

[Tedramosis]

So about that job, about that stability, about that respect, about that common goddamn black ass sense. Where's that at? 23 year old girls are like I got fucked. Hookah lil baby.

[Sarah Strong]

Some parties on campus, whatever. Signing up for credit cards so we can get a free T shirt. That's the type of time I'm on, girl.

[Tedramosis]

That's what they bank on. Like you not finna like start asking them pertinent questions that speak to their inadequacies, failures, or incapabilities as a grown adult, Marian.

[Sarah Strong]

Because their brains aren't there. Their minds aren't there.

[Tedramosis]

They don't.

[Sarah Strong]

So even if Dr. Lonely, even if you were like, I'm gonna put aside all these feelings and try to date him anyway, I think it wouldn't take long for you to be like, I deserve better than this and more than this. You didn't tell us what this man has accomplished in the past 15 years. And if it's nothing, that's. That's a bad. That's a bad sign. Cause I don't care how old you are, you did nothing over the past 15 years. You in the exact same place in life.

[Tedramosis]

Not a food truck, my nigga.

[Sarah Strong]

Something, something. An associate's degree, nothing. You didn't go learn a trade. You not a plumber. You need to be a plumber. All of y'all. You need to go out here, get trained for these blue collar jobs. Electrician and shit like that. That's what y'all need to be doing. Go do that. What have you been doing?

[Tedramosis]

After you lay this pipe? Go lay some pipe. Go do someone's irrigating or something.

[Sarah Strong]

That's enough out of you.

[Tedramosis]

This isn't enough. All it took was just for a little. A little age and further brain development for you to actually meet the nigga again and then go, wait, you know what? Gross.

[Sarah Strong]

Gross. Yeah.

[Tedramosis]

So that's what I don't like about that shit. Another reason why I the not like us. Sentiment. Because it's like, okay, even the girlies and the boys that are in their early, early twenties and stuff, fresh off college campus or whatever the fuck, like, they're getting taken advantage of. It might not be against the law, but some of them will hit, like, their 30s and be like, ew. Well, actually, do I need to speak to somebody. And that's not okay. It's just not.

[Sarah Strong]

Because you realize when you grow up, like, this is actually very. And one of the things I remember from being, like, 17, 18, my older cousin's telling me that I always held onto was a nigga my age. Trying to talk to you is fucking whack. I'm telling you right now, do not let that nigga gas you up. Do not let him give you no fucking compliments, take you on a ride nowhere or nothing, girl. Cause should nobody my age be talking to you? That nigga is a lame, and we don't want him. And I was like. Like, copy.

[Tedramosis]

Heard you work.

[Sarah Strong]

All right, Our last letter comes From Dosha, who says, I am a 20 year old gay black man who goes to college in Boston. I started talking to this guy Chris 2 months ago, which is about a year in gay terms. Yeah, I saw his ex Jackson on Hinge in January, so I figured the two of them broke up.

[Tedramosis]

He was black, but oh, no.

[Sarah Strong]

So Dosha's black, Chris and Jackson are white.

[Tedramosis]

Yeah, I figured.

[Sarah Strong]

Okay, all right, Chris.

[Tedramosis]

I was like, oh. I literally have my fingers crossed that he said Jackson. I was like, oh, no, no.

[Sarah Strong]

So, yes, Jackson was on Hinge in January, so I figured they broke up and pursued Chris. I asked him out and we decided to get lunch at this Italian restaurant, which I paid for because chivalry isn't dead. But before we got there, he was showing some red flags. I told Chris that I studied abroad last year, and the first thing he said was, did you study abroad at the the same time as my ex? The answer to his question was, yes, I did study abroad with his ex, Jackson, because the school has a program where they pick 70 students to live in one big ass building together in the most rural part of Europe. Jackson and I were cordial with each other, but we never really spoke, and I didn't think that mattered because they didn't even know each other at the time. Jackson is also the editor in chief of the school magazine I write for, which Chris recently joined. So when we got to the Italian restaurant, the vibes were subpar. Chris kept checking his phone, scrolling on Instagram, and zoning out. But I let it slide since we were just getting to know each other. I love the youth.

[Tedramosis]

They are so funny. My.

[Sarah Strong]

After the restaurant, we decided to come back to my dorm and hang out. We were playing We're Not Really Strangers and it felt like the vibe was getting back on track. But I was wrong. During the game, Chris zoned out again and again, scrolling on Instagram, and while scrolling, he saw that one of our mutual friends posted his ex, Jackson and he started to crash out in my room. He had an absolute meltdown and was complaining about hating his ex and hating having to see him. I was floored and just sat on the corner of my bed not knowing how to respond. He left to meet up with a study group after that, so we hung out.

[Tedramosis]

Okay, you want to play We Are.

[Sarah Strong]

Really Strangers instead, while this man is having a fit in your room, I.

[Tedramosis]

Had to Google what that is, but I've actually.

[Sarah Strong]

Oh, we're not really strangers. Oh, it's fun. Yeah.

[Tedramosis]

Yeah, I.

[Sarah Strong]

Never mind. So we hung out here and There over the next couple of weeks, just chatting and getting to know each other. Every time we hung out, he would find a way to bring up his ex. I gave him the benefit of the doubt since we weren't officially romantic at the time. But eventually I told him that I liked him and he said he liked me too. I said, let's just take it slow without labels and see where things go. And he agreed. Next thing you know, it's spring break and I have no experience with any type of romantic relationship, so this is unchartered waters for me. I tried to give him some space and waited five days to text him. When I said, hi, how are you? How's the break going? He said, good, and then didn't reply when I asked him what he had been up to after being ghosted. I was extremely hurt and when I saw him in person a week later, he walked right past me and didn't say anything. I told him that we needed to talk and he told me that he's not ready for a relationship and said, and I quote, it's very clear that you like me more than I like you.

[Tedramosis]

Excuse me, miss.

[Sarah Strong]

I was floored for the third time by this white nigga. Even if he thought that was true, I think it's a rude thing to say to somebody else. But he had no remorse. Ever since that day, Chris and I agreed to just be friends. But he dumps all, and I do mean all of his emotional trauma on me. I've seen him cry over his ex five times within one month and I've just had to console him.

[Tedramosis]

Oh, y'all still speak?

[Sarah Strong]

One time he said he was cutting me off, but then he started crying afterwards and I had to console him. Eventually I had enough and told Chris he was draining my energy and I couldn't see him anymore. He responded by guilt tripping me and saying how suicidal he's been. Now don't get me wrong, feeling suicidal is valid, but bringing it up in retaliation for me cutting him off feels manipulative. He did this multiple times and I told him that he should seek help because I cannot fix his issues. He's always complaining or sulking about something that I'm left to fix and it feels like he seeks out the negative energy. For example, Chris attends the non mandatory weekly meetings that Jackson hosts for the school magazine, which only five people show up to. Why would you want to be in close quarters with the ex you claim to hate? Also, I recently found out that Chris is the one who broke up with Jackson three times in the span of four months. And when Chris tried to get back together with him for the fourth time, Jackson said no. Which is totally valid, right? Today, one of my acquaintances who used to be friends with Chris said, stay away from him because he's the devil, and then walked away. I don't know what that was about, but I'm starting to believe her every time we talk.

[Tedramosis]

It's a freeform show, bitch. Are you on the cw? This is fierce.

[Sarah Strong]

He's on grownish. Every time we talk, I find myself playing the role of a therapist by giving him advice, resources, my space, my time, my energy, and I get nothing in return. We have conversations that last eight to 10 hours and I feel so emotionally attached. I don't know how to navigate this situation because of how unconscious conventional it is. I know I'm young and this is pretty dramatic, but cutting him off feels like the end of the world. Any advice would be great. Thanks. Love y'all. Doa.

[Tedramosis]

Wow.

[Sarah Strong]

A lot happened here. Doa.

[Tedramosis]

This white man is just a storm through your life like has been from you playing the sexy card game and then him turning it into a full meltdown about his ex that he's, you know, supposed to be over or whatever, but brings up every two seconds interrogate, asking you if you were on the same study trit as well, we go to school together and it's not unheard.

[Sarah Strong]

Of that we would be at the same study abroad. Okay, girl.

[Tedramosis]

But then even that to like you guys getting to this, this, this like milestone or this part of your relationship or where you thought that was going and then him just completely going I already bad. And then seeing you being stank and then saying what he said to you, girl, that would have been the last time we spoke. No shade. Because outside of you being off base, that is an incredibly cold, weird thing to say, unprovoked, mean thing to say. But it sounds like since then you have kept him around and he's just kind of used you as like a dumping ground and being friends with someone, like, yeah, you vent and you talk about things that are troubling you. But two things. One, this sounds like a one way street. It doesn't sound like you are ever given the time or space or consideration when it comes to your feelings or what you got going on. And then the other thing is it seems like it always goes back to the same wound flav. A wound that you cannot suture, stitch or staple. Okay, you don't have the tools because that's not what you do, right? Now, you told that young Ofe that he should find the people who do that thing. And I think that was the right. The right course of action. You know, good for you for being sensitive to the nature of suicide and suicidal ideation. But I do agree that saying that you putting up a boundary for your own health, a reasonable boundary for your own peace being responded with, well, I'm going to do it. The nearest bridge. That's not. We were not doing that. So, like, I think literally the best response in that situation would be like, okay, well, you should call the hospital. Do you want me to call the hospital for you? Matter of fact, I'm gonna just call the hospital.

[Sarah Strong]

I'm gonna just call the hospital. Like, I'm gonna just nine, one one. Have them come get you a net.

[Tedramosis]

Bus, three little numbers. They'll be over there in a splat. Like, because we're not. We're not gonna do. It's not fair to me at all, right? And honestly, if you really are in danger, it's not fair to you either, bitch, because I can't help you. So, like, you're gonna die tonight. So let's. You know. But yeah, I think that you were right in setting boundaries and I think that you need to be a lot firmer in those boundaries. I think you should really keep away from this. This person all together because he's so wound up in his own shit and his own hurt and whatever the fuck that he's in no way, shape or form able to be a friend or anything else to you.

[Sarah Strong]

Right?

[Tedramosis]

And so I don't even think there's any way of this being like, oh, let's have a conversation of how to, like, rework this. And it doesn't sound like that's going to be fruitful because you play patty cake with the nigga and told him he was a good boy, and then the next morning, next morning he told you, you in your face. Basically. I think you should put distance between yourself and Chris and focus on you and your own survival in. In where you at. Because I don't like that throughout all of this, you're feeling like cutting this person who is a head a little. No, little shit is good. Cutting this person off. That's a. A little turd is the end of the world. No, baby.

[Sarah Strong]

No, baby. Yeah.

[Tedramosis]

No, that's not the world you're gonna live in. Yeah, it's the end of that world. The fake world. The end of the real one is. Now I'm eating.

[Sarah Strong]

Well, I. This is. Oh, baby, I think Dosha, the things you've detailed in this letter. And then you talk about how you just basically kept tolerating it. I mean, starting from the beginning. He's on Instagram while y'all supposed to be on a date. The fact that you even invited him to your dorm room after that, to me, is a. Is a clear sign that your sense of self worth is not where it should be, because you have tolerated this man's behavior just for a couple of months, and it's already been ridiculous. I can't tell if this is a personality disorder if he's just an entitled white man. Like, I really cannot tell.

[Tedramosis]

So fair.

[Sarah Strong]

You've been trying to date this man for two months. You don't know how long he and his ex were together. So regardless, you were finna be the rebound. You pursued somebody who had just got out of a relationship. That wasn't the best idea. But that doesn't mean that you deserve to be treated this way either. So.

[Tedramosis]

Right.

[Sarah Strong]

He disrespected you to your face. Said, honestly, I think you like me more than I like you. Which, no, shade, it doesn't sound like he was lying. It's rude, but it doesn't sound like he was lying.

[Tedramosis]

Right.

[Sarah Strong]

He said that to you. You were extremely hurt, obviously. Understandably. And then you were like, okay, let's just be friends, baby. Why?

[Tedramosis]

Right.

[Sarah Strong]

Right. You have really got to ask yourself why you want to stay connected to this person. What is it about him? Because. Right. And if it's just concern out of him, you want to be a friend, you want to help. You like him, you're attracted to him, so you want to help him more than you would maybe want to help other people. You cannot care more about what other people might be going through than you care about yourself and what you are going through. Because like you said, he hurt you, and yet you are opening yourself up for him to vent and dump all of his shit onto you. Like, no, he can go talk to a therapist about that. He could go talk to his mama about that. He does not get to hurt you and then use you to. To help.

[Tedramosis]

Yeah.

[Sarah Strong]

To help himself feel better.

[Tedramosis]

Right.

[Sarah Strong]

Fuck the entirety of that. So I agree with Keith Fury that I don't. I don't think this is even a friendship or connection worth maintaining.

[Tedramosis]

If at all.

[Sarah Strong]

If he does hurt himself because you decided to stop being his friend, please take that as a sign that he was severely mentally ill and not that you should have kept being his friend.

[Tedramosis]

1,000%. 1,000%. Don't let that.

[Sarah Strong]

It's not up to you.

[Tedramosis]

Keep you from making the decision that is healthy for you and him.

[Sarah Strong]

Right? Because the more friends he have who enable this behavior, the worse it will get and the longer he will keep doing it. And if it's a situation where he isn't, well, because that's not how enabling works. But if it is a situation where because this behavior, the blowing up, crashing out because somebody posted a picture of that man on Instagram and threatening suicide because somebody you don't want said, yeah, let's not be friends no more, somebody.

[Tedramosis]

You don't want, and flat out disrespected.

[Sarah Strong]

And flat out disrespected. I mean, this is all happening in the span of eight weeks, baby.

[Tedramosis]

And to be honest with you, Dosha, I'm not even gonna hold you.

[Sarah Strong]

I want you out of that.

[Tedramosis]

Speaking to a black queer individual in this world at this moment, I am far more concerned with your safety, your peace mind and your advancement than this random white boy who's being a complete dickhead asshole to you. Who Crystal is also right. Who knows if it's a personality disorder or him just being a white man.

[Sarah Strong]

I don't know. I don't know him.

[Tedramosis]

Oh, wait, preserve you and your piece right? There will be other boys. Fuck that.

[Sarah Strong]

Because ultimately it don't matter what is going on behind the scenes. You don't deserve to be treated like this at all. So whether he's just a homegrown asshole or he has something more going on, you don't deserve this treatment. I am begging you to put yourself first. It's. It's. It's gotta be an absolute truckload of gay white boys in Boston. If you want one so bad, I know you can find another 1,000.

[Tedramosis]

And New York is a skip. New York City's a skip. Like, if anything, 1,000.

[Sarah Strong]

Yeah. Yeah. So best of luck to you going through, you know, as you disconnect from this person, I can't recommend that you even try to stay friends with him. Good luck disconnecting. And remember that whatever he does is not your fault.

[Tedramosis]

Yes, that's right. Because when you disconnect, if that comes with a tantrum, you knew it was coming. Let it happen. Ignore it, keep going. Don't.

[Sarah Strong]

Do not. Yeah, don't engage because you deserve better.

[Tedramosis]

And destroy our brothers.

[Sarah Strong]

And, you know, get a therapist and say, hey, yes, you on campus. Hopefully y'all have, you know, student therapy that's free or low cost. Probably say, let me tell you what I put up for the past Two months now. Let's figure out why I did that.

[Tedramosis]

No tea. Tea. You probably have some sort of a counselor or therapist or something on campus.

[Sarah Strong]

Something available that you could talk to about that, right? So true. Good luck, Dosha. Let us know how it goes. If you have a question for us, send it on over to askthereadmail.com we're going to take another quick break and be right back.

[Tedramosis]

Hey folks, we're back. It's time now for the read. Okay, so I want to talk about the Nintendo Switch. The Nintendo Switch 2 specifically. They had their direct a week ago. I'm incredibly excited for the console itself. It looks beautiful. It looks like it's gonna run graphically kind of up there with the Steam deck. So it's gonna have like, really PS4, like current gen graphics. It's gonna finally at least hopefully be looking a lot better. I love that the joy cons are magnetic now. Thank God. I'm so tired of that sliding shit not working. Just altogether looks like my cup of tea. I love the Mario Kart game. That looks great. I'm excited for other stuff to come. Pre orders for The Nintendo Switch 2 in the United States have been placed on hold.

[Sarah Strong]

Yes, they have.

[Tedramosis]

And I think you can guess why. It is because there is a bruised nectarine in the Oval Office that I guess is trying to convince you speckled citizens that these tariffs are somehow going to change the game.

[Sarah Strong]

Oh, they are.

[Tedramosis]

And make America exactly what it should have been. Broke. I guess. I don't.

[Sarah Strong]

Oh, baby.

[Tedramosis]

So I've really just kind of been massaging my temples and repeating woosa for like, I don't know how many weeks behind this while I watch everything just slowly and surely prepare to go to shit or start going to shit. And of course, yeah, I already knew that video games were going to being affected by this. And some of the girlies are trying to, like, I think Sony is trying to find, you know, their little life hacks and ways to keep things cost effective. But it's looking like Mario Kart is gonna cost $80 and this Nintendo Switch is gonna be 2,500 a pop. I don't know what's going down, like, but I'm disgusted, I'm annoyed, I'm aggravated, I'm agitated, I'm tired, I'm exhausted, I'm pissed. It's kind of frustrating that, like, there's this sort of like, attitude from the government standpoint when it comes to, like, video games as recreational activity is fun, as escapism is just general entertainment in The West. But then there's also the capitalism of making something like a fucking Minecraft movie. Because you know, all your goddamn kids play Minecraft and your grandkids beg you to buy them the Minecraft card or whatever. At Publix, bitch, you are. So why are we like. Shut up.

[Sarah Strong]

The Minecraft card is crazy.

[Tedramosis]

Minecraft, Roblox, all of them.

[Sarah Strong]

All of them. They right there. Right there.

[Tedramosis]

So really I just. I don't have much else to say outside of the fact that if I could spit in this person's face, the president, I would do it. And. And you know, all I can do is sit here, be fat, old and tired and pray for better days. That said, I also want to say Nintendo, you bitches think that you're slick. A week after I read Tears of the Kingdom, you gonna say hey girls, guess what? So for Nintendo Switch 2, we're upgrading breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. For the Nintendo Switch 2. Yeah, they're HDR, they're 4K. They run at 60 frames per second. They're incredibly gorgeous. And the colors pop more. They look like brand new games. They're so beautiful. But not only that, in the new Nintendo game, I mean in the Nintendo app, we're adding a new user gallery. Since you hate building in the game that we made so much. Yeah. You can just go into the app, download other users creations that they built and upload it into your game so you don't have to build a goddamn thing. Kid Fury. You ungrateful like tech illiterate bastard piece of shit. There. Easy mode. That'll be $85, wretch. That's what they said to me.

[Sarah Strong]

Since you don't wanna build nothing since taking a little time to be creative.

[Tedramosis]

Finish the game fag such a problem. And I'm going to.

[Sarah Strong]

Yeah, you are. They told you I didn't they? Now you shut up. You give daddy $3,000 for that switch two and then you play like $30.

[Tedramosis]

For the upgrade of the game.

[Sarah Strong]

Trump, man.

[Tedramosis]

Oh my God, this is ridiculous. I don't all I all I really at this point in my life I just want like my personal life outside of my business. Expensive and everything that Link owns.

[Sarah Strong]

Right? Right.

[Tedramosis]

Juice and video games. Like I just want juice and games. I want games and fruit juice. It's a nice life piss. There's this new game that just came out called south at Midnight. Look up the trailer. I'm sending you the trailer. It's gorgeous. Black girl in the bayou. She's like magic. A hurricane Or a big storm comes and sweeps her house away with her mom in it, and she's trying to save her mom. She looks like Kiki Palmer and Akeelah and the bee, and she has, like, magic powers.

[Sarah Strong]

She does, she does.

[Tedramosis]

And they all have these country ass.

[Sarah Strong]

Somebody with color contacts is in the game, and they got two different colors in each of their eyes. No, no, no, no. I will not be looking at that.

[Tedramosis]

They're animated. How do you know they're colored? Contact.

[Sarah Strong]

Because one eye is orange and the other is blue.

[Tedramosis]

Maybe they have a herrick. Ammonia. Chromatone. Chroma. The thing where your eyes are two colors.

[Sarah Strong]

Chromatopia. I don't know what you're talking about.

[Tedramosis]

Chromatonia. Chrome Chromapia.

[Sarah Strong]

I'm not a physician. I've never heard of this. Well, so let me.

[Tedramosis]

South of midnight.

[Sarah Strong]

Yeah, no, I know. I just can't even close the.

[Tedramosis]

How. These country bayou accents. I love it.

[Sarah Strong]

Well, I do like that. Well, speaking of Kiki, an update from last week. Approximately 9,000 of you tagged me in the announcement that Kiki's interview with Jonathan Majors has been scrapped, canceled, pulled, rejected, and ejected.

[Tedramosis]

I'm sorry, I did not.

[Sarah Strong]

Somebody over at Wonder's Baby, this is Kiki Palmer, decided that it was for the best that that not come out. It was replaced with a different episode.

[Tedramosis]

I was wondering why I couldn't find.

[Sarah Strong]

It featuring Cash Doll. I mean, if I had not gone to the show's page in the podcast app and taken that screenshot myself, I would have thought it was an April Fool's joke. However, I don't know how this got out. It was on TikTok a clip of her and Jonathan. They probably pulled it to, like, promote the episode. And she's asking him these. These are that well. So I think they put it out to, like, tease the episode and then delete it.

[Tedramosis]

Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay. Got it.

[Sarah Strong]

But you. Once it's out there, somebody has screen recorded it or saved it, so it's awkward and terrible. One of the questions she asked this man was like, acknowledge and repair the past or prepare yourself for like, a. A better future or something. And he was like, oh, acknowledge the past for sure. And then. And then she was like, okay. And then he was like, wait, my past? Or just like, people in general? And Kiki was like, well, I mean, you know, it's really up to you, because I'm just saying, like, I've been thinking a lot about, like, the concept of time. And so then Jonathan Major's like, oh yeah, time. And so then they start having some weird vibe about like time as a social construct. I like this is the. I was holding out hope that Kiki was actually going to do some sort of hard hitting interview where she really held him accountable and was like, I'm a victim of domestic violence. What do you say to women like me knowing that you done did some shit like this?

[Tedramosis]

No, she, she'd. She'd be the one to do it.

[Sarah Strong]

She would be. I was holding out hope. A sliver of hope. Child. Keke was up there giggling in this man's face talking about the concept of time and is it real and how do we experience it? Is it linear or not? Unless the. I was like, okay, all right, it's for the best then. It's for the best that this got pulled. Lauren, I still don't know what you were thinking. Mama.

[Tedramosis]

Jonathan is working his set, bitch. He said first. He said, God has a plan there. He dodged. He dodged and weaved this past question so goddamn easy. You thought he was on Creed 4. Like they're shooting. How did you get to time not being linear word.

[Sarah Strong]

They started giggling each other's faces over. Now, mind you, this is a question that very. It should. When he said, oh, do you mean like acknowledge my past or like the past in general? If I were Kiki, I would have said, well, let's talk about your most recent past, the things that you're able to discuss. Let's talk about like you personally.

[Tedramosis]

She could have ate that. Could have, she could have. She really could have ate that.

[Sarah Strong]

But you know, I've seen her sitting on R. Kelly's lap giggling like, like, shit is sweet. So I really get on her and I, and, and that's probably for the best. But I just, oh, Lauren, you know, I'm wishing you luck. That's her name. I'm wishing you luck and in your continued growth this week on me too. Donald Trump really just gonna have to suck my ass. They are now and whole. I mean they are doing so much. They are deliberately dismantling the election security measures that we have in place so that when people do dumb shit like calling in fake bomb threats, this gets handled and dismissed as a hoax or taken serious or whatever. Like things get handled quickly. They fired all the niggas who was in charge of that and they trying to put sanctions on the rest of the people who still work there trying to remove the civil protections and shit. When Donald Trump said, vote for me this time and you'll never have to vote again. He meant that shit. And you bitches. 70 something million of you bitches said, yes, daddy, give me some more. Now they're at the point where they are screening immigrants social media for evidence of anti Semitic activity.

[Tedramosis]

What?

[Sarah Strong]

U.S. citizenship and Immigration Services has announced it will begin screening immigrant social media for evidence of anti Semitic activity as grounds for denying immigration benefit requests. The screenings will affect people applying for permanent resident status, as well as foreigners affiliated with educational institutions. The policy will go into effect immediately. Ever since the conflict. I'll call it that the most recent conflict between Israel and Palestine popped off a couple of years ago, there has been this giant push for us to pretend that everybody critical of Israel is anti Semitic. It's simply not true.

[Tedramosis]

Yeah.

[Sarah Strong]

What y'all are doing is targeting students, particularly Muslim students, for speaking up about what's happening to their people. Now, again, this is supposed to be the United States of America. You are supposed to have free speech within certain limitations. Criticizing the Israeli government is within the bounds of that free speech.

[Tedramosis]

It should be.

[Sarah Strong]

I mean, it should be. However, now the Department of Homeland Security is acting like they are protecting us from, quote, extremists and terrorist aliens, including those who support anti Semitic terrorism and anti Semitic terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad. All right? Talking about how there is no room for sympathizers of terrorists, and so we're not letting them in our country. Baby.

[Tedramosis]

Say it. Say it.

[Sarah Strong]

Y'all simply hate Muslims. Y'all simply hate black and brown people. Y'all are so far up. Israel is. Is so blatantly. Even if you weren't paying attention to, like, international news or United States politics, even if you weren't super tapped in over the past couple of years, you have certainly come to realize that Israel is. We are so far up Israel's ass, we are completely commandeering that puppet. So for y'all to act like anybody who's saying, hey, this country has terrorized my family for generations, literally over the past 100 years. Like, they keep killing us, displacing us, trying to move us further and further away, literally trying to exterminate us. It's not right for the United States to be like, what I'll actually do is pick you up, separate you from your family, friends, and the only life you know, and then hold you for however long I fucking feel like it until we decide that you've learned your lesson and then we send you home. Or basically, you know, like, we're imprisoning you for speaking.

[Tedramosis]

Who knows what happens?

[Sarah Strong]

Right? Right.

[Tedramosis]

Just, oh, well, just for speaking, we're.

[Sarah Strong]

Just gonna pick you up and say it because how dare you talk about something wrong going on in this world.

[Tedramosis]

The crazy thing to me is that like what you read is that the perpetuation of the very thing you're talking about, it's quite insane. Is that like some of the biggest, baddest, proudest anti Semites are home grown Americans? Like some of the people who are still the Jews run the world or like, you know, just like big bad Nazis, right? Are Jackson from the cubicle right next to you living right there in Kansas, wherever the fuck his whole life just like you. So I don't like. Shut up. You don't, you don't care.

[Sarah Strong]

Just shut up. Because Israel killed a Palestinian American teenager just a couple of days ago. Not even a blip from Department of Human Services or Homeland Security or anybody like none of that. Just a boy. A 14 year old boy who was picking olives with his friends who were also US citizens and then suddenly Israeli forces fired at them. Teenagers. Teenagers. I'm not hearing nothing about anti Muslim sentiments. I'm not hearing nothing from the federal government about that fucking old ass cracker that murdered that baby in front of his mama for being Palestinian. I'm not hearing none of it's all, it's very one sided and you're throwing it under anti Semitism so that nobody is allowed to investigate what you're really doing. Please don't conflate y'all acting like Israel has the right to murder as many people as they want to and open up resorts on the West Bank. Please don't act like that is the same as actual anti Semitic. Like don't, don't do that. Begging you actually to not do that. Just, I mean they're, they're going to, they're doing it now and they're going to continue you that were complaining about eggs. Okay, when, when you have to use klarna and afterpay to do your weekly grocery shopping for your family, please remember this. It's not funny, but it's so funny. Y'all talking about oh well. And I knew that y'all was stupid as shit. I knew that. But y'all talking about oh well good for the tariffs because that means we'll just have manufacturing plants here in America. The reason why, first of all, we simply don't have the materials. Every fucking thing that we import, we cannot make here. You dumbass.

[Tedramosis]

We would have done that already. Stupid.

[Sarah Strong]

Not to mention y'all don't want to pay for American manufacturing. You don't want to pay workers what they deserve. Y'all didn't even. When Covid was killing 8,000 people a week, y'all didn't even want to put a mask on. And you want me to believe you're now finna pay double and triple of what you used to pay in for goods because they were manufactured here in America? No, the.

[Tedramosis]

The. You're not coughing on the produce. In. In. In rebellion. Shut the up, girl. I am dead. And the girls are pulling up at the checkout at Kroger like, y'all got klarna.

[Sarah Strong]

You do okay, because I got $20.

[Tedramosis]

Now you take Honey. Y'all got PayPal reward.

[Sarah Strong]

My God. That's really what we looking at here?

[Tedramosis]

Like, no, seriously, Seriously.

[Sarah Strong]

We don't have the capacity even if we did all of a sudden build manufacturing plants. Do you think those go up overnight? Like, we're going to be fudged?

[Tedramosis]

Where are we going to put them? How long is it going to take? How much is it going to cost to build them? How many resources? What types of resources is it going to take?

[Sarah Strong]

Raw materials don't come out of nowhere either, right?

[Tedramosis]

It's not. And you already. And you don't want to pay for none of that anyway.

[Sarah Strong]

And you don't want to pay for none. And it's 300 million plus people in this country.

[Tedramosis]

Like, damn, y'all dumb.

[Sarah Strong]

Y'all are dumb. If you not already feeling it, which, I mean, the grocery prices are already bad, but if you're not, these tariffs, baby, when all your favorite cheap bullshit goes from $5 to $45. Okay, okay.

[Tedramosis]

Talking about the other feel for parents.

[Sarah Strong]

Oh, no, say like good ones. What are you supposed to do?

[Tedramosis]

What the fuck are you supposed to do if you have three mouths besides yours to fucking feed, right?

[Sarah Strong]

And the government has made it clear they don't give a fuck about you. Food stamps. Everybody needs food stamps, bitch. What else? What else? Oh, you need a home. Oh, you need shelter for your baby.

[Tedramosis]

Oh, your baby needs shoes. Oh, your baby milk.

[Sarah Strong]

And I don't give a fuck about that.

[Tedramosis]

You pull the shit out with your hand and you throw it out the window.

[Sarah Strong]

Oh my God.

[Tedramosis]

Like, I. This place is hilarious. Like, I don't know what.

[Sarah Strong]

I feel like if I wasn't American, I would be turning on the news every day like, what? What happened next? Like.

[Tedramosis]

Like Biscoff. Like just an exotic tea. When in the pot. In a pot spirit is gonna be.

[Sarah Strong]

Charging $250 for a one way flight and Then y'all are going to ride.

[Tedramosis]

To ride with the bags.

[Sarah Strong]

That's 250 to go and stand a fucking spirit. You down there with boxes, okay. And they're like, don't get cold.

[Tedramosis]

No, we'll take 220 and put you in overhead. That's a little harder to do.

[Sarah Strong]

Put your Snuggie on.

[Tedramosis]

We go. Actually, we're going to put you on standby if you buy an overhead ticket.

[Sarah Strong]

I just could not. Of all the Trump headlines this week, this thing about. And I've even seen, like, posts from people who are like, yeah, I just came back. Like, I'm American. I traveled. I came back. And they were like, yeah, let me look through your phone. Now, granted, they said all they had to do was, like, open their phone. The. The whoever, customs or whatever looked at, like, their last four most recent photos or something, and then just let them go with. So.

[Tedramosis]

It'S not even like. It's not even. What's the word?

[Sarah Strong]

I don't even know.

[Tedramosis]

Like, you can't count on it. It's not even, like, reliable. Reliable.

[Sarah Strong]

It's just whatever. It's vibes. This is the thing. They say all this. They. They get you all upset. They actually do harm some people, and then they just let it go. Or something else comes up and everybody just moves on. It's like, you forget about. What about the fucking drunk war general? What about RFK Jr talking about how he struggled in school and then he did some heroin and now he can read good. Like, what it isn't. It really isn't funny. But when all of us are literally just trying to survive off of leaves, twigs, and berries, maybe then it will hit y'all that this nigga was never going to be good for the country. He was never going to make America great.

[Tedramosis]

When we get to that point. You have you collected a thousand Korox seeds?

[Sarah Strong]

I do have them all.

[Tedramosis]

So I just feel like when it.

[Sarah Strong]

Comes time to choose a new Supreme, I mean, I do have all the korok seeds.

[Tedramosis]

Just a little bit of a head.

[Sarah Strong]

Start and a master's degree. So I feel like I'm already. I'm better than Donald Trump already.

[Tedramosis]

I've got a sword. So you have that. You have security.

[Sarah Strong]

You have your katana.

[Tedramosis]

So maybe that's how we start Wakanda.

[Sarah Strong]

Oh, boy.

[Tedramosis]

I'm fine with being the only guy. Are you Themyscira? Yeah, I just want to be invited.

[Sarah Strong]

I'm immediately thinking, we can't have Wakanda because all you niggas can't come with me.

[Tedramosis]

You know, I think it should be more like femme mascara, but black.

[Sarah Strong]

Oh, okay. You just want to be our token male.

[Tedramosis]

Yeah.

[Sarah Strong]

Okay.

[Tedramosis]

I just want to see how fierce it is. I will literally speak when I'm spoken to.

[Sarah Strong]

It'd be incredible. No, that would really be amazing.

[Tedramosis]

That would. I could be like, court jester. Be like, oh, make fun of men.

[Sarah Strong]

So the queen. The queen is like, come entertain me. You gotta go do tricks or.

[Tedramosis]

Lainey.

[Sarah Strong]

Ah, my baby.

[Tedramosis]

Yeah. Can you imagine? Big, beautiful tropical island, huge statue of Lainey, golden statue of Laney just in a fountain.

[Sarah Strong]

You have to see it. And it sounds. Sounds ridiculous. Absolutely hilarious, actually.

[Tedramosis]

The lighthouse is just Lainey with her mouth open.

[Sarah Strong]

All right, I'm cutting you off. That.

[Tedramosis]

That'll do it.

[Sarah Strong]

Fuck Donald Trump. That will wrap up this week's episode of the Read.

[Tedramosis]

What a horrible, horrible person.

[Sarah Strong]

The absolute worst. Find us on social media at this is the read, our website, thisisthearad.com. any other news from you, Kid Fury?

[Tedramosis]

No, as I mentioned before, Patreon, I have the you got served experience there. Wow, that was interesting. But that's about it. Thank you so much. Oh. Follow me on Twitch TV. KidFury. Yeah. For gay men. And that's it. Take care of yourselves and others. Try to be kind. Eat your vegetables. Take your vitamins if you're of a certain age, because. Okay. Those bones need help.

[Sarah Strong]

Oh, Lord, not those bones. They are not bo. Them joints are not jointing the way they used to. Girly pops. Why don't y'all make sure y'all stretch? Y'all stretch first and foremost before you do shit else.

[Tedramosis]

Stretch.

[Sarah Strong]

Cause you're old now and you need.

[Tedramosis]

To do that, you old bitch. Thank you.

[Sarah Strong]

All right, we'll see y'all next week.