(Not) Coming Home

Summary

The Read – Episode: (Not) Coming Home

Date: October 9, 2025
Hosts: Kid Fury & Crissle (Loud Speakers Network)

Episode Overview

In this episode of The Read, Kid Fury and Crissle dive deep into the absurdities and challenges of Black life, pop culture, and the general chaos of 2025—with their trademark humor, honesty, and shade. They touch on mental health in the face of unrelenting bad news, celebrate moments of Black excellence, unpack messy celebrity news, offer advice in “Listener Letters,” and end with searing “Reads” for the week. From Versuz nostalgia to personal stories and hard-hitting opinions on sports and media, the episode is a rich reflection of The Read’s voice and community.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Mental Health in a Chaotic World

• Opening Vibe: The hosts are exasperated by ongoing political and social turmoil, referencing events like ICE raids and the psychological toll of constant bad news.

  • Kid Fury (03:08): “How are you holding up in this shithole? Earth 666, Earth. Martin Luther King Boulevard.”
  • Crissle (03:23): “Honestly, the Chicago ICE raids have had me up for days...I can’t take it.”

• Coping with Despair:

  • A meme about resisting propaganda prompts nuanced discussion.
  • Kid Fury (04:00): “There was a trillion dollar propaganda campaign built to numb us all. And it didn’t work on you... there are days I wish it did.“

2. Black Excellence & Community News

• The Root Returns to Black Ownership:

  • Ashley Allison, a Black political strategist, acquires The Root, pledging to center Black voices and meaningful content.
    • Kid Fury (05:53): “It feels good in a sea of scariness and trash to be like, well, some people out here still with the energy.”

• Reading Rainbow’s New Era:

  • Michael the Librarian, known for his mental health advocacy, announced as the new host.
    • Crissle (07:34): “He’s been very open about his mental health struggles... I’m so glad he’s here to see this moment.”

• Literacy & Education Rant:

  • The hosts bemoan declining literacy rates and standardized tests; Kid Fury recalls Florida’s “FCAT” (09:07).
  • Crissle (08:39): “It’s the schools, it’s the education, it’s the government not giving a f***.”

3. Florida & State Representation

• Riff on their home states’ reputations for mischief and educational woes.
  • Kid Fury (11:42): “All the great things about Florida are Black...”

4. Pop Culture & Mess: Versuz, Rap, and Hip-Hop

• Versuz Returns:

  • Cash Money vs. No Limit Records set to perform at ComplexCon.
    • Crissle (15:31): “That’s how you get me tuned in, b***h. I’m so sorry... I’m not gonna pay to stream it, but if it’s free, I’m gonna watch that.”
  • Mixed feelings about artist participation amid controversy.

• Gambling in Sports & Culture:

  • Critique on the proliferation of sports betting and its effect on fans.
    • Crissle (18:35): “ESPN is running betting ads on every program nine times an hour.”

5. Celebrity Legal Drama

• Sean Combs (Diddy) Sentencing:

  • Receives 50 months for sex trafficking-related charges; hosts discuss the lightness of the sentence and entitlement of the rich.
    • Kid Fury (20:10): “To be honest with you, Sean, this is cute. Extremely, things considered.”
    • Crissle (21:31): “You actually shouldn’t be back out. I’m scared of you.”

• Tyrese & Dangerous Dogs Case

  • Tyrese’s legal woes after an attack by his dogs; hosts joke but acknowledge the seriousness.
    • Crissle (30:04): “My baby’s dead. Right. Yeah. We going to jail or you going to jail?”

6. Love & Relationships – The Meg Thee Stallion Section

• Meg Thee Stallion & Clay:

  • Heartwarming commentary on Meg’s happiness, the love for her pet (Four), and forming family bonds.
    • Kid Fury (31:06): “My heart opened up when I saw Four... Fo loves this man.”

• Romance, Gifts & Petty Math:

  • Discussion of Meg’s new relationship perks (big stacks of cash, pet love), juxtaposed with their own perspectives on love and wealth.

7. Hip-Hop Feuds: JT vs. Cardi B

• Diss Track Analysis:
  • JT releases “No Hook,” a diss track for Cardi B; reaction is mixed, noting most lines had already been “tweeted.”
    • Kid Fury (49:36): “Past 2 minutes and 15 seconds, you just began to say the same things... you’re ugly, you can’t dress like me.”
    • Crissle (53:22): “If you go through JT’s Twitter, a lot of the insults that she put in the song, she tweeted...”

8. Female Rappers & Beef Instigators

• Critique of Nicki Minaj’s Influence:
  • Hosts blame Nicki for stoking drama among female rappers, discuss industry pettiness, and celebrate Mona Leo’s success.
    • Crissle (53:58): “Why don’t we all just focus on the real problem here, which is Nikki... Nikki is the catalyst behind all this s***...”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Propaganda & News Fatigue

  • Kid Fury (03:58): “Just remember that there was a trillion dollar propaganda campaign built to numb us all... there are days I wish it did…”

• On Wealth Disparity Between Friends

  • [Listener Letter, 101:16] Greta: “It’s like my inner child starts yelling, if I had to do it the hard way, why doesn’t she? Which is ugly and irrational, but it’s real.”

• On Black Ownership

  • Kid Fury (05:53): “In a sea of scariness and trash, to be like, well, some people out here still with the energy to stand up and get stuff done...”

• On Diddy's Sentencing

  • Kid Fury (21:19): “For what you’re charged with... for what you did, you should be getting way more than 50 life.”
  • Crissle (23:48): “The gall and audacity of these extremely wealthy people will never cease to amaze me.”

• On Sports Betting's Social Impact

  • Crissle (18:35): “ESPN is running betting ads on every program nine times an hour... The sports gambling is horrible in this country.”

• On AI, Death, and Privacy

  • Crissle (139:04): “Zelda Williams, who is Robin Williams’ daughter, had to publish a statement on Instagram stories begging y’all to stop doing AI videos of her father and sending them to her.”

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Important Listener Letters (Advice/Community)

[78:04] Carla’s Update:

• Ongoing family dysfunction; Carla’s mother prioritizes a problematic boyfriend over her children’s safety.
• Carla stands firm in protecting her younger sisters.
  • Kid Fury (81:15): “I hope you have an outlet for releasing steam and exhaling... It is a huge task to be parenting your siblings.”

[85:27] “Lynn’s” Family Dilemma:

• Biracial woman excluded from white siblings’ obituary for their father; hosts validate her pain and critique the racism of her siblings’ decision.
  • Kid Fury (90:46): “What am I supposed to do with that statement?”

[98:52] Greta on Mixed-Wealth Friendships:

• Struggling with resentment toward a wealthy friend; hosts advise honest communication and self-reflection.
  • Kid Fury (101:16): “I would wonder what was wrong with your wording at the end, and say that.”

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Hot Tops (Pop Culture/Lifestyle)

[14:06] Versuz and Rap Label Rivalries

• The return of Versuz at ComplexCon; debates about relevance and which artists “should” show up.
  • Kid Fury (16:26): “The energy in the room matters more in Versuz... than who...”

[59:29] Mona Leo and the Future of Rap

• Celebration of upcoming female rappers; recognition of changing concert demographics.

[61:09] Young Thug Relationship Drama

• Hosts dissect Thug’s breakup and reflect on public romance perception and toxicity.

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The Read(s) of the Week

[114:43] Dream Kardashian’s Internet Drama

• Discussion around why Dream Kardashian (age 8) should not be subjected to messy fan questions live online.
  • Kid Fury (116:09): “Now she calls that lady Tokyo... Oh, I knew she was a horrible grandmother, but god damn.”

[139:04] Zelda Williams and AI Exploitation

• Crissle calls out fans aggressively sending AI “deepfake” videos of deceased loved ones to their children.
  • Crissle (139:04): “Stop making AI videos of my daddy saying shit for your own fucking entertainment. What’s wrong with you bitches? Put the AI down.”

[143:20] On AI and Grief:
- Kid Fury (143:09): “Why are you sending me videos? Fake videos of my family member that I mourn?”

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• 00:00–03:08 – Intro, mental health & news fatigue
• 05:11 – Black Excellence: The Root & Reading Rainbow
• 14:06 – Versuz’s return, Cash Money vs. No Limit
• 18:35 – Gambling in sports culture
• 20:10 – Celebrity legal drama: Diddy
• 30:19 – Meg Thee Stallion happiness, relationships
• 36:40 – Pop culture news: Stefon Diggs lawsuit, rap beefs
• 49:36 – JT’s diss track versus Cardi B
• 78:04 – Listener letters section
• 114:43 – The Read: Dream Kardashian, exploitation of children online
• 139:04 – The Read: AI and disturbing fan behavior
• 146:18 – Artificial Intelligence, art, and creative apathy

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Episode Tone & Takeaway

The episode brims with humor, realness, and cultural insight, embodying a communal processing of pain and joy. Kid Fury and Crissle’s signature shade and banter counterweight serious commentary on trauma, family, race, class, and pop mess. If you missed the episode: expect raucous laughter, hard truths, and a sense of enduring solidarity amid the storm.

Transcript

[Kid Fury]

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[Crystal]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Crystal]

And.

[Kid Fury]

A juggie and she traded me for $10 in a fix. I wish I remembered the line after that. No, I don't. Lynn Whitfield.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Now my core memory of an icon.

[Crystal]

Thanks. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

For that.

[Crystal]

Yep. Thank you so much. You know who you are.

[Kid Fury]

We'll get to you.

[Crystal]

Who you are and you know what you've done.

[Kid Fury]

We're getting to you. Welcome back, everyone, to the program. I'm Assata Shakur.

[Crystal]

And I am Patrisse Rushin. And this is the Read. Thanks for coming back.

[Kid Fury]

Thank you for coming back. Indeed. Well, how are you holding up in this shithole? Earth 666 Earth. Martin Luther King Boulevard.

[Crystal]

Oh, my God.

[Kid Fury]

Hell. What?

[Crystal]

Yeah, things are not great. I. Yeah. Honestly, the Chicago Ice Race have had me up for days. The babies being yanked out of their beds and arrested. All that.

[Kid Fury]

That really like someone's grandpa just being.

[Crystal]

I can't take literally. I cannot take it tackled like I'm.

[Kid Fury]

About to cry in the NFL.

[Crystal]

It's just. Oh, my God.

[Kid Fury]

Just at the. At. Just at the. The car wash. Yeah, yeah.

[Crystal]

Just people.

[Kid Fury]

I saw this meme maybe yesterday or day before that was like, I'm not gonna get the quote all the way right. But it was something like, for those of you who are experiencing deep depression or intense depression due to the current social climate and political unrest, just remember that there was a trillion dollar propaganda campaign built to numb us all. And it didn't work on you. Mm. And I was like, well, yeah, there are days I wish it did. That's the issue. I'm like, girl, you're not telling me nothing. I don't know it help.

[Crystal]

Because it wasn't just to numb us. It was also to destabilize us, to fuck us up, to. To make us feel so bad that we struggle to connect with other people and struggle to fight back like that. And it's been quite successful in that. In that way. Bitch. This is very fucking hard to do. Like, I get where that person is.

[Kid Fury]

And here you go with Ariel Black on this fucking picture of Jim Halpert. Like, I'm supposed to feel better. I wish I would just stop.

[Crystal]

I get the intention, but this is also bad. Like, this is.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, this isn't.

[Crystal]

It's not great to be so despondent by the news that you feel paralyzed. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Well, let's get into some excellent blackness. Yeah. And a segment called Black Excellence. Well, the Root back black. Black owned.

[Crystal]

Really. Oh, amen. I have not looked at the roots since then. White people bought it.

[Kid Fury]

Well, then white people not bought it because 1. Ashley Allison, Democrat, political strategist, former Obama White House official, CNN commentator, author, baddie.

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

She's officially acquired the Root and has said that she plans to invest in video content, building partnerships with experts and creating in person experiences for readers. She told cnn, this isn't about making more content, but rather about making meaning of this moment. It feels good in a sea of scariness and trash to be like, well, something people out here still with the energy to stand up and get stuff done in the name.

[Crystal]

Yes.

[Kid Fury]

And, yeah, the Root was founded in 2008. And so it's kind of really. In my opinion, or, I mean, in my perspective, it's kind of really like, lived alongside me as a black.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

A place for black voices. And there's always been something iffy about those places and publications being owned by folks other than us.

[Crystal]

Right. So because they'll have us publishing whatever for the sake of clicks and views, Whereas black owned media tends to be a little bit more discerning about what we put out there. And it's not just about the clicks and the ads and et cetera, et cetera. So I'm very excited for this. Congratulations, Ms. You said Ashley Allison.

[Kid Fury]

Yes, ma', am. With two L's on.

[Crystal]

Beautiful, Allison. Beautiful. And I wanted to say, did you see that Michael the librarian is the new host of Reading Rainbow?

[Kid Fury]

I did see that. I haven't, like, read about it yet. I just saw the headline.

[Crystal]

Isn't that beautiful? Oh, my God. I almost cried. Like, that is. So if they're bringing Read and Write, which is a great idea. Needed now more than ever. Ever, ever. I actually think our literacy rates have probably dropped since the 90s when it was on. Yes. I just love that. I'm so proud of Michael, even though I do not know that man from a can of paint. But he, you know, he's been very open about his mental health struggles, and I'm just so glad he's here to see this moment and. And be part of this. So it's just really beautiful. So congratulations, brother.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, congrats. I thought that that was really cool.

[Crystal]

Yes.

[Kid Fury]

And I pray that the folks tap in.

[Crystal]

Oh, yeah. Well, we need an adult version. Cause, you know, of course Reading Rainbow is for kids, but we need one for grown people.

[Kid Fury]

Cause that too.

[Crystal]

God damn. Yeah, it's bad reading.

[Kid Fury]

Rundown reading, wrap up reading recap.

[Crystal]

Something, something, something to get you niggas on, cuz it's bad.

[Kid Fury]

God. My God.

[Crystal]

And it's the schools, it's the education, it's the government not giving a. It's all of that. Yeah. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

I have two words for you. F Cat.

[Crystal]

Fcat.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, it was.

[Crystal]

Is that a Florida thing?

[Kid Fury]

All the Florida folks, y' all will get.

[Crystal]

Okay. All right.

[Kid Fury]

It's an illiterate, illiteracy joke.

[Crystal]

Oh, damn.

[Kid Fury]

Standardized test joke.

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

And also, like, none of the. We were in school, like, in high school, saying out loud, jeb Bush can't pass this damn test, and he knows it. Like, we were children. We were kids and we were like, this is stupid. And they're basically. There should be an FCAT docu series.

[Crystal]

Ron DeSantis probably can't pass it either.

[Kid Fury]

This is what I'm saying. This is what I'm saying. But the Girl, babies were like, ho. If you don't have a 95%, you won't graduate. Stupid.

[Crystal]

Damn, y' all strict.

[Kid Fury]

Well, for this stand, like, for a test that was not an sat, that wasn't like your final. It was just, like.

[Crystal]

Just an aptitude test. But if you don't get a 95, you won't graduate. Interesting. How did anybody graduate? Okay, never mind. I'm okay. I'm guessing five people graduated every year.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, Florida, Florida, Florida.

[Crystal]

Y' all figured it out.

[Kid Fury]

Florida, Florida.

[Crystal]

I just saw somebody from Florida. Was the person who started the Palisades fires to work. I said, why would you come all the way? I don't know that.

[Kid Fury]

I have no idea.

[Crystal]

Right. I haven't seen. I haven't been able to. To, like, dig into the story because it literally just came out. But I know he got arrested earlier today for burning down half of the state of California. Fucking insane.

[Kid Fury]

Lovely.

[Crystal]

Oh, yeah, sorry. It's another one of your people. Is your people or my people doing something dumb every fucking day?

[Kid Fury]

We're just from there.

[Crystal]

We're just from there, bro. Right? I'm just from there.

[Kid Fury]

Honestly, it would have been a toss up between Florida or New York as where I was born. You know what I'm saying? But women, they just go, where the nigga at? Yeah, she got to the states first. She got to the states first. It was in New York with her mama. He went to Florida with his mama and was like, bet got the place. She was like, all right. They got sun and this cold shit is not good.

[Crystal]

Yeah, right. It's warm and cheaper.

[Kid Fury]

That's where I was, you know? So I got Florida.

[Crystal]

Yeah, I mean, well, I was born in Louisiana, which, if we talking about education and such, it's not doing too much better than Oklahoma. But I just come from country niggas, and I'm not ashamed of that at all. I wouldn't choose something else. I'm ashamed of what the backwards ass, racist ass Republicans who are willing to shoot themselves in the neck so that don't nobody else have nothing. I'm ashamed of that. But the niggas I come from are everything.

[Kid Fury]

It's what y' all are doing all the time. All the great things about Florida are black. Like, when we're talking about this.

[Crystal]

Mm. Totally different conversation, right?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, totally different. Can't control the, you know, the narrative. And we got GTA 6 dropping next year, which is set in Vice City, which is a spinoff of Miami.

[Crystal]

Oh, yikes.

[Kid Fury]

And so the new Grand Theft Auto Meta will be based around my city, so that's forward to that.

[Crystal]

I mean, I can't say I'm shocked about.

[Kid Fury]

Is 1000% going to be probably the best selling game of all time, if not up there? Because it's the one game like everybody play. Yeah.

[Crystal]

So, yeah, it's fun. It's too much for me. I can't take.

[Kid Fury]

It's trashy. Yeah, it's trashy.

[Crystal]

It is.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

Yeah. The part about beating up sex workers and getting your money back.

[Kid Fury]

They don't. You don't really do that anymore.

[Crystal]

Well, I've never. I've never been able to bounce back from that. That is so abhorrent. Like, that is just really true. Why? Why were you ever able to do that?

[Kid Fury]

I have no idea. I have no idea. I don't even think sex workers are any like. Anyways.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

And actually, let me not even speak too soon because I don't know what any corporation is doing anymore. Girl. The grass is being Trump cut. The snakes are not even hot. They're not even slithering away. They're like, whoa, I can breathe right. So who knows it's going to be.

[Crystal]

You can beat up the next gta.

[Kid Fury]

That may be like.

[Crystal]

Exactly.

[Kid Fury]

And strippers and prostitutes.

[Crystal]

You can run over black cosmetic protesters. Yeah. You can shoot LGBTQIA kids.

[Kid Fury]

And you can turn the hat Haitians around at the. At the coastline.

[Crystal]

It'll be Cuban.

[Kid Fury]

It's gonna be giving that. Yeah. Fierce.

[Crystal]

And then after the Cubans turn away the Haitians, Ice comes to arrest them too. Like you thought was.

[Kid Fury]

Jesus Christ.

[Crystal]

It's so bad over here.

[Kid Fury]

Somebody immersion. Somebody immersion.

[Crystal]

Hey, me. Get me out of here.

[Kid Fury]

Like, I literally just want to be taken. Like I just take me just one of y'. All. Any other kind me up out of the planet. The planet.

[Crystal]

This is so bad.

[Kid Fury]

Just scoop me away. I'm okay. Anyway, so speaking of the ghetto versus back, we're doing hot tops.

[Crystal]

Why is versus Back?

[Kid Fury]

I don't know. Okay. But they're back for complex Con. Maybe this is a one off. Well, no, because this clearly says the return of verses. Complex Con. Cash money records versus no limit records live from Las Vegas on October 25th.

[Crystal]

Wow. Who all gon beat her, I wonder?

[Kid Fury]

Like, I don't know.

[Crystal]

That's a lot of Nick.

[Kid Fury]

Originally it was cash money versus bad boy.

[Crystal]

Oh, yeah, Yikes.

[Kid Fury]

I'm kidding. But cash money? I don't know. That's a very good question. I'm assuming at least Wayne and Master P will be there and Baby. I'm thinking Wayne, I assume Baby and Master P at least will be there.

[Crystal]

Yeah. Everything else, I mean, if they should. Right, right.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, right. And that bare minimum is nowhere near enough for me to care. And that is with the due respect of our history, our bops.

[Crystal]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And my millennial family. I don't care enough to tune into whatever this is. If it's just me.

[Crystal]

Oh, I do.

[Kid Fury]

And Masterpiece going to be there. You let me know how it is.

[Crystal]

I do. I'm sorry. Cash money versus no limit. That's how you get me tuned in, bitch. I am so sorry. That's how. Oh, you got me, girl. You. I'm not gonna pay to stream it, but if it's free, I'm gonna watch that.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, wait, you know what? Now that I think about it, I'm.

[Crystal]

Sorry, that's those two.

[Kid Fury]

I haven't seen a verses in so long. I'm kind of forgetting the. I think I was a little bit forgetting the.

[Crystal]

The back and forth.

[Kid Fury]

The energy of. And the dynamic of it. Yeah, it's less of a concert and more of just. I think the. Actually, the energy in the room matters more in verses, now that I think about it, than who'? Because it's kind of just like whoever represents blah, blah, blah. Or the artists themselves if it's individual. And then you going back and forth over these hits and seeing, like, the reaction and the energy. So now that I think about it, yeah.

[Crystal]

It's just a shame I have to.

[Kid Fury]

Be dialed in for this.

[Crystal]

Anyway, it's a lot of assholes who have had big, big hits on those labels. So every other song is going to be somebody I, you know, have canceled or has serious allegations or probably, etc. Etc. Like, you think about them. Drake, Nikki.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, you think Drake will pop up? She gambles.

[Crystal]

Oh, she does. She got a bad gambling problem, actually. Well, I don't know if it's a problem, but it seemed like it.

[Kid Fury]

Like, I. I think it's seems that. To dance with the word problem.

[Crystal]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Again, when you are dressed like Dej Loaf at the club by yourself.

[Crystal]

All right, all right. Yep.

[Kid Fury]

Gambling.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

On a mega, mega screen.

[Crystal]

It's bad. It's bad.

[Kid Fury]

I just would, you know, have a little question or two.

[Crystal]

I don't even get the appeal when you already have so much money. But I've never. Gambling's the one thing that has never appealed to you.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, that's it. That's it. Because it doesn't really appeal to me either. So I think that's Just the part of it. But also I've had that question too, when I was younger. And as I've grown, I'm like, I think it's just a part of, like, rich, cigar smokey, trashy, maybe. So, like, rich guy culture. They just love being a Greg Gatsby, Wall street coke lines and poker chips.

[Crystal]

Right. I think my issue is that it trickles down then to regular everyday gambling. They fucking mamas mortgage, mortgage money and shit. And it's like, I don't. I don't want to especially. No, thank you. I do not want to definitely spend money to maybe get some back like that.

[Kid Fury]

Don't, mama.

[Crystal]

But y' all are out here, especially.

[Kid Fury]

When you're on streams with aiden Ross and 200,000 children being like. So, yeah, you just use this QR code and log right on it.

[Crystal]

Oh, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And just tip, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap away. I don't.

[Crystal]

It's bad. ESPN is running betting ads on every program nine times an hour. They got a show that's just ESPN Bet, where, like, they tell you what they think the best bets are for each. Like, it's bad. The sports gambling is horrible in this country.

[Kid Fury]

It's crazy how much I'm hearing about sports fans being like, my team, my team, my team now. And specifically talking about that.

[Crystal]

Yeah. Because then when they don't hit they parlays or whatever, then they go cuss out the athletes. And the athletes are like, bitch, I didn't tell you to bet on me. Like, this is your problem.

[Kid Fury]

Excuse me. You need to call that right.

[Crystal]

Next time, keep your Con Ed money and don't put it on whether I get 200 passing yards in a fucking game. Bitch, leave me alone.

[Kid Fury]

Furthermore, bitch, have you watched the Hunger Games? You ain't send me not nan Bala Gatorade. You didn't send over a single provision. You didn't send me, like, an ice pack for my angle. Like, bitch, I didn't.

[Crystal]

So, yeah, that's what Kevin Durant said. I think he was trolling, but he was like, and when y' all hit them parlays, you don't never send me nothing. It's like, well, no, they don't. Nigga, they sure don't. Can you believe it?

[Kid Fury]

Well, fun for cash money and for no limit. Again, back to bad boy. So Mama has received. Sean combs has received 50 months in her sentencing for.

[Crystal]

Just soliciting a giant pile of crimes. It was so many crimes.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, but she got one. Like, it was like, a ton of crimes. Yeah, but I think she was charged with just like. I can't remember the actual term of it, but it's essentially pay for prostitution.

[Crystal]

Are transporting transportation to engage in prostitution.

[Kid Fury]

Right there. That's exactly what it is, right? So judge gave them 50 months. Judge Aaron Subramanian. He said you abused them physically, emotionally and psychologically. Why did it happen for so long? Because you had the power and resources to keep it going. And because you didn't get caught, a meaningful sentence is needed to protect the public for further crimes. And to be honest with you, Sean, this is cute. Extremely things considered.

[Crystal]

Very adorable. Considering what you deserved.

[Kid Fury]

Like, what you deserve for basic. For a. For what you're charged with. But further than that, for what you did, you should be getting way more than 50 life.

[Crystal]

You actually shouldn't be back out. I'm scared of you.

[Kid Fury]

You know, the girls I saw, they said they're already trying to appeal. They're requesting a low security prison in New Jersey. One that has a drug rehabilitation program or drug resistance program included in it or some shit like that. And I'm like, girl. And also, like, it would keep him closer to family and stuff. So it's very much giving. Like, do you remember the episode of Spongebob where Mr. Krabs plays a little tiny violin? That's an actual tiny violin.

[Crystal]

Yes.

[Kid Fury]

Like, it's giving very much that I. I actually sat up and had to like, stifle laughter when I read this report on NBC News. Oh, no. On E. News that mom had a line of speaking engagements booked. I could not in Miami.

[Crystal]

My next Miami. It would be Miami. Of course. Don't go. You was gonna go, right?

[Kid Fury]

Mine's like his favorite place. I think he still has a house. Sure, he still has a house there.

[Crystal]

He's made committed girlfriend. He's in Miami, right? All kind of kids and everything.

[Kid Fury]

But yeah, he's really crazy. Was booked to speak at something at the Miami foundation on October. We would. We would. We would. We would. We would. You booked this nigga before the sentencing.

[Crystal]

And had multiple teaching engagements. The lawyer was like, it's not speaking engagements, it's teaching engagements.

[Kid Fury]

Teaching what?

[Crystal]

What?

[Kid Fury]

He must have thought he was Analise for real.

[Crystal]

I couldn't believe that they said that. Even if he did have engagements, why would you tell the court? That's so disrespectful. So you just assume you gonna get right on out of here and just go on about your life like you ain't do all this heinous shit.

[Kid Fury]

How to get away with evil?

[Crystal]

No, obviously Not. But I just could not. I said, wow. All of that. I just really.

[Kid Fury]

The.

[Crystal]

The gall and audacity of these extremely wealthy people will never cease to amaze me. I just.

[Kid Fury]

U.S. attorney Christie Slavic called it the height of hubris. Exactly that. And I just feel like that's a very accurate. Accurate term.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Wow.

[Crystal]

Well, you know, you only got four years, and. And he gets the credit. The time he's already served, it'll be less than four years.

[Kid Fury]

Exactly.

[Crystal]

In prison. That's nothing compared to what you did.

[Kid Fury]

He's all serving.

[Crystal]

It's a lot of rumors going around that Trump might pardon him.

[Kid Fury]

Well, he had. He confirmed that Diddy asked. I don't know if they. Cause he's a current.

[Crystal]

Right, Right. Do anything.

[Kid Fury]

But, yeah, he might. He might. I really don't know. Like, I. I can't call it anymore. And I've officially decided I'm taking a break from caring. I've done what I can, and now. What about what I feel? What about me?

[Crystal]

What's best for the group?

[Kid Fury]

What about what's best for me? Like, I have to just.

[Crystal]

You can't run yourself into the ground behind these niggas.

[Kid Fury]

There's only so much I can do.

[Crystal]

Yeah. I saw them 50 months with credit for time served, and I said, okay, well, I guess we should be thankful he got anything, really. I guess.

[Kid Fury]

But also, 50. How are you trolling this man on, like, six different posts and you didn't make a 50 joke? It's like, I don't understand what y'.

[Crystal]

All.

[Kid Fury]

What you. Nick is be doing. Like, it's right there, but. So he isn't a smart person. You do that. Also, why is she posting updates about Madea?

[Crystal]

What?

[Kid Fury]

I want to know why he's not posting updates with his new homegirl Madea that he went to go get mentorship from, and how she's attempting to dismiss this white lady's case because it was filed in the wrong place.

[Crystal]

What? You telling me something brand new for the first time?

[Kid Fury]

I don't know how accurate this is.

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

But it's been alleged by a law vlogger that Tyler Perry's teen is filing a motion to dismiss because Derek Dixon, who's suing him for sexual misconduct, filed this claim in California rather than in Georgia, which is the wrong jurisdiction. And that because their business was conducted in Georgia, he is accusing Derek of forum shopping in la, basically, or whatever. Also, he says Tyler Bray. She says that Tyler Perry denies the claims, and they're going back for, like, the using Tyler Perry for financial gain thing, which I'm like, he was a regular on your. Like if he had a job on your. On one of your shows. Like.

[Crystal]

I mean. Yes, yes. Financial gain indeed. Correct. You are the very rich man riding the chicks.

[Kid Fury]

Why would I now need to jump out the window and sue you for financial gain?

[Crystal]

I mean, I just don't. I. I believe that white man. That's all there is.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. I mean, I think that really just unfortunately, I believe that white man.

[Crystal]

Yeah. I do. Okay. So they might throw it out and make him refile in Georgia. I wonder if he.

[Kid Fury]

That's my thing.

[Crystal]

It's like would let him get more money or something. It must be a. The attorneys must have had some sort of legal reason for that. But. Okay, I'll let them sort that out.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, we'll see. Whatever. Last of the jail girlies. Tyrese, who's booked for them dogs?

[Crystal]

I told you about them. I told you. I told you.

[Kid Fury]

Jeffery. Cops raided his place, even detained his granny.

[Crystal]

Not me. Mom got caught up.

[Kid Fury]

Mima got caught up. That sucks. That's like. I know.

[Crystal]

She probably told you to get rid of them damn dogs anyway. Okay.

[Kid Fury]

I know she.

[Crystal]

I never liked them damn dogs.

[Kid Fury]

Imagine if you just in the middle of your stories and it's really good.

[Crystal]

Oh yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And it's just coming up on a character arc or story arc that's just. You've been waiting for the climax and then here come these nicks in. Because your grandson, you know, told about these dogs that he hasn't trained. Don't. You know, whatever. And now they got you in cuffs in the bathroom and you don't know what gonna happen to Esmeralda.

[Crystal]

Like, what is going on?

[Kid Fury]

Well, he turned himself in when he.

[Crystal]

Well, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Got back from wherever he was and got him mug shot it up.

[Crystal]

Yeah, I know. He was in and out of jail. Like I'm sure you know, he got.

[Kid Fury]

$20,000 bond, paid his.

[Crystal]

Yeah. And got right on out. But I knew this. I knew that wasn't going to be him. Posting on Instagram saying I rehomed the dogs was not going to be enough. I knew it wasn't.

[Kid Fury]

Of course. Someone lost their kid.

[Crystal]

My baby's dead. Right. Yeah. Yeah. We going to jail or you going to jail?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

And we going to court. We are we going to figure this out one way or another. But no, I'm not letting that go. I'm not. I fully understand.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

I get it.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

Because I would do the same thing. I don't care. The law is Getting involved. If you. If your dog does something to harm my baby. Yes, the law is getting involved. Don't.

[Kid Fury]

It's actually a nice little transition for me because first of all, let's move on to some nice things, sort of. Yeah. So my girl Meg is still with this light skinned man. They look very happy together. She's still here. I mean, big cheese in just kissing. Seems obsessed. But I want to tell you that, like, whatever, okay. My heart opened up when I saw Fo.

[Crystal]

Yes.

[Kid Fury]

Fo loves this man. Does Fo loves this man. Him holding and snuggling off of. And his little photos that he posted on hers. She posted a little video and he just climbed up on his. On Clay's chest, started looking all his ears and stuff like that. I was like, that's how I know.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Fo was like, oh, daddy, this is my dad. You can't talk to him. Don't talk to my father. Thank you.

[Crystal]

And Clay's dog just died.

[Kid Fury]

I didn't know that.

[Crystal]

Clay had an English bulldog that died in May and he had that dog for 13 years, so I'm sure it's mutual.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, God, if I knew that when I saw this picture, I probably would have cried. So glad that you did.

[Crystal]

I shed a tear when I saw that.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, my God, Rocco.

[Crystal]

Mm. So I know Four is healing him. And Four is like, you know, I've been waiting on a daddy.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

And you'll do. You will do. My mama's happy, so I'm happy.

[Kid Fury]

Yes. Giving back.

[Crystal]

That really warms my heart. That was really beautiful.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

Okay. Just don't fuck it up, Clay. That's all I'm asking. Just don't fuck it up. Because I only like you as long as Meg likes you.

[Kid Fury]

There's that. Honestly, I hope I'm not wrong about those. I don't know anything. Like, he just. He seems kind of just like a nigga who loves her and probably into a lot of the same shit as she is. Like, I could see them just both barefoot on the couch with Flo in between both of them. And then just watching mob psycho 100 or attack on Titan or some other anime ass shit. Oh, yeah, she got her labubu on her on the right shoulder, and she's just got her head on his shoulder. It's just sitting up watching anime and being dorks.

[Crystal]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

That's what they. That's what this gives me. But you know, as Crystal said, if and when Meg says, time's up, God.

[Crystal]

Bless you, she seems so. She just, every time she posts something new, I'm like, we don't deserve to get these little peeks into your romantic life. Thank you for sharing them, because it's so. It is just so lovely to see Meg being loved. The flowers and the kisses and the cash. Did you see them stacked?

[Kid Fury]

Did I see hundreds?

[Crystal]

Talking about, he gave me some money to go out with my girls. Bitch, this look like tens of thousands.

[Kid Fury]

What is this?

[Crystal]

It was like $100,000. God damn dog. Just go. Oh, you going out with your friends? Here, have fun. What the.

[Kid Fury]

It might have been 100, but I think it was 50.

[Crystal]

I don't know how much it was. I've never had stacks of hundreds like that. I could not even guess.

[Kid Fury]

Couldn't count. Couldn't guess.

[Crystal]

You could have told me it was half a million and I would have believed you.

[Kid Fury]

Listen again, Florida public school. I don't. There's only so much.

[Crystal]

Oh, but yes. She looks so happy. I love it.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crystal]

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[Kid Fury]

A Rap Chicks who's having maybe less fun is Stefon Diggs. Because I'm reading on Us Weekly that he's being sued for an alleged assault by his ex, Mulan Hernandez, and who I'm reading also starred on Basketball Wives Orlando. I said Florida Orlando. That a Basketball Wives Orlando?

[Crystal]

Never heard of it.

[Kid Fury]

For what?

[Crystal]

Never heard of this girl or that show Orlando. Why?

[Kid Fury]

Of all. Like what? For what?

[Crystal]

Anyway, well, Orlando has a team.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, but girl, what do you mean? Okay, I'm sports low, but please respect me. Like.

[Crystal]

I mean, I'm.

[Kid Fury]

Orlando has a team. I know that they have a team, bitch. So it's like Atlanta. So does. I don't know, Chicago. Like it? Orlando.

[Crystal]

Yeah, Well, I think it's probably cheaper. It's probably something about shooting in Florida where they don't have rules and.

[Kid Fury]

But they already have one that flee.

[Crystal]

And I, I thought the original basketball.

[Kid Fury]

Wise was in Miami.

[Crystal]

Right, But I have not watched it since. I'm Jackie Christie. Christie's white. I'm a boss. Like, it's literally been probably almost a decade at this point, so I don't know this girl at all.

[Kid Fury]

I promise. I don't.

[Crystal]

Yeah, at all.

[Kid Fury]

Anyhow, she. She's suing Stefan Diggs for an alleged assault she says took place last summer and claims that Stefan is trying to silence her and attempted to get her to sign an NDA. Even flying a personal assistant out to Houston, where she was at the time, to get her to sign an NDA in hopes of keeping the incident away from the NFL. He, I believe, is countersuing her and her own girl.

[Crystal]

Oh, okay.

[Kid Fury]

Saying that he was letting her stay at his place in Houston one night or the Night of the incident that she's talking about, she came home after a night apart getting super drunk and started an argument, a fight, started busting up shit, attacking him. He didn't touch her. So on and so forth. Tale of souls time. So I don't know these individuals or these people. We'll see if there are more bits of this story to come out. But obviously I'm looking at this, and I was just like, I would not like for Cardi B to have two baby fathers in the rear view that she wants to kill. Like, I hope at least when things end with this one, you don't hate him and he doesn't make you want to commit a crime the way that you say that you did with the ipo. I think this is what many people have been thinking and saying, because who is this nigga? So, like, who is this nigga? But yeah, I found that to be like, oh, God. Because, to be honest with you, I don't believe in any of yalls relationships. Like, none of them. I really do. Like, I don't. I don't believe you.

[Crystal]

That's.

[Kid Fury]

I don't believe you. I don't. I don't believe straight people.

[Crystal]

Oh, yeah, no, please. Like, immediately.

[Kid Fury]

And that's fine. That's fine. Because people shift and change like the. The tides of the ocean blue Ooh, that was cute. But girl, gr baby not 10 toes on a soapbox over a mystery my girl.

[Crystal]

Yeah. These are not his only allegations.

[Kid Fury]

I know.

[Crystal]

So I know it would just be a shame for that man to, you know, reproduce or anything, but. Yeah, it's pretty bad. That's. I mean, that's pretty terrible. The. The man saying that he drugged him and tried to have some sort of sexual contact with him and tried to have him killed afterwards and all this. That's all very tragic and awful. And yeah, he's got, you know, he's got a pack of children being born here in the. In this last year or so and allegedly some more on the way, so. Seems like his life is kind of chaotic, but he doing good on that football field. I did it.

[Kid Fury]

You know what? I heard that. I heard that. Do you want to know how. How much of a gay loser I am? Well, gamer, we'll say that. Gay G A Y. I was on the Twitch, and I was watching someone playing a game on the Twitch, and that person loves football. Football. And was watching football on the side as they were streaming the game, and they were talking about the game as they were watching it, and they were speaking about how great Staphon takes was doing. And then it happened. I was like, oh, so I guess he. He does that.

[Crystal]

Well, I mean, the Patriot, the Patriots just beat the Bills, so. Yeah, you know, the. Okay, sure did. At least you doing well in.

[Kid Fury]

I don't know what that got to do with her baby or her future.

[Crystal]

But not much probably, but yeah. This can't say I'm shocked that a man already credibly accused of assault is now accused again of assault. Like, multiple. This is, this has just been going on for so long. This.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, but all right. Like, I know the kids would be like, financially good.

[Crystal]

Of course.

[Kid Fury]

All of that. It's like just, okay, well, be careful saying that.

[Crystal]

Be careful. They finna. They finna jump you.

[Kid Fury]

No, I'm, I don't give a fuck. I just take everything in, take note of everything. Recognize the asset that you are and what you have to offer. Like, you're kind of a titan. So you kind of like, I just.

[Crystal]

Nope.

[Kid Fury]

Well, discernment.

[Crystal]

Just a little bit, you know, goes a long, long way.

[Kid Fury]

And it's hard to be like, you know, listen, things happen and the pussy gets pregnant. But girl baby, it's just like one toxic is like a lifetime with one. It's like enough of a stress service and be like, okay, and then, then this one too.

[Crystal]

Like, yeah, okay. Yeah. I, I, I hadn't spoke on it. So here we are. Anyway, dads. These men are dads where have an obligation to do what's best for their children, regardless of what else they have going on now. Do they actually fulfill that obligation? Almost never.

[Kid Fury]

And for their children's mothers.

[Crystal]

Correct. You're not a good dad if you miss your children.

[Kid Fury]

Can we. May we? There's no such thing as treating your baby mama like trash, but being a good dad. It's just you.

[Crystal]

They don't want to hear that.

[Kid Fury]

Especially if your baby mama has primary custody of this child. It's just that there's no such thing.

[Crystal]

There's no such thing as assaulting people and physically or sexually assaulting people and being a good person. To me, that's my own personal opinion, but I don't see how you can do those things and also be like a standup guy. I don't, I wouldn't say that.

[Kid Fury]

But I would say again, y' all would. I don't know who this person is. I don't know who that lady. This lady is. This whole case is strange. So I'm not gonna jump out the window and make any assumptions yet. Same thing. And I didn't even really. The only thing, only time I heard about this story with the guy accusing him of something was when JT brought it in.

[Crystal]

Oh, wow.

[Kid Fury]

So I don't know anything about that story either. I'm just like, again, I. More so. When I first laid eyes on the nigga, I was like, well, he'll be gone because. But again, I think I just have. And that's me. That's a me thing. I think I naturally just look at couples sometimes and be like, yeah, that ain't gonna work. But I also say it, like, with the knowledge that it not working out doesn't have to be a terrible thing. Like, you can break up with people, you can get divorced.

[Crystal]

It's usually for the best.

[Kid Fury]

And a lot of times it's for the best.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But when it becomes really complicated and tricky for everybody when you have kids, so groundbreaking. That's the part that I think people are trying to. It's just like, but you know what?

[Crystal]

Not my pussy.

[Kid Fury]

Thank God this is what I said the first time.

[Crystal]

Amen. Not mine. And I, I, I've. I said it and I meant it.

[Kid Fury]

So J Team Police to diss track called no Hook. I found out what it was called this morning.

[Crystal]

And JT was very messy for bringing up that gay man, knowing she didn't really give a shit about being like, I believe we should listen to gay men and not just dismiss their stories. Girl, you did not give one fuck about gay people and advocating for their rights or no shit like that. You was trying to be messy on behalf of Nicki Minaj. Leave it alone.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, I thought she was trying to be messy because of Uzi. Cause wasn't Cardi saying something about Uzi got a bag.

[Crystal]

Oh, that's right. You right. You're right.

[Kid Fury]

So she was. I feel like she was trying to, like, look back, but I still think that that was messy. It was like you if to. It's like, okay, so people say this whatever thing about this man that you are sleeping with or you have relationship with that you love, that you don't give a fuck about whatever. And you feel like, I'm gonna buy back by doing the same thing. I don't know. It just doesn't like.

[Crystal]

Yeah, no, you're right. I think it was in response to that song, but it was really more the framing of like, we need to listen to gay people and respect their stories and all this like, girl, shut the up. She said something that's very young. And so you said something. We shall y' all let this woman talk this way about kids. Like, Nikki ain't never talked about nobody's kids. Be for real.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, but.

[Crystal]

Yeah. How'd you. How'd you feel about it?

[Kid Fury]

You know, it didn't have a hook. It didn't. So that was.

[Crystal]

She told you. She warned you.

[Kid Fury]

It's true. Well, I wasn't warned. Like I said, I found out it was called that this morning, but I thought it was cute. It was too long. It should have been about half as long as it was. I would have wrapped that bitch up at about 2:15. Especially because you didn't really have nothing to say. Like, you didn't have much to say. So past 2 minutes and 15 seconds, you just began to say the same things over and over again. You on your fifth phase. You're ugly. You can't dress like me.

[Crystal]

This is nasty. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Which girl?

[Crystal]

Girl. Girl. I understand it's a diss track. Y' all say anything, but please, you not outdress. I've never seen you outdress, Cardi.

[Kid Fury]

They both.

[Crystal]

I've never seen it.

[Kid Fury]

Great. All the time. Like, it's just like you. I. I'm not really in the business, though, of seeing somebody else present themselves anyway and being like, I wore that better than them or I have that hat or. I mean, are you. As if, like, Christian Louboutin is my personal stylist and don't make clothes for nobody else. And then some. Someday I go out to the club and see a bitch in a red bottom. Like, that's not like people shot. So I don't really even see the point. This is the same way. It's like, oh, you got surgery all over on your face or whatever. Okay. You got surgery, too. She saw something she wanted to change. You saw something you want to change, you changed it. Who cares? You have the right.

[Crystal]

Right?

[Kid Fury]

And you both wide open. It's not even like we. It's not even like you're.

[Crystal]

It's just two different hoods. But both of y' all some ghetto ass hoes.

[Kid Fury]

Like, really should be collabing. There's really no reason for y' all vicious to.

[Crystal]

Like you said Cardi gave all hit. I did like the pin. About only time I seen you with the line. About only time I seen you with a pin was at the courthouse. That was funny. Cause Cardi just threw that pin at that. Yes. So that got a chuckle out of me. But the rest of it was just calling her ugly. A whole bunch.

[Kid Fury]

I'm just like, where?

[Crystal]

Like.

[Kid Fury]

Where?

[Crystal]

Not now. Not after all these procedures, she's not. She the original Cardi. I wouldn't say ugly, but she was not as conventionally attractive as she is now. But that's true for just about all of y'. All. That's why y' all go in and start getting shit cut off and nipped and tucked away. So, yeah, she's not ugly, just like you. Not ugly. This is just weird, girl.

[Kid Fury]

It's just silly.

[Crystal]

But I guess you had to do something. Cause she definitely did. You know, there was a song on that album about you and your.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah, for sure.

[Crystal]

I see why you had. You said something.

[Kid Fury]

And JT is a rapper. I appreciate that she got in a booth almost immediately, whereas a lot of the girls and guys would just run their mouth on social media even after being dissed. So my thing was, I would have made it half as long and also even half as long. It's not as good as the original song. I mean, it's not as good as the. As Cardi's Magnet.

[Crystal]

No, it isn't.

[Kid Fury]

It has catchy hook. The beat and the production is. Is catchy. Like, it's the. The tone and the energy on it. I think Magnet is just a better song than. Yeah, no hook altogether, but no Hook is not a bad diss record at all. And I think it was a good showcase of. Of some of the stuff JT can do. But, man, and then they said, apparently it got like 25, 000 streams out over a couple of days. And so Cardi B posted a clip of herself coming home from the club, cackling that she spent JT streams in the club that night. 25k, so to say. Cause that's not actually with Magnet playing in the background.

[Crystal]

Well, I think part of the problem also is that if you go through JT's Twitter, a lot of the insults that she put in the song, she tweeted, you know, over the course of days, weeks. So it's like, this would have hit a lot harder if it was our first time hearing you say it.

[Kid Fury]

Thank God it was my first time hearing most of it.

[Crystal]

So. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

But, yeah, 25,000 streams over two days is not great. Cardi being like, let's go to the club and spend 30 and then play Magnet in the background and shoot a video. That's pretty good.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. Ouch.

[Crystal]

That's why I'm like, I don't know why you came for, like, money or numbers or anything. Like, I don't know why you did that. When city girls on their Best day is not touching what Cardi has been able to do.

[Kid Fury]

Because what can she say? They don't have no reason to actually be beefing. Like.

[Crystal]

Why don't we all just focus on the real problem here, which is Nikki. Nikki is the catalyst behind all this shit and so much shit between all the girls. Now, you know what I want? I want Lotto to come out with a song about Cardi the way Glo did about Mariah the Scientist and Young Thug. Remember Glow's song I want after, you know, them jail calls came out. I want now that that Cardi audio been leaked, I want Lotto to do something similar. I don't think she will, but I would love to see it. I mean, I really would love to.

[Kid Fury]

See her on stage yelling, pussy. Pussy.

[Crystal]

Right. So who is that about?

[Kid Fury]

Mm. I agree. Okay. I was also like, that bitch was talking like, Lotto is the most. Put it on the flow. She's just like, Lotto was petty and very much. Where are you? Let's look at least from my perspective, unless I'm missing. So I don't even know. I think she was just angry. But you can't be angry and say anything.

[Crystal]

You mean Cardi is petty or Latto.

[Kid Fury]

Latto is petty. That's why I'm like, why are you saying I'm not pussy? Like Latto? Like, Latto doesn't give pussy to me.

[Crystal]

Oh, right. No, I don't think so either. I think she just meant because Latto decided to let go of the beef and be freezing with somebody she never really had a problem with. Like, that's pussy. It's like, what's she supposed to do? Pick up on her again? Latto saw past what was really going on, which is Nicki Minaj. Nicki Minaj was the reason that Latto and Ice Spice wasn't getting along and they was, you know, shooting these little barbs back and forth.

[Kid Fury]

I don't think that's really true.

[Crystal]

Well, it was.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, it is.

[Crystal]

Yes, it is.

[Kid Fury]

It started as that.

[Crystal]

It did. It always does.

[Kid Fury]

I remember it being about something about a video playing in lottos. But that was at the beginning of it, right?

[Crystal]

So it was Nikki having all them girls, like a symbol, like her fucking her little army of superheroes to defend her against, you know, whatever rap. Cardi and Latto and whoever else. Ice Spice jumped in to the issues that Latto and Nicki's was having. Right?

[Kid Fury]

It's like the barbians of the galaxy.

[Crystal]

Why are you girls inserting yourselves where you have literally no Business out of some sort of allegiance to Nicki Mina. Like, what is this about? She ain't changed. None of yalls lives.

[Kid Fury]

Might be a taste of him. Have you seen it?

[Crystal]

No, no. Yeah. The. When we read the reviews, I was like, I actually think I'm gonna. I think I'm gonna actually skip.

[Kid Fury]

I think it's gonna be a cult classic. I really do. It's not this, like, I can see how some people. Anyways, okay, maybe I'll go. The whole thing there is. Yeah. This the lead guy that Tyreek Withers plays.

[Crystal]

Oh, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

He's. He idolizes Marlon Wayne's character and basically becomes part of this system that is catering to something that ain't right or that seems very, very off and unsafe.

[Crystal]

Well, well, well.

[Kid Fury]

And he's just kind of like, well, I want to be accepted and celebrated, too. So. Yeah. This isn't weird. This is so cool.

[Crystal]

This is my belt.

[Kid Fury]

This is such a good time. I'm having a really good time.

[Crystal]

I don't care that what we're saying and doing goes against all of my morals and personal values, because you're my fave. And so I'm gonna just do it anyway. So. I think that's what Cardi meant when she called Latto pussy. That latto let it go.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I think so, too.

[Crystal]

But it's like, I don't. I don't really consider that pussy. That's actually pretty mature to realize you and this bitch didn't never really have no beef, and it was always this other bitch.

[Kid Fury]

If you dragged her on, like, two songs and she just kind of, like, backed off, what was she supposed to do? Go to the girls church went for her outside?

[Crystal]

Well, and let's be for real. Ice Spice cannot rap, so she was never gonna out rap Latto. No fucking way.

[Kid Fury]

I was never gonna happen. I was so glad that she put down the munch flow for that song they did together. That came together.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So I was like, you can't do that with Latto on the same song. Especially after this.

[Crystal]

Cause let me tell you, after Fart, I was like, I'll never listen to this little girl again. I'll never.

[Kid Fury]

That was. That was a rough. A rough moment. I like her new song.

[Crystal]

Oh, Jesus Christ. It was bad. Oh, she has a new one?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, Baddie, baddie. There's no shot o' clock in it. Thank God. But this cute. It samples that bad. That song, Bad Girls by Mia, but, you know.

[Crystal]

Oh, okay.

[Kid Fury]

Her boyfriend, Riot. Don't be playing when it comes to the Production. It's cute. I'm sure it's on a lot of the young ladies, young gays. Tiktoks, probably. But I like it. It's a cute little. A cute little bop for the children. But have you heard Sexy Salon.

[Crystal]

Now Sexy Salon is all over my TikTok for you page. All over it to the back. Yes. And it's mostly people, right? That shit is so funny because it's a bunch of videos of white girls bop into it and then they hear that line and then the next shot them all the way in the back of the house or something. Like they. They putting themselves in the back. Like, I know how to. I know how to pay attention and follow directions. Yes, ma'. Am. Yes, ma'. Am. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Invited to the cookout.

[Crystal]

Who did? The Body is such a great name for an album. I just love Mona Leon.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, she's so, so fun. She's so talented. I'm really enjoying seeing her ascension and things like that. Well deserved. Gorgeous. And it's always.

[Crystal]

I know I don't have no business at a tour. I don't have any business at a Mona Leo tour. I know that.

[Kid Fury]

I don't have any business at a rap tour, period. Outside of maybe like two artists of a certain age.

[Crystal]

Yeah. I was too old for Glorilla.

[Kid Fury]

Even them two, like, of course.

[Crystal]

So I know the Mona Leo show is gonna be a bunch of 18 to 24 year olds.

[Kid Fury]

Look, he's Meg.

[Crystal]

Well, y', all, y', all. I'm sorry, y' all don't get Meg. But yes, y' all don't get to take Meg from me.

[Kid Fury]

I'm not stopping. I'm going to keep going.

[Crystal]

I'm going to the fucking show. Right?

[Kid Fury]

That mega concert, her last tour that I went to with another one, I was like, oh, I'm fun.

[Crystal]

And I'm chopped.

[Kid Fury]

Yes.

[Crystal]

Yeah, some both.

[Kid Fury]

Speaking of Mariah the scientist, young thug said he dumped. She dumped him.

[Crystal]

Well, it sound like the first smart thing that girl has done in years.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, sorry. Mariah Buckles. Why don't you just go by that? It's like such a fun name.

[Crystal]

It's a cute name, right? The Scientist is crazy for somebody who took like two science classes. But yeah, it. I'm glad for that at least. Like, how much can a disrespect you? How many times can a nigga play in your face publicly before you finally say, okay, that's enough?

[Kid Fury]

Like. And you know what he said? Sorry. He said he's speaking to Aiden Ross, who is like, he's like the, the anti Kaiser net. He's like white Kaisernet.

[Crystal]

I mean, I saw the video, but I didn't know his face. I mean, I don't know his name. So. Aiden Ross. Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Donald Trump. You know what was that? Andrew Tate flying out to go hang out, sniffing his chair.

[Crystal]

Yuck.

[Kid Fury]

He's a strange little, disturbed white man.

[Crystal]

Okay, okay.

[Kid Fury]

But he's hanging out with Young Thug. And Young Thug told him that he doesn't have a girlfriend. She dumped him. He was like. Then he goes, I got a girl. She might not have a boyfriend, but I got a girlfriend, if you know what I'm saying.

[Crystal]

Yeah, we get it.

[Kid Fury]

When I saw you, I'm sitting up in the mattress like fucking Michael Myers. And I'm getting on the phone and I'm calling people. How many feet can I get? How many feet away will they allow? Yeah, because no, no, no.

[Crystal]

If I don't have a boyfriend, and you were supposed to be my boyfriend, then you don't have a girlfriend, nigga. Accept it.

[Kid Fury]

Like, when you add two with two, it's gonna equal four. There isn't, like, a number that's gonna surprise you.

[Crystal]

It's just the one. It's just the one.

[Kid Fury]

It's just gonna be four. So, you know, I don't really know what the fuck you talking about, but I believe that you are also very disturbed and also probably traumatized. And that is something that, again, I have to stress to you and niggas like you to seek help with therapy.

[Crystal]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

Through intense therapy.

[Crystal]

Good thing we have therapists.

[Kid Fury]

Prolonged therapy. Because I listened to the very first song on your new album and got to the end where you dropped the hard R about 15 times. 16 times.

[Crystal]

Yikes.

[Kid Fury]

I'm gonna let you know I wasn't offended by it. I actually laughed uproariously. Like, I'm talking about, like, I, I, I screamed, laughing at you, calling all your opps nigger or whatever the fuck that song was. But mostly because I was shocked and I guess entertained by Spiral. I'd say it because, what are you talking about? And why are you on the COVID of this album with white skin in your eyes? I hate. Like, I was like, vibes Cartel dropped a new record. Why didn't I hear about it?

[Crystal]

Sammy Sosa is this. I was so confused. I said, I actually cannot press play on this. This nigga with this ashy skin and these colored contacts, like, why? Why did that happen? Why did you lighten your skin for this?

[Kid Fury]

Because you're a nigger and he's not nigger.

[Crystal]

So then wouldn't you. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Got it.

[Kid Fury]

Oh.

[Crystal]

All right. I'm sure there was supposed to be some deeper meaning here, that I'm simply not gonna even try to find her because I don't care enough.

[Kid Fury]

No, the. There wasn't that bitches do whatever the cocking Amy is. Hers jumped in her mind that morning, and everybody's like, all right, bet. Because the money comes in. The girl thing is.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

When the money comes in, and especially if it's a lot of it, the girls don't ask questions. The girls don't say, okay, that's cute. Let's do something new. Oh, let's tune up. Oh, let's adjust. That's how you get. Why did I get married again? Have you heard that she scooped Taraji up out of her good, bad. Out of her California king? And she said, why don't you come help revitalize?

[Crystal]

I saw some photos and videos of them on set, and I.

[Kid Fury]

Of course they're already on set. Of course they are.

[Crystal]

Of course they're already on set. Of course they are already on set. Crystal.

[Kid Fury]

I hate it. I hate it. Okay, okay. Let me stop before somebody call the police. Okay, listen.

[Crystal]

Yes, But I think at least our queen Janet Jackson said, leave me out of it. Leave me out of it, Tyler. I cannot do it again.

[Kid Fury]

I'm hanging out with Maxwell watching tennis. I don't really give a fuck about that. Gotta go.

[Crystal]

Please, please, please.

[Kid Fury]

After you ran that nigga over, after you had Jontay jump out of a cake, and then you ran the nigga over and I looked out in horror, and that became a meme. I'm good. Like, I think my story's finished. God bless. I don't even know what. I think he's gonna be in it. I don't. And you know what? Really? Really?

[Crystal]

He's in it. He's in the other ones.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. I forget. And playing a straight man.

[Crystal]

Playing straight. Right. Which is so weird.

[Kid Fury]

I'm gonna eat this.

[Crystal]

You don't even give straight. You've never.

[Kid Fury]

Ever given.

[Crystal]

You've never. You. You try your hardest, and it never gives. Heterosexual wants to dive in some. It has never once done that. So I'm.

[Kid Fury]

I'm.

[Crystal]

Maybe I'm just wishful thinking that Janet Jackson isn't in it. But I don't see her in the cast here. But I did see Jill Scott. Tasha Smith. Yeah. And maybe it was Taraji, too, in this video. And I said, oh, God. So y' all really already. Y' all are already on set. Y' all are making Tyler's next piece.

[Kid Fury]

Of what twirls my nips is the fact that why did I get married? The first one is, I say this all the time. Is like the one movie of, like, Tyler Perry movie that I enjoyed. Like, oh, I could stomach it all the way through. I found it enjoyable. It was like. It's just like the. What? The sequel is insane. And I can't.

[Crystal]

I like the Family that Prays with Kathy Bates. I didn't.

[Kid Fury]

I hear people say that one is one of the good ones, too, all the time. And I did.

[Crystal]

I liked it. Yeah, well, I liked it when it came out in 2008. I don't know if 2025 would enjoy it.

[Kid Fury]

That is a great point, too. That is an excellent point.

[Crystal]

I liked it before I went to therapy, so God only knows.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I actually will just let that sentiment be it. I'm not going to even investigate any further. I'm going to let people answer. Matter of fact, I can't think of the last time I watched, why did I get married? I'd probably go back and watch that and be like, on second thought, so.

[Crystal]

Truly, why did Sheila drive up that mountain?

[Kid Fury]

Why?

[Crystal]

For this trifling ass nigga. But, yeah, the girls are on set. They are. It'll probably be out by Christmas. You know, Tyler, don't waste too much money on making sure things are good, so. Yay. I do love seeing black people get paid, though. And I know that's why they keep doing it. Cause Tyler pays them what they're worth. That's why they keep showing up. I can't fault them for that.

[Kid Fury]

I will never take that away from a nigga at all.

[Crystal]

Right. If I say one good thing about Tyler Perry, it'll be that he pays black actors and actresses what they deserve. That might be the only good thing I can say about that nigga. But I'mma say that every time.

[Kid Fury]

I might say they deserve a little bit more for being in these particular pictures, but either way, they're getting what they deserve versus what they any other place in the industry.

[Crystal]

Exactly, Exactly.

[Kid Fury]

Speaking of last but not least, I think I saw a quote from Mara Brock Akil.

[Crystal]

Did you say less but not least? Because that is too funny.

[Kid Fury]

I may have by accident. I think I did by accident.

[Crystal]

Oh, God, I love that. I'm gonna steal that.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, Mar. Brock Akil is interested in a girlfriend's film going to Deadline without reading. Actually, I'll read the quote. Essentially, she's like, of Course, I'm down to do it, but not until they give the girls what they're worth. This is an iconic gem. It's a historic, beloved piece of tv. And I'm not going to do no rinky dink assignment, whatever the fuck thing. This should get a big, triumphant piece if that's what we're gonna go. If not, I don't know if you're interested. I kind of just spoke for her. I'll say what she said.

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Basically, to say I would be very. That's a long preamble. To say I would be very open to completing the story in a film. I think that would be very fun. That would be my dream. But it needs to. It needs the right resources and support and the right distribution, and he's the right package to be treated as the gem that it is, because it has been that little engine that could. And I want people to see the majesty, the greatness of it and how it really is a conversation still for today around the world. So basically, like, yeah, of course we could do it, but let's do it. Like, let's really do it and make it a thing.

[Crystal]

Yeah. And I want it, too. Like, I was fully tapped into Girlfriends, and then I went back and rewatched it once it was on streaming. And yes, you know, there is a stunning lack of growth in most of the characters, but they were kind of getting to that place towards the end. And I would love to see, like, where the girls are now and, you know, have a proper ending to the story. I would love that. But I agree, the budget has to be right and y' all have to not play with us because it's black, which is what y' all did the last time. Played with it and just really didn't care about bringing it back after the writers strike, talking about it was gonna be too expensive and blah, blah, blah. Y' all just didn't value the show the way we all did, so I would. I. I fully agree, girl. Like, let's have the budget where it's supposed to be, and it should have.

[Kid Fury]

A sexy style movie. Remember when they had. Yeah. Sex in the City movie and then a sequel where the went to.

[Crystal]

Right. There's been, like, three of them. There's been. I think there's been in the City movies. And then they have. And just like that. Which also just got canceled. But they. Y. Y' all will not let Sex and the City go. So.

[Kid Fury]

No, honestly, the people who kept that thing going were Sex and the City Die Hards.

[Crystal]

Yes.

[Kid Fury]

And they were like, it's trash. But I just like seeing my girls like, so, like, why we give us a movie.

[Crystal]

We deserve a good movie. We do. We deserve a good ass movie and a, a, a button on this show. Cause that writer's strike really fucked us over. It did. I mean, I want the same thing for half and half.

[Kid Fury]

I was gonna say it's crazy how many black sitcoms have that story of being like, well, who knows what happened at the end to these characters that we loved for six years.

[Crystal]

Half and half was hilarious. Half and half was so the mothers alone. I. So yes, they were. They really stole the show. They stole the show. God damn. The shots they took at each other.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

It was so good.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, yeah. It was older, petty black ladies just sniping each other down. I loved that dynamic in a sitcom. Ugh.

[Crystal]

Phyllis and Big Dee Dee.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. Yes.

[Crystal]

That's what it was. Thelma Hopkins and Valerie Pettiford. That when I tell you they told that Aunt Rachel. That would be another one. Yes. Where I would just love to see where they ended up.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, well, see. Cause the gag is they'll probably, they'll probably do a reboot with some younger girls that they don't promote.

[Crystal]

Oh, see, don't do that.

[Kid Fury]

And have it be like a one off season. Mara Brock Hill not included. Wasn't asked. They probably can't do it because she's creator. I don't even know like how the rights for it works. But I would not be surprised if they just rebooted Girlfriends and didn't, like you said, give a fuck. Enough about the stories.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

To make something long lasting. And whether we enjoyed it or not or were willing to stick in or not be like, well, that didn't work.

[Crystal]

Boot.

[Kid Fury]

And kick it right out the window after they didn't promote it, didn't give a fuck about it, didn't believe in it.

[Crystal]

Right. And they let white stuff flop and they do another one this way all the time.

[Kid Fury]

Please preach.

[Crystal]

So how come we can't have a show that doesn't perform to expectations and still be allowed to continue.

[Kid Fury]

Please preach.

[Crystal]

Sex in the City movie where they went to fucking Abu Dhabi or whatever that was, was so bad.

[Kid Fury]

I don't really remember that one. I loved the first one and I didn't watch the City. I went with my first.

[Crystal]

I loved the first one and I loved. That's why I watched the second one and I said, wow, you bitches really lost me. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

I was like, I can't believe it. We're just you know, circling in the drain here, huh?

[Crystal]

Horrible. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

What else we can get out the public? Correct, Correct. Well, you know what girlies, I'm going to wrap it up there. That has been a nice full package of hot tops. We're going to take a break and we're going to come back with your letters.

[Crystal]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Crystal]

Yes, it is. Send your questions to AskTheRead gmail.com. we may read them aloud on the show. We have an update this week from Carla. If you remember, Carla last week wrote in about her mother moving that felon into the house and then fighting her 17 year old sister because the sister said, hey, how come you take care of this nigga but you don't take your kids grandmama to the dentist, right? So Carla wrote back and said firstly, thank you so much for the advice. I really appreciate it from the both of you. I've been experiencing waves of sadness and depression, but I know I'll be okay. No, my mother is not Kiki Wyatt, but they are both indeed bird brain Gen X dummies. And no, the felon does.

[Kid Fury]

I mean she's correct.

[Crystal]

And then she put no offense like girl please to anyone. Okay, sure. But valid. Okay? And no, the felon does not have a job. My mother still hasn't spoken to me as of today. She told my sister that she'll talk to me again when she, quote, calms down and won't overreact. Honestly, I don't care to talk anymore. I'm her daughter and she has decided to ignore me for almost two weeks because she can't properly process her emotions, which is pitiful. Since then, things have not improved. The felon and my mom argued about him calling my 10 year old sister the R slur for mentally disabled people and now he is refusing to drop her off at school. My mom works an early shift so she's usually gone before it's time for my sisters to go to school. So our mother has since recruited my unreliable grandmother to take them to school because she's too immature to reach out to me and talk things out. I'm the one who used to take them to school before all this happened. This man has also said multiple things to my sister. Like he told my 17 year old sister to give me some sugar and chased her around the house playfully putting her in a chokehold. He told my 10 year old sister that she looks 14 instead of 10 and he has called her the R word multiple times even after my mother and sisters told him they're uncomfortable. He's called them disrespectful on multiple occasions and has even questioned my mother's parenting. My mom says she's gonna take my 17 year old sister to the doctor so she can be A good mother. But no word yet on the dentist for either one of them. As far as I know. DHS hasn't come to visit yet, but they are supposed to be coming soon. Meanwhile, she's still misdirecting her anger towards my sisters instead of that man and going around telling the family and her friends that my sister pushed her first so that's why she punched her. I know my sister very well and I know that that is not something she would do. She loves our mother despite how terribly she treats them. Right? Right. It's ridiculous and I don't feel bad anymore. I hope she gets what's coming to her. My sisters have me at the end of the day and I'll make sure they're taken care of no matter what. Thanks again, Carla.

[Kid Fury]

Work.

[Crystal]

Exactly. Carla. I'm. Exactly. Exactly. Baby, you. You said it all. I'm just sorry that this is your experience with your mother. Cause what a fucking wreck. But you sound like you have your head on straight. So good luck to you and your sisters and hopefully the felon does something to get him put back in prison soon. You know, it's pretty easy for them to go back to jail.

[Kid Fury]

So I hope that you have an. An outlet for releasing steam and exhaling and relaxing and things like that too. Because it is a huge task to be parenting your siblings because of anything. But you're parenting your siblings because their parent is a bird in a mess.

[Crystal]

Correct.

[Kid Fury]

That's a lot for everybody. So while it does sound like you have your head on straight and I'm sure you probably do have the strength to protect and be there for this 17 and 10 year old as best as you can. I hope in the midst of that you're finding whether it is a sip and paint or a beach to walk on or a patty to cake.

[Crystal]

A boxing class.

[Kid Fury]

Literally. Yeah.

[Crystal]

Yes. Something where you can really punch the shit out of something else and get that anger out.

[Kid Fury]

Burn some calories, get some endorphins at the same time. Yeah. Hell yes. Yeah. Absolutely. That is a good suggestion. Anything to just kind of, you know. Because that's a lot. That's a lot. And it sounds like you're prepared for it, but it still sucks.

[Crystal]

Yeah, it does.

[Kid Fury]

And you have to be able to get that out too. But I also want an update for. For what happens when DHS get involved. If we can. If we can.

[Crystal]

I mean you see how long it takes. Never mind. I'm gonna start off. Girl. Another rant. But anyway. Children being real. Okay. Anyway. Anyway.

[Kid Fury]

Cause girl. And it's like, like they won't see it until it's.

[Crystal]

Until it's new. Okay, all right, all right, all right.

[Kid Fury]

If you gotta take the lick to be the girl Being like, hey, hey. Something wicked this way comes.

[Crystal]

How does a man disrespect your 10 year old child and you still let him stay in the house?

[Kid Fury]

I'm confused.

[Crystal]

Your mother is queen bird, but you.

[Kid Fury]

Knew that, so he'd stay under the.

[Crystal]

House, I mean, and who's gonna come looking for you? It don't sound like nobody, but. All right, anyway, best of luck, baby.

[Kid Fury]

I'm so glad I'm gay and a recluse, bitch, because not a recluse. Prison and jail. Jail and prison.

[Crystal]

Correct, Correct.

[Kid Fury]

Fuck you. Me? Give me some 17 year old sugar.

[Crystal]

Give me some sugar.

[Kid Fury]

Get your ass out.

[Crystal]

I'm gonna give you a hot one to the cranium. That's what you're getting, right? That's exactly. And you can get it right now. Right now. Let's go outside so we don't mess up my living room.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I got something sweet for you, bitch.

[Crystal]

And that's the end of your life. What the fuck are you talking about? Telling a 10 year old you look 14. And why would you want me to be older, you nasty man. Okay, okay.

[Kid Fury]

How do you even know what I'm pissed off? I don't think I could look at a kid and be like, oh, you look 14. I could barely. Like, I probably be like, maybe you look older than this age. But yes, it's just like, why are you thinking that? Why do you feel confident in this assumption? Why are you saying it out loud? What does it matter? Why is he in the house?

[Crystal]

In all seriousness, your mama needs her own therapy, but she don't sound like the type to ever go. So those people, you gotta leave them exactly where they are, right? Cause they will just continue to hurt you and drag you down with them if you try to save them. So.

[Kid Fury]

But she also called, I'm assuming that lady's mama, her unreliable grandma.

[Crystal]

Yeah, the grandmother. Right. Well, I mean, the grandmother's auntie is the one who said, well, y' all just jealous cause your mama is finally happy. Like, so the bird is biological, right?

[Kid Fury]

You breaking the bird cycle.

[Crystal]

You breaking the cycle. All right. You are a fool. Good luck to you and your sisters, Carla. Let's see here.

[Kid Fury]

Our first.

[Crystal]

Speaking of girlfriends, our first letter this week comes from Lynn, who says, hey, y', all, I'm a 33 year old black biracial woman. My siblings And I were raised by our grandmother. Lynn was just like, bitch, you got nine degrees. What are you doing? Bumming off of everybody. But. So I just. I'm pretty sure I only called this person Lynn because they're biracial. I don't think they have any other similarities to her, but okay. My siblings and I were raised by our grandmother, who I thought was my mom until I was 11. It turns out that someone I thought was my aunt was actually my mom, but she ain't shit. And nobody knew who me and my twin sister's dad was.

[Kid Fury]

John was also biracial.

[Crystal]

Oh, that's right. Wait, was she on the show?

[Kid Fury]

I feel like her dad was white on the show.

[Crystal]

I obviously know Tracee is in real life, but was she biracial on the show?

[Kid Fury]

I feel like her dad on the show was white. I'll Google it. Keep reading.

[Crystal]

Okay. Around the age of 26, I decided to do ancestry.com and I matched with a white girl who turned out to be my little sister. It turns out I have two white sisters who are two and four years younger than I am. And it turns out our father wasn't shit either. The first and only time I met him was at one of my little sister's weddings. I had been asked to be a bridesmaid and help plan the bachelorette. It was overwhelming and it felt like a lot after not knowing her for very long, But I did it anyway. Over the years, we've celebrated other milestones, including my own wedding, baby showers, etc. This summer, our father died in a tragic accident. And though I had no fantasies that this man would change or accept me, I still grieve the loss. It surprised me by how much pain there was there. I got updates here and there from one sister, and then a few weeks later, I saw a joint post that the two of them made with his obituary. The obituary explicitly mentions his two daughters, when in fact, this man had four. My twin and I being the oldest. And I was deeply hurt by this. I confronted them and they put the blame on me by saying that I should have asked to be included, while at the same time saying that, God, it wouldn't have changed their mind. They had no apology and no regret in their decision to not include me and my twin. They said some extended family members don't know about us and it would have brought up a lot of questions. Personally, I don't think we can come back from this incident. I told them we can't just be sisters sometimes and that this decision to exclude me has caused a significant rupture in our relationship. Do y' all think I'm being too harsh? They can't redo the obituary, and of course, I can't pretend that this didn't happen. I thought at the very least they would have asked me if I wanted to be included. In addition to that, I live across the country. I'm pregnant, and they chose a date that I am unavailable to travel for his memorial service.

[Kid Fury]

Love it.

[Crystal]

Over the years, over the years, and especially now, I've tried to be respectful that their relationship with our father is different than mine. But still, they've never told me one good thing about this man. And his obituary feels over the top for somebody that they didn't even have a relationship with. Thanks for your help. Would love any advice.

[Kid Fury]

Lynn, isn't it so interesting that a lot of times children of terrible niggas like this, like, the younger ones who didn't get the terrible one, still didn't get a great person, but they're still like, oh, my God, like, what are you picking on this old man for? He's dead and loves her so much. He's like, nigga, if you don't shut your ass, like.

[Crystal]

Like, it's weird.

[Kid Fury]

But this is also like. I'm like, do you hate me? Do you. What are you. What are you going through? Because this is giving unresolved unspoken energy and animosity. I don't know if this is natural that was born into you based on some experiences or some stuff we haven't put to bed or whatever, or if this is stuff that was like an inception. This was implanted in you. If you just have built a certain idea of who I am or how I move or behave or what I think based on our father or our relationship with our father. Either way, though, I just think it's two of my least favorite things in a confrontation is when a. You're doing something that is undoubtedly inconsiderate.

[Crystal]

Yeah. And.

[Kid Fury]

So inconsiderate almost feels intentional if it's not. And then on the same time. Oh, yeah, this was. Yeah. And then at the same time, no accountability. No, like, validation, recognition, apology, nothing.

[Crystal]

Right. Right.

[Kid Fury]

What the fuck do you mean, you should have asked? And even if you did, it wouldn't have changed my. My.

[Crystal]

So then I shouldn't have asked. Bitch, what the fuck do you mean?

[Kid Fury]

What is. What am I supposed to do right with. What am I supposed to do with that statement?

[Crystal]

Yeah, you're. This is really trifling. My first thought was, well, maybe white people don't treat obituaries the way black people do. I don't know if black people, if I don't. I mean, I don't. And I really don't know. I, I really don't. So maybe somebody white or biracial can tell us. But, you know, black people take that obituary and who all is named it and all that very seriously. And I don't know that that white culture is the same, but the fact that they, when they said, well, even if you had brought it up, that wouldn't have changed our minds. That was a signal to me that these bitches had every intention of disrespecting you and your twin because y' all are the black ones. And this whole, well, we have extended family that don't know about y'. All. It would have brought up questions. Okay? And so let's answer them because this man has four kids. Four daughters, not two. And why are we only claiming the white ones? And it's not like you just met these girls six months ago. It's been seven years, right, of you being in. You was a bridesmaid in one wedding. They done came to your wedding and baby showers and all that. Like, bitch, I thought I was building a relationship with my sisters. Come to find out that when it came down to it, y' all was just so happy to erase me and pretend like I don't exist. Me and my twin. I fully, I don't think you overreacting at all. I, I, I would also feel like I don't see how we can come back from this. Cuz how is it that we can, you know, FaceTime or whatever, and, and see each other on a semi regular basis or whatever, but then when it comes down to it, for something like this, where it's like officially claiming me, which is not even. The obituary is not even like a legal record or nothing, but, but this man died. We're publishing the story of his life. We're talking about the. How many children he left behind is one of the main things that goes in a person's obituary. How you just gonna leave me out of that? I would also be hurt.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, Keepsake as well. Like, it's something that people hold onto in, in memory and of this person and their life and legacy. Like, I don't give a fuck that there are other members in the family who didn't know. Now they do. What the fuck is? What difference is that gonna make for him? The nigga did like, you act like this is going to somehow be a stressor for him. Now, you know, he had other children like we've known for years and years and years and years and years. You have some questions. We can set a time and date. Maybe we could do it, you know, later when we're eating our casserole. But there's no reason that you should be keeping these other two women out of their father's obituary because of that. Like, there isn't any reason. Yeah, you have to have an issue here. This isn't as deep as. Or as shallow, rather than this other bullshit that she talking about. And then saying it in this way just sounds like putting it in. In your lap, like, right, you should have said that you wanted to be in a thing then. I didn't even realize it was going to be a big deal. But I would have. Wouldn't have put you in it anyway because people don't know about this. Da, da, da, da, da. And this. Okay, so it is a big deal, obviously. So the obituary, who's on it matters.

[Crystal]

Right?

[Kid Fury]

It's right.

[Crystal]

Exactly.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, so it does matter. You can't invalidate how I'm feeling and then also be like, well, you worked really hard on these obituaries. And, you know, we. We got the. The foil on the front, the little holographic foil. Really? Right. Really, like five extra dollars each. And so, like.

[Crystal]

No, it really do. It really do be like that with obituaries. Really do.

[Kid Fury]

But I cut you off, to be honest with you.

[Crystal]

This is really, really trashy.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, there they are. There, there. There's my white family. Okay, well, have a good evening. I'm gonna sit over here with Tia or Tamara, and we're going to just be all we got, because I don't know that I. How I would be able to come back from that either. I would be so.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Hurt. And I would also, like, I wouldn't. I don't know how I would be able to not feel like you don't secretly have an issue with me.

[Crystal]

Yep. Yep. Absolutely. I mean, and it seems like it's not even so much of a secret. No more like.

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Crystal]

Well, yeah, it was fun having a half black sister when nobody else had to know about it, but that's pretty fucked up. And then choosing the memorial service on a day you can't be there. It's like, they really don't want nobody to know about you. They really don't want nobody to know about you. Like, they're ashamed somehow, like, for whatever reason. And, you know, it could be that this family is stone cold racist as fuck.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah, that's very, very, very.

[Crystal]

I mean, they're white in America, so that could. Right. So it's probably true. But still nobody. I don't think anybody says, well, let me ask to be included in the obituary. I'm your fucking kid. Like, I don't. I'm not asked. It is, right?

[Kid Fury]

And if anything, probably ask if you don't want to be in the obituary before.

[Crystal]

If anything, like, I know you didn't really know him. Do you want us to list you or what? Like, asking would be the more appropriate thing instead of deliberate. They knew when they was writing it that they was leaving you out. They didn't do this, right? This has happened in my family. Not with a white person, but my cousin did. Ancestry. And then somebody popped up on Ancestry.com who was like a 50% genetic match or something. And it was like, who the fuck is this? And turns out we had this cousin we didn't know nothing about. And this was like a few years ago. And so now this nigga is just in the family. What up, Tank? And I can't imagine that my uncle dies one day and his kids leave Tank out of the obituary. I just can't even wrap my mind around that. Like, he is part of the family now. We know about him. He comes to family shit. Like. But see, that's another thing. We're not ashamed simply because there was a kid that we didn't know nothing about. It's more like, damn, it's a goddamn shame we didn't know nothing about you for the past, you know, almost 50 years because you missed out on a bunch of fun like we. This is a fun family. I hate that you wasn't around for that. But we gonna make up for lost time however we can. So I just.

[Kid Fury]

Not every long lost Gets that treatment or that energy.

[Crystal]

Yeah, yeah, So I see. So I see.

[Kid Fury]

But I mean, the least you could do is on the motherfucking obituary for this nigga to be, like, survived by.

[Crystal]

All of the kids. All of the kids.

[Kid Fury]

It's giving me, you know what? I don't wanna be there. Maybe because who is showing up with their ICE uniform with their, like. So one of you bitches.

[Crystal]

Oh, wait, for real? For real.

[Kid Fury]

Is coming there with a red hat on and a bulletproof ice.

[Crystal]

You know, they coming in MAGA with them Trump quarters or whatever. The fuck. You know, they doing it.

[Kid Fury]

Like, I might want to be here.

[Crystal]

If I were you, I would be mourning my father and my sisters because it ain't no more relationship as far as concerned.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, that's dead. Just as dead as him. I'm sorry, Daddy.

[Crystal]

I mean, I know you didn't really fuck with him, but still, you know, it hurts and all that, but these bitches, look at how they'll do you as soon as it gets a little inconvenient.

[Kid Fury]

Like, bitch, bitch, bitch. And inconvenient to them because what's the inconvenience? You have to tell this. Oh, yeah, he has some other kids. Oh, yeah, they have brown.

[Crystal]

Oh, he didn't tell y'?

[Kid Fury]

All.

[Crystal]

I would have been like, wow. We've known her about her for seven years. He never once mentioned to y' all that he had these two black daughters.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, that's crazy. Anyway. Yeah, blanket.

[Crystal]

Jello salad. Anyway. Oh, I'm sorry, Lynn, but. But good luck to you. Our next letter comes from Greta, who says, hey, y'. All.

[Kid Fury]

Thunberg.

[Crystal]

Shout out to her Bad bitch. I'm in my 30s, and at this big age. I'm realizing that figuring out which friendships to keep and which to let go of is way harder than anybody warns you about. I have this friend who comes from an obscenely wealthy family. We've been friends for years, and back in our 20s, her money didn't matter. We were just two girls going out, laughing and living our best chaotic lives. But now that we're in our settling down era, the differences in our lives feels impossible to ignore. And they've become really triggering. I grew up in a third world country. My dad struggled with substance abuse, my mom was negligent, and we were broke as hell. I moved to the US at 19, worked my way through college and every miserable job imaginable. Excuse me. And somehow managed to build a stable life. I make six figures now and work for a Fortune 50 company. But that climb was brutal. Meanwhile, my friend has never had a job and has never paid rent or any other bills. Her parents recently bought her an $80,000 car in cash and handed her a credit card for funds, which she swipes like it's a magic wand. We're both planning weddings right now. Her parents are covering a lavish magazine worthy celebration while my partner and I are eloping to save money and focus on buying a home. Every time we talk, she's telling me about some new extravagant expense her parents are covering or asking me to tag along on another shopping trip, which I don't go on, but it's starting to get to me. I find myself getting angry sometimes at her, but mostly at what she represents. I see her carefree life and it Hits that old part of me that had to grow up fast and had to figure out everything alone. It's like my inner child starts yelling, if I had to do it the hard way, why doesn't she? Which is ugly and irrational, but it's real. So lately I've been avoiding her, claiming I'm too busy making excuses, anything to not sit in that discomfort. But I miss our friendship. I just don't know how to tell someone who lives in a world of endless safety nets that her normal life feels like salt in my old wound. I know this is my own emotional work to do. My therapist is currently on sabbatical and coming back in a month. Thank you, Jesus. But how do I even start that conversation without totally wrecking our friendship? How do you explain to someone that you love them, but being around them makes you feel like you're 10 years old again, wishing someone had taken care of you the way their parents take care of them? Thanks for any advice, Greta.

[Kid Fury]

Wow. Greta, this. I didn't expect this sort of go that way, but I appreciate it. It's really insightful, and I think it's very common for a lot of friend groups. Yeah. I guess I would ask what is. To answer the question, I would wonder what was wrong with your wording at the end and say that. Right. Because it sounds like you are processing your feelings in a pretty balanced manner, and it sounds like you're trying to be as honest with yourself and as fair as possible. So I don't really feel like that. I feel like that could be a worthwhile and hopefully freeing conversation with your friend, if it's a real friend. However, I don't believe that there's anything in the conversation. Like, there isn't really a resolution for the feeling that I think you can have in conversation with her. That's something that you're gonna have to dig up out of yourself. Which is more work, tougher work, but worth it. Incredibly worth it. I think that a band aid for.

[Crystal]

Now.

[Kid Fury]

And at least hopefully something to kind of preserve the dynamic and the environment of your friendship is just being like, this isn't a you thing. And I recognize this isn't a you.

[Crystal]

Yep, exactly. Exactly.

[Kid Fury]

However, I can't help that sometimes I feel triggered by certain. Certain movements or certain experiences within our friendship or our journey together that bring up old wounds or reopen old wounds. And I just wanted to. To say something so there isn't like, I'm not just, like, holding it in and it turns into something else or whatever. You know what I Mean, however you. I'm now, I feel like I'm putting words in your mouth, but, like, no.

[Crystal]

I think you got it.

[Kid Fury]

I think that, yeah, that's where I would start. And then I would also start asking myself, okay, what is the best form of therapy to address this issue? What are other little graces and steps that I can take to, to feel better? Because you're not doing anything wrong. And what you. Right, what you're feeling isn't wrong or your fault or your friend's fault. And then, like I said, it sounds like you recognize that. So I would talk to her. I would say the same thing about, you know, feeling like you didn't receive, you know, you desire the care and the nurturing and the access that you weren't afforded by way of your mom. I think it could be a really good conversation, hopefully, and then be a good stepping place to at least make the friendship feel good again.

[Crystal]

I agree completely. I, I 100% agree with that. And I think having this conversation is going to be how you figure out whether this is a real friend, whether this is. Is this a rich person who is completely oblivious to everything going around them, or is this a rich person who understands that they are extremely fortunate, especially in this current climate, to be spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on any fucking thing, much less cars and weddings. Like, there's a real problem with wealthy people that they are so disconnected from the rest of us that they really have no idea how much of a struggle day to day life can be for the average person.

[Kid Fury]

And you don't even have to be lifelong wealthy, born into money.

[Crystal]

Yeah, you can just come into a little bit of money. And all of a sudden you act like you don't know what it's like to be splitting up your paychecks and putting $20 on your bill this week and 30. Right. A year into it, and not even wealth a year into making $90,000 a year. And now you act like you just don't know what it's like to struggle. Okay, true, true. Calm down, Bill Gates.

[Kid Fury]

So.

[Crystal]

I also am. I'm tripping over myself. This is so interesting, but I'm curious how much of your backstory she knows about. Like, does she know this about, you know, what you went through as a kid? She probably knows that you immigrated at 19 and then y' all met in college. But does she know how hard your childhood was, how brutal that was? Right. Like, it may be that she doesn't realize how insensitive she's being, you know, with like, oh, mommy and Daddy are getting me an Alaia, and blah, blah, blah. Why don't you come shopping with me to find some Louis Vuitton pumps for the wedding? Like, she may not even realize how much that stings because she doesn't have any context for you. Growing up, a lot of people come to the US for college and they came from very rich homes in their country, so maybe she's assuming the same thing. I don't know. But I think you'll. You'll find out what kind of friend this is once you bring it up. But everything Kid Fury said about the way to approach it, I think, yeah, Like, I think straight up, like, this is not. I'm not saying you're a bad person or you're doing something wrong, but I'm really triggered by such and such because of such and such. And I just wanted to bring it to your attention because that's why I haven't been as forthcoming as I usually am because I'm really working through a lot of hard feelings in therapy, but I wanted to talk to you about it because you're my girl and blah, blah. So, yeah, hopefully she's like, oh, my God, Greta, bitch. I was not even thinking about that. Of course I will keep my wealth to myself.

[Kid Fury]

Fingers crossed.

[Crystal]

Like, you know, not cutting you out of her life, but also not being like, daddy said, I can get the bins painted any color I want. Come with me to blah, blah, blah. Right, right.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, right.

[Crystal]

Because I, you know, mixed wealth, friendships, which I'm sure there's a better term for that. But it's not that they can't work, but the rich person has to not be an asshole, and the poor person has to be mindful of their triggers, which it sounds like you are. Yeah, but it's really on the wealthier person to not flaunt that or.

[Kid Fury]

Read the room, sis.

[Crystal]

Yes. Read like girl. Do you understand? Like, let's sit down and let's just read the news.

[Kid Fury]

Like, let's just read.

[Crystal]

The employment numbers are looking like, girl. Like, people are really struggling out here. And I used to be one of those people. And even though I'm comfortable now, it doesn't mean that my past has been erased. And that could be. That could be it. Your homegirl could be like, oh, well, she's rich too. Like, she got a six figure job working at this Fortune 50 company. Your partner is probably similarly educated and making, you know, a decent amount of money too. So she might be like, I mean, yes, I'm richer, but you're also rich, bitch. What's the problem?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, she for sure is not thinking.

[Crystal]

Anything of it, which is so like.

[Kid Fury]

Them, you know, I didn't even.

[Crystal]

Oh my God, I didn't even think of that. Of course you didn't, because you don't.

[Kid Fury]

Have to worry about anything, right? That's why I think you never paid rent. What?

[Crystal]

I've been paying rent since I was like 19. What you mean you ain't never paid rent?

[Kid Fury]

I would be so furious.

[Crystal]

$80,000 car in cash, work.

[Kid Fury]

I love it. You know, some people, you know, especially.

[Crystal]

The day we not living like that.

[Kid Fury]

The day of like 25 different Housewives offshoots and shit. Like a girlies love being like, oh yeah, I'm. Isn't it? You know, I don't know. They. I feel like they some motherfuckers, really. I think they think that they're like their friends are privileged to be around you. Like there's a better way to word this. There's a better way to word this. It's almost just like, we have fun when you're with me. Like, I will wear this banner or something. I can't think of. No, I think not even like, to them, I don't think it's like malicious or anything, but it's just like, oh yeah, I got this car. It's like we're gonna drive around in the car. We take everyone driving. It's like we have fun together by way of this money. Isn't this a cool thing? And like you said, it's just like whoosh, like right over the head of everything else that's going on. So I wouldn't be surprised. But I agree with Crystal that that would be like having this conversation. And her response to it will be how you know if it's a friendship or a thing hanging on to.

[Crystal]

Yes. Cuz she could easily be like, well, I don't see what the big deal is. Blah, blah, blah. And that's how you know. Okay, all right.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, bye. Bye.

[Crystal]

All right, well, I thought you were a friend, but you're not listening to the words that are coming out of my mouth. I'm explicitly not blaming you. And yet you're defensive. Why is that? But hopefully y' all can work it out and, and, yeah, and. And get through this. But it's a. You know, all, all relationships have conflict at some point. And it's how you all address it, whether you all can address it and the maturity level of the people involved that determines whether you're able to get past it. So yeah, good luck, babes. Let us know how it goes. That's going to wrap up the letters this week. Again. If you have a question for us, send it to asktheread gmail.com. we'll be right back. Hey y', all, everybody knows how expensive things are right now. Groceries, gas, taking your family out, everything, baby. It is a real struggle. Donald Trump and the Republicans in Congress promised they'd make life cheaper, but instead they passed and signed a law that will make things even more expensive. And we're seeing all that right now. Tariffs are hurting the economy and driving up prices. And now Republicans pass the partisan bill to cut your Medicaid by billions, taking away health care from millions of regular everyday Americans just so they can give even more tax breaks to the ultra rich who absolutely don't need them. While people are struggling to get by, these career politicians are putting the elite first, putting profits over families, health, our well being and our ability to afford everyday life that is just wrong and stank and terrible and immoral. We need our leaders to protect Medicaid, lower costs and to invest in our communities, not help the rich get richer at our expense. It's time we demand solutions that make life more affordable. Call your member of Congress and tell them to restore Medicaid paid for by.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crystal]

Oh.

[Kid Fury]

Or taking her braids.

[Crystal]

I thought she went live. I thought she went live by herself. I was about to say, what the fuck?

[Kid Fury]

No, Angela's right here doing her hair.

[Crystal]

Okay, all right.

[Kid Fury]

She's watching the Live and I guess talk. Doing. Answering questions and shit while her mom's doing her hair. And someone asked her which of her grandmother's she sees more often. She's turning around and asked her mom if she could answer the question. Her mom said, yeah, I don't care. You can say whatever you want. Oh, Angela, right? So she hates that lady. And you know what?

[Crystal]

Yeah, she does.

[Kid Fury]

To be honest with you. I'm gonna sit my ass down. I'm gonna shut my ass. I'm gonna shut my ass all the way up.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Because if Tokyo Tony was my mama, I'll probably let my child read her ass, too. I really don't know. I really don't know. I don't want Dream to be around. I wouldn't want Dream to be around either one of her grandmothers. To be honest.

[Crystal]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

To be honest with you.

[Crystal]

Cuz she sued the white family, and then Tokyo Tony is the black family. So you really don't win. There's no way to win here. Yikes.

[Kid Fury]

We always hot tease.

[Crystal]

So she said, yes, that Dream could answer that question.

[Kid Fury]

She said she gave Dream permission to answer the question.

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

And Dream said, I see Lovey more than I see Tokyo. And she's like, I miss. I mean, I see Chris more than I see Tokyo.

[Crystal]

Now she calls that lady Tokyo.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

Oh, I knew she was a horrible grandmother, but God damn.

[Kid Fury]

And then, of course, Tokyo get online. Start dragging Chyna and this child like.

[Crystal]

No.

[Kid Fury]

Wasn'T as bad as Nicki and Cardi last week.

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

But it was very much like, oh, well, yeah, I wouldn't have her hang around you either. I'm not even gonna read it because I just. You already know. I don't. I don't really think about it. But she. Not even who I'm tight with. Why are y' all asking this girl who's, what, eight, maybe seven?

[Crystal]

Who.

[Kid Fury]

What does her guardianship have the black fuck to do with you? Why are you. And, you know, she sees Kris Jenner more than she sees Tokyo. I could have told you that. You just want her to say it online for this clip. For this clip. And Tokyo, you have failed so miserably that your child was like, yeah, I.

[Crystal]

Don'T give a fuck.

[Kid Fury]

And get. You know what's funny? The one piece of joy that I did take away from this, besides the kid being cute, when she turned around and asked her mom, could she say it? At first I thought she held her hands up like this, like, whispering. When I went and watched it back, I realized she said, mom, can I. And did the clocking. Fingers, the clocking.

[Crystal]

Oh, that kid that turned around.

[Kid Fury]

And of course I was like, oh, my God. TikTok. TikTok, Daddy.

[Crystal]

TikTok, right?

[Kid Fury]

She turned around and said, so. She even processed the fact that, like, oh, this is messy. But, yeah, she did. We see each other dream. Said, we see each other.

[Crystal]

So can I clock it first? Right?

[Kid Fury]

Can I clock it dreamed in Mississippi? I mean, Angela, did I miss my one piece? She said, yeah, I don't give a fuck. She said, yeah, you can say whatever you want. And I say, I see Lovey more than I see Tokyo. I mean, I see Chris more than I see Tokyo. She was like, let me say her first name, because first of all, y' all might not know that I call my grandma Lovey. And second of all, let me just, I guess, put them on either they do.

[Crystal]

Everybody knows that Chris has those kids call her Lovey. Everybody who watches that show knows that, right? Cause you don't watch that show. But everybody. I've seen enough clips of it to know that Chris and her 30 grandchildren, she has all 98 of her grandchildren calling her Lovey. Yes.

[Kid Fury]

I really love this place in my life where that's not my business. This white lady's album that y' all are saying is horrendous. Couldn't agree, Couldn't listen.

[Crystal]

I tried. It all sounded the same to me. Like the fourth by the fourth track, I just had to cut it off. I didn't even hear the one about I'm not a bad bitch and I'm not a. I didn't even get that far into it. I had to find out about that on TikTok.

[Kid Fury]

At least she knows I'm not going to be pressing play on that. But I just, in my heart I wanted to be like oh, the person who asked her this is probably like 20 years old and just a wet behind the ears young, messy butch queen.

[Crystal]

Could be. But I'm like could be somebody 50 plus.

[Kid Fury]

This is someone who is probably punching on 40's door just like me.

[Crystal]

Yeah, being messy as fuck.

[Kid Fury]

Just being messy enough. Have to know why. A real little girl, a real little.

[Crystal]

Girl, she's not a character on a TV show. This is a real child who's really related to them.

[Kid Fury]

That's actually her grandma. And you want them to all be beefing for what? For you to laugh. Americans just have to come out and say fuck kids, let's kill them. I think the relationship because like where.

[Crystal]

Jesus, what the fuck?

[Kid Fury]

Like.

[Crystal]

I think it's time to stop letting dream read Instagram comments. I think it's time to stop letting her go live and read shit like I get it mommy, but it. I think it's time to chill cuz she's 8, she's looks like she's about to be 9 next month. That's too deep in Internet business for an eight year old. That's just too much. I'm sorry. I don't even see why that child was put in the position in the first place.

[Kid Fury]

That's what I'm saying.

[Crystal]

I don't get it.

[Kid Fury]

It's weird like even. I mean I'm just saying I don't understand. I. I would hope that you would still be like in protection of this kid. Get out of her face with this mask.

[Crystal]

Yes.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I hate that lady. But that ain't got nothing to do with this baby. She probably hate her too. But get out of her face with this mask.

[Crystal]

Trying to hate both of them ladies and still right their grandchild. And she is an 8 year old little girl who does not need to be part of the nosy ass desperate ass Internet's quest to learn more about the fucking Kardashians. Lord.

[Kid Fury]

Also Zach Kreger weapons doesn't need a follow up, it doesn't need a prequel. It's perfect. It's awesome. We don't need to know any more about Gladys. The mystery was the whole part of it. It was the treasure. If you want more. If you want to know what happened to Gladys before Weapons? You just go watch Rosemary's Baby. That's it. Thank you so much for listening. Good luck on Resident Evil. God bless. I'm done.

[Crystal]

Okay. I don't get the reference there. I'm guessing people are asking or maybe demanding a sequel to this movie.

[Kid Fury]

No one's demanding it. I don't think there's anyone that's demanding it. It's successful, it made money, and the studio, I guess, is down. And it looks like Zach Kreger says he's down. Love you, Zach Kreger. Weapons is one of my favorite movies of the year. I said the same thing to Ryan Coogler.

[Crystal]

Oh, yes. Well, Sinners is. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Because people were like, oh, Sinners. Two sinners. Listen, we can also just enjoy the fact this film is so great and so perfect and so lovely and such an experience and a testament to black cinematography, writing, directing, costuming, acting, dancing, singing. And we can take the next step. We don't have to like, because that's when things get tricky. Not everything is the Godfather too, bitch. Like, so you could just wrap it. Sinners actually would be. You can line Sinners up for a really fun sequel. Before Weapons, in my opinion. And I would still prefer neither of them have a sequel.

[Crystal]

Oh, yeah. Yeah, I could see that.

[Kid Fury]

They're fine. They're so fine. So not everything needs a sequel. Not everybody needs an origin story sometimes. The mystery and the question are the power and the entertainment. Thank you for coming.

[Crystal]

Amen. Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

All right. Is that it?

[Kid Fury]

Yep.

[Crystal]

Okay, well, let me get into Kathy Engelbert's ass, child. Cause for the past two weeks, all of anybody who covers or is interested in the WNBA and talks about it on social media. This is all anybody could talk about. I actually think we're talking about it more than the actual finals because Nafeesa Kalia, after the Links were eliminated by the Mercury, went into her Exit Exit interview. You know, they do that at the end of each season. And she was like, well, you know, first of all, congrats to the Mercury. What I'm about to say is not about winning or losing. Please don't think I'm hating. But we got the best fans in the world. The best players, but we got the worst fucking leadership. That bitch at the top is garbage, and she's gotta go. The number one thing that the players and the coaches complain about is officiating. It is so inconsistent now that it undermines the integrity of our game. Y' all don't give a about the health of the players. You don't care about the product we put on the floor. And every year, the only thing that's consistent in this is the fact that Kathy cannot be accountable for her. She straight up said that she asked Kathy how she was gonna address the officiating issues in the league, which, to be fair, have been going on for. That is true. Like, absolutely everybody bitches about the refs. And I know that's true in every sport. But people I trust who cover the WNBA are like, no, for real, it's bad. It's bad. Like, the refs want to be part of the show. The bitches want to be part of. Oh, yeah, you do. When you cover the W, you talk about it all the time, right? So. And so she said she asked Kathy straight up, what you gonna do about these refs? And that Kathy said, well, only losers complain about the refs, which. No, bitch. Everybody, actually, everybody complains about the refs. But she feasted that. She also asked how. How you gonna fix the fact that we have these young stars like Caitlyn Clark, Angel Reese, Paige Beckers who are driving massive revenue for the league, but they making, you know, like $30 in their first four years? And she said that Kathy's response was, caitlyn should be grateful she makes $16 million off the court because without the platform that the WNBA gives her, she wouldn't make anything. And said that in that same conversation, Kathy told her that players should be on their knees thanking their lucky stars for the media rights deal that she, Kathy, got for them. And that that is obviously the mentality coming from the top. And that that Fee is speaking up now because she's earned that right to do so. She's one of the top bitches. She was probably the front runner for MVP for most of the season. The Lynx had an incredible season until they got eliminated in the playoffs. And she said that because Kathy. Because Fee and Jesus Christ, not Sabrina. What is my girl's name? Brianna Stewart. Fee and Stewie started unrivaled, and Fee's husband is the president of it. So she was like, I now know firsthand what it's like to run a league. It's obviously not easy. So I have some empathy for that. And unrivaled is obviously much smaller than the W. But the point is that my husband takes the time to reach out to players when they're injured. There's a human element involved in being the commissioner of the wnba, and that's what you don't have. You're lacking Integrity, you're lacking leadership. And that's the bare fucking minimum, child. So after that, of course, was going crazy. All the, all the players were immediately like, yes, we stand with Fee, absolutely. Get this out of here. Blah, blah. Like Elena Della Don said, I actually think Kathy don't even know that I retired. Because Elena retired two seasons ago and still ain't heard from Kathy. Candace Parker said, yeah, actually when I was injured, Kathy didn't reach out, but Adam Silver, the commissioner of the NBA did. I had my third child didn't hear from Kathy, but Adam Silver sent a gift. Two different jersey retirement ceremonies in LA and Chicago. Kathy didn't come to neither one of them, but Adam Silver reached out like, you're not doing a good job. It's not just the refs where you're dropping the ball. It's not just that you're not meeting the players demands for anything. You're also not even acting like a human being who cares about people. It's the bare minimum to reach out to players who have been injured just to say something, just to speak. It's the bare minimum to reach out to league MVPs when they retire and say, thank you so much for what you've done for our league and blah, blah, blah. You know, send you a Christmas present or what the fuck ever. It's, it's small shit that Kathy Engelbert don't do. Baby, tell me why Kathy first released a statement that was just like, oh, I'm, you know, disheartened by the characterization by Nafisa and this kind of the mischaracterizations of our conversation. And let me read the, let me read the quote. So she had, so she put out that statement afterwards, like 30 minutes after fees, a press conference, and everybody was like, girl, this is garbage. So then before game one, she said, I was disheartened to hear that some players feel the league and me personally do not care about them or listen to them, them. And if the players in the W don't feel appreciated and valued by the league, then we have to do better and I have to do better. No one should ever doubt how deeply I feel about this league, this game, and every single player who make the WNBA what it is. Okay, well, you have to show that you can't just say that. But then she also said, I'm a human too. I have a family. I have two kids who are devastated by these comments. It's been a tough week. Kathy, you make millions of dollars. As the commissioner of the wnba, we are certain of that. That nobody gives a hot nut if you and your adult children are having a hard time seeing you get dragged. And then straight up said that she didn't say those comments about Caitlyn Clark should be thankful that she's even in the W, because without it, she wouldn't be making no money. So now you calling Fee a liar as well. So Fee and Kathy were supposed to have another meeting after all of this because the WNBA October 31, the CBA expires, and it's like, either we gonna get an extension or are we gonna have a league next season? After Kathy came out and was like, yeah, I didn't say all that. And, you know, I have a family. Me and my kids are also hurting because people are being so mean to me. Fee was like, I'm just canceling that. I'm actually just not even. Let's not even be bothered to sit down and have this conversation. But she said, Nafisa said. For which this was so cunt. Fee was sitting down with fucking Kamala Harris. And did you see that clip of Kamala talking about everything that the. That these people in the White House are doing, this administration is doing is meant to stress y' all out and make y' all depressed and make y' all feel like y' all crazy, but these motherfuckers are crazy. And the whole crowd went crazy because she said. But she didn't lie. She didn't lie. Y' all are feeling discombobulated. And like you living in the Upside down, they're the crazy ones. Don't lose sight of that. But so when she was. So when Fee was on stage with. With former Vice President Harris, she said, you know, I. I'm not. There's nothing else for us to talk about. She started her speech saying that she has all this respect for me and the players, and then she called me a liar three minutes later, denying the words that I know good and damn well came straight out of her mouth. So again, like I said, that bitch don't have no accountability. That don't have no accountability. It has been so bad. Adam Silver had to step in and say, it's a shame if our girls feel this way, but I believe that the relationship between Kathy and the players can improve. You know, I just gotta teach her how to act like a human being. But, you know, I think we can make it work. Here's the thing. The girls most of, especially the top players in the wnba, they have options. They can go overseas and make more money than they do in the W, whether that's Europe or China or. I don't know if anybody's still going to Russia after what happened with dz, but the. They might not be. And no, I don't blame y'. All. I don't blame y'. All. I agree, but. Because I wouldn't either if I had the option. But not only can they go overseas, there's unrivaled and Athletes Unlimited right here in the US and unrivaled is paying these girls more than they make. I don't know if AU is, but unrivaled is paying the girls more than they make in the W. And it's a shorter season. Do you understand that? The girls have options. They have options. Our top players can go somewhere else. They play in the W because it's the prestige of the wnba. It's like, oh, okay, it's like, it's the name. But if y' all act like they don't fucking matter, you're going to lose them. You're not going to have a product if you keep disrespecting the people who are the reason we tune in. Game 1 of the WNBA Finals had, like, the highest ratings of any finals since, like, 1998 or some, like, right after the league started. The game is growing. You need all the other contract negotiations and conversations about pay equity and all this aside, which, of course, I'm on the side of. The players pay them what the they deserve. Do you understand that? These can just go somewhere else. They can just go somewhere else. They don't have to play in the.

[Kid Fury]

W. I don't think they're really into in that cup yet. I think that it's.

[Crystal]

You fit to find out.

[Kid Fury]

That's what I'm saying.

[Crystal]

You fit to find out. The bitches are not having it.

[Kid Fury]

It's still giving very like, oh, you need us. Even though the recipe shows that you're not an ingredient. Like, it's not.

[Crystal]

And the commissioner is replaceable. The top half of every roster is not. Yes. You can bring other people. Do you understand? We gonna go wherever Stewie and Fee and Asia and Caitlin and Paige and Angel and Sab, and we're gonna go wherever they go.

[Kid Fury]

Literally. I mean, it's just. But I do believe that what can. You know what I mean? You're gonna have to pry that money and respect out of their cold.

[Crystal]

I can see. And if that. If that's what has to be done, then so fucking give them their fucking cause. Somebody's making money. Somebody's making it.

[Kid Fury]

They're Playing. They have to keep up this. You know what I mean? This idea. They have to keep going because the whole process, and I believe intent has been to. To make it so that these players feel like this is the best they can get. This like they've won, they're winning. Their life is so much better. You know what I mean? Like, it's even though they can swindle the fuck out of you or will.

[Crystal]

Right? Right.

[Kid Fury]

But to your point, it's like now they're in a situation where not only are players like, girl, please.

[Crystal]

Right?

[Kid Fury]

I know better than that. I see you better than that.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Fans are like, girl, please. They're like right knee knocking and, and trembling, like, well, what the fuck lie do we tell now?

[Crystal]

And the Caitlyn clan. You said Caitlyn Clark need to be thankful for the WNBA because she wouldn't be making no money otherwise. Bitch, are you serious?

[Kid Fury]

Insane?

[Crystal]

You're out of your mind.

[Kid Fury]

You insane that you.

[Crystal]

Caitlyn Clark, College's all time leading scorer? No, bitch, I'm sorry. And I'm not a Caitlin apologist by any stretch. And, and I hate the Fever fans. Almost all of them, I think are just horrible people who are more invested in racism than they are in basketball. But I you not finna lie on Caitlyn like that girl be.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, real. Like, are you stupid? Like, what?

[Crystal]

Katelyn is so popping. She don't have to go overseas or the AU or the unripe. Caitlyn can simply rest in her off season like Asia Wilson and not play nowhere else. Work on, you know, strength and conditioning and skills and all this. She don't have to do else.

[Kid Fury]

A whole bunch of fans just hanging upside down, sleep hibernating till the come back out. Literally that so. What are you talking about?

[Crystal]

What are you talking about? Bitch? She was that bitch before she even sniffed the W. What are you talking about?

[Kid Fury]

I think we're in an age where white people like just say it and run. Just say whatever you want and then just run away.

[Crystal]

Well, you fucking tried it. I don't, I actually don't think regardless of what happens with the cba, once they get it figured out and we know when the W is coming back, I don't see Kathy being the commissioner because when I say all of the girls have come out in support of what Fee said, either that Kailyn gave a kind of non answer type of response. And I think Alyssa Thomas was like, I'm in the middle of the finals, girl. No comment. But other than that, nobody has come out and been like, nah fee lying. I don't have no problem with the refs. I don't have no problem with the but no even the Children of the Corn, even Lexi hall is like, yeah, actually I really appreciate it because it's some bullshit what we've been through and everybody agrees the refs act like somebody came to see them. We did not.

[Kid Fury]

There's never been a time them bitches.

[Crystal]

In the uniform on the sideline, that's who we here to see.

[Kid Fury]

That never happened. That we've come to see.

[Crystal]

It's not about you girls one time, not once. Stop trying to be part of the narrative. Ain't nobody coming to see you, Otis. Quite literally it's not for you bitches.

[Kid Fury]

Maybe your so your spouse like maybe your your tighten up. Nobody else get that out for you.

[Crystal]

Yeah. Cuz otherwise you gonna have a league full of and I'm that's anyway, I'm about to start talking in circles, but Kathy Engelbert needs to be fired. They had fire Kathy fire Engelbert trending immediately after she said that about and I know shout out to Fe I know she mentioned Caitlyn Page and Angel because those three have the most insane fan bases and those people live online. They as soon as you say they names them three fan bases are going to they go, yep, they gonna tap the fuck in and they gonna drag and they don't get tired so they do not get tired. So figure it out, Alexander. Figure it out. Bitch. Girl, I don't see Kathy here next season. And that's that on that. And to wrap things up, Zelda Williams, who is Robin Williams daughter, had to publish a statement on Instagram stories begging y' all to stop doing AI videos of her father and sending them to her.

[Kid Fury]

Thank God I've never seen any of you.

[Crystal]

And then I saw Bernice King on Threads earlier say act and as the daughter of MLK same stop making AI videos of my daddy and then sending them to me. And he's saying things he would have never said and doing things like this is stop burning up the planet for this. So I'm gonna read Zelda's statement. It says because when I tell you this could be a past three, Zelda said, please just stop sending me AI videos of dad. Stop believing I want to see it or that I'll understand. I don't and I won't if you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse. I'll restrict and move on. But please, if you have any decency Just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone, even, full stop. It's dumb. It's a waste of time and energy. And believe me, it's not what he'd want to watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to this vaguely looks and sounds like them, so that's enough. Just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop. Puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art art. You're making disgusting, over processed hot dogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat, hoping that they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it gross. And for the love of everything, stop calling it the future. AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the human centipede of content and from the very, very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume. I said, well, go the off, Zelda. First of all, I know a lot of y' all are sick in the heart, mind and spirit. So you're making AI videos of my daddy thinking that you gonna make me cry. I've been famous for too long. Try again. But for those of you who actually do have a sliver of love and peace and understanding in your bodies, please stop. Stop making AI videos of my dad saying shit for your own fucking entertainment. What's wrong with you bitches? Put the AI down. Not only is nobody entertained, it's trash.

[Kid Fury]

It's trash. It's trash. It's so bad. It isn't the future.

[Crystal]

It isn't.

[Kid Fury]

It isn't.

[Crystal]

The future doesn't make anything new. It takes what we program it to take. Take. It knows what we program it to know.

[Kid Fury]

It's not natural.

[Crystal]

It creates.

[Kid Fury]

It's. It's designed clean by humans. It's updated by humans. It's programmed and processed by humans. So it's not the future. It's some. Y' all doing like an artificial intelligence. But I've said this, I think at least twice on this podcast already. It can be used for actual productive shit.

[Crystal]

It is. It is.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I'm sure it can be. Some people do that.

[Crystal]

Not you niggas on TikTok.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, so it's like you. You should not be the voice for. For the industry, for the medium. Like, you should shut the fuck up. You pestering somebody's baby with AI videos of them after they passed on, right? Saying, like, insane, look at my labubu or, you know, whatever. Fatty baddie shot o'. Clock.

[Crystal]

Because I know they got MLK saying racist shit. I know they do. I know they're making AI videos of MLK talking about, you know, slay all the niggers or whatever. I know that's what y' all doing.

[Kid Fury]

I wouldn't want you to send me an AI video of my daddy holding Lance. Why are you sending me you? Person who don't know me. Person doesn't know my father.

[Crystal]

Right, right.

[Kid Fury]

Living or dead, but especially deceased.

[Crystal]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

Why are you sending me videos? Fake videos of my family member that I mourn.

[Crystal]

Right. Lost, tragically. Anyway.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Crystal]

And you think. And you're. You're supposed to be a fan. You think you're a good person and you do it.

[Kid Fury]

Like, I don't give a. If it's my daddy on the beach with a kitten.

[Crystal]

Leave it.

[Kid Fury]

This is strange.

[Crystal]

It's weird.

[Kid Fury]

It's bad for the environment. It's dumb as all. Are you bored? Like, you couldn't have just been like. If you're gonna send something because you're a fan or you care or whatever, it's like, hey, Zelda, big fan. Love your father, wishing you well.

[Crystal]

Why don't you draw a picture of me and my dad and tag me in that? Why don't you make art?

[Kid Fury]

So don't involve yourself in art. Just don't learn.

[Crystal]

Go practice. Or go learn how to do it. How can they do that? Well, because AI doesn't take patience and time and understanding like learning does. Go learn something. I don't even like the AI y' all make of yourselves. If you made AI of my. Because them pictures of you hugging your younger self is weird, but these video if videos of my family members. Bitch, are you out of your mind? I don't fucking know you. And I am vehemently against AI. Leave it alone. Get a life. It is.

[Kid Fury]

I was gonna drag the white AI ladies. The white AI acting lady, Tilly Norwood.

[Crystal]

Oh, right. That girl they invented.

[Kid Fury]

White Hollywood is doing enough. So I'm good.

[Crystal]

It's just. Yeah, yeah, they are.

[Kid Fury]

They are. The bitches had the nerve to say they wanted her to be the next Scarlett Johansson. Well, you do realize that a huge component to Scarlett Johansson's rise to fame was how incredibly sexy she is to the modern American or the average. So much so that her huge involvement in the mcu, which she was a part of from damn near the very beginning of it, mostly just involved her doing bad flips and being Fine. Yeah, can't nobody fuck Tilly Norwood because she doesn't exist. So the. The.

[Crystal]

It's just gross. But, you know, they fantasizing about. They probably making AI videos of themselves fucking Tilly Norwood. And isn't she supposed to be a child? Is she like 15 or something?

[Kid Fury]

Oh, see, I don't know what age she is now. Now I don't want to talk about this anymore because. What, I thought she was supposed to be an adult. No, no, there's no way. She has to at least be 18. What if they want to put her on an R rated movie? Well, I guess 18, you don't have to be 18 to be in an R rated movie.

[Crystal]

Yeah, I don't know. Maybe I just read that somewhere. I'm looking at it now, but I saw something about if you wanted to be sure that your actress was a virgin, which is like, who cares if it.

[Kid Fury]

What the fuck difference does it make?

[Crystal]

Yeah, see, see, it's.

[Kid Fury]

I just don't want to.

[Crystal]

It's not taking long. Tyler Cowan, the Economist, proclaimed Tilly his favorite actress and speculated about her virginity. Why?

[Kid Fury]

All right, I'm done.

[Crystal]

Why?

[Kid Fury]

She never brought it up.

[Crystal]

Y' all are. Okay, it's weird and it's getting weirder, but leave Zelda Williams the fuck out of it. She got you, right? The together AI is not creative. Go do something creative with yourself. If you can't draw, then write, paint, sing, dance, anything else. You have creative expression inside of you. Find it and work on it. No, you're not gonna be a. A genius overnight. You're not gonna be a professional overnight. You obviously have to try. You have to try. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Are they gonna. These people aren't interested in like.

[Crystal]

No. Why, when I could just type a prompt into ChatGPT.

[Kid Fury]

They're not interested in being artists. They're doing it because they can. All right, well, I don't give a fuck about artists.

[Crystal]

Yeah. That's gonna wrap up this week's episode of the Read. Check us out on social media. Hisistheread. Any other news or announcements from you this week, Kid Fury? No.

[Kid Fury]

You can put Kid Fury into socials and the black gay one that comes up is probably me. And then you can go to patreon.com kidfiery if you'd like to see my breasts. And that's about it.

[Crystal]

All right, y' all take care. We will see you next week.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crystal]

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