Some Things Are Sacred

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Read – "Some Things Are Sacred" (November 13, 2025)

Hosts: Kid Fury and Crissle West
Podcast: The Read (Loud Speakers Network)
Episode Title: Some Things Are Sacred
Date: November 13, 2025

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Overview

In this episode, Kid Fury and Crissle bring their signature blend of sharp wit, pop culture insight, and authentic friendship to the table. From celebrity news and pop culture trailers to social commentary, hilarious personal anecdotes, and heartfelt listener advice, the hosts cover a range of hot topics. True to their enduring mantra, “no one is safe from shade—unless you’re Beyoncé or Blue Ivy,” the duo dives deep and keeps the laughs coming. The episode also spotlights the nuances of friendship, living in New York, and the little things that can spark big debates—especially when it comes to sacred hair products.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Beyoncé's Support for Kelly Rowland & Carter Family Love

• [01:52–03:26]
  • Beyoncé wears “All Access” credentials at Kelly Rowland’s event, delighting both hosts.
  • "If anybody could get away with not doing [credentials], it would be that bitch." – Kid Fury [02:07]
  • Praise for Beyoncé supporting her loved ones in a genuine, public way, and a humorous aside about Blue Ivy’s ability to handle things.

2. Anecdotes on Celebrity Interactions

• [03:27–05:12]
  • Discussion of Ms. Tina Knowles’ Instagram mishap and the Kardashians’ popularity among celebrity circles—even if Kid Fury and Crissle don’t get the appeal.
  • "They seem… we hate them, but they seem to be popular amongst other rich people.” – Kid Fury [03:27]
  • Side stories about Kim Kardashian organizing exclusive screenings for her kids and explanations of Kardashian kids' names.

3. Critical Role Voice Acting & Shout-out

• [05:27–06:19]
  • Crissle expresses interest in voicing a role for Dispatch, poking fun at her ambitions.
  • Lighthearted banter about celebrity casting and Jeffrey Wright.

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4. Black Excellence: SZA’s Charitable Work

• [06:19–08:41]
  • SZA teamed up with LA's John & Vinny's restaurant to donate 1,400 meals to SNAP recipients affected by program cuts and shutdowns.
  • Crissle lauds SZA’s heartfelt actions over musical achievements.
  • "Everybody has to eat. Everyone needs food every day." – Kid Fury [08:28]
  • Humorous detour to SZA and Nicki Minaj’s (social media) antics.

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5. Hot Tops: Pop Culture Breakdown

A. Tiny Harris’ Daughter, Eris, Goes Viral for Singing

• [09:09–11:13]
  • Major Girl (Tiny) posted a gospel cover by her daughter, Eris.
  • Both hosts are charmed by the young talent—expressing delight and humor at transforming “Folded” by Kehlani into gospel.
  • "She’s a confident little singing thing." – Crissle West [10:06]

B. Movie Trailers Teasers and Commentaries

• [11:26–22:35]
  • Toy Story 5:
    • Both hosts react with surprise at yet another sequel.
    • The teaser involves the toys’ horror at a new “Lily Pad” iPad toy.
    • "Bring back the dolls and figurines and the play kitchens and all that stuff.” – Kid Fury [12:53]
  • Super Mario Galaxy Movie Sequel:
    • Chris Pratt’s continued role earns groans from both.
    • “He’s a meatball… he didn’t ruin it for me, but he was the weakest.” – Crissle [16:59]
    • Both reminisce on gaming references and the joy the films bring younger audiences.
  • Devil Wears Prada Sequel Teaser:
    • Enthusiastic reactions to the trailer and its cast; the dramatic reunion (“Miranda… took you long enough”) is a highlight.
    • “I’m sat… That trailer alone let me know that those Academy Award winning bitches read that script and were like, oh yeah, this’ll do.” – Crissle [21:13]

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6. LA’s Brandi & Monica Concert & Observing Black Joy

• [22:35–23:17]
  • Beyoncé, Kelly Rowland, Queen Latifah, and even Rihanna spotted supporting Brandi and Monica. The event signals community unity and mutual support.

7. Living Single Rewatch & New York Stories

• [23:17–26:46]
  • Queen Latifah’s recent appearance on the "Reliving Single" podcast prompts a loving, nostalgic recap of the show's impact—particularly how well it’s aged.
  • Discussion of navigating New York as Black transplants (Kid Fury, Miami; Crissle, Oklahoma City).
  • Anecdotes about unique NY struggles, like Brooklyn-Manhattan travel and high city fees.

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8. Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, & Euphoria Rumors

• [26:46–32:08]
  • Rumored tension: Zendaya allegedly refuses to do Euphoria press with Sydney Sweeney due to political differences and cringe-inducing ad campaigns.
    • "I’m Zendaya. Not only do I not want to, I don’t have to." – Kid Fury [28:20]
  • General apathy about the show's return due to long hiatus and behind-the-scenes drama.

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9. Wendy Williams’ Health Updates, Paternity Mess

• [34:31–39:50]
  • Wendy’s diagnosis possibly changing—sparking speculation, skepticism, and a nuanced discussion of the reporting’s reliability.
  • Tangent on child support controversies involving Stefan Diggs and the endless cycle of online baby mama drama.

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10. Pop Culture Potpourri: Clarissa Shields, Summer Walker, and More

• [39:50–49:16]
  • Clarissa Shields denies engagement rumors to rapper Papoose.
  • Crissle and Kid Fury discuss Summer Walker’s album rollout, thematic stagnation in her music, and the challenge for female artists to move beyond “heartbreak” narratives.
    • "It gets to a point where it’s like…when do we grow up and get strict and stop letting niggas play us like this?" – Kid Fury [45:24]
  • Hilarious digression into Keisha Cole’s discography, memes, and celebrity relationships.

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11. Antonio Brown’s Legal Woes

• [49:36–55:32]
  • Recap of Antonio Brown’s shooting, alleged fugitive stint in Dubai, and arrest for attempted murder.
  • Commentary on patterns of self-destructive behavior, public mental health spirals, and legal absurdity.

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12. Diddy (Sean Combs) in Jail: Rule-breaking & Privilege

• [56:22–65:37]
  • Reports of Diddy breaking prison rules, getting sweet treatment, and working as a chaplain’s assistant to earn special favors.
  • Cynicism about celebrity privilege: “The rules literally don’t apply to them.”
  • Observations on wealth, class, and inequity in the criminal justice system.
    • "He don’t even care to pretend to be humiliated… He’s in there having a good time." – Kid Fury [63:51]

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Listener Letters

1. Roommate Drama: “Don’t Touch My Sacred!”

• [76:01–86:17]
  • A listener discovers her roommate used Beyoncé’s luxury hair product, Sacred, without asking.
  • Advice: Express clear boundaries; petty Venmo requests not recommended.
    • "If I walk in the bathroom after your shower and I smell Sacred, I’m going to smell an ass-whooping coming next." – Kid Fury [85:00]
  • Echoes the episode’s title and theme: some things (especially Black girl hair care) are sacred.

2. Listener in Messy Co-Parenting Situation

• [88:06–102:47]
  • Woman’s ex-boyfriend cheated during her pregnancy; his girlfriend’s friends expose him to her sisters via social media.
  • Advice: Focus holidays on her 1-year-old, maintain boundaries, plan an exit, and know family drama is survivable—even relatable.
    • "At 1 year of age, everything is magic… Just start creating a winter wonderland now." – Crissle [91:56]

3. Weed Dispensary Preferences

• [69:52–75:52]
  • Chat about favorite ways to consume weed (edibles, tinctures, vaping); practical tips for (safely) taking weed on vacation.
  • Dream “blunt rotations” with celebrities.

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• "It ain’t no fun if the homies can’t have none." – Crissle, quoting SZA’s Instagram [07:00]
• "You don't get to tell me… what the algorithm said you would like." – Crissle, on Hulu/Disney UI changes [117:01]
• "If anybody could get away with not doing [the backstage lanyard], it would be that bitch." – Kid Fury on Beyoncé [02:07]
• "I'm Zendaya. Not only do I not want to, I don't have to. Literally no one can make me." – Kid Fury [28:20]
• "I can take some of that, but it does get to a point with me where I’m like, alright, let’s talk about something else." – Kid Fury, on heartbreak music [49:16]
• "If I walk in the bathroom after your shower and I smell Sacred, I'm going to smell an ass-whooping on you next." – Kid Fury [85:00]

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Timestamps for Notable Segments

• Beyoncé & Kelly Rowland/Blue Ivy banter: [01:52–03:26]
• SZA’s Black Excellence: [06:19–08:41]
• Pop Culture Trailers (Toy Story, Mario, Devil Wears Prada): [11:26–22:35]
• Living Single & Black sitcoms: [23:17–26:46]
• Zendaya/Sydney Sweeney/Euphoria: [26:46–32:08]
• Diddy, Prison Privilege, and Criminal Justice: [56:22–65:37]
• Listener Letter - Sacred hair products: [76:01–86:17]
• Listener Letter - Holiday Co-Parenting: [88:06–102:47]

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Tone & Style

The conversation is casual, direct, and brimming with colloquial humor—frequently oscillating between sharp cultural critique, affectionate Black cultural references, and irreverent ribbing. As always, the tone is uncompromisingly authentic, equal parts supportive and shady.

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Conclusion

“Some Things Are Sacred” serves as a quintessential Read episode: witty, insightful, and deeply relatable. The episode centers on sacredness—whether that’s supportive friendships (like Beyoncé and Kelly), the inviolability of your $50 conditioner, or the importance of doing right by community. It reminds listeners that some boundaries are worth defending, but laughter is always up for sharing.

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Listener letters: [e-mail].
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Kid Fury: patreon.com/kidfury

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(Summary compiled and timestamped by AI; direct quotes attributed by speaker and time code.)

Transcript

[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

Hello out there, all our beautiful autumn babies. Welcome back. I am Chase, formerly known as track star of the Brave Brigade.

[Kid Fury]

And I am Beyonce's All Access backstage credentials. And this is the read. Thanks for coming back.

[Crissle West]

Her All Access backstage credentials?

[Kid Fury]

Yes. You didn't see Beyonce backstage with Kelly Rowland? Yes. But she had her fucking lanyard on. Like, girl.

[Crissle West]

Oh, I did not notice that. She definitely did.

[Kid Fury]

And Ms. Yvette commented on Instagram and was like, I just love that you're wearing your credentials because if anybody could get away with not doing would be that bitch. But I just love that she was like, no, I'm wearing my Kelly lanyard.

[Crissle West]

And I'm wearing my Kelly. Like, this is merch. Excuse me.

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Crissle West]

Hello. This is my sissy's merch. Thank you.

[Kid Fury]

You know, it's real love because it's rap.

[Crissle West]

It's basically a chain.

[Kid Fury]

She will send blue out quick. So she was like, no, I love Kelly. I'mma go and support my. Support my girl. So, yeah, it was beautiful to see.

[Crissle West]

I also saw Ms. Tina post a photo at that white lady's birthday party.

[Kid Fury]

With her and her daughter.

[Crissle West]

And I guess she had to like repost it. I didn't see what she posted initially. Maybe it was cropped wrong or something. But she like reposted it in the caption. She said like, she had to get help to, like, get the ratio, however, to fit it or something. But anyways, the end of the caption. She just said at the end of the caption, she was just like, I'm 71. Give me a break. So cute. I was like, damn skippy.

[Kid Fury]

Like, that's what they thought. Everybody, leave me alone. And she love her some Instagram, so y' all just gonna have to let her play.

[Crissle West]

She. Excuse me. Excuse me.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Thank you.

[Kid Fury]

They love them. Kardashians. I mean, the Kardashians are. They seem. We hate them, but they seem to be popular amongst other rich people. Right.

[Crissle West]

I have friends that love them.

[Kid Fury]

I don't have friends. I mean, people who actually know them seem to like them.

[Crissle West]

Exactly.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, you have friends who know them?

[Crissle West]

Oh, no, no, no, no, I don't.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crissle West]

No, no.

[Kid Fury]

Okay. I was like, wow. Exactly.

[Crissle West]

Exactly was for your point. I'm sorry.

[Kid Fury]

I was like, oh, work.

[Crissle West]

No, I have friends that are, like, fans of theirs.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah.

[Crissle West]

You know, they're very meek about talking about that.

[Kid Fury]

I bet they are.

[Crissle West]

But I'm like, girl, you can have a good time. I'm not going to kiss in your face because you watched an episode. I just don't want to.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. And I never. I never want.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. But, yeah, I feel like even before, you know, they were sitting next to. Well, Beyonce was sitting next to her, and Anne Wintour and North was, like, anywhere but here. Even before those days.

[Kid Fury]

Yes.

[Crissle West]

I heard people who knew them were like, they're incredibly sweet.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, that's what I keep hearing. So, I mean, it must be something. Cause Kim had a private screening of Wicked at the house, and Ariana and Cynthia were there. I think so. It's like, yeah, it must be something. It must be.

[Crissle West]

But also, that could be children. Remember when Ice Spice came over? That's something I got to do with Kim Kardashian.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, that's very valid.

[Crissle West]

I'm incredibly wealthy and powerful. The kids love Wicked. Would you mind? Sure.

[Kid Fury]

Chicago's obsessed with Elphaba T, right? So she just. She's been defying Gravity for six weeks. If y' all could just come over and let us watch the movie, that would be great.

[Crissle West]

What's Rob's daughter's name again?

[Kid Fury]

Dream.

[Crissle West]

Dream. Who's True?

[Kid Fury]

True's Chloe's daughter. The fact that I know all this. I really do know all of this.

[Crissle West]

I was about to say True is not her name, but I know there's a True.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

There's a lot of little black girls over there, but, yeah, speaking of really quickly to go back to my introduction. I'm just going to do a little shameless pitch out there. Ad hoc studio, critical role. Very excited to play the season finale of Dispatch today. And, you know, I would love to voice a character in Dispatch Season 2. Two lines, three lines. Nothing big, nothing major. Just throwing her hat in the ring. It could be just an ornery assistant front. Someone at the front desk, wherever you. Two or three lines of a sarcastic character. I'm in it. I'm all about it. This match is so fun. Okay. Jeffrey Wright voices that character.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, okay. Finally a word. I know.

[Crissle West]

Cutting checks.

[Kid Fury]

Nice.

[Crissle West]

All right. Black Excellence this week is going to go to a famed singer and Grammy award winner named Sza. But she's not getting Black Excellence this week for her achievements in music. Instead, she is getting black excellence for her achievement in humanity and the heart she teamed up.

[Kid Fury]

What?

[Crissle West]

So this lady worked with a restaurant in LA called John and Vinny's. I think it's an Italian restaurant. To donate 1400 meals to SNAP recipients or people who would, you know what I mean? Who have been impacted.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

By, you know, the snap and shutdown and all of these other horrible, ridiculous clown things. Clown. So she posted clown. She posted John and Vinny's on her. Her Instagram with, I think this is her nonprofit called not charity. And it said 100 free meals a day from November 11th to. No, November 18th. Y' all know how much I love John and Vinny's, but it ain't no fun if the homies can't have none, she said. So over the next seven days, they said we are partnering with her, not charity, to provide 1400 meals for Los Angeles community members who receive SNAP. Each meal will be available as takeout from our Slauson location from 3pm to 5pm on 1111 to 1117. Then there's an email here.

[Kid Fury]

Amazing.

[Crissle West]

All that good stuff. So I thought that was really a great way to get in there, do your big one. Put some food in people's bellies. Because, like, going to a show.

[Kid Fury]

Having.

[Crissle West]

An account to whatever streaming service, sneakers, I don't know, guns. All that kind of nonsense is like, okay, the cutback on some of those things. Everybody has to eat.

[Kid Fury]

Everyone needs food every day.

[Crissle West]

Everyone needs medicine every day. Everyone needs to say, I have Boo.

[Kid Fury]

Boo and Booboo get healed and Boo Boo hurt. Yeah, Boo Boo needing help.

[Crissle West]

So, Lord, you know, very successful albums. Last album did crazy, crazy numbers and things like that. Get out there. Get in there. Love to see it.

[Kid Fury]

You are A mess.

[Crissle West]

I'm laughing because I'm thinking of how she. I don't know. I just had this flash of her and Nikki just getting into it, and Nikki over here posting, like, selfies of Donald Trump. Damn near.

[Kid Fury]

She's so weird. She's so.

[Crissle West]

Pick a side. Pick a side, indeed. All right, let's get into our pop culture segment that we call Hot Tops. Where do I want to begin? I'll start with something nice. I watched a video that Tiny Harris posted Major Girl posted on her Instagram of her daughter Eris, who sings and she sings the things she does.

[Kid Fury]

She sings.

[Crissle West]

She has a very lovely little voice.

[Kid Fury]

Cute little voice.

[Crissle West]

And she's singing a gospel version of Folded by Kehlani. Now, this is a song that somebody else made. And yeah, eris is what, 8, 9? I think this is. She's a little girl.

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Crissle West]

But I just. It delighted me.

[Kid Fury]

She.

[Crissle West]

She's a confident little singing thing.

[Kid Fury]

She is. She's.

[Crissle West]

She is, like. She's so cute. She has, like, her own little style and direction of her voice. She probably has a coach. She probably sing with her mom.

[Kid Fury]

She probably does.

[Crissle West]

I believe she will take a music career seriously. I mean, her daddy's a musician, too, but, like, so it's just all around her.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

But I just. I enjoy this little girl singing. It makes me.

[Kid Fury]

A gospel version of Folded. What the hell?

[Crissle West]

I don't know why that happened, but that has nothing to do with lyrically.

[Kid Fury]

What is even in that.

[Crissle West]

The Bible glory.

[Kid Fury]

But what's getting folded sanctified. Praise your sins. Is Jesus folding up your sins before he washes them away? Like, what is. I don't get it.

[Crissle West]

Folding the pages of the scripture into your heart. Oh, Lord, you say, my.

[Kid Fury]

My.

[Crissle West]

Broken, but I was.

[Kid Fury]

You show me. I.

[Crissle West]

Heard tone runs melody.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crissle West]

And I heard a lot about the Bible, but, yeah, that brought a smile to my face. She's so cute. Let's talk about movie trailers, movie teasers. Most of these are. Yeah, all of these will be relevant to you somewhat.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crissle West]

Toy Story 5 has a teaser out.

[Kid Fury]

5.

[Crissle West]

Like 52nd long 5. Girl. Why are we. I was surprised we got a 4. 5 is in store, which I still have not seen.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crissle West]

The last one I saw was three. And Woody is in it. Buzz is in it.

[Kid Fury]

Okay. Because I know Rex Tim Allen didn't want to be in the last one because it was woke.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah, that's right. I wonder if he's in this one.

[Kid Fury]

I think he is. I see him right here on the. Oh, yeah. Toy Story 5. That is so crazy. I see him on the. On the Wikipedia. He's in the cast. So.

[Crissle West]

So let me. Can I describe. Oh, it's the. You can see it in the poster.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

The. The trailer is these recognizable Toy Story faces doing the familiar Toy Story thing of reacting to a new toy coming into the room. This new toy is not seen, but they all have this reaction of, like, horror.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Is it like, oh, my God, what is that? It's this little iPad that the toy has.

[Kid Fury]

And I'm honestly shocked it took this long because kids have been playing more with iPads and phones than tablets and stuff. Than real toys, I think, for a while. But, yeah, bring. Bring back the real toys. Bring back the dolls and figurines and the play kitchens and all that stuff.

[Crissle West]

Oh, my God, the little play sets.

[Kid Fury]

Yes. Yes, kid. It actually did serve a developmental purpose. It wasn't just for the elephant.

[Crissle West]

Like, bitch, now you have bop it the game. I'm trying to tell you. I'm lost.

[Kid Fury]

All right, that's too much.

[Crissle West]

What?

[Kid Fury]

Okay, but this is cute.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. It says. At least Wikipedia says Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, John Cusack, Blake Clark, Ernie Hudson.

[Kid Fury]

Ernie Hudson. I'm glad Ernie Hudson's still around.

[Crissle West]

Annie Poppins, Anna Faris did Anna. Is this her first time in Toy Story. I don't remember hearing Anna Virus being Lily Pad.

[Kid Fury]

Maybe that's the. Well, this says Lily Paddily. What?

[Crissle West]

Greta Lee is gonna be Lily Pad.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, this says Anna Farisius. Anna Whoever. So.

[Crissle West]

Oh, maybe there's more than one.

[Kid Fury]

Is Lily Pad not the name of the iPad?

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, well, so then I'm even more confused.

[Crissle West]

She says, hi, I'm Lily Pad in the trailer too, but I really wasn't paying attention to who the voice was, so I don't know who. Who it is. They might be separate ones. I am a little bit interested in how they're going to approach this idea. Not enough to do anything about it.

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Crissle West]

Like, when it pops up on Miss. Then I'll probably take a peek. But again, I guess I would have to watch Toy Story 4.

[Kid Fury]

I don't even know that, and I'm.

[Crissle West]

Not nearly in a rush to do that. I think that the end of the ending of three was like, oh, it's done.

[Kid Fury]

Right. Right. I'm not sure why y' all keep bringing this back out, but I don't. I mean, Toy Story is fine, especially the first couple I really enjoyed, but it don't really hit, like, a lot of the other. Like, a lot of the Other animated, right? I mean, and Pixar does great stuff, don't get me wrong. But, you know, turning red and inside out, those are much more impactful for me personally than Toy Story ever was. But it's cute. It's beloved, for sure.

[Crissle West]

So Disney, Pixar films, they each kind of have their log line, their through line, their theme. I think Toy Stories has always kind of seemed to be about just imagination and childlike wonder and interest and how that morphs and changes and things. Um, but to me, the End of Three, where all of the. I mean, the End of Three is iconic and broke hearts, but the end end. When Andy goes off to college and gives the toys to some other kids, I'm like, okay, Toy Story's done.

[Kid Fury]

Perfect.

[Crissle West]

If you're gonna do a fourth new toys, right? Like, why are we still doing this with these same people, one of whom don't even want to do it no more because it's woke.

[Kid Fury]

I think that was why he didn't want to do the last one, because it was like black women or something. He was like, yeah, black women can't be astronauts or whatever it was. I don't even remember. I just remember vaguely being like, yeah, not Tom Hanks. What's that other one's name?

[Crissle West]

Tim Allen.

[Kid Fury]

Tim Allen. Tim Allen sucks. He really does. If I don't see Toy Story 5, he'll be the reason.

[Crissle West]

Super Mario Galaxy. The Super Mario Galaxy movie has a trailer which is the sequel to the Super Mario Brothers movie. I don't really have much to say about that one, except I don't know what it.

[Kid Fury]

Sorry. I saw Chris Pratt.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, I mean, speaking of.

[Kid Fury]

That's another one. You gonna be the reason I don't see it.

[Crissle West]

He was the reason I was this close to not seeing the first one.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. He's a meatball.

[Crissle West]

And I maintain that although he did not ruin the film for me, he was the weakest.

[Kid Fury]

Yes.

[Crissle West]

Voice acting.

[Kid Fury]

I agree with all of that. I agree completely.

[Crissle West]

This for as a gamer and someone who's been playing Mario since the first one, there's a lot of references and Easter eggs in this that just make me feel like, oh, yeah, so good for the kids. Like, they're gonna see all of these creatures and characters from all around. Cause it's not just pulling from the Super Mario Galaxy game. There's references to the original games. There's references to Mario Sunshine in this trailer. I don't know what they're doing with Bowser. I guess they just want him to be Jack Black.

[Kid Fury]

Okay. Yeah, why not?

[Crissle West]

Bowser's always kind of had a comedic delusional. Yes, he has element to his character.

[Kid Fury]

Agreed.

[Crissle West]

But him being, like, a pianist and now he's an artist and he's like, Goofy. I don't know. There's just something about it that doesn't crossover for me. But I'm like, does it matter? I'm about to be 38. The kids are gonna have a great time. Probably.

[Kid Fury]

Almost certainly.

[Crissle West]

Who? They are going to love this nigga, that peach is Peaches. Peaches. Peaches. Peach is shit in stitches. The children loved it.

[Kid Fury]

They do.

[Crissle West]

So what the. Who cares, right?

[Kid Fury]

It's not for my old ass.

[Crissle West]

It is just not. And, you know, I actually get a boost of happiness through them enjoying the shit. Anyway, if I go to a movie theater, like when I went to see the Transformers Animated shit that came out a couple years ago, I was like, this is fine. Cute pictures, photography and stuff. But the kid in front of me who was having a blast made it worth it, so that's nice. I see the cast. Brie Larson as Rosalina, which I'll take. I would have gone with like a Jul. Julia Louis Dreyfus, because I figured we're doing funny and Goofy and who cares about the source material, but Brie Larson, Captain Marvel, that works too. Lastly, there's a Devil Wears Pro teaser trailer.

[Kid Fury]

Yay.

[Crissle West]

I think I said out loud on the podcast that I was worried. I am nervous. I watched the trailer. I'm gone.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah. I'm sad.

[Crissle West]

I'm fucking gone. Devil Wears using Vogue by Madonna as the, like, the little music in the back.

[Kid Fury]

Sydney Sweeney.

[Crissle West]

Well, he just ruined that.

[Kid Fury]

I gotta stop scrolling through the cast.

[Crissle West]

I didn't know that.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, I don't know what you had me with Simone, Ashley, and then you lost me with that fucking hillbilly ass bitch. But okay, okay, no.

[Crissle West]

The trailer is just Miranda Priestley's shoes walking to the elevator. As you see all of these people cowering in fear and trying to get out of her way. Did you know the same shit?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Crissle West]

She gets in the elevator just like in the original movie. She turns around, she has on her glasses, she gets into her fierce pose. The elevator doors start to close. And then a hand reaches in and stops that elevator. The nerve.

[Kid Fury]

Who could this bitch be?

[Crissle West]

Miranda's in steps one. Anne Hathaway.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, not.

[Crissle West]

Andie says to the God. Andy flips her hair, says, miranda. Miranda says, took you long enough. And then Andy puts on shades.

[Kid Fury]

No.

[Crissle West]

Like her. No. And the elevator doors close. Oh, Bitch, I'm sad. I'm sad.

[Kid Fury]

I'm in here.

[Crissle West]

Andy evolving to the girl. I'm not scared of this bitch. Like, as a matter of fact, hold that elevator. Hey, Miranda.

[Kid Fury]

I'm actually not waiting for the next one. That's gonna be packed.

[Crissle West]

Big Boss.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, I love that Big Boss.

[Crissle West]

I'm sat.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yes. I'm very sad.

[Crissle West]

I am sad. That trailer alone let me know that those Academy Award winning bitches read that script and were like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, this'll do.

[Kid Fury]

This will okay.

[Crissle West]

This will do just fine.

[Kid Fury]

All right. They need to go ahead and give us a release date so that I can purchase my tickets. I like to get my tickets as far in advance as possible.

[Crissle West]

It might just be 20, 26 still. I don't know if it has an official release date.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, that's all. I've been searching the whole time we've been talking about it because I'm like, I need it.

[Crissle West]

That teaser was cunt. Yeah, it was cunt. It was just like, Andy was like, perfect. Miranda. I can't wait to see what this is about to give. I really. Girl, they plucked me. They got me together, honey. I was like, oh, no, movie's fine. No, no, no. The originals being all high and mighty. They were like, okay, listen, not all of the scripts are gonna give you chatgpt just off the rip. Just give us a chance. Hear us out.

[Kid Fury]

And it's not a remake. It's a sequel.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, it is a sequel.

[Kid Fury]

Important distinction. I'm excited. Yeah. Same. Not me. Trying to find as soon, and I do mean as soon as the release date is out, I will be purchasing my tickets.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Soon as they go.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, bitch needed.

[Crissle West]

Nothing can keep me from it.

[Kid Fury]

Literally there.

[Crissle West]

Brandi and Monica hit Los Angeles. Everybody was there. Beyonce was there. Jay Z was there. Kelly Rowland was there. Money long, Jamal Roberts, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Lewis. Rihanna was there to take a picture. Everybody. Everybody was there for the boy and the mind, including Brandi and Monica. So when, like, number one thing we ask him for, that's all we need both people. So that was a big thing in LA streets. Nice to see that the queen is here. She's present. She's outside. She's hugging on Kelly and her mama and things like that. That looks like lovely. Oh, speaking of Sydney Sweeney, Queen Latifah's.

[Kid Fury]

Also on the the Reliving Single podcast. Yes, I saw that notification earlier. I said, oh, bitch, I know what I'm doing tonight. Oh, and my dad looks so good.

[Crissle West]

I was about to say, your daddy is on there. Looking great.

[Kid Fury]

My dad looks amazing. Ponytail slick, sharp.

[Crissle West]

Your father was giving you class.

[Kid Fury]

I'm so obsessed. I just. Oh, man. I watched a short little clip of them, like, going through some old memories and singing.

[Crissle West]

I haven't even seen a clip yet.

[Kid Fury]

Oh. Oh, you are going to shit.

[Crissle West]

I love that show.

[Kid Fury]

It means everything. Yes, it really does. It means everything. So I'm very excited for to settle in and dedicate an hour and 30 minutes.

[Crissle West]

Popcorn.

[Kid Fury]

Living Single aged so beautifully. Like, it really did. It's literally just like there's a few little trans jokes and, you know, some stuff like that. But when you think of the early 90s, horrible Jamaican accents.

[Crissle West]

I mean, my God, when you think.

[Kid Fury]

Of how problematic the early 90s really were, this show aged incredibly well.

[Crissle West]

Sitcom writers, room work, just doing well. They were. Yeah, they were like almost every Martin, Wayne's Brothers.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, Child, like Family Matters, all them WBS shows. You can't go back half and half, girl. Even Girlfriends is like, ugh, you bitches. God damn. Like a farm we have. And Living Single has really stood the test of time. So I love that podcast and I.

[Crissle West]

Am very excited for that. A New York. Yeah, you know, black in New York of an age type of vibe. Oh, my goodness. I will never be.

[Kid Fury]

Nobody even called anybody else VF Word. It's crazy. Cause that's very New York. Y' all love that shit.

[Crissle West]

The episode where they're all going to the Club, Season 1 episode. And Khadisha, I think it's like one of the first lines in the episode. Khadijah's like, come on, we gotta go all the way to Manhattan to do so. Such and such and such. Cause, you know, they were in Brooklyn. It wasn't until I lived in New York that I was like, oh, right. Cause I didn't sell to you.

[Kid Fury]

And when cabs didn't go to black neighborhoods, so you had to get on the train. And the train in the 90s was hell as well. And it was no Uber or Lyft. If you did not have a car, then you was just going to have to spend eternity on the MTA and might have to fight somebody to journey to Manhattan. It really is a pain in the ass to switch boroughs to cross into different boroughs.

[Crissle West]

True.

[Kid Fury]

Even now, even though it's. It's a million times easier now than it would have been in, like, 1993.

[Crissle West]

Hell, if you drive, they gonna tell you $75.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah, they are. And don't be going into lower Manhattan because you getting an extra $15 feed. That high congestion fee on top of it, too, so. Well, but that has actually has helped out a lot with the traffic. So let me show that has thinned out a lot.

[Crissle West]

Rumor has it that Zendaya would like no parts of Sydney Sweeney for Euphoria's upcoming press junkets. Press weeks, I believe. The third season of Euphoria is meant to be premiering in the spring of 2026, so I suppose they're doing marketing and planning things now. Rumor has it that Zendaya, mostly due to Sydney Sweeney's political leanings and that absolutely absurd Jean's ad. My genes are bleh. Like that doja cat shit. Really?

[Kid Fury]

Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color. My genes are bleed.

[Crissle West]

Anyhow.

[Kid Fury]

Genes are passed down from parent to offspring. Like, oh, okay. Anyway, it was bad. Good for Zendaya. I love this.

[Crissle West]

So apparently Zendaya was like, just. I'm not doing that with her. I don't like her. I don't agree with her. She over here supporting Trump, sounding stupid, looking stupid.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, she looks inbred.

[Crissle West]

I just don't want to. I don't want to. I'm Zendaya. I'm Zendaya.

[Kid Fury]

So not only do I not want to, I don't have to. Like, literally no one can make me.

[Crissle West]

I'm not going to.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, I love that.

[Crissle West]

Good luck. Yeah. There's no actual comment from either one of them, and I don't expect that there will be. But don't be shocked if you never, ever see a photograph or video of these two together outside of. On that television show where they play fictional people.

[Kid Fury]

It has been so long since Euphoria's last season ended. I barely remember what the fuck is supposed to be going on.

[Crissle West]

Like, I'm probably not gonna watch it.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I don't. I don't know.

[Crissle West]

I don't really care anymore.

[Kid Fury]

I really think that's it. I think y'. All. Y' all waited too long to come back. Like, I'm. I'm about to feel the same way about P. Valley. Like, it's been too fucking longer. You. You cannot.

[Crissle West]

P Valley is trickier for me only because it would be. I would like to see what comes next. Whereas Euphoria, I don't feel like, well, what happened with it? You know what I mean? Euphoria feels like it could be done.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. What happened? The teenagers continued to do drugs and fuck around. That's what happened. Be little Shits.

[Crissle West]

If it's not going to be like a whole redemption ending trilogy type thing for Zendaya's character, then it probably won't.

[Kid Fury]

It's probably going to end tragically.

[Crissle West]

Honestly. Right.

[Kid Fury]

I don't even think. I don't think it'll be a redemption thing. I think it'll be, oh, this reminds me of a documentary I saw about fuck them different drugs that. Them painkillers, Oxy. And so they followed these different people. And one man was doing so good. So good. You just rooting for him the whole time. And then it ends with, he had a. A bad night. His partner said, no, you. You cannot stay here. That was one of the rules that he couldn't stay in the house. Anyway, long story short, he ended up outside of a motel. People was doing Oxy mess. Something else. He went in, relapsed and died. So it's like, I feel like Euphoria might do something similar where we see Ru, like really trying to get her shit together, making things better with her mom and sister, like doing all this stuff and then bam, I'm gonna break Yalls hearts and then end the show.

[Crissle West]

I would be completely acceptable of that as well because it's. It's. It's real to your point. It's a real thing that happens.

[Kid Fury]

It is.

[Crissle West]

I guess when I said redemption, I mean just kind of like redeeming the story or like the central story to me of euphoria and the character Ru.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crissle West]

And not just, oh, well, Sydney Sweeney and that other gorgeous girl fucking on the same dipshit and chasing each other out of plays and shit. Like, I don't care about that. I don't care about that. I. The thing that was strongest to me was this person's journey with drugs and family and all of those things. Her trying to eat a Jolly Rancher, not even being able to pick it up. That type of stuff to me is what was really powerful about that series. So I don't necessarily need her to them to flash forward and do some deep fake AI shit on her face where she looks 50 and is like a counselor. It could really end tragically. And I would be acceptable of that because it happened.

[Kid Fury]

It does happen.

[Crissle West]

But if you're gonna come back and be like, here are Sydney sweetie's titties and why I don't care again.

[Kid Fury]

Right. Alexa and Barbie and Maude Apatow.

[Crissle West]

I'm pretty sure she said she not coming back.

[Kid Fury]

Who?

[Crissle West]

Alexa, the one who plays Barbie.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, Barbie plays Kat.

[Crissle West]

Or. No, Barbie is her name. The one who plays Kat? Yeah, I'm pretty sure she's not coming back.

[Kid Fury]

Cause he fucked her over in the last season. Before the last season started, he had, um. Didn't he cut her out of like a bunch of episodes? Sam Levinson or like wrote her out of something?

[Crissle West]

Sounds familiar.

[Kid Fury]

Yes. See, this is what I'm saying you for. It's been too fucking long, girl. And if Zendaya don't even want to promote it with that woman, I'm doing whatever Zendaya want to do.

[Crissle West]

I mean, hello, that's really.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

Have you heard about Tim Westwood? The DJ? British DJ. He does like a lot of interviews on BBZ, Apple, BBC, Apple, music and stuff.

[Kid Fury]

No. Oh, he just goes by Westwood.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, maybe somewhere deep in the recesses of my mind, but not really.

[Crissle West]

All right, y' all just Google Tim Westwood and you can see where he's going down for.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I just did. That looks terrible.

[Crissle West]

So that's bad. Wendy Williams apparently has a neurologist that says she does not have frontotemporal dementia, but she was diagnosed with. And which has primarily been the thing keeping her under a court appointed guardianship.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crissle West]

So TMZ of course has this news and it's since floated all over the place, but according to them, there's been a new testing from a top neurologist in New York City. And yeah, they're saying that she does not have dementia, which is something that she's been saying and lots of people believe. Right. Lots of fans have been saying, we will see what, where it comes from. This, this shit is crazy now. I mean this doesn't obviously this doesn't necessarily mean that she's well enough to do daytime TV again.

[Kid Fury]

Probably not.

[Crissle West]

The stands are waiting for us, I think.

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Crissle West]

But it does sound like a very clear possible. Possible and clear confirmation that whatever they're talking about in terms of her health to keep her under lock and key and run around with her money is not the case.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, it sounds like she might just be sober because that kind of dimension doesn't get better. So it sounds like maybe she just isn't drinking like she was before or popping pills like she was before. And so all of a sudden things are looking a lot clearer. And I mean, you know, she's older obviously and. But that don't necessarily mean you need to have all the restrictions of a guardianship on you. So.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

My only concern is like is this a real neurologist or is this somebody her legal team paid to say that she don't have it? That's my only question. I would think the court would appoint a neurologist to do that sort of testing. But yeah, we'll see.

[Crissle West]

We will see what comes from that.

[Kid Fury]

Same way Stephan Diggs, baby mama's lawyer, said that the paternity test said that that's his child.

[Crissle West]

And it's like, but from paternity test from where?

[Kid Fury]

The paternity test that was court ordered back in June cause she been trying to get child support. And he finally responded and was like, but first we need a paternity test. And so her, one of the girls lawyer was like, well we can confirm now that the paternity test has been completed that Mr. Diggs is the father. And we were hoping, we are hoping that now he'll come up off of them dollars and cents like he's supposed to. But you know, again, that's coming from her attorney.

[Crissle West]

Right?

[Kid Fury]

We'll see what the court says.

[Crissle West]

You see, why I just be like. I think I mentioned a week or so ago, somebody was like, ooh, I can't wait to hear what the regal say about this. Because it's like two. Like, two. Three more baby mamas come up. And I googled it. And I was like, I'm not seeing anything here worth talking about. I'm seeing a clip from a woman who's saying, stefon Diggs is my baby mama. I mean, my baby daddy. But I could do that.

[Kid Fury]

So, like, well, this one is on E. Page six. Hollywood, whatever. Access Hollywood. This one is all over the more reputable, reputable websites.

[Crissle West]

So, yeah, I mean, but what is what's on e's page when they're talking about it? Vex or the same thing that I'm talking about, like, the right video of this girl going like, oh, I. I am mommy.

[Kid Fury]

Right? Which brings me back to. Whose neurologist is this exactly? Cause, I mean, I would love to hear that Wendy don't have, you know, dementia. Not that I was some. I think she has made a lot of enemies, and rightfully so, for the things that she has said. Like, there's a lot of people with forever beef with her for very good reasons, but I don't want to. You know, I don't want her to go out like that, especially after the way that man played her so bad. And so, like, that shit was so embarrassing. I can't even imagine the toll that that takes. So, yeah, I want her to be sober and good and live out her golden years happy and without people all on her dick about whatever she got going on.

[Crissle West]

Clarissa Shields was rumored this past week to have announced her engagement to rapper Papoose. Girl, when I scroll past that, I found that interesting because I'm not sure that his divorce is finalized, but it might be. I really don't know or care either way. Clarissa later clarified that it is not the case. Papoose did not propose to her. In the video that y' all posted of her showing off an engagement ring was from her last relationship where she was engaged.

[Kid Fury]

Okay?

[Crissle West]

So she said, Pat Poos has not proposed yet. Yet in all caps, I'm like, okay, well, you like it? I love it, y'. All. But there you go, an update from them two niggas.

[Kid Fury]

This girl, you just too young and too successful to be this dedicated to Papoose of all niggas. Like, I'm. I would love for you to sit down with a Therapist somewhere and dig into why you even want this nigga. Cause you 30 and he 47. I already am confused, but okay, girl, this is your life. If that's what you want for yourself. Who are me, Go for it.

[Crissle West]

You know what? Sometimes you just have to finally be over it. Summer Walker's new album, finally over it. Is trying to say.

[Kid Fury]

I tried. Absolutely not. Absolutely not.

[Crissle West]

There was just a couple of threads.

[Kid Fury]

There was some threads. No, you forced that to work.

[Crissle West]

No, I'm just saying Clarissa has to be just finally over it. Like, you have to get to a day or you're just like, oh, yeah, I have to do better. And it's also the name of Summer Walker.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, all right, I'm going to just let you have it. Wicked.

[Crissle West]

So, first of all, have you seen the COVID of Summer Walker's album?

[Kid Fury]

I. I think I have.

[Crissle West]

With the hat with her in this wedding dress. Oh, dead man.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, and that. Oh, wait, is he dead? I thought he was just old.

[Crissle West]

No, I'm just joking. I did see, he looked like the granny in an episode. The chocolate episode of spongebob. You know what I'm talking about?

[Kid Fury]

The granny in the wheelchair. No, I. My first thought when I saw that photo was Anna Nicole and that old ass man she married. Remember that?

[Crissle West]

That's probably the reference.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I mean, it's quite literally what it's given. She was 26 and he was 89. Yuck. J. Howard Marshall II. That's what his name got. And he looked ready for the grave. Then. Whoever this actor is, I know he was like, y' all want me to do a white. What a fuck would I get a white suit? Oh, Summer.

[Crissle West]

So she posted. I guess this is like the. It's not a track list, but it's like a list of people features on the album, but it's kind of stylized, like a wedding invitation. So I was just finally over it. Please find your seat. I haven't looked at this yet. I wanted to read it live on the thing.

[Kid Fury]

Okay. Okay.

[Crissle West]

Five tables with, like, five people each. Table one has Jeremiah, Lil Yachty, 1985. Jean Baptiste, Terrace Martin, 1985.

[Kid Fury]

The band.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. 19 the word and then 85 the number. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So the band. Okay.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crissle West]

All right, table two has Troy Taylor, Brian Michael Cox, the dream cook, Harold Aunt Clemens. So these. Some of these are producers for sure.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Probably writers. Okay, table three. Montel Fish, Anderson Pac, Anderson Paak Sailor. I'm sorry.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crissle West]

I told you I didn't reap it.

[Kid Fury]

You did not. That's fine.

[Crissle West]

Glorilla allegedly Sexy Red. Table 4 has Lotto. Bryson Tiller, Teddy Swims, Christopher Brown. Oh, they did just go on tour together. I mean, she open for him.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

21 Savage Dos Diaz. I'm familiar with that person. Okay, table five, we're almost done. Mariah the Scientist Brent. FYA's Nene leaks.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, y' all say any fucking thing.

[Crissle West]

Is this Nyjah, Slim Wave, and Mona Leo. All right, so there's a lot going on.

[Kid Fury]

It is.

[Crissle West]

A lot going on. Anything stick out to you here?

[Kid Fury]

Well, I'm hearing any of this. I think I found the track listing, and it looks like Mona Leo, Sexyy Red, and Glorilla are all on the same song. And it looks like it's two disks. Discs. One is for better and the other one is for worse, which is actually pretty clever.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, it is.

[Kid Fury]

But I. I know for a fact I'm not gonna want to hear Mariah the Scientist, Chris Brown. I do like Teddy swims and Brent FIAs.

[Crissle West]

Big white man.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I do like his voice, but I don't know. The thing about Summer's music is that it's real hit or miss for me. Like, I can identify when I. It's a good song. But I'm also. Maybe it's that her music up until this point has been about Nabin shit n Raggedy N. Say this, niggas, blah, blah, blah. And it's like, I do. It gets to a point where it's like, all right, so when do we grow up and get strict and stop letting niggas play us like this? Like, especially when we just continue to reproduce. Like, don't she have three or four kids at this point? Like, it's. At what point do we say, okay, that's enough. I'm not acting like this no more. So maybe that is what this album is. But I don't know. Some of these songs. Scars robbed you. No. 1, 800. Heartbreak heart of a Woman. Which. Okay. Situationship House Swag.

[Crissle West]

I have, like, two thoughts on that. Right. On what you're saying. Because I agree.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crissle West]

I think it doesn't help what you're talking about. It doesn't help when your real life with fuck niggas is out on the streets, in the streets every day. Cause if it was just like, personally, we don't know much about Summer Walker's love life or personal life, but each of her albums is what the albums are. You might still go like, okay, girl, can I get some variety on the other side of that, I think some artists, especially female Singers who rise to fame with an album that is heavily about fuck niggas and heartbreak. I should have left your ass a thousand times. It's, like, hard to then go back and make something like Soft Life or whatever and be like, oh, have you ever smelled a flower? Cause the girlies will really be like, why is this bitch happy? Like, they do it all the time.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

So I agree with you because I'm like, I've seen so much that is attached. Like, I've listened to these songs and hearing you talk about a nigga and his mama. And I know the exact nigga and mama.

[Kid Fury]

Right, Right.

[Crissle West]

It does get to a point.

[Kid Fury]

It does. It gets there.

[Crissle West]

But I'm sure it is also tricky to get mixy with certain things. Not to say that you can't do a certain thing, but I think that you can get boxed in very easily.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

And you gotta work.

[Kid Fury]

I think she is. She's Gen Z's version of Keisha Cole 1000. Cause when you said, you know, you kind of get stuck in a certain sound and people don't. It gets. It's like, it's. Well, I won't argue that, but I don't know that Keisha has ever had a hit that wasn't about how niggas ain't shit or longing, pining, yearning.

[Crissle West]

I was about to sing one, and it absolutely is.

[Kid Fury]

It's about a nigga. Right. Somehow, some way. So you need.

[Crissle West]

Again, if you don't wanna. And I was like, oh, oh.

[Kid Fury]

Right there in the lyrics in that very first line. It was like, if y' all took Yalls own advice on these songs, you would not keep making these albums. Like, how are you even talking about your life? Or are you just making music? I don't even. That's up to you what you want to do. But, yeah, that's. It just. It's like, I can take some of that. But it do get to a point with me where I'm like, all right, let's talk about something else.

[Crissle West]

Seeing if Keisha Cole and niggas Antonio Brown just got out of jail. Keshe going. Antonio Brown used to go together. I don't know if he ever publicly claimed her, but she got a tattoo of him, and I think she covered it up later because she got tired of him acting like he didn't know who she was.

[Kid Fury]

Why was Antonio Brown in Jimmy you. I don't. Girl, you skipped right over what mattered and started talking about Summer Walker. Why?

[Crissle West]

I want to have fun with my ridiculous transition game. Okay, so the fuck what had happened was. This is ridiculous. This story is kind of wild and I'm. I'm hoping that I get it. So Antonio Brown, apparently back in May, he was somewhere in Miami Dade county at a celebrity boxing match.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, I've heard enough. Put together.

[Crissle West]

Right. Put together by Aiden Ross, which I don't know.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, gross.

[Crissle West]

You niggas need to stop going around that young man.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. Anyway, the fits.

[Crissle West]

He apparently got into some sort of a dispute altercation with people outside of the establishment that was over allegedly stolen jewelry. Now, Antonio, after the incident in May of this year, claims that he was jumped outside of the function because. And that, you know, niggas tried to. To. To steal his jewelry. He said, okay. He said on the Twitter regarding the boxing event that happened last night, I was jumped by multiple individuals who tried to steal my jewelry and cause physical harm to me. Contrary to some video circulating, police temporarily detained me until they received my side of the story and then released me. I went home that night and was not arrested.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, okay.

[Crissle West]

That's his side. The other side that we'll call reality before we get to the third one.

[Kid Fury]

All right.

[Crissle West]

The other side. On that other side, Antonio went missing for four months. Because when the police spoke to the victim in this case, one Zul Kar Karnin Nantambu, I probably butchered that. Forgive me, but that person alleges that Antonio was accusing them of stealing jewelry. They got into an argument and that a gun was pulled out. Uh oh, shots were fired. Which was confirmed. Shots did ring out during the situation. People can attest to that. Antonio obviously just claimed he had nothing to do with it. But this person claims that Antonio absolutely did have something to do with it. Cause he's the one who did the shooting and that a bullet even grazed his neck. The victim says.

[Kid Fury]

Oh.

[Crissle West]

So police, I guess between that and video evidence and stuff were like, baby, get that ass out of here. Come on.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Crissle West]

Could not find the bitch. Turns out he was in fucking Dubai. He was in the UAE for four months doing what the girly said that he was on the run. Now, I wouldn't call it on the run. It seems like he was just there. Like it sounds like he maybe has a place there or knows people to keep him up there. I don't know.

[Kid Fury]

Not avoiding the cops. Cause that's what it sounded like to me, 1000%.

[Crissle West]

So the girlies found him.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Extradited his very black ass back over to the United States. What, to New York, I think.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crissle West]

Down to Broward locked his ass up for attempted murder.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, my God.

[Crissle West]

I think since then, he was bailed out, and now he's on house arrest until trial. And the district judge or whatever, they're like, I wish this bitch would fart offbeat.

[Kid Fury]

Okay?

[Crissle West]

And I'm sending him to the. So the other thing I found interesting was that apparently the victim. The incident of the stolen jewelry took place in Dubai. So you saw somebody in Miami at this boxing event and accused him of stealing your jewelry in Dubai. Allegedly shot at him, went to Dubai.

[Kid Fury]

All right.

[Crissle West]

They came and got you from Dubai because it took them four months to.

[Kid Fury]

Find you to figure out where you were at. Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Locked you up.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crissle West]

And now you got an ankle monitor on until they figure out what to do with. I read all this this morning.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crissle West]

I think I'm.

[Kid Fury]

So if it was as innocent as he said it would be, no reason to flee to Dubai for four months.

[Crissle West]

Why would you do that?

[Kid Fury]

But Antonio Brown is not in his right mind, and he hasn't been for years and years. So I'm really. Thank God it's just attempted murder. Because when you said shots and grazing necks, I'm like, oh, so somebody. The bullet grazed one person, but did it hit the next? Like, okay. Oh, well, all right. We'll see how that goes. But that nigga, he does need some help and has needed some help for years. It's been domestic violence stuff and attacking a driver, a truck driver or something like he has.

[Crissle West]

It doesn't sound out of character.

[Kid Fury]

It does. Not at all. That's why I'm like, he was in jail for what? Exactly. You could have said just about anything, and I would have believed you because that's how unhinged he is. But wait.

[Crissle West]

Supreme Court Judge Mindy Glaser said.

[Kid Fury]

Glaser.

[Crissle West]

He had a passport. He no longer has a passport. He'll be living at his home right near my office in Broward County. Right near my home. And we'll be working zealously on his case. She's not playing with his hair.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, good. Cause you need some help, like you really, really do. And the court ordered is not always the most efficient, but somebody gotta do that.

[Crissle West]

Cause you shot this person in his neck.

[Kid Fury]

And Right. Suppose you actually killed him.

[Crissle West]

Maybe that's why you fled. Maybe you thought you did.

[Kid Fury]

He was like, damn, y' all came and got me for attempted murder. That's crazy. I feel like y' all could have.

[Crissle West]

Let that go, right? No, literally.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, God. Okay, well, so I guess. Right.

[Crissle West]

Streets have been speaking endlessly about Sean Combs, who is currently at Fort Dix, locked up for the things. A recent mug shot came out of him looking like he took the picture and then said, what's up? Like, he looks exactly like Snake Wiener. And so the Internet had a lot of fun with that, I believe. I'm like, he's what, 56? I think he in jail. He's gray. He's gray. I mean, he's. He's aging, right?

[Kid Fury]

Um.

[Crissle West]

So I was. I don't know, I think I was on here editing something or what? And a notification comes across. I gotta turn these things off. It's everything from, like, real news to Sean Diddy Combs caught drinking hooch.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, turn those off. You're out of it.

[Crissle West]

I'm like, okay, no, you. I don't need that.

[Kid Fury]

I don't need this delivered direct to my phone. Like, this can wait. This can wait.

[Crissle West]

It's funny. I laughed, but I didn't need to see her.

[Kid Fury]

Of course he's breaking rules. Like, this is.

[Crissle West]

Duh.

[Kid Fury]

This is exactly what anybody could have predicted. Of course he is.

[Crissle West]

I think that they wiped that one away. Like, they were kind of giving, like, oh, prove it. Like, it was kind of like no one saw it. Like, what are you talking about? Apparently he's working as. He's working in a chapel at Fort Fort Dixon.

[Kid Fury]

Okay. Y' all do anything.

[Crissle West]

He's working as a chaplain's assistant, which is wild because the benefits are insane. I loved this part. I read on CBS News chaplains can allow their assistance to prepare a call out list which tells officers which inmates are allowed to leave their cell to go to programs.

[Kid Fury]

What.

[Crissle West]

Assistants could add their connections or friends to the list. So remember when we were talking, I think, last week about how he was like, yeah, when I get out of here because of Trump, I'm gonna get each one of you. N. Wait, what you want? You want a rover? So he might already be hitting on that type of shit. What you need some benzos? What you need?

[Kid Fury]

Okay, this is the problem with the super wealthy. The. The rules literally don't apply to them. Because the only reason he's able to get away with any of this or walk in and be like, if it. If being a chaplain's assistant comes with that much power within the prison, you would think that they give it to somebody who've been there for a while.

[Crissle West]

Thank you.

[Kid Fury]

Has proven themselves, don't have a whole bunch of violations for sneaking in nail files and. But he can get away with this shit because whoever is in Charge not the other inmates, but the CEO, CEOs, the CEOs and the warden and whoever else those people are allowing him to be treated differently. The people who are supposed to be enforcing the same rules for everybody are, are making an exemption for this nigga. It's the, it is what fame does to people, what extreme wealth does to people. It makes you go outside of what you know is right to do. And now look at this nigga. Just in jail, running shit, having a good time.

[Crissle West]

He also broke or got flagged for allegedly breaking some rule about phones. Like, of course he has inmates aren't allowed to make, which, I mean, that's not even like super special treatment. Like there are inmates across the country who are permitted a specific type of phone. But again, to the point that you just made, it's not like you just rack up a charge in prison for two weeks and get a Motorola razor. That's not, that's not, I don't believe that's the function. But either way they're not allowed to make three person calls. And he violated that rule and then later claimed that it was because he was in like a conversation with his legal team about issuing a statement to the New York Times. But then, you know, so they wave that, of course. According to documents, CBS News says he called an unnamed woman. And about halfway through their call, Combs said he needed to talk with someone described as the digital person regarding blogs. The woman asked Combs if she should add that person on the call, and he said yes. Combs first spoke briefly with the woman about arranging visitors for the weekend and suggesting they bring cash, 200 singles. There is no indication as to how he intended to use the money. Prison regulations bar visitors from bringing in courtesy other than coins for the vending machines. Yeah, and they finished speaking about. After they finished speaking about visitation, the woman added an unknown male to the call, circumventing prison rules. Combs later explained that he was speaking with his attorney and she added the head of legal communications to work on a statement for his approval to be sent to the Times. So it's like he is just kind of, it gives, he's doing what he wants to do and then being like, oh yeah, no, I, you know, had to go to the bathroom. And I'm like, oh, okay, we don't.

[Kid Fury]

Care who you were talking to. You can't be on three way calls, period. And if you were talking to your attorney or attorneys, shouldn't them be the main two bitches to know that if you asked your attorney to add Somebody in and turn this into a three way call. Wouldn't your attorney be the one to say, sean, I cannot do that. That is against the law. And every phone call, especially yours, is being recorded and monitored. So no, I'm not finna break the conditions of you. Like, this is why the whole sentence was a fucking joke. Because look at what he's able to do in there. Like, is he even having a bad time? Is he even sad?

[Crissle West]

The source added that inmates run the risk of getting caught. But no, corrections officers can't truly monitor the thousands of calls taking place within federal prisons daily. There are over 4,100 inmates at Fort Dix alone. So yes, it's, I'm diddy, I'm having a blast. This is basically like the ymca. And then on top of that, catch me if you can. Yeah, it's hilarious.

[Kid Fury]

There can be 4,100 calls a day. They gon listen to yours because of who you are.

[Crissle West]

Why don't you? Why wouldn't they?

[Kid Fury]

Like, but clearly somebody is letting him.

[Crissle West]

Young thug taught you nothing.

[Kid Fury]

This is a totally different situation. I don't, I legit. Don't even think that nigga is depressed in there. He probably having a good time.

[Crissle West]

I mean, they see you seen pictures of him out on the yard cheesing and shit, looking like, I don't like that.

[Kid Fury]

You supposed to be sad in prison. You not supposed to be having fun. You supposed to be sad. Especially when you first get there.

[Crissle West]

You should at least be uncomfortable. Prison is not supposed to be like, oh yeah, I'm vibing. Call neighborhood talk for me real quick, right?

[Kid Fury]

Arrange it.

[Crissle West]

Tell them I'm working on a Beijing. I can't get the person down here. Just this week I had to re. You know what I'm saying? Like, and also call Nike. Give me some socks. Like, prison is prison. He's not supposed to be having a blast.

[Kid Fury]

He don't even care to pretend to be humiliated or humbled by this. He in there bragging about getting out in a few months and bribing cos with whatever the fuck they want to, to get whatever he wants. Like, he just, he's in there having fun, just having a good time.

[Crissle West]

And it is. What's frustrating about that for me is that most people in prison are sad or broken.

[Kid Fury]

Right?

[Crissle West]

Because prison is horrible. It's supposed to break and it is often corrupt.

[Kid Fury]

Correct.

[Crissle West]

So the fact that you have been there for like 12 days and are Skyping bloggers is crazy.

[Kid Fury]

Right? The first few months, you supposed to be like, man, I can't believe this. I can't believe this. No, man. Appeal, appeal, appeal. This is crazy. Like, are you supposed to have a rough time with your freedoms being taken away? But see, when your freedoms don't really get taken away, when you can go behind bars and still live. Not your same life, obviously, but you not living like these niggas are, you would be depressed if they was treating you like inmate six nine eight Z fifty three. Nine. Like, you would be way. You would be ready to throw up if you was getting treated like that. Nigga.

[Crissle West]

I can't. But I'm not surprised. I'm just like, okay, first it was hooch. It's like, okay, I can't wait to hear what other dumbass shit it's not gonna stop. Let me tell you something. I know it's not, but I'm. It's almost like, okay, where's Medea going next? It's like, cosmil, space is time. Like, yeah, we'll see what happens.

[Kid Fury]

Okay. Yeah.

[Crissle West]

That's it for pop culture hot tops this week. We're going to take a break and come back with your letters. Hey, guys. This episode is brought to you by Squarespace. Squarespace is the all in one website platform designed to help your business stand out and succeed online. Every dream needs a domain. It's a thing, girl. Squarespace domains make it easy to find the best name for your business at one fair, all inclusive price without hidden fees or add ons required. And with Squarespace collection of cutting edge design tools, anyone can build a beautiful professional online presence that perfectly fits their brand or business. I've used it quite a few times for a few different websites and it truly is incredibly easy going from the old days living in my own house, learning HTML and coding. So I just put a blog spot page up together that look half decent. And going from this, which is essentially click, click. Oh, do you have a photograph? Oh, that's fine. We can give you one. It's just, it's so easy and quick. So if you're Interested, head to squarespace.com theread for a free trial. And when you're ready to launch, use offer code theread1word to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or a domain. Let them know we sent you. Let's get back to the show. Hey guys, listen. Sometimes keeping tabs on your finances and trying to make progress can be a bit of a headache. A lot of smaller things and little details that can become overwhelming, especially if you've got an overactive brain. Like myself, missed payments, overdraft fees, whatever. Chime understands that every dollar counts. And that's why when you set up direct deposit through Chime, you get access to free fee free features like free overdraft coverage, getting paid up to two days early with direct deposit and more. Not to mention access to over 47,000 fee free ATMs. Work on your financial goals through Chime today. Open an account in two [e-mail] the read that's chime.com theread Chime feels like progress. Chime is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services and debit card provided by the Bancorp Bank NA or Stride Bank NA members. FDIC spot me Eligibility requirements and overdraft limits apply. Timing depends on submission of payment file fees apply at out of network ATMs. Bank ranking and number of ATMs. According to US News and World Report, 2023 time checking account required. Okay, we're back. It's time for your listener letters.

[Kid Fury]

Indeed. Send your questions to askthereadmail.com we may read them aloud on the show. We do have an update this week from Tyler the mailman who fell for the straight guy and was like, what should I do? And Tyler said, thank you for the advice. When I heard y' all read my email, I almost passed out. I listen to you guys on my route every episode. Anyways, after hearing your advice, I've decided to reach out to my old therapist to see if I can address why I always seem to attract people who are emotionally unavailable or I have to work extra hard to get things to work. You're right. I've never interacted with a straight man before. Really? So the attention and friendship definitely was a new feeling. And I think I took things the wrong way. Thank you for saving me from another embarrassment. I still have a bit of hope that we'll somehow find each other again, but I'm not holding my breath. I'm gonna. I'm gonna give the boys a break and focus on raising my standards. Thanks again, Tyler. Love to hear it, Tyler. That's a great plan. Pursuing straights, it just.

[Crissle West]

This is just never the way.

[Kid Fury]

It's just always a bad idea. Ask Melissa.

[Crissle West]

The Eye of Sauron. Don't even look into it.

[Kid Fury]

All right, Good luck to you, babe. We have a quick letter here from Brianne who says, I love y' all so much. I was listening to y' all talk about Offset at Mad Men, and I have to know, what's your dispensary order? Do you usually get concentrate or flour what kind of edibles? Any tincture. Let us know, please. Thanks, Brie.

[Crissle West]

You kind of did yours.

[Kid Fury]

I was gonna say, when I was rattling that off. That was my legit order.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

I don't smoke or vape anymore. Smoking is just really hell on your lungs. And vaping just don't really hit the way I need it to. But edibles and tinctures, that's my shit.

[Crissle West]

So you put me on the tinctures.

[Kid Fury]

And I've never bought a tincture. The ones I make at home. Yeah, they are. They have put. Everybody. Everybody has a story of when they took my tinctures.

[Crissle West]

My ass. And it's in a coffee.

[Kid Fury]

Yes.

[Crissle West]

And there's so many little things you could just. Oh, let me.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

And next thing you know.

[Kid Fury]

And the next thing you know, the worst one will always be poor Lili. She passed out and missed the Beyonce concert.

[Crissle West]

God damn.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, she missed. I think it was. Was it Formation? I think it was the Formation World tour in New Orleans. Lily slept right through that child. But I don't really do so much with the tinctures anymore. But I do love edibles. The lost farms, the Caminos, the pro tabs that I talked about. Usually sativa, but I do have a couple of indica and hybrids for when it's time to wind down and go to sleep. But yeah, I. That's. That's me. That's what I'm doing at the. At the Med Men and other places.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, me, I duvate same. I had to stop smoking for also lungs and also. I just think I had like a specific allergy to. Remember I moved to New York and I was sick every month. Like I had a cold. It was from smoking. Oh. And so that'll do it. I do vape because I still just enjoy the. It does not hit the same as smoking, but I just enjoy the calming practice of the inhale out, exhale thing. So I will do like heavy hitters Carvana Raw Garden. And there's a brand out here called. I want to say it's called Cold Fire Extracts. That is amazing. And then I also really do love edibles. Edibles will get you will get me together. They're like. I do like them when I'm having like a day. Like, if I'm like, oh, today I'm. I don't know, I'm going to the beach, I'm going to go hiking or I'm going to go to the movies and then go shopping. Maybe I would like take an edible. Just if I'm Like, I have a fun day or even just relaxing.

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Crissle West]

I find that. And it's same brand. I think, that you just mentioned Camino. Almost anyone. Y' all doing beautiful, beautiful things. Is it jalapeno pineapple?

[Kid Fury]

Ooh, what's the jalapeno pineapple? Habanero.

[Crissle West]

Habanero, yes. That one. And Lost Farm, too. Lost Farm, too.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. I love edibles because they are the easiest to smuggle wherever you want to go.

[Crissle West]

Oh, true.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, anywhere. You can take them hoes on a plane. You can take them in places that don't allow weed and are super strict about it. Like, you can take edibles anywhere. And it's especially the little tabs that just look like regular ass pills.

[Crissle West]

They don't even tablets.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, but I took a. I took a bunch of edibles on a cruise because you can just put gummies in, like, some other bag of gummies, like Starburst gummies or whatever. You can just replace that, which are. And bam. Like, you can. You can just.

[Crissle West]

And the Lost Farms are like Starburst.

[Kid Fury]

And the Lost Farms are like Starbucks. It's too easy.

[Crissle West]

It's very easy.

[Kid Fury]

So.

[Crissle West]

I mean, crime is so bad, right?

[Kid Fury]

Well, I. Listen, I said. I said before this. Not that I don't break the law. I'm not above breaking the law, but it depend on which law and for what reason.

[Crissle West]

Hello.

[Kid Fury]

But, yeah, edibles are great. Nothing is. If smoking didn't rip your lungs and open you up to illnesses and stuff, bitch, I would be smoking.

[Crissle West]

Preach God's word.

[Kid Fury]

I just can't do it no more at this point in my life. But I. You know, we'll put one in the air.

[Crissle West]

Have you seen that video? Or that clip of Kaytronado was playing somewhere and Sizzle was next to him, and she's smoking a blunt or a gravel or something like that, and K Trauda's DJs. And he turns to her and he's like, can I hit that? Like, basically like, can I hit that shit? I was like, yeah. And she gave it to him, and he's already spoken, and. And everybody with the caption was like, dream, blunt rotation.

[Kid Fury]

I love that.

[Crissle West]

Ugh. There are some imaginary blunt rotations where I was like, if I was in this room, I'm gonna hit it, and I'm just gonna go home, drink a bunch of tea. I'm just gonna get prepared. Mucinek. If I didn't have to deal with the health outcomes of it.

[Kid Fury]

I mean. Yeah, that's really. I mean, even before COVID I rarely shared blunts because you always get sick. I would literally roll one for me and then roll one for the niggas to share. But, like, I'm not passive. But then after 2020, that really got shut down and I have not shared. I mean, it would have to be Beyonce for me to share a blunt.

[Crissle West]

At this point, but oh my God, smoking a bottle with Beyonce would be.

[Kid Fury]

She probably got some new shit she do where it's like you just go in and inhale and the weed is just there. It's just in the walls of the room or some shit. Like, that bitch is doing something the rest of us can't even conceptualize.

[Crissle West]

It's like those misspans at like Six Flags and Shit at Disney World where it's hot. Spray with thc, I'm done.

[Kid Fury]

You just walk into this temperature controlled environment, control controlled room, and random bursts of weed just are infused on your skin and shit. I know she is. I know she doing something fun like that, but yeah. Yeah. So that's what we get at the dispensary. Thanks, Brianne. Our next letter comes from since. Since we're talking about Beyonce from Kelly. And Kelly says hi. Kiffearing Crystal. As a longtime Beyonce fan and hair care fanatic, I don't play about my sacred. Y' all both know how good those products are and how much they cost. My roommate is aware as well, but her black ass still had the nerve to use my sacred without asking. I clocked it because I keep them in a very specific place in the bathroom and they had been moved. My hair is in braids, so I knew for a fact it wasn't me. Yeah, she was going to wash her hair the night before and mentioned how dry and matted her hair had been. And I said, that's probably cause of the products you use.

[Crissle West]

No, you didn't, you bitch.

[Kid Fury]

And I said, it's probably your products that are drying it out.

[Crissle West]

She was trying to help.

[Kid Fury]

When I asked her about it, she confessed and said she only used a little of the sacred and only dipped her finger in it, but it was the conditioner bottle and you can't dip your finger in that. Which makes me about to say what? Which makes me feel like she also used something other than the conditioner. She also admitted to using it one other time just to detangle her hair. The irony is that if she would have just asked me, I probably would have said yes. She said that since I said her products were probably drying her hair out, she figured it was okay to Use my stuff. And because I told her she could use it once over six months ago because her hair was really matted, she.

[Crissle West]

Probably used the deep conditioner or the mask.

[Kid Fury]

Right. Because. What you mean dip your finger in it?

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

She also said that since she has sisters, she felt like it was okay because they always share everything without asking. This girl and I went to college together over eight years ago and we've been cool. But living with her has made me realize I don't like a lot of things about how she lives and how she operates.

[Crissle West]

That's living with someone, babe.

[Kid Fury]

My question is, should I request for her to pay me for the travel size of sacred since I can't be sure how much of this she used to. Honestly, I'm pretty proud of how cute I kept it when I pressed her for it. But I want to know yalls take on the situation. Please let me know how y' all would handle it and if I should go off on her. Thankfully, I'm moving out at the end of the month and won't have to deal with her anymore. Thanks, Kelly.

[Crissle West]

Me and McCarran together. She cool.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, or at least she was.

[Crissle West]

Whatever.

[Kid Fury]

Then that bitch started using my $50 conditioner.

[Crissle West]

So I would not charge her for an estimated amount of product from one of these bottles. No, I would not do that. Kelly, although I completely understand and identify with your festivities.

[Kid Fury]

I do.

[Crissle West]

I would not react this strongly. I gagged at the. Like, I knew somebody did it because the bottles had been moved.

[Kid Fury]

Because the bottle had been moved. Right, Right.

[Crissle West]

Two centimeters to the left. I don't play. My hair was braided and it was not wash day. And so, like, I'm listening to that. And I know Covid when I grew my hair out was the longest my hair has ever been in my life. So for people who have longer hair and care about it. Black women, femmes.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, of course.

[Crissle West]

Like, I completely. I don't, you know, I can't empathize really. But I understand. Like, it's a lot of work. Sometimes it is a day's work.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

To get this hair together. I'm going to be very particular about these very expensive. Because even if it wasn't a product that I love made by someone super famous or whatever, if it was Pollyann products, cosmetics from wherever the fudge, it's mine and it's probably still expensive.

[Kid Fury]

If it was suave, it's my suave girl.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. But sacred, given the fact that it's sacred, given the fact that you and I have talked about Your hair and hair products and you needing new products and things like that. It is wildly disrespectful for you to use my product without asking me or even use my product and then say afterwards, hey, I use a little bit of your sacred. Is that okay? Do you want me to. I can venue you, whatever. You just using my stuff.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

And not saying anything to me is not okay. That's what I would say. I wouldn't be like, so it's about 14.75 ounces now. If X and Y. Like, I'm not going to do all that.

[Kid Fury]

Right. Calculating.

[Crissle West]

I would say the same. And it sounds like this. Your frustration is exacerbated by the fact that there are several things about living with this person that annoy you.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

So yeah, I think I would approach it the same way. Roommates put their name on a Heinz bottle or a Chick Fil A sauce or whatever the fuck. Sometimes it get to that point.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

And it probably has gotten to. It's gotten to that point here. I'm not going to charge you anything, but I definitely would be like, girl, either do not use my products, full stop. Or let this be the last time you use my products and don't send it to me.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Or ask my permission. Blah, blah, blah.

[Kid Fury]

I agree this. I had to look it up. A travel size of the conditioners is $16. And I just don't especially. Right. Not cheap. Like, we could go ahead and say it. The full size is probably two or three times what most people are paying for shampoo and conditioner. But I agree with you and I think you really brought up a great point as far as, like, if everything else was so great and you just love this, this living situation, her using your sacred will be a lot less annoying. But she does a lot of shit that gets on your nerves. So this is like, this is really the proverbial straw. Right. But since you're moving out, I don't think it's worth like, you're moving out in a few weeks, girl, I don't think it's worth it to be like, and I'm finna send you a Venmo request for my $16 worth of conditioner.

[Crissle West]

That's pretty petty as fuck.

[Kid Fury]

I get it. I get it. Like, I live alone for so many reasons, but if somebody used my sacred, I would also be pissed. And especially, don't let it be them drops. Don't let it be that tiny ass bottle of drops. That's 60 fucking dollars.

[Crissle West]

Matter of fact, let me re up Real quick.

[Kid Fury]

And people be, oh, let me tell you, the saddest shit I see on TikTok is when moms are like, it was a little too quiet. Came in here and this child done dumped all the drops out. And now I'm trying to like, oh, hell no.

[Crissle West]

That sounds awful, right?

[Kid Fury]

And you can't even get rid of your kid for that. Like, you have to. You have to still keep your kid. Like, you can't even. I thought you were gonna say, you.

[Crissle West]

Can'T even get mad.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, no, you can't get rid of them. You can't be like, all right, that's enough. Out of my house. Like, you have to get out.

[Crissle West]

Oh, you have to get out.

[Kid Fury]

You have to.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, no, I don't know where you're going either.

[Kid Fury]

I love them even when they do stuff like that.

[Crissle West]

Yikes.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, I get it. Cause Lainey broke my computer and I had to. I still love her.

[Crissle West]

I'm still gagged that she bit that shit while you were speaking. She's fucking rude on a business.

[Kid Fury]

Like.

[Crissle West]

Like, we're done. We're done here.

[Kid Fury]

She's so annoying.

[Crissle West]

But I forgot they have candles now. Yeah, you know, I'm getting that candle.

[Kid Fury]

It's all. It's all shout out to Dr. Carey. But, yeah, she pissed you off real bad with the sacred. But she. It sound like she stay pissing you off. So, yeah, I think moving out is enough of. Get back here. And if you don't want her to use no more, if it's something you really don't want her to use, just keep it in your room. It's a damn shame that you have to do that. Cause it's not like, you know, y' all are not in college. This is not one of them dorms where everybody on the floor shares the same bathroom, so you gotta bring your toiletries in and out. Like, you should not have to do that. But I mean, sacred. Sacred. I understand feeling like this shit is too expensive to share.

[Crissle West]

I do, too.

[Kid Fury]

Like, you gonna have to. Have to give me $20 or something if you trying to do a full wash day, which this shit is high.

[Crissle West]

So that's what I'm saying. At the very least, out of respect, it's like, hey, may I use this? I can run you X amount of money for it or even just.

[Kid Fury]

Can I use it? You could just ask yes. And then let me say, well, I don't have that much left. Can you give me a little. Put in a little bit on the next bottle so I can order it now and it can be here in time for me to wash my hair or whatever. Or no. Or you could just say no, right?

[Crissle West]

Or no.

[Kid Fury]

Because.

[Crissle West]

But you not giving me that opportunity and then trying to do what? Play like you didn't use my expensive celebrity fantastic hair products that I'm obsessed with.

[Kid Fury]

Right. Plus second, sacred makes the bathroom smell like sacred. Unless you use something that has a stronger scent and it smells incredible. But, like, if I walk in the bathroom after your shower and I smell sacred, I'm going to smell an ass whooping on you next.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, I'm gonna smell blood too.

[Kid Fury]

Oh. But, yeah, let this go and just move out and consider the lesson learned, babe. Best of luck. Let's see here.

[Crissle West]

Well, I love these products.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, no, same, same. That Blue Ivy protection collection. Oh, my God, it was so clutch when I had my twist.

[Crissle West]

Did you see the management hoodie?

[Kid Fury]

Yes. And I said, I am not. I. I literally am not going to buy that.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, I'm not gonna go.

[Kid Fury]

I'm not buying that. Beyonce. But that is. I mean, we. She simply is in charge over there. She's.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, it's just the facts important.

[Kid Fury]

And we've been saying this about her, how she. Is she 13? We've been saying it for 13 years. So. Yes. Our next letter. Oh, God. Comes from Natalie. And Natalie says, hi, guys. Love y' all so much. I've been listening for a minute. Hope you and your doggies are thriving. I've unfortunately just found out that my partner was cheating on me throughout my pregnancy and up until very recently. Now, to be fair, we had split up, but we did keep fucking around and we started talking again when I found out I was pregnant. To make things more complicated, he had a girlfriend before I found out and told him the news. This is very messy. I know. I know. I'm not even mad that he cheated, because I should have known that part. He's a cheater. And it's a classic case. Tons of childhood trauma and mommy issues. The problem is that not only did I receive a woman to woman text on multiple social media platforms, so did my sisters. Okay, this was something I planned to handle by myself because it's pretty embarrassing. But his girlfriend's friends made sure to send those screenshots to my sisters.

[Crissle West]

Wow.

[Kid Fury]

Yes. Her friends were actually the ones to spill and she only messaged me later. So glad that my sisters now have pics of my ex's dick. That is just so cool of everyone. My main question is. Wow. Yeah. Because this comes with such excellent timing. How Do I navigate the holidays?

[Crissle West]

I'm like, in a wind tunnel.

[Kid Fury]

It's a lot going on. My son is only one, so I'm feeling like a lot of what goes on during the holidays and is a lot of his firsts. I don't plan on cutting his dad out of those experiences. So how do I still bring him around? I know that y' all have not had to deal with this directly, but is there anyone that comes to family shit that y' all just can't stand?

[Crissle West]

Oh, girl, baby, where do I get?

[Kid Fury]

Also, it's worth noting that my sisters are aware of the situation, of course, but my parents are not, thank God. Additionally, he and I still live together, and I'm currently unemployed because Trump's tariffs me out of a job I had that I had lined up. I stay home with the baby.

[Crissle West]

Begonia.

[Kid Fury]

Please help a dummy with a problem. Thanks, Natalie. Oh, baby.

[Crissle West]

I. I don't do. Feel bad. Do niggas have guilt?

[Kid Fury]

Almost never.

[Crissle West]

Do they ever, like, almost never. Oh, my God. So.

[Kid Fury]

His girlfriend's friends found out that he got his ex pregnant.

[Crissle West]

They didn't even come to harass you. They were like, let's send dick pics and tea to her sisters.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah, that. The. The purpose of that is to humiliate you. Yeah. Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Okay. All right. That's a choice.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. I mean, I can't. In my youth, I have done similar things with my hood rat friends. I mean, we were very young, but, yeah, we did. It was messy for us. It was extremely messy and childish of us as well, but, yeah, we did it.

[Crissle West]

Okay, so you still live with this nigga and you don't have a job. It sounds like you are relying on him for a house and.

[Kid Fury]

Everything else.

[Crissle West]

Everything else. What to do. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

How does. How does she get through the holidays with this one year old child that she shares with this man and that she. And still living with this man that. I don't know. It doesn't even sound like they've necessarily broken up yet because.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, it doesn't sound that way to me.

[Kid Fury]

Breaking up is hard to do when you still live together.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Not impossible, but. And when you still live together, baby.

[Crissle West]

Just came out your pussy 12 months ago.

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Crissle West]

That he made.

[Kid Fury]

And one of y' all is dependent on the other. It's very hard to be like, yeah, we not in a relationship no more.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Like, are you sure? Cause what. What has changed, really?

[Crissle West]

It doesn't sound like a happy relationship, but, I mean.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I know it doesn't. It sounds like A real fucking miss. So you know you did some.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, I would go on TikTok for some great DIY holiday ideas. The magical thing about this holiday with your 1 year old is that at 1 year of age, everything is magic.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah.

[Crissle West]

So you can get out the scotch tape and some gel pens and you. Because you don't have a job, you're not going down to the Michaels.

[Kid Fury]

All right?

[Crissle West]

And so you can, you know, just start creating a winter wonderland now for this kid and yourself and start building the magic at home with all sorts of cookie baking and stenciling.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah.

[Crissle West]

And fun holiday themed things between you and your baby. I wouldn't even be thinking about having a family holiday because, you know, on the 25th, maybe open a gift, drink a nog.

[Kid Fury]

You mean like the three of them as the. Okay, okay.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. On the 25th, we all do that holiday season. I think I would just be locked in with my baby and living vicariously through his baby eyes and ears and just, you know, ripping up tiny pieces of paper. Snow. Snow. And just focus on that.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Because everything outside of that sounds like a shithouse hell. Now, before you do the snow thing with the paper, I probably rip a different piece of paper and on that I would start writing a plan to get the fuck out.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, you're definitely gonna need that.

[Crissle West]

Now, I know that people, specifically that rust colored individual that you mentioned a second ago, tariffs and things of that nature, they're making life hard, they're making life ridiculous. But you know you and your surroundings better than we do. So I. I would suggest you start working on an exit strategy because this sounds absolutely miserable. Embarrassing.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

And toxic. But the holiday thing, Yeah. I would be focused on this baby and trying to make him as happy as possible and excited as possible within my means and enjoying that. I mean, I say I love seeing kids giggling at Rihanna voicing a Smurf, even though that'll make no sense. It's like, oh, my God, life can be beautiful when you don't know it can be ugly. So let's focus on that, huh?

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crissle West]

I ate that.

[Kid Fury]

That happened. It did. It did.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

It sounds like Natalie is planning on spending the holidays with her extended family. Like her side, her parents, her sisters, whoever else is in her shit. And just inviting this man to come be a part of it as well. Which, Yeah, I don't know, is. I hate to be, like cynical about it, but does he even. Is he even going to show up? Does he even want to show up? Like, are you anticipating that this Might be an issue. And then he's like, yeah, I'm not going to your mama's fucking Christmas Eve apple cider and cinnamon cookie baking night. Like, I don't give a fuck about none of that. Like, is he even gonna be tapped in with what you planning on doing with your family? But if you don't, I think the bigger issue here is that you don't want your parents to know. And if the baby daddy is not around, that's gonna be a huge red flag. Like, where are you at during Christmas? Like, this is where. Like, Christmas of all days. That's where niggas, the. The. The side chick do not get, you know, this family time. So how. How good are you at lying and pretending like everything's okay when it's not? Because when it. When you. You asked us about, like, is there anybody we just can't stand when it comes to family shit? There definitely have been people like that. And what I have always done is, if I know that nigga is coming, I simply don't engage with them. Like, and. And. But that's gonna be much harder for you because you trying to have this illusion that everything's okay. So if I were you, I would either get really comfortable with lying and being fake, or I would tell my parents, look, I found out this nigga was cheating, I'm still gonna let him come through. But, like, if you see us not really talking or whatever, that's what's going on. And you might need your parents to know because you might need to get you and your baby's things and go move in with them. I can't imagine you gonna be happy in this man's house for very long. I just. If you want to get away from him, you probably literally going to have to physically get away with. From him.

[Crissle West]

But, yeah, I think that can definitely go on the plan. Paper. I also. I don't really. I don't. I would not even go as far as telling my parents all that. Like, I don't think my family, unless I'm relying on them for something I don't like. I feel like it could be as easy as just being like, we had an argument. We're not in a good place. I don't wanna talk about it. Yep. If it seems like things are off, it's because we got some personal stuff going on that's real. Please don't reel it, read into it, or make it a thing. It's the holidays. It doesn't sound like your sisters are gonna bring it up to Your parents? Cause I figure they probably would have done that by now if they were those types of people.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

So I don't see why you can't just go kick it with your baby, have some cookies with the baby. If you have some specific family traditions where it's like, yeah, but every year, like the kids and their spouses make cinnamon apple fritters together and then post for a photo and then you have to be like, well, we won't be in the cinema apple fritter photo this year. You know, like, if there's some weird specificities to holidays with your family that you worried about, then I guess that's it. But similar to people coming around that you just can't stand, don't get into it with. Like, just because we're here sharing space together during the holidays and stuff doesn't mean that I have to give you a recap of every single facet of my goddamn life right now and get into the gory dirt details. Especially because most of you bitches ain't gonna tell me shit. You waiting for me or that person that you, you think something going on with or heard something going on with to come and spill all their guts on the floor. Meanwhile, your husband's cheating on you. Shut up. So I will be there with my one year old baby having a blast and hopefully grandma is going to also be making sure the baby has a blast. And that whole thing about getting older and having your own kids anyways, like, oh, now the babies get Christmas and we focus on it. I want to tell them a goddamn thing. I don't like him right now. What? You and this nigga just been hunky dory? You ain't never had a Christmas where you wanted to punch this nigga in the face? Stop talking to me.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, that's very true. That is absolutely an option because that's very common for people to just be going through shit. And the holidays are stressful for a lot of families.

[Crissle West]

Exactly.

[Kid Fury]

That is a much easier. And that will let you. That frees you up to be yourself, which is mad at him. So you don't have to put on this fake ass face of like, everything's fine Christmas. Apple fritter. Apple fritter photo is my favorite. Like you don't have to. You can just be you. Cinnamon apple fritter photo is the craziest phrase.

[Crissle West]

But I just speak and then I don't know where I am.

[Kid Fury]

But yeah, this, you're right. I have never dealt with this directly and I, I, this really, it Must be a mom thing that you're like, oh, but the holidays. How do I, you know, make everything precious for my baby while his daddy still comes around? Cause my first thought would have been me. My first thought is, how can I get out of this nigga's house? How do I get me and my baby out this nigga's house? I feel like that would.

[Crissle West]

But her little rib is up underneath her every day. Like, I need to see.

[Kid Fury]

When you are a mom, it's different. Right? Right. And it's the hot and that. You know, it's sentimental for a reason. People get all open hearted and weepy faced.

[Crissle West]

You want their Christmas and their birthday to be the best days of their lives.

[Kid Fury]

Right. So I get it. I think Kid Fury. Yeah. I think Kid Fury gave you some advice.

[Crissle West]

Who cares about aids?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. Once you too old to believe in sounds, it's just kind of like, all.

[Crissle West]

Right, what topics do you want?

[Kid Fury]

Y' all know what it is. Yeah. But best of luck to you, Natalie. And good luck to you and your precious baby. Trying to.

[Crissle West]

Those friends detangle.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, messy. But I kind of. I do kind of admire it. I do. I do. I do kind of love them being like, my friend. Not going to say it because she a classy bitch, but I will. You ho. I have been that girl. I'm sorry, Natalie. I absolutely. I would have been the one to light your ass up. Both of y'. All.

[Crissle West]

But her. The sisters. Damn.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah.

[Crissle West]

Um, I also couldn't help but think that, like, what if you go, this nigga comes to the thing and then he's. And you're like, I'm not talking to him. I don't want, like, we got into it, but we're focusing on, you know, Marquez, whatever the baby name is.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crissle West]

For the holiday. But I also couldn't help her think that, you know, mommies of a certain caliber might go over to the sister Chandra.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, let me just.

[Crissle West]

What is. What's going on over there? I don't know. That ain't got nothing to do with me. Okay. She go over to the other sister. Tasha, what the hell is going on? Listen, listen, just.

[Kid Fury]

No, auntie, please.

[Crissle West]

Ask Rochelle. I don't know.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, man.

[Crissle West]

Rochelle, come here. What's going on with your sister? Rochelle, I know you know something I don't. Rochelle, don't you lie to me in my house. Next thing you know, you come back in the room. Rochelle, she told me that her man got to end in the prison. I just couldn't help but, like, Sit here and picture that the mom write the script after you don't tell her. It goes directly to all the sisters until she gets an answer. Because, you know, mothers will do it.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. Yeah, they will.

[Crissle West]

So that's on the table.

[Kid Fury]

See that happen? Yeah, of course.

[Crissle West]

But I still wouldn't go in and tell them nothing. I would just be like, I'm mad at that nigga. Anyway, happy holidays.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, if y' all gonna break up anyway, it's kind of like, right? You know, six of one, half a dozen of the other. But maybe I love that saying. Me too. But, you know, maybe after New Year's when everybody comes back to real life around like January 4th, 5th, maybe then you'll be like, okay, now that that's over, let me focus on getting us up out of here with this. And, you know, Trump. So best of luck, babes. That we're gonna wrap it up right there for the letters again. If you have a question for the read, send it to ask the read gmail dot com. We'll be right back. Hey, y'. All. Cash App is the fast, safe and easy way to send, receive and transfer money to friends and family we all know and love. Cash app is great because you can even personalize your payments with custom text stamps and backgrounds. And if you're about to send money to a sketchy account, somebody that's not in your phone, etc, a scam warning will pop up to try to keep you safe. It's so easy to get started too. Just enter your phone or email. No bank account needed. I adore Cash App. Like millions of big sisters worldwide, I downloaded Cash app in order to send my little brother money in college, just literally begging me every week for $20. And it was so easy to sign up. Thankfully, download that app on my phone, signed up really quickly and send $20 to these broke college students so they can get off my phone, get off my phone. Or you go out to dinner with friends and one person puts the bill on their card. Bam. I just Cash app you real quick, girl. Here go my 80 dol. Because, you know, I had an app and a drink and it's just so easy to send money to friends and family. And to receive it too is just so, so simple. Nothing easier than Cash app. And for a limited time, only new Cash app users can use our exclusive code to earn some additional cash. For real, There is no catch. Just download Cash app and sign up. Use our exclusive referral code. That's what you gotta do. Use our referral code theread in your profile. Send $5 to a friend within 14 days and you'll get $10 dropped right in your account. Terms apply. That's money. That's cash App. Did you know you can opt out of winter with VRBO? Save up to $1,500 for booking a month long stay. When thousands of sunny homes are waiting for you, why subject yourself to the cold? Put the snow shovel down, put the parko back in the closet and don't you dare scrape another windshield. Slip into some flip flops, consider a sunless tan and use the monthly stays filter to save up to 1500 dollars. Book your warm [e-mail].

[Crissle West]

We are back and it is now time for the read. I'll begin because this should be relatively easy and not at all a big deal. Spooky season is over for you all. However, as you know, I I am a horrifying bitch all year round. So I'm going to be doing another spooky read for a fictional character this week and this one is dedicated to one Veronica Grogan, also known as Ronnie, a young black girl on a series currently airing on HBO Max, formerly known as Maxine. The show is called welcome to Derry. This is a spinoff series based on a Stephen King novel. It, and more specifically the two films that Andy Muschietti, I think, directed. The films are about an evil entity from outer space that takes on many terrifying forms and eats people, mostly children because they scare easy. In the beginning of the first episode of the season, a little white boy becomes victim to it. But before he is brutally murdered, he was at a movie theater where he snuck into a theater and he got caught by one of the white this white guy who worked in the theater or whatever movie theater is owned by a black man named Hank. His daughter, I think is like 12 or 13 years old in the series. In the book, she's nine. But his daughter is like working at the concession stand, two lollipops in her mouth to just show you that, you know, she's plucky and doesn't give a fuck.

[Kid Fury]

Okay?

[Crissle West]

She sees the little white boy whose name I can't remember right now. I forgot which one. He was hiding somewhere. When, like the security is looking for him. Her dad asks if she's seen the boy. She says no, lets the boy get away. Later, the boy dies. Supernatural causes okay, towards the end of the episode, these three kids who are all in some way connected to the white boy who goes missing, the little white child find like, oh, the girl Ronnie at the Movie theater. Saw him before he went missing. Let's go talk to her. She's at the movie theater. For whatever reason, she has keys to the theater too. They want to go into the movie theater to look around and see if, I guess they could find clues because they don't know that the child is dead yet. To them, they don't know about this thing. So they're mostly. There are like a lot of missing people photos around Derry all the time. Lots of missing kids all the time. So to them this kid's missing, they don't know that he's dead. Right.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crissle West]

Either way, Ronnie opens the, unlocks her daddy theater where I guess she got a part time job 12 and lets the kids into the theater. Puts on the movie that the little boy snuck in to watch at the beginning of the episode, I guess to find clues. Long story short, a haunting happens. The creature bursts through the screen projection screen in the theater. Absolutely mauls three kids to death. Just. Just rips three white kids, two pieces. The little black girl, Ronnie and a white girl, Lily. They survive.

[Kid Fury]

Yikes.

[Crissle West]

Now we move to episode two, where of course this is set in the 50s, I think. Yeah, this is like 1950 or something. 1954.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crissle West]

So of course the white people are like, that Negro hard r killed those white kids and he's gonna fry. So now Ronnie is running around desperately trying to get people to believe that her father didn't kill them kids. He wasn't there. The only surviving child, Lily, from the theater incident was previously in a mental asylum after she saw her father get killed and then said something like, she got locked up and was sent to like a mental health institution. So she's very traumatized by that. She told the police that her dad, that Ronnie's daddy was not there. But they don't give a fuck. Like obviously they see a black man who had the nerve to have a business that was doing, well, we're pinning it on him type shit. White people even approached like the chief of police and said, bitch, if you don't lock him up, we're gonna kill him. Basically. So Ronnie is now pissed at this white girl. Like, you need to do something. You won't tell them the truth. You won't say something. And they're my, my father's gonna go to prison because of you. You want me to tell them that we conjured a flying mutant baby with bat wings that then murdered three kids I barely know? Yeah, I have priors. Like, I told them your daddy wasn't there. It's not my fault racism and anti blackness runs this dude. Like, it was just like, this girl's in this impossible position. Rani Ronathan, what the fuck were you thinking about in the first fucking place? Like, are we gonna get into some sort of story here where we're gonna talk about why this child needs. Felt the need to like, save white people? You didn't even know these kids. You didn't know these kids. What you did know is the last little white child that you tried to help went missing. Nobody's seen them since. And three new mysterious white kids come up and are like, we heard about the missing white kid and he was here last. Do you mind if we come into your daddy's place of business and look around for free? Furthermore, the reason they were looking for security was looking for that little white boy in the first place because he's stuck in a theater, which means he didn't give your daddy the money for the movie that he was watching, which means you don't get three lollipops. Then more kids come looking for the missing child at your daddy's theater. And you're like, yeah, sure, come on in. I'll put the music man on for you. Do you watch a bunch of them kids get mauled to pieces? This bitch is covered in blood, severed hand in her hand, all these things. And you want her to go to the police and do the most impossible thing in the world? Why did you trust them children in the first place? Furthermore, girl, your daddy had a movie theater and people went. White people went. It was wor. He had white employees. You're eating the candy two at a time. You're breaking the rules. And you. And you're letting children come into the goddamn theater that you. They weren't even your homies. And now you're pissed. Now you raising your voice. Now you want bitches to go back to Arkham? Veronica. You are out of order, Ronnie. You're out of order. I don't know what in the Bobby Ricky or the mic you were thinking about, but you just should have done better. Disappointed. And of course they locked the daddy up. They went down there and got him.

[Kid Fury]

What?

[Crissle West]

And to be honest with you, I was like, thank God. Because if they didn't arrest him. Yeah. The streets of Derry probably would have just went and killed him.

[Kid Fury]

Right? Right. What is this movie called?

[Crissle West]

It's a TV show on HBO called Welcome to Derry.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, oh, oh, yeah. The Derry Girls.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, it's about it. The clown. Oh, Pennywise, not Derry Girls.

[Kid Fury]

I thought it was a prequel. To Derry Girls.

[Crissle West]

No, welcome to Derry is.

[Kid Fury]

Thank God. I never started that. I just assumed it was a prequel to Derry Girls. Oh, my God. I would have been.

[Crissle West]

Wow.

[Kid Fury]

Well, I never heard Derry mentioned outside of Derry Girls, so I just figured it.

[Crissle West]

Did you see any of the promotional art for it or did you just see.

[Kid Fury]

No, I just saw the name. So I was like, oh, okay, okay. So we're gonna.

[Crissle West]

Welcome to Derry.

[Kid Fury]

No, thank you. And that's why I was so. I was so confused. I'm like, I must have heard wrong. It ain't no way. It's Dairy Girls. Ain't no way.

[Crissle West]

Okay, so the town that it exists in is called Dairy Maine.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, it's Derry Maine, not Dairy Ireland. Wow.

[Crissle West]

They live in.

[Kid Fury]

I would have been so devastated if I had turned that on. I'm so glad I did.

[Crissle West]

Very quickly, very quickly, shout out to that adhd.

[Kid Fury]

Saving my ass.

[Crissle West]

Brutal. It's so fierce. I love it so much.

[Kid Fury]

Won't catch me.

[Crissle West]

It's really, really good and it has quite a few black people in it with very interesting stories. I did say like on my Instagram, it has the unfortunate thing of like, when you have a show, especially a show set in America at a certain time, you just know that the black characters with it, it comes things that are gonna make me feel upset.

[Kid Fury]

Yep, yep, yep, yep.

[Crissle West]

But aside from that and intermingled is some really great acting, Very interesting story. It's really scary. It's very brutal. And I just. Yeah, I was like, I have to add Rani to my little fictional character reads because, baby, why did you let them children into the movie theater? I really don't think from a writing perspective they're going to address that either. I think they really just wanted set piece in the. In the cinema where people die. And it was like, well, there, that's how we get. Get that bitch. None of this shit wouldn't even happen if you would have just told the girls, if you don't get the fuck off my daddy property, bitch.

[Kid Fury]

Like, like, we could wrap this right up.

[Crissle West]

There's already one white child missing in the last place they saw him was here. No, you cannot come. Leave.

[Kid Fury]

No.

[Crissle West]

And real quick, before I move on or before I end my read, I just want to say to Disney and Hulu, or as I like to call them, delulu. I see that in the latest update, you, lord changed the formatting. So now at the top you have a tab you can slide over that has Disney, Hulu and I think espn. Yeah, it actually starts with, for you, the for your. For you shit is a read for a different day, okay? Because you don't get to tell me.

[Kid Fury]

This is what the algorithm said. This is what the algorithm said you would like.

[Crissle West]

You don't get to tell me, okay? But at least now I can just slide over to my Disney plus, and my Disney plus is my Disney plus. My Hulu is my Hulu. Thank you. I appreciate that. So here, you get an acrylic tap for that. Not a read. I'm done.

[Kid Fury]

All right, I am going to start off by passing my read.

[Crissle West]

That was a joke and I forgot.

[Kid Fury]

Go ahead, tell it.

[Crissle West]

I was going to say that Ronnie's decision was almost as foolish and confusing as Democrats sweeping an election and then deciding to end government shutdown with nothing in their hands but a pack of Twizzlers. There. Now I'm finished.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, decisions that really confuse the nation.

[Crissle West]

But I. I don't.

[Kid Fury]

We'll. We'll. We'll move right on. Like I said, I'm going to pass my read this week. Pass the read like we used to to T. And T wrote us and said lesbian.

[Crissle West]

Gay.

[Kid Fury]

Hey, Crystal and K. Fury. This read is for the white Walker widow, Erica Kirk. And I just noticed them three Ks in her name. I was having a wonderful shit. I was having a wonderful morning, despite being recently mandated to be in the office a minimum of eight hours now that we're being tracked thanks to corporate America. And imagine my shock and awe when I checked my mailbox and found a letter from Erica Kirk and Turning Point USA asking for donations to honor Charlie's quote unquote legacy. Now, I live in a mostly old white building, and I know the last tenant of this place was a Republican because I still get some of her mail, but this letter was addressed to me. I have never voted Republican in my entire life, except that one time in high school during a mock election where I got social anxiety and blurted out red, but never the fuck again. So me getting this confirms that my information was sold for this alabaster abomination to send me the thickest piece of propaganda I have ever seen. Erica Kirk, you raggedy bitch, I hope your husband is suffering the worst level of hell that can be imagined now that he's in the dirt and decaying. I hope you have comfort knowing that his outsides are finally matching his insides. Disgusting, decrepit, dastardly and dank. Don't ever send me no bullshit letter talking about how capitalism is the most moral improvement economic system ever discovered. Bitch, are you insane? I hope Turning Point USA Burns to the fucking ground. And you, your soon to be husband, J.D. vance, suffer the same karmic neck injury that your man did. And them kids get put into a heavy deprogramming camp for a clean slate. Because having you as a mama can only be summed up with a quote from the Lil Rascals. If we were your kids, we'd punish ourselves.

[Crissle West]

Great film. Great reference.

[Kid Fury]

Great reference.

[Crissle West]

T might watch that later.

[Kid Fury]

Thanks for everything y' all do with the show. Can't wait to see you again. Love, T. T, baby, when I say you chewed that right up, I. I can't even imagine the anger that would fill my heart if I got a fucking letter from Erica Kirk, who sold my shit to that bitch who put me on the mailing list. Somebody don't like you.

[Crissle West]

Somebody I actually understand this. This rage.

[Kid Fury]

I would lose my mind.

[Crissle West]

I do, too. Would be like the absolute living fucking nerd bitch. Are you? Like, what? I would take it personally. Yes, personally. Because if, even though it's data, if.

[Kid Fury]

Erica Kirk rang my doorbell asking for Turning Point USA donations, I would spit in her fucking face. Like, I'm gonna.

[Crissle West]

I would laugh very loudly.

[Kid Fury]

I'm gonna commit a misdemeanor at the bare minimum. I'm gonna thump that bitch. Something. But you're not leaving my purse.

[Crissle West]

I would cackle and I would be like, hold on, let me get my phone. I have to record this. Okay, say it again. Say it one more time. What do you want?

[Kid Fury]

I know you're not supposed to record yourself committing a crime, but let me go get my phone so I can live stream me beating your ass for even being at my doorstep.

[Crissle West]

Yo, you know what's funny?

[Kid Fury]

I'm not giving you shit, but weirdo.

[Crissle West]

Common spelling for Erica has a C in it.

[Kid Fury]

It does.

[Crissle West]

And you were like.

[Kid Fury]

I don't know that I ever noticed them 3Ks in her name before either, but now that you said something, T, I'm never going to be able to unsee that.

[Crissle West]

T, indeed.

[Kid Fury]

Thank you so much for sending that in. If you have a read you'd like to pass, then you can send that to passthreader gmail.com. i also want to.

[Crissle West]

Donations. Donations.

[Kid Fury]

Ask Trump. He's stolen all of our money. Don't ask us for shit else. He can't. Anyway. The food stamp thing is so fucking crazy, but it makes. It makes sense when you consider that he already took that money and spent it somewhere else.

[Crissle West]

Right?

[Kid Fury]

Then it's like, oh, I see why you being weird about this? Cause you ain't Got it.

[Crissle West]

Piece of shit. Did you see him getting booed at that game? I did.

[Kid Fury]

I did.

[Crissle West]

I know he hated that, and that's why I loved it.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, well, nigga, the government's closed down. This is in D.C. you're at a commander's game. These people want to go back to work or they didn't vote for you. Or both. Like, yeah, we don't like you hurt.

[Crissle West]

And I loved it.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, you thought go to Kansas City with that. We're not trying to hear that in D.C. tory Lanez just lost his appeal. The the Superior court of Los Angeles county said on appeal, Peterson contends the trial court committed a number of errors. We find no prejudicial error and accordingly affirm Peterson's conviction. Which is the legalese way of saying, nigga, you did it and you're gonna stay your ass in prison. Enjoy them. Every minute of them ten fucking years. I can't think of a bitch more deserving. And finally, to whichever reporter got all up in Zoran Mamdani's ass about not going to the Veterans Day parade, please find you something to do. Zoron wasn't at the Veterans Day parade because he was with veterans. He was up in Park Chester at. I think it's like a senior living center or something for one of those spots that's specifically for veterans because they have been through a lot of shit, normally need some kind of specialized care. He spent the day serving meals to veterans and sitting out down at the table talking to them about what they need. And so when this reporter pressed him about it, he was like, well, I wanted to ensure that on Veterans Day, I actually sat down with veterans and heard from him.

[Crissle West]

Imagine that.

[Kid Fury]

Some of the stories that I heard from these people who served their country and gave everything they could to protect this raggedy ass country is that this same raggedy ass country has left them behind and makes them feel forgotten and uncared for by this same nation, this same city. So, as I said during the debate, I'm not going to be at every parade. Yes, I was at the West Indian Day parade. And, you know, I. Because niggas are fun. Sorry. Forgive me for wanting to catch a vibe. Yes, I was at the Puerto Rican Day parade for the same reasons. Like, yeah, I went to my parade.

[Crissle West]

Completely different because it was mine.

[Kid Fury]

But first of all, I'm not mayor yet. And secondly, I wanted to spend my time actually talking to veterans. And some of these vets, veterans are like, so I'm gonna keep it real. I did not Vote for. I don't even really know you. And he's like, that's fine. You know, this is the type of person who should be in politics because he don't take it personally that you didn't vote for him. He maybe understands why you didn't. But he's still here to work for you and do what's best for you, regardless of who you voted for. So.

[Crissle West]

And he has been running on that.

[Kid Fury]

Since he started, since day one. Like, getting mad at this man and being like, well, every mayor since Ed Koch has marched in the parade. I mean, Bloomberg, Giuliani, Dinkins, de Blasio, Eric Adam. I don't care. Parades are symbolism. Parades are. You know, and. And sure it means something to some of you, but I cannot be mad at this man saying, I would rather do something that matters. And a lot of people have this issue of, like, they just want you to show up to the thing that's for the cameras, it's for the lights. It's for the. You know, this is what you, quote, unquote, supposed to do. Fuck what you supposed to do. Do what you said you was gonna do. Zorron didn't run on. You gonna catch me at every media opportunity. You gonna catch me helping the people of this city? I'm all the way up in the fucking Bronx serving meals to the vets and talking to them about what they need. I don't even really like parades like that. Bitch, you probably. You might never catch me on one.

[Crissle West]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Kid Fury]

I don't care if that man never goes to a parade.

[Crissle West]

Imagine on Veterans Day, I'm on the ground with veterans doing what the next Veterans serving veterans should be doing.

[Kid Fury]

Wow.

[Crissle West]

But you're trying to press me about not being on a Fortnite float with Bethenny Frankel, right? If you don't get the fuck out my face.

[Kid Fury]

You mad at me? Cause I'm not over here fake smiling next to Eric Adams, bitch. I came here to do a real job.

[Crissle West]

I forgot to watch the Zwe interview. Did you watch it?

[Kid Fury]

I. I actually. I think I got maybe 20 minutes into it, and I was like, I don't know which one of you. You know, Zwe's thing is, like, being weird, making guests uncomfortable. But I think he was actually doing that to her. Like, she seemed to be. I don't know. He. It was weird. It's a very strange vibe from Eric Adams. It made me so glad that that man is finna be out of office here in the next six weeks. It was Uncomfortable to watch. Honestly, I did not even finish it. But he is. Yeah, a real piece of work. You should find it. You should. You should go watch it on YouTube, because it is.

[Crissle West]

I'm gonna watch it.

[Kid Fury]

But, yeah, let Zoron. Zoron don't want to be a figurehead. He don't want to show up just to take pictures and smile and, you know, kiss babies for the photo op. That man said that he's here to actually do things for the people who live here. Let him do that work when he is.

[Crissle West]

Let him show improve.

[Kid Fury]

Thank you so much.

[Crissle West]

1000%.

[Kid Fury]

Are you sending a message by not going to the Veterans Day Parade? Bitch, I'm sending the message that I would rather go help veterans. What do you mean?

[Crissle West]

Not to mention, if he would have went to the Veterans Day Parade, some of y' all would have just been like, you could have actually been doing real work with veterans because you just want to be on this man's dick, right? And that is what it is. But it would be one thing if you're like, it's tradition that. Da, da, da, da. And instead of being at the Veterans Day Parade like all of these other mayors, you were at Neiman Marcus or boxers, right? Bitch, you were. It's not like, people, the day is dedicated.

[Kid Fury]

Yes. It's not like he got on Instagram Live. Like, what y' all doing? I'm smoking weed, enjoying the day. Like. Like the man. I'm all for holding our politicians accountable. That's the point of public office. That is the point of public office. But let the man actually get in office and fuck up first.

[Crissle West]

Because let me tell you something. If anybody, New Yorkers, the ones that voted for him especially, are going to be on his ass if he is not doing what he said he was.

[Kid Fury]

And I'm sure he knows that. But again, even once he's in office, if he skips some, the Valentine's Day Parade, right? Because he went to go read stories to people who just got their heart broken or whatever. I'm not gonna be mad at you. Exactly. I don't care.

[Crissle West]

Exactly.

[Kid Fury]

Do a real job. Help.

[Crissle West]

I wasn't at the Rockettes anniversary because I was at this children hospital, right? Like, shut up.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, y' all being so weird to this man. And I know some of you are only gonna get weirder. Let's actually hold him accountable for things he does that are problematic. This ain't one of those.

[Crissle West]

So you are mad because he has a name that you would reference as ethnic, because he's about things that intimidate you cause you ignorant and because he.

[Kid Fury]

Is very a cutie patootie indeed. So yeah, that's it for this week's episode of the Read. Find us on social media at this is the Read. Our is this is the read.com. you can find my new podcast Crystal's Couch wherever you get your favorite podcasts. Also on YouTube on social media at Crystal's Couch with all the links and etc etc. Any news from you this week? Kid Fury.

[Crissle West]

Kiffury.Com patreon.com Kid Fury if you would like to see this wicked limited edition unboxing that I just did while linked heavily. No, like literally. Literally was like what is this and why aren't we just playing fast? So that was fierce and I'm probably gonna give away some of the stuff that was in the box that I don't want. So find me over there and look out for more. Thanks for listening.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

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