Soup Drama

Summary

The Read – “Soup Drama” (December 5, 2025)

Hosts: Kid Fury & Crissle | Podcast Network: Loud Speakers Network
Theme: Hip-hop, pop culture, and Black life, with humor, shade, and honesty

Episode Overview

This “Soup Drama” episode serves up The Read’s signature blend of hot takes on pop culture, celebrity relationships, messy divorces, streaming numbers, and viral stupidity, all delivered with the duo's sharp wit and unfiltered honesty. Kid Fury and Crissle dissect headlines of the week—ranging from Drake’s new album cycle to Super Bowl halftime controversy, Kandi & Todd’s messy divorce, Diddy's Netflix doc produced by 50 Cent, Ray J’s latest antics, soup company scandals, and a viral take on literacy—plus listener letters filled with relationship woes and friendship betrayals.

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Main Discussion Points & Notable Moments

1. Megan’s Baked Beans and Relationship Realness (01:34–06:22)

• Kid Fury opens with a riff on Megan Thee Stallion’s holiday cooking, admiring her brisket and beans and the love poured into big family cooking.
• Crissle reflects on Black women’s labor in the kitchen:
  “My mama cooked every single day.” (02:51)
• Admiration for Megan and her basketball boyfriend, and how relatable it all feels—just good food, anime nights, and comfort.

Notable Quote:

“I just don’t know women and femmes, man, on your feet for that amount of time. It’s a lot, cooking for a generation, not just a household.” – Kid Fury (02:24)

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2. Black Excellence: Chicago’s Bud Billiken Parade (06:24–09:14)

• Shout-out to the 96th annual Bud Billiken Parade, the largest Black parade in the nation, which celebrates history, culture, and unity in Chicago.
• Anecdote of a news co-anchor missing the parade for work, drawing laughs about “doing my usual Black Negro things.” (08:21)

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3. Hot Topics: Pop Culture & Music News

A. Drake’s Forthcoming Album ‘Iceman’ (11:17–14:50)

• Hosts are underwhelmed by Drake’s latest tracks, with Kid Fury calling out the teaser:
  “This is like a deep cut you would have kept to yourself … it sounded like a Weekend song but, like, worse.” (12:23)
• Crissle’s honesty: “I won’t be rushing to stream whatever this new thing is because I didn’t like Scorpion, and it’s been … iffy for a while now.” (13:53)

B. Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Booking (15:18–18:48)

• Pushback to critics unfamiliar with Bad Bunny:
  “You and ice can blow, Bubba. No one gives a fuck what you’re talking about. … He’s the most popular artist on the planet!” – Kid Fury (16:30)
• Crissle’s take: “Not the most streamed Spanish-speaking artist. Not the most streamed rapper or none of that. The number one artist person making art.” (16:08)

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4. Kandi & Todd’s Divorce Saga (20:31–31:15)

• Last week praised for a mature breakup; this week, all hell breaks loose. Todd demands custody and challenges his prenup, using Bravo footage as alleged evidence.
• Crissle’s venom: “I hate n–— man … But one thing about it, regardless of what her mom and auntie said, I truly believe the number one thing about Kandi is she is about her fucking money.” (23:02)
• Laughter over the gold digger dynamic, the difference between being ‘rich’ and ‘wealthy’, and Todd messing with a money-savvy woman’s bag.

Notable Quote:

“She would have rather been embarrassed and not had a wedding than marry a nigga without a prenup.” – Crissle (23:10)

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5. Listener Letters: Soup, Betrayal & Birthing Plans

A. Campbell’s Soup “Drama” (72:23–74:36)

• Viral story about a Campbell’s Soup exec disparaging the product and leaving—triggering a nostalgic (and comedic) defense of classic poverty cuisine.
• “How dare you. That cream of mushroom done went in so many casseroles.” – Crissle (74:17)

B. Friendship Betrayal: Love Triangle Edition (78:13–89:36)

• Tabitha’s letter: Her friend Sydney hooks up with the woman Tabitha was pursuing—while she was hospitalized! Then Sydney brings this “Wanda” to a party, and when Tabitha asks for space, Sydney claims to be the hurt party.

• Hosts’ take:

  “Sydney playing in your face directly.” – Crissle (84:38)
  “Why would you bring Wanda to this party knowing how I feel about—We just talked about the party last night.” (83:38)

  Conclusion: Drop the friend, and don’t accept gaslighting for someone else’s selfishness.

C. Maternal Health & Husband's Ignorance (90:31–104:38)

• Rachel asks if she's wrong to want a doula and her mother in the delivery room after her husband seems to equate her concerns with anti-vax conspiracies.
• Crissle’s clarity: “I’m never gonna tell a Black woman who’s nervous about giving birth in America that she’s overreacting, child. They almost let Serena Williams die.” (102:41)

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6. Diddy Netflix Documentary by 50 Cent (35:08–44:54)

• 50 Cent's motivations and pettiness for producing a doc on Diddy dissected.

• Both hosts side-eye the intent, but note it could open some eyes.

  “You have hated him for that … you're now taking the opportunity to do something petty, possibly damaging, and get paid for it.” – Kid Fury (40:24)

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7. Ray J’s Backstage Beyonce Antics (45:49–56:38)

• Ray J posts a plea for Beyoncé and Jay Z to greet Brandy backstage.
• Everyone in the room literally flees as he makes the plea—hosts point out the absurdity.
• Kid Fury speculates: “No shade, you want to know what my first guess was? That Beyoncé was like, I would go say hi to Brandi, but Ray J probably back there.” (49:46)
• Concludes: Stop bringing everybody else into your personal weirdness.

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8. Megan Thee Stallion’s Defamation Suit (56:48–62:14)

• Megan wins $59K in damages over a deepfake porno—a symbol for internet accountability.
• Crissle: “It’s not hard to not lie on people.” (61:47)
• “Glad for Meg and hopefully this inspires the rest of you who always got something to say about her to shut the fuck up…” (61:54)

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9. The Viral Soup of Online and IRL Ignorance

A. Listener Letter: Twin Sisters vs. Deadbeat Dad (109:35–117:42)

• Tracy and her twin, abandoned during COVID, get harassed by their dad’s new wife after years of estrangement. The twins’ response? Direct, professional, and boundary-setting—discussed as a rare model of dignity.

B. Joell Santana’s Viral Take: “You Don’t Need to Know How to Read” (120:18–134:42)

• On a podcast, rapper Joell Santana claims kids don’t need to be literate as long as they have “common sense” and math skills.
• Crissle’s response:
  “There’s no such thing as financial literacy if you cannot fucking read.” (123:04)
• Both hosts are in disbelief at his public stupidity, agree it’s top-tier dumbness, and issue a public service announcement: Teach your kids to read.

Notable Quote:

“Being able to read is the foundation of literacy, period. How far do you think anybody is gonna get in this life without knowing how to read?” – Crissle (123:04)

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Notable Quotes (Speaker attribution & timestamp)

• Kid Fury: “This is like a deep cut you would have kept to yourself… it sounded like a Weekend song but, like, worse.” (12:23)
• Crissle: “You don’t have to go get a job at the fucking shop. Nave. No, it’s weird. …You knew very well who Kandy was and what she had amassed in her career.” (28:31)
• Kid Fury: “If you even spell Meg again, yeah. It’s over.” (60:35)
• Crissle: “Sydney playing in your face directly.” (84:38)
• Kid Fury: “These doctors don’t really give that much of a fuck.” (93:13)
• Crissle: “They almost let Serena Williams die.” (102:41)
• Kid Fury: “Why do y’all go outside and say stuff… on a microphone?” (125:19)
• Crissle: “There’s no such thing as financial literacy if you cannot fucking read.” (123:04)

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Final Thoughts and Tone

Throughout, Kid Fury and Crissle mix laughter with scathing realness, expertly reading pop culture (and the foolish people within it) while also speaking to the realities of Blackness, friendship, self-advocacy, and boundaries. Their chemistry, jokes, and mutual exasperation at the world and each other’s stories remain the episode’s heartbeat.

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For newcomers, this episode is a perfect blend of The Read’s trademarks:

• Smart shade & personal stories
• Community care & accountability
• Savage, memeable one-liners
• And a refusal to let nonsense skate unchallenged—whether the topic is baked beans or basic literacy.

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 01:34: Megan’s beans & Black family cooking
• 06:24: Black Excellence—Bud Billiken Parade
• 11:17: Drake’s ‘Iceman’ critique
• 15:18: Bad Bunny and Super Bowl
• 20:31: Kandi vs Todd divorce
• 35:08: 50 Cent’s Diddy doc
• 45:49: Ray J’s plea to Beyoncé
• 56:48: The Megan Thee Stallion lawsuit
• 72:23: Listener letters—Soup drama
• 78:13: Friendship betrayal
• 90:31: Black maternal health debate
• 109:35: Listener letter—Absentee Dad
• 120:18: Joell Santana’s viral anti-reading take
• 134:42: Closing thoughts

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If you want to laugh, roll your eyes, and get smarter about pop culture and community while doing it—queue up “Soup Drama.”

Transcript

[Kid Fury]

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[Crystal]

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[Kid Fury]

My sins away. And yours. And yours. And yours too. Even when we didn't deserve it. And yet here we are making some brand new ones. Welcome back to the show. I'm Megan's barbecue baked bean recipe.

[Crystal]

Didn't they look good as they looked good.

[Kid Fury]

Like, why did they look so delicious?

[Crystal]

I mean that it just reminded me of home. Soon as I saw brisket, I said, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, what the fuck you doing? You know what the fuck you doing? And I am Andra Day.

And this is the talent.

[Kid Fury]

A beauty.

[Crystal]

So good. I mean, that girl had the whole family laid out, just exhausted, sleepy cooking the whole Thanksgiving work.

[Kid Fury]

It is a. It's a lovely experience. Although.

I just don't know women and femmes man.

On your feet for that amount of time. It's a lot cooking for a generation, not just a household, which is a lot of like.

[Crystal]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

There's times when my mama cooked for all of us and I'm like, how did you just not get in the bed as an adult cooking for myself. You were cooking multiple meals.

[Crystal]

Mm. My mama cooked every single day.

[Kid Fury]

Every day they cooked.

[Crystal]

We almost never ate up. Almost never.

[Kid Fury]

And then went to go do something else.

[Crystal]

Yeah. Crazy. After a whole long day, you cooked breakfast. You went to work all day. And then you come home and cook dinner too and help with homework and taking baths and all.

[Kid Fury]

No, made lunch.

[Crystal]

Sorry. I would have went to the store for some cigarettes and never came back.

[Kid Fury]

It is a very truth and so to consider that bitches be on their feet cooking.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

A restaurant of food.

[Crystal]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

Do and does for days.

[Crystal]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

It looks good as hell's favorite Saturday.

[Crystal]

What do you mean so good? It looked so good.

[Kid Fury]

Oh yeah. Yeah. Them beans looked fucking amazing. And I really do enjoy this little love affair on her.

[Crystal]

They are so cute.

[Kid Fury]

It really just seems like opening up Pokemon card packs. Labubus watching some Jujutsu Kaisen, some Demon slayer on Crunchyroll. Fucking going directly to bed. And I'm just like, that is what I would want for my sis.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So the way that she got up on that Thanksgiving clip and started talking fast on her usual.

What do they call them? Her little Instagram voiceover voiceover reels or.

[Crystal]

Whatever you call it. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And was talking about how like, oh, I'm cooking for my man family and I gotta really show them that like I love they son. And so I'm like, baby, if what I'm looking at on this video, don't get the message across, bitch, I don't know what else you have to do.

[Crystal]

Did you see his daddy talk about. And it was the best Thanksgiving I ever had.

[Kid Fury]

Of course they love her.

[Crystal]

Yeah, she in there, man. Did you see the video of Clay the Mask played somebody, I don't know who, and he had a great game. Hit like six threes or something. But when I say immediately after that game was over, they caught Clay literally sprinting to the locker room. That man said this was fun.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

Glad everybody had a good time. I gotta go hit them showers.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

Don't ask me for a post game nothing, bitch. I don't have nothing to say. I'm running to them showers so that I can go drive my lady home and we're finna eat bagels and go to bed. Like they are so cute together.

[Kid Fury]

Will be a post nut serenity.

[Crystal]

I got something else to do. This was fun. Like I said, I had a good time, but I gotta get up outta here.

[Kid Fury]

You see that fine, my girl.

[Crystal]

That fine little shit. Which is what the young people say. And I really am not.

[Kid Fury]

I can't take it. I really struggled believing you with that. I thought that you were trolling and then I heard it in the wild.

[Crystal]

Yeah, they do.

[Kid Fury]

From the young people. They do in earnest. Like they're dead ass.

[Crystal]

Yeah. No, it's a compliment. They so. But, yeah, they are. Clay and Megan are really, really cute together. I won't be shocked if eventually Megan's like, that's enough. I've had.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. No. What did I say?

[Crystal]

Y' all not getting. No.

[Kid Fury]

I don't have faith in none of y'. All.

Like, none of you. And it's no shade. I just don't have faith in humanity. Like, I want you to be happy if you deserve it.

[Crystal]

Yeah. But honestly, like, she's had a good week. It's been a good week for Megan over there.

[Kid Fury]

Good for them. Now, just if you could DM me the baked beans if we have to, like the rest. Cause those beans looked all right. Move on.

[Crystal]

Yeah, no, they did.

[Kid Fury]

This week's black excellence is gonna go out to Chicago's Bud Billiken Parade, which recently celebrated its 96th annual parade, marking it the largest black parade in the nation. Still, the parade first began in 1929 as a manner to celebrate black history, black culture in the city of Chicago, as well as highlighting the unofficial start of the school year. So it's a way of saying, hey, look at this. Everyone come out. Let's celebrate our blackness in this parade. Named after a character from the Chicago Defender way back when. And after that, bed is at 7pm.

[Crystal]

Wait, they had the parade recently? Why did I think it was in the summer?

[Kid Fury]

No, no, this is like back in August.

[Crystal]

Oh, okay.

[Kid Fury]

But I didn't talk about it.

[Crystal]

Got you.

[Kid Fury]

But either way, it is 96 years strong.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Just.

Just around the RiverBend will be 100 years of being the largest black parade in the country. And that's something to celebrate.

[Crystal]

It is indeed.

[Kid Fury]

Shout out to Chicago of this. I guess it was like a morning show newscast in Chicago. This black lady is sitting next to her co anchor who was a white man, and she was like, well, usually I'd be out of the Billiken parade, but I'm happy to be here with you.

And he busted out laughing and was like, you can go if you want to go.

[Crystal]

No, no, I'm just saying at the speaker, like, I'm here, you know, I'm.

[Kid Fury]

At work, and it's fine. No, this is great, too.

[Crystal]

I'm just saying I would have had to go early to get my good spot. Right?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

Should be doing my negro things today.

[Kid Fury]

I'm like, I love us so bit.

[Crystal]

Me too. Real dear.

[Kid Fury]

In her news anchor voice, she was like, well, you know, this is the first time that I wouldn't be down the street doing my usual Black Negro things instead. Mm. Full of joy to be here with you, Bob. It was just so delicious. It wasn't that ruthless, but anyway, okay, so. Shout out to Chicago. Shout out to Bud Billiken and what they call a black holiday. Carlette Bracey said she's a lifelong attendee. Said she.

[Crystal]

Oh, I know that's right.

[Kid Fury]

50 years ago. We need beacons.

[Crystal]

We do gotta have them. Especially as times get crazier and more distraught. We really do. Mm.

[Kid Fury]

Said this parade is known all over the world. Shows unity in the pride of Chicago. Black pride of Chicago. Shout out to y'.

[Crystal]

All.

[Kid Fury]

And, you know, Chicago is very supportive of the podcast and things like this, so they are. If you have any fun Bud Billiken stories, you want to get us educated and knowledged, feel free to share. I love it.

[Crystal]

Also, a lot of fine niggas in Chicago. I had to.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, if we're gonna just discuss.

[Crystal]

It, I just, like.

[Kid Fury]

If you'd like to just bring it up.

[Crystal]

My God, every time. I just always end up moving me a little. Chicago.

[Kid Fury]

I'm sorry.

[Crystal]

Rich, beautiful.

[Kid Fury]

Y' all are. And it's also not like, super difficult to find one that, like, cares about themself. Will invest in you, but will also kill somebody if you're disrespectful.

[Crystal]

Oh, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And that's appreciative.

[Crystal]

And the murder initiative, that whole feeling and personality is, like, right there underneath the surface.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. It's not even that whole name.

[Crystal]

Did that nigga look at you crazy. I feel like that nigga looked at you crazy. I'm like, I actually don't think so. I think we can all live today. But, yeah. Short flight. Good people.

[Kid Fury]

This week in our segment of pop culture that we call Hot Topics. Couple things going on.

First of all, if I don't sound super enthused about this, I slept like shit last night.

[Crystal]

Oh, no.

[Kid Fury]

But I'm telling you. And as you get older, sleep deprivation or just any amount of time played with in your sleep schedule.

[Crystal]

I can't do it.

[Kid Fury]

Doom. It's like doom. It's like Planet Arrakis. Dehydrated. Oh, yeah. Fatigued. Like, yeah.

[Crystal]

That happened to me the other day. I was up till 4am I said, tomorrow is trash. Like, when the sun rises in three hours, trash.

[Kid Fury]

When I got up for the third time, covered in sweat.

[Crystal]

Oh, no.

[Kid Fury]

I was like, okay, well, Wednesday's baked. Because, bitch, at this point, I already know that I'm going to be cranky, so. It is what it is, Margaret.

[Crystal]

It is what it okay.

[Kid Fury]

Drake has been gearing up for his Iceman album, what is apparently his ninth album.

[Crystal]

Wow.

[Kid Fury]

I knew he had a lot of them. I guess I stopped him.

[Crystal]

All right.

[Kid Fury]

When is Iceman due out? I feel like he keeps lying about that. And by lying, I mean changing his mind.

[Crystal]

Yeah. I haven't heard an official release date for it yet.

[Kid Fury]

Still says late 2025. Maybe it'll be like a Christmas release or something.

[Crystal]

Yuck. Is this really Christmas music? Something tells me this is not really Christmas music.

[Kid Fury]

But I've never heard this before. I heard these other two singles. Well, he teased some new thing on this, like.

Black and white Instagram story ass video footage. He's playing a song in an effort to tease his new album, and I'm like.

This is like a deep cut that you would have kept to yourself.

[Crystal]

Oh, damn.

[Kid Fury]

Like, this isn't damn. I mean, but listen, it sounded like a weekend song, but, like, worse.

To me.

[Crystal]

Oh, okay. Do you mean the beat or the vocals?

[Kid Fury]

Both.

[Crystal]

Yikes. Okay, that's really not good then.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, both.

[Crystal]

Well, all right. I was looking for something to save it.

[Kid Fury]

I hated it.

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

And.

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

It's not. It's not pushing me to listen to the things, but I'm likely still gonna play it when it comes out.

Out of curiosity and things. But I haven't liked anything from this new. This new batch of songs, except that I kind of like which one. But then when that white British, innit, boy? Come on. And I'm like, all right, I don't want to hear that. Like, you're lucky that by way of your Jamaican son, Drake. I can stomach it with you now.

[Crystal]

Yeah, that's what it is. That is what it is.

Jamaican child. It's been a while for. Since. Yeah, Drake has. I'm trying to think of the last thing Drake dropped that I actually enjoyed. Maybe Nokia. But that was. Fuck. Almost a year ago. That was. Didn't Nokia come out?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I guess Nokia has been around. That was the. Cause that was off of the thing he did with Party Next Door, I think.

[Crystal]

Right, right.

[Kid Fury]

So it has been a while since that.

[Crystal]

I don't. I won't be rushing. Yeah, I won't be rushing to stream whatever this new thing is because I didn't like Scorpion. And it's been, you know, Drake has been real iffy for me for a while now musically, so. And I don't care. I know y' all finna do it, and I do not care. That's how you say it. Thank you so much.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, no, it's fine. I wasn't gonna say anything.

[Crystal]

No, you were. You just gonna laugh at my face?

[Kid Fury]

No, I just laughed. You knew why? Like.

I couldn't help it. It's funny.

[Crystal]

Oh, man. So, yeah, I'm gonna let y' all tell me whether it's good. I won't be rushing to hear this.

[Kid Fury]

I'll probably let you know. I'm sure I'll listen to it before you do. I'm a hundred percent, but I'm just like, drizzle, drizzle.

Where is it, like, at 1? Can I get one sign of like, ooh, okay.

[Crystal]

This is a bop for the girls.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, boy.

[Crystal]

Okay, well, we'll see you biting your.

[Kid Fury]

Lips and making all these faces in this video looking like a Digimon.

[Crystal]

I'm just like, got academics online, hollering about whatever this is. And when it's coming out, girl, that.

[Kid Fury]

Will never have anything to do with me. Like, I will never be over there.

[Crystal]

Her opinions have nothing to do with me or reality.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, yeah.

Well, I just wanted to remind the girlies, you know, a lot of people have been talking about Spotify at the end of the year.

You know, Drake, also speaking of Drake is like the biggest rapper ever on Spotify based on those numbers this year. So a lot of people, OVO fans specifically, were like, eat dick. So there's that. But more specifically, the reason I bring up Spotify is because I wanted to remind the NFL fans who apparently had an issue with the upcoming halftime show. Bad Bunny is the most streamed artist on Spotify on the planet. The whole planet. The whole thing. Like, everywhere that you know to be a place. He's most popular.

[Crystal]

Not the most streamed Spanish speaking artist. Not the most streamed rapper or none of that. The number one artist person making art. Yes.

[Kid Fury]

On the planet, on earth, y'.

[Crystal]

All. Just because you don't like him or have never heard of him don't have shit to do with the rest of us.

[Kid Fury]

You and ice can blow, Bubba. No one gives a fuck what you're talking about.

Bad Bun. Why would it be Ice? Because I feel like the ice shit has, like, emboldened the girls to be like, don't nobody want to hear, oh.

[Crystal]

Yeah, it's been bad. It has. But no, it's not influencing girl. Be for real.

[Kid Fury]

Like, are you bitches stupid?

[Crystal]

Didn't the NFL.

[Kid Fury]

I love his music.

[Crystal]

I saw some NFL lady, somebody associated with the super bowl was like, uh, yeah, we don't care that y' all are pissed. Bad Bunny is a global artist. The NFL's trying to make global money. So suck our dicks. And I was like, exactly. Thank you, sis. Tell him again.

[Kid Fury]

I just.

[Crystal]

Yeah, it's not gonna make sense.

Are you. Are you okay? Are you glitching?

[Kid Fury]

Who do you want?

Like, who?

[Crystal]

Like Morgan Wallen?

[Kid Fury]

I was going to say bitch.

[Crystal]

Were you really?

[Kid Fury]

I was literally less than one human second away from saying that exact same name.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Cause, you know, like, bitch, if they would have booked that cracker, these bitches would've been like, ugh, football's back.

[Crystal]

Even Carrie Underwood. Which would have made more sense than Morgan Wallen. No shade, but none even that. They would have been. Yeah, they would have been all about it. But no, the NFL is trying to make real money, not just MAGA money. They already got MAGA money, okay? They been had MAGA money. Y' all not going no fucking where. It's time to branch out.

[Kid Fury]

Even if you were like, I don't want to hear this.

You have to operate so far outside of logic to be like, this is invalid. This is unnecessary. This is false tea. Like, bitch, it's not giving. Oh, he's the biggest star on the. In everywhere. Every country, every place in the world except here.

[Crystal]

Right?

[Kid Fury]

And even if that was the case, it would still make sense to book him.

[Crystal]

It would.

Anyway. You slice it Bad Bunny belong at the super bowl, no matter how you look at it. He absolutely.

[Kid Fury]

Are you bitches worried that, like, the lack of Medicare and stuff is just gonna wipe you out before you get to see Daft Punk at the halftime.

[Crystal]

Show or whatever that's possible. Now.

That'S a real. That actually could happen. Right. I don't even think they like Daft Punk, do they?

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Crystal]

I'm really. I don't think I'm tapped into what MAGA is really about. I don't know what them niggas fuck with. I try to stay as far away from all that foolishness as possible. But, yeah, that's real.

[Kid Fury]

They don't really listen to music anymore. They go out into open fields at night and they basically do. Wrapping up the scene from Sinners where they were all doing a little Irish jig.

[Crystal]

Their little. Yeah, the Lovely Road to Dublin or whatever it's called.

[Kid Fury]

They be doing that. But bad and offbeat.

[Crystal]

But bad and offbeat. Right. I was about to say. Cause not too much on them Irish hoes. They be practicing real hard.

[Kid Fury]

They were working.

Demonic and possessed as they were, they were in a mode of nostalgia. Right?

[Crystal]

Right. It might have been a demon possessing they body, but them bitches was Hitting that shit.

[Kid Fury]

They said, bitch, you hoes are not the only ones with talent. Okay, now, she might be Whitney, but we have the song as well.

[Crystal]

I know these white Americans ain't really hitting on nothing, but listen, over here in Iowa, they got nothing to do.

[Kid Fury]

With shit to do.

[Crystal]

When he found out them other niggas was kkk, he was like, now wait a minute. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

[Kid Fury]

Could not wait to kill them bitches. God, that movie is. I'm going to watch the news again tonight.

[Crystal]

It's pretty good.

[Kid Fury]

God, that movie is so good. Um, so, you know, we spoke recently about how Kandy and Todd are getting divorced.

[Crystal]

Oh, my God.

[Kid Fury]

And how they set such an excellent example for all you other bitches breaking up. Because they immediately came together for the daughter's birthday. And we're getting along and everything is fun. But it was all a scheme set up by Todd to come to us. To come to you.

[Crystal]

With the bullshit. I said, damn. I was just giving Todd compliments. This is why you can't say nothing nice about men. We was just saying, oh, this is how, you know, this is how breakups should be. Adults handle adult things and you come together for the kids and blah, blah, blah. And it seems amicable. And everybody knows that Todd signed a prenup. Cause it was on, like, two different TV shows of him signing his prenup. So it shouldn't be no arguing about child. Three days later.

Not my $3 Walmart liquor.

[Kid Fury]

Poor you bitch.

Apparently, Todd is in the court lord demanding primary custody of the two children he shares with Candy. And according to Horace, has also been playing the prenup game, alleging or questioning how that prenuptial agreement legally stands up. Because he apparently is claiming, or his legal counsel is claiming, that he was pressured to, like, sign this prenup when he didn't have legal representation present or something like that.

[Crystal]

Now, I watched it. Okay? That's. Here's the. My problem is that I watched it. I watched it on Bravo. You had so much time. If you wanted to sit down with her lawyer and your lawyer and all of that, you could have been. Did that. You thought you was gone scam candy by not signing this prenup by the wedding day. And so if you had to call your lawyer on FaceTime or whatever to get the go ahead beforehand, whatever, like, whatever that circumstance is, it could have been avoided. You.

God, I hate n. Man. Oh. Oh, God. You know, they are. You know, they are nerves.

But one thing about it, regardless of what her mom and auntie said, I truly believe the number one thing about Kandy is she is about her fucking money. And so I'm not gonna play. Even she could have. She would have rather been embarrassed and not had a wedding than marry a nigga without a prenup.

[Kid Fury]

I do not know this lady from anything outside, and I feel confident that that is an actual thing.

[Crystal]

Right? So I just was like, you know, I wanted to believe that because it has been a while and Todd has made his own money and all this, that, you know, they could just break up and it just be over. Like, I don't know. I just really wanted to believe that this could be a chill. As chill as a divorce can possibly be. I really wanted to think that.

[Kid Fury]

But, I mean, I do consider the fact that they, Todd specifically, so much of his business ventures are connected to her. Which means, however cool or chill we may be, there is still going to be some complication and complexity to breaking down those assets, separating those things, making decisions about this, that, and the third. And it could come down to, well, this bar. I've been in this bar busting my ass and doing work and da, da, da, da to Kandi being like, I pay for it.

[Crystal]

Right?

[Kid Fury]

And it's like, now here we have another month deliberating back and forth on this one, which we got another 11.

[Crystal]

Businesses to break down, right? And child and had plays and all this other kind of stuff. But all of that is post nuptial.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Crystal]

Todd is challenging the prenup, which means he trying to come for that money that don't have nothing to do with him.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

And that's what gets on my nerves. Like, come on, n. You signed the prenup. You knew you was signing a prenup. The prenup did not come out of nowhere. It wasn't. Otai, before you walk down the aisle, will you sign this? Like you knew that you was gonna have to sign a prenup before that lady signed a marriage license with you. So why are you acting like this now?

Why?

[Kid Fury]

Us Weekly says Candi Burruss is using Bravo footage as evidence to fight her estranged husband Tyler Tucker's claims about their prenuptial agreement. We all want so much. Like Kani Burr said, they watched it. They watched it on tv.

[Crystal]

There were camera crews there. You can't tell us you felt pressured to sign a prenup when you knew the whole time, probably from the second you got engaged to this woman or even before then, that you was gonna have to sign a prenup.

[Kid Fury]

There was a whole prenup story arc with her and her family before you even signed it on a TV show that you used to work on. Oh, but bro, the fuck what are you confused about?

[Crystal]

N will do anything for a few days.

[Kid Fury]

Are you poor? Is she like is or what is the tea?

[Crystal]

This is what I'm saying.

[Kid Fury]

Is this separation going to somehow leave you destitute? Because the way that everything was worded on both sides a week or so ago, it was given like, well, I'm rich, he rich, right? Kids healthy, got they teeth. I think we're good. And then it's giving like, well I want primary custody, which is wild. And you know well about that prenup.

Kandi said she hired a very reputable, very powerful attorney before they got married. Yeah, there's. So to your point, there's would be like no point in her trying to get an okie doke on you with someone who was going to be like, girl, this could backfire on you on a back end and you're doing it on tv.

[Crystal]

Right?

[Kid Fury]

Like in what way?

[Crystal]

That's the one thing Candy not gonna be cheap about is the attorneys and the wording and all that on that prenup. That lady cares deeply about her money. We all know that.

[Kid Fury]

She said he was represented. No. The party's journey to executing an enforceable prenuptial agreement was filmed and broadcast on Bravo Television network.

[Crystal]

Thank you.

[Kid Fury]

With the knowledge and consent of both Burruss and Tucker for their five part reality television wedding documentary about Candy's wedding that premiered on June 1, 2014.

[Crystal]

Thank you. I know, I saw this lawyer.

[Kid Fury]

I know, I saw it in their amended filing. Because Kandi initially asked for joint legal and physical custody of the kids. Now she said you gonna fuck around and file.

[Crystal]

Right? Why couldn't he see this is a problem? Todd is rich. Candy is wealthy. And there's a big, big gap, big gap between rich and wealthy and Right. But you knew that. Nothing. It's not like Candy got wealthy six years ago in the middle of Yalls marriage. Candy been that girl since like 1990.

[Kid Fury]

So yeah, you are rich. You are not rich.

[Crystal]

And that's a really nice life.

[Kid Fury]

Who gives a fuck if your ex is wealthy? That means her being wealthy and you being rich means that you comfy. She's extra comfy. And the kids are comfy.

[Crystal]

And the kids. Right, and the kids are the most comfortable list, which is what matters.

[Kid Fury]

What is, what are we beefing about? Like, yeah, why even piss this lady off?

[Crystal]

Yeah. Cause you're gonna have to move into a smaller house. But you're gonna be embarrassed because your house isn't as grand as it used to be. Who the fuck cares? You still doing better than 98% of people on the planet. My God, you niggas need a little perspective. You're still rich. You don't have to go get a job at the fucking shop. Nave. No, it's weird. It's weird to. It's weird to know who you're marrying. Like, you knew very well who Kandy was and what she had amassed in her career. He absolutely did. Cause you used to be a PA or whatever on set, like you knew what you was doing. So it's just so strange to now be like, well, I don't feel like the prenup is enforceable. Girl, take your money, have the lawyers divide yalls businesses up however they're gonna do it. Go get you a nice cute little house somewhere in the suburbs and live your fucking life.

And be glad you got such a huge come up. Because the part of the reason why you're rich now is because of your alliance with Kandi. So you should be saying, I don't know why you're not saying thank you.

Oh, man.

But I will say mind blown. Even though this is messier than we thought it was last week, they do still seem to be putting the kids first spent Thanksgiving together and.

Right. But, you know, not going online, talking shit about your baby daddy, not making diss records about your baby mama and putting them out on stream and search like, not doing that. Yeah, it is. It is. But I am gonna give you. And now that I've said it.

[Kid Fury]

No, I get it.

[Crystal]

And now that I've said it. This weekend, Todd's going live on TikTok to talk about how Kandi with Chrisean scammed him into.

[Kid Fury]

Chrisean Rock dating Natalie Nunn. Yeah, just something random and dumb.

[Crystal]

He finna be on baddies. Oh, God, get me outta here.

[Kid Fury]

Remember when Halle was like, girl, fuck you, and then Dee Gee popped with it? Like Disneyland with Sexyy Red or something? Like anybody with sense of gym.

[Crystal]

Yuck. No, I do not remember that. Yuck. We don't care. You think we didn't know that you had hoes? Kandi and Todd have had so many allegations of having an open marriage and fucking other people and bringing other people into their bedroom the whole time. I don't care who you step out with. I don't care what else is going on. Do right by them kids and quit trying to come for that lady's Money that didn't have nothing to do with you.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, that's wild.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

You argue about.

Blaze seafood and barbecue and olg and all that other stuff like that.

[Crystal]

Yeah. Argue about all that.

[Kid Fury]

Right. But being like, well, this person wasn't in a room when I signed this piece of paper, so I feel like I should be able to get some of her escape money.

[Crystal]

Right. Are you crazy? I deserve half of no Scrubs and that Ed Sheeran song. No. The fuck you don't.

[Kid Fury]

Like. I can't understand that.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

Niggas are greedy.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, very.

[Crystal]

So.

[Kid Fury]

And nobody has anything.

I mean, that's not true. But like, you know what I'm saying.

[Crystal]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Everyone's real desperate.

[Crystal]

Anyway. Anyway, let me get off of it because I could rent all day. Let me leave.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah, of course.

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[Crystal]

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[Kid Fury]

There's a new Sean Combs documentary on the Netflix that is being produced by one Curtis 50 Cent Jackson. Or as Robin Roberts referred to him on Good Morning America, 50 Cent. And I just wanna, I wanna just. I really wanna pull over like it's 50. If you, like, if you can't say 50, just say 50. It's really not that complicated. You hear someone say 50 cent and you're like, 50. Like, you hear that? Or is it that you just can't say 50? Just say 50?

[Crystal]

I think she's trying to be cute. Was she not trying to be urban?

[Kid Fury]

No.

Okay, I hate it.

And I'm not gonna jump to this nigga's defense like that. But n, you should hate it too. Cause guess what, 50 rhyme with Diddy and you on the TV.

[Crystal]

Oh my God.

[Kid Fury]

Only you promoting a petty.

Documentary. Apparently the documentary is tea. I don't know anything. I haven't seen it, to be honest with you. I just heard about this like two days ago yesterday, man.

But the girls are saying it's incredibly messy. They're saying that 50 Cent must have, like, he must have hacked into a satellite to get half the footage because they don't know where the fuck it came from. Like a common.

Piece of feedback that I have seen.

[Crystal]

Yeah. Toya was talking about it the other day and that made me think, oh, maybe I should cut it on. And then I'm like, mm. You know, I just don't think I want to witness him being a menace and everybody just letting it slide. Cause it sounds like it's probably footage of decades of him mistreating people talking crazy. They. I did see something about that whole big, lavish funeral for Biggie was actually paid for with Biggie's money. And that the day before. Something about, like. I think now I haven't seen it for myself, but I think there's like some insinuation that Puff knew what was gonna happen to Biggie before it did happen and canceled some appearances or something. Like the day before he was shot. Right.

[Kid Fury]

Found a way to stick that in there.

[Crystal]

So I'm like, since. Since he. Right. Literally since it happened. So it is intriguing. Part of me does wanna see it. The other part of me is like, can I really trust a documentary produced by 50 Cent about somebody that he hates ever so much, like her death? And you're. And 50 Cent is also a horrible person. Like, somebody could turn around and probably produce something almost as bad about you. So it's like, should I really be. Should I really be encouraging this? Like, should I give them my stream? But I might. Cause niggas are going crazy about it.

[Kid Fury]

I'm good.

To be honest with you. I don't need. I feel like you kind of hit it on the head when you began talking about it. I don't need further.

Like, I don't need to go further down the rabbit hole of how trash that person is. Like, it's not. You know, And I don't need to see these shadowy interviews of people being like, oh, yeah, I saw this and saw that and saw that and here I am to talk about it now. Okay. But, like, I. I don't think it's going to shed any light that's going to do anything for me if that. If anything, it might make me go like, oh, Memphis bleak. Or whoever also says, I chose Memphis, even on that boy.

[Crystal]

Right. But I give. Yeah, I see what you saying. Because it's like, I'm not gonna. If anything, I'm gonna just be more disgusted with this nigga. But I already have a deep disdain for this man. Like, I don't need no convincing that he's guilty or a horrible person or a menace to society who got off way too easy on these charges and is gonna be out in a few years and back to being his terrible self. Like, I already believe all of that shit.

[Kid Fury]

So furthermore, this shit is a grift, bitch. 50 cent on GMA with a bright blue suit on. Robert Roberts asked this nigga, what do you have to say to people who are saying that you're doing this more because of your disdain for him than having actual empathy, compassion, whatever for the victims? And his response was something to the effect of, like, well, if you look back on, like, some 20 years of, you know, us having problems, it stemmed from him suggesting that he take me shopping or something like that, which to me was almost like him testing to see if I was, like, down with the weird shit too. So that to me said, like, well, you've been having a problem with this nigga because he did some shit to you that you read as, like, trying your masculinity.

[Crystal]

Mm, yeah, okay.

[Kid Fury]

Or just plain old gay.

[Crystal]

Right?

[Kid Fury]

And so you have hated him for that because of it. And you are now taking the opportunity to do something petty, possibly damaging and get paid for. I don't care.

[Crystal]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

Especially. Cause like you said, girl, horrible person.

[Crystal]

Horrible person. Very. His son alone. Like, please be for real with this nigga. Yeah, but I.

[Kid Fury]

Why are you even allowed to. Why isn't just the director, the person who actually. Why isn't she just in there? Why are you even allowed to come talk about anything moral?

[Crystal]

Yeah, that's really it. But.

I think it is. It is good because everybody is not like us. Everybody don't believe victims. Everybody don't believe women. Everybody. A lot of people are obsessed with Puff simply because of all the things he's managed to do, the wealth he's managed to accumulate. And so some of those people really do need to see this. Like, if it. You're right, if it's going to convince somebody to stop acting like a jackass behind Diddy, then good, but I don't need to be the one to witness it.

[Kid Fury]

You're completely right. There was a clip in this same GMA interview where they, you know, Puffy is, like, out in. Somewhere in New York. I think it looked like he might have been in Harlem, and he was, like, out on the street talking to people, shaking hands and stuff. And then he's on camera, not a hidden camera, mind you, back in a car, and it's like, I need some hand sanitizer. I feel gross. Like, I feel like I need to go home and take a bath. I've Been around too many people. Been out in the streets, like, 50 people. Hands I shook. Well, no, wait a minute.

[Crystal]

At first you lost me. And then I was like, okay. I thought he was saying, oh, God, the pores. Get it off of me.

[Kid Fury]

No, but that's really. You have to prove yourself, maybe. But, like, that's really what it gave. It wasn't just giving, like, oh, I shook all these people's hands. I'm a germaphobe. It was just like home. I've been around too many of these poor bitches, and I feel great. He was like, I want to take a shower.

[Crystal]

Yeah, it smells like the. Yeah, it smells like the 125th subway stop in here, bitch. I need to go home and disinfect my.

[Kid Fury]

It smelled like the fish market over there by this CVS.

[Crystal]

Yeah, it smelled like the 6 train. Get me out of here. What a bitch.

[Kid Fury]

So, like, I'm not gagging. You likely wouldn't gag. But to your point, there's some people who will probably watch this and be like, this piece of shit, right?

[Crystal]

I was one of them people who was there that day and excited to see him, to know that he went.

[Kid Fury]

In the car and was like, can you imagine?

[Crystal]

Get the poverty off of me right now? Yeah. Yeah, I can. What a bitch.

[Kid Fury]

You've been so tapped out in your own little simulated fucked up fantasy for so long, bitch, you not eat.

[Crystal]

Like, you really forgot who you are.

[Kid Fury]

Now you in jail and your office out in the streets making money off of a dis movie.

[Crystal]

And it's probably in the top 10 on Netflix. Soon as you open Netflix, there it goes. You're breaking records, babe.

[Kid Fury]

The movie came out yesterday. The Reckoning.

The Reckoning.

[Crystal]

Yikes.

[Kid Fury]

Well, they made this nigga's life sound like a Fast and the Furious film. And the title, you're in jail and talking about some. They're in jail with his reps, saying that the documentary uses footage, personal footage, without his consent, and it's unauthorized. No shit, Shirley. And it is hilarious for you to be screaming about the lack of consent over anything.

[Crystal]

Oh, come on, babes, right? Let's talk about consent. Sweetie. Babes, a lack of consent is a huge part of the reason why that nigga's in prison right now. What do you mean?

[Kid Fury]

Oh, man.

[Crystal]

These attorneys be trying it.

[Kid Fury]

It's insane. It really is wild. It's wild. But I will continue to probably peek my head at the.

You know, 30 to 40 characters a couple of y' all have shared in response to the film. Cause I feel like, that is gonna be more of the meat than actually watching it. I don't need to.

Like you said, be further convinced that this n sucks.

[Crystal]

I know, right? That's a bad person.

[Kid Fury]

And y' all will share the really big highlights too. Hey, let's discuss.

French Montana or whoever's in there. Whoever. Like, but yeah, I've been in. Had a. I don't know, but I find it funny that 50 is still.

I think he wakes up.

Ignores, like, at least six different pissed off women, and thinks to himself while looking in the mirrored medicine cabinet in his bathroom, what is the pettiest thing I can do today? And then he does it.

[Crystal]

And then he does it. Yep. I feel like. I think you're right. I think he wakes up with that as the sole item on his agenda.

[Kid Fury]

Speaking of petty and ridiculous, Ray J decided to log onto the Internet and.

Request that Beyonce and her husband Jay Z come to another Brandi and Monica show and say hi to Brandi.

Ray J alleges that Beyonce and her husband Jay Z attended.

Six or seven stops, he says, on Brandi and Monica's the Boys Mind tour, but never stopped back to say hi to Brandi. And they love Beyonce. They love Jay Z. They look up to them and blah, za, blah, blah, blah. He put this on his Instagram reels because he banned on everything else. And he said, this is coming from the heart and I love my fam. This is all caps, by the way. And I love J and B. Brandi and the family did not co sign this. She's super focused on making every show great. I will prob get in trouble for this, but I love Jay Z and B. Do you know how wild and out of bounds you have to be to be like, defeated like, this nigga? He sucks.

[Crystal]

What is wrong with Ray J For real? Like, what happened? Or maybe he was just always this way. And now that he's getting older, it's looking so much worse because it's like, n, you're 45.

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

My theory lies alongside that.

[Crystal]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

I'm not a therapist or his therapist, but I have theories.

[Crystal]

Okay. Yeah. I saw the video of him. And the funniest part to me was as soon as he said Jay Z and Beyonce, everybody else in the room left.

Everybody else. And so he got the phone, he's laughing, cracking up, talking about Haas. I said J and B. And everybody got up, got out the background, ran to another room. They don't want to be in the background of this video while I say this. And I was like, so you know that and you still go say it.

[Kid Fury]

Black people, I'm begging you to walk directly up to your cousin.

[Crystal]

Oh, my God.

[Kid Fury]

Walk directly up to your brother, your sister, your mama, your whoever that y' all know does this shit. And y' all never say anything. Walk directly up to them, take their phone and say, today is the day, bitch, that you're gonna cut it out.

[Crystal]

Yeah, I was like, so Ray J, everybody immediately left as soon as you said Jay Z and Beyonce. Cause they noticed it's gonna go viral. And they don't even wanna be in the background of you saying this nut shit.

[Kid Fury]

Right. Whatever it is that's about to.

[Crystal]

And then he went on. It sounds like he wrote the same thing he wrote in the caption. It's pretty much what he put in the video. This. You know, y' all the two biggest stars on the planet. And why you don't come say hi to Brandi? We love you so much. This, this, this. Brandi didn't ask me to say this. She gonna be mad.

[Kid Fury]

It's like.

Well, first of all, we're here to see Kelly, and you know that.

[Crystal]

First of all, when have you seen Beyonce backstage at anybody's shit? You don't. Beyonce goes to see Kelly. Whoever else is in the hallway can also get a picture. But Beyonce. Beyonce is there for Kelly Rowland. She don't go to nobody else's shows. Like, I can't even tell you the last time at anybody's anything.

[Kid Fury]

So.

Would it be nice if she was like, oh, let's spin the block and go see Brandi? Sure.

[Crystal]

But I don't know what's going on between Beyonce and. It could be anything. It could be Brandi didn't want to come out of her dressing room. Brandi had something going on where Brandi wasn't trying to go mill about and be around other people. It could be some beef between the two of them that the rest of us don't know nothing about. It's a million different possibilities.

[Kid Fury]

No shade. You want to know what my first guess was?

That Beyonce was like, I wouldn't go say hi to Brandi, but Ray J probably back there.

I swear to God, no.

[Crystal]

I would scream if his own people.

[Kid Fury]

I would scream, get up and walk out the room.

[Crystal]

They did. They ran out the room.

[Kid Fury]

Why the fuck would I come back there when you probably back there? You would have thought that bitch to come back here.

[Crystal]

No, the way that sounds valid, that sound, child, I would go back there. But what if Ray J is back there? I don't have she running away from you like she did that one nigga. That Jason nigga, whoever it was. You know that one? Yes. She avoiding you the same way she avoid Jason Lee.

[Kid Fury]

Like, he got way closer. She's just like, I don't even want to consider if that bitch is back there.

[Crystal]

Yeah, it could be. I truly hope that's it. But it really could be interesting.

[Kid Fury]

So I wouldn't be surprised if the only reason he brought it up is because Brandi do feel some type of way about it. And he knows because either he's heard it directly from her or whatever the fuck. And so he's deciding to be the messy ass mouthpiece, even though she is not. And it's her show. And the only reason I'm guessing that is because she literally.

Makes it clear or has made it clear on some posts on Instagram.

[Crystal]

But I thought her people said that she was hacked, that her account was hacked, and she didn't. She's not the one who wrote those comments.

[Kid Fury]

Sure.

[Crystal]

So, I mean, I don't know.

[Kid Fury]

She's the one who put these photos up on the Instagram story of things. Like, took it personally. Because I never would have done it to you.

[Crystal]

Oh, no, that's something else. But I don't think that's about Beyonce. Right. Cause that's. That's a little dramatic for, you know, you didn't take a picture with me. That would be a bit much. I really hope that those Instagram stories are not about Beyonce taking a picture or not taking a picture, because that sounds.

[Kid Fury]

I hope so.

[Crystal]

That sounds you really. I didn't think that. I assumed somebody backstage pissed off. I actually thought that was about Money Long, because Money Long's not on the tour no more after she said that shit about money.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, I forgot about that.

[Crystal]

Yeah, yeah. So I thought that was about her. I didn't think that had shit to do with Beyonce. Because why would Brandi tell Ray J anything that she wanted to keep a secret?

[Kid Fury]

No shade.

[Crystal]

Knowing how Ray J act. I wouldn't have told Ray J that shit.

[Kid Fury]

Like, I'm not telling Ray J when I got somebody for Christmas.

[Crystal]

Not one fucking thing. This is what I'm saying. I don't think Brandi would have shared. Oh, man, I'm really hurt, beat, and came to, like, five shows, and she won't come knock on my dressing room once. Like, first of all, there's probably some. If this is true, then there's probably some ego involved, but I'mma piss off the Brandi Stans by saying if you want to meet Beyonce, then you need to come to where Beyonce is at. Beyonce don't need to come to where you at.

[Kid Fury]

I wasn't going to say it, but it's kind of.

[Crystal]

So there is that.

[Kid Fury]

And biggest star in the world, right?

[Crystal]

Right. I mean, according to Ray J, who's here. According to Ray J.

[Kid Fury]

So, like, if I pull up to see my sister, I already know what's gonna.

[Crystal]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, and so whatever that is, we should not have been involved. This is Ray J's fault.

[Kid Fury]

1000% as usual. What's not.

[Crystal]

I know Brady was like, God damn. Can I say finish the tour? Like, can I just finish the fucking tour?

[Kid Fury]

Imagine Jay Z go to see the Knicks play or something. And after the game, be like, all right, let's go to the locker room, take these pictures. Like, girl, like, you're not operated right. You do a meet and greet everywhere you go, bitch.

[Crystal]

You have to. You can go home. You don't have to do this. I. Ray J. Ray J.

[Kid Fury]

Furthermore, you focus on the fact that your black ass just got arrested and banned off Twitch because you allegedly was pointing a gun and in Princess Love's space with your crackhead dumb ass and then tried to project all the blame and the bullshit on her, talking about some. Oh, well, she was drunk and she had a man come into my room and try to take my kids out the bed. Some dude. Some dude. Some dude was trying to come to. The dude you're referring to is them kid's cousin.

[Crystal]

Okay, you made it sound like a perfect fucking stranger was coming to snatch.

[Kid Fury]

Technically, like by marriage or whatever, but like Ray J.

There with her cousin and her cousin's husband. The dude she's talking about is the cousin's husband.

[Crystal]

Okay, babes, so not a stranger.

[Kid Fury]

You're going to jail tonight. Someone's taking these babies home. I would rather it be they family than the police.

[Crystal]

It needs to be.

[Kid Fury]

You're going to the jail, right?

[Crystal]

I would rather have my children go with family instead of Child Protective Services, which is who it'll be if you don't act like you have one shred of fucking sense. This is what I'm saying. With everything we know about everybody involved, I'm inclined to believe this was Ray J seeing. Not seeing, no pictures of his sister with Beyonce.

[Kid Fury]

It was set up by Ray to.

[Crystal]

Come to us, to come to Brandi with the bullshit. Cause imagine. So now that you done said it, what Beyonce's supposed to be like, okay, let me make sure I go to another of these shows to take, right? Imagine how awkward it would be at this point because it's like, oh, hey, girl, I saw Ray J crashing out on Instagram. Thought I would come check on you, see how you and then Brandi be.

[Kid Fury]

Like, the next time the two of them come.

[Crystal]

Girl, I am so sorry.

[Kid Fury]

I would have taken a picture with you. But you have to understand that I can't let anybody believe that Ray J could tell me a fuck thing, right? So it just is what it is now, sis.

[Crystal]

Plus, you just never. I'm inclined to think that people have their own routines, especially before the show. And it's very likely that Brandi does not want to be disturbed or doing none of that extra shit before she goes out and performs. I just would not be surprised by that. Why did Ray J feel like involving all of us? Like, if you really want to get a message through to Beyonce and Jay Z, why not do that? Because personally, through whoever you know who knows them, why would you put it online?

[Kid Fury]

I don't know.

[Crystal]

You 46, acting like this. It's so irritating. Oh, I feel for Brandi. I do.

[Kid Fury]

Is he 46?

[Crystal]

He's. He's 40 something. Too old to be acting like this. 33 is too old to be acting. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah. I mean, your point was gonna be?

[Crystal]

Grow up, Mitch.

[Kid Fury]

I'm just curious of how healthy actually is.

[Crystal]

Grow up, Ray. Jesus. Jesus Christ.

[Kid Fury]

What a fucking loser.

[Crystal]

Yeah, you got real problems. Get your anger under control. Stop pointing guns at your wife, dumbass.

[Kid Fury]

This Milagro lady lost the majority of this damn lawsuit that Megan filed against her for defamation. I read a second ago that the defamation claim was thrown out.

But she owes Megan $59,000 in damages. She's likely gonna have to cover legal fees. And then there's also talk of injunctive relief, which I believe means shut the fuck up. Don't ever say my goddamn.

[Crystal]

Okay, okay.

[Kid Fury]

Is likely at the heart of this suit for Megan, because what the fuck? Megan needs $60,000 or $600,000 to this bitch for. She's wealthy. But, yeah.

Then the lawyers had, like, some petty back and forth at big Megan with two n's, and.

Megan Cunningham.

[Crystal]

Oh, Megan the Bob. I have no idea.

[Kid Fury]

Megan Lebob. That's the car.

[Crystal]

That's her name.

Yes, that white girl. Shout out to that white girl, Meg the Bob.

[Kid Fury]

Yes. She.

Fuck. What did she say? Yeah, she was posting, like, the back and forth between the lawyers because I guess Milagro's legal team was like, oh, she lost, or whatever.

[Crystal]

They were like, no, that's not what this says.

[Kid Fury]

Are you actually just trying to be funny? Like, are all y' all okay?

So the defamation claim seems to have gone out because of.

Some claim that this person is, like, a media defendant and.

Whether or not she was contacted by Megan's team prior to the lawsuit being filed, even though in February a judge said neither one of those things mattered. It was also stated that by the time we got here, that could be reviewed and reassessed, if you will. So essentially with a defamation claim involved at. Before, it was like $75,000 in damages, but they also were, like, in the midst of Milagro's teen reportedly going, oh, no, defamation. We won the lawsuit. Fuck Fake news. Whatever the fuck they were talking about. Megan seems essentially saying the judgment hasn't been finalized yet, so just shut the fuck up. But you know, you walking away broke, so I don't even know why you still talking.

[Crystal]

Right. Cause even 60k is like, do you have that to give?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

And mind you, you're giving it to a bitch whose boyfriend gives her more than that to go spend on a Saturday afternoon.

[Kid Fury]

Like on dolls that look like out.

[Crystal]

Of it on fucking life size Labubu. She finna just go buy some giant stuffed labubus with your 60k that you gonna have to sell your ass and everything you own to give to her drive plushies.

[Kid Fury]

So that's delicious. But anyway, apparently the damages really still come from an alleged deep fake porno video that she posted of her.

[Crystal]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

And then I can't remember what the other charges for, but that was the.

[Crystal]

One that really pissed Meg off. That deep fake porno. That was the one where she's like, this is it.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, Y' all playing games?

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So, yeah, the long and short of this feels like ultimately we're gonna get to a point where a judge could say, if you even spell Meg again, yeah.

It'S over.

[Crystal]

And this is.

[Kid Fury]

And I think that's probably what she wants. Yes.

[Crystal]

Simply stop lying on that girl. And all you people in the comments talking about, this is terrible. That means any of us could be held accountable for what we say online. Well, yes. Maybe it's time to stop behaving like little fucking banshees. Maybe now we'll stop using AI to create lies and spread things that are blatantly false about other people. Like, that is actually something y' all should not be doing.

[Kid Fury]

Also, there's like, going, cardi B. Is fucking ugly and.

Ghetto and her music sucks and she should stop making music. And then there's making AI porn of Cardi b playing with her vagina and saying that she like sent it to someone's kids or whatever.

[Crystal]

Right? AI of her fucking Elon Musk and Trump at the same time.

[Kid Fury]

Like, what are you even talking about?

[Crystal]

There's a big difference. One of those is an opinion that nobody can sue you over and the other's illegal. Illegal.

[Kid Fury]

Like if your freedom of speech is in jeopardy, it's not on the behalf of Megan Thee stallion bed. Right.

[Crystal]

Like y' all just need to watch what the you do. It's not hard to not lie on people.

So glad for Meg and hopefully this inspires the rest of you who always got something to say about her to shut the up until you know exactly what you talking about. Because you don't like her, because you don't believe Tory Lanez should be in jail. That's not a reason to lie on her. So get your shit together.

[Kid Fury]

I believe that's what I'm going to wrap up our tops with.

[Crystal]

Amazing.

[Kid Fury]

Good luck to everyone involved.

One second break.

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We are back ladies and germs. It's time for your listener letters.

[Crystal]

It is. Send your questions to askthereadmail.com we may read them aloud on the show. We have three updates this week. Our first one comes from Maverick. If you'll remember, Maverick wrote us about being broken up with and was like, oh, I'm a young lesbian and my parents don't like me. How will I ever find somebody to be with me? And so Maverick said, thank you so much for reading my letter. I deeply appreciate your perspective. Since writing, I've gotten back into dating and have been doing a lot better. My therapist encouraged me to reflect on the positive aspects of the relationship, like what attracted me to her and what I learned about myself. I do want to add that I've been confronting my parents since I was 17. The last confrontation led to me physically fighting my dad and being disowned. Damn.

Surprisingly, fighting him helped a lot with my anger towards him. I'm not encouraging that for everybody, but hey, I'm just the girl. Lots of love Maverick.

Listen, sometimes you do just gotta be somebody ass. Again, not condoning it, but sometimes.

Sometimes people really do deserve that ass beat. We haven't.

[Kid Fury]

So true.

[Crystal]

We have another update from Mona. If you remember, Monona was a 37 year old black woman who had a son with a deadbeat white man. And the deadbeat white man was on Reddit looking for dicks and she clocked right. So Mona said, I did it. I sent my baby daddy a snapshot of his pic with a caption that said this you.

At first he tried refuting the evidence until I sent him the other picnic included in the Reddit post. He called me immediately and after arguing for a little bit, I told him that I wanted what he owed us. He eventually agreed and low balled me a number. I told him I was working on an email, as we speak, to send to his father and then another one to his mother. He then offered me six figures to keep quiet. He also said that he would be cutting ties with our son and he would be telling him that it was my fault. In that moment, I knew I was making the right decision. And so I took the money. I have blocked the money.

[Kid Fury]

I told that nigga the same shit, right?

[Crystal]

Like y' all said, fuck him. About a week ago, I sat my son down to talk to him about his dad. Before I. Even before I could even start, he told me he already had blocked him months ago and said there was no need to wait for someone who didn't put in the effort. And to help his own feelings, he don't want anything to do with him either. He also said he felt embarrassed to be related to a white supremacist. I cried because this means I've been raising him right. But also, I do need to put him in therapy, and now I can afford it.

I know that's right. I have not told my son about his dad's secret life. But I did tell him that he gave us money, and now we're planning a trip for next summer. And I will have those screenshots forever. Thank you for the feedback. Love y'.

[Kid Fury]

All. Cause your son is likely. Your son is likely gonna go, okay, so, wait, he gave you money? Why? Okay, what do you have on this nigga?

[Crystal]

Don't ask all that.

[Kid Fury]

It's only gonna be a matter of time. It'll probably be an adult. If you do say something to be like, oh, I knew, right? Imagine being a demon and.

Being just a stubborn, bullheaded spawn of hell.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But you are willing to bend.

[Crystal]

What an idiot. I do immediately. Got it.

[Kid Fury]

You are willing to be because your black baby mama's like, I know you're a fag.

You hate this nigger bitch and her son that you made with her. But you are still willing to give.

[Crystal]

Her six figures because she got to, got to. And parents can't find out, y'. All. I know that's right.

[Kid Fury]

That's exactly what you get, you bum bitch.

[Crystal]

Send my wire transfer by the end of the week.

[Kid Fury]

Listen.

[Crystal]

Cause my baby needs therapy. My baby needs therapy right now. And mama paying. You know what?

[Kid Fury]

I feel like taking him to that new Universal Studios bitch.

[Crystal]

Run it up right now. Mind you, this is all child support that was owed any fucking.

[Kid Fury]

Right, right?

[Crystal]

So, like, you had nothing to lose. You had nothing to lose. I'm so glad you got your things. Best of luck to you and your son. I hope you do find that.

[Kid Fury]

I got mad just being like. And I'll let my son know that it was your fault. Girl, tell him what you got to. He already hate you. You barely even know that. You're letting your ass lying.

[Crystal]

You barely even speak to him. Oh, no. You officially not gonna call me when you only call me twice a year? Oh, no.

Devastated, right? Shut up, bitch.

[Kid Fury]

If you ever do have this conversation with your child, he'll be full grown by then, probably. He might fuck around and beat your ass. Yeah. So.

Work.

[Crystal]

Thank you for the update. Our last update comes from Bettina. Bettina wrote us a while back about having bipolar one and not really being sure how to.

Exist in the workplace and cope with what's going on. Struggling with intense negative self talk and trying to navigate the balance between, you know, work and mental health. So Patina sent an update and said, did Curefiry and Crystal. I cannot explain how much hearing y' all read my letter meant to me. I listened on a night when I truly felt like I had no support. And the wisdom you gave me is something I'll carry forever. I've saved the clip. I've been replaying it for weeks, and I even shared it with folks in my life who needed the same word. Your impact is far reaching and real. What Kip Fury said about lowering expectations without dimming my goals or passion. Whew. I wish I'd heard that a decade ago. And Crystal, when you told me that girl isn't here anymore, it broke straight through my perfectionism and finally let me give myself the grace I deserve. I'm in a much better place now. I've set real boundaries at work, and shocker, folks have gotten up off of my neck. I still oversee the new location, but I made it crystal clear I'm not doing anything beyond that without compensation. I finally feel balanced and motivated and hopeful again. And then she included some other stuff about.

Work and how she finally got her shit together. And these narcissistic white men won't win.

Sending light and love to you both, Patina. P.S. i cannot thank Kid Fury enough for sharing his journey, as he's been such an inspiration, especially when he shares the less than okay times.

[Kid Fury]

Don't make me cry. You can't make me do it.

[Crystal]

But, Tina, that was so sweet. I love when we actually do make A difference on this hell ass program.

[Kid Fury]

Imagine.

Sometimes I get off this bitch and I'm like, whose life am I about to ruin?

[Crystal]

Cause it is so chaotic over here. But every now and then we do a good thing. Yep.

And I'm so glad we could help you out, baby. Best of luck dealing with these white folks in the workplace. All right, let's dive on into the inbox this week. Our first letter. Mm, mm, mm. Okay, Our first letter comes from Tabitha.

[Kid Fury]

Mm mm.

[Crystal]

Did you hear about the drama with Campbell's Soup?

[Kid Fury]

What? There's Campbell's Soup drama?

[Crystal]

Oh, the N who worked at Campbell's had to resign cause they caught him on tape. Talkin bout how don't nobody want they nasty ass soup with the 3D printed meat.

[Kid Fury]

No, he's not lying.

[Crystal]

He said I wouldn't eat that bullshit, right? You not supposed to say that, nigga.

[Kid Fury]

We know them little cubes of chicken, not real disparage. The food has left the cocoa.

[Crystal]

I told you. No shit.

You not supposed to say that, bitch. The fuck.

[Kid Fury]

Unlike Todd, though, he was probably like, okay, bye, bye bye.

[Crystal]

Everybody know that Superman, right? He going right over to Progresso, like, see.

I couldn't work with them cheap bitches no more.

[Kid Fury]

I can chew that chicken. Fuck that chicken.

[Crystal]

Oh. Anyway, our first letter this week.

[Kid Fury]

I don't give a fuck. I love me a little Campbell's New life renown.

[Crystal]

I ain't never gonna be too good. I ain't never gonna be too good. Never. I said, now wait a minute. Not you attacking my life like this. Like, wait, wait a minute, bitch, come on.

[Kid Fury]

Do you think you are especially.

[Crystal]

Cause you could get a whole can of soup for less than a. You probably can't no more. But it used to be less than a dollar. You used to have a few cans for a dollar. So. Yeah, bitch, yes.

[Kid Fury]

When I was like in elementary school, that was one of the few times that I could actually feel like a standup citizen. Cause I could take some of my own pocket money and get about two.

[Crystal]

Dozen cans for the canned food drive.

[Kid Fury]

To donate for the food drive.

[Crystal]

Yes. And now you trying to take that away, make us feel bad, right?

[Kid Fury]

And charge $5 for a chicken noodle. Y' all bitches are lost.

[Crystal]

Talk. Don't nobody want that poverty. Nasty ass 3D chicken.

[Kid Fury]

Pay attention, bitch.

[Crystal]

Shut up.

You shut the fuck up. That cream of mushroom done went in so many casseroles. As many times as black families done use that cream of mushroom in something. How dare you.

[Kid Fury]

And white people.

[Crystal]

How dare we say merry Christmas.

[Kid Fury]

How dare. Who the goddamn guff.

[Crystal]

Okay. All right. Tabitha writes.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

Hi, Chris. Link and Fury. First of all, thank you tremendously for the time you give us each week. It's had an amazing impact on my life for over the last decade, and I appreciate the fuck out of y'.

[Kid Fury]

All.

[Crystal]

A few weeks ago, I was hospitalized for over a week. And on the day that I was discharged, one of my best friends, Sydney, who had been insanely supportive during my hospital stay, told me that they'd begin fucking a person that I had been trying to date and who I really liked, named Wanda. When I confronted my friend about how they could do such a thing to me during one of the worst times in my life, they gave me excuses such as they didn't know how upset I'd be. And it all just happened so fast.

[Kid Fury]

I don't mean to laugh. This is so ridiculous.

[Crystal]

This is so liga bigga tigga. This is really how we do. Because of how great of a friend they'd been to me in the past, I attempted to move past the betrayal, telling them that we could remain friends. I just wasn't ready to talk about and be happy for them and Wanda. Fast forward two weeks, and to my complete shock, Sydney showed up to a mutual friend's party with Wanda. Now, mind you, the mutual friend had never even met Wanda before, so why would you bring her? What? Yeah, Sydney brought Wanda to this party that a mutual friend was having, but the mutual friend didn't even know Wanda. So it's like, why would you bring a bitch I don't even know anyway, now. Oh, okay. I already said that.

[Kid Fury]

Are you trying to make a statement or are you just being super gay?

[Crystal]

I was surprised by this because Sydney and I had just spoken the night before, and they made no mention of bringing Wanda to this party. Of course, when I confronted them about it, they said they didn't even think about it. And.

Quote, you said you didn't wanna talk about Wanda, so I didn't wanna bring it up.

[Kid Fury]

Ew.

[Crystal]

After that, I told Sydney that I would need some space for a little bit. Fast forward to this past weekend. Sydney and I hadn't settled on a time to discuss continuing our friendship. So when they texted me out of the blue, I assumed that's what it would be about. However, they were texting, asking if they could come to my party, even though we hadn't discussed our friendship yet. I was flabbergasted and told them that I wouldn't be comfortable seeing them, given how hurt I still was to this, they responded that I had been mean to them by isolating them and not supporting them and Wanda, and that they didn't want to continue our friendship at all.

I'm extremely hurt by the way things went down with Sydney. I miss them in our friendship. However, I can't deny the feelings of animosity and resentment that I have towards them still. My question is, what would you do in this situation? Would you attempt to reconcile with Sydney and or apologize for making them feel iced out while we were taking space? Or would you give up a four year friendship over this? I'm in my late 30s and I've found it increasingly difficult to make solid friendships over the last few years. I consider myself to be a very good and supportive friend and expect that from others, which I think gives me high standards for friendship that is hard for other people to meet. Regardless, I'm hesitant to just walk away from this, given the difficulty I've faced with building and maintaining solid connections over the last few years. I would appreciate any advice you too can offer, given that I've listened to y' all longer than I've listened to a lot of people in this life at this point, and I would truly value your opinion. Thank you. Sincerely, Tabitha. Love that you chewed right there at the end, Miss Girl. She said, to be honest, I've listened to you niggas more than I have most other human beings that I actually know. So what do y' all think?

Oh, Tab.

[Kid Fury]

Well, Tab, I think.

It sounds like Sydney is one of these people who.

Will deflect because, like, to ridiculous degrees because taking accountability for wrongdoing or just upsetting someone makes them uncomfortable.

[Crystal]

Oh yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Or what have you. And that's obviously not an excuse to, you know, dodge confrontation or accountability or whatever. But a lot of these responses are just so throwaway. And to me I'm like, okay, on the party thing, her being like, oh, can I come to your party? If she is that type of person, I wouldn't be surprised if that was an effort to be around you again. And maybe she was expecting that.

You would talk to her about it when you get there because she doesn't sound like the type of person who's going to do it herself. You know what I mean?

[Crystal]

You think I want to be at party crossfaded and talking to you about this bullshit?

[Kid Fury]

You did the absolute right thing and being like, no, no, bitch, no. But I would gather that at least that's like the one little breadcrumb I could give her. I think in listening to this is That I would guess that it wasn't just, oh, I'm completely jumping over the fact that we haven't talked or acting like we don't have issues. This is maybe just like a branch where I would come and likely waste your time, because I doubt she would have came to your party if you invited her and been like, can we sit over here and talk? And I know I was wrong. Like, that would have never happened. So you did the right thing as far as the rest of it goes. I couldn't help listening to it. But think about how you always say, to have a friend, you have to be a friend. And even if you are not, Sydney going, I see how deep and upsetting this is.

Tabitha's telling you.

[Crystal]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So at the very least, like, why are you playing these reindeer games?

[Crystal]

Hoe?

[Kid Fury]

Like, why can you not, at the very least, respect how I feel? How I've said I feel?

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And our relationship. Enough, like, where's the respect?

[Crystal]

Right?

[Kid Fury]

And it's so weird that you would bring this bitch to a friend's function that don't even know her.

[Crystal]

Yeah, it. The whole thing is weird to me. Yeah. Sydney sounds like a real piece of work. Cause what do you mean? I was in the hospital for a week. And during that time, you went and started fucking somebody that you knew I liked and who I had been trying to pursue. The fact that you even were like, okay, well, let me try to figure it out and still be friends with you. Like, Sydney knew how you felt about this person. They knew how you felt about Wanda. And they still was like, well, this bitch is out of pocket for the next seven days, so let me go make my move. Like, that's already.

[Kid Fury]

It's so foul, right?

[Crystal]

That's already so messy that the fact that you were even like, okay, let me. You know, I'm not ready to be happy for y', all, but let me try to get over it anyway. You already better than me.

[Kid Fury]

A lot of bitches across any range of age would have been like, you are very much done.

[Crystal]

I've been plotting on this nigga for how long? And then you come in and swoop in and start. It don't matter if Wanda likes Sydney more than Wanda likes you. It's about.

1000%.

[Kid Fury]

Who is Wanda? I don't even think.

[Crystal]

Right. Wanda. Wanda could be anybody. That is right. Like, I'm not even saying that necessarily. Sydney and Wanda would have to never, ever be together. But the way this happened sounds real sneaky. And like you said when you confronted them, about it. They were like, well, I didn't know how you would feel about it. And it just all happened so fast and blah, blah, blah, like, that's how.

[Kid Fury]

Upset you would be.

[Crystal]

Oh, girl, this is something not even.

[Kid Fury]

I didn't know if it would upset you. I didn't know how upset you would be. Okay, so, hey, there's so many, like, just inconsiderate, who gives a fuck?

[Crystal]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

Moments in this.

[Crystal]

I really think inconsiderate is the exact right word here. Because why would you then, Sydney, bring Wanda to a mutual friend's party when Wanda don't know this person and this person don't? Like, you could have just left Wanda at home. Why would you bring Wanda to this party knowing I'm a beater and how I feel about. We just talked about the party last night. Sydney playing in your fucking face directly. Sydney is playing in your fucking face, baby. And then to be like, oh, well, actually, you've been icing me out. And it's really mean and it hurts my feelings. Girl, go fuck yourself.

[Kid Fury]

No shit. You suck.

[Crystal]

I've been icing you out. Cause you're not a good friend. The fuck kind of bullshit is this?

Yeah, yeah. You've. You've been. Are your feelings hurt? You feel like you've been isolated? Correct? Correct. You have been isolated. You put yourself in a position to be isolated. You have been doing nothing wrong.

[Kid Fury]

I was in the hospital.

[Crystal]

Come on. Come on.

[Kid Fury]

For a week, child. And you decided to take that opportunity to fuck on my crush that you know I have a crush on that you know I'm trying to get with. That's already foul.

[Crystal]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

Then we discuss how foul that is. You make the most cockamamy excuse for your behavior.

[Crystal]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

And then continue to do.

Little microaggressive stuff.

[Crystal]

Shit that will hurt me.

[Kid Fury]

Macro aggressive stuff. Yeah. Shit that is just so inconsiderate and like.

[Crystal]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

And then it's like, well, you've been, you know, isolating me from whatever. Why the fuck would I want you to be around me?

[Crystal]

When I said I needed some space, you texted me, talking about, can I come to your party? No. What about, I need some space is.

[Kid Fury]

Not making space there.

And I need it.

[Crystal]

Yeah. So I get that. You know, it feels like close friendships are in short supply these days, and it's hard for you to maintain those. I get that. And you don't want to just let go of somebody you've been friends with for four years. But it really sounds like Sydney is letting go of you, like, honestly trying not to be your friend no more. Because I can't understand why you would treat somebody this way. If I had a crush.

[Kid Fury]

I don't get it.

[Crystal]

If I had a crush on somebody my friend also had a crush on, I would just have to be a big girl about it and fucking tell them. Like, I'm not gonna go sneak and sleep with the bitch behind your back when you have talked to me openly about your feelings for this person. But let's say you were in the hospital and me and this person was at the same bar or something. Started talking. We was really vibing. She touching all on me, on my shoulders and shit. You know, making eye contact. The vibes are there. I'm not just gonna go start fucking this person knowing how my friend feels. Like, it's just like I have more control over myself sexually than that. I'm not finna just do. I'm gonna go talk to myself. Like, do you over your genitals, Sydney.

[Kid Fury]

Self control.

[Crystal]

Yes. I don't care how bad I'm wanting you, feeling you in that moment. I know how my friend feels about you not saying we never gonna get together. Cause we might. We really might. But I'mma go talk to my friend first before I just start fucking somebody. Because I care about this person and their feelings and my relationship with them. Like.

And look, sometimes shit happens.

[Kid Fury]

A fine ass thud is also in short supply.

[Crystal]

Oh God, please, please don't bring it up. I'm in so much trouble.

[Kid Fury]

But.

Girl.

[Crystal]

Oh, God.

[Kid Fury]

You know your friend who is ailing, right? That's their piece.

[Crystal]

It's just weird. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Look elsewhere.

[Crystal]

That's not how you treat a friend. So I don't think you have these super high standards for friendship.

[Kid Fury]

Me neither.

[Crystal]

Because this is basic. This. It's basic to be like, hey, bro, turns out me and you have a crush on the same girl. What you wanna do? Like, should we literally.

[Kid Fury]

Oh my God.

[Crystal]

For scissors about it. Ah, scissors.

[Kid Fury]

I wouldn't even think. You are so stupid. And honestly, if you didn't say this. You always get it when I make a dumb punch. If you didn't say scissors twice, it would have went directly over my head like a boy.

[Crystal]

Oh, I love.

[Kid Fury]

Anyways. Yeah. No, you ate that. You ate that.

[Crystal]

I did.

[Kid Fury]

We're having a blast.

[Crystal]

Childish program. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Tabitha. I don't. I also agree, like, you were literally like, you know, I expect for in friendship for it to be mutual.

[Crystal]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

And for you to get and give and have respect. That goes both ways.

[Crystal]

Be nice to me. Yep.

[Kid Fury]

But I Must be asking too much.

[Crystal]

You not asking too much.

Sydney sounds like an immature friend at best. That's being the kindest that I can be about it.

[Kid Fury]

So even if Wanda fell between her legs.

[Crystal]

Things happen.

[Kid Fury]

It's right. Like, let's just jump out of a stupid window. All of the behavior after that, right?

[Crystal]

Bringing her to the party.

[Kid Fury]

And Priscilla's. Right? She planted your face.

[Crystal]

Yes. Yeah. Sydney is playing with you. So I, as much as you, don't want to lose a friendship at this point, which I really do understand, I think this person has made it clear that they're not a safe friend for you. And they are, at this point, they've made themselves into the victim, which is just like you, really. The acrobatics you bitches will go through to make yourselves not be the bad guy is so crazy. Stand up in that shit. Yes. I knew that you had a crush on Wanda, but Wanda was looking so fine at the bar, I simply had to eat her pussy in the back. I am so sorry.

[Kid Fury]

And then from there, tap this, like. Wow, that is so wild. Whatever. A little whatever, whatever. Just, you know, respect that I feel some type of way about it.

[Crystal]

Yes. And then respect that then you don't.

[Kid Fury]

Bring Wanda to the function.

[Crystal]

Yes. You do not bring Wanda to the function. You understand? I did slide in on the girl that my friend, like, I'mma give my friend some space. That wasn't cool. So I'm not gonna stop fucking Wanda. But I am gonna, you know, not bring Wanda around to rub salt in the fucking wound. That's a bare. Like, Sydney had so many chances to be a decent person to you and didn't.

[Kid Fury]

Hey, Tat, can I come to the. Come to your party? No, I still need space. You okay. Okay. You cool?

[Crystal]

You're no worries. Yeah, yeah, let's take. Let's. If it's all right with you, can we set up a time to talk this week? Blah, blah, blah. But I understand how you feel. And I want you to take whatever space you need. I'm here whenever you're ready to talk about it. Like simple shit. Simple shit.

[Kid Fury]

You mad. That lady as pissed at you as she should be. And when she updates us, I want her to tell us what the mutual friend said when that girl came in with this stranger and she was like, who the fuck is this bitch?

[Crystal]

You brought somebody to my house?

[Kid Fury]

Let me tell you who that is.

[Crystal]

Because if I was tapped, I would have been like, oh, bitch, join me in the kitchen. Cause I'm finna tell you exactly who the Fuck that is. And I can't believe Sydney had the audacity to bring that bitch up in here like this knowing how I felt. Yeah, good luck making better friends than this. But I wouldn't be trying to hold onto this person at all. It's been too much disrespect. Yeah. Our next letter comes from Rachel, who says, dear Crystal and Kiffiri, please help me understand if I'm being irrational or if my husband is overlooking something important. We could actually probably stop it right there.

I'm a 30 year old black woman married to a 31 year old black man. We've been together for nearly half of my life and married for a year and a half.

[Kid Fury]

Aw.

[Crystal]

High school sweethearts.

This morning I read an article in the Times about the risk of C sections and how doctors sometimes rush into performing them unnecessarily. My husband and I have already discussed starting a family and agreed that I would begin trying to conceive when I was 32. So when he shared his thoughts on the article, I was concerned. He essentially said that even if I have a doula present, they won't know more than the doctor and that we should simply trust the doctor's judgment. On the surface, that sounds reasonable, but I reminded him that I'm a black woman living in Dallas, Texas. Maternal health disparities are real.

And C sections can be financially lucrative for hospitals while being quicker than vaginal births. I take this seriously because it's my body and my life at stake. Trusting doctors doesn't mean staying uninformed. He compared my line of thinking to that of an anti vaxxer, asking if I research on vaccines before I.

At that point, I knew it's time for me to step away from the argument.

I believe in letting people have their opinions while I make my own choices. Initially, I only wanted my husband and a doula in the delivery room, but now I'm considering having my mother there as well. She's calm under pressure, we're very close, and she's given birth to three children. My husband felt offended by this idea, but I don't think his feelings should outweigh mine in such a critical moment. Even though all of this is hypothetical, for now, I want to be prepared. So I'm left wondering, am I being irrational and overly anxious or is this a valid concern? I know my husband loves me deeply and we are happy together, but this conversation made me look at him a little differently. Thanks, Rachel.

Yeah, girl. Like we said.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, pretty much. I could have guessed and I would have been Right. You could have placed a large one.

I think that you.

The through line for this one, you hit the nail on and that is it. The discussion surrounding your body, the health and safety of your body and that of the baby that you're bringing into the world.

[Crystal]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

Something that he saw this morning on Facebook messenger shouldn't be.

A deciding factor on what happens with your stomach, vagina, any organs.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

You ask about.

Is wild for you to say, I'm a black woman.

I'm a black woman in America. I'm a black woman in the southern part of America.

These doctors don't really give that much of a fuck.

[Crystal]

They don't.

[Kid Fury]

It is wild for him to be like, you sound very qanon to me. What?

Also, if you want to go the like, let's get read up, let's do this, that and the fourth. You could read the same thing about doulas.

And how.

They benefit the mother and can often be.

It can not only often improve the outcome of.

Childbirth and safety of it.

Emotionally.

The mother bringing life into the world for the both of you will be tended to leagues better than the average hospital. Because to your to your point.

Those are places of business. And they birth countless babies a day.

And to many of them, especially when they're looking at a black woman, you're a number and your baby's a number.

So if I'm talking about my body and the baby that's coming out of it.

We'Re gonna talk about what I wanna do.

And you can have whatever fucking conversation you wanna have at the next water buffalo club, but I'm gonna do what I wanna do.

Yeah. That's that.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

Him bringing up vaccines when you are talking about maternal health is just so great. Niggas just be saying shit. Oh, my God. What? There's no reason why you can't have a doula and a doctor.

[Kid Fury]

That's true.

[Crystal]

There are lots of times where doulas will say, you know, home birth or, you know, giving birth at a center or whatever is safe under such and such circumstances. But a good trained doula will also know when it's time for you to go to the hospital. There's nothing wrong with medical intervention if you or your baby or both of you need it. So the idea that you all should just have to automatically listen to whatever a doctor says, especially if it's not your doctor, is pretty ridiculous. Especially because, like you said, they already don't give a fuck about black women giving birth in this country. And y' all are in Texas. Texas is a state that has made it very clear they will let y' all die in order to let your babies live. Like, they will absolutely let y' all die on the table. If it comes down between your life and your baby's life, the state of Texas will choose your baby's life over you. They have made that abundantly clear. So I.

[Kid Fury]

Specifically for an agenda. Not because they give it to you.

[Crystal]

Right? Right. No, no, no. But because they need more people to join the working class.

They need more babies being born for capitalism's sake. And so they need more. They do. Right. Exactly that. So, I mean, not even, you know, working class, really.

[Kid Fury]

There's.

[Crystal]

There's the working class and the ruling class.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

So we're all poor compared to, like, Elon.

We're all poor compared to the top 1%. But.

Yeah, you're definitely. The idea that he would be offended by your mother being in the delivery room is also ridiculous to me. I feel like most women have their mothers in the delivery room, if it's even remotely possible. So why. Why is your husband being weird about this? Why is. I don't. I don't know why he's being. I'm glad y' all are having this conversation now, two years before you plan to start trying to conceive. This is very smart to have. This is what y' all need to do. Learn how these niggas feel about certain things now so that you not shocked when you four months pregnant and he like. Well. And he starts saying stupid shit. You like, now, wait a fucking minute. When did you get this done?

[Kid Fury]

Imagine being with this nigga for XYZ long and one day looking down at your big old belly and then back up at him and going, who the fuck is this man? What did I get myself into?

[Crystal]

Right, Right.

[Kid Fury]

You know, before you're even getting to that place.

[Crystal]

Yes. I don't think this is necessarily something to leave or divorce over. I think this can be worked out pretty easily. He just needs to be educated. So maybe y' all need to have conversations with doulas who are like, this is what we do. This is. At what point we get the doctors involved.

[Kid Fury]

Great idea.

[Crystal]

You can als. I mean, again, you can see both. I don't know why people act like you can't. You can absolutely see both. Right? Yeah, but. And the offended by your. Your mother being in the room. Please help. He's really gonna have to help me understand that one.

[Kid Fury]

That one's wild.

[Crystal]

The doula. Well.

[Kid Fury]

Like, for separate reasons.

[Crystal]

Well, then, guess what? If you Hate your mama that much? You hate my mama that much and I don't. Then why are we on two separate pages about that? That's another thing.

[Kid Fury]

And your opinion is still not valid. Because I don't hate my mama. And I want her there.

[Crystal]

And I. Right, and we, yes, this is our baby, but we're not both growing this baby. We're not both giving birth to this baby. So, yes, what I want is going to supersede what you want. Like how if I want my mama there but not your mama there, that's tough titties for you and your mama because it's my pussy getting busted all the way open.

[Kid Fury]

It's my paternal meemaw. Conceive she won't be there.

[Crystal]

And she knew. She's known since the day she had your husband. Well, I'm gonna be the grandma on the daddy's side. And that means.

You might have to make a little bit of an extra effort to be just as involved as. Cause you know, your mama's mama is usually right there. Wherever your mama at, she's usually right there. So your daddy mama gotta. You know, it's not that she's ever. She doesn't necessarily have to be shunned. But yeah, something as intimate as bringing a baby into the world. I can see why you would want your mother in that room. A spoon.

[Kid Fury]

You know, like, listen, with everything else, Maurice.

I am the one who's gonna have their vagina and asshole become one hole.

[Crystal]

Oh, yikes. Oh, God.

[Kid Fury]

And then become stitched back together after I shit on myself to bring this child, mind you. Mind you, so with love. I don't give a fuck what you're talking about.

[Crystal]

Yeah, I don't give a.

You're not being irrational or overly anxious. Your husband sounds like he really does not fully understand what happens to women in pregnancy and childbirth and what the statistics look like for black women in particular. So you gotta remind him. We are living in a MAGA society. They don't give a fuck about women, especially black ones. And so as many advocates as we can have for me and the baby, the better off we will be. You want a doula and a doctor to be on the same side about things like, sometimes emergencies happen. You have to have an emergency C section. Things like that shit happens. Like, that's why they thank God we do have C sections. Because before that, babies and mothers just died. So thank God, right? So thank God we do have that option. But there's nothing wrong with wanting a natural birth and planning towards that while Also having other things set up for medical intervention at hospitals with surgeons, et cetera, if necessary. You can have. You can have it that way. You absolutely can. It just takes some planning.

[Kid Fury]

A cesarean section is carving a person open.

[Crystal]

It is slicing through muscle and all.

[Kid Fury]

That out of them.

[Crystal]

The recovery is.

[Kid Fury]

At one point, when they did start getting to it, it was like, so do you want the baby or do you want her? Because if we do this C session, she finna die. So.

Which one is it? Like, now we're at a place where you can read. You can read. You can just read about it. You have time.

[Crystal]

Let's talk to the doula. Let's talk to a doctor.

[Kid Fury]

Let's go talk to a few.

[Crystal]

Yes, let's go talk to. Because we're not pregnant yet. Thank God. So as long as my uterus is empty, let's go talk to some people, make sure we're on the same page.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

About this.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. Cause there's gonna be so much pregnancy bickering anyway. Let's just get the big ones out the way.

[Crystal]

Yes. Let's get the big shit out the way. Make sure we are one band, one sound before we decide to make this child. So.

[Kid Fury]

That's right.

[Crystal]

So, yeah, best of luck. I really do think this can be worked out, but, girl, I'm never gonna tell a black woman who's like, I'm nervous about giving birth in a America. I'm never gonna be like, oh, you're overreacting, child. They almost let Serena Williams die.

[Kid Fury]

Anti vaxxer. Let me guess, you also think the earth is. What bitch, are you. That's so stupid.

[Crystal]

Nigga, shut up. Read. Why don't you read the same article I read in the fucking Times about maternal health disparities in this country?

[Kid Fury]

Like, just matter of fact, Maurice, listen, from now on, I'm just gonna put on a video essay and we'll watch it together.

[Crystal]

Not a bonding essay.

[Kid Fury]

And you don't have to sound fucking stupid, okay? You just leave this to me. I got you.

[Crystal]

Good luck.

[Kid Fury]

My mama can't imagine. Bitch, shut up.

[Crystal]

That's my. I'm finna do like Ken. That's my mama. And I don't care what y' all say. You can type whatever you wanna type. That's my mama.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. And her voice started trembling.

[Crystal]

Yeah, she was really finna cry.

Joyce so mean ass. I'm shocked Todd lasted that long.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, Joyce was like, girl, Joyce mean ass, bitch madness.

I know she is over there with the biggest shit.

[Crystal]

Oh, she's so happy.

Yes. Good luck, Rachel. Congratulations in advance. But yeah, girl, you're not wrong at all. If they'll let multi millionaire black women almost die in childbirth, they'll for damn sure let you.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, come.

[Crystal]

It's really crazy. You almost can't be too cautious, so.

[Kid Fury]

But bare minimum, nigga, understand that I'm gonna be surrounded by at least three white people where I shit on myself in front of them with all these bright lights on and my legs up and stir up feces, right?

[Crystal]

Even better, if you can find a black doula and a black ob.

That would be fine. Yeah. Cause again, you want as many voices advocating for you as possible. You are gonna be in the most vulnerable position of your entire life while you are pregnant and giving birth. So we want everybody to be on your side. We don't need no arguments or niggas going back and forth. Mm. I didn't even want Carol to be here. Why is Carol. Nigga, we don't need none of that right now. I'm trying to bring a life onto the planet. Everybody shut the fuck up and do what the fuck I say do. I got this.

[Kid Fury]

I hope her mama looked like Geraldine, played by Bevy Smith.

[Crystal]

All right.

Immediately saw. Immediately saw it. When I say immediately popped right into my head.

[Kid Fury]

Dear God, I love Aunt Geraldine.

[Crystal]

Okay, best of luck to you, Rachel. That's gonna wrap up our questions this week Again. If you have one for us, send it on over to AskTheRead gmail.com. we'll be right back.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crystal]

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[Kid Fury]

Welcome back folks. It is time now for us to do the read. I will begin by passing my read.

[Crystal]

Pass the read like we used to.

[Kid Fury]

This read.

Or the title of it is I told my dad to fuck off for trying to patch things up with us through his new wife after abandoning my twin and I during the pandemic.

[Crystal]

All right?

[Kid Fury]

Which I really love because it gives me like the name of an anime on Crunchyroll. Like the time I got reincarnated as a slime in the forest with two of my best friends from England. Why is that the name of the show? Yeah, okay. Says hi Crystal and Kaffiri. I'm a 27 year old black girl. You can call me Tracy. I have a twin sibling that I reference later in this letter. Everyone in this story is African American and I'm also using fake names for everyone involved. The below message I sent in response to an email that my dad's new wife, whom my twin and I have never met or spoken to before.

[Crystal]

Oh no.

[Kid Fury]

Recently sent to my twin's business email demanding that we speak to our father, whom we have not seen or spoken to in over three years and have no desire to ever speak to or see again. What? This also came after we blocked this woman for messaging me on bluesky, Instagram and Cash over six months ago.

[Crystal]

Blue sky. God damn Blue Sky Cash app is crazy. I didn't even know you could send messages on Cash app.

[Kid Fury]

Me the Fuck me.

Y'.

[Crystal]

All Weird.

[Kid Fury]

Tracy's email reads oh God. Hi Trinity. We're doing terribly, as I'm sure he's happy to hear, considering that his last message to us was something along the lines of of quote good luck getting that financial independence you're hoping for.

The father said this?

[Crystal]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

We have no interest in speaking to Randy, his associates or his family, not through his sisters, his ex wife, or you. The fact that he's still trying to use this tactic on us just showcases that one he's still not emotionally mature enough to handle his problems himself. 2 the people around him are still enabling.

Falling for his manipulation, 3 he still has so little respect for women, especially the women close to him, and four that his manipulation skills are still sharp as ever. Feel free to share this message with him and his folks and do not contact or communicate with us again. Do not contact or communicate with us again is very much bolder.

[Crystal]

Period. Bitch. Leave us Alone.

[Kid Fury]

Do not.

[Crystal]

Do not.

[Kid Fury]

This has reached the point of harassment and stalking and it ends today. And if he won't be converting his supposed concern into USD and sending it directly to my PayPal, Venmo or Cash app, then he truly has nothing to offer us. Links included for easy access.

[Crystal]

I know that's right. In case y' all didn't know it. PayPal, Venmo, Cash App. Zelle. They all right here, girl.

[Kid Fury]

Our dad sarcastically wishing us luck. This is not the email, okay? She says our dad sarcastically wishing us luck on our financial independence is even more fucked up because at the time, he was covering our rent in our first ever apartment.

[Crystal]

Wow.

[Kid Fury]

We both had to drop out of college due to the pandemic. So while he was making six figures a year, collecting luxury sneakers and cars and flying to doctor with his new bitch, my sibling and I were surviving off EBT fundraising online to help pay bills and eventually had to move into a homeless shelter because we couldn't find stable jobs. Things are better for us now. We're living in an apartment, but we still struggle with bills, relying on ebt, losing our Medicaid, and walking bussing to work. Wow. All the best, Tracee.

So Tracy.

Work. Tracy is out here, you know, scratching and surviving with her twin.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

They have acknowledged and accepted that their daddy ain't shit and they're done with his shit and they don't need his shit.

[Crystal]

Amen.

[Kid Fury]

And this fuck nigga is doing what fuck niggas do, which is refusing to take accountability.

Remaining stunted in his growth and maturity, and manipulated bitches around him to do his work for him. Why the fuck you person I've never met.

[Crystal]

This is what I'm saying. I was stuck right there. Why is this bitch even contacting me?

[Kid Fury]

Communicating for a fuck nigga that helped give me.

[Crystal]

And how you.

[Kid Fury]

Why am I speaking to you about a fuck thing?

[Crystal]

How are you messaging me on Cash app and not sending some money along with that?

[Kid Fury]

I mean, thank you for letting me know. Cash app has that feature on my email that's actually. If you don't get the fuck off.

[Crystal]

My line, that's pointless. Why are you messaging me if at least $50 not attached to this message? What do you even want? Get the fuck out my face a bit.

You left your very young adult twin daughters to suffer during a fucking pandemic that was killing millions of people, and now you got your new bitch hitting us up three, four years later talking about, yeah, well, what's up? Your daddy really misses you.

[Kid Fury]

Call your daddy girl. Why is my father right not pulling his boots up? Yeah, getting on the phone to tell me that himself. Bitch, I don't know you and I'm not interested. Get off my apps, hoe. And you can share this message with that fuck nigga and anybody else who wanna see it. Leave us alone.

Yeah, I'm surprised you did this whole. You sent this whole email with no cussing.

Because the amount of dicks that I would have told this person to eat damn show.

[Crystal]

Oh please, Espe. Oh my God. Oh, you know, you know how sometimes you just be like, God, I wish certain things could happen to me.

I wish my daddy had a new bitch who hit me up talking about why you don't talk to your daddy, girl?

[Kid Fury]

Well, let me roll out my parchment. Let me dip my quill and ink.

[Crystal]

Oh baby.

[Kid Fury]

And get started.

[Crystal]

You finna learn about me on today. God damn. That would be just. Oh, when I tell you I would get a lot of joy out of that girl. First of all, go back to whatever hole you crawled out of right that led to you meeting that no good ass nigga and then coming to hear my line about a goddamn thing. Bitch, I do not know you.

If that bitch got something to say to me, then tell him to hit me up his damn self so he can also get ignored. But who the fuck do you think you are?

[Kid Fury]

He's pussy. You're dizzy. I'm done.

Don't contact me or my sister again.

[Crystal]

You work Tracy. I know that's right. Yeah, shout out to you for not cussing her out. God damn.

[Kid Fury]

Shout out to you.

[Crystal]

Oh, it would have been bad. It would have been bad.

[Kid Fury]

That lady, this email was so professional.

[Crystal]

Yeah, it really well cause she sent.

[Kid Fury]

It to the twins business email at that. So like since it's giving business email.

[Crystal]

Because as soon as you said that I'm like. And that reminds me, you sent this to my what? You googled me and found my job and my job, my email address at work and Are you out of your fucking mind?

You sent this bullshit through my work servers. You know I take and read this. This is not private.

Why the fuck would you do that?

Now it drinking they morning coffee, scrolling through the email like, oh, this look crazy. What's going on? What's going on with your.

[Kid Fury]

Why would you contact your grown ass man kids that you've never met need failing.

[Crystal]

Get a hobby. We are grown. We are grown. How old did she say they are?

[Kid Fury]

Her and her sister, she's 27.

[Crystal]

27. We are 20 fucking 7 years old. It Is not the time for you to be trying to intervene on behalf of the man you just met a couple of years ago. Suck my dick. We are grown. Been grown since you knew this nigga.

All right, all right. You got it.

[Kid Fury]

Thank you for the letter Tracee. Much love and positive vibes and growth and all that things going out to you. You ate this down. And you probably listened to this show long enough to know many of the people who get somebody else together. And I passed the reads vulgari. Just vulgar. Just absolutely heinous. And we live for it because we're vulgar.

[Crystal]

Yeah, we do. We do. We love it.

[Kid Fury]

But you said, I rise above all the haters. I fly above. I fly above all the haters. Todd want that much is beneath me.

[Crystal]

Well, speaking of it is speaking of good vibes. I wanted to first start off by saying shout out to Sabrina Carpenter for getting the Trump administration together. They put up one of. They did one of the ICE propaganda videos of them snatching people off the streets, arresting them and shit. And they said it to Sabrina Carpenter's music, one of her songs, and she said, this video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda. I love that because it immediately right. So first of all, love that. Love Little Miss Short and Sweet, making it clear that she's not with the dumb shit. But it also immediately sparked a debate amongst the Taylor Swift Stans because Taylor has not done something similar. Taylor has not reprimanded Tramp. We really should start calling him that.

But I just wanted to say thank you because everything the Swifties have been saying, oh, well, it's a security concern. She can't come for the administration because then they'll send death threats and hateful rhetoric and all this. You can't expect her to go up against a fascist. Little Miss Short and Sweet said, yes, the fuck you can. First of all, that's Taylor fucking Swift. If regular everything. Yeah, yeah. If the rest of us who have everything to lose can stand up against Trump and say something about the that he's doing, then you for damn sure can you cushioned and surrounded and protected by all of your many, many, many millions of dollars could for damn sure do the same thing.

[Kid Fury]

What I was gonna say is like, girl, she's Taylor Swift. She's one of the biggest pop stars to ever be a pop star. That lady is probably getting death threats every day just because it's a day.

[Crystal]

There's also that for sure.

[Kid Fury]

So her standing up for something, right, is like, oh, well, people are gonna.

Do what? They're already doing some weird shit. Yeah. Like, what are you talking about?

[Crystal]

Right? So I just wanted to say, shout out to that little white girl. I always did like Sabrina Carpenter. Cute little girl. And I appreciate this a lot. Now onto my read. Did you hear what Joelle Santana said?

[Kid Fury]

I haven't heard, thankfully, anything from Joelle Santana in quite some time.

[Crystal]

Oh, God.

[Kid Fury]

Dipset fans. So I prefer to just keep my distance so that I'm not continuously dishon.

[Crystal]

Well smart. Because he was just on a podcast called no Funny Shit, and they got around to talking about financial literacy.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, boy.

[Crystal]

And he was saying, we really need to teach kids financial literacy. They need to learn about wealth and money management, and by the time they get to ninth grade, they should be learning how to start businesses. And so somebody in the background was like, man, start businesses. These kids can't even read. And Joelle said, but they don't really need to know how to read.

[Kid Fury]

I feel like I just got jumped.

[Crystal]

Because, like, I think I feel like the co host felt that same way because.

Because he was like, they don't really need to learn to read. You don't have to know how to read. You could listen to a book on YouTube and still obtain the information. You don't need to know how to read. I believe that common sense is better than everything.

I'm a common sense type nigga, and so I feel like that's why you gotta have that. First and foremost, I'd rather have. He said he would rather have zero book smarts than not have any street smarts. It's like, I feel like you probably. He said the last book he read, just guess what it was. Just guess.

It's the 48 laws of power.

So. But anyway.

They having this conversation. Yes.

[Kid Fury]

I honestly thought you were gonna say, like, Twilight.

[Crystal]

No. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. It was something ish.

[Kid Fury]

But, yeah, that makes more sense.

[Crystal]

So he was. So when they were like, so one. Whoever this was in the background was like, okay, nah, I'm in. Like, he has got to know how to read, man. What the you talking about? They have to. What you think more important, math or reading? Joelle said math. Because reading is just when people want to try to embarrass you and play you or be like, huh, you can't read.

[Kid Fury]

This feels like a trauma, Dom. This feels like a trauma. Dumb.

[Crystal]

Talking about, oh, well, if you can't read, you can't read your contract. But anybody who say, you can't read your contract, they didn't read they contract. They had a lawyer read they contract. They just saying it to be funny, nigga. Nigga. There's no such thing as financial literacy if you cannot fucking read.

Being able to read is the foundation of literacy, period. How far do you think anybody is gonna get in this life without knowing how to read?

[Kid Fury]

That's what I'm saying. Like, I couldn't help but sit here and go how insane it is for you to sound or to make it sound like you're pro financial literacy. But then in a breath, when someone apparently off camera is like, well, these bitches can't read. You're like, oh, reading? That's stupid. Who needs that?

[Crystal]

And they don't need to know how. How are you supposed to manage money when you can't read a budget when you're a. Because if you can't read, you can't write.

Now. Now what? Now what?

The kids just need to learn all that they possibly can about business so they can hire everybody else to do things for them. You can't even go back and double check what other people are doing because you can't read. Simply being able to crunch them numbers is not enough to be a successful. Name one. One successful business person who cannot read.

[Kid Fury]

They're gonna say, R. Kelly is.

[Crystal]

R. Kelly's successfully. R. Kelly's not a business person. R. Kelly's an artist like Joelle Santana. So I think we all know that you don't have to be able to read in order to rap or sing. Those are things you can do without knowing how to read or read very well. But you cannot own a business.

[Kid Fury]

Some way you can play piano without being able to read music.

[Crystal]

Yes. But those people are savants. That's extremely rare. You're not born knowing how to start a Google like you. The idea that kids like. The idea that kids need to learn more about starting a business than they do the basics. Reading is fundamental. We say that for a reason. It is literally at the foundation of education.

[Kid Fury]

How could you be successful in business with the amount of things you have to read as a business person?

[Crystal]

Just. Just emails. How are you even gonna get connected with anybody when you can't read?

[Kid Fury]

Why do y' all go outside and say stuff.

Like, why do you speak to you? And then you do it in front of a microphone, which is, like, designed to amplify your voice.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So you want it to be loud, the stupid shit. I don't get it.

[Crystal]

I know. As soon as he said that them co hosts on that podcast was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is gonna go viral. This is the clip. Thank you so much. This is the clip. The numbers are going up this week N for a show to be called no funny shit. This nigga is hilarious.

[Kid Fury]

Friend of the show. Call back anytime.

[Crystal]

Talking about they should be learning how to start businesses, but they don't really know how to read. I say that respect respectfully.

[Kid Fury]

I'm not concerned about your respect.

[Crystal]

I'm not. I'm concerned that perhaps you have children. I don't know if he does.

[Kid Fury]

He does.

[Crystal]

I'm a little concerned if he does, because it just does not. Yes, audiobooks are great. Kids listen well. They should be listening to stories all the time between school and parents and bedtime, like, yes, but all of that is to help you on your literacy journey. It's so that you're in the blocks.

[Kid Fury]

Got letters and shit on them like.

[Crystal]

This is so stupid. It's kind of hard to wrap your mind around how somebody should.

[Kid Fury]

It truly is.

So quickly to have this one point, right? And then off of like a six word sentence, it's like, oh, yeah, fuck reading.

[Crystal]

Talking about I'm a common sense nigga. Clearly not. Cause common sense says everybody should know how to read. That's common sense, is kids need to know how to read.

[Kid Fury]

You can't get bitch the secret Mormon wives or whatever, them TikTok bitches, they can't even get paid if they cannot read.

[Crystal]

There were too many very special episodes. Which one of you crew of sitcoms New York in the 70s and 80s.

[Kid Fury]

Made fun of the young Joel Santana?

[Crystal]

Exactly what it is.

[Kid Fury]

He struggled to see where Spot ran.

In fifth grade.

[Crystal]

They had to do popcorn reading. Joel Santana got embarrassed and from that day forward, he said, books and book learning. I ain't with none of that.

[Kid Fury]

The doll said, reading is to embarrass bitches that can't.

That's delicious. I love it. My favorite thing about being able to read is humiliating those that can't.

[Crystal]

Meanwhile, I don't even think about those who can't because, I mean, for most people who can't read, it's a giant tragedy. They live in places where they didn't have access to education.

[Kid Fury]

Exactly.

[Crystal]

It's like something went horribly wrong. Right? Something went very wrong in your life to where now you can't read. And you are at a significant disadvantage in this life because of it. Everybody needs to be able to read. This is just.

[Kid Fury]

Yes.

And it's wild for you as someone who made it anyway, right? To come on here and preach about something. Valid and then directly bookend it with. But fuck literacy. Like actual reading.

[Crystal]

Yeah. And I believe you can read. Maybe you read at a third grade level, but I believe you can read. Jewell Centon. I believe you possess the ability to read.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, of course. It's just shocking to me that you, Lea Michele.

[Crystal]

Y' all have got to leave that alone, please.

[Kid Fury]

That I'm joking.

[Crystal]

Please.

I know. Lea Michelle.

[Kid Fury]

Looks like that's really funny.

[Crystal]

It is. Because you know, it's Lea Michele. Cause, yeah, speaking of stupid. That's exactly what I was gonna say. Try to land this plane. I call a lot of things stupid. Okay? A lot. A lot of things. A lot of people. There's a lot of evidence of that. This may be. This really might be top three dumbest things I've ever heard somebody else say. I had to go back and play the. I had to go back and play the whole clip for myself. Cause I just said, please. There's a psych in here somewhere. It's a man, you know, I'm just playing. That's the type of dumb shit dumb Harlem niggas say. Ah, these kids don't need that. Like, I just knew he was finna clean that up somehow or be like, you know, financial literacy, like, you almost had a point. Cause kids do need to learn about money and managing finances and how to budget and taking care of a household and all that. That is important. It does not supersede the ability to read.

[Kid Fury]

For me, for some reason, it is reminding me a lot of. Maybe because we whooped his ass this episode, but it's reminding me a lot of the humiliation of Rayja. And when he passed that man on camera, the microphone, them glasses, and said, these don't break. And then. And he broke. He, like, broke them like a toothpick.

[Crystal]

He immediately broke them.

[Kid Fury]

Like, why did this have to happen.

On camera?

[Crystal]

And he said it with such confidence. They unbreakable. That nigga broke them in three seconds.

[Kid Fury]

Didn't struggle at all. Looked like it was one of the easiest things he's ever done right?

[Crystal]

Didn't break a sweat. And then Ray J just sitting there like, oh, well, you know, that don't matter.

[Kid Fury]

Humiliating.

[Crystal]

Not when you're a dumbass. Nothing's embarrassing when you're stupid.

[Kid Fury]

True.

[Crystal]

I said, wow, let this be the last time I hear Joelle Santana opinion on pretty much anything. Fuck, I'm still.

[Kid Fury]

It also explains a couple things.

[Crystal]

I've heard. Niggas say a lot of shit, man. I really have.

[Kid Fury]

That's wild. It is pretty up there. It's wild.

[Crystal]

But reading is optional, like. And he meant. No.

[Kid Fury]

He start a business. Be financially literally doubled down on it.

[Crystal]

Them niggas was like, nah, it ain't no way. Come on, bro. Come on, bro. Come on. He's like, nah, I'm for real. With all due respect, common sense is more important than anything. Okay, well.

I mean, maybe it's just my common sense. It might just be my. Well, you can't write in a journal then, can you? If you cannot.

[Kid Fury]

Walked into that.

Yeah. Well, you know what? To your ibook ebook audio book point, you can jump right into that iOS, tap that microphone icon, and notes will write it for you.

[Crystal]

Oh, God.

[Kid Fury]

But you just think that maybe you should be sharing some of these opinions with your phone.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Or a piece of paper and not with the rest of the world.

[Crystal]

Yeah. You can dictate into the notes app, but you'll never know what it says.

You can't even read it back to make sure they got it right, Bro. What the fuck, nigga?

[Kid Fury]

You'll likely have to pass it to maybe one of the kids and be like, let me.

Read this for me. Cause I'm sure them kids are fine.

I'm sure them kids are fine. Their daddy got money. Their mama got money. I'm sure they go to a real school.

[Crystal]

Right? Just a school. It just, you know.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

I can't believe this is even something that had to be said, but please don't think you're gonna run.

[Kid Fury]

Shiraz was in Dipset when He was, like, 17, 18. Why weren't you in school like he was running the streets? Cause he was a candid shit. So you probably weren't making.

[Crystal]

You weren't no businessman either. Like, that's not.

Getting lucky. And making it as a rapper is not the same as starting a business. That's not the same thing. And I just.

You need to be able to read. You need to be able to read signs and paperwork.

[Kid Fury]

You just want to.

[Crystal]

You can't even get a driver's license without being able to read, bro. Like, what do you. Come on. There's a written test. You have to be able to.

[Kid Fury]

Maybe this is.

[Crystal]

Okay. Yeah. Okay. Reading. Reading is so important.

[Kid Fury]

This is why he got caught with that gun in the airport one time.

[Crystal]

Because he had no idea.

[Kid Fury]

Saw the guns on them signs. I was like, oh, we good? He said, oh, yeah, they were prohibited.

[Crystal]

That's why they had to put a big red circle with a line through it. Like, God damn, we gotta spell it out for these niggas. Because somehow y' all still bringing loaded weapons in your carry on down to the Newark International Airport. We don't do that.

[Kid Fury]

All firearms are professional.

[Crystal]

Probably are probably cool to bring on the plane. Cool. Cool.

[Kid Fury]

Okay. All right.

God damn. That's so embarrassing. Embarrassing.

[Crystal]

And he meant it. That's the worst part. It was not a bit. He really meant that shit.

Yeah. So please do continue to teach your children to read. Please do not. Please do not abandon Ms. Rachel in favor of Jewell Santana. And that is going to wrap up this week's episode of the Read. God damn, bro.

Check us out on social media at. This is the Read. Our website is. This is the read.com. thank you so much, Mandy B. For being on this week's episode of Crystal's Couch. We sat there and argued because of course we did. Crystalscouch.com for new episodes and et cetera, et cetera. Any news from you this week, Kid Fury?

[Kid Fury]

I'm just astounded.

[Crystal]

Yeah. Yeah, you should be.

[Kid Fury]

No one should feel comfortable to share that opinion.

Nobody. No adult person. Like, that's something you say when you're like eight and you've been raking in the Girl Scout lemonade sale money or the lemonade money, the chocolate bar coin.

[Crystal]

Oh, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And you're just like, I have $58.

[Crystal]

I don't need school.

[Kid Fury]

And your mom was like, well, you're gonna have to be able to read.

Have you seen how many blow pops I've brought into this house? Like, that's something you say when you're a jit. A grown kid with jits of your own.

[Crystal]

It's pretty dumb, bro. It's pretty dumb.

[Kid Fury]

Yikes. Kid Fury is my name. You can Google it. The Read. See you next week for all things.

Going on in the world. And I will say pray, pray, prayer for y' all got to in the meantime, because write it.

[Crystal]

You gotta write it down. Write it down and read it out loud.

[Kid Fury]

God, so tired of it.

[Crystal]

For the girls who can't. All right, see y' all next week.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crystal]

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