Step Up

Summary

The Read – "Step Up" (December 18, 2025)

Hosts: Kid Fury & Crissle
Network: Loud Speakers
Theme: Hip-hop and pop culture's dramatic tales, personal therapy, and shade delivered with humor and candor.

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Episode Overview

Wrapping up the year, Kid Fury and Crissle bring their distinct blend of humor and real talk to examine hip-hop and celeb headlines, personal woes, and fan letters with their signature unfiltered commentary. The episode features everything from Black Excellence to petty rap beefs, problematic men, and relationship advice, ending with their infamous Reads.

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Key Discussions & Segments

1. Opening Banter & The Joys/Perils of Modern Tech (02:29 - 06:55)

• Crissle vents about being disconnected from WiFi, realizing how much daily life is dependent on internet access ("Can I use the microwave? What else has to use...").
• PlayStation woes: Crissle recounts her game play being cut short by license verifications—a funny take on digital-era frustrations.
• Kid Fury quips: "What made you think I could function without that Internet working? I cannot..." (03:37).

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2. Black Excellence: Deta Hedman – Darts Champion (05:18 – 08:22)

• Honoring Deta Hedman from Essex, UK—the first Black woman to become world darts champion.
• Crissle beams: "Shout out to black women doing it all, even when they shouldn’t have to."
• Notable moment: Deta’s joyful reaction to her win, “When the dart went in, I just thought, thank God, finally I’ve done it… I didn’t think it was ever going to come” (07:26).

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3. Hot Tops: Pop Culture Mess & Rap Drama (08:29 – 54:00)

A. Young Thug & Mariah the Scientist - On-stage Proposal

• Hosts skeptical about the engagement and the history of public embarrassments in hip-hop relationships.
• Kid Fury: “You gotta believe you deserve better than this... But you don’t, so this is what you’re going to tie yourself to.”
• Comparison to Offset & Cardi B’s public drama.

B. Snoop Dogg's Netflix Holiday Halftime Show (12:13 – 17:40)

• Snoop to headline Christmas Day NFL halftime for Netflix; hosts wonder who else will appear.
• Kid Fury unfazed after Snoop’s questionable recent public positions: “Snoop is so deep on my shit list right now...I’m not interested in him performing.”
• Brief detour into rumored Glorilla/Megan Thee Stallion beef, with both preferring "denial and delusion" as a coping mechanism.

C. Nicki Minaj’s Twitter Rants (19:09 – 23:03)

• Crissle sighs over more “transphobic rants,” Nicki’s feud with Gavin Newsom, and her rabid stanbase dividing over her behavior.
• “She’s just a mess, bro. She’s not well.” (Q Fury, 22:28)

D. OT Genasis Accused of Assault (23:03 – 31:32)

• Stories emerge of OT Genasis harassing and spitting on multiple women.
• Crissle delivers a direct message: “If you cannot take someone rejecting you without threatening to kill them, you should be in the custody of people who can look at us.” (28:23)

E. 50 Cent, Diddy Doc, and Rapper Pettiness (32:46 – 36:45)

• 50 Cent feuds via Instagram over unauthorized Diddy docs; Jim Jones/Maeno/Fab/Dave East podcast get dragged into the mess.
• “Why are you trying to turn this into some late ass shit like this?” (36:38)

F. Chrisean Removing Blueface Face Tattoo (37:03 – 39:00)

• Crissle celebrates Chrisean getting Blueface’s name lasered off her face as a first step to recovery, naming it a “step in the right direction.”

G. Future Named 'Friend of the House' at Louis Vuitton (39:00 – 44:19)

• Pharrell’s influence at Louis Vuitton; hosts ponder the meaning of “friend of the house.”
• Comedic highlights imagining "dirty Sprite" Louis accessories and Future’s silent appeal as a model.

H. Drake's Petty DM to Ebro & More Rap Drama (44:19 – 54:15)

• Discussion of Drake messaging Ebro "Die slower pussy" after Hot97 show gets canceled, suggesting thin-skinned artist responses to public critique.
• “That’s exactly what I expect a white boy to say.” (Q Fury, 48:06)
• Reflection on Drake's insecurity post-beef with Kendrick and diss tracks that failed to chart.

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4. Advice Letters & Therapy Hotline (58:12 – 95:11)

A. Should I Tell My Situationship I Want to Date Around? (58:46 – 70:15)

• A listener, Tony, is dating a woman but wants to explore with masculine-presenting lesbians.
• The hosts encourage open communication and self-discovery, emphasizing not confusing presentation with sexual preference.
• Playful banter about "stems" and "super studs" in the Black lesbian community.

B. Can Exes Be Friends? (70:15 – 81:37)

• Xavier asks about remaining friends post-breakup; hosts give a resounding “Nope” while emotions are raw.
• Kid Fury: “You don’t build, maintain a friendship with someone while you’re grieving them... You have to put him in the ground.” (72:07)

C. Supporting a Struggling Partner (81:56 – 95:12)

• Marisa wonders if her professional success is making her boyfriend feel worse during his career setbacks.
• They suggest not projecting insecurities or inventing drama, but being present and supportive—unless he shows resentment.
• Sharp eye toward red flags: “What is it about this nigga that make keeping a job so hard for him?” (88:37)
• “I have my ‘No’ answers ready if he asks for money.” (91:29)

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5. The Reads: Strong Words for the Week (99:21 – 126:51)

A. Crissle’s Read: Lazy Storytelling & Military Stupidity in Sci-fi (99:21–106:44)

• Rants about Hollywood always turning monsters into military weapons—hates the trope and criticizes Quentin Tarantino’s Fortnite tie-in for “Kill Bill.”

B. Kid Fury’s Read: Russell Simmons & Out-of-Touch Journalism (106:44-126:51)

• Drags Russell Simmons for trying to shift blame onto Kimora Lee Simmons about his relationship with his children, reminding listeners of Simmons’ grooming and criminal allegations.
  • “Why were you best friends with a teenage girl at 38?” (109:43)
• Blasts sports reporter Rachel Nichols for asking cringe-inducing, too-personal questions to athletes about their relationships, emphasizing professionalism and boundaries.
  • “Why are you taking bored-ass losers’ jokes to the faces of legit athletes?” (117:09)
  • “Let the Internet joke be an Internet joke.”

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Crissle (05:18): “Shout out to black women doing it all, even when they shouldn’t have to.”
• Kid Fury (28:23): “If you cannot take someone rejecting you... without threatening to kill them, you should be in the custody of people who can look at us.”
• Crissle (72:07): “It’s like if this motherfucker died and you’re grieving while keeping his body on the couch... You have to put him in the ground.”
• Kid Fury on Drake (48:06): “That’s exactly what I expect a white boy to say... trolling on live video games.”
• Kid Fury on Rachel Nichols (117:09): “You’re taking their little jokes and bringing them to actual athletes and asking them in person about that dumb shit.”

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Time | Segment | |-----------|----------------------------------------| | 02:29 | Show proper intro & tech frustrations | | 05:18 | Black Excellence: Deta Hedman | | 08:29 | Hot Tops Start | | 09:08 | Young Thug/Mariah proposal | | 12:13 | Snoop Dogg Netflix Show discussion | | 19:09 | Nicki Minaj’s Twitter Troubles | | 23:03 | OT Genasis Assault Allegations | | 32:46 | 50 Cent/Diddy/Rappettiness | | 37:03 | Chrisean tattoo removal | | 39:00 | Future x Louis Vuitton | | 44:19 | Drake petty DMs / Ebro beef | | 58:46 | Listener Letters: Dating/Breakups | | 99:21 | Reads (Crissle) | |106:44 | Reads (Kid Fury - Russell Simmons, Rachel Nichols)|

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Overall Tone & Takeaways

The Read closes 2025 with classic shade, insightful commentary, and honest life advice, never shying away from hard truths or hard laughs. The humor is always balanced with sharp social critique, especially around gender, race, and celebrity culture. If you want a sampling of hip-hop and pop culture’s messiest moments with a side of therapy and community affirmation, this episode is a must-listen.

Transcript

[Crystal]

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[Q Fury]

And I am Ahmed El Ahmed and this is the read. Thank you so much for coming back. And for those of you tuning in for the first time, welcome girl. Thank you for showing up.

[Crystal]

Oh, there are some of y' all too, I guess.

[Q Fury]

Always, you know. Got to say hello to those of.

[Crystal]

You who are like in the group. There's always read.

[Q Fury]

Okay, yeah, let me see what them niggas is talking about.

[Crystal]

Yeah, Interesting.

[Q Fury]

Fun and festive.

[Crystal]

Well, here we are wrapping the month up and the year. This has just been one of those weeks. My wife, I just got back together today after two days of frustration. And I'm just like, it's delightful to have that experience to remind you how much shit needs the Internet in your hands. Like, can I use the microwave? What else has to use?

[Q Fury]

Yeah, the whole thing set up.

[Crystal]

Or, like, start a new printer. And the printer was like, drivers. I need drivers, and I need the Internet.

[Q Fury]

So you need to figure it out.

[Crystal]

Right down, I guess. Bitch.

[Q Fury]

What made you think I could function without that Internet working? I cannot. Don't even. Don't even look over here again until your shit is back up and running. Thank you so much.

[Crystal]

I was like, all right, fine. I guess I'll just go sit down and play my PlayStation 5. And I booted up.

[Q Fury]

Oh, no.

[Crystal]

Rise of the Ronin or something. I'm sitting there playing this shit for 20 minutes, and I got a notification that says, Sony PlayStation cannot verify your licenses.

[Q Fury]

Oh, oh.

[Crystal]

So we're gonna be suspending gameplay in 15 minutes. I said verify my licenses. I purchased the game. I downloaded it on the computer. It's mine. What do you mean? Wow? Well, we need the WI fi, I guess, every day to make sure that the fader somehow. I don't know.

[Q Fury]

They said, yeah, you paid for it then, but maybe you're playing a bootleg now, even though you paid for it already.

[Crystal]

We just can't be sure what kind of cockama bitch. And the girlies.

[Q Fury]

Okay, so we're starting off with judge.

[Crystal]

When I had discs. Oh, see, girlies would judge when I had discs. Clock that. I did the clock. Fingers. You can't hear because I don't have nails on, which is why, like, why do y' all do that when you don't. Okay, fine. Never mind. Never mind. Because I feel like without the nails, it defeats the. Yeah, yeah. It's just, you know, let's get into some black X long this week. I guess the last black excellence of the year is gonna go to Dita Hedman of Essex. Essex, babe. Essex babes. Some little bit of axis. Essex pipes.

[Q Fury]

Y' all ready?

[Crystal]

Essex pipes, yeah. Dita Hudman is a world champion darts expert, player, aficionado, icon, and legend, as well as the moment she's the first black woman to be the world champion in terms of playing darts. I think she was also the first woman to ever beat a man in a TV major in the sport. She's 66 years young again from Essex, out in the UK, the BBC, to Queensland. And she's a Caribbean queen herself, hailing from none other than my family's home.

[Q Fury]

Oh, Lord Jamaica, Jamaica, Jamaica Land we.

[Crystal]

Ma' AM shout out to you for consistently being a baddie, for being a bright light and a beacon in what you do, what you like, what you're called to, and showing other people in the community that you can do whatever the fuck you want to do. And guess what? You might be the best at it.

[Q Fury]

Yes, you can indeed. They make it when you have the coin.

[Crystal]

They make it when you have the Queen. Oh, my goodness, what is that place doing without her? She was born in Jamaica. She moved to England when she was 13 and she's been competing for a long, long time. Here's a photo of her on BBC during a World Championship in 2012. She defeated Lorena Right Bergen 4 to 1 and claimed 2025 WDF Women's World Championship title. Yeah, I think this is like a little over a week ago, maybe past Sunday. And she said when the dart went in, I just thought, thank God, finally I've done it. Most people saw, I started blubbering like a child. It was just the release. I didn't think it was ever going to come. Oh, she's very happy, very grateful and privileged, she said. And she's gorge. She looked like she could be related to me and I'm literally not even joking. Like. Like, she looked like she could be my aunt. Maybe she. Maybe, maybe she is spoken to this lady, but either way, you make me happy and proud. Shout out to black women doing it all, even when they shouldn't have to.

[Q Fury]

Absolutely.

[Crystal]

Sometimes you just do what you want. Like they're darts.

[Q Fury]

Absolutely. Congratulations, Queen.

[Crystal]

All righty. Let's talk about bullshit in a second. We call hot tops. Now, a lot of this I didn't read because I almost fear. I'm almost off duty. I'm like, okay. I'm like them, the people in that pizzeria when Tokyo. Okay. Did you see that video of Tokyo?

[Q Fury]

Oh, Lord.

[Crystal]

Tokyo, where she went to the pizzeria in Atlanta? No, it wasn't Atlanta. It was somewhere in New York or New Jersey or some shit.

[Q Fury]

It was probably. That sound like cuts and slices. Yeah, sound like cuts and slices. Oh, my God. Please tell me you didn't go in there cutting up.

[Crystal]

We closed in 30 minutes. So let's see what we've got in the. The toy box is. Today, Young thug is most proposed to Mariah the Scientist. It looks like this happened on stage at a. At a show program. And it looks as if she agreed to marry this man. And I just want to know, underneath a living God, what is happening. Yeah, well.

[Q Fury]

We won't sadly get an answer for that I don't know much about yet. Well, I know she's a bird.

[Crystal]

Let me look at the clip. And that's what I'm saying. Like, there's that. So. Oh, Mariah. Buckles. This is Buckles.

[Q Fury]

Yeah, yeah, this is Buckles. And when I saw it, I said, oh, Buckles, Buckles, you gotta. You have to believe you deserve better than this. Like, girl that was on the jail phone bragging about how easy it is to cheat on you. Like, you just have to want more for yourself than this, but you don't. So this is what you're going to tie yourself to. You're going to pop out a few of his kids, and you're going to be bitching about what a terrible person he is. Oh, lather, rinse, repeat. We've just seen this a trillion fucking times. It. So. Okay, this is what you are choosing for yourself. That is your choice.

[Crystal]

It was. It's like a recent mountain of terrible things.

[Q Fury]

Yeah, this very year. Like, it just. It's. And I just could not believe the number of people cheering for her in the background. I'm like, oh, my God.

[Crystal]

But yeah, isn't this her show?

[Q Fury]

Because. Yeah, yeah, you're at her show, so I'm not shocked. Y' all are.

[Crystal]

These are your fans that are, like, happy for you marrying this nigga who embarrassed the fuck out of you. But you know what? If you like it, baby, I. This is, I think, the closest I've ever seen to your face. You're cute.

[Q Fury]

Yeah, she is.

[Crystal]

This isn't the wig, but it reminds.

[Q Fury]

Me of Offset and Cardi when Offset got on stage when she had some show.

[Crystal]

That is exactly what it reminds me of. The difference is Cardi told that N to get his black ass off the stage.

[Q Fury]

It worked, though.

[Crystal]

She didn't leave, So, I mean, it did work.

[Q Fury]

It did work. It did work.

[Crystal]

So she was also like, bitch, I'm at work.

[Q Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

And I'm pissed.

[Q Fury]

And Mariah had to tell him to put the ring on her finger. Like, it was just so.

[Crystal]

I'm surprised he got down on one knee, to be honest.

[Q Fury]

I mean, it was. It just seemed.

[Crystal]

Hey, y' all still say yes.

[Q Fury]

Yeah. Awkward. It just seemed awkward and not great. I was embarrassed for her the whole time. Like, I just. I shouldn't. But I can't be the one who feels like, you deserve better than this. You have to feel that way about you. So. All right, this is literally what you're asking for. You are getting it.

[Crystal]

Snoop Dogg is going to Be headlining the next Netflix halftime. So Snoop Dot. Okay, okay. Here's the. Here's the question. The answer to the question for me, because again, I didn't read this before. I thought it'd be fun to just go through it live.

[Q Fury]

Oh, okay.

[Crystal]

For me. I don't give a fuck what happened. Yeah, whatever happened for y'. All. You know, good luck. Whatever. I'm having a blast. I wanted to know if this was. This obviously is going to be him bringing out friends and then, like, doing, you know, a medley in between. I don't think Snoop Dogg is going to do a hard 15 alone, but it's actually called Snoop's Holiday Halftime Halftime Party. So I think we can expect a number of special guests. Any requests? I know you're not interested in seeing Snoop.

[Q Fury]

No, actually. Wait, so is this supposed to be artists or comedians or who all is supposed to even.

[Crystal]

I think it's gonna be a musical show. I'll read what Netflix says.

[Q Fury]

Okay. Cause I'm confused. From the depths of the sea. All right.

[Crystal]

Back to the. From the depths of the sea. Who's playing? The lions and the Vikings. What? From the depths of the sea Back to the block.

[Q Fury]

I'm not doing this.

[Crystal]

Snoop Doggy Dog is joining the NFL Christmas game day on Netflix flock. Is it in Bikini Bottom? Where are they having.

[Q Fury]

Where is.

[Crystal]

Why don't you. But what are the depth of the sea.

[Q Fury]

It probably is a tie in for SpongeBob, because I think it's a new SpongeBob movie coming out. So it probably is some kind of tie in to that. I'm not looking at this. Y' all got me last year because Beyonce. I'm not turning on Netflix on Christmas damage.

[Crystal]

Yeah, but I enjoyed that.

[Q Fury]

Right? That's how y' all got me. I'm not cutting this on Christmas Day. Is for basketball.

[Crystal]

But it's during a.

[Q Fury]

It's.

[Crystal]

But it's during a game. So I thought that it. I thought, like, people wouldn't really have a problem with this being a thing if motherfuckers watching sports anyway. And then you go watch this thing on you watching this halftime Netflix show. I'm just more so curious as to what this is coming with. But this Depths of the sea took me, like, it literally. I feel like spongebob trying to get a driver's license because the way that it just took me off the road.

[Q Fury]

Okay.

[Crystal]

If SpongeBob performs, I. I'm jumping. And I promise you, you're not gonna stop me. Like, that will be it. Okay. I'm kidding. The legendary performer will take the field on Christmas Day to headline Snoop Dogg Snoop's holiday halftime party during the Detroit Lions versus Minnesota Vikings matchup. I'm rooting for the lines streaming lot just because I have more friends from Detroit and I've been to Detroit.

[Q Fury]

Yeah, I actually don't think I've.

[Crystal]

Minnesota.

[Q Fury]

Wait, St. Paul. I've been to the airport. Minneapolis. Yeah, I've been to the airport.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Q Fury]

Been to Minneapolis. For real? Probably not. Probably not.

[Crystal]

I've only been there for like two hours.

[Q Fury]

Yeah, that sounded. That's sounding correct.

[Crystal]

Snoop Dogg, also a die hard football fan coach. Okay. Has promised to bring his chart topping tracks, holiday spirit and a diverse roster of special guests audiences around the world. Okay, so here's the thing, right? It might be special guests you wouldn't expect because Snoop Dogg is like Pepsi now. Like, he don't even. He's just.

[Q Fury]

Yeah, yeah. Like, it's very true.

[Crystal]

So I'd like a Glorilla. I'd like. Kendrick's not going. I'd like. I feel like he's gonna have west coast artists, but I. I can't think of any right now off the top that I want to see there. That would make sense.

[Q Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

I like that. What's his name? 310Baby Soak City. I love his music. There's a couple other local LA artists I've heard of, but I just don't know why they would be there. Okay. I don't know what to expect. I feel he's gonna bring out like Dr. Dre, YG, like off the top of my head, I feel like he's gonna.

[Q Fury]

Them same niggas.

[Crystal]

I don't care about that.

[Q Fury]

I think so too. Yeah. I think my issue is that Snoop is so deep on my shit list right now that I just really. I don't. The Trump thing. And then when the. The gay parents in the movie. And he was like, how I'm supposed to explain this to my grandson? Like, nigga, just. Is it hard? Nigga, do you not understand? Like, what do you mean? Like. So I just am very over Snoop at this point. I'm not interested in him performing during a halftime show. So Netflix won't be getting me with this one. But you brought up Glorilla, which made me think of. Have you heard about this potentially there being like beef between Glorilla and Megan Thee Stallion.

[Crystal]

I've paid very little attention to it because I don't want to.

[Q Fury]

Okay.

[Crystal]

The first time I heard about it was a while ago.

[Q Fury]

Okay. Cause I think it's real. I think it's. I think it is real, but I understand not wanting to believe it. So. Okay, just.

[Crystal]

Yeah, so I'm just gonna ignore that.

[Q Fury]

Just stick my head in the sand and pretend that that's not happening. Okay.

[Crystal]

Yeah, yeah. Before I know it, it'll be like it didn't happen because they'll be pictured together with their best girlplay or boyfriends. Be like, bestie, go bestie, bestie. And twerking and smacking each other's butts. This isn't a real thing. It's not happening. Okay.

[Q Fury]

I actually love denial. It is pretty fun.

[Crystal]

So, yeah, I actually, it's. I'm getting into it. Denial and like full on delusion. It's kind of cheap. The rest of the world does it. Wait, wait, wait, wait a second, bitch. Who the fuck is upright and not delusional these days? You gotta be telling yourself you gotta be in some form of a fantasy to breathe this air. Yeah.

[Q Fury]

You gotta lie to yourself a little bit just to get out the house.

[Crystal]

Like, so if I had the lie that there is no such thing as a Megan thee stallion Glorilla Beef, then that's what the fuck is going on over here.

[Q Fury]

Hey, you do whatever it takes to make it to 2026, okay? You do whatever it fucking takes.

[Crystal]

I'm not accepting that.

[Q Fury]

Okay? And that's fine.

[Crystal]

Speaking of female rappers, I'm just gonna go ahead and get this out of the way. This is, I promise, is gonna be the last time I talk about this lady for a long time. Like, I don't think I'm going to talk about Nicki Minaj again unless it's like a breaking emergence, like a breaking story.

[Q Fury]

Okay.

[Crystal]

Hopefully a good one. So I will just say now it's some shit with her and Gavin Newsom. She just had to get on good Lord's Christmas Internet and start talking about grand newsman. I'm not even really going to read all of what she tweeted. A. Because I feel like it defeats the purpose of the second shutting list. Also, I just don't want to use too much of it and it's ridiculous and offensive. I will say she attempts to start dragging this man for, quote, wanting to see trans kids goes on this, you know, obviously transphobic rant. Yeah. Then starts to make corny nicknames for Gavin that I don't know an 85 year old tangerine colored president would. I'm just spitballing here. Just, you know, then she starts to like talk about how attractive he is. Then it Was just. Gavin Newsom, for whatever reason, had his interns respond on all his social media pages by posting montages of creepy photos of Donald Trump with young girls and with Jeffrey Epstein. And played over those clips was a particular part of Megan Thee Stallion's song. His. If you've heard the song, I think you can probably guess what part of the song is playing over these, like, five different social media posts. I don't think anything else needed to be said on his end, but Nikki did respond to that by saying something like, barbs, please protect me from this evil man or some shit.

[Q Fury]

All right.

[Crystal]

I think that, you know.

[Q Fury]

All right.

[Crystal]

Your. Your theory from the other day.

[Q Fury]

Mm. Yeah.

[Crystal]

It's becoming a. Like the light is becoming wider and wider as time goes by. Almost as if I was reaching the end of a tunnel.

[Q Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

And on the other side was like confirmation again, spitballing. God bless us, everyone. What else is going on?

[Q Fury]

I'm so tired of being right about that. Like, she's just a mess, bro. She. And she's been going further and further in this direction. The barbs are on TikTok. It is a house divided. They can't take it. Some of them are finally at their breaking point. They cussing out the other ones. And then there are some people who are still just digging their heels in and refusing. And I'm just like, this is her. Okay, y' all got it. I've said everything I needed to say about that woman several hundreds of times. She's not well.

[Crystal]

So. A man named OT Genesis approached me while I was out celebrating my best friend's 25th birthday. Young woman named Isabella Grace said as she spoke about an incident that apparently took place this past Sunday. She said he began flirting with me while I was on the phone. I tried to remain polite and avoid conflict, but the interaction quickly became uncomfortable and inappropriate. He began telling me unsolicited and disturbing details about his past, including selling crack. When I firmly told him to leave me alone and get away from me, he spit in my face. Was not a misunderstanding. It was intentional, humiliating, and violating. I was left in tears and felt completely unsafe. Witnesses around me identified him afterwards and provided me with his name. No one should ever be treated this way. I did not go out to be harassed or assaulted. I will not celebrate my friend. This experience ruined the night and left me feeling shaking long after what happened to me should never happen to anyone else. OT Genesis is currently being dragged, rightfully so, for this.

[Q Fury]

That's pretty gross.

[Crystal]

I'm seeing here now. This just came across my feed that another woman is accusing him of harassment. Why?

[Q Fury]

Why did the crack days come up? This is how you talk to women you're interested in? I'm so confused.

[Crystal]

They don't know how to talk, period. They don't know how. Like no one spoke to them or taught them how to communicate.

[Q Fury]

I guess not.

[Crystal]

You think you should be outside saying anything? I believe her 100%, one woman said on Twitter last year in Miami. He approached me when I politely declined. He harassed me for not giving him my number and threatened to kill me. Lol. He was also offended I didn't know him. I've never spoken out about this, but I'm still traumatized from this night.

[Q Fury]

And I just looked it up. Ot Genesis is 38 years old.

[Crystal]

Yuck. All he does is make meme songs here and there that are actually really catchy and probably make him a lot.

[Q Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

Only you could go outside and act like you ain't got no damn.

[Q Fury]

Right. Right? How about we leave the young ladies alone and let them live their lives? They did not come to the club to see you specifically. And even if they. He is one of those rappers where even if you do know some of his songs, you probably don't know his face. Like, he's not famous like that. So getting offended that people don't.

[Crystal]

If I saw him out, that's crazy.

[Q Fury]

Right?

[Crystal]

I would recognize him. But to act as baby Oprah has been in a bag stove and been racially profiled because bitches thought she couldn't afford that. But if Oprah and Beyonce and Jay Z and Michelle Obama can go places and people don't know who the fuck they are. Babes, baby. Especially because you niggas be chasing girls that you feel like not from here, don't speak English, blah, blah blah, quote, unquote exotic bitches. And then be bragging about those the ones you want. So if. If babycakes just got here visiting from Brazil for a couple of weeks. Why you kiss us? She'll know who the fuck you are, bitch. She don't listen to Compton music or wherever the fuck your ass from. I'm sorry, Compton? You're probably not from there.

[Q Fury]

Listen, this is what I'm saying. OT Genesis is not topping the charts in Belize or Russia or wherever these girls come from. So maybe just relax.

[Crystal]

Atlanta. Nowhere.

[Q Fury]

He's from Atlanta.

[Crystal]

Long Beach. Oh, Long Beach.

[Q Fury]

Okay. Oh, I could see either one.

[Crystal]

Snoop will probably bring him out.

[Q Fury]

Birds of a feather and all, you know? So why not? When I tell you I have zero interest in watching us.

[Crystal]

Is that what she said? She said, did you think that L works to her. That almost killed me. I will never forget that. But, yeah, like, baby, no, especially. And that's the other thing. You're. You're famous enough. Even if, like, you have such an advantage being someone who could go out to the mall or whatever and have, like, a scoop of people, be like, oh, let me just. But also, you could take a nice lady out for a walk for a lot of people. Leave you the fuck alone.

[Q Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

On top of the fact that you have money, you have access. If one girl shoots you down or doesn't want to talk to you or politely tells you to get the fuck out of her face. What did we say last week about Tabitha? Ms. White, next. You have 15 minutes. Like, I don't.

[Q Fury]

Another one is spitting in the girl's.

[Crystal]

Face and threatening homicide. You need to be inside. And by inside, I mean bars, jail, prison, custody, div.

[Q Fury]

I'm pressing charges. You mad cause a girl born in 2003 don't know who you are? Nigga, get over yourself.

[Crystal]

If you cannot take someone rejecting you are just showing no interest in you without threatening to kill them, without assaulting them, you should be in the custody of people who can look at us.

[Q Fury]

Exactly that. Exactly that.

[Crystal]

The end. I don't give a fuck how y' all feel about what I'm saying.

[Q Fury]

No notes.

[Crystal]

It is efad.

[Q Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

Cause this is because tomorrow, if he see your sister, your baby cousin, your niece outside, I want to talk to her, and she's like, oh, I'm sorry. I got a man, and he decided to punch her in her face. Then you're not gonna argue with me, right? Right?

[Q Fury]

You niggas need to grow up and get a hold of yourselves. Learn to control yourselves and your anger and your behavior. This is outrageous. And the fact that it's happened to multiple girls, you just lucky people haven't caught it on tape or been able to press charges up. You know, I don't know if this girl can do anything about the spitting. The spitting is a biohazard. And I. I that alone. Black people don't play about that. You spit in my face. It's gotta be a Covid law or something where you can get extra time for that shit. Like, I'm disgusting.

[Crystal]

Good luck in this.

[Q Fury]

It ain't no way in the world, man. Yuck.

[Crystal]

Witnesses around me identified him afterward and provided me with his name. So this recorded or not? It was.

[Q Fury]

Yeah, witnessed.

[Crystal]

Other people must have seen. All right, well, so we'll see what.

[Q Fury]

To testify, right, Cuz, I'm pressing charges. You're not spitting on me, nigga. You. You can tell me about your crack selling stories. You not spitting on me though. You not doing that.

[Crystal]

Don't even do that. I don't care.

[Q Fury]

I mean, I would.

[Crystal]

I don't care.

[Q Fury]

The fact that she was like, go.

[Crystal]

Watch snowfall or she was in her.

[Q Fury]

Phone trying not to talk to you.

[Crystal]

I don't care that she's on crack.

[Q Fury]

Ah, she tried so hard not to speak to you and you just wouldn't let it go. Yuck.

[Crystal]

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[Q Fury]

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[Crystal]

I've had it about up to here with you rap niggas from New York, New Jersey who are turning this puffy documentary in a summer jam.

[Q Fury]

Woo.

[Crystal]

Let me hit you girls with a new splash. And I mean this with every ounce of God given respect. This ain't about you. It's not about none of y'. All. It's not about none of y'. All. And because this petty, miserable nigga has made it a documentary, now it's back and forth between this rapper who don't like him and that rapper who don't like him. Now Jim Jones, who has a podcast with Mayno and maybe also Dave Easter and Fabulous. I don't know if they're also on the podcast or if they were just on this one, but the four of them are sitting together on a podcast called let's Rap About It. Good Night. They're talking about the Diddy thing and whether or not they think it's like appropriate, wrong or right for someone not involved who don't like you or whatever to make a documentary about you without your permission. And so essentially they all joke about it. And I think Mayno even says there's like somebody releasing your sex tape and it's you on a bad day or something, whatever. So they're just making like dumbass barbershop talk about it.

[Q Fury]

Okay?

[Crystal]

Jim, who has like a bit more of a storied hatred for 50 and vice versa, he was more so like clear and firm about it, just feeling like, oh, I don't think it's right for this reason, for that reason or whatever. Like you know that you doing it because you don't fuck with this person versus whatever I think is facetious and petty and blah blah. 50 post this clip. He goes, I understand did he was your hero. Stay down with him. I don't care if you let him play with your butt, then act like you don't remember. Then he posts another Instagram and goes, I didn't have this on my list of things to do, but if you insist, I'll make time. I'm working on buying this space where you film the podcast and 50% of your podcast you know, I don't cap Moji. How did this turn into a mixtape?

[Q Fury]

Right? And why do y' all want? Like, okay, maybe. Maybe I'm just not a nigga, so I don't get it. But, like, I'm not even sure why y' all are trying to do this.

[Crystal]

Misery.

[Q Fury]

Mm. Okay, okay, that tracks. It has to be.

[Crystal]

I know niggas have better things to do. I know they do. And 50 is going to just have to eat the fact that everybody wide open knows that you're doing this for petty reasons and you don't give a fuck about any of the victims in this. Every single person has said it. A lot of people have said it and still watched it. Yep, that's many people know it, said it and still watched it with their focus and being on what it's actually supposed to be about. Because again, you're not the director of this. You're not the photographer. Like, none of that intention here in terms of whatever that documentary is, because I'm not watching it has nothing to do with you. Your intention here was to get one up and make money off of somebody that you hate while they're down N don't even care. They're just saying it because we know it's true. And you like, well, I'm going to buy 50% of your I'm a Buyer studio and buy 50% of your podcast, girl. What? First of all, you take mentorship from Tyler Perry. You couldn't tell me shit. Furthermore, bitch by the studio, you think I can't film somewhere else, right? Like, why are you trying to turn this into some late ass shit like this?

[Q Fury]

Right? It's. It's very strange behavior. It is extremely weird. But that nigga's weird. So I'm just not surprised by any of it. Right?

[Crystal]

Let's talk about some almost good things. Chrisean is getting blue faced name tatt face lasered off.

[Q Fury]

Oh.

[Crystal]

Clip. Just about an hour or so ago, her in the laser place getting. I mean, it's just one of a few blueface tattoos she has, right? This is one that is literally on the right side of her face. And she was in there on the table crying real living tears as they were lasering it off. Because it's extremely painful.

[Q Fury]

Yes, it hurts. It hurts a lot. It hurts a lot.

[Crystal]

But I think I heard her say something towards the end, like where she has a patch on the side of her face. She said that she feel like she's getting some. Something accomplished with a smile. I don't know the fuck Else you got. I know you still on baddies and shit, but you know, if anything, God is moving forward.

[Q Fury]

Yes, because exactly. Steps in the right direction. That's what this is.

[Crystal]

Steps in the right direction.

[Q Fury]

We gonna get junior up off the floo.

[Crystal]

I know that neck is going to be rough. Yeah. I pain wise girl.

[Q Fury]

We don't. We don't know exactly how you got to this place in the first place, but we are all happy for you that you are moving on past a. I do. An objectively terrible person.

[Crystal]

A just rippingly tragic past and upbringing.

[Q Fury]

Oh, yeah, that's right. And no sense of self worth.

[Crystal]

Dark raving manipulation from a man. Yeah. And also lacking.

[Q Fury]

You don't love yourself at all. Or didn't. Maybe you do.

[Crystal]

Now that started. Were you like 1920. Chris was like maybe 23, so whatever. But that was something that I was like. Oh, yes. God moved Jesus.

[Q Fury]

Okay. Yeah.

[Crystal]

Amen.

[Q Fury]

Amen. Amen. Better things in 2026 for you and Chrisean Junior. We speaking it into existence.

[Crystal]

Yes, we are. A future has been named a friend of the house of Louis Vuitton. And I guess this is Pharrell's doing.

[Q Fury]

Oh, okay. All right. All right. There we go.

[Crystal]

But yes, Navajus wasn't hard to miss. What's his last name? I don't care.

[Q Fury]

I don't know.

[Crystal]

Future is a friend of the house at Louis Vuitton. Now.

[Q Fury]

Wilson. No, that's Russell Wilburn.

[Crystal]

Yeah. Ooh, don't let that man. That's the son. Yeah, Future Wilson is here.

[Q Fury]

Son, Right? Oh, yes. That's so true.

[Crystal]

When I read this, I was like, okay, what the fuck is a friend of the house? Like, he just like, come places and they'd be like, hey, hot new hip hop. Says being named a friend of the house suggests more than one off appearance. It points to ongoing collaborations, shared creative energy and long term collaboration. Okay. Ongoing collaboration, shared creative energy and long term collaboration. All right, let's move.

[Q Fury]

Y'.

[Crystal]

All.

[Q Fury]

Just saying words. Ongoing class throwing in there.

[Crystal]

Long term collaboration.

[Q Fury]

Y' all. Just throwing in there. At this point, you just tried to fill up the space.

[Crystal]

Why Future, you have to have come. Like, you could just do what anyways? Yeah. Why Future? I guess because Future. Here's the thing. If Future. Imagine a world where future never spoke again.

[Q Fury]

Okay. I like it.

[Crystal]

You just look at him.

[Q Fury]

Oh, okay. Cutie. Yeah, yeah.

[Crystal]

Tall. He is attractive. Great complexion, Beautiful smile.

[Q Fury]

Yes.

[Crystal]

Has actually a pretty decent fashion sense. I see it.

[Q Fury]

Okay, now I do. You had to remind me. He's Attractive. I'm like, future, why would you.

[Crystal]

Yeah. Very handsome.

[Q Fury]

That's true. He. That's how he got Sierra. She's very fine, girl.

[Crystal]

That's how he got most of the guy. Like, he's very good.

[Q Fury]

Yes, that's right. He is.

[Crystal]

See, now the shared creative energy part, I feel like Hulu in my Disney plus, do I want Future in my Louis?

[Q Fury]

I mean, who. I just don't know who. This is inspiring to go purchase Louis Vuitton.

[Crystal]

Like, girl, everybody, brand new belts for the hood. Are you kidding me? N be on the 2nd of the month getting a Louis belt. Let's be for real, okay?

[Q Fury]

That's.

[Crystal]

The niggas are going to be wearing four belts at a time. The new Dirty Sprite colorway.

[Q Fury]

All right, See, you see how at first. At first she was making sense and I was with it, and then it got worse.

[Crystal]

What am I lying about? The dirty Sprite color.

[Q Fury]

The color Sprite Cardi. The dirty Sprite color.

[Crystal]

Okay, yeah, that's reaching. But N love Louie.

[Q Fury]

Ah.

[Crystal]

And N love Future.

[Q Fury]

Yeah, this is what I'm saying. The niggas who was gone. The niggas who love Future was probably buying Louis anyway. But okay.

[Crystal]

Right. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Q Fury]

Like, are we bringing customers with this? Right, Right. Who's like, oh, well, maybe now I'll check out Louis Vuitton. Now that Future is modeling for them.

[Crystal]

Like, he could go like the Mary J. Black, but this is. Yeah, he could kind of go kind of like the Mary J. Blige way and have like a shoe. Maybe he'll have like a little.

[Q Fury]

Okay.

[Crystal]

And the niggas be like, yeah, right.

[Q Fury]

I'm stealing my baby mama tax return and I'm getting them shoes.

[Crystal]

Those feature loses. Dirty baton.

[Q Fury]

That baby. That baby hit you some other way. Well, there's some Cheetos in there that I need them shoes.

[Crystal]

Yeah. Honestly, this isn't even just it. It. I see. It makes sense. I just be just pissed away with antics, which, you know, it is Future.

[Q Fury]

So I don't have a lot of hope.

[Crystal]

I feel like he's kind of been quiet since him and Young Metro got shit started, right? He really. They really put Kendrick on after like, that.

[Q Fury]

He don't have to do shit else.

[Crystal]

Sorry. He don't have to do one more fucking thing. Went back to Onyx and said, let me get my lemon pepper wet, bitch. I'm full, I'm full, I'm full, I'm full.

[Q Fury]

I don't. I wore like that out. So Bad that Future ended up in my top artist last year. And I said, now I know that's a lie. That ain't nobody but Kendrick. That ain't nobody but Kendrick fucking Lamar. So I know he. Yeah, he eating good off of like that. You know, future's got a lot of hits. But at first I thought the same thing. Like, I ain't heard from that nigga in such a long time. Then it's like, oh, right. First of all, why would I. I don't. I don't go out of my way to listen to Future. I haven't been to the strip club in Atlanta in a long time, so why would I hear him? But also, yeah, he's good. He's set and good. No problems.

[Crystal]

Yeah, this could be good. I'm just sitting here thinking he didn't like Drake popping shit at Pharrell and said for him he would inherit the beef. And Pharrell was like, hey, Future DM me back. I don't know. I just know, you know, Drake is probably having a great time. Did you see that? Drake DMed, Ebro, die slower P.

[Q Fury]

We.

[Crystal]

Got some shit for you.

[Q Fury]

That I really wanted to believe. That was AI. I said, there's no way Drake DM that man. And said, die slower Pussy. There's no way over this Hot 97 shit.

[Crystal]

I don't think it was because of that. I think this is before that.

[Q Fury]

Okay.

[Crystal]

I'm not sure, but okay. Yeah. So Ebro in the Morning was canceled from Hot 97. Ebro, Peter and Laura have moved their show to YouTube pretty much immediately. You can go and watch it every day there now, I believe. But when the news came out that the show got canceled, Drake commented on one of the pages an AX emoji, which, you know, got his fans all lively and stuff. Because Zebra was one of a few hip hop talking heads that I guess were Team Kendrick in. In the midst of. It's like, girl, okay, you mad at that man knowing good music.

[Q Fury]

It's not his fault you got out rapped the ax.

[Crystal]

Thing to me was like, okay, he's just being petty and getting his little lick back. Like, haha, your show got canceled. We're teeing my enemy. But then Ebro went on their new YouTube show. Was like, since, you know, he spoke up, let me read you the last DM this nigga sent to me and also posted a screenshot. Or we have Die Slower Pussy. We got some shit for you. To which Ibro apparently responded, relax, you're salty about losing to Kendrick. You're not mad at me.

[Q Fury]

He said, these hoes can't be mad at Megan. These hoes mad at Megan's law.

[Crystal]

I don't even know what your problem is.

[Q Fury]

Bitch. You a pussy. Never finna check me. Ah, that's so funny. Yes.

[Crystal]

Like, God, I love that song.

[Q Fury]

Oh, I was just listening to his the other day. That is a hit that don't get old. But yeah, I think Ebro has an excellent point there.

[Crystal]

Like to get in my section in mine.

[Q Fury]

So I'm like, yeah, that sounds. This just all sounds accurate. You're. You're just taking shots wherever you can because coming at Kendrick don't work and you have all this pent up aggression, resentment, whatever else towards probably anybody that you think is notable and was like publicly on Kendrick's side. But those people were simply speaking for the masses, like the. And the courts. Like we all were on Kendrick's side. So I don't really. I, I would think you would just get over that. But okay, be. Be weird.

[Crystal]

I'm like, but yeah. I was like, did Ebro say, yeah, we should kill him. We should. We should tie him to like a pillar of sticks and set it on the fire?

[Q Fury]

Like, yeah, I'm sure that's.

[Crystal]

I feel like many hip hop fans were just saying how they felt about it. So again, the ax to me is just common. Whatever outside petty, die slower pussy.

[Q Fury]

I don't. It's just exactly what I expect a white boy to say. Every time, Every time he responds. He says things in the way that I would expect a white boy trolling on, like them live video games. The games where y' all all log on at the same time and go storm the capitol or whatever y' all do on them games, them shooting games.

[Crystal]

And it just that very fortnight.

[Q Fury]

Yeah, Fortnite. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking of.

[Crystal]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Q Fury]

Nice little like, okay, your mom said dinner is ready in five minutes. You better go wash up. That's just what it gives every time.

[Crystal]

I was watching a streamer play arc Raiders last night, and you know, he got one over on an enemy as the character. The guy he was playing against was downed. Like right before his character dies, he yelled out some shit like, fucking nigger. And the guy came at, it was like, what, what did you say? Say that one more time. And he just goes burning hell or burn slow or something. And he just offed him right there and killed him. I was like, yeah, go back to the. Go back to the matchmaking room or go back to the lobby. Dumbass.

[Q Fury]

Like, God.

[Crystal]

But it's like, every day they do it is absolutely giving Twitch talk. Yeah, but why? Like, you're like, you have a plane.

[Q Fury]

Yeah, but he still is who he is. And that's what Kendrick said.

[Crystal]

Who would piss you off that bad if you had a plane and access and all the studs and jet skis and. And chefs and bitches and, like, who could be like, I'm trying to think.

[Q Fury]

Like, you can't get to me now. And I don't have most of that shit. So this is. Again, this is really a personal thing. Have you done the work? Are you secure in yourself? Do you feel good about you? That's what Kendrick was saying. You thought the money, power, the fame would make your bitch ass, lame ass go away. It doesn't. You're still that whack nigga underneath all of those things.

[Crystal]

You know what else? He's released a lot of music since.

[Q Fury]

Yes.

[Crystal]

Name a song.

[Q Fury]

Not one couldn't do it.

[Crystal]

Which one could not do it.

[Q Fury]

And I saw Terence Crawford retired today. I'm like, damn, Kendrick is everywhere. I just am associating everything to do with that, man. I'm making all the connections. But yeah, Drake is. I mean, girl, DM and Ebro, of all people. It's just like, all right, are you really that bored? Are you really that bored? It ain't a mansion in the south of France you can go rent for a couple of weeks and fly outs a bunch of adults, A bunch of consenting adults to come do consenting adult things.

[Crystal]

Last time you went out, France stayed a while.

[Q Fury]

Oh, what is the crown prince of Jamaica, Adonis doing? Where is Adonis at? Maybe you should, like, we should be getting Adonis's Christmas together. We should be making sure the house in Jamaica is set up and ready for the whole family.

[Crystal]

Hiring a private alientologist to take you out or, like, you know, an archaeologist. You should be having an old nigga from Jurassic park taking your Jamaican son out to go and dig up dinosaur bones, Real dinosaur bones that he then gets to keep.

[Q Fury]

Yeah, yeah.

[Crystal]

And you out here telling hero to die slower. I just don't understand, like, what's the point of being wealthy?

[Q Fury]

Because you're missing it. You're missing the point. You're DMing ero. Girl, I wish the fuck I would DM any of you little niggas about any fucking thing. You know how much money I have worry about y' all and what you think about me. For what? Okay.

[Crystal]

I also point out, like, the certified pedophiles thing.

[Q Fury]

But just saying.

[Crystal]

Did. Did Ebro said. Yeah, I knew he was a pedophile. I always said it. Maybe you did.

[Q Fury]

Maybe. Flip it.

[Crystal]

Let me.

[Q Fury]

He wouldn't be the only one.

[Crystal]

Maybe that's why so right.

[Q Fury]

So many people said that.

[Crystal]

Because again, that was a yanked from the sky like people said it because of. Anyway, I had a question randomly just now that had nothing to do with. Oh, do you think it's. I heard. Is it true that Frank Ocean is releasing a new album too? Or was that AI too?

[Q Fury]

I didn't even hear that rumor to. To determine whether it was AI or not.

[Crystal]

It was AI. It was AI.

[Q Fury]

Oh, well, yeah. Sad homosexuals just wh. Whishing so hard.

[Crystal]

His IG account issued a rare public statement and in response to claim that an entire project had been shown. Wait, what? This is back in September. This is new one.

[Q Fury]

Okay.

[Crystal]

I saw a clip that said he had an album coming, but I feel like it's not real, even though it was his face and it didn't look too much like. You know what? I googled Frank Ocean album. Nothing is coming.

[Q Fury]

Okay? So.

[Crystal]

I. I just want y' all to stop.

[Q Fury]

Y' all just made that up.

[Crystal]

I want you to stop and I want you to not have the Internet anymore because y' all don't know how to behave yourselves. Right? So get that together. We'll just go ahead and end the hot tops there.

[Q Fury]

Alrighty.

[Crystal]

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[Q Fury]

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[Crystal]

Welcome back. It is time to read your letters.

[Q Fury]

Yes it is. Send your questions to askthereadmail.com we may read them aloud on the show now since we don't have anybody writing in this week to refute what somebody else said the week before, even though that was iconic.

[Crystal]

Yeah, it really was. But I was half a word you about to be like. So Tabitha wrote back, oh no, no, no.

[Q Fury]

It would have been too much. It would have been.

[Crystal]

And honestly Tabitha, at this point I don't know if I'm believe you.

[Q Fury]

No, no, Tabitha did not write back. I have a feeling Tabitha is very embarrassed at this point and we probably will not be hearing from them again. But either way. All right, our first letter this week comes from Tony who says, dear Chris Lyn Kiff, I'm a 30 year old STEM presenting black lesbian woman.

[Crystal]

A what?

[Q Fury]

STEM. You know, like half stud, half femme.

[Crystal]

Science.

[Q Fury]

No?

[Crystal]

All right. Stem like yep, yep, I'm there now.

[Q Fury]

Like Arnold Palmer, you half and half. Okay. Yes. This year I moved to a new city and got a new apartment, new dog and new car. And I'm proud as hell because the last three years of my life were trash. I also got out of a six year relationship that I thought I would never leave, but God said otherwise. Two weeks after my ex and I went no contact. I reconnected with someone I've had a crush on since I was younger. She's 39, I'm 30 and we linked up because we're both walkers. Our first meetup on August 3rd turned into an 11 mile walk and we've been connected ever since. We do love each other and I really care about her. But from day one I told her I'm not ready for our relationship because the last one really did a number on me. She's feminine presenting and everything between us has been perfect. The sex is good and all that, but I do have other desires. I want to connect with a more masculine presenting woman. I'm usually the one wearing the strap and flipping girls around town. The girls are calling me daddy and poppy and all that, but I've never experienced any of that myself. I want some casual sex with a masculine woman. I want to call somebody daddy. And when I'm having sex with the woman I'm dating now. I enjoy it. But also, I'm like, damn. Everything I'm doing to her, I want somebody to do to me. I know that's right. So here's my question. We've been seeing each other since August, but I'm still not ready for a relationship. I'm getting to the point now where I want to act on some of these desires that I'm having, whether that's downloading hinge or hitting up some lesbian parties. Even though I see a future with her someday, I'm not ready right now. So do I need to tell her this?

[Crystal]

Or.

[Q Fury]

Since we've never said that we were exclusive, do you think I'm obligated to share these desires? Also, where are the masculine women? How do I approach lol. Love y'. All.

[Crystal]

Okay, wait a minute.

[Q Fury]

Not a match, right? Right. Attached is my photograph. I'm 5'9, 172. I like long walks and cats. Love y'. All. Please help. Tony.

[Crystal]

Tony, I don't think you're obligated since you're not. You know, you're saying you haven't had some conversation or commitment to being in a relationship or whatever. But I would also say that the fact that you are asking yourself that or wondering might be reason to say something. And that could have a conversation where she's like, oh, yeah, okay, cool. Thank you for saying something to me, like, but no pressure. I mean, I thought we were just having fun. Or it could be deeper. It could go into, well, how? What do you want out of this? Do you want to Da da. And you can kind of pick each other's brains or whatever, but it doesn't. What I got from the letter sounds like you're in a really good place because you are still simply dating this person, but you're not committed. You aren't in a relationship. It's early enough that you can still go date other people and explore your other sexual desires. I think it's really important that you do that before you get into anything serious with this girl. Just because, honestly, you could see yourself with her or see a future with her. And then you can meet your daddy next week and be like, well.

[Q Fury]

Well, right.

[Crystal]

You know what I mean?

[Q Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

But either way, it sounds like to me, this girl should hopefully will be understanding of how you're feeling, where you're at, and allow you to continue dating and exploring. And if you do not want to, I don't think it is even necessary for you to be specific about the other sexual things that you're Looking for. That might be why you want to go date other people. Like, I don't think you need to say any of that right now yet you're still wrapping your mind around it. You know, I don't. I don't think you have to share that. But I do think if you're feeling like, oh, I feel some type of way, or I'm thinking, I don't think there's anything wrong with just checking in with her.

[Q Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

But either way, you need to go get your back broken. You do. You do.

[Q Fury]

Yeah. I completely agree. There's nothing wrong with just saying something. Y' all have been dating for four months and lesbian. That could mean four months or it could mean four years.

[Crystal]

So 11 miles.

[Q Fury]

Y'.

[Crystal]

All.

[Q Fury]

I mean, who knows?

[Crystal]

But also two dates.

[Q Fury]

Yeah. She's older, so hopefully she's not. So, like, oh, this my man, my man, my man. Just because y' all have been fucking around for a few months, like, maybe she's got a clearer head on her shoulder. Right. So we're going to cross our fingers and hope that that's true. But, yeah, I agree that you need to go do this now because you may realize that you are a stem only on the outside. And that's fine.

[Crystal]

That's fine.

[Q Fury]

I feel like a lot of times in the black Woola Woola or Liga Bigotigga or queer community, a lot of times we, especially over here on the girls side, we kind of think that however you dress is just how you are. But some people prefer masculine clothing. But they're like, on the inside, I'm a pretty princess, and I want flowers, and I want you to open the door for me, and I want you to walk on the outside or whatever. Whatever other, you know, gender roles that y' all feel like are flipped or however it goes.

[Crystal]

So I'm just saying, have you seen this TikTok of this stud who was at work or something like that talked about, but she loved firefighters. She was like. Like a stud stood, and she was just like, yeah, okay. Or whatever. But I just. Something about, like, I guess the men in firefighter suits. Whatever, like, uniform. I mean, and she was like. She said something happened once where she was like, maybe cut her finger or something like that, and she called the fire department anyway just because she. I don't know. I'm butchering the joke, but it was funny because it was, like, full stellar. It was just like, yes. No, firefighters are kind of. Yeah, but I. It only brings. The reason I'm bringing it up is just kind of it reminded me of what you're saying. And like, I think so even outside of queer, but shockingly queer people included will look at folks and be like, well, the way that you present or the way that you dress must mean this. We do it. We can do these six foot four, buff ass niggas mean something biggest.

[Q Fury]

Gotta tooting it up, right? And some of these little dainty people.

[Crystal]

Yes.

[Q Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

And let them.

[Q Fury]

I'm bend. I'm stretching first. I'm touching my toes and everything. I'm warming the fuck up. I'm getting these knees ready. Cause I'm doing it. Yeah. That reminds me what you just said of Tig Notaro. She told a very similar story. If you don't know signature. She's this white lesbian comedian. Very, very fucking funny. She told us same story on like one of these late night shows where she was like, you know, something happened, A firefighter had to come rescue us. And I was like, oh, this is my husband now. Like, what wife, what children? I don't give a fuck. This is my man now. So it must be something about firefighters specifically.

[Crystal]

But yeah.

[Q Fury]

So you call yourself a stem and that might just mean outfits. It. For some people, being more masculine also includes like a masculine identity where it isn't just about clothing. It's more about who you are, your aura, your presence, all of that. But for you, it might just be about clothes. And maybe you're not a. Maybe you thought you were a stem, but as you've gotten older, you're sliding more over to the femme side of things. If you want to try things out with, you know, a big old super stud. That's what I've seen them called on TikTok. Why the fuck not like super studio? There are super studs.

[Crystal]

I love that. Lesbian life is like a, like, fantasy book, but not like Lord of the Rings, like twice.

[Q Fury]

Okay. Yeah.

[Crystal]

Stem.

[Q Fury]

Oh, yeah. I can't believe when I was a.

[Crystal]

Gym, we used to say like femme aggressive or something. I mean, it makes perfect sense.

[Q Fury]

I'm not. I think. I really think the only difference between a stem and a dom femme might be, you know, a dom femme wears skirts and stems usually don't. It might just come down to clothing. There's so. We have so many different look categories.

[Crystal]

Yeah. It's just that I love it.

[Q Fury]

We tend to think however you dress is how you actually are, period. Throughout life and also in the bedroom. And that's not always the case. So where the mask women are at? Girl, you. You are. You said download hinge Download hinge. They at the lesbian parties. They are at the every function. They are out there in life. You'll see them. That's one thing about them. They're easily clockable. So you will find. You will find them. But definitely go have your experience of like getting digged down and all of that. Go, go do it. You might really love it. Be like, actually I'm one of them ones and that's fine and you know as long as well. Yeah, need to tell her no. But if you feeling like you should, it could not possibly hurt.

[Crystal]

I say, you know, maybe fracture a bone, go down to the hospital real quick because you bound to find one in security. You could also a safer bet might be to pull up to a number of the local construction sites in your town. Oh yeah, you will definitely clock them there.

[Q Fury]

You will, they'll be there.

[Crystal]

Let's see. Yeah, I think you know aluminum. And so you just, you, you'll. You'll find them. But yeah, I say continue dating. See how that works out for you. You might have a couple sexual experiences and be like that was fun and learned something about myself. I could see me doing that every, you know.

[Q Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

A couple years or so. But I think this is more my seat. Either way, you need to know that before you settle down.

[Q Fury]

Yeah. All right, well, best of luck to you, Tony. Let us know how it goes. Okay. That letter was about finding somebody new. This one's about breaking up. Xavier says. Dear Crystal and Q Fury, I'd appreciate your advice on how to approach being friends with an ex. Recently, my.

[Crystal]

Don't. I'm sorry.

[Q Fury]

Let him get it out.

[Crystal]

Yeah, yeah.

[Q Fury]

Recently, my partner of a little over a year ended our relationship. We'd been having issues for a while, so it didn't come as a total shock, but I was really hopeful we could work things out. But my ex felt differently, which led to him sitting me down one night to end things, even though I cried like a baby. It was a mature and respectful breakup to the point that my ex assured me that we could stay in contact and remain friends. While I appreciate the sentiment, I'm having trouble deciding whether being friends with him is something I can handle. Part of me always felt the two of us would make better friends than lovers. But I really did fall for this person. And I'm still hurt that our romance is over. I know plenty other queer people have perfectly healthy friendships with their exes. And many of my own friendships started out as dates or hooked up that hookups that evolved into something else over time. But this feels different. My.

[Crystal]

It is different.

[Q Fury]

My exes had multiple previous relationships, so our breakup hasn't phased him much at all. But this was my first real one. So even though I know logically the relationship had to end, emotionally, I'm having trouble detaching. What advice do you have for someone considering being friends with an ex while also grieving that person? Have either of you formed friendships with your ex partners? And if so, how did you traverse those new waters? Thank you and much love, Xavier.

[Crystal]

All right, Xavier, our answer. Don't, don't do it. You don't build, maintain a friendship with someone while you're grieving them. You know, that's like, excuse the morbid comparison. It's like if this motherfucker died and you grieving while keeping his body on the couch, you have to put him in the ground. Oh my God. Oh, that, that. I ate that. Like, he's the same. Anyways, what I'm saying is, yeah, it is near impossible. You can't. Here's the thing. If you are meant to be this person's friend, you will be friends with them. Not now, not now. It's not gonna happen. Now it isn't. Not only will you not have a friendship because you're hurting, so you can't, he can't be a proper friend to you. You cannot be a proper friend to him. Whether he's gallivanting, not hurt, not, you know, smiling, wide eyed, whatever the fuck, still dating, whatever the fuck, that's his business. You're hurt, so he's not gonna be able to be a friend to you because you're not gonna receive it the way that you would friend, because you want him to be your lover. And you are not gonna be able to do the same thing to him for the exact same reasons because you're hurting now, the hurt will subside, but you need time to let it do that. And the, the wound or the cause of the wound or whatever, still poking at it and ripping a band aid off is not going to allow for the hurt to go away. So you gotta heal, you gotta chill, you gotta heal, you gotta maintain distance. You don't even have to date, but you cannot continue to be friends with this person, kick it with this person, talk to this person, text, check in. None of that. None of that. You broke up, you're hurt. Give yourself time. Now. Time could pass and you could heal from this. Bump into each other or a mutual friend or whatever. Next thing you know, you chit chat and it's cool. You're not Expecting anything. You're not expecting anything. It's fine. Maybe. Maybe it won't be. Either way, you are not gonna be friends with this man right now, and that's fine. And you shouldn't want to be. And it is a setup when somebody break up with you. Please stop doing this. When you break up with somebody, especially if you know you about to go live your life and whatever happens, happens, do not crack that door with some, oh, let's be friends. No, no. Love you. Love what we had. Respect the good times and in between and all that other stuff. Wishing you the absolute best. Hopefully, if we see each other, it can be cordial and who knows what the future holds. But the whole trying to, like, soften a breakup blow by telling a bitch like, oh, we can still be friends. The fuck we can't. It don't even really sound like you give a fuck if y' all friends or not.

[Q Fury]

Damn.

[Crystal]

Well, so. No.

[Q Fury]

Yeah, that. That was my first thought. That normally when people say, oh, we can still be friends, they're just saying it to me. Make the breakup easier to make breaking up with you right here.

[Crystal]

But it's a lie and it hurt, for one.

[Q Fury]

I. But I. I agree with Ken Fury. Even if he did genuinely mean we can be friends, you can't right now because you're still in love with this person and you're heartbroken. So you are right. Indeed. Going to have to take space. And I do mean take space. No calling, no texting, no FaceTiming, no randomly popping up. You see him at a function, you might need to turn around and leave the function. His social media, baby, stay off of his social media.

[Crystal]

Even if you do mute him, at least mute.

[Q Fury]

You have to stop checking up on his profile. Going to see, did he do this? Checking his TikTok repost. You have to stop stalking people on social media as well. You have to cut it off so that you can move on. And it's hard. That first day or so is hard. Or maybe the first couple of weeks or whatever. Like, you're in love with this person, so it's gonna be difficult for you. But you really. Yeah, it does. It sucks. You're gonna have to disconnect, though, so that you can detach emotionally. You probably haven't been able to do that. But trust me, as hard as it is to really leave him alone and leave his social media and every. His friends and everything else alone, it is harder to continue to be miserable about a nigga who don't want you no more. So I have indeed formed friendships with exes. There's one ex in particular who is like one of my closest friends still to this day. Shout out to Elise. But that's also because we started dating in the friend group and all of our other friends were like, when you niggas break up, I swear to God we not choosing sides and the friend group not breaking up. So y' all gonna have to get over it. And so I wouldn't recommend that. I would not recommend dating within your friend group, but I have you.

[Crystal]

You sit your gases down, let's make one motherfucking beef.

[Q Fury]

Literally. That is what Shamika did.

[Crystal]

And it worked.

[Q Fury]

I guess Shamika said, I'm telling you right now, I'm not going through that.

[Crystal]

That's deep. It's true.

[Q Fury]

But yes, again, when we broke up, I had to take. There was plenty of times where we did not do things as a group because I had to take time away from her. My feelings are very hurt. Our relationship just ended now. This was well over a decade ago. Elise is married now with a baby. Well, baby, that child is in college, but you know, they are. He's a baby to me. Shit, he's 18.

[Crystal]

I mean, they're gonna be a baby. Yeah. Yes, exactly.

[Q Fury]

Yeah. So he is a baby to me. But. So this was so long ago. There are times we're hanging out and I genuinely forget that we dated. It feels like it was that long ago.

[Crystal]

Right.

[Q Fury]

But again, that's the power of taking space, taking time, letting your feelings heal, letting your heart sew itself back up and then everybody moving on. And if you are, again, like, I agree with you, if y' all are destined to be friends, it'll happen after you've worked through all of this pain. So.

[Crystal]

And if you aren't, it won't matter.

[Q Fury]

Cause you work through it, right? It won't matter. Cause you work through it and it may be in a few weeks. You like, well, I don't even wanna be that nigga friend. Actually. He gets on my fucking nerves. It's just in love.

[Crystal]

You just have to give yourself that goddamn time. I'm telling you, baby, I just go ahead and pretend that bitch died. I've had full on vigils. I have lit candles, burned a photograph, sent them up. No, seriously. Just so that I can like almost hardwire my mind to be like, there is no reason to check their social media. They wouldn't post anything. They don't exist anymore. There's no reason to call them or text them or whatever. They exist anymore. So it was like a fun and just like, spiritual way for me to be. Like, this is over. They don't, you know, they're not a part of my life because they've moved on to another plane. Amen. I've only done that maybe like twice when I really, really needed to just be like, oh, yeah. No, they died. Yeah.

[Q Fury]

Meanwhile, over here on the queer woman side, somebody I was dating briefly sent me two dozen roses after. After we stopped seeing each other for my birthday. Sent me two dozen roses like, three weeks later. Because just because we stopped seeing each other or dating or whatever doesn't mean that, you know, you aren't still a great person.

[Crystal]

And fucking birthday, right?

[Q Fury]

And it was my birthday, so just say we're definitely not having any oh, so sad you died type vigils.

[Crystal]

These bitches walked 11 miles.

[Q Fury]

Oh, yeah.

[Crystal]

And probably talked about their first favorite.

[Q Fury]

You fell in love. You fell in love. Well, this is a different situation, but you can get over this. What was the link?

[Crystal]

Yeah, that was the last one, right?

[Q Fury]

That was the last one. See, look at you mixing the gays up. But give yourself some time, Xavier. You might have a new boo by Valentine's Day. Who knows? All right, girl.

[Crystal]

But you have to get up from underneath her.

[Q Fury]

Mm. Yes. You have to get up underneath this nigga and go find you another one. Best of luck, baby.

[Crystal]

Maybe that's what you do. Don't have the dark sided horror fan vigil like I will continue to do because it's fun for me and I love being Lydia Deetz. What you could do is make the mission to be like, New Year's Eve. I'm gonna kiss somebody. And then you kiss someone.

[Q Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

And it's like, oh, New year, new beginnings. And this kiss, even if it's just like, casual cutie that you had your eye on at the party or maybe a day, for sure. It's just a symbolic moment of moving on.

[Q Fury]

Yes, exactly that.

[Crystal]

So go and get you a New Year's Eve kiss, period.

[Q Fury]

Xavier, Best of luck to you, baby. Good luck, et cetera, et cetera. Our last letter comes from Marisa, who says I have to start off by saying, I love you both so much and I appreciate everything you guys teach on this podcast. Now onto my mess, right? I don't know about the teacher, but all right.

[Crystal]

Teach is a sweet.

[Q Fury]

It really is. I started dating my boyfriend in 2024, so we've been together for almost two years. One of the reasons I fell in love with him is that we're both dancers and overall Very creative people. He makes music and is a. He makes music and is a B boy. And I've been doing theater and dance since I was four. Over the course of. Over the course of these two years, we've both had huge ups and downs in our lives. The last few months of this year especially have been extremely cruel to my man. He got fired from his first national tour with a sports team. Got evicted.

[Crystal]

Damn.

[Q Fury]

And had a terrible loss in his family, all in the span of a few months. He's also been in between jobs for a while due to the job market being garbage. So he's making most of his money on doordash. He's been handling it well for the most part, but I can't help but feel like I've been making things worse. In the past year, I've created a thriving social media management company, wrote, produced, and directed my first musical, which was a huge goal for me, and have become a key member at the dance studio IT Chat, which is actually a job my boyfriend got for me and then had to quit due to differences with the owner.

[Crystal]

I thought she was gonna be like, I think I'm making it worse. Cause I won't shut the fuck up about him getting his flop ass. I'm arguing with his mama, who's enabling. So much worse by just having success.

[Q Fury]

Pouring salt in the wound. Every time I meet one of these milestones, I can't help but think how hard it must be to watch things like this fall into place for me while everything is so hard for him. My question is, how would you guys support your partner in this situation? I love this man and I just really want to be there for him the best I can while he goes through this rough patch. Thank you for reading this, Marisa. She's so cute.

[Crystal]

I'mma just pass it.

[Q Fury]

Isn't she adorable?

[Crystal]

So it is. If she's.

[Q Fury]

Don't do it.

[Crystal]

You know Tiffany Evans and Promise Rain Girl.

[Q Fury]

What do you mean you're not making things work?

[Crystal]

How do you support him? You got eight jobs. Well.

[Q Fury]

And I don't think he lives with her, which good. He shouldn't.

[Crystal]

Yeah. I was gonna say it's very. Yeah. Two years. I. I don't know where you at. I wouldn't guess that you live together. But like. Okay, it. What I will say is that it sounds like this is all based on assumption. Did she say anything about his behavior or something he said? Or is she just one word. Damn. It must fucking suck for my man to see that. I am hurt. I am just That I am just that living girl. And I mean he's dashing to the door, so I just don't really. What? How do you. Because she said that he's taking. He seems to be taking it well.

[Q Fury]

Yeah, it is.

[Crystal]

So maybe he's understanding. Yeah.

[Q Fury]

This is what I'm saying. It is very possible that your man isn't petty and immature and so you having wins doesn't hurt him. It actually makes me wonder about how you grew up. Like who demonstrated this?

[Crystal]

I was just about to say.

[Q Fury]

Yeah, did one of those.

[Crystal]

Actually I was gonna say who did you date before this? Yeah.

[Q Fury]

Or who did you date?

[Crystal]

Maybe you dated somebody else.

[Q Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

That were super jealous. Especially being dancers because obviously it's competitive. Especially when it comes to getting jobs and shit. So maybe you're just used to competitive energy, jealousy, spite and stuff and stuff like that. But girl, if he's not doing or saying anything to make you feel that way, I wouldn't assume it. Especially because what can happen is then that starts. Assumption starts turning into action.

[Q Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

In one way or the next. You don't want to start acting weird or something. And you do not want to do that.

[Q Fury]

So you do not want to let the, the fantasy that you spun up in your head start influencing the way you behave and. But then becoming your reality and frequently a self fulfilling prophecy. Because it would have never went that way had you just had an open and honest conversation.

[Crystal]

I'm saying this right.

[Q Fury]

That could be avoided. So yeah. If you're a man. I wouldn't, I wouldn't would.

[Crystal]

I wouldn't say shit.

[Q Fury]

Well, I mean what, what support is he asking for from you? Like I, I can, I can never recommend that a woman be a full time caretaker for a man. It's just so difficult for me. I'm sorry, I'm just old and old fashioned, I guess, taking care of a man.

[Crystal]

We've been married for over a decade. We got some kids.

[Q Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

And like then fell on hard time because what happened here according to this letter is that the universe just said I got something for you. And it happens. I think dating since last year, I'm not gonna. Yeah, I would not suggest that either you filling in some gaps for your husband of however long. Your family is different.

[Q Fury]

Right.

[Crystal]

But there are things that can be done right. Supportive things. You can make a little effort. I mean you could like a little effort. Not a little effort. I didn't mean to say it like that. And then you could like throw that.

[Q Fury]

Little nigga a boy.

[Crystal]

That's a Little nigga, I bet that you could do some love language shit where you could just, like, I don't know, surprise him with something or, like, treat him to dinner, like, not even out. Just like, maybe go get some good meats from the Kroger or. You know what I mean? Just be present and, like, in the nice love on him. I don't think that you. Because it's like, I was waiting for the part of the evil where he's. Where she's like, every time he comes home, he got a stank attitude or something. And then I would suggest you. Then I would have been like, talk to him. See, obviously, whatever. But you asked the right question. What kind of support does he. What kind of support does he want? What kind of support is he looking for?

[Q Fury]

Yeah, I. There is a little thing. I'm a little concerned because you said that he got fired from this first national tour he was on with a sports team. What happened there? And also he. He got you a job at a dance studio, but then eventually he had to quit working there because he had differences with the owner. So this. Those two things has me thinking, he has a problem with a job. He has problems with authority doing what he's told to do, being where he's supposed to be controlling his. His temper or something like that at work. So that is a little bit of a red flag. Like, what is it about this nigga that make keeping a job so hard for him? Because he got you that job, and not only do you not have these same differences with the owner, you have been promoted. You are a key member now, and you putting on your own musicals and shit so it don't sound like the problem is the owner.

[Crystal]

That's a good point.

[Q Fury]

So I would. I would pay close attention to that.

[Crystal]

Cause those might not have just been the universe, girl.

[Q Fury]

Because what happened with this national tour. Yeah, it might not. Or it might be the universe saying, you see how this nigga just keep having employment and then keep doing things to get rid of that employment?

[Crystal]

I mean, like, honestly, sports teams and different leagues should treat dancers like garbage. But so I could have. When I heard the firing, I was like, oh, that could happen. But I forgot about this differences with the owner thing.

[Q Fury]

Right.

[Crystal]

It's both of them.

[Q Fury]

It's both of them. Your whole face.

[Crystal]

I don't know. Yeah. I still think that you should just continue working, be, you know, a good old girlfriend. To whatever degree that looks like for you, just be a girlfriend the way that you normally would. If he does say something that Even if he isn't directly asking for support, if he's like, man, I need to take my mom. I gotta take my mom or my auntie to an appointment. But then I'm not gonna. You know what I mean? Then maybe you could be like, oh, I'll do. I'll help with it. You know what I mean? If you do hear little things that you can be helpful with, then help him that way. But yeah, there's like little things that you notice that you could help with. Just. I feel like you probably would anyway, because you like your boyfriend, they just do that. But worrying about how you're gonna help him financially or worry about how you're gonna help him in his occupation, I wouldn't be thinking about it that at all. Especially if you're not asking you to work.

[Q Fury]

Right? I might be thinking about it. Just so I already know what I'm gonna say when you ask how I'm gonna tell you.

[Crystal]

No work. Yes.

[Q Fury]

So I have my. No, it's. I might be doing well. I'm not doing well enough to take care of two homes or two grown niggas or whatever else. So.

[Crystal]

Right.

[Q Fury]

Figure that part out.

[Crystal]

Soon as he asks, I'm like, oh, let me just roll the whiteboard out. Because I knew this was coming. All right, so as you can see here, point A, there wasn't ever gonna be a day. Point two, there was never gonna be a time. You following? All right, so three, look, figure it out.

[Q Fury]

Especially depending on the details of this firing and not getting along with the owner of the studio.

[Crystal]

Right.

[Q Fury]

Is he doing this to himself?

[Crystal]

That's a good point.

[Q Fury]

It would be totally different if he got laid off from both jobs or, you know, one of them closed or something like that. But both of these sound like they his fault. So.

[Crystal]

Hey, we know you know and we know you know.

[Q Fury]

You maybe didn't put all the details there for a reason, but you gave me just enough to be serious, girl.

[Crystal]

So. Right. And listen, Chris was growing spine. Chris will go read them words and.

[Q Fury]

Be like, interesting choice of words here and then here as well.

[Crystal]

Actually, now that you say this. Cause, bitch, when I tell you that skating right there. But you are actually very correct.

[Q Fury]

I'm a baby. Every time. Every time. Woo.

[Crystal]

I just found it hilarious that she was like, I think I'm making it worse because I got a race and a promotion and I'm going on tour. Beyonce also, I'm on. And I'm on the COVID of Time magazine.

[Q Fury]

It shouldn't be. It might be a Little hard for him, which is normal to see other people succeeding at something that you also care so much about or just, you know, it's hard to see people employed when you are going long stretches with being unemployed. Like, that's normal and natural. What isn't okay is taking those hard feelings out on somebody and making it their problem or like they're doing something wrong. And you're also a creative and entertainer. You know, this business is a mess. Goes up and down.

[Crystal]

Right.

[Q Fury]

So you can have some empathy there. But, you know, just. Just make sure you, you, you. Right.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Q Fury]

We have so much empathy and we really do feel for you. But, you know, I say keep flourishing and doing your thing. And Chris, again, Christmas is here. Let's. Let's get him a nice present for Christmas. Let's get him something.

[Crystal]

Yes.

[Q Fury]

So fun and festive that says I really do love you. Not enough to pay your rent, but I really do care deeply about you and would like to help you through this challenging time in your life.

[Crystal]

So get him like a vintage copy of Darren's dance.

[Q Fury]

All right.

[Crystal]

That was unnecessary and I actually feel bad. You should, because I.

[Q Fury]

The man is already doing bad. Like, he's already doing bad. He got fired and evicted.

[Crystal]

As if like nostalgia and it could be something to do together.

[Q Fury]

He. Yeah, Marisa, buy him that and be like, let's take it back to the.

[Crystal]

Basics since buy him the deluxe edition of Sierra's sophomore album with the choreography struggling. No, girl, just continue to win and let that figure.

[Q Fury]

Yes.

[Crystal]

Because even if he does express that or does feel some type of way, that is his journey for him to figure out his God and his appointed therapist.

[Q Fury]

And y' all can talk about that.

[Crystal]

And he can come to you and talk about.

[Q Fury]

Y' all can talk about that if he's having those feelings all. I think you are already doing the things you need to be doing. As far as, like, you. It actually sounds like you're doing too much thinking. You might be overthinking the situation. Which again goes back to like, who did this to you, baby girl? But yeah, good luck, Marisa. Always take care of yourself though. First and foremost, we are always going to tell women and femmes to look out for self first every single time. No exceptions. So, yeah, best of luck, babes. Let's end the letters right there. If you have a question for us, send it to asktheread gmail.com. we'll be right back. Hey, y'. All. Tis the season for scams. Yes, that's right. Scammers use the holidays to trick you into sharing your payment info. But Cash App says not this year. You scammers, you fraudulent people out here doing wrong and bad things. Cash app's 247 fraud monitoring helps detect and alert you for unusual card activity, and you can lock or unlock your Cash App card instantly. Stay ahead of scams this season and keep your money secure with Cash App. I know a lot of people who keep their debit cards locked at all times and they only unlock it when they get ready to make a purchase for this exact reason. Okay, nothing wrong with staying on top of things and keeping yourself and your money safe for a limited time. Only new Cash App customers can use our exclusive code to earn some additional cash for real. Just download Cash App Use our exclusive referral code Secure10 in your profile. Send $5 to a friend within 14 days and you'll get $10 dropped right into your account. Terms apply. That's money. That's Cash App. Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App's bank Partners. Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank Member FDIC Promotions provided by Cash Shop A Block Inc. Brand Visit Cash App Legal Podcast for full disclosures.

[Crystal]

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[Q Fury]

No, no, no, ladies and gentlemen, we're not doing that.

[Crystal]

I'll start my read, okay? Cuz it's not really that deep. Two things. One, Quentin Tarantino, you really wasted God's time and our energy by smashing these Kill Bill movies together. And the never before seen additional content is a fucking Fortnite cartoon where Uma Thurman is fighting Gogo's sister or something. So we're never gonna know what happens to Nak. The worst part is I watched a video on like IGN or something. People from Epic Games of people who make Fortnite were essentially like, we wanted to get serious with Hollywood so we wanted a real director to do anything with. They literally are saying it like this. They, they were wide open about we don't give a fuck, we just want a real time Hollywood director to do some shit. So they got Quentin Tarantino and essentially go, we will give you all the money, whatever you want, just make it. And he was like, oh yeah, I have this late ass idea here. And so they made a fortnight cartoon short that they stuck in the two Kill Bill movies that came out when I had homeroom. And that's it. If you were going. Even if you were going to make a fucking short out of this God forsaken video game that Kim Kardashian is now in. So you can run alongside Kim Kardashian and Doge Cat Naran Grande and Playboy Cardia and fight Wolverine, Deadpool, the Walking Dead, Pac Man, Sonic Danny Phantom, Iron Man, Iron Girl, Iron they iron them like bitch, I hate for night. But you know what, even if you were gonna do that, why didn't you just make the short about Vernita's daughter? The one big wide open cliffhanger that you have in the fucking movie since the first part has been the little black girl who watched her mother die right in front of her, who was then challenged by a stranger white woman to come and beat her ass one day. I want to see that. I want to see a grown up Nakia absolutely murder that woman. Not because I hate her, because the woman asked for it. She would respect her death. And I've been waiting over 20 years to see it. And you ain't even give a fuck about the shit. You just took Fortnite's goddamn money like everybody else is. And you made pointless, useless, redundant fuckery. And you will get none of my money, sir. Last but not least, I finished walking watching it. Welcome to Derry. This first season of it. Welcome to Derry on hbo. Formerly known as Mexine. And I'm not going to get into any of the spoilers. For those of you who haven't watched it yet, I will say I thoroughly enjoyed the entire season. I think they landed the plane very smoothly. I am looking forward to the next season. A lot of the heartbreaking things in the season I knew were coming. There was a particular few heartbreaking things I didn't see coming. And one day, you writers, you'll have to have a conversation with me about it. Okay, I'm still in pain and I'll never forgive you. But my read is going to just be more so about a trope. It is in the series, but it's in a lot of movies and television. And it's when the military is like, let's take a monster that we don't know anything about except for the fact that it's bloodthirsty, and let's make it a military weapon.

[Q Fury]

What?

[Crystal]

Raptors, Tyrannosaurus rex, Sharks, wildebeestes, mooses, giraffes, and maybe even an intergalactic cosmic spider clown that eats children in the night. In what world were you gonna be like, let's get this shit to work for the United States government. How do you know even the bare minimum of what's going on, which is that this is a creature that feeds off fear, can turn into whatever it wants, can warp reality into whatever it wants, can read gel mine. They mind, they mind, they mind, they mind and is pure living evil. What it's like in Jurassic park when they're like, yeah, we're making this new fucking killer dinosaur that could kill all the dinosaurs. And then we're gonna put it in a Maga vest and a red hat and it's gonna stand for Murica and liberation. It just like, I be so stuck in my stories when we get to this part. Cause I'm like, What's the reasoning? So you grew up knowing that there's a force that lives in the sewers that just murders? Yeah, yeah, that just murders. You don't know where it comes from. You don't know what it is, how it is, when it is where it is. But you do know that it will eat your ass after terrifying you or just driving you insane, right? What are you.

[Q Fury]

I'm good.

[Crystal]

Do you feel like you're going to, like, invite it over for McDonald's and then have a conversation? It just, it's never going to make sense to me. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. I, I, I can't ever get into that device. I can't. I can't. It never works. It never works. Dinosaurs are stupid. Sharks are stupid. But a bitch can, like, study up, you know what I mean, on the biology of a fucking shark and maybe.

[Q Fury]

Guess that's all you can do. A xenomorph. See, now you're just making things up. I don't know what that is.

[Crystal]

The alien from Alien, right?

[Q Fury]

Yeah, right, for sure. I did know that. For sure. I did. I did. And I know what you mean right now.

[Crystal]

It's so stupid. It's so dumb. Zombies. Yeah, we'll use them for war, bitch. They gonna eat you too. Zombies don't pick sides. It doesn't make sense. That's it. I'm finished.

[Q Fury]

Oh, man. Okay, so for me, this week, I just cannot even believe this happened. So Kimora Lee Simmons is back on tv. I think it's called Back in the Fab Lane. If you remember Life in the Fab Lane, then this is so crazy to see her and her now very adult daughters and her other children are all so grown. Oh my God. Cutest kids. But the show, I haven't actually had the chance to watch the show itself yet, but they've been doing a lot of promotion with the clips and everything. It looks cute, it looks interesting. And I guess it made it all the way to Bali because people did a story on Kimora Lee Simmons and there's a little screenshot of like her being beautiful. And then it says, kimora Lee Simmons says she doesn't have a relationship with her kids fathers. And then in quotation marks, guys are weird. Which yes, they are. And so Russell Simmons somehow saw this from his yoga retreat in, in Bali and logged on to Threads, which is my safe space. What are you doing on Threads? You're supposed to be on Twitter with the rest of the riff raff and the garbage. What do you Mean threads. But anyway, he Posted on threads3 days ago, posted this picture of Kimora with the little caption and everything that's on it from people and said, I gave you 50,000amonth. For 20 years, I was your best only friend. I'm the godfather to your other three kids. Until one day you stole my stock. I have been fighting for my kids love and my bread ever since you threatened that if I sued you, I would never speak to my kids again. There are two sides to every story. I'm so glad you brought that up. There are indeed multiple sides to every story. And since Kimora, since this thing, all she said in this people excerpt is she doesn't have a relationship with her kids fathers, and I believe she has three or four of them niggas. So this isn't even just about you, Right? So this is a. There's a little club of y'.

[Crystal]

All.

[Q Fury]

This wasn't even about you specifically. She got you and old boy, super fine, tall, dark skinned, what's his name? Yes, him. And then that white man who I think is in jail.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Q Fury]

So. Right. So I could see how looking at this list of ex husbands, that she would be like, yeah, men are indeed weird. And I think I'm cool, actually. I have my babies. And the rest of that is a chop.

[Crystal]

Nothing. She said it was worth nothing.

[Q Fury]

Thank you so much. Nothing that Kahmora Lee Simmons has said or done is worth a response from you. Especially because, number one, you met that girl when she was 13 or 14 years old.

[Crystal]

Hello. And we know that I was your. I mean, now I'm gonna stop her.

[Q Fury]

I was your best slash only friend. Let's talk about why you, a grown man of 38, were best friends with a teenage girl. Why was that even true? You gave her $50,000 a month for 20 years because she bore two of your offspring. She stole your stock. I don't give a fuck. Even if that is true. I don't give a fuck. I say she deserved to take even more of the things that you have because you stole her literal innocence. You stole her actual youth. You robbed her of her childhood, her girlhood. And we're supposed to care that she took your son stock in exchange? Meanwhile, baby fat was absolutely massive. Because of Kahora. Because of Kamora, her beautiful ass self actually linking up with you a. A walking troll.

[Crystal]

Cell phones, accessories.

[Q Fury]

She deserves it all. And then this shit about. I've been fighting for my kids love and my bread ever since. Your kids, Ming and Aoki and the little boy that she had with Mr. Hounsou. Is that how you say his last name? Okay, my bad. If it's not that little boy who is now like 6:3 and playing college basketball and who has issues, right? Has issues with his sister because his sister went to Malaysia or maybe it was Bali or something. I don't know where she went for six whole months. But he got an attitude with her because she just up and left one day. And again, this is all part of the show, clips I've been seeing from the show. But those kids, especially Ming and Aoki, they are grown. They are legal adults. And if they want to speak to you, they can. I'm certain that they can do that. You can't come over here. And so, Kahmora, this went viral because of course, all the comments, me included, are like, nigga, how are you even speaking? You got a lot of goddamn nerve and audacity, so please be serious. So Kimora responded to this and said, my girls are grown women. You know, these are lies. Why are you typing from thousands of miles away in a non extradition country? Go negotiate and answer your accusers.

[Crystal]

Period. Word.

[Q Fury]

Period. Sir, you. Why don't you come over here to the United States of America and say it to her beautiful face, if that's really how you feel about it.

[Crystal]

This is Kahmora Said, Kimora said. You should have just said Thera. Hm.

[Q Fury]

The weirdo. GP1. You got so many charges waiting on you in these good old United States of America that you'll simply never come back. You will never be brave enough to face the shit that you've done. But you feel good over there in Bali. You feel strong and confident enough to be responding to what this woman is saying about all of the fathers of her children on fucking social media. You set yourself up for every bit of this, and I don't give a fuck how bad you get dragged. Why are you even speaking on her? You think we don't know that she was a teenager when y' all met? You think we don't know that you groomed that girl? You're 18 whole fucking years older than her. It's gross. No matter how you slice it, it's nasty. So, yeah, I stole your stock. Again, I have my doubts about whether that's even true. But if it is, you think I'm gonna be like, oh, well, give that man his shit? Not at all. Bankrupt that bitch as far as I'm concerned. Find a way to take all that Bali money, too. Take that shit as well. You can have it all the shit you put that girl through.

[Crystal]

And like Crystal said, your kids don't speak to you. Cause they don't like your ass either.

[Q Fury]

Maybe your kids are like, damn, I actually don't want to talk to my rapist father. I actually don't want anything to do with him. And this whole thing about, well, I was godfather of your other three kids until you stole all my stock. You were godfather of my other three kids until I snapped out of the grooming and conditioning you put me under, woke up and realized I was a goddamn victim and decided to take some of my power back. You creepy old, nasty old man.

[Crystal]

So guess what? Nama don't stay.

[Q Fury]

All right? You just had to. Last but not least, Rachel Nichols. I don't know what she was thinking. If you don't know, Rachel Nichols is a. Well, I mean, she's one of your colleagues who. She's a professional sports journalist.

[Crystal]

I know who she is. I don't know what happened.

[Q Fury]

Well, so Asia Wilson and Bam Adebayo recently came public with their relationship, which if you pay any attention at all, you've been knew about this. But they, you know, Asia's doing interviews, talking about how happy she is one day they want to start a family. You know, this is her best friend, blah, blah, blah, all that cutesy and love stuff. And so of course the Internet sees this. Asia Wilson is. Bam Outbio is a good player. Asia Wilson's an even better one. So the Internet is eating this up. They're like, oh my God, incredible basketball talent on the way. The likes we've never seen before. A 7 foot 2 finna come in 20 years and dominate all y'. All. Etc. Lots of Internet jokes. That's what the Internet does. A lot of people also said that the general manager of Oklahoma City Thunder, Sam Presti, would be scouting this child already. And they like, oh, Sam Presti finna be in the delivery room, you know, waiting to get this baby's measurements at birth or whatever. Again, creepy Internet jokes.

[Crystal]

But that is so.

[Q Fury]

That's. It's a. It's a step too far. I get it. Because when Sam, when the. All the deals happened with Paul, George and all that back then they were like, oh my God, Sam Presti is drafting sixth graders. And now those sixth graders are actually in the league so high. I get the joke. He, he, He's Sam Presti plants for the long run. Okay, it's not great, but Internet bullshit.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Q Fury]

Why would you professional sports journalist of 30 goddamn years then take these stupid ass Internet memes Jokes and content and go talk to a real live person about them. Why would you do that? Why would you do that? I. I'm so she was talking to somebody who is not. She's talking to somebody who is not Asia Wilson or Bam Adebayo. She actually brought this to Shay Gildrus Alexander, who plays for the Oklahoma City Thunder. Sam Presti is our gm, and at the end of this interview, she was like, well, Shay, what do you think about the Internet saying that Sam Presti is going to be scouting Asian Bams baby from birth? And, you know, do you think he's actually doing that? And Shay was just like, I mean, Sam takes his job seriously. You know, whatever it takes to be great, he gonna do it. Now, I'm of the opinion that, like, taking Internet bullshit, Internet fodder and bringing it to people in real life is already corny. It's 500 times. Because the jokes almost never translate.

[Crystal]

Exactly.

[Q Fury]

And you, Rachel Nichols, you're not one of the jokers. You're one of the report, the reporters of the jokes. So you trying to take this, you know, which probably started on TikTok or. Or Twitter or something, and then turn it into a legitimate question to ask. This man was already crazy to me. And yes, it was indeed 500 times cornier coming out your mouth. But then Asia and Bam also saw it. I said, oh, no. Oh no. And Asia says, so this not weird or creepy to you niggas?

[Crystal]

And y' all don't think so little strange.

[Q Fury]

Yes, that's what she said. Y' all don't think.

[Crystal]

But I guess it's a slow day.

[Q Fury]

And Bam said, this is why privacy is important. Meaning that we not getting shit else from them. And it's just sad because only just started. They barely was even, like, allowing people to sniff around the idea of them being together. Even though if you paid real attention, it was very obvious. But they weren't public about it for this exact reason. Rachel Nichols, you were born. I had to go look up her. I said, I need to understand. Is this an influencer? Because one thing I hate is when y' all hire influencers to do a journalist job. Come to find out, not only is she not an amp, she has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. I think she graduated in the early 90s. And you have been working professionally in sports media ever since. So legitimately, a damn near 30 year career. I thought this was somebody y' all plucked off of social media and stuck in a room with athletes. This is a legitimate sports Journalist bringing this kind of cockamamie ridiculousness to the faces of legit. Like, why? Why did you do that? Let the Internet joke be an Internet joke. Let's talk to SGA about the thunder, about his performance, about what we're looking for. Like, I mean, this was right before we actually lost that fucking game, which blew my mind. Like, there's just. You don't have to be weird, you don't have to be strange. You can just let the things that, oh, something's going viral on your fucking Instagram feed or whatever. Just let it go viral on your Instagram. Actually asking this man, well, do you think Sam Pressy is gonna be there when Asia's pussy is wide open waiting on this baby to be delivered? Like, let's just all, like, let's just take a step back and remember that we're talking about real people pool. Who you are theoretically really going to have to see at some point. Like, you, you report, right? You don't think at some point you're going to see Bam and he's going to be like, so, by the way, that thing you said about my baby and Sam Presti scouting my child and all this, like, at some point, did you ever say to yourself, huh? These are actual people that I'm talking about. Maybe I don't want to be weird. Maybe you don't want to act like the people who don't don't have your job. Why do you want to do the same thing that the bored ass losers online are doing all fucking day? Why are you taking their shtick? That's all they have. That's all they have, Rachel Nichols. You're taking their little jokes and bringing them to actual athletes and asking them in person about that dumb shit.

[Crystal]

I totally agree. I hate with makeup, actual newscasts. Go dumpster diving into social media for like whatever is trending or funny and then go, anyway, thanks you so much for that, Elle. So what do you think about black Twitter and this whole lace wig conversation? Is it lifting? Is it not lifting? Like you ain't got nothing. Like you don't have real right?

[Q Fury]

And now you gotta explain the joke because this man is a professional athlete, one of the top in the fucking league. So he's not sitting on Twitter all goddamn day. He has no idea what you're even talking about. Now you gotta break it down. It's not funny. I said it's not funny. But then I'm thinking about Shay's face and like, you just. Do you not feel stupid? Do you not feel weird? I Feel so strange acting like that around people.

[Crystal]

You would have to real like, I don't know.

[Q Fury]

You've been doing this for so long, girl. What happened? I'm.

[Crystal]

I think Asia hit the nail on the head though, with there must be a slow news day tea because I'm like, you really went and just found some joke that was also in poor taste in my opinion, and were like, let's take it prime time. Let's just put it on air. Let's just ask actual athletes about this dumb ass inappropriate shit.

[Q Fury]

Like, that's the thing though. It's not a slow day. The NBA is in full swing. There's so much sports. It is sports, sports all day, every day. We are. We are in the thick of college basketball is back. College football playoffs finna start. The NFL is in full fucking swing. The NBA is doing the same. Like, it's not a slow news day, week, month, season at all.

[Crystal]

There's someone without.

[Q Fury]

There's so much to talk about.

[Crystal]

Why did you.

[Q Fury]

Why did you, Rachel? Why? It's just weird. You're not a fucking influencer. Please don't act like one. Like, you're a journalist. You worked hard to be a journalist. You worked hard to have the career that you have. Why act like some little dumb bitch off of the Internet?

[Crystal]

You know, that is.

[Q Fury]

It's really strange. It's really. It's really strange. Like I personally would value my real career over the chance to get a joke off, but.

[Crystal]

Especially when I'm not a comedian.

[Q Fury]

That's not what the page is joke. Just, you know, there's so many options and you are.

[Crystal]

You are gonna have to see these people.

[Q Fury]

And when you have to see Bam. Oh, if you cover ever the wnba, there's a real question here now of like, why are you being weird about my uterus? I would love for Asia to have the chance to ask you about that in person. You don't even have to be on no check in shit. But just like legitimately, I'd like to ask our professional sideline reporters or people who have real access to athletes, I would like to ask you to treat us like you're talking to a real person who has a real life outside of this clip going viral. Okay, thank you so much.

[Crystal]

I know you're right. They had to be like, we talked about being in a relationship or confirmed to be in a relationship 48 hours one time. Talk about measuring. Wrapping my baby in measuring tape fresh out my vagina.

[Q Fury]

One time I did an interview and said yes, my man, my man, my Baby, my baby. You know, excited to get married, excited to have a family one day. Love this one time. And legitimately, less than three days later, y' all had ruined it. I said, damn. And you know, Asia is one of my favorites. I just. She finna. She finna leave us alone again. And I cannot fucking blame her. Look how the. Look how the professionals act. Yeah, I'm not telling y' all shit else, actually. Cause don't nobody know how to behave, in fact themselves.

[Crystal]

So yeah, I feel like one day, like 20 some years from now, you just be watching a game and be like that look like.

[Q Fury]

Did I say Asia Adayo Jr. The.

[Crystal]

Hold on.

[Q Fury]

Is that.

[Crystal]

Yeah, we need to tell you.

[Q Fury]

Oh, hey, baby. Just going to materialize. Well, this is why people. This is why celebrities don't tell us. This is exactly why. Cuz y' all get weird and you do it quickly and they expect it from random riff raff online.

[Crystal]

Right?

[Q Fury]

They don't expect it from. Again. She started. I think she started interning at the Chicago Sun Times when she. In like 1992 or something. You've been doing this before the Internet was even popping. It's crazy that you acting like this, girl. I bet you won't do it again.

[Crystal]

Yeah, I feel pretty present that you probably want to talk.

[Q Fury]

I think Rachel probably learned her lesson there. But yeah, let's all do better. Athletes, celebrities, they are still human beings. Let's be mindful of the way we're speaking about them.

[Crystal]

The responses have to make you feel ashamed of yourself. Cause they were so high rank.

[Q Fury]

Oh, okay.

[Crystal]

What a dumb.

[Q Fury]

So yeah, that's it for me. And that is going to wrap up this week's episode of the re shout out 2025. Follow Us Online at this is the Read our website. This is the read.com you can find my advice show Chrysalis Couch wherever you get your favorite podcasts. We're actually doing a live Q A tomorrow night on Patreon. Patreon.com Chris Couch on Thursday evening. So if you guys have some questions you'd like to ask live as opposed to email, join us over there on Patreon for that. Any other news or announcements for you? Clear fury.

[Crystal]

Happy 2025 and beyond boat. Take care of yourselves. Be safe traveling this season. Wear masks if you can, if you're able.

[Q Fury]

Really should. And especially on them planes. Yuck.

[Crystal]

And behave yourselves. We'll see you next year. All right.

[Q Fury]

Bye, guys.

[Crystal]

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[Q Fury]

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[Crystal]

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