Tepid Frozen Yogurt

Summary

The Read – Episode: "Tepid Frozen Yogurt"

Date: October 30, 2025
Hosts: Kid Fury & Crissle (Loud Speakers Network)

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Episode Overview

In this hilarious, sharply observant episode of "The Read", Kid Fury and Crissle wrap up "spooky season" with their signature irreverent takes on hip-hop and pop culture headlines. The show meanders through nostalgic TV moments, Black excellence, church messiness, entertainment industry antics, and heavy listener letters—anchored by their banter, occasional vulnerability, and relentless shade.

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Main Segments & Timestamps

1. Halloween Ennui & SpongeBob Nostalgia (01:09–05:38)

• Theme: The hosts reflect on the lack of Halloween spirit in 2025, citing horrors of the real world and bingeing horror films year-round.
• They reminisce about iconic "SpongeBob SquarePants" episodes, likening themselves to various characters.
  • "SpongeBob was, out of this world. Annoying." – Kid Fury (03:35)
  • "For all of you who identify with Squidward, go see what it's like to live in a town full of Squidwards. And all of a sudden you'll be like, 'I might be the problem.'" – Crissle/Kid Fury (05:21-05:29)

Notable Moment: Extended, comical analysis of Squidward's existential crises and relatable introversion.

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2. Black Excellence – Donnell Wittenberg’s Historic Win (05:38–09:11)

• Kid Fury highlights gymnast Donnell Wittenberg, the first American to win a world gymnastics title on the still rings.
  • "Put that directly into your pipe of spoken... it's essentially magic." – Kid Fury (05:39)
  • Discussion on the strength, physique, and presence of Wittenberg, with comical astonishment at the sport's demands.
• Recap of the nail-biting close competition and Wittenberg’s future.

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3. "Hot Tops" – Pop Culture Rundown

a. Tyler Perry’s Building Fund Donation & Black Church Satire (09:11–17:28)

• The hosts revisit the viral moment of Tyler Perry’s $100k donation to Marvin Winans’ church and the over-the-top church praise reaction.
  • "As soon as he said it, the organ starts and mama's in the front yard–" – Kid Fury (11:11)
  • "Do you remember the scene where the grannies battled in 'Don't Be a Menace'? That's what this was." – Kid Fury (16:19)
• Satirical commentary on the Black church, performativity, and building funds with a mix of affection and exasperation.

b. Janet Hubert Joins 'Bel-Air', Tyra Banks' "Hot Ice Cream" Fiasco (17:28–29:21)

• Janet Hubert's ("OG Aunt Viv") return to the "Fresh Prince" universe on "Bel-Air’s" final season; joy over her renaissance.
• Tyra Banks is mocked for her new "hot ice cream" dessert, with the hosts comically unable to fathom the odd non-hot, non-cold, melted treat.
  • "Tyra, this is stupid." – Kid Fury (23:48)
  • "I can melt my own ice cream!" – Crissle (25:46)

c. Recap: Cash Money vs. No Limit Versuz & Artist Drama (29:21–34:49)

• Crissle reviews the recent VERZUZ, declaring No Limit the winner due to actual participation, especially by Mia X.
• Discussion of drama around Mercedes, her song being played without her performing, and the lack of contracts/payment.
  • "Between Birdman and Master P, people have been robbed—slide that girl some money and say, 'we are bad, sorry girl.'" – Crissle (33:41)

d. Braxtons/Birdman/Tamar Gossip & Messy Rumors (37:33–40:55)

• Examination of rumors around Tamar Braxton/Birdman interactions, tying it to Braxton Family drama.
  • "Tamar saying that she knows where Tawanda lives 'cause she made the down payment on her house... What?" – Crissle (38:26)
• General bewilderment at the rumors and the family dynamic.

e. Drake & Vybz Kartel Toronto Concert, Drake’s Gambling Issue (41:07–46:51)

• Drake's surprise performance at a Toronto Vybz Kartel show (produced by OVO), prompting humorous shade at Drake’s omnipresence.
  • "I go to concerts in Toronto. You’ve done this... I’ve experienced the 'Oh my God, Drake is here.'" — Kid Fury (42:44)
• Coverage of a lawsuit against Drake around gambling app promotion, concerns about predatory practices.
  • "There is something really gross about celebrities, especially grown ones, going to places that are specifically populated by young people and being like, 'hey, yeah, wanna ruin your life?'" – Kid Fury (49:38)

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4. Listener Letters & Advice (74:54–112:26)

a. On Depression, Boundaries, & Friendship Guilt (74:54–85:26)

• Letter from "Devon" about struggling with depression and not wanting to host a friend; hosts validate setting boundaries, encourage communication and self-prioritization.

b. On Raising a Pregnant Teen Sister (85:26–112:26)

• Ariah seeks advice after her teen sister, whom she took in, becomes pregnant despite careful support and talks; hosts empathize deeply, dissect the cycles of trauma and caretaking.
  • "When do you get to live, Mariah?... You thought you was gonna have a few years with your sister, help get her started... You deserve." – Crissle (103:19)
• Both adamant Mariah is not obligated to raise her sister’s child, but acknowledge the pain of breaking generational trauma patterns.
  • "Sometimes you have to let a loved one crawl out of a pitfall by their damn self so they learn to stop playing games outside." – Kid Fury (104:23)

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5. The Read(s) of the Week (115:45–137:46)

Kid Fury:

• Nepo Baby Shark (David Ellison / Paramount & Warner Discovery Merger)
  • Goes off on the attempted monopolization of Hollywood studios, AI scriptwriting, and soulless mega-mergers.
    • “Thirty films a year is crazy... You want ChatGPT to write scripts so you can make as much money as possible.” (121:21–123:44)
• White House Fail: Laughs at the White House tweeting an AI Trump-Halo image with an incorrect US flag.
  • "It's missing ten [stars]! There are forty stars on here, idiot!" – Kid Fury (128:13)

Crissle:

• Keisha Ka'oir's $525/hr 'Mental Health Coaching':
  • Shreds the ethics and absurdity of celebrities charging for unqualified mental health "coaching".
    • "Just take the mental health part of it away entirely. You can say, for $500, come talk to Keisha Ka'oir... But you’re not even remotely qualified for this." (132:04–135:34)
• Political “Auntie” Discourse:
  • Rejects the faux controversy around Zoran Mamdani’s use of 'auntie', dismissing bad faith critiques as out of touch with Black culture.
    • "Y’all know that. Black, brown, ethnic whites, all of us have elder women in the family that's not your grandma, not your mama. She's your auntie. Period." (137:18)

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Notable Quotes & Classic Moments

• "This has been the one Halloween where I don't really feel in the season... The real world is so horrifying, it's just like... well, every day's been Halloween this year." – Kid Fury (01:24–02:13)
• "Sugar, sugar, silly candy. Scooby Doo, Aladdin, all kind of stuff... It's an insane amount of sugar." – Kid Fury (14:58)
• "Why would I pay $13 for a cup of that? Why would I do that?" – Crissle on Tyra's ice cream (27:19)
• "[Raising a child] is a hard job in the best of times, under the best of circumstances. This child don't deserve this, but if you're head set on doing it, I gotta put me first." – Crissle (108:20)

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Running Jokes & Banter

• Neverending digs at “church building funds” and the performative aspects of Black church services.
• Ongoing confusion and incredulity about Tyra Banks’ “hot ice cream.”
• The saga of Cash Money/No Limit/VERZUZ participation, with constant reminders of music industry exploitation.
• Repetitive, escalating frustration with the entertainment industry’s use of AI and consolidation.
• Refusals and exclamations about not tolerating medical, political, or pop culture nonsense.

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Episode Tone & Style

As always, Kid Fury and Crissle bring unfiltered, incisive commentary—serious yet riotously funny. Candid about their own boundaries and traumas, they still find levity in the mess of pop culture and daily life, counseling for self-protection amid chaos. Their devotion to Black culture and community, and their unapologetic honesty, keep the show warm even when roasting the world.

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Episode Highlights by Timestamp

• 01:24: Reflections on Halloween mood and horror fatigue.
• 05:38: Black Excellence: Donnell Wittenberg first American to win gold in still rings.
• 09:11: Tyler Perry $100k church donation, Black church performance satire.
• 18:00: Janet Hubert’s “Bel-Air” role.
• 21:06–27:50: Tyra Banks “hot ice cream” confusion.
• 29:21: Cash Money vs. No Limit VERZUZ.
• 37:33: Tamar Braxton/Birdman mess.
• 41:07: Drake’s Vybz Kartel concert hubris and gambling lawsuit breakdown.
• 74:54: Letters of the week (hosting boundaries, teen pregnancy cycle trauma).
• 115:45: The Read: Nepo Baby Shark, AI in Hollywood, government Twitter fail, Keisha Ka’oir, auntie discourse.

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Final Thoughts

The episode is a masterclass in side-eye, humor, and real talk, with memorable insights into family dynamics, celebrity schemes, and the struggle for self-protection amidst the mess. Whether venting about church, Tyra’s latest hustle, or the traumas of caretaking, Kid Fury and Crissle keep it authentic, restorative, and always entertaining.

Transcript

[Kid Fury]

Hey there, it's Katie Nolan, host of Casuals, the sports podcast where we don't care how much you know about sports. We're just happy that you're here. Every week, I hang out with some of my good friends to discuss the biggest stories across sports and entertainment, but in a way that's like, fun and not boring. Want to know Sue Bird's favorite Diana Taurasi story? Or how heavy the Larry o' Brien trophy is? Or even what baseball team is right for you based on your moon sign we got you. Listen to Casuals every Tuesday and Thursday on the SiriusXM app or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Crystle]

Bye. Are you ready to get spicy?

[Kid Fury]

These Doritos Golden Sriracha aren't that spicy.

[Crystle]

Maybe it's time to turn up the heat. Or turn it down.

[Kid Fury]

It's time for something that's not too spicy. Try Doritos Golden Sriracha.

[Crystle]

Spicy but not too spicy.

[Kid Fury]

Hi, Earthlings. Welcome back to the pod of Negroes mess. And thought I'm Kiwi on the sticks.

[Crystle]

And I am Mia X. And this is the read. Thanks for coming back.

[Kid Fury]

It is. It is, in fact, the reading. Welcome back. Wrapping up spooky season. I was gonna say unfortunately, but it's like this has been the one Halloween where I don't really feel. In the season. Yeah. In the spirit. Get it?

[Crystle]

Spirit. Yeah, I do get it.

[Kid Fury]

But not cause of just mental health or anything, but just because I'm like. I've been watching horror movies all year. It's been a really great year. I mean, just on my own, obviously, but also at the theater. It's been really great year for new horror. And the real world is so horrifying at a deal as well, that it's just like. Well, every day's been Halloween. That's really like this year.

[Crystle]

Yeah. When you think about it, you're not wrong. So why. Why have a day for it when literally day in and day out. Yes. It's just hell. This is hell. Yep. Okay, you kids go eat your candy, though. Enjoy your sweet treat.

[Kid Fury]

You remember that one episode of Squid of squidward wishes of SpongeBob, where something happened and Squidward turned around and he said that he was going to give spongebob so much love, he would drown in it.

[Crystle]

No.

[Kid Fury]

Then he comes back and goes drown in it.

[Crystle]

I do not remember.

[Kid Fury]

What was the episode where he gave him. Where he thought he killed him or something? Or he thought he thought he did something really, really bad that he didn't do. Oh, the pie one.

[Crystle]

Look at you?

[Kid Fury]

Yes, he made. He got, like, a pie with a bomb in it. He gave it to spongebob, and he thought that spongebob ate it. It was an accident. He wasn't supposed to. So he was like, oh, yeah. He's probably got till sundown before that bomb goes off and kills him. Squidward was like, I'm gonna make the rest of the day the best day ever. That episode was fierce. I have to go watch it.

[Crystle]

So Squidward did have a heart. Look at that.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, he did. He just wanted to be left alone.

[Crystle]

Underneath all that, SpongeBob was.

[Kid Fury]

SpongeBob was, out of this world. Annoying.

[Crystle]

He was. Anybody.

[Kid Fury]

They would harass him.

[Crystle]

Oh, my God. And Patrick was dumb as a box of rocks on top of that. Yeah, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Spongebob used to break into his house.

[Crystle]

That would have got on anybody's ner.

[Kid Fury]

That nigga was crazy.

[Crystle]

It's true. It's true.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, God. This will just be a spongebob episode. And all of the times where Squidward has been me and I have been Squidward.

[Crystle]

Oh, Lord.

[Kid Fury]

He's tried to leave these motherfuckers out stranded someplace. It always backfires on him, poor thing.

[Crystle]

Not poor things. Not pill parts.

[Kid Fury]

Squidward.

[Crystle]

They were, though.

[Kid Fury]

And he works the register at the Krusty Krab, too. So all of them crazy people from Bikini Potter come up to him and ask him, like, do you have a Krabby Patty with cheese that doesn't have cheese on it? No. Like, that's the type of shit he does.

[Crystle]

Why would that. Squidward, you could have really thrived on Earth. You could have done customer service or something like that. You could have done. You could have done pretty well for yourself.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, T. But also, T, to the writers who did that episode where he went to, like, he's like, fuck it, I'm leaving spongebob. And Patrick literally blew his house up by accident, but blew his house up completely. Like, just sand.

[Crystle]

Of course they did.

[Kid Fury]

And he's like, I'm moving so far away, none of you bitches will ever find me. And he moved to a whole other town that was just Squidward's.

[Crystle]

Oh, wait, I think I remember this. And he hated it.

[Kid Fury]

And he hated it.

[Crystle]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

He was like, uh.

[Crystle]

He was like, oh, no, not a bunch of bitches like me.

[Kid Fury]

Andrea got a whole bunch of. Yeah, no, the writers ate that.

[Crystle]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Spongebob used to be teased.

[Crystle]

For all of you who identify with Squidward, go see what it's like to live in a town full of Squidwards.

[Kid Fury]

And all of a sudden you'll be.

[Crystle]

Like, I might be the problem.

[Kid Fury]

Actually, some things I could work on.

[Crystle]

What a show, man.

[Kid Fury]

Truly gift I kept on giving. Okay, so this week, in Black Excellence, I'm going to give it over to a man by the name of Donnell Wittenberg. If you don't know, now you know. He is the first American ever to win a world gymnastics title on the still rings. So put that directly into your pipe of spoken. So the steel rings, like in the, in gymnastics. You know, the rings up on the ropes or what have you been to Google it? And they do all kinds of flips. Oh, the rings defying. It's essentially magic. Yeah.

[Crystle]

Oh, okay. I didn't know if it was a difference between the still rings and some other kind of rings.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah, I'm sure there's all kinds of different rings. I'm like, no, but this is the one that got it, I guess. Yeah. So there's all kinds of. I don't know what moves and things.

[Crystle]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

I was gonna say stunts, but I don't think that's the right word. But like, watching it is like, I love the Olympics. I loved like these types of things same. Cause I'm just like. I guess the human body can do all sorts of shit.

[Crystle]

It really can.

[Kid Fury]

Cause how is this big beefy nigga defying gravity like this?

[Crystle]

This is phenomenal. Wow, he is a big, beefy nigga. Work.

[Kid Fury]

Yes. And impossibly good looking.

[Crystle]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So he won. He's gotten world medals before. I think this is his first gold on still rings. Like I said, he's the first American ever to win a world gold for that particular sport or event. And I watched like the. The full video of the competition or whatever.

[Crystle]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And girl, it was like a hair like point two seconds behind him was somebody else. And they cut to him when they, when they revealed the points or whatever. And he was obviously. He had like his second. The silver medalist.

[Crystle]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Had his hands up in his head, he was smiling like, obviously happy that he plays.

[Crystle]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But it was almost this like, amusement of bitch. 2.2 seconds because they got me by.

[Crystle]

Oh, my God. I'm watching it too.

[Kid Fury]

Donnell was insane. It's crazy.

[Crystle]

The strength you have. You have to be like 80% muscle to do this.

[Kid Fury]

This is 49%.

[Crystle]

You're literally just muscle, bone and blood. Wow. My God. Oh.

[Kid Fury]

Integrity and determination.

[Crystle]

Keeping himself suspended in the fucking air and not wobbling or. Oh, bitch. The way I wouldn't even be able.

[Kid Fury]

To get up and then does a Triple flip and lands sticks it.

[Crystle]

Oh, wow.

[Kid Fury]

Like nothing.

[Crystle]

Oh, bitch. Oh, that's beautiful.

[Kid Fury]

And his coach or somebody has he has somebody behind him do the.

[Crystle]

Immediately he was like, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You killed that shit.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, with Jill Scott. That's what I'm talking about.

[Crystle]

Yeah. He is beautiful. You're right. Wow.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, he's very, very handsome. So, yeah, really, really cool. He became the third American to win a medal across five. Across five events. And yeah, first American to win gold on the medal.

[Crystle]

Congratulations, brother.

[Kid Fury]

And probably has a really cool future ahead of him. Adam Asil of Turkey, he was guy. And so this silver, he was like, better luck next time, Adam.

[Crystle]

Fucking close. Two hundredths of a point. Like, oh, my God, that's beating my ass, bro.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, yeah, Love that.

[Crystle]

Beautiful.

[Kid Fury]

Congratulations, Donnell. All right, let's get into the mess of the week in a segment that we lovingly call hot tops. Because our tops are. Okay. The top is hot. Have I ever done the top is hot as, like, a bit. The top is hot. The top I have to have.

[Crystle]

I have to have. It's just right there.

[Kid Fury]

Like, it's right there.

[Crystle]

We have to have said probably more than once, actually.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, probably like a handful. Someone's going to be like, girl, y' all did this, like, 13, three weeks ago.

[Crystle]

Chris said the top is.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, you did it yesterday.

[Crystle]

It's right there.

[Kid Fury]

Um, okay, I'll just get this one out the way. Update from the churchiness of last week. Did you have you heard Marvin Winan's update?

[Crystle]

Oh.

[Kid Fury]

Did you see the clip of him in the chair?

[Crystle]

Didn't I say that the same who line up for that nigga's shitty movies are the exact same ones who be shooting their asses all over that church begging Marvin Winans to give him their money. Didn't I just say that? It's the same thing.

[Kid Fury]

We not getting the boondocks back, but that was close enough.

[Crystle]

I saw that shit.

[Kid Fury]

I said all we were missing was Huey and Riley in that. What are you talking. That was so funny. Well, that was so fucking funny.

[Crystle]

I did.

[Kid Fury]

Sad. Yeah, but, like, at this point, bitch.

[Crystle]

It'S exactly what I expected to happen.

[Kid Fury]

The immediate breaking out into the holy. The immediate tap dancing on the devil. It was so mad tv.

[Crystle]

Wait, are we talking about the same.

[Kid Fury]

Thing of Marvin Winans when he was in the church and told them that Tyler Perry.

[Crystle]

Okay. Yes, we are. Okay. I was just making sure.

[Kid Fury]

And, like, as soon as he said it, the organ starts and mama's in the front yard.

[Crystle]

Yes, I said wow, you are really just going into your Holy Ghost praise break. As if one dime of that money is going to you, sister. What?

[Kid Fury]

We haven't even fully gotten out anything yet. It was so performative and dumb, but I was cracking up.

[Crystle]

I was like, people, literally, it's the same name. It's the same nigga. Yeah, of course, like, of course this happened.

[Kid Fury]

I was like almost in tears laughing, but I was just like, there's a white fag suing him right, right now.

[Crystle]

And you know, they said that's just the devil trying to get in the way of.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, they don't believe him.

[Crystle]

A man of God. And. And Tyler Perry is just spreading God's message here on the earth. And you know one thing about white. The devil he to steal, kill, and destroy. And so it's very obvious that this white man is just being the. The devil is trying to get in the way of Tyler Perry and his godly endeavors. And we won't have it. Please. If they even heard about this, they immediately dismissed it as L.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, so actually I just needed to mention this because, you know, people are permitted to do whatever they would like to with their money in church.

[Crystle]

Yeah, that shows business.

[Kid Fury]

Like I said, this is. This is an age old meme. So at this point, if you are.

[Crystle]

Black and even remotely grew up in the church, then you saw this coming from 18 miles away.

[Kid Fury]

If the pastor and his aquamarine gators telling you, bitch, I want 2,000 on the dot or more. Don't you come over here with no nines and nines and nines with your broke ass. With your broke, disgusting ass. You poverty triggered.

[Crystle]

I hope y' all opened up that food pantry. I hope y' all giving out groceries and shit with niggas food stamps getting cut off. I hope y' all doing something for the community like a holiday bird.

[Kid Fury]

Girls get a holiday bird. Everybody gets a holiday bird.

[Crystle]

No, the holidays have a holiday bird. The holidays is three weeks away. I'm talking about here at the. Here at the end of this week when them stamps.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, that's the devil. That's the devil. And right in the season too, on that Halloween. That's that Halloween spirit on you.

[Crystle]

Oh, oh, right, right, right.

[Kid Fury]

You can watch it. Too much of that hocus pocus and that L word and that.

[Crystle]

No, they don't have a hallelujah night and let them kids come play Bible trivia for candy and.

[Kid Fury]

Never made me do Halloween New unite. No, we did a couple. We did a few. What am I talking about?

[Crystle]

We did a couple Hallelujah Night was my only Halloween. I have never gone trick or treating once, not one day in my life. I have to steal somebody's child and do it at some point.

[Kid Fury]

I don't have memories of my. Of. I know that my parents. I know that my mother took me at least once. Hated it. I don't remember at what point in my life that was. I mean, she hated it, obviously.

[Crystle]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And then all the other times that I trick or treated, I either went with friends or when I was old enough, I took my brother.

[Crystle]

Yes. Never did.

[Kid Fury]

But my mom was like, no. Hell, no and no. And she didn't give out candy.

[Crystle]

Oh, no. We didn't either. Because everybody we knew went to church, so why would we be giving out candy? But we did get to wear costumes, and we did get a lot of really excellent candy. So I was like, yeah, same. It's kind of a wash. I got the point of this day, which is an insane amount of sugar.

[Kid Fury]

Sugar, sugar, silly candy. Scooby Doo, Aladdin, all kind of stuff. You know, Power Rangers, Ninja Turtles. She at least let us dress up and put sugar in.

[Crystle]

I had fun at Hallelujah Night, but, you know, I just had Hallelujah night.

[Kid Fury]

Was.

[Crystle]

It was fun, nigga, because it was church. It was church without having to sit in the sanctuary for an hour and a half listening to them niggas ramble about, whatever. And we got a bunch of candy. Like, I had a great time.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystle]

Like, I mean, but I do still. I would. I would. That is a childhood experience I missed out on, though. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, a little bit. Fair enough. Okay. So I just saw that I had to mention it. I thought it was so, so fucking funny. I don't know what to make of it outside of that.

[Crystle]

Did we even say what happened? I don't even think we said what happened. Oh.

[Kid Fury]

Tyler Perry donated $100,000 to Martin Winans Church. You're so stupid.

[Crystle]

Yes, he did. Tyler Perry, according to Marvin Winans, has donated $100,000 to the building fund. God bless the building.

[Kid Fury]

He was like, I can go in there and say the name since I'm already happy. It was just so stupid. I urge you guys to find me.

[Crystle]

See how God moved.

[Kid Fury]

It was so fucking funny when the devil, busy trying to talk about other stuff. God always turn it around and everybody's just falling out, spitting, crying, throwing up, doing backflips. It was like, oh, my God. Do you remember the scene where the granny's battling in church in don't be a menace to Something No, I do not. Have you ever seen Don't Be a Man?

[Crystle]

Yes. When it came out. And that was it. Okay, so it's been 30 years.

[Kid Fury]

It was just. It felt unreal. It was so funny. On top of that, like, at. On top of the fact that at the center of this, we're talking about the fact that Tyler Perry is giving PR donations.

[Crystle]

Right. Right.

[Kid Fury]

To the church. And we tap dancing for it. Literally. It was so funny.

[Crystle]

Literally. Niggas started praise dancing at the center. They. Okay, y' all got it, man.

[Kid Fury]

No, yeah. Have a blast.

[Crystle]

Yeah, I'm not involved.

[Kid Fury]

Build and fund it.

[Crystle]

Hopefully. Hopefully you actually do finish that building. Whatever else you got going on. Hopefully.

[Kid Fury]

So they're gonna get like a new bathroom. Are they gonna put, like a little couch in the lady. No, the library. That ladies run out a little.

[Crystle]

Oh, yeah, they been had a little. A little settee at least in the.

[Kid Fury]

Desk in a little powder room.

[Crystle]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, the church.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, they had that.

[Crystle]

They had that.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, here's some more. Some lighter news. Deadline brought a smile to my face today. I see that one Janet Hubert will be starring in Bel Air's final season.

[Crystle]

Oh, wonderful.

[Kid Fury]

Isn't that nice?

[Crystle]

Oh, yes.

[Kid Fury]

How full circle right now, that is.

[Crystle]

I actually love that. Okay. I actually. Do you know what?

[Kid Fury]

I'm not gonna do this today.

[Crystle]

That's wonderful news. How poetic.

[Kid Fury]

One day, your foot stool. Okay, so a couple of Bel Air OGs have made appearances on this adaptation. It says on Deadline, similar to them, Janet Hubert will be playing a brand new character. I mean.

[Crystle]

She'S obviously not anvif.

[Kid Fury]

It says she's set to portray a wise woman who Hillary, played by the very gorgeous Girl Jones. A very good and talented and sexy Coco Jones meets and who becomes instrumental to the Bank's family. I kind of want her to be a villain.

[Crystle]

Right? Huh. I wonder. I didn't even. I didn't even read that part about, like, how she is introduced to the family. So, you know, I. I really did appreciate this, Bella. This Fresh Prince reboot, I really like that they took it from. Yeah. From a comedy to a drama and, you know, just the different approaches with the family and all that. It was a really well done execution of a reboot. So I guess we'll see. But yeah, that's wonderful news. This is great.

[Kid Fury]

It was such a, like, organic and thoughtful adaptation. It wasn't just reboot for the sake of reboot.

[Crystle]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

It was clearly from the presentation of it, even when it was like that tiny short glimpse that we saw before it became a full fledged show was like, oh, this, this is from someone who has watched, understood, come from and is like, this could be a drama. There have been highly effective dramatic episodes of that comedy. What if. Yeah, you know, rather than just like, you know, off 18 rails at Soho House.

[Crystle]

All right, A whole bunch of other.

[Kid Fury]

Who the fucks and like, what do you got? Which is essentially the industry now. So, yeah, that alongside Janet Hubert, continuing in her renaissance is delightful and I can't wait to see who she's going to play. And I hope that she's at least got like. Even if she's not a villain, she's like one of those like sharp women that comes in and is just like, you like respect her. You know, she's shady. She's like powerful bad bitch.

[Crystle]

Yeah. And I said this says Tyra Banks is gonna guest star too. So they just really.

[Kid Fury]

Have you seen the girls coming for.

[Crystle]

Her for this hot ice cream?

[Kid Fury]

What hot ice cream?

[Crystle]

Isn't Tyra Banks selling hot ice cream? I actually.

[Kid Fury]

What the fuck are you talking about?

[Crystle]

I refuse to look into it because the entire concept of hot ice cream pisses.

[Kid Fury]

What does that mean?

[Crystle]

I don't know, girl.

[Kid Fury]

I put Tyra B. Google said, Tyra Banks hot ice cream the first thing. The first thing, first result.

[Crystle]

So what are. What are they dragging her for?

[Kid Fury]

Maybe this is part of it. All I saw was a post from one of the Top Model girls, one of the pretty black girls.

[Crystle]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

I can't remember her name right now, but it had something to do with her enjoying Tyra's quote unquote flop era. I'm sure if you put Tyra Banks flop era in Google right now, you'll see her come up. I can't remember her name right now. Is it Eugenia? Anyways, Yaya liked the post, okay? And so people are like, oh, the ANTM girl leads. Because I also saw, I guess she was on Project Runway recently.

[Crystle]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

And people Law Roach did a. Out of nowhere. He was critiquing one of the girls, one of the contestants on Project Runway while Tyra was sitting there as a guest judge and he just randomly broke out into. I was rooting for you. We were rooting for you. And did like a whole bit of the. That moment from one of those episodes where she cussed out. What's her name? And Tyra didn't seem very entertained.

[Crystle]

Of course she did.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, she seems like she's very. She cringes at all of the Top Model shit and all those clips.

[Crystle]

Oh, well, I Mean girl, I don't know what to tell you. That was you.

[Kid Fury]

That shit was wild.

[Crystle]

Just you did that. Y' all did that. The things y' all did on that show. I look back and I cannot believe it.

[Kid Fury]

Granted, this person is not just you.

[Crystle]

Right? But like, we can't forget the producers and all of this. It's reality TV producers, y'. All.

[Kid Fury]

Reality TV producers were.

[Crystle]

Y' all are gonna have to answer for. For your shit.

[Kid Fury]

Seriously.

[Crystle]

Yeah. At the day of reckoning, y' all gonna be up there like, how do I justify this? How do I. I don't know how I. I can't come back from this. But yeah. I thought you was talking about this melted ice cream.

[Kid Fury]

No, I'm looking at.

[Crystle]

She's selling for $13.

[Kid Fury]

Ew. Wait, so it's a melt? I. What is this, a McFlurry?

[Crystle]

No.

[Kid Fury]

So thicker than a flat white, thinner than a milkshake.

[Crystle]

I made it hot. As in hot cream. Hot ice cream. Liquid warm.

[Kid Fury]

Tyra, this is stupid.

[Crystle]

Yeah, it's just this liquid. She has an ice cream shop called Smize and Dream, which if you trying to get away from Top Model. I don't know why you would call it that, but yeah, there's. She's selling melted, watered down ice cream.

[Kid Fury]

Milked down ice cream latte, a hot chocolate or melted ice cream. So what is it? Right, Right.

[Crystle]

Yeah, it's. It. It is exactly that. It's just straight. It's a strange thing. A runnier milkshake. I guess.

[Kid Fury]

So you don't drink it? Do you eat it?

[Crystle]

I guess that depends. On.

[Kid Fury]

Well, it has a straw in it and a cut.

[Crystle]

Yeah, because it has like topped.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, a straw and a spoon.

[Crystle]

Yeah. So you can like eat the toppings out of it and then drink it as a milkshake, basically. But. But not as good as a milkshake. Oh, my God.

[Kid Fury]

This feels like one of those things. That doesn't have to happen. This is so.

[Crystle]

No, this is very stupid. This is extremely dumb. I've seen so many tiktoks about it and I just have to keep.

[Kid Fury]

Now we're talking.

[Crystle]

Well, cronuts are real and cronuts are delicious.

[Kid Fury]

You know, that's a. That. Okay, now talking like, what if a croissant was a donut? What if a donut was a donut?

[Crystle]

Yes. That was an incredible idea with incredible execution.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. This is just like, what if I left my ice cream.

[Crystle]

And then poured extra milk into it to make it soupier for whatever reason and then put.

[Kid Fury]

Whatever toppings I want on it. I don't understand.

[Crystle]

And then served it at room temperature.

[Kid Fury]

Because I'm gonna look up how this is made. I can guess.

[Crystle]

Oh, it's probably prepared.

[Kid Fury]

But I have to see.

[Crystle]

No, you won't. You won't be able to take a.

[Kid Fury]

Peek behind the scenes. Is she the only one doing it?

[Crystle]

Have you heard of a dumber? Have you heard of anybody else saying this dumb shit out loud?

[Kid Fury]

Fair. Fair enough.

[Crystle]

Bitch. I can melt my own ice cream. I can.

[Kid Fury]

It's in Australia.

[Crystle]

Is it? Is it really? No.

[Kid Fury]

No way. I'm so confused. We're in Australia made. It says across the top. Is that it?

[Crystle]

Oh my God. It does say best ice cream in Sydney. It said 42 Wallaby Way. No, it's in the Darling Harbor.

[Kid Fury]

Wow. My precious dory girl.

[Crystle]

This is real. Hold on. We're in Australia.

[Kid Fury]

Does she live there?

[Crystle]

Smize and drink.

[Kid Fury]

She must live there.

[Crystle]

Nyc.

[Kid Fury]

I could see Tyra living and like randomly living in Australia for whatever reason.

[Crystle]

Okay, yes, it's in. It's not just in Sydney, Right?

[Kid Fury]

It can't be. Right, right.

[Crystle]

Right. It isn't. No. It looks like it's coming to New York this winter as like a pop up type of thing. Her mysterious hot ice cream. It isn't hot ice cream. Okay, Right.

[Kid Fury]

Okay. So that's another thing.

[Crystle]

This is my fault.

[Kid Fury]

If it. It isn't hot, this is my fault. Then what is it? So it's not hot when you. When you consume it.

[Crystle]

That's not.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, the temperature is not hot.

[Crystle]

This says it was neither hot nor cold when it was served.

[Kid Fury]

So what is it? I'm sorry, I don't mean to yell.

[Crystle]

It's melted ice cream, but watered down.

[Kid Fury]

But it says it's not that either.

[Crystle]

Why would I pay $13 for a cup of that? Why would I do that?

[Kid Fury]

If someone somehow could find a way to get this in front of me, I'll try it. I would try it. Just because I have to know. How is it? And I would love to try this in her face because I'm looking at the website and this looks like ice cream.

[Crystle]

There's no way it's not in Los angeles. Oh, right. 395 Santa Monica Place. Sweet KO1.

[Kid Fury]

I'm like, there's no. There's no way this isn't here. Apparently it's the lass bullshit I've ever heard. Okay, now we're back on track. I was like, there's no way. Now when I tell you I was in Wonderland, you said no.

[Crystle]

The Home of Erawan. Please be serious. There's absolutely, like, come.

[Kid Fury]

I'm surprised it didn't start in one.

[Crystle]

Right. I was about to say. Can you not get it at, like.

[Kid Fury]

This must have started in error, right? And then she got her own place.

[Crystle]

Oh, wait, no. This says it's closed.

[Kid Fury]

Tyra, I'm done playing with you.

[Crystle]

Yelpers report. This location has closed. Damn.

[Kid Fury]

I'm done playing with you.

[Crystle]

Never mind.

[Kid Fury]

I'm done playing with you, Tyranny. I'm done playing with you. Love you, gorgeous. You're beautiful. I don't know what hot ice cream is. If I can ever try it, I will, because I'm just that perplexed. So far. I wasn't even to talk about you today, and I feel like I've gone on this long journey about figuring out what the fuck that is. I don't.

[Crystle]

Does she sell real ice cream too? I see one here called peanut butter and juju, so I thought maybe it was like a partnership with Juju Watkins. But no, she's just being cute.

[Kid Fury]

Oh.

[Crystle]

Oh, she's just being cute.

[Kid Fury]

I thought you meant, like, sinner's juju.

[Crystle]

All right. Okay. Okay. Yeah. So, yeah, I guess there's hot ice cream and real ice cream, so she'll.

[Kid Fury]

Be on Bel Air, too.

[Crystle]

Yeah. Right. Coming back to the point of this. This is. Look, you see how easy it is for us to get distracted? This is insane.

[Kid Fury]

That's the. Life is an amusement park. Yeah. Interested to see how that turns out and who everyone actually will be playing. Okay. Did you watch the verses between no Limit?

[Crystle]

I didn't, so I watched part of it. I think I got maybe 45 minutes into it. But I've been sick, as you can probably tell, over the past couple of weeks, so I've been going to bed very early, and I just could not. Not stay awake for too long. But it's all over YouTube, so I picked it back up. I'm still not done with it, but it was. You know, the thing about verses is the. The performances really matter. It's not really the songs as much as the performances when you. When it comes to this versus format. And so I.

[Kid Fury]

And the Bill and like, who's.

[Crystle]

Versus, Right. And so that was really cash money's problem. Cash money was missing. Just about everybody. Everybody, Right. I knew that was gonna happen just about every juvenile. It was juvenile versus no limit. Damn. And so if you ask me, no limit won the verses. Mia X baby. That's literally why I introduced myself as her. I know she came through and shut that shit down. But, yeah, without Wayne Drake, Nikki Turk, it was just like, this ain't. It's Mannie Fresh and Juvenile up there doing they best, but, like, what we finna do. For real. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So. Yeah. Yeah.

[Crystle]

But I haven't.

[Kid Fury]

I really figured that was gonna happen at some point.

[Crystle]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

I know that there was a little bit of drama on the no Limit side with Mercedes. We sing on. I could tell because she wasn't get that far. It was like, not. Not during the show.

[Crystle]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

This was like, outside.

[Crystle]

Oh, okay. Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. She was upset and threatening to sue. No Limit, I feel like. Because she wasn't. She didn't perform. And they played her song. I can tell.

[Crystle]

Oh, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And she's like, you know, no Limit doesn't own that song. So y' all about to fuck around, find out, I guess. Well, so, Matt, do they have to.

[Crystle]

Own it to play it?

[Kid Fury]

Not necessarily.

[Crystle]

I didn't think so. Like, girl, I don't think that if it's available on Apple Music, I think they can play it.

[Kid Fury]

Furthermore, one of the co writers of the song was there and played the song and performed as part of the song. Okay, well, he got on Instagram. Mac Phipps got on Instagram after this and was like, basically, Mercedes wasn't booked to. She didn't have a contract with Versus.

[Crystle]

Oh, okay.

[Kid Fury]

So Versus isn't gonna pay you to bring you out because we want you. Like, I don't know, whatever. He was basically just like, she wasn't contracted. I didn't perform her parts. We didn't replace her with Mia X or Bring Me X out instead of her or anything like that. Like, I love her. We go back. I play her song all the time when I'm on the radio. I mean, not on the radio when I'm on the road. And, you know, when her song. When her parts come on, I let the crowd sing. Just like when the show. When we were doing the verses, her part came on. I'd be like, hey. Singing. So essentially, I guess he was trying to say that he always showed her love. It wasn't a personal thing. And it was like, you didn't have a contract with verses. What you want me to do type thing. Oh, well, she since then has, like, apologized.

[Crystle]

Oh, okay.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystle]

Well, all right.

[Kid Fury]

So it seems like hands were reached across the desk. Energy was exchanged.

[Crystle]

Get that girl some money. Just get that girl some money.

[Kid Fury]

Give her a little.

[Crystle]

Because between Birdman and Master P, people have been robbed.

[Kid Fury]

Butt bald, naked niggas have Been swindled.

[Crystle]

And y' all know it so gonna get it Slide that girl some money and say we are bad. Sorry, girl. Cause why didn't she have a contract with versus? Why didn't y' all throw her name? Right? Like, why. Why not? Why didn't it happen? It just seems weird, especially if you was gonna play her song, like, during the. It just. That's. That's strange.

[Kid Fury]

A very famous and recognizable song by.

[Crystle]

The so even though it's not very good. I get that. But, you know, I agree. No Limit won simply because so many more niggas showed up.

[Kid Fury]

Maybe Versus was like, no, we can't book anybody else. You already have a dozen N and they have two. Drake's hyping up the phone. Nicki's not picking up the phone. Them N are swimming. So, no, you can't bring nobody out.

[Crystle]

Right? Turk is suing versus not comment.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Crystle]

So Wayne don't even.

[Kid Fury]

That's why Birdman brought out. Maybe that's why Birdman brought Tamar. So for famous Fred, are they.

[Crystle]

I thought they.

[Kid Fury]

I have no idea.

[Crystle]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Kid Fury]

Com. So why was Tamar Braxton there?

[Crystle]

That's no I'm even the way that I was just like, oh, okay, his wife. Ex wife. What is that? But no, wrong sister. Why was Tamar there?

[Kid Fury]

And from this I saw, I learned two things. One, the Braxtons are still on tv. They have a new season out right now.

[Crystle]

Yeah, they do.

[Kid Fury]

And two, Tawanda was just on the Braxtons accusing Tamar of fucking Tony's ex Birdman. They bleeped out the name that she said, but okay, I.

[Crystle]

So that's. So the clip I saw from the Braxtons was Tamar saying that she knows where Tawanda lives. Cause she made the down payment on her house.

[Kid Fury]

It's that same episode.

[Crystle]

What? So if Tamar is fucking Birdman, I'm gonna be. Oh, y' all thought I was hard on Cardi.

[Kid Fury]

Bitch.

[Crystle]

Cause not only is Birdman disgusting, I mean, just nothing. Like, I'm literally not even seeing the appeal. I'm I at nothing. I don't get it.

[Kid Fury]

But that aside, there's starfish on the top of his head.

[Crystle]

Different strokes for different folks. You know, everybody finds somebody attractive. Fine.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Crystle]

But that being your sister's ex or current or whatever, he. That being your sister's man. How? I'm really not getting it. Like, somebody please make it make sense. Give me the extra context. Tell me it's all a lie. Or, you know, this is just something Tamar's doing to drum up interest in the new season of the show. Or, please, please, something. Cause it's beyond trifling. Your sister's man. Girl. Okay, all right. I'mma wait for the facts.

[Kid Fury]

And the gag is you got into that argument before this, so you knew that there was footage for her to come out with your sister accusing you of fucking your other sister's man. Yeah, we don't even know if this the man you talking. She mentioned, but we know that you then decided to go to her ex's show and be wiping his. His head and getting cute.

[Crystle]

Yeah, I'm really. Why? Why? Hmm. I'm sorry, Tamar. And things have been. You know, it's been weird news coming from Tamar's direction for a while now. Just strange things seem to be popping off over there. So, yeah, I'm. I'm anxiously awaiting the clarification here, because I know you're not your sister's ex husband. I just know it. I know people do a lot of trifling raggedy ass. I know you not your sister's ex husband, though. Like, you can't be. So I'm just gonna wait for y' all to say something that makes this make sense.

[Kid Fury]

This is the funniest thing I've ever seen. They're currently right next to me about to wash the windows, so.

[Crystle]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

See how that goes through the audio.

[Crystle]

I was about to say, probably can't hear nothing.

[Kid Fury]

Moving on as record Breaking Storm is running its way through my family's home of the island, Jamaica. Drake is terrorizing Jamaicans in a whole other way because Vibes Cartel had a concert in Toronto on Sunday. And of course, Drake had to make sure he was there. So Drake was at the Vibes Cartel concert.

[Crystle]

Doing what?

[Kid Fury]

But he said, birdman, when I tell you that I couldn't ever do that.

[Crystle]

He performed.

[Kid Fury]

Not only did he perform.

[Crystle]

Oh, my God.

[Kid Fury]

He performed three songs at the Vibes Cartel concert in Toronto. This is the first time Vibes Cartel has had a show in Canada. So Drake and his cornrows obviously had to give a heartfelt speech first. And so he goes on. He's like, we've been rocking and praying and hoping for this day, so I hope you understand tonight is not just about music turns to Everyone. He goes, tonight is not just about seeing two artists. And I'm like, yeah, it's about seeing one.

[Crystle]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But you.

[Crystle]

It wasn't about seeing you at all, brother. We're shocked, bitch.

[Kid Fury]

I go to concerts in Toronto. You've done this. I've seen you pop up. Like, you could. I've experienced the. Oh, my God. Drake is here. I'm. I. Yeah, yeah. He goes to Vibes, goes, welcome home. We're so grateful and happy to have you.

[Crystle]

I mean, welcome home.

[Kid Fury]

Toronto is very Jamaican. Canada is very Jamaican.

[Crystle]

It's not more Jamaican than Jamaica. I mean, welcome home, Canada. I don't. I do not get it.

[Kid Fury]

I definitely do.

[Crystle]

I don't.

[Kid Fury]

Carabana, all of that type of shit. It's a huge, huge, huge Caribbean.

[Crystle]

Of course. Of course.

[Kid Fury]

So it's Canada. I think it's just. I think his sentiment there is like, home away from home.

[Crystle]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Welcome home. This is a home for you. Blah, blah, blah. That really.

[Crystle]

All right.

[Kid Fury]

Okay. We're so grateful. Happy to have you. You saved all of our lives. Trust me. Especially out here. And then asked if he could play a few records. And performed Hotline, Bling Controller and Nokia, of course. What does Noki even have to do with anything? Isn't Nokia the one that's like, quit calling my phone?

[Crystle]

Mm, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

That's not even a record.

[Crystle]

I think it's his most recent hit.

[Kid Fury]

Just do Control. Like, it's a Vibes card. Whatever. Listen.

[Crystle]

Yeah. I see here that these shows were presented by OVO and now everything exists.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, that exists. Explains everything.

[Crystle]

Cause I was so excited.

[Kid Fury]

That explains everything. When I was reading this, I was like, did he present it? Was this like.

[Crystle]

Yes.

[Kid Fury]

I didn't finish reading.

[Crystle]

Yes. OVO produced these shows. OVO brought Vibes Cartel to Toronto. That is what.

[Kid Fury]

That explains everything.

[Crystle]

Oh, okay. Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, that brings my heart. So much ease, somebody. This is like. Okay. Everything else is gonna happen.

[Crystle]

Big, big checks were involved here.

[Kid Fury]

Yes, Big checks.

[Crystle]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

I see Vibes Cartel got his little. His little OVO neck necklace. They gave him chain.

[Crystle]

Yeah, that and that in the Blue Jays jersey. Like, they. They got him candid out.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. Yeah. Drake was also there for the World Series. You got a facial. Your skin looks good, brother. I. This was too much. It was like, I will be going through a concert and I will be ushering. Haven't you learned anything? I just heard anything.

[Crystle]

Oh, Lord. Okay, well, this is you hoping that.

[Kid Fury]

This nigga is gonna jump in front of a bullet for you? Actually, let me just. Shut up. Yeah, I'M happy that Canada got a Vibes Cartel concert. I love y'. All. I love your food. I love my people.

[Crystle]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And I know that that was probably a really good time for you and something that you've wanted for. Whether that light skinned man was there or not, I'm sure that you had a blast and that means a lot to me.

[Crystle]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Furthermore, I'm happy to see that Vibes Cartel is dark skinned again. I forgot for a little bit. I forgot to be coming back. Or you can fix it.

[Crystle]

Come on, please.

[Kid Fury]

Brown. So that's nice as well. On the flip side of the Drake coin, he is currently being sued by a man in Missouri. We're talking about 34 pages of a class action complaint for that good old Steak baby. Yes, the gambling is going down. The doll baby, Justin Killam in Missouri is moving to sue Drake as well as Internet white boy Aiden Ross and Steak Us, saying they've actively misled consumers when they promoted Steak Us as a quote, harmless, quote harmless, unquote, social casino. What? I want to know where they said it was harmless. Did they really say that?

[Crystle]

I. I would be shocked if they.

[Kid Fury]

Did because I would as well.

[Crystle]

Every gambling ad I've ever seen says, this comes with the risk of you losing your shit.

[Kid Fury]

So I feel like it has to.

[Crystle]

Right. So that's quite interesting.

[Kid Fury]

But so many like cigarette ads and magazines and stuff will basically be like, don't smoke this. It'll kill you and your baby and the whole family.

[Crystle]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

I mean if the issue is according to the.

[Crystle]

Okay, great.

[Kid Fury]

We get.

[Crystle]

No we getting. Because I was just about to ask what, what is the fucking issue here.

[Kid Fury]

On Rolling Stone it says, according to the student sought highly addictive and quote, unlawful gambling platform. And again I'm like, I want to know how unlawful we're talking about in these quotes because I just feel like with as big a platform as famous as the platform mistake is and also considering that their front runner is one of the most famous musicians right now, I feel like they would have the sense to have every legal duck in a direct.

[Crystle]

Yeah, right.

[Kid Fury]

I would think the different places and states and whatever have, I guess, different laws. I don't really know how this is going, but.

[Crystle]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Says that the complaint was filed Monday in Jackson County Circuit Court accuses the defendants of deceptive, fraudulent and unfair practices that violate Missouri law and cause real life gambling losses at risk to at risk users.

[Crystle]

Yes, that's. That's what gambling is.

[Kid Fury]

The suit says stakes deceptive trade practices have inflicted severe harm on the vulnerable in Missouri an extensive and especially on individuals prone to gambling addiction and young consumers targeted through stakes free free play marketing. Now that's one of the things that's always kind of given me the heebie jeebies about this shit because the first time I looked it up I was like, what is. Okay. What is this shit that Drake keep talking about on Twitch and Kick and whatever? And I'm like, okay. When I first look at it, I'm like, it seems like an app that you put on your any phone, iPad, computer and much like a Netflix or Roblox or whatever. I guess you just scroll through there and pick whatever gambling game thing you want to do and just go in. But the thing that gave me the growth was that it seems like has some sort of, I noticed like a. Some sort of feature where you can. The first couple of games or the first couple of whatever are free. So it gets you in to the motion and the lifestyle and the cycle of. Of gambling to hook you and then for the next thing you know, you naked outside. So the fact that I know how gambling works and understand how gambling addiction can. Can take place. But there is just something really gross about celebrities, especially grown ones going to places that are specifically populated by young people and being like, hey yeah, wanna ruin your life?

[Crystle]

It's predatory. It absolutely is. I just don't think that makes it illegal necessarily.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, no, of course not.

[Crystle]

I mean, right? But I've been very vocal about how I feel about gambling and the rise in these gambling app. Like it. Gambling should have never been legalized the way it has been and spread to all the all 50 states and now it's 18 different apps you can download and y' all parlaying your electric bill money and all that. Like it should have never gotten this far. It's absolutely crazy is getting arrested now for allegedly being part of things behind the scenes and players throwing games and like that. Like it's just.

[Kid Fury]

Oh yeah, I've heard about that.

[Crystle]

It's so crazy. But. But is it illegal even?

[Kid Fury]

Like you mentioned the fans being one like meet a player outside.

[Crystle]

Oh yeah. Cussing people out, being ready to fight.

[Kid Fury]

Price picks ain't got nothing to do with me.

[Crystle]

Like, and I don't give a shit, girl.

[Kid Fury]

I don't give a fuck.

[Crystle]

I didn't tell you to bet your last $80 on whether I was gonna hit 16 free throws. Like I didn't. Nobody told you to do that. You did that of your own.

[Kid Fury]

I'm not playing a wizard's chess and Bitch.

[Crystle]

And every gambling ad has a gambling problem. Here's our hotline. And here's a different phone number depending on which state you're in. Like they all have them little disclaimers because the shit is horrible for you. Of course it is. And you get addicted. They all have a first $50 you bet, win 200 or whatever. They all have some sort of bullshit to hook you in. And then the next thing you know you considering gambling like your part time job. And I think it's, I think it's disgusting. It's, it's one of the few ads I refuse to have on the show. I refuse to read on the show. It's one of the few categories where I'm like, no, absolutely not. Fuck that. And I, I absolutely believe it's horrible for people, especially young people. It's is, it's designed to keep you addicted. Correct? Correct. But is it illegal in this America?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, that's the thing. I don't think there's anything wrong with a grown up on a girls trip on a friend's giving on a whatever. And it's like, oh, let's go to the casino or whatever just for fun. Have a hangover the next day and talk about all the money you lost and laugh and be.

[Crystle]

And that's where it should have stayed.

[Kid Fury]

And that's where it stays.

[Crystle]

Yes.

[Kid Fury]

But to this point there is a predatory nature in these acts and the rise of them, like you said, and the way that they're presented.

[Crystle]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

I can't go up to the Hard Rock and be like, just let me get on a slice of play free a couple of times. Like, bitch, what are you talking about?

[Crystle]

What are you talking about?

[Kid Fury]

Hell, maybe you can now you probably have memberships where you like, hey, the first hundred games are free. The next thing you know you're dead.

[Crystle]

I wouldn't know. Cause you know, of all of my propensities, thank God I don't have one for gambling. It's something about losing my little hundred dollars that I take. I take my $100 out in Vegas and baby, when it's gone, it is gone. She's gone.

[Kid Fury]

Thank goodness I do not get addicted.

[Crystle]

To the feeling of my shit.

[Kid Fury]

But like, yes, the first time I lost money at a casino was the last time. I'm sure I've told that story. And it wasn't a crazy amount. I was like, oh, I came in here and I had money and I don't have that money anymore, right.

[Crystle]

And I don't like this. And I don't want to play, right? I'm not going to the ATM, because the ATMs in the casinos got 20 fees. And it ain't no regular two, three dollars to take your money out in the casino. It's a minimum of 10. No, I'm actually not addicted to this feeling. Not at all. Not at all.

[Kid Fury]

And they were walking around, passing out free Long Islands and free vodka sodas and shit like that.

[Crystle]

I would sit there and play the piano. And the very first time I went to Vegas, this was long, long ago, long ago. Before it was so widespread. Although in Oklahoma, you always could go to the casino. The Native Americans have casinos. You always could do that. So it wasn't even appealing in that way for me. But. But my friend was like, you can just sit there and pay the penny machines and the girls come by with free drinks. Like, yes, it's well drinks, but it's free drinks. And that's exactly what I did. Sat there and played them penny machines and got drunk for free. Well, for $8 or whatever.

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Crystle]

On them shit.

[Kid Fury]

Definitely had those nights as well.

[Crystle]

Yes. And that's how it's supposed to be. These people gambling in high school and shit. It's a damn shame.

[Kid Fury]

It's crazy.

[Crystle]

Yeah, it's really bad.

[Kid Fury]

I do think something should be done about it.

[Crystle]

Same.

[Kid Fury]

I don't know what kind of case this Justin Killam person has, but I hope. Doubt, but hope that there's something that could just shake something into the system. I have no hope in a stake, you know, that is.

[Crystle]

Oh, no.

[Kid Fury]

They built on that. And I think Drake has an actual gambling problem, so I don't know.

[Crystle]

I agree.

[Kid Fury]

You might have to address his own shit before he addressed anybody.

[Crystle]

But this administration trying to limit people's ability to make money. I don't see that happening. I don't. I don't see these courts, these judges, this administration siding with the consumer. Sorry, I really don't.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, wait, hold on. Tamar update.

[Crystle]

Oh, okay.

[Kid Fury]

I don't care what y' all say. I do it again.

[Crystle]

Do what again? Go to the verses and wipe that nigga forehead.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I guess so.

[Crystle]

Are you fucking your sister's husband?

[Kid Fury]

All right, this is. If your sister don't treat me like Tamar treats bird. I know your fam don't like me.

[Crystle]

What?

[Kid Fury]

And I be talking behind my back. She held him down that whole night and had had to give my boy some water.

[Crystle]

Held him down like he was in prison. What are you talking about?

[Kid Fury]

Because the. I guess I don't know who reported this? But it says that Tamar made Birdman hydrate because he was chugging liquor.

[Crystle]

Oh, that's a grown man. He know how to pick up a cup of water if he's thirsty. What the fuck? Okay. All right. Y' all real dumb.

[Kid Fury]

So Glorilla was performing at Jamie Foxx's house. Sure about this? Jamie Foxx's daughter has a music festival.

[Crystle]

What?

[Kid Fury]

Jamie Foxx's daughter has a music festival.

[Crystle]

What is it called?

[Kid Fury]

I don't know how to say it.

[Crystle]

How is it spelled?

[Kid Fury]

S L, K. Hold on. S, S, K, L, V, K. What?

[Crystle]

What? I did not hear. Now, one vowel.

[Kid Fury]

No, it's like an acronym, I think. Or is it one of those things where you. Where, like, they take the vowels out?

[Crystle]

I'm finna just look it up.

[Kid Fury]

Hold on. It's S, K, V, L K Fest. But I don't know how to. I don't know what that is.

[Crystle]

Oh. Oh. It is S K, V, L K Fest. What is that word supposed to be? I don't know. Skavok.

[Kid Fury]

SK his daughter's name is Anneliese Bishop. So then that his youngest daughter, she's 17. She started doing this when she was 14, I believe I read. Yes. And, yeah, this is the latest one.

[Crystle]

And this is at his house.

[Kid Fury]

I think so. Because Gorilla was there performing. Someone threw a bottle at her.

[Crystle]

Oh, my God.

[Kid Fury]

She responded, said, I don't care how young you are, you. You can get your ass beat. Well, then Jamie Foxx got on the microphone and went off and started saying, who did it? Who did some goofy shit like that? No, why would you do some shit like that? Goofy ass nigga. Why? Goddamn. Why would you throw something at the stage, man? This is for free. It's free Inside his house, I guess. Y' all don't deserve this shit. That's fucked up, bro. I'm so disappointed. I love y', all, but I hate whoever the fuck that was. That ain't cool, man. You throw some shit in my house, in my crib. Nah, man, that ain't cool. Now, here's the kicker. This event is limited to guests aged 14 to 22.

[Crystle]

So it's for children.

[Kid Fury]

So it's for children. Um, not that that gives anybody the right to throw things at stages. I still don't understand what any of you guys are thinking when you think.

[Crystle]

But now that I know it is mainly youth, it makes a lot more sense.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, um, so couple of things for me. Just a few questions. One, why? You know, the language feels sharp for a Crowd of kids. Although I'm sure the musicians were not performing censored music.

[Crystle]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

And I suppose they wouldn't have to because. Onto my next point. Some of these people are over. Some of these people are legal adults. But what event has an age range of 14 to 22?

[Crystle]

Yes, that's quite strange. It should either be 14 to 17 or even 14 to 21. I could even see that. Because you can't drink. But I don't think legal adults and legal minors. I don't think an event should be targeted for both of those age groups.

[Kid Fury]

For both.

[Crystle]

And why is it free at your house? There's something very weird about that.

[Kid Fury]

And why was Tyga invited?

[Crystle]

See, now it's sounding like a predator roundup. Now it's sounding like, hey, predators, come find your kids, come find your next.

[Kid Fury]

My thing is with the age gap thing too. When I first thought that I wasn't even going from like a, ooh, this is dark, creepy predator. That wasn't even my first thought. It was the second one. But my first thought, my first thought was, if I'm 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, I don't want to party with no dad. 14 year old.

[Crystle]

Oh, especially 21 and 22. I can go to real clubs.

[Kid Fury]

Especially 21 and 22.

[Crystle]

Why the fuck would I be at this?

[Kid Fury]

18, 19, maybe.

[Crystle]

Get in. Right. Cause you can't get in. But these kids got fake IDs.

[Kid Fury]

Sure, but at Jamie Foxx's house, at a big party that's been taking place, I guess three years now, something's weird about that.

[Crystle]

I'm sorry, I don't get it.

[Kid Fury]

I just don't understand that age group. Especially because the kid whose advent it is, your youngest kid, is 17. So I also, I still don't understand. So is it 22 so that you can have some. I don't get it. I don't get the age range thing.

[Crystle]

And apparently it's meant to be pronounced skulk, but the V, the U is a V instead. No, I had to Google it cause it was pissing me off. No, I don't understand that. Yeah, so I have so many more questions now. Why is Jamie Foxx inviting 14, 15, 16, 17? Like, no, I'm sorry, your daughter can have a birthday party. Of course she can invite her actual real life friends and you can book these people to perform and that's one thing. But some. What was it open to the public? Like people just had to go register or some shit and then they can come to your house.

[Kid Fury]

This Is very odd, I'm assuming. At first I assumed it was private, but then I'm like, this is probably an LA event. I don't know if it's open to the public where like people could buy tickets, but maybe it is. If the intention is to turn it into a music festival. For real. For real. Then at some point I would assume they're going to start selling tickets and figure out a way to make money off of it. And honestly, if your daughter had a birthday party that felt like a jam and she has, I don't know, maybe she's gone to. I don't think she's old enough to go to Coachella. I don't know. I don't know what Coachella's age things are, but if she out here, she definitely. Coachella is like a season whether you go or not. So I could see maybe being super rich, you know, super sweet 16 parent. Your kid wants to like, I want to start my own music festival. Why not pour energy into that and support if you can. But I think you definitely have to be very, very careful and mindful of how attention.

[Crystle]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Especially not only because your kid's underage, but because your guests are underage.

[Crystle]

Right. And is there alcohol being served? Cause you running into a lawsuit easily. If these kids end up getting drunk, that's another thing.

[Kid Fury]

I would suggest you do not have alcohol at these events. But if I'm 21 or I'm 22. What the fuck are you talking about? You know what I mean? Like, so then you're gonna do what wristbands, which everybody knows how to. Like, that's. There's no. What's the word? There's no guarantee.

[Crystle]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

That. That won't go into mixy, dangerous places. And over 21, over 22 can just go get drinks for someone who is not. They can give drinks to people. It's just.

[Crystle]

And how do you do an age verification? It could easily be 26 year olds and there were 14 year olds and they're like, I don't have my ID, bro. And then like, because most kids don't have ID, most teenagers don't carry ID until they're old enough to drive. So it's just very. I'm really, really confused about this event. I. No part of it makes sense. Jamie Foxx to the front, please. What the fuck is this? No, I'm gonna need answers. And now that I'm looking at the Instagram, at the Skulk Fest Instagram, all the Comments are like 14. Why the fuck 4. I'm not not dropping my baby off at no party at Jamie Foxx house. And grown people not even allowed to be there.

[Kid Fury]

It is just, even if your intentions are good, bro, you have to be. You know what I'm saying?

[Crystle]

No, this. This is very strange. Sorry.

[Kid Fury]

When I saw this story went from like, now, why do people keep throwing shit on stages? Like, what are you gonna be thinking as a girl? Yes to this was at Jane Foxx house.

[Crystle]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Wait, what does that say? What are all these letters together? I can't read this. Then it was like, wait, how old are these niggas?

[Crystle]

Tyga was there, right? And of course they don't have his address on the flyer. It was a shuttle. You take your kids to the Oak Mall and then a shuttle takes the hill. Hell, baby, when I say absolutely not, you know. Okay, so now I'm thinking they must have extended it to 21 to 22 so that like a older sister or older cousin could and supervise the younger people.

[Kid Fury]

Like, there's a way to do that.

[Crystle]

I'm trying to make it make sense. You see how this don't make no fucking sense.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, there's a way to do that.

[Crystle]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Without opening it up. Like, you could literally have a subsection in your ticketing or whatever where someone who needs a chaperone, for instance, gets like a specific pass for that type thing where you're not necessarily opening it up for everybody, but you could find ways to have like, oh, well, this person's coming with me. But they're not like a guest guest. They would have like a different pass or whatever. Whatever. There's no liquor here, just so you know. And you have to be. You know what I mean? There's just ways that you can guard. Put guidelines around that if that's what you wanted to do.

[Crystle]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But to me, from the get go, this is the thing where it's like, first of all, if you're some years in, find a place to do it. That's 1, 2, 14 to 22. Don't make no sense.

[Crystle]

Nope.

[Kid Fury]

Even outside of the Epstein shadowy, you know, villain place, like I said. Just in terms of event planning for what? What where?

[Crystle]

I'm sorry. No, there's. I think I really feel like at this point, I don't care what kind of party or festival your daughter wants to have. You really have to be aware of what the fuck this looks like as a public figure. In the wake of Diddy and Epstein and every fucking thing else. This seems so fucking weird, bro. I don't get it. I don't.

[Kid Fury]

Duh, I don't get it either, so.

[Crystle]

Nah, get it out of here.

[Kid Fury]

Glorilla is apparently also dating her basketball player too.

[Crystle]

Is she? Who might that be?

[Kid Fury]

Brandon Ingram.

[Crystle]

Oh, Toronto, I guess. Now, wouldn't you know, Mr. Sports Shorts.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, that's where he's from, where he plays the thing. So. He plays the thing.

[Crystle]

Oh, Lord. Okay, well.

[Kid Fury]

Good for. Yeah, there's like a clip of her sitting courtside and him coming up and giving her a kissy poo.

[Crystle]

Okay, well, that's disgusting.

[Kid Fury]

And I guess the fans are.

[Crystle]

You don't have to say that ever again.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, that was kind of gross. Her little pet.

[Crystle]

I was pretty gross.

[Kid Fury]

Good for you, Globe. Having love and finding love. Speaking of sports shorts, Megan, thee stallion said that Clay better drop all of the. The points.

[Crystle]

Bless my girl. Bless her. She.

[Kid Fury]

She's just having a good time.

[Crystle]

She is.

[Kid Fury]

I don't give a. About what she's talking about. She doesn't know at all.

[Crystle]

That girl do not care.

[Kid Fury]

Did you hear her new song?

[Crystle]

I did.

[Kid Fury]

It's okay. I watched the pornographic video.

[Crystle]

It's the video for me. It's the video for me. The song is. Is fine, but the video. Oh my God, Megan. Jesus Christ.

[Kid Fury]

She's so gorgeous.

[Crystle]

She's so fine. She's the same way we was talking about that nigga on the rings who won the gold. Yeah, Megan twirling around the things she can do with her body. Jesus Christ. Yeah, you work out. We can tell that's not surgery. Don't give you them abilities. That girl be in the gym training with that man.

[Kid Fury]

I'm ready for her anime to drop so I can get some action figures.

[Crystle]

Jesus. She is fine.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, well, she's really gorgeous. I did enjoy the video more than the song or accompanied with the song. I agree that the song is fine. I think I said it. I don't really care for love rap songs that much.

[Crystle]

And I mean, this is really. I'm with my man. Find your own man. I'm popping this pussy all over him.

[Kid Fury]

Pop this pussy.

[Crystle]

And I was just like, I'm having a great time with this rich nigga with a big dick. Like, okay, bitch, just rub it in. Fuck.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, my goodness. Yeah, some is. How is Klay Thompson doing? Apparently people are. I'm seeing vibrations of people saying that they're accusing Megan already of sucking the soul out of him. Or sucking. I'm sorry, they said sucking the talent out of him.

[Crystle]

Oh, wow. Well, not great. You know, I don't think he's I. I don't think the Mavs are doing that well. But the season just started. Everybody needs to calm down. This. It's a. The NBA has a long fucking season. Everybody relax. But, yeah, he might just, you know, be on the other side of his peak, which is fine. We all get there.

[Kid Fury]

Or maybe he's too busy collecting and catching shiny Pokemon on the New Legends with Megan all night goddamn long, trading and shit, doing battles when he should be in the motherfucking gym.

[Crystle]

He don't have. Well, I mean, they be posting videos of them working out anyway.

[Kid Fury]

I'm just joking.

[Crystle]

Yeah, but Klay Thompson don't have nothing else to prove. He don't have nothing else to win. He has done it all.

[Kid Fury]

I just think that talk is just like, oh, let's bash a woman. It just. It was like. It may even be because Megan specifically is so hated. It could be like, I think a number of black girls. If it was Dochi dating this nigga, people would be like, seriously, you started dating that bitch and taking pictures and being all happy and hugging her dog.

[Crystle]

You know?

[Kid Fury]

Now my prize picks, nigga, if you don't get directly in the bin and shut your everlasting.

[Crystle]

Yeah, y' all love to blame shit on women when it's just that people have ebbs and flows in their careers. And it is what it is. The nigga's been a.

[Kid Fury]

You can't even make it up three flights of stairs.

[Crystle]

Y' all are.

[Kid Fury]

Why are you talking to an athlete about anything strange?

[Crystle]

This is like his 14th season.

[Kid Fury]

Bitch. Like, shut up.

[Crystle]

Shut up.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I think that's going to be it for me for the hot tops this week.

[Crystle]

Okey doke.

[Kid Fury]

Let's talk about Camron suing J. Cole. But we already passed the most.

[Crystle]

I don't have the fortitude for this.

[Kid Fury]

I really don't. And I also don't have it. It is really funny, sad, but, you know, that's the theme this week, I guess.

[Crystle]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Sad. But I'm laughing my way through.

[Crystle]

I'm kind of laughing anyway. What else do you mean?

[Kid Fury]

Right? To keep from crying. Right, that's it. We'll take a break and come back.

[Crystle]

Hey, y'.

[Kid Fury]

All.

[Crystle]

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[Kid Fury]

All right Earthlings, it's time for your letters. What you got?

[Crystle]

Yes, it is. Send your questions to askthereadmail.com we may read them aloud on the show. Our first letter this week comes from Devin who says, hey guys, thank you so much for all that you do. I'm sitting here at four in the morning fighting depression and taking your advice from a recent letter about happiness not coming to knock on your door and you having to go out and find it. Anyway, I've been battling depression because all my niggas found out about each other and I'm really sad but it's my fault and I need to go to therapy. The crazy part is I can afford therapy but Right now I'm just trying to pay off my credit cards and doing both is not plausible. But I do plan on starting therapy in January. But anyways, that's not why I'm writing you.

[Kid Fury]

Clearly.

[Crystle]

Iconic. This. This. Y' all are iconic. Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Wow.

[Crystle]

My friend wants to visit me for an entire weekend, and I quite honestly hate hosting people in my home. It's exhausting. I hate talking and just having people around, but I do.

[Kid Fury]

Well, did I invite you? I like going. It's like sleepwalking.

[Crystle]

But I do love going on trips and meeting friends in other cities. I feel like it's way more fun that way and we can both explore and have new experiences. I just don't like hosting people and taking them around my city, especially because I grew up here in Dallas and I want to leave and move to New York soon. I told this friend that I work a lot and I spend my off days just regrouping and trying to make it through the day. But now she's thinking that I just don't want her to come. She constantly tells me that she feels like she's my ugly friend and I don't want her around, which is not the truth. She is a bit older. I'm 30, and she just turned 47. But I'm just not mentally in a space to host anyone. Am I a bad person for doing this? I told her that next year would be better for me and we can meet in a new city and do something fun somewhere else, but I'm just not in a good space right now. I'm honestly sad because I feel like I sabotage a lot of my romantic relationships and I'm working on becoming a better person. Person. I have been told by friends and lovers in the past that I'm selfish and only tend to think of myself. And I think that's why my entire life blew up just a couple of weeks ago. Anyway, please let me know what you think. Thanks. De said, look, it's 4am okay? Things are going to be all over the place.

[Kid Fury]

That is the funniest iconic.

[Crystle]

Y' all are everything.

[Kid Fury]

What was the question?

[Crystle]

So there's a lot here. But.

[Kid Fury]

But Devon like dealing with the depression and kind of like pushing people away.

[Crystle]

Yeah, Right. So he has these issues. He, she. They really don't know the gender here.

[Kid Fury]

Devon does sound like it could be.

[Crystle]

Devon could be anybody.

[Kid Fury]

So.

[Crystle]

So the issue of, you know, Deveren had multiple niggas. They found out about each other. Now, their love life, that's separate from the issue of Dev's friend wants to come visit. Devon's really not in the head.

[Kid Fury]

Did you say how long it was?

[Crystle]

The friend wants to visit for a weekend.

[Kid Fury]

Okay. Yeah. That's dope. Yeah. No, when you. Like when you're really depressed.

[Crystle]

Yeah. Any.

[Kid Fury]

Having any.

[Crystle]

Come over for any amount of time, it feels like hell. It does. Yes, yes, yes.

[Kid Fury]

So I get it. I think this one kind of has me a little torn. Cause on the one hand, I want to be like the fluttering angel on one shoulder. That's kind of like, what if your friend came and it was the best fucking weekend ever. And you like. Like you've had all this anxiety and you're just like, no, no, no, no. I hate. I don't want to do it. I'm not feeling good. I'm not in a good space. What if you were just like. You just took a leap. You're like, send. And you let them come and you grin and bear it up until the point, you know, you're just like, I'm gonna. This is gonna be great. Be fine. But what if they come and they spend the weekend with you and you have some anxiety and you're a little depressed or whatever. You talk about that. Get out of the way, smile, maybe have some wine, and then by the end of the weekend, it's a. You had a blast. What if that's a possibility?

[Crystle]

Of course it is.

[Kid Fury]

So I just want to just. I want to just put that there. I want to just put the little angel fluttering right there.

[Crystle]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

And then on the other side of that, I would say, like, if you really are firm, like, no, I already know I'm not. It's not going to happen. I think that I would be as clear with my friend about how I'm feeling, why I'm feeling, and why I made the decision that I made. And I would try to do something to maintain connection and care until this next year or whatever, you know, proposed upcoming trip or whatever. Whatever the rain check is. So you're not making them feel like. Cause I hate the friends that, like, the ugly friend or whatever. And, like, so you're not making them feel, like, neglected or discarded, and you're just being as clear as possible. Like, you are not nobody's ugly or you are my friend. This is a me thing. I want to be able to feel like I can be good to you, especially if you're gonna be in my space and I don't feel confident.

[Crystle]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

What can we do in the meantime? To love one another until I get to that place. Right. So I would just. If you. If you. What I'm saying is, if you really don't feel like you could do it, communicate, there ain't nothing wrong with your damn friend. And it's not a personal thing. It's just. It is a you thing. And try to stay connected with them as much as possible, because you both sound like you could use it.

[Crystle]

Mm. Yeah, this friend does sound like they could really use some time. Um.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystle]

And that's. You know, to have a friend, you have to be a friend. And so I get. I get that, and I really do. I agree that if, you know, you're not in the head space to host, you have to say that. Because giving in and being like, okay, come anyway. And then she comes. Your friend comes, and you're, like, ignoring her or slamming doors or whatever. You have an attitude that she's in your house because you're not in the headspace to have anybody be there. Like, that's also horrible. Like, nobody wants that. So.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystle]

So to me, it's actually a little strange that your friend. It's not so much the age gap. Like, I guess 30 and 47 can be friends. But it's weird that. It's weird that she keeps saying this, oh, I'm the ugly friend and you don't want me around. That's the sort of thing where I feel like you can say that once. Like, I. Mm. You know, maybe I sound crazy, but I just feel like I'm the ugly friend and people don't want me around because I'm ugly, and it's, like, shameful to be my friend or whatever. And, you know, then you respond to that and you say, girl, no, of course not. Me. And my mental health has nothing to do with you. I would be a horrible host to anybody right now because I'm simply not in the space for this.

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Crystle]

I just lost my whole roster, sister. I'm really grieving. Things are hard right now. It could be. And a lot of people are this way. It could be that you would love to have her come visit for the weekend. She just can't stay in your house. She needs to stay somewhere else. A hotel or Airbnb, something like that. But then y' all can hang out, and you have the space for that. You just don't have the space for somebody being in your home 24, seven for two, three days. So maybe that's it. But are you a bad person? No, of course not. I don't think you're a bad person at all. You Might not be in the space to be. Well, not for this. I don't know what you might be for the roster thing. I don't know what you did there.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah, we don't know what that was. That was delightfully varied that you might.

[Crystle]

You know, and if multiple friends and lovers have told you you're a selfish person, that's probably something to really look to. But, yeah, you said you're starting therapy in January, so you can save that for your therapist. But if she brings up again this whole idea of, like, oh, I'm the ugly friend and nobody wants me around, I think I would be a little bit firmer with, like. I really want you to stop saying that to me because that has nothing to do with this. Please don't. Please don't take my mental health personally. It has nothing to do with. With the way that you look. You're a great friend. If she is a great friend, you know, you can say that, but I'm just not in a space to be a good host. If you came here and elbowed your way into my apartment, I would have a horrible ass attitude, and we would no longer be friends by the end of the weekend. I'm not in the space to do it. Girl, I get that you want to get away and spend a weekend, so let's look at, you know, mamaless research. Let's look at Holiday Inns and maybe budget more budget friendly options. Is there somebody else that y' all are friends with that they can stay with in Dallas? Like, something else to where you can still come? We can hang out, but I'm not feeling like, you know, I'm finna just wild out and be a horrible person to you either. Like, there's a middle ground somewhere, but you don't have to host people if you don't. I mean, really, if you don't want to, but especially when you feel like, damn, I'm not gonna be a good friend to you.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystle]

So, yeah, the rest. But, you know, this sounds like it goes deeper than just this one friendship. The information you put before and after that lets me know you have some other things going on mentally. So good luck with that therapy that you're gonna start in January. But, yeah, I hope this helps. Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. That sound like a black Lena Dun.

[Crystle]

Not Lena Dunham.

[Kid Fury]

Like, if Lena Dunham was black. Okay. Okay.

[Crystle]

All right, moving on. Our next letter comes from Ariah, who says, hi, Crystal and Kid Fury. I've been listening to the reasons I was in high school, and I'm so Grateful for y'. All. Thank you for being my comfort show through the years. Here's my situation. I'm the oldest of a big family and you know how that goes. A year and a half ago, my mom kicked my 16 year old sister out and she came to live with me. While I was happy to take her in, I put my life on hold and went into debt to get her moved in with me. And I have struggled to keep up with the bills since. Not to mention adjusting to raising a teen and all the things that come with that. Our mom ain't shit. And I knew it would be a challenge to get my sister back on a good track. Fast forward to now and she has her ged, she's working towards getting a car and her license and she's getting ready to enroll in community college. A few days ago my sister went to the doctor to get a refill of her birth control and found out she's four weeks pregnant.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, I knew it.

[Crystle]

She told me she wants to keep it, that her boyfriend's mom doesn't believe in abortion and now she doesn't either.

[Kid Fury]

I talked to her and now she doesn't either.

[Crystle]

I talked to her about my concerns and let her know I think she should really consider abortion as an option. I also spoke with his mom and told her I didn't appreciate her talking to my sister the way she did tea and asked her to make it sorry. And I asked her to make it clear to my sister that she would not be mad if my sister chose to have an abortion. She told me she would not be doing that and said if your side of the family won't support her, then we will. This is especially frustrating because she's been frequently about pregnancy prevention, made sure she had access to birth control, and I kept plan B in the house where I knew she could get it. Damn.

[Kid Fury]

So you think she wanted to get pregnant?

[Crystle]

I later learned from his family that my sister and her boyfriend admitted to actively trying to get pregnant.

[Kid Fury]

Oh my goodness.

[Crystle]

Of course. I really thought my sister and I were in a good place in terms of communication and trust. So I've been really caught off guard by this. I've been struggling to get my sister in a better position and I'm very aware that she is not emotionally or in any other way ready for parenthood. She gets overwhelmed very easily and has some anger issues. I know it is ultimately her decision, but I genuinely feel worried for her, but also worried for the baby. This girl loves to fight and I'm tired of fighting.

[Kid Fury]

Oh Girl, we didn't even get to the fighting part.

[Crystle]

But I also don't want to abandon my sister as she faces this pregnancy. I told her she has to move in with her boyfriend, who lives at home with his parents by the end of the year.

[Kid Fury]

Of course he does.

[Crystle]

His family says since they don't believe in abortion, they will help her take care of the baby. But they also don't have they shit together. And a few of their kids have even ended up in foster care.

[Kid Fury]

Are you fucking kidding me?

[Crystle]

I feel guilty about telling her she has to go, but I'm also really at a loss for what to do, and I'm not prepared to be responsible for my sister and a baby. How would you guys handle this? There's a part of me that knows I could step up and be more supportive of her choice and help her with the baby. But there's a bigger part of me that feels resentful because I have spent a majority of my life doing that for my mom, who had me as a teen. I'm trying to figure out how to support her without losing my mind. But I also don't want to look back and feel like I was being too harsh or could have done things differently. I would love to hear any advice you have on my situation. Thank you for everything. Sincerely, Mariah. Baby.

[Kid Fury]

I. I don't know what you are, man. How old is she again?

[Crystle]

Mariah didn't tell us her age, but her sister was 16 when she took her in, so probably 17 or 18 now. Regardless, I don't know how you are.

[Kid Fury]

Trying to have a kid. You don't have a place to live. He don't have a place to live. His parents backwards. Your parents backwards.

[Crystle]

What? That's actually exactly how teenagers end up in this situation. Both of y' all come from unstable, chaotic household, and people just be wanting love real bad. Real bad.

[Kid Fury]

So you're like, let's make a baby so that we can do it right.

[Crystle]

Yeah. Some people really think that at 18, if even 18. Some people do think that way, or they think a baby will love me unconditionally, unlike my mama or my daddy or grandma or whoever else. Like, there's a lot of reasons why teenagers who come from. Who are not in a position to be effective parents at the moment decide to embark into parenthood anyway. There's. And it almost always links back to their childhood. Um, so I feel for Mariah because you are really stuck between a rock and a hard place, girl. God damn.

[Kid Fury]

Really feel for you. I truly do. I'M Cause like, like you had them parents too. You had that mama too.

[Crystle]

Yeah. Yeah. Woo. You had that mama too.

[Kid Fury]

You had that mama too.

[Crystle]

You had that mama too.

[Kid Fury]

And so you are carrying around that trauma, that burden.

[Crystle]

And you are the eldest, so you got it the worst.

[Kid Fury]

So that they do. You got it the worst. And so now you're looking at a situation where you stable enough to be above water to whatever degree and probably just trying to stay focused, tunnel vision and not be what you came from or whatever. And here come your sister. Like, I'm going to have a baby. And you now have to decide if you're going to raise another child, like after raising this other one that ain't yours. So you about to be a mama and a grandmama for what? And the alternative is sending your sister to her boyfriend's house.

[Crystle]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

Her boy, his boyfriend's parents house.

[Crystle]

Right. Where they don't even keep custody of all they kids.

[Kid Fury]

Where.

[Crystle]

Right. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Where who knows what will be her life, living situation, standards. And the same for her child. Right. Who will be your niece, nephew. So I guess that leads me to. I'm just recapping.

[Crystle]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Cause it's a lot I feel for you in this decision and being frustrated. The question being like, all right, do I step in, support this decision with resentment or do I choose myself, wish this girl her baby the best, but then regret it later? I don't think that we can really make that decision for you. But I'll say that I don't think I would judge you regardless of what decision. Like, I don't, I. I don't think that I would be pro or against either one of the decisions. If it were me, I guess I would be thinking like, this kid ain't doing nothing to nobody and this kid is gonna be my blood. And to some I would want to be informed of the well being of my niece or nephew of a friend or what have you.

[Crystle]

Right. Responsible for listening.

[Kid Fury]

Cause if you think that I'm. Again, see, I can't raise you. I can't make this decision for you. I'm not.

[Crystle]

Well, Mariah did say, how would you handle this if you were in this situation? So.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, okay.

[Crystle]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

All right.

[Crystle]

So not even expecting us to make the decision for her, but wanting to know with all this information, what would you do if you were in this same situation?

[Kid Fury]

I would very much pack a full lunchbox. I'm talking about, I'm talking about a stuffed Doritos of provisions. Okay. In fact, I might put that bitch in a Jansport with some other things.

[Crystle]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Buy you your first box of diapers and I'll say, hey, if there is an emergency, if someone's in. In direct danger, you let me know. And I wish you the everlasting best. Sounds like you got it. Sounds like you know what you're doing. You sound really determined and grown up. I wish you the well in your parenting journey. And remember that area code as well as the digits afterwards if someone's head is missing. Okay. Other than that, goodbye. I'll tell her now. Yeah, I would. I would. Would I be like, damn, she gonna have this baby. That's gonna be my blood relative. And I wanna. Probably. But that's why I'm in therapy.

[Crystle]

Yeah, well, I mean, so I. The thing is you can. You can try to talk somebody into what seems so to the rest of us to be so obviously the right choice. Like you don't have no business having a baby. It seems to us from the outside looking in this story seems extremely predictable how this is gonna go. But if she is not open to hearing you, then it do not matter. And it sounds like she has it in her head that she's going to have this baby.

[Kid Fury]

So. And didn't even come out and say we were trying to have it.

[Crystle]

Right. You had to find out from his family that she was trying to get pregnant because you, because you, you, you, Mariah, have zero kids. You have no kids. You ended up taking your exactly right. You ended up taking in your younger sibling because your mama kicked her out. And so you had the conversation about reproduction and contraception immediately. You said, let's get you on the pill. It's playing B's in this bitch.

[Kid Fury]

Because C, D, E, N, S, like.

[Crystle]

Because I understand you have a boyfriend. I understand you gonna be fucking. I'm not even trying to say you can't fuck, but, girl, let's talk about preventing pregnancy because we trying to get your life on the right track. And it sounds like you got in that direction. Got her GED working on, got a job, getting ready to go to community college. Like a baby. Just the.

[Kid Fury]

Then here comes this nigga and then here come this.

[Crystle]

This nigga and his mama talking about, well, we don't believe in abortion. We would take a look at they life.

[Kid Fury]

No, I don't either.

[Crystle]

You want that life? Do you want the life she has?

[Kid Fury]

Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

[Crystle]

I just.

[Kid Fury]

So I'm your sister, that's like, hey, babies, abortion, all of that, your choice. But just since you're. You Know, a child, and I'm your guardian, gonna keep that pussy child free for now, and so on and so forth. And you're like, yep, Pop.

[Crystle]

Yeah, you're not.

[Kid Fury]

And then you just meet some nigga and you're like, actually, Plan B is a horrible, horrible organization. Company brand.

[Crystle]

Don't understand.

[Kid Fury]

And I can't be poisoning my body. And in fact, it'll give your future children autism or whatever. Like, whatever. Facebook messenger. Yeah, that shit.

[Crystle]

Like, what? So I, I, I understand. You know, bodily autonomy and being pregnant is very specific to the individual who is pregnant. There are a lot of people who might think they would have an abortion, and then they end up pregnant. They're like, I can't do it. Which, you know, that is, yeah, fair. Right? That's your choice. But you need to think about everything else. That is your choice. You want to have a baby for whatever reasons you have. But do a baby want to have you? Do a baby want to grow up with you? But she might, Again, she might not even be in a place to hear it. So I think, I think because there is somebody who is saying, we're gonna step up and support you if your family won't. I do agree with the, you can go ahead and live with your boyfriend's family, but I also think that will be sending your sister a message that she's probably already heard from them people, which is that her family don't really support her, don't really care about her, don't give a fuck about her, which is a message that your mother sent kicking her out of the house. And that will be incorrectly reinforced, like, erroneously reinforced if you're like, yeah, you can't stay with me if you have a baby. But you have every right to say, you can't stay with me if you have a baby. Mariah, she's not your kid. This. This is not your responsibility. It's hard enough raising a teenager, and now that teenager want to have a baby. So now I'm taking care of both of y', all, because that's exactly what it's going to be. Community college and having a job and all that. It don't have to be over forever. But she for damn sure not going to school. What, in. In the spring or fall when she has a fresh newborn? No, everything is about to change.

[Kid Fury]

I child, I would probably be like, my God. If you have any issue with any of the things I've said, let me tell you something. You and this baby is your mama problem. Like, if you need, this is your mom. Problem. Go to that baby's grandmama, his actual grandmama, and you go figure that out. I'm not. I did what I was supposed to do. Okay. I was here to. Even did my best. We went about a thing. This is not my responsibility.

[Crystle]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But I wish you the very, very living best.

[Crystle]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

And yeah, the rest of it. I'll talk to my doctor about you.

[Crystle]

I just. I really hate this for you because.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, it has to suck.

[Crystle]

This is. No matter what you choose, there's gonna be this feeling of guilt. Are you gonna feel guilty for not taking care of your sister and her baby? Raising her baby and her at the same time? Are you gonna be resentful because your sister and her child are in your house? It's like, which one do you wanna. Which path do you wanna go down? Because her mind seems to be made up about having this child. So if it was me, yeah, I think I would say I, I nothing. There's nothing. I am putting you out of my house. But there is nothing that would stop me from loving you or, or being there for you. This does it. This just. This means I don't want the, the massive responsibility of raising a newborn. You seem to not understand just how big of a decision this is. Is you. Like I just would want to shake.

[Kid Fury]

And I'm not going to. I'm. I'm not going to give you a.

[Crystle]

Red T. Oh, I mean, oof. That would be hard.

[Kid Fury]

I'm like birthday. I'm not giving you no money either. I'm not like, I'm not. Because, matter of fact, not only am I sending you out my house, it's not like you should be over there. You got way more help. Baby father, baby's father's father, baby father's mother. Yeah, but you got more hands, bitch. More people cleaning diapers than us over here. Goodbye. And I'm not sending you a jack thing because ho. I wouldn't be paying for that baby if he lived here.

[Crystle]

Well, that's the thing. When a child.

[Kid Fury]

What will be the difference?

[Crystle]

You automatically pay for them. You automatically. So I just. Oh God.

[Kid Fury]

I'm not gonna give you money for it.

[Crystle]

I'm frustrated for you because it's like, yes, this is your choice and no, I don't wanna abandon my sister. But you really don't seem to grasp that this is a huge thing you're doing. It's a life changing decision you're making. And it's just too many girls who think that they've fallen in love. And this man and we gonna have a family and y' all don't get it. And baby, we have seen that song and dance before. It's actually tired. At this point, I would want to support my sister, but with the very hard line of not in my home. I will throw your baby shower like you said. I will send you with some diapers and formula and onesies and all that. You can even call me to babysit occasionally.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, great. Severance package.

[Crystle]

Yeah, like I'm not cutting you out of my life, but when do I get to live, Mariah? When do you get to live? For you?

[Kid Fury]

Hello.

[Crystle]

Hello. When do you get to have a. Your life for you? Oh, hello. You thought you were going. Come on, Glinda. You thought you was gonna have a few years with your sister, help get her started on the right track, get her off into the world with her, you know, community college. You really, really did better, but you deserve.

[Kid Fury]

And it was going well.

[Crystle]

And you were the oldest kid born to a teen mom in a big family, so you probably been raising kids your whole fucking life.

[Kid Fury]

This is what I'm saying.

[Crystle]

Your younger sister don't get it because she's always had you.

[Kid Fury]

That's why. You're right. When do you get to have your life?

[Crystle]

Yes. When do you get to be your 20, 30 something year old self?

[Kid Fury]

You ain't even raised a child for you yet. If that's something you want to do.

[Crystle]

And I wouldn't be shocked if you don't.

[Kid Fury]

I wouldn't even. I wouldn't be. I wouldn't either. I wouldn't be. I wouldn't blame you, but. Ew, crazy.

[Crystle]

Oh, baby.

[Kid Fury]

I feel for you, Mariah.

[Crystle]

Yeah, same.

[Kid Fury]

But you can't. Like, you can't. Like, sometimes you have to let a loved one crawl out of a pitfall by their damn self so they learn to stop playing games outside. Cause if you go to dig a bitch out of a pit every single time they foolish ass go outside and want to go be playing on tops of mines and nets and shit. It's like, okay, I'm bloody and bruised and dirty and I bring you back inside. You don't even say nothing but what's for dinner? And then far and go to sleep. Like, you're gonna have to learn, man, how much hard work goes into what I'm doing every time you have some shit to learn. Mm, yeah, maybe it ain't over there. Maybe that's not it. Maybe that's not. That's why I said I wouldn't give her no damn money. Either because then you're gonna realize what exactly it is, what life is talking about.

[Crystle]

And it's just a shame that you have to touch the stove to know it's hot. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But the thing is, girl, you got thrown out of the house and sent to live with your stable eldest sibling. And your eldest sibling was like, not only is the stove hot, the stove is every goddamn winter. So plan B. So whatever kind of birth control.

[Crystle]

The red too.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, cool. So work. So and got. So it's like, yeah, you know, the stove was hot. Girl, you kind of experienced the stove being hot. Mariah also said you love to fight. So it's like, what can you tell that you.

[Crystle]

Yeah, Mariah said loves to fight and has anger issues and gets overwhelmed easily. Baby, guess what a newborn ain't good for. Like, if you get overwhelmed easily and get angry and love to fight, a newborn is gonna overwhelm you within the first few hours worse.

[Kid Fury]

Now, what would you do if. If your sibling. If you send the sibling away to the new partner's house or whatever with their family and stuff, has the baby few months in, comes back to the house, it's over between me and them, right?

[Crystle]

And blah, blah, blah, that family ended up being crazy. The mama didn't. Blah, blah, blah. And the daddy ashed out on my baby's pamper and I don't know what to do. Like, come on.

[Kid Fury]

My mama was turning around a teaspoon and then said, sing it to the floor. And then I forgot where I was. Get out. So what do you do then? Would you take your sibling back into the house? Would you send the sibling to the mama's house?

[Crystle]

You. There's a life here that is going to have to be nurtured and nourished by someone if you choose to bring it into this world. And that is a lot of fucking work. And it's non fucking stop. What if this child has disabilities that you not ready to manage? You get overwhelmed easily. Okay. And then you have an. And then you have an autistic, nonverbal child. You're going to need patience and then more patience. You're going to need support.

[Kid Fury]

How expensive their care is.

[Crystle]

And I mean, and that's not even right. And that. And take a look around. Food stamps about to get cut off in two fucking days, girl.

[Kid Fury]

Amazing. Amazing.

[Crystle]

The social support net is being shredded. I'm not saying that nobody should have kids, obviously, but I am saying think about what your. The environment outside is on fire.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystle]

Literally even the most stable, adjusted, resourced people have A hard time raising kids because it's a hard job. Job. It's a hard job in the best of times, under the best of circumstances. True, this child don't deserve this, but if you are head set on doing it, I. I gotta put me first, Lucious. I gotta put me first.

[Kid Fury]

You really a. With the, you know, I wanna have a baby. Does the baby wanna have you? Yeah, that's. Well, that's the thing. As I said it a million times, why I'm never gonna have kids. And it's essentially there. So I don't understand why a lot of people, especially people who know that their experiences are not ideal, I. E. You live with your older sister because your mom ain't shit. And you know what I mean? You can't afford to live anywhere else on your own, and you're her future baby father also doesn't have his own place to stay. This is not ideal. We at least stick with each other, work towards getting a home together, a life together, learning more about each other. Then it's like, oh, my goodness, this baby's gonna have a real great life here. It's like there are people who just like, I wanna have a baby because babies are cute and I wanna hold one. Yep, that's mine.

[Crystle]

Babies will love you no matter what.

[Kid Fury]

No, they won't.

[Crystle]

They won't. Do you love your mama no matter what? The woman who kicked you out to go live with your sister? Like, things it can. The cycle.

[Kid Fury]

They barely know how to remember you for the first few months.

[Crystle]

And if you're not mindful of what you're doing, the cycle will repeat itself. You will unconsciously repeat the patterns. The fucked up shit you went through in your own childhood. You will unconsciously take that out on your child. You won't even realize you're doing it until it's too late. And you'll end up being just like your mama, who you can't stand. But that's the thing. Teenagers already don't really be thinking things through that deeply in the first fucking place.

[Kid Fury]

It's almost like the Jamie Foxx bottle throwing incident. When I read that, it was like, what the fuck? Oh, 14, okay.

[Crystle]

I was like, y' all don't think about shit it.

[Kid Fury]

But y' all don't think. Just do whatever you think is fine.

[Crystle]

I. I'm. I'm going to support my sister from a distance. But, Mariah, I want you to know you deserve to have a life. You deserve to pour into yourself. You deserve to figure out who you are, what you like and don't like. And. And you deserve to direct your energy towards you. You not the one deciding to have a baby. That's your sister. For whatever reason, she has decided that this is what she's going to do. If you can't talk her out of it, if she doesn't feel like, you know, because you can have a baby and legally, you know, leave it at the hospital or the fire station or whatever, you can be like, I'm overwhelmed. I can't do this. You know, and that child becomes a ward of the state and goes into foster care and gets adopted or something like that. Like, you can. You can legally do that. You don't have to take that child home, abuse it, neglect it, and then end up in jail because you did. You weren't ready to take care of a child like you.

[Kid Fury]

Damn.

[Crystle]

But if she's dead set on having and raising this baby, then, yeah, I'm gonna have to support you from a distance, baby. I actually cannot do it. It was hard enough taking you in, and now you want me to start all the way over and raise your child, too? Because if you think she's gonna ever move out of your house if she brings a baby into it, you got a whole nother thing coming. How? In this economy with no educ. Oh, no. She has a ged. Okay, that's great. Yeah, but that's a GE Even college graduates are barely making money, child.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystle]

Cost of living. Right now you need 25, $30 an hour to live comfortably. Who's paying that on a ged? Who's even hiring?

[Kid Fury]

Who is even hiring?

[Crystle]

So, yeah, uh, yeah, I.

[Kid Fury]

If you can't tell, we feel strongly about this for you.

[Crystle]

Well, because this is. I mean, I just really. My heart goes out to her. Because you tried. You really did.

[Kid Fury]

So evident you how much you love this girl.

[Crystle]

Right? Right. But.

[Kid Fury]

They could do that to you.

[Crystle]

Okay. Best of luck to you, your sister, and most of all, that baby, because Jesus Christ, that daddy side of the family sounds like a real piece of. I mean, yours do, too. No shade. But that daddy side of the family, we don't believe in abortion. Oh, maybe y' all should. Cause how. How did y' all have you got.

[Kid Fury]

Kids in the system now?

[Crystle]

It's like you dropped the ball in a really significant way with more than one kid already.

[Kid Fury]

They had a nurse talk about, if your side of the family won't support her, then we will. Bitch, are you dizzy?

[Crystle]

You don't do a great job at that. And let me you exhibit A, B. And C you all you kid is somewhere in somebody else's house going, oh, so now you support kids. Why am I over here with a stranger then?

[Kid Fury]

Bishop? I wanted to save Isaiah. That is exactly what would happen. So you better shut your ass up.

[Crystle]

Good luck to you, Mariah. I just don't want you to be eaten up by guilt over choosing yourself in this situation because. Because you didn't sign up to be nobody's mama. And you get so you get to choose to not parent. You really do, baby. Best of luck. Let us know how it goes. Let's wrap up the letters right there this week. Again, if you have a question for us, send it to asktheread gmail.com. we'll be right back.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crystle]

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[Kid Fury]

Or not, someone is allowing us to have a podcast.

[Crystle]

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[Kid Fury]

I'm Max Silvestri and we've been friends for 20 years and we like to reach out to kind of get advice.

[Crystle]

On how to live our lives.

[Kid Fury]

It's called I need you guys. Should I give my baby fresh vegetables?

[Crystle]

Can I drink the water at the hospital?

[Kid Fury]

My landlord plays the trombone and I can't ask him to stop. You should make sure that you subscribe.

[Crystle]

So that you never miss an episode. I need to go.

[Kid Fury]

Well, we are back. Monsters and maidens. What it is time for the I don't know who it's Time for, I don't know, Halloween, I guess it's time for the read. I'll start because I just want to get this out of my system and be done with it. Hopefully, it'll be quick. So there's a new Superman out. You know, the DCU's doing a thing. I did not know that. James Gunn, the director, I believe, writer for the Guardians of the Galaxy movies over at the Marvel side, is now doing the big thing over at dc. So the new Superman was him. The next Superman is him. The Lanterns TV show for hbo. Max. The Lantern show with Aaron Pierre. That's Mufasa, comes out next year. That's James Gunn as well. Peacemaker with Danielle Brooks. Danielle Brooks plays Viola Davis. I love her on this show.

[Crystle]

Give me this, give me this.

[Kid Fury]

And she's a lesbian.

[Crystle]

Oh, I need it.

[Kid Fury]

And she's a lesbian with a girlfriend that's also black.

[Crystle]

You know, just put it directly in my video.

[Kid Fury]

And she's so good.

[Crystle]

I need it. She's so good.

[Kid Fury]

She's so cute. She's so funny. Great character. They don't waste her. Really. Don't waste anybody on the kiss. But anyway, this isn't about him or James Gunn. It's just all that to say that fans of comic books, fans of comic book movies, DC fans have been relatively excited about this, like, restart for dc, and it's seeming to be going well. So James Gunn started to say things like, you know, he had significant plans for the future of it, and it all depends on whether or not he'll, like, be involved. And that was it, raising eyebrows. It's like, nigga, you just got here. We like, two movies in, like, one movie in, like, with a couple more apparently to go. What do you mean, need. So this read is going to Nepo Baby Shark. David Ellison. Oh, God. Nepo Baby Shark. So Neville Baby Shark is, I guess, the, like, majority controlling shareholder at Paramount plus now. Okay. And so I think the headline I first saw. The headline I saw was something like, warner Brothers is considering selling all its assets or whatever after. How do they word it? After, like, a considerable interest from a buyer that they didn't name at the time. I don't remember how it was worded, but I was like, okay, yeah, one of the Ellisons, like, y' all are doing wizards chess. Y' all over here playing games and, you know, jacking each other off and money, money, money. And I want to buy this now and whatever. So I'm like, fine. At this point. I can barely keep up with the. This Game of speed. Go fish. Phase 10.

[Crystle]

I love speed. Oh my God.

[Kid Fury]

So good. Really. So apparently Paramount is considering or Warner Brothers is considering this buyout because Paramount Skydance is interested. And I read that David Ellison, according to Bloomberg, plans to keep the creative teams of Warner Brothers and Discovery intact while consolidating some of the marketing and distribution because I guess people were afraid that he was going to like buy Warner Brothers and then fire James Gunn for whatever reason. I guess because of what he thought said. There's no mention of Gun in the report on Bloomberg, but fans are assuming his job would be safe given he's considered part of Warner Brothers Discovery's creative team. And what David Elson just said. Gun has not commented. Interestingly, it says Bloomberg also reports that should the merger go through. This is on ign. Ellison plans to combine Warner Brothers HBO Max with Paramount plus creating a streaming platform with an expanded film and TV library. You all have heard the Wise or Hulu in my Disney reads. This is a taste of that. And I get it. On Paramount Skydance's side, I get their perspective because they really ain't got shit going on over there. Like they don't. They don't have shit going on over there. I go on Paramount plus to watch Criminal Minds, Yellowjackets, Twin Peaks and spongebob. None of those are current shows. Right? They're all of. I don't think any of those are kind of old. I think yellow jackets is in between seasons, but whatever. So yeah, I'm over that. But I also get that they're like, whatever. They're trying to do exactly what I said, which is monopolize the industry. Bloomberg also reports that Ellison aims to leverage emerging technologies and AI to ramp up production to 30 films annually across the combined entities. 30 films a year is crazy.

[Crystle]

Yes, it is. Especially. Yes, it is.

[Kid Fury]

Especially when you plan to use AI. I want you bitches to know that. Like I can tell AI is writing your articles now.

[Crystle]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

There'S just some stuff I can tell that you put names on it and shit, but I know nobody wrote this, so you also have no idea how to make. He also reportedly believes in theatrical releases is the best way to build long term franchises. So you want to ramp up, up the film productions to 30 a year by use of AI, which everyone hates, and then putting all of those films in theaters only because you want to build long term franchises in a bunch of productions that won't last long term because nobody fucking likes them because they have no heart and they have no soul. So when all of that stuff fails and goes to the gutter. You will then blame James Gunn, Aaron Pierre, David Coren, Superman. You'll blame, you know, Millie Hancock, or whoever the fuck else Trump tells you to blame to keep up appearances and, you know, shroud away your horrible, ridiculous, and unnecessary failure. I mean, you'll still be wealthy, so it really don't make any difference to you. But to the rest of us who either want to work or be entertained in the space, we're fucked. We're fucked. Because you want ChatGPT to write scripts so you can make as much money as possible. It is such a slap in the face to be like, but we're going to put them in theaters because that's the best way to build long term franchises. No one's building long term franchises with AI. No one. No one. No one. The only thing that you're building long term with AI is a TikTok.

[Crystle]

Literally, if bad, it's bad. It's literally their bad. I saw a clip from a AI produced sitcom and it was horrible. It looks.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I've seen those too.

[Crystle]

It looks.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystle]

Okay. All right. And y' all gonna 30. Y' all gonna shit out 30 movies a year, okay?

[Kid Fury]

We're gonna hate it and hate it and hate it.

[Crystle]

And I'm not spending my money on that.

[Kid Fury]

Still make money.

[Crystle]

I'm not.

[Kid Fury]

Because y' all still get up out of your good goddamn bed and put on your shoes and you leave the house. You take your goddamn keys off the fucking. The teacup saucer up at the front and you hit it down to the amc, down to the Regal, and you pay to go watch that bullshit anyway. You do. You do. You do. Y' all left the house and went to go see until Dawn. You'll go leave the house and watch me do you. We're fucked. We're fucked. We're fucked. Because consumers have no taste and the fucking people at the top don't give a fuck because they know consumers don't have no taste and will buy whatever the fuck they put in front of anyway. And also getting in front of good people's way to make more money. Nepo, baby shark, please get the fuck out of my life. Do, do, do, do. I think that's gonna be it for you, actually. No, one more thing.

[Crystle]

Oh, okay.

[Kid Fury]

I saw a tweet from the White House.

[Crystle]

No, thank you. You can actually stop right there. No, thank you. I've heard enough. That's good.

[Kid Fury]

The video game Halo.

[Crystle]

No, thank you.

[Kid Fury]

Which is famously an Xbox exclusive first party title and has been in pretty much Xbox's like mascot character since it's originated. Thank you, Origin. Yeah. The latest Halo video game will be coming to Xbox as well as PlayStation. So for a lot of people it's kind of like having McDonald's and Burger King or vice versa or whatever. And so the gamers are having fun with that back and forth forth. GameStop decided to get in on the fun and released a statement that says GameStop declares the console wars over. It reads, whereas for the past two decades the global gaming community has been engaged in an ongoing and increasingly petty conflict known as the console wars. Where I said conflict originated in the early 2000s with the release of Halo Combat Evolved as an Xbox exclusive title. Whereas Campaign Evolved is officially coming to PlayStation in 2026 with cross platform play. Therefore, GameStop, acting under its authority as a neutral entity in the world's retail gaming and trade in destination, hereby declares the official cessation of the console wars. All claims to the exclusivity. This is set satire. All claims to the exclusivity are hereby dissolved. Console loyalists are instructed to cease hostilities, disband militias, and enjoy the new era of gaming. GameStop will continue to operate as a demilitarized zone, offering hardware, accessories and trade ins to combatants on all sides. Power of the players. So essentially making fun of the White House or the President.

[Crystle]

I can't take this.

[Kid Fury]

But I don't think that the White House realized that because they retweeted.

[Crystle]

Please.

[Kid Fury]

With a photo of Donald Trump in Master Chief's armor. Master Chief is the guy from Halo. If you Google Halo and you see the green suit, that's him.

[Crystle]

Okay. Cause, you know, I thought he's standing.

[Kid Fury]

Outside the White House.

[Crystle]

Like, messed up.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, just messed up, people. Yeah, yeah.

[Crystle]

What you mean?

[Kid Fury]

And I bet they didn't think of that. They know exactly what his name is. They know exactly what his name is.

[Crystle]

Oh, God.

[Kid Fury]

He's out here saluting in front of the White House and in front of the flag. And this AI created photo of Donald Trump wearing the Halo suit. And delightfully, the American flag behind him is missing like eight stars. Fucking dumbass.

[Crystle]

Oh my God. What?

[Kid Fury]

No, it's missing 10. There are 40 stars on here, idiot. Like, how did you look at that flag and still post it? It's obvious that's wrong. The V. The. The stars are lined up like, this is the official.

[Crystle]

Let me go look it up. I'm just going. I'mma log in. What the, bro?

[Kid Fury]

It's still there.

[Crystle]

Oh.

[Kid Fury]

Anyways, I Just wanted to take this time to laugh at you bitches and remind you to stay out of my business. Leave video games out of this. First of all, they were clowning you, I think. Furthermore, this is a mess. And this is further reason why AI don't work. Leave us alone. How the fuck. You the bitch who dress up like the flag everywhere you go, Allow your administration to post this bullshit with this incorrect US Flag behind it?

[Crystle]

Is any of this real? My God, they tweet all day. Jesus Christ. I'm scrolling. It's been. They've tweeted, like, 15 times just in the past five or six hours. Oh, my God. What the fuck? It's taking me way too long to find this that you talking about.

[Kid Fury]

About.

[Crystle]

What the hell? No. What?

[Kid Fury]

I just sent it to you.

[Crystle]

The Hakeem Jeffries Halloween costume. What am I looking at? Oh, okay. All right. So, yeah, like I said, we. We could.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, my gosh. It's something.

[Crystle]

This nigga is they really. It's like a. AI Trump of like a. Like GI Joe or something. What?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, fine.

[Crystle]

Okay. All right, give me.

[Kid Fury]

But look at the flag.

[Crystle]

No, I see it. No, the. The flag is Helter Skelter. Let me get off of this Twitter. Jesus Christ. Okay, well, I knew I wasn't gonna enjoy that. I actually knew I was gonna hate every second of it. I knew I was.

[Kid Fury]

Trump as Master Chief. Thanks, Delicious.

[Crystle]

No, thank you. I. I reject. I. I just. I'm going to go ahead and reject that.

[Kid Fury]

You should.

[Crystle]

Other things. I'm rejecting Keisha Kor giving mental health advice for $525 an hour.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, see, so now we've lost the plot. Now we've gone way out of bounds. We're like. Yeah, Remind me to tell you a funny Keisha K. Or joke that I heard.

[Crystle]

I.

[Kid Fury]

What?

[Crystle]

Yeah, so. So Kia. What? Kia told me, and then I had to go look it up for myself. That Keisha Kaor on her website has, like, a booking thing where if you want advice, if you want to talk about your life, you want to talk about mental health, you want to talk about body goals, anything you want to talk about, you can book keisha kaor for $525 an hour, and she will coach you, I guess. So here's the thing. A lot of people, everybody grifting aren't right. That's really it. Everybody's grifting. And it's United States of America, late stage capitalism. Of course you have a hustle. Of course you. You know this. My issue isn't even really? That you charging $525 an hour.

[Kid Fury]

A big part of mine is for.

[Crystle]

People to talk to you about anything. It's the. It's the fact that you put mental health coaching in there. That's my problem.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I feel like legally you can't even do that.

[Crystle]

Well, that's the thing. You can't call it therapy.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, you can say mental, but you can say coaching.

[Crystle]

Yeah, you can say co. You can't say counseling, but you can say coaching. That's my problem though, sweetie. Just because you have decided to abandon your own self care in the pursuit of managing Gucci Mane's life does not mean you are now in a position to coach anybody else through mental health struggles they or their loved ones might be having. Just take the. Just take the mental health part of it away entirely. You can say for $500, come talk to Keisha Kayor about whatever's going on in your life and I'll listen to and give you my advice. Now why you would take it she.

[Kid Fury]

Life coach like the rest of the bitches who do. Whatever you talking about, just take the.

[Crystle]

Mental health away from it. You not even remotely qualified for this. And in fact, when people, when Breakfast club or whoever it was asked you outright, you doing all this to take care of Gucci's health? Mental health. Who's taking care of yours? Like where's your therapist at? She said, I'm my own therapist. Wrong.

[Kid Fury]

Who asked wrong?

[Crystle]

I don't even remember. But she straight up said I don't have a therapist. I'm my own therapist. No, ma'. Am. No, girl, you're not that. You are not a man.

[Kid Fury]

I wish that was the thing that could happen.

[Crystle]

You are not a mental health professional. You are not a therapist, psychiatrist, psychologist, licensed or otherwise. You're none of those things. Do I think you can give the girls tips on like who to go to for plastic surgery or you know, how to hold a man down no matter what he's going through or you.

[Kid Fury]

Gotta wear that lipstick and be confident about it.

[Crystle]

Right. And just selling cheap ass makeup to the masses. Like. Like that drop shipping off of AliExpress. Yes. I think you can coach the girls into that. Leave the mental health out of it. Thank I'm. And I'm so for real, girl. I'm so for real. 525 is way more than what most licensed professionals charge anyway. Way. Which is Right. That is already an insane amount of money. Who is spending $500 to talk to Keisha Ko? That was what Kia said. Because she posted about on Instagram and I said no. What are you talking about? So she texted me, and I said no because I needed to make sense. And Kia said, look, I have four degrees. If you just want some advice, you can send your $500 to Amazon and I will reach through all of my degrees and give you whatever I can cobble up with for five. We can sit right here on FaceTime or Zoom, whatever you like. We can get on Google Meet, and as long as you send that payment right on over. Because at least Kia is an educated person. She is at least that. What about Keysha Kohr says I need to talk to. If anybody can help me get my shit together, it's Keisha Korea. She literally, on her website, says nothing is off limits. You or family members struggling with bipolar disorder, mental health issues, relationships, mindset, body goals, confidence. If you need clarity, Keisha is listening and keeping it real with you. Yes. Extremely. Extremely. Girl, you do not know what the fuck you are doing. Sit down.

[Kid Fury]

Mental health coaching, our mentorship is not like. It's not like cooking or something where it's like, oh, no, I didn't go to school, but I got my.

[Crystle]

I learned from my grandma.

[Kid Fury]

You can fuck around and win Top Chef off that type.

[Crystle]

You could.

[Kid Fury]

You know what I mean? Cause good food is good food.

[Crystle]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And you know how to cook. You know how to cook it. You don't have to have a bunch of cooking culinary degrees. This is not that.

[Crystle]

This is not there.

[Kid Fury]

This is not that. Imagine paying this bitch 30%. Like, what are you talking. You.

[Crystle]

How much money in your mind it won't be.

[Kid Fury]

Do you know how much fucking money it'll also. Do you know how much more you are spending than the like an expensive. For 525 therapist or psychiatrist.

[Crystle]

You could see a psychiatrist and a psychologist for 525. Be for free and have plenty change, right? And have enough change to go pick up your prescription. You can't coach nobody through bipolar disorder, girl. Okay? So, yeah, go ahead and. Go ahead and wrap that up. And last but not least, all of y' all acting like you don't understand Zoran Mamdani and this auntie shit. Please shut up. Please. I'm actually not even going to dignify it with more of an explanation because the black ass, bottom line is, is so many of us have elder women in our families that we call auntie who are not exactly our aunties. That man said auntie and he was referring to his father's cousin. And y' all acting like he lied. Please shut up. And you know this, and you know this. Black, brown, ethnic whites, all of us have elder women in the family. That's not your grandma, not your mama. She's your auntie, period. You know how many kids call me auntie? I have one biological Nephew, you. It's 10 kids out here that call me auntie.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystle]

That's simply how it works. And y' all know that. I can't wait. As soon as we wrap up, I'm finna go vote for that man right now. It ain't nothing. The bullshit y' all come up with that's anti momdani. Girl, you. You keep trying it and you keep flopping. I.

[Kid Fury]

It's so wide open. Racist.

[Crystle]

It is. It really is.

[Kid Fury]

It's like bucktooth wide open outside racist.

[Crystle]

I can't wait for this man to be. I cannot wait for this man to be my man. I can't wait.

[Kid Fury]

This is going to be such a surgeons of joy, though, too, because he has, like, a huge, huge, huge support system in the community there. But, yeah, the people who are anti zoron, what I've noticed has come from, like, the major sectors of it are to. Are that, like, racism. I don't want this particular person in this particular skin and body to be my mayor. And then it's other people who are completely informed on how socialism works or what it means, or are afraid that Zoran mom dining could be a wide, like, bright example of how social socialism works and there's nothing wrong with it.

[Crystle]

Cause then, right, it's either you're racist, you're scared of socialism, even though you could benefit from it, or you're a billionaire, so you don't want socialism because then you'll just be a millionaire. Exactly. All three of y' all can get. I'm Donnie for mayor, bitch. And that is going to wrap up this week's episode of the Read. Follow us on social media at this is the Read. Anything else from you before we head out?

[Kid Fury]

Kid Fury.com Patreon.com Kid Fury this Friday, I will be having a Halloween stream. See you guys there. And yeah, that's it.

[Crystle]

All right, girls, take care of yourselves. We will. See y' all next week.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crystle]

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