The Bowl Saves

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Read – Episode “The Bowl Saves”

Episode Details:

• Title: The Read – Episode “The Bowl Saves”
• Host/Authors: Kid Fury and Crissle
• Release Date: January 9, 2025
• Network: Loud Speakers Network
• Platforms: iTunes, iHeart Radio Talk, SoundCloud, Stitcher

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1. Celebrating Black Excellence

Sarita Singleton's Film “One of Them Days” Kid Fury and Crissle open the episode by honoring black excellence, spotlighting Sarita Singleton, a renowned film producer and writer known for her work on shows like Insecure and Rap Shit. Singleton’s latest project, the buddy comedy film One of Them Days, is set to premiere on January 17th. The film stars Kiki Keepaja Palmer and SZA, and is directed by Lawrence Lamont, marking his feature film directorial debut after extensive work in music videos.

• Crissle at [02:00]: “It's a buddy comedy. It comes out January 17th. It's written by a dear friend and inspiration of mine, Sarita Singleton.”

Tribute to Aziza Barnes Crissle pays heartfelt tribute to Aziza Barnes, an award-winning writer and poet who recently passed away. Aziza was a significant part of their second season of Rap Shit and is remembered for being one of the few queer writers on their team.

• Crissle at [05:16]: “We will miss you lots and lots. But honestly, I do believe that you're someplace grand.”

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2. Hot Tops: Pop Culture and Entertainment

Wicked on Streaming The hosts delve into the highly anticipated streaming release of Wicked, praising Cynthia Erivo's stellar performance. They discuss the film’s emotional depth and Erivo’s commitment to performing live vocals while executing complex choreography.

• Crissle at [07:36]: “I have cried at this movie. It is just a really, really good film.”
• Kid Fury at [09:37]: “She killed it. She did.”

Zendaya's Engagement Zendaya's recent engagement garners praise, with Kid Fury and Crissle admiring her stylish appearance and the understated elegance of her engagement ring. They speculate humorously on the size and practicality of the ring, comparing it to Beyoncé’s extravagant styles.

• Crissle at [32:42]: “She looked gorgeous, and that's what it was giving.”

Young Thug and Mariah the Scientist Drama A heated discussion ensues about the fallout between Young Thug and Mariah the Scientist. Crissle recounts leaked videos and personal disagreements, while Kid Fury criticizes the behavior and advises Mariah to prioritize her well-being over the tumultuous relationship.

• Kid Fury at [20:05]: “You're ruining or risking... you're risking whatever success you have.”

Brandy's Memoir and Family Dynamics Brandy's upcoming memoir is a focal point, with the hosts expressing interest in her candid revelations about her family, including her relationship with her brother Sonya and the tragic passing of their father. They debate the potential depth of her memoir and the complexities of her family relationships.

• Kid Fury at [24:22]: “Brandy has a lot. It depends on how real she's really gonna get.”

Drake's New Freestyle and LeBron James Kid Fury and Crissle analyze Drake’s new freestyle track, speculating that it contains veiled disses toward LeBron James. They discuss the possible motivations behind Drake's low-quality sound intentionally mimicking a leaked track, and the strained relationship rumors between Drake and LeBron.

• Crissle at [38:13]: “It's the first thing I have an Uber Excel.”
• Kid Fury at [42:58]: “Nobody outside of those people can say...”

Beyoncé's Renaissance Performance A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to Beyoncé’s recent performance at the “Beyoncé Bowl.” The hosts immerse in detailed analysis of her choreography, stage presence, and the emotional impact of her interactions with her daughter, Blue Ivy.

• Crissle at [55:07]: “She pet the horse. She walked away and was like, oh, they’re friends.”
• Kid Fury at [59:21]: “Performance is crazy. It is just her mind.”

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3. Listener Letters: Navigating Friendship and Boundaries

Letter from Layla: Layla, a loyal listener, reaches out seeking advice on excluding a long-time friend from her upcoming 26th birthday trip to Rio. She shares a complex history of friendship, emphasizing past burdens and current incompatibilities. Kid Fury and Crissle provide thoughtful guidance on setting healthy boundaries without severing the decade-long friendship.

• Layla’s Letter: “I have a really good friend... I do not want her to come on this trip.”

Advice Given: Crissle suggests approaching the situation with honesty and kindness, ensuring that Layla communicates her boundaries without malicious intent.

• Crissle at [88:35]: “Do not have them. Have fantasy children in your head and just dream of what they would be like.”
• Kid Fury at [91:08]: “You're gonna be comfortable. We wanna go swim with the stingrays and shit.”

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4. Personal Reflections: Grieving a Lost Friend

Tribute to Casey: In an emotionally charged segment, Kid Fury mourns the loss of his friend Casey, who passed away over the holidays. He shares heartfelt memories, highlighting Casey’s struggles with family acceptance and his journey to embracing his identity. The hosts offer solace and reflect on the importance of unconditional love and support.

• Kid Fury at [104:26]: “To my dear friend Casey... I am so sorry that your life got cut short.”
• Crissle at [112:30]: “It is okay. You gotta leave it.”

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5. Political Satire: President Tangerine's Bizarre Proposals

Kid Fury and Crissle pivot to a satirical take on President Tangerine’s outrageous political ambitions, such as renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and attempting to annex Canada as the 51st state. Their humorous critique underscores the absurdity of the proposals, blending genuine frustration with comedic relief.

• Crissle at [97:48]: “He plans to reshape the Western Hemisphere to make America bigger.”
• Kid Fury at [98:45]: “I'm so confused. The Gulf of America.”

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6. Technical Troubles and Light-Hearted Banter

The episode includes light-hearted discussions about technical issues with Apple’s iMessage search functionality, interspersed with playful insults and humorous exchanges between the hosts.

• Crissle at [102:02]: “Apple searching through iMessage has no business being this fucking impossible.”

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Conclusion: In this episode of The Read, Kid Fury and Crissle navigate a diverse array of topics, from celebrating black excellence and dissecting pop culture dramas to offering heartfelt advice on personal relationships and mourning a lost friend. Their candid conversations, infused with humor and sharp insights, provide listeners with both entertainment and thoughtful perspectives on contemporary issues.

Notable Quotes:

• Crissle at [05:16]: “Peace on the other side, my love.”
• Kid Fury at [20:05]: “You're risking whatever success you have.”
• Crissle at [32:42]: “She looked gorgeous, and that's what it was giving.”
• Kid Fury at [104:47]: “I am so sorry that your life got cut short.”

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This summary captures the essence of “The Bowl Saves” episode, highlighting key discussions, emotional moments, and the hosts' unique perspectives on various subjects.

Transcript

[Kid Fury]

Your boyfriend took our money in. Dicks.

[Crystal]

From producer Issa Rae.

[Kid Fury]

How we gonna make $1,500 by 6? Peep bought this. Okay.

[Crystal]

On January 17th.

[Kid Fury]

You want a loan? Don't do it. I've never seen a credit score this low. What if we combine our scores?

[Crystal]

Kinky Palmer is having one of them days.

[Kid Fury]

First the rent and then Alomo's trying to kill us.

[Crystal]

SZA is having one of them days.

[Kid Fury]

He's showing cheat and steal on the same day. Alyssa, run. Damn.

[Crystal]

One of Them days. Directed by Lawrence Lamont. Exclusively in theaters January 17th. Rated R. Under $17. 90 minute without faring.

[Kid Fury]

Are you still quoting 30 year old movies? Have you said cool beans in the past 90 days?

[Crystal]

Do you think Discover isn't widely accepted? If this sounds like you, you're stuck in the past.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crystal]

Hello. Thank you for calling the Lincoln Laney Dance Academy. We're now teaching night school courses on the Mamba as well as the Bankhead Bounce. My name is Myra Boutros Boutros Monkhouse.

[Kid Fury]

And I'm Krista Jean.

[Crystal]

Welcome back to another episode of Z. Oh, beautiful accent.

[Kid Fury]

Yes, indeed. Welcome back, everybody. Hope you had a lovely holiday break.

[Crystal]

And you did it. That's fine. No one did. Here we are. It's 2025.

[Kid Fury]

It is. Yep.

[Crystal]

It is indeed. And it's time for some black excellence. First Black excellence of the year. I'm going to give to two beautiful melanated spirits that I love dearly. One of them goes by the name of Sarita Singleton. Sarita Singleton is a film producer, writer, showrunner, famous for her work on things like insecure and rap. Shit. Sarita had been working incredibly hard on a screenplay for quite some time. Even while working and being a mom and being pregnant and running a brand new show. And that screenplay is now coming to theaters on the 17th of this month. It is called One of Them Days. It's called One of Them Days. Star Blacks. I don't know. I hate. Okay, I'm the worst. It stars Kiki Keepaja Palmer as well as Sza, Sza, Solana Ro. Just say normal things.

[Kid Fury]

No, that's not the show.

[Crystal]

It's a buddy comedy. It comes out January 17th. It's written by a dear friend and inspiration of mine, Sarita Singleton. You're a badass, you're a queen, you're a king. You're everything. And I'm so happy for you. And I can't wait to watch it. Also directed by Lawrence Lamont. Also black. Excellent. And part of the Rap Shit family. I think this might be Lawrence's first feature film. Oh, word. He directed a lot of music videos. He and Big Sean have worked together a lot. They're very close. He directed a few episodes of the rap shit for us, and I think he's worked with Beyonce since then. And now he's directing or he directed this film. So new black comedy starring to your black lady faves. It comes to theaters in a couple of weeks. Go get them some tickets and take them out and go see something, because if you don't watch this and then you are in any one of my inboxes or sections pestering me to go watch Tyler Perry's latest just to be pissed off for your entertainment, I'm gonna cuss you out. I want you to know today that I'm going to cuss you out. Thank you. Have a good day. Also, I would like to give honor to a black and excellent person by the name of Aziza Barnes. Aziza Barnes is an award winning writer, poet, playwright, and all of those things. Aziza. They joined us on the second season of Rap Shit. Unfortunately, a couple days before I left to go on holiday break, I found out that they passed away.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, no.

[Crystal]

And I haven't processed it fully yet, but I just wanted to take this time to honor Aziza and their life and the gratitude that I have that I have had having been able to work with them and them being one of the only other queer writers on the actual writing team. So, yeah, Z's love you. We'll miss you lots and lots. But honestly, I do believe that you're someplace grand. And my God, do you deserve better than whatever the hell it is we're doing here.

[Kid Fury]

So I feel that that's so real.

[Crystal]

Peace on the other side, my love. Right?

[Kid Fury]

Amen.

[Crystal]

It is time for hot tops.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, let's do it.

[Crystal]

Booty Call. I can think of anything.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, sure, why not?

[Crystal]

Buddy calls a movie.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. And you know, y'all be. Did you ever watch that one Booties? No, I don't think so.

[Crystal]

But it was like one of the old. Like, I had to be 90s.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, then definitely not definitely.

[Crystal]

It feels like Booty Call. I feel like was around Sprung and like, how to be a player.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, wait, no. 97. I might have.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Not like Early Jamie Foxx, Tommy Davidson, Vivica. Oh, this sounds.

[Crystal]

You should watch it.

[Kid Fury]

Well, Wikipedia says it received generally negative reviews.

[Crystal]

Yeah, most of the Oath movies did, but they're cult classics for niggas. We get it.

[Kid Fury]

So true. Okay.

[Crystal]

It's not a great movie. It's just one of those that you probably will laugh at because we get it.

[Kid Fury]

Because black people. Okay.

[Crystal]

Yeah, yeah. Like Sprung. Like Pooty Tay.

[Kid Fury]

Perfect.

[Crystal]

Like, what I was about to say Major Payne. Well, Major Pain's not good.

[Kid Fury]

I was gonna say, is Major Payne just black? Funny. I feel like it's everybody good?

[Crystal]

Mm.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

But, yeah, Major Payne. Is everybody good?

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crystal]

All right. Let's do some pop culture thingies. And I'm not really gonna do nothing super crazy. Gonna try and keep it cute and flowy. Starting with. Wicked is on streaming.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yes, it is. I. I went right on ahead and purchased it. I said, why even play.

[Crystal]

Sure did.

[Kid Fury]

I'm not gonna rent this. I'm not gonna rent it. So I can rent it eight times. Let me just buy it.

[Crystal]

For what?

[Kid Fury]

Right? Literally that.

[Crystal]

For what. I can spend an additional $5 and just watch it, right?

[Kid Fury]

And again and again and again.

[Crystal]

And I have already pre ordered the Steelbook edition, so that's coming soon. But in the meantime, I've cried at this movie. It is just. It's such a good film. It's just a really, really good film. It makes me excited and emotional all over again. And I feel like I even hear the lyrics more than I used to. And I also feel like, you know what? I'll say it now. Here we are. We're in award season, top of the year. The girlies are, you know, putting on their red carpet dresses and getting them seamed and, you know, whatever, tailored. I believe. I believe. I'm certain. I feel confident that if y'all playing Cynthia Erivo's face when it comes to that gold, man, I'm going to take action now. I feel like I might just prepare a committee, and I don't know where we're gonna march, but I might also paint my whole ass in peeing green and just be in the middle of, you know, Santa Monica when they cool it down or whatever. I'm going to take it to the streets.

[Kid Fury]

She. She. She killed it. She did. I mean, I'm not going to argue. It was. It was a fantastic, fantastic performance.

[Crystal]

Singing one of the hardest songs, like Broadway songs, while doing a loop de loop.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, they was tossing, like, no shit over that set. She was singing the whole time.

[Crystal]

The Theater version of it. The Elphaba is lifted up into, you know, the roof or whatever in the air in that last moment. So that person does also have to sing while being lifted up in some manner. But this lady was full on. XR2x2, Six Flags great Adventure, Magic Mountain. This bitch was zooming, doing her own stunts and singing.

[Kid Fury]

Yep.

[Crystal]

Incredibly Wild Green while emoting and bringing. Listen, Wild Green is crazy because, what, age 12? Just painting the bitch.

[Kid Fury]

Right. All that time in the chat, she.

[Crystal]

Talked about how after it was done, it was people who, like, saw her Cynthia, who are like, who the fuck is.

[Kid Fury]

Who's that?

[Crystal]

Cause they were used to seeing her green even when she wasn't filming. She'd have on her regular clothes, but she'd have green skin. Right. So a lot of people from the crew and people on production had never seen her outside of makeup and stuff.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, wow.

[Crystal]

So that's something that you have to commit to sitting there and doing and then taking off and doing it again and taking off and everything else that comes along with it. And the acting was superb. The singing was superb. I think that she did things in the realm of. Of cinematic performance that have not been done. And I refuse to allow y'all to play in this lady's face. And I also looked at it, and I was like, we haven't had a black woman win leading actor. Leading actress. Excuse me. At the Oscars, since Halle.

[Kid Fury]

Mm. Damn. Is that still true? Yikes.

[Crystal]

Every other black woman who's won is one for supporting.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, that's what it is. Okay. Yep, you're right.

[Crystal]

Well, he's not playing my face. I know that.

[Kid Fury]

You know, they love to do that, so they do love to play in your face. You might end up mad. But she. Nobody can say.

[Crystal]

I'm just trying to prepare myself for it. I'm trying to prepare myself for it. They're already greasing up Angelina for this Maria Callas movie that she did. I haven't watched it yet. I'm sure it's good. I'm a fan of Maria, and Angelina's a great actor. But it was also interesting to see the actors on actors thing that I think Variety does, where she sat down with Cynthia and spoke, and they're speaking about their roles, and Cynthia, in the most respectful, I feel like, human way, was saying to Angelina, I noticed that you're playing one of the best singers of all time, and yet you can't sing. That is so, like, what was that like?

[Kid Fury]

Oh, I didn't see that part. Oh, now that's hilarious.

[Crystal]

Like, I'm wording it shadier than she does. But like.

[Kid Fury]

But the question, you know.

[Crystal]

Cause when Ms. Jolie's talking to her and she's. And Cynthia's like, you know, we chose to sing it live. There's a part, please watch it actually, where there's a part when Cynthia says, you know, we sang it live. And they come back to Angelina's face and she just goes, extraordinary. She said it in a way that because Angelina is so beautiful and so poised, it almost felt like a character. She just said extraordinary.

[Kid Fury]

Because one thing about me, I would have never. I would have never.

[Crystal]

And even people who can like to make that kind of decision is like, right, yeah, it's too much. So they were really being, I think, very respectful of each other as performers. But I think Cynthia was very delicate in the way of like. So you're not, as. You're not a comfortable singer, but you did this, like, what was that like for you? So. But I feel like she's definitely gonna get a nom. I feel like Mikey Madison might get a nom for Honora, which was fantastic. And I feel like, what's her. This Amelia? Have you seen Amelia Perez?

[Kid Fury]

No, I haven't, but I've. I'm gonna watch some reviews that seem mixed and I don't know, maybe there's some sort of controversy around the movie. I'm not entirely sure what it is, but seems like the gays are putting out weird vibes that I haven't quite deciphered yet. But all of that. Yeah, I tend to go back in recent years and watch the movies that were nominated that I hadn't seen already. And honestly, there'd be some incredible movies.

[Crystal]

That, yeah, I should have watched that.

[Kid Fury]

Fly under the radar. Ye.

[Crystal]

So I have some kind of semblance of what we're getting into. The other one is the Brutalist, which is probably going to win Best Picture and it's probably going to. Adrian Brony is going to win Best Actor for it. And the chick, I think it's Felicity Jones. Just by virtue of what that movie is about. I feel like they're clearing it.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crystal]

And I'll just leave it at that. Google the Brutalist and look up the synopsis.

[Kid Fury]

The Brutalist. I mean, it doesn't sound great. I mean, it's a brutalist about the American dream. Brutally escaping post war Europe, a visionary architect comes to America to rebuild his life, his career and his marriage. On his own in a strange new country, he settles in Pennsylvania, where a Wealthy and prominent industrialist recognizes his talent. Oh, well then what's so br. Oh, is it homosexual?

[Crystal]

No, he escaped the Holocaust.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, see, this just says post war Europe. I didn't realize he was.

[Crystal]

No, about a holocaust or survivor who comes into America and struggles and then builds life from the ground up.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, oh, okay. Well, I mean, it's an interesting. Oh, this has the whole plot. Child. Let me click right out.

[Crystal]

I'm going to watch that one later, but it's like 217 minutes.

[Kid Fury]

I just saw it was three and a half hours long. I'm like, ooh, about that.

[Crystal]

So she's. I'm watching that one on the back end.

[Kid Fury]

Like, girl, okay, but please not playing.

[Crystal]

This lady's face for long. All I know is about best actor, best actress leading. Yeah, do not play with that green bitch. And I. And I mean it with everybody. Also, pull over that ass too fat. Ariana deserves every single ounce of glaze that these faggots and pronoun divas have been giving her. That little pink bitch dropped her coochie lips on the table and she said.

[Kid Fury]

Well, pronoun divas is too much.

[Crystal]

What now?

[Kid Fury]

She did though. You're not lying. I mean, I feel like we have been gushing about Wicked since it came out, but yeah, incredible. Just can't say enough good things. And very much waiting for part two to come out later this year.

[Crystal]

Yeah, exciting. What else do we have on the docket? Some drama. Young Thug and this girl, Mariah the Scientist.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, God. Oh God, this was so ghetto.

[Crystal]

It was really.

[Kid Fury]

This was just such gutter butt bullshit.

[Crystal]

So Thugger Thug has recently been released from the pin. And you know, while he should be getting back into music, celebrating freedom, staying out of drama, apparently there's some girl mass that has hit the Internet because apparently Mariah the Scientist, who I believe also makes music. It doesn't really matter. In this case, Mariah the Scientist is supposed to be Young Thug's girlfriend has been claiming him pretty much the entire time. And oh, I can't wait till BAE comes home or whatever the fuck.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, she was doing all that dumb bird shit behind a nigga who was talking to 10 hoes a week.

[Crystal]

10? Anyway, like, how does that even. Anyway, they have to learn. So apparently video was leaked of one of Young Thug's visitations and it was from a young lady. What was her name? I lost the file. Here we go. It was by a young lady who is now married to a boxer. And her name is Lena Syed. She's married to Devin Haney, and I believe has kids with him. She claims, I think, that she met Devin after this video. Because in this video, it's her literally crying.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

On little prison phone talking to him. And he's trying to say to her, basically, look, go and fall in love. I want you to be waiting on me.

[Kid Fury]

You know, I already got one crazy bitch acting like she finna hold me down. I do not need you to come over here with that same type of time. That nigga said she's crying.

[Crystal]

I don't like anyone. I want you. I want to be with you. Whatever. I don't know. This was July 2022. It's. Well, she married her now husband the following year, so it could be very true. This is prior to whenever she met that nigga.

[Kid Fury]

Sure.

[Crystal]

But what it was not prior to is that nigga being in a relationship. So. Damn.

[Kid Fury]

Exactly. And now she mad for what? You didn't know that was community dick. You didn't know that nigga was for everybody. You thought a n jail was focused on being faithful. What? Oh, you girls. I don't know what y'all be thinking. I really do not.

[Crystal]

Well, I haven't seen a particular response from her yet. I don't think I saw a tweet from him where he said, she's so mad. I said, merry Christmas. And she said, thank you.

[Kid Fury]

Right, right. And the whole, sorry, sorry about all this little dumb shit on the Internet right now. My baby. That's my bad.

[Crystal]

Like, oh, she did respond. She posted a TikTok of R. Kelly during his Gayle King interview.

[Kid Fury]

Love that.

[Crystal]

Where he says that he needs help to not have a big heart because people keep betraying him and he keeps forgiving them.

[Kid Fury]

Girl, that's not your problem.

[Crystal]

And I see how. I see that left turn in Albuquerque. Now I see where you. How we. Lord God talking about hashtag hate being a girl and posting them hate being a girl.

[Kid Fury]

This is not a girl thing. Not. I mean, it happens to a lot of girls, but it's. It's not an inherent part of womanhood. You deciding to be a bird was perhaps. Perhaps you were raised to be a bird. Or maybe you came to it on your own in adulthood, but this was your own decision. Sweetheart, what about this man and your dynamic with him made you feel like this was. I just don't even understand leaving a tour that you were on because the nigga got out of jail when the whole time he was talking to. Up to. From his own mouth, up to 10 different women a week just to Pass the time allegedly and said that you love him too much on one of these phone calls. Said, I'm just not trying to hurt Mariah feelings because she loved me too much.

[Crystal]

She ain't too deep.

[Kid Fury]

You're ruining or risking maybe not ruining it because I'm not sure how big of a career you have, but you're risking whatever success you have.

[Crystal]

Risking is the word.

[Kid Fury]

Risking that over a nigga who was. Who was like flipping through his jail roller Nigel JPay. Like, who can I call today? So I just. Has being embarrassed this way motivated you to like, put yourself first and realign your priorities? Say, let me go focus on myself. I really don't. You know, I. I'm too cute, too smart, too successful to be running behind.

[Crystal]

Trying to one of his friends. That's going to blow up in his face, cuz. That never works. And then you going to be ass out and hurt feelings because both them are laughing at you. And then she's going to go try and somebody else with clout.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, well, you know, best of luck. Don't get pregnant or don't keep it. That's my. My most sincere, honest advice to you. If you're gonna continue to run around behind this nigga, then you. You know what it is? It's right here. If any sort of pretense has been completely eliminated, you know who this nigga is. And he freshly out. Please, please.

[Crystal]

I'd like for you beautiful ladies to stop crashing out over who look like they hiss at a bar of Don Sel.

[Kid Fury]

She is pretty. I'm looking at her now. This is a pretty girl. They're always gorgeous, of course, but they always are.

[Crystal]

And heartbroken and into crashed out, losing their mind over a nigga who looks like the back of his ears.

[Kid Fury]

Yep. Just to get back with him dump truck. And then start arguing with hoes who expose his DMs. Talk about all these bitches is just mad. Y'all trying to come in between what we have. You, you. Please don't. Please don't do this. Please just don't go down that road.

[Crystal]

Brandy is ready to share her life story in a and memoir slated to drop this fall. Ja Rule gloated over. Over rumors that 50 cents Las Vegas writers didn't see is the, quote, worst show in town.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, first of all, 50 Cent has a Vegas residency.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Is that what you. Is that a real sentence? That's not from the Onion.

[Crystal]

No, it's happening.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, now, why did we just. Why did we gloss right over Brandi's Memoir. I'm actually excited. Oh.

[Crystal]

Do we have more to say?

[Kid Fury]

Well, I think Brandi has a lot. It depends on how real she's really gonna get, how much detail she's really gonna give. But, you know, Brandi was around throughout, like, pretty much all of the 90s and was on all these different TV shows around lots of different musicians. You know, before the whole social media age, she could talk about some of the people she's worked with who have passed away. She might go into the whole car accident incident. Like, I think this could be really interesting.

[Crystal]

Like, Brandi, imagine the car accident.

[Kid Fury]

The marriage.

[Crystal]

The marriage, baby.

[Kid Fury]

I want. I want you to talk about that family, though. I want you to talk about.

[Crystal]

I would just like to say that, too. And your brother, Sonia.

[Kid Fury]

Yes, I do. And your daddy. What was he doing this whole time? Because I feel like Sonya get a lot of smoke. But where was Brandy Daddy? Like, I know he was there, but.

[Crystal]

He'S usually right there next to her. But he's not as, like, vocal or agitated.

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Crystal]

But I don't. I also don't know that he's in their business. Like, I think Sonia has acted as.

[Kid Fury]

She's been the manager. Yeah.

[Crystal]

This whole time, but I don't know that. I don't know how they're dead. Is involved in the business, if he is at all.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, Well, I think he's there.

[Crystal]

He's around.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. I think I was. I'm thinking less of, like, Sonya's business decisions and, like, personal.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Right. And more of, like, the difference in the way she appears to treat her son versus her daughter. And you know, what standards Brandi was held to that versus the absolute chaos that Ray J. Has been allowed to unleash upon the world. That sort of thing. Like, I'm just really interested if Brandi has done any of that sort of internal work and wants to talk about very private things publicly, then this could be an extremely good memoir. But, you know.

[Crystal]

Yeah, we'll see. You're right. It has a lot of potential to be, like. It does a really inspiring and deep book about somebody that we have kind of grown up with.

[Kid Fury]

Right. Yeah.

[Crystal]

And hopefully it could be healing for her because I. I feel like all the first things that we named. Sure. But I. I feel like working underneath that pressure and energy.

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Crystal]

Her parents, specifically her mom. Just what we've seen anyway, could be interesting, but I'm not expected.

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Crystal]

She could just keep it very shallow. Like, let me tell you the one time where on the set of Moesha, me and I can't remember the name of the actor. The late actor who played Hakeem.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yes. What was his name?

[Crystal]

We dated for two months and that was that.

[Kid Fury]

You know, like, Lamont Bentley.

[Crystal]

Lamont Bentley, R.I.P. yeah. Yeah, we could see him. Yeah. Who knows?

[Kid Fury]

We. We should.

[Crystal]

I think she knows we want something.

[Kid Fury]

Girl, please don't give us a. A timeline in the 90s. Oh, I. I came out with baby, baby, baby, don't you know you so fine? Like, we know, girl. We were. We were there. Like, let's get it out the story. I'm not expecting, you know, I'm not expecting another. I'm glad my mom died or anything. You know, I'm not expecting her to pull a genetic or anything or even. Did you see that? That influencer's daughter just wrote out or wrote a book about her. How abusive her mother was. I think I heard about that. The kids of these mommy bloggers and these influencers are growing up and talking about the. That their parents put them through.

[Crystal]

I'm not surprised.

[Kid Fury]

Me either. Because I've seen some of the absolute donkey y'all doing these kids. I. I don't even like watching kids because kids Turn on Kids YouTube. And Kids. YouTube is full of. When I tell you the worst actors, these terrible family accounts where mom, dad, brother, sister, and the dog are all in on the corniest fucking sketch idea you've ever seen in your life. Like, it's just terrible. It's just terrible. And I always wonder, like, are these kids being taken? Like, do they have to record? Like, do they have to do these videos? I feel like they do. And are they being taken care of in other ways? When parents start quitting their jobs in order to manage their kids Instagram presence or whatever, I'm like, okay, no, there's a very real, very big problem here, so. But yeah, I'm not expecting that level of dragging your parents out of Brandy. Although I would live if she did.

[Crystal]

Yeah, I'm not. I would live.

[Kid Fury]

But, you know, just. You're fascinating to me, Brandi. You've been a star my whole life, and I just.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Would love to know some of your deeper thoughts on the things that have happened, especially Whitney.

[Crystal]

Yeah, yeah, that's a big one.

[Kid Fury]

But the marriage thing.

[Crystal]

Did your mama passing away on her birthday?

[Kid Fury]

I fear I would never recover.

[Crystal]

Like, my goodness.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crystal]

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[Kid Fury]

I love it.

[Crystal]

And that's what it was giving.

[Kid Fury]

Perfect. She like.

[Crystal]

Yeah, that hair is just.

[Kid Fury]

And then the necklace. God, she looks good.

[Crystal]

Yes.

[Kid Fury]

She's that color. It's like she has highlights or something in her hair that the dress also reflects. This is just.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Law God damn.

[Crystal]

Well ate it up.

[Kid Fury]

No crumbs, as always.

[Crystal]

So apparently there are rumors that she's soft. Launching her engagement announcement. Reading this on Rhymes of Snitch, Barrett says, you know, she's still with Spidey. She and Tom Holland are still together. I'm praying for that one.

[Kid Fury]

You praying for it for Tom?

[Crystal]

He sings.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, over being famous.

[Crystal]

Yes.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, he does.

[Crystal]

Yes. Yes, he does. The dog. I read somewhere that he said. I mean, I. First of all, I didn't know that he was. I don't know if he went to rehab. He had, like, some issues of sobriety, and he's sober now.

[Kid Fury]

And, yeah, he does that fake beer.

[Crystal]

And I read a quote recently where he said, when he has his kids, you won't see him in movies anymore.

[Kid Fury]

I thought it, too.

[Crystal]

It sounds like he's over it, which I get. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So many other things. Yeah, it looks like it. I mean, I would not be surprised what I read, you know, which is all just speculation, but it looks like maybe he proposed at some point over the holidays and it was just the two of them. Not no big, you know, showy display or anything, but, you know, those two just seem so cute. They really. They do. But he. You know, I don't think. I think at first I was like, really? Zendaya? And this white boy, like, he just seems like such a. No, no Shade. Yes. But he just seemed like. Like, you're Zendaya and he is just some white boy.

[Crystal]

But.

[Kid Fury]

But he seems to be very sweet. And, you know, I've seen all these clips because, of course, the. The Tom De Stands are going crazy for this. And so they have put together all these clips of, like, him calling her beautiful and just constantly showering her with compliments and talking about how incredible she is.

[Crystal]

He loves her.

[Kid Fury]

Yes, it does seem that way. So congratulations.

[Crystal]

Walk with the carpet with her, he.

[Kid Fury]

Said, because it's her moment, literally. He's like, well, I'm just gonna be over here with the purse and the mitts.

[Crystal]

Did you see the video where. I don't know where they were going, but she had, like, just gotten out of the Car and the paparazzi was storming her and like getting a little too close. And he came in like rough.

[Kid Fury]

No, but I like that back up.

[Crystal]

Like get move. And like got her arm to like pull her out of the mess. And she even was like, it's cool. No, it's cool. It's like.

[Kid Fury]

He was like, it's cool, right? Back up off my woman.

[Crystal]

Y'all are too close. Get the fuck back. I was like, okay, well, Zendaya, I think I hear you.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I like the two of them together. This is very cute and beautiful ring. I don't know what's wrong with me. I expected. Expected. This sounds so stupid, but I almost thought it would be bigger. It's feel like there's something wrong with me because it's a giant ring. Like it's huge, but I don't know, I guess really big ring. I just almost expected like a Beyonce rock. That giant boulder that Jay Z gave her a few years back that she almost never wears. That huge thing.

[Crystal]

Yeah, it's like, when do you wear that?

[Kid Fury]

Right? Whereas this Zendaya, I've already seen her in other videos and she has it on and she talking with her ass child.

[Crystal]

She's just, yeah, I would want a pretty Rick for me personally, if I were to ever get married. I don't give a shit. You could Mariah Carey ring pop me. I don't get like, oh, you can't ring pop me. I just want a nice band pop me.

[Kid Fury]

You cannot ring coffee.

[Crystal]

I would just want like a nice. Not you. I'm talking about me, bitch.

[Kid Fury]

I'm just saying I can't.

[Crystal]

I wouldn't allow somebody to ring cop you.

[Kid Fury]

I'm talking about me.

[Crystal]

But if I did want like a nice stone or something, I would want something that is like a good size pretty enough. But when I feel like I can wear all the time. Yeah, something big old rock is something.

[Kid Fury]

Like where you always gotta. You gotta get that bitch insured and keep it in a safe and only take it out for the fucking Grammys. No, I want a nice everyday ring.

[Crystal]

A nice everyday ring that I love that still gets people to go, oh, that's pretty.

[Kid Fury]

I mean. Cause it is still huge. I just was expecting which knowing what we know about the two of them, I don't know why. Yes, it is. You know, so when she was posting, you know, they pictures and everything before Christmas, I'm just on Instagram wiggling like, ooh, you don't even know that you finna get engaged. And then when she actually did post the pictures. I'm just full tears. So happy for her. But her ring is beautiful. Yes, it is quite gorgeous.

[Crystal]

Gorgeous.

[Kid Fury]

Shout out to.

[Crystal]

But it is like. It's a big ring, but it's also like, you can wear this all the time.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. Yeah, Right. You don't have to worry about somebody putting a gut. Well, they might, but, yeah. Anyway, congratulations, you two. Very cute.

[Crystal]

We have some of the Beyonce ball, so that's true.

[Kid Fury]

We were gone. That was Christmas.

[Crystal]

Drake released a new freestyle with Tweet and Delete, a song called Fighting Irish, which apparently takes more shots at Kendrick, some say. But more specifically, it feels like there are shots being taken at LeBron James.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. Did you hear it?

[Crystal]

I listened to some of it. It sounds like he recorded it on an iPhone.

[Kid Fury]

Thank you.

[Crystal]

It's the first thing I have an Uber Excel.

[Kid Fury]

I know the sound was done deliberately, but why? Why does it sound like that? I don't get it.

[Crystal]

I feel like it was with the intention to give, like, oh, it leaked and I'm not that serious. I was never going to release this because I'm not pressed. I'm just, you know. Whereas, like, dropping it has a different intention behind it.

[Kid Fury]

Sure. However, it takes nothing. It takes nothing to get decent sound quality out of a mic in a studio. Like, you cannot convince me that Drake just recorded this freestyle with his mic halfway plugged in or something.

[Crystal]

No, he turned on, like, a Samsung and recorded this underwater in his Jacuzzi. It sounds awful. There's no way. Like, if he would have. You did the whole part, he could have held up, like, a fucking streamer's mic in his car and it would.

[Kid Fury]

Have sounded better than that. Right?

[Crystal]

I don't. I don't know what.

[Kid Fury]

But his feelings are hurt, nigga. Y'all hurt his feelings. Y'all heard his feelings bopping around to Not Like Us and to all of GNX, I think.

[Crystal]

Yeah. LeBron was at his 40th birthday talking about something.

[Kid Fury]

I deserve it.

[Crystal]

Like, that nigga knew every word. And you know LeBron don't know the words to songs, so.

[Kid Fury]

People everywhere, man at the Garden. LeBron was like, Bitch, man at the Garden is for me.

[Crystal]

She wrote first, as if RuPaul, Michelle Visage, and that fat one were going to say, hey, so good you could be going home tonight.

[Kid Fury]

Shanti.

[Crystal]

He was backstage with the little earbuds in, like, I gotta learn because Ross Matthews came for me last week.

[Kid Fury]

He knew every word. Every fucking word. He did. So I think Drake saw that and was like, oh.

[Crystal]

Oh, yeah. But LeBron been on this wave since not like us or whatever and whatever and whatever. So it's giving like. I know. I'm feeling so hurt because he. He loved being LeBron's fan.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah. Loved gazing in LeBron's eyes and telling him how much he loved him. Oh, yeah. Having little adultery parties.

[Crystal]

Come on.

[Kid Fury]

Some bitches, Savannah will never know. We got NDAs by the boatload. Yeah.

[Crystal]

You know, remember he was on that. What's that show? Is it called the Shop? The barbershop talk show?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought it was his. Isn't that his show?

[Crystal]

LeBron's?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah.

[Crystal]

And Drake was on an episode of him on of that show before we had seen Adonis, but I think it was after the Pusha T beef. And he showed Adonis baby pictures to LeBron on camera, like on his phone.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

And LeBron was like, aw, baby. He's like the baby blue eye. Remember? He was like reacting. He was sharing something very, very personal. So I imagine they really were close. I don't know what could have happened for LeBron to just be. Well, fuck that, you know? But a lot of people who at some point were cool with Drake were very openly enjoying this.

[Kid Fury]

Well, the songs are good, girl. Like, it's turning into. Do you want us to act like it's not a bop? I mean, man, at the Garden, LeBron is one of the few people who could rap every word for that. And it really, really do apply to his life. Like you. You expect people to ignore my 40th birthday, literally, I'm the oldest nigga in the NBA. I'm playing with my son. I'm the highest. I'm. I'm like fourth for most games played in the NBA, period. I'm the most point getting ass, bitch. Like, I.

[Crystal]

And this is still.

[Kid Fury]

And I'm still putting up young numbers. I'm putting up 20 years ago numbers. Who the fuck you. And you thought he was just gonna hear Men of the Garden and that not automatically implant onto his soul? Be serious.

[Crystal]

Nah. Niggas who got a promotion at Wells Fargo are rapping that song and deserve like, that is for hard working ass nigga, you know?

[Kid Fury]

So, yeah, I mean, unrealistic to think that people weren't gonna bop to it. And also, I mean, you know, Drake showing Bron his baby's pictures is one thing, but doing it on camera, to me more shows that Drake wants us. He wants to create the image of closeness with LeBron. Not that they necessarily are that Close, you know, like, mm. Now that we're in this studio, I'm gonna show LeBron. Like, you could have shown me that before we walked onto the set, before we started filming, afterwards. Like, you didn't have to do that on camera. And so this may be a situation where, in Drake's mind, he's BFFs with LeBron. And LeBron is like, I just like rap. You know, you're a very popular rapper. You cool, you rich. I'll definitely fuck hoes in one of your houses.

[Crystal]

But I think that that kind of really is what it all stands down on. Because, like, he tried to do the. You know who even bang and said, my nigga cb GNX drive. Chris Brown was like, kendrick ate. This plate is so clean. You know what I'm saying? SZA got you wiped down. Well, SZA's gonna be wiping everything down.

[Kid Fury]

With them on a multiple stage tour.

[Crystal]

Like, I don't know what you thought, but people like music, yours and other good songs. So nothing.

[Kid Fury]

No.

[Crystal]

And, like, you coming at LeBron is gonna do it, right?

[Kid Fury]

Oh, I might mess up your public image. The public image of what? Like, unless he's trafficking children or something, the idea that LeBron might be cheating on his wife is not crazy to anybody. Most of us assume that giant superstar athletes are cheating on their spouses. Most of us just assume that.

[Crystal]

Most of us assume that. So again, unless it has to be heinous, some, like, criminal tea, right? I don't know what image you're gonna be fucking up. And if you do, why do you have that too?

[Kid Fury]

And why are you waiting till now and then threatening it? Like, it's weird that you niggas do that. Academics did that same thing. But I saw.

[Crystal]

I saw him go back and forth with this dude who I guess worked as a talent agent or something. I don't know. He fell out with some other guy who DMed him. I guess he found out they worked together in some capacity, and he found out that Drake unfollowed him, sent Drake this long dm, like, wow, that's crazy. Like, you lost a fan, blah, blah, blah. It's like a long, long thing. And Drake messaged him. He brought up the universal thing. Like, the guy brought up, like, how, you know, you sue Universal, da da, da, blah, blah, blah. And so Drake was like. He tried to differentiate the two things. Like his issue with this guy and Universal. When he was talking about Universal, he was like, the Universal situation is like, if Nike. If he was like, if Nike ran a campaign saying, that LeBron cheated on his wife. Not Reebok, not, you know, any other shoe company. Nike, the company that has been with him since the start. And da, da, da, da. It's like if they ran a campaign saying he cheated on his wife. So when he said that specifically, it felt like to me, that. Yeah, like, that to me, is what he would assume is the T is, you know, LeBron allegedly cheating on his wife or whatever, which is, like, fucked up.

[Kid Fury]

But we do not.

[Crystal]

That's not moving nobody's needle, right?

[Kid Fury]

Like you said, that's not even criminal. Like, that's a moral thing. People can nitpick or. Or not even nitpick, but debate back and forth. You know how they feel about that. But that's not cheating on their wives. I don't. I cannot say that I care. So you're gonna have to threaten something a lot worse than that, because, like I said, I simply assume that they all do. Everybody in the NBA pretty much. Maybe without the exception of, like, five niggas. But none of the stars. I just assume none of them are faithful, so.

[Crystal]

None.

[Kid Fury]

This whole, you know, you checked up on my kid like a pediatrician texting you and being like, how is your jit? Is just like. I just don't know. I think Drake, like, if I'm cool.

[Crystal]

With someone hurt and they're a new parent or they have a kid, of course I'm a. Nine times out of ten, I'd be like, oh, how's Devin?

[Kid Fury]

Crotch spring. Yeah.

[Crystal]

How's Christina doing? Good.

[Kid Fury]

I know you have a fucking baby. So anyways, right? So I wanted to talk to you about this week's hoes party.

[Crystal]

Like, I'm vaccinating Adonis. Make sure Adonis conversation dummy.

[Kid Fury]

This nigga said, I figured we was always gonna be close, like ovens and kitchens.

[Crystal]

This is what. But see, this is your. This is your sweet spot, my love. Aubrey. Aubrey. Make that diary music again. And sing us a little ditty about unrequited love. Because nobody's frightened of you. Nobody is frightened of you.

[Kid Fury]

Like, no. And I mean, you being mad at LeBron again. Unless you've got some evidence of something that people actually care about. Being like, well, he cheats on his wife. LeBron don't even sell family value use LeBron don't even sell great husband. Like, he sells cute family. Adorable family, athlete, sons, jury, queen of the world. Savannah's gorgeous, but he don't. You know, they don't make family content. Him and Savannah don't be selling marriage workshop Courses or no like that. That sells basketball. He sells tennis shoes and Gatorade and tacos and draftkings. And that's what that sell. He do not sell. Oh, Lord.

[Crystal]

So we don't give two living.

[Kid Fury]

We don't care. We do not care. Talk about he looking dead at Dennis while we talk about, you know, him not being black enough or whatever. You still are missing, first of all.

[Crystal]

No, we don't. No, we don't.

[Kid Fury]

You're still missing the point.

[Crystal]

You are missing the point.

[Kid Fury]

I'm staring at my daddy while y'all tell me I wasn't that nigga. Nobody's denying that you're half black. You not being like us has everything to do with how you were raised.

[Crystal]

You know who else is a good example of not like us, at least early seasons? Carlton Banks.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Crystal]

Black and black.

[Kid Fury]

Yep.

[Crystal]

Nowhere like us.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

I don't know how you're, like, if you're intentionally missing this point or if you're trying to skew it as something that it isn't for, like, sympathy points or something, but it has been said on record, off record, that it isn't.

[Kid Fury]

About his racial makeup. It obviously isn't. There's so many mixed people in rap.

[Crystal]

This is just right.

[Kid Fury]

That's obviously right. And like you said, right. People with two black parents who grow up in majority white environments will have a tendency to develop this same level of corniness that you have. Like, y'all, you can normally spot the blacks who grew up around whites. They talk weird and they. They let their braids stay in for too long. And it's just maybe a lot going on with them people. Like, it's not. You can just stop acting like we're saying you're not black. Nobody's saying you're not black. But. But it's been. The song's been out for too long. You should get this. You should know this by now. You just saying shit.

[Crystal]

Yeah. Like, you are a hip hop artist. These are hip hop songs. The U.S. therefore, I think, should be clear in its reference to hip hop culture, the founders of it, the products of it, the people within the legitimate community. That isn't specific to any racial makeup, but it is very specifically black. And just that's. It's. That's where its inception began. And we are really the ones who keep the engine running clean and replace it when it needs to and so on and so forth. So your very successful journey in putting on different costumes within the culture and doing so successfully, because you're very talented. You're just now in a point where people are bringing it up and pushing back against. That doesn't really make sense because we all know that's what it is. That we've talked and laughed and sang along with it this entire time. We did so. Trying to now act as if you're this P.S. gangster who lives, you know, the code of street law. It's like, no, you're not that. Like a wide mouth nerd who got shot on Degrassi and wrote poems for strippers and has been hanging around 21 savage. And I'm for way too much. And that's that. And that's, you know, it's okay. Beyonce had an event.

[Kid Fury]

Here we go. Something that.

[Crystal]

Why this concert?

[Kid Fury]

Oh, man. Oh, this was so, so lovely.

[Crystal]

Endless Tears. I've watched it a few times now, including last night on Patreon. I streamed it where I cried again. It was very embarrassing. But you know what? I'm human. Why don't you kick it off? Because I feel like I've run my mouth about this a lot. I don't even know what I said to say.

[Kid Fury]

Well, I actually did not get to see it live. Although. Shout out to Netflix. I begged y'all to have your shit together. And you did. For the most part, at least as far as I heard. But I was doing some. I had a terrible holiday, so I was doing something else and had to go watch it later. And my cousin was like, girl, they had the sound messed up. So, anyway, anyway, but that night when I settled down to scour YouTube and find this performance, I. When she walked out and she was. No, no, she didn't walk out when she was on the fucking horse.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And singing with her live black American voice as this. As this walked up through, you know, this, like, whole backstage area or whatever. I don't even know.

[Crystal]

Chocolate brother with a bandana cowboy hat on and a bandana over his face. And. Yeah, I'm assuming that's the, you know, the underground part.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, maybe it was. It seemed like they gave her more space than they would have normally for some kind of. I don't. So I don't know how much of that they had, you know, roped off or whatever, but everything about it, the. The low riders and then they walking down this longer hallway and it's musicians, everybody's in all white. It's. This is very much, you know.

[Crystal]

On a flag, by the way.

[Kid Fury]

And do you know how long it took me to clock that she was walking on a flag? I'm like, why Would they? Why is it a red and white carpet? Like, it took me way too long to get that. The singers who had the veils over they hats and ah, it was just so fucking cunt. And then walking up and the girls are right there. The black, black almost called the black butterfly question.

[Crystal]

Blackbird question. Before that, when she gets off the horse and they cut to the other four folks who are standing on the horses. That's some rodeo shit.

[Kid Fury]

You know, maybe I've seen it at rodeos, but I don't know that it is rodeo shit. But getting up on the horses like I've normally seen n do in like a victory stance.

[Crystal]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Like after.

[Crystal]

Cause I know that it felt symbolic of something, but I wasn't sure what.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I don't. It's crazy because I saw that obviously, but I didn't clock whether. I couldn't say whether that's specifically rodeo, but I think it is.

[Crystal]

Okay. And I love how she pet the horse. She walked away and was like, oh, they're friends. She respects the horse's spirit.

[Kid Fury]

But the girls look so good. I just.

[Crystal]

The girls looked gorgeous.

[Kid Fury]

I love you. Me too. I remember when we talked about it on the show and I said it kind of feels like Beyonce's voice is coming in and then the girls are like after her, obviously. And then she is kind of like wrapping it up and coming in, coming back at the end of the song. I don't know. It just felt like, yes.

[Crystal]

What?

[Kid Fury]

But it. This visual representation them just these few seconds that they're standing there singing the song all together. It's like this is what I saw in my head when the song was playing. Like I saw Beyonce kind of being like the mother of these girls and bringing them all together and it's like just beautiful voice. So anyway, that. You know how I love Blackbird. So I was just like in tears.

[Crystal]

Ooh. Now I kind of want a visual like them just in like a meadow sitting together and just singing to each other.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, well, you know, you are the visual baby, actually. And so then we go to the act.

[Crystal]

I guess this is visual.

[Kid Fury]

She said, can you not log on to Netflix right now and look at it?

[Crystal]

What the is your problem? The.

[Kid Fury]

The main stage with the star and the b country and the. I don't know, man.

[Crystal]

It was just the multi turned stage.

[Kid Fury]

Ashley Blaine Featherson. Ashley came back.

[Crystal]

Yes.

[Kid Fury]

The return of Ashley. The guy screamed and then blew right next to her. Oh, it was too much.

[Crystal]

Okay. Hello, girl.

[Kid Fury]

Hello, Beyonce.

[Crystal]

Hello, Beyonce. Notice that in this I said this on Patreon. The girls on the stage, there's four of them, and it is, like, teared up on top of this, like. And Blue was like, the third one up. The other three dancers, when they do the hello, Beyonce. Look up at Beyonce.

[Kid Fury]

Blue looks at the camera. Yes, I saw that. I said.

[Crystal]

I said picture. I was like, Blue was in a rehearsal and was like, I'm sorry, excuse me. Can we stop? Can we stop? I'm going to look to the camera. Yay. Yeah, I hear what you're saying. I'm gonna look at the camera.

[Kid Fury]

But it's just me personally.

[Crystal]

Hello, Beyonce. And so we're looking at. I get that. I get that. But I look at her every now, so I don't feel.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, yeah.

[Crystal]

But I'm also here.

[Kid Fury]

Y'all should keep looking.

[Crystal]

Yeah, you do what we rehearse. But me, I feel like this has nothing to do with me. So I'm gonna look at my audience. Cause I feel like that is really what the piece needs. Okay, you go. You, ma'am up there. You cool with that?

[Kid Fury]

So great.

[Crystal]

All right, let's get it from the top. Let's get from the top. Like, she literally that.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, God. When I saw her, everybody just looks so good. Everybody looks.

[Crystal]

Everyone looked great. And even though it was Christmas, I'm sure some of them were hot with them big ass coats and that choreography.

[Kid Fury]

Well, yes, because Houston on Christmas was like 70 degrees and niggas was still in coats.

[Crystal]

There you go.

[Kid Fury]

I'm like, it is warm out here. It is not cold. Why are y'all acting like, here you go? And I can't believe I'm just now remembering this, but I think Amiri was on my flight from Houston back to New York because I saw. I think I saw her at baggage claim the next day in. Yes, in New York, at LaGuardia. It is. But I was like. I was like, I'm really not that girl. I'm not gonna go up to you because I also, you know, fresh off of a flight, you know, sweatpants and all that. Don't nobody want to be bothered. But I'm like, you are an icon. I do want to come over here and be like, what's up, legend? But I'm a chill. I'm a chill. I'm a chill. Anyway, so we're going into the. We're going into Yaya, one of the best songs on the album. This performance is everything. And then what.

[Crystal]

When she came out, I remember there's a part when she's transitioning from one stage or the other in Yaya. And she goes over to this really wide.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yes. With all the. Yes. And blue is right there in the front.

[Crystal]

And blue is right above her.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

And they choreographed it to have this thing where all of the choreographer, all the dancers on either side of Beyonce are doing this almost like ripple effect that goes into her. And the only person who had Beyonce's choreography was blue. Yeah. So she is getting that same. They positioned it as if to say, you already see.

[Kid Fury]

Yes. And also for this almost 13 year old girl, here go your mama right in front of you doing the moves. So, you know, you. I mean, you're obviously quite talented. You've been doing this. You know what it means to be on a big stage. But also, you know, just you and your mama. The great.

[Crystal]

Your mama's right here. You're doing it with.

[Kid Fury]

You're doing it with your mom. You start to feel a little scared or anxious or unsure. Your mama's right there doing your same move. So just watch her. It was beautiful. Oh, God. And that went into my house. Yeah.

[Crystal]

Which is one of my favorites, which was perfect.

[Kid Fury]

You didn't see the My House vision when it came out. Y'all did not. Y'all did not. Y'all talked about me like a dog. What a song. And it fit in so well here.

[Crystal]

It was actually perfect because I needed the lyric.

[Kid Fury]

Who?

[Crystal]

They came to see me. I was like, oh, yeah, you're right. I am supposed to be watching you because I've been watching the Blue Ivy concert. Yeah, you're here too. Okay.

[Kid Fury]

I'm like, I didn't know Blue Ivy was gonna be here, but now that you done put her here, what do.

[Crystal]

You want from me?

[Kid Fury]

What do you want from me?

[Crystal]

Beyonce was like, no, we're gonna put my house in this bitch. Cause I already know how they about to act. This is my show.

[Kid Fury]

She honestly, she did all of my favorites and only one that I disliked, but her performance of it made me like it more. But Riverdance.

[Crystal]

Aww.

[Kid Fury]

I will tolerate it.

[Crystal]

Yeah. I think my house. Riverdance. And then we got Sweet Honey Buck in. She brought shabuzzi out.

[Kid Fury]

I'm so obsessed. Yes, she did book.

[Crystal]

That choreography was fantastic. I think Charm La Donna did this too.

[Kid Fury]

Mm. Okay. Well, he looked great. Love the time.

[Crystal]

Yeah, he did look great.

[Kid Fury]

That fucking coat, nigga. All these hot ass black people.

[Crystal]

Yeah. I feel like I, I, I feel like an evil white woman is in his future, and I'm just.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah, you see it?

[Crystal]

I'm talking you see it?

[Kid Fury]

You see it?

[Crystal]

I'm gonna talk. I'm worried. But other than that, we got that moment. And yes, we got Levi Jeans. She's one of my favorites.

[Kid Fury]

Well, shout out to Texas Southern and the Ocean of Soul for showing the fuck out. I mean, no better band to accompany Beyonce in Houston on Christmas. No better band. But shout out to y'all for not only executing. I see y'all hitting them 90s you out there doing that shit. But also for a bunch of college kids to have kept this a secret is incredible.

[Crystal]

So true.

[Kid Fury]

The way Gen z lives on TikTok Live. I'm shocked that y'all this giant group of kids secret. So, yeah, you know, that warmed my heart to see these kids. It took me back to my days of being in a black band. But yes, after Shaboozi came. The denim covered.

[Crystal]

My favorite part. I also saw Patreon. I was like, okay, so here's the thing with postage. I feel like, you know, couple things. First of all, I accept his presence on the record on the song. I don't think he takes anything away from it. I do think T Pain could have been a lovely alternate.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, same.

[Crystal]

Um, however, you know, I think just in my petty mind, Beyonce was like, okay, so you wanted to come over to our culture, scoop it up, get you a little name and visibility and coverage and maybe a Grammy or something. And now you're over here crooning and stringing guitars, and now white people love you because they feel like you're making their music when that's our music too. No, no, baby. You're gonna come over here and you're gonna sing this shit the way that I motherfucking tell you to, bitch. And you better not say a goddamn thing about it. I'm taking all that visibility and all of that chart topping success over here, and we're putting it right here on the album. Those girlies who felt like, oh, this is country. Yeah, here you go. She's on it too, singing what I told her to.

[Kid Fury]

And he was.

[Crystal]

I feel like that's kind of the energy behind that. He said. I just assumed their performance was over. Where he said, yes, ma'am.

[Kid Fury]

Yes, ma'am.

[Crystal]

You heard him.

[Kid Fury]

But even while they was just. Just standing there looking at her, he looked like he could jump out of his body with joy.

[Crystal]

How exciting is that though, right?

[Kid Fury]

I mean, I get it. I feel like doing a duet with.

[Crystal]

Beyonce and she looks that good.

[Kid Fury]

It's big. Yeah. He hit her with the yes, ma'am. And then the float came out.

[Crystal]

Wait, I'm not done.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, okay. Yeah, no, keep going. You know, I wanted Levi's jeans to be over very fast.

[Crystal]

I know how I feel about smells. And that person, I refuse to believe, because sometimes you see people that are like, there's no way that person has to be rancid. And then, surprisingly, it'll be like, oh, no, they have amazing hygiene spray. It has to be. You think he's one of those Marlboros? No, Marlboros. Like gingivitis, like white claw. I just don't. But I think in this. When I was watching this last night on Patreon, like, Beyonce probably called Yvette and said, have a hot bath ready for this bitch. Book a separate RV that shall be his green room. Okay. And when he arrives and walks in, lock the door behind him. And squid game mist, which is just a decontaminant, will fill up the rv, knock him out, decontaminate him. Yvette is outside the RV with a clipboard like, and you will be cleansed. Four brothers in hazmat shall be cleansed and scrub. He's not getting near me with that scent.

[Kid Fury]

No, because, you know, that's probably his last bath of the year. So Ms. Yvette said, make it a good one. Make it a good one. You gonna come out here smelling like something. You gonna come out here and you not finna offend us. But he. You know, I think he. I don't think he stinks, though. I think he smells like. I think he smells like cigarettes and dog. I think he just don't bathe enough.

[Crystal]

And that don't stink to me.

[Kid Fury]

Well, I mean, especially in the rain. I mean, like wet dog. Like, when it rains, people activated.

[Crystal]

They skin can be activated 1000%. They hate when I say that, but that's true. And y'all say it to each other and think. I don't know. But yeah, probably. Like, if I. If I had to guess, no shade. It would be like cigarettes and a cologne that I don't like. Yeah, exactly, Exactly.

[Kid Fury]

But he looked appropriately. He looked clean. Well, I don't think this is gonna controversial.

[Crystal]

Oh, you meant for all and excited to be there.

[Kid Fury]

No, this is gonna be controversial, but fuck it.

[Crystal]

What?

[Kid Fury]

That many face and neck tattoos is hard to look clean.

[Crystal]

It is almost impossible.

[Kid Fury]

I'm not saying you are clean.

[Crystal]

I should have said clean. All things considered, clean for him. He had a nice clean outfit on, and he looked bathed.

[Kid Fury]

Listen, and somebody, as soon as he got to his trailer, they Were like, you won't be putting one of them nasty yellow sweat rings on our good cute ivory blazer. Like, you will be bathing and wearing an antiperspirant for the duration of this performance. What you do when we're done, once we get that denim truck out of the camera, we don't give one hot nut fuck. But up to that point, you can.

[Crystal]

Bathe in tobacco water. After this, if you.

[Kid Fury]

Why don't you just roll on the field until the third quarter starts, we don't care. But until that minute, you dingy.

[Crystal]

We can hook you up to the back of this denim truck right after the. If you wanted to just drag you through and you can just collect that. But before that, baby, when you walk through that metal detector, it's going to spritz you with st. We rigged yours up special for this event. I'm sorry. So after that was. Is that Texas hold'em?

[Kid Fury]

Yes. After that came the local. Oh, no. It was Jolene. But Jolene was set up for that. Yes, yes, yes, yes. And she was in the back of that car.

[Crystal]

Yep, that car. And was a lot of other prominent people in rodeo and stuff. I know. Cause I recognize, like, two faces.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, look at you.

[Crystal]

I was proud of me.

[Kid Fury]

She has really changed your life, hasn't she? And the whole time, you know, the dancers are there, but the musicians and everything. Like, this is the overall point. And I was trying to wait till the end to say it, but Beyonce does things so incredibly that they look easy and almost mundane. But when you actually study what's going on in her performances, like, section by section, it is unreal how many moving parts this woman has going while singing live and sounding like that. Dancing and singing at the same time and sounding and looking like that. It's so much going on here. It is just her mind. Her mind, the vision. This is why I don't. I understand that there are a lot.

[Crystal]

Of people over at Parkwood.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah.

[Crystal]

You know, there's a team involved in these things.

[Kid Fury]

Right. They make it happen.

[Crystal]

But they. To your point, she and those folks use the space.

[Kid Fury]

You know what I mean?

[Crystal]

Like, there are so many artistic things that are going on that it's like your eyes. Trixie has this joke of, like, the squid game bot. How its eyes move the red.

[Kid Fury]

Now, you know, I ain't never seen no squid game.

[Crystal]

It's just like your eyes can't.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah. You can't even. You don't even know what to focus on. It's like when she and Blue are out there at the same time. Which one of y'all am I supposed to be looking at?

[Crystal]

Thank God I could watch it again.

[Kid Fury]

Because fuck, thank God I can watch. I said, netflix don't play with me. I know by morning this shit better be on my app. And it didn't take long. Y'all knew. Y'all knew.

[Crystal]

Thank God.

[Kid Fury]

Um, but so, yeah, Jolene transitions into, you know, she's bringing out these other Texas institutions, rodeo, the rodeo queen, stuff like that. And then she does Texas hold'em and she. The whole, you know, it's only fitting to perform Texas hold'em for the first time, you know, in Houston or whatever. And so on Christmas, that, for the first time, has had the hive going back and forth. Like, what does it mean? What does it mean? Does for the first time mean a tourist come me, you know, the girls are waiting on January 14th. What is it? What is it? A tour. People think it's a new album. I do not.

[Crystal]

No, I think she's gonna go on tour.

[Kid Fury]

I think it's a. A tour announcement or it's something that's gonna piss off everybody. Like, I don't know, like the. The vegan thing. She's gonna come up with vegan cookie mix or something.

[Crystal]

But then why. Why have that little teaser that it'll be vegan Tex Mex cookie? Why use Cowboy Carter as a way to package?

[Kid Fury]

Because it's cute. I love it.

[Crystal]

Because that's a valid answer.

[Kid Fury]

So we'll see.

[Crystal]

No, I think she's gonna. I think she's going.

[Kid Fury]

I think it's a tour announcement.

[Crystal]

I think it's gonna be a tour. Now I'm just like, I don't think it's gonna be a world tour.

[Kid Fury]

No, I don't either. But you never know what this is.

[Crystal]

I don't know.

[Kid Fury]

I want it to be.

[Crystal]

Didn't we have a theory of, like.

[Kid Fury]

Her doing, like, a Chillin Circuit type thing? Yes. Or like, going around to, like, different rodeo. But see, that's the thing. I think Beyonce also knows if she did something real regional and niche like that the ticket demand and what people would have to do to get tickets would be. There would be blood. Blood running the streets. So I don't think she will. I. But. So it may actually. It may be like she normally does Europe and. And North America and then calling it a day.

[Crystal]

I just don't want her to work her ass off all like that again. I mean, I know she loves it.

[Kid Fury]

I was ghosting. I don't think she's pushing herself To. It's a lot of work to have.

[Crystal]

I don't Renaissance to her. It feels like. Renaissance. Like I'm still riding the heart of it.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I guess.

[Crystal]

Because I'm just like. It feels like, oh, my goodness, girl. To do all that again. Like, well.

[Kid Fury]

But think of how long she gave us nothing. She's been planning all this shit.

[Crystal]

That's what you're. Yeah, I'm thinking that too. Like, she kind of. Since then has sort of been.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, like every couple years.

[Crystal]

Release this a little bit. She's been at a couple of events, but I think she. She seems like she's outside of the. The couple of things. Has probably just been doing more local work and being a mom and stuff. So maybe she is energized enough. I just don't want her overworked. But if she's good, I'm good.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, that's. I mean, that's really it.

[Crystal]

But that's why I got so emotional when I was on the stream last night. Like, I cried, girl, because I cried the first time I watched it. When they're doing It's Texas Hold'em when they're doing Texas hold'em. And she does the. When Blue comes back out.

[Kid Fury]

When Blue comes back out and they.

[Crystal]

Do the little Do Si do. I burst into tears. Because, first of all, we grew up with Beyonce. I remember the DC4 and that note for no, no, no. Of course. Feeling so connected to this black country girl who was. I knew was her from the beginning. We knew. And watching her have this family now and then, it's just so beautiful to see how she's grown.

[Kid Fury]

Yes.

[Crystal]

But then how Blue has grown from this little girl who honestly has been dealing with bullshit before she even understood she was dealing with bullshit or knew she was dealing with bullshit to even just a little over a year ago or whenever she decides to, like, join her mom on this tour here and there. For fun.

[Kid Fury]

Right?

[Crystal]

For fun. And then hearing that. Like, she perhaps heard that people were criticizing her dancing or this, that. And the third or whatever. When it's like, are you bitches stupid? First of all, none of you hoes could do this. Secondly, and you couldn't do this in your mama living room. She's doing this in, you know, stadiums across the world. Shut the fuck up. Right to now see her somehow wickedly taller. I mean, a girl being taller.

[Kid Fury]

But she is taller than Beyonce.

[Crystal]

She has shot up. But, like, her confidence in this performance, her hitting those counts and doing it with this gleam in her eyes where she's like, yes, I'm still having fun with my mom, but I'm her. She's on. Like, I am.

[Kid Fury]

That's true, girl. Really? That.

[Crystal]

Don't play with me. That spinning me in the middle. Blue, I was crying, and last night, I just. It got me all over again because I was like, I. It's this in a sea of constant and out of control nonsense. This makes me. I don't know these people, but.

[Kid Fury]

But this makes me feel good.

[Crystal]

I'm inspired by these people and them loving on each other and growing and, like, performing together. It just makes me so happy because I already feel like black children should have everything right.

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Crystal]

You know? And it just. It made me so emotional to see how much she's grown. From love on top, her first performance, to this one. And that. Even that moment.

[Kid Fury]

Performance is crazy.

[Crystal]

That moment when they zoom in to, like, the very last part and the dancers are cutting away and Blue is the last one. And she does what is now her signature peace sign. It filled my heart up. It filled my heart up. Up them just being them, but also the whole black Americana of it. This is our shit.

[Kid Fury]

Yes. A reminder that this is our shit. And y'all can be mad about it all you want to, but the facts are the facts. It was. What it actually was for me was that moment when Beyonce walks up and the camera pans out and Blue comes to join her. Blue does this little wave with her fingers at the.

[Crystal]

Yeah, she does.

[Kid Fury]

And I was like, ah, not Blue. Saying hello. In case you somehow didn't see, I. I'm like, am here. Head choreographer.

[Crystal]

And the two high kicks she did before she ran off.

[Kid Fury]

Don't talk to me about my niece.

[Crystal]

If you don't say nothing. Shut up.

[Kid Fury]

A little girl who has been dragged by big grown people since the womb to see her out there now. Oh, my God. Even just the difference between her first Renaissance show and now is just right.

[Crystal]

And I thought her first renaissance show was spectacular. It was.

[Kid Fury]

It was. But there's. She's clearly growing.

[Crystal]

She has very much grown as just beautiful as a performer. And her confidence is up.

[Kid Fury]

Yep. Oh, Beyonce. Oh, Blue. Mm. She absolutely has.

[Crystal]

One last thing I wanted to mention. I thought to the. Again, this is our shit and all that. I loved how I believe it was Yaya where she said. She said, one, two, trey, four.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Crystal]

I was like. It felt as if to say, shout out to the fact that, you know, Texas is Mexico.

[Kid Fury]

Cause she's from Third Ward, so it makes sense. It would make sense for her to put a little something special on the. On the.

[Crystal]

On that train.

[Kid Fury]

Right. But yeah, that was at the very. The very beginning. Yep. When she was first getting into yaya. But it was great. I was gonna say, what. What else can we say? Like, Beyonce makes it look easy. She makes it look easy. You have to. This is why Beyonce fans need to make sure that they're fans of other people, too, so that they don't get used to that and start thinking that that's the standard. What Beyonce's doing is so far and away from what the rest of these bitches can even dream up. So you have to go be a fan of other people too, so you can be reminded of, like, what's realistic and what. What is actually happening out here in the world. You have to go to other people's concerts to be like, oh, yeah, that's a regular concert. We just. Just, you know. Yeah, okay. And that's. Yep. That's what most n do to remind yourself that everybody ain't able to do what this woman has consistently given us over the course of her career. So, yeah, I'm also calling it. I think it's a tour announcement coming. I think that's next Tuesday. But we shall see. We shall see. Thank you, Fave. Thank you. And thank you for allowing Blue to. To do this with us. Thank you for sharing.

[Crystal]

I don't know, but it was your choice. But it was.

[Kid Fury]

It was. You could have said no.

[Crystal]

That video resurfaced of her being like, you're taking Diva out. No.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, for Renaissance. Yes. When Blue was like, mom, you can't cut Diva.

[Crystal]

You can't do that. Yes. It was like, I appreciate your input, baby, but you need to calm down.

[Kid Fury]

And an immediate cut to Diva.

[Crystal]

An immediate cut to her performing Diva.

[Kid Fury]

She said, now, was I mad? Yes. But did I shut my fat ass up and sing the song? Yes, I did.

[Crystal]

She was like, let me remind you.

[Kid Fury]

LA girl, you are a child. Stay in a child's place. Thank you so much that you are a child.

[Crystal]

And it is a privilege that you in here and I respect your opinion, but you need to be quiet.

[Kid Fury]

Like, baby, you gotta listen. You just gotta learn how to talk to. Which is all true. Like, Blue needed that correction, but she wasn't wrong.

[Crystal]

She wasn't wrong either. And she actually didn't say disrespectfully she was being kid.

[Kid Fury]

It was. She was. She was passionate.

[Crystal]

Can't get rid of those songs.

[Kid Fury]

She was not going to shut up about it. She's like, you cannot cut Diva girl. Mom. What do you mean, be serious? And she was right. And she said, and she's right.

[Crystal]

And it's right there.

[Kid Fury]

I'm just so. My fave. My fave. Beyonce Bo was a very bright spot in what was otherwise a horrific holiday season. Of course, for me.

[Crystal]

Great.

[Kid Fury]

Thank you, Netflix. I have ran that back way more times than I. But I think I have not watched much other than comedy specials on Netflix. Beyonce bowl and Wicked. That's pretty much all I've been doing.

[Crystal]

Wicked, Beyonce bowl, the Traitors and One Piece.

[Kid Fury]

Maybe I need to watch the Traitors. Is it good? It's a reality show.

[Crystal]

Do you like shit like that? Like Big Brother and like those?

[Kid Fury]

Oh, it's like that. I thought it was a game. I thought they were like.

[Crystal]

It is a game, but it's like, you know, some of the players are traitors, and some of them are. I forgot what, like, the good guys are called. And then they have these different challenges and traders kill someone every now and then. The rest people have to, like, figure out who among them is a traitor before the end of the game. See? Yes. Mystery game type thing. It is. It's fun. But I'm watching it because Bob. Bob the Drag Queen is on.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, three. Nice.

[Crystal]

And season three comes out, I think, tomorrow.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, cool.

[Crystal]

Season two is, like, Phaedra Peppermint, a bunch of other people I can't remember. Yeah, that lady Sandra, the One Survivor Twice, and some from the Real World.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I keep seeing people talk about it, but, like, I'm like, do I need to look at this? Maybe I do.

[Crystal]

I'm only, like, on episode five of 12 episodes, but it's fine.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crystal]

Yeah. But you could also just watch cbd.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, well, there is always that. No, I was Bluey. Oh, Bluey. I still can't believe the Peabody had me on their fucking podcast to talk about Bluey. I was just. Oh, man. Unreal. Life has such highs and such lows.

[Crystal]

True.

[Kid Fury]

Um, okay, well, is that it for me?

[Crystal]

I think that's it for our hot tops. Let's take a break.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crystal]

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[Kid Fury]

How we gonna make $1,500 by 6?

[Crystal]

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[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crystal]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Crystal]

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[Kid Fury]

First the rent, and then Alomo's trying to kill us.

[Crystal]

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[Kid Fury]

He showing Cheat and steal on the same day.

[Crystal]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Crystal]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Crystal]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Crystal]

Okay folks, we're back. It's time for letters.

[Kid Fury]

Yes, it is. Send your questions to askthereadmail.com our letter this week comes from Layla who says, hey, I've been listening to the show since I was 14. I love you guys so much and I hope you can give me some insight on this situation. I have a really good friend who's the same age as me. Our birthdays are two days apart and we used to celebrate them together on a regular basis during undergrad. We're still close and we talk weekly, but we live in separate cities and we're both 25. Our 20th and 21st birthdays were a really big deal in terms of demand for planning and I took on about 80% of the planning for both. My friends are her friends as well, but the relationship is maintained through me and since we finished undergrad she has lost contact with a lot of my people who would show up and be generous, loving and overall good friends to us. Our friend group is predominantly first gen black women and we don't come from well off backgrounds, so our birthdays were something that we put extra love and care into because we didn't get to have that when we were growing up. Our 21st birthday was a disaster due to her friends and family, not mine, and I decided I was never hosting anything for the both of us again and she never took the initiative to plan anything. Two years went by and we decided to travel for our 23rd birthdays. I flew into our destination a day after she did and for the 24 hours I wasn't there, she didn't leave the hotel room at all because she says she was scared. Now this is not a city that was underdeveloped by any means, but if you ask her about the trip today, she would still say that she would have died if I didn't come with her, which is very much an exaggeration. But I digress. Our 26th birthday is coming up this year and I really want to go to Rio with a group of friends. Of all my friends, I probably talk to her the most in terms of day to day updates, but I do not want her to come on this trip. I'm in a relationship and I have other friends who are much more well traveled that could do a great job in Rio without needing me to hold their hand. I have always spearheaded our joint birthday celebrations. And for the past couple of years, I celebrated with my significant other because I didn't want to plan anything in conjunction with her because it always ends up just me doing the planning and then she tags along as if it's not both of our birthday. Her friends are unreliable, so even if she came, I wouldn't be able to have any separation from her. The group I want to go with is not her friend. And in fact, she's only met most of them once or twice. I don't want to put my friends in the position of celebrating someone they don't know. And I selfishly want it to be about me because I'm the one planning it. Am I the asshole for not wanting my best friend at my birthday trip? Despite all of our history, how can I communicate this without it tearing apart our ten year friendship? Thanks, Laila. Damn, that's a big one.

[Crystal]

Because like, I get where Layla is coming from, but I don't see how you are not gonna be hurtful if you don't invite this friend. And I don't even know that you can. I don't know how you can communicate it even in a nice way that wouldn't hurt their feelings.

[Kid Fury]

Well, sometimes we need to accept that what we're gonna say is simply hurtful. And there's no way to. For it to not be hurtful. You can say it though, in a kind and respectful way. You don't have to say it in a way, but like, it's like breaking up with somebody. There's no way for me to say this that's not gonna hurt your feelings.

[Crystal]

Okay, so then like, how would. How do you think that she should say it?

[Kid Fury]

Well, I would. Me, I. I would lay out the facts. First and foremost. Last time we went somewhere, you know, hashtag exotic, you said you were scared. To this day you act like your life was in danger. Nobody else you know is gonna be there. These people are not friends with you. I'm also, you know, my. My man is coming or my person, I don't know actually know what gender they are. That person is also coming. You know, it's like, nobody here is really friends with you. Like, these are. This is a totally different friend group. You don't travel well. Well, maybe you don't travel well. It feels more judgmental, but just, you know, you. I would. I would say, you know, I'm trying to go to Rio and do all kinds of adventure shit. You know, we want to do sunrise hikes.

[Crystal]

You're gonna be comfortable.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, we wanna go swim with the stingrays and shit. And you just. You more of a. You more of an indoorsy, brunch birthday type of girl.

[Crystal]

So, you know, and I don't wanna be. You know, I don't wanna leave you in a hotel room by yourself while we're all having fun.

[Kid Fury]

Right. Cause then I feel bad.

[Crystal]

Then I'm gonna feel bad and I'm gonna have fun. So we can do something afterward. Yeah, that feels. That feels. I mean, yeah, the person could still take it how they're gonna take it, but the facts are the facts. And that delivery doesn't feel ill intent, like it has ill intent.

[Kid Fury]

Or you could blame it on your man. You could blame it on your significant other or your friends.

[Crystal]

I'm always gonna vote for blame.

[Kid Fury]

Well, I don't mean blame like, in a negative way. I mean blame like you could say, oh, my man is taking me to Rio for my birthday. Bam. My friends that you not friends with are taking me to Rio for my birthday. Bam.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And girl, you know, you don't like doing adventure shit. No way. We'll go to brunch when I get back.

[Crystal]

Oh, my nigga. Taking me to Rio for my birthday. Oh, my goodness. It's gonna be like, we have so much stuff that we're gonna go swimming with sharks, hang gliding. We're going into an active volcano. Just want me to bring you back?

[Kid Fury]

We gonna be talking to the locals, girl, right in their face every day. Going into the neighborhood, going on a trap tour.

[Crystal]

We have so much planned. What do you want me to bring you back? You want like, a magnet?

[Kid Fury]

And I'll be the bitch to be like, yeah, a coffee cup, actually. Thank you so much.

[Crystal]

Exactly.

[Kid Fury]

Please do pick it up. Please do pick it up. Right there in the airport on your way back. Thank you so much. So much.

[Crystal]

Give me a shot glass. Thank you.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I will. You know.

[Crystal]

Yeah, I think that sounds fun.

[Kid Fury]

You don't have to sacrifice your own happiness on your birthday because of her. You don't have to do that.

[Crystal]

No, she should not come. She shouldn't. It's about figuring out how to.

[Kid Fury]

And, you know, everybody don't travel well. Everybody is not the travel friend. Everybody ain't.

[Crystal]

It's true.

[Kid Fury]

It's not like you don't want to be friends with her no more. You just don't want to go on your birthday trip with her. And that is. It's hurtful, yes, but it's not unfair.

[Crystal]

And I'm sure you'd love to go on this trip with her if she was someone who was like, yeah, let's go jet skiing. You know what I mean? And handles it differently. You have experience on trips like this that show that that is likely not going to be the case. And best case would be her being like, you are damn sure right. That. That don't sound like something I want to do. Have a blast. Bring me back a T shirt.

[Kid Fury]

Right? You know, hopefully she understands. Like, you know what? This don't. This sound like. I would be trying to drink in the room the whole time, and y'all would be like, why did you bring this boring bitch? Yeah. And I'm. And I'm looking at y'all like, why do you niggas want to go hike at 4:30am why would that happen? You know, like, y'all. It's just not a compatible. This isn't a compatible idea. Um.

[Crystal]

So, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But yeah, I mean, good luck. Just try to say it as kindly as possible. Don't make. Don't, don't. Don't turn it into, well, girl, you suck.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

You are just so draining. And I just fucking cannot abide the idea of traveling with you. But, yeah, you know, the framing of it is everything. It makes a huge difference.

[Crystal]

No shade. I kind of like the idea of being like, oh, my person is taking me on this trip.

[Kid Fury]

I fully would do it. I fully would do it.

[Crystal]

What? You want me to bring you back? Because that just kind of makes it, you know.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, like, oh, girl, just a heads up, if you thought we was going to be getting together and playing Jenga for our birthday this year, we not, my nigga taking me to Rio. But, yeah, I got you. They probably got some kind of special Brazilian candy or something, or, you know.

[Crystal]

Well, Brazilian candy is tea.

[Kid Fury]

See, I don't even know that you would, though.

[Crystal]

I would.

[Kid Fury]

I would tell you, oh, my man is bringing me. Taking me to Rio, but I bring you back some Brazilian candy, you gonna have a list.

[Crystal]

I have not been to Brazil a day in my life.

[Kid Fury]

You be like, give me the mango chewy chewy yum yums.

[Crystal]

I know that their candy is delicious.

[Kid Fury]

Well, you always got some kind of foreign something. I just assume that you found a website where you could order candy from around the world.

[Crystal]

I find a way. I need to make one. I should have a candy.

[Kid Fury]

You and Fran eat more candy than any grown people I've ever known.

[Crystal]

It's delicious and it makes you feel good things. And in a time where that is necessary. Geez.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, best of luck to you. Layla. I'm trying to decide. Should we do another one or should we cut it off there? Because we're. Yeah, we're. We're running out of time. So again, send your letters to askthereadmail.com if you have a question that you'd like us to answer, answer. And yeah, we'll take another quick break. Hey y'all. Acorns makes it so easy to start automatically saving and investing so your money has a chance to grow for you, your kids, your dog. Maybe if your dog spends all your money like mine and your retirement. Look, you don't need to be an expert. Acorns will recommend a diversified portfolio that fits you and your money goals. And you don't need to be rich. Acorns lets you invest with the spare money you've got right now. You can start with $5 or even just your spare change. Okay? Acorns gives you and your money a chance to grow. You don't need to feel like financial wellness is impossible. Acorns gives you small, simple steps to get you and your money on track. So head on over to acorns.com the read or download the Acorns app to start saving and investing for your future today. Now wait girlies, because this part is important. Paid non client endorsement compensation provides incentive to positively promote Acorn Tier 2 compensation provided investing involves risk. Acorn Advisors LLC and SEC registered investment advisor. View important [e-mail] the Read Are you still quoting 30 year old movies? Have you said cool beans in the past 90 days?

[Crystal]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Crystal]

Hello folks, we are back and it is now time for the Read. I would like to start and just try to get these two done.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crystal]

First of all, I think we have just a few more weeks before the beginning of the end. And I'd like to go ahead and remind you all or update you on some information as of the seventh, that President Tangerine Elect. President Elect. Whatever had to say in Mar a Lago. He plans to reshape the Western Hemisphere to make America bigger. He wants to obtain Greenland, reclaim the Panama Canal.

[Kid Fury]

All right.

[Crystal]

All right. He wants to turn Canada into the 51st state and make Wayne Gretzky the governor.

[Kid Fury]

What is that?

[Crystal]

Are you wants to rename.

[Kid Fury]

Are you being serious?

[Crystal]

The Gulf of Mexico. I'm reading this on cnn.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, my God.

[Crystal]

Dot com. I also watched this press conference.

[Kid Fury]

Wow.

[Crystal]

He's interested in renaming the Gulf of Mexico. He says we're going to change. Be changing the name of Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory. The Gulf of America. What a beautiful name. I want you girls to know that you voted for a character, the Animaniacs. And as Crystal, I believe, said recently, whatever you get, you deserve it. Whatever happens at this point happens. You bitches can't govern the space that you stole now. And you want to make it bigger. You want more of it.

[Kid Fury]

I'm so confused. The Gulf of America.

[Crystal]

Why the Gulf of America.

[Kid Fury]

Can'T. Do you understand? If Canada was a state, Republicans would never, ever hold office again, ever, ever, ever.

[Crystal]

I don't understand why we have to deal with some. This shit is so stupid.

[Kid Fury]

He's an idiot.

[Crystal]

And I'm like, you asked for this. You asked for this. The Gulf of America.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, let's go ahead and make Canada the 51st state. Let's see how Canada feels about that.

[Crystal]

He said Canada is subsidizing to the tune of about 200 billion a year, plus other things. And they don't essentially have a military. They have a very small military. We. They rely on our military. When asked if he would, like, possibly use military force to enact these changes, he was like, you're gonna invent. He didn't say no.

[Kid Fury]

Are you gonna invade Canada, girl?

[Crystal]

No. He's a washed dumbass. Like, we know. But this. It's like, this is what we're. This here. He hasn't even officially gotten back in office, and this nigga is talking about the Gulf of America. I'd like to leave.

[Kid Fury]

What are you.

[Crystal]

I would like to leave. I would like to leave the rapture. An invasion. An alien abduction. What? Beat me up. Yeah, Scotteen. I want to get out of here. Because. What are you talking about? Obtaining Greenland from Denmark. They should give it up because we need it for national security.

[Kid Fury]

They should give it. Are you. Are you proposing war? Is that. Do you understand that you can't just be like, I'm going to take these things.

[Crystal]

Yeah. Something that you claim to have run against, like, starting. Okay, okay. So I just wanted to go ahead and say that. But I think that for most of the people who love this man, they're like, yeah, let's go ahead and do it. I mean, the American is baked into their DNA and a lot of what we call North America or the United States specifically, and the intention to continue colonizing has never really gone away.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, that's true.

[Crystal]

He's just running his mouth about it in a way that sounds like I'm watching Toonami. Like, it's, like, past my bedtime and I'm watching Cartoon Network. I hate these people.

[Kid Fury]

And okay, I honestly think this time around is going to be worse because he has absolutely nothing to lose.

[Crystal]

It is going to be flat out.

[Kid Fury]

It's going to be very bad. So I listen. The Democrats sat there and certified the election. So what do you want me to do?

[Crystal]

What do you want me to do?

[Kid Fury]

Unless Biden is like, I'm actually not going to step away from office, then I don't know. It seems like this is just coming. This is just going to happen. So. All right, girls, here we go. Everybody buckle up.

[Crystal]

The.

[Kid Fury]

Oh.

[Crystal]

The only other thing I wanted to say is Apple searching through imessage has no business being this fucking impossible. What? Like, is it Baron? I don't know if I'm doing something wrong.

[Kid Fury]

I have no idea.

[Crystal]

But if it's like, oh, I'm trying to find such and such's address to send them something and I know they texted to me and I'll put like, address, William, nothing. Yeah, but if I go in there and scroll back to 2019, I'll find why.

[Kid Fury]

Maybe William can use the word address.

[Crystal]

You can't even, like, screw. No, but I did. It's there. I'm reading the message.

[Kid Fury]

Wow. So it just said, fuck you.

[Crystal]

There's the person's name. It just doesn't search it. Okay, so I don't understand what you want from me, but you keep trying to resell me this phone, talking about the camera, take better pictures and bokeh, bokeh, bokeh.

[Kid Fury]

What do that even mean?

[Crystal]

I don't even get it. I don't know. I don't know.

[Kid Fury]

These phones are like, $2,000. I don't need another one.

[Crystal]

Why can't I find a message?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, let's talk about it.

[Crystal]

Fuck you. I'm finished.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, man.

[Crystal]

Very gassy today.

[Kid Fury]

It's still that photo app update for me. I don't know what you vindictive nerds were thinking about that bullshit.

[Crystal]

I'm just trying to act like that didn't happen to me.

[Kid Fury]

I told you it was terrible.

[Crystal]

I didn't update it. It just decided to.

[Kid Fury]

Well, I don't really have a read this week. I just want to talk about my friend Casey for a little bit, who passed away over the holidays. And I think this is my first time having, like, a. A close friend of many, many years die. So it's been quite strange. Like, creating a new group chat without him was just so. It's just so weird. And I don't know, I'm very much still just kind of like, I'm up and down, you know, Sometimes I'm zoning out all day, and I'm just, you know, staring at the wall, and sometimes I'm actually getting shit done. But I just want to talk about. I. I met Casey in, like, I don't know, 2003, 2004. A very long time ago. And I loved him dearly. I love him dearly.

[Crystal]

Yeah, I was gonna say.

[Kid Fury]

And I'm so angry because although, you know, there were no signs of, like, foul play or anything, we won't know what happened until the autopsy is in, which could be months. But I'll say this. I'll say this, and quite frankly, I don't care who it pisses off.

[Crystal]

Yeah, me neither.

[Kid Fury]

The number one problem Casey had in all the years I knew him was the profound lack of love and support that he received from his relatives. He struggled so much with even just being able to say he was gay for as long as I knew. It took Casey years to even be able to say he was gay around us, to even just be able to own it, to people who absolutely don't give a fuck. Like, this is a group of six people, and four of them are lesbians. You can say it. We don't care. We don't like. But just to give you an idea of how much he was struggling with being so thoroughly rejected by his family for his sexuality. And the longer I knew him, the more he grew in his ability to assert himself. He started actually dating. He started, you know, instead of saying, you know, coded words like roommate or whatever, he started saying, you know, this is my boyfriend, things like that. And I Watched his relatives continue to reject him to his face over and over and over again. When the pandemic started, we all started doing, like, this monthly zoom call. And so the last time we all spoke, right around Thanksgiving, he was trying. He was telling us about how he was trying to talk to his parents about this breakup he went through earlier this year that was really whooping his ass. Like, Casey was having a hard time with this breakup. And so, you know, just trying to convey to his family how much he was hurting and how bad things were and, you know, the loss of this person and still having him, his ex, be referred to as a roommate and having his feelings be dismissed about it as if, you know, this was just a lease that ended and your roommate moved out, as opposed to you losing someone you actually loved and miss deeply. And so he was ranting about that, about how these families, these black Southern Christian families will accept all manners of abuse and neglect and debauchery and violence of all kinds and just. All kind of. Just the purest of fuckery y'all will accept and make everybody else around you except, too. But Casey, just being a good fucking person, just being a good person who happened to be gay was simply never good enough for y'all. A good person, a sweet, kind. I mean, I'm being nice because Casey could absolutely be a bitch when he wanted to, but this was a good person. Somebody with multiple degrees who could have been working in the private sector and making real money, but instead decided to teach special ed Pre K kids in the suburbs of Tennessee. Like, this is. This is somebody who has such a big heart and who deserved so much more from the people who were supposed to be his number one cheerleaders. I don't know what happened. I don't know if Casey did this to himself deliberately or if something else happened. I don't know. But I. I'm not gonna say I don't care. It matters to me. But regardless. Regardless, you niggas are not gonna get in my face and lie to me about how much you loved him, how much you cared about him, how much you miss him, what a hole there is in your life now or anything else. I actually don't wanna hear none of that shit from none of you niggas. None of you. N. Not a single one of you can say that you loved and accepted KC Fully as he was. None of you niggas, none of his blood relatives. Y'all were his relatives. We were his family to this day. Y'all wouldn't even know he was Dead if not for us, because Christmas came and went. Y'all didn't hear from him, and y'all didn't think nothing of it. We were the ones who were like, where the fuck is Casey? We were the ones who had the police go out for the wellness check. We're the ones who found out because we're the ones who care. So I am, you know, it's a 98% chance I'm not going to go to this funeral out of. Because. Because I'm absolutely going to cuss y'all out, and that's not the best use of my energy.

[Crystal]

Right. Not because preservation.

[Kid Fury]

Not because y'all don't deserve it. You do. And not because it's not what Case would want, because he would absolutely cackle. If I cuss you out in your church.

[Crystal]

It's the safest thing for you.

[Kid Fury]

It's safest for everybody. Most likely if I simply don't go, or if I sit in the back with a veil over my face, and as soon as y'all say something that pisses me off, I walk out. It's one or the other. You know, it's one or the other. Because I do not want to see you niggas boohooing. I do not want to see one of y'all shed not one fucking tear.

[Crystal]

Yeah. Ah.

[Kid Fury]

So to my dear friend Casey, who used to tease me just mercilessly and who I love so dearly, I. I am so sorry that your life got cut short. 39 is just too young. I just cannot believe, you know, we were just together in October celebrating Shemeka's 40th birthday, and we're supposed to be going to Tulum next year for you and Elise and Jessica's 40th birthday. Like, we had plans, we talked. We. This is my friend. How are you gone? It does not make sense. It really just don't make sense.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So I am grieving. I am. I am mourning.

[Crystal]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But a lot of y'all are grieving because of your own selfish, shitty, stupid decisions. You're grieving, and it's your own fault. You're grieving your decisions, and y'all finna get together in each other's faces and lie and pat each other on the back, and you are all just gonna sit there and lie to each other to make each other feel better about the fact that y'all simply did not care about him.

[Crystal]

And you know something? Unfortunately, a lot of them may not even reach that realization. A lot of them probably feel like, you know, they deserve and they earn their grief and so on. And I think it's actually really important that his actual family, someone would then say, y'all can sit over there and cry and do all that if you want to. Just know that I know and Casey know y'all ain't shit.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

And none of those tears do you deserve.

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Crystal]

And may you have a mighty fuck you for the remainder of your days. Someone's gotta say it.

[Kid Fury]

Well, three of us are in Oklahoma City, so they will be able to easily get to the funeral this weekend. I planning to go to Oklahoma City just to be with my friends, but be with them with this weather. Delta them emailed me twice today. Like, girl, we might not be able to get your flight out. We letting you know right now the weather is looking real squirrely in Oklahoma and Atlanta. So we'll see. We'll see. If I make it, then I make it. If I don't, then I tried. But whether I make it won't be an indication of how much I love Casey. Casey knew. I showed Casey when he was here on this planet what he meant to me in my words and my actions.

[Crystal]

And I genuinely, if I may, don't believe that he is gone. You know, Like, I just don't really feel like that's how that works. I don't feel like they're like, I feel like you will, I guess. I'm like, I'm getting more and more woo woo as I age. But I genuinely believe you are. That something is gonna happen at some point that's gonna be like, oh, that was Casey, you know, and you're going to have little reverberations of his spirit popping up in your life where it's gonna be like, he's in the room.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

It's just that, that physical connection and not having that and having to process it when it's like, you said, that person should be here. It's the worst.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

But now you get to do the beautiful thing of honoring him and building continued tradition around his honoring. Like I was even saying in your business, but I was even saying, like, why make a new group chat?

[Kid Fury]

Well, just because I didn't want his family to get a hold of his phone and be able to see what I was saying about them.

[Crystal]

That's fair. That's fair enough.

[Kid Fury]

Because I immediately started dragging. I mean, immediately that very night, I said, I actually just don't even want y'all to be privy to our conversations. So I don't know who's going to have his phone how long they gonna keep it on? But no, no, no.

[Crystal]

I still text Frank sometimes.

[Kid Fury]

That's real.

[Crystal]

I know he's not gonna respond, but it'll just be like, hey, miss you. I was watching such and such and such today. Or I'll DM him. Like that's what such and such and say. Like you would have cracked. It was so stupid and just. I don't know.

[Kid Fury]

Well, see, we do still have our group chat on Instagram, so. Yeah, that is actually a good idea. I think I'll, I'll do that. But I might DM him sometimes.

[Crystal]

But my friend Naf, I leave pictures, comments on her pictures and I'll just be like, what this outfit? Or miss your friend, you know?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, sometimes when like somebody with a K name will call or text me for half a second. I think it's Casey. Woo. That is a crazy, crazy feeling. So. I love you so much, Casey. We all do. We just can't even believe that this is real. But for those of you who think it don't really matter that you don't love your kids, you don't support your kids, you reject them because they gay and you don't play that or whatever other. Like, even if Casey didn't, you know, take his own life, he was depressed, sad, every for as long as I knew him. And the main cause of that was not being loved by his family. Please stop having kids if you're not gonna love them regardless of who they are.

[Crystal]

Please stop having kids if you are not going to love them regardless of who they are. If your children do not grow up to be this picture that you have painted in your head, that honestly is a picture painted with broken brushes.

[Kid Fury]

Woo.

[Crystal]

You don't need to be having no kids, baby Sweets. You probably shouldn't even have a pet, maybe a cat. Because if you try with a cat, they'll be like, girl, I'm leaving and I'm not coming back. And honestly, I'll be fine.

[Kid Fury]

And I'll beat your ass on the.

[Crystal]

Way out and I will whoop your ass and tear up this couch when I leave. Yeah, so.

[Kid Fury]

But children don't do that.

[Crystal]

So you hit the nail right on the head.

[Kid Fury]

Children end up hating themselves.

[Crystal]

You become their first bully and you create the way they see themselves and the world. And for a lot of people, they don't get the grace to come out of that toxicity and that bullying or see the world in any way. So if you are not going to love on your kids, fuck you, don't have them.

[Kid Fury]

Don't have them. Just don't have them. Don't have them. Have fantasy children in your head and just dream of what they would be like and how they would act.

[Crystal]

There's gotta be AI for that something, right?

[Kid Fury]

All the other bullshit y'all ruining the earth over, go ahead and create you some fake kids and take out your trauma on them.

[Crystal]

Y'all are all them Polar Express babies. They be having baby look like a baby.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. Them weird, creepy real life dolls that are like $3,000 and they just hideous like a real newborn. Do that, do that.

[Crystal]

Just do that.

[Kid Fury]

Stop putting. Stop breaking real people's spirits. Stop crushing real people's hearts. And that's it for. That's it for me. Rest in peace. Casey. We love you so, so much.

[Crystal]

I love you, friend. I'm sorry.

[Kid Fury]

Thank you. It's been rough.

[Crystal]

I know I'll get better.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah.

[Crystal]

And he's gonna come to you in a dream, so prepare for that.

[Kid Fury]

He's gonna be like, this is what it took for you to talk about me on the Read. Wow. He's gonna pop up all you want.

[Crystal]

To and be like, now what was all of that?

[Kid Fury]

You up here boohooing? Oh, he absolutely. He would be like, now shut all that up. All that crying. Shut that shit up. No, I don't care.

[Crystal]

Yeah, and you're gonna wake up laughing and crying at the same time and throwing it.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, my friend.

[Crystal]

It'll get better, friend.

[Kid Fury]

Thank you. So, yeah, that'll wrap up this week's episode of the Read. Find us on social media at. This is the Read. This is the read.com shop. The read.com. what else am I. What else am I missing? Happy New Year. I don't know, girls. It seems like things are about to go to hell very quickly. But enjoy.

[Crystal]

Coming up, we have an anniversary show coming up.

[Kid Fury]

Yes. I was about to say, meanwhile, I was like, you have a show coming up when? No, we have a show coming up.

[Crystal]

Fuck. Getting through the Read Live 12 year anniversary next month, I believe the 15th. You'll get tickets for that on our Instagram page and Ticketmaster, I believe the Read last week. You can also find me. Yes. You can also find me on patreon.com Kid Fury where we've got a lot of fun stuff going on. You can watch my Beyonce bowl reaction stream. We've got a private playlist for our highest tier on Spotify where we're sharing music. We've got a whole bunch of stuff coming. There might even be a new Fury Spots video on Patreon right now. Maybe be a furious thoughts 24 on patreon.com good fury right now know I don't know and I think that's it.

[Kid Fury]

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