The Emotions of a Half-Dead Husband

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Read – “The Emotions of a Half-Dead Husband” (Feb 26, 2026)

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Main Theme / Purpose

This episode, hosted by Kid Fury and Crissle West, mixes their signature pop culture hot takes with candid, often comedic conversations about their own lives, relationships, and current events. The duo tackles topics ranging from black excellence in sports to ongoing messiness in celebrity culture (TI vs 50 Cent), problematic moments at the BAFTAs, and in-depth listener letters about work, relationships, and mental health. The episode maintains its vibrant, irreverent tone throughout, blending humor with sharp insight, especially around race, representation, and self-care.

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Key Segments, Discussions, and Insights

1. Adjustment to NYC & Weather Woes

[03:04 – 05:14]

• Crissle vents about New York’s insane winter, recent heavy snowfall, and resulting travel bans. Kid Fury jokes about hell freezing over, relating NYC’s cold weather to a demonic curse.
• Both lament about missing the South and its pleasures, especially southern food and warmer climate.

2. Black Excellence: Teddy Bridgewater Act

[05:40 – 08:48]

• Kid Fury highlights NFL quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, who used personal funds to support high school players’ needs and, as a result, was suspended. The newly proposed Teddy Bridgewater Act now aims to allow such contributions up to $15,000.
• Both hosts criticize systemic racism impacting black communities and the refusal to help needy children.
  • Crissle: “Y’all really don’t give a shit about kids, and it shows in the decisions you make.” (08:27)

3. Pop Culture Round-Up (Hot Tops)

[11:25 – 71:01]

Houston Rodeo & Ms. Tina's Gumbo

[11:45 – 19:58]

• Extensive discussion about the Houston Rodeo, performers (Creed, Lizzo), the array of events, Miss Tina (Beyoncé’s mom) serving famous gumbo.
• Both declare their Southern foodie FOMO, ask listeners for detailed reports if they attend.

Fantasia Drama: Husband vs Father

[20:06 – 24:36]

• Recap of Fantasia’s husband Kendall Taylor’s response after Fantasia’s father accused him of freeloading. Taylor emphasizes love, independence, and their prenup, expressing a desire to protect Fantasia’s peace.
  • Kid Fury: “I’m not gonna allow you to have my wife riled up or feeling like she gotta step out of her character.” (21:18)

Chris Brown’s Repeat Baby Mama Drama

[25:17 – 28:05]

• They dissect Chris Brown’s latest alleged pregnancy, highlighting online drama between his ex and current partners, and the pattern of public harassment.
  • Crissle: “You wouldn’t be the first nigga to be acting a fool behind one of your baby mamas, even though you have another girlfriend and another child on the way.” (26:57)

Eva Marcille on Tyra & ANTM Fallout

[28:12 – 42:09]

• The hosts reflect on Eva’s “all good for me” stance after the America’s Next Top Model documentary, Tyra’s cycle of apologies, and how few contestants (like Yaya and Winnie Harlow) parlayed the show into lasting careers.
  • Crissle: “You literally can only speak for yourself.” (36:23)
• Notable Quote: “Tyra Banks being wide open, crazy and refusing to take accountability for shit...” – Kid Fury (38:11)

Tiffany Richardson vs Tyra

[44:17 – 47:32]

• Kid Fury reads Tiffany’s scathing IG statement calling Tyra a liar and a bully, referencing her infamous “I was rooting for you!” scene.
• Both hosts empathize with reality show contestants and critique post-reality TV trauma.

Naomi Campbell & Whoopi Goldberg: Epstein Docs

[47:30 – 51:35]

• Naomi Campbell’s repeated mention in Epstein documents and her lawyer’s denial. Whoopi’s alibi—she doesn’t fly (“I know that lady don’t fly!” – Kid Fury, 49:15).
• Both hosts unpack the slippery terrain of big names and “guilt by association.”

Floyd Mayweather Comeback & Black Sitcom Culture

[51:36 – 56:36]

• Disbelief over Floyd Mayweather’s rumored financial trouble and return to fighting.
• Warm reminiscences on classic TV: Golden Girls, Young & the Restless, and soap operas as a universal family tradition.

Bronny James, Nepotism & Sports Realness

[58:11 – 60:00]

• The two dig into NBA nepotism debates as Jaylen Brown’s comments about Bronny James cause controversy, noting the candor of opinions and how fame influences opportunities.

TI vs 50 Cent: The Pettiest Rap Feud

[60:08 – 71:01]

• Detailed blow-by-blow of TI and 50 Cent’s failed Versus battle and 50’s low-blow insults (posting unflattering photos of Tiny). King Harris, TI’s son, fiercely defends his family on social media, airing 50’s history of beef and alleged misdeeds. The hosts generally mistrust both sides but relish King’s energy.
  • Quote: “King Harris was not playing behind his mama.” – Kid Fury (62:20)
  • “Imagine having a son who loves you. Mm. Can’t relate, huh?” – Crissle (69:03)

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4. Listener Letters & Advice

[73:57 – 101:35]

Women’s Basketball Fandom

[74:43 – 80:05]

• Crissle shares her love for the WNBA, Unrivaled, and Athletes Unlimited, championing players and encouraging new fans. Kid Fury jokes about “studs overseas.”

Interracial Relationship & Code-Switching

[80:26 – 88:56]

• A white man asks if he should advise his Black boyfriend to code-switch during job interviews in white-dominated Minnesota. Both Kid Fury and Crissle advise against offering unsolicited coaching on Blackness or speech, warning it could be offensive or pointless.
  • Crissle: “The idea that your black boyfriend hasn’t already considered this is kind of ridiculous.” (83:40)
  • Kid Fury (on receiving that advice): “This would be the last day of our relationship.” (83:06)

Breadwinner Wife with “Half-Dead” Husband

[89:08 – 101:35]

• A Black woman vents about her lazy, emotionally unavailable, mentally ill (ADHD & depression) husband who uses his diagnosis as a shield against accountability.
• Both hosts push back at his excuses and urge boundaries or even divorce, highlighting self-worth and not over-compromising for grown adults.
  • Kid Fury: “Women should be permitted to murder at least one man in their life.” (91:08)
  • Crissle: “If you can’t be asked to do what is right in front of you...maybe you don’t deserve to have a wife.” (96:10)

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5. The Read: The BAFTAs, Tourette’s & Racism

[104:47 – 120:55] Main Event & Quote Highlights:

• Both Kid Fury and Crissle slam the BAFTAs, BBC, and British society for failing to handle or edit out repeated, audible racial slurs (including “nigger” directed at Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo) by fellow attendee/nominee John Davidson (who has Tourette’s).
• They highlight the institutional disregard and lack of apology for Black public pain and the wider context of British racism.
• Memorable quotes:
  • Kid Fury: “Don’t tell niggas that they shouldn’t be offended or it wasn’t deliberate or how can you be mad? Because anybody who heard that has every right to be offended, has every right to be upset.” (107:06)
  • Crissle: “Y’all made sure to edit out Free Palestine, but you left in three niggers... You simply didn’t care.” (113:53)
  • Kid Fury: “Just another example of white people just taking a hateful piss down our backs...” (123:16)
• They connect Britain's colonial racism to U.S. roots and speculate that if the slur were homophobic or directed at other communities, consequences and edits would have followed.

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6. Wrap Up & Announcements

[126:17 – End]

• Crissle and Kid Fury assure listeners The Read isn’t ending despite online rumors and new side projects.
  • “We will tell y’all when the show is ending. You do not have to speculate.” – Crissle (128:20)
• Kid Fury plugs his new podcast, Furious Thoughts.
• Spirited goodbyes, gentle urging to “be decent” and care for Black people.

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Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• “Y’all really don’t give a shit about kids, and it shows...” – Crissle (08:27)
• “I’m not gonna allow you to have my wife riled up...” – Kid Fury (21:18)
• “You wouldn’t be the first nigga to be acting a fool behind one of your baby mamas...” – Crissle (26:57)
• “She literally can only speak for herself.” – Crissle (36:23)
• “Top Model is not the reason that I’m successful...” – On Yaya (41:12)
• “Imagine having a son who loves you. Mm. Can’t relate, huh?" – Crissle (69:03)
• “This would be the last day of our relationship.” – Kid Fury (83:06)
• “Pick out some flowers and throw them in the basket, bitch...” – Kid Fury (91:20)
• “Don’t tell niggas that they shouldn’t be offended...every right to be upset.” – Kid Fury (107:06)
• “Y’all made sure to edit out Free Palestine, but you left in three niggers... You simply didn't care.” – Crissle (113:53)
• “We will tell y’all when the show is ending...” – Crissle (128:20)

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Conclusion

A packed episode that fused social commentary, Black cultural joy, petty music industry beefs, and unfiltered advice with sharp takedowns of racism in entertainment. Crissle and Kid Fury maintain their signature, shade-filled banter, balancing belly laughs with piercing moments of clarity on what it means to hold space as Black voices in media today. Whether you’re invested in rodeo gumbo, Versus beef, or British awards drama, this episode delivers a little bit of everything—always with heart and humor.

Transcript

[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

Oh, happy day, happy day, happy day. I'm trying to decide. Where are you? Think I made a wrong turn back there somewhere.

[Kid Fury]

Anyways, hello everyone, again. I'm Hemlock Springs And I am Hannah

[Crissle West]

Beachler and this is the Read. Thank you for joining us.

[Kid Fury]

Work bleach. Yes, indeedy. Welcome back, everyone. How's New York? Is it still wild ice?

[Crissle West]

Um, well, it might.

[Kid Fury]

I heard it was like a taste worm.

[Crissle West]

I mean, it did warm up a little bit and all of the snow from a month ago finally melted. And then we got another two feet of it yesterday. All right, that was nice. Yeah. So I am recording from home today. My apologies if you hear New York City in the background because it's also supposed to. It's like sunny now, but it's supposed to snow again tomorrow, so. So we are just getting fucked. We are just getting. Man, I'm over.

[Kid Fury]

You know, there are many, many sectors of ancient Mythology around the world where hell is freezing, you know, like, you

[Crissle West]

know what I mean?

[Kid Fury]

There is an idea. So what I'm saying is like, is. Is. It is the devil. It was like, that is not of God. And that doesn't have anything to do with anything good.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Why would the ice finally melt, right? And then be like, here's two feet more of it. Demons. Demons in hell.

[Crissle West]

The mayor had to put out a travel ban where nobody could drive or ride E bikes, anything in New York from 9pm Sunday to noon Monday. It was like, work, don't leave unless it's. They Uber Eats, doordash, all of that shit shut down. Just literally open the app and they're like, you cannot order anything, bitch. You should have went to the store, carry your ass to the bodega or starve.

[Kid Fury]

So hopefully you got some goldfish. Goldfish crackers in there somewhere, bitch. Because no.

[Crissle West]

Oh, right, right, right. So it's just been, you know, it's New York, but I already know LA is gorgeous and perfect and 77 degrees and you're all out there getting high and at the beach.

[Kid Fury]

So you know what's funny?

[Crissle West]

Fun for you.

[Kid Fury]

This was the week where I wasn't going to do that.

[Crissle West]

But I know it is.

[Kid Fury]

I know it is. I was going to say anything.

[Crissle West]

I know it is. I've seen so many tiktoks of people on the beach and they're like, me FaceTiming my friend in New York.

[Kid Fury]

I'm like, okay, so now that's disgusting.

[Crissle West]

Go to that moment. That's true.

[Kid Fury]

Disrespectful.

[Crissle West]

It's been bad.

[Kid Fury]

But I did hop on here and see that she was at home and I was like, link. Yeah, yeah, returns.

[Crissle West]

No, it's not today. She won't. She is in her crate. She has been given explicit instructions to shut the fuck up. And so hopefully she naps over these next two hours. I'm not dealing with her black ass today. I'm not. And I mean that. You shut the fuck up. No.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, guys, let us get into the week here, starting with some black excellence. This week's Black excellence is going over to one Teddy Bridgewater. Teddy Bridgewater just had an. Oh, Bill. The Teddy Bridgewater act that if passed, will allow high school coaches to use up to $15,000 of their personal funds to support student athletes with things like transportation, food and other needs. Now, the reason this act is called Teddy Bridgewater is because this 33 year old NFL quarterback was suspended from Miami Northwestern High School, or as we call it, the West.

[Crissle West]

Oh.

[Kid Fury]

Because he was using his funds on these particular things for the team. Now, if you've seen, I don't know, Lean on Me or what was that Keanu movies? Keanu was that hardball where he was, like, teaching baseball now, you know, I don't know. Remember the Titans?

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

You know, the girls don't exactly get a big breast brassiere full of cash. Like, hey, girl, they don't even give a fuck. These bitches can read. So with that said, I mean, be perfectly honest with you, there are probably different high schools in the nation that are like, the only thing that we're spending our money on is oil. And.

[Crissle West]

Yep. I mean, Oklahoma knows all about that, right? We literally do.

[Kid Fury]

But I am not surprised that this black brother, who had a good heart and was freely expressing not only that heart and intention and care, but is also doing that with. He's also putting his money where his mouth was.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So white people were quivering in their boots, suspended this man for absolute fuck no goddamn reason. And now the law is like, why don't you hold everyone's nuts? Why don't you just cup the balls and just press them close?

[Crissle West]

Because it was ridiculous to say anything. Yep.

[Kid Fury]

Are you ridiculous?

[Crissle West]

Are you stupid? Indeed. And the answer is yes, they are. They are that dedicated to kids not having that they would punish a rich ass grown man for trying to do something for those children.

[Kid Fury]

Like, just mind you, he went to the west, so lovely.

[Crissle West]

Oh, okay. So that makes all the more sense.

[Kid Fury]

So his school.

[Crissle West]

That makes so. Oh, wow, wow, wow, wow. And they still like, no, those poor children don't deserve it all out. Well, they should bring a nature valley on the bus if they're so fucking hungry. Oh, boy. Y' all really don't give a shit about kids. And it shows in the decisions you make.

[Kid Fury]

Yes. That's our black excellence this week. Shout out to you, sir. Also shout out to Justin, who is going to be in this new movie is God Is. Have you seen the trailer for this?

[Crissle West]

No, but I did see. I think Janelle Monae posted it. And I was like, is this scary? Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

I don't think it's gonna be a horror movie. It looks like more of a. An action drama, thriller type of a thing. So first of all, shout out to you, sir. I'm so excited. I screamed when I saw this trailer. I could not. Oh, so thrilled. I would have just gone to see it just because, you know, off the

[Crissle West]

strength of Janelle Monae for me.

[Kid Fury]

That's all you need, young man. Having this big picture debut. But I watched the trailer and I was like, oh, I'm definitely going to be set. So these. It's about these two, these twin sisters who. Their father, like, abused them and then left them to, like, die in a house, I guess, in a fire. And these twin sisters and their mama played by Vivica Fox. So one of the twins is like, very badly burned and Vivica's very badly burned because of thing that their dad did. And so the sisters, oh, Lord, by way of their mama, on behalf of their mother, go on this, like, fierce black girl braided Kill Bill style quest to go murder their father. I am going to be front row.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, I'll be there. I'll be seated for eyes bloody.

[Kid Fury]

I am going to be their bitch.

[Crissle West]

Absolutely.

[Kid Fury]

Even the trailer has them, like, one twin's the rough one. One twin's the quiet one. I think Janelle. Janelle Monae, I think is the new wife is what they called her. It's very just like, mm, give it to me. I just. Yes, please. Yep. I can't wait to see these two black girls set shit on fire and kill.

[Crissle West]

I will be seated for that. Thank you ever so much. And the title is great. It really pull you right in. So I am looking forward to that. Yes. Shout out to your friend and everybody involved.

[Kid Fury]

Just a fan. Oh.

[Crissle West]

Oh, okay. You said it like my Justin. I'm like, I'll work.

[Kid Fury]

No, I'm just a huge fan. I think he's going to win Grammys and shit. He's like a superstar.

[Crissle West]

Oh, okay. Well, amen.

[Kid Fury]

Hot tops. Mm. This week, my God, let's just try to scurry. I believe in myself. Was it last week that I was like, oh, no, and we ate that, did 38 minutes of some shit.

[Crissle West]

Literally, you got right through that shit.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, so first off, best for first. Are we going to the Houston Rodeo? Because.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yes,

[Kid Fury]

that lady, Miss Tina in her boots that were clearly designed for walking post this adorable video. God, she's so cute. And she said that she's going to be officially down to the Houston Rodeo. Of course, she is selling her incredibly famous, talked about, celebrated, legendary gumbo. And I just think to myself, okay, Ms. Tina is giving an opportunity for the streets to taste her food, right? And also at the Houston Rodeo, because I've never been to a rodeo before. Not like a. I've been to, like, knockoff costume rodeos that people have in, like, elementary.

[Crissle West]

Okay, so that is not. Wasn't no event, but nothing.

[Kid Fury]

My homegirl, Syreeta who was showrunner for rap. Shit. Her baby's first birthday was this past Saturday, and it was rodeo themed. And we had a really good time. Oh, and I got her a little stuffed horse.

[Crissle West]

How cute.

[Kid Fury]

A cowboy hat. And I feel like me and Sarita was the only ones dressed up. My dad was dressed up too. Her dad was dressed up too. He had his cowboy hat on too. And he had a shirt that said Johnson Cowboys.

[Crissle West]

They said, no, actually, leave me alone. We not doing all that.

[Kid Fury]

Like. All right, this is the theme. Let's get into it. All right. I can find a hat. So, yeah, like, I've only. I've never been to, like, a real rodeo before. Real rodeo. And miss. She said Miss Tina's. It look like it has, like a logo.

[Crissle West]

Oh, do. Do they.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, that's on the pot.

[Crissle West]

Oh, I love that.

[Kid Fury]

Love it. She's adorable. And honestly, whatever you have to give, I'm interested. I mean, you don't really miss, right?

[Crissle West]

I mean, I'm sure this gumbo is amazing. And they probably gonna sell out every day that they're there. Hopefully they're there the whole time, because the rodeo, this. This is going on for like two weeks.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, no. She said March 2nd to March 22nd.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they. Somebody gonna be cooking a lot. Somebody is really gonna be dicing the. Out of some vegetables. Okra. And somebody is really gonna be arms sore from the roof. It's gonna be a lot.

[Kid Fury]

They might have to raffle out spots in my pitch.

[Crissle West]

Right? Like, they really might. They really might. It's a bunch of people performing. Like, I'm on the website now, and it's J. Balvin, Rascal Flats, Lizzo, J. Balvine, Lisa Luke, Bryan Creed, Chris Shaboozi, Kevin Clarkson, lainey Wilson, Tim McGrock. It's a lot of people who are performing within a. You can also just get tickets to the grounds. And I'm sure that's. Yeah,

[Kid Fury]

You said Creed's gonna be there,

[Crissle West]

T. That's what they said. So. But then, of course, you can get just tickets to the grounds in general, which is. I mean, hell, are there any events? All I'm seeing is, like, concerts and booths, but I'm not seeing rodeo itself. Where is the.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, I only see the six year olds going and walking their ponies and.

[Crissle West]

Ooh wee bitch. Many thousand World championship barbecue contest. Oh. Oh, girl, I need to beat her.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, bitch. Great. Amendment is all done. Switch the game up and set the frame up. World champion shit barbecue.

[Crissle West]

Oh, I need to be there. Ooh, Black Heritage Day.

[Kid Fury]

This sounds kind. Oh, this sounds really.

[Crissle West]

Friday, March.

[Kid Fury]

This sounds like the one to be at.

[Crissle West]

Oh, my God. Oh, you know, if. If I was in Houston, I would just get a season pass and probably go every fucking day. It is. Because this looks incredible.

[Kid Fury]

Sounds.

[Crissle West]

But way to go. I do. I love this for her. Like I said, I'm. I'm sure that that is going to sell out, but.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, you're right for praying. Whoever go be cooking, it's probably going to be like a cookie.

[Crissle West]

Somebody is in there right now. Like, God damn it, gird your loins. Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Devil Wears Prada, too. Looks like it's going to be good. Like, I.

[Crissle West]

It does. It does look good. It does look good. I'm very excited for that.

[Kid Fury]

Me too.

[Crissle West]

Okay. They got the girl. Okay. Archery contest. Okay. Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Archery bow as well as arrows. They do that to the rodeo, baby.

[Crissle West]

This is a big rodeo. This is not. It's not like the rodeo and Spencer. No shade to Spencer, but this ain't it. This is big. Oh, yeah. They giving out scholarships. Oh, God, I wish I was in Texas.

[Kid Fury]

Javelin bitch.

[Crissle West]

I would. I really doubt it, but, you know, let me not count it out.

[Kid Fury]

Sword fight.

[Crissle West]

Oh, my God, I want to go.

[Kid Fury]

It does sound, like, really fun. I mean, you had me at gumbo, but this sounds like.

[Crissle West]

Wow. So they have bareback riding, bull riding, saddle bronc riding, spear wrestling, tie down roping, team roping, and women's barrel racing and breakaway roping. Wow.

[Kid Fury]

I knew what.

[Crissle West]

Oh, I love this.

[Kid Fury]

Two and a half of those things were. But this is the thing I love learning.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

What is barrel. What is that?

[Crissle West]

Which one?

[Kid Fury]

Women's barrel racing. What is that?

[Crissle West]

I don't know that I've ever actually seen that. So I may not know either. But I'm imagining team row. No, Going around the barrels. If that. I think they're calling it.

[Kid Fury]

What's team rope?

[Crissle West]

It's when the team ropes.

[Kid Fury]

Couldn't be called.

[Crissle West]

You got a rope.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, duh.

[Crissle West]

Or a steer or something. Somebody gets the head and somebody else gets the legs.

[Kid Fury]

In my head, all I could picture was tug of war. And I was like, bitch.

[Crissle West]

I would just call it tug of war. All right? I don't know what I. Oh, you didn't even try. You didn't even try.

[Kid Fury]

I couldn't. But yes, that was a huge miss. Like, duh, girl.

[Crissle West]

What? Cause this is. This is the rodeo. You know, we work with, like, literally, girl.

[Kid Fury]

Hello,

[Crissle West]

Fake. I'm like, what's not clicking?

[Kid Fury]

Do you also know they wear Boots, stupid.

[Crissle West]

No, actually, I mean, I. I'm. I have been to a lot of rodeos, but I don't know that I am super familiar with every single, you know, aspect of the rodeo, especially one this big, so. God. Oh, I wish I was anywhere near Houston, baby. Y' all would not be able to get me out of there. This barbecue contest, bitch, when I tell you, seated. See. Okay, anyway. Oh, that's going on this week, the 26th through the 28th. Okay, anyway, yes. If you there, go get some Miss Tina gumbo and let us know how it is.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, my God. And write, like, the longest, most descriptive letters to us about it. Tell us how everything tastes. Tell us what fell off the bone. Tell us. Like, I want to hear all about it. If I don't get to go, bitch, and I mean that, we can do a whole letter day about the barbecue and the roping, because, bitch, this sounds like heaven. It sounds like the south life.

[Crissle West]

Like, wow. And it's only $30 and it comes with admission to the carnival.

[Kid Fury]

Shut your mouth.

[Crissle West]

30American dollars and free sliced brisket, beans and chips. And then I'm sure you can buy other meats and other foods a la carte, but. Oh, God damn, I miss the south so bad.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, big bigly. That sounds amazing. Well, prioritized.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Good for her.

[Kid Fury]

Well, Fantasia's husband has a bit to say. Well, he had a lot to say. I didn't even watch this whole video. But okay, yeah, real quick. We spoke last week, I believe, about Fantasia daddy hopping on God's Internet via his Zune, I guess, or his fat back iPad. And, you know, accused Fantasia's husband of, like, leashing off her and using her for her money and, you know, wearing phonets.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And so, you know, I think we rightfully read him last week for it because, girl. And so I think, you know, the sentiment from Kendall Taylor, husband of one Fantasia Barrino was, you know, pretty much the same, but straight man and saved and way better. Like he ate. Did you see this video?

[Crissle West]

No, I don't like he.

[Kid Fury]

From what I did watch of it. The daddy or the husband? No, the husband.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

His response to the father for what I watched, I promise you out loud, I had the laptop leg and I think I was, like, putting away clothes on the other side of the room. And out loud, I was like, well, well, well, come on now. Like, he just. He was very much like, you know, I don't even really do this, but, you know, he said, I'm in the manhood business. There is, you Know, if you had something that you needed to say to me or some concern, you could call me, you could reach out to me when I'm, you know. He was essentially like, it gets to this point where I'm gonna step in because I'm not gonna allow you to have my wife, you know, riled up or feeling like she gotta step out of her character. Cause remember we were saying, fantasia, please do not go on live tonight.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

She did not get on life and drag this nigga, please. So he was basically just like, uh, that's fine. She's Fantasia. She's good. She's successful. I was making money with my own business before I met Fantasia. I asked her for the prenup because I wanted to make it clear that I did not want to use this lady for her money. And we were walking into this with love and not concerning ourselves with hitching each other to who had what and da da, da, da. And she was the other said to me that. I think where I kind of left it was. He was like, I'm not gonna have you driving my wife crazy and making her feel like she gotta come out here and give it to you. I'll do it myself. Cause you talking about me. So, yeah, let's get to it. And then it seemed like he started to go into a longer rant that essentially, to me, felt like,

[Crissle West]

let's get

[Kid Fury]

into some tea, bitch. You know it's tea when you see

[Crissle West]

the two face fingers touching. Oh, Lord, help her.

[Kid Fury]

I did not even process until I listened to the full song that she absolutely said, I'm a real fine shit.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, you know that you premiered that into my life.

[Crissle West]

Well, I mean, I don't even think she.

[Kid Fury]

I.

[Crissle West]

Has she even released it? I think she's just letting it be an Internet joke. Oh, okay. I think it was funnier when we didn't. We couldn't hear the whole thing. Cause it was like, God damn, this is bad. Even just if it's terrible, you do. You would. I'm not.

[Kid Fury]

But I told you, it's so bad, it's good.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, I. I understand that concept. I don't feel this way about it. But yeah, I'm not shocked that Fantasia's husband says something or even that it made sense. I've. From the beginning, I've thought it's possible that two things can be true and both of you are suspect. Or. Yeah, you know, it just could very easily be that. So where the. But the. Daddy.

[Kid Fury]

This is me dipping my finger into the saucy Cooker. Yeah, that's good.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. It's like. But you, you know, you didn't even really raise me. So you getting online and talking about what my man is doing well, what I deserve, and all this. That and the other. Bitch, where was you in the 80s and 90s when somebody could have used you?

[Kid Fury]

Didn't you try to sue me and Simon and Schuster and everybody in between? Roger Eeper. Roger Eber is crazy Siskel, everybody. Because I wrote a book. It told the truth. Yeah, this was, like, interesting, but it was definitely giving. Let's get into some tea, bitch. Yeah, let's get into some tea, bitch.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Sir Chris Brown allegedly has another child on the way. His baby mama's fighting. I was going to read more about this, but do you go, Do I?

[Crissle West]

Well, no, I just didn't know he had another baby on the way. But how many is this?

[Kid Fury]

His last baby mama alleges that he. His current girlfriend pregnant. I think this would be the fourth one.

[Crissle West]

Yes. Royalty, Aiko and Lovely Symphony Bliss.

[Kid Fury]

So Lovely's mama is the one that's, like, going off and accusing him of, like, harassing her because she got a new man and threatening his. Her new man. And yeah, he.

[Crissle West]

Wait.

[Kid Fury]

I think she was essentially like, you need to worry about this new baby that you got on the way and leave me and my nigga.

[Crissle West]

Oh, well, that's very valid. Why indeed are you worried about me if you have a whole nother baby on the way? That's a very good question.

[Kid Fury]

Now, obviously, the current girlfriend hopped on. They had, like, a really long Instagram story back and forth with each other, calling each other all kinds of bitches and all over this.

[Crissle West]

Oh, Lord.

[Kid Fury]

And, you know, the current girlfriend is trying to walk back what the baby mama or the last baby mama was talking about and, like, oh, you're this and that and the third, and you're probably whatever, you know, just. Typical answer, Right. Meanwhile, this nigga posts. I ain't playing the Internet game. Internet games. When I believe you are. Absolutely.

[Crissle West]

Since when?

[Kid Fury]

Since when? And completely dizzy. There is like, I absolutely believe that you're harassing this lady.

[Crissle West]

Mm. I mean, it's not hard to believe about Chris Brown. It's really not. Cause we've seen you harass other women publicly for years, actually, so it's not that big of a stretch. And you wouldn't be the first nigga to be acting a fool behind one of your baby mamas, even though you have another girlfriend and another. Another child on the way. So, unfortunately, it's all extremely plausible.

[Kid Fury]

You wouldn't be the first in, like, the past six months, even the week. Like.

[Crissle West]

Like, it's just always some like that going on. But, yeah. Fourth baby mama. Good luck.

[Kid Fury]

First of all, these two women look like sisters. Like, legitimate.

[Crissle West]

Okay, Now I gotta Google his baby mama sisters.

[Kid Fury]

Like, like, I gagged. We know he has a type, but these two women look related.

[Crissle West]

Oh, wow. Oh, damn. Yeah, I see what you mean. They do.

[Kid Fury]

I thought that was wild.

[Crissle West]

They all look like they could be Karrueche's cousins.

[Kid Fury]

All right, let's move on.

[Crissle West]

They do. Good grief, girl.

[Kid Fury]

Why Eva on CBS Morning talking about Tyra Banks as Jesus? She didn't say that, but she.

[Crissle West]

See, why do you even play? Cause I definitely thought.

[Kid Fury]

I don't know. I don't know. I take everything just a step over.

[Crissle West]

So what does she really say?

[Kid Fury]

When I was at his baby party this weekend, they had, like, brisket and ribs and stuff. I didn't know. I was looking for some sauce that I couldn't find to. So I just ate it. It was still delicious.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Later on in the night, somebody was like, oh, some barbecue sauces over here, they would put on there. And I out loud said they did have barbecue sauce. Shoot me in the mouth, somebody at a child. I mean, there was no children in the room at the time.

[Crissle West]

Okay, well, thank God for that.

[Kid Fury]

The kids was outside with the ponies and shit. I was like. I said this extreme thing, and my whole point of room started laughing. Like, I have to use that as a word. I was like, no, I don't do that. I get excited.

[Crissle West]

You say things.

[Kid Fury]

Say things. Sometimes the first thing. I shouldn't. Shouldn't have talked about gun violence.

[Crissle West]

Not that way.

[Kid Fury]

That was a lot. That was a lot, Right?

[Crissle West]

Although if they had Head country and you missed it, then I would understand.

[Kid Fury]

Girl.

[Crissle West]

What kind of sauce was it? Do you know?

[Kid Fury]

No, I don't know what kind of sauce it was. It was in a very luxurious bottle. Well, it was just like an acute bottle and it tasted nice. Okay, well, hair country. But it was good. It was good.

[Crissle West]

Head country is elite as far as I'm concerned.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, she's just bottled.

[Crissle West]

Of all the bottled barbecue sauces. Head country is it? Oh, joy. Another day, another buzz delayed. Look on the bright side. You can finally catch up on.

[Kid Fury]

You don't mind running late.

[Crissle West]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

I'm going to Metro when we hop off.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

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[Kid Fury]

Whoa. I'm parched. And you know what would really do my thirst? Something spectacular. It'd be a crisp Sprite, Zero Sugar. That's right. Unk is watching the sweets. Okay. Because summer's coming up and I'm trying to be thought Tiana. So you get the crisp lemon lime flavor just without the sugar. And there isn't like any crazy compromise and hidden asterisk and, you know, National Lampoon, like mystery of what's actually happening to you. It's refreshing. And as someone who might be obsessed with carbonated beverages, it just gives me exactly what I need. So try it out. This is Sprite Zero sugar. Obey your thoughts. Thirst. God. I've always wanted to say that. Did you see. Have you seen the video of those absolutely correct and beautiful black queens who are singing about Hidden Valley Ranch?

[Crissle West]

What? No. Singing about Ranch. Oh, God. Where did you see this?

[Kid Fury]

It is the best. Yes. They're on TikTok. I think I saw this on Instagram, though. It is the, like, everything about that I have to pull it up is

[Crissle West]

this oh, Hidden Valley Ranch jingle. Why are people singing about salad dressing online?

[Kid Fury]

Because the song is Cashy Nails.

[Crissle West]

She got ranch nails. Oh, no. And she is going in. Not without you.

[Kid Fury]

They are singing on top of the fact that. Correct, correct for the ranch people out there. Because I know, you know, not everybody. Not all the niggas.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, let's talk about it, right? Plenty of niggas, and I understand that.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But those of us that do enjoy a ranch, my God, the valley that remains to be seen. This song, I was crying because black people, especially the ones who were. Who were gifted, like with the power of song built into them.

[Crissle West]

Mm.

[Kid Fury]

They will always and forever grace us, these niggas, with a song about nonsense. And I never want it to stop. I never want it to stop.

[Crissle West]

So they're linking up with Hidden Valley Ranch. They done sent them some merch and some packets of Ranch. And apparently they finna come out with some kind of pasta.

[Kid Fury]

That's what the fuck I'm talking about.

[Crissle West]

This is just like the Dr. Pepper lady who got the Super bowl commercial. Dr. Pepper, baby. It's good and nice.

[Kid Fury]

Is that where that came From.

[Crissle West]

Yes. It came from a girl on TikTok.

[Kid Fury]

You know what?

[Crissle West]

This is just.

[Kid Fury]

I love that for the girls.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Amen.

[Kid Fury]

I love that sounds. Oh, I'm gonna say this wrong. Sounds of Alari, guys. It's TikTok. S. Well, y' all know what it's supposed sounds of. A, L, A, R, I, E. Sounds good.

[Crissle West]

Sounds of Alari. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Again. Oh, Durant is on here. Oh, I did see that video already.

[Crissle West]

I will say, though, there's nothing like ranch made from scratch. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

[Kid Fury]

That's right. That's right.

[Crissle West]

Homemade ranch is elite.

[Kid Fury]

That is. I mean, homemade most things. Right.

[Crissle West]

You know what? Exactly. Exactly. But ranch is one of those things where you don't realize how easy it is to make. And then when you do make it, you're like, bitch, this is phenomenal. But if you have to buy it, I mean, love. Black people, I feel, are very loyal to certain brands. Hidden Valley is one of them. Todd is another one. Girl love Todd.

[Kid Fury]

Yes.

[Crissle West]

What it is about Todd.

[Kid Fury]

Ooh, Crystals be having the girls in a chokehold.

[Crissle West]

All the hot sauce. Yes, yes, absolutely. So this. This. This collaboration makes sense, and I hope it ends up in, like, a national commercial for them. Absolutely.

[Kid Fury]

They have beautiful voice.

[Crissle West]

Give all the. They're sisters. I think these two girls.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I think they're sisters.

[Crissle West]

Alana, Arielle.

[Kid Fury]

The way that I agreed

[Crissle West]

anyway.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yes. Yeah. She went on. She went on CBS Morning, and I guess they invited her there specifically to discuss that documentary. I wasn't surprised by Eva's sentiment. This is not the first time that Tyra has been called out and she's been like, well, I had a blast.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And Tyra Banks, you know, she's fierce.

[Crissle West]

She did.

[Kid Fury]

Everyone should just get over it because I ain't see nothing. That's pretty much what she did here. She went on there and was like, I never saw any abuse. Never experienced any abuse. I think at one point, she even said that she contacted J. Manuel and was like, what are these people talking about? Because I feel like if these things were going on, I would know about it. Ma', am, you were on that show for weeks.

[Crissle West]

You were a contestant, sweetie. You were a contestant.

[Kid Fury]

You were on one season.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Of a 24 season program.

[Crissle West]

And although you are one of the most successful stories from Top Model, you literally can only speak for yourself. And I did see that she was like, you know, even though Tyra apologized a lot, some of these people you have hurt so profoundly that there is just. No. There's no, I'm sorry. It's not gonna heal it. It's not gonna make it no better.

[Kid Fury]

Like, does she apologize a lot?

[Crissle West]

Well, so I haven't even finished it, so I don't know for sure. But that's what Eva said. She was like, tyra said I'm sorry multiple times. But it doesn't. Okay, well, work. But right after that, she was like, so. Yeah. Even though it's not enough for some of y' all hoes, for me personally, I am a diva. Even the diva was truly born and launched thanks to Tyra, and I will always be grateful for that. Mean ass, wretched. So y' all not liking it? I mean, yeah, that's. That's too bad. But shout out to me,

[Kid Fury]

like, don't you need to go find all your man queen? I don't even understand why you up on here on the morning of CBS running your mouth about this show that you went on for this. Oh, they didn't invite me. I. I don't understand why. And that was a. Like, that was some. I saw a lot of people saying about this. Why didn't they bring in Eva? Why didn't you say nothing about Eva? First of all, she literally mentioned Eva and Isis and Winnie. She. They were mentioned.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

They might not have invited Eva there because Eva doesn't have a story that needs to be told. We all know Eva knowledge.

[Crissle West]

We haven't gotten away from Eva over the past 20 years. She's been right here. She's been everywhere. She. We know about her. We're not wondering what happened to Eva.

[Kid Fury]

Meanwhile, many of the women who weren't who were on Top Model, who weren't in this documentary have either been like, yep. Or have been in the comments of other top models showing love, agreeing, what have you. I don't understand why it is difficult to just acknowledge that that show was really entertaining and, you know, put spotlight on a lot of people, really did cool photo shoots and really good, you know, cool fashion moments and was a fun show that also exploited, abused, and traumatized several people in the cast and behind the camera. Like, I don't understand why it's difficult. Like, why are y' all bitches so allergic to walking while chewing bubblegum? Like, you can do both of those things. Like, you can do two things. Yeah. And Tyra Banks being wide open, crazy and refusing to take accountability for shit is like, what are you defending? Oh, well, Top Model did great things. And nobody's saying Top Model should be dipped in gasoline. You know what I'm Saying set ablaze. Yeah, the show was fun.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. I mean, it. It did what it was supposed to do, which was entertain the masses.

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Crissle West]

But those girls thought they. At least in the earlier seasons, you had every reason to believe that a show hosted by Tyra Banks would legitimately give you a modeling career. Like, a lot of people signed up because they thought it was their best shot at achieving their dreams. And I don't know why Eva didn't just say, well, after watching the documentary, although none of that happened to me, and I had a completely different experience, it was very heartbreaking to see what some of the girls went through or how it affected them privately. And I'm wishing them the best as they heal from this, and I think it's good that they're talking about it. Like, I don't know why you couldn't just say that instead of, Well, I mean, I get that it hurts, but I ain't never gonna not give Tyra her flowers. Like, girl, we know. We know you are one of the success stories, but I'm not sure why you couldn't center the people who actually mattered in this story.

[Kid Fury]

And great that you, you know, went on to have some success and be on the game or whatever, but Real

[Crissle West]

Housewives of Atlanta, you got to do that.

[Kid Fury]

I don't care.

[Crissle West]

She probably even modeled a little bit. Who's the other girl? Yaya. Yaya is.

[Kid Fury]

And guess what?

[Crissle West]

Yaya genuinely works, right? And Yaya is a genuine actress.

[Kid Fury]

She works real, does not see it.

[Crissle West]

And she's so.

[Kid Fury]

And I feel like she might have been the one who said something like, top Model is not the reason that I'm successful. And Eva was on like, watch what happens live and was like, oh, my God. Top Model is reassess what put us on the map. And da, da, da. Girl, speak for yourself and shut your ass up.

[Crissle West]

Well, yes. Here's the thing, though. It can put you on the map. It put a lot of girls on the map, but very few have a career like Yaya does. So she is correct that Top Model is not the reason that she has a career. Her own perseverance, work ethic, talent. Those things are what has driven Yaya to the point of still being relevant, still having a job to this day. So I'm not. Again, Eva, what are you okay? She's still beautiful. I can say that. Eva's still very pretty and very nice to look at.

[Kid Fury]

So that's never been. Yeah, she's gorgeous.

[Crissle West]

But, yeah, Yaya didn't lie. She on Lincoln Lawyer, right? Now every time I watch this show, I'd be like, oh, that's Yaya. And I met her once a long time ago and she was just the nicest. So I've always had a soft spot in my heart for her. She was like, do you wanna take a picture? And I was like, next to you? No, I don't, I do not wanna look terrible next to you. And she was like, don't say that. She was so nice.

[Kid Fury]

It might've been Winnie Harlow that said that. I really don't remember. It was either Winnie Harlow or it was, or it was Yaya. But I mean, Winnie Harlow is also incredibly successful and is I think still a, a working supermodel. I think she's still a high fashion model.

[Crissle West]

Winnie Harlow is so successful that I forgot she came from Top Model.

[Kid Fury]

Exactly.

[Crissle West]

It's like forgetting that Fantasia and Jennifer Hudson started on American Idol.

[Kid Fury]

American Idol, Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Kelly Clarkson. It's like I forgot you started in reality tv.

[Kid Fury]

Cardi, you was the first one to win.

[Crissle West]

It's like, damn, you really got started. And for all of those women, you can say the reality TV gave them the platform. But if the platform was all that mattered, then everybody would have that success. It's something about them. Individually, them bitches wanted it more or worked harder or had more luck or whatever it is, it's something. But it's not just being on the platform. How many bitches have gone through reality tv? More than we can name. And yet there's only a few real superstars. There's only a few who have really parlayed that into something that matters. Cardi's on a giant tour. Wendy's still modeling, Yaya's still acting. Jennifer Hudson's show just got renewed. Fantasia, something's going on with her, man. But she's still performing, you know, like, despite all that, you know, the girls are successful. They have real cheers.

[Kid Fury]

What she give you is Fantasia Barrina

[Crissle West]

every time she go kick them shoes off and you gonna get a fucking show, man. Every time.

[Kid Fury]

Kicked off shoes.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, every time.

[Kid Fury]

Black singer staple.

[Crissle West]

I do love.

[Kid Fury]

Well, Tiffany Richardson also had something to say about the the documentary. Tiffany is the model who was on the other side of Tyra Banks famous explosion of. I've never had to yell at a girl like this or whatever the fuck she says. Yeah. So Tiffany on her Instagram said the following. Hold up.

[Crissle West]

This is so good.

[Kid Fury]

I mean true.

[Crissle West]

I love her. I love her.

[Kid Fury]

Hold up. Tyra Banks. Let's keep it cute. You are one lying ass tired ass bitch. You Know how you treated me the whole time off and on camera? You were a bully. You treated me like shit and said the nastiest things about me and my son. That is not how the argument went. But y' all edited to make it look like you care. Which, like, a couple of them said that.

[Crissle West]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

Also fuck the Shade Room, fuck your weird ass fans, and fuck you, Tyra Banks. I bet you won't sit down with me face to face and talk about it. Also fuck my family too. Y' all don't ever defend me. I got more money and helping more people than all or many of the top models. But that's the update y' all give. Damn shame it's giving Y' all still hating on black ass. Me at Tyra Banks, ho. Just let it go. It's been over 20 years. Fuck work.

[Crissle West]

I really do love it. And work. I can only imagine how being berated and talked down to and just really mistreated for the whole time.

[Kid Fury]

20 years.

[Crissle West]

That's literally where it's going. Like you, you went through all that bullshit that the fans don't get to see. Then the edit comes out and it makes it look like they really just cared and you were just dropping the ball or whatever the whole time. Everybody knows. Everybody who was there knows what really happened. And the goddamn fans are treating it like a joke 20 fucking years later.

[Kid Fury]

Mind you, the reason that Tyra blew up on her in that scene is because Tiffany was leaving and was like, oh, girl, don't cry. It's okay. Like, she wasn't broken down weeping or whatever. She was just trying to walk out with her head held high and tell the girls not to get emotional. And Tyra called her back and started hollering her. Cause she didn't give her raggedy ass TV right. Yep.

[Crissle West]

And Tyra said, oh, fuck her. You not gonna give me a moment? I'm gonna make a fucking moment. Yeah. Horrible.

[Kid Fury]

All you dizzy ass cockeyed bitches make an excuse for her. Could suck my dick too.

[Crissle West]

Anyway, yeah, I've seen a lot of like y' all are just blaming Tyra. Like, no, I can blame everybody involved. I can blame every single person involved with. With manipulating and taking advantage of these women. I sure can. It's not just her, but it. She is the face of the franchise and that is the responsibility you take on when you are the face of the goddamn show. That's not difficult to understand.

[Kid Fury]

Naomi Campbell, lawyer, has taken a deep sea dive into this epstein shit because Ms. Naomi Campbell is mentioned in these Epstein Files quite a few times. And so her attorney says that, quote, she had no idea that Epstein was a registered sex offender. It says, prior to Epstein's 2019 arrest in New York, my client knew nothing about his appalling criminal conduct. If my client had ever encountered any young woman whom she thought was being victimized by Epstein, she would have personally taken immediate action to help her. That's pretty much it. I saw Whoopi Goldberg was also down to the View, you know, talking about her name being on the Epstein list. And first off, I didn't know Whoopi Goldberg was still on the View. Second, I know the View was still on.

[Crissle West]

Yes to both.

[Kid Fury]

But she said there's a something in the files that mentions her and a plane or getting her a plane to go somewhere for some event or some shit. And so she brings it up. She's like, I want to clear this up and make it clear, because people are saying that I was involved in this or something. They offered me a flight or a plane, something, somewhere. And before she even said anything else, I knew what she was about to say. She was like, if anybody knows anything about me, what do you think I said? Or something like that. Everybody know Whoopi Goldberg don't fly. So.

[Crissle West]

Oh, right. I was about to say, because I'm sorry, A private plane. Anybody. Somebody offering to fly me private. Unfortunately, at this. At this stage of my life, I am saying, yes, girl. Now, knowing what I know about Epstein, I wouldn't say yes now. But if you didn't know nothing about him and you just thought rich people was going to fly you somewhere, I could easily see people being like, oh, hell yes. Hell, yes.

[Kid Fury]

That lady flung her dreads back and said, let me tell you bitches one thing. I know that they offered me a flight, and I told them no. And that is long, and they're short of it.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, a lot of people names just show up in files because. And it doesn't mean you, you know, were getting flown out to the island or you were requesting some girls or what. Unlike Deepak Chopra. Did you see that? Where Deepak Chopra was like, I need to examine the auras of some of your sweet girls and all this, like, oh, yuck, baby, I deleted his meditation album right out of my. Right out of my Apple music so quick.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, no, yuck.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. No, Jesus. Right? So. But shout out to. I think Jon Stewart said the same thing. He was like, I'm in the Epstein files. Cause Epstein's assistant had said something like, you know, I think we should book somebody for this event. You know, a comedic talk show type like Jon Stewart. So it's like something like that, and then, bam. Your name is associated with this. But I see Whoopi coming out and being like, now y' all know good and damn well I ain't getting on no airplane. I will Amtrak it across the globe. Ain't no way.

[Kid Fury]

I think in regard to Naomi, though, they said her name is in it a few times.

[Crissle West]

Oh, 300.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, work. Yeah. Yeah.

[Crissle West]

So that. That doesn't look as good. That doesn't. And Naomi Campbell has a reputation for not being that great of a person.

[Kid Fury]

So nice to women.

[Crissle West]

It. I mean, and as a supermodel, you certainly would have access to young, beautiful women who are willing to go where you tell them to go, because you're fucking Amy Campbell. So, I mean, I guess we gonna see, girl. But that don't look good.

[Kid Fury]

It don't.

[Crissle West]

It do not.

[Kid Fury]

Well, well, now it is time for some sports information. Apparently, Floyd met. No, I'm not even gonna.

[Crissle West]

Okay, I'm not even saying nothing. I'm not even saying that.

[Kid Fury]

Floyd Mayweather coming out of retirement to fight Pacquiao again.

[Crissle West]

The purse must be huge, girl.

[Kid Fury]

I saw, like, literally days before that they said he's suing or, like, they on his ass for, like, some jewelry. He ain't pay for it or something.

[Crissle West]

Why not, nigga? Why you didn't buy the. Why you didn't just pay for the fucking. I don't like when rich people don't just pay for shit. I don't like that.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, well, he's allegedly not been rich for some time.

[Crissle West]

Really? How can that be?

[Kid Fury]

He's one of the most terrible people alive, Curtis Jackson.

[Crissle West]

Oh. Oh.

[Kid Fury]

If he doesn't lie often, he's just terrible.

[Crissle West]

Well, Curtis Jackson is finding himself in the middle of some shit at the moment, but I don't know if you gonna get to that, so let me just wait. But I didn't realize he was. But, you know, this is part of the problem with becoming extremely wealthy and not having any sort of discipline about yourself in that way. Cause, like, how. How do you not have money? How is it even possible that we're talking about a world where Floyd Mayweather is not rich? How can that be?

[Kid Fury]

I mean, I know they fell out or whatever, so that's part of it, but whatever. All that to say, I did see this. This post that he was, you know, dealing with a lawsuit because they paid for some jewelry or whatever. And then just a couple days later, he was like, he's got the fight booked, bitch. Yeah, well, let's get to it.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, go on and bring your ass on out of retirement, nigga. It's time. Time to pay these fucking bills. Ooh, that should be a good fight, though. I tell you what, niggas is gone. Niggas is gonna be. Yeah. Somebody. Somebody with a big TV gone. And book that pay per view. Everybody send you $10 to come on over.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, I should have, like, one of them parties like Martin.

[Crissle West]

We had those.

[Kid Fury]

I had one of my homegirls at the door and be like, $10, $10, $10. I love that. The kids still watch that sitcom in some of our other sitcoms. Children need Golden Girls, though. But, I mean, Golden Girls is so accessible.

[Crissle West]

It's on eight different channels. It's always syndication forever.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, but I still gag at how many of, like, us in our generation are like, oh, you know, I didn't really even start watching the Golden Girls until you wouldn't shut your ass up about it. Really?

[Crissle West]

I'm like, I've been watching it my whole life.

[Kid Fury]

My.

[Crissle West]

Y' all didn't grow up. Wait a minute.

[Kid Fury]

Life.

[Crissle West]

Y' all didn't grow up watching the Golden Girls? Quite a number it has been on even after it got canceled. I don't think there's ever been a time it was not on tv. Like, it has just always been on tv.

[Kid Fury]

I think I started watching that when I was three. Like, I vividly.

[Crissle West]

Wow.

[Kid Fury]

Not so vividly, but I remember sitting in a den in my house with my grandma after she would come get me from kindergarten or whatever, and she would be folding clothes. Little basket would be by me, and I'd be sitting in the front, and it would be the Golden Girls. And I specifically remember being fascinated and curious as to why this white lady was biting her hand. You know how Dorothy bites her hand in the ass in the intro of every.

[Crissle West]

It is.

[Kid Fury]

Why is she biting her hand? I remember baby me thinking this thing. So I was like, maybe Golden Girls is for, like, those of us who Grandmama had, like, sweets in a purse and, like, folded clothes in the daytime.

[Crissle West]

Well. Cause that was my Meemaw. Although she was really more of a Young and the Restless type. I don't know that I watched too much Golden Girls with her, but your

[Kid Fury]

grandmother watched that, too.

[Crissle West]

Bitch, you had a sick day and you had to stay at Meemaw's house. Guess what? You sitting down with that soup and crackers and you watching all the soaps and you watching Gunsmoke you watching Perry Mason and Matlock.

[Kid Fury]

We're doing General Hospital.

[Crissle West]

We're doing Days of our Lives, not Will of Fortune. What's the other one where you guess the price. No, come on. That Price is Right.

[Kid Fury]

A Price is Right?

[Crissle West]

Yeah. You watch A Price is Right? You watch A Price is Right?

[Kid Fury]

We are watching the Price is Right. Childhood. Yes, Bitch.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But yeah, apparently the children didn't get into that too, but definitely. My grandmother had me on Golden Girls and she had me on soap operas. I think Jamaicans just really love soap because even when I would go down to Jamaica as a child and stay at my granddaddy's house in Linstead, they'll be in there watching General Hospital, watching Young and the Rest of Us. And gag was their episodes would be late. You know, it would be like a couple weeks behind.

[Crissle West]

That makes sense, I guess. Cause different countries, but yeah, My uncles, my aunties. Oh, yeah. Everybody be locked in. And I think that's, you know, that's kind of worldwide. The K dramas. Everybody's obsessed with K dramas these days. But shit, even the telenovelas. Even the telenovelas, bitch. You don't understand. Not one fucking word. But you don't.

[Kid Fury]

I don't really need to.

[Crissle West]

Cheated on his pregnant wife.

[Kid Fury]

And she will shoot at him.

[Crissle West]

Shoot this bitch up. Yep.

[Kid Fury]

Yes, yes. And then in her car. And then she sets the car on fire or pushes the car over a cliff.

[Crissle West]

And you don't know who all was in it. Oh, Lord. Was she in the car when she did it? Oh, Lord. What did she do? Like, ugh. The drama of it all.

[Kid Fury]

I just read. I think I just read that Shemar Moore and Vivica Fox are going back to soap.

[Crissle West]

Really?

[Kid Fury]

Did I just make that up? I don't think so.

[Crissle West]

To the black.

[Kid Fury]

The black soap opera, the one that they were on.

[Crissle West]

Oh, okay. I was about to say, if they go into beyond the Gates, that would be so funny.

[Kid Fury]

Yes. He's going back to Young and the Restless as Malcolm Winters. And I think, yeah, Vivica Fox is going back too. Work for a multi episode arc. So maybe just.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, a special little. A special little return. Yep. They threw a bunch of money at him and said, come on. And the girl said, I will be there.

[Kid Fury]

Did you see. Did you hear about. What's that man name, Jaylen Brown? Talk about Bronnie.

[Crissle West]

I love that you're actually having a sports moment right now because I did not expect you to say those two names. Yes, I did hear about Lebron and Bronnie and Jaylen Brown. Yes, I did.

[Kid Fury]

Why would he. Why would he do that with cameras around?

[Crissle West]

Oh, well, I mean, it's not that unpopular of an opinion about Bronny. It's not that unpopular of an opinion to say that they don't think Bronny is a. Is that much of a pro. Like, a lot of people have said that he's right back in the G League. So he wasn't wrong.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, yeah.

[Crissle West]

Don't you start.

[Kid Fury]

And what's this lady name from? What's the lady name who played that was next to her?

[Crissle West]

His girlfriend, Kaiser.

[Kid Fury]

Kaiser. Okay. She said, I think beautiful G League. Yeah, she's gorgeous.

[Crissle West]

Gorgeous.

[Kid Fury]

She said, I think he'll be on the G League. The G League team for sure. He said, I don't think so. I think his name. He'll be on the Lakers. Correct.

[Crissle West]

He was, but he's.

[Kid Fury]

And LeBron sort of kept it cute.

[Crissle West]

I mean, once again, he wasn't wrong.

[Kid Fury]

The doll beast.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. So she got out of her crate, but she's still dedicated to shutting the up. So she's gonna just sit here. She's gonna sit here and be so nice. Aren't you, Lanes?

[Kid Fury]

Lovely doll.

[Crissle West]

Oh, that's Mommy. Baby girl. My sweetheart.

[Kid Fury]

Sweet diva. God, she's cute.

[Crissle West]

She is cute. My little girl.

[Kid Fury]

Let's talk about 50 Cent and TI. Where did this come from? Well, I know where it.

[Crissle West]

I just didn't play it too much. Playing it too much. He play too much. That's a grown man.

[Kid Fury]

I don't know if I knew about this or not, but apparently, I guess there were talks of having a ti. 50 Cent versus. And ti accused 50 of ducking the verses.

[Crissle West]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

And I guess when 50 Cent got word of this, he decided to post this unflattering photo of Tiny on Instagram as, like, I guess, his little trolling. Fuck you.

[Crissle West]

Yep. Trolling.

[Kid Fury]

TI who I think I read is working on an alleged retirement album. He's gotten an album on the way. There is a snippet of a song called War that was released after this that people, I guess, assumed was a diss track. And then we're saying it wasn't very good. I think 50 even posted a Pepe the Frog meme in response to it, which is like, are you 15? He acts like it emotionally.

[Crissle West]

He does. Right? You definitely act like you are. Mm.

[Kid Fury]

Then another diss track came out. That was. First of all, I don't know if that War song was a diss track. It sounded like a fine song, maybe a deep cut for an album. But I was like, is this specific to anything? This other diss track though, definitely is

[Crissle West]

Shout out to King

[Kid Fury]

now.

[Crissle West]

Woo. This was funny.

[Kid Fury]

TI has been coming at him with music and things like that. King Harris. Woo. This kind of feel like that one time where, you know, Chris Brown stops a fight or whatever.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And we were like, wow, did he fall into the upside.

[Crissle West]

It do. It do feel like that

[Kid Fury]

boy King Harris was not playing behind his mama.

[Crissle West]

I know that's fine.

[Kid Fury]

So he decided to take to his social medias and basically bring up every single thing like. Like all. Like a laundry list of up things that this has done, including abusive women. Where is it? Hold on.

[Crissle West]

He said ass. Sorry. It was just so funny to me. Ass want to say something about my mama? Yo mama dead as y' all mama dead ass go dig her up up. Post a picture of your mama. She dead. All you do is apply pressure to females. Bring that smoke to the chimney. I'm just getting started. Okay. Little all right now, little light skin go off, King. Because that's right, you're not gonna be talking about my mama. When you a known abuser of women. You who the you think you talking to?

[Kid Fury]

Curtis sister sent Jackson. I think this is his Instagram stories. Got shot 9 times and did nothing. Dissed Little Kim after she refused to go on a date with him. Had to duck shots because of it and start. Got smoked by Jadakiss and Styles P in a rap battle. Talked tough and then ducked the beef with Fat Joe because he knew he couldn't fuck with Joe on the street level. Got outsold and embarrassed by Kanye west on his third album. Knew he couldn't fuck with Rick Ross musically, so he resorted to making skits. Reposted a sex tape of Tiara Marie just because. Has publicly disrespected Ashanti, Syria, Vivica Fox, etc for no reason. Duck. Ti in a versus battle called him a snitch even though he's a known federal informant. Makes fun of TI's wife as if we don't know his track record with women. My God, a lie. This nigga is not nearly done. Criticizes rappers for publicly speaking on politics and religion, but his coward ass won't stand for anything even though he's a known truck supporter. Helps produce a documentary on Diddy's transgressions but won't speak on his own history of domestic violence and abuse. Makes fun of other rappers families, but his older son hates him and calls him a deadbeat. His younger son was living in a house that diddy was paying for. He burned his older son's mother's house. Diddy had his younger son's mother prostituting herself in his freak off parties. The list of people he's disrespected over the years is endless. He came into the game creating unnecessary, necessary, unnecessary controversy. And damn near 30 years later, he's still the same attention.

[Crissle West]

I didn't hear not one lie. I didn't hear not one lie. And I do mean not one. All that sounded right to me. You're not gonna get on our level

[Kid Fury]

in you a hoe.

[Crissle West]

Ass. Ass. I mean, it's true.

[Kid Fury]

And again, he also mentioned in a clip, why the fuck do you have to come at a woman like you got. Why are you talking about my mama?

[Crissle West]

Why bring Tiny into it over A versus right Escape already?

[Kid Fury]

Did they verse post him right post

[Crissle West]

TI make fun of him for being short or whatever. I don't know.

[Kid Fury]

But he does all the same shit that he always does. You know, I do find it fascinating and I think that when the documentary comes out, I hope it's, you know, well produced because it's really fascinating how he has been able to make such a huge living off of being miserable.

[Crissle West]

Yep. You know, Yep, it is. But when you think about how miserable

[Kid Fury]

as a brand is fierce.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, he's miserable and hateful and everything is sort of shrouded in this guise of, like, it's not that serious or, you know, trolling. It's. It's very profitable with the sort of people who spend all their time online. They love that kind of. So I can see why he's so popular or whatever. Like, I see why a lot of people follow him and laugh these antics and all that. But like, you are legitimately being laughed at and everybody do not think it's funny. Everybody's not playing. Again, why you brought Tiny into it is beyond my understanding. I really do not understand. There's plenty of to say TI Got his own allegations about women. You really genuinely could have just stuck to that. But you brought that lady into it for whatever reason. And now TI And King is on your ass. Did you see that video that T I put out that response with?

[Kid Fury]

I have. I have not gotten to that yet. It has been like an endless strain

[Crissle West]

every time I hear, every time I

[Kid Fury]

turn around his ass again.

[Crissle West]

I just saw it a couple of hours ago. It's T.I. and the kids and Tiny at dinner. And, you know, ti is rapping this diss track back to 50 Cent. Of course, you know, it's like the Wife and kids and TI's mama. TI mama on one side of him, Tiny on the other side. King next to Tiny, and he seemed to be the only one genuinely eating in the video. Everybody else is chewing t. I said, Ty King said, well, why we here?

[Kid Fury]

Me.

[Crissle West]

Me personally, I'm getting into this broccoli rice in this state.

[Kid Fury]

Why do we have to simulate dinner? I'm going to eat.

[Crissle West]

I mean, we legit paid for this. I think they were in a real restaurant. I think they just went somewhere and was like, hey, let's get a table in the back and just shoot this video, right?

[Kid Fury]

We are not shooting a mov. Like, I'm gonna get down and cry. We.

[Crissle West]

I don't know why y' all acting like this is a television show. We not fake eating, bitch. I'm finna eat this shit for free. That nigga is bobbing his head.

[Kid Fury]

How long we finna be here shooting, right? Shooting multiple shots here for eight hours. I am getting into.

[Crissle West]

I'm not gonna stab at this and pretend like I'm eating, bitch. This is not a movie. I'm fucking eating fierce.

[Kid Fury]

Who knew?

[Crissle West]

But, yeah, as much as I am not afraid of neither one of these niggas, the intent. Ben had this.

[Kid Fury]

I'm gagged.

[Crissle West]

Ben had this.

[Kid Fury]

That sounds like the intent behind that was like, I have a family, bitch.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. You see my mama over here breathing. You see my wife right next to

[Kid Fury]

me, and our here are my children that love me, that love me.

[Crissle West]

Imagine having a son who loves you. Mm. Can't relate, huh? Like, yeah, Curtis, Ben had this shit coming. Ben had it coming. If y' all agreed privately to do a versus, and then when TI Announced it, all of a sudden you like, you, I don't want to do all that. Then, yeah, that is weird behavior. Nigga, why would you say one thing in private and then publicly do something else? You could have just said you didn't want to do. Like, that makes sense.

[Kid Fury]

Why are you trolling rappers in a door dash ad?

[Crissle West]

Sure.

[Kid Fury]

Like, I feel like Kai Sinette would be like, I got shit to do. Like, you 50. Like, 50, actually years.

[Crissle West]

King said, go dig up your mother, you know? And I, I. I understand the people

[Kid Fury]

who are, like I said, worse.

[Crissle West]

Right? That's the thing. Like, you can't expect that everybody is just gonna play it cute and keep it cool when you talk about they goddamn mama or they wife. People don't play about they people like that.

[Kid Fury]

So I won't even talk this digger up. I'll just let you know I'll do it.

[Crissle West]

You really found the right one. And if you don't, I only want to hear a response musically. Cause one thing about TI he can still rap his little ass off. He can still rap his little ass off. The shit sounded good.

[Kid Fury]

So nobody has given a fuck about one person has to say musically since I think I had homeroom. And that is an honest Fat Jack. That's why he over here trying to fake write all these power books. Bitch, you better find something good to do.

[Crissle West]

You got something to make some money. Cause I don't know what you think we finna do.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, he makes plenty of money doing that.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You had to do something.

[Kid Fury]

Like you said. It's like. Cause so why, why, why do this?

[Crissle West]

Yeah, why? But you know, when you're 50 years old, but you have the mentality of somebody who's a freshman in high school, you do stupid shit like this.

[Kid Fury]

Yuck. Atrocious. Well, that's gonna be it for the hot tops this week. Didn't blast through it, but you know, it's okay.

[Crissle West]

It was a lot to get through.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. And I know that you will love us through it. Or take a break and come back with your. Hey, folks. You all know the latest trend is in hiring something called skills based hiring. And that emphasizes the capabilities of the hired over education and direct experience. Okay? So if you talking about you trying to sell me some oxtail, I needed to be falling off the bone. And that means you need to have someone with the skills to make it. So. According to experts, this leads to faster hiring and better job performance. So if you are an employer who's adopted this skills based hiring and you want to ensure that you get the people with the right skills, use ZipRecruiter. It recommends smart screening questions to help you hone in on that perfect match for your role. So I can get the perfect taste of oxtail and I don't have to call my mama complaining that people are playing out here, you know, playing games. Plus, they've got a powerful matching technology which finds qualified candidates fast. So you don't have to wait and wait and wait the way that y' all make me wait and wait and wait for my oxtail, my greens, and my buttered beans. Let ZipRecruiter help you find amazing candidates with the skills you seek. Four out of five employers who post on ZipRecruiter get a quality candidate within the first day. And now you can try for free at ziprecruiter.com thereead that is ziprecruiter.com thereead meet your match on ziprecruiter and have my order ready. Woo. I'm parched. And you know what would really do my thirst? Something spectacular. It'd be a crisp Sprite zero sugar. That's right. Unk is watching the sweets. Okay. Cause summer's coming up and I'm trying to be thought Tiana. So you get the crisp lemon lime flavor just without the sugar. And there isn't like any crazy compromise and hidden asterisk and, you know, National Lampoon like mystery of what's actually happening to you. It's refreshing. And as someone who might be obsessed with carbonated beverages, it just gives me exactly what I need. So try it out. This is Sprite zero sugar. Obey your thirst, dad. I've always wanted to say that. Welcome back, folks. It is time to read your listener letters.

[Crissle West]

Indeed. Send your questions to asktheread gmail.com. we may just read them aloud on the show. Speaking of sports moments. We do. I wouldn't even do this to you.

[Kid Fury]

Did I really speak of sports moments?

[Crissle West]

Because Lord knows you don't know what you're talking about. But. But anyway, this question says hi. This is mainly for Crystal, but since Kif has sports shorts, he might want to answer as well. Yeah, I'm a new women's basketball fan and I loved watching the wnba. And now Unrivaled. I have completely fallen in love with women's basketball and I am obsessed with so many of the players. When did you get into women's basketball? Who are some of your favorite players? Do you watch Unrivaled? What do you think? Thank you so much. Love you both. From Natasha Cloud's number one fan.

[Kid Fury]

Oh.

[Crissle West]

Mm.

[Kid Fury]

Well, I've been in the game since, you know, Cheryl Swoopes and it really

[Crissle West]

is name one team Cheryl Swoopes played

[Kid Fury]

for the best because he was big.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, that's what I thought.

[Kid Fury]

No, please answer this question.

[Crissle West]

That's what I thought. Don't even worry about it. I have been. I do love the W. Obviously love Unrivaled Athletes Unlimited is also going on right now. If you don't know about it, check them out too. I think their games are on espn. It's a lot of great athletes over there as well. But since you asked about Unrivaled specifically, I love Alicia Gray. Love Ryan Howard. Kelsey Plum, Natasha Stewie. Of course, I've loved seeing Dominique Malonga play Keke. Jackie Young.

[Kid Fury]

Ugh.

[Crissle West]

Kelsey Mitchell. Of course. I'm Trying not to name the whole fucking league. I think Ray Burrell has really come into her own. She hit the game winner the other day. Let you hoes know to send the. To send them to the playoffs. So let y' all know to quit fucking with her. Um, those are probably my favorites just off the top of my head. But yeah, I love unrivaled. I think it's so fun. I love watching them have a good time playing together, knowing everybody is being paid well and has the resources and things that they need. This lockout situation with the WNBA is looking more and more likely that there's gonna be some sort of player strike, which I'm sure Kiff Fury could tell you more about, but I'm all for that. Cause the league has been playing with these women and they would continue to fuck around and play with them if they were allowed to. So. So we'll see what happens as far as the W is concerned. But I got into women's basketball in high school when I started dating the players.

[Kid Fury]

Good answer, good answer.

[Crissle West]

I never actually really gave a shit about basketball. I barely watched it. I was definitely just that girlfriend in the stands to be supportive, like, woo, my man.

[Kid Fury]

My man.

[Crissle West]

But. But I really started watching it when the Shock came to Tulsa. That was big for Oklahoma and we were not ready for a professional women's team. We might never be, but that was when I really started locking in with the wnba, was when the. The shock came to Tulsa. And then when I moved to New York, I picked up two New York teams because I didn't have a baseball team or a WNBA team after the Shock left Tulsa. So I decided to be a Liberty and a Yankees fan. I still have not getting into baseball. I might switch to being a Mets fan. I don't know. The Yankees just feel white supremacy. I don't know.

[Kid Fury]

It just feels like I've never been in that stadium. And I used to work out right across. I used to run track right across

[Crissle West]

at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx.

[Kid Fury]

And the track. The tracks. The one in front of the stadium.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've still, you know, 14 years in, have not gotten into baseball, but me neither. Fully locked in with the Liberty, you know, and. And a season ticket holder now for the second or third year in a row. But if we don't have a season, them hoes finna give me my money back.

[Kid Fury]

I remember when I was little, Miami had like this. This Marlins phase for a while. Cause I think the Marlins were actually doing well or some shit. So yeah, everybody was at school and things like, oh, Marlins, Marlins. And I was like, I think I'm in fifth grade. So can we just.

[Crissle West]

Cause I don't care.

[Kid Fury]

Can we figure out what a ratio is or whatever we're supposed to be doing? I don't care about this. Yeah, baseball, Baseball, like I said, is one of the few games I could follow.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

I was little.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, there's a lot going on with basketball. Baseball has the opposite problem where it's like, it's not enough going on and it just feels true. Unless it's like bases loaded, bottom of the ninth. It feels so boring. Like it has to be like game three of the World Series for me to be like, okay, let me cut this on. Otherwise I'm just not really tapped in. But I do love unrivaled love athletes Unlimited. Love the W and. And since you have gotten into unrivaled now, let them not have a WNBA season. You finna be watching the international girls, you finna be watching the overseas games, all the different countries and so so on and such as like, it's just, it, it really is addictive. The women's game is so great. So shout out to you for, for finally tapping in and enjoying it. Cause it is, is, it's just so fun. And the social media for unrivaled, all of the admins for all of the different clubs, it's just great. It feels good to watch and to be a fan of. So yeah, thank you so much for that question.

[Kid Fury]

Shout out to all the ladies you know that are dedicated to a strong stud overseas that are lifting you up there until your nigga get back from Beijing or whatever.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, you gotta fly on over to Turkey and wait for your girlfriend to be done. But they make so much more money overseas.

[Kid Fury]

That's the thing.

[Crissle West]

The W is literally just for the prestige of the American professional league. But money wise and even respect wise, those girls get so much more anywhere else. So it's almost like, damn, you need to pay us what the fuck we're worth anyway. Don't get me started.

[Kid Fury]

It.

[Crissle West]

I can rant about that for a long time. So let's move on. Our next letter is from Clueless who says hello. I am at a bit of a dilemma because I know that this is a fucked up system and it's not my place to comment on this. I am a 27 year old white male and my boyfriend has been looking for a job. I heard him doing a phone interview and he sounded unapologetically black. Now, all right, he is applying for jobs in a lot of white areas, which makes sense because we live in the suburbs of Minneapolis and I know how these people are. I am suspicious that his voice has been the reason he hasn't gotten some of these jobs. Although I can't say for sure. He is very honest and authentic and communicates in a very Gen Z way, which are things I love to be around. But he has been looking for work for a month and a half and finances are tough. I worry that the jobs he wants are not going to give him the proper chance. I feel like an evil person telling my boyfriend to code switch for interviews, though, because this is an evil system that I am then enforcing. But I also want him to get the job that he wants. I don't know what to do about this. I want to talk to him about it, but I also want to make sure that I'm not thinking about this in an ignorant way. I don't think there's anything wrong with lying and manipulating your way into a job, but I think he hates that kind of dishonesty. Any advice from you two would be appreciated. Sincerely, Clueless. Don't roll your eyes with this white man. He trying to help.

[Kid Fury]

My eyes are closed. I was actually hoping I could fall asleep. It just didn't work.

[Crissle West]

Oh, I thought you were rolling them underneath all that.

[Kid Fury]

No.

[Crissle West]

Gotcha.

[Kid Fury]

You know what?

[Crissle West]

Can your white man tell you to kick us off? Can your.

[Kid Fury]

I don't even.

[Crissle West]

Well, so that's the question I'm gonna pose to you. If you were dating a white man and just pretend like you were capable of this, right? If you were dating a white man and he had something racially sensitive to tell you, would you appreciate that coming from him? Or would you be like, I don't want to hear that from you, cracker.

[Kid Fury]

To be honest with you, even in this world you've created where I am dating a white man, I couldn't see me with any other white man besides one that listened to crime Mob. So where would you even get off?

[Crissle West]

So let's pretend he listens to crime Mob. Yeah. So I think, clueless, this would be

[Kid Fury]

the last day of our relationship.

[Crissle West]

Really?

[Kid Fury]

Again, you have to understand that you're speaking to me. So a real Miami hoodie, It probably girl I can name a lot lighter things that would get me up out the door. You would have one chance to like. But that is neat.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Give me a reason. So, yeah, I don't know, bro.

[Crissle West]

I think first of all, the idea that your black boyfriend hasn't already Considered this is kind of ridiculous. Like, I think he would have probably already considered that like, not code switching is going to lead to you not getting as many opportunities. That's why we code switch.

[Kid Fury]

Right.

[Crissle West]

So it's a very deliberate effort. But it also sounds like you're paying for things while your boyfriend is waiting to be hot. Right? And that's why you, like, clean that shit up,

[Kid Fury]

girl. I'm trying so hard. I'm trying so hard.

[Crissle West]

There's something about that is so funny

[Kid Fury]

to me, but what is unapologetically black.

[Crissle West]

It just means you talk like you normally talk and you don't try to hide it.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, that's what I thought.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, yeah, that's it. Use. You talk like, I mean, we, we all know black tones of voices. Most of us can tell when we talking to another black person unless they are really dialing into the code switching. And even then sometimes I could tell. But absolutely. But I think, I think it is very valid that a lot of white people want you to give that sort of genteel, negro type of vibe. Like they want to feel like you're going to come in here and put on your good white corporate quote unquote, professional voice. I would, if you, if you must say something clueless, I would say something like, I don't know, this is hard because you don't want to be like, well, has anybody ever told you about code switching? Cause like, who do you think you talking to?

[Kid Fury]

But, but like you said, if it is giving, I'm not trying to hide it. Yeah, he absolutely knows what the fuck code switching is. And it's also like, have you never heard him code switch?

[Crissle West]

Yeah, he probably doesn't. Like he said, you know, he is very honest and authentic in all times. He communicates this way, which I love. But it's becoming a problem in the

[Kid Fury]

workplace for him because I'm holding up some of the coin and I am. You want him to hurry up and hurry up, right?

[Crissle West]

Finances are tough and you're not getting. So I might say something like, like, I don't know if maybe if he was in college when they have like job fairs and stuff and they try to help these people who are about to graduate from college, they like tell you things to do, they kind of coach you in interviews and resumes and stuff. So I might say something like, did they ever. Did they did this college, you know, whatever. Like, did they bring up sort of changing the way you speak for interviews? Or like, I would try to dance around it because I just don't I can't. I'm trying to think of what would be least offensive to me personally. So. So if my white partner said, has anyone brought up, like, the tone of your voice or changing the way you speak for interviews, that might be the least offensive way. But I think you just have to be prepared for him to say, no, I'm not gonna fucking code switch. If they don't want to hire me, then as I am, then this is not the job for me. Um.

[Kid Fury]

But yeah, all I can really see in my head is you remember at soul food when Terry was in the kitchen and she came out her husband and Faith with that knife? Oh, yeah.

[Crissle West]

Mm. The family. Fuck the family. The family that I let in my house. Yeah. The family fucked my husband. Yes. Faith fucked my husband.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, Chance, you could never hope your mouth would say no dumb shit like this to me, but are you rude? Like, I'm. Honestly. Okay.

[Crissle West]

I'm just trying. I. I don't know. I don't know. What.

[Kid Fury]

If I don't even want to give you advice? I don't care about your plight, sir. God bless.

[Crissle West]

I think you should be.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, my goodness. I have to. Reparations. Get off the couch, bitch.

[Crissle West]

I think you should wait for him to ask for your advice or your input it. Or ask you that's okay, because this black man speaks in our twang, even though this wasn't even our goddamn language

[Kid Fury]

to fucking begin with. Keep the lights on. Back to my Stanley cup. I'm a Stanley cup girl now.

[Crissle West]

Oh, they're great. I have a Oala. It's a nice. It keeps water cold all night. Like, I fill it up before I go to bed, and you take a drink at like 4am and it's still ice fucking cold. You're like, bitch, what kind of sorcery technology. It is really amazing. Yeah. I would Clueless. I would wait for him to ask me for my advice or my input, or I would ask him if he wanted some coaching for interviews or if he wanted me to review his resume. Like, do you want my help or my input with this process? If he doesn't ask for it, though, or if you volunteer and he's like, no, I'm good, then I think you gotta let it go and just pay for this black man. I think you do anything else, might be you might get cussed out and left. You really might.

[Kid Fury]

Clueless. What I said was rough, but I don't take anything.

[Crissle West]

You meant it. No, you meant it.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I meant every word, but it was, you know, it was Spicy. I'm just acknowledging that.

[Crissle West]

Good luck to you and your man as he tries to find a job in Minnesota.

[Kid Fury]

Good luck to your man.

[Crissle West]

Our next letter comes from Jamie, who says, I've been married to my husband for over 20 years. We have four kids in college and in high school. While my husband is a present father, the mental load of everything falls on me. Not only that, but I am also the breadwinner by a large margin.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, God.

[Crissle West]

Over the years, my husband has struggled with ambition and goal setting. He's stuck at a job that he's not happy with and he has very little executive function skills. After struggling for many years, he was recently diagnosed with major depressive disorder and adhd. He began. Yeah, he began taking a low dose medication, but he also self medicates with weed. Here's the problem. He has forgotten or done very little for my birthday or our anniversaries over the past 20 years. This year he wished me a happy birthday and kept it pushing for Valentine's Day. We went to the grocery store to get breakfast and he told me to pick out some flowers and throw them in the basket.

[Kid Fury]

Jesus.

[Crissle West]

He has never planned a couple's trip and I can't remember the last time he planned a date. When I called him out for his lack of planning for anything, he got upset with me. He said he has ADHD and so calling out his lack of planning is offensive.

[Kid Fury]

Girl, you just found out.

[Crissle West]

He said, I wouldn't ask someone with a broken leg to run, so why would I ask him to plan anything and that I should give him some grace. He then was upset that I didn't apologize to him for pointing out his lack of ambition over the years after finally being diagnosed. And he said that I should apologize for being wrong. I have suggested we go to couples therapy, but his response was that I should get therapy first. Our communication is a struggle. He is more open to conversation only if he's been smoking. So I actually prefer it when he's high. My question is, am I being gaslit or should I have more empathy for his mental health struggles? Thanks, Jamie.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, Jamie, real quick. Before I get into this letter, I just want to say something I think I've said before. I think women should be permitted to murder at least one man in their life.

[Crissle West]

Yep, Pick wisely.

[Kid Fury]

And, you know, initially I say shoot them, but I think it should just be up to you how you want to do it. Um, I stand by this. If I was running for president, I would openly say it and, you know, approve it. I Just believe. Because how the f. Okay, like, bitch, are you? Pick out some flowers and throw them in the basket, bitch. First of all, I have a portion of frustration with you, ma', am, because 20 years this nigga ain't been about shit, wanna do shit, ain't celebrated your birthday, nothing but Valentine's Day. Don't give a fuck. And you, you are married to him and probably fuck him. I don't understand why. Furthermore, as someone with mental health issues, you gotta stand up and take responsibility for yourself. It doesn't excuse you treating people like shit, blaming people for your issues or shortcomings or using those. Those issues as an excuse.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

So being, you know, considerate or whatever of his mental health issues, I feel like you've been doing that by not pushing his goddamn face when he tries the fuck out of you. So it is now up to him to do something about those things. Um, if he's been diagnosed with these things as well, and they are things that are affecting his life and your life together, he should just be in therapy off Rift. That could help. Yeah, with a lot of things. But everything in my body is telling me that you should be as far away from this person as possible. Cause how dare you. The person's gonna be like, oh, you know, well, you really want him to plan this and plan that. Maybe you say, hey, for Valentine's Day. What if we do this? Maybe you are like, okay, I got some tickets for a cruise. Like, you know what I mean? But 20 years. 20 years we're a husband is just like, oh, hey, girl, happy birthday. What's for dinner, bitch? Are you okay?

[Crissle West]

Right? That's pretty fucked up.

[Kid Fury]

Have you been working on the railroad all the lift? Long day, bitch? Yeah, girl, please. I don't understand.

[Crissle West]

Well, I. The thing about this, I do understand how depression and ADHD can combine to somebody who. To create a person who is physically present but emotionally not really tapped in. I do get that. And you owe your spouse better than that. And so once you got diagnosed and you're on an antidepressant, the very next step is ADHD medication or coaching or something like, this is the thing you can be taught. You can, and you can adjust the way you do things so that you are a better husband, better father, better person in general. Like, there are things you can do. There are so many resources out here to manage ADHD with and without medication. I'm not saying it's easy. It's actually extremely fucking challenging. But I. It sounds.

[Kid Fury]

It's also not easy and incredibly challenging. Is being miserable, making everybody miserable. Thank you.

[Crissle West]

Right, right. Because if your wife is miserable, your children probably are too. And it sounds like Jamie, once them last, once that last child or two is out of high school, you probably gonna be on your way out as well. Because you even said, I don't even want to talk to this man unless he's high, because that's the only time he's really open to conversation. That is the idea that he can't be held accountable because he has ADHD is fucking absurd. ADHD means I understand why you have been behaving this way, but also, it's not a stretch to say, huh? I have a wife and Valentine's Day is coming up. Or I have a wife and it's her birthday, perhaps I should give. Like, why don't I. Then if I know my wife's birthday is in a month, I can. Since I'm bad at executive function and planning, I'll set an alarm in my phone to give me a reminder that Jamie's birthday is in 30 days. And so now I'm going to make myself a list and break it down into very small, actionable steps of what I can do today. I'm gonna call the florist. I mean, but this is not hard. This is not. This is if. If you can't do this.

[Kid Fury]

Of course it's not.

[Crissle West]

If you can't say, okay, I'm gonna break it down. I'm gonna make a list of five things. I'll call the florist this day. I'll have a cake arranged this day. I'll text her friends to see if they can come to dinner on this day. I'll make the reservation this day. I'll order some balloons and get the kids out the house for, like, you. If you can't be asked to do what is right in front of you, what is completely fucking accessible to you in order to show your wife that you give one hot nut fuck about her, then maybe you don't deserve to have a wife to turn it around on her and be like, well, bitch, definitely don't. How dare you? How dare you say. This is. I'm actually offended that you are hurt by not getting shit for your birthday for the past 20 fucking years. We went to the store.

[Kid Fury]

You apologize to me.

[Crissle West]

Why wouldn't you, if you forgot it was Valentine's Day? Why wouldn't you just sneak and buy the flowers when I was somewhere, when I was picking out bacon or some shit?

[Kid Fury]

Pick out your own Valentine's Day and

[Crissle West]

throw them in the cart, bitch.

[Kid Fury]

What a fucking nutcase.

[Crissle West]

Oh, how romantic. I definitely feel loved and cherished and valued now, bitch. And then to say, when you suggest a couple stabbed, he said, I think you need it more than me, bitch. Men are something the fuck else, Child.

[Kid Fury]

I don't want to continue suggesting violence, so.

[Crissle West]

Right. So I am going to suggest ADHD coaching. I am going to suggest talking to your provider, whoever's prescribing the medication. I'm going to suggest talking to them about ADHD meds. If those are right for you, that can help a lot. But also, there are things, like I just said with the birthday, you can set alarms and remind for yourself. My calendar is full of shit. Like, I have a water delivering coming on Thursday. So that's on my calendar for Thursday. And then I have a reminder set for 24 hours in advance. Hey, set out the empty water bottles so that when the new water comes, the man can take the old bottles and drop off the new ones. Like, that is the sort of thing I have to do to make sure I stay on top of shit. Otherwise I won't stay on like they. It's right there in the palm of your fucking hand. We are all walking around with these computers in our hands. Fucking use it. Use it.

[Kid Fury]

You hold that one side button, the power button, for two seconds.

[Crissle West]

Oh, my God.

[Kid Fury]

Hey, remind me to wash the dishes tonight.

[Crissle West]

Yes.

[Kid Fury]

All right, girl.

[Crissle West]

You can even have, right? You can have Siri or Alexa do all this shit for you, right? The fact that you not even willing to do that, and instead you turn around and put it on her child, if this man is not willing to get help for his ADHD specifically, then if I were you, I would drop it and start planning my divorce.

[Kid Fury]

Exactly. Before even getting into that, I would try to ask myself, I would ask myself, does this man even want to be a better husband? Better father, Better? Is he even interested? And if my. My spirit, my Shondo, my heart is telling me you got to. That the answer to that is no. I am packing up my children. My. My vacuum cleaner got to all of my things, both of my titties, and I'm healing the rug because when I'm not as you know, moving or kicking this nigga out and divorcing and all of these things difficult. And would that be trying? Yes. But, baby, let me tell you what I'm not about to do. Live in no goddamn house with a nigga. I make more of that. Disrespect me all the time and be miserable and don't even want to talk to the nigga if he hide, one of us must leave.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, I would definitely just be like, unfortunately if you're not willing to do something about this ADHD because it's not some irreversible thing where oh my God, we just can't never like you ain't never gon be able to do things any better or anything like that if you're not willing to actually take actionable steps towards addressing the fact that I'm not happy in this marriage. I feel like I'm not valued and you simply being here is not enough. I needed an equal partner emotionally as well. Then yeah, then yeah, we're gonna have to actually call it a rap.

[Kid Fury]

Bitch. You gotta be high to feel mildly. Okay. And I'm the one who needs therapy. Call his mama. Yeah, call his mama. Lady, please come raise him because he's not done.

[Crissle West]

He isn't done growing up. He needs a little more help.

[Kid Fury]

Well, so let's stick a fork in this bitch.

[Crissle West]

So yeah, I would air more on the side of you being gaslit as opposed to you needing to do more to take care of this grown ass nigga who is blaming this basic shit on you, baby. But best of luck in figuring things out. And if you do get divorced, then hey, enjoy your new watch. You all of a sudden have way more energy, way more peace and patience because you not taking care of some grown ass man and everything he needs emotionally as well.

[Kid Fury]

Watch that skin clear, buttered, sleeping better.

[Crissle West]

Your friends are like, it's a glow in your face. It's a pep in your step.

[Kid Fury]

Like, oh, you glossy. What's going on?

[Crissle West]

Right?

[Kid Fury]

Freedom, right? Freedom.

[Crissle West]

Freedom. Her right. How dare she take that away from us?

[Kid Fury]

I know.

[Crissle West]

All right, good luck, Jamie. That is going to wrap up the letters this week. If you have a question for us, send it to Ask the read gmail dot com. We'll be right back. Hey y'. All. Eating better shouldn't be complicated or expensive. And that's where Thrive Market comes in. Thrive is a membership based grocery service that lets shoppers stock up from anywhere using the app with access to weekly sales, personalized filters auto ship free gifts and products made without junk. For just $5 a month, families get access to healthier versions of everyday favorites like Mac and cheese, snacks and drinks from trusted brands, all vetted before they hit the site. With 90 plus dietary filters and no hidden delivery fees, Thrive Market removes the stress, saves money and makes better grocery shopping easy. So what I love about Thrive is that they have all These items that I use regularly and I can get it on auto ship, meaning I do not have to risk New York City having some major snowstorm. And now it's a pain in the ass to get to the grocery store. My things just come when they're supposed to. There's no guessing about it. My applesauce, my Bragg's, apple cider vinegar, olive oil, veggie sticks, potato chips, some canned pumpkin because Lainey got an upset tummy on a regular basis. Oh, chippy tummy, Coconut milk, chicken bone broth, vanilla extract, olive oil. All kinds of stuff that I use on a regular basis. I can just have it auto shipped to the house. It makes it super simple. Plus, you can filter by whatever you have going on. And I do indeed mean that. Are you gluten free? Are you sugar free, vegan, vegetarian, whatever you have going on. There are over 90 filters where you can drill down and get exactly what you need, what works for you and your family. So when you're ready to make some healthy swaps and become a member, join Thrive Market with our link thrivemarket.com 3 for 30% off your first order, plus a free $60 gift. That's thrivemocker.com T-H-E R E a D. Let them know Kipuri and Crystal sent you.

[Kid Fury]

Woo. I'm parched. And you know what would really do my thirst? Something spectacular. It'd be a crisp Sprite, zero sugar. That's right. Unk is watching the sweet. Okay, because summer's coming up and I'm trying to be Thot Tiana, so you get the crisp lemon lime flavor just without the sugar. And there isn't like any crazy compromise and hidden asterisk and, you know, National Lampoon, like mystery of what's actually happening to you. It's refreshing. And as someone who might be obsessed with carbonated beverages, it just gives me exactly what I need. So try it out. This is Sprite, zero sugar. Obey your thirst. God. I've always wanted to say that. We are back, folks, and it's that time for the read. I would just like to kick it off, if I may, and talk about the bafta.

[Crissle West]

Oh, wonderful. Because that's my reading as well.

[Kid Fury]

So if you haven't heard, the. The baftas took place, I think this past weekend, Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were there presenting an award because sinners, best movie of, you know, the past decade. I've watched it a million times. So this man named John Davidson, who is like a. An activist for Tourette syndrome, I think he also had a film about it that was nominated for a BAFTA that night. He. Okay, so. So he was apparently, you know, having these tics or I think they're just called tics or. Yeah, he has therists or what have you. And so they're saying. It was kind of persistent. One of the things that are, like, the main thing that made headlines was him screaming nigger while Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindell were up on stage. I have not looked at this clip because I refuse to be that pissed.

[Crissle West]

Same.

[Kid Fury]

But here's what I feel about this, right? I'm not gonna get into this. I'm not gonna get into Tourette's syndrome itself. From what I know about it, from reading and listening over the years, I understand that many people with Tourette's can just say things sometimes that are like, unexpected, vulgar, what have you. I don't know enough about Tourette's to start making assumptions about the. What I do know is how Britain gets down with its racism.

[Crissle West]

There we go.

[Kid Fury]

So I'm not too surprised that nigger was up in that noggin when he saw some black people in the room. And I also know, you know, that this is a world where that sort of thing is, you know, brushed on the rug, and we are expected to take it on the chin and just, you know, live with it. And that is my primary frustration here. Don't tell niggas that they shouldn't be offended or it wasn't deliberate or how can you be mad? Because anybody who heard that has every right to be offended, has every right to be upset.

[Crissle West]

Right?

[Kid Fury]

Every right. And so I find it incredibly irresponsible, negligent, disgusting, violent for this to be another situation where not even just black folk. Black folk who have worked incredibly hard for X and Y amount of years.

[Crissle West]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

And done incredible work, including this movie that I won't shut the fuck up about, which is why they're up here together. Do Orlando said that, you know, he and Michael just did what they had to do, but he would have liked it if BAFTA would have reached out to them after it happened.

[Crissle West]

Reasonable as fuck.

[Kid Fury]

So why the fuck y' all coming up on here on this program? Mind you, it was tape delayed, so it wasn't edited out of the actual broadcast.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

And then they went on to try and eat dick after and be like, oh, we're gonna remove it from the video on demand or whatever. And just kind of gave this wack ass, like, oh, please, you know, understand. Or thank you for understanding that I Don't understand the fuck thing. Please don't speak for me. Like, again, I don't know enough about Tourette's. I've not seen this person's movie to say, like, oh, burn him at the stake. Fill his house with rats. You know what I'm saying? Give him death threats. But what I'm specifically pissed off about is people trying to minimize our feelings.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And the frustration and disrespect behind it. Again, walking bubblegum. Two things can be true. Okay? So even if we aren't. Even if you aren't, like, many of us are. Like, well, why did his mind not want to say nigga so bad? Or whatever.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Fixing your mouth to be like, oh, give him a break, girl. I can give a few of you a break.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. We're allowed to be upset.

[Kid Fury]

Literally.

[Crissle West]

We're allowed more than. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

It should have been a situation where immediately people within the production of the ceremony found something to do about it and apologized.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

In fact, you then deflected, tried to make space for this, this white man's feelings, and then ignored them. Niggas suck balls, testes. Yeah, I'm done.

[Crissle West]

It is really pissing me off, the whole thing, because I. What I think is the deeper issue here is the debate of should people who involuntarily hurt others be allowed to be around others? Which is a very nuanced conversation that I don't really want to have here, especially because I know my personal feelings are not aligned with my education. I know that. Personally, I feel like if you can't help but to scream nigga, you need to get that the. From around me then. But I, I. But that is because I have been subjected to people's horrible treatment for all my life, and they have used the excuse of like, well, I'm not trying to, or I can't help it or whatever else to absolve themselves from that. So I know that's my feelings about it coming in, and I'm not trying to project my experience onto this. I will say that seeing their faces, like, I didn't even. I didn't even have the audio on, but seeing their faces after he said nigga. And what that did, like, that moment of them staying composed but, like, obviously being affected by what was said. And then for the production designer, Hannah Beachler, to say, it actually happened three times that night, and once it was directed at me, and then another time towards the. So it's like, on the one hand, I, I do understand Tourette's. I do understand that the type of Tourette's he has is like the specific kind where people do say very incendiary things. I don't think he did it deliberately. I do also still think there's something in there. Like, it's either you have been socialized in a racial racist society, which if you're British, you absolutely have. And then also societally, globally, we don't really care about black people being called niggas by non niggas. We don't really care about that because y' all make sure y' all made sure to edit out. Akinola Davies Jr. Won a BAFTA for outstanding debut by a British director, writer or producer and had his speech mentioning stuff about free Palestine, free Sudan, free Congo. And y' all made sure to edit that out work. And they said, BBC said, oh, well, you know, the, the ceremony's three hours was televised, is only two hours. So everybody's stuff got cut. Sure. But what you chose to cut was very deliberate. And so then there's this whole conversation of, well, it wasn't really audible in the media room. It was audible in the auditorium, but not the media room. So how is it that nobody in the entire 2 hour delay texted somebody in the media room and said, hey, old boy just screamed nigga at the niggas on stage. Let's make sure we cut that out like y'. All. Definitely.

[Kid Fury]

Thank you.

[Crissle West]

Dropped the ball multiple times here. And so as irritated as I can be with this man, Mr. Davidson, as irritated I can be with John Davidson for what happened here, I do also think the BBC and the baftas had a responsibility to protect the people who were there. I mean, and this was not even his only outbreak. Like, I, I know it's not the only thing he said. He says something about, you know, shut the fuck up or suck my dick or something like that. He. He had multiple outbursts that night. And then he put out a statement saying, you know, after, afterwards, I excused myself from the auditorium because I could tell that I was causing harm and distress to others. My question then becomes, why you wasn't in the overflow room in the first place if you knew that this was even a possibility. But again, that gets into the argument of who's allowed to be where and disability and all that. And I'm not even trying to get into all that because, again, personal feelings. But what could have been controlled here was not to have that man, to have the host come on stage and say, we apologize if you were offended. Which Hannah Beachle was like, bitch, what are you talking About. Of course we're offended.

[Kid Fury]

Exactly.

[Crissle West]

We got called nigga. At. I'm assuming this is like, the British Oscars. You sat up here and called us, like, why wouldn't we be offended? What do you mean, if we were offended? And the man himself, John Davidson, has still not apologized. He put out a statement talking about, I'm mortified if anybody thinks that I did this deliberately. Like, I did not. And. And about him, and this is the subject of his documentary. I get it. I get it. And I do think. Think we owe people apologies. Even when we hurt them mistakenly, even when we hurt them involuntarily. I do still think they deserve apologies for that. I don't think it's apologizing for your disability. I think it's apologizing for the harm you caused. The same way when you. When you. If you run in to catch the train and you bump into somebody, oh, my bad, sorry. Like, you just say these things. I didn't try to run you over, but I did, and I'm sorry. Fuck, is that so fucking hard?

[Kid Fury]

Break that down too, for people. But it's just. That is.

[Crissle West]

Well, he couldn't help it.

[Kid Fury]

Bump into somebody on a subway, like, and not say nothing. Ooh, girl, you having a bad day? Two feet of snow, right? Calling people niggers. In any setting.

[Crissle West]

In any setting. Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And no apology, no acknowledgement, no anything. You're completely right. It's like, that happening should have led to an immediate. Immediate apology acknowledgement. Or even if it's like, oh, my God, I'm so mortified, I have to get out of here or whatever.

[Crissle West]

Right?

[Kid Fury]

Then, yes, afterwards, you have the opportunity to apologize to these people you caused harm to.

[Crissle West]

Right?

[Kid Fury]

And I just don't understand why you must feel like, what? You would apologize and be like, fuck you. Why are you Tourette's? Like, niggas would honestly feel like, you know, you have Tourette's. Thank you. For all of you.

[Crissle West]

It is involuntary. Yes, I appreciate you apologizing, because that hurt. That hurts. That fucking hurts to hear, especially in this context. It fucking hurts. But nobody cares about black people's pain. We just supposed to get over it. We just supposed to get over it. And why are you even asking for an apology? He's disabled. He can't help it. He can't help it, and he still did it. It. Yeah, babies can't help screaming at the movies, but most people, if your child screams at the movies, you say, oh, I'm sorry. And you get up and you take your baby out so that it isn't disturbing everybody else in the room. I don't understand why the. The idea that you should be asked to apologize is just so foreign. It's just so crazy.

[Kid Fury]

Like, oh, what?

[Crissle West]

Apologize to these for saying that's really what it feels like. And then Google. Did you see the Google alert?

[Kid Fury]

No.

[Crissle West]

So Google pushed out an alert about this and they linked the Hollywood Reporter story on it. How the Tourette's fallout unfolded at the BAFTA Film Award, blah, blah, blah. And so it says the Hollywood Reporter and then see more on niggers.

[Kid Fury]

Great work.

[Crissle West]

Great. Thanks, Google. Thanks. The largest search engine on the fucking planet. Thank you so much. That feels good. That feels good.

[Kid Fury]

What?

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Fuck. What way?

[Crissle West]

So once again, it is very much this feeling of y' all just, you do not care to take care with us. And I cannot help.

[Kid Fury]

Exactly.

[Crissle West]

I cannot help but believe that. That if this man had shouted out faggot to the. To the host of the show. Come on now. I cannot help but believe y' all would have made efforts to make sure that. And, and. And then to find out that Warner Brothers obviously heard about what happened and reached out to the Baptist and said, make sure you don't disrespect our fucking actors in this broadcast. Like, make sure that's edited out. Make sure that's cleaned up. And y' all still didn't do it. I cannot help but to believe y' all simply don't care about it when it's only us that's being affected. I believe y' all would have bent over backwards to make sure nobody heard a faggot or a pussy eating, bulldagging dyke. I do believe that.

[Kid Fury]

I do believe I literally said that exact same. I was like, let it have been somebody yelled out faggot. Let it have been a black person with tures that would scream white devil.

[Crissle West]

Right? Like Felicia, let it have been a black person, say Free Palestine. Y' all made sure to edit that out.

[Kid Fury]

It wouldn't even make it out the fucking.

[Crissle West]

You don't give a fuck because it's us.

[Kid Fury]

Exactly.

[Crissle West]

And it's.

[Kid Fury]

At this point, Google Alert was. AI. So absolutely get off my stack about it. Like, I knew, bitch. I knew that this was AI. Thanks.

[Crissle West]

So I'm really over it. I'm really fucking over it. I'm tired of this. I. And I don't want apologies at this point. I don't even want to fucking hear because I feel like if you have to be pressured into an apology, you might as well not give any it because you don't mean it. An apology is supposed to be you saying that you are remorseful for what you did. You are remorseful for the impact that it had on others. You did not want Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo to feel shitty about themselves, to feel attacked or whatever else during a massive moment for them. And yet that is exactly what happened. So the. I don't even want to. I don't want to hear it now. I don't want to see it. I don't want to beg you for it.

[Kid Fury]

It.

[Crissle West]

You didn't feel like you needed to apologize. So don't. It's just a goddamn shame that on a night where Sinners won, like, the most awards at the baftas that any black movie has ever won, and Ryan Coogler got the first award for a black man or a black person for original screenplay. And all this, of course, this is overshadowing all of that because y' all can't just give us our things and let us have that. It always has to be some mess. The rest of us. This should have been something that came out, you know, days later with whispers around from people in the building, like, oh, yeah, the man with Tourette's, his movie. You know the word. The man won best actor. He actually did holler out while he was on stage. Thankfully, the BBC edited that out, but it was very uncomfortable for us. Like, the fact that the rest of us even knew about it. And y' all took 15 hours to remove that moment from the broadcast. Then talk about, oh, well, once we noticed it, we went in and deleted that bitch. It's over now. We've all seen these clips. It's over. It's over. Go back and edit it now. For what? You don't actually give a shit about us. It's so clear.

[Kid Fury]

You also raised a perfect point that when it happened, do you know how many producers. Do you know how many PAs. Do you know how many people are literally producing that show that are in there? That would have been a. I just screamed out, right? So they didn't care.

[Crissle West]

Even Deadline, because I've read, like, eight articles about this. I was like, I need to know every bit of information about this before I talk about it. Even Deadline said we had two journalists in the room who heard it and texted in our group, WhatsApp, like, John Davidson just said nigger at the BAFTAs. It's very uncomfortable in here. People are shocked. You mean to tell me nobody associated with the production said, hey, let's kick this out to the media room because we have two goddamn hours. Mind you, this is a two hour tape delay. We have two hours to make sure that them few seconds are cut out. Nobody did it. Deadline could tell they people outside the room, countless other journalists, other actors, producers, people involved, they all could say something and you couldn't. All right, that lets me know you simply did not give a shit of all this backlash or whatever. You knew it was coming and you didn't really give a fuck.

[Kid Fury]

Just another example of white people just taking a hateful piss down our backs and then going, I'm not racist, guys. I'm really. It's really hurtful and it's really caused a lot of harm that you guys would think that I'm racist instead of Whoa, my bad. For all that urine I was pointing in the wrong direction. Listen, don't tell me to get over a fuck thing. Don't tell them to go over. Yeah, how about you get over my fat black ass, bitch. I mean bruv, go fuck yourself, right?

[Crissle West]

Just go. Just go fuck yourselves. That you. The lack of care for black people and what we experience is so evident. And I'm. I'm really sorry to Michael and Delroy that they had to deal with that bullshit. I really am.

[Kid Fury]

Me too.

[Crissle West]

I just saw a story about Michael B. Jordan's parents were crying after that, like in complete distress.

[Kid Fury]

I don't blame them because their son

[Crissle West]

is at the Baptist being called a nigga on stage. Like the incident is hurtful enough. The incident is bad enough. It's bad enough by itself. It's worth talking about by itself. The fact that the baftas and the BBC dropped the ball this way. Unfortunately, Great Britain, y' all are never ever beating the original racist allegations. Never ever, ever. It's times like these where I remember that the racist white folks we have over here came from somewhere and that somewhere is there.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I think about it all the time.

[Crissle West]

Cuz I do think the Oscars would have edited that out. I do.

[Kid Fury]

No, Shay like, oh Shay, we have terrible whites.

[Crissle West]

But they not. They not like that.

[Kid Fury]

No Shay Turning Point Mar Lago. They'd have left it in.

[Crissle West]

Right, right. Fox would have left it in.

[Kid Fury]

The Oscars would have like we don't. We can't keep it.

[Crissle West]

ABC Disney would have edited that out right out of here. Wild. A little a crumb of respect for black people, especially black people at the top of their goddamn game would be appreciated.

[Kid Fury]

But you can eat all that's asking for too much, cuz none of you can with sinners. And that's an alive fact today. Tell your mom. Yeah.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Okay.

[Crissle West]

That's it for me.

[Kid Fury]

Watching tonight. Watch it again tonight. Resident Evil comes out this Friday anyway, so I'm already in a horror mood. I watch horror movies all the time. I think I watch one horror movie a day. Woo.

[Crissle West]

I can't imagine.

[Kid Fury]

I don't have nightmares.

[Crissle West]

I just don't. I can't live like that. I cannot do it.

[Kid Fury]

But my nightmares are about deep space, which I told you. High school.

[Crissle West]

Oh, right. High school.

[Kid Fury]

And like argue with my family. Okay,

[Crissle West]

well, I do believe that is going to wrap up this week's episode of the read, begging white people to at least pretend to give a about black people. It would be very nice if you could just try a little bit. Maybe think about it.

[Kid Fury]

You don't have to go to college for it. It's not like you don't like just fucking be decent.

[Crissle West]

Shit it. It's a small ask. If you all would please consider. I don't want to check out the read on social media at. This is the Read. Our website is. This is the Read.com Chrysalis couch new episode out now. Check ChrysalisTouch.com for links to all episodes and to follow us on social media. Any news from you this week, Kiffury?

[Kid Fury]

Yes, indeed. I have a new podcast that just came out. It's called Furious Thoughts. Finally. Yeah, go check it out on your podcast platforms as well as the YouTube FearIsThoughtsPod on Instagram. Shout out to my girl, Queen Char for being on the first episode. It's gonna be a wing ding doodle. Have a couple more guests. Some episodes will just be neat. Thank you guys for being patient and I'm very excited about it. You can also go find me on Kid Fury across your socials as well as patreon.com kidfury for goodies upcoming pod exclusive. And my breasts. I think my tit. I think my TikTok. I think my TikTok is crotchety.

[Crissle West]

Oh my God.

[Kid Fury]

I don't really know. You can figure that one out. And yeah, I think that's about it.

[Crissle West]

The girls are waiting for the salmon wall. They have been waiting, girl.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, the read is ending meme. It's on my nerves now.

[Crissle West]

What?

[Kid Fury]

It's officially on my nerves. You know, it's always been always the read ending is the read ending.

[Crissle West]

Oh, y' all have been saying this since like year three, right?

[Kid Fury]

But it used to be, oh, the girls have been doing it for a while now. Are they. They quitting now? It's like, you have a podcast. I have a separate podcast. So is it.

[Crissle West]

Girl, they're different things. Girly, calm down. We will tell y' all when the show is ending. You do not have to speculate.

[Kid Fury]

First of all, I want to make a thing of it. I want a full four weeks, special guest musical appearances.

[Crissle West]

We're gonna go all out when this show. I'm telling y'.

[Kid Fury]

All.

[Crissle West]

These are. Can we have personal, separate entries?

[Kid Fury]

Thank you. Girl. You have podcasting dollies that you love who've been successful in the game for, like, four years. They got eight podcasts. Bitch, we coming like, we just passed 13.

[Crissle West]

Everybody called.

[Kid Fury]

We can't have two more.

[Crissle West]

Everybody simmered down.

[Kid Fury]

God damn. Now you're getting on my nerves.

[Crissle West]

We've done other. We've done things separately.

[Kid Fury]

Thank you.

[Crissle West]

Did y' all do this when I did insecurity? Did y' all act like you had

[Kid Fury]

a whole show on Apple Music? I cried.

[Crissle West]

Oh, God bless. I love that y' all are stressed out, but we will tell you, okay? You don't have to do all this. I think they care. They do. And I really do appreciate it. But we will tell y'. All. I promise it won't just be. And I understand some of you are scarred. Cause some of your favorite shows just ended out of nowhere.

[Kid Fury]

Ooh, that's true.

[Crissle West]

You got a little desus and mero ptsd. But calm down, Calm down. Thank you for caring so much. Thank y' all for tuning in all these years. We really do appreciate it. But you can simmer down about this one, please.

[Kid Fury]

My God.

[Crissle West]

All right, Take care of yourselves. We will see y' all next week, I promise.

[Kid Fury]

Right,

[Crissle West]

You've made it on time for

[Kid Fury]

the McDonald's breakfast menu. You think to yourself, finally, I could

[Crissle West]

start my day day with my perfect breakfast.

[Kid Fury]

But what if breakfast could be even

[Crissle West]

more perfect with the hot honey sausage egg biscuit? It finally is.

[Kid Fury]

This won't last forever, so go to

[Crissle West]

McDonald's and get it while you can.

[Kid Fury]

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