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Crystal
Happy day.
Kid Fury
Hey, guys. Welcome back to the read. A day late, but not a dollar short. First of all, my name is Kim Possible.
Crystal
And I am Roy Ayers. And this is indeed the read. Thank you for returning.
Kid Fury
It is. This is the month of March, but we are no less black. We are no less excellent. And thus we continue today in Black Excellence. I would like to give it to Paul Tazewell, who became the first black, first black man to win an Oscar for best costume design. An Oscar, which he was more than deserving of. If you have seen the film Wicked Part 1. He's put in over 35 years of experience into costuming, a lot of which took place on the Broadway stages. And now he has taken home the little golden man for his costume work in film. Wicked was nominated for a ton of stuff. I'm very glad that they won costume because, wow, the outfits and costumes in the Wicked film were incredible. And mama, they were cinched so good for him.
Crystal
I mean, I agree when you look at Ariana and Cynthia's wardrobes alone, it is unreal. But even down to the fucking students at Shiz, the details in their school uniforms, Madame Morrible and her looks, it's just so very, very, very well deserved. And I saw a photo of Ruth Carter. Yeah, of course. And so just love to see our. And I love that he said that on stage, that he was the first black man to get that award. So get your flowers. You know, black man, you very much deserve them. Congratulations.
Kid Fury
Yes, indeed. Congratulations also to. 17 year old Kimora Freeland has become the youngest licensed pilot in New York and one of the youngest in U.S. history. She learned to fly a plane before she even had a driver's license. She earned her private, private pilot license on 26 February, which allows her to captain a single engine aircraft with up to 12 passengers. She got her driver's license the very next day. So work. Love it. Kamara admits aviation wasn't initially a part of her dreams. She said, I never wanted to be a pilot, but after my first flight I was like, wow, I could do this for a living. She's part of the United Youth Aviators program, an initiative that trains people between ages 13 and 18. And in the fall, she will attend Spelman on a full presidential scholarship where she plans to study economics.
Crystal
Congratulations.
Kid Fury
Oh, yes, I love to hear the.
Crystal
Excellence going to excellence. Congrats. Boo. Oh, that's one. I just love that. That reminds me of that. I think her name is Bri Clark. She's like the first college gymnast to do the Biles one or something. Another black girl. And it's just like, oh, stuff like that. Just my heart, because I need all of that. Random bursts of joy and black people being incredible.
Kid Fury
One thing thousand percent needed now more than ever.
Crystal
Cause. Did you tune in to that presidential. That joint address that happened the other night? Did you watch that?
Kid Fury
I don't want to think about it, baby.
Crystal
When I tell you it was the ramblings of an incoherent, aging coco. This nigga said, we spent $8 million on transgender mice.
Kid Fury
I hate it. I just. It's like, I watch this stuff, and then I'm just like, why am I here? What does this have to do with me?
Crystal
Oh, my God. It's just. It. I. I watched as much of it as I possibly could, and then he went. When he started.
Kid Fury
Has it been two months?
Crystal
He started doing, like, his type five, this nigga was. He stopped doing stand up, and I was like, yeah, I hate it. I'm actually cutting this off.
Kid Fury
It's so unbearable. I don't understand how anybody listens to his voice, listens to him speak for more than 30 seconds. It is unbearable.
Crystal
He is the president. So I do try to stay, you know, remotely.
Kid Fury
I try to, but. But I can't.
Crystal
The way he tried.
Kid Fury
I tried to care about my mind, too.
Crystal
The way he acted with President Zelensky in the fucking Oval Office.
Kid Fury
I said, well, that was kind of tea.
Crystal
No, no, that wasn't no kind of tea.
Kid Fury
Because for, like, absolutely not, I got past the 32nd mark. Only because it was kind of like, oh, this is Housewives.
Crystal
You said fx.
Kid Fury
It was like that level of, like, unhinged and stupid and speaking over each other, and both y'all bitches are wrong.
Crystal
It was just because you and J.D. vance is over here trying to tag team this man whose country is war right now, talking about, well, have you said thank you since we sat down here in this office today? Bitch, are you. Is that what you expected? Did you want me to come in here on my hands and knees and kissing your fucking feet and thanking God for you? Is that what you wanted? Is that what you expected?
Kid Fury
That was, like, his entire thing. He was. It was just kind of like yelling, how ungrateful.
Crystal
I feel like you're not showing me, right? Some sort of God, like, king, like, level of respect. You're two presidents. Like, what? How. Oh, my God.
Kid Fury
It was so embarrassing.
Crystal
It is. It's so. It is actually so humiliating. I'm just like, I hope y'all know that, like, I'm a black woman in New York City, so there's no way I agree with this nigga on, like, anything. I just hope you.
Kid Fury
I think that's a given.
Crystal
The rest of the world knows, like, I am on y'all side. Canada. Canada. Pulling.
Kid Fury
You just go to the bodega for some eggs or whatever, and they're like, oh, yeah, she ain't got nothing to do with this.
Crystal
It's just like, she just happened to be here. But this ain't none of her.
Kid Fury
You just walk Lane in there like, yeah, that shit ain't got nothing to do with.
Crystal
Oh, yeah. So I. I do try to stay tuned in, but he makes it so hard because he is so fucking stupid. And just outright lies. And just outright lies.
Kid Fury
Lies within the first 60. Trying to tell jokes all the time.
Crystal
He gets one leg.
Kid Fury
Always off topic. Oh, God, it is unbearable.
Crystal
It is. It's really bad. Like, he and Elon are just doing ketamine in the Oval Office and then going out there and saying whatever the fuck they want to.
Kid Fury
So here we are.
Crystal
Yeah, good luck to the rest of us. You know, he's going back and forth with what he says he'll do, and then what he actually can end up doing, it's just like. Just fudgeing with people's emotions for the hell of it. Oh, I might get rid of the Department of Education. Oh, I actually can't just do that via executive order. Okay, my bad.
Kid Fury
But you did this.
Crystal
Tariffs on Mexico. No tariffs on Mexico. Okay. Just back. Just saying shit. China said, whatever you bitches.
Kid Fury
I was just about to say that.
Crystal
Chyna said.
Kid Fury
I was just about to say, whatever.
Crystal
Y'All energy is, girl.
Kid Fury
Chyna said, whatever time you on, just know that I'm past it.
Crystal
We can handle this in a real respectful, demure, classy, like way.
Kid Fury
Our clocks run fast, so just know whatever time you own, we better.
Crystal
You don't wanna see us. So.
Kid Fury
So.
Crystal
Oh, God. It's not funny.
Kid Fury
It is. It. But it's just like, what else are we supposed to do, right?
Crystal
Because here we. And Democrats are singing We Shall Overcome in the middle of the House floor. So that's.
Kid Fury
That's where we are. Was it what, Governor? Was it that was like, bitch, if you're going to. If you're trying to fuck with the Department of Education or something. Something that we're not paying no tax.
Crystal
I think it was her, and I think it was the one in Maine. Yes, I think it was the governor of Maine. I think it was Maine. And I will See you in court. Behind it, Miss Girl.
Kid Fury
And I will know that we're not paying you no goddamn taxes if that's how you feel.
Crystal
He just be saying. He just be saying shit. And then he sees what can actually stick. And it's just.
Kid Fury
Yes.
Crystal
Stressing everybody else the hell out in the meantime, which is the point. So I limit the amount of time that I subject myself to this mess. But.
Kid Fury
But the first four years, I was like, how do people not realize that this man is a star. Cold dumbass. And that he just says whatever?
Crystal
They don't care because they are, too.
Kid Fury
And then a couple of months ago, I saw that Giardiance commercial and I watched live television and I was like, oh, yeah, Americans are stupid.
Crystal
Here we are.
Kid Fury
Here we are. Well, today for the Hotbox, um, let's just say give honor to a couple of people who've passed on to glory. Assuming Angie Stone passed away the age of 63 in a car accident.
Crystal
Yeah.
Kid Fury
Awful.
Crystal
I saw that. That's scary. You know, that's.
Kid Fury
That is really scary.
Crystal
Just anybody. But that's how. Yeah. Very, very sorry to hear that. Very sad for her family and friends. I can't say I was the biggest fan of her music aside from that one era, you know, so it's not like I really kept up with her a lot, but, yeah, fair enough. Tragic, nonetheless.
Kid Fury
Chris Jasper of Isley Brothers also passed away at the age of 73. Cancer. Great. And Michelle Trachtenberg, as we found out last week, Michelle Trachtenberg of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gossip Girl, Harriet the Spy, passed away at 39. She was found unresponsive in her apartment on 26 February. All of this sucks.
Crystal
Yeah. Duran is actually the one who told me about Michelle Trachtenberg.
Kid Fury
Yeah, he told both of us.
Crystal
That was just so crazy.
Kid Fury
I gagged.
Crystal
How can this. But then I saw she had been having health problems and she recently had a liver transplant. So it could have been.
Kid Fury
Yeah. You know, complications with that.
Crystal
Yeah. You just never know. But.
Kid Fury
Yeah.
Crystal
And then Roy Ayers, he just passed away a couple of days.
Kid Fury
Oh. Yeah.
Crystal
So it's been a lot of, you know, pretty legendary people leaving us here lately.
Kid Fury
Honestly, probably better off. I mean, the other option is existing here.
Crystal
Well, you know, that's giving a bit.
Kid Fury
But I know what I've been through.
Crystal
I was gonna say this is a. I feel like this is perhaps right on that line of, like, relatable depression versus. Do we need to check. Check on you?
Kid Fury
I mean, look at Earth.
Crystal
Okay, Valid.
Kid Fury
I'm just saying Valid.
Crystal
I'm just saying, nigga, I know you.
Kid Fury
So the Oscars took place. Okay, what else?
Crystal
Wait a minute, wait a minute. We have to talk about the opener if we don't talk about nothing else.
Kid Fury
Oh, okay.
Crystal
Did you watch? What? Did you watch the opener of the Oscars or the Ariana and synth? No. Oh, my God.
Kid Fury
Oh, were they the ones who opened it? Lovely. I saw that.
Crystal
Yes, yes. Ariana in a red gown with the red on the back. Okay, so you did. Okay, good. So you saw this Sparked in beers.
Kid Fury
Fierce. Whoever was like. Cause they could have easily just done some songs from Wicked. Duh. Whoever was like, let's do both Dorothy's and then have Cynthia define Grady.
Crystal
Right. Having Cynthia do the Wiz.
Kid Fury
Smart.
Crystal
Right, Smart.
Kid Fury
Because when Ariana came out and she was singing Somewhere over the Rainbow, I figured, oh, they're doing like, you know.
Crystal
Yeah, a little medley.
Kid Fury
When that black woman came out and started singing Diana Ross, I was like, this is so clever.
Crystal
Oh, man. Yeah.
Kid Fury
And the stuff looked great, sounded great. I loved it.
Crystal
That's literally where I was about to go. I loved Cynthia's giant white gown with the flowers.
Kid Fury
Gorgeous.
Crystal
The way Ariana kissed her hand after they did their moment in defying. They. The literal pedestal lifting her up while she does this huge moment in that song. And of course, the. The defying gravity battle cry or whatever y'all call it. It was just.
Kid Fury
I think they do call it a battle cry.
Crystal
So fucking good. It was.
Kid Fury
Make it look easy.
Crystal
I actually wept. I don't know what it is about these two bitches. I really don't know. But it is something about the two of them singing these songs together that really gets me. It does.
Kid Fury
Home got me. Home got me. Because Somewhere over the Rainbow is already a beautiful song. But, yeah, there was something about the unexpected performance of Home, which is also a very beautiful song. Which I am. Is closer to me for obvious reasons. So the fact that they honored both versions of that story to me in that way was so clever. It was really beautiful and very emotional and. Yeah. I just. Any excuse. At first, I thought it was kind of strange that they were performing because I don't know how many. I mean, actually, lots of times people who are performing songs that haven't. Yeah.
Crystal
Are nominated for something. Yeah. I think we just don't see it a lot at the Oscars. What they gonna do? Go up there and do a monologue. Like, people don't go up there and act as a performance. But this was quite different because they are.
Kid Fury
Yeah, I was Gonna say, like, I. I couldn't think of the last time I saw, like, nominated artists perform songs from the thing they were nominated in, but I'm like, girl, no, they do that all the time. I got it. They do do that all the time. Like, I'm thinking of at least like a couple of performances right now where people were like, oh, yeah, we were nominated for La La Land or for fucking Tangle.
Crystal
Well, they do it. Yeah, they do.
Kid Fury
For.
Crystal
For whatever song is nominated for best song at the. They do that. You know, they perform typically each song that's nominated in that category.
Kid Fury
I don't know what those other performances were.
Crystal
I'm not sure.
Kid Fury
Oh, wait, you know what? I didn't watch Ray. I didn't see Ray's.
Crystal
Oh, well, Ray. That's a shame, because Ray actually saved it.
Kid Fury
I mean, I'm sure.
Crystal
I'm sure it did because Ray actually saved it. Bless those cat heart. Bless her heart. But I was sitting at home, I'm like, is this one of those times where it's so bad it's good? Like, I'm trying to figure out, do I actually like this? And then Lainey started having an absolute fit. I mean, barking at the television nonstop. She said, you actually have to turn this off. Like, I cannot hear it.
Kid Fury
So he said, no, actually, there is time to die right now. Cut the mic.
Crystal
But then I saw Doja posted on Instagram about how, you know, she. Because that was the next question was, was she trying to sound bad? You know, she don't take nothing serious. She be trolling all the time. But she said, no, actually. But she worked very hard at this and she was very nervous and so she was a little flat, but, oh, well, she had a great time and she can't wait to do it again. Like, that's a very healthy attitude to have.
Kid Fury
Yeah.
Crystal
Because people are rightfully dragging it. It was not a good performance, sweetheart. And it would have been easy to say, y'all know how I am. Haha. I'm big jokester. You know, that's the doja cat way.
Kid Fury
But you decided she would win for that either. They would just be like, no, you weren't, bitch, you were dead ass. You might as well be honest.
Crystal
That's true. You cannot win with the Internet, so.
Kid Fury
You might as well tell the truth at all.
Crystal
Yeah, that was nice.
Kid Fury
She's right. I think that is a good attitude to have. Like, because first of all, girl, who asked you, did you, like, did you go out of your way and bang down the academy door and say, I will perform here. You won't have an award show. Hell the fuck no. Somebody rang your doorbell and said, will you come sing at the fucking Oscars? And you were like, why would I say no to that? Right the end. Why was Lisa there? She didn't sing nothing. So I want to know.
Crystal
Amber told me Lisa has a billionaire boyfriend. And I said a lot of things are. Are. Are making sense for me now if that's true.
Kid Fury
And he's like on the committee or something. I read that too.
Crystal
See, so then there you go. Ask and answered. But it was. Yeah, that was not Ray. It's a shame you didn't see Ray because, yeah, she really did save that whole moment. I did wonder why we had three or four songs for James Bond and only one for Quincy Jones. Like J. James Bond. Not even a person. This is like a franchise. Quincy Jones is like an actual legend. Like, I'm just so confused now. I'm not. I wasn't mad at it, right? Of course. But you know, they had my dad doing the tribute, so I loved it, but I just felt like Quincy. Now I get the show is long, but that's why we can cut out a bunch of fillery dumb shit. Like Conan spending 15 minutes doing a song about how this year we're not going to waste time. I get it that that's the joke. Haha. We're wasting time by singing about how we're not wasting time, but you are actually wasting time. And then you be cutting people off and trying to rush them through their speeches. Or not giving Quincy Jones the honor he deserves because of this dumb shit. Why is 35 minutes. Oh my God. That Adrien Brody and I didn't watch it. Kieran.
Kid Fury
I don't know.
Crystal
First of all, I mean, a lot.
Kid Fury
The longest successful speech in history.
Crystal
When I tell you that man got up there and rambled and they played the music and he was like, no. He told him to cut it off.
Kid Fury
Yes.
Crystal
It's like, nigga, we are already running late. And Kieran Cogan does the same thing. He gets up there and he mumbles and says three words. And then when his time is up, he decides to go into a fucking anecdote. Nigga, wrap it up. Wrap it up. You are not the only person winning today.
Kid Fury
I can name at least like 10 other people who were there where if they were to say, stop playing the music, that would be the end of their career.
Crystal
Yes. I mean, and some people who. Who won and get cut off, they don't even have. There's Not. That's not even an option. They simply turn the music on, cut the mic off, fade the camera away, and that's it. That's it. Yeah, but these entitled white assholes get to get up here and take as much time as they fucking want to and shoe off the music. Girl, fuck that. I hate that bullshit.
Kid Fury
I actually don't like it.
Crystal
I don't care how talented you are. That's so entitled. Get up there and take your.
Kid Fury
Unless he's talking about some, like, real shit.
Crystal
I mean, I'm sure he said something that was, like, valuable or useful. It's just. We do not. You can also do that on Instagram. This is a live broadcast of not only.
Kid Fury
Not only Instagram. And this is no shade, because I never been. Never won a goddamn thing. But not only do you get to do it on Instagram, after you win the award and you walk off stage, you go to a press room where there are a bunch of people who work for the media, where you discuss winning and what it means to you and answer a whole bunch of questions.
Crystal
Yes.
Kid Fury
So if there's anything that you didn't get a chance to say. And a lot of the times that's not televised, but a lot of the times you will see that immediately after or very soon after, because the different people who are reporting shove it up there, streaming immediately. So if there isn't anything that you get to say on stage, let's say, for instance, you forget to thank your director or your mom or your baby or whatever. We go back to do the thing right after. Oh, and I just want to say a really quick thank you to Patrisse. You should be asleep right now. But, you know, Mommy, whatever you do it back there. Like, look at when she won. When she won her Grammys and she went backstage and told Entertainment Tonight that she forgot to thank Rumi on stage, and she know Rumi's watching. Thank you. Like, you don't have to.
Crystal
You can just take your 45 seconds. Minute, minute and a half, whatever. You. You can just take your time, keep it cute and brief, and get off the stage. Because even though you won a very big award, this whole entire night is not actually about you.
Kid Fury
It just isn't. It's about Honora.
Crystal
That gets. That gets on my nerves.
Kid Fury
That movie is fierce. Have you seen it?
Crystal
No. Everybody? Well, not everybody.
Kid Fury
It really, really, really is good. I'm gagged that Mikey won Best Actor, so. Because I don't think she should have. But no, no, Mikey was amazing in that movie. I just Think that everybody was amazing in that category. And a lot of the other actors had, in my opinion, more that was physically asked of them and emotionally asked of them. But Honora, to me was. When I finished watching Anora a couple of months ago, as soon as the credits started, I texted Mike. Mike, the actor and director, my friend.
Crystal
Oh, yes.
Kid Fury
Mike lights him up. I text him right after that. And I was like, nigga, have you seen Anora? He was like, no. I was like, watch it right now. It's best. It's movie of the year. It's gonna win.
Crystal
Wow.
Kid Fury
And, yeah, it's like a movie movie. I think you would really like it.
Crystal
Okay.
Kid Fury
I think you like it. Maybe not best picture like it, but I think you would get a chick out of it. It's better than Amelia goddamn Perez.
Crystal
Everybody is dragging it. Cheskaliba just posted a clip from her podcast on Instagram where they are like, this is the. How you make a musical with no songs that anybody would ever sing or, like, wanna sing.
Kid Fury
And it won. Didn't it win songs?
Crystal
It won best musical at the Golden Globes. It won best musical at the Golden Globes. I've never seen it, but I'm really here.
Kid Fury
You are Ariana Grande, finally, finally portraying the role you've always wanted to, singing just your damnedest while doing high kicks and shit.
Crystal
Right?
Kid Fury
And here come the bitch from Avatar talking about liposuction. Whatever, Rhinoplasty, or whatever the fuck. Yes, yes, yes, I was. So what are we talking about?
Crystal
This looks really bad.
Kid Fury
It sucks. And Zoe's a fine actor. Great. Amazing. This role. This was a very confusing year, but Honora was t. That's really all I can do.
Crystal
Okay. Because, I mean, I did not see. I can't say whether she deserved that Oscar. I do know that her acceptance speech felt a little not. You know, how artistic, creative theater people can just get so into it that the. When they express their emotions, it sounds like they're performing as opposed to just saying how they feel. Right?
Kid Fury
Yeah.
Crystal
It felt more like she was delivering the most powerful monologue to close out the end of the season of Scandal. You know, it just. It felt more like she was just up there, you know, giving us a show as opposed to. But whatever. The. The artists are like that. Actors are like that.
Kid Fury
I think I was just gagged because she's so young, and I. I do think that the other performers had. Yeah, I think I. She. She's the. Would probably be the last person I chose to win this. Even though I thought Nora was the best movie also because she is. She's so young. She's gonna be nominated again.
Crystal
Well, so, yeah, that was. That was the Oscars.
Kid Fury
Yeah, I guess it happened. What also happened are these two years of jail that Karen Huger was sentenced to. Oh my. On the 26th of February by a Maryland circuit court judge. She was found guilty of driving under the influence. Negligent driving, failure to control speed to avoid collision. I feel like that should just be inside of the DUI portion.
Crystal
Like DUI also covers these other five.
Kid Fury
Negligent driving and failure to control speed. I mean, God damn it. I guess you got to be specific on what kind of negligent driving it were.
Crystal
Listen, you. You're actually fucking up in so many ways. We are going to have to narrow it down.
Kid Fury
And failure to notify of a change in address. Now that sounds very House Housewives.
Crystal
That sounds very average everyday person. Most people don't just go update their address with the dmv, get it updated on their license every time they move. So. Yeah, this is just the sort of thing they tack that on there because they could.
Kid Fury
Yeah, because why not?
Crystal
I don't understand why she insisted on taking this to court. Why didn't you take the plea? Why would you take this to trial?
Kid Fury
I heard she got a. A plea of like six month house arrest.
Crystal
Right, baby, why you didn't take the six months? Especially knowing you have a record that you've been arrested for DUI before and that you are. They have you on camera. Like, you know, these officers have body cameras or whatever else. You are pissy fucking drunk on this footage. Why in the hell would your attorney let you take this to trial? Six months at home. Most people would call that a blessing.
Kid Fury
One year since is suspended, meaning she's expected to serve one year in jail. In addition to her time in jail, she faces a $2900 fine. No driving for a year, which is also minimum, nothing considered and five years of supervised probation. I also don't know why she wouldn't just take the six lane.
Crystal
Right? You know that you have a record. Like you've been caught driving drunk, I think twice before. That's just how many times you've been caught. But Bitch, you have two. Two DUIs and you've been. They've been letting you skate by with no jail time. And then this happens and you have the nerve to take it to trial. Like, I just know they not gonna put me in jail. Yeah, they actually did need to put you in jail. How did you.
Kid Fury
I don't know why drinking when she met.
Crystal
Were you and your attorney drinking? Was your attorney just like. You know what? This is billable hours. This is billable hours. You want to take this to trial, girl, that's fine. But no, ma'am. And you have this extra spotlight on you because you're on tv. Like, I. Well, surely you see now the error in your ways. You're gonna be missing. Maybe she was, you know, six months house where she couldn't shoot housewives or something, but you're not shooting housewives regardless, right? Like. And they could have still came to you.
Kid Fury
Absolutely shoot. Absolutely shoot that On. On. First of all, listen, Angie's gonna shoot whatever the fuck the camera can get, and you can bet your blackest bottom dollar on that. Especially if it's something as dramatic as this.
Crystal
Right?
Kid Fury
They would have found a whole entire way to build the entire season around Bischo.
Crystal
She gonna have a garden party? Yeah, she'll have a garden party every month. So they can always. They shoot enough and. And she causes enough mess to carry on through other storylines like this.
Kid Fury
I don't bedazzle the fucking ankle. Ankle monitor. Get the dogs to have matching collars.
Crystal
Only God knows what she's.
Kid Fury
I don't get it.
Crystal
I don't.
Kid Fury
Only God.
Crystal
Because the arrogance to think that they wouldn't throw your black ass in jail on your third DUI, Ms. Ma'am.
Kid Fury
Your black drunk female ass.
Crystal
And you clearly do have a problem with drinking and driving. Like, you do actually need to go to jail in this era of Uber and Lyft and you've rich.
Kid Fury
Come on.
Crystal
It makes no sense at all for you to be driving. Driving at all, baby. So it do sound like they did the right thing. You actually do need to go sit down somewhere and really think about yourself and the choices you making. Cause aren't you a grandmother?
Kid Fury
No, seriously, like, jokes aside, talking about something you can't drive for a year after, that's nothing. For someone who seems to genuinely have a problem with drinking and with driving after drinking, telling them that they can't drive for a year after or whatever to me is. Is nothing.
Crystal
It's absolutely nothing.
Kid Fury
Make me someone, like, who also exists on the road, right? Feel safe.
Crystal
Exactly.
Kid Fury
That Karen Huger is not going to mow me down. You like, what else can be put in place, right, to address this person's actual issue? This is a fucking problem with the judicial system now in this country. What do going to actually do to help this person not do this again, not only for their safety, but for the safety of other people. Because I'm assuming whenever she was pulled over, maybe it was late when other people. But it really doesn't fucking matter. It's like ultimately other people on the road.
Crystal
Right.
Kid Fury
Can be seriously putting them at risk. Very, very often seriously hurt because of another person who's under the influence striving. So just being like, okay, go, go ahead, you go be giving you two years. But you go spend a year in, then you can't drive for a year, whatever, get out. Like, what does that do?
Crystal
Hopefully the embarrassment of being in prison jail for a year will stop you from doing something like this. And like, hopefully you learn a lesson over the next 365 that you spend incarcerated. Because the thing about it is that Karen is not somebody without resources. You have every opportunity to not Dr. And drive.
Kid Fury
Exactly.
Crystal
And all they can do is take your license, but they can't take away your access to keys. All they. The only way to stop you from driving is to keep you locked up. Now if you keep drinking and driving, these people gonna have no choice but to keep you locked up. This you don't need community support, you don't need a connection with a social worker to help you, you know, get into substance abuse therapy and shit. Like, you have everything you could possibly need right in front of you.
Kid Fury
Yeah.
Crystal
Whether you take advantage of it is up to you.
Kid Fury
Yeah. Believing that that will fall on Karen's ears and she will do something about it. It's also assuming that you're dealing with somebody who has the sense to know that after they have already caught a DUI charge and they are offered a plea of six months to stay at home that they should take back instead of going to jail for two years. That is not the person we're dealing with, unfortunately. So who the fuck knows how this will turn out?
Crystal
Well, I've heard that if don't nothing change your mind, jail will. So let's see.
Kid Fury
I've heard the same. I have actually heard the same. So we will see. Party next door versus Tory Lanez. How. Speaking of jl, how's this still happening? Why is Tory Lanez still in my news? Somebody come get him responding.
Crystal
He still got a lawyer. He still got a lawyer, so.
Kid Fury
Okay, wait. PartyNextDoor previewed a song on Instagram Live that dissed Tory Lanez after hearing Torey had made some comments about Toronto artists. But Torey's from Toronto, isn't he? Fuck with Tory Lanez. Say I did everything he did. He's just a running man. Drama Man, I'm the daddy. Let me slap you. Okay. You said I sound like I don't care about this. I'm so sorry. Yeah, I'm done.
Crystal
I barely could even understand what you were saying.
Kid Fury
I don't even know how many words that was into it. And my brain just said, you know what? You are tired.
Crystal
And it's anybody against Tory Lanez, I'm probably gonna be on that person's side. Yeah.
Kid Fury
I'm gonna be on the other person's side anyway, so there. You know how I feel about it.
Crystal
I didn't even hear the details and I'm like, let's hear this. Party next door. Nigga out.
Kid Fury
Yeah. It starts with fuck what Tory Lanez say. I agree. Same. Also, Drake has reached a legal settlement with iHeartMedia and his law ongoing legal dispute over not like us. They've. The two parties have, quote, reached an amicable resolution of dispute. So our heart gave him some money, I guess.
Crystal
Maybe who actually knows especially. Right. We really don't know. We really don't know.
Kid Fury
This is what could have happened is. I mean.
Crystal
Yeah, that's exactly. That's what I'm thinking.
Kid Fury
Open the MacBook and hit a link. Press play you and then close the MacBook and say, I think we're done here. I think we're all done here.
Crystal
Yeah, see. See you guys later. And that was it.
Kid Fury
Thanks so much.
Crystal
Yep. This, that's. This is just one of the lawsuits, right? He has other ones.
Kid Fury
Yeah, he still has them on Universal.
Crystal
Right. So. But what a little. This is.
Kid Fury
He's so silly.
Crystal
You can just make your little dumb bops for girls and let it be that, like you couldn't just make your little.
Kid Fury
No, he feels some type of way about everybody dancing to this song. Calling him a pedophile. Well, I'm not. Listen, I'm giving you the perspective I believe I know to exist based on things I've seen and read. He feels some type of way. Everyone is singing a minor at the Grammys, Oscars, Super Bowl, Mega Bowl, Garden Bowl, Orange Bowl, Rose bowl, cereal bowl, like Lanybowl, Link bowl. They are singing a minor. Any sign up?
Crystal
Well, I mean, you probably should not have been texting 12 year old girls just saying if there wasn't nothing to base the rumor off of, then you know this came from your own behavior. Didn't pull this out of thin air, so. Oh, well, you're just gonna have to stay mad, I guess.
Kid Fury
And the poor thing. Anyways, Millie's getting really big. All the young people are Getting big.
Crystal
Yes. They're adults now. She's married.
Kid Fury
I hate it when she's married.
Crystal
Yes, she's married.
Kid Fury
Oh, my God.
Crystal
All the kids. Cayenne Anthony is in a commercial with Carmelo, and they're the same height. And I was like, oh, I hate it. Get me out of here. Get me out of here.
Kid Fury
I hate it. Snoop. Snoop brought his son. I don't know if it was Corey, but one of his boys that I swear I like, yesterday was. Was, like, the height of my knees. And he brought him out of the game awards. They're starting, like, a game company together. Same height, bass in his voice.
Crystal
No, thank you.
Kid Fury
Like, I'm just like, what is happening? I belched, and now I'm elderly, right?
Crystal
It does happen.
Kid Fury
To one of Bon Jovi's kids. That's fierce. I had no idea. This is crazy. Okay.
Crystal
Getting old.
Kid Fury
I'm there. Yeah. That's where I'm at now.
Crystal
All these people's kids just like. I mean, literally, dinner last night with Jade and Noah, and it's like, how are you this. She got her little adolescent attitude now. She just put her headphones on and ignore us. Like, okay, work.
Kid Fury
I told JB I was talking to Jaden, like, a week ago or so, I was on Facebook. She was like. Jaden was like, we're gonna fight one day. I was like, I don't know what is gonna happen, but I know where you're going. I know me. I know myself. I know her. And I said, jay, not only are you going to fight, you have to prepare now for the conversation you're gonna have after both of you start making writing notes.
Crystal
Oh, Lord, not on my watch.
Kid Fury
All right, you both pull your notes. And I was like, attitude or not, you read those notes, you love each other, and you knew this day would come.
Crystal
Not on my watch. I'll be mediating all of that, of course. But, yeah, motherhood. These little girls, man, I. I'd be stressed out with my daughter. Like, I be.
Kid Fury
Laney, listen.
Crystal
Laney went back. So Laney has. She's finally out of heat. She has healed from her spay. So she's back at daycare. Thank God. She was home for. For five weeks. And I felt like y'all. When covet hit and y'all were like, open the schools. I don't care if they die. Open the schools, because this child has to get out of my house. That caring for her through her heat and then the intense care she needed after getting spayed. And it's just me wore Me the out. It wore me the fuck out. Out. I don't know how y'all do it with human kids. I don't.
Kid Fury
I called crystal on FaceTime a couple days ago, and as soon as the phone, as soon as she picked up the phone, before she could say anything, I heard Lainey say, and it's the last time I'mma tell you.
Crystal
In my home. This is how she's doing me, like, so this is how it is.
Kid Fury
I wish. I wish I could say it gets better.
Crystal
She's back at daycare now and they texted me the other day, like, she has been running around non stop. She is so hyped to see her friends. And then when I picked her up, the guy was like, yeah, she had a great day. Just nothing but energy all day. And she was doing a little humping. Lainey said, look, that spay ain't changed nothing. But the pregnancy status is still up. I'm like, you could not be going to daycare trying to hump on them little boys at school, like, anyway, I don't know how we got on my.
Kid Fury
Child, but, yeah, because the kids are growing up fast.
Crystal
Oh, yes.
Kid Fury
Motherhood.
Crystal
Yeah. I mean, I do feel like what I do. I feel like a mother. I do.
Kid Fury
Yeah, you are.
Crystal
I am.
Kid Fury
Is that going to be it for my hot box? It is this week. All right, I'm gonna take a break and come back for letters. We're back, and it is time to read your listener letters.
Crystal
Yes, it is. Send your questions to AskTheRead gmail.com. we may read them aloud on the show. Well, well, well. So our first letter this week comes from Frederick, who says, first off, I love y'all so much. I've been listening for years and I need yalls wisdom on this because I truly do not feel like I did anything wrong. I have this friend who I'll call Mr. Therapy. We've been close for about three years. We're both in our 30s, and though we used to live in the same city, I moved about an hour away to the suburbs. We still keep in touch, but obviously life gets busy and I don't see people as much as I used to. A few weeks ago, out of nowhere, he messaged me saying that there were things in our friendship that haven't sat right with him and he felt like we needed space. Number one, I unfollowed his fitness Instagram, and number two, I unshared my location with him on Find My Friends. Neither of these things were personal. I unfollowed his fitness page Six or seven months ago. This was not recent. I had been doing a cleanse of my feed, removing fitness and body focused content because body dysmorphia is real and I was trying to be mindful of what I was consuming. And it's not like I unfollowed him entirely. I still follow his main page where he actually posts about his life. The location thing was an accident that I didn't even realize it happened a few weeks ago. He noticed and asked me about it casually, and I just said, oh, I must have hit something by accident. Now you can't see me trapped at school all day. That was the end of it. Or so I thought. But in his message, he framed it like I deliberately went into my settings and manually removed him, something I 100% did not do. So of course I tried to respond to him with some clarifying questions, but he completely ghosted me. No replies, no discussion. And this all went down on a Friday before his big birthday weekend where he was going out of town to see some men. So it just feels like he wanted to make a dramatic exit and shut me out. I would like to save this friendship, but if I'm being honest, it feels like I need an apology because what did I actually do here? Is an Instagram unfollow from a niche account and a location sharing accident really worth blowing up a friendship? This all went down on the weekend of Trump's inauguration, so the timing of it all makes it feel even more ridiculous. I get that people have feelings, but in the grand scheme of things, Kim, girl, there are people that are dying. I feel silly even asking y'all, but is there a chance I'm in the wrong here? Because I truly don't think I am. Should I even bother trying to work this out? Or should I take this as a sign that our friendship isn't as solid as I thought? I would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks again, Frederick.
Kid Fury
Child. Frederick. I think both of y'all overthink a lot.
Crystal
Okay, interesting.
Kid Fury
I think that he obviously sounds like he was overthinking when it comes to the unfollowing of the Instagram, which is a, like, an incredibly common thing for people to get in their feelings over, and then overthinking what the location thing is as well. Right? And being sensitive to it. But I also noticed that you mentioned that you feel like he hasn't responded to you because the day, the timing of this feels as if, you know, he wanted to make some sort of dramatic grand exit on the weekend of his birthday. And so that's why. When in fact, he could just, like, be like, in his feelings and not know how to have this conversation. And so he left. I also don't know why you're bringing up the inauguration. I don't know what that has to do with this. It sounds like they're like, both of y'all have done a lot of assuming and a lot of.
Crystal
I see what you mean.
Kid Fury
Misinterpretation. Now, I do take into account that you said you. I don't remember how he worded it, but it said that he tried to, like, explain.
Crystal
What did he say about the location sharing or about both of them?
Kid Fury
He said that he was like. He tried to have a conversation to clear it up. Yeah, like clarifying something.
Crystal
Yeah, he tried to ask some clarifying questions about, like, this is what you're mad at, but he just completely ghosted him. Didn't respond at all.
Kid Fury
So, okay, yeah, I think your friend could be in your feelings. It's very. It's very. I think it's okay and probably normal to maybe think, does this person feel some type of way about me or is this personal? If you try to explain to them, oh, no, this is where that is coming from. And they still take it another way. I don't really know what more you can do outside of that, but I'm not 100% sure that you've had like a sit down, sit down about this, because this isn't just one incident. This is him and the Instagram thing, him and the him and the Instagram thing, him and the locations thing. And then you sounds like feeling maybe not so comfortable or safe in the friendship because it's like, well, this person's making me feel like I've done these things wrong and they were accidents. And like, what is the status of this friendship? So it sounds like you need to kind of have like a nice general meeting about your friendship. It doesn't sound like anything yet has happened that's so dramatic that you shouldn't be able to do that and have, like, you, like I think you were saying, clarifying conversation about, you know, why you unfollowed fitness pages and how you know the location thing, and reassuring that, like, I don't feel no type of way about you and such and such and such. Is there anything that you feel about me that we haven't said here? Is there anything I can be doing differently? Try and just be. Have open ears and open heart and like a full, fully rounded conversation. But like I said, it does sound like he kind of attempted to tap that a bit here and didn't really get the greatest response.
Crystal
Any response?
Kid Fury
Yeah. So if you don't get response or whatever, then you just have to kind of be prepared to. To move on. Because I think that some people kind of get kicks out of making someone else the bad guy, and that doesn't really have anything to do with you. So, you know, if there isn't anything there to. To fix or clean up, then party's over. Gone.
Crystal
Yeah, it's. You know, if all this happened inauguration weekend, which was six, seven weeks ago at this point, and you've reached out. I don't know if you've reached out other than that one time when you responded with questions. I don't know if you've reached out since then, but if he has continued to ignore you this many weeks later, I would actually say that y'all don't have a friendship worth saving because you. You. You feeling like these are reasons to end a friendship anyway, to me, is a sign that this is not a relationship that I'm really invested in keeping in my life. Like, I could see if I had blocked you and unfollowed you on all Instagram accounts, but this is, like, one very niche thing. It's not even your main account, like you said. And then the sharing your location with people. If I do that, normally, if I share my location, it's because I'm going out of the country, and so it's more of a safety issue than anything else. And then I will actually turn it off because I don't like the idea of being able to track my location 24 7. Like, I actually do not like the idea of that.
Kid Fury
I forget it's a feature until somebody mentions it.
Crystal
I actually don't like. I hate Find my Friends. It's useful as though it is.
Kid Fury
It is in certain instances. Yes. If we're out of the country, if we're at a huge event, we're at a festival or a theme park or some.
Crystal
Yes.
Kid Fury
Bait your kids, you know, something like that.
Crystal
Something for kids. Absolutely. I mean, even if you just. Even if you just lose your phone a lot, having it turned on so other people can. But. So I'm saying these are not reasons that I would blow up a friendship. This is not even something I would notice or care about 100%. So the fact that he said all this and then it's just refusing to communicate to me is more. To me, it's more likely that he's been wanting a reason to not be Friends with you. And these are his good enough reasons. And there's nothing for y'all to talk about because there's nothing to save. So.
Kid Fury
Yeah. Yeah, I agree. Sounds like it's. It's probably deeper than whatever these little two nonsense things are.
Crystal
Right? Right.
Kid Fury
And if it's not these two, it's going to be something else down the road. Right there. Something, you know. Yeah.
Crystal
And if it really is these two, do you want to be friends with somebody who is shallow? Like, this is just this. This really got you that deep in your feelings? Really? And you didn't just say something about it. It was, oh, this ain't sat right with me. And now we not speaking no more. Really? So you're immature then? And I don't have the time or the inclination to babysit grown ass people. Like working through conflict is a part of being in relationship with people. But yeah, like, and I mean, and at that point, friends cannot fix that. You can only fix that. You and your qualified mental health professional gonna have to work on that because your friends do not have an obligation to never, quote, unquote, abandon you. Like, yeah, they will get married, they will have kids, they have jobs. Especially your niche fitness account. And not even your real one where you talk about you not. Not you doing them. Yeah, yeah. Like it's getting worse and worse. So. Frederick, I would let this nigga go. I would.
Kid Fury
Me too.
Crystal
It ain't. It ain't too many times I'm finna hit you up over something that I. When I didn't even do you wrong. Like, I truly didn't do you wrong. No. Good luck though. That sucks. Our next letter comes from Clark who said I wanted to get Yalls input on something. I'm a 38 year old black single mom and my 7 year old son is supposed to be a historical figure. For school he chose to be a person named York because York is a hunter. I asked his teacher for more information about his character and this is what she sent me. Of course, York was William Clark's enslaved person who went on the Lewis and Clark expedition. He wasn't treated as an enslaved person on the trip. He was a great hunter and dancer. He helped them make peace with many Native American tribes and they called him Big Medicine because the Native Americans had never seen anyone with skin like his. They probably wouldn't have survived the trip without him. Unfortunately, when the trip was over, he remained enslaved. It was many years before William Clark freed him. I'll also send you a picture of him. Here is my dilemma York is the only enslaved person, historical figure being presented. At least in my son's class, though other historical figures of color are being represented. I don't know how I feel about my son being the only enslaved person. Keep in mind this is a predominantly white school with a super liberal politician, with a super liberal politic and a lot of people of color, but still predominantly white. What are your thoughts? Thanks, Clark.
Kid Fury
This is a good question, and I feel like there could be like a dozen. Right. Answers to it.
Crystal
Um, yeah, there's many ways to approach this.
Kid Fury
If it were me, I'd be cool with it. I'd get cool with it, because at first I would be like, huh, huh, but no, honestly, you know, what would it. I think the. The two things that are kind of like in my head right now are one, it's the. The person my kid wants to play.
Crystal
Oh, this is. He chose York because York is a hunter. Oh, that's so sweet. Seven year old was like, hunter? Yeah, me. That'd be cool, you know? Yep.
Kid Fury
And then the other thing is, like, this is. It's not Django, you know, like, this is a real person. Okay, all right.
Crystal
Yes.
Kid Fury
You know what I mean?
Crystal
Yes. Okay. Okay.
Kid Fury
And so I think, help me here, because I feel like kids, especially if this is the only person that was enslaved that's being portrayed here, these children need to know about this and they need to know about the different effects of it. And so much of that is being stripped away from their education. That's true any the fuck way. So a lot of these little white kids in their classes don't have to understand or know anything about that. So I think as long as if I know that, like, what they're actually having them do is, you know, appropriate and safe and it's the thing that my kid wants to do, I'd be fine with it. Especially if there are other black historical figures in the classroom that will be portrayed that aren't slaves or whatever.
Crystal
Yes, this is the only enslaved person.
Kid Fury
I think I'd be okay with it, but that's me.
Crystal
Yeah, yeah, I. I understand your trepidation because as somebody who went to predominantly white schools in elementary and middle school, I'm trying to picture letting my black baby be the only enslaved character. And like, I. I want to. I want to. I want to be able to say this. These are seven year olds. Of course you chose this person because they're a hunter and you think that's a cool job and just let you do that. But I don't know. I Don't know. I.
Kid Fury
What do you think is some of the negative ramifications?
Crystal
Well, so I don't know these other kids, first of all. And the idea that somebody even might get into some sort of role play, slave master shit with my child is enough to send me to the stratosphere. Like, just the thought that somebody might be like, oh, well, I can be mean to York because York is enslaved and, you know, or that they might do that, might tease him for that or be mean or say something like that. That was my first thought outside of this. Outside of this little play presentation, whatever. Right, yeah. So, I mean, but it's up to the. I'm sorry, I'm just saying. I also went to school, like in the Bible Bell in the South. It was not super liberal and predominantly white. It was super racist and predominantly white. So I might feel better about it, you know, if I was in San Francisco or Brooklyn.
Kid Fury
But that doesn't mean it won't.
Crystal
Right, right, right. That's why I'm like.
Kid Fury
Because sometimes liberal parents and kids are almost as bad. If not where it's just like.
Crystal
So I'm like, maybe. Can we get a list of every character? Is there anybody else you might want to be? Like, I might try to get my kid to play somebody else. I really might. Just because of my own history in being in a school environment like that and how I really feel like that was not for my best to be around white people. I really don't.
Kid Fury
I would want to know what they're.
Crystal
Wearing and what they're saying and like, what is this? Is there a script for this? I need to see the script for this play or this skit, whatever, doing, like, how are the teachers handling this?
Kid Fury
I have to know how he's dressed.
Crystal
Is. I feel like it's just much easier for us to go down this list, find somebody else for you to be like. Like, oh, you don't want to be madam C.J. walker slanging that perm. Like, come on. Just. That's a hard one, though.
Kid Fury
Serious.
Crystal
I think if you can. If you can talk to the teachers and everybody around and feel good about it or feel like your baby won't be harmed by it, then that's fine. But my gut reaction is. My gut reaction is to say I would try to find something else for my child to do.
Kid Fury
I think that. Yeah, damn. Damn.
Crystal
No, because you make. You made an excellent point. Like, And I don't want to disregard the fact that these are kids, 7 year olds, really not thinking about it the way we are.
Kid Fury
But they might. Yeah, but they're still seven year olds. A lot of seven year olds will find any reason to just pick at somebody so.
Crystal
Exactly.
Kid Fury
I would. I would have a lot of questions there.
Crystal
Well, best of luck to you, Clark. Let us know what you decide to do. But I don't think you could be wrong either way. Pulling your baby out of that or like, just whatever you do. Good. Good luck, because that is. That's a rough one. Okay, we have a little extra time. Let's do one more. This one's from Allison, who says, I've been in therapy on and off for about seven years. My first therapist was great, but she wasn't black and she felt a little like a yes man. So I went looking for a black therapist who I could trust to call me on my when I needed, and I found her. I found a therapist that felt so comfortable and connected that she almost felt like more than of a friend than a therapist. And now. That's exactly the problem. Over the past few months, she's gradually spent more and more time talking about herself and her own situations. I know all about her marriage, her past jobs, her other clients, her career aspirations, and I thought I was okay with it. But I also found myself wondering if I was just paying her to be my friend since our conversations don't feel particularly therapeutic. Well, the straw that broke the camel's back was our last session, where I started off by sharing that I was experiencing intense anxiety over the inauguration and seeing Elon's double Nazi salute behind the presidential seal. I shared that I was exploring moving my family to another country, and Ms. Man proceeded to tell me that she can't relate because moving out of the country isn't an option for her because her mother is sick. I mentioned that I feel responsible for the world I'm choosing to raise my son in, and her response was that she doesn't know what it's like to be someone's mom. She encouraged me to take part in collective action and organize, and I told her I found it emotionally exhausting when I was most active in political organization and I'm tired. She then proceeded to tell me all about her college experience as a student activist in a mostly white college. I mentioned Ghana as an option, and she said Ghana isn't as cheap as you probably think it is, et cetera, et cetera. You get the point. I actually found myself feeding into her emotional needs, telling her that she's wise and insightful, but I was really just saying that so she would shut the Up. I got off the call feeling icky, and I felt no less anxious, and I was mad that I even had to pay for that session. So my question for you both is, if this was your therapist, would you say something to correct it or just dryly break up with her without explanation? Thank you for taking the time to read this and for generously sharing so much of yourselves with us. Thanks, Allison.
Kid Fury
What is. Real quick, Allison, I'm so sorry. What is it with niggas and their fascination with using the word preceded?
Crystal
Oh, yes.
Kid Fury
To describe the following.
Crystal
They love it. They love it.
Kid Fury
Niggas.
Crystal
They love preceded. They love their fool.
Kid Fury
Niggas could barely get through a Dr. Seuss book, but will tell the police that somebody proceeded to do something.
Crystal
It's just one of those things we do.
Kid Fury
I don't get it, but I love it, and I hope it never stops.
Crystal
Negro storytelling.
Kid Fury
Yes.
Crystal
That. Yeah, that's. That's us. And now here is Alison with the therapist.
Kid Fury
The black lady therapist meme. Have you seen that? That TikTok of the black lady therapist?
Crystal
No.
Kid Fury
There's probably like a million of them.
Crystal
I was gonna say, I feel like I don't know this specific one, but I've seen a lot of, like, me as a therapist, and I'm thinking that's why y'all should not be therapists.
Kid Fury
This is a black girl who literally came in through her.
Crystal
I have seen that. Yes, I have. I know exactly what you're talking about.
Kid Fury
Okay. Yeah.
Crystal
Allison, you're not even supposed to be in the position of having to correct your therapist in this way. She has completely abandoned her. Heard her professional responsibilities here. I would both say something to. I would say something, and I would break up with her. I wouldn't just break up and not say nothing. I would say, you know, as the therapist, I am really not supposed to know this much about your life. You're simply not supposed to be sharing. Like, you. You said that you know about her, her marriage, her past jobs, her other clients. That's a huge problem, especially if she's. If she's giving away identifying information. She's now breaking the law, her career aspirations. There is no. Therapy is not a two way street.
Kid Fury
Did you see the episode, like, the last movie? Like, it has to be like the last season or second to last season of Golden Girl where Dorothy's. Dorothy's therapist is dating the girl that lives next door to them. She comes over to the house and sees Stan. She's like, Dan and Morthy. The therapist is like. She's like, you talked about us? No, no, no. And she, like, literally holds on and tells them all their business, but he, like, changed their names. No, it's a different Dan and Morty.
Crystal
They. That's such a common joke in those older sitcoms and stuff. They do that stuff all the time. There was even on the Golden Girls one where. Remember when the dumb one. Rose. Rose was volunteering at like a mental health clinic or something and they got robbed on Christmas or something. One of the. One of the patients. Right. And so Rose is like, oh, don't pay him any mind. He's just crazy because his wife left him. And it's like, like, you. You're therapist, and you're saying this. You're. You're literally telling a waiting room full of people what's going on with this person, like, in real life. That is not how therapy works. It's definitely not how it's supposed to work.
Kid Fury
She said, oh, he's a compulsive liar.
Crystal
Right? She was. Yes. She was spreading everybody's tea. Like, that's not.
Kid Fury
I mean, she did get fired later. Later on in the series.
Crystal
You should have gotten fired immediately. That is grounds for immediate dismissal. But I'm saying this because we are taught to be very, very discerning with self disclosure with clients.
Kid Fury
Yeah.
Crystal
And you mentioned in parentheses that this therapist is about six years younger than you. Now, that shouldn't make a difference, but because, you know, a professional is a professional, allegedly, you still have these same standards you're supposed to adhere to. But this is why I say that I understand why people looking for black therapists. But a black therapist is not the end all be all just by themselves. A lot of black therapists are not great therapists, unfortunately. And this one has an issue with boundaries. She does. There is no reason in the world for you to know that much about her or for her to be, you know, you talking about moving out the country and then her saying, well, I can't do that because my mama is sick. This is literally not about you. We're not friends. This isn't a back and forth. I don't care about your mama. That's not what we here for. That's literally not what we here for. So, yeah, yeah, I would definitely get her together. And I mean, I. If she has a supervisor or somebody, this is actually worth escalating to whoever's in charge of her because you should not be hearing about her other clients. And I'm so serious about that.
Kid Fury
Yeah, that's really bad.
Crystal
The rest of that is up to interpretation, but that one I don't play about at all.
Kid Fury
So if she want to Kiki or like, you know, say a couple of things about her own life. Because even like my therapist right now, sometimes it will, you know, mention his kids if it's relevant.
Crystal
Right.
Kid Fury
For instance, like, oh, I have to change our next. To our next appointment because my kids. Da, da, da. Something like that, you know, or like my therapist in New York, throughout the time that we were together, she had two, two kids. And so sometimes she would talk about the babies because it was relevant to the time or whatever. Other than that, you know, maybe sometimes they would talk about personal things if it was relevant to a point they were making for me. But otherwise it's kind of like, I don't even know if anybody said this specifically, but it's kind of like this time that you're paying for is for you.
Crystal
Yes.
Kid Fury
And for you to be better.
Crystal
Yes.
Kid Fury
And so we're going to focus on you.
Crystal
That is what that's supposed to be.
Kid Fury
It does help to feel like they, you know, like you and you have a good relationship and they care about you and stuff. But yeah, I'm not supposed to be Kiki and asking, you know, what kind of, of what kind of mixer you get.
Crystal
Right.
Kid Fury
Flavor margaritas you get from BBQs. This isn't what we're here for. We are not working for like at all.
Crystal
Yeah. So she, I, I think she needs to go. But yeah, because if she's talking about, if she's talking about other clients with you, that means she's talking about you with other clients. Absolutely the, I mean, absolutely the not.
Kid Fury
So that's really it.
Crystal
Yeah. Good luck in your search. And, and remember, I like, I, I fully get it. I also look for black first. But yes, there's other things that, and there another thing that I'ma just add on really quickly because Antoinette said something about this on her show several months ago. A lot of black women, I have noticed, look for therapists who they feel like will call them out. I just need somebody to hold me accountable. I need somebody to call me on my shit. I need blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Some people actually do need that. However, I think a lot more of you are very used to being bullied and shamed and harassed because of your quote unquote bad behaviors. And what you actually need is empathy and love and understanding and patience. So a lot of you are looking for a black therapist because you think only a black woman is really going to get me together and Call me on my shit. You've. You've had a lifetime of that. Some of you need some grace. Not everybody. Some of you absolutely need somebody to call you on your shit. But some of you, Some of you are dragging yourself for your shit. You're more than aware enough. What you need help with is feeling it, processing it, getting it out of your body and moving on.
Kid Fury
So true. That is so true. And you're. A lot of us aren't used to grace, patience, understanding.
Crystal
You don't even know that that's what you need, because when did you ever get that?
Kid Fury
So when this person is giving you these exact figures, things that you need.
Crystal
It'S like therapy ain't doing nothing. This Just sit here.
Kid Fury
Why aren't you yelling at me?
Crystal
All she does is tell me how she understands my feelings. The. We ain't getting nowhere like. Okay, okay. Just saying. I'm just saying something to keep in mind. But good luck to you, Allison, and I hope it works out. If you have a question for us, send it on over to AskTheRead gmail.com. we're going to take another quick break and then we'll be right back.
Kid Fury
We're back. And it is now time for the read. And I'll begin because I really don't have a long one. I just want to say, I have been eating a lot of Doritos, crying, and watching TV this week, so. Disney. Why is all this Hulu in my Disney? Why is all of this Hulu in my Disney? I have the Hulu for the Hulu and I have the Disney plus for the Disney. Why is all of this Hulu in my Disney? I don't understand why I'm logging into my Disney plus and I see how to get away with murder and I see. You know what I'm saying? Like prayer and Predator, too. I want Disney in my Disney plus.
Crystal
Disney said, we own all this shit. We own all of this shit.
Kid Fury
Why? They all have to be together. I have them. I have them. I can just pop over there. I want Disney in with Disney. I don't want Hulu and I want Hulu in my Hulu and I want Disney in my Disney Plus. I don't understand why they have to be together. It's just like when foods touch and you don't like them. When it's just put. I don't want them altogether. It's upsetting me. It's upsetting my homegirls. I don't know why all of this Hulu is in my Disney. That's It. That's all I had to say. Furthermore, you have to watch Win or Lose.
Crystal
Win or Lose.
Kid Fury
It's the new Pixar original series on Disney. When I went to Pixar a couple months ago during my tour, and they were amazing enough to let me watch two episodes of their new show was Win or Lose.
Crystal
Oh.
Kid Fury
And it was amazing. And I think you're going to love it.
Crystal
Okay. Win or Lose. I got it on my list.
Kid Fury
You should watch when or Lose. And then we'll watch. We'll talk about it.
Crystal
Okay. All right. Yeah, I'm sure that's Disney. Just.
Kid Fury
You're going to love it. You're going to love it. I think you're going to love it.
Crystal
Okay, I'm excited. Well, I just have a couple of quick things, and then I'm also going to get out of the way. First. First of all, Eric Adams, you pompous piece of shit.
Kid Fury
This bitch. This girl. As soon as we sent the audio over, Eric was, like, tapped to the microphone. Cause he knew you were getting in that ass. Nigga, he knows you everything. I think he knows you everything.
Crystal
So Eric Adams is really feeling himself. He is smelling his dick. Because Kathy Hochul says she's not removing him from office. The DOJ said they're not going to continue to pursue these charges. The judge has. So he hasn't dismissed it. The case, I think it's just permanently suspended, you know, until the judge can decide, blah, blah, blah, whatever. But so he is really feeling himself right now because it's looking like he done got away with all this shit. So this, in this press conference is talking about how this is a biblical moment. He literally said, quote, this is a biblical moment. When Jesus was on the cross, he said, God, forgive them, for they know not what they do. Yeah, all these Negroes that was calling for me to step down. God forgive them.
Kid Fury
That's what he said. That's what he said.
Crystal
And then, just like Trump, he held for applause and laughter and positive reactions. And then he started talking about how y'all must be stupid if you think that he gonna drop out of his race. And he. He running his race right now. And you niggas are not gonna get in the way. Okay, okay, okay.
Kid Fury
I'm so tired of this Butterfinger BB Face.
Crystal
Bitch, are you comparing yourself? You, Eric Adams, lying scammer, police dick sucker, don't even live in the city, Absolutely stole money, misappropriated funds, move shit around, wheeling and dealing with Trump to allow him and his federal agents into the city to Harass our people so that these charges would then magically go away. Are you comparing yourself to the Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Son of God? Is that what you're doing right now?
Kid Fury
Son of God?
Crystal
Oh, my God. That straight up said, remember when they did this to Jesus? And like Christ, I'll say, lord, forgive them. They know not what they do. Do you think you're pious of heart?
Kid Fury
He really said these Negroes too?
Crystal
Really said these Negroes. And so on. Good day, New York, Kurt Minifee said, are you implying that if you're black, then people have to support you? He's like, no, I'm not saying that at all. You know, I want all New Yorkers to support me. And so then Kurt Minafee is like, okay, so then who are you talking to when you say Negroes? And so Eric Adams, instead of saying, I'm talking to the black people that said they didn't want me in office, he's like, oh, well, if you look at the whole speech, the speech was about, you know, lighting your flame and letting your flame be bright and shining. And that's what we've done in this administration. So for anybody who's called for my flame to prematurely be extinguished, that's who I'm talking about. And Kurt Minifie's like, no, so are you saying all New Yorkers are Negroes? Like, I. I'm still waiting for you to define the Negroes for us.
Kid Fury
Like, yeah, we haven't gotten an answer.
Crystal
And straight up said, like, I'm. I'm pressing you about this because a lot of people are pissed off at your choice of words here. Who the fuck do you think you are? And who the fuck are you talking to? People called for you to step down because you're a corrupt son of a bitch who don't have no business being in office. Yeah, that's what that's about, girl. It's not about you being Christ. Like, if you were Christ, like, we wouldn't be calling for you to step down. We wouldn't have been harassing.
Kid Fury
They're going to call to extinguish the flame. If the flame is burning down everyone's goddamn. And their hospitals and where they eat at and where they go to church. Like, yeah, he said, yeah, calls for.
Crystal
Him to step down are undemocratic because democracy is based on who the people elected. And so if the people elect me, how you going to try to disrupt the power and take that? We are the people. We are the people. The same people who vote are the people Saying, we don't want you in office no more. It's New Yorkers. We are right here saying it. It's me in New York City right now saying it. I don't want your bitch ass in office. I was never a fan of your lion ass.
Kid Fury
I want her to go to like a town hall meeting.
Crystal
Oh, please be serious. Please be serious.
Kid Fury
Bitch, just hit the mic. Hi, New York City speaking. When will you. When will you be ever so politely fucking off, bitch?
Crystal
Oh, God.
Kid Fury
That is.
Crystal
You done had four or five different officers in your administration step down since you decided to join. Join forces with Trump and allow ICE into the city like you. Girl, I cannot wait. And when I say I cannot wait to vote for literally anybody over this bald headed. I want him gone yesterday. And I mean that shit. And speaking of people who need to be gone, I don't even like to come for my elders like this. But Sherri shepherd, girl, what are you doing? Cause this late and it's tired. This whole. So if you don't know what I'm talking about. She was showing on her. She has a talk show, daytime talk show, and she was putting up pictures of different people at, you know, Oscars, after parties, or at the show, whatever, in varying degrees of undress. Megan was one of the people that she highlighted because Megan was wearing, you know, pasties over her nipples and then this incredible dress. So she starts talking about how the same old tired ass, Gen X auntie rhetoric of like, y'all need to be aware that you're a role model for young girls and young girls are looking up to you. And you can't say, well, I'm actually not a role model because it comes with the territory. And y'all always be like, well, that's none of my business. And. But the girls. I know that the girls are looking up to you because they're looking up to me. And they come up to me all the time and say, Ms. Sherry, I want to have a talk show like you, and I want to be an actress like you. So they see you girls and they want to dress like you girls. And then that would be terrible because.
Kid Fury
You know, which one of those girls came up to you? Sherry, and said, I want to dress like you. Okay, continue.
Crystal
Want to be an. An actress like you.
Kid Fury
Yeah, but you see how Sherry shepherd wears clothes and you see how none of those alleged people ever mentioned the clothes that she wears. Okay, continue.
Crystal
So. So she's going on and on about how the celebrities have a certain level of protection and, you know, you have bodyguards, you have people around you, blah, blah. But these girls who are dressed like you, they might just go to some party, they might just go to some club and some man sees them and assaults them or whatever. And it's like. And so she. So she wraps all this up with, you know, and so Auntie Sherry has spoken. You know, I'm just saying y'all need to be more mindful of, of like, with the message that you send into these young girls. Because it's not good, it's not safe.
Kid Fury
We won't.
Crystal
Right. So now I wasn't, first of all, so I wasn't even gonna make it about, like, what Sherri shepherd chooses to wear or not, because she even pointed that out. Like, everybody ain't got to be in no ankle length frock like I'm in right now. Like, she even is. Like, there's a. There's some self awareness there. But people quite literally do not owe modesty to your kids. They don't. Megan the stallion does not have any children. She is not your baby's role model. If she is, that's because your child chose that. It's because you allow that. It's not because she decided to step into that role. Nobody said because I am famous, I am now going to be responsible to the children of the world. Nobody said that. She does not actually have that responsibility. And even if she did, every female celebrity could be dressed head to toe, covered in everything, and men would still be out here sexually assaulting people, because that's what the fuck they do. Regardless of what you got on. Regardless. To take something as heinous as rape or assault and put it, put the blame on what the girls are wearing as opposed to calling out the men and boys who are doing the raping and harassing, that's really where you thought your energy, that, that made sense to you.
Kid Fury
I don't know how many more times women even, or people have to have this conversation. Like, it's. I don't even know how anybody could still be in communications and have a platform where they use this narrative. Those people are grown adults. Someone like Megan is a young woman herself. She like, you know, literally, like, she, she's not, you know, she has full right to move around in her body and wear what she wants to and dress how she wanted, eat what she want, because she grown and she paid her own bills. Like, what the fuck? I don't understand why we're still acting as if young women cannot understand that when you reach a certain age and you have a Certain level of autonomy and freedom. You do. What the fuck? And with that is going to come a lot of bullshit, including, yes, the male gaze, misogyny, patriarchy, and even foolish old bitches like you who are gonna tell them that they can't wear whatever sheen dress or sexy thing that they got from Ocean Drive pasties or whatever the fuck, because, you know, men, rather than, I don't know, holding hands together, clasping hands and kicking each one of these niggas directly in their scrotum. I don't understand why you can't, like, why you have to.
Crystal
It's just so tired. And we have been saying this for so long that I'm shocked y'all are still giving out these same weary ass arguments.
Kid Fury
And the only reason I brought up the, like, the thing about Sherri Shepherd's clothes, not to say that Sherri shepherd can't dress. You can't. But that wasn't the point. The point that I was making was that not every person who is a quote unquote role model, like a Megan or Sabrina Carpenter or whoever, whatever the fuck else, like, not every single one of the young girls or young people who look up to them is like, I want to dress like them, right? Especially if clothes ain't what they do. They probably like, I want to make music, too. I want to be fly. I want to, you know, I want.
Crystal
To have an in bed boyfriend. I want to be rich.
Kid Fury
I want to have an NBA boyfriend. I want to perform at the grooming.
Crystal
I want eight dogs.
Kid Fury
I want them shoes. I want that bag. I want them dogs. I want a pool in my backyard. It is. It doesn't always have to be like, I think this person's fly. I want to dress just like them. But even if they do want to dress like them someday, like Chris was saying, create a world where they can be free to wear what they want to because they feel good in it.
Crystal
Insane, man. Insane, girl.
Kid Fury
While also demanding that the disgusting, drooly mouth mongrels who feel like taking advantage of them regardless of what the fuck they got on should sit the down and act like they got some natural goddamn human sense before you take them all out back and set them ablaze. That's what we should be doing.
Crystal
And.
Kid Fury
Give Wendy her goddamn show back.
Crystal
Okay, I completely forgot that that's how she got that show. Because Wendy was no longer able. Well, yes. Please stop saying this same ridiculous bullshit. If we wanted to raise kids, we would have them. You worry about your kids, the ones you claim and the ones you don't you worry about them. And that will wrap up this week's episode of the Read. Check us out on social media at this is the Read. You can find our merch over@shoptheread.com. anything else? Anything else from you, friend, before we say goodbye to Fed up. I'm fed up. I'm fed up with that dumb shit. Women don't get violated because of what they wear.
Kid Fury
They don't.
Crystal
And being famous don't protect you. Megan was famously shot. Famous was shot? What are you talking about? Everybody. Everybody made it her fault on sex. And everybody made it her fault.
Kid Fury
The fuck are you talking about? Oh, my God.
Crystal
All right, Auntie.
Kid Fury
Oh, my God. Even a Women even like church women, like gospel singers will wear like, a nice gown.
Crystal
Oh, yeah, Something.
Kid Fury
But it's just a little too fit in the hips or it's just a little too tight in the chest. And all of a sudden. What kind of. We need to talk about women and how they are not serving God. As if God didn't make them hipster and titties. What the are you talking about?
Crystal
All of a sudden you a stumbling block. Meanwhile, men ain't even at church. They don't even go. Shut up. Okay. All right. Anything else before we. Before we cut this off?
Kid Fury
No. Patreon.com Kid Fury. Follow us on the read and shit.
Crystal
All right, y'all take care. We will see you next week.
Podcast Summary: The Read – Episode "The Nigrohs"
Release Date: March 7, 2025
Host: Loud Speakers Network (Kid Fury and Crissle)
a. Paul Tazewell’s Historic Oscar Win
The episode kicks off with Kid Fury (00:24) celebrating Paul Tazewell's groundbreaking achievement as the first Black man to win an Oscar for Best Costume Design for his work in Wicked Part 1. Crissle (Crystal) (01:57) echoes this sentiment, highlighting the intricate details of the film's costumes, from Ariana and Cynthia’s wardrobes to the students at Shiz and Madame Morrible’s looks.
Kid Fury (00:43): “Wicked was nominated for a ton of stuff. I'm very glad that they won costume because, wow, the outfits and costumes in the Wicked film were incredible.”
b. Kimora Freeland’s Pilot Achievement
Crissle brings attention to 17-year-old Kimora Freeland (02:36), who became the youngest licensed pilot in New York and one of the youngest in U.S. history. Despite aviation not being her initial dream, Kimora excelled through the United Youth Aviators program and plans to study economics at Spelman on a full presidential scholarship.
Kid Fury (02:36): “She learned to fly a plane before she even had a driver's license. She earned her private pilot license on February 26th... She plans to study economics.”
c. Bri Clark’s Gymnastics Milestone
Crissle (03:30) mentions Bri Clark, the first Black college gymnast to perform the "Biles" move, celebrating her as another example of emerging Black talent making significant strides.
Crissle (03:30): “Bri Clark... first college gymnast to do the Biles... my heart, because I need all of that.”
a. Critique of Trump’s Presidential Address
The hosts delve into their disdain for President Trump’s recent joint address (04:01). They express frustration over his incoherent remarks, such as the $8 million spent on transgender mice, and his confrontational demeanor in the Oval Office with President Zelensky. Crissle (05:06) vehemently criticizes Trump’s inability to communicate effectively.
Crissle (05:16): “He stops doing stand-up, and I was like, yeah, I hate it. I'm actually cutting this off.”
b. Local Politics: Eric Adams’ Controversial Speech
Later in the episode, Kid Fury and Crissle turn their attention to New York City Mayor Eric Adams. They condemn his use of the term "Negroes" in a press conference (72:30 – 75:22), criticizing his arrogance and the dismissive tone towards critics. Crissle emphasizes the inappropriate language and Adams' inability to take accountability.
Crissle (74:11): “Eric Adams is really feeling himself. He is smelling his dick...”
The hosts take a moment to memorialize several influential figures who recently passed away:
Kid Fury (10:14): “Chris Jasper of Isley Brothers also passed away at the age of 73. Cancer. Great.”
a. Performances by Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo
Kid Fury and Crissle discuss the memorable performances at the Oscars (12:37 – 19:56), particularly highlighting Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo's collaboration. They praised the emotional depth and artistic execution of their medley, blending Wicked with Defying Gravity.
Crissle (13:05): “Ariana in a red gown with the red on the back. Okay, so you did. Okay, good.”
b. Doja Cat’s Performance and Critique of Other Acts
The hosts express disappointment with Doja Cat’s performance, describing it as lacking authenticity despite her hard work. They also critique other performances that didn’t resonate as well, such as those by Ray and conflicting musical choices related to films like James Bond and Quincy Jones’ tribute.
Kid Fury (14:31): “Home got me. Home got me... honored both versions of that story to me in that way was so clever.”
a. Karen Huger’s DUI Case
Crissle and Kid Fury discuss the sentencing of Karen Huger (26:06), who received a two-year jail sentence for multiple DUI-related offenses. They criticize the judicial system for not enforcing stricter penalties despite her repeated offenses.
Crissle (26:27): “I don't understand why she insisted on taking this to court. Why didn't you take the plea?”
b. Tory Lanez’s Ongoing Legal Disputes
The conversation shifts to Tory Lanez’s legal issues, including his interactions with other artists and ongoing lawsuits (33:25 – 36:08).
Kid Fury (34:07): “I'm gonna be on the other person's side anyway, so there. You know how I feel about it.”
a. Frederick’s Friendship Dilemma
Frederick writes about a strained friendship over minor social media actions, questioning whether an unfollow and accidental location sharing warrant ending a friendship. Crissle and Kid Fury advise him to recognize overthinking and consider whether the friendship is truly worth saving.
Kid Fury (43:21): “I think both of y'all overthink a lot.”
b. Clark’s Concerns About Son’s School Project
Clark seeks advice on his 7-year-old son's project portraying York, an enslaved person from the Lewis and Clark expedition, feeling uneasy about York being the sole enslaved figure represented in a predominantly white, liberal school. The hosts suggest evaluating the school’s handling of the portrayal and considering alternative projects if necessary.
Crissle (55:11): “I might try to get my kid to play somebody else.”
c. Allison’s Problematic Therapist Experience
Allison shares her negative experience with a Black therapist who oversteps professional boundaries by sharing personal information and failing to provide therapeutic support. The hosts strongly advise ending the therapeutic relationship and seeking a more professional therapist.
Crissle (62:38): “She has completely abandoned her professional responsibilities here.”
Towards the end of the episode, Kid Fury humorously vents (70:13 – 72:18) about the confusing integration of Hulu content within Disney+, expressing frustration over the platform's user interface and content organization.
Kid Fury (71:07): “Why is all this Hulu in my Disney? I don't understand why I'm logging into my Disney plus and I see how to get away with murder and I see...”
In the closing segments, Kid Fury and Crissle engage in spirited rants about various topics, including Eric Adams’ conduct and Sherri Shepherd’s role-model rhetoric. They emphasize the importance of holding individuals accountable and rejecting harmful narratives that place blame on victims of assault.
Crissle (80:32): “Nobody said because I am famous, I am now going to be responsible to the children of the world.”
In this episode of The Read, Kid Fury and Crissle navigate through a mix of celebrating Black excellence, critiquing political figures, mourning the loss of notable personalities, dissecting Oscar performances, addressing legal controversies, and providing heartfelt responses to listener letters. Their blend of humor, sharp commentary, and candid conversation offers listeners both entertainment and insightful perspectives on contemporary issues.
For more insights and discussions, tune into The Read available on iTunes, iHeartRadio, SoundCloud, and Stitcher.
Note: This summary captures the essence of the episode while maintaining the hosts' dynamic and engaging style. Quotes are attributed with approximate timestamps to highlight key moments.