The Other Proposal

Summary

The Read – "The Other Proposal"

Date: August 28, 2025
Hosts: Kid Fury & Crissle West
Podcast Network: Loud Speakers Network

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Episode Overview

This week on The Read, Kid Fury and Crissle West spill the tea on everything from recent Black excellence in sports and theater to the perennial messiness in hip-hop and pop culture. The episode flows with their signature blend of humor and candid commentary, touching on everything from Ciara and Russell Wilson's public perception, Offset’s music and relationships, Dr. Umar's questionable new show, and listener letters about friendship and proposals gone sideways. It’s both a celebration and a roast, offering insight into celebrity culture and everyday Black life, including heartfelt moments and sharply funny rants.

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Black Excellence Round-Up (03:04–06:12)

• A’ja Wilson Makes WNBA History

  • Kid Fury highlights A’ja Wilson’s 30-point, 20-rebound double-double for the Las Vegas Aces.
  • Crissle: “That is A’ja, constantly raising the bar and being better than just about every fucking body else on any given night.” (04:11)
  • Kid Fury: “She has shoes as well.” (04:21)

• Wendell Pierce & the Legacy Theaters of Color Initiative

  • Kid Fury shouts out the $10 million investment secured by Wendell Pierce for historic Black theater institutions, lauding the reinvestment in Black culture.
  • Crissle: “Shout out to you, Mr. Pierce, our Tony award–winning Black legend, theater legend.” (05:59-06:12)

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Pop Culture Tea & Celebrity Mess

Regina King's Healing Through Wine (06:22–08:44)

• Discuss Regina King’s new orange wine, “Me and You,” made in tribute to her late son.
• Crissle: “You really don’t hear people speak with that much compassion and empathy for the way he was struggling, especially, you know, his mother, their mothers.” (07:55)
• Kid Fury humorously laments that it is sold out online.

Ciara, Sienna, and the "Corny" Russell Conversation (08:49–14:35)

• Kid Fury and Crissle crack up over Ciara’s daughter Sienna picking “Ride” as her favorite mom song on Billboard, much to Ciara’s embarrassment.
  • Kid Fury: “You know, I love ‘Ride’…Sienna’s like, at home, I understand that. At Billboard, at work, where we at?” (10:35)
• They celebrate Black children’s joy and style, segueing into the ongoing debate over Russell Wilson’s so-called “corny” behavior.
  • Crissle: “Who are these men calling Russell Corny? I bet they don’t take care of their children… That’s why you niggas think he’s corny.” (13:13)
• Extended dragging of internet/fan culture that criticizes men for showing love to their families.

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Music & Hip-Hop Relationships

Offset vs. Cardi B, The "Corny" Standards, & Rap Trends (15:18–20:30)

• Kid Fury reads Offset’s new “Move On” lyrics, leading to an extended roast of the expectation that women should cook, especially celebrity women.
  • Crissle: “Who thought Cardi was like, oh, let me take them chicken thighs out the freezer?” (16:39)
  • Kid Fury: “Pardon me for my refusal to lift a spatula for a nigga I’ve caught two to three cases behind.” (17:19)
• Dissects double standards in hip-hop—raising kids and showing love is “corny,” while neglect is ignored.

The Water & Wellness Tangents (20:03–21:00)

• Jokes about men needing women to instill basic self-care (e.g., drinking water).
  • Kid Fury: “You can drink water…I forgot people drink this.” (20:14)

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Reality TV, Dr. Umar & Black Entrepreneurship (21:00–26:35)

• Dr. Umar’s “Date the Doctor” show lampooned; skepticism over his claims to solve homelessness/prostitution by urging Black women entrepreneurs.
  • Crissle: “Homelessness is not a career.” (23:25)
• Discussion about real solutions needing to address systemic issues, not reality TV spectacles.

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Black Culture on the Chopping Block

Arrest of BigXthePlug, Spike Lee/ESPN, & Tabitha Brown’s Target DEI Drama (29:20–38:40)

• Light-hearted reflection on BigXthePlug’s marijuana arrest.
  • Crissle: “I’m just glad you wasn’t beating a woman or assaulting a child in some way. It’s sad that that’s…where the bar is.” (31:39)
• Frustration over Spike Lee’s Colin Kaepernick doc blocked by ESPN/NFL (32:00–34:56).
• Heartbroken take on Target pulling back Black-owned product lines, noting Tabitha Brown’s public explanation of licensing deals.
  • Crissle: “Those are not my products. Right. Those are Target’s products.” (35:29)

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Celebrity Antics: Drake, Tiffany Haddish, and Social Media Clout

Drake’s Miscellaneous Drama (38:51–48:18)

• Drake’s purchase of a possibly-fake Tupac chain, his public customer service spat with gambling site “Stake,” and rumors about family court in Toronto dissected for both comedy and messiness.
  • Kid Fury: “Like, can’t you call somebody if it’s personal? I feel like you could call somebody.” (43:15)

Tiffany Haddish’s “Cat’s Out the Bag” Baby Prank (48:30–51:30)

• Both hosts baffled by Tiffany Haddish posting a photo with a baby and then joking about it, only to act surprised by fan reactions.
  • Crissle: “Can you read the words? You put ‘the cat’s out the bag’ with you, this homosexual, and an infant. All right.” (49:59)

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Listener Letters Segment (54:29–95:13)

1. Friendship Fade—Single Moms, Trauma, and “Left Behind” (54:29–74:05)

• Whitney writes in with a story of losing a rare “village” friendship after her friend got a new boyfriend, especially after Whitney was assaulted and left with little support.
  • Kid Fury: “My opinion is that this bitch sucks. She sucks a lot.” (63:01)
  • Crissle: “You’re doing it all by yourself, which is unfathomably difficult, and two is such a difficult age because they are ambulatory and they wanna die.” (70:27)
• The hosts offer validation, empathy, and encouragement to build wider mom-friend networks: “This person in this situation doesn’t represent friendship. This isn’t right.” (73:46)

2. The “Other Proposal”—When Your Engagement Surprise Isn’t Surprising (75:17–95:13)

• Sandra feels her fiancé botched her proposal by not making it a surprise and ignoring her requests (nails, hair, dress), even though he recreated their first date and is otherwise sweet and supportive.
  • Kid Fury: “You want it to be a surprise, but I also need my nails done, I need my hair done…But it has to be a surprise.” (77:57)
  • Crissle: “If that’s a special occasion for you, how is it supposed to be a surprise, baby girl?” (79:52)
• The hosts advise a reality check—proposals can’t be perfectly Instagrammable surprises unless you’re always glammed up, and maybe the engagement photo shoot is the real solution.
• Crissle: “You want them likes. Girl, you dreaming. You are having nightmares about all the likes that you didn’t get.” (89:35)

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The Read Segment (97:43–122:31)

Kid Fury’s Reads

(97:43–108:51)

• Nintendo Switch 2 hardware & game release complaints.
• America’s creeping fascism and military policing of cities: “It is a lot of y’alls fault…Many of you sleep next to someone who voted for this.” (104:52)
• Reminds himself (and listeners): don’t waste precious time trying to make sense of nonsense—go pet your dog instead.

Crissle’s Reads

(108:53–122:37)

• Cardi B: Rants about her rumored pregnancy and annoyance at artists faking drama for album rollouts.
• Snoop Dogg: Drags him for inability (or unwillingness) to explain gay parents to his grandchild after watching “Lightyear.”
  • Crissle: “If you can’t explain that to a child in an age appropriate way, don’t take the child nowhere.” (120:31)
• Recaps her empathy for Lil Nas X and side-eyes celebrities pulling stunts for attention.

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Notable Quotes

• “Who are these men calling Russell Corny? I bet they don’t take care of their children… That’s why you niggas think he’s corny.” —Crissle (13:13)
• “Pardon me for my refusal to lift a spatula for a nigga I’ve caught two to three cases behind.” —Kid Fury (17:19)
• “It is a lot of y’alls fault. Well, not you if you listen to this podcast, probably. But you know what I’m talking about.” —Kid Fury (97:43)
• “If you can’t explain that to a child in an age appropriate way, don’t take the child nowhere.” —Crissle (120:31)
• “You want them likes. Girl, you dreaming. You are having nightmares about all the likes that you didn’t get.” —Crissle (89:35)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Black Excellence: 03:04–06:12
• Regina King’s Wine: 06:22–08:44
• Ciara, Russell, & Corny Narratives: 08:49–14:35
• Offset/Cardi B Relationship & “Corny” Men: 15:18–20:30
• Dr. Umar’s Reality Show: 21:00–26:35
• Spike Lee vs ESPN, Tabitha Brown & Target: 32:00–38:40
• Drake Drama: 38:51–48:18
• Tiffany Haddish’s "Cat’s Out the Bag": 48:30–51:30
• Listener Letters: 54:29–95:13
• The Read Segment: 97:43–122:31

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Tone & Takeaways

The episode is a classic blend of hilarious, unflinching “reads” and moments of real vulnerability and Black community reflection. The dynamic banter is both highly specific to cultural touchstones and relatable for anyone navigating adult friendships, relationships, and societal mess.
If you missed the episode, you’ll be caught up on all the key pop culture shade—and the critical insight you’d expect from Kid Fury & Crissle.

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Transcript

[Crissle West]

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[Kid Fury]

I don't mean to interrupt your meal, but I saw you from across a cafe and you're the Geico Gecko, right? In the flesh. Oh, my goodness. This is huge. To finally meet you. I love Geico's faster friendly claim service.

[Crissle West]

Well, that's how Geico gets 97% customer satisfaction.

[Kid Fury]

Anyway, that's all. Enjoy the rest of your food.

[Crissle West]

No worries. So are you just going to watch me eat?

[Kid Fury]

Oh, sorry, just a little star struck. I'll be on my way.

[Crissle West]

If you're going to stick around, just pull up a chair.

[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

Happy.

[Kid Fury]

My sense away.

[Crissle West]

Hello.

[Kid Fury]

Welcome back to the program, or welcome to the program for the first time. My name is Eyvette Henderson.

[Crissle West]

And I am Rekiya Jackson. This is the Read. Thanks for coming back.

[Kid Fury]

That is indeed the name of the program. Okay. One of 20 podcasts that Apple Podcasts loves over its 20 years. 20 years to my name. Is there a doc? There needs to be a Got to Be Real doc. I think that we say that quarterly, but just in case we missed our last scheduled press conference. Got to be Real, the documentary. Hulu, since you're all in my Disney plus, I don't think I'm gonna get over that. I shouldn't be logging into Disney plus. Like, oh, let me watch some smart guy. Ooh, let me watch Darkwing Duck. Ooh, let me get all nostalgic and it's like, but have you thought about watching Alien Earth? I don't even know what that is. Have you instead thought of watching extraterrestrial xenomorphs rip the skulls out of human heads? Like, no, I want to watch Mickey and this. Like, I don't.

[Crissle West]

Quality children.

[Kid Fury]

I don't want to watch that here.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, that's what I came here for. Not that other shit.

[Kid Fury]

Hulu's right next to it. I go there when I want to watch the Real Housewives of Alien Earth.

[Crissle West]

Exactly.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, let's talk about some black excellent people. We're going to start with one of the most valuable players, Asia Wilson, who has made history well over a week, almost two weeks ago. First player in history, the world world of the Women's National Basketball Association. World's Women.

[Crissle West]

Nope.

[Kid Fury]

Record 30, 20 double double. She's growing at least 30 points and 20 rebounds in the same game, Asia Wilson dropped 32 points on 13 of 25. That was so good shooting. Grabbed 20 rebounds and led the Aces to a win, 94 to 86 to be exact. It's marked her 14th double double of the season and her sixth career game with at least 30 points and 15 rebounds.

[Crissle West]

Yep, that is Asia. Constantly raising the bar and being better than just about every fucking body else on any given night.

[Kid Fury]

On any given night. She has shoes as well.

[Crissle West]

And she does. Thank you, Nike, for sending me them shoes. I do appreciate it.

[Kid Fury]

We're also going to give honor to icon, legend moment. Wendell Pierce, Tony award winning actor and extraordinaire, who's secured a $10 million investment for the Legacy Theaters of Color initiative, which I'm reading is designed to strengthen historically black theater institutions and amplify their cultural impact.

[Crissle West]

Beautiful. Oh.

[Kid Fury]

The final focus on boosting production, marketing and awareness for theaters such as the Billie Holiday Theater, the Black Spectrum Theater, and the Negro Ensemble Company.

[Crissle West]

Wow.

[Kid Fury]

So getting the coin, putting the coin back into the community, uplifting the community and our intersections in our niches, in our spotlights and our platforms and our passions and our pathways, brightening the future for us. Because damn it, if it isn't loud that they don't want us to have it.

[Crissle West]

Wow.

[Kid Fury]

So we will dig deep and we will maintain the pathways for ourselves as we've done. Sinners.

[Crissle West]

I don't know why I just randomly.

[Kid Fury]

Said sinners with you.

[Crissle West]

This is incredible, though. I know. He was just in Death of a Salesman and got a bunch of rave reviews for that, so.

[Kid Fury]

He's amazing.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, he is. Oh, I love to see this. Ah, this is incredible. Shout out to you, Mr. Pierce, our Tony award winning black legend, theater legend.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, well, it's time to talk about some black mess.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

And hot tops. God. I want to start with something nice because we just ended with a bunch of black excellence. Let's talk about Regina King. Regina King was on Scott Evans show, where, you know, I was doing the usual house guest, black and beautiful thing on the program, but she also talks about a new wine that she has created and is launching called Me and you. And it's a tribute to her son Ian Alexander, who she lost on his 26th birthday. And it's orange wine that she says kind of represents all things. Him and his love and interests and connection and all of the things I think. Yeah, I just. It touched my heart. It made me feel good. I admire the way that she has navigated this tragedy in which most people, I think, would understandably just curl up into a ball and never be heard from again. And that's just, you know, if you work down the block at Palm Ave, Nowhere, this is someone who has to be in public and, you know, be Hughie.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. The way she talks about Ian and his choice to end his life is really just groundbreaking. You really don't hear people speak with that much compassion and empathy for the way he was struggling, especially, you know, his mother, their mothers. So she just seems to be really strong and really resilient, but obviously still hurting a great deal. Understandably so.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. But, hey, lady, when I started drinking again, very soon, I'm. I'm copying a bottle. You know, I drink the black queens and their alcohol.

[Crissle West]

Well, good luck. It is sold out online. You're gonna have to find it in a store near you because it is sold out.

[Kid Fury]

Hopefully when I begin the. The drinking again.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, that will not be the case.

[Crissle West]

Okay. Yeah. Maybe it'll be back in stock by then.

[Kid Fury]

Fingers crossed.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Well, Ciara did an interview with Billboard Billboard family alongside her daughter Sienna, who's old enough to do interviews now. So here we are.

[Crissle West]

This was too cute.

[Kid Fury]

Had a quiz. Sienna was asked what her favorite song of her mother's. Is. And you could see in Sierra's eyes and eyebrows that she was like, oh, God.

[Crissle West]

Oh, God, please don't do this. Cece, please.

[Kid Fury]

Any song. Just pick any. I know what the answer is, and I just.

[Crissle West]

I'm begging you not to say it. You.

[Kid Fury]

You like that one song Mommy did about life is so.

[Crissle West]

You, like, level up, girl.

[Kid Fury]

Shut up. You know, I love riding, you know, And Sierra was just there, like, little girl. She's. She's. I can't do anything about this.

[Crissle West]

Right?

[Kid Fury]

It's a public song I sang was a hit.

[Crissle West]

Like, there's nothing I could do. It is so cute. Children are just so.

[Kid Fury]

It was so sweet. There isn't. And it's a great song. What do you want?

[Crissle West]

Tracyra was like, this is what happens when you take your kids on tour. Cause. Cause you know, the Cece backstage at every damn show, she Gonna hear it and be like, wait a minute. Mommy has a. How I ain't never heard this about.

[Kid Fury]

And I know, I know. I can tell. Ciara has said to her daughter before, that is not a little girl song.

[Crissle West]

Something like it.

[Kid Fury]

And made that clear. But Sienna's, like, at home. I understand that. At Billboard, at work, where we at? At my job. At my job on it, where we're at. They asked me a question.

[Crissle West]

Oh, my God.

[Kid Fury]

And I'm answering the question truthfully. Do you want me to lie to the public? You didn't raise me to do that, did you? I'm not supposed to lie, so Billboard, my favorite. It was so cute.

[Crissle West]

It was so. It really was. It was so adorable. She's so animated. And, you know, they had lots of questions, not just about that, but, you know, like, questions about Russell and, like, what would a song with mommy and daddy sound like? She was like, um, s. Daddy can't sing. Don't do that.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I saw that.

[Crissle West]

But, yeah, I loved that she started singing. Ryan. Sierra's whole face was just like, you know, what?

[Kid Fury]

What can you do?

[Crissle West]

What can you do? Kids will.

[Kid Fury]

It's a good song.

[Crissle West]

It is.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, great video.

[Crissle West]

You could tell Sienna didn't hear that song before Ciara went on tour. She was like, you've been hiding this. That song, holding her shit. Yeah. But I don't think Ciara played it around her child because of.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm sorry.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. So I think, you know, that's why Sierra was like, oh, level up, level up, level up. Like, trying to encourage a kid. Friendly answer. Sienna was like, no, wrong, incorrect. Just. Oh, my God. So funny. She's too, too cute. What an adorable child.

[Kid Fury]

And I love seeing black children all dressed up for camera. I don't know. It's something community and homey about it.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

A little black girl with her hair all done and little bows and stuff in it, and they just. You know, she's probably picked the colors that she wanted in her hair. She's got glitter on her chee, and she's just smiling and being a child and seemingly happy and innocent like you said.

[Crissle West]

Yep.

[Kid Fury]

It makes my Grinch heart grow.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. It is literally that she looks so cute, you know, dressed like mommy with her little kid accoutrement. And just one thing a child gonna do is embarrass the hell out of you when the cameras are rolling and there is an active audience, so.

[Kid Fury]

And vice versa.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Really cute.

[Crissle West]

With her little butterfly clips. Oh, she's so Adorable.

[Kid Fury]

So cute.

[Crissle West]

Did you see C, you see that clip of Ciara on the Breakfast Club talking about niggas who call Russell Wilson Corny?

[Kid Fury]

I haven't seen a clip of the Breakfast Club in years.

[Crissle West]

Well, Ciara was like, first of all, I don't even pay attention to that. You niggas just be running your mouths. What do I look like responding to every dumb thing y' all say? But also, you gotta consider the source. Like, who are these men calling Russell Corny? I bet they don't take care of their children. I bet they don't take care of their families. You know, I bet they don't know how to love or receive love. So that, that's why you niggas think he's Corny. Because he's a kind, generous, giving person. The sweetest, most intelligent man I've ever met. And he takes care of his family. And that's corny to you niggas. Cuz y' all are whack. I was like, y' all better drag these niggas. Do it again. Do it again.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, I don't argue with truth.

[Crissle West]

And how can you like for all. I just can't do it. I just do it for all y' all who got something to say. This man is corny because he does what loves his wife.

[Kid Fury]

Smiles.

[Crissle West]

Is that. No, but for real, you niggas need to think about what makes Russell Wilson corny because he posts his wife and talks about how beautiful she is and how much he loves her and respects her and is so proud of her and loves their family. That's corny to you niggas. I mean, it's corny to me to have kids you don't take care of and live in yo ain't he's house and not have a job and be just outside on the sidewalk at 3:30 in the afternoon hollering at people who happen to be passing by. Like, that's corny to me. But you niggas have your own standards.

[Kid Fury]

Should have said she was hard not to miss.

[Crissle West]

I to this day, I can't believe nobody caught that. I cannot believe nobody. That is the rudest shit I have ever heard.

[Kid Fury]

Pre production, post production. But yeah, nobody said anything.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, Sierra, I guess she has this new album coming out so she's everywhere promoting it. So you know. Yeah, why else would you go on the Breakfast Club? No shade. But yeah, yeah, that, that really tickled me. I said, yeah, tell them again. Because really have their priorities all the way up just completely backwards.

[Kid Fury]

Talk about one of them. So Offset's album is out. And I talked about how he said he had a record on here called Move On. Where? And the way that he talked about it or described it in a little snippet that I saw made it seem like he was finally just being like, you know what? It's over and done with. It's time for us to go our separate ways and just put it. And it sounded like it was going to be a song, like a. A reflective piece of audio. You knew better where we just talk about going.

[Crissle West]

You knew.

[Kid Fury]

Offset. Offset writes and then raps. Fuck. The time that we had, it's erased Walking right past I don't know you. You never listen to no rules. You never cook niggas no food. You just want go out to Nobu, telling me shit that you don't do. Telling me shit that you won't do. You fucked around with the wrong dude. Hope your Nick's next nigga be great.

[Crissle West]

Okay, well, who cares?

[Kid Fury]

He does.

[Crissle West]

She don't cook. Whoever thought Cardi B was supposed to cook? Who? Whoever did that? You both are multimillionaires, right? Who thought that Cardi was like, oh, let me take them chicken thighs out the freezer and go wash that broccoli. Like, why would you. Doesn't just about everybody, y' all know have a personal chef? Why would she do that? What's wrong with just going out to Nobu? If you can easily afford to go out to Nobu is McDonald's to you. Why wouldn't you? Bitch, I would be at Nobu four times a week if I could. $600 dinners? Are you joking? Niggas are also.

[Kid Fury]

Pardon me. Pardon me for my refusal to lift a spatula for a nigga. I've caught two to three cases behind. Well, I don't feel in a rush to cook.

[Crissle West]

You?

[Kid Fury]

No. I don't know. Cardi B likes to cook.

[Crissle West]

No. Nothing. Like, and is her. The fact that she didn't cook, is that the reason you kept cheating on her over and over and over? No, no, of course not.

[Kid Fury]

No. This is what I'm saying.

[Crissle West]

So cook for what?

[Kid Fury]

This is corny.

[Crissle West]

So cook for what?

[Kid Fury]

Being a fuck nigga? Losing your relationship because you're a fuck nigga. Seeing the person that you lost move on. Cause this is what you're really tight about.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Seeing the person that you're with seemingly move on, and now you make a records. Talking about you want to cook no food or clean nothing. You just wanted to go to no boo. Bitch, I'm Rich. And I was rich before I met you. I could do whatever the fuck I want to do. What does that have to do with the price of tea?

[Crissle West]

And now I'm with that.

[Kid Fury]

I'm not corny. But Russell is corny for making Sierra laugh and smile and getting a bitch pregnant seven goddamn times and going to every one of her album release parties and shit like that, and propping the bitch up and inviting her to every goddamn thing and probably being honest and asking her how her day was.

[Crissle West]

Right, But Offset, not corny.

[Kid Fury]

This is corny.

[Crissle West]

Right, But Russell's corny because. Because Sienna had a wicked birthday party and he got Cynthia Erivo to FaceTime her for her birthday. That's corny. That's a corny nigga.

[Kid Fury]

He dressed up as the wizard.

[Crissle West]

That's a. That's a corny nigga.

[Kid Fury]

This fucking Jeff Goldblum. Oh, so corny. Here he is making his goddamn family happy, being enthusiastic, and meanwhile building memories with his kids and shit.

[Crissle West]

Oh, God. Offset got, like, eight kids spread across three or four different hoes. That's not corny. But this is Russell taking care of Baby Future and calling him his son and treating him exactly like he would his own blood children. That's corny. That's exactly what you niggas need, actually. You niggas needed somebody to step up and treat you like a son. You needed an actual father figure in your lives. Maybe you just jealous that Future has one and you don't, but it's nothing corny about doing what's right by kids. Y' all wouldn't know nothing about that, though. Cardi even Offset said when they was together that Cardi was the reason he was an active father with the kids he had before Cardi. That is the most pathetic bitch made shit I ever heard in my life. I can't believe you got me defending this hoe, either.

[Kid Fury]

Who was it?

[Crissle West]

I'm ready to cuss her out, too, but I'll be damned.

[Kid Fury]

Who was it? 21 Savage or somebody that said a bitch made him drink water?

[Crissle West]

You know what? That sounds, right? That sounds about correct. And he was like, you know what? I actually never even thought about it. And then a woman was like, your urine's not supposed to be chunky.

[Kid Fury]

You can drink water. I forgot people drink this.

[Crissle West]

Okay, okay, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. I mean, it's water and everything. That's what niggas say. You don't have to drink water. It's water and everything. All right, okay. And that's why your urine's dark brown.

[Kid Fury]

You sound like white people about their legs. Oh, the subjects.

[Crissle West]

You get when you take a shower. The water absorbs through your skin and hydrates you. That way you don't have to drink none. See, y' all need to stop listening to them doctors and start turning on some Dr. SE. That's what y' all problem is. Y' all go into that white man. That's what y' all sound like when y' all be saying stupid like women not supposed to have a period.

[Kid Fury]

Speaking of going to the doctors, you know that Dr. Umar has a reality show coming out called Date the doctor?

[Crissle West]

Nope. No, I did not know that. And I'd like for that to not be real. So if you could just take it back, I would appreciate that.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, dating Dr. Umar. But he says this is not a love show. He's not looking for a wife. He says, quote, the ancestors will send them to me when the time is right. Now, I don't know if he means multiple wives or if he. Because why would you say them like a gender Not.

[Crissle West]

You know, he don't. You know good and goddamn well he do not. You know good and fucking well he means his harem of bitches will arrive when Dr. Sebi sends it from the afterlife.

[Kid Fury]

So just before you rush to apply here.

[Crissle West]

So then what is the show?

[Kid Fury]

He says that he will be just looking for black women to have, I guess, a sit down with him where he's going to say a whole bunch of the same dick man shit that he always be saying.

[Crissle West]

Oh, God. All right, Kevin Samuels. That's what this sounds like.

[Kid Fury]

But he said that he only wants black women who are entrepreneurs to apply. I'll read you another quote.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

I want black women to become entrepreneurs so we can target homelessness. He said, he says looking for entrepreneurs. He don't care if you sell cookies, so mail order, okay, so on, so forth. He says, I want black women to become entrepreneurs so we can target homelessness, reduce prostitution and create opportunities.

[Crissle West]

Reduce prostitution? What?

[Kid Fury]

So that women don't have to turn to those careers. But how does this person call himself a doctor and y' all call it him a doctor too? Homelessness is not a career.

[Crissle West]

Right? I said that only one of those is even a career. And if you really wanted to target homelessness and reduce prostitution, you would focus on systemic societal things that stand in the way.

[Kid Fury]

That there.

[Crissle West]

It is not entrepreneurship. The. The problem is capitalism, not the fact that black women don't have their own business. That's very stupid.

[Kid Fury]

Imagine if solving the housing Crisis in this nation. What an idiot Was really just about a reality show where black lady entrepreneurs sit and listen to Dr. Umar. I'm.

[Crissle West]

Why would I do this? It's like, girl, why would I do that? What has Dr. Umar ever said that you was just like, you know what? Nevermind, nevermind. Actually, don't answer that. Please don't answer that. Cause a lot of y' all really live for his dumb ass, but please don't.

[Kid Fury]

I don't want you to say no.

[Crissle West]

This literally sounds like Kevin Samuel's show, except the women all have jobs, and he's gonna sit here and tell them what. What they doing wrong. What are you supposed to be doing? Is you supposed to. What are you supposed to be doing here? If. If you're exchanging views and opinions on various issues affecting the African race and black women in particular. That's what I just found here. Then why do they need to be entrepreneurs? If there are make it. How does. How do that go?

[Kid Fury]

No one. No.

[Crissle West]

And why would Dr. Umar be the person to talk to black women about issues affecting black. You're not one of us.

[Kid Fury]

I just.

[Crissle West]

Why don't you talk to a group of niggas with a job.

[Kid Fury]

If you really. If your intent is to reduce homelessness, prostitution, and to create opportunities, black women are the last people that you need to speak to. The last. Because as Crystal already stated, that is an issue of. That is an issue of the economy. That's the issue of the way that money is spent and dealt. That is the way. That is an issue of the way that the government and states funnel money back into certain systems. Like, people are not unhoused or selling sex. Because man should have started that cookie business. Like what?

[Crissle West]

Right? People are working two, three jobs and can't afford rent and bills. The problem is not what document. Okay, okay. I'm not taking advice from a nigga who don't even speak to his children. A nigga who don't raise his kids. Why would I listen to any goddamn thing Dr. Umar has to say? Why would I do it?

[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

Please say for something stupid like and trivial like jaywalking, driving with a suspended license. Please don't let it be something crazy.

[Kid Fury]

Possession of marijuana.

[Crissle West]

Okay, yeah, that's fine.

[Kid Fury]

And unlawful possession of a father.

[Crissle West]

Okay, I would. Okay, Yeah. I thought it was, you know, pistol whipping a woman or something. This is fine. Nah, you forget you can't take weed every fucking where, bro. Although you from Texas. So you knew that.

[Kid Fury]

That's what I'm saying.

[Crissle West]

So you knew that.

[Kid Fury]

That's what I'm saying.

[Crissle West]

So you knew that. Okay, well, that's fine. I could get caught up on that sexual.

[Kid Fury]

He's second arrest this year in Texas, so he better be careful. And last time February was a marijuana possession charge too. So I don't think he's going underneath nobody's jail. But sweetie, you better play it safe.

[Crissle West]

You need to. You need to tighten it up because don't you have a tour starting next month? You need to keep that. Tighten that shit up, bro. We can't just be having unregistered, unlicensed firearms and marijuana in a state that don't play with. Well, it's. I'm actually shocked you can even come up on a gun charge in Texas because they give guns out. Soon as you hit the eighth grade, you get a free gun.

[Kid Fury]

So that's how I've always felt about Florida. Like such and such caught. I'm like, gun charges and then what? Who do they shoot with it?

[Crissle West]

You can have a gun out at the heb. You can go to heap with that gun. Fuck you, weed. How is this. What law am I breaking? But you know they don't play about weed.

[Kid Fury]

Dad, they taught me how to unload a pistol in second grade.

[Crissle West]

These crackers look right. Well, I actually did learn how to load and unload a gun at that age, but that was more for safety reasons.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, me too, but not at school.

[Crissle West]

Oh no, it's a class at school. We're going on a field trip to Walmart. This is when you could buy guns and ammunition at Walmart.

[Kid Fury]

You really got to do it at.

[Crissle West]

Oh no, I am bullshitting. That would be crazy. That would be so Oklahoma though. God damn. That would be peak Oklahoma.

[Kid Fury]

That would. Cause the thing is like I would have believed you the way you was. Like you could have fully kept that going.

[Crissle West]

Yes. Tulsa Public Schools had us on the.

[Kid Fury]

Bus places that crazy especially about gun really is.

[Crissle West]

But you know they probably looking for you at this point. They looking for reasons to arrest you. So gotta tighten that up. Clean that up, brother. I'm just glad you wasn't beating a woman or assaulting a child in some way. It's sad that that's. That's where the bar is. But please don't make me have to stop playing that song. I'm not mad at this cancer.

[Kid Fury]

I have not felt the same. Spike Lee apparently will not be going around to shop the Colin Kaepernick documentary he was directing with ESPN that ESPN chopped my assumption. He also I read when I think this report first came out that he couldn't. He said he can talk about It. They asked him some questions. He was like, I'm under NDA or whatever. I can't talk about it.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

In an interview with Business Insider, they asked him if he was planning on shopping into another network, and he said no. It's unfortunate, but, I mean, I moved on. So my assumption again from the first time I read about this is that ESPN has the rights to whatever this thing was, and they were like, not putting it out, and you can't either. Ha ha.

[Crissle West]

Lord. And I'm sure because the NFL now has a 10% equity stake in ESPN, I'm sure the NFL was like, oh, no, we won't be doing that. Actually something that makes us look bad. Worser than we already do look. I don't think so, girly pop. Damn. I wonder when that. Whenever they hold on it, they can't be in perpetuity.

[Kid Fury]

Like, depends on the contract.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, well, yeah, I guess so. But hate to. Hate to hear that. Really do, because I would like to see it. Even though I was there, I remember the story as it unfolded, but sty.

[Kid Fury]

But as a Spike Lee joint. Come on.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, yeah, I want to see it.

[Kid Fury]

So there's a certain style and so on. Yeah, I would have liked to see that too.

[Crissle West]

Right.

[Kid Fury]

But I mean, hey, you know who they haven't purchased the right to being? Colin Kaepernick or his life first.

[Crissle West]

You mean the person.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. So I doubt that he can do the. He can't make a documentary about this with Spike Lee, but he could probably do a project with someone else in another company at a different date and so on, you know. But again, I don't know what they could do because who knows what they signed.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But like I said when I first read that thing and Spike Lee was like, I can't talk about it, but sounded very annoying. I was like, okay, well, ESPN very much put their foot down and tell y' all, bitches eat dust.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Because we're on the NFL side and there's nothing you can do about it. And you can't take this nowhere. So bye.

[Crissle West]

Yep. I mean, everything that's too bad straight like that. It's not shit you can do about it either, nigga. In eight years, you could release it, you know, direct on itunes or something. But until then, to be too bad.

[Kid Fury]

Similarly frustrated for our. Our. Our girl Tab Tabitha Brown, who spoke about the Target DEI rollback situation and black owned business suffering because of that and people saying that, you know, she should take her products and basically sell them direct to consumer and so on. And so forth. And her having to break down people. Well, I have a licensing.

[Crissle West]

Those are not my products. Right.

[Kid Fury]

Target.

[Crissle West]

Right. Those are Target's products.

[Kid Fury]

So those products are going to be wherever Target says they're going to be.

[Crissle West]

Correct.

[Kid Fury]

And her having to sit there and go, well, fuck was the intention to set up a bunch of black products? Because you know, the people who really gonna boycott is us and the people who buy those things are. So she's like, you know, for a Tabitha Brown, things can be one thing. But there are black owned businesses in Target that have really suffered because of this. I'm sure not just because of the rollback, but also because people like myself have gone to walking right past Target.

[Crissle West]

I've simply been without. Right, But y' all thought Tabitha Brown was finna go start making scissors and cutting boards and popcorn and stationery and pots and pans. Like no, Target was fronting all of that and putting Tabitha Brown's name on it. You know, I'm sure she was involved creatively, like with some design stuff, that.

[Kid Fury]

Sort of thing, but that they have the right.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, that's Target. Right. If she don't have some giant warehouse somewhere with all them products, it is just like, oh, I' ma sell it straight to y'. All. No, that's really not how this works for most of these companies, so. Or most of these brands, these lines. Exactly. So yeah, I mean, I really do hate it because I loved Tabitha Brown. You know, this Tabitha Brown branded stuff. I, I like her. I, I like the stuff she does. I like her kids show and I appreciate her trying so hard to get niggas to eat a little less meat. Even though we're always like, no. We're always like, absolutely not. Soon as you start bringing out pickled mushrooms and jackfruit. Nada, girl, keep it.

[Kid Fury]

Jackfruit. That supposed to be porridge. Niggas are like, okay, you are playing on my time. I asked for bacon.

[Crissle West]

And as soon as you bring that bullshit out, I'm gonna just take out my chicken. Cause I put chicken in that. But.

[Kid Fury]

And niggas, oh my God. If it was prepared for you and it's a little get together, a little shenanig. You know, shindiggy.

[Crissle West]

Try it.

[Kid Fury]

Oh my God. Try it. If a of a position of a healthcare person was like, you need to be vegan for whatever reason.

[Crissle West]

Right, Right.

[Kid Fury]

You suffer through it.

[Crissle West]

Yes. Or if somebody made, if she brought, if someone just. If I had like a garden party and Tabitha Brown brought a vegan something, I would taste it. I'LL take a bite. I might go put some chicken in it afterwards.

[Kid Fury]

The girls will gag.

[Crissle West]

I'm gonna go put some chicken in mine. Not in everybody's, but, you know, she had them chopped salad kits. Them shits is good. You just. Yes, just put some salmon on top is all.

[Kid Fury]

I' if she's reaching across the aisle, why can't you try it out? Give piece of chance.

[Crissle West]

Give piece of chance. It's so stupid.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, do you want to discuss the Drake crash out or the current chapter? Well, he's not really crashing out. It's just more.

[Crissle West]

I don't even know what you talking about, so we might as well. What did he do now? Oh, that Tupac thing. The Tupac chain or whatever he bought girl.

[Kid Fury]

Because like. Like, what are you, colonizer?

[Crissle West]

Whose mind does that change? You buying that? Who? I don't know who's like, oh, you know what? Drake bought yet another piece of rap memorabilia. I think I changed my mind about who really won that beef.

[Kid Fury]

But for you to have bought this chain that I feel like I could have looked at it and like, girl, that is not too fucking. I don't think Death Row ever made that chain had anything to do with it. In fact, I feel like that is giving me you as one flea market that's giving me like, yeah, I've heard.

[Crissle West]

It'S not real, but you know, I honestly don't. Yeah, I've heard for myself, but, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

From several minds within, I hope it's not. You got the chains that Suge gave them chains out to PAC specifically in 1995.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Even though it says 1996 on the engraving on the.

[Crissle West]

Yikes, yikes, yikes, yikes.

[Kid Fury]

And again, you can just look at the chain that Tupac wore and the chain that Drake posted and been like, okay, so that one that Tupac is wearing is Tupac's and looks nice. That one's ugly. So, like get ugly after 30, 40 years or so. That's unfortunate. Then he also posted on his story a screenshot of, I guess, conversation between him and customer service over at stake.

[Crissle West]

Shut up.

[Kid Fury]

With a I promise you with every breathing yet. He's been trying to withdraw funds from his crypto gambling casino website and been having trouble with withdrawals. So he posted a screenshot with some lovely person named Jovika who joined the conversation and said, hello again. We are unfortunately unable to process your last with withdrawal attempt. Hit us later, we'll try again. So he posted on story and goes, 4 withdraw attempts blocked on at stake with no explanation. Is it personal? Is it personal? Is it per. Because why would it be? Don't nobody talk about steak with you. You have to make them the most money, right?

[Crissle West]

Is it. Do you not have the available funds? Is that what it is? Or why are we involved?

[Kid Fury]

I would. I'm thinking maybe Steak. It's more money than Steak can give him.

[Crissle West]

At the time. Yeah. Okay, well, at the time, you know, gambling's a real problem. It's a real problem.

[Kid Fury]

It truly is. What I saw a couple of months ago. You remember a couple months ago when the doll rented out a strip club and was in there just playing, Just gambling by herself with a fur coat on, listening to Sabrina Carpenter.

[Crissle West]

No, I do not want to.

[Kid Fury]

No bitches, no friends, nothing. Just sitting gambling on a huge screen in the club while Sabrina Carpenter was playing. That's when I was like, oh, this isn't a joke. Like, I thought, oh, this is just business. He has a. He likes to gamble. He has a partnership or. Or actual ownership. And Steak. And so he brings up steak all the time because it's his business.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

When that baby was solo, like, that's some fucking Batman villain shit like that. Like, who does that? You don't even have, like, pretty girls around. You don't have nobody in coochie cutters and fishnets with some sparkling, like, because.

[Crissle West]

That'S not what he focusing on right now. You need to hit these in there. Woo. This is so sad. Why would we care about you having issues with getting your money?

[Kid Fury]

What are we supposed to do about it?

[Crissle West]

You think I have more pull at steak than you do? Mama, your steak. What are we supposed.

[Kid Fury]

Like, can't you call somebody if it's personal? I feel like you could call somebody.

[Crissle West]

And ask them, why are you on the phone with customers? Why are you on a chat with customer service? Call the nigga who owns Steak.

[Kid Fury]

I'm so confused.

[Crissle West]

What a weirdo.

[Kid Fury]

I feel like you can call Mr. Steak. Alexander. Alexander Steak and say, hey, what's tea? But as Crystal said, even if you have to get in touch with Alexander Cuestake Jr. Who has no real pull.

[Crissle West]

What are we supposed to do about it? Alexander Belstake is insane. How want you to know, Lord, how weird.

[Kid Fury]

Lastly, in his life, though, apparently he has been spotted. Oh, this was forever ago. Why are people just not talking about this anyway? There was just. He's trending now because he was spotted outside of family court in Toronto on 27 March. Some white man was out there recording and talking about him being in the courthouse in the family court for a couple of days even caught him on camera walking into the courthouse. Why? We don't know. But the Internet is the buzz that it could have something to do with. With a mysterious girl that Kendrick Lamar raps about on a song called Meet the Grams.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

A girl, rumor has it, to be the child of Drake that he has not spoken about. So him actually buzzing around a family court in Toronto has got people's eyebrows raised. But I'm like, could it be about the kid we know about?

[Crissle West]

Well, that child is in France somewhere, so I would think. I mean, I guess maybe y' all could go to family court there, but I would assume it would. Family court is wherever the child primarily.

[Kid Fury]

Lives always go to. Oh, yeah, why not?

[Crissle West]

Don't you have a jet? Did Rick Ross.

[Kid Fury]

I mean, yeah, but I'm like, what if he did it? I. I guess his mama would just have custody.

[Crissle West]

Then that French lady would just have custody, and that would be. I. I don't know. I don't. I couldn't begin to guess. But Kendrick did say you had a daughter that you wasn't telling nobody nothing about. And so I don't know. Was. Was. What's her name? Sophie. Is. Was Sophie there? We don't know.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, the white Adonis. The French lady.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Adonis's mom.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

No, if she wasn't there.

[Crissle West]

Okay, well, I actually don't care about you hiding. I think it's perfectly fine to not tell the world about your children. What is the problem is if you're not taking care of those children, raising those children. But you don't have to tell us how many kids you have and with whom. That's none of our business. And it's probably for them kids best interests that we not know, because look at how God damn unhinged these people are. Look at how y' all act over this alleged. Drake maybe was in family court with a woman. And it's like, look at how y' all are. I googled it right quick. These reactions, these YouTubes, y' all are not. Well, I would hide my kids, too. I would.

[Kid Fury]

True, true. And he was just in, like, Copenhagen or something, walking out of a building somewhere. And some jit they look. I promise you, this kid look like gyro gear loose standing outside with a boombox playing Not Like Us and wrapping it into a microphone. I'm just, like, blasting a minor. Like, he. As Drake is like getting into a sprinter, waited for him to open. Y' all play too much to walk outside and start playing. Not like us. I'm like, okay, you see.

[Crissle West]

That'S how carpenter.

[Kid Fury]

I will laugh. I will troll when I think things are funny. But you can't. That is unhinged. You're provoking.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Yes. For what?

[Crissle West]

I mean, I wouldn't do it. I don't have that much free time. But it is funny.

[Kid Fury]

Hello. I'm not gonna not laugh. Minkus pulling up to the fucking.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But unfortunately, I have a job, so I'm not available to do that.

[Kid Fury]

And them's your people.

[Crissle West]

My what you mean by that? I would love.

[Kid Fury]

Not you, Drake.

[Crissle West]

Okay. I was about to say out there, like, no, fuck this.

[Kid Fury]

It's a hit. I was gonna talk about Tiffany Adish, but I. I'm just gonna wish her the best.

[Crissle West]

I don't even remember what's wrong with her. But okay.

[Kid Fury]

She posted a picture with her and Jason Lee and a baby.

[Crissle West]

Oh, right.

[Kid Fury]

Is that real Cats out the back? No.

[Crissle West]

Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Of course not. But I wasn't gonna talk about that. She went on, she was like, guest hosting a late night show or something. And in her opening monologue, she was like, I posted this picture with me and my friend. And said, cats out the bag. And for some reason, everybody thought I had a baby. Even my own family thought I had a baby. And it's just like, we can't post the picture. And it's like, girl, not with that.

[Crissle West]

Caption, you stupid bitch.

[Kid Fury]

I'm actually more confused by this than the photo with that caption. This is more confusing. You acting like you don't know why you got this reaction. Is way more confusing than posting a picture with Jason Lee and a picture.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, yeah. Yep.

[Kid Fury]

And pretending or whatever the fuck that was. That was odd. But I was just like, I guess this is supposed to be a joke that I don't get or whatever. The baby's adorable. Big girl. You then being. I didn't get it. I didn't get it. I still don't get it. I have no further understanding of it.

[Crissle West]

But.

[Kid Fury]

But.

[Crissle West]

Cause now you sound like an idiot. What do you mean you don't understand why people thought that? Can you read?

[Kid Fury]

That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying.

[Crissle West]

Can you read the words? You.

[Kid Fury]

You put the cats out the bag with you.

[Crissle West]

And this homosexual and an infant. All right.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. I think I'm. I think I'm very complete.

[Crissle West]

Cause that's so fucking stupid. That's just really stupid. And I'm tired of celebrities saying and doing shit just so that we'll pay attention to them like this.

[Kid Fury]

My thing is like opening a monologue for Kimmel. My friend Jason Lee and I posted this picture and cats out the bag. And we knew that it would get a reaction. You know, girl, I just be bored child. My whole family thought that I was pregnant, which don't even make or thought I had a baby, which don't make no sense because they live with me. And then always blocking me from getting dick, which was the joke that she used. Like, that would have landed differently because you're like, open about the fact that you for whatever reason, decided to prank your fans and family but being like, I don't understand why anyone would think I had a baby. When I posted myself and this baby.

[Crissle West]

And said, ta da. Like, what you think we thought then?

[Kid Fury]

Dumbass, look at what my vagina can do. Like, it's just like.

[Crissle West]

And surrogate. What did you think you could have. Y' all could have very easily used a surrogate for that baby. So what are you talking. You can have a baby and not ever have been pregnant. And I just feel like it only takes half a teaspoon of common goddamn sense to know that, like, fifth graders can figure this out. All right?

[Kid Fury]

I don't. I. But you know why?

[Crissle West]

Yeah, I do. I do indeed.

[Kid Fury]

That's gonna wrap up this week's.

[Crissle West]

This week's you okay.

[Kid Fury]

This week's will be back.

[Crissle West]

Oh, Lord.

[Kid Fury]

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[Kid Fury]

Hello folks, we have returned and it is time for your listener letters.

[Crissle West]

Yes, it is. Send your Questions to AskTheRead Gmail.com we may read them aloud on the show. Where to begin.

[Kid Fury]

I really want that chicken salad update. I want it so bad it ain't it.

[Crissle West]

That's too damn bad because it ain't in there. But trust me, when I opened the inbox, I was looking for that shit too.

[Kid Fury]

Like, please, please just put chicken salad update in all caps in the subject, please.

[Crissle West]

Cause either your brother's out of his mind or your mama did something heinous.

[Kid Fury]

But no, she had to. She had to. You know that she. He has a story and it will be told.

[Crissle West]

For our entertainment. Thank you. Please let us know. All right, so our first letter this week comes from Whitney, who says, hey y', all, I'm a single mom living in Long beach and I moved here last October with my 2 year old daughter. We didn't know anyone here and I have no friends, no family and no support. I've been doing everything on my own since day one. But Russell Wilson is corny. All right, anyway, I mean, anyway, one day at the park, I met a woman who also had a daughter around the same age. Our girls instantly clicked and so did we. It felt easy, natural, like one of those rare adult friendships that just fit people. Even mistook us for sisters. And we'd laugh and Say that we were. Our friendship grew quickly and deeply when I started babysitting to make ends meet. She even bought me a wagon to help. Since I don't have a car, I babysit her daughter often. She helped me plan my daughter's second birthday party, which meant the world to me because I had no one else. She was a safe space for me and truly the only friend I had here. Our daughters were best friends, too, and they loved seeing each other. And we'd often plan our days around making that happen. It felt like we were building our own little village, which is something I've longed for. But then she met someone. I was genuinely happy for her. She's a single mom, too, and I know how special it can feel to connect with someone who makes you feel wanted and supported. He moved in after just a couple of months, and she started talking about having another child. Okay, okay. Again, I was happy for. I'm just trying to get through without judging. Like what, a couple of months and you talking about. Anyway, again, I was happy for her. But everything between us changed. Suddenly. She stopped inviting me to things and reaching out. It felt like she built this new life that I was no longer a part of. At first, I tried to brush it off and just tell myself that she was busy. But deep down, it really hurt because it felt like I lost this connection that meant so much to me and my daughter. And it happened so suddenly, without any kind of conversation. About a month ago, something traumatic happened to me. I was walking home from the park with my daughter, and a man who I didn't even look at or speak to just came up behind me and assaulted me. He hit me so hard that I collapsed, clinging to my daughter's stroller, which tipped over and my daughter fell out. I was terrified, shaking, and completely unprepared for something like that. And for weeks afterwards, I was barely functional and I was afraid to leave my house. I was emotionally shut down and just trying to survive. I told my friend what happened, and I was honest about the state of mind I was in and that I wasn't okay. A few days later, she asked me if I could babysit her daughter. I told her I was.

[Kid Fury]

Days later?

[Crissle West]

Yeah. I told her that I was in a really fragile mental state and barely able to take care of my own daughter. But if she needed to drop her kid off for a few hours, I could do that. And so she did. But she didn't pay me this time, even though she usually does. And honestly, I didn't feel like I was in A place where I should have been asked to babysit at all because I don't have any kind of support system in here, and I was barely hanging on. She, on the other hand, has her parents, her siblings, her partner and other friends. So I felt confused. Like, why ask the one person who has no one else to lean on? I know she's done a lot for me in the past, and I've always appreciated that. But this time it felt different. And. And it felt like I was being asked to give more than I had. The next time I heard from her, it wasn't to check in on me. It was to cancel a future play date that we had planned, which, again, hurt because I was actually looking forward to it and our daughters hadn't seen each other in weeks.

[Kid Fury]

This sucks.

[Crissle West]

I finally reached out and told her how I felt. I said I noticed a shift and I wasn't sure if I'd done anything wrong. And her response was basically that she's going through a lot of positive changes, that she's working and not single anymore, and that she still checks in to see how me and my daughter are doing. But that wasn't what I was trying to say. I didn't feel seen or heard. I wasn't asking to fix anything. I just wanted to feel like our friendship still mattered. We haven't spoken since then. It's been a while, and I keep thinking about how quickly everything changed. I don't know if it was me and my fault, if my depression or lack of consistency in texting back pushed her away. I get overwhelmed sometimes and I don't always respond right away. But it's not because I don't care. It's because I'm doing this all alone and I'm burnt out and I don't even have the space for myself most days. I miss her. I miss what we had. I miss our daughters being together. And I feel ashamed for feeling like I lost something so important and I don't even really know why. How do I process a friendship that feels like it ended without warning? Is this just what happens when people move on and build their lives? How do I stop blaming myself or feeling like I was left behind? Thank you for reading this. It means more than I can say. With love, Whitney. Me.

[Kid Fury]

Okay, Whitney, you know, sending you lots of love and warmth. You been going through it and dealing with a lot. And it sounds like you have put a lot of eggs, energy and faith into one basket. And it isn't a secure basket because as close as you grew with this Person as tight of bond as you built. This person, you know, this is not your blood relative of 20, 30 years. And even they can get the child. This is someone you're still navigating things with. Someone who hate to say it, doesn't really owe you anything. So I think that you asked a really great question in how to process a friendship ending this quickly.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Or out of nowhere. It's an unfortunate fact that a lot of people get in a relationship, especially women and femme and act.

[Crissle West]

Say it. Say it. Oh my God. That's exactly what I was gonna say.

[Kid Fury]

New.

[Crissle West]

Exactly what I was gonna say.

[Kid Fury]

In every aspect. In every aspect. What they wear is new. What they eat is new. What they see is new. Hear is new, Taste is new, watch is new. Where they go, Everything is new. Who is new? This bitch, right?

[Crissle West]

I never actually met this bitch before. I don't even know you, girl. Who is this? Who is you?

[Kid Fury]

Especially in the honeymoon phase, early stages of relationship and stuff. So I would say two things. One, you. I. I think you want to try to focus on expanding your village for your health, your safety, your comfort, and all of those things as well for your child outside of this person or this other person. Because I don't know who this nigga is. We didn't really get a description of him.

[Crissle West]

The new boyfriend. No, we don't know anything about him, but I can't imagine he's great.

[Kid Fury]

I can't either.

[Crissle West]

I'm sorry. It's weird when mothers move somebody into their home a couple of months after they start dating. That's a giant.

[Kid Fury]

Let's leave a child to sibling.

[Crissle West]

That's a giant. It could not be a bigger red flag.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I would say definitely take a step back from that. Take care of yourself. Place a boundary there for yourself, for your own security, for your peace of mind and the same for your kid. And just start slowly. Give yourself grace and that. It is a slow process. Getting to know people and trust them. Takes a while, especially today, but it is possible. It's gonna happen. Give yourself that, that time and that grace and that intention. And also I would like to say the second thing, if it at all helps. My opinion is that this bitch sucks. She sucks. She sucks a lot. She does. And I understand that, you know, like, oh, we started so well and all of these things and da da, da, whatever. If a new nigga would come into her life and after a month fuck with all the fully wearing shit she doing on her own time, in her own, you know, her own business. But to Hear something so terrifying happen to you. And just a couple of days later, I guess because y' all have done the playdate thing and babysat and so on, she's just like, oh, so, you know, watch Melissa for me until, blah, blah, blah. Until me, you know, me and my nigga going to see the Naked Gun, right? Like, what?

[Crissle West]

Why wouldn't it be? Girl, let me come pick up my.

[Kid Fury]

Child and I were just attacked.

[Crissle West]

Yes.

[Kid Fury]

My child in a stroller, right?

[Crissle West]

I'll take a break. And I would just attack for a play date. And you rest your fucking nerves.

[Kid Fury]

You have friends. You have a nigga who has friends and family. It's dolo for me out here. And I was saying that's probably why she felt like, oh, well, I'll just have Whitney watch the baby watch or whatever, because she ain't got nobody else. And that is a disgusting.

[Crissle West]

That's so crazy. Oh. Oh, I see what you mean. Oh, that's dirty.

[Kid Fury]

Cause like, other friends might have something to do Friday night, right?

[Crissle West]

Cause they have such.

[Kid Fury]

They all have. But like, I know that she ain't got shit else to do so she can watch the baby.

[Crissle West]

Oh, that is so stank. Oh, what a.

[Kid Fury]

This person sucks. And then you're like, hey, I would just like you to under. To acknowledge that things, you know, I'm not being.

[Crissle West]

Oh, you got a new nigga. And what about, you know, and just like that in the traveling world, Traveling pants. What about me?

[Kid Fury]

Like, it's.

[Crissle West]

What about me? What?

[Kid Fury]

I feel like she's just like, hey, this is how I'm feeling about such and such. And it sounds like essentially this lady told you, well, girl, I have a man and my life is going great. So I check in just to make sure that you're still breathing on time or whatever, I guess. But like, what else do you want for me?

[Crissle West]

You were like, you were just low cost babysitting for her.

[Kid Fury]

I don't care. So weird who that person was. That's not who you're dealing with. And if you're not dealing with that person because she got a man now, oh, well, that's just who you're not dealing with anymore. You can treasure the memory of that person that you met and that person being there in a time when you needed them. And that can even be, oh, look, there are people out here who can be good to you when you need them. Let me keep my heart open. That should take my own advice. But like, you can leave that lady on the curb where you found her because she sucks to lack compassion for somebody in that way is just the bright red crimson. The flags, man. Just blood red.

[Crissle West]

Right? And especially if you said, like, the worst thing you did was not text back fast. That ain't nothing. So it really sounds like she's one of those ones, like you said, that gets a man, and all of a sudden it's like, what friends? I don't care about none of that shit. Like, I got a man now. I agree. She sucks. If only. And I do mean if only, because she is moving a nigga into her home with her toddler two months after she met him. That's some real stupid bitch shit. That's. You really got a fucking issue. Why would you. You know. Have you ever heard of men? Why would you move.

[Kid Fury]

This is my.

[Crissle West]

A nigga you don't know into your home to have 247 access to your child who is barely verbal, it just really seems like, you know, the worst idea I've heard in a long time.

[Kid Fury]

So, yeah, my new mom's being like. Are the moms I know that have been single treating that as like a. What do you call it? Not a landmark, but like a. Almost like a major milestone in a relationship is okay. I'm prepared for him to meet my child. This kid. And that's usually months of dating this person.

[Crissle West]

Yes.

[Kid Fury]

If you are a basic and decent parent.

[Crissle West]

Oh, my God.

[Kid Fury]

You don't just bring. Okay, now you can be around them, right? Live with the child and work on making them another child to be siblings with. That's a red flag. But as I'm saying to Whitney, that's her red flag.

[Crissle West]

Right?

[Kid Fury]

But it can also. It actually ain't. It can be a red flag for you, too, because it also speaks to the type of person that she is.

[Crissle West]

Oh, yeah. No, that's what I mean, because she is. What? Why would you do that? And I know this nigga ain't got nothing going on. Cause how are you even. Why would you even want to move in with somebody you just met? Like, both of y' all a mess. But.

[Kid Fury]

So if I ask you to watch my baby, that. That you just met gonna be over there, too, with all the babies.

[Crissle West]

Come on. Come on. Cause you think I'm sending my child to your house with a man that you don't know, much less, I don't know, girl.

[Kid Fury]

And I got punched in the head or whatever. Attack on the street. They knocked my baby out the stroller. You asked me to babysit for you two days later or some days later, however the fuck right?

[Crissle West]

A few.

[Kid Fury]

And then I'm calling you saying, my feelings are hurt and you're just like, well, my life's t girl. I just don't really know what to tell you, but she sucks.

[Crissle West]

What you mean? Things are going really well for me. I have a job and I'm not single no more. And I still check in on you like, okay, that's not what I said. That's not. Why are you being weird to me? She is. She does sound like a weirdo.

[Kid Fury]

She's very self absorbed. And at least right now, you know.

[Crissle West]

Your daughter's only two. She might not be in daycare. If she is, I would try to make friends with whoever her friends are at daycare. Ask the employees, like, who do Ashley be gravitating to? Like, and you said you met this woman at the park. It's other people at the park with they toddlers. You can make another friend. Everybody is not gonna be this strange. Everybody is not gonna be the type to meet a man and then be like, fuck everybody that Elsa, that I know. So I really do feel for you because you are doing it all by yourself, which is unfathomably difficult. And two is such a difficult age because they are ambulatory and they wanna die. And you have to keep them from dying.

[Kid Fury]

I was just about to say that. I was just about to say everything is keeping them from setting themselves on fire. Everything is reducing the lacerations, stopping the bleeding, like every second.

[Crissle West]

Because toddlers are like, I would love to test the limits of what the human body can sustain. Why don't I just throw myself off of this counter? Why don't I just forward roll into the street?

[Kid Fury]

Like, if I take this paperclip and stick it into this socket, what might happen?

[Crissle West]

Right? Yeah. You definitely need community for sure. And hopefully you can find that. It sounds like it's hard for you to make friends otherwise. So I would be using my kid for that. Because kids don't have. Most kids don't have. Especially at that age. They don't have our issues. They friends with whoever is next to them at the playground. That's your friend now. Yeah, it don't take nothing.

[Kid Fury]

Or labubus. Whoever has the. Which I believe are just called the monsters.

[Crissle West]

Are they?

[Kid Fury]

Why do we say. Why do people say the. Every time I look up a Labubu, it just says the monsters. I think the little ones with the big grinning teeth are just called monsters.

[Crissle West]

What? Well, that's a terrible name. Why would you call them the monsters? That's.

[Kid Fury]

I like it. Better than Labubu.

[Crissle West]

Labubu.

[Kid Fury]

Actually, that sounds like the fake name of a ratchet girl in a sitcom from the 90s.

[Crissle West]

But Labubu is a unique term. The monsters. You Google that, you're going to get 900 pages of scary movies and anything like why?

[Kid Fury]

Probably.

[Crissle West]

Oh. Among the monsters, the most prominent is Labubu. That is so weird.

[Kid Fury]

Also, Labubu is one of the monsters.

[Crissle West]

Okay. I think that's what it is.

[Kid Fury]

Got it. That explains that.

[Crissle West]

Okay. A small monster with high pointed ears and serrated teeth. Yeah. Horrifying. So Labubu is a type of monster. Okay.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, got it.

[Crissle West]

Because why would that.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah. They find the one with the little Labubu and they'd be like, will you be my Labubu? And I'm like, yeah. And then they're Labubu buddies.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

And you just make friends with whoever that person's. Because like I've. I think that also help. You're gonna want those people in your circle to be parents.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Yeah. You probably are similar trials and tribulations so that they. Right. So that when both of yalls kids are tearing up the living room and can't go too close to the cat because they don't understand personal boundaries and you gotta. You gotta put a fucking fence up around the Christmas tree and shit, they be like, I get it.

[Kid Fury]

And the cat as a cat is like, this baby got one more time to come over here and I'm going to beat his ass.

[Crissle West]

I'm feeling pop, pop, pop, pop, pop all on that face. I swear. I swear. You better get that nigga before I get him first.

[Kid Fury]

And I would also say to like in terms of the processing friendship ending weird or up like this. Then Crystal hit the nail on the head and it's kind of know that this is a singular incident. This person in this situation doesn't represent friendship.

[Crissle West]

This isn't right.

[Kid Fury]

A burn. It's not every person you meet is gonna do you like that.

[Crissle West]

But it hurts, of course. Especially if y' all were like, you know, y' all are quick friends. Relationship deepened very quickly. Y' all call each other sister. Like that's.

[Kid Fury]

That's very hurtful, of course.

[Crissle West]

But you can. You can find somebody less likely to toss you to the side. As soon as a man sniffing they direction. She sound like her self esteem is in hell.

[Kid Fury]

But in hell, that's not really your.

[Crissle West]

Problem no more, baby. Best of luck. And I hope you can connect with some other parents, make some more parent friends soon. Our next letter comes from Sandra who says? My fiance and I got engaged in 22. And it wasn't exactly my ideal proposal proposal. I told him specifically when I got the idea that he was proposing that I wanted my hail. My hails, that I wanted my nails and hair to be done and I wanted to be dressed really cute. And most of all, more than anything, I've wanted the proposal to be a surprise. He immediately failed at the surprise thing because he told me when he bought the ring and when it arrived. Then I realized the day he was proposing because he set up the date. I usually set up all of our dates, so I figured this was it. Mind you, my hair wasn't done, nor my nails, and my dress was a basic sundress from Ross. And I was not ready at all and kept dropping hints that I knew he was trying to propose. And since I told him I wanted it to be a surprise, I thought he would wait longer until I wasn't expecting it. Well, he didn't. He proposed by recreating our first date, which was cute for a first day, but it was during COVID so basically everything was closed. But I wouldn't.

[Kid Fury]

That's perfect.

[Crissle West]

But I would not have recreated that day for a proposal. So really, I just felt like he didn't listen at all and kind of ruined what is supposed to be my one and only proposal.

[Kid Fury]

Oh, my God, I want to die.

[Crissle West]

We've talked about it multiple times, argued over it multiple times. And I've even suggested that he just try again. What?

[Kid Fury]

Oh, sorry.

[Crissle West]

Okay, I've been losing weight and my ring will need to be resized. So I said that could be a good opportunity to try again and surprise me this time. I'm not sure if I'm doing too much or he's not doing enough. He does pay all the bills for our home because right now I'm trying to build our business as Amazon sellers. Do you think I should just be grateful that he's a provider? He is really sweet, but I'm not sure if this is going to be something I can just get over, as it was really important to me and he knew that. What do y' all think I should do? Thanks for the advice, Sandra.

[Kid Fury]

See, now. Okay. Sandra, you okay?

[Crissle West]

How delightful.

[Kid Fury]

I feel like we've been advocating for corny niggas. And then it's like it's gonna be heifers like you who just. Who pushed the needle too far. Because you want. You want to be Snow White. You want to be Ariel. You want to be.

[Crissle West]

You want a Disney story.

[Kid Fury]

Tiana without the frog. Like, I don't. And I don't give. I've never. I will give a fuck about marriage and especially the ceremony around it. Like, I just don't care. I respect everyone's right. I believe every woman should have the right affair and love and so on, so forth. I have nothing against it. I'm just not so dialed into interested in the ceremony or the traditional acts around marriage. Proposing engagement. And I don't give a fuck about that. If A wanted to get married to me and I was okay with being married, he could literally. We could be walking out of Ralph's and be like, hey, I got you this. I'll get married next week.

[Crissle West]

Let's do it. What day we go right down to this courthouse?

[Kid Fury]

Like, Thursdays, you know, I know Thursdays are real. Okay, all right, fine. That's me. So I say that to say, you're not going to get that much empathy or energy out of me when it comes to this, because I wouldn't give two fucks left a Thursday. That's 1, 2. I just questioned it in general. Why the fuck you say the nigga cool? He's sweet. You like him enough to get married to him. I want to jump right back to the beginning of this letter where you were like, I want it to be a surprise, but I also need my nails done, I need my hair done. I need new lashes, I need my highlight, I need contour. Okay. I have to get a brand new dress. Savage fenty underneath. Oh, girl. I also have to get a new bag. Like, but it has to be a surprise. So make sure that you plan an elaborate proposal in fucking Times Square, right? With a performance by Cat's Eye and Drew Hale and fucking Sabrina Carpenter and.

[Crissle West]

Right, right. I want Bruno Mars.

[Kid Fury]

And it has to be so right. And silk Sonic and the Pips and.

[Crissle West]

So, like, bring out Anderson Paak, too. And don't forget.

[Kid Fury]

Don't forget it. Okay, we need an in and out truck. I don't care how you get it.

[Crissle West]

I don't care.

[Kid Fury]

A sacred boob. And it better be a surprise. Like, what the fuck are you talking about?

[Crissle West]

Yeah, the only way that could be a surprise is if you always have your hair and nails done and you always dressed real nice and all that. If that's a special occasion for you, how is it supposed to be a surprise, baby girl?

[Kid Fury]

Then it was like, oh, he went to, like, recreate our first date or something, but it was Covid and it wasn't really giving, so I didn't, like, It. So I told him to start over. Like, what are you talking about? Most of these bitches never get like it is. I'm talking about Temple of Doom. I'm talking about the Philosopher's Stone. It is the Chamber of Secrets to get this nigga to agree to marriage to matrimony, much less a happy one. Oh, my God. It is the Azkaban prisoner.

[Crissle West]

Girl.

[Kid Fury]

Bitch, it is the mother. It is the bridge to Terabithia. It's the lion. It's the witch. It's the wardrobe. Girl. It's the mice and the men. You can't get these niggas to do it. You have a nigger who's like, let me do some sweet, corny shit for you. And she was like, it's Covid. Ain't enough people in this Orange Julius. Like, what? What the fuck are you talking about? Why does it even need to be like, if you have a guy who's willing to make a sweet, romantic effort and you really like him. Okay. And you're pleased with the ring? Because that's important.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Yeah. It matters. I'm supposed to wear it. I need to like it.

[Kid Fury]

And we're talking about the proposal. We're not talking about the wedding. We're talking about just when he asks you to get married, which, spoiler alert, you're going to say yes, because you're planning on with this, but you wanted to be a surprise. I don't know why you're nitpicking and it doesn't sound like you. There's no point in this letter where he was, where he. You said, like. He responded by saying, girl, fuck you and your ideas. I don't even want to marry you, you lame ass bitch. Right? He's making an effort, but he's like, oh, no. Nails not done that day. No. This ain't a fresh blowout. No, I don't like this date. Yeah. Why does it even matter? I want you. Before we talk about this nigga or any of the festivities around it, I want to know why it is this important that the time, place, and manner in which this man asks you a question is so specific. I need to know why.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, well, I mean, I get it, but I think you.

[Kid Fury]

I get wanting it to be romantic.

[Crissle West]

Sure. I get wanting or sweet. I think you really. You really illustrated an excellent point of, like, you want it to be a surprise, but you also want all these other things that would. If. If you. If you don't get your hair and nails done every week or every two weeks, religiously how is he supposed to surprise you? Go ahead and pull out your finest fashion nova and go get your hair blown out and get your nails done for no reason at all. Like, how is he supposed to. You want it to be romantic and this. You want to look good and all this, but he can't plan the date, so you, like, oh, I knew you was going to propose because you planned the date. Well, girl, what is he supposed to do then? Propose at home in the living room? You finna be dressed for that? Probably not. So you. I think you do need to kind of think about whether what you're asking for is really realistic, because I don't. It sounds like you need to. It sounds like you need to turn into the type of person who stay with her hair and nails done if you really want it to be. And dressed. You want all this.

[Kid Fury]

But that's not even the only problem, that you're 1,000% right.

[Crissle West]

Well, you said it. I'm like, but that's really it. That's really it for me because I think I don't necessarily have a problem with you wanting those things, but it sounds like they're incongruent. Like, all of these factors together don't go together. And what is that for? Like, do you want all that? It sounds like you want all that so that Instagram and Facebook give you the compliments you want.

[Kid Fury]

Exactly. And you have a wedding today.

[Crissle West]

It's more about what people will think as opposed to what you will think.

[Kid Fury]

I can.

[Crissle West]

It's more about how other people would see it as opposed to how you saw it or how you felt. You have this dream proposal in your head. That's nice. I'm not. I'm not saying you can't have that fantasy, but you're not even. You're not. It's not even realistic. And it's not.

[Kid Fury]

You got women like Chrissy Lamkin out here just like, well. Well, I mean, been with this nigga since Harry met Sally. And.

[Crissle West]

And that's your fault. That's your fault.

[Kid Fury]

Every bit of wife material, that is.

[Crissle West]

Your fault. Y' all wanna be wives so bad, and you stay running behind a man who not gonna marry you. That's your bad.

[Kid Fury]

And you got a N who's like, well, it's Covid. So it is a perfect time to propose to my lady at the Lenox Mall food court, because it's all for us.

[Crissle West]

And this is three. This is three years. And she was like, ew, he proposed in 2022. And in 2025, you sent an email to the read talking about, I want to do over on my proposal.

[Kid Fury]

If you're this girl, like, specific about the time, place, styling, lighting, angles, cinematography, catering, like, if you're this anal about it, how this is going to be, then you need to be involved. And if you're going to be involved, it can't be a surprise.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, yeah, that's really it, sweetie. Unless you the type to just be dressed to the nines to go run errands like you just looking like a baby.

[Kid Fury]

You think that you're getting married to.

[Crissle West]

Kroger, it is not.

[Kid Fury]

And have an engagement party.

[Crissle West]

You could have an engagement party if you wanted to be dressed up and all cute and take pictures that's totally separate from the wedding. You get your engagement party, you get your bridal shower, you get your wedding, you get your honeymoon. There are so many opportunities for you to post photo dumps and get all the likes you want.

[Kid Fury]

That's what I'm saying. Who cares?

[Crissle West]

It really sounds like you want likes. This is for social media.

[Kid Fury]

Ryan Coogler does not have to direct the proposal. My glove.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, yeah.

[Kid Fury]

As I said at the top of this, he ain't even got to produce my goddamn wedding. We can go right down to. Where do I frequent? Coldstone? Oh, not anymore, but some place that sells candy. We go to it's sugar and get married, bitch, for all I fucking care. Yeah, we could get married right down at the Barnes and Noble.

[Crissle West]

I would like to look nicer than a proposal, if only because as soon as people realize you're getting proposed to, they start recording. And somebody's gonna put that on TikTok. And I don't want to be looking crazy in the dog park, hair all over the place, wearing sweatpants with a hole in them. And here you go, talk about, will you be my wife?

[Kid Fury]

No, nigga, no shade. I'll give you this. That part of it. A nigga can finesse if he really just pays attention. Like, if you. Unless, like Crystal, I think said, unless you just kind of all over the place with when you get told up. Yeah, if a nigga just pays attention or just looks right, he can easily figure out when you're gonna get your things done or he can even plan it for you.

[Crissle West]

But if he plan, he can plan. He can't plan an event because then you'll know you're getting proposed to. It's like you're.

[Kid Fury]

No, he can plan. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. He would have to finesse something to make sure. That she's going to have her hair and nails done and be dressed because.

[Crissle West]

She wants to be dressed in something real cute, too.

[Kid Fury]

But she. That. But she can get her hair and nails done. Oh, I don't know how that works. I'm going to say, like, what if he got her hair and, like, the dress part maybe would be, like, the next day. Or we're going to, like, I got my homeboy hooked me up with, like, four seats. I don't know. I'm just spitballing.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

So, like, okay. And then tomorrow we're gonna go to this thing. So it's not like, oh, I have to do it all at the same time. Something's up, type T. But again, I'm trying to make up a surprise for somebody who is damn near impossible to surprise because she is planning the proposal, especially with this redo and how she wants it done.

[Crissle West]

A redo. Now you know it's happening. How could it possibly be a surprise when you are already engaged?

[Kid Fury]

Thank you for writing this in mail and balancing and reminding listeners that some of y' all was crazy, too. Because this doesn't make.

[Crissle West]

I don't think you crazy, but this is. I do think you need to really think about. You're doing a lot of what is you want. Yeah. And why you want it to be a surprise. You need to ask yourself why you want it. It could be definitely that. He don't care what you care about, but it doesn't sound like that. You said he's very sweet. He pays all the bills. I wouldn't recommend y' all let a nigga do that.

[Kid Fury]

He's made some attempts, and you ain't like him, which is fair.

[Crissle West]

And y' all keep arguing about it. For three years, y' all have been arguing about this. I actually would not marry you at this point.

[Kid Fury]

I was gonna say that, too.

[Crissle West]

I actually would not marry you at this point. Cause you.

[Kid Fury]

I was gonna say the exact same.

[Crissle West]

You want them likes. Girl, you dreaming. You are having nightmares about all the likes that you didn't get.

[Kid Fury]

It has to be that. You make a good point, though, about just, like, you're out wherever and people see him get down on one knee and strangers do. For whatever reason.

[Crissle West]

Record sure do.

[Kid Fury]

Like, I don't know why people do that.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

But that is a good point. And also, I don't blame you for wanting to be cute and dolled up for your engagement. You're going to want to take pictures and stuff. I think that's fair. But it just seems like you're being like, no, not there. No. Not at this time. No. Figure it out. It better be a surprise, bitch.

[Crissle West]

Like, why don't y' all have an engagement shoot? Photo shoot, yes. Where he's down on one knee. And the pictures and everything, the background, everything is what you want it to be. Since y' all are already engaged, why don't y' all just do that and then proceed with the wedding planning and all this. It sounds like this is legit getting in the way of y' all building a life.

[Kid Fury]

It does, which is so silly.

[Crissle West]

Mm. Yeah. It all.

[Kid Fury]

Because, like Crystal said, you're thinking about what other people are thinking. You're thinking about the excitement behind posting this huge moment for you. And so, like, that's fine, but just go in with that. It doesn't have to be a mystery, thriller, romance, crazy, stupid love. Like, it doesn't need to be that. Especially when you have a bridal shower and you have a wedding. You have all these other things that you're going to have pictures and glam and stuff for anyway. Girl, just. Yeah, that man love you. Because I'd have been just like, girl, well, you tell me when you're ready, because I'm done.

[Crissle West]

And how much of a surprise could it be if y' all had already talked about getting married and you knew a proposal was on the way? And I. That's actually what I would prefer to do. Don't ask me out of nowhere to marry you. And we haven't had that conversation because you're going to be. You going to get a. Let's wait till we get to the.

[Kid Fury]

House and talk about this horror story. True blood you found.

[Crissle West]

You about to get embarrassed on this jumbotron. Don't do that.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, don't you ever do that. Don't ever do that.

[Crissle West]

But I'm not quite so picky about the rest of it.

[Kid Fury]

So.

[Crissle West]

I. If I were you, I would book an engagement photo shoot and have my dream moment there and let it go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because if he's paying all the. Well, but he might don't want to pay for that. Cause he's paying all the bills. C. So he's the only one working you trying to get that. So then if he don't want to pay for all that, then this is why women need to have their own. This is why you need to have.

[Kid Fury]

And this is why Tim Cook tells you every year that the latest iPhone has the camera. Baby, you better get your 1,599 and a tripod and A fucking tripod.

[Crissle West]

You better set up that little timer, that little 10 second timer. You niggas better get in position.

[Kid Fury]

That's right. Autofocus, babes. Porsche mode. No, There you have it.

[Crissle West]

Or even, you know, dress up. Go to a nice dinner, a nice restaurant. He can tell the waiter, this is common. And then the waiter's there, all they slide the ring in on your dessert and they take pictures like it. Oh, oh. I don't.

[Kid Fury]

Again, I really don't get it. Like, I in general don't get it. I feel like the proposal in my mind is always like a spontaneous, sometimes fun, intimate thing. And you put the bells and whistles on the.

[Crissle West]

Yes. On everything. Right. You could. As long as we've had the conversation and we've agreed that marriage is where this relationship is going to. You can propose to me at a Liberty game. Like I don't the rest of that. I.

[Kid Fury]

Exactly.

[Crissle West]

Let's just make sure we're on the same page. Cause you might be thinking marriage, and I'm thinking in two weeks this relationship is over.

[Kid Fury]

So let's make sure 1,000% we're aligned 1,000%.

[Crissle West]

And you could propose to me in the lobby at that point.

[Kid Fury]

Cause I'm so serious.

[Crissle West]

Cause one thing about me, since I have a job and I can make my own decisions with money, I'mma have my engagement photo shoot and my party and my bridal showers in different cities so that all my homegirls can make it. And my wedding and my reception with the 2dr. I'm gonna have all that shit that I want. Cause I have a job and I can remember when.

[Kid Fury]

Remember homegirl just a couple of weeks ago who wanted like a specific nanny or cleaners for the house?

[Crissle West]

Oh, yes, she wanted a cleaner.

[Kid Fury]

And she make more than two times what her nigga make. And she was like, oh, he doesn't want us to get this. He doesn't want to get that.

[Crissle West]

She probably on maternity leave.

[Kid Fury]

When you make your coin right now.

[Crissle West]

I want her to write, soon as that baby get off your nipple, write us back when you make your own.

[Kid Fury]

He's like, when you do make that.

[Crissle West]

Coin, you can make your own decisions. Yes.

[Kid Fury]

But I tell that nigga the photo shoot is at 11am Girl, the last.

[Crissle West]

Thing I would be doing is pressing this nigga about it. Honestly. But good luck. Good luck. He has a lot of patience. Cause I would have been told you to shut the fuck up about this.

[Kid Fury]

Hair, nails, hips, breasts. Location, magic hour. That nigga was. And flopped. And she told him, do it again.

[Crissle West]

Do it again.

[Kid Fury]

He's still with you. Bitch, you better hurry up and marry that nigga.

[Crissle West]

Girl.

[Kid Fury]

Girl.

[Crissle West]

Good luck, Sandra. Let us know how your wedding goes. I don't know. I. I pray y' all can stay together. Wild, sweetie. All right, let's wrap up the questions there again. If you have something you'd like to ask us, you need some help with something, send that email on over to ask the reader gmail dot com. We'll be right back. Hey guys. Over at Metro, they've got your back. They've lowered their prices and they're giving you a five year price guarantee on talk, text and data. Now listen, I know like y' all know, like my mama, cousins and everybody else knows that the prices lately, they have been through the roof. I thought we were all worried about grocery prices a few months ago. Girl, everything has gotten worse as far as I'm concerned. At the gas pump grocery store, the rents going up, the bus tickets, clothes, everything is going up. It would be nice if prices went down for a change. Metro said I got you. That ain't no problem. One line 20% lower. Family plans also lowered and you get a free 5G phone, all with no ID required and no activation fees. So stop by your neighborhood Metro store, visit metroby t-mobile.com or call to find out about their amazing offers. That's right, bring your number. Not available if currently at T Mobile or with Metro in the past 180 days guarantee covers monthly price of on network Talk, text and 5G data for customers activating on an eligible plan exclusion supply details at metro by t-mobile.com I.

[Kid Fury]

Don'T mean to interrupt your meal, but I saw you from across a cafe.

[Crissle West]

And you're the Geico Gecko, right?

[Kid Fury]

In the flesh. Oh my goodness. This is huge. To finally meet you. I love Geico's fast and friendly claim service.

[Crissle West]

Well, that's how Geico gets 97% customer satisfaction.

[Kid Fury]

Anyway, that's all. Enjoy the rest of your food. No worries.

[Crissle West]

So are you just going to watch me eat?

[Kid Fury]

Oh, sorry, just a little starstruck. I'll be on my way.

[Crissle West]

If you're going to stick around, just pull up a chair.

[Kid Fury]

You're the best. Get more than just savings. Get more with Geico. Hello folks. We have returned. It is time now for the read. I will begin. I have two things to say. One of them is just basic first world frustration and the other one is just a quick reminder that the world is on fire. And it is a lot of yalls.

[Crissle West]

Fault.

[Kid Fury]

Well, not you if you listen to this podcast, probably. But you know what I'm talking about.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

First of all, reading on ign According to Digital Foundry, Nintendo is still restricting ITS supply of Switch 2 development hardware and instead.

[Crissle West]

I should have known.

[Kid Fury]

Telling some studios to launch their titles as Switch 1 games that can be played via backwards compatibility. This sparked frustration among a number of developers, including at least one major AAA studio unable to launch Switch 2 native version of their game, while hardware is given to some indie creators, including the team behind a Campfire soon that just came out a couple of weeks ago. It's a pretty cute game.

[Crissle West]

Okay, okay.

[Kid Fury]

So essentially what's going on is a number of things. Switch two aren't cranking out enough units as they need to to meet the demand. Also going back and forth with a psychopath and tyrant who is like, give me money. And thinking that they were just going to be like, yeah, here, have some. Instead they said, okay, Super Mario costs $2,000 a game. They don't give a fuck. Right? But for me, someone who is privileged to own a Nintendo Switch 2 or 3, this means that a lot of the newer games are not living up to the power of the I might as well have not purchased this hardware because the games being released, developed and released for it are not using taking advantage of the power. They don't look as clean or as crisp as they can and should because Nintendo is apparently instructing developers to just make them Switch 1 games because the Switch 2 will play them anyway. That's stupid. It's very stupid. It's very stupid. I low key miss my old Nintendo. I can't think of the last time, if ever, that I owned the successor to a console and was like man, that PlayStation 2 though, like I don't. This is still awkward to hold in my hands and it's about three games worth playing on it that look like the way they supposed to should do something about that. Nintendo should do something about that. Lastly, I just wanted to remind you guys again, if you have me paying attention, maybe because you're an idiot, maybe because you are just far too overwhelmed with all of the unprecedented psychopathic and traumatic shit going on every single day in this country alone, I wanted to remind you that we are in a fascist state and situation and there is a withered rust colored lizard in office who is literally just sending the military and armed guards out to any city that he feels like he doesn't like. Apparently the Girls are in D.C. now.

[Crissle West]

Yep, armed.

[Kid Fury]

Just armed. Running around spitting, looking a goddamn fool none of it makes any sense. Far outside of legal, constitutional, any of the other things Donald Trump avoids, but also just really found a particular bit of frustration. And I don't remember who among the pale dumbasses who were present when he was talking about this in the past week who said this, but someone with him in D.C. was saying that basically this barbaric fuckery was a necessity because people were tired of going out and, you know, just trying to get something to eat. Going out to eat and having to see crime. Just expose themselves to crime.

[Crissle West]

Oh God.

[Kid Fury]

People can't even go out and get food because of all the crime on the street. I have trouble with my, my brain where I think about things a lot all the time, and I try to make sense of things that confuse me probably more than I should, and.

[Crissle West]

Especially with this.

[Kid Fury]

A friend of mine named Dr. Tychea once told me that, well, you can't make sense out of nonsense.

[Crissle West]

Correct.

[Kid Fury]

And that is something that I've held very near and dear to me ever since I received that word. Because it's just simply the truth. And there are other things that you can do with your time, especially when you are aged, could and should, like myself. So it's hard existing in that world because I think about statements like that and I, and I go, well, I know there are reports that just said that restaurant owners are speaking out in the about the decrease in clientele and guests that they've had in their restaurants recently. Not because of crime. The restaurant owners themselves have said they've seen the numbers drop because turns out people don't want to go to lunch, dinner and brunch and see a bunch of bald headed dumb ass pigs with assault rifles marching past their dining table screaming hoorah. Headed to kill someone's memaw. It turns out people really don't want that hovering over their toast. So when that's in the, in the milk and then you come out and you say people don't want to go to eat because of the crime. My brain, my crazy, it goes, well, that doesn't make sense. Why would this person say that? We know that that's not true because it's out. It's out there. And also that don't make no sense. And also that person is stupid. So I've had to remind myself, just maybe save some of that time and I don't know, scratch Link's tummy, right? Go for a walk. Anything else will do.

[Crissle West]

Yeah, got to.

[Kid Fury]

But yeah, many, many, many of you voted for this. Many of you sleep Next to someone who voted for this. Many of you were birthed by people who voted for this. And I feel like we should address that. It's unfair that people like myself should have to waste time.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

Pontificating over this type of. When we could instead be scratching our puppies tummies.

[Crissle West]

Why am I in it? Why am I in it?

[Kid Fury]

I don't. I. This place is psychot.

[Crissle West]

On the way out. I do believe Trump is not too much longer for this world. Did you see that bruise on his hand that they keep trying to cover up with that LA girl? Yeah. What is that? Old people bruise easily. Yes, but what is that? Especially because the White House doctor was like, he got it from shaking hands and taking Tylenol. Okay.

[Kid Fury]

That's it.

[Crissle West]

Okay, well, Tylenol is not recommended. Aspirin is not recommended for people over 70 for this exact reason. So why would the White House doctor be giving somebody. Be giving him Tylenol on a regular basis? That nigga is 79 years old. It's almost like it's something else going on.

[Kid Fury]

Now the White House doctor is on the right side of history. They're like, here, take a nap.

[Crissle West]

He was like, what y' all talking about? I'm giving that nigga Tylenol. No big deal.

[Kid Fury]

Hey, buddy, how you feeling? Here's your morning Tylenol. Oh, take two to seven.

[Crissle West]

No worries here. Anybody notice that ear ain't scarred? Ain't no marks, ain't no nothing. That ear is perfectly normal. Like nothing ever happens to it. Did you see that clip a couple weeks ago where he talked about how he is trying to go to heaven and he heard he low on the list.

[Kid Fury]

No, but I will be.

[Crissle West]

That makes that remark when he was. He was talking about, I don't know.

[Kid Fury]

Foreign policy, dying inside.

[Crissle West]

How. It's mainly. He said something. He was like, it's Russians dying. It's mainly Russian soldiers. It's not too many people. And I'm like, but soldiers are people. Do you mean civilians, dumbass? Yeah, but then he went into like. He. He feels like he's saving lives in other ways because of this, and he's trying to do everything he can to get into heaven because he feel. He's heard, he's low on the totem pole, and so he trying to do. And I'm like, do you. That is very interesting. Do you feel like you finodasso? Because let me tell you something. Whatever good deeds you think you're doing, this is fair. This is what I'm saying. Saying I'm Rooting for that bruise to be something much worse. I'm thinking cancer. Congestive heart failure. It's giving. You have to get IVs on a regular basis. And your shit is bruised up from that.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, exactly.

[Crissle West]

Yeah.

[Kid Fury]

There has to be some. Some kind of a report card up there someplace. And he said, you.

[Crissle West]

You're flunking, brother.

[Kid Fury]

You're on Fox News. I'm reading this on the Guardian. He said, I want to try and get to have been in if possible. Sweetie, spoiler alert.

[Crissle West]

It isn't. It isn't that.

[Kid Fury]

He said, I'm hearing I'm not doing well. I'm really at the bottom of the totem pole.

[Crissle West]

Correct.

[Kid Fury]

Well, someone's telling her the truth. Maybe it's God.

[Crissle West]

Maybe it's that White House doctor. When she drop off that Tylenol right.

[Kid Fury]

Every morning, she probably pray for him and put that Tylenol right down his gullet.

[Crissle West]

It's aspirin and shaking hands. Well, maybe he shouldn't. 80 year old's not supposed to just take aspirin for the fun of it. Maybe he shouldn't keep going. Give him extra. Give him extra strength next time.

[Kid Fury]

Everybody in that office. That building is high boobs.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. Yeah, it's nobody. Nobody's smart. Nobody making good decisions in there. But yeah, I'm rooting for him to die asap.

[Kid Fury]

This shit is crazy.

[Crissle West]

Oh, okay. Is that. Are you done?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, yeah. Those two things.

[Crissle West]

Yeah. All right, well, so first things first.

[Kid Fury]

Cardi B. Oh, God.

[Crissle West]

Bitch.

[Kid Fury]

She was coming.

[Crissle West]

Bitch. Bitch. If you are pregnant, this is why.

[Kid Fury]

I didn't bring it up.

[Crissle West]

She's playing. So there's been. There's a. Like I said earlier with the Tiffany Hatch.

[Kid Fury]

I know who you're talking about.

[Crissle West]

I don't like when people play games to get us to stream they music or watch they show or whatever. Don't fucking play with my emotions, bitch. Either put out the music or don't. If you gotta it do stunts and shows and tricks, then that tells me that whatever you put now is not quality. Because people who do good work don't have to play those kind of dumb ass games. But if this bitch is genuinely pregnant. Not even. Not Blossom is not even one year old.

[Kid Fury]

I think she's pregnant.

[Crissle West]

That is Cardi be.

[Kid Fury]

I do.

[Crissle West]

That is some of the worst pussy management I've ever seen in my fucking life. There is no way. Pregnant by who? By who? Don't say.

[Kid Fury]

Don't.

[Crissle West]

Do not say Stephan Diggs. I actually she. She cussed somebody out some the Only reason I'm holding back. I'm holding back.

[Kid Fury]

You are.

[Crissle West]

Because somebody on Instagram Live was like, oh, it's given 30 weeks pregnant. And she was like, no, I'm not pregnant. I'm just out of breath because I got asthma. Stop trying to be funny. You gonna get blocked. Stupid, stupid ass comment. You stupid. You. Blah, blah. It's a bunch of in there. And then she said something like, don't put that shit on me. Okay, okay. Maybe you're trolling. When you put out that video of you in that fur coat in the fucking projects and that black outfit with the. With that belly bump. And when the video just came out yesterday of you going to court because you allegedly beat some bitch ass when you was pregnant with culture because she was taking videos because you have been lying about being pregnant. So it wouldn't be the first time you have lied about being. Remember, let me fat in peace. I was like, you know what? Yes. Let me eat some fucking patties and some plantain and I just gained a little weight like you. It's not. It would. If you are pregnant, it wouldn't be the first time you lied about it, but if you not, I might be more mad. Cause. Stop playing games. You're Cardi fucking B. Everybody has been waiting for this follow up to your first album. You don't have to do stupid shit wearing a pregnancy belly and being like, oh, I'm pregnant with the album rollout, bitch. Now, I bring this up because. Remember last week we talked about Tamar Braxton? It's been a lot of. Is Tamar. Was Tamar lying about this accident?

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, she says. She says no, I guess.

[Crissle West]

Okay. Okay. Again, I'm waiting for the facts, but if all of this. If you posted about, you know, falling down the stairs in a pool of blood and all this to promote a EP and some tubi movie. Please grow up, y'. All. You have to grow up. Have to.

[Kid Fury]

I really hope that's not.

[Crissle West]

Me too. Me too. Because I said nice things about Tamar Braxton.

[Kid Fury]

I was actually worried. Right.

[Crissle West]

And I don't. I don't feel a nice way about Tamar Braxton. I. Her music's fine. She can. She has a beautiful voice, obviously, but I don't really care about her music, and I feel like most of her fans are just gay who are obsessed with how stupid she acts on reality tv. So I don't. I don't really have, you know, nice things to say, but I was empathetic, and I'll be goddamned. I'll be damned if my nice. My real genuine empathy was wasted on a bitch who wants to promote a fucking album. So Cardi B. Tch. Just know. Just know the slurs that are gonna come outta my mouth if you are pregnant again before your youngest child even turns one. By a whole different. Y' all did the same thing with Lil Nas X. Y' all said Lil Nas X was trolling. And I was literally just about to.

[Kid Fury]

Say I forgot to bring that up.

[Crissle West]

I don't know what's going on with him. It seems like he had some sort of psychotic breakup.

[Kid Fury]

He was definitely not trolling.

[Crissle West]

Right. That video of him and then Pet first of all looked amazing in them white panties and them boots, but also looked really unwell. I don't know. I actually don't know. What about that video even made y' all think he was joking. Like, nothing about it seemed like a stunt to me. Why would he be walking in the middle of the fucking street at 4am with, you know, some random person videoing him from the like, why would that. That just really don't make sense to me. But I'm wishing him the best from my heart. Last but not least, Snoop Dogg, you big old stupid bitch.

[Kid Fury]

Girl, I forgot you said Snoop Dogg. And unlocked.

[Crissle West]

I completely forgot, you fucking dummy loser bitch. So if you did not hear about this, Snoop took his. One of his grandkids to go see Lightyear, which I never heard of, but now I'm finna be watching it. And there, I guess there is a lesbian couple in this movie. Two women who have a child. And so at some point this baby, we don't know how old he is. Says Papa Snoop. How she have a baby with a woman if she's a woman? And Snoop is like, oh, well, you know, I ain't come in here for all this shit. I just came to watch a goddamn movie. And the baby is like, well, I need you to answer the question. Cause she just that she got a baby with her. But they both women. How do that work? And Snoop is like, you know, eat your popcorn. But talking to this girl that he. Whoever's podcast he's on, talking about, you know, this really just me up because now I'm scared to go to the movies. Y' all throwing me in the middle of that. I don't have an answer for. Why not, right? You were on an episode of the L Word how you don't have an answer for this.

[Kid Fury]

You older than everybody.

[Crissle West]

You're 65 years old. How do you not have an answer for this? It's, it's actually not that complicated to explain how people can have a baby without penis and vagina sex. It.

[Kid Fury]

It's so easy.

[Crissle West]

It's really not complicated.

[Kid Fury]

I would even, I would even jump out the it's easier window.

[Crissle West]

Maybe they adopted this baby. Or, you know, I can, I can understand not wanting to have this conversation in the middle of the movie. I'll tell you later. I'll tell you when the movie's over. Just watch it. And then, bam, we could sit here and have a conversation about how people, regardless of gender, can have a baby without smashing somebody of the opposite sex. This is not hard.

[Kid Fury]

And if you're just a basic, ignorant bigot, you could just lean on I don't know. Like, I don't know so they'll stop asking you and you can continue being ignorant.

[Crissle West]

I don't know. Let's look it up on you.

[Kid Fury]

Just because you've grown up doesn't mean they're just supposed to, right, Papa Snoop?

[Crissle West]

Never Papa Snoop. Don't know how that work either. Let's, let's, let's Google when we get to the house.

[Kid Fury]

I can't go to the movies anymore.

[Crissle West]

It threw me for a loop. I'm like, what part of the movie is this? These are kids. We got to show that at this age. That's, that's, that's a really interesting remark. That's a really interesting remark because at this age, he already knows about heterosexual relationships and how heterosexual people have children. I'm sure you would not have been saying, oh, we got to show that at this age if it was a straight couple having a kid. So what exactly is it about gay people that made the issue so confusing? And you just could not even find the words to explain to like a 7 year old how this could be possible? It sounds like you too fucking stupid to be to be taking a child anywhere. They gonna ask questions. I don't have the answer. Why not? You're very old. You should know.

[Kid Fury]

And if you don't know or don't want to know again, you could at the very least answer the question and calm the fuck down. Like, oh, my goodness, this is what we're showing to kids now and all the movies. And you can't even go to. First of all, your kid has not only been exposed to heterosexual relationships and stuff like that, your kid is also exposed to other kids that have parents.

[Crissle West]

Y' all live in California.

[Kid Fury]

And those kids and their parents are associated with Snoop Dogg and his kids and grandkids. So the likelihood that this child will eventually meet a child that has two parents of the same gender is incredibly like. The question's coming. You know the answer. Why not just answer it?

[Crissle West]

I wouldn't have said this out loud because I don't think you understand how much of an intellectual flop it makes you look. I don't know how to explain that legitimately. Why don't you? Why don't you? It isn't hard.

[Kid Fury]

You're watching a movie about Buzz fucking Lightyear, nigga. You ain't Neil degrasse Tyson. You don't have to explain a fuck thing. Like, Dababy asked you a question. You know the answer to the question. You are just. You're. You're controlled, convinced that this conversation is this thing or this acknowledgment, this experience is this thing. And maybe that's because your only history knowledge of lesbians is when they kissing in the backseat of your cars in the 80s and 90s or whatever. Whatever freak shit that you was trying to get women to do and not looking at lesbian couples as two human beings that love one another and can start a family even though there is no penis as well as vagina in every case.

[Crissle West]

Like, I just know good and damn well the nigga whose music we don't even have to talk about your music. We all. It can't be you. It can't be you.

[Kid Fury]

You look at the album covers, the.

[Crissle West]

Way you have talked about women, about murder, about drugs and sex, the way you have talked in your art. And now all of a sudden you don't know how to explain two women in a loving relationship who have a child. How gay people make you that uncomfortable at your massive age living in California the way you do. Snoop was a chop for me anyway after that Trump shit. So this was really more of like a reminder of like, oh, yeah, I don't fuck with you and I didn't know you were homophobic on top of being a Trumper and associated with all that dumb shit and doing that complete 180 on that nigga like you did. But yeah, yeah, go on and yourself, bro, if you can't explain that to a child in an age appropriate way, don't take the child nowhere. Don't take him nowhere.

[Kid Fury]

Nowhere.

[Crissle West]

No, and I do mean nowhere. Do not leave the house with that baby because you are in nowhere outside of the house.

[Kid Fury]

And no electricity in the house. In the home when they're there.

[Crissle West]

You can't even stream nothing.

[Kid Fury]

No wi Fi, nothing.

[Crissle West]

I'm tired of niggas being like, oh, I don't know how to explain this as an excuse for just being bigots and ignorant. That's all that is. I don't want to explain that to my child. I don't believe women should be married. I don't believe women should have kids. So I don't even want him to see that. That's too goddam bad.

[Kid Fury]

Spoiler alert. You niggas don't know how to explain anything. You don't know how to express anything. You niggas can barely communicate, child.

[Crissle West]

But Russell Wilson is corny. This is corny. Like with anybody, this is corny. So really don't get it. Like, what did you think he was doing on the L Word? Did you think. Did you think the L stood for Long Beach? What did you think you was doing? You was on the L Word looking like Lori Lightfoot, and now all of a sudden you don't know how to explain to your grandson that women sometimes have children with each other. Okay, all right. Well, that's gonna wrap up this week's episode of the Read Child. Follow us on social media at. This is the Read. Our website is. This is the read.com. any more announcements or etc from you, kid? Fury.

[Kid Fury]

There was something, but I can't remember. So it wasn't that important probably.

[Crissle West]

Well, sometimes it is and we simply forget.

[Kid Fury]

Yeah, I think it was just like a one of those, oh, you guys check out this thing and record it. I don't remember what it was, so I'll tell you next week.

[Crissle West]

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

[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

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[Crissle West]

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[Kid Fury]

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[Crissle West]

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[Kid Fury]

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