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My sins away and yours and yours and yours too. Even when we didn't deserve it, and yet here we are, making some brand new ones. Welcome back to the show. I'm Megan's barbecue baked bean recipe. Didn't they look good? They looked good. Like, why did they look so delicious? I mean, that, it just reminded me of home. As soon as I saw brisket, I said, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What the fuck you doing? You know what the fuck you doing? And I am Andra Day. And this is a talent, a beauty. So good. I mean, that girl had the whole family laid out, just exhausted, sleepy, cooking the whole Thanksgiving work. It is. It's a lovely experience. Although. I just don't know. Women and femmes, man. On your feet for that amount of time. It's a lot. Cooking for. A generation, not just a household, which is a lot of like, right. This time's where my mama cook for all of us. And I'm like, how did you just not get in the bed as an adult cooking for myself? You were cooking multiple meals. My mom cooked every single day. Every day they cooked. We almost never ate out. Almost never. And then went to go do something else. Yeah. Crazy. After a whole long day, you cooked breakfast. You went to work all day. And then you come home and cook dinner. And help with homework and taking baths. And I don't know. Made lunch. Sorry. I would have went to the store for some cigarettes and never came back. It is the very truth. And so to consider that bitches be on their feet cooking. Yeah. A restaurant of food. Yeah. Do and does. For days. Yep. It looks good as hell too. On Saturday. What do you mean? It looked so good. It looked so good. So good. So good. Oh, yeah. Them beans looked fucking amazing. And I really do enjoy this little love affair on her. They are so cute. It really just seems like opening up Pokemon card packs. Little boo-boos. Watching some Jujutsu Kaisen. Some Demon Slayer on Crunchyroll. Fucking going directly to bed. And I'm just like, that is what I would want for my sis. Yeah. So the way that she got up on that Thanksgiving clip and started talking fast on her usual um. What do they call them? Her little. Like Instagram. Voice over videos. Voice over reels or whatever. Whatever you call it. Yeah. And was talking about how like, oh, I'm cooking for my man family and I got to really show them that. Like, I love they sign. And so I'm like, baby, if what I'm looking at on this video don't get the message across, bitch, I don't know what else you have to do. Did you see his daddy talking about, and it was the best Thanksgiving I ever had. Of course. They love her. Yeah. Yeah. She in. She in there, man. Did you see the video of Clay? The Mavs played somebody. I don't know who. And he had a great game. Hit like six threes or something. But when I say immediately after that game was over, they caught Clay literally sprinting to the locker room. That man said, this was fun. Yeah. Glad everybody had a good time. I got to go hit them showers. Yeah. Don't ask me for a post game. Nothing, bitch. I don't have nothing to say. I'm running to them showers so that I can go drive my lady home. And we're going to eat bagels and go to bed. Like, they are so cute together. Only post will be a post nut serenity. I got something else to do. This was fun. Like I said, I had a good time, but I got to get up out of here. You see that fine? My girl. That fine? That fine little shit, which is what the young people saying. I really am not. I can't take it. I can't take it. I really struggled believing you with that. I thought that you were trolling and then I heard it in the wild. Yeah, they do. From the young people. They say fine shit. They do. In earnest. Like, they're dead ass. Yeah. No, it's a compliment, but they, so, but yeah, they are, Clay and Megan are really, really cute together. I won't be shocked if eventually Megan's like, that's enough. I've had. Yeah, no. What did I say? Y'all not getting no more. I don't have faith in none of y'all. Like, none of you. And it's no shade. I just don't have faith in you. Like, I want you to be happy if you deserve it. But honestly, like. She's had a good week. It's been a good week for Megan over there. Good for them. Now, just, if you could DM me the baked beans, if we have to like, the recipe, because those beans looked. Yeah, no, they did. This week's Black Excellence is going to go out to Chicago's Bud Billiken Parade, which recently celebrated its 96th annual parade, marking it. The largest Black Parade in the nation still. The parade first began in 1929 as a manner to celebrate Black history, Black culture in the city of Chicago, as well as highlighting the unofficial start of the school year. So it's a way of saying, hey, look at this. Everyone come out. Let's celebrate our Blackness in this parade named after a character from the Chicago Defender way back. And after that, bed is at 7 p.m. Wait, they had the parade recently? Why did I think it was in the summer? No, no. This is like back in August. Oh, OK. But I didn't talk about it. Got you. But either way, it is 96 years strong. Yeah. Just amazing. Just around the river bend will be 100 years of being the largest Black Parade in the country. And that's something to celebrate. It is indeed. Shout out to Chicago. And I saw a clip of this, I guess it was like a morning show, a newscast in Chicago. This Black lady was sitting next to her co-anchor, who was a white man. And she was like, well, usually I'd be out of the Billiken Parade, but I'm happy to be here with you. I turned to him, and he busted out laughing and was like, you can go if you want to go. She's like, no, I'm just saying. I'm on air at this point. Like, I'm here now. You know, I'm at work. And it's fine. No, this is great, too. I'm just saying. I would have had to go early to get my good spot right. Yeah. Should be doing my Negro things today. I'm like, I love us so bad. Me, too. Real deal. And her news anchor voice, she was like, well, you know, this is the first time that I wouldn't be down the street doing my usual Black Negro things. Instead. Mm-hmm. Full of joy to be here with you, Bob. It was just so delicious. It wasn't that ridiculous. But anyway. Okay, so shout-out to Chicago. Shout-out to Bud Billiken and what they call a Black holiday, Carlette Bracey said. She's a lifelong attendee. Oh, I know that's right. 50 years ago. We need beacons. We do. Gotta have them. Especially as times get crazier and more distraught. We really do. Mm-hmm. Said this parade is known all over the world. Shows unity in the pride of Chicago, Black pride of Chicago. Shout-out to y'all. And, you know, Chicago is very supportive of the podcast and things like this. They are. So if you have any fun Bud Billiken stories you want to get us educated and acknowledged, feel free to share. I love that. Also, a lot of fine niggas in Chicago. I had to say it. I mean, if we're going to just discuss it. I just had to say it. If you'd like to just bring it on. My God. I love that fact. Every time. I just always end up with me a little something in Chicago. I'm so ridiculous. Beautiful. Y'all are. And it's also not, like, super difficult to find one that, like, cares about themselves, will invest in you, but will also kill somebody if you're disrespectful. Oh, yeah. And that's appreciative. And the murder initiative. That whole feeling and personality is, like, right there underneath the surface. Yeah. That's my name. Did that nigga look at you crazy? I feel like that nigga looked at you crazy. I'm like, I actually don't think so. Like, I think we can all live today. But, yeah. Short flight. Good people. This week in our segment of Pop Culture that we call Hot Tops, a couple things going on. First of all, if I don't sound super enthused about this, I slept like shit last night. Oh, no. I'm telling you. And as you get older, sleep deprivation or just any amount of time. Played with in your sleep schedule. I can't do it. Do. It's like, do. It's like, you know, on planet Arrakis. Dehydrated. Oh, yeah. Fatigue. Like. Yeah. That happened to me the other day. I was up till 4 a.m. I said, tomorrow is trash. Like, when the sun rises in three hours, trash. When I got up for the third time covered in sweat, I was like, okay. Well, Wednesday. is baked because bitch at this point I already know that I'm going to be cranky. So, it is what it is, Margaret. It is what it is. Okay. Drake has been gearing up for his Iceman album. What is, apparently his ninth album. Wow. I knew he had a lot of them. I guess I stopped knowing. All right. Hmm. When is Iceman due out? I feel like he keeps lying about that. And by lying, I mean changing his mind. Yeah. I haven't heard an official release date for it yet. Still says late 2025. Maybe it'll be like a Christmas release or something. I don't know. Yuck. Is this really Christmas music? Something tells me this is not really Christmas music. I've never heard this before. I've heard these other two singles. While he teased some new thing on this, like, black and white Instagram story. Yes. Video footage. He's playing a song in an effort to tease his new album. And I'm like, this is like a deep cut that you would have kept to yourself. Oh, damn. Like, this isn't, you know. I mean, but listen. It sounded like a Weeknd song, but like worse. To me. So, okay. Do you mean the beat or the vocals? Both. Yikes. Okay. That's really not good then. Okay. Both. Well, all right. I was looking for something to save it. I hated it. Okay. And, um. Okay. It's not, uh, it's not pushing me to listen to the things, but I'm likely still going to play it when it comes out, uh, out of curiosity and things. But I haven't liked anything from this new, this new batch of songs. Except that I kind of like which one, but then when that white British in it boy come on and I'm like, all right, I don't want to hear that. Like you're lucky that by way of your Jamaican son, Drake, I can stomach it with you now. That's what it is. That is what it is. Mm-hmm. So Jamaican child. I, it's been a while for since. Yeah. Drake has, I'm trying to think of the last thing Drake dropped that I actually enjoyed. Maybe Nokia. But that was fuck almost a year ago. That was in Nokia. I guess it has been around. That was the, cause that was off of the thing he did with party next door. Right. Right. So it has been a while since that. I don't know. I won't be rushing. Yeah. I won't be rushing to, to stream whatever this new thing is. Cause I didn't like Scorpion and it's been, you know, Drake has been real iffy for me for a while now, musically. So, and I don't care. I know y'all finna do it. And I do not care. That's how you say it. Thank you so much. Yeah. No, it's fine. I wasn't going to say anything. No, you were. You just go laugh at my face. No, I just laughed and you knew why. Like I couldn't help it. It's funny. Oh man. So yeah. I don't know what y'all tell me whether it's good. I won't be rushing to hear this. I'll probably let you know. I'm sure I'll listen to it before you do. I'm a hundred percent. But I'm just like drizzle, drizzle. Where is like one, can I get one sign of like, ooh, okay, this is a bop for the girls. Oh boy. Okay. Well, we'll see. You buying your lips and making all these faces in this video looking like a Digimon. I'm just like. Got academics online hollering about whatever this is and when it's coming out, girl. That will never have anything to do with me. Like I will never. I will never be over there. Her opinions have nothing to do with me. Or reality. Yeah. Yeah. Um, well, I just wanted to remind the girlies, you know, a lot of people have been talking about Spotify at the end of the year. Um, you know, Drake also speaking of Drake is like the biggest rapper ever on Spotify based on those numbers this year. So a lot of people will, uh, OVO fans specifically. We're like, um, so there's that. Um, but more specifically, I reason I bring up Spotify is because I want to remind, uh, the NFL fans who apparently had an issue with the upcoming halftime show. Bad money is the most streamed artist on Spotify on the planet, the whole planet, the whole thing, like everywhere that, you know, to be a place. Yeah. He's most popular. Not the most popular. Not the most streamed Spanish speaking artists, not the most rapper or none of that. The number one artist person making art on the planet on y'all because you don't like him or I've never heard of him. Don't have shit to do with the rest of us. You and ice can blow Bubba. No one gives a fuck what you're talking about. Bad bun. Why would it be ice? Because I feel like the ice shit has like emboldened the girls to be like, don't nobody want to hear. Oh yeah. It's been bad. It has, but no, it's not influencing girl. Be for real. Like, are you bitches stupid? Didn't I love his music? I saw some NFL lady, somebody associated with the Superbowl was like, uh, yeah, we don't care that y'all are pissed. Bad bunny is a global artist. The NFL is trying to make global money. So suck our dicks. And I was like, exactly. Thank you, sis. Tell him again. I just, yeah, it's not gonna make sense. Are you, are you okay? Are you glitching? Who do you want? Like who? Like Morgan Wallen. I was going to say bitch. Were you really? I was literally less. I was literally less than one human second away from saying that exact same thing. Yeah. Cause you know, like bitch, if they would have bit book that cracker, these bitches would have been like, uh, football's back. Even Carrie Underwood, which would have made more sense than Morgan Wallen. No shade. But none, even that they would have been, yeah, they would have been all about it. But no, the NFL is trying to make real money. Not just MAGA money. They already got MAGA money. Okay. Okay. Okay. They been had MAGA money. Y'all not going no fucking where it's time to branch out. Even if you were like, I don't want to hear this. You have to operate so far outside of logic to be like, this is invalid. This is unnecessary. This is false tea. Like bitch. It's not giving. Oh, he's the biggest star on the, in everywhere, every country, every place in the world, except here. Right. That was the case. It would still make sense to book him. It would. Anyway, you slice it. Bad buddy belong at the Superbowl. No matter how you look at it. He absolutely. Are you bitches worried that like the lack of Medicare and stuff is just going to wipe you out before you get to see Daft Punk at the halftime show or whatever? That's possible now. That's a real, that actually could happen. Right. I don't even think they like Daft Punk. Do they? Right. I'm really, I don't think I'm tapped into what MAGA is really about. I don't know what them niggas fuck with. I try to stay as far away from all that foolishness as possible, but yeah. They, they don't really listen to music anymore. They go out into open fields at night and they basically do the scene from Sinners where they were all doing a little Irish. Their little, yeah. The lovely road to Dublin or whatever it's called. They be doing that, but bad in our feet. But bad in our feet. Right. I was about to say, cause not too much on them Irish hoes. They be practicing real hard. They were working. Demonic and possessed as they were, they were in a mode of nostalgia. Right, right. It might've been a demon possessing their body, but them bitches was hitting that shit. They said, bitch, you hoes are not the only ones with talent. Okay. Now she might be Whitney, but we have the song as well. I know these white Americans, they really have known nothing, but listen over here in Ireland. They ain't got nothing to do with us, bitch. When he found out them other niggas was KKK, he was like, now, wait a minute. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Could not wait to kill them bitches. God, that movie is, I'm finna watch Sinners again tonight. It's pretty good. God, that movie is so good. Um, so, you know, we spoke recently about how Candy and Todd are getting, Oh my God. And how they set such an excellent example for a lot of you other bitches breaking up because they immediately came together for the daughter's birthday and we're getting along and everything is fun. But it was all a scheme set up by Todd. To come to us. To come to you. With the bullshit. I said, damn, I was just giving Todd compliments. That's why you can't say nothing nice about me. It's about men. we was just saying oh this is how you know this is how breakup should be adults handle adult things and you come together for the kids and blah blah and it seems amicable and everybody knows that todd signed a prenup because it was on like two different tv shows of him signing this prenup so it shouldn't be no arguing about money child three days later apparently todd is uh in the court demanding primary custody of the two children he shares with candy and according to horace has also been playing the prenup game alleging or questioning how you that prenuptial agreement legally stands up because he apparently is claiming or his legal counsel is claiming that he was pressured to like sign this prenup when he didn't have legal representation present or something like that um no i watched it okay that's here's the right my problem is that i watched it i watched it on bravo you had so much time if you wanted to sit down with her lawyer and your lawyer and all of that you could have bended that you thought you was gone scam candy by not signing this prenup by the wedding day and so if you had to call your lawyer on facetime or whatever to get the go-ahead beforehand whatever what like whatever that circumstance is you it could have been avoided you god i hate niggas man oh oh god you know they are you know they are nerves but one thing about it regardless of what her mom and auntie said i truly believe the number one thing about candy is she is about her fucking money and so i don't think even she could she would have rather been embarrassed and not had a wedding than marry a nigga without a prenup i do not know this lady from anything outside and i feel confident yeah that that is an actual saying right so i just was like you know i i wanted to believe that because it has been a while and todd has made his own money and all this that you know they could just break up and it just be over like i i don't know i just really wanted to believe that this could be a chill as chill of as a divorce can possibly be but i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i really wanted to think that but i mean i do consider the fact that they todd specifically so much of his business ventures are connected to her which means however cool or chill we may be there is still going to be some complicate some complication and complexity to breaking down those assets separating those things making decisions about this that and the third right and it could come down to well this bar i've been in this bar busting my ass and doing work and to candy being like i'll pay for it right it's like now here we have another month deliberating back and forth on this one which we got another 11 had plays and all this other kind of stuff but all of that is post-nuptial yeah yeah todd is challenging the prenup which means he's trying to come for that money that don't have nothing to do with him yeah and that's what gets on my nerves like come on nigga you signed the prenup you knew you was signing a prenup the the prenup did not come out of nowhere it wasn't oh ty before you walk down the aisle will you sign this like you knew that you was gonna have to sign a prenup before that lady signed a marriage license with you so why are you acting like this now why us weekly says candy burst is using bravo footage as evidence to fight thank you thank you because they watch it on tv it there were camera crews there you can't tell us you felt pressured to sign a prenup when you knew the whole time probably from the second you got engaged to this woman or even before then that you was gonna have to sign a prenup there was a whole prenup story arc where her family before you even signed it on a tv show that you used to work on oh bro the fuck what are you confused about niggas will do anything for a few are you poor is she like is or what is the tea this is what is this separation going to somehow leave you destitute because the way that everything was worded on both sides a week or so ago it was giving like well i'm rich he rich right kids healthy got their teeth i think we're good and then it's giving like well i want primary custody which is wild and you know well about that prenup candy said she hired a very reputable very powerful attorney before they got married yeah there's so to your point there's would be like no point in her trying to get the okey-doke on you with someone who was going to be like girl this could backfire on you on a bad kid yeah and you're doing it on tv right like in what way that's the one party candy not gonna be cheap about is the attorneys and the the wording and all that on that prenup that lady cares deeply about her money we all know that she said he was represented no the party's journey to executing an enforceable prenuptial agreement was filmed and broadcast on bravo television network with the knowledge and consent of both burris and tucker for their five-part reality television wedding documentary wedding that premiered on june 1st 2014 thank you i know i saw this lawyer i know i saw it and their amended filing because candy initially asked for joint legal and physical custody of the kids now you're gonna fuck around right why couldn't he see this is a problem todd is rich candy is wealthy it is a big big gap big gap between rich and wealthy and right but you knew that you nothing it's not like candy got wealthy six years ago in the middle of y'all's marriage candy been that girl since like 1990 so yeah you are rich and that's nice rich and that's a really nice life who gives a fuck if your ex is wealthy that means her being wealthy and you being rich means that you comfy she's extra comfy and the kids are and the kids right and the kids are the most comfortable list which is what matters what is what are we beefing about like yeah why even piss this lady off yeah because you're gonna have to move into a smaller house what you're gonna be embarrassed because your house isn't as grand as it used to be who the fuck cares you're still doing better than 98 percent of people on the planet my god you niggas need a little perspective you're still rich you're not you don't have to go get a job at the fucking shop you're still rich you're still rich you're still rich you're still no it's weird it's weird it's weird to know who you're marrying like you know you knew very well who candy was and what she had amassed in her career he absolutely did because you used to be a pa or whatever on set like you knew what you was doing so it's just so strange to now be like well i don't feel like the prenup is enforceable girl take your money have the lawyers provide y'all's businesses up however they're gonna do it go get you a nice cute little house somewhere in the suburbs and live your fucking life and be glad you got such a huge come up because the part part of the reason why you're rich now is because of your alliance with candy so you should be saying i don't know why you're not saying thank you oh man but i will say mind blown even though this is messier than we thought it was last week they do still seem to be putting the kids first spent thanksgiving together and um right but you know not going online talking shit about your baby daddy not making disc records about your baby mama and putting them out on streaming services like not doing that points for that yeah it is it is but i am gonna give you and now that i've said no i get it and now that i've said it this weekend todd's going live on tiktok to talk about how candy with krishan scammed him into dating natalie nunn yeah this is what something random and dumb he's gonna be on baddies oh god get me out of here remember when hey when hallie was like girl fuck you and then dg popped with like disneyland with sexy red or something like anybody was saying yuck no i do not remember that yuck we don't care you think we didn't know that you had hoes candy and todd have had so many allegations of having an open marriage and fucking other people and bringing other people into their bedroom the whole time i don't care who you step out with i don't care what else is going on do right by them kids and quit trying to come for that lady's money that didn't have nothing to do with you yeah that's wild yeah you argue about um blaze seafood and and barbecue and OLG and all that other stuff right yeah argue about all that dumb shit right but being like well this a person wasn't in a room when I signed this piece of paper so I feel like I should be able to get some of her escape money right are you crazy I deserve half of of no scrubs and that Ed Sheeran song no the fuck you don't I can't understand that yeah um niggas are greedy yeah very so and nobody has anything I mean that's not true but like you know what I'm saying yeah yeah everyone's real desperate it's anyway anyway let me get off of it I don't know because I could read all day let me leave oh yeah of course there's a new Sean Combs documentary on the Netflix that is being produced by one Curtis 50 Cent Jackson or as Robin Roberts referred to him on Good Morning America 50 Cent and I just want to I want to just I really want to pull over like it's 50 if you can't like if you can't say 50 just say 50 it's really not that complicated you hear someone say 50 Cent and you're like 50 like you hear that or is it that you just can't say 50 just say 50 I think she's trying to be cute well she's not trying to be urban no okay I hate it and I'm not going to jump to this nigga's defense like that but nigga you should hate it too because guess what 50 run with Diddy and you're on the TV oh my god only you promoting a petty documentary apparently the documentary is tea I don't know anything I haven't seen it to be honest with you I just heard about this like two days ago yesterday but the girls are saying it's incredibly messy they're saying that 50 Cent must have like he must have hacked it to a satellite to get half the footage because they don't know where the money came from no like a common a common piece of feedback that I have seen yeah Toya was talking about it the other day and that made me think oh maybe I should cut it on and then I'm like you know I just don't think I want to witness him being a menace and everybody just letting it slide because it sounds like it's probably footage of decades of him mistreating people talking crazy they I did see something about that whole big lavish funeral for Biggie was actually paid for with Biggie's money and that the day before something about like I think now I haven't seen it for myself but I think there's like some insinuation that Puff knew what was going to happen to Biggie before it did happen and cancelled some appearances or something like the day before he was shot right found a way to stick that in there so I'm like since he right literally since it happened so it is intriguing part of me does want to see it the other part of me is like can I really trust a documentary produced by 50 Cent about somebody that he hates ever so much like her death and you're and 50 Cent is also a horrible person like somebody could turn around and probably produce something almost as bad about you so it's like should I really be should I really be encouraging this like should I give them my stream but I might because niggas are going crazy about it I'm good um to be honest with you I don't need I feel like you kind of hit it on the head when you began talking about it like I don't I don't need further um like I don't need to go further down the rabbit hole of how trash that person is like it's not you know and I don't need to see these shadowy interviews of people being like oh yeah I saw this and saw that and saw that and here I am talking about it now okay but like I don't think it's going to shed any light that's going to do anything for me if that if anything it might make me go like oh Memphis Bleak or whoever also says I don't know I don't know if Memphis Bleak was even on Bad Boy right but I give yeah I see what you're saying because it's like I'm not going if anything I'm going to just be more disgusted with this nigga but I already have a deep deep disdain for this man like I don't need no convincing that he's guilty or a horrible person or a menace to society who got off way too easy on these charges and is going to be out in a few years and back to being his terrible self like I already believe all of that shit so furthermore this shit is a grift you bitch 50 Cent on GMA with a bright blue suit on Robert Roberts asked this nigga what do you have to say to people who are saying that you're doing this more because of your disdain for him than having actual empathy compassion whatever for the victims and his response was something to the effect of like well if you look back on like some 20 years of you know us having problems it stemmed from him suggesting that he take me shopping or something like that which to me was almost like him testing to see if I was like down with the weird shit too so that to me said like well you've been having a problem with this nigga because he did some shit to you that you read as like trying your masculinity yeah okay or just plain old gay right and so you have hated him for that because of it and you are now taking the opportunity to do something petty possibly damaging and get paid for it I don't care right especially because like you said girl horrible person horrible person very his son alone like thanks please be for real with this nigga yeah but I why are you even allowed to why isn't just the director the person who actually why isn't she just in there why are you even allowed to come talk about anything more yeah yeah that's really it but I think it is it is good because everybody is not like us everybody don't believe victims everybody don't believe women everybody a lot of people are obsessed with Puff simply because of all the things he's managed to do the wealth he's managed to accumulate and so some of those people really do need to see this like if you're right if it's going to convince somebody to stop acting like a jackass behind Diddy then good but I don't need to be the one to witness it you're completely right there was a clip in this same GMA interview where they you know Puffy is like out in somewhere in New York I think he might have been in Harlem and he was like out on the street talking to people shaking hands and stuff and then he's on camera not a hidden camera mind you back in a car and it's like I need some hand sanitizer I feel gross like I feel like I need to go home and take a bath I've been around too many people been out in the streets like 50 people hands I shook oh well no wait a minute at first you lost me and then I was like okay I thought he was saying oh god the poors get it off of me no but that's really you have to see for yourself maybe but like that's really what it gave it wasn't just giving like oh I shook all these people's hands I'm a germaphobe it was just like get me home I've been around too many of these poor bitches and I feel he was like I want to take a shower yeah it smells like the yeah it smells like the 125th subway stop in here bitch I need to go home and disinfect it smelled like the fish market over there by the CVS yeah it smelled like the 6 train get me out of here what a bitch so like I'm not gagging you likely wouldn't gag but to your point somebody there's some people who will probably watch this and be like this piece of shit right I was one of them people who was there that day and excited to see him to know that he went in the car and was like can you imagine get the poverty off of me right now yeah yeah I can what a bitch you've been so tapped out in your own little simulated fucked up fantasy for so long bitch you not you really forgot who you are now you in jail and your office out in the streets making money off of a disc movie yeah and it's probably in the top 10 on Netflix as soon as you open Netflix it's breaking records the movie came out yesterday the reckoning the reckoning yikes well they made this nigga's life sound like a Fast and the Furious film and the title you're in jail and talking about some they're in jail with his reps saying that the documentary uses you know of footage, personal footage, without his consent. It's unauthorized. No shit, Shirley. And it is hilarious for you to be screaming about the lack of consent over anything. Oh, come on. Babe. Right. Let's talk about consent, sweetie. Babe. A lack of consent is a huge part of the reason why that nigga's in prison right now. What do you mean? Oh, man. These attorneys be trying it. It's insane. It really is wild. It's wild. But I will continue to probably peek my head at the, you know, 30 to 40 characters a couple of y'all have shared in response to the film. Because I feel like that is going to be more of the meat than actually watching it. I don't need to, like you said, be further convinced that this nigga sucks. I know. That's a bad person. And y'all will share the. Really big highlights, too. Hey, let's discuss. French Montana or whoever's in there. Whoever. But yeah, I've been in. I don't know. But I find it funny that 50 is still. I think he wakes up. Ignores, like, at least six different pissed off women and thinks to himself while looking. In the mirrored menace and capping in his bathroom was the pettiest thing I can do today. And then he does it. And then he does it. Yeah, I feel like I think you're right. I think he wakes up with that as the sole item on his agenda. Speaking of petty and ridiculous, Ray J decided to log on to the Internet and. Request that Beyonce and her husband, Jay-Z. Come to another brandy and monitor. Monica show and say hi to brandy. Ray J alleges that. Beyonce and her husband, Jay-Z attended. Six or seven stops, he says. On brandy and Monica's the boys mind tour, but never stopped back. Say hi to brandy and they love. Beyonce. They love Jay-Z. They look up to them and blah, blah, blah, blah. He put this on his Instagram reels because he. And on everything else. And he said, this is coming from the heart. And I love my family. This is all caps, by the way. And I love J and B. Brandy and the family did not co-sign this. She's super focused on making every show great. I will prob get in trouble for this. Yeah, but I love Jay-Z and B. Do you know how wild and out of balance you have to be to be like? I hate this nigga. He sucks. What is wrong with Ray J? For real? Like, what happened? Or maybe he was just always this way. And now that he's getting older, it's looking so much worse. Because it's like, nigga, you're 45. Yeah, my theory lies alongside that. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not a therapist or his therapist, but I have theories. Okay. Yeah, I saw the video of him. And the funniest part to me was as soon as he said Jay-Z and Beyonce, everybody else in the room left. Everybody else. And so he got the phone. He's laughing, cracking up, talking about Haas. I said, Jay and B and everybody got up, got out the background, ran to another room. They don't want to be in the background of this video while I say this. And I was like, so you know that. And you still go say it. Black people, I'm begging you to walk directly up to your cousin. Oh, my God. Walk directly up to your brother, your sister. Your mama, your whoever that y'all know does this shit. Y'all never say anything. Walk directly up to them. Take their phone and say, today is the day, bitch, that you're going to cut it out. Yeah. I was like, so, Ray J, everybody immediately left as soon as you said Jay-Z and Beyonce. Because they notice it's going to go viral and they don't even want to be in the background. Out of you saying this nut shit. Right. Whatever it is it's about to be. And then he went on. It sounds like he wrote the same thing he wrote in the caption. It's pretty much what he put in the video. This, you know. Yeah. Y'all the two biggest stars on the planet and why you don't come say hi to Brandy. We love you so much. This, this, this. Brandy didn't ask me to say this. She gonna be mad. It's like. Well, first of all, we're here to see Kelly. And you know that. First of all, when have you seen Beyonce backstage at anybody's shit? You don't. You don't. Beyonce goes to see Kelly. Whoever else is in the hallway can also get a picture. But Beyonce. Beyonce is there for Kelly Rowland. She don't go to nobody else's shows. Like, I can't even tell you the last time I saw her at anybody's anything. So. Would it be nice if she was like, oh, let's spin the block and go see Brandy? Sure. But I don't know what's going on between Beyonce and Brandy. Fuck no. It could be anything. It could be Brandy didn't want to come out of her dressing room. Brandy had something going on where Brandy wasn't trying to go mill about and be around other people. It could be some beef between the two of them that the rest of us don't know nothing about. It's a million different possibilities. No, Shade. You want to know what my first guess was? Mm. That Beyonce was like, I'm not going to say hi to Brandy, but Ray J probably back there. I swear to God. No, I would scream. It's his own people. I would scream. Get up and walk out the room. They did. They ran out the room. Why the fuck would I come back there when you probably back there? Oh, my God. You would have thought they missed to come out here. No, the way that sounds so valid. That sounds. Child, I would go back there, but what if Ray J is back there? I don't have a chance. She's running away from you like she did that one nigga, that Jason nigga, whoever it was. You know that one? Jason Lee. Yes. She avoiding you the same way she avoid Jason Lee. Like, oh, he got way closer. She's just like, I don't even want to consider if that bitch is back there. Yeah, it could be. I truly hope that's it. But it really could. So I wouldn't be surprised if the only reason he brought it up is because Brandy do feel some type of way about it. And he knows because either he's heard it directly from her or whatever the fuck. And so he's deciding to be the messy ass mouthpiece, even though she. Is not. And it's her show. And the only reason I'm guessing that is because she literally. Makes it clear or has made it clear on some posts on Instagram. I thought her people said that she was hacked, that her account was hacked and she didn't. She's not the one who wrote those comments. Sure. So, I mean, I don't know who put these photos up on the Instagram story of things like took it personally because I never would have done it to you. Oh, no. That's something. That's something else that. But I don't think that's about Beyonce. Right. Because that that's a little dramatic for, you know, you didn't take a picture with me. That would be a bit much. I really hope that those Instagram stories are not about Beyonce taking a picture or not taking a picture because that sounds. I hope so. That's not you. Really. I didn't think I assume somebody backstage. I actually thought that was about money long because money long is not on the tour no more after she said that shit about. I forgot about that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I thought that was about her. I didn't think that had shit to do with Beyonce. Because why would Brandy tell Ray J anything that she wanted to keep a secret? No, Shay. Knowing how Ray J act, I wouldn't have told Ray J that shit. Like. I'm not telling Ray J when I got somebody for Christmas. Not one fucking thing. This is what I'm saying. I don't think Brandy would have shared. Oh, man, I'm really hurt. Beat him came to like five. Five shows and she won't come knock on my dressing room once. Like, first of all, there's probably some if this is true, then there's probably some ego involved. But I'm a I'm a piss off the Brandy stands by saying if you want to meet Beyonce, then you need to come to where Beyonce is that Beyonce don't need to come to where you at. I wasn't gonna say it, but it's so there is that and I but you start in the world, right? I mean, according to Ray J, who's here. Like, if I pull up to see my sister, I already know what's going here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, and so whatever that is, we should not have been involved. This is Ray J's fault. One thousand percent. As usual. What's not? I know Brandy was like, God damn, can I finish the tour? Like, can I just finish the fucking tour? Imagine Jay-Z go to see the Knicks play or something. And after the game, you're like, all right, let's go. Let's go to the locker room. Take these pictures. Like, you're not obligated to do a meet and greet everywhere you go. You don't have to. You can go home. You don't have to do this. I. Ray J. Ray J. Furthermore, you focus on the fact that your black ass just got arrested and banned off Twitch because you allegedly was pointing a gun and Princess loves your crackhead dumb ass and then tried to project all the blame and the bullshit on her talking about some Oh, well, she was drunk. and she had a man come into my room and try to take my kids out of the bed. Some dude, some dude, some dude was trying to come to. The dude you're referring to is them kid's cousin. Oh, okay. You made it sound like a perfect fucking stranger was coming to snag your children. Technically, like, by marriage or whatever, but, like, Ray J. I don't care. Somebody y'all know. Princess was there with her cousin and her cousin's husband. The dude she's talking about is the cousin's husband. Okay. So, not a stranger. You're going to jail tonight. Yeah. Someone's taking these babies home. I would rather it be they family than the police. You're going to the jail. Right. I would rather have my children go with family instead of Child Protective Services, which is who it'll be if you don't act like you have one shred of fucking sense. With everything we know about everybody involved, I'm inclined to believe this was Ray J not seeing no pictures of his sister with Beyoncé. Skin. It was set up by Ray to come to us. To come to Brandy with the bullshit. Because imagine. So, now that you done said it, what, Beyoncé's supposed to be like, okay, let me make sure I go to another of these shows to take. It's never going to happen now. Right. Imagine how awkward it would be at this point because it's like, oh, hey, girl, I saw Ray J crashing out on Instagram, thought I would come check on you, see how you. And then Brandy be like. The next time the two of them come together. Girl, I am so sorry. Right. I eat. I would have taken a picture with you, but you have to understand that I can't let anybody believe that Ray J could tell me a fuck thing. So, it just is what it is now. There's that. Plus, you just never. I'm inclined to think that people have their own routines, especially before the show. And it's very likely that Brandy does not want to be disturbed or doing none of that extra shit before she goes out and performs. I just would not be surprised by that. Why did Ray J feel like involving all of us? Like, if you really want to get a message through to Beyonce and Jay-Z, why not do that personally through whoever you know who knows them? Why would you put it online? I don't know. You're 46 acting like this. It's so irritating. Oh, I feel for Brandy. I do. Is he 46? He's 40-something. Too old to be acting like this. 33 is too old to be acting. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, you're 40. Your point was going to be. Grow up, niggas. I'm just curious how old he actually is. Grow up, Ray J. Jesus Christ. What a fucking loser. Yeah, you got real problems. Get your anger under control. Stop pointing guns at your wife. Dumbass. This Milagro lady lost the majority of this damn lawsuit that Megan filed against her for defamation. I read a second ago that the defamation claim was thrown out. But she owes Megan $59,000 in damages. She's likely going to have to cover legal fees. And then there's also talk of injunctive relief, which I believe means shut the fuck up. Don't ever say my god damn name. Okay. Okay. Is likely at the heart of this suit for Megan because what the fuck? Megan needs $60,000 or $600,000. Right. That's what this bitch for. She's wealthy. But, yeah. Then the lawyers had like some petty back and forth at big Megan with two N's. And Megan Cunningham. Oh, Megan LeBob. I have no idea. Megan LeBob. That's what you call her. That's her name. Yes, that white girl. Shout out to that white girl. Megan LeBob. Yes, she Fuck. What did she say? Yeah, she was posting like the back and forth between the lawyers because I guess Milagro's legal team was like, oh, she lost. Beep. Or whatever. They were like, no, that's not what this is. Are you actually just trying to be funny? Like, are y'all okay? So the defamation claim seems to have gone out because of some claim that this person is like a media defendant and like whether or not she was contacted by Megan's team prior to the lawsuit being filed. Even though in February a judge said neither one of those things mattered. It was also stated that by the time we got here that could be reviewed and reassessed. Okay. If you will. So essentially with the defamation claim involved before it was like $75,000 in damages but they also were like in the midst of Milagro's team reportedly going oh no defamation we won the lawsuit fuck fake news whatever the fuck they were talking about. Megan's team was essentially saying the judgment hasn't been finalized yet. That's not what this is. Shut the fuck up. But you know you're walking away broke. So I don't even know why you're still talking. Right. Because even 60K is like do you have that to give? Yeah. And mind you you're giving it to a bitch whose boyfriend gives her more than that to go spend on a Saturday afternoon like on dolls that look like on fucking life-size la boo boo. She finna just go buy some giant stuffed la boo boos with your 60K that you're gonna have to sell your ass and everything you own to give to her. It's by plushies so that's delicious. But anyway apparently the damages really still come from the alleged deep fake porno video that she posted of her. And then I can't remember what the other charge is for but that was the one that really pissed Meg off that deep fake porno. That was the one where she was like this is it. Okay y'all playing games. Yeah. So yeah the long and short of this feels like ultimately we're gonna get to a point where a judge could say if you even spell Meg again it's over. And I think that's probably what she wants. Simply stop lying on that girl. And all you people in the comments talking about this is terrible that means any of us could be held accountable for what we say online. Well yes maybe it's time to stop behaving like little fucking banshees. Maybe now we'll stop using AI to create lies and spread things that are blatantly false about other people. Like that is actually something y'all should not be doing. Also there's like going Cardi B is fucking ugly and ghetto and her music sucks and she should stop making music. And then there's making AI porn of Cardi playing with her vagina and saying that she like sent it to someone's kids or whatever. Like AI of her fucking Elon Musk and Trump at the same time. Like what are you even talking about? There's a big difference. One of those is an opinion that nobody can sue you over and the other's illegal. If your freedom of speech is in jeopardy it's not on the behalf of making a stallion bed. Right. Like y'all just need to watch what the fuck you do. It's not hard to not lie on people. So glad for Meg and hopefully this inspires the rest of you bitches who always got something to say about her to shut the fuck up until you know exactly what you're talking about. Because you don't like her because you don't believe Tory Lanez should be in jail that's not a reason to lie on her. So get your shit together. I believe that's what I'm going to wrap up our top swear. Amazing. Good luck to everyone involved. Let's take a break. We are back ladies and germs it's time for your listener letters. It is send your questions to ask the read at gmail.com we may read them aloud on the show. We have three updates this week. Our first one comes from Maverick. If you'll remember Maverick wrote us about being broken up with and was like oh I'm a young lesbian and my parents don't like me how will I ever find somebody to be with. And so Maverick said thank you so much for reading my letter. I deeply appreciate your perspective since writing. I've gotten back into dating and have been doing a lot better. My therapist encouraged me to reflect on the positive aspects of the relationship like what attracted me to her and what I learned about myself. I do want to add that I've been confronting my parents since I was 17. The last confrontation led to me physically fighting my dad and being disowned. Damn. Surprisingly fighting him helped a lot with my anger towards him. I'm not encouraging that for everybody but hey I'm just a girl. Lots of love Maverick. Listen sometimes you do just gotta be somebody's ass. Again not condoning it but sometimes sometimes people really do deserve that ass beat. So true. We have another update from Mona. If you remember Mona was a 37 year old black woman who had a son with a deadbeat white man and the deadbeat white man was on Reddit looking for dicks. I don't know that one. Right. So Mona said, I did it. I sent my baby daddy a snapshot of his pic with a caption that said, this you? At first, he tried refuting the evidence until I sent him the other pics included in the Reddit post. He called me immediately. And after arguing for a little bit, I told him that I wanted what he owed us. He eventually agreed and lowballed me a number. I told him I was working on an email as we speak to send to his father and then another one to his mother. He then offered me six figures to keep quiet. He also said that he would be cutting ties with our son and he would be telling him that it was my fault. In that moment, I knew I was making the right decision. And so I took the money. I have blocked him on everything. Like y'all said, fuck him. About a week ago, I sat my son down to talk to him about his dad before I even before I could even start. He told me he already had blocked him months ago and said there was no need to wait for someone who didn't put in the effort and to help his own feelings. He don't want anything to do with him either. He also said he felt embarrassed to be related to a white supremacist. I cried because this means I've been raising him right. But also, I do need to put him in therapy. And now I can't afford it. I know that's right. I have not told my son about his dad's secret life, but I did tell him that he gave us money and now we're planning a trip for next summer and I will have those screenshots forever. Thank you for the feedback. Love y'all. Because your son is likely going to go. OK, so wait, he gave you money. Why? OK. What do you have on me? Don't ask. It's only going to be a matter of time. You'll probably be an adult. If you do say something to be like, oh, I knew. Right. Imagine. Yeah. Being a demon. And. Just a stubborn bullheaded spawn of hell. Yeah. But you are willing to bend. What an idiot. I do. Immediately got it. You are willing to bend because your black baby mama's like, I know you're a fag. You hate this nigger bitch and her son that you made with her. But you are still willing to give her six figures. Got to. Got to. Got to. When parents can't find out, y'all. I know that's right. That's exactly what you get. You bum bitch. Send my wire transfer by the end of the week. Listen. Because my baby needs therapy. My baby needs therapy right now. And mama paying out of pocket. And you know what? I feel like taking him to that new Universal Studios, bitch. Run it up. Right. Now, mind you, this is all child support that was owed any fucking way. So, like, you had nothing. You had nothing to lose. I'm so glad you got your things. Best of luck to you and your son. I hope you do find that. And God bless him. I got matches being like, and I'll let my son know that it was your fault. Girl, tell him what you got to. We already hate you. You barely even talk to him. And know that you're letting your ass lie in. You barely even speak to him. Oh, no. You officially not going to call me when you only call me twice a year. Oh, no. Right. I'm devastated. Right. Shut up, bitch. If you ever do have this conversation with your child, he'll be full grown by then, probably. He might fuck around and beat your ass. Yeah. So, work. Thank you for the update. Our last update comes from Bettina. Bettina wrote us a while back about having bipolar 1 and not really being sure how to exist in the workplace and cope with what's going on, struggling with intense negative self-talk and trying to navigate the balance between, you know, work and mental health. So, Bettina sent an update and said, Did Cure Fury and Crystal? I cannot explain how much hearing y'all read my letter meant to me. I listened on a night when I truly felt like I had no support and the wisdom you gave me is something I'll carry forever. I've saved the clip. I've been replaying it for weeks and I even shared it with folks in my life who needed the same word. Your impact is far-reaching and real. What Cure Fury said about lowering expectations without dimming my goals or passion, whew, I wish I'd heard that a decade ago. And Crystal, when you told me that girl isn't here anymore, it broke straight through my perfectionism and finally let me give myself the grace I deserve. I'm in a much better place now. I've set real boundaries at work. And shocker, folks have gotten up off of my neck. I still oversee the new location, but I made it crystal clear I'm not doing anything beyond that without compensation. I finally feel balanced, motivated, and hopeful again. And then she included some other stuff about work and how she finally got her. and how she finally got her shit together and these narcissistic white men won't win. Sending light and love to you both, Patina. P.S. I cannot thank Cure Fury enough for sharing his journey as he's been such an inspiration, especially when he shares the less-than-okay times. Don't make him cry. You can't make me do it. Patina, that was so sweet. I love when we actually do make a difference on this hell-ass program. Imagine. I get off this bitch and I'm like, whose life am I about to ruin? Because it is so chaotic over here, but every now and then we do a good thing. Yep. And I'm so glad we could help you out, baby. Best of luck dealing with these white folks in the workplace. Yeah, you're gonna be great. All right. Let's dive on in to the inbox this week. Our first letter. Mm-mm-mm. Okay. Our first letter comes from Tabitha. Did you hear about the drama with Campbell's Soup? What? There's Campbell's Soup drama? Oh, the nigga who work at Campbell's had to resign because they caught him on tape talking about how don't nobody want they nasty-ass soup with the 3D-printed meat. He's not lying. He said, I wouldn't eat that bullshit. Right? You're not supposed to say that, nigga. I'm sorry. All them little cues of chicken not real. Campbell says exactly that he disparaged the food that's left the country. I told you. No shit. You're not supposed to say that, bitch. The fuck? Unlike Todd, though. He was probably like, girl, okay, bye. Bye. Bye. Everybody know that soup man? Right. He going right over to Progresso. Like, see? I couldn't work with them cheap bitches no more. I can chew that chicken. What the fuck? Shit. Stop it. Anyway. Our first letter. I don't give a fuck. I love me a little Campbell's noodle. Oh, I ain't never going to be too good. I ain't never going to be too good. Never. I said, now, wait a minute. Not you attacking my life like this. Like, wait a minute, bitch. Who the fuck do you think you are? Especially because you could get a whole can of soup for less than a. You probably can't no more, but it used to be less than a dollar. You used to get a few cans for a dollar. So, yeah, bitch. Yes. When I was, like, in elementary school, that was one of the few times that I could actually feel like a stand-up citizen. Because I could take some of my own pocket money and get about two dozen cans of soup. For the canned food drive. to donate for the food drive. Yes. And now you're trying to take that away and make us feel bad? Right. And charge five dollars for a chicken noodle. Right. Y'all bitches are lost. Talking about, don't nobody want that poverty, nasty-ass 3D chicken soup. Pay attention, citizens. Bitch, shut up. You shut the fuck up. That cream of mushroom done went in so many. As many times as black families done used that cream of mushroom in something. How dare you? How dare we say that? How dare. Goddamn guff. Okay. All right. Tabitha writes. Yeah. Hi, Chris Lincoln Fury. First of all, thank you tremendously for the time you give us each week. It's had an amazing impact on my life for over the last decade. And I appreciate the fuck out of y'all. A few weeks ago, I was hospitalized for over a week. And on the day that I was discharged, one of my best friends, Sydney, who had been insanely supportive during my hospital stay, told me that they'd begun fucking a person that I had been trying to date and who I really liked named Wanda. When I confronted my friend about how they could do such a thing to me during one of the worst times in my life, they gave me excuses such as they didn't know how upset I'd be. And it all just happened so fast. I don't mean to laugh. It's so ridiculous. This is so liga-biga-tiga. This is really how we do. Because of how great of a friend they'd been to me in the past, I attempted to move past the betrayal, telling them that we could remain friends. I just wasn't ready to talk about and be happy for them and Wanda. Fast forward two weeks, and to my complete shock, Sydney showed up to a mutual friend's party with Wanda. Now, mind you, the mutual friend had never even met Wanda before. So, why would you bring. What? Yeah, Sydney brought Wanda to this party that a mutual friend was having, but the mutual friend didn't even know Wanda. So, it's like, why would you bring a bitch I don't even know? Anyway. Now, oh, okay, I already said that. Were you trying to make a statement or were you just being super gay? I was surprised by this because Sydney and I had just spoken the night before and they made no mention of bringing Wanda to this party. Of course. When I confronted them about it, they said they didn't even think about it. And. and quote you said you didn't want to talk about Wanda, so I didn't want to bring it up. Ew! After that, I told Sydney that I would need some space for a little bit. Fast forward to this past weekend, Sydney and I hadn't settled on a time to discuss continuing our friendship, so when they texted me out of the blue, I assumed that's what it would be about. However, they were texting asking if they could come to my party, even though we hadn't discussed our friendship yet. I was flabbergasted and told them that I wouldn't be comfortable seeing them given how hurt I still was. To this, they responded that I had been mean to them by isolating them and not supporting them and Wanda, and that they didn't want to continue our friendship at all. I'm extremely hurt by the way things went down with Sydney. I miss them and our friendship. However, I can't deny the feelings of animosity and resentment that I have towards them still. My question is, what would you do in this situation? Would you attempt to reconcile with Sydney and or apologize for making them feel iced out while we were taking space, or would you give up a four-year friendship over this? I'm in my late 30s and I've found it increasingly difficult to make solid friendships over the last few years. I consider myself to be a very good and supportive friend and expect that from others, which I think gives me high standards for friendship that it's hard for other people to meet. Regardless, I'm hesitant to just walk away from this given the difficulty I've faced with building and maintaining solid connections over the last few years. I would appreciate any advice you two can offer given that I've listened to y'all longer than I've listened to a lot of people in this life at this point, and I would truly value your opinion. Thank you. Sincerely, Tabitha. Love that. You chewed right there at the end, miss girl. To be honest, I've listened to you niggas more than I have most other human beings that I actually know. So what do y'all think? Oh, Tab. Well, Tab, I think it sounds like Sydney is one of these people who will deflect because, like, to ridiculous degrees, because taking accountability for wrongdoing or just upsetting someone makes them uncomfortable. Oh, yeah. Or what have you. And that's obviously not an excuse to, you know, dodge confrontation or accountability. Whatever. But a lot of these responses are just so throwaway. And to me, I'm like, OK, on the party thing, her being like, OK, I come to your party. If she is that type of person, I wouldn't be surprised if that was an effort to be around you again. And maybe she was expecting that. You would talk to her about. I doubt it when you get there because she doesn't sound like the type of person who's going to do it herself. You know what I mean? At my party, though? You think I want to be at my party cross-faded and talking to you about this bullshit? You did the absolute right thing and being like, no. No. Bitch, no. But I would gather that at least that's like the one little breadcrumb I could give her, I think, in listening to this is that I would guess that it wasn't just, oh, I'm completely jumping over the fact that we haven't talked or acting like we don't have issues. This is maybe just like a branch where I would come and likely waste your time because I doubt she would have came to your party if you invited her and been like, can we sit over here and talk? And I know I was like, that would never happen. So you did the right thing. As far as the rest of it goes, I couldn't help listening to it. But think about how you always say to have a friend, you have to be a friend. And even if you are not, Sydney, going, I see how deep and upsetting this is. Tabitha's telling you. Yeah. Yeah. So at the very least, like, why are you playing these reindeer games, ho? Like, why can you not, at the very least, respect how I feel, how I've said I feel? Yeah. And our relationship and that, like, where's the respect? Right. And it's so weird that you would bring this bitch to a friend's function that don't even know her. Yeah. The whole thing is weird to me. Yeah. Sydney sounds like a real piece of work. Because what do you mean I was in the hospital for a week and during that time, you went and started fucking somebody that you knew I liked and who I had been trying to pursue? The fact that you even were like, okay, well, let me try to figure it out and still be friends with you. Like, Sydney knew how you felt about this person. They knew how you felt about Wanda. And they still was like, well, this bitch is out of pocket for the next seven days. So let me go make my move. Like, that's already. That's so foul. Right. That's already so messy that the fact that you were even like, okay, let me, you know, I'm not ready to be happy for y'all, but let me try to get over it anyway. You already better than me. A lot of bitches across any range of age. I would have. Like, you are very much done. I've been plotting on this nigga for how long? And then you come in and swoop in and start. It don't matter if Wanda likes Sydney more than Wanda likes you. It's about Sydney's behavior. Who is Wanda? Right. Wanda could be anybody. That is right. Like, I'm not even saying that necessarily Sydney and Wanda would have to never, ever be together. But the way this happened sounds real sneaky and. Like you said, when you confronted them about it, they were like, well, I didn't know how you would feel about it. And it just all happened so fast and blah, blah, blah. Like, that's. I didn't know how upset you would be. Oh, girl. Not even I didn't know if it would upset you. Okay. There's so many, like, just inconsiderate who gives a fuck. Right. Moments in this. I really think inconsiderate is the exact right word here. Because why would you then, Sydney, bring Wanda to a mutual friend's party when Wanda don't know this person and this person don't. Like, you could have just left Wanda at home. Why would you bring Wanda to this party knowing I'm a beater and how I feel about. We just talked about the party last night. Sydney playing in your fucking face. Directly. Sydney is playing in your fucking face, baby. And then to be like, oh, well, actually, you've been icing me out and it's really mean and it hurts my feelings. Girl, go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. No shit. You suck. I've been icing you out because you're not a good friend. The fuck kind of bullshit is this? Yeah. Yeah. You've you've been. Are your feelings hurt? You feel like you've been isolated. Correct. Correct. You have been isolated. You put yourself in a position to be isolated. You have been doing. I was in the hospital. Come on. Come on. For a week. Child. And you decided to take that opportunity to fuck on my crush that, you know, I have a crush on that, you know, I'm trying to get with. That's already foul. Right. Then we discuss how foul that is. You make the most cockamamie excuse for your behavior. Right. And then continue to do. Little microaggressive stuff. Shit that will hurt me. Macroaggressive stuff. Yes. Yeah. Shit that is just so inconsiderate and like. Right. And then it's like, well, you've been, you know, isolating me from whatever. Why the fuck would I want you to be around me? When I said I needed some space, you text me talking about cannot come to your party. No. What about I need some space is not. My space is there. And I need it. Yeah. So I get that, you know, it feels like close friendships are in short supply these days and it's hard for you to maintain those. I get that. And you don't want to just let go of somebody you've been friends with for four years. But it really sounds like Sidney is letting go of you. Like, honestly, trying not to be your friend no more. I because I can't understand why you would treat somebody this way. If I had a crush. I don't get it. If I had a crush on somebody, my friend also had a crush on. I would just have to be a big girl about it and fucking tell them like I'm not going to go sneak and sleep with the bitch behind your back. When you have talked to me openly. About your feelings for this person. But let's say you were in the hospital and me and this person was at the same bar. Something started talking. We was really vibing. She touching all on me on my shoulders and shit. You know, make an eye contact. The vibes are there. I'm not just going to go start fucking this person knowing how my friend feels like. It's just like I have more control over myself sexually than that. I'm not going to just do. I'm going to go. Do you have any control over your genitals? I said me self con troll. Yes. I don't care how bad I'm wanting you feeling you in that moment. I know how my friend feels about you. Not saying we never going to get together because we might. We really might. But I'm going to talk to my friend first before I just start fucking somebody. Because I care about this person and their feelings and my relationship with them. Like. And look. Sometimes shit happens. A fine ass thud is also. Oh, God, please. Please don't bring it up. I'm in so much trouble. Girl. oh god you know your friend who is ailing right that's their piece it's just weird yeah look elsewhere that's not how you treat a friend so i don't think you have these super high standards for friendship me neither it because this is basic this is basic to be like hey bro turns out me and you have a crush on the same girl what you want to do like should we literally oh my god scissors about it i wouldn't even think you are so stupid and honestly if you didn't say you always get it when i make a dumb pun if you didn't say scissors twice it would have went directly over my head oh i love anyways yeah no you ate that uh you ate that childish program tabitha i don't i also agree like you're literally like you know i expect for in friendship for it to be mutual right and for you to get and give and have respect that goes both ways to me yeah but i must be asking you're not asking too much sydney's sydney sounds like an imposter immature friend at at best that's being the kindest that i can be about it so even if wanda fell between her legs things happen it's right like let's just jump out of a stupid window all of the behavior after that right bringing her to the party and crystal is right she's playing your face yeah sydney is playing with you so i as much as you don't want to lose a friendship at this point which i really do understand i think this person has made it clear that they're not a safe friend for you and they are at this point they've made themselves into the victim which is just like you really the acrobatics you bitches will go through to make yourselves not be the bad guy is so crazy stand up in that shit yes i knew that you had a crush on wanda but wanda was looking so fine at the bar i simply had to eat her pussy in the back i am so sorry and then from there to have this like wow that is so wild whatever a little whatever whatever just you know respect that i feel some type of way yes and then respect that bring wanda to the function yes you do not bring wanda to the function you understand i did slide in on the girl that my friend like i'm gonna give my friend some space that wasn't cool so i'm not gonna stop fucking wanda but i am gonna you know not bring wanda around to rub salt in the fucking wound that's a bear like sydney had so many chances to be a decent person to you and did hey can i come to the come to your party no no i still need space you okay you cool you no worries yeah yeah let's take let's if if if it's all right with you can we set up a time to talk this week um blah blah but i understand how you feel and i want you to take whatever space you need i'm here whenever you're ready to talk about it like simple shit simple shit you mad that lady is pissed at you and she should be she and when she updates us i want her to tell us what the mutual friend said when it came in with this stranger who the fuck is this bitch you brought somebody to let me tell you right that is because if i was tapped i would have been like oh bitch join me in the kitchen because i'm finna tell you exactly who the fuck that is and i can't believe sydney had the audacity to bring that bitch up in here like this knowing how i felt yeah uh good luck making better friends than this but i wouldn't be trying to hold on to this person at all it's been too much disrespect yeah our next letter comes from rachel who says dear chrislyn kifuri please help me understand if i'm being irrational or if my husband is overlooking something important we can actually probably stop it right there i'm a 30 year old black woman married to a 31 year old black man we've been together for nearly half of my life and married for a year and a half oh high school sweethearts yeah this morning i read an article in the times about the risk of c-sections and how doctors sometimes rush into performing them unnecessarily my husband and i have already discussed starting a family and agreed that i would begin trying to conceive when i was 32 so when he shared his thoughts on the article i was concerned he essentially said that even if i have a doula present they won't know more than the doctor and that we should simply trust the doctor's judgment on the surface that sounds reasonable but i remind myself that i'm not that i'm a black woman living in dallas texas maternal health disparities are real and and c-sections can be financially lucrative for hospitals while being quicker than vaginal births i take this seriously because it's my body and my life at stake trusting doctors doesn't mean staying uninformed he compared my line of thinking to that of an anti-vaxxer asking if i research on at that point i know it's time for me to step away from the argument i believe in letting people have their opinions while i make my own choices initially i only wanted my husband and a doula in the delivery room but now i'm considering having my mother there as well she's calm under pressure we're very close and she's giving birth to three children my husband felt offended by this idea but i don't think his feelings should outweigh mine in such a critical moment even though all of this is hypothetical for now i want to be prepared so i'm left wondering am i being irrational and overly anxious or is this a valid concern i know my husband loves me deeply and we are happy together but this conversation made me look at him a little differently thanks rachel yeah girl like we said yeah pretty much i could have guessed and i would have been right you could have placed a large one um i think that you the the through line for this one you you hit the nail on and that is it the discussion surrounding your body the health and safety of your body and that of the baby that you're bringing into the world right something that he saw this morning on facebook messenger shouldn't be a deciding factor on what happens with your stomach vagina any organs yeah um it is wild for you to say i'm a black woman i'm a black woman in america i'm a black woman in the southern yep part of america these doctors don't really give that much of a fuck they don't it is wild for him to be like you sound very q anon to me what oh also if you want to go the like let's get read up let's do this this that and the fourth you can read the same thing about doulas and how they benefit the mother and can often be they can not only often improve the outcome of of childbirth and safety of it um emotionally um the mother bringing life into the world for the both of you who will be tended to leagues better than the average hospital because to your to your point those are places of business and they birth countless babies a day and to many of them especially when they're looking at a black woman you're a number and your baby's a number so if i'm talking about my body and the baby that's coming out of it we're going to talk about what i want to do and you can have whatever fucking conversation you want to have at the next water buffalo club but i'm going to do what i want to do yeah that's that yeah um him bringing up vaccines when you are talking about maternal health is just like niggas just be saying shit oh my god what there's no reason why you can't have a doula and a doctor there are there are lots of times where doulas will say you know home birth or you know giving birth at a center or whatever it's safe under such and such circumstances but a good trained doula will also know when it's time for you to go to the hospital there's nothing wrong with medical intervention if you or your baby or both of you need to be needed so the idea that y'all should just have to automatically listen to whatever a doctor says especially if it's not your doctor it's pretty ridiculous especially because like you said they already don't give a fuck about black women giving birth in this country and y'all are in texas texas is a state that has made it very clear they will let y'all die in order to uh let your babies live like they will absolutely let y'all die on the table if it comes down between your life and your baby's life the state of texas will choose your baby's life over you they have made that abundantly clear so i specifically for an agenda not because they're right right no no no but because they need more people to join the working class they need uh they need more no more babies being born for capitalism's sake and so they need more poor people they do and then right exactly that so uh i mean not even you know working class really there's there's the working class and the ruling class yeah so we're all poor compared to like elon we're all poor compared to the the top one percent but yeah you're definitely the idea that he would be offended by your mother being in the delivery room is also ridiculous to me i feel like most women have their mothers in the delivery room if it's even remotely possible so why why is your husband being weird about this why is i don't i don't know why he's being i'm glad y'all are having this conversation now two years before you plan to start trying to conceive this is very smart to have this is what y'all need to do learn how these niggas feel about certain things now so that you're not shocked when you four months pregnant and he like well and he starts saying stupid shit you're like now wait a fucking minute when did you get this done imagine being with this nigga for xyz long and one day looking down at your big old belly and then back up at him and going who the fuck is this right what did i get myself in right right you know before you're even getting to that place yes um i don't think this is necessarily something to leave or divorce over i think this is this can be worked out pretty easily he just needs to be educated so maybe y'all need to have conversations with doulas who are like this is what we do this is at what point we get the doctors involved great idea you can also i mean again you can see both i don't know why people act like you can't you can absolutely see both right um yeah but and the offended by your your mother being in the room please help he's really gonna have to help me understand that one that one's wild the doula yeah well well for separate reasons well then guess what if you hate your mama that much you hate my mama that much and i don't then why are we on two separate pages about that that's another opinion it's still not valid because i don't hate my mama and i want her there and i right and we yes this is our baby but we're not birth both growing this baby we're not both giving birth to this baby so yes what i want is going to supersede what you want like how if i want my mama there but not your mama there that's tough titties for you and your mama because it's my pussy getting busted all the way open it's my paternal me ma conceive she won't be there and she knew she's she's known since the day she had your husband oh well i'm gonna be the grandma on the on the daddy side and that means you uh you might have to make a little bit of an extra effort to be just as involved as because you know your mama's mama is usually right there wherever your mama is she's usually right there so your daddy mama gotta you know it's not that she's ever she doesn't necessarily have to be shunned but yeah something as intimate as bringing a baby into the world i can see why you would want your mother in that room a spoon you know like listen with everything else maurice i am the one who's gonna have their vagina and asshole become one hole oh yikes oh god and then become stitched back together after i shit on myself to bring this child mind you mind you so with love i don't give a fuck what you're talking about yeah i don't give a fuck you're not being irrational or overly anxious your husband sounds like he really does not fully understand what happens to women in pregnancy and childbirth and what the statistics look like for black women in particular so you got to remind him we are living in a mega society they don't give a fuck about women especially black ones and so as many advocates as we can have for me and the baby the better off we will be you want a doula and a doctor to be on the same side about things especially like sometimes emergencies happen you have to have an emergency c-section things like that shit happens like that's why they thank god we do have c-sections because before that babies and mothers just died so right so thank god we do have that option but there's nothing wrong with wanting a natural birth and and planning towards that while also having other things set up for medical intervention at hospitals with surgeons etc if necessary you can have you can have it that way you absolutely can't it just takes some planning a cesarean section is carving a person out then it is slicing through muscle and all that yes out of them the recovery at one point when they did start getting to it it was like so do you want the baby or do you want her because if we do this he says she's gonna die so uh which one is it like now we're at the place where you can read you can read you can just read about it you have time and let's talk to the doula let's talk to a doctor let's let's go talk to a few yes let's go talk to because we're not going to be talking about it not pregnant yet thank god so as long as my uterus is empty let's go talk to some people make sure we're on the same page yeah about this yeah because there's going to be so much pregnancy bickering anyway let's just get the big ones out the way yes let's get the big shit out the way make sure we are one band one sound before we decide to make this child so right so yeah best of luck i i really do think this can be worked out but girl i'm never gonna tell a black woman who's like i'm nervous about giving birth in america i'm never gonna be like oh you're overreacting child they almost let you sound like an anti-vaxxer let me guess you also think the earth is what bitch are you so stupid nigga shut up read why don't you read the same article i read in the fucking times about maternal health disparities in this country like we're just a matter of fact maurice listen from now on i'm gonna put on a video essay and we'll watch it together not a video essay and you don't have to sound fucking stupid yeah okay you just leave this to me i got you uh good my mama can't imagine shut up that's my i'm finna something to do like it that's my mama and i don't care what y'all say you can type wherever you want to type that's my mama yeah her voice started trembling yeah she was really finna cry joyce so mean ass i'm shocked todd lasted that long yeah joyce was like i know she is over there with the biggest shit oh she's so happy yeah um yes good luck rachel uh congratulations in advance um but yeah girl you're not wrong at all if they'll let multi-millionaire black women all over the world they're gonna be like oh my god i'm so happy almost dying childbirth they'll for damn sure let you come i mean come on it's really crazy you almost can't be too cautious so but bare minimum nigga understand that i'm gonna be surrounded by at least three white people where i shit on myself in front of them with all these bright lights on and my legs up and stir up yes feces right even better if you can find a black doula and a black ob um that would be fun that yeah because again you want as many voices advocating for you as possible you are going to be in the most vulnerable position of your entire life while you are pregnant and giving birth so we want everybody to be on your side we don't need no arguments or niggas going back and forth i didn't even want carol to be here why is carol here nigga we don't need none of that right now i'm trying to bring a life onto the planet everybody shut the fuck up and do what the fuck i say do i got this um her mama looked like uh geraldine played by uh bevy smith all right immediately saw immediately saw it when i say immediately popped right into my head dear god i love aunt geraldine okay um best of luck to you rachel that's gonna wrap up our questions this week again if you have one for us send it on over to ask the read at gmail.com we'll be right back welcome back folks it is time now for us to do the read i will begin by passing my read this read or the title of it is i told my dad to fuck off for trying to patch things up with us through his new wife after abandoning my twin and i during the pandemic all right which i really love because it gives me like the name of an anime on crunchyroll like the time i got reincarnated as a slime in the forest why is that the name of the show yeah okay says hi chrysaline kifuri i'm a 27 year old black girl call me tracy i have a twin sibling that i referenced later in this letter everyone in this story is african-american and i'm also using fake names for everyone involved the below message i sent in response to an email that my dad's new wife whom my twin and i have never met or spoken to oh no recently sent to my twin's business email demanding that we speak to our father whom we have not seen or spoken to in over three years and have no desire to ever speak to or see again this also came after we blocked this woman for messaging me on blue sky instagram and cash over six months ago blue sky god damn blue sky cash app is crazy i didn't know you could send messages on cash me the fuck y'all weird tracy's email reads oh god hi trinity we're doing terribly as i'm sure he's happy to hear considering that his last message to us so something along the lines of quote good luck getting that financial independence you're hoping for the father said yeah yeah we have no interest in speaking to randy his associates or his family not through his sisters his ex-wife or you the fact that he's still trying to use this tactic on us just showcases that one he's still not emotionally mature enough to handle his problems himself two the people around him are still enabling slash falling for his manipulate manipulation three he still has so little respect for women especially the women close to him and four that his manipulation skills are still sharp as ever feel free to share this message with him and his folks and do not contact or communicate with us again do not contact or communicate with us again is very much bolder period bitch leave us alone do not do not this has reached the point of harassing and stalking and it ends today and if he won't be converting his supposed concern into usd and sending it directly to my paypal venmo or cash app then he truly has nothing to offer us links included for easy access i know that's right in case y'all didn't know it paypal venmo cash app zelle they all right here girl our dad sarcastically wishing us luck this is not the email okay she says our dad sarcastically wishing us luck on our financials and we're not going to be able to do anything about it independence is even more fucked up because at the time he was covering our rent in our first ever apartment wow we both had to drop out of college due to the pandemic so while he was making six figures a year collecting luxury sneakers and cars and flying to dr with his new bitch my sibling and i were surviving off ebt fundraising online to help pay bills and eventually had to move into a homeless shelter because we couldn't find stable jobs things are better for us now we're living in an apartment but we still struggle with bills relying on ebt losing our medicaid and walking slash busing to work wow all the best tracy so tracy work is out here you know scratching and surviving with her twin yeah they have acknowledged and accepted that their daddy ain't shit yeah and they're done with his shit and they don't need his shit amen and this fuck nigga is doing what fuck niggas do which is refusing to take accountability and they're not doing what they're doing and they're not doing what they're doing remaining stunted in his growth and maturity yes and manipulated bitches around him to do his work for him why the fuck you person i've never met this is what i'm saying i was stuck right there why is this bitch even contacting me communicating for a fuck nigga that helped give me life and how am i speaking to you about a fuck thing how are you messaging me on cash app and not sending some money along with that i mean thank you for letting me know cash app has that feature i'm not that's actually if you don't get the fuck off my line that's pointless why are you messaging me if if at least fifty dollars not attached to this message what what do you even want get the fuck out my face you left your very young adult twin daughters to suffer during a fucking pandemic that was killing millions of people and now you got your new bitch hitting us up and you're like i'm not three four years later talking about uh yeah well um what's up your daddy really misses you girl why is my father right not pulling his boots up yeah getting on the phone to tell me that himself bitch i don't know you and i'm not interested get off my apps hoe and you can share this message with that fuck nigga and anybody else who want to see it leave us a loan yeah i'm surprised you did this whole you sent this whole email with no cussing because the amount of dicks that i would have told this person to eat damn sure oh please oh my god oh you knows you know how sometimes you just be like god i wish certain things could happen to me i wish my daddy had a new bitch for me i wish my daddy had a new bitch for me i wish my bitch for me i wish my daddy had a new bitch for me i wish my daddy had a new bitch for me i wish my daddy had a new bitch for me who hit me up talking about why you don't talk to your daddy girl well let me roll out my parchment let me dip my quillen ink oh baby and get started you finna learn about me on today god damn that would be just oh when i tell you i would get a lot of joy out of it girl first of all go back to whatever hole you crawled out of right that led to you meeting that no good ass nigga and then coming to hit my line about a goddamn thing bitch i do not know you if that bitch got something to say to me then tell him to hit me up his damn self so he can also get ignored but who the fuck do you think you are he's pussy you're dizzy i'm done don't contact me or my sister again you work tracy i know that's right yeah shout out to you for not cussing her out god shout out to you oh it would have been bad it would have been bad that lady this email was so professional yeah it well because she sent it to the twins business email like that so like this is giving business email because as soon as you said that i'm like and that reminds me you sent this to my what what you googled me and found my job and my job my email address at work and are you out of your fucking mind you sent this bullshit through my work service you know i take and read this this is not private why the fuck would you do that now i keep drinking their morning coffee scrolling through the email like oh this look crazy what's going on what's going on why would you contact your grown ass man oh no kids that you've never met bitches need lies and failing get a fucking hobby we are grown we are grown well how does she say they are her and her sister she's 27 27 we are 20 fucking seven years old it is not the time for you to be trying to intervene on behalf of the man you just met a couple of years ago suck my dick we are grown been grown since you knew this nigga all right all right you got it thank you for the letter tracy much love and positive vibes and um growth and all that things going out to you you ate this down and you'll probably listen to this show long enough to know many of the people who get somebody else together and i pass the reeds vulgar just vulgar just absolutely heinous and we live for it because we're vulgar yeah we do we do we love it but you said i rise above all the haters i fly above i fly above all the haters well speaking it is speaking of good vibes i wanted to first start off by saying a shout out to sabrina carpenter for getting the trump administration together they put up one oh they did one of the ice propaganda videos of them snatching people off the streets arresting them and shit and they said it to sabrina carpenter's music one of her songs and she said uh this video is even disgusting do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda i love that because it immediately right so first of all love that love little miss short and sweet making it clear that i'm she's not with the dumb shit but it also immediately sparked a debate amongst the taylor swift stands because taylor has not done something similar taylor has not reprimanded tramp tramp we really should start calling them that yeah um but i just want to say thank you because everything the the the swifties have been saying oh well it's a security concern she can't come for the administration because then they'll send death threats and hateful rhetoric and all this you can't expect her to go up against a fascist little miss short and sweet said yes you can first of all that's taylor fucking swift if regular everyday people yeah yeah if the rest of us who have everything to lose can stand up against trump and say something about the bullshit that he's doing then you for damn sure can you cushioned and surrounded and protected by all of your many many many millions of dollars could for damn sure do the same thing it's like girl she's taylor swift she's one of the biggest pop stars to ever be a pop star that lady is probably getting death threats every day just because it's a day like there's It's also that, for sure. So her standing up for something right is like, oh, well, people are going to do what they're already doing. Yeah. Like, what are you talking about? Right. So I just wanted to say shout out to that little white girl. I always did like Sabrina Carpenter. Cute little girl. Yeah. And I appreciate this a lot. Now, on to my read. Did you hear what Joelle Santana said? I haven't heard, thankfully, anything from Joelle Santana in quite some time. I'm a Dipset fan, so I prefer to just keep my distance so that I'm not continuously distancing. Well, smart, because he was just on a podcast called No Funny Shit, and they got around to talking about financial literacy. Oh, boy. And he was saying we really need to teach kids financial literacy. They need to learn about wealth and money management. And by the time they get to ninth grade, they should be learning how to start businesses. And so somebody in the background was like, man, start businesses. These kids can't even read. And Joelle said, but they don't really need to know how to read. I feel like I just got jumped. Yeah. I think I feel like the co-host felt that same way. Because he was like, they don't really need to know how to read. You don't have to know how to read. You could listen to a book on YouTube and still obtain information. You don't need to know how to read. I believe that common sense is better than everything. I'm a common sense type nigga. And so I feel like that's why you got to have that first and foremost. I'd rather have, he said he would rather have zero book smarts than not have any street smarts. It's like, I feel like you probably, he said, the last book he read, just guess what it was. Just guess. It's the 48 Laws of Power. So, but anyway, they having this conversation. I honestly thought you were going to say like Twilight. No, no, no, no, no, no. It is something niggerish. Yeah, that makes more sense. So he was, so when they were like, so whoever this was in the background was like, okay, no, I mean, like kids got to know how to read, man. What the fuck you talking about? They have to. What you think more important, math or reading? Joelle said math. Because reading is just when people want to try to embarrass you and play you or be like, huh? You can't read. This feels like a trauma. Talk about, oh, well, if you can't read, you can't read your contract. But anybody who say you can't read your contract, they didn't read their contract. They had a lawyer read their contract. They just saying it to be funny. Nigga. Nigga. There's no such thing as financial literacy. If you cannot fucking read. Being able to read. Being able to read is the foundation of literacy, period. How far do you think anybody is going to get in this life without knowing how to read? That's what I'm saying. Like, I couldn't help but sit here and go. How insane it is for you to sound or to make it sound like you're pro financial literacy. But then in a breath of someone apparently off camera is like, well, these bitches can't read. You're like, oh, reading. That's stupid. Who needs that? And they don't need to know how. How are you supposed to manage money when you can't read a budget? When you're illiterate. Because if you can't read, you can't write. Now, now what? Now what? The kids just need to learn all that they possibly can about business so they can hire everybody else to do things for them. You can't even go back and double check what other people are doing. Because you can't. You can't read. Simply being able to crunch them numbers is not enough to be a successful. Name one successful business person who cannot read. They're going to say R. Kelly. Is R. Kelly successful? R. Kelly's not a business person. R. Kelly's an artist like Jewel Santana. So I think we all know that you don't have to be able to read in order to rap or sing. Those are things you can do without knowing how to read. Or read very well. But you cannot own a business. That way you can play piano without being able to read music. Yes. But those people are savants. That's extremely rare. You're not born knowing how to start a Google. Like you. The idea that kids like. The idea that kids need to learn more about starting a business than they do. The basics. Reading is fundamental. We say that for a reason. It is literally at the. How could you ever be successful in business with the amount of things you have to read as a business person? Just just emails. How are you even going to get connected with anybody when you can't read? Why do y'all go outside and say stuff? Like, why do you speak to me? I mean, you do it in front of a microphone, which is like designed to amplify your voice. So you want it to be loud. The stupid shit y'all say. I don't get it. I know. As soon as he said that them co-hosts on that podcast was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is going to go viral. This is the clip. Thank you so much. This is the clip. The numbers are going up this week, nigga. For a show to be called No Funny Shit. This nigga is hilarious. Because. Friend of the show. How. Come back anytime. Talking about they should be learning how to start businesses, but they don't really know how to read. I say that respectfully. I'm not concerned about your respect. I'm not. I'm concerned that perhaps you have children. I don't know if he does. I'm a little concerned if he does. Because this just does not. Yes. Audiobooks are great. Kids. Listen. Well, they should be listening to stories all the time between school and parents and bedtime. Like, yes. But all of that is to help you on your. Literacy journey. It's so that you're not. I got letters and shit on them. Like. This is so stupid. It's kind of hard to wrap your mind around how somebody. It truly is. So quickly to have this one point. Right. And then off of like a six word sentence. It's like, oh, yeah. Fuck reading. Talking about I'm a common sense nigga. Clearly not. Because common sense says everybody should know how to read. That's common sense. Common sense is kids need to know how to read. You can't get bitch. The secret Mormon wives or whatever. Them ticked up bitches. They can't even get paid if they cannot read. It we there were too many very special. Which one of you crew of sitcoms. New York in the 70s and 80s. Fun. Young. Joe Santana. Exactly what it is. He struggled to see where spot ran. How dare you. In fifth grade, they had to do popcorn reading. Joel Santana got embarrassed from that day forward. He said, fuck books and fuck book learning. I ain't with none of that shit, bitch. The doll said reading is to embarrass bitches that can't. That's delicious. I love it. My favorite thing about being able to read is humiliating those that can't. Meanwhile, I don't even think about those who can't because I mean, for most people, who can't read, it's a giant tragedy. They live in places where they didn't have access to education. It's like something went horribly wrong. Right. Something went very wrong in your life to where now you can't read and you are at a significant disadvantage in this life because of it. Everybody needs to be able to read. This is just. Yes. And it's wild for you as someone who made it anyway. Right. So come on here and preach about something. Valid. And then directly bookend it with, but fuck literacy, like actual reading. And I believe you can read. Maybe you read at a third grade level, but I believe you can read, Jewel Sinton. I believe you possess the ability to read. Yeah, of course. It's just shocking to me that you. Now, Lea Michele. Y'all have got to leave that alone. Please. I'm joking. Please. I know Lea Michele is like, y'all are. It is because, you know. It's Lea Michele. Because, yeah. Speaking of stupid, that's exactly what I was going to say. Try to land this plane. I call a lot of things stupid. Okay. A lot. A lot of things. A lot of people. There's a lot of evidence of that. This may be. This really might be top three dumbest things I've ever heard somebody else say. I had to go back and play. I had to go back and play the whole clip for myself because I just said, please. There's a psych in here somewhere. It's a man. You know, I'm just playing. That's the type of dumb shit. Dumb. All them niggas say, ah, these kids don't need that. Like, I just knew he was going to clean that up somehow or be like, you know, financial literacy. Like, you almost had a point because kids do need to learn about money and managing finances and how to budget and taking care of a household and all that. That is important. It does not supersede the ability to read. For me, for some reason, it is reminding me a lot of maybe because we. We whooped his ass this episode, but this is reminding me. a lot of the humiliation of Ray J when he passed that man on camera the microphone them glasses and said these don't break and then he broke them like a tooth immediately broke them like why did this have to happen on camera and he said it with such confidence they unbreakable that nigga broke them in three seconds didn't struggle at all looked like it was one of the easiest things he's ever done right didn't break a sweat and then Ray J just sitting there like oh well you know it don't matter humiliating not when you're a dumbass nothing's embarrassing when you're stupid true I said wow um let this be the last time I hear Joelle Santana opinion on pretty much anything I'm still she also explains a couple things I've heard niggas say a lot of shit man I really have that's wild it is pretty up there it's wild but reading is optional like and he meant Start a business, be financially literate. Double down on it. Them niggas was like, nah, it ain't no way. Come on, bro. Come on, bro. Come on. He's like, nah, I'm for real. With all due respect, common sense is more important than anything. Okay. Well. I mean, maybe it's just my common sense. It might just be my. Well, you can't write in a journal then, can you? If you cannot. Walked into that. Well, you know what? To your iBook, eBook, audio book point. You can jump right into that iOS, tap that microphone icon and notes will write it for you. Oh, God. I just think that maybe you should be sharing some of these opinions with your phone. Yeah. Or a piece of paper and not with the rest of them. Yeah, you can dictate into the notes app, but you'll never know. Wait. It says. You can't even read it back to make sure they got it right. Bro, what the fuck, nigga? You'll likely have to pass it to maybe one of the kids. Read this for me. Because I'm sure them kids are fine. I'm sure them kids are fine. Their daddy got money. Their mama got money. I'm sure they go to a medical school. A real school. Right. Just a school. It's just, you know. Yeah. I can't believe this is even something that had to be said, but please don't think you're going to raise. Because Jeroz was in Dipset when he was like 17, 18. Why weren't you in school? Like, he was running the streets since he was a kid. So you probably weren't making. You weren't no businessman either. Like, that's not. Getting lucky and making it as a rapper is not the same as starting a business. That's not the same thing. And I just. You need. You need to be able to read. You need to be able to read signs and paperwork. You just want to. You can't even get a driver's license without being able to read, bro. Like, what do you. Come on. There's a written test. You have to be able to. Maybe this is it. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Reading. Reading is so important. Maybe this is why he got caught with a gun in the airport one time. Because he had no idea. Saw the guns on them signs. So I was like, oh, we good. He didn't read that. It said they were prohibited. That's why they had to put a big red circle with the line through it. Like, God damn. We got to spell it out for these niggas. Because somehow y'all still bringing loaded weapons in your carry on down to the Newark International Airport. We don't do that. All firearms are professional. Probably. Probably cool to bring on the plane. God damn. It's so embarrassing. And he meant it. That's the worst part. It was not a bit. I know. He really meant that shit. Yeah. So please do continue to teach your children to read. Please do not. Please do not abandon Miss Rachel in favor of Jewel Santana. And that is going to wrap up this week's episode of The Read. God damn, bro. Check us out on social media at ThisIsTheRead. Our website is ThisIsTheRead.com. Thank you so much, Mandy B., for being on this week's episode of Crystal's Couch. We sat there and argued because, of course, we did. Crystal'sCouch.com for new episodes and et cetera, et cetera. Any news from you this week, Kid Fury? I'm just astounded. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You should be. No one should feel comfortable to share that opinion. Nobody. No adult person. Like, that's something you say when you're like eight and you've been raking in the Girl Scout 50 money. Lemonade sale money. Yep. Or the lemonade money. The chocolate bar coins. Oh, yeah. And you're just like. I have $58. I don't need school. Or your mom was like, well, you're going to have to be able to read. Have you seen? Have you seen how many blow pops I've brought into this house? Like, that's something you say when you're a kid. A grown kid with Jitsa Vero. It's pretty dumb, bro. It's pretty dumb. Yikes. Kid Fury is my name. You can Google it. The read. See you next week for all things going on in the world. And I will say a prayer for y'all. Got to. In the meantime, because. Write it. You got to write it down. Write it down and read it out loud. God, I'm so tired. For the girls who can't. All right. See y'all next week.