The Constantly Concerning Kiss

To your kisses, sweeter than honey, guess what? So is my money. All I'm asking you to do, hey, guys, I'm my known bananmen. And I'm Winmi Musaku, and this is the read. Thank you for coming back. You know what it is. And then I would like to ask those of you at home who I guess sit somewhere in the millennial era, if you all remember the episode of tiny tunes, when babs was singing, respect by Aretha Franklin, but it was like the song dubbed over her performing. Oh my god. It is so fucking, I don't know when it's last time I've seen it, but I remember it quite this. This sounds ridiculous. It was really dumb. Sometimes they would just put actual music over a cartoon for a chase scene or something like that. But for whatever reason, I think baby babs is trying to audition for something. She had backup dancers in the Franklin's voice coming out of her body. So she must have cleared it or something, right? Hilarious. That episode makes me cry. Oh, good times. Welcome back, folks. Uh, at home and beyond, um, how's it in New York? Is it warm? It is not. It is a, it is a very chilly 30 degrees. So I heard y'all are going through like a heat wave, though, I don't know that that was 95 black-ass degrees yesterday. That's crazy. Well, it's too early for that. It's March. Uh, so what's going on? Yeah. Girl, the apps were like extreme heat warning. Yeah. Girl, if you ain't got to go outside, don't. In mid mode. It is crucial. That is not good. That is not good. Sorry. That is not good. Not even in the valley. Yeah. Yeah. They probably could have baked a potato outside. Bitch. I said, you know what? This is nothing. I blamed Donald Trump. Yeah. Because who besides the devil would want it this time? Exactly. Yeah. The weather is not doing normal things across America. DC was under a tornado watch the other day. I said, no, wait a minute. Yeah. It's, it's a wrap. It's just about a wrap. God said, all right. This planet has fully jumped the shot. So let's get it done. Let's just go ahead and shut this shit down. Yeah. It's not looking good for us. Everything is wrong. No. It's all wrong. That's the perfect way for it. God help it. Well, you know, it isn't excellent black people. This week, black excellence, I'm going to give over to a brother named Jordan Davis. In 2020, I guess when we had time to think, Jordan said that he was going to explore America. The passion that he's had for flying, even without money. Now, we, in the Negro world, we've always found to wear, so we have no shock that this brother did three years and over 1,500 flight hours later, he's now an official airline pilot. Wow. Now because of them, we can report to this because something very special came out of this. He recently got to fly his very mother for the first first time. And it was a flight from Huntsville, Alabama, which is where she gave birth to Chicago. And so it was very, very sweet. He got posted on his Instagram where his, guess what his handle is, air Jordan. Oh my God. The children are adorable. I mean, that's really, I'm just scored 90. Yeah. That's really great. Yeah. But I thought this was adorable. Maybe this was a tweet. I don't know. But you can see him up in the cockpit with his mommy sitting next and beaming all proud and God bless. You know, the ladies in this age because you really have to, you have to like claw bite and steal for many of them to get on an aircraft. So I mean, let's be very direct. Yeah. So this will not fly. She will not do it. Oh, there's a little video of him on the thingy. So he was probably talking to that to her and announcing. I will watch that later. There are more videos on the Instagrams. But it also says here that only 3.4% of US airline pilots are black. I mean, that is kind of obvious, you know, whiteness, white supremacy, and the fact that a lot of pilots, especially white men, apparently loved a little boy, little girl folks like their co-workers, co-pilots and other. Gotcha. Yeah. Gotcha. Okay. I mean, that and you know, many other black people just being like, I want to be up there for on purpose for like going up there to go across the street. However, that does affect us only 3.4% of US airline pilots being black. I mean, I feel like all industries, but especially modes of transportation where we have to share our time, space, and safety with others, we need the culture up in there. Yeah. We do. I fully agree. So congratulations, sir, for making it to your dream through whatever odds and also getting to share this awesome moment with your mommy. Yes. Okay. Let us move into a pop culture segment that we call Spider Tops brand new douche. Nope. Let's start with, let's start with the Academy Awards. They took place this past Sunday for whatever reason hosted by Conan O'Brien, and I did exactly what I said I was going to do. I didn't watch it. I waited for, which I guess many people decided because apparently it was the lowest ratings for the Oscar so far, but I feel like last year was the lowest ratings before. So he's just, there's a lot going on, bro. You want us to sit around and look at a bunch of very rich and beautiful people. We had each other on the back for hours like we have real problems. So, but I watched it and it was a fun show. God bless. I waited for the results to come out after whereas I looked at them and I was like, well, good to see that they didn't directly play in our faces, mostly not. So that was nice. Obviously, congratulations to Ryan Kuhler, I think it's his first Oscar, he got it for best original screenplay. That's it really. Very deserved. Oh, my God. And the only one that didn't have a co-writer, he was the only nominee that didn't have a co-writer like, that man's mind has been very, that was a beautiful, it was, it was very nice to see him win. It was that really made me smile. Sinner's also got cinematography because do another and yeah, they didn't get score, original score. Yeah. And then of course, best actor. Yes. So beautiful to see Michael B. Jordan win that best leading actor role in his first nomination. That, listen, black clear, did first nomination win up against little nerd of caprio. And that Timothy Shilamay who I guess is not gay, I don't know what's going on with him. Ethan Hawke. Yeah. Some big names. Yeah. You really did like, I was so proud. I think my man actually I'll get to, to timetaste. Okay. I'll get to her because I have more to say at the tail end of the book. Okay. Let's just, um, yes, congratulations to them. It was so gorgeous to see those people, um, get their things. It was lovely to see Michael's reaction and being there with his mom, banking his family. It was just a really, um, I'm so, so happy to see you and get that award because maybe not only was that movie excellent as acting was like, let me play two people. And many of us forgot that nigga wasn't a twin immediately forgot immediately. It wasn't like, I thought it was going to throw me off the home movie. No, he killed that shit. It was, and you know, I am the stereotypical black person who just wants the black stuff to win. I didn't even watch most of the white stuff. I don't care. I want to make some went on family feet. I will actively, ferociously cheer for the black family and like piss for the rest of the day if they lose. So I am that person. That's why I'm like, I'm not going trip off of some of the awards that they lost because I didn't even see one day after another and so I have no idea whether it deserved it. I will get to that. Okay. isn't even going to argue over. overall that I'm just glad, like you said, they didn't completely play in our faces. I don't know how you win best screenplay and best cinematography without winning and best actor without winning best picture, but I am gonna leave it alone. - Yeah, that was awesome. - I am gonna leave it alone because those wins were very much deserved. I believe the cinematographer is also Black and Filipina as in addition to being the first woman to ever win that award. So it was, you know, the Ryan going up into the audience and running down with her baby down the aisle so he could see her, like do the acceptance speech and all that. It was just really sweet. And, you know, I tried to keep my other very auntie-ish comments to my son 'cause I was like, "Yeah, I know." We did, then when they played and won me space, I was like, "Okay, I don't like that." But of course, I didn't see the other movies. I don't know if that lady with the crazy hair cut deserved a win. I ain't watch, what's the call? - Amy Madigan tore. - Children weapons. - Weapons. Yeah, I ain't look at that. You know, I ain't look at that. - It was my second favorite movie of last year behind the scene. - Okay, so, you know, that's what-- - I were toralizing. It was so fun. - That's why I said I'm gonna leave it alone. - I lived up to the height. Amy Madigan, first of all, Amy Madigan's an excellent actor. - Never heard of her at day in my life. - She's like, she does the thing. - Okay. - This role was excellent because it had this really delightful and seamless balance for her as a performer between campy and funny and peculiar, then absolutely terrifying. I don't want to be in the same zip code as this person. It was just, Amy Madigan, Chef's kiss. The bitch had everybody dressed as gliders for Halloween. This is not to take anything away from me at all. I was like, if anybody was gonna beat the doll, I won't complain for it being Amy Madigan is on gliders 'cause she absolutely, too, made me laugh and also made me want to shut my eyes. And I never get scared at horror movies, you know? - Yeah. - I go to sleep to them. - They relax you, they soothe you. - They actually do. - So, you can ask me all this out, how do you feel relaxed when you're watching a horror movie because I'm, I don't get super scared. I like to be frightened, and then also, most scary things are quiet and dark. It's really easy to just chill out. - It's true, so they're usually not for me, but like I said, I let y'all have that because y'all actually watched the other movies and I did not, so. - I mean, sinners is a horror movie too. Perfectly scary in many of them. - And I keep rew, I have rewatched sinners so many times, but I stop after the white girl goes outside and they sing that song that her mama used to sing right before she gets turned. I stop at that exact thing. - One of the scariest parts of the movie. - Well, right, so when there's, you know, they're all like they're singing and she's just looking and she doesn't realize what's going to happen to her, I can't watch it after that. I just can't, 'cause it's like after this. - I mean, it gets so bloody and so tight. - I mean, she gets a sense that something's off. I think when she sees one in the mirror. - It's too late, right. - And then it's too late. - As she turns around and then one of them floats up in the air, you can turn your back to no white people. You know that. - But she didn't, she's a white person and she thought that she could. - Well, she, she thought, yeah, she thought that they thought she was white so she would be safe. And so she probably, oh sister, sister. So I rewatched sinners, but up until, and it's a shame, 'cause there's some very funny moments in sinners after that that I miss a lot. Like when Perline didn't want to eat the garlic and they were like bitch. (laughing) Please don't make us have to kill you right here. Anyway, so yes, that's nice for the, for the Madigan lady. - Loving each other. - Cornbread, God woulda movie. Oh, and I didn't appreciate that Delroy Lindo didn't win either, although. - Oh no, that's my reason. - Oh, okay. - Well, amen. You said don't even worry about it. - On the other hand was Rob. - Okay, okay. - It was wide, open, burglary, in the fucking afternoon, the sun up hot. - Okay, so all right. I'm glad we agree on that when this is. - Woo! - That one! - All right. - It is. - Oh wait. - Okay. - Plucked, diced, chopped. - The girls are upset with Tiana Taylor for having a good time. - Are they really? - Yeah. - Biggers and whites. - But putting that white man in a headlock. 'Cause that was funny. - That was a little strange. - I thought it was hilarious. - I found it funny. - I found it too. It's just seemed like such. - And obviously, if you've played any attention to the cast and the director and the relationship in the way that they speak to each other, at least since some of you has come out, I don't think that Tiana Taylor would have done that if she wasn't comfortable. And he wasn't comfortable with her. - Doing. - Obviously. - So I don't know. But even if you watched it and it was like, okay, this is a little weird or it's a little like peculiar or cringe even. The comments behind it have niggas being like, oh, you know, this is why you can't let anybody in rooms like this. - Oh girl. - Or blankety blank. - Are you okay? - When was the last time you were in a room like that? - I'll wait. - It's that, furthermore, why do you want not want people to have a table? - For giving that white man a nuggie. (laughing) For giving him a little, you need to get shushed. Please be for real. Because she was clapping and cheering for other people who won. Y'all are mad at that for real. You niggas need some joy in your lives. That's very miserable. - But then they get mad at you if somebody wins and you have black skin and just don't do anything. - Right, 'cause you're not allowed to seem upset or disappointed that you lost either. So it's like, what exactly are you supposed to do? - Or even indifferent. - Yeah. You can't even act like you and Bivalin about it. Just, you just, no matter what, if you black, you lose. Okay, great. Okay. - T.R. Taylor said the world holds so much misery that miserable hearts forget the face of the city. - Oh my God, that's literally what I just said. Exactly T.R. to these niggas are miserable. - They grow comfortable being sore losers so when they see real sportsmanship, it unsettles them. - Oh my God. Yes. - Like holy water touching a ding. It's clapping for someone else's victory, requires something many people never learned. How to win with grace and pure joy and how to lose with grace, chin up and dignity. - I, yeah. - Also. - Yeah, exactly that. - There was another moment where T.R. Taylor was cussing some man out who she said pushed her. - Oh. - There's footage of this and apparently afterwards it was reported that the man who pushed her was a security guard contracted for the, for the thing. And the academy basically apologized. Oh no, the security firm that was contracted for the academy apologized. So apparently what happened is that the cast after winning for, after winning best picture, a lot of people from production cast, they take a group photo and says that they were doing this on the stage, the Oscar stage. It says here from variety that Pam, Abdi and Mike Deluca were having trouble getting up onto the stage. So Tiana came down to get Pam. When she went to go back up, there was a security guard who forcefully stopped them from going back to the stage and put his hands on Tiana. This is a source via the right or right. - I got you. - The source explained that the guy had watched her walk down and when they went to go back up, he forcefully was trying to stop them. It was then that Taylor got angry. The source added that the guard said, "You owe me an apology." - Oh no. Oh yes. - No, but it's what? We just won best picture and I owe you an apology. You won't be working this event against her. - Are you stupid? - You got to be. You took an edible, didn't you? You took a it just hit. That must be it. 'Cause what? You can't act like you don't know who Tiana Taylor is. Like you don't think she deserves to be up there. She literally was in the front row of the function. Like, oh yeah, you. - I'm sorry. - Does she drop a wet turd on your shoes? - You won't be working the thing. - Oh, you want a apology for what? - Oh no. - You won't be back. - Security industry specialist, Inc. said there was a brief interaction involving Ms. Taylor and a member of our security team during the show last evening, our security personnel. She was working to manage a crowded area and ensure the safety of all guests. During that interaction, there was an incidental contact and we regret that the situation escalated. This is not the standard of professionalism. We expect from our team and we have addressed the matter internally to help ensure situations like this and do not happen again. Now, if I'm to take this seriously or as the truth, yeah, that motherfucker is definitely working, never working here. - Right, at least not the officers. You won't be back at this. You might could go guard something else, but you won't be back at this show. - I would honestly be. - I'm not sure what you were saying. thinking over if they let him continue working for them. - This ladies, you could probably go get another job, secure, you know, a security guard somewhere else. - This is just awesome, but imagine this happening to Emma Stone, like it wouldn't, they just would never do this to a white woman. It would never be no incidental shoving of a white woman whose movie just won Best Picture, and they try to take a group pitch on stage. Like, that just would never have been. - Every person on the stage from Best Picture, take turns shanking her. (laughing) - Security would have picked her up and carried her own stage before somebody fucking shoved her. Like, the disrespect of this woman who was also a nominee, and again, you act like she was a seat filler at this shit. She was sitting front, god damn row. - How excellent I would have to cap her up. - This is so disrespectful, man, a fuck. - Oh, God, just another day. - But she always just like, "Oh, you can't let something's in this room or not." - I guess not, because their black bodies will be assaulted, disrespect, and called out of their name. - Security said the same thing, he said, and actually, (laughing) white enough about it, colored nonsense, man. Yeah, you won't be back, sir. - All right, let's move on, update on the Rihanna shooter. - The young women who decided to take a assault rifle and blood shots at the gate of Rihanna's big L.A. mansion. We also discussed that Rihanna promptly got on a PJ and stuck both her middle fingers out the window. - And we don't know where she is, or I don't. - And don't mind. - And I never need to know where she is again. I would not be surprised if she'd never ever spoke to us again. - I'm in five. - Yep. - I have so many albums. - Mm-hmm. - You know what I'm saying? I've had the skin thingies. - The makeup is still right there. - I don't have the- (laughing) - Still have the lip mask. - I have the jewelry, I have a pair of earrings I bought when she was doing like, Finty Diamonds or whatever. - Once I still have those earrings, yes. - So I have more than enough. Thank you, girl. Not to mention all the incredible looks over the years. I have that big ass Rihanna book. - Riffle. - Remember when she put out that book? - I have that too. - I'm good. I'm Gucci. Thank you, girl. You gave us so much. (laughing) - Yeah. Anyway, on to this dumbass. Okay. This clearly very sick woman. Yvana Lestet Ortiz. She looking at 14 counts of attempted murder baby girl. As well as you, so a fire arm assault with a semi-automatic fire arm and shooting into an inhabited dwelling with enhancements. This bitch is going into the grand. - She is. Baby, California was possibly the worst state to do this. (laughing) Oh, baby, they are. I'm not even sure what kind of mercy will be given for your clearly poor mental health. But yeah, it's either prison or a psychiatric institution probably for the rest of your days. - I think she will probably be in a psychiatric institution for the rest of her days, but I wouldn't be surprised if they just put her in prison. 'Cause I feel like even that. Like for a judge to be like, okay, if I'm wrong with you, you're gonna put you in a hospital? I feel like that's spotty. 'Cause they put, I think they put many people who should be in a hospital. Just put them in prison. - Oh yeah, they do. They do. - Give a fuck about anybody's mental health for you. - Right, and there is a very common misconception that being in a psychiatric institution is better somehow. You've never been in one if you think that. (laughing) You've never been in one, worked in one. You probably don't even know anybody who's ever been in one if that's what you think it is very not. Some people think pleading insanity is like a way to get off. Baby, say goodbye to shoelaces. You will never be alone again. - Somebody is coming and knocking on that door every 20 minutes. Everything you do is going to be monitored. Yeah, you will never rest. - If they don't knock, it's because you have a glass the size of an envelope. - Yeah. - Just like a regular bedding up in this door and they can peek in and make sure that you still there. - That's it. - And you will never be left alone again. It's not, that's not an old vacation. That actually sounds like hell. - So, but she also, if they don't believe, she needs help. - If you, let me tell you something. Ivana, we discuss the possibility of you not taking your meds. Guess who's gonna make it. - Oh, you will take them in. You think you could slip it under your tongue and in your cheek somewhere? You, oh baby, they have ways. You will be taking that medication. You will be going to group. (laughing) You will be going, you will be meeting with that state. Psychiatrist, oh God. It's not, it's not a fun time. - It is not fun. - No, but it's better than you being in a criminal way. - Right, but it's better than you being in gin pop when you very clearly are not well. So. - Right. - You are maybe gonna get the help you need. It's just a fucking shame that it had to go this far before you got that help. - And we don't know that you will bitch. - Yeah. - 'Cause they already don't say her bail to 10 million dollars. - No, she's not getting out. She's not going anywhere. - One million for all 10 victims. - Oh my God. - That were present during the shoot date. - Oh, it says it was later reduced to 1.875 million. Still like that. - It don't matter, it don't matter. Right, because what is the 10% of that? The whole is coming up with $200,000 roughly to get you out of jail just long enough for you to go to trial and then go back to jail. Who's doing that? - Remember what you said about like possible people and I was like, "Oh, who could have stepped in?" - Oh yeah. - And you were like, "Imagine all the people who did and we're like, girl." - You sure are. And she did not give her 500 on. - No, like sweetie, we literally did our absolute best. - She was on killing sprays. - Right. - Well. - We told you to leave that alone. I said, "Ivana, you keep talking about Rihanna. You've never actually met her sister. Like maybe we should go outside. Do you want to go to lunch? Like, let's talk about something that's happening in our real lives and use, you know, you got something else going on. Things aren't going the way they're supposed to appear. So I'm trying to have empathy for that. But you take a, you take a semi-automatic weapon in California and shoot up anybody's house. But especially Rihanna's, you're not, I'm sorry, girl. It, I'm sure all her friends and family are like, it is way beyond me at this point. This report from ABC says, "If she's convict "and all charges, she'll be facing up to life and state." - Yeah, she's not going anywhere. She isn't. She'll be right there. - Rough. So the Reboot, Requel series for a different world. - Mm-hmm. - You know, they talked about this. Sorry, I think they fully announced that it was in production not long ago. And Jazmyne Guy, Dean Harrison, Chris Summer, Darryl Ambele, like, I think they even got Jennifer Lewis? - No, I heard about Jada Pinkett. - Yeah, that's, I think Jada Pinkett is like the latest confirmed returning actor. - Oh, amazing. - But it was already confirmed that Charnaille Brown, Jennifer Lewis were going to be joining. I was apparently announced last night. And the other members, I think it was kind of announced at Tah. And then Jada posted a selfie in front of her trailer with Lena James on it. And I was like, "Okay." (laughing) - Okay, well, it's time. - They're collecting the girls. I was already going to watch it, no shade, because in the name of Kia, we're getting into the thing. I love a different world anyway. - Yeah. - The name of my goods is, we're going to be there. I should throw a fucking party. (laughing) - If she's interested in watching. - You should. - I'm so excited about this. The girl that they cast to play Whitley and Dwayne's, the daughter is so perfect. Like, she really looks like she could be. I think her name is, yeah, Malia Joy-Moon. I saw her on out.com. She uses she and they pronouns. I was like, "Work, League of Bigotega." But she really looks like she could be there off spring. And of course, the shot was about her. Her trying to like, get out of her parent's shadow at this school where they're like, iconic or whatever. - It's great to wear. - This is going to be, I'm very excited for this. I'm sorry, I am looking forward to this one. - I'm looking forward to it too. I'm gonna give it a shot, especially because so many people from the original are involved. - I'm really interested to see how they're going to depict Hillman today. - Right. - And the differences between them and the 90s, yeah. - And yeah, now that I've, I didn't even know anything about their kid. I mean, honestly, if you were like, if you're a guest, what is gonna be about? (laughing) - That's the best. - Right. - But now looking at this, I'm like, "Oh my gosh, everybody does like she could be Dwight Whitley's gig." Yeah. I saw her in the Alicia Keys musical in Hell's Kitchen. Hell's Kitchen? Yes. She was in Hell's Kitchen and great. So I am very. No, I know that. Yeah, she's like the. Wait, how do you know that? Okay, that shot was actually pretty good. I very much enjoyed myself at that production, but yes, this is great. The more original cast members who come back or do cameos or whatever, the better for me. So I'm excited. Woof, okay, I think that's the rest of the good stuff. Damn. We were really on a roll. We weren't sorry, anything. Oh, the end is kind of good. Okay. So Dwight Howard has said on Instagram that he's retiring. I'm very confused. When I read this at first, right? Okay. When I read this at first, with everything that's going on with him right now, I was like, might as well, girl. You might as well. Between you losing custody, your child for reported child abuse, which is not the first time that it's been reported behind you. And then you going back and forth with your new wife of like a year, and y'all both calling 911 on each other and accusing each other of all kinds of stuff. And then two days later, you like, I'm retiring from what? You haven't played in the NBA or overseas in three years. You absolutely nobody was looking to add you to their roster. Crystal, I'm not even going to read you this long as Instagram press release. Okay. But get a chance. Check it out. It is like, oh god. It is so delusional. It's almost like, it is, it is just so, like this person is in a simulation of sorts. It's so deluded. This thing is like, he going on tour. To do what? Every 12th of the month from now on will be D12 Day, where I visit CDs all over the world to do acts of kindness. What? What? And I need you to get into the fucking. I'm just going to read it. Oh god. Oh, I see it. I'm not. It's lengthy. It's lengthy. I don't want to read all of it. There's other stuff to go. It is delusional, girl. He said, I know some of you might think I thought I thought he already retired, but I didn't. The game retired me. That's a read. I didn't retire. Y'all said I was done right. So okay. That's that's rare for people to drag themselves like that. Oh, since I didn't get a chance to have a farewell tour, I decided to. Oh, that's what this is. A farewell tour. It's like breezy ball. Nick. Nick of a farewell tour is when a player is has announced that this is going to be their like like LeBron has probably been to do next year, where you announced it's going to be your last season so that you get all the accolades and everybody sucks your dick for the whole season and you get to feel so so special and loved. Like that is what you decided to go to a different city on the 12th day of every month and give out snacks to the homeless. What what are you talking about? Boy, how about you put the white girl down? Let me tell you to read this full thing. Put that powder down and just focus on the cinnamon girls. You know, focus on your mental health. Focus on whatever demons you've been battling for however long. Like you just need to worry about yourself. Don't worry about coming to our town and and doing nice things for us. You do something nice for you. Okay. You take care of you. We're actually so good. We do not know. No, what is this video? Oh my god. I don't know how I'm hit play. Oh, okay. I was about to say this AI, but no, he tagged the people who made it. So all right. Well, this is sad, but I don't get really pathetic. Truly. This is what happens. You know what I'll think of that again. Let niggas be gay. Oh my god. Speaking of 50 cents. He's next. That was a seamless transition. This is also what happens. This nigga has now released a new disc track. I guess directed towards the fellas on the podcast Let's Wrap About It, which is Jim Jones. Meno. And what's that young? Young nigga that everybody thinks gorgeous. Davist. Oh, yeah. I'm not. I'm not everybody. But here's the thing. So he has this disc track called what the fuck is he saying? It's no. No more no more tricks. No more tries. And it features max B. He posted first of all, it sucks. It is horrible. Like it is truly horrible. I was like. Is did he is this AI? Is it. Is it like, oh, I'm going to troll you by making a bet. I don't it is so bad. If 50 cents is a good rapper from what I can remember, I haven't heard him. Actually, the verse he did on pop smoke. Pop smokes record. The woo. Okay. I think it's him pop smoke and Riley rich. Love his verse on that. Other than that, I haven't heard anything interesting from 50 cents. I like two decades. So go to watch this disc record. It is actual AI video. Like the video, the music video for this is 1,000 percent. So I mean, maybe not so sure. Okay. But when I first click play on this, I was like, is this face tune? Why does 50 looks like he did back in a day? He looks so much younger. And then I realized, oh, max B is now surfing on the top of this car through Times Square. Oh my god. I don't know if to make me could stand up straight. Then it was just like fully AI, Jim Jones in the interrogation room at a police site. It was just full on fuckery. I'm like, okay, outside of you, you know, contributing to this heat wave in Los Angeles with this fucking video. It's bad in the song is bad. So you know, and here's the thing. We can't, it can't be both. No, we can't, it can't be both. Y'all could have just got a white background and two camera multi cam. Yeah. AI video for a bad song. Now here's the issue for me, right? You did a disc record the other day towards T.I. his kids. His kids cleared you. Oh, yeah. His children cleared you. We're laughing at that for a while. Now you have more this video sucks. The song sucks. Mayno, he and back immediately. What a record called bleed like us on the intro of the record. He says this nigga made us wait four months for this. Mayno. Clear Sam. Papuce is driving around in one of his expensive cars somewhere with a million chains on. This isn't even a record he recorded. And he's just playing a beat. Papuce is like, lyrically, if there's anything that you know about him as a musician, you know that he's a freak, lyrically. Girl. Broiled. Rotisserie. So now you have Papuce eating. Wow. Mayno has chewed. King Harris has chewed. It's don't make no more music. Give it up delicious. Deal is is and you know what you know what 50 cent did as a response to the Papuce is the live. Papuce this post Clarissa shields and it cues her of, you know, I guess being a hoe and cheating on him or something like that. Clarissa game online cleared his ass too. Why is it every single time that you have an issue with niggas, you then attack women in their circle? That's a really good question. Are you scared of niggas? At every one of these disc records has also mentioned the fact that you don't have the same smoke for men that you do for women, that you beat and all of these women have come forward and said that you have been physically violent with them, that you burned down your baby in my house. But and you responded at like being, "Oh, well, you'll bitch ugly and she'll ho gay." Like sometimes you have to just accept that it's fine. You know what I mean? This is why you got all this pressure with puffy. Oh, like, when are we going to get to the gay? There it is. Like he's one of those dl niggas and he words one of those. Some dl men are not this ridiculous, this misogynistic or violent toward. But he's one of those types of dl men that that are so conflicted with their sexuality, that they have all of this wild, inexplicable behavior. You always into it with niggas. Nobody really knows why though. And you are actually violent towards women frustrating for women. Not to say that straight man can't be the same way. Sure. You have them absolutely one shot. Sure they can. But when I look at the ingredients for this recipe, when we're doing the meal prep, gay. Okay. And I mean, I can't argue with it. I wouldn't be shocked. This is just very, for me, I keep coming back to the, how is it that women get dragged into shit that they don't have nothing to do with? Like you literally just did this with tiny and her children chewed you up. It's almost like you don't learn. In addition to being like a violent misogynist, you don't learn from your mistakes. So you stoop it on top of that. You really got to pick a struggle, nigga. And it's A.I. music, A.I. video, everything's trash. Like come on. Girl, girl baby, this is what I'm saying. Like you can do all of the trolling and shit that you normally do. And I think of the girls, you know, they live for it. At the same time, I think they're also getting tired of it. But the worst part is you have now entered an era of playing yourself. You're running out of power books. Yeah. And you now have been cleared by three people in the matter of like three weeks. One of them being like 18, 12. Yeah. Everything that you have put out in response to them has either been a horrible song or a diss to a woman. It's not impressed. Yeah. That's really it. I'm not impressed by this behavior, nigga. All right. No. That we won't be doing. Wow. What a wide open flat. Yeah. Garbage. I actually don't care about that. Well, Candy and Todd have apparently settled the divorce. Oh, good. They get into a deal on March 11th. And apparently they just have to submit their agreement documents this week, including child custody arrangement, support plans. I think that's more of a concern for Todd. Candy also went on a podcast where she said that it's been complicated and a bit messy. I don't think she said messy, but she basically was like, it's kind of sticky and complicated, divorcing where you have multiple businesses with the person you're getting a divorce from. Yeah. Of course it is. And she kind of ended it by saying, I want to get back into my creative space. And blotzy blot, but I definitely. I thought that before they got divorced with you. Like you want three restaurants in a movie studio and water partnership with this nigga. Right. That's too much. You know, go do that or you do something. But then I thought it feels a lot like a scheme. Please don't set up. Please do not. By Todd. Yeah. I know Mama Joyce is just rubbing her old nipple. I know that she is just gleeful. She's very pleased. A. Fuck that nigga. And B. Told you, I told you just shaking her cleavage. And nobody wanted to listen to me, but I said it. And I was right. I go, hey girl, we get it. You win. Are you happy? I don't take her as shopping. Because she's like, first of all, done if I play with my mama. Yeah. You're right. So here go us to Nelly. That ass. Nelly. Well, I was just probably said her like a screen shot from Mughalair. Like, all right. So I want this one. And I want this. And actually, let me send you a loop of sound link. Shopping. Yeah. Candy's got it. I mean, she does. And Mama Joyce wanted to make sure Candy could still have it. So that Candy could continue to distribute its heart. We couldn't let. That's right. We could not let Todd get in the way of it. And at this point, I agree. Oh, I love it. I just love it. This is, I'm good for that. Yeah. I'm glad they came to a resolution that is, you know, everybody's working in the best interest of the children here, hopefully. Like, that's really my primary concern. And so as long as we can all be adults about this, wonderful. Honestly, I've seen way messier. Oh, yeah. Especially public celebrity kind. This one has seemed pretty contained. Pretty. Kind of like little messy things here and there. But overall, it feels like they wrapped this up really quickly. Yeah. No, we're near as bad as it could be. Because Candy had her attorneys like, girl, he's got a four attorneys. And so, yes, she not pay it for his attorneys. And so, yeah, probably won't remember when he tried to say that he was co-erced or forced or whatever. It's a sound. Yes. Yes. I'm just thinking about it because like, nigga, you thought you get a little beat right over that chair. It's funny because Candy, you know, like I appreciate a woman who, you know, you might be a little hard I emoji about a nigga, you know, you might, I love when people can just lean into like the joy and whimsy and getting swept up in love and all this. But at the same fucking time, you don't play about your businesses, your money, your career, the things you have worked so hard for. And you see one trillion other horror stories from rich women who married niggas who don't have nothing and walked away with nothing at the end of that. And you said, it's not going to be me. So I just don't know what time was thinking. I don't know, you had to know Candy was not going to be the bitch as much as Mama Joyce talked about Todd wanting Candy's money from day one, she was like, this nigga's a PA. What are you talking about? From day one, you had to know that all of the things we're going to be in order. I'm sure she has. Probably Riley's daddy. Made her happy. Yeah. Yeah. When you have enough money, you don't really need somebody rich because you already rich. You just need somebody to treat you right that you enjoy being around and can dig you down good. And as long as Todd can do, you know, y'all having your threesomes or whatever, y'all, they really legitimately seem happy for quite a while. So it hardly really were a bitch. But shit changes. Marriage is hard. People grow apart. Things happen. That's fine. But we just, again, the important thing is that we all act like adults, even when things aren't going well because we have children, and it is important that we do ride by the children. So. Yeah. And I think you hit the nail on the head for me anyway and like a repeated thought of mine which is girlies, be all in love, but not in lean, but lean, you have your things. Yeah. You have the things you have your sword, what do I open the show with that your kisses might be sweeter than honey, but you know what I guess what? My money. Mine. So all I need is your respect, a razor chick, listen, what a show, a song, a gospel truth. But yeah, you know, Miss Candy is over here, sitting down at Denzel Washington play and being like, oh, you have a check. So. Todd was not going to be in the way. I on the prize in the kitties. And you know what? I feel like Riley and her sister are still going to be locked in. Yeah, probably so. The children in their smiles. Probably so. And those are the kids they have. Blaze and. Ronnie. Oh, shoot. What's the? Ronnie? No. I feel like it's an a. Oh, yes. Um, Ro. Can't. No, the boy. I mean, it's ace. Ace. Ace and blaze. Yes. Ace and blaze. I was like, it starts with a yeah. There you go. Um. All right. Last story. The good one. Paramount has bought out B2 plus and we'll be folding it into Paramount plus. They specifically bought out Tyler Perry's stake plus I see. So that a streaming platform will be shutting down. I think they said when June, yes. And their programming will then appear on Paramount plus moving forward. The president of BT Network. Told I think Hollywood quarter. And the move will ensure the stories we champion. The creators we support culture we represent go further than ever before. Um. Yeah, it says that a thousand, a thousand hours of BT plus programming will join Paramount plus including all the Queen's men to Tima, the Miss Pat Show, which I love. You are a f*****. from Detroit, which is also pretty excellent. So this is really not a bad thing. Unless you're really dialed into the letters BET. And I guess the intent behind that, which hasn't really been valid for some time now. But you won't lose your shows. - Yeah. - That's all I was, honestly, only worried about the Miss Pet show. I'm not gonna lie. - Yeah. - Because you know, they don't tend to cancel shows that rack up, you know, Emmy nominations or whatever. But still, when I heard this news, I was like, and what y'all see? Because, because that's how it's like, let me not get too sure of myself. But the Miss Pet show is genuinely hilarious. And so I wanted to make sure that they didn't get rid of that. Like, make sure y'all don't, y'all can cancel all the Kingsman or whatever the fuck else, whatever Tyler Perry is doing over there. I don't give a shit. But don't touch the Miss Pet show. - I'll never watch that. - For God bless. There's just never gonna be a time. - I don't blame you. - It can't possibly be good. - So yeah, I mean, that's pretty much it. BET Plus ain't got nothing to do with Tyler Perry no more. And in June, you can find your shows on the Power Met Plus. Love this for the girlies. Not really sure, you know, about Baby Shark Ellison. But big picture right now, keeping my heart and eye on the prize. - Yeah. - Yay. - Tyler Perry not having stegging any goddamn thing, it's gonna make me feel bad about that. That's it for the spider tops this week. We're gonna take a very valid and fair break and then we're gonna come back and read your letters. - Hey, we're back. - It's time to read your letters. - Yes, it is. Send your questions to [email protected]. We may read them a lot on the show. Our first letter this week comes from Elena who says, "Hey y'all, I heard you talking about the Nintendo Switch last week and I had a question. My husband bought a second-hand Nintendo Switch which only had two games, a kid's racing game and Fortnite. We're pretty cautious with money. And the only other game we've bought so far was Bluey for our daughter, which pretty good. Pretty good. - It's a key game. - She uses it sometimes and my husband has been using it on the nights I put her to bed. So I want to buy him another game. However, I tried to google it and I don't even know the terminology. A group in a house that did not let me watch TV so I'd definitely never learned about video games. I think he would like a strategy-based game. I hate the gun sounds and Fortnite and would love to see him playing a game without violence. Do y'all have any suggestions? He grew up playing Mario and used to play Clash of Clans. I've never heard of that one since. - I think that's a mobile file. - Okay. - I mean, that's a mobile game. I think. - Okay. That's all I know about video games. Thanks, Elena. - Oh, thanks, Elena. I love video game questions. - Hey. - So you want like a suggestion for a switch game for your hobby. - Well, I think we will both, especially without violence and gun sounds. I think we will both put the legend of Zelda Breath of Wild. - Ooh. - Tears of the Kingdom on. - Yes. - Breath of the Wild first. - Especially Breath of the Wild, especially. - Especially before Tears of the Kingdom. - Yeah, you're really gonna need that content. - You are. But I think it's just a really great game. It will be fun for him to play. It will be fun for you to watch, probably. It's really cute. I think even your, your, just a daughter. - Yeah. - I think even your daughter will get a blast out of watching it. It's really big. It's really expensive. - Beautiful. Oh, God. - It's gorgeous. It's a game that also won't end super quick. So, it's something that you could risk. - That is fitting in mildly. You will be playing that for years. - But that's the good thing. You don't have to be like, oh, well, what now? - Right. - You know what I mean? So I would definitely suggest the Legend of Zelda games. Pokemon, Pocopia, again, is pretty fantastic. And Spirms of Mario. - Oh my goodness. - Their Super Mario Brothers Wonder, which I think is getting a Nintendo Switch update at the end of the month. That is just old school Mario, but more modern with new bells and whistles in it. If you've ever played Mario, you will probably get a kick out of that game. Mario Kart, Mario Kart World. I mean, and what's the other big Mario game? - I was gonna recommend some Mario games too, because I played those. I loved Paper Mario. - Oh, fantastic. - So fun. Super Mario Odyssey is another good one. - Excellent. He's already, since he's already familiar with Mario, those games might be really fun. Again, Mario Kart. And. - Super Mario RPG is good. And, oh, Super Mario Galaxy. If he's never played that, Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2 are on Switch as well. Only because if Baby Girl wants to go to see the Super Mario Galaxy movie this summer. - Yes, and your kid can also play those Mario games. Your kid can probably get a real kick out of Paper Mario. Me and my nephew play that together. And we just loved it. So there's actually lots of options. - If she loves the girly things, like her uncle Fury. Princess Peach Showtime. - Ooh. I have some-- - So I've not played that. - I've not played that game. - Kart. Kart. Peach going on her own adventures, trying to save like, a theater or something. Everything is like live shows. And all the worlds are like, "Oh, this is this play about a mermaid that's a singer." And then she can like transform into a mermaid, save the mermaid. - Oh, okay. - And she can transform into like a chef, karate master. There's one where she's like Samus. She's like a super like a space person. There's one where she's like a detective. It's really cute. Hobby will probably like it 'cause it's Mario Jason. Daughter will probably like it 'cause it's cute. And it has a girl protagonist. I mean, I loved it. - Yeah. - But yeah, I think that's a bunch of good suggestions. - Yes, there's also a Luigi's Mansion since we're staying in the M&M Mario World. Luigi's Mansion is great. - It's so good. - Stardew Valley is another very popular one. They even have Oregon Trail on Nintendo Switch. - I did not know that. - Yeah. And Zelda, the links Awakening. That's also a very fun one. - Fantastic. - So you, there's really a lot of, we've given you a lot here. I know you say, "Y'all don't, oh, an overcooked." (laughing) Overcooked is so fun and overcooked and the three of y'all can play. So because-- - The three of you need to play-- (laughing) - You cannot play overcooked by yourself. - I mean, you can, but it's nowhere nearest fun. - You want to lose it? - It's nowhere nearest fun. Overcooked up to four people can play. So y'all can, I think we've given you more than enough options here. Sort of sort through, see what sounds right for you guys, but I'm just waiting for one of y'all to get mad enough at your kid and/or husband to sell me your Switch 2. We got so many emails from people being like, "Rizl, you need it." I'm like, "I'm waiting on y'all to get mad at your man and say, oh, I want a Switch 2, $150." - I'm just saying, when you do get one-- - I'm excited. Okay. - I just built my second Pokemon Center. I built a house from scratch for some other Pokemon to live in. I mean, just the flooring, the wall you build, you design the roof, and then you decorate it, maybe a table here, but you bed there. Oh, I can now, I have a recipe for a nicer bed. I'm gonna put a hammock outside, and I'm gonna let Charizard live here with Charmander and Charmulean. I also have a house now, over by the ocean. - Okay. - We're on. - All right. - It's, first of all, two stories. - So excited. - That into the material. And I live there with my girl Squirtle, War Turtle, and Blastoise. This game is T-Bitch. - Squirtle. (laughs) - But take your time to write. - Oh, that-- (laughs) - I love my little-- - That's so funny, but. - Good luck with picking out a new game for-- - It's correct. - For you and your man. All right, our next letter comes from Lisa, who says, "Dear Crystal and Kifuri, I am at my wit's end. I'm an introverted, possibly neurodivergent, 34-year-old black woman, currently in survival mode. I have two jobs with a third on the way and can barely make ends meet. I make about $1,400 a month, living in Los Angeles. - Woof. - Woof, baby. One of the most expensive cities in the country, but anyway. - It does not make sense. - Oh my God. - With two jobs? Anyway, I got laid off from a remote job in 2024. And since then, I've been working in property management and retail. When I left Victoria Secret in 2013, I swore I would never go back to retail again, but here I am. My daily life consists of residents and maintenance, blowing my phone up and having to put a fake smile for entitled rich white people in pretendin', like I give a damn about their day, while my 26-year-old manager urges me to be more personable to increase sales. Woof, after a long day of masking, I come home to pick up someone's trash on the ground or a resident knocking on my door to complain about their damn neighbor. - Oh my God. All while having my own chores, classes, job hunting, and trying to remain a bad bitch, I'm tired and my cup is empty. Sometimes my friends or my mama will call me and I'll just watch the phone ring because I just cannot do it. I'm so lucky that I have people who want to spend time with me, but all my days off, I just wanna sit in my apartment with my dog in silence. I know I have a lot to be grateful for, but it is so hard to feel that way right now. My questions are, how do I show up for my loved ones when I feel like I have nothing to give? And how can I change my mindset from lack to gratitude? With love and admiration, Lisa. - Ooh, Lisa, my heart goes out to you, girl. That is a very, that's a overflowing cut of a lot. Yeah, I think you should start this one off because-- - Okay, well-- - I mean, my word. - I wanna say first of all, I fully understand because when I have a day off, I also wanna sit in my apartment with my dog in silence. So I don't see anything nothing wrong with that and the fact that you're so overwhelmed and you don't really have a lot to give, makes complete sense given how much you're working and you about to add another job to it like, yes, it makes so much sense that you're tired and burnt out and you just don't have it for people. So you've got two questions here. First, about showing up for loved ones when you are not really feeling it and secondly, changing your mindset. I think as far as changing your mindset goes, it is first important to acknowledge how hard things are for you. Like, not to try to downplay it even within yourself, not to try to be like, oh, well, you know, I need to be grateful because at least I have a roof over my head and this and this. Like, yes, those things are like, yes, you know, yes, we'll get to the gratitude journal. But a lot of times black people, especially black women, preach. Don't wanna take the time to say out loud, bitch, I'm fucking struggling and shit is hard. Harder than it ever has been. The cost of every fucking thing has gone up. These fucking crackers voted for Donald Trump because they thought eggs was gonna go down. And now here we are in a war with fucking Iran. You can't get a basic economy plane ticket for less than $500 to travel within this fuck ass country. Like, everything is high as shit. You're worn out, burnt out, you're beyond burnt out. A couple of days off don't fix burnout. You are worn out and it's okay to be real about that to yourself. Like, the fact that you still show up to all these jobs and then you ain't cussed out none of these rich, entitled white people and then you come home and take care of a dog too. Like, patch yourself on the back girl. Yes, like first and foremost, give yourself a lot of props for still kicking it and doing so much and surviving under this, you know, late stage capitalism hellscape that with this giant toddler in the White House who is going to kill us all, you know, so that he can make another billion dollars or whatever. So, but, you know, sometimes this is so hard when you're just fucking exhausted and you feel like you don't have it for nobody else. You live in California, you live in LA. Yeah, yeah, you do because-- - I mean, you still have to have to get up. - Yeah, yeah, I don't normally like to recommend drugs but a little edible can change my mood. It really can. I can go from God, I'm just really not feeling it to once the edible kick in. You know, let me start texting some niggas back. So, maybe like I like to save that for the end of the day. Now, I'm not high all day every day like I used to be but a little edible can help with that. But also, you know, when you do have the strength or the energy to reach out, just sending a text saying, "Hey, you know, things have been kind of hard for me. I would love to reach out and catch up sometimes." That sort of thing when you have that sort of energy or space, but something my therapist said to me recently that has really resonated and stuck with me. Even though it's probably the 90th time she said it and I'm sure she would be like of all the times I've said it. Now is when you decide it to-- - You need something, it's a cocky and right. But she said, you don't have to feel like it to do it anyway. And-- - Well, so, so sometimes you see that phone ring at the end of a long day and you like I just don't have, like I cannot sit here and talk to you about real housewives of Atlanta and, you know, whatever, like I just don't have it. But you answer the phone anyway. And you say, "Hey, girl." And they say, "Hey, how you doing?" I know, blah, blah, blah. And you can say, you know, honestly, I'm feeling so worn out. I had the shittiest day. Can I just rant to you right quick? Because these fucking white people, and then I went to work and these assholes, somebody put the shorts in the T-search seconds again and I'm so fucking sick of people acting like they don't know how to goddamn act like it's everybody's first day on earth. Like sometimes you just need the space to rant and yell about how much of a shitty day you had to somebody other than your dog and your mama or your friends would be like, damn. Like I honestly did not even know you were struggling like that. So it's a tough situation to be in because sometimes exactly what you need is the thing you don't feel like doing. And that is so off in the case for like issues of being exhausted. What you need is to have your cup replenished by people who care about you as a human being and not for what you can do for the sake of capitalism. But the last thing you want to do because capitalism has drained the fuck out of you is then give more energy to other people. So sometimes it is a matter of just answering the phone anyway and you know, or you can listen to other people. Yeah, I mean, sometimes it really is like that. Or you know, you a friend calls and you think you're about to sit here and vent about whatever. But then she actually wants to vent about her fucking man because why is this nigga so stupid? And I told him a million fucking times make sure you latch the gate behind you. But he didn't and then the fucking dog got out and this nigga left the freezer open. So all to me, the sport, like, and things like that can also make you feel better because y'all are commiserate. Well, I mean, I know a lot of straight women. And so it's usually something like that where it's like, we have been planning a vacation with these kids for nine months. I told this nigga, all you need to do is make sure everybody's passports are in the back. Like, you just take care of the passports. I will handle everything else. We get halfway to the airport. Where the goddamn passports? You know, so anyway, just saying all this to say that sometimes that commiseration between two people that also will help to strengthen you, build up your relationship, make you feel better because you're not the only one. And when you are just day in and day out being worn out, you can start to feel isolated. Like you said, all I want to do is sit with my dog and fucking silence. But sometimes we do actually need other people. And it sounds like since you're not going to get a break as far as work is concerned, I mean, I pray you do. I pray the perfect job opportunity just lands in your lap. But until then, you're going to have to look for other ways to feel replenished because Donald Trump don't deserve to take the joy out of your life. He just don't. Truly don't. Truly don't. Garfield Muff has absolutely no business. I agree with everything that was just stated. I think you definitely have to give yourself a grace for your setting right now. And how and be proud of how you have been able to navigate this without exploding the way that I would, the way that I would, I would turn into a Varuka salt, where I would just blow up and then burst. Hey, do that and reach out. Fortunately, I know you want to know you do. I mean, well, after I popped, it doesn't matter. Got you. OK, just roll me out or whatever. But anyways, I agree also about like venting on the phone what people were calling you because for some people, it can be, some people could be like dismissive of it. I think many of times those people are just uncomfortable with that kind of conversation because they're not used to. Or because they don't like to have tough conversations because it makes them feel emotions. They don't want to. Sometimes people, which is what I call you. And be like, Oh, girl, you watch Reggie Dickens this week. And you have to be like, Oh, absolutely. Real quick. Do you mind? I got to get this out. I'm going to lose my mind. I need to let it out. Can you just I need to I need to explode about these horrible people in my life and in the world. But I totally agree. And I also agree is someone who loves to just sit back and listen to the, the theme music or like the background music of the PlayStation 5 menu with my dog in my lap in my eyes. I get that and I also agree that you do have to find time and ways to connect with people in your life. Girl, I have to plan it. I have to prioritize and be like, "Oh yeah, you have to be around people because it's healthy." Yeah, because it's good for you, it really is. Humans are social creatures. Answer the phone. Yeah, you should. Have a conversation. I can't. Hey, hi, girl. How are you? If it's not natural for you or if it's not like you're instinct or whatever, you just gotta prioritize it and figure a way out. But I totally agree with what Crystal said in the sense of, don't do it and hold something in. Don't be on the phone on FaceTime, homey over or whatever and you're just right on the surface, right bubbling up in your chest, all of this stuff that you want to get out but you hold it in to yourself because you don't know how that person can react or you don't want to wrestle. Ruffle feathers, the entire thing that was just said about black people, specifically black women, not wanting to rock the boat at home and all these things. There is anybody who just serves to flip the boat over. Yeah. Like, are you kidding? Absolutely. 100%. Sure do. So I'm capsizing this beach. We're all swimming. Yeah. And I mean, this is friendships and family things like that. They're supposed to be reciprocal. Everybody is not always having a great day. Sometimes you just need to vent. I can't tell you how many times I have been that person for other people and other people have been that for me, like, or maybe your mama is the person you feel safe is with to be like, mama, if one more bitch asked me how much are the five for 25 panties, I'm going to lose my fucking mind. It's in the name. Bitch. It's five or twenty five. They're five for twenty five. You dumb dumb person. Like, you, whoever you can let all of that frustration out, they might laugh. They might, you know, commiserate, oh, girl, yes, when I worked in retail, same thing happened, you know, things like that. But you, you feel better when you let it out. And I just want to reiterate the message of times are hard for most people, but and that's putting it mildly. What is really putting it mildly gas went up like $2 since this war started. But anyway, anyway, times are hard. However, it is so important that those of us who are still human, so we're excluding those assholes in the White House, um, right, right, literally, obviously demons sent straight from hell to ruin our lives and destroy the planet, um, the rest of us have to find the love, the joy, the happiness, the creativity, those moments of, of things that really matter outside of capitalism. And I know, I know I, I say it a lot, but we're not put here to make the shareholders as much money as possible. We're not put here so that Jeff Bezos can buy his 38th yacht or whatever, him in that funny looking woman. He married can go stand on red carpets and shit. Word, that's not the purpose. Connection with other people is what really matters. So. Hard defense. They both. Anyway. So take your time. You know, there are going to be times where you just can't do it and that's fine. But when you do have that energy, when you do get the chance to rest up and then the next day you have a day off, you like, you know, well, let me calm my mama. Let me see. Do my home girl want to go, you know, walk around and just talk and catch up. You know, you don't have to be even things that cost money. But. Yeah. You know, there's an effort to have those kinds of connections in your life because they are what really will sustain us moving forward. So. And have a solo ritual too, meaning like when I lived in Miami, I when I was like really stressed out, I would go to the beach by myself. I would sit in the sand or just like waiting the water and I would meditate. I would close my eyes. I would pray. It almost made me feel better. Um, you might not be next to close to a beach, maybe you can go to the park. Maybe you can go to somewhere else where the sun is touching you prayerfully and you getting you some fresh air and you just have some time outside of being at home and silence with your pet. Yeah. To just soak in that good old vitamin D and stuff like that. I would absolutely, even if it's just a couple times a month. Treat yourself. Yes. And also connections with people. Yes. Best of luck. Lisa. Um, really just, I'm sorry to hear this, but yeah, the same way we tell people to, to journal about gratitude. You can also journal about all the things that are shit. You can let that out too. Good luck, babe. Our last letter comes from Peach who says, I recently traveled with my girlfriend of nine months to her family home. She's been working and traveling for the past year and she wanted to retrieve her dog and for me to finally meet her family. As soon as we walked in the door, her golden doodle ran up and they shared a kiss in a mouth. I was just are so cute. I was disgusted, but, but tried to hold my composure since it was my first time meeting most of her family. No one else seemed like this behavior was out of the norm. In fact, her mother and younger brother were also overly affectionate with the dog. She proceeded to like making out with them. What is she proceeded to kiss her dog throughout dinner, and I cringed hearing the tongue action. Why? Ew. When we went to bed, she wanted to be intimate. Girl. Okay. What is your solid? What happened? One of bathing or teeth brushing could get me to participate in such activities. It didn't help that her dog was also in the room with us licking his balls. Yeah. That never helps. It's a grossing. Let me be in there. Anyway, we'll get there. I don't know. What's happening? It's horrible. It's disgusting. It's so horrible. The next morning, I tried to explain to her how uncomfortable I was, but she had every excuse saying that her dog is used to this behavior. The dog initiates it, the dog is clean, and that it would be cruel to minimize the affection now that he's older. I would break up. We agreed. It's so hot. We agreed not to argue about it on the trip, but not much has changed since we got home. I liked the dog. I just want them to have boundaries. This is hilarious. I've gotten her to compromise on not kissing the dog before she kisses me or while he's in the bed. Oh, wow. What? What? What? Listen. Listen. If you want to make out with buttons, I'm sorry, but it won't be before me. But she still feels like she's being controlled and I'm still uncomfortable. I know you both are dog people and I do like having the dog around, but is it unfair what I'm asking? I don't want to break up over this. But I'm not sure I can get used to it either. And before you ask, yes, she is. Please help Peach. Of course she is. I knew it. Of course she is. She tongue kissin' the dog. The family tongue kissin' a dog. Girl, you can't even have to say it, we know. Is Laney a golden doodle? Laney is a cavapoo. Oh, yes, he says he told me that. Yes. Okay, you said that you know we're both a dogpan. Yeah. Let me tell you something. Not once. What? Never. Never. I mean, we're black dogpan. So that is probably something to do with it. My dog often. My dog know not to be in a kitchen. I think maybe a couple of days ago, I was heatin' up her human grade food. And I turned around, and that dog was, you know, I warm it up. And so she, I turned her. You heated up on the stove? No. You put it in the microwave. I don't think you saw the microwave that food. Really? Pretty sure the package says, "don't do that microwave." Maybe it's a different brand. I don't know which brand you use. Read the label. I will read them again. It's frozen. Oh. Well, you supposed to thaw it. And-- Yeah, no, I thaw it first. Oh. But-- Then you warm it up for a treat. [laughs] Cool. I just add a little-- I'm going to check the package. I add a little hot water and mix it in, and that will warm it up. Oh, that makes more sense. Hi. But I don't-- I put it-- she has also a-- this is too inside of it as well. It is. Okay. Anyway. I will definitely be checking the package now, because-- I do. I spit. I get it. I spoil the hell out of Laney. In a lot of ways. I really do. But-- No, I'll bake it. I should be in there for like 20 seconds. I-- I-- I-- I-- I-- I'm not judging. Just-- I was just confused, because-- Well, now I'm concerned for my dog. Oh, no, I'm sure she's fine. I'm sure she's fine, but-- Well, she is because the bitch I turn around and the bitch was at my ankle. If you can't hear me, I'll say, all I did is look for her egg. I said, um. And she went right back up with a little boat. Yeah. Yesterday, she came into the house. I went downstairs and get her for my after-day care. And she came into the house. I took her a little harness and stuff off. And she just was up looking at me. And I said, y'all go long. And she just knew to turn around and went. She was just fine. Anyway, what did she say, your name was? Peach. Peach. No, like this is such a hard no for me. Link will not lick my mouth. What she does do, a lot is when I'm giving her good scratches, she will look my end. Oh, yes. Laney will go. That's it. That's it. That's the spot. Yeah. But Link won't get real close to my face. And just sniff. What did you eat? With some greens. [LAUGHTER] That's all I got. So maybe some ham hocks or something. But she doesn't. She won't lick my face or get super close to it. But sometimes she doesn't get super close to it. Yeah. She knows not to lick my mouth. And I'm certainly not kissing her in the demo. Right. Right. Laney is also a licker. She'll lick any-- Put your toes up. She is a licker. And part of the problem is that then white people at daycare love making out with dogs. And so she's used to that. So I shouldn't do that. I'm working very hard to train her out of that. She'll try it. But also, if you say no, she'll stop. So stop. But more importantly, I don't make out with my dog. I can't imagine wanting my mouth and her mouth to touch. Like, I don't get it. I really don't understand it. Remember the white myth of like, oh, their mouths are cleaner than that. Yeah, who said that? Oh, or he should. She literally would-- she'll sniff shit if you let her. And she loves putting her tongue in her own ass and all up through her vagina. She loves eating her own genus. I love a vagina that was just dragged across sand and dirt outside. No way. And I clean Laney religiously. There's no way. There is-- And in terms-- No way. Cleanliness aside. I don't need to kiss my damn dog in a mouth. I just-- You know, I think I'm too much of a vergo for that. I really don't even want to kiss people in the mouth. I need you to list the rain first. And I know that about it. I really like watching people kissing on the roof. I hate watching people kissing on the roof. I think that is so fair. I think about the billions of germs all are passing to one another. And I feel disgusted. So I-- I love kissing. I don't think-- I mean, once I know, once I trust your mouth, then sure. But you're-- Steep hill to climb. I think this is part of dating white people. And so if you don't want to break up over it, I think you're just going to have to get used to it. You're going to have to ask her to switch with list the rain before she kisses you. Maybe that's y'all's compromise. Use a washcloth. But I don't-- yeah, I don't think it's unfair. For her to say that you're controlling her by being like, I'm going to need you to not kiss the dog right before you kiss me is so funny. That is so stupid. She would not last one minute in my black American household but, yeah, since you don't want to break up, you're going to have to find a solution that really works for the both of you. However, like if you already said, I would break up behind this. This is-- 1,000%. Y'all been together nine months, yeah. And you haven't-- that's the thing. She's been working and traveling a lot. So she hasn't been with the dog. This is your first time seeing how she acts with the dog. And so maybe this is really throwing you off. But I think-- And she liked the damn dog. Yeah. Because she's like, why do you have to kiss me kiss? I have found that black people do like dogs. Black people-- I've not found a bunch of black people who are like, get that damn dog away from me. But-- I know a few-- It's more afraid of dogs. Yeah. But the dog's tongue being in her mouth, I-- Why? Yeah. Why? And then you say, like, it is wild for someone to comment on you doing this really wild unnecessary thing. For you to say, you're trying to control me. I'm telling you what time to come home. I'm telling you like, oh, this is only a gluten-free household. I'm saying, can you not lick that dog in the mouth and then try to lick my clip? Right. I won't let-- Oh, my God. Imagine and then your shit start itching because it's got dog germs all over it. Oh, no. But I was trying to control you. Oh, no. Now I'm trying to control my pH balance and all this. This is fucking ridiculous. I would 1,000% leave. Yeah. That's one of those things that sounds like it starts as maybe like an orange flag and then snowballs into some-- Right. We are definitely not compatible. Because the dog is not going back to live with her family. The dog is going to live with y'all now. So she went to get her dog back. So yeah, I would say call me after your dog meets his very tragic end of his life. And maybe we can-- What the fuck? We can date again after your dog has died. I was just-- But there's not-- No, I kiss Lanyl. Let's talk about it again. Can I imagine if someone say that to you? I mean, I would be like, we're-- I mean, so that's a bit-- So I kissed Lanyl on the top of her head at Christmas, and my nephew was like, any what is wrong with you? Yuck. And I was like, now I could kiss the top of her head, Cameron. It's not-- I do that to Lanyl, right? Like, and again, I wipe Lanyl down regularly. I comb her brush her on this. I'm not-- I almost said she cleaned it and you are a little boy. But-- Well-- Well, with that jungle juice staying all of your mouth-- Right. You know, stuff like that, I'm not really tripping off of, but the exchange of saliva with a beast. I'm not-- Not don't do it. I would have to break up, yeah, unfortunately. I'm sorry to hear this, but yeah, the-- the sound she makes when she's licking her own shit is just like, I'm trying to go to sleep. And this is your-- I guess this is your nighttime routine. Mind you, I've already brushed your teeth. I genuinely ask her to stop, or I just leave it. And the thing is going to follow me and keep doing it. It's so gross. And I'm like, I feel bad for asking you or demanding, rather, that you stop doing that in my ear. Right. Because I understand that you're doing your thing. You're trying to be clean. Right. Like, I want you. But it is like horrible, yes. And I clean Laney's teeth with like pet antibacterial dental wipes. Like, I go to links to make sure this dog is as clean as she can. And it's just-- That's for the dog. Right. That's what you can kiss it. Right. That's so that when she decides to go licking on her other parts, things aren't getting even more disgusting than that already is. And I'd be like, I don't want to shame you. You know, like, this is your-- this is what you naturally do. Like, when I catch her hump and stuff, she's got this stuff dog that she humps up. Or the daycare will be like, Laney was a little humber today. And I'm like, damn, my-- I'm sorry, but I don't want to shame her for her sexuality or anything. You are who you are. Yeah, you know she's a dog. But this is too much that I would have to leave. This white woman. Many times when Link is doing it, it is towards the end of the day. And maybe I'm playing, or I don't know, Resident Evil or some shit. And I have like the wireless PlayStation. And so I'm like, well, you know what? This is for my immersion anyway, because I don't want to harass her. And if I want to use her-- Right. Right. Exactly. So-- But yeah, I would absolutely leave this white lady in the dust. Because you're not going to do this gross ass thing and then try and share that grossness with me. And then argue me down about it when I say no thanks. You put your damn health at risk. You swallow back to your bitch. Don't get mad at me because I don't want to do it, too. The world is dirty enough. Why do we need to add Frenching our dogs to it, bro? No, thank you. So good luck, babe. I don't know how you don't get over this. I don't think I could. I heard it be like, and now you controlling me because I don't want to share spit with your dog for real. That's controlling. I don't even want to watch you do it. OK. Yeah, no, I get disgusted watching you do it, bro. But yeah, good luck, Peach. That is going to wrap up the listener letters this week. Again, if you have a question for us, send us an email, [email protected]. We'll be right back. We are back. Folks and this finally time for the read I guess I'll start because I already mentioned what I'm gonna talk about. Oh, Lord. Yes. I Said this one bread's already. I'm not satisfied. I won't just be grateful. I'm gonna fuck which I'll talk about Congratulations to again the folks involved with sinners who got their just Deserved awards Let's talk about Del Rey Lindo not getting the award that he deserved What the fuck is wrong with you bitches? Are you okay? The thing that pisses me off the most about this besides the fact that he absolutely deserve this and y'all should know it because you Apparently saw the movie enough to vote for all of these things to me um I'm plucked because I'm sure I mentioned this when we were talking about sinners around. It's really staying He has many moments in the film that touched me But the one specifically where he is in the car with them And he's driving something. Oh, yes Woo and to know that Del Roy as an actor himself with like inserted a lot of his own Instincts and his own sort of His own personal like direction and thoughts into it and to know that that was a part of the film that's really touching me and outside of all of his You know the rest of his amazing performance. You know how you mentioned all the time you forget these in it. Yeah I'm really really really disappointed that he did not get that Academy Award especially Because the person who did get it makes no sense to me Sean Penn excellent actor Sean Penn and one battle after another nothing Absolutely nothing. I have seen one battle after another now a couple of times. I've already mentioned how I feel about the movie I love everybody black. I love everybody black in it who who has been acknowledged I'm it has a lot of the movement of a great cinematic picture As a black person watching it that isn't married to a white person don't have mixed kids a lot of it most of it was like all right Sean Penn's character Was either not written to have much of an emotional range or was not directed to or Sean Penn just didn't want to he has There's some nuance to the character being like essentially the lead of ice or like a high-ranking. I remember I said it but also is sexually Attracted to fetishize. Oh, okay. Okay. All while also trying to Join some sort of white supremacist Secret society or something like an illuminati for sure Obviously there, there's a lot to do either Sean Penn was like I want to which Could make sense seeing is how he didn't even fucking go so didn't Or no one required for him to do much of anything. He is like this the whole two hours of however long that God do movies I don't even know if Sean and Rose is eyebrows in the film. Wow So outside of just like and Sean Penn. This is a third Oscar He didn't even give a fuck to go What the fuck is what like I don't understand and I would have actually been a little less ticked off if it had been a Few other people in the category That movie as far as I'm concerned is overhyped is not bad It is not bad. I wouldn't have given it best picture And I absolutely would not give in I Would not have given best support a actor to someone who was boring as all get out It doesn't make any sense to me And like I said, yes, I am excited and happy for the wins that took place It doesn't mean I have to ignore the ones that didn't It doesn't make doesn't It pisses me off so bad bro because he deserved it He deserved it and it was another thing I read because obviously I watch it, but It was something I read I saw Reports posts that people were trying to angel about him like why don't you look excited and do a backflip and peel Oh, sure when you lost Cuz I out acted that nigger and everybody knows it and y'all played in my face. I'm I'm certain he Watched these other movies right or at least that one right cuz every no one will shut the fuck up about right Maybe I don't seem super excited because I should be winning because I deserve it over him. I deserve it way further than him And furthermore why should I be clapping and jumping down for who he here to like the presenter? He's not even here to accept the award He just at home somewhere or whatever like be for real I'm so annoyed like I'm so annoyed. I'd actually be pissed off at costume design too But I haven't watched that Frankenstein movie. I've seen many photos and stuff from it those costumes look cool So whatever I don't have the full knowledge. I'm not gonna look at that. Yeah, but What I have seen is one battle after another twice what I have seen is sinners probably eight times There's not a day. There is not a day There's my day Benicio del Toro Damn, and he wasn't even like oh my goodness look at this range. Look at this acting. But Sean Penny do a fuck thing So to know that y'all gave this award to him likely just because he's Sean Penn Over the other people in the category who actually did better than him It wasn't even like you were pity awarding him like you did with Leonardo caprio and the Revenant great movie He should have won about five awards pride. You just knew there was a meme at that point of like Why doesn't Leonardo caprio have an Oscar? So you gave it to him. You did it with Jamie Lee Kermis? Oh my god Hollywood royalty. Oh, we all love Jamie Lee Curtis Across the race and culture and ethnicity and nationality isn't she so great? Let's give it to her Angela Bassett looking there like well That doesn't make any sense So I pin heads three now Now suck my balls your bitches are outside wild for it And then you pushing Tiana Taylor for having an herb to go and collect some of her homies from this film That just one and trying to get them on stage because they can't get on stage security book all y'all bitches Each and everyone all y'all and I won't I'm not going to lean into I mean Maybe I've said this before but I'm I'm absolutely over this idea of You know being grateful for being in the space or oh Don't let an Oscar You know determine how you feel about your work or about it. No, no No No This is the ceremony for bad bitches doing acting things. I'm a bad bitch doing acting things and I'm better than all of them Give me this award period. I don't give a fuck if if it's it could be Another beneath you it could be bad bunny giving his fucking Grammy away to the It could be Jay Z pouring Sir Davis into a Grammy and drinking it. It's my It is mine Because I be all you bitches Cowboy Carter took that to get his bitch out of the year y'all played in Renaissance contemporaries in the audience I'm over it. I'm over feeling like We should either Ignore these things or get over these things or live with these it's essentially what the bath is In a man called them nigga, and it's just like well, I mean get over it. I mean what yeah Because I'll actually give them how the fuck a more grace than I will give the rest of you bitches grace But trying to tell anybody how to feel about it. Right at least he's ill Right at least he has a condition Right y'all just racist Yeah, just Down-deep in your spirit. I don't know how you watched that And I said I'm not gonna trip champagne. I don't really know a lot about but you know I know enough to know that that's you know like a bad bitch in the white world, so like I Wasn't trip and and this fucking right and I didn't watch the movie so I was like let me not trip too much, but I know Delroy Lindo put his whole foot in Delta Slim. So it just was really comfortable to me. Yeah. So I was waiting to hear somebody. Yeah. And as I mentioned, Delroy, I think is in his early 70s. So I think it's like 55 or 56. Really? Yeah. Wow. That huh. I would have thought they was the same age. Fuck y'all. Right. It's really would have no shade. Definitely would have thought y'all was the same age. No shade. Maybe they did too. Oh, we about to put Sean Penn in the ground so we can just fuck it. That's a word. But I don't even make sense. Like I said, because he already has two Academy words. Fuck y'all. I don't understand why we have to keep doing his bullshit. And then you try to police niggas feelings about your bullshit. You can have my testies. You can have both my breasts head and shaft bitch. Fuck y'all. And while I'm here, Trump, cry harder bitch. Cry harder. You fuck ass bitch. You look so sad. And all these got their press conferences of shit like that bitch because you're fucking approval rating is as above so below bitch. You got the mega girly stepping down because this shit don't make no fuck ass sense. And they're tired of watching you give head to BJ over the across the street. You look sad girls. Oh, you know, they're telling me that you know, we just see what you're doing. And we, you know, we're happy that you're doing it. We agree with it. But, you know, we're not going to get involved. Crying. Look at like Timothy Shallamate. Sit next to Kylie, Kylie Jenner. Why would y'all not pluck for him, giving that half ass a clad everybody else out up to their damn feet looking incredibly excited for Michael B. Jordan. And here you got this nigga sitting next to Kylie Jenner like like he's confused as to why he didn't win for whatever Marty Supreme, whatever that movie is called bitch because you sit next to Kylie Jenner and you look like Tom Sandefall. Nobody like you got paid and you will likely be nominated many more times. Eat it. Well, why people eat it. You know, right. Trump girl. Fuck you. Cry harder. You dumb bitch. Then my other country said, this is not my fucking war. The fuck nobody told you to go over their starting shit with them niggas. That's very much your problem. Who said that? We are not even like a girl. This is pretty fierce. Like I'm not even at it. Okay, will you help us? No, never in that one day. But you know, shout out to you. Yeah. Crock, weep bitch. Weep. Like Crystal said, gas up 2000. Got damn dollars. A mother fucking gallon plane tickets cost 50,000 dollars. Do you see the New York? Literally. It is so bad. Milk eggs, bread. Everything, man. A four pound egg of black beans at the grocery store was nine dollars. I said, I'm not going to have to shop around because I know I can find beans cheaper than this. What you mean four pounds of black beans is nine dollars? Clarina for a honey net. I said, I'm simply going to have to shop around because you all got me fucked up. On top of you now having people's daddy, mama, brother, sister, cousin. Get back in line to get shot up and blown up. Just because. Yep. Yep. Just because. Yeah. It's not giving what you thought it was going to give bitch. It's not. It's not. You really just wanted to. You wanted to be powerful and loved. You wanted to start a cult and feel like the most powerful person on planet. Not even close babes. Because if someone can strong arm you into a world war. You ain't sick. So fuck you. Fuck your back. Fuck whatever those blemishes and blocks are. They keep popping up all over your body because they won't take you out. She's okay. And you're gonna fuck every single thing that you stand for. You are ruining or helping to ruin. Not even just this nation. Most. And you are still speaking in front of every mic that you possibly can. Making excuses, deflecting, talking about the fuck nothing. McDonald's and whatever they got a penerebred. And then blaming Joe Biden and Obama. Right back is it Barack Hussein. Oh, Bob. Oh, such a man. His wife over here about to write a Broadway show. That's nothing about you. Then people are rich and out of office. Please, please be for real. I'm finished. Fuck that bitch. Yeah, fuck that bitch. I love that he's watching all the girls we like. No. Didn't nobody tell you to do that. The answer is no. Oh, so they make a John Kent or joke. The man who just stepped down. What's secretary of the fence or something? Oh, whatever his. Oh, okay. He was like, he's a veteran. His wife. Yes, the guy who. No, it's not secretary of defense. That's that drunk bitch. But I know what you're talking about. The one who is like, yeah, not that bitch. The drunk remains. Right. No, but the one who was like, as somebody who has actually served this bullshit that y'all are doing, I actually have to. I have to step away. I lost my wife. Yeah. To an unnecessary guy or that's his name. Yeah, he's joking. I'm like, well, Magga. Yeah. I mean, Magga was like publicly. And here's the release. Suck my dick, bitch. I will have nothing to do with it. Yeah. Large March. Get me out of here. Marjorie Taylor. Yeah. And my girls are just like, Trump appointed this man. And so. Right. Yeah. He, um, he was the director of the National Counterterrorism Center and said, there it is. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran pulls no imminent threat to our nation. And it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel. And it's powerful American lobby period point blank and absolutely everybody needed it. knew it. So don't come around here. He walked out like LeBron with the briefcase. So short. And that's all I had to say. Good night. And God bless. I'm out of here. Yeah. I saw it. I said, well, goddamn, when your own appointees are saying this war was pointless. Everything I see him in now, he just looks so sad. He's a giant baby. He's a giant rust colored baby. Evil baby. He is an evil baby who is rotting from the inside out. That's why we keep seeing these giant patches of like some sort of flesh eating disease creeping up all over his body as a corpse. He won't. He not even Stewie. Even Stewie Griffin wasn't trying to start war. That evil baby just want to kill his mom. You said Stewie. I thought you meant Brianna. We're at all like now. Wait a minute. Stewie Griffin. Not my, not my wife. Not my wife. I hope I lived to see the day where the textbooks are like the history texts. Oh, yeah. I mean, back when we back when we had what a history like that. Once textbooks are allowed to tell the truth again. This is going to be so crazy. It's never. That one might be rots. But there will sure be public. Not in America but somewhere else. They got to tell the truth. Well, for sure, be banned here. Oh god. Yeah, look at my girl. Let's talk about the time. Lord help. They're the host of the Apprentice. Yeah. Ruined the planet. And Americans let him because they were that mad over a black president. They were that in sense. Tell me, was your life better under the Obama administration or right now? I just, I would love to get sort of like a poll for that. I know four pounds of black beans, what no damn nine dollars. I couldn't get over that. I said, if mommy mall could see these grocery prices, I ain't no way back. We would grow beans before she paid that amount of money for black, regular, regular black beans. Anyway, speaking of white people, I mean, and they have always been a cheap staple. It's cheap basis that are right. Beans and rice supposed to be cheap. Beans is like red, they're redemption shit like back in the old. You have no people like a can of beans. I cooked me a pot of beans every week. I'm not cooked there from scratch. I buy dry beans. They're good as fuck. Oh, I forgot that beans come in. I just said it in my mind. I'm thinking of that giant cans. I'm thinking of like, no, I'm talking about it. I mean, they do have, but like, no, I'm not bye. I know damn can't beans, I'm making beans. - I'm used to making them from dry beans. I do. I forgot that you can just go into the store and buy can. - Yeah, you can, but. - Why would you do that? - I mean, because it's so much more convenient, you can literally just open the can, heat it up, and the beans are ready, whereas cooking them will take a couple hours. - You can bread and celery and shit. - But, okay, see, now it's going too far. - Chop up a cucumber, now it's going too far, but the, anyway. - Is it, when we're all living underground, you would a nuclear fallout? - Oh, God. - Well, speaking of white people doing the most with the least, Jack Harlow released an album called Monika, which, anyway. - I'm sad, I'm so sad. - He did an interview with the New York Times. - Sure did. - podcast called PopCast, and, mentioned that his musical direction has shifted from his last project to this one, saying-- - To what? (laughing) - Saying that he has gotten blacker with this new studio album. - He said, I love black music and the sound of black music, and-- - Everyone does. - No shit, this is exactly why you have a career, because everybody loves black music, especially when, as Delroy Lindos, so eloquently stated in sinners, especially when it don't come from black people. So, yeah, you're popular, you have a career and sell tickets and albums, because black music is so incredible, and people really, really love when non-black people make it. And he said all this shit about being very aware of politics today and how, you know-- - Oh, so you said it anyway. (laughing) - What the fuck is it, man? You're talking about how a lot of other white people are, you know, moving towards pop and shit, you know, doing more white shit, but not him. - You should do that as well. - He got-- - He decided to make soft, intimate, melodic music. He, you know-- - When? - With this album monica, which I'm sure is like, his white way of saying monica, but, uh, he went to electric lady studios, you know, to soak up de-Angelo's influence, and talked about how making monica was, anyway, I got blacker, I love black music, the sound of it, and, of course, I'm hyper aware of the politics of today, that's safer landing spot than a lot of my white contemporaries have found. It appealed to me to do something that, at a time when there's plenty of people expecting to take some of the routes, the others take, to take the route that might not be expected, but it's also the one I genuinely want to take. So first of all, wow, you are very poorly spoken. I want you to work with somebody to help you articulate yourself more clearly. But beyond that, the idea that your cracker ass got blacker because you decided to make black music is absurd. You are not the first third, 3,000th white artist to tap into what Niggas are doing. - You will never be John B. - Let's talk about it. - You'll never be-- - We'll also talk about the farmer of the word, the ER, specifically at the end of that. - The-- - Blacker. - Oh, yeah, you got blacker, right. What do you mean? - Blacker. - Where was the black before? - You will always, if forever be white, like blacker. Your music will never be black. 'Cause you're not black. - 'Cause you're, and you're never going to get blacker, 'cause you're never gonna get black in the first place, though. You're simply not that person. - I told y'all last year that Drake is just Jack Harlow with a black daddy. And I don't think Jack Harlow himself. I don't think Jack Harlow himself could have been-- - Drake Miss Park for music, but I'm not sure. - Well, I can rap. - Right. But you see the point. - Yeah. (laughing) - Yeah. - Right. - Costumes. - And this isn't even specifically about, not for me. It's not about every white person who makes black music. There are lots of them who have either, you know, make R&B or whatever, and they sort of stay in their lane in that way, you know, they pay homage or whatever to the people who came before them. Adele is the first one I'm thinking of here, where it's like, you're very clearly influenced by, you know, black legendary art JoJo, Amy Winehouse, when she was alive. They all cited their black influences. What they never did was claim to also now be black because of that influence. That is ridiculous. You dumb bitch. And then to be like, well, unlike these other white people who want to go to safe route. - Right. (laughing) You should have seen this. - Like who's eating that up? Who was that comment for? - You should have pulled a Miley Cyrus. You should have did it. - Hey, I wish you would have just did that and that didn't happen. You really should have, this is, they've been showing him. - Miley just went on about her business and now she on a record with Beyonce and we like it. - You could have just, - You know what she did? She stepped into the light caravan. - You could have just made your music and let that in there. You could have also even put out this R&B influence album called Monika and we probably would have assumed it was about Monika, you know, like the singer, without all of this, right? - So I thought it blew my mind. - Well, and I didn't even think nothing of it until this got blacker shit came out. I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about? Who is your Monika? I'm not actually going to go stream the album to see if he's talking about, you know, the Monika that we all know and love from Atlanta. I actually don't care because this comment, this quote alone was more than enough for me. It was like the white people chewing up Timothy Shalema 'cause he said he don't want to do opera in ballet. That was this for me as far as Jack Harlow is concerned. I don't want to hear shit else. And I actually don't even think I can name it. The only Jack Harlow thing I've ever even heard is his verse on Lil Nas X song. So I actually don't even know. - Oh yeah, he does have a song with Lil Nas X. - What was that? - I'll be proud of that. - What was that song? - It was really popular, industry baby. - Yeah, what was it? - And I liked industry baby. But again, stay in your white lane. Like this just didn't have to happen. - It was such a ridiculous and stupid, like brazen thing to say. Like where did you, who do you think it is? - Who it is. - I actually set off your thoughts this week that I miss when white rappers are controversial. And I threw direct shade at him and a couple other people. This is before I heard this. Like, this is before I heard any of this. He's just, they already got on my damn nerves and I'm tired of it. And I wish that we were keeping the gate clothes a little bit more. If somebody's people like just because they're good lyricists, doesn't mean that we should just be open them with wide arms. Like I remember when Jack Harlow was visibly a dweeb and not just internal. (laughing) The nigga got his contact lenses and grew some peach fuzz and worked the tank top. And even the black girls were like, oh he's kind of cute. Now he over here with a my nigga album talking about he's blacker than what? (laughing) - Then jelly roll, then post Malone. - We, I'm sure. - Okay. - That's a lie. - All of you are black. - Are white. - All of you are Caucasian and that's fine. Be your white ass self. - I know his publicist was like of all the things you could've said. - Listen. - All the things. - The publicist might be the one. - Oh no. - Oh wow. - Well, I mean. - The publicist might be like, you know, the black people, they love you. So just let them know that you're even blacker this time. - I'm nearly never seen this. - A swig in a mince. - A swig in a mince. - I knew it was a swig in a mince. - It's the first one. - Yeah. - It's not happening. - What's poppin' or whatever it's called. - I'm not streaming that. I'm not purchasing that. I'm not gonna have anything to do with that. I just really couldn't believe you set yourself up like that because again. - What made you? - You are trying to sell to Niggas. Did you think we wanted to hear that from a white boy? Did you think you was that cool? That you could say I got blacker and we was gonna let that slide? Okay, girl. Well. - I don't know how old Jack Harlow is. I'm sure I could guess what his demographic looks like. And there are probably a lot of white kids a lot like him. - So we probably speaking to them anyway. You go to a cancer concert. You go to a little Wayne concert. - Yeah. - It's still astonishing to me how many white people are there. - Yeah, that's true. - You guys are allowed to go. - That's true. I mean, I would assume that since you said you got blacker and that you're leaning more into an R&B sound that you are trying to court black people, but perhaps not. - Of course. He can always land on him though. - We are so accepting of this that we have a term for it. It's called Blue Eyes Sold. We let white people come play with our things, but you don't get to claim that you're one of us. You don't get to go that far. What was you thinking? I got just, can't get over it. - You didn't watch sinners, but I bet he watched one battle left or another. Guaranteed. Guaranteed. - Oh man. - Black or the berry. - Yeah. - The fuck out of here? What a fucking dumb ass. the worst kind of white. boy. Just be white. We'll let you drive. I could never be interested in it. But even if I halfway wanted to listen to it, I'm not been a listener to know my nigga. No, you better be talking about Monica Balucci bitch. You better be talking about Monica off of friends. Right. God damn it. Oh, so yeah, fuck Jack Harlow, child. Get right on out of here with that. Good luck. Booking it. Why wouldn't you rap? Like the most controversial shit that Eminem did with his lyrics was like, talk about killing his wife. I mean, and that was pretty bad. That was pretty bad. Sodomy or something. Yeah, that was pretty gross. Sodomizing his mother in things. You know, it's pretty gross. He went a little, he went far, but he didn't go so far as to be like, and I'm black and I'm black and I'm black and I'm black and I'm black and I'm black. I'm black, y'all. Right. He just drove right. Yeah. Sustainable career. I don't understand why y'all won't just. He can fuck right off into the ether. I'm done. And shit else to say. Don't put them glasses back on. Minkus. Stuart Minkus. Minkus. I missed a little Minkus. Okay. Well, that is going to wrap up this week's episode of the read. Make sure you check us out on social media at this is the read. Our website is this is the read.com. I do believe we have sold out this anniversary show in like a day. That's quite crazy. So yeah, we'll see y'all in Atlanta next month Sunday, April 26. Those of you who have tickets, we will see y'all there. I'm excited. Yes. Shout out to y'all for for being so supportive. It's our 13th year doing this shit. Oh, what a thought. Bitch. Not me. I'm here. We are. So you you bitches about tickets and you want to pay for gas money to come see these two dumb ass. We love you. I'm so grateful. Thank y'all so much. Yes. Yes. The support 13 years in does not go unnoticed. I am so, so appreciative. So thank you. We're excited to see you guys and party with you next month. New episode of Crystal's Catch featuring Jade of all Jades. Y'all's absolute favorite. Out now answering more. 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