The Curious Case of a Clash Concert

Do you want me to yank his ass? I ain't scared. I will straight yank his ass. You want me to? What's that from? The Color Purple. You didn't even try that. Harlem Nights! Harlem Nights! No, it isn't from Harlem Nights. Oh, okay. Then I don't know for real. It is directly from Two Can Play That Game. Welcome back, everybody out in the world and, you know, the rest of the galaxy. Because I do believe that some of y'all out there are listening and you just laugh like, oh my God, these people are so ghetto and stupid. We're baddies for other places. Yeah, we are. Welcome to the show. I'm Vivica Fox. And I am back in the studio away from my hell. Hell. Hell. Hell. Hell. Hell. Puppy. And I could not be happier. She's a hellhound. Oh, I didn't even think of that. She is hell. Oh, my God. But this is the read. Thank you for tuning in. Jesus. It is indeed. Here we are. In Black History Month. Mini month. The shortest. Indeed. So let's get our shit off while we can. While we're allowed to. Before they turn this into National Mega Yacht Month. Let's start with some Black Excellence, shall we? This week, I would like to give Black Excellence over to one Reed Curry. Now, this report is actually quite old. I didn't hear about it until recently. And I haven't spoken about it on the podcast. So Reed Curry is an engineering student. He goes to school in Florida. This is good news. This is good news. Out of Florida. Amen. Thank God. Yeah. For small favors. Somebody going to school. You know, that's all we can even ask for. Big steps. Big steps. Down in the sunshine. Wonderful. So Reed Curry was making some waves on the social of the media recently because he needed a way to get to school. Didn't have a car. Money for a car. So this gentleman decided to build a car. Build a motorcycle, all electric, out of wood that he got from Home Depot. And I am dead ass serious. Two by fours made of cedar and a dream. No way. This nigga made a real murder bug with wood from the Home Depot. So what are you doing with your 24 hours, you lazy bitch? What the fuck are the rest of you niggas doing with your day? Is you ungrateful? This nigga. This nigga really got a wooden bike, but like. Made. Made. Excuse me. Didn't get. Right. Created. He constructed. Wow. Holy shit. Fully automobile. I had to Google this because I just knew you was shitting. No, this nigga made a wooden motorcycle. And here's the guy. He got a little truck in the back. He basically was like. Oh, that's where the motor. That's where the brakes are. He said like. Oh, in the back. That's not even like. Oh, I thought that was. Yeah, that's another. That's like another contraption for. Wow. Operating. Oh, put him in an engineering school right the fuck now. He is an engineering school. Okay, look at God, look at God, because what? And the gag is he was the, he really, here's the biggest flex. He essentially said that this isn't like a passion project. He just needed a way to get to school. He said on Instagram, this bike isn't a masterpiece. It's not even my main project. It's just my daily commute. Wow. I've been riding on this rig for over a year. It's still a work in progress. Is it you? You get to and not from what I write. It seems like a working vehicle to me, but I'm not an engineering. Nothing. I'm not even sure I can spell engineering properly. Um, when I say I'm just a guy, I'm no genius. Anything you see that's good in me came from God. Please understand this. Thank you for all the support. Oh, that is so sweet. Isn't it? And amen, brother. Thank you for bringing the state something sun shiny. Yeah. This nigga really. Reed Curry, Miami, Florida. Are you from the same city as me? I hit a thousand miles today. What? In the wooden bike. On the wooden bike that he fucking made. And the Florida police ain't pulled him over and harassed him yet for this. That's what's really. What's illegal? Well. What are they going to say? Like, oh, the bike's made of wood. They don't need a reason. They're going to pull you over. It don't have to be legal. Don't have nothing to do with it. But wow. The fact that he was like, I didn't even really try with this. You guys, I just had to go to school and I tried to take the bus in Miami. It don't work. So I had to figure something out. Oh, that's incredible. Go off. Oh, I rely on the bus in Miami. Miami transit. You might get to your class 72 hours after. You're not going. You're not going. You are simply not going. It's not Miss 115 coming. It's Miss one. Right. Two hours. You just don't. That's not. Yeah, it's the same in Oklahoma. So I just this is incredible, though. Wow. Wow. Wow. If I could do this sort of thing and have it just be like no big deal. Like, that's not even one of my main projects. I swear y'all would not be able to tell me one fucking thing. You really you wouldn't have time. No. Hey, you wouldn't have space, time or opportunity to tell me. It's like, yeah, I made a bike that was zooming by you on my hoverboard made out of Sprite cans. He's fucking ungrateful, bitch. You stay your ass at home and watch Love Island. Oh, man. Right. While you bitches are sitting around talking about come get your body chain. I'm actually using the brain and the body that God gave me. So. Wow. This is really incredible. Hats off to you. Our helmets. All right. So let's get into the pop culture segment. He got a life. You are everything. This nigga. Oh, yeah. He's not. He made a vehicle. Like, he's not. Yeah. I'm sorry. I can't get. I just I'm all over his Instagram because this is incredible. But yes. Yeah, we can. We can move on. I'm going to close the window. I'm gagged. I'm gooped. I'm gobsmacked. Oh, he calls it the wooden horse. Yeah. Well. That's probably that's probably like some smart ass reference that I don't get because I don't know history or engineering. But. Maybe like a literary. It probably is. Giant book. Oh, and he has a. Oh, he had a fundraiser. But then it was. Oh, yeah. They took it down. The man said I just needed a waiver. Wow. I need to get to school and I have it now. Yeah. So thanks so much. Not looking for a hand clap. Didn't even think that this would go viral. I just needed to get to school. Amen. Oh, ingenuity at its finest. Under God's living eyes. Isn't that so sweet? Every now and then you look at something on the news. You see how he didn't start texting a bunch of women talking about. Are you taking me to school? No. He figured it the fuck out. Incredible. Yeah. Go on and get that degree. We really are aunts and uncles now. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Leaning into it. Let's get into a pop culture segment that we call. That's fantastic. You were motherfucking right. Kendrick Lamar matches Stevie Wonder with most back to back Grammy wins. Stevie Wonder. Pretty big deal. Braids on the back. Legend and icon. Okay. Where's this going? Nothing. I'm done. Okay. So this this brother Kendrick Lamar won five Grammys on Sunday. I didn't watch. No, I was in the club. Okay. I was. Thank you. Um. So yes, now 27 plus wins. To his name. And, um, that was for me. I don't care. You guys haven't, don't have, you don't need to have ever heard of God to be real. Just. You're doing yourself a disservice. So yeah. listens to him for winning these awards that he deserved and for being out there with legends at this still-read-till-young age. And shout-out to him for going out there with a pick in his head. I liked that. Yeah, record of the year back-to-back is really crazy. Well? I did see the clip of Cher announcing and saying that Luther Vandross won because the song's called Luther and I guess she got confused. It's actually an honor. And if you think about it, he kind of did win, too. He kind of did, right. I mean, again, there wouldn't be no song without Luther Vandross as a state of laughter. He's on the record. Right. You can hear it all over the place. I see where Cher was at. Oh, Luther Vandross! Oh, wait. Okay. That's not him that's walking up here. She said, oh, damn. Oh, no, no, no. She said, oh, no, no, no. Luther! Kendrick Lamar! Cher is an icon, though, so it is, yeah. Yes, she is. That just made the show all the more better, I'm sure. Shaboosie won Best Country Duo slash group performance and is facing Black American backlash because he said during his speech that I didn't hear that he wanted to dedicate. I mean, I didn't fucking watch it. I'm just reading the news. Okay. He said in a part of his speech that he wanted to dedicate is one to immigrants who literally built this country. Shaboosie is American of Nigerian descent. This is no, you know, lockdown, bunkered up secret. But, you know, some Black folk were like, um, hello? Um. You forgot somebody. Excuse me. Right. Shaboosie posted an Instagram story press release. IG. He said, First and foremost, I want to express my deep gratitude to everyone who supported and celebrated my journey as an artist. I also want to acknowledge the conversations surrounding my acceptance speech. To be clear, I know and believe that we Black people have also built this country. My words will never intend to dismiss that truth. I am both a Black man and the son of Nigerian immigrants. And in the overwhelming moment of winning my first Grammy, my focus was on honoring the sacrifices my parents made by coming to this country to give me and my siblings opportunities they never had. At the same time, winning this award on the first day of Black History Month and becoming the first Black man to win the Best Country Duo is Black history. It stands on the foundation laid by generations of Black people who fought, sacrificed, and succeeded long before me. This moment belongs to all of us. My entire career has been rooted in lifting people up, honoring where we come from, and expanding what's possible. I'm proud to be part of this legacy and I intend to continue doing that work for the rest of my life with love. That's it. Thoughts? Well, I mean, he was incorrect in saying that, you know, immigrants built the country and Black people were certainly not immigrants, so. And my parents are immigrants. Right. So that's just not correct. I can understand, though, getting caught up in the moment of winning your first Grammy and misspeaking. I think that's really what happened. I can understand that. I completely agree with that. He is close to, he wins this award, he goes up there, breaks these barriers. He's probably thinking of his family. He's thinking of his heritage and he's thinking of what it means for them to have come over here and him have this opportunity. I think he misspoke. He misspoke. And I think that this IG press release also kind of gets me back. Because let me tell you what a lot of Caribbean niggas, a lot of African niggas would have otherwise told you to hold their nuts. But yeah, I think it was like a, oh my God, I'm hype. I said something wrong. Right. So I, you know, I saw the backlash and all the controversy about it. I saw these apologies. I think this, I mean, it's not even really an apology. It's more like just clearing things up. Again, I think his explanation here makes sense. And so that's fine. It's just more, I think people would have appreciated a flat out, I misspoke or whatever, or something like that. But yeah, I get being so excited. Speaking of excited, I'm sure you saw that clip of Duran winning his grand pin, running to the stage and being so overcome with emotion and just having the best speech and embracing his parents and all that. I can understand being so caught up in that moment that you just kind of say shit. And, you know, you're riding on an adrenaline high that most of us will probably never know anything about. So as long as we all understand that enslaved Africans forcibly brought to this country, built this bitch for free, as long as we all understand and acknowledge that, then, you know, I have no interest in picking apart a Black man for this, you know, otherwise. And I think that that can be true simultaneously with immigrants having a lot to do with the, like, sustainability of the. Because there really is a lot of immigrants who have come here and basically helped keep things afloat alongside the indigenous people and enslaved people who created the foundation for it. So it's not to say that immigrant people have just been coming over here and chewing gum. But what he said was not correct. Right. I mean, you know, immigrants come over here and work hard and deal with racism and all that. Like, sure. All that's very valid. It's just what you said. And you said it during Black History Month. So niggas was. Well, niggas is extra sensitive right now. You have to understand that we really not standing for anybody getting our history wrong during our month. So I completely understand everybody's feelings about it. But I, you know, I think this statement goes a long way towards clearing up where his mind was. And this was certainly not deliberate or intentional erasing of, you know, Black American history. Also, super proud of Durand. My God. Mm-hmm. Oh, his speech was so good. And then his parents up there with him, I almost cried. From Skyping with this nigga in our parents' house to God's destiny that we both knew was always there. Congratulations, my nigga. I could not be more proud of you. You didn't deserve this. And it's just the fucking beginning. If they didn't know. They know now. The girl with the forever voice. That doll baby. That original baby. Okay. Keke Palmer told E! Online. Oh, no. She said on Today that she, even in marriage, has no desire to live in the same house as her romantic partner. She joins many Black diva who have said these very same words. She, in fact, cited one Whoopi Goldberg saying, I just feel like Whoopi Goldberg said it once. And she said, I don't want nobody in my house. And I feel that. She said, you can be in the guest house. We can even be on the same land, but I'm over there and he's over here at best separate rooms. Um, Lakeisha and Palmer. Why don't I make this? I simply agree, bitch. And you know what? Yes. He has his towels. I have my towels. Girl, at best, is giving, you know, I'm on this floor, he's on this floor. And I think that's fine. And I would even, assuming it's like, oh, I plan to be with this nigga for the rest of our days. I still want to spend the majority of time with you. Like, I don't never want to see you. But I also, it's like, whoo, is that 8.30? Is that 9 p.m.? Well, you might as well go in here and go home. Well, it's getting to be that time. Big yawn and stretch. Whoo! Well, I have to get up early. Don't know about you. What you doing? What you finna do? Now that the credits are rolling for this latest heated rivalry, I feel like we might as well just get there. - It's the kind of times that just go on and on. And I should get to my bed. Yeah, going to my bed in my home. Yeah, I don't think I need separate houses, but I would prefer a house big enough to where we can both have our own space. Yeah. You have your own room for you to do things in. I have my own room for me to do things in. There's a separate office for business-y things and then a bedroom. Like, I'm thinking at least four bedrooms and then we ought to be able to make it work. But, you know, Kiki's very rich. She probably can have a compound with a couple of little houses on it. She's like, I'm staying in the big house. You stay in the casita. And I stay in the house. Oh, I'm sorry. There's no argument. This isn't a democracy. It's Barbie's dream house. Not Ken's mojo dojo cafe. Oh, my gosh. She was getting Ken together. Yeah, she was. And it wasn't even on purpose. And so sweetly. You want to come over for her. You want to spend the night. To do what? To do. She said, oh, but it's girls' night. And he was like, oh, yeah, girls' night is every night. And she was like, right. Greta was dragging. That nigga wanted to spend time with her so bad. She was like, but why? Why don't we hang out? I saw you all day today. We beached. Yeah, we beached. I'm finna go brush hair with President Barbie and stay up with the girls. We're going to have a dance party and then go to bed. What do you mean? When the little girl asked where the Kens live and she was like, I honestly don't know. It never occurred to her that she. To even think about it. That's me. I think that's the last thing. I don't know where that nigga go. What? Ken has a home? I never thought about Ken living somewhere. I don't know. Oh, that was a good move. Fierce. Very cute. It really was. Okay, so you remember when Kayla Nicole dressed up as Toni Braxton for Halloween or some shit and I guess the Swifties got mad. How could I forget? It's like, oh, he was. Well, you could recently find video footage of the same Kayla Nicole dancing as part of Toni Braxton's backup for He Wasn't Man Enough. Toni Braxton had Kayla Nicole get up on stage with Toni Braxton and tell these white women that they can kiss both of their black titties. I just. This was so great. This was so great. This was so great. This was so great. If you haven't seen this video, you have to go find it. It's so good. Pettiness aside, this show looks tea. Yeah, it does. I'm like, how come I didn't know that Toni was on tour? Like, do I need to get tickets? Right. Toni Braxton still looks incredible. Also, on top of everything else, you know, sounding good. And she coming to Newark on February. She'll be at Barclays on March 14th. There it is. There it is. I think you need to go. I think I do too. Yeah, that moment was so cute. She was. Kayla Nicole was just so excited and honored. I mean, who wouldn't be? Like, it's one thing to do a TikTok. It's another for Toni to call you and be like, girl, come be on stage with me. But yeah, you know, she killed her little choreography. She had a cute little moment and all that. It was. Yeah, it was great. Toni posted on her Instagram too and said, thank you. I am Kayla Nicole for everything. You were spectacular, niece. Imagine you dress up as this icon or whatever. Get stupid, unnecessary, mad-ass reactions for it. And then said icon invites you to come do some of the sickest dances I've seen in a little minute on the stage and then refers to you as niece. No, I'll just evaporate. Thank you so much. You just jacked up as this lady that we all love and now she's your auntie. And now she's your auntie. Yeah, and you are just right up there in Toni Braxton history. I live. Yeah, y'all really would not be able to tell me shit. This Toni Braxton tour is actually new edition. Boys to Men and Toni Braxton. So it's going to be all the old hoes. What? Yeah, yeah. I'm going. I am going, bitch. Boone's Farm and every cut. I live. That is going to be the day. Yeah, oh God. Of course, it's mostly sold out. But anyway. And I guarantee she already did L.A. This was probably the L.A. one. Oh, yeah, it probably was because I'm sure Kayla Nicole lives out there. I don't never get to have. She's going to be in Oklahoma City on the 6th. Oh, that's cute. Yeah, Chicago tonight. I'm seeing all of that. I do believe you have missed out on Los Angeles. I do believe. Damn, this lady is gorgeous. Yeah. What a moment. That's really cute. Congratulations to everybody involved. Love that for Kayla. It was giving me like, it was giving me like, what do you call the. What do you call those girls in the back? Blackbirds. Yes, blackbird girls. It was giving me like Fosse. Yeah, a lot of shimmy. Yep, yep. A lot of draping materials and all that. It was very cute. Bob Mackie. There you go. Little shimmy. You're saying all the names. Okay, so let's discuss how Lil Wayne is preparing for the NFL's big day. And by big day, I mean Bad Bunny's Super Bowl licks halftime performance. And the Super Bowl game too. Why would he be preparing for that? Oh, because he. He has a big performance that's going to take place just two days before on February 6th. He will be having a show at the Clash Royale Arena. Now you might, like myself earlier today, be asking yourself, what's the Clash Royale Arena? That was exactly my question. Thank you so much. Because I thought that was a video game. It is absolutely a mobile video. It is a video game. Wait, is he performing in the video game? Crystal, I wish I had an answer for this. I really do. When I tell you, I had to actually just move on because I was like, I have other shit to do. I don't know. This is, folks, if you haven't heard of Clash Royale, it's one of them app games that have like a commercial. This is like saying Gucci Man is performing on Candy Crush. It is. I don't know how this is going to work. So what? You download the app and then there's a tab where you can just click and watch Lil Wayne perform? I guess. Why would they call it the Clash Royale Arena? That's not a place you can go to. That's the name of the game. But, but. But I don't know. But. Crystal. Okay. He said music, sports, and gaming all in one place. Y'all know how much I love being at the center of the culture. Clash Royale is at the center of the culture? Does Clash Royale. I'm turning. Do they stream music on there? I have no idea how this is going to work. This is for kids. I'm turning the Clash Royale Arena into the most lit concert of the week. Tap in February 6th to see what we got in store for y'all. Tap in literally because what do you mean? Yeah. And so what? You just download Clash Royale? I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it on my business. Why? Because I don't know. I need to understand how this is supposed to work. Do you have to subscribe? Do you have to like pay something to see this? Or is it just going to be. I think Clash Royale Arena is free. Epic multi. No, but you. I'm sure they have in-app purchases. So maybe there's like a. If you want the Lil Wayne concert, you know, it's $20 or whatever on the in-app purchase. But how the fuck is this concert going to work? Is this going to be a streamed concert? Like he's on a stage and then they just stream it because why would they do that on this game? I legitimately don't understand. Like I, I, I really don't get this. I can't give no other context. He's just like, yeah, that's it. Figure it out. I will not be involved. Like the gamer that I have an embarrassing amount of games in my library. One day, maybe I'll announce the number, but it's sick and I will not be 10. Feet near this. What are you talking about? Fortnite has caught, uh, concerts quite a bit. They had an area on a Grande concert. They had a Travis Scott concert. I feel like black pink or somebody did it. The real people. It wasn't like little Fortnite. No, but it's like animated to look like the celebrity and Fortnite is a more 3d open world. Matt. So they could actually, the Travis Scott one was actually so crazy. I've actually was very, very. impressed on how they did it. But, If you have ever seen Fortnite, you could probably make out. And it isn't real people. They just animate, like, oh, here's Ariana Grande. Here's an animated Travis Scott. And they put them on a, like, digital stage. Oh, nice. And then usually there's a whole bunch of, like, bells and whistles to make it, like, more than just a regular concert you could see in person. But that's Fortnite. Like, if you were saying that. Because, yeah, they play their music. I mean. It's like watching. It's not even live, though. Like, this is. It's just, like, a recording of them doing, like, a mashup. Yeah, those aren't. They're like, oh, it's going to take place at this time. But, of course, it's all. Right. It's all pre-recorded. It's all built before the, you know. And I imagine the same thing will probably be the case here. Yeah. I just cannot. I can't picture this. see how it's going to work with this game. Because I've never played this game. Or why it's happening. I've only seen. I've only seen, like, commercials. And so. I'm playing some other game. And then here come an ad for this one. And I'm trying to find the X. But you've got to wait 30 seconds. It's a top-down tower defense game. Yeah, I don't get it. Okay. I am going to. Auntie's uncles. I'm going to figure it out. This is like. This is like fucking 8-Ball and MJG performing on Galaga. This is Trina performing on Ms. Pac-Man. I got this. What are we talking about? I don't understand. Maybe Noah can explain this to me. How this is even possible. I doubt she can. I bet you she can't. I just don't get it. I bet you she can't. She's not going to know what. She's going to say, What's Clash Royale? Who's the winner? Damn. Young money need money. Sha'Carri Richardson and Christian Coleman got locked up. Sha'Carri for speeding. Christian Coleman for resisting arrest. And having weed on him. And that he dropped, I guess. Well. So, separately or coming from the same incident? Okay, so Sha'Carri was pulled over. They said she was going over 100 miles per hour. Girl. There's unfortunately even body cam footage of her about to go to jail. The cop talking to her and stuff. And she's just like crying and begging. She was going to get arrested or go to jail. She did. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Now, Christian Coleman, her boyfriend, got arrested because apparently he pulled over when she got pulled over and got out the car. And when he got out the car. Why did you get out the car? Girl. Niggas. Why would you get out the car? Not only was he not supposed to get out of the car, the police apparently told him to leave. He did not. Oh, my God. I guess at some point when he got out of the car, they say that he dropped drug paraphernalia, which. The description, it sounds like it was just like a weed bowl. Like a glass bowl that you smoke weed out of. Oh, nigga. So he got arrested for, I guess, possession of that and resisting arrest without violence. Which I'm assuming could either be because of the refusal to get back in his car and leave. But resisting could be as simple as they putting handcuffs on you and you move your arm because it's uncomfortable. But resisting arrest, especially without violence, could be a million things. Anyways, they both went to jail because of this. I think they were bonded out for $500 or something and then they have to wait for an arraignment. Shakeri, be careful, miss girl. Over 100 miles per hour is wild. Yeah. I'm begging you to come home. But you look great in this mugshot. Amazing skin. Great complexion. The braids are fresh. You look good. You need to come home. Please be careful on the road. You need to call a therapist. Real bad. Real, real, real bad girl. Do you know how dangerous this is? Do you know how dangerous driving is? Do you know how dangerous driving incredibly fast is? It's not just. You're in a wrecking ball. You could kill so many other people, girl. So many other people. It happens all the time. The back tire was under-inflated and that's why she was speeding. Girl, 100 miles an hour! That's what she said to the car. Which makes it worse. Why wouldn't you be going slower? That's what I'm saying. Right. This is it. And then this nigga, like, have you never had an interaction with the police? I would have pulled over too, but I would have remained in the vehicle and just recorded everything. And then once she's getting arrested, hello, officers, I'm with her. Can I know what station you're taking her to or whatever, what precinct? Like, why would you get out and try to plead the case, nigga? They clocked her going 100 miles an hour. She's getting arrested. They're not letting you off with that. Higher than Falcon TV. And then you get out and what, your bong falls out, nigga? First of all, I thought Sha'Carri was gay. What happened to that? You know, she said I'm queer. So, my switch is flipped right now. Leave me alone. Maybe that's the problem. Maybe you need to get back with. You need to get back with that, yeah, get back with that young lady. Because this is, you and this nigga, every time I hear your name, it's something ridiculous. Getting in, to shit at the airport and. Oh, man. Okay, well. You know what, you're on my heart. You know what I mean? Let this be a loss, man. So, he's 29. She's still only 25. Yeah. I'm telling you, Sha'Carri, she's like. She's a baby. She's like that dumbass that's fucking around with Papoose. What's her name? Eau Claire. Yeah, she's like Clarissa Shields, where it's like. I just get the same vibe from them that you made it to an incredible place after some really fucked up shit happened to you when you was young. And worked hard to get there. And now you're dealing with being rich and famous and having all of your shit that's coming up and you trying to manage it on top of everything else and you're not really doing that great of a job. I want both of y'all to get therapists. Real bad, girl, because it's not. When you in the news, it's like not great headlines, baby. I really do want better for you. You got to work through whatever you got going on. You know who I didn't know was gay? Portia Williams. She not. Don't worry about it. Okay, thank you for terrifying me. Because I'm like, Portia, what? I'm sure she didn't say she was gay. She probably got a little girlfriend, but she didn't say she was gay. Okay, she does have a little girlfriend. Yeah. A lot of the girls get girlfriends, so it don't mean nothing. Sorry, no shade to the girlfriend. This nigga is cute. Yeah, she is. So, like, I could definitely see. So, you know, when the girlies be like, oh, my God, and they meet a, you know. Mm-hmm, yeah. A fine little somebody with a backpack. Right. Yep. It's very easy to fall. It is. But until Portia says out of her mouth, meeting this person made me realize that my sexuality is more complex and I now identify as bi and, you know, whatever else. That's a great point. I'm not putting that on her. So, no. Good for you, though. I mean, again, she is cute. Yeah. She really, really is. Well, who we know is gay is your statty, Queen Latifah. My dad! Who? Not statty, that's sexual. Oh, yeah, you just say dad. That's my dad, yeah. Yeah, that's right. I forgot what you called him. Mm-hmm. Um, she had a beautiful congratulations for her lover, her partner. My stepmom. Ebony Nichols, who I guess was a part producer of the Grammys this year. She said on Instagram, Ebony Nichols, that's how you know that they love each other. I couldn't be more proud of you for being a producer on this year's Grammys. I love watching. I love watching your dreams come true, baby. Major shout-out to these other people. You are all elevating the biggest night in music to a whole new level with pictures of her lady. I love it. Mm-hmm. They are really sweet together, and seeing my dad finally feel comfortable enough to openly, you know, talk about Ebony and embrace her as such an important part of our lives is just, you know, it's heartwarming for me and my family that we're at this place. And even her. Her daddy posted, like, on Instagram the, um, like, her pictures and stuff from the Grammys, and the caption was, like, 20 years of CoverGirl, and I'm like, I literally remember 20 years ago when my dad got that deal, and still now is, like, just. Oh, my God! Can you believe we're that old? Holy shit! Time on a blast from the past, bitch! Yeah. Skinting! Still on CoverGirl payroll over there, okay? Taking care of all of my school bills, et cetera. But, yeah, this is, um, just really sweet. Again, I love Stepmommy Ebony so much, so. Yeah. I really do love to see it. It's a great time for her. Your parents are doing really good. Yeah. Yeah, this set of parents, they're doing great. Yeah, that's right. I mean, I really am happy to see Queen Latifah in this place that's. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. so many queer elements didn't ever get to do, I just, love it. And I love that the queen did it on her own. I was exactly about to say that. Yes. That she was able to do it on her terms when she felt comfortable. Y'all wasn't going to force her out the closet. Yes, everybody knew, but y'all still was not going to force her hand and make her say or do anything she wasn't comfortable doing. It's literally all been on her terms. Ah! And what you can do is sieve. I love it. I'm so happy for her. Me too. For both of your dad and your stepmom. My dad and my stepmom. She's the best. I'm going to wrap up the hot tops there. Okay. We'll just end it on something positive. Yeah, for once. For once. Usually not. My God. I can't tell you how many. I was looking at shit today and I was like, I don't feel like it. No. Girl, please. I was just like, so many things. I was like, this is some negative bullshit I really don't want to talk about. This is some stupid ass shit that I don't want to talk about. Okay. Nikki's brain is somewhere in Wonderland still great. Oh my God. I'm just like, I'm not talking about any of this goody. I saw the Nikki Minaj shit yesterday and I was like. I just don't care no more. It's nothing. It's something new constantly with that bitch. But yeah. Yeah, it's like every week. She's not. I mean, what else can even be said? But yeah. You got a lot going on with the, you know, the NBA trade deadline and everything. So I'm sure you've been busy in all of your. Oh my God. So busy. I can't even tell you the amount of like boots to the ground research that I've been doing. Oh yeah. And reporting and journalistic work in general. Yeah. It's really crazy because this particular year in sports has been just such a hectic and monumental one. I don't know what I'm going to do with my price. Yeah. You know, the girls already can't afford me, but either way, you girls at home can expect nothing but the truest rawest and most factual coverage of sport ball athletes. Do you know where Giannis is going? Or Draymond for that matter. Up. Up and up. Up the ladder and through the roof. In Jesus name. All right. I don't even know why I asked. And with that, we're going to take a break. A fool. Hello. We're back. It's time for your listener letters. Indeed. Send your questions to asktheread at gmail.com. We may read them aloud on the show. Our first letter this week comes from Macy who says, I've been seeing my current therapist since I was dealing with postpartum symptoms after giving birth to my second child over two years ago. In that time, she has been instrumental in my growth around so many things, including the loss of my dad and taking my mama off the pedestal I put her on and just seeing her as a human being. That's a big one. I really cannot overstate how impactful my therapist has been to me. She informed me today that next year she will be stepping into a more clinical role where she will be helping aspiring therapists access the tools necessary. to break into the industry so she won't be seeing clients anymore. Honestly, I think that's perfect for her and I told her if that meant there were more social workers like her out there, then I couldn't be mad at that. But honestly, I'm devastated. I'm already grieving the end of our time together and I'm not looking forward to having to start this process all over with a new therapist. I'm considering just ending my therapy journey altogether when she steps away, but I'm not sure if I have the tools necessary to do so. Have either of you ever been in this situation? Any tips or encouragement? Would be much appreciated. Thanks again. I have loved the show since the beginning. Take care. Macy. Macy. Macy. Macy. I get it. I get it. I love that you acknowledged the benefit of what your therapist plans to do. Right? Because that's exactly what I was thinking. Like, oh god, this sucks for you as a therapist. Someone who's benefiting from therapy at the same time this thing. She's not like, she didn't leave because she's auditioning to be in like Cats. You know what I'm saying? The streets could use more people in the field. I think I had a similar experience when I moved to California because I had to get a new therapist. Psychiatrist. Specifically. Because I need people to write scripts. So I had to get a new therapist slash psychiatrist. And I damn near cried blood. I mean, I was just like, how am I supposed to leave this lady? I don't want to start all over. What is even the point? And in the way that that lady was like, my fairy godmother. My therapist now is like my fairy goddad. Love him to death. So, all that to say, I get it. It's fair. It's not an unreasonable or irrational thing at all. I think this is something a lot of people feel when they have to change therapists. Especially therapists that they really like. But I don't think you should be discouraged. Especially if you feel like it's, you need it or you're really benefiting from it or it's been really helpful. I'm always going to encourage you to stay in therapy. It sounds like you might have some time to find someone else that, you know, fits for you or someone else that you're comfortable with. I wonder if you could get a good referral. Because that's what my psychiatrist did in New York. They helped me find one here. So, yeah, I think it's fair for you to feel and maybe even talk through with your therapist in preparation for finding someone else. But I think you should give someone else a chance at helping you. Because I think in the long run, you'll benefit and you'll build a new relationship with a great person who loves you and wants to help you figure your stuff out. Yeah. It's great that she gave you so much time to get ready for this transition. I agree with everything Kifiri just said. But also, don't be afraid to ask her for a referral to other therapists. And don't be afraid to ask her when y'all get down to like the last couple of months or so, ask her what she thinks. Does she think you need to keep going or does she think you're in a good place where maybe you can spend the next three to six months or whatever, you know, trying to figure things out by yourself. Or just see, you know, if you're in a place where you don't really need that kind of weekly support anymore. She would have probably some great insight. It sounds like this has been such a wonderful relationship for you. And the way you feel about your therapist has so much to do with whether therapy works. The provider client relationship is really really vital in the therapy process. Hopefully she can refer you to somebody that you also end up feeling this same kind of great bond with. But I've never had this happen as a client, but I have been the therapist who had to cut things off with clients. And yeah, I mean, that sucks. It's hard. I high key wanted to keep seeing people for free even after I graduated. And it had to be like, girl, if you are not going to go take these exams and then start working on externship, you cannot. I just didn't want to stop seeing my clients. You know, they were doing great. So it's hard for sure, but I think you have some options here for either finding somebody new or maybe taking a break and then getting back to it if you want to do that. Yeah. All right. Good luck, Macy. Let us know what you decide to do. Our next letter comes from Amira who says, I'm a 28-year-old woman who was recently dumped by a guy I was dating. Long story short, I jumped to conclusions about two different situations and said some things that I should not have said while I was upset. This man had already This man had already told me before that that type of behavior was a deal breaker for him and after I did it a second time, he did indeed end things. I got my ass down on bended knee asking for a second chance, but he wasn't having it. He said that while we were a match made in heaven when my feelings aren't hurt, he didn't think we were aligned overall. I know I was there wrong for how I acted. Growing up, I saw my mother exhibit the same type of toxic communication pattern and it's something that I know I need to work on. My feelings for this man are so strong that when he ended things on Tuesday, I immediately booked an appointment to talk to the lady on Thursday. LMAO. Work! Do you guys think there's any way I can work on myself and work on being a better communicator to convince my boo to give me another chance? Or should I just take this L and move on? Thanks so much, Amira. Thank you. first of all not lmao yeah um amira i think that you should take a piece from both of those those options i think that you should um do the the self-reflection and the work and the accountability and the evolution and you should take this l and never talk to that man again yep you really should you really should because first of all you should not be doing any of that work to get a nigga back like you tossed me out the window over there like i'm baby that's not what that's for at all so you get that out of your mind please you get that directly out of your mind you go and get help for yourself for your and the fact that you even um referenced your mom having uh traits like this negative traits like this you're acknowledging that there is like a younger you in there that reacts to certain things because that's how she that's what she was taught that's what she lived around so you do that for you so that you can be more at peace and you can learn more about yourself and do better by yourself and then the next person who enters your life from a romantic uh standpoint you'll be better prepared for those types of things but this nigga let him go into the wind baby you said you 21 28 girl oh 28 still shit yeah 20 you said she was 40 yeah amira if you're going to therapy in the hopes that one day this man will take you back no because the the goal of therapy needs to be happiness peace within yourself living a good life that you can be proud of being the type of person you want to be working through your shit for yourself doing all this with the hopes that like after a few weeks you can call him or text him and be like oh my god i've been in therapy i'm doing so much better asking him to come to a session with you and all that and i'm like oh my god i've been in therapy and all this i actually am if i were you i would honestly be a little embarrassed that a man was more mature than i was i would honestly be a little ashamed but shit it sounds like this nigga knows his worth and he's not playing no games he told you the way you sound like to me childish and ridiculous he told you it was a deal breaker for whatever reason you let yourself get swept up by these fantasies you had in your head again jump to conclusions said things that were based on the conclusions you jumped to conclusions you jumped to conclusions you jumped to conclusions you jumped to and not in reality and that nigga said i'm actually not dealing with this that's great mind you after the second time right which means you crossed the boundary before yes him off yes and he decided to pay it and keep moving forward and you did it again and he told you he told you this is a this is deal breaker yeah he wasn't even overly strict girl because i would have cut you off the first time he wasn't even overly strict he was i would i would the shame of a man more emotionally mature than me would probably send me to therapy i'll be like we have to talk because how come this nigga is better at taking care of his feelings and and having boundaries than i am yikes and on top of that outside of along with discussing your your reactions to things your temperament or whatever i would also talk to this lady about why i am so goddamn attached to this thing or any other one that this that you know what i mean my attachment to them is specifically why i'm sitting here today also in hopes of getting it back yeah i would really urge you to speak on that as well because there's something to tell something in there tell the therapist that when he broke up with you you got down on bended knee and begged him to take you back boy listen bended knee was she right listen when you read that i was like god i hope this is a metaphor i hope she's she's just she said i am on my knees physically got on your knees my god ask it for a second chance you mean a third chance that man had already gave you a second chance he told you this was not cool and you for you were in that situation that probably felt uncontrollable again bring this up to your therapist i'm sure if you had been in your right mind thinking clearly you wouldn't have done this but you weren't so you need to ask yourself why you take things that far mentally why do you jump to conclusions and then act off of those assumptions before you know the truth why do you do that a therapist will help you get to the bottom of that um but again that's something you need to do regardless of whether this man takes you back do you ever want to be in a healthy relationship then you're gonna have to figure that out do you want to have good friends this ain't no three strike program it's really not it's we're in no goddamn call center you're in no goddamn call center one one strike yeah what is it this was fully once shame on you fool me twice no girl no you will not get it you simply won't get a third chance no because that means this is just how you act and when you get mad you're gonna use this as an excuse like well sometimes when i get mad i just do blah blah i hate it ain't yeah it's simply not acceptable you're not gonna treat me like that i don't know who you finna do all that with maybe your mama you go to your mama's house and do all that but you're not finna do all that with me shout out to him that nigga said i know my worth and i'm adding tax amira figure it out so yeah i think you gotta just stick with the lady and and watch how all aspects of your life improve not just dating like things will clear up for you in so many different ways but you got to call that lady and be real about what went wrong okay we are wishing you the best of luck our last letter comes from robert who says i'm a 33 year old black gay man in a relationship with another black gay man who's the same age the other weekend imagine that i'm sorry the other weekend i went out with some friends to a bar i'm a person who loves to have fun and twerk with friends this particular night i was drinking quite a bit because it was in a associate's birthday i was really feeling the liquor and a few of my boyfriend's friends were also at the bar i was dancing with everybody child i danced with them and another guy that my boyfriend and i both know i'm well aware that i was probably having too much fun drinking and twerking and it probably looks like the dancing was something more than what it was of course it probably girl come out and say it why is she dancing i'm sorry of course me twerking on everybody got back to my boyfriend through his best friend who loves to exaggerate shit my boyfriend spent two days ignoring me before we had one five minute conversation where he said that he was ignoring me because i didn't tell him i was going to the club and because i was dancing all over some guy and everybody saw it i'm usually pretty good about keeping my boyfriend updated on my whereabouts but when it comes to friday and saturday nights it's more of a challenge because wherever i'm going is usually not planned out so it slips my mind to tell him if i decide to go out knowing my whereabouts makes him feel secure and i try to respect and honor that but if i don't it's hell to pay it's now been five days without contact except for that five minute conversation my boyfriend his friends and i have all been out together before and i've danced the same way with them and even arguably worse sure those friends were girls but it's still the same i think the difference is the embarrassment quote-unquote of people seeing it and the and the extra seasoning that i know his best friend put on me and i'm like i'm gonna go out and dance with him put on that story i feel a little complete she did a lot with that i feel horrible that i made my boyfriend feel embarrassed but i also feel misunderstood as usual because he's treating me as if i fucked that man on the dance floor i did speak with my friends who were at the club with me and they confirmed that i was just twerking all over the place like i usually do child do y'all have any advice thanks robert hmm this is interesting it is because he said based on what robert is saying the boyfriend said in the five minute conversation it isn't about him dancing on these people which i was wondering okay and then he's like you know i've danced on them like this arguably worse when he was with the boyfriend so yeah it sounds like the reason he's upset is because this was happening when he wasn't there and people were in the position of saying you know this nigga was dancing with such and such when when you weren't there so i mean i get how he feels i think five days i'm not talking to you behind it is a little too much so i suppose my i suppose my uh response to this would be a flat-out text or call or voice note or whatever the fuck that's like we need to sit down and have like an extended deep conversation about what's going on here because you know me you know what my intent is and like it isn't to harm you or fuck you up or run your names through the streets so like can we just have a conversation because this is going on for too long i think that's what i would do in this position and if i still get the cold shoulder or what have you i would just assume i'm single yeah once you go three days without talking to me i am single so i don't care no i'm not well maybe i don't care but i am single at this point we have one five-minute conversation and then you went back to ignoring me not speaking to me because you're so mad um i i don't care that you're mad because i was at the club twerking on somebody like i'm sorry i don't consider that to be a big deal i'm like you know i do and we've never cared about right so i don't care about that um yeah the this idea of like there's hell to pay if you don't tell him about your whereabouts i don't like that either because what do you mean right i'm grown nigga what do you mean i don't have to check in with you i don't have to ask permission like it this honestly sounds like a long distance relationship it sounds like he wants to be kept up to date because he's not in the city because why else would you be tripping like but did robert say that no i'm guessing i don't know for sure i'm assuming that's not the case because i feel like he would have i feel like robert would mention it probably don't you yeah it feels like this nigga is just controlling it does you pull you also pointed out a huge red flag yeah like police sirens this nigga talking about um oh i need to uh he needs to be aware of my whereabouts or he's uncomfortable the only gps going on over here is the girl police system you're not gonna tell me i'm like you need to know where i'm at bitch are you cool yeah do i look like somebody's 13 year old daughter he feels insecure when he don't know where i am that's a him bitch goodbye right uh can i recommend growing up healing whatever your attachment issues are stop trying to control me out of fear or whatever else like that i'm sorry that's weird behavior why would you crash out or have a meltdown because you don't know where i am knowing my whereabouts makes him feel secure what i'm sorry there's just certain things where if i feel like i'm genuinely in the wrong or i can see why you would be pissed even if i'm not in the wrong then i'm much more willing to have a conversation give some grace here but i was at the club twerking twerking not you saw me not you saw me fucking not you even saw me giving out my number or flirting you saw me twerking in the club drunk and you're not talking to me for people i've done this bitch the answer is no that is people you know what people you know it ain't no way i'm not i'm not trying now outside of controlling your whereabouts he's trying to manipulate your feelings and make you feel guilty even though he probably doesn't know what he's doing but he's trying to manipulate your feelings i don't even care no more but it's just like another position no dead ass he like it's just another position of power that some people just like get off on to like control your feelings and make you feel bad and and feel guilty and you do because you're writing into two of the rudest black niggas in the world asking us for advice about it when i would advise that you question this nigga oh who the fuck he thinks he is on this blue and green bitch are you like who are you talking to who are you talking to you need to know my whereabouts only whereabouts i need to know about are links zary thomas there's now i'm walking around like where the hell is this dog going out into the front i don't see her come back around this bitch poking her head out from underneath the bed why are you under the bed and why did you scare the shit out of me when i was calling you it's cozy under there she was playing games you know you're cute how did i know it wasn't prowlers yeah somebody could have i remember that oh yeah i need to know your whereabouts that is a giant red i'm not having that's a huge goodbye i'm not having that no you y'all had a five minute conversation and then he went back to not talking to you for the for another that is so weird yeah no i'm single i'm single as fuck actually and i'm going right back to the club i was just about to say that i was just about to say that i am back bus another club another club bus another club yeah and i'm going live on tiktok too since you don't like me twerking it's gonna be all over the fucking place what throw that ass in a circle yeah i mean i'm going i'm leaving back to the function i'm not taking i'm not and now i'm twerking with intent right because how are you embarrassed over that like i'm sorry i just at this massive age i can't fathom being embarrassed because my partner danced at the club drunk like i just don't care about that i really really don't i don't i don't you have to actively cheat for me to care right if you would have called me and been like you know such and such a lover of your thrown ass on such and such i've been like girl why did you call me for that i want to say like i'm watching wonder man exactly what robert do child every time i can't take that nigga nowhere that nigga twerking the kroger he twerk at the fucking part of him he just twerk let him have he just twerks babe thank you for telling me i appreciate you looking out you a good friend but don't let me be i'm from south florida baby we came out as soon as those legs unfold oh yeah we are twerking so it's just not something that i feel insecure about at all i don't care about it like you said if your friends called you and they're like i'm talking about tongue down esophagus right they were kissing for but then i might be like why don't you have people busting down my phone telling me that you kissing people how are you yeah no kissing is a line you can't cross with me but dancing is fine i'm just not and then we talk about it for five minutes and you go back to me ignoring me okay girl the five-minute conversation we i mean he i i think it's an issue when people don't talk to you about in a relationship especially and you have something you know there's something like this going on he's mad about it but he won't say nothing to you about it for two days and then he like okay well i'm at you for these reasons and then go back to not speaking like so at what point were we supposed to communicate about the issue at what point were we supposed to hash it out and figure out where we stood with each other because we could have had this conversation three days ago and definitively broke up and i could have been back in the club two nights ago but now i'm over here hanging in the balance waiting to see how you really feel and if you're gonna hit me up it's a there's you don't get to ignore me for days because you mad at me you do not sorry i will be single so fast and over something so damn right over something like something dumb right now they didn't call you like oh my god i saw him building a bomb out the bed like he was doing what he always do bitch please yeah it would be different if you caught me cheating in the club and your friend sent video of me you know rubbing up on some dyke in the club talking about what's in that backpack let's go out back you know that would be different that would be like tmz did to that divorcing light light skin man like tmz did to that and whoever that lady we still ain't really figured out whatever the fuck that was supposed to be whoever that lady was that lady said girl i just met him at the club and he was fine and so we started that right you ain't never made out with nobody in the club huh weird right you niggas lame yeah my advice is to just go ahead and send him a you don't get to not talk to me just because you mad this relationship is over uh text and then block him so that you don't have to worry about him responding and then make plans to go to the club that's what i would tell you to do because you me fucks up with this silent treatment shit nigga fuck no fuck no um but good luck robert if you do decide to try to work on it with this nigga because it sound like he's deeply insecure and this is gonna come up again so i'm manipulative as fuck if you want to start rearranging your entire life to make sure he always feels secure and never is worried about what you're doing then you feel free to put all that work in i'm not doing that you either trust me or you don't and i'm just not gonna give you a reason to distrust me but i don't think dancing in the club is a reason to distrust so um all right babes good luck with you and your man let us know what you decide to do that is going to wrap up the letters this week again if you have a question for us send us an email to ask the read at gmail.com we'll be right back we have returned it is now time for the read i will begin because mine are truly short. We'll see. I don't know, that might have been a lie. one nintendo oh non-nerds which is mostly all you maybe could just skip ahead i don't know like 60 seconds because you either not gonna know what i'm talking about you're not gonna give a fuck nintendo what are you doing taking all these people's money and giving us nothing in return why have you not upscaled so many of these games many exclusive nintendo games for the nintendo switch to now you just released a switch to version of animal crossing like two weeks ago that old ass covet era game that she should have launched with a nintendo switch to what are you talking about ultimate alliance 3 there's so many nintendo switch exclusive that should be upscaled to the switch to you by now but instead every day you got some ai hentai bullshit up on the nintendo e-shop why is that even allowed to be up on the damn stove ai games every two seconds everywhere you look but nothing to the y'all getting on my nerves why did i buy this system day one for what i'm finished with that secondly with all due respect i can't with the like earnest glorification of that white man who went to go get don lemon i'm glad that was cute the way you niggas have been glossing yeah we have this caucasian we have we don't get out of my system i can't i cannot with this like what what now we're shimmy shaking over the white girl scooping us up i'm lost because i feel like if this is your husband you locked over it up over some disgusting like horrendous injustice bitch you better come get me as a what was he supposed to do kick it bitch you better go get your nigga and you better be pissed about it why why are we giving this gas we did why are we giving this we did a lot i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm i don't buy it he should have went to go get his husband and he should have been pissed many of us were pissed and we not married to the nigga yeah bitch about oh if my man don't pick nia from jill looking like this then he ain't my man that's because your man would never come and pick you up bitch bitch he'd probably be in there with you what are we talking about you want to kick um sparklers and fireworks out for this caucasian it won't be me i'm finished i would as one of those ones i won't hear it i'm kidding it's really the looks on their faces it's like perfect it's meme i know perfection it really is mean perfection but we have been giving that white man a lot human he is and don lemon look at like a little is like he tucking his 30 inch bust down behind his ears like thank you to my man thank you to my man yeah i get that the like the facial expressions were our partner yeah but there were like meme jokes and then there was like oh my god white man yeah it's like okay now y'all going too fucking cruel stay focused yeah catch the plot yeah i'm done it was uh y'all we have been given that white man a lot y'all we have but he was supposed to go get that nigga he absolutely was supposed to use every drop of his white privilege financial privilege whatever the privilege he got to get don lemon out of jail and fight whatever the trump administration is trying to do to him so uh but i but i understand it was i had a good time with that he walked out there looking like like sailor moon and and tuxedo oh lord he was skipping like sorry it really is it's uh it's don't get too close to my man now it's the little smirk on his face like yeah my daddy came to get me i knew my daddy was gonna come well um like like hair flip tremendous hair flip oh stop my daddy wasn't gonna come get me but amen amen what the fuck did you i know why but it was fun it was fun we had a good time yeah it was there a lot of them were funny um so as for me sorry first of all um america officially took over tiktok and now tiktok is just what please please i don't know yeah i don't tiktok has really fallen off drastically as far as like the for you page excuse me and all that over the past week or so and i don't know if it's the trump administration's fault or if everybody just decided to delete after these new terms of service came out because it was like yeah you will be giving the american government all of your data including your exact location and your sexuality your gender identity your social security number so it's like yeah a lot of people are just off of it but i mean i tiktok was genuinely my favorite social media app and i am devastated by it why does america keep fucking with your clock like it was bad enough and honestly it ain't been the same since it since that first shutdown a few months ago where it was like oh yeah yeah the word trump threatened and all that and we was gone for like 24 hours and all the rest of the app was like oh my god we missed the american it honestly has not been the same since then but there's been another shift over the past week where it's like y'all really just don't want me to use this app no more like it's sad because it's my favorite but anyway that's not my real read this week um can i say something real quick about that though of course you can tiktok is one of those apps now where people are getting here's the hard truth about these fuck bitches like immediately yeah he meet like the second of yeah and oh would you like the history and then it's even white people who got the little background like black history are like you know indigenous americans and how they could smell these white people from miles away like all of that yeah so i'm not surprised that america is fucking with your clock app because they want to you know get the streets together yeah you know they want our data and they're gonna do horrible things with it and i should probably delete my accounts but i'm also supposed to be like promoting my shows it's like i don't know probably should keep it but at least not scroll on it all the time i don't know i don't know but it's sad because i do genuinely like tiktok's just been great and so what's the for you page looking like now well mine is giving me weird religious stuff like oh yeah there it is sounds about right yeah and like rage baby stuff and it's just like take me back to my old old algorithm where it was just like gay shit and steven universe and you know the random tick like dog videos and stuff like it's just gotten weirder steven universe lo-fi ah the key to my so good oh yes yeah um but uh the epstein files are out i have not looked through them i will not look through them um because i know that they are too much for me to handle i will wait for journalists to report on these stories a lot of them have been extremely disturbing the deepak chopra shit the steven hawking shit it's just the anyway i don't even want to get into details um who i know i don't even and actually i don't even think he is doing this because of epstein files i think this is because of that white man who got murdered in minnesota but andrew schultz recently went on i guess this is brilliant idiots but he's with charlemagne but yeah that's probably brilliant so he starts talking about how he never thought any of this shit with trump could happen and he always thought that the systems in place congress and the constitution like would check trump and he would never do anything this crazy and now ice is out here killing white men well he didn't say that part but obviously like ice killing a white man affected andrew schultz in a way that none of the other shit trump has done actually came through and made an impact but he started talking about how um the liberals it just makes all the liberals and their catastrophic whining and crying that they did before the election and all of a sudden they're like oh my god i don't know what to do with this it makes them look like they are completely reasonable rational people and they were making total sense and i just can't defend this anymore you know i thought these people were out of their fucking minds but actually you validated everything the liberals said about you by you know using ICE to do this and not deporting any bad guys. You're going after citizens and just basically saying that Andrew Schultz now understands with anybody with half of a functioning brain has understood since 2016 that Donald Trump is a lying piece of shit who is going to use America to make as much money as possible. And if that means bankrupting America, then so fucking be it. He don't care. But he is going to sow as much chaos, confusion and turmoil on this country as he possibly can to better his own bottom line. Now, again, this has been very fucking obvious for a very fucking long time. But since this video came out, countless people have tagged me talking about Crystal Ben told y'all I can't wait for her to say something about this. Crystal told y'all Andrew Schultz wasn't shit, you know, 10, 11 years ago. True. I did. Andrew Schultz. I actually did see one of those. Andrew Schultz is. He is. In the new Street Fighter. I'm joking. Let me. Isn't he? Isn't he like Waluigi or something? Yeah, he's in there. Waluigi. Crystal just keep going. I don't think that was a joke. I didn't keep reading. Waluigi. Yeah. And like Smash Brothers or something. But anyway. Andrew Schultz is unique because he has the money and the platform to, you know, interview Trump and help Trump get elected. He has the influence to sway certain people to also support Trump or support Trump's ideologies. It's crazy to me that he's that popular. I honestly had no idea until I could. He's huge. I had no idea until the. What was them niggas? The British niggas. The Inet niggas. And they went on his show. They went on Andrew's show. And Andrew starts. Oh, I don't know their names. Shits and gigs. I didn't know Andrew was that fucking popular until the shits and gigs. Shit happened. And then Chris Morrow was like, oh, Andrew Schultz is. He's out of here. He's up there with Joe Rogan and shit. Yeah. I had no idea. So he's unique in that way. However, there are a lot of people who have been pro-Trump or trying to tell us, more importantly, that we're doing too much. We're overreacting. We're just being crazy and sounding the alarm and being extremists. And it's not going to be that bad. And then our institutions will save us as if we don't have eyes and have not already experienced this shit before. Like, it's not even new. It's not even new. You campaigned for this nigga recently after his first term in office. He was bad then. I don't know why y'all thought he needed the space and opportunity to do even worse. Be bad again. But that is going to be one of the history of the planet's major questions. Yeah. And you will not have an answer that makes sense because for all of you, it boils down to ignorance and bigotry or both. Yeah. It really does. Because you're both stupid. You either don't know what you're talking about or you willingly embrace some of the horrible shit that he says and believes in and does. Or both. So I don't want to discourage other people from coming over. Well, and I won't even give him all that. Because. Because I can't say that I believe that Andrew Schultz is genuine in this. Like, I think he means what he's saying, but I don't think he's going to turn around and start, you know, being a leftist and campaigning for, you know, ending capitalism or whatever. I think he's just realized that you there is no defending the ice shit and it may even be having some sort of impact on him financially at this point. I really don't know. But I don't want to discourage all the people who are now trying to. I don't want to divest from Trump to from doing that. I do indeed want y'all to get off Trump's dick. Stop supporting him. Start getting out here in these streets, connecting with your neighbors and caring about other fucking people. But you have to understand that the rest of us are going to have something to say about it. OK, people going to get it off. They fuck all the time. We don't get it. Because this was so goddamn avoidable. And yes, you can sit there and take. And I told you. So or two, when you reelected this nigga and put him in the position to do this shit now. Right. You can take it. You can take a. Well, goddamn. How is it? How is it that a white man had to be murdered by ice for you to decide to start giving a shit? That's a fair question. And you should have to answer it. You don't get to be mad at us for saying, well, what the fuck took you so long? Or. Rolling our eyes at you, bitch. Look at what we're dealing with. It's horrible out here. Everything is worse. All the shit y'all said y'all cared about that you were voting for Trump. All of that shit is worse. Groceries. Worse. Gas. Worse. Rent. The worstest. It's all health care. Y'all saying your premiums go up two, three, four times what it was in previous years. Taxes. Through the roof. Regular everyday people not getting tax returns no more. And you just now realizing it. All of a sudden you make $48,000 a year and you got to send the government more money at the end of the year. And you wonder what the fuck happened. It's Andrew Schultz. It's Theo Vaughn. It's Joe Rogan. It's other white men with microphones on podcasts having this sort of influence. Not caring what they do with it. Actively advocating for somebody who is going to harm the majority. And you simply didn't give a fuck until somebody who looks like you was on the wrong end of the gun. So no, I'm not glad you finally got. I'm not like, oh, yay. Oh, Andrew Schultz. Yes. Yeah. No, I'll be. I'll be on your show. Let's talk about it. Let's hug. No, it's still fuck you, girl. Because we didn't have to be here in the first place. And I'm not even going to say that all you had to do was listen to black women because, duh, all you had to do, but genuinely, all you had to do was open your goddamn eyes and pay attention from 2016 to 2020. How was the insurrection not enough? How was grappling by the putter not enough? If the sky were to crack open right now and a chariot came through, black women would be like, oh, my God. Black women would be the first. They would still be like, I told you, bitches. I told y'all. I told you. So suck it up, buttercup. It's not. You don't even have to listen to us. You could have just looked at what happened the first goddamn time. I mean, I thought that's what was going to happen. The fact that he was even allowed to run again, much less have this much support like y'all. I mean, word. Yeah, you don't get every bit of this. Wow, nigga, the fuck took you so long? You don't get every bit of that from me. And I don't feel bad about it. I feel like people should be like, oh, yeah, of course, because this. Like, I don't even know. Anyways, I'm not a white person. So I guess because my black ass would be like, oh, yeah, I'm going to get dragged for this for a while because I was stone cold wrong or all in hell. But I do want to see you dragging yourself and talking about how stupid you were for this and how much you regret it. I do like that. You can keep talking bad about yourself. And what a fuck. Fucking idiot you are. That's great. But it won't be no open arms. Oh, come over. Oh, yes. Oh, well, we don't have to talk about the things you did. Wonk. Let's hold hands and walk together. It won't be none of that. You need to do your work to undo the bullshit you did or try to repair the bullshit that you did. I've been over here. You think Kamala would have had ice going? Going around, picking up American citizens, shooting people in the fucking face. Falling out of coconut trees. So, yeah, fuck Andrew Schultz. Still. Still. Good for this one thing. But I don't even like I said, I have my doubts about whether he's even being completely sincere about that. So I'm never going to give a white man. Well, other than Don Lemon. His husband. I gave him a lot. But but he's the only one. Damn it. Tim is it. And that time has passed. Did you see that SNL sketch from this past weekend of the. Oh, it is. I think it was the first one of the show. It was. What's that tall white? It's a tall white actor. Some man. I forgot his name. I think it's Swedish. But it's. Oh, I think he's talking about. Alexander Skarsgård. Yes. Skarsgård. That's it. So. But anyway, this sketch was like a Trump supporting mom who is trying to tell her for like millennial kids, Gen Z kids that she is changing her mind about Trump. And now she's realizing that like is one line of like the way they talk about guns is different for different people. And they didn't see. They wanted me to get mad about trans people. but now I'm realizing I don't see what the big deal is. And the kids are all, like, trying not to go, like, they trying not to drag the fuck out of the mama. But then she throws a big temper tantrum, and she's like, you gotta let me have my space. Do you want this to be real? All right, give me grace. Like, she's throwing a fit because she just wants to be able to say, oh, yeah, I was wrong, and nobody push back at her or talk about the harm she has. It's so funny. It's so funny. I think the girl's name is Ashley Padilla. She is so good. Yeah, I think, I legit think it was the first sketch of the night. It should come up pretty easily, but that. Did they say, lie from New York at the end? No, no, no, it's not the intro. It's, like, a real sketch. Oh, you mean, like, the sketch after the monologue? Yeah, yeah, yeah, the sketch after the monologue. Yeah. Oh, here it is, mom confession. Yeah, I'm gonna watch this later. No, it's so funny. But that is basic. I am her children screaming back. Look at Andrew Schultz saying, how could you not know he was gonna do this when he explicitly said he would do this? You platformed the man. You sat down in front of him and gave him a big laugh and endorsed him. You voted for him. You didn't read Project 2025. You didn't pay attention to what that nigga is actually about. You were thinking about yourself. I bet Trump smell like pennies. You're a rich white man. Kamala Harris would have raised your taxes. That is the long and short of it. You didn't want to believe that he would do all this evil shit. Or you wanted to lie to yourself about it. Or you just want to say something to us now so people will get off your dick about it. Because I'm sure you're getting harassed all the time about your support of Trump. Whatever it may be, you're gonna get this pushback. You're gonna get this, what the fuck took so long? Because you deserve it. I'm talking about the fact that you have to understand. These are groups of people who are tired of not being heard. Like, niggas are tired of screaming into the clouds. Hey, hello. And being ignored. And then you get to like, oh, common sense. And you want fireworks. Bitch, if you don't shut the fuck up. It's just like, what do you expect people's reaction to be? It was right there. It was all written out. Published. Published on the internet for you to see. Donald Trump, every time he opens his mouth, said something hateful or ignorant. Or that was going to be going against the majority of the American people. Like, all you had to literally do was read or listen. You just, you had to even remotely want to know what the fuck was going on. The nigga was in office before. Y'all don't remember that? Yeah. Okay. Okay. All right. So now here. Here we all are suffering like fuck. Because y'all wanted to ignore what was right in front of your faces. You, Andrew, at least had a financial incentive. I don't know what the fuck is wrong with the rest of them crackers. The broke ones. Y'all scared of trans. Like, wait till you see the sketch. Oh, I'm watching this as soon as we go. She was like, uh, I think maybe drag queens are hilarious. Anyway. Um. That's it for me. Yeah. I was, I was trying to think if there was anything else that was, um, that came up, but no, I've seen a lot of allegations about some other people in the Epstein files. Again, I will not be looking through those to see for myself. I will be checking, uh, respected journalistic, uh, news sources for the breakdown on all that, but I will not be going through that for, for my own benefit. interest in my own best interest for my own mental health i will not looking at some of it and no they said there's like 2 000 videos there's a there's a lot of no fucking thank you i actually don't even need to read that shit nope whoever was out here uh forcing themselves on the kids you can go ahead and throw them in a burning pit of whatever's burning you can go ahead and do that that's how i feel about all of them go ahead and do it um okay and i think that will wrap up this week's episode of the read check us out um online all over social media we are at this is the read on all social media platforms our website is this is the read.com i want to thank dr joy for being my guest this week on crystal's couch answering dr joy answering some of your more clinical questions things where i was like whoo now i know i got a degree but let me let me wait until a a licensed clinical i have my towel right she has hurt you know it's very important to know where your own limitations are so i just said you know some of these i'm gonna bring in the big guns so thank you so much dr joy for donating your time uh you can find all episodes at crystalscouch.com any news from you this week you can find both of my titties at kidfury.com you can also all right come over to patreon.com slash kid fury where you can get a piece of our monthly playlist we're doing monthly streams and also i realized the other day that at my big age i've officially been this kid named fury for 20 whole years what so oh my god two decades into the fray wow if you would like to see footage of me record our reacting to my first ever youtube video and trying not to plug both my eyes out of my head patreon.com slash kid fury yay for me happy anniversary yes indeed the original baby the og baby that reminds me of duran's uh grammy speech when he said he's been doing this for over 20 years i'm like you don't even look like you old enough to have been doing this for over 20 years but of course you have and and now look at the both of you so very successful all these years later so congrats look at you thank you that's it all right girls and boys and everything in between take care of yourselves we'll see y'all next week