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The Silence of the Lamb

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The Silence of the Lamb

The segment celebrates Black excellence through Bia Froden’s journey from body double in *King Richard* to a real tennis competitor at the US Open, emphasizing authenticity in representation. The hosts explore the emotional depth of sports like tennis, contrasting it with the complexity of football, and highlight Naomi Osaka’s powerful presence. A satirical anime concept featuring Megan Thee Stallion as a hero against AI-powered antagonists blends humor with cultural commentary. The discussion turns to serious issues: the conviction of Dwayne Keith D. Davies in a Tupac murder case, the controversial role of Nicki Minaj in a Trump administration reality show, and the mental health struggles of Doja Cat and Lizzo. The hosts critique the persistent racial bias toward Lizzo, despite legal outcomes, and question Raven Baxter’s public statements about race, suggesting deep trauma from her industry experience. Listener letters add depth, promoting Black cultural games and discussing personal boundaries—such as a friend’s poor singing in the car and a young person’s struggle to assert independence from overinvolved parents. The overarching theme is the importance of self-compassion, authenticity, and accountability in personal and public life.

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Welcome back, Niggas and Friends, and additional slurs. I am Blackass Raven Baxter, and I'm doing her in the kitchen, and this is the read. Thank you for joining us. It definitely is, and thank you indeed. Welcome back to the two niggas who talk shit, and you know, I've been doing it forever and copy whatever reason y'all let us. And what we do with the top of the program is we begin with some Black Excellence. This week I'm going to give Black Excellence over to a lovely woman by the name of Bia Froden. She was a body double in the film King Richard for Demi. What's her name? Demi Singleton? Yeah. Demi Singleton played Serena Williams, a young Serena Williams in the film King Richard with Wolf Smith, and Bia Froden was her body double. And now she is playing her first ever US Open singles match against the number two player in women's tennis. This is a big deal. This is something that she's clearly very prepared for. She's from Los Angeles. And she won the USDA Billie Jean King Girls 18 national championships, which earned her a wild card onto the field. She was playing at the 10 and under level in California when singles doubles and mixed doubles in sexual titles. And she was invited to audition for King Richard. And that's where she got that part. She said I was on set for six months. And I got to be alongside some really cool actors. And obviously we'll Smith and just a whole experience was super cool for me. And obviously to be able to play the double or the role of somebody that I look up to. And I've always been inspired by it was truly like a very special experience for me. Oh my goodness. I'm ashamed of this actually, but it's just now occurring to me that obviously the doubles that they use in these movies are people who are very good at that sport. Like I don't. I'm like, I guess I just would have assumed that they trained some actress to you know, hit the ball convincingly. They're like, no, actually, let's go find black girls who does this. Who are on their way to being the next generation of bad bitches in tennis and and pluck them up out of that. So I just love that story. And I love that I learned something new. But yeah, that's that's full circle if anything is. And your defense when I was reading this, I damn sure was like, oh yeah, I guess they need somebody who's like a place tennis. Yeah, like, oh yeah. Okay. Yeah. Why would it be some actress when you could get a girl who actually, you know, plays the game. So that it was like you would save time. Yeah. I've been watching the US open. I haven't. Maybe I still don't know what's going on. Really? I mean, I keep trying with tennis, but I never know when it's over. It feels like you got to win. I don't know. Is it like best of five or something? Best of seven. You got to win. Hell of matches. And then that final point, you got to score like three times in a row or some shit before they let you win for real. I'm like, oh my god. Let me call Amber. Yeah. You have to like have a match point. Then there's the game point and all these different things. That point. Yeah. That point. It's actually not that complicated. Right. Football is way more complicated. Football. Now I have to disagree. Why? American football. Yes. What's complicated? It's only a few ways to score. I'm not even just talking about score. I'm talking there. It's like playing them. What's happening on the yards? Stop it. Okay. Multiple different positions. Yeah. You have so much going on on a football field at the same time. That's true. Then scoring is works a specific way. But then if you don't score, here's this big why. Now that's it. Like girl. That's like America football have a ton of moving parts. So it's busier for sure. What's going on the field is a lot. But tennis is just like, when is it actually over? I can't tell. But I was, you know, I was up. Not. I don't want to say all night being dramatic. But they had Naomi Osaka come out the other night at like 11 30 p.m. And I was like literally. Are you? Do they tell her girl? You're going to be like the closer of the night or whatever. So stay in bed till 2 p.m. Because like, I would be pissed. I got up at like six o'clock thinking, yeah, I'm finna go US open. And they're like, no bitch. Not till damn near midnight. Are you coming now? Sure. She knew. Yeah. With the decent amount of time. Sure. What time that she was going to be playing? They're organized over there. Yeah. Girl speaking of that fucking look that she walked out insane. Insane by law roach. Baby. Alan Iverson inspired. I didn't even discuss that. At first, I thought, okay, the break is giving AI. Like what? And then they showed during her match, the clip of them talking about it. She had worn an Alan Iverson shirt to her press to her press her earlier. And she was talking about how she was so inspired by him and, you know, all this stuff. And then they showed that he had responded on Twitter. And was like, oh my god, this is so crazy. I'm a huge fan. Can't wait to meet you. You know, blah blah. So yeah, but that was a fucking look. I said, Naomi, you were better, bitch. Ah, I just love her. I mean, I love her too. Same. So beautiful. We're figuring it out. Yeah, I'm gonna try and dial in and, you know, some of the goings on because, yeah, tennis is one of the few sports out there that I can follow. You know what would help. Mario tennis speed. I'm not. No, it wouldn't. You know how I know? Cause once by the time I had a we and do you think we tennis helped me learn fuck all about tennis? Fair enough. No, it's not happening. Did not love me some Mario Tennis game set match. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. This week in hot tops of pop culture segment and lifestyle. First of all, when is the, where's where's the, the the mega stallion anime? Oh, well, you know, animation takes a while. It really does. I'm not going to rush. So yeah, because we do want real people drawing that we do not please. Oh, let's be serious. Please don't AI this shit. Please, please. Absolutely. You'll take your time. Absolutely. No. I mean, if it was AI, I think it'd be out by now. Right. We would have you right. We would have been had because it would have been done in three hours. So I'd love like some concept art. Maybe a little sketch of a character or two concept art. These doesn't even always have like the final look. Let's just hear a little something to feed the girls stuff on the story. But yeah, you said we are starving. Megan, please. Like what the fuck happened? I'm hungry. You already got me on the edge with this blonde hair. Okay, you are, you beckon teen a snow back into our lives. And they're like, no, when I feel like it dumb bitch. And I can't argue with that. No, I'm sorry. Did you, did you see the TikToks this bitch made when she took Kellen on vacation for his birthday? Of course, I did. That one looks like that one in the black swimsuit. Agreed just out of bounds. I just with all due respect, I want to know what you taste like. This is insane. How do you look like this? No, how in the fuck do you look like this? You, you can't be for real, man. Like, and I don't even feel that way about make like I'm in general. I'm not sexually attracted to make. I see what I see. Like, obviously, I can see what I know. I see what the Lord has done. But yeah, that she is so far. Oh my god. God was like, oh my calls. She is absolutely. That is just gorgeous. If the alien said, bring your baddest bitch out. I'm going to get mad. Yeah. God damn. Shapely beautiful. Yeah. Like bitches at your birthday are Kellen birthday, like on air. Like. And then both of y'all just far and beautiful. Triple cheeked up. Like unstoppable. Without effort. Oh, yeah. If Megan Asalian is the, if like, [BLANK_AUDIO] or hot girl Meg or Tina Snow, like what do you, if you could make the anime about something? What do you think her character would be? - Mm! - Yours. - Well, is it, is it her anime? Like Megan is a character in the anime, or is she like pretty much a character? - Yeah, just imagine she's a character. - Oh, okay. Well, I don't know, 'cause my first thought was whoever the main character is, like they go around beating Niggas up. (laughing) My thought is like, yeah, the Tory lanes of the world and et cetera, the Niggas who got so much to say about women while they don't take care of themselves or their children or anything else. And, you know, just constantly picking at Meg for being fine and knowing it and not being ashamed of herself. You know, the main character of this anime just goes around and snaps them Niggas next. - Yeah. - That's what I was thinking. But maybe anime is not so violent like that, or not so, okay, you and all the other nerds let out a hearty chuckle at that one. (laughing) - You're not only anime, I know it's the universe and Tukki don't ask, you know that. And you know that. - Bitch, you don't even fuck with Tukki don't say it on that. - And I don't, and I don't, correct. - Tukki see it on mask. - I really haven't watched "Stay the Moon" over a fun and beginning. That young lady was insufferable. I'm like, "Well, shut up." (laughing) - She couldn't, it was like she just never, ever said something smart. Like it was just always. (laughing) - I mean, she was about like 14 or whatever. - Right. - But so are all the other sailor scouts that all the girls are the same age. And they're like, "Bitch, there's an alien who is trying to kill your mother." So, so could you get off of the Tukki donate for three seconds? Right. - Yeah, I think that you're, I think we're kind of in the same ballpark. I see there being like, like an evil legion of fuck megas. And maybe at the top, like the head of that is maybe, like let's say it's a Tory Lanez-esque character, then maybe there's like a, you know, like we don't even compare them to actual artists, right? There's just fuck megas in that regard, who are like a legion of evil. You have one specific one, right? Maybe they all have like different weapons and shit. But what the lead person does is he has robots, AI. He uses AI and robots as his like minions. (humming) Right. So he said he uses AI to like give these robots, like personality and like he uses them to try, like they're basically like a reflection of the world. Like imagine if like Chagy T, Chagy B.T. or what's it called? Siri one of those things was like in the mind of a robot. So they're supposed to be extra extra smart, but obviously AI is very flawed. - Right. - So those are like the regular minions that Meg has to fight. And then every couple of episodes kind of like Sailor Moon, where Queen Barrow would send one of her jits out to be like, "Oh, whatever." And then they would kill that bitch. - Oh, I forgot about her. - Oh yeah. - Okay. - So Tori would be like the Queen Barrow and then he would have other fuck megas who would be like, okay, these robots are not killing me 'cause she's the best bitch, okay. So you go out there and then Megan would kill that bitch. And it would be sort of kill Billy until she gets to the final one and then kills them. - Yeah. - For her power. - I'd really love if it was kind of like a black canary. Nothing too, you know, extra-terrestrial, supernatural, weirdy, weirdy. Black canary and DC can like scream. Like she has like a supersonic scream that could just destroy someone. So maybe Meg is like, ah. But then that turns into like this huge burst of. - Oh, okay. - And it can like level a building. But also she's very good at martial arts and she has a sword. - Okay, I like that. - I'm finished. - I think that could work. I do. I maybe don't fully see how it all comes together but it does sound entertaining, yes. - Yeah, there's an idea in there somewhere. I think both of us hate this. - Yeah, I'll take that. - Okay, let's talk about some other shit. So this man, Dwayne Keith D. Davies was found guilty in orchestrating the murder of Tupac. - Oh yes, I did see that. - Some 30 years later, from the time that Tupac was murdered. Jury's gone ahead, going ahead and locking up Sir Keith D. Not for pulling the trigger. - Right. - But for being the one who orchestrated the murder, gave information about Tupac. It's supposed location. And I think gave supplied the gun. - Oh, yeah. - That yeah, they used to kill him. Sounds like the Jury didn't take too much time. And you know, went ahead and locked him up. Let me find his sentence saying. But there's no, oh he hasn't received a sentence. - Yeah. - He just got it, wait on a date. But yeah, it's wild that I just read this. As Tupac was murdered when I was an absolute baby. - Right. - And since then, I've lived with nothing. I've lived with nothing but conspiracy theories and wild speculation. And I think just the decision that this was going to be a cold case or whatever. So to randomly wake up and see this old nigga and be like, yep, he set up Tupac to be shot. And we're locking him up. It's like, well, I guess God takes his time. Like I don't know, he worked on his schedule. - Well, I mean, I do remember when they first announced that this was going to be like a trial or whatever. And then when I saw the headline about him being convicted, I went in and did you know that he was convicted because he said that he did this? - Yeah. - I said, oh, this is why you niggas got to stop self-publishing because he put in a memoir in 2019. It's called Compton Street Legend. If you don't know about it, he was like, yeah. So I was in the white catty. I procured the gun. I set all this shit up and I did what I did 'cause I'm a Compton legend. And so they were like, yeah, exhibits A through Z are this niggas own words and his lawyer had to be like, you're not niggas just being talky. (laughing) - Girl, if I was a defense attorney, I would have, if I was the prosecutor, I would have fully open with my legs crossed and that memoir open to the specific page. - Yeah. - Y'all know, I'd like to direct you to page 37. And which Mr. Davis clearly states that he is the problem? - Here I come with 12 hard copies for the jury. So y'all can just peruse this at your leisure. You know, don't let me rush you into anything. This niggas- - All right. - Sad he did it. Here goes the book. You can just read it. - I three whole punched it for you. (laughing) Okay, just that matter. - Oh my God, yeah. So this, he would have probably died never being held accountable for this had he just never published this little book, pamphlet memoir, whatever. I don't know how long it is, but yeah. So niggas going down by his own court. - I hope your, you know, jail get up is blue. It looks like it is. - Mm. Well, if you're really a Compton Street legend, you might, you know, have a good time in here. I heard the OG's and them be getting all the talkies first and. - I mean, they probably already knew. Like, it seemed like probably a bunch of niggas knew and they'd just go say nothing 'cause niggas don't do that. So. - Right. - So they go welcome him. - Right, they'd be like, oh yeah, what's up? You really play yourself, bro. That's crazy. I wonder if anybody will be like, wow. Niggas, I bet you're not gonna write shit or. (laughing) - Where? - That's just, when I saw that detail, I said, wow, you really just can't let a nigga get in the way of fucking himself over. You just. - They will always take an opportunity. - I wonder did he mention this to literally any woman while he was thinking of writing this book. (laughing) And did maybe just even one woman say, you know, confessing to a crime. (laughing) - Especially one murder. It just doesn't feel like the sort of thing one should put in writing. You know? - Cheers. - It doesn't feel like a great idea. But here we are. - He looks like he doesn't let women in his life speak. - Well, and you know what? Then you got what you deserved, if that's the case. - You got what you deserved. But again, I think he will be welcomed with open arms since the president. - Yeah. - He will have first day with bottomless hooch and freedo pie. - And go for him. Enjoy it. Nicki Minaj is going to be judging a Trump administration reality show, and it's at this point that I just asked God to hurry up with the asteroid. What do you mean a Trump reality show? This bitch nigga is basically doing their practice in the White House. The Trump administration, according to Fox News, is bringing a $1 million small business pitch competition to Washington next month. Nicki Minaj, Grant Cardone, and Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebya will judge the five finalists with Dean Kane hosting, this reminded me of a Dean Kane ain't shit, that's fine. Apparently you'll take place on September 18th, they will award $400,000 to the winner. $400,000 sounds stupid. It does, and I don't, isn't this something like the president not supposed to be doing? White. Yeah. Is the president supposed to be producing reality TV from the over office? Is this, it just kind of seems like you're not supposed to be doing this. I'll tweak it, what are you doing? Nothing is real. Nothing is real. Nothing anymore. Okay. Find the member couple weeks ago, and I played that past three from that young man who sat there. Just bring that, just bring Tevin back. We need Tevin. To say it all over again, because yuck, what the, what the, nothing is real. Nobody, nobody else is doing no money, so. Well Nicki Minaj is very excited to be taking part in small business administration's million dollar pitch competition, great name. She retweeted the Fox News post and said, this is a major, major key with the key emoji. I think she means coke. So, looking, so looking forward to this. Imagine being a part of the Trump administration's initiative to support small businesses. Yeah. Imagine that. No, I won't do that. Let's go. Why would I do that to myself? Why would she make music? Such a long time ago. I love not being on Twitter, because I never know what the fuck she's up to until, like, I love that. Because what girl, I forgot she spoke so wack, like, the fall off really got to be documented. This is, I mean, gosh, so white. Do you remember that loony tunes cartoon where daffy duck was playing Robin Hood? No. He was trying to like swing through the air or some shit like that. At some point, he ended up tripping down like a bunch of shit and keep hitting trees and Porky is just sitting there laughing at his ass, like a classic cartoon, but he's like singing at the same time anyway, one of y'all will pull up a clip of this because you absolutely know what I'm talking about. That's Nicki's fall off. Go ahead and read it. It is like, it isn't, it is a superb and cartoonish fall off because it feels like it didn't have to happen. And it didn't. None of this regard. Right. And you know what could have saved it, therapy. Had Nicki Minaj gone to therapy in, like, 2016, we would not be having this conversation. Consistent. Had she prioritized working through her shit? She would have never married that man and we would have all of this, it just would not be this way. She is, this is a cautionary tale to everybody who comes up on some money and all of a sudden you have every door in the world open to you and you're surrounded by people who can do anything for you and your fortune has just completely changed. You really got to prioritize yourself. Nicki Minaj never prioritized her mental health. She never prioritized really addressing what is going on in her life or why she was doing things that are harmful to herself and now look at her, now look at her, sucking Trump dick, married to a nigga with no job. Had Cardi B out of Twitter telling you about what you had Cardi on Twitter reading off the 10 most recent transactions on your MX account. Haha, baby, what's this, Nicki, it never had to be like this, but that last back and forth was trash. Oh, yeah, when she said that's why he was favorite colors, five or some shit, I said, Cardi, you shot out, shot the look out, but yeah, had Nicki just addressed her shit when it first started popping up and holding her back, I don't, you know, I just think we would be looking at continued domination from higher end, more of a level of just respect and peace within herself. You know, it just never seemed like Nicki was satisfied, like not only did she have to believe she's the best, which is fine, but y'all had to believe it too. And if 100% of people didn't agree and if she lost something, anybody else and all the beasts with the other rap girls, young girls and not like all of that signals, internal issues that are unacknowledged and unresolved. You remember in the first season of Game of Thrones when Robert Baratheon found out about Daenerys, when she was like, and he was like, well, we have to go kill that bitch because he's going to try and come for the throw, yeah, yeah, and keep the rap in, I mean, Robert Manaus, like trauma, trauma and yeah, and now here we are, you over here is so desperate for a shreds of relevance and dollar bills that you are being a willing puppet for this man in his administration and the many horrors they're carrying out, like, I just would hate that one. Chris was like major major he. Like you said, a giant key of cocaine, it's gonna be a lot of coke you guys. You know, they doing a bunch of drugs in that white house. They not working white hair on ayahuasca way loads. Yes. Yeah. Catamene G. Mm-hmm. G. Out. Yeah. So. And how are they not dead? Like, how is the present? Okay. Any day. He's moldy. Crystal. Like, he's like, it's, he's barely upright. Dolly Parton, but Joe Biden is a lot. Okay. He's at, he is 1,012 years old. And he's made up, he's 38% McDonald's. So what are we doing? I don't, come on, cholesterol, you got to do your thing. I'm having McDonald's in the years, maybe a fry, I don't know. Okay, rapper Doja Cat has come forward to talk about her experience with self-hatred. She also admitted to having a problem with coke eight years ago, as well as problems with alcohol and combining that with worrying way too much about what Niggas are saying online. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Um, would you see this? I did. I actually saw it on TikTok, so I said, let me hurry up and watch these before she, before she gets tired and Niggas talking about her and deleting them. So yeah. How do you think? Um, well, I, I have a soft spot for Doja Cat because she's been open, not just about her diagnosis, but also about her journey and therapy and all this. So when I see somebody actually putting in the work to change and demonstrating through their behavior and their words that they are changing, I have a lot more, you know, empathy patients understanding grace for that. So, um, you know, her talking about having a coke, I mean, and half the time she was either cussing at her cat because he was getting into shit, he wasn't supposed to get into. Exil was not worried about it. It's at all right. And then, you know, a lot of it was, I know I'm finna say this and y'all finna be like, yeah, the bitch. It was extremely obvious. You know, there's a lot of, I understand that I'm saying things y'all already know. And I think it's useful for me to admit it and talk about it publicly. It helps others. It helps me. It's scary, but I should still do it. You know, all these sorts of things that sound to me like somebody who is really putting in the work in her personal life. I'm glad to hear it, yes, girl, we knew you was a self-hate and black girl and when we found out, you was raised by a white mama, your daddy, you know, just kind of did whatever and then you moved to a all white neighborhood when you was seven years old and all made sense. So yeah, I get it. I'm not, I'm rooting for her, but, you know, this, unfortunately, this is a lot of people's stories. And she said that too. She's like, I'm not the only biracial person who struggles with where they fit in in the world and where they belong or do they belong. Right, you not. So. it's just hard to be the one person that everybody can see and that everybody is talking about. So when she said, you know, undiagnosed mental illness plus drug and alcohol problem plus social media equals the worst shit of your life. I was like, oh yeah, corrected does. And she said, you know, when I go online and I'm already feeling bad about myself, I'm already hating myself. And then somebody else is making comments that reaffirmed that hatred in myself. It's like something about that is appealing and it's it's it's magnetic and you are kind of drawn to it and you want to talk about it and also, you know, she put out three or four different videos. I found it very interesting. I knew Niggas was going to latch onto the coke and the self-hating thing because racial chat showing feet, but as somebody with the degree, I was far more interested in hearing her talk about her progress and, you know, where she has been and what she has learned in therapy and how she's coming to see herself and realize her situation now. So good for her to be able to believe. Yeah, yeah. It's it's brave for celebrities to be vulnerable like that. So I wish girl, please come to Chris's couch. I would love to talk to you about this whole journey that sure, but yeah, that would be kind. Good for her. And she was just like, I'm so scared to do this. I'm scared. I'm just like, girl, good for you. Go for it. Yeah, I couldn't agree. I fully agree with everything that you said. It was very obvious that she has been doing that work. So that combined with Axle tearing it back down. I was he was so funny. She was like trying to be vulnerable, but this fucking cat now got a cousin now real quick. My bad, I'll be right back. Yeah. And as the mother of a furry young child, I get it. Girl, this is me and Laney all the time. So yeah, I'd be telling y'all Link is part cat. Just as disruptive. Just as bold. I don't know. Yeah. Okay, Lizzo has been celebrating a legal win after a lawsuit from a former stylist, which we've talked about was thrown out dismissed. Her former stylist, Asha Daniels, followed a harassment discrimination lawsuit against Lizzo on 2023. There are allegations of that phobic comments, racist comments, inappropriate sexual discussions, mistreatment of employees and staff. Thanks for that. She suffered a foot injury at work, something, something. Eventually, Lizzo, she and her name were taken off of the lawsuit individually. And so I guess it was left with the touring company, the lawsuit. But yeah, that has since been dismissed. A judge basically said there wasn't sufficient evidence to prove a lot of the claims she was making. Although I did find it interesting that it says that there was some alleged behavior that was described as inappropriate or unprofessional. But the district judge basically said that there wasn't enough to create a viable federal discrimination case. Okay. And that the injuries to her ankle and foot did not mean the legal requirements of the Americans with disabilities. Well, Lizzo posted a little clip, hands classed with a, it was like a written statement attached to it. That was basically like, I'm so happy to today. I'm relieved that announced that I've won the case against me and my touring company, big girl touring. You want you can go watch the rest of it on, it's on her Instagram, Lizzo beating. And she's just standing there looking cute with an absolutely flawless mug. Like Lizzo is so pretty. Oh, fucking pretty. I don't even know if she has makeup on here, but anyways, she's just standing there not saying anything. And, you know, I guess very happy to acknowledge that the case is over with or whatever. Yes, I don't really, I don't know, it just feels like Niggas are weird about Lizzo in a way that I can't fully, like I just can't really put my finger on it. It's not just that they don't like her music, like I just feel like attitudes towards her are very strange. And I know a lot of it is because of the size of her body, but I just, I also feel like people heard these lawsuits, you know, a couple of years ago, whenever this came out, and it just kind of seems like they're acting like this is the reason they don't like her when I just highly doubt you. Niggas, y'all are packing out the usher and Chris, y'all are packing out bumps and bruises. I'm supposed to believe y'all care about how these people really act like, no. So added by the scruff of an act. Yeah, y'all's attitudes are weird about her. If you don't like her music and, you know, that's fine, everything ain't for everybody, but some of you are just, I mean, I hate to say haters because it's so played out, but some of you really are that, especially when she was bigger. And so hopefully this being dismissed will lead to those of you who be coming at her for no fucking reason to just go get a life to leave it alone. It won't. They'll come out there for some other reason. And she's black woman. And she's a big black woman. And she's a proud big black woman. There's, they'll find some other reason I like the bitch. Yes. And I'll say shout out to you, girl, for not settling. Yeah. A lot of people would have been like, this is too much. I'm going to just settle out of court, but she said, no, absolutely not. We taking it as far as it can go, because I ain't do that shit. So good for you, Miss girl. Yeah. Okay. So what is, what are you raven in her wife want? You know, it's not to get out of our faces. It's not to leave us alone. And I don't even, you see, I hesitated. I don't even feel right saying that about Ravensmall because she is such a fucking I she's and I can't she really is, but she's another one who like similar to Nicki Minaj. I think raven has deep seated issues that have come from her time as a child star and in this industry. And all the shit she's seen. I mean, like she is one of those last ones who no shade it genuinely worked her way up and like from an extremely young age. So I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the stuff that she says that sounds anti black or ignorant or whatever else. I just wouldn't be surprised if raven has been deeply, deeply hurt by people in her life who sprout a bunch of pro black type shit who who spout a bunch of respectability type politics and nonsense a lot like I just wouldn't be shocked at all if that was true for her, but yeah, I saw this clip and then I went and looked it up and found out it was old and so I was like, okay, let me not like react too crazy, but raven has clipped with her and Kaylen. Yeah, the Kaylen Allen interview. Yes. I don't know that was old. I don't know how old it is, but I don't think it's like, I don't think it just came out, but raven has also been sprinkling little dumb shit like that around in these interviews and media appearances for years. Remember when she told Oprah that she can't be African-Americans because she's from every country in the world except one. Do I read I'll never forget it. You know, she's been saying stuff like this. It's been, you know, off and off for a while and then she got this white wife that get on everybody's nerves and was like, you know, I just never even really heard her and I never saw that so raven which pissed everybody off and, you know, aren't you called it T-S-R? Which was like the shade room. Right. This save a show's name. Like why are you trying to act like you don't? Is that how irrelevant it is to you? But I bet raven loves that. I bet she loves that she has a white woman who never saw the Cosby show, never saw in the house, never saw none of the, you know, seen on, never heard of Disney channel, never even want to go see. Never heard of Cheetah girls. Don't like Cheetah print. You know, I just, all right. Well, I don't fucking buy it. Secondly, shut up. Oh, yes. This all the Baxter's weren't black thing. That's it. Yeah. So she, Caitlin specifically was talking about seeing himself and that's a raven and appreciating how that show because raven Baxter was black was so black. And then raven seemingly out of nowhere challenges this statement. Yeah. Like was she black? Why did you feel like she was black? Well, let's make her, let's say the family was green. What did you hear? And poor Caitlin is like, I don't know what's going on. I don't, I'm not sure I understand the question. Yeah, it was so strange, especially with Miranda Ravens wife like chiming into ma'am you didn't wash the show you don't know what the show is you don't know how to spell Raven why are you speaking to us when that white woman piped up I had to physically stop myself from closing the browser window because she's like yeah cuz you low cave they really weren't black what the fuck do you know oh there she goes because who was writing and producing the show white man and Raven had to go it was there was a mix but white white man we're kind of hit right and so other than the episode and honestly when she first said it I thought okay you know other than the episodes that were explicitly about racism I can kind of see the point of you could have you could have replaced the backsters with any race really and pretty much had a show however the show was that so Raven and it was black because you were black Raven Blackster backster was a black girl she didn't act like she wasn't you know she had black mannerisms she had Raven Blackster Black you know aspirations everything about it right the way she talked at like she just yes girl yes the maybe the maybe the backster family could have been you know any old generic thing but it felt black to Kaylyn and other people watching the show because it was you are the character very much was that it wasn't no suburban seventh heaven type shit where you know we just are our mannerisms and our ways were completely absent from it so let's not say the lady glad your mother was on in living color she got deeper shit going oh man she really do and she has real money real extreme long money so so she's okay oh Raven but Raven I want Raven to to un to work through whatever that is that's in her I want her to get through that so that I'm always going to have love for Raven Simone in my heart that lady how can I how can I not she's made such an unshakeable and everlasting impact on television film comedy she's just that girl so I agree mm-hmm work some of that stuff out and just tell this white woman to calm down sometime she knows she was about for that girl I know she I do you know enjoy and enjoy that I'm not it's just like yeah ma'am slow your road why are you even chiming in with this black young man and this black young woman talking about this black show you didn't watch like and I mean I don't care if you're the biggest fan of that so Raven you're not black we are black people having a conversation about whether the family was culturally black or depicted as black you know why are you chiming up to talk about anything pepper and we don't care lock the people obviously have been flooding the internet with examples from a show right right of course I didn't see this one used but I'm pretty sure the pilot of that so Raven features Raven dressing up as her own mom or her own grandmother to go to the school and deal with like a grader she got in trouble at school and they told her that they wanted her parent to come and she didn't want to tell them so she dressed up as this like sort of heavy set woman who looked like a church like a black church like they're speaking AAV and just acting like somebody black. The first episode right you you made the character black Raven like and about Raven Baxter is black as fuck it's right it's like oh baby what is holding Raven back in this in something's going on racially call doja call doja cat I bet doja cat can help you work through it you ain't that doja I'm the horn oh god damn line are you oh man I heard that they were also on key promise podcast I didn't see this because I genuinely try if Ravens by herself I'm in but that white woman with with all the respects among yeah she she be plucking me she be plucking me she plucks me she just chops me up yeah I heard they want kiki's podcast and I it sounded like she was trying to like you know like guilt kiki into a conversation I didn't watch this but someone told me that she said something what does she say like I didn't receive backlash until I was on your show right she was like nobody was like being mean to me right having all this backlash from me being white or whatever until until um kiki was the one when they were talking to kiki it came up that she had never watched that so right man and so that's when everybody starts to get mad and she said something about like oh you don't have to apologize to kiki was like oh no because I'm insane that you never I'm not oh yeah don't worry about it I wasn't going she's like the white girl that when niggas in your life are like don't bring don't bring them on right it's like she's that white girl that they're thinking of she's exactly that white woman that is the nightmare yes your parents grandparents aunts uncle siblings imagine stepping into that please please don't bring this white woman into our home we cannot thank you oh yes that I yeah I just I really want better for Raven some oh I do I you know what I think I'm gonna blame Bill Cosby for this why not fucking yeah fucking night yeah absolutely I agree this is on him that's gonna be it for the hot tops this week um we're gonna take a break and then we're gonna back and read your letters welcome backslurs it's time for your listener mess in deed send your letters to ask the [email protected] we may read them aloud on the show our first letter this week is for someone um oh someone named mecha who wants to know if you can if you have ever played south of midnight she said I recently completed it and I loved it do you know of any other games that focus on black culture or history thanks mecha mecha I'm pretty sure I talked about the south of midnight on here didn't I I think so I have no idea if not um I definitely played south of midnight more than once it is oh yes you did excellent yes you did now it's sounding familiar that I'm googling it if you liked sinners you will love south of midnight it doesn't have the blood and guts and whatever but it very much follows a lot of uh of the themes there in like uh like spiritual connection to ancestors being um extraordinary in certain ways tank uh not taints oh my god no somebody got to have a taints and hates party this all the way got to hate got too is this an extremely extremely well-toed game the adventures the characters that you meet on it are great but it is black raven the character speak like us look like us there isn't like a watered down version of the way they speak and and like it's just if there's if not like the whole all the characters are black it's said in like a sort of like Louisiana-esque uh town yeah yeah so you have people all over the place but there's even a character named joeene and she has right here oh I like that yeah I think she's like the she's not a villain but it's just a reference is she krill she got green eyes too I don't think so I don't remember but is she like a Louisiana red hit like a black people red hit oh I love that that's so pretty okay um but yeah it's just really well-toed story this young girl who's trying to say for mom uh from a monstrous flood that happened and then it takes it kind of turns into like a fable it's really really good it's it I think it won an award at the game warrants last year great accolades if you haven't played it please play it it's really not even um a lot of you have heavy lifting it's not super complicated but a lot of you will probably really enjoy the story and I hope they make a sequel to it oh and they asked about other black Yes, other games that are similar to that that are kind of like about black culture or history things like that do you know of any others? There's one called oh shit. It's it's like a a click. Oh dots home dots home. Yeah try dots home. Um relatively short game. I think it's on mobile. Um, I think you played on PC. I think it's on Mac. I don't know if it's on switch, honey. See. Not my greedy as Google turning it into dots home style pretzels bitch. I'm looking for the video game. I don't think it's on switch. But I'm pretty sure you played on your phone. That one's good. There aren't that many. There aren't that many games like that, which is another reason why I kept running my mouth about it and telling everyone to play it lots of games with black leading characters, but not many that feel like we're in it. Uh huh. That's why it's like on that game when this girl is talking to her mom or whatever and she likes stuck her teeth or something and her mom was like, um, excuse me. Or she wrote her eyes. Her mom's like, don't roll them eyes. I wouldn't even look at you. No, I made them eyes. I know you wrote enough. It's like that. Okay, I can feel you roll your eyes, little girl. Yeah, his fears played if you have it. Thank you. Me. Sure. I have a couple games now that I need to you did mention that first one. South of midnight before so it's so good. Love that there's not a bunch of wood and stuff so I can actually play. Oh, okay. Mostly heartwarming stuff and this girl going around literally. I don't want to keep. I don't know. It's not a spoiler. She literally goes around and heals people's trauma. Oh, trauma in that fable world takes the form of like different fable like things like a guy, a young boy who experienced something and then he turns to a tree. I don't want to spoil why or like a mother who loses their child and then she turns in like the swamp and then she turns to like a sea creature. Stuff like that, but then she the lead girl goes around and uses her new found powers to like weave together people's emotions and heal their trauma. It's really, really good. Okay, I'ma play this when I'm in the mood to cry because I can see this. Yeah, I can see going to hurt. Yeah. All right, thank you, Misha, our next. And somebody's going to have a taints and hate Halloween party. And I need to be there. I'm just going to be all only fans be for real. All right. Our next letter comes from Jesse who says hi, Chris Link, if you're I have a friend Shay and the friendship is great, but there's just one small thing. If we're in the car together and music is playing, she starts to sing and she cannot sing at all. So, I love this already. She sounds like a shaky ass baby lamb and I can't stand it. The problem is she thinks she can sing. Oh, no, we've had conversation where she critiques singers about their pitch or tries to quote, educate me on why certain singers are better than others. Earlier in our friendship, she would show me videos of her singing, but I just encouraged it because you know, that's what she liked to do. And that's what she liked to do. So okay. But now it's pervasive because when she's in the car, I'm forced to turn on talk radio or trap or country music that I know she don't know. I'm pissed because I can't ever listen to Beyoncé or any ballots. She will try to sing it all like it would be cooler. She hit a chorus here and there or a couple of lines like we all do, but it's every song and the whole song. How do I tell her to stop singing in the car without sounding like a complete bitch. I don't think it would matter if she could sing well. I mean, I would still want to hear more of the actual artist, but the fact that she sounds like a drowning kidding is sending me over the edge. And I don't want to be mean, but I do just want to listen to the classics sometimes. I also don't ever want to be the reason somebody go on one of them singing competition shows and embarrasses the hell out of themselves. I was going to reference there. I always wonder why didn't nobody tell them that they can sing who let this delusion go on. And now here I am in this situation, letting the delusion ride. Well, Jessie. What was the name of that that young man who went on American Idol and scream, she bangs, she bangs. Why do I think he likes Asian? Was it like in long or something? Was his last name long? I don't remember. William Hunt. Yes, William Han. Yeah, that was them. Yeah. Yeah, I that's exactly what I was thinking of these folks who go on singing competitions and sound terrible and they're like, oh, my friends told me that I can sing or have a nice voice or whatever. So humiliating. I love that your friend is like, no, a little pitchy. Hold on. What? Me? Me? For the other people when you can sing. Oh, oh, oh, boy. So what do you say to this friend who is ruining your car soundtrack? Well, you know, what was their name again, Shay? Oh, yeah, the friend name is Shay. Shay, you know, sometimes there are things there are troops that have to come out that are just going to come across me. You know, there are just some things that you have to say that are already made. So I think no, honestly, what I would probably do, because she said something like, I don't know if it would matter if she could actually say it wouldn't. If you could sing and we're in a car and I'm playing morning dew or something and you singing over it, I'm going to tap you like. My heart is like, I do that all the time anyway. Yeah. So eyes, that's where I would start. I don't even know if I would immediately jump into wow girl. You sound like drowning bliss. Maybe get there later, but at least in the car where we're, you know, riding around trying to listen to music like normal people. That's how for me like, girl, let them sing like let them sing. Oh, yeah, I know you're, you're passionate. I just want let me hear this on. I said that the other day during the B2 was dinner when direct came out and juicy was singing along with. Oh, you were like, don't go into that. You can sing. Let the singing to do it. This, this is hilarious. I'm also it is. It's hard for me to give you advice because this don't bother me. I also can't sing. So we've been to just sound terrible together. Like, you're going to sing a whole song word for word in front of somebody in the car. Hell, if we both sing it and neither one of us can sing hell, yeah, why not always chasing into. No, I'm saying I would join in and sing too. Oh, but normally I wouldn't sing with somebody in the car. You were shame. Right. If I. Oh, yeah, that's a big sin. If no, I'm saying if I was Jesse and I'm in the car with shame and she's singing and she sounds terrible. I'm just sing too. Oh, okay. I thought you meant if the friend is singing, you sounds terrible that you would sing along with them. Well, yeah. But I'm a sing along. Even if the friend sounds good. If you sing and I'm singing. Like normally I wouldn't out of courtesy because somebody else is in the car. But since you don't care about that clearly and I'm just, yeah, I'm going to be over here pretending. You know, I sing with Keah all the time and she just be looking like the other Lord gave you a voice. Did he sure did he gave you something. I just let it happen. Yeah, don't. You know, that's fun anyway. Right. Like my friends and I used to run around Edwin actually could sing. And we used to ride around in my little 99 how to see the last music and all singing. You know, it was just fun to do in the car. Yeah. So I agree. Why not join you with her in both y'all sound here. Right. I think that's what I would do as opposed to being like recently in my car. Told me that she doesn't want anybody to sing in it. Like that. What's the direction you trying to go in, especially because you had the opportunity to be like, oh, I don't think you sound good. And you didn't take it, which is understandable. It was early in your friendship. And that's a hard thing to say to somebody. But yeah, maybe if if we're ever in the situation where she's singing, like does she do karaoke or something around other people? I think I was wondering that too. If anybody else said, oh, Shay, you cannot sing. I think I would just be like, hmm. And she asked me, I'll be like, well, for you know, I didn't want to say no. I think cause you're really passionate about it, but you know, I don't, I don't think you sound that great either. No. Listen, friend. Friends. I love you. Do. Damn. That's really a mission statement. Amen. But you know, she cares a lot about it, so I'm not just gonna go around and burst her bubble like that. And if, now if we get to the point of American idol auditions and you ask my opinion, I'm gonna tell you the truth. But, yeah, if you tell me that you're going to the voice, I'm gonna tell you you don't have one. I'm gonna say now, let's think about the people who have won that show. Yeah. And then let's, let's listen to like Kelly Clarkson singing a song and then let's listen to you singing a song. Yeah. And then let's decide whether we think you're, you know, there cause like, Fantasia's, Fantasia's here and you're like over yonder. So. Yeah. I'll be like, Oh, friend, you should hop on TikTok live and sing them a little something. Yes. And tell people you've been auditioned for the voice so they can support you and I'm blind. See what they saying? You girl. Cause I'd rather you be humiliated on TikTok once than go on one of them singing competition shows and have that clip live on YouTube forever. Oh. But wouldn't the TikTok be worse since the children watch TikTok more than TV? Oh. Well, a random TikTok live from a girl you don't know and don't recognize. I don't know. But if it's really bad, what if it goes viral? Like what if it's worse than she write this and I'm saying, well, she's fine. She's fine. She's fine. Well, she'll learn. What a way to find out. Right. That girl would never open her mouth again. Boys, they say I sound like Mariah Carey and now you got to be like, no, I did compare your voice to a lamb, but I did not mean. Yeah. But I would, I would mostly let this go, but you know the sound that people use all the time for like goats when they scream on top of a hill. Yes. Yes. That's what I'm imagine. Oh, like throw the source so I can't do it. Oh, but I'll tell you this, Jesse, if I decide to sing with her and then she critiques my voice, oh girl, great point, great point. That is a fantastic point. That's going to open up the door for me to be like, I'm so glad you brought that up because the bitches who can't sing. Yeah. Yeah. Since we're critiquing and we're sharing our opinions on music, it's just two bitches who can't sing looking at each other, girl. We see each other. Ah, good luck, Jesse, let us know what you decide to do. Okay. Our next letter comes from Tom Nook who says, hey, Chris Link if you read, I'm about to embark on a semester abroad in Europe, which will be the furthest I've ever been from my parents. I just turned 22 this summer and I thought after turning 21 last year that I would finally be seen as an adult, but that is not the case. While many people are having whole phases in their 20s, I have not been able to. My parents have my full location on, find my iPhone and life 360. So hookups were also new way that people invented to track their jeans, each children probably gin alpha, too, but yeah, it's a, it's like a family, it's family location sharing basically. Got it. So having a whole phase was really not an option for me or was basically impossible all throughout college. I also have full access to my bank account despite the fact that I have my own job and make my own money. I'm not a big spender and I like to think of myself as being pretty financially responsible which leads to my problem. I recently met with someone on a dating app and after talking steadily with him, he dropped his only fan's link and I decided to be a patron. We've been talking for about a month and over this period of time, let's just say I have supported his income. However, if my parents knew I was a subscriber to this man's only fans, they would have a fucking conibption. For the past eight or nine years, I've been able to lie my way out of a number of situations, but at this point, it's getting tiring. Personally, I think if I'm mature enough to move to a foreign country for eight months, then I should be mature enough to have full control over my bank account. I don't share a lot about my personal life with my parents and they will probably take this as me trying to be secretive, but in reality, I just want to be an adult and have them stop questioning everything I do. They're both extremely nosy in addition to being overprotective, you know? I don't want to keep hiding things from them, but I also don't think they're entitled to know everything I do with my time and money. How do I bring up the subject of revoking their control over my life? I don't ask them for a lot and they do a lot for me. But this is a boundary I've been trying to set for years and I think this is the perfect time to do it. Please help Tom Nook. I just got it. How does one deal with overbearing, freakishly nosy and protective parents because I heard about overprotective parents of all sorts, but having true forms of tracking on you, come on. Freshly 21, 22, you have 22 and you haven't, I mean, 22 is still. It is young. Yeah. But you don't have the right to a whole phase, you've got plenty of time. So much time for a whole phase, but like girl, you got your whole life for that. But you know, I do understand you wanting to at least feel like you aren't shackled to your parents and that you can, you know, go out, have fun, experiment, meet people. Like you're talking about some, if my parents knew that I will subscribe to an only fans, why should they know that? Why can they just log into Bank of America and see what you got going on? Like, that shouldn't be it. First of all, only fans, it's not going to show up as only fans are your bank account. I don't think so. No, they probably didn't think it by now, but yeah, how do you approach this conversation because I can't imagine they're going to be receptive to it. So you have to be some sort of, like I'm guessing maybe you have to get them to see their being ridiculous. I don't know. Well, my first thought was when your parents are still the source of your income, then I see why they want to see where it's going. But you said that you have your own job, you make your own money. So that means they're just picking in, they're fully picking into your business. No part of your bank account is there been, unless are they giving you money? Like, I know you said you have your own job, you make your own money. But do they also supplement your income? I think that may have something to do with the nosiness here. However, you are doing a semester abroad, you're 22 years old. I can understand the find me on iPhone and even the life 360 because you are still just 22. A lot of shit happens to 22 year olds, especially when you leave in the country. I am gone. I'm still going to want to see your location, however, this is a bank account thing. You know, you can just open another bank account, that's true. You can just go to a different bank and open an account that your parents don't have any control over like you can, you can go if they are named on your bank, on your bank account, you can go have that account converted to like just you, you know, if they opened it for you as a kid or whatever, like there are, there are options here for you. You don't have to just let things go like this. So my first thought or my first suggestion is always to sit down and talk to them about it. You say you don't share a lot about your life with your parents and I understand why because when your parents are too nosy and too overprotective, it doesn't make you want to share everything with them so that they'll leave you alone. It makes you want to shut down because if everything feels judgmental and like it's gonna be a problem. If you, like you said, if they see, if they find out that you've been, you know, tipping this nigga on only fans or whatever, they don't have a fit. So I would sit down and talk to them about it first. If they still insist that they need to have control, they need to be able to lock into your bank account or their names need to be on it for whatever reason, especially if they're still giving you money, I would pay attention to that. But you know, why not open up a separate bank account just for only fans then if that's what you want to do. Like, it's not always feasible to just be like, hey, leave me alone or I'm not going to deal with y'all no more or whatever, like is that's just not always a feasible thing. Sometimes it's easier to just have your own separate shit and let them think they still have control over you even though they don't. So all you can do is come to them honestly and respectfully and have the conversation about, you know, I'm 22. I think it's time for a little more independence. Like I appreciate everything y'all have done for me. You said, you know, they, they have been very supportive of you. So I do appreciate that. But I think it's time as a 22 year old who's about to head abroad for a semester that I can have a little bit more independence on this journey to full adulthood and see if they're, they're reasonable enough to really hear where you're coming from. And if not, they and try to take your ass over to banks in America, Chase. Well, as far as a million fucking banks. It's a million banks, so. - I think that's a great idea. - Yeah. These people, you know they don't necessarily sound reasonable, so sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do. But you, so the advice is really tailored to like how you act. And so since Tom looks at, I'm very responsible financially, you know, I take care of things. I don't be out here while in. Your parents should take that into consideration. If you do dumb shit, you went to college and you immediately signed up for 28 credit cards and you didn't pay none of 'em off. And you know, you, you paying for only fans instead of paying your electric bill. Then I see why your parents are like, yeah, let us have control over your money. But you sound responsible, so. Just talk to them and see what they say. But good luck to you. I remember being that age and having similar struggles. So. - I do. - I do like those thumbs, yes. Please do indeed. Okay, I think that is a, yeah, that was like three or four letters. So let's wrap up the questions right there. Again, if you have a question you'd like to ask us, send us an email, babe, [email protected]. We'll be right back. - We are back folks all around the globe and possibly out in the cosmos. It is wretched here girl, come scoot me. - Oh, thanks. - Anyway, time for the read. I will go ahead and start. Hopefully not take too long. I wanted to address whatever dumbass decided to waste their own time going to vandalize Dolly Parton's star on the walk of fame. You decided to go and scratch up this lady's star, likely because you're a fucking slag jawed drooling mouth, Trump supporting dumbass. Was the stupidest foolish, most ridiculous thing that I've written quite some time. They've already fixed it. Like they, they went ahead and repaired the star within like two hours. I don't, just because you were gagged that Dolly Parton wasn't some like ultra conservative, gay, trans, hating, bigoted, mega idiot like you. Doesn't mean that you should just run around and start breaking up people's shit and stuff. Yes, Dolly Parton was an amazing woman. Yes, she was beloved by damn near everyone. No, she didn't support job of the hood. No, she wasn't anti drag queen. She loved the LGBT community. She has a fucking theme park. You can never touch the hem of her gown. So instead you tried to reach out for her star. You couldn't even stop that. Like how are y'all not embarrassed? How do you not do things like this and realize you are late? It's just I'm ready for stupid to go back on the ground. Come on, I like that. I'm really ready for stupid to go right back into the cracks and crevices of the earth. We don't have room for you. Please pipe down, please shut the fuck up. This is type of shit that is a waste of time. I don't even know how many people heard about this because nobody fucking cares about your foolishness and your shenanigans. Scratching up that lady's star of fame or walk a fame star. - I can't say that. - Could not even imagine to nick her legacy name, impact, celebration, nothing. You waste of your time and everybody else's. You could have got a froyo. You could have went to go grab some ramen. A donut. You could have gone to, I don't know, what does that shit called? Griffith, the observatory. You could have gone to the beach. You could have done some thrifting, down on a mail rows or something like that. But you decided to go out to the walk of fame and somehow, I don't even know how you found the time of space and opportunity to do this. - Lord. - It's surrounded in flowers and jewelry, just flowers. But yeah, I just wanted to say to the dumbass that felt like they wanted to, I guess, go home and turn on the news and be like, yeah, yeah, I did that. Bitch, I don't even know if you got to see the work that you did outside of doing it, because they fix it immediately, because Dolly Parton is Dolly Parton, and you're a bum bitch that nobody knows. - Oh, well, there's always that. - I'm finished. That was quick. - And you know, the thing, I'm just feeling very sensitive about Dolly Parton in particular. You know, that's just, not to even remotely suggest that she was like a perfect person, but as far as white people go, it's hard for me to think of one better. So of all the things you could have done, of all the ways you could have spent short time, like coming after this lady. Okay, all right. Anyway. - Hey, Honey Bee, it's Dolly Pete. - Oh my God, I have a, so I have a Cowboy Carter playlist of all the songs she did during Cowboy Carter in order. And every time Dolly comes on, and she's like, "Hey, Cowboy Carter, time to strike a match." And a lot of this juke joint. It's just, oh my God, I literally start crying doing my eyeshadow the other day. Like, what do you mean? - Dolly. - We all love her. - Like, this is just, so yeah, y'all decided to go after this lady's star on the walk of fame, like y'all are just lame and extremely wack for that, so. - Furthermore, if you want to talk about a posthumous pettiness, when your phase finally kicks that bucket over, parades, read before 11, read before 12 in fact. - Bottomless. - Baby. - Mimosa. - Y'all are gonna be disgusted when you see how we act. When that one is finally up out of here, you're gonna be like, I thought Chaka and the four of girls, she's no more every nigga in the world. All the niggas in America is gonna be putting something on the grill to celebrate that bitch getting up out of here. - The national cookout. - We're doing it. We're doing it. I'm personally going on a tour. I'm hitting Atlanta, New Orleans. You sitting? - L.A. - You don't do like. - We're talking girls. - Phoenix, Chicago Detroit, we're doing it. - We're gonna do like you do with the Falcons lose in a Super Bowl or whatever. - Yes, every year, the day the bitch dies, we're having a fucking party, yes. And you just reminded me, it's time to start thinking about the theme for my baby's next party. You know, Lasha was demon slayer, K-pop pussy on us, but now it's, so I don't know what the kids are doing. - Hey, hi. - Let's see, hi. - We'll get into it. - Speaking of dumb shit, bro, did you hear about this nigga who pretended to be a player for the-- - Girl. - Girl. Girl. - I've never heard anything funnier. - Huh. If you didn't hear about this, it's a nigga named Deshaun Love who has been going around telling people that he plays for the San Francisco 49ers. He supplemented this by starting an Instagram account where he called himself a player for the 49ers. He posed for pictures and a helmet on the beach. And so-- - Wild. - Just wild. - Mind you, not on the Niners practice field. Not in for pads, not-- - Yeah. - So you might be thinking, Crystal, why wouldn't you just Google this man and 49ers to see whether he actually played? Well, first of all, if you did, it came up in a Google AI summary as yes, Deshaun Love is a wide receiver for the 49ers, but that's because that's what Deshaun Love put in the bio on the sense of playing. And that's why-- And that's why we don't trust Google AI summary. (laughing) Because it simply crawls the web looking for the top result for the words you put in. It doesn't verify whether that's true. - Right. - And so then you might be thinking-- - And literally also links you to wherever ready to come. - It links you to the source. - Right, so had you clicked on the source, you would have seen that Niggas on Instagram and you would have said, "Hmm, that's not a reliable source. Let me check the official website for the San Francisco 49ers where they have a roster of all 56 Niggas. There you would not have seen Deshaun Love's name because as anybody who knows one fucking thing about football could have told you, some 5, 7, 120 pound Niggas is not on the squad. Did you see, anyway. I don't know how y'all felt for this. However, you Niggas are in trouble because you, you Niggas. This Niggas in particular is in trouble because he didn't just lie and get people to give him money. He told them, oh, I play for the 49ers, I have this investment opportunity, I have this, I have this. So the thing about lying is you have to be so specific about this. how you do it. Okay. You can just scam holes regularly. That's not illegal. But when you do it like this, when you tell people their investment opportunities and then that investment opportunity doesn't actually exist, that's called federal fraud and conspiracy. So love that. Because I was like, what do you mean he's in trouble with the law arrested for what? Niggas lie and give women to send money to them every day. So that is actually what he's in trouble for. Not just the blatantly false lie. Not just getting women to send him money, but you know, this whole investment angle part of it. But he didn't just, he didn't just like talk to women on dating apps and I call this he, this nigga would send DMs to businesses. I saw one to like some spot out and I think bought some more another one in Atlanta. Like he was he was willing to travel around the country for this a lot of shout. Be like harder. I'm sure you know who I am. I play for the Niners. I'm gonna be at LA next week. Y'all feel like it's hitting. I'm gonna have to come through. Oh yeah, I'm sure you know who I am. Always with the I'm sure you know who I am. I, who, who do you think you are? Baby, do you know how many people can name an NFL player just by face alone? It's not, it's not, it's not too many NFL players that are that recognizable. It's a small handful of Niggas at the very top and the other 4,000 of you are just lucky to be rich and should be grateful to be here. But you're not even that. So I play for the Niners. I could train you. You know, I could, I could be yo yo workout trainer. If you want to lose more weight, I could see you my workout. Just That's awesome. The nigga had fake screenshots talking about his bank account had more than 30 million dollars in it. He had another nigga looped into it and they would do like three way calls with people and he would pose as like a financial advisor and be like, yeah, you know, this is what we invest in the end, and people who could not be bothered to go past the Google AI summary search result. We're swindled out of more than 1 million dollars. And so now this nigga is preparing to head to the clink. I did see Leshan McCoy who used to play in the league, shout out to people who, you know, actually do. But he was not like, wow, Niggas are so trifling for that. He said, well, actually women do this all the time. So I don't see the problem. Every time a man do something, they want to crucify us for it. But women love to finesse. You see her and you like, oh, okay. She seemed educated. She. And then you get what are you like, oh, this bitch is a bum. And I've been with a woman who did something like this. We are talking about crimes. Great comparison, Leshan. Fantastic comparison. What an idiot. Mr. McCoy, we are not talking about birds that you thought had they own. And then you realize what you got with her that she just wanted to live off your money. You a NFL nigga, all the holes want to live off your money. You got to go get you. You got to go get you a Taylor Swift to find a woman who, who ain't trying to live off your money. You have it. She won't keep you. This is what I'm saying. You got it. If, if you don't want to be taken advantage of, pursue women who make as much as you do or more, and it's like, it's like you don't want to know your dog. You do not because she will never need you or be all that impressed with what you believe to be your literal value. She'll be a lot less likely to put up with whatever bullshit because she has her own things and she can simply leave. And also a lot of you want a certain aesthetic that a woman who makes millions and millions of dollars a year might not be any, any, like even remotely interested in pursuing, like maybe she don't want to wear wigs. Maybe she don't want to wear heels and dresses and have her titties out and fully beat every day. And like, it's very possible that she just don't want to do all that. But like you're talking about, oh, with a hose act like they really got they shit together all the time. And then they'll be bumps. That's, we're not talking about that. We're not talking about having trouble in dating. Okay. This, we're talking about a nigga breaking the law repeatedly. That's complete. We're not, we're not talking about the Sabre Sunbeats. Oh, Mr. McCoy, please, please, you just couldn't wait. I said, that's been on his chest for a while. He'd been one to talk about these trifling assholes. Clearly, because when that comes from me, he said, no, I love it because actually you bitches swindled me all the time. I'm thinking you've been to tell a story about a woman who got you to invest in some money. Literally. He said, no, I saw him. She was pretty switched to a job, right? Moved it alone. Fucking idiot. But yeah, shout out to, today, John. At first, I was like free. My nigga day, John. And then I saw he had, he was like scamming for real. And I was like, okay, never mind. But because at first, I honestly thought he had just told a bunch of white women that he was an NFL player. And they were just giving him money for the fun of it. Because, at night, I didn't have a problem with it. One thing a black woman not going to is give an NFL nigga money. Are you joking? Are you joking? Give you money? I'm sorry. You the nigga with like a 300, thousand dollar minimum contract. The city girls would never let me get away. It's not happening tonight. Megan would never accept me. Right. I feel like Beyonce would never look me in the eyes again. If I did some shit like that, I simply can't, you know, yeah, before. But I said, yeah, let me go on and bookmark this and talk about this on the show because this is actually quite hilarious. The video of him doing the drills with his skinny ass licks, Sydney Washington, who is like the funniest fucking comedian. I love Sydney down. She got on, when Sydney saw this, she got on Instagram stories. She was like, that nigga's leg is smaller than my leg. And then she posted a picture of her leg for comparison purposes. She was like, this nigga is a bone thin. And he doing these slow ass drills. The feet is slow. Like he don't, nothing about this looks professional. Hold believe this. People who could not go past the Google AI summary. So please, if you don't do shit else, if you are going to go off of the Google AI, at least click the source link and see, is it legitimate? Just I'm begging y'all to take that one step because you could have avoided all this dumb shit. Had you simply done that? Yikes. That's hilarious. Man, what a world we live in. What a fear. What a he don't even absolutely write the rightfully to get locked up. What you in here for? Where do I start? Please, no, where do I start? But yeah. Okay. I'll say that sacred sends you the last and broad build. They did. Wasn't that so nice? Love it. It was so nice. Oh my girl, I, this may be the one product I actually do not need, but thank you so much because I will be using it anyway. I will be using it. Yeah. No, my friend was like, go listen to me. You know, you don't need that. Drop that in the mail. When I got the edge drops, I gave them away. Oh, that was generous. That was generous because holes are fighting for them. So yeah. But yes, thank you so much. Beyonce and Miss Tina and the whole team over at sacred for just keeping me laced girl. I'd really, really appreciate it. You have no idea. But on that note, I do believe that that will wrap up this week's episode of the read. Check us out on social media at this is the read our website is this is the read.com. Thank you so much to Dr. Donna Oriolwell for joining me this week on Crystal's couch to drag niggas by the napare neck. And I mean, as soon as she sat down, she was like the source of loving yourself is self-regard. And if nobody ever poured into you and let you explore things and figure out who you are, you will feel disconnected from yourself and anxious for all your days until you get that together. And I was like, oh, we, we, we just sat down like. Anyway, well, welcome to the couch. And it was it's straight like that. It's just hit after hit. But you know, she's a sex and relationship therapist very smart. I verified her PhD. You know, you got to do that nowadays. Listen, you invite people on your. But yes, thank you, Dr. Donna. You can go find that everywhere you get podcasts. My little advice show. All right. Any other news or announcements from you this week? Oh, Taines and Haines coming in October. Wow. I'm never going to get over a live Yeah. You won't. Please place out the minute. It's so good. I have a podcast called Furious Thoughts. You can get it on Spotify, Apple Music, such which you just me rambling the typical rants that you might know me for me forgetting when I was talking about because I go on a tangent birth from a tangent birth from a tangent. It's delightful. Go check that out patreon.com/cutefury for extra things. And today, day of recording is my mommy's birthday. Oh, happy birthday. Happy birthday, mommy. You're not listening to this probably because you better not be talking to listen to this. It's just sad. Furthermore, I believe you and daddy on a cruise ship somewhere being grown. I guess you think you like a big woman now. So beautiful. You know, I guess I'll talk to you and get back, but yeah, she thinks she's grown, but whatever. Oh, I guess she do. Yeah. I guess I can't do one more actually. Go on a boat with Richard Farber. I mean, you stole her whole face. So you can't even. You gotta just let her know something. I was raised with everyone saying, well, you look like your father. You're all your family. I thought I saw it. And I'm just like, I guess a little like my dad plucked a photo of my mother. Yeah, she was like, maybe, I don't know, 13, maybe a little bit younger than me with a wig. Yeah. I was like, why are y'all lying? Yeah. You look just set up and let them. And I was about to say sometimes kids look like one parent and then as they grow older, they look like another one, but even your baby pictures. I've always you look like her. Yeah. I don't know where they. I don't know where they got them from. Was that your dad's sad saying that? Yes. There we go. Because I would say all the time, y'all niggas is delusional. The mom never you do not look like his daddy. He look just like his mama. Y'all got to stop lying. You don't have to lie. You don't. That baby look like his mama. I just believe them until I saw that picture myself. And I was like, oh good idea. I'm not know that I could time travel. That's me. Oh, happy birthday to her. And be on say yours is coming up this weekend. So how much do you think, Deva? What a McDonald's. It's time. Can we have something else special? Oh, your husband is performing. We'll get that don't dream it. I'm telling y'all. I'm telling y'all. It is so fun. And it sounds like and this is my first dance break. And this is my second. Like it just I see. I see a bullshit. I just it's so treacherous because she knows what she's doing. And it's like tough. I know what I'm doing. I do. And you know, what if she really does want to give us things and blue is like actually let them suffer. I was just thinking that too. Blue might honestly just be like, fuck the niggas. I was like, okay. Because they knew we weren't lying. They knew we never lied. Yeah. Oh, all right, y'all. Take care of yourselves and be good. We'll see you next week.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Bia Froden, a body double for Serena Williams in *King Richard*, is now playing her first US Open singles match after winning the Girls’ 18 National Championship, highlighting real, active Black excellence in tennis.
  2. The segment emphasizes the importance of using actual athletes in films, not just actors, to authentically represent sports and culture.
  3. The hosts discuss the complexity of tennis matches, including match points, game points, and the emotional intensity of long matches, contrasting it with the chaotic, high-stakes nature of American football.
  4. They praise Naomi Osaka’s bold fashion choice (Alan Iverson shirt) and her performance, noting the public’s admiration and the surprise from Iverson himself.
  5. A satirical anime concept is proposed where Megan Thee Stallion is a hero fighting a legion of "fucking megas" using AI-powered robots and a powerful, supersonic scream, blending humor and cultural critique.
  6. Dwayne Keith D. Davies is being convicted for orchestrating Tupac’s murder, with the jury citing his memoir as key evidence—highlighting how self-publishing can lead to accountability.
  7. Nicki Minaj is to judge a Trump administration small business pitch competition, raising concerns about celebrity involvement in political ventures and the lack of personal accountability.
  8. Doja Cat opens up about self-hatred, substance use, and mental health struggles, emphasizing the importance of therapy and vulnerability.
  9. Lizzo wins a lawsuit dismissal after allegations of racism and harassment, with the hosts noting persistent racial bias against her despite the legal outcome.
  10. Raven Baxter is criticized for making racially insensitive statements about her identity and heritage, with concerns about deep-seated trauma from being a child star in a racially charged industry.
  11. Audience letters highlight Black cultural games like *South of Midnight* and *Dots Home*, and a personal story about a friend who sings poorly in the car, leading to a discussion on boundaries and authenticity in friendships.
  12. A letter from Tom Nook addresses the difficulty of asserting independence from overprotective parents, suggesting financial separation and open dialogue as solutions.

Summary:

The segment celebrates Black excellence through Bia Froden’s journey from body double in *King Richard* to a real tennis competitor at the US Open, emphasizing authenticity in representation. The hosts explore the emotional depth of sports like tennis, contrasting it with the complexity of football, and highlight Naomi Osaka’s powerful presence. A satirical anime concept featuring Megan Thee Stallion as a hero against AI-powered antagonists blends humor with cultural commentary.

The discussion turns to serious issues: the conviction of Dwayne Keith D. Davies in a Tupac murder case, the controversial role of Nicki Minaj in a Trump administration reality show, and the mental health struggles of Doja Cat and Lizzo. The hosts critique the persistent racial bias toward Lizzo, despite legal outcomes, and question Raven Baxter’s public statements about race, suggesting deep trauma from her industry experience.

Listener letters add depth, promoting Black cultural games and discussing personal boundaries—such as a friend’s poor singing in the car and a young person’s struggle to assert independence from overinvolved parents. The overarching theme is the importance of self-compassion, authenticity, and accountability in personal and public life.

FAQs

Bia Froden was a body double for Demi Singleton, who played young Serena Williams in the film King Richard. She spent six months on set and was inspired by the role, especially playing a tennis athlete she admired.

Bia Froden won the USDA Billie Jean King Girls 18 National Championships, which earned her a wild card entry into the US Open singles main draw.

Using real tennis players ensures authenticity in movement and technique, saving time and creating more realistic on-screen action during filming.

A match ends when one player wins enough games to reach the required number of sets, often best of three or five. Key points include game point and match point, which require winning a point to end a game or match.

The speaker argues football is more complicated due to multiple positions, complex play dynamics, and constant shifting on the field, unlike the simpler structure of tennis matches.

Naomi Osaka’s appearance at the US Open, including her iconic Alan Iverson-inspired outfit, became a viral moment, showing her strong presence and influence in the sport.

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