The Unfettered Adventures of the Kitty Kats

Welcome back, you July slur. Thank you for returning, or beginning. My name is Bootsy Collins. And I'm Killian Mbappe. And this is The Read. Thank you for joining us. Damn sure it is. Damn Skippy. Do people say it to us there? Damn Skippy? That's a nice thing. I feel, hmm, interesting. I haven't heard damn Skippy in a while. Yeah. It's one of my favorite dams. It might be an elder thing. It might. I think it's an elder thing now. Yeah, it's very possible. I don't think the youth say that. Fuck the youth. All right, guys. Crisis in the midlife, babes. We're going to get things started with our regular zhuzh. And that is the Black Excellence. And this week, Black Excellence is going out to a woman who has created the world's first hair braiding robot. Have you heard about this? What? No. I mean, Google this. So there's a gorgeous woman here, a London-born Harvard alum. Her name is Yinka Ogunbaye. I might have said the last name a little bit incorrectly, my dear. I looked it up. I heard about three different pronunciations. So it's not that I didn't care. I said everybody. But yes, she. She has worn braids all her life. I saw a speech she was making about the device called Halo Braid. And she was talking about basically the hair braiding process, how long it takes, how expensive it is, and how a lot of hair braiders get arthritis, carpal tunnel, and shit like that before they get married. Yeah, for sure. So mama basically was like, hey, what if it didn't have to be that? What if it could. It could save the person in the chair and the person above the chair a whole bunch of time. And finger health, joint health, and so on and such which. Your back, all that. Again, this lady, born in London, Harvard for biomechanical engineering. There we go. And also a chef recipe developer, according to the Griot. So just all of it. And apparently how the. How the machine works is that the stylist starts the braids, sectioning and doing all of the beginning of it, and then the Halo Braid finishes it. So then the stylist can go do something else in the shop or whoop-de-woop, and you won't apparently have to be sitting there for half of the day to get your braids finished. Wow. Yeah. I. This sounds like a miracle product. I'm honestly shocked. It took. It took somebody this long to come up with it, but. Wow. Yeah. I see that she says it can braid five times faster than a human can, so. Mm-hmm. I mean, and girls already go to the shop and have them do just the parts. And then they go home. Right. and start it themselves, so. Yeah. This is. She's going to revolutionize the game, child. Ooh-wee. Sounds like it. Yeah, it really does. Love that. Apparently, she's got. $10 million in funding for the thing. Investment, including Serena Williams' husband. Yep. So, the girls are like, um, I think you're onto something here. Yep. Yep, yep, yep. Because. Who don't love braids? But that time in the shop is the number one reason I don't get braids more often. Listen. What? When I was, like, I don't know, middle school, high school, and the girlies would tell me how long they would get the. Like, oh, yeah, 13 hours. Yep. Yep. Trinique, what? Yep. I'm just in somebody's living room for 13 hours. Oh, yeah. For all day long. That's just how it goes. Yeah. What? Mm-hmm. Indeed. So, this sounds miraculous. Erica, I take about 45 minutes of that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And that is so great for y'all. So. Yeah. But, yeah, instead of. I can see that the machine does, like, the tedious part, and the braider. The stylist does still have to add in the hair, because the machine can't do the feed-ins. But still. So, it's not fully taking jobs. Right. Right. And, I mean, and that's a good thing, also. Right. But. Shit. Because, look, either the braider finna be braiding them all, or they'll be like, you want to help, and throw you half your hair, and so then you finish the braids to try to, like. I've seen that. get out of the shop faster. I've seen that. It's. The work. Braids look so good, and they last such a long time. They do. They do. You get them done, you're like, wow. Why don't I always keep my hair in braids? Oh, my crown. But it is such a pain in the ass. So, shout out to this girl. Wow, wow, wow. What a great idea. Okay, let's get into some hot toppings. First and foremost, Crystal, what is that lady up to? What's she doing? Don't get up, get up. What is this? Don't get up. What is it? I love her so much. I love her runs. I love her harmonizing with her damn soul. I love don't, you don't, you don't, you don't, you don't. What is she doing? What's she doing? Listen. What is she doing? You have to stop trying to figure her out. You just gotta. I won't. Like a toddler. You can't make me. Yeah. No, I agree. Yeah. I'm just gonna. I'm taking this beautiful offering. Mm-hmm. She's like, you know, I love my man. I love having raw sex with my nigga. Let me just put this out. In the morning. Thank you for bringing that up. It's another piece. Mm-hmm. No explicit marking, but also, be awesome. Okay. Private river inside that flows. Flows from y'all's love. Hello. Nasty girl. Yes, I love growing Beyonce. You know, Baby Hive be calling us Hag Hive and making fun of us because, you know, we was born in the 80s with Beyonce, but bitch. What does that have to do with being a hag? Well, they just call us hags because we're old. Like, if you were around for the whole career, then you're Hag Hive. Yes. So, they talk about Hag Hive so bad, but you bitches. Y'all wasn't with us shooting in the goddamn gym. Y'all don't know Beyonce before she could cuss and say nigga and talk explicitly about, you know, riding her husband's dick and all that. You bitches don't get it. This is normal every day for y'all. We didn't grow up with this Beyonce. You ever heard Hag Hive? Thankfully, no, not until today. Don't get on TikTok. I try not to. The children do hate us. They do, but, yeah. I was on TikTok, like, last week. Like, all right, I'm getting back into the situation. And I hopped on. Of course, the first video I see is trash. So, I'm like, okay, everybody keeps saying you have to get the algorithm. Oh, yeah. You know. So, I hit not interested. Another video came up. Ridiculous. It was, like, a black brother talking about how Asian women are T or whatever. Woo, super not interested. And then right after that. After that, it was a video of somebody talking shit about us. Oh, no. So, I was like, okay, TikTok. I'm glad we're on the same page. I don't like you. You don't like me. It is what it is. Yeah. Because it felt like TikTok was like, oh, since you being so choosy, bitch. Here you go. Here's your name. For you, bitch. And I was like, since you have an attitude, I have one right back. Right. I guess we're, you know, we are even footing. Hello, Lord. Everything I've seen about Morning Dew has kind of pointed out the fact that the 20th anniversary of B-Day is coming up. Yes. She's re-releasing it. So, it gives me Parkwood Mini Press was like, oh, yeah, 20th B-Day. And, you know, you're welcome. And I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna again say that I really enjoyed the song. Yeah. And that renaissance, two years, Cowboy Carter, two years, here we are. So. Okay. There you go. Also, the font on the single cover is the same font as 16 Carriages, Texas Hold'em, Break My Soul. I mean, it's just, is that the Beyonce font of now? You've been logged in with the Lulu Hive. You've been over there with them girls. Listen. Checking the TV's. Why? Why? What is happening? Is it just hello? oh, here go a song. Is it here go a song for the 20th anniversary of one of the fiercest albums of all time that took me 10 days to make? Or is there a little something more in the songs? Is it an R&B album? Is Act 3 not going to happen? Is it all in our imagination? Will Jay-Z be touring by September? Will, is it that Jay-Z gets the summer and then she's going to, oh no, he'll be in London. Damn, they love fucking France. They love Paris. He'll be in London and Paris in September. So nevermind. I think she's just giving, you know, she knows the Hag Hive. We've heard most of this unreleased music. I won't accept that. I embrace it. Y'all can't hurt my feelings. Yes, I'm old. Now what? But I think she, she is like, you know what? Sure, you bitches have heard this music. You know, yes, it's technically unreleased, but y'all have heard it the way you've heard Creole and so many other fucking songs. Yeah. Oh, here you go. 20th anniversary. I'm going to stop pretending like I didn't make this. You know, when the re-release, the B-Day comes out, then who knows? You know, we'll get some, a few little extra bonus songs on it or something like that. I can see that. I don't think it's, it's more like, to my beautiful, you know how she be talking to us, like, y'all a little slow, but I do appreciate it. It's very, here you go. You good? You need a juice? Right, because y'all acting like y'all starving here. Yeah. Yeah. And then the first thing I saw was niggas being like, well, since you feeling generous, can we also get the Formation World Tour on DVD? I'm like, all right, y'all go piss her off. I do see that. And this is why we don't get there. Yep. I think that's all. I am. I will continue to put up a cork board with red string, red yarn connecting one outer cover to one single cover to an article somewhere from 2000. But I'll do it privately. Okay. I'm not going to harass her or the internet about it because I know that lady will be like, psych, out of nowhere. Out of nowhere. Oh, we're so pissed. Was it May 29th or June 29th? I don't remember which one it was that the Hive had decided she was going to be putting out Act 3. And anyway, it came and went and they were irate. Just pissed. I'm like, she never told you that she was going to do that. You can't. Never. You can't talk yourself. She will legit see that y'all have figured it out and change her mind. Like, she's petty. Y'all have to get that about her. Yeah. And she loves it. Yeah, she does. Because what you're going to do, you're going to stop listening to Beyonce. That's what you're going to do. Her and all her kids probably just cackling. Oh, yeah. Like, look at these dummies. Blue just looking back like, wow, this is the power that we have. Wow. Well, Beyonce, either way, thank you. Love the song. It's pretty and gorgeous. Cute little song. And also, incredibly personal. I also like a little bit of Morning Dew, but Inside Rivers of Love. Hey, that's what we're doing, sister. I'm pretty single right now, so you just, all right. I'll keep that in the chamber, though. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes you save a record for the future. Yes. Future fun time. Jhene Aiko, Pussy Fairy. What a piece of music. And a title. That's a great song. That's a great song, too. And it really is. It is an excellent song. Pussy Fairy work. What the hell is going on with Big Tigger and his wife? Has it been more since the arrest records or whatever came out? Yeah. Well, okay. He got arrested for battery and child cruelty. Those of you who don't know. He got into a big altercation with his wife, Alicia, and it extended into him basically wrestling with her as she's screaming as, I think, their kid, who, was he 13? I forgot how old he is. I think so. But he's watching, recording this, screaming. I don't think it's screaming. I think it's his son, because he called him Mr. Tigger. Mr. Tigger? Interesting. That's a very interesting detail. So he's, you know, hollering for Tigger to get off his mama and stuff like that. And Tigger is like, I'm not doing anything. She just needs to give me, as soon as she gives me the phone back, with a smile, which I found kind of sinister. Mm-hmm. But, oh, she just needs to give me the phone back. Da-da-da-da. She's on the ground. Hollering. Hollering, has the phone, and he's just, like, wrestling around with her, trying to pull the phone away from her. Most of the comments on that video that I saw were like, he lucky, because if it was my mama, I'd have threw the TV, everything in the kitchen. You know, you know, getting up from that, actually. You're just not going to live after that. So, yeah. Yeah, it's, it's either going to be my mama or you, and it's not going to be. It's not going to be my mom, thanks. Yep. Pretty much. Mr. Tigger, don't get fucked up. So, yeah, he went down for that battery and child cruelty charges, but since then, his wife has been arrested for a warrant related to kidnapping. What? So, she was subjected to a felony traffic stop on Interstate 85, this is in Georgia, due to an outstanding warrant in the state of Maryland. She was arrested. There were two children in the car at the time, including the child brown shares with Big Tigger. So, I assume that was, you know, I was a different kid. So, according to TMZ, the warrants are from an incident from 2019. She was tied to the alleged disappearance of a 10-year-old. She's since been charged with felony interference with child custody and will be extradited to Maryland. So, she's been charged with felony interference with child custody and will be extradited to Maryland. So. What? Wait. So, this, did she kidnap her own child from. It sounds like, according to the wording of this. Okay. that she might have taken her own child from somewhere. And left Maryland. Okay. Yeah. Um. Um. Okay. So, yeah, they locked her ass up, too. And. Jesus. Now, this is unfortunately flipped from. What happened to her by way of Tega to, oh, well, maybe she's a serial killer and we shouldn't give up. You know what I mean? Right. Right. What? Yeah. And I think I also, this morning, saw someone was accusing her of something else, but I didn't get a chance to read that, too. Okay. Well, so. I'm sorry. You said felony kidnapping from 2019, and I was immediately thrown off, because it just seems like. I don't. That's just. That's. It sounds strange, but if it's like a custody thing between her and her ex, or, like, maybe she shares a baby with somebody, and they were supposed to have some sort of joint physical custody, and then she just took her child and went to. Right. So. Mm-hmm. The timing is interesting. It's. Right. That is giving. Tega told the cops, oh, by the way, she took that baby. No, sir. She took her 10-year-old right before the pandemic, and then. She took her 10-year-old right before the pandemic, and then she took her- Right, what apples got to do with eggs? That's a great way of putting it. Oh, that's just good. Well, you know what? Yeah, let's just get this out of the way. Kodak Black is speaking. And, of course, not great. He said that he is, once again, interested in a supergroup with himself, Kanye West. And Kendrick Lamar. Now, you might be asking yourself, Kodak Black, what the fuck are you talking about? And how does that make any sense? What? Here's the reasoning. The three of them are Geminis, and he would like the group to be called KKK. He also refers to them all as Israelites and Black Jews. Needless to say, Kodak Black is still Kodak Black-ing the way that we know him, too. Right, right, right, right, right. Please tell me what sense this makes. What kind of drugs is Kodak Black currently on? Because. All of them? Who is. Okay. I. This almost sounds like he was high and thought, huh, KKK, Kodak Kendrick Kanye. Like, I don't really think he put a whole lot of thought into it beyond that, but what would make you think you three niggas could come up with something cohesive enough that the rest of the world would want to listen to it? And do you think that you and Kanye and Kendrick, maybe you and Kanye, but do you think the three of y'all are similar enough to where y'all could even get along long enough for this to happen? Like, I just. This sounds like you are that white girl. You know, you on something you ain't supposed to be on, because this. It's no part of this that makes sense to me. Where was this at? Was it on Instagram Live? Because I'm Googling it and I don't find it. It was on a stream. Oh, okay. Fucking Twitch. Firebite. Okay, well. Yeah. Kick one of them. Okay. But. He on something. Somebody in the comments on Baller Alert said, we listening to Bassheads now, and I have to tell you that that was. What did I just tell you? What? Yeah. That was delightful. That nigga is on drugs. That's ridiculous. Okay. Streamer DDG says that men who watch Love Island alone are gay. Well, thank God DDG spoke up about this, honestly. I was really wondering what DDG's thoughts were about men who watch Love Island. Me too. This was keeping me up at night, so thank God. Truly. Yeah. When I saw this, I was like, oh my God, thank God. I've been waiting for his opinion. I really couldn't even watch the new season until he told me what he felt about it. Right. I'm like, can I really tune into the villa without knowing what Halle Bailey's baby daddy thinks about people who watch this show? Girl, who cares? So thank you, Dirty Dick Goofball, for giving us your two cents on the program. Love it. He said, I haven't watched Love Island. You know why? Because I don't have anybody to watch it with. You could have just stopped there. Yeah. Like, hello. I think it's gay to watch Love Island by yourself. If you and AV watch Love Island solo, you might be bisexual. So. You have a lot of information and discovery when it comes to sexuality other than hetero. And I want to know where you're getting this information from, because as a wide-open faggot, I haven't received, like, this in the mail. Nobody in the underground gay road has said, hey, for this month's meeting, we're doing Love Island. Right. And the bisexual. Like, what the fuck is this hell talking about? What are you talking. Like, sir, you said, I haven't watched Love Island because I don't have nobody to watch it with. Not because I'm straight. Right. So, it sounds like you really want to watch Love Island. But for whatever reason, you. Why would it be bisexual to look at a reality show by yourself? How exactly. Unless men are fucking each other on the reality show, and nothing but men are fucking each other on the reality show, what about it is gay? For real. How is that gay? The girls are all young and beautiful in bikinis 24-7. How is it gay to look at that? Watching the cast kiss each other alone is a little bisexual. You don't. So, this tells me that you're turned on by both things. When they're kissing, you're like, both of these things are hot. DDG, you could just be bisexual. And you also don't have to throw in red flags to let everyone know until you're comfortable. If you want to share it all. Because it just don't take a lot of pushing back for this entire. Your whole argument or these statements to just fall apart. Like, you sound like one of them niggas. You sound like one of those niggas who click around on porn until you find a dick big enough. And then you feel guilty about it. But. Thank you. But those are your own private thoughts. This is. That's your hurdle to jump through internally by yourself, girl. This is stupid. Those girls. Who even asked? Why. I'm really struggling to find out how you felt conflicted about watching a lot. Like, I just am not even getting it. It really is not making sense to me. That you ever felt. Like, oh, it's gay to look at this by yourself. You have to have a woman around to watch Love Island with you? You. That. But you can have a girlfriend. You can be having sex with a woman and not be straight. That happens all the time as well. So. You didn't think this through. This is just. This is what he does, though, right? He just gets on streams and starts talking. That's how he makes up. Yeah, maybe on there for like 12 hours. They're already not smart. So, you know, who knows? Just saying shit. He probably says stupid shit all the time. And this is just one of those things that actually made it to the rest of us. But I bet if you tuned into that stream, that nigga is saying dumb shit all the time. Right. You could write an e-book. It's a little bisexual to watch straight people kiss each other. Are you sure? What's bisexual about that? I don't know. Then let it just be talking. Yeah, you can't ever forget it. It sounds like your conflict, Dirty D. Yeah. It sounds like your. It sounds like your thing to see two heterosexual people kissing and you're like, where is my sexuality at? It feels like you have a thing to ask yourself about how you feel about the man that is taking part in the kiss. Right. Yes. And because, like you said, they hire incredibly good looking people on top of that. They do. Sounds like maybe you're a little attracted to some of them men on Love Island and you feel you're feeling away about it. But again. That's for you and your therapist to work through. Word. To be like, oh, the rest of you niggas is gay if you watch it without your bitch. Okay. Because, girl, it's not even like, oh, I'm not watching Love Island because it's not my thing. Right. Or it feels more like a girl show, which in itself would still be stupid. But just like, oh, nah, because it's gay. And watching those very sexy men making out with women. Solid period. They're bisexual. They're bisexual people. Like, girl, shut up. Because it sounds like you want to watch it. It do. It sounds like you want to watch it real, real bad. It sounds like you do watch it and then you feel bad about yourself. Right. And now you're putting it out onto the rest of us. Shut up, dumbass. I know Halle be looking back like, god damn. What the fuck, bro? You're a stupid ass. Thank God my baby look like me. Okay. Just like, too. Look at God. Infinite. Yeah. Carbon footprint. This is what we're doing. I mean, okay. He's just an idiot. SZA has come forward to say that she's been diagnosed with Asperger's high-functioning autism. And apparently she's smarter than you, so stop playing in her face. What she said. Well, SZA. I say this with all the love in the world. I knew this when you was dressing up like bugs. When you was putting on, like, them grasshopper outfits or whatever and looking weird. When you started doing weird shit and posting. Oh, like on the cover of, um. What's the re-release of Control Call? Is it called Lana? Is it Control that she re-released or was it, uh. Oh, no. The other one. Yeah. I don't know what it's called. But she, she dressed up as a bug a few times. And I think I. I saw it then. Like, I don't think anybody was shocked by SZA saying, oh, you guys, turns out I'm autistic. I'm on the spectrum. Like, I. Yeah. Yeah. It is called Lana. SOS Deluxe. Yes. I had to Google it. And when she went on Hot Ones dressed up as, like, a mosquito or whatever, I said, yeah, okay. I know what you are. But, I mean, yeah, girl, welcome to the club. So many people are on that spectrum. And discovering. Mm-hmm. Yep. At all kinds of ages. Good for her. Yeah. Good for you. Whatever helps get you to a place where you feel more in tune with yourself and understanding of yourself. And I'm glad that more people who are getting sincere diagnosis are speaking up and being like, can you feel a brand new. Because it just helps destigmatize shit like that. And, um, not me. Because some people still get diagnosis of all kinds of, um. Disorders, syndromes, things of that nature and still feel, like, isolated. Um, even if they have tons of people around them online or whatever that are willing to support them, it still can make you feel like, damn, there's something going on with me or worse. I feel broken or, you know, like, I'm not normal. So, I love situations like this where the girls are not only like, I've been diagnosed with this thing, but I've been diagnosed with this thing and now I understand why I'm feeling this way. your spirit and you know I don't really have an issue with that personally because a lot of people, you know, if you feel like you have to sort of reclaim it for yourself and be like, see, all the times y'all talked about me and acted like it was something wrong with me and it was actually nothing wrong with me. Autism is my superpower or whatever. Like, you can absolutely have that for yourself. I would not even try to take that away from you. I did think it was funny that she put this is why I be in everybody's comments, because if you scroll on reels, I swear to God. Yeah, she does. It doesn't be in the comments. I mean, random videos. You'd be like, why are you here? Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, again, autism is is much more common than people think it is. And it's a wide spectrum. So a lot more people are on it than than know that they're on it. So good for her. Good for her. I hope it helps answer some questions and bring some peace to her life. All Trump said in the human eye is just hot. What else? She gone. She gone. Like, gone. Rosamund Pike, gone girl. She's so gone over you. I knew you was going to do that. Yeah, it was the next one. I'm not going to hold you. I barely. Any attention. I'm I'm you remember Vicky Minaj? Vaguely. Vaguely. I do. I do. Rapper, right? Yeah. New York. I think she is from. Yeah, that was a fun era. Yeah, that was interesting. Take me back. Nostalgia. What a time. I guess she's still waiting for the. The deposit. Or maybe she's trying to. Trying to get another deposit. I don't really know. Yeah, I assume because I saw her taking pictures with somebody. I don't know if she was at the White House or what. Probably so, but, you know, posing with these rapist assholes, taking pictures with all the worst people in this country and all this. I'm just like, so I think they did help you pay off your husband's debt from when he did whatever to that security guard and you was going to lose your house. If y'all. And hurry up and get him in his money. So I think they probably did go ahead and take care of that. But she probably got some other shit that needs handling. I don't even think it's the same check. I think she, you know, she cooned in for a separate check at this point. Yeah, for sure. And she has no she has. Well, I won't say no option. You could go get a job. But he has. Yeah. Yeah. A J. Oh, but I know you're not going to do that. Your man don't have. One. So. Right. Yeah. Yeah. OK. Release an album. What happened? What was it? March 20. It wasn't supposed to be March. She was so threatened. March 30 something. Right. And then changed her mind and threw a fit like, girl, you didn't have no fucking album ready. And you know that you could have put up some A.I. bullshit. But does anybody even care anymore? So, yeah. Yeah. She over here with Trump in J.D. Vance and all the rest of them assholes trying to get her bills paid. So. Prophetess in the re is very concerned about the popularity of young Miami's hit records. Spend that you're so happy you have to call it that. No, I'm not. I'm I've been indoctrinated, bitch. You can't be. I like the song now. See? See? And you were so mad when it first came out. It's awful. It is bad. It is a bad song. It's very bad. But it's catchy. It is. And it's funny. It is. And the niggas have turned it into a hit. They have. NGRE was talking about it. This looks like it could be Twitter. I'm not sure. But she said, well, someone else said, I'm calling for a boycott of a song. I'm calling for a boycott of a song. I'm calling for a boycott of Young Miami's song. Spend that. I believe it's degrading to our culture. At some point, we have to take seriously the power music has over our perception and the values it reinforces. This can't be the song of the summer. Too late, sis. It is. I'm sorry, girl. I'm sorry. That's your failed girl. NGRE responded and said, I spent my entire adult life caring way too much because I finally learned that not everybody cares with a capital C. Still trying to figure out what that part means. And explaining it to them is not going to make them care. Everything you listen to, everything you listen to, see or eat is going to influence you. So make wise choices. I finally realized that not everybody wants to get free. Damn. Shit. It was a very, very, very rude awakening. SMH. Because the mass acceptance of this song is a crystal clear sign. Of this much bigger truth. The mass acceptance of this song itself is a crystal clear sign of the bigger problem. And it was a very rude awakening. You said that already, so I don't know why you retyped that. Mentalatula. For clarity, spelled Claire. Like the name. See why? Love that. I'm struggling into it. I did not say that I think anyone needs to boycott the song. I said it. It is a sign of where we are as a culture that this song has been accepted so widely. Widely, and that's facts. I think people should do whatever they want to do. You do what you want to do. I'll do what I want to do. And that's that. Meanwhile, I also said. Sick of y'all. Sick of y'all. I also said that the way we are embracing the songs says a lot about where we are as a culture. Doesn't she write music? I don't know if she still does. Which is just facts. Because there's so many errors. So yeah, Ms. Indiari believes that the viral summer smash, Spend That, by one Carisha, says a lot about where we are as a culture and what we accept. And she is doing it with a little lilt in the voice, a little half condescending nature that's like, do what y'all want to do. Mm-hmm. And I'm going to do what I want to do. But you hoes are late and shiftless and backwards. I don't know. In response, Young Miami's producer makes Spend That with video by Indiari and played it in the studio. It was delicious. I laughed incredibly hard and up for your sleep. Thoughts? No. I think two things can be true. She definitely has a point about Spend That being reflective of a deeper societal. Issue. Um, but I don't think that the biggest issue is necessarily scamming and boosting, but a society that disenfranchises people to the point of scamming and boosting, you know, I think that our bigger problem is that so many people grow up in poverty and have almost no chance of ever getting out of poverty. And so shit like scamming and boosting looks like a good idea so that you don't have to pay bills or have enough money to be comfortable to go on vacation, to buy the things you want to have, you know, to live a comfortable life. So I, I, I see where Indiari is coming from. And I mean, y'all, it's, it's hard to argue with that because it literally starts off where my scamming ass niggas at talking about bitches boosting and stuff and shit in their bags. Like it, I, I see what she's saying, but I, I don't know. I don't think the scamming itself is our, is our top problem, but yeah, I get it. And I, I, I fully understand the whole y'all can feel however you want to do whatever you want to do. Cause I'm gonna do whatever I want to do. And I'm done trying to get you niggas to see my side of things. Like I get that too. I just think the song is funny and people realize that the song is funny and bad and it just makes them have a good time because like, look at this. This is a ridiculous song. I don't think that most people who enjoy the song, sing the song back, um, are actually booster scammers are interested in doing either one. I think it's a song that is so, um, it's almost like a shock song where I feel like the popularity of it is based on how ridiculous it is. Like Kaya's, um, like my neck, my back. My pussy and my crack that, and my crack part was so for so many people, but I think it really blew that song out the water because like a high, there are a lot of songs that are really popular because it's like, Oh, I guess he just got in the studio and said that, which I think that that's what this is. Most people are singing and rapping it. They rapping it out of the BT awards and then also singing all the gospel and shit. It's just a fun song. It's catchy. I don't know how how connected i feel with this idea that the song itself is a statement for where we are as a culture in terms of the subject matter of it sure it probably does speak to scamming and boosting bitches it's calling you out by like and it's celebrating you this is your song it's not making fun of you for doing those things it's saying come over here scamming boosting bitch you're my people i just think it's kind of silly to act like the people who like this song sing along to this song are that attached to the message of it versus just being silly having a good time and especially in a time where a good time is rare like people are trying to have their fun make their fun and many of the people who like this song are also listening to morning dew ray whatever the fuck else like i get why india re would say this it's fucking india re like hello she's going to be like um right right and this is and i don't blame she's always you know india re has never been about the dumb shit she's always made anything with like a bigger message behind it so again i think she's right about it signifies a deeper issue i think she's off the mark about what that issue actually is though and you know more than one thing can be true for some people it connects in that you know this is a tied to capitalism sort of way for a lot of people bitch if i'm drunk and i've been smoking i'm in the club and that shit come on i'm finna bop to that song because it's catchy for some people it is it doesn't go deeper than that and for others it does and that is the problem with the internet you can't really have these hot takes or whatever replying to somebody's tweet you don't really get into nuance and so people get mad that you didn't say all this and you didn't include me in my experience and so then we get to this when it's like india re and young miami you don't really get into nuance and so people get mad that you didn't say all this and you probably could not find two more different artists so am i shocked that india re feels like spin that is not a good representation for people like this is not something we should be glorifying no of course not she told you hoes to quit wearing makeup and straightening your hair and all that shit 20 fucking years ago like the re i know what kind of time she on yes yeah so and i understand the idea that like words have power i do believe that some music is magic and all of those things but i also believe that the average human being has enough like sense and depth to know like to know this is a song and i'm not going to listen to this song and be hypnotized into boosting or accept that boosting is just a fun thing well i mean yes but that's because it's also you don't just roll over one day and decide that you're going to be a professional scammer it's normally people whose backs are against the wall you know metaphorically speaking and and it's not you know this isn't like somebody dreams of of scamming and stealing shit out of you know high-end designer stores or whatever so we can have a bigger conversation about like in a sociological sense what do the lyrics of this song mean and how do they resonate with different people and all this and i actually love having those kind of conversations this is actually the sort of shit i live for because for everybody who says it's not that deep to you it genuinely might not be like to me i don't boost nothing but do i love this song yes so the song isn't influencing me in any sort of way but would i love to dig into the way that um music has evolved over the years and how we've gotten more explicit in some ways and in some sometimes that means freer um which is a good thing and sometimes the music is i mean it kind of ties into the whole degradation of women or you could at least make the parallel or make the comparison into like hip-hop and how it disrespects women and degrades women and how that music and those attitudes affect people in real life so yeah it's a conversation to have but not on fucking social media so am i shocked that it blew up like this no not at all because y'all not really gonna get into the the ins and outs of it on fucking twitter so as someone who's from miami myself i grew up around countless scammers and boosters big city for that um and so immediately when i heard the song although i didn't like it i understood that it wasn't just coming from this place of let me make a song about scammers i think in the basis of that song it really is what you just what you mentioned a second ago this is a song for people who's back against the wall or who come from a a specific community or whatever and they look at that like oh i'm enticed by this and it becomes a way for them to get out or get things that they feel like they need or support x y and z so i know this song at least to me listening to it the first time and being like karisha this song blows i still oh you were so mad i still understood that it was like this is a miami girl her name is young miami this is a song for real for real yeah about whatever so i get what you're saying too because even in that respect it could be somebody who will listen to this song and be like oh scamming is up scamming been up this song is not gonna be i just don't think that's why this song is fire no it isn't it's and you and you know it's hard for me to put my finger on why the song is fire because same i don't it is not a good song but i do it's not it you had to tell me to speed it up yeah and then i did and i was like but it's a good song i but i like it i can both of those are true so it's catchy and it's stupid and you know if if she has said you know where my scamming ass niggas at pop that trunk mama need a new bag i would have been right there with you because i have bought hella shit that you niggas stole and was selling in like the beauty shop or whatever i have bought plenty of shit off of boosters and scammers so i'm not doing too much judging um yeah yeah but you know i'm not doing too much judging um yeah yeah but you know i'm not doing too much judging i would actually love to have a conversation about the cultural and societal issues reflected in the song because i don't think it's maybe crystal scotch to oh maybe so because it's not really on the conversation time yeah and you know for for people who who actually do want to think about it you know that yeah that deep because niggas will it's not that deep you all day when i mean unfortunate it don't have to be but it very much can be so a lot of our things are that deep like when you get down to it i really think about it a lot of our things are that deep in one respect are the next it's true they are so true they are it's the same i mean it's a similar argument to like when when anti-trans jokes are popular and anti-trans rhetoric is allowed to to run unfettered and unchecked all of a sudden we see more violence against trans people in the street and we see more violence against trans people in the street like it's not just entertainment it's not just music it does have real life implications but we have to think even deeper than that like who is setting up the society to be this way in the first place so yeah it's fun even to the point you just made about trans about those that rhetoric out affects actual trans people in the street it also affects actual cisgender it does it yes it absolutely does because y'all not y'all think you can clock trans people and you'll be wrong a lot a lot you'll be wrong a whole very lot i mean and and gender non-conforming people or you know studs trying to use the women's bathroom like it's there's so many different ways that this sort of stuff trickles down and affects different groups of people so song lyrics do you remember not too long ago when i said i hate when rappers use um use genitalia like trans people and genitalia as a way to use their genitalia as like a punchline maybe like i keep my i keep a gun tucked or whatever oh right like i say strapped up like yeah i said like i don't know how many months or weeks ago when i was like it's late y'all be wrong it don't make no sense it's offensive and that's probably another thing where people are like it's not that deep but i think it is yeah and again if if you're if you're doing anything other than mindlessly bopping in the club it is that deep when you think about it yeah but if you're not willing to entertain the thought behind it then yeah it's not that deep to you like again somebody could play this song later today i'm gonna be singing along i am same and i hate the song it isn't good it's not good it's not good i hate it and i love it so it makes so many people just laugh we've all come together and said this song is so laughable it's so ridiculous let's just have a good time together and it makes niggas start smiling laughing or whatever but the more that you talk about it the more i am understanding this head rap and like because she's not boy saying boycott the song or everyone should be ashamed it's just like wow the song of the summer is one about a Um, yeah, yeah. An identity fraud. So that's a step. She's like, so this is where we are in 2026. Straight up, steal people's identities and credit cards and their personal belongings and resell that for your own profit. And who cares what happens to your community or even yourself? Spin that sheet. I wonder what Jackie O thinks of this. Okay. That's it for the Hot Tops this week. Hope that you enjoyed some of that. To all of my fellow DeLulu Hive members. Oh, yeah. Jump in. Here y'all go. Your annoying theories. Actually, don't. Because I don't want, I don't want park with any of those. Never mind. I mean. Actually, you know they live for this. They do. They love it. They fucking love it. But y'all see, no, she knew. She probably cackled down before she told Missy Vette to go ahead and put that shit out. You know she. She said, oh, their pussies are going to be in a bunch after this. She knew everybody was going to be like, okay, so y'all, this resets the clock. Now we got. Screaming. At home wailing. At home wailing. Blue like, girl, here go another one. I think at three is for sure Destiny's Child. Like just screaming now. Screaming. Yeah. She at home doing the twins hair right now. Laughing at us. Laughing her ass off. Yeah. The cover for the single was probably just a picture. And then she called Yvette them up and was like, go ahead and put the Renaissance font on there. Let's really fuck them up. So they'll be like, but wait a minute. We thought what's happening. Is this. Okay, y'all, let's get back in the lab. Yep. They knew everything that lady does is going to send y'all into a tizzy. She loved it. She loves it. I had to talk myself down and just say, boy, enjoy this pretty song and shut your ass up. The bad lady ain't promised you a fuck thing. And won't is the thing. And won't. She won't. So, but I'm glad you guys are having fun. It makes me happy. It's a beautiful song. It is. And she, everything I said. I love when she fucks with us. I do too. I do. I genuinely get a good cackle out of it because I would do the same thing. I have a percentage of the fun that she has. Laughing. Smear percentage. Of the blast. But it is fun. Oh, okay. Okay, we're going to take a break. Come back with your letters. Okay, we're back. And it is yet time for your listener letter. It is indeed. My goodness. Send your questions to asktheread at gmail.com. We may read them aloud on the show. Our first letter this week comes from Kennedy who says, hey, y'all. Heaven pour it. Carter. Carter. So, I currently work for an escrow company and we're hiring for a role at one of our offices. I don't have a say in the hiring process, but because of my role, I receive notifications as we receive new submissions from candidates. One in particular I received today was insane. Long story short, the candidate's most recent position was an intern with ICE. I reached out to a few friends to express my thoughts because I was completely dumbfounded. But to respect the candidate's identity, I left out any identifying information. Unfortunately, one of my good friends decided to play devil's advocate and mentioned that she didn't agree with me having no respect for people who work for ICE because, quote, this can be the only job people can get sometimes so they can support their families. My first initial thought was, so it's okay to rip families apart so you and yours can survive? But I responded respectfully with, I'm going to have to disagree because working for them in this political climate is insane. Work. Restraint. My friend decided to double down and said, but your job and your personal identity are separate. In this case, it might be tough, but I don't know. I have to do things in my job all the time that I don't agree with from a moral or a political sense, but it's a job. I think it's only an issue if you do the job in a biased way based on your beliefs. Now, mind you, we are both black women and she is a resident physician entering her second year of residency. She's never voted for Trump, but she is Christian while I identify as agnostic. She left. She then mentioned to me, but to each their own and said, which is kind of what you're doing now in regards to treating someone differently because of their beliefs. If you choose to treat this candidate differently based on that or to not hire them. Again, I said we would just have to agree to disagree and that I have no say in the hiring process. I just see the resumes as they come in. I don't think I'm wrong in this situation, but please correct me if I'm wrong. I consider her to be a good friend and we've talked about politics before, so it was pretty shocking to hear this. Not pursuing someone to interview them for a. Because of a potential issue is not the same thing as letting somebody bleed out on the table in the OR and die because I found out about their personal views or at least the two just don't equate to me. What do y'all think? And how would you move forward if you were in this situation? Thanks, Kennedy. Who is this girl? Like your friend. Right. Right. Because it sounds like there is something. Personal. For for her. Yeah. That is causing this back and forth. Right. I mean, and I have heard of religious doctors not wanting to perform certain procedures because it goes against their faith or whatever. But part of being a doctor, you know, that oath that y'all take and all that shit is basically, you know, you first not doing no harm and you have to save. I haven't seen enough Grey's Anatomy niggas come in with Nazi tattoos and. And the doctor Bailey still got to save them or whatever. You know, I feel like I mean, hell, my friend Terry is a doctor in fucking Oklahoma, a black doctor in Oklahoma. She got to deal with racist ass rednecks all the time. So there is a certain amount of your personal beliefs aside. My job is to keep you alive and to help you, you know, take good care of yourself, give you the medical care that you need. So I agree. I agree that I would not put that on the same level of like. I don't want to call this person back for a job because they said they interned at ICE. Can you intern at ICE? I legit did not even I did not even know you could do that. But I thought that you just walk up to like Home Depot and then they just give it. I didn't. But OK. But this is a I think this is a healthy debate to have actually like between friends. Where is the line? Between capitalist society, we all have to work in order to survive and the things you're willing to do in order to make money like that. I think that's a that can be a fun debate even to have as long as we. But I can see how your friend threw you off here with this. Well, I just feel like I mean, in my job, I have to look past things all the time. Well, girl, your job is life or death. You're a fucking doctor like. Yeah, we don't all have your standards. Your standards are extremely high compared to the rest of us. It's not that it's not that serious for the rest of us. Yeah. You know something? I also understand the shock. Y'all both black. You talk about politics. You believe she didn't vote for Trump. And so this would also make me go, girl, what are you like? I thought this was going to be a good group chat. I think I didn't expect this. Yeah, I think that I would also. Like to have a. Cover like a full conversation about it. That's a little less personal. Yeah. And just do like, as you said, have the conversation about. Beliefs and how that can affect getting a job. Working alongside helping someone with what have you. But I would be confused as to why I'm coming to you with this thing. And you like, fight me down about somebody who interned right for this organization of absolutely terrible individual, inarguably horrendous people. Right. Um, like. The best for me, if I were in her situation, I'd be like, well, you know, we can't, we ain't got no say and who got these, who can do it, but girl, that's why I don't really understand. I had to Google escrow because I didn't really know what that I've never bought a house or anything, so I didn't really know what that meant. And I still don't really know what it means, but you know, you Kennedy made it clear. That you have no say in the hiring process. So that makes her reaction even weirder. Cause it's like, I couldn't discriminate against this person if I wanted to, girl, I'm not in charge. So it's almost like she feels guilty for maybe she didn't vote for Trump, but maybe she supports Trump or maybe she supports ice or maybe she supports some of what they're doing. Like, cause it's straight. Her reaction is strange, right? Why would it is if I put this in the group chat, why would you come back? Well, I just feel like it's not fair. Like what, what if. Sister, we're talking about the same ice that's going through and separating people who have been here for decades from their children who were born here, we're talking about. the people who are illegally detaining american citizens and that's what we're that's okay we're not talking about drake fans we're talking about right this isn't something stupid we're talking about real shit that's really affecting thousands and thousands of people and so yeah i i don't think you're wrong either kennedy i would i would probably sit down and have a deeper conversation with her about it but sounds like she kind of sounded like ddg in that whole i can't watch love like no shade so so you are watching what made you have that right what made you have that response sister like it honestly sound like to me like she either support ice or she loves somebody to support ice yeah or yeah love somebody that also interned that's what i'm thinking yeah she's sensitive about it yeah that's what i'm thinking yeah her cousin worked for border patrol or something and she's like how dare you judge us like okay okay sound like to me i mean if she's that much of a christian then she believes that we'll all be judged at the end of our lives anyway for the decisions we've made and the way that we've treated others so she you know i yeah i i don't think anybody who has federal laws governing some of the stuff that they can or can't do for work i i would not compare that to the rest of us like anybody with a license you you have totally different standards for work than the rest of us and yeah if you i don't think escrow has anything to do with like you know immigrant families or whatever but i can see how if you worked for like uh a therapy clinic that counseled children whose parents have been ripped away from them i could see why you wouldn't want to hire somebody who just got done with an internship at ice you know i could see how that might conflict with the goal of the organization so if i worked at divin dots i wouldn't want to be you everybody to be glad i'm not in charge of hiring because it's the way i'm discriminating left and right for the rest of us i don't want to be in charge of hiring because the way i'm discriminating left and right for the rest of us i don't want to be in charge of hiring i'm discriminating left and right fuck no you're not coming i'm it will get to the point of me breaking the law they'll be like okay bitch you have to hire somebody like white man no literally anyway di that bitch all right um good luck with the conversation kennedy if you choose to have it our next letter comes from my boyfriend and i have been dating for a few months he is the sweetest kindest most patient man i've ever met sadly his mother passed away back in 2024 and he was an only child so it was a massive loss after a few months of coming home to an empty apartment he adopted two cats who are brothers the problem is that he never got these cats neutered by the time i started dating him he'd had them for over a year these two unfixed male cats have completely taken over this house on my first visit i could immediately tell they were spraying and marking their territory yeah it took two to three visits for me to feel comfortable speaking up and while my boyfriend promised he'd get them fixed months have passed and nothing has changed i even spent hours cleaning his apartment once to give him a fresh start on keeping things clean and tidy he thanked me and promised he wouldn't let my hard work go to waste but the cycle continued he works a lot and since this is his first time living alone and having pets i'm trying to give him grace but when i asked him last weekend what joy are these cats actually bringing you he couldn't even answer shit i am now hard to right i am now hard launching the idea of him getting rid of these cats because he simply does not have the time to take care of them the way two unfixed male cats need to be cared for hard launch really just and i'm just outright saying it yeah this weekend he admitted that he is completely nose blind to the smell in his apartment at this point and told me to speak up if it stinks which it does really okay these cats have ruined his belongings and sadly some of his late mother's belongings my own mom passed when i was little and i have very few of her things so it pains me to see this i've already warned him that we will have major beef if they ever touch my stuff just this past sunday i mopped up a pea spot that was days old and less than two hours later one of those cats took a spite shit in the bathtub love a spite shit sound like a cat oh my god it really does he claims that he hasn't neutered them because he likes their personalities but he keeps making several promises to get it done money is not the issue he has the bread he just rather spend it elsewhere i know he loves it but he doesn't like it he doesn't like it he doesn't like it he just loves these cats but i am really starting to dislike them i used to really love those cats but now i don't even want to pet them they're sweet but i just can't take the smell of cat piss anymore should i just let it be and watch these cats destroy his space or or are there other options i'm missing thank you in advance for your help angry cat lady i mean i've never had a cat so i can't tell you what options you might be missing uh besides breaking up with this nigga because you have two cats you haven't got them fixed and they are pissing all over the place right if you're saying you're quote-unquote nose blind to it you need to go to the doctor you have to go see whatever it is yeah because cat piss the first time i said i wanted a cat i was single digit age i remember how old and my dad was like because they grew up with a couple cats dogs sort of like all that and my father was like do you know what cat piss smells like it is the worst like no i've never he was like it's violent i don't think you want a cat and i just believed him got a dog he's so right oh but since then i do know what cat piss smells like and it is violent it's so powerful that i can't this has two of them and you can't smell that that's that's a cause for concern sir sir you need multiple air purifiers and you need to go get those cats neutered i it's unacceptable to me to just have cats pissing all over the place doing whatever they want it like we just we simply do not do that i will not live in a home decorated with cats piss i simply will not do it and you say i'm gonna let i told him that if those cats mess up my stuff we're gonna have a problem baby you might as well start the countdown it is a matter of time before them cats piss in your purse yeah because you're the bitch who keep coming over and getting rid of all their fun stinky spots okay yes the fact that you cleaned up the pee and they took a shit in the tub right it's just gonna be a matter of time for they be like i got some for this bitch in his coach bed yes this is not it's it's it's that serious to where i would actually have to give him an ultimatum like you either get these cat fit cats fixed and train them properly like train them to use the litter box and put in the work with these cats you either do that or i'm not gonna be your girlfriend no more because i'm not gonna be the cat piss house i'm not and i'm god forbid all of a sudden i can't smell it oh no no no girl i need to think about that because what if i become like you no i'm not risking it because my thing is when if y'all have company over oh ow i mean they won't be staying longer because i'm let me tell you something i'm doing that simpsons meme where you walk into the restaurant and you're like oh my god i'm not gonna be the cat piss house you know bart's in there and just turn right back around yeah i mean and it's a matter of time before y'all start smelling like cat piss and so y'all go out into the world smelling like that and they're like you got unfixed cats at home huh and they just do whatever they want to and y'all have to be like oh yeah actually because he never bothered to neuter them or train them or anything else so yeah i walked into a cat house without knowing there was a cat like immediately walked in and i was like okay you guys have a cat yeah yeah you don't want to be that house you don't you you definitely do not and that even if you have like a clean cat or a clean dog you have to stay on top of those things because it will smell like animal in there if you don't so yeah he sounds really neglectful the cats honestly deserve better than this but you also deserve better than this and you don't have control over nobody but you so i would i would lay down the law pick a date and i would say wait and pay the deposit to have these cats neutered and you know they have all kinds of litter boxes now they this shit jay got one for trill that looks like a little spaceship and she just goes in it and you never smell nothing jay jay's house never you would never know she had a cat so there's all kinds of options but you do have to put in the work you do have to invest some time and money and energy into having these cats be the way that is um gonna work with your life and then they're great to have around but if he's not willing to do that i'm sorry i'm not willing to be in a relationship with you how long do you think i'm supposed to put up with that not to mention she been saying that she liked the cats but now she's starting to resent them not like them and it's not their fucking fault it's his fault and that sucks for these these kitties he talking about something he likes their personality probably because all y'all dirty oh yeah because you're dirty like she said that she cleaned up like some piss that was days old or something disgusting only a man what do you mean days old urine so how much did they pee for it to still be wet in days you can say it was wet it might have been sticky oh day oh or dry oh my god baby you could you gotta save yourself you got to like his her mom his mama's cats he went out and got these cats right and just refuses to train them i don't understand how y'all you could have a cat yeah you have to look out you do you really really do you could have went to the shelter and got a cat that was already fixed and would have been happy to be like oh this is the new litter box cool i need a cat tree or something and i will be terrorizing you randomly throughout the night and that's all thank you so much like you could have just did that have a little climber for him right what do they do what do they have to do other than tumble with each other all day and piss all over everything yeah and shit in the toilet i mean shit in the tub when they met how could you ever i mean i understand we can bleach this tub but every time i get in the tub i'ma think about how your cats took a shit in here like right oh my god yeah yeah you gotta save yourself if if you don't want to be saved i i would have to let him go and it's a shame too because it's like not my dream man but he refuses to take care of these cats or get rid of them like sir you got to do something do right by them or give them to to somebody who will do right by them but this is not sustainable it's not it isn't okay um any other options i don't know i think that's it i don't i don't think you have any other any other choices there babe good luck you last letter comes from somebody who calls himself lashandria's partner and lashandria's partner says my girlfriend and i live together and we share responsibilities and savings i make slightly more than she does but i take on more expense more responsibility with bills and unexpected expenses i've taken the initiative to lead our savings by mapping out our quarterly goals how much cash we have on hand what's coming up this summer and what we need to buy a house i recently asked her if she needed to pull back on saving because her hours were cut at work and we both agreed that would be the best move well that following week she won a pretty large amount of money and didn't say a word it hit me when she started offering to pay for things more than usual we went out to an expensive place for dinner and she was quick to buy things whenever we mentioned them i asked her where all this money was coming from and that's when she told me that she won it i do have a history of being pretty serious about spending and talking about how we can do better financially but i'm not sure if that's a good thing or not but at the same time i've always been transparent about what i have and what i'm willing to do i even told her when my clarna limit was raised so if we need something she pretty much always has an idea of what's possible i don't think my girlfriend needs to tell me about every single dollar that comes in but i feel foolish because i was speaking daily on saving to take the edge off of summer plans and expressing how grateful i was to save a few hundred dollars every month it feels like damn you was just gonna let me worry about how i was gonna make everything work while you quietly paid off your money and i don't know how you're going to make everything work while you quietly paid off your bills and listen to me complain about financial obligations the part that bothered me the most was when i asked her why she didn't share this info and she said i thought you knew i left the checkout on the counter which i am certain we both know is not the same as actually telling me i think she wanted the freedom to spend the money however she wanted which i can understand but i'm still pissed there's also a small part of me that's wondering if i should just let this go and focus on realigning on what makes sense for us financially moving forward i'm struggling with her actions and i want to know if i'm tripping thanks and love to you both lachandria's partner i mean i'm completely he's a girlfriend right yeah well you know then they live together and they share bills yeah yeah i think you have a right to be pissed just because of um her like keeping it to her chest like it just feels like a perfectly reasonable thing to be up front about like did she think that you're gonna be like oh i want all this money no did you like she would say i want all this money then you would be like okay well give me 90 of it because i'm a pimp named slick back i don't understand what she you know i would be annoyed by the fact that she kept it to herself but you asked she told you and you know for me some of the conflict is i've always been raised to like not tell a man how much money you have that i was gonna say that to you no shade but i'm a man right so it's kind of like i i overly understand but if she was gonna do that then she had to be a lot more slick about it i kind of want to talk to your girlfriend like damn girl if you had that big ass check and you didn't want to tell your man about it why would you start you know i don't know i don't know i don't know i you know buying expensive dinners and paying for stuff randomly like you got to act like you don't have no money girl rule number one um but i when i take that part out of it and try to look at it objectively i agree i would be yeah deeply annoyed that i'm over here like trying to cut back and see how we can still make our savings goals and all this while you just over here with i don't know probably thousands of dollars and just chilling and wasn't gonna say nothing talk about i left the counter bitch don't piss me off do not fucking piss me off so it's my fault that i didn't go rummaging through all everything on the counter to see a check like what you that would have pissed me off the most too lashandria yes me too don't play with me also you want to play in my face you're saying i'm stupid you said i'm ignorant you say i never been your heart i don't know education you're saying my mama's a bitch my daddy's a bitch my grandma bitch right you're saying yeah that's what i'm hearing that's what i'm hearing i'm hearing you call me a dumb bitch because how you gonna be like well i left the check on the counter girl don't say though just like you said at first i was like so you sir make slightly more and she came into some money and you've been taking care of the bills and stuff i don't hear this yeah yeah same i really had to step back so what what's the problem yeah i i agree it was like looking at it objectively and also though oh well yeah i left the check on the counter underneath this month's vogue and last month's jet and i think and it was just folded up in into threes but other than that you should have seen it you didn't look underneath the wendix to keep on like girl what it was underneath that box of tampons i bought six weeks ago you didn't say that little lachandria is a partner i like i understand i just can't help but also say that that she's fierce what a diva literal living cunt so um we're not um yeah i do think that you have the right to be agitated because like we linked in we were together in the same place sharing all these things seemingly happy you know both working i'm taking care of bills the very least you could have been done has been like girl guess who hit it big right let's go get a steak dinner especially because it sounds like lachandria's partner is a reasonable person so if you turn to me and say hey i want five thousand dollars on the scratch offs um i'm thinking about putting half of it towards paying off debt and then we can do such and such and such it sounds like you would have been like that sounds like you would have been like that sounds like you would have been like a good idea like you sound financially responsible like paying off debt yeah if y'all trying to buy a house paying off debt is a great move so yeah it's almost like be sneaky for what and if you're gonna be sneaky you gotta really commit to it you can't just start buying it out of nowhere after your hours got cut at work and then being like well i left the check on the counter girl i was about to leave it out you know what i had a good day at work today i'm in a good mood let's go to chanel what did you mean applebee's what what did you mean applebee's chanel like okay the apple store i want those goggles oh yeah i also would be agitated but but it's probably something y'all can move through. I think what y'all have to work through the most is the sneakiness around, well, I thought you knew because of the check, right? That, honestly, I think is the biggest issue. It's not even that you didn't tell me. It's that you tried to blame me for not knowing. Like, okay. All right. That's where LaShondria fucked up. Yeah, because that would then bleed into other things for me where I'm like, are you telling me the truth? Are you going to find some little weird random loophole to excuse you doing such and such? That would be my issue for me. Right. But if she told you she won $5,000, but really she won $6,500 and she was just saving that extra $1,500 somewhere for herself, I wouldn't have no problem with that because, again, race to never tell a man how much you have and to always have your own money so you can get away with it. You can get away if you need to, so. But good luck. Hopefully y'all are able to work it out and move on. I'd hate to side with a man, but yeah. Did we? Or they, them. We tried. We really. We said, first of all, your partner's a diva. Yeah. And we stand, but we understand the feelings, so. Yeah. But yes. Good luck in the conversations. That really goes for all of you this week. And that is going to wrap up the letters on this week's episode of The Read. Again, if you have a question for us, send us an email, asktheread at gmail.com. We'll be right back. We have returned, folks at home and other places, and it is time for The Read. Are you going to talk about Nolan Wells? I was going to bring it up, so. You can go first. I mean, well, that's not the only thing I was going to talk about. I also was going to talk about T.I., big stupid ass. And this gynecologist on fucking threads. Did you see this? So apparently there's a, do you remember real world Boston? There was a girl named Camila. Yeah. So she actually did fulfill her dream of becoming an OBGYN, and she's been. She's been practicing for a while now. And somebody on, right, but, but. So somebody on threads was talking about how their doctor just switched to a different way of doing their practice, and now it's like a $5,500 annual fee and, and how, you know. So anyway, this person didn't say any names. However, Dr. Camila then replied to the thread and was like, hey, girl, just so you know, I spent a lot of time thinking about whether I was going to do this, blah, blah, blah. And so now the conversation has shifted from should doctors be doing this? Let's talk about how insurance companies are robbing both the providers and the patients in these situations to why is Dr. Camila from real world Boston committing HIPAA violations on fucking threads when nobody called you out by name in the first place? So, but that's not, I mean, she's probably not going to lose her license for that. Or anything. However, it is day one type shit to not identify yourself as being anybody's doctor. And I have had clients tag me on Instagram and TikTok in their videos and said, Crystal was my therapist, this, this, this, blah, blah, blah. And I simply ignore those people. I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever. Right. Right. Exactly. And I don't even have a license, but that's the thing about it. Patients can tell you who their doctor is and they can complain about you all day and they can say your name and how long they can give all the details they want to because they're the patient. You as the provider have a different standard of responsibility. You cannot see that people are talking shit about you on threads and then jump in and identify yourself as this girl's doctor. Like I just don't. Dr. Camila, I don't know what you were thinking and you're probably going to have to go through some sort of HIPAA compliance reminder training or something and pay a fine or something that's going to be deeply annoying. But girl, you can't be getting this caught up in social media. Again, this is day one stuff. You just cannot. So that was one thing. The second thing was T.I. on a podcast called Big Boys Neighborhood, which I guess is Big Boys podcast. Yeah. And he was talking about. Marriage. Oh, God. Why? And he said the one thing about marriage is that it works when you don't leave. And it's a woman in the background going, oh. And he was like, sometimes she gonna get on your nerves. You gonna get on her nerves. You can't stand the sight of that bitch. She can't stand the sight of you. You want to leave. She want to leave. Marriage works when you don't leave. You know, there is a such thing as Oprah simplifying concepts to the point of them being useless. Thank you. Oh, my God. You ate that. Well, no shit. You remain married as long as you don't file for divorce. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my God. That'd be gonna miss the prison library so bad. Like, nigga, this is indeed just because neither one of you file for divorce doesn't mean that you have a healthy marriage or something that anybody else should be aspiring to do. And the first comment on thread say this is coming from somebody who's cheating in peace. So, I mean. And that was my first thought. Like, yeah, marriage works because you. You can do whatever the fuck you want to. Tiny ain't going nowhere. What's she gonna do? Put out a song about what you're gonna do when she leave, which she not gonna do. Okay. Shit. I just, I listened to this clip and, you know, I said, you know, Tia, I have enjoyed the music. God knows. Yeah. But, sir, you are a lot less smart than you think you are. No fucking. Yes, you can stay married if neither one of you goes down to the courthouse and files that paperwork. Does that mean you have a good life? Good marriage? Does that mean you have something aspirational? Does that mean that this is something that anybody else should want to have in their lives? Does this mean that you all have a that both of you feel fulfilled and happy and like you're supportive of one another's goals and passions and growth and development as human beings, both individually and within the confines of this marriage? No, it just means that you haven't gotten divorced. Those are two different conversations. God damn, you're an idiot. I do think that there are some couples and people in relationships that kind of give up before they, like, make an honest effort to work through stuff that can be worked through. Yes. Specifically. Yes. But I think the statement of marriage works when you don't leave is ridiculous for, like, a laundry list of reasons, including the one that you just mentioned. Right. But merely the one that you just mentioned. I mean, and chronic cheating is a great reason to leave. Hello, hi, and goodbye. It's a great reason to not try to make it work. That is a great reason. Like, wrong, messenger diva. I mean, this is their fault for asking T.I. anything about, like, who thought, you know what, I want marriage advice from T.I. Tip. That's who I think. Do you see those two fingers touching? I think he exemplifies what it means to be an excellent husband. That's the kind of man I would want to align myself with legally for the rest of my days. Girl. Unknown cheater. I think that commenter hit it on the head. Yes. That commenter hit it on the head. He's like, well, I'm plenty happy. Yeah. And my bitch ain't leaving, so marriage works. When you can do whatever you want to do because your wife ain't going to leave, yeah, your marriage, it does work then, doesn't it? Yeah. Yeah. That's my bad for not wanting that, I guess. But, so, I had those sort of more lighthearted, less serious things to talk about. This story of Nolan Wells, who went off with some white friends on the 4th of July to, you know, probably be on a boat and drink beer, dumb shit that teenagers do. And then he's the only one who didn't come back. And these kids are like, oh, well, he's lost, but they had his phone and brought the phone back with them. And something about, oh, well, he said he was going to stay on the island and ride back with somebody else. You know, just a bunch of different conflicting stories. And what it really boils down to for every Black person as soon as we saw this was, so, yes, I feel like most Black Americans have been raised with this idea of, like, Like, anytime you the only nigga somewhere, extraordinarily careful like yeah you avoid that situation if at all possible but you know keep your eyes open and you just can't trust them and all this this this um they found the baby's body it's very sad yeah what i was going to talk about is less of you know what really happened here because let's be real these are white teenagers um in mississippi nolan wells came from a well-to-do family his friends are probably also similarly moneyed i would not be surprised if absolutely nothing ever happens to these kids and the family never has real answers is it true one of the kids has a parent that's a judge i think so i think so i did not verify that independently but i did hear that um but i just wouldn't be surprised um if nothing ever happens to them and it's just oh well you know yeah we had his phone but what do you what he said he wanted to know to stay what 19 year old stays behind on an island without his friends but doesn't keep his phone with him sounds like you boys didn't get your story straight before you came back home but as heartbreaking as this is i've seen a lot of y'all tag his mama on threads and give her your opinion of like where her son should have been and who he should have been with and what he should have been doing and all this that and the other and i would just like to remind y'all that these are the victims in the situation and as much as the rest of us can see this and be like damn this is why black people not supposed to be nowhere with no other black people tagging this woman or the other relatives who are talking about the story on social media on threads or facebook or whatever else going in them people's mentions on their posts on their page to tell them how they failed as family members or how they sunshed and never did that is depraved like perfect word we can you can take all the but but but chris this we all know black people not say no shit and that child didn't deserve to die it's been like four or five days they're very much so grieving you bitches are not helping all you're doing is displaying a stunning lack of empathy for a family whose teenage son is dead what is all your shoulda coulda wouldas gonna do about it now you having your own opinions separate is one thing because of course everybody got something to say that's normal when a story hits the news i'm talking specifically about going to these people's posts and making making these bullshit comments like they're not human beings and i know for a lot of you maybe you don't know this but for a lot of people you hear stories like this you you immediately start to think what could i do to make sure this never happens to me it's almost it's it's like a defensive thing and this is very common for people to hear stuff like this and be like okay let me immediately come up with different ways in my mind that this could never happen to me to prevent me from ever feeling this pain or experiencing this sort of loss you can have those feelings again to go speak to that child's mother directly like she is not gonna have to bury her son who we all know was killed by these white boys and will probably never see one minute of justice behind it it's so inappropriate y'all have got to log off some goddamn times do you have friends outside of your phone that's a real question go out that is a big question take a big deep breath of fresh fucking air this is not how we are victims you can say or believe that black people shouldn't be on a boat with white people and by them damn by their damn selves and also understand that we should be able to do that and come home alive it's not his fault he's dead it's not his mama's fault he's dead it's the fault of whoever killed that child i really need y'all to hold on tight to that truth this is a sweet baby i mean by all reports a good kid played football was in college big smile talented athlete great student respectful person if you had a teenage son you would want him to be like nolan this is a tragedy by all accounts and you weird vindictive bitches are talking to this baby's mama like it's nothing like this is a like this is fiction like it's a story she wrote and you don't like how it ended the fuck i'm not gonna ask if y'all are okay because i know you not but please the next time you feel the urge to go talk to a grieving mother or father or cousin or granddaddy about all the things they could have done differently consider the fact that you're being a stone cold fucking bitch put your phone down and go outdoors just take a walk and reconnect with life and the world around you because you're too disconnected from what it means to be a person a child is dead focus on the cinnamon girls thank you so much and that's it for me i couldn't have said it better myself um i will try to do these two things very quickly and get out y'all hair one sony it has been reported that you are ending physical media for playstation and probably other things definitely for playstation moving forward yes um as a physical media baby this is bittersweet for me the bitter being wow the time has come i'm not gonna be able to get physical copies of my favorite games um the sweet part is i told y'all niggas i told you niggas oh my god so many dvds so many video games why don't you do this this is why because that pimple in the oval office has essentially crafted the world to say oh capitalism can just be wide dick wagon outside cool great we're on it so sony's basically said fuck y'all we're not bought we're not selling you no more discs in fact if you buy a physical copy of grand theft auto 6 which comes out i think in november it won't have a disc in it no they're just sending people the case with a code inside oh my god so the issue for me is that i'm not going to be able to buy a physical copy of grand theft auto 6 i'm not going to be able to buy a physical copy of grand theft auto 6 i'm going to be able to buy a physical copy of grand theft auto 6 here like a lot of people will be like oh well you know if i'm a gamer a lot of you download games i have a lot of games that i you know bought digitally these days because i am actually running out of space but the issue with that is sure we are paying for the licensing of these products rather than owning the film or the game itself whatever but we know two and two and four right you know that the the reason for buying a hard drive is because you're not buying a hard drive or a hard copy of a game of a film of a tv series is so that you can play it when you want to for as long as you can as long as you have these devices and so on with things like video games not having discs or anything really since you don't own the license the people who do can revoke it take it away from you whenever they feel like it without any explanation apology or a fuck thing in fact playstation already did this very thing because a lot of people who were buying movies from them digitally lost their whole library even though they paid however much money for all of these movies because playstation sony and i can't remember the name of the company that they partnered with that was doing the uh film tv storefront for them and did that whole thing chop the licenses now the movies that you paid for you can't watch they will do the exact same thing with video games and it is all for them it is just another way for them to capitalize off of their shit they'll sell you the playstation 6 none of them will have a disc drive in it and you so you really not only you not be able to buy physical media there'll be no point if you have a playstation 6 because you won't have anything to put it in and even still even if you have discs there are workarounds and things for them to be able to revoke licenses even video games digitally that i have right now if my wi-fi go out a lot of times i can't have a disc drive in it and i can't have a disc drive in it and i can't have a disc drive in it and i can't log in because it'll be like we need to verify your license oh yeah connect to the network so i said to myself you know what big bummer i'm a playstation baby i've had every playstation since i was a kid once it got to the three i had to start buying them myself but i had them and as a big fan and a gamer who's been like i want to be an old old bitch in my 60s and 70s and i'm still here you know playing adventure games and final fantasy and whatever now i'm like the carbon footprint is trash um so you know it seems like it's gonna be a wrap on gaming at least here um so sony wow incredibly bold incredibly brazen especially because it wasn't that many years ago that y'all hopped on e3 and did this like cheeky little jab but i think microsoft saying if you want to share playstation games with your friends here's how you do it and they had someone holding a playstation game handshaking them and they were like oh my god i'm gonna be like oh my god i'm gonna hand it to somebody else right that's the great and be like done yeah yeah and ovation like yes this is how it should be let people like physical media sharing it shouldn't be that deep same company what five six years later is like well suck our dick you can't have it yeah yeah exactly that quite literally so wow what a delicious fuck you to um your players player base your demographic and i know that y'all are doing the big oh well tough what you gonna do about it like most people around companies corporations are doing around the globe right now but i hope you are paying attention to the amount of uh sony playstation fans that are like well i'm not buying a ps6 like but what i guess this is where the buck stops for me right right bullshit so that's one two uh back to house of the dragon and this nigga with the white dreads corliss valerian exactly where do you get the nerve let me tell you something about yourself bitch what you're gonna do is you're gonna calm down you're gonna calm down you're gonna stop raising your voice you're gonna stop calling other people's kids bastards because you're not getting your way ho so okay now you like your two actual full black dark-skinned babies because they saved your life and you feel like shit because you were a deadbeat nigga them motherfuckers in their late 20s and 30s you had a whole lifetime to give these niggas the name valerian you played in their face you play the white people game you play the classist game you play the big diva game you wanted to be the nobleman and act like oh well those kids are illegitimate illegitimate and i had them with whoever the fuck black bitch out in in westeros somewhere and i ain't claiming them then finally the ballad of the gullet takes place and one of them is riding a dragon again fierce chocolate brother long beautiful black dreads flying a dragon i didn't know that my soul needed it he find a dragon the other one is just getting busy killing pirates and leaping from the sky to the moon and that's what you're doing you're just going from ship to ship i don't know what your ass did but tell people to sail through this one ravine or something like that and y'all barely made it through or whatever but your chocolate sons save the day you ain't really got shit to do to give them because they burnt down your castle and shit like that and you have to and so you're like what i can give you is my name and the sons are like well that's all we ever wanted halfway because they're not going to give you anything because they're not going to give you anything because they wanted their dad's luck oh they've always been speaking like why doesn't he claim us we you know we deserve to have a father too just because we're not valerian it's always been that but also having a noble name is political power right yeah absolutely he knows that and that's why he's like okay let me make up for being a deadbeat piece of shit absentee father by giving you my name because then you'll probably be able to get houses and dragons and bitches or whatever you want they're like we just wanted our daddy to to claim us and love us like any one of his other kids that's not so crazy so he pulls back up to to king's landing or wherever we're near at we're near it's like day one of me being the queen i'm on my period everything is is raggedy like i'm literally it's giving obama it's giving biden it's giving com it's giving okay well here i go i'm gonna have to take at least 72 hours to just have people screaming me right so like and this lady is also on her period she she can't have it she has bastard sons or has bastard children the streets know it also she's a woman in the throne and some people feel like she wasn't actually she didn't have right to the throne anyway so she tells this nigga when he brings back his two chocolate sons and you know i've been good to you been on the sidelines supporting advising whatnot we just won out in the ocean and shit like that one of your sons died or whatever but we won one overall and so it would be incredibly fierce if you would just name my two bastard sons valerian um because you know they deserve it and at first veneer was like nigga no um well see the thing is right i'm not doing that i just got here everybody is walling i literally just stole a whole bunch of food that rich people were hoarding during all of the drama because poor people in the street in my kingdom were starving to death so i stole their food to give to people to eat i'm dealing with like real big baby shit out here right now furthermore a part of the reason why people feel like i ain't shit and i'm not shit i'm not shit i'm not shit i'm not shit not deserving of the throne that was promised to me by the king before is because i do have bastard kids in the streets know it so it wouldn't be a great look for me pr wise if day one i'm like here go yo bastard kids that also gets a high noble name so why don't you just chill for a minute let me get my bearings get a little situated and then we'll do that so she knights one of the the the bastard black sons sir i think she's a black son she's a black son she's a black son she's a she called him sir adam of hall instead of valerian so corliss debbie daddy he find out about this he's pissed he's pissed you couldn't do this one little thing for me after all that it is your sons are bastards too this one's the bastard and your son just sarah's the one who just died right right that same fight where his sons killed him and shit just sarah's lived and died a bastard now he's screaming this at renero while people in the castle watching now making a scene so to that i have to say bitch nigga first of all you made them niggas wait 30 years for your name oh you can wait three days three weeks who the fuck are you talking to yeah who are you talking to it's always a deadbeat absentee father they get a little bit of ounce of grace from one of their kids who now want to act big and bad and feel like i will move like tear down a mountain to give my baby what they need ho shut your ass up you don't have no power here no dominion no nothing bitch you should be glad you're even alive yeah that's what it sounded like you should be glad you're even alive and that one of these niggas can ride dragons because you left his ass out in the street to be a bastard i'm the one who found him and gave him this bitch to ride you don't get to tell me nothing you don't make no demands bitch you don't tell me what the fuck to do okay i you could have gave them the name when they were born hmm you could have taken them in and accepted them like i did mine you chose to leave them into the streets you chose to leave them outside you chose let the rats and the rat catchers have them bitch you're not gonna come up here and yell at me and call my dead baby no bastard bitch i'll kill you too right i just got a taste of chopping heads off bitch you want to be next yeah yeah hollering about my son living and dying a bastard these two niggas bastards too and guess what they don't have shit kiss my ass and get glad bitch i could not believe this hoe had the nerve to speak to her like that i you're a dead beat bitch your son was shaving his head bald so hoes couldn't see that it was white that's how traumatized you left your kids and are you hollering to me about my kid because i didn't immediately give you i didn't even tell you no i said wait like your sons did you shiftless dead beat bitch well yeah the nerve of dead beat niggas and and and their goddamn gall and audacity they will get nothing until i say they may they will get nothing nothing you get zero like i'm on my period everything ain't shit oh my god i know she put on her good shoes too to go and address her her kingdom and her people and stuff like that as soon as she put the shit on she was like fuck is it what i'm bleeding and then you just see her going through the throes of cramps and sweating and all this other shit rather than having to keep it to herself because she can't as a woman fresh into the throne be like i'm sorry i can barely pay attention because my period is driving me that's right and they didn't even have like tylenol and shit back then so you really just had to thug that shit out they brought that bitch some tea oh here for the cramps poppy and shit i don't know i'm saying shit whatever i don't know i don't know wow and you're gonna come yelling at me to do what you could have did you actually aren't you actually aren't gonna do that i'm gonna lose my mind before you do that that's it i'm just i'm finished for now corliss you are on my list bitch how dare you all of the scenes that we've watched so far of these these young black men being like damn our daddy really don't give a fuck about us and then he want to like play he was all also like playing in their face especially the bald one being like i know you my son and you know i know you know that i'm your father and everything but i'm too ashamed and cowardly and weak to just give you an honest straightforward apology so i'm gonna try and dance up little privileges and you want this job in this little position rather than just saying i ain't shit and i should have been there for you and not made you you seem like a common bitch because you're actually one of the dolls. And they did what you should have did. That's responsible, though. That's what a real nigga would do. So. Are you going to come in here and call my baby a bastard that just died fighting for you, bitch? I got your bastard. I would have cleaved them dreads off right there where he was standing. I don't even know what's taking Rhaenyra so long. She's acting a little. She pussyfitting around a little too much for me. Now, it might be the cramps. I'm going to give her episode three. She bleeding bad. Rhaenyra never spoke to me like that. In front of people? Making a scene? Oh, no, no, no, no, no. You got me fucked up, Steve. Steve is crazy. That's the actor's name. Oh. But anyways, that's it. I. I'm sure the people who watch this really got their life. I do not know what you're talking about. But. It's for me and the folks that do. But I mean. Context. If you don't watch it and you're not going to watch it, I feel like I explained enough. No. I mean, right. Deadbeat niggas. This is universal. This. Tale as old as time. Right. So. And the guff to then finally be like, you know, let me tell you something about my kids. Bitch. They can tell us way more than you can, bitch. You don't know them. Right. Right. Oh. Oh. Okay. Is that. That's it. Yeah. I'm finished. Shout out to. I could keep going. No, I bet you could. You and Shariel. Every time she posts about this damn show, I'm like, I do not know what you're talking about, girl. I went to Taco Tuesday last night and both. Thankfully, both of my friends I went with also watched. Oh, nice. So we was at that. I'm. I'm like. I completely downed it like a. Downed a double XL market. You know, one of those just ass-a-not. Fishbowl margarita. Things of margarita. Yeah. And I'm just like, who told it? Like, just. Being extra down. This is after I threatened to beat somebody up. But we had a great time. Okay. Other than that, you know, other than the threats of violence. Wonderful. It was uproarious. I'm not proud of it, but we didn't fight. Well, and that's all that really matters ultimately now, isn't it? You didn't do that. Okay. Sometimes I get into that bag and I start getting. I start going there and then people are like, oh, this person seems crazy. It's like. Oh. Hmm. They're like, well, we. We wouldn't have said that. You did, though. He was just a drunk dummy who, like, was just coming over to us. Don't nobody know him and he was doing the most. I'm not in the mood. So I was like, just go. Just please get away. We were having, like, a private dinner conversation. Please just go. That turns into. Ugh. Do you know who owns this place? I'm drunk. Just drunk. Drunk high off his ass. I stand up and I said, you're gonna be the owner of a fucked up lip if you don't get the fuck away from this table right now. Jesus. And he turns up, you're gonna let him hit me? You're gonna let him hit me? I said, he ain't gonna let me do anything. You need to fix your mouth, fix them brows, fix them toes, Oh, my God. and get away from here. And. The rest. Insane. The rest could be incriminating myself in a crime. But needless to say, I barked at him quite loudly and he ran away. Well, and, you know, sometimes drunk people really, you gotta really make it clear that they're doing too damn much and they need to go sit down. That is exactly what I said, Crystal. Especially because one of the people I'm there with is a woman. I'm not gonna give you no room to even think you can play here right now. And with drunk people, I said, girl, you have to be firm with them a lot of the time to let them know you're not playing no games or just stay over here They think it's a joke. Yeah. Because they're drunk. I get it. Not me, bitch. Not my proudest moment. Oh. But I be forgetting. All right. Well, 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 thisistheread.com. I want to thank Keir Gaines for having me on his podcast Learned the Hard Way. Love talking to black men with good sense and degrees and licensure and all that. We had an amazing conversation. Go check that out. And thank you so much to Michelle Buteau and Amy Ananobi and everybody over at Survival of the Thickest Season 3. Quite a few of you have tagged me in my little cameo on the show. It's such a fun show. It's so great. And I'm just glad that I got to be a part of the final season. So go stream Survival of the Thickest on Netflix now. And yeah. I love me some Amy Ananobi and me directing. She's everything. Both episodes I wrote for Ratchet. She's everything. Oh my God. She's so fierce. She's such a doll. Yes. Such a sweetheart. So talented. And I just got to meet so many. You would be people who don't work in film and TV would be shocked at how long you spend on set. Please tell me. You will be on set mostly doing nothing. All you'll be sitting there waiting for other actors to get through their eighth run through of a scene. Yeah. And you just there's a lot of sitting around and then you go do your thing and it's it's 10 seconds of footage. Are you like the amount of work it takes to make TV is really something because they'll it'll it'll take an hour or something just to move cameras for another show. Yes. You're there all day. So many times I had to get up because they were resetting the cameras reset. Okay. Reset talent. They had to tell me multiple times it looks like coffee it is not don't drink it. I'm like you had to tell me because at this point I'm sleepy. So thank you for saying something I've been on set for like 10 hours but that's TV for you and I had a great time and love the show. Love the show. Yeah. I mean you know it's just not really acting but I was I was honored just the environment I was yes and I was honored to have even been invited to audition for the show. Yes. And Solomon Giorgio was there. I think he was one of the directors that day but just got to meet a lot of great people so thank you again Michelle. Love you. Love the show and yeah Crystal's Couch out everywhere if you would like some advice from my ridiculous self you can go tune into that shit. Yeah. As if your advice is ridiculous. No I mean I'm using informed and educated using this degree for something good. Thank God. But you're still you. I am. Right. So it's still a little bit. You're going to get a tinge of crystal. Yeah. But then I'm going to try to reel it in and you know act like an adult. All right. Any updates from you before we head out? Check out my podcast Furious Thoughts on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts. Kidfury.com for more of me and also patreon.com slash Kid Fury for extra more of me. Somebody on threads convinced me to watch The Polygamist on Netflix. Oh my God. So I'll be doing a review for it there on Patreon. So look out for that. I'm fighting my way through Diary of a Mad African Woman. 22 episodes South African telenovela. They're half hours but it's okay. I just can't even imagine where it's going because I'm on episode four and it feels like everything's happened already. Okay. Wow. Okay. Sounds good. It isn't but I'm gonna do it because you guys have literally told me you'd pay for it. They were like I subscribe and this is what I would like. I'm fine. That's real. All right y'all take care of yourselves and be good. We'll see y'all next week.