To Catch Feelings On Mama's Phone

Word, and welcome back to this particular living room. I'm with your cousins that are going to tell you the truth, whether you like it or you do not. I'm a tough tootin' baby, and I can punch you in your buns. And I am T.D. Jakes, and this is The Read. Thanks for coming back. Please don't be. Wait, why? Oh, wait, I was thinking of a different creature. Never mind. I just, okay. We'll get to it at some point. But T.D. Jakes, I saw a clip of his very recently that had me like, you know, I wish more niggas would listen to this man about this particular topic. But we'll get there. Yeah. Okay. Welcome back, everyone. Mid-January. That said, I put this on threads, and you can argue with me about it. I'm standing ten toes. The year ain't new no more. Please leave me alone. I don't need Happy New Year. I don't. Let's move on. Thank you. Because you're going to. And it's going to be Valentine's. And that's kind of wild to think about. Maybe that's why y'all are stuck on the Happy New Year thing is because we all want time to slow down a little bit. So maybe I'll give you a break. I think a lot of people say it for the whole month of January. No. Incorrect. No. Yeah. I mean, I think the 14th is around a good time to stop. Like, we're two weeks into this bitch at this point. Thank you. It's not a person. It's not. I agree. Thank you. We're here. We're here. We're here. Okay. Let's do some Black Excellence. This week, I'm just going to give Black Excellence over to two very talented Black women who starred in a movie called One Battle After Another. I'm going to go ahead and give Black Excellence over to Tiana Taylor, who just won a Golden Globe for a sporting role as an actor in One Battle After Another. Fantastic movie by Paul Thomas Anderson. Got another hit. Everyone will shut the fuck up about it. Deserves a pretty good movie. She looked amazing. Amazing as usual. She's Tiana Taylor. Her speech made me actually choke up because Black people have just this immense talent of being, like, overwhelmed with emotion, good or bad. Yeah. And also sticking in some humor and showing some personality in it. I love she was like, oh, let me show you the party in the back. Her little dress, yes. Beautiful dress. Incredible. She was just so overcome with emotion. I don't know if this is her first. I don't know if this is her first acting award. It's definitely got to be her first, like, of the major awards. I think. Yeah, I think so. And, you know, I just really enjoyed her speech. I love the way that she spoke about God. I loved her talking about the babies and them needing to get off them damn phones because she know they was on it with Miss Rachel and Gracie or whatever. And she was like, y'all better be watching me get this award. Making history. Your mommy's doing the thing. I just really, really enjoyed her speech. I love seeing. Black people seemingly deserving walk in the steps that God has ordered for them and get the things that they deserve. So shout out to her for that. I really was very touched by that. And I think that she deserves it. And I also have to give a shout out to Jungle Pussy, who's also in the film acting goddess. I've long been saying now that someone needs to go ahead and collaborate with her in a film that she can, like, star in, write, whatever. She's like that girl. But Paul Thomas Anderson won a couple of awards. I think he won, like, screenplay and director or something. During one of his speeches, though, probably, I think it was the screenplay one, he was talking about the people that he's basically stolen great lines. From men and energy and wording. And one of the first people he named was was her and saying, you know, she plays JP in the movie, which obviously is named after her, like her stage name. And he was like, one of my favorite lines, this pussy don't pop for you, which is something that like Jungle Pussy has this pussy don't pop for you merch. Like that's been a thing of hers for a while. But I love that he, you know, called her my name. Shamed me. McHale, super talented. He said, thank you for, you know, letting me steal that amazing line from you. I'm just like, icon, queen, island goddess, Jamaica. I think Trinidad as well. Definitely Jamaica. Get your things. Black women, black fans. Come collect this year. Yes, ma'am. Absolutely. The Golden Globes. I didn't see all of the Golden Globes, but it looked. Yeah, I didn't watch all of it either. The Nikki Glaser, truly hilarious. I don't like to give white women too much. Very, very funny. I do not like to give white women too much. But she made a joke about Kevin Hart. She actually made two jokes, a couple of jokes, a few. About Kevin Hart. Yeah. And one of them was. You know, something about Kylie Jenner. You know, you can't see her or something. Something like that. She was like, just get the phone book that Kevin Hart is sitting on, which was objectively hilarious. Yeah, there's no way around that. But then she also read him into the dust. And she said, Kevin Hart, you're the richest person in this category. And yet I know you want this award the most. She said, you are a true American. That bitch is hilarious. Oh, yeah. And look, I'm not going to hold you. Looked really good. Oh, this is actually very interesting that you bring her up because she's the first part of the first hot top. Oh, is she? Oh, God. See, I gave a white woman a compliment and immediately. No, it's not a bad thing. It's not really a bad thing. Oh, OK. OK. OK. That's big. It's actually a part of it was like a funny viral clip from. I think her opening monologue. And it was what she said to Michael B. Jordan. I was just about to bring up that one. I was literally. I think you were. Because his mama was. That's what I was meant to talk about. Love it. OK, I love it. First, she says, you know, Michael B. We got two Michael B. Jordan's and sinners. He plays these brothers. She's like, am I allowed to say that? I don't know if I can. He plays twins. He plays twins. That made me laugh. And then she was like, when I saw that, I was like, Nikki, be jerking. Because that was awesome. And she she was like, I don't know why I made that joke. I know his mom. So I'm so sorry. I should cut to the mom. And she made this face to drag her wife. I was like, I am not amused. I didn't like that one. Please move on from my child. Thank you very much. My son is right here. Thank you. We're not doing. We're not doing that tonight. Nasty. That the joke about Kevin Hart and wanting it the most. That actually was Wanda Sykes, which I should have known. But because that was really a read. But I wanted to correct that. Like that was very fun. Yeah, that was a good one. But the Nikki be jerking. That was also a good one. And and his mama was like, OK, like my mom was like, OK, and can this Sunday? Can we just take a moment to talk about how fucking gorgeous? His mama is like, I said, OK, you know, obviously he's very fine. It comes from somewhere. But I was taking her back. Like I replayed that clip over and over to look at his mama's face. I'm not lying. Like she is. Yeah, she's truly. I was like, I think I'm almost attracted to this woman. Like I'm this close to being attracted to her. She lucky is giving Angela Bassett in black. Like she is gorgeous. I think I have a crush on his mama. Like for real. She is so pretty. Like this is just really a beautiful woman. But yes, that moment was hilarious because you can see Michael keeping it cute, you know, with his little laugh. She was like, yeah, fuck no. Yeah. Yes. She did not go for it. She's drinking water. I said wine. I'm sorry, man. Oh, yeah. Anyhow, speaking of sinners did grab two golden gloves, one for best original score, one for cinematic and box office achievement. So shout out to them for that. I'm nervous about these Oscars. I really feel like they're going to play these people face. I'm going to have to just, I'm going to have to just eat it. Yeah. I'm going to have to just eat it. Because what can I do about it? Fight? Right. Right. And our girls are pregnant. Wait, who's pregnant? Wunmi Masako and, um, and Hailee Steinfeld are both pregnant. Why didn't I know any of this? Yeah. Oh, you must not have seen her pictures. First of all, she was gorgeous in a yellow gown on the carpet. But she was like, I'm tired of trying to hide it here. Fuck. Yes, I'm pregnant. I know. That's right. You better be with your fine ass. Yes. So, of course, they took a picture together. And everybody's like, oh, congratulations to Smoke and Stack. They finna be daddies. Y'all are so ghetto. But yeah, they look, they are, I mean, God forgive me if I mispronounced her last name, but that woman is so beautiful. It doesn't make sense. It really don't. It really, she is just stunning. And every time she talks, I'm like, oh, right, you are in it. Because I be forgetting. Yeah, she's British. Because you sound in that movie like my fucking kin. Actor. Acting. You're a little, you're just so good. Real acting diva. Right. When the first time you try to act, you realize just how hard that shit is. I've loved her since, I think the first thing I ever saw her in was Lovecraft Country. And her whole story, did you ever watch Lovecraft Country? It got a little, it got a little much for me. You know, it got a little much for me, but I did start off watching it. And unfortunately, she has this really, really cool story arc in it. Like, this little mini story that's, it's just, for those of y'all who watched it, you know what I'm talking about. And I think, like, the theme in it is pretty deep and compelling. But I couldn't even suggest you just watch that one, because that in itself is horrid. It's pretty gross. But all that to say, I've been obsessed with her since, and I've seen her in a bunch of shit since then. And then Loki on Disney+. She's in the MCU. She's a Mar-Vell character. And, you know, obviously, Sinners. She's in this horror movie. I think it's called, it's called His House? Our House? My House? Something like that. That movie's fierce, too. She's just amazing. Yes. Really is. So good. And yes, and they're both pregnant. So that was another. I did not even hear about that. That was a beautiful moment. You know, all of them sitting together, but then the two of them posing on the carpet. Yes, very sweet. I have to go find the photos, but I did not know. Well, Hot 97 has announced who their new morning show host will be, taking up the mantle from one Ebro Darden, will be Mornings with Mero. Starting Tuesday, airing every weekday from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m., you will have Mornings with Mero. That is Kid Mero. A formerly of Desus and Mero on Vice. Where was their big show on again? Wasn't the big show on Vice? I think it was Showtime. Oh, yes, they did go to Showtime. You're right. Yes. So he will be your new Hot 97 morning host. And when I heard this, I was like, yep. Yep. Sounds right. Fierce. Fierce. It sounds correct, you know? It just sounds right. Why not have a Bronx nigga doing this show? Hello? Yeah. Let's just make it make sense. It makes sense. Ebro, show love on Twitter, saying shout out to the Kid Mero. This is so great. Although I did notice that people were frying him simultaneously because I suppose, I didn't see this, but it looks like he said his politics are a part of the reason that, uh, his show on Hot 97 got canceled. So after this, people were like, well, Mero's actually more political and progressive than you are. And they gave him your slot. So maybe they just don't like you. I was like, god damn. Or, you know. I'm just taking my baton. There's that. And also, Ebro is 50 years old. Like, it's okay to bring in somebody a little younger, you know, and somebody actually from New York. I saw a lot of comments. I saw a lot of comments saying, it's about time a New York nigga hosted the morning show on Hot 97. Like, that's fair. I think it's fair. I do. I think it's fair. And I am wishing him the best of luck. It's crazy to see, you know, just how far things have gone from social media to today. Yeah. It really is. It's true. That's very cool. Mm-hmm. What else do we have? Oh, god. Is this next? I might as well just be next. Let's talk about Offset. And how I feel like he shouldn't even be in here. Oh, right. I forgot about this. He should be in, like, one of those Tiger King cages. Like, what is wrong with this nigga? It's a lot. Besides everything. So, I guess Offset has been playing around with this girl named Selena Powell. And I can really not. My best way to describe Selena Powell is, like, Cat Stacks less ugly. If you don't know who Cat Stacks is, I mean. You really missed the time. She's a groupie. She's, like, she's a groupie and a hoe and an extremely messy one at that. She's infamous for, like, no, like, consistently. She is. She is messy. And regularly putting people's business in the street. And you would think niggas would stop fucking with her for that. Crystal, this is exactly what I'm talking about. I don't get it. They don't care because of her face and body. So she. They just continuously let her play them. I'm so. Like, it's just. Like, why would you ever. Okay. Oh, man. So Offset, for whatever reason, has been finding himself in bed with this bitch. Idiot. And now, surprise. Fast forward to today, she's leaking clips of him on FaceTime talking about if he ever catch Stefan Diggs, he's gonna shoot him in the knees. Strip him in his ass. Jump him. Whatever the fuck else. Okay. Talking about Cardi B got a restraining order on him. Wouldn't you? Wouldn't you? Like. Jesus. Bitch. I hate niggas. Meanwhile, this white girl is talking about the reason she's putting him on blast is because she lent his ass $15,000 and he blew it at the casino. So, you see how it's more than one idiot in this story? Because how you. Mind you. How you lent a rich nigga. Anything. There are simultaneously footage. There's simultaneously footage of Offset running around in a marina. That's what Jamaicans call a tank tart. At the casino. In a wife beater at the casino flexing his watch around with fans at the slot machines. What are they doing? What are the gambling girlies. What are the rich gambling girlies doing? Losing their money and then trying to gamble to get it back. Because if I had all of this money, I want it. I would just keep it. You know, I like keeping mine, personally. Yeah. Or if I lose it, it's because I spent it on something, you know, in return. But they're spending it on the chance to win some more, which, you know. But, like, bet with your homies on the game. Yeah. Yeah. You know, maybe horseback, maybe horses. Have a little fantasy football. Yeah, yeah, no. You gotta lead them tracks alone, but. You remember what happened to Dorothy's born ass? Dorothy couldn't stay away from them. Right? She was on them tracks heavy. That bitch needed a literal intervention. So imagine. And you know who broke her down? Rose. Imagine the ditzy bitch. Oh, yeah. She had to. Had to. I'm stealing your money, Rose. I know. But I was hoping that you wouldn't. Yeah. Gag. Gag time. Gag time deep. Rose Nyland. Anyhow, we're going off track. So you borrow 15 bands. No. From the messiest white bitch throwing pussy out in the streets right now in the country. Blew it at the casino. Refused to give her the money back. F**k it. Real dumb. Unknown chatty hoe. That's like a crash out in slow motion. It's like watching a Final Destination trap with the speed cut down. Yeah. Just hurry up and go to jail. It sounds like a matter of time. Like what? It really does. Don't it? This is the type of s**t you saying on FaceTime? Like. Okay. And then you wonder what. You're finna. You're finna have your rights to your kids be in jeopardy. Thank you. And then you really gonna crash out. Not that. Not that I believe you see them on a regular basis anyway. Thank all of you. Threatening a man. A man who. You know, all of this behind a woman that you swear you don't care about. You ready to move on. You put that f**k-ass song out in like August or some s**t talking about, you know, let everybody just be grown and move on. Like, you doing all this in January behind a woman you say you don't care about? Threatening to shoot a n***a? That she drove so crazy that she wanted to put her stiletto nails into your face. Throw it as you were sleeping. I hate that. And now you're obsessed with her. Right. And her new baby daddy. Like, you were never gonna stop being an awful f**king husband. So why are you. And the stuff about culture not liking the new baby and culture don't really understand how a baby is even here. How would you know? When was the last time you've seen culture? Right. Did culture tell you this on the phone or some s**t? When was the last time you even hung out with all three of your children with Cardi at the same time? It just was messy. Messy, messy, messy. And I don't think cardi responded which great i hope she's locked up in a in a rehearsal hall somewhere with sean bankhead and she was on spaces talking about okay never mind she was on spaces okay but it didn't give what you thought it give in fact she was kind of like you know she was kind of saying something to the effect of you know people are people seemingly expecting for me to crash out in a second because of this but she's like i've been saying this about this nigga for the longest time i've been saying yes you have this i've been saying that he's threatened violence but when i've been saying it it's been oh cardi is this and she ghetto whatever true and so now she's like i'm not tight if anything i'm glad that y'all here and then you can right see what i was saying what i was talking about so i'm not pressed i'm good let's talk about the tour oh exactly exactly and i think she also said like as far as the selena powell thing it sounded like she was saying that what he's now doing because he see that i'm moving like i'm paying him as best as i can yeah and i'm happy and i'm moving on and i don't need him it's like he's trying to use other people as a mouthpiece to get what he saying out there without directly saying but why would you want this to get out this doesn't make you look good nigga this makes you look like somebody need to have you on a watch list like maybe you need to legitimately not have access to your like do you understand it's deeply not okay to threaten the father of your children's sibling like do you understand that that's not an okay thing to do are you are you legitimately in your right mind like i feel like you don't understand the gravity of this is your cousin the chef and why are you and again why are you so impressed over a woman you swore you don't give a shit about lord knows you fucking however many other women you even have other baby mamas so you really do all this shit you're talking about not caring about her and all that you need to pour some attention some real work into actually not giving a shit about her because right now it's just words exactly girls need medication i couldn't believe it oh we the girls might need like ecd and cardi right she has been telling us that offset is trash been saying been saying it so on the flip side of things stefan digs arraignment is supposed to be delayed until after the the superbowl of course it is so work uh national football league shut up stop talking and then watch if the patriots get eliminated in the playoffs all of a sudden it can be rescheduled and we can move on to the next one because we know what we really care about in this country okay and in that case the league oh you know what actually that nigga is available in three and a half minutes you can send that subpoena tomorrow my sister actually is burnt too many business i'm actually really interested to see how this case goes anyway yeah same girl are you choking people because like you know it's really it is feeling like offset but in athlete form but all right and better looking he is handsome i will you know what i will give y'all that a lot of people told me that i was wrong about stefan digs being ugly and i saw some other pictures and i see what y'all are saying i do do you know that when you called him ugly i googled him did you i didn't say nothing but i was like wait is he is he ugly he's not i looked at the picture and i was like i'm just like my sister you know who he's like to me he's like cam newton where sometimes i can really see it and sometimes i really can't i never see it with cam newton oh see and a lot of people are gonna disagree with you worse oh well he's a stone cold fucking idiot so yeah but i'm talking about even with his style oh yeah like that's like he don't want to look oh okay sometimes you know when he don't look yeah i could see it sometimes yeah when he don't look like he in a nigga alice yeah yeah for sure for sure yeah yeah for sure i looked at like how i feel about stefan digs i'm like sometimes when you in the right light okay i do see it i think stefan digs is way better looking than this nigga but i hear exactly what you're saying anyhow yeah i'm interested to see how that will will turn up but i thought it was funny that the nfl was like hey shut up all right listen right we'll get to that not right now though we're not doing that right now and i feel like y'all should know that um so if you are uh in the the rihanna navy i was trying to forget i don't remember what they're called girl she didn't release music in so long i forgot right does she even it's the it's she the makeup lady now she called they call her the avon girl listen at this point because that's all she do is makeup tutorials y'all not getting shit outside of that lady and shut your ass i got 20 albums right and i made 18 of them six months so leave me the fuck alone you're right about it doesn't sound like she's uh making plans to do much else besides continue having asap rocky's babies someone uh montana rose brown one uh had a an instagram story uh that's captions deciding whether to get hot and sexy or get pregnant in 2026 decisions decisions hashtag motherhood parenthood and wouldn't you know it bad gal riri has commented and said wait so i'm not crazy then bet oh of course this is leading headlines right people are like okay she's about to do it again she is in deep over there child she's also compared her relationship and love for asap rocky to clarissa shield oh yeah or is it carlisa i think it's clarissa yeah i think it's clarissa shield yeah and uh papoose which is like rihanna that's not that's not good what that's not healthy that's not good girl oh no but i don't even see the overlap i think she's talking about how like obsessed yes but it's like she is with him i i you know that did immediately make me think okay maybe this is not as great as perhaps some of us would have liked to think it was but i'm gonna try to relationships right like of all the fucking relationships this young girl's been through a bunch of bullshit and now she getting played by this old washed up rap nigga like i just wouldn't have i just but i i to your point i think it's about uh you know the way i feel about rocky the way clarissa feel about papoose my man my man my man i mean i'm so put off by that relationship i really don't pay close enough attention to how she talks about him well i mean you you willing to argue with any and everybody and go back and forth with remy and whoever else online behind this nigga it's like girl for real for real yuck but and i just saw a clip the other day that looked like everybody was talking about remy and and papoose was shopping in the same first oh no oh no so i don't need anyhow right let's move it uh forward what else we got matthew knows is talking about doing a destiny's child tribute tour i would say without destiny's child right uh destiny's child reimagined tribute tour uh by candlelight now what out magazine posted uh sat down with matthew knolls oh at your lovable trans auntie sat down with matthew knolls ahead of the destiny's child iconic reimagined tribute tour too many words um we went back to 1990 talked legacy and the meaning behind it and we went back to 1990 talked legacy and the meaning behind it and we went back to 1990 talked legacy and the meaning behind survivor full interview available on out.com um my guess is that matthew is going to hire some singers um you know hopefully some uh special guests okay to kind of just yeah sing beat sing destiny's child covers beyonce covers kelly rowland covers whatever was in the matthew knolls era of the crew yeah and it'll be just like a a time probably in like little smoky spaces if it's by candlelight it's giving me right it's giving intimates yeah intimate smaller spaces where the girls can come and celebrate destiny's child through the voices of others i think packaged correctly marketed correctly this could be cute especially depending on how much the tickets cost right so it is coming to sony hall in new york and tickets start at 51 dollars for standing room only and go up. It's only called the one over in Times Square. They used to be PlayStation. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever they call it now. And then they go up to $91. Looks like they're only coming to six cities. New York, D.C., Miami, Houston, Atlanta, and L.A., which makes sense. Those are probably our top six, but but yeah, I I know Beyonce like nigga she's probably like sure I mean nobody right nobody can stop him. I'm pretty sure he has the you know as the person who was managing them. He has the rights to perform this music, but I'm not going to this. I'm not going to this. Oh, yeah. I'm not going either. I'm just trying to like, you know, look at it for what it could be. I think it's really a lot of it's going to ride on who's doing the singing. Yeah, but it's not as small of a venue. As I would have thought like me neither. Sony Hall's my time in Miami is that Pinecrest Gardens? Do you know that? No, I know where Pinecrest is at a church in D.C. A church in L.A. Emmanuel Presbyterian. Yeah, that makes sense. It's at Guardian Works in Atlanta, which I thought Guardian Works was like a chair. Oh, no, this is an event venue in the okay. I mean, that looks cute and the Bell Tower in Houston. So yeah, these are not the coziest venues. So, but yeah, I mean, good luck. Like you said, everybody got bills and hopefully, you know, artists and, you know, black people, dancers, things like this. You know, people have the opportunity to make some money doing this, but I am not interested in seeing Matthew put this together. Sorry. Sorry, brother. Apparently people are giving Northwest a hard time. Getting her fingers pierced. What? So she has like these dermal piercings on her middle and pointer finger on, I think maybe her left hand. Okay. And I guess people are thinking that her latest aesthetic is inappropriate for a 12 year old. Oh, these little dots on her finger. Okay. I mean, I think she has one on her nose, too. Yeah, but that one might have been fake. I'm not sure. She, yeah, I personally don't think it's a huge. No, I mean, it's even if it's not what I wouldn't. It's not that I would be comfortable necessarily. Like if it was my 12 year old, I don't know that I would be comfortable with this. Yeah, but that doesn't mean that I think there's something wrong with it. Just that I'm like, you know, you're 12. You get your whole life to be grown. Like, I think I would be like that. You know, that's how I would feel. But when you have two very rich people who, you know, Kim is like, I'm never going to stifle her creativity. Do whatever you want. Like then. Okay. Look at her surrounding. Right. But, you know, I think it's time for us to go ahead and just, you know, just start sneaking in a couple prayers for Northwest. Just every now and then you just send one. Start. She been on my list, baby. Since her mama was dragging her to go see Chanel or whatever, and she was hollering her goddamn head off. Oh my God. Remember when they used to force her to walk them carpets and everything? Pissed. Pissed. Pissed. I don't care. Got Anna Wintour and Beyonce rolling their eyes like, take that child, give her to the nanny and take her in the back. You're 18 months old. You know what my baby is doing right now? Writing music. She's at the home writing an album. She's actually in Puerto Rico laying down some beats. Oh, yeah. Oh my God. I mean, Mary J. Blige is having a Las Vegas residency. Okay. I can't believe she hasn't done that. It's about that time, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, okay. Now this I might go to. Park MGM Hotel and Casino. Right. Exactly. This is a time out. Yes. This is our time. Yeah. I mean, I am this age. And the summertime. Work. Amen. May 1st to the 9th and again July 10th to the 18th. You can go and get boots. Go and get boots. Oh, yeah. I might get into this. Especially because now Las Vegas is just a little stretch over. I might go and see what my auntie's talking about. Oh, right. It is so much closer for you. Vegas is an all-day trip. I know. And girl, I went the other, day. It's Orlando without Disney. Like, the strip. The strip. Yeah. Yeah. The strip. Because that's really all I got to see. I would really like to go see, like, the residential parts of Las Vegas at some point. But the strip is just like a big-ass city walk. It's so touristy. It also reminds me of Times Square. Yep. People just come in to hit a lick however they can. Yep. This one playing the guitar butt naked. This one dressed up as Dora. This one over here is talking about, do you want to come to a comedy show? This one, like, I can tell you your future. Yep. It's very that. There's a lot going on. A bunch of lights, sounds, all of that shit. Businesses. Less children. It is wild. Yes, it is. But I might go and see my auntie. Did you see that Boots and Bucky are fighting on VH1 again? No. Or wherever. I actually think that show's on BET. Boots and Bucky. Why? So, Bucky's been on Love and Hip Hop Miami for, like, a couple seasons. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I haven't watched it in a long-ass time because, I mean, let me just have my memory of my hometown, please. And now most of the bitches on that show ain't even from Miami. You know what? Leave me alone. So, Bucky's been on the show for a long time. Like, for a few seasons. Yeah. But I saw recently Boots is making a comeback. And they hate each other. And they've been going on off and on on the internet. And on the blogs. And so VH1 was like, yeah, I gotta have some of that. And they brought Boots back. She's still fine. I'd say she looks even better now. And, yeah. I saw this clip from one of the latest episodes she popped at to Bucky having an event where she's selling. Take a guess. Bucky is selling her new phone. Her new line of That's a better idea. Boots. Is it like some irony? Oh. Tampons. Tummy pills. Oh my god. Colon cleanser. Tummy pills? Like, water pills? Drop the bloat in six hours? Whatever. Who knows what you're putting in your body? So then, okay. I thought this was something maybe she actually worked on and developed. Not just a deal she signed, but okay. Alleged vitamins. Girl, what do you know about vitamins or supplements? Nothing. Who would even come to you for that? What's she selling? She's selling that weight loss tea? That detox tea? Basically. And like capsules or something else. Okay. Alright. And I'm over it. So she's having this little thing looking like a fake-ass Sprouts farmer's market. And in comes Boots. And they get to throwing things and fighting. And I'm like, ooh, nostalgia. Why is Boots there? For mess? To fight Bucky. Yeah. So I haven't seen you in however long years, months and you just show up at my event to fight me? Why? Because they, I guess, been beefing since then. Talking shit to each other online. And VH1 was like, you know what? This would make the ratings go through the roof. And I guess it's successful because here I am talking about Little Meepo. But. Which we have not watched in years. Like eons. It's been so fucking long. Like. A Boots and Bucky reunion and they're fighting? I want to see that. I, you know, I'm still just having trouble. I still say pick a wall, Boots. Well, that was just, that's an iconic Tiffany Pollard line, but I'm having trouble really understanding why you as a grown woman would go crash another grown woman's fake event for these vitamins that she didn't actually, you know, do it. Anything with or make. Like, it's just still, well, but, so fighter. I mean, we're living in the time of baddies. Right. This is, so this is my hang up, right? I'm trying to make sense out of nonsense. And we all know this is a fruitless endeavor, so. Viewers care. Right. No, I'm not giving a shit about all that. Just go with it. Like. It could all be fake. That could be besties. It's just been like, hey, come on the show. Like, let me, you know what I'm saying? Let me, let me get you into this VH1 thing. Let's take this bag together. Okay. I was about to say, so do you know whether Bucky knew that Boots was gonna show up? Like, or. It seemed like she didn't. Because Bucky was into it with Trina's cousin. And so Trina's cousin was like, since you keep running your mouth about me and staying in my business, I got something for you. And so she popped up at the event and was like, basically I got somebody here who need to see you. Got it. Okay. And then Boots. So I don't think that she knew. Now it's making more sense. Okay. Yeah. Well, times is hard. - I saw that shit on the TV the other day. in the kitchen i was like boots she's fighting bucky what the fuck is going on what year did i wake up jessica laying back on american horror story the girls are desperate yeah all right ain't nobody turning down checks these days i was like jessica i remember vividly seeing you on the red carpet they asked you if you would go back to american horror story and you laughed she literally laughed and said oh heavens no like you paid it so i know the check was large and cleared but yeah fuck trump's economy and american horror story had been good in years angela bass is going back to and kathy babe oh see recession indicators or you know maybe exactly that's a cynical way of looking at it or maybe they are increasing the budget because nobody watches american horror story without them so you bring back these icons that we were tuning into the show for and now the ratings go back up and the show starts making more money you know sarah paulson can't do it by herself she can't do it by herself and after you had her dress up like kim kardashian for this latest faggot ass show now she's on the phone with ashton kutcher trying to get this thing to the star and stuff like yeah the well seems to be maybe running dry yeah but you know what i'm gonna just end it there for the hot top okay because i don't care about milagro grounds no i'm saying so i hope that you got something out of this education enjoyment a waste of your time either way it happened we're gonna take a break and then we're gonna talk about your business all right folks we're back it's time to listen to your shenanigans indeed please send your questions to ask the read at gmail.com we may read them aloud on the show we have updates from both of the people whose letters we read last week so the first one came from jason if you remember jason was like uh should i go full 50 cent and get back at this nigga who was playing with me and then he had a girlfriend and all this and should i send a memo request to get my money back um we told jason that he played himself and it was time to move on jason said hey kip you're in crystal i cannot express the adrenaline rush i got hearing you read my message and then proceeding to read me but truthfully it was all things i needed to hear i was really deep in my feels lamenting a relationship that never really existed i always wondered how people forget themselves and end up in situations like this i guess aaron was right all along and everybody plays the fool sometimes you i did not i did not send the memo request i deleted his contact lesson learned and i will attempt to only pour into those who actually show interest in me i have a date lined up for tonight and i am focusing on finding a community in my area to keep me from exhibiting such bird behavior in the future a simple conversation with educated gays would have probably saved me months of hanging on to this man for a crumb of attention i needed this reminder to i needed this reminder to value myself and my time and i'm pushing forward thank you for your help you truly helped pick a bitch up when she slipped all the best to y'all in this new year you deserve it from the bottom of my heart thank you you're welcome baby again like we said we have also been so dumb behind niggas baby that's right i was spoken from true experience on both ends good luck to you um and then also simone who was asking us if it was okay to exclude her sister-in-law from her wedding because she's hungarian and kind of mean kind of quiet and right quiet simone said oh god when i read the title of the episode i just knew that i will never know peace again yeah i did that's yeah yeah i knew you would you read my letter you read my letter while my fiancee and i were in the car running errands and the waitest man immediately clocked that the letter was about us you opened up with something about us and i simone and we both busted out laughing it hasn't been a mere 24 hours and ever since my partner has not stopped quoting you both his first question after you finished responding was how does it feel to disappoint your two favorite podcasters and then he cackled in my face he has been non-stop quoting you anytime i ask him anything with is this really how you want to start our year and his personal and his personal favorite you tripping it is my unofficial soundtrack on a serious note thank you both for talking some sense into me i immediately told him this topic is dropped and she is invited i could tell it was a relief to hear and i actually felt bad that i couldn't see how much this was weighing on him earlier i needed the reminder to step outside of my own perspective and give my future sister-in-law the benefit of the doubt as a scorpio i can be a little vengeful so i do appreciate the reality check and to answer kivir's question what was i doing in hungary i wasn't in hungary we met in portugal although i'm not sure that that makes much of a difference anyway love you both simone girl i love this uh shout out to your man the fact that y'all heard it together in hungary never mind yeah um i said you were in hungary meaning physically with a hungarian man that wasn't got you didn't think you were actually you met him in hungary okay that's why i flipped it afterwards and said hungry was in you i think simone has been humiliated enough her man has so much ammunition i mean she wrote the letter she did and then you listened to the episode with him in the car i mean i don't know the man said wow so you disappointed your two faves how does that feel and then cackled and then he was like damn this has really been stressing him out yes because she was talking about him telling his brother that his brother's wife can't come to your wedding girl the best man of the world you you , you made a side with a white man simone so this is really on you i mean what do you want he's gonna gag you every time he gets the chair and now right man you will never know peace again so congratulations on your nuptials i'm glad you came around all right let's dive into the rest of y'all's shit um okay our first letter this week comes from ariel ariel says i'm 35 and i've been single for five years i'm 35 and i've been single for five years i'm 35 and i've been single for five years i love myself and i love being by myself but all of a sudden i found myself becoming intensely lonely a feeling i thought was beneath me i got on the apps to do what a gay does and i met eric who's 25 which is fine a little young for me in general but these things never go anywhere the connection was instantly sexual because gay but i expected nothing until a tall samoan looking rugby player showed up at my door i know that's right that's right that's correct i felt a little bit lonely a little flutter so we hooked up and it was excellent sex mostly because we didn't actually spend much time having sex we talked a lot and he was shy and non-aggressive which is a rarity on gay apps it was super refreshing after men who basically want you to put a trash bag over your head and stick your bare ass out of the chimney whoa oh , it's bad over there, wow jesus it's funny because it's true eric that was a good one eric craved connection and aftercare which i was not prepared for but found i also desperately needed so after we finished we talked and he mentioned going to school i asked him how much tuition is at grad school these days and he corrected me by saying he's still in undergrad excuse me he then sheepishly mentioned that he is actually 19 years old and i almost vomited that is not hyperbole i literally was concerned that i broke the law apparently my handle on math and the law are equally pretty weak it turns out in my speedy scrolls i must have mistaken eric's profile for someone else who actually was 25 so the boy didn't lie eric didn't lie about being 25 he just mixed him up in his head right i mean the name is ariel but this is right yeah right so anyway after panicking we had an in-depth conversation about how i am literally old enough to be his dad but out of everyone i've dated from men in their 20s to late 40s eric matches me very well i am a man after all and in man years 35 is more or less 20 anyway but ultimately we decided that girl we decided that despite whatever we feel for each other this cannot progress any further however his mother took it upon herself to snoop into where her son has been going at night well he's 19 so yeah oh shit his mommy took it upon herself to snoop into where her son has been going at night and found my name age and place of work how i do not know i've never put any of that information online and eric told me that he didn't tell her anything but my name oh my god i am mortified i make fun of people who do what i'm doing i have like five leonardo dicaprio jokes at the ready whenever so this must be my Eric and I talked it out and ultimately I do appreciate that she is looking out for her son me feeling like a creep is my cross to bear thankfully Eric goes to school in another state so I only see him when he's home on break we both agree that it would be insane to even attempt a relationship we even tried to go on a date but he spent most of it fielding texts and calls from his parents I want to the point where he ended the day by saying times like this I really feel our age gap and he's right this is a bad idea but why can't the universe give me this playful goofy sexually respectful hot nerd in a 30 something year old body it's been a few months of it's been a few months of long stretches of no contact followed by an avalanche of facetimes and texts Eric even slipped up and said he loves me I would have laughed in his face a year ago but today in my weakest hour it made me actually get emotional my question to you and probably my priest and or therapist what is happening to me and how do I stop it he and I both agree that he needs to look for someone his own age and I really do know better my first relationship was when I was 22 and the other man was 47 he did not take care of my heart and it affected me greatly to this day now that I'm the older person a role I wouldn't have in a million years guess I'd be in how do I take care of this young guy's heart as I pull away love y'all are you his parents will his parents are taking care of everything else I'm about to cast out take me to the king what are you what are you taught Ariel okay oh my god oh my god oh no what's wrong is his view is that you are extremely lonely oh no and oh you have hitched emotions strings and complications to what sounds like the first fine nigga that you caught a vibe with and had good sex oh my god you want uh whatever you describe a nerdy high whatever the fuck baby keep looking and fucking on your own age until you find him if you don't I'm never gonna sit up here and encourage you to do a fuck thing with this person that is 16 years younger than you yeah yeah no sorry that's a hard no I'm never going to entertain right especially because you're 35 look out for his heart and he's 19 girl you're a grown-ass man him even saying he loves you he doesn't know what love is he's 19 fucking years old like he's still like that is still evolving for him so I wouldn't even take that outside of anything further than like he obviously cares about you because the both of you have hung out had sex quite a number of times shared all this information away yeah the moment that you realized what his age actually was right should have been i had fun you had fun i wish you well i hope you pull all the special pokemon cards and you know catch the jujutsu kaizen when it comes back and and pew pew skibbity toilet like bitch iphone 6 7 go with god babes what the fuck baby okay what is wrong with y'all oh he's lonely like you're right he is lonely and he connected with somebody and it's really hard to shut that off even though you know you have to but you do you both you're saying that you both know it and you both accepted that he should date someone his own age you should date someone your own age mama been in the phone asking about your grown ass you talking about i respect it because of course you do bitch you don't have any other choice and you have enough senses you've said to know why this is something that shouldn't be going on you talking about the the communication with him is spotty because his parents always there you are a 35 year old man well fucking with a nigga whose parents be on his line that don't sound wild to you and you're talking to us kid fear and crystal about how to take care of his heart while also letting him go baby his mom and daddy got that covered you need to figure out how to take care of yours this is too much and it's not with somebody fresh out of high school you need to figure out how to to you how to take care of your heart i mean because like sure you fucked on him and you i guess you scroll too fast or whatever you said he thought he was 25 still 10 years younger than you and you admitted even at the time that that was younger than ideal or whatever for you but you was getting your fuck on then you found out he was 19 it happened i would be in a bath oh baby hyperbole but like yeah but like that would be the end of it yeah yeah i i can't even imagine how disgusted i would be like i so ariel everything if you said is correct it was a rebook i'm sorry it was right um i do want to express some empathy for you because i do believe like kid fury said at the heart of this is that you're really really good at it and you're really good at it and you're really good at it and you're really lonely and it's great that you love yourself and that you love being alone that you're not willing to compromise maybe on your standards even now you're fighting with yourself because you're like why can't i just get this in somebody who was born in you know the early 90s or whatever and i get that like truly i do understand it um gay dating but but yes it's right dating is hard gay dating is worse so yeah um it's like those cartoons that you're back in the day with the old gold miner yeah with the outmighty and then one of them would scream gold and then everybody would jump them that's what gay dating um i you said that you you when you realized you were lonely you were like huh i thought this feeling was beneath me i would suggest you unpack that with the therapist because loneliness is just part of that being human and we don't heal to a point of yeah we don't you know healing quote unquote healing what y'all call healing is not something we do to the point where we don't miss connection with others that is simply part of being human and or get angry you have to yeah you have to accept that you know wanting people around or feeling lonely sometimes it's part of existence it's not a bad thing or an inferior thing to feel it's just right it is just human so i would really i would really and i would as uh you know that leapt out to me in your letter like oh beneath you to be lonely less you know my pen my pen is clicking at that like oh i'm ready to take notes what do you mean by that another thing that leaps out to me about it was the you saying that you had an experience where you were 22 and yes somebody was in their 40s right and i'm like there's a lot of people that are in their 40s that are in their 40s that this is an unfortunate fact for a lot of people who you know coming into uh their sexuality or you know those of us who might have had to figure it out ourselves or on the street sometimes motherfuckers really just do get roped into these things with older men and a lot of time i mean it can be for branches so many reasons oh yes but that's something else that popped into my head that yeah amigo is this a part of the reason why you're not struggling or you like it's not that you're not struggling but it's like the fact that you have not easily just cut this off and gone to dating someone else might be roped up in the fact that you've had uh an experience like this yourself right it's a bad experience this is something i thought of here yes and that is something else to talk about with a therapist your experience with this man who was 25 years older than you which oh my god that is worse than 16 years older especially like so it's just crazy uh that age gap between y'all and it sounds like eric is better protected than you were um yes which is really heartbreaking for you like i i do have a lot of empathy for you i feel the hurt in this and i get that this is it's hard to let go of but you know you have to let this go ariel uh you do you but like if he said don't worry about taking care of his heart you've been kind about it both of you know it's time to go your separate ways you i would send you know maybe a last text of we cannot see each other we cannot talk you are very young i'm wishing you the best um i will not respond to any other letters or or texts or responses or bids for communication you know please go live your life and be happy um and then and then sign yourself up for some therapy and saying i will always love you no don't do that don't do that i'm sorry i'm not i'm not i'm done but yeah i think eric's mama and daddy got this on lock as far as you know helping him i mean i actually can't even imagine my parents being this pro well it sounds like yo his mama found your name and that was enough she said that was it i know who this this old man is and i'll be damned you probably closer to his mama's well oh god anyway let's yeah uh but good luck call that therapist though baby you you write about that you need to talk to somebody yeah about your heart definitely need to unpack that all right and take time like again the gay dating thing it's fucking mad max out here thunderdome it's a waste of man and all the personality traits that you really liked about eric remember that for the next time around and you like yeah so can i get that again but in somebody who is at least 28 like this is why journaling is fierce yeah it can really help it can best of luck to you babe our next letter comes from becky without good sense who says dear chrislyn kifuri i'm a 30 something black woman and i have lived in my city for almost two years now with no full-time job i've made no new friends but i have two friends from where i used to live who i see on occasion i recently went to a game with one a white woman she wanted to bring an extremely small five dollar trader joe's bag to carry a few things into the stadium we got up to the gate and they said her bag was too big so we would have to put it in our car but we didn't drive or pay 10 right because them them bag rules at stadiums are no joke they do not have to put it in our car but we didn't not play um or pay ten dollars to store it i told her to store it but she didn't want to pay the ten dollar storage fee so i said let's just hide the bag in a bush and if it's still there after the show great she said no and i she said no and i wish that is where the story ended me too babe for some goddamn reason all my sense left me and i forgot that i was black i said hey the bag is so small anyway i can probably just shove it under my shirt no big no god we we emptied her bag i shoved it under my shirt and then we went to a different gate the moment we walked up oh god the gate agent said do you have anything you shouldn't have multiple times until she asked me what's under your shirt embarrassed like i gave up the bag of course you did i then proceeded to get a full body pat down behind this girl's five dollar trader joe's bag and then they led us into the stadium to watch the game thankfully it wasn't any more serious than that my friend was super apologetic and she is genuinely a wonderful person but i'm still thinking about how willing i was to do this to take up for my friend over something so stupid and more than that she didn't even pressure me i volunteered as tribute without hesitation i'm so glad this is where we're at because all of that is true mind you she makes a very good six figures while i'm still part-time looking for work and she probably could have afforded that ten dollars but this has nothing to do with her truly all the talking twos i got as a kid came screaming back to me you can't get away with what your friends get away with be a leader not a follower you have to be twice as good to get half as much and all of that was tossed away for a moment of stupidity and embarrassment over a white woman's five dollar trader joe's bag oh my god before i moved here i never would have considered doing that and i would have minded my black ass business so it feels like my sense of self is very much rocked which is a bit unnerving is this a symptom of wanting to feel belonging have i just been out of work for so long that i forgot how to act or do i just need to make more black friends i've been quietly spiraling over this and would appreciate your thoughts thanks becky without good sense oh baby that was fierce first of all i love that you're like you did the most basic thing you did to try to get something into a stadium as if these people who work at the stadium don't see this happen all the time baby they radioed you they watched y'all walk off and empty that bag and somebody radioed somebody else and said be on the lookout for two dumb bitches one of them is gonna try to smuggle a trader joe's bag i'm watching her put it under her shirt i'm watching her do it yeah she's heading to you gate 10 heading to you you think they're people not watching you that is so funny i'm glad though that you you recognize that this is something that you elected to do you didn't even say hey white girl what's your name what's your name what's your name what's your name what's your name you know what you could do is stuff this under your shirt right see what happens right you decided to take it on for yourself i would guess that this does have to do with you wanting to belong wanting to establish closeness yeah with someone in this place where you know you're still trying to find some sense of like social stability and friend group and whatnot um i would even guess not knowing you too well becky that had this been a black girl you maybe would have done the same thing i hope so maybe well i hope so i do hope so but then i'm also like two black girls probably would have been like girl pay the ten dollars the fuck literally that we're not we're not doing that bullshit we're paying the ten dollars are we putting it back in the oh y'all didn't drive right so right but i'm just saying based on the entire letter i would venture i guess that this is more about you deeply wanting to have friends and yeah just like build and bond with someone in this new place the have i been out of work so long that doesn't make sense but it was hilarious hilarious so thank you um but yeah that would be my guess is that you just wanted to be a homie have a homie i think like our previous letter i think you're lonely um yeah and even though this person was already your friend and you know looking back on it now you're like i had no reason no reason to do that maybe there's a part of you that thought oh she's gonna like me more if i do this or exactly she's gonna feel like i'm a better friend because i sacrificed to smuggle her five dollar bag i mean maybe i wouldn't want to pay ten dollars to store a five dollar bag but in that case you just take everything out you put it in your titties and in your pockets and then you throw the five dollar bag away like you you know that you didn't need to volunteer to do this so yes i i agree with kip here i think it's something along those lines that motivated you to doing this um but spiraling over it i think that's where i'm like uh-oh okay now you know it was a mistake it was not a smart decision yes but ultimately all you got was embarrassed they didn't say you can never come back to this stadium they didn't i mean they didn't even put you up on a jumbotron you just lied over and over to whoever the gate agent was until they were like girl i see the outline of the bag under your t-shirt i know there's something under their shirt and you're not getting inside and then they patted you down and let you in so yeah so that is embarrassing it is especially in front of a white girl who you did this for right who didn't ask you to i would be embarrassed but at least it was just embarrassing and i like that she was apologetic to you and i like that she was apologetic to you and i like that even though she didn't ask you to do it she's like damn you know you felt pressured to do that because of me because it is like well white girl if you're not gonna hide the bag somewhere and you're not gonna pay the ten dollars then what are we gonna do bitch like what so then what is the solution bitch right so i am glad that you know because she could have came up with a fucking solution it's her bag you was just you know you were solution oriented and that is good yeah you found you you maybe didn't come up with the best idea but at least you came up with something what did that white woman do yeah but sit back and listen i think that you and i think that you evaluated the situation pretty well i would just say don't beat yourself up yes harp on it too much it sounds like maybe you're a bit of a perfectionist and so you're really overly punishing yourself for something that is a minor incident like nobody died nobody was hurt if anything the gate agent texted they cousin group chat about and was like why does this happen to me i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know this girl just tried to come in here with a traitor bag i see the craziest shit working at this stadium i swear to god and that was it that was it their cousins wouldn't even care they just say to their other co-workers like right you're right everybody at the stadium was like oh my god girl yes but becky sounds like she feels like her like her ancestors are dragging right and it's not that it's not that bad it's really not so if you find yourself unable to stop the spiral then i would say maybe you need to reach out and talk to someone else and i would say maybe you need to reach out and talk to somebody about this because that is um an overreaction to a very minor incident becky we all do dumb shit sometimes you hear this show yes hello So, best of luck to you in moving on. But it's okay, baby. And good luck with the job search. Things are very crazy right now. So, I don't think being unemployed made you lose all your sense. But maybe you're just more stressed than usual so you don't have as much brain power to make the most rational decisions. Becky, I got cut sneaking weed into Six Flags. No, you didn't. They took my weed and they sent me to go ride the rides. All right, you're fine. You didn't even get put out of Six Flags. They were like, you fucked. They didn't. They were like, well, this is mine now. I'm going to be lit after I get off work. But you go get your ride off of. I love weed. A gift from me. Oh, you shouldn't have. Oh, my goodness. Oh, this is so nice. I love presents. Oh, thank you. And that was that. But I feel you. Yeah. I feel you. For sure. Best of luck, babe. Our last letter comes from Junebug who says, I'm a queer woman. I'm in my mid-twenties who just got out of a relationship that felt loving on the surface but low-key chaotic underneath. My ex was still extremely close to her former partner. They'd been broken up for a while, but emotionally it didn't feel over to me. Early on in our dating, they even took a trip together, which I didn't find out about until after it happened. That already had me on edge, but I tried to trust her. Eventually, I told her I wasn't comfortable with her spending one-on-one time with her ex. Group hangouts were fine, but private meetups felt like too much for me. That boundary caused multiple blowups, and at one point we even broke up over it, then got back together after she said she understood and would respect it. Fast forward a few months, everything looked fine. We're close, affectionate, loving. Then I found out she had been seeing her ex anyway without telling me. Not only that, but she was making jokes, mocking the boundary. Not making fun of me personally, but definitely making light of something that was deeply important to me. When I confronted her, she admitted that they'd been hanging out and said nothing physical happened, but that honestly wasn't even the part that hurt the most. What hurt was realizing that while I was trying to protect our relationship, she and her ex were bonding over quietly pushing past my limits. So my questions are, was I wrong for asking my partner not to hang out one-on-one with her ex? Was I being controlling, or was I being gaslit into accepting something that didn't feel right from the beginning? I'd really appreciate your thoughts. Thanks for all you do, Junebug. Oh, it's a sub, yeah, Junebug. Lesbian specifically. I think, um. Yes, it is. These are always so sticky because. Ugh, like, some people are cool with their exes and it can, it really can just be nothing to worry about. Mm-hmm. But I also think that you. In your current relationship with the person that you're, I guess, committing yourself to that you say that you love, you have to respect how they feel. And I think it's kind of wild to expect any and every person that you date to just be super comfortable or okay with you hanging out constantly one-on-one with your ex, especially if it was, like, a serious relationship. Um. I don't know how much that would bother me at my age, and. How I feel with my security, but I understand that that is something that would bother many people. Um, but at the same time, it's a thing where if it is nothing, or if it isn't nothing, your partner can go, you trippin', or you're doing the most, and da-da-da-da-da-da. And there isn't usually much you can do outside of that, or in response to that, unless you have, like, hardcore proof or just something, you know, wild, wildly obvious to go along with whatever it is that you're saying. So then it just becomes, well, I don't like this thing. Yeah. Uh. And yeah, I see and hear constantly this being a thing that creates rifts in relationships or even ends them. Uh. So. In terms of how you feel, like. She said that at one point, they broke up. Are they still there? Yes. No. Well, no. At this point, they have broken up again because Junebug found out about still seeing the ex. Yeah. I would just go ahead and stay broken up. Yeah. Because regardless of the nature of their relationship, you are not comfortable with it, and she don't give a fuck. So. You don't. Like, right? Yes. Yes. It is best that I think you maybe just move on. You've now broken up more than once behind this. Mm-hmm. This other girl that she has made clear she has no interest or intention in not hanging out with one-on-one, seeing, kicking it with. Exactly. Um. Even though she was like, oh, yeah, I see where you come from at some point. Mm-hmm. There you go. Oh, all right. It sounds like she's playing a game regardless of what is going on over there. You don't like it. You've expressed it, sounds like, pretty clearly, respectfully, hopefully, that you don't like it. She don't care. She's not gonna stop. So it just. Move on. Gaslighting? I don't know. Because I don't know her or this other girl. Mm-hmm. But what I do know is that there is a. I think it's a fair thing to. to come out and talk about it. And I think your partner, if they love you and they care about you, in response to that, should at least. Um. What's the word? They should, like, respect the humanity of what you're saying and, I don't know, try to compromise on what can be done. Maybe that is not hanging out one-on-one with this person anymore. You only hang out with that person in groups. Maybe it is. I only hang out with her when you're there or something. You know what I mean? Rather than just being like, eh, and fighting about it and then breaking up or being like, you know what, you're actually right. And then you're still hanging out and I find out you're not so. Like, she's playing games. Right. Yeah. They're. She is. She is. No, the ex-girlfriend is definitely playing games, for sure. Um, I think you're right that regardless of the nature of the relationship that these two had, it's clear that they're not playing games. Whatever you're uncomfortable with is not that big of a priority to her. Whether they're still fucking around or not, it's not something she was willing to end her connection permanently with, um, this other person, you know, for you. So, I. Were you wrong for asking your partner not to hang out one-on-one with her ex? No, I wouldn't say you were wrong for that, but I do want to also be clear that there is a very thin line between boundaries and rules. And this was not a boundary. This was. This was a rule that you proposed for y'all's relationship because, again, boundaries are about ourselves, um, the way we allow others to treat us, et cetera, et cetera. It's okay to propose or to say, you know, I'm not really comfortable with you spending time with your ex one-on-one. Is it okay with you if y'all don't do that? Like, it's okay to ask her that, but that's not a boundary. I just want to be clear. Um, and the fact that y'all immediately broke up should have been the sign that, that this was not it. And I guess, you know, she missed you. She calling you back, like, okay, I'll leave it alone, blah, blah, blah. And then she was just like, I could just see her anyway. You ain't gonna fucking know. Um, which is, yeah, which is really fucked up. Um, but you, I also can't say that you were being gaslit into accepting something because maybe they weren't fucking around. It don't sound likely to me. It don't, if it was me, I probably would have been fucking my ex, but maybe not. I don't really know. Um, but I, as far as you being controlling, I think not, well, it, it is controlling if you positioned it as it's not okay for you to hang out with your ex. Right. As opposed to asking a question. That's how you, it isn't controlling because we allow the other person to say, well, actually, that's my friend now. There's nothing going on between the two of us. I'm not going to stop being friends with them because you're uncomfortable. We give them the opportunity to say that. If they don't get to push back on what we're proposing, then that's what makes it controlling versus not. so once you communicated that and it caused multiple blowups and then y'all broke up over it, baby, truly should have been the end of the story between the two of you. Um, but gay and y'all are in your mid twenties. So I do get it. Uh, but I think it's worth see on the one hand. I'm like, normally when people are maybe not jealous, but insecure about their partners hanging out with others, including exes. I'm always like, Hey, well, you know, really interrogate that within yourself. Do you not trust this person? Cause it sounds like you, you said you tried to trust, But the fact that they went on a trip together. your guard was up and you was looking for stuff to be wrong anyway. Early in the relationship. Right, right. So without that trust, this was going to happen anyway. It just manifested this way. But at the foundation of this, you didn't trust her once you found out about them hanging out like that. Yeah, you didn't have your eye on that one. Right. And it sounds like she was not going to be forthcoming about the true nature of their relationship or anything else. So maybe you had every reason to feel that way. But, yeah, I would say moving forward in your future relationships, when you feel uncomfortable in situations like this, first of all, check and make sure that your partner has actually done something to make you feel uncomfortable. In this case, the answer is yes. And then when you have a conversation, I wouldn't make it, oh, you're not allowed to hang out with your ex, or is it okay if you don't hang out with your ex? I would make it an issue of I'm having trouble fully trusting you because of X. X, Y, Z. I'm having trouble believing that you're really committed to me, to this relationship, that this is exclusive to the two of us because of blah, blah, blah. This is where it's me. Yes, because, yes, this is where me, and now it's not, well, you're trying to say I can't see my friend. It's now you're telling me how you really feel, that something's hurting you, bothering you, concerning you. Right. And so we can either talk and work this out or not. Their reaction to that will let you know whether this is something y'all can keep going. Yeah. I trust you really have not shit, so. And there's a very good chance you'll get a different reaction than if you're like, you can't see that bitch, you better not see that bitch. Right. Like. Yes, the way we approach things really, it really can make a massive difference, so. Yeah. But, yeah, Junebeck, this one had to go. Yes, it did. This had to end, and I am wishing you the best. The gay 20s. Yep. God, God, God. The way this. We just have not one single unique experience, man. No, literally. Like, not at all. Not at all. Like, not at all. Dykes love being friends. Like, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the. Yes. We love being friends with people we fucked and dated and married. Yes. We love that shit. Yes. Bro. It is so wild to me. Yeah, it's pretty bad. I can often do it successfully. Yeah. Which is the kick. Yes. Like, it, I am genuinely friends with one of my exes. Like, no sex, no flirtation, no nothing. Like, just homies. Yes. Legit homies. It takes time, but yes, you can get there for real. Good luck, baby. We have all, all been there. Yeah. All right. Single time for you. Yes, it is. And now you know what, what to do moving forward. Okay. That's going to wrap up the letters this week. Again, if you have a question for us, send it to asktheredatgmail.com. We'll be right back. Okay, ladies and germs and all others. It's time for the read, baby. And I'm going to get it started because I don't have one. So I'm going to pass my read. And this comes from, you didn't put a name. You didn't say I could say your name. Oh, yes. You said you can call me Carol Danvers. That's actually. Oh, shit. Carol Danvers is one of my favorite. Comic book characters. You can call me Carol Danvers because you was because when you knock me down, I get the fact I get the fuck back up again. Period, sister. Damn right. Carol Danvers is Captain Mar-Vell. Oh, yeah. And I know. And that's where Mar-Vell. Yep. I watched the movie. Vindication is mine. Whatever. Tell me. Okay. So she says, tell me why I was crossing the street. Mine of my own business. When suddenly there was an entire car in my personal bubble. One second, I was holding hands with my wife. And the next I was on the pavement because this absolute nightmare of a person hit me with her fucking car. And that's not even the crazy part. While I was lying on the ground screaming in pain. This bitch actually said out of her miserable mouth. I'm so sorry. But I guess that's what you get for jaywalking. Now, Kristen Kifiri, I know you know about mental health shit. So you understand that my brain is screwed up from childhood trauma. And that means, unfortunately. A little voice in my head had to check in and ask, was I jaywalking? Not in the moment when I was lying on the pavement because this bitch hit me with her actual car. But later on, my brain did wonder that. And the answer is no, I wasn't. And if I had been jaywalking, then she would have been running a red light. So, but when my traumatized brain accessed some common sense once again, I realized the much more important point. Even if I had been jaywalking across six lanes of traffic and miles away from any form of acrossness. What kind of disgusting person would say that someone they hit with their car, not even a car accident, a car versus a pedestrian, a giant car versus a regular little human body. So she said in her car, literally completely unharmed and I'm crying in agony on the pavement. She decided to say, well, that's what you get, bitch. I hope you get paper cuts in between each and each and every one of your fingers and toes every day for a year. I hope you get one of those evil stomach flus that has you on the bathroom floor for a week only to recover and immediately. Catch pink eye and lice. I hope your panties always in a bunch. Your favorite coffee is always out of stock and your phone is never fully charged. But mostly I hope you never in your fucking life get behind the wheel of a multi-thousand pound steel and aluminum killing machine ever again. Which brings me to drivers. All of you. Why does it feel like every time I engage with a road street Avenue or a goddamn roundabout, I'm playing Grand Theft Auto. Driving like they do not value their life. Let alone the lives of anyone else. Who's the audacity to step outside since the pandemic people been really driving worse and it needs to fucking stop. Go back to driver's aid or take the goddamn bus. If you can't use two eyes in your brain, will you operating again? A multi-thousand pound steel machine that regularly kills people. Carol is preaching. Shout to the angel of a police officer protected me bodily from oncoming traffic while I was on the ground and call 9-1-1. So my wife could sit there and hold me while I cried until. That evil bitch not to speak to me again, far be it for me to praise a cop, but at least she was a black woman and what she did for, and that's probably why, and what she did for me is simply undeniable, man, you deserve a raise or something in a free vacation. I'll never forget your kindness for as long as I live. Well, that's what the fuck they're for. That's what I'm supposed to be doing. But what we, the fact that she was a black woman meant she saw the humanity in you. So thank God for that. But wow. First of all, now that I. Can you imagine hitting someone with a car and saying, that's what you get? No. What kind of soulless bitch do you have to be to say some shit like that? You could have killed her. Bitch. What is wrong with you? Yeah. What? And that. And Carol, again, is so like. Driving is wild. There's a reason that they say like people who are like scared of roller coasters and stuff. You got a better chance of getting hurt on the way to the theme park. You do. You're driving is crazy. It is like we do it a lot and we do it every day. Countless numbers of people in this place alone. And so sometimes you motherfuckers might take it for granted. Right. It's dangerous. It's dangerous. You have to be careful. That's why you have to be licensed to operate it. That's what you do operate a vehicle. Just even if you Carol work a hundred percent in the wrong, you, I can't imagine hitting someone with my vehicle and saying, that's what you get. Like, it's really something wrong with you as a human being. Like you, it's almost like you got behind the wheel looking for somebody to hit. Right. Like you were. And in this day and age, I hope there's a civil here walking, holding her wife's hand. Yeah. She might've been like, oh, I don't want any of that gay shit in my county. Oh, you know what? Hopefully the insurance companies, lawyers are working tire. Leastly on your behalf to get you a check from this woman. Um, and, and then, you know, perhaps the state can go ahead and suspend her driver's license. Cause that's what you get is some sick shit to say. Somebody, somebody, yeah, that is a really fucked up. Wow. Didn't scrape a knee. Didn't get tapped on the ground in pain. Crying. Oh my God. Like, how was your first thought? Not to park your car, put on your hazards, call nine. One, one, get an ambulance, right? Like, well, nanny boo boo. Guess you shouldn't have been in this right. Oh no. You need to be locked up. Actually get this terrorist out of here. No, that person is sick. It's really something wrong. Yeah. What a mess. I'm sorry. That happens. The wife. I think I would have blacked out, right? My spouse is laying here on the pavement, could have internal bleeding or whatever the fuck else. And you talking about, well, that's what y'all get. The, the urge to beat your ass would be so strong. It's like the unbearable, the urge to comfort my wife and beat your ass. I feel like they would be neck and neck. Truly. I want to hold her hand. Make sure she stays awake until the paramedics get here. And I want to stomp you through the fuck. fucking submit i'd have been like you lucky that this black lady cop is right here now because i'm not about to go i hope the cop heard her say that um but wow what a fucking mess i i don't know what kind of trouble she can get into but hopefully it's something because that's really unexpected hopefully that is just it is truly unexpected really that's that's what you get for so people who are jaywalking deserve to get hit by cars that's what she's saying that's what this driver's saying yep literally that psycho yep somebody need to call the lady somebody need to take their meds somebody need to stay home thank you thanks carol for your letter i hope you're feeling better sorry that happened yes good luck babes um with your recovery and and your lawsuit because yeah this bitch needs to pay for what they did yes a thousand all right so a couple quick things this week first of all cam newton's really a fucking idiot what now is it this thing with him on lady yes i've been seeing clips with him on lady with him right i do really enjoy well i'm a big fan hers now i almost introduced myself as her because in this clip you know cam newton when there's a pretty woman sitting across from him it's like he tries to charm her to flirt with her to use certain words maybe make him seem himself himself seem a bit smarter than what he is he must not be familiar with her when she said how would how do you describe your style that's an adjective i immediately said okay who is this queen i need to know who she is and he said and she said what he said oh no and she said oh wait a rapper yeah really right and she said oh wait what say that again and so he said and she said oh the word is eclectic there's no in cam newton said oh no no no no it's my word and she was like oh my god okay spell it for me this nigga said this nigga said n-c-l-e-c-t-a eclectic do you want to know what the n stands for no i don't lady london no this he asked her that i i'm yeah and i'm answering and she said niggatry and he dapped her up as if the answer was yes like yes the answer is niggatry um and she was like okay well maybe we must need to call wefster and and oxford let him know it's a new word on the scene like and that's when he was like oh no we don't have to do all that when they don't know nothing about uh our words and you know the people that's cool but you just use people that don't have thanksgiving morals like i have what he said webster and oxford they don't eat what i eat at thanksgiving that smell ain't the same they might be around cousins and amy you know what i'm saying but it's like what thanksgiving morals what the fuck are you talking about she's just sitting here put this jacket on for us we're just gonna put this jacket on you and you just come with us she's just sitting here being beautiful sipping her wine or whatever and looking at him like what is this fucking buffoon she's really fair and it's just crazy because at what it what jumped out to me in this clip is that at no point could cam newton just admit that he said the word incorrectly and she was right and he was wrong right in because when she asked you to spell it you didn't even spell eclectic with an n at the beginning you spelled in collector which isn't anything collector isn't even anything like it just you didn't even spell the word you said you said n-c-l-e-c-t-a you didn't even spell the thing you said and then said inclectic that's not n-c-l-e-c-t-a does not if that were a word it would not be inclectic that's you see how inclectic which also isn't a word ends in a different sound than inclecta like at no point could this nigga just be like you right girl sometimes i say it wrong like sometimes i get the words mixed up in my head it was just so cam newton is really a fucking idiot man and i all i have seen on threads and tiktok like a good 20 50 percent of the posts i've seen are people making fun of cam newton because i was wondering what that clip yeah because to then and then be like do you want to know what the n stands for and she says nigga tree and he just like dabbing her up like and she was like okay i'm picking up what you're putting down but like looking at him like what a fucking idiot of course she was if you listen to her music ladies want to do this often clouding yeah like that you're not the way she just stopped talking when he explained himself she was like oh okay and then they just sat there in silence for a few seconds she was like all right she's fierce yeah that's how old i am on a regular basis as much as i love her and i saw that clip was viral i was making this rounds for something i was like i don't even care what they're talking about here because i don't want to hear cam cam newton talk about nothing i'm not ready for him to piss me off if i knew it was that i would have definitely yeah yeah he's going to watch it after this he's uh really a dumbass but and then right after that clip he asked her so you know how do you feel about education and i laughed so hard i said i have to cut this off because i went to try to watch the whole interview after that and when he asked her how she felt about education i said i actually can't watch no more of this because yeah yeah i know she can't believe she even sitting across from you right now like right you look and sound so stupid nigga um yeah quite right and uh i just i get that everybody's having their fun but please he's gonna he's gonna make shirts with inclecta on it and of course he's gonna start a clothing line a line of hats and call it inclecta and i'm just gonna be not psychotic remember jim jones jim jones no what the very first season of love and hip-hop period where jim jones when mama jones was always going back and forth with chrissy and she called he called i don't remember mama jones called herself psychotic yeah she said i'm a psychotic bitch because chrissy called her psychotic okay and then she made merch and the merch said psychotic right okay there we go and then she was like yeah that's my word and you know who pointed out that the words was that the shirts were spelled wrong chrissy chrissy that's just like that's not that word girl and why didn't you get somebody who could spell to check that first like why how many of these did you print this okay many oh you're right they he is going to make yeah you know top hats to say in clinton or whatever the fuck on it right um and last but not least this whole lynn jones thing y'all are really the sports world is doing a lot so if you missed it the jacksonville jaguars were eliminated from the playoffs by the buffalo bills and the jaguars coach liam cohen was in the postgame presser he was obviously still very busy but he was still very emotional after his team losing lynn jones who is an associate editor of the jacksonville free press which is a black owned newspaper one of just a few a couple hundred um in this country who has been in the industry for just over 25 years spent 20 seconds 20 seconds on the mic she said how you doing today lynn jones jacksonville free press news i just want to tell you congratulations on your success young man you hold your head up all right you guys have had a most magnificent season you did a great job out there today you just hold your head up okay ladies and gentlemen duval you the one keep it going we got another season okay this is so florida take care and much continued success to you and the entire team and you can see as she is speaking these words into him his whole face softens and he looks like he's legit about to cry but also that he really appreciates you know this extremely beautiful woman and she's like oh my god i'm so proud of you and she's like i'm so proud of you and she's like oh my god i'm so proud of you and she's like oh my god i'm so proud of you and she's like oh my god i'm so proud of you and she's like oh my god of a local reporter showing love to this yeah you would have thought this woman this woman came for the entire institution of journalism the way these crackers have been reacting to this like what could there possibly be well mark long who is a reporter for the associated press saw the clip on twitter and said there is nothing awesome about fans and fake media doing stuff like that and i'm not going to lie to you i'm not going to lie to you i'm not going to lie to you it should be embarrassing for the people who credentialed her and her organization and it's a waste of time for those of us who are actually working first of all i understand that sports journalists take their job very seriously just like every other journalist i understand journalism as an industry is really going through it right now because a lot of people don't respect the process they don't respect facts and fact checking and having a certain amount of healthy distance you know between yourself and your subjects blah blah all that shit okay i get all of that and And this is 20 seconds of a local reporter trying to send words of encouragement and solace to somebody who is clearly hurting. She did not hijack the press conference and spend five minutes going on and on about how should nobody be mean to him and how dare y'all. And nobody even expected you to do all that with this ragtag group of niggas. And it wasn't even all of that for you. I didn't hear anything. I'm so glad you read the quote itself, because that was like, it's really not. Yes. It doesn't even sound like something groundbreaking in terms of the industry. Like, I'm sure that happened before. Right. It is a community newspaper, the Jacksonville Free Press. She's probably there. When the rest of your big names are not because the game's not on ABC or Fox or whatever, like they're there all the time. She's probably been reporting on that team for a long ass fucking time. I get that it's not the strictest by journalistic standards, but it was also just 20 seconds of this woman being kind. Do we not have 20 seconds for a local reporter at a small community black owned newspaper to say something kind to the coach? Like, do we really not have the space for that? Really? Of all the shit y'all do in sports journalism, I'm gonna say another thing. As much as I respect all forms of journalism, you niggas are not reporting on war, okay? You're not reporting on the economy. This isn't about health care or taxes or clean air and water or education or child care. It's grown men in tights playing a game. Yeah. The only reason it's. Important is because it's a multibillion dollar industry, but it's actual effect on the people. Please be serious. The effect. In fact, the the the very fact that she even felt so moved to speak goes to show that so much of the value in sports is how they make us feel individually. She feels connected to Jacksonville, connected to her community in a way that these other journalists at these big news. Organizations simply do not. Have we considered that her context is different, but also it's a bit of a stick up your ass is you not actually reporting on something that. I don't want to say it don't matter because certainly it matters to your industry, but not in the grand scheme of things in the grand scheme of things in the grand scheme of things. It is niggas playing a game. Okay, so maybe let's all take ourselves a little bit. Less seriously, at least with regard to this one thing, because who does this hurt? Wasting time for the people who are trying to like what? 20 seconds. Ew. 20 seconds. To be kind. To say. She was like, so real quick. Did you hear that offset clip? Oh, girl. Like. What do you mean? And what would you have done to you know what else? Nothing else from that from that press conference has even made the news on any of the sports media shows I watch because all of you ask the same fucking questions. Anyway, coach, what went wrong out there today? Coach, what are you thinking about next season? Coach, do you think y'all are doing anything different at the quarterback position? Coach, where do you think y'all need to beef up in the like? All y'all are going to ask the same fucking questions. This lady took a snippet of time. This lady took a snippet of time to say, I see you over there hurting and I just want you to know, keep your head up. We proud of you. Duval, you the one. Which I just said, I love niggas. You know. Florida, for instance. Yes. And you can see in his eyes the way he just really appreciated that. Like, girl, we can. Yes, we can have 20 seconds for that from the local reporter at a community newspaper. Yes, we fucking can. Y'all got me agreeing with Pat McAfee. Imagine I'm disgusted. You had me because Pat McAfee was like, all right, are we really is this where traditional journalism is to where we are? We got to talk about somebody and and and berate and degrade this woman because she spent a few seconds saying something right. And this asshole at the AP talking about fake press shouldn't fake media don't have no space here. And it should. It should have been embarrassing for the people who credentialed her. Oh, unlike you and your super fancy hoity toity nose in the organization, the Jacksonville Free Press is a real outlet. Maybe it don't mean shit to you, but she's not fake media because you don't think that what she does is valuable or worth it or because you think her words were misplaced or, you know, wrong time or whatever else. Girl, fuck you and the AP. It should be embarrassing. There's nothing awesome about. Fans and or fake media doing stuff like that, bitch. This is where we are, where of all the things you could possibly criticize this black woman taking a few seconds to say, hey, tough loss out there. It's going to be all right. Keep your head up. It was an amazing season. We'll see you next year. Like, that's literally it. I can't believe that was made into a problem. That's so stupid. They really are like breaking. Real, real hard to try and make us like uncomfortable to just be outside. Like, God damn, man. What? Is it really that bad? To where we have to come for this woman's credentials and whether she even deserves to be there. Now, to her credit, she got on TV in Jacksonville, again, local in her community, went right on TV and said, I actually don't care about none of that. Y'all talking about I don't deserve. To be there, baby, I've probably been doing this longer than you've been alive. And I'm a member of the national the NNAP, which I think is like a black newspaper organization. And she shouted out some other black owned publications and was like, yeah, support the black press. Call me fake all you want to, but support the black press. I made a donation to the Jacksonville Free Press after this because y'all are walling. If we can't take 20 seconds again. Keeping in mind that we're talking about a grown bunch of grown men playing games. OK, we're not reporting on ice. We're talking about grown, overpaid people playing a fucking game. We can take 20 seconds to say something nice. We can't. Sometimes these people are treated like. Like trading cards, they're treated like toys. There are there are people who berate them, scream at them, throw shit at them. For losing a game or fucking a play up or whatever, when they're headed into the locker room, like people. And I just think it is ridiculous for someone to come up for air and and treat someone like a human being and share humanity and that would just be kind. Yeah. Rather than like Chris said, you know, spending however many minutes asking him the same dumb ass questions you already know the fucking answer. I can't believe. If you like somebody would make that an issue. Yeah. Jesus Christ. Right. So shout out to Miss Lynn Jones. Shout out to all the black journalists. And especially the people at the black on newspapers still out here, you know, trying to stay alive in Trump's America 2026. But yeah, this is just. Girl. Girl. Y'all taking yourselves. A little too seriously here. OK. Again, 20 fucking seconds. All right. And that is going to wrap up this week's episode of The Read. Check us out on social media at this is The Read. Our website is this is The Read dot com. I want to thank comedian Sidney Washington for being my guest this week on Christmas Couch. When I tell you we had a time that bitch is hilarious. Christmas Couch dot com for all the details and more. Any news from you this week, Kid Fury. Kid Fury dot com. Patreon dot com slash Kid Fury. For more. And yeah, the Lincoln Laney variety hour. She's in rehearsals right now. Oh, you hear that, Cardi? In rehearsal now. Touring to. That's it. 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