You, Me & Tuscany

Welcome back niggas and friends we're happy to have you my name is Lilius White and I am Gladys Bentley and this is The Read thank you for joining us it is it is The Read indeed here we are now in June officially in Pride Month I'm already tired of it and gone about this business and it's mostly because you know they are selling Dr. Bronner's gay soap and how gay Zephyr Hills or whatever else just yeah which one of you queens is going out there and buying a rainbow bottle of Dr. Bronner's soap it's the same soap somebody's ally mama I don't even think half that shit is for us we don't even want that shit that explains it yeah that's for the mama who wants everybody to know she's down and cool well shout out for trying um this week's Black Excellence is going to me if you're listening to this on the day that it comes out it's June 4th in June 4th 2006 I started a blog called The Fury where I was writing about pop culture and hood rat things uh after that I started a YouTube channel where I continue to do so but with my face this led to all sorts of fuckery like uh me skating around in a Publix and throwing all kinds of random things into a shopping cart me talking about shit that black gays say like me discussing this how I almost got fired from a call center for doing the absolute most all this and more um and obviously those shenanigans led me to New York City and starting a podcast with my friend it's called The Read I don't know if you've heard of it um and so on and such which little bullied gay boy found his voice maintained his voice created something and uh still out here thriving and surviving I'm very very proud of him um and so excellent black go me 20 years you're all welcome all right you did it slurred a kinda let's get into Black Excellence this week nope did that let's get into the hot tops this week okay I want to start with something that makes me feel good wait how many of these are kind of like this like this okay I'm cool with most of this all right so we're gonna start with the fact that I think this might be the hottest girl summer of all I'm so happy I think this might be the hottest girl summer I'm so happy scorching in fact I think so sweltering it's looking like it I'm really happy that Megan you know when she said that you know she was gonna need like a real break or something after that I fully expected that she would reasonably just shut it all off and say fuck everybody um I need to just be locked up in with the people who actually love me yeah I'm gonna watch Naruto or One Piece I don't care if you bitches don't watch it you're watching it this weekend right I thought that's what was gonna happen and I would have fully supported that Megan has been the fuck outside like oh god it's so big maybe she just meant a break from niggas I don't know or I don't oh yes that's smart maybe because she has been I mean Miami Swim Week she has been outside promoting her her liquor her brands but this clip that I saw yesterday on her Instagram with her out on a yacht with some homegirls taking shots and there's a new song there's a new song on here that she teased and it's pretty much everything that I was hoping it would be it's kind of like the like the antithesis of what's that other song Love a Girl oh yes indeed it is I mean there could not be more opposite oh yeah all that white all that my man it's bad bitch get that bullshit out of here get that shit to bed I'm gonna make him big when I want some head and I said you know what I'm happy Megan P this is exactly what I I first and foremost enjoy out of my my hip hop and it is women telling niggas I do what I want you do what I want and I'm gonna take all of your things and you're going to thank me for it and then I'm never gonna speak to you again because you ain't shit and every nigga you know ain't shit it's what I thrive off of and so I'm really happy to see not only is Meg outside with a big smile on her face she's got a big smile on her face she's got new music coming out it's top of the summer and we're leading with fuck these niggas fuck wifeydom fuck all that other shit that you bitches start talking about we're out on the water driving that boat again bitch we out I'm so happy did you hear the the motion party remix her verse on that yes yes I did that actually that's actually out this new song that you know whatever she's teasing that's not actually out yet but that motion party remix I said oh yes we getting the season started my girl oh yes thank god cause big lotto over there breastfeeding or whatever she not having no hot girl nothing you know it's hot mommy summer for her and that's great for her but like we need something for the hoes who is trying to be outside and having a good time we not in love we ain't trying to hear all that bullshit about our baby no no no ain't nobody trying to hear that bullshit I ain't going through no phones cause that shit is stupid I ain't going through if a nigga cheating on me it's deuces you want a begging ass bitch or a rich one ah yes that's what I need like oh thank god here came Megan really came to save the summer her and I know you mad but I know what you're going to say I know what you're going to say just say it okay great I'm glad you know because that terrible ass Carisha song yes everywhere fine whatever I don't know it's everywhere the people love it it has grown on me I can't even lie see spin that shit spin that shit where all my scab it is it still sounds better sped up but yeah it does sound way better sped up but I even found myself just enjoying it halfway the other way the other day just as it is Carisha I didn't expect it I'm not gonna lie when I first heard that song I was like are they dead serious it's still not great but now you really cussed her out in front of a live audience you were like this is garbage well it wasn't for her it wasn't for her it was for the men in the room who were acting like it was the greatest song they'd ever heard okay yeah you're right well I mean and maybe they just saw the vision yeah I thought I was still wrong I think that I think they just saw the vision yeah yeah well I'm welcoming all of this with open arms even you ladies who maybe just popped one out or just super in love still or whatever I guess you can go listen to Lotto's album I listened to like half of it I'm not gonna lie it's not my favorite no I just really didn't I've listened to a lot of albums so far yeah and I I also could not get through it like I'm happy for you and I know she I saw a clip of her saying that you know when she said she was retiring she was going through postpartum and so you know her feelings was all over the place but oh I didn't hear that yeah so she's not really retiring she was just you know going through postpartum which right I didn't take you serious no way girl but she's so young I'm glad you're you know I hope you're getting the support you need as a new mommy because postpartum is nothing to play with but you know you be in that season of your life and that's great yeah that's great I'm like I'm happy for you that you happy you know with your baby and your man but I want to hear the shake that ass boosting ass bitches put that shit in y'all I want to hear I want to hear that ghetto shit I do sorry girl June 3rd babe let's get it started right let's get it started and it ain't no Beyonce the hot the Lulu Hive is in despair they can't believe Beyonce didn't drop nothing what do you want have you heard of this lady she does what she wants she does and I mean in the middle of her man performing at the Roots picnic and he got these shows at Yankee Stadium coming up y'all thought she was gonna drop an album in the middle of her man doing all this yeah let's talk about him I was gonna leave him for last but let's talk about him Blue Ivy's first of all completely stole Blue Ivy's look I said wow Blue can't have nothing how dare you you like he he really got up on that stage looking just like her though i was like oh my god i see it i see it how okay so many so many okay first of all when i saw him one of the first things that i thought of was blue specifically because i remember when jay-z told gail king i believe that he wanted to cut his hair his dreads and he said blue was not for it he was like uh-uh this is like your look right it's perfect for you it's working no thank you for not doing that so i saw the change but i fully expected him to cut all his hair off same because that would have been easier and that's what he's done a lot of times in his his career like he grows his hair out when he cuts his hair you know what jay z i'm coming out yep so i guess now it's when he changes his hair so he came out there with this big healthy uh uh afro my god the niggas are still it's just gorgeous confused the girls in the streets is it a wig everybody knows that you you can't do this you gotta cut your dreads off like it was actually a sizable number of niggas that did know that you can detangle and comb out locks um that's crazy to me but you don't know what you don't know i guess you don't know what you don't know you know i thought it was understandable that many people don't know that but i also feel like do you not know or do you not want to know mm-hmm because did you look it up did you look it up because me i would go oh wow this man just had dreads now he has not dreads let me look up information like i like to learn things what is y'all yeah you okay yeah anyway sacred posted some shit like the person who's supposed to be in this post but ain't use like our detangling spray something something they was very much online doing their marketing do like excuse me and i knew they would and i knew they would as soon as i saw him on that stage i said by tomorrow morning sacred will have a post-up with a link to that detail because i knew it was the work of that detangling spray immediately and i even thought about blue i'm sure blue was like yeah cut your i know you've cut your hair before but give me a few more years in the lab because i'm not going to be able to do that because i'm not going to be able to do that right now i'm working on a protection line and i will be able to detangle what you got going on and then even the stylist who did it said it took four days and four bottles of detangling spray so they setting expectations now they said this ain't no one bottle job it did take a lot yeah it took a lot and i was working around the clock but yes you too can comb out your locks and have a fro if that's what you want to have the amount of people who i also saw posting clips of their own comb outs combed out yep we're like okay example like people had to really but i the people who i saw arguing the opposite most were like hip-hop fans and people finding or wanting to find a reason to shit on this performance mostly because uh the moment from it that everyone was discussing was this lengthy freestyle where sean carter basically swept everybody yes he was just like okay let's just discuss everyone you bitches yes i'm gonna say yeah i personally loved it and i'm gonna tell you why uh most of it i think all of it i agreed with and then um he don't say nothing he doesn't say anything you all of these people have had shit to say numerous times for many years right so he came out and was like i have something for you drake i have something for you tanya i have something for you damon jaguar panther whatever you call yourself i have something for you as well toy lane so a line or two for you i was great i enjoyed it the girls are upset um many of them are the outlets i don't remember who said their first but thank you outlets yes ma'am i saw one nigga say some shit like this was on threads this young man i think in nigeria was like oh if rock nation wanted to sign drake they would they would just buy jay-z out of his whatever his stake in the in rock nation and sign drake i just responded i rarely respond to that stuff like i just read the funny parts of discourse like this and then i'm all about my i'd really engage that was so stupid i i responded and i was like sweetie whatever helps you sleep at night or during the day since y'all nocturnal but this isn't what's gonna happen absurd like come on it just everybody be for real man that's not you know niggas just be talking you have to remind yourself of that all the time people literally just be running their mouth running their fingers on these keyboards they do not care about whether or not they're going to be able to do it they're not going to be able to what they're saying is correct or makes any sense they just be yapping you put yourself in a position to look foolish and dumb and ignorant and and they don't care delusional they do not care that's not a problem yeah i saw a clip of maul from rory and maul podcast say because you know he's he's good he's with drake and he said the reason he found out he said he found out about the freestyle because drake texted him about it he said he found out about the freestyle because drake texted him about it he said he found out about the freestyle because drake texted him about it he said he found out about he said he was watching the spurts game he said that's right i thought that was so funny that man was like my eyes aren't on the real prize i don't know what's going on in this rap shit basketball is on and you texted me about a grown man on stage i'm trying to see where this playoff shit going um oh man but he said that um drake had texted him and and was like yo what's up with the hair and then niggas were like laughing about that i guess but interestingly enough rory was like well they're gonna eat him up for that like they're gonna eat him up for that if that's true they're gonna eat him up for that and then maul kind of like he kind of stabbed it back in a sense it was like well that's what the internet was saying that was the internet saying it wasn't even just related drakes and it isn't the internet saying nobody understood the hair i was like no maul many many people understood what do you mean what's up with the hair what his natural black hair is this coming from drake that's i've seen that i've seen that nigga put barrettes and balls and all kinds of beads and shit in his hair do a show together there's no way drake said that about jay-z's hair like what do you mean his hair looks amazing barrettes did you just have some bobos like you know and in the full context of things it is a it's a little strange why are you as a grown man wearing little girls hair things accessories i don't really get that but you just had your hair done like lady of rage i'm really confused though because that's jay-z's that's his the natural afro that he had you've worn a fro you wear cornrows all the time what are you talking about i don't what do you mean what's up with the hair i'm gonna need you to clarify you had lady of rage afro puffs two days ago except with what hair right again i'm assuming it's just niggas have not seen dreads turned into an afro especially like nice meaty dress right they have never seen that for a while yeah but then again like a canker so like you just say it rather than text my homie who has a podcast that's gonna tell people i said right i would have asked grok or something since that's y'all like what's up with the hair you know miss musk is is half dead about that that grok shit she's plucked is she because it's it's late nobody wanted to open ai and all the other girls oh yeah amazons or google or whoever all of them i mean they're everywhere everybody got ai yeah they're the big girls grok is like you know the jocelyn's cabaret of right why would i go on twitter to ask twitter's ai about any fucking anybody's ai about a fuck me that is so okay so all right yeah a lot of people were confused by the hair and alleging that it was a wig and so many things let's talk about let's talk about the possibility right y'all said it was a wig when it was the law i don't want to hear this y'all keep doing this with this man what i i know i'm i'm i legit don't get it like if it's internet jokes to be like oh jay-z and his wig that's one thing but if y'all are are really going back and forth debating this i have to wonder what the fuck is wrong with you we have seen his hair gradually grow over the years we saw how long they got it is very possible to comb out locks you can search it on google or youtube and see countless people who have done it and that is and you are gonna lose some hair that is what i would expect his throat to look like if he combed out his like what why don't y'all believe it that's the question the question isn't why do i believe it the question is why don't y'all i was also like it's they trimmed it of course it's been much longer than it's i mean you're gonna lose some anyway yes because we're combing it out and it's locked up like you're gonna lose some air in that process what it took them all right all right four four days four days and that's actually not that long of a time some people you know going at it by themselves without professional help and they have smaller locks you know it could take a month these were pretty big kind of freeformish looking i don't want to say exactly what he did but it's just not beyond understanding or the realm of possibility that that is what jay-z's hair would look like i don't know why you niggas are being so weird about i guess because it's him but this is yeah it's because it's him y'all cannot believe y'all are dissecting this man's hair like this but i should believe it because y'all did this exact same shit to blue and so it tracks it tracks it does indeed also you go talk to your motherfucking collins collins avenue strolling bike week fuck nigga ass bitch friends who fly to turkey you talk to your motherfucking hoe ass fuck boy homeboys who go over to washington heights and have one of the cousins install a unit and fade it out like we came to ill since we're talking about wiggies since we're talking about wiggies y'all maggots jc is 58 years old and still got a hairline you can go but you can go right over to sacred.com right now and get yourself the exact same products that that man has been using if you're jealous temple ood and the temple ood is in all of them yeah i think it is because jay-z jay-z is is incredibly iconic and powerful and yeah and it's like a hip like a hip-hop goat or whatever when you reach a certain height i mean drake is is similar when you reach a certain height and you're celebrated right for a certain amount of time a lengthy amount of time many people just can't wait to see you trip and bust your ass and vote so yeah that's true the reason is drake people like drake make it easier right because this is just so stupid like criticize him over something real this hair debate like this is the dumbest possible thing y'all could focus on when it comes to jay-z the hair is an ad for sacred you know how many people went and bought that detangling spray bitch beyonce said okay since you popping out going to yankee stadium get ready to drop another album and i have to push this act three back you're going to get out in the field and promote this brand baby you will blue said yeah gonna put the gonna put the cape on because it's gonna get messy it's gonna get messy and i will be taking photographs father thank you i legit was just picturing her as you said at standing he's got like three people in the ball with him yeah and she's just standing by with her arms crossed like like overseeing the whole thing so far so good correct correct i'll be back in 15 minutes to check again obsessed i love this performance jay as a hip-hop artist you know grew up listening to him and stuff so where this goes we'll see new album interested to hear what he has to say because i think jay is one of the rappers of a certain age who is more interested in rapping about shit around his you know he's not i don't expect him to come out and make you know some bop about i don't know hell cats what do the young niggas even be talking about i don't think i know really still same stuff we just don't they cars jewelry all that stuff we just don't know what they which ones right this is like shit liquor cars money guns guns guns guns guns for show guns yeah for sure guns even the ones who don't like if you don't have a gun never mind here you go you was gonna say something crazy you would why something crazy and with the rates with the rates like you don't have to perpetuate it um yeah i didn't even we didn't even really get into the details of what jay-z said because i mean just go listen to it the the ken the ken one yeah i said oh is a is onika conscious she's not gonna like that no she's not all the i mean the kanye stuff you said kanye not crazy wait till he get around a real nigga all of a sudden he's straightened up and know how to act i said uh-oh i forgot what i found on him forgot about that one yeah that was pretty good i mean it was pretty funny i should say i mean y'all must forgot about summer summer jam maybe the children have to open their encyclopedias and read up on their screen they have to the people who were born after like 2005 they really have to look shit up they really do not and i'm being generous with that 2005 it's really if you if you don't come from the 19th century you're gonna be like oh my god i'm gonna be like oh my god i'm gonna be like oh my god i'm gonna be like oh my god i'm gonna be like oh my god i'm gonna be like oh my god like the rest of us then you really don't know but y'all have to look it up to the 1900s because 87 that has nearly nothing to do with me i came in like i'm right at the end so everyone calm down everyone calm down the 1900s you tell those children you were born in 1987 and they're gonna ask you if cable tv was around then and i'm going to ask them if they would like their vocal chords because i can flush them out from the oh the youth the youth um ray j after spending i think three days in the hospital after getting knocked out at a aiden ross promoted fight right right right he apparently says he's got about five to ten more fights left in him he's already getting ready to go to bed he's already getting ready to go to bed he's already getting ready to book him oh oh no wait that's not what i'm actually gonna say at all oh yeah brother you were just hospitalized how can this be hospitalized yeah uh is your heart okay on august 23rd he says he'll be stepping back in the ring for an event called the back to school brawl now i'm gonna stop there what why oh no and he's a headlining this fight that's how you they must be paying him in they are paying him insane money for this they have to be in the car and moving to 215 pounds to compete for a light heavyweight title somebody honestly somebody should go get him yeah maybe with a jacket you got three months to train again is a medical doctor going to clear you to do this i'm really concerned i hopefully the next time they're actually gonna have a doctor i do okay maybe i'm being crazy again but i feel like honestly in the state of california you probably could just get you a cheyenne briot to just come through and be like yeah all right and then all right you're fine it's brown to do it i did see that he said i had a perfect record oh oh oh and i took an l so now i'm oh one oh we don't really call never having fought a perfect record but all right you got it i don't know that you have five to ten more fights in you i feel like you got five to ten more visits with a cardiologist before they say yes you can get your black ass back in the ring it but three months from now when you just spent three days in the hospital it feels like a bad idea ray monta joseph it really does it really does so bad i i suggest you don't do it i don't think you can do it i don't do this you got to get a job you've got to find a job i mean after the scooty bikes and the invincible glasses i don't know man what about raycon are ray buds raycon oh all that all them fakes versions of like airpods and the right i think you know that shit probably all overheated melted down couldn't sell it no more the unsafe you know the she and timu bullshit that he just rebranded i don't think those were ever like quality products that a person could rely on so i'm not shocked if all those little businesses have apart but also you know the economy's terrible rich people be in crazy debt so that's true too yeah it's this princess won't have child support you got to go make some money you got lady tried so many times you gotta go take care of them kids um well boosie was uh arrested boosie on may 24th in houston after allegedly smashing a glass hookah over the head of a security guard okay all right so according to documents in the charge uh a woman allegedly asked to use a restroom at a nightclub and the uh security guard denied her entry to the club because he said that they were closing um this led to the woman allegedly being upset and hitting the guard and dropping her belongings on the floor statement says that when the guard bent down to pick up her items he was allegedly struck in the head by a hookah bottle oh my god and allegedly the person holding the hookah bottle was one boosie of the badass why would you do that boosie how does he do any of the things he does they okay security guard has to go to the hospital get eight staples in his head oh my god boosie was uh he was booked taken in released on 85 000 alibon and is and promptly hopped on social media to call the entire thing a money grabber and he was taken in and he was taken in and he was taken in and he was taken out because of course he did is it a month i mean i also would sue you so yeah slow like because why follow what you want babe stupid ass be hidden first of all when the club is closing yeah they don't let you go meander around you have to especially if you've already exited the club you're not going back in to do anything right the bathroom or anything else the fact that why would you hit the security guard over the head with a hookah anything like why why would you do that boosie it don't make because the security guard said oh girl couldn't go to the club to the bathroom is that a reason to commit aggravated assault who is still behind bars that you miss answer that question because this don't make no goddamn sense he cannot stay out of jail yeah who is back there that you just said that you just like i got to i gotta go back i got you don't like being free my heart hurts i don't i really don't understand it but okay boosie's a fucking idiot it's just like maybe when you're a certain type of person you have certain uh certain horrible violent and or toxic traits embedded in you it only takes a couple of shots for you to you know get back to that place because i'm like okay obviously you weren't sober but still why right would your mind under the influence of anything saying i'm like gonna hit this person for no reason i'm gonna strike them with a weapon with a hookah base glass so that means bloods every like eight staples you're 43 years old though so at one point if and this is not the first or a thousandth time you've been drunk if you know you do dumb shit when you're drunk why would you continue to drink i mean at the age of 43 do we not especially not just dumb stuff like you know flash people on the highway you get violent yeah you do you do things that can send you back to jail as somebody with a lengthy record are you not on probation or just got off or like you stay weren't we just talking about him and having to check in with his uh parole officer and he had to get permission to go somewhere and i'm like we i feel like that wasn't that long ago like you always in some shit so at what point do you say damn i gotta change the way i act so that i don't keep getting wrapped up in dumb shit like when does that thought occur to you at any point no no i guess not that's why i said who is back there you just really missed that prison mac and cheese like what is it i don't get it right i feel like one day in jail would be enough to set me straight for the rest of my life because i'd be joking like oh i could do a couple months in county if i if i just really know it would be the moment that that food comes out oh i gotta get out of here i gotta get a fruit cup on a piece of white bread no it's the fact that you mooch out the toilet get me out this is what i'm saying and you have no control over basic shit when you wake up when you go to bed when you can go outside yeah that's not up to you no that no i can't i don't even want to do five hours in jail much less five days or weeks or months are you not even just outside your cell block right outside your cell outside your cell right no privacy anything you need to do on the toilet anybody can see like okay all right it just doesn't sound like a blast it does you know to me somebody who's been free all of her life it doesn't sound fun yeah but you know maybe for boozy is different because you too old to still be like oh my god drunk ideas i'm dumb you've been getting drunk and doing something dumb for 20 years when are you gonna grow up i mean he also he also loves to eat childish things like rice krispy treat stuff chicken okay dorito stuff chicken yeah yeah absolutely dorito dust on the capri sun instead of water um sunny d instead of eggs yes yeah so but okay i mean enjoy jail girl because it looks like you're going right back happy pride what if that gets upgraded to attempted murder then you're doing real time okay eight stitches in the head okay staples and even if you don't get real jail time you coming up up off of some real money that civil suit's gonna be something terrible dumb ass man you don't like money or freedom okay well don't worry the people will take both from you and you're completely right it's like okay i know when i do this bad things happen let me not like the first time i took a percocet i was like well yeah i almost went to jail tonight yep no more for me thanks me when i took a percocet i was like well i almost went to jail tonight yep no more for me thanks me when i tried coke i said i won't be doing this again no thanks this was a one and done for me girly pops i will not be doing cocaína again the the cop looked me up he said you know what you don't have a record i'm gonna let you go this one time that was enough that's all you need i so i really don't get why i'm doing this again i'm gonna let you go this one time that was enough that's all you need why it's not clicking for a boozy like i but you know that's for him and his therapist to figure out remember when he was about to get out or when he was locked up and everybody was like what watch me he comes home he's gonna like take over rap again remember that and it was great for him to come out to make music i mean unfortunately boozy was gone too long for that to be i mean not that he ever as as much as i have been a fan of some boosts where we don't have to sit here and act like he was ever the king of rap okay that's just what we don't have this is this is kind of like regional icon right right exactly so this kind of like when what um well i was thinking i was about to say fatty wap but that's not the rapper i was thinking of the one who had that one hit song and then he got caught up for the talking about killing niggas on the record and i guess he actually had killed the niggas bobby schmurda oh niggas was like when bobby schmurda get out blah blah blah yeah yeah yeah girl no you had your moment your time it was great we'll never forget it however those heights that you were at before probably you know it's just not a good idea to go get locked up when you're in the middle of a generational once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and i think that time has passed for both of these niggas the bobby schmurda thing i enjoy his music too that one felt a little premature like he went away early around for the right He went off early. I'm still kind of getting to know what's going to happen here, period. Right. That's going to be it for Hot Tops this week. Let's take a break and then we'll come back and read your letters. We are back, folks. And it is time now to listen to your letters. Yes, it is. Send your questions to asktheread at gmail.com. We may read them aloud on the show. Oh, man. Where to begin this? Oh, you know what? We have a nice short one here. Have you played or seen The State of Play? Do you know what that is? Yes. Okay. CF said, yes. So CF said, I wanted to ask Kid Fury his thoughts on The State of Play on Tuesday. I thought it was decent overall, but Wolverine got me incredibly hyped. Also, voice acting and Mad TV queen Debra Wilson is playing Callisto in the game. And the God of War spinoff with his wife looks like it's going to eat. Would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks. Oh, my gosh. Thank you for asking. I love talking about video games. Yes, I, too, was checked in for the Wolverine footage, mostly. That's kind of the only thing that was confirmed that they would show us. Overall, the whole show was better than I expected it to. I don't put too many eggs in these gameplay or game showcases anymore. I'm just happy that I got the third Kingdom Hearts, and I can just put that to bed. They announced four years ago they ain't got nothing to do with me. They won't break my heart again. I got the third one. I'm fine. Yeah, Wolverine looks amazing. I was thrilled when I saw Debra Wilson in it. She's actually been in a lot of video games recently. Love that. Getting to play an X-Men game or, yeah, Wolverine game with her in it. Awesome. If you haven't seen it, I won't say anything. If you have not seen the trailer and you are interested in playing the Wolverine game, just go look at the trailer. It's pretty long. The God of War spinoff, I'd heard rumors of it. I didn't expect it to be real. It looks amazing. What's the girl's name? Debra Ann Wolfe from True Blood, Daredevil. She's playing the lead character. Um, Jack Quaid or something is in it. It looks awesome. Santa Monica does great work. Can't wait to play it. Um, Tomb Raider, new Tomb Raider. Can't wait for that as well. Lara Croft, the original doll baby. And honestly, I kind of missed the rest of the showcase. I wasn't paying attention. I was writing. But thanks for asking. It looks awesome. Can't wait to play them. All right. Yes. Um, video games. Listen, controllers and buttons as well. They didn't show anything bluey, but, uh, well, there is a new blue game on switch. A new one. Bluey in the pen of some, that's something pen. I don't know. Excuse the fuck out of me. Yeah. It came out like two weeks ago, a week ago. Bluey in the magic pen, pen of, pen of the gold pen. Yeah, I guess that's it. Okay. Oh, uh, the hand. Hand drawn worlds that they do. Okay. Anyway. Um, yeah, I just got excited. Um, but let me focus. Get back to my job. Games and buttons. All right. Uh, Benita last week, I said we was going to do your letter and then I changed my mind. So let's do it now. Um, Benita says, hi, Chris Lincoln fury. I'm 38 and living in a four bedroom house with my husband and two preteens. We bought a four bedroom house so that we can have an office. Slash guest room for when family comes to visit in January, 2024, my older sister had to sell her house due to some financial issues. She also had her daughter with her who was 23 at the time. I love my sister, but she definitely has undiagnosed ADHD talks a whole lot and has weird habits. My niece on the other hand was fantastic. I was able to help her get her first apartment after about a year. My sister finally sold her house, got the money and moved out. However, my 30 year old. Nephew, who is my sister's son contacted me around that same time asking if he could stay with heat with me while he looked for work and to basically restart life for him and his family. I told him my spare room is always open for him. And in April, 2025, he came to stay with us. He found a job at his sister's employer, but through no fault of his own, I have been extremely annoyed by his presence since he got here. My nephew has sleep apnea, so he snores a lot and very loudly. When he first moved here, his mom was just moving out, so he had to sleep in my leather recliner downstairs for a couple of weeks, and I noticed that it immediately started to sag under his size. When my mom left that when my mom left, that bed became available, but due to his sleep apnea, he would sleep sitting up on our pullout couch instead of the bed. That pullout couch is now also sagging and is basically destroyed to the point that he might as well take it with him whenever he moves out. There are other small things you can do to help with sleep apnea. There are other small things he does to annoy me, like drinking the kids' juice and using my laundry detergent. Considering that he's 30 years old and has a job, I figured he would just buy his own stuff. He did find an income-restricted place to live, and he's been on the waiting list for about eight months. He claims his wife and daughter are supposed to come and live with him in November, and I already told him that they cannot live here. Since he got on the list for this place, he has stopped looking for other housing options. I feel like my patience and tolerance for having people in my house has definitely waned. Not because of who they are, but because it's going on two years of just having somebody living in my guest room, which was supposed to be my office. My question is, am I the asshole for wanting to kick my nephew out even earlier? There's no telling when he's going to get off of this waiting list. Thanks, Benita. Benita. It's a hard move. It is a hard one. Hey, my sense and sensibilities are set up. I do not want nobody in my home, much less for years. I don't. So I'm empathizing with you because what are you supposed to do? That's family. And it's like little things that's already getting on your nerves. Drinking the children's juice, using laundry detergent. I'd be happy to think it's using laundry, you know, washing clothes, I guess. Yeah. But, you know, that's also a grown man with a job. So if he was replacing the kid's juice and the detergent, you wouldn't even know he was using them. So it's like he's also inconsiderate in that way. Yes. Yeah. And I'd add irresponsible just from the thought of you staying at somebody else's house, you know, inconveniencing them, destroying a couch with your weight or whatever she said. Yeah. Like you just. And. Yeah. I would. Oh, and then like being on a waiting list for a place and being like, we good. Huh? You're not. You don't have a place to live. And that place is not promised. Right. Right. That could take. Because it's like in New York City, if you are on the NYCHA waiting list or whatever, that could be years, baby. Like, so no mama, let's research. And how you plan. Okay. So you have a wife and you have a kid. Do they know that you don't have a place? And that like, so you're they're planning to come out here and live with you, you say in November, you don't have a place to live. So. You don't have a place for them to live because Benita said they not coming in this house. So. Do you think you feel your family into my home? Like what I'm imagining that the wife, you know, they. They still have a lease in whatever other place. Yeah. And so that lease will be up. I'm imagining in October or November. So it's like, okay, y'all going to come out here, but hopefully you off the waiting list by November. What if you're not? Right. What if you're not? Right. Yeah. You know, I love a good old black and white, you know, paper trail, a little documentation. Yeah. I love a good physical representation of a plan. And so I would sit down with him and I would slide across the table a graph. Okay. All right. No, I would sit down with him and say, we need to make a plan for you to get the fuck out of here. I wouldn't word it like that. But you get the idea. We would come up with a plan together. Probably lead, definitely leading with how that is beneficial for him and his family. Your wife and kid is supposed to be out here in like less than six months. You have to, you in here drinking my kid's juice, sleeping on the couch. So you need to come up with a plan for them so you don't have them in some sort of dire or unexpected situation. when they get here. Now, I'm happy to help you plan that because I want you you to leave so let's start let's start jotting shit down and coming up with a plan for you to get up out of here that's where i would start is literally sitting him down pen and paper here's what we're going to do here are some milestones we'd like to reach like go through all of it and hang that bitch up somewhere give him an extra copy like i am dead serious about this we're going to check in periodically because you are family and i want the best for you especially because you have a family of your own but i also want the best for me and that's you getting the fuck out that's where i would start yes because after two years you didn't have three different niggas living in your house it makes sense that you're over it i don't think you're an asshole for these feelings it's just all about how you approach this situation i think if he gave you some great advice but also like i know you're his auntie but you know remember that you're only eight years older than him you 38 he 30 so right this might really be more of like a big sister little brother type dynamic i'm not entirely sure but like you you know 30 is still still grown and i i would not be in a rush to kick nobody out because the economy's terrible i know how bad things are for everybody but he's also not making things like there's nothing he can do about you know if you are tall or heavy or whatever you you don't ruin the couch that kind of is what it is but you could be buying juice you could be paying for your own groceries you could be replacing my fucking tide or whatever like yeah why i come in here to pack my kids lunches and ain't no more juicy juice and ain't no more gummy bears and ain't no more lunch meat because you don't hate like you can you can replace that shit nigga where the cheetos how dare you leave a swallow in this welch's white grape juice yeah yeah that that is what would make me want to put you out so in addition to the paperwork i would say you know maybe nobody has ever taught you how to be a house guest i don't want you to feel like you have to tiptoe around here like i want you to be comfortable make yourself at home but you are an adult and so you are expected to contribute to this household okay like this is we all all these all the adults here work baby we all work so you know help any help you basically not leave out the part about get out my fucking house yeah you gotta paraphrase paraphrase all this you do you know what i mean yeah but the feelings are completely understandable after two after two nights i want you out my home so this girl so y'all yeah the patient here is is um to be commended but best of luck to you bonita um our next letter comes from ariel this one is a doozy um and ariel says i've been with my boyfriend for four years we've lived we live together and have been through a multitude of trials and tribulations ranging from life-threatening health conditions to financial uncertainty and everything in between but we've always found our way through it all we have a very long life and we have a very long life and we have a very long life and we've always been super respectful to one another and i think this is the healthiest space i've ever been in i'm 33 and i want to have kids one day and we've been talking a lot about marriage in the future i've expressed this a lot and he seems to understand and also be aligned with me because obviously if we're gonna do this together then our window is getting shorter with each passing year he said multiple times that he wants the same thing and is getting ready for us to transition into that next chapter however one of the biggest issues in our relationship is that we it's affected our dynamic a lot and it's been very hard to manage at times in february i was diagnosed with ocd and it felt like the breakthrough i've been waiting for my whole life i started receiving erp therapy and most recently started on an ssri it's hard to explain to people who have never been on this journey how a medication can change your life but it's really like waking up with a new set of eyes to see the world it sounds dramatic but for those who have finally gotten the treatment they needed i know they can understand where i'm coming from we recently went on a two-week vacation to italy i've been more present than ever and without the crippling anxiety of my thoughts it's like i'm experiencing the world for the first time and it's been incredible but five days into our vacation the mood started to shift and i noticed my boyfriend being really quiet and standoffish i tried not to let it freak me out because i know that i can get into a space where i hit folks with a barrage of questions when i feel uncomfortable at one point he didn't even want to hold my hand which was definitely strange and out of the ordinary i asked him what was happening and he says he cannot live a life where he has to respond to the same question over and over because i don't trust him i started panicking because i know what he means because i tend to ask questions over and over it's a compulsion and it doesn't mean that i don't trust him but i am working on it he said he's not sure that i'll ever get better and i tried to explain that i've only been on my meds for three weeks and i need some time but i'll definitely improve but the conversation continued to devolve and we ended up in a full-blown argument because i can't reassure him that i'll get better in the ways he wants he told me that he had an engagement ring for me in his backpack but he's not gonna give it to me are they still in italy i felt like the earth was opening up and swallowing me i literally had no clue about that ring but this is something i've been yearning for for years he then told me that he wants us to separate and in the next 15 minutes he had already booked a flight back to the united states he left in the middle of the night with me still in italy i'm so heartbroken my neighbors told me that he's moving out of our home and i just can't wrap my head around it after all these years i finally start getting better and this is when he decides to leave me what do i do i don't want this relationship to end thanks for your help ariel ariel i think it's ended it sounds done sister he left you in europe that is for what i mean okay you want to break up why would you need to leave right now like why would you need to the 15 minutes later you booked a flight baby and just left in the middle of the night and left me in europe ocd aside that is fucking crazy like it you could have had both of you could have perfect mental health that is an absurd thing to do with to somebody you have been in a committed relationship with for years i can't fathom just leaving somebody like that out of nowhere like uh and he went right back home and just started moving shit out the neighbors texting her like yeah girl he got a u-haul out front like what okay i know you don't want it to end but i think you should want it to end yes i think you should because what kind of man would just leave you overseas by your fucking self after an argument like okay if you want to break up like okay you having feelings but why would you just in the bag right on out the hotel and go to the airport like i don't that is i can't i'm really having trouble wrapping my mind around that what the hell is insane yeah so what do you do when you get back to the states you immediately get the session on the boat you immediately talk to oh yes yes like you immediately go and talk to the lady because i'm certain first of all that's where you know the licensed professional help and stuff is for sure for sure but also i feel like they will tell you wow does this not have anything to do with you and isn't that person awful like i because like chris will say it mental health aside ocd aside that is just genuinely a despicable thing to do to someone especially someone that you know has a compulsive disorder and who has admitted to you that this is a i guess you could say a symptom of it or reaction from it and yeah i had to look it up like and you're like nah it gives me that it sounds like he was using that as an excuse it feels like he had his had a foot out the door for a while and just decided to be a pussy and also man just on impulse be like yeah it's almost like he was waiting for one more argument one more little thing one more time for you to get on his nerves one more something to be like all right that's it like why would you even why would you tell me in the middle of an argument that you brought an engagement ring to Italy, but you're not going to give it to me. like I want to break up when we've been having conversations about marriage and kids and you know that I finally got diagnosed with OCD you know I just started my meds and so like I said I did have to look it up because I only know the basics about OCD and apparently demanding reassurance is one of the symptoms or it can be of the compulsion so I'm sure that you know y'all have been together for four years your boyfriend has probably dealt with a lot of undesirable stuff in that regard um the same way you probably also have like you said y'all have been through trials and up and down and through all kinds of bullshit together it may be that he's tired of providing reassurance which happens because providing the reassurance is never enough if it was you wouldn't keep asking for it um right so I get being tired of it fed up at your limit however how fucking ever that is not an excuse to leave your significant other in another country spur of the moment because you don't want to have to answer no more questions or or bids for reassurance like at the very least we can have this argument you know maybe things maybe we don't solve it tonight but we're gonna go to bed and approach it again in the morning after we've all had some sleep and some water like right this I agree with Ken Fury it sounds like he had one foot out the door and just didn't know how to break up with you and so pick the worst possible way to do it I would be interested in knowing what his diagnoses are because thank you who does this who does that yikes yeah call that worst case scenario we're gonna have a very long and very quiet flight back home right right right it's gonna be an awkward half a day bitch or whatever because we sit right next to each other yeah but I'm not gonna leave you in another continent right right because I'm in my four years yeah yeah , right four years you know how passionate I am about us taking the next step and having a family and you gonna cut it off because of a symptom of my OCD and then also be like well I was gonna propose in this romantic ass city but you'd be asking me too many questions so never mind that's evil like that is a diabolical thing to do to somebody that is a man who does not want to work it out with you and I really hate to say that because I know you care deeply for him and it it probably feels extra shitty like why would you leave as soon as I started getting help like disgusting as soon as I start feeling better I start you know because I know even with ADHD the difference between me on meds and me off of meds that bitch who's on her ADHD meds is the ideal me that bitch is amazing she can focus she gets shit done she's efficient like I I love that girl but uh so yes I I when you said you know once you're on medication it feels like a whole new world I got that immediately so it can really feel like wow I finally am getting you know starting the process of really getting my shit together and now is when you leave that is hurtful that's painful you know I'm not gonna leave you know I'm not gonna leave you know I'm not gonna leave you but people are allowed to break up with us it's the way that he chose to break up with you that is so shitty here exactly and that is what that is why I said I don't even feel like you should be trying to save this relationship please let that man go please let that man go if he'll disrespect you like this and and and pour salt in the wound by being like oh I was gonna propose but never mind you weird bitch and then leave you in Italy girl please let that man go he has to get out your life I'm so sorry but that is garbage behavior my family would have took a cut list to his front door like I'm calling my daddy and my cousins in them and they going over to the house first of all to make sure you don't take none of my shit and secondly to beat your ass how you just gonna leave my daughter cousin sister whatever in a fucking a whole nother goddamn country because we had saying child. Ain't no way while you over there pull up your email and email or text your your mental health provider and be like s o s bitch we so sorry we have to talk asap because this is insane but um stay on your meds do your best to still take care of yourself but yeah I I see why it feels like the earth is opening up and swallowing you because this came out of nowhere like how okay all right I think a big part of the reason why I'm so sorry is because I'm so sorry I'm so sorry I'm so sorry why you want the relationship or or whatever you still dialed in is it doesn't i would say it doesn't have as much to do with this nigga as much as it does the potential that you saw in having this thing that you want and you feeling the like biological countdown of i want baby i want baby so i feel like you're probably speaking for you here but i feel like you you're probably more heartbroken over what you feel like that could have been than losing that person in general because coming up for air you have to recognize that that person does not belong in your life at all and sometimes when we acknowledge our mental health and make you feel like you're probably more heartbroken over what you feel like that could have been uh steps towards changing it and adjusting it just shakes the shit out of people maybe it's like oh shit i i know or been knowing i needed to address my mental health and probably take meds too but i don't want to or i'm not comfortable with it or whatever and you doing all this work and talking about it just triggers me and makes me feel uncomfortable and so i want to get out here but i'm gonna be a bitch and just not say like how i feel and sometimes it you know it the stigma stigma of it sometimes just warps the way that people look at you you just have to kind of get you have to acknowledge that some people are incapable of properly handling or respecting our our health and our like journey to treatment recovery things of that nature you don't need anybody around you especially now that you're learning more and doing more and trying more you need people around you who are going to be ears open you know mouth shut often like and heart in the right place that was one of the most selfish backwards ridiculous disgusting thing like like we keep saying even if you break up with me for whatever yes you have the right to do that yeah you could have sat your ass on this motherfucking flight even if we don't wake up the next day you know what i mean and go get some breakfast and talk it over and smooth it over you could have sat your ass on this plane and shut the fuck up leaving me in another country in the middle of the night it's so disrespectful you don't give a shit about me or what happens to me baby you can't be that mad like you cannot be that mad at me bro i get it was annoying but god damn you left the continent no way you're going to that chris brown tour i could tell ariel i'm wishing you the best in in managing this but i think once you get past the heartache you are going to be better off yeah especially since you're going in the right direction now sometimes you start moving in the right direction and the people who not meant to come with you just start falling away they just don't that could be that could be it as well but yeah you're gonna have to allow yourself the space and time to grieve but please do not contact this man or say anything about trying to get him back because i baby you have been disrespected in a fundamental way that is inexcusable as far as i'm concerned inexcusable um but good luck to you yes i'm sorry it does suck um okay our last letter comes from fiona who says dear chris link if you're i'm a long-time listener and i really need your advice my fiance and i've been together for four years oh and he has always been into watching and thinking about me sleeping with other men okay when we first got together i hooked up with one of my old flings and he let me record it so that my partner could watch since then this fantasy of me being with other men has taken over our sex life anytime we talk dirty in bed or send spicy messages it's always about that he always asks me to tell him the stories about my previous partners and when i ran out of real stories i started thinking up fake ones with various different scenarios the problem is that this does not turn me on and i don't really like talking about sex that i've had with other partners because i would rather leave all them niggas in the past the work i'm not one to kink shame so i play into the fantasy for him but it's come to the point where it seems like this is the only thing that turns him on and he always finds a way to work it into conversations i'm not the best at dirty talk and when we're intimate he puts me on the spot and asks me to tell him a story about me and someone else then he gets upset when i can't come up with anything it's gotten to the point where now i'm getting turned off i suggested we incorporate talking about the two of us to get in the mood but he got frustrated and said i just won't bring up my fantasy anymore which we both know is a lie i don't know what to do about this situation i did have a therapist but the copay with my new job is too expensive right now especially since we're saving for the wedding i feel like i don't have anyone to talk to about this please help thanks fiona wow well i forgot y'all was engaged till you said the one right right right Yeah i will say this right i i don't even think that the fantasy or kink here is a wild one full stop i it sounds like he's taking it to wild places two things i don't think it is kink shaming to tell someone who you are exploring the kink with that you don't want to do it if you're not turned on by the the king partake partaking in it and you're now turned off by it that's something to communicate because there's nothing wrong with it you know what i'm saying if yeah if he liked your toes and you just didn't see anything you can completely be like this doesn't do anything for me and in fact it makes me uncomfortable it is a popular game but i don't think that you're shaming this person by saying i don't want to go there with my sexuality i get it is cool we've even had some fun there but oh god once it gets to the point where now we can't have good sex or finish are we arguing mid-sex because the fantasy isn't there or i'm not like bitch i'm coming over here and i'm not up i'm making fake niggas up and fake sexual uh right experiences uh for you okay i'm not a freestyle writer what do you i'm not a slam poet what do you fucking want what do you and i don't want to do this no more right um so here's this is one of those things where it does get more complicated than you know who wants to watch what bravo or sports center stars or whatever sex is a big one sexual satisfaction in a relationship is a big one so that is something i would think you're probably going to have to sit down and like have a serious conversation with to start and then from there if you need to to talk to someone together maybe a couple's therapist there's also uh sex therapists or people who handle you know that it's specific sure i who you can uh talk to probably separately maybe together i'm sure you could do both um to kind of get down to the root of these different kinks or lack thereof and how to address it because i can't imagine that every relationship like this where someone has one thing they really like to do in bed the other one doesn't i'm sure that those aren't a huge red flag and you know sign of the end of the relationship but you continuing to do this or take part in this fantasy of his that you don't like is going will lead to relation to resentment arguments which just sound like i'll argue with i already have in yeah it does put a sourness on it to the point where okay now i don't want to fuck this man at all now i'm outside i mean i guess it's okay for you to be outside he would love for you to be outside yeah that's what he sounds like he's looking for but it will ultimately put a strain on your relationship in and out of the bedroom right so i think for for that reason alone i would sit down and be like listen i'm not even judging you for it fully i'm judging how far we're taking it like you're getting mad at me while you're inside me because i can't think of something else to make up in this malik story right he's not real this didn't happen can you just finish oh god like when you don't mean now it's not just hurry up do your business yuck i guess you feel like you don't have anyone else to talk to about this but i feel like you can talk to a professional uh about it maybe well they're saving money for the wedding all right and so that's why i'm like i i would say first of all do not marry this man until y'all have this figured out oh yeah oh yeah for sure yeah i would stop saving for the wedding and put that towards a wedding because this like if he said this is a very common kink um the issue is that y'all seem to be incompatible with it as far as like not only does it not turn you on that would be one hurdle but he seems to require it yeah for sexual gratification which i mean if he was with somebody who loved doing that then that would not be a problem at all but you don't and it's not like you know toes where you could just be like okay i don't know why you like feet but y'all lay back and let you lick on my big toe like okay that's you know that's your life that's what you like to do but this is you know this is requiring you to put effort into right this is requiring you to put stuff into it you like nigga i'm not even telling the truth no more like how many partners do you think i have you think i have enough stories to satisfy you sexually for decades i don't am i supposed to just be regularly out here fucking other men so that you can hide in the closet and watch or i tell you about it in great detail like can we just read eric jerome dickie so yes a um if you can find a couples counselor who's also certified sex therapist that would be huge that might be that might be a real shot in the dark but um i it may be that the two of you are just sexually incompatible could be it could be that uh because if he again there's no there's not necessarily anything wrong with it just sounds like he needs it and you don't like it that's why it's too like yikes you got problems on both ends here and like you said there there seems to be no break it's like right every time we sexed every time we have sex together it has to be incorporated somewhere yeah it's coming up in non-sexual conversations like bro i'm i'm literally asking you about orange juice why is the orange juice two dollars higher than it was last week are you like two dollars worth of dick in your ass or whatever like whoa whoa whoa like every time every time does he know that you're making shit up to try to satisfy him he might not even know he might not know that you're probably coming up with fan fiction right to try to satisfy him so i mean i would if a therapist is really just not in the cards i would try to you know sit down and have a real conversation outside of a sexual context if he's capable of not being in a sexual mind and just be like you know i feel like you know the what's it called the cuck stuff like yeah okay it's it's fun or whatever like it was cutesy but it it is it's feeling like too much for me like it doesn't turn me on not it's too much for me but i don't enjoy it so what can we come up with here like is there a middle ground we can come to where like i i i fuck somebody else once a month and tell you about it and you get your rocks off that way or like is there a compromise that we can come to but you need to be honest with yourself and you need to be honest with yourself and you need to be honest with him about the fact that you don't like it you've been doing it even though you don't want to yeah i think it's time to it's time to cut that out it's time it's time to cut that out the fact that like okay never mind because i don't want to judge but yeah start there and definitely 100 no matter what you do do not marry this man until y'all have this figured out one thousand percent couldn't agree um yes best of luck fiona i hope y'all are able to come into a healthy middle ground, but if not, hey, billions niggas in this world all right that's all that wifey shit is dead it's summer baby it's summer it's the hottest of all ah you want a stiff bitch or one with some motion anyways that is going to wrap up the letters this week if you have a question for us send us an email asktherita gmail.com we'll be right back and we're back folks it's time now for the read i'll begin because mine is very very short yeah same summer games fest is this friday in los angeles i've always wanted to go chris will just so you know summer games fest is similar to the state of play thing that that letter person because you know i don't know so it's just it's a big long-term thing and i'm going to be right back live event um state of play wasn't like state of play for playstation nintendo direct they usually just do like pre-recorded like trailers and announcements and stuff summer games fest is like a live show where this guy jeff keeley comes out it's like a it's like the big gaming showcase that takes place every summer where they announce new things they show what's coming up they show trailers demos coming out all that i've always wanted to go and uh yeah it's this friday in los angeles and i was like oh shit i should see if i can go and get like some tickets so i googled tickets the first thing that comes up is step up so i went to step up reselling tickets in the mezzanine two thousand no way dollars plus no way in the fucking world matter of fact the closest seat was in the mezzanine was five thousand dollars nope there is no way i was like so is beyonce in a video game this year is she going to be there with her children announcing their fucking what in the world girl is she voicing in the new sonic like absolutely she is act three of video game like what the fuck are you talking about but then i went to the official summer games fs website found my way over to ticketmaster reselling same ticket same area two hundred dollars so what's the truth what is the truth what's going how right i'm so all that to say the third party ticket reseller things the third party ticket sites front and all of the reselling shit wow i know it's rough out here but you ain't making it anything any easier thousands of dollars to go and sit down and maybe see grand theft auto six or something are you cool no it's a video game show even me the video game princess i looked it up tickets i was like girl not when i could stream it at home right i know times are hard but you bitches have lost it there's no way in the world it's no way no way i was i had to look it up over and over and over and i went to like numerous other places to make sure that i wasn't crazy or there was like a pre party or an after party or something i don't know what's going on but i know it's it's shit like that it's concerts obviously it's pretty much any live thing you know especially ones that are like in high demand the girls go grab the grab those tickets first in line and then try to sell it back to you for your whole savings girl eat my titties eat my titties not to mention i'm like if i wanted to go there for the first time and likely the last time even if i had a blast i want to sit nice and i want to be in a nice little section anyway but what would you would you want link would you want my child and a sample of blood for me to sit down yes actually they would indeed plus two thousand dollars give me give me your dog and 2k and your dna because we will be cloning you thank you so much i didn't even pay five thousand like to go and see the queen and sit up front and that's really it and that's that's the first and the last of it you could have said that from the beginning why would i ever if i wouldn't pay it to see beyonce and blue ivy why in the hell would i pay it to see a video game whatever y'all do it the presentation whatever it is bitch are you joking is beyonce here right no lost that's really it the ticket reselling game is it is wild it's almost as wild as y'all going down to target or walmart or whatever and punching each other in the clavicle to get pokemon cards and resell them shits for thousands of dollars yeah that's wild oh yeah that's wild i saw the stores are starting to do shit to the packages because people are being crazy about that like full-on fighting y'all over over pokemon cards y'all over pokemon cards y'all over pokemon cards well i'm fine y'all are not well yeah y'all are not well wild i'm done well i do have a silly one but i'll save it for after the more serious one which is the case of a 14 year old cyrus carmack belton if you didn't hear about this um in 2023 cyrus who was a 14 year old um black boy was killed by a man named rick chow rick chow thought that cyrus was stealing bottles of water out of his convenience store um cyrus was not he and his 20 year old son chased cyrus 130 yards outside of the store and then shot him in the back and killed him um that was in 2023 and this past week a jury found a man named rick chow who was a 14 year old man who was a 14 year old man who was a 14 year old rick chow not guilty in that fatal shooting and so he will now um i guess go about his life like he didn't gun down an innocent teenage boy yes and they so they claim that cyrus um pointed a gun the man rick said that cyrus pointed a gun at his 20 year old son nobody else in the store none of the witnesses say that they saw him point a gun did have a gun on him it fell out of him out of his pocket i think when he tripped and fell as he was running away from them so it all just goes back to the fact that like i don't think you were really worried about your life or felt like your life or your son's life was in danger if y'all chased this boy 130 fucking yards away from your store and then shot him in the back consistent with someone running away like yeah you just had every reason to not kill someone you did it anyway so yeah um this does that he wasn't stealing water and even if he was if a person is stealing water water which maybe y'all don't know this is a necessary resource we literally cannot live more than a few days without it yeah you know this is this is not boosie stealing snacks this is if if he was stealing water which he wasn't i think i would just be impressed that a teenager was voluntarily drinking water thanks or i would assume he was stealing it so that he could go fix a younger sibling's bottles or some shit like but that's if he was stealing water which he wasn't y'all said he pulled you said he pulled a gun on your son nobody in the store saw this that's interesting the lawyer was like only the only people who say that cyrus pulled a gun are people with the last name chow nobody else it's almost like when he tripped and fell y'all saw the gun fall out of his pocket and you were like oh well we're gonna get away with this yeah you've had some issues with shoplifting okay unfortunately that happens when you have a retail store in times in america like unfortunately you do sometimes have you're sometimes shoplifted from um however this boy wasn't stealing and taking his life a 14 year old's life why he had a gun i don't know but it's also it doesn't seem to be relevant to the story because y'all's lives weren't in any danger nobody else says that a gun was pointed um in the store you mean to tell me he was running away from y'all and then pointing the gun to the back to the store and then he was like oh my god i don't know why he had a gun i don't know why he had a gun he was pointing the gun at the back of himself while he was also running away but didn't fire any but didn't fire it at all like come on come on it's almost like you knew you could get away with it and yeah i don't want to start at asians versus blacks thing um i don't want to but i might because there is a a history of certain communities um certain immigrants asian and others coming to america and immediately signing up for the white supremacy 2 package where you don't get to be white but you get to be close enough as long as you hate niggas and i grew up in miami so you know all about it word this man rick chow is from hong kong he is a u.s citizen now he's obviously been able to um make a life for himself here that's all fine and good killing a teenager for no apparent goddamn reason and then getting away with it you like you you this was 2023 you went to trial you this this played out they the jury saw the you know because i'm thinking when they said oh he pulled a gun i said oh run the fucking tape because one thing i know about every convenience store the cctv is on okay the cameras are running so nobody sees this child pull a gun and yet y'all decide to say and again chasing him 130 yards outside the fucking store it's like hmm it almost feels like y'all did this on purpose it almost feels like this was incredibly deliberate i can't believe you were acquitted for this the the family the film don't look it up but the family reactions in the courtroom were just heartbreaking because like imagine your 14 year old didn't do nothing wrong like didn't actually okay and then you're like oh my god i'm so sorry i'm so sorry i'm anyway um i'm very tired of the the disregard for black lives and even though it's like yes this is columbia south carolina it's not like i expect too much more out of south carolina or any other u.s state like this could have happened in new york city and i wouldn't have been shocked it's just how do 12 grown people review this information and say yeah this man shouldn't go to prison that's really where i think that's really where i get stuck because the boy didn't steal nothing we have no evidence showing that any either one of you that your lives or your health or safety were in danger at any point how did y'all reach the conclusion that this man should suffer zero consequences for what he did of course the family is filing a civil lawsuit so we'll see if sir chow is even able to keep his uh store open i did see that a bunch of people looted it immediately after the shooting which i said work niggas right you um you probably won't be able to keep that story anyway right y'all probably gonna have to go ahead and shut that shit down but i hope it's because you ended up having to give all your money to this little boy's family because what do you mean you shot a kid running away who didn't even steal nothing and even if he did steal a bottle of water would how is the response to that i'm going to shoot him and that's fine because you know that when it comes right down to it you're probably not going to be held accountable for that this is america and you can kill young black people if you want to yeah so um rest in peace young man i this they were showing pictures of him in court oh my heart broke like i just god this poor family i can't imagine to be to deal with losing your son like this and then to have the man who did it be completely acquitted like it was just such bullshit um but another day in america now on to something that doesn't really matter new york new york city hmm you slurs um the new york knicks are in the nba finals they will be playing the san antonio spurs i do not want to talk about what happened between the spurs and the thunder it still hurts right i don't know i'm wonderful um however new york city is on one right now the niggas have never been happier and i mean the men are walking with a lightness in their step they have a joy in their eyes they buying drinks at the bar for everybody like they they are happy they're generous because their knicks are back in the finals for the first time like this century that's fine i have been a resident of new york city for 14 years i have been wearing oklahoma city thunder paraphernalia for those entire 14 years it has never been an issue until now why did tsa at la guardia stop me when i had on a thunder shirt last week tsa stopped me and said oh you're trying to get tarred and feathered up in here i said i know i know you are not coming for me right now a nigga at the bar got into an argument with me a man on the street saw me in a thunder shirt and was like not that shit everybody calm down okay whoa whoa whoa whoa how did we get here you niggas i have been wearing this shit for 14 years y'all have not said nothing in those entire 14 years i got a whole nother line of merch after we won the chip last year i've been wearing that shit on a regular basis y'all have not said nothing your team finally made it to the finals and now everybody is a real knicks fan and got something to say and go back to being quiet like you were six months ago why the fuck are you even talking to me be happy y'all made it like just be happy y'all made it i will be rooting for the knicks because number one the spurs beat my team number two i am a new yorker the city is happy you know it feels like it feels like the mom donnie wave is continuing if the knicks win this goddamn championship new york city is going to explode stay inside i already know it is going to be this city is going to melt down it's like i'm almost scared i'm almost scared i'm brutally fascinated baby they won the eastern conference championship and nypd was like oh my god they had to they had to cut off the watch parties at the garden because well i don't know if they had to but it's kind of like you know come on knicks fans have not had a reason to be happy in decades you know let them enjoy this especially because i don't know what the odds are against the spurs but that nigga wimby ain't nothing to fuck around with so don't know how long the joy is gonna last i am rooting for y'all at this point but me and my thunder merchandise i had already decided if the thunder made it to the finals i was not even gonna go to the garden i was not even gonna go i said me and my little sga jersey trying to go down there i'm gonna be i'm going to be assaulted like i'm not going on top of the fact that the nosebleeds are 2500 a seat it's no way it's no way i had already decided but now that the thunder not even in it i'm still wearing my thunder shit and y'all better leave me the fuck alone okay i ain't said nothing in all these years i have not teased knicks fit well other than last year even i've done that last year when the pacers when um halliburton hit that night night on y'all ass that was crazy but other than that i have left knicks fans alone i will ask that you do the same with me okay baby go new york go new york go or whatever the fuck y'all be saying but um the the the temporary fanhood leave me out of it because again it's been 14 years and you niggas have been y'all have been playing the mute challenge for 14 years every time you seen me in a thunder shirt don't pipe up now with your fake fan asses remind me of jennifer lewis and dirty laundry when she was like you smell of yourself today okay and they are and they are and i get it but leave me out of it tsa man yeah that's wild i said bro at the airport at the airport like what if i lived in oklahoma and i was just in new york and traveling back home like yeah he was like nah you're trying to get tarred and feathered at the tsa i'm trying to put my shoes back on i'm trying to smuggle these uh these weed gummies through this bitch excuse me bro brother. You approached me and I got nervous. You're talking about sports. Right. So now I'm raising my voice. I said, oh my God, 14 years in this city and here y'all go running. Because this, that was really the cherry on top. It had been like three-fold niggas saying something to me on the street. You know, I just ignore men on the street. Yeah. In the club or whatever. Right. TSA, I said, all right, that is actually, I'm fed up. Y'all came. Quietly, I don't even like y'all. So let's just all. Y'all came crawling out of the concrete. Y'all are. Because this team finally gave you a shred of hope. Like, you know, just enjoy your happiness. Okay. I'm not going to wear no thunder shit during this final season. I'll let y'all have that. But girl, y'all not. And you know why New York is not real fans? Because they got other shit to do. Because they have other shit to do. You can't go to Oklahoma City wearing Knicks shit for 14 years and be left alone. Somebody going to ask you why the fuck you got that on. But that's because the thunder is the main attraction in Oklahoma City. New York has got too much other shit to do. So they don't really care. So, yeah, I just, I couldn't believe TSA actually came for me. Like, bro, bro. That's wild. Let me live, nigga. Come on. But yeah, go, you know, Knicks in five or whatever. And I think that will wrap up this week's episode of The Read. Check us out on social media at This Is The Read. Our website is thisistheread.com. Thank you so much to Lex P. and Drea of Poor Minds for joining me this week on Crystal's Couch. What a fun conversation we had. You can find that on all your podcasting platforms and YouTube to check it out. Check out that conversation. I love their podcast. They are, I mean, they just country as shit, too. Boy, we just got to yapping. I said, Lord, it's like being back at home. But yes, any other announcements from you, Mr. Black Excellence? 20 years. Congratulations. 20 years of kid furry. Speaking of furry, I would like to shout out my daughter, Link. She has official merch. Oh, Lord. Brand new Link plushies available now. Oh, my God. It's probably my favorite piece of merch that I've I've made or had so far. Worked really hard on it with an amazing company. You can go over to kidfury.com slash merch and grab one for yourself. Now Link gets to be everywhere. My baby. That's so cute. That's so cute. Also, you can go to youtube.com slash kidfuryTV. Check out episodes of Furious Thoughts, the podcast. You can also listen to it on all your podcast platforms. And you can join me at patreon.com slash kidfury if you would like more of me. We've got playlists over there. We've got monthly live streams over there. We've got shenanigans over there. I think that is it in a nutshell. By the time this comes out, my live show would have happened. So thank you to everybody who came out to the live show. Appreciate y'all. It's Kid Fury's birthday today. Go get drunk. Break up with a nigga. Break up with him in the middle of the night. It's hot girl summer. The YFU should just do it. We're going to be outside with our titties soaked. And that's really what I'm ushering in. So I think that's it for me. Amen. Amen. Take care of yourselves, y'all. We will see you next week. Thank you.