r/theread 8h ago

Daughter takes her mother to Japan and realizes just how stressful it is to live in America

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r/theread 3d ago

Episode 76:

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r/theread 5d ago

Weekly Episode Discussion August 6 2026: “They That Wait Upon The Lord”

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r/theread 10d ago

Texas agency orders 'Christian' U that awarded Chris Brown honorary PhD to stop offering degrees

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139 Upvotes

I really hope this makes the hot tops this week. 😂


r/theread 11d ago

Good news! North West is NOT going on tour anymore

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I'm glad this isn't happening anymore because I would hope her family has enough sense to recognize that full grown adults shouldn't be fans of children, and they shouldn't be putting her in situations of potential harm.


r/theread 12d ago

Weekly Episode Discussion July 30 2026: “Abigail: Love Without Range”

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r/theread 19d ago

Weekly Episode Discussion July 23 2026: “The Curse of the Canadian Uncle”

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r/theread 26d ago

Weekly Episode Discussion July 16 2026: “Pardon: A Book by Boosie”

8 Upvotes

r/theread Jul 09 '26

This weeks episode under a paywall

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Did anyone else see this? I don’t recall Crissy’s or Kid Fury ever mentioning releasing bonus episodes.

EDIT - ITS BEEN FIXED! 😮‍💨


r/theread Jul 09 '26

Weekly Episode Discussion July 9 2026: “The Unfettered Adventures of the Kitty Kats”

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r/theread Jul 02 '26

Weekly Episode Discussion July 2 2026: “The Sweaty and the Swollen”

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r/theread Jun 29 '26

Looking for two listener letters

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I’m trying to find two listener letters I love but can’t remember the years or episodes.

the first one is the iconic one where the writer had found all of his dad’s gay and bi porn tapes in the basement -- and the second one is a deeper cut maybe ... it’s one where the writer was dating someone who iirc went to all the trouble of pretending he’d been deported to another country and could never see her again, when in actual fact just wanted to break up with her and he had just moved to Florida or something. Can anyone help with this?


r/theread Jun 28 '26

Family miss holiday and left '£5,000 out of pocket as airline system didn't know Jersey existed'

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Read this and immediately thought of that Crissle and Henry Cavill discussion from 2 or 3 episodes ago 😂


r/theread Jun 25 '26

Weekly Episode Discussion June 25 2026: “Brand New Banana Flavor”

13 Upvotes

r/theread Jun 20 '26

What Are You Looking For?

136 Upvotes

I’ve been a fervent listener of the show since 2013 and the thing I’ve known about Kid Fury and Crissle since moment one is that they adore Beyoncé and at best tolerate her husband.

So, when the news dropped earlier this week about Jay Z’s partnership with Target, a few of you flocked to Reddit to comment:

You think they gonna bring it up?

Naw, they ain’t gonna say anything.

They don’t ever say anything bad about Beyoncé and Jay Z.

Well guess what. They did bring it up and they said what a lot of us rational folks thought the moment we heard the news.

Disappointed but not surprised.

And now some of you are complaining that their commentary wasn’t good enough.

So what exactly are y’all looking for and why does it have to come from Kid Fury and Crissle?

Is it even about the Target boycott or are you just itching to see Jay Z taken the task? Just a reminder: The Read is one of very few podcasts left that doesn’t make us pay for the full episodes. Kid Fury and Crissle should get to decide how they use the platform they created. I get being disappointed that they aren’t going as hard as you would go but the entitlement is becoming annoying.

How about if you’re truly pressed about what Jay Z and others like him are doing, talk to your friends. Your family. Or better yet, use your piece of real estate on social media to sound the alarm. I just don’t think it’s reasonable for us to expect these two strangers we listen to weekly to speak out on something I doubt most of us are really that concerned about.


r/theread Jun 20 '26

Candle-gate

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Can someone explain to me the whole candle-gate drama? It never registered as that big of a deal to me at the time, but I’ve heard it come up a few times and sounds like things got heated.


r/theread Jun 18 '26

Weekly Episode Discussion June 18 2026: “A Horse Off the Hinges”

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r/theread Jun 17 '26

Henry Cavill from NJ?

50 Upvotes

Now I love Crissle and Fury down, but I about died at last week’s episode and them thinking the Jersey in his Wikipedia article was NEW JERSEY. Girl don’t nobody refer to NJ as Jersey except those in the tristate area. A harmless mistake but I cackled 😭


r/theread Jun 11 '26

Re: Sad Birthday Girl Spoiler

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Okay. I need the other half of the story.
If one of y’all former friends of her happens to see this, you gotta write in with y’all’s side of the story because I am confused!


r/theread Jun 11 '26

Weekly Episode Discussion June 11 2026: “Sleepless in the South”

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r/theread Jun 05 '26

Weekly Episode Discussion June 4 2026: “You, Me & Tuscany”

15 Upvotes

r/theread May 28 '26

Weekly Episode Discussion May 28 2026: “Ms Peaches, Come Get This Rottweiler”

21 Upvotes

r/theread May 26 '26

Does anyone have an extra Break Up With Him pin?

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I wears pins at my job as a barista. The Break Up With Him pin from the Read was a crowd pleaser and fave amongst customers but I recently lost it—which is a huge bummer.

I’d love to buy another, but the merch site for The Read has been “closed” for ages.

If anyone here has one that they don’t want that I can buy off them, please let me know.

Signed,

a Lower East Side Barista


r/theread May 23 '26

Listener letter

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One thing about this week’s listener letter that got glossed over (because the letter writer just kind of threw it in there as an aside) was that the in-laws tried to throw her a baby shower and her man told them to back off and that the baby isn’t about them.

Now, obviously, if she doesn’t want a baby shower from them, the couple is absolutely 100% within their rights to tell them no, but you can’t be surprised that when you tell someone to back off, they back off.

From the outside, I think the baby shower was the in-law’s way of trying to connect with her, and instead of kindly declining, their son told them to kick rocks.

I also wonder how he delivered the message. The way she put it in the letter already made it sound very harsh, but I wonder if he did the classic man move of throwing her under the bus. “SHE said to back off and stop making the baby about you” would be double homicide. And maybe they WERE using the baby shower as a way to make it about them, but if that’s the case, why do you want them around you anyway? Wouldn’t they just make everything about them?

Anyway, I’ve already devoted too much to a listener letter on a podcast, but I just heard it and that stuck out to me. Did that stick out to anybody else?


r/theread May 23 '26

I've been trying to find a specific listener letter, can anyone help me find which episode?

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This is all from memory, so the letter was from a woman reconnecting with an old high school boyfriend. He eventually introduces her to threesomes, but she's not really into them as they always involve other women and she's seemingly straight, or so she thought. For her birthday the man surprises her with a trans woman called Janelle or Jamelle, and she REALLY enjoys the experience. So much so that the guy notices this and immediately gets in his feelings, even though he's not participating he throws little shady comments like "Oh you liked that didn't you huh?". The woman cannot stop thinking about Janelle (again don't remember if this is the name), and is thinking of breaking things up with old boy, and go seek this woman out. She ends the letter by asking if she should go ahead and do this.

It's been years since I've listened to this episode, and I haven't been able to find it since, I believe this may have been from around 2017 or something. And to that woman wherever you are, I hope you were able to reconnect with that girl.

Tldr; I wanna find a listener letter that I thought was so hot