One listen to “The Read” will have you in tears, wondering why you hadn’t listened to it before.
It’s a fun, slightly raunchy, expletive-filled, brutally honest podcast that doubles as a safe space for black people hosted by Kid Fury and Crissle.
The duo have come a long way since Fury, then of viral YouTube popularity, approached his like-minded friend whom he met and bonded with on Twitter to co-host a podcast with him.
“We can just go in the studio, we do one episode, it’s no big deal. You don’t ever have to do it again if you don’t want to,” Crissle, who also had a sizable online influence then, recalled Fury’s pitch to her in a 2013 interview with the Washington Post.
Lucky for their listeners, they didn’t stop at just one. Since “The Read” launched in 2013, the’ve recorded hundreds of episodes, hosted dozens of sold-out shows and read to filth plenty of deserving targets. And plenty have latched on as avid listeners. On July 8, the duo will take…
