In 2011, Kid Fury met future collaborator Crissle West, who later moved to New York City in 2013. Chris Morrow approached Fury about doing a podcast with Morrow's then-startup podcasting company, the Loud Speakers Network. Fury asked West to join him and they named the podcast The Read. As of January 2019, The Read was averaging 400,000 listeners per episode. In 2019, the podcast's television adaptation, The Read with Kid Fury and Crissle West, premiered on Fuse.