MESS with Sydnee Washington & Marie Faustin - I got 15 Minutes

Episode Date: June 26, 2025

This week Sydnee and Marie are solo -- chatting Hard 75 MESS! Sydnee is just over a week in, will she make it??  Don’t forget to write in your messy stories at [e-mail], or call in at [phone] to have your MESSages read live on air! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

you're listening to mess you know what my mess is just up top okay i forgot my headphones at home yeah on the train struggling no book no bible of salvation you have been reading marie because of you oh stop it We gotta get the words to these songs. Nah, nah, nah, nah. We're not paying extra for that. Well, I don't know if the listeners know this, but Marie is in solidarity of Heart 75.

She's not doing hard. Doing like a medium, a mild 75. You're doing a shmedium. Shmedium. Yeah, and what does that entail? So I have to read 10 pages of a book every day. Okay. I have to walk 10,000 steps a day.

I can have one cheap meal or alcoholic beverage a week. How's that going? Oh, I only had like three. In solidarity. In solidarity. That's enough. Solidarity. That's enough.

Solidarianas. Yeah. And then there's some other stuff that I'm supposed to do, but it's definitely not as. Oh, and I have to drink two liters or a liter of water or something like that? Not a gallon. What's a liter of water? A liter is like a thing of soda is two liters. Oh, okay.

So the smaller. The half. The half. Okay. You do that anyway. Exactly. You're very moisturized. Thank you.

You know. The wettest friend I know. Drip, drip. Soak it away. She lick it. Soak it away. Shake it like a salt shaker. We know the worst of that.

Yeah, we do. Iconic. Okay, so, Marie, we have so much. There's just so, I can't believe, we're going to need more than an hour. Ooh, let's talk. Yeah. Okay, so the Tonys were this past weekend, right? And I was invited, you know, to sit on some people's laps.

No, I was invited to sit in the balcony. I was like, hi, George Clooney. um casamigos and um he was there i didn't know he has a listen i'm not really a broadway girly like that like i don't know people's names i don't know who's up for what i know that i was given two free tickets to see a broadway show and i wanted to see death becomes her and i was going to bring sydney with me i was very excited about oh we were like oh it's camp it's funny it's supposed to be like a good time and michelle williams was going to be there no that's not michelle williams the original michelle that's only michelle williams i know yeah she she wasn't

gonna be there that day oh yeah well maybe it's better that yeah we were supposed to go to the we were supposed to go to the broadway 2 p.m on saturday now um both of us wake up wake up and run out of our apartments and don't really eat nothing no sydney had a thing a gig before early at noon which is crazy on a saturday right and it was raining pouring oh my god no umbrella no oh Oh, was not dressed for it. Well, I wasn't dressed for it. Sidney had her knees out. She had a light denim jacket on.

Sidney was dressed, but undressed. I was dressed for the Broadway. I was like, let me step out. I had my knee-high boots on. Girl, I don't know if you see how the white people be pulling up to Broadway, but they be showing up in their regular degulas. And I ain't them. I ain't them.

And I'm not bringing my Skechers to Broadway. Skechers? That's what they be wearing. Well, girl. They be wearing the platform, the lift, the lift sketchboard. The workout ones. Yes. Shape ups.

So at the time that Sydney's at her thing, it's the same 12 p.m. for me. And I look at the email for the information of where we going. We have tickets for Sunset Boulevard. That's a completely different show. We weren't ready for that. I wanted bright, fun. Sunset Boulevard, they said, is no set design. It's all black.

They have a fog machine. Everybody wears all black. and they don't they don't even have no shoes on when no no it's just very bare very bare bones right and when i when i go see a broadway show i want to see broadway set design i want to see broadway wardrobe i want to see broadway level you know what i'm saying so i'm disappointed but i'm texting sydney like girl let me see if i could change this these tickets i can't no so last sydney's like what did you say you texted me i said hey girl are we gonna have enough time to get there it's already 1 30 sydney said it says you're still at the house you were like i'm leaving

i'm i'm i'm leaving out the door i was like you're still and she was still there at like 137 damn near 140 you live in brooklyn you need to get to midtown i got on the train at 138 i mean it was i still was too late but sydney clocking my location in real time because i was like it's foreign i was like i know this bitch is not i know she's nowhere near where she needs to be wasn't and wasn't so but hungry all the way into the city yeah i'm like well my it says my eta is 210 sydney was supposed to be there like 205 so we get there the closer we get there the hungrier i am and the more i don't want to go see this play no i was going to be there on time but it was torrential downpours and then they're having like a a festival a food festival

in the rain so it's blocking like the way to like get the car to time square so it was like are we stuck yeah so how you were oh but you took the train i was on the train yeah um and your phone was at like one three percent and my driver did not have a cord miss he was like you got an android sir that's not my first choice that's never our first choice apple products only yeah but also it's not even that if you if you're an uber driver you gotta have a couple different cords you gotta have at least one apple and one android and like if you have the apple everybody don't have the new the new apple the new iphone he said i'm not doing all that he said i got the android if y'all got that then you good he said i got what i got yep that's it and he didn't he didn't

have no qualms about it and then girl tell me why his his roof was leaking i don't like that It was terrible. I was like, I can't believe this is happening. But of course this is happening. And so I was like, Marie, I'm on 1%. I'm going to McDonald's. Meet me at McDonald's. That's a safe landmark.

But is it? No. Why did you pick McDonald's? Because that's where I was in front of. Because you wanted some fries. No, Marie. Did you get fries or not? I did get fries.

I did get fries. And you needed to what? Pee. Pee. Nobody had a charge in there. I asked a few. Yeah, McDonald's. People had toothbrush and toothpaste to brush their teeth in the bathroom,

but they had no chargers. People brushing their teeth at the sink in McDonald's, that feels like McDonald's to me, though. It does feel on brand. Yeah. But it's also like, what? Meanwhile, she brushed her teeth sucking on an orange soda right afterwards. It's like, what's the point?

You might as well just have kept it going. Kept all the gunk and the junk going. But also, orange soda don't pair well with minty breath. Like, where was she? She had, like, a generic toothbrush? Girl, she had chongletas on in the rain. So, I already know. She was battling something more than we can talk about right now.

LOL. Yeah. So, me and Sydney missed the play. We didn't go. I told them to release the tickets. I said, we not going to make it. I got off the train. It was 2.10.

And then I had to find Sydney. And then we were like, let's just go get food. like let's get food instead yeah it sounded real good but the thing is is that some of these plays like if you don't get going at the right time then you gotta wait you gotta wait for the intermission so you're so you're watching a little pixelated screen like we're looking at right now the whole play you spent on well we didn't we weren't paying for tickets but I remember when I went to Othello if we didn't get there 15 minutes before the time they're giving up your ticket you can't get in 15 minutes yes you have to be there early or they're giving up the ticket

okay because there's no late comers there's no phones they're locking everything up they said if you don't get here on time you will not be seeing Mr. Denzel yeah crazy and honestly I feel like that everything should be that way I feel like I've been late to let's say a handful of plays and usually they that first song they won't let you walk down the aisles for that and then after that first number they like okay go lady

but yeah we so we missed it and then I went to the Tony's the next day and people were like Sunset Boulevard was really good and I was like

I'm not I don't think I missed anything and then it won all these awards at the Tony's and Nicole won Best Actress no way

over Audra and I was like damn maybe I should have gone to see Sunset Boulevard we could still see it talk to those people yeah but

I don't think they're not comping those tickets we're going to have to come out of pocket for that No, there's so many people who listen to the pod. Hook us up. We'll be there on time.

Girl, did you hear what I just said? What? She won Best Actress. The tickets are not going to be available anymore. That's right. Everybody and their mom is like, oh, I want to go see the pussycat doll in the black negligee sing in the dark. With the blood coming down.

Drip, drip. Damn, Marie. Well, I mean, sometimes what we learned here in our mess is that we got to see it through, my boy. We got to see it through. Do you think you could have sat through a two-and-a-half-hour play? Hell no. In every stomach.

Absolutely not. We wouldn't have seen it. I would have been mad the whole time, and I would be nitpicking. Yeah. I was like, well, the lights is bad in here. Yeah. Oh, is this Broadway? Ah, she missed that note.

Exactly. Is this Broadway, or is this a high school production? Exactly. Is this a talent show? And that's the problem. People go to places where they're seeing live performances, and if you're in a bad mood, If you haven't eaten, you know, if you got some bad news, yes, maybe this thing can turn you around. But, I mean, you also are bringing the bad vibes.

Yeah. So I think everything needs to be on a clean slate, you know? Yeah. Because sometimes people definitely pull up to the comedy shows and it's like, hey, baby, I can't get you through your divorce. I got 15 minutes on this stage and you want me to feel better about 10 years that's down the drain? I can't help you. Hey, baby, I can't help you through your divorce. Yeah.

that's the phrase of the week make sure you use that in a sentence at least one time when somebody's in a hey baby I can't help you through your divorce

I cannot I got 15 minutes 15 minutes but that's so funny because then we was on the train going to get ramen and we bumped into somebody who listens to the podcast

oh that's right was it I want to say BB or Mimi Mimi it was Mimi oh I put it in my notes she was cute too

yeah she was very cute I was like girls you get she said I just want you to know that I love the podcast She had a nice little outfit.

And we said, we got some mess for you. She did. She looked really cute. She looked real. I was like, I love when we see our messies in the wilds. They always do us justice, for sure. Yeah. I've yet to see a messy looking misty.

Exactly. And that's what it is. You can be a mess, but don't look it. I remember when I came back from L.A. And somebody was like, don't look like what you've been through. Because, I mean, I had been wearing that, you know, that bob that I wore at the Emmys. It just was all thin. The Emmys bob?

The Emmys sad L.A. depression bob. Just sunken eyes and just very skinny. And they were like, hey, hey, toughen up. Who said that to you? Whose auntie said that? I won't say the name, but I don't think we don't really speak anymore. so oh oh because of that no look like what you've been through no i saw a tiktok yesterday it was a guy it was like um uh me going through a hard time was the caption and it was just him at a party

him eating pasta him living his best life and it was like yeah this is why people don't believe i'm going through a hard time and and you know what and that's why some of our strongest soldiers are battling something that you can't see is that work for you marie i don't want to be a strong soldier no I don't I don't never no more no more battling nothing I just want to I want to get up I want to float to the next thing I mean I guess I kind of do that already I'm like Marie what I don't want to I'm not battling let me tell you your middle name is not sense of urgency like to say that you're floating that's so Libra yeah she's a Libra I just you know what it is is I used to feel guilty that it feels like I'm floating through my life some days.

And then I was like, no, I think this is what it's supposed to be for me personally. Because it's people that are like, they get up, they go, they go, go, go, go, go, go, go all day. They get up early. They got to fight traffic. They got to fight the Starbucks barista. They got to fight to put their baby in a raincoat. They got to fight their husband to make them come. Like it's all these things they fight for.

Then they got to fight for a place at the table at their job and yada, yada, yada. And I'm not built for that. My ancestors have been through enough. I'm going to agree with you on that. Yeah. So I just, I'm not. But sister, we are going to work on lateness. Oh, yeah, totally.

For sure. We are going to work on, because you don't like it when somebody doesn't show up on time. You be like, I'm out. I'm leaving. I hate when I'm early and people are late. But yeah, if we all showing up at the same, if we both showing up at 2.10, then cool. Well, what if someone is on time? So now you don't respect their time.

It's not about not respecting their time. What is it then? I am going to do better. I am. Today, I really tried to do it. I woke up, I hit snooze, and then I was like, I'm getting a lot of extra sleep. And I got up and 30 minutes had passed. Do you know you have 30 minutes?

But then I got up and I shot some content that I needed to shoot. I got ready for the podcast first, and then, you know, my content took more time than I thought it would. And then it took a long time to get to the train. Anyway, that's neither here nor there. Starting today. Today. Today. Today.

Now. Capital T or lowercase. Big T, little o, big D. Oh. Today. Today. You are going to work on being on time, time management? Yes.

Whatever you think your time is, add an hour and a half to it. Hour and a half? An hour and a half. So how do you do it? Let me, talk to me about how you get out of your house in time by getting ready an hour and a half. I beat Becca today. You beat Becca? Well, now that I get up for the gym, it definitely helps me start my day.

And I know how long it takes me to make breakfast now. So I wake up, wherever I got to be, I got to see how long it takes me to get there. And by that time, I'm already thinking about how much time I have throughout whatever I'm doing. Now, when you check how long it's going to take you to get somewhere, are you putting in depart at blank time or arrive by blank time? I'm trying to arrive by this time. Yeah. So you got to work backwards from there. I've tried to do this before.

It felt like I was doing a math problem. I put the address in. I said, OK, it's going to take me 42 minutes. That means I got to be ready an hour before. That means I got to start getting ready. 30 minutes like I was trying to work backwards

and I was like oh that's too much mathematics yeah it's hard I know but I do know that if we're

doing something together one of us have to be on time so I know being with you I'm like I gotta get there before Marie

I got to because we can't both be sliding in like hey y'all what's up it is really funny when I get somewhere before Sydney

or anybody that I'm with I'm very loud about it not me getting here before you i do i shame them but i should be ashamed too thank you sydney wow thank you for getting me together on um this this close to juneteenth i mean i think we we spent many many years being

like we'll get there when we get there they're happy that our presence is a present they should be glad we got out of bed for this bullshit but like i mean the more and more i deal with people it's like some people just they don't have no tolerance for it they're like absolutely not

Amina used to be like that when we worked at the niche she would be so pissed at us coming in you know 10-15 minutes late

she's like I get hair from Harlem we were doing hair we was doing makeup I put rhinestones on my eyes yeah like my friend is

diamond encrusted exactly diamond's not gonna be on time diamond's is for you know that's not prompt Thank you. Wow. That was so many years ago. And it's like, I ain't even got no diamonds on now. And it's just like, I'm just trying to make sure my part is right. Trying to get sure the part is right.

damn okay my mess is i gotta stop watching the tiktoks that tell you about like a movie or show because whatever they're doing, even if it's bad, even if people hate watch it, they promote it so good that it's like, well, I got to watch this now. They're saying it's bad,

so now I have to watch the bad. So you watch movie reviews and then if they say something is trash, you feel like you need to watch it to see if it's trash? Yes, because I was like, I don't know, they're biased. Maybe it's not trash.

Okay, so what movies are we talking about here? List a couple. Top three that you watch. No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm going to tell you a very specific one that I watch. I'm not going to say

I don't want to say trash I'm not going to say trash because that is is harsh I'm just going to tell you what's a level above trash it was just like the whole time

I'm watching it I was just like why why why more more no

you're joking there's no way more the Jonathan Majors movie no I watched Straw Tyler Perry

oh well Taraji P. Henson okay I could not believe i my mouth was open the whole time the first 10 minutes is the worst thing that could possibly happen in every shot waking up late for work got your daughter oh your landlord's about to evict you you gotta get to school oh i don't have enough money to give lunch to my daughter sorry this is a spoiler i should have said spoiler alert it but literally oh just when you're like oh

she's gonna have a little bit of reprieve it's pouring rain and car shut down now she gotta walk in the rain oh no goes to work when there's a robbery she just wants her check they robbed they robbed the job oh wait before they robbed the job she got fired she got fired and then they said oh you're in cahoots you're in cahoots with the bank robber oh so it set it off oh and i don't want to give up the whole thing but it's a mix with john q oh oh you don't want to give up the whole thing i did no no no no no no there's more you have literally people people don't i'm like i'm not gonna say don't watch it watch it but hey if you was having a good day have your good day if you're having a bad day and want to feel worse put that on put that shit on if i'm having a bad

day can i watch that to feel better about my life no no i literally i i i was like this is so bad i have to watch something worse than this to feel better oh to cleanse the palate to cleanse the palate of trauma wait something worse than worse than that and i got it what did you watch to cleanse your tyler perry path the mortician documentary the mortician yes documentary is about this family that owned a funeral home. White people. You said black people? No, white people.

Then, if it was black people, it'd probably be funny. Well, I said Phaedra. Oh, exactly funny. I said this has to be worse than Tyler Perry. Worse. Okay, so y'all gotta watch this documentary. It's so funny because I only watched the first episode.

I haven't got to. But basically, it's about this funeral home. It's a family business lamb and it's basically the the business is booming everybody's using it everybody did everybody's using them and they're mainly using like for caskets so then they the son david finds out like oh people want to get cremated and it's much cheaper so he's figuring out how much people are charging he's like i'ma go lower than that so i'm going beneath the rate so that everybody will come to us usually when you cremate it takes like i don't know like two hours so you can really just

like cremate maybe four bodies two hours yeah to burn a whole body to cook a body yes barbecue does it depend like uh no size no no baby it's just it's two hours that's basically what it so so then they realized they were like in the first year of them having cremation without him it was like me like less than 200 bodies this man takes over it's in the thousands it's in the thousands now guess how they get that high he killing people no bitch they're already dead what is going on i'm like he must be gonna what he's the opposite of a vigilante i'm like he's bad batman he's killing people and then they're like oh my dad also died this morning okay okay okay i'll see i see what you're saying okay see what you're saying so how but i also was

about to say did you smoke weed what because you said he's killing people i'm like they're already dead they're coming to them you're saying it went from 200 to a thousand where all these new dead bodies come he's what he's doing he's packing in the bodies in the oven so instead of putting one body he's putting 10 that feel like one yeah 10 and so he's like he's like hey y'all gotta stop being attached to the body it's gone the soul is gone you need to just be rational about what's what's fact is they're not hearing more and so in the ashes it's like cardboard and other things in there so you're not getting the whole person anyway so they scooping up yeah multiple people's ashes and they're like that's uncle fred yes oh the mortician is mess

exactly it's but it's so bad it's worse than tyler perry but good so i could go to sleep on that and they oh okay dead bodies burned and burned in a group is what makes them go to sleep well no no what it was because he went to jail obviously he gets out they had hold on what's the charge what i'm getting charged for i mean i you know i don't bed dead body i don't know basically basically no no no when you when somebody hands over their body you're supposed to there's just what do you call it i forgot there's like certain things they're supposed like protocol protocol as a mortician like you have to have um i have no words i have brain frog right now but brain frog you have to have respect for the body and these people are paying

you for i just want these ashes i don't want communal ashes well if you're paying for the groupon uh that's the tea right if you he you said it's a less than market rate you could have spent a couple extra hundred dollars and you would have had what you needed to have see now you sound like him. Because that's how he was in the interview. He's like, what, I'm charging people $50? And he's like, a lot of these bodies, they had said, oh, throw the ashes to sea.

So there's no ceremony, no nothing. So I think this is how it started. He was like, it was a lot of bodies that were like, oh, you know, just burn them and spread the ashes in the ocean, and nobody's accounting for them. He said, so nobody care about them people anyway. I need to know what ocean y'all keep spreading these ashes in.

They have to stop. Because I be swimming, well, I don't be swimming, but I be putting my feet in. It's messed up. How many dead bodies? Nemo and them, Free Willy, they don't want them ashes mixed in the ocean. Free Willy from the ashes of your aunties. They don't want it. That's wild.

It's really fucked up for the, I feel like, for the ecosystem and all that. And half the time it's like, how you know these, some of these people didn't even know how to swim. Why they buy ocean? Put them where they supposed to be. Plant a tree. No, I was like, put the ashes in Walmart. That's what, I mean, that's what they say. In Walmart?

Oh, like, like scatter them at Walmart. Yeah, in the Walmart. lol yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so it's a docuseries it's so good marie i think honestly we need to watch it together i'll re-watch this because there's so many times where i was like oh this man ain't shit but the thing is is that he wasn't pretending and then you know how they was getting all the bodies in i don't even want to say i don't even want to say don't leave the people Y'all got to watch it. But this man, it's evil.

Evil. Evil? Evil. He was doing a Russian doll with the bodies? Oh, he was like. He was putting one person in somebody else's body? No, no, no, no. He was like, oh, that shoulder is.

Take the whole shoulder off. What? Take the whole shoulder. Now I'm ruining it for everybody. But there's more. There's more episodes. So I'm not even giving you everything. He's taking the clothes off the bodies, selling it.

This man is making so much money. It's greedy. It's green. Clothes off a dead body. Whoa. Selling it. This is why you got to wash your clothes when you get it at the thrift shop. Before you wear it, you have to wash the stuff.

Because you don't know. Somebody might have almost got cremated in that blouse that you're like, oh, this is cute. Vintage. Fit check. Wash your clothes. Right. Fit check. Wash them clothes before you put them on your body.

I don't want to say this, but I'm going to put it out there. I have a family member that like they were trying to get suits for him and so they

went to men's warehouse and they got a couple of suits and they put every suit on him and they were like alright the other two we not gonna use those

you see I'm not gonna finish it you gonna like the way you look just know I guarantee it the return policy

perfect how are you going back to men's warehouse with dead body crumbs on it. First of all, let's talk about this. How, why do they need to try the different suits on them to see what they look like?

It's a dead body. Because they want to make sure it matches the casket. You know, black people, they like the color cordon. Well, but you don't have to put the suit on the body. You can put it next to the lining of the casket to be like, oh, the blue really setting off the gray. It's not like curtains, sis. You can't, it's not like curtains.

You put it up against what you got. I actually see how it fits on the body. They could have got some fabric swatches. I'm screaming. I hope this conversation is not triggering for anybody who had to spread some ashes or put men's warehouse on a body. But first of all, I just want to side note. This is mess. This is mess.

Some things are not going to be right. Some things are going to be all the way wrong. But this is this is why you come here. If you want things to be politically correct and us to know all the facts and say it in a proper way. No, it's not happening. Also, it's a podcast. You're not listening to 1010 Winds or Fox News or I don't even know all the news networks. This is not NPR.

Yeah. This is not the Daily Bread. What was it? The Daily. It's not that. Anyway, that is mess, Sydney. Thank you for sharing that. It was Marie.

The mortician. Yo, when I tell y'all I went to bed like this. You went to bed, you slept with your hands on your chest like a dead body. So watching that, do you want to be cremated, you think? Yo, this woman had a can, a can that looked like astrology cards was in it. She was like, I thought my father was in it. Then she puts the ashes on her hand. She said, I don't think this is my father.

I said, get out of here. Drama. Drama. This needs to be on Broadway. Yeah. I went to this guy's house once, and we were all sitting around the table. Somebody poured drinks. We get ready to drink.

Like, he, like, tapped that, tap, tap that, the thing in the middle. And I was like, what? But everybody's tapping their glass, like, kind of, like, toasting it. Yeah. And he was like, that's my father in that can. I said, why is he on the table? Also, why do I have to tap? I don't know that man.

Is that how they cheers? Yeah, they're, like, tap that. I mean, maybe it's a Trini thing, but I don't know. What? I don't know. Any Trinidadians in the building? That accent. Oh, you're any Trini.

I don't know. I apologize. I apologize. Any Trinidadians listening, if that's in your culture, in the comments, let us know. True or false. And if it's not, also let us know. It's mess. It's mess.

It's mess. That's what we're here for. Yeah, but it's only the beginning of the week and already a lot of mess has transpired. Oh, Marie. Another thing. Well, wait, no, let me, I'm hogging. What you got, sis? Oh, I was just going to talk about how I was late to the Tonys.

Oh, oh yeah. I thought you talked about that already. No, I was late to Sunset Boulevard. Okay. Okay. Yes. No, say that as well. Say that, sis.

Bring that, bring that back in. I just, you know, I was invited as a content creator. And so the whole point was for me to create content to get people to watch the Tonys. And they were like, we want you to be there. we want you to be there at 1 20 p.m and the tony started at 8 p.m and i said well why would that's mad hours and i said i'm not i'm not i will i shan't i can't i won't um but somebody was mad at me like i was shooting content while i was running late and giving people updates that i was like 20 minutes and then 30 minutes and whatever late and somebody sent me a dm and said

Do better. Well? Do better. Being late is not cute. Marie, what you think? I think you don't need to be in my inbox DMing me like that. We're just trying to look out for you, sis. No.

Listen, I got there when I got there. And, you know, I didn't miss a bunch of photo ops, but I didn't make it to the red carpet. And that was at like 4.30. So from 1 o'clock to 4.30 and then from 4.30 to 8 o'clock, it was a lot. And then my phone was at 19% when the actual Tonys started at 8 o'clock. It's too long of a day. I wasn't even nominated. That's not crazy.

You were there for what? W-O-R-K. Work. Right. But let the record show, even though I was late to get in there, I was already shooting content at the crib about the Tonys. Right. So I was already, it's not like I was late for work and not working. And I was doing the work.

Hey, Marie, you know, it sound good. Hello, Elle. What's your employer saying? Because me, I ain't your employer. My employer is me, sis. Okay, well. You're your own boss. But if the boss say show up late, then we all late.

Let's go. Listen, it's meta. It's meta. We've been late to many a thing because of meta and our Facebook. Or Instagram. So, you know, I was doing what I needed to do to get where I needed to get. Miss? Marie, I'm going to touch your hand when I say this.

Your hand's so soft. Oh, but I'm saying something serious to you. Okay, let me get your soft, squishy hand. Marie, half of the year is gone. Yeah. The other half of the year is up to you. It's in your hands. I think you really can at least most of the week be on time.

Most of the week? Most of the week. Yeah, so what's that, four days? Or if I have, like, four things to do in one day, like, on time to three other things? Or one day needs to be an on-time day. And this is the thing. Marie is so charming and funny. And when she shows up, you're like mad.

But then you're like, well, she is a good time. And she's going to be great. So I guess, I guess. I'm going to do it. I said starting today. Today. Today. Not tomorrow.

Tomorrow. I'm starting today. Okay. We could be on Broadway. We could. Yeah. We'll do a little singing duo situation. Yeah.

You think you can sing and dance at the same time? No. Okay, so I'm on day nine of Hard 75. Yeah, damn! Day nine. I feel like you've been doing it for at least ten. It's nine. I'm on my ninth day.

Whoa! And so I have to work out twice a day. So I work out. So now me and my partner, Dwayne, my mate, my living mate, We work out together But he's like Oh we're gonna get tired of this We gotta

We need to like Take a class Or whatever So he's like Would you take a dancing class And I was like I got two left feet I don't know

I'm being embarrassed He said Okay well let's Let's do Let's do something together now I have the video He's so good Yes

I mean he's a professional dancer I was like I don't wanna go to your class I need to go to the novice class Right Cause he's gonna be on that 5, 6, 7, 8 and you're gonna be in the back like wait what what is it huh because people who are like trained

dancers they learn choreography quick they only gotta see it like twice yeah he's good at memory i mean even with lines i mean i'm just like so there's nothing you can't do yeah okay cool i hate that actually hate that no i love that but i love that i'm like can you give that to me I want that. I'm so left. I'm like, mm, mm. But, Sydney, I've seen you dance before. You can figure it out.

Yes. That was Red Bull. This is me just clear. Oh. Clear. Well, can you do, like, an acai bowl? Can you do a... Well, I'm working on my sugar intake, so, like, I have to...

It depends on what kind of fruits I'm putting in there. This is crazy. Like, I can't believe I'm doing this in the summer. This is ridiculous. And I'm like, where are the abs? My back hurts. My neck and my back hurt. my legs aching

where are the muscles oh you think after you said you're on your ninth day you thought you was gonna have abs already I mean lol

it's coming I feel like Jesus came out the womb with abs like I need the same oh girl I didn't know that you knew they're marrying them

like that I was there at the birth what you talking about you the godmother of god I was there in everything I was I was a what's that wife

the midwife I was the midwife in them what's that wife the mid one yeah now sydney i feel like you after like 30 days you'll see the results that's what i think i think 30 days i think realistically you need like a month if there's any listeners who are like trying to change their lives and they're like in this transformative period like how long did it take you to be like i'm seeing results because that's what i'm here i'm here for the result yeah but you know what sydney you're not gonna see the results in you somebody else is

gonna look at you one day and be like oh snap girl look at this little boss and you're gonna be like it's because you see yourself every day and duane sees you every day yeah so it's gonna take somebody from the outside looking in to be like oh snap it's and it's not gonna happen on the ninth day babe oh but the thing is okay so this is what's crazy because people say oh you already look good you look great what are you like I was going on stage like I'm doing hard 75 and they're like why and I was like baby it's like more than just I love a challenge looking good it's more about like feeling good like being disciplined and sticking to something you know even though you know I love giving up um I love tapping out I love giving up I'd be like you know

what I got you got it you got it listen you don't want to give up but sometimes there's sweet relief and giving up yeah I'm not telling you to give up but I'm saying like you know sometimes have you like done a plank and you gotta hold it for like 60 seconds or 30 seconds whatever amount of time and sometimes you just gotta bend the knee you gotta tap that knee down and you're like oh my god I feel so much better but then I don't know maybe you're disappointed in yourself because you could have made it all the way like we could have made it to the plane we could have made it to the play but we would not have made it through the play okay I'm sure of that I was way too hungry and the play is two and a half hours long and we would have been sitting there in the dark

listening to don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me no it's not don't you wish your girlfriend hot like me don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me that's it that's that girl she won the yo we gotta do that's why she won the Tony yeah yeah

girl let's talk about what you're going to eat for the summer because Heart 75 says the summer is going to be hard for you. Yeah. Well, guys, I've been making breakfast pretty much every day. So it's like hard-boiled eggs, like veggies, turkey bacon.

I think we might get a blender so I can start making smoothies. New developments over there. A blender for the house? Yeah, a blender. But the problem is, with the blenders, it's like, that's so much stuff you got to buy. Produce is expensive right now. Produce is expensive. But what you mean?

You got to get milk or like a juice base? I still have dairy, but I've toned down tremendously. I don't have oat milk no more. No oat milk for you? No almond? I don't like oat milk. You still drinking whole milk? Like it's 1999?

I love the red cap. I love the red cap I stand on that I was raised by the red cap Wow The red cap feel like MAGA But go on

No no Not like that The red cap on the milk And you know who else Loves the red cap People who are Republicans You knew what the F.I. meant

Yeah but I'm saying Republicans probably Drink whole milk More than anybody else No they don't drink any milk They drink whole milk From the cow's teeth They don't look like

They have vitamin D In their body They made out of milk No They see through The oat milk is like blue states. You know what I'm saying? Okay.

Well, you know, I was raised in a home where they did 2% milk, and I hated that. It's like white water. I was like, what are you? This is, no. Honestly, it was like watered down glue. Ooh. It just was just weird. It's like, what are you guys doing?

And then they would put the Splenda in the Corn Flakes. The sweet and low in the Corn Flakes. They're like, oh, we can't have sugar. I'm like, where am I living? This is child abuse. Splendor in the cornflakes with the 2%. Yes. So sticky, glue, cereal?

It was nasty. Like, there was so many years. I remember when I finally had Trix. Ooh, I remember Trix. It was crack for me. I was jumping on the walls because I was like, oh, my God, this is pure sugar. Praise be. What's your favorite cereal from when you were a kid?

My favorite cereal? You want me to list some for you? I know. No. You got it. You know I know the cereal. I liked Cinnamon Toast Crunch. That was good.

Classic. Fruit Loops. That was cute. I like the Rice Krispie Treats that was actually rice, like chunks of Rice Krispie. That was like limited edition or something like that. For some reason, they took it off the shelves and I don't know why. It was candy, sis. It was the best.

It was so good. I feel like I had that cereal one time, and then it never was at the store ever again. It was like Sprite Remix. Did you have that? I didn't have that. Oh, I had Sprite Remix in college, and I was like, oh, this is bomb, and then it was gone. What's Sprite Remix? It's Sprite, but with a twist.

They wouldn't explain what flavor it was, but it felt kind of tropical-ish. Oh. It was Sprite, but it tasted like red something. Yes. But I tell you, it messed me up so bad. I had that with Absolute Citron. And when I told you it rocked my socks, I said, I'll never touch either of these again. And then it was off the shelves anyway.

And I said, God, God, don't play about me. Yo, remember when they tried to introduce purple ketchup or something? I don't remember. Was it purple ketchup or blue ketchup? It was a different color ketchup. And it was like, I mean, my mother didn't buy it, but it just, it just looked wrong. I think that's why you look so good, because your family didn't introduce you to all that trash. Yeah, my mom was like, I'm not buying that.

And it was like, please, I want purple ketchup. No. Yeah. You look like you didn't have Spam or Vienna sausages. My dad bought those once, and my mother laughed at him. And then me and my siblings were like, can I taste? It's sausage in a can? What is that?

Nasty. Yeah, but I didn't have Spam until recently. Like, for the first time, like, maybe, like, two years ago, I had Spam. Fried Spam bomb. And now what you eating the Spam with? What pairs well with Spam? Rice? Yeah, rice, but also eggs to, like, make it for breakfast and stuff.

Spam and eggs? Yeah, Spam and eggs. You can make a little Spam sandwich, yeah. So the Spam is the bread? No, girl, you put the Spam on the bread, and then put, like, some cheese in it. Yeah, we was doing all types of things. Damn. So do you miss Spam during the hard 75?

No, I will say the second day I'm walking and I never, ever, ever seen donut shops like this. It was like every other block was a donut shop. I said, I would love a glazed donut. Ooh, a glazed donut sounds nice. And the thing is that has made me so on edge, coffee. On 76, I can't wait to guzzle down an espresso. Are you serious?

So you're going to go through all of this. You're going to get the caffeine out of your system in these 75 days. And then on the 76th day, you're going to wake up and get coffee? But this is how disgusting addiction is. On the ninth day, I'm still thinking about coffee. And I'm like, I can't wait until this is over so I can drink it again. Yeah, but you know what? After the 75 days, you might not even be thinking about coffee.

You might not be missing the taste of it when you're done. I hope. I pray. They say that when you get something out of your system and you reintroduce it, you're like, this is nasty. This actually doesn't taste good at all. And I believe that because even at my, like, worst in terms of coffee, like having like five shots a day, I was like, this is so nasty. I would have to wash it down with like a juice. You drink espresso and then you wash it down with juice? That's not very European.

Girl. I didn't know you was first of all five espresso shots a day is wild and crazy and still going to sleep baby still ZZZ

ZZZ top that's why I was like something is wrong with me but it was really that I was immune to the caffeine because I've had so much because I'm drinking the coffee

then doing a Red Bull at night it was sick so what are you what are you prepping for what are you doing who is this it was just to have conversation and to be on stage that was all i wasn't folding no clothes i wasn't getting no work done this you wasn't working on no memoirs no this was just just to maintain okay well sydney let's okay you know what i'm reinvigorated okay put a hard 75

okay that's too much coffee in your life sis oh thank you mother drink your show them your giant thermos of water so the listeners can see where we at and i think we're like right here that's almost half well you know because when i do my walk later i'm gonna have to bring this with me which is embarrassing but this is a weapon i wish a bitch would like this is i'll be carrying it like but i remember going to dinner with you guys and y'all made y'all roasted me to hold sidney blop that on the table we were like yeah we're gonna need a table for 10 because the thermos needs a chair as well they wanted me to hold somebody's baby rosebud's baby and it's like Well, Sydney's got her own baby.

She's got this. It's a bad baby. I can't wait for you to have your fall body together. Which is crazy because fall, you don't really show off your body. This is when the turtlenecks is popping out. Yeah, but you can do a crop top under the leather jacket. Nah, girl. I think I might, if I'm really, like, talking my shit, girl, I'm not wearing a jacket.

Oh. I'm not wearing a jacket, and I'm sleeveless everywhere. You think the hard 75 is going to make your anemia go away? Maybe, girl, because now I'm just putting things in my body that I never have before, like fruits, vegetables. Wow. All types of vegetables. I just was not doing it. String beans, cauliflower.

Cauliflower. Cauliflower. I love cauliflower. Ask me to spell it. I don't know, but I was putting it in my mouth. I think we could spell cauliflower if we tried it together. C-A-U-L-I Flower

Okay Carly No child left behind over here Baby, you're a mess We might have left you behind Now check our math Is that the right way to spell cauliflower? It feels right

All right So, Marie, I have I'm going to bring Mess or just living Or just, let's do it Mess or just living Okay Is this mess or just living?

This woman goes on Instagram And she's like Yep, met this man you know we're dating i'm like this is the one we're like planning our future together and i'm like dope this is who i want to be with boom she gets pregnant she tells him she's pregnant he like actually run that back i'm married and you need you need i don't i don't even think he offered the 500 but he was like you gotta handle that you gotta get rid of it yeah so then she goes to the internet says all this and she's like i can't believe you know i'm like

40 and this is happening to me like i'm six weeks pregnant all the comments are like girl you are in enough time to get that a bobo they were like do you need somebody to pull up to plant parenthood with you sis what do you need you want some sweats you want a two-piece set you gotta like don't don't ruin your life like this yeah not ruin your life with a baby but like ruin your life in like a messy situation. They're like, if he's already saying, I'm not gonna be here for this. Believe him. Yes. Believe him. Is it mess

that she double-backed and was like, actually, I'm gonna make this work. Not with him, but like, I'm gonna have this baby with or without him. Where did she meet him? You know, sis, you know I don't know the specifics. I'm listening in and out.

Girl, we know that she's six weeks, but we don't know where she met this man. Nope. I don't know if it's on a train, a plane, or hinge. I don't know. Is it messy or just living for her to be like, I'm still going to have this baby? Yeah. I feel like it's a little bit of both. But I understand why, like you said, she's 40.

Yeah. This could be her last chance to do it. And, you know, at your big age to be showing up at the Planned Parenthood or the gynecologist to terminate a pregnancy. It's like, if this is something that you can do on your own and you've decided you want to do it, then I guess do it. but it's also messy because she's not going to be tied to that man forever. Like, if he's telling you to get rid of it and he doesn't want no parts, he's not going to help you out. But if you want this kid to have a relationship with their father,

then, you know, that's where the mess is. I don't know. See, so people in the comments are like, okay, so if you agree into, like, having the kid, then why are you going back to him and being like, oh, I need child support? He already said, I don't want no parts. Right. I don't know.

It's a tough one. You know what's a mess? Why is it on the internet? Like, just don't leave us out of it. I don't want, like, why am I hearing this? I should not be allowed to hear something so personal while I'm in the shower. Booty butt naked, wig off. That's what the internet is now.

First of all, she said, I'm not going to get engaged to this married man. I'm going to get the engagement on socials. She said, let me tell you something. This video going to go viral. and then i'm gonna share my wish list and get everything that my baby needs maybe maybe that's the train of thought i mean i don't know when i before i make a decision before i post a certain picture or i post a certain video i'll message you and be like which one is better or message my and i'll message my sister and i message like a couple different people and then you know based

on what the group says i i'll take that into consideration but i mean going on social media to ask people if you should have an abortion or not is is mess I don't think she asked that I think she was just saying like you know this is what's happening like I think she was like I don't know what I'm gonna do but I mean it was it was like 14,000 comments I'm sure and most of them were like what in support of her or telling her to you know yeah they were like sis what state you live in is it because if you in New York girl there's about three other locations quick fast Yeah. Yeah. And then other people was like, I can't believe all these women like this is disgusting behavior. What's disgusting? Telling her she should go to, you know, a job shop.

And she got a good job. Did she look what did her house look like in the background? What was the what color cabinets did she have? Like with the bed a queen size? No, no. I just I will say this. I think, you know, if you think that you're ready to have a child, I'm obviously all in support in that. But I also think you got to think about the child. Like, is this a situation that makes sense for this human being? Like, some things are preventable. And, you know, that's how I think about my mom sometimes. It's like, okay, the first kid, all right, she didn't get it right. That's okay. The second kid is like, all right, you know what?

Maybe you're working through it. You might be better. The third kid, you're like, oh, man, I don't want to have this third kid. It's like, mama, you got to close the shop down. 24 hours. No more new customers. like that's that's insane

by the third kid you still you're like oh man another kid it's like so you have to do things to make sure

you're not having you're not getting pregnant I understand that but if she did that then you wouldn't be here what would you do what would you do what would I do

what would I do no what would you do without you yeah what would I do I wouldn't be here I wouldn't be in the red room

with nobody yeah aw that's sweet oh my god i think that was the gayest thing i've heard you say happy bride happy bride but you know i don't know i met a woman oh at that dinner that we was at a couple months ago i met a lady the girl who was sitting next to me she's pregnant oh yeah and she was saying that she had she she was an author and she was a successful you know woman in the corporate world and yada yada yada yada and she was single and she didn't find a partner and her biological

clock is ticking and she decided she's having a baby by herself it's women who decide that they just gonna do it and they're not gonna wait for somebody to the right person or the right time they're like the time is now i have the means i'm having this baby did you hear that he has the means well that's why i asked what the lady in the background of her house looked like like did Did it look like she had the means or was she doing it in her car? And what kind of car was it? It was not in her car. I don't think you need to be rich to have a child.

But I do know the, you know, mental anguish that you have to deal with when you have, like, a deadbeat baby daddy. I personally don't know about that. I said, oh, you know the mental anguish. No, no, no. But I know people who have had to deal with that. It's affected because it doesn't just affect the mother and the child. it affects everybody that's around them it it affects your tribe it's trickled down it doesn't when people make decisions you're like it's just me and no that's not the case we all involved now

it takes a village it does take a village but if you have a village that can help you do it then do it but me personally that's not the way that i would want to do it and i don't even know if i ever need to do it but a liar baby a married man's baby I need to know where she met him you know what I'll go back I'll go back and I'll find out I'll find out for you

and it's probably something crazy like she met him at the Lord's house she met him at God's house you know what I'm saying it's given church yes and he that means he was he wasn't bringing his wife to church like Like, he's a cheater in multiple ways.

That's OD. Should we read some of these messages? Yes, please. My girlfriend and I have been together a year, but she is the love of my life. There's no one that compares to her. I want you guys to know both of those sentences had an exclamation mark at the end of it.

So it's the love of my life, and no one compares to her. A few months ago, though, I messed up. I had a friend, who is also a lesbian, who was literally just a friend. We barely talked, but when we did, it was usually just hey this happened and I need advice before I run my mouth kind of thing I didn't mention it to my girlfriend simply because we don't speak that often or about

anything disrespectful my girlfriend found it and said I broke her trust for not telling her I was friends with a lesbian she is friends with tons and half she's done stuff with but never had a relationship well months later after she said she would get over it because I didn't do anything wrong technically she keeps throwing jabs like I hope you never cheat on me or I hope you're not talking to anybody you're not supposed to it hurts my feelings I know I should have told her about it but I haven't spoken to this girl since out of respect to my girlfriend I need help on how to get my girlfriend to stop saying these things about me cheating and stuff because it really digs at me and puts me into a space of being with my exes who all did this because they were up to

something what do i do oh wait so do you think that she's saying that do you think she's cheating i mean hit dogs holla so if you're if you're because like if i see a message and i'm like this looks sketchy but like i i'm like i don't like this i don't ever want to see this again And if you could say, okay, then no problem, then we're on a clean slate again. But if I keep egging it on and I still don't trust you and I'm picky, why do I not have no trust at all? Y'all were just friends. You didn't tell me I didn't like that, but you didn't do anything.

So why would I keep pegging you about, oh, I hope you don't cheat on me. Oh, you didn't tell me nothing. I need to know how she found out. Did she go through your phone? You know she did. She went through your phone? She had to. So it sounds like your girlfriend didn't trust you in the first place.

For her to be going through your phone, and now every time she sees you talking to somebody, she's like, I hope you don't cheat. It do feel like something. Why is she so suspicious? Is she hiding something? And why is she going through your phone? The people need to know.

That's a mess. Leave my phone alone. Yeah, when you have that, like, feeling in your heart and in your gut that's like, let me get that cold because I'm going through that phone. You already, you're going out the door. You got to leave. Because it's like, if I feel like I have to break your trust to get the truth, that's too many steps that we lapse in obstacles we're going through. It's just like, get somebody else. Yeah.

Do something else. And you telling us that you weren't saying anything crazy, you weren't being disrespectful, you were just asking, like, hey, this happened, like, asking for advice and stuff. So, if that's all that it was, what did she see that made her so upset? Exactly. Is it because it's a lesbian? I don't know. What she look like? There it is.

She probably cute. She probably a cute-ass lesbian, maybe a little bit younger. She in those two-piece fashion oversets, loose-eyed heels. And you're like, oh, yeah, no, no, no. That's not just a regular friend. You know what I'm saying? She wasn't in no Asics. Sweatsuit from Zara.

She put on a pretty little thing, two-piece, like sweatsuit. One of those lesbians with the lashes and, you know, microbladed eyebrows. Lesbians with lashes. They exist. Femmes. Happy Pride. I don't know. I think I would sit down and be like, hey, okay, I thought we had a clean slate.

I said I would not do this anymore. I won't lie to you or won't not tell you information. I thought we moved on. You keep bringing this up. What's up? What is this about? Yeah, you need to hit her with one of these. Hey, if you can't forgive me for this,

if this is something that you're going to hold over my head forever, then maybe we should go our separate ways. Maybe we should go our separate ways. That's the title of the episode. Yeah, I'm back, baby. I'm back you can't stop me I'm telling it

I'm telling the title and I will say you it took you almost a whole hour to say that well people were commenting they're like

no I love when she says that say the title they were like what ass wife told Sydney not to say the title and I was like yeah

my my messengers I love y'all miss yeah I think that's it that's all we got this was a really

fulfilling solo Marie I enjoyed it I feel like I hope that you guys enjoyed this on the way to work I know that's where

some of y'all listen where else do people listen I mean a lot of people have cars a lot of people are doing many tasks and they're like they need something

to hear in the background and they love it they love us here's a question for the episode we need y'all to answer the question is it mess

or just living to be 40 years old and have a baby by a married man who told you not to have the baby we just want to know I need to know it feels like mess to me

good. Maybe it's not to you. Okay. And please continue to leave reviews. I love all the reviews. Keep them coming. I need y'all to flood the reviews. We need more. I want more on Spotify.

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