MESS with Sydnee Washington & Marie Faustin - MarieBettaThanUs

Episode Date: April 10, 2025

This week Sydnee and Marie bless us with a solo episode! The two discuss their personal messes, including Sydnee's tendency to fall asleep at parties and Marie's dubious shopping habits. and as always, they go through your listener MESS!    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 hello hello hi friends hi we just had lunch yeah so we fool very cool you know what i would do it again oh no i think sometimes i work better on an empty stomach maybe desperation makes you because it's like i have something to look forward to when I'm full, I'm like, well, we're finished. That's the end. And the end. No, now I'm like, I'm going to really go for something sweet.

Ah, okay. Black, black, black, black, black, black, black on black, on black, on black, on black, on black. What's some sweet? It's a cultural thing, you know. Is it? They want the sweetness. I don't know. It's not a cultural thing because all restaurants that serve

entrees typically have desserts. No, but to say you want something sweet it's like that's that's you just call me you call me the n-word no i hard all lowercase and you call me a ur upper case no lowercase that's crazy just an a at the end um it was yummy yeah we did that we're doing it things are going it i mean the year zoom zoom boom boom i mean it's only the third month of the year we got nine take a break and a half months left take a break slow down it's i feel like every time i come in every week i'm like oh another another week just went by yeah that's how time works well thanks bitch i didn't know

another week just went by thank you so much during the day i'll be like wow another hour another hour every week i'm like another day my philosopher friend faustine look we switched nails um i'm wearing my natural nails and but it's the same kind of color yeah it does i i mean the thing is is that uh i do want to take a break with the nails it's just but i'm also like i feel like my hands look so un like unkept when it's not done like i need i feel like i need a little extra i need an extension because when i just have mine on the on the knee stop it that's how they do it in the casket they they put it on top yeah they put your hands on top of each other on the casket yeah when you're when you're laying you don't see it no i think when i die leave my my arms loose

No, that's unprofessional. Or do one hand like this and one hand like that. No, don't do that. Nope. Or maybe put them both on the side like I'm sleeping like a baby. Like a baby? That's so unserious. Or prayer hands.

No, it's so unserious and people will not cry. What you mean? They will have questions. First of all, if you are at my funeral and you are not there with the theatrics, don't come. Okay? If you're not going to show up in a hat that's too big and a veil that's very dark, then don't come, okay? I want to have either like a very specific guest list or I want it busting out the bandeau. I want a line, like mad lines around the corner.

Velvet red rope. Yeah, I want people like trying to pay tickets to get in, things of that sort. Scalping. Mm-hmm, scalping. Oh. I want it through Ticketmaster. oh yeah if you want resale if i shall i want it you know i want it to be my renaissance but different you need

yeah i don't know if i need all that but i do want you know i want you to show up in your in your coolest fit and i need you to not play it cool at all when you see me laying there with my hands please don't no don't i actually in the casket like this i will make sure like this like this this is i'm not a part of your family i'm not in the the the close 10 but i will literally be like that's not happening i will i will unbreak i will break your hands and break my hand girl let me be buried like this and i want the head a little bit to the side i'll move everything around i'll be shifting stuff first of all they'll have to throw me out they will they absolutely will if there's no drama at the funeral did i even die you told me make a scene

and I will end it. The scene has been made. Yeah. Woo. 100%. Yeah. Because funerals are sad. So make it interesting.

I haven't been to one in a long time, but I believe... Top three funerals you've ever been to. Ready? Go. Top three?

Top three. You're insane. I'm not doing this with you. I will say my cousin's funeral, this is like, I don't know, this has to be over 30 years ago.

They used to call him Candyman because he would give the kids candy. Oh, because you were going to say he was scary. No, he was not scary. He was cool. Candyman. He had a huge funeral. He was in one of the biggest churches in Oakland

and everybody showed up. Everybody pulled up. All the kids with diabetes. No, we didn't have that. Not yet. Diabetes didn't exist in the 90s? Not at that time, no. We didn't.

And they let me do like a eulogy And I don't know why they did that. Was this your first show? I want to say this was basically an open mic for me. It was an open mic. I wrote everything out, but I did not stick to the script. Oh, freestyling. Yeah.

I was like, I remember when we used to watch Farrakhan together and I would tell him, I don't want to watch this. I want to turn on cartoons. And he's like, this is for your people. You must watch this. they were like what and he would always try to give me the bean pies and i was like this is nasty going up there they were like oh they're giving they if they were trying to shine the light on they definitely did they pulled me down and then at the end everybody like laughed and i clapped but it was just like please get who whose kid is this i see i see you're silent was i silent or

was i silenced you were you were i was silenced yeah i'm speechless i've never given a speech at a funeral thank goodness and i hope you don't have to no time soon yeah forever knock on knock on wood yeah knock on wood but like the crazy thing about getting older is as you get older everybody around you also gets older right is that so it's crazy did anybody know that in the room It's crazy. That you get older and so do the people around you. Not even the people around you. People you don't know.

Like all of the celebrities, all of the celebrities that I grew up watching are all older now. Like in a way that's like, I'm like, oh my God, these people are old. See, and I need you to get that out your mouth. What you talking about? But it's old. No, Marie, old, I think older, like the oldest, is like when you start getting in your, like, mid-60s, close to 70s. But calling people old or old at, like, 40s, 50s. But you don't even know who I'm talking about.

You see how you jumped the gun? Who are you talking about? You got to take yourself out of it. I never said me. I never said me. You were like, old, that word is very triggering for you. No, it's not triggering. No, it's not triggering.

Because you're triggered. Do you look up triggered? I'm not triggered. I'm not triggered. I'm just speaking. Trick, trick, trick. T-I-double-R. Am I triggered or tricked?

You tricked me. Was I triggered or was I triggered? No, no. Girl. Who are you talking about? I'm talking about the celebrities that we grew up watching. Names. Like even looking at, like, I saw Goldie Hawn recently and I said, damn, Goldie.

She not in her 40s. No. She might have been in her 40s when I was a fetus. but i just i you see people you grew up watching these people they always looked a certain way and now as i as we age you see them and you're like damn and like you know people are dying and it's like that's crazy people are not looking the same and they're dying can you believe it that's unbelievable to me it's because it's something that i never thought about Like when we're young and our parents are making references to old stuff that we don't know or, you know, I don't know, people, Michael Jackson, Whitney, like all these people are dying.

It's like, yeah, but they're old. But then as you age, you're like, yo, the people I grew up watching, the people that I used to think were cool are now old. Well, on paper, I just want to let you know, Michael was not old when he passed and neither was Whitney. I would say they passed young They had so much more to live You can have a five in your age And be considered young I don't think If it starts with a five

That's older than middle age You gotta change your tune The tune is off You're off tuned I'm out of tune? Somebody need to tune you up You said I'm out of touch I'm out of tune you're out of touch

So tell me the age where you're just like This is the beginning of old 30 30? beginning of old sister cause that's when your knees start

cracking that's when you you wake up your back hurt cause you try to put two pillows on top of each other 30 is the beginning

of old I didn't start feeling like all crickety crackety until like maybe two years ago two three years ago and you were in your

30 so what did I say? when you were in your 20s not 30 though 30 I was ripping and running sure

but for me beeping and popping and booping You asked me what age starts to be old for me. I said 30. What age starts to be old for you? I'm going to say, like, for real, for real, 60. 60 is the beginning of old?

Yes. Oh. Okay. Yeah. Because if you really think about it, we are closer to whatever age you think is old right now. We're in that, we're headed towards that age bracket. Yeah. That's what happens when you age.

You get older. Mm-hmm. Ugh. And I'm going to say I'm not, I'm not, I'm not 60 yet. So I'm still, I could drop it low, pick it up slow. I did fall asleep at my friend's birthday party where she had everybody rapping in the studio. Sydney did fall asleep in the studio. Sydney, I've been watching you fall asleep in public places, at parties with DJs and music and lights for the last 10 years.

Wait, hold up. Name places. Where? every party we've ever been together, I watch you fall asleep. That's a fucking lie, Marie. You have to stop lying. Are you getting old?

At a person's house, if there's a couch and a blanket, you sleep. Hey, stop having house parties, y'all. No, no, no. It's too comfortable. No, no, no, no. If your cat is there,

I'm getting cozy. That's not my fault. That's not my fault. Sydney, girl. The heat is on. What do you want from me? What more do you want from me? You have the heat on.

There's LaCroix. There's a cat or a dog and a couch nap time no baby we are at a party no it's obviously wasn't loud enough girl girl y'all was screaming and shouting to the rooftop we're in the studio being loud trying to get our glorilla on and sydney i'm glad nobody took a picture or videotaped i'm very thankful i was too busy trying to write my my raps and i i'm so thankful that you were staying focused lol it was a good it was a like a a genius idea to have your friends go to a studio and write a whole like write a verse right like make a song but i will say my adhd got the best of me i couldn't and

that's why i took an i was like i'm tired just thinking just think he did not get in the booth to i did not get to drop her verse but i was i was rapping with y'all i was hyping y'all up no know we needed a sid we needed a sid brit watch exclusive somebody did somebody wrote a rhyme for me and it was just like i'm gay i'm gay i'm gay i don't scissor but i'll take your sister yeah bars it was stupid don't scissor but sid will steal your sister yeah it was yeah and your mother with you it was like okay i'm not it was like watch yeah it was something like that it was I'm gay, I'm gay, I'm gay. I'm not saying any of that stuff.

But you are gay. But I'm not rapping that. And I don't want to lie, but the beat was doing nothing for me. Right. Well, you know, the producer, it wasn't, If young Metro don't... It wasn't Maybach music. It wasn't that.

What's another one? It wasn't... Don't play with it, Riley. It was kind of more that than anything else. No. It was just like, you know. um it wasn't mustard no it was not any of that no and I but I did think it was like a good uh like practice it was I feel like you know maybe I don't know I was just like I need more

words I need to learn how to rhyme I don't know I it was I was overwhelmed I was like I need to read a book being there with everybody thinking of stuff I was like I'm not as creative as I Not I need to read a book. I will say after I got home, I started thinking of all the things I could have said, all the things that rhymed. I was in my, I woke up the next day, I was like, one fish, blue fish, who is you, bish? Like, I was in my house truly, like, creating Pulitzer Prize winning raps. When you got home?

Yeah. At two o'clock in the morning? Yeah. And I went, and I woke up the next day and I was like, oh, you know what I should have sad but listen if you don't have a birthday party and you don't um have people record a record um in the studio send them the track beforehand i agree because i asked for it and didn't get it they did not and that would have been helpful um but also it was just like i think she wanted us to be in the moment and to actually like play off of each other so i got that but

But, yeah, I don't think I'm that type of worker bee at all. I think I need to, like, do my push-ups at home in a corner and then come in, like, ready to make the honey. Push-ups? You do push-ups at the house? No, you know, it was an analogy, bitch. You knew what I was talking about. What is the analogy, bitch? What push-ups?

What does push-ups stand for? Whatever. I just want to know. I think it's a great year for all the birthday things that people have been doing. Sidney did a paint and sip for the group. This person did a studio session. Yeah, I'm excited to see what all the other parties. I mean, it's taking us to Cowboy Carter.

I mean, we have to send her money for the tickets. Oh, I sent it already. So then you can't say she's taking us. Oh, is that what it is? I mean, she paid for it up top. But that's not, you can't say she's taking us. That makes it sound like she bought everybody's tickets to see Beyonce. She would never.

right never that bitch i mean maybe maybe if she you know came into some money but yeah the way she's like y'all got one more week y'all got one more week to venmo me and then what happens after the week you know how she gets the tickets go up for sale you know how she get and you know she's petty like that she you will get replaced not you but i'm just saying in general uh we have some friends that's like they're not playing about their venmo they will hit you up they don't have no shame they're like don't make me be a bill collector but I will I mean honestly I forgot how much the tickets cost so at this point she could just Venmo request girl 450 I talked to her this morning and I was like all right I guess so shit she's like ah yeah no

I saw you was getting birthday cards and putting money in people's cars and you know you owe me money I was like oh not this not this mama you owe me is it mess to owe somebody money and then be spending money in front of them obviously yeah yeah that's all that's an always thing like you know I think it's okay to borrow money but then you you have to follow up by still being like oh like you ain't got it or like things are bad you can't be borrowing money and then acting like, oh, things is up. I'm living. I'm thriving. No, nobody wants to see that. Well, you need to continue the bad, the rock bottom. Some people borrow so that they can ball. They borrow so they can ball. I was dating a dude and this guy used to ask him for money for stuff and he would

always feel bad because he'd be like, well, if he's asking me, he must have exhausted all his real friends and I'm like yeah or he's like why ask my real friends when I ask this random who will give me some fucking money I would do that but he gave him money once and then he went to Miami for spring break I said

now you got a lot of nerve that's insane cause you in Miami in your first of all you are you've aged out of that if you are asking people I don't know it's childish and you too old for it at the same time never that's We need to stop.

That's a mess. You too old. You too young. No, no, no. I'm a human being. I am every woman. I am everybody. I'm going to do what I want to do regardless.

Spring break is for college kids and people in their 20s, early 30s. You can't be 40 years old at spring break after you done borrowed money to get there. That's a red flag. Who am I? but a child of God you're a person you're a person who's not asking for money to go to spring break no no but I have

asked money from a friend I was like yeah I need to get this lingerie but my um direct deposit didn't hit can I borrow this

and the friend was like it's fine just take it who you need the lingerie for somebody I don't think you're allowed to have sex if you ain't got no money Not if you're a woman Not if you're a damn woman Is it mess? Woman, let me be your woman

Woman, woman, woman Mess Be your messy woman Woman, woman yeah if you borrowing money to buy panty draws sexy fenty hey if you want me to come in my dusters that you know the string is hanging off and whatnot the elastic if you're if you're my friend you would want better for me yeah and i would send you a linkedin or indeed link marie you're the type of friend i know like honestly like you you are my best but i know

if i had to borrow money from you first of all i'd have to write a paper i have to write a paper there are three reasons why i need 150 yes i would i would have to do like a powerpoint and then i would have to show you okay this is the date that i would pay you back and it like Why do you make me sound worse than Amina? Because, Marie, you don't let— I've never heard of you giving out money to nobody. I give money to my siblings. Okay.

That's it. Yes, of course. But, like, my friends have also never asked me for money. Why would you be asking me for money? They know nothing. You know rich people. Why would you ask me? Po' Lil' Reezy.

Because they feel like you. First of all, never poor. Never poor. Never poor. Reezy with no cheesy. Brynn has been on TV since I've known this bitch. Do not believe. Cindy, we were on TV sitting on the same couch together.

No. We were. Yes. Well, you did something different with your money. We didn't do the same things, Brynn. I was going through a relapse. You were going through a new account. Okay?

Okay. And because of that, I don't borrow money from people. But when people need to borrow from me, I'll be like. You've never borrowed money ever? No, not at my big age. No? When's the last time you borrowed money? I don't think that I have.

Marie is better than y'all, okay? Marie better than y'all. Marie better than y'all. Shanae better than y'all. Shanae better than y'all. Marie better than y'all. I just, yeah. Good for you.

I mean, Marie, you are good with money because you think about stuff. You're like, you know, you invest in, you got Acorn. I don't have acorn you got an acorn you have bitch I hear you talk about things that you shift into

the next Marcus Marcus savings account but let me say this yes when you met me you was in and out

of Ubers you was I never saw you on the train cause you were like hey hold on hold on let me finish

let me finish let me finish my young friend we don't need to review the tapes bitch we know I'm bad with money Sydney was jumping

in and out of cars and I would drag my weary body to the what the train she's a the beach

when you met me I did not take cars like that I took the B and the Q home but let me tell you what I would do

because that's what kind of friend if I'm wasting my money you coming with me sis and I would get you in a car with me oh 100% I was in the car

with Sydney I was in the car with Sydney but I'm saying like if I'm leaving my house to come to see you or I'm going to the city

for a show or I'm coming home after whatever I was taking the train she was and that's why Marie is rich and now

I'd be like well I don't really want to pay this for the car but I'm late but gotta go and I'm taking I can do that now

cause that's where I'm at Marie said listen you broke bitch you was taking Uber Black since I've known you and now you gotta

take the 2 train at 2am which is not true Cindy don't Cindy does not take the 2 train at 2am which is not true

I'm actually she's still in a car I'm actually doing what I gotta do. I gotta. You gotta be cool. You gotta be wiser. I want to. I really do want to be wiser and better with my money.

It's so freaking hard. I need a financial advisor. I also need someone to give me $200,000 or more. Or more. And land. And land. And land. I need, like, it's so imperative.

I watch all this stuff where these girls. And people, I even know people that are like, you know, dude, just sending money and like, hey, you want to get this and let's go here and da, da, da, da. I'm like, I want that too. But you are that. And you are that sometimes. I want it. You are that. Please.

I don't think the person I'm with would say that I would. I want to be with the person who's doing normal stuff with their money, but I also want somebody who's fucking frivolous with their money and just giving it to me. That's what I want. That's what I need. But I would not expect that of the person that I'm with now. But I'm just saying.

Sounds like you might need to date a man. No. Well, y'all going to go Dutch. Because they wasn't doing that. We don't go Dutch. We don't go Dutch. She take care of me. But I'm just saying, I want $200,000 or more.

That's what I want. Less land. Less land. Where is this land going to come from? Of course, we're not good with our money. America's not good with their money. Yeah. If America is in debt, I, too, will remain in debt.

But the thing that is really just, like, blowing mine, blowing me right now to date, like, I'm, like, one of the coolest, funniest, chillest people to be around. like people should be paying me to be around to be to be around and they are and they are thank you i heart i'm like thank you you are big money players okay um you said i'm the coolest funniest person around everyone i also said everyone everyone that you be with is cool and funny and then i also said slept at a party i will sleep i will sleep i gotta get my rest but when i'm up i'm up it's stuck when i'm down she's out when she's down she's out when she's up it's stuck exactly that might be the title you say it's too long you say it's too long i don't know i have to count the words listen wouldn't you agree i i just feel like well the thing is is

I want, well, for us, you know, I want sponsors. I want everybody, you know, I want us to get flued out with no, you know, no sex involved. I just want us to go places, you know, people are like, oh, we're going to have to fly you for there to be sex involved. The moon? Dubai. You would do stuff for Dubai? Huh? You would do stuff for Dubai?

Oh, I'm not doing nothing. But I'm saying, like, there's people who are going, taking these trips to these tropical islands and they, you know, giving up butt. But that's, I want us to go on these trips, like brand trips. Giving up butt. Giving up butt is a crazy title and we will not. The girls are taking brand trips to like Bahamas and Aruba and I don't know. Did Tarte send the girls to Greece? I don't know.

What Tarte be sending the girls? I feel like it's like, you know, Caribbean Sea type stunts. the thing is well okay this is where I will say Marie I'm old because I can't play that game anymore like I'm sober I don't have into Bora Bora Dubai Turks and Caicos in Greece I would love some Bora Boras Boras Boras with my bitch Boras Boras I would love some Boras Boras some Boras heads no no well Sansa Listeria but yeah I I want to go on a like a fun like trip with brands or whatever but I also know that I don't have the patience to be like yay yay let's go photos yeah videos they paid for everything and you just had to be that for a couple of days you

couldn't do it at this age I'm like even for money I don't want to do it I don't want the money and the land but you don't want to do the work it's not even really work when you think about it okay so this woman was like if a camera was following you for a whole week would it show you working hard for where you want to be no that was a great that line i said bitch not you slapping me at 7 a.m on tiktok so you when you're saying so you was watching tiktok at 7 a.m at 7 a.m she said if a camera was she was like the first the video started get up yes get get up do you really think that you're being the best that you could be the best to your abilities okay if a camera follows you around for seven days would it show you working where you

want to be in life and I'm like oh girl why you drag me like this the camera followed me for seven days it'd be a lot of downtime it'd be a lot of me not it'd be a lot of me ignoring my phone and And that's crazy. You ignore your phone. I see you hold your phone all the time. Yeah, but I'm checking my email to see if I got a response. I'm, you know, I'm checking my Instagram to see how many comments I just got. I'm not, I'm not responding to work things.

I'm not, you know, I'm not checking my calendar to see if I can do that thing that they reached out about. But you're putting in stuff in your calendar. So you are, you're better than us. I'm putting stuff in, yeah. Marie better than us. That might be the title. I feel, but you got to put it better than us. Better than us.

Now, Sydney, if a camera followed you around for seven days, what would it catch you doing? Bitch, I hate taking naps. I hate drinking espresso. I fucking, okay. It's a lot of, first of all, I have an apartment now. She has a home. I have a home. A house is not a home until you're like, this is where I be at.

You know you have a home When somebody's like Oh you want to meet me here And you looking around You're like Do I really want to be here I'm trying to get my rents worth Oh

And the rent that I'm paying Yeah I'm looking around like I don't know This couch just got here Like two months ago Do I really want to be outside You know I got my bed now Like

Somebody James put up my vanity It's cute It really He did his thing I mean it took him It took him like two weeks But

And like an Uber And some meals and whatnot, but like it was worth it. I think maybe he just wants to hang out. Of course, he's my friend. He wants to hang out and he's like, oh, well, I could just do a little bit of the work. He's my friend.

So if we hanging out and I'm feeding you and stuff, do I have to pay you as well? No. That's a good question. Mess. Mess. Everybody's time means something and is value. And so like, yeah, maybe you don't have to pay them,

pay them, but give them something. But you give them lunch and Ubers, it sound like. And money. Yeah. i'm bad i'm bad with coins george washington carver washington that's why y'all should make me rich because just know i'm giving back i'm taking care of everybody well the people listening don't you want don't you wish your girlfriend had money don't you wish your girlfriend had cash like me yeah shout out to the pussycat dogs they were toxic but

oh marie you didn't talk about your mess this week did you have any um yeah so my mess for the week is you know i'm talking to somebody right now and every time they do something that i don't like i talk to the council the citadel of friends and everyone gives me a different opinion about him and you know when you tell a story you tell people your side so they be like oh my girl why would you say

that and and then you talk to the person and y'all fix everything and now you gotta go back to your friends and clear the air or you got but I was talking to you I was talking to Mateo I was talking to my sister these are all people who are like while I'm

talking about this person they're like but but I I will say this your sister me Mateo we also know you friend so we we taking in everything but we also know you so we like right you know me but you also only know the part of the story that I'm telling but I also know you I know how you get down so I'm like I absolutely know both sides because if anything if anything somebody who's dating you because I feel like we have like a like a really like sisterhood and we I feel like we know each other pretty damn well like even when you know I'm feeling the kind of way you you actually know how to remix and be like well this is actually what you're feeling and I feel like maybe the same with you so like

if you're dating someone and they're acting like this I'm like I already know how you was acting you know what i mean because you're like actually actually yeah i am i'm and for that reason i'm out yeah but then when everything gets fixed i i'm i'm not coming with the same level of details like you just were like well what happened and i was like it's cool i think we're we're on the right page and you were like okay but when it's something that annoys me details receipts dates months weeks time stamps but when it's when things are good it's just like that's nice that's good but that's first of all that your friends who know you they that's what we just expect we we expect the and then the hmm and so I'm here for both yeah and it don't make

no it don't make me no difference because it's just like unless somebody really fucks up to make me be like i don't i actually can't be on board with this no more yeah then i don't care because you you know we're always going back and forth yeah we we venus and serena okay challenger yeah we it's we doing this so challengers it's it's nothing it's nothing for me and it's like yeah if you're a friend and i'm telling you something yeah i need your ears all the way open but I also need your mind to like be calculating stuff and being like I already know I know how you get down bitch so this is one side but you saying this but I know you did this yes yes and I and you and you're saying you did this but I know you mean this but also there's got to

be a level of judgment like judge but it don't stop how you move because I think a real judgy person it will affect their actions i think we all judge but i can hear something about someone and then see them and be like i we it's the vibes is fine but i know some people who are so judgy that they just can't they can't help themselves when a person will come around or when things arise and those people those are ticking time bombs those people you tell crumbs of stuff you can't give them everything yeah because they don't do too much they're gonna do too much yeah it's like play it cool don't you want to know everything yeah wouldn't you rather know everything than just know some okay but i'm also on the other end of like if somebody means a lot to me

yeah i'm i'm ready to pop off you know what i mean if if somebody if if i tell you something that somebody did to me and then you're like, okay, then you would be like, okay, do I really care about this person? If you tell me something.

Yeah, about something that somebody did. Because like, I have like exes or people or whatever, they've done stuff to you and you're like, oh, okay,

well, I'm through with them. Yeah, I'm good on them. Or I'm, you could go hang out with them, but I'm good. Like, I don't need to be

tight with them like that. A hundred percent. So, that means you care. But for me, for the game right because i know you're gonna you're gonna go back to whoever so i i gotta be like all right i'm gonna see you ah listen hey boo hey i just think i think realistically everybody shouldn't know everything i think you know maybe like one or two people know a couple

things but everybody doesn't need to know everything really yeah damn i gotta shut the fuck up i got to shut up but i feel like you speak to specific people i do yeah whenever it's about money stuff it ain't with you okay because you go you go be there with the calculator like okay so if you if you carry the one if you girl girl you ain't got it like it sounds like you shouldn't be going babe uh what i'm trying to hear bitch i'm like you need to say hey the money's coming do it you know but you know what Sidney the money is coming and I guess you should just do it but keep in mind you do have an apartment now and you are a home renter and I'm gonna say homeowner you are a homeowner and you need uh you needs to pay that bill every month so that's it

as long as the rent money is 200,000 or more or more which is not even a lot of I'm not even asking for a lot what you gonna do with 200,000 um well first of all I need to like invest and there's some things that i want to you know pay off high irs um no irs yeah but i feel like trump just fired everybody at the irs so we don't really need to there's not gonna be nobody there to like you know calculate the totals that we owe them wait what what's this everybody just got fired yeah they like there's like 500 people yes what you stressed about paying your taxes that's not enough they need to fire everybody for me to feel like wake up with nothing on my chest they'll never let those people go that's what's messing up my credit what's crazy is that the

school is still standing whether i paid them or not so why you on me and the tuition is going up so really y'all covering my tuition it's gone but what happens is right because this is because i learned this where i learned this from tiktok exactly man said this is how like debt goes is the the school or whatever gives it to the collections and they pay and they're like hey i'll buy this from you and then we'll get the money you so when you get the debt the debt is not really supposed to be in the name of your school if they gave it gave it to collections but you have been paying stuff off for your school right not really not not how i should realistically i have not but you still in emotions i literally said fuck that school i've never been there i

don't know them you said who i they when they try every time i would see that number there is no number i do is sydney washington oh you know you can mute numbers from calling you i muted all you know sally may and all them and now it's not even sally may no more one time i was like this is we They're in India? What? And hang up? And so, but they also say you're not supposed to hang. You're not supposed to pick up ever.

If you pick up, that like starts it all over again. Yeah, just be hanging up. Yeah, but anyway, then they gave, you know, the college debt to like a debt collector. And so what I've learned is they just want to get something. So they don't have to get all the money. They'll make sure that whatever you get it down to, it's something. And then what happens after that? I don't have to pay it no more?

I mean that's if you want to if you want it the nice way I want it the hard way what's the hard way Ms. Washington open up we looking for Ms. Washington

let's go go go move move move I'm like wait let me get a different shirt I need it for my girls yeah yeah yeah I want to have the t-shirt myth. That's what I want.

We need merch. We do need merch. We'll get it. So yeah. I mean if there's any like listeners who are good with money reach out to me. Reach out to me. Give me your hand.

You need a financial planner? Yes baby. I need somebody on the ones and twos with my calendar and bank accounts. You know what I need? to be rich enough that I can afford to have a business manager. And then once you have that,

they handle all your bills, they handle your taxes, they handle all your finances. Preach. Preach. Business manager. I feel that's coming. You got it. Thank you, friend. Now, what is your mess for the week? I told you, I fell asleep at

our friend's birthday. Is that your mess? Yeah, that's my mess. That was crazy. It was crazy. I mean, it was pissed. Yeah, Sydney, it was pretty bad. She called me the next day. She was like, hey, I'm sorry it was on you. But it was just like, we just wanted you to, like, get in there. Like, we know you got something.

It was like, I had nothing, friend. But you had something during that. Maybe you shouldn't have had Popeye's before we recorded. Oh, that took me out. That took me out. Why do we have Popeye's in the stews? Give me some lettuce. I need some carrots.

You wouldn't have had any lettuce. I need some Dig In. Shout out to Dig In. That lunch was good, right? And healthy. I feel light. I'm like you feel light

I feel heavy oh no I feel light oh I feel light and you know I gave my broccoli to you know a guest

so I'm you know I don't even feel like I have to go to the bathroom I feel good that's crazy you see all the energy I got Marie

yeah but when we started up I don't feel like you started here but yeah I work my way up I work my way so what I'm hearing before you go to a party

or a studio you need to have dig in maybe girl not Popeyes but dig in dig in dug in dig in dig me dig it dig it can you dig it can you dig it I can't no damn they must have been cracking that rice you had because no I just you know I get a second

wind and then oh you know what it is you also drinking coffee I'm drinking coffee but also you talking about people getting older and being old I'm like I gotta change my mindset I gotta go in i gotta be harder and then when i mentioned about that woman saying if the camera was following you for a week i'm like yeah if it was following for a week bitch i'd be embarrassed it'd be embarrassing like it would be a lot of me looking at my phone of nothingness of absolutely emptiness so what we so is that how we should move into the next week we should move into the next week like a camera crew is following us yes what you gonna do differently I think this is a test for all of us with everybody listening I think this is one one thing a challenge a mess the challenge

the mess challenge for the week is what would your life be if a camera was following you for seven days okay it's the mess seven day challenge seven day challenge and you know write out maybe five or six things that you did for the day that would be exciting on camera? Five or six? People are doing five or six things in a day? That's crazy. Marie, well, one, Marie. I wake up, that's one. Yes.

I also go to bed, that's two. So I really only need three more things. You gotta think big. You think it's small. I'm just like, people are doing six things in one day? That's crazy. Marie, you have an exciting life. not every day sometimes you talk and i'll be like wow what did i do what do i have going on

crazy you went you went to you went to florida with uh mateo that looked exciting it was exciting if a camera was following me for that weekend yeah be like oh wow the four seasons and then the other hotel we stayed at was the ritz i i never stayed at either one of those hotels before But I was like, this must be how Rihanna feels. Because she probably lives like this regularly. King size bed? Y'all was in the same room, sis? Room service?

Of course not. You had the same room as Rihanna? Oh, at the Ritz? Yeah. I mean, all the rooms at the Ritz feel like Rihanna could stay at them. In the house. Okay. Yeah.

I mean, I did get room service and it came to $53. Did you have to pay for that? Maybe it's a work expense. i was on the i was on the clock on the clock wait it was crazy it was it was on all i got was pizza and a glass of champagne for 53 dollars the pizza was like 19 the champagne was 16 and then all these service charges delivery fee blah blah came to 53 dollars that's the mess the add-ons the all that like i've never been that person to look at the receipt more than i have now i am that looking ass receipt bitch it's it's and i used to when i used to work at night i would hate to see

that person who not even paying me like can i see the receipt why can i see it is your car getting put down what are you are you expensing this like what do you need to see the receipt for but now i see because i'm looking i'm like you the receipt what extra what extra shit are you putting on here or what stuff that don't make sense what is this what is that but also you don't want to be that it's so annoying I remember a woman I was working at um Dinosaur Barbecue in Harlem and I had this had this table of like eight people and I don't know where they were from but they they couldn't have been from nowhere near New York but the people were like what is this graduity or where is the d miss it ain't here it's the graduity was it uh-uh we didn't order no graduity and I said

now how many people are in the party eight yeah they don't know that the gratuity gets added at i said i have to walk away someone else is gonna deal with this because i cannot i can't look at you and with a straight face after you said gratuity i can't yeah i i'm not doing that i'm not doing the deity stands for don't talk to me do not and so um yeah there'll be that kind of person or there's a person who'll be like oh what is this um juice this is juice for 12 what is this juice and it's like well you ordered a mocktail but it's not on the menu so juice it's juice and then the one would be like for 12 yeah well yeah yeah the average mixed juice the average drink here is $18.19.

So, a mocktail, $12. Yeah. That's another reason why I was like, yeah, I want to be in the house because I know when I'm in the house, I'm not spending that money. That's not true because sometimes I wake up and I pick up my laptop and I say, ooh,

so-and-so's having a sale? Or I'll be on Instagram on my laptop and I'll be like, ooh, where should I get them shorts from? And I'll be like, well, let me just see. I'll be right at the LTK. I'm clicking links. I'm putting things in the shopping cart. I'm stopping you there. That's why you got to not pick up your laptop, not pick up your phone.

Put it down, sister. Stay eyes closed. I know that I'm not spending any money in my sleep. Girl. I know that. Girl. That's why I stay asleep. Now we brought it back to why I'm napping all the time.

Because you're trying to save money. Trying to save money. Napping makes you financially responsible. If I was asleep the whole time, I probably would have way more money than I have. if the camera crew was following you for seven days and all you was doing is sleeping, they would be like, this person needs medical attention.

I do. Is there a doctor in the house? Oh, we are. Hey, is there any doctors listening to Mess? Of course. Can you DM us? We're going to need you in the comments. Just let us know what kind of doctor you are

and where I can get your MD at. You're MDing. Marie, what's the last purchase you've made on your phone? How about that? On my phone? I usually don't buy stuff on my phone. You use your laptop? Yeah.

Damn, the way my Apple pay. I mean, yeah. Yeah, the last purchase I made on my phone was like a train ticket. Okay, but what's the last thing that you, like, what's the thing that you, like, spent money on, like, for real? Like, a lot of money on? Yeah. You don't want to say? No, I ordered a bunch of stuff on Essence.

Oh, nice. Yeah. There was a sale? No, there was not a sale. Girl, you was playing full price. Let me tell you how much money my friend got. Full price money. Honey.

Well, you know, I returned them boots, and they've been trying to send them back to me, but I'm dodging the boots. wait okay that's really my mess okay say tell them we don't know we didn't talk about it so I ordered

some well you know because Kate this brand Kate they have these really cute croc embossed knee high boots right

they've been sold out since before Christmas oh the ones that Greta have right yes okay those are dope they've been sold out since before Christmas

so I couldn't get them but Essence has like a dupe okay the Kate leather knee high boot dupe I ordered them I get a size 38

they're too small interesting I said which is crazy because I'm a 38 so if you're if it doesn't fit you're a 38

right exactly that's what I'm saying it's cut small because I'm a 37.5 but the toe is like like narrow square

so I was like alright thank you I walked up and down my like from my living room to my kitchen living room to my kitchen

and I was like I can't do these I sent them back I get an email from Essence this brand hey Essence you listening

Not Essence Mag, but Essence. Essence. Essence. And they were like, yeah, the condition of these boots, we can't accept them because you wore them. I said, whoa. Meanwhile, back at the ranch. I wore them from my kitchen to my bathroom and back. What your floors was looking like, sis?

It's not about the floors. It's about the quality of the boot. And that's what I said in the email. I said, please don't send these boots back to me because the quality is bad because I didn't wear them. They're too small. Did they give you the money back? No they were like We can't accept them

We're sending them back To my house What? So they've attempted To deliver them twice And I have not been home Both times Bitch

So I feel like After three Attempts Three strikes They out They gotta return to sender And then I think I'm gonna get my money back

That's what you think That's how that works right? You think that? Cause if I can't accept them You gotta take them back Well can't you report fraud? No girl They already went back and forth

I already emailed them Wait for something else. Marie! What? Allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly. Oh, girl.

Off the mic. I got to hear this. That's crazy. Listen. Listen. So my clear membership had expired. Okay. But they were like, oh, we about to charge you again.

And I was like, I don't want to. I'm not trying to pay for clear. But you didn't pay for that. No. No. So, but they charged the card. No. And my bank was like, did you pay for this?

And I was like, no. but do you still have clear okay so boom when i was at the airport trying to get to the plane to go to orlando yes i was like oh i have to pre-check and clear and i get on the line i'm breezing through oh i hate when this happens i'm in the front of the line the lady takes my picture they say your clear membership has expired they say it out loud the lady was like if you want to sign up right now we could do it right now i said but i don't i said hey ma'am you're yelling You're yelling. I said, first of all, lower your goddamn voice.

And then I had to go on the regular TSA pre-check line. Which would be just as long. Yeah, I mean, it's not as long as the regular line, but the clear pre-check line was absolutely quicker. Damn. Anyway, my flight was boarding at that time. So it was like a mad dash to the gate. But you love that. You live on the edge.

This is how you do. Well, I was sky priority, so I walked by all the group Ds. And I went and sat right in 2A. gorgeous yeah he's in that first class but like reporting fraud

twice in this short amount of months yeah it's not gonna work that's yeah again all of this is alleged it's not happening

did not happen allegedly you know we are storytellers I'm a comedian yes fables and fallacies but yeah that's that's like two messes

in a row right there I mean this is mess upon mess we work we've been working for the people since we since we've been in

since we since we said and go we're like and the scene so um what else is going on should we read a couple um messy things that we got from the people yeah sure sure sure i have slept with two of my co-workers and two others seem to be showing interest as well where you work a job where do you work an office nah this feel like service industry stuff yeah i've been there so wait that's it that's what it says i've slept with two of my co-workers and two others seem to be showing interest as well i think after two you're done it's uh lights out jigger like it's like you did you've done it all

yeah babe you've literally done them all yeah you don't have to catch them all but you're about to Catch it all. You hit everybody on the lineup. I mean, unless you really need that much coverage for your shifts. Because you bang four people. That means four people that hopefully you can be like, hey, I can't work this week. They're not available. I'll let you know.

I've been there. When I was working at this place, I hooked up with a bellman and a bartender. And I said, I think that I've seen it all. Well, you did back of house, front of house. OK, kind of sort of whoever. No, they're both being seen. Oh, yeah. Both both had muscles. Well, what the Bellman needed them to pick up the bag. Yeah, he was. I won't even lie. He was hot.

He was very hot. Girl, play me dot like Dash and ducking. Oh, yeah. We I think maybe it might have been the alcoholism that turned him off, but it could have just been my overall thirstiness. i can't i can't place it but when i tell you i would be looking at the schedule like oh where he at and i think he felt that energy he was like i will not be wherever she is oh girl he was looking at the schedule to see where you was at and he was opting out yeah and i was hope i was a hostess i was at the hostess stand eyes peeled at every interest yeah looking for him ready to pull up it was bad it might have been you it was embarrassing so you don't want to be that so girl you don't want to do that like i mean if you bang in the co-workers and you keeping it you know ice

coffee caramel latte chilled and good for you but one of the people they gonna turn you out and then you're gonna be looking at the schedule your finger on there like monday wednesday monday thursday wednesday thursday friday saturday sunday monday tuesday there we go yeah damn I banged a co-worker once a bartender it was fine it's always just fine it's always just fine

yeah I feel like I'm going to get engaged this year I'm single okay I love the delulu so I'm talking so I'm taking one last victory lap

so far this year I slept with my trainer and a co-worker it's been fun I encourage everyone to do this yes this is not a mess

this is living so you think you're going to be engaged this year but you're single and you've already banged two people living your best life

so where is the how hmm it's a little mess that you think that it's going to happen this year

but it might I was at a show this weekend and there was a couple in the front row they are engaged they've been together for six months

I said huh you've known each other longer no no no we've known each other for six months and we're engaged. He said, when I know, I know.

Okay. I said, oh, he might turn her into a documentary. I don't like that. When somebody's that for sure, you got a body bag. You can be a little too short. Yeah.

I don't like that. I was like, how you know? He was like, I know. I don't like it. I said, oh, okay. I'll keep my eyes peeled for the Netflix doc. For the Ryan Murphy. I'm not putting it on, I'm not putting it out there, but it's just like, we need to be thinking more about, like, people are out of their minds.

And we are just so loose with the goose in our, like, information, in our lives, and we just be showing up anywhere, pulling up, giving everybody anything. And we never just thinking, like, oh, this person can murder me. But I do think that, though. You do? I think that on a regular basis. I said this to you last night on the phone. I said, in the back of my mind, I'm like, this could be bad for me. I said, no.

And Sidney said, no. And I said, yes. Well, they better have two bullets, okay? Because they're taking me with you. They better have two bullets. Because I'm going to be right beside you. All right, all right, all right. Let me read this last card that I have.

my friend is on OkCupid okay vintage retro my friend is on OkCupid and the first people who matched with her

were her former students I it's that's messed completely but I also want to know how old is the friend

and these students cause it's like now they I feel like they be getting substitute teachers that are damn near the same age as the kids so it's real confusing

and then the kids be old I don't know I'm just like It's a mess It's a mess OkCupid to me Implies the person

Is in their 40s Order Cause that's for the people Who like You know OkCupid is like Computer day in Like you gotta go to

www.okcupid.com I don't like that And the students I don't like how you said that www. I don't like it I don't I don't

You gotta go to www. No I'm gonna be like www. I'll www. You upside your head You gotta go

H-T-T-P slash slash W-W dot. I don't, I don't dot like it. And then the students, I feel like 21, 22. That's what I feel. Is that mess

or is that just living? I mean, it's living for the students. No, it's all mess. It's a mess for the teacher. It's all mess. Okay. And then what's the last

card you got, friend? I can't read it. I'm like, penmanship is so important and we just be typing all the time that like, we forgot how to write.

We don't know how to really like make things legible. hold a pen everything is chicken scratch that's part of the seven day mess challenge make sure you write once a day oh is that so yeah if a camel crew was following you around for seven days you should also be writing at least is that is that a part of our challenge do we need to challenge ourselves you don't write something down every day I don't think that you it's so bad I'm I am embarrassed I be writing my own name out and I'm like this looks like someone who doesn't know me is like trying to write what my signature

would look like. Becca, do you have a pen and paper? I just want to, it doesn't, yeah pen, I'll write it on the back of this card. I would love to see Sidney write, hi, my name is Sidney. And I'll write, hi, I'm Marie. You know that you have good handwriting. Well, my handwriting, people tell me my handwriting looks like graffiti, so

I don't like it. This is not, this is a terrible challenge. Hi, my name is Sidney. Yeah. I just want to see. I want to see what it's giving i want to see what you write like and it's going fast too it's giving script let me see show them hi oh sydney you write like a man no i don't like you know how guys boys have like kind of quick see handwriting no you're like a doctor's i read like a like a boss no boss man yeah that's how you write yeah i don't like that let me see what you writing like well you did it fast i'm

Do mine a little bit slower No, don't take your time Can I put it right underneath how my name is? Sure, sure, sure, sure This is not a versus I just want you to know We're never challenging each other It's never against

It's just, you know I don't like to compare, you know Here we are comparing I don't like comparison, all right I spelled my last name wrong That don't count I mean, my name already looks kind of like yours And it's just a little bit more pushed into the paper

grace is very girly like it's very like like a girl wrote it sydney that's what i'm saying your handwriting is not giving me i'm a little bit surprised you know i saw a thing on tiktok not tiktok twitter this girl wrote a whole thing and it was like hey pack your bags we're going to dubai i love you more than anything blah blah blah she posted it and people were like that's Girl handwriting No man wrote that for you And she was like He's taking me to Dubai

And people were like I know a girl's handwriting When I see it Sydney if you had written that In your handwriting People would be like A man is taking you to Dubai I don't like to subscribe

To gender roles And all that other stuff Or punctuation roles First of all My signature is My handwriting is very They them So it hits all

It's everything It is they them All and everything Can you write on this card Pack your bags No I'm not okay well uh this has been i mean i think i've i've hit my my mark right now you've you hit your wall yeah the wall is there the coffee where the wall the the trump wall is

there for sure oh the trump wall is like six feet of fence but okay it's not real it's not real so boom you know what your assignment is for the week Seven day mess challenge Make sure you write Something every day Once a day And then walk around And treat your life

Like a camera crew Was following you For seven The next seven days Are y'all sending us mess I would like to Can y'all send us more mess That'd be nice

Yeah send us a mess Yeah We'll do that Send us more mess Review us Rate All that good stuff What's the phone number

I want people to call Oh yeah Call We haven't We've never given the number Yeah Don't forget to write in Your messy stories

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