MESS with Sydnee Washington & Marie Faustin - "The Family Expert" with Aminah Imani

Episode Date: May 1, 2020

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Forever, dog. My God, wow. Here we are, we're here. Hi guys. So proud, so proud to be here. Well, the thing is, is that I'm saying this because I'm in a bad mood, but I know that I'm gonna work myself out a bit, so. We're just gonna start with that negativity.

No, it's not. it's not starting with negativity it's addressing it and then being an adult to move on how about that okay i mean some people when they're in a bad mood they just like sit in it and like festers and like sits in their heart and they become like evil wizards or magicians i don't know disney princess stuff but okay cool why are you in a bad mood friend something happened last Nine? No, I think it's my sleeping. It's literally just the sleeping.

I'm not sleeping enough. And then I'm waking up in a panic because I'm like, oh fuck, what time is it? And then I see what time it is and I'm like, wait, what am I in a rush for? And then I'll wake up and I'm like- What time do you normally wake up? To be honest.

Yeah, to be honest, T.B.H. Like 11.30. You rushing to get out of bed at noon? We've been up for several hours by that point. Set people to ran, nap, made breakfast, took a dump, masturbated several times. Like, you at 12.59? Wow.

Is that a read? Is that a drag? Or is that judgment that I hear? I mean, you don't have anywhere to be, so that. but I don't know what you like waking up in a cold sweat for it at noon you're right you don't have anything to do until you do well that's the thing I do be having stuff to do well like I had a I had a zoom meeting at 1030 this morning and I missed it I woke up at about 1035 did you did you

wash your face before the zoom or did you just roll over with that I rolled over and I said y'all not seeing me and hid my face I said y'all can hear me what y'all need to see me for that's a cool zoom option to have that you can just opt out of video yeah were you the last one there yes I was great it was work or was for like play no it's for work it's i'm doing a show tomorrow okay yeah um and they wanted to they wanted to run through tech and stuff like that how would you text i mean all of this stuff is pretty simple but it gets complicated at times like insta live it should be so easy to do but there's always there's always some glitches yes so sure i mean you

know you're the expert you're a producer you have your own program that's a two-hour program every sunday oh my gosh uh what time is that pacific uh four o'clock pacific um yeah sydney be uh burning things and saucing things and flambé and things and that's ken sydney cook every sunday at 7 p.m there is no question mark yeah there's no question marks there is no exclamation marks this i you know and the thing is is that no matter how i feel or what's going on right when i talk to you friend i always feel a thousand percent better no how's what you feel worse i know i didn't even put no concealer on no nothing for this

for the zoom i usually try to put on a look for you guys do you yes let's run the tape back from last week no oh my god you looked so great the last uh recording maybe it was like two recordings ago yeah you look fantastic i was a little disappointed today Is that my house? Oh, that's me. Oh, my God, Marie. That's fine. Well, Sydney, it's a Zoom between friends, amongst friends, and Andrew.

Yes. And, I mean, I think we should just bring our friend in now. Well, hold on. Before we bring in our guest, I wanted to ask about you. How are you, friend? How are you doing? Well, we can just have a conversation with our friend. We can all talk about this.

friend take note that i tried to bring you in to friendship with sydney shut it down that's not true i just wanted to let you you know take the floor for a little bit and like make it about you just a little bit it doesn't need to be about me friend you know like yeah you're in a good place you're right you're in a good place all right okay okay do tell I don't know I just I woke up today um kind of late also you know what today I woke up and I have no idea what time I got out of bed no idea but oh wait hold on my phone is not telling me because I said I think I was up at 10 so I was up late too so I've just been ignoring uh deadlines and starting emails that I'm responding to and

then not sending them so that's what I've been doing today um you see them you read them you say you won't respond and then you don't from days at a time yeah you get that little nudge and then you're like oh yeah and then you start to respond and then you open another tab and now you're looking at beyonce with a long bob so that's what i've been doing all day looking at bobs trying to decide what kind of wig to get a side part bob or like a middle part bob you're getting some getting some wigs i love it uh speaking of hair speaking of wigs our friend doesn't wear wigs or one that's coming in today but she specializes in hair yes she's the jack of all trades actually she doesn't just do hair or be phenomenal in comedy or be an amazing mother

and friend that always keeps the group chat on fuego 10 she she is like unofficially another host of the unofficial expert sure i mean she she never reposts the you know the podcast but she she she supports because she does she'll repost the other thing that we put on instagram yeah that's all that matters give it up for our yeah yeah we talked about it yesterday friend sure yeah give it up for our family expert amina amani hey guys Every time it gets me I was holding my breath

I wanted to be as quiet as possible But now I can be loud You are also our unofficial loud expert So yeah What did you hear that you wanted to respond to? Come on Amina don't go back now She was like

Marie what about you? And then you was like let's bring our friend in And he was like friend just know And I was like ah but also 10 a.m is not late waking up y'all don't be so hard no i feel like 10 is like a good enough like 10 feels like yeah i can still do it first of all it's no such thing as waking up late during the quarantine whether you have something to do or not okay if your body said stay sleep for the whole day stay sleep for the whole day okay your body say stay sleep for the whole day you pregnant

or you got mano yeah you got mano your baby got mano your mailman got mano everybody got mano mano mano y mano no if you waking up and the sun is going down or or or depressed you could just be depressed or or or you're lamar odom you out partying late and you just woke up at 7 p.m that's Lamar Odom vibes. Or, or, or you could just be in a quarantine and have nothing to live for. Nothing to live for. I was working out today and I was just like, for what? For what?

For when we get out of here, for when we get out of here, you're going to have, you know, a lifted booty and you're going to have like ab lines and he's going to have something that like, you know, squeeze that sperm. One more month after that, I'm starting to show my ass on Instagram. I need like something OnlyFans Yes yes yes I might get one of those Oh man

But yeah that's all I wanted to respond You said what? I said who on this call out of the four of us Do you think will get an OnlyFans first? Sydney Sydney She's only She's OnlyFans

Away from getting the OnlyFans oh sis i'm glad you came here to play you you you came you showed up sis okay showed up showed out okay here present well we love it amina's been awake since 6 a.m so yeah you know the schedule of a mother so well no so my son has a google home that's why i had to tell him the time when to come back down here so he asked google what time is it and he knows not to mess with me before 9 a.m so i don't get up before 9 a.m now well because you were doing that for a while it was like the whole yeah i was up early we was trying to like bang it out be all extra productive and stuff and then i was like you know what it's i'm the principal now you're mr clark

yeah yeah 9 a.m don't touch me you feel me that's it so i hear him sometimes i wake up a little before and i'll be hearing him in there okay google what time is it it will be like 8 43 he don't he don't do nothing i'm like yeah yeah and then he has two minutes yeah right but as soon as 9 a.m happens he comes in the room he's like it's 9 a.m mommy it's 9 a.m i'm like all right i guess i'll get up i mean that's how i get up in the morning i'll be like alexa what time is it and then she'll tell me and then i'll be like okay i'll still have time before my alarm goes off i don't know why i still have an alarm but i do because we because you know what it is because after this we have to have some kind of order we got to have some kind of

structure and we have to keep it going even if when we get out of here things are not going to be the same again we have to pretend that it will be yeah i mean yeah i hear what you're saying but when we get out of this uh the three of us are still unemployed so that part exactly that part that part well we got to make our own type of employment at this point that's true only fans great whole circle got it i mean structure and order is good i think it's been very pivotal in my family and how we run things and how my son is so amazing but right now we're in a pandemic so it's just like structure is whatever you make it that day i think you just take it moment by moment and day at a time um so amina you right now are in dc or maryland i'm i'm in virginia virgin but

my family i have a sister in dc i have a sister in maryland and my brother lives in virginia so I'm just in the DMV area we can say yes and I've been quarantined with family though the entire time the entire time like we got the notice that New York

was closed what top of the week that Monday and then I left out on Tuesday evening you dashed a minute oh girl I'm talking about I don't even know if I resent it I'm like you could have just gave it a little chance I ain't give it a chance I forgot I was like

you know you gave it like a week well let's well let's get down to the to the honest tea uh the honesty amina was in denial that corona was happening she was like no i'm still going to shows no i'm still going out yep still planning to be out i dare you to come against me i dare you Amina was still coming outside in like a crop top during Corona like to scare and we were in the house like sis you went to do shows. People are at my show

it's packed in here. It's packed. She would text us and be like yo this is the most people I've ever seen at the Village Lantern. Wow Amina was like I'm gonna still do shows until they tell me I can't and we were getting ready to talk to her about canceling the

knit, she was like, well, we're going to keep doing it until they tell until the venue says no. Remember that? And then the venue was like, you know, we have to close. That's when I was really torn apart. I was like, oh. I mean, it's like, I'm out. And for that reason, I'm out. I'm out.

I mean, it took it really you kind of spiraled for a little bit. I did. It was crazy to see you like that because you're my strongest friend. Girl. it took me out it was just too sudden we didn't have it well i guess we did have time to prep but i wasn't using that time

i was at the club top of the other week i was like listen so i'm doing hookah and everything life on the line for hookah y'all yo sharing the hookah mouthpiece with people with everybody sharing it with the DJ so the time I guess I should have been preparing and you know resonating with it I was not I was just like nah this ain't real

and then as my calendar disappeared right before my eyes it was just a sudden hit it was like a punch in the chest I'm on the floor and I can't get up I could not get up like four days i'm in the bed like this i just can't be like you know i feel like i was on the verge of something like i don't know i was working i was like yeah we grind i had to have sleep for like three weeks

straight i'm like comedy all day all night all day every day comedy and i was like i mean i didn't know you were this die hard about comedy this is i don't even i don't even like comedy this much yeah well you know 2020 came and i was like it's my year you know i celebrated 10 years i was like go hard or go home so it was just we all said that we all said that the ball dropped we were all like 2020 is my year yeah and look at us you know so i mean it still could be our year you know different ways i guess but you know year is 12 months i feel like six of them are already gone right we're not six but what is april four five whatever but before you know it it is gonna be june may may is here and it was we was just in march like nah we ain't gonna be doing this

in may and then look at that yo when they lock this down in march in my mind i was like oh we're gonna be locked up for two weeks april 1st we're gonna be back outside in turtlenecks yeah cut to uh what's today the 30th may 1st so you know i was wrong but yeah so it was a hit in the chest but i'm glad i have a lot i have a big family i'm the youngest of seven um and then i also have extra siblings that, you know, on occasions I'll claim, but today we'll just say seven. Extra bonus siblings. Bonus siblings for my siblings.

And then my mom's the oldest of nine. So I have a really huge family. So my sisters read my tweets and they were just like we coming to get you. We on the way. And so they came and picked me up and I packed up very little clothes. Yeah, six outfits, two pairs of panties.

If I post a picture in that shirt one more time on I was like, I can't even post until I get back home. It's over. I have nothing. I have nothing. Just workout clothes. You don't have a sweater you can turn inside out? Well, the plan was I was going to be staying at my

sister's house and we're the same size. I was like, cool, cool, cool. I'll just get a look from your closet. Yeah, that changed. We got punched in the chest with another plan. Her fiance was like, nah, not this quarantine. Her fiance was like,

get them get it well you gotta think about it this is a couple they live together right they don't have she doesn't have any roommates right no all they want to do during quarantine is just be butt naked in the house together they want to have sex on the counter they want to have sex on the floor they want to have sex on her ring light but they don't have time to be stepping over you and your son i know it was i should have stayed home but i mean i i have had fun with my family and I'm learning a lot probably some things that I want to like we want to erase but um yeah you're right you need to be home during this time it's so crazy because people's coming on my phone and they was like oh I should go be with my family you look like you're having a good time with your

family during the quarantine I actually had some people who left to go be with their family and then now we all like you're an influencer did you know that Amita so wait so wait Marie so your team your team uh sister so you you understand where she's coming from no i understand it would be i understand where the fiance is coming from yeah i understand where he's coming from the sisters like we're you know we twins we we're family we we're the same size come stay here with me in my house because it's her house right yeah she's like this is your home right you can be here forever right but he's like well not not with him acting like that not with him out yeah but that's the thing about that's what my issue is with uh i'm not gonna say specifically

the fiance but in but in general like if you coming in in a situation where you know somebody is very family oriented i think it's like you gotta have some respect and be like listen i know how i feel but at the end of the day family comes first and i shouldn't put the person that i love in an awkward situation with their family member because first of all we're in a pandemic this is not like oh you're just out of work and you're here staying with us it's like you're literally displaced because corona is all around and about yes yes yes yes yes i i agree with you i'm not here for some corona refugees though with no with no end date in sight like if we knew oh my god amina remember this if we remember this if there was an end date if there was an end date

and it was like yo we gonna be doing this until the 21st or we're gonna be doing this until april 3rd like if there was an end date i think it'd be easier for him to be like okay well they gonna leave on this day but this thing could go until august the way people are talking you know what i mean so he's just like he wants to get high he's vin rames and baby boy and you're tyrese you're tyrese he just wants to cook eggs butt naked but i think this is an important discussion because i was reading articles online and it's always some similar divide when it comes to families and like you know someone's being added and and tension between whether they're welcome or not or how they act to be

welcome or if they do act to be welcome that's a common factor when it comes to family all the time and so me and my sister are extremely close and I'm just like you know it's side eye energy right now for me because it's like bro what

this my twin like we I know her better than she knows herself so pretty much but I'm not marrying both of y'all yeah but at the end of the day there's a possibility he might not work out y'all are always gonna be sisters

and that's just how it gotta be sister sister that's what I'm just saying it's supposed to be family over everything and y'all know me out of every all my friends I hang out with my family more than I think anybody I know I'm always y'all be like my cousin coming

y'all be like Amina can it just be you mind you Amina my family's across the street and I'm like ah no i'm gonna cash out on uh on whatsapp well i'm always with we fan we they plan camping trips family reunion we go we travel together across the world you guys get robbed together yes yeah yeah you sure do never marie hashtag never forget never never we got robbed together in south africa like i'm my cousin named my son so when it comes to family

it's like foe like what's up this is yeah ride or die we here for life this when if i'm down she down we down together so um i think it is difficult yeah it's not going to change but i think it is difficult for someone who's not used to that dynamic with their family coming into that dynamic yeah because then they're just like well why this and why that and it's like it ain't no why it ain't no why it is what it is it ain't no why it is it is what it is what it is it's in the new testament you know like why your sister come five hours and pick you up and drop five out don't because that's my sister you know yeah those my sisters that's what we do and um okay i don't know i'm gonna go ahead and go home be sad at home you're sad you're so you're sad so now you're

sad that you're going home no a little bit because i think that if it would have worked out the way that i wanted it to that i wouldn't i would be comfy like everybody else whoever else is not at their homes but um i feel like the things that i'm doing here i could just be doing at home like i'm pretty much on my own my brother he be here he step in he step out yeah he be stepping out he be breaking my brother went golfing today he said we gonna we gonna uh what is it social distance um and they all gonna have their own cart that's what he said okay yeah vip golf carts yeah but that's that's the crazy thing is that amina will talk the shit about oh we not social distancing and then her house is a clubhouse like you she'll be upset that i have three people

and you know carolina's wayward home for non-battered women yes be upset about us going in and out but you literally have 17 people in a home plus the attic and then y'all have parties left and right spades parties you gotta be playing domino y'all be doing burpees together at noon. Don't forget about the hookah. They got the hookah in the house, too. Y'all got house hookah? Y'all got hookah at the house? Y'all brought me on the podcast to drag.

Well, I'm trying to make Sydney feel better. Yeah, thank you. You're doing a good job, sis. First of all, Marie, you know first of all, I wasn't even on COVID like that. They come, her and Carolina come, and they begging everybody to stay home.

Begging everybody to social distance. And I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, calm down. Let people do, I said this, let people do what they think they need to do or what they want to do. Everybody been in rule. Next thing you know, I see a whole clubhouse over there every time she cooking. Every time Sydney

cooks, she got a producer, she got an intern getting coffees. Sydney has a whole production going on over there. First of all, bitch, it's an apartment. It's Tyler Perry Studios. No, it's not solitary studio there's there's there is four apartments in this building there are people

in each apartment we are friends with our neighbor so you live in the hey arnold house hey arnold i don't care i don't know but it had i think it's gotten messy for a lot of people because the thing about it is and we're all quarantined so that's the thing i've been quarantined at first i was quarantined with my sister then i was quarantined with my other sister so now i'm now quarantined with both of their you got too many people that they have it's just it's really that and then my brother i come here and he's quarantined in his house yes but then his neighbor has a key and then his other neighbor walking in yo what's up hey using the key using the key

nah dude we quarantine i'm here you can knock leave the key under the rock so i these are these are all quarantine circumstances that i cannot control because guess what i am not home so what you're saying is excluding andrew our producer who lives solo i am the only person on this call that's actually been following quarantine rules that's hilarious let's not I do that because Carolina came to your house and used the bathroom. Talk about it. You and Stiggy quarantined too. So, boom, now you.

Stop it. Well, first of all, Amina, me and Marie are family. We're family. So, I need to go and see my sis. Yeah, we got the same strain of corona. Marie, you're also talking about a few episodes ago going over to someone's apartment. That's not following the guidelines. Who are you talking about?

Wait, I don't remember that. We did talk about this right Whose apartment are you talking about You said you were going to go over to his apartment This was recorded right Yeah You see the couch I'm sitting on right now He was on this couch yesterday

But I'm not hanging out I'm not going to parties with him It's just me and the dog What I'm just saying though And the dog And the dog And the dog Everybody's quarantine is in the loom

especially now because people are like Atlanta is open I'm going out out and it's been like how many odd weeks and ain't nobody coughing if you ain't coughing I ain't coughing I'm like no you know what I went I went for a run yesterday and I didn't bring water and I went to the supermarket after like with my mask and stuff to get like some supplies um for my dick appointment and um i was coughing through my mask and and i feel like people were like yeah no for real my brother coughed this morning and i was like see you were like what time did the train leave it's paranoia yeah i don't know i think that like they're opening some of these states up and like oh my god wait not even that did you see the funeral in williamsburg with all

the like the orthodox jews no thousand it was a thousand people wait hold on no way no the cops came de blasio sent the cops to like break it up and people are like this is anti-semitic and it's like go home take your ass home a thousand people in the same outfit with the same hairstyle that is not wearing masks but it gets serious because i lost a family member and that was one of the things me and my family talked about the fact that we can't go like when if somebody that's when funerals for us is the same as a birthday celebration right all coming together right and we're going to be together to support that person right so we were just talking about how it sucks that we can't fly to texas and be there with our family like you would

normally be so they're having some virtual ceremony and then cars are going to drive but the rules are you have to stay in your car you can't you can't be amongst each other so they're going to do that type of situation but people want to do those type of things they want to bend the rules for those reasons i think it's i think it's understandable but it just sucks that we have to process that if you see the photo of what the street looked like you're gonna be like oh it's a black party wow and i just can't believe nobody else had a mask on i would at least wear a mask it was out there hanging out they just had their beards out all free just like look at it look at my beard look um but yeah everybody else that i know who's dealing with

funerals or has somebody passed away recently they there's no funeral it's funeral home to the cemetery and i was one person there i was reading an article where they they talk about these four um women that are in harlem that has a funeral home they're morticians and they were saying that they have to turn people they have to turn people away and they said um mortician school will never prepare you for something like this and they were like they're usually so respectful of like deaths and being able to accommodate families and they've everything that families have asked they had to be like nah like even in terms of like what casket they want what color they want they're like listen we got one or two what you want which one going what i

can't pick the inside trim no the blue no ma'am wow it's sad it is sad it sucks and so and so now we stuck here doing insta live shows that's where we had we just doing zoom meetings via podcast we do they're trying to do everything virtually everything is my friend was like yeah my son is taking soccer classes online zone i was like where is he playing with the ball is he kicking the laptop she's talking about no she got him in the house with a soccer ball in front of the laptop no and i was like oh we don't play with balls in my house she was like since it's the quarantine i'm like no we don't it's certain rules i'm not bending like you can't wear your shoes in my house i don't care if covid is here like you can't wear your shoes in my house but they're

trying to do everything piano lessons they're trying to i'm not signing up for none of that we gonna play amongst each other or it's not gonna happen i'm not doing that i got an email from an acting school that i went to last year they were like we're doing classes online and it's like no for what for how much for the regular acting school prices you see that this is what's making me so upset is that we know that we're probably going to be in a depression like how are we going to maintain financially and these people are still taking advantage well because they got bills too sis fashion fashion nova stop emailing me i'm not playing fashion over style unsubscribed i feel like i've had to send them to sam eight times they keep emailing me talking

about your gift card at 13.95 is ready i don't want that 13 ever lane i can't ever lane i can't I don't care what kind of sale y'all got. Never lame. Never. Stop asking me to buy these wigs. I can't, what I'm getting a wig for? Listen, I keep trying to buy stuff online and my shopping cart is full on all these websites

and then I just, I cannot check out. I just, I'm like, I don't need any of this stuff right now. I'm shopping, I'm trying to shop for like when we open back up, but it's like. We don't even know when that is. And I think this is the best time to just save your money and only spend on essentials do not spend your money on nothing unnecessary this is the time yes i listen i'm like stack every dime that you have spend only on bills and if something that

you 100 need other than that you gonna see why you gonna see why it's gonna be a time where that 50 cent that you thought didn't matter it's gonna matter uh amina emailed no she texted the group and said no she texted the group and showed us her con edison bill it was eight dollars and she said damn she said damn i should have unplugged the refrigerator refrigerator is eight dollars worth of electricity now i understand refrigerator is eight dollars worth of electricity for the month so that's good to know but um yeah it won't happen again it'll be unplugged but i unplugged everything else believe that you unplug the stove yep you know i unplug the stove since that's the first thing i do when i leave

that was like the that was the first episode we had with amina i still can't wrap my head around unplug how do you move the stove from the wall yeah amina used to run track and she swims so she's got the upper body strength thank you sydney and she and she's not fucking nobody so that's the other me and sydney are both celibate yeah me and sydney both uh have decided to close our legs well andrew's also celibate uh right now yes yes yeah i'm being good yeah another sister in celibacy murray is the only one not a sister in celibacy well i mean some of us are blessed god be provided yeah i can't say that i'm not jealous yeah

i just caught a flashback um so andrew yes we get out of this situation first thing you want to do is try to set a little hook up or you're gonna yeah i i don't know i'm like i'm i'm planning like these separate ones that i don't know i will see like which ones actually make it to the to the playoffs i guess the finals yeah if uh maybe like who can actually maintain my interest yeah exactly so yeah i just got on day naps myself who are you talking to people um well currently right now today no but i slid in his new dms yesterday and i'm planning for the future myself as well okay you slide into a man's dms what do you say yeah what's opening line um well it depends on because you know this is something i do not regular but i'm

not afraid she said i'm not nudist i'm true to this let's do it hold on before you finish your story i went to karaoke with amina once and please talk about it and the the guy the bartender the like president of the karaoke was like he was cute he was he was nice looking and we were getting ready to leave and amina did what did you do you just gave him your phone she was like go ahead and put your number in there for me play wait wait wait the wait the one that we were all that we were down there oh we were in the village yeah i think we exchanged instagram no we were in the lower east side no we yeah yeah i remember i remember him because he was trying to talk to me first i'm kidding he was not even looking at me i wasn't his type

yo sydney reckless but yeah i came in and i was like when did the bartender get cute that's what i said out loud when you took that last shot sis that's what happened when you took the shot were we taking shots what were we taking shots we did take shots because he was given free liquor oh well yeah of course we took shots but i think i ran to do a show and had to come back so when i came back you did switch yeah and so i was like who is this man from delaware and we just kiki i was just like all right go ahead put your instagram and we went on a couple of days but it didn't work out i mean they don't always work out for it it's fine just the way that you approached

this man it was like you bullied him no you were like we gonna go out and you gonna pay for it and he was like yes ma'am absolutely he had an accent is that what happened marie i don't know but like i don't know i don't i don't approach men when i'm out so i commend you sis i think it's great marie we would love to see it though i would love to see you pull up on a dude it would it would be exactly like how i described amina doing it would be excuse me how tall are you next to okay well go ahead and get my number down i don't know i don't like everybody so if i see something i like i feel like how they gonna know if i'm interested if i'm sitting over here acting like i'm not interested so i gotta let them know

I'm interested to see if they're interested and then we move forward if they're not then I move on because I feel like it's easier to do it that way than to like wait and not really have but also it's hard to approach people is it? well Sydney you giving us a

crotch shot? the whole vagina is out on the zoom right now podcast is getting unprofessionalized close your legs I got on dress pants close your legs I wanted to get it spicy in here you know what i'm talking about it's hard to approach people it's like come on now

you're beautiful you look great you're funny okay cindy go ahead and tell us tell us what your opening line is when you approach somebody yeah friend i got my notebook out you see this because i called her last night for advice and she was like i don't know i didn't know how to say this easy cindy has a whole team she calls to for advice so don't even girl a team she assembles a unit a crisis unit to be like which community yeah which is like tower rangers we gotta put our rings together pink ranger black ranger let's go but always listening to the red ranger red ranger okay red ranger the red ranger be knowing

well the thing is it's just like yes talking to people is hard but it's a little bit easier when first of all you gotta pop an instagram oh okay so this is you gotta be verified to talk to people they see that blue check and they're like well yeah well sure let me get it together sure sure sure you know they delete their most liked photos but also everybody's funny all of you ladies are funny Andrew you're funny thanks I'm curious

yeah I don't think it's a reason to be shy at this point oh right now during the core? no there's no reason shoot your shot we're all home we're all bored slash something entertaining or something funny into the DMs and see what happens yeah I got time to talk about this

we can put this in a group chat we can laugh it can go left it can go right and and and move on to the next day i might i might slide into uh janelle monet's dms you should you should do it right now while we're on the phone and see what's good go ahead do it right now what would be your opening line to janelle monet i loved you in moonlight join the club okay she's gonna be like double tap and she's not even gonna respond she gonna leave you on red sis she gonna send you a thumbs up

I'm like sis I'm fluid too but what would you say to Janelle Monáe that's a tough one well I heard this is what I heard this is somebody who used to work in a hotel and was very close with

not close with her but was in interaction with her for more than one time she said she is nasty i yeah i i've also heard that she's not very good like energy is bad rude and will ignore you and not acknowledge you yeah i heard she was mean but i feel like everybody has a story about a celebrity that that way because every day it's not every day that y'all nice and welcoming the people coming up to you so i think everybody can no no i'm saying that you would say that to us amina because you know how we do at the net no i'll be mean to some people but yeah but i'm

i'm usually mean to people who stare me down and don't say anything but when people come up to me and they're like i listen to the podcast i like it or i came from so and so and we wanted to come see you live i always soften but you know every day all the time but janelle monae is like she just starting to have a moment like recently like janelle monae has been around for a while but like when she was wearing them little white suits and the black suits people wasn't really messy with her like that she just recently became like more mainstream right exactly you probably can't tell her that i think especially when it comes to artists they have already uh a view of who their their image is but i think we have to remember celebrities are just like us humans like what

if they woke up and they had a bad day or what if they woke up and you know somebody passed away or something like every day is not going to be cheerful for them what if they're doing a gig that they didn't want to do but they already committed to it and got paid or something like i think we just should show celebrities a little more grace you can't just be like oh they'll they'll be no we do but you can't you have to you have to treat service you have to treat hospitality better people need to be held accountable and you need to talk to them like hey yes this is somebody who's working but they don't owe you anything like you don't have to be nasty to them you don't have to treat them like they're a servant be nice everybody on this call

with success and fame is going to be mean to a waiter a manager a bathroom attendant or something along those lines at some point at some point maybe not a bathroom attendant but a waiter or a manager or somebody in a nightclub or somebody at a comedy club I'm not always that nice

to my super oh well super's he stay coming in my house and don't want to take his shoes off so now I have an attitude so he could definitely be telling somebody yeah Nina she's nasty I really gotta take my shoes off well maybe maybe his socks don't eat off my floor

amina maybe his socks don't matter if there was some food in the house maybe i could eat something oh wow amina you uh you fasting it's ramadan for her as well I keep necessities in the house and I'm also on a budget I don't just go and waste food and buy it and it just sits and rots what I eat is what I cook and it was probably time for me to just

go and get something else that's all you saying every time Cindy comes over you map it out we'll be getting a fridge I'll be like well you could have unplugged it right now You could have unplugged it, girl, it's just like a cup of ice in here and that is all. That's hilarious.

Sidney saying that? That's hilarious. Sidney just learned how to cook, but she talking about grocery shopping in the fridge? Hilarious. Nah, whatever, man. Whatever. My son ain't... You ain't never heard my son miss a meal.

Okay? He won't. He won't. He getting free lunch, Sidney? He knows. You talking? He knows. I wish he would step up and step out and be like, well, excuse me.

Well, actually, I haven't eaten in several hours. Well, actually. I will take a sandwich. Thank you so much. Oh, boy. Oh, man. Y'all are fun. Amina, how is it that you have so many family members?

There's so many. I think they just, because they were devout Christians. And, you know, when the Bible say be fruitful and multiply, they took that serious they was hosed my grandmother had nine children nine children and each of them had several kids and i know all of them and then their parents had several kids and we know all of their branches so i ran into my cousin when i first moved to new york i ran into my cousin on the train i didn't know who she was because i was younger and she's older so she knows more people that's how it goes she said hi cousin all right i'd have been like ma'am i ain't

got no change then she had to break down the family tree to me she started telling me my my aunts and everybody i was like oh hi cousin what's up well she had to tell you she knows your mother's middle name then you're like oh okay okay okay she is family well she told me how her family was connected to my family and then she told me how she knows my family so but i remember my sister broke her arm and she had to go to the doctor and the doctor was our cousin in atlanta what so that's yes that's how big our family is it's huge atlanta atlanta is not big but that's that's crazy that your cousin is another cousin is also a doctor yeah so there's you probably have everything going on in your family right now oh we got a lot we got a lot

going on i'll never forget i went to a wedding and um it was like my fourth cousin's wedding but they was rich it was in east brunswick i was like this is the side of the family i want to know yeah like uh yeah east brunswick in new jersey it was in a mansion it was like in a state and i was like this whole time i thought we was all broke together they i mean they're doing pretty well could have been rented sis i mean you know little kim has a mansion in new jersey as well wow i mean honestly you could shit on that side of the family that was One and done. I haven't seen him since. Did you bring a gift to the wedding?

Did you bring a gift? I wasn't even invited. We crashed that wedding. No! Oh, wow. Amina. And it was no kids. And my mom had my son there already. It was a mess. But I came, had a good little time.

They had like s'mores, fires coming out of some of the liquor drinks. It was extravagant. I had a good time. Oh, they was doing tiki drinks? Wow. Girl! Sounds like he was at a Dallas barbecue. Dallas BBQ, friend. Wait, Amina, did they have a seat for you at the wedding that you crashed? So by the time I got there, it was like, you know, everybody was on the dance floor.

So you got to the wedding late? You got there late? That was my first time meeting that cousin. That's what you're not hearing. Oh, my God. I love that. It was great, though. We had a good time.

We had a good time. I can't wait to crash weddings with you guys when this is over. listen we doing everything everything that we didn't want to do i'm doing i'm getting piercings i'm getting tattoos whatever i thought what you're getting pierced um so i want to get this right here and then i want to get an industrial and then i also want to get a septum so you want to get septums i mean that means you're going through something that's too much in your head you got to figure it out which one you want you're gonna look like a young janet jackson yeah no you've never seen where they connect it's cute trust me just just go with it man don't don't don't

all right erica badu we'll have two nose rings yes i'm gonna start wearing all my rings and y'all gonna see me i'm gonna come out i'm gonna be burning incense i'm gonna be right here cut through my ear you're gonna be radiating peace but you're still gonna be loud so that is so on brand of you amina and we adore it i mean i'm so glad you're able to do this with us this is great yeah i'm glad too man i want y'all to keep doing the keep doing the expert thing please it's people who still have unofficial experts even though we in quarantine some people doing stuff that they would have never thought they they would do so keep that up don't don't lose y'all you know y'all little i like it yeah come on andrew what's your i'm pretty sure andrew

has an unofficial expert of the week what you've been doing over there oh of the week of the week yeah oh i i guess um i feel like being emotionally manipulative to um men men you've been manipulating them yeah just be like oh like how like how was your day like literally you know just for the gratification of having someone to talk to you know but like and then they're like oh my god i can't wait to uh like meet up after this and i i know that most of them no no it's not gonna happen sounds like an expert to me in the back yeah sounds like an expert to me yeah i mean i'm not talking to anybody on no apps um but i don't know i i know a lot of people who are talking to multiple men multiple people and they have full-blown conversations all day long

and they facetime and they put their tits on facetime and then they have no plan like no plans of meeting these people when this is all over but they also might not have a plan either like they might you know like it might be like a similar thing that i might be experiencing you know so who's to say maybe everybody's doing the same thing we're just trying to not be bored exactly but if you're having a conversation with somebody that long and it's entertaining you getting something from me i think that's yeah yeah yeah it's someone to talk to that's like interested and it feels nice so and i heard having like being by yourself at home is a little tougher than people who do have people inside their quarantine yeah like even though you do have

your peace so you know yeah i don't know i feel like the grass is always like this is like a grass is always greener that's true always because people was like oh amina i want to be with my family and i'm like yeah listen i love him but i was just in the kitchen i just wanted to make me a bowl of pasta here go my brother hey yo yo yo you'll heat me up some too that's right yeah i can't say no i'm in his house right but if i was home by myself when nobody asked me well not there maybe, but still, he can do stuff by himself. There's always going to be somebody. I can just picture him in his room right now

screaming at his Google Home to tell him what time it is. Because it's almost been an hour. I'm crying. Sidney, who are you texting? Sidney? Who are you texting, friend? You sliding into somebody's DMs over there?

No. You know, as quiet as it kept I've had a lot of drama this whole quarantine that you know I can't really speak about it I can only keep it in the group chat because that's where I am in my life now

but it has absolutely been the L word times 12 dramatic and no matter what these hosts say about me I always keep it hot for them so what I keep it hot for you

I keep the group chat hot Oh, I thought you were trying to say you keep something else hot. What? I mean, you're hot already. Well, she kind of keeps that hot, too. Every time I look up, I'm like, put it away, Sydney. What? Amina!

I'm all set. No, thank you. No, thanks. Oh, God. When she offered the sous chef's pork, they were like, oh, later. Maybe later. That's how I feel. Sydney was like, you guys want to eat?

And they were like, not tonight. Oh, my God. I'm all good. but what do you think that what do you think that says about you having drama during a quarantine they love it no you love it i'm i'm like i'm just that bitch you know amina look at amina i don't think she was gonna take it there they can't get enough also you know sis gets new cookware and loses her mind whoa and on that note god bless you know it's been it's been good you know

yeah it can only get better right it can't get right it can't get worse than this right i don't know sis it's a recession right behind this but let me ask y'all this since we talk about family just a little bit before y'all uh close up um we wrap up in prayer right but have you guys gotten closer to y'all family members like have y'all talked to them a little more than y'all usually would since y'all have been in quarantine i think for me i have but i'm also with them but also my other family members i've talked to much more since i've been in quarantine so i just wanted to know if it was that the case for y'all i'm on the phone with my family members for longer now like usually when my dad calls me it's like he says what he

needs and then that's it but we was on the phone for like 12 minutes the other day i was like yeah damn samuel um but yeah my sister and i still like show what's at me and show me her cat while we talk her actual cat she has a cat she has a cat what yes her kitten um say what yeah and then you know i'll be on the phone with them for like my mother will just call me because she can't be as out as she wants to be she still works my mother was a nurse so she's she's essential or whatever but she not whatever she's essential but uh she'll call me when she bored my mother's also when she don't call me but she she will now so closer sure um do i want to spend the week with them or two months with them absolutely not no ma'am no no uh i guess i'll open up a little bit

about this um but uh i'm not close to my family and y'all know that but my mom ended up having corona and it i had to pick up you know i have to i don't normally when my family calls me i do not pick up but i started to worry about my brother not picking up and then i found out like oh my mom was in the hospital and uh i felt bad because i was like you know for me i was like i can't deal with a death right now like it just doesn't matter who the person is i can't deal with it and then on top of that if it being my mom or like my brother or something like that so i had to push whatever feelings i have aside and was like okay i have to be the big person for this but my mother got out of the hospital and she's she's doing better but she's still my mother so um yeah it's been

i talked to her yesterday and it was i think that's also why i'm in a bad mood yeah okay talking to her yeah it was it's very draining yeah but that's the thing about family too i think is they can like lift you up in a way that nobody else can but they are also the people who will get on your nerves and push your buttons in a way that no one else alive can do it right ultimately it's important to set your boundaries so don't ever feel bad for not answering right don't ever feel bad for not responding because those that's your prerogative and me and my brother talk about that all the time especially as we get older sometimes with my older family members they don't see us as adults they still see us as kids so they don't respect those boundaries

and so it's important for you to stand by that like no i'm not gonna disrespect you i'm not gonna call you out of your name but also i have to teach you how to treat me because this is who i am right so that's so that is that's exactly they still see us as kids girl they don't be trying to respect nothing i got going on your little your little comedy yeah you're still doing your little your little shows your little jokes and right now it's like you can't have any unresolved issues you have with somebody right now you can't really fix them you can kind of glaze over them because you're like well whatever you have like i want to fix things but it's like can i really fix them i can't you know my mom just kept like saying sorry for things and it's just like we so

past the point of sorry like i accept your apology but also your behavior and she just was like when she was in the hospital but she's just like this is sad why am i ended on this uh we'll we'll pick back up but but she just was like yeah this is we'll pick back up yes right never mind no say it i'll talk later i mean well you can't wrap it up in one sentence what is it just give us the spark notes that's me sorry go ahead she just was like this is my life like i've i've i've messed up so bad that this is where i'm at i'm i'm miserable i was in a hospital by myself i'm gonna die by myself and i just was like well actually jason lives with you so you're not gonna die alone but um technically i mean if we want to

be specific about it but yeah she's like nobody loves me and just you know i i was like this is in my head i was like this is manipulative but yeah she's trying to like guilt tribute but this is how she felt that's not those are valid feelings that she has yeah but it just puts a lot of things in perspective for me it's like oh see i'm glad that i still am nice to the people that i really love and i'm very open and honest and i don't close anybody out and i feel like god forbid anything happened to me anytime soon i've established great relationships with the people who are in my life.

Yeah, at least 27 people will set up a GoFundMe for you, sis. At least a minimum 27 friends. That's how many people just want to see you thrive and be happy and don't want you to be alone. So that's not going to be your future.

And it's never too late. I feel like it is never too late to say sorry. It's never too late to make amends. It's never too late to change. and um hopefully with that awareness may come a different you know approach to how she is with people okay dr phil come on sis amina's been reading some books over there y'all have been on twitter

come on tweets okay well what do we want to leave what do we want to leave on how do we wrap this up in a nice little podcast bow yeah family is blood and everything but you also have your chosen family like you guys

everybody here and you know you make of your life whatever you want to make of it and I'm just happy that even though this is a quarantine we out of work etc etc etc I know that I have y'all for real

and I know that Marie don't care about herself so she'll let me come over I'm sorry beg your pardon who Marie don't care about Marie mainly cares about herself

wow I'm going to go ahead and take my name off the 27th wow this podcast was so smooth should all three of us have a podcast together good day we talk enough and we see each other weekly if you would just end your cooking show so we can have our own zoom

knitting factory show we wouldn't have to be having our own podcast Sidney well sydney like maybe she should just move it up no because then it's too early in california maybe saturdays i don't know it works on sundays move another day maybe a different day because i love sydney can cook ken sydney good i love that show um fucking bitch i'm just so proud that you cooking that's all i'm proud of honestly i i like that you it started as a way to like prove to us your friends that you could cook and it turned into what it is now so you're welcome i would

have to i would have to mainly thank you girls for staying on top of me and having your foot on my neck it just really uh pushed me to be a better person and hashtag for the right Hashtag rice gate. Hashtag show the rice. Hashtag criminal mac and cheese. Wow. You know that mac and cheese was a crime. The people are upset. Is it a crime? Andrew, did you see the mac and cheese? I saw the mac. I thought it looked fine. It won't get cultural. Exactly. That's what I thought. I thought it was fine. I thought it was okay.

Somebody says she made Stouffer's mac and cheese. And I just felt bad because I talked to her prior to her cooking. I could have dropped her a mac and cheese recipe. No, Amina, it doesn't matter. If you drop the recipe, she wasn't going to read it. Sydney doesn't read the recipe before she starts. She just starts. I'm changing.

I'm changing my ways. I will. Okay, well, before we go, tell us what you're going to make on Sunday or, like, what you're thinking. I'm thinking about making gumbo. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay.

Well, good. Rice is included in gumbo, right? Hashtag show the rice. Rice is included in gumbo. Rice is included. Okay. okay okay maybe some shrimp maybe you're gonna be in the shrimp oh see i feel like that's complicated oh okay so just dirty shrimp but got it right um well i'm so glad i was able to do this

with you guys even though i'm gonna talk to you guys probably right now i know later we talk we talk a lot now it's so so much it's and i'm not tired of y'all so it doesn't for me it's like I love y'all so much well this is how it was before we would see each other all the time and then still plan to see each other so I think that's just the nature of the relationship obsessed

well I mean you guys stay with the podcast even in rough times please please you know review comment share you know keep sharing let these hoes know we out here

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