August 31, 2023 • 10 mins
It is said that women grow radical with age... it's the beauty of being authentic. ~ Delilah
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, it's Delilah. Thank you for stopping by. I have
put together some of my favorite radio moments here to
share with you on our daily podcast. I saw a
picture the other day. It had a picture of a
(00:22):
woman who's a little older than me, okay, a lot
older than me, picking up looks like trash off a beach,
and it says women grow radical with age. One day,
an army of gray haired women may quietly take over
the earth. We do grow radical with age, don't we.
(00:44):
And you know why, because we reached that point in
life where we realize all the years we spent worrying
what someone else thinks. Are we thin enough, are we
pretty enough? Are we this enough? Are we educated enough?
Blah blah blah, we wake up and we go, you
know what, I don't have to live up to anybody's expectations.
(01:08):
I get to be authentic. I get to be me.
And then all that energy we spent doing this diet
and that diet and trying to live up to expectations,
we now spend that time and energy making a difference,
changing the world, doing good. So I hope that you
(01:32):
have grown tired of living up to other people's expectations
and you are ready to be your authentic self. Hello,
you've called de La La. Who is this?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It's Suzanne? How are you?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Suzanne? I am wonderful in yourself.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I am doing really well sitting here with my kids,
and it just doesn't get me better than that.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
How many kids are you sitting with? And Chi laxon tonight?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I have three kids totally, but I have two with me, Katherine,
who's a junior in high school, and my son Adam,
who's in eighth grade and he's playing Skyrim of some sort,
and Katherine plays the flute in the band and they're
just awesome. And then I have a twenty year old
at Text Text studying accounting and finance. But I wanted
(02:22):
to tell you about my very best.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Friend, tell me about your VBS.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Her name is Leanne. I've known her since I was
thirteen years old, and I taught her how to ski,
and she knows everything about me, and I know everything
about her, and we're both fifty three and she's just
stuck with me through thick and thin and understands me
better than anybody. And I just I love her so
(02:48):
much and.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
She loves me.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
So you know we're gonna push each other's wheelchairs when
we get old. So, yeah, we're gonna do that. But
because we don't care. Okay, we've already gotten past that
stage of, you know, caring about what people think about it.
You know, we're controversial, we're living on the edge. We're
you know, we're in our fifties.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
We don't care.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
We don't care.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Huh, we don't care.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah. My son said to me today, Mom, please don't
embarrass me. I said, what do you What are you saying?
I'm going to do little embarrassing? He says, pretty much
everything you do.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
How really, that's what I thought you could say everything
you see. And they're like, oh my gosh, Mom, that's right.
And I just think you're a blessing. And I just
thank the Lord for you.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Thank you, God, bless you, honey.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
God, bless you. To Deliah, thanks for the chat.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Hi. Is this Rebecca? Yes? Is this Rebecca with the
group of girls?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Yeah, that would be us.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Is there giggling going on?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Absolutely, lots of laughing, lots of laughing.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
And eating stuff that he keeps saying, I shouldn't be
eating this.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Stuff that we don't tell each other. Later on that
we ate it.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
That's right. You just pretend it's Mega calories if you
just you know, stay in denial. Welcome aboard. Tell me
how you know your girlfriends?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
My friends and I met. There were about seven of us.
Our husbands were stationed on the same ship. They're all
in the Navy, and at the time we didn't really
have a large family support group, and our husband had
been deployed. We got together and just decided that every
Friday we were going to meet up for either movies
or games or just something to kind of keep us
(04:34):
occupied to end the week on a good note. And
it just for some reason, it just caught on and
we had more people show up, and eventually we turned
into a group of fifteen to twenty people just defending.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Who brought who.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
It was just a lot of fun. And we still
meet on Fridays, and some of the girls have moved
on and moved to other areas and they started their
own groups.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
So how many of you are together? I now together?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Right now?
Speaker 4 (05:01):
We have about nine. We always have your show on
on Friday whenever we get together, and usually the first hour,
you know, we're listening in and talking about the different
calls that are coming in What do you.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Mean the first hour, I'm here for five.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Well after about the first hour. We kind of have
some that don't exactly have long attention span, so they
have to watch movies and things like that. Oh, far
at the table.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Okay, you stay at the table with me. Let those
other party poopers go watch their movie. I'll play a
song for you. Rebecca. You have a great night. Bye
bye bye bye. Hi, Susan, what can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Well, Delilah, I work for a wonderful group of women.
They are a bunch of differently abled adult women who
have gone through much adversity in their lives. And they
asked me, I'm a social They asked me if I
could teach them how to be friends. So I started
a woman's group. And one night we were driving home
(06:07):
from a meeting and your station came on the radio
and it said, I think you said something like when
your boyfriends let you down and when your husbands let
you down, your girlfriend will always be there for you.
And they looked at each other and said, is she
talking about us?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
So these women are becoming friends and learning the power
of sisterhood.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Well, yes, and they're supporting each other through different medical appointments,
and they're doing things that often the case manager myself
would do. They're doing them now for each other, and
it's terrific. When they have problems, they call one another.
They don't call a professional, they call a true friend.
They never had the opportunity of calling a friend. They
lived in institutions or in situations where they didn't have
(06:49):
access to a phone. Now they live on their own.
They're self sufficient, meant most of them. Some live in
a family care situation where a family's taken care of them,
but they.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Independent living skills. Yes, And there's nothing, there is nothing
in this world like a best friend. It's my girlfriends
that get me through.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
And that's what you said. And they all looked at
he said. They were almost in tears. I mean they
thought you were specifically speaking.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I am give me some names here of these wonderful
women that we love.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Okay, we have Carol, we have Michelle. We have Nancy,
who is also visually impaired. We have Linda, we have Glinda,
and I'm forgetting one, oh barbaras well.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I will play a song for these wonderful women, and
I thank God that they are learning the joy and
the love, the amazing, beautiful love that God gives us
through friends. Thank you, Bye bye bye, Hi, good evening.
(07:53):
Who's this, Micky Mickey? What can I do for you?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I am one of their hanging baskets.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
One of the hanging baskets. Who are the hanging baskets?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Hanging baskets are a bunch of women who get together
and have a great deal of fun.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
So you're part of our Friday night girls.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
We are?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
And where do you hang baskets?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Well, we actually call ourselves the hanging baskets because it's
the upper portion of our Torso.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Say no more, say no more. You know, I'm an
honorary member in that club. Small baskets, they're not, you know,
huge baskets that are hanging. But but you know, three
kids later, it's it happens, Yep, it does. Okay, So
(08:50):
I'm thinking flower baskets along porch rails and and this
is a different kind of support group.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
It certainly is.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
And what can I do for you ladies tonight?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Well, you know, we just wanted to let you know
that we really do exist. And there's about five or
six of us, you know, There's Jennifer and Tana and Amy,
and death and Dicky and myself and Jane. We do
it once or twice a month. We just had a
luncheon yesterday and I want you to know my husband
Nelson waits on his hand and foot along with the
(09:24):
other husbands who help support us.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
And what can I play for you crazy ladies tonight.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
You know we like just about anything, and I'll leave
that to your discretion. We think you are great. We
want you to know that it is really you're right
in the respect that we have a marvelous, marvelous time.
We enjoy each other's company, We're very loyal to one another,
and we think that we are the greatest things.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Spread Well, I have to agree with you, and that's
why I tell all my listeners to get together with
their best friend. That's where we have the Friday Night
Girls Club, so women can find the bond and the
love and the support. Support being the keyword here that
you the hanging baskets have found.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
We have. We have a lot of laughter.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I can tell that all right, you work in the
support and apartment. I'll find a song for you.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Thank you, Bye bye.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I so hope you have enjoyed these radio moments as
much as I enjoy bringing them to you, I'll share
more with you each weekday on Hey, it's Delilah
Hey, it's Delilah. Thank you for stopping by. I have
put together some of my favorite radio moments here to
share with you on our daily podcast. I saw a
picture the other day. It had a picture of a
(00:22):
woman who's a little older than me, okay, a lot
older than me, picking up looks like trash off a beach,
and it says women grow radical with age. One day,
an army of gray haired women may quietly take over
the earth. We do grow radical with age, don't we.
(00:44):
And you know why, because we reached that point in
life where we realize all the years we spent worrying
what someone else thinks. Are we thin enough, are we
pretty enough? Are we this enough? Are we educated enough?
Blah blah blah, we wake up and we go, you
know what, I don't have to live up to anybody's expectations.
(01:08):
I get to be authentic. I get to be me.
And then all that energy we spent doing this diet
and that diet and trying to live up to expectations,
we now spend that time and energy making a difference,
changing the world, doing good. So I hope that you
(01:32):
have grown tired of living up to other people's expectations
and you are ready to be your authentic self. Hello,
you've called de La La. Who is this?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It's Suzanne? How are you?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Suzanne? I am wonderful in yourself.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I am doing really well sitting here with my kids,
and it just doesn't get me better than that.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
How many kids are you sitting with? And Chi laxon tonight?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I have three kids totally, but I have two with me, Katherine,
who's a junior in high school, and my son Adam,
who's in eighth grade and he's playing Skyrim of some sort,
and Katherine plays the flute in the band and they're
just awesome. And then I have a twenty year old
at Text Text studying accounting and finance. But I wanted
(02:22):
to tell you about my very best.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Friend, tell me about your VBS.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Her name is Leanne. I've known her since I was
thirteen years old, and I taught her how to ski,
and she knows everything about me, and I know everything
about her, and we're both fifty three and she's just
stuck with me through thick and thin and understands me
better than anybody. And I just I love her so
(02:48):
much and.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
She loves me.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
So you know we're gonna push each other's wheelchairs when
we get old. So, yeah, we're gonna do that. But
because we don't care. Okay, we've already gotten past that
stage of, you know, caring about what people think about it.
You know, we're controversial, we're living on the edge. We're
you know, we're in our fifties.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
We don't care.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
We don't care.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Huh, we don't care.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah. My son said to me today, Mom, please don't
embarrass me. I said, what do you What are you saying?
I'm going to do little embarrassing? He says, pretty much
everything you do.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
How really, that's what I thought you could say everything
you see. And they're like, oh my gosh, Mom, that's right.
And I just think you're a blessing. And I just
thank the Lord for you.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Thank you, God, bless you, honey.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
God, bless you. To Deliah, thanks for the chat.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Hi. Is this Rebecca? Yes? Is this Rebecca with the
group of girls?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Yeah, that would be us.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Is there giggling going on?
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Absolutely, lots of laughing, lots of laughing.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
And eating stuff that he keeps saying, I shouldn't be
eating this.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Stuff that we don't tell each other. Later on that
we ate it.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
That's right. You just pretend it's Mega calories if you
just you know, stay in denial. Welcome aboard. Tell me
how you know your girlfriends?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
My friends and I met. There were about seven of us.
Our husbands were stationed on the same ship. They're all
in the Navy, and at the time we didn't really
have a large family support group, and our husband had
been deployed. We got together and just decided that every
Friday we were going to meet up for either movies
or games or just something to kind of keep us
(04:34):
occupied to end the week on a good note. And
it just for some reason, it just caught on and
we had more people show up, and eventually we turned
into a group of fifteen to twenty people just defending.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Who brought who.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
It was just a lot of fun. And we still
meet on Fridays, and some of the girls have moved
on and moved to other areas and they started their
own groups.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
So how many of you are together? I now together?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Right now?
Speaker 4 (05:01):
We have about nine. We always have your show on
on Friday whenever we get together, and usually the first hour,
you know, we're listening in and talking about the different
calls that are coming in What do you.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Mean the first hour, I'm here for five.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Well after about the first hour. We kind of have
some that don't exactly have long attention span, so they
have to watch movies and things like that. Oh, far
at the table.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Okay, you stay at the table with me. Let those
other party poopers go watch their movie. I'll play a
song for you. Rebecca. You have a great night. Bye
bye bye bye. Hi, Susan, what can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Well, Delilah, I work for a wonderful group of women.
They are a bunch of differently abled adult women who
have gone through much adversity in their lives. And they
asked me, I'm a social They asked me if I
could teach them how to be friends. So I started
a woman's group. And one night we were driving home
(06:07):
from a meeting and your station came on the radio
and it said, I think you said something like when
your boyfriends let you down and when your husbands let
you down, your girlfriend will always be there for you.
And they looked at each other and said, is she
talking about us?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
So these women are becoming friends and learning the power
of sisterhood.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Well, yes, and they're supporting each other through different medical appointments,
and they're doing things that often the case manager myself
would do. They're doing them now for each other, and
it's terrific. When they have problems, they call one another.
They don't call a professional, they call a true friend.
They never had the opportunity of calling a friend. They
lived in institutions or in situations where they didn't have
(06:49):
access to a phone. Now they live on their own.
They're self sufficient, meant most of them. Some live in
a family care situation where a family's taken care of them,
but they.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Independent living skills. Yes, And there's nothing, there is nothing
in this world like a best friend. It's my girlfriends
that get me through.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
And that's what you said. And they all looked at
he said. They were almost in tears. I mean they
thought you were specifically speaking.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I am give me some names here of these wonderful
women that we love.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Okay, we have Carol, we have Michelle. We have Nancy,
who is also visually impaired. We have Linda, we have Glinda,
and I'm forgetting one, oh barbaras well.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I will play a song for these wonderful women, and
I thank God that they are learning the joy and
the love, the amazing, beautiful love that God gives us
through friends. Thank you, Bye bye bye, Hi, good evening.
(07:53):
Who's this, Micky Mickey? What can I do for you?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I am one of their hanging baskets.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
One of the hanging baskets. Who are the hanging baskets?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Hanging baskets are a bunch of women who get together
and have a great deal of fun.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
So you're part of our Friday night girls.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
We are?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
And where do you hang baskets?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Well, we actually call ourselves the hanging baskets because it's
the upper portion of our Torso.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Say no more, say no more. You know, I'm an
honorary member in that club. Small baskets, they're not, you know,
huge baskets that are hanging. But but you know, three
kids later, it's it happens, Yep, it does. Okay, So
(08:50):
I'm thinking flower baskets along porch rails and and this
is a different kind of support group.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
It certainly is.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
And what can I do for you ladies tonight?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Well, you know, we just wanted to let you know
that we really do exist. And there's about five or
six of us, you know, There's Jennifer and Tana and Amy,
and death and Dicky and myself and Jane. We do
it once or twice a month. We just had a
luncheon yesterday and I want you to know my husband
Nelson waits on his hand and foot along with the
(09:24):
other husbands who help support us.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
And what can I play for you crazy ladies tonight.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
You know we like just about anything, and I'll leave
that to your discretion. We think you are great. We
want you to know that it is really you're right
in the respect that we have a marvelous, marvelous time.
We enjoy each other's company, We're very loyal to one another,
and we think that we are the greatest things.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Spread Well, I have to agree with you, and that's
why I tell all my listeners to get together with
their best friend. That's where we have the Friday Night
Girls Club, so women can find the bond and the
love and the support. Support being the keyword here that
you the hanging baskets have found.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
We have. We have a lot of laughter.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I can tell that all right, you work in the
support and apartment. I'll find a song for you.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Thank you, Bye bye.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I so hope you have enjoyed these radio moments as
much as I enjoy bringing them to you, I'll share
more with you each weekday on Hey, it's Delilah
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