March 11, 2025 • 32 mins
Besties Leslie and Angella share exciting news about their upcoming live event in Raleigh, North Carolina, where they'll host a community conversation after a performance of "The Old Settler," a play originally performed by Felicia Rashad and Debbie Allen.
• Angella is the wig designer for the production directed by actor and author Moses T Alexander Greene.
• The play explores themes of love, survival and family dynamics in 1943 Harlem
• Leslie and Angella have different opinions about a key part of the play involving a May-December romance
The play runs March 14-16, with Leslie and Angella appearing live for the Actor Talkback on March 15 after the 2:00 PM performance
Come see the play and join our conversation at the Kennedy Theater in the Martin Marietta Performing Arts Center in Raleigh!
• Angella shares about her spontaneous trip to Maui and her philosophy of "yielding to the river" of life
• The women are planning their 45th Brooklyn Tech High School reunion, overcoming venue challenges
The Old Settler (2001)-Directed by Debbie Allen, starring Phylicia Rashad, Bumper Robinson & Debbie
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
hey aunt hello, leslie how are you?
Are you sounding a littlebritish, are you?
No, it's not british no, it'snot british.
What do you mean?
What is that calio?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
it's just a slow hello, that's all okay, nothing
more than that.
Hello, hello, hello.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Damn, you start out cutting out.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Oh wow, what can I tell you?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
How you?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
doing.
I'm good.
I'm good.
Today was a little challenging,but it's come around.
It's come around.
My internet, my cable service,is it.
Cable Internet service waschoppy all day for the last few
days, but hopefully they haveresolved it so I was able to get
some work done, you mean youpaid the bill.
(00:49):
I did pay the bill.
It wasn't me.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
This time I paid the bill, you know back in the day
we used to say you know myphone's not working.
Is it the phone you?
Might as well, not say it,living paycheck to paycheck, I
get it, I've been there.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
You might as well not say it, because that's going to
be the assumption, so mostpeople won't believe you anyway.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
So you might as well not even tell them, it's just
trouble whatever.
Especially when you justborrowed money last week.
Yeah, the phone's off, oh mygoodness.
All right, I'll get serious.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Get it together, Introduce us Les.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Welcome to another episode of Black Boomer Besties
from Brooklyn.
I'm Leslie.
My pal over there is Angela,and we've been friends almost 50
years now, goodness gracious,so I'll give the mic back to you
(01:55):
.
I'm done with you.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
No, I'll give it back to you.
Tell them who we are.
Hey guys, so we're, we areLeslie and Angela and we are two
intellectually curious olderblack women.
We, we just like to go deep.
(02:29):
We've beeny type of thing inRaleigh, north Carolina.
We're going to be having kindof a community conversation
about a play called the OldSettler.
It's being held at the KennedyAuditorium at the Martin
(02:52):
Marietta Performing Arts Centerin Raleigh.
It's the big performing artscenter in Raleigh, in the
Kennedy Theater, kennedy Theater, and Leslie and I have been
(03:13):
asked to do a post-performancecommunity conversation about the
.
No, it's so great.
So I'm doing wig design for theproduction and the director he
is a director, he is aplaywright, he is an actor, his
name is Moses T Alexander Greenand he is directing this play
(03:34):
and he asked me if I would dowig design.
Would you and your bestie dokind of a podcast, a
conversation?
Because let me tell you whatthe play is about and you'll
understand why we are a perfectfit for it.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
And all I heard was road trip.
I'm in, All right.
What are we talking about?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I'm in, okay, so wait , so talk to the people.
Let me pull it up again so Ican.
I can read the description ofthe the play it's going to be a
doozy.
Okay, I found it too late.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I found it, so it's called she didn't let me get a
word in edgewise.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It's called the old settler.
It is set in 1943 Harlem, in a1943 Harlem tenement.
John Henry Woodward's the OldSettler is a compelling story of
love, yearning and unexpectedturns.
By the way, it was performed byFelicia Rashad and Debbie Allen
(04:45):
a few years ago, so you'll findit.
We'll put a link to it, butyou'll find their recordings of
it on YouTube.
So Elizabeth Borny, amiddle-aged spinster, and her
skeptical sister Quillie McGrath, find their lives disrupted
(05:07):
when a handsome, young, greatmigrator right.
So he comes up North from theSouth.
His name is husband Witherspoonand he shows up on their
doorstep.
Husband, their new border hasbeen on a quest to reunite with
his long, long lost love, louBessie.
However, his arrival sparks anunexpected May-December.
(05:32):
Do you know what that means?
What is May-December?
Do you know what that means?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I know what that means Say what it means.
That means if I were to embarkon a relationship with a much
younger person, right, right, sothat would be the, I guess I'd
be the December, you'd betrouble, you'd be the December.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
So they embark on this relationship and let me get
and leading to a mix of humor,tension and emotional depth.
The play, which explores themesof love, survival and family
dynamics, is infused with asense of authenticity and warmth
(06:16):
.
The production is directed byMoses T Alexander Green, whose
accolades include Broadway WorldRaleigh's 2024 Award for Best
Performer in a Musical, northCarolina Theater's the Color
Purple I was doing wigs on thattoo and it's 2020 Award for
(06:38):
Original Script of the Decadefor the Lively Mohab Theater
Company of the decade for theLively Mohab Theater Company.
He also wrote and directedPulled, a gospel musical drama.
So it's going to be amazing andwe're Leslie so Okay, wait,
wait, wait, wait, wait wait wait, wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Because you know what I'm going to tell you.
Does this mean I have to be onmy best behavior?
You don't, I don't, I can.
You don't have to be on my bestbehavior.
You don't, I don't, I can bringthe shenanigans on the road.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Road trip.
Please, you can bring it on theroad.
So we've both seen the DebbieAllen Felicia Rashad version of
this.
I'm like Leslie, this is theplay I'm going to be working on.
Yeah, you made me look at it,and I didn't want to look at it,
but yeah, you were hereactually.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Listen, we disagree.
If you were not here, I wouldhave just said yeah, I saw it
and didn't look at it, but youwere a witness.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
So we vehemently disagree on this, one of the key
parts of the play.
We're not going to talk aboutit now, and we decided not to
talk about it any further.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Knowing that we were going to appear in conversation
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
But know that she believes that and I believe that
I might need you to remind meof my position.
Just know that it's differentfrom mine, but I remember it was
strong, yeah, yeah, yeah, mine,and it was valid and it's sort
of around.
It's around this of may,december, romance and how we
feel about it and who was right,who was wrong, all those types
(08:21):
of things.
But I remember now, yep, yep,so we encourage you to come out.
That would be those of you inthe rdu, the raleigh, dur,
chapel Hill area or beyond.
It is going to be an amazingplay.
I know I've known Moses forquite a few years now.
He is a phenomenal actor anddirector.
(08:43):
He brings us all of the greatlive performances at the North
Carolina Museum of Art liveperformances at the North
Carolina Museum of Art.
So if you've ever enjoyed anyof those musicians who come at
the amphitheater and sold out,he is responsible for that.
He's one of those people whoyou know when you're creative
(09:06):
you're just creative all overthe place, and he's one of those
.
he's one of those people yeah,and so um, it's going to be
exciting to be a part of that soI'm going to be in the his
house.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yes, all right, that'll be.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I'm looking forward to that so we're going to
definitely do some pre and postrecordings, um as well, and the
um the conversation is probablygoing to be recorded also.
So whenever possible, we willbring that to y'all so you can
see how we do, what we do live.
(09:41):
This is going to be our firsttime in front of a live audience
.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, actually we had an invitation to do that before
, but it was postponed, so thiswill be our first.
This will be our first.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
So we wanted to tell you about that and just kind of
update you on what's been goingon.
So you know I took a littletrip.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah, I noticed that when your sleeve went down a
little bit you had a little bitof a tan line.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
you didn't, you didn't say anything where you
been hold on.
You didn't say anything aboutbeing me being less.
You're always ready to pointout how, how yellow I am.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
You're not going to say anything about the lack of I
mean no, because I didn't wantto blow you up and I didn't want
to give it to you.
I just didn't.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
What kind of best friend are you?
I know I'm so fickle.
This is what happens.
Yes, I spent a few days in Mauiand it was amazing, just beyond
.
I can't believe I was therelast week but I had a great time
.
I hung out with someone thatI'm getting to know and it was
(10:53):
wonderful getting to know andthis place that is a piece of
paradise.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
It really is, and I'm so glad you were able to go and
it was somewhat of aspontaneous trip for you it was,
and I encouraged you to go.
I'm like you know you have toexperience this.
You know I've been to Maui acouple of years ago, so, but I
wanted to.
I'm so happy that you threwyour cares to the wind in a way,
(11:21):
because you know you're verybusy, you have a lot to do and
you know, but you were able toput that aside and really enjoy
yourself, so I'm so glad thatyou did that.
I'm moving around a little bit.
I got a new piercing, so it's alittle hard to sit still.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Oh, right right.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Do you want to show it?
It's hard to sit still.
Do I want to show it?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Oh, that one.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Oh my gosh, I can't take you I can't take you.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I'm kidding.
Is there something you didn'ttell me?
I said I got a little piercing.
It's hard to sit still.
No, I got it right here.
So it's hard to keep this in myear.
That's why Okay, that's goingto take 50 years to heal.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
But anyway, I'd had a nose ring and any cartilage is
going to take longer than youknow, like your earlobe and I.
I had the ring out I'm tellingyou no lie for like a day and it
started to close up.
This is after having it, havinghad it for maybe two months.
It started to, it started toclose.
(12:37):
I was just done because it wasthe second time I was done with
it.
I was done with it.
I may do it again, but anyway.
So what you been up to?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
No, you didn't finish telling me about Maui.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Oh, maui was listen.
I ain't going to tell you allmy business.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Maui was all the things.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
It was.
You know, sometimes you justhave to say yes.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yes, it's true, it's true.
Put aside, I don't know if I'vementioned here, but I feel like
I'm on this flow, on this riverflowing.
And when I say flowing, I don'tmean in a passive way, I mean
the river.
I am yielding to the river.
(13:27):
The river, for me, is God'sleading and I'm yielding to it.
I'm not trying to row, I'm nottrying to make it go one way or
the other, I'm not even tryingto set anchor.
I'm just being on the flow andI know it's going to speed up,
slow down.
There may be white water, theremay be like tributaries, and
maybe I get to decide which wayto go that free will thing.
(13:48):
But that's a nice analogy.
I get it, I get it.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
And some people you see on the bank and you say, hey
, some people, you invite theminto the river with you, all the
things.
If they can't hang, you say bye, and if they can, you say, hey,
this is kind of nice.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
I can hang on the river you ain't on my river.
Listen, you ain't on my river.
Here I am in my boat.
You know you're gonna say Ithought I said goodbye to you,
I'm just on the river.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
You know the people in the boat that splash you and
make you like turn over.
That would be Leslie on myriver, the disruptor.
She wouldn't mean to.
She wouldn't mean to.
She'd say, oops, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Hey, it's look who it is.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
She'd be in a little speedboat.
Yeah, I'd be there, no doubt,no doubt.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
So that's nice to hear, I like the stage of your
life.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Yeah, me too.
It feels really good and it wasdisruptive for my schedule to
take the strip unexpectedly.
However, disruption is notalways a bad thing.
It's just a thing.
It's not always a bad thing.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
The other thing I liked about you going was that
it almost like kind of stoppedyou this frenetic pace you've
been on for the last couple ofmonths, cause you've just had to
do, to do, to do, to do right,and it kind of just curtailed it
right there and you like packedup and you went and you know,
you came back, you didn't leaveany responsibilities behind, but
(15:25):
you were able to change things,switch, uh, alter, change your
priorities a little bit and andstill take care of yourself.
So that means you didn't worrywhile you were there, like oh,
I'm not doing this, or you know,so it was good yeah, it was you
know, I just kept calling forall the reasons.
I'm like, I don't mean todisturb you, but you're having a
(15:47):
good time.
Yeah, he's sleeping.
Oh, you know, with the fivehour diff time difference it was
a little confusing.
Like are we ahead, are webehind?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
it's like yeah, yeah it was, it was all good, it was
wonderful to eat fruit and nothave it itch, you know, like
tingle your your mouth orwhatever, especially pineapple.
Um, and yeah it was, it wasgreat and um I hope to visit
again.
It's, it's, um, I was surprisedat how uncrowded it was, because
(16:21):
you hear about hawaii and mysense of it is that it was busy.
Maybe it was maui that just hada different flow to it, but, um
, oh, we did pass by Lahaina,the area where all of that the
fire happened, which was reallysad to see it in that state.
(16:43):
But it's kind of all cleaned upand there's some temporary
homes that are built and theyseem to be, um, coming back from
it, but, um, the area is stillpretty, pretty flat and there's
this church in the middle of allof it that didn't get touched,
and so this old church is isstill there, and, um, this
(17:06):
really old tree that's stillthere, and things like that so
anyway, we, we drove by that.
Yeah, so it was lovely.
I'm glad Well good for you.
Yes, I didn't enjoy the 10.
You know I'm going to take thatback.
It was a two-leg flight and thelonger leg was 10 hours, and so
I got to see.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
A thousand movies.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I got to see.
What is it, Aaron Pierre?
That's Mufasa.
Oh, uh-huh, Aaron Pierre.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
So I did see Mufasa and a few movies Lion King thing
, or whatever.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
You don't care about that.
Why you say it like whatever,you don't care about that.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Mufasa and Pierre.
No, that doesn't move me.
You say it like whatever.
You don't care about that.
Mufasa and Pierre.
No, no, that doesn't move me,is it a?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
cartoon oh no, I'm not having this conversation.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
All right, no, no, either you know or you don't
know.
That's not my thing.
That's not my thing, that's notmy jam.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
My children were so into Lion King that was the CD
that was in the car playing forroad trips.
I saw Mulan.
Listen, I watched Mulan inSpanish, so you sat here,
watched cartoons the whole time.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
What, how old are you ?
Excuse me, I'm not a cartoongirl.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Hold on, hold on.
See, we're not that similar.
Hold on, there's a differencebetween cartoony Tom and Jerry.
Now that I'd watch and BugsBunny.
There's a difference?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I don't even see no animated feature.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Okay, well, that's the difference Animated features
are different from.
So you don't watch any Japanesestuff, you don't watch any of
that Anime.
Yeah, wow, okay, we are verydifferent, but I'm influenced by
my children and I influencethem because I'm a comic book
person, or I used to be really,really into comics, and I think
that's what kicked off mychildren's interest in anime and
what's the other thing, anyway.
(19:10):
So I did watch Mulan in Spanishbecause I wanted to.
I've seen it so many times.
It's one of my children'sfavorites.
I've seen it so many times.
It was so good watching it inSpanish and I turned off the and
so it was great, so you made iteducational.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I don't know if I've watched Mulan once, maybe once
I've seen it, but I couldn'ttell you what it was about.
Oh let's get down to businessto defeat the.
Huns, wait, wait, wait, wait,okay, I do.
She's a swashbuckling Asian.
Yeah, they send me daughterswhen I ask for sons.
Oh, wait, okay, I do, she's aswashbuckling Asian.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Yeah, they send me daughters when I ask for sons.
Oh, okay.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I'll make a man out of you.
I've seen it once.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Mr, I'll make a man.
Okay, I don't know it.
Anyway, I saw it in Spanishbecause I am making a concerted
effort to learn Spanish, tobegin relearning Spanish before
Panama, and so that was my, mydeliberate challenge to do that.
(20:23):
Yeah, okay, what else?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I like it.
So I just came back from myphysical therapy.
I'm getting physical therapy onmy knee and I'm not going to
say too much more.
However, what I will do is blowyou up, because I started
telling you about therapy andyou're like wait a minute, let's
(20:45):
record it.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
No, it wasn't quite like that, it wasn't quite.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
You said wait a minute, let's record it.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I said and no it was a little worse than that
actually.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
It was a little maladies made public.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
It was a little maladies made public.
It was a little worse than that, because what you said is that
you've been doing the wrongthing for your knee.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
No, this is what you said.
Now you're making it public.
I just you know what I'm goingto get you on a HIPAA violation.
Now you're going to go intodetail about what I said.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
I just wanted to make it clear.
It wasn't solely, oh, let'sjust.
You said something that made mesay that that you wanted to put
my business in the street.
Lord, I was just, it was justso typical of you, my physical
inability.
It was so, it was so typicalyou.
But I'm glad you're gettingphysical therapy and that it's
working.
Yes, it is working, that it'sworking for you.
(21:51):
Good, excellent, excellent.
I did want to say one otherthing that I've been doing, but
it just ran out of my head.
It literally just ran out of myhead.
It literally just ran out of myhead.
What was I going to tell thepeople that I was working?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
on.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
I talked about the play, which is exciting.
It really is To do the designfor that.
There was something else thatit'll come back Whenever I chase
things that want to run awayfrom me, that have left my brain
.
Whenever I chase, I could seeit.
It speeds up, it speeds up.
(22:32):
So I'll just wait here.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
You're not as fast as you used to be.
So I want to make a quickcomment, I hope, for those of
you who listened to our priorlast week's podcast episode
talking about our being a lot.
We got a lot of good feedbackfrom that and I think people
(22:59):
like our a lotness In general Ingeneral.
Well, the people that didn'tlike it didn't comment.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
That's true.
Oh, here's what I wanted totalk about.
So you guys know that Leslieand I and a part of a group of
class reps for our high schoolBrooklyn Tech class of 80, for
our high school Brooklyn Techclass of 80, the best, the best
graduating class ever, and sothere are five of us Kay, shelly
(23:34):
, cookie, sherelle, leslie and Iwho plan our reunions Every
year, every five years, everyfive years, right, but when I
say every five years we go bigevery five years, every five
years, right.
But when I say every five years,we go big every five years.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Oh, we go big.
It's not just regular degular.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
So we have been planning that and it's on April
26th, so it's starting to heatup, and this is what I wanted,
one of the things I want to sayabout that.
This is what I wanted, one ofthe things I wanted to say about
that.
So we have been having troublesecuring a venue for the time
(24:15):
and all of that right and wethat didn't stop us from selling
tickets though.
It didn't stop us.
Well, the thing is, we knewthat it would get resolved, of
course, we really did.
And guess what happened?
We had found a place, a secondplace that we found that it was
really just a shell of a placethat could accommodate the
number of people and all of thatin Brooklyn, and we were, you
(24:39):
know, going to hire all thevendors to bring food and things
like that.
We were prepared to do that,but they double booked us and
didn't tell us so.
For months they've been tryingto reconcile it without our
knowledge and finally gave upand said we can't do it.
Sorry, you guys are out.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Guess what.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
God said it's all right, I got you, I got you, I
got you, we have a better place.
We do that, does everything.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Everything, the food, everything, the plates we were
going to have to buy silverware.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
We were going to have to plant everything in.
We were going to have to hirean event plant All the things we
found, going to have to hire anevent plan, all the things we
found, a place that doeseverything.
They're so accommodating, andso now it's like butter.
It's like butter yeah.
Ooh the tickets are going up,they're being sold.
(25:41):
Oh, it's so good.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
We're really excited.
We even got quite a fewsponsors.
Yes, our class is amazing.
We even got quite a fewsponsors.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Yes, to cover some of the costs.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I'm telling you this is our 45th high school reunion
from Brooklyn Technical HighSchool.
Yes, and it's just.
Yeah.
It's a labor of love that weput this work in up to six
months before the event.
Labor of love that we put thiswork in up to six months before
(26:09):
the event, but it's just such awe all embrace each other, we're
happy to see each other and somany of us have been in contact
with each other over the years.
That is just a wonderfulcelebration.
So we look forward to that andit's coming in about six weeks.
So in six weeks, time for me tolose weight, time for me to get
my knee together so I canboogie a year and get your knee
(26:33):
together.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
That sounds hilarious .
That sounds hilarious.
Um, listen, this is I.
I come, I come as I come, I, I.
I don't know what color.
I'm definitely going to do adifferent color in my hair by
then, but I'm not sure whatcolor I'll be doing.
But I'm really excited aboutthat.
We all are.
It's going to be a blast.
(26:54):
We have a great, just a diversegroup of people who love each
other and love hanging aroundwith each other.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
And we've all kind of grown up together.
I mean, I grew up with yousince I was 15, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
So yeah, so that's what I want to talk about.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
See, look, I didn't put pressure on myself to
remember, and then it just cameright back.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
It ran out of steam.
It's like a puppy, it's like akid.
So you finally caught up.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
It was running from you, Leslie.
I didn't chase it.
It came back like a boomerang.
It's not like a boomerang.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Leslie, you threw it and then it came back.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
No.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Give me another analogy.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
You know, like a parent and a kid wants to run,
and then you just sit down andeventually, when they feel like
so you're too far away, they gorunning for you.
That's, that's good, that'strue that's, you can't say like
a dog because I've had dogs thatjust kept running.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
They never look back twice.
They never look back.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Oh my goodness, you know what's funny too.
There's some people that wehave different levels of
excitement to see them.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Can I say that no.
Yeah, we can say that that'snot nice.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
I can say that I'm going to say it.
Okay, it's too late, I'm goingto say it.
Who?
Speaker 1 (28:21):
don't you want to see ?
It's not that I don't want tosee anyone, just tell me.
Tell me in my good ear.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
It's not about not wanting to see anyone.
It's about there's certainpeople it's like oh my God, I
can't wait to see them.
Other people it's like hmm, soLeslie and I have different
people we do Different peoplethat we feel this way about.
Yeah, that's one thing.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
But the other thing is that I'm looking forward to
seeing people I haven't seen,because I've seen like dozens of
people I'm in contact with, youknow, constantly.
So I'm looking forward to someof the people that I haven't
seen in many years you know,right, right, yeah, me too.
It's going to be great, it'sgoing to be great, anyway, okay,
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anything else this is going tobe a short one, I think, yeah,
we've kind of it's not beenshort, we've been talking.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
We always say that We'll just do something real
quick, and then it turns intothis Okay, anything.
Okay, anything else you wantedto share?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
No, I think that's it , and I appreciate you all for
listening.
This was just a little bit of abanter, but we did want to
reach out to you, so thank youfor listening.
This has been another episodeof Black Boomer Besties from
Brooklyn.
Brooklyn Bye.
Hope to see everybody in NorthCarolina.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
That would be awesome , oh my gosh, that would be
amazing.
We, my gosh, that would beamazing.
We'll give you more information.
Look in the description formore, for all the links.
Please come out, it's wait aminute.
I didn't say the dates.
Oh my gosh.
It opens on March 14th and itruns until March 23rd.
Leslie and I will be live onMarch 15th, okay, so come on.
(30:08):
We're probably going to be livefor the two o'clock because
that's a Saturday, so thematinee is at two and the
evening show it's at 730.
We'll do the matinee and or theevening show, but it will be on
the 15th.
But we open.
The show opens on March 14th.
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Please come out, support thisamazing show, this amazing
director, and, yeah, you'll beglad you did.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
All right, bye.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Allow me to reintroduce myself.
My name is Angela Fraser andI'm one of the class reps of the
best tech graduating class ever.
I don't mean to brag, I don'tmean to boast, but we are like
hot butter on a breakfast toast.
We made smart, cool anddiversity rule, true, blue and
tight like glue.
We could teach the world athing or two, and when people
(31:03):
ask us why there ain't nostopping us now, after 40 years,
we say it's more than a feeling.
You see, we are the champions,my friends, and we'll keep on
fighting, loving and supportingeach other till the end.
Thank you.
hey aunt hello, leslie how are you?
Are you sounding a littlebritish, are you?
No, it's not british no, it'snot british.
What do you mean?
What is that calio?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
it's just a slow hello, that's all okay, nothing
more than that.
Hello, hello, hello.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Damn, you start out cutting out.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Oh wow, what can I tell you?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
How you?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
doing.
I'm good.
I'm good.
Today was a little challenging,but it's come around.
It's come around.
My internet, my cable service,is it.
Cable Internet service waschoppy all day for the last few
days, but hopefully they haveresolved it so I was able to get
some work done, you mean youpaid the bill.
(00:49):
I did pay the bill.
It wasn't me.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
This time I paid the bill, you know back in the day
we used to say you know myphone's not working.
Is it the phone you?
Might as well, not say it,living paycheck to paycheck, I
get it, I've been there.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
You might as well not say it, because that's going to
be the assumption, so mostpeople won't believe you anyway.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
So you might as well not even tell them, it's just
trouble whatever.
Especially when you justborrowed money last week.
Yeah, the phone's off, oh mygoodness.
All right, I'll get serious.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Get it together, Introduce us Les.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Welcome to another episode of Black Boomer Besties
from Brooklyn.
I'm Leslie.
My pal over there is Angela,and we've been friends almost 50
years now, goodness gracious,so I'll give the mic back to you
(01:55):
.
I'm done with you.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
No, I'll give it back to you.
Tell them who we are.
Hey guys, so we're, we areLeslie and Angela and we are two
intellectually curious olderblack women.
We, we just like to go deep.
(02:29):
We've beeny type of thing inRaleigh, north Carolina.
We're going to be having kindof a community conversation
about a play called the OldSettler.
It's being held at the KennedyAuditorium at the Martin
(02:52):
Marietta Performing Arts Centerin Raleigh.
It's the big performing artscenter in Raleigh, in the
Kennedy Theater, kennedy Theater, and Leslie and I have been
(03:13):
asked to do a post-performancecommunity conversation about the
.
No, it's so great.
So I'm doing wig design for theproduction and the director he
is a director, he is aplaywright, he is an actor, his
name is Moses T Alexander Greenand he is directing this play
(03:34):
and he asked me if I would dowig design.
Would you and your bestie dokind of a podcast, a
conversation?
Because let me tell you whatthe play is about and you'll
understand why we are a perfectfit for it.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
And all I heard was road trip.
I'm in, All right.
What are we talking about?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I'm in, okay, so wait , so talk to the people.
Let me pull it up again so Ican.
I can read the description ofthe the play it's going to be a
doozy.
Okay, I found it too late.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I found it, so it's called she didn't let me get a
word in edgewise.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It's called the old settler.
It is set in 1943 Harlem, in a1943 Harlem tenement.
John Henry Woodward's the OldSettler is a compelling story of
love, yearning and unexpectedturns.
By the way, it was performed byFelicia Rashad and Debbie Allen
(04:45):
a few years ago, so you'll findit.
We'll put a link to it, butyou'll find their recordings of
it on YouTube.
So Elizabeth Borny, amiddle-aged spinster, and her
skeptical sister Quillie McGrath, find their lives disrupted
(05:07):
when a handsome, young, greatmigrator right.
So he comes up North from theSouth.
His name is husband Witherspoonand he shows up on their
doorstep.
Husband, their new border hasbeen on a quest to reunite with
his long, long lost love, louBessie.
However, his arrival sparks anunexpected May-December.
(05:32):
Do you know what that means?
What is May-December?
Do you know what that means?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I know what that means Say what it means.
That means if I were to embarkon a relationship with a much
younger person, right, right, sothat would be the, I guess I'd
be the December, you'd betrouble, you'd be the December.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
So they embark on this relationship and let me get
and leading to a mix of humor,tension and emotional depth.
The play, which explores themesof love, survival and family
dynamics, is infused with asense of authenticity and warmth
(06:16):
.
The production is directed byMoses T Alexander Green, whose
accolades include Broadway WorldRaleigh's 2024 Award for Best
Performer in a Musical, northCarolina Theater's the Color
Purple I was doing wigs on thattoo and it's 2020 Award for
(06:38):
Original Script of the Decadefor the Lively Mohab Theater
Company of the decade for theLively Mohab Theater Company.
He also wrote and directedPulled, a gospel musical drama.
So it's going to be amazing andwe're Leslie so Okay, wait,
wait, wait, wait, wait wait wait, wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Because you know what I'm going to tell you.
Does this mean I have to be onmy best behavior?
You don't, I don't, I can.
You don't have to be on my bestbehavior.
You don't, I don't, I can bringthe shenanigans on the road.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Road trip.
Please, you can bring it on theroad.
So we've both seen the DebbieAllen Felicia Rashad version of
this.
I'm like Leslie, this is theplay I'm going to be working on.
Yeah, you made me look at it,and I didn't want to look at it,
but yeah, you were hereactually.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Listen, we disagree.
If you were not here, I wouldhave just said yeah, I saw it
and didn't look at it, but youwere a witness.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
So we vehemently disagree on this, one of the key
parts of the play.
We're not going to talk aboutit now, and we decided not to
talk about it any further.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Knowing that we were going to appear in conversation
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
But know that she believes that and I believe that
I might need you to remind meof my position.
Just know that it's differentfrom mine, but I remember it was
strong, yeah, yeah, yeah, mine,and it was valid and it's sort
of around.
It's around this of may,december, romance and how we
feel about it and who was right,who was wrong, all those types
(08:21):
of things.
But I remember now, yep, yep,so we encourage you to come out.
That would be those of you inthe rdu, the raleigh, dur,
chapel Hill area or beyond.
It is going to be an amazingplay.
I know I've known Moses forquite a few years now.
He is a phenomenal actor anddirector.
(08:43):
He brings us all of the greatlive performances at the North
Carolina Museum of Art liveperformances at the North
Carolina Museum of Art.
So if you've ever enjoyed anyof those musicians who come at
the amphitheater and sold out,he is responsible for that.
He's one of those people whoyou know when you're creative
(09:06):
you're just creative all overthe place, and he's one of those
.
he's one of those people yeah,and so um, it's going to be
exciting to be a part of that soI'm going to be in the his
house.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yes, all right, that'll be.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I'm looking forward to that so we're going to
definitely do some pre and postrecordings, um as well, and the
um the conversation is probablygoing to be recorded also.
So whenever possible, we willbring that to y'all so you can
see how we do, what we do live.
(09:41):
This is going to be our firsttime in front of a live audience
.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, actually we had an invitation to do that before
, but it was postponed, so thiswill be our first.
This will be our first.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
So we wanted to tell you about that and just kind of
update you on what's been goingon.
So you know I took a littletrip.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah, I noticed that when your sleeve went down a
little bit you had a little bitof a tan line.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
you didn't, you didn't say anything where you
been hold on.
You didn't say anything aboutbeing me being less.
You're always ready to pointout how, how yellow I am.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
You're not going to say anything about the lack of I
mean no, because I didn't wantto blow you up and I didn't want
to give it to you.
I just didn't.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
What kind of best friend are you?
I know I'm so fickle.
This is what happens.
Yes, I spent a few days in Mauiand it was amazing, just beyond
.
I can't believe I was therelast week but I had a great time
.
I hung out with someone thatI'm getting to know and it was
(10:53):
wonderful getting to know andthis place that is a piece of
paradise.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
It really is, and I'm so glad you were able to go and
it was somewhat of aspontaneous trip for you it was,
and I encouraged you to go.
I'm like you know you have toexperience this.
You know I've been to Maui acouple of years ago, so, but I
wanted to.
I'm so happy that you threwyour cares to the wind in a way,
(11:21):
because you know you're verybusy, you have a lot to do and
you know, but you were able toput that aside and really enjoy
yourself, so I'm so glad thatyou did that.
I'm moving around a little bit.
I got a new piercing, so it's alittle hard to sit still.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Oh, right right.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Do you want to show it?
It's hard to sit still.
Do I want to show it?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Oh, that one.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Oh my gosh, I can't take you I can't take you.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I'm kidding.
Is there something you didn'ttell me?
I said I got a little piercing.
It's hard to sit still.
No, I got it right here.
So it's hard to keep this in myear.
That's why Okay, that's goingto take 50 years to heal.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
But anyway, I'd had a nose ring and any cartilage is
going to take longer than youknow, like your earlobe and I.
I had the ring out I'm tellingyou no lie for like a day and it
started to close up.
This is after having it, havinghad it for maybe two months.
It started to, it started toclose.
(12:37):
I was just done because it wasthe second time I was done with
it.
I was done with it.
I may do it again, but anyway.
So what you been up to?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
No, you didn't finish telling me about Maui.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Oh, maui was listen.
I ain't going to tell you allmy business.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Maui was all the things.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
It was.
You know, sometimes you justhave to say yes.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yes, it's true, it's true.
Put aside, I don't know if I'vementioned here, but I feel like
I'm on this flow, on this riverflowing.
And when I say flowing, I don'tmean in a passive way, I mean
the river.
I am yielding to the river.
(13:27):
The river, for me, is God'sleading and I'm yielding to it.
I'm not trying to row, I'm nottrying to make it go one way or
the other, I'm not even tryingto set anchor.
I'm just being on the flow andI know it's going to speed up,
slow down.
There may be white water, theremay be like tributaries, and
maybe I get to decide which wayto go that free will thing.
(13:48):
But that's a nice analogy.
I get it, I get it.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
And some people you see on the bank and you say, hey
, some people, you invite theminto the river with you, all the
things.
If they can't hang, you say bye, and if they can, you say, hey,
this is kind of nice.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
I can hang on the river you ain't on my river.
Listen, you ain't on my river.
Here I am in my boat.
You know you're gonna say Ithought I said goodbye to you,
I'm just on the river.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
You know the people in the boat that splash you and
make you like turn over.
That would be Leslie on myriver, the disruptor.
She wouldn't mean to.
She wouldn't mean to.
She'd say, oops, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Hey, it's look who it is.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
She'd be in a little speedboat.
Yeah, I'd be there, no doubt,no doubt.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
So that's nice to hear, I like the stage of your
life.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Yeah, me too.
It feels really good and it wasdisruptive for my schedule to
take the strip unexpectedly.
However, disruption is notalways a bad thing.
It's just a thing.
It's not always a bad thing.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
The other thing I liked about you going was that
it almost like kind of stoppedyou this frenetic pace you've
been on for the last couple ofmonths, cause you've just had to
do, to do, to do, to do right,and it kind of just curtailed it
right there and you like packedup and you went and you know,
you came back, you didn't leaveany responsibilities behind, but
(15:25):
you were able to change things,switch, uh, alter, change your
priorities a little bit and andstill take care of yourself.
So that means you didn't worrywhile you were there, like oh,
I'm not doing this, or you know,so it was good yeah, it was you
know, I just kept calling forall the reasons.
I'm like, I don't mean todisturb you, but you're having a
(15:47):
good time.
Yeah, he's sleeping.
Oh, you know, with the fivehour diff time difference it was
a little confusing.
Like are we ahead, are webehind?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
it's like yeah, yeah it was, it was all good, it was
wonderful to eat fruit and nothave it itch, you know, like
tingle your your mouth orwhatever, especially pineapple.
Um, and yeah it was, it wasgreat and um I hope to visit
again.
It's, it's, um, I was surprisedat how uncrowded it was, because
(16:21):
you hear about hawaii and mysense of it is that it was busy.
Maybe it was maui that just hada different flow to it, but, um
, oh, we did pass by Lahaina,the area where all of that the
fire happened, which was reallysad to see it in that state.
(16:43):
But it's kind of all cleaned upand there's some temporary
homes that are built and theyseem to be, um, coming back from
it, but, um, the area is stillpretty, pretty flat and there's
this church in the middle of allof it that didn't get touched,
and so this old church is isstill there, and, um, this
(17:06):
really old tree that's stillthere, and things like that so
anyway, we, we drove by that.
Yeah, so it was lovely.
I'm glad Well good for you.
Yes, I didn't enjoy the 10.
You know I'm going to take thatback.
It was a two-leg flight and thelonger leg was 10 hours, and so
I got to see.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
A thousand movies.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I got to see.
What is it, Aaron Pierre?
That's Mufasa.
Oh, uh-huh, Aaron Pierre.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
So I did see Mufasa and a few movies Lion King thing
, or whatever.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
You don't care about that.
Why you say it like whatever,you don't care about that.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Mufasa and Pierre.
No, that doesn't move me.
You say it like whatever.
You don't care about that.
Mufasa and Pierre.
No, no, that doesn't move me,is it a?
Speaker 2 (17:55):
cartoon oh no, I'm not having this conversation.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
All right, no, no, either you know or you don't
know.
That's not my thing.
That's not my thing, that's notmy jam.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
My children were so into Lion King that was the CD
that was in the car playing forroad trips.
I saw Mulan.
Listen, I watched Mulan inSpanish, so you sat here,
watched cartoons the whole time.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
What, how old are you ?
Excuse me, I'm not a cartoongirl.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Hold on, hold on.
See, we're not that similar.
Hold on, there's a differencebetween cartoony Tom and Jerry.
Now that I'd watch and BugsBunny.
There's a difference?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I don't even see no animated feature.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Okay, well, that's the difference Animated features
are different from.
So you don't watch any Japanesestuff, you don't watch any of
that Anime.
Yeah, wow, okay, we are verydifferent, but I'm influenced by
my children and I influencethem because I'm a comic book
person, or I used to be really,really into comics, and I think
that's what kicked off mychildren's interest in anime and
what's the other thing, anyway.
(19:10):
So I did watch Mulan in Spanishbecause I wanted to.
I've seen it so many times.
It's one of my children'sfavorites.
I've seen it so many times.
It was so good watching it inSpanish and I turned off the and
so it was great, so you made iteducational.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I don't know if I've watched Mulan once, maybe once
I've seen it, but I couldn'ttell you what it was about.
Oh let's get down to businessto defeat the.
Huns, wait, wait, wait, wait,okay, I do.
She's a swashbuckling Asian.
Yeah, they send me daughterswhen I ask for sons.
Oh, wait, okay, I do, she's aswashbuckling Asian.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Yeah, they send me daughters when I ask for sons.
Oh, okay.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I'll make a man out of you.
I've seen it once.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Mr, I'll make a man.
Okay, I don't know it.
Anyway, I saw it in Spanishbecause I am making a concerted
effort to learn Spanish, tobegin relearning Spanish before
Panama, and so that was my, mydeliberate challenge to do that.
(20:23):
Yeah, okay, what else?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I like it.
So I just came back from myphysical therapy.
I'm getting physical therapy onmy knee and I'm not going to
say too much more.
However, what I will do is blowyou up, because I started
telling you about therapy andyou're like wait a minute, let's
(20:45):
record it.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
No, it wasn't quite like that, it wasn't quite.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
You said wait a minute, let's record it.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I said and no it was a little worse than that
actually.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
It was a little maladies made public.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
It was a little maladies made public.
It was a little worse than that, because what you said is that
you've been doing the wrongthing for your knee.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
No, this is what you said.
Now you're making it public.
I just you know what I'm goingto get you on a HIPAA violation.
Now you're going to go intodetail about what I said.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
I just wanted to make it clear.
It wasn't solely, oh, let'sjust.
You said something that made mesay that that you wanted to put
my business in the street.
Lord, I was just, it was justso typical of you, my physical
inability.
It was so, it was so typicalyou.
But I'm glad you're gettingphysical therapy and that it's
working.
Yes, it is working, that it'sworking for you.
(21:51):
Good, excellent, excellent.
I did want to say one otherthing that I've been doing, but
it just ran out of my head.
It literally just ran out of myhead.
It literally just ran out of myhead.
What was I going to tell thepeople that I was working?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
on.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
I talked about the play, which is exciting.
It really is To do the designfor that.
There was something else thatit'll come back Whenever I chase
things that want to run awayfrom me, that have left my brain
.
Whenever I chase, I could seeit.
It speeds up, it speeds up.
(22:32):
So I'll just wait here.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
You're not as fast as you used to be.
So I want to make a quickcomment, I hope, for those of
you who listened to our priorlast week's podcast episode
talking about our being a lot.
We got a lot of good feedbackfrom that and I think people
(22:59):
like our a lotness In general Ingeneral.
Well, the people that didn'tlike it didn't comment.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
That's true.
Oh, here's what I wanted totalk about.
So you guys know that Leslieand I and a part of a group of
class reps for our high schoolBrooklyn Tech class of 80, for
our high school Brooklyn Techclass of 80, the best, the best
graduating class ever, and sothere are five of us Kay, shelly
(23:34):
, cookie, sherelle, leslie and Iwho plan our reunions Every
year, every five years, everyfive years, right, but when I
say every five years we go bigevery five years, every five
years, right.
But when I say every five years,we go big every five years.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Oh, we go big.
It's not just regular degular.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
So we have been planning that and it's on April
26th, so it's starting to heatup, and this is what I wanted,
one of the things I want to sayabout that.
This is what I wanted, one ofthe things I wanted to say about
that.
So we have been having troublesecuring a venue for the time
(24:15):
and all of that right and wethat didn't stop us from selling
tickets though.
It didn't stop us.
Well, the thing is, we knewthat it would get resolved, of
course, we really did.
And guess what happened?
We had found a place, a secondplace that we found that it was
really just a shell of a placethat could accommodate the
number of people and all of thatin Brooklyn, and we were, you
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know, going to hire all thevendors to bring food and things
like that.
We were prepared to do that,but they double booked us and
didn't tell us so.
For months they've been tryingto reconcile it without our
knowledge and finally gave upand said we can't do it.
Sorry, you guys are out.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Guess what.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
God said it's all right, I got you, I got you, I
got you, we have a better place.
We do that, does everything.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Everything, the food, everything, the plates we were
going to have to buy silverware.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
We were going to have to plant everything in.
We were going to have to hirean event plant All the things we
found, going to have to hire anevent plan, all the things we
found, a place that doeseverything.
They're so accommodating, andso now it's like butter.
It's like butter yeah.
Ooh the tickets are going up,they're being sold.
(25:41):
Oh, it's so good.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
We're really excited.
We even got quite a fewsponsors.
Yes, our class is amazing.
We even got quite a fewsponsors.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Yes, to cover some of the costs.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I'm telling you this is our 45th high school reunion
from Brooklyn Technical HighSchool.
Yes, and it's just.
Yeah.
It's a labor of love that weput this work in up to six
months before the event.
Labor of love that we put thiswork in up to six months before
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the event, but it's just such awe all embrace each other, we're
happy to see each other and somany of us have been in contact
with each other over the years.
That is just a wonderfulcelebration.
So we look forward to that andit's coming in about six weeks.
So in six weeks, time for me tolose weight, time for me to get
my knee together so I canboogie a year and get your knee
(26:33):
together.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
That sounds hilarious .
That sounds hilarious.
Um, listen, this is I.
I come, I come as I come, I, I.
I don't know what color.
I'm definitely going to do adifferent color in my hair by
then, but I'm not sure whatcolor I'll be doing.
But I'm really excited aboutthat.
We all are.
It's going to be a blast.
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We have a great, just a diversegroup of people who love each
other and love hanging aroundwith each other.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
And we've all kind of grown up together.
I mean, I grew up with yousince I was 15, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
So yeah, so that's what I want to talk about.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
See, look, I didn't put pressure on myself to
remember, and then it just cameright back.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
It ran out of steam.
It's like a puppy, it's like akid.
So you finally caught up.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
It was running from you, Leslie.
I didn't chase it.
It came back like a boomerang.
It's not like a boomerang.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Leslie, you threw it and then it came back.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
No.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Give me another analogy.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
You know, like a parent and a kid wants to run,
and then you just sit down andeventually, when they feel like
so you're too far away, they gorunning for you.
That's, that's good, that'strue that's, you can't say like
a dog because I've had dogs thatjust kept running.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
They never look back twice.
They never look back.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Oh my goodness, you know what's funny too.
There's some people that wehave different levels of
excitement to see them.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Can I say that no.
Yeah, we can say that that'snot nice.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
I can say that I'm going to say it.
Okay, it's too late, I'm goingto say it.
Who?
Speaker 1 (28:21):
don't you want to see ?
It's not that I don't want tosee anyone, just tell me.
Tell me in my good ear.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
It's not about not wanting to see anyone.
It's about there's certainpeople it's like oh my God, I
can't wait to see them.
Other people it's like hmm, soLeslie and I have different
people we do Different peoplethat we feel this way about.
Yeah, that's one thing.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
But the other thing is that I'm looking forward to
seeing people I haven't seen,because I've seen like dozens of
people I'm in contact with, youknow, constantly.
So I'm looking forward to someof the people that I haven't
seen in many years you know,right, right, yeah, me too.
It's going to be great, it'sgoing to be great, anyway, okay,
(29:08):
anything else this is going tobe a short one, I think, yeah,
we've kind of it's not beenshort, we've been talking.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
We always say that We'll just do something real
quick, and then it turns intothis Okay, anything.
Okay, anything else you wantedto share?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
No, I think that's it , and I appreciate you all for
listening.
This was just a little bit of abanter, but we did want to
reach out to you, so thank youfor listening.
This has been another episodeof Black Boomer Besties from
Brooklyn.
Brooklyn Bye.
Hope to see everybody in NorthCarolina.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
That would be awesome , oh my gosh, that would be
amazing.
We, my gosh, that would beamazing.
We'll give you more information.
Look in the description formore, for all the links.
Please come out, it's wait aminute.
I didn't say the dates.
Oh my gosh.
It opens on March 14th and itruns until March 23rd.
Leslie and I will be live onMarch 15th, okay, so come on.
(30:08):
We're probably going to be livefor the two o'clock because
that's a Saturday, so thematinee is at two and the
evening show it's at 730.
We'll do the matinee and or theevening show, but it will be on
the 15th.
But we open.
The show opens on March 14th.
(30:28):
Please come out, support thisamazing show, this amazing
director, and, yeah, you'll beglad you did.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
All right, bye.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Allow me to reintroduce myself.
My name is Angela Fraser andI'm one of the class reps of the
best tech graduating class ever.
I don't mean to brag, I don'tmean to boast, but we are like
hot butter on a breakfast toast.
We made smart, cool anddiversity rule, true, blue and
tight like glue.
We could teach the world athing or two, and when people
(31:03):
ask us why there ain't nostopping us now, after 40 years,
we say it's more than a feeling.
You see, we are the champions,my friends, and we'll keep on
fighting, loving and supportingeach other till the end.
Thank you.
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