A FaceTime that wouldn’t connect, a birthday ice cream run, and a red box hidden under a saucer—then four words that change everything: will you marry me? We’re celebrating a surprise engagement that’s decades in the making and unpacking what it means to choose love, with clarity, later in life.

We retrace the moment—how he kept a three-month secret, returned the first ring, and enlisted his sister to find the one that felt right. From there, we go deeper: how our definition of love has shifted from a word to a practice, how small gestures keep closeness alive, and why time, at 63, sharpens decisions. We talk openly about the past marriage, the therapy that helps us own our part, and the language tweaks that prevent a casual “I don’t care” from stepping on someone else’s joy. The wedding conversation gets real: he wants one, she could elope, and we’re designing a plan that respects both preferences without defaulting to old scripts about gender or tradition.

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• 0:00
  Welcome & Big News Tease
• 0:30
  The Proposal Reveal
• 4:30
  How He Planned the Ring
• 8:30
  Love Revisited After 40 Years
• 12:30
  Choosing Love as a Verb
• 17:30
  On Aging, Time, and Clarity
• 21:00
  Healing From Past Marriage
• 25:00
  Long Engagement, Logistics, Home Reno
• 29:00
  Gender Roles, Weddings, and Language
• 35:30
  Owning Feelings Without Dimming Joy

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Two best friends trade wildcard questions about possibility, mortality, love, and “enough,” mixing belly laughs with clear-eyed truth. We unpack being overlooked, parenting triggers, belonging in medicine, and building a good life rooted in self-agency and joy.

Thank you for listening. We really appreciate you. And we appreciate our Patreon subscribers too. You can join our Patreon Besties Squad Squad for a five or ten dollar monthly pledge. It helps us, and we can bring new content new content to you.

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• 0:00
  Reunion, Exhaustion, and Warm-Up Banter
• 2:54
  Who We Are and Why We’re Here
• 3:45
  The Wildcard Framework Explained
• 5:05
  Possibility vs. Limits: “Nothing’s Unreachable”
• 7:35
  Mortality and Radical Preparedness
• 10:45
  Being Overlooked and Proving Yourself
• 13:07
  Motherhood, Boundaries, and Defensiveness
• 16:00
  Age, Love, and the Art of Letting In
• 19:04
  Belonging in Medicine and Family
• 21:30
  Working With Difference Without Friction
• 24:20
  Defining a Good Life and “Enough”
• 35:40
  Gratitude and Patreon Sign-Off

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Besties Angella and Leslie, two 60-something year old Black women, reveal their concerns over artificial intelligence and explore how AI can enhance rather than threaten their lives.

They reference an episode of John Hope Bryant’s Money and Wealth podcast entitled “How Black America Can Win with AI” where Bryant and his guests Van Jones and Sheldon Gilbert illustrate how AI can serve as a “survival guide, a playbook and a warning label”

How Black America Can Win with AI | John Hope Bryant, Van Jones & Sheldon Gilbert

The Besties advise not to be afraid to start engaging with AI tools like ChatGPT—find the voices you trust who are talking about AI and find your entry point, because the opportunity window is easily accessible.

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0:00 Meet the Black Boomer Besties

1:00 AI is Already Everywhere

5:33 Black Voices in the AI Revolution

10:22 Angella's Chat GPT Experiment

19:00 The Human Side of AI Interaction

27:30 Finding Your AI Entry Point

37:00 Practical Applications in Education and Healthcare

43:20 Creating Opportunity with AI Agents

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