E178 Buying Black With Intention (Rebroadcast)

A random Brooklyn day turns into a full-on love letter to Black-owned brands we trust and repurchase, plus a hard look at how we talk ourselves out of supporting Black-made luxury.

Our faves for self-care and home: Oia Wellness for beautiful home fragrance, BklynBarSoap for oils and body care, Harlem Candle Company for candles that connect scent to Black history, plus Tilted Crown Products body butters, Komari Bath and Body, and Epilogic Skincare

recommended by a dermatologist. We close with style staples that make great gifts and confidence upgrades, including Talley & Twine watches and Harlem's Heaven Hats, along with how you can join our Patreon to help shape what we cover next.

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Transcript

Quick Rebroadcast Intro

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hey folks, it's Angela. Welcome to another episode of Black Boomer Besties from Brooklyn. It's only me because this is just a quick intro of a rebroadcast of an episode that we did back in 2023 when Leslie and I shared some of the black-owned brands that we support. Not only that we support, but why we support them. And it unfolds from a trip that I took to Brooklyn to spend time with my children and some friends. And I stumbled upon some stores there that had amazing products. And then because Leslie can't allow me to have anything that she doesn't have, she also embraced some of these products and she has her own that she has been supporting for a long time. We believe in supporting black-owned brands. We believe in the power of um collective um uh support of our community, and um we hope you enjoy this episode. Until next time, ciao ciao. Hey Les. And how are you? Doing well. We are back. We are back two different stages and we're mid-season. We're yeah, we're well, we're between season. Mid mid is in the middle of a season.

SPEAKER_02 1:21

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:22

It's kind of like weekly, bi-weekly, and bi-weekly has two different meanings. Bi-weekly could either be every two weeks or twice in a week. Or twice in a week. I never understand those things, so I don't use it. Because it's better to say bi-monthly, I guess, than bi-weekly if you mean twice a month.

SPEAKER_02 1:43

I guess anyway, too much thinking. My head hurts. I know.

SPEAKER_01 1:47

I miss you already. You're gone. I miss you too, but we have to welcome I better learn how to face it.

SPEAKER_02 1:57

I was gonna pay the devil to replace her.

SPEAKER_00 2:00

You, you, you, well, you don't you don't have to pay the devil. Just pay, just pay for my ticket. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_02 2:09

All right, we're we're happy. We're not together anymore, but here we are. We're back on Zoom and on video.

SPEAKER_00 2:17

It's still um uh welcome to another episode of Black Boomer Besties from Brooklyn. Brooklyn. We're here. I promised I wasn't gonna just crack up laughing after saying that. And eventually I'm gonna stop saying that I'm not gonna crack up laughing. Oh, I thought you were gonna stop saying Brooklyn.

SPEAKER_01 2:36

I'm gonna say, like, no, that's all. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_00 2:39

That that that I will never do. I just am trying to control my laughter.

SPEAKER_03 2:43

Okay.

Brooklyn Museum And Crown Heights Eats

SPEAKER_00 2:44

Um, but yeah, it's it's good to be back. Um, I just want to jump in because I just want to straight up call you a biter. Or let's say the Brooklyn way, you a biter. You a straight up stone. Why am I biting? And people probably don't even know what that is. You biting, you're a biter. It's a copycat. Or in Jamaica we say follow fashion monkey, falla fashion monkey, never boil good soup. Fala fashion, whatever. All right, what am I biting on? You're a copycat. So um when I was in Brooklyn, I was hanging out with my firstborn and their partner, and we went to we went a few places. We went to the Brooklyn Museum. They had a fabulous African fashion exhibit. Yes, it was just it took me so long to go through it because everything I had to read, the whole history about um Pan-Africanism and and how that changed fashion and all the things and learn stuff. I never knew. Like I didn't get there. I didn't know that Marcus Garvey, the colors um that are dominant in definitely Jamaican flag, but also flags of um many African nations of 54. Um, many of them have the colors green, yellow, red, and black, or some combination. Maybe it's just correct. Um, and it came from Marcus Garvey, which I never knew. Wow. I never knew. Anyway, so that was amazing. Glad they had a good time. It was great. The weather was beautiful, it wasn't hot and and yucky, and um, I borrowed your car and it was great. We got a great place to park, and we just walked around Brooklyn, which was so great.

SPEAKER_02 4:43

So we uh I haven't done that in so long. Usually when I go to Brooklyn, it's like tour place and then back home you know, the jersey. I haven't walked around in a long time, but I gotta do that.

Discovering Marché Rudice Next Door

SPEAKER_00 4:54

It was it was so much fun, and we ate at this place called Islands and the the um we were in Crown Heights, yeah. Yeah, it was Crown Heights. I wanted to give them a shout out because the food was good, but also the service was really good. Like um what type of restaurant? It was uh it was a Jamaican restaurant. I want to say it was a Caribbean restaurant, but just based on the menu, I think, or maybe I just beelined for the Jamaican food because I got curry goat. Yeah, I hadn't had it in a long time, and it was really, really good. But um uh um Kai's friend got uh roti skin. Oh and I was so tempted to eat it because it's so good, but it is the opposite of of low carb. Right, right. So they were dipping in my plate. I allowed them, of course, to get some gravy. And the waitress saw it and offered a bowl of gravy. Oh it was just it's just the little things, yeah. It's just the little things. So that was really good. But then we went islands in the episode. This was islands in Crown Heights. Yes, really good. Um, and then and they made their their rice and peas with gungu peas, the real pigeon peas. Kidney beans are okay, but the real Jamaican rice and peas. Notice I did not say peas and rice. Right, right. Um, that's a big fan. That's the American thing. It's it's not only, I think the other Caribbean islands say peas and rice too. But um, we we need to be different for some reason. Anyway, um, and then we walked to another place to get um coffee. We were waiting for you to get off work so as you could time, so we could time it and get back to have dinner with you. And so we stopped at this other place. Um, it's uh Senegalese um store. It has fashion and perfume and things like that. So we went in there and I tried on a few things really nice. They had these amazing um sunshades, but I'm not there yet. I'm trying, I'm trying to go there, but you're the shape. If I was with you, you would have got some shades. I know, I know. Okay, and so missed opportunity. But then we went next door, um, and they had coffee and um desserts and and food, but we had already eaten, so we just had coffee. Really delicious, but I didn't realize that the two stores were connected, um, meaning um under the same ownership, under the same name. One was a cafe and one was the the store. So you need to name mention the name. I'm gonna mention the name and I'm gonna tell them why you abide it. So the name of the place for the for the common folks. Let me just say you say it your way.

SPEAKER_02 8:05

I'm so American, uncultured, you know, just base. I said, okay. Marche Rudics. Right, okay. And when I heard you say the name, it was unintelligible to me. I'm like, oh, is that another one?

SPEAKER_03 8:28

Well, it's not for a year.

SPEAKER_00 8:32

I took French, I don't know enough to admit how long I took it, but I took French for seven years in junior high and in high school. And my sister still speaks French, but um all right, you say it. What's the name of the place? The name of the place is Marché Rudice, which means um uh 10th Street Market. And it's Senegalese, you know. They were they were colonized by the French. So French, I think, is still and it was like a marketplace, the the store. It has little all kinds of things, a little jewelry, they have a nail salon in the in the back. Um I mean, nails like not regular degler nails, like nails with with um uh ornaments and things, ornaments and um and um jewels in them and things like that, metals in them. Right up Monet's alley. Exactly, exactly. Very well done, it's just you know, it's not our thing, but right. I'm not I'm more concerned. Very avant-garde and and nice. And as I said, they have fashion, but you know, I've been looking for a black-owned um perfume, a scent, my signature scent, a new signature scent, a new signature scent, because the one that I'd had four years, like so many years that that's what my children and my husbands knew what to get me, that you know, it would it would win, right? So they got um they got uh um La Via Spell, it's a landcomb perfume, which I loved. But as it was kind of dwindling down, and I I tried other things because I knew I wanted a change, but I was looking for black-owned and they had this perfume I think they have like eight or ten different scents. I know we're gonna find out why you know that it was ten.

SPEAKER_02 10:41

I can't let you have anything outside of it.

SPEAKER_00 10:44

Let me have anything. They had this scent called cornrose. And it was a really nice scent. So I just wanted to be able to be in a situation where people said, Oh, I like your scent. What are you wearing? And to say corn rose. That's all that's all I wanted is to be able to say that. And um And it is a nice scent. Yeah, it is really nice. I didn't know if I wanted to commit to getting the full size, um, but I got the sample. And now tell me what tell me how you a stone cold biter. You're not even you're not even ashamed of it.

SPEAKER_02 11:27

I'm not ashamed at all. Why should I be? It's a small store.

SPEAKER_00 11:31

I got back, you know, I became a customer. I was wearing the scent, Tola is all about it, and then I got back the day after. She says, Hello, I got your scent. I got your scent, plus seven others. She got all of them because there was one I didn't get.

SPEAKER_02 11:57

There was one that was sold out and one I didn't get because it didn't seem like it appealed to me. So I got eight of the trials, and I'll see which one I land on. And for the first time ever, I'll have a signature scent, maybe. It won't be mine. How do you know? Listen, don't have to be. How will you ever know? You ever know because I'm gonna smell you.

SPEAKER_00 12:20

I'm gonna be okay. All right, just so you're gonna wait. You're gonna wait, you're gonna take a quick shower.

SPEAKER_02 12:27

But knowing you, you'll think it's your perfume, you'll think it's you that you smell, you'll never know.

SPEAKER_00 12:35

Wow, you must really say, okay. All right, that's okay.

The Real Talk On Price

SPEAKER_03 12:39

Yeah, it's so here's here's a couple things.

SPEAKER_00 12:41

So the I didn't want to commit is one reason, and the other reason to be perfectly honest, is because the full size, which was um one uh what is it? It was a I think a 50 milliliter size. It was 88 dollars. So I'm like, oh eighty-eight dollars. I'll just try the sample. But I did my little research and I saw that um the same size of LaVia's Bell was like 120.

SPEAKER_02 13:16

You know, I said that to someone just yesterday. I was talking to Eb, and what I said is that very often our price scale is a little off when it comes to black-owned products, yes, yes, we think that the prices are out of range or exorbitant or what have you, but some folks have absolutely no problem paying five grand for a handbag. Sure. But if the Senegalese brother with a beautiful leather work and what have you charged five thousand, no, I charges one thousand, charge five hundred. You know, we wouldn't look at it. We for some reason we think that our artisans and creators, right? You know, it's it's just so weird. It's it's so weird. So I like that you looked it up because this is something that you have you know purchased regularly over and over and over and over again. Because I remember when we were talking about this scent, and it's like$88. I don't know if I want to, it's like, come on, if it was yeah, Ralph Lawrence blue. Exactly. Topaz, I used to wear.

SPEAKER_00 14:37

Right, right. Topaz, that's my dog's name. Um, yeah, so um, so it's eighty-eight dollars. I'm definitely going online and ordering because it's a beautiful scent. I sprayed it on my on my um pillow last night because it was fading when I was getting into bed. I think I think I want to smell this as I as I lay down in bed, and it was it's really delicious. I I um we'll we'll put a link to the store. I don't remember what notes and things like that it has in it, but it's really a beautiful scent, and they have uh other options if this isn't the one for you. But I'm so looking forward to my next event. I may go and itch up onto somebody so they can smell me, so I can say, Oh, I'm wearing cornrows. I'm looking forward to that. Um so again, that is Marche Rudis or Marche R-U-E-D-I-X Rudis. It's in Crown Heights um in Brooklyn. So check them out. So, anyway, that's what um was the impetus of the idea for us to do an episode on some very few, because we're not doing a whole hour today, um, of our favorite black-owned items. Products and uh things, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Candles And Scents That Shift Mood

SPEAKER_02 16:04

So you mentioned the pillow spray that you that you created.

SPEAKER_00 16:10

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 16:11

So I want to point out a couple of uh beauty products that are um a few ladies that I met that make really beautiful special um body creams and room sets, right? So one of them is um Oya Wellness. O I A Wellness.

SPEAKER_00 16:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 16:39

She's uh Brooklyn-based entrepreneur, and they do um home scents and beautiful candles and things like that. In fact, I've been loving up this, it just happened to be. Uh, this vermilion scent is something I have been um candle, I've been burning uh lately.

SPEAKER_00 17:05

You're such a candle person. You know I am. You're such a candle person. When we go to hotels, um, and you know, you can imagine Leslie picks out really nice um places for us to go. When I say nice, I mean um it's not it's not about the expense, it's about the experience. Yeah, yeah. And so they always have really nice smells. And so Leslie, if they have like a gift shop, she always gets a candle.

SPEAKER_02 17:38

That sent in the lobby.

SPEAKER_00 17:40

Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 17:41

And then I'll get a few of them and give them as gifts or something to remember the trip or whatever. I did that with um one hotels.

SPEAKER_03 17:50

I have here uh I think that's the one recipe that you gave me when we were in South Carolina, which is a great one.

SPEAKER_02 17:58

That was so good. That was so good a little bit, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:01

But that one that candle has very bad memories. We won't go into all the details right now. Maybe on Patreon I will be more comfortable telling the full story. Candle from Leslie, actually. Yeah, I tried to created some issues for me with the TSA.

SPEAKER_02 18:19

But anyway, so Oya Wellness is one of the um young ladies, um the uh business owner that I met. Okay, then with her was Brooklyn Bar Soap.

SPEAKER_00 18:33

Ah, you got one for me too.

SPEAKER_02 18:35

Yes, and she's another um African-American female. The two of them were together and they do a lot of their um products together. She sells luxurious creams and body oils and things like that. So I've been loving soaps and soaps. I've been loving her um skin nourishing everything oil. I've used it on my hair and on skin. And after what does it smell like? This scent is the rosemary lavender. You know, I'm a rosemary fan. Uh rosemary lavender. Um, so this is something I've been loving on lately.

SPEAKER_00 19:15

So, what do you do, Les, when so you put that scent on, probably in the shower, right? Or just out when you finish showering.

SPEAKER_02 19:21

And then I don't wear perfume.

SPEAKER_00 19:23

Okay, if you choose to wear that, I see. Okay, that's why I was gonna ask you.

SPEAKER_02 19:27

If I did ocean or oil or something, then I won't put on anything on over it. Got you, got you. Okay, all right.

SPEAKER_00 19:33

Um don't wanna you mentioned candles, and there is also another candle company that um oh we are loving this company. Oh my gosh. So last year, was it last year, Les, that I came?

SPEAKER_02 19:49

It was about a year or so ago.

SPEAKER_00 19:52

Okay, so I was in a really sad place. Um, just yeah, at the end of a of a the end of a romance, and Leslie treated me to this amazing New York experience. She didn't tell me what we were gonna be doing. It was a whole New York City weekend. She didn't tell me where we were gonna be going, but she knows me so well, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art had um an Afrofuturism exhibit, which if you know me, you know that that's my jam. That's my jam. And so we went to the exhibit, it just fed my soul. And they had um a gift, a gift shop as you walked out of the exhibit, and there we came to know Harlem Candle Company. Harlem Candle Company. Let me show you mine. I have mine too. This I think is my second or third one.

SPEAKER_02 21:00

Um, yeah, I'm a regular purchaser. Which one do you have? This is so this was a gift from my friend Ira.

SPEAKER_00 21:09

Um it's called Essence of Angelica and Birchwood. Oh, what's the name of it though? They have these wonderful names. It's Vintage Garden. Oh, okay. It seems crooked. Harlem Candle Company. It's let me tell you, the other day I was doing some vacuuming, and you you you've heard in the last episode um Leslie and I talking about me just kind of elevating my experiences, just changed moving from the ordinary to the extraordinary. So I actually put on some heels, I lit this candle, and I vacuumed. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 22:01

It was so it was so elevating. It was so elevating. And and it could be the simplest thing. Absolutely. You know?

SPEAKER_00 22:11

Absolutely. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:12

I didn't I didn't I didn't want to vacuum. That you just got?

SPEAKER_00 22:15

No, it was different heels. No, it was before it was before then. But I was here, I was wearing heels too, but um, it was before that. That's nice. It was just, it was fun. I laughed at myself, you know, that I was doing it, but yeah, it it moved from okay, this drudgery of having to to vacuum, yeah, and turned it into this little mini experience that I created for myself. I know. Remember, we used to do that on uh the weekends with the city.

SPEAKER_02 22:43

This is my candle I've been um loving. This was uh it's the scent for uh is Seneca, and that was the signature scent for the exhibit at the Met. But what I also love, one of my favorite scents is Lady Day. Oh, yes, I had that too. I think you got it for me. I did, I did, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:02

And I just finished um I just finished working with Angela Robinson uh holiday. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

SPEAKER_02 23:10

So it was it was fitting.

SPEAKER_00 23:12

So what do you do what do you know about Seneca? What is that about? Do you remember Seneca Village?

SPEAKER_02 23:17

Seneca V Village, yeah. The um African American community in Central Park. Before Central Park, uh in what is now Central Park, correct? And um I don't even remember the year, but it was in the probably the mid-1800s when they um removed the people from that community. Um and I'm not sure in what methods or what have you.

SPEAKER_00 23:45

Oh, can you guess? Did you think they asked you asked them to leave and they paid them? They paid them handsomely for their for their homes. Yeah. Um yeah. Yeah, they were they were kicked out so that Central Park could be could be built in other people, right? Right, right, exactly. Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 24:05

You know what else? What other scents? Um two other um sense and beauty um wellness skincare products. I want to mention. One, you hit me to Tilted Crown products.

SPEAKER_00 24:19

Oh yes, they're so good.

SPEAKER_02 24:22

Yeah, I like it.

SPEAKER_00 24:23

Shout out to Rodney at Tilted Crown. Oh my gosh, yeah, his body butters.

SPEAKER_02 24:28

Those butters are just so luxurious. It's like it's like butter. Like butter.

SPEAKER_01 24:33

It's the simple thing. The simple things, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:35

And then I also have to point out a personal um product that I've used over the years. My cousin, Yolanda, has a um company, it's called Komari. Um spell it K O M A R I. Komari K with Omari. Komari Band and Body, and she has been an entrepreneur in this company for years and years, well over 20 years, likely. Um she was probably one of the first female entrepreneurs that I know of. I mean, she's been around for a long time selling these luxury um soaps and bath products.

SPEAKER_03 25:24

Right.

SPEAKER_02 25:24

Um great, great stuff. So um again, I'm gonna put the link in because it's like when you use her bar soaps, not only are they presented beautifully, but great scents. It smells up the whole bathroom and things like that. And yeah, it's those kind of little experiences that you know, you you get in a bathtub uh or a shower like that, and then you're in a different mindset to go to work. Exactly. Because you have to shower anyway.

SPEAKER_01 25:53

If you can give yourself seven dollars, you know, seven dollars for a bar.

SPEAKER_00 26:00

For a bar, less what, a hundred washes, whatever. It's like a lot.

SPEAKER_02 26:05

And if you wash once a week, it'll last you a lifetime.

SPEAKER_00 26:11

Uh, we're not um recommending that. We're just saying that's just uh a what if.

Skincare Math And Value Mindset

SPEAKER_02 26:17

And can I also mention um another um product line that I started using based on my niece's um a chama, Dr. Ose Tutu, the dermatologist, she recommended Epilogic EPI L-O-G-I-C, their skincare products. Um this is one of the products that I use, their skin uh facial cleanser.

SPEAKER_03 26:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 26:48

And one would think that they're a little pricey. And I guess in some cases they are a little pricey. However, so many of these products, you use so little of them at a time that you know, if you use a pea size application for to wash your face per wash, you know, this thing can last a very long time. And again, if we start looking at some other products that we wouldn't balk about paying for, you know, then the scale in it becomes a lot more, it's relative, you know. And I think it just makes it uh it it it forces us to just change our mindset a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 27:29

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And it's it's you would you would pay there's certain things you you invest in, right?

SPEAKER_02 27:37

Yeah, you you invest in 61-year-old skin. I think it's worth a little. I can step up from oil of Olay by now, right? I think I can.

SPEAKER_00 27:48

Remember when that was like or the great value products from or my oh my god, Leslie, not the great value products. You are so funny.

SPEAKER_02 27:58

Let me just tell you a funny thing. I um I had this 12 pack of Irish Spring. Irish Spring? Irish Spring soap. I thought you that's what you use for elitist, but I had this thing of Irish Spring, and I'm like, why is this here? I never use Irish Spring. Whatever.

SPEAKER_00 28:24

You can use it in your garden, it repels.

SPEAKER_02 28:26

I used it once, and I felt like there was a cement of plaster. I felt that like there was plaster residue on my skin.

SPEAKER_03 28:38

I'm like, what is this?

SPEAKER_02 28:40

And then I remembered, I purchased it only as an insect repellent. I was planning to shave it into my outdoor plants.

SPEAKER_01 28:50

That's right, that's what it's for.

SPEAKER_02 28:52

But I wonder if it's used like that when it rains, when it rains, doesn't the soap get into the soil and damage the roots or anything?

SPEAKER_00 29:06

I would think that soap is well that's something to research, but you're not using tons of it.

SPEAKER_02 29:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:13

Anyway, but I I don't think I'll be using it. Wait a minute, was was that a was that a little tributary you went on? I thought that was just no, it was all relevant.

SPEAKER_02 29:23

It was Iris Spring. We're talking about my stuff is relevant. My stuff is relevant. I almost made an expletive. My stuff is relevant. It's just relevant. Ain't relevant at all. I humor you. I resemble that remark. Relevant? It's on the fringe.

SPEAKER_00 29:50

Um all right, so I'm gonna mention another product, and that is um Tallyan twine watches. This is mine. I'm so glad you thought about that. I know, I know. I can't turn it the other way. Uh-huh. This is mine. Yeah, I know. These beautiful time pieces. Purchase so many as gifts to my children, to my bestie, to my big brother. I got a nice blue one. It's a beautiful um uh time piece, and um they're um they're um are in the$150 and up range, absolutely worth it. These are beautiful, well-crafted quality time pieces, and the name Tally and Twine comes from um this intersection of this um what used to be a very depressed um um crime-ridden area in Virginia. And it is now um, and so it was it was um a way to anchor the founders to their their why. And it's now a beautiful, revitalized, and hopefully that doesn't mean gentrified, but um revitalized community. And so it was um in homage, in homage to that intersection, Tally and twine, um, black-owned, they're beautiful, they have um leather, they have canvas, all different colors, they have a Juneteenth um style, they have um all of the colors for the um the um black Greek organizations. It's beautiful, and everyone that I've purchased, the recipient just loves them. And I actually will be treating myself the next time I treat myself, I'll be getting a new tally and twine timepiece. Let's see.

SPEAKER_02 31:58

I want to mention Harlem's heaven hat heaven hats.

SPEAKER_00 32:02

Oh, okay, go hat, nice.

SPEAKER_02 32:07

I wear it. You are such a many hats that I don't even they take up. I mean, you know, I have a closet room.

SPEAKER_00 32:16

You have a room, a cloud, a room that has become a closet, yes.

SPEAKER_02 32:19

Right. So it takes up a lot of architecture in my room, several shelves of just tiled up hats, and some of them are displayed and what have you, but many of them I've gotten at um Eveta Petty's has this shop, and it's more than just a shop, it's just Emporium. I call it. It's uh two or three rooms of just hats that she's created of all different styles.

SPEAKER_00 32:50

Wow, say her name again, Les. Say her name again.

SPEAKER_02 32:55

Okay, but Petty, excuse me, P-E-T-T-Y. But the shop, her pla her business is called Harlem's Heaven Hats. And she is huge in the millinary um community. Her hats are featured in Vogue, in um Gigi Hadid, the model modeled one of her hats in Vogue. She's in Harper's Bazaar, and she's like all over the place doing fashion shows and whatever. So I got quite a few of her hats. In fact, our Bestie logo, I'm wearing one of her hats.

SPEAKER_00 33:32

Ah the black hat. Right. I love that one. Yeah, the high hat.

SPEAKER_02 33:38

Yeah, that's one of her creations.

SPEAKER_00 33:40

Oh my gosh, yeah. You have good um a good hat head, and you have a really um good hat fashion sense. I must say that.

SPEAKER_02 33:49

This brain stuff has to be covered properly.

SPEAKER_00 33:52

And I I should I should also say that when I used to make hats, you were such a fan of my hats too. Yeah, yeah. Yes, and I have several hats. You do you're you're a hat person, you're a hat. Every woman.

SPEAKER_02 34:08

I know you have hats, bags, clothing, wigs. We haven't mentioned any of your creations, but it's okay.

unknown 34:20

It's okay.

SPEAKER_00 34:21

Focus on it. Um I'm a creative, I'm a maker. I am a maker.

SPEAKER_02 34:24

Anybody else you want to mention? I have something very special that I want to mention.

Patreon Feedback And Final Shoutouts

SPEAKER_00 34:28

Well, there's so many others, but I think that that's a good place to end for this episode because we're just um doing some mini episodes until we get into season four. And just a reminder: when you join our Patreon um uh subscription, you will be able to give us some feedback on what we should have or whom or what discussions we should have, what topics in season four. So we're waiting to get a little bit more feedback on that, and we will um build out our next season based on the feedback from our um bestie quad squad. Bestie quad squad. I love that. I love how we created that together, Les. Um, so it's Patreon P-A-T-R-E-O-N slash bestie quad q-u-a-d, squad s Q U A D to um become a subscriber. And we are already starting to load up content there that is exclusively for um people in the squad. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 35:40

And um, I I just want to say that I'm not sure that people can access it that way. They might have to log into patreon.com generically and then do a search for bestie quad squad. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_00 35:56

How about we try it and see what works? You see what happens when you okay, and that's the way you did it? Yeah, because for me, since I um since I created, I don't get the same experience as other people. Right, and so it throws me off.

SPEAKER_02 36:12

That's why I've been so like that's why I've tried it as an outsider and um so you go to patreon.com, p-a-t-r-e-o-n.com, and then in there you do a search for bestie quad squad.

SPEAKER_00 36:26

Yeah, got it locked and loaded. Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 36:30

Thanks for listening. We're gonna put all of our product information that we've mentioned, and you guys, I want to hear what you think about some of these emotions, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 36:40

And and tell them that tell them that we sent you. Tell them that we sent you. By the way, none of this is um affiliated, we're not affiliated, we don't get any um any um uh sponsor or sponsorship from these places. These are kickbacks, no kickbacks, no nothing. These are just um uh black-owned products that we have enjoyed, and we do make it a point to support black-owned businesses. And so we just wanted to share some of the um just a small amount of the bounty and a small amount of the um the companies that we've had really, really um good experiences with, and we hope that you give them a try and and um love them as much as we do.

SPEAKER_02 37:31

All right, then another episode of Flack Momore Bestes from Brooklyn. Brooklyn