Cynthia Bailey
speaker
450 appearances
9 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 11 May
Cynthia Bailey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When I wasn't a woman of means, I literally was like, oh, she gave me these Jordans. I'm not going to wear them at the house. She'll be like, that's where those Jordans are. Yes. But now it's like, you want those Velcro shoes back, take the Velcro shoes back. How many times have you worn them since she gave them to you? So fucking many.
It is such a joy. It is. I think in Jewish, the word is Bakhinim. My mom just taught it for me. And it means like for nothing. Yeah. Like you're getting. And she'll go like Bakhinim no less. Like you got it for free no less. I got, this is actually funny, I got an All Saints jacket because I went to an event of theirs and then they dress you head to toe for the event. This fit was so fire.
I felt like a million bucks. And then Kristen wanted the jacket. And you had to get it. Well, of course. It's like after all these years, I'm like,
another one from them but like of course it's like it's in the work she was like oh can i take your all saints jacket away for the weekend i was like of course no i i will always write back what have you ever done for me and then i'll go drop it off is that like a writer passage if you have like a more famous friend that like if they like something you're wearing you kind of have to give it to them
Kind of, only because, I mean, only if that famous friend has given you everything over the years. Like, if you're just randomly friends with someone and they never, no.
Yeah. And they're just like, oh, probably taking it off. I will say, because I'm such a thrifter and a vintage picker. Often she will spot something of mine and I'll have to like decide. And then I'm like, okay, the light blue Mickey Mouse vintage sweatshirt that you literally can't get. I'm going to do it. I'm going to give it to her. Wow. Yeah. I'm a real hero. Have you ever said no?
I took something back once. But in my defense, we were keeping them in the family and I didn't give them to her. And they were my fucking velvet multicolored Doc Martens that I bought at Patricia Field in 1995.
I had a rocket shoes on and I just zoomed right out because she was I was like, oh, I've been thinking about those those docs. And she was like, that kind of kills me, but you can take them back. I was like, great. Thank you. I will. But I fuck with them and I wear them all the time.
Hmm. Your mom. Oh, right. She is amazing. The bet. She is not to be believed. She's the cool. She's really like the funniest school. She's in Florida now. Cause my parents got, Oh my God. How horrible. Wow. That's really disgusting. They live in Florida. Cause it's nice and warm down there. And they're in like a 55 and over community. And they're the cutest and they love it.
And they were in New York. Like, what were they going to continue to shovel the driveway? Like, They're old.
To Florida? I go, honestly, what's funny is I realized that the only reason I was ever going to New York was for them. And so now I just go to Florida. And they're really cute. They do like Teatro, which is the Bellagio 55 and over community developments musical theater cabaret stop. And it's called like Theater Works. And they had to change the name from Teatro because people didn't know.
They didn't know that that was theater in Italian. Yeah. because also the old Jews, they're like, teatro. It's like, okay, well, when you say it like that, I don't understand. We added a couple of letters in there. Yeah, a couple vowels, maybe a C-H. I thought a Y. Yeah, yeah, honestly, a couple, a couple Ys. But they go, yeah, they do the shows. Last year, my mom was in Chicago. Wow.
And they did the like, chaotic comments. Yes. The cell block tango.
and they cell blocked hangout and they like all the old the ladies came out with their like little old jail cell I'll show you the video it was beyond and the part where the woman speaks in Hungarian about how she got caught my mom did that part but in Yiddish I love it stop a woman a jack of all trades a jack of all trades truly jack of all trades what's dad doing these days Dad's the best.
Dad's in multiple singing groups. Dad taught me how to, of course, he's in his group with his friends that called Old Things New, but his friends live in Pennsylvania, and so he doesn't see them as much. But his best friend, Gene Miner, was his student at Springfield Gardens in Brooklyn in the 70s.
Honestly, isn't that amazing? He is, but it's just a lucky name. But he's super musical. And then when he when Gene graduated, he and my dad ran back into each other many years later and started singing together. And now they are old men. And my dad was his teacher in Brooklyn. And now they eat each other. Right. Uh huh. Wow. Yes. Fucking research homework. So you love both of my parents.
Excuse me. Both of my parents were gym teachers.
And I don't know how to kick, catch.
Gym teachers. They're both incredible. Were incredible athletes. My mom was like incredible. I don't know if she was like all state field hockey, but she was like a beast field hockey player. My dad played everything. Coached all my brother's sports. Both. My dad was the head of the phys ed department in Bushwick High School. At like the height of when Bushwick was... Suck hairy. Scary, scary.
And it was, like, all the... It was the first school in the country to have metal detectors, that kind of thing. So it was gnarly. But now Bushwick is, like, you can't afford a one-bedroom.
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