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The Documentary Podcast

Life, Death and Cheerleading

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Sun City is one of America's biggest retirement communities and home to the Poms, a group of amazing women aged between 55 and 85. We follow the Poms as they rehearse for one of their biggest parades of the year. Their story is one of courage in the face of mortality and a high-kick against ageism.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I left there feeling like I was 16 again. Here I was a senior lady and we were the

0:10.3

stars. First they're startled. I don't think they know what to expect you

0:14.9

know here come a bunch of old ladies with shiny costumes and a lot of makeup and

0:20.0

oh you know what are they going to do how boring this is going to be and then you know as we

0:24.9

start getting into it oh yeah well this is interesting gee I don't think my grandmother

0:30.1

could do that.

0:31.1

Still starting with your left foot and the back one turns left.

0:35.0

I'll do it with the right, with the front row.

0:38.0

We turn on one, one, two,

0:42.0

I thought it was the best thing I ever seen and I swore up and I

0:46.2

were up and down I was going to be a palm as soon as I could and so I retired at

0:51.0

62 and became a palm and I love it.

0:54.2

Fun City Palms.

0:55.2

Yay.

0:56.2

You know that's all they say is look at their legs.

0:58.7

Look at their legs.

0:59.6

So I guess we could be do anything as long as they're looking at our legs.

1:03.0

I never got to dance when I was a kid and my husband didn't dance.

1:09.0

So when I moved, when he died and I moved to Arizona, that's what I'm doing.

1:16.3

That's why I'm doing all this stuff.

1:18.3

I'm in everything if I can be.

1:20.8

So when I moved here, that's one thing, you know, I moved to, we moved here like, I think we got here like on a Thursday and on Monday I was in tap class and I was going to learn how to dance if it was the last thing I did in my life.

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