January 2, 2025 • 44 mins
On this episode of Levels to This, Sheryl and Tee share their highlights from 2024. They talk about sports, politics and pop culture. Plus, the two share their goals for the new year.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Hey, everybody, I'm your girl, Trerika Foster Brasby, what's up, y'all?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I'm your girl Cheryl.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Swoops Hey, And this is Levels to This, the show
where we share that there is shit, levels to the
shit that women's go through. I am totally butchering this intro,
but you know what, We're an authentic podcast and you
start just gonna hear it and I'll fuck this up.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Let's go listen.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
That's if that's the worst mistake you make today.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
We good, right, We real good right. Well, first of all,
happy new Year.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
It's twenty twenty five, and I'm excited to be in
a new year.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Did you make any resolutions?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
No, I will say this, I'm excited to lead twenty
twenty four behind, and I'm really trying to be optimistic
about twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
But I lie to U, T.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
It's some shit that just a sitting right in my
soul going into twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
But you know what, we're gonna, We're gonna we're gonna
let that.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
We're gonna we're gonna let those negative vibes and that
negative ragey stay in twenty twenty four. We are not
We are not bringing that to the new year.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
We are just not.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
First of all, something about fives, right, you know, like
twenty twenty five, thirty thirty five, we celebrate, you know
when we're hitting on the five.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
So I think this is this is this is gonna be.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I like to give my years, like every year, I
like it to be a year of something. Right, So
last year for me was a year of happiness. Right
I turned forty, I was like, this is my year
of happiness. Twenty twenty five to me, is gonna be
the year of celebration. I feel like we should just
celebrate everything, every small win, every accomplishment, every little step
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that we take that's different. We should celebrate. Like twenty
twenty five should be the year of celebration. And so
that's where that's where I am. Yeah, that's where I am.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Well, because you remember I told you for twenty twenty five,
you gotta teach me all about Kwansa and all of that.
Remember conversation, So I'm going to steal your idea about
every year it's got to be a year of something,
and I love the celebration.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
It's got to be. Come back and tell you what
mine's gonna be. Okay, that's totally fine.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Now, I also feel like we have to do a
great first of all, before I even go into what
we're gonna truly and honestly discuss on today's show. You know,
I always got a ridiculous ass story to tell you
in the beginning.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Sure up, of course I need to hear.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
It's got a ridiculous I look forward to this everything
because I always do.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Some dumb shit every single time. I always do.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
So I've woke up or whatever, and I was like, oh, oh,
twenty twenty five. I got to make sure that I
go into the new year with some new hair and
be you know, be bad and stuff like that. So
I went to the beauty supply store over the weekend
and I got a new and I got a new unit.
And when I walked in, I saw this unit that
I'm currently wearing on my head, and.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I said, which looks good, by the way, love it,
love it, You're locking it.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Okay, go ahead, but it's it's stuck to me. It
spoke out to me. I was like, I don't know why,
but I feel like this is the one. And I
had another part of me that said, you should get
this in jet black. You don't typically do jet black.
You usually have some type of color. You should do
jet black. And I just kept ignoring my gut feeling, right,
I just kept ignoring it. The lady came out, she
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had all the different colors. I was like, Oh, that
chocolate brown is the what I have me that girl.
I got home, I put that wig on. I said, girl,
why are you out here looking like October? It's the
same hair you bought them wnba simus. I'm looking at
myself like, you look real familiar.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Bits this as not just as you Oh my gosh.
So I came in twenty twenty five, clearly.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Clearly as we So I brought that up to say
today's episode.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
We're gonna be talking about the best of twenty twenty four,
and clearly this wig was one of the best ones
I bought.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I would because I bought the shit again to bring
you listen, that's how the bad.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
That means that one you liked it a lot, is
spoke to you and you rocked it because you know
you know. I'm a hair girl too. I'm always changing
sit up. But I remember that wig you wore WNBA
All Star Finals. But this swim that you're having on
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for those of you who can't see, yeah, you'll see
it leaks really really good.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I do like Wyo. I appreciate it. Good on you.
I should. That's why my conscience kept saying go jet black.
Because of that.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Internally, I know that I already had this at the crib.
So it's all good. So today we are willing really
just take a moment before we fully engulfed ourselves into
twenty twenty five. We're gonna talk about some of our
favorite moments of twenty twenty four. Now, friends, these are
just our favorite moments. It's not necessarily sports or not philot.
(05:17):
It could be, it's not. It's just it's just some
of the things that we and trust us, we literally
could have had a longer list than what we have.
So I'm gonna share my top five. Cheryl's gonna share
her top five. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
I'm excited to hear what you think were some of
the best moments for you for twenty twenty four. But yeah, girl,
(05:39):
we're gonna we're gonna move forward with this. We this
brand new, already got hair, but it looks.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Good though, And I will say this, I'm glad we're
doing this because, like you said, there were some amazing,
incredible moments of twenty twenty four, and I know there's
some that I'm probably forgetting and maybe you have them
or I have some you don't, But to your point,
you guys, don't let come for us, because these were
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just some that we can think about.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
And these were, like, these were my.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Top five moments of twenty twenty four, and I'm ready
to leave them in twenty twenty four and move on
to twenty twenty five because I'm hoping that we're gonna
have some great, exciting shit happening in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Cannot agree more.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
And so with that, let's take this to the next level,
all right, So, Cheryl, I'm gonna go ahead and.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Kick it off because Okay, I know that.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
You and I both got a million things we really
could have put on this list. So everybody listening trying
to pick five, which for the show will total ten,
but either way, trying to pick five was hard. So
I'm gonna start off with what I felt kicked off
all of the Shenanigans for twenty twenty four, and that
was when my boy Kat Williams went on Club Shashit
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that man said that twenty twenty four was going to
be the year of truth.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
And if that man.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Wasn't prophesizing to all of us, because half of the
shit that he said on that interview, while we were
laughing talking about this dude as a conspiracy theorist, stuff
hit the fan. It did. Diddy shit said Kevin Hart,
stuff like all of these names he named jay Z.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I don't know if it's true or.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Not, but the shit hit the fan, like everybody was
imposing everybody on blast, everybody, everybody, even I feel like
he was indirectly allowing people to be able to be
honest with themselves because even with the Drake and Kendrick
Lamar shit, I was like, yeah, I said, Kendrick, some
of the stuff you saying about Drake now starting, it's
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starting to make me raise an eyebrow.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
So that's my number five, got it? Listen? I love that,
And so I had one.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
This isn't gonna be mine now, but I'm gonna tell
you what it was, because it kind of goes along
with what you just said. And my like one that
I had on here was like did he go into jail?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Right?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
And to me, that falls under the whole Cat Williams
going on Club Chase Shade, just putting everybody on blasts,
talking about y'all gonna find out and see. And I
don't know how many people were like this man has
lost his mind, Like.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
What is wrong with him?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
This can't be true, this can't be real, right, and
I we're still talking about it.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
And I have to say, like when I started seeing
the list of people who were associated, because I can't
remember who I was listening to, but they were like, listen,
I didn't do the freak offs, Like.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I went to the party. I was back at home.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
By I left before.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
All of the gets pass. What they say, that's what.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
There's so many people that have been named and implicated,
and they're questioning and asking as a relation to that
Diddy stuff. And all I could say is Cat Williams
told y'all year he tried to told you, he told
you he did.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Okay, so I'm gonna go with one that's more recent.
And I'm just gonna say it because I look at
where we are in this world, in this country, and
I question, like, what have we become when? And I'm
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not saying this is number five, this is just in
my top five, okay, And that is the CEO of
United Healthcare being gunned down and broad open daylight t
Like seriously though, first of all, like prayers and condolences
to his family, but when, like, what have we become
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when you can just stand and broad open daylight in
New York City and just gun somebody down? And the
other part of that, like people are calling this dude.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I'm not gonna say his name one because I don't.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Want to, okay, but people are calling him a hero.
So I'm like, I'm baffled, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yep, to me, that situation is one of those scenarios
where two.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Things can be true.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Right, it is incredibly awful for anybody to be gunned down,
to be killed murdered in that way, Like that's just
incredibly awful, regardless of how you felt.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
About him or his business.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
That man has a family, Like, it's just that's just
incredibly sad. It is also not mutually exclusive. That people
can feel a way about the healthcare industry in the
United States currently and why they feel that people who
have the authority to change and don't make change they
have less sympathy or empathy for. So I think it's
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I think it's a really interesting conundrum that people find
themselves in.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I'm not calling a murderer hero. That's ridiculous. I agree
with you on that.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yeah, I do understand how some folks are, like I
might not be as empathetic to.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
This particular death because of A, B and C. But
that is And then to.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Your point, just recently, there was someone who was like
lit on fire in the New York subway.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
What the hell going on in New York? Y'all? Yes,
not only.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
What's going on in New York, what's going on in
the United States of America.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Trip. Yeah, it's a trip, because it's a lot, it's
a trip.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
So that was a tricking off of my list because
that was just like what that's why it happened?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Yeah, Yeah, that was wild. Okay, all right, so I'm
going to go to number four for me. Number four
on my list is really funny. But you know, there
was supposed to be a band on TikTok that started
at the beginning of this year, and then Congress was
asked to take a pause on that band.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
But TikTok trend.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
A specific trend that got me in twenty twenty four
was Resa Tisa is, who the fuck did I marry?
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Listen, Honey, I was.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Sitting here, Okay, tell me, I don't know that I
got honey.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
From February to the end of March twenty twenty four,
I was stuck watching literally seventy sumid parts of a
TikTok story from this woman named Teresa, who literally married
a com man. Okay, this man lied to her for years,
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had a fake This man had a fake name, had
a apparently he was schizophrenic.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
But the man lied to her for years, took her out,
told her he had this good old job. They was
gonna buy a house. Child they got married. He on
the phone every day talking to somebody who she think
is his brother, because he'd be saying, like he's talking
to his brother. The man ain't on the phone talking
to nobody dog for years, the brother from this dude.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
It's like twenty ten. It was like cooking.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I'm sitting here cooking on TikTok, like, girl, where's the
next part? Where's the next part? For I was watching
it for months. It came out in February. She got
like seventy summer pieces and it was called who the
fuck did I'm marry?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Oh wow? Okay, I missed all of that. I missed
all of that.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I could not have a top five and not put
not Okay, TikTok went off. Okay, tiktalk went off between
that and very mindful, very demure between those two.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, yeah, very mindful, very demure, very demure.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
They sent me off on sweet and twenty four.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Okay, that's a good one, all right. So number just
my second one. I'm not doing mine in any particular order.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
So so this one for me has to do with
sports in Okay, because it was because it happened in
the Olympics, okay, And it was the video that went everywhere,
and it was the pole vaulter in the Olympics who
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fell because of his quote, big Willie.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
And if you didn't see that, where were you? Because
it was everywhere?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Like I don't know if that typically would have made
my top moments in twenty twenty four, but seeing how
first of all was the Olympics, like.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Bro, you're really trying to win gold.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Somebody said, well, he didn't win gold, but he probably
got a lot of women in his DMS.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
After that he won the ultimate race, so he really
did win.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just wonder.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I wonder because you know, that video was everywhere, and
I wonder what he said when he saw it.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
He probably is very appreciative of it video right right,
like he probably is, but also is he is he upset?
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Because what I don't know was he was he was
he going for goal or was he going for the record?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Do you know what I mean? I don't remember. I
don't remember specific the specific side track.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I got sidetracked, but we all understood the assignment when
we see it all over and we was just like,
you know what, I ain't mad at it.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Oh my god, that was mine. That was in my
top my top twenty twenty four moment.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
That's hilarious. But you know what, this is not part
of my top five. But I am going to give
a nod to the US women's team as an honorable
mention as you talk about Olympics, because they absolutely were
a top moment, going for the record of consecutive wins
and just quite honestly giving me the scare of my
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life in the championship game.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I was like, cool, you know, I'm used to y'all.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Coming in and dropping like eighty on people and then
going going about your business and making it easy, making
it very easy. But France has something to say in
that championship game, and it made people have to play.
So I don't bo mention shout out to the women's
national team, shout out to all of the Olympians that
won goal, but definitely wanted to shout out the Olympians.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
All right.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
So for me, number three on my list is election
twenty twenty four, And by this I don't just mean.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
The results.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I think that everything that happened, from the assassination attempts
or whatever those were, to the failed assassination attempts, to
Joe Biden performing poorly, to literally being in my whole
hotel room during WNBA All Star in Phoenix and turning
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on CNN to see that Biden had dropped out of
the race.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Comic how yes, what I mean? Then?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
And then there were the moments where it was like
you know, Kamala I think ran a great, a great
campaign in terms of the timing that she had. She
raised millions of dollars within twenty four hours of her
accepting the official nomination of being of being the candidate.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Just the way that she was able.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
To help put HBCUs and black women in Greek letter
organizations and just the rallying around her while also still
having to be VP. And yes, it was disheartening and
it was heartbreaking to see the actual outcome. But I
just think overall, and I won't forget that after the outcome,
black women realized their worth for real, for real and
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was like, you know what we done.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Appreciate it. You know what we're about. We're about right
because they understand, they understand their power. We're done.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
So I just think election twenty twenty four is just one.
And I typically remember most elections.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Because I try my best to participate.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
In some way in the election cycle. But I got
a chance to meet Kamala Harris twice this year. Yeah,
and it's like those were moments that I'm never going
to forget. She came to Massachusetts and we met her
on the tarmac. She took pictures with us, and then
she came to my Sororities National Convention in Houston, Texas.
She did a speech, she shook hands, talked to people like,
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even though the outcome wasn't what we wanted, just the
entire cycle was interesting. Getting to meet her was interesting,
And I think it's a moment that I won't.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Forget, without questioning, without a doubt.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I'm gonna stay on this one with you because it's.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Definitely on my list.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
And I honestly debated on if I was gonna just
make that number one, because it easily could.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Be, and for me it was.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
It wasn't just about the political candidates, right, Trump and
and Harris or Trump and Biden, but it was everything
Like it was so like I'm getting emotional just thinking
about it because I think, I think for me and
for so many of us, like our.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Hopes were just crushed.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
And the excitement for me of having a black female
run for president was exciting, right, like something I didn't
think I would ever see in my lifetime. And then
to see all the work she put in, how hard
she fought, the money she raised, the campaign she ran
like just everything, I was like, okay.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Sis, we see you.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yeah, and then just just for everything everything else about
the election, Like without even going into it, it justugh
like just thinking about it again, I'm just like, Okay,
this is why I'm ready to leave twenty twenty four behind.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
But in saying that, here's what I will say, and
this is how I wrote it down.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I just said, a convicted felon win's the presidency, and
to me, it's bigger than him being president. Right, So
if we're gonna say that that's okay, then we need
to remove felony from job applications felon felons need to
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be able to vote, right, So it can't It can't
be both ways.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
You can't say, well, if you're a fella, you can't.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Do X, Y and z, but yet if you're a
felon you can run for president of the United States
of America.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Make that shit make sense? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
One hun everything about the election t absolutely is in
my top twenty twenty four moments, and I just really
want to be able to leave twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Where it is, and let's just hope and pray that
we can get through twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
And I will add this one thing to it before
we take a very quick break is that not only
did we see politicians, but I think the election cycle
helped us to see folks for who they really are.
Like there were some people who I called friends, I
called sisters, I called colleagues, like some people who I
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genuinely were like, Oh, I think there are awesome people.
And then I saw them supporting Trump, and I would ask,
why are you so, because I'm not just going to
be like, forget you because because of your political candidate,
but I wanted to know why, right, And then when
I would hear their reasons why, That's when I was like, yeah, okay,
I gotta step away from you.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I got to back up from.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
You because I have disagreed with Republicans over the course
of years I worked on Obama's campaign. I was part
of the Do or Die coalition when John Carey was
running back in two thousand and four.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Like I've been doing this.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I have a whole bachelor's degree in political science.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I ain't new to this.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
But when I'm asking you why you actively support a
man who would like to see my kind erase and
extinct from this world, and your and your response is
something like.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I mean, we can disagree, we can agree to disagree.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
No, we can agree to disagree on things we like
or don't like, we cannot agree to disagree on humanity.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
And that's what you're saying. So no doubt I say
about to say.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
It helped me be able to leave some people in
twenty twenty four because it opened my eyes to some.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
People than who they really are. Doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
But with that being said, we're gonna take a quick
short break and then we will be back to cap.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Off our top twenty twenty four moments.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
And I think you're gonna love my number one, but
we'll be batter, okay, Cheryl. My number two on my
list is actually very personal, Like, so this isn't a
moment that everybody is gonna celebrate, but it was certainly
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a moment that I celebrated, and that was buying a house.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
I became a husbo. You know.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
It's just it's one of those things where in your
mind you keep telling yourself, I'm gonna do it, I'm
gonna do it, I'm gonna do it, and you never
feel like you're ready, and then it just gets to
a point where you're like and Esther kind of talked
about this on our previous podcast when she's like everybody
keep telling me now at the time, but it's just like,
you know what, fucking I'm gonna do it. Yeah, that's
exactly how it went down. Like we were just like,
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you know what, this is the one. I'd seen two
houses that I loved previously, and both of them, before
we could even put.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
A bid down, were gone.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
And when I saw the house that I currently have now,
I was like, you know what, I Am not gonna
let this opportunity to go away.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
It was in the middle of Christmas.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
You know, everybody broke at Christmas time, but at the
same time, I was like, Nope, this is what we're
gonna do. And I have just really felt so proud
of myself of all the things that we've done in
twenty twenty four and all the things we've accomplished. I
think becoming a homeowner is one of the very top
moments that I'll ever have.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
So that's number two for me, as you should celebrate that. Listen.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I remember the very first time I purchased my home,
and it was when I was in the league and
I had all the fills right because just thinking about
where I grew up the way I grew up, and
I never saw my mom have a home, right, you're
always renting, And so I get the feeling and the
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feeling of pride and accomplishment in being able to say
this is mine, Like I've worked my.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Ass off for this. Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
And those other two that you said you couldn't get,
they weren't meant for you.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
You weren't supposed to have them. That's exactly you know what.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
And what's crazy about it is one house that we
looked at, my husband and I were like, Yo, this
is it's really nice.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
It's got first floor room.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Because my mother's old, right, not old, but you know,
for quick backstory for those who don't know, I was
raised by my great grandparents, right, great grandparents, and my
great grandmother is turning ninety five later this month, on
the twenty fifth, and she raised me.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
So I call her mom.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
So most of the time when I say my mama,
I'm really talking about my great grandmother. So when we
walked in the house and we were like, great, there's
a room on the first floor.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
If my mom wants to come visit, she doesn't have
to go upstairs.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
You know, our reelsor told us that quite literally, that
house set on the market for like sixty days and
no one visited it, And the day that we went
to visit it, all of a sudden, there were like
five other people who wanted to come and see the
house that same day, and that same day someone put
a bid down for it. And I said, wow, right, like,
how ironic that no one cared about this house until
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I did? And I felt really bad about that. I
just kept thinking, like, man, I miss my house. I
miss my house. I can't even tell you what that
house really looks like anymore on the inside because I
am so in love with the house that we did by.
I just feel like this was the one for us.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Absolutely home ownership. I love it. I love it, love it,
love it. Okay, So number four for me.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I'm gonna take it back to the Olympics is and
again there's so many, but this.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
One I just I have to.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
And that is the goat of gymnastics. Siman files experiod
returning after stepping away and everything that she went through
in the twenty twenty what were twenty twenty four in
twenty twenty Olympics or was it twenty twenty one?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Because of cod it was twenty twenty but happened in
twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah, yeah, just thinking about her story and her journey
and everything that happened in twenty twenty one and her
stepping away and right just the way it all happened
for her to come back in twenty twenty four and
whoop everybody's ass and tell anybody she she's the greatest.
She is the goat of gymnastics, and I had to
have her in my top twenty.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Twenty four months.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
That is incredible, Like Simone is indeed the goat is
indeed the goat. Like there's none none better, none will
be better. She's just every lover, her lover, lover, lover.
I absolutely love Simone. Yeah, congress to her too. She
got married and everything, like so life is life and
she did all the things in twenty twenty four that
perfectly ties into my top moment of twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Four, and my top moment.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
My top moment of twenty twenty four was absolutely none
other than the growth, the evolution, the increase of popularity
in women's sports.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
YEP.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
And I know that it's very easy for me to
say WNBA because that's the league I cover that's the
league you played in, but it was so much bigger
than just the WNBA, and I think we can probably
see the effect more in the WNBA, but it was
just all over women's sports, like we owned that in
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I'm just saying, because this is one we could continue
to talk about forever and ever and ever.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Seriously, so my top one, even.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Though I said I didn't put them in order, but
this one was for sure. My number one is the
same thing you said, and I just said women's sports,
right say, and it's everything, it's not just the w
but in particular, I want to say this. First of all,
I want to say thank you to iHeart for investing
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in women, seeing how we matter, giving us a platform.
I'm so thrilled and excited about levels to this with
you and looking forward to what we're going to do
in twenty twenty five. So I got to say that, like,
I am so excited about this podcast and everyone that
helps make it go and make it happen. And then
I am going to say just a few names, right
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because I think I think their impact on and not
just the WNBA, but I think their impact on women's
sports and their ability to open people's eyes to just
how bad ass women are.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
I'm gonna start with Asia Wilson.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Asia Wilson scoring a thousand points in one season.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
I don't know if we talked.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
About that enough, Like what a hell of a accomplishment,
Asia Wilson.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
She deserves all the things.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
So I'm gonna say Asia, I'm gonna I'm going to
say Angel Reese. I think like her lover hater, Angel
Reese a big reason why not just the W but
women's sports is where it is today, yep.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
And I'm also going to set.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
I'm gonna put Caitlin Clark in there. I mean, I
don't know how you can talk about the growth and
the evolution of women's sports without putting Caitlyn's.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Name in there.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
And the reason why I don't want to say name
is because I know there's some I'm leaving out and
people be like, well what about so and so and
so on and so those This are just three names, seriously,
just off the top of my head that I'm like,
damn they they did the damn thing this season. So yeah,
for sure, top moment for me number one in twenty
twenty four.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Absolutely everything women's sports yep. Same.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
There are some things that I wanted to highlight and
recognize too, Like you know, obviously the Liberty win in
their first w NBA Championship.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Incredible.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Katie Ladecki, she four pets at Paris, Like we talk about,
you know, women that are just continuing to set a
bar for being the standard of excellence. You got to
give Katie and what she's doing amazing, amazing, amazing. I
already mentioned USA basketball getting their eighth straight Coco Golf. Hello,
Coco is owning women, And I love it because it
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comes right on the heels of us saying to ourselves,
you know, what in the world are we gonna do
with women's tennis? When we see the Golden Serena Williams
and it was like, no, there was just a smooth
transition from Cyrano, don't worry cook boy it.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Yeah, I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
And I want to point out something that I saw
on espnw's Instagram feed. They asked, was twenty twenty four
of the best year in women's sports ever? And they
pointed out eighteen point nine million people watch South Carolina
in Iowa in the title game, which is the most
viewed women's college basketball game on record. The Women's College
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World Series most watched two million viewers a whole. There
was full gender parody in the Olympics. For the first
time ever, there was the same amount of men athletes
as there were women athletes. First ever women's rugby sixty
six thousand people set an attendance record. The historic season
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that we've continued to talk about for the WNBA in
terms of viewership, in terms of attendance, in terms of
the sellout crowd expansion expansion. The final was the most
viewed since nineteen ninety nine, first sold out championship for
the Women's Soccer League, and then we just watched just
(32:09):
two weeks ago, not even two weeks ago, Women's volleyball.
Like I was a volleyball athlete in college, I played
all four years. Record attendance in NCAA Volleyball Championship since
twenty one thousand people were in the Young Center to
watch that. So it's not just one particular thing. It
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is women's sports across the board. Like I am so
proud to cover this sport. I was so proud to
be in everything, and I'm looking forward to doing all
the things again in twenty twenty five, and of course
the icing on the cake was being.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Able to have this podcast with you.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
As you mentioned Ihart, women's sports really coming together to
give myself and Christina Williams and Carrie Champion and Renee
Stubbs and all these people an opportunity to display why women's.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Sports is the shit. So that my one Mike Drop
Cooper Mic drop. So I love it, Fiel. What' you're
gonna say, because I feel like you's gonna say something.
I was just gonna say, you know, with all.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
The stuff, all the shit, the not so good shit
that happened in twenty twenty four that we're like, yeah,
let's just leave that there and move on.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Yeah, there really was some great stuff that happened in
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
So you know, I don't I don't want to act
like it didn't happen, because there was some good stuff
that happened in.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Twenty twenty four, and we're totally gonna build and grow
off of it. That's it. That's it.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
And you know it's been it's been some shenanigans that
happened over the last week twenty Like in twenty twenty four,
the n folks just some some shenanigans, but you know what,
we're gonna leave that. We're gonna leave that behind us.
We're not gonna give these ignorant ass individuals any attention
or any more attention than they've already received. And I'm
just excited about where we're headed. So when we come back,
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we're gonna level off. And I know you say that
you don't have resolutions, but I'm gonna want to know
what are you most looking forward to in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
We'll be right.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Back, all right, Cheryl, Listen, we know what we're leaving
behind in twenty twenty four, but I want to know
what you are most looking forward to in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
I mean, it don't got to be one thing. I
mean it could be several.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Well, you know, Tee, I used to be really really
big on resolutions.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Right It was I had I had to set my
New Year's resolution, and it was like, oh my god,
this is what I'm gonna do. And as I've.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Gotten older, I'm like, resolution I just don't do. There
are certain things that I'm like, this is what I
really want to focus on or be better at.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
So I will say two things.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
One that I'm that I'm really looking forward to in
twenty twenty five is is just to investing in me right,
and not in a selfish way, which is, you know,
putting everybody before you, but really investing in me, meaning
spending time with me and focusing on what matters to
me and just.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Being a better version of me. That's what I really
want to do.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
And the second one, and I can say this, Yeah,
I am super excited.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
About being a grandma in twenty five. I'm assuming it's
public knowledge now it's out there now.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Yeah, I'm like, oh my god, I'm nervous. I'm nervous
for them, not for me, but yeah, I'm yeah. And
that's why I need to like kind of focus on me,
because I got to be the best. And by the way,
I'm not going to be called grandma. I'm going to
be called nan in. It's in a in a n
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there's history.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
There's history.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Okay, okay, because I was just getting ready to ask
you what that baby got to call.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
You nan and it comes it comes from.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
My African roots where Grandma, my my tribe, grandma is
called nanan.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
That I love that those are some good ones.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Foreran is exciting I don't want to be nobody's grandma.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Please to me, don't do that.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Don't do that. My baby's seventeen. I wish she would. No,
you're not No, You're not okay seventeen.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
No, she better not. No, I'm saying it too. No.
So I have a.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Couple I too, don't really do resolutions, but I'm I'm
a goal setter.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
I have goals, I have intentions.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
I typically do a vision board, so like, I know,
like what I what I want to do for this year.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
And I told you this is a year of celebration, So.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
I one want to be more intentional about the moments
that I with my friends. You and I both know
that this business is a business that constantly keeps you
on the go.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
It constantly keeps you moving.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
And this coming up February, I have a very very
good friend of mine who's having her first baby in
her baby shower is February eighth, which is the Saturday
before the Super Bowl, in the first week of AU
and I'm covering AU. So I'm going to be in
Nashville for her baby shower. And although she's like, oh,
it's not the biggest deals in my head, I'm like
(37:29):
this is my very good friend. This is a very
moment when I've had moments, she's been there for me,
and like now I'm not going to be able to
share in her moment because I have to work. And
it just makes me think, like this year, Tarika, you
need to be very intentional about taking the moments with
your friends, like putting, you know, putting your family and
(37:51):
your friends and just simply having to say sometimes I'm
not gonna be able to do that now I'm not
saying it.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
I'm turned down. Au you get it.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
You have to sometimes be like, hey, I'm not gonna
be able to do that because I need to. I
need to be here. So intentionality with that is the
first thing.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Two. The second thing that.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
I want to be more intentional about is celebrating my wins.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Right.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Sometimes I think I'm too humble, Like my friends are
always telling me.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Like, girl, are you famous? I'm like, girl, I ain't famous.
You got me fucked up? Don't nobody know me? But
you're like, girl, don't say that shit.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
But I think that I don't think that I take
the time to just really realize how far I come.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
I'm a girl from the East side of the Troit.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
I didn't have a lot. You know, great grandparents raised me.
I had a lot of traumatic shit happened when I
was a kid, like nothing to like just just know
it took a lot for me to get here. And
I don't think I truly embraced that in the amount
of times that I've been doing this and other people have,
which is awesome, but I feel that for me to
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embrace that feels arrogant, you know what I mean, Like
it feels like you're doing too much. It feels like
you you know, like but it's not. And people have
been telling me that, like trigger, you really need to
take a moment to just really think about where you've
been and where you are. And we know that you
got more to do but celebrate your sins. So I
want to take I do want to take more time
(39:18):
to celebrate, celebrate the small things, celebrate the wins, all
that good stuff. So when we get to show number
twenty five, were throwing a party, just throwing you, throwing it.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Out to you.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Now we get to the twenty fifth episode of Levels
to this, we're throwing a party because these are.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
The wins and the ass shindick, big ass party period.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
So tell Jesse, tell Aaron, tell our producers, all the
people be prepared for the for the foolishness for the
twenty fifth episode.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Agreed.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
But yeah, and then last, but not least, I think
the one thing that I'm really looking forward to this
year is the opportunities to travel more.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
You went to for class year.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
I want to couple of places last year, and I'm
just like, you know what, we got all this world.
I need to go out here and see more of
this world. So I am looking forward to stamping the
hell out of my passport.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Yes, yes, that's yes, we need to. We need to
take a girl's trip. We do, We really do? Yep,
we really do. Nah, they don't.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
I'm gonna have to turn my location off because if
I tell my husband I'm taking a girls street with Sheryl,
she gonna say, oh, y'all going to get into some shit?
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Did know? Did know? My husband gonna be like, you're
going with who where? Who where? Oh No, but that's
happening for sure.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
All right, So let's go ahead and level off this
good this good old episode.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
What you got the levelss up today? Cheryl?
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Well, this is titled It's a It's a really a
short poem.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
I was trying to decide if it was really short.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
And it's called it's called a Powerful Woman. And I
pick this because of what we just talked about, leaving
in twenty twenty four and looking forward to twenty twenty five,
and I just want to remind all the women out
there how powerful we are going into this new year.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
So bear with me, but I'm going to read this.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
It says she rises from her adversity, but never forgets
her origin. She learns from her past and chooses to
keep going forward, even when her steps get heavy. She
transforms her pain and suffering into strength and wisdom. Yes
she may stumble, Yes sometimes she falls, But just as
the sun always rises, so too does a powerful woman.
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She is equipped with an intuition that guides her course
like a compass. She strives to love herself and all
that she stands for with a fierce loyalty, even when
it's difficult. She's not afraid to seek truth, even when
it hurts. She is passionate and uses her gifts to
inspire and spread light and love. With a mind of
wonder and a heart of goodness.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
And grit, she is resilient. She refuses to be navigated
by fear and doubt. She knows where she's been, where
she is, and where she's headed.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
She uplifts us other women and embodies authenticity and humility.
She loves deeply, lives with compassion, and is relentlessly unapologetic.
She is designed to be admired, not always liked. She
is fierce, determined, and unstoppable. She is a powerful woman.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
First of all, that shit went short, I got the
right I know. I was like, it really ain't short.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
I thought it was great in the line that you
said that stuck out to me. She is designed to
be admired, not necessarily liked. You ain't always got to
like me, but you're gonna respect what I do, period period.
Speaker 3 (42:37):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
So I hope that kind of hits home with someone
who's listening. And you know, yeah, are we gonna stumble
at times? Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (42:47):
Are we gonna fall? Hell?
Speaker 1 (42:49):
Yes, But you know what makes us powerful is our
ability to fall fall again, and we keep getting up
and we keep pushing forward. So that's the word I'm
gonna take into twenty twenty five with me, and happy
New Year, everybody.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
I love that. So, yes, that is a perfect way
to end our show. And guys, we want to know
what your top moments of twenty twenty four was, like,
Shoot us a message, shoot us an email, leave us
a review. We want to know, right, so you know,
just continue to listen to Levels to This.
Speaker 3 (43:24):
We will be back next week.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
And when I tell you we have such a great
lineup for twenty twenty five, you are not gonna want
to miss these next level conversations just about the real
shit that women go through. And you guys know this
isn't just our show, it's our show, so continue to
let us know.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
We appreciate every.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
Time we see a tag on Twitter, or we see
a tag on Blue Sky or anything that we see
on Instagram. Again, you can send us an email at
Levels too This podcast at gmail dot com and tell
us what you thought of this week's show and you know,
maybe what you want to hear us talk about next
Keep following us on Instagram at ott pod. But until then,
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keep your mentors ground level and we will be back
next week.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
Peace. Guys. Peace.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Hey, everybody, I'm your girl, Trerika Foster Brasby, what's up, y'all?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I'm your girl Cheryl.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Swoops Hey, And this is Levels to This, the show
where we share that there is shit, levels to the
shit that women's go through. I am totally butchering this intro,
but you know what, We're an authentic podcast and you
start just gonna hear it and I'll fuck this up.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Let's go listen.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
That's if that's the worst mistake you make today.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
We good, right, We real good right. Well, first of all,
happy new Year.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
It's twenty twenty five, and I'm excited to be in
a new year.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Did you make any resolutions?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
No, I will say this, I'm excited to lead twenty
twenty four behind, and I'm really trying to be optimistic
about twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
But I lie to U, T.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
It's some shit that just a sitting right in my
soul going into twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
But you know what, we're gonna, We're gonna we're gonna
let that.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
We're gonna we're gonna let those negative vibes and that
negative ragey stay in twenty twenty four. We are not
We are not bringing that to the new year.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
We are just not.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
First of all, something about fives, right, you know, like
twenty twenty five, thirty thirty five, we celebrate, you know
when we're hitting on the five.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
So I think this is this is this is gonna be.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I like to give my years, like every year, I
like it to be a year of something. Right, So
last year for me was a year of happiness. Right
I turned forty, I was like, this is my year
of happiness. Twenty twenty five to me, is gonna be
the year of celebration. I feel like we should just
celebrate everything, every small win, every accomplishment, every little step
(02:00):
that we take that's different. We should celebrate. Like twenty
twenty five should be the year of celebration. And so
that's where that's where I am. Yeah, that's where I am.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Well, because you remember I told you for twenty twenty five,
you gotta teach me all about Kwansa and all of that.
Remember conversation, So I'm going to steal your idea about
every year it's got to be a year of something,
and I love the celebration.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
It's got to be. Come back and tell you what
mine's gonna be. Okay, that's totally fine.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Now, I also feel like we have to do a
great first of all, before I even go into what
we're gonna truly and honestly discuss on today's show. You know,
I always got a ridiculous ass story to tell you
in the beginning.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Sure up, of course I need to hear.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
It's got a ridiculous I look forward to this everything
because I always do.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Some dumb shit every single time. I always do.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
So I've woke up or whatever, and I was like, oh, oh,
twenty twenty five. I got to make sure that I
go into the new year with some new hair and
be you know, be bad and stuff like that. So
I went to the beauty supply store over the weekend
and I got a new and I got a new unit.
And when I walked in, I saw this unit that
I'm currently wearing on my head, and.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I said, which looks good, by the way, love it,
love it, You're locking it.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Okay, go ahead, but it's it's stuck to me. It
spoke out to me. I was like, I don't know why,
but I feel like this is the one. And I
had another part of me that said, you should get
this in jet black. You don't typically do jet black.
You usually have some type of color. You should do
jet black. And I just kept ignoring my gut feeling, right,
I just kept ignoring it. The lady came out, she
(03:41):
had all the different colors. I was like, Oh, that
chocolate brown is the what I have me that girl.
I got home, I put that wig on. I said, girl,
why are you out here looking like October? It's the
same hair you bought them wnba simus. I'm looking at
myself like, you look real familiar.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Bits this as not just as you Oh my gosh.
So I came in twenty twenty five, clearly.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Clearly as we So I brought that up to say
today's episode.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
We're gonna be talking about the best of twenty twenty four,
and clearly this wig was one of the best ones
I bought.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I would because I bought the shit again to bring
you listen, that's how the bad.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
That means that one you liked it a lot, is
spoke to you and you rocked it because you know
you know. I'm a hair girl too. I'm always changing
sit up. But I remember that wig you wore WNBA
All Star Finals. But this swim that you're having on
(04:45):
for those of you who can't see, yeah, you'll see
it leaks really really good.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I do like Wyo. I appreciate it. Good on you.
I should. That's why my conscience kept saying go jet black.
Because of that.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Internally, I know that I already had this at the crib.
So it's all good. So today we are willing really
just take a moment before we fully engulfed ourselves into
twenty twenty five. We're gonna talk about some of our
favorite moments of twenty twenty four. Now, friends, these are
just our favorite moments. It's not necessarily sports or not philot.
(05:17):
It could be, it's not. It's just it's just some
of the things that we and trust us, we literally
could have had a longer list than what we have.
So I'm gonna share my top five. Cheryl's gonna share
her top five. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
I'm excited to hear what you think were some of
the best moments for you for twenty twenty four. But yeah, girl,
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we're gonna we're gonna move forward with this. We this
brand new, already got hair, but it looks.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Good though, And I will say this, I'm glad we're
doing this because, like you said, there were some amazing,
incredible moments of twenty twenty four, and I know there's
some that I'm probably forgetting and maybe you have them
or I have some you don't, But to your point,
you guys, don't let come for us, because these were
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just some that we can think about.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
And these were, like, these were my.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Top five moments of twenty twenty four, and I'm ready
to leave them in twenty twenty four and move on
to twenty twenty five because I'm hoping that we're gonna
have some great, exciting shit happening in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Cannot agree more.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
And so with that, let's take this to the next level,
all right, So, Cheryl, I'm gonna go ahead and.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Kick it off because Okay, I know that.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
You and I both got a million things we really
could have put on this list. So everybody listening trying
to pick five, which for the show will total ten,
but either way, trying to pick five was hard. So
I'm gonna start off with what I felt kicked off
all of the Shenanigans for twenty twenty four, and that
was when my boy Kat Williams went on Club Shashit
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that man said that twenty twenty four was going to
be the year of truth.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
And if that man.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Wasn't prophesizing to all of us, because half of the
shit that he said on that interview, while we were
laughing talking about this dude as a conspiracy theorist, stuff
hit the fan. It did. Diddy shit said Kevin Hart,
stuff like all of these names he named jay Z.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I don't know if it's true or.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Not, but the shit hit the fan, like everybody was
imposing everybody on blast, everybody, everybody, even I feel like
he was indirectly allowing people to be able to be
honest with themselves because even with the Drake and Kendrick
Lamar shit, I was like, yeah, I said, Kendrick, some
of the stuff you saying about Drake now starting, it's
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starting to make me raise an eyebrow.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
So that's my number five, got it? Listen? I love that,
And so I had one.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
This isn't gonna be mine now, but I'm gonna tell
you what it was, because it kind of goes along
with what you just said. And my like one that
I had on here was like did he go into jail?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Right?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
And to me, that falls under the whole Cat Williams
going on Club Chase Shade, just putting everybody on blasts,
talking about y'all gonna find out and see. And I
don't know how many people were like this man has
lost his mind, Like.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
What is wrong with him?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
This can't be true, this can't be real, right, and
I we're still talking about it.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
And I have to say, like when I started seeing
the list of people who were associated, because I can't
remember who I was listening to, but they were like, listen,
I didn't do the freak offs, Like.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I went to the party. I was back at home.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
By I left before.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
All of the gets pass. What they say, that's what.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
There's so many people that have been named and implicated,
and they're questioning and asking as a relation to that
Diddy stuff. And all I could say is Cat Williams
told y'all year he tried to told you, he told
you he did.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Okay, so I'm gonna go with one that's more recent.
And I'm just gonna say it because I look at
where we are in this world, in this country, and
I question, like, what have we become when? And I'm
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not saying this is number five, this is just in
my top five, okay, And that is the CEO of
United Healthcare being gunned down and broad open daylight t
Like seriously though, first of all, like prayers and condolences
to his family, but when, like, what have we become
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when you can just stand and broad open daylight in
New York City and just gun somebody down? And the
other part of that, like people are calling this dude.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I'm not gonna say his name one because I don't.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Want to, okay, but people are calling him a hero.
So I'm like, I'm baffled, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yep, to me, that situation is one of those scenarios
where two.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Things can be true.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Right, it is incredibly awful for anybody to be gunned down,
to be killed murdered in that way, Like that's just
incredibly awful, regardless of how you felt.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
About him or his business.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
That man has a family, Like, it's just that's just
incredibly sad. It is also not mutually exclusive. That people
can feel a way about the healthcare industry in the
United States currently and why they feel that people who
have the authority to change and don't make change they
have less sympathy or empathy for. So I think it's
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I think it's a really interesting conundrum that people find
themselves in.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I'm not calling a murderer hero. That's ridiculous. I agree
with you on that.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yeah, I do understand how some folks are, like I
might not be as empathetic to.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
This particular death because of A, B and C. But
that is And then to.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Your point, just recently, there was someone who was like
lit on fire in the New York subway.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
What the hell going on in New York? Y'all? Yes,
not only.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
What's going on in New York, what's going on in
the United States of America.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Trip. Yeah, it's a trip, because it's a lot, it's
a trip.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
So that was a tricking off of my list because
that was just like what that's why it happened?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Yeah, Yeah, that was wild. Okay, all right, so I'm
going to go to number four for me. Number four
on my list is really funny. But you know, there
was supposed to be a band on TikTok that started
at the beginning of this year, and then Congress was
asked to take a pause on that band.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
But TikTok trend.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
A specific trend that got me in twenty twenty four
was Resa Tisa is, who the fuck did I marry?
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Listen, Honey, I was.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Sitting here, Okay, tell me, I don't know that I
got honey.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
From February to the end of March twenty twenty four,
I was stuck watching literally seventy sumid parts of a
TikTok story from this woman named Teresa, who literally married
a com man. Okay, this man lied to her for years,
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had a fake This man had a fake name, had
a apparently he was schizophrenic.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
But the man lied to her for years, took her out,
told her he had this good old job. They was
gonna buy a house. Child they got married. He on
the phone every day talking to somebody who she think
is his brother, because he'd be saying, like he's talking
to his brother. The man ain't on the phone talking
to nobody dog for years, the brother from this dude.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
It's like twenty ten. It was like cooking.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I'm sitting here cooking on TikTok, like, girl, where's the
next part? Where's the next part? For I was watching
it for months. It came out in February. She got
like seventy summer pieces and it was called who the
fuck did I'm marry?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Oh wow? Okay, I missed all of that. I missed
all of that.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I could not have a top five and not put
not Okay, TikTok went off. Okay, tiktalk went off between
that and very mindful, very demure between those two.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, yeah, very mindful, very demure, very demure.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
They sent me off on sweet and twenty four.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Okay, that's a good one, all right. So number just
my second one. I'm not doing mine in any particular order.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
So so this one for me has to do with
sports in Okay, because it was because it happened in
the Olympics, okay, And it was the video that went everywhere,
and it was the pole vaulter in the Olympics who
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fell because of his quote, big Willie.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
And if you didn't see that, where were you? Because
it was everywhere?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Like I don't know if that typically would have made
my top moments in twenty twenty four, but seeing how
first of all was the Olympics, like.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Bro, you're really trying to win gold.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Somebody said, well, he didn't win gold, but he probably
got a lot of women in his DMS.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
After that he won the ultimate race, so he really
did win.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just wonder.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I wonder because you know, that video was everywhere, and
I wonder what he said when he saw it.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
He probably is very appreciative of it video right right,
like he probably is, but also is he is he upset?
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Because what I don't know was he was he was
he going for goal or was he going for the record?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Do you know what I mean? I don't remember. I
don't remember specific the specific side track.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I got sidetracked, but we all understood the assignment when
we see it all over and we was just like,
you know what, I ain't mad at it.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Oh my god, that was mine. That was in my
top my top twenty twenty four moment.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
That's hilarious. But you know what, this is not part
of my top five. But I am going to give
a nod to the US women's team as an honorable
mention as you talk about Olympics, because they absolutely were
a top moment, going for the record of consecutive wins
and just quite honestly giving me the scare of my
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life in the championship game.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I was like, cool, you know, I'm used to y'all.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Coming in and dropping like eighty on people and then
going going about your business and making it easy, making
it very easy. But France has something to say in
that championship game, and it made people have to play.
So I don't bo mention shout out to the women's
national team, shout out to all of the Olympians that
won goal, but definitely wanted to shout out the Olympians.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
All right.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
So for me, number three on my list is election
twenty twenty four, And by this I don't just mean.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
The results.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I think that everything that happened, from the assassination attempts
or whatever those were, to the failed assassination attempts, to
Joe Biden performing poorly, to literally being in my whole
hotel room during WNBA All Star in Phoenix and turning
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on CNN to see that Biden had dropped out of
the race.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Comic how yes, what I mean? Then?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
And then there were the moments where it was like
you know, Kamala I think ran a great, a great
campaign in terms of the timing that she had. She
raised millions of dollars within twenty four hours of her
accepting the official nomination of being of being the candidate.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Just the way that she was able.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
To help put HBCUs and black women in Greek letter
organizations and just the rallying around her while also still
having to be VP. And yes, it was disheartening and
it was heartbreaking to see the actual outcome. But I
just think overall, and I won't forget that after the outcome,
black women realized their worth for real, for real and
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was like, you know what we done.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Appreciate it. You know what we're about. We're about right
because they understand, they understand their power. We're done.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
So I just think election twenty twenty four is just one.
And I typically remember most elections.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Because I try my best to participate.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
In some way in the election cycle. But I got
a chance to meet Kamala Harris twice this year. Yeah,
and it's like those were moments that I'm never going
to forget. She came to Massachusetts and we met her
on the tarmac. She took pictures with us, and then
she came to my Sororities National Convention in Houston, Texas.
She did a speech, she shook hands, talked to people like,
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even though the outcome wasn't what we wanted, just the
entire cycle was interesting. Getting to meet her was interesting,
And I think it's a moment that I won't.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Forget, without questioning, without a doubt.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I'm gonna stay on this one with you because it's.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Definitely on my list.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
And I honestly debated on if I was gonna just
make that number one, because it easily could.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Be, and for me it was.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
It wasn't just about the political candidates, right, Trump and
and Harris or Trump and Biden, but it was everything
Like it was so like I'm getting emotional just thinking
about it because I think, I think for me and
for so many of us, like our.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Hopes were just crushed.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
And the excitement for me of having a black female
run for president was exciting, right, like something I didn't
think I would ever see in my lifetime. And then
to see all the work she put in, how hard
she fought, the money she raised, the campaign she ran
like just everything, I was like, okay.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Sis, we see you.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yeah, and then just just for everything everything else about
the election, Like without even going into it, it justugh
like just thinking about it again, I'm just like, Okay,
this is why I'm ready to leave twenty twenty four behind.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
But in saying that, here's what I will say, and
this is how I wrote it down.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I just said, a convicted felon win's the presidency, and
to me, it's bigger than him being president. Right, So
if we're gonna say that that's okay, then we need
to remove felony from job applications felon felons need to
(20:29):
be able to vote, right, So it can't It can't
be both ways.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
You can't say, well, if you're a fella, you can't.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Do X, Y and z, but yet if you're a
felon you can run for president of the United States
of America.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Make that shit make sense? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
One hun everything about the election t absolutely is in
my top twenty twenty four moments, and I just really
want to be able to leave twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Where it is, and let's just hope and pray that
we can get through twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
And I will add this one thing to it before
we take a very quick break is that not only
did we see politicians, but I think the election cycle
helped us to see folks for who they really are.
Like there were some people who I called friends, I
called sisters, I called colleagues, like some people who I
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genuinely were like, Oh, I think there are awesome people.
And then I saw them supporting Trump, and I would ask,
why are you so, because I'm not just going to
be like, forget you because because of your political candidate,
but I wanted to know why, right, And then when
I would hear their reasons why, That's when I was like, yeah, okay,
I gotta step away from you.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I got to back up from.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
You because I have disagreed with Republicans over the course
of years I worked on Obama's campaign. I was part
of the Do or Die coalition when John Carey was
running back in two thousand and four.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Like I've been doing this.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I have a whole bachelor's degree in political science.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I ain't new to this.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
But when I'm asking you why you actively support a
man who would like to see my kind erase and
extinct from this world, and your and your response is
something like.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
I mean, we can disagree, we can agree to disagree.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
No, we can agree to disagree on things we like
or don't like, we cannot agree to disagree on humanity.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
And that's what you're saying. So no doubt I say
about to say.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
It helped me be able to leave some people in
twenty twenty four because it opened my eyes to some.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
People than who they really are. Doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
But with that being said, we're gonna take a quick
short break and then we will be back to cap.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Off our top twenty twenty four moments.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
And I think you're gonna love my number one, but
we'll be batter, okay, Cheryl. My number two on my
list is actually very personal, Like, so this isn't a
moment that everybody is gonna celebrate, but it was certainly
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a moment that I celebrated, and that was buying a house.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
I became a husbo. You know.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
It's just it's one of those things where in your
mind you keep telling yourself, I'm gonna do it, I'm
gonna do it, I'm gonna do it, and you never
feel like you're ready, and then it just gets to
a point where you're like and Esther kind of talked
about this on our previous podcast when she's like everybody
keep telling me now at the time, but it's just like,
you know what, fucking I'm gonna do it. Yeah, that's
exactly how it went down. Like we were just like,
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you know what, this is the one. I'd seen two
houses that I loved previously, and both of them, before
we could even put.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
A bid down, were gone.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
And when I saw the house that I currently have now,
I was like, you know what, I Am not gonna
let this opportunity to go away.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
It was in the middle of Christmas.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
You know, everybody broke at Christmas time, but at the
same time, I was like, Nope, this is what we're
gonna do. And I have just really felt so proud
of myself of all the things that we've done in
twenty twenty four and all the things we've accomplished. I
think becoming a homeowner is one of the very top
moments that I'll ever have.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
So that's number two for me, as you should celebrate that. Listen.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I remember the very first time I purchased my home,
and it was when I was in the league and
I had all the fills right because just thinking about
where I grew up the way I grew up, and
I never saw my mom have a home, right, you're
always renting, And so I get the feeling and the
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feeling of pride and accomplishment in being able to say
this is mine, Like I've worked my.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Ass off for this. Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
And those other two that you said you couldn't get,
they weren't meant for you.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
You weren't supposed to have them. That's exactly you know what.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
And what's crazy about it is one house that we
looked at, my husband and I were like, Yo, this
is it's really nice.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
It's got first floor room.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Because my mother's old, right, not old, but you know,
for quick backstory for those who don't know, I was
raised by my great grandparents, right, great grandparents, and my
great grandmother is turning ninety five later this month, on
the twenty fifth, and she raised me.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
So I call her mom.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
So most of the time when I say my mama,
I'm really talking about my great grandmother. So when we
walked in the house and we were like, great, there's
a room on the first floor.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
If my mom wants to come visit, she doesn't have
to go upstairs.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
You know, our reelsor told us that quite literally, that
house set on the market for like sixty days and
no one visited it, And the day that we went
to visit it, all of a sudden, there were like
five other people who wanted to come and see the
house that same day, and that same day someone put
a bid down for it. And I said, wow, right, like,
how ironic that no one cared about this house until
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I did? And I felt really bad about that. I
just kept thinking, like, man, I miss my house. I
miss my house. I can't even tell you what that
house really looks like anymore on the inside because I
am so in love with the house that we did by.
I just feel like this was the one for us.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Absolutely home ownership. I love it. I love it, love it,
love it. Okay, So number four for me.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I'm gonna take it back to the Olympics is and
again there's so many, but this.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
One I just I have to.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
And that is the goat of gymnastics. Siman files experiod
returning after stepping away and everything that she went through
in the twenty twenty what were twenty twenty four in
twenty twenty Olympics or was it twenty twenty one?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Because of cod it was twenty twenty but happened in
twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah, yeah, just thinking about her story and her journey
and everything that happened in twenty twenty one and her
stepping away and right just the way it all happened
for her to come back in twenty twenty four and
whoop everybody's ass and tell anybody she she's the greatest.
She is the goat of gymnastics, and I had to
have her in my top twenty.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Twenty four months.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
That is incredible, Like Simone is indeed the goat is
indeed the goat. Like there's none none better, none will
be better. She's just every lover, her lover, lover, lover.
I absolutely love Simone. Yeah, congress to her too. She
got married and everything, like so life is life and
she did all the things in twenty twenty four that
perfectly ties into my top moment of twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Four, and my top moment.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
My top moment of twenty twenty four was absolutely none
other than the growth, the evolution, the increase of popularity
in women's sports.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
YEP.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
And I know that it's very easy for me to
say WNBA because that's the league I cover that's the
league you played in, but it was so much bigger
than just the WNBA, and I think we can probably
see the effect more in the WNBA, but it was
just all over women's sports, like we owned that in
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I'm just saying, because this is one we could continue
to talk about forever and ever and ever.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Seriously, so my top one, even.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Though I said I didn't put them in order, but
this one was for sure. My number one is the
same thing you said, and I just said women's sports,
right say, and it's everything, it's not just the w
but in particular, I want to say this. First of all,
I want to say thank you to iHeart for investing
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in women, seeing how we matter, giving us a platform.
I'm so thrilled and excited about levels to this with
you and looking forward to what we're going to do
in twenty twenty five. So I got to say that, like,
I am so excited about this podcast and everyone that
helps make it go and make it happen. And then
I am going to say just a few names, right
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because I think I think their impact on and not
just the WNBA, but I think their impact on women's
sports and their ability to open people's eyes to just
how bad ass women are.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
I'm gonna start with Asia Wilson.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Asia Wilson scoring a thousand points in one season.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
I don't know if we talked.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
About that enough, Like what a hell of a accomplishment,
Asia Wilson.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
She deserves all the things.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
So I'm gonna say Asia, I'm gonna I'm going to
say Angel Reese. I think like her lover hater, Angel
Reese a big reason why not just the W but
women's sports is where it is today, yep.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
And I'm also going to set.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
I'm gonna put Caitlin Clark in there. I mean, I
don't know how you can talk about the growth and
the evolution of women's sports without putting Caitlyn's.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Name in there.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
And the reason why I don't want to say name
is because I know there's some I'm leaving out and
people be like, well what about so and so and
so on and so those This are just three names, seriously,
just off the top of my head that I'm like,
damn they they did the damn thing this season. So yeah,
for sure, top moment for me number one in twenty
twenty four.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Absolutely everything women's sports yep. Same.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
There are some things that I wanted to highlight and
recognize too, Like you know, obviously the Liberty win in
their first w NBA Championship.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Incredible.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Katie Ladecki, she four pets at Paris, Like we talk about,
you know, women that are just continuing to set a
bar for being the standard of excellence. You got to
give Katie and what she's doing amazing, amazing, amazing. I
already mentioned USA basketball getting their eighth straight Coco Golf. Hello,
Coco is owning women, And I love it because it
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comes right on the heels of us saying to ourselves,
you know, what in the world are we gonna do
with women's tennis? When we see the Golden Serena Williams
and it was like, no, there was just a smooth
transition from Cyrano, don't worry cook boy it.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Yeah, I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
And I want to point out something that I saw
on espnw's Instagram feed. They asked, was twenty twenty four
of the best year in women's sports ever? And they
pointed out eighteen point nine million people watch South Carolina
in Iowa in the title game, which is the most
viewed women's college basketball game on record. The Women's College
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World Series most watched two million viewers a whole. There
was full gender parody in the Olympics. For the first
time ever, there was the same amount of men athletes
as there were women athletes. First ever women's rugby sixty
six thousand people set an attendance record. The historic season
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that we've continued to talk about for the WNBA in
terms of viewership, in terms of attendance, in terms of
the sellout crowd expansion expansion. The final was the most
viewed since nineteen ninety nine, first sold out championship for
the Women's Soccer League, and then we just watched just
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two weeks ago, not even two weeks ago, Women's volleyball.
Like I was a volleyball athlete in college, I played
all four years. Record attendance in NCAA Volleyball Championship since
twenty one thousand people were in the Young Center to
watch that. So it's not just one particular thing. It
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is women's sports across the board. Like I am so
proud to cover this sport. I was so proud to
be in everything, and I'm looking forward to doing all
the things again in twenty twenty five, and of course
the icing on the cake was being.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Able to have this podcast with you.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
As you mentioned Ihart, women's sports really coming together to
give myself and Christina Williams and Carrie Champion and Renee
Stubbs and all these people an opportunity to display why women's.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Sports is the shit. So that my one Mike Drop
Cooper Mic drop. So I love it, Fiel. What' you're
gonna say, because I feel like you's gonna say something.
I was just gonna say, you know, with all.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
The stuff, all the shit, the not so good shit
that happened in twenty twenty four that we're like, yeah,
let's just leave that there and move on.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
Yeah, there really was some great stuff that happened in
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
So you know, I don't I don't want to act
like it didn't happen, because there was some good stuff
that happened in.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Twenty twenty four, and we're totally gonna build and grow
off of it. That's it. That's it.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
And you know it's been it's been some shenanigans that
happened over the last week twenty Like in twenty twenty four,
the n folks just some some shenanigans, but you know what,
we're gonna leave that. We're gonna leave that behind us.
We're not gonna give these ignorant ass individuals any attention
or any more attention than they've already received. And I'm
just excited about where we're headed. So when we come back,
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we're gonna level off. And I know you say that
you don't have resolutions, but I'm gonna want to know
what are you most looking forward to in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
We'll be right.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Back, all right, Cheryl, Listen, we know what we're leaving
behind in twenty twenty four, but I want to know
what you are most looking forward to in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
I mean, it don't got to be one thing. I
mean it could be several.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Well, you know, Tee, I used to be really really
big on resolutions.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Right It was I had I had to set my
New Year's resolution, and it was like, oh my god,
this is what I'm gonna do. And as I've.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Gotten older, I'm like, resolution I just don't do. There
are certain things that I'm like, this is what I
really want to focus on or be better at.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
So I will say two things.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
One that I'm that I'm really looking forward to in
twenty twenty five is is just to investing in me right,
and not in a selfish way, which is, you know,
putting everybody before you, but really investing in me, meaning
spending time with me and focusing on what matters to
me and just.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Being a better version of me. That's what I really
want to do.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
And the second one, and I can say this, Yeah,
I am super excited.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
About being a grandma in twenty five. I'm assuming it's
public knowledge now it's out there now.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Yeah, I'm like, oh my god, I'm nervous. I'm nervous
for them, not for me, but yeah, I'm yeah. And
that's why I need to like kind of focus on me,
because I got to be the best. And by the way,
I'm not going to be called grandma. I'm going to
be called nan in. It's in a in a n
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there's history.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
There's history.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Okay, okay, because I was just getting ready to ask
you what that baby got to call.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
You nan and it comes it comes from.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
My African roots where Grandma, my my tribe, grandma is
called nanan.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
That I love that those are some good ones.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Foreran is exciting I don't want to be nobody's grandma.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Please to me, don't do that.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Don't do that. My baby's seventeen. I wish she would. No,
you're not No, You're not okay seventeen.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
No, she better not. No, I'm saying it too. No.
So I have a.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Couple I too, don't really do resolutions, but I'm I'm
a goal setter.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
I have goals, I have intentions.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
I typically do a vision board, so like, I know,
like what I what I want to do for this year.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
And I told you this is a year of celebration, So.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
I one want to be more intentional about the moments
that I with my friends. You and I both know
that this business is a business that constantly keeps you
on the go.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
It constantly keeps you moving.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
And this coming up February, I have a very very
good friend of mine who's having her first baby in
her baby shower is February eighth, which is the Saturday
before the Super Bowl, in the first week of AU
and I'm covering AU. So I'm going to be in
Nashville for her baby shower. And although she's like, oh,
it's not the biggest deals in my head, I'm like
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this is my very good friend. This is a very
moment when I've had moments, she's been there for me,
and like now I'm not going to be able to
share in her moment because I have to work. And
it just makes me think, like this year, Tarika, you
need to be very intentional about taking the moments with
your friends, like putting, you know, putting your family and
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your friends and just simply having to say sometimes I'm
not gonna be able to do that now I'm not
saying it.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
I'm turned down. Au you get it.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
You have to sometimes be like, hey, I'm not gonna
be able to do that because I need to. I
need to be here. So intentionality with that is the
first thing.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Two. The second thing that.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
I want to be more intentional about is celebrating my wins.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Right.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Sometimes I think I'm too humble, Like my friends are
always telling me.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Like, girl, are you famous? I'm like, girl, I ain't famous.
You got me fucked up? Don't nobody know me? But
you're like, girl, don't say that shit.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
But I think that I don't think that I take
the time to just really realize how far I come.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
I'm a girl from the East side of the Troit.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
I didn't have a lot. You know, great grandparents raised me.
I had a lot of traumatic shit happened when I
was a kid, like nothing to like just just know
it took a lot for me to get here. And
I don't think I truly embraced that in the amount
of times that I've been doing this and other people have,
which is awesome, but I feel that for me to
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embrace that feels arrogant, you know what I mean, Like
it feels like you're doing too much. It feels like
you you know, like but it's not. And people have
been telling me that, like trigger, you really need to
take a moment to just really think about where you've
been and where you are. And we know that you
got more to do but celebrate your sins. So I
want to take I do want to take more time
(39:18):
to celebrate, celebrate the small things, celebrate the wins, all
that good stuff. So when we get to show number
twenty five, were throwing a party, just throwing you, throwing it.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Out to you.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Now we get to the twenty fifth episode of Levels
to this, we're throwing a party because these are.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
The wins and the ass shindick, big ass party period.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
So tell Jesse, tell Aaron, tell our producers, all the
people be prepared for the for the foolishness for the
twenty fifth episode.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Agreed.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
But yeah, and then last, but not least, I think
the one thing that I'm really looking forward to this
year is the opportunities to travel more.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
You went to for class year.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
I want to couple of places last year, and I'm
just like, you know what, we got all this world.
I need to go out here and see more of
this world. So I am looking forward to stamping the
hell out of my passport.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Yes, yes, that's yes, we need to. We need to
take a girl's trip. We do, We really do? Yep,
we really do. Nah, they don't.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
I'm gonna have to turn my location off because if
I tell my husband I'm taking a girls street with Sheryl,
she gonna say, oh, y'all going to get into some shit?
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Did know? Did know? My husband gonna be like, you're
going with who where? Who where? Oh No, but that's
happening for sure.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
All right, So let's go ahead and level off this
good this good old episode.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
What you got the levelss up today? Cheryl?
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Well, this is titled It's a It's a really a
short poem.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
I was trying to decide if it was really short.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
And it's called it's called a Powerful Woman. And I
pick this because of what we just talked about, leaving
in twenty twenty four and looking forward to twenty twenty five,
and I just want to remind all the women out
there how powerful we are going into this new year.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
So bear with me, but I'm going to read this.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
It says she rises from her adversity, but never forgets
her origin. She learns from her past and chooses to
keep going forward, even when her steps get heavy. She
transforms her pain and suffering into strength and wisdom. Yes
she may stumble, Yes sometimes she falls, But just as
the sun always rises, so too does a powerful woman.
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She is equipped with an intuition that guides her course
like a compass. She strives to love herself and all
that she stands for with a fierce loyalty, even when
it's difficult. She's not afraid to seek truth, even when
it hurts. She is passionate and uses her gifts to
inspire and spread light and love. With a mind of
wonder and a heart of goodness.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
And grit, she is resilient. She refuses to be navigated
by fear and doubt. She knows where she's been, where
she is, and where she's headed.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
She uplifts us other women and embodies authenticity and humility.
She loves deeply, lives with compassion, and is relentlessly unapologetic.
She is designed to be admired, not always liked. She
is fierce, determined, and unstoppable. She is a powerful woman.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
First of all, that shit went short, I got the
right I know. I was like, it really ain't short.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
I thought it was great in the line that you
said that stuck out to me. She is designed to
be admired, not necessarily liked. You ain't always got to
like me, but you're gonna respect what I do, period period.
Speaker 3 (42:37):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
So I hope that kind of hits home with someone
who's listening. And you know, yeah, are we gonna stumble
at times? Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (42:47):
Are we gonna fall? Hell?
Speaker 1 (42:49):
Yes, But you know what makes us powerful is our
ability to fall fall again, and we keep getting up
and we keep pushing forward. So that's the word I'm
gonna take into twenty twenty five with me, and happy
New Year, everybody.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
I love that. So, yes, that is a perfect way
to end our show. And guys, we want to know
what your top moments of twenty twenty four was, like,
Shoot us a message, shoot us an email, leave us
a review. We want to know, right, so you know,
just continue to listen to Levels to This.
Speaker 3 (43:24):
We will be back next week.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
And when I tell you we have such a great
lineup for twenty twenty five, you are not gonna want
to miss these next level conversations just about the real
shit that women go through. And you guys know this
isn't just our show, it's our show, so continue to
let us know.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
We appreciate every.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
Time we see a tag on Twitter, or we see
a tag on Blue Sky or anything that we see
on Instagram. Again, you can send us an email at
Levels too This podcast at gmail dot com and tell
us what you thought of this week's show and you know,
maybe what you want to hear us talk about next
Keep following us on Instagram at ott pod. But until then,
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keep your mentors ground level and we will be back
next week.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
Peace. Guys. Peace.
Speaker 1 (44:10):
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