March 2, 2023 • 44 mins
Episode 221 - "The Culture Deserves It" Feat. Ferrari Simmons, You Know BT & Su Solo Produced by: @iHandlebars
special guest: Actress, Gail Bean
Topics include: ICYM: Michael B Jordan, Saucy Santana, Baller Mail, our exclusive interview with Gail Bean: Snowfall, P-Valley & more.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Um borrow with me here, you know, BT, so low
shouting oct no color? What we see? Who getting rid
of boula? Be something? But you can't stand on the
home SUSI already don't know. You can't ball with me
because you have with a squad of me. They get
a little they called to men balla Alert. Welcome to
(00:27):
the Ball Alert Show. Podcasts available everywhere you get your podcasts.
I go by the name of Ferrari Simmons and I'm
your best Tisu solo. I'll go by the name you know, BT.
Let's see that big bean is in the building. I'm
kind of scared right now because I got rouletting the
covert because you don't know, wasn't the chamber you got
some money on you only come out for some money back.
(00:51):
We didn't get snaps. We just didn't get to do snaps.
Welcome to the Ball Alert because I'm not a little Yeah,
I never wanted to be. Oh that's all you host
in the show with us, okay, and we're gonna get
in your business a little bit out of right. Okay,
(01:12):
are you guys ready? Congratulations? Keiki Palmer and Darren's Jackson
on the new born baby please get to snatch for
that real quick. Uh. Leotis Leeho and Rid and Rilton,
Damn and d get it right or get it wrong.
That's the last name. Yea, his name is Leo and
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Drillton and Jackson. I am saying jack yes, because that's
the Jackson. Congratulations Leo Scott Damn is having a baby.
It's hard. It's hard, hard one but sound black woman? Okay, okay.
Tamra Hall grills Larson Pippin on dating Michael Jordan's son. Thoughts,
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did you guys see the clip? Why would you date
Michael Jordan's son? I didn't planet like that. It wasn't
like it was planned like that. I think we were
just together a lot with our friends and it just
so happened. Listen, larsa b be pimping. I mean, that's
that's all I can say. Like she she ain't tricking,
if you got it. She did say that she was
pregnant majority of her twenties. Yeah, yes, she did say that.
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She said she has a lot of kids. Yes, yeah,
they have four. She said she got with him but
he was ten years older than her, right, so do
they have kids together? Her and Michael Jordan's son. No, No,
it's just kind of awkward because good time she dated
with fathers sometimes turning the kids. I think they I
think they're just having a good time. They saying it's
(02:43):
weird because they're like, you've known this guy since he
was a kid. Facts so down with teammates. Yeah, so
you was reading him as a man when he was
a kid, maybe picked them up from school. That's really
disgusting when you put it that way. I mean, really
think about it at it's giving. I've watched you, and
I've been watching you because you know how sometimes people
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like when they're in a relationship with another person and
that person has a child that isn't theirs, and they
kind of start to do things with the child that's
kind of gross. Grooming is like industry people doing the
industry all the time. It's disgusting. But I've seen it
a lot, and it's a word that's supposedly now we
can no longer use because people groom? Can we shout out?
(03:27):
Take some time to child out? Sue Solos Creed three
hosting Yellow Congratulation, Private Screening if you need Hennessey, she
didn't know we had a in atl We uh, we
had time. A time was had. Okay, Okay, I was
able to cureate and host a private screening of Curry three,
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which is out in theaters Friday, March third, twenty three,
courtesy of Hennessey and Team Hennessey. We had, you know,
some heavy hitters in there. You know, the ball Alert
show crew was up in there, Paul Crawford, m Ottomarini Collision.
We had some really dope people live in legend Greg Street.
But let me tell you, Atlanta, I love you. You
showed out. Thank you guys for coming out to the
(04:09):
private screening. And I can't wait to do this again.
Like you know what it is, Team Hannessey. I got
Morphens coming out for you next time. Gil, you gotta
come out. Okay. I gotta make sure I would have
been there, so we will connect and I will make
sure you were on the invite list because we have
a good time. Michael B. Jordan was called corny by
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and you know we know each other. We go way back,
all the way to Chad Science and Newark. Okay, No,
I did not say that misquoted for sure, No, you
did not hear anything crud I said. When you used
to make fun of the name. But yeah, he is
obviously killing things out here. You were there, you saw,
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I saw, but I saw that I saw. She wrapped
it up with you ain't corny no more? Well you're
not calling anymore right now. I would have kept that
same energy, though, is that as I did before? Like
with that, I wouldn't have been like, okay, and you
got money in your corny still Like she didn't say it,
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she didn't see. He was like, yes you did. Yeah,
but I don't think got that that But she was
saying that he was kind of like Lane growing up
in house as a man. If you call me Lane,
that you technically calling me corny. But I would have
kept my same There's people who aren't lame. There's popular
people growing up that are still corny, no, thousand percent
because they called Russell Wilson corny, right, ok call him
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Lane and just because he cares for his family. So
how would you the pine corny? I mean you just do. Yeah,
what's the definition of corn I don't know. That's a
good question. I know what it is you trying to
joke in and it's it's not it's not landing, okay
to me? Like your jokes aren't landing. You're probably you
have awkward moments, okay, which is like okay, guys, or
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you do that. It's like say you try to sit
down and he pull your chair out and you fall
a ground and your heels and your dress and then
it's supposed to be a joke, but it was like
too far, like doing I feel like in high school terms,
like if you weren't a part of like the cool group,
like if you didn't play football, or if you weren't
one of those people that was like skipping class or
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living life on the edge for a high school or
they would call you corny if you were someone who
was focused on your books, if you were somebody who
like didn't maybe that's around with a lot of girls
or guys or whatever. They just felt like you were corny,
Like you just can't you know what? My definition of
corny is that if you're trying to pretend to be
somebody that you not, that's my definition of corny. Try
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to fit in right. But I understand. I understand how
he felt because when he was in school, he was
talking about being an actor and he was going to
scool his headshots and stuff, like that, so I can
kind of relate to him. That's why I was like, yeah,
you go, Michael B. Jordan, because when I was in school,
I was telling people this is what I was going
to be doing for a living. And he came from
North That's the hood. Like people don't understand that's really
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the hood. He was focused, not interested in going to
the high school parties. And I think people in high school,
if you can think back to that time, they would
consider you corny. Oh you don't want to come to
the party. You ain't skipping class to go to the movie,
you ain't smoking no dopeish school. That's me. I don't
forget nothing. I don't forget nothing, But you don't forget
how people feel. I don't forget how people make me feel. Yeah,
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and I mean I still felt like he carried himself
in a good way. He did it, so he did it,
so did the interview. He did it, So don't still
he didn't happen. He didn't happen to because you know
what I would have did. I would have been like
the corny kid, right and I would have walked off, Yeah,
because you're petty. Because but the end that interview was
so crazy though, like the way it ended and the
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way he walked off. I was like, oh, I can
also more, You're not corny anymore. I was over here
that I feel like that want to corny and she
came yeah. And that was the gratifying moment, was it not?
It was That's why you got to watch what you
say to people, because I assumed that she thought, this
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is Michael B. Jorge. There's no way he's listening on
things that I'm saying. And he said, oh I heard it.
I liked the moment of the exchange. I like she
stood on business and he still on business. But I
didn't agree with I would have not interviewed him. I
would have interviewed everybody. I mean, you work for a station,
a company that is requiring you to do this interview,
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you gotta want to do it. She knew she would
have anything. Would you would have kept that same energy
or would you would have just like faked it out?
If I have to do it, if I'm obligating in
my station makes me I would have kept the same energy. Yea, Hey,
remember we went to high school and he was a
little corny kid. Yeah, now exactly, you know what I
don't think she should have brought up the fact that
they knew each other from high school, because if she
(08:51):
had brought it up first. First, remember it was a
corny kid from back, No she said. She said, yea, yeah,
we go way back from high school. He said, yeah.
Remember I'm the corny kid from high school. That stands
he brought it up. He would have brought it up anyway.
I was just way like popping his ship. He was, No,
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he was. He was popping the ship. Yeah, he's coming
out the red carpet see and all the media outlets
that he sees her. He's like, I got you back.
And first of all, when I was there, you would
have thought Michael Jackson touched the red carpet the only
thing he was. And that's how it feels about That's
how I feel about Russell Wilson. People talk all this stuff,
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but when he comes around, they'd be flocking. Oh yeah,
Russell still didn't really bad last NFL season, the Sierra's
Husband player. You would call him corny every time you
said Russell Wilson, I kept thinking, Russell Westmon, what happened?
What did he do? Yeah, but you know they called
Sierra's husband corny Like, Yeah, I feel like they seems
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like like he was raised with very lovable I think
they put the labeled corny on anybody who's supposed to
do corny until until Michael we joined the interview with
a girl long time. It kind of chilled out, kind
of feels it out the term too. I just think
we all grew. I think corny was like really using
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high school like high school and college day all the
corner kids though. I mean, you guys, rot who turned
out to join because let me tell you three he
did that? He did he ain't directed in his bag.
Let me ask you, Gail, where you a cool kid
in school? I mean that was popping what you're talking about?
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That thought? Did you guys see Tommy versus Natalie None fight?
Did you see that that was funny because about Tommy
from Loving hip Hop? Yes? She the boxing fight? Wait
was this like intentional? Yes? It was what the Zeus
network was. It was fighting in London. Yeah. All I'm
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saying is none of it makes sense that None Natalie
put the paws on her and then um, Tommy didn't
even come out for the next round. Tomady, she just
fell out like when you have your little break in
between round, but maybe she did a little side back
and better Again. I don't think she took a die. No,
(11:30):
I think she I think Tommy su pride for I
don't think she would want to lose on proud. People
don't realize how much boxing takes out of you. Yeah,
street fighting and boxing are two different things, and she
was losing. She should have just took the gloves off
and fought for real. Wait. Wait, now she would have
lost some money. Now she would never got paid. It
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got paid. I feel like Tommy got so tired. You
saw her wind melling at a point she would just
like no, no. You see her as so point just
taking punches because she was so tired. Wait, think about this.
The average fight last thirty seconds. I don't know if
y'all know that last thirty seconds. But after the fight,
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you have felt like you've been fighting for two hours.
I'm just confused. She had a party host highlight right, Yes,
she had that after the wind, Tommy, after the wind,
this is what we're got tonight. So she didn't go
to her party. I doubt it. But speaking of parties,
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I got I gotta address something. I got addressed. The
elephant in the room. Oh uh. Since Atlanta seems like
the home of the hookah, Santana says men shouldn't smoke hooker.
If you was the man, you don't need to be
smoking a hookah, baby, go out. You need to be
all you up a wood. You need to be smoking
you something za Okay, you don't need to be suckered
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down a hooka bad bitch, baddy. I'm sure has everyone
in here smoked hooka before smoke? I ain't gonna stop
smoking because Saucy Santana said, I tryout, It's not for me. Wait,
so what are he's trying to say is men shouldn't
have a hooka in they in their mouth? Yeah? Is
that just straight man? Yeah, he's talking about No, No,
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he's talking about straight man. He's saying that's an indicator
of like, right homosexual. Yeah. I disagree, man, they've been
smoking hooka for four hundred years. I mean, I don't.
I don't agree with that because then you could get
into like you know how they call the crack pipe
a glass. Did you know what I'm saying? Then? I
didn't know that from sorry, or when you smoke with
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other men and they'd be licking all on a background
and then you can't you can't puttick it in your mouth.
I've never understood people rolling weed and lick at it
and doing all that and then you passing it. Now,
that's why my smoking days, I just I think that's
why I want. They lick it. They lighted to kind
of burn disaffected. That's oh God, don't act like they
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always had tips for hooker. Who since when they didn't
hut up? Since when? Man, listen, I'm gonna stop smoking
hooker because us Saucy saying Santa whatever his name is,
that's my dog man, I thought, is crazy. Though. No,
I haven't smoke hooker with him, but I smoke then
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talking about who could have enough straight man? According to
his rule, we smoke hook You have your own tip, Yeah,
you have your on tip. That's his point. We take
quick commercial better. When we come back, we were getting
Big Bean's business put down at Hooker. We'll be right
back with more of the Baller Alert Show. You're listening
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to a special edition of The ball Or Alert Show.
Hey guys, you're listening to Gail Bean on The Wall
Alert Show. And we were back with the bottle of show.
Podcasts available everywhere you get your podcasts Gail Bean, Big
Bean and Big Snap Snap Snaps please Snaps. Uh Saint Louis.
But Stone Mountain born in Saint Louis, they never about
two seconds. That's like me born in New York, but
(15:18):
I couldn't even tell you about it to Arizona was
there for about two years, moved to Stone Mount Stone
Mount three. What high school? Yeah? We high school school?
Stop playing? So when did acting come into play as
you were growing up? A year doctor Knarkers, which ironically,
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do you guys know Omar Dorsey? I would be playing
one um raising Canaan as the one that was dating Rock,
the drug dealer that knew art and stuff and she
killed him. Okay, I probably got pull it up. You'll
see him this season on Snowfall. Okay. So Omar Dorsey
is from the cat He went to the Cata School
of Arts. Doctor Narker was his theater teacher. Laugh. He's
(16:03):
a little older than me. Laugh. I guess went to
Stevenson and then he was my theater teacher for senior,
my senior in high school, and he just opened my
mind up to a whole world of life. Like oh,
I like this, like this is fun. I can get
paid to do this like that's it, like just this,
And I said, okay, this is what I want to do.
Because originally that I was gonna graduate from high school,
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be a cheerleader, go to college for it, graduate from college,
be a Dallas Cowboys child. And then someone told me
that they only get packed fifty dollars a game. I
heard that that's still true. I don't know. I wasn't
trying to find out, just to find out. You know,
you hear certain things about certain stuff, and it's like,
I don't even want to go down that paty dollars
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a game. That could have been a lie, but every
lie I have a little bit of truth too. Where
you are now, thank you. So I just chose to
pursue acting. I went to cup Well again. It was
my senior in high school. So I wasn't applying to
colleges because I thought, Okay, I'm just gonna move to
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LA and pursue acting. But my mom, being a high
school teacher, she's not with that, deciding not to further
your education. So school, where where are your college letters?
They're not coming in. I said, oh, I'm not going
I'm moving to La to pursue acting, and she was like,
the hell you not the hell you are? You going
to college and you're getting a degree. It's something you
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can get a job in. So went about Austin did
nothing related to acting or theater. While I was in college,
I was a real student, like student accounting in finance.
I was a double major. Oh, I had my bachelors
in accounty. Come on, man to good with the money.
I'm good with the money. You're good with the numbers,
good with the business. Cross Delta went to study abroad
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in Germany. I went to cars Royal University. Oh. I
thoroughly enjoyed my college. I did co ed competition cheerly.
Then I lived my life. And then once I graduated,
I let her know like this was for you. Now
I'm going to do what I want, which is active.
And then eventually I went to AIU for media from production.
Then graduating okay, right there, gave my money, learned when
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I need to learn. And then once I started being
productive in the business, I was like, well it cost
a lot, so to me, it just didn't make any
sense because I had hope. You know, in Georgia you
have hope. But my hope ran out from my first degree.
So now I'm paying out a pocket and taking out
student loans and I was just not for that. Started
getting active in my career here and I decided to
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go to LA And it took me a while to
get there because I'm a sage. We just moved, you know,
we free do what we want to do. And my
mother kept saying no, like I couldn't go, and don't go.
You don't have a plan, You've never been. But I
knew I wanted to go there an act. I don't
know nobody in my in my family or personally that
is pursuing this that can help get me in. But
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I'm gonna just go and take a leap of faith.
And I figured it all out. I kind of finessed
the plan. When was the first like big gig that
you said, huh, it's working, it's happening. Unexpected. Unexpected was
a feature film I did independent. We shot that in Chicago.
It was the first major thing I booked, and it
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had Kobe Smallders from How I Met your Mother she
was the lady who played Robert Shovski and How I
Met Your Mother and then Honors Home and Elizabeth McGowan,
and I was the lead. Me and Kobe were the leads.
So I booked that and it wasn't paying much, but
I knew that it was going to do exactly what
it did. It went to Sundance Film Festival. It got
me my manager, it got me exposure, it got the
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Hollywood reporter, it got me attention of people. And now
you got some alcolades at the Sundance. Yeah. Yeah, it
got me next generation breakout actors. Um it did what
it was supposed to do. Yea. This was living in LA.
You didn't have to get a job. No, I definitely
had a job. I got a job the first time
I went to Okay. I had a few jobs. That's
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that's the story that people don't hear when people people
move to La. They don't they don't understand the actors grind.
So I went to go visit June fourteenth to July fourteen.
My first two days there, I got a job at
Windsor Windsor Fashion Story, it's like a little clothing store.
And then I was working at Francesca's Boutique. It's like
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a little boutique clothing store. And I worked at Sheek
it's a sneaker store. And I was waitressing at like
a little sports bar. I didn't know anybody there. I
wasn't I was there for my acting. So until I
try to tell artists a lot because a lot of
times they just think, okay, grind, grind, grind, and not work.
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But until it's a full time job, you need to
have income coming in the bills. Don't you got a
wardrobe makeup? I mean it is a gas yes, so
carry on. You can't be in LA and I have
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a car. I don't see how people do it right? Um,
And I like to eat. I'm a food baby. Okay,
We've got some food dates. I got a whole list
of rest I don't think you met your match. They
know what's your favorite restaurant here? Oh care? I stay far?
Never been there and I just went to one flu
South recently. See you got a lot, you got a
(21:37):
lot of to be played. Lounge over in East Point,
I remember I've never been there. Did I just set
up a friendship? You set wet? Can I can I
get to my favorite part? Dog? Can I ask? Can
I ask about snowfall? That's how I found you. I'm excited.
I'm excited. I'm excited they fired me, and I'm so
glad because after that, I got booked every month. So
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I worked for the airline. So you so you got
fired from the jobs that you were actually working at.
I quit all the other jobs and I was working
just at Virgin America Airlines, which is now brought out
by Alaska. Loved that job. It was from Atlanta. So
I always look for a job. Every job. I had
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always looked for a job, so I found I always
every single job, there's something where the pay is more
than just the money. So with like she story, yes,
with restaurants to eat. You know what I'm saying. You
preaching right now. So then I was working for the
airlines flight benefits, and then I also would sell like
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my buddy passes and stuff. You know, did you have somebody?
Did you have an agent at this time when you
were doing all this grinding? I didn't. When I first
I had got my very first agent ever, right before
I moved to LA. When I moved, she dropped me,
she said, because I moved to LA. Now, my daddy worked,
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he's a coach in the NFL. I'm his own girl.
I'm the baby. Yeah, I'm not spoiled, but I'm damn
sure deserving. So if I wanted, I do get it.
So he could fly me back and forth. But she
didn't care to ask me any questions or any of that.
It was just you moved and granted. She so she
was like, you moved, um, my daughter went out there
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and she was back in two years and it's not
gonna work. And they always story and you also didn't ask.
I said, if you need me to be back for
something like one, I could put some auditions on tape,
and two, if you need me to come back for
a callback or anything, I could do that. No, I
can't represent you at the forty five days. Okay, thank
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you so much for your time. Because it's the thing,
I already know that I'm blessed and highly favorite. So
when people try to start on me, I'm like, see
because eventually I'm gonna have to stunt on the people
that I should have been stunting with. And that's okay,
but I already know that. So she says she was
dropping me forty five more days okay. Cool. I was sad.
I'm talking to my friends like, oh my god, this
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is my first agent. What am I gonna do? Like
it took so long to get this one. They were like,
submit to more so it was it was so something, yeah,
submit to more So I submitted and at the time
it was this agency. I'm not gonna say the name
because they have a bad reputation. Now I submitted to them.
(24:30):
My agent left there. She started her own. Her name
is Carla Huff. She has Bold Talent Agency. But at
the time I submitted to her online, she reached out.
We had a like hour long conversation and she picked
me up and it was great. So I didn't have
an agent. But then I got an agent again and
I was with her while I was working at Virgin America.
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Loved that job. Worked all the time, but also still
had time for auditions and stuff. And it was another
actor that was working now that was just hating and
she got me fired. Crazy. It's okay, I know who
it is. I mean she's not she she wasn't. Uh
could we get to my partner man Let that settle.
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I got an appointment, which helped me out because she
was I got fired unjustly. So I became a fan
of how great you did on Snowfall. I kept saying, Wow,
she's really doing a great job at going from you know,
the girlfriend to you're hooked on drugs really really bad
like and I was saying right before you came in,
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I was like, how do you mentally go there to
act that well? To portray this person hooked on drugs?
And we of course we'll talk about snowfall, yes, um,
and could you talk about that? Of course, how you
got the snowfall and then your character. So let me
ask all of you a real question. Is anybody in
your family ever been on drugs? Yes? That you that
(25:57):
was a live while you were alive. Yes, oh yeah, yep.
I'm so sorry as anybody in your family been on drugs?
That was a lie while you were alive. Have you
ever seen witnessed anybody? And I think that is the
black story. I think that is there is no black
person in America who has not seen a family member
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or someone close to them on drugs like that. They
no person um. One of my older sisters, she was
literally like a mother figure in our family. So we're
I'm first generation American by way of Takeday, which is
the northern region of Ethiopia, and we didn't have a father.
So my oldest brother was the man of the house
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and she was the nurturer. She went to college, she worked,
she made sure that all of we all had our
homework done, she helped with projects. And I think at
some point in life, UM mentally, I just think that
it was heavy for her and she goes she moves
out to La gets into a relationship, and it goes south.
That's when she started using UM. She comes to Atlanta,
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and that's when we really realized how bad it was. UM,
she's not doing well at all. We saw the ups
and downs, the different emotions that she could have in
a matter of seconds, like the highs, the lows, the aggression.
She's actually she's outside somewhere in Stale Mountain, you know.
So it's it's very relatable. But I think it's so
(27:23):
unfortunate how common it is in our community. So I
really appreciate you bringing that point up, you know, But
it is real. It's real. It's real that some people
in my family I've seen since I've been alive on drugs,
like addicted, Like when I was born, they were already
fully into the crack so or whatever drugs they were on.
(27:44):
So I used a lot of personal experiences, and then
when I used to live here years ago, I watched
a documentary called Jay Is for Junkie by Greedmont Park
and it was so good. It was so grounded. It
wasn't the clickbait clips we see of addicts, of them
just wilding out or people doing things to like disturb
them and disrupt their peace. It was actually seeing functioning
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addicts talk about their story and their life. And I
mean not just addicts, but like crack at it. Are
they sharing the why, like how they got here, what
drove them to it? Some of them are. Some of
them share, you know, their thought process which leads them
to want to go do more drugs and things that
they've been through. Some of them, one of them was
an omega when I'm adulta so when I was a bro.
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He showed his branding, like just showing that that wasn't
supposed to be their life and that wasn't the track
that they were on, and just how quickly a person
can slip. I watched those things. I volunteer your own
ski road. That's skied road is if y'all don't know,
it's like the worst part of LA the most homeless
is steam. I was saying, I wonder if I wonder
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if you did that and you were around it to see,
Oh you did you did when you were talking about
that off cam talking before you came out, I was like,
I wonder did you do that? Because you did an
amazing job on that. Yeah, you're such a la. Twenty
thirteen and I started volunteering, I want to say, in
twenty thirteen or twenty fourteen, every Wednesday twenty It was
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so much that, you know, I feel like in life
we get omens that show us things for the future
and God kind of prepares us for the bigger blessings
that are to come from. Yes, and it just gave
me an insight look to even see them more humanized,
you know, because before that, when it was just like
(29:30):
members in my family, to me, it was like, Okay,
that's a jay, that's a junk. I'm not gonna pretend
that I would like, I know, cancel culture is a thing,
but I fully take responsibility who I am and who
I've grown to become. At first, I used to look
at the Jay's and my family like I would play
tricks on them as kids, like yeah, I was that person.
(29:51):
So I'm I'm happy that it taught me something and
humanized me and allow me to have empathy for people
and truly understand addiction as as a disease and how
it can be any one of us at any time.
At any time. There's many different addictions. So what's next,
What's next? Value is happen? Valley was a straight offer. Okay,
(30:20):
they came to you. They're like, hey, so, okay, Valley
is like a trial of years. So I originally auditioned
for the pilot for this one role like five times.
They kept I had an audition and then a callback,
and then the producers in a director session and network
and this, and it was that they were pushing me
to the network, but the network said no. I was
(30:43):
the girl that they wanted for the role. And then
it was no from the network. I said, okay, I
to me, I can act, but it didn't make sense
for me to play that character. So because I just
I didn't look like that character, I couldn't. No matter what,
I wasn't gonna be the character. And I'm glad that
they pushed back. I'm glad that they said no, because
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when it came back around now, I would say that
was probably twenty eighteen. So now I've I'm not who
Gail being in twenty eighteen is not gayl being in
twenty twenty one. So now when it came back around
and they said this is who we want for the role,
there was no pushback for the network. It was like, okay, cool,
(31:24):
we agree. I had allowed my star to rise. I
had allowed some of my my work to show. Okay,
she can carry the weight of this. And Katori called me.
We did a zoom. She said, would you would you
you want to be one Valley? I said, hell, yeah,
what you mean? You got all the classes girls, Snowfall,
(31:44):
pe Valley. I think I'm just so honored and blessed
to have worked with people who they humble like we
did it. I shot Atlanta. Atlanta was my first project
in Atlanta and this was season too, so they were
award Emmy Award and Donald said, you know, thank you
for doing this. I'm like, thank you? What serious? Thank you?
(32:13):
So I did that and yeah, go Tory. She was
just like what I want to And I'm like, hell, yeah,
I play a bottle on a look account if you
need me to, Like, what do you at any at
any capacity, I will come on there. So I didn't
know it was even gonna be the role of a dancer.
And I bought a pole just in case because I
(32:33):
didn't want to. I bought a pole. Just a Valley
go anywhere. It can go anywhere. So yeah, that was
a straight offer. I was very excited about that. That's dope.
So twenty twenty three, what else do we have, like
before we get off pe Valley? What has taken so
long for the new season? Had a baby? Okay okay, mama, okay,
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okay know in real life? Yeah, that's she burnt our
first order. On top of that, they got it. Well,
it's a lot going on in the industry right now.
It might possibly be a writer strike. It might possibly
be a director's strike. After the writers strike, I don't
know when y'all gonna get a new content. What is
(33:17):
it about a lack of money? Respecting Uncle Clifford rules? Now,
what's up with the strikes? What's the reason? Networks? Then
they just kind of gotta money. Things are evolving. Networks
and studios are making more money. They're being more profitable.
But now you have more platforms like streaming, So if
you write a show, and you get paid off of
(33:38):
that show, but then it goes to a streaming platform
and you don't get paid anymore but stream And then
writers You gotta think writers come from the year of
the era of like Martin when they're doing twenty plus episodes.
Now shows have like ten episodes, maybe go three four seasons. Yeah,
I mean, pay them and then it's it's it's a bunch,
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it's a lot that goes into it where it's just
it's not listening. I need p Valley to come back
because I need to see how your character Roulette evolves,
because you got me a trigued man way that y'all
pulled up on Buddy in that hotel you so gags.
Is that fun for you to have that specific role? Oh?
I love it? And Roulette Roulette is like eighteen year
(34:22):
old me. Listen, I promise you. I said, oh, this
is me and this is me. I was like this
three I mean, minu is like selling my body. But
the way that she's so gangs to what it? My
gun is three six five six? So you so she
me are we wanted the same? I was very very
happy about that role. Okay. So twenty twenty three I'm
(34:44):
gonna answer that season three and p Valley, okay. And
I got a little another project on the table, okay,
another sport say it. They haven't announced it, but the
contract is signed. Big deal in theaters. Don't be a
big deal, that's all I can. I feel like it
is because you just on a roll. You're on a
hot stress. It's gone. It's gonna. How are you gonna
(35:05):
how y'all gonna feel when um Snowfall ends? I know
y'all kind of have y'all like had like their final
goodbyes already we have had our Well, no, because I
think they're gonna do a screening in LA for the
for the final allegue. Okay that I feel like it's
like insecure, Like you know when the cast had to
(35:26):
disband and leave and it was just so emotional, not
only for you guys, the cast, but for the audience.
Yea all grew with us. Yeah. They just posted a
thing it said the love Story of Leon and Wanda.
And I looked at us when we were in twenty eighteen,
and we look like baby Yes, I said, oh my goodness.
And I discovered you guys during the pandemic, So I
being watched a lot. Oh wow, yeah, I watched a lot.
(35:50):
People grew up with us though, like seeing us watching
us for five years. Wanda Leon gonna go off in
the sunset. I believe it. Okay, face didn't say so,
you ask, but I don't know if it's gonna say
why don't go back to the crazy? You absolutely have.
(36:11):
I feel years and years of success in this industry.
I think you're just gonna continue to grow and rise,
and we are super excited to see you arrive. Like
you're arriving, but you haven't gone that you got so
much more to go, and we're excited about when this
project goes, it's gonna go. I will have arrived with
(36:33):
the whole city behind, you know, like you talk about
omens and stuff like that. I'm in the spirituality. You know.
Sometimes we don't know who we are until we get
to a certain point and you know what people know.
It's just like when Donald said, you know, thank you
for doing this, or when you get a call just
(36:54):
to just to be on something. I feel like you
don't really know yet, but you're about to find out.
I receive that. Jill. All right, let's take a quick commercial.
Brea when we come back. Big Bean's gonna help us
with bather Malez real quick. I'm nervous. We got Gail
(37:18):
being on a ball of blitz. All right, So I'm
gonna name. I'm gonna say a line from for some
fight your female actresses, and then you tell me what
actress it is. Oh God, I'm not gonna do all right,
So it's real quick. Now it's a blitz all right?
First line? All my life. I had to fight Seeley,
(37:39):
that was Oprah. That was a miss Oh my life.
I had to fight what I was saying. I was
saying color purple. She had a film. She up. I
hope he's not watching me walk away? He is? Is
that Loretta divine? And got it? There's not wating water work?
(38:02):
Got it? All right? Uh? Love should have brought your
ass home last night. I know it, but I feel
like the way you delivered it kind of threw me off.
Delivered it again, try it again. Love should have brought
your ass home last night. She was arguing with Eddie Murphy.
(38:22):
You got to tell me that that was halle Berry.
Love should have brought your ass home last night. Okay,
all right? Um, I got the bike holiday wander Alfred
Water Holiday Heart got it, let me get the bike? Yes,
(38:44):
all right? Last one, how about we playing my favorite
game and this gun? I got one bullet pain? How
about we play my favorite game? Not bad at all.
We'll be right back. Stay tuned with more of the
Baller Alert Show. You're listening to a special edition of
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The Baller Alert Show. Hey guys, you're listening to Gail
being on the ball Alert Show. Message your ball alert.
My lady is seeing my side chick to do her hair.
I've been with my main lady for about two years
and counting, and my side chick does hair, but she
does it where she lives out of town. But recently
she's been in Miami doing hair and she's messed around
and did an install on my lady. I only found
(39:33):
out because my side chick posted my lady on her
story after installing her new hair due and lastly, my
lady enjoyed her hair so much she got her number
and wants to use her all the time. Now I'm stressing,
don't know how to get through this. What do you
guys think? Okay, I go, I gotta follow up questions now,
So does the side chick know that that's his main lady. Yeah,
(39:54):
probably side right. You know, niggas don't really be posting
their girls no more facts. So he gonna have he
gonna have to let side chick. No, it's a no
m hmm. He gotta shut that down or like just
be faithful. That's I mean, we passed that point. You
(40:16):
need to get um shit. I don't I don't know
what to tell you, sir. You got yourself in a pickle.
Get somebody else to get somebody to get somebody else
to do it. Oh, man, listen, you gotta tell your
side check. No, man, you can't do my girl hair
no more. You gotta block her number, don't follow her
(40:38):
on Instagram. You need to act like y'all never met before. Yeah,
he gotta come queen to the man because she's gonna
find out, and it's gonna be more embarrassing when she
find out from the side check than it would be.
All right, So he's gonna have to take it whatever
come with it. He's gonna have to. He made his bed,
He got a lot that two years away. This is
(40:58):
a day. This is this is a day. Just she's
not even know she is side check. That's that's the
crazy part. We don't know you, right, we don't know.
People don't post, they don't, they don't say nothing. Yeah,
but see they're gonna be getting the talking because when
you do glass, they're gonna get the talking. They're gonna
first just have casual about here and who died this
and that, and then come clean to somebody. So we
(41:18):
need to come clean to the side check first, and
then his lady. Why why why we gotta be honest
with the side check first, because she the one doing
the hair. No, I don't trust it. Man, listen, you
got you gotta let that side check. No. Hey, man,
that's my girl. She is going to expose him if
(41:38):
he doesn't. He need to come clean to the woman first,
to the main, to the Okay, you can't have your
girl out here. What what Beyonce say? Don't embarrass me,
don't embarrass me, don't embarrass me. What do y'all think
of the comments? It is down to for pep talk.
Hey guys, my name is Gail Bean, and listen, you
(42:00):
got to lean into your strengths and your weaknesses. Let
that stage be your step stone, not your tombstop. No,
that was an Uncle Cliffe rule. But Seriously, life is hard,
no matter what you do, no matter what career you're in,
no matter who you're with, you have to get up
each day and make a choice to continue on. There
(42:22):
will be things that get you depressed. There will be
things that make you sad. Do not focus on other
people's lives on social media or in the real world.
Focus on yourself. Talk to yourself, Pray, go out to
whomever it is you believe in. If your God is Kanye,
pray to Kanye. But go outside, get some fresh air,
(42:46):
and do what you need to do to keep going.
Because this life, your life, is worth living. Being rescues
Maria Rosa. Rest in peace, Maria Rojan. That's my age.
She just passed. Last question before we go. It's Gail
being in a relationship, someone sliding in beans. Um, Gail
(43:13):
Bean is entertaining somebody. Nothing to answer the question for him.
I got a real good man from Scottdale. She keep
it in the I love it, that's all. It was
(43:36):
Scott Deal. Where did the name being come from? In college,
one of my friends just decided, I don't even know
how and Willie Slayton they went to MLK. I have
no idea why they just started calling stuff being. It
would be like pass me that being, Hey, bring me
bring me back a bean, but hey, someone say he
(44:00):
going to get a piece of bring me one of
them beings. Like everything was being so. Then I would
come over and they would say, what's up, Gail Being.
And then they told me to change my name on Facebook,
and after that it stuck with. It works, it works, well,
appreciate you, Gil. So I'm not gonna lie. I went
with that too because I got in some trouble in
(44:21):
the past. I say, lass book Gail Being on the
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Um borrow with me here, you know, BT, so low
shouting oct no color? What we see? Who getting rid
of boula? Be something? But you can't stand on the
home SUSI already don't know. You can't ball with me
because you have with a squad of me. They get
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I go by the name of Ferrari Simmons and I'm
your best Tisu solo. I'll go by the name you know, BT.
Let's see that big bean is in the building. I'm
kind of scared right now because I got rouletting the
covert because you don't know, wasn't the chamber you got
some money on you only come out for some money back.
(00:51):
We didn't get snaps. We just didn't get to do snaps.
Welcome to the Ball Alert because I'm not a little Yeah,
I never wanted to be. Oh that's all you host
in the show with us, okay, and we're gonna get
in your business a little bit out of right. Okay,
(01:12):
are you guys ready? Congratulations? Keiki Palmer and Darren's Jackson
on the new born baby please get to snatch for
that real quick. Uh. Leotis Leeho and Rid and Rilton,
Damn and d get it right or get it wrong.
That's the last name. Yea, his name is Leo and
(01:35):
Drillton and Jackson. I am saying jack yes, because that's
the Jackson. Congratulations Leo Scott Damn is having a baby.
It's hard. It's hard, hard one but sound black woman? Okay, okay.
Tamra Hall grills Larson Pippin on dating Michael Jordan's son. Thoughts,
(01:59):
did you guys see the clip? Why would you date
Michael Jordan's son? I didn't planet like that. It wasn't
like it was planned like that. I think we were
just together a lot with our friends and it just
so happened. Listen, larsa b be pimping. I mean, that's
that's all I can say. Like she she ain't tricking,
if you got it. She did say that she was
pregnant majority of her twenties. Yeah, yes, she did say that.
(02:21):
She said she has a lot of kids. Yes, yeah,
they have four. She said she got with him but
he was ten years older than her, right, so do
they have kids together? Her and Michael Jordan's son. No, No,
it's just kind of awkward because good time she dated
with fathers sometimes turning the kids. I think they I
think they're just having a good time. They saying it's
(02:43):
weird because they're like, you've known this guy since he
was a kid. Facts so down with teammates. Yeah, so
you was reading him as a man when he was
a kid, maybe picked them up from school. That's really
disgusting when you put it that way. I mean, really
think about it at it's giving. I've watched you, and
I've been watching you because you know how sometimes people
(03:06):
like when they're in a relationship with another person and
that person has a child that isn't theirs, and they
kind of start to do things with the child that's
kind of gross. Grooming is like industry people doing the
industry all the time. It's disgusting. But I've seen it
a lot, and it's a word that's supposedly now we
can no longer use because people groom? Can we shout out?
(03:27):
Take some time to child out? Sue Solos Creed three
hosting Yellow Congratulation, Private Screening if you need Hennessey, she
didn't know we had a in atl We uh, we
had time. A time was had. Okay, Okay, I was
able to cureate and host a private screening of Curry three,
(03:48):
which is out in theaters Friday, March third, twenty three,
courtesy of Hennessey and Team Hennessey. We had, you know,
some heavy hitters in there. You know, the ball Alert
show crew was up in there, Paul Crawford, m Ottomarini Collision.
We had some really dope people live in legend Greg Street.
But let me tell you, Atlanta, I love you. You
showed out. Thank you guys for coming out to the
(04:09):
private screening. And I can't wait to do this again.
Like you know what it is, Team Hannessey. I got
Morphens coming out for you next time. Gil, you gotta
come out. Okay. I gotta make sure I would have
been there, so we will connect and I will make
sure you were on the invite list because we have
a good time. Michael B. Jordan was called corny by
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and you know we know each other. We go way back,
all the way to Chad Science and Newark. Okay, No,
I did not say that misquoted for sure, No, you
did not hear anything crud I said. When you used
to make fun of the name. But yeah, he is
obviously killing things out here. You were there, you saw,
(04:52):
I saw, but I saw that I saw. She wrapped
it up with you ain't corny no more? Well you're
not calling anymore right now. I would have kept that
same energy, though, is that as I did before? Like
with that, I wouldn't have been like, okay, and you
got money in your corny still Like she didn't say it,
(05:13):
she didn't see. He was like, yes you did. Yeah,
but I don't think got that that But she was
saying that he was kind of like Lane growing up
in house as a man. If you call me Lane,
that you technically calling me corny. But I would have
kept my same There's people who aren't lame. There's popular
people growing up that are still corny, no, thousand percent
because they called Russell Wilson corny, right, ok call him
(05:36):
Lane and just because he cares for his family. So
how would you the pine corny? I mean you just do. Yeah,
what's the definition of corn I don't know. That's a
good question. I know what it is you trying to
joke in and it's it's not it's not landing, okay
to me? Like your jokes aren't landing. You're probably you
have awkward moments, okay, which is like okay, guys, or
(05:59):
you do that. It's like say you try to sit
down and he pull your chair out and you fall
a ground and your heels and your dress and then
it's supposed to be a joke, but it was like
too far, like doing I feel like in high school terms,
like if you weren't a part of like the cool group,
like if you didn't play football, or if you weren't
one of those people that was like skipping class or
(06:20):
living life on the edge for a high school or
they would call you corny if you were someone who
was focused on your books, if you were somebody who
like didn't maybe that's around with a lot of girls
or guys or whatever. They just felt like you were corny,
Like you just can't you know what? My definition of
corny is that if you're trying to pretend to be
somebody that you not, that's my definition of corny. Try
(06:41):
to fit in right. But I understand. I understand how
he felt because when he was in school, he was
talking about being an actor and he was going to
scool his headshots and stuff, like that, so I can
kind of relate to him. That's why I was like, yeah,
you go, Michael B. Jordan, because when I was in school,
I was telling people this is what I was going
to be doing for a living. And he came from
North That's the hood. Like people don't understand that's really
(07:03):
the hood. He was focused, not interested in going to
the high school parties. And I think people in high school,
if you can think back to that time, they would
consider you corny. Oh you don't want to come to
the party. You ain't skipping class to go to the movie,
you ain't smoking no dopeish school. That's me. I don't
forget nothing. I don't forget nothing, But you don't forget
how people feel. I don't forget how people make me feel. Yeah,
(07:25):
and I mean I still felt like he carried himself
in a good way. He did it, so he did it,
so did the interview. He did it, So don't still
he didn't happen. He didn't happen to because you know
what I would have did. I would have been like
the corny kid, right and I would have walked off, Yeah,
because you're petty. Because but the end that interview was
so crazy though, like the way it ended and the
(07:47):
way he walked off. I was like, oh, I can
also more, You're not corny anymore. I was over here
that I feel like that want to corny and she
came yeah. And that was the gratifying moment, was it not?
It was That's why you got to watch what you
say to people, because I assumed that she thought, this
(08:09):
is Michael B. Jorge. There's no way he's listening on
things that I'm saying. And he said, oh I heard it.
I liked the moment of the exchange. I like she
stood on business and he still on business. But I
didn't agree with I would have not interviewed him. I
would have interviewed everybody. I mean, you work for a station,
a company that is requiring you to do this interview,
(08:29):
you gotta want to do it. She knew she would
have anything. Would you would have kept that same energy
or would you would have just like faked it out?
If I have to do it, if I'm obligating in
my station makes me I would have kept the same energy. Yea, Hey,
remember we went to high school and he was a
little corny kid. Yeah, now exactly, you know what I
don't think she should have brought up the fact that
they knew each other from high school, because if she
(08:51):
had brought it up first. First, remember it was a
corny kid from back, No she said. She said, yea, yeah,
we go way back from high school. He said, yeah.
Remember I'm the corny kid from high school. That stands
he brought it up. He would have brought it up anyway.
I was just way like popping his ship. He was, No,
(09:13):
he was. He was popping the ship. Yeah, he's coming
out the red carpet see and all the media outlets
that he sees her. He's like, I got you back.
And first of all, when I was there, you would
have thought Michael Jackson touched the red carpet the only
thing he was. And that's how it feels about That's
how I feel about Russell Wilson. People talk all this stuff,
(09:36):
but when he comes around, they'd be flocking. Oh yeah,
Russell still didn't really bad last NFL season, the Sierra's
Husband player. You would call him corny every time you
said Russell Wilson, I kept thinking, Russell Westmon, what happened?
What did he do? Yeah, but you know they called
Sierra's husband corny Like, Yeah, I feel like they seems
(10:00):
like like he was raised with very lovable I think
they put the labeled corny on anybody who's supposed to
do corny until until Michael we joined the interview with
a girl long time. It kind of chilled out, kind
of feels it out the term too. I just think
we all grew. I think corny was like really using
(10:23):
high school like high school and college day all the
corner kids though. I mean, you guys, rot who turned
out to join because let me tell you three he
did that? He did he ain't directed in his bag.
Let me ask you, Gail, where you a cool kid
in school? I mean that was popping what you're talking about?
(10:48):
That thought? Did you guys see Tommy versus Natalie None fight?
Did you see that that was funny because about Tommy
from Loving hip Hop? Yes? She the boxing fight? Wait
was this like intentional? Yes? It was what the Zeus
network was. It was fighting in London. Yeah. All I'm
(11:08):
saying is none of it makes sense that None Natalie
put the paws on her and then um, Tommy didn't
even come out for the next round. Tomady, she just
fell out like when you have your little break in
between round, but maybe she did a little side back
and better Again. I don't think she took a die. No,
(11:30):
I think she I think Tommy su pride for I
don't think she would want to lose on proud. People
don't realize how much boxing takes out of you. Yeah,
street fighting and boxing are two different things, and she
was losing. She should have just took the gloves off
and fought for real. Wait. Wait, now she would have
lost some money. Now she would never got paid. It
(11:52):
got paid. I feel like Tommy got so tired. You
saw her wind melling at a point she would just
like no, no. You see her as so point just
taking punches because she was so tired. Wait, think about this.
The average fight last thirty seconds. I don't know if
y'all know that last thirty seconds. But after the fight,
(12:13):
you have felt like you've been fighting for two hours.
I'm just confused. She had a party host highlight right, Yes,
she had that after the wind, Tommy, after the wind,
this is what we're got tonight. So she didn't go
to her party. I doubt it. But speaking of parties,
(12:33):
I got I gotta address something. I got addressed. The
elephant in the room. Oh uh. Since Atlanta seems like
the home of the hookah, Santana says men shouldn't smoke hooker.
If you was the man, you don't need to be
smoking a hookah, baby, go out. You need to be
all you up a wood. You need to be smoking
you something za Okay, you don't need to be suckered
(12:53):
down a hooka bad bitch, baddy. I'm sure has everyone
in here smoked hooka before smoke? I ain't gonna stop
smoking because Saucy Santana said, I tryout, It's not for me. Wait,
so what are he's trying to say is men shouldn't
have a hooka in they in their mouth? Yeah? Is
that just straight man? Yeah, he's talking about No, No,
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he's talking about straight man. He's saying that's an indicator
of like, right homosexual. Yeah. I disagree, man, they've been
smoking hooka for four hundred years. I mean, I don't.
I don't agree with that because then you could get
into like you know how they call the crack pipe
a glass. Did you know what I'm saying? Then? I
didn't know that from sorry, or when you smoke with
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other men and they'd be licking all on a background
and then you can't you can't puttick it in your mouth.
I've never understood people rolling weed and lick at it
and doing all that and then you passing it. Now,
that's why my smoking days, I just I think that's
why I want. They lick it. They lighted to kind
of burn disaffected. That's oh God, don't act like they
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always had tips for hooker. Who since when they didn't
hut up? Since when? Man, listen, I'm gonna stop smoking
hooker because us Saucy saying Santa whatever his name is,
that's my dog man, I thought, is crazy. Though. No,
I haven't smoke hooker with him, but I smoke then
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talking about who could have enough straight man? According to
his rule, we smoke hook You have your own tip, Yeah,
you have your on tip. That's his point. We take
quick commercial better. When we come back, we were getting
Big Bean's business put down at Hooker. We'll be right
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to a special edition of The ball Or Alert Show.
Hey guys, you're listening to Gail Bean on The Wall
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Podcasts available everywhere you get your podcasts Gail Bean, Big
Bean and Big Snap Snap Snaps please Snaps. Uh Saint Louis.
But Stone Mountain born in Saint Louis, they never about
two seconds. That's like me born in New York, but
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I couldn't even tell you about it to Arizona was
there for about two years, moved to Stone Mount Stone
Mount three. What high school? Yeah? We high school school?
Stop playing? So when did acting come into play as
you were growing up? A year doctor Knarkers, which ironically,
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do you guys know Omar Dorsey? I would be playing
one um raising Canaan as the one that was dating Rock,
the drug dealer that knew art and stuff and she
killed him. Okay, I probably got pull it up. You'll
see him this season on Snowfall. Okay. So Omar Dorsey
is from the cat He went to the Cata School
of Arts. Doctor Narker was his theater teacher. Laugh. He's
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a little older than me. Laugh. I guess went to
Stevenson and then he was my theater teacher for senior,
my senior in high school, and he just opened my
mind up to a whole world of life. Like oh,
I like this, like this is fun. I can get
paid to do this like that's it, like just this,
And I said, okay, this is what I want to do.
Because originally that I was gonna graduate from high school,
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be a cheerleader, go to college for it, graduate from college,
be a Dallas Cowboys child. And then someone told me
that they only get packed fifty dollars a game. I
heard that that's still true. I don't know. I wasn't
trying to find out, just to find out. You know,
you hear certain things about certain stuff, and it's like,
I don't even want to go down that paty dollars
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a game. That could have been a lie, but every
lie I have a little bit of truth too. Where
you are now, thank you. So I just chose to
pursue acting. I went to cup Well again. It was
my senior in high school. So I wasn't applying to
colleges because I thought, Okay, I'm just gonna move to
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LA and pursue acting. But my mom, being a high
school teacher, she's not with that, deciding not to further
your education. So school, where where are your college letters?
They're not coming in. I said, oh, I'm not going
I'm moving to La to pursue acting, and she was like,
the hell you not the hell you are? You going
to college and you're getting a degree. It's something you
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can get a job in. So went about Austin did
nothing related to acting or theater. While I was in college,
I was a real student, like student accounting in finance.
I was a double major. Oh, I had my bachelors
in accounty. Come on, man to good with the money.
I'm good with the money. You're good with the numbers,
good with the business. Cross Delta went to study abroad
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in Germany. I went to cars Royal University. Oh. I
thoroughly enjoyed my college. I did co ed competition cheerly.
Then I lived my life. And then once I graduated,
I let her know like this was for you. Now
I'm going to do what I want, which is active.
And then eventually I went to AIU for media from production.
Then graduating okay, right there, gave my money, learned when
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I need to learn. And then once I started being
productive in the business, I was like, well it cost
a lot, so to me, it just didn't make any
sense because I had hope. You know, in Georgia you
have hope. But my hope ran out from my first degree.
So now I'm paying out a pocket and taking out
student loans and I was just not for that. Started
getting active in my career here and I decided to
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go to LA And it took me a while to
get there because I'm a sage. We just moved, you know,
we free do what we want to do. And my
mother kept saying no, like I couldn't go, and don't go.
You don't have a plan, You've never been. But I
knew I wanted to go there an act. I don't
know nobody in my in my family or personally that
is pursuing this that can help get me in. But
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I'm gonna just go and take a leap of faith.
And I figured it all out. I kind of finessed
the plan. When was the first like big gig that
you said, huh, it's working, it's happening. Unexpected. Unexpected was
a feature film I did independent. We shot that in Chicago.
It was the first major thing I booked, and it
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had Kobe Smallders from How I Met your Mother she
was the lady who played Robert Shovski and How I
Met Your Mother and then Honors Home and Elizabeth McGowan,
and I was the lead. Me and Kobe were the leads.
So I booked that and it wasn't paying much, but
I knew that it was going to do exactly what
it did. It went to Sundance Film Festival. It got
me my manager, it got me exposure, it got the
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Hollywood reporter, it got me attention of people. And now
you got some alcolades at the Sundance. Yeah. Yeah, it
got me next generation breakout actors. Um it did what
it was supposed to do. Yea. This was living in LA.
You didn't have to get a job. No, I definitely
had a job. I got a job the first time
I went to Okay. I had a few jobs. That's
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that's the story that people don't hear when people people
move to La. They don't they don't understand the actors grind.
So I went to go visit June fourteenth to July fourteen.
My first two days there, I got a job at
Windsor Windsor Fashion Story, it's like a little clothing store.
And then I was working at Francesca's Boutique. It's like
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a little boutique clothing store. And I worked at Sheek
it's a sneaker store. And I was waitressing at like
a little sports bar. I didn't know anybody there. I
wasn't I was there for my acting. So until I
try to tell artists a lot because a lot of
times they just think, okay, grind, grind, grind, and not work.
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But until it's a full time job, you need to
have income coming in the bills. Don't you got a
wardrobe makeup? I mean it is a gas yes, so
carry on. You can't be in LA and I have
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a car. I don't see how people do it right? Um,
And I like to eat. I'm a food baby. Okay,
We've got some food dates. I got a whole list
of rest I don't think you met your match. They
know what's your favorite restaurant here? Oh care? I stay far?
Never been there and I just went to one flu
South recently. See you got a lot, you got a
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lot of to be played. Lounge over in East Point,
I remember I've never been there. Did I just set
up a friendship? You set wet? Can I can I
get to my favorite part? Dog? Can I ask? Can
I ask about snowfall? That's how I found you. I'm excited.
I'm excited. I'm excited they fired me, and I'm so
glad because after that, I got booked every month. So
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I worked for the airline. So you so you got
fired from the jobs that you were actually working at.
I quit all the other jobs and I was working
just at Virgin America Airlines, which is now brought out
by Alaska. Loved that job. It was from Atlanta. So
I always look for a job. Every job. I had
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always looked for a job, so I found I always
every single job, there's something where the pay is more
than just the money. So with like she story, yes,
with restaurants to eat. You know what I'm saying. You
preaching right now. So then I was working for the
airlines flight benefits, and then I also would sell like
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my buddy passes and stuff. You know, did you have somebody?
Did you have an agent at this time when you
were doing all this grinding? I didn't. When I first
I had got my very first agent ever, right before
I moved to LA. When I moved, she dropped me,
she said, because I moved to LA. Now, my daddy worked,
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he's a coach in the NFL. I'm his own girl.
I'm the baby. Yeah, I'm not spoiled, but I'm damn
sure deserving. So if I wanted, I do get it.
So he could fly me back and forth. But she
didn't care to ask me any questions or any of that.
It was just you moved and granted. She so she
was like, you moved, um, my daughter went out there
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and she was back in two years and it's not
gonna work. And they always story and you also didn't ask.
I said, if you need me to be back for
something like one, I could put some auditions on tape,
and two, if you need me to come back for
a callback or anything, I could do that. No, I
can't represent you at the forty five days. Okay, thank
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you so much for your time. Because it's the thing,
I already know that I'm blessed and highly favorite. So
when people try to start on me, I'm like, see
because eventually I'm gonna have to stunt on the people
that I should have been stunting with. And that's okay,
but I already know that. So she says she was
dropping me forty five more days okay. Cool. I was sad.
I'm talking to my friends like, oh my god, this
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is my first agent. What am I gonna do? Like
it took so long to get this one. They were like,
submit to more so it was it was so something, yeah,
submit to more So I submitted and at the time
it was this agency. I'm not gonna say the name
because they have a bad reputation. Now I submitted to them.
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My agent left there. She started her own. Her name
is Carla Huff. She has Bold Talent Agency. But at
the time I submitted to her online, she reached out.
We had a like hour long conversation and she picked
me up and it was great. So I didn't have
an agent. But then I got an agent again and
I was with her while I was working at Virgin America.
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Loved that job. Worked all the time, but also still
had time for auditions and stuff. And it was another
actor that was working now that was just hating and
she got me fired. Crazy. It's okay, I know who
it is. I mean she's not she she wasn't. Uh
could we get to my partner man Let that settle.
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I got an appointment, which helped me out because she
was I got fired unjustly. So I became a fan
of how great you did on Snowfall. I kept saying, Wow,
she's really doing a great job at going from you know,
the girlfriend to you're hooked on drugs really really bad
like and I was saying right before you came in,
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I was like, how do you mentally go there to
act that well? To portray this person hooked on drugs?
And we of course we'll talk about snowfall, yes, um,
and could you talk about that? Of course, how you
got the snowfall and then your character. So let me
ask all of you a real question. Is anybody in
your family ever been on drugs? Yes? That you that
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was a live while you were alive. Yes, oh yeah, yep.
I'm so sorry as anybody in your family been on drugs?
That was a lie while you were alive. Have you
ever seen witnessed anybody? And I think that is the
black story. I think that is there is no black
person in America who has not seen a family member
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or someone close to them on drugs like that. They
no person um. One of my older sisters, she was
literally like a mother figure in our family. So we're
I'm first generation American by way of Takeday, which is
the northern region of Ethiopia, and we didn't have a father.
So my oldest brother was the man of the house
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and she was the nurturer. She went to college, she worked,
she made sure that all of we all had our
homework done, she helped with projects. And I think at
some point in life, UM mentally, I just think that
it was heavy for her and she goes she moves
out to La gets into a relationship, and it goes south.
That's when she started using UM. She comes to Atlanta,
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and that's when we really realized how bad it was. UM,
she's not doing well at all. We saw the ups
and downs, the different emotions that she could have in
a matter of seconds, like the highs, the lows, the aggression.
She's actually she's outside somewhere in Stale Mountain, you know.
So it's it's very relatable. But I think it's so
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unfortunate how common it is in our community. So I
really appreciate you bringing that point up, you know, But
it is real. It's real. It's real that some people
in my family I've seen since I've been alive on drugs,
like addicted, Like when I was born, they were already
fully into the crack so or whatever drugs they were on.
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So I used a lot of personal experiences, and then
when I used to live here years ago, I watched
a documentary called Jay Is for Junkie by Greedmont Park
and it was so good. It was so grounded. It
wasn't the clickbait clips we see of addicts, of them
just wilding out or people doing things to like disturb
them and disrupt their peace. It was actually seeing functioning
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addicts talk about their story and their life. And I
mean not just addicts, but like crack at it. Are
they sharing the why, like how they got here, what
drove them to it? Some of them are. Some of
them share, you know, their thought process which leads them
to want to go do more drugs and things that
they've been through. Some of them, one of them was
an omega when I'm adulta so when I was a bro.
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He showed his branding, like just showing that that wasn't
supposed to be their life and that wasn't the track
that they were on, and just how quickly a person
can slip. I watched those things. I volunteer your own
ski road. That's skied road is if y'all don't know,
it's like the worst part of LA the most homeless
is steam. I was saying, I wonder if I wonder
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if you did that and you were around it to see,
Oh you did you did when you were talking about
that off cam talking before you came out, I was like,
I wonder did you do that? Because you did an
amazing job on that. Yeah, you're such a la. Twenty
thirteen and I started volunteering, I want to say, in
twenty thirteen or twenty fourteen, every Wednesday twenty It was
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so much that, you know, I feel like in life
we get omens that show us things for the future
and God kind of prepares us for the bigger blessings
that are to come from. Yes, and it just gave
me an insight look to even see them more humanized,
you know, because before that, when it was just like
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members in my family, to me, it was like, Okay,
that's a jay, that's a junk. I'm not gonna pretend
that I would like, I know, cancel culture is a thing,
but I fully take responsibility who I am and who
I've grown to become. At first, I used to look
at the Jay's and my family like I would play
tricks on them as kids, like yeah, I was that person.
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So I'm I'm happy that it taught me something and
humanized me and allow me to have empathy for people
and truly understand addiction as as a disease and how
it can be any one of us at any time.
At any time. There's many different addictions. So what's next,
What's next? Value is happen? Valley was a straight offer. Okay,
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they came to you. They're like, hey, so, okay, Valley
is like a trial of years. So I originally auditioned
for the pilot for this one role like five times.
They kept I had an audition and then a callback,
and then the producers in a director session and network
and this, and it was that they were pushing me
to the network, but the network said no. I was
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the girl that they wanted for the role. And then
it was no from the network. I said, okay, I
to me, I can act, but it didn't make sense
for me to play that character. So because I just
I didn't look like that character, I couldn't. No matter what,
I wasn't gonna be the character. And I'm glad that
they pushed back. I'm glad that they said no, because
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when it came back around now, I would say that
was probably twenty eighteen. So now I've I'm not who
Gail being in twenty eighteen is not gayl being in
twenty twenty one. So now when it came back around
and they said this is who we want for the role,
there was no pushback for the network. It was like, okay, cool,
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we agree. I had allowed my star to rise. I
had allowed some of my my work to show. Okay,
she can carry the weight of this. And Katori called me.
We did a zoom. She said, would you would you
you want to be one Valley? I said, hell, yeah,
what you mean? You got all the classes girls, Snowfall,
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pe Valley. I think I'm just so honored and blessed
to have worked with people who they humble like we
did it. I shot Atlanta. Atlanta was my first project
in Atlanta and this was season too, so they were
award Emmy Award and Donald said, you know, thank you
for doing this. I'm like, thank you? What serious? Thank you?
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So I did that and yeah, go Tory. She was
just like what I want to And I'm like, hell, yeah,
I play a bottle on a look account if you
need me to, Like, what do you at any at
any capacity, I will come on there. So I didn't
know it was even gonna be the role of a dancer.
And I bought a pole just in case because I
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didn't want to. I bought a pole. Just a Valley
go anywhere. It can go anywhere. So yeah, that was
a straight offer. I was very excited about that. That's dope.
So twenty twenty three, what else do we have, like
before we get off pe Valley? What has taken so
long for the new season? Had a baby? Okay okay, mama, okay,
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okay know in real life? Yeah, that's she burnt our
first order. On top of that, they got it. Well,
it's a lot going on in the industry right now.
It might possibly be a writer strike. It might possibly
be a director's strike. After the writers strike, I don't
know when y'all gonna get a new content. What is
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it about a lack of money? Respecting Uncle Clifford rules? Now,
what's up with the strikes? What's the reason? Networks? Then
they just kind of gotta money. Things are evolving. Networks
and studios are making more money. They're being more profitable.
But now you have more platforms like streaming, So if
you write a show, and you get paid off of
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that show, but then it goes to a streaming platform
and you don't get paid anymore but stream And then
writers You gotta think writers come from the year of
the era of like Martin when they're doing twenty plus episodes.
Now shows have like ten episodes, maybe go three four seasons. Yeah,
I mean, pay them and then it's it's it's a bunch,
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it's a lot that goes into it where it's just
it's not listening. I need p Valley to come back
because I need to see how your character Roulette evolves,
because you got me a trigued man way that y'all
pulled up on Buddy in that hotel you so gags.
Is that fun for you to have that specific role? Oh?
I love it? And Roulette Roulette is like eighteen year
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old me. Listen, I promise you. I said, oh, this
is me and this is me. I was like this
three I mean, minu is like selling my body. But
the way that she's so gangs to what it? My
gun is three six five six? So you so she
me are we wanted the same? I was very very
happy about that role. Okay. So twenty twenty three I'm
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gonna answer that season three and p Valley, okay. And
I got a little another project on the table, okay,
another sport say it. They haven't announced it, but the
contract is signed. Big deal in theaters. Don't be a
big deal, that's all I can. I feel like it
is because you just on a roll. You're on a
hot stress. It's gone. It's gonna. How are you gonna
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how y'all gonna feel when um Snowfall ends? I know
y'all kind of have y'all like had like their final
goodbyes already we have had our Well, no, because I
think they're gonna do a screening in LA for the
for the final allegue. Okay that I feel like it's
like insecure, Like you know when the cast had to
(35:26):
disband and leave and it was just so emotional, not
only for you guys, the cast, but for the audience.
Yea all grew with us. Yeah. They just posted a
thing it said the love Story of Leon and Wanda.
And I looked at us when we were in twenty eighteen,
and we look like baby Yes, I said, oh my goodness.
And I discovered you guys during the pandemic, So I
being watched a lot. Oh wow, yeah, I watched a lot.
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People grew up with us though, like seeing us watching
us for five years. Wanda Leon gonna go off in
the sunset. I believe it. Okay, face didn't say so,
you ask, but I don't know if it's gonna say
why don't go back to the crazy? You absolutely have.
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I feel years and years of success in this industry.
I think you're just gonna continue to grow and rise,
and we are super excited to see you arrive. Like
you're arriving, but you haven't gone that you got so
much more to go, and we're excited about when this
project goes, it's gonna go. I will have arrived with
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the whole city behind, you know, like you talk about
omens and stuff like that. I'm in the spirituality. You know.
Sometimes we don't know who we are until we get
to a certain point and you know what people know.
It's just like when Donald said, you know, thank you
for doing this, or when you get a call just
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to just to be on something. I feel like you
don't really know yet, but you're about to find out.
I receive that. Jill. All right, let's take a quick commercial.
Brea when we come back. Big Bean's gonna help us
with bather Malez real quick. I'm nervous. We got Gail
(37:18):
being on a ball of blitz. All right, So I'm
gonna name. I'm gonna say a line from for some
fight your female actresses, and then you tell me what
actress it is. Oh God, I'm not gonna do all right,
So it's real quick. Now it's a blitz all right?
First line? All my life. I had to fight Seeley,
(37:39):
that was Oprah. That was a miss Oh my life.
I had to fight what I was saying. I was
saying color purple. She had a film. She up. I
hope he's not watching me walk away? He is? Is
that Loretta divine? And got it? There's not wating water work?
(38:02):
Got it? All right? Uh? Love should have brought your
ass home last night. I know it, but I feel
like the way you delivered it kind of threw me off.
Delivered it again, try it again. Love should have brought
your ass home last night. She was arguing with Eddie Murphy.
(38:22):
You got to tell me that that was halle Berry.
Love should have brought your ass home last night. Okay,
all right? Um, I got the bike holiday wander Alfred
Water Holiday Heart got it, let me get the bike? Yes,
(38:44):
all right? Last one, how about we playing my favorite
game and this gun? I got one bullet pain? How
about we play my favorite game? Not bad at all.
We'll be right back. Stay tuned with more of the
Baller Alert Show. You're listening to a special edition of
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The Baller Alert Show. Hey guys, you're listening to Gail
being on the ball Alert Show. Message your ball alert.
My lady is seeing my side chick to do her hair.
I've been with my main lady for about two years
and counting, and my side chick does hair, but she
does it where she lives out of town. But recently
she's been in Miami doing hair and she's messed around
and did an install on my lady. I only found
(39:33):
out because my side chick posted my lady on her
story after installing her new hair due and lastly, my
lady enjoyed her hair so much she got her number
and wants to use her all the time. Now I'm stressing,
don't know how to get through this. What do you
guys think? Okay, I go, I gotta follow up questions now,
So does the side chick know that that's his main lady. Yeah,
(39:54):
probably side right. You know, niggas don't really be posting
their girls no more facts. So he gonna have he
gonna have to let side chick. No, it's a no
m hmm. He gotta shut that down or like just
be faithful. That's I mean, we passed that point. You
(40:16):
need to get um shit. I don't I don't know
what to tell you, sir. You got yourself in a pickle.
Get somebody else to get somebody to get somebody else
to do it. Oh, man, listen, you gotta tell your
side check. No, man, you can't do my girl hair
no more. You gotta block her number, don't follow her
(40:38):
on Instagram. You need to act like y'all never met before. Yeah,
he gotta come queen to the man because she's gonna
find out, and it's gonna be more embarrassing when she
find out from the side check than it would be.
All right, So he's gonna have to take it whatever
come with it. He's gonna have to. He made his bed,
He got a lot that two years away. This is
(40:58):
a day. This is this is a day. Just she's
not even know she is side check. That's that's the
crazy part. We don't know you, right, we don't know.
People don't post, they don't, they don't say nothing. Yeah,
but see they're gonna be getting the talking because when
you do glass, they're gonna get the talking. They're gonna
first just have casual about here and who died this
and that, and then come clean to somebody. So we
(41:18):
need to come clean to the side check first, and
then his lady. Why why why we gotta be honest
with the side check first, because she the one doing
the hair. No, I don't trust it. Man, listen, you
got you gotta let that side check. No. Hey, man,
that's my girl. She is going to expose him if
(41:38):
he doesn't. He need to come clean to the woman first,
to the main, to the Okay, you can't have your
girl out here. What what Beyonce say? Don't embarrass me,
don't embarrass me, don't embarrass me. What do y'all think
of the comments? It is down to for pep talk.
Hey guys, my name is Gail Bean, and listen, you
(42:00):
got to lean into your strengths and your weaknesses. Let
that stage be your step stone, not your tombstop. No,
that was an Uncle Cliffe rule. But Seriously, life is hard,
no matter what you do, no matter what career you're in,
no matter who you're with, you have to get up
each day and make a choice to continue on. There
(42:22):
will be things that get you depressed. There will be
things that make you sad. Do not focus on other
people's lives on social media or in the real world.
Focus on yourself. Talk to yourself, Pray, go out to
whomever it is you believe in. If your God is Kanye,
pray to Kanye. But go outside, get some fresh air,
(42:46):
and do what you need to do to keep going.
Because this life, your life, is worth living. Being rescues
Maria Rosa. Rest in peace, Maria Rojan. That's my age.
She just passed. Last question before we go. It's Gail
being in a relationship, someone sliding in beans. Um, Gail
(43:13):
Bean is entertaining somebody. Nothing to answer the question for him.
I got a real good man from Scottdale. She keep
it in the I love it, that's all. It was
(43:36):
Scott Deal. Where did the name being come from? In college,
one of my friends just decided, I don't even know
how and Willie Slayton they went to MLK. I have
no idea why they just started calling stuff being. It
would be like pass me that being, Hey, bring me
bring me back a bean, but hey, someone say he
(44:00):
going to get a piece of bring me one of
them beings. Like everything was being so. Then I would
come over and they would say, what's up, Gail Being.
And then they told me to change my name on Facebook,
and after that it stuck with. It works, it works, well,
appreciate you, Gil. So I'm not gonna lie. I went
with that too because I got in some trouble in
(44:21):
the past. I say, lass book Gail Being on the
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