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