Speaker 1: Word with me here.
Speaker 2: You know BT no how goes shout out oct no
Speaker 2: real color?
Speaker 1: What we see? Whole game? Wait, the baller blos some thing?
Speaker 2: Oh, you can't stand on their homes. Fee, I already
Speaker 2: know you came with me because with the squad of
Speaker 2: me they get a little They called me.
Speaker 3: Learn Hello, thank you for stopping by. For sure, we
Speaker 3: are the Baller Alert Show. I'm Ocxavia March Ferrari Simmons.
Speaker 1: You know BT.
Speaker 3: Oh I heard podcast yes, and we are the ball
Speaker 3: Alert Podcasting. We're just gonna talk a little bit about
Speaker 3: podcasting today. So first for starters, what is the Baller
Speaker 3: Alert Show?
Speaker 4: We'll delve into that.
Speaker 2: Uh, The Baller Show started in twenty sixteen. A couple
Speaker 2: of employees eleven, she called me b some was actually
Speaker 2: be someone was actually one of the original hosts and
Speaker 2: this gentleman named Sticks Malone. And then that dismantled, and
Speaker 2: then Kenny Burns revamped it grabbed oct kept me and
Speaker 2: then we added sou Solo. Then it changed again. It
Speaker 2: was just so Solo and myself in Octavia. Then it
Speaker 2: changed again and we added BT. Then it changed again
Speaker 2: and Solo found some other dope opportunities. She's currently on
Speaker 2: the radio right now in Atlanta and Hennessy she's doing
Speaker 2: a lot so and now down to this three right
Speaker 2: here BT Octavia for our.
Speaker 3: Simmons for sure, just for a little a little Big three,
Speaker 3: just a little context. You know, when we started and
Speaker 3: we went through so many changes.
Speaker 4: Because a lot of our.
Speaker 3: You know, ex hosts, they found other opportunities to have
Speaker 3: their own you know, platforms and stuff like that, and
Speaker 3: we support them whole heartily and we just continue to
Speaker 3: you know, move forward in what we're doing. But we
Speaker 3: don't knock what they're doing at all. And they're doing
Speaker 3: some great things. Like you said, some Solo is on
Speaker 3: the radio right now. She's on AMP, you know, so
Speaker 3: is Kenny Burns has his own show on platform. And
Speaker 3: you know, we moved on as the Big three BC
Speaker 3: Rory myself and keeping the ball Alert.
Speaker 4: Show moving and grooving.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, all right.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about hosting, guys, a little bit of your
Speaker 3: backgrounds and how it relates to you today.
Speaker 2: So I've been on the radio for ten years here
Speaker 2: in Atlanta. I worked at V one on three. I
Speaker 2: worked at Streets Now four or five. I currently work
Speaker 2: at a record label Warner Records. I'm the national director
Speaker 2: of Lifestyle and Mixed Show Promotion. So my job is
Speaker 2: basically to make sure DJs have the music that the
Speaker 2: labels are promoting. I'm still hosting parties, I'm still DJM parties,
Speaker 2: and I'm still doing the podcast. And on the podcast,
Speaker 2: we just get on here and talk a lot of smack.
Speaker 2: That's basically what I do to the podcast.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been in radio for over a decade and
Speaker 3: I've always been in the background, though I've been on
Speaker 3: the boards. I do audio engineering and production is my background.
Speaker 3: And so when you hear even to this day, I've
Speaker 3: started at Vvan No. Three and and I now work
Speaker 3: at Streets ninety four or five. And when you hear
Speaker 3: the commercials or anything of that nature, that's me the
Speaker 3: station imaging, you know, going between songs. I do that.
Speaker 4: I put all that on and I bring a lot
Speaker 4: of that to the podcast.
Speaker 3: Now, when I was tapped to do this, you know,
Speaker 3: I was tapped to produce, but you know, with so
Speaker 3: many things going on, I stepped up hosting and I
Speaker 3: kind of do anything that we need, you know, filming.
Speaker 4: I'm filming us right now. I you know, getting the
Speaker 4: sound quality correct.
Speaker 3: And when it comes to hosting, my style is to
Speaker 3: humanize whoever we have coming on our platform. We get
Speaker 3: a lot of reality stars, you know, who may be
Speaker 3: judged a lot, you know for whatever you guys see
Speaker 3: on TV.
Speaker 4: I come in and I just try to get to know.
Speaker 3: Who that person really is behind all of that stuff
Speaker 3: that you know, people see on.
Speaker 4: A regular basis. So that's kind of my host of style.
Speaker 2: Well, before you go, bet she so if you've seen
Speaker 2: any of our clips, the little Boozy clips, the two
Speaker 2: cy clips saying he likes regular girls and he doesn't
Speaker 2: like if you've seen any of our clips go viral,
Speaker 2: she's the person who produces clips. She's the one that
Speaker 2: puts the little movie clips in it and it just
Speaker 2: literally goes viral. So it's all her putting that shit.
Speaker 2: Oh can we curse? No? Putting that stuff.
Speaker 1: Together just creative. I just like to create. So yeah,
Speaker 1: she's dope, I pretty much. I started doing radio in
Speaker 1: Arkansas and then I eventually moved to Atlanta, and I
Speaker 1: was on the radio in Atlanta for about maybe like
Speaker 1: six years, and then I decided that the world is changing,
Speaker 1: podcast is becoming, you know, such a powerful thing in
Speaker 1: the world. And you know, I believe in myself and
Speaker 1: I believe in if you got a dream, you shouldn't
Speaker 1: wait for somebody to give you an opportunit. You should
Speaker 1: create your own opportunity. And I remember I was on
Speaker 1: the radio station part time and I was like, man,
Speaker 1: they not doing anything with me, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like like I feel like, you know, I'm a superstar,
Speaker 1: and I feel like I can hold my own weight.
Speaker 1: And you know, a lot of times you see a
Speaker 1: lot of people are getting put in positions and you
Speaker 1: just sitting back, you just waiting, and you just waiting
Speaker 1: for your opportunity, and really you just wasting your time.
Speaker 1: You know, because we live in a day and age
Speaker 1: where we have the internet, we got these podcasts. You know,
Speaker 1: people have a voice. You don't have to wait on
Speaker 1: these big companies that make you sit and wait for
Speaker 1: years and too. You know, somebody else just decide they
Speaker 1: want to quit their job or they want to get fired,
Speaker 1: and then they're gonna say, hey, you know, we'll give
Speaker 1: you an opportunity. Now. I know you've been staying on
Speaker 1: the sideline for ten years, but you know, now you
Speaker 1: have an opportunity. But you know, that's why I really appreciate,
Speaker 1: you know, Ferrari and the whole ball Alert team, because
Speaker 1: Ferrari said, man, I think you would be a good
Speaker 1: fit to do this, you know. And I remember doing
Speaker 1: the show and I was like, man, this feels good.
Speaker 1: It feels more modern, it feels more you know, like
Speaker 1: evolution versus me just doing radio. And I remember I said,
Speaker 1: you know, I just remember that day where I was
Speaker 1: just like I was just fed up. I was like, man,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sit on the sidelines. I'm watching people
Speaker 1: on the internet and all these people are like growing
Speaker 1: their followers, growing their fan base, and I'm just on
Speaker 1: the radio station trying to figure out and wait on
Speaker 1: my opportunity until I get a full time job. And
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, you know what, I don't want
Speaker 1: to do this anymore. I think I'm gonna take my
Speaker 1: chances and roll the dice on myself and get these
Speaker 1: opportunities to interview. Because when I was on the radio,
Speaker 1: I I never got the opportunities to interview anybody. I
Speaker 1: just kind of felt somebody that was just treated like,
Speaker 1: you know, you ain't got the talent to do this.
Speaker 1: So mecoming a ball alert. You know a lot of
Speaker 1: the viral clips that we did, you know, with interviewing
Speaker 1: Boo see and so many other people that.
Speaker 2: When I say, uh, one of his most viral clips
Speaker 2: was the DeAndre Sanders interview. I don't know if y'all
Speaker 2: saw that. That went on every college television network when
Speaker 2: she said it was killings on the Jackson State campus.
Speaker 2: I don't know if y'all saw that clip. It was
Speaker 2: on TMZ. BT asked her that question. I was actually
Speaker 2: off that day. So you went viral quite a bit.
Speaker 2: We went on t Z four times this year.
Speaker 4: So dang Jock Queeze as well. Oh yeah, well TMZ
Speaker 4: for Jock Queeze. When you said that about lm.
Speaker 2: A yeah, question, No, that was that was that was
Speaker 2: your question?
Speaker 1: That's b T Yeah.
Speaker 2: Bo asked the questions. I don't I don't know how
Speaker 2: you muster it up. But when we have the guests,
Speaker 2: BT asked the question. I remember he asked for that
Speaker 2: two times about the gunner. He asked babyface Ray about gunner,
Speaker 2: like if it's a tough question or Errari.
Speaker 3: Asked tough questions too, because he went, oh when you
Speaker 3: was present, only.
Speaker 2: Because I know Loto I know Flage, right, so I
Speaker 2: know these people, right. So if I know you and
Speaker 2: I know you, I'm and y'all break up. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: ask you what happened to him? Because that's my friend
Speaker 2: and you're my friend. That's what happened on the interview?
Speaker 2: Why didn't Lotto put you in the video? And I
Speaker 2: saw a lot of a couple of weeks later, she
Speaker 2: was like, Ferrari, why you did all that? I was like, yo,
Speaker 2: I just asked her a question. Do you guys not
Speaker 2: want me to ask the question?
Speaker 3: We do want you to ask the questions, and you
Speaker 3: know what I have to do? Clip that up and
Speaker 3: let everybody see.
Speaker 2: Oh they would kill me in the comments too. They
Speaker 2: was like, Ferrari, you being messy. But in reality, I
Speaker 2: literally just said, why were you not in the video?
Speaker 2: That's your home dog, that's your home team, but your homegirl,
Speaker 2: Angel Reese was in the video and she don't even
Speaker 2: know her like that, that's a real question, like why
Speaker 2: are you not in the video?
Speaker 4: There's nothing wrong with ask a question.
Speaker 2: But sometimes in the comments, y'all, boy, when you work
Speaker 2: for a big blog, which is ball Alert, because you
Speaker 2: got remember we're separated we're not ball Alert, We're the
Speaker 2: ball Alert podcast. We work for ball Alert. Sometimes when
Speaker 2: the clips go on the ball or page, man them
Speaker 2: comments go crazy. If you want to argue with everybody,
Speaker 2: but man I argue. I ain't will I jump into
Speaker 2: comments sometimes though for show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to stay out of the comment I
Speaker 1: don't even go into comments. I just for everybody else.
Speaker 4: I don't think those people are real in the comments.
Speaker 1: I don't think oh they real. They just they just
Speaker 1: they real. They will never see you and say that
Speaker 1: they just still live in the house with their mama.
Speaker 1: They real.
Speaker 4: They're not real.
Speaker 2: I got a cousin in Florida. She literally has a
Speaker 2: fake page and she goes in comments just to troll.
Speaker 2: That's that's what she do.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: The comments are mad at me and BT right now
Speaker 3: because we refuse to touch a young woman who come
Speaker 3: came on our show last week. Her name is Wet
Speaker 3: Wet on Jocelyn's Cat.
Speaker 1: Oh Yeah, on the Zoos Show, and she wanted us to.
Speaker 3: Touch her breast and we kindly declined, And now everybody
Speaker 3: in the comments are mad at us.
Speaker 1: I'm not getting counseled. I'm telling I'm telling y'all right now.
Speaker 1: She was trying to She came on the show and
Speaker 1: the first thing she did was hold on, y'all, do
Speaker 1: y'all want to touch my breast?
Speaker 2: So people were saying on the show that she was
Speaker 2: on that her her breast were like rocks, So she
Speaker 2: wanted to come on a big platform to show yeah,
Speaker 2: her breast was off. Yeah, that's the type of stuff
Speaker 2: we be having to go on on on the show.
Speaker 2: We have really good interviews, but unfortunately those don't get
Speaker 2: the high views. It'd be the wildest, craziest stuff that
Speaker 2: gets five hundred thousand views. And you know, sometimes you
Speaker 2: remember we're ball Alert, so it's a blog and it's
Speaker 2: news talking gossip. Unfortunately, the news doesn't all the way
Speaker 2: go as high as you wanted to go. The gossip
Speaker 2: goes through the roof.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's why I'm tired of people talking about
Speaker 1: like you know, when I do read the comments, which
Speaker 1: most of the time I don't read, people always sending
Speaker 1: the comments like you know why you know why these
Speaker 1: type of people are coming on the show and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, And I say, because y'all watching, because you're watching,
Speaker 1: Because if you're not watching, then these people would have
Speaker 1: the opportunity to get these platforms like coming on the
Speaker 1: ball Alert showing other platforms to even do stuff like that,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, because I always look at a lot
Speaker 1: of the interviews that we think, oh my god, we
Speaker 1: got this big artist is gonna come on the show
Speaker 1: and it's you know this, this interview is gonna go crazy,
Speaker 1: and then you.
Speaker 2: Know, it gets twenty thousand views. You'd be like, wait,
Speaker 2: what happened?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you know he wants to see that.
Speaker 2: But then Nicky Natural comes on and it goes three
Speaker 2: hundred thousand views. Wow, she ain't really ain't even say
Speaker 2: nothing the whole interview because.
Speaker 3: What had a great story. We did highlight her story,
Speaker 3: but people didn't want to see that. They wanted to
Speaker 3: talk about why we wouldn't want to touch her.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is which is weird, especially in this council culture,
Speaker 1: Like you you want us to touch a woman?
Speaker 2: Gott bempressed on camera.
Speaker 5: We'll be right back with more of the Baller Alert Show.
Speaker 5: You're listening to a special edition of The Baller Alert.
Speaker 4: Let's keep it pushing.
Speaker 3: We're gonna talk about teamwork in podcasting, the chemistry amongst us.
Speaker 3: I feel like like we said, we've been doing it
Speaker 3: for a long time, but you know, I think we
Speaker 3: forged friendships outside and it comes off great on camera.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta be really organized if you have a
Speaker 2: big podcast and it's doing numbers or whatever you guys
Speaker 2: do out there. If you're trying to do a podcast.
Speaker 2: We got a group. We got two separate group chats.
Speaker 2: The schedule, we got a schedule talent. We gotta show
Speaker 2: up on times, actually not even on time. You gotta
Speaker 2: get there at least an hour early. You got set up.
Speaker 2: You know, it's on cameras, so we got four cameras.
Speaker 2: We got four cameras, the microphones. I have to I
Speaker 2: have to lie to the guests to get them to
Speaker 2: show up on time. So I usually tell the guests
Speaker 2: that's arriving. I tell them the wrong time. So whatever
Speaker 2: time that they think that they're coming, they always show
Speaker 2: up an hour later, because you know, that's just how
Speaker 2: certain people are, especially when you're getting it's the entertainment industry, folks.
Speaker 2: You got to give them the wrong time. So I'm
Speaker 2: usually an hour and a half hour and then some
Speaker 2: of them will come on time and then we're still
Speaker 2: setting up, which is great. But for the most part,
Speaker 2: everyone shows up late. So that's like a little gem
Speaker 2: that I'll give you. Whenever you're booking talent, I do
Speaker 2: an hour out because they will be late. They will
Speaker 2: be We're in Atlanta, right in the middle of the city.
Speaker 2: It's always traffic in the middle of the afternoon. Our
Speaker 2: shows around them, so it's always going to be traffic.
Speaker 2: So I always do an hour out and then when
Speaker 2: they show up an hour like, oh, I'm so sorry,
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry. Yeah, and I just look at them like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you showed up on time.
Speaker 1: I lie.
Speaker 2: Come on.
Speaker 1: Keep in mind the big artists show up on time.
Speaker 1: That's crazy too, right, The big artist.
Speaker 2: Jeezy came on time, Boozy was early, Country Wayne was
Speaker 2: an hour early. And then you know these new guys,
Speaker 2: they're a whole hour late.
Speaker 1: They always late.
Speaker 2: But you know, setting up the show and just us,
Speaker 2: we just have to make sure we stick together and
Speaker 2: overly communicate because we could be in an interview and
Speaker 2: you know, it's three of us. We got to let
Speaker 2: each other talk. We can't over talk each other. It's
Speaker 2: a whole little dynamic that we got to create amongst
Speaker 2: each other.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, it's definitely a team effort. Like Rory says,
Speaker 3: he books the guest. You know, a lot of people
Speaker 3: think they can come to me. They can come to
Speaker 3: me and if they want to be on the show.
Speaker 3: But I will kindly put them off on Rari because,
Speaker 3: like I said, I'm a creative so I have to
Speaker 3: you know, shoot the show. I'm setting up, you know,
Speaker 3: early I'm there setting up. I'm thinking about content. You know,
Speaker 3: the way the run of the show I'm creating, I'm
Speaker 3: writing it. I am getting these guys together, and you know,
Speaker 3: this is what we're gonna do today. This is what
Speaker 3: we're gonna do today. And even when we're in the interview,
Speaker 3: you know, we got to keep eye contact to know
Speaker 3: when to move on.
Speaker 4: Okay, next story.
Speaker 3: You know, we don't have a lot of time to
Speaker 3: spend spend on things, so it's a big team effort.
Speaker 2: Before you go, bet, I will say real quick to remember,
Speaker 2: ours is a news cycle, so our content has to
Speaker 2: come out quick. So if we do an episode on Tuesday,
Speaker 2: we got to drop Wednesday because if we wait till Friday,
Speaker 2: that news cycle had then came out and it's old.
Speaker 2: Y'all ain't even gonna or watch that. So our content
Speaker 2: comes out ass and that is.
Speaker 3: Very hard to do, especially when you're the only one
Speaker 3: doing it and I don't have a team yet. So
Speaker 3: a lot of times people see Baller Alert and they're like,
Speaker 3: oh man, y'all got this.
Speaker 4: Y'all got that. It's just us.
Speaker 3: So as soon as we're done, I'm going and I
Speaker 3: am on my computer and I am you know, going
Speaker 3: through the content, sending it to Rory for posting, and
Speaker 3: I'm creating the next thing, you know, like this this
Speaker 3: is going to be out tonight or something, you know,
Speaker 3: because it's like we got to get it quick because
Speaker 3: it's such people forget so fast, you know, and then
Speaker 3: your stuff.
Speaker 4: Is old really quick.
Speaker 1: One of the big things for us, you know we're
Speaker 1: working together as a team, is also just remembering people
Speaker 1: strong points. You know, when we do these interviews, I
Speaker 1: always think about what's my strong point?
Speaker 2: And to him too, he never shows up.
Speaker 1: I was going to say that, but I was like, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: you said what I lie to you? Okay, So some
Speaker 1: time we was here, and when he was here, I
Speaker 1: was getting.
Speaker 2: Some breakfast, okay, tee.
Speaker 1: It was just like you know, it was it was
Speaker 1: bagels and fruit and stuff. Some healthy stuff, So go ahead,
Speaker 1: I take my time. Anyways, I know everybody's strong suit,
Speaker 1: so I know when we're doing these interviews, I know
Speaker 1: what Octavia strong suit is and doing the interview, I
Speaker 1: know Ferrari and I know mine. So a lot of times,
Speaker 1: you know, people will say like, like the good things
Speaker 1: that they would always say is like, man, you guys
Speaker 1: did such a great interview, because most people cut off
Speaker 1: the artists or people are like, you know, somebody's talking
Speaker 1: about something. Then you you know, y'all see an interview.
Speaker 1: I was like, damn, let the let the person talk.
Speaker 1: I want to see like damn, you know. So that's
Speaker 1: one of the main things that we always keep conscious about,
Speaker 1: is like we gotta let the talent talk because y'all
Speaker 1: watching it because of your favorite talent, no matter. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know we pretty cool too, but the majority of
Speaker 1: the time, y'all watching it because of the talent that
Speaker 1: y'all see on there. So we just always, you know,
Speaker 1: try to communicate and let the talent talk, because I
Speaker 1: think that's really important because some of the podcasts that
Speaker 1: I watch, I'd be like, man, shed up, man, I
Speaker 1: came here to watch Nicki Minaj talk or whoever talk
Speaker 1: man like.
Speaker 2: Man, I would say, I like for us, we always
Speaker 2: try to strive to when you guys, you know, Cardi
Speaker 2: b Is gonna do ten interviews, right, but when you
Speaker 2: watch the one with us, I believe that ours will
Speaker 2: be the best version of it should be the most
Speaker 2: comfortable there because we ask the questions. It's comfortable, it's open,
Speaker 2: and we allow them to talk and be themselves facts.
Speaker 3: And you know, sometimes we don't always get it right.
Speaker 3: Sometimes RARII myself or BT will you know, overtalk or something.
Speaker 3: And it's nothing for me to pull one of these
Speaker 3: guys aside and say, hey, that was a little much.
Speaker 4: You know, let's let's try this better next time.
Speaker 2: You'll do a mid interview.
Speaker 1: She'll be like, right, no, they're very rich.
Speaker 4: Flynn production mode. So I'm like cut instead of me.
Speaker 3: I don't want to interrupt the flow of the energy
Speaker 3: that's already going on in the interview, So I kind
Speaker 3: of look like, check your phone.
Speaker 1: You'll definitely get a text in men interview and the
Speaker 1: interview like hey, rap this talking way too long.
Speaker 4: The person is very chatty.
Speaker 3: Okay, we have to cut them off because sometimes we'll
Speaker 3: get people who just tangents, and I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, law, yeah, and I'm glad that you mentioned that too,
Speaker 1: because a lot of times it's like when when you're
Speaker 1: when you're interviewing people, you're kind of writing a book.
Speaker 1: So it's like, if people venture off too much on
Speaker 1: what people want to listen to us as talent, we
Speaker 1: know like, all right, come back to all right, let
Speaker 1: me cut you off so we can reel you back in.
Speaker 1: Because you get some of these artists in talent, they
Speaker 1: talk a lot about nothing. You'll be like, wait, what
Speaker 1: we trying to reflect? So accountability is really big with us,
Speaker 1: and we hold everybody accountable after the interviews. And you know,
Speaker 1: another little secret that we have too is you know,
Speaker 1: when we interview or talk to somebody, we normally have
Speaker 1: a conversation with those people before we even start filming,
Speaker 1: and a lot of times we try to be like, man,
Speaker 1: how can we how comfortable they were, how can we
Speaker 1: get them to be on camera and be just as comfortable,
Speaker 1: Because you might ask somebody an industry question and then
Speaker 1: they give you a political thing and then you're like, wait,
Speaker 1: whens is talking off camera and you see how you
Speaker 1: really feel.
Speaker 4: And a great example of that is who.
Speaker 3: We just had miss Wet Wet from Joshly's cabaret, and
Speaker 3: I told her, you know, she was a little late,
Speaker 3: and you know, sometimes you get people who are late
Speaker 3: and they.
Speaker 4: Just nasty, and that's when I ain't got time for you,
Speaker 4: and you're gonna get it. You're gonna get straight.
Speaker 2: She was two hours late because she was already lied
Speaker 2: to and she was an hour late for that. Then
Speaker 2: she was two hours late. They was about to leave,
Speaker 2: but she was so sweet.
Speaker 4: I had to keep him there because I was at
Speaker 4: least going to extend her grace.
Speaker 1: I'll you know, when she came in, I was ready
Speaker 1: to leave. I said, man, I don't know who missed
Speaker 1: who missed Dry Dry. I'm ready to leave. She is
Speaker 1: two hours late.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but she came in and she was very sweet.
Speaker 3: So what I told her is, you know, this is
Speaker 3: about what your your story, So however you want to
Speaker 3: tell it, that's where we're going to go. That's how
Speaker 3: I kind of like do all of our interviews. It's like,
Speaker 3: this is a story about who you are. Your name
Speaker 3: is at the title of this episode, not ours, so
Speaker 3: it's all about you. So it's like, you know, however
Speaker 3: you want to take this or do you want to
Speaker 3: be who you are or do you want people to
Speaker 3: see who you really are?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so that's kind of how I steered the talent.
Speaker 3: But let's get into how to make a podcast stand
Speaker 3: out in an oversaturated market.
Speaker 2: I think, of course we got help because it's ball alert,
Speaker 2: right and baller has seven point eight million followers on Instagram,
Speaker 2: one point eight million followers on Facebook, one point five
Speaker 2: million followers on TikTok. I'm leaving out something, but it
Speaker 2: definitely helps one hundred thousand subscribers on you. Hey, look,
Speaker 2: so I want to give us some grace right now. Man.
Speaker 2: When we started ball Alert less than a year ago
Speaker 2: with the Corey that you got to see, we had
Speaker 2: twenty thousand subscribers on YouTube, were about to hit one
Speaker 2: hundred thousand subscribers. That's all us right here. No help?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you hear it, snaps hit.
Speaker 1: It Okay, okay.
Speaker 4: They weren't sure how to how to work YouTube, right.
Speaker 2: But I would say, you know, we try not to
Speaker 2: get the viral moment, but if it happens, we just
Speaker 2: expound on it. If it makes sense.
Speaker 4: It's all about the bar.
Speaker 2: I try not to be messy but if it gets there,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask you the question.
Speaker 1: So i' are you messy or do we have a
Speaker 1: messy job?
Speaker 2: I gotta I have a messy job, Like my job
Speaker 2: is to ask you the question. You guys don't want
Speaker 2: to watch an interview that's just basic.
Speaker 4: Ferrari don't mind getting his hands dirty. He is all
Speaker 4: about it.
Speaker 2: I've been around in the industry for a long time,
Speaker 2: so I have relationships with a lot of these people anyway,
Speaker 2: So I feel like I'm valid with asking that question.
Speaker 1: Anyway.
Speaker 2: So if I feel like I'm asking you and I'm
Speaker 2: not asking you to be messing, I'm asking you because
Speaker 2: I want to answer, and y'all want to answer. You
Speaker 2: don't want to hear a rudimentary answer. You want to
Speaker 2: hear JEZI say, damn, me and my wife going through
Speaker 2: the divorce, not no comment. You want to watch that,
Speaker 2: and guess what, you're probably be inclined to watch it
Speaker 2: the whole interview if you see a cliffhanger in the beginning.
Speaker 2: Because A does a really good job, she puts the
Speaker 2: trailer in the beginning of the episode to make you
Speaker 2: watch the episode. We had Nia Kay and I'm in
Speaker 2: my part. She started crying on our episode that just
Speaker 2: came out today, yes right yesterday. She was used to
Speaker 2: be on The Rap Game with Jermaine Dupris. She cried
Speaker 2: on the episode because her and her dad's relationship is
Speaker 2: not well. She put it in the beginning of the episode.
Speaker 2: So she does a lot of things to get people
Speaker 2: drawn in for you to say, Okay, I want to
Speaker 2: watch that. That looks like it's a great interview, and
Speaker 2: that motivates me. When you guys in the comments, I
Speaker 2: don't know if anyone is here that comments, but we
Speaker 2: get a lot of comments that says great interview. So
Speaker 2: that's my motivation.
Speaker 3: No, definitely, you have to grab the audience's attention, like
Speaker 3: what is going to make you stand out amongst every
Speaker 3: other podcast. I'm a podcast watcher. Not only I watch them,
Speaker 3: I listen to them. And it's just like, you know,
Speaker 3: what can I do to you know, draw people in,
Speaker 3: even if it's just for a minute. Let me just
Speaker 3: show you what this is about, so you know how
Speaker 3: crazy Boots he is. I'm gonna just put how crazy
Speaker 3: and a fool he acted on a minute for a
Speaker 3: minute duration so you can see it real quick and
Speaker 3: decide do I want to continue to watch this or
Speaker 3: do I just want to click off?
Speaker 4: But most of the time people just stay and watch.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with both of you guys. I think
Speaker 1: what's really important, especially when you have a podcast and
Speaker 1: you're trying to grow, I think great content. So a
Speaker 1: lot of the questions that I ask I always envision
Speaker 1: my self if I was somebody, you know, that was
Speaker 1: a regular person, was a fan of this, this artist
Speaker 1: or this you know, influencer, what would I want to
Speaker 1: ask them if I was sitting right in front of them, Like,
Speaker 1: what would I want to ask? Not what I think
Speaker 1: or what's my opinion on this person? But I always think, like,
Speaker 1: what do people on the internet really want to ask
Speaker 1: this person if they were sitting right in front of
Speaker 1: you know, somebody like a job queist. Because I asked him,
Speaker 1: I said, you know, I said, man, they always play
Speaker 1: with you on the internet. And he said, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I wonder I was just talking about that before I
Speaker 1: came up here. What made people start like, you know,
Speaker 1: messing with me on the internet? King R and B?
Speaker 1: And he said, he said, I think it's when I
Speaker 1: said I was a King of R and B. And
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, you fed up when you said that.
Speaker 1: And it's like I feel like, you know, most people
Speaker 1: wouldn't talk to joh Queize like that. But you know,
Speaker 1: we have a personal relationship, and a lot of the
Speaker 1: talent have a personal relationship. And I always tell them, like,
Speaker 1: if you come on the show, let's give the people
Speaker 1: a show. Let's give them what they want. People want
Speaker 1: to watch us for the show. Don't just come up
Speaker 1: here and be like all political, like you had a
Speaker 1: radio station. Like, yeah, man, I don't know.
Speaker 2: We had one bad interview, the Anne Marie interview. Is
Speaker 2: that that's still up from your team?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the hell, you don't know. It was bad.
Speaker 4: It didn't look bad.
Speaker 2: It didn't look bad, but man, y'all she came in there.
Speaker 2: She came in there and said nothing to us, like
Speaker 2: she was just real monotone.
Speaker 4: Almost two hours later she was late too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it was yeah, we had We had bad
Speaker 2: interviews too sometimes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the interview is bad because of the talent.
Speaker 1: You know, I always tell talent it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: when you come on an interview, it's like like this
Speaker 1: is a TV show, right, I don't look at this
Speaker 1: as a podcast. This is a TV show. You know,
Speaker 1: we're becoming more uh evolved into like watching TV on
Speaker 1: our phones now, So I always tell people like, this
Speaker 1: is a TV show, So what's gonna be interesting for
Speaker 1: people to watch this show versus everybody else? And I
Speaker 1: think that's what makes us so different with our podcast
Speaker 1: is we're entertaining segments. So we're gonna get on here
Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk about We're gonna get the guests
Speaker 1: and we're gonna say, Okay, what do you think about
Speaker 1: what's going on in the media with this and this
Speaker 1: and this and that, and a lot of times you
Speaker 1: don't get a chance to see like your favorite artists
Speaker 1: or your favorite influencer talk about, you know, topics, the
Speaker 1: same thing that we see like oh man, did you
Speaker 1: see this on the internet? Like what do you think
Speaker 1: about this? And because you know, a lot of times
Speaker 1: the talent they're always trying to like hide and be
Speaker 1: hitting and be like, hey, just.
Speaker 2: Watch my movies or just listen to my music.
Speaker 1: No, man, what you think about what we've seen with
Speaker 1: Blue Face and Chris Sean Rock what you think.
Speaker 5: We'll be right back. Stay tuned with more of The
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Speaker 4: Does anybody have any questions in the audience?
Speaker 1: What's your question?
Speaker 4: Should we deal with Amory not talking?
Speaker 1: You know, you know what it is like. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like how you like how you getting ready for
Speaker 1: work and you know when you're late, you just hear
Speaker 1: you up, throwing some clothing and go outside. That's how
Speaker 1: you deal with interviews with people that you know. It's
Speaker 1: very much of a dry conversation. You just hear you up,
Speaker 1: put on your clothes and lead.
Speaker 2: Just like having a bad customer, depending on where you
Speaker 2: work at, just having a bad customer, man, it's same thing.
Speaker 2: Just yeah, do your job and move on.
Speaker 1: Now, what was your What's what's your question?
Speaker 4: Is it more important to be consistent or or have.
Speaker 2: The moment I was? I would say both.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: I think if you're consistent you will get the moment.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, consistent man. You know, listen, guys,
Speaker 2: if you guys really to answer your question, watch our
Speaker 2: Country Wayne interview. Please go on ball Alert TV on
Speaker 2: YouTube and look for the interview when we interview Country Wayne. Listen, man,
Speaker 2: you can make it. You guys, are losing out on
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of money out here, like six pieces
Speaker 2: of content today though minimum three three posts a day. Dog,
Speaker 2: I literally started my Facebook. And keep in mind, we
Speaker 2: all have our separate facebooks, right, Instagrams and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: But we got the Baller Show on Instagram, Ballert on YouTube,
Speaker 2: and I'll keep it quick by saying I started posting
Speaker 2: consistently on my Facebook fan page. I went from like
Speaker 2: three thousand followers. I just hit fifty one thousand today
Speaker 2: and I just started doing that six months ago. That's
Speaker 2: because I'm posting three pieces of content every day, and
Speaker 2: I don't know which one reacts. I just post the
Speaker 2: band B one to react. And sometimes it's not even
Speaker 2: I'm not even in the clip. B t'sing the clip.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I Tava is in the clip. Sometimes it's not
Speaker 2: even about me. It's just about the clip.
Speaker 4: And what we do is I get.
Speaker 3: I just try to at least give us from one show.
Speaker 3: I try to at least do ten videos that we
Speaker 3: can postyep. So out of those ten, at least three
Speaker 3: gonna go viral.
Speaker 2: I agree. And Facebook and Instagram is not the same.
Speaker 2: What may work on that platform and not work Snapchat.
Speaker 4: You know TikTok, you can get you some money on
Speaker 4: Facebook though, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so awesome.
Speaker 6: Yet, No, I was just asking about the content, Like, so,
Speaker 6: whenever you have the initial podcast episode, what's your approach
Speaker 6: to like breaking this down? So, for example, on the
Speaker 6: thickest these podcast, we have the full length, then we
Speaker 6: break it into like three or four horizontals depending on
Speaker 6: like specific things we're talking about, and then we then
Speaker 6: we break that also into you know, seven to fourteen
Speaker 6: vertical clips per week.
Speaker 1: So I was curious what your approach was.
Speaker 3: So when I'm sitting when I'm writing the podcast, I'm
Speaker 3: interviewers coming in, I'm thinking about, you know, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: ask this question, or he's going to ask this question,
Speaker 3: wherever the question is. I'm always in the moment, Like
Speaker 3: when i'm producing it in real time, when I'm sitting
Speaker 3: there hosting, I'm already thinking about how what I'm gonna post.
Speaker 3: Or sometimes I'll be like, hey, guys, what do you
Speaker 3: guys think? You know, what is your favorite part of
Speaker 3: today's show? They'll tell me and I'll cut it up
Speaker 3: for them and then but I'll just go through the
Speaker 3: whole thing and I'll just break it up, Like I'll
Speaker 3: do one big combined like a trailer that's going to
Speaker 3: be a post because every you know, if you could
Speaker 3: just see what the whole episode was.
Speaker 4: About in one video one minute, then that's gonna.
Speaker 3: Either draw you in to go see the full video
Speaker 3: or you know, that'll just be alike for that part
Speaker 3: of social media. But yeah, like I'm sitting there as
Speaker 3: I'm doing the show and thinking about clipping things, as
Speaker 3: I'm saying things what I want to see, you know
Speaker 3: from this show or whatever, in real time, I'm clipping
Speaker 3: everything up.
Speaker 2: I heard y'all mentioned a few times like relationships. I
Speaker 2: wanted to know some like key points to building relationships
Speaker 2: in your opinion, building relationships with just people in general.
Speaker 1: The talent.
Speaker 2: Talk about talent, just hey, I'm a shark, you know,
Speaker 2: a shark like I will literally walk up to somebody
Speaker 2: and be like, bro, I'm I work a ball, or
Speaker 2: what's up? You coming on the show?
Speaker 4: Ri is a genius.
Speaker 2: I don't care. I might see somebody in the hallway.
Speaker 2: I just saw a little duvall I said, bro, you
Speaker 2: got come on the show?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you definitely what a lot of yeah, with a
Speaker 1: lot of talent, you just gotta be real direct because
Speaker 1: you got to understand these people have tons of people
Speaker 1: coming up to them every day. So I use the
Speaker 1: same approach, Like I host a lot of big parties
Speaker 1: in Atlanta, so if a talent comes in, Like I remember,
Speaker 1: Ferrari was like, Yo, we gotta get Nick Cannon and
Speaker 1: I said, oh, I got a party with Nick Cannon tonight.
Speaker 1: So I said, hey, Nick, you gotta come on the show.
Speaker 1: And he was like, all right, take my number. I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: We really plan it out for it.
Speaker 4: That's the easy part. Or does the harp on people?
Speaker 4: He doesn't mind hearing no twenty times? You tell me
Speaker 4: no a couple of times, I'm like, man, forget this person.
Speaker 3: But and you need somebody like that who does not
Speaker 3: care about hearing no twenty million times.
Speaker 4: Rari is consistent and he gets the guests, like all
Speaker 4: of our big guests is because of him.
Speaker 2: I literally annoyed the hell out of you until you say, yes,
Speaker 2: you're not.
Speaker 1: Going to tell him about the the boosy? How long
Speaker 1: we had to wait? TIDB And that was one of
Speaker 1: our biggest interviews. So you know, again being on the
Speaker 1: radio for a long time. Little Boozy knows me obviously,
Speaker 1: So every time I would see him, I know his manager,
Speaker 1: a bro, I need I need Boozy on the show.
Speaker 2: I need Boozy on the show. I'm just literally texting Boozy.
Speaker 2: I'm texting his manager when I see him, I needs
Speaker 2: you on the show. So I saw that he was
Speaker 2: doing a radio run and he was at V one
Speaker 2: O three local radio station here. So I facetip of
Speaker 2: me and so I hit his manager. I said, I
Speaker 2: know you out food, answer the phone. He answered the phone, Hey, bro,
Speaker 2: bring him the ball alert. All right, we're gonna do
Speaker 2: it for We're gonna do it tomorrow. I said tomorrow,
Speaker 2: and I put him in the chat. It was an
Speaker 2: off day for us because we usually do Tuesdays and Thursday.
Speaker 2: So I was like, hey, we got Boozy tomorrow. What's up.
Speaker 2: Everybody was like, hell yeah, let's do it. And that's
Speaker 2: how I did it.
Speaker 1: I just gotta be gonna show up. They didn't believe me.
Speaker 4: Let me just say something real quick.
Speaker 3: Ferrari is so special to us because not only he
Speaker 3: works twenty four to seven, he has a family. He
Speaker 3: has kid, twenty kids, fifth kid, household to obtain.
Speaker 1: Yes, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Yes, And you know he still makes us a party
Speaker 3: and he has a full time job doing label work
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 2: So that's my passion the podcast. I that's me. You
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. I love I love it. You know.
Speaker 2: The other stuff is cool. My family comes first, obviously,
Speaker 2: but next in line is this right here, because it
Speaker 2: makes me feel happy to get in front of the
Speaker 2: microphone and have a great interview. My my goal is
Speaker 2: the great interview. Every time she had a question here,
Speaker 2: what do you think was your most influential interview that
Speaker 2: you have done thus far? Damn, that's a good one, man.
Speaker 1: I'll let you all go first first. I gotta think
Speaker 1: y'all just gonna put me on the up. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: So the most influential interview I mean, I would say
Speaker 1: personally for me, I would give like my moment is
Speaker 1: when I did the DeAndre Sanders interview, because that was
Speaker 1: I was still kind of like new to like being
Speaker 1: a a co host on the show, and I didn't
Speaker 1: I seen that interview on TMZ. I seen it was
Speaker 1: everywhere that went nationwide. Yeah, that was that was a
Speaker 1: nationwide interview. I've seen. It had like over twenty thousand
Speaker 1: people talking about it on Twitter.
Speaker 2: Her forreniers almost came out on the episode.
Speaker 4: Oh she had to get surgery the next day to
Speaker 4: get them.
Speaker 2: She had she has.
Speaker 1: But I think to me, that was the most influential
Speaker 1: interview because that really showed me and taught me that, like,
Speaker 1: you know, like I know what I'm doing.
Speaker 2: Oh damn, you going straight to me. So if I'm
Speaker 2: saying football alert, I would say g Z. I have
Speaker 2: a personal relationship with Jiz. He has a talent agency
Speaker 2: and I was able to sign to him, and I
Speaker 2: traveled the country with him quite a few times, and
Speaker 2: I was able to give him his flowers on camera,
Speaker 2: And I just thought that that was a dope moment
Speaker 2: for me. It was a little closer to home than usual,
Speaker 2: but we've had some of my most fun It would
Speaker 2: be a little boozy because he's been waiting on that
Speaker 2: one and he gave us everything we needed. Like the Chinese.
Speaker 2: He said he wanted Chinese baby mama. That went viral.
Speaker 2: He don't want to have sex with Rihanna nom he
Speaker 2: just likes her. He that went viral. Like literally everything
Speaker 2: on his interview went viral. I can never run out
Speaker 2: of stuff.
Speaker 1: You know what else too. To add on to the
Speaker 1: Boosy interview, A lot of y'all probably see like Boosy
Speaker 1: interviews like on Blad TV shout out to gets paid
Speaker 1: for those. We didn't have to pay him, so we don't.
Speaker 4: Pay for any of our guests, by the way.
Speaker 1: That's a fact. But Boozy, I was like, man, I
Speaker 1: wonder if he gonna give us the like the Blad
Speaker 1: TV Boosy man, you know what I mean? Like, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't know how he goes because a lot of
Speaker 1: times you will see talent you like, I don't know
Speaker 1: how they gonna act when they come in here. But
Speaker 1: I said, oh, when he started, he know, on the
Speaker 1: table and he starts saying like gunners a rat.
Speaker 2: And all this, I was like, yeah, I was like,
Speaker 2: oh he oh, y'all want to laugh, please go watch
Speaker 2: the interview. That's our highest one, I think, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: he is the highest.
Speaker 3: I think the one with most influence. I like all
Speaker 3: of them because I learned something new from every single show.
Speaker 3: But I really enjoyed a Country Wayne because he gave
Speaker 3: a lot of knowledge. Watch g maguire definitely watched that one.
Speaker 3: Because she tells a story, and I am a storyteller.
Speaker 3: She tells the story. We just kind of gave the
Speaker 3: outline and.
Speaker 4: She filled in the blanks like completely.
Speaker 3: So uh, that is I feel like one of my
Speaker 3: favorite episodes because she really you can see and vision everything.
Speaker 4: That she said, and she gave us so much game.
Speaker 4: We always see her out. She's very she's very kind.
Speaker 3: So yeah, and and Country Wayne, of course, he gave
Speaker 3: us very a lot of game.
Speaker 1: Sorea to sore, Oh yeah, Sorea also a lot of
Speaker 1: told us that she wasn't.
Speaker 3: She just broke up with But she just broke up
Speaker 3: with Jacob, so I don't think she wanted to say
Speaker 3: she was dating the other guy.
Speaker 1: Coming on the show. But they're saying, we're we're done,
Speaker 1: We're we can do more? Can we do one more questions?
Speaker 1: Can we do one more game? Got a job? Man? Idiots?
Speaker 1: Anybody last last question? Do you always have to be
Speaker 1: like a celebrity to get that interview?
Speaker 2: I mean, suppose you go through the store or whatever
Speaker 2: and you just question something interesting.
Speaker 1: Would you ask, like come on our show?
Speaker 4: Absolutely not?
Speaker 1: Like you said, do you have to be a what
Speaker 1: Celemberty to get on the show? Like, you know, act
Speaker 1: like a fool or whatever, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Because all, no, we don't.
Speaker 2: It gotta make sense though, yeah, because I would say
Speaker 2: the type of views and the people who rock with
Speaker 2: us or not us. I'm talking about the brand and
Speaker 2: what we put out. They want to be entertained. So
Speaker 2: what it would have to make sense, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. It just ain't gonna be no random person.
Speaker 2: You gotta have something going on for sure, for sure.
Speaker 3: Okay, smaller at Ferrari Yeah, you can bother me the
Speaker 3: wrap up signal right now.
Speaker 4: I'm Octavia March.
Speaker 1: Ferrari Simmons at Ferrari Simmons and you know BT even
Speaker 1: though do y'all put my whole name on the flock.
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