Family Over Everything with Devale Ellis
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Y'all have been asking for my brother and costar Devale to join me on the couch and we finally made it happen! We talk about everything from football, business, faith and most importantly family. If you know anything about Devale, you know he loves his family and he's proud to be from Brooklyn. Grab your tissues because this one is a tear jerker.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this episode of Keep It Positive, Sweetie. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Krista Renee Hazelan, and today I have with me my dear, dear friend, my brother from another mother, Deval Ellis. |
| 0:21.5 | What's up? What's up? What's on? What's on? How you feeling? I'm chilling, you know? You know, we got you on. Listen, they've been asking for you. They have they? Yeah, haven't? No. Can we get Deval and Cadine on the couch? I'm here. He's here. I'm here. We got him. We appreciate you. No, I appreciate you. |
| 0:38.4 | No, for real. |
| 0:39.4 | Thank you. |
| 0:40.4 | I love this. |
| 0:41.4 | I'm excited. He's here. I'm here. We appreciate you. No, I appreciate you. No, I appreciate you. I love this. I'm excited about it. I remember when it was just a thought. I thought. Yeah. I was here. I like it. Oh my goodness. Thank you so much. When I think of you, Deval, I think of anything Pop Smoke, anything Brooklyn. So what's a Brooklyn song? Where a Brooklyn at? Where Brooklyn at? That's the Brooklyn. I got seven to Madden's about, yep. You see what I'm saying? No, literally that's where I think of. Because everywhere we go, it does not matter where we are, the valet is going to rep Brooklyn. We could be at an Atlanta Hawks game, working. Why are you going to bring that up? Working. What are you going to bring that up? And he was going to like, Brooklyn Stand Up. I got fired. In State Farm Marina. I can't do it anymore. I can't do it anymore. You would do it again. You're like, and I'll do it again. And that's why they don't ever bring me back up there. Have these swag surfing. |
| 1:27.8 | Everybody was like. |
| 1:29.8 | And they was playing the Nets too. |
| 1:32.8 | It was crazy. |
| 1:33.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:34.8 | It was crazy. |
| 1:35.8 | For those who don't know, let me tell you. |
| 1:38.3 | Deval Ellis is a former NFL player turned actor. |
| 1:41.8 | Currently, he is a series regular in the number one cable television drama series |
| 1:45.7 | Tyler Perry's sisters and the star of his very own number one rated spin-off, Zatima, |
| 1:51.0 | which he has the pleasure of playing opposite yours truly. |
| 1:54.9 | Talk about it. |
| 1:56.8 | Talk about it. |
| 1:58.1 | Talk about it. |
| 1:58.2 | And can't leave this out. |
| 2:00.7 | You are also a New York Times bestseller for your book, We Over Me, that you co-wrote with your wife, Cadeen Ellis. Amazing. I'm so happy you are here. You are one of my closest friends. I just love you. I look up to you and I admire you so much. Thank you, man. When I think about the first time we met, the first time I actually saw you was on |
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