Speaker 1: Here we go. It's another episode of thinking out loud,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna want to be hanging out for this.
Speaker 1: Country music singer jelly Roll stop by in the midst
Speaker 1: of his sold out back road Baptism tour. He wanted
Speaker 1: to talk about changing your life around and the crazy
Speaker 1: things that people throw at him on stage. He's just
Speaker 1: the best guy ever, and you're gonna fall in love
Speaker 1: with jelly Roll right now.
Speaker 2: Let's listen in. I have woke up before noon three
Speaker 2: times this year and you were too open. No, you're
Speaker 2: the solution. Baby. Good morning America.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's worth it, jelly Roll, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Baby, good mounting.
Speaker 1: It's just when Jelly Roll walks into the road, you
Speaker 1: just feel good.
Speaker 2: Thank you. It's normally because I bring an odor of
Speaker 2: legal ass pot with me. Smells good.
Speaker 1: We're the same to me that while driving up and
Speaker 1: down the streets of New York, every single block has
Speaker 1: a marijuana a store.
Speaker 2: Oh dude, it's crazy, and I'm just assuming because it's
Speaker 2: New York. Maybe judgmental, but I'm assuming all of them
Speaker 2: are an undercover operation for something crazy like I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just like to romanticize my New York is like
Speaker 2: an old school gangster thing, you know, like they're stealing
Speaker 2: TVs or knocking off trucks too.
Speaker 1: You know, I got bad news. They seem legit when
Speaker 1: I go wow out on the back road baptism tour.
Speaker 1: How many how many stops do you have on this tour?
Speaker 2: Dude? Last night was night nine or forty four? Yes, sir,
Speaker 2: there was a Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Speaker 1: Last night, just nine in. Are you okay?
Speaker 2: Just oh dude, I listen. I got my first real
Speaker 2: I tied one on last night. Full disclosure. I had
Speaker 2: to get an ivy on the way here. But good,
Speaker 2: but I feel great. No, it's been incredible, man. It's
Speaker 2: I was explaining to somebody that, like, I couldn't have
Speaker 2: even dreamed of this. I couldn't have even dreamed that
Speaker 2: seven thousand people would buy a ticket to see me
Speaker 2: in Bridgeport, Connecticut on a Wednesday, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So it's like, I don't know, this is all surreal
Speaker 2: to me. Well, at least she didn't strap one on
Speaker 2: last night. Yeah, right, exactly, or have one strapped on me.
Speaker 1: You could be a confusing morning. So we had someone
Speaker 1: to leave us a talkback on our iHeartRadio app So
Speaker 1: I literally just heard you guys talking about an interview
Speaker 1: with Jelly Rolls. And as I'm heading out ninety.
Speaker 2: Five dors in Delaware, I passed two tour buses and
Speaker 2: then one huge pink.
Speaker 1: One with Bunny Ears and XO.
Speaker 2: Apparently Jelly Roles White hats her own tour bus.
Speaker 1: Yes, that was pretty cool to see. Explain this to me.
Speaker 1: First of all, especially sounds I hurt to her. Buses
Speaker 1: more fun than yours.
Speaker 2: Way more fun than my tour bus. It's way more fast.
Speaker 2: And first of all, this lady is awesome, thank you. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Bunny brought her own bus man, She's got her own crew.
Speaker 2: It's a big old pink bus. I was dead set
Speaker 2: against it, and then she took it to TikTok and
Speaker 2: the people voted yep. But she's riding around in a
Speaker 2: big pink spaceship with Bunny years haul over it. That
Speaker 2: says Bunny x.
Speaker 1: Though it sounds like and I'm making an assumptions here,
Speaker 1: you guys are having a lot of fun, even though
Speaker 1: you're only nine in you're having fun on this too.
Speaker 2: Well. You got to remember, I'm kind of Van Wilder
Speaker 2: of the music business. Anyways, you know, I kind of
Speaker 2: got here a little later than everybody else and partied
Speaker 2: on the way. So we're just kind of I feel
Speaker 2: like it's a mobile frat party for us. None of
Speaker 2: us went to college, so we're just imagining what college years,
Speaker 2: what it been like. And it's a ball dude. It's
Speaker 2: we're having fun on and off the stage. Maybe maybe
Speaker 2: this is college. It's a different type of university.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about. Let's go back, let's go back. Where
Speaker 1: are you from? Tell everyone in your words, like you
Speaker 1: tell everyone your story and what motivated you, in your opinion,
Speaker 1: to get you where you are today.
Speaker 2: I would say that I'm from Antiox, Tennessee. My mam
Speaker 2: and gave me the nickname Jelly Row when I was
Speaker 2: a kid. My name is Jason D. Ford. I was
Speaker 2: born in Antioch, which is a little town right outside
Speaker 2: of Nashville, you know, twenty thirty minutes on house kirts town.
Speaker 2: And I grew up just in a house at music
Speaker 2: and all I want to do is make music. And see,
Speaker 2: I never had another thing I wanted to do but music,
Speaker 2: you know, and this this has been my whole life.
Speaker 2: I understood purpose of music when I was young You
Speaker 2: and I spoke about it before, briefly, but like music
Speaker 2: resonated in my household different. I watched people deal with
Speaker 2: drug addictions by listening to music. I watch people get
Speaker 2: sober listening to music. I watched people relapse listen to music.
Speaker 2: I had all these I watched people deal with mental
Speaker 2: health and trauma and tragedy through music. It was like
Speaker 2: we had a house that we didn't talk a lot,
Speaker 2: but we throw on records, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So it's funny. I ended up being a big talker,
Speaker 2: you know. But that's what got me into music, and
Speaker 2: that's been my purpose from day one. Was I call
Speaker 2: it therapeutic music. It's real music for real people with
Speaker 2: real problems.
Speaker 1: So you say to the other role that you always
Speaker 1: wanted to be in music? Does does that mean as
Speaker 1: a kid you were fintasizing a beat about becoming a
Speaker 1: successful millionaire doing music or just playing honky tonks anywhere USA?
Speaker 1: What what did that mean to you then?
Speaker 2: Being in music? Yeah, the early dream was just hockey talks, right,
Speaker 2: because I didn't see I didn't know. You know, they
Speaker 2: they say you believe what you're exposed to, and I'd
Speaker 2: never seen success. Right. So it was like I seen
Speaker 2: dudes play the local bar and I was like, Yo,
Speaker 2: if I can go play some local bars, I could
Speaker 2: make some money and not have to commit uh nefarious
Speaker 2: criminal activities, you know what I'm saying. I was like,
Speaker 2: so I just wanted to And then I started seeing
Speaker 2: scale and then that's when you start going, oh man,
Speaker 2: I'm dreaming too small. This is like this thing could
Speaker 2: be a thing thing, you know what I mean. But
Speaker 2: initially the plan was just to you know, I guess
Speaker 2: I never even associated money with it, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. I just associated like these dudes were doing
Speaker 2: what they loved for a living. They were touching people
Speaker 2: and they wasn't selling drugs, and that's what inspired me,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: So coming up, did you did you play all roadhouses?
Speaker 1: Did you? Did you ever play a show where you
Speaker 1: see the movies where they put chicken wire up in front?
Speaker 2: I played one of those.
Speaker 1: Tell where I was going with because some people mayn't
Speaker 1: understand what chicken wire and in front of the stage is.
Speaker 2: This is a real thing. They put up chicken wire
Speaker 2: and I and I asked them the first time I
Speaker 2: got to play one, I said, why don't y'all put
Speaker 2: Why chicken wire, they said, because when people were throwing
Speaker 2: the beer bottles and they were hitting like regular fencing,
Speaker 2: it would still crack and go through. They were like,
Speaker 2: the chicken wire just kills everything. So these guys, I mean,
Speaker 2: because these bars were literally rowdy enough that you got
Speaker 2: behind the chicken wire because they start throwing stuff. I've
Speaker 2: been I've had the most fascinating time Elvis watching all
Speaker 2: these artists get stuff thrown at them on TikTok, and
Speaker 2: I'm just tickled because I'm like, oh, these people never
Speaker 2: played a bar. Like if you're like, you don't know,
Speaker 2: I don't know what it's like not to have stuff
Speaker 2: thrown at me. You know what I'm saying. I've only
Speaker 2: played to this day people throw brawls or pots. I
Speaker 2: get lots of pot. I mean, like Cypress Hill amounts
Speaker 2: of pot thrown on the stage of It's like, I've
Speaker 2: been getting stuff thrown at me my whole I played
Speaker 2: the Gathering of the Juggalos. Somebody shot a bottle rocket
Speaker 2: at me once at live bottle rocket. Yes they can,
Speaker 2: that can get through chicken wire, Prue, I could get
Speaker 2: through chicken wire. But yeah, we played. I played a
Speaker 2: spot in Louisbourg, Tennessee that had chicken wire at it.
Speaker 2: I'll never forget. I played a lot of places that
Speaker 2: had big fences or just big you know, it's man
Speaker 2: them ald just scary bars, dude.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I would think that if you're playing a
Speaker 1: roadhouse and they're throwing long Star beer bottles at you,
Speaker 1: you are getting hit with the liquid of the beer
Speaker 1: the backwash. That could be like success, they love me.
Speaker 1: They're all getting messed up out there, they're loving the show.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. It was like the first time I played
Speaker 2: the Gathering, they shot me with fago and I didn't
Speaker 2: understand it. That was how they endeared you, Like if
Speaker 2: they sprayed fago at you, if they if they sprayed
Speaker 2: pea at you, they didn't like you, Okay. It was
Speaker 2: that dramatic of a difference. Faygo thumbs up, pissed thumbs down.
Speaker 2: How do they throw pea? Oh dude, they put a
Speaker 2: pee in a bottle and throw it. Yes, and then
Speaker 2: just yeah, it's crazy. I seen a girl get hit
Speaker 2: with a bottle of pea at the Gathering one time.
Speaker 2: Her name was u Tia Tila Tila Tequila. It was
Speaker 2: Tila tequila.
Speaker 1: We heard of her.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah. I was there when that happened, the famous
Speaker 2: gathering incident. It was crazy, dude.
Speaker 1: So if you get a hit with a liquid, it
Speaker 1: takes a second to realize, well, either it's beer or.
Speaker 2: Pe and you got to either smell it or liquor. Right,
Speaker 2: It's the only way to find out, Elvis.
Speaker 1: There's no time to send it to the last sit.
Speaker 2: There and go or go oh god, music so glamorous,
Speaker 2: this glamorous career you've chosen.
Speaker 1: Well, and then you wake up one day and you're
Speaker 1: on Good Morning America on ABC. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Well before that, though, I was with you on the
Speaker 2: Only Intrepid. That was still the coolest day we've had.
Speaker 1: On That was a cool thing.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: General said he's only been up and at him before
Speaker 1: noon but three times, three times this year, and I
Speaker 1: was because two of those because of me.
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry. I'll wake up for you any day, Papa.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about country music. You know, country music.
Speaker 1: When I was growing up in Texas, it was about
Speaker 1: pickup trucks and dogs. And you know, someone's in prison
Speaker 1: and a mom involved. Right now, look at the music
Speaker 1: you're putting out. It's, as you say, therapeutic, it's it's
Speaker 1: truly meaningful. I mean, it's it resonates in a way
Speaker 1: that country music really never used to resonate about it, right,
Speaker 1: And of course this is from your personal experience in life,
Speaker 1: I guess. I mean, are you seeing other country artists
Speaker 1: really truly moving towards this more honest approach to their
Speaker 1: music making?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I think we're going back to that era
Speaker 2: a little bit right now. I think guys like Sturgel
Speaker 2: or Tyler Childers, Colter wall Zach Bryant, these guys that
Speaker 2: are just the singer songwriter thing is back happening in Nashville,
Speaker 2: and it's incredible to watch. It's not to say every
Speaker 2: other era of country music wasn't cool, but that seventies
Speaker 2: era was special. When Willie was writing all these songs
Speaker 2: with Wayland and all these cool collaborations were happening, and
Speaker 2: there was a lot of myth building happening to the
Speaker 2: outlaw movement. And I think guys like myself, Hardy Morgan
Speaker 2: Wallen following that group of guys that are kind of
Speaker 2: also like the other side of what Tyler Childers and
Speaker 2: them do with that singer songwriter mentality and sharing a
Speaker 2: different story.
Speaker 1: You know, So the good old opry has made a turn.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, babe, then the grand old opry is like
Speaker 2: accepted us with wide arms open as well. So it's
Speaker 2: been even cooler to see like the only critics we
Speaker 2: get are like, you know, like the purest you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, and they're gonna always. But I think
Speaker 2: that what's happening for country music right now. It's never
Speaker 2: been a cooler time to be a part of country
Speaker 2: music than right now.
Speaker 1: Looking at your single Need of Favor, which is still massive.
Speaker 1: What's in the middle of its massive phase? Your number
Speaker 1: two number one consecutive hit, is that right?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, listen to these lyrics. I mean, we're gonna play
Speaker 1: it in a minute. You listen to these lyrics, and
Speaker 1: this is this is coming from a place a lot
Speaker 1: of artists country and our country are not feeling vulnerable
Speaker 1: and and brave enough to show right. But you it
Speaker 1: sounds like you would rather do a song like that
Speaker 1: than a song about moms in prison and dogs and trucks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So why is it.
Speaker 1: So important to you to get that off your chest
Speaker 1: and out of your heart?
Speaker 2: Vulnerability? I think also like I grew up at Myron
Speaker 2: guys like James Taylor, right, Jim Crochey. These were my heroes, right,
Speaker 2: and these dudes that just bared their soul on these records.
Speaker 2: You know, I just Bob Seger guys that we were
Speaker 2: listening to against the Wind at four o'clock this morning,
Speaker 2: drinking down the highway, and it just it's like the
Speaker 2: first time you ever hear it. Every time you hear it,
Speaker 2: And I just wanted to write songs for those, And
Speaker 2: I want to write songs like those, And I wanted
Speaker 2: to write songs for people that don't have songs wrote
Speaker 2: about them, right, Like it is important as a songwriter
Speaker 2: and as a commentator to sometimes talk about the things
Speaker 2: that are people are, you know, Like I mean, we
Speaker 2: talk about everything from drug addiction to you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: we get you, sir, you've heard the music, you need
Speaker 2: a favorites of a great example. I mean, we get
Speaker 2: really raw with relationships and how we deal with things.
Speaker 2: It's like I felt like when I was coming up,
Speaker 2: nobody representing my culture and music, and I was like,
Speaker 2: if I ever get a chance, you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 2: if God ever gives me that megaphone. I'm a scream
Speaker 2: in it, you know what I mean. And I'm just
Speaker 2: trying to represent those without representation.
Speaker 1: So nine shows into this forty four stop.
Speaker 2: Nine sellouts in a row.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you, h nine sellouts.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's a big deal for the big.
Speaker 1: Gap sellouts of forty four. The fans are getting to you.
Speaker 1: They're talking to you like, what are you hearing? Are
Speaker 1: you hearing anything that you expected to hear? Are you
Speaker 1: hearing anything that you did not expect to hear? From
Speaker 1: how they are responding to what you're giving them.
Speaker 2: The music wise, it's crazy. It's I don't know what
Speaker 2: I expected, but the outpouring of love every night. I mean, dude.
Speaker 2: I know artists always say this, but I mean dude,
Speaker 2: We're laughing, dancing, and crying in that ninety minute set
Speaker 2: every night, Me and fifteen thousand people every single night.
Speaker 2: You know. It's It's It's church, It really is. I
Speaker 2: didn't understand it, but my friends who aren't from the
Speaker 2: South that are like, I don't know what a Sunday
Speaker 2: service looks like, but I would assume this is it.
Speaker 2: And that hit me. It hit me, especially last night
Speaker 2: because all my new York City friends came to Bridgeport
Speaker 2: and they were like, is this what church is like
Speaker 2: down South? And to myself, I thought, kind of, this
Speaker 2: is kind of what church is like. Yeah, it was
Speaker 2: like in this really weird way. And maybe that's where
Speaker 2: I draw a lot of that inspiration from. It's my
Speaker 2: early roots, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, go into a great church service. It's supposed to
Speaker 1: wear you out, oh for sure, but being able to laugh. See,
Speaker 1: I went to Southern Baptist, right, we went to church.
Speaker 1: Not a lot of laughing in a Southern Baptist.
Speaker 2: For a lot of hell fire and brimstone, a lot
Speaker 2: give you a little bit of hope at the very end.
Speaker 2: Exactly at the very end, they'd hit one major chord
Speaker 2: on the oregan and be like, but there's hope.
Speaker 1: And then and they keep going on and on, and
Speaker 1: you know, there's a there's a pot roast burning back
Speaker 1: at the house because your Sunday, your Sunday roast is burning.
Speaker 1: But a good service is what you're giving your fans,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, but let's go back to laughter.
Speaker 2: As a Southern Baptist. You know what they say, Southern
Speaker 2: Baptists are famous for two things. What's that eating and arguing.
Speaker 2: That's that's what they're the best at. Dude. I grew
Speaker 2: up in a Southern Baptist church, which the Chapel the
Speaker 2: Church I named after my album after as a little
Speaker 2: Southern Baptist church on a back road, one hundred person church.
Speaker 2: My daddy used to say, you know what the difference
Speaker 2: between a Baptist and a Methodist is? I said what
Speaker 2: he said. At least a Methodist will say hello at
Speaker 2: the liquor store.
Speaker 1: Right. Look, I let's talk about the laughter you guys.
Speaker 1: I'm going to make an assumption, just the few times
Speaker 1: we've been with you, I assume that you guys do
Speaker 1: a lot of laughing.
Speaker 2: Oh it hurts the tummy. We're all a bunch of
Speaker 2: stoners that think we're comedians. So's the worst crock pot ever.
Speaker 1: During during all the traveling and all the all the
Speaker 1: time on stage and laughing with your friends, getting a
Speaker 1: little messed up here and there, do you ever have
Speaker 1: moments where you just need to go off to your
Speaker 1: to the side and go, okay, I need some jelly
Speaker 1: roll time? And or do you always be Are you
Speaker 1: always the gregarious ue we have to be around people?
Speaker 2: No? No, I love it. I'm it's it's a mixed Normally,
Speaker 2: I just love being around people, though I just kind
Speaker 2: of want to go. Dude, I'll sit in the back
Speaker 2: room sometime. I'm a sleeper. That's what I really am.
Speaker 2: I realized earlier in my career. You can't be fat, dehydrated,
Speaker 2: and sleepy. So I have chose to sleep as much
Speaker 2: as possible to know what I'm saying to at least
Speaker 2: have one of those three things. Check.
Speaker 1: Look at this forty four sold out nights. But then
Speaker 1: you look at like a Taylor Swift whatever, how many
Speaker 1: shows is she doing. She's like like eight hundred thousand
Speaker 1: shows in one year.
Speaker 2: She's been to break every record on Earth. It's been
Speaker 2: the funnest thing to watch and what she's doing, you know,
Speaker 2: but you're providing the same thing.
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift is doing these shows that are just like
Speaker 1: visually stunning. Every move she makes on stage is an
Speaker 1: Instagram moment. Everything she says is just perfectly placed. Your
Speaker 1: show makes you feel the same, but it seems like
Speaker 1: it's the opposite. I'm sure there's a lot of planning
Speaker 1: going into shows. You have a set list, but it
Speaker 1: looks like you guys are just up there, like, just
Speaker 1: do what do you want to do next?
Speaker 2: All right, let's do that song. It's pretty close, man,
Speaker 2: We're just damning, dude, we're doing I left a lot
Speaker 2: of room in my set open for that, like for
Speaker 2: the feeling of the room, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: because I feel like music is supposed to meet people
Speaker 2: where the room is, and we're also like, I don't
Speaker 2: know why I've always been this way, but I feel
Speaker 2: like it sounds a little better when it's a little sloppy.
Speaker 1: It's normal, it's organic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like there's this like supernatural thing, which I
Speaker 2: love what Taylor does too. I am a swiftie for
Speaker 2: the record. Now you go on the record. First time
Speaker 2: I've ever talked about this publicly. Somebody clip it and
Speaker 2: send it to Taylor. I love her. She's from Hendersonville, Tennessee,
Speaker 2: and we never met, but we're like neighbors. But uh,
Speaker 2: our stuff's just like a little more sloppy in general,
Speaker 2: and that's just, you know, I don't know. Bob Singer
Speaker 2: is another Bob Segert quote. He had two of my
Speaker 2: favorite quotes of music. He said that one just search
Speaker 2: for songs you can sing with conviction. That's quote is
Speaker 2: on my studio wall.
Speaker 1: Now, songs you can sing with conviction?
Speaker 2: Yep? Just that easy, Like what the most easy way
Speaker 2: to think of it, like just search for songs that
Speaker 2: you can sing with conviction. And he said, man, it
Speaker 2: was something different about this silver Bullet Band because they
Speaker 2: played just a little sloppier. He was like, it's just
Speaker 2: something that made it feel more, you know, like he's
Speaker 2: when he talked about what he thought his best records were,
Speaker 2: it was like, anytime I did something with a silver
Speaker 2: bullet band, it was just a little more grid, a
Speaker 2: little more slop to it. You know.
Speaker 1: Is that just a known thing on the stage with
Speaker 1: your band or do you ever have to stop it
Speaker 1: down and go, hey, can you slop this up?
Speaker 2: No? No, no, I have to unslop them. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: have to catch them backstage before the show, like somebody
Speaker 2: had the tequila for another hour, you know, saying because
Speaker 2: these guys will go.
Speaker 1: Gosh, you guys seem like you run it high and hard.
Speaker 1: I mean, after forty four sold out shows, are you
Speaker 1: gonna be ready for the rehabit facility?
Speaker 2: For sure? The ones we got to check in the
Speaker 2: class action lawsuit, I get from making people drink every
Speaker 2: night on stage. Uh no, dude, we'll do good. We'll sleep,
Speaker 2: I get some rest. But I also, man, I'm telling you, dude,
Speaker 2: I drank probably two nights this whole to another band,
Speaker 2: those degenerates, they're horrible. It's almost a prerequisite. We got
Speaker 2: one sober guy in the band, and I like him,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: Don't let him know you feel so. Look, you've been
Speaker 1: doing music a while now, now that you've been out
Speaker 1: of the road, what do you what have you learned
Speaker 1: about anything, the fans, the music, the traveling whatever. That
Speaker 1: is kind of a surprise to you, maybe a tough
Speaker 1: question to answer without thinking about it for a minute,
Speaker 1: Like what, like there's gotta be a learning journey going
Speaker 1: on for you.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm surprised still at how many people know me
Speaker 2: outside of the show. Like this whole thing to me,
Speaker 2: Elvis is still I don't understand it yet. Like we
Speaker 2: still pulled up to Like I left my show the
Speaker 2: other day to go to like a marijuana store in Maine,
Speaker 2: and on the way back, I had a moment where
Speaker 2: I was like, man, is traffic always is bad here
Speaker 2: on a Tuesday? And it was my concert. Traffic and
Speaker 2: we were waiting on the police escort to come get us.
Speaker 2: You were the problem was the problem? I was like,
Speaker 2: this isn't like I still don't get that. That's what's
Speaker 2: surprising me the most is I have a concert thirty
Speaker 2: minutes away from this marijuana store, and I took fifty
Speaker 2: pictures at this marijuana store. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: It's like, it's just crazy. This is all awesome, but
Speaker 2: just I didn't expect it. I don't know what I thought.
Speaker 2: Even when you look at the ticket sale numbers, you're like, man,
Speaker 2: this is a lot of humans. This is a lot
Speaker 2: of souls and stories coming into the show tonight. But
Speaker 2: until you see them, and when you see them in
Speaker 2: the arena, it's one thing. But when you see them
Speaker 2: in the parking lot, tailgate and party in or you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like you see the city's hotel
Speaker 2: selling out, You're like, I couldn't imagine what Taylor Swift
Speaker 2: feels like. Dude, I mean you talk about her, Dude,
Speaker 2: she shakes the entire city's economy.
Speaker 1: They show up on the Richter scale. They literally did
Speaker 1: one night.
Speaker 2: God I pray for that. You would have shaked the
Speaker 2: earth and you gotta think my fan base physically, her
Speaker 2: fan base is twice the size of ten times the
Speaker 2: size of mine with people, but my fan base physically
Speaker 2: is twice the size of her fan base. So could
Speaker 2: you imagine to wait, yeah, right, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: like a lot more adults. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1: I gotcha.
Speaker 2: Could you imagine the damage we would cause the met
Speaker 2: Life Stadium if we ever got there?
Speaker 1: You know what we talked about you doing your shows.
Speaker 1: One day, you're gonna be taking a break. You're gonna
Speaker 1: go see a show. You're gonna I know you're gonna
Speaker 1: be like, do I want to go see a show?
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna assuming the kind of show you want
Speaker 1: to go see. Jelly Roll is what you're doing, right,
Speaker 1: You're you're doing the kind of show you would love
Speaker 1: to see?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for right or wrong? I went to go
Speaker 2: see Garth Brooks in Vegas the first night of his
Speaker 2: Garth Brooks plus one residency opening night, right special man,
Speaker 2: and uh we try to go see uh Tyler Chillers
Speaker 2: last Sunday, but I just couldn't couldn't figure out the
Speaker 2: travel because I had a day off. But he was
Speaker 2: like two hours away. Wow, we still go to shows
Speaker 2: all the time. I'm gonna look at there. One happened
Speaker 2: here tonight somewhere we're off. I think you are the show,
Speaker 2: not the show.
Speaker 1: Let's go wherever you go tonight, that would be the show.
Speaker 2: It's gonna take over a bar like it's a honkey do.
Speaker 1: I think I've told you this before, I tell you
Speaker 1: again before for you you run out the door. I
Speaker 1: just want to say thank you. And look, all the
Speaker 1: years I've been interviewing people, I still and I'll say
Speaker 1: it until the end of my career.
Speaker 2: You are one of the most genuinely.
Speaker 1: Great guys to interview because you're just real and I
Speaker 1: know exactly whatever you're serving up is what we need
Speaker 1: to be eating.
Speaker 2: And I appreciate it so much. Thank you for your support, man,
Speaker 2: I want to say I want to give your flowers
Speaker 2: and in person too, on and off air. Man, you
Speaker 2: you stepped up for me early and continue to do
Speaker 2: so bro even today, just taking the time to do
Speaker 2: this with me and letting me come in a little
Speaker 2: later than you're used to.
Speaker 1: I could be sleeping right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I know. I felt bad. I was like,
Speaker 2: what he don't know is This is like six am
Speaker 2: for me, and what I don't know is it's like
Speaker 2: nine pm for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't know what time. You're the best, jelly Roll.
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming in today and I was sure the
Speaker 1: man brother.
Speaker 2: Love you man.
Speaker 1: I've been doing this for so many years and when
Speaker 1: you see and meet someone like Jelly Roll with all
Speaker 1: that star power and it's all generated from that huge
Speaker 1: heart loving I'm sure you just heard that in that
Speaker 1: interview with him. We love you jelly Roll. I love
Speaker 1: how he's blending the lines between his art and real
Speaker 1: life and he created relatable lyrics that all of his
Speaker 1: fans across the world connect with true legacy. He's leaving.
Speaker 1: Can't wait to see what's next for jelly Roll. All right,
Speaker 1: we have got a lot of guests coming up. I
Speaker 1: can't wait for you to hear what we have coming
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