WEBVTT - The OTP | Jelly Roll 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:16.640 This is the OTP presented by Fire Bureau Health Plans 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:20.439 in the Game of Health Coverage. Farm Bureau Health Plans 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:24.360 is the MVP. Tennesseean has ever relied on their unmatched rates, 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:27.040 coverage and service for over seventy seven. 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:29.040 Years with Amy Wells. 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:34.159 I'm Mike Keith and this is Antiox owned Jelly Roll. 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:36.040 Hey, Hey, hey, I'm glad to be on the show. 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:38.680 Thank you. He's one of the ot people too. 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:41.520 People. Yeah, I'm at people dude. 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:43.559 Oh it makes me so happy. 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:44.560 It warms my heart. 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:48.320 Especially during when the rookie the Rookie training camp this year. 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:50.720 I was really cool. It was my only way to 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:52.919 get insight into who these people were when they'd come 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:55.400 sit right here. So that was really really cool to 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:57.400 be a Titan fan. And anybody who's not watching it's 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:00.000 missing out, man. This is this is real insights all. 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:03.320 So we're glad you're in the Bett MGM studio. We're 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:06.600 glad you're at Ascension Saint Thomas Sports Park. I was 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:08.480 just reading you were just in the Hamptons. 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:11.000 I was. I did a serious XM party this weekend 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:12.520 at stephen Talkhouse. It was awesome. 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:13.959 Whoa and who would have. 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.160 Thought my white trash butt would be in the Tamptons right. 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:18.600 Well, but I'm sitting there, going from Antioch to the 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:21.319 Hamptons and let's see, it's Bradley. 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:26.160 Cooper and Jimmy Fallon. Howard Stern, the cast the SmartLess 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:27.679 podcast was there, Baateman and. 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:30.240 The boy I got a stepped for a second, your 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:35.880 interview with Howard Stern. Howard Stern is the best interviewer goes. 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.520 He is phenomenal. But that piece I stayed in my 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:42.280 car and had sat there. I did have the air 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:45.280 conditioning on, but I sat there to listen for thirty 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:46.920 minutes because I didn't want to get out of the cart. 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:49.640 Was fabulous. God, thank you man. I tell you cool 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:51.840 Stern stories. I seen him this weekend at the Serious 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.320 XM at the Tu Stephen Talkhouse, and I'm standing backstage 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:56.680 and I'm going out to do a photo op with 0:01:56.760 --> 0:02:00.400 him in SmartLess and I keep hearing some I keeps 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:02.120 coming back go and say, hey, Howard wants to make 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:04.600 sure him and Jelly get to get to hang. So 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:08.240 when I come out, you know Howard's famously uh uh 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:10.880 uh OCD. Won't you don't touch right? And I walk out, 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:13.399 I like to shake hands. I come and I go Howard, Man, 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:14.920 I know, but you know, he said, you know, I 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:16.800 want a hug from the jelly. And he comes and 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:19.760 Howard gave me the warmest hug. It was really cool. Man. 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:23.919 Well, he was genuinely touched by your story. His research 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:27.519 is always fantastic, and I don't think he knew you 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.760 as well as maybe we do. Knowing the backstory, and 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:34.000 he was fascinated to delve into it, and you certainly 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:34.760 gave him a lot. 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:36.880 Yeah, we had a good We had a really good conversation. 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:38.240 It was like it was one of the few mornings 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:39.320 I was glad I woke up early. 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:41.720 All right, Sorry I had to ask. 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:43.880 Well, but I mean, I think it goes to show 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:47.160 you've done so many awesome things. I feel like you 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:50.520 have been all over the place. You've been at award shows, 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:53.320 you're I mean, watch you on New Year's Eve, Well. 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:54.480 You get everywhere. 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.760 What have been some of the coolest moments that you've 0:02:57.800 --> 0:02:59.959 been able to have some of those things that really 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.679 have stuck out to you is Oh my gosh. 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:05.440 Man, I would say that's a really good question. Thanks 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:08.040 for asking. Grammys. The Grammys were always a big one, 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:11.040 winning CMA New Artists of the Year, all the awards shows, 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:15.520 the ACMCMTZ, just nights you never forget because you're being 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:17.639 celebrated on national TV, you know what I mean? Those 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:20.280 are the things you never forget. But behind the scenes 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:23.560 has been just meeting my heroes, meeting Dolly Parton, meeting 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:26.200 Garth Brooks, just meeting the people that made me want 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:29.800 to write songs. Has been probably the choke slamming somebody 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:33.440 at Summer Slam. My inner child was exploding. I got 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:36.440 slimed at the Kid's Choice Awards. Just stuff that you 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:38.600 watch on TV that you don't even really dream because 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:40.880 it's so far beyond a dream and you're doing it. 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:42.360 You're like, I would have never even thought about this 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:44.800 when I was nine years old watching Somebody get slimed. 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:48.680 The choke slam, though, looked so good good? How many 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:49.920 times did you practice? 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:52.840 We worked it out back a lot that day a 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:55.520 couple hours me and Austin did, here's a shoot on 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:57.000 that whole thing. And I hadn't got to shoot on 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:01.160 this yet. Is that's all Austin theory? Man? That kid 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:05.080 did everything he could to make me look great. And 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.600 I want to properly think him. Thank you, Austin, I 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:09.440 have every interview, I've kind of done the work thing. 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.640 You know, I'm gonna get you over. He put me over, 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:16.200 Austin gave me the rub and he he took a 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:18.720 bump and put his image on the line and make 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:20.360 me look good that night. And I'll never forget him 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:23.080 for it didn't hurt him. Well done, Yeah, well done? 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:23.360 All right? 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:26.960 Sorry, But I mean, think about it. Things that you 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.520 never in your wildest dreams thought you'd be able to do, 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:32.599 and they keep coming like this is just the beginning 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:34.360 for you. We were talking about the tour you're about 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:37.880 to go on. I mean, can you even believe that 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:41.320 this is this is what you get to do and 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:43.400 that all of your hard work is paying off? 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:46.800 Oh dude, being as a tour is mind blowing, but 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.760 I've toured my whole life. Even More mind blowing to 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:52.599 a degree is being here, right because I've been just 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:55.360 you know, this is my first time being ascension. Saint 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:58.479 Thomas's y'all's practice, real practice. So I've never been here. 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:00.400 So it's like a really big deal. Like there's a 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.640 kid of me that's exploding my father, who my late father, 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.000 who I talk about all the time, brought me to 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.080 my first Titan game in Memphis when they first came. 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:11.040 And I'll never forget the story. We were Dallas Cowboy 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:13.640 fans like the rest of America, and as soon as 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:15.680 we signed by that team, my father came in with 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:17.840 a bunch of Titan gear and said, everybody bringing Dallas 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:21.000 Cowboys stuff upstairs, And we all came upstairs and dropped 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:22.960 off our Dallas Cowboy jerseys and we all put on 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:25.760 Titans jersey. He said, we're from Nashville, Tennessee. We will 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.600 always represent local. And it was a big deal to 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:29.520 him to be a Titan fan. 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:31.279 Do you remember the first game he saw in Memphis 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:32.040 who we were playing. 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:34.080 I don't. It was whatever that first home game was. 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:35.920 I mean we went down early because I remember that 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.080 graders game where it was a million degrees? Was that 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.200 in It was scorching hot end of July for like 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.720 the season started in early August. It was miserably hot. 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.520 It was outside of uh where the Memphis Tigers played. 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:47.720 And in the next season we came to Vanderbilt and 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.359 we went to all the Vanderbilt games, so you know, 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:52.320 to be a to be a lifelong Titan fan. This 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:54.360 is cool. Never pulled for another team. 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:56.400 Came in front of the team today. 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:58.760 Wow, I mean crazy. 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:03.200 I mean the fell you're you're walking in there, I 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:06.480 mean it's crazy. I mean for some of the stuff 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:10.200 you've been through to think that, now, that's the kind 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:10.880 of stuff. 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.120 I mean when you were fifteen, you could have never envisioned. 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:17.040 Never would have envisioned that. Especially watching the Music City 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:19.520 miracle happen over at that Juvenile Detention facility. I watch 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:21.560 it out of my cell in the B unit facing 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:24.840 this direction. And uh, from going from that to being 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:26.960 here and meeting the boys and talking to the coach 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.200 and just just love around the whole building, sitting with 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.640 you all on OTP and you know I mean seeing 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:35.440 I mean everybody from Nate to Burke that have become 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:37.479 friends of mine in this building. It feels like, you know, 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.560 this organization has really stood behind me as a local kid. 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:41.360 It's really cool. 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:43.839 You know what I appreciate so much is that he's 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:47.560 I've seen him with some other NFL teams at their 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:51.160 stadiums and stuff. I mean, but you never you never 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.400 dropped the whole You're a Titans guy, and I appreciate 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.680 you being polite to him, because I'm sure they're nice people. 0:06:56.720 --> 0:07:00.680 But thank you, thank you for always representative. 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.240 I say this with respect. They give me a jersey 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.520 in every city I go to as a staple of 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:08.560 the arena we played and I and I cherish them 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:10.720 and I hang them up, but I never wear I'm 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:11.800 a Titan fan, you know what. 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:18.640 It's okay, I know, but I mean to have an 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:22.760 organization and a football team that means so much to 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:26.280 you that you can have followed from the very beginning. 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:29.240 I mean, these are the fans that we. 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:32.160 All were, but he's but he's more than that, because 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:35.120 he's proud to be from here. And for those of 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:39.960 us that have grown up here and have seen I mean, 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.160 the Titans are just a part of it, and a 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:46.040 special part of it obviously to us. But to see 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:49.600 this city grow up, the region grow up, to all 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:53.280 the people doing so well and doing so many great things, 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.760 the people who are moving here, that's all special. 0:07:56.840 --> 0:08:00.480 It's all special, man. What's happening in this town is special. 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.640 Getting to see I think this is probably the third 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:05.480 or the fourth time in the franchise that I've got 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:08.720 to see it completely clean its slate, meaning that I'm 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.040 going to go stand in front of a very few 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.280 veterans in that locker room today, you know what I mean. 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:15.720 And that's exciting for me because anytime we've had a 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:17.280 new Titan team, it was like it was like a 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:19.960 you know, a new chance for us. So but watch it. 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:21.640 I was thinking about even outside of the Titans, and 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:23.680 you a local, you'll get this. I remember how big 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:25.400 a deal it was when we got the Bridgetone arena 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.440 in the middle when Phil Brettison announced that on TV. 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:31.200 That was like And I also remember how mad people 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:34.240 wear it first here like hockey here, and we were 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.000 such dumb Southern people when we watched our first hockey game. 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:38.760 They had to explain it on the jumbo try what 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.400 was happening? Yeah, and they tried to make it real easy. 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:44.360 They was like, this is icing, and it would be 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:45.439 like a tutorial. 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:50.520 I'm not making at least the ice yeah a little too. 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:54.000 I remember me and my dad being there and I'm going, 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:56.000 you get it, he goes not yet. I was like, 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:57.520 all right, I got it now, fredative. 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.640 But they hit each other and they're skate really fast. 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:02.600 It was fun. But more than anything, it was ours. 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:04.199 But that's how my father looked at you. 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.400 Well, but I mean I remember when the sounds came. 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:09.560 I don't remember that, but my family grew up right by, 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:11.240 right by party, and I. 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:13.920 Mean those things says they've developed. The arena is a 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:17.760 big deal. Getting the SEC basketball tournament and then this 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:19.840 new stadium. Knowing what's going. 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.040 To happen, it's a whole different level. 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.400 I mean, doing the Super's unreal. It would be if 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.240 I got to be the first artist to play it. 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:31.120 That's my unofficial dream. Wow, they let me open that 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:35.040 thing up. Somebody's got to play it. Somebody's got to 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:36.640 be the first person to hang speakers up and do 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:38.720 a concert, right, you know what I'm saying. 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:42.920 Like, so you're throwing your hat immediately, right, I'm throwing 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:44.520 my hat and bring somebody. 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:46.559 If y'all need an open and act, I'm your guy. 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.600 You've seen so many different places around the country, around 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:54.040 the world, beyond the fact that you're from here. Why 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.640 is this place always going to be home no matter 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:57.440 what you see? 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:01.320 Well, growing up here, it goes back to We'll keep 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:04.280 it about the Titans I have. My father walked me 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:06.240 into that stadium the first time, on the first day 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:08.760 that it was open. I remember the excitement walking through 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.720 there to find our seats. I remember sharing that exact 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:14.400 same excitement with my four year old daughter the first time. 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:16.719 I put her on my shoulders and marched her in 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:20.280 the Nissan Stadium too. She's sixteen now and we watch 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:23.679 Titans game religiously. It's most of our text threat on Sunday. 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.120 It's a connection. It's a way for us to connect. 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:28.040 It was away from me and my father connected. It's 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:31.480 a way for families to connect. All my memories are here. 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:33.000 Why would I want to live anywhere else. You know, 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:34.200 I got a lot of bad ones here, but I 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.000 got a lot of good ones. Man. I've done a 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:39.840 lot of really cool stuff here. I know everybody. I 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.320 tell people that they don't treat me like a celebrity. 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.600 At home, they treat me like a local. Now they'll 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:46.400 want to take a picture, but they don't. They don't 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:48.600 treat me. They treat me like a local kid. They 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:50.440 don't come up and talk to me about music very much. 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:51.840 They come up and talk to me about the Titans 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:58.440 or the predators, or complaining about potholes. You know what me. 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:00.200 So now I get that all the time. Can you 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:02.880 tell that Mayor it was a plothole on sixty five South. 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:06.559 You could fill a pool up with who is the 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:10.880 best or the most exciting collaborator you've had so far? 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:17.319 I have one? But the Eminem video came out today 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:21.440 and so he was a little biasm. Yeah promote god, yeah, yeah, 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:25.320 the video is out today. Somebody saved me. That was 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:28.720 probably the biggest I mean, when you talk about I 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:32.960 was if I know more songs of mine than anybody else's, 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.800 it's probably Eminem and Garth Brooks and Willie Nelson. I 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:38.080 could probably sing more Willie Nelson songs than I could 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:42.120 jelly roll songs. That kind of shows you my musical 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:43.000 range too. Sure. 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:44.880 What makes total sense? 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:46.960 Ye? For who you are, music makes total sense. So 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.920 getting to work with Eminem, it don't that was it? 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:53.280 Were you actually in the room with him or did you? 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:54.960 We do not, But I have got to hang out 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:57.120 with him two or three times since the day we 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:59.200 shot the video. We spent like twelve hours on set 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.640 together all day, hanging out. Whenever I went and did 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:05.360 the did the singer song for Detroit for the Detroit 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:07.160 Motor city thing where they were opening up the new 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:08.960 building and was there. We hung out all day that 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:10.360 day when he let me sing with him. 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.240 So I bet he could give you some pretty good advice. 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:14.480 He's been able to give me some really good advice, man. 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:16.160 And I hope you don't mind me sharing this because 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.960 this is super personal. But we talk a lot about 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.720 our struggles with addiction and it's been really he's been 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:25.679 really open about that and really encouraging. And him sharing 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:27.439 his story with me. And I'm not saying nothing he 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:30.160 didn't say in the song, but him sharing his story 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:32.400 with me just really was cool to see that vulnerable moment. 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:34.640 I mean, we're talking about Michael Jackson. This is prince. 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.520 He is Michael Jackson and Prince of this generation, you 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:38.720 know what I mean, He's that big of it. I mean, 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.840 he's one of the biggest selling artists ever ever across 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.080 the world. And him still be humbling enough to sit 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:45.720 in a room with you and go, yeah, man, you 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:47.960 know first time and just like really broke down a 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:48.680 sobriety to me. 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:52.200 I mean, for anybody who has been relevant for twenty 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:55.800 five years, I mean, you think about those artists and 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:58.480 you can probably count him on two hands, but there 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:00.480 aren't many, and he's one of them. 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.360 It's crazy, man, it is. You're talking about a big run, 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:04.960 a guy that just comes out and hadn't dropped an 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:06.800 album in seven or eight years and had the number 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:08.800 one album in the world again. You know, it's just unreal. 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.680 Is it wild too? That you call these people friends? 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.680 And that you call these people when you need advice 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.080 or you're looking for support or I mean, those are 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:18.280 the people on your phone now. 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.240 I had a moment the other day where I was 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:22.719 driving in the car and I was on the phone 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:24.480 with a buddet and this is I'm not name dropping, 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:26.839 but this sounds like I'm named It's OK. I was 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.920 on the phone with Cody Johnson and MGK beeped in 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:31.120 and I was like, yo, this said is just I 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:32.960 need to talk to about someone. Grab it from MGK. 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.920 And while I'm on the phone with MGK, I think 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:38.640 it was Heardier Morgan beeped in and I cratched that 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:39.679 and I had a mom where I'm in the car 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:41.520 with somebody I looked at I goes, it's not crazy. 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.360 But that's what my last three phone calls were where 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:48.480 it just literally went Cody Johnson as post with literally 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:50.880 Cody Johnson, MGK and post Malone, And I was like, 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:53.080 what a wild and this was in you know, this 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:55.480 was I'm having a flash over. You know, I'm having 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:58.000 a clickover like the old days. It's just it's unreal, man. 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:02.240 And the cool thing is us being musicians. It's a 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:05.520 real kinship because there's very few people doing exactly what 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:07.760 we're doing right now at the level that we're doing it, 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.160 so we can kind of share tricks of the trade. 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:12.880 We kind of talk about people behind their back, not 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:14.440 in a bad way, in a good way, like, Hey, 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.760 that promoter that building, did you check out this room? 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:19.560 Did you do that? Like we kind of talk about 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:21.800 cool things that are happening in the circuit. It's really cool. 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:25.960 Why I mean post Malone didn't need Nashville for his career, no, 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:29.480 but I mean he has found something really special here. 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:35.680 Why musically and personality wise. In Jelly Roll's opinion, does 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:39.680 post Malone work so well in Nashville? And Nashville works 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:42.160 so well for post Malone one? 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:45.000 He is the sweetest human ever. People are always like, Jelly, 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:46.520 you're the nicest guy. But I'm like, I'm glad you 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:48.800 haven't met post Malone. You know what I mean. You know, 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:50.800 if you meet post Malona, John Seener or The Rock, 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:54.080 you'll find out I'm the fourth nicest person ever. He 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:57.320 is just the sweetest dude, and you feel the realness 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:00.160 of how much he loves country music. The story I 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.680 tell us this is that old game we all plays, 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:05.320 either pass the guitar or the auxiliary cable. And it's 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.320 when you get a bunch of old cowboys around old 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:10.320 musicians and we're all having a cocktail or a doobie, 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:14.240 and we're going what you know what, Man, I love 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:18.120 that song by John Michael Montgomery. You start passing the guitar, 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:20.160 passing the song, the phone around what you know what 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:23.000 you grew up listening to. And post Malone could sit 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:26.240 there and sing country songs with you all night long 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:28.720 if he had it his way. Me and him are 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:30.640 similar to this. My perfect night for me is in 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:32.840 a honky tonk with country music playing, us singing to 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.440 each other. You know what I mean, just that spirit. 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:38.760 He is immersed in country music. He didn't stumble over 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.120 here knowing a couple of songs or thinking it was 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.760 an opportune time to do country music. This kid loves 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:44.360 country music. 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:46.680 Man who's left on your list of people that you 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:48.280 would like to collaborate with. 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:50.440 Garth's garth Man. 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.440 I'm begging. I've asked. I publicly said I want to 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:55.360 work with Guard so much. He probably thinks I'm a stalker. 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:58.600 Garth Man, He's up there at my list, Him and 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:01.320 James Taylor and Bob Seger me or you know some 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:05.080 of the greats. I'd love to work with Willie. He's 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:07.040 ninety two now, I think, or ninety one and still 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:09.000 kick an ass, So I think it's still possible, you 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:10.400 know what I mean. I got to sing with him 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.000 a couple times on stage. But even if not work 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:14.640 with them or record, it's like to me work with 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:16.440 somebody's I'd love to come out and sing with Garth 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:18.960 like or just have that moment together to do what 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:20.480 we do professionally in that setting. 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:22.560 You know, there's a lot of reasons I think you're 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:25.320 doing exceptionally well right now. One of the reasons I 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.400 don't think people realize is you're pro Yeah, I mean, 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.880 you take this seriously, You're into it. You handle your 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:36.760 business from from your standpoint musically, Where did you develop 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:41.360 that trait that you not only want to do the job, 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:44.120 you want to do that and all the details as 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:44.880 well as you do. 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:48.560 Yeah, years of just doing it right, like the ten 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:51.160 thousand hour theory is probably the epitome of who I am. 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.240 I just kept I wrote. I wrote a hundred something 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:55.400 songs last year. 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:56.480 Wow. 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:01.160 Literally, in twenty twenty three, I wrote over one hundred 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:04.119 songs that I turned into my publisher and how that 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:08.160 works is twenty something ago. On my album. The rest 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:10.560 will be kind of pitched, some of them die, most 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:12.840 of them will never be heard. Some other artists around 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:14.719 town will cut a couple of them because it might 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.840 fit them more than me. But yeah, I'm just still 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:20.959 exercising the crafts every day. I'm obsessed with this stuff 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:25.080 like I'm obsessed with music, like everything that's happening in it. 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:27.920 Every time there's a new artist doing something, I want 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:29.560 to go find out what they're doing, how they're doing. 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:32.640 I want I'll go watch concerts on days off. I'm 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:34.920 doing one hundred plus shows a year, and I will 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:38.080 still take my days off to go watch concerts. I 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:38.760 want to learn. 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:43.120 So who involved with the Titans, whether it be from 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:46.239 a coaching standpoint, a front office standpoint, A player at 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:49.600 a certain position whose mindset do you think is most 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:52.160 similar to yours in the way they do their job. 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:56.679 Believe it or not, I'm betting big on Will Levis, 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:58.720