00:00We had a surprise phone call this morning from the man himself. Good morning.
00:05Hey, good morning.
00:08Oh, look, is it Mr. Roll or is it Mr. Jelly Roll?
00:13Oh, dude, just call me Jelly.
00:15Just Jelly.
00:16Hey, Jelly Roll, it is so good to hear your voice and talk to you again. How you been?
00:21I've been incredible, man. I mean, it's hard to have a bad week when you're officially selling tickets to your first headlining arena amphitheater tour.
00:29Yeah, that's pretty exciting. I mean, congratulations on that. I mean, it has been quite the year for you.
00:36No, dude, the last year is just it's just unreal, man.
00:39The sheriff, I got to go do a concert at the same county jail.
00:42I was locked up in here and the sheriff gave me a key to that jail.
00:46Oh, my goodness.
00:47No, can you imagine how it feels that you change your life in such a way that the sheriff of one of the biggest metropolises in America gives you a key to the jail that you were incarcerated in?
00:59All right. Well, the interview's done. Thanks for that.
01:02It's like I just couldn't. There's things that are happening in my life that were beyond even imagination.
01:07I can't even say I dreamed of it because it's just beyond even being able to imagine.
01:12Well, you know, Son of a Sinner is just a fantastic song.
01:15Every time I still hear it, it's just it's just so well written, so well sung by you.
01:20But then you come out with this new song and I'm more blown away by it.
01:25It's just incredible hearing your words in song.
01:30It's so impactful, man.
01:32You're on fire with your music, man.
01:34I love it.
01:35No, thank you, man.
01:36And Need a Favor is just the beginning of an album.
01:39The album will be out this summer.
01:41It'll be my debut country album.
01:42And I'm excited, man.
01:44The one thing I love about you, Jelly Roll, is that you just came out and you said, here's who I am.
01:51Here's what I've done.
01:52Here's what I've dealt with.
01:53And I think that's why people are so drawn to you because you're just wearing everything literally on your sleeve.
02:01Yeah, no, but it's all tattooed on me, too.
02:03It's a road map to my failures.
02:05No, it's just be yourself all the time.
02:08You don't have to worry about nobody catching you in a weird, you know.
02:10And it's just like, man, if God ever puts me in a position to be an actual entertainer and in the public eye, I'm just going to be myself.
02:18Good for you.
02:18I love that about you.
02:20Everybody in the country world is just soaking you up.
02:24And I see you all over social media hanging out with, you know, rubbing elbows with all the big timers in country.
02:31Is there anybody that you've been like kind of starstruck over meeting?
02:36Man, almost everybody.
02:38I mean, I've been a country music fan my whole life, so it's like almost everybody you bump into, you're like, oh, dude, that's crazy.
02:45You know what I'm saying?
02:45You're like, that's nuts.
02:46That person even knows I'm a human being, you know.
02:49I'm still that dude.
02:50I think me and my wife were talking to somebody yesterday.
02:53She had one of the Hardy Boys and his wife, the old wrestler, on her podcast, right?
03:00Uh-huh.
03:00And she was like, oh, yeah, they love you.
03:02And I was like, he knew who I was?
03:03Yeah.
03:04She was like, yeah, I was like, that's crazy.
03:06I watched him when I was a kid, you know what I mean?
03:08Like, it's nuts that he knows I'm a breathing human.
03:10That just makes you human because you're like, oh, my gosh, he knows my name.
03:13Oh, my gosh.
03:14That's crazy.
03:14Yeah, literally.
03:15Like, I can't believe you know who I am.
03:17You know what I'm saying?
03:19When Miranda Lambert agreed to write with me and hang out with me, I was like, I can't believe Miranda Lambert would even know that I exist.
03:27Yeah.
03:27You know what I'm saying?
03:27Like, I would faint if I knew that Miranda Lambert knew who I was two years ago.
03:32You know what I'm saying?
03:33Well, I'll tell you what.
03:33We were all pretty excited when we heard the big announcement that you were coming to Tampa.
03:38And tickets are getting ready to go on sale at 10 a.m. this morning.
03:42Tampa, Florida, the Mid-Florida Credit Union Amphitheater, Saturday, October the 14th.
03:46And you know what's important about that date?
03:48It's the last day of a 44-city tour.
03:51Oh, awesome.
03:51Oh, no.
03:52It's going to be a party.
03:53Yeah, you know what that means, baby.
03:56Some people go, oh, that means people that don't know the business go, oh, that means y'all trying to hurry up and go home.
04:01I was like, oh, no.
04:02That is the roadie Friday of all roadie Fridays.
04:05That is a going out of business sale.
04:06We get cranked the last day of tour.
04:09And let me tell you, the country fans right here in Tampa, Florida know how to party.
04:14Yes.
04:14I know there's going to be fans of all genres of your music right there, but I'm telling you, the country fans right here in Tampa are going to love that and really party with you on that last night.
04:22Oh, yeah.
04:23No, dude, we've had some of the biggest party nights of our life in Tampa, Florida, for the record.
04:27Tampa's a party town.
04:28St. Petersburg's a party town.
04:31Clearwater's a party.
04:32Tampa's a party town surrounded by party towns.
04:37It was so great to catch up with you on this Friday.
04:40We cannot wait to see you coming up in October.
04:43And I think this is going to be a big sellout.
04:46Oh, God willing.
04:47Thank y'all so much, man.
04:49I hope it blows all the way out.
04:50Yeah, awesome.
04:51We can't wait to see you in October.
04:53Yeah.
04:53No, dude, come on.
04:54Let's hang out.
04:55All right.
04:56Well, thank you so much for calling to the roll.
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