The Church of What's Happening Now: The New Testament - #147 | JELLY ROLL | UNCLE JOEY'S JOINT with JOEY DIAZ

Episode Date: March 16, 2022

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Starting point is 00:04:39 this. What's happened, you bad motherfuckers? It's Wednesday the 16th of March. The day before St. Patty's Day. I fucking love St. Patty's Day, even though I don't drink and shit my neighbors up the corner I'm going to make a couple fucking
Starting point is 00:05:54 whatever the fucking corn beefs we're going to go over there on fucking Thursday smoke some reef I'm going to smoke tons of reef I'm going to start like a fucking 3.30 in the afternoon well I'll start a little early in that I usually start like at 3.30 to prep for dinner is what I'm trying to say
Starting point is 00:06:10 I'll drop a couple of ABXs to get the party started to get that hunger in there for reals you know what I'm saying nothing bothers me more when I go eat and fucking I'm not hungry. You know, nothing, nothing. And for a long time, I wasn't getting high. Like, last night I went to this place called fucking Harals and Edison.
Starting point is 00:06:29 Fucking tremendous. If you like corned beef, pastrami, brisket, you order a sandwich for two. If you walk in there with six people, order a sandwich for two. That's all you need. Everybody will fucking eat. It's just big the sandwich. I got a picture of my phone to give you this much pastrami, this much brisket, and this much fucking corned beef.
Starting point is 00:06:49 fucking tremendous. I can eat that shit forever. But that's it. After tomorrow night, I won't eat it again until fuck it now. Who the fucking make it? I love pastrami, guys. I've always loved motherfucking pastrami. The pickled hurrying around the corner? Oh, Lord, they got good fucking
Starting point is 00:07:05 pastrami. That Jew food will kill you. I love it. They got the original canisians and shit. I love all that stuff. Oh, I fucking love canisians with some fucking dry spicy mustard. Stop it. But anyway, I want to talk to you guys about Sunday, Monday.
Starting point is 00:07:21 I'm sorry, I cut you guys off short with the podcast Monday. My sister died, and it took me by fucking storm. It was terrible. I got the text the week before from my niece saying that my sister wasn't doing too well. She fell ill and that the doctors gave her like a week. Well, they don't fuck around in Cuba. When they give you a week, you die in a week. She died exactly a fucking week later.
Starting point is 00:07:46 And it took me by, you know, surprised. but she's 68. You know, I haven't seen her since I was three, and she was maybe 10 or something like that. Who the fuck knows anymore? After my mom died, we lost contact for like 20 years, and then in 2009 we reconnected when I started talking to my uncle again, and our relationship was good.
Starting point is 00:08:12 You know, I tried to invite her here, but she was such a fucking commie. She wouldn't come anyway, you know, but I still loved her, Anyway, I understood. I'm happy that my sister passed away because her dream and my mother's dream are now fucking they came to fruition. They're with each other. So hopefully they're up there jumping up and down, calling each other fucking names and shit.
Starting point is 00:08:38 You know, my mother not having Maggie, that's her name, Maggie, my sister killed her. That was the slowest torture in the world, them getting separated. But it was just a story of immigration. You know, this isn't something that just happened to my family. This has happened to families from all over the world and they migrate to the United States. Sometimes a father would come and get settled and then send back for his kids.
Starting point is 00:09:05 It's a fucking painful to live without your kids. I know firsthand. But my mother went through that and it was sad to see her go through that in the daytime. She'd be a barrel of laps. And then at night, once she was by herself, the pain would creep up on her. You know, and we all have that. You know, it's like when somebody close to you passes away, you know, for a couple months, you're fine in the daytime. You're around people.
Starting point is 00:09:32 You're at work. You're with your friends. You're giggling. At night, when you're by yourself, it weighs heavy on you. So it weighed on my mother for years, and I know it weighed on my sister. Because even when I spoke to it, when we didn't talk for a long time and then we reconnected, We would have conversations, and she would tell me that, you know, her mother told her she was coming back for her. And my mother never left it in Cuba.
Starting point is 00:09:56 Fidel closed the fucking borders. He wouldn't let anybody end or travel. We hired attorneys. We did everything we could. Politicians tried to help us, and we can never get my sister out. And then she ended up marrying one of fucking Castro soldiers. So she made a life for herself there. I'm a little sad.
Starting point is 00:10:17 You know, I never got the, I never got closure with her to see her. We spoke plenty on the phone and I'm good with that. You know what I'm saying? I'm one of those guys that, hey, I'll work it out. I'll call fucking better help next week and talk to them and process this to right way. Because I don't want this to come back and bite me in the ass later. So I'm going to process this. I'm going to grief this to right way.
Starting point is 00:10:40 And it's funny, we just had Jessumet Paluso on here speaking about grief. You know, listen, everybody's going through this right. now. The last two years, everybody's lost somebody. A friend, the relative, an uncle, an aunt, and we all feel a little weird. This was my fucking, whatever. My sister gone.
Starting point is 00:10:58 But, hey, let's move the fuck on. It's a great fucking week. Tomorrow's St. Patty's Day. Beside eating corned beef tomorrow, I don't know what I'm going to do. I still remember fucking getting a bus. And we used to do a, like I did it one year. I didn't really, what am I talking about?
Starting point is 00:11:16 Corkey, my friend Gregory, seven-day weekend, he would get a bus, and we would all get on the bus and stop at all, the Irish bars in the city, and do the crawl. Oh, it's insane. The bus smelled like puke. Everything smells like fucking puke. But it's a great day, you know, there's always something going on. You know, my daughter's excited about it.
Starting point is 00:11:35 I'm excited about it. Who the fuck knows? A couple weeks ago, I was listening to, you know, in the car, I have Sirius XM. So I listen to a lot of classic vinyl I listen to a lot of Ozzy's Bonaugh. I listen to Octane. I listen to disco, Studio 54.
Starting point is 00:11:52 They got great stations, 70s, 70s by 70s, 80s, 80s, and the 80s, I don't fucking know. They're all lithium is great. They're all great stations, you know? And last week, I mean, I've known a jelly roll for a long time. We're like friends, you know, but I thought he was more of a rapper, you know. And I've been caught up in my own world. music the last couple of years.
Starting point is 00:12:15 A couple weeks ago on Octane, he did a two-hour show, when I was show or something on Octane, and I was in the car driving, and it was one of those things that you don't want to get out of the car, you want to finish this concert. It was like a couple of years ago,
Starting point is 00:12:30 Guns and Roses ended their tour at the forum, and it was a Monday night, and I never forget that I went out. My neighbors had gone to the Guns and Roses tickets. They told me they had a box, but I had a podcast that night, And I never forget coming home from the podcast And listening to live Guns and Roses from that show
Starting point is 00:12:48 They were there right As it was going on They were taping it, it's serious And broadcasting it And fucking Slash was going off, Jack. Like Slash was going fucking off. And I'm like, damn, I wish I was there. This is how it was
Starting point is 00:13:04 With Octane, with fucking jelly roll. His voice sounded so fucking tremendous. It's so deep. It's so deep. soulful, you know, that dead man walk, and he's got a couple songs that are fucking tremendous. Well, after I heard the Octane, I
Starting point is 00:13:20 called them up like a motherfucking man, and I said, listen, I got to have you on the podcast. Because you, my friend, they're on your way up, you know. It's just tremendous music, you know? I even let my wife listen to it because she's from Nashville. His voice
Starting point is 00:13:36 is so fucking soulful. It's like Barry White meets the temptations, meets Johnny cash meets fucking you know it's tremendous but anyway judge for yourself we did a little fucking uh zoom i hope you enjoy it this is my man jelly roll give him some love 615 uncle joey welcome to the joint my brother what's happening jelly man i am awesome dude how are you today my friend dude uncle joey i got to do the coolest thing over you knew this because we talked over the weekend. I got to wake up this morning,
Starting point is 00:14:32 hungover, and announce my Red Rock show on Morning Radio in Denver, Colorado. Holy shit. I know you would talk, the guy hit me up in Columbus. You know what's crazy? I called him after our boy Loper. Loper Randy Razor. I fucking love
Starting point is 00:14:48 them. I've known them since Florida. Yeah, yeah. She's getting prettier every time I fucking see it. She's getting hotter and hotter. She's got like four kids. She's fucking beautiful. Yeah, she's getting younger and he's getting older. This is the typical, typical marriage, right?
Starting point is 00:15:04 Like me and my wife. Yeah, that good fucking people. How long have you been married for, Jelz? I've been married going on seven years. Wow. And you have children? The best business I ever made. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:16 I got a, I got a, almost, she's obviously should be 14 in like a month. We got full custody of her. We've had full custody of her since she was eight or seven. So I guess seven, eight years now almost. And I got a seven, year old boy, six year old boy. Fucking tremendous, huh?
Starting point is 00:15:34 Yeah. Dave will see you perform? Oh, yeah. No, Bailey performs with me. I'm going to send you a clip when we hang up. So my daughter, she writes raps. She writes songs. She plays the piano. She plays the guitar. She's incredible, man.
Starting point is 00:15:48 This kid is like golden. She's everything. It's just insane. And she's got a cool story, Uncle Joey. So her mother had had a bout with heroin an addiction early in Bailey's life. So I ended up getting full custody of her. And my wife took her in a race her as her own.
Starting point is 00:16:05 She calls my wife, Mama, and her biological mom, mom, which I'm proud to say her mother's sober now. But her mother had about a five-year period where she just kind of disappeared,
Starting point is 00:16:16 you know? And Bailey came to me when she was like eight or nine, you know, kind of mad about it. And I was like, well, just write it out.
Starting point is 00:16:24 You know, that's how I used to deal with my stuff when I was raised. Just write it out. And I thought she'd, you know, write how she felt because she'd get emotional, you know. This kid came back with a rap, Uncle Joey. She went upstairs like her daddy and thought I'd go write a song about it. And the kid came back with, like, a rap about how she felt about, you know, the situation.
Starting point is 00:16:43 So it was awesome, man. I ended up putting her on the album and it was just cool, man. So she gets on like every other album. Now, the kid has published, you know, like my last four albums where she writes on. That's fucking tremendous, man. Yeah, he's awesome. Mike and I were just talking about the music business. It was hard when I was young.
Starting point is 00:17:04 Now it's even fucking harder. And right now, we're catching you on the motherfucking upswing. I feel in my balls that you're about to blow up, especially after this tour that you guys had. Yes, sir. This summer, that fucking one show in Louisville. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:24 I got to tell you, man. I don't, I'm not a big festival guy because you commit. You're there all fucking day in the heat. People are puking next to you. You smell VD in the air. You know, it's a fucking, those outdoor festivals. I tell you, the lineups on that festival are fucking tempting. Oh, dude, here's the good news, Uncle, you come.
Starting point is 00:17:47 You ain't got to worry about dealing with the heat. We'll go from bus to show to bus to show. That's it. Yeah, for sure. Well, so the bus get high, and then we'll go. get a golf cart to pick us up, go see who want to see, right back to the bus to get high again. Now, are you performing all four days or just the one day?
Starting point is 00:18:08 I just got the one day. I think I landed on the Sunday, I believe. The Sunday. And who else on that show, Kiss? Oh, yeah, it was Kiss. I have to look back at the list, but I think the food fighters, Jane's addiction, God, I mean, everybody, it's huge.
Starting point is 00:18:24 It's like, this thing. It's going to be the biggest rock festival in America, like, attendance-wise, ever. I fucking couldn't believe the bands. I can't believe who's going to be there. That's a great fucking festival. This guy, so Danny Wimmer presents. This guy named Danny Wimmer. He's still one of the last independent promoters left on earth.
Starting point is 00:18:46 Old school indie guy. And he throws four big festivals a year, incarceration in Ohio, Rockville down in Daytona Beach at the Daytona, Speedway, louder than life in Louisville, Kentucky, and aftershocking Sacramento. And every one of them are fucking 50 to 100,000 people. Huge rock festivals, all rock bands, old school. I played one year with Guns and Roses. I got the coolest thing in the world.
Starting point is 00:19:14 I took my daughter with me. She's like maybe 10 at the time. And I'm playing like, you know, at this time I'm playing like the 115 and the afternoon slot right on stage seven. You know what I mean? And we're out there rocking. You know, we're cutting our teeth and paying our dues. We still had a huge crowd, so we were stoked.
Starting point is 00:19:32 And we go to see that and Ice Cube played that night before Guns Roses. Man. So Ice Cube's up on stage and he's rocking and he comes off stage. And now keep in mind, my daughter's, you know, 10. She don't know. On the way there, she's like, what's Ice Cube doing this festival? And she's like, she knows them from, are we there yet? Like, she knows him from the movie.
Starting point is 00:19:57 You know what I mean? And I was like, oh, wait until you see this shit. So I play her Ice Cube the whole way to Louisville, you know? And Ice Cube comes off stage. He took a picture with one person at that whole festival. Danny Wimmer told me this himself. He took one picture the whole day he was there. And it was with my daughter.
Starting point is 00:20:12 So Bailey's got a picture with Ice Cube. It's like one of my pride possessions of her childhood, you know? Fucking crazy. Yeah. And I was so proud of when she posted a picture on her, Joey, the caption said, Today was a good day. I was like, that's my fucking kid, dude. That's my fucking kid.
Starting point is 00:20:32 So we sing Guns and Roses that night. It's electric. You should come, man. I'm telling you. Let me talk to Florentine. Florentine has an older brother that goes to all those festivals, you know, the one in Tennessee, all of them. I think you were at the one in Tennessee when,
Starting point is 00:20:48 what's his name fell off the stage last year, right? Didn't he fall off the stage of a singer from Motley Crew? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was all fucked up. Yeah, Vince Neil. Yeah, you want to talk about getting a bad hand? He was killing it. You know, he always gets a bad rep for like singing sometimes, you know, or whatever.
Starting point is 00:21:06 And he was like, they were like saying he was having like one of the best vocal performances in 20 years, Ben, or 15 years. And it walks out there and misses the fucking step between the speaker and the stage. That guy's the kiss of fucking that. He really is the kid. kids of death and I love him to death but no he can't when did you know you wanted to sing brother man I didn't I felt limited by options life had limited my options at that point and it's all I've ever wanted to do huh I like never wanted to do anything I never like my mom tells the story I never wanted to be a firefighter I never wanted to be a wrestler like I wasn't like most kids
Starting point is 00:21:49 You know, I wasn't like, I didn't want to be a police officer, you know, a football player. I wanted to be a rapper. I wanted to be a rocker. You know, like, I wanted to sing. I wanted to write music ever since I was like seven or eight. You said something very interesting. You said that the limitations, what you had available to you. What do you mean by that?
Starting point is 00:22:13 You know, so we grew up in a like middle, lower class community, you know, at my core. my mother was a bartender, my father was a meat salesman at book bets. So you didn't see a lot of people where I'm from, to this day, very few people from my little neighborhood in Nashville did anything. You know, I still got family members who have never left my neighborhood. Like, they've never even come to my shows on the other side of town. You know what I'm saying? It's like in your world, it's like a motherfucker to grow up in Brooklyn and never went to Manhattan.
Starting point is 00:22:45 You know what I'm like, yeah. Fuck, I need to go there for it. You know what I'm saying? It's like, that's how they feel, you know? I got people with old Southern motherfuckers that are still in that same trailer park right now. It's like, yeah, you want to see us? Come see us. I'm like, yo, I'll like send you a black car to come eat dinner with me.
Starting point is 00:23:00 We're like, yeah, we don't care for me. You bring your old, you bring your Hollywood asses trailer park come holler at us. We're not going nowhere, you know, and they're just, so I just, I didn't see too many options. And I knew I wasn't athletic, right? And I was been chubby my whole life. And music just kind of was the language of the neighborhood. You know, it's a, it just spoke to me in a way that, the way I explained it to people, was music is something we felt where I'm from.
Starting point is 00:23:27 We didn't listen to. It wasn't background noise. Like when some, certain songs came on, you watch the whole fucking neighborhood shut the fuck up. You know, like everybody was in this song. Like, you know, conversations would stop if the right song came on the radio, you know? My mother used to sit at the kitchen table and she'd be, smoking cigarettes, right? My mother, you'd love her to death, Uncle Joey. She is fucking
Starting point is 00:23:51 as white trash as you would expect her. I fucking love this bitch. She is so white trash, right? So, she's sitting at the table, she's wearing a fucking nightgown, a moo-moot, smoking a cigarette. She's old country of shit. Smoking a cigarette right there to catch a table. And she'd have a record plan. And she'd just close her eyes. She struggled with, like, addiction stuff and mental health shit, you know. And I'd watch her smoke that cigarette and she'd just be just, she was happy. And it's like the only time I ever seen her, like, truly escape the shit, you know? And I tell people that if a doctor would have helped my mom,
Starting point is 00:24:28 I might be a fucking brain surgeon. But music helped my mama. You know what I'm saying? So music was what I related to helping, you know? She played these old classic Motown records. Backfield in motion, no, it's against the rules. And she'd just be sitting there just smoking a cigarette, just backfield and motion. and, you know, singing her little ass off.
Starting point is 00:24:49 She was just having a ball. I don't know what pills she was on, but I noticed when that song came on and she hit that cigarette, she was fucking, woo, you know? And I just remember thinking, man, I want to make people feel the way she feels. Like, to this day, I listen to Mittler to Rose, and I cry because I think about my mother's sin at that table,
Starting point is 00:25:08 just smoking a cigarette smile and going, play this in my funeral, baby, Jason. Play this one right here for me, boy, this is the one. You know, and she just crank it louder, you know. and I just I think about that stuff and how music made her feel and I was like I want to make people feel the way music makes her feel you know
Starting point is 00:25:24 it's a good way of looking at it man but no when you said about your options it's so weird how I was in the same boat we all feel like we don't have a lot of options especially when our parents are dead or they don't have money and we can't go to college you know everybody you know
Starting point is 00:25:41 if you don't go to college you're kind of not anymore because college is a waste of fucking time now but when I was going to school, if you didn't go to college, nobody really wanted to talk to you. Right. You know, the biggest thing in the 70s
Starting point is 00:25:55 was being, like, if you were a high school dropout, you might as well be a fucking junkie. You know, that was the, so I quit high school, you know, then I got the felonies. I was a criminal. I was hooked on drugs, and that's the same thing.
Starting point is 00:26:11 You know, we're limited. You know, I really wanted to be a musician, but I know I would have pawned that motherfuckering guitar. It doesn't take a genius to know. If I would have gotten to music, I would have been one of those guys that would have had to take the fucking amp out of Hawk,
Starting point is 00:26:26 the guitar out of Hawk. Like, are we doing a gig Friday? I don't know. I need $59 to get my fucking amp out of Hawk. I was always one of those guys. That's why I went for comedy, because all you need is a microphone and three motherfuckers, you know.
Starting point is 00:26:41 And then the microphones provided, and that's yeah. Right. So, so, so, When you said that, it's very, like, this is what was handed to you. And you ran with the fucking thing. Yeah, I made a decision when I was 16, one of 15, I'm not proud of that we had, we had got caught up in a robbery case, me and a couple of friends. And I ended up being deemed as making charges as an adult right then. So I sat in the juvenile detention facility here in Nashville.
Starting point is 00:27:16 I went the first time when I was 14 and I came home at 15. When I came home from the transitional center, I ran, ran away or whatever and caught a robbery case while I was out. Went back in, ran and caught a third case. There was an old robbery that he came back to haunt me. And I sat in that juvenile for like two, two and a half years, the juvenile penitentiary until the judge was like, no, we think he made the decision. He was in, you know, they charged me as an adult. probably 16, 17 years old. And I went to the adult prison in with a violent charge.
Starting point is 00:27:52 And in the state of Tennessee, Uncle Joey, they don't forgive violent offenses under no circumstance. It's unexpungible down here. Like, I need like a pardon or something. So at that moment, I was like, dude, I'm never going to, you know, I'd already knew music is what I wanted to do, but I knew it was the streets or music at that point. I've been into my life at that.
Starting point is 00:28:19 that point, I've already got hand tattoos, neck tattoos. I'm all the way there with it, you know? So I was just like, man, I got to figure this shit out. And I came home and got riled up in a little more trouble and had to go back and do the Watoosey one more time. I had to go do the Texas two step in the county jail a little bit more. Like I tell people, I hadn't finished touring the fine prisons of the state of Tennessee at that point. I needed to see a couple more. And then I came home and while I was gone, I got a young woman pregnant on the way out, on the way in. So when I came out, the kid was two,
Starting point is 00:28:51 hence the 14 year old that lives with me now. And that was the turning point for me. But yeah, I just felt optionless. I tell you all the time that our stories were so similar, you're like the guy always related to the most in that world. Because it was like, you know, I didn't see nothing but this. For me, it was just music.
Starting point is 00:29:08 It was like I started selling mixtapes out of the Trump, you know, right here in Nashville. I just like ride around when I got out of jail and sell mixtapes out of the, trunk and t-shirts and shit. And here you are. Here you fucking are. You know, you were...
Starting point is 00:29:24 So when you came out and your daughter was two, what was your first? One was the first time you went into the studio? When was the first time you wrote a lyric? What were you feeling? I had a lot of stuff from jail where I just sat in there for a couple years of rope. You know, I just wrote a bunch.
Starting point is 00:29:42 And I'll send you the clip of the video, but I came home and my dude at the time, YouTube was new. And I was so lucky I got to YouTube early, Uncle Joey. It was back when you had to go on a hard desktop computer type in YouTube, you know, cell phones or, and my dude had bought like one of these little camcorders from, my dude, Chad Arms,
Starting point is 00:30:02 had bought a camcorder from Best Buy or some shit. Like, you know, like an old standard, like, you know, digital, but,
Starting point is 00:30:09 you know, he still flipped it, you know, Sony cam or whatever. And Chad was like put on a beat in the studio, like, fifth day out of jail. a little house studio the homie had
Starting point is 00:30:18 and he's like yo rap to this jelly so I've been in jail so I'm fired up right and I'm just like rapping and just I'm just talking shit well he ends up posting the clip on YouTube and back then it went viral this is 10 11 years ago where viral back then was like a couple hundred thousand views you know this this was like you know
Starting point is 00:30:38 not long after fucking karate with Uncle Joey right this is that era where like little clips like it was so new to the internet shit was like Like, you know, and it ended up getting put on World Star Hip Hop early in the World Star Hip Hop days. And that was kind of the beginning of it launching some shit for me. And we ended up having to take the video down because in the video I have a famous line where I say, if it's a, they call the 10 minute freestyle, but I said if my P.O. asked, I hanged dry one. Well, the shit went viral enough. My P.O. was like, yo, you can't be like making a mockery of this shit on the internet.
Starting point is 00:31:11 Like, you got to take this shit down. So when I got off probation, we put it back up. So I think the most recent upload still like eight years old. And it did a couple. It ended up doing a few million views. And it was off to the races from there, man. We just started chasing the YouTube thing, you know. That's what it was like for everybody.
Starting point is 00:31:30 I remember those days where if you had like 20,000 downloads, fucking you were like number eight on YouTube. I'll never forget being like number three. Oh, yeah. Oh, shit. I'm going to get a boat pretty soon. I never got a boat. Yeah. Who gives a fuck if you're number three and number one?
Starting point is 00:31:51 But I remember those days. Like, people would stop me on the... Those Joey Karate videos were fucking... Listen, man, I was in Chicago. I'd gotten fucked up the night before. I had to get on a plane, a Southwest flight from Midway to L.A.X. I'm in the air. I'm like, I got to figure something out with my fucking life.
Starting point is 00:32:13 and I used to go to Taekwondo on Sunset Boulevard next to El Camadre and across the guitar center. Right there, there's a, right next to the Sunset Grill, which Don Henley sang about right across the street is a Muda-Quan Taekwondo place on sunset. I was bored when there, I went in there. I had studied that style in Colorado.
Starting point is 00:32:35 So when I moved to do comedy, I saw it. I'm like, oh, my God, you have this in L.A. And the guys like, yeah, come on. It took me about two or three, four years to go in there. I finally went in and every time I would be in there I was 400 pounds, Shelley.
Starting point is 00:32:49 So every time I had the Gion, you know, I'd be doing the forms and shit. People would just be walking by like, you know, like minding their own business. And all of a sudden they were just looking to the karate school and I'd see them go, what the fuck is that?
Starting point is 00:33:04 And they would call the whole family over and they would just stare at me doing these moves with the fucking, you know, with my fucking chubby body and the green belt and shit. So I was coming back and I just said, you know what? I'm going to make a fucking video today,
Starting point is 00:33:19 a joy karate video. I'd never done it before. As soon as I landed, I called my buddy from Burbank Airport, and he goes, I'll meet you in 30 minutes at the house. I got home, took a shower. Boom, we did our first joy karate video, and it was fucking insane.
Starting point is 00:33:36 It was really insane back then. Like, if you were a kid out of college, You know, all the kids come out, they go to college, they want to be a doctor. But then when they're in college, they see for, you know, they're in frats and shit. And they all watch Say and I Live. So then they get the entertainment bug and they fucking shoot videos and shit. Dog, I remember being in meetings at networks with these other young kids. And all of us getting deals to fucking shoot videos.
Starting point is 00:34:05 That's how crazy it was back then. It was the real Farm League. YouTube was really a farm team. If you made it on YouTube, oh shit, you were going to fucking... And hey, we did those joy karate's until they died. And now people beg me to do them again. But it's over. It's time to move on, cock suck.
Starting point is 00:34:24 You don't go back. Yeah, it's like people tell me all the time, do the 10-minute freestyle again. I'm like, listen, man, I'll never have that much to say that fast again. I had been sitting in a fucking 6x8 cell for two years. I had a lot of wraps in my head. You know, I was like, I had been entertaining the place every Friday for fucking 100 weeks. I was ready to let it all loose, you know? You would entertain people in jail with you rapping shit and fuck around?
Starting point is 00:34:54 Oh, yeah, man. We would, uh, we do freestyle Fridays and they would have this utility room, right? And I would, uh, I'd walk into the utility room with my sport because they'd give you a plastic sport when you first walked in. Like, instead of giving you silverware every day, you got a sport. fork when you came. It was like part of your shit. You know, it's like, you keep this motherfucker. This is your way to eat. If you use it, you're cuff, right? You know? So I'd go on there with my sport and I would, um, the utility room had a microwave or whatever. Everything's a plexiglass glass and I'd go beat on the plexiglass window. Man, Uncle Joey, this one I knew I was
Starting point is 00:35:32 on to some, right? I'd go and I'd do it the, by the, by the, I'd do it the third time, the third time I'd go. But by the time I got to the beat. Doom, do you would watch them start running in. Right? I wouldn't announce it. I just go, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom, doom. And by the time I got that last, that six, doom, the room would be feeling out, do, do, do, do, do, do, and I'd just start rapping, right? And I'd be singing the choruses, and then I'd rap the verses.
Starting point is 00:36:11 And then I'd sing the chorus, and I'd pass it to, like, anybody. I'd be like, all, you, look, look, such and such, you know, and then he'd rap. And then I'd cut him off, and I'd bring the chorus back in and make, like, you know, it was thing and it was like they knew it on Friday man when I walked in there with that sport they just start piling in because there's only so much room in a utility room so everybody's trying to get in here and people out there watching it they're standing on tables it was crazy and I was like yo this shit might work now keep in mind I'm like one of three white dudes in a 220 man unit you know and I tell people I'm still from the era where especially in hip hop
Starting point is 00:36:46 you throw a rock right now and you hit a white dude that can rap right you know I live in the country music capital of America, and these country music dudes, every time I get drunk with them, like, I'd be rap a dude. You know, they want a rap to me, you know? And it's, in my era, no, sir. Nobody.
Starting point is 00:37:04 There was very few white rappers, the Beastie Boys. Eminem was bubbling. We had a guy named Haystack down here. This was even before Bubba Sparks that put out his first shit, you know. It wasn't, if you was a white dude that rapped, you better be, one, really good, and two, you better have a bunch of black dudes
Starting point is 00:37:21 standing beside you going, no, this is our guy. You know? So for me to go in there and rock that place, man, I mean, I was rocking the violent offender gang unit of the prison. Like, the killers were just in there, like, riding with me. Like, yo, this white boy is crazy. You know what I'm saying? I'm singing these super soulful choruses, though.
Starting point is 00:37:41 You know what I mean? And then it just kind of connected. And when I came home, I had played with it before, but when I came home, I was like, no, we're going all in. Because I played with it one time. When I made Bond at 17, my father, God rest of his soul, came and bonding me out. And I called him the day they transferred me from juvenile to the adult jail. And I had a radio in jail.
Starting point is 00:38:05 And the radio was like, Sunday night, Outer Limits, freestyle battle, $1,000 cash prize, right? So when I call my dad, I'm like, hey, man, come get me. I'm going to get you $1,000 back Sunday. It was like, I was like, yeah, I just got to, you know, well, I need you to buy me out and I need to borrow $100. I need to sign up for it because it's like $100 entry fee. You know, and I was like, and then I'll give you the money and I'll go win this thing. And I had the most loving dad and mother because they just believed me.
Starting point is 00:38:35 Like it wasn't like some kid that was saying weird shit to them. Like they knew how much I believed in myself. So he was like, okay, I went to Joey. I snuck in because I was underage. I won that fucking freestyle battle. I went in there and won that $1,000. and it was a 10-week competition, I won it for the next nine weeks.
Starting point is 00:38:53 It was like a job. Every Sunday I would go to the fucking black club and just roast people, just smoked them. And then, of course, my bond got violated and back I went. There goes to a devolving door of the jail. But, yeah, so I mean,
Starting point is 00:39:09 I knew I was always into it. It just started working. It's so funny how, now that I think about listening to your story about jail and my story, man that's a great way to fucking develop as a performer because you always got a fucking audience you know what I'm saying
Starting point is 00:39:25 they ain't got nothing else to do you can either sit in your room or come listen to my fucking stinky jokes until they get better and even with music I'll go in there with a ukulele I'll play a fucking ukulele for some of those brothers but the time they get out to all be listening to Don Ho I don't give a fuck
Starting point is 00:39:41 because it's the truth you're always going to have eight people to watch it they're bored is shit you can only watch so much fucking Bobby Flay and so much fucking America's most wanted. So food for thought for all you young performers out there. Think big. Think jail first.
Starting point is 00:39:58 Your story will be a lot fucking better like ours. Did you develop the comedy routine in there a little bit? Did you start getting into the storytelling in there? I never fucking dreamt of doing stand-up comedy. And a
Starting point is 00:40:13 week before I got arrested, a guy, I hated more than fucking anal sex came up to me and he's like, hey man, I know you don't like me. He goes, do you know what I did before I came to work here? And I have no fucking idea. I just didn't like the guy. And he goes, I was an entertainment in Vegas. I hired comedians and musicians.
Starting point is 00:40:36 And he goes, I'm not blowing smoke up your ass. You'd be a great comedian. I'm like, get the fuck away from me. Like, I was still young, stupid. I get the fuck away from me, you know? and then I kind of thought about it. Then I got arrested. Then I came out on bail.
Starting point is 00:40:52 And I was just trying to get my life together. There was no stand-up fucking comedy, you know. And then when I got sentenced, it took about a month to go to a destination, like to go to the prison that you go to, diagnostic, and then the prison, they find the prison for you. They sent me to a fucking camp, like a work camp, you know.
Starting point is 00:41:10 And they did little activities. And on Thursday nights, had movie night. They would play like PT 109. They never played a movie you wanted to see. They were all black and white movies and shit. And the projector would always break. And when the projector would break,
Starting point is 00:41:26 the fucking guys would go Cuba, go up there and talk shit because I worked in the kitchen in the jail, which is the best job in the jail. It was me and 13 brothers. I had a guy Echi that all he wanted to do was work on his freezes because he says if he's in jail for too long
Starting point is 00:41:43 to freeze, won't sound, you know, like when he'd go, freeze! So he'd come in the kitchen and go, freeze! I'd tell him when to say it, and all the fucking prisoners will hit the floor and shit. It was fucking tremendous. I would tell the prisoners with the food suck. When they would come on the line, there was a few of my friends,
Starting point is 00:42:01 and I would just yell out, don't do it, don't do it! And they knew to run back to their room and get an apple in the bag of chips. So I was building like a personality in the kitchen, like just being me fucking around. I didn't want to be a stand-up. And when the projector would break, they go Cuba, get up there and talk about people. There was one black dude in the kitchen that nobody really liked. Even the black dudes didn't like him.
Starting point is 00:42:27 He was like one of those orange brothers with freckles and shit. And they used to fucking pay me to go off on him. And the guy, listen, the guy was tough and in debt. He was in there for murder. But thank God, the guy had a sense of human. He was bored of shit. You know what I'm saying? Because when you made somebody laugh in prison,
Starting point is 00:42:45 and it means a little more. Like, people have no idea. Especially when they came up to me and said, Doug, why are you always so happy? People don't like people in prison that are happy. And I'm like, well, they're going to have to suck my dick because this is who I am. What are you going to be sitting here
Starting point is 00:42:59 and walk around with a mean face all fucking day? You know, and it was like eight Thursdays in a row I went up. And for the first time, after like the 10th, like the fifth Wednesday, I thought about it Thursday. I'm like, maybe I'd do it. have a Korean stand-up comedy. I'm like, that's never going to happen. You know, none of that shit's going to happen for me.
Starting point is 00:43:21 And it wasn't to the librarian who was in there for killing his wife and the mailman. He came home from work and he found the mailman fucking his wife. So he killed the wife and he blasted the mailman which made it a federal case. Tremendous. So, uh,
Starting point is 00:43:35 that's why I shoot the mailman. They'll send you to a better prison, Cogsuckus. Always shoot the mailman. So. you end up up in Lompark riding horses and playing tennis with gangsters eating fucking cabotelli and shit like that. So when he told me that I should get into comedy,
Starting point is 00:43:58 he gave me a notebook. And he goes, if you don't get into comedy, by the time I get out, I'm going to come down and kill you. So for years, I was ready for this motherfucker to come to one of my shows. Obviously, he must have killed another mailman in jail because I haven't seen this cocksucker at all. And that's how I got into it. That's how I fucking got into it.
Starting point is 00:44:19 But I, let me ask you something. Are you happy that you went to jail? You know, this is the way I thought about this. I think that it paved the path for where I ended up. And I'm not, I'm not proud of the things I did that made me end up in jail,
Starting point is 00:44:41 you know? But I do think that carved the path. I don't think I'd have been who I am today. had I not went through every part of the journey, including the fucked up shit like jail. It gave me the closest thing to character and discipline and integrity I ever had. You know, I had to learn how to politic.
Starting point is 00:45:02 You know that. You was in there. Like, I learned how to pop... Dude, I wasn't juvenile at fucking 14. You know, there's 17-year-old dudes in there fucking bench pressing baby mammoths with beards. I'm fucking 14. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:45:16 I fucking, you know, I don't have a... I don't have a... one piece of hair on my dick yet, right? My dick, my balls haven't dropped. I still got this voice. You know, and I'm in there with dudes that fucking look like they're fucking people's moms and shit, you know, in the juvenile penitentiary. And I had to learn how to politic and move in a room full of vultures.
Starting point is 00:45:33 And it taught me a lot about that. And it helped me develop the craft, too. I had never, I told this to my daughter recently, Uncle Joey. I said, listen. Because, you know, she's a songwriter now. And I said, baby, listen, I can write a thousand songs with you. but I can't write a thousand songs for you. And if I could, I already did it
Starting point is 00:45:52 because I wrote thousands of songs, you know? And, dude, I wrote thousands of songs in jail. I mean, hundreds and hundreds of songs in jail. You know, just, I didn't, like, what else was I going to do? That's another thing. If you want to write an album, if you want to write an album, go to jail. Go to jail. Because you write the best fucking album in the world.
Starting point is 00:46:13 Nobody's bothering you. You can try your jokes on the cooks. You can write the jokes that night. Next time I do a special, if I ever do, I'm going to jail for a year. That's going to be the best fucking special you've ever heard in your goddamn life. Dude, I would...
Starting point is 00:46:28 We should just go be cellmates for a year. Nobody's calling you. Nobody's bothering you. Nope. Right? It's like I had to learn who I was because, you know, you've so much time you're spending just here, just having to deal with you, you know?
Starting point is 00:46:44 And I definitely, You know, I think it definitely gave me a lot of the charisma I had, because I had to move around. You know, I had to shock. I had to move a little bit in there, Joe. You know, I got in some hairy spots, you know. I was running canteen and peddling a little weed in there and a little Coke. You know, I had a little thing going.
Starting point is 00:47:01 So, you know, I was learning how to politic with all sides. But I hate what I went through to get there. But I'm glad that it worked out for me, you know. I always tell people going to prison, let me know what I didn't want to do. I tell people all the time I think the worst than anybody could do for you to you as a man
Starting point is 00:47:21 is kick your bed and tell you to wake the fuck up nobody knows how much that bothers me when a man if a woman wants to kick the bed and put a piece of pussy on me wake me up bitch wake me up before you go go
Starting point is 00:47:35 you know what I'm saying I want to eat that monkey fucking slow slow so it's just weird that when a man kicks your fucking in bed and says get the fuck up you sack of shit. That's a reality in prison. And that was one thing I said to myself.
Starting point is 00:47:53 Nobody's ever going to do that to me again. And then they make you stand up just to make your bed. And then you can lay back down. Yeah, then you can lay back down. I was scared of spending the rest of my life in jail, but I knew I wasn't going to take shit from those people in that, you know. And it was fine after a month. I got along with everybody.
Starting point is 00:48:13 But that's what I'm grateful to go to, jail because it let me know it told me what I needed to do what I had to do and it also let me know the things I didn't want to do anymore that you're not supposed to do as a man I don't give a fuck what they tell you you know I was sad going to jail and seeing these people talking about and you've seen this jails people talking about all the jails they've been to like they went on tour oh yeah they did a fucking national tour I went to Red Rocks I did the garden I did fucking Tucson
Starting point is 00:48:47 I did Atlanta these guys will sit there for hours and tell you all the jails you've been to and stuff and they'll start telling you what they liked about what they liked about it they were like y'all the food
Starting point is 00:48:57 over there was banging oh my god TV was just like what yeah they got cable what you don't have cable at home you gotta go to fucking jail for cable yeah
Starting point is 00:49:05 I'll tell you I was in some good jails dog I was in Boulder County Jail that was voted the number one jail in Colorado that motherfucker had carpets cable TV and Kool-Aid and
Starting point is 00:49:18 they let you talk on the phone until the if the dorm was up till one they let you talk on the phone till one. Wow. Long distance calls too. I was calling everybody all over the, I was calling China, Japan. I didn't
Starting point is 00:49:34 give a fuck. Those states get good rates on their phone services. You know what changed for me, Joey? When I walked in and whenever I the bond thing came out and I had to go back
Starting point is 00:49:47 to the adult jail and I went in did the time came home and violated again the last time I went when I was an intake a guy that I was in juvenile
Starting point is 00:49:59 with eight years before that right nine years before that uncle Joe he comes and sees me like what's up jailing man I'm like oh shit I didn't see you since we were in such and such a juvenile spot he was like yeah yeah you know they he'd tell him right thing like they're going to classify you to the You know, the unit where all the shit is, you know, I just, because of my charge,
Starting point is 00:50:17 his previous, I knew where I was going. I go there every time. So I'm like, yeah, who was over there? He's like, bray, everybody we was in the juvenile penitentiary with. And at that moment, I was like, because he was happy to tell me that, like, oh, you're going to love it. It's a family reunion. And it hit me in a way, Uncle Joy, where I was like, man, I got to break this, man.
Starting point is 00:50:35 Like, this is, you know, I became a part of the revolving door. You know what I'm saying? Where it's like, you know, when you're getting a reception and. the local jail from guys you've been locked up with on and off for 10 years. And they're like, jelly Rose here, what's that big dog? You know, and they're like, and of course, I'm just like, man, this shit ain't, I got to change this. And I ain't been back and do that.
Starting point is 00:50:56 I go back now. I go to the juvenile once every three months and talk and do like a seminar and I'm sending pizzas. And I'm currently working to build a studio in that juvenile that I was in for all those years. But besides going back to see, talk to people, man, I ain't been, man, I hadn't. man, I hadn't had a crossword with a law officer in fucking fucking 10 years, 12 years. It's been close to the last time I got a ticket, which had to be 20 years ago.
Starting point is 00:51:27 That's the last time I had, you know, police contact trouble. It's been since 97. Yeah. That, you know, and you just, if you're at home watching this, listen, man, you get in trouble. You get caught by drugs. It's a fucking rotating door. Me and Jelly will tell you all fucking day long. But you get stronger sometimes.
Starting point is 00:51:50 You get stronger. And you go, I don't want to do this anymore. And that night you end up doing a gram of Coke. That's okay. Because you're heading in the right direction. Yes. Once you acknowledge all this shit that what you're missing and what you should be doing,
Starting point is 00:52:04 you're heading in the right direction. It takes a while. I mean, Jellyroll, you're talking about all this shit. And you're at the precipice of, you know, blowing your talent. Like, you're a fucking huge talent, you know. What are your influences? I'm very curious to find out here. So I was the baby.
Starting point is 00:52:26 I have two older brothers and an older sister. And my sister's, my older sister's boyfriend, a husband now, has been with her since I was like two. So I always had him in the house. And because of being. being the baby, I never got to control the radio, right? So I think that's what makes my sound so unique is, you know, when I'm listening when I'm hanging out with Mama, we're listening to like Motown. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:52:54 We're listening to sitting in the mornings. Navi's in when the evening comes. I get in the car with pops and he's bumping James Taylor, right? Or like Kenny G. He was singer-songwriter. He liked softer music, like jazz or like jazz. like James Taylor, Jim Croce, you know, all those classic singer-songwriters. And then I get in the car with my brother, and he's nothing but Tupac, right?
Starting point is 00:53:22 He's like gangster wrapped out, like my older brother, you know. And then I get in the car with my sister and she's listening to nothing but Metallica, the black album. Nothing but, you know, like all this rock and metal. And I never got to get in the car and say what I want to listen to. I'm the baby, right? You know, I'm the, I'm the baby at the house. So every time I would get in the car, because, you know, I'm from an era.
Starting point is 00:53:44 I joke with my daughter all the time. She walks around with her fucking iPhone, you know, player music. You know, she'll be in one room, her iPhone playing music. My wife's in another room, iPhone playing music. You know, we take music everywhere now. In my era, you listen to music one or two fucking places, in the car or in the house. And that was if you was rich enough to buy the CD or cassette tape twice. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:54:06 You have a cassette or you had this transfer it with you, you know? So every time I was. we'd ride or something. I just listened to different musics and I was kind of influenced by all of it. I went to Lollapalooza in 97. Snoop Dog, my sister took me.
Starting point is 00:54:20 Snoop Dog, Tool, corn, and prodigy are playing. Okay? And I remember watching it go from Snoop Dog to corn to tool and thinking,
Starting point is 00:54:33 man, I want to do all that. Like right then, I just was like, and I remember how well it went over. This is 97. You know, people act like genre blending is like a new thing now. You know, it's like, dude, this is 1997.
Starting point is 00:54:51 I watch Snoop Dog come out literally between prodigy and fucking corn. You know what I mean? This is the height of Snoop Dog. This is 97 Snoop Dog. This is like the year after Pockdad. This is gangster party. This is, you know, Jen and New Snoop Dog. This is like Snoop Dog, you know.
Starting point is 00:55:08 It was the case that they get. me Snoop God. This is that Snoop, y'all. This is pinnacle Snoop, you know. And he shut that motherfucker down. And he smoked a joint on stage. You know, back then that was like, he might as well have been shooting heroin
Starting point is 00:55:23 in front of everybody in 97 in Nashville and the Bible Belt. You know what I mean? He might as well just been doing big stripes and cocaine in front of the whole world, you know? And he comes off stage and then corn comes out. And this is corn, you know, Adidas corn. All day, I dream about sex.
Starting point is 00:55:39 This is like that corn, you know, and I just like, just watched it. And I was like, man, this is crazy. I just left so inspired. I was like, I want to do that. You know, that's what I told my sister then. It's funny. It was at an amphitheater. And this is this year, besides this East Coast run I'm fixing to do, which is club dates from last year,
Starting point is 00:56:01 I play nothing but amphitheaters the rest of the year. Ain't that crazy, Joey? That's crazy. That's crazy. Dude, 25 years removed from going to my first show ever, which was at an amphitheater. I'm playing them. I'm like, holy fuck, man, it's just fucking, it's panning out. It's crazy, man.
Starting point is 00:56:21 It really is crazy. As of today, Uncle Joey, we got the number six song on Popular Rock Radio. Dead Man Walkers is a number six song on the popular rock radio. I got a song called Son of a Center that just broke into the top 50 on country radio. so we're slides, baby. I think it was that. Now, what's the band, SMS? Dead Man Walking with?
Starting point is 00:56:47 Who'd you do it with somebody? Because that's, I had heard you earlier on. You reached out to me, and I heard one of your songs, but I thought it was like a rap. You did it with somebody else. Yeah, well, I forgot which one it was. I'd had a freestyle, too,
Starting point is 00:57:04 that we'd met each other on Twitter over, Kashab and reposted it. And I shouted you out because I've been such a Joey fan forever. This was a few years back. And I remember I said, mad flavors like Joey was happening now. And even back then Joey retweeted it and put,
Starting point is 00:57:24 There you go. There you go. But the shit I heard two weeks ago on Octane, I couldn't even get out of the car. Oh, dude. Thank you. When you listen to music and you don't want, you know, somebody called me the other day. Oh, how about this?
Starting point is 00:57:42 My agent called me. And I said to her, I can't fucking believe. I was listening to California Love. And it was the part where Tupac's about to throw out on jail, fresh out of bail. And all of a sudden, my agent called. And I told, I just said, I go, you just fucked up the Tupac solo on California Love. She goes, you want me to call you back? I go, no, it's halfway fucking over by now.
Starting point is 00:58:07 But I'll tell you, the day listening to your octane blew me the fuck away. I think it was Dead Man Walking, Save Me. Yep. Is that it? Save me is a fucking jam. I think smoking section and only were on there. Because they did the live thing, right? Did you catch the one where I did all the live?
Starting point is 00:58:30 Yeah. Yeah. So I know that that smoking section was on there. I hope that heaven has a smoking. section. Yeah. Only the old school people get that too.
Starting point is 00:58:43 Your voice was so fucking soulful. I heard Johnny Cash. I heard Motown in your voice. I heard I just heard so many
Starting point is 00:58:53 emotions and your soul comes to your voice. The gift that God gave you jelly is that, you know, some people say,
Starting point is 00:59:02 you wear your heart on your sleeve. You wear your voice on your soul, brother. It's a connection. So I fucking love you to death I love what you're doing
Starting point is 00:59:13 I'm gonna come and see you in D.C. We're gonna get you dead at the D.C. show. Bring fucking Mike with me too. Leave them down there, give them a fucking edible and shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll bring some 200 milligrams ABX for you and some Joey Coco weed. Yes, baby.
Starting point is 00:59:29 But I want you to tell these motherfuckers where they can find your schedule because you know I love your joint. Don't miss out on this young man because in three years you're not going to afford to see him this is when you want to see jelly roll now on the way up because when there's tickets of 400 don't come fucking crying to me then jelly won't let me ever fuck you where were you when he was at the festival with kiss i told you about it you fucking march you cock suckers so if you're any in that louisville section make sure you
Starting point is 01:00:01 catch my man that's a fucking great show that's a great fucking weekend so that's a a weekend dog that's going to fucking, you're on stage with legends. That's it. You just become a legend by proxy. Yes, sir, yes, sir. Jellyroll 615.com, Uncle Joey.
Starting point is 01:00:19 I'm Jellyroll 615 on pretty much every platform. Just type in Jelly Roll on YouTube. I think I don't know what it is on there, but you'll find me. I'm verified. Dude, I'm everywhere. I mean, you know how long it took me to fucking beat Jelly Roll Morton
Starting point is 01:00:31 and the fucking pastry on Google? Years. So you can play on. Fucking years. So it's like Finally, I'm pretty findable We're releasing more tour dates Over, you know, we announced Red Rocks this morning, October.
Starting point is 01:00:48 It's in October. I got a big Nashville show I'm announcing in a couple of weeks And huge tours, man. We're just announcing stuff every day. This is like, this is crazy. I'm going to talk to you about the Nashville show right before we went as soon as we get offline. But I want you to come down.
Starting point is 01:01:02 I was talking to shop, man. I want to get some of my comedian homies to come come make an appearance and host it's going to be big it's a nonprofit thing i'm doing to build a studio in the juvenile okay i'll definitely come you know my in-law has lived that oh yeah just came back my wife just got back so i could go to nashville all i do is just say i feel like going to nashbill my wife is on yes and we'll go to lees fried chicken and show those motherfuckers how to eat because that's my chicken joint right there down close to my island and they had one in louisville too Yes, sir
Starting point is 01:01:35 Yeah, they got one of Louisville too So if I go to that festival We'll be hitting that fucking Lee's fried motherfucking chicken I love that chicken You guys don't know what chicken is See you eat lies Fucking leaves fried chicken
Starting point is 01:01:48 Jelly, you need something You call That's it Oh, I know it, man Thank you I love you Uncle man It's meant the world to me to do this As a fan
Starting point is 01:01:56 Oh my God It feels good to go from a fan to family Baby that's the Hey baby I'm a fan of yours And I'm a fucking family So stay in touch stay black and I love you, brother.
Starting point is 01:02:06 I love you, brother. All right. Thank you for coming on the joint today. All right, you bad motherfuckers. I hope you enjoyed jelly roll. He's great. I'm going to go see him in D.C. If you guys could get a chance to go see him in fucking Louisville,
Starting point is 01:02:22 that show looks tremendous. We're kissing a bunch of people. And that's it and that's that, man. I want to thank you for another fun-filled week on the motherfucking joint. Thank you for supporting us. You know, thank you for always having our back and thank you for always thinking about us. I love you, cock suckers.
Starting point is 01:02:40 Have a great week. And now for a word for my motherfucking sponsor, Jack. All right, I want to thank my man Jelly Roll again, 615 for fucking doing a great job today and for even holding my attention. He's a great artist. Give him a list and support him. And I like to thank all the youths for the support you give me.
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