#2212 - Jelly Roll

Joe Rogan (0:03)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

SPEAKER_2 (0:06)

trained by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day. I'm back with my bubba.

Joe Rogan (0:15)

My man, I haven't seen you since Master Square Garden, that was crazy.

Jelly Roll (0:18)

What a great night that was, dude.

Joe Rogan (0:20)

What an experience, man.

Jelly Roll (0:22)

Dude, it was so, I was thinking about it pulling up here is that, I think y'all just got out of Vulcan and the club had just opened.

And I'd came that night to see Ron White. And I went back that Monday to see Kill Tony. And I could feel the Kill Tony thing happening over COVID at Vulcan. So I had to go see it in person, you know? And I could remember sitting in there. And you know how like, you can feel an energy shift? I felt an energy shift in life in that room that night. I was like, this is fixing to explode. Like everything associated with this club, everything associated with Tony, everything associated with Joe is fixing to fucking rocket ship. And it felt like almost like, I'm getting goosebumps, Joe. I'm not even bullshitting. I'm getting goosebumps. It's almost like, I'm swear, dude. It was like feeling the grunge movement in the nineties. Like when you first heard a little something, you were like, this is different. And you were like, this could be something. And then it just turned out to be the explosion. It's like, I felt that happening. So to see Tony at fucking Madison Square Garden and then to see how y'all showed up for Tony at Madison Square Garden, every fucking comedian on earth came to see that dude, to fucking kiss him on his fucking cheek. You know what I'm saying?

Joe Rogan (1:35)

I had to be there. I was there in the beginning. I was there when there was like 18 comedians in the crowd.

Jelly Roll (1:40)

Is that not crazy?

Joe Rogan (1:41)

It was crazy. They were doing it in the belly room of the comedy store. It was just like an afterthought. They couldn't do any of the other rooms because they didn't have an audience. And Tony just had this weird idea that he just like a little pit bull just stuck with it.

One minute of comedy and he like honed it over time and figured it out. And then he became the best host in all of entertainment. There's no one better at hosting a comedy show than him. The way he does that show, the speed of his comebacks, the speed of his like the roast lines.

Jelly Roll (2:12)

I tell Tony all the time, I say, Tony, I love you. And that panel is the coolest thing I've ever seen. But you are the show brother. We would all tune in if you were sitting up there by yourself, like you are just so sharp. I relate to it too, Joe. I compare art forms. It's just something I like to do. I know some people don't. But watching Tony, I feel a kinship to Tony and Andrew Schultz in a certain way, because I feel like we all kind of met each other right before it happened for all of us. Like I remember me and Schultz doing the opener up song at the five, four, you know, he was doing two nights at Zany's, two shows, one show, you know, one show a night. You know what I mean?

And I was doing a thousand seat club in the south, you know what I mean? And Tony was still, killed Tony and you know what I mean? And we're all fucking old. Like the fact that it happened for all of us in our late 30s, is even cooler. So it's this double kinship. Like when I was nominated for New Artist of the Year at almost 40, that's the first time that it ever happened in CMA history and country music. But like this year, most of those kids are 27 and under. Here I was a 40-year-old fucking man up there.

Joe Rogan (3:17)

What a beautiful example that there's no rules. There's no rules. It's all bullshit. Just be yourself. Just be yourself. Do your best. Find whatever it is inside you that you can express. There's no rules. There's no rules for age. Like Ron White used to worry about that all the time. I think I'm too old. I mean, what are you... You're Ron motherfucking White. You're a legend.

Jelly Roll (3:37)

Period.

Joe Rogan (3:37)

But it's like that humility that he has, even though he's got great confidence in his ability. Like Ron is a very humble guy, as successful as he is. But that humility that he is, is also that constantly has him writing, constantly has him working. He's 40 years in the game. He never stops. And he's better now than he's ever been before. Now that he's sober, like he's a monster, a monster on stage.