Jelly Roll on Adopting a Midget, Making Save Me, and why Taylor Swift is the GOAT

Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh

Comedy

4.6 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 157 minutes

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What’s good people! Today we have long time friend friend Jelly Roll. He explains how he got Little Ron, what lead him to his biggest song ever “Save Me”, and why Taylor Swift is the Michael Jackson of country. INDULGE! 00:00 Flagrant nearly ended Jelly Roll + “Open Er’ up” 04:49 Publicist quit after 72 hours 07:34 Jelly Roll = C0v1d’s dream + Mask Politics 08:34 Trajectory’s been insane + dealing with success 12:36 Jelly Roll’s criminal past 17:49 Trying to buy childhood home 18:55 Mom was special but troubled + power of music 20:43 Importance of the Rose 23:18 “Save Me” 32:25 Our favourite country singer = Lainey Wilson 35:18 Moment it took off 36:49 Success exposes you to yourself 37:56 Chase the cool not money 39:48 Bunnie Xo is a G + meeting for 1st time 50:35 Marrying Bunnie brought BENEFITS 55:52 Be fully open and honest about everything 59:11 Women know what they’re doing + fugged up credit 01:01:19 Taking everything seriously 01:06:27 Lil Ron adoption + lil people MEAT 01:16:56 Hard to fire people + Bunnie has her own bus 01:18:52 Scary Larry 01:21:25 Letting go creatively, insane venues & production 01:24:40 Taylor Swift is genuinely brilliant 01:31:46 Curating a Churchlike experience 01:33:58 Real connection with fans 01:37:22 Being lucky + dreaming BIG 01:40:51 Dreaming unrealistically 01:45:01 Dream collaborations + That Mexican OT 01:49:31 The Weeknd & maintaining mystery 01:53:25 Travis Scott + Lil Yachty are elite 01:57:37 Shrooms to create + constantly uncomfortable 02:00:55 Feeling like you’ve said everything 02:04:54 Time to decompress properly + cycle writing 02:09:41 Jelly Roll able to vocalise what we feel 02:10:14 Genius of Willie Nelson + creating authentically 02:14:05 Being rich makes you political 02:16:33 Jelly’s relationship with God & Church 02:22:16 The Church will die by weaponising Jesus 02:26:49 The feeling that DMX created 02:28:58 Abusing power + bringing people to God 02:34:47 All boats are floating 02:35:53 RAPID CITY BUY DEM TICKETS

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0:00.0	What's up, everybody? Well, we're flagrant today. This episode is long overdue.
0:03.9	This guest is one of, I would say, the show's favorite people on the planet.
0:08.8	We almost ruined his career by doing a fun little song in Miami.
0:12.4	We feel absolutely horrible about it. We started culture with this, man.
0:15.8	We changed the name of giant titties to the heavies with this, man.
0:20.0	We got Jelly Roll in the butt, man. Let's go today.
0:23.5	Jelly, tell us how we almost, I mean, you were on this, like, superstar trajectory
0:28.1	that yes, you have gotten to now, but it almost came to a screeching halt after one day
0:33.2	with us. Tell us. This is a true story. I almost got canceled before I popped,
0:37.2	because we just tried just being your fucking friend, really.
0:39.8	Just fucking riding with the homie, just like, whatever.
0:45.2	And the sad party is instead of getting canceled, I feel like we should have got an award.
0:48.8	We kind of single-handedly opened the country up.
0:51.9	I think so. I think literally in the middle of time where people were spraying
0:55.2	lice all with boxes, we were having pool parties and bragging about them on TV.
1:00.0	It's trying to convince people it was the way to go.
1:02.3	That's it.
1:03.2	Simple as that.
1:04.6	Looking back, that's why.
1:07.8	We went Florida and like, no one in Florida took it seriously, so I'm like,
1:10.9	all right, let's just write a country song about life here.
1:15.2	Like, even family from New York called me. They're like, what's going on?
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