Name: Jelly Roll Gets Emotional Thinking About His Journey Since Prison
Uploaded: 2023-12-06T21:02:37.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jelly Roll Gets Emotional Thinking About His Journey Since Prison' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-12-06. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jelly Roll Gets Emotional Thinking About His Journey Since Prison' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-12-06. Transcript available.

i played the opry last night i did the opry last night did you yeah uh me chris
jansen riley green
and nelly did the for the big friendsgiving for the big 98 here wow perfect yep
dude you you work
hard bro you do so much stuff jelly man i'm just so blessed to be here though
theo man you like
i feel you there it's so different when i get to hang out with you and earnest
because y'all were
like remember when it wasn't like this for me and it's like this is all i
wanted it to be though
so like now that i'm in it like i just feel like i don't even want to
disrespect god like that kind
of like i prayed for this for so many years and so many dude i um i'm filming a
special for a television
show uh cbs sunday mornings what they call it big big deal and i they took me
back to my old jail
yesterday no the jail that i found out i had my daughter in like the jail i was
in when she was
incarcerated they took me back to my old cell what was that like one i've
walked in there certain i
wasn't going to be emotional because i walked in so happy and in such a good
mood and i and dude i
walked in the unit still happy we're chatting i'm telling them stories we walk
upstairs and as soon
as i walked in that cell i cried like a baby dude i mean like i lost it
completely because it was like
every memory i'm getting choked up now it's like every memory from that jail
cell like every song i
russman like a year and a half in that cell dog like the hearing i had a
daughter every song i wrote
everything i went through and you're just sitting there like man this is unreal
dude thank you brother
it's just sad it makes me sad i mean it makes them make me sad but it makes me
yeah it's powerful to
think of somebody being caged up yeah and then being as free as you are no it's
unreal and i walk out of
there i'm getting choked up too and i'm like i leave there and go back to my
old halfway house at the men
of valor i go see them boys and it's like such a like humbling thing for me and
then i go do a show
with nelly and riley green and i'm on the biggest podcast on earth the next day
like it's you and rogan
dude you know it you know what i'm saying it's like you know i'm just like man
this is just such
a just i'm so like blessed dog and that's why i do all the give back stuff yeah
it's like how could god
bless me so much and me not want to bless somebody you know what i mean yeah
and i know you have a toy
drive that's going on right now that people can hit yeah any walmart middle tennessee
okay they got a
box right there that you could just drop off toys at the box uh i'm gonna put a
couple hundred grand
up myself we're gonna do over a hundred thousand toys it'll be the biggest one
in nashville i mean
just look who got behind us dude it's crazy the predators coca-cola hasbro uh
the nashville fire
department walmart has been a partner in this i mean my dream is in the next
five years for this to
be a national thing that i do with walmart and we raise millions and millions
of toys for uh
underprivileged kids oh i love it i go in there and buy toys and put them in a
box yeah yeah just
drop them right in the box man yeah just drop them right in the boxes and it's
cool because it's
convenient we're all in and out of walmart all season you know what i mean so
it's like all you
got to do is just buy an extra toy and dude going to walmart that used to be
fun dude i'll tell you
a story don't mind me getting yeah you're right huh sometimes there's nothing
else to do on the road
but go to my daughter wanted to do this oh yeah and she started this five six
years ago at a local bar in
white house tennessee with her aunt where they would just pick them up from the
bar staff and
people and she'd go give away 20 30 toys she was doing this at nine years old
this was her thought
and i looked back at it and when i got out of jail
give me a second
i came home like december of
2009
i didn't have any money for toys you know in the halfway house the men of valor
did a toy drive for the for the guys that just came home and i remember
dropping off a truck
of toys i couldn't afford for her christmas and um i didn't even get to meet
her at that time i
wasn't by court i wasn't even allowed to see her i just got home wow
so her heart to want to do this toy driving then me to be able to be in a
situation to amplify it is
like it's really cool that is amazing i said i wasn't gonna cry today i was
like i'm not gonna be
fucking emotional dude i've had an emotional weird man i got nominated for a
grammy it's having a
weird couple weeks damn dude you only did i know he's been nominated for a gram
and a grammy
oh yeah that's incredible bro but it's crazy so it's like to see this thing
come to life is like
i think that's why i'm so passionate about giving back to juvenile and i'm so
passionate
about going to jails and rehabs and singing for people and investing in rehab
facilities and
like like a meeting with our mayor and our governor about the fentanyl epidemic
and a plan and you know
what i mean it's like because these are the things that affected my life you
know what i mean like
the that touches you the closest to home yeah you know what i mean so yeah we
want to build a center
that's one of our goals next year is to try to find some land to build like a
halfway house like i
don't know if it'd be a halfway house or a detox probably a place where you
could also have
meetings at you know where would you do it at i don't know somewhere close
enough like somewhere
here let me tell you this and i'll say this on your show publicly whatever i
can do like whatever
you want to do like i don't care if we maybe we do like a string of shows or
something
that i'll put together and just donate the money or what like i'm into that in
a way you'll never
understand thanks like if you like if nobody else like and this is what i say
and off camera too i'll
say it to you but like not even just on some like raise money like i'll cut a
check yeah same like
i fucking i hate people that go step just raise money you know what i mean like
if you're not that's
why i tell everybody i'm don't worry i'm putting money into this toy drive like
i'm going to write
a big check because i'm not just going to be a face of one yeah my face can
help bring more attention
to us that's the only reason i even talk about this stuff we did philanthropy
for years i never spoke
about it but i realized that our platform's so big that we can help bring
attention and money to the
cause but it's still important to me my daddy raised me man shut the up and cut
a check you know what i
mean that's just something i learned from a kid you know yeah no it's i
appreciate that man and we're
going to do the same thing we want to make yeah we just want to do something a
place i can go to
meetings you know where other guys can go that'd be neat where people maybe we
could do a songwriter
night where songwriters come by and play play some songs with the guys or we'll
do something but
yeah it's a big goal of mine man it's just so important i just so many friends
of mine and
myself so many people in my own family just so many people struggling that's
why i think i can feel
when you talk about that kind of stuff you know i know what it's like to not be
caged up like by walls
but to be caged up by even just somebody's own their own life cases by their
own feelings you know
man when you're just locked inside of yourself you know can't get outside of
your own head that's the
worst prison i've been to a lot of jails and the worst one on earth is between
the ears man yeah you know