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It's crazy to see how fast he's blown up and like in the country music critical mass, but even outside of country music, because again, with Big X, A Plug, and with Diplo, and I think both are tonight, which is pretty crazy. Was with Jelly Roll earlier at the festival. And that's another guy that's been pretty amazing to see, like, Jelly Roll stories. Super. Just professionally. Like, he was like with three six Mafia back in the day. Like, he was a hip hop artist. Like a full hip hop Artist and I would see Jelly Roll on the golf course in Nashville. I, when I first moved to town, I lived on, in this gated community. I never lived in a gated community, but I was starting to make money and I had been like jumped. I'd been attacked. I got pistol whipped at an ATM once. I got jumped at work, outside of work, going in. And so when I moved to Nashville, they made me move somewhere that either had security or had gates. It was kind of part of the deal. And so I moved into this gated community. It was kind of crazy because like Rascal Flats lead singer lived there, Carrie lived there, I moved there and there's a golf course and I would see Jelly Roll on the golf course. Except I didn't know him from anything other than people would say he's a very face tatted rapper. But he was also on the golf course and he was in a country club. And I thought the juxtaposition of that was crazy. So that's how I knew Jelly Roll to begin with. He played golf with like Steve Hodges who was like a record guy. And so I would see Jelly Roll and wouldn't know much about him until later he got into the country music space. Now he was a fan of our show and we were probably his first ever country interview that he did. And he came in for like 45, 50 minutes. That interview has been streamed millions of times at this point. But even then you could tell the guy was super appreciative for all the new things that had happened to him. Now he's got a really great come up story as well. Like spent a lot of time in prison, like cut a lot of his creative teeth in prison and now goes back to prisons a lot and works with inmates and has built recording studios in prisons just so these guys and women know that there's, when you do get out, like there is a way to actually be successful. But Jelly Roll's been that guy and he was here today. He's lost 200 pounds, which is crazy to see. He's like almost half, you know, of what he used to be. He had a wrestling shirt on which is, you know, there's nothing more Jelly Roll than Jelly Roll wearing a wrestling shirt. Another thing about Jelly that was super cool is what he, he was a wrestler, like Raw and he wrestled Logan Paul and like for a guy that came up growing up in the south that loved wrestling, actually got to go and wrestle like on a pay per view, like it's super cool. And to be able to, to see him here tonight, and I hadn't seen him in probably, like, three months. But the cool thing about Jelly Roll is that he remembers everybody's name. And if you were like, I don't want to use the word loyal, because I wouldn't say I was loyal. But he was a fan of the show. His mom was a fan of my show. And as soon as he sees you, it's like, what a big hug. In this situation, too, I would expect you kind of know what you're walking into with interviews, but I saw Jelly Roll the last time before this, I was in New Orleans for the super bowl, and. And I was on Fox, and I was doing. I was giving away an award for the NFL honors, and Jelly Roll was a part of one of the sketches. And again, there are much more, much cooler people there than me at this event. But Jelly Roll's in the second row, and as soon as the lights go down and they go off of the television to commercial, first person yelling Bobby from the crowd was Jelly Roll. So that's just one of those guys that as soon as you see him and he's so nice and kind, you're like, is that real? For sure is real. We were walking in, we saw LL Cool J. He's a big dude. Like, still a big dude. Full, long leather, like, still puts on a super energetic, like, sweaty show. But that was super cool. Brian Adams. Rumor is he had everybody clear the room earlier when he was going into the room, and I thought, well, that's interesting. Brian Adams, because that's, like, got my first real. And, you know, some people don't want people, like, staring at him. I get it. But then when I saw him walk by, he had, like, one person with them. Usually it's people that have, like, 20 people inside their entourage. So I don't really know if that story is even true that he didn't want people looking at him, but saw Bryan Adams. Pretty crazy to see somebody you've only seen on television. Saw Maroon 5, dude. Adam Duritz. No, Adam. Adam Levine. Yeah. Duras is kind of gross. Thank you. Full of tattoos. I was talking to a guy a few minutes ago, and I was like, hey, who do you want to see? And this guy's probably, like, 65 or so. And I thought maybe he'd say Sammy Hagar, because Sammy Hagar's playing tonight. And he said, Tate McRae. And I said, well, how about that? Look at you. Look at you. He's like, I bet she's a great performer. I was like, I bet that's my. So it's an interesting night tonight. This is always the coolest festival. Big thanks to Hyundai as well, because one they give me a car and it's my favorite car. It's awesome. And I was caught on Mike earlier. I'll give you one other behind the scenes thing. We were doing this video shoot with Bailey and Diplo and I was miked like an hour before. So I had this mic on the whole time. And the Hyundai people have headphones because they want to hear the shoot. I forget that I'm wearing a mic because you don't see the mic. It's taped to my chest. And Bailey comes up and he's like, do you like this car? And I'm like, dude, if I didn't have this car given to me, I would buy the car. And he was like, are you serious? I said, I made my brother in law buy this car. And so it's a fantastic car. Like I have right now, I have the Santa Fe, but we were doing the Santa Fe, the Palisade hybrid, which is awesome. So check it out. Check out Hyundai if. If you haven't like the elite cars. And they sponsored the in the house of music in front of the arena, which was super cool. So that's what we got from here. Thank you guys for listening to this. Again, thanks to Diplo and Bailey Zimmerman, all of our guests at iHeartRadio Music Festival 2025. Fantastic. I'm watching the screen now. I think I saw my uncle. Nope, it's Sammy Hagar. It's Sammy Hagar on the stage right now. And Uncle Sammy is going hard right now. Looks like they just pulled him out of the. Hey, why don't you get up there and do a couple songs? And he's doing them. So super cool. Thank you guys for listening. And by the way, you can watch the show. I know they're going to do a replay on Hulu. We'll give you more details on the show. But if you want to watch the iHeartRadio music festival, we'll give you all those as well. All right, you guys have a good day. See you later. No need to clap.
