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Joe Rogan Experience #2386 - The Red Clay Strays

Brandon Coleman, Andy Bishop, and Drew Nix are members of country rock group The Red Clay Strays. Catch them in 2025 on the Get Right tour, and look for their most recent album, "Live at the Ryman," anywhere music is sold. https://www.redclaystrays.com Get a free welcome kit with your first subscription of AG1 at https://drinkag1.com/joerogan This video is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit https://BetterHelp.com/JRE

Brandon ColemanguestJoe RoganhostDrew NixguestAndy BishopguestBand member / associate (likely touring or former member mentioned, e.g., Ethan from Paw Paw's Medicine Cabinet)guest
Sep 30, 20252h 24mWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 0:0015:00

    (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast,…

    1. NA

      (drum roll) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

    2. NA

      The Joe Rogan Experience.

    3. BC

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music) Well, I mean, we haven't done many podcasts but, uh, we were on Theo's last year, and, uh, it -you know, Theo's gets a lot of engagement, a lot of views. Ours didn't do too well. I think Bertcast did all right.

    4. JR

      I -you gotta not pay attention.

    5. BC

      I know, I don't.

    6. JR

      You do not pay attention. Don't pay attention to numbers, don't pay attention to shit. Don't read the comments.

    7. DN

      That's where I messed up.

    8. BC

      (laughs)

    9. DN

      I got called a lesbian so many times.

    10. BC

      Yeah, they let Andrew off with the comments? (laughs)

    11. JR

      He said mustached lesbian. (laughs)

    12. DN

      Mustached lesbian? (laughs)

    13. BC

      Where'd that come from?

    14. JR

      What, he's like, "He looks like Matthew McConaughey." I don't know.

    15. DN

      Well, it's, uh, might be the chain.

    16. JR

      Maybe.

    17. DN

      That, that looks very lesbian-esque.

    18. BC

      (laughs)

    19. DN

      My sister-in-law made...

    20. JR

      It's not, it's not a bad one. It's not bad. There's nothing wrong with being a lesbian.

    21. AB

      It's not that bad. (laughs)

    22. DN

      (laughs) No, nothing's wrong with being a lesbian.

    23. JR

      (laughs)

    24. DN

      I'm just a heterosexual male.

    25. BC

      That's all-

    26. JR

      With a wonderful mustache.

    27. BC

      I went back to the comments last night and, uh-

    28. DN

      Oh.

    29. AB

      Oh, don't do that.

    30. BC

      I did. And somebody was like, uh, "Andrew, come on, man. Don't sit with your legs crossed." That was just the latest one. Was there-

  2. 15:0030:00

    Well, that's very unusual.…

    1. BC

      You know? "He who is greatest among you, let him be your servant," is what I, is just always pops in my head. So it's like, if I want to make this thing work, how can I serve these guys? How, you know? When we'd have to share a hotel room, we would all, all five of us be like, "I'll sleep on the floor." "No, no, you're good, you take the bed." "I'll sleep on the floor." We'd have to fight over who gets the floor, you know what I mean? And then once it becomes a selfless thing instead of a selfish thing, you're not... I don't know, and when everybody shares that mindset, we're all worried about one another, I don't, I don't really see how you could break up.

    2. JR

      Well, that's very unusual. And that sounds fantastic 'cause that's kind of the opposite of most rock and roll bands. Like, most rock and roll bands, it is all about, you know, the lead singer or the lead guitarist and who's the most famous, who gets the most chicks and who gets the most attention.

    3. BC

      Yeah, we don't care about any of that.

    4. JR

      So where did that, this mindset start with you? How did you guys develop this mindset?

    5. BC

      Uh ...

    6. JR

      Is that how you grew up?

    7. BC

      I- I grew up, um, that way, yeah. My, my mother used to read us the Bible as, as children and stuff, so we always grew up knowing about Jesus and everything. And then, so that's pretty much what led me to make the leap, I guess. You know what I mean? We ... I never had parents that were pushing me to go to college or pushing me to do something. They were just like, "Have a relationship with God." That's really the only thing that I got pushed by my parents. And so, um, I've always been blessed or cursed with kind of looking at all this as temporary, you know? "What's the point in it," kind of thing. You can't take any of it with you and there's nothing new under, under the sun. It's all chasing wind. What's the point in all this? And so that, really getting into, well, a creator created you, he created all of this and he put you here for a reason. Well, if that's the case, what's the reason? Okay, if this is the reason, then, um, I'm, here I go, God, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna, I'm gonna make the leap and I don't know what, how it's gonna work out, but I'm just gonna trust you, work hard and trust you. And, uh, and that's really all we've done. You know? There's no plan to it. Every... We get asked quite often, "How do you make it?" And, um, I just work hard and trust God. That's, that's all, that's the only thing that I can ever think to answer with, because the shows we've played and the doors we've walked through led to new opportunities, you know, many days, many months, many years down the road that we could have never planned. And we've just been, just ... And then you can look back and acknowledge the, the stone, the stepping stones that he was placing the whole time. And, uh, even if it doesn't make sense in the moment, you know, just being able to go back and look at like, "Wow, I see, I see why that happened now. I see why we went through that. I see ..." That's, that's just crazy to, crazy to go back and look at. God's-

    8. JR

      But that's very wise-

    9. BC

      Yeah.

    10. JR

      ... for a young person to think that way. Like, how old are you, how old are you now?

    11. BC

      29.

    12. JR

      Yeah, you're very young. And when you started, that's even younger, that like, to be able to think that way at an early age, there's nothing new under the sun, like, "What's my purpose? My purpose is to serve. My purpose is to do something with this gift that I've been given and to follow this path." That's, that's very unusual.

    13. BC

      I, I ... Cool. (laughs)

    14. JR

      (laughs)

    15. DN

      (laughs)

    16. BC

      Yeah.

    17. JR

      I mean, it's great.

    18. BC

      Yeah.

    19. JR

      It's great. It's a great example for people.

    20. BC

      Yeah.

    21. JR

      Because it is a mindset, and that mindset will serve you so much better than the other mindset.

    22. BC

      Yeah, man.

    23. DN

      Mm-hmm.

    24. JR

      The other mindset of chasing things is how you lead to Elvis on pills.

    25. BC

      Yeah.

    26. JR

      You know? He was my favorite Elvis.

    27. BC

      Yeah, dude.

    28. DN

      That was the fun Elvis.

    29. JR

      (laughs)

    30. BC

      '70s Elvis, karate?

  3. 30:0045:00

    To get 100 bucks?…

    1. BC

      ... Our song Drowning, Drew wrote that during COVID when we were driving for Uber trying to keep the bills paid. We were ... My goal was to make 100 bucks a day for Uber. And, uh, driving for Uber in Mobile, Alabama sucks. Uh, I'd have to do, like, 12, 14 hours a day to get that. And then most-

    2. JR

      To get 100 bucks?

    3. BC

      Yeah. And then most of the time spent-

    4. JR

      So that was just five years ago?

    5. BC

      Yeah.

    6. AB

      Mm-hmm.

    7. JR

      Wow.

    8. BC

      Yeah. And we were locally famous at the time, so I was picking up people and they went, "Oh my God, Reclay Strays."

    9. JR

      (laughs)

    10. AB

      (laughs)

    11. BC

      "Yeah, man, get, get in."

    12. AB

      "Hop in." (laughs)

    13. JR

      Really?

    14. AB

      I don't want to talk about it. (laughs)

    15. JR

      (laughs)

    16. AB

      Make sure to leave a tip.

    17. BC

      That's-

    18. AB

      Dude.

    19. BC

      That's crazy. I, I picked up, like ... And I, I was driving a Hyundai Sonata, and I had to ... I picked up, like, five Black dudes, they wanted to get in the Hyundai Sonata to go to the stripper club.

    20. AB

      (laughs)

    21. BC

      And I was like, "Y'all can't ... Like, all five of y'all can't fit in here. I can only take, like, four at the most." So they had to leave one behind. (laughs) And I had to take them, like, 30 minutes across town. That's what Mobile is, everything is, like, a 30-minute drive. And so I took them 30 minutes across town to the stripper club. There's some very interesting...... people at nighttime who get Ubers, just so you know.

    22. NA

      Mm-hmm.

    23. JR

      I'm sure.

    24. BC

      Yeah.

    25. JR

      And they probably wanna talk to you.

    26. BC

      Sometimes. The worst was people with bad BO.

    27. JR

      Oh.

    28. NA

      Mm.

    29. DN

      Get in your car with bad BO?

    30. BC

      Yeah.

  4. 45:001:00:00

    No value for human…

    1. JR

      to do things to people that are just entirely evil, for profit, for whatever justification they can come up with.

    2. BC

      No value for human life.

    3. JR

      None. None. And I think one of the problems with doctors and, uh, my friend who's a doctor t- told me this, was like, "You just get numb. When you see too many people die," he's like, "it's a very, it's a very dangerous state of mind because you just see someone and you're like, well, he's gonna die, and then you go have a sandwich."

    4. BC

      We're getting numb as a society of seeing people die.

    5. JR

      Well, the Charlie Kirk thing fucking opened up my eyes.

    6. BC

      Yeah.

    7. DN

      Mm-hmm.

    8. JR

      I, I never expected so many people would celebrate that man's murder.

    9. BC

      That is evil. That's-

    10. JR

      Bizarre. It was just bizarre, like normal people that I think think they are good people and they think, they genuinely think that guy was a bad guy, and I don't think they were right and I think they were indoctrinated and I, I don't agree with everything that Charlie Kirk said or did, but it's-

    11. BC

      I don't care if he was a bad guy or not.

    12. JR

      He's not a bad guy. He was-

    13. BC

      I don't wanna see him- I don't wanna see anybody die.

    14. JR

      First of all, he's fucking your age, right?

    15. DN

      Yeah, he's in his 30s.

    16. BC

      Yeah.

    17. JR

      He's a young guy, right? And he, you know, would go around to college campuses and have arguments with people or have discussions with people or have debates with people.

    18. BC

      Yeah.

    19. JR

      But it infuriated p- people because they felt like this guy is going against the progress that was being made in society, but what he did not feel like was progress, like it was a progressive agenda that was being pushed in most college campuses. It's a leftist, Marxist sort of agenda. He didn't feel like that was the correct way to live and f- he felt like he had arguments against it and he wanted ... And it was, you know, it's a business too, right?

    20. BC

      Yeah.

    21. JR

      Like, he developed this big social media platform because of it and I, you know, I don't, like I said, I don't agree. I don't think he- some of the things he said he should've said, but the fact that people were cheering when he died, normal people, housewives, moms, like, fucking people working at banks, people working at various industries, celebrating a man getting shot in front of his kids-

    22. BC

      That's-

    23. JR

      ... and in front of the whole world.

    24. BC

      That's evil.

    25. JR

      What the fuck is wrong with us?

    26. BC

      Yeah. That's, that's evil. Um, I don't know. That kind of ... I think it, it really, it made me feel extra weird too because it was an innocent man. I'll give some leniency, you know, maybe, uh, they're doing a public execution of like a mass murderer or-

    27. JR

      Right.

    28. BC

      ... a child rapist.

    29. JR

      Child molester.

    30. BC

      You know, something like that.

  5. 1:00:001:09:33

    They're gonna try. They're…

    1. BC

      all that happening, and that, and it always makes me wonder, I wonder how it's gonna go down here, because we are the different ones with the, with the guns and stuff. I wonder how far it's gonna go here before something happens, something pops off.

    2. JR

      They're gonna try. They're gonna ke-

    3. BC

      Yeah, you know they are.

    4. DN

      Mm-hmm.

    5. JR

      They're gonna try, and they're gonna keep, ke- keep trying. They're gonna continue to try, and they're gonna try to sneak it in. And if it's not for independent journalists that call that shit out, we would be in real trouble.

    6. BC

      Yeah.

    7. JR

      It would've already happened. It would've already happened. They would've put it... They were trying to institute a vaccine passport, and the vaccine passport would be attached to a digital ID so that you would know. But that digital ID would then be transferred to a social credit score. And, and then they wanted to do a carbon tax. So they wanna do a, a th- a thing that tracks your carbon. So it tracks how many miles you drive, tracks your purchases, so it tracks how much carbon you're com- you're com- commit- com- com- you're contributing to-

    8. BC

      Yeah.

    9. JR

      ... the environment. It's, it's crazy.

    10. BC

      And somehow paying more money will, will stop that, won't it?

    11. JR

      Oh yeah, that's what we need to do. You just need to tax people more.

    12. BC

      Yeah.

    13. JR

      Tax people more, and it, it's all gonna come and make normal in the end. It'll be perfect.

    14. DN

      Yeah.

    15. JR

      Utopia.

    16. BC

      You're a farmer with cows, you gotta, you know, pay taxes on those cows 'cause they're farting, isn't it?

    17. DN

      'Cause they're farting.

    18. JR

      Well, how about in other countries? They're killing cows. They're, they're forcing them to kill cows 'cause those cows are producing too much methane, so they're saying you have to kill 2,000 cows, 1,000 cows.

    19. DN

      Wow.

    20. BC

      Food.

    21. JR

      Yeah, yeah. So they control your food.

    22. BC

      Yeah.

    23. JR

      That's exactly what it is.

    24. BC

      It was w- I remember when all those, uh, those, uh, chicken farm- or chicken houses burnt down-

    25. DN

      Oh, yeah.

    26. JR

      Yeah.

    27. BC

      ... a couple years ago.

    28. JR

      Yeah.

    29. BC

      That was really weird too.

    30. JR

      Yeah, it's real weird. But the chickens, chicken houses do burn down.

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