Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2386 - The Red Clay Strays
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #2386 - The Red Clay Strays' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-09-30. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #2386 - The Red Clay Strays

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
burt cast it all right i you gotta not pay attention i know i don't not pay
attention
don't pay attention to numbers don't pay attention to shit don't read the
comments that's where i
messed up i got called a lesbian so many times he's like he looks like matthew
mcconaughey
i don't know it might be the chain maybe that that looks very lesbian-esque
thank you
not a bad one it's not bad it's nothing wrong with being a lesbian no nothing's
wrong with
being a lesbian i'm just a heterosexual male that's all with a wonderful
mustache
i went back to the comments last night and uh oh don't do that and somebody was
like uh
andrew come on man don't sit with your legs crossed that was just the latest
one why is it always me
getting picked on did you sit with your legs crossed in the typical liberal
fashion i mean like the gavin
newsome style yeah you can't do that yeah i was i mean there's a little bit of
a gap there the thing is if you get the real the the deep scissor the deep scissor
is like signaling
the trick is you gotta you gotta scoop then yeah you gotta get your stuff out
the way yeah i don't know
it doesn't doesn't seem comfortable i've been doing it for a long time
so are you you guys are you were telling me you're kind of burnt right now so
you guys are fully on the
road right now oh yeah i say that and then and then the next moment i'm walking
around i was like dang
this is fun but yeah which but usually about this time of the year uh where we
have a couple more
months left it's like man we're almost done getting to be home for a while more
than two days at a time
how long have you guys been on the road for to this year or just in general
well all all told uh we
started touring in andrew's acadia in 2018. and has it been flat out since then
pretty much i mean
we usually little breaks yeah we only would break in december for christmas um
and uh but it's gotten
better this year we started touring in july which was good because we usually
start um we would usually
start in april or when did you end we we end in december oh okay that's not too
bad no well this last
year we started in march with canada yeah canada but that was like a month that
didn't really count
how long have you guys been together all told we got so we this red clay strays
got together uh in
december 2016. but before that uh drew was the manager of a cover band and andrew
was the bass
player in the cover band and what were you guys covering everything the good
stuff yeah just blues
just like really bad blues yeah we used to run people out in country and how
did you guys all get
together i met drew um through the mutual friend uh we were working out in the
gym together i was in high
school and drew um this guy was like hey man i'm i got a buddy he's kind of he's
kind of down on his
look he's like squatting in my dorm and i want to give him something to do i
want to give him something
to do i didn't think i was down on that down on my luck nobody ever does man
nobody ever does i'm
just repeating what i heard and uh yeah so drew never done anything like that
he had never booked
or was he was trying to be a middle school teacher football coach that's what
he was going to college
for and um high middle school high school college that's what that was the goal
i know but
realistically never had that's just where i was going to land 10-4
never done anything in the business though and he just like i'm what did you
say he's like i'm gonna
i'm gonna do everything i can to help you make it and uh i was like 18 and he
was like 22 23 and he
had us playing in every single bar on the gulf coast and uh we didn't know
anything about the
business either so the the manager booking agent fee is you know 15 we didn't
know about that so we
cut him in evenly oh boy yeah and uh so he'd show up and drink beer at our
shows and he'd always be at
our practices and he was fully committed and so he got an even cut and he ended
up turning his life
around and he was able to scoot around and buy burgers and not be down on your
luck anymore hallelujah
i think that's impressive never done anything like that and you stepped up and
became a legitimate
booking agent and a legitimate manager yeah i mean i just saw something i knew
that was
incredible and i was like all right well what do i need to do to get this guy
in front of people
and i just i would sit in like i work for the equipment staff at south alabama
and i would sit
in the equipment room between washing jock straps and like you know setting up
cone drills or whatever
and just like put posted notes up on the wall and just write numbers down and
just call all these people
until like somebody picked up or like hey like what's the email for booking or
whatever and i'd just book
as much as i could so it was basically just learning on the job trying to
figure it out as you go
yeah no experience in it whatsoever no wow that's a cool story yeah and it was
all just based on your
talent no it was what you saw right it was well yeah that night that night you
met the night uh the
night we met the night i met you yeah yeah i mean like the first time i heard
you on a cell phone
recording i was like yeah he's okay and then i heard him in person and i was
like oh my god all right
what okay what needs to happen here and yeah i had no idea i was just fully winging
it you know wow
those are the best stories though yeah you know the best stories are not
started in some
board room somewhere where a bunch of guys sit down with headshots and
demos and try to put people together the best stories happen just kind of like
what what were
you doing post-it notes you just called people like those are the best stories
we didn't even know how
to set up music equipment like we would have our our main set up behind us and
so the microphones
would be feeding back into the mains we didn't know what we were doing we just
knew we wanted to
play music so we'd show up to these bars and most of the time run people out
and clear the room out
because we were didn't know how to play music that well either guitar amps
turned up and we would show
up and just ruin people's evening and clear out a bar they're trying to watch a
football game and we show
up playing allman brothers and just the our guitar players just always crank
their amps we did have a an
old man drummer though that was the only thing about that band before red clay
strays
um so that was you didn't have to worry about the drums being too loud i guess
because he was just
doing his thing he ended up quitting um when we started traveling more and uh
that's when we started
holding auditions and we were going to audition this one guy and he flaked he
couldn't make the audition
we rescheduled him and he couldn't make the audition again and then we were
like
how did we get in touch with john what when did we audition him uh there's a um
ethan uh who was in papa's medicine cabinet yeah i reached out to him i was
like man i know you
play drums that was the best band in town at the time i was like i know you
play drums you probably
know a good bit of drummers like you know anybody who could use some work and
uh he uh john was playing
in a band called ryan dyer band back home and he said uh john just they just
separated from that band
so uh john's available you should get him for a tryout and i was like hey dude
you want to come
play with us or whatever and he showed up blaring skinner dinner with him and
his brother and like an
suv or something yeah we had like this is gonna work we had the auditions in uh
citronel alabama which
is like up in the sticks and he didn't have a phone um so he's like meet me at
the hardys at like
you know 6 30 or whatever time it was because he did we couldn't call him once
he left his house
and uh so andrew left you were driving the firebird at the time you left in the
firebird and met him
and brought him back and we auditioned him then and the audition went great he
showed up with with his
brother who uh played piano and um his brother wasn't trying to join the band
but his brother just played
with us and uh just the first song we played we we tried them out with a an
original that we were
working on which was a terrible song also but um yeah andrew and john locked in
immediately and just
they hit the all the pauses together and i just remember still being blown away
by that just how
quickly y'all locked in and um and it still shows today on stage their their
chemistry they're just
they've got some kind of telekinetic thing going on i think because they the
big thing was coming from
that old man drummer and then that's the first time i've ever played with like
a real drummer besides
my own dad his name was ray and me and john i mean we can we it's really weird
how when we first
started like we can we know a lot when we played in those bars it was improvised
you know we're playing
covers we're not even playing them the right way and we can hit those pauses
without looking at each
other like we just know what each other's gonna do so as a bass player your
drummer's your best friend
even though we're me and john probably butt heads more than anybody in the band
but that's the
relationship that is a big part of the problem with a band is that you guys
just get on each other's
nerves right uh i mean just like any other i mean we're just like brothers it's
a well it's a group of
guys and you're traveling all year round you'll get pissed off at each other
for sure if a band says
they're not they don't get pissed off they're lying or they just don't like
each other for real but you
just we just something we actually learned as men were was how to talk about
your feelings with each
other too because in the early stages it was you know i had anger issues i'd
just get pissed off
real quick was it about the mustache no i didn't have the mustache yet maybe
that's what it was i was
immature i was in you had long hair yeah yeah these guys had to learn how to
communicate and set
boundaries and i didn't talk about my feelings growing up as a kid supposedly
that's not healthy
no that's not good but uh john you know he would show up hammered to the bus
and
i would i just had to learn to just bite my tongue like you're not going to
change somebody's mind
just let them go and talk about it tomorrow but we all had things we worked on
together
stuff like that well it's the final product's amazing and the new album is
really good it's coming out in
june of next year is that when it's supposed to come out we're shooting for
summer of next year
we don't really know yet um because the press thing that i got said june of
next year i'm like this
should go out now yeah you're probably the only one that's supposed to know
that oh really well
everybody knows now yeah but i mean we're still working on mixes hopefully
hopefully june is is going
to be the ticket well it's really good and the final product you guys are very
unique you have a very
unique sound and it's very fun yeah so it's you know i know it's got to be a
lot of work whenever i do
shows and i show up at a place and you know like if i do an arena it's just me
and my friends we just
have to roll in there and hi yeah and i see you guys you got trucks and this
and that and there's so
many fucking people involved and it's oh yeah whoo it's a lot there's a lot of
moving pieces to keep
together so for you guys to consistently do it and to bang out amazing music
over and over and over again
it's it says something yeah man and it we just had to grow together i mean even
at that rehearsal we
were like we got one more rehearsal we got one more tryout with the guy who flaked
out on us and
john was like who is it i was like uh travis patch and he was like oh you're
gonna hire travis patch
but i think travis patch he couldn't make the next tryout two