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Derrick Stroup! | Are You Garbage Comedy Podcast w/ Kevin Ryan & H. Foley

A good lord, ladies and gentlemen, I do declare there's some new R.U. Garbage
dates over there at R.U. Garbage.com.
Yeah, the big man antlion, we just announced Netflix is a joke festival in Los
Angeles on May 7th,
and we have the Comedy Works in Denver, July 16th to July 18th.
Get those tickets, these shows are going to sell out. We love you.
We'll see you there.
Welcome to another exciting edition of R.U. Garbage,
the show where you find out if your favorite comedians are classy individuals
or absolute trash.
Now, here are your hosts, Kevin Ryan and H. Foley.
Hey, everybody out there, and welcome back to everybody's favorite podcast.
This is R.U. Garbage.
Oh, yeah.
It's that little show we sit there with your favorite comedians, and we find
that it's a joke to be classy.
Yeah.
Or just a big old piece of trash.
Trash, trash, trash.
I'm your host, H. Foley, coming at you on a beautiful day.
We're out back here at Tootie's in a new edition.
She's down at the DMV.
Okay.
Trying to beat a case.
Get down, man.
I got it jammed up.
Okay.
Fair enough.
Mike Coase is coming at you from right next to me, unamused this week.
A little bit of a swing and a miss, as they say.
He is the CEO of R.U. Garbage.
He is an international businessman and my best pal in the whole wide world, and
I love him.
Give it up for KJ, Kevin James, Ryan, everybody.
What up, gang?
Shout out to you.
Thanks for tuning in.
As always, make sure you rate, view, subscribe on iTunes.
Full video available on YouTube.
Full video available over there on Spotify, and the boys are climbing a chart.
Oh, yes, sir.
To the middle of the charts, not the top.
Who wants to be the top of the charts?
We're in a meeting.
We're in a meeting.
We're in a meeting.
Not showing off.
You know what I mean?
Then, obviously, the greatest website of all time, www.patreon.com.
Slash R.U. Garbage.
You go over there.
You get all that bonus content, gang.
Yes, sir.
And gang, we couldn't be more excited to have our incredibly, and I mean
incredibly, special guest here with us today for the first time.
He's a very funny, very successful stand-up comedian.
Seen him on Comedy Central.
You've seen him on Tonight Show.
He's one of the stars over there on Nate Land.
He's got a special out, Yelling My Feelings, and he's got a brand new special
coming out on Netflix in March.
Just did nine sold-out shows up there at Wise Guys in Utah.
Give it up for Derek Stroop, everybody.
Hey, hey, hey.
Kids got the hot hands.
Thanks for having me.
Thanks for having me.
Thanks for coming, buddy.
Yeah, man, I'm pumped.
You're like a southern closer.
You got the hat pulled down, coming out of the bullpen.
Yeah, yeah.
I love it.
Some people that don't know me are going to be like, looks like Blake Shelton
got stung by bees.
Man, all those country guys, there was a wave of them.
They were all good-looking as shit.
Oh, yeah.
The rugged masculinity.
The mid-2000s, they were all just gorgeous.
It does.
A cowboy hat does a lot for you, though.
It does a lot for you, not for me.
Yeah.
I look not so great in them.
I've tried.
If I could pull it off, I would.
A cowboy hat?
Yeah.
There's also something like, I can't be walking around the streets in New York
in a fucking
cowboy hat.
No, none of us can.
And Jordans, you know what I mean?
It's a tough look.
Howdy, sir.
Let me get chicken over rice, please.
Try your ethnic delicacies.
Derek, give us the backstory.
Where are you from?
Alabama, boy.
Alabama?
That's right.
Born in Charleston, West Virginia.
Raised in Alabama.
I'm a very unique breed.
Jesus Christ.
I thought it couldn't get worse.
You don't see that mix very often.
Six ways of Southern.
Yeah, man.
How many Charlestons are there, by the way?
Jesus Christ.
I know.
I mean, there's two that we mainly talk about, and it's never the one that I
was born in.
Yeah, I was going to say, I've never heard of Charleston.
Nobody ever assumes that, but yeah.
What was the jump?
Why jump?
And at what age was West Virginia to Alabama?
I moved to Alabama when I was nine years old.
Wow.
And my dad got a job right outside of Huntsville, Alabama.
And at the time, you know, felt like a real lateral move.
As I got older, I have to say, I think I made, it was a pretty good decision.
Huntsville has turned out to be a, it was a, I'm from Harvest right outside of
Huntsville.
I mean, Harvest sounds like a made-up place, I get that.
It's a little too on the nose.
It's like being from white people, Utah.
Apple Cider, Alabama.
Yeah, I'm from Tornado, Oklahoma.
But yeah, so a little town right outside of Huntsville.
It was a great area to grow up in.
It was great.
And what did your dad do?
He worked for my grandfather.
They had a family-owned business for probably the first 10 years that I lived
there.
And then that went under, and then he had to start a landscaping business.
And so, yeah.
They always go under.
Yeah, yeah.
The dream always sinks.
They can get there, they can't maintain it.
No, no.
I had about 10 years where, I mean, we were riding a heater.
Yeah, us too.
Yeah, same.
That's the only reason I know anything about hibachi, is that 10 years.
Yeah.
Have you been to this Benny on it?
Yeah, yeah.
Wait, okay.
So, was your grandfather from West Virginia, and they moved out and did the
business?
Yeah, yeah.
They moved down to Huntsville, and he was running it himself.
And so, he called my dad, who my dad was running a bar in Charleston at the
time.
He was running a bar?
Yeah, it was called No. 8 down on Capitol Street.
That's a great bar name.
Yeah, yeah.
The No. 8?
Underground, just a couple pinball machines and some stools.
But yeah, he ran that forever, and then he went into the family business with
my grandfather.
It was electrical contacts.
It was very unique.
They would take silver and put it on the copper, and they would sell it to
companies for transformers
and different things.
A lot of just standing up and welding and talk radio.
He made great money doing it.
But yeah, and then once that went under, we had to pivot to the landscaping
company, which
was a nightmare.
It does not seem like a lateral move.
You do not want to be the son of a landscaping company.
Had they ever done that?
Had they ever done that before?
No, no.
What year is this?
Is this when landscaping got hot?
Yeah, yeah.
No, this is like, this is when landscaping really took off.
I would say probably 20 years ago.
All right.
I mean, everybody had something in the back of their lawnmower.
They were pulling weed eaters.
A Toro.
Yeah.
I mean, he made killer money doing it, and I was of no help.
A lot of cash, too.
My other brother, Will, he helps out with it.
Still.
Yeah, yeah.
Still.
Still.
Will still helps with it.
Coaches baseball, helps my dad out with the company, but there's no way.
I mean, I did it on and off for several years, but I'm not laying any sod.
That is brutal.
Once you moved out there and became 16, 17, you were automatically on the crew,
I would
assume.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You start.
I mean, well, actually, let's get the timeline right.
This probably started happening when I was about 18, the landscaping stuff.
Okay.
So I was able to get out.
I went to Jacksonville State University, which is a tiny little school in
Alabama.
It's about two hours south of Huntsville, where I grew up.
I went there for seven years.
Dude, Southern guys go to schools you've never heard of.
Oh, every single one of them.
Did you stay at home and go to school, or did you live there?
Oh, no, no, no.
I lived in Jacksonville.
I had the absolute time of my life.
I mean, there was only like two bars there, seven restaurants, a school at the
time, probably
7,000 people, and I truly had the time.
And there was all kinds of, I mean, country singer Riley Green, me, Sam Hunt,
Drake White,
we were all, those are all country singers you probably don't know, but we were
all there
at the same time.
No shit.
Like a super group.
Yeah, yeah, Sam was playing at the local bar.
Riley went to school there and was playing.
And yeah, it was a wild, it was a great time, man.
That's not bad.
What'd you go to school for?
Well, several things.
We landed on recreation because I'd touched every one of them.
What the fuck is that?
Well, my final was canoeing and dodgeball, and that's not a joke.
Like, we would learn, we would get freeze tag for the class, and you would
learn the ethics
of freeze tag, of like how to treat people and keep people's boundaries safe.
But this isn't college?
Yeah, yeah, but you know, looking back, I've told my friends this, looking back,
I've always
wondered if I was in regular classes.
No, I don't think you were, dude.
No way.
I don't want to say anything.
They just duped me?
Yeah.
They go, no, no, this is a regular degree, and you're just like everybody else.
Freeze tag, dude?
Now, roll the ball.
Roll the ball.
Yeah.
That's wild.
Yeah, community rec is what it was.
Couldn't get into the horseshoe class.
What would you do with that?
Like, go work at a community center?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you would.
You know, when you walk into a community center and you see the guy that's like
yelling at
everybody in the middle of the gym, you're not going to believe this, but he
went to school
for that.
You know what?
When you put it like that, it's not a big gig.
It's a pretty sweet gig.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, it's a pretty sweet gig.
I mean, you got kids making more money than you, I believe.
But yeah, I mean, there's no way that you're just balling out.
It's a tough living.
No, no, I'm not trying to...
Community directors, you are the heartbeat.
I love y'all, but you're catching a stray here.
You know what's crazy, though?
They are becoming bigger and bigger.
In the area where you grew up outside of Philly, there's a bunch of huge
community centers that
are like YMCAs, but they're done by the township.
Yeah.
They're pretty sharp.
Yeah, it's nice.
I smell a second gig for you.
I smell a second gig for you.
I smell a retirement plan.
Somebody get me an application to Jacksonville Christian University College.
What was the college mascot?
Gamecocks.
Gamecocks.
Not bad.
What was the high school mascot?
Unbelievable.
It was the Senators.
The Senators.
Pretty classy.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I mean, what's your mascot?
We had a guy in a suit running around.
The other team's like, what are you going to do?
Pass a bill?
Yeah, I mean, classy until you have a pep rally.
He's filibustering and a guy in a suit comes out.
You're supposed to get fired up.
I never thought about it like that.
I thought it was supposed to be like a Roman senator.
Like the old, like, yeah.
No, no.
Ours is John Sparkman is who the school's named after, and he was a state
senator.
A state senator at that?
Not even a U.S.
Give it up for the comptrollers, everybody.
That's wild.
Coming out with a hell of a squad.
We got to say, he's had to be a U.S. senator.
He had to be.
Just for the sake of my school.
There's no way.
That's brutal, dude.
I go, my school's named after a county commissioner.
It's got to be a U.S. senator.
He was kicked out of office after six months.
Oh, for sure.
He got caught up.
Damn.
Okay.
All right.
I mean, we're off to the races already.
You know, what?
Was it just you and your brother?
No, I have a sister as well.
You have a sister.
I'm the oldest by a long shot.
And what'd your mom do?
Hold on.
What's how long of a shot?
12 and 16 years.
Yeah, that's a long shot.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
All right.
Same old, the same parents?
No, different parents.
Picked up on that.
No.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Don't know my dad.
You don't know your dad.
Don't know him at all.
I said you were working with him.
Yeah, that's my stepdad.
Ah.
Yeah, you'd know if he's 5'6 with black hair.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You'd go, hey, man.
Little Asian guy.
This guy's sleeping with your mother.
I like how you didn't nope him with that.
All right.
Hold on a second here.
Jesus Christ.
So your mom has you.
Yeah, yeah.
18 years old.
Your mom has you at 18.
West Virginia.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Charleston, West Virginia.
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