Brandon Coleman
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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 here I go, God.
I'm going to do it.
I'm going to make the leap, and I don't know how it's going to work out, but I'm just going to trust you, work hard and trust you.
And that's really all we've done.
We get asked quite often, how do you make it?
And just work hard and trust God.
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 many days, many months, many years down the road that we could have never planned.
And then you can look back and acknowledge the stepping stones that he was placing the whole time.
And 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 why that happened now.
I see why we went through that.
I see that's just crazy to go back and look at.
I say that, and then the next moment I'm all kind of like, dang, this is fun.
But, yeah, usually about this time of year where we have a couple more months left, it's like, man, we're almost done.
Would you have wanted to spar with Elvis?
Getting to be home for a while, more than two days at a time.
Well, I mean, we haven't done many podcasts, but we were on Theo's last year, and you know, Theo's gets a lot of engagement, a lot of views, ours didn't do too well.
To this year or just in general?
We started touring in Andrews Acadia in 2018.
See, I did martial arts in middle school.
I did Shotokan karate, and I loved it.
And part of me wants to get back into it, but there's the whole Elvis thing.
This is going to be Brandon on Halloween.
Hey, dude, he was on top of the world.
Yeah, we'd break in December for Christmas.
That's going to be my manager.
We pick on Cody.
You just met him back there.
It's like, you're just going to end up being Colonel, bro, one day.
No, we hold each other accountable.
But it's gotten better.
This year we started touring in July, which was good because we usually start in April or May.
That's very good.
We always, too, just think about what you were talking about.
We think we suck.
Like the feeding into the I'm better than everybody.
We end in December.
It's like, well, it's just probably downhill from here.
You know, people, they find new hobbies and new things to like, especially now faster than ever.
People's attention spans are so short nowadays.
It's like, oh, yeah, we're on top right now.
Yeah, but they'll forget about us.
No well this last year.
We started in March with Canada Yeah, Canada, but that was like a month.
We get asked a lot at VIP, what was the moment you knew you made it?
I don't want to make it.
What's after making it?
I don't want to just be there and make it.
I didn't really count how long you guys been together all told we got so I
Yeah, I say that to people too.
Just from the outside looking in, you think if you've never done it before, man, it'd be cool to get a song and a show.
It'd be cool to get a platinum single.
It'd be cool to sell out Red Rocks.
And once you do it, it's like, okay, we did it.
Nothing changed.
It's like when your birthday comes, do you feel older?
Do you feel older?
No, I feel the same.
It's good to have goals.
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 just blues just like really bad blues yeah we used to run people out in country and how did you guys all get together
Well, we do stray, to play on our name a little bit, I think we do stray a little bit from the industry.
Because our fan base is a lot of sad people, a lot of depressed people, a lot of people who were suicidal.
And we make music for that fan base, I guess.
And you're not going to hear that at a country music festival on the beach.
We get messages every day.
And sometimes they email our agents and stuff.
We had one lady who sent us an email saying she decided to off herself, take a lot of pills, and she wanted to go to sleep.
listening to music.
As she was laying there waiting to take the big nap, our song I'm Still Fine came on and it kind of snapped her out of it a little bit and she started crying and
Immediately regretted it and got up and called her sister and told her sister what she had just did.
And they rushed her to the hospital and did whatever at the hospital for someone who takes a lot of pills at once and saved her life pretty much.
Yeah, it was so moving.
And that's what really makes it.
worth it for us because touring is a lot touring sucks a lot of the times and if we were just doing it to be popular to be famous or to be relevant make money i i don't think that's enough to keep me going because being on the road is very hard what what keeps us going is those stories and seeing how our music at our at the concert seeing how our music affects people uh and helps them in a positive way and so i don't know that's that's just where we get our fulfillment from
A lot of it came from us not feeling good.
Drew and my brother Matthew are the main writers for the band.
You know, our song Drowning, Drew wrote that during COVID when we were driving for Uber trying to keep the bills paid.
My goal was to make $100 a day for Uber.
And driving for Uber in Mobile, Alabama sucks.
I'd have to do like 12, 14 hours a day to get that.
And we were locally famous at the time, so I was picking up people.
And they're like, oh my God, Rick Clay Strays.
You know what I mean?
I don't want to talk about it.
Make sure to leave a tip.
I picked up like, and 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.
And I was 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.
And I had to take them like 30 minutes across town.
That's how 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.
The worst was people with bad B.O.,
And then leave it.
I'm like a germ freak.
Sometimes, yeah.
And especially with smells.
I can't get like a fresh air.
I feel like I'm suffocating.
And this frat guy got in my car one time and he was something.
And he was going to Lowe's to get like something for a beer pong table.
He was getting ready to have a frat party and I had to drive him to Lowe's.
And he smelled like he had never taken a shower.
And so I was just trying not to freak out.
I was just like.
And I was sweating by the time he got out of the car.
I'd pick some people up.
Oh, people just put too much faith in Uber drivers.
I'd pick up people from the hospital.
I picked up a blind lady from the hospital.
That's what they do if they don't have any family.
They'll call them.
I met Drew through a mutual friend.
They'll get him an Uber, and I had to help this blind lady get into her house.
I picked up this one guy fresh out of surgery.
He couldn't walk.
I had to get him in my car, and they got him a hotel, I guess, so I had to take him to the hotel, and I had to carry him out of my car and get him in his bed.
And I was just thinking, what if this wasn't me?
Or just somebody who didn't even care.
You know, that's just that kind of blew my mind a little bit.
How much faith hospitals put in Uber drivers is very sad.
We were working out in the gym together.
I was in high school.
And Drew, this guy was like, hey, man, I got a buddy.
Instagram reels will scare you too with all that stuff.
He's kind of down on his luck.
Stay away from that For You section.
I don't know what happened.
He's like squatting in my dorm, and I want to give him something to do.
How many videos did you watch after that?
I want to give him something to do.
Nobody ever does, man.
I'm just repeating what I heard.
Yeah, so Drew had never done anything like that.
He had never booked or – he was trying to be a middle school teacher football coach.
That's what he was going to college for.
I think Burt cast it alright.
I think I would pass out.
You wouldn't even need to do.
You probably wouldn't be awake.
Yeah, you wouldn't need anesthesia on me because I would pass out.
Never done anything in the business, though.
What are we doing to ourselves?
And he's just like, what did you say?
He's like, I'm going to do everything I can to help you make it.
It's getting weird, man.
And I was like 18, and he was like 22, 23.
Just delete that gene?
I've read something where they can, like, they're trying to grow babies in an artificial womb now.
And he had us play in every single bar on the Gulf Coast.
Some of the mother's brain.
Something from their brain like goes into the baby.
And we didn't know anything about the business either.
So the manager booking agent fee is 15%.
We didn't know about that.
So we cut him in evenly.
Yeah, and 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.
We're getting numb as a society of seeing people die.
I don't care if he was a bad guy or not.
I don't want to see anybody die.
Yeah, that's evil.
I think that's impressive.
I think it really made me feel extra weird, too, because it was an innocent man.
I'll give some leniency.
You know, maybe they're doing a public execution of, like, a mass murderer or a child rapist.
You know, something like that.
But seeing an innocent man trying to have a conversation, get shot in front of his kids.
Never done anything like that, and you stepped up and became a legitimate booking agent and a legitimate manager.
And people celebrate that.
It made me feel a certain way.
There's a Proverbs verse.
I can't remember where it's at, but it's like, he who doesn't find me harms himself, and he who loves death hates me.
And that, you know, if you love God and you can't love death, you can't love somebody getting killed.
There's the line right there.
There's evil and good right there.
And so there's no justification for that.
And we actually...
Because we've always made a point in the band to not get political.
We don't care what your politics are.
We just come listen to our music and come have fun at our show.
Every one of us in the band originally, we all have different views politically and religiously in some type of way.
But we managed to be brothers and be in a band together.
So I've just gotten – and I love a good political talk, but lately I've just been so –
So and I don't want to ever like divide my fan base or anything.
You know how you vote or how you believe is none of my business.
We are here to entertain you.
And so I'd never want to use my platform to do that.
But we're just we got so sick of seeing people put politics above humanity.
We had wrote a song about it in April in the studio called People Hatin'.
And we weren't going to put it out as a single at first.
We were going to do another song.
But after the Charlie Kirk thing, it's just like, hey, we got together and we were like, I think we need to put People Hatin' out instead for the first single.
Because we've got to start...
We've got to stop killing each other over beliefs and stop hating each other over beliefs, you know?
Everybody's race is different.
Everybody's experiencing life different.
And everybody's trying to figure it out the same as you are.
And it's just really weird now.
Yeah, I mean, you can't be against guns and then celebrate when someone is killed by a gun.
Most of the time you walk around, because we travel all over the place, and most of the time when you walk around, stop watching the news, get off your phone, and just walk around in society.
It's really not that bad.
You think it's weird now, wait till all these iPhone babies grow up and all these tablet babies grow up.
Have you seen the videos of taking the tablets away and the babies are like freaking out and having withdrawals and stuff?
I didn't have a smartphone until I was 16.
Yeah, dude, but that's better.
I've always been an Android guy because I was –
I'll give you some.
Yeah, we couldn't afford iPhones, and neither... I really didn't care.
I didn't even know what an iPhone was.
I just got whatever phone I could buy.
My dad got me the... I mean, my parents got me the little Sidekick and stuff, so I've always been on the Android side, and then...
When I started working as a teenager, I saved up and I bought my own smartphone from one of those cell phone shops in the strip mall.
And it was Android.
I never really got into the... I never cared, first of all, what phone people have.
It's you guys who care.
Man, it was after a show one time.
It was after a show one time a long time ago.
And I was talking to this girl.
This was like way back in the day.
And she's like, yeah, maybe we get your number.
And then I pulled out my phone.
She's like, oh, you have an Android?
I just walked off.
Just walked off.
She didn't like you anymore?
What we were just talking about.
When the iPhone babies grow up, they're going to be killing each other over phones.
What about the Android babies?
We just want to be left alone, man.
I married an iPhone user, and I don't care if she has an iPhone.
You're glad that you married an iPhone user.
I don't care that I married an iPhone user.
I love her anyway.
Just can't win with these people.
Now he's playing victim.
He wants to say it's an American company, but they're made in China.
Well, the owner, Tim, what's his name?
It'll get robbed, dude.
Yeah, that night you met.
Wow, that's wild.
So it's just like the government's saying, back off, China.
Spying on Americans is our job.
The night we met.
The night I met you, yeah.
There's some stuff in the big beautiful bill where it's like they were trying to sell some national park land or something.
Oh, it's just like reality.
I see all that happening.
And it always makes me wonder.
I wonder how it's going to go down here because we are the different ones with the with the guns and stuff.
I wonder how far it's going to go here before something happens.
Something pops off.
And somehow paying more money will stop that.
Farmer with cows, you've got to pay taxes on those cows because they're farting.
I remember when all those chicken farms or chicken houses burned down a couple years ago.
That was really weird, too.
There was a couple of years ago, this one farmer posted a video, like all of his cattle were just dead in the field.
And they said it was because of the heat or something, but this farmer had just tons of dead cows just all of a sudden.
It was going on the same time as the...
The chicken house is burning down, so it could have just been news adding on to news kind of thing.
This is what's in right now.
Cattle mutilations.
The alien thing is just another interesting topic.
There's random times where people are seeing all these crazy things in the sky, and it's like a big deal for a few days, and then you don't really talk about it anymore.
Did you see that one thing that lady was filming?
She was like, hi, do you know Jesus?
The wheels were like going crazy.
No, what is that?
Yeah, see, and the interesting thing about that, though, is that somebody in the Bible described seeing something, one of the angels or something.
Yeah, and the wheels on wheels.
Wheel within a wheel.
And that's what this thing was.
And she's like, do you know Jesus?
And then the wheels would just start spinning really, really fast.
And I was like, whoa, man, I hope that's real.
That's pretty cool.
It's just a star.
When she says, do you know Jesus?
It starts moving.
I think it's towards the end, but yeah, you get the idea.
Look, look, look, look.
Yeah, Jesus rocks.
But if that is real, dude, and that random lady's just filming that?
He was on Sean Ryan.
He's an old man, Chris something.
But people like celebrities go out to his land, and he's like, I can call these things on command.
You just called people?
They'll show up, and people go out to see it.
You should go there.
Like, those are the best stories.
Well, don't tell anybody.
Just go out for yourself.
We didn't even know how to set up music equipment.
That's a good question.
I can't remember that guy's name.
It's driving me crazy.
But yeah, he wrote a book called UFOs of God.
And I started listening to it.
And I'm just terrible about reading books and stuff.
So I got like the first three chapters in, but it was really interesting.
He's worked with, NASA showed up at his house.
I watched his, Sean Ryan, I think the guy's name is.
Like, we would have our...
I watched his podcast.
It was an interesting lesson.
Um, they're related with God somehow.
our mains set up behind us and so the microphones would be feeding back into the mains.
Yeah, I believe it too.
I think you should go out there and take him out.
Just don't tell anybody.
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 didn't know how to play music that well either.
It goes behind the cloud.
Joe, just go out there and see it and don't tell anybody.
I don't want to waste my time.
I feel like if they want to show themselves, they should just go ahead and do it.
I think they will eventually maybe if it's going to happen.
Isn't there verses about there will be signs in the sky?
Yeah, I was wanting to pull that up.
I was wanting to talk about that.
Guitar amps turned up, and we would show up and just ruin people's evening and clear out a bar.
That's the book that God predicts his own coming to earth and his own death and all that.
When you get into the... Because isn't there Egyptian stuff where there's men coming down from space?
They're trying to watch a football game, and we show up playing Allman Brothers, and just our guitar players just always crank their amps.
There's all sorts of weird shit.
That, to me, is just like...
It's all kind of lining up in some kind of way or another.
Whatever rebelled against God and came down here.
Men from the sky came down here and were pretty much posing as gods and demanding people worship them.
Isn't Enoch where they teach them about money and teach them about... Sorcery.
And you got to think this is pre-Jesus.
So God is separated from man.
So we're just walking around as people like not knowing what's going on.
And these things come down and they're boring giants and stuff.
It's like, you know, I'd probably think it's a God, too, for God's sakes, you know, because there wasn't.
Was the Jews even a thing when the Book of Enoch was written?
Well, I mean, when I say that, like, at one point, the Jews were God's chosen people.
We did have an old man drummer, though.
Like, they knew the God, the I Am, the one true God.
But the rest of the world didn't really know what was going on.
And so they were worshiping other gods.
So, like, aside from the Jews, the rest of humanity, seeing these things walking around, it's like, I'm sure they would think that's a god.
That was the only thing about that band before Red Clay Strays.
I'm sure they would worship that.
What else do they have to believe?
So 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
And I think going back to the flood, because like every other religion has some type of evidence of a great flood, correct?
So at one point or another, if God's creation did get corrupt, that was pretty much the great reset of he had to get rid of all that that he didn't create.
And I forgot where I was going with that, but yeah.
And I just think about stuff like that when they find this skull that they can't link anything to or find stuff that they can't link anything to.
It's like we don't really know what happened a long time ago.
We can pretend that we did, but I personally believe there was a –
and advanced civilization way back in the day before all that.
Haven't they found some fossils with grass still in their mouths?
And so they were wondering how could – they found some type of evidence of fossils where it seems like this animal was fossilized instantly.
I mean, it's it's fucking it might be wild to how much of that we were taught in school is like fact.
And then you grow up like, wait a minute.
We don't really know what's going on.
It goes back to the advanced civilization, man.
I think it was a different type of advance, like not power lines and stuff like that.
I think they honed into like natural energy from the earth.
Like I heard something about the pyramids may have been like some type of a power plant because they just found where those pillars go down in the ground.
I've seen one article.
They just discovered some ancient city.
And it was like a – they discovered something.
It was related to Christianity.
Like they discovered something, Christ is king.
But long story short, the whole entire –
Project just got shut down and they passed a law you can't dig there for like 20 years.
yeah we had like this is gonna work we had the auditions in uh citronelle alabama which is like up in the sticks and he didn't have a phone um so he's like meet me at the hardy's 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 it's just weird to just stop finding that out.
I got off on a giant kick one time reading about a giant.
And it's like any time the Smithsonian got involved, it was just shut down.
Well, if there is Antichrist on his way and his goal, he already knows he lost.
So his goal at this point is just to destroy as much as possible, you know, get as many souls as possible.
And finding stuff like that that would prove the Bible more true would turn...
more people to Christianity or to God, the one true God, then I could see where if there is like some type of spiritual force that is in somewhat control, then I could see that's the only way I can make sense of it is like why cover up progress?
Why not tell people the truth?
Loving yourself, and you're supposed to love God over yourself.
And the audition went great.
He showed up with his brother, who played piano.
To me, if somebody knows God, it is freeing in a lot of way.
And you realize that no government is above you or no man is above you.
God is above you and you serve God.
And if you can keep people away from God, you're that much more susceptible to being a slave to something else.
Yeah, anything that's going to prove God's existence, I think that's going to be the main thing they shut down.
And his brother wasn't trying to join the band, but his brother just played with us.
And just the first song we played, we tried them out with an original that we were working on, which was a terrible song also.
Somebody recreated it with gamma radiation, I think.
So it would need to be an extreme source of light to do that.
But the only problem is the heat from the light would have vaporized it realistically.
So they're wondering, well, if light did do it, how was there no heat?
So if Christ did raise and pass through it, there's also x-ray images in the shroud apparently.
They go back and forth on it.
Andrew and John locked in immediately and just they hit all the pauses together and I just remember still being blown away by that just how quickly y'all locked in and it still shows today on stage their chemistry they've got some kind of telekinetic thing going on I think I think the big thing was coming from that old man drummer and then that's the first time I've ever played with a real drummer besides my own dad his name was Ray
To me, seeing that, I really don't even care how old people think it is.
Figure out how they did that first, to me.
It's like, if this is...
I've seen one article last year where they found dirt particles that traced back to Jerusalem.
Like I say, they've been debunking it and saying it's authentic and debunking it, it seems like, for the last five or ten years now.
Just where are we at right now with it?
I haven't heard that one.
You haven't heard that?
I don't know about that because –
The Ark of the Covenant was when God the Father's presence was here on earth, not through Old Testament.
The I Am was down here, and that's what he resided in.
And you had to do all these things to be in his presence, or you would literally just die because he's holy.
To me, it's like lightness and dark cannot exist in the same place, so whatever.
But God the Father's presence isn't there anymore, so I don't understand why it would still be messing people up.
Like Wes Huff said, how they used to write things.
They'd leave stuff out back then because it wasn't required back then.
They would just write down the basics.
I watched that Wes Huff thing, and that was very interesting.
I went back to the comments last night.
Did you ever read that story?
It was somewhere in the Bible.
I can't remember where it's in the Old Testament.
Somebody stole the ark.
Well, some tribe stole the ark.
And like the next day, the next morning, like everybody was dead from stealing the ark.
And they pretty much said, hey, come get this thing.
We don't want it.
We have talked about that.
My brother is big on, like, he went down a remote viewing rabbit hole.
He was big on it.
Oh, don't do that.
I was saying for a while, though, before that documentary came out, the story, well, we lost the footage.
We lost all of it.
And it's like, did they just wait for technology to progress to be able to make a convincing documentary?
It's just weird.
If it is true, I've seen a video of something that was supposedly live streamed on the news back then.
And it was just this guy who was obviously hanging from a cable and he had this pathetic looking earth under him.
And it's not at all what actual space looks like now.
But this was like on the news apparently.
And somebody was like, Andrew, come on, man.
I'm just saying, if they were giving people LSD in brothels, I could see them faking the moon.
Don't sit with your legs crossed.
It's the world's piggy bank.
Well, I don't know.
It started off being pretty strong and having a lot of weight, but now it's just like they use it all the time.
That was just the latest one.
Yeah, and then they wouldn't even really know what a Nazi is at that point.
Is that when it's supposed to come out?
We're shooting for summer of next year.
We don't really know yet.
That's the questions that everybody needs to be asking.
Well, you can't blame people for asking these kinds of questions when you go to other countries and it's safe to walk around at night.
And it's a pretty clean city.
Why don't we have this?
You can't blame a society for asking those kinds of questions from their leaders.
And why don't you just clean up for a foreign government to come visit, which is cool or whatever, but you proved that you could.
And then why don't we just have that all the time?
I think there needs to be more stuff directed towards mental health.
A lot of those homeless people and people on drugs, some of them are mentally ill.
But we don't have any treatment for people like that hardly.
But, I mean, we're still working on mixes.
But it's just like some people are out there with no family.
Their family died when they were 18, and they're not mentally able to function in society.
They've been homeless for 20 years.
We need a place for people like that.
Hopefully June is going to be the ticket.
I'd roll the tax dollars to go to something like that.
Tylenol said in 2017, we actually don't recommend you take our product.
But to see people.
2017, they said.
Why let something dictate your life that much?
What was the last administration that was good at uniting in your opinion?
Or has it always been a divisive?
The war on terrorism.
They go anywhere with that.
Yeah, we're in a crazy time.
Again, that's what the song touches on.
We're actually going to put it out October 3rd because of it.
To people hating?
Just jaded on it, man.
A lot of people hating each other.
I know he loves it.
I eat it up, son.
Yeah, I don't care.
I wouldn't be doing this if I cared about people's opinion.
You know what I mean?
But you do care about good people's opinions.
You just don't care about the negative opinions?
I don't care about the negative opinions because I'm not...
I'm doing it for God, pretty much.
But, I mean, anytime I post a cover song, sorry, not Waylon.
Sorry, nobody will ever be George Jones.
I wasn't trying to be.
I'm just singing the songs, not that deep.
Good for you, man.
There's a lot of drama in the world.
If somebody tried to start drama with us, I don't even know if we would even reply.
It's weird about social media, too, is the algorithm.
Like someone left-leaning will have a completely different comment section than someone right-leaning.
Living in an echo chamber.
Oh, God, actually, I believe.
It would be relieving, honestly.
Could you imagine, though, like, I don't want to throw shade on anybody, but just dying.
And we just had to grow together.
It's like, oh, God, dang it.
They were right.
I mean, even at that rehearsal, we were like, we got one more rehearsal.
We make that joke.
Andrew's the only Catholic in the band.
I'm just going to be laughing at you because God probably will send you to a purgatory because you believed in it.
We'll know when we get there.
We got one more tryout with the guy who flaked out on us.
John was like, who is it?
And I was like, Travis Patch.
And he was like, oh, you're going to hire Travis Patch.
But I think Travis Patch, he couldn't make the next tryout two or something.
I will say that's what some of my favorite memories of Europe last year was seeing cathedrals, how beautiful they are.
It was kind of screwed up.
They were charging people at the door.
No, that was Anglican.
It wasn't Catholic, no.
And then that band played for a couple more months and broke up.
It's like we moved backwards.
How did stuff stop being beautiful?
Yeah, you can't do that.
You see a picture of a train from back in the day?
How beautiful a public train used to be?
They were turning up back then on flights, dude.
They had these big-ass seats.
Everybody looked relaxed.
Rappers don't even do that now.
They were living it up back then.
And then we hired Zach and just tried out Zach immediately.
No wonder people are so depressed nowadays.
He just came in shredding and he was always a great guitar player.
I've seen one picture.
Is there like a stand-up bar?
Didn't they have like a stand-up bar section where you walk around and go get a drink?
There's no overhead storage, it looks like.
Look at the colors of the seats.
They were hot stewardesses.
You had to be hot to be a stewardess back then.
And then that's when we became Red Clay Strays.
I get a lot of Elvis like, oh, he looks like Elvis.
He looks like Elvis.
That's why I won't do karate.
Because that's just the next thing they'll just tack on.
Oh, he's doing karate like Elvis.
I'm just like, yeah.
I want to do something, man.
I want to do boxing or something.
They need to go exercise.
You need to get outside and exercise.
We're creatures of habit.
We learn to walk by forming a habit.
And you can form good habits.
You get to a point where, like you said, man, I didn't get my run in today.
And it's like, oh, I need to go to the gym.
I need to fill a pump or something.
You get that habit going, man.
That's my middle name, Brandon Lane.
Stress my legs out.
Have they tried the head transplant yet?
That Nazi video of the dog heads weird.
And I didn't like Red Clay Streets.
I don't think any of us did.
Like they were poking on people's brain while they were still active.
At that point, God's just going, all right, that's it.
Pulling the plug.
And it would be cool if that was covered by insurance.
I was going to say that.
But some countries where it's not, some countries where they're overproducing, it's like, well, isn't England like below the rate they need to be?
You have two great ones to choose from.
If I need to start another band, I have it in the chamber.
I've seen a map of it.
I can't remember what's what.
Is it poor countries?
It was kind of scary.
It's a lot of poor countries.
Because that's how a culture disappears over time is low birth rates.
I mean, I think the single coming out October 3rd was all I wanted to make sure I talked about.
But, I mean, we've talked about a lot.
You've got to come catch a show sometime.
I would love to.
Did I tell you the story, the Kill Tony story?
So our first time, 2024 was a wild year for us.
Like, we got into Kill Tony and we were loving it and watching it.
And then a couple months later, it's like, you guys want to go see Shane Gillis?
And we were like, yeah.
They got us, like, they pulled us up backstage.
And as soon as we get out of the van, Tony's sitting there smoking a cigarette.
He's like, hey, what's up, guys?
And so we were starstruck immediately.
And then met Shane, and we kind of felt like Shane didn't know who we were, so we think he slipped off to the green room to look us up and come back.
It's like, yeah, man.
But that was just incredible.
And then, like, a few months later, we actually get to go to kill Tony, and that was just another mind-blown incredible, oh, my God, what is happening?
And they were like, hey...
Somebody was like, Rogan wasn't going to come out tonight, but he wants to meet you guys.
So, you know, he's going to come out at Mitzi's and talk to you guys.
We're getting a little nervous, a little freaked out.
And we were in Mitzi's hanging out with Hans, Cam, and Cam and all those guys.
And then turn around and there you are standing there.
I was like, oh, my God, there he is.
And you were standing there talking to people, though.
And me and Andrew were sitting at the bar, and Andrew was like, all right, I'm going in.
I don't understand why bands break up.
I was like, no, man, just wait.
Hey, Mr. Joe, this is my friend Brandon.
Yeah, let it happen naturally.
Let it happen naturally.
And so I was sitting there waiting on my time to strike, and I turned around to talk to somebody, and I turned back around where you were, and you were gone.
So I was like...
I felt like just the biggest hammer drop of all time.
I was like, dang, man.
I felt extra bad because I was told that you wouldn't want to come out, but you were coming out to meet us, and I felt like we just sat there and ignored you.
It was allowed then.
I don't know how they stay together.
I saw you also, and I missed my chance again, at UFC in December.
Yeah, you were commentating, and we were...
Across from you on the other side of the arena.
Theo was sitting behind you, I think, and we were on the direct other side.
Incredible experience.
Yeah, I just can't imagine.
And Theo actually, he got an extra ticket to Super Slap, and he invited me out of that.
Power Slap, yeah.
What an odd sport.
Super Slap's a better name.
That won't be around for a long time.
I've had so many... Why do you say that?
I don't know about that.
Dana's going to be paying money to, like, keep the studies away.
No, we've got to keep this going.
There's no scale.
They're not standing there just waiting for it.
The noise Power Slap makes in real life is uncanny.
When you hear that in real life, it's like, I've never heard a noise like that before, and that was on somebody's face.
It's like watching a cockfight or something.
After that, though, we got to meet Dana, and he hooked us up with the fight tickets.
I seen you, and then I said, oh, this will be my chance.
Afterward, we left our seats, and then we were going out, and then you immediately stood up and walked right in front of where I was sitting.
We got a lot of sad music.
Ruining everybody's buzz.
Before people come jumping on us for that, it'd be an honor to play at the White House, period, no matter who's in office.
It's like, what happened to just being able to go and meet the president?
It should be cool.
It should be a cool thing.
That would be cool.
Just going to the White House would be a big honor.
Yeah, we'll see.
I think you've got to have your mindset correct, man.
And for us, it's a God thing.
If you are just chasing worldly things, I guess, and worried about me and how I'm getting done wrong or how, you know, he's getting on my nerves, and that's what dictates your decisions, I can see, you know, you're going to walk away from that because people suck and people are always going to fail you at the end of the day.
But when you turn it into a, I'm not doing this for me, I'm doing this...
to fulfill my calling that God's giving me.
Um, and then it becomes a selfless thing.
You know, he, he was greatest among you.
Let him be your servant is what I was just always pops in my head.
If I want to make this thing work, how can I serve these guys?
When we'd have to share a hotel room, all five of us would be like, I'll sleep on the floor.
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 really see how you could break up.
Is that how you grew up?
I grew up that way.
My mother used to read us the Bible 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?
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.
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 the sun.
It's all chasing wind.
What's the point in all this?