PipemanRadio Interviews Austin Meade at Aftershock 2023

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clubrong. It's pipe Man here on
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Radio, and I'm here with damn. I was gonna come up with something

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good, but you caught me off
guard on that one. I was gonna

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say Jeene Simmons or something. It's
Austin Mead here. You know what's fight

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that you mentioned Gene Simmons because yesterday
I interviewed Paul's suns band. No shit,

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Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah,
so you were right, you were

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like in the zone there somehow.
I mean, I don't know, maybe

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it just dropped from the sky,
that's right. So after shock, do

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you love this festival or what?
Pretty bad ass man. It's my first

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time here, so we're just checking
out. Yeah, well you thinking it's

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a media area like it makes you
want to come and do media right?

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Oh yeah, there's some good shade
here. Yeah, and you definitely got

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the open bar. You got the
drip bar, and then if you're here

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long enough, they're going to cook
some food from some chef. I had

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some food earlier. We're gonna keep
going with it. Nice. So tell

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our listeners who have never heard you
before as an artist, what you're all

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about. I guess just honesty and
songwriting. And I like big guitars.

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I love old rock and roll.
Maybe it's a little bit of like that

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old school stuff mixed with like the
new alt rock stuff that's pretty cool,

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not really sure, and but I
like old school rock and roll vibe because

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that's making a comeback. Actually,
it seems like I don't know that it

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ever disappeared. Maybe some other people
just had a bigger face on it,

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but I didn't. Man. I
just I just love to play it,

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to play our thing, and just
to be honest about it, and just

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like I don't know much. It's
so much fun to interact with people on

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stage, and if anybody in the
crowd knows what you're singing, you're like,

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damn, that's I'm a lucky guy. I know that's wild, right,

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Yeah, when they start singing your
shit, it just kind of blows

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your mind. I would think you
know, like, how they how did

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they already know that? Especially as
far from home. Man, we're a

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long ways. So where is home
for you? South Texas or by San

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Antonio, So not not deep South
Texas, but what most people could center

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the southern part of the state.
Yeah, my friends that are in even

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in death, that's where they're from
too, love it. So what was

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that one moment in life where you're
like, man, this is what I

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gotta do. I don't think there
was one moment for me. I think

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it was a bunch. I mean, my dad is a really big influence

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on me. Which my dad's actually
here somewhere today. He's he's watching some

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shows. That's way cool. So
I love that. That was a big

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thing growing up with him, just
loving rock and roll and loving festivals and

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stuff. So that was most of
it. And then, you know,

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a couple of times I got to
be real, real close and see some

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artists up close. Cody Canada is
one of them. He's from the you

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know, like the red Dirt scene, but he's a rocker through and through,

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baby, So just I don't know, I guess once you get into

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some smaller venues and really get to
like kind of connect with musicians and see

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him on like a more personal level. It's really really when I got into

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it, and then I don't know, I just wanted to write my own

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stuff, man, So I just
started doing it. And I've been lucky

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that anybody gives half a rat's ass
at the moment you know, well,

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you know what, even if they
didn't, it's you being altruistic and true

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to yourself that I think makes you
a true artist. Yeah, I mean

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I hope so right, And then
like, so you do write some heavy

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duty shit that's really cool lyrics,
heavy duty, Yes, heavy duty,

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heavy day. I definitely like to, like I like to make people think

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about the tough shit. I one
of my favorite things is, you know,

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just making people think about stuff that
hurts in as few words as possible

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and kind of fuck with with my
mind, which hopefully fucks with other people's

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minds. And I mean, we
could do it in a fun way,

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or we can do it in a
really deep and painful way. So I

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kind of go back and forth between
both just but it still all comes from

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the honest side of things. So
and I think that's what people need because

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they're living that honesty. And so
if you can touch one person that like

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relates to it, even in their
own way, not even in the way

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you're saying it, but in their
own way, they put their own meaning

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to it. I think that's what
makes it feel good, right, Yeah,

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I guess, I guess. So
maybe I'm selfish. Maybe I do

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it a lot of it for myself, just to get out the emotions and

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shit. But well that's part of
it, you know, that's part of

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being an artist. I mean,
like, I don't think somebody would be

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an artist without using it as therapy. It's therapy for you as yours,

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therapy for me as a listener.
Yeah. It's a lot cheaper than a

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therapist too, so you know,
there's always that. But I don't know

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that I would. I'd probably be
a even a weirder dude if I didn't

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do this for a living, because
I would. I don't know what i'd

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do with all the stuff that I
write and create and get get out.

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So and speaking of which, okay, so if music wasn't an option,

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what would what are your passions?
Then well it wasn't good enough to play

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golf on the PGA Tour. I
would have loved to do that. Other

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than that, Man, I love
working on stuff and building stuff, So

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maybe something with the vehicles I loved, you know, just outdoors and agriculture.

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So I don't know, maybe I
would have started my own house,

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you know, or sorry home building
company, or maybe I ended up getting

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into some kind of farming or some
kind of auto stuff, some with my

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hands. That's pretty cool. And
So during that time that we had crappy

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lockdown, did you get to have
enough time to do with some of those

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other things since you weren't on the
road all the time. Well, I

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mean I still do. I think
we do most of it on the road

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whenever we end up working on shit, whenever we're trying to get stuck on

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tour from town to town. But
yeah, on whenever we had a little

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bit of off time, we did
stay really busy and played. We played

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a lot of shows that like bigger
venues got shut down to be you know,

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thirty percent cap and fifty percent cap, and so some of those rooms

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that we previously weren't big enough to
play were like, oh we could have

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this band because you know they'll it
was fea. So we stayed busy with

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that and I did a lot of
getting out on the lake and boating and

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hung out with my wife and did
did some stuff to the house. I

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guess just kind of live the dream
whatever. And you know, if you're

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living life the way you want,
that is the dream. I think like

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people put too much on what that
is. But what I love hearing is

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all this stuff that you do,
because I think listeners they don't realize that,

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you know, you do have like
another part of life and things that

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you like and things that you do, and and it's not just hey,

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I'm up on stage performing. Yeah, I mean there's a whole, a

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whole lot of other things that go. I think we only played thirty minutes

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today, you know, which I'd
love to play a couple hours every night,

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but lucky enough to get thirty minutes
on that stage today, So that's

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that's awesome. And then we come
talk to folks like you guys, and

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I mean, I'm enjoying a lot
of bands here today, so I'm just

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as excited to get out in the
crowd as I am to play. Who

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you're most excited to see today?
By Queens of the Stone Age, I

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haven't seen them yet. Nice they
were at Louder and they were good.

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Louder was pretty legit. We were
on the same stage as Limp Biscuit,

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and I was like, wow,
hell yeah, that would be that was

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a big cool if heat just came
out, or if he was side stage.

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What would you do if he was
side stage watching your show? Who

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who was Limp Biscuit? Oh,
Fred Durst? Uh? Well, you

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know, I'd probably give him a
fist bump, say we both got dad

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vibes, and then I don't know, man, it'd be really sick.

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I don't know. If I was
a headliner at those things, I probably

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wouldn't show up till I was sposed
to be there, probably get probably get

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just hounded by people. You know. Uh. And you didn't get to

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see him here at Aftershock, right, Nope, we just got here this

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morning. Did you hear about it? He did not have the dad vibes.

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He did not have way at it. Louder, he had a whole

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different look this time. Oh I
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He looked like everybody I went to
high school with. I was like,

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hell yeah, brother, Yeah he
was the new he put up on the

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thing. He's the new metal cowboy. I don't know where he's from.

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I'm interested to see where he's from. You know, I don't know where

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he's from either. That's I could
show him some cowboys shit if you need

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to need some help. But what's
the best advice you could give him as

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cowboys shit? You think? Just
learn how to work on whatever is getting

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around the country, you know,
yeah, learn how to get yourself out

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of situations, learn how to get
home. I think that's all important.

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You know why how many musicians go
on tour and shit happens and then they

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don't really know what to do at
that point. Happens to me all the

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time, but I try to take
one of those. Every single one of

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those is like a learning experience,
and then and then so if it happens

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again, you're like, shit,
I've been here before. I can get

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out of the situation, whether it's
somebody on your phone you can call,

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or some or something that you physically
learned how to change this or that.

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And for me right now, that's
just really important is figuring out what's kind

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of like to keep moving. Well, it's kind of like too, I

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kind of believe that even if you
don't do something, you should know how

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to do it. In case the
person that does it's not around. Yeah,

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you should know what a good a
good product is and whatever goods or

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services that you're purchasing or getting help
with, and you should make sure that

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that you're in a safe spot.
I don't know as far as getting I'm

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talking about vehicles and shit. You
know that's a big thing for me right

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now. Maybe that's what I'm thinking
about it. What's your what's your favorite

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type of vehicle to work on?
Shit? Which everyone I can get into

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easiest. Man. I've been in
vans for like ten years, so I

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know how to work on a bunch
of vans. I mean, I love

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I love Fords Ford trucks. I
do have a like an O seven suburban

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four wheel drive, and so I've
been working on that a lot. Nice.

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It's uh, it's a tank,
dude. It's pretty easy to work

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on compared to a van because you
have a lot of space under the hood

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to get in there. But I
want more people with logistics of working on

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cars. You know. It's funny
too, because like they even get rid

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of in schools nowadays. My high
school had an auto shop right at the

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school. Yeah, so do we
That was one of my favorite classes between

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between golf and auto tech. I
I pretty much only did those two things

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my senior year because I took as
many classes as I could before then.

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So I just worked on trucks and
played golf and got a little high.

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I don't know well that you know. It's the funny you should say that,

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because I was going to say we
loved auto shop too, because that's

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when we could get high and like
do whatever we want. Yeah, I

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would, I would not suggest around
power tools. But you know, golf

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practice is kind of fun. Whenever
you can get a little stone and then

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go out there in nature and play
golf for a couple hours. There was

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a lot of good times there.
You go. I got a meirch idea

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where you could like make a golf
ball and hit it out into the crowd

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on your performances. Hell, I
drive it straight on past everybody in the

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crowd. I hit it so goddamn
fart. And I'm kidding, but that

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might that might kill somebody. I
might shank one. Yeah, that might

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not feel good when they get hit
with it. They've ever been paying attention.

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So tell everybody to hit you up
on socials on the web and buy

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your merch and check out all your
music and all that good stuff. I

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mean, I think you can just
search my name on the old Google this

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Austin Meade. And I don't know
of a whole lot of other Austin Meads

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out there, but if they are, you can buy their shit too.

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I guess I don't know. I'm
probably the most southern one, but there

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you go. Yeah, thanks for
the time, man, I appreciate you

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having me today. Hey, thanks
for being here right aftershock, and thanks

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for being on the Adventures of Pate
Man. We'll see you soon. Thank

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you for listening to the Adventures of
Fate Man. I'm w for CUI Radio.