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I'm here Welcome to Rockville with Austin Mead.

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Yeah, and don't forget Gunner and
Gunner here. Yes, Gunner's the

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start of show. I think you
know he's a privileged dog. He's been

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on a bus tour for about six
consecutive months, so he hates the bus

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at this point. But I got
to say life was way worse for him

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when we were traveling in a van. Yeah, no doubt. How's he

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like? How's he like being in
the environment when he's off the bus in

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this hole, being off off of
it, he just gets cooped up,

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you know, in there. It's
yeah, I don't blame him. Yeah,

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so it gets he's a working dog. So he needs to run around.

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But usually we stay on off days
at some friends' houses and we let

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him run around and be a ranch
boy for a while, so he gets

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to live a lot of lives.
Nice. He's he's the he's the road

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dog for real. Yep, yep, definitely. I've had a couple of

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them, and so he's been the
most recent. So nice. So is

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this I can't remember because they all
swoir on my head. Have you played

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Welcome to Rockville before? Yeah?
I think this is our third or fourth

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year. Nice, And so how
do you like this festival compared to the

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other festivals you play at? I
always look forward to this one. It's

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usually the biggest. This is actually
the first year that we're not on the

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main stage, which is a good
trade off to me because we get to

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play a little bit later in the
day. I think the first year we

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ever played here, we were the
first band on the stage with Metallica,

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and so it was a really cool
experience. But it was definitely like get

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in, shut up, get the
fuck out right, because you're around a

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lot of that kind of security and
different level of artists. Seems a lot

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more laid back on the stage.
We're at today, but we have a

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couple of bands before us, which
is cool because we don't have to be

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the first one to draw everybody head
over right right, And let me tell

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you something. I've been here since
Wednesday night, and I can very confidently

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say it is probably the highest attended
definitely Rockville that I've ever been to,

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probably the highest attended Danny Wimmer Festival, and maybe anywhere in the US pretty

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big. I heard that there was
going to be over sixty thousand people here

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today, Like I couldn't even walk
through anywhere last night. There were so

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many people the ICP the other night, you would have thought that was the

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main stage that the crowd wow,
And they were on the smallest stage in

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the in the way back. So
you will definitely have a serious crowd today.

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Nice, So what do you have
going on now that you want to

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let people know about it? I
want to first talk about the new song

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though, because that's where that's a
badass song. I love that. Tell

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us the story of that song that's
the latest release is called Stone or Fantasy.

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I'm actually gonna start the set with
it today, and I had a

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lot of fun making that music video. But the song just comes from just

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you know, you get in the
business and everybody wants you to do this

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and to do that, whether it's
for the good or for the bad.

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And it's like everything I do,
somebody wants to change something or tell me

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a way that I should do it
a little better. You know, you're

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just not blowing up yet because of
this or that. And I'm like,

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man, you guys are just fucking
looking at the wrong thing. That's kind

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of how I feel. Sometimes you
can pick and choose an artist's career,

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or really anybody any profession. You
could pick and choose the good and the

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bad from each part of it.
But I feel like we've been making really

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great music, and so I always
crack up when people that don't make music

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come and tell us what we should
do in their opinion, And I'm like,

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all right, I'm gonna go full
boar with that idea, and just

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the idea of just living in that
stone or fantasy of not wanting to change.

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And it's kind of a self joking
deprecation thing too, like just the

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lazy stoner that never wants to change. It could be conceived, it could

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be thought of as that attitude too. I guess, but just laying back

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and not really caring about anything too
much, not about what other people say.

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And I think the riff, the
guitar riff in it is very reminiscent

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of that early nineties, like just
like grung rock, and there's a lot

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of the direction that our new shit's
going. Yeah it is. It is

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pretty bad ass. That song is
pretty badass. And it's so funny because

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I was just talking about that yesterday
about exactly what you're saying. Like in

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one of the interviews, I was
talking about it's kind of cool today that

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artists have the opportunity to do their
own thing and have freedom as an artist

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compared to back in the day where
you had to do what the record label

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said to do or this person said
to do. And I was saying exactly

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that. I'm like, I think
the art artist should know what to do

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with their music and let the business
people do theirin but the creativity should be

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all artists. Yeah, the more
you get more people involved, there's definitely

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good and bad with getting a bigger
team, for sure. I just hate

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whenever it's like, hey, go
make more tiktoks, You're like, well,

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I didn't sign up to be a
fucking influencer. Like I've been making

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records for a decade now, and
I didn't start doing this so that I

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was an influencer up there just to
show my tits and ass off, which

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I'll do, I guess if I'll
make enough money. But I got to

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make some real money for that.
Yeah, right, Maybe you should do

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an only fans. Yeah, I
don't think I'm attractive enough for that,

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but you know, we'll see.
Maybe I'll start one that specifically for the

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older generation because I get a lot
of compliments from the cougars. Okay,

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oh well, there we go.
Look like my old boyfriend and I'm like,

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well, you know, maybe we'll
do a little throwback. I don't

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know. Nice that could be your
market because like they would probably sign up

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for it. Yeah, there you
go, do it, go do it

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money. Then what would you think
if you made more money off of that

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than your music? I wouldn't care, did shit all I'll make I'll make

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some of that dot. I got
a wife and a kid to take care

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of in a house payment, so
let's get that bread. There you go,

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and there you go. I love
it. So what else do you

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want to share with the listeners that's
going on new and it's going to be

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happening after Welcome to Rockville that they
need to look out for. We just

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announced a tour with the band I
just made friends with the band called Lakeview.

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So we're doing kind of a club
tour with Lakeview around the East and

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a little bit of the Midwest.
That's coming up in the next month or

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two, and I think we're working
on announcing a couple more tours for August

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through December very soon. We've got
some more rock fests that we'll be doing

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that are kind of similar to this. We're also doing Danny Wimmer's Rockklahoma I

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love. Yeah, did that probably
two or three years ago, and that's

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kind of like my home area.
I'm from Texas and so we do a

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lot of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas. So that'll be a cool,

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a cool spot to be close to
our totally our home, you know.

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And like what a vibe at that
festival that it's in the middle of

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nowhere. Yeah, and it's just
a dusty fucking pit. Did you ever

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go into the campground when you perform
there and like just check out the campground

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there? Yeah? I usually do. I was doing the same thing.

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I came in last night here and
just kind of mingled around for a bit.

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It's pretty badass campground here and pretty
badass at Oklahoma too, right,

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Yeah, Rockaholma is definitely the middle
of nowhere, So it's interesting, right.

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I gotta watch for getting lost out
there, no doubt. So what

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is there any you know, thing
that you've had on your mind all your

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music career that you really want to
do that you still haven't done yet.

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Yeah. I think we're working to
the goals of that, but obviously the

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goal would be to eventually headline something
like this or you know, make make

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a little bigger thumbprint on the country
and do some international stuff. I've got

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a bunch of goals, but I
would say the immediate ones that are that'll

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be done hopefully within the next six
to twelve months. I need to get

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overseas and we're about to release a
new record. Been working on that.

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It's a lot heavier than our previous
stuff. Cool, so, you know,

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focused on that, and we kind
of stepped out of like the country

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Oklahoma Texas scene for a little bit
to do a lot of this rock stuff

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and a lot of rock touring,
and I'd like to kind of stick my

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head back into my home base for
a little bit. There you go.

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Other than that, man, just
trying to trying to hang out with my

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kid while he's little and not miss
all those moments. It's pretty hard to

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do while touring. So yeah,
that's the important part right there. Does

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your kid ever come to the shows? Oh? Ninety percent of the time.

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Yeah, he just they went home. I'm meeting them up. My

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wife's got a birthday coming up and
that's the first Mother's Day, and so

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we're taking a little trip to Arizona
together, so they're already headed that way.

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That's the only reason they're not here
today. And how does your kid

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like being at the festivals sort of
shows or the kind? I mean,

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he's used to it. We've been
taking him on tour since he was six

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weeks old, I think, so
after we had that six or eight week

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check up, he did most of
the last tour with me. He's pretty

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good man. He's always he's moving
around now, so he just wants to

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he wants freedom. Do you think
he's going to be a musician too?

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I fucking hope not. Now.
I hope he does like the PGA Tour

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or something. I mean, he
would have a good start. I would

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be able to get him a lot
quicker, you know, down the road

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with me here. But I don't
know, Man, the road's a cold

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heart bitch. I don't know that. I want my son to do that

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and deal with that too, right. I think there's a lot of musicians

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out there and feel the same way, because like, you don't want your

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kids to have to go through some
of the stuff that you went through,

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and they're going to have to go
through it to get to the other side.

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Yeah, you don't want to spoon
feed to me either. So there's

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you know, always that entitled bullshit. But exactly, I'm gonna see what

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he's good at. Hopefully he's really
fucking good at golf, and we'll see

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what happens from there. How about
you, Are you good at golf?

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Depending on the day, I can
be decent. Where's your favorite course you've

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played at? Shit, that's a
tough one, but we did just play

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one of my favorites over in Pelham, Alabama. There's a little small town.

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It's outside of Birmingham. But the
course it's called Balan Tray. It's

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pretty sick. But man, I
love just hitting like local munis and just

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you know, kind of dicking off
with the boys with a six pack of

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beer and having a good time.
There you go, That's what it's all

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about, right, Just have a
good time. I think same with music.

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That's what it's about if you're not
having fun. Wrong industry, right,

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yep. So tell everybody your socials, your web you know, all

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the info how they can get your
merch and all that great stuff. I'm

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pretty sure if you just type in
my name on the damn jugle little pop

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up, but yeah, Meade,
as long as you spilt the last name

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right, just look up Austin Mead
or howdy fuckers. That comes up as

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my name a bunch too, So
I love how that happened. Howdy fuckers

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has always just been kind of like
my saying and my side brand and everybody.

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I live out on a lake and
everybody had their dumbass political flags,

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you know, hanging from their boats, and I was like, man,

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I want to make one that's southern
but offensive but looks very like before you

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read it, you're like, oh, that's a nice flag. So I

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made these flags. I said,
howdy fuckers, and then everybody was trying

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to buy them off me, so
I was like, I need to turn

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this shit into a business. There
you go, So yeah, I got

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the trademark on that. Now.
I'm sure you'll see a couple of them

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things flying around today. Nice.
I think we should get the whole crowd

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to have those during your set,
So let's make that happen down love it.

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Well, I'm glad you're here at
Welcome to Rockville, and thanks for

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being on the Avengers by Man.
All right, Well, see you next

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