Parker McCollum

I was living in Austin, and I was living on the University of Texas's campus, what they call West Campus, but I never went to the University of Texas.

And I went to community college for like a couple weeks.

But I was just living there, and that's where I wrote that record, The Limestone Kid.

But there was this kid that we had gone to high school.

I didn't know him in high school, but my buddy did.

He had gone to our high school, and he was going to University of Texas, and he was a chemist, I think.

And he was like making it in his –

telling this now i'm like this is terrible that that i this is why it was on like a monday morning and uh on like the second story of this like co-op he was living in so this dude was making dmt just in his house in his like a co-op like they lived like yeah she had like random people that lived all in one house you're a brave soul i was just you know i was uh i don't know i was living

Back then I was really, really living.

It just, you know, it was really, it was really strange.

Like, and it sounds really honestly like a lie.

Like I'm making it up, but I'm not.

He had a fire escape outside of his window.

So I was like sitting on the fire escape outside the window.

and just saw like my, my mom used to take us to like this bed and breakfast for like summer vacation for a few days in the summertime in the hill country in Fredericksburg on the river.

And like, I saw that I like out on the street and it didn't last very long.

It was pretty quick.

It felt longer than it really was.

I think it was, you know, maybe less than a couple minutes.

Um, but it wasn't anything like, you know, I wasn't like, I didn't feel like I was