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I don't want to spend a month and a half in a studio with music I don't like, and fortunately I don't have to.

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Mark Hoppus
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 15
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Ridgecrest
California
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Then when we did the untitled record, we just didn't feel like putting joke stuff on it, so we didn't. It wasn't really a deliberation or a real introspective thing like, Are we going to joke on this one, are we not going to joke on this one? We just didn't feel like it on the untitled one, so we didn't.
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