| So, as well as our doing
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| A collection of songs tonight
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| We’re gonna tell you some of our--
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| Our rock and roll anecdotes
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| Give you a sort of a
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| Behind-the-scenes look
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| At, uh, you know
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| The life of the band
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| You know, some pretty
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| Funny experiences that we’ve had
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| -some pretty crazy ones as well
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| -Yeah
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| And I think one that encompasses
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| Both those, um, subsets…
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| I don’t know
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| I don’t think «subsets»
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| Is a very rock and roll
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| Way of describing it
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| That’s what
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| We’re talking about, the fun…
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| The fun rock and roll subset
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| Um…
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| Uh, the story--
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| The story that Jemaine
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| Is talking about
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| -I think, is the muffin story
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| -Oh, yes!
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| Yeah. |
| Um, this is
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| A story of, um…
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| The time when I got
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| To my hotel room--
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| Oh, no, sorry. |
| Let me give
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| A bit of context
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| Wait. |
| Hold on
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| Everyone listen to Bret
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| Okay
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| Okay, so
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| First of all, being in a band
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| We stay in hotels
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| 'Cause we tour around
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| -We stay in some quite fancy hotels
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| -Oh, yes
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| We’ve stayed in some Premiere Inns
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| Yeah, absolutely
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| And we’ve stayed in some of the
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| Very Best Westerns out there
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| And I got to my room
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| And there was a complimentary
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| Muffin sitting on the table
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| Okay, this is where the fun--
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| You guys obviously don’t stay in these
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| Fancy hotels
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| -'cause this is very unusual
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| -Some of you are a few steps ahead
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| You’re like, okay, this is
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| Where the fun’s beginning
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| -Yeah
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| -Yep
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| So, I thought, okay, if I’ve
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| Got a complimentary muffin
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| I bet old Mad Dog’s got
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| A complimentary muffin
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| That’s my nickname
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| I’ll tell you about that later
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| But tell them the joke about
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| The complimentary muffin
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| Okay, yeah, sure. |
| Okay, so
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| The complimentary muffin, now
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| It’s not a muffin that says, «Oh
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| Hello, Bret, you look good today.»
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| It’s a complimentary muffin
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| -But…
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| -Yeah
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| Imagine that though
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| Imagine that
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| -That's ridiculous
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| -It's such a fun…
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| A very flattering pastry
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| Little blueberry eyes
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| You know, just looking up at you
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| Going…
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| -Absolutely adorable
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| -I'd eat that
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| It’s just looking up at you, going
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| «Well, you’ve got a nice personality
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| Little muffin
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| That’s just a little
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| Digression we add in to--
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| Yeah, we just, like, spice up
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| The story with a bit of humor
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| Yeah. |
| Um…
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| It wasn’t something that
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| Occurred to us at the time
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| And so, I thought if I’ve got
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| A complimentary muffin
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| I bet Mad Dog here’s got one, and…
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| Right. |
| You’re probably wondering
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| Why I get called «Mad Dog.»
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| This is a
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| Nickname that caught on
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| When Jemaine e-mailed me with
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| The subject «New Nickname.»
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| I’m not sure if
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| That’s the start of it
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| I’m sure it was a series of events
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| No, well, it was
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| A series of e-mails
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| It was-- Yeah. |
| Three or
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| Four e-mails reminding me
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| And then, eventually, it caught
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| On, and now, I’ve got it up here
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| It’s not important to the story
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| About how I got the name
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| I’ve got a reputation, and they
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| Call me Mad Dog, within the band
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| And so, I thought--
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| I called his room, and I’d
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| Only been in the room
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| Maybe like, two or three minutes
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| You know, me and my muffin
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| And I call up Jemaine’s room
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| I mean, Mad Dog, and, um…
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| -Thank you
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| -He answers the phone
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| «Hello?»
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| He’s already bloody halfway
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| Through that muffin
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| Yeah
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| Bloody Keith Richards over here
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| God
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| I didn’t-- I didn’t even wait
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| As soon as I saw it, rawr!
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| What’d you do?
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| Just walk in there like
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| «Rawr, give me that
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| I’ll do that!» |
| Bloody…
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| Yeah, basically
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| That’s pretty much it
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| He wasn’t even there
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| And he guessed it
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| -because I’m a mad dog
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| -And…
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| You start to get a picture of the
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| Life of excess that we live
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| For you to know
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| It’s a life of excess
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| You need to also know that
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| We had muffins for breakfast
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| That’s right, yeah
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| So that’s bloody two muffins
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| In one day. |
| Oh!
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| -Double muffiner
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| -Oh, God
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| -Yeah
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| -Yeah
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| And so, we collect these
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| Stories as we travel 'round
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| You never know when something
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| Crazy’s gonna happen
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| Yeah!
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| That one was about seven years ago
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| It was |