We do one groundbreaking thing a day, deadpans guitarist Jack Antonoff, 28.

But theyre all lame.

Appropriately enough, given this evenings booze-oriented mission, that anthemic number concerns people getting somebody-carry-me-home intoxicated.

I usually dont drink this early before a show, says Ruess.

I try and save it for an hour before.

My first thought was Sweet.

No one fed with us.

That song was a catalyst of trust.

As a big fan of punctuation…RuessWhats your favorite punctuation?DostJust shoot me!

As a big fan of punctuation, I have very mixed feelings about your name.

The lower-casefdisappoints me, but I like the rectitude of the period.DostThe punctuation started out as a legal issue.

There was another band called Fun they asked us to change our name slightly.

Jack, I heard you nearly died while recording the album.AntonoffEntirely.

[Laughs] Hardly.

We were in New York working on a song called One Foot.

It was the last song we recorded on the album.

Id never felt that sick in my entire life.

You always read, like, Lindsay Lohans exhausted.

Well, what does that mean?

And I thought, Oh my God, Im experiencing something like that.

It didnt turn out to be that.

Something exploded in my lung.

I was in the ICU and ended up on an IV for four weeks afterwards.

Theyre not just making a show about hot white kids in America.

Theres a political edge.

I think more people are going to realize that a decade from now.

Is it true you all live together?AntonoffUsed to.

Did your mother ever say, You should be more like these people onAmerican Idol?AntonoffNo.

She would say Nate was better than some of them.

But it was always like, You guys are doing the right thing.

Who knows?RuessIwoulddemolish any of those people.

That can go on the record.

That can go inEntertainment Weekly that can go inEntertainment Daily!

Pronounce my name!RuessAll right.

Well, Ill learn it, then.

Hes hanging the piano part, hes hanging the vocal line, hes hanging the backing vocals.

But nothings making sense until its all done.AntonoffAnd Andrew was like Rusty you know, Clarks son.

Hes helping hang all the arrangements.

[Antonoff and Dost depart for what the pubs signage describes as the Loos.]

I have to say, you three seem like incredibly nice people.

[Antonoff and Dost return.]

No, weve been on the road for too long before this to not appreciate it.