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Billy: Pretty much we're just average kids who somehow got guitars and made a band

Joel: Hi I'm Joel and i sing

Benji: Hi I'm Benji and i play guitar and sing

Billy: I'm Billy and i play guitar

Paul: I'm Paul and i play bass

Chris: I'm Chris and I'm tour waxer

Billy: The first time we saw ourselves on tv

Benji: I don't remember

Billy: I remember we were in a hotel on tour with New Found Glory

Paul: In New York, upstate New York

Billy: In the middle of nowhere and they told us our video was gonna be on. We're talking about the old Little Things video. So we stayed up till 2 O'clock in the morning to watch it and it didn't come on that day and we were so dissapointed but the next night it actually came on and we got to see it and i think we all huddled around this tv in this crappy hotel room and saw our video.

Chris: I've never seen the video

Billy: Lucky you

Benji: The worst video in Good Charlotte history

Joel: Little Things

Benji: What were we thinking? If i was sitting in a room watching tv with a girl that I really liked and that video came on I would act like I didn't know who it was

Joel: She'd say "Isn't that you on there?"

Benji: I'd say "No i dunno who that is" "But it says Good Charlotte right there" "I dunno they must have the thing wrong."

Joel: Festival Song was directed by Mark Webb. We shot that a couple years ago at a big show in our hometown in DC. It was a big show for us. We played for like 80,000 people.

Billy: My favorite part about Festival was that you know, it was just a festival in our hometown that we went to every summer and the fact that we actually got to play it this year on the main stage and we have it on tape you know, like how many people can say that, you know, they got to do the thing they've dreamed about forever and you have a really nice taped version of the whole day. So you know it was a really cool video to shoot.

Joel: True dat homeboy

(Festival Song video plays)

Joel: Kids if you ever wanna get backstage the easiest way is to fake an injury for the medics and then you can come right backstage which always usually works.

(commercial)

Joel: Lifestyles of The Rich and Famous the video was directed by Bill Fishman. We shot it in LA.

Billy: We came up with this idea for the Lifestyles video you know really simple and he sorta perfected it and came back with this perfect treatment

Joel: It's our kinda view of the entertainment world and the rich people and we kinda laugh cause we're up here with them and we don't really feel like we fit in. And also it's kinda like we're on trial. And it's so funny cause we're on trial all the time anyways just for being Good Charlotte.

(Lifestyles video plays)

Benji: I do love making videos just for the fact that you get to change roles a little bit and you get to see what, you know, kind of actors and actresses go through.

Paul: We love movies and film and this is the closest we can get to making our own version of a movie

Joel: The video for the Anthem was shot in LA

Billy: Definately the easiest probably most funnest video to make cause we didn't really have to plan anything out we just sat around and hung out and video taped it.

Joel: That was Chris's first video with us

Paul: We didn't really know what to expect of him but the second they played the close up of him and he did the whole thing *acts like he's rocking out with drums like Chris* that's when i knew that this guy was the shit.

Joel: We literally had a barbeque you can't see it in the backyard though. We had a grill and were cooking out food. It was just a big party and we got it on tape.

(The Anthem video plays)

Benji: We were these kids that went through high school who used to like..nobody really accepting us or talking to us thinking we're cool, into being like Ok now you have to make a cool music video that will make girls like you

Joel: And when you're not cool you can't make a cool video

Benji: Yeah

Joel: And you know what, none of us really, no offense guys, none of us are really that cool

Paul: Hey screw you man

Joel: *laughs* heeey

Benji: We all just accepted our own coolness though and now I think our videos come out a little better

Joel: We're more comfortable in our uncoolness

Chris: But it's like cool to not be cool

Billy: It's cool to piss your pants

Benji: Everybody's doin it

Joel: Let's do it guys ready

(All groaning)

Billy: Aaaahhh Yeeeaahhh *sniff sniff*

(Commercial)

Joel: Our album The Young and The Hopless made over a year now. It's our second major "label" album i guess

Billy: You guess? it's definately the second one

Joel: Yeah *laughs*

Billy: Me and Paul were actually listening to the first album in the hotel last night and we were just thinking like Wow it really sounds so different than our new record. I think it was just that we were like these young kids excited to make a record and we toured for 3 years and we kinda got to learn a lot more about our instruments and music and stuff

Joel: And about ourselves

Billy: And it definately reflects on this record that's why everybody always says Oh we're more grown up on our second record but I really think that's the perfect way to say it about this band

(The Young and The Hopeless video plays)

Joel: Tell them how you feel about Dave Grohl Chris

Chris: *Clears throat* well...

Joel: He's got a shrine for Dave Grohl on the bus

Chris: I have a shrine

Joel: Lights candles

Chris: Sits in the back and like every night i have to go in the back and I just

Billy: Pay your homage

Chris: Pay my homage and get down on my knees and I light 57 candles that are in the back and uhhh and I just chant words (all start laughing) that really don't make sense just like grunts and noises like *Makes weird noises that sound like Scooby-Doo* and I do this for 2 hours at night and then I have to urinate and defocate in my pants. (all crack up laughing)

(Boys and Girls video plays)

Joel: We all get paid to hang out together, travel around the world and make music and I don't think it gets any better than that

Billy: I would honestly have to say that probably a good percentage of the world never get to do what they love. Most people don't get to take their hobby or their passion and turn it into a career and the fact that we get to do that is just...amazing

FIRST TIME I WAS MADE FUN OF

Joel: I went to a pool party when I was in the sixth grade, and there was this girl, Kelly, I thought was fine. I had a little potbelly back then- hey, I was just well fed. Anyway, I took off my shirt and started walking to the pool as Kelly was getting out. Everything was in slow motion like you see on TV. Then she looked at me, and I was like, "Hi, Kelly." She said, "Ewww, Joel, you're fat!" Everybody started laughing. I've been traumatized by it for the rest of my life. Thank you, Kelly.

LAST TIME I WAS MADE FUN OF

Benji: Yesterday my friends laughed at me for not showering for almost a week.

FIRST ALBUM I BOUGHT

Joel: I got Paula Abdul's Forever Your Girl when I was in the fifth grade because I had a crush on her. The first real record I bought was Nirvana's Nevermind when I was 14.

LAST ALBUM I BOUGHT

Benji: Sing Sing Death House by the Distillers. They're an L.A.-based punk band. You know Tim Armstrong from Rancid? It's his wife Brody's group.

FIRST TIME I CRIED

Joel: When my mom dropped me off at school my first day of Kindergarden.

LAST TIME I CRIED

Benji: My dad left when I was 16, and my family sort of fell apart. It was a pretty rough time- my family got evicted from our house.

FIRST TIME I GOT DUMPED

Joel: I was 17, and I liked this girl for a really long time. She finally broke up with her boyfriend and went out with me. About two months later, she got back with her ex. I think she was just using me to get him jealous.

LAST TIME I GOT DUMPED

Benji: Two days ago. It wasn't a breakup, but it still sucked. This girl decided I was gone too much. I can't really blame her because I was on the Warped Tour the entire time we were dating.

MY FIRST KISS

Joel: Like with tongue and stuff? 16. I was really nervous, but I'd been waiting to make out with someone. One day, this girl just went for it - sticking her tongue down my throat! It was kind of traumitzing. I thought kissing was supposed to feel good, but it didn't. I never called her after that.

MY LAST KISS

Benji: Thanks for reminding me. I haven't had one since my breakup! I'm such a loser.

You guys put out your first record three years ago, but now you're bona fide stars. What's fame like? Are you hitting lots of Hollywood parties?

Benji: I've actually never been to one. I've been to bars that are hard to get into. We'll stand there for a half hour looking at our shoes. I don't like places where you have to "be someone."

Joel: And then you'll get these famous people who try to be down.

Benji: Sometimes you'll watch [a famous person] be totally stuck-up, and then they'll walk over and be like, "Yeah, bro." And you're like, "If you didn't know who my band was, you'd be treating me just like you treated that person!"

You guys have also become heartthrobs...

Benji: Yet I still don't hve a girlfriend. Can you help me out with that? It's funny when I get a letter from a girl saying, "You're so hot." I always think, "Oh they just like me because I have dyed hair and tattoos. They haven't looked close enough."

So you don't buy it?

Benji: I don't think I ever will. When I was 16, my best friend and I were sitting in his room, listening to music, and from out of nowhere, he looked at me and said, "You're ugly." I didn't say anything, and we just went about our day. But it will never leave me. Ever.

Joel: Everybody has body issues --- no one's comfortable in their own skin.

Do you want a girlfriend?

Benji: There are times when I would do anything to have someone to share this with, besides my brother.

What about you, Joel?

Joel: If I liked a girl, she would never know it. I could meet you and like you and you would never know, ever.

Benji: I put my vibe out, but I don't make the first move, and I won't be the first person to call. I'm afraid of the shott down. I might say, "I don't know. Maybe we should, like, kiss or something."

Joel: That's romantic.

Do you have a romantic side, Benji?

Benji: I'm romantic, but I save it. I can definitely hear my insticts calling me, though: I haven't had a girlfriend in three years....

Joel: ...and he talks about it all the time. I think he's ready to settle down.

Are there wall-to-wall groupies backstage at Good Charlotte shows?

Benji: We would definitley disappoint Motley Crue.

Joel: The kind of girl we end up hanging out with is the chick who's normal, who likes music. It's not the girl looking to hook up.

You're really into punk music. What do you think of someone like Avril Lavinge, who wonders why she should know who the Sex Pistols are?

Benji: She's a pop singer. It's not the most profound music ever, but she's just having fun. Why should she know who the Sex Pistols are?

Joel: I'm not even going to get into what's punk, because that's such a dumb coversation. Usually, I'm like, "They're cool, they're doing what they love." But there's something about her that's really annoying.

What pop acts do you listen to?

Benji: I don't like pop music. There have been certain songs where I'm like, "That's pretty cool." Like the T.a.t.u. song ["All the Things She Said"]...

Joel: They're disgusting.

Benji: Can I finish? Every now and then, there will be a pop song that's catchy, but the rock world is 180 degrees from pop. Rock is less about what you look like and more about the content of your lyrics.

Joel, what's your problem with T.a.t.u.?

Joel: They're being exploited. It's some old man saying, "I know what will sell! We'll take these innocent girls, write songs for them to make out with each other." When you're young and struggling, you'll do anything to make it. It's a new low.

Benji: Don't let me near them. I'll make out with one and break them up.