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We caught up with Wentz down the line from his adopted home of L.A. before FOB stops at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre on Wednesday night for its only Canadian date.

You guys are doing something different on the Mania tour in terms of gets fans to nominate local heroes in every North American city you go to. How come?

You can’t just always complain about how the world is, you got to try and make the world a better place and one of the ways to do that is to do on a local level you know and this is our small attempt at that.

There is an unusual video for another new track called The Last of the Real Ones, which comes with a viewer discretion warning and shows two guys dressed in monster costumes in the desert attacking another guy with a shovel in the trunk of car. Can you explain that clip?

It’s a shot-for-shot remake of a Kanye West video called Flashing Lights… except it’s got the monsters in it…

Mania’s not out for a few more months, but what were you setting out to do sound-wise this time?

I think the last two albums kind of blur together in my head so I think this is an attempt to move that ball forward, to do something that’s slightly askew from that.

Once you get through the Mania tour, are there other things you’re working on?

I’m working on a (reality-TV adventure) show right now that is called Permanent Vacation and we’ll see where that ends up. It’s something I produced and I’m in.

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