As it nears 3 p.m., Kessler declines a second glass of Courtois. He’s got an appointment with his doctor, and then, 24 hours later, he’ll be on a plane to Mexico City to kick off the Marauder tour. He admits that there was a time, up until about ten years ago, where he’d probably stick around for another, and then another. But things are different now. “I think those hangovers, when you gotta get up and do all this stuff day in, day out,” he says, “those are hard-knock lessons.”

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