When Tom DeLonge left blink-182 again in 2015, Mark Hoppus thought it was good for this time. “I didn’t know that Blink would ever get back together or that I would ever share a stage with Tom,” he told Zane Lowe. Tom didn’t think he’d ever tour again at all. So Mark and Travis Barker recruited Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba to help them keep blink-182 alive. They put out two new albums with him and went on multiple tours, including a massive Enema of the State 20th anniversary run, while Tom was busy being correct about UFOs. Eventually, Tom returned to the road in 2019 when he took his band Angels & Airwaves on their first tour in seven years. And then Mark got sick. The blink-182 co-leader was diagnosed with cancer in 2021, and one of the people who came to...
