Kelly McKay: I was going to say why don't you introduce your special guest...
Taylor: Yes, it is relatively scary.
New Guy:I'm just gonna let them do this right now. We got Hanson in the house today. I want to thank you guys for coming by. We got Tay, Isaac, and Zac in here and our Hanson fanatics. You guys excited?
Girls:Yeah!
Taylor:Yes, we've been hanging out. They're not really excited, but they're here and they're not going. We're excited to see them actually.
Zac: (odd voice) YO MAN, WASSUP!?
Taylor: We're their biggest fans.
New Guy: You're their...oh, haha, ok. We do wanna thank our winners for the Hanson Fanatic Contest, we've been playing all week. We got Kristin from Indy, Ally from Kokomo, Tara from Carmel, Holly from Carmel, and Bethany from Shelbyville. Congratulations guys.
Taylor:Awesome.
New Guy:You excited?
Isaac: Yes, yes, they're excited. See, they're calm and collected.
Taylor: You know why they're really excited? Cuz you're the nude guy, and you're on radio-
New Guy:The nude guy?
Taylor: -and nobody else can tell that you're actually nude. Right now.
Zac: He's not the new guy. He has a speech impediment. He's actually known as the Nude Guy.
New Guy: That's right.
Taylor: So if anybody wonders why we're so excited, er, these girls are so excited, it's nothing to do with us.
Isaac:I'm not excited! I prefer to look the other direction when I'm talking to him.
New Guy:Nothing to do with you guys.
Taylor:Fortunately there's a table.
New Guy:Alright, let's go ahead and take a question. Kristin, why don't you start.
Kristin:Kay, in the "Mmmbop" video it goes, "plant a seed, plant a flower, plant a rose", so why do you dance on a pansy?
Isaac:Good question...
Zac:Ahh...euhh....
Taylor:You know what, they are just too smart. They can still think, even though you're nude.
Zac:Well, first of all, we don't dance on the daisy...
Kristin:Ok, play on it...
Zac:...we play on the daisy...or pansy, or what the heck...
Taylor:I think...you know what, that is a really good question.
Isaac:Actually, we never, we don't know...
Zac: BECAUSE WE COULDN'T FIND FOOTAGE OF A FREAKIN' ROSE!!!!
Taylor:You know what, I think...
Isaac:Roses were kind of...they don't open flat.
Taylor: The reason was because we needed a, uh, what do you call it...the...uh
Isaac:Time lapse
Taylor:...time lapse footage of a flower opening, and the first flower we found was a daisy and we really liked-
Isaac:a pansy
Taylor:I mean, sorry, the pansy. Whatever, daisy, pansy, whatever, and it was perfect because you couldn't perform in a rose. So...you know what? You're really smart. That's really cool. That's a really good question.
Isaac: Well, you know, it's "plant a seed, plant a FLOWER, plant a rose", so it could've been any flower. A rose would've been...
Taylor:Yeah, it was really because we couldn't perform in a rose, cuz we woulda been, you know, in a pit, the pit of a rose. Like (weird voice) 'Hey everybody...
Zac:We wouldn't fit!
Taylor:...let us out!'
Isaac:It woulda been the...you know, the above shot.
Taylor: Yeah, so...
Isaac: We would've all been looking up.
New Guy:Good question. Ally, how 'bout you?
Ally:If someone came up to you and gave you a split moment choice of...to continue with your musical career or have a regular rife, which would you pick?
Taylor: A regular wife?! I don't want a regular wife as opposed to...
Ally:Life! Life!!! (Laughing)
Taylor:...but you know, a wife in the future, I, that looks, sounds good somewhere down the line...um...
Zac:Music definitely.
Isaac:Music.
Taylor: Music. Absolutely.
Zac:It wouldn't take me a split second, you know, it would be just like (angry girl voice) Girl, wassup? All yo' problems! Whack, wahck AHHH!!!, get away from me your freak!!
Taylor:That's like asking, I mean, there's not even really, OK, do something, be normal and don't do music, or be normal and do music. Because we're normal guys, we just happen to do abnormal things and be in a band. So we're still normal...
Zac:We're abnormal.
Taylor:...we just get to do different things. It would take about half a split-second to make that call.
New Guy:Alright, how 'bout you Tara?
Tara:Um, you guys announced in your last MOE that it would be going digital, on your website, Hanson.net. Can you guys just talk about why you decided to make that choice?
Isaac:Because it's too freakin' hard to do a dang magazine!!
Taylor:Do you mind if we just call you Casa Blanca?
Zac:That's actually a lot of the reason.
Tara:You can call me Casa Blanca, you can call me anything you want.
Taylor:Ok, Casa Blanca has a good question. Everybody that doesn't know, she has a shirt that says Casa Blanca on it, and it's really cool. Um...we, just...the magazine is really fun to do, and it's really cool, I mean, I know if I was a fan and I got a magazine, it's really well done and the pictures and stuff are really cool,
Isaac:Basically...
Taylor:It's just really hard to pull together.
Isaac:I mean, the logistics or having a magazine and sending it to all these people and making sure that everyone gets it and all that kinda thing, and everything from the hassle of people not sending...
Taylor:Not getting their magazines.
Isaac:Not sending their address changes, they're like, 'Oh, I moved but...where's my magazine?' Well duh! You moved!
Taylor:The most important thing was that...it was hard to do it internationally. Like we, there's a lot of, you have the fans in Australia, the fans in Europe, the fans in Latin America that can't get the magazine, and we thought, Ok well, how can we give somebody something special that's like a fan club, but it has to be international, so, the magazine's really cool, but Hanson.net is much broader.
Tara:So, when's it gonna start on Hanson.net?
Taylor:Well, Hanson.net is already starting. What we're gonna do is, as MOE is phasing out, we're gonna start writing articles for it and start doing even more like, specific stuff.
Isaac:There's a lot of other things on Hanson.net that are not available in MOE, things you can't do, like for instance, we answer questions and we started this thing called "Ask Hanson, Hanson Asks", so we ask people like you guys, questions and what you think about certain things, uh, whether it be your favorite record or what you think of Britney Spears' new haircut. Of course we don't ask that question because it's a really stupid one, but I was just coming up with somehting off the top of my head.
Taylor: And then we answer questions.
Isaac:And then we answer questions from fans, like, you know, what our favorite albums are or whatever.
Taylor:And more and more we're just gonna try and do more interactive things and give anybody that's part of Hanson.net really special info...
Isaac:And we're also gonna be going on and chatting with people, just, you know, casually just go on and just...talk.
Zac:You can't chat with a magazine unless you like, deliver it to someone's house.
Tara:That's true.
Taylor:Yeah, so it's, in a lot of ways it's cooler, but I just hope people can bridge the gap.
Isaac:And also, for those of you who don't know, Hanson.net is alson an ISP, internet service provider, which means you can get internet service from us.
Tara:Thank-you
New Guy:Good plug. Ding ding ding.
Taylor:bling bling bling bling bling bling...
Zac:And the Nude Guy is back!
Isaac:And you can actually have us and AOL for cheaper than AOL.
Taylor:He's really good at promotions...thank you Casa Blanca.
Zac:Yes, it's better, it's cooler, AND...
Taylor:Ok, now it's purple girls' turn.
New Guy:Holly, what's up?
Holly:Purple girl? Ok...
Taylor:Well, cuz you match the magazine, it's great.
Holly:My question is, Isaac, are you registered to vote and if you are, are you going to vote?
Isaac:I am absolutely going to vote, and yes I am registered to vote...
Holly:Are you going to tell us...
Isaac:I will not tell you who I'm gonna vote for, um, but I will say that for all you who aren't registered to vote, you're a bunch of idiots, um, because who...
Taylor:He's not harsh.
Isaac:Well, you can't complain about how your country is run if you don't go out there. You know, so what if you think 'Oh, he's a crook.' Well, on of these crooks is gonna run your country so you'd better vote for one of them,you know because...
Zac:(weird voice) I'm not gonna vote for anybody!!!
Isaac:And I saw an interesting poll...
Zac:We're gonna have no one run the country. And we'll be FREE!!!
Isaac:I saw...
Taylor:Nude Guy can do it!
Isaac:I saw...
Taylor:Hey! Great idea!
Isaac:I saw...I saw and interesting poll...
Taylor:I say nude president, all the time.
New Guy:Um, that's gonna come next time.
Isaac: Well, actually, no Bill Clinton was pretty close to that.
Taylor: OHhhhh!!!!
Isaac: He was only nude half the time. No, I'm sorry.
(laughing and clapping)
Isaac: Anyway...
Taylor: (makes drumroll sound) BOOM!!!
New Guy: I don't know what's happening here!
Isaac: Anyway, uh, no, but I saw an interesting poll in USA Today which was only 50% of the country votes...
Taylor: 54
Isaac: 54% of the country votes, but 75% of the people are registered to vote, which means 25% of the people that are registered to vote don't even vote!
Taylor: How retarded is that? See now, you get Hanson, you get MOE, and SO much more!
New Guy: There you go.
Isaac: Yes.
Taylor: You know, it just keeps going.
Isaac: Political analysis and everything.
Taylor: So, Dan Rather, next.
New Guy: Bethany?
Taylor: We have one last question.
Bethany: Um, how do you feel about others who don't write their own songs or play their own instruments but still call themselves musicians?
Zac: Um, I think through the history of music, there has been a, uh, that has been a part of it, I mean, great solo artists didn't write their songs.
Taylor: Aretha Franklin didn't write her own songs.
Zac: She never wrote a song that I've ever heard before. I mean, most of her big hits were other people's, so, you know, that's definitely, it's not a problem to not write your own songs.
Isaac: No it's not an issue. I think that's definitely not an issue that one doesn't play or doesn't write, that's not the point. The point is music comes from the heart and if it truly comes from your heart and you really have soul and passion for what you're singing, then it shows. I think that's the real issue, it's you know, if someone is truly genuine about what they're singing, that they're doing it for the right reasons, then I think it shows.
Taylor:Yeah, I mean, I think, it's cool to have all those different kinds of bands, all those different kinds of music. That makes it interesting, yeah.
New Guy: Good answer, very politically correct.
Isaac: Very politically true!
Taylor:It's true. You guys all have really good questions. I, you..They've got...
New Guy: Well, look at these lists!
Taylor: I know, they're all typed out.
Isaac: All these cool questions, Next! Right here!
New Guy: All right check it out. We've got Hanson live at a secret location right now, they're at the Murat theatre tonight at 7:30. We're gonna check out some live entertainment in a little bit, we'll do "This Time Around" right now on 99.5 ZPL.
New Guy: 99.5 ZPL, Indy's hit music channel, the New Guy, uh, secret location here with Hanson on the set and we've got a treat for ya, didn't even know this was coming, know about this til about 2 minutes ago.
Taylor: Neither did we! That's exciting!...
New Guy: Just happened to have your instruments here.
Taylor: AND you're nude!
New Guy: Yes, I'm still nude under all these clothes.
Isaac: I don't find that exciting!
Taylor: No...that just adds to the madness. I'm sorry. And they just keep...putting me closer to you and I don't know what it is. I'm just moving my mic, man, alright?
New Guy: What do you guys have for us?
Taylor: Just cuz you're nude doesn't mean you can be a...Ok, I think we're gonna, since we didn't know about it til about 2 minutes ago, I think we're gonna-
New Guy: Just make it a best go?
Taylor: -just gonna make it up as we go. This is a new song called "Only If". No, it's a, I think we're gonna play "If Only", cuz I've got my harmonica here...
Isaac: (singing) Only iffffff....(Taylor joins in) Can make this world go downnn...Whatever. Only ifff....
Taylor: Ok, so I guess we're just gonna play. Can you guys hear the guitar? Alright, this is "If Only".
(clapping)
New Guy: All right, Hanson live with 99.5 ZPL, we are on location, a secret location, you guys, turn around and wave to the world. We're online, WZPL.com. Live webcast. Check it out though, a big pre-show party going on, I'm the New Guy, and our Hanson fanatics are here today. We're gonna have one more round of questions. You guys ready? You're all flustered from that, right? Haha, good job guys.
Taylor: Thanks man.
New Guy: We're gonna have another round of questions and show some love for the New Guy.
Taylor: Ok, you know what? That's a little bit too, you don't understand' what you just said! It might sound funny, especially on the radio. They can't see what we're doing!
New Guy: This is a family program today!
Zac: Not nude. New. NEW.
New Guy: Now that we've got that straight, we're gonna start with Kristin again.
Taylor: We're going way back down to the front line.
Kristin: If you could ask anyone alive, dead, or not born yet any question, who, and what would you ask?
Zac: If they're not born yet, I wouldn't know who they are! I'm gonna ask the 3800th president of the United States...no.
Taylor: You know what, she's keeping all the doors open, that's good. Um...any question...um...lemmee see...that's a really good question.
Zac: No, it's just really hard.
Taylor: That's always really hard. Um...um, let's ponder this for a second. Ponder. (hums Jeopardy song). Take five seconds. You have five seconds Isaac, please answer the question.
Isaac: Uh...
Taylor: Five, four,
Isaac: I...I'd like to ask, who's the guy that killed Julius Caesar?
Girl: Brutus
Isaac: Brutus. I'd like to ask him why he did it. Yeah.
Taylor: Um, lemmee see, um, ok, I think I would like to ask John Lennon, is it really true that all you need is love? Is that true?
Isaac: Um, actually, that was Paul.
Zac: That would be Paul McCartney.
Taylor: I know, but it was a Beatles song.
Isaac: Yeah, exactly. He and Paul wrote that.
Zac: Then I'll ask Paul!
Taylor: You ask Paul and I'll ask John. Then we'll cover both bases.
Zac: Exactly.
Isaac: Actually, I think Chris Farley already covered that in the Chris Farley show.
Taylor: Is it true? He said all you need is love, so is that true?
Isaac: We'll ask them both. (Beatles accent) Well, I've actually found that all you DO need is love.
Taylor: Thanks John! Thank you very much. Actually, was that Paul?
Isaac: (accent still) That was Paul.
Taylor: Thanks Paul. Thanks very much. There you go. I asked him right now. How interesting.
New Guy: How 'bout you Ally?
Ally: If...like before a concert or a show, is there a ritual or something you do every time for good luck?
Taylor: Um...not really. We just kinda give everybody a high five and sorta do a little 'hands together, alright, BREAK' kinda like a football team or something, only we're not as big and we don't have any padding on.
Isaac: Maybe we should have padding.
Taylor: We do need padding with all the things that get thrown on stage.
Isaac: Not to all the people that are coming to the show tomorrow, please don't throw things.
Taylor: No, it's, we pretty much kinda...
Zac: It's tonight, not tomorrow!
Taylor: ...give each other a high five.
Isaac: Whatever, today, tomorrow.
Zac: See...
Isaac: I don't know what day it is.
Taylor: Just give each other a high five...
New Guy: Ok, you're freaking them out now.
Isaac: They're all like, 'Wait, the show's tomorrow!?'
Zac: That's a great example of what happens to you when you're travelling as much as we do. Temporary amnesia.
Taylor: Yeah, it's actually constant amnesia.
Isaac: What's my name?
Zac: (nasal sound) Ahhmneah-uh...
Taylor: It's, the funny thing is, even when Zac doesn't have amnesia he talks like that, so...
Zac: Shut up!
Taylor: It's pretty simle. We just get everybody psyched up and usually right before the show, we kinda, last minute we decide, we put our set list together, we change it pretty much every show and a few minutes before the show we'll look it over and go, OK, this is just for anybody who didn't see, we're gonna change this, we're gonna change that.
Isaac: Yeah, we're opening with this song...
Taylor: So it doesn't screw you up. Like las, last night we opened with "Crosstown Traffic" and we haven't opened with that song...
Isaac: For like, 5 or 6 shows
Taylor: At least five or six shows. Yeah, we just kinda go, 'Ok everybody, remember this and don't screw this up and...and uh, don't suck. That's our other theme.
New Guy: Do not suck.
Zac: That's the official Hanson...
New Guy: That's a good motto.
Zac: But if I see anyone with a sign, I'm gonna beat them.
Taylor: (laughing) Zac is not nice.
Zac: I just find it annoying. Anything you say gets put on a sign or something.
Isaac: It's like, "I LOVE BEEF STEW"
(Laughter)
Zac: It's like...
Isaac: You know?
Zac:...I mean, it's a long time ago now. I said something about Shamu, and for the rest of the FREAKIN' TOUR, 'ZAC, I LOVE SHAMU' or 'HERE'S A SHAMU DOLL'. I DONT...LIKE...SHAMU!!!!!
Isaac: It was just a joke people.
Taylor: Zac, it's ok, we'll give you your medication now. You guys can eyewitness us giving him his medication now.
Isaac: It's just pent up anxiety over too many Shamu dolls.
Taylor: Yeah, I think that's why.
New Guy: That's a real problem, right?
Taylor: So anyway, Casa Blanca.
Tara: Can you just say Tara?
Taylor: Tara...CASA BLANCA!! Hey Tara.
Isaac: Kate Hudson!
Tara: Hi, nice to meet you...no. Ok, this is your second show in Indy, the first being Uncle Sam Jam. Do you guys feel like maybe you're recieved differently in places you've never been? Especially in the Midwest, like you guys skipped us over during Albertane.
Isaac: Gasp!!
Taylor: Sorry.
Isaac: We only skipped over some, well, Indiana I guess...
Taylor: Are you saying
Tara: Are you recieved...like, you guys go to New York and LA all the time
Taylor: Yeah,
Tara: Are you recieved different by the fans?
Taylor: Are the fans different? Well, in general, like when you go to a place for the first time, I think if they've never seen the band, there's sort of like, a certain excitement that comes with that if they've never seen the band, but also, I mean, the only reason we're in New York and LA is because, you know, you have your TV and all those things are in all those places, but there's a different thing when you go to places a lot. You have those fans that have seen you play enough times, that there's another excitement, they know, they kind of are saying everything back to you and they have a better idea of what you're gonna do. I think either way it's a pretty excited audience, but it's a little different if you go somewhere for the first time and they're like, never seen you play. And I think it's kind of exciting for you because you know they've never seen the show. So...
New Guy: Cool.
Tara: Cool.
New Guy: Holly.
Holly: Alright, Um, in a, major newspapers a couple weeks ago, a lot of songwriters put together a petition, including USA Today, and you guys were on it, and...
Isaac: Arists Against Piracy?
Holly: Yeah, about Napster, and are you guys really against Napster and you really want to see it shut down?
Taylor: Well, here's the thing about Napster, I mean, the internet is a really cool thing, and we were talking about Hanson.net and we were talking about all the stuff,
Zac: We have a huge presidence on the internet, I mean, we try as much as we can to use the internet to get in touch with fans because it is so instant, you can just ask someone a question and get, you know, three thousand answers in, you know, 2 seconds, I mean, it's like, WHOA! I mean, with that, with as much freedom as the internet has, there's a lot of problems, obviously, if someone's not responsible enough with the freedom that they get and they go overboard, and then it ends up hurting...
Taylor: It can be abused.
Isaac: I think the big misconception and people don't see as wrong is that when you are doing as much downloading and as much trading of MP3's as is happening right now, there's a major downside to the artist that you are supposedly, quote unquote, supporting by listening to their music, and you know, and you have their MP3's and stuff like that, a lot of what you don't realize is that you're actually taking away their livlyhood.
Taylor: It can injure the artist. I think the way music is bought and stuff is completely going to change in five years with the internet, but I think as long as people respect the artist and kind of the right of their intellectual property and people still go out and buy that record, it's ok, as long as it's not abused. And I think that we're just putting our names on there, just kind of acknowleding that we are artists who have had it abused.
Isaac: There are a lot of people who download Hanson music, and that's fine, but what you really need to realize is that if you don't own the record, then you have hurt the artist.
Taylor: You just need to go out and get the record too. Just don't abuse it.
Isaac: And also though, MP3's themselves are actually really really cool and I think MP3's as an entity are probably, will be a major way for people to distribute music. But Napster in its current form is going to end up injuring a lot of bands' livlyhood, bands who are quote unquote bands, actually bands that live off of touring and those kindds of things and its, it's...
Taylor: Thank you Dan Rather. No, he's just, we've gone on forever, but as long as it's not abused is a cool thing so...
Holly: Have you guys ever used Napster?
Isaac: No I haven't...
Taylor: We haven't personally.
Isaac: We know friends that use it, but they use it responsibly.
Taylor: No, it's...
Zac: A good friend of ours, you know, he uses Napster, but every record that he likes, he goes out and buys.
Isaac: No actually, every MP3 that he has, for almost every MP3 that he has, he quote unquote has the record.
New Guy: That's a good question. I don't think we expected that one. Bethany?
Taylor: Yeah, it's actually Zac.
Zac: No! It's a different person. Not me.
Taylor: Ok, we'll stop blabbering. You can talk now.
Bethany: Thanks. What have you guys learned most from traveling around the world?
Isaac: That there are lots of beautiful girls in every country. That's what I've learned.
Taylor: Um...
Isaac: Not that I ever doubted that, but...but yeah.
Taylor: I've learned that, well, you learn a lot of things. First of all, never eat raw fish in Taiwan when you don't know...
Isaac: Raw anything! No.
Taylor: Or never eat...
Isaac: Or...or...
Together: STEAK TAR TAR!
Taylor: In a little cafe in France.
Isaac: No. Bad move. We had a friend that got violently ill the very next day.
Taylor: But the more broad thing is...
Isaac: Note to self, never eat bananas in Brazil. Whoo!
Taylor: Danger. It's all food related. The other thing you learn is just that everybody, you go to all these different places but still people respond to music. I mean, such a cool thing that you can be in Brazil, or you can be in France, or you can be in Indianapolis, and people can still respond to the music, and get into it, and have a good time. That's..it..everybody is not that different. It's kinda wild that you can be in all these different places where people speak different languages...
Isaac: Yeah, you see all the culteral differences and all the culteral similarities.
Taylor: And it's just kinda...music is just the thing that connects people, so it's extrememly cool.
Zac: Join together brothers!
Taylor: Zac's gonna sing some "Heal the World".
Zac: HEAL THE WOOOORRRRLLLLLDDDD! Make it a better plaaacceeee!!
Isaac: Oh God.
New Guy: Yeah, yeah, we do want to thank you guys for coming by today. We do have the show happening tonight at the Murat, sold out, 7:30, and we're gonna continue the webcast for a little bit, get some pictures, some autographs, things like that, maybe have you guys eat some pizza and actuion it off on eBay.
Isaac: Don't worry, we won't eat...
New Guy: Won't do that? Well, thanks for coming by.
Taylor: Just as long as you put some clothes on.
New Guy: Haha, yeah, we wanna thank Kristin from Indy, Ally from Kokomo, Tara from Carmel, Holly from Carmel, and Bethany from Shelybyville, our Hanson fanatics are going to the show tonight. Good seats?
Taylor: I think...great seats here and good seats there. Are you guys all in the front row?
New Guy: No signs! Alright, stick around on ZPL, in a couple minutes we'll be back with the song that made you guys famous!