Cubby: Welcome back to Hanson Live, beaming off the top of the Empire State Building here in New York City. Paul Cubby Bryant, with Ike, Tay and Zac!

Isaac: Hello!

Cubby: Welcome back guys!

Taylor: Ooh, listen to that song, it's, it's spooky. (Yearbook is playing in the background.)

Zac: We have decided at the end of the show, we're going to bungee jump off the Empire State Building.

Tay: It's going to be very interesting.

Cubby: I can't wait!

Taylor: Especially the radio station thing, I'm very psyched about that.

Isaac: The only problem is, radio does not quite capture the bungee jumping experience.

Cubby: We could hold the mike to you.

(All talk)

Isaac (i think): AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cubby: You ever done that? You ever bungee jumped?

All: No.

Isaac: Actually, we'd like to skydive.

Cubby: Did you see on Fox, like two weeks ago, it was like "good things gone bad"? And they show these horror stories like a roller coaster getting stuck upside-down, and they showed a bungee--

Taylor: It's like, wouldn't you like to have THAT on the radio?

Cubby: And they showed a bungee jumper and the cord didn't snap back. But they all lived.

Taylor: Hey man, that's like making my bungee jumping experience--

Zac: It's like, "when couches attack: part three."

Isaac: Next on Fox.

Cubby: Now you guys are in New York City right now, of course, you're hanging with me, it's living proof, but you're here for a long duration. What do you got coming up, we can see on TV, I believe?

Isaac: Yeah, we're gonna be doin' Letterman actually tomorrow, and uh, we're gonna also be doing Rosie O'Donnell and CBS This Morning. It's actually kinda funny cuz we were hoping we were gonna be able to do Letterman on the sixth of May rather than the 12th--

Taylor: Cuz that was the day that was the first time we did it, a year ago. And when the album was released, on the 6th.

Isaac: It was actually thought that we might release 3CG on the 6th, which, that woulda been ironic.

Taylor: Yeah if we released it on the same day we released Middle of Nowhere.

Zac (singing, kinda): Isn't it ironic?

All: Dontcha think?

Cubby: What's your opinion of the fans bein' so, like, they know everything. Like, I got all these emails "today is the year anniversary of Middle of Nowhere." I mean, they got all this stuff written down! It's pretty passionate!

Taylor: Don't mock the fans, I mean-- (Yeah! Go Tay!)

Cubby: No, I think it's incredible! I don't remember what I did yesterday!

Taylor: That's okay Cubby, we understand.

Isaac: I have a hard time keeping track of what day it is.

Cubby: Exactly.

Isaac: Like what day of the week. "Is this saturday?"

Cubby: Let's take some phone calls. Jen, in Vermont! What's goin' on Jen? Welcome to Hanson Live.

Jen: Hey! How are ya?

Isaac: Just fine, how about you?

Jen: I'm fine.

Cubby: Cool. You have a question for the boys and guys and gentlemen? What should I refer to you as? As men?

Jen: I want to ask you, what else do you guys want to achieve since you've done so much already?

Isaac (with Tay adding in): We have a lot more to achieve, we have a lot left. We look forward to just doing whatever comes up.

Taylor: I mean, as Ike said, we definitely have a long way to go. We haven't conquered it all in any way.

Cubby: You guys ever get nervous?

Taylor: Um, just depends, I mean, we're pretty--as much as stage goes, I mean, only, sometimes if you're standing there and somebody's breaking down the barricade, you know, that can be kinda scary but you know.

Isaac: Yeah, when people are rioting, you know, it's--

Taylor: Yeah, people rioting, burning you know, cars, or each other, that would be bad, but...

Zac: See, no, that's one thing I thought of. You know, if there's bunch of people in the crowd with long hair and you know they've got the lighters and someone drops the lighter. Would everyone light on fire?

Cubby: Well, if there's gasoline, Zac, on the floor, yeah, there's gonna be a problem.

Zac: No, but hair goes WHOOSH (I can't spell it out. He made a weird flaming noise) and it burns really quickly.

Isaac: It actually does, yeah. It singes but it doesn't actually catch on FIRE. (I wonder how he knows that . . .)

Cubby: No wait, can I ask Zac a quick question?

Taylor: Yeah.

Cubby: Zac, when do you decide to go with the dredlocks or just the hair down?

Zac: Um, whenever we have the time.

Taylor: It takes a long time to braid all your hair. I mean, obviously, you don't HAVE much, so--

(Laughing)

Cubby: You know what?! Come on!

Isaac: You're balding, man!

Taylor: I'm just kidding.

Isaac: All right, it's not actually. We're just teasing.

Cubby: You're tough on me.

Taylor: We're just kind of in that mood.

Zac: We love you man!

Cubby: I know, we go way back! Uh Julie, in IL. How you doin' Julie? Another Julie by the way. You're on Hanson Live!

Julie: I'm here!

All: Hi Julie!

Julie: Hello. I can barely hear you guys.

Isaac: Oh yeah?

Taylor: Then we'll talk REALLY LOUDLY!

Cubby: Put that mouth right up to the microphone. Just get that tongue going.

Isaac: Helloooo.

Taylor: Ai-yai-yai, that kinda sounds a little (mumble mumble).

Julie: I got a question for you guys. Are any of your brothers and sisters interested in music?

Isaac: Um, you know, they are--

Taylor: Thank you for not asking if they wanna be in the band. That's a very nice thing of you to ask instead.

Cubby: I'm sure they've asked.

Taylor: Well, that's what i mean. Lots of people ask that but um, I think they're--it's kinda hard not to be into music in general, once you're around--

Zac: I think that when music is a part of your life and it's around you, you--

Isaac: You can't help but be into it, yeah--

Taylor: You can't help but be into it, so I think they're definitely into music, so uh . . . it's kinda hard not to be.

Zac: I dunno whether they're gonna play an instrument or not, but they're definitely into music.

Taylor: Everyone's into music in some way, so I guess that's kind of a general question I guess you could say.

Cubby: Who influenced you guys? Or what was your first like when you felt like "wow i like music." You heard on the radio, you heard a song on the radio that gotcha--

Taylor: Well, I mean, music is a part of everybody. Think about how much music is a part of everybody--

Zac: When you watch a movie if it didn't have music, it would probably be a bad movie.

Isaac: Right. It'd just be like very dull.

Taylor: You know, it'd be like, this guy's about to blow his gun, he's behind this guy and he's about to blow his head off and there's no music and you're like, "oh." You know, cuz you gotta have some of that doodoodoo--

Zac: You gotta have some of that suspense.

Taylor: I mean, imagine what Jaws would've been like without that dadadadadada -- i mean, then he bites the guy's leg off.

Cubby: It brings back memories, too, like whenever you hear Mmmbop, you're gonna think, you know, "Wow. Spring '97, man."

Taylor: Cool.

Cubby: Rebecca from TN. What's goin' on, Rebecca from TN?

Rebecca: (She says something weird. I think they caught her by surprise.)

Cubby: You're on Hanson Live. Say hi to the guys.

Rebecca: Hey.

Taylor: Hi to the guys! (hehe)

Rebecca: Hey. I can't hardly hear you!

Isaac: Oh yeah?

Zac (right into mic): WE WILL TALK LOUDER.

Cubby: Oh man, geez, Zac, what the hell are you doin'?

Taylor: Well, we'll talk into our mic really loud.

Isaac: Actually, sounds like we've got like weird connections going on. Can you hear us better now?

Rebecca: Yeah, that's better.

Ike and Tay: Okay, that's cool. So what was your question?

Rebecca: Um, are there gonna be any surprises or are there any big secrets for your tour?

Isaac: Um you know, actually, I don't know.

Taylor: If it was a secret, we couldn't tell ya.

Isaac: We couldn't tell ya. Darn! But actually, you know, it's just gonna be playin a lot of the songs off MON and 3CG and--

Taylor: We'll be playing some oldies, a lot of the songs we talk about, you know, some of the old rock and roll songs that we're very much into. It's just, you know, hopefully it's just gonna be a fun show. And we'll just, we'll be having fun so--

Isaac: And maybe we WILL throw in a couple of surprises just for you.

Taylor: There's always a surprise. You know.

Cubby: Thank you for your call, Rebecca. Hey I got this thing here, it's from a magazine. I wanna see if these magazines are correct. "10 facts about hanson." Uh, Hanson lived in Venezuela, Trinidad, and Ecuador. Is this true?

Ike and Tay: Yes, that is true.

Cubby: How did that come about?

Ike: Our dad worked for an--

Cubby: Ah! An oil company! It's right here! Wow these things are right!

Taylor: Hey!

Ike: That's 1 out of 10!

All: Keep going.

Cubby: Both parents are musically inclined and mother Diana often sang around the house.

Ike: Well . . .

Tay: Well she didn't sing AROUND the house, she's not THAT big.

(Laugh)

Taylor: It just depends. "Hey man--"

Isaac: It's kinda like the "your momma's so fat her--her--"

Cubby: Her blood type's Ragu?

Isaac: Yeah, or, or, "you're momma's so fat her senior pictures were aerial views"?

Cubby: When her beeper goes off people think she's backin' up?

Tay: Or she's got more chins than a chinese rowboat? (I personally like that one!)

Zac: Or when she sits around the table (all join in) she sits AROUND the table!

Cubby: Uh, the boys were born and when they're not traveling, live in Tulsa, OK.

Taylor: Yes, we WERE born!

Isaac: Oh, that's FOUR in a row!

Taylor: Hey man, we WERE born, that is true!

Cubby: Exactly. Hey, Isaac, Taylor and Zac were home-schooled by their mother Diana who is a certified teacher.

Zac: ENGHHHH!!!! (imitating buzzer)

Cubbby: They got one wrong?

Taylor: No, she was-she actually is. She taught--she taught sixth grade, I think. I may be wrong. But she did teach, but that really--

Cubby: What an impact she made on you!

Taylor: Yeah i know.

Zac: See, she--

Isaac: Hey I don't know--

Cubby: She taught sixth grade I THINK!

Taylor: Well it didn't really have anything to do with teaching us, I think she just wanted to be more involved and not send us off to school and never see us, you know, it was kinda like that.

Cubby: All right, that's 5 out of the 10 facts about Hanson. I would say that's what, 4 out of 5?

Isaac: Yeah, I think that's . . . yeah.

Cubby: All right, we'll do the next five next hour.

Tay: Cool.

Cubby: Yeah. All right. 3CG, new cd comes out tomorrow, let's play a little--

Taylor: Old cd, but new cd.

Cubby: Yeah, the old cd, new cd. We'll take one more phone call and then we'll play a new song from it. We're going to go to uh... Nicole, from KY. Hello Nicole!

Nicole: Hi.

All: Hi Nicole.

Isaac: So what time is it there, Nicole?

Nicole: Huh?

Isaac: What time is it in KY?

Nicole: Um, about 9:30.

Isaac: About 9:30. I think it's about the same time here.

Cubby: Actually it 10:49.

Taylor: It's a little bit, about an hour later.

Isaac: Okay. Yeah.

Nicole: I was just wondering if guys would ever be willing to date a fan.

Isaac: Well, you know what, we probably would--

Zac: It depends on the person. See but the thing is, once you end up dating the fan, they'd probably be more like a friend.

Taylor: By the time that, you know, we have a lot of friends that started off as fans, like you met 'em at a concert or something like that and you ended up being good friends, so you never know.

Isaac: And it's kinda strange to actually say that they were fans cuz--

Taylor: Well put it this way, you wouldn't just like walk up to somebody and just like lay one one em, so. (laughing) You wouldn't just you know, "hi nice to meet you," you know, tongue and all.

(Zac makes kissing noises)

Taylor: Ullll (weird noise that I can't spell), sorry.

Isaac: That was a little graphic.

Taylor: I was just trying to you know, explain it.

Zac: Thank you for being so graphic.

Cubby: Well I have to ask the question you guys are all single of course.

Isaac: Yes we are.

Cubby: All right.

Zac: Right now, right now--

Isaac: But with the way Taylor's talking, you would never know!

Taylor: I'm definitely single now.

Isaac: Hel-lo! Yeah, his girlfriend just broke up with him. sorry!

Cubby: Tell us a little about Speechless. It's never been heard before.

Taylor: I'm speechless. I have nothing to say.

Cubby: Nothing to say?

Isaac: Yeah, actually, that's what the song is about. The song is about, actually, someone kind of cheating on you.

Zac: It's basically about this girl's cheating on you and--

Taylor: Well let's not get on the down side. The thing about this song is a lot of people don't know the other side of Hanson. There's kind of different sounds on the album. This is one of the different sounds. There's much more of like, kind of R&B, kind of funk, groove to it. So you know, it's a little bit different from a lot of the Hanson perspective, most people's perspective of Hanson, so.

Cubby: And we'll hear it right now, how about that?

Isaac: Yeah!

Cubby: This is Speechless. 3CG, is the cd coming out tomorrow this is Hanson Live!

[Speechless plays]

Cubby: This is Hanson Live! Paul Cubby Bryant, beaming from the top of the Empire State Building and yes, Speechless is from MON want to clear that up.

Taylor: Yes Speechless is from MON.

Cubby: You know you have to admit it really is the way--like you said earlier--how the wording is new album, old stuff--

Isaac: This album--

Cubby: 3CG, you're talking about--

Isaac: 3CG is about two years old and the reason we released it was becuase we had so many requests from our fans, you know, letters and emails and everything, saying you know, "when are we gonna get to hear this music, we really wanna hear it." So we decided to release it. And we spent about four hours a song, um, you know mixing and everything, in a one car garage, with a 8 track recorder.

Taylor: Not a 3 car garage, we could'nt get a 3 car garage.

Isaac: Yeah, we weren't that lucky, yeah.

Cubby: Now what about new music, when are you gonna be, uh, gettin that out? To the public?

Isaac: You know, we are, you know, you're always writing songs, so we definitely have new music, but uh . . . actually recording, we'll start recording--

Taylor: Probably after the tour is done. I mean, we're gonna be doing just as many shows as we possibly can over the summer a few in canada, some in europe and of course in the states so--

Cubby: So will you try out a lot of new songs?

Taylor: Um, live?

Cubby: Yeah.

Taylor: Um, I'm not sure. We don't wanna give away too many things new, like NEW new, but we will be playing stuff off 3CG, we will be playing some--

Isaac: We will be playing a couple of songs that people haven't heard--

Taylor: Off--, maybe off of a new album, actually there is a song we'll be playing that's not on any album. So you'll get to hear one of those, and I think once we finish the tour we'll get back in the studio, you know, we're always writing songs so we're psyched about recording those.

Cubby: Real quick question before we go to break, um, I have to divert from the music talk for one second.

Taylor: Okay.

Isaac: Yeah.

Cubby: What the heck is Zac doing right now?

(Laughing)

Isaac: Zac is playing tic-tac-toe--

Cubby: He's playing tic-tac-toe with twizzlers.

Taylor: With pull and peel twizzlers. We just did a promo!

Isaac: Whoa! Hello!

Cubby: Hanson for twizzlers!

Taylor: Hey man.

Zac: Ike has said that I could never beat him, so i--

Isaac: Yeah, it's an unwinnable game.

Cubby: Yeah, tic-tac-toe, yeah.

Isaac: It's, it's you know.

Zac: Not necessarily true.

Taylor: No it IS a winnable game, Ike. Someone has to win.

Isaac: It's unwinnable.

Taylor: What do you mean?

Isaac: It's unwinnable.

Cubby: Did you ever see War Games?

Isaac: Yeah, exactly. It's unwinnable.

Cubby: Right.

Isaac: It's an unwinnable game. Except when you play through the computer.

Cubby: It's Hanson Live. One thing is winnable, you can get through. So try hard. You're listening to Hanson Live. It's me Paul Cubby Bryant. We're back with more music and more Hanson after this!

[commerical]

Cubby: Welcome back to Hanson Live, time is flying guys! Oh yeah, they're going to bite into their, their chips right now.

(Isaac makes munching noises)

Cubby: Paul Cubby Bryant, beaming off the Empire State Building here in New York City at Z100. We're hanging with Hanson. To my left, is Ike, straight ahead, Taylor, and to my right . . . is--

Taylor: You're confused!

Isaac: You got it wrong, ha-ha!

(Zac laughs maniacally in the background)

Cubby: Zac, what's going on--Zac is opening his mouth with chips, you know, that's--you're lucky this isn't TV!

Isaac: Well, first of all you know it's live when (in baby voice) he said it wrong, and two, guess what? We're eating chips.

Taylor: Yeah, well that's--it's definitely live, that's for sure.

Isaac: Yeah, we're eating chips.

Cubby: Um, all right, we're taking a few phone calls. We're gonna go to Shannon in Chicago. What's up Shannon?

Taylor: Hey Shannon. Shannon? Are you there?

Shannon: Hello?

Zac: Hey Shannon!

Shannon: Hey, what's up?

Zac: Welcome Shannon. And you're on Loveline!

Shannon: Oh my gosh, I love that show.

Taylor: Oh yeah?

Shannon: Okay I just wanted to say on Friday I got your new cd.

Taylor: Cool.

Shannon: Cuz it was at the store and--

Taylor: Wait how'd you get the new--how'd you get the new cd 3CG?

Shannon: I don't know we were at the store, getting a different cd, and we saw this one and I just bought it.

Cubby: Ohhhh.

Taylor: It's a conspiracy. That's amazing.

Shannon: It is! But um, I just wanted to know, did your guys' voice all change after this one, or . . .

Taylor: Um, you know, the thing is, even if you listen to this and you think wow our voices are pretty high, which we do too, it's pretty weird to listen to old recordings, but...

Zac: You shoulda heard the recording before that!

Taylor: You shoulda heard the recording before that, you know.

Isaac: Actually, to be honest, actually, this one is not much different from MON, actually.

Taylor: It's kind of . . . it's really over the past year that we've, you can hear the major, the real change, so um--

Zac: And the other thing is, it's a misconception that your voice changes and then it stops. Your voice is changing until you're 21.

Taylor: That's getting technical on us, oh God!

Cubby: Have you seen the Brady Bunch episode of "it's time to change"?

Ike, Tay and Zac: Yeah.

(They all break out into song, their voices cracking, singing "time to change")

Cubby: Shannon, thanks for calling.

Taylor: Bye, Shannon.

Cubby: We're gonna go to, oh, look at this name--it's Francesca.

Taylor: Ooh, I like that name.

Cubby: From San Francisco. Francesca you're on Hanson Live.

Taylor: Hi Francesca!

Francesca: Hi, I was just wondering what inspired you for your songs.

Isaac: Um . . . well, um . . .

Taylor: It just depends on what song, I mean, every song has a different inspiration, so um--

Cubby: All right, let's say Mmmbop.

Taylor: Um, Mmmbop, we've told the story for that a million times. Choose a different song.

Cubby: Uh . . . how about Speechless?

Taylor: Speechless, ooh, that's like--

Zac: Speechless--

Cubby: Uh, how about uh . . . River, from the--

Taylor: River is about uh, um . . .

Isaac: It's actually almost based off of real-life experiences, actually.

Taylor: It says "I guess I'll never know exactly where this river's gonna flow" it about how you never know--

Zac: It's about a relationship.

Isaac: It's about the ups and downs of a relationship.

Taylor: So it depends on what, you know, what song you're writing about. What song you're writing.

Cubby: Who does most of the writing?

Taylor: Everybody.

Isaac: Yeah, it's very much, it's very much a collaborative effort, actually.

Taylor: Right. Every song, definitely.

Isaac: you know, every song gets started by, you know, a different person or something like that.

Taylor: You know, one person usually starts a song and the other people kinda join in and say, you know, "listen to this idea" or whatever--

Cubby: Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night, "oh, i got an idea! got an idea!"

Taylor: Oh, definitely.

Isaac: Yeah, actually, yeah. You wake up sometimes and you--

Zac: See, but the worst part is, when you have this great song and you forget it.

Isaac: I hate that.

Taylor: Aw, that's the worst thing.

Cubby: It's like a dream you can't remember.

(All talking)

Zac: Yeah, it's like, it's like, um, "eyes," um . . .

Taylor: And then you end up writing a song with the same idea that's really not any good.

Cubby: What song from MON would you say was written when you were really like, uh, it just came to you?

Taylor: Um, With You In Your Dreams, which is about, um, our grandmother who passed away.

Cubby: Oh, really?

Taylor: It was--that was like one of those kind of like night songs, when it's like late at night and you kind of run up to the keyboard and you sit there and you play it into the night, and you kind of, hopefully you remember it the next day, you know?

Cubby: Right. This is Hanson Live! Everybody say hi to Sarah, in Providence!

All: Hello, Sara!

Taylor: In Providence!

Sara: Hi you guys.

All: How are you?

Sara: Good.

Cubby: Everyone's so shy.

Sara: Um, I just wanted to say I love you guys. You guys rock and everything.

Isaac: Well thank you very much.

Sara: And, um, I just wanted to ask you, do you like listen to your own music?

Zac (or Taylor): Um--

Isaac: To a certain extent, yeah.

Zac: See, but to an, a certain extent the other way, you don't like listening to your music because you hear it so often.

Taylor: No, that's not necessarily true, it's kinda like, I mean, I guess it's kinda like when you see yourself on TV, it's like "ooh, that's kinda weird," but at the same time, I think it's, you know, if it's something you jsut recorded or a song that you're psyched about, that's different, you know?

Cubby: Yeah. The first time you heard mmmbop on the radio. You probably know exactly where you were, what you were doing.

Zac: We were in New York, in a van, and--

Taylor: We were getting out in front of a hotel--

Zac: And Ike jumped--we were jumping out and Ike was the last out and he goes, "hey guys, stop! turn up the radio!" and--

Taylor: There it was, it was amazing.

Isaac: Yeah, there it was, it was on.

Zac: And one of the cool things is, sometimes when, even if the radio almost isn't on, you'll go, "hey, turn up the radio," and it'll be your song.

Taylor: You know, you'll know that it's your song.

Zac: And somehow you'll know it.

Taylor: It's, it's a weird, sick feeling you get, you know? You're about to--

Isaac: Yeah, you get sick and wanna vomit.

(All laugh)

Taylor: Yeah, and you're like, "hey, it's our song!" (wretching noise)

Cubby: Now are you guys perfectionists? I mean, do you hear a song that like, you did and you're like "oh, man, we shoulda done that better."

Taylor: We're very, very, perfectionistic.

Isaac: I, uh, I--to a certain extent, yeah.

Cubby: Cuz when you were warming up a cappella just a little while ago during the break, you guys were like, you know, we gotta get tighter, or something, I mean you're like--

tay and zac: Well, it's like--

Cubby: I mean, you sounded fine to me!

Zac: It's like, "Zac, you're flat--"

Taylor: Zac, you're flat.

Zac: Even if--

Cubby: Zac, you're the name of the next album!

Zac: Even if--

Isaac: The name of the next album is "flat notes."

Zac: By Hanson. Now, even if, sometimes, other people don't hear it, you hear it, so you're like, no you have to do this.

Taylor: You know, it's more like when you're in the studio and you're like, creating it and you're recording it, that's when you get really perfectionistic--

Isaac: Right.

Taylor: But you know, once you put it out there it's kinda like you gotta let it go a little bit, you know, so--

Isaac: And you know, to answer actually, her question, we do listen to our music when we're done, like when you're done with the record you feel really good about the record and so you listen to it a lot and then, then you're done listening to it for a while.