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Backstage At The Grammys Broadcast
07 February 2008
SCOTT, HOST: Mix 105.1, best mix of the 80s, 90s, and today. We’re here at the Grammys and look who’s here, it’s our friends Hanson!
ZAC: Yeah, we’ve got to clap for ourselves cos no one’s here.
SCOTT: Well everybody, but nobody’s paying attention but us. So, here we are. We’re reunited.
ISAAC: Yes.
SCOTT: First of all, nobody mobilizes a street team like you guys do.
TAYLOR: We don’t have to, they mobilize themselves.
SCOTT: It was amazing. We’ve never had to have people guard elevators and doors like we did with you guys. So, let’s talk about The Walk. What’s going on with this thing?
TAYLOR: The record came out…
ISAAC: At the end of the summer.
TAYLOR: …at the end of last summer and we did an amazing tour across the US. Ike had a little bit of a health scare so we had to kind of slow down a little bit.
ISAAC: I had a really bizarre blood clot issue.
SCOTT: Yeah, I heard about that. Was that—I mean, the press can take something and blow it up. Was it a life/death thing like they made it sound?
ZAC: Yeah, it pretty much was life and death.
ISAAC: Yeah, I mean, it’s hard for me to get my head around it because it’s such a sudden thing and it’s something you don’t really quite feel or understand in the same way but basically I had pulmonary embolisms, which are blood clots in your lungs, and that can cause a heart attack. And so it’s a really unusual thing, blood clots are the #1 cause of death in otherwise healthy adults.
SCOTT: And it’s one of those things—I was reading about it on the plane, they actually had a little folder on it, to get up and walk around, and here’s one of the symptoms. It’s like, this isn’t it, is it? You don’t know. Is that it? It can be.
ISAAC: It can be. In my case it’s called thorasic outlet syndrome is what I have and it’s because my collarbone and first rib are really close together and it actually caused a constriction where the veins coming out of my arm couldn’t—ended up getting pinched and couldn’t…
TAYLOR: Ike is going to start becoming a surgeon.
ISAAC: It all backed up into my elbow, underneath my armpit, up into my neck.
SCOTT: So, the press got it right? Cos that’s exactly what they said it was.
ISAAC: That’s exactly right, yeah.
TAYLOR: In some cases the press does get it right.
ISAAC: In my case they did.
ZAC: One in a million, but it happens.
SCOTT: Alright, they’re wrapping us up already. I wanted to talk about—we’ve got the cameras following you everywhere. Are you still doing the podcasts and everything?
TAYLOR: We’re doing the podcasts, yeah. And this is carrying over into just a documentary series about just what we’re doing.
SCOTT: Going independent?
ISAAC: Going indie and kind of continuing on what we kind of started, with we had a film called Strong Enough To Break, which came out actually online on this podcast that went out last year and then continued on with the making of this new album and it’s just kind of continuing now, it looks like it’s going to evolve into a television series as well.
SCOTT: Excellent. Hey, nice work you guys.
TAYLOR: Thanks.
SCOTT: Good to see you guys again.
ISAAC: Good to see you too.
SCOTT: Continued good health. It’s Hanson, right here. Don’t forget to check out The Walk! Mix 105.1 at the Grammys!
typed up by Heidi (me)