HOST: Are you ready with powder on your face? Yes? They're also tired. Yes? Then come on in. Big applause everybody, here is Hanson! Don't be shy. My goodness.

TAYLOR: The powder on your face looks good.

HOST: Which one?

TAYLOR: The powder on your face.

HOST: The powder on my face, yes. The powder on my nose fits me better. So it's a live show tonight, we're talking about Big Brother most of the time, sometimes we talk about music guests.

TAYLOR: Hey.

HOST: I just said we're talking about Big Brother a lot but not all the time. Sometimes we also have very nice guests on the show. I'm very happy that you come, it's very late, a quarter to 12 tonight to our show.

TAYLOR: It's, I have to say, actually a lot, you know, in the States there's a lot of late night shows, but they actually usually film them early and then have the show go on. You guys you don't mess around. It's like "Hey, here we are." Very cool.

ISAAC: This is like, this is like the musician show, though. This is like our normal hour, you know. We, so we're used to it.

HOST: Yeah, but the difference between the musician and us is, we don't take all the women out after the show.

ISAAC: That's true.

TAYLOR: Why not?

HOST: We go home to our families. I'm living with my parents, since 35 years now-

TAYLOR: That's good.

HOST: And I have to be in bed at 1 o'clock. So that's it.

ZAC: Only 1 o'clock?

HOST: Yeah, 1 o'clock, every evening. It's not your first time in Germany, isn't it?

ISAAC: No.

TAYLOR: No, it's actually, gosh we've been here I don't know how many times. Quite a few over the years.

ISAAC: 5 or 6 at least.

TAYLOR: We were talking with uh a person we're working with here, from the record company. I think we've been to more German cities than she has.

HOST: Really?

TAYLOR: Yeah, yes.

HOST: Most of the Germans don't travel. They sit at home, stay in their houses-

TAYLOR: That's not good. There's so much to see.

HOST: They're afraid of travelling.

TAYLOR: Oh. You guys should travel more.

HOST: But you're travelling a lot, right?

ZAC: We're travelling quite a bit.

HOST: So when did you start travelling? In the age of?

TAYLOR: Well it depends. When we were really young, before singing, I mean, we did some travelling just because of, you know, our dad's job early on, when we were little kids and stuff. But since doing music, I mean, really a lot of travelling since, you know, since our first major release about 8 years ago.

HOST: Do you love travelling or do you hate it?

ZAC: A little bit of both. I think, well, you know, travelling usually means work. It's not, it's not going to Europe to vacation, it's going to places to do work. We try to have as much fun as we can.

TAYLOR: But also, I mean, you're you're there doing music. I mean, right now we're doing interviews and talking about the release of the new record, but we're coming back to tour in March and April, which is, you know, just great.

HOST: And being on tour is always different. I mean, you're under stress, you have a schedule, you have to-

TAYLOR: Sure, yeah.

HOST: Your days are always the same, most of the time.

TAYLOR: Well, unfortunately you see a lot more hotel rooms doing, you know, talking about music than you do getting out and exploring but still, I mean, we've gotten to see so much, I mean, we were in, you know, 15 countries last just last year just going all over Southeast Asia and things like that.

HOST: 15 countries, oh my God, and 15 different languages.

TAYLOR: Yeah, yeah.

HOST: 15 different kind of people.

ISAAC: 15 different kinds of women.

HOST: Okay, so we make a women test right now, after the break. And we see how fit you are.

ISAAC: Okay.

HOST: We improve your women- uh… Knowledge. Okay, we'll be right back, after the break. So I didn't translate it now. I think we have viewers who understand English.

TAYLOR: Sure. Hopefully.

HOST: I hope so.

ZAC: Otherwise-

HOST: Otherwise we won't have any viewers anymore. Okay, we'll be right back with the Hansons. Furthermore, we'll see a short clip of your new video. We'll see a short cut out of the new video.

TAYLOR: Cool.

HOST: And uh, yes, we'll have a short break now and then we'll be right back. With the Hansons.

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HOST: The Hansons are here. Hanson, Hanson, Hanson, Hanson.

ISAAC: Yes.

HOST: Handsome.

TAYLOR: That's Hanson 4 times over, that's yeah. Actually it's just three of us. Hanson, Hanson, Hanson.

HOST: The most of the people know you from your all time favourite hit "MMMBop." I mean, this is a song who's travelling with you all around the world.

TAYLOR: Sure.

HOST: I mean, if you come to different countries people wanna listen to that, wanna hear this song again.

TAYLOR: Well, I mean it's… I mean, when the first record came out, I think, you know, it just sort of, it was so different than what was going on, I think it just stood out and also uhm at you know, who we were uh originally, I think put together with that I think, you know, made it unique, so we're proud of it.

HOST: And it was small children travelling around the world... and were pushed to be musicians?

TAYLOR: No, never, not at all.

ISAAC: No.

HOST: Your parents got the money and let you work.

TAYLOR: The parents...

ISAAC: No.

TAYLOR: No, not at all.

HOST: Or they spend your money and let you work.

TAYLOR: No. Are your parents spending your money?

HOST: I don't have parents.

TAYLOR: Okay, but you do live with your parents.

HOST: I'm coming from outer space.

TAYLOR: Oookay, a different home. So when you go home at night- So the one o'clock curfew, is that the martian curfew? Is that what it is?

HOST: Excuse me?

TAYLOR: The martian curfew... one o'clock.

HOST: The martian curfew, ya, ya, ya, ya, m-hm.

TAYLOR: One o'clock. Back to, back to Mars by one.

HOST: But what I wanna ask you is, because from the beginning making music, playing music together, being musicians, a a family-

ISAAC: Yeah.

HOST: Musical-wise, I mean, that's a gift. Most of the people are not able to play any instruments or-

TAYLOR: Sure.

HOST: They're playing computer games and stuff like that.

TAYLOR: Oh yeah. Yeah well, well, I mean, obviously being musical, I think, is is talent and then actually learning to play is the commitment, you know. So for us, we just figured early on that we really liked making music and then we figured "Hey, if we can do this as a job and people like it and enjoy listening to what we create then we're willing to work at it."

ISAAC: Well, it kinda started with us just doing local gigs and starting off playing, you know, music festivals in in, you know, home state wherever we could play. And the cool thing was-

HOST: Or wherever they let you play. Oh the kids are coming! Hanson!

ISAAC: Exactly.

TAYLOR: We used to get bars-

HOST: You were playing in bars?

TAYLOR: Bars that wanted us to come play, like the owners, because they, because we built a fanbase, even in a local area, but we couldn't go in the bar- We couldn't go in bars, so we would actually go to a bar and set up outside and bring the bar outside.

HOST: That's a good idea. To go in a bar, if you're not old enough, you start-

TAYLOR: Outside a bar.

HOST: A group, a band and then you can play in the bar.

TAYLOR: But not exactly.

HOST: I know what you mean. The difference between the music from the early days to now it's a huge huge progression.

ISAAC: Sure.

HOST: It sounds totally different, it's more rock. More vocal-wise, with guitars.

ZAC: Well, it's, you know, I mean stuff like that happens. I don't think it's totally different. I mean, there are, there's a certain, I think, sense of of Hanson. I think, people who have followed the group, the albums before this uh see the way we write songs and the way we harmonize together that that's the same. I mean-

HOST: Let's see how you harmonate. I wanna, excuse me, I wanna, I wanna have a short look into the new video.

ZAC: Uh, okay.

HOST: Say harmonate, that's the the point. "Penny & Me," that's the single, isn't it?

ZAC: Yes.

HOST: It's totally different.

TAYLOR: Yeah, but, I mean, every record you make is different. For us, I mean, it's hard for people to sort of... It's always funny when people say "Hey, your new record is different." I mean, you're saying that but if it wasn't different then we could just sell the old record over and over and just keep going out and promoting it. Well we got a new record coming, Middle Of Nowhere!

HOST: And how are the reactions? Maybe in Japan. Hanson, Hanson, very, very, very nice.

TAYLOR: You know, we have amazing fans. We haven't, we've like you said uhm, we first came out we were able to reach a lot of people and since then we've been able to take a lot of our fans just forward with us. And being all over the world uhm, you know, we we've seen them we've seen them go, you know-

HOST: You've seen them, you saw them grow up.

TAYLOR: Yes, in other ways, yeah.

HOST: From the very tiny tiny little fans.

TAYLOR: They weren't quite that tiny.

ZAC: They were the size of small dogs, yes.

HOST: Like embryon ones, little small ones.

ZAC: Yes, yes. They were 5 months old when we started with them and now we-

TAYLOR: Embryonic fans.

HOST: But they're the best. We have many embryonic fans, do we?

TAYLOR: Maybe their brains are still embryonic but they're... nevermind.

HOST 2: But what happened to your hair? Why did you cut your hair? That was so cute.

TAYLOR: Why did you cut your hair?

HOST 2: That was so cute.

HOST: He doesn't have hair. He has a wig.

HOST 2: It's a wig.

ISAAC: It's a wig, yeah.

TAYLOR: It looks good, though. It's just hair.

HOST 2: It's as short as his (points to Isaac).

ISAAC: This is a wig also.

HOST 2: Oh, look at this.

TAYLOR: It's just hair, you know. Just like anybody.

HOST: Could you imagine, I mean, you know The Osbournes, you know reality television.

TAYLOR: Yeah.

HOST: So it happens all over the world.

ISAAC: Yes it does.

HOST: Like an epidemia.

ISAAC: Yeah, it's it's it's a good thing and a bad thing.

ZAC: Well, I think there's a, you know, for instance the Osbournes, referencing the Osbournes, which would be one of the only music related reality TV shows, you know, I think the best example of what that did was for a second Ozzy Osbourne started selling more albums.

HOST: Yeah.

ZAC: And then, by the time they got to the second year, everybody said: "This is stupid. Ozzy Osbourne has completely made himself a-"

TAYLOR: A joke.

ZAC: A joke.

HOST: Yeah.

ZAC: And his music is no longer credible. He's just a reality TV star.

HOST: He's like a puppet.

ZAC: And yeah, that's I think, why we stay very far away from that.

HOST: ... in the center of evil so we wanna have a short look-

ZAC: I didn't call it evil. I just said we're not doing it.

HOST: So we look into the house right now. You know, that's the big question of all. They're drinking alcohol in a hot bathtub.

ISAAC: Yes.

TAYLOR: With three men.

HOST: Three men and one woman, yes. That's a new kind of group sex. But we wanna have a short look and... what's going on. *shows video of Big Brother house* And they all have muscles. We just noticed. All of them are very muscular.

ZAC: Yes, what else would you do if you're an ass for a year with nothing to do.

HOST: Well-

HOST 2: Build muscles.

TAYLOR: Doing push-ups.

HOST: Pumping.

ZAC: Pumping.

HOST: Pumping.

ZAC: Puuhmping. Of course, that seems to imply something else besides working out.

TAYLOR: Hey, could see one. The Gouvernator, Arnold.

HOST: Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's the neighbourhood country, it's Austria.

ZAC: Yes.

HOST: But you can speak free here in Germany.

TAYLOR: Yes.

ZAC: Awesome.

HOST: Do you have Austrian fans as well?

ISAAC: Yes we do.

ZAC: I hope so.

HOST: They're travelling with you, are they, aren't they?

ISAAC: They there are actually a couple of Austrian fans that were, that actually-

TAYLOR: Were waiting in the snow.

ISAAC: Waiting in the snow.

HOST: Oh yeah, that is goodwill. Let the fans wait out in the snow.

TAYLOR: No, we actually let them inside. They were waiting in the snow. You guys were leaving them out there. When we got here we told them to come in.

HOST: Schwede always gives them… do you take hitchhikers in your car?

HOST 2: Of course, always.

ISAAC: All the time.

HOST: I'm afraid of strange people. If you're travelling through Germany, what are the most impressive things you ever met? Crazy German stuff.

ISAAC: Oooh, uhm.

TAYLOR: Crazy German things.

ZAC: Hofbräuhaus.

ISAAC: Hofbräuhaus, yeah.

TAYLOR: The Hofbräuhaus. Can you guys shed some light on that. Is it good or is it worth going or not?

HOST: It's worse.

TAYLOR: Is it terrible?

HOST: Yeah, it's definitely not German.

TAYLOR: No.

ISAAC: Okay.

HOST: People are not drunk at 12 o'clock in the morning. That's normal in German.

ZAC: Then only Japanese people-

HOST: Many Japanese. It's not German.

ISAAC: It's it's, so in other words you're saying that German people don't go there anymore.

HOST: Yeah, yeah. Munich people don't go there anymore. But tourists go there, it's a nice place.

ZAC: Yeah, well.

TAYLOR: Sure, where else can you go get beer that big right.

HOST: On the Oktoberfest.

TAYLOR: Yeah.

ISAAC: Exactly.

HOST 2: Many Italians there.

ISAAC: Many Italians.

HOST: So next you go Germany, and then? Austria.

TAYLOR: Well-

HOST: You bring your Austrian fans home.

ISAAC: That's true.

TAYLOR: Yeah, that could, we, I think we need a bigger house. Maybe we could bring a couple Austrian fans that are here home.

HOST: And you live in a trailer then and you travel with your house?

TAYLOR: We just pull everything along, yeah.

HOST: That's cool.

ZAC: We live like turtles.

HOST: Like the Ninja Turtles.

TAYLOR: Just bring our home with us.

ZAC: We're much like the Ninja Turtles. Only, we're not mutant or teenagers but we're much like them. We do fight crime and there's a band of Ninjas that we fight against.

TAYLOR: We're actually... no, either.

HOST: But I think I think definitely you had a teenage life. I'm sure.

ZAC: Yes.

TAYLOR: As we all did.

HOST: Because you're crazy enough to come to that show and that's all what the point, you know.

ZAC: Yes, and we were also, we were also raised by a rat in the sewers, which was amazing. And we had this totally strange relationship with a reporter.

TAYLOR: It was awkward.

ZAC: It was awkward.

HOST: You had a strange relationship with a reporter?

ZAC: And we love pizza. We like to say "kawabunga" a lot.

TAYLOR: It's in the Ninja Turtles.

HOST: Oh, excuse me, ya, ya, ya.

ZAC: I think I lost you on that.

TAYLOR: ... deepend now. He's giving you, we can give another concert for the next Big Brother show.

HOST: Cool, you do that.

TAYLOR: Zac raised by a rat.

ZAC: It's an idea. I think it would go over big.

HOST: We're open for new ideas.

ZAC: Especially in small Third World countries.

HOST: That's cool because this show doesn't have gag writers. Yeah, we're poor enough to improvise so we're always open for new projects. And you have a very, what is this (pointing to Zac's wrist), the three stripes. It's a poor uh-

ZAC: It's a, it's a-

HOST: Tattoo.

ZAC: Exactly.

HOST: It's a edding tattoo.

HOST 2: Don't you know you need razorblades?

ZAC: Yes, I'm… well I was marking it so that I could cut it with a razorblade later.

HOST 2: Yeah.

HOST: Does it have a special meaning?

ZAC: It does but I don't...

HOST: You don't wanna talk about it?

ZAC: Mh-mh.

HOST: It's special, some holistic-

ZAC: Uhm-

HOST: It's like a holistic-

ZAC: It just meant many things. It means-

HOST: It's like three stripes.

ZAC: It's like racing stripes. It's, I can go, I feel like I'm going faster with this. People look at, people look at me and they see there stripes-

HOST: If you need three racing stripes you buy Adidas, that's that's the fact. They make it on your shoes, or your jacket. It's the first step maybe to become a rapper. ZAC: Yeah, but I don't have any bling. And I haven't been shot 12 times. I'm working on that, though.

HOST: That's cool. But I like it.

TAYLOR: ... bling-bling.

HOST: Bling-bling?

TAYLOR: Yeah, we all need a little bling-bling.

HOST: I have this edding here, because we have one t-shirt only for one year. They didn't give us a new-

HOST 2: All the guests here on the show sign this t-shirt.

HOST: All the guests have to write on this t-shirt. We're poor enough. And the "Penny & Me" single is coming out tomorrow. Oh, today! Monday, Monday, Monday, Monday!

ZAC: It came out today, yes.

TAYLOR: Came out today, I guess.

ZAC: It just came out today so everyone go and check it out.

HOST: Everyone will buy it, I'm sure. After this interview, everyone will buy it.

ZAC: Yes, because we've been so informative. Everyone knows exactly everything. And that's what they know.

HOST: And the mystical holistic three stripes.

ZAC: Yes, that which is the most- *host 2 standing in front of them with a camera* Alright, can you move a little bit together so I can-

HOST: Now he's playing papparazzi.

HOST 2: With the good old-fashioned Polaroid.

ZAC: Yes.

HOST 2: All of you. Okay, smile.

HOST: And do it.Thank you. Guys, thank you very much.

TAYLOR: Yeah, thanks for having us.

HOST: Yeah, it was really really interesting.

TAYLOR: Tell your Mom and Dad on Mars we said hello.

HOST: Yeah, they watch it, they watch the show every night.

ZAC: They don't-

HOST: And then they wait that I'm at home at 1 o'clock.

ZAC: They don't have much to do.

HOST: They have me, my three brothers-

ZAC: Nah, I mean that they watch your show.

HOST: Oh, they're really old. They're over 80. And they can't sleep. Old people don't sleep so much.

ZAC: So they just watch the show. They probably tape it and watch it in the afternoon.

HOST: And they will say: "The young three boys they were really nice you had in the studio. Are they actors, musicians, what did they do?" Where is your guitar?

ZAC: You should tell them that we are bear trainers.

HOST: Bear trainers?

ZAC: Yes, we train dancing bears-

HOST: From the Oklahoma national park.

ZAC: From Oklahoma national park.

HOST 2: Do they ride bicycles?

ZAC: They ride bicycles, they also yodel.

HOST: And yodel.

ZAC: But they yodel in four different languages.

HOST: I had a yodeling lesson in Utah. I have relatives in Utah.

TAYLOR: Yodeling in Utah?

HOST: Yes, in the (?) mountain area. They yodel all the time. There are many Germans.

ZAC: Who knows!

HOST: That's why I'm like this.

TAYLOR: It's all coming together. Mars, parents-

HOST: Coming from my Mormon relatives.

TAYLOR: Mormon relatives, yodeling in Utah.

HOST: Yeah, that's the fact.

TAYLOR: It all makes sense.

HOST: Guys-

ZAC: Did you fall on a skiing accident?

HOST: Thank you very much. Guys, I wish you all the best. Thanks a lot. You did a good job and uh, these three stripes... I want to, I need to talk about them some more. The Hansons! Thank you.