Hot 30 Countdown
Australia
18 November 2004HIGGO: It is the Hot 30 Countdown with Higgo and Alexis. In the studio, the boys from Hanson! Zac! Isaac! Taylor! Welcome boys!
TAYLOR: Hey!
ISAAC: We are men with deep voices.
ZAC: Yes, we've decided to talk down here (deep voice)
HIGGO: We are glad you've come along for a bit of a chat. It's great to have you back in Australia; it's been a while.
TAYLOR: It's really good to be here. It's been four years since we've been here last, almost five years.
HIGGO: So you are aware that your fans in Australia are complete freaks.
ZAC: We don't call them freaks! We call them devoted, amazing fans.
ALEXIS: I have to confess something here…
TAYLOR: You're one of them?
ALEXIS: Yeah. When you guys first brought out your album I was one of those girls who was screaming in school and we'd get our albums together at school and listen to stuff and "I love Lucy…" (sings)
HIGGO: You have to remember that Alexis is the same age as you Taylor.
TAYLOR: Yeah? You know, that's great that you were screaming just a couple weeks ago when the album came out. You know what? Yeah, there's definitely some very active fans but they're way cooler than anyone else; their effectiveness and their maintaining passion for music is really amazing. They're just really true music fans. I mean, even though we did the show last night in Melbourne, I mean, they're loud. They're just really, really loud. And it's been a long time since we've played so it was a very charged audience and I can imagine being a guy cos there are so many girls still at the show…
ALEXIS: Hang on, you said, "I can imagine being a guy."
TAYLOR: No, being a guy not on stage, just being at the show and being like, "wow, this is kind of intense."
ISAAC: Yeah, but if you were a guy at the show…
TAYLOR: You'd be smart.
ISAAC: Cos you're like, "wait a second…" Yeah, cos let's see, the ratio here… I'm bound to find a hot chick that will go on a date with me! The odds are for you.
HIGGO: Especially if you say "I was a roadie for Hanson, yeah!"
ISAAC: Yeah, exactly, throw that in there. And I endorse that, guys, randomly throw out roadie.
ALEXIS: We've actually got some fans who want to speak to you and ask you some questions so we're going to play a couple songs and if you guys are cool to stick around we'll get some of the fans to ask you some one-on-one's.
ISAAC: Okay, very good.
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HIGGO: It's the Hot 30 Countdown with Higgo and Alexis. The boys from Hanson joining us here in the studio. Guys, thanks for coming along.
ALEXIS: Zac, Taylor, and Isaac, I can't believe this! I have posters at home! And they're here in the flesh!
HIGGO: Get over it! Stop being so star struck!
ALEXIS: Sorry!
HIGGO: We have a whole bunch of fans on the phone and the first one up is Pauline, hello Pauline.
PAULINE: Hello!
TAYLOR: Hello Pauline, how are ya?
PAULINE: Hi, good.
HIGGO: Now this is something that you guys probably would have heard about, we have a very un-famous Hanson in Australia.
ISAAC: Yes. We have heard about that many times.
HIGGO: Yes, she's on the phone right now. Pauline Hanson, meet Hanson the band!
PAULINE: Oh really? Hi! Good day guys!
HIGGO: Now what we wanted to do by getting you both on the phone… there's got to be a connection. There must be!
TAYLOR: Well, despite the fact that she's been mentioned many times with like, very cheeky jokes in comparison to us… you know, there's a connection right there!
HIGGO: Well what I mean is there must be a family connection. Now Pauline, where is your heritage?
PAULINE: No, it was my married name.
HIGGO: Oh, well that just throws it all to shit, doesn't it?!
ZAC: I think the other problem would be where our heritage comes from, "Hanson" is like "Smith."
HIGGO: Is it really?
ZAC: It's like Smith in Denmark.
TAYLOR: It's Danish, everybody is named Hanson in Denmark. So we might be distant, distant, distant, distant, distant, distant cousins.
ALEXIS: Well this is what we're hoping for! We're hoping that we can make a connection.
HIGGO: It's not even 6 Degrees of Separation, you have the same last name, you talked on the phone.
TAYLOR: Exactly, here we are! We've already made the connection! That's what I'm trying to say. We're here, we've made the connection, the circle is over.
ALEXIS: And no more, we don't want to hear about it.
HIGGO: Now there's a show in Australia, there's a show called Dancing With The Stars in Australia and Pauline is actually going to be one of the finalists in that.
TAYLOR: Well then we know we're definitely not related cos she can dance.
PAULINE: Oh, that's questionable.
ZAC: We'll just play the music while you dance to it. How about that?
PAULINE: That sounds great.
ISAAC: We'll play that funky music.
PAULINE: I think I'm the entertaining side of the show about my dancing abilities, but anyway, the Australian public seem to enjoy it.
HIGGO: Pauline, thank you so much.
PAULINE: Oh that's fine, that's my pleasure! Great. Nice to talk to you guys.
TAYLOR: Yeah, nice to talk to you Pauline. Thanks.
HIGGO: Thanks, bye bye. Let's just quickly go to Tina here, hello Tina.
TINA: Hello!
HIGGO: We've got Hanson on the phone, what do you want to say?
TINA: Hi guys!
ISAAC: Hey, how are ya?
TINA: Oh my gosh, I really love you and I'm coming to your gig tomorrow night.
TAYLOR: That's awesome, cool.
TINA: I just want to know what to expect, now that you're all grown up are you throwing in some of the old stuff or is it just all new stuff?
ISAAC: It's old and new.
TINA: Oh yay!
ISAAC: It's everything.
TAYLOR: One thing about a Hanson show is it's really sort of a music lovers extreme cos we just play stuff from old, new, newer than new.
ZAC: You play oldies too. You play covers, different songs by bands that inspired you and just great music that you hear and it's just… we make the setlist about five minutes before we go on stage…
TAYLOR: Which will explain why there's little breaks in the show where we just look at each other in a stupor.
ZAC: "What song did you put down here?! We haven't played that in a month!"
TAYLOR: It'll be a little bit of everything, so hopefully you'll have fun.
TINA: Oh, I'm sure I will. I absolutely cannot wait.
TAYLOR: Cool, well neither can we, we're looking forward to it.
TINA: Thank you so much!
ALEXIS: Thanks Tina!
HIGGO: Thank you very much Tina.
ISAAC: Actually, in fact, in regards to what you can expect from a live show, we actually have a live DVD about to come out here in Australia, which is a complete acoustic show and it's really really been really cool cos that turned out great and that was really one of the most exciting things about being independent was just that we've been able to do some things that we didn't do before and in what I think a real (stutters) ah! I can't even talk! A real quality control about a lot of the stuff we've put out lately that sometimes you don't always get the chance to really take the time that it needs…
TAYLOR: With something live, with a live video like that. The shows that we're doing here in Australia are acoustic shows so this is actually a great example of that, this is a recording we did one of the last shows we did acoustically in the US, when we did the same thing, going on tour acoustic, so it's just really, really cool.
HIGGO: Excellent. Guys hang around; we'll get some more callers in just a second, the Hot 30 with Higgo and Alexis and the boys from Hanson!
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HIGGO: Hot 30 Countdown with Higgo and Alexis. We have Zac, Isaac, and Taylor, the boys from Hanson in the studio with us tonight. Now we are taking your calls, let's go to Andrew. Hello Andrew.
ANDREW: Hey, what's up?
TAYLOR: Hey Andrew. How are ya?
ANDREW: I was just wondering, a question for Zac for my girlfriend. Is he single at all?
ZAC: From your girlfriend? I feel sorry for you.
ISAAC: That's awkward.
ZAC: But no, I'm not single so I guess that's good news for you.
ISAAC: Why did you let your girlfriend ask that question?
ANDREW: Oh, cos she's curious and she loves listening to you anyway.
TAYLOR: I'm sorry man.
ZAC: That's good to feel that confident in your relationship even though she's asking about another guy!
HIGGO: Give it up for Andrew, nice work! (claps) Andrew, thanks so much for that man.
TAYLOR: Thanks man.
HIGGO: Let's go to Beth here, hello Beth.
BETH: Hi!
HIGGO: Hi, Hanson's on the phone, what do you want to say?
BETH: I was just wondering, when you're a celebrity and you know how you read in the newspapers and stuff that people give you stuff, what sort of weird presents do you get or do you just go out and find your own like Winona Rider? (laughs) Do they mail stuff to your house? Do you think that's really weird or what?
TAYLOR: We receive so many… I mean, we receive so many weird things it's almost hard to name them… a lot of great things, but one of the more crazier things we ever received were these scrolls that fans in Brazil would send where they would write like a simple phrase like "I love you" or "Hanson" over and over and over methodically like into a scroll that they would roll up, basically a long, long piece of paper it was like over a mile long? So we got it and it was this huge, huge…
ZAC: The other crazy thing they would do is they would write "I love you" or "Hanson" and then change colors and write something larger in a different color.
ALEXIS: Really clever!
TAYLOR: So that and other really strange things you can't say on radio.
ISAAC: Yeah, that in itself was accounting for a lot of the trees being cut down in the rain forest.
TAYLOR: We're actually responsible for the Brazilian Rosewood deficiency.
HIGGO: Beth, thank you so much for your call love. Let's take one more from Lisa, hi Lisa!
LISA: Hello, hey guys.
TAYLOR: Hey Lisa, how are ya?
LISA: Good, thanks. I've heard a few rumors about you boys.
TAYLOR: Uh oh, the rumor mill.
ZAC: They're all lies.
LISA: I've heard that Ike is a drug addict.
ISAAC: Oh. Well, that's true.
LISA: And I also heard that Zac has been caught drunk driving.
TAYLOR: Well no, Zac never gets caught!
ZAC: I think where Isaac's rumor came from was he had a band-related incident where he'd been playing a lot and he got injured by an elevator door. And he went into the hospital for an injury to his shoulder on his birthday so people thought he was in for being a drug addict.
TAYLOR: He went into the hospital on his birthday last year and he had some blood clots and so everyone assumed that it was something to do with drinking or, you know, doing drugs.
ISAAC: Well, of course, we covered up the fact that I'd been snorting too much coke.
HIGGO: Well there you go Lisa, we sorted that out for ya.
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HIGGO: Just before you go, there is a guitar over there and what I want you to do is all to sign it cos we're going to give it away.
TAYLOR: To eBay?
HIGGO: No, no (laughs). That's actually my personal guitar, I brought it in from home and I'm going to give it away.
TAYLOR: Well that's cool.
HIGGO: I don't really like it anymore.
TAYLOR: So you're going to give it to us to sign, no, I'm just kidding.
HIGGO: So if you could sign that and maybe if you want to belt out a quick… now every group has a crappy song that they always mess around to. Do you guys have one of them?
ISAAC: Oh, Zac, can I play it please?
ZAC: No! GOD!
HIGGO: Play it! Play it!
ZAC: This song is SO bad! Ike-he plays it every time he picks up a fricken guitar. It's the dumbest song ever written by a human being but he thinks…
TAYLOR: Oh no, no, don't say that, Britney Spears has written others. Oh, sorry, she didn't write those.
ISAAC: *sings "In The Road" with backup from Taylor.
ZAC: I need a harp.
ISAAC: Thank you very much!
ALEXIS: Thanks Hanson! thank you!
HIGGO: The boys of Hanson, thank you so much for coming in! Isaac, Zac, and Taylor! Hanson!
ALL: Thank you!