PAST APPEARANCES Topp 20
Oslo, Norway
11 February 2005HOST: Hanson!
ZAC: You've got some old school Hanson there.
HOST: Yeah! Welcome to Norway, first of all, and of course welcome to my show. How are you guys doing?
ZAC: Good! It's our first time in Norway ever, so glad to be here finally and just enjoying seeing the fans.
HOST: See, I had an argument with someone about this the other day cos they said they interviewed you in Norway.
ZAC: They were lying.
TAYLOR: Well, they may have done an interview… they may have been from Norway and come to somewhere else and done an interview.
HOST: Well they said it was Norway. Hmm. I guess you haven't seen a lot, but what's your first impression?
TAYLOR: First impression is very lovely girls in Norway.
ZAC: It's good! It's a good impression!
TAYLOR: And good food. We've had good food since we've been here. And it's pretty cold.
ZAC: Working on eating some reindeer tonight. A little Rudolph. That's sort of a more unique thing to hear, we don't have much of that in the states.
HOST: Rudolph tastes good!
TAYLOR: With a little red nose on the side.
HOST: So what have you guys been doing the last… 2000 was the last time you had a hit album here in Norway anyway.
TAYLOR: Well, I mean, a lot. You can pretty much break it into 3 main parts: One is obviously making the record, which took quite a while for many reasons. Second, a part of it was starting our own record company. We left our own label, started our own record company. Then the third part was just setting up the record and we went out and did an acoustic tour, smaller shows, intimate places…
ISAAC: Actually, they showed the DVD…
TAYLOR: Yeah, actually yeah, you showed that earlier, that was the live DVD, live, the last show we did on the acoustic tour in the states. And finally we're here with the new record.
HOST: Yeah, but has it been all music? How do you guys chill out?
TAYLOR: Well, we do lots of different things but for the most part it's been music. We haven't really stopped. We haven't been spending time on a desert island or anything.
ISAAC: You know, I mean, I wish we would have spent time on a desert island, that would have been a good idea.
ZAC: Coulda had a tan.
ISAAC: Yeah, exactly. You know, in the process… we do rock climbing and motocross sometimes, things like that, you know, try to do things that are aerobic. Every once in a while.
TAYLOR: We get crushed by waves when we try to go surfing.
ZAC: Ike does Tai bo. I'm joking.
ISAAC: No. I do do kung fu though. that's a whole other thing.
HOST: So who's the better… who's the better rock climber?
ZAC: It's definitely between Tay or I.
TAYLOR: We don't get to do it enough.
ZAC: I might have better technique, but Taylor has more drive. So it sort of events itself out.
HOST: Okay. And who's the best on motorcycle?
ISAAC: I'm the craziest, at least, as far I'm the one that's probably thrown myself off the most.
TAYLOR: We've all hit rocks, trees, and other items.
ZAC: But I've had the most deadly accidents. My knee is still… I fell on it about 8 months ago and it's still sore from that fall and I've thrown myself, like, 30 feet off a bike and stuff like that.
HOST: Yeah, you look pretty banged up. *laughs*
ZAC: Not too bad, but mostly I had enough padding on that I've come out all right. Underneath you can see I've got, like, 20 broken ribs.
TAYLOR: That's actually what the album Underneath is based on. Zac's broken ribs.
HOST: Oooh, underneath your clothes, kind of like the Shakira thing.
ZAC: "Underneath your clothes, there's an endless storrryyy" *sings Shakira song* I hate that song.
HOST: Okay, let's talk a little bit about where you guys are from, cos we've been talking about dialects today and I'm curious, does Oklahoma have a strong identity when it comes to dialect?
ISAAC: There's an accent.
TAYLOR: There's definitely some people, you go outside of the major cities and it's like, "Hey, how's it going?" (southern accent)
ISAAC: People talk more like this (*southern accent*) and they're like, "Hey, welcome to Oklahoma, how are ya? I'm Isaac." I actually talk like this normally but I talk like I'm not from Oklahoma…"
HOST: Why? Why do yo do that?
ZAC: He's joking.
ISAAC: I'm joking, yeah. Basically, mainly accents but words like "ya'll" instead of "you all." Like, "hey ya'll!" And a Midwestern thing, which is similar to that, which is also a part of Oklahoma is you call a group of people "hey guys."
TAYLOR: We say this constantly and everyone's always teased us.
ZAC: It could be like, 20 girls and you'd be like, "Hey guys! Come on over here!" You know?
TAYLOR: It's built into our speech…
HOST: You know all the guys in the audience are like, members of the hanson fan club? Two of them came all the way from Denmark today.
TAYLOR: That's awesome.
HOST: We'll be letting them ask you some questions after we watch our next video. Do you guys know a lot about Norwegian music?
TAYLOR: Not enough, you should introduce us.