This is a B94 interview transcript...

John: B94! Its 8:14. John, Dave, Bubba Shelley live with Hanson this morning. Do you guys
have girlfriends?
Isaac: No we don't.
Taylor: Nobody has girlfriends.
Zac: No.
dave: You don't have time, do you?
Isaac: No, we don't.
Taylor: It would be kind of hard to have a girlfriend...
Isaac: Well, first of all, our girlfriend, everytime she would see us she would probably beat the
crap out of us because she's so mad at us that we're not around.
Bubba: You're exactly right!
Zac: And then...
Taylor: She? Ike, you're talking as if we would have one girlfriend out of the three of us.
Bubba: (laughing)
Dave: I was gonna say, she?
Zac: And then when we would see her we would just go down and take a nap and sleep.
Bubba: Are you guys really tired from running around so much?
Taylor: You know you get tired...
Zac: It's less running around it's more, no sleep.
Bubba: Really?
Taylor: It's more just getting up like for stuff like this...you guys must get really tired? How do
you get up for the morning show?
John: Because we're amazing, we're amazing.
bubba: 3-4 hours sleep, thats it.
John: You see the key thing when you're alittle bit older, you just drink a lot of beer at night and
you pass out every night. Thats the key thing.
dave: I go to bed at 3:00 in the afternoon.
John: At least wait til you're 16, okay?
Isaac: Alright...
John: Do you guys have coaches, seriously, about answering certain questions and things? Do
people help you out with that?
Taylor: No, we just have done it a lot now.
John: Common sense?
Bubba: I've got a question. When you guys are 35 years old, what do you want to be doing?
Same thing?
Zac: I wanna be sittin' on the pot.
(laughing)
Dave: Filled with money
Bubba: I mean, seriously, when you're 35 years old, do you want to be retired or do you still
want to be performing?
Taylor: No, we wanna...
Isaac: I want, hey 35...
Zac: We wanna be sittin' on the pot!
Taylor: We want to be doing it as long as we possibly can.
Dave: Hey, what about school? I mean school right now?
Taylor: We just...we homeschool.
Dave: which means you guys do nothing, right?
Taylor: No, we do our school at home.
Dave: Watch Discovery channel?
Taylor: No, when we're not home we just take our books with us.
Bubba: Look its Animal Planet! Hey, I learned about zoology today!
John: Exactly, thats how I got my education in West Virginia.
Bubba: So? Me too!
John: Are you going to do another song for us?
Isaac: Yeah, sure!
John: What are you going to sing?
Isaac: Uh....MMMbop
Zac: Hey Muffin. Hey Muffin!
Dave: Hey, what man? What? What you want, man?
Zac: Next time you make a bad comment...
Bubba: Hit him with it!
Zac:...This plum is not soft!
Dave: Are you going ot whip the egg at me?
Taylor: This plum is not a plum.
Dave: I know its not, I played that, I played that here...
Taylor (can't tell): Go Muffin...Now!!
(a bunch of commotion)
Bubba: Yeah! Yeah!
(lots more commotion)
Dave: I see the older, more mature Hanson is not participating! Thank you very much!
Isaac: No, it's only because I have a guitar.
Taylor: It's only because he has a guitar...
Isaac: and I...
Dave: One of the biggest Hanson fans in Pittsburgh made these muffins for you and hope you're
glad knowing that she is standing out there right now knowing you're throwing her muffins.
Zac: You know why?
Bubba: Dave, if you weren't such a pain in the ass they wouldn't have to do that!
John: If they had real guts they'd smash that guitar over your head.
Zac: Hey, man, you know what? Its good because....
Isaac: You know I would if it was cheap, if the guitar was not you know...
Bubba: Expensive.
Zac: It's good that she made me those muffins because then we wouldn't have a weapon against
you.
Bubba: Thank you.
Taylor: Thank you for whoever made those muffins!
Bubba: Muffin!
Dave: See my weapon is not violence
Taylor: Those are not only good eating muffins, they're good to throw.
Dave: I preach nonviolence.
Bubba: And I'm so proud of you guys for whipping him!
Isaac: Okay, well, here is...
Taylor: Joe and Vicky, thank you for your muffins.
John: Alright, you're going to sing MMMbop?
Isaac: Yes, we are.
John: Alright, here's Hanson on B94!
(they sing MMMBop)
John: Hanson!
(clapping)
John: Let's see what they're doing outside.
(screaming girls)
John: That's outside. WOW! We still have a huge crowd outside and you're going to go out on
the balcony in a couple of minutes and say hi to everybody?
Taylor: Yes, we are!
Dave: Prepare for this, it's insane!
Taylor: Awesome!
John: Okay, let's talk real quick about your Christmas CD, it just came out this week.
Taylor: Yeah, it just came out a couple days ago. It's doing really well, thanks to everybody who
went out and bought it. We thank you guys.
John: Is this some new songs? Old songs? What's it about?
Taylor: It's Christmas songs. It's called Snowed In and it's got, it has 8 kind of more traditional
ones like, actually some 50's rock n roll, like Run, Run, Rudolph by Chuck Berry.
John: Cool song.
Taylor: Merry Chrsitmas Baby, Otis Redding....Rockin' Around The Chistmas Tree...
Zac: That's What Christmas Means To Me.
Taylor: Yeah. That's What Christmas Means To Me, which is a Stevie Wonder song.
Isaac: And then we've got White Christmas and then...
Taylor: A medley from traditionals. And then there's three originals that we wrote.
John: Do you guys take turns singing lead.
Isaac: Yeah
Taylor: Definitely. We actually trade off more in this album.
John: Is this something where you fight over your favorite songs? "I wanna sing sing lead, I
wanna sing this"?
Zac: No, whoever just sounds best sings it.
Taylor: It's really just, it just works itself out. I mean if somebody goes in there and sings it and
they want to and it sounds like crap then the next guy comes on.
Zac: You go, "sorry...you sound like crap."
Taylor: You know, I mean we are our worst critics so it works out pretty well.
Isaac: And it's not like you're like trying out.
Taylor: Yeah, it's like, okay, next person! No, it just works out.
John: And we saw somewhere that they were talking about a My Three Sons TV show or a movie
or something? Is that true?
Isaac: uh....well, that is a big rumor.
Taylor: All kinds of people you know, throw things out...
Isaac: Propose stuff.
Taylor:....and we met with one guy and he talked about a movie and before we knew it, it was
everywhere that we were doing a movie. So things get out.
John: Well, continued success and it seems like a lot of the parents who called in whose kids
were fans of yours and the young adults were real happy because it's not Marilyn Manson and it's
not this other crap and you guys seem like real nice guys...
Isaac: Thank you.
Bubba: You guys make real good role models.
John: Yeah, you do.
taylor: Thanks, thank you.
John: And we wish you the best of luck and continued success.
Isaac: Well, thank you very much
Taylor: Thank you for everybody!
Zac: Thank you.
John: Let's have a round of applause, its Hanson!
Bubba: everybody outside give a round of applause too!
John: Okay, we're going outside.
Taylor: We're coming out!
bubba: They're coming outside, baby! They're coming out!
John: We'll take a break and we'll hit the deck outside, get ready!
(commercials)
John: Bubba?
Bubba: You ready? I can't hear you...are you ready?
(screaming girls can be heard in the background)
John: Go!
Dave: Explain whats going on!
Bubba: Okay, I can't hear a word you're saying. We're standing, we're walking through the
engineering room, we're about to walk onto the balcony with Hanson. Here we go, I'm out on
the balcony!
(lots of screaming)
Dave: I gotta see this.
Zac: (yells) You guys are talking but I don't think you can get up here!
Bubba: Unbelievable!
Isaac: Pittsburgh rocks!
Bubba: One of the most amazing scenes I've ever seen. They're crying, its unbelievable!
Unbelievable! Are you guys there? I don't know if your ears are still alive but mine are bleeding.

John: Bubba?
Bubba: Yo!?
John: We were just out checking it out, we were right behind you.
Bubba: What?
John: We were right behind you! We were watching!
Bubba: Oh, I didn't know that.
John: Go back out on the balcony!
Bubba: Man, unbelievable! That could possibly be the coolest thing I've ever seen.
John: So they went off the balcony already?
dave: Yeah, they went out there real quick then left, I feel bad because there was a woman who
was kind of guiding Hanson through this and I walked right by her and I stomped on her foot
going out to see Hanson like there was no tomorrow and she kind of screamed. I just wanted to
apologize to her.
John: I'll give these kids credit, I'll give them credit.
Dave: Yeah, you know what, we've all heard the rumors about them being uppity or whatever...how wrong that could be!
John: How wrong! Nice group of kids.
Dave: And I would jump all over it if that was, but that wasn't. They were just down to earth,
really cool people. I don't want to say that I was surprised because that would make me out to
be one of *them*.
John: No, I like the way they stood up to you and they were throwing the muffins.
Dave: Oh, come on. I told them to do that.
John: Yeah...You just naturally tick everybody off, you're a jerk.
Dave: We met on the stairs before they came up here and I said hey go off on me, I said there's a big basket of muffins right next to you guys..
John: No, you're an idiot.
Dave: ....go ahead and whip those at me.
John: Alright, well, they seem like very nice kids, very nice kids. Now I know why parents let
their kids get out of school and come up and meet these guys. Man...I'm tired.
Dave: I don't know how you could do that without getting emotionally drained by the experience
of literally having 2000 people screamong out of their minds at you just when they just see your
face.
John: It happens when I walk into the radio station every day.
Dave: But thats in fright!
(they play a song)
John: Oh man, I=92m out!
Bubba: By the way they are still out there listening.
Dave: They're not going to go anywhere until Hanson is physically off the premises and way far
away.
John: Hanson is downstairs signing autographs and meeting all the people who won our contest
all week long and their families. We still have probably about a thousand people outside waiting
for them to leave....I was really impressed with those kids.
Dave: So was I!
Bubba: I was very impressed! And now our boss is making fun of me.
John: Why?
Bubba: He was saying, "Bubba, last week you were making fun of them and now you're gushing
all over them", and I was like...
Dave: Can we give away the muffins that they whipped at me?
John: Hanson actually touched about a dozen of these muffins.
Dave: While launching them furiously at..
Bubba: Well, Dave, you deserved it!
Dave: I didn't think I was doing anything all that bad.
John: You were rude to them.
Dave: I was not!
John: They were kids, they make more in a day than you do in a year!
Dave: More than I'll make in my whole life. But that's beside the point...
John: Think about it, that cute little 12 year old makes more in an hour than your making...
Dave: Just think of it this way, he's peaking...
John: Oh no, he's a good looking kid. He's a cute kid.
Dave: (laughing) No, they're all good, they're all really cool.
John: But you were a good looking kid when you were younger too.
Dave: Oh yeah, thats true...I should have shown them the pictures, I was, I was a gorgeous child, I
was afraid I was going to be stolen!
John: What happened? Where did it all go wrong?
Dave: I discovered food and beer is what happened.
John: About what age, about 18?
Dave: Yeah, about that.
Bubba: They did a great job, I'm impressed! I'm impressed that they're kids, I mean they had
fun. A lot of these kids are afraid to do anything or say anything and what would happen is that
a lot of these kids would come in and you'd pick on them and they'd get mad and shut up.
Instead, they fought back! And thats whats cool, you know?
John: You mean, they won, they won.
Dave: No, they didn't win.
Bubba: Dave, you got stomped!
John: You got maybe a half a scud in.
Dave: Oh come on. If I won, how come they were launching at me constantly? What was
happening in order for them to launch at me if I was not winning?
Bubba: You didn't even get off a patriot missile!
Dave: They went for the violence and the whipping of muffins, my violence is my brain.
John: None, gone. They outbrained you. You got outbrained by a 12 year old.
Bubba: should we give away the cups they drank out of?
John: Look, one of them took a bite out of that, look!
Dave: I know, I saw that.
(talk about throwing the cups and muffins off the balcony)
John: Emergency, Hanson is ready to leave.
Dave: Hanson is leaving the building
John: If you're standing outside get ready.
Dave: This is so big!
Bubba: Are you ready?
Dave: This is like Elvis!
John: This is huge!
Dave: It is! It's just unreal! I mean this is craziness!
John: Bubba, where are you right now?
Bubba: Hello?
John: Yeah, where are you?
Bubba: I can barely hear you. I'm in the lobby, downstairs. They're getting themselves ready
and they've employed me once again to be security. What else do you expect?
John: That's because you're huge.
Bubba: We're going to get them out of here. Here we go, are you ready? We're walking through
the door, Mo...our promotion manager, Mo, get ready to hurt people! Are >you ready? Here we
go, here we go, here we go...we're walking out, here we go, we're walking outside! We're going
outside, here we go! (lots of screaming) Oh man, its a madhouse again, oh man! Someone grabbed my hair! Hold on, they're attacking the van. Ow, someone grabbed me in a place that hurts! Back
them off the van! Back them off the van! Clear everyone out, they can't get the van out!
Dave: There it goes!
Bubba: There it goes, they're off! Oh man! People are crying and screaming and yelling! People
are crying and they're hugging and its like this emotional moment! I'm gonna get in the mood
and I'm gonna cry! People are throwing teddy bears at them, flowers! Wow...thanks guys.

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