WEBVTT - Some Time With... Jon and Jordan Knight! 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:21.239 Hey, fan Dorito's and welcome to a very very special 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:25.599 episode of How Rude Tanertos. Now, normally I would do 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:28.360 this intro just you know, improv, but because this is 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:31.000 such an important interview to me, I've written a little 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:34.640 something from the heart to introduce our next two guests. 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:39.240 This is a big deal. AB has been preparing for this, so. 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:40.640 Today we are doing an interview that I have been 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:44.920 preparing literally for thirty six years. As a precocious thirteen 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.839 year old girl, my first loves were none other than 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:51.000 the five hardest working kids in show business, New Kids 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:55.720 on the Block and today Deep Breath we have Jordan 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:59.920 and Jonathan Knight on the podcast. They were young te 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:03.680 teenagers when NKOTB was created in nineteen eighty four and 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.399 went on to sell over eighty million records, paving the 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:09.160 way for all those other boy bands that followed in 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:10.959 their footsteps. 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:11.920 After breaking up. 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.960 In nineteen ninety four, the band reunited in two thousand 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:18.800 and eight and have since done four albums, twelve headlining tours, 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:21.160 and twelve chartered fan cruises. 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:23.080 I've done five. 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:25.199 I was going to say eleven out of twelve, eleve 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:29.280 only five, Okay, I got to catch up. Their twenty 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:32.959 twenty four full length studio album, Still Kids, debuted at 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.600 number four on the Billboard Top Album Sales chart this 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.720 May and landed the group's first Billboard Top thirty single 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:40.160 in thirty five years. 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:40.800 Wow. 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:41.720 Super impressive. 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:42.280 That's awesome. 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:46.080 Jordan, who is one of the most dynamic performers I 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:49.040 have ever seen on stage, has had a successful career 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:53.000 as a solo artist and is now a restauranteer off stage. 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:56.520 And John, who has the biggest heart of anyone I know, 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:00.960 is currently starring in several successful renovation shows on HGTV, 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:06.280 including Farmhouse Fixer and Camp Revamp. This week, NKOTB announced 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:09.520 that they will host their first Las Vegas residency in 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:13.360 twenty twenty five at the Dolby Live at Park. MGM, 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.720 I am so stoked. You're so excited. I am so 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:21.840 excitedly awesome. I love these guys for so many reasons. 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.400 I fell in love with them originally in nineteen eighty 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:27.320 eight because they were cute and they had dance moves 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:31.400 that made me swoon. But today I love them because 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:35.560 their hearts are even bigger than their extraordinary talents. I 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:37.200 said I wasn't going to cry, and here we are. 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:37.760 That's okay. 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:41.560 No, I'm so excited for this, so big, great for me. 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:42.160 I love this. 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:46.639 We Blockheads, as their fans are affectionately known, are the 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:50.560 luckiest fans in the world. What an indescribable joy to 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:54.200 discover that the boys you worshiped as teenagers grew up 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:57.200 to be outstanding humans who love their fans just as 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:02.440 much as we love them. There is a phrase five 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:06.440 Brothers and a Million Sisters which so perfectly encapsulates the 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:11.000 closeness between the fandom and the band fans. It is 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:15.320 my absolute pleasure and honor to welcome Jonathan and Jordan Knight. 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:16.640 Are you going to pass out? If you pass out, 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:17.120 can I catch you? 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:17.480 Yes? 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:18.440 Just hold me up. 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:20.440 We're here. 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:21.640 Oh my god. 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:39.040 Come in and hai, that was so loud. 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.960 So excited to have Please have a seat on the couch. 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:43.640 Welcome couch. 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:46.360 Look at you as. 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:48.240 Well? 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:50.360 You do? 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:53.320 I have wait why you goose bumps? 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:56.080 See? 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.160 I told you they were just well, I know, I 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:02.160 did an intro and cried, what's wrong with me? I 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:04.920 will let them, but I know them like why because 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:06.480 it's very emotion. 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:08.080 New kids on the block are here. Well, two of 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:11.480 them to be clear. Can we get like a little 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:13.680 preview of what you like? Can you just do a performance? 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:15.360 Okay I want to ask that. 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:20.080 I'm sorry, but no, we'll get to the podcast first 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:21.240 and then we'll get to all that. 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:23.400 But I got questions, so many questions. 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:25.960 Jonathan Jordan, we are so glad you guys are here 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:26.640 with us today. 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:28.160 Thank you for coming on the podcast. 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:29.520 You know. 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:35.599 We drove to Vegas yesterday in a Hyundai Ionic, which 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:39.160 was so much fun, and Abe put on quite the 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:40.200 new kids playlist. 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:41.440 But yeah, I had to brief her. 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:45.680 Here's what, just do a deep dive and yeah, so 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:50.159 it was so it was the deep deep cut the block. 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:51.360 Well that's a deep cut. 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:53.400 Now it's the block, right, but a little a little 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:55.920 hanging tough in there, a little still kids, your new 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:56.960 album comes out? 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:01.040 Yeah, yeah, I was like, just you hate me, tell me, 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:03.440 tell me what I need to do on this sounds fun. 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:05.520 It was so fun, it was. We stopped it. 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:09.680 We stopped at Alien Jerky to charge the car, which 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:12.359 took like fifteen minutes to charge it, which was amazing, 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:15.600 very fast. We got some Alien Jerky not made it, really, 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:16.480 I said. 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:17.599 We went to. 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:19.640 Calico Ghost Town. We saw our performance. 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.640 Yeah, that was a performance. 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:25.000 In a dry lake bed that was entirely powered by 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:28.839 the electric cars. Speakers, Yeah, a smoothie thing everything. 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.480 It's like a reverse. It's a reverse. It's like a boost. 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.680 Yeah, it's a boost, and you can actually power things 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:35.400 from the car. 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:37.599 So it was really cool. Anyway, it was It was 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:39.719 really cool. It was fun. We went to Calico ghost Town. 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:44.279 I brought some ghost home for Andrea and yeah, and 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:45.120 then we made it here. 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.920 Oh yeah, barely stressed. I was stressed because I was like, 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.160 the New Kids have a launch party at seven and 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.120 our ETA is like seven to twelve. So yeah, yeah, 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:56.400 I gotta get that. 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:58.400 I got us here in time. She I was like, 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.120 I will have you there by such. She's like, yeah, 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.560 we just kind of just you know. 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:04.320 I made it. 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:04.800 I made it. 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:07.719 I saw you guys. That was an incredible entrance. You 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.839 drove in on a double decker bus and announced your 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:15.520 first Las Vegas tour next year at the Dolby Live 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:18.480 at the Park. MGM, congratulations, you guys are crazy. 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:20.160 That is are you excitable? 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:24.520 You know we've been talking about it for so long, right, 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:27.719 and it really it wasn't until last night that the 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:33.080 billboard went up that it was real, you did this, 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:33.839 this is happening. 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:40.080 Yeah, we've always like this for a long time. Twenty 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:43.400 years talked about Vegas and it always seemed like Vegas 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:47.359 always seemed like, you know, where artists go to just 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:52.160 retire basically, you know, that's what was the perception of Vegas, right. 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:53.200 But now it's changed. 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:56.839 Yeah, you have people like Usher and Lady Gaga and stuff. 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.839 It's like it's the idea of a residency is no 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:03.559 longer like where you go to you know, so about 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.840 your years, it's like, oh, you have a residency now, 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:08.320 Like that's like a huge thing. 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.080 So it's a cool thing. 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:13.640 So it's like and it became cool and cool as 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.360 we went on, and we were always thinking, you know, 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:17.400 what do we do next? 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.640 As as the new kids, what are we going to 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:20.160 do next? 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:23.920 And Vegas has always been on our mind And finally 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:27.160 the time the time came and it was like last 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:31.040 night was it became real and it was like, wow, 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:32.400 we're actually we're here. 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:33.200 We're here now. 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:36.600 Yeah, it went viral like people my phone was blowing up, 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:38.720 Oh oh my gosh, should you hear? And I'm like, yeah, 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:39.040 I kind. 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:44.640 Of knew about, but it was you were so excited 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.320 about it, and like you know, Andrew and I were 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:51.360 talking to and it's such an interesting experience that we 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:54.200 kind of share in a weird way of like being 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:56.400 known for something that we did when we were really 0:07:56.400 --> 0:08:00.680 young and kind of going away for a little while, 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.760 like you know, taking a break and then getting this 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:08.560 like amazing resurgence that comes back in a whole new way, 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.640 and like you said, like the the emotions of. 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:12.760 It and being so. 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.400 You're just like, we get to do this again, like 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:21.000 when we when we saw the Times Square billboards and 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:24.560 the billboards in La for full our House, same thing. 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:27.640 Cry. It's all of a. 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:30.320 Sudden, That's when it feels real. Is that now other 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:32.480 people know they're advertising for it. 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:33.680 It's not something that's going to. 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:35.760 Be like well, actually we're not going to do that now, 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:36.000 you know. 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.320 So it's more than a job like these this is 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.640 these were our childhoods, These are our lives, you know, 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:44.440 and so it is it's I as an adult, I 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:47.400 appreciate it so much more. The perspective is. 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:48.920 Different for you. 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:52.520 Just even you think how many times in your life 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:56.000 do you get a second chance at some thing, and 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:57.320 you know, all. 0:08:57.160 --> 0:09:00.320 Four of us like, how lucky you, particularly in this 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:02.880 business where it's like once you've done a thing, it's 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:03.640 like okay bye. 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:04.960 To have. 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:09.960 Fans that like are so loyal and connected to like 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.280 what we've what you guys have done, what we've done, 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:14.839 Like it's really it's it's so cool. But yeah, I 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:16.640 just wondered, like, what is that like to come back 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:17.640 for you guys? 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:19.880 Well, no, I think and you guys probably feel the 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:22.960 same way as kind of like when you have a 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:26.320 hot show when you're when you're a hot artist, and 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:27.840 then it kind of fades away. 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.079 You you start to question, you know, was that real? 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.120 Was that cool? Was that like right? You like have 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:39.360 self doubt, you know, and then when and then other 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:42.600 trends and stuff start coming in, like maybe like TV 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:44.280 shows started being different. 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:47.439 And you're like, oh, we were on those like eighties cornah, 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:52.360 I mean, and then and then it comes back around 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.679 and the public wants that again, you know what I mean, 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:58.120 and inside of you it like goes like, no, we 0:09:58.120 --> 0:09:59.800 were we were cool, Like. 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:04.600 We did do something, we did do something that made 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:09.160 an impact and that was meaningful. So it's not like 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:11.960 you don't you don't want to go through life looking 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:14.880 for like that kind of external validation, but it is 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:17.480 real and it does feel amazing. 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:18.560 Well, and I think as. 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:21.000 An artist too, like particularly when you when you did 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:22.880 do something when you were young, or you're like, I'm 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:25.760 so I've changed now, I've changed, fans have changed this 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:28.320 and that that you kind of feel like, oh, yeah, 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.640 like maybe it maybe it wasn't that great, Maybe I 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:33.600 wasn't that talent, maybe it was just the zeitgeist of 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:36.320 the moment or whatever. But yeah, when you get to 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.200 come back and you're like, no, actually we got to 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:42.679 create something, and whether it was comedy or music or whatever, 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.600 it was like that creative spirit is so. 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.400 Much fun to get to come back to. And I 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:49.160 did you guys have. 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.280 A different perspective like coming back now as adults, well, 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:54.640 like having kind of taken a little break. 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:58.000 Or definitely but but but also I'm going back a 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:02.120 little bit. You know at twenty five was when my 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.800 career ended with the New Kids, And you know, I 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:07.800 don't think a lot of people talk about that, like 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:10.640 the pressure that was on me as a twenty five 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:16.280 year old to still you know, you got to you know, 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:21.520 support everything that I had, you know, so that was crazy. 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:24.840 I don't know where I'm going with. 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:26.640 You. 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:29.880 Hesitant to come back in two thousand and eight because. 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:32.920 Well, oh so, you know, I think us taking time 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:36.640 away from each other really helped. You know, we were 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.440 probably like you guys, we were young kids. You guys 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:41.200 were girls that we were boys. There was probably no 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:43.840 like fists being thrown at each other when. 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:47.360 I don't think so, no, no, I tried to punch 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.440 me once, but yeah, and. 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.960 Just just being around each other for you know, every 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:54.760 minute of the day. 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.160 You just you get to a point where's just like family. 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:01.360 You like you're feeling like for better or worse, like 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.880 real family, love each other like a family, and you 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:07.360 drive each other crazy like a family. And sometimes families 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:09.480 need time to part, and sometimes families go in great 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:10.199 vacations together. 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.480 And there, you know, getting getting back together, I mean, 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:16.720 we really talked about how, you know, what, what's going 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:20.160 to change, how it's going to be. You know, I 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.480 was definitely on board, but I was a little guarded, 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:26.000 like are we going to fall right back into the 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:30.200 same routine? And it worked out. 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:33.319 It was, it worked out, and I feel like everyone 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:37.080 when we got back together, everyone was like it was 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:41.840 kind of like we're trying to figure out our roles again, 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:46.720 but we really didn't have to. Like it's settled and 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:47.960 everyone was in the same role. 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:52.960 Yeah yeah, and totally understand. But that's exactly what that means. 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:54.800 We're like we're now, but we're still the same. 0:12:55.080 --> 0:13:02.000 Like everyone was like, who's the you know, this is 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:05.320 like everything settled, and it's just like, yeah, we went 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.240 fell into our same rules. That's how it worked, right, 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:09.760 That's how it worked in the past, That's how it 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:14.000 was working now. Yeah, So that's what happened when we 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:14.800 got back together. 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:18.320 I was the same way I was, like, I was 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:22.920 kind of anxious about like will will we like have. 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:26.520 The same you know, any kind of dysfunctions we had 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:30.480 in the past. And we did go through that like 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:35.160 friction period when we came back together and and it 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:40.040 did settle and then we started growing, right, and our 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:43.400 relationships are a lot better now than they've ever been. 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:45.680 Well, you get to come back to it again with 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:49.280 that like adult perspective, and when again, when you've done 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:52.360 something like as kids, you do weirdly fall into that 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:57.439 same behavior dynamic relationship, you know, And I mean we 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:00.439 all did it on the show too, whatever, and Dave 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:02.360 and John Lurid would come around. We were like kids 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:06.679 get you know, wait wait we are the adults now 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:09.120 we got to you know. But you sort of fall 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:11.920 back into that and like it is nice when you 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.839 get to grow up together and be like, oh wait, 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.480 we don't have to be those people anymore. And that 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:20.760 was fine when we were you know, eighteen, but now 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:21.720 like now who are we now? 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:22.520 How do we get along? 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.120 But what what keeps you guys like inspired to keep 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:31.640 making music? Because that's like I just love watching artists 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:35.200 develop and change over time and like go from doing 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:38.760 something in one space and like continue to create and 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.200 change it. And I just would love to hear, like 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:44.520 what inspires you guys to keep writing and making music? 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:51.040 I mean, you're artists, but yeah, it's just uh, making 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:52.960 new music is just fun. It's just like. 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.360 It brings new life to the shows that we do. 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:03.840 It brings new life to us as a group. And 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.480 music is music. It just feels great, you know when 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.520 you're doing something new or you like, you know, you 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:12.920 hear stuff on the radio or you get ideas and 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.880 then you just like I want to do something like 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:18.320 that or something like this, or do something like that, 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:20.920 and do something like this and put it together. It's 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:25.240 just the creative process is fun, and it's like it 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:27.600 keeps us alive as a band, and it keeps our 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:35.600 fans interested to do new things. It's it's it's the 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.880 fuel that keeps us going. I would say, just to 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:40.040 do new music. 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:41.760 Yeah, yeah, Well you. 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:43.440 Don't feel like you're stuck, you know, like. 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.720 Right like you and you know, we love saying our 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:50.320 hatphrases and we love doing our full house stuff. But 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:52.520 it is it's nice when you get to like expand 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:54.440 a little bit as an artist and like have the 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:56.560 gratitude for what people love, but also be like, but 0:15:57.040 --> 0:16:00.680 I'm also still an artist and creative, been like doing 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:01.560 new stuff. 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:03.760 And I'm not you know, I'm not stuck. Thirty seven 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:05.120 years ago, Yeah, I. 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:08.000 Remember in like nineteen ninety one or two or something 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:08.400 like that. 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:12.640 Yeah, something like that, we were on a tour and 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:14.880 it was just like we kept touring and touring and 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:18.040 touring and singing the same song, same songs, doing the 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:21.920 same routines, and I was in their places were packed 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:25.720 and everything was great you know on paper, but I 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:26.400 was like I. 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:27.480 Was getting so depressed. 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:31.000 I was like, oh my god, like we're just we're 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:35.200 robots right now, right, And I was just like, man, 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:37.720 we need to get off the road and do something 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:41.920 new or refresh this thing. So that's what new music 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:43.960 does for us. 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:48.320 I mean this past tour, the Magic Summer Tour, it 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:51.320 was so nice to like open the show with the 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:55.840 two brand new songs. Yes, it felt so good. 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:56.120 You know. 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:59.560 I think I think we did a lot of new 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:02.080 music this tour, and this was probably one of my 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:04.959 favorite tours really, just I think doing a lot of 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:05.959 new stuff. 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:10.400 Yeah, well you sang the closing song Better Days, Yes, 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:10.919 you were. 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:12.399 The lead vocalist. 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.040 Was that this was like your first time being lead 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:18.679 vocalist seeing a full song like, well, could you imagine 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:22.360 nineteen year old Jonathan Knight see lead vocalist. 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:26.480 Could have done it back then easier than I could 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:27.120 have done it now? 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:27.919 Oh really? 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:28.320 Okay? 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:33.640 Yeah, I don't know. I think I think my nerves 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:35.080 got worse as I got old. 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:36.520 Oh okay, I was a kid. 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:38.760 I just didn't give it mentality. 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.160 You're like, I'll be the idiot, and then you're like. 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:46.399 Then it just got in my head. 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:50.760 Well, it was so special for not just the John 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:53.320 girls out there, but all of the blockheads. Like we 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:55.159 were just crying. We were like this is it, Like 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:58.480 this is it John? It was so special. It is 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:00.919 the best way to end to and the concert. And 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:05.400 so it's a great song. Yeah, but you both sing 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:08.600 on it. It's just the brothers. Brothers are singing together. 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:10.480 Yeah, Like I. 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.880 Love hearing though, like so many artists. And I think now, 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.040 like you know, I've talked about it, Andrew's talked about 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:18.560 like anxiety and that thing that you get, like it 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:20.480 is when you're a young person and it's just kind 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:22.400 of you're like you don't even think about it. You're 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:24.040 just that's just what you do when you're playing, and 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:26.560 you're like whatever, And then you start getting like this 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:29.760 perspective of like, wait, people are talking about me. Wait 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:31.960 what are people that you know? And you start like 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:36.160 like tripping yourself out. And when social media hasn't. 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:42.520 Helped my nieces and you know, my nephews, but especially 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:46.240 my nieces, they you know, they are so insecure because 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:49.679 of you know what everybody you they post a picture 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:55.879 and then you know people are like, don't read the 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:57.280 comment the comments. 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:01.840 Yes, Number one up social media good for you. 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:06.159 Yeah, And honestly, when I stopped, I was like, what 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:07.160 do I do with myself? 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:09.200 Now? 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:12.320 What I've got seven hours today that I killed, Like, I. 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:13.680 Just realized how much I was like. 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:17.040 Just mindless girl, mindless grolling. 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:17.199 You know. 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:20.800 And then you get used to it and. 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:24.000 It's like, oh my gosh, like I don't want to 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:27.040 do that again. Yeah, and all the fans are like, 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:28.120 come back to social media. 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.680 Social media, and I understand that, and it is fun. 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:34.399 It is fun to do. It's fun to create posts 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:35.960 and post them and everything else. 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:40.760 But for me, it's I really like it not being 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:42.000