I'm Nk and this is Basket Case.

What is wrong with me?

A show about the ways that mental illness is shaped by not just biology.

Swaps of different meds, but by culture and society.

By looking closely at the conditions that cause mental distress,

I find out why so many of us are struggling to feel sane,

what we can do about it, and why we should care.

Oh, look at you giving me therapy girl.

Listen to Basket Case every Tuesday on the I Heart Radio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. The Hey faneritos and welcome to a very very special episode of how rude tannaritos. Now normally I would do this intro but because this is such an

important interview to me I've written a little something from the heart to introduce our next two guests.

This is a big deal.

A B has been preparing for this.

So today we are doing an interview that I have been preparing literally for 36 years.

As a precocious 13 year old girl,

my first loves were none other

than the five hardest working kids in show business,

new kids on the block.

And today, deep breath, we have Jordan and Jonathan Knight on the

podcast. They were young teenagers when NKTB was created in 1984 and went on to sell over 80 million records,

paving the way for all those other boy bands that followed in their footsteps.

After breaking up in 1994, the band reunited in 2008 and have since done four

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