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All basketball is so tremendously spectacularly good and it's a great day to talk about basketball

whenever I'm joined by this guy.

One of the most interesting men in the world, I would say, the only guy at the ringer,

the only guy at the ringer who's both second city trained and has also witnessed Ronnie

Dunn sing Neon Moon at a wedding.

You're the only guy I think.

What's the overlap there?

Probably not many people, I would say.

I'm not sure how many people reside in the middle of that Vin diagram.

I can tell you that Ronnie's still got it.

He may be a little wind swept, maybe a little sun burnt, depending on the time of day.

He's still absolutely wailing Kyle.

It's outrageous.

My favorite thing that he does, and I apologize to people like speaking of vocals, I'm

recovering from some congestion.

I sound a little odd, I think, to myself.

Ronnie Dunn, one of my favorite moves that he does is he kind of like purls himself into

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