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I dislocated my finger playing basketball and my parents were at church - it wasn't even me, but my stepmom. I was in college and not excited about being in college at that point. You talked in one of your earlier clue packages about being set on the path to pursue music after feeling lost and having an experience at church that changed your perspective. So, I'm just incredibly lucky to be able to still do this and do it at a high level and people still care. And I think our show is better than it's ever been. We enjoy each other more than we ever have. I think we sound better than we ever have. I never would have guessed that 25 years after we got signed and started working on our first record, we'd still be making music together, we'd still be performing together and people would care. I imagine you feel the same about the fact that 98 Degrees has had longevity and is still together making music. I feel very blessed where I am in life and everything I'm getting to experience. It's hard to believe it's been 10 years and it's also hard to believe I have an 8-and-a-half-year-old son, time just flies by. So we'll have to figure out some kind of anniversary dinner there. So we're going to be spending a lot of time in Honolulu as it turns out. Well, apparently we're going to be in Hawaii because she just booked NCIS: Hawaii. Do you guys have anything special plan to celebrate? You posted the other day about you met 15 years ago, it'll be your 10-year wedding anniversary in July.
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She and I would sit down at night with a glass of wine and go through every song you'd think of, and, "Oh, that'd be a good one, that'd be a good one." We made that a collaborative effort between the two of us to pick the songs for the season. I give a lot of credit to Vanessa, my wife, for the song selection. If you're just standing in one lane, I think it gets a little stagnant.
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Plus you want to take people on a journey a little bit through the season. People know me and my voice for singing ballads and love songs. I really wanted to show range and diversity and try and do different things from different genres. Was it important for you to sing songs that people might not expect from you? I think Nick Cannon actually picked up on it first because he and I played together. And then there was also the Rock N' Jock football game that I played in a couple of times. The big football reference was I walked on at USC and tried to play football. So we were trying to do our best to throw kind of curveballs at them to keep them guessing. Because I've worked with a lot of the panel, I felt like, "Well, they're going to recognize my voice at some point." I'm not really good at disguising my voice. Were you trying to throw people off to think you were an athlete at first with all those football clues?