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Well, it is such a joy to be here, and I'm so excited about being with you. I've been looking

forward to it for the last 48 hours after TA called me and said, I've got the flu, can you step in?

And it's just a joy to be here and to be with all these Aggies, which is incredible to be.

And TA, thanks to you and your staff and just amazing job y'all are doing to be able to just bless us every week,

these students every week, and me with your messages. I podcast and listen to it and all that,

which is really great. So it's such a joy to be able to be here. You are a part of a special, special place here in College Station, Texas.

I live in Houston now, which is great and awesome as well.

There you go. That's awesome. I know you Dallas people think we're less than you, but we like Houston,

okay? It's okay to be able to have, just teasing, just playing around. But coming back to College

Station, TA said, hey, what would you like for dinner? And we'll have the dinner ready for you.

We'll just leave it at the breakaway office, and could just eat there and that'll be great and I said I want a barbecue chicken pizza and a strawberry tart from cafe Excel that's what I want and I just went for it on that which was great and I started going into the strawberry tart and I thought you know what I'm going to save half of this for my wife and I'm going to take it home to her later on tonight And then I said no way I'm not even going to tell her I had one and I just ate the whole thing which

is great you are a part of something so special which is so great it's an amazing place to

be in college to be at Texas A&M to be here in college station it's incredible I think back

to the times my roommates and I had so much fun,

so many things that we were able to do.

I remember when it snowed one time in the time that I was here,

and it iced up, and we stole trays from Sabisa,

and they didn't lock up Kyle Field,

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