Welcome back to the Compound Podcast. This is episode 1-0-8 for me. My audio is really bad.

I want to apologize to everyone. My microphone is in my suitcase, which is at

Riggly, along with my computer charger, big mess, big mess. Host game recording, big mess.

Why did something big happen that way? Yeah, why would I distract them? Can you tell us why you didn't

grab your bag from my glue? Listen, big news for me, big news for me. I got engaged on Sunday

evening. Thank you, thank you, thank you everyone. Thank you to all the listeners for a lot of

nice messages. Oh, were they nice? Were they nice messages? They were nice messages.

There was a lot of sexual harassment messages. Listen, a lot of comments about my B-9.

This is a little aggressive. Hey, come to the territory, man. A little aggressive. But

I think those are nice as well. There were some like creepy ones, but I was like,

that's kind of weird. A little far. A far some might say. But some very nice messages,

very nice, uh, got to the ballpark today. A lot of people said nice things,

say congratulations, a lot of fans, nice congratulations, which was great. But in what

had happened was I truly actually drove my car up to Milwaukee and meet me there because we flew in.

And then I had someone drive the car back. They had this whole thing planned and my bag

and we did swap bags in the car and so my bag ended up had wriggly and it was a big mess. But

we're doing the pod and I have bad audio. It's kind of the moral of the story here. Good lighting.

Of course it's worth it though. Yeah, worth it. My audio is not worse than Tom's.

Can we hear the story of the proposal? We had a couple people in the office asking about it.

Sure, I'll tell the story. So we were in Milwaukee, of course. Game finished up.

Car service back to Chicago and then went straight to a art gallery. Had this art gallery opened

on Sunday night for us and I framed a couple of our notes that we had written to each other

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