Howdy, welcome to the breakaway podcast recorded on the campus of Texas A&M.

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We hope you enjoy the message and stick around for more at the end. Well, I want to start tonight by simply sharing with you how I proposed to my wife.

And let me just say this.

If you're a lady here, then you need to know that you are wired for a good engagement story.

So at certain points when I'm telling this, you're going to find yourself making these involuntary noises like,

oh, okay, you were meant to do that. So don't fight it. Just let it happen.

Now, gentlemen, gentlemen, you are, you're not wired at all for a good engagement story, are you?

So I'll just say this, man, while the ladies might find themselves emotionally vomiting,

you might just find yourself vomiting.

And that's okay.

That's okay.

But men, here's what I'll tell you.

This is not copyrighted material, so go find a girl that's not in this room.

Claim it all as your own.

All I ask is that you send me a secret

message that just simply says that I'm a romantic prodigy, and then I'll come perform your

wedding, and it'll all be good. All right. So here's how I proposed to Catherine. Several

years ago, we were doing the long distance thing. I was living in Austin. She was living in Dallas.

Yeah, I get it. And so we were doing the long distance thing and we would travel on the weekends to see one another.

So I convinced Catherine on this particular weekend that she was going to fly to see me.

I did that by buying her a fully refundable ticket on Southwest.com.

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