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== St Jude Raffle Results ==


'''''Brad:'''   So, through the raffle for St. Jude that I ran through the Pen Addict blog, and with everyone's support, we collectively as a group raised $40,850.

''''Myke:'''  Yeah, buddy!

'''''Brad:'''   Oh man, it's so good. When you look at last year, and last year blew my mind, and we did $11,030.

''''Myke:'''  Uh-huh.

'''''Brad:'''   I don't even know how to mentally account for this, like for like what happened. And then, that mental accounting translates into the big number, right? Like, I'm just happy. Like, I'm really, really happy that we were able to do this. I'm happy for everyone who supported us.

''''Myke:'''  Yep.

'''''Brad:'''   I'm happy for, in the Pen Addicts case, for all of the makers and friends who donated prizes to help us, like, shine a light on this cause that we all at Relay FM support wholeheartedly. And I'm just thrilled. So, yeah, we wrapped that up last week.

''''Myke:'''  Uh-huh.

'''''Brad:'''   We got the final tally. I got all the raffle prize winners picked Monday and emailed everybody. So, now I'll be in the process this week to start shipping out everything. So, everything went really, really smoothly. And that was a big number. I was just amazed putting that together and like tallying it up. And it just kept going. Incredible. It just kept going.

''''Myke:'''  It kept going. Yeah, so good. Like, blown away. I was, I'm absolutely, everybody is just blown away by that year over year increase. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, we could report the amount of money that we raised from the Pan Addict community. Like, it really is. There have been a lot, I'd say this year, there have been a lot of big surprises like this. Mm-hmm. And this is just another one. Yeah. I'll tell you real quick why we're doing this. This is the last time we'll talk about it because September is about to end. September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. For the third consecutive year, Real AFM is supporting the life-saving mission of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, which is finding cures and saving children. St. Jude leads the way that the world will understand and treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. But this is something they cannot do without the help of people like you. Because of generous donors, families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, or food. Because, look, all a family should have to care about when they're going through such a terrible thing is just keeping their child alive. For context, the average cost to treat just one child of acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common form of cancer, is $203,074. To make this possible, about 80% of the funds that are necessary to sustain and grow St. Jude must be raised every year from generous donations. Donors like you. This September, the Real AFM community has come together to raise over $600,000 for the kids of St. Jude. We're currently at $630,000, which, I mean, it's not as simple as this, but that's three children whose entire, you know, with lymphoblastic leukemia, that covers their entire cost.

'''''Brad:'''   Yes, that's an enormous amount, yep.

''''Myke:'''  You can be a part of our best year ever simply by making a donation. Go to stjude.org slash relay, and you can make a donation there. So stjude.org slash relay will help support St. Jude. Thank you so much for everybody who's come along on the ride of us this month. It's just, you know, I've had a lot of, like, little personal moments over the last few days. Last night was one when we passed $600,000, and then got to, like, and then I woke up this morning, and we're at $630,000. It's, the money just keeps coming, and I cannot tell you what it means to everyone, so thank you.

'''''Brad:'''   Yep, it's really, really great. And, yeah, thank you for shepherding all of us through this, you and Stephen and everyone at St. Jude for, you know, for getting in and working at this. I love doing this. And making a difference.

''''Myke:'''  Love doing it. Can't wait for my life to go back to normal.

''''Myke:'''  We talked about that a lot behind the scenes, you and I. It takes up our entire September. Yeah, it's a lot. Yeah. It's a lot, but I'm so thankful. You know, it's kind of happy to do the work if this is the result, you know? Exactly. Exactly.

'''''Brad:'''   Exactly. All right, you ready to talk about some pins? I sure am, bud. For the third time, we are now, well, I am now bringing up the Kaweco Premium nibs.

''''Myke:'''  Yeah.