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== St Jude Donations ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Should I talk about St. Jude? I would love you to. So I can... That allows me to talk about them as well.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Wonderful. So we are raising money for St. Jude this month, which we're super excited about. We have raised $57,172 so far. We are 76% of the way to our $75,000 goal. I'm super, super excited about that. Let me tell you why this is important. September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. You can join St. Jude Research Hospital this September and Relay FM as well with organizations such as the World Health Organization who are committed to transforming cancer care with the goal of curing at least 60% of children worldwide with six of the most common cancers by 2030. With your support, you will help St. Jude stay true to its life-saving mission, finding cures and saving children. Donate to support childhood cancer around the world at stjude.org slash penaddict. Once again, that is stjude.org slash penaddict to donate now.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I put in my donation this month, actually. Thank you very much for that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's very kind of you. Oh, sure, sure. And the penaddict members?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, for sure. So that's something that the penaddict members are used to me doing. And like every quarter, I donate $250. It just so happened that $250 happened to be a magic number for you on this campaign, Michael. What happens at the $250 amount? I love the people laughing at this. Oh, I've been seeing it here.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Everybody who donates $250. So for every $250 donation, I remove a sticker from one of my devices and Stephen adds a sticker to one of his.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, you got the wrong end of this deal.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because I was not, it was never, it was, this was like a thing that was mentioned. It was just mentioned. And I was like, oh, interesting. And then Stephen just tweeted it. So now it's a part of my life. Currently, at my last count, I was like 53 stickers down. There's way more. Oh, my God. I'm doing it in batches. So like every few days or whatever, Stephen will count it up, tell me the number, and then I'll start. So my 12.9 inch iPad has no stickers on it anymore. My 11 inch, 50% of them are gone. I will lose probably all the stickers from the 11 and then probably from my MacBook Pro as well before we get to the podcast-a-thon.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' When I see pictures of these, I feel the tears coming through the imagery.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They can't be fixed. They're gone forever.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' There's no, I mean, you're of course happy to do this for St. Jude's. Well, I'm happy to have money raised for St. Jude's. Yeah, but the process that you're having to live through right now, I can feel the pain when I see those images. But hey, it's for a good cause. It's for a good cause. Yeah. I'm finding, as someone not part of this, I'm finding it thoroughly enjoyable to watch.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I will say though, personally, I think that there is a special place in the afterlife for the people that donate $249. There are quite a few of those. I noticed that. Those people. I noticed that. Those people, they are kind people. People that have donated multiple $250 donations. I don't know. I don't know about you. I don't know about you. But thank you so much to everyone. I mean, I will do it. I'm doing it, right? Like, I'm going to keep doing it. Yep. Thank you to everybody that's donated. I mentioned Podcast-a-thon next Friday, September 20th. I will be in Memphis, Tennessee, broadcasting live from the St. Jude campus for six hours as part of the RelayFM Podcast-a-thon for St. Jude. I'm going to be putting in the show notes a link to a Twitch event so you can see that and so you can see what time it will be in your local time zone. But it's going to be at 4 p.m. Eastern time on September 20th for six hours. And we've got a bunch of fun stuff planned. So you'll be able to come and hang out with us as we try and cross our goal and push for more. We're working with the wonderful team at Olsak and St. Jude to come up with some wonderful things that we're going to be working on. I'm so excited to be able to do this.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Awesome. Definitely more to come as we wrap up this great fundraising month for St. Jude. Yep. All right. I know everyone's, like, tired of hearing me and you talk before we talk to Adina. But I got a couple of quick things I want to hit if that's okay.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Don't ask me. Is that okay with you?

'''Adina Hurley:''' Yep. Yep. I want to hear about it. All right. Great.