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== Childhood Cancer Awareness Month ==


'''Myke:''' So speaking of St. Jude, September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month for the third consecutive year. We are supporting the life-saving mission of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, which is finding cures and saving children. Because cancer kills more children under the age of 14 than any other disease. And doctors from all 50 states in the U.S. and around the world refer their patients to St. Jude because they have the world's best survival rates for some of the most aggressive childhood cancers. St. Jude also provides thousands of free consultations for doctors treating children worldwide, including kids in your community. This September, you have already helped RelayFM surpass over $1 million raised for the kids at St. Jude during our third annual RelayFM for St. Jude fundraising campaign. We'll go back to that in a second. You can help us continue to move forward through to our goals by donating right now at stjude.org. If you donate a single gift of $100 or more, you'll receive an exclusive sticker pack at the end of the campaign. And if your company does corporate matching for donations, just send us an email at steven at relay.fm because you can double your donation that way. The RelayFM podcast-a-thon for St. Jude will be happening on September 17th from 12 to 8 p.m. Eastern time, Eastern U.S. time at twitch.tv slash relay.fm. Tune in to help us support St. Jude and donate today at stjude.org slash relay. Let's cure childhood cancer together.

'''Brad:''' Awesome. When you think about raising $1 million total, where does your mind go to? Because it's amazing. It really is. I'm so proud of y'all in this community.

'''Myke:''' Well, we're all a part of it, right? We're all doing our part for this. So, yeah, this is our third year. We crossed $200,000 raised yesterday evening, which was what we needed to go over a million over the three years. You know, we'd raised $800,000 in the last two years. And we got to a million now in three years, which is just, I mean, it's astounding. It was an incredibly emotional evening last night. Me and Stephen streamed live on Twitch to talk about it and celebrate it a little bit. I'll put a link in the show notes to the video. We also set off some confetti cannons in our respective studios, which caused much distress. So, if you want to see what that looks like, it will be a Twitch replay for the next couple of weeks. But I'll put a link in the show notes. Cool. So, people can go there. And plus, that's where you want to go to follow the channel. So, you'll be able to watch the podcast as well.

'''Brad:''' Yes. So, Pen Addicts are doing our part. And with the help of a bunch of great friends in the community, we're doing a raffle to raise money for St. Jude. We'll have a link in the show notes to the original post. Myke, I'm going to have a second post, an update post out today with even more wonderful prize donations from our good friends. So, we already have my field notes collection, which I'm going to say this quietly and secretly. We're efforting the full run, like the 36 through 51. I think we're going to get the whole thing done by the time we're done. But I'm not going to lock in yet. But I think we can do it. So, I'm working on that.

'''Myke:''' Oh, my God. Really?

'''Brad:''' Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, we're going to have a full run from the beginning to the current edition of field notes.

'''Myke:''' That's going to be big moves if we get that sorted out. I hope that's happening how I think it might be happening.

'''Brad:''' It is not. But it is happening with wonderful friends of the show. Wow. That's even better. It's a lot easier when I have all the hard stuff taken care of. We can all chip in and make the current stuff happen. Right. So, we're going to get that done. We have the Carolina pin, spoke pin, eyedropper insert. We have the Canalea pin, Kona Cherry. We have the Kassama Tala Ultum from Mark Backus, the nib grinder. We have the Shown Design Ultum from Shown Design. The new editions. We have a Good Made Better Pinwell, the Craftsman, Myke. The big, nice one with the brass bass in deluxe galaxy black from our friends at Good Made Better. We have four, Myke, four Opus fountain pens from an avid Opus fountain pen collector in the community who wishes to remain anonymous. Thank you. And then we have, I have at least three more things I'm trying to finalize by the day is over. And I get this new post up. And that's not all. That's just the stuff I'm going to get finalized.

'''Myke:''' By the time we finish this, everyone's going to win something.

'''Brad:''' With some of these offers I've had, we could. But I don't want to ship that many prizes. That's incredible. But no, we have a bunch of stuff coming in, a bunch more prizes. If you want to participate, you donate through, what's the link everyone should go to, Myke? Stjude.org slash Relay. Go there and make your donation. Every $10 you donate, you get one raffle ticket. And the way I'm keeping up with this is you forward your receipt from your donation or a screenshot or something of that nature to Stjude at penaddict.com. And then I'm collecting all of those receipts for every $10 you enter. You get one raffle ticket entered into a spreadsheet. I have 93 emails currently I need to sort through.

'''Myke:''' That's incredible, though. That's 93 donations so far. That is, I mean, I will say, like, you know, we're always astounded every year. This year, like, we genuinely cannot believe how much we've raised to this point. Like, it really, like, last year's goal was a quarter of a million.

'''Myke:''' If things continue, we might get there before the podcast-a-thon even begins. That's true. We're at $212,000 right now. It's truly astounding. Like, you know, I'm not going to start crying again. I did enough of that last night. We'll save that for me later. Yeah, it's just, it's unbelievable. Like, it means so much to us that everybody gets on board with this.