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== RelayFM for St. Jude ==


''''Myke:'''  Let's talk about RelayFM for St. Jude for a moment. You've been hearing us talk about it over the last month, and you will be for, I think, another two weeks. Because September, all of September, is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and for the third consecutive year, RelayFM supports 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 of the U.S. and around the world refer their patients to St. Jude because, quite simply, they have the world's best survival rates for some of the most aggressive childhood cancers. And St. Jude also provides thousands of free consultations for doctors treating children worldwide, including kids in your community. So, the RelayFM community so far this September has come together to raise an astounding over half a million dollars for the kids of St. Jude just this year. Where actually, right now, $527,000 we have raised as a community, which is just truly unbelievable. Like, you know, this campaign, we met the one million total raised, you know, over the three years, and that was like 196. We've added like another 300,000. So, like, we've raised over $1.3 million in the last three years. And that is because of everybody coming together, and it's a truly incredible thing. You can be a part of our best year ever by making a donation right now at sthude.org slash Relay. This year, any donor making a single gift of $100 or more will receive an exclusive RelayFM sticker of thanks pack at the end of the campaign. And if your company matches donations, please send us a note, and we can have that routed to the campaign. Just email Stephen at Relay.fm. Go now to sthude.org slash Relay, and let's cure childhood cancer together.

'''''Brad:'''   I am astonished. I am thankful to be part of this. I am thankful to be friends with you and Stephen who really are the leaders in getting all this organized and the amount of work you put in for the greater good for the hospital. One thing I wanted to mention about St. Jude, we know all the good that they do for the people coming in to, you know, that have to be in the hospital and getting all the help that they need. But like you mentioned, like part of their name is research, and they do so much for other, you know, illnesses around the world, like, you know, the cancer treatments that they're, you know, researching there. In Memphis, those things get, they're at the front lines of treating these illnesses.

''''Myke:'''  And they don't just do research on cancer. Right. They do research on anything that can affect a cancer patient. So like two years ago, we got to talk to a doctor, Chuck Rock, which is the best name ever. Right. And he and his team were investigating drug-resistant staph infections. Oh, no, drug-resistant staph infections or like SARS, not SARS, what's the MRSA, is that it? Yeah, MRSA. MRSA, that's it. So they were like, because that affects the kids in the hospital. But that information can be also shared, like the rest of their information is shared for other institutions around the world to benefit from.

'''''Brad:'''   Yep. It's a big deal, and I'm glad to be a part of it. And last year, starting last year, the Pen Attic played a small part in raising awareness through the Pen Attic. We started a raffle last year where we had a singular pen of awesomeness, the Arushi Lamy Safari, that we put up for raffle for St. Jude. So I wanted to do it again this year, Myke. And you could say it went well.

'''''Brad:'''   Unbelievable. It really is. It's really hard to talk about.

''''Myke:'''  We didn't get to talk about, because I was away last week, we didn't get to talk about how much stuff has now been added into this raffle. Well, somebody has also donated a complete set of all the Blackwing volumes, which is unbelievable.

'''''Brad:'''   Two complete sets of single pencils. These are not dozens, right? These are single pencils. But yeah, they were like, hey, let me send you one of each of every Blackwing volume. And they actually didn't have the first two. I said, well, I've got the first two, so just send me what you have, and then I'll grab mine, and we'll make two separate sets to give away for all these.

'''''Brad:'''   We wrapped this up last night for just the raffle part of it. You can still donate to St. Jude. Don't let me dissuade you from that. But for the raffle part, we did have to have a time limit so I can put all this stuff together. So let me do two things, if you will allow me, Myke. One, I would like to go through this list of prizes and thank all of the donors. And then two, at the end, I want to tell you where we're at. Oh, okay. Well, you'll see here in a second what I'll be explaining. But first off, I put up the field notes collection I had from 1 through 36, and then the feedback came in. Well, I can fill in the blanks of the things that you need to get to the current edition, right? Because I stopped my subscription for like a year, maybe two. So I had a small gap, even though I bought some in there. So we actually have the full run of field notes 1 through 51 of the limited edition field notes giveaway, which is really cool. So I should enter for that.

''''Myke:'''  I know this is not what it's about, but the cash value of that price must be unbelievable.

'''''Brad:'''   Yeah. Like, I've had people say, like, I don't reply to all the emails I get in for all this stuff. But I have people say, if I win this, I'm going to sell them all and just re-donate the money that I make off of it.

''''Myke:'''  Hey, if that's what you want to do that, right? Like, if that, you know, I endorse that. Maybe if you'll probably do whatever you want with it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's up to you. But I love that as an idea.

'''''Brad:'''   Yeah, like, if you win the thing, it may not be your thing, to be perfectly honest. But, like, that's just kind of how these things go.