What's next? What's next? What's next? What's next? What's next? What's next? What's next? What am I? You're going to be a shark. You have to sing the baby shark song. That one? Dad. Am I? Are you going to chase me around? That's what you wanted to tune in for. Two grown men getting dressed. St. Jude dog. Slash relay. We're going to wear this for Federico. Yeah. I'm a little worried about that. Oh dear. This is awkward. We have to do this on camera. It's really slow too. I remember last time I think we got dressed off camera. Oh God. It's really difficult with the shoes. Maybe I should just not have any shoes on. There we go. One of the other things on the wheel is a Lego walk. You don't need shoes for that. Oh, I got a little mittens. I feel like this is a very underwhelming start of the show. Look, there's more. There's more. We promised there's more. Yeah, lots of other more exciting things. We have a PC we're going to hit with a baseball bat. We have a computer we're going to hit with a baseball bat. Maybe. Okay, I'm going to get dressed and why don't you give people a tour of our set and I'll come back. Okay. Because we have a lot of things. I'm slightly dressed. That'll do for now. So we have the wheel as you've seen. The wheel also has these foam cases that we get to see. They're going to come up later on. Where am I looking? In this camera over here? The bear-ometer. So in case you've been listening to some of our shows, I think I'm genius and connected, Stephen bought 10 pounds of gummy bears by accident. We are going to use gummy bears to fill this beautiful hand-made Hackett rocket. The HTM-1. It's going to be filled with gummy bears as the evening progresses. We have from the original podcast-a-thon, the ball pit. But that's not big enough. Right behind it, we have the USA balloon room, baby. I'm going to be in there. That's going to fill up. Every time we get another $100 of donations, another balloon's going to go in. So throughout the entire day, my hope is that thing is filled to the very top and I'm going to bully Stephen until he gets in there with me. Because I don't think he wants to. He's scared of balloons. So this is our set for the evening. Oh, the PC. We didn't look at the PC. This is a HP Pavilion 8710. I'm sure Stephen will tell a really exciting story later on about why he picked that. We have a baseball bat and a sledgehammer. They will be used to destroy this piece of ancient technology. I think it's probably a good time to take a look at Stephen. Put your arms out. Yeah, that's why I got it. The wings? Yes. Very nice. You've got a tail again. Very good. Okay, you carry on talking for a minute and I'm going to continue buttoning up. That's good. We also have a lot of special guests planned for today. Some of your favorite RelayFM hosts are going to be here. We also have a family feud that's hosted by Jason Snell. It's going to play in a couple of hours with a bunch more Relay people on it. Super excited to bring our friends on and talk about new Apple stuff, talk about St. Jude. It's going to be a good day. Wow. Oh, the shark has eyes. Of course it does. And teeth. I like the teeth a lot. No! Okay, I say we do... I like the bow tie with the shark. He's a fancy shark, you know? Oh, I sat on something. Oh, no. Oh, it's my... It's your tail. What is that? What is that? It's a... It's a tail. Do sharks have tails? Like this? What is this? It's like a claw. What is that? I don't know. You're not holding a microphone. You're just talking. Yeah, but I'm talking so loudly. Let's do one more wheel spin and then I think we're going to have Federico on. That sounds fantastic. You should give it a go. Okay. How much worse can it get? ... Try to come over this side. They can't see you. Oh, yeah. Sorry. Not that it matters, really. We're supposed to say it next to it. They told us that very specifically. We were told, but we didn't do it. Eight. Hula hoops! Yes! Okay. Here we go. Where are they? Where are the hula hoops? In the bowl. In the bowl. Okay. Wait. Should we do it here? That was great. You go first. If you watched the podcast up on last year, you may remember Stephen's incredible hula hoop skills. Let's see if he's been practicing. Or should we go at the same time and see who goes longest? One, two, three. Tied! We tied. We don't have to ever do that again. Alright. You show everybody how good you are. Look at this. In our rehearsal, we had a rehearsal yesterday. Mike just picked it up and did it for like two minutes straight. It was incredible. You should have seen how many classes I've been doing, man. Have you? A really big trainer for that. I'd like to thank Mandy, my hula hoop trainer. I think we're going to be joined by Federico Vaticci. If you want to come back over here, Mr. Shark, we'll see our friend Federico. What is he going to come into? You know what I mean? Okay. You have to not look at my computer because we've got something going on. I'm trying to find where I plug in my headphones and it's in my manatee suit. There you go. I don't like this tail. It's so uncomfortable. It's not good. Okay. Okay, I'm not looking at your computer. Okay. Do we have a guest on the line? Oh, I hear him. I hear him. Federico, can you see us right now? Okay. I can see you, but I don't think our audience does yet. We're just bringing you in. Yeah. I'm a shark. And Stephen is a stingray. Hello. I can see myself now. Ciao, Federico. I'm a shark. I can see myself now on the screen. Ciao, Federico. Federico, I'm happy you're here because... Oh no. It's time for a quiz, baby. Okay, so I'm connected. We play a game called the quizzes. And the quizzes can happen at any time. And the quizzes are happening right now. And we're bringing back the fill in the blanks game. Oh no. Oh God. I have a selection of things that I'm going to read to you and you have to fill in the blanks. And the first thing you pick for this quizzy... Episode titles are connected. So I'm going to read you some episode titles and I'm going to say blanks where I want you to give me word or words. There are 250 points available for every correct answer. And for the audience, how many episodes are connected? Have we done? Three... 400 and something? We're not doing all of them. 415. But I'm just saying... There's a big number of titles to keep in our heads. And talking about reminding people... So currently, Stephen stands at 3,673 points. Federico, 2,701. There are 8 points available today. 250 points for every correct answer. If there's multiple blanks, it's 250 for each. You two have to guess. I'm going to let Federico go first as he is currently losing poorly to Stephen. I'm not poorly, come on! That seems unnecessary. I'm being cyberbullied? I'm cyberbullying you. Alright, so... We're first going to episode 394 of Connected, pretty recent. At the intersection of blank and blank. So you need to give me the blanks. At the intersection of blank and blank. Federico, what are the words? I will help you, actually. It's the same word. So there's only 250 points. I am going to be losing poorly in this game. You were right. At the intersection of... Come on, that was a silly joke. What was it? At the intersection of... I don't know. Give me anything. At the intersection of Stephen and Stephen. Okay, what do you say? I don't know. Part of me wants to say tattoos or automation. But I guess I gotta pick one. So I will say automation. No points on offer. Episode 394. At the intersection of this and this. This and this is what I was looking for. We go to episode 178. That's a long time ago. Two words. These are separate words. The blank blank trend. Federico, the blank blank trend. The blank blank trend? Yeah. The... I don't know. The... iMessage app trend. I like it. Deep and open. Blank blank trend. Is it episode 137? 178. Close. I'm just trying to think about when that would have been. Really long time ago. That would have been like 2015 or 16. So I'm gonna say the large phone trend. So close. Episode 178. You're gonna be kicking yourself. The tiny head trend. No. I will say the one I didn't pick, there was a title in here. I think it was the tiny head pandemic, which I thought was funny. But didn't want to pick it. But there you go. That was episode 179, I think. Episode 391. The blank stops here. This is a recent one. The blank stops here. Federico? It's not a good quiz if no one gets any points. Yeah, I know. The blank stops here. The buck stops here. Okay. I don't think it's buck. The blank stops here. I'm gonna lump in with Federico. I don't have anything better. The buck stops here. The pleasure. The pleasure stops here. See, now that you mention them, I remember these titles. Episode 79. This is the oldest we've gone. That's in 2015? I don't remember. I didn't write it down. We didn't blank live and there was no blank. We didn't? We didn't blank live and there was no blank. We didn't? We didn't stream live and there was no stream. Okay. Believe it or not, that's exactly what I was gonna say. So I'm gonna say we didn't stream live and there was no audience. 250 points go to each of you. We didn't stream live and there was no showbop. No showbop. And there was no showbop. No showbop. So we were being very descriptive as to why the title was bad because I guess back then, we had no imagination. We couldn't have done it on our own, apparently. Episode 344. A blank from 8 miles away. Ooh, I remember this one. A blank from 8 miles away. A... From 8 miles? Yeah, a blank from 8 miles away. It's very particular. 8 miles. Does that change your answer? If you know it's 8? Oh, if you're 7, now we're talking about something completely different. It really doesn't. A... A dud. A dud from 8 miles away? Okay. I mean, sure, great one. Maybe that was it, Stephen. I don't know. A store from 8 miles away. The correct answer is... Chainsaw. A chainsaw from 8 miles away. Yeah, a chainsaw from 8 miles away. For a show that's about technology, we have some really unusual titles, I'm realizing. That's what I went for. From episode 161. A handbag? Face cream? A blank? We just got a $500 donation from Todd. Thank you, Todd. $500 for a $256,697 $256,697 raised for the kids of St. Jude. Can you repeat the title for me, please? Of course I can. Episode 161. A handbag? Face cream? A blank? A phone? Okay. Phone is good. Tablet. Chainsaw. Seriously? Yeah. These episodes were like 150 apart. And it's both chainsaws. A chainsaw. What is it with us and the chainsaws? I don't know. I now want to know. So this is actually good marketing for Connected. You're hearing these, you're like, what do these guys talk about? Go listen to episode 161, I guess. We have some Allstack friends here in the studio with us who definitely don't listen to Connected. They're doing videos and stuff, not murdering people with chainsaws. I never said anything about murder. Episode 318. You're a shark. You're all about murder. Come on, blank. It's a chi. It's a chi? Come on, blank. It's a chi. Like a wireless charger? It says QI. So I'm assuming it's chi. Come on, blank. It's a chi. Come on, Mike. It's a chi. That's a pretty good answer. I'm going to go with Federico again. Mike. Come on, Fay. It's a chi. Do you remember that? I don't remember why that was when we gave ourselves these weird things. Fay? Was it Fay? Chi? I don't know the other one. I don't remember the other one. Why though? I don't know, man. I don't remember what happened. Someone will know. Kate will know. Episode 94. 94, okay. I have no idea when blank is. When or where? When. I have no idea when blank is. And it's one word. One word. Well, yeah. Well, it's not multiple words. But it's one thing. I think we're thinking the same thing, Federico. WBDC. Yeah, WBDC. 250 points for both of you. Alright. Let's go. You kind of threw me off. Let's go. We're on it now. Let's go, baby. I got it. Episode 331. Honey, did you put blank on my yoga mat? Episode 331. Honey, did you put blank on my yoga mat? On my yoga mat? Yeah. I don't know. On my yoga mat. Honey, did you put mustard on my yoga mat? Alright, okay. I think we're going to get to that one later on. I was going to say tape. Oh, so close. Not really. Kickstands. Honey, did you put kickstands on my yoga mat? Federico has this thing where he likes putting kickstands on iPad cases so they stand at just the right angle. I used to. Look, I used to, okay? We've all had that time. We've all experimented. Episode 296. Blank shot first. Hmm. Well, it's a Star Wars reference. Even I know that one. It's from when Luke Skywalker shoots Darth Vader, right? Yes, that's exactly it. We all know that. Exactly right. I'm going to say... Is it one word, Mike? Yeah, one word. Steven shot first. Interesting. Federico shot first. Nope, incorrect. Gandalf, as we all know. Gandalf shot first. That is a pure Federicoism right there. Doing exactly what you did a second ago. I was wondering if you were going to come around on it. Episode 280. Peanut butter peanut butter peanut blank. Peanut butter peanut butter peanut blank. It's at the end. Peanut butter peanut butter peanut blank. Shout out to O.T.J. It's bread. Bread, okay. It's either bread or butter, so I'll say butter. 250 points goes to Steven. It was peanut butter peanut butter peanut butter. Come on, Federico. You've got to know the pattern by now. Episode 372. Blank beta 2.21.24.5 colon what's new? Blank beta. Wait. Blank beta 2.21.24.5 colon what's new? 2.2? Here's what I'll say. Don't focus too much on the numbers. You'll get lost. Blank beta 2.21.24.5 colon what's new? iOS. Okay, Steven. What episode number was it? This was episode 372. iPadOS. Nope. WhatsApp. Remember that? WhatsApp beta 2.21.24.5 colon what's new? I'm going to use the WhatsApp review podcast for an episode. 288. The god of beginnings gates, transitions, and blank. I don't know, man. What? The god of beginnings? The god of beginnings gates, transitions, and blank. Oh, this is an ancient Rome reference. Obviously. What episode number? 288. The god of beginnings gates, transitions, and blank. Change. Okay. Can you read the items again? The god of beginnings gates, transitions, and blank. Reviews. Federico, I think you're going to be mad at yourself. I just feel that. The answer is duality. Ah, I knew it. See, I knew he was going to be mad about it. Okay. Episode 364. Blank, blank, blank. Demands your allegiance. I know this because I just used it as a link in a story that I'm writing yesterday. One true John. Okay, that is 750 points for each of you. One true John demands your allegiance. Yes. I planned for this many, but if we had extra time, I have three more. Let's go. Let's do it. Episode 294. Software, firmware, situation, blank. Oh, yeah. Software, firmware, situation, blank. We got a $1,000 donation from Matthew and Anna. Awesome. Thank you so much. Thank you. 259,000. We got loads. Rachel donated 250. 101 from Kendall. Stetson at 280. Thank you to the Hudson family for a $150 donation. Thank you all. Situation. Software. What was it? Software, firmware, situation, blank. Software, firmware, situation, change log. Okay. Update. Steven got 250 points. Also, software, firmware, situation, update. I remember that one. As a running score so far, Steven is at 1,500 points. Federico is at 1,500 points, which is not correct. I'm going to change that now. Federico, you're now at 1,250 points. I put it in the wrong category. Steven is at 1,750. No problem. Anytime. Episode 150. The blank anniversary. I remember for a while, we looked up anniversaries, right? 10 is this kind of medal, that kind of flower. What's the episode number? 150. Episode 150, the blank anniversary. This is one of those for the wedding anniversaries that we did. Yeah, you see, I know you say that, but when you hear the answer, it's not going to make sense. I wouldn't focus on that so much. Is it going to be a boring one? No, it's really weird. Oh, it's really weird? Yeah. I have an idea. So, it's not about a material that usually involves the anniversary? I don't think so. If it is, that's real sad. Good question for us, Federico. The shadow anniversary. Oh, I like it. I was going to say spaghetti for some reason. No, it's the turtle anniversary. Turtle? I don't know what that means. It's a good title. It's weird. And the final one from episode 232. A unique blend of blank and automation. Tattoos. Yeah, tattoos. 250 points for each of you as you finish out today's round. That's the one I was thinking about earlier. Steven, you're at 2000 points gained. Federico at 1500 points. This brings the total score currently to Steven at 5673 This is getting ludicrous. And Federico at 4201. I'm sorry Federico, you did not improve your performance. I'm getting there. I'm getting there. I will catch up. I will catch up soon enough. I have faith in you. Federico, Vittici, thank you so much for joining us for the fourth annual Podcast of the Month. This episode of the Quizzes. We love you very much. And we'll see you next week. I love you guys. I'll see you soon. Bye Federico. Bye everybody. Bye. I'm going to take this off now. And should we put some gummy bears in? Yeah. As we talk about some of the stuff we're raising. Let's do it. Okay. This is coming off because I'm so warm. I am JD Davis. A $1000 donation. Thank you so much. Thank you JD. Oh my gosh. My hair. I spent so much time on it. Yeah. You know. I'm going to give everybody a demonstration of how this rocket works. Without falling over. Or tripping on my own cables. If you've seen past Podcastathons, you've seen us fill computers with bouncy balls. You've seen us fill computers with Legos. This year we decided to lean into the gummy bear thing. We've got a six foot rocket here. Take this off. Steven, can you remind people why there are gummy bears? Because someone in my household accidentally bought 10 pounds of gummy bears when they really meant just to buy a couple of... That was you Steven. That was you when you say that. Hey. It makes it sound like you're blaming your wife who's here. Who is now approaching the stage angrily. So I would change the story about you. Security. Security. Oh Mike, I'm going to need you to hold this funnel. Okay. Come on shark boy. Someone's asked that. Please stop. Okay. Also you just keep walking around without a microphone. Oh and I was going back over there. It's hard to remember. There you go. I was just rushing. Hello. I don't have a lot of... Hold on. Cable management. Here. There you go. So if you hold the funnel. Yep. So as we raise more money working towards our goal we will fill this up in a very scientific and measured way. One of the wheels it says bite the bear. Oh thank you. That's the bear by the way. This thing is like a five pound gummy bear. Why is it greasy? I'll find out when I eat it. This thing. Look at it. It's gross. Alright. Let's funnel it up. You really want a good shot of the gummy bears going down the tube. It's very exciting. There we go. Wait. Is this scientific at all? Yeah. I mean it's basically a big test tube. No I mean like is there like some kind of gauge? Yeah. I know how many I know exactly how many gummy bears fit in my hand. Because you've had a lot of practice at this point. I've had a lot of practice at this point. So the ten pound bag. He ate them all. The whole family. There's five of us living in the house. Sure. Whatever man. You keep telling yourself that. We'll do one more scoop. If you like. And then we'll go spin the wheel. Should we? Oh we got another one hundred and one dollar donation from Chris. Thank you Chris. Alright. Thank you to the Sullivan family for a hundred and one dollars. Everyone's favorite Anonymous for two hundred dollars. Yes. And the Gallagher family. Anonymous is very uh very giving. They are. So you want to spin the wheel? I'm going to put my jacket on. Put your jacket on. Spin the wheel. We got a couple other things that we're going to be doing. There's an upcoming segment where I have to touch things that I can't see. It's called Stephen Touches Things. Coming up later on. And we were told to make it very clear that the organization does not approve that name. But we just went with it. And as we earn more, more things go into the list for me to touch. There's balloons that will go into the balloon room later on. Okay. Wheel time. Where's it going to end? Five! I'm already dressed. Oh come on. I'm going to do it again. Don't want to get dressed again. If it hits five again, we should quit. The podcast is not over. Uh oh. Hula hoop battle. Keep spinning. We want to find some new things. You're bad at this. Or I'm really good at hitting two specific ones. Number one. Take a swing at the PC. Oh he's been waiting for this. So why the HP Pavilion 8710? I recommend everybody in the studio stand back. I'm going to be the one to do it. I recommend everybody in the studio stand back. You thought I was giving them to you? I'm doing it for myself. Okay we have safety first. Everyone, safety first. Everybody stand back. I'm going over here. We genuinely have no idea what's going to happen. So why the 8710? You can interview me. Hello. So my choice here is that this has a lot of plastic on the front but this is like an HP that basically everyone I knew had growing up. My friends had these. It has some storage on the top for optical media and a door that opens so you can get to your drives. Can I make a personal request for the first smash? Are you wearing glasses and safety glasses? Yeah. Safety first baby. Should I go here in the front? Open the... Okay. Do whatever you want. I just want to see what happens when that's open. Okay. Here you go. Thank you. Alright here we go. Stephen Hackett steps up to the plate. Oh he's going to take a swing that way. Oh that was good. Let me take a look. This is a little investigation here so... That's pretty intact. What part is this? The sunglasses. Put that back in there. Okay so we can give pieces away. Yeah. Here. Alright. Oh. Don't put your hand in there. There's another piece down there. I'm worried. Don't put your hand in it. Who in the studio needs a piece of the computer? Here we go. Alright. Woo! You got it. You got a piece of the computer. It's the number one gift of the day. Alright so we've got a lot of incentives and milestones. Let's sit down and talk about those. I like that it's surrounded by confetti over here. It's real good. The confetti's a nice bonus. Okay so there's a few things you can do here. If you go to St. Jude Oh I'm looking. Which camera? There we go. Oh I'm looking. Everyone's raising their hands. This way. Stjude.org slash relay and you can donate. If you donate $60 you will get a digital bundle. This includes a bunch of wallpapers and an incredible, truly amazing screensaver for Mac OS which was put together, designed, orchestrated by James Thompson. We're going to show some videos and stuff like that after the podcast-a-thon but it's worth your donation. If you donate $100 you get all of that plus a sticker pack which includes a mic head, a Steven head and depictions of our onesies last year which is X-Ray Man and Mr. Yellow? Mr. Yellow. Legally distinct characters. X-Ray Man and Mr. Yellow. Mr. Yellow and X-Ray Man as everybody lovingly referred to them last year too. If you go to St. Jude.org slash relay and you decide to sign up to raise money yourself and become a fundraiser we have 172 people right now that have signed up for their own fundraising campaigns. Can I get-could we get the roaming camera over here real quick to show what we've got on the desk? Is that possible? I'm sorry to alert you at such short notice. If you raise $1 you can get the St. Jude Relay FM limited edition challenge coin. This baby. Flip it over. Steven Schulman's on the back. St. Jude on one side. Ooooooh! Everyone in the audience goes ooooh! Oh! $6,000 donation! Oh! Thank you! Ooooooh! There's gonna be some wallpapers coming to you and in the background there Yes, there's wheel spins too. The desk mat. This desk mat. $250. If you raise $250 for your sub campaign you can set up your own campaign at St. Jude.org slash relay. We will ship you one of these beautiful things when the campaign is over. So if you've been wondering what it looks like this is what it looks like. Unbelievable. Can you believe that I dropped out of graphic design school after seeing that I made that? Yes. Harsh! Yeah. Yeah. So we also have some milestones that we're going to be doing as we work through the podcast-a-thon. Yep. Our show today that's going to run the rest of the day. Every $100 we get a gummy bear added. Again in a very scientific way. We all saw that. It was very scientific. Very scientific. Also $100 a balloon goes in the tent. Balloon room. Balloon room. How dare you? Tent? The balloon shack. Balloon room USA. At $2500 we're going to spin the wheel. So we're going to spin the wheel a couple more times for our next segment. At $25,000 something called Beautify the Co-Founders is going to happen. What could that mean? So at $275,000 that will be the first round of that. Wait a second. This is hinting that we're not already. That's what I don't like about this. That we're not already beautiful? Yeah. I think you're beautiful. Especially right now. Look at you. Thank you. Anyway. What else have we got going on today? When the campaign reaches $300,000 Casey, Liss and I are going to be judging electric vehicles. After the podcast-a-thon. After the podcast-a-thon. It'll be a tier list. And then at $350,000 David Sparks and I are going to do a stream together as well. So some stuff during the podcast-a-thon. Some stuff after. But right now What is the... Oh also for every $500 donation Where am I? There. This is so complicated. There's no cameras usually. I'm just talking into a microphone. I'll look wherever I like. Every $500 As we continue. Not single donation. Is it single donation? Single donation of $500 or more. Steven touches something. Not me. We've got a whole thing. That's going to be coming up later on. We're building them up. It's very hot in here. In the onesies it was. And for every single donation of $1000 I eat one of the Bean Boozled beans. Should we just do one now? Let's do one now. You want to spin the thing? Even though that's the thing? You can spin it. Oh yes. And then I find the color and eat it. Alright so I will spin this. Let's see. This is not as dramatic as is necessary to have a camera on it. I just want to tell everyone that right now. It's pretty good there. It's really not that dramatic. Look at that. It's terribly stupid. It landed on pomegranate or old bandage. What does that look like? It's the red one. That's the one. Oh yes. Pomegranate or old bandage? It tastes like burning. So probably not pomegranate. Yeah it seems like old bandage. Oh I'm in for a long day. Oh it's so bad. It's like burnt coffee. Well you want to do another one as a palate cleanser? Nope. We'll come back to that later on today. Just making sure. Actually there was two $1000 donations at this exact point. Alright. One from the Culver family and one from B&JH. So we're going to do it again. Do another one. Spin it. Spin the tiny bean wheel. It is Tutti Frutti or stinky socks. This kind of looks like that one. There you go. Socks or Tutti Frutti? Honestly it's like a combo. Tutti Frutti socks. Tutti Tootsies. Nailed it. I hate it. No one in here laughing at your pun. I know it's terrible. That's the issue. There was another one. I've got to do another one. Another $1000 from Sunnit. Just spin the friggin wheel. Let's do the blue one. Berry blue or toothpaste. That's going to be okay. I think I would prefer the toothpaste. It cleans things out. Toothpaste. I'm actually good with that one. Alright. What do you want to do now? Let's do a wheel spin. After this we're going to do some balloons. It looks so good. I love it. When is it going to stop? Oh. You get to hit the PC. Yes. Alright then. I didn't know that was going to happen. He's putting some safety goggles on over his glasses which feels unnecessary. Hey, center it back up on that box so it doesn't fall off. We don't want to damage it accidentally. Sledgehammer will be for later. Because the case is metal so the sledgehammer will I know right. You can really take out some aggression. Oh. Pretty good. Pretty good. I learned on the way up my jacket will not allow me to get two arms. I can go to here. That's why I went one arm. The one arm looks pretty good though. That looks good. It's coming open now. No more presents for our audience yet. Soon. But not yet. We're getting really close to the makeup segment. What? The beautify segment? I don't know anything about makeup. What are we going to do now? I think you should go give a tour of the Balloon City Midwest. There's no balloons in it yet. We can change that. There is a microphone in there. Balloons are being added. We should say this thing is completely enclosed. Take a deep breath before you go in. Aviar and Kit, thank you for your donations. Coming right along. Can everybody hear me? There's an interesting echo in here. As you see, right now, we have a small amount of balloons in here. I want this thing to be completely filled up. It's getting filled up very slowly. Can you give me the bag? There you go. We got some balloons in here. These are your donations. For every $100 raised, more balloons go inside of Balloon Room USA. As we add more balloons, we are helping out St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in their mission to save children from cancer. This is St. Jude's 60th year as well we're celebrating this year. In that time, they've done incredible things in fighting childhood cancer. We're asking for your donations to help us continue that work. As the evening goes on, I would like to be up to here. Be up to here. Who knows? I might get completely lost in these things. That's only going to come from your donations. Please go to stjude.org. Stephen? Hey! He's back! Beautiful. You should do something. I should do something? I'm going to talk a little more about St. Jude. That's why I threw it to you. Are you okay? I wasn't just saying hi. We were back together again. I needed to do something. Do you have enough air in there? Currently. We'll see what happens. Come on out. I have a mental timer when he's in there to make sure he doesn't. If you suffocate in there, there's a lot of paperwork for me to do. Like Mike said, this is St. Jude's 60th year. In those six decades, which is just a little bit longer than me being alive, because I'm old, according to Mike. In those six years, St. Jude has worked tirelessly to bring childhood cancer survival rates up and up and up. When they started, that survival rate was around 20%. Now we're looking at 80%. Worldwide, those numbers still have a long way to go. St. Jude works. Their research, their science is shared around the world. They treat families from all over the world. A lot of those families come here. A lot of times those families are treated in other locations with research done here. It means that St. Jude really has formed a global community for these kids and their families. Yes, it happens to be in my backyard of Memphis, Tennessee, which was very helpful when we needed St. Jude 13 years ago. We've had the honor now, both of us, to meet families from all over the world who have been impacted by this mission. That mission is only furthered by people like us, people like you, dear listeners, donating to the cause. It's absolutely amazing to see the response year after year. Again, you want to go to stjude.org slash relay and donate. We're at $273,000 right now, which is awesome. Woo! The goal for the entire campaign is a little under $500,000. When we hit that number, what that means is over the last four years, the RelayFM audience has raised $2 million for St. Jude, which is incredible. We really want your donations. You should go to stjude.org slash relay and you can donate. I love this so much. We have our second guest, which I think means you can take a break. I'm going to go take a break. You go take a break. Go get ready for beautification, whatever that means. We're going to bring in our guest, our next guest for the evening. Where am I looking? Here. We're going to come over to him in a second. It's our friend and everybody's friend, underscore David Smith, creator of Widget Smith and many applications. We're going to check in with him, see how he's doing and talk to him a little bit about the Apple Watch Ultra, because I think David ordered one of those. I want to see why he did that. Is David there? I believe so. There he is. Hello, underscore. It's good to see you. Back in merry old England. Are you in England right now? Yeah. No. Are you holding it down for me? I'm making sure it doesn't float away. Perfect. That's all I want. So, Dave, one, how is it to have the new Apple version of Widget Smith available? So far, so good. The iOS 16 launch week is always a little intimidating and terrifying, but this one went pretty well, I think. No big major bugs, no big crazy things. Positive support in terms of reception to the apps and so far, so good. Got my iPhone 14 Pro today and it's always on worked, which I had no reason to think it wouldn't, but it was a little bit terrifying. You just never know when it's a feature you are building against that you can't actually try on device. So that was cool to see. I have my American iPhone. Steven picked up for me this morning and I haven't really played around with it yet because he brought it to me about 20 minutes before it went live. Just that's how it went. But immediately, the thing that struck me was the always on is, I thought my phone was still on. It really is so bright, right? So is that good for you? When you see it working like this and showing so bright as opposed to making these widgets, do you think that that makes them more valuable to your customers? I got to think so. I mean, I had the same exact reaction where I look at this and it feels like your phone is always on. Obviously, that's the name of the feature is it's always on, but it actually feels, it isn't like it's asleep. It's just your phone is just always there, ready to pounce into action. You're not trying to... Especially different from the previous version where you'd feel like you're poking your iPhone to awake since they added the tap to wake feature. It's like now you don't need to poke it. It's just there and you pick it up and you're already starting to see this stuff. And I think especially, certainly widgets on the lock screen there, they are very prominent. When I was building this feature over the summer and it was rumored that always on was going to happen, it seemed like the kind of thing where it wouldn't even have surprised me if widgets disappeared when it was in always on or if they were very diminished and that's why they were... Like just logos or something, right? I think that was something I was assuming. Kind of like it feels like they're more prominent than Apple Watch complications in always on. Do you find that to be the case? Or is that pretty similar? Yeah, I mean, there's certainly a lot of similarities between them there and on the Apple Watch. I think overall, the size of them is what makes them, I think, feel more prominent. They are seriously big in a way that if you put a lock screen widget there and it's in your face, it's very visible and it's something that you're going to... If you're phone is just sitting there all day showing you whatever it is that you want there. So it feels kind of... It's almost like more of a dashboard than a lock screen widget. Home screen widgets are great, but they're something you have to actively go and look for rather than something that's just sort of always there ambiently for you. So speaking of Apple Watch and stuff like that, you have ordered an Apple Watch Ultra, right? Yes. I was very excited about it. Oh, now is this just because you want it for testing or is there some other reason you want an Apple Watch Ultra? Yes. So during the Apple event, they're like, here's the person who ran across the Sahara Desert and here's the person who goes free diving way down and here's the person doing all these very dramatic things. And I'm none of those people, but I'm someone who really enjoys hiking and backpacking. Or as in England, they call it wild camping, which is a great name. Sir, I'm a wild camper? I don't know what you think you are, but I'm a wild camper. Don't come near me. And so for me, it is a device that I feel like I'm the perfect audience for this device. Is the Apple Watch Ultra as capable as a variety of really niche sort of extreme sports watches? Probably not. But is Apple Watch Ultra the best Apple Watch for going on a long day, a long multi-day trip? Absolutely. And I think for me, it's more important that it's an Apple Watch than that it has all of the niche sort of extra features that I can make do with. This is my current sports watch, which is a KOROS Apex Pro. It's fine. It's kind of ugly. It does the job. It has several day battery life and it works, but it's clunky and the data doesn't really go into health quite the way I like. And it doesn't tie into my activity rings and it doesn't do all the things that I would be used to. What does it do? Why do you wear it? Mostly, I wear these kind of devices primarily to be able to get a... tracks of where I've been and to help me navigate a little bit in terms of where I'm going. And so most of these devices let you download kind of like a breadcrumb file. It's called the GPX file. It's a couple of GPS coordinates that you load into your watch ahead of time and it's a way of... If I get off course, for what I had planned to do, it'll show me where I'm going. And I find that's way more convenient than pulling out a map, using a compass, my iPhone, if I can just look at my wrist, I'm on track, I can keep going. And that is the main reason that I use it. And this works fine for that. I use an Apple watch for that as well. I went on a multi-day hiking expedition this last May and I used the Apple watch for all of it. And on my Series 8, the battery lasted every day except for one all the way through. And the day that it didn't, I wasn't able to do it. I think it was maybe the 18-mile day hiking for maybe 10 hours. And it just wasn't quite enough for that. And so for me, it's like the Apple watch Ultra feels like a great alternative where it's like it gets at least twice as long battery life, which for me will be at least a full day of full GPS tracking, all the things. And then in addition, it has cellular capability. So if I go running, I can use it. And there's all kinds of things there where it's just perfect for someone who's it kind of reminds me of the prosumer DSLR cameras or something where it's not the full professional amazing version, but for the vast majority of people, they don't need that. They just need something that's a bit more than a regular Apple watch. Yeah, I'll say I hadn't really thought of it, but prosumer is such a great word for this and it's one of the most prosumer products Apple's made in a really long time where this watch really does feel like, hey, look, if you want this, you can have it. But genuinely, this is built for a very specific type of person. If you just like it, like Stephen, and think that you might enjoy the look of it on your wrist because it's got some orange on it, like go wild, you can have it. But really this is a product built for these very specific types of sports and stuff, right? Or as you're doing multiple day hikes where you want that GPS the really great GPS that can track you and all that kind of stuff. It has these very specific features for this very specific type of person. Yeah. And I mean, I think visually it's also just, I think it's really fun that it is visually different than the other Apple watches that is certainly still... Yeah, you can't mistake it, right? Yeah. I haven't actually seen it on my wrist yet, so I don't know how it'll actually look and fit. But I like the look of it. I think it's attractive and interesting. And I think it's fun that, you know, I've worn essentially the same watch for the last what is that, eight years? Nine years? You know, other than the slight changes to I'm talking from a case, like the screen has changed a bunch from the first Apple watch to now. But the actual case has grown slightly, but hasn't really visually changed. And it's going to be kind of fun, I think, to have something that looks different and I think is attractive and cool and is orange, and everyone loves orange. What band did you go for? I went for the Orange Alpine. Okay. That's the nice one. It's like it hooks in, right? I'm thinking of maybe getting one of those for my Apple watch. Because all of those bands look really cool, which Apple just does such a great job of. I mean, it's kind of the story of a lot of the Apple watch stuff. Like, you don't need to do some of these things, but I like what they do. Like, you don't need to rethink how to put a watch band on, but they did. And I'm happy they did, because it adds to the look of the whole device. So, there are a couple of other features that I want to get your take on, which seem to be made specifically for your use case. Because they've got, you know, they've got like the thermometer for scuba, and they've, like, you know, they've done that, and they've got, like, the microphones for if you're going up Everest or whatever. They've done that. But they've also got a siren and the SOS satellite stuff. Now, the satellite stuff, I don't remember if that's on the Series 8 watch. Or is it even on the Ultra, the satellite stuff? No, that is only in the iPhone. So, it isn't on the Series 8. So, you would need to keep, I mean, you always would, right? But I know we've spoken about that, because you take a device with you, right? Yeah, that thing. What is that? Yeah, so I take this, which is a Garmin inReach, is what it's called. So, it's like a, essentially, a little satellite communicator that I take with me, essentially, any time that I'm out of my neighborhood. Like, it's, if I'm not hiking, you know, within a few miles of my house, I'll have this in my pocket or in my backpack. And it's a device that I take with me, because you just never know when you're going to be in a situation where you don't have the ability to make a phone call, send a text message, and you need help. Or even sometimes, and I think the place that I think is going to be awkward and interesting with the new iPhone 14 is, sometimes I found myself in situations where I want to communicate something. It isn't urgent and life-threatening, but I need to tell someone something. And so, like, the classic example of that is I'm delayed, and I need to tell my wife, who's going to pick me up at the end of the trail, that it's like, I'm fine, everything's great, it's just I'm going to be an hour later than we had planned, and I just need a way of telling her that. And so that's kind of a device that I use for that, and I think it's been great. But I think... Will the SOSB let you do that, though? Because it seems more like emergency, right? Yes. And I think this is the thing that is a little awkward with the way that Apple has done it. I think from an emergency perspective, what they're doing is great. And I think putting that device in everyone's pocket is going to save lives. Just categorically, people are going to be in an urgent, life-threatening situation. Previously, they would have no way to get help, or more importantly, probably, is get help quickly. Because the key thing, usually, in wilderness situations where you need help is the difficulty in finding you. Not necessarily even... A, people have to know that you're missing, and then, two, they need to be able to find you. And so being able to hit a button and say, I need help, and then getting a very specific GPS coordinate that they can send a helicopter or a person on foot or whatever it is, depending on the circumstance, to you exactly, is going to be huge. But I think what's awkward is you can do the thing where you use Find My and share your location with someone, but it's a little awkward in terms of there's no messaging around that, as far as I can tell. Yeah, like if you're going to be late and you're still hiking or whatever, it's just using Find My doesn't communicate why you're there, right? Like, am I here because I'm lost? Or like, am I here because I'm hurt and I'm hobbling back? You know what I mean? The Find My thing is a step. Who knows? Maybe when they announce that people have to pay for it, they might add more features in or whatever, and maybe this is just a start to it. But also, that SOS feature is US-only right now, right? I think. Yes. That feels like something that's, because of the nature of satellites, it's just going to be a coverage issue. And it'll probably, my guess is, if I had to guess, I would say it's going to be, you know, start off in the US and Canada, and then it will move its way over to Europe, and then gradually expand over time. Like, my Garmin inReach device has pretty much worldwide capability. I think Antarctica is the only place that I can't reliably, or the place on land anyway, that I can't reliably use it. I know where not to go. You know what I mean? Yeah, I know. Unless you want to get rid of it. I don't know. Watch out for those penguins. Penguins interfere with GPS. Everyone knows that. It's a common, well-known fact. But yeah, so I think that as a feature, I would love, a feature that Garmin has is a way that you can do these pre-built sort of messages that because I understand the big difficulty is always bandwidth is really hard when you're talking to a satellite because it can take a long time. You have to get these tiny little things. And so instead, what Garmin does is you can make three or four pre-canned messages that you write ahead of time but then can send using it. So I could have a message that says, everything's great, but I'm delayed. And they only have to send a one, a number, rather than the whole message because the message is... One day we might get something like that. But even still, it's a huge device and I think it's going to help a lot of more recreational people who aren't going to carry around a device that's pretty big and bulky. It was a few hundred dollars to buy and then I paid $20 a month, I think, to use it. And so it's a pretty large investment. For me, it's worth it from a safety perspective. But you have to really, really want to use it and care about it in order for that to make sense. That $20 a month is maybe a good indicator. Because Apple's going to make you pay for this eventually. So that, at least you know there is a standard. I will say, Apple seems like they don't like Garmin. I don't know if you've been talking about this, but there is this... It seems like there is this thing going on where it's not just the watch where they're going after. It's also devices like this, by trying to build it into iPhones. And I would expect maybe one day they would try to build this into the Apple Watch, if possible, too. Maybe the Ultra 2 or the Ultra 3. If this could do that, that would be incredible. I don't know how feasible that is, but it would be amazing. I mean, I think on that score, in the near term, the fact that it just has cellular, I think is a huge boon. They all come with cellular too, right? It's the only option for this. There's only one model. And I think that is a big benefit compared to most Garmins. I don't think most other sport watches have that kind of cellular capability. And while satellite is great for if you really are in the backcountry, just regular cellular... The satellite version is great for that, but for just regular use in quite a lot of circumstances, you'll be able to get one bar of cellular somewhere. And then you can message, you can FaceTime audio, you can do all kinds of things as soon as you get that one bar. I've been in a lot of really backcountry places, and it's the kind of thing you don't get it consistently, but you'll often get it regularly. Every couple hours, you might get one bar of cellular somewhere when you just happen to be in the right part of the valley or something. So that's a huge thing to just have that on your wrist, regardless of if your phone's there or not. Do you think that this watch would be enough? I know we were talking, and I know you're planning on putting it through its paces when you pick it up next week. Will you take the Garmin? The satellite thing, I know you're going to do, but the Garmin watch, are you going to take it or do you think, no, I'm going to get rid of it? Only Apple Watch? I think my expectation is, in the long term, that is very much my hope is that I can use this watch as my only sports watch when I'm going out on expeditions or trips or whatever you want to call them. And I think next Friday, when I got day one delivery of my Apple Watch Ultra, and then a few hours later, I'm getting on a sleeper train and going up to the highlands of Scotland and hiking for three days because that's both exciting and interesting, but also, I think, really important for me to help me understand the product. It's a double treat for you. Yeah, it's great. New device and a little hike. Lovely. Double treat for Dave. And it's like, for this one, I'm going to wear both. And I think that's an interesting point of comparison. And honestly, I'll probably wear three watches. I'll probably wear a Series 7 watch, the Ultra, and my other sports watch and just have points of comparison to see how they work, how they line up with each other, see where we are with battery life and with performance. And I think it'll be really telling, but I have a strong suspicion after this one trip, I'll go back to just one and it'll just be the Ultra and it'll be great. Is the Series 8 on the map for you? Will you get that for testing or you don't think that's worth it? At this point, I haven't ordered one. It is a very minor upgrade compared to the 7. I think if I were to get one, it would purely be for testing. But even that, there's nothing in it that I need to test because it's the same screen dimensions. It's roughly the same processor. The temperature sensor is on the Ultra, so I can do testing with the temperature sensor stuff if I need to. As a developer, talk to the temperature sensor. Are there any APIs for that? I don't believe so. I believe it is, my understanding is the temperature sensor is probably going to write its data to health where I can read it, but it's not the kind of thing where I can activate it or interact with it specifically. Is that different to the pedometer? So with Pedometer++, are you talking to health or are you talking to the, like, is there an API for that? So with Pedometer, there's both. You can access the data kind of in stream it in real time or you can use health to get the kind of like aggregated data and for a variety of sensors, like the pulse sensor, just the regular like heart rate sensor on the watch, you can both get it from health or you can kind of create a thing that gets you, turns on the heart rate sensor and activates it and gives you data in real time. As far as I know for temperature, we won't have that kind of capability. And as far as I know, the temperatures are only being recorded when you're sleeping at least in the current, the first version and so it's the kind of thing where I will add it to, you know, to Sleep Plus+, my sleep tracker, where I can potentially interesting to surface that data to people, but it's not going to be the kind of thing where it's you know, I can show you what your temperature is in a way that would be, you know, comparable to, you know, taking your temperature at a doctor's office or something like that. Underscore. You're going to write this up, right? Your experiences with the Ultra. You'll put it on your website? Oh yeah, absolutely. Excellent. Can't wait to see it. Yeah, probably do a video too. There's a lot of exciting things. Multimedia Dave over here, you know. You're going to put it on Instagram. He's going to be everywhere. He's going to be live streaming. TikTok? You're going to go on TikTok? Sure, great. Can't wait. Underscore. David Smith, thank you so much for joining us on the Podcastathon. It's great to see you and I look forward to seeing you when I get home. Yeah, no, sounds great and best of luck for the rest of the Podcastathon. Keep the energy up and the donations keep flooding in. Thanks Dave. Alright. Speaking of donations, I want to thank Ken Broren for a $1,000 donation and Andrew for a $500 donation. Stephen, can you come here for a moment because there's a family name I'd like you to read for me. The $250 donation there, could you just thank that family for me, please? Could you do that for us? I think they deserve a thank you specifically from you. Is that something you're able to provide? Sharkensnyder? There you go. Cool laughing back there. Chuck Schneider family, $250 donation. Thank you everybody who's making these donations. Tobin, $250. Alex, WT, $100. We are at $279,000 raised for the Kids of St. Jude, which is so far nearly $30,000 today, which is unbelievable. We've only been on the air an hour and 15 minutes. Stephen, would you like to introduce what's coming up next? Yes. We've got a pre-recorded interview that I did with Tyler. Tyler is a St. Jude patient. Tyler's family and my family have a lot in common that they are from Memphis, which is really cool. Tyler is a very impressive young man. It was great to speak with him and his mom. I think everyone's going to really enjoy this. It was really cool to sit down and to talk with them. Today I have the privilege of introducing everybody to an amazing St. Jude family. This is my favorite part of the campaign every year where we get to sit down and talk with somebody whose life has been influenced by the work of St. Jude. I'm joined by Tyler and Michelle. Tyler was a St. Jude patient starting at the age of six. He is now 16 and doing really well. We're going to talk about that. He's joined by his mom, Michelle. Welcome to the Podcast-a-thon. Hi. Thanks for having us. Thanks for having us. Thank you for joining us. Right off the bat, I want to talk about y'all's background. Like me and my family, you're local here to the Memphis area. I know that y'all's family was already somewhat familiar with St. Jude prior to your diagnosis. Could you guys tell us a little bit about your history with the hospital? Being, of course, native to Memphis, I grew up with St. Jude right in my backyard. My grandmother and two of my aunts were actually some of the First Ladies of St. Jude with Danny Thomas. We were always very active and did bike-a-thon and math-a-thon and trike-a-thon and all the different things. We really didn't get it. We knew what we were doing. We knew what we were supporting. But until you put yourself in that situation, you don't know the impact that what you're doing really has. For us, that really hit home in 2012. My niece, who was nine years old at the time, was diagnosed with pediatric melanoma. I was an aunt looking in from the outside, watching as this hospital embraced her and gave her a second chance at life. I have all those same stories. I remember being in elementary school doing math-a-thon and kind of understanding it, but raising money for what I knew even then was a really great place. But how did Tyler's diagnosis come to light? We got through my niece's diagnosis, and that was at the end of 2012. We were kind of moving forward. We were, of course, like you, a local family, and we were trying to give back to the hospital. We decided we were going to participate in St. Jude Memphis Marathon that year. As we got closer to that, we started noticing changes in him. He started falling asleep in class and having arm and leg pains and night sweats. He looked real pale, and he kept complaining about his legs hurting all the time. We kept taking him back to the doctor, and they kept saying, you know, nothing's wrong with him. He's fine. He's seeking attention. He's six years old. It's growing pains. This actually went on for a couple of months. In the beginning of 2013, we were still having those same symptoms. On the night of January 31, he could no longer put any weight on his arms and legs. He crawled from his bedroom to ours. He was screaming and crying in pain. We didn't know what else to do. I called the pediatrician the next day, and they said, he's fine. We don't need to see him. We just saw him last week. It's probably a potassium deficiency. Give him some bananas, and we went through this whole thing. Of course, here I have this child who's six years old, who's a climber. We called him Spider Monkey. He was in Boy Scouts. He played soccer. He was very active in a lot of different things, and all of a sudden, he wasn't doing those. Of course, that mommy instinct kicked in, and I immediately took him to the local children's hospital here in Memphis. He was checked in within two hours, and they started running blood work. The next morning, someone came down The head of the hospital actually came down to talk to us, and he said, someone's coming over from St. Jude to talk to you. That began our journey at St. Jude. I'm so sorry it took longer than it should have to end up where you needed to be. But if it's okay, I'd like to ask you about those early days at St. Jude. I know for me, those first days on campus were really overwhelming. I think they would be for anybody. You're thrust into this world you never thought you would be in. I was also struck by the sense of hope and encouragement that is just sort of in the veins of St. Jude. I wonder if you could tell us a little bit about those early days, that early season of being a St. Jude family. In the beginning, of course, you hear that word. This sweet resident is sitting in front of us giving a lot of information. At that point, my sister and I had flip-flopped. We flipped off roles. I became the person not knowing exactly what was being said. She became the person taking in all the information. It is one of the most terrifying words I think you can hear. It's, you know, your child has cancer. It is. It's scary. They put us in an ambulance. We rode in an ambulance over from the Children's Hospital over to St. Jude. When we got there, it kept going through my mind. We know what cancer is. We know what impact it has. We know the times people don't survive it. We get to St. Jude. They open these doors. We go in. All of a sudden, that sense of panic and everything, I became very calm. I'm looking around at this amazing hospital. I was like, well, they just saved my niece's life. They've got to save his. It is, in the beginning, there's so much information. You're so overwhelmed by what is going on around you. It seems like you're sitting and everybody else is moving very fast. It is. It's a sense of overwhelming. It really is. I probably felt like I was in a daze for about six weeks. Those first six weeks, I think, were probably the hardest. I did feel like I was in a blur walking through what was more like a movie that I was kind of looking from the outside in. I definitely resonate with that. Tyler, you were six. What do you remember those early days? Honestly, I don't remember much of the very beginning of it. I remember when I was transported to the hospital, when I was in the ambulance. That was one of my favorite parts because it was the first time I rode in an ambulance, which was kind of cool. Then from there, some of the days that I remember, some of the early days was when one of my favorite doctors, Dr. Pooley, actually came up when I was feeling down to my hospital bedroom and just basically helped me and then played games with me. There were also so many people who always came up and came in to say hi. I remember being in the hospital bed. I remember the nurses helping me stand when I was there doing weight tests. It was all kind of a crazy experience to have, but to know that everyone there was so supportive and so happy, it kind of made it better. That's really cool. I get the idea that an ambulance ride can be kind of cool. Not many cars can drive as fast as they want. I'm with you on that. How is St. Jude still a part of your life and care today? Right now, we're donating and I'm going to actually join the St. Jude leadership program that they're doing for high schoolers. I'm hoping to be able to raise money for St. Jude and continue on with St. Jude. Just being a part of it in my daily life and just being able to raise money doing the half marathon, potentially doing the full marathon, makes me have a big part of it and makes me want to continue because it's so good to see, especially when you do the half marathon, to see all the smiling kids' faces as you cross. Yeah, I'd like to talk a little bit about that because I know everyone here at Memphis, a lot of people travel for the marathon, but there is that stretch that you referenced that goes through the campus and everyone I've talked to has ever run it. It's their first time or their tenth time. Everyone talks about that and y'all have unique experience of being a patient family and now kind of being on the other side of it, going through the campus, seeing people travel from all over the world to run. Describe the marathon weekend a little bit more because I think it's a really special time. So the marathon weekend is one of the best times out of all the events we have because it's kind of a time when everybody from around the world gets together and runs for a single purpose. That purpose is to help St. Jude and especially you have Rick Shadyack who's talking and he always gives his inspirational speeches. They had a St. Jude patient who sang the national anthem and they had a St. Jude patient who played music as well in a band there. It's just such an amazing experience, especially going through the stretch through the hospital and just being able to see all the people who support each other and seeing all the people who have just been able to take it through and still alive today. Seeing them walking around and seeing them supporting is a great, wonderful experience especially with the half marathon. The entire experience is a great experience because you have so many people who are out there supporting each other and they'll have little stands that you can go to. There's actually one that had donuts and I went by and got a donut over there. You got to fuel up halfway through your race I guess. That's how the pros do it. I think they're eating donuts in the Olympics all the time. Exactly. Tyler, what other things are you up to these days besides your St. Jude support? What else are you interested in? I do cross country and I also am part of Scouts. It's just, especially with cross country, it's just been an amazing experience and that's what's been getting me more into running because it's especially a lot of fun to just run now, which before I wasn't. I was kind of iffy about it, but now it's so much fun to run and I just like running on my own time. I also like the uniforms look really good. My favorite uniforms have, one of my favorite uniforms was from track season. It was like a perfect all black uniform and it was so good. That's cool. It was really comfortable as well. That's good. See, I'm not a runner, but I like mountain biking. You can run the trail or you can ride it way faster. So that's how I am. Let's go back to St. Judas again, back to your story a little bit. You guys are showing up. You already have this family history there, which is just an amazing part of your story. Can you tell us a little bit about the treatment and protocols? What that looked like for y'all? How long y'all were there doing treatment? Those sorts of things. Well, I'll never forget. You talked about the overwhelmingness and they're throwing so much information at you so quickly and you're signing these pages and you're listening and taking in and you're going back and rethinking and rereading. I remember Dr. Pui sitting us down and he said, we're going to go through this pretty quick, which we did. If anybody knows Dr. Pui, he's a fast talker. He said, this treatment and this protocol for ALL, which is the form of leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, which is a cancer of the blood. He said the protocol will be anywhere from two and a half to three years. So here we are at the start of this and you're hearing two and a half to three years. He said, well, actually it was that morning. It was the morning of February the 4th and a little history there. The hospital was founded February the 4th, 1962. Tyler's official diagnosis date is February the 4th. I always think Danny Thomas kind of had his hand on that. It really is kind of a special day in a weird way, I guess. Two and a half to three years and he said, we're going to take him right now. They prepped him for surgery and they said, we're going to do a spinal draw, bone marrow. We're going to put in a port. We're going to start chemotherapy. They tilt the bed back. They put this chemotherapy in to cover the entire bloodstream. They're throwing this all at you and he said, yeah, when he gets up tonight, he will probably need a blood and platelet transfusion, which he did and said, we will be doing more chemotherapy when he gets out of surgery. He was six years old and you're listening to all of this but in the back of my mind I kept saying, I will do whatever it takes to save his life. We were actually there about two years and seven months. He had around 1,200 doses of chemotherapy. ALL is a little bit longer protocol and there's a lot of chemotherapy on top of chemotherapy on top of chemotherapy. A lot of steroids. They also he needed physical therapy and occupational therapy because at that point he had not walked in about 12 days because of the bone marrow had pulled into his hands and feet, which had gone into a curled position. That was to do with the bone marrow not working correctly. They had to get that broken up, which is what the job of the chemotherapy is. It took him a little bit of time. The journey is long. It's definitely a long journey but of course looking at him now, it's worth every second of it. It is very intense in the very beginning of the first six months. It's really, really intense. I remember that from our time when our son Josiah was getting chemotherapy. I remember meeting some leukemia families and hearing that story. It is just so long and so brutal. Spending a lot of time on campus and I'm curious if you all have a favorite place on the St. Jude campus or a favorite thing you like to do maybe then or when you go back now. I'm going to say the cafeteria just because the bacon is good. You got a favorite in there? The bacon. The burgers, bacon, all the good stuff. The bacon. There was a time during treatment where we could not get him to eat anything. He just wouldn't eat. He started craving bacon. Wonderful chefs, executive chef was like, you know what, we talked with a nutritionist, Miles and Dr. Pui and Dr. Pui's theory and the nutritionist said, whatever he'll eat, we're going to let him eat. For about 12 to 14 days, all he ate was bacon. It was bacon breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, whatever, but we got him eating. He really loves the bacon. That's fantastic. Do you still like bacon now or did you get it all out of your system? Still love it. You can't get rid of bacon. I agree. I'm on your team here. The cafeteria really is cool. You get to meet a bunch of people and spend time with people. Thinking over this journey, y'all have been connected with the hospital now over a decade. When people ask you to describe St. Jude, what sort of words come to mind? As a mom, hope is a big one. When we first started that journey, I really honestly didn't know what the future held. I did not. I tried to look forward, but at the same time, I tried to stay in the reality of making every second count because you just never know. Hope was what they gave us. Now, I think they've given us a lifetime of memories. We love working with the hospital. We love working with ALSAC, which is the fundraising side, because it's given us a chance to share our story so that people that don't really understand what St. Jude is about, now they know. Now they can come to us and ask. For me, it's hope, memories, keeping my family complete, and meeting all the wonderful families and people that we've met along the way. There's some amazing support for this hospital. Of course, without them, reality is a lot different. We would lose more children. This is global. What is done here is globally free all across the world. To me, that's just amazing because I love looking at that. We've met, like I said, we've met families, and we have people that we've met along the way that I will cherish forever that are part of my family now. We have a very unique special bond. The children we've met along the way, so definitely hope and time and memories. I can look forward to the future. I can look forward to watching Tyler grow after his sisters and to see what's going to happen in life next. What the hospital means to me is it means a hopeful place. It means a place that you can go there and you, I didn't have a single care in the world. It was a place to where even through all the pain and how much pain we were in, it was a place that still could ease that pain and still help because all the people there made it so much better. All the people there definitely made the treatment so much better because I don't think it definitely wouldn't have been the same. I don't think I'd be the same person I am today. All those doctors, all those people that you meet, they're all so supportive and all so kind. It's the thing of you meet these people and they make life there so much better. They brighten up your day. It's just an amazing experience to be able to have those interactions, to be able to meet all these people and be able to know that people care and that people are here just to help. It just fills me with so much joy. Is there anything else you would say to people out there watching who have or are thinking about supporting St. Jude? You should support St. Jude because you can help kids like me and you can help them through a lot. It's definitely a wonderful place and I think you should donate. I would say as a family, when we first started this journey, we were a two-income family and you go from two incomes to one very quickly. The one thing St. Jude did for us, they just took the burden of financial responsibility off. For us, that was huge because instead of me going back to my job full-time, my job then became taking care of my family and making sure that we stayed together, we stayed complete, we stayed whole and could enjoy every second we had. The money is for research, of course, but the money also goes to support all those treatments and all those chemotherapies and all that blood work and all the things that Tyler had to go through. Without the financial side of it, we probably would have been probably close to a million dollars in debt. It's a very overwhelming number when you look at the greater picture. When somebody donates, when you give, even if it's a dollar, every dollar counts and every dollar goes to saving children's lives. Every dollar that you give is helping my family stay complete and letting us have every chance to make every memory possible with our son. It can't be said better than that. Michelle and Tyler, thank you for joining us today. It's been a real honor to get to talk to you. Share just a little bit about our story. Yeah, you bet. Across the globe, the vast majority of children with cancer will die. No child should die at the dawn of life. And that means no child anywhere. At St. Jude, we don't care who cures cancer, we just need to advance the cure. The focus and the objective of St. Jude is to advance the care of children with cancer around the world. The thing we are doing at St. Jude is to make sure that our patients are surrounded by people who know how to provide the very best care possible. Patients from all over the world can look to St. Jude to do the best care they can get, as well as to identify new and better treatments. We are constantly developing new therapies for rare pediatric cancer. And we share our information globally, and that's the hallmark of St. Jude. Hello. Hello. Welcome back. Welcome back. I want to talk a minute, if you don't mind. Okay. About why I'm excited about the wheel. Okay. So this is the fourth annual podcast-a-thon. And the last time I was here was in 2019. And then we had to do two apart. And I was really jealous and sad of how incredible this place looked. We really did our best. And Adina, my wife, did a great job. And she's doing a great job with Balloon Room USA today as well. The balloon shack. I like Balloon Room USA. It's got kind of like a surf rock vibe to it that I enjoy. It is shiny. Yeah, it's like wipeout kind of thing. Anyway, so I just wanted to say how happy I am to be back here with all the incredible people that put this on. This really takes just an obscene amount of people now to do. There are a lot of people here. When I was here the first year, it was a small group of us. Yeah. And now we have— 2020, there was like three of us. There's multiple people operating multiple cameras. We have a whole team of sound people. We have social media people. It's truly incredible. So I just wanted to thank everyone now, and we'll do it later on, for all of the work that everybody does here to make this happen. And I just wanted to talk about the fact of how happy I am and why I cried a little bit when I came in today. So— Because it's just so good. Last year especially, like in 2021, we were so close, like for the travel ban lifting. Yeah. It lifted like a month later. And I'm just absolutely so happy that we actually got it started. I was terrified. I've been terrified these past couple of weeks that this wasn't going to happen, hence the little joke at the beginning that Stephen came up with. So, yeah, I'm just really happy. Let's spin the wheel. All right. [♪ Music and wheel spinning ♪ I realize that it's not locked. I like did this, and it rolled towards me. We'll deal with that safety measure as soon as we're done with the first wheel spin, which is— Oh, it's going to be a new one. Fifteen. Day of phone use case. Phone case use. I have a— Phone use case. Are you okay? I have a present for you. Okay. We have presents for each other again. Okay. So what we're going to be doing is putting these phone cases on our phones, which we don't have access to right now, but we will do it. And then for every day, every time we land on, was it numbers 15 and 6, it adds one more day to the tally. So these are things we bought for each other. Yes. We haven't seen them. I've also forgotten what I got Stephen, because we did this a long time ago. Why don't you go first, because I keep being told that I have, like, a horror inside of this bag. People have started to fill in to the audience now to see my reaction, I think, to this thing. Also, like, these things come from Amazon, and you're never 100% sure what you're going to get. Yeah, look at it. So it's a dinosaur? Yeah, holding some AirPods. You can put your AirPods in there, I think. I think you can take those out and put your own AirPods, which I really recommend. And you can hang it around yourself like a little bag, which will be so good when we go to football tomorrow. We're going to a football game tomorrow. Let me see. Did I actually come out? I'm going to get beat up. Yeah, look. You can put your AirPods in there for safekeeping. That's good. Let's open yours. Can you hold this? If I talk in this one, do I sound British? Hello, mate. All my accents come out Australian. We've talked about this. Okay, so yours is worse than it looks like in the pictures, but also better. It's a banana. I need your initial impressions as a professional technology reviewer. Does it smell like banana? It smells like banana. Smell it. You're allergic, right? No, I can eat bananas. Okay. This is disgusting. It looks wet. You need to show... You have to wiggle it for the camera. That's the first time we're going to have to do that. Thank you for tuning in today. This is disgusting. Let me feel it. I feel so bad. Just touch the thing. That's terrible. Oh. I don't like it. Here's what I'll say. I think yours is more visibly embarrassing, I think. With this, I mean, I could just be holding a banana, right? Let's do a little poll of the room. If you're in the room, raise your hand. We can do a Twitch poll. We can do a Twitch poll somewhere Ricky is running around afraid. Maybe we can do a Twitch poll. We'll do a poll. Lots of people are looking at each other now I said that. There's Richard. Richard, can we do a Twitch poll? Hey, I got a thumbs up from Richard. We got $1,000 from Laura, the pathologist of the show. Thank you, Laura. That's the end of the spin. Okay. This is disgusting. Can you put it in your jacket pocket, please? I want to see if it goes on my new phone. Probably not, but let's see. We can probably doctor it. We need a banana doctor. Is there a banana doctor in the house? Oh, that is. It's good enough. Yes. There you go. Thank you. Thank you, Phil, Whit, and Lee for your donations. There you go. Here's this. Can you give it? Can you flop it around so we can hear it? We have been demonetized. There you go. It will not fit in my pocket. Well. This pocket, but it will go in my other pocket. There will be pictures. There will be proof. All right? There you go. Your turn to spin the wheel. And I locked it this time so we won't get run over. That is disgusting. You're welcome. That is real bad. Thank you very much. It's great, though. I will say it's fantastic. We have a blocking issue. Yeah. We need to work that one out. We need to be better about that. We're just used to audio podcasts. Number seven. Stephen makes a fundraiser donation. I'm going to explain what this is. Perfect. There is a group of really wonderful people called the lovely developers who make a fantastic app for iOS and Mac called Elsewhen, which I really recommend. It's like a time zone conversion app, kind of. Whenever you see us post, like, this is happening at this time, we use Elsewhen, and you can get these really wonderfully formatted time zones. And also if you use Discord and you want those specific time links that Discord does, this app Elsewhen does that. Fantastic. You should check it out. It's in the App Store. They also made ---- It doesn't fit at all. Let me see. It was for a Mac phone. This is not a Mac phone. I'll just tape it in there. Yeah, even better. Anyway, we'll find a little blocker for that. They made an app that is available on our Discord, I think. If you're at Discord, maybe you can get it, which is an app that tracks the sub-campaigns, the fundraisers that people have been setting up this year. There's 178 of those now. Incredible. What we're going to do is there's an app called Random. So you can press Random, and then Stephen will make a donation at random to somebody's fundraising campaign. Let's do it. Who have you got? The McAuley family and friends. Great. How much are you going to give them? I'm going to donate $100 to their campaign. No one else thought that was impressive. Sorry. I looked, and everybody was just like, just $100? I mean, you bought a banana phone case. I'm really upset that I got the wrong size. I forgot that you went to a regular phone. I'm going to use Apple Pay because Apple Pay is supported on Tiltify, which is very cool. I'll say I've learned this week, Stephen, very handy. It's just like yesterday, we need a funnel. So we went and bought a funnel from AutoZone, which is fun. That place smelled a lot like oil. And we went in there, and then he just saw it, and he popped it in and then sanded it down. St. Jude support, I was just told, AutoZone. So thank you, AutoZone. Oh, that's cool. Thank you, AutoZone. We buy our funnels from AutoZone. I don't know. You donated yet? I'm having trouble. It's hard to listen and talk and type. TestFlight link is in the chat. I've just been told now in my ear. We have producers in our ears, by the way. If you ever see us do this, it means someone is saying something to us, and we weren't expecting it. I don't even have mine in. Who knows what they're saying. Yeah, oh, they're saying some terrible things about you right now. That's not nice. I'm going to spin the wheel again. Spin the wheel again. I'm still donating. How are we going to make the phone fit, do you think? What are we going to do about that? I got some glue. Could we put it in another case and then maybe put it in that case? Yo, dog. Heard you like cases. So actually, really. $100 done. Thank you very much. I somehow have the worst job because your phone might break. No one that we know has ever broken a brand new phone in Podcastathon day. True point. Just Casey. Hey, look, they fixed it. Oh, yeah. Now we can stand wherever we want. Go over here. All right, where are we going to end up? Number three. Change Twitter profile. All right, so we're going to take selfies. Everyone's like, did I have their phones? Yeah, we got their phones. The people here on the social media team are like, these guys are old and don't know what they're doing. All right. This is also something that's hard to talk through. All right, I'm opening TweetBot, Avatar. You need a picture with your banana case in it. Give me it. Where is it? It's over there. All right. I'm going to have to put this down for a second. All right. I'm going to do one with the wheel in the background. How's that? Oh, that is good. Okay. And done. I'm going to do one more while you figure out how your Twitter works. This is horrible. Don't change the company one. Yours. I'm going to do one more. Coming around to number one. I'm going to hit the PC again. Your turn. I'm going to do it. Safety girls. Everybody stand back. Joe, you're too close. Stand back, Joe. Thank you. I don't really know what that means, though. You know what I mean? Yeah. Okay. Here he comes. Stephen Hackett approaches the plate. I think that's what I say in baseball. I don't know. Here he goes. Wherever you want, man. Take one at the side. Yeah. See what happens. Whoops. Well. We can see it to the inside. Want to come get a look at the inside? Turn it to camera. Oh. My watch thinks I've taken a hard cut. It popped up. Would you like the SOS? What do you think that was that triggered that? Like the actual impact, maybe? You can give it away. Who in the audience wants a piece of the computer? What is that, Stephen? Is this safe? What is this? Is that the power supply? Let me give you a tour of the PC. Oh, we knocked a microphone off the table. It ran Windows ME, which was a really good version of Windows. Got a power supply. That's, I think, air routing for the fan. We got some cables. Got a hard drive. We've got a CD writer and a DVD player. It's going to be good. And somewhere in there is a really ancient, sad processor. $1,000 donation from Watts Martin. Awesome. $512 donation, no significance, from GSM GLW. All right, so that's going to be one more wheel spin, and then I think we're going to do some other exciting things. Yep. I believe it is time for beautification. Yeah, but if we do the wheel spins and other stuff, maybe they'll forget that we have to do it. Great idea. Let's do some more wheel spins. Look at this. We're in control now. We've taken over the show. Protective eye goggles on. I know. You like it? I can't see anything. Good luck for you. Oh. $616. Hydrate and stretch. Oh, I would like some water. That's mine. So we have some equipment to help us stretch. If you watch Mike's keyboard streams, the Friday Keyboard Club, you'll know that hydrate and stretch are things you can do on Twitch. I don't know what any of it's called. Things on Twitch, right? So we're going to get that on. Come on. Okay. Let's do this. Should we go over there? Whatever you want. Let's go over there. No one can hear us when we do it. You stretch first. Okay. Here we go. We've got a lovely volunteer. Thank you very much, sir. There you go. So you take the band like this. You don't have to break it. It's okay. So you want to start good. Very good. Now let the band go down to the floor. You want to put your feet on it like that. Let's get a sweat on. That's what the bands are for. Somebody, I don't know why, touched toes? Is this the thing? Can't you? Not in this. If I touch my toes in this, every single thing breaks. We should try, though. Hold on. That's as far. The jacket is very restrictive. There we go. No. That's it. I got it. There we go. Okay, we're stretched. Can I have your sweatband back, please? Yes. You've got a lot of little fluff on your head. Thank you very much. I appreciate you. Okay. That was good. Do you feel stretched? Do you feel limber again? Yes. I've got some hydration going. Where's your resistance band? What did you do with that? It was over here. Come on. Put things away. That was a good catch, I think. Should we spin again? Let's do one more spin, and then I think we're ready for Stephen and Dutch's things, maybe? Looks like it. We've got a nod. It feels so cool. Yes. Let's see what we get. Cool. Number six. Day of phone case use. Wait. Six. Day of phone case use. I can't read. All right. I guess that's two days with Banana Phone. Banana Phone. Do you know Banana Man? From, no. There was a cartoon called Banana Man, and Banana Man, his whole thing was that he had powers. I don't remember. When you were a kid, did you find it? Was it banana related? Oh, this is my Twitter profile picture, by the way. Oh, that's good. That's me. I'm Banana Man. I find it very appealing. All right. It's time for you to touch some stuff. All right. You need to be punished for that. We're at $287,000 raised. Absolutely amazing. Thanks to St. Jude. Stjude.org slash relay. If you're enjoying what we're doing and you want to see more of it, keep donating. We're going to do Stephen and Dutch's things. Yes. All right. Over the last few years, I have been subject to a lot of things. I've been subject to a lot of things. So we're going to do Stephen and Dutch's things. Yes. All right. So over the last few years, I have been subject to some horrible experiences like the jelly beans, right? I've eaten a lot of these disgusting things. I'm going to eat more of them. Should I eat another one right now? Yes. Go on. Give me a little spin and I'll pick one out. And over the time, because of Stephen's horrific food allergies, we've never been able to give him anything to eat. And I think, we all think, that has been horribly unfair. So we've concocted something that's not going to affect his food allergies, probably. And it's a segment called Stephen Dutch's things. And that's going to happen as soon as I eat which? Pomegranate or Old Bandage. Oh, it's that one again. The burnt coffee again. Maybe the bandage is from a coffee burn. It's back again. It's the bandage one. It doesn't taste like bandage. It just tastes like burnt something, like burnt rubber. That's where the bandage came from. Do you burn them? When you're done with them? A burn. Is that the second thing? Yes. Is that you wish away the ill of the pain? That's right. Goes into the sky. Ritualistic. I like it. Alright, come in. Okay. So. How are we doing this? I think we need help. No? Stephen Dutch's things? My understanding is there was a helper. Oh, I can see in the control room they're putting some blankets over things. You stop looking. I think you should bring them. We're bringing them here, I think. We've got a blindfold for you. I'm still going through bandage here. Give me a second. The worst part is it gets stuck in my teeth a little bit because it's jelly beans. So in about ten minutes time, flavor comes back. That's good. That's what you want. Okay, we're bringing on a beautifully made box. Custom made for this. What was the name of the person who made the box? Robert. Robert at St. Jude. A wonderful man at St. Jude. Built these himself. Which way? The right. You want to be a wolf man. It'll look bigger. Beautiful. Nailed it. Thank you, Eric. So Stephen has a blindfold. Bring on the box. That didn't happen the way that I wanted it to. Here we go. Oh, we nearly lost the box. Okay, it's on a cable. Let's, I don't know what we're doing, but nobody knows where it's going anymore. Okay. We have the box. Okay, so. All right. This is taking a little bit more setup than we were expecting. St. Jude log slash relay. Okay, you shouldn't put the blindfold on there. Because that feels really bad. Yep, spin it. And we'll rack it up for later on. Who knows? It might end up tying into this nicely. Number six. Day of phone case use. I get that wrong every time. Okay. Come on. Here he comes. Lots of people have really wanted to see this for a long time. So there you go. You put your hands on the box. Is there something in there? Oh, no, the mask is good. Oh, this is so bad. I mean, this is so good. All right. So you want to come on? Come on. Okay, now you have to try and guess what is in there. I can't look at this one. It's very upsetting. I would like to thank the provost and the Bukessy family for a $1,000 donation. Well, I'm really pleased you clapped before. Oh, boy. You can use one hand if you want to. You don't have to use two hands because you might not be able to reach. Okay, what do you think it is, Stephen? Come on, get right in there. Get right in there. There you go. Get right in there. Oh, oh. Why is this stupid? That's fine. Get right in there. It feels, I don't know where the microphone is, it feels like- Get right in there. Fabric leaves. Yeah. Like a fall decoration. Yeah. But then there was something on the underside of it that I did not like. Look it over. Okay, right, see that? Oh, please don't do that again. There's a lot of moaning in this room. It's good. It's all good. What do you think it is? Oh. Okay. No, I don't want to see it anymore. Can you just guess? Because I don't want to subject people to this anymore. None of it, more of it. What is it? It, I mean, I don't want to say what it really feels like. It feels like poop. Yeah, it does, huh? Yeah. Yeah, that's bad, isn't it? Yeah. I don't know. It's in some sort of blanket or something. Wait, Stephen. You're a dad, think of that. Oh, it's a diaper. Yeah. Oh, no. Dirty diaper. Yeah. You doubt it. With something in it. Yeah. It takes in it. Hopefully not real human poop. Melted Snickers. Ah, yes. No, thank you. Do you want a taste? No, thank you. Are we doing more? Yeah. Yeah, all right, so you don't even need to wash your hands yet because there's more coming. You want to wipe your hands, apparently. So I'm going to do this for you. Thank you. Well, I'm not actually going to do it to it. Oh. I'm just going to give you a... Do it, do it. No. This is very special content here on Twitch. Yeah. What we get taken off is this, you know. Here you go, that's another one. Thank you. Oh, I've lost the end of the thing. All right, that's... I'm going to take care of that one. Okay, okay. I'm just going to sit those. Here, drop it. There. Perfect. All right, hand goes in. Come on, you can do it. Okay. This is an Apple TV. Try again. Airport Express. Which year? The last one. Which is? 15? Close. 16. Close. 17. Yeah. All right. You see, I'm not all bad. Oh, he wants to keep that one. Look, he took it right out. That goes in the collection. I've got the ports on the back. Can you hold this a second? This is the microphone. Yeah, nail the microphone. Hello. Oh. Who whispered to me? Oh, hi. Susan's creeping around. I've got two microphones now. One for me, one for you. I'm going to put this on the back. I'm going to put this on the back. Go for it. Oh no! It's time for a quiz. No, no, no. Can you imagine? Puerto Rico's back. What is it do you think? It's the hide button. Yeah, you're correct. It's hide buttons. So I'm three for three. Yes, actually. You are three. Well, technically, you didn't actually get the first one correct. It was actually Snickers. I mean, I was hoping it wasn't. Yeah, I think we can give you that. I think you got three for three right now. Yeah, I think so. There's more being set up as we set up. As we set up. I think we can give you that. I think you got three for three right now. Yeah, I think so. There's more being set up as we speak. How would you rate this experience out of ten so far? It's very nerve-wracking. I know. I trust that you all want to put a thing in the box that would hurt me, but I don't completely trust that either. Yeah. That's not helpful. Yeah. A lot of work has been put. Sorry. They really, they're really dangerous those things. They could just, they could just, whenever you want. Yeah. I mean, I think it's a good thing. I mean, I think it's a good thing. I'm going to get right in there for this one. You got to get right in there. Come on. Get in there. Go on. No. There's more than one. Currently not. Come on. You got to get right in. You're not in enough. Go in there. These are hot dogs. Yeah. And what? And salsa? Really? No, come on. You got to get in there more. You're not in enough. There you go. Now what is it? It's hot dogs in something. Yeah. It's not salsa. Okay. Is it not? No, it's not salsa. It feels like salsa. Relish. Hot dogs and relish. No, not that either. Just try and get one of the individual pieces and just see what that feels like. Is anybody watching anymore? Did we lose all our? Oh, hot dogs and spaghetti. Yeah. He did it again. All right. We have to clean them up. I lost the end though. Actually, you know what? Let's not wait for this time because, you know. Oh, no. There's not even any points. time you know yep oh no it's not even any point is what they're saying yeah whatever's that was gross what do you want out yeah I demand must be good I'm a green M&Ms I'm a podcast and warm spaghetti alright go back in oh I don't know I took them away yep yeah it's been sealed it was sealed don't worry about it oh that's fine oh you gotta get in there I don't want it that's the that's that's what we say gotta get in there oh yeah oh is it cold it feels disgusting that's that's only in your mind is it cold oh don't do that please no stop doing that that's disgusting oh what do you think it might be it feels like blocks of cheese yeah okay interesting yeah well good luck through my fingertips we'll find out we have just in case like we're ready for me to take over the rest of the show I just want you know we plan for this just in case in case it goes badly in case you fall over or something what do you think it might be this does two things in there it kind of also feels like tofu okay interesting I don't know what the sticky I don't know what to be fair I don't know what it is I mean it could be right I don't know what it is it's the thing my ass line it the goo is good good not good don't touch me thank you I'm gonna say tofu in pudding that is mashed potatoes with dog food gravy oh yeah I don't know how you feel is that good okay sweat wipe time Steven put your hands out very carefully oh it looks disgusting in his hands we need like a towel there's like a significant amount of me no I'll tell you right now no one's looking right we we shut that one off are we doing more Susan let's do one more let's do one more Joanne the control room is very excited once you do more of them oh I'm sure she is mm-hmm are you do you feel like a hand no your hands are not clean all right wait a second they'll never be clean again so the chat wants to know the chat wants to know how much money would it take to have you eat any of this stuff I mean there is an amount of money but unfortunately Steven will get sick and like that how much money for you to eat it you don't have food allergies a million dollars million dollar donation yeah if someone makes a million dollar donation I will eat the mashed potato and dog food someone get Casey less on the phone you've got more on your thumb by the way you got it there you go much better oh don't do that why'd you do that what did I tell it no no what did you think was gonna happen when you smelled it do you think it was gonna be good you have a combination of hot dogs spaghetti O's dog food and mashed potato like what were you like oh this would be nice just like mom the box is being cleaned lift your hands this is a very this is very nice it's a actually like legally correct st. Jude box it's got the register trademark painting on it and everything does it yeah there's another one in there you can just go in and get there come on one hand yeah what is it button on one end joy does this is iPhone 4 correct oh you don't get to keep that I think that belongs to someone I'm pretty sure it's somebody's phone well now it smells like dog food forever that's true and now that's Jill's phone is it yeah I don't know are we done with touching things yeah all right we don't congratulations there will be more of this there are more of these yeah you're not gonna like food which is good for everyone I think you take a blindfold up look at this box don't look don't look too closely yeah that's look this is oh there's also some things you shouldn't see yeah that's amazing that's what the hot dogs and spaghetti yeah hey look it look real bad doesn't mean you pick two up and that's not good what's next I told me well then a wheel spin oh it's time for wheel spins okay let's get the put your back into it man and we are on number 11 11 change order profile okay where the spaghetti oh where'd the spaghetti oh yeah oh yeah selfie a spaghetti Oh selfie okay image from camera I miss mine already though it's so good I don't see that okay done what did you do this okay with our lovely cameraman Robert in the background oh hey Robert Robert's doing a great job bring you over here I'll do it oh not that close thank you oh it actually smells really bad like I don't like the smell yeah how old are the spaghetti is you know okay you were spin yeah I'm just uploading because I feel like when I do it I got to put the the live link in there oh you know so people know what's happening because otherwise it's just like what does that even mean yeah I didn't do that see I'm good at social media discord is all right that's good look at that profile picture what is that I was Robert in the background I feel like I can work it out there is I feel like my shirt hasn't got it I feel like my shirts my shirt has got enough comments your shirt is incredible I bet to be fair we don't see in the chat maybe they're all maybe they're all about this sir all right you want to go yeah I smell like dog food I can't hear you one PC yeah can I do it now yeah I will commentate I think I think I think the top yeah I think we need to break that plastic bit some more yeah Oh taking the jacket off oh good it's good I aim to please all right Mike is from a nation known for baseball hey oh yeah yeah all right thank you that's right I've lost all track of time I have no idea what's next yeah I keep not listening here you go do one more spin and I'll get the schedule right oh that's weird yeah I tell you what let's do one more spin and let's give an update in the in the balloon pavilion I love it no balloon room USA oh and some hot dogs you're gonna lose your verified badge on Twitter that's fine it doesn't mean anything all right let's go the suspense is so good 14 onesie time okay don't know now or she didn't next I think so for the next time because we're gonna have Jason on and then the family feud so we're gonna we're gonna put that one on the shelf we'll come back to it yeah so do you want to head over to the helium house the hot air house it's not hot air either the co2 cabin there we go okay we did have a lengthy conversation during prep for oh I just touched my jacket ah we had a lengthy conversation about should Mike bring the gazebo from London but we decided to do this instead why would I bring it when I have this beautiful thing I feel like more balloons should be in here with me by the way because could you make a snow angel I mean I can you wanted to do it now yeah but I thought you didn't like it when I went down like this yeah but now there's a lot of people here and I'm pretty sure someone knows CPR I gotta get a microphone down there he goes that's really good big round of applause for Mike Hurley hey buddy hey oh she's got some more for you yeah good that gum during rehearsal yesterday they were just pop randomly and everyone in the room would scream it was great all right Mike how do you feel about another wheel spin what how do you feel about another wheel spin yeah go for it and we also need to put some gummy bears in there here we go here we go here we go number 11 change Twitter profile picture again perfect well you're I need my iPhone okay this phone is two hours old whoa yeah yeah why did you do that it takes so long though you know I know this is a good one these new cameras are good that's good you give us a review of the new iPhone while you're in there good how's the balloon photography performance pretty good it's captured this the hair that went up because of the static electricity that's good so it's really impressive it's got good good static electricity control all right what are we doing now Stephen do you have your earpiece in yet can you please put your in cuz I'm running the whole friggin show over here they exist for a reason you know Wow somebody got balloon palace over there in it yeah well everybody in the world is watching I can hear you yeah I can hear you there we go I don't think I heard that did you hear that I didn't hear that shame let's do some let's do some gummy bears what was that Stephen let's do some gummy bears can you come help me we should put more gummy bears in I need your assistance please I keep hearing a noise from the control room but I don't know what they're saying welcome back oh no balloon escaped I kind of realized I wanted some gummy bears to eat but I don't want to eat with my hands the way they are okay hello do you want a gummy bear oh it's in the ball pit gone forever okay okay ready let's go you caught it you missed your own mouth okay make a promise that wants to do the beautify I know they want to Jason's about to join us we're gonna go to the game show when we come back from Jason's game we'll do it we'll do it we'll put the onesies on we'll get some beautification toys equipment still bad and then you put some things in there okay so much stuff being accumulated now oh that's a good science you've got going on to keep the numbers yeah okay oh let me in the face I didn't know you were doing that where did that go we're making such a mess though that's the problem okay come sit down come on Jason's waiting you don't keep snow waiting we'd like to welcome to the podcast a thon game master extraordinaire the one and only from Mill Valley California Jason's now I'm boys hi Jason's now over there oh Jason's the robot I think maybe mm-hmm it's nice though people oh dear well well this is a whole thing we're oh Jason's gone bye Jason so everyone that was Jason's now I hope you enjoyed his appearance on the podcast a thon you know you all know Jason and that's the end of that so now no one's told us he's coming back oh Jason might be coming back I think he's good hey Jason can we bring Jason in we hear him we can hear him my question was are you guys keeping it dignified over there it doesn't look like it look there's nothing more dignified than a grown man putting his hand in a container full of hot dogs I don't know what you were you expecting dignified no I wasn't good I you know I know what this is we've done we've done a bunch of these now we know what we know what the game is don't we know what the game is and you definitely know what the game is Jason's now what is the game today the game is a legally distinct relay FM families that are feuding yeah I explained it in the show that we're gonna run here which is all just a thinly veiled excuse to give you guys a break for 45 minutes lunch while we play a video game it's also a really great opportunity actually to get a bunch of extra relay FM host faces on the podcast a thon so we taped this a couple of days ago Betty Chen Brianna Wu Casey list Christina Warren Florence I on Kathy Campbell Micah sergeant so we got a lot I got a lot of people for you in this as we guess dumb answers to our dumb questions that we took a we took a survey we got more than a thousand answers really FM listeners and I got some I got some leftovers so I'll pass them on to you Mike for future connected quizzes maybe interesting I appreciate but now I get to do that only I get to do that we're having a fight over here Jason it's been a long morning Jason's now of six colors calm you have iPhones hello I do you have all the iPhones do you have a favorite so far the iPhones well I mean I like small phones so you kind of like I cannot lie really really the one that is my favorite has to be the the pro because the pro max is too big and and the regular old 14 doesn't isn't really any different from last year's model so this this one the the fancy fancy what space is that black does it does it actually look like to you the the stainless sides and the camera bump are actually black the actual back is more of a space gray why do they do this well well as we've established on upgrade Apple is in desperate need of a colors are my theory is that when they made that decision for the iPhone what 12 to have all the pro phones have the matte back that really was a decision that limited what they could do color wise with the pro phones and I don't know if they regret that decision but I think once they made it they were kind of out of luck and because I suspect that materials just don't look very good in bright colors this this is a I also have the purple here so just to be oh here's the purple is it purple hmm you can actually tell that it is when I hold them up together yeah in the right I mean I can tell it's different I don't know if I can say it's purple well it's the context right if I turn it so that it's dark it does looks like a dark phone but if you get the light reflection you can see there is a little purple in there but this is what we're left with and I know Mike and I've talked about this a lot on upgrade the idea we will and we will continue to do so until they excite us it is the you know it is the color iPhone that is not very colorful and that and and unfortunately it's it's sunk down to the regular models now where the regular 14s are also pretty dull I I actually kind of other than the product red I kind of wonder if maybe they're like trying to make the contrast not so different between the models because it's like otherwise your cheap phone has the fun colors and your expensive phone is boring and I don't know if that's good so maybe one day they'll change because again I always every time we talk about this too we hear about from people who are like what do you mean I like black I like gray I like white and that's fine fine yeah yeah yeah it's just like what it wouldn't it be nice if there was a fun option too and yeah there isn't so I shouldn't say no there goes a balloon that balloon is a reminder that we have now passed two hundred and ninety one thousand dollars raised for the kids and children's research hospital thank you so much everywhere that has made a donation so far you can go to st. Jude org slash relay and Jason's now thank you so much for joining us and for once again putting together a really great quiz that is both fun has more people than we could possibly fit in the podcast a thon and means I can go have some lunch so Jason now thank you I love you and we ready now for the feuding families of fun video it roll it when ready here it goes it's 45 minutes of excitement hey everybody it's time for another relay FM podcast a thon game show break this is the time of course where Mike and Steven get to have a lie down eat some lunch do whatever they need to do and I take over I'm Jason Snell host of many shows here at relay FM and also every year somehow a game show host so we are playing family feud or relay FM feud no don't sue us it's for the kids and I am joined by two wonderful teams of relay FM hosts who are going to be guessing your answers yes your answers relay FM listeners to our dumb questions in a game that we don't call family feud now let me introduce our first team its team switch led by Kathy Campbell hi Kathy hi Jason also on your team Kathy and it's a surprise to Kathy to second up it's Brianna whoo yeah I love the enthusiasm it's perfect joining you on team switch Casey lists yes it's like that already opinions about BMW you're about to I should have asked more car questions in the survey and of course number four on team switch is Betty Chen hi Betty welcome back these all these people played on my game shows the last few years and they came back which is amazing not not everybody Simone what what happened all right the other team is is team on yeah and it's run by Micah Sargent Micah Sargent is lead on team on hi Micah hi I am shocked and happy keep watching the clock Micah just keep watching the clock also on Micah's team it's flow I on hi flow hello flow hi Micah it's good oh yes welcome to the team team on and Christina Warren is also on team on yeah hello Christina Warren team off team on spring game on team on yes Christina Warren from Springfield my sweater matches your background I have to tell you I've done so many game shows so Christina on rocket and y'all are at a huge advantage like Christina's a truly terrifying well Christina you're going down oh man Oh switch switch versus on here we are all right so we're gonna do six rounds so six dumb questions with six dumb answers sets and we're gonna begin a team switch you're gonna get the first guess so Kathy is gonna guess first and then Micah will follow if she doesn't get the number one answer to this question we're gonna start with a relay focused question they're not all like this but this one's gonna be our start which is name a retired relay FM show top five answers are on the board maybe a retired relay FM show there's so many there's so many most of them involving me we are going to say download all right show me download number one answer 41 points so they do love the fuzzy that could have been its own show that would still be on the air it was a lot less work all right team switch you get a chance to run the board here there are four more answers because the top five answers are on the board for this retired relay shows Brianna remember a show that doesn't exist anymore oh gosh um with the Jason Snell era of clockwise counts as one we could we could find out oh I I'm so embarrassed I mostly listened to rocket I like it it's it's it's I like breeze attitude is very much like I only listen to the shows that don't get canceled disruption disruption all right show me disruption oh it's not there sorry there we go sorry the the Jason Snell version of clockwise would have been an interesting answer to all right Casey a retired relay show so I have several options in front of me but I'm assuming that I shouldn't be talking about what they know because your enemies might please do what's on that I'm going to go with command space which was one of my favorites from way back in the day right Mike Hurley talking to people and talking about albums and all that show me command space oh no it's not in the top five sorry Casey it was on the list it was mentioned but but I didn't didn't crack the top five okay Betty it's to you now name a retired relay FM show yeah I was gonna say command space but let's do another Mike Hurley talking about people inquisitive all right all right show me inquisitive three strikes no okay so here's that here's how this works here's how this mechanic works 41 points are on the board for download team on you have four other options answer any of them and you can consult amongst yourselves for this discuss amongst yourselves out loud and that's all fine if you get one of them you can grab all 41 points what was that podcast that Matt and Mike did before because I think they still do one that hasn't been canceled it's just it comes up every once in a while but isn't there one that's like volcano or something like that is it virtual that's the only one I can think I remember aliens what was it less than oh listen or equal less than yeah oh that's a good that's a good guess let's keep that in the air for a moment just to see if I can't think of anything else because the answer is not pcalc that's a throwback yep yeah it's got a finger up no no no you're holding it as well thank you yeah that's honestly the those two are the only one I could think of and I can't think of what the name was for Matt and Mike's show do we want to try less than or equal I think we have to all right let's try less than or equal all right show me less than or equal 41 points to team switch there are so many retired shows and you managed to get one here are the other ones that came up number two the prompt before connected there was the prompt number technically not a relay FM show at all it was a 5x5 show but we love our listeners the test drivers which was the show they didn't talk about race cars on playing for fun where Mike and tip Wow Mike killed a lot of shows to I got some competition and in the grand scheme of all the shows that Steven and I canceled together a liftoff which is technically not retired but it was still number five on the list as soon as the SLS will be back with a new episode of that it's not technically retired it's just only sleeping all right after one round it is 41 points to team switch nothing yet for team on we'll move on to round two and this round flow will get to guess first and then and then Brie will follow if if flow doesn't get the number one answer there are five answers on the board here's the question name a movie about space Oh flow interstellar all right show me interstellar good answer good answer number two answer 24 points Brie you get to guess if you can guess the number one answer you guys can steal it alien show me alien not on the board what is wrong with me it's not me it's Matthew McConaughey that's what it is all right all right team on team on gets to go four more answers remain including the number one answer and we move on to Christina Christina name a movie about space Star Wars show me Star Wars number four answer very good it's not worse about space you crack the code there I think all right around to Micah Micah number one three and five remain name a movie about space oh goodness I can't think of this movie was called gravity but I think it was called gravity gravity show me a movie that might be called gravity number five answer 12 good job I thought that was the name of it this movie set almost entirely in space so that's that's pretty good okay there are two left it's back around to flow if this was a podcast that would be the title of the episode I love that movie space space space space good answer we're not allowed to help don't say a word Brie you guys are ready to pounce and steal if they get any if they get three strikes to be clear our team can't help either right no not yet stealing no that's right only when it's stealing do you get to collaborate flows gotta give me an answer I'm having a hard time thinking of the Matt Damon one off the top of my head oh what the name was Matt Damon I can't I can't think of the Matt Damon one this is really frustrating so I'm just I'm gonna what about arrival all right show me I love that movie arrival I love it but they didn't pick it all right that's a strike on you guys Christina movie two more left a movie about space all right so I do know the Matt Damon film that the flow is trying to think of but I'm actually gonna go with 2001 colon a space odyssey it's in the title show me 2001 answer good answer good answer good answer number one answer good work Christina all right one answer remains Micah but I don't know the Matt Damon well I mean I know it I know it but I don't know it and it's on Mars and there are potatoes and potatoes on Mars there's a lot of cheating going on okay hold on I'm gonna say I think technically if you want to list other movies on your time skip yeah you can to to tell your your people on your team you can do it but the problem is you're also telling the people on the other team right the answer oh I see what you're saying okay so yeah you could say okay Mars adventures you don't know the title you might want to pick a movie you know the title okay just a tip play gameplay tip which is the one where the toaster goes to space is that the brave little toaster Star Trek to the wrath of Khan all right show me Star Trek to the wrath of Khan nope it's not there in fact Star Trek all rolled together didn't make the top five more than Star Wars I would argue it is but we love our listeners all right flow the last chance for your team you got two strikes a movie about about space Oh Armageddon well yeah what movie is more about space than Armageddon I heard strike okay I'm really sorry to my team that's okay switch you have to get the number three answer if you do you will steal 77 points from team on okay so the math Damon movie is the Martian but my vote is Apollo 13 I see okay I had that written down as my first answer but I'm old and I'm nervous that's where I'm really confused because alien wasn't on the list and that's like an older science fiction movie but like you know then 2001 is the burial yeah that's fair play so I'm really confused here cuz what was the one that was on there earlier number five Jason can gravity just to recap 2001 a Space Odyssey number one with 26 interstellar with 24 then you've got your mystery item and then Star Wars with 15 gravity with 12 see gravity great movie but that's that's a little esoteric right but see so the the phrasing of the question is like name a movie about space right right so people immediately start thinking about like planets and like see that makes me think of the Martian yeah that book was huge I think I think I wrote Mars attack but I don't think our listeners would quite probably get that all right well Kathy you are the boss lady I personally am team Martian on this one despite the fact that I wrote down Apollo 13 immediately I think because we love our listeners should we have some sort of thing where somebody has to donate a dollar would one of us says that I think that sounds like a great idea anytime anyone says we love our listeners donate a dollar to relay okay I think our answer is the Martian all right that Matt Damon movie on Mars called the Martian show me the Martian 77 points going over to team on they didn't get the last one you know what you should listen to Casey it's Apollo 13 I think a lot of people when they think about space they don't think about science fiction they think about astronauts and stuff gravity is astronauts 2001 is astronauts interstellar is astronauts and Apollo 13 is astronauts and then Star Wars of Star Wars right okay I think didn't Kathy you said that first and I agree but I said it was because we're old you shouldn't have listened to me you should have listened to yourself we love our old listeners I guess two rounds down four more to go 77 points to team on 41 points to team switch we move on to question number three standing at the microphones for this Casey who will get to get to respond first Christina will get to respond second if Casey doesn't give the number one answer we don't sorry in any more point of order I believe it's on that has 77 and switch yes sorry team on has 77 team switch has 41 yes thank you just to be clear and so Casey and then potentially Christina we don't buzz in because of the internet we just alternate Casey name a chip top six answers around the board name a chip name a chip the Apple m1 and if we end up in food I'm gonna be real upset one one answer 38 points all right all right team switch the the five remaining answers are up there numbers two through five our two through six and Betty name a chip so I'm gonna go with Doritos show me Doritos number three answer I love it I love it all right back around Kathy name a chip m2 m2 show me I love how this is going exactly as designed m2 show me m2 answer 14 points all right three more chips are left three more oh my gosh Brie name a chip Oh God see the coolish Doritos that threw it off love our listeners and that this was done before the Apple event too by the way just throwing that out there right so I'm really torn here like do you what percentage of relay listeners do you think are like PC people right strategy going on here a lot of strategy where's the current chip in the iPhone well a 15 and a 16 but the a 16 well although presumed was not announced when most of these answers came in I'm gonna go a 15 all right show me the a 15 it's not there shocking well go figure at least the Doritos are there back around to you all right you can tell me that you can't answer this question I'm not trying to like skirt the system is m1 inclusive of all yet yeah yeah it's m1 inclusive of all the sub okay I'll allow it I chose to keep m1 all other names of m1 separate okay from the m1 so that 38 you're seeing for m1 is only people who said m1 not people who said max or ultra or anything like that I will in that with that in mind then I have to without question go m1 ultra all right show me m1 ultra no it's not there sorry Casey nope nope nope nope nope nope nope but good way to skirt around the rules and ask for more information I'm trying my best all right that's two strikes back to Betty I'm like do I continue with the food trip it worked last time I mean you're one for one with food I'm just saying yeah I'm just thinking what would would we love our listeners say or the listeners that we love yeah what would they say I don't even know if this would be an answer but like Intel all right Intel gotta think like a listener think like a listener Intel and I did roll all the Intel's together show me Intel yeah still didn't make the list sorry about that very Apple sundry yeah that's three strikes so now we move over to team on 64 points are on the board team on the number four five and six answers are still on the board you got to decide the big question is food or food or tech I think we should be tortilla okay I was thinking potato potato is also good we knew we were gonna have this conversation potatoes on Mars man tortillas on Venus whatever yeah six but since Intel's not there then like yeah cuz I was thinking AMD Ryzen yeah or whatever the Jeep what is the big GPU right now that everybody loves the Nvidia yeah yeah so I was thinking one of those but I really think we should go with another food yeah yeah so I'm tortilla or potato so if it's okay so I want to sort of try to if we think about the subset of the audience who responds and we think about the what are they eating right now what we think about sort of how many of them are Apple a demographic demographic wise what chip goes better with apples feel like salsa is super in no I think I look look you were team captain you go with whatever you want man I trust you and it's what if it's a container salsa in your mind or Tostitos like a cheese queso because I okay I'm gonna I I'm gonna go with tortilla and then it's gonna be potato and then I'll be sad tortilla is our answer tortilla right show me tortilla oh my god no oh 64 points goes to team switch they lead 105 to 70 let me tell you let me tell you what else was on the board the number four answer potato free does lays cheetos the later lays the number six answer okay yeah okay yeah number five Pringles it was all potato chips except Doritos Doritos right no no I understand I would just mean the remaining the remaining ones all potato chips yes but I left I left the genre like some people just literally said potato and so those those were those and then some people had brands and those were those and then down below on the list you had most of the things that you all guessed but they get as much support as the so so so collectively though I'm just just pointing this out our listeners more of them said way more than said more than said a potato chip thin than an M1 yeah add those oh well no more than half of at least in here more than half were m1 actually okay okay so but but it was right like if you were to add all three of it was it was very food versus tech chips it was a very close thing nobody left in a core i7 look we we we did that on purpose and the listeners did not the best I'm here for it I'm here for it but yeah team switch with a little bit of a lead but all to play for three more rounds here we go stepping up to the mic this time it's Betty and Micah and it's let's see who gets to go first here it's Micah Micah gets to go first Micah name something top five answers are on the board name something you'd find in a Microsoft store remember the Microsoft store I don't think they even have them anymore but not they do not but we just had a like the teams are weighted very differently you'd find that a Microsoft store in a Microsoft store and I can't help Micah at all no no not yet I was I was gonna say I can't either so okay I don't want to say anything out loud because brain brainwaves can I airdrop it to you yeah or nearby or whatever that is called on Microsoft I'm gonna go with surface laptop all right show me surface number one answer 62 points by far the highest rating rating answer there okay team on you got this one next for still to still to be guessed flow name something else you'd find in a Microsoft store zoom great great answer no hesitation show me zoom oh I love saying that but it's not on there sorry just down on it was the people said soon but not that many all right we move on to Christina show me something you find in a Microsoft store mm-hmm yes I went into my local Microsoft store before it closed that was mostly what was happening is kids playing on the Xbox absolutely yep yep show me Xbox yeah answer 21 you got it you got it three more to get though Micah yeah I'm gonna go with because I'm still thinking of like those boxes on the wall that you would pick up and they would have software inside of them so I'm gonna go with Microsoft Office Office all right show me office no it's not there it's not there it's not in the Microsoft store this is tricky this is very tricky flow what do you think Windows Phone Oh Windows Phone Windows Phone sure maybe back in the day yeah you would all right yeah show me Windows Phone exists yep oh no it's not there I want to say PCs is what my heart says yeah how would we like state do we need the state a specific brand of one of the I don't know if I like that cuz I to me I think I would if I was gonna answer that at all I would go surface specifically right I mean it's hard because the only thing I know about a Microsoft store is that there were no people in it right but it's hard to give a workers were in there come on what about what about accessories like did they sell keyboards and I feel like I feel like most people haven't gone into a Microsoft store so they have like an image in their head of like what it is and they would just think of a PC okay all right yeah so so that's like a Family Feud player right there yeah it certainly is I would say my my votes are either PC or Microsoft employees could we say laptop just just laptop generically because they sold a lot of those that's tough I would I think I would say PC over laptop because it's more even more generic yeah I don't know do you think listeners are snarky enough to go with the employees because yes they are well what we've learned before is don't listen to me so I will shush and I am good with either of these answers for whatever all right I need an answer 83 points are riding on it all right show me PCs it's not there I'm so happy for flow and Christina who especially and Micah too but I like like we got some Microsoft related rep here and they got the 83 points for it now let me let me walk you through so Christina shouted the answer should be no one that was the number five answer combination I would have also accepted emptiness Casey mentioned keyboards and mice mice was the number four answer I want you to think literally and figuratively what is it the front of a Microsoft store sign a sign TV a window I thought you were gonna go into windows versus office I was thinking about that but I was like no one would walk in and buy like a windows office is a good answer too because there would be offices presumably and well Microsoft office but that was not as highly rated as windows okay well it's 160 for team on 105 for team switch still anybody's game as we moved around five of six so stepping up to the mic now is Kathy and flow and Kathy gets to go first top seven answers on the board for this one yeah yeah oh it's gonna get worse Kathy Kathy name a Pokemon oh I love this one this is great the one in the watch seven Pokemon is Pikachu yeah all right show me Pikachu yeah number one answer okay you guys got this you got this you got this Brie name a Pokemon okay so you've got the modern people love Snorlax they love Pikachu they don't yell yeah oh sorry yeah we're gonna go meowth all right show me meowth didn't make the list I thought for sure it was it was close but it didn't make the Pokemon that was on Team Rocket that's only one strike Casey name a Pokemon can I file a formal complaint then I am looking at flow with her Pokemon t-shirt I am filing a formal complaint the only reason I'm allowing this not that it's really up to me anyway yeah it's because in the last couple of months my son has become Oh zest with all right so now I'm gonna be I'm gonna be in a real bad spot if this doesn't work I'm gonna go with Evie please let's put one in for Evie show me Evie number six and five points good job gosh that's less than you got you got in the top seven you got to take it that's right Betty can you name a Pokemon I can name several but I will go with Charmander Charmander Charmander all right let's see Charmander yes number four on the list seven points good job Charmander that brings us back around Kathy we've heard about Pikachu Charmander and Evie can you name another Pokemon I can name several but again that's not the goal I think we're gonna go with Snorlax oh my gosh what is I heard I hear I hear people love Snorlax that's what all right show me Snorlax number seven answer there it is you made it you made it but we still have number two three and five yet to guess Brie it's back to you popular feelings about Pokemon can you name the ones we've we've done already Pikachu Charmander Evie Snorlax so all these are gen 1 Pokemon for some reason so I'm just gonna assume that the most popular answers are not the newer starting Pokemon so I think that gen 1 theme and say how about gosh about Bulbasaur show me Bulbasaur number three answer well done I was afraid the breeze knowledge of Pokemon was gonna hurt her because she was gonna be able to pick so many but that was you you zeroed in on something there that's great I sound like I know what I'm talking about I'm really impressed Casey it's your turn I'm getting real nervous cuz I'm running out of my limited knowledge of Pokemon is already running real low I'm gonna go with squirtle please all right show me squirtle number five answer show me squirtle was not a phrase I expected to ever say in my life all right Betty there's one left the number two answer I was surprised like Bulbasaur was a number two I feel like there are two possible answers for this one I want to say mew two oh that's that's legit good answer good answer all right show me mew two oh it's not there it did it did get more votes than you but not enough to make the list and that brings us back around to Kathy you're on the third strike so this is it the other team will get a chance to steal if you can't name Pokemon number two okay so looking at this list versus the listeners that we love my answer is going to be a pokeball a pokeball all right show me a pokeball I know you're trying out out Fox our listeners all right team on Micah flow Christina talk amongst yourselves you gotta you got Pikachu Bulbasaur Charmander squirtle Eevee and Snorlax already on the board but one of them is missing number two what I think it's question for you Jason did you bundle the evolution that's that's exactly what I was gonna okay you nerd this is this is how I'm gonna know it's very important to ask this is this is how I'm gonna answer that I don't know anything about Pokemon yeah so no Jigglypuff yeah was Mike what Micah was holding up yeah that was my backup to okay so we're on the exact same way like yeah yeah Charizard Charizard is our answer okay all right show me Charizard yeah that's it I knew it I was like they're going for the first chin that card which is continue to come back in Charmander was on the list but I was like Charizard's gotta be Charmander was on the list yeah I was too I was like Charizard why is Charmander there's ash always has so much trouble Charizard so exactly people understand Pokemon are loving this all right big lead for team on but we got one more category we'll do it right here what's the score please to 50 say to 105 oh yikes yeah we can't have mercy rule let's let's know you can't you can't win but we're gonna play this category anyway okay I don't like it when they when they make the last round so that anybody could win because why did you play the rest of the game right appreciate that look so this is number six so it's gonna be Brie and Christina whoo and is off and Christina gets to go first right yeah yes yes Christina top six answers on the board name something that John Syracuse a cares about this is amazing oh is this what we complain about Casey lists being because we did the flow complaint I'm not wearing an ATP shirt John belongs to the world okay I recently spoke to John's brother and we have a nice conversation about John yeah now I know more because I talked to John's yeah yeah Micah Micah and I talked to John's brother and it was very much like now he belongs to the world now with everybody else understands my brother I mean pet a true I would almost want that I know that's not the answer um backups backups who is one and one is not all right so good answer show me backups I think it's higher ranked in John's personal list of things he cares about that maybe it is the but we're gonna flip it over to the other side then so Brie think about when I think about John Syracuse or his Mac OS reviews for Ars Technica back in the day so technical question would OS 10 be separate from Mac OS or we kind of bundling it together would we need to call it OS 10 because that's what he reviewed I bundled it all together okay OS 10 all right show me OS 10 I'm gonna give it to you the Mac the Mac so so okay anyway but team switch you got it you got number five there are five more out there though Wow to play for it we begin with Casey Liss what's something that John Syracuse cares about as determined by podcast listeners as determined by podcast listeners well here's the thing there's only one thing that can be mentioned that earns John Syracuse a ding on the accidental tech podcast and that is file systems please all right show me file systems number six answer but it's on there or six it's on there preposterous file systems ding all right that brings us to Betty something John might care about I kind of wish someone on this show would go who I have like I feel like I have like a funny answer but I which I feel for funny but I feel like it we have zero strikes right now yeah I think actually the broadest stereotypes of John might actually work the best in this situation yeah is it potato chip tortilla oh no space space space I'm for that yeah okay I'll just say robots robots oh he has a popular question mark podcast about robots or not show me robots strangely not the top six though come on my my wife took this survey and she said oh yeah I said robots all right that was I think that was a great great answer I was disappointed too that it wasn't on there Kathy name something John Syracuse it cares about I'm gonna say toasters excellent oh yeah show me the toasters popped up number two answer number two answer okay Oh Brie get toasters was gonna be on my list but I am to one of his most famous hyper critical episodes title pearl is not a bad program so I'm just gonna say pearl all right that's a great great answer show me pearl in the top good answer though good answer great answer it was it was on the list look the list is a magnificent view into how people perceive John but I share that list later but we have to move on to Casey we I'm sorry can we can we make it a stretch goal like a financial stretch goal for the entire relay fundraiser oh can we make it a stretch goal that you don't release the list until we hit like $400,000 or something like that can we talk to the bosses we'll talk we'll talk to the boss okay we'll talk to the bosses all right maybe maybe yeah run it up the tree run it up run up the flagpole all right I'm gonna go with and you can take with this as you please boss man but I'm gonna go with noise or fans or fan noise if you want me to be more sorry all right show me fan noise number four answer good job Casey all right he does care about fan noise doesn't he but the number one and three answers remain so Betty what might a gentleman named John Syracuse a care about what was the back one what number was it what like the Mac was number 511 points Wow I know right let's go with iPhone all right let me see the iPhone John doesn't care about the iPhone at all apparently all right a team team on you've got the number one and number three answers you can talk amongst yourselves this is just a dunk on the other team at this point feel free to do the dunking I was thinking photography could be on the list yeah I mean I was I was thinking perfectionism I don't know there's I do like your idea of sort of pedantry or yeah that's sort of the concept being on the list maybe even something like details or you know quote-unquote the small stuff you know painting the back of the fence kind of thing but I don't know how to encapsulate that in a word that will result in a solo cuz like Mac Pro I would have had higher like I really I really did think that like I didn't think it was number one but I thought I did think like backup systems like it's nice would be I know right it's hard turns out those aren't the crowd pleasers does he talk a lot about organizing like movies is that a thing he does oh yeah file systems that's true I will be honest that I am NOT super helpful in this because I don't know I'm not either my answer was taken so yeah I like your idea Christina of the like pedantry or something along those lines so feel your vibe out there and potentially dunk on the team if you want all right yeah you want you want it to be something like I mean I'll give it to broad latitude if you're close yeah we have pedantry details pedantry all that show show it show it to me no sorry so the final score 256 what a great number to 157 oh team on Mike a flow and Christina congratulations let me tell you what else was in John's list number one televisions just bought a television number three everybody missed the obvious one it was just sitting right out there cheese graters I had a ring down darn I didn't know about cheese all right well that brings us to the end of this year's relay game show on the podcast a thon I hope Mike has had a big sandwich while we did this anyway congratulations Micah flow and Christina for your for your win team on and team switch you played a good game both teams won three rounds and if this was tennis which is a thing that John Syracuse also likes by the way we would have had to go to a seventh tiebreaker but the points were the sheer number of points were against you so thank you Kathy Brie Casey and Betty I am gonna be laying in bed tonight awake at like 4 in the morning going why wasn't me out just just below but yeah it didn't make it and thanks to everybody for watching this as part of the podcast a thon thank you of course to Mike and Steven and everybody at st. Jude who makes this possible we appreciate all of you and we appreciate having the time on the podcast a thon now wake up Mike and Steven because that's it from here goodbye well really FM hosts Doritos top answer in my book m1 m2 Doritos okay so shortly we're gonna be joined by another guest before we do we've been told we must beautify so we have a selection of things over here you have no microphone you have no microphone we have a selection of where we're gonna choose some stuff and put on each other's faces so there's this stuff called unicorn snot which sounds fun fun is a word okay we'll say you need to pucker up I'm gonna go back to social distancing we do that thank you Susan see sleds worth anonymous lots of donations rolling in we're at two hundred ninety six thousand dollars for the kids of st. Jude can't tell you a little bit about St. Jude don't do that don't do that you know that come on there we go no don't put that one on me all right this one is your one all right you put this one on me cuz then you know what happens it tastes that one's your one is this stuff it's called lightning drops liquid highlighter yep or we have lip gloss so it's up to you do we have a brush I don't know what to do with the glitter that's on my finger so I'm just gonna do this yeah all right so that's that that was in his mouth and now it's coming on mine okay this goes well this is a whole new branch of content for relay FM yeah I don't know what that is yeah how does it come oh wow it matches I have gold on okay that's enough thank you a little bit more no I just think this is too much what you've done okay I'm just gonna do a little mm-hmm a little you said a little but like that scene it's kind of thin okay what's called our freezer Jill is off set just like she's like an agent of chaos so I will note that Jill usually sits in the control room for this she is comes to the sideline yeah yeah you're like a football player is this yeah that's what they do they do stuff so the Sun doesn't I'm going to my first football game tomorrow so I should do this yeah great with my banana phone case yes excellent it's a whole situation go Tigers all right okay is it safe I've eaten a lot of this stuff it's I mean you've got to assume right I'd hope so oh no do we have wet wipes over there okay so we're gonna do more of that later on I think sorry I don't need Sam but I think we're good for now it's Jill everybody thank you I didn't need one but I got one oh it just smeared the glitter around yeah good that's nice good okay do we have our next guest or are we doing okay let's spin the wheel it up okay then what could happen now oh we got a $500 donation from mark thank you mark whoo number six number 16 hydrate and stretch okay oh I pour water in my mouth yeah that's good lip glitter on so much so much glitter all right you do some stretching that's good ooh something pop looking at you while I'm doing stretching I'm stretching on the inside oh you need to go to a doctor you make your body's making your body's making bad sounds I just stretch the podcaster's physique right there everybody can you do this no I can't good one more wheel spin one more will spin just go pockets bite the bear okay so we also have a five pound gummy bear which is indescribably greasy why is it greasy like that do you think I think it's it's healthy grease stop touching it stop touching it oh it doesn't taste like candy it's like rubber so when you want a some are right it's a some are you can't hear I can imagine it mmm after the initial it's pretty good cherry flavor but like the the texture is like rubber which is problematic okay I think we're all set we're at 60% of our goal now that's amazing seven thousand seven hundred and eighty three dollars raised for the kids in St. Jude thank you very much to everybody who's donated but don't forget you still can if you have not or if you have you can do it again absolutely go to st. Jude org slash relay and donate today so I believe we have a guest on the line our next guest yes no yes yes I would like to welcome Alex Cox to the podcast a thon hi Alex I gotta say Alex Cox the most popular guest here in the studio that was the biggest round of applause for a guest we've had so far so I guess suck it David sorry on the school all right so we prepared something in an opposite way so usually when we have a guest come on we write some questions that kind of stuff but Alex Cox is well known kind of around the holiday season for doing an event called Coxmas where Alex will write the iPhone screens of home screens yeah home screens yep so we didn't Coxmas for the kids so Alex Cox is gonna be this is something where the studio audience they're struggling with this at the moment Alex I'm gonna lie there's a lot there's a lot of laughter in the audience but in case so in case anybody's not Alex's surname is Cox okay that's what it is geez I mean what are we in elementary school again you don't need to be explained all right you're a megastar I don't need to explain you so we have sent both our lock screens and our home screens to Alex for judgment and I believe we're able to show them on screen I think we can go one at a time so whichever one a wonderful production team is able to show first based on technology this is very interesting placement that's what we got all right Richard at the placement that's it I'm so that's a joke from set up yesterday it's not gonna make any difference it was nice and smooth that's all I'm gonna say all right anyway so this is this is chaos we have entered the chaotic segment it's only 2 15 p.m. geez okay Alex this is Stevens lock screen Stevens home screen please can you tell Steven what you think of it all right Steven I think you're a wonderful person I mean you've literally raised millions of dollars for children's cancer research but this is the most boring home screen I've ever seen in my life and it's like you are a tech person for a living your enthusiasm for technology does not shine through in this at all well I will say though both of you I don't want to spoil it but both of you do have humans on your lock screens so let's start with with that you got a wife's Alex yeah I just have to mention it because I don't have my spouse so you're trying to cover yourself by being like oh that's a weird thing to do but don't you see them every day anyway like what information are you getting from this especially because you're gonna have an always on home screen now my wife Alex they're here Alex they're right over there okay the calendar has a great placement because my biggest gripe not well biggest is an understatement but a lot of people put things out of reach like thumb placement I think is one of the most important things with phones I'm glad that your calendar is up there do you use a stacks though is this just the only thing you're seeing or does it rotate so there is a stack behind the calendar widget it has time zone widget from Widget Smith under there so I can flip back and forth pretty quickly that's the guy you're more popular than yeah yes he was big a few years ago when widgets were big but it's over now I will say despite being incredibly boring you have good taste in apps but you're doing what I called the beta flex where do you really need a time Marie which is one of my favorite apps of all time the time tracking app why do you need it on your screen there's widgets there's shortcut support you just is this just so everybody raising money for cancer is like oh Steven's cool he's on the beta of both time Marie and overcast yeah I mean I'm just saying it seems to be a theme amongst all the tech enthusiasts I don't include yourself in this alley how many betas on your yeah my my home screen is it isn't up up here so oh I see I see yeah I mean my phone is called Alex's anxiety machine but our all right moving on a question what is the purpose of having a reader and good links right next to each other so that is a historic artifact more than anything else so I had for you know our assess reader next to insta paper for a long time and I've been using good links for a while and really like it and so they've always been in those two places and that mean this they serve different functions I can read our assess and then I can look at things that I saved for later so I'm not one of the people who has combined those into one application but but their placement is mostly like rooted in 15 years of iPhone history at this point so everyone here is really impressed with my life decision you know one left or left some guy just walked out I'm sure it's written this segment is riveting although I don't have that much more to say about your screen are you using as your wallpaper the the new weather no no I thought you would recognize that that is the iOS 7 default wallpaper the clouds oh god I'm a fake nerd Wow Wow I like the color line Alex I didn't get it I like the clouds Alex can I ask a question see what you think please phone on the home screen I'm a businessman I got deals I I find as a rule I'm not allowed I've given myself this rule that I'm not allowed to mock people for having the phone icon if they have children yeah yeah well then they're calling you if you might they need you they call you so I can call them back because I was recording okay well you then you know you know what you're dealing with that Boston I used to be honest sorry had to read you I was your five minutes later I was recording Mac power users I'm sorry I'm too pumped and it doesn't have good thumb placement either like you really got to reach for that one so yeah I mean yeah I think the thumb placement is key which is why my widgets are kind of in that L shape because the phones are big now and my hands are you know solidly mediocre I think yeah just like just like your home screen so it's a good theme you've got going should we switch my hands away bigger my hands are way bigger than yours flashbacks do we want to move on to Mike Hurley yes green so good I can't wait so good so good you got a problem I will say this Dina really fits in to your whole scheme you've got going on which I will comment on this yeah whatever is happening is it a drink coffee did you Photoshop a Dina in front of that wallpaper no that's an actual photo yeah okay it looks I'm saying on a monitor like 10 feet away it looks like you maybe photoshopped her no it's the same thing so I took a picture and then took a picture of the wallpaper I mean you're almost as judgy as I'm I'm going to be because sure I I think that this is like the lock screen is great you have your beautiful wife and you get to be reminded and her her watch band to like blends in with the wallpaper you have your widgets placed in a way so that you can still read them even though you've got that fancy wallpaper yep but the wallpaper is of the Beverly Hills Hotel is it not it's correct this is another this is like the beta flex where and then proceeds to the like this wallpaper goes to your home screen as well even if it's your favorite place how it's just like there's really nothing I can say about this home screen because the chaos is like overwhelming is the intent so that you just focus on the back of it and it's like yes I remember that that happy time it makes me happy I see the thing and I'm like ah this makes me happy like it makes me feel genuinely good you know what I'm just noticing now that wasn't intentional making it real and wholesome oh actually lines up yes I thought it was I was very impressed but now you've taken the one good thing I'm happy it happened it's it is very like to know about my widgets I guess I do yeah top one is a stack and underneath that is carrot weather and then the little one is time Marie and behind it is a thank you is a shortcut that lets me start a timer ah see see that that is the rational way to go I mean yes bravo bravo you have a couple of beta flexes but I understand because do is also an app that I open frequently as is peak elk but the placement is just I I mean maybe it is because I am NOT a person of large hand size but it's just chaos chaos everywhere and the way that your bottom the the time Marie widget I have to say that the bottom is it corner is that also a stack or is it just your time Marie timer I know it's time Marie with a shortcut underneath the shortcuts one underneath to start the timers oh I see got it oh mm-hmm oh see that's another positive thing mm-hmm see it's not so bad is it we start looking at it oh yeah that's like once you embrace pretty good thing chaos there's some real there's some real nuggets of wisdom in there what do you think about that clock on the home screen people I used to have my clock on the home screen because like you I have a million alarms set to wake myself up yes I'm sure a Dina loves that my spouse Maddie loves my enthusiasm for the clock app ringing every five minutes each morning and well the real problem is there's ten alarms and then she still has to wake me up that's the that's the big the alarms don't actually do anything start slapping that banana phone and in the face it'll work anything else Alex am I released from your grasp I think the thing is there's a lot of chaos real quick I do like that there's Google Maps and city mapper together that makes some sense is there any other logic or is it just the excuse you have of this happiness that I'm told is a real thing or I mean I guess makes sense or is it just muscle memory for which ones camera and Instagram the whole thing oh the whole thing I mean lots of it's muscle memory some of them are in like like Steven some of those apps are in like original places like yeah you all I could swap them out like I don't really have anything else because you both of you have very good taste in apps and that is typically just the biggest issue I will I'm the one question one more question are either of you going to make any changes based on the always on home screen I think so but I don't know what they are yet I just got my fancy phone today and it's really not set up very well like I just set it up fresh so I could look at it probably but I don't know what like right now I put a widget on of our fundraising total which is currently at two hundred ninety eight thousand eight hundred seventy four dollars and seventy one cents for the kids of St. Jude so I can see that uploading updating as the day goes on so yes oh by the way thank you to Nathan and Leah and Brian and Brad and Althea and Alex all for some wonderful donations thank you Alex Cox thank you so much for the roasting and we appreciate you and thank you so much thanks for having me guys enjoy the rest of the day as much as you can thank you Alex thank you bye Alex oh we just passed around $1,000 thank you to yes listen bird whatever that is for one thousand and twenty four dollars as we pass three hundred thousand dollars Alex thank you bye bye Alex Alex bye Wow that's incredible okay I think we're gonna take a short break and then we're gonna come back and spin the wheel I think yes do it what times yeah and maybe we'll see how bloom room at bloom room USA is coming along a promise made in the dark lit by a single flame a desperate prayer for guidance for direction for a sign and in return a vow to one day build a shrine in the name of all who are hopeless this was the beginning quiet and solemn but soon this sacred vow would become a mission as the light from that single candle grew into a torch of promise passed through time and generations to millions around the world as that vision took form it would be given a name and a purpose and a statue would be raised as a proud symbol of that hope one that would stand watch over desperate families protecting and guiding them in their darkest hour this is where the work would be done forever changing the fates of children diagnosed 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Jude means that doctors and scientists can use that knowledge to save thousands more children around the world it's pretty amazing when you consider that seven years ago we didn't have the treatments we have now we cure 80% of children with cancer if you think about that I mean go back 50 years we were curing 20 to 30 percent this is the miracle story of modern medicine our mission continues to unite people from all walks of life in a common goal to support the research and the patient care necessary to at last vanquish the pediatric cancers that take our children from us donors are important to us because you get the feeling that you have a team behind you we have the resources and we have the focus and so if st. Jude doesn't do it who will my father Danny Thomas once said those who support the good are as those who do the good and these very words have been embraced by millions for more than half a century thank you for supporting st. Jude Children's Research Hospital and for carrying forward the light of that first candle with your help we will continue to find cures and save more children here and around the world we won't stop until my father's dream is realized that no child should die in the dawn of life I'm in the ball pit from the very first podcast about this thing has persevered through all sorts of well basically just sat an empty office building for two years but here it is Mike where are you hello I think sucks look at this come at me bro you can't get me this is what it looks like when we've raised $300,000 so imagine how much more you get off you get to what of how much have we raised today we have raised 50 thousand dollars incredible thank you so much everybody for your donation so far stjude.org slash relay I really want this thing to be full and I think you can help me do it right Steven absolutely hey how you doing so good I'm talking a little bit more a little bit more about st. Jude while you do whatever you're doing yeah I'm gonna try and get out of here okay and go over to the wheel this is where I live now excellent I've been here now there he goes there he goes so a lot of people know about why we do this my oldest son is a childhood cancer survivor he was treated here at st. Jude who was diagnosed at six months of age with a brain tumor and going through that process obviously it was extremely difficult but st. Jude does everything in their power to come alongside these families and these kids the most important way this is done is that st. Jude never charges families a dime for their kids treatment oh I missed no and let me tell you firsthand it is it's amazing to know that you your child receiving the best possible treatment and you don't have to stay up at night worried about the bill that's gonna come at the end of the day it's amazing the way that that takes off of your shoulders and if you're not from Memphis like we just happen to be here but if you're not from here st. Jude also assists with travel with meals with lodging and it is really an incredible thing to know that you can focus on your family and your kid and on getting your family back back healthy again so it's it's really amazing this is why we do this $300,000 goes a long way towards these treatments that make direct impact on families like mine and like so many other families that I've met over the last 13 years it's pretty easy to see what we have right that's right thank that little guy that guy well that little guy that one too spin the wheel it's never gets old number five onesie seg oh no it's it is a five or six it's five okay so we'll do a onesie segment we'll just thank that we just took them off you know what I mean I'm getting that the shine on your lips from over here man it's looking real good easy let's get a little I'll come on not again no just uh number three change all right can I take a picture for you yes please there you go oh oh that's my ankle you stepped you stepped right on my ankle okay that's very upsetting yeah yeah that that didn't feel very good all right you update yours and spin the wheel again okay hula hoop okay come on I can do it in here are you sure about that oh I really misshaped that thing that's not looking good let me see how I can fix it for you no you know this whole side is like taped together thank you thank you oh my phone is in the ball pit hang on look at that that that is the face of someone who takes their social media seriously I'm gonna sit so good all right we'll get my cool looping you're not gonna do it give me your phone and I'll take a picture of you who good idea be a profile picture we're gonna do a two for one deal yeah thank you sir just throw it in here let's find the 3x here let's see the hula hoop action on this new iPhone 14 pro yeah that's good he's so good at it how that's good there you go I know using the photonic engine that oh thank you thank you keep walking away without your microphone it's really hard to remember look at that that's good that's the new yeah just even said the photonic engine at work right there that's right wait I can do the thing where I like pull it out right yeah I think so not right now but you spin the wheel again one thing at a time I gotta update my Twitter profile first right that's right whoo you okay yeah you're having a good time just sitting down in there are you I've just realized it's not comfortable yeah I mean especially after I shattered your surgically repaired ankle yeah I appreciate which I am desperately sorry for yeah and blame Jill cuz Jill told me to get in there hold on it takes a second to do the update no instead of a photo you want to hit choose NFT that's the option you want yeah it really wants me to do that there it is oh yeah that's really good beautiful all right honestly you should just make that your regular it might stay you know it's a good image I'll just do that yeah do you ask how much to make in my LinkedIn profile I do not take LinkedIn seriously at all that will be the most activity my LinkedIn profile seen in a long time you own your own company you don't have to worry about getting hired yeah the beauty of it all right let's go wheel of adventure number 15 day of phone case use three days every single time I want to say phone use case and I don't know why three days three days so far man I got you got a travel with the banana okay that's gonna be bad for me four days which I just got told four days for the kids for the kids spin it again three hundred thousand five hundred and eight dollars that's incredible thank you everybody we passed that milestone oh yes Casey and I will be judging you Taylor saying you're gonna tear list we're gonna tear list them up electric vehicles yeah I'm riveting man lucky Lon well it is 12 Lego walk okay come on okay I'm coming man it's so wild I landed on that when people started shouting it in the studio really strange this thing is like it's got some energy it knows come on okay wasting time do you want some help getting out of that just take the microphone Oh it against the other one yeah yeah I did what he told me don't blame me look at him go wow you so sprightly oh you have no shoes on that's good there you go it takes me ages to take these off so I'll just do the next one you get this one wait no you're ready for the next one we'll plan it I'll do it just we'll bank it it's serious it takes you so long I could I just like a whole thing okay you know all right well I wore dress shoes today you wore sneakers Jimmy come this way I'll come towards you how does that sound all right I'm one with the crew you know we're feeling it yeah okay they are gonna go home and explain to their significant what they did at work today and no one will believe them I heard earlier somebody say what's going on here all this all right nobody knows we got the foot shot which is very popular on twitch I'm told we just made it a front page oh no make sure you get that tire oh yeah the tires are good the tires are soft tires like a break Jude org slash relay please go donate don't you the feet now thank you Logan thank you Trevor from Montana I made it good what it's always the one it's always on it's the group isn't too bad but the one is bad one is bad all right let's do one more spin okay do you wanna put some gummy bears and do one more spin and then maybe we'll take a brief video break and then be back with the next segment I love it another thing about your literacy it just looks like your drooling all the time which is very funny to me now you're not but like it's just I mean you don't know that I'm not that's a good point I actually don't know that it looks nice and everywhere it looks nice on you I like it I like it oh look it's 12 again oh I mean no no no no I make a I haven't done this yeah that's great make money yet to anybody I gave $100 how much are you gonna give $100 why would I do different you give $100 I'll give $100 there you go okay we're gonna go to a random fundraiser you know awesome app okay this feels like fixing it's Jill's fundraiser do it again yeah yeah yeah okay don't did it to hers I'm donating to Paul's campaign all right I'm gonna be the first person tonight Paul's campaign all right Paul side okay Paul st. Jude org slash relay go there now and you can learn how you can fundraise and you can get some amazing gifts if you do whether no incentives yes incentives are available on this desk there we go this desk mat that coin that I was kidding this laptop that banana phone it's all for sale it's all gonna go all right do we want to take a quick break no one said yes the wheel of adventure came back up again I don't know that if that's a clue I was born in Kiev Ukraine and when I was 28 years old in 1991 we came to the United States and well I can tell you how I felt when they started first I felt very angry about what was going on and what has been done to my homeland and then anger you know went away and was replaced by deep sadness tens of thousands of people have died and innocent people like children are now in a position that no children should be in and it was heartwarming for me to see the patients that have been evacuated from Ukrainian hospitals to Poland and then to other countries and that's something that st. Jude and Elsa global teams were working on and partnering with the foundational partners there and so what we have an opportunity to do at Elsa can st. Jude is behind opportunity to save lives and that's why we exist we exist to save lives of children regardless of their national origin color creed doesn't matter children are children and I was absolutely ecstatic to learn that the patients are coming here and I had an opportunity to go and meet them at the airport and that was definitely the best I felt in decades you know to be able to see those families and I reassured them that they are in the best hospital in the world and their children will get the best treatment and that this place will do everything for them hundred percent because I know from you working st. Jude and working at Elsa I know that st. Jude doesn't do since 99.99% since you does things 100% that I know for sure there is absolutely no doubt about that hello and welcome back I friend Mike Hurley's taking a little bit of a break in the meantime we have crossed three hundred and one thousand dollars for st. Jude I'd like to thank Todd Wells James Brown in Gallagher Logan everyone else who has donated thank you so much it means the world to us that you join us in this mission super exciting to see those come in I'm getting ready to be joined by a very special friend of ours Micah Sargent Mike and I have worked different projects over the years Mike is a full-blown professional podcaster look he's got it he's got a shirt he's got a jacket he's got an earpiece Micah how are you I'm doing well how are you I'm good I really enjoyed the feud the chips answers just killed me the m1 m2 Doritos it's so good I was so certain tortilla was gonna be on there and I should have listened to Christina and Casey with Apollo 13 I mean it's all admit oh yeah that's honestly what I learned is I should never trust my own gut but other people's guts it's an interesting life lesson you took away from that game yeah that's what I got out of it that and never trust a potato chip which I guess I never have anyway so it can't be it did me wrong you know sometimes they're they're ruffled sometimes they're not how do you how can how do you even know how do you function exactly I have glitter in my eye just that's fine so I would talk to you about a couple of things you spend a lot of time covering the the world of Apple and smart home stuff so let's start with Apple something really cool happened you got invited to your first iPhone event which is awesome tell us a little bit about how that how that went how was your time I mean walk us through it yeah so I was shocked to have gotten the invited was actually recording the show that I do for relay FM clockwise and I opened up my email expecting they're like oh click here to watch the live stream whenever it launches on this day and it's a join us in person and I said huh and so I RSVP and did all of that stuff it was interesting sort of in the lead-up to it I thought okay this is gonna be my first time going to an Apple event as as a member of the press and I want to make sure I'm doing everything right and that you know just knowing my way around and stuff like that so I reached out to Jason Snell and asked him hey what can I maybe like kind of tag along with you just so that everything goes as it should and he was very gracious and kind to let me tag along with him so that was that made it a little bit easier but anyway as far as going there you know you you go and you park and they've got all these people that are waving these light up batons in the parking garage to make sure you get where you need to go and you go and you tap your little your little badge that you get ahead of time and then they give you you may be able to see it in my shot I don't know if I'm cropped out there but there's a green badge for the press and we this was my first time of course going over to the Steve Jobs Theatre and you walk in and up above it was very hot I will say that and sort of where we were on the outskirts of everything the Sun was just shining right in so Jason Snell and I we are masked up there aren't a lot of people wearing masks because Apple did have you prove that you had tested negative within 24 hours of the event but Jason and I were both kind of in that boat of hey well no not necessarily comfortable being in a theater with a bunch of people without our masks so we were wearing them and just kind of trying to stay cool but once we got to go down the stairs of the Steve Jobs Theatre it cooled down quite a bit so the you know you go in and you sit in these allegedly $12,000 chairs each of them and I have to say I was a little disappointed at the lack of comfort I experienced in those chairs given how much they cost yeah I thought why does what I thought this would feel a lot better but and I got to tell you too as a person having no knowledge of this I expected you know like when you go to when you're in college or you go to university and you sit down in one of those big lecture halls they've got that little fold-out desk that you can put down that then can collapse back yeah there was none of that so I thought oh my goodness the word laptop actually has to be I have to use it like that we all know Apple's really been struggling financially they couldn't afford the desks and the now a little birdie told me something about your time there oh I haven't talked to you about this because I wanted to spring it on you in front of you know lots of people did your phone go off with Siri in the middle of the event so here's the thing okay the the Apple Watch event came up and what what's that what's the current model of the Apple Watch seven series seven the series right series and I believe we're on the series eight now well that was the one that was announced the series eight so they're going on with the little video series eight series eight and my phone who is supposed to only recognize my voice when I say hey you know who decides that the person speaking in the video is saying hey you know who yeah so I kid you not I had I had silence on I had all of the different things that I needed to have on I thought I was I was good at top volume Siri proceeds to respond to the conversation that was happening on the screen which of course it was like oh here's what I found on the web for you and here is this information and this information and of course immediately I'm going okay I just need to press the side button that'll quiet it down but in my panic I am accidentally pressing the side button and the volume button at the same time so Steven I'm taking screenshots trying to make this thing quiet and it's incredible oh so Jason Snell sitting next to me and he's looking over at me with kind of big office like what in the world is happening you asked him to lead you through this and now you're the guy was here going off and I yep exactly luckily I was not the only one to make a lot of noise that day in the audience so by it was quickly forgotten as the person a couple of chairs down turned on the live stream on their laptop I assumed to get screenshots but then it proceeded to sort of play out on screen and then the delay play out seconds later on their laptop and they were struggling to find the volume down button like to think that everyone there is a professional but everyone has those moments right we've all done it yeah yeah even the professionals have those moments exactly that's right you know Jason Snell dropped a whole bottle of water or something I doubt he did Jason's the only real professional in our industry yeah he was uh he just moved around like he I mean he did he knew what he was doing it was great oh and that was the the internet work just fine for him for some reason I could not get the Apple Wi-Fi working for my laptop there that's your second event you got they make sure that you can do one yeah like now you can talk now you can tweet during the event that must have been what it was that's right well let's switch gears to smart home stuff a little bit I know you spent a lot of time covering this industry an industry that I feel like is growing I mean now you can go like and almost any hardware store and find something that'll work with home kid or the Amazon assistant a lot of conversation right now about matter which is sort of the this next step in the smart home ecosystem right now you kind of basically have to buy into I want stuff that works with Apple home kit or the Amazon assistant or Google home but matter kind of promises to break those those walls down a little bit right yeah and and it's it's a fascinating thing because everything gets a little bit wrapped up and complicated because right before matter was announced and launched and people started to put more attention toward it we also saw the introduction of a technology called thread and I have noticed that there does tend to be some confusion about how thread plays into matter and so for the purpose of this conversation it's important to understand that thread is but one method by which devices can communicate that exists kind of under the scope of matter matter is this whole it's it's like it's like you know those puzzles where you have for especially like toddlers there's a square shaped hole there's a triangular shaped hole and there's a circular shaped hole right yeah I'm good at and yeah right yeah so you you were pretty good at putting those together but the triangle doesn't fit in the square and the triangle doesn't fit in the circle it's very frustrating yeah matter is like this adapter almost that you can put over the top of one of those puzzles that lets any of those shapes fit into any of those holes it is a sort of translation mechanism that is also a joining mechanism it works to kind of make it so that no matter what devices you have they can all communicate with one another because they all are kind of given these base principles these base categories and so it makes it that you know instead of your Apple device trying to figure out what the the light bulb is that's in your home because it you know it doesn't support home kit or what-have-you instead it says okay look you're a manufacturer you're making a light bulb lots of people make light bulbs so let's just give these standard properties that any device can communicate using and so that everything is understood and I think that's what particularly makes this magical because it gets past the whole idea of protocols and lets companies kind of choose what methods of communication in terms of the the connectivity be it Ethernet Wi-Fi Bluetooth NFC is actually a big part of all of this and of course thread those are all subsets they can all talk to each other how they need to but matter exists over the top of it and says look whether it's a light bulb made by this company or this company it's still a light bulb it has an on and off and some of them have saturation values that you can change some of them have color temperatures you can change but if we can give a standard identifier to all of these right matter which service you're using yeah it's so frustrating now because you feel like you're locked in based on the purchases you may have made in the past right so if yeah if an ecosystem emerges or you know suddenly you want to change kind of the core of your setup sometimes it means throwing out or you know giving to a family member like replacing something that you would be using otherwise and it's always seemed really silly to me that we had these basically silos right and oh like you can buy this plug that has all these features but oh it doesn't support the system that you already bought into it was such a kind of a fragmented broken experience for a long time yeah absolutely and I think that finally the companies that are all involved in this I mean there are there are dozens but with Apple and Google and these large companies Samsung at the forefront of it they did have this realization that over law for a long time there has been try after try of saying okay now this is the one true answer this is the one true answer and they finally said okay we've really got to figure out something that can stop this whole breakup between all of these just you can use what and also use you know what's coming down the pipeline altogether and I think what's been most interesting to me is hearing from the companies who say because we invested in this you know two and three years ago when matter officially launches our devices are gonna support that I think we're gonna see a lot of that and then there will be a few devices that will need some sort of gateway similar to how right now if you've got you know Philips Hue lights many of them require a bridge there will be some gateway devices but I think folks will be surprised at just how many out there will actually just work with matter once it launches yeah I mean my little network closet is the same as almost everybody else's right you have like you've got the bridge for the hue stuff and then for the Lutron stuff and like it would be great to simplify that moving forward because you know that's all like you know power and network that's being used all the time it doesn't doesn't have to be that way what's the time frame on this I mean matters kind of been talked about for a while now I know there's this this alliance between these companies and we know these companies all get along really well and never have problems is this something that we're gonna be seeing relatively soon or is this kind of like perpetually you know down the road the well okay so that's that's the question right the hope is that it will launch by the end of this year officially but what we've seen is time and time again that perpetual push out of the day when it launches a lot of sites Apple Amazon and even some other third parties they all still have the coming later this year tag on the devices or the software that they have that will support matter so that is what we currently know is that they are setting a goal to launch at the end of the year but I have to say it's not typical that I give a company or in this case a group that space of take as long as you need I don't typically feel that way if you if you say that you're gonna launch and you push back once that's fine but to keep pushing back then I'm kind of going okay what's going on here sure I have to say when it comes to this I really do want them to take as long as they need to get this right because that I feel is gonna be the difference between success or failure when it comes to matter because too many times we've seen all these other protocols these other frameworks just fall by the wayside because they didn't have those integrations that were expected and this has the opportunity to truly be that kind of lock-in full system coverage that we want and I want the the big companies to all come to these agreements so that I could go as far as telling Siri when I am actually talking to Siri instead of it just misunderstanding that I want to play a live stream from Relay FM on that Google Nest hub that I have behind me or you know the the Echo Show that I have in my kitchen that is the future that I'm hoping for and I think that if it takes a little bit longer to get there and truly have all that locked in make your time I'm ready when you are yeah I mean that's the way the rest of the home home works right it's not that oh you can only plug this lamp or install this to our dishwasher because you have this kind of electricity or this other kind of water right I mean the home itself is that as an agnostic thing and so as we continue to make them smarter they should be too yeah and especially because it is I'm sure you have experienced this I wouldn't be surprised if you've experienced this we as nerds have a great time setting up all of these features and having you know a remote that can I can press a button and it turns off the lights and and all that kind of stuff but getting the buy-in from the folks who aren't techie that may you know live with you or visit or what have you that is difficult if it's a constant will they or won't they work as I'm expecting them to so we need to have that true connectivity to where you don't have to coach people they should be able to just shout out and say hey do this thing and I don't have to say actually you have to say this and you have to talk to that one over there because that one doesn't do this it shouldn't work like that yep I've definitely had those conversations at home and and having something that is cohesive and easy to understand I mean it's gonna be a great feature so I'm hopeful for it I mean since it was announced I've had the same excitement you and I've talked about this before as people who are interested in this stuff so thanks for filling us in thanks for coming on today yeah before I let you go we are now in the fall right so we are in new phone new watch new device season what has you excited about between now and the end of the year so I am actually really looking forward to we think there will be an iPad event sometime in October the iPad is such a fun device and it's one that we talk a lot about on my show iOS today but I do have a deep purple iPhone what is it now iPhone 14 Pro Max in hand and tomorrow I go to pick up a series 8 Apple watch so I'm also excited about those things that have just been announced but I gotta tell you it may be strange but the thing I'm most looking forward to is next week getting the second generation AirPods Pro I've had my first gens for a long time my dog has chewed up one of them the the active noise cancellation doesn't work anymore and so they used to be my day-to-day listening devices but now that they don't do a and C or even transparency because of the whatever happened that caused them not to work I am very excited to get some new ones to replace those yeah I've got a pair in order they were never comfortable for me so I'm excited maybe the new extra small fingers crossed my dainty little ear holes why are you laughing at that stop it all right Micah it's so good to see you good to talk to you thank you for joining us and we'll talk soon buddy yeah absolutely and I am headed over to make a donation now so thank you for the time thank you yeah go be the show go be cool like Micah you want to go to st. Jude org slash relay big thank you to dr. respect Sebastian and anonymous for their recent donations very excited to see that number keep keep going up hey Mike's back hello so do you remember when we had Rick on yes and Rick smashed the PC I do so someone's Chris Boyce in here we've been told is another executive all right and I get the impression that everybody would really like to see the swing at the pavilion hey do you want to do it and show him around yeah I'm gonna take them back here it's a whole thing I wouldn't do that yeah I'm just really explaining to you why I don't have shoes on in your building it's really what I'm trying to do here so we will come over here so we have this tradition now on the show a water bottle I got it take my microphone Steven I'll take your microphone and I'm gonna take this one away from you okay there we go so we're big Mac users and we like to put fun of the other guys so this is a vintage like 1999-2000 it was an HP it had a bunch of plastic on it and as you can see it's taking a couple good hits the thing we're doing is once a piece gets broken we give it to somebody in the audience as an apology for their day here with us no they get a little momentum get a little momentum I mean they show it to their families they show they put it on the mantle above their fireplace they hand it down to their children so that's what we want to do so are you gonna need these and we have the baseball bat but we also have a sledgehammer which one would you prefer always going for the sledgehammers yet to be used you're the first you're the first I'm gonna stand back oh geez I'm gonna go this way you can go on top you can go to the side whatever you like I think it's whatever you whatever you want to do on top Steven you're in a terrible position I'm just gonna say yeah I don't know where to go you need to just get out of the way I'm just gonna this is why you bring the big guys oh no I'm gonna terrible I'm gonna scoot back I suggest you go for it okay okay we're getting we're getting advice from the producer we're gonna lay it down we're gonna lay it down Steven put those goggles on no holes like that oh god oh god I think everybody ready all right have at it oh my god I'm really worried about this he's warming up he's swinging well done goodbye oh no oh no well done I think someone's a tough day in the office that's right you have a tough day today oh thank you so much thank you and thank you to prior clam for the $2,000 donation all right thank you 150 thank you to Micah all right gadget man Brian of $100 I'm gonna go can we inspect the damage yeah let's inspect the damage I really should have shoes on yeah I think you definitely should now that was a couple more hits there than I was expecting oh no I also feel like you should be careful with your hands oh god look at that oh there's this guy yeah that's the flux capacitor oh look these have like popped out the CD tray has popped out yeah that was removable media is now comes out Wow he really did a number on that yeah he did it's gonna put it back together you want to get the top part there yeah it you think it may run better now even know where this piece is me it was the top okay what what is the top and this is the top you sure yeah I think it goes there yeah and this was on the front well it's fine I'll get my money back that's good all right so we should do some wheel spins cuz we are at three hundred and five thousand dollars absolutely incredible you spin the wheel I feel like I've done a lot of spinning the job spin the wheel you should spin the wheel I feel like I've been spinning it a lot you don't want you to get jealous okay I mean the wheels in Memphis I could just come see it anytime you think they'll let you know you also need to eat a jellybean okay I can do that here we go here we go number 16 hydrate stretch okay before we do that you stand there okay oh no oh I hate it thank you I just wanted to give that one a try you know so we can maybe pair up stretching with hadn't thought of this before we can stretching and buying a web domain buying a web domain why we while we stretch chat live listeners by the way thank you to everyone that's tuning in I don't think we've done that yet yeah thank you to everybody that you did if no one was watching this would be really sad really weird like just two guys a glitter on their faces but in a wheel that's terrible thank you all for tuning in we really appreciate you you now get to just throw some suggestions into the live chat of a domain name that you think we could buy obviously it has to be available we buy some variation of it and our wonderful moderators will take a look and go for and give us some suggestions and we'll buy a domain yeah together do you like that is that what you want from us I can't tell but while you're making some suggestions we're gonna stretch a little bit okay okay I actually feel like I need it to oh we are terribly tangled up now that's part of the stretching oh boy and no I just go this way that was actually mine there you go all right so we're gonna do this let's let's get the rollers out this time yeah I've got one at home it's great go for it and show me I'm gonna do some rolling you show me how the rolling is done it's gonna be dignified and respectful of the human body ball claim while you while Steven does some stretching I'm gonna make some comments on it so I just want to I want to just make sure that people have got like a full experience because I've always silence while you're stretching unless you make a lot of noises when you're stretching which will also be possible you're older than me if you listen it'll creak you do one of these that's slanderous I don't know what you're talking about so you do one of these so this is the ankle you stepped on earlier yeah thank you Austin thank you Austin our wonderful friend that's good for a $5,000 donation that's incredible thank you Austin $310,000 it's amazing oh my god James else has something really cool to one year of Apple card daily cash that's a very smart idea which is very cool that's free money give us your free money yeah you know give us your free money calm calm that's what you have to buy now see that's available yeah I'll buy more than one if that's available then so this is the ankle that you stepped on with your dress shoes I should say yeah look I'm sorry Jill made me do it give us your free money calm calm is it available yes well add to cart do it I'm gonna buy it right now you stretch I am this is what you do right you just put your foot on it and you feel bad about yourself oops then it's better I didn't work which at the foot me login first my knees popping a lot is it yes I didn't do anything nope okay I didn't do anything to your knee though yeah wasn't me the ankle bones connected to the knee bone to the leg bone I learned that in school that's good then you bones connect to the st. Jude sledgehammer calm I like give us your free money I'm gonna get both of them get both of them sledgehammer is that legally okay though okay so Chris shrugged and so I think it's probably good that's good so it takes st. Jude's well I'm I'm okay well it actually it's s t j ood st. Jude st. Jude it's nothing to do it at all okay so I'm buying st. Jude sledgehammer calm and give us your free money calm perfect that's good what promo code connected connected get some money off that is not valid I'm just gonna securely check out right now keep stretching please okay well now I'm doing the sitting stretch tell me more about that one you sit and you think I wish I was more flexible it's like a it's a sadness it's a stretch of the soul it's a stretch of the soul yeah that's right the body and soul are linked as we know okay okay how's your check out going I'm still I'm processing order is complete good I'm gonna manage my domains okay I'm gonna put them both to a donation page so maybe by the end of tomorrow oh Mike is not listenable can't hear Mike that's sad if that's the case something can hear me on the stream okay please stand by we are having technical difficulties no we're all good somebody unplug something in the control room is what I'm gonna assume what are we doing okay so I'm gonna go back to what we were supposed to be doing right you're by the domain ah we're going to a video that I did right we're going to the dr. Lucas video yes so dr. Lucas is a pediatric oncologist specializing in proton radiotherapy this guy is fascinating the work that he does expanded my mind a little bit so I hope that you enjoy this interview and we'll all be smarter on the other end of it dr. Lucas thank you so much for joining us here on the fourth annual podcast of time for st. Jude I would love it if you could tell our viewers a little bit about what you do at st. Jude so I'm a full-time practicing pediatric radiation oncologist and among radiation oncologists there's a handful of this in the country maybe even less than ten that full-time treat children I treat children from with diagnoses any ranging from leukemia all the way up to solid brain tumors why so few you mentioned like there's so few people that do exactly what you're doing in a full-time basis like what's the reason for them most radiation oncologists are adult trained meaning that 90 to 95 percent of their volume is made up by their adult practice that's just a feature of how our discipline is worked over the years so making that leap from full-time or mostly adult practice to pediatric exclusive practice is quite a jump so I was gonna ask like how did you come to work at st. Jude which I do want to know but also similarly were you doing just a pediatric side before or were you mixed before coming to st. Jude well that actually leads into how I got to st. Jude so towards the end of my training I knew I wanted more experience with working with children because the complexity of childhood cancer is so much more staggering and so the treatment paradigms are such much so much more multimodality integrated it requires a lot more knowledge on the part of the treating radiation oncologist to appropriately manage a case and so for that reason if I knew that if I wanted to make that a part of my practice I had to seek out help and it was during that time that I realized a month is just nowhere even near close to what is really truly needed to be an excellent pediatric radiation oncologist so then what was it that that what was it about st. Jude specifically that seemed like the place that you wanted to be practicing your work so one of my colleagues had spent time here working with Tom Merchant and Matt Crazen and suggested that you know if you want to go to the heart of pediatric radiation oncology that's really where you should try and spend time and so when it came time to get towards the end of my treat my my training an opportunity it opened up at st. Jude for a position and so I very quickly applied for that position and it was a long process but I made it here and it's been fantastic can you tell me a little bit about what your job entails on a daily basis our job is a substantial part clinical and then also substantial part technical as well just thinking through what it takes to get a child started on on therapy make it through therapy and then really surveil them for the rest of their life for any radiation related side effects takes a substantial amount of effort from not just myself but other team players within our group so radiation oncology is a very team a very big team sport it takes therapists it takes takes nurses dosimetrists physicists it really takes a whole collection of people to make things work and not the least which is anesthesiologist because what's crucial to making pediatric radiation oncology work is having a very consistent setup on a daily basis and so whenever I see a patient in consultation I have to be thinking through not just the basics of their diagnosis where they're at in treatment what might what the indications are for therapy but also what do we need to start who do I need to work with what is it going to take to make it all the way through and are there any missing pieces this is a very precise thing right like it is the work that you do it's it's very precise and then and the precision has changed so much during the last ten years even from the time of training I can remember first or second day of residency walking into a setup that was a purely clinical setup meaning no formal 3d treatment planning it was an emergency case we had to do everything right then and there we had to set up the patient we had to find out something to find something that would work we'd have to take measurements do a work with our physics team to get a good dose calc and then proceed with treatment right then and there to now treatment planning getting it done in a week and a half with a complex proton case takes a substantial amount of work and I'm proud to say that we can usually meet that timeline for oncology team but it can it can be quite challenging sounds like of a lot of things right that the more that we know and the better our technology becomes the more effective we can be but the harder is to achieve that result right yeah absolutely and even changes during therapy now have are so much more pertinent since we switched to pencil beam scanning proton radiotherapy subtle variations patient going in the hospital for a weekend to start their next round of chemotherapy sometimes the volume changes associated with that can be substantial enough to change how good our dose calculations are and that means more or less coverage for the area that we need to treat so the cancer of the tumor itself and sometimes it has implications for side effects as well so that means that on a daily basis we need to evaluate how our treatment plan is going talk with their anesthesia team to see whether or not we need to make any modifications make sure the child's with waking up well making sure that they're getting the appropriate nutrition and ancillary supportive care services that they need during that course just from the way that you explain what you do to me I get the impression that it's not just the treatment side right like it's also the working out the best way to do this treatment for people could you tell me a little bit about what your you and your team are focusing on right now to kind of make this process better so one of my chief objectives over the last five years has been to really chart out what are the anticipated outcomes and treatment related side effects with the application of pencil beam scanning proton therapy we're one of the few exclusive sites I believe there's only two in the US that's exclusively focused on treating children with cancer and so what that means is that we are in a very special position where we can chart out the application of this new technology as it relates to not just short-term outcomes but long-term care every fraction of radiotherapy that we deliver every gray which is the unit of our treatment that we prescribe has the potential to cause a long-term side effect in kids and so we have to be especially careful with that and document those to the best of our ability so that that way we have a framework for moving forward in future therapeutic studies we know steps to avoid and we know more about what steps we need to take in an anticipatory fashion to make sure that therapy is not just uneventful for the short term but uneventful for the long term and we can mitigate those long-term radiotherapy related side effects yes like you mentioned the side effects is like what reminds me you know the the radio and radiotherapy is ready radiation right like it and and there's just something so sometimes I just am so floored by this type of treatment because radiation is bad but you're able to harness it and I just find that so fascinating I'm I'm always amazed at how well parents do during the treatment consultation process I try and put myself in their position and I realize there's no possible way that I can do that but some of the consents that I do I know that it's going to change that the rest of that child's life and communicating that to the patient and the family if the patient is of sufficient age to comprehend the full extent is really really challenging and we spend a lot of time and efforts and I engage not that not only the family for feedback but also fellow staff members because sometimes the terminology that we use it's just not layman's terms and so it takes thinking through that process of okay is this the best way to convey this amount of information in a way that is not just informative but also not scary and and also prepares that parent for what to expect later in life. How long have you been working at St. Jude? Seven years. What do you think makes St. Jude such a special place or yeah I'm sure you do find it so but what do you think makes it a special place different to other institutions that you could be working for right now? There is a level of expertise and dedication that is it's just not matched anywhere else it's a comprehensive care package you know it's not just we have X provider and X field it's the range of additional supportive care providers it's the range of services that we're able to provide patients and their families it's being able to bring patients here for sometimes you know several years of therapy for their diagnosis and have them be comfortable well cared for dealing with all those needs is such a substantial undertaking and I'm convinced nobody does it better. You were mentioning is it pencil beam like that sounds like a like a the way you've been talking about it something that's pretty new. The resources at St. Jude what are they like for your work? It takes an enormous amount of work to make proton radiotherapy work and even more work with specialized techniques like pencil beam scanning proton therapy. Fundamentally pencil beam scanning proton radiotherapy is the best way to I guess the way I explain it to patients and their families is that it's almost like a specialized dot matrix printer in the way that it delivers therapy. So we dial in a particular proton energy we start out with the strongest proton therapy energy that needs to go to the greatest depth to treat the area at risk for the tumor growing or coming back and then once we're at that depth then we paint almost in an X&Y fashion similar to the way that you or I probably remember having these printers laying around the house that made a ton of noise and then we move in rapid succession over the entire depth or range of depths for a tumor or a region so that we can adequately treat a child. So it sounds like a 3D printer too. Right, exactly. Yeah, so you're laying around on in much the same way that you would be 3D printing, absolutely. The amount of time that it takes to do that in a precise fashion to monitor in real time for treatment QA purposes to check the machine setup on a daily basis to make sure that not just the proton therapy delivery machine is working so the actual physical gantry itself but also checking the couch that is adjusting six degrees of freedom to get the patient in the right spot or taking the cone beam CT guidance that we do to check that and make sure that the target is in the same location relative to the treatment ISO center on a daily basis. That is just a huge undertaking and we have regular employees. Hitachi, we have our own medical physics team, we have a research physics team, our therapy team. They operate it almost looks like mission control at NASA, kind of when you watch rockets take off. They have at least 10 screens sitting in front of them that are all feeding them different bits of information to make sure that the patient gets treated in as most precise a fashion as possible. I just had quite an interesting reaction to like hearing all of this technical and like human power that goes into it. I was kind of just struck by the emotional feeling of what humans will do to save another human's life. Yeah. There's just something about that like that scale that we will go to if it means we can help someone. I'm always amazed by the extent to which our staff will go to and I've practiced in a number of different environments and I think we have some of the best staff in our department in our discipline anywhere in the U.S. They're all top-notch and not only will they do everything and anything that they can to make sure that a patient gets what they need from a therapeutic perspective, but they'll also get the extra mile and they'll create resources for people beyond St. Jude so that they can teach them ways and techniques to move through their daily practice so that it's more efficient. So a number of our therapists, physicists, etc. involved in national and international meetings and regularly present in the form of educational materials or research findings so that we can kind of spread the word and improve care not just for the patients that are treated here but everywhere. As you can imagine, we've been talking a ton about the 60th anniversary, right, which I'm sure you're surrounded by, right? Like I know that when I was at St. Jude in March, it was starting to see banners and you know it's obviously a huge deal, right? So we've been doing a lot of reflecting, but I would like to look forward a little bit. Within the next 10 years, where do you imagine your field could go? I think back to what's happening now and all the groundwork that had to be laid to get us here. The most vital step that got us to where we are is from my perspective, the Pediatric Cancer Genome Project. That just took oncology into a different dimension from a therapeutic standpoint, from a diagnosis standpoint, just from a basic understanding of the disease. It took research in an entirely different direction and that's permeated pediatric oncology completely or is still and I take that back, it's honestly still, we're still seeing the rewards of that several decade long effort. It hasn't fully reached my field yet and so whenever I consult on a patient, there oftentimes I have sequencing information from the tumor, sometimes I have germline sequencing information available, and every now and then we'll have a new finding from those either tumor reports or genetic reports, which makes us question, hey, is this going to be relevant 10 years from now with this patient? And the short answer is that we don't know. And we don't know because the depth of the human genome and the just rich wealth of information that we get now with most of our diagnostic testing, there's just so many factors and it's going to take treating patients much in the way that we are now, many, many patients to get up to a point where we have a sample size or a power that is needed to detect the impact of some of these genetic alterations on tumor control, on long term side effects, and the like. And this is already happening to some extent with efforts through the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study and through St. Jude Life, but it hasn't necessarily touched my discipline in as real and a tangible way as I think we're going to see a decade from now. So many people watch our streams, you know, thousands of people have donated to our campaigns over the last four years. Some have been tuning in many times, maybe some people this is their first time they've heard about St. Jude this year. The vast majority of our listeners are never going to set foot on St. Jude's campus. Is there anything you would like to tell them about St. Jude before we wrap up today? It's a fantastic place and I love how committed everybody is to getting the best treatment possible for our patients and not only just getting that treatment but also communicating the needs and the lessons that we learn from every patient that comes through the doors. If you ever get a chance to visit, I strongly strongly encourage it. We have visitors come from all over the world. We now have national and international trainees and it's much, it's getting harder and harder for me to find people who rotate through that don't have some degree of connection with the institution. It's, you know, the old comment about the seven degrees of Kevin Bacon, it takes less degrees to get to St. Jude. I'm convinced it's down to the three or four range to find some common connection with the campus. So for those that are listening, for those watching, for those that donate, what does this mean, what do their donations mean for you, your work, and for St. Jude? It means so much for the patients and family. It means that not only are we going to touch that one individual life, we're going to gather information from each and learn from each and every case, each and every patient that comes through the door. And we're gonna not only learn from that patient, but we're gonna extend those findings in the clinic, in the lab, in future studies, national, international studies. Many of the findings that we have here on campus go on to permeate, um, uh, cooperative group studies in the U. S. as well as international. It's not just making a difference here, it's making a difference everywhere. So without those donations, this work isn't done, right? There's no way to provide the level of care that we do, um, uh, and do the rigorous research that happens here on campus without contributions. Behind you is, and we'll say an image, or we can say it really is the St. Jude campus, right, right behind you. But that's what it looks like. I've been there. It's an amazing place. But it's just this, this one building, right? And all of the work is done there. And I think it can be sometimes the question of like, well, you know, it's all happening there. Everything's there. The research is there. The treatment is there. But what does St. Jude do for the wider world from that location? We have people come from all over the world to train here. We have people come from all over the world world to present here, um, to learn techniques to, um, gather up lessons to take back home so they can provide better care. Um, when they reach their ultimate destination, the number of patients and families that we have come through touches. I can think of, um, patients that have hit every continent, um, just over the course of the last couple of years. I could think of trainees that have come from nearly every single continent. Um, so it's gotten to the point where it's hard not to think of an area of the globe that St. Jude isn't touching. Dr. Lucas, thank you so much for taking time out of your day. You're obviously doing a lot of really important stuff. So I really appreciate that you spending the time to tell our listeners about the work that you do. And thank you for the work that you do for the kids of St. Jude. Absolutely. Thanks for the opportunity to talk about it. Do you feel smarter yet? I surely do. Welcome back. I want to thank Dr. again for joining us. It was really just an incredible time to get. I really love being able to spend time with these people because you learn kind of the depth and breadth required to find the answers to find the cures to these things. And, you know, like this, this kind of stuff, like in talking to Dr. Lucas reminded me, there's a doctor I spoke to, I think it was last year, who's looking like, uh, neurology because of how that could affect cancer. That one really sticks with me. You kind of realize that there's a lot of work that just needs to happen to try and even begin to understand how to treat these things, let alone actually then doing that treatment. And that's why St. Jude is such a magical place. Yeah. And St. Jude has been doing this now for 60 years. This year is the 60th anniversary of St. Jude founded by Danny Thomas, the son of grateful immigrants. And the idea was really pretty simple to bring people together in support of that life-saving goal of finding cures and saving children. And if you think about the time 60 years ago, and when Rick and I spoke on last year's podcast, we got into this. 60 years ago was a very different time in the South. St. Jude brought research and patient care under one roof. That was already unusual, but they also pioneered racial integration as the first fully integrated children's hospital in the Southern United States. An amazing legacy here in the South that St. Jude has brought forth. And in treating and working on research and treatment, 60 years is an amazing time. And it's really cool. St. Jude has these stories that come out every once in a while about patients from those really early days. People that were here when the hospital and the mission was much smaller. But that heartbeat is still the same, right? It's to figure this out, to find the cures, and so that no child would die in the dawn of life. Last time when we were here, so I came in March, which is when we were kind of talking about how we were going to start planning this year. We watched some videos. I think some of them were played or some of them were played or they might be playing later on. And some of them were focusing on kind of the 60-year thing and how, as you were saying, when it was set up, St. Jude was a unique place in the way that it treated people from all backgrounds. I think I cried three times in the pavilion that day watching these different videos. This place just means so much to me. Obviously, I have this connection through you, which is where it gets to my heart especially. But when you're here and just seeing the work that everyone's doing and seeing the way that people approach their time here, both as a patient, as a family, as somebody who works for this organization, in either organizations, the hospital or the fundraising teams, it's just inspiring to me. It's so incredible to just watch the way that people approach this stuff, which in theory should be and is for many people an absolutely heartbreaking time. But people approach it with a sense of purpose and mission as well as encouragement and love and care from all sides. And I've never been in a way like this. Yeah, I think hope is the word that a lot of people use for that. And I think as human beings, we're wired to need that sort of thing, right? That in our darkest moments, we look for something that can provide answers or guidance or comfort. And for so many families around the world, St. Jude is that place, that beacon of light. And you're absolutely right. I mean, it is a true gift that we get to speak to all these people every year. We've talked to people whose life work is here. It's in this research. It's in this treatment that is being put together. And it's simply amazing to talk to scientists and doctors and fundraisers who really have that mission, that drive to get this over the finish line. And everyone, it's kind of a cheesy phrase, but everyone pulls in the same direction, right? All the work is for that purpose, whether that is in a research setting or if you're in a patient room or if you're in the cafeteria or whatever, whatever place you are, you feel that heartbeat. And I was wondering if you could tell us a little bit about your first visit to St. Jude, which was now probably 10 years ago. Yeah. There's one thing I wanted to mention on what you were saying. One of the things that really strikes me about this place is I have never met someone who works here that treats this place as just a job. And I worked in a couple of really large companies, and you get that, right? People that, why would they care, right, necessarily? If you work in a large multinational corporation or whatever, it's just like, whatever. This is just my job. And I've never met anybody here where they treat this place as just their job. And that just feels so incredible to me. No matter what part of the organization people seem to be in, and I know you were talking about this, I think on one of our shows this week, about the volunteering part. From people in the cafeteria to people in the security department at the front gate to people all the way up to the top, it just feels like everybody is pulling in a direction, which I just don't feel like I've experienced anywhere else before. Yeah, I think it is unique. And it does take all of those components, right? St. Jude is in many ways greater than the sum of its parts, but all those parts are required, right? And if you think about it from a patient care perspective, which was our experience here, St. Jude works to meet the needs of these families in as many ways as possible. It's not just the treatment, it's not just the rehabilitative services, it's not just social services, it's not just lodging and meals. It's all of it together. It's this sphere of work that St. Jude deploys around these families. And having experienced it myself, and having many families that my wife and I are friends with come through this place over the years, that sense that everyone is here for a purpose, it is felt and recognized by the families in a very deep and significant way. I would say to anyone who has been in a situation where you're looking outside yourself, you're looking for hope, there are people out there fighting this stuff every single day, and that's really encouraging, not only as someone whose child is a child of cancer survivor, but as just a human being walking around on earth. We are all better off for this place being here. So I... It was actually 10 years ago. So I think it was like April 2012 was the first time I came. That's about right. And I did a... I was able to do a tour, which I don't think happens anymore, but I got to do a tour of some of the facilities. And it was going around, and we went to some of the patients, like very easy patient areas, like there was no actual patients around in these places, but they were kind of showing us some of the facilities that they have from a science level to one of the things, favorite things on the tour. I couldn't do it because I wasn't... I wasn't from here, but you could give blood on the tour, which I just thought was really clever. It's like we show all this stuff, come on, give us some blood. And... But... You mean by that domain? No. And just walking... And this is... You know, I've said this so many times, and I've kind of already said it a little bit, but like when you're walking around, your natural inclination of like, this is a place with very sick children. There should be sadness here, but the overall feeling is positivity and hope and care. It was just... That was what struck me so much the first time that I came here, and that there are so many things that are done to make this place more fun. Like, we talk about the... The red wagons, which I think if you donate a hundred dollars, it like pays for one of those. Where possible, kids are not moved around the hospital here in beds, because that's sad. So, they get to ride around in red wagons, and I... If I'm remembering this correctly, when I finished the tour, Josiah was there in one, because I believe that I met Mary, because I think he was still here more. Yeah. And it just really hit me. Yeah, so Mary said he had an MRI on that day, and I remember seeing him, and he just looked happy. And it's like, if I was in an MRI, I'd be really... I've done one. I was really sad. I hated it. It was horrible, but if you can... It kind of makes me wonder why more medical facilities... Just why are they not designed this way? To just be like, not scary and sad and weird and upsetting. And because he just, as he always does, just had the biggest smile on his face. He was having a good time. It's a red wagon, man. You couldn't be sad. And it was just... I just have this really strong memory of it, because it hit me. We were in the... I think it's the... What? The Chili's area? Chili's Care Center. Yeah, that's where we were, and there's like all this... These beautiful colors all over the walls, and someone was telling us about... One of my favorite things is the phones. So, you can pick up these telephones, and they connect you to translators for languages of all over the world. So, two people can pick up the phone, and they can have a conversation through a translator, which is like... Because this place does treat people from all over the world. I think we showed earlier the video footage of some kids from Ukraine coming here, right? And that kind of thought takes away the fear and the barriers. Like, if you have to be concerned that you can't communicate with the doctor for your child, because you don't share the same language, like that's sad. Yeah. But when you provide these services, you provide comfort and hope for people. Right. Someone saw that as a challenge and figured out a way to solve it, right? Which is what this place is all about. Absolutely. And you can see on the stream, you know, artwork around the hospital. Lots of artwork from patients. There's a teenage patient art gallery in the main building. You can walk through, and they turn it over. There's, you know, the... Fever fighter. Fever fighter artwork we used last year. I have one here on the desk. Drawn from a patient, right? So there's a lot of inspiration from the patients themselves and how St. Jude looks and operates. And yeah, it makes it a place that is bright and hopeful. I mean, Josiah, our patient, he has two younger siblings, right? So they grew up coming here, because we were bringing him here a lot in the early days. And their memories of this place, when they were really little, is of like playing on, you know, the playground or like getting to have pizza or like all of these things. It's not that you're waiting in a waiting room, waiting to see a doctor. It's, hey, we're here having this adventure together. Can you imagine what that would have been like for them if you weren't here? Yeah. Totally different. Right? Where like they would have grown up in these gray rooms. This place, it costs a lot of money to maintain, right? It's expensive. But look what it does, though. Yeah. You know, those images we're just showing, it's just like a good place to be in. Yep. Yeah. It's like nothing else. And that's why we're here. That's why we're here. And that's why we invite you to go to stjude.org slash Relay. Bob, thank you for your gift of $1,000. That is awesome. We also have Douglas and Jason and Florian all giving. And Josh. Yes, they're like streaming by as we go. But we're $314,000, which is really awesome. Thank you all again. stjude.org slash Relay. One thing I'll say real quick, a lot of people work for companies that may have matching funds. And so if you give $150, your employer may match it. Ask your employer about that. Reach out to HR or your manager. Lots of places do that. And on the stjude.org slash Relay page, there is a form there that you can fill out. And you provide us with some documentation and the match will get credited to our campaign as well. Double your donation. That's right. Take some money out of your boss's pocket and make it do good in the world. That's what I say. Yeah. So Stephen always said, you can't stop him saying that. It's very strange. Something we noticed earlier, we're at $315,000 now. I think our first year, the entire campaign was 312. Something like that. So thank you so much. And this is why we are hurtling towards our goal. We're at now 64% towards our goal. And when we hit that goal, it's $2 million that we as a community have raised in four years. That is an unbelievable amount of money. One thing that I have noticed this year for me is I've lost track of how much money we donate as a community. How much money we raise together. Where we are right now, it's $315,000. It's just a huge amount of money. And the reason I've been able to lose track of that money is because of the generosity of our listeners. Because they keep donating so much money, it feels normal. This isn't normal. That's a lot of money. And so thank you. Just thank you for what you do, for making us feel like we're making this incredible difference together. It's truly outstanding. Thank you. It is. Yeah, thank you very much. We're gonna... We should talk about what you can get if you donate. Let's do that. Yeah. As I pull up the screenshot on my laptop very quickly. That wasn't what I meant. If you make a donation of $100, you will be able to get yourself some stickers and wallpaper. And the macOS screensaver. And the macOS screensaver. If you donate $60, you can get the wallpapers and the macOS screensaver. Make sure that you... We've been seeing people do it. I can see it on our screen. You just add it when you make your donation and it will send those out to you once the campaign's over. And if you sign up for fundraising? If you sign up for fundraising, there are a couple of things you can do. If you fundraise just $1, you get this really awesome limited edition Relay St. Jude Challenge coin, which is really cool. It's got the Relay Podcastathon artwork on one side and the St. Jude artwork on the other. It's fantastic. And if you fundraise $250, you get what may be the most perfect desk mat ever designed by humankind. I'm a keyboard connoisseur, as people know. Wow. And so I love a good desk mat. I agree with you. This is the best one. It is the best one. Take it from me. I mean, half of these faces are yours. I feel like you're a little biased. Is it half? Yes. There's exactly the same number of Mike's and Stephen's on this. Wow. See, that's a quality right there. It was like two days of my life designing this that it's just gone. It's amazing. But look what it's produced. Look what it produced. Look what it produced. I want to wrap my whole house in this design. Big, big head shaking. Yeah, my wife just took her head no and then left. I want to take a trip to Balloon Room USA. Yes. It is full of $300,000 worth of 60 something. That's a lot of balloons. That's a lot of balloons. You want to head on over to the Balloon... Not the Balloon Room USA. I don't feel like the zipper should be at the bottom of the door. It's going to be a big mess. All right, Mike's going to go in there. He may never come out. Look at the grace and agility he moves for a man of his age. There he goes. There's a lot of swimming motions in there. Hi. Wow, this is full now. This is incredible. Well, things are being set up so I'm in here talking to you. You can go to stjude.org slash relay and make a donation. Again, thank you to everybody that's been hanging out in the live stream with us today. I can't believe how many of you there are. It's really amazing. So thank you so much for spending your afternoons with us. Please share this with your social media like Twitter and stuff like that. Get people watching. I guess if people don't know who we are, this is probably really weird. I don't think it's not weird even if you do know. Steven? Yes. I need some help. Okay. Because I don't know what to say. So I need you to give me some inspiration. What are you going to do in here? That's good. Are you coming in? No. Oh, okay. I'm good. I have my own microphone in here. I see that. The cable's stuck on something so I can't bring it any further. Oh no. Let me go check. I have no, I don't know. I can't find it. It's really, it's really deep in there. Oh, look, you can see how much bigger my hand is. Oh, come on. So we're setting up for something right now. They can't hear you. Maybe if you... Hi. I don't know if that will... Oh, you steamed it up. So we're going to be talking to Joel and Lindsay next and I think have a really good story. We've been, I'm pretty excited about this one actually. We know a little bit, but I'm not going to spoil it. No spoilers. But I'm very excited. So we're going to have two in-studio guests. That's going to be the different thing for this segment where we've done a lot of videos. We're bringing, we're having more in-studio guests this time, which is good. Isn't that right, Steven? That's right. They are here and they keep looking around and they look a little afraid. I mean, if you walked into this, there's a, there's a sledgehammer as soon as you walk in the door. You know what I mean? All right. I think we're going to go to a very short video now while I try and escape from here. We'll see if I make it out in time. And then we're going to talk to Joel and Lindsay. I think the easiest way to... I'm excited about graduating. It is unbelievable, but I'm ready. I want the world to see me as inspiring someone who perseveres, who goes through, you know, the hardships in life. 17 years ago, we could not have seen this day because when we walked through the doors of St. Jude, Lauren was given a 20% chance of just surviving treatment. And now having the chance to mature through life and to grow through those various stages, it's a joy and we are grateful. She's my best friend. There's nothing I can do without her. So I'm sitting here watching her grow up before my very eyes. It's kind of sad, but I'm very happy for her. I would say I am brave and determined. I've always been a go-getter. When I think about Lauren's determination, it goes all the way back. About 2012, I started gymnastics. I was inspired by Gabby Douglas. Doing the uneven bars, it is so much fun. It feels like you're flying. I love playing the piano. Music makes me feel free. I'm going to major in political science. I hope to go to law school after I graduate. Moving forward, I just hope that I branch out and try new things. I think it's important to define myself as something other than the girl who had cancer because there is a lot more to me than that. As you can see, Mike made it out of the balloon room. It was real tough. You missed it. I lost my airpod and my iPhone, but I made it. You made it? Yeah. That's good. So I've talked a lot about today about meeting St. Jude families who mean a lot to me, people who embody the spirit of this place. And we're joined by two of them now, Joel and Lindsay. Welcome. Hello. Thank you for having us. Absolute pleasure. How many interviews have you done with this many LEGO on the floor in front of you? That's like our fifth, I think. Okay, this first one, first time. We thought it was a good idea. I had a son who loved LEGO, so this was my regular every day. This is your hallway. I just feel like I should be making breakfast while walking down this. Yeah. So y'all have a long history with St. Jude, an inspiring story. Tell us a little bit about how you came to be who y'all are with St. Jude. Okay. Well, yeah, like you said, it's been a long time. St. Jude has been part of my life now for nearly 35 years. So I originally came to St. Jude in December of 1987 to be treated for a bone cancer in my right shoulder. We discovered this because at the time I was right-handed, the tumor had actually broken a bone in my right arm, so I'd stopped using my right arm to do anything. Luckily for us, even though the tumor had been large enough to break the bone, it hadn't spread beyond the arm. So our doctor who looked at a scan, I lived in a town in Chattanooga, about 350 miles from here. He said, this is likely going to be an osteosarcoma. It'll be about a year worth of treatment. He said, but I used to work in a place that has a great protocol for this. I'm going to refer you guys to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. So we drove across the state. I'm the oldest of three kids. I was seven at the time. My younger brother was four and my younger sister was one. We didn't know anything about St. Jude. This is long pre-internet days, long pre-stream podcast days. Didn't know anything. Didn't have cable television. You're not following St. Jude on Twitter in 1987. No, no, not at all. Commodore 64 did not have the Twitter feed. Dang it. So we drove across, didn't know anything about it, pulled up to the front gates. It was literally two buildings back then. The original hospital, the Starshape Hospital, opened in 1962 and one patient care tower behind it. And we walked in and of course, as everybody knows, that's when all our fears were alleviated. We found out we weren't going to pay St. Jude for anything. And my family could stay in Chattanooga while mom and I traveled back and forth for that year. About four months in, I had to have an amputation. That was just kind of standard practice with the bone cancer, with osteosarcoma back then. But seven months after that, I was officially cancer free. Now coming up on 34 years being cancer free in November. Congratulations. Thank you so much. I was a little shocked. I had no idea that tumors could break bones. I understand now that I'm thinking about it. It just sounds so traumatic. It might've been just pressing on it. I did something small that caused that break, but it put enough pressure on there that it made it very fragile. Are you okay? Yeah. So many times I learn things in talking to wonderful people like yourselves that I just never really had conceived of before. And it breaks my heart. Well, it sounds funny to say you're fortunate to have a broken bone, but I was because it meant the cancer was caught in time and likely the reason I'm here today. So if you don't mind me asking, you said that the amputation was standard practice. Is it still now? So for protocols like mine, where we discover the osteosarcoma and it's still localized to the bone, a lot of times we can do a limb sparing surgery. So you can, for kids and legs, for kids and arms, we're able to either put a prosthetic limb in or we're able to take out the part of the bone that has a tumor. And a lot of times have that full function. For me, it was okay, even though I was right-handed. I laugh when I say this, I was terrible at everything I do with my right hand. I was probably meant to be a lefty. So St. Jude trained me as a pretty good lefty after that amputation. I'm a lefty too. So you're good. All right. So what about you? So I actually came to St. Jude in 1991. I was 10 and I went from being a really active student in school to, I couldn't keep my head up in class. And when it was time for recess and my friends would rush out and play on the playground, I would choose to lie down and sleep instead. But we were creeping into cold and flu season and just keep this on our toes. That's just celebration, right? But yeah, as we were creeping into cold and flu season and my teachers, my parents, and even my pediatrician thought that I had the little virus that was running through our class and I would recover just like my peers. But unfortunately, as you know all too well, I just couldn't shake it. I was bruising the slightest touch. I lost all desire to eat. And it was on the morning of November 11th of 1991. My mom had come into my room to wake me up for school like every morning prior. And she could see I didn't even have the strength to really lift my head up off the pillow. She smiled at me so sweetly and she's like, you know what, sweetheart, I can tell you're not feeling well. So let's get it to the doctor today. Let's see what's going on. That poker face was amazing. I'm like, why are we not in Vegas right now, mom? Because I didn't know what was racing through her mind until years later she told me she no longer recognized me. She said that mother's intuition, which had been gnawing away at her, was screaming, you have to do something to save your child. So we worked our way into a doctor's appointment, did blood work, then a bone marrow aspiration, and found out it wasn't the flu. Unfortunately, it was acute lymphoblastic leukemia. And now being a 10-year-old and being told that I had cancer, my correlation was the adults I had met who had cancer had passed away. So I thought this was an adult illness, but that I wouldn't get the chance to even see adulthood. So I was just terrified and devastated, as my family was as well. So we just rushed home after talking to our pediatrician about options where to go. Although I do have the nice Tennessee accent today. I am not originally from Tennessee. Being from Missouri, we talked about places that were convenient for my family, hospitals all over the country. But my pediatrician just looked at my parents and said, if this were my child, the only place I'd want her to go is St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. That's what we needed to hear. So that's where we went. It's amazing. I know Mike also has picked up the Tennessee accent. He used to be British. I could tell. I was just like, oh, definitely deep Tennessee. It really gets in the bones. It seeps in there. So what was your story like once you got here? You're 10. You've come down from Missouri. How long was your treatment? What did that look like? Well, I had nearly three years of chemotherapy to save my life. And when we first entered the front doors of St. Jude, it was a whirlwind 12 hours after being diagnosed. And as soon as we arrived at the hospital, the night administrator was there waiting for my family, and he knew us by name. And he took us into this big bear hug. And as he's doing that, he's saying, welcome to St. Jude. My dad is reaching to his back pocket, and he's trying to pull out his wallet and just basically hand it over because he's thinking, this is what we have to talk about first before we have to get to talk about my daughter. And the night administrator sees what my father is trying to do, and he stops and he smiles. And he said, welcome to St. Jude. There's a couple of things I need to tell you. First, do not worry about money. It's already been taken care of. And second, this is the best place for your daughter to be. This is truly a place of hope. Welcome to St. Jude. What an incredible gift that still leaves me breathless today. In some ways, I still feel like that little girl that was 30 years ago hearing those words for the first time. And then sometimes I feel like it was a lifetime away of that. That was somebody else that that happened to. But I've got to tell you that gratitude that my family felt immediately. And we didn't know what was on the horizon next. We didn't realize how long the protocol would be or all the surgeries or procedures or chemotherapy. All we knew it gave us the strength was to take that next step into the hospital and to begin that journey. It's amazing how many families I meet whose story is like that. Like they met us, they were waiting for us, they knew our name. That was Mary and I's story, which is why they're like, oh yeah, we know everything about y'all. Like just come on over. It's like, what do you mean you know everything about us? But of course they did because they were prepared for us here. Now we may have buried the lead a little bit because y'all are more than just former patients. Y'all are a family. We are. So I buried the lead with our story too because we met each other as a 13 year old and 12 year old. So you heard how beautiful Lindsay spoke. She could do that as a 12 year old. I was a dorky 13 year old boy. So I was immediately intimidated by this. I didn't, I was too afraid to talk to her. I really liked her. So I played the long game and waited 25 years to tell her how long it was. It worked though. It worked. It worked. It was just one of those times where life circumstances changed for us. And I was like, you know what? I've loved this girl for 25 years. I finally got to tell her how I feel. I skipped right past the pleasantries of even asking her out a date. We put on the romantic 1987 hit, Alien, is what we were watching. That's us in 1993. So yeah, I skipped right past the pleasantries of like, I really like you. Let's go out sometime to just telling her I loved her. Luckily this angel reciprocated. Yeah. So that's, you know, we had our happily ever after immediately. It was just, we just knew. And we had the opportunity to begin that journey as husband and wife four years ago. And we actually got married at the hospital. We just celebrated our fourth wedding anniversary on September the 1st, which also coincides with National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month kickoff. And of course it was perfect. We were there celebrating with my doctor and our nurses and our care team, our chaplain who had guided us through the journey of St. Jude's patients, officiated the ceremony. And we just looked out at this audience of friends and family and adopted family. And we just felt immense gratitude because that's what moments like what you all are committed to do. That's how we get to have those is that generosity, that support from so many people who are willing to make a difference for Joel and I. You can see there's the picture there of us riding off into confetti. Joel's eating the confetti. That's good. That's good. Is that one of the games on the wheel later? I'm ready. I'm ready. If that's it. Most people don't get a good meal on their wedding day. You're running around taking pictures. The man was hungry. So we ended up celebrating that moment and we just felt the generosity of everybody who brought us to that. And we feel that every day. We look at our family and we get to say thank you because without the support of people who care about St. Jude, you wouldn't have this story. I think that's what's so touching about it for me. My story is obviously a little bit different being a patient parent, but it's so hard in that moment. I'm sure it was hard for your parents to think past treatment diagnosis, to think about the day where they get to walk their daughter down the aisle, to think about the day when their son gets married. And of course, in reality, none of us are promised that. But when you're in this situation, it was so hard for me. I still struggle with it with our son to think about the future. But that's really at the end of the day, what St. Jude is in the business of. It's getting both of you all through your stories where that day, confetti snack aside, was possible. I think it's really awesome. It absolutely is. And I mean, that's the reward of doing things like this. We love our job. We love what we get to do. But the real reward is getting to be out and experience those life moments and getting to tell people, thank you. This was brought to us by you. And that's an amazing thing. And it's been special for us too because our kids are around the same age. So seeing your kids at our son's birthday party, getting to actually celebrate a very real life moment with you all means the world to us. Yeah, because if you think about all of those moments that we've had the opportunity to celebrate, whether it was birthdays or kindergarten graduation or high school graduation or college graduation, careers, life, family, that's all that we hope for for our patients that come in the front doors of St. Jude. Yeah. So tell us a little bit about the work that you're up to now. So I usually am standing on the other side here. I'm usually on the, I work in video production. So I've been here for nearly 20 years now, getting to share the stories of our patients and our supporters and our staff. And it's really a lovely thing because I've gotten to see kids grow up like Josiah, just see him going from toddlers to now teenagers. And in some cases they're young professionals now that makes me feel really old. But just, just being there on the front lines and getting to hear these wonderful stories about St. Jude and what motivates everyone and seeing that, you know, even though I've got a degree in communications, I can work in a place where people have MDs and PhDs and feel like I'm helping make a difference. It's wonderful. And I have the privilege of working one-on-one with our donors. So being able to thank them on a very personal level and help them to see themselves and their giving as a part of the legacy of St. Jude. And it's just, it's been the greatest gift. I mean, I've known since the age of like 12, this is where I wanted to work. I couldn't wait to come here. And I was like, I will do whatever they ask of me. And I've done all kinds of things, possibly walking on Legos, we shall find out. But it is, it's just once you've experienced, and you can speak to this too. Once you've experienced that kind of generosity and compassion, it changes you profoundly. Yeah, it absolutely does. That's what it means why we're here. And we're lucky enough to have an audience of people who make this possible. I know you guys, you spend a lot of time with people who give to the hospital, but for people who are out there who are learning about St. Jude, who are considering giving or have given, what would you say to them about, about what that money can achieve here? I can achieve everything. I mean, it doesn't matter the amount, the idea that we're playing into the part of this, this larger hole where you've got people from, you know, not only our patient population, but our staff from around the world coming together to work for a common, beautiful cause and in a time when there can be so much strife and so much worry to be able to contribute and be part of this larger family that is working for so much good from all walks of life is just the, one of the more incredible feelings you can have. Yeah. I mean, especially if it's so easy to feel like there's so much in this world, I can't change. And there's so many challenges out there and I can't make an impact, but we're all sitting today as a part of, and you're a part of the surrogate family as the St. Jude family, whose lives have been impacted because people raised their hand and said, I will help. I will make a difference. I will help save these kids' lives. And like, I see behind us here, we've got our zero gravity indicator of literally, we can dream beyond the stars to what a St. Jude child's life could be like someday because you took the time to help. Yeah. Everyone can be a part of the mission, right? No matter if you never stepped foot in Memphis, Tennessee, I hope you do. It's a great place to be, but you can, you can come alongside this work and support it. I think that's, what's so exciting about it. And St. Jude does such a good job communicating about what they do and where that impact is felt. And, and really, I mean, y'all story is such a perfect example of it. So thank you for sharing it with us. It's so good to see y'all. And maybe we get into some chaos with the wheel. I'm sorry. I was just blown away by that. Thank you for doing all the work. Mike's the crier between the two of us. I was like three times and he started crying. I just, you two are so inspiring and thank you for sharing. Thank you for everything. Thank you. All right. Let's do some weird stuff. All right. We're in. So we have this wheel. All right. And in spinning the wheel, where it lands can generate any of these things. And there's also maybe some extras we might just throw in to see if you're interested in doing them. Yeah. I don't know what that means. What does that mean? Is that an old game show? Oh, yeah. I'm lost on that one. Millennial. Do you know what it means? No. No. Sorry. When you're in the hospital sick and you only have basic cable, you watch a lot of things. I'm sure. I'm sure. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of Disney movies in our day. I think I watched Cars 400 times here. Can you imagine how good it is now with like Disney Plus? Oh, yeah. Way better. Yeah. And just watching the same thing over and over and over again. Streaming is a gift. Whenever you're ready. All right. Just give it a spin. The sound is incredible. Prepare you. This is a very pleasing situation. I'm very excited. I'm really hyped. You ready? Yeah. I like I need some cheer back here. Ready? Okay. Here we go. One, two, three. There you go. All right. Round and around. Hydrate and stretch. Just do it again. This is a boring one. We're just going to go until we get a good one. Look, it just kept going. Change Twitter profile. Not very good. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. What am I going for? Twelve? Ten. Oh, look at that. It's magic. Okay. So are we on? Which one are we on? Ten. So we have, you see these gummy bears here, right? So this is a story that Stephen accidentally bought ten pounds of gummy bears, which is like a whole weird thing that happened to him. And we have this one. So come on. So I have to, whenever we land on. We're not going to make you do this. They're starting to back away slowly. I recommend you don't. I genuinely recommend you don't. Oh, nice. You have to let go. Oh, yeah. There were some resistance there. The texture of it. It looks a little jelled. It's really bad. The taste is good though. Like cherry. We're just going to do a few things. Do you want to spin it again? Yeah, let's spin it again. All right. Joel, you got to start. I'll give it a go. Here we go. All right. Let's go. There we go. Animal noises. We haven't done this one yet. I'm up for animal noises if we need. So you were supposed to call out the animal names. Okay. Joel, do you want to go first? Just do your best to replicate the animal Stephen. All right. Wait, do I say the animal name or do I make the noise? Okay, so we'll start easy with a cow. That was fantastic. My mom was a farmer, so I have to know cows. I have a special list somewhere. Oh, do you? Let me just check this. So my wife is Romanian. If we land on Donald Duck, I might know how to do that. Okay, so I recommend you pick from this list. I can give you something fun. It's very strange to happen to me. All right. So we did dog. Or we did cow. What did we do? Cow. Cow's not on this list. We've been on the air for like 37. Yeah, bless you. Cow, dog, same difference. Yeah. All right. Let's go with rooster. Okay. So how would you know a rooster to sound? I think it's crow. Okay. So I found out, which is something very strange to me, like a little time into our relationship. In Romanian, and I learned in other languages, the sounds that animals make is different the way that you talk about them as a kid. So for example, a rooster in Romania goes, kukurigu. That's more elegant. That's a fancy rooster. Kukurigu, like that. Do you want to give that one a go? No. Okay. We have some more. Should we go through some more? Oh, I want to thank Scott for a $2,000 donation. So Matt Powell uses this. And Anonymous for a $1,000 donation. $321,689 raised to St. Jude. Absolutely incredible. Let's do one more. We'll spin again. Sounds good to me. Let's go with a frog. I feel like a frog is a pretty standard sound, right? Yep. What about... You're so good at this. I know, I've been upstaged here. What about wakwakwak? Is that a frog? Yes, it is. Wak. A Romanian frog. The accents are different. Do you want to spin the wheel again? Let's do another one. I've done twice. Okay. Oh, okay. That's right, I guess. Or one very continuous one. It's going to be a four again. Oh, later one. You take a swing at the PC behind you. Oh my gosh, yes. You can choose your weapon. Okay. We have safety goggles. All right. We are obligated to hand you these. All right. You're going to want them. It's another set. So we've got the bat and we've got the sledgehammer. I grew up playing baseball. You can choose if you want to remove any of the plastic from the top. Maybe you get a better hit. Oh yeah. It's just sitting here. I'm going to step on the sidelines. It's taking a real big... Are you going to take a swing too? Yes, of course I will. I just been letting you go first. We're going to get out of the way though. I recommend out of the way. All right. I like the markings on the baseball bat. So this is actually one of the first things I did after life got back to normal, is I started playing baseball. Wait, maybe I should have gone first. Hold on, wait, hold on. I'm going first then. Never mind. You don't have to do that. It's going to be the last hit the PC gets. I got to play far, far left field where no one saw me. I never really got to play that much. All right, here we go. There you go. Now it's your turn. Just get that back up there. Show us what you got, Joel. All right. We'll take out some of the side here. Yeah, here. We'll get some more. It's better when it kind of falls apart. All right. I'm just saying it back. He's a professional. Oh, I haven't swung a bat in a while. All right, there we go. That was incredible. That, no kidding. That was the best hit of the day. That was the best hit of the day. That was a home run right there. Look at that. Incredible. So good. Let's see this. This is a memento of your time. Oh man. I will remember this always. You can put it on your mantle. Maybe hang it, you know, a Christmas ornament, Christmas ornament, whatever works for y'all. Yeah, there we go. Awesome. Wonderful. We'll do one final spin. She'll let y'all go. Yeah. All right. Okay. Sounds great. I'll keep my safety glasses close by just in case. All right. Let's see. What are we shooting for? Eight. Eight. Eight. Apparently. All right. Eight or twelve. I'm going to go this way. Wow. Look at that. Look at that. Lego. Oh, who said twelve? That was sabotage. Mike has, I've done the Lego walk. Mike has not. All right. I'm going to take my shoes off. But I'm going to do it. Take his real shoes off. Maybe you can give a little donation suggestion, like where people should go or something. Because it's going to take me a minute. They should go to stdew.org slash relay and donate. Oh man, this takes way too long. Yeah, you got it. Yeah. There's like a whole thing. If there's no copyright issue, you can sing the Mr. Rogers song while you're doing this. This is like grown up shoes. I wore sneakers on purpose today. No joke. At this point, although I do love these shoes, I only get to wear them once a year. The podcast shoes. When you're self-employed and working home, you know, it's not a lot of shoes. Most times. Yeah. So you need to walk us through your process, Mike. You got to wrap your. Michael Scott said. Oh, I think you just got to go for it. Oh, you're never really sure. You know, like at first you're like, this is OK. There's a boat. That's interesting. Oh, shouldn't have stepped on the boat. They go. They go. Now he's branch manager, right? Yeah. Walk across the polls. Tell Jim you love him. All right. Thank you. Are you OK? I'm good. All right. Thank you all so much. Thank you guys. Good to see you. Appreciate it. So good to see you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you for sharing your story. Absolutely. Thank you to all of you. We're so grateful for you, too. Yeah, absolutely. And I think we're going to go to a video and then we'll be back. I was pregnant. I wanted a little boy. And so I was so, so extremely happy when I found out I was having a little boy. Cameron was always full of energy. He loved to say his alphabet, anything that involved learning. He loved it. And he still does. The daycare called and they said that Cameron was crying all day and he didn't want to walk. His primary care physician said that it looked like he had leukemia, but she wasn't sure. And she had to send us to St. Jude where they had specialists. And so we went to St. Jude a day later and they drew labs and we found out that evening that Cameron had leukemia. As a parent, you want to be there by your child's side every step of the way. And to know that you don't have to worry about how you're going to pay for this. It just makes you more grateful for life. Seeing the way that Cameron was loved and taken care of, that gave me hope that there was a good end to all of this. Cameron is back to his full personality. I mean, I just really admire him. He's my son, but I look up to him. Like, who do you know that went through what he went through and he's coming out just still the same, smiling, laughing. His personality is so big. Hope. Hope is what St. Jude gave me. Pete. We were outside in the grass playing ball. He was just having a really hard time. He was stumbling and something's really wrong. He's 18 now. He was 22 months, almost two years old, and I still have a hard time talking about it. When they told us that he had cancer, we basically dropped our whole lives, our whole existence here at home in order to save his life. There was a long time where it was just fighting for survival and all we could deal with was what was in front of us. We were going through this difficult time, but, you know, St. Jude is pretty amazing. Never saw Bill. So it basically allowed us to stay together as a family unit and work through this. He's had several brain surgeries. He went through 40 weeks of chemo and six weeks of radiation, and it was tough, but we made it through. I have a tattoo of St. Jude on my arm. I think if we didn't go to St. Jude, he would not be with us today. It's the most amazing place that I think I've ever experienced. They gave us our son, basically. If it wasn't for them, we wouldn't have Pete. As a father, you want to instill certain things in him, and I've done the best I can, but I think he already had them at birth. He's the type of person that makes me want to be a better person, makes me want to be like him, because, you know, he's the kindest, toughest person that I know, and so he means everything to me. Welcome back to Stephen Touches Things. This is Stephen. He's going to touch things. Oh, like me. There you go. Very nice. How are you feeling? Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Touch it. I don't want to. Don't worry about it. Why is it making sound? Don't worry about it. Just touch it. Go on. Oh, touch it. Where is it? You got to catch it. Oh. What is it? It's a... is it like a toy bug or something? Yeah. Spider? Yes. Toy spider. It's gone. Yep. It's down there somewhere. Oh, I don't like it. This is freaking me out. This is bad for me. I don't like it. There you go. It's gone. Goodbye. Oh, no. There you go. Next. Touch it. Touch it. I don't like that people in the audience seem like they're gagging. Touch it. That's a plate. It's a plate. Yeah. Oh. Oh. It's freezing cold. That's fine. What's in it? Oh, no. What is this? What do you think? Oh, I know. This is a stapler and jello. Yes, it is. Then they could get the thing on the screen to say what it is. Oh, yeah. Well, we just had some office humor. My understanding is that was very difficult. Oh, was it? Thank you. Yeah. And took multiple days. Oh, wow. Thank you. To try and get... I kind of wish I should have taken longer then. Yeah. Well, no. You know, you're doing your thing. Do I need to clean my hands between things? Nah. What's up? No. Now you touch the microphone. Now I'm going to... here you go. You can have that back. There you go. And now... in you go. Touch it. Was that too close? What was that? The microphone? Yeah, that was the microphone. OK. It's on a plate. They're all on plates. OK. Oh. It feels... I don't know where the microphone is. I've got it. Don't worry. It feels like chunky soup. OK. Get a good look at this, everybody. Oh, geez. Here's what I'll say. Here's my clue. I'll give you a clue on this one. Revenge. Revenge? Yeah. That's sort of cold. No, it's like personal revenge. It's not like theoretical revenge. Trying to think of the things I've done to you over the years. Today. Today? Yeah. I haven't done anything to you today. Are you sure? What did I do to you? What did you do to me today? I didn't do anything. I bought you a phone. No. We bought me a phone. Is phone related? Yeah. You got a clue. Revenge is a dish best served smashed. Is it a busted up gummy bear? Close. Oh, yeah. You got to make it count. I don't know. Smashed banana. Oh, you see why it's revenge? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, does he need to clean his hat? No, he's good. Take your hands out. You didn't get that one. I didn't get it. Oh, this is this one is challenging. This is challenging. This one is. Y'all are not helping. Here's the thing. I think this might be worse for people watching than you. We'll see. I mean, I don't know how you're going to feel. Sort of nauseous, to be honest. Yeah, this isn't going to help you. I tell you what, the banana coating. Will you stop? Why? Stop waving your hands around. No, it's not going to get it. Everybody. Yeah, it's not going to interfere. Oh, yeah. But you just touched the thing. I just I just work my way in. Yeah, but you thought it was disgusting when you touched the bowl. What do you think? Oh, God, that's horrible. Oh, my God. That feels like a gummy worm. That's yes. You got one part. What's it in? Oh, the sound. Hold on. Yeah. The sound guy just passed out. So we've got that going on. Is it oatmeal? No, I was going to say close, but it's not close at all. It's cottage cheese. It is cottage cheese. I can smell it. Yeah, I guess if you can be allergic for your fingers, this is how we'll find out. This is the closest cottage cheese I've been in a long time. So now we're going to we're going to clean you up. Thank you. So you stay there with your lovely fingers. That's real nice. This had nothing to do with me. I just want to let you know. OK, so here's some of that. Oh, who signed off? Someone signed off. I didn't sign off on any of this. I was I was in an airport. Oh, gosh, it's so bad, Steven. You've got so much. This is going to take like I don't want to touch you. Really? Are you doing a good job now? OK, I'm going to do one finger at a time. Yeah. OK, there's a lot of cleanup required. Go to St. Jude. Org slash relay. This clean up doesn't pay for itself. All right. I guess I'm on the box. I mean, yeah, but that's not really your fault. I should say there's a second box over there. OK, this one gets destroyed. It really worries me about what could be in here. Well, I feel this firecracker with your hands. Yeah, it's a little bit more delicate. Yeah, but like. They're telling me to hold the microphone to you. I mean, I was trying to clean you. Yeah, but get you one who can do both. Yeah, OK. OK, dry off. No, no, no. Hold on. Get rid of these. That's not fair. This is. Swayed. OK, get on the sway. I'm sorry. OK. Wait, wait. Now you can stop. Oh, geez. Just give me this. OK, I feel like the top of the box is covered in things. Oh, yeah. Let's see. Is it just there's nothing in my opening something I don't have to open. What is it? What kind of box is it? This is. Kind of boxes that this is this is an iPod box. Yep. Which which iPod? Yeah. Third generation. Which what size? I don't know what color is. Well, all the third gens are white. If it's third, were they? Yes. All of them. Is it a you to iPod? Yes. Wow. Yeah, I'll say that right there. That was a mark of how well we know each other. If I press him in just the right way, I knew he could get it. I don't know what that was for. Finger triangles. What is that? Tim Cook and Bono. Oh, are there any more? I like the technology ones. They're not slimy. One. What if they put slime on a technology one? Let's do some more. There are some more. There's but they're being paired. They're being prepared. OK. Oh, we have one. Who is running? OK, touch it. Oh, that's a good. I wish you wouldn't do that. Hydrate and stretch. Oh, I haven't even touched the problem. The problem was the name. The name is like really bad. Oh. Maybe I get a good look at it. No, they got it. You don't. Yeah. What is that? What is that? Is that? What is that? What? Oh, what is it? Watch out in my body. You speak careful. No, they can buy you. This one is the biggest response from our studio audience. Do you want some of the people are very? Nope. People are very upset about this one, as you can see now. No, be careful of the microphones. You shouldn't bring the things out of the boxes. Put it back now. There you go. What is it, though? I have no idea what this is. What do you think it might be? Any ideas? I've wanted to say pudding a few times. Yeah. Is that what you have to put in? But whatever this is feels. All right, I'm going to tell you this feels this feels. This. Keep going. If this feels like a fishing lure. Yeah. Is it? We call it bait. OK, what's it covered in? It's covered. I'm going to say pudding covered in Vaseline. Oh, OK. Yes, bait with Vaseline. Everyone's favorite. All right. Now we're going to clean you up again, OK? We've run out of paper towels. This is the only one you have. I'm being serious. I don't know what paper towel. You have that one paper towel. That was floppy and gross. Yeah, I think they were rubber. Yeah. Yeah. I'm glad you took the hooks out of them. I appreciate that. OK, this towel's on the way, apparently. Thank you. Stjude.org slash relay. What are we at? Three hundred and twenty two thousand six hundred fifty eight dollars. That's awesome. Thank you to Peter and Jens and Chaz and Max and Abby and baby. I was going to say Max and Abby and Babby. That's my recommendation for a name for you, Babby. And Brad. Thank you, Brad. Thank you, baby. Thank you, Babby. Thank you, Babby. Do you think the baby had anything to do with the decision? Yeah. OK, we're moving on to the next one. Oh, this touch it. Just touch it. It's in there. Touch it. OK, you keep saying that. I know I like it. Oh, I've got Vaseline on the microphone. Where did that come from? That's gross. In the world. It's a. Noisy. It's a toy pig. Sorry, headphone users. It has a horrible texture. It's a toy pig, right? Yeah. All right. Grunting pig dog toy. All right. Actually, what should we name it? Babby. Here, baby can go on the table. Oh, no. Babby. You're going to find Babby. Yeah, I need this to also clean the microphone. Oh, sorry. Two hundred seventy five dollars from Jason from Quizzipedia editor in chief. Jason. Thank you, Jason. Jason does a lot of work for us. Thank you, Jason. Oh, touch it. No, not that. It's a little mascot for you. It's a little Babby. I'm going to cover him up. That's good. What is it? Is there anything in here? Yeah. There it is. What is it? That's an Apple Watch. Just tell me more about it. What's what is specific about it? It's a small one. It has the floor like the sports band. Yeah, the rubbery one. It's going on the screen. Screen's broken. Yep. It's a broken Apple Watch. Yep. Who broke their Apple Watch and put it in here? Jill. Oh, no. Yeah. We should call it Babby 2. Babby 2, the broken Apple Watch. That's I've never broken an Apple Watch. I know people may be surprised to know that. Touch it. I've broken like four. Oh, well, you don't like that. OK, I'm going to do a test, OK? Oh, they bounce. Should I do that again? Oh, he's making a mess. Oh, God. So these are, are they going to Lego Walk? They're going everywhere. So it's either like creepy, like it's bouncy ball eyeballs, which I could get. Or I'm going to go with the sweet, like memory that these are bouncy balls from our previous podcast-a-thon. Correct. Are they? Yeah. Yes. They're now everywhere. Are they? Yeah. Don't do it. Put them back. Don't. Don't do what? Sorry, there's like four TVs and cameras there. That's not actually a bad idea. I told you it was a bad idea. You did anyway. Let's do this. Stop it. There we go. Oh, geez. One more? It's a bouncy ball. Oh, it hit the thing and it's been everywhere. Never mind. Touch it. Is this the last one? Ish? We could do a third round of this. Yeah. Okay, so this will be the last one for now. Yeah. What if I put nothing in the box and just had me feeling around? Imagine that. So it's another tech device. Yeah. It's got buttons on it. Yeah. Is it a Zoom? Oh my god. Is it a Zoom? No. Oh, $3,000 from Emojipedia Jeremy Budge. Previously of Emojipedia. Jeremy! Creator of emoji. Let's see what this is. I took it out of the box. Yeah. I'm shocked. I am shocked and appalled right now. Oh, is it the U2 iPod from earlier? Well, it's actually a reverse of that. It's a fifth gen iPod, which is like they did some work to it, clearly. But I can't believe you thought that was a Zoom. That's an iPod. Yeah, that's bad. Well, I couldn't tell the buttons. You're a fake Apple historian. What do you mean it's backwards? Can I look? Yeah, you can look. I don't know why it's that way. Oh, that's hideous. Oh, it's so bright. Yeah, whose iPod is this? Is it your iPod? No. All right. Sorry about your iPod. Great. Thank you very much. Good luck on touching things. Don't. Okay, there you go. Thank you. No problem. Look at all these tissues over here. All these bouncy balls. Oh, that bouncy ball is going outside. They're everywhere now. He's gone. They're everywhere now. Look at the ground. Well, it's just like two years ago. Yeah. What's next? Okay, so next up. Where am I looking? There. Okay, next up we have a video, another interview that I got the opportunity to speak to Emily Callahan, who is the chief marketing officer for Allsac, which is the fundraising arm of St. Jude. Emily is naturally an incredible communicator, and this is a wonderful story about her and her path and the work that she does for Allsac and St. Jude. Hi, Emily. Thanks so much for joining the podcast. It's time to talk a little bit about your work at Allsac and St. Jude. I would love it if you'd be able to give me and our listeners a little bit of an overview of your responsibilities at Allsac and how these relate to St. Jude. I would love to. So first, it's great to join you. I'm excited to be with everyone today. Emily Callahan, I'm the chief marketing and experience officer at Allsac, which, as you know, is the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. So my role is really to tell the story of St. Jude, to help people know of the brand. And the reason we do that, Mike, as you know, is because when a family anywhere in the world hears those awful words, your child has cancer, or maybe it's sickle cell or a pediatric neurological disease, we want them to know that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital exists. So I lead a team of incredible storytellers and marketers telling the world about St. Jude and then hopefully inspiring people to get engaged with us through their work at Allsac and inspiring people to get engaged with us through activities just like this so we can raise funds to find those cures and save more children. I would love to know how you came to work for Allsac. And also, if there is, what was it about the mission of St. Jude that drew you to this role? Well, I was really lucky. I got recruited for this job. At the time, I was the senior vice president for marketing and operations at Susan G. Hill, the global breast cancer organization. What drew me to it, I can vividly remember getting that recruiting call, sitting in the back seat with my daughter, who was not yet one at the time. Now I'm the mom of a teenager, so that tells you how long I've been here. So a few things drew me in. One, I would say this, you should know this about me, that I try to live my life by my funeral principle is what I call it. The idea that one day at my funeral, there can be all of three people there, they will say that I lived a life of faith, that I was a great partner and mom, a great friend. I made a difference in the world. And recently, I added, and I had fun while doing it. So this purpose life is really important to me, this career in nonprofit, the fact that you get to work in marketing and unite the world in a fundamental and powerful way really drew me in. And then this mission for children. I've also been around health care all my life. My mother was a nurse, and my father was a funeral home director when I was a child. So I really know what it's like to be in a hospital setting, to be with people as they end life and trying to live a life of changing that for everyone. I would imagine you were probably already pretty familiar with St. Jude, right? Yeah, you know, it's interesting. Yes and no. I mean, I knew of St. Jude, but I had no idea of its size and magnitude. And from a career perspective, that was this really phenomenal and exciting challenge in that they'd never, believe it or not, had a marketing division. They'd never had a chief marketing officer. It was a good brand. But when I got a chance to meet with Rick Shadyac, such a visionary, this unbelievable family story of his father founding this place with Danny Thomas, we just clicked when we met. And we saw this potential for St. Jude to go from a good brand to a global iconic brand, which we are today. We're the only iconic nonprofit brand in the world. But again, the why is so important. You know, iconic brands are known everywhere. And so that was our mission and our drive was to make this known worldwide so that families everywhere would know that this resource exists. So that's what we've been building to do. And now we're on a really big expansion, doubling our campus and really reaching out to the world with now more than 200 partners in more than 60 countries. So, you know, we do our fundraising in September because it coincides with Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. But in general, it's a big year all around for St. Jude because St. Jude's celebrating the 60th year. I would love to know, you know, looking back at the last 60 years to look forward to the next 60 years, what do you think are some of the biggest opportunities for St. Jude in that time? Yeah, I mean, you have to reflect just a minute, right? It's amazing that this place even exists, right? Danny Thomas, this unbelievable visionary, a humanitarian and entertainer, a man that had a 10th grade education that was perhaps one of the smartest, the most visionary men that's ever lived. This idea that they would take something that was deemed incurable, a death sentence and childhood cancer, and then they would create this place in the segregated South, no less United States, where children, all children of all backgrounds could come. People would all unite together. And so this incredible progress we've made, right? The most common form of childhood cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, had a 4% survival rate when we opened our doors. Now it's 94%. Overall childhood cancer survival rate, 20%. Think about that, 20%. That means most kids passed away and passed away quickly. And now, thanks in large part to the discoveries made at St. Jude and then shared worldwide, that's now 80%. But that means we have a lot of work to do. So, so candidly, Mike, when I look ahead to what's ahead, I would say this, curing pediatric cancer and other life threatening diseases in kids, well, that's a multi-year, that's a multi-trillion dollar problem. And we are being bold and aggressive in addressing that. St. Jude just announced its largest ever strategic plan, $12.9 billion. And here are the two things I would say that excite me most in that plan. Tackling cancers with no answers. An example of that would be a brain tumor called, you'll see the initials DIPG. And Mike, anytime I see those letters, my heart sinks and my eyes fill with tears because there are no answers for that cancer. When parents hear those letters, when a child's diagnosed, it means they pass away. And to us, that's unacceptable. So we're going to push and see if we can research to find answers for that. The other I'm really excited about is the global front. We've made so much progress here in the United States, right? Four out of five children survive. It's the opposite globally. Only one in five, only one in five will live. And so we've got big, bold initiatives to change that. We've already set an audacious goal, right? We want to raise the survival rate for the six most common forms of childhood cancer from 20% to 60% worldwide by 2030. And we're saying in order to do that, a big part of that is making sure kids have access to the medicines they need. So we're investing another $200 million to provide quality chemotherapy drugs for free worldwide. So it's a big, huge problem, but we are pushing forward to do all we can to invest to change it. And events like this make this possible. You know, you mentioned the, like the inspirational message of Danny Thomas when we visited in March, which was when we got to spend some time together. We went and took a look at the new pavilion on campus and we were watching some of the videos. I cried three times because of the videos. And I think through the podcastathon today, some people may have seen some of those already or will see them. Like we, cause they, they affected me so much, just like the story that I want other people to see these videos. They're just truly incredible. I do want to come back to the global part. That is an amazing thing to continue to focus on, especially with, you know, you mentioned 2030. 2030 is not very far away, right? So like they are short term goals. There is one thing of, of, of doing this and providing this assistance, which is incredible, but with your role, there's also the messaging part. Like, how do you try to communicate worldwide why St. Jude is like a force when it really is one place in one city? Yeah. It's a great question. One, the first thing I would say is this, this is what we were trying to do. We're trying to unite the world in a fundamental human truth that all kids should have a chance to grow up. And that is something we have learned, uh, defies cultures and boundaries. It's something we all can get behind. So first you start there with that, that premise. The next is right. We, we really listen to people and understand there's a lot of talk today about data and data and insights, but we really do our research. We listen to people because you're right. This, if you ever think about this, there's, there's no place on the planet like St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. It's a crazy business model that doesn't exist anywhere else. The fact that no family ever receives a bill that we pay for treatment and travel and housing and food, because we want those families to focus on helping their child live. And then unlike a lot of places that hoard it for themselves, right? We turn around and freely share. We also, and I loved this about Danny Thomas. He was so smart. He knew he couldn't do it alone. And so in that uniting, that doesn't just mean uniting donors all over the world behind this. This is uniting the best and brightest minds. And so that I think is something that we can all get behind too. How do we all work together to turn around and save our children? And so that's where these global partnerships come in with these 200 clinics and hospitals and foundations all over the world in 60 different countries who believe the same way we do. There, there are many Danny Thomas's and their own parts of the world, but the, really the way we do it, Mike, over and over again is the same. We tell stories. We help people understand this problem that we're trying to solve this unifying belief. And then we really tell stories. And then lastly, I would just say, we meet people everywhere that they are. Events like this, social media. We went to space last year for space enthusiasts. I mean, we're defying the boundaries, even of earth as we tell the story and find ways to get people inspired to unite behind this mission. Yeah, like obviously one of the biggest things I've seen, because we get to work a lot with the Play Live team and St. Jude in gaming is massive. And like, I, it's been really incredible for me, like the more that I've kind of been involved. I mean, obviously I've known about St. Jude for a long time because of my business partner, Steven, but it's been wild to me that, you know, I'm watching a stream on Twitch and then they start raising money for something like, Hey, I know St. Jude. But like that is, I think a really great way of breaking down those barriers of geography, because these people with big audiences kind of streaming to everyone and anyone. I totally agree. It is, it is so powerful. I remember vividly the day when our team walked in and said, Hey, here's this business opportunity. And they were talking about this, the power of gaming and its influence and its reach that transcends beyond, you know, traditional sports and things that we talk about, which made total sense to me that we would go there because that's where people are. Also, I think it reflects the vision that Danny Thomas had. Danny Thomas had this great saying, he said, I'd rather have a dollar from a million people than a million from one. And that is really how we think here is how do we help people all around the world fall in love with this mission and give as much as they can, as long as they can. And for some that may be no dollars, right? It's, it's using their platforms to tell the world, to, to tell these stories, to connect in an emotional way for others, it may be a dollar at a time. And then of course there's more, but look at the power of what we've been able to do. And, and the other thing people should know about here in that business model, that no bill, well, this place doesn't exist without donations. That $12.9 billion plan I talked about in order to fund that over 90% of those dollars have to be raised to fund that our average donation is about $43. So you think about the power of the world coming together to solve that, because while we take insurance, insurance doesn't cover much of what we do because we're a research hospital. Our researchers do an incredible job in receiving grants for their really powerful ideas and work. But with a problem this big, you have to have a non-traditional business model to solve it. Yeah, because, you know, like obviously in the UK, a lot of the healthcare model is different. And I know that, you know, we, we hear from listeners that live in other parts of the world and they're like, oh, but hospital treatment is free. But as we've mentioned and continue to mention, it's not just that though, right? Like it, no hospital that I've come across anywhere else will, will do the making sure there's no bill for travel, for housing, for, you know, like all of this kind of stuff. It is that extra, which adds to this very unique business model. It's also right, you have to think our name is really intentional. We're St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. And that's the powerful part about it. To your point, it's not just care. It's the very best care. And because people give, we have this freedom to focus, right? So if our doctors feel that extra tests are needed, or they want to explore a new pathway, they have the freedom to focus on that because of the funds available. But that research side is so critical. I mentioned these cancers without answers. I gave you an example of DIPG. The other is infant leukemia. Why do our tiny babies have less of a survival rate than older children? These are the things we can discover and do when we invest beyond, right, the traditional health care models, or even the subsidized health care models that are there. We've got to push beyond. And then most importantly, we again, work with the best minds. We collaborate with institutions all over the world, because when the best minds come together, that's how answers are found. And then we freely share that out. Information is put into the cloud. We really want doctors and scientists worldwide to be able to take that knowledge and into the lives of more children, because we don't care who finds the answers. We just want to find the answers. Then everyone wins. That's right. More kids live. And that's what we're all about. So we mentioned kind of like from a branding perspective, from reaching new people, we're talking about gaming, we're talking about the space missions and stuff like that. How do you make sure to adapt to what's new at Olsak and St. Jude so you can keep meeting these new people? I'm sure challenge. For me, it's a really exciting opportunity. So the really neat thing about this mission to me is, and marketers talk about a target audience and you've got to have a defined target audience. Well, ours is the world. And people say, well, that's silly, but it is true, right? Everyone can participate. So the first thing I would say is we're really audience led. We want to understand our audiences. We spend a ton of time and research and data and meeting with people, and we really understand what motivates them and the information they want. And we tailor to that. So for me, it's a really exciting challenge. People are fascinating to learn about them, to understand how there might be differences based on age or ethnicity or geography. Because the truth is the really cool thing about our mission is that that no bill message is the thing that motivates us all. And the next is, it's not just about that free care, it's the results, right? And the fact that we have big, audacious goals in front of us. So ours is a fun challenge to really understand audiences, to meet them where they are. And the other thing is everyone that works here, everyone that works at ALSAC is responsible for the same things. We're held accountable on how effectively we raise our money and invest it. We're all accountable for the brand, how we tell our stories, how we promote and protect the brand. But we're also all responsible for innovation. So this is a place that's constantly thinking about what's new, what's next, how do we reach people? Because when you have a pretty daunting goal to fund a $12.9 billion plan and you've got to fundraise for that, you've got to get creative, you've got to be inventive. And it's so inspiring to see new audiences experience this mission for the first time, for their hearts to widen, for their eyes to tear up, for that connection to be made. They feel a sense of purpose and power connected to something bigger and that's life changing. So innovation is core to what we do here, but it's also innovation with purpose and it's life changing. One of my favorite questions I get to ask people when we do these interviews is, do you have any examples of how St. Jude has left a mark on you personally? So many. I think about all the time, that call I got riding in the car. And I'm probably more reflective now because the end of September will be my anniversary here of when I started and working here has honestly made me a better person, made me a better wife and partner, a better mother. If you came to my office and you saw, you know this, when you come and tour here, there's pictures of patients everywhere. And honestly, I could have just spent the whole time telling you stories of those that have changed my life. My most powerful moments, honestly, are the funerals I attended, sitting at the funeral for Ariana and thinking about her little life and how she lived with such joy and the lesson she taught me and watching her family grieve. And now, fast forward, I work with her father every day. He chose to leave his military career and come back here to work, to see his mother and sister and brother continue every year, to ask the world to do eight acts of kindness in Ariana's memory. I think of little Carson who passed away, who had a little pink piggy bank. She wanted, while she was battling cancer, to raise money so that she could help the other little kids who are sick. Her funeral was almost in an auditorium-sized church. It was so full for all the lives she has touched. And the same thing, her mother chooses to work here and I work with her every day. We work with other patient families to tell their stories. And then I look at all the success stories, people surrounded, right, that remind us that those lives are not in vain. Their legacies live on and they inspire us. And then all the lives that are thriving now, I love the everyday moments. I love seeing our patients thriving in those first day of schools, right, those track meets that they run that they want to do, the graduations, the getting to call and ask one of them if she wanted to go be the first ever survivor and patient personal astronaut into space. I mean, these are just these amazing moments that change your life. But for me, I have a dream job. There's not a facet of marketing I don't touch. We get to work with the very biggest, best brands in the world, some of the most well known celebrities. But I put my head on my pillow every night knowing that the work that I do matters. And it's what inspires me to get out of bed every morning. You know, you mentioned it always astounds me how many people take jobs at Allsac and St. Jude having been through this process of either losing a loved one or a loved one had a tough fight but made it out. And it kind of just shows like, especially for those that have lost someone, your natural inclination would be you'd never want to go back. And it shows the difference of St. Jude that people then decide, no, I'm now going to make it my life's mission to help others in that place. It's just it kind of like defies my expectations every single time. It's incredible. Yeah, I know what you mean. You would think it would be the opposite. But any of them you talk to, particularly those who are bereaved families, those that have lost often will say this is where they feel closest to their child and they have seen the realities of cancer. And so they're determined to spend their lives getting back to change that. And so many of them always make me cry, too, because to them it's personal. And I watch them often talk to other new employees. And they have some of the most profound gratitude for people who may not have a personal connection to this, could go work anywhere in the world. And that's true. We've recruited people from the biggest brands that are out there, from Disney and Google and Meta and others that choose to come here. And they have such gratitude and amazement that people would choose to come here not having that personal connection. But, you know, I think that's where the world is heading. There's a reason for the last 10 years that millennials and now Gen Z have named St. Jude and the top one, two places that they want to work, because people want to have a career of purpose. And I think that's what draws a lot of people here. And I think that's what keeps us here. Emily, I cannot thank you enough for taking the time out of your day to come speak to everyone today. Is there anything you'd like to add for our audience before you go? Yeah, first, thank you. Thank you for investing the time to listen. Second, we need you. We need you. September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. As I mentioned, pediatric cancer and other life threatening diseases in children is a multi-year, multi-trillion dollar problem. Don't stop listening. Don't tune out. Don't think, well, that's so big I can't make a difference. Because to me, this is one of the greatest human stories ever told of a dreamer, a visionary, a guy who said, no, it's not acceptable. And Danny Thomas, who said, let's change the world for kids. And then he went around to wherever people were. At that time, it was bowling alleys and pool halls and bars and groups and dinners and said, hey, let's unite around this fundamental truth that all kids should get a chance to grow up. So if you're listening today, thank you. If you'll give today, thank you even more. Know that you are indeed helping us find cures and save children. And I can't think of a better way for us to spend our time and our dollars than to change the world for kids. Hello and welcome back. I spent the last 15 minutes washing my hands. Yep, I helped. It was weird. But required. Now we're going to be joined by RelayFM's very own community manager, Kathy Campbell. Hello, Kathy. Woo, Kathy's here. Kathy's here. Hi, Kathy. There we go. Woo. Kathy. Hi, friends. Just before we start, I would just like to thank Josh and Molly, Eric and Debbie, James, Dean and Jack 151 for their donations. Thank you. All right. We would like to thank Rest in Peace WebOS. Oh, yeah. Oh, man, that's a sad one. WebOS had a lot of good ideas in it. They're mostly in iOS. Now. So, Kathy, what do you have for us today? I have a quiz again. Are you excited? Ha ha, I turned it off. No, this doesn't count because I'm not scoring for Federico, although it'd be good for him because I always win these quizzes that we do. So you've have you ever have I ever won? No. Ever? Nope. Ever? Nope. In a decade? Never. Not in the first decade. No. Ever? Nope. In a decade? Never. Not in the founder quizzes. OK. Well, maybe today's my day. I will just remind everybody that Kathy is community manager's lot with membership, and that's my half of the business. So. So if you win, it's collusion. Point. No, that's not what I mean. Yeah. OK. Wow, Mike. Wow. Just for that, I'm going to change some questions here. One moment, please. See, you are now proving the collusion. You know? Let's move on. We're not. I don't know. We have something to do here. All right. So last week I asked our lovely discord members to send in questions and they did. And the best ones even sent in answers, which were then fact checked by a variety of humans. But most especially Kate, our historian, did so much work to do this. So I just need applause for Kate. Thank you, Kate. Thank you, Kate. Official Real FM historian. Yes. Could not do most of these without them. So with that, you have your whiteboards. Ready? Yeah. All right. What I'm going to do is I will ask you a question. I would like you to write it down and then you're going to hold it up when I go three, two, one, go and hold it up for the screen. I can't see it in the discord, so I'll be delayed on the thing unless somebody wants to read out. This part we didn't plan out. I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll show them and we'll say them. Yeah. Okay. Perfect. Perfect. Excellent. All right. Question number one from Steve. How many members are signed up for the discord right now? Is this closest? Yes. I mean, the points are arbitrary. I will give points to whoever I deem is closest. That's an interesting. How do you deem? So many of her is closest or isn't close. You know what I mean? You know what? Don't ask too many questions. Fair enough. All right. Ready? Yep. I'm going to say 4,000. Oh, he just did it. 4,750. I said 4,650. Ooh, 4,305 is the proper answer. Thank you to Rob for the $1,000 donation. Thank you, Rob. That's a celebration for my first point. All right. Mike gets one point. All right. Second question comes from Kate. How many Dan's Tech Corners have there been on Thoroughly Considered in 83 regular episodes? Dan's Tech Corner. Oh, I said 60. I said 17. Wow. So there's a discrepancy there. Yeah. Well, the answer is 23. So unfortunately, once again. That's a bad question because Mike is on that show. Well, I know. Listen, you'll get some, Steven. Yeah, come. You know, this is one question. Well, so you listen. Because here's a question for you. Are you ready? I am. All right. Jana Lion asks, how many shows on the network currently have their own subscription programs? You get one extra point for every one you name properly. Oh, so we need to write them out. Well, there's a. Yeah. This is going to take a while. So we're going to vamp. And while they're writing, hopefully all of the answers correctly, go to St. Jude dot org slash relay and donate. You can get some goodies. This is good. If you donate. Stickers and an incredible screensaver pack. Goodies. One of them is called. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, yes. Kate, remind me in the chat. I'm going to go back to the previous question while they're writing and tell you a fun fact about Dan's Tech Corner. So there were 23 episodes of Dan's Tech Corner, but there was also Dan's shower thoughts, Tom's future corner, and then episode 66 was the Apple hardware computers, not technically a dance. That's my favorite one. I'm struggling to think right now. Hold on. That's OK. That's OK. We're going to give you to the count of five. To finish one, two, one that I can't remember its membership. Three. I feel like I could do it. There's too much talking. Five. Oh, too bad. That's what's up. How many? I have eight, nine. Well, I said there's nine, but I have seven names. OK, well, so Mike gets one point for the correct answer for the number. But now I'm going to go through. Can I can I can I. Read them out? Yes, because I think I might be able to get them if I do it. So, OK, reconcilably differentiated. OK, I'm going to check my office. I got a rocket booster. Got it. Deep focus. Oh, that's the one I didn't know the name of. More text. Yeah, more power users. Clockwise unwound. Upgrade plus. Oh, no, I lost audio. No, I just stopped talking. OK. I can't. I knew that was on automators. Yes. Yeah, that's correct. That's a whole nine, right? Yeah. So I couldn't remember deep focus. I couldn't remember the name of it. So I'm really happy that one that I forgot was my own. That's pretty good. Yeah. So what do you point for that? How's that? So how many? Mike had seven. Yeah, I had. I wasn't sure of the deep focus name. OK, Stephen wrote down eight. So Belinda, my incredible scorekeeper, I can see the numbers in the spreadsheet making it so I don't do math, which if you have listened to the Relay FM membership shows, you know that I can't be trusted to scorekeep. So that's why we entrusted incredible, incredible Belinda to do so. How many points did we get? Yeah. You didn't get an answer for that. No. Mike gets eight points and Stephen currently has a gray box. So I think it's also eight points because. I see. Because he guessed one more than me. And then he got one more name. Number. Yeah, correct. Fair enough. I can agree to that. Thank you, Matt, Zach and Richard for your donations. We have three hundred and thirty thousand dollars for St. Jude. Wow. Amazing. Amazing. All right. Next up, Aaron MacLeod says, What was the first Relay FM switch on show to get retired? Ooh. To get retired. That's a really good question. Yeah, Aaron, that question came through and I was like, Aaron, nailed it. Perfect question. Oh. I can either of you answer it. I feel pretty confident. Question. I say Inquisitive. Isometric. Ooh. Guess what? Stephen gets the answer because it is Inquisitive. The last episode of Inquisitive was December 20th in 2015. I would have also accepted virtual, which the last episode of that was December 11th, 2015, but then there was a remaster announcement in the feed in January. So Stephen got that question. All right. Next up, Ponder. I just need to check for myself here. Yeah. OK. April 2016. Are you doubting, Kathy? No, I just, from my own, I just felt wrong. OK, you're questioning Kate's incredible, like, fact checking. Of all the people to question. Also, Inquisitive was your show. Yeah, but like, you know, whatever. That's my answer to that. You canceled it so hard, even he forgot about it. Uh-huh. I couldn't believe that that was 2015 and then that went away. Yeah, that was a long time ago. Just after a year. All right. Question number five from Ponders. In the second blog post on the RelayFM blog, what are the four podcast apps that are shown? Fun fact, the title was With a Little Help from Our Friends, and it was posted August 18th, 2014. Thanking the people who helped set up the network, including the developers who featured the shows or network on launch day. But I'm not going to tell you who those are while you write them on your whiteboard. Man, 2014 makes this hard because doesn't. I know. Some apps have come and gone since then. Yeah. That's why it was such a good question. I remember writing that blog post, though. I mean, that's good. What was the date of that blog post? August 18th, 2014. Okay. All right. Got to do. You ready? Hang on. I'm changing one. Okay. I'm changing it. Okay. Okay. I'm going with Castro, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Instacast. Let me read mine because we differ by one. I call it iTunes and not Apple Podcasts. It's the same thing. No, it's not. They changed their name. I bet you know what I mean. All right. Okay. So the correct answers are Overcast, Pocket Cast, Instacast. Sorry, Instacast and iTunes. So I only missed one. I feel like I only missed one because Apple Podcasts is iTunes. No, it's not, though. Yeah, they rebranded it. Yeah. So I'm sorry. I'm going to give Stephen three points and Mike two. I'm just going to say that, you know, I think. What are you saying, Mike? Nothing. What are you saying? Yeah, that's what I thought. Yeah. All right. So was Overcast one of them? Yes. Yeah. I wasn't sure if it was Apple. Yeah, me too. That was what I struggled with. I had it written down. Thank you, Chris, for the $500 donation. Thank you, Chris. Awesome. Ash and Maya and Richard and Zach and Matt. Woo. Excellent. $331,000. You're getting real bell-happy with that. You're bringing that bell a lot. Yeah, man. Okay. I'm winning. All right. Are you winning? What's the score? A score check is exactly tied. We've got 12 and 12. Yeah, you ain't winning. But let's see what happens in this next question, shall we? Marley's asks, how many screensavers are in the exclusive Relay FM for St. Jude screensaver pack? And or you get one point for everyone you can name. Oh, no, that's unfair. There's so many, it might take an hour. I've just, you list however many you think you can, because I don't know if you can answer, list any of them. And if you want the screensaver pack, which has a number of screensavers that I can't say right now because the boys are writing them out, go to stjude.org slash Relay and donate. What is it? $100? I don't even know. I don't have my fancy sheets, but I'm going to say. It is $60 minimum. $60 minimum. $60. Thank you. $60 for the digital pack thing with the screensaver pack. With the screensaver and the stickers. And this is very strange to just sit here and talk to my friends. So hi, Parapow. Name. You have four? I mean, I have like some. I don't think I'm going to get any more than this. OK, that's cool. Let's stop this right now and share me. How many? How many screensavers do you have listed? Or what's the number? 14. Wow, that's not even close. Oh, there are 17 screensavers. Kathy, when you said it's not even close, it was three off. Yeah. I mean, it was kind of close. OK, but think of how much energy James had to put in for those three extra. Oh, by the way, there's one more secret. So really, it's four. So wait, four. I'm sorry. You mean eight? Four off. OK. I mean, to be fair, at 14, I did beg James to stop. Yeah. Let's name. So I have the stickering. I have stickering time. Yes. Sorry, Mike gets that point. It is stickering time. I have face off. Face off. Yep. I have double helix. No, I don't have that. My next is millennial nostalgia. Oh, mine was the millennial secret. Oh, sorry, Mike again. Was the vortex one? Is that what you said? I said double helix. OK. I mean, technically, no, because it's deoxyrelanucleic acid, I am clearly. I have snakes. Nope. And vortex. No, OK, vortex manipulator. Yeah, it's not good. Not good over here. OK, thank you, Shamal. A thousand dollars for the kids at St. Jude. Wow. That's amazing. Thank you to James for making an unmemorable amount. Wait, that didn't make sense. An impossible to remember amount of screen savers that people will get. At the end of the campaign, it is incredible. We'll show you more about that later on. I think I'm just going to do a stream and just let it play for like an hour. Well, then people. Sounds great. You know what I mean? That's piracy. But I could like scream intermittently. OK, I don't think that's going to be. Yeah, you do that. It's a very special kind of art. Wow. Wow. All right. Next up from Skyler. What was the topic of the first episode of Ungenius? According to the Relay FM website. I want to thank Carrie. Thank you, Carrie. Five hundred dollars. Carrie, thank you so much. We're having a whole team meeting here. The first episode of Ungenius. Yep. I don't know. So I got it and I'm even going for a bonus point. Jeez. I wrote lumber. It wasn't lumber. No, it was Action Park with special guest John Syracuse. Very good. Yes. No, Mike does not get a point. But yes. Sorry. Yes, Steven gets a point. A bonus point. Whoa. Hang on a second. Listen, if you answer. When son, you can just call for bonus points. You can. Hey, no, no. Like I said, the only time we've ever had a guess on a genius ever. Yeah, that's not true. Yes, it is. No, it's not true. Jeremy did the emoji one. Jeremy did the emoji. I get a bonus point. I get a bonus point. In the. Yeah, but I just proved him wrong. You know, which I feel like. All right. Everyone's seeing what's happening here. That's what I'm going to say. Next up, another question from Skyler. What was the title of the first episode of Connected? Oh, man, I know what it is for the prompt, but that's not what you asked. That is not what I asked. The prompt is like something pitchforks. Again, not what I asked. You can get a bonus question if you can tell me what was on the episode. No. OK, well, I'm going to get that. Oh. All right. You ready? Yeah. I don't have the title at all. But I think that episode was a kind of history review of the first iPod keynote. First iPad keynote. Oh, what was the. Stephen, did you have a guess for the title? The iPad introduction? OK, yeah. No, sorry. Mindset of 2001 was the title, and it was discussing the origin and evolution of the iPod. Excellent. I pod. We did do the iPad, though, I think. Yeah, we did. But I got that point. So, wow. John R. Thank you. $100 gift. So, yeah, Mike gets one point. Stephen, unfortunately, gets none. Next up. Who was named Relay CRO, Chief Revenue Officer, during the recording of a podcast to only be fired from that position during the same episode? That's incredible. I do not know what that means. I'm shooting in the dark here. Do it. I have no idea. I have no guess. You have to make a guess. I mean, you don't have to. Me. Jason Snow. No, it was Matt C. Departures, Episode five, crossover 170. He was hired at 38 minutes in and fired at 53 minutes in. So, he was CRO for 15 whole minutes. Wow. Why did we give that job away so easily? What was that about? At least we noticed our mistake early. Yeah. That's true. That's true. You didn't sit through it. However, to have hired someone to only fire them so fast, that is bad on us. We should never have hired that person in the first place, clearly. If they could be fired so quickly. We need a Chief of HR. Well, no, they did. I want to know about that. Yeah. Well, listen to Departures, Episode five or crossover 170 and you can find out. What is Departures five? What is actually that episode? No one knows. Oh, I don't know. Crossover 170. That wasn't in my spreadsheet. Yeah. All right. So, question number 10 comes from Jason, Editor in Chief of Rickipedia. Yep. How much money has been donated to charity by losers of the Flexies? $2500. $1650. Oh, OK. So Mike is closest. But not 100% correct, but he still is going to get the point because he is closest. How much was it? $1350. However, you will know that Rickies.co has this at $1550. Because the difference is that Lex is also including the $100 that both Stephen and Mike chose to donate to UNICEF in March 2022. Right. Oh, yeah. So thank you to Joe. Time for Joe for $250. Joe wants more balloons. Don't worry, Joe. Thank you. Yeah. There's the Balloon Room USA. I'm going to be in there soon. It's completely full. Thank you, Emily, for $100. And John. And John for a different $100. Yes. I put the same $100 in. Weird. All right. We are jumping into a section I'm going to call We Are All Connected. All right. Because this is questions about connected and more specifically, the guests on connected. So according to the CMS, what is the most guests that have appeared on a single episode? What is the most guests that have appeared on a single episode of the show? Oh, wait. Give me a number. An episode of Connected. Yeah. Yes. Four? 15. What? Stephen is closest. The answer is 18 for Connected episode 257. Yes. Family feud. I forgot. That was. On Connected. Yeah. Or have a departure. I think it created departures for that. Because that, yeah. That is correct. Yes, it was. Bonus point. First episode of Departures. What? Yeah, I'll give it to you. Yeah. That's what it's supposed to be. Get a bonus point. Bonus point. All right. I just keep saying it. It was up on my screen. You just scrolled down to it. I watched you do it. Cheater. You're cheating. You're trying to cheat. Oh. It's getting nasty. All right. We've been doing this for a long time. Yeah, we're going to separate. Yeah. Question number 12. Uh-huh. Comes from Kate. How many different guests have been on Connected? This is not including family feud. Oh. Individual people may have appeared multiple times. Different guests. All right. Yes, correct. And this is like straight up proper Connected episodes. Not stuff where it's been. Correct. All right. Six. Nine. Nice. 22. What? Oh, look at us. We're very friendly on that channel. Yeah. I get a point. You do. You do. Even though neither of you are anywhere close. It's fine. All right. So there have been a lot of guests as we have established. But who are the top three most frequent guests? Please list them for one point each. Mm. I feel pretty good. All right. You ready? Yep. I'm going to say one true John. One true John. James Thompson. Jason Snell. Underscore David Smith. Underscore David Smith. Whoa. Okay. You will even get two points. Okay. Dice by Pcalc is the second most common guest with eight appearances. And in fact, James Thompson didn't appear as a guest on Connected until episode 377. That's 14 episodes after his actual app appeared on the show. I don't make the rules. Hey, look, his work speaks for itself. Oh, that's good. I like that. What were the other ones? I got a bonus point for the general. No. What are the top three? So Jason was there for nine. Dice by Pcalc, eight. And the one true John on six. Underscore must have been up there, though. Yeah, but underscore was in the top five. Okay. That's a good one. But that's the question. All right. Number 14. She's savage. Oh, what are we doing? We're moving on. I want to get through. We have more questions. All right. So dice by Pcalc. Come on, Kathy. We were on a time limit here. All right. So we're going to change the score. No, no, that's not fair. All right. Dice by Pcalc may have personhood, according to the CMS. But in which connected episodes pre show were the original voices for the relay? FM coin flips recorded. What? What episode? Say it again. Yes. What episode was the original voices for the relay? FM coin flips recorded? Oh, yeah, we did do that. The three of us. We have to pick an episode number. Yeah, we have to pick a number, right? Yep. I don't know. 316 to 12. I'm sorry, Mike. It's closest episode 350 in June 2021. I forgot the first ones the three of us did, and then it started getting out of control. Exactly. Exactly. You know, you give James a little bit of leeway and he just runs away with it. Yeah. All right. Next up. What did that say? No. Okay, go on. Nope. Nope. We're ignoring that. You're ignoring that. All right. Next up. Another question from Kate. How many people have introduced an episode of connected? And who are they? I just see Steven is cheating in Discord. I'm not. That's what it says here in Discord. Matt Vanorma says Steven's cheating. You got to read the whole thing for the context of it. I don't know. Sorry, Kathy. I was too busy finding out about the cheat and to hear the question. Matt can't be trusted. I don't know what happened. If I was cheating, I'd be winning. That's true. But what happened? What did you do? Come on, be honest. Are you answering a question? Kate said that a previous something Kathy said would ruin a later question. All I said was interesting. You didn't get it, though. No, I don't know what you're talking about. All right. Fair enough. I want to thank Matt for trying to keep you honest. Someone's got it right. What did you say, Kathy? I'm sorry. Yeah. Are we back to me now? Yeah. Sorry. Okay. How many people have introduced an episode of Connected and who are they? Oh. That's tricky. Very tricky. Best questions. Okay. I say five, but I've got four names. I said five. So I said Steve and Mike Federico. Yep. Jason and one true John. I just didn't have one true John. I had the other four. Okay. So you each get four points for listing four of the people, but the correct answer is six. And it's Mike, Steven, Federico, and then Marco, Mary, and Jason. Oh, yeah. I don't know. Oh, maybe she was going to talk about headphones or something. I don't know. But as the introduction? Why not? Yeah, why not, I guess. Oh, I guess because she was subbing in for you. Yeah. Mary was... Only Hackett's could introduce the show at that point. That's right. That's right. By succession, it had to be Mary. That makes sense. Amazing. All right. From the great Matt Van Ormer. Who likes to keep Steven honest. Who likes to keep Steven honest. How many total minutes of podcast audio is currently hosted on the Relay FM master feed? You remember when I did this and it was like, and I got it just like 10 magnitudes wrong or something like that? I think it was hours and I didn't, it was like horrible. Minutes. How many minutes? How many minutes? I don't know. I'm just going to do it again. I know this is something where I like, I fundamentally misunderstood the question again. And like my concept of math is wrong. That's how I feel right now. All right. I said 80,000. 176,000. 80,000? Steven? Yeah. Okay. So I'm sorry, Mike. It's a question. The answer again, because it's 432,216 minutes. Jeez. There is 300 days of audio. Get started. Yeah. You know what I mean? Come back in a year. Thank you Abe for the $500. Thank you Abe. Mel, Jelly, and Zeph for the 250. Thank you Jelly. 334,000. Jelly, the designer of the head. Oh, Jelly. Yes. Jelly does all this amazing work. So the heads, the legally distinct Mr. Yellow and X-ray man, that's all Jelly's incredible work. Yes. We love Jelly. Thank you so much. Thank you. Yes. Go get gift wrapped. All right. Yes. Get gift wrapped. Very good. All right. Final question. Okay. We're going to need a little bit of space. This is the last question? A little bit of room. This is the last question. Winner takes all. Huh. Don't give us the point number yet. I don't want to know. No, I'm not going to. I'm not going to. All right. Okay. Are you ready? You're going to say winner takes all after all this? Well, it's entirely possible. It's entirely possible because the final question is, I would like you to list the active podcast in alphabetical order. Get out of town. This is on. Okay. You're going to have to spend the next 10 minutes in silence while we do this. No, we're not going to be in silence because this is a podcast. This is a podcast-a-thon. Instead, I'm going to talk to a pair of pals. Hi, friends. Are you having fun? I know I'm having fun. We're going to ignore the boys and I'm just going to sit here and talk. It sucks. So go to stjude.org slash relay while the boys answer the active podcast in alphabetical order. Hi, friends. I can see you in the chat. I'm so excited. I have had practice looking at the chat and talking in a pod, like in a microphone, but not at the camera. So I'm kind of triangling around here. But yes. Can I ask a question? Yes. What do you think about the? So the way it is on the website indicates how I answered this question. I feel like it's fair to give us that answer. Is it those T or are they? Those are T's. Those are T's. I mean, it hasn't helped me for where I am right now, but it will help me for later on. Well, this is so bad. I'm really bad at alphabetizing in my head is what I'm learning. There's like two things going on, like trying to remember all the show names and then put them in the right word is very hard. Yes. Yes. I know. So the question that was missed was the active podcast in alphabetical order. So a little bit of a longer question. Feel free to go to St. Jude.org slash relay. Oh, it's a good thing that hopefully nobody is watching the video in the show because it looks like it could be cheated. Mike could cheat off of Stephen. Oh, I'm not worried. Don't worry. Okay, good. Good. I mean, honestly, I don't really think we could help each other at this point. I don't know. I feel pretty good. Oh, I don't feel good at all. I know. I know. I haven't listed all of my own shows. I can't remember their names. That is correct. Mike's confidence by winning all of these is definitely going down. Thank you, Jill. Wait, is there a point for each of these? Like, what is the point? Oh, that sucks. In proper order. I don't even understand how you're going to score that. That sounds... That's my problem for after you give me answers. I'm like scrolling through the website in my head. All right, we're gonna count to 10 and that's gonna be the final amount to, like, give me your answers. That's one. No, I mean, I'm not even into that. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Very stressful to have someone counting in your ear. Yeah, it sucks. Eight. All of this sucks. Nine. And ten. All right, time's up. Can I go first because I know I just... Sure. How you doing? All right, how many do you have? Perfect. Oh, I don't even know, like 10. All right, you ready? I'm ready. Analog. Yes. Automators. Yes. Bonanza. Yes. Connected. Okay. Conduit. Okay. Cortex. Departures. Focus. Mac Power Users. Oh, I forgot that one. Hilarious. Originality. I know I'm missing loads, by the way. Remaster. The back markers. The Pan Addict. Upgrade. It's as best as I could do. All right. So just so you know, the letter D comes before N. So conduit comes before connected. Just throwing that out there. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. That felt like cyber bullying what you just said to me. Twelve. Twelve points. Stop saying that. That doesn't mean what you think it means. Cathy is on the internet. I'm being bullied. That's true. That's true. You know what? I'll accept it. All right, Steven. Give me your answer. How many points did I get there? Twelve. Okay. I'm happy with that, actually. Yeah, no, that was solid. Yeah. I named 21 shows, but I definitely missed some that you named. So again, I'm sorry. Analog. Bonanza. Clockwise. Connected. Cortex. Departures. Downstream. I think you might need to slow down. Yes. Someone's trying to score these. Sorry, Belinda. Yeah. Analog. Bonanza. Clockwise. Connected. Cortex. Departures. Downstream. Focus. Liftoff. Material. I forgot Mac Power Users, which is embarrassing. I know I forgot multiple of my own shows. Originality. Parallel. Pictorial. Reconcilable Differences. Remaster. Rocket. And then I'm done. Rocket. The Backmarkers. You crushed me, man. The Pen Addict. Thoroughly Considered. Ungeniused. And Upgrade. I really did forget multiple of my own shows. That was a really hard question. We get asked every time and we never do well at that. No. Because we don't research beforehand, to keep it fair. Well, I didn't. I did it. Okay. Just checking. Very good memory you got there. Very good memory. Would you like to know the final scores? Yeah. All right. We're going to start with Mike, who has 38 points. And Stephen has 43. Congratulations. Yes! So the final question, once again, swaps the winner. How many did Stephen get on that final one? What was the score for that final one? 21. He got them all in the order. Congratulations. That's excellent. Yeah, they were all in order. So those 21 were all in the proper order. I just want to know, Kathy, whose question was that? That was actually mine. Okay, that's good because I hate that question. So I can tell you, I hate your question. Yeah, you can tell me that you hate my question. Absolutely. I dreamed that. So I woke up from a full night's sleep and I said, I have the perfect final question and they're going to hate it. And I love it. So thank you. Do you know something else that I love? A donation from the screensaver orchestrator. The chance of steaming is James and Saskia. Thank you so much for 1042. No, it's off. Thank you very much. And Kathy, thank you for helping Stephen finally win one. Wow. All right, so we're gonna go to a video and then we have something very special planned. Mm-hmm. In the case of these patients, these four patients that came to Memphis on Monday, they learned at some point, you are going to board a bus and then fly to America. Many of these patients had never left the country of Ukraine, much less ever traveled on a plane before. And so they had quite the experience. This was a small plane. I've never been on a plane so small in all of my life. So they probably felt the air as they were flying over Europe, landing in Iceland to refuel, continuing their journey to Washington, D.C., refueling there, meeting the border patrol who were elated to be able to help them with their journey, boarding once again on a plane and landing in Memphis. And from there, I remember a patient mother asking me, and how much longer do we have to go? And I said, it's only 15 minutes from here. And she was so, so relieved. What I think that they will learn in short time is that this is a hospital and the comprehensive services that it offers is unlike anything that they would have been able to do to promise their child at home in Ukraine. Even if we can do nothing about the one battle that they're facing, the fact that they've had to leave their homes, that at least we give them a chance to survive cancer and to fight that battle and to, you know, meet many people who care about their fate along the way. Hello and welcome back. Bonjour. Je suis chef. Okay, so I feel like this year's podcast, the time has really taken like a full daytime TV show vibe. We are now continuing that with the cooking segment. Oh, I thought we were going to do like, is it your child? We're not doing that sort of. No, not like Maury. More like, I don't know, like USA Today or whatever. Today. Yeah. Yeah. The morning show. No, not that one. Can you explain why we have this? We have an Easy Bake Oven here. We talked about it on an episode of Ingenious and you had not experienced it. No. And we thought everyone should experience an Easy Bake Oven. And so, dear viewers, we're going to let you choose what we cook. We have red velvet and strawberry cakes. We have cheese pizza refill mix. Oh, they also refill mix. Yeah, the refill mix threw me off as well. Cheese pizza and mini whoopie pies. So please vote on Twitch. I like the name of that one. It's funny. Which one you want. We're going to let that poll run for a few minutes while we go spin the wheel. Yep. And we will come back and we will do some cooking. It's going to be sweet. Or savory. Or spicy. Which one's spicy? I don't know what I'm doing. Okay, clearly. Let's go put some gummy bears in the thing. All right, let's go put some gummy bears in the rocket. Hack it one. HTM one. HTM one. I like the red. You match enough and everything's good. Yeah, no, when you pick up your microphone, I'm going to tie my apron. But if I put my microphone down to tie the apron, then no one would hear anything. Okay, I got my funnel. I'm gonna do this one-handed. It's gonna be great. Oh, oh, they got stopped up in there. Oh, there we go. A lot of people have commented what we're going to do with this when we're done. I don't know. There we go. Okay, so Twitch polls aren't working. So someone is tabu. Is there a tabulation? There's a tabulation occurring. So you just say what you want right in the chat. You just shout it out and there's a tabulation. Yeah, there's a scientific tabulation like the way that Stephen knows exactly how many gummy bears to add into the tube. Okay, oh, that's good. Man, I should have worn this hat the whole show. Should we just go and fill this up or come back to it in a minute? Why would you fill it up? Gotta keep going. I mean, is it fill up? What is the top? Unknown. Oh, so it hasn't seen that scientific. It's super scientific. What is the amount of money when you get to the top? A hundred? Yeah. Yeah. Well, we're at what? We're at nearly nearly a hundred thousand dollars race today, which is really awesome. What have we got? Like 13,000 more. Something like that. Is that 13,000 at the top there? Yeah. Good. Yeah. It's so impressive how you can do that. I know I'm very smart. You are really smart. Your hat. Should we do a wheel spin and then cook? Let me find out. Shall we continue to do things or have we chosen a recipe? Production room. Richard. Richard, is there a recipe? Can anybody hear us? We're gonna go the wheel. We're gonna wheel? Oh, it's pizza for sure. Let's just do it. Because this takes a really long time. So what we're going to do is I've never. Okay. That's unnecessary. I've never used one of these before. So I would like you to help me with the instructions and explain to me what I need to be doing while I'm doing it. We have, let me bring in some, we have some like recipe related things, utensils and stuff. Yeah, that's good. So do you want to get the instructions out? Yes. Are you going to eat some of this? I can't eat this. Are you sure? What if I told you it had absolutely zero nutritional value? Mixes contain wheat, milk, egg, and soy. What's wrong with that? I can't have two of those. Let's go. You ready? Okay. These are the instructions. I just need you to get the instructions. I know, but I'm putting these out so people understand that we're basically working with packets of dust. Yeah. Where is the water that we need? I was told there'd be water. We need our lovely assistant. Adina is going to get some water. But I need to be able to measure it. I think. Preheat Easy-Bake Ultimate Oven for 20 minutes. I cannot tell you the amount of times someone has said in the last 24 hours, preheat the Easy-Bake Oven. Your elastic is showing there. That doesn't help. Anonymous, thank you for your gift of $1,000. Wow, so generous. Tyler, Brian the Wolf, thank you all. Just the elastic in the back. All right. So first we're going to make the sauce. And look, it's in a jaunty font, so you know it's important. What do you think Federico would say about this pizza? I think he's going to wish that we made it for him. I, yeah, exactly. This is going to be authentic Italian pizza. Pour one marinara sauce mix. Into what? And one and a half teaspoons of water into a bowl. Marinara sauce mix. This unit not labeled. Marinara sauce. What does that mean? Sorry, so this goes in? That goes in. With one and a half teaspoons of water. Okay. If we can just get a good look at this. Oh no. Do I breathe this in? Yeah, you want to. Okay, here's my question. Why is this? This is tomato sauce, right? It's white. It turns. How does that happen? It's science. All right. So you need one and a half teaspoons of water. I think I need a microphone person. Someone to hold the barbecue mic for me. Because I need both hands at all times for this. Thank you. I didn't mean to pour it in there. Yeah, what are you doing? That's too big. No, I know. I know. Look, I need to pour it in so I can get the water more easily. All right, just please. I'm the chef. You're an artist. All right, what do I need? You need one and a half teaspoons. So you need each of those full of water. I mean, I could have just done three of these. Or three of the half ones. That is a hair in here. That's the least of your words. All right. That's. So you're going to mix that in with a spoon. Do I have a mixing spoon? We got a mixing spoon. We got a brush. That's. Let me see. We got some other stuff. That's not enough water. That's what it says. But look. Maybe someone can get us a spoon. Can anybody give me something to mix this with? Just use your finger. No. No, I don't want to use a makeup brush. There's some spoons under the sink out there. I guarantee you I don't want to use. Look at this. Give everybody a good look at this. Where is the camera? Who's looking at this? I'm very upset. There we go. There we go. What I'll say is for the amount of times people said turn on the Easy-Bake Oven. Why did nobody get any of the things we needed? It's fine. Look, here we go. Here's a spoon. Okay. I'm very upset. All right. I'm an artist. Chef's upset. I've seen. Thank you. Okay. I've seen ratatouille. I know what happens when chefs get mad. Oh, that's terrible. So should we improvise and add more water? That's kind of turning into a sauce. Yeah, get some ASMR in there. I mean, it's doing its thing. All right. I think I've got that. I think I might need more bowls. Thank you. More bowls. Yes, chef. That's what everyone has to say when I ask for things. That's right. Okay. Let's say that's marinara sauce. Okay. And we sit that aside for later. I would love to sit it aside. I cannot tell you how much I want to sit that aside. Number two, make the cheese. Pour one garlic herb cheese mix and one and a half teaspoons of water into a bowl. That's dough. Okay. There we go. It's freaking me out because it keeps saying this unit not labeled. Like it says on every single one of them. It says and then so I'm looking for the label and they all say this unit not labeled. It's upsetting. No. Okay. Very upset. We'll get this later on. Hit some E. Okay. This goes in and what? Another one and a half. Gavin and Mark, thank you for your donations. We are getting ready to cross $339,000 for St. Jude. This is what people want, right? Incredible. One and a half teaspoons again. One and a half teaspoons. I need more spoons. Can't you use the same spoon? Nope. It's all going the same place. No, because then it's going to mix it up. I need another spoon. It's a lot of running around. Bowls, spoons, it's all happening. All right. So you're going to mix that and then you're going to set it aside for later. I don't understand. Where is this? It's just a collection of powders. Oh, yeah. That's not good. Oh, look, it's becoming crumbly. As cheese does. Hey, look, it's becoming a thing. Yeah, it's glue-like. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Cheese. Now we're going to... Cheese. All right. Cheese. Cheese. We're now going to make the glaze. So pour one egg wash mix. Okay, Mike, you're not reading the whole thing. It says this unit is not labeled for retail sale. But it's just when I'm looking for what it says and every single one of them says this unit is not labeled, it just keeps freaking me out. So you're going to pour this and okay, pay attention. Two tablespoons of water. Two tablespoons? Mix with a spoon. Set aside for later. Two tablespoons. Because we've been using teaspoons up until this point. It says two tablespoons. This is a lot of water. Two of these things. Do we even have that amount of water? Yeah, look how much water. There's a hair in there. I know there's a hair in there. Get off. I'm trying to help. Get out of my kitchen. I need a rolling pin to hit you with. Okay, two tablespoons. Yes. I'm worried we're failing this. Is glaze a common pizza? Oh, I got the hair. Whatever. No, it's gone. It's in there now. Come on. All right. I need another spoon. Where are the spoons? So angry. I've asked for spoons hundreds of times now. No. The glaze dust. Why does it keep happening? It's just a smaller ball. I think that's the issue. Why is it this color? Why? That's not good looking. Maybe we can get a close up of this. That color is bad. It's like, why is it brown like that? Egg yolk. Is egg yolk brown? It's egg wash mix. Do you see the color of this? People keep giving me answers to questions and they're not good answers. Ooh. You know? Whatever. Okay. So up next. Cheers to the Italian General Flexi, a $101 donation. Thank you. I appreciate the shout out. Okay. Can I get a shot on this? That's all lumpy and stuff. This is the grossest one. That's an egg wash mix. Okay. Now set aside for later. I've got a lot of like aside. I feel like these are warm. I think they've been recently cleaned. These balls. Anyway. Okay. Make the pizza dough. Pour one. That's what it says. Pour one pizza dough mix. And one tablespoon of water into a bowl. I don't know if Jill can hear us, but if Jill can mute whatever we're hearing in our ears, that'd be great. Yeah, there's a lot of duplication in our ears right now. Nice and smooth. Right. What am I doing? Pour one pizza dough mix and one tablespoon of water into a bowl. Pizza dough mix. Okay. Pizza dough mix. I don't know. Pizza dough mix. There's two pizza dough mixes. I know. We're going to use the other one later. We're not going to make 12 of these. We're going to make six of these. We're not going to make. But we didn't have the other ingredients. Yeah. No, you have it later on. It's fine. I've already read ahead in these instructions yesterday, and it says use half of this. Cheater. All right. Whatever. What am I doing with this? You are going to do it with some things. One tablespoon of water into a bowl. One tablespoon of water. Stir and press the mixture together until you form the dough. Stir and press? Yeah. Oh, God. Press the mixture together. Just one tablespoon? Yes. You're then going to mix it in, and then you're going to use your hands to shape the dough into a ball. Just. Oh, man. That seems very dry. They always do, and then it just comes together magically. But what am I mixing it on? What's? Is there? Do I have a clean surface? Place them on a sprayed baking pan. Do we have a sprayed baking pan? Oh, this is the baking pan. Yeah. I'm going to use this thing. Okay. To press them on. Get some. Oh, people in the chat are very impressed, Eric, by your ability to hold the microphone still. He's a professional. He is a professional. It's years of training. Don't worry, this person is a professional. All right, so this just crumble. You put it on there? No. No, I got. Use your hands and shape the dough into a ball, and then you split the dough into six equal pieces. Are we supposed to spray the tin first? I'm not. I'll do the tin. Yeah, you do that. I'll spray the tin. This is not going to stick together. I think it's more like a shimmy. Nailed it. That table's ruined forever. It's so much. There's so much on there. You don't need to stick. You need to remove some of that. I think the AC bake oven might catch on fire. It's fine. What am I doing now? You are mixing into a ball. You need some more water, I think. No, no, no, no, no. Don't worry. I'm mixing it into a ball. It takes a lot of concentration because every time I move, it wants to just crumble into a thousand pieces. Right. Well, it's in a bowl now. So what am I doing now? Separating it into six. Separating into six. How do you separate this into six? Look how small it is. What do I do then? Like half and then? Yeah. But then half and then what? Then half two more times. Six. Six. Yeah. That's really good. These are going to be tiny pizzas. Okay. Flatten each ball of dough like a little pancake and shape it into a circle. Can we get a paper towel just to remove just a slight amount of this? There's so much. Look at this. All right. We're going with it. Going with it. I'm going to take a look at that. Good. Now it's healthy. It's not about healthy. Now flattening these? Yes. Like a little pancake. They're so small. I thought it was going to be bigger than this based on the image. But I guess I got to get six on there, you know? I can't wait to feed these to our wonderful hungry crew. Richard. Richard! It's dinner time. Okay. Use a pastry brush to spread some glaze on top of the dough. I actually have one of those. Which one is the glaze? The brown one. There's like a really overwhelming smell here, right? What? It just smells like herbs or something. Oh, Richard came. Hi, Richard. I can't actually say Richard. We are getting a slight echo in our headphones. Yeah. We're hearing ourselves on like a 20-second delay. I think it's through Discord, but I can't prove it. Oh, my God. John Syracuse just... The ghost of John Syracuse just appeared. John wants to eat some pizza with you. I think so. That's really good. That's a lot of egg wash for... Shush. I think you need to do some more egg wash on that. Do you think it's going to make a difference? It's a pizza. Okay, egg washed. Okay, spread marinara sauce on top of the pizza dough. Be sure to save half the sauce for your second batch of pizzas. See? It's an exclamation point. That's incredible. They are so tiny. I can't wait to feed people my incredible pizza. It's going to be so good. Everyone's going to be so happy. Here we go. Thank you. Okay, I have made the pizza. I've marinara-ed it. Spoon the cheese into a plastic sandwich bag. What? Okay, that's why these are here. And cut a small hole in the corner. It is a hilariously small amount of cheese for me to do this. I think you could just do that by hand. No, I want to do it as the instructions tell me. You are going to fill up the corner of the bag. And then we cut the corner of the bag off and use it as a squeeze thing. Yeah, that's good. Oh, there are scissors here. See, somebody read the instructions fully. But the person who read the instructions didn't know I needed spoons. Would you like to just cut the end? No, no, no. It's way too much. There we go. Thank you. You didn't do it all. Stop it. Give me the scissors. Jeez. What's wrong with these scissors? Here, hang on, hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Okay, got it. Now what am I doing? Now you are going to squeeze out strings of cheese on top of the sauce. It's way too big. Oh. Well, we're... Well, we're only making six, so it's okay. No! This is true culinary art. Oh, God. Why? Why does this exist? I feel like it should only be sweet things. Well, the audience wanted pizza. Okay. Time to bake. Oh, really? Turn to baking basics for cooking instructions. Baking basics. Yep. Why did it just say turn over? Preheat the Easy-Bake Oven for 20 minutes. Slide the baking pan into the slot as shown. So you want to put it in sideways. Use the pan pusher. Show everybody the pan pusher. Okay. Use the pan pusher to push the pan into the baking chamber. Stop when the baking line on the handle lines with the bottom of the baking slot as shown. Look inside the oven. Look inside the oven and make sure the metal doors are closed on both sides. Oh, maybe. It's closed on this side. Okay. If one door is slightly open, use the pan tool to shut it. When baking time is done, use the pan pusher to push the pan all the way through the cooling chamber. Okay, so this is going to cook for 14 minutes, so I'm going to set an alarm. Set a timer for 14 minutes. Oh, it's locked. Why is it locked? Set a timer for 14 minutes. And... Come on, Siri. There we go. We have a timer set. 14 minutes. Counting down. So we'll come back to this in 14 minutes. In the meantime, what do we have next? I think we talked to John Syracuse. No, John's not ready. Campaign update. Let's spin the wheel. Can we take these off? Nope. Okay. Are you ready? I'm ready. I may have spun that too hard. I was ready. 20 minutes later. And we are landing on number... 13. Mike, make the fundraiser donation. Alright. I'll do that. We have... we're at 69% of our fundraising goal. Nice! That is $339,000 for the kids at St. Jude. You're going to donate $100 to a campaign. Picked at random. Who's the St. Jude? Let's see. What is that? Who's? Oh, awesome. Oh, it's a podcast. I came across it on Twitter the other day. Who's? H-double-O-S. Yeah. Who's? Who's? What is that? It's a podcast. Who's? Yeah. It's theirs. Hey! Open the wheel again. And... 14. Onesie segment. We're already in aprons, so... Onesies on top of this? I gotta take the jacket off to fit the onesie on. I think we're just gonna move on from there. We're gonna keep these on when we talk to John. How about that? Number... 8. Hula hoop battle. Oh my god. I haven't even made my donation yet. Where are the... Oh, here are the hula hoops. What if I donate and hula hoop? Can I do that? Yes. You hula hoop. I'm bad at it. I'm gonna give you the heavy one. It's the hula hoop pro. Pro max. I'm gonna sit the mic down. Go! I seriously hurt my thumb. My thumb was like inside the hula hoop as it went around me. Okay. I say we do one more wheel spin and then we talk to John and we'll get John's hot take about our pizza. Let's speak to John now. Okay. Come on hula hoop boy. That's true. It really smells like pizza over here. You know, it does smell like pizza. It's a pizza. We are now going to be joined by everyone's friend. Mr. John Syracusa. Hey John. Ciao John. Hey guys. Welcome from Italy. We just got a donation. Sorry John. Sorry. $5,555.55 from the vengeful ghost of the iPhone mini. Everything we said about the iPhone mini was wrong. iPhone mini is the best. John Syracusa, what did you think of our pizza? Did you see it? I just tuned in and was getting everything set up and I could tell you were doing something with food but if you hadn't told me it was pizza I'm not sure I would have been able to tell. It's pizza from an Easy-Bake oven. What do you think that's going to be like? It was like six distinct powders that all got small amounts of water added to them. The whole thing the fancy people do with pizza at home is they get those ovens that go to like a thousand degrees and you're trying to use a light bulb. Yeah. That's a really good point. That's true. How are you John? Doing good. Yeah? Did you get a new phone today? I did get a new phone today. Oh. John, is that a trash can Mac Pro box behind you? I did some set dressing. Oh. Wait, can we go in there? I was excited to finally round out my collection. John, are they holiday cards hanging up? That's a holiday card. Yours are probably up there somewhere. I like that you just keep them on constant display. It's always holidays in John Siracusa's office. It's like one of those metal wires up there and then if you don't have the things on it then what do you hang on it? So we just never take them down. That's true. Do you think one day the load might become so heavy that it brings themselves down? We rotate them and they're very light. The main thing to do is when there's air currents like when the heat's on in the winter it'll just get hotter and make noises. Oh, it annoys you. I thought it might have been soothing. No, no. Because it gets picked up on the microphone. That's true. That is true. There's just an overwhelming smell of pizza in it. It's pizza but also kind of plastic? Yeah, which might mean that the thing's smelling. What smells like pizza to you? Well, okay, so it's like... Oregano and tomato sauce? Yes. That's the smell. Did you say oregano? Not anymore. I say oregano now. I don't like the way oregano sounds. I thought it was origana. Wasn't that her last name? What is that? It's a Star Wars reference. You play into your audience. You know your audience. My donation is not going through. We'll deal with that later on. John, what phone did you get? I got the 14 Pro. Very boring. You're coming from a 12, right? Yeah, 12 Pro. I got this... I got the clear case. Oh no. I don't want the clear case but it's the only Apple-made case that has the bare bottom. Very important to me. I have other cases on order but apparently all the third parties couldn't get their acts together so all my actual cases that I want from third parties are coming in the middle of October. I needed something for now. Let me tell you, this clear case is worse than I could have possibly imagined. I put the phone into it right out of the box and I don't know, have you ever... Have you ever had a clear case? An Apple clear case? I tried when they did it with whatever... whenever they started doing that I tried the clear case and I think it lasted about three days. I couldn't handle it anymore. Every piece of dust in your house ends up between the phone and the case. Yeah. Well I guess that always happens but you usually don't see it, right? Yeah, well so like I did the sort of surgical clean room procedure which is like directly out of the box immediately into the clear case without touching it with my fingers, you know what I mean? I don't have that problem. The problem I have is I put it in the case, mapped it all in, and then I picked it up off the ground and I don't know if you can hear this. You hear that? It makes like a creaking noise. Like when you pick it up and squeeze it, the clear part touches the side and then it pulls away by like a micrometer. The whole thing creaks. It's just this terrible... Do you think they all do that? But just because that one's pure plastic do you hear it? No, I think it's just this specific one because it's made out of this weird rubberized, like squishy plastic stuff. The other ones are made of some other thin shell of hard plastic with stuff wrapped around it. I had the Apple silicone case last time, right? I got this one this time because I'm like, well I know I don't like the lip anymore so let me get this thing. So bad, I cannot wait to get this thing off my phone. I don't even know if I'll be able to keep it on the phone because every time I pick it up I feel like it's like sliding or slipping or creaking and I'm like, maybe it's not seated right? Maybe I didn't get it all in? No, it's seated. It's in as far as it's ever going to go. It just creaks. It makes terrible creaks. I hate it so much. John, what is your strategy when it comes to new phone time? Some people back up to Finder and restore from there. Some people use iCloud, some people do the direct transfer. What's your go-to move? I'll start off by saying no one should ask me this question because I am the worst at this game. For the past few years, for the past few phones I've gotten, I've had to spend like an hour and a half on the phone with Verizon just to get my telephone number to transfer. I was worried about it with the eSIM and everything, but that part of it went fine. I had my two phones next to each other, was setting them up, scanning the little dot thing, you know, oh look your cell phone number is transferring. Oh, it transferred. Like, wow, so painless. But last year I remember being annoyed that all, quote unquote, all my stuff didn't transfer to my new phone. This year I said, okay, I'm going to go back to the tried and true method. I'm going to make iTunes slash Finder backup of my phone while I wait for the package to arrive. And I did. Just today in the morning I plugged in my 12 Pro, made a complete encrypted fresh Finder backup of my phone. Everything went fine. Then I got the new phone, it transferred the number over perfectly fine, and I had to restore from my Finder backup. And it took a really long time. The Finder showed a big giant progress bar. And when it was done, I have none of my stuff on my phone. Nothing. Oh no. All my slacks are gone. None of my accounts exist. None of my two-factor stuff exists. Everything is gone. None of my settings exist. My preferences for Twitterific, everything, nothing is here. Everything is gone. I don't, I'm never doing a Finder backup again because this is way worse than when I did the iCloud restore last time. I don't, I'm almost like I should just forget it, start over and do an iCloud restore or something. No, the good one is the phone-to-phone. The phone-to-phone transfer. I've done that one as well. I've never been satisfied with how much stuff gets transferred, but I have to say, like, Finder backup, you are off my list. I'm never doing you again because I lost everything. And you know, you know which one hurts the worst? Many thousands of holes in Golf on Mars. No. Gone. I launched Golf on Mars, it's like, oh, here comes the ball floating down with the parachute. Wait, are they not on the old phone anymore? Oh, they're on the old phone. They're not on the new phone. And I can't get them to the new phone because the Golf on whatever, Desert Golf and Golf on Mars guy is evil and doesn't do any cloud syncing. Do you think they do that purposefully? Absolutely. Absolutely on purpose. That's part of the ethos of the game. The ethos of the game is, you know, tough luck. Yeah. You're on your own. What color did you go for? Just a boring black. What do you think of the black? I mean, I'm not going to see it once my case is on it. It's fine. You know, like, if I had no case, I would have got the white because I like the way the white one looks without the case. I like the stainless steel silver on the edge and I like the actual white on the back, not the dishwater color from last year, but the actual white. So I would have got white if I was using it without a case. Or if I was using a clear case, but I hate this clear case. But anyway, I have a black leather case. I have two black leather cases coming. Both of them have a bare bottom and they should come sometime in October. What's the bare bottom thing? Like, what's that? Like, why do you need that? You know why? Because all I do all day is swipe up from the bottom of my phone and I hate my phone hanging up. I thought you meant like the very bottom but no, you don't want a lip on the screen. Yeah, I remember now. The whole bottom is exposed. There's no cutouts for anything and there's no, more importantly, there's no lip there for it to hit my phone against. And I tried it. I tried it with the Apple silicone case. My wife has the Apple leather case but it has a lip. Can't stand it. Gotta have the bare bottom. Oh, thanks. This is great. How much time have you spent using the phone today? Much? All I've been doing is going, with the two phones here, starting from the upper left and just going across, launching each app and copying the settings and logging in. And then I'll launch the next app, copy all the settings, log in, launch the next app. Some apps take longer than others. Some of them you realize I don't know where these passwords are anymore. Some of them I realize, like off on Mars, that there's nothing I can do about it as far as I can tell. I'm just stuck where I am. I don't understand why the iTunes encrypted backup or the Finder encrypted backup copied nothing. The worst thing is, after I had restored from the backup, it's like, big progress bar on the Finder, okay, you're all restored. When I swiped up to enter my phone, every icon on my home screen said, waiting, dot, dot, dot, and was grayed out. It's like, what did you even copy? What was it doing? Why are the apps say, waiting? Is it downloading them from the App Store? Does it not backup apps? Maybe it was copying the data, but making you download the apps from the cloud, right? I've seen that kind of thing before, which is really annoying. It would just be so great if you just let you do the whole thing, right? Yeah. And like, I'm sure you two both have this problem as well. TestFlight, you know, the restore knows nothing about TestFlight, so you realize, oh, I've got all my apps and they're back, but you don't because seven of the apps you use every day are all actually TestFlight ones. And so you have to go to TestFlight and install over on top of them, and I don't know what that does with settings. The one thing that is good about that, though, is when you do install them, if you haven't messed anything around, it does, I think, preserve the order they were in on your home screen. That's good. Yeah, no, it does. And I think it inherits the non-TestFlight settings, but of course you have to have the non-TestFlight settings in there. Yeah. Yeah, it's a little fragile. What do you think about the always-on display? It's weirding me out. It's weird, right? I've got pictures of, I don't know how to swipe through them, but I've got, I picked a, I made a new home screen and it's rotating pictures of my family, and I had to edit these because it's so hard to find a picture with this much free space above your kids' heads, right? Because I frame pictures correctly, so I don't have photos with that much free space, so I've got to do AI image extension with a pixel meter to make more space above them. But now, when my phone is sitting on a counter, I think I'm getting a text from my son. Right? Because it looks like, you know when they text you, their picture comes up and fills the screen? I'm constantly looking like, oh, is someone texting me? Is my wife texting me? No. So I might have to come up with a different strategy for my lock screens, because it always looks like I'm receiving a call or a text from a family member. It's very strange how much of the screen is preserved. We've been playing with mics, and it's surprising. Speaking of mic, Mike went over to the pizza oven because our timer went off, and he's having a real hard time. Let's go check in on Mike. Oh! Don't touch the pan! Okay. Sorry, John. Oh. It's like everything's... It's too late now. He's burned. They're going to cool down for an amount of time. Okay, we're going to let those cool. John, they don't look like pizza. I can tell you that. I can't see your video, by the way, so I can't see what you're doing over there. Oh, okay. For the best. I did see the hats, though. Earlier. Yeah, we had aprons on. Are those yours to keep? I hope so. I have to wear them in the kitchen from now on, is the rule. I didn't allow them to cool in the cooling chamber for five minutes. Oh. You rushed over there and got excited. Well, I mean, it's out now. It's cooling now. Allow pan to cool in the cooling chamber. Don't grab it by the hands. Five minutes. We'll come back to that later on. John, he just reached over and picked the pan up after it came out of the oven. You know, John, I'm sure you've done stuff like this. It's a nasty experience in the kitchen. I know you've done stuff like this, John. Your instincts get the better of you, right? And I was nearly dropping it, so I went to touch it. You know, I just reached out and grabbed it. It was hot. It's fine. I'm fine. Are you okay? It's like one of those things that you do maybe once, but then... Well, this is the first time that I've used an Easy-Bake oven. This is the one time. I'm not going to do it again. I've learned. Maybe. Where were we? We talked about the always-on display and how it's kind of weird. It is kind of weird. I keep thinking my phone's on, so I'm going to have to get used to that. I guess that's the point, right? What did you pick as your lock screen? Do you have rotating images? Do you use weather? What do you use? I haven't set up my phone properly, the new phone, because Steven brought it to the studio today. I just basically turned it on, put a couple of apps on it. But when I do the full restore, I'm using a picture of Idina now. I'm intrigued to see how it's going to look color-wise. I'm using one of Apple's built-in ones, the standard one that's on the box. It's got the two circles. You can see that they're color. It's a similar image, which is really interesting. I don't really know how it's going to feel. Strange. You're using the standard one, what? You said with two circles? It's kind of like what's on the boxes. It's like these two. Oh, it's on this thing? Yeah, those. For me, one of them is gold, because I got the gold phone. I couldn't even tell what that's supposed to be. This is the home screen option, apparently? That's that com pre-installed. Yeah, I guess most people don't see that because they're constantly just restoring their settings from their old phone. It's just whatever they're looking for. Yeah, it is strange. I think it may be something we all get used to. I don't think we're ever going to get used to it. If people are putting pictures of our family members and stuff on there, it's always going to look like they're texting you or calling you. You know what I mean? You should make that your lock screen and have a dean call you and see if you can note the difference. Other than the fact that your phone is vibrating, obviously. You see their picture filling your phone screen. It's like, oh, I'm getting a text or a call. This is funny. People never call me, so if someone calls me, their photo fills the screen? Yeah. I don't really get phone calls. I don't get phone calls really from anyone that I care about, by and large, so I never see that? Huh. Did you know that? It doesn't happen with texts. No, no, no one calls me. The phone, when somebody calls you, it fills up. I didn't know that. I take phone calls all the time. Oh, yeah, we've been through this. You have the phone on the lock screen. I didn't know that that happened. I think also I'm pretty bad at having people's photos in contacts because my contacts database is so bad at keeping in sync. I have three entries for every person and every time I add somebody to my phone, I also have to add them to my Mac and to my iPad. You've got to go find the poisoner. When you have that, there's one device that is poisoning everything. Process of elimination, you've got to wipe and erase the device and don't put any new data on it, then sync and de-dupe and see if the de-dupe will come back. My plan is to, at some point, busy contact, whatever it's called, and download all of them. Download them all, de-dupe them all, and then delete every device from contacts and then just start again. I went through this a while back. The tricky part is if you do that, you're like, I delete all the things I make. Because the address book has address book. Contacts has its own database backup thing in it itself. You can just do that. The problem is you do that, you delete everything, and then you de-dupe, and then you restore, and then the duplicates come back. You're like, wait, what's going on? It's because the cloud knows about some device that you don't know about that it remembers the contacts on, and that's the poisoner. We know we all have too many devices that we find out of your Apple ID. This just seems like such a horrible amount of work I don't want to do. I'm just going to have triplicates of contacts and nothing in sync for the next 20 years. I think that's probably what I'm going to do. Plus, now, don't you also get the thing where people offer their contact image? You message them, and it's got the update contact just constantly? It doesn't work for me. So I say, yes, update, and it just doesn't do it. Then it will do it on one device I didn't ask it for, but on the original device, it still doesn't do it. Then the next time I hear from them, it says it again. I don't think I could handle that. I did fight this until it became somewhat sane, because I can't handle that. I hate it when I get offered the images, though, because I have my own images of the people that I like better, and it keeps offering me their image. I'm like, no, I'm not taking it. That doesn't surprise me. You want to curate the image. Yeah, I have my own photos of most people. Frequently, photos that I took, and that's what I use. Sorry, John, we just got a $1,000 donation, which now means we've passed $350,000 raised, which means we have raised, now, over $100,000 today. All right! And I have no doubt it's because John's here. I'm convinced. So, John, thank you for doing this for us. Thank you. Much appreciated. All right. If you did put a picture of your wife on your lock screen, did you Photoshop it? No, why would I do that? To make it fit, so her face is not covered by the phone. I took it with an iPhone. But you took it with lots of headspace above her. It just so happened that the image that I chose... I mean, she's not very tall. No, it's very easy to get headspace above my wife. It's not another big problem. No, it depends on how you frame the thing. If you're on a fixed mount, you can point it at a person. No, that image, I know I zoomed it in a bit and pulled it down. The particular image that I chose worked great for that. But then I used widgets anyway, so the cutoff thing doesn't count. They don't do the whole way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you don't use widgets and you're not doing like that... That's why I don't have widgets, because I want the little hair. You want the little fancy thing? It's a cool look. It seems like it makes the person move up against the background or something, like the animation or whatever. So that's cool. So I wanted that. But if you don't do that, and it just has the person there, if you don't have enough space above their head, the clock is just over their face. You just can't... I think people are going to find out that there aren't a lot of photos that they take that are that long and skinny with that much empty space above people's heads. Well, now we're all going to take photos that way just in case they show up on the look screens. That's right. Every photo is like this. You need a lot of color though, too. Like my wife's picture, it's like a head and shoulders shot, right, that I like. But then when I put the space above it, because her head and shoulders isn't that big, it's like a huge amount of space. I mean, she's the shortest one in the family, but it's like her head way down at the bottom of the phone and lots of green leaves all up to the top. Out of context, those photos are very funny in a photo library. It's like, why did you frame it like this? Oh, yeah. It took me so long to even figure out how to move, like, you know, when you select the image in that terrible interface or the lock screen, that you have to do like a two-finger zoom and then keep your two fingers on it and move because you can't pan with a single finger. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you have to like move it around. Yeah, it's definitely a little finicky. It's like the people who made that UI have never used an iPhone before. You need to give them a way to pan the image. What should we do? How about making them zoom first and then make them keep two fingers? Have they ever used an iPhone? Probably not. Alright, John Syracuse, I have to go eat some pizza now. Good luck. It's been a pleasure as always. Thank you for joining us. We really appreciate it. You were our final guest like you were a couple of years ago, although I think we extended the podcast-a-thon for you a few years ago. Yeah, because you were complaining about my home screen. That's true. That's right. One day I want to take a look at that thing again. It hasn't changed really. Look at it again. Oh, I saw that. So many apps. We don't have time for this. Okay, sorry. Alright, alright. John Syracuse, thank you so much and thank you for all that you do. You and the ATP boys, we really appreciate it. Thank you so much. Thank you, John. Take care. Pizza time? Man, they look so bad though. Do you see it? They do look bad. I didn't get-my phone isn't that bad. That's good. Yeah, I think we'll probably spend a while after this. Yeah. And I've got to get in there. We'll wrap up in there. Yeah, but we'll put a little-I'll put a little makeup on you, you put a little makeup on me. We got time. We'll get in the balloon room. You know, like we do all that kind of stuff. Alright, let me eat one of these. Do you want to pick one? You don't need to hold it, I can eat with one hand. That one has cheese on it, so probably that one. Oh, it's still stuck. See, you should have used more oil on the pan. No, they were stuck to each other, not to the pan. I mean, it just tastes like a microwave pizza. It's like not that bad. I thought it was going to be way worse than that. It just tastes like a microwave pizza. I think we need some other people to maybe- Alright, Deena, come try one. No, really, I was expecting way worse. I mean, it's very dry, obviously, because it's- Richard? We have dinner, Richard. What do you think? Pretty good? Oh, Ricky's going to come try one. He's going to try one. Mmm. Alright, we're going to let Ricky try one. You need a cheese piece. It's stuck to the other pizza. Here we go. It's dry, a bit dry, but reminiscent of pizza, I would say. It's like a ghost pizza. It's kind of like a Tostitos pizza bite. So a microwave cheap pizza. So what that is telling us is these microwave pizzas are all just made of powder. Oh, yeah. In case you weren't sure already. That's Easy Bake Oven. Alright. Alright, let's put some makeup on each other. We're going to touch some things instead of that. No, no, no, come on, just a little bit. We're going to do a little makeup, and we're going to do a couple more wheel spins, and then we'll say goodnight. Look at that amount of... No, I want to get in the balloon room. Look at it! We've got to do that too. There's still time. We just have to go. Can you help untie me? Oh, gladly. Oh, I have to cut this. No, no, you don't have to cut it. Also, those scissors won't cut anything. There you go. What's happening? Oh, they're setting up Stephen Touches Things. Oh, no, they're touching makeup. Sorry. There's a lot of things happening. It's the end of the day. People are tired. I do... I ate some pizza. Alright. Oh, yeah, look at that. Look at that banana picture. Alright, so makeup time. I'm going to give you some of the gold this time. Maybe you can apply something to my lips. What do you think about that? Gladly. I need a brush, right? Okay. I will sit down here. You push on the end. You have to straighten your finger. That's enough. That's enough. Oh, it's cold. It's really cold. How's your hand where you burned it? That's good. That proves that the nerves are okay. Oh, no. Why across the forehead? That's so much more than I did to you. Stop it. Can I put glasses on? I went to the bathroom earlier and took my glasses off. It's all just like inside the... Between the glass and the frame. It's right there on the cheeks. I've got it forever. This bow tie... I wore this bow tie and jacket the first year. I always find glitter in this bow tie from the first year. I wore it like six times. That's amazing. Let me do some stuff to you. I'm going to get some hair clips for Mike. $512 from Deborah Mark. $100 from Jesse. $109 from Keith. $100 from Pat. $100 from Tyler and Alicia. You are so aggressive. So aggressive. There you go. It tastes real bad. Oh, yeah, it does. Oh, you... So much. Tissues? Thank you. You're beautiful. I'm just going to evenly distribute it a little. So much. Why did you do that? You're so angry. There we go. I'm beautiful. I haven't seen me up close. Let's see if I get in the shot. You're on the minus side. Okay, so we're going to do Stephen Touch's things. We'll do a couple of wheel spins, and then we'll do the balloon... The balloon finish, as they call it. In Balloon Room, you say. Okay, so I'm going to do this. Okay, we need the Bob Baca microphone for you. Can you pass me the microphone? Thank you. Just put the blindfold on. You know what? I think it's perfectly fine that there's going to be a little bit of glitter on the blindfold. Oh, no, this is going to be terrible. I realize I put it on my forehead, and that's going to be in my eyes. I'm just going to show my eyes. I don't want glitter, like, in my eyes. In the eyes? I mean, it should be okay. It's, like, safe. I'm on my way. There's, like, a lot of cables. Hold on, Stephen. Hold on. Okay. Are we ready? Oh, jeez. I mean, this is great. What is that? Okay. Fair enough. Touch it! Oh, it smells. Like, I don't like the smell. What is it? Well, one thing I'll tell you is that... Is it raw meat? Kind of? It feels like ground beef. I mean, it's close. Different animal. It is impossible sausage. Oh. Molded into... I mean, it says molded into the Relay logo, but it's just an R. Let's see. Which I feel like... Not anymore. Now it just looks like someone fell from a really great height, or something. I don't know what that looks like. This smells so bad. Can you smell this? Oh, it's so strong. It's so strong. Yeah, please take it away. I would love that, Stephen. Can you just lift your right foot a little bit? Thank you. Why does it smell like that? Did they add the smell to, like... Oh, thank you. I'm just assuming as it goes by. I mean, look, impossible sausage. I'm pleased you're around. Doing the thing that you do is great for people, but... It shouldn't smell like that. Let's just chill that a little bit on the seasoning. It doesn't need to be that way. Why'd you do that? Stephen's gone into, like, full destruction phase. He's been here for long enough that now he's throwing things. I gotta hit the PC again. Touch it. Oh! It's wet. Okay, well, those are clear Lego pieces. Oh, God. This is good for you, though. You'll like this right now. This is really great. Is it soapy water? No. Close, though. Really close. Is it, like, baby oil? No, you went further away. It's not soapy water. No, but it's close to soapy water. What does that mean? What does soapy water do? I mean, kind of. You're nearly there. I mean, it's obviously not oil cleaner, right? I mean, it feels like soap around the edges. Yeah, my baby, but it isn't. Do you know what's inside of it? Dish detergent? Why don't you tell me what else is in there? It's a bunch of Lego. In what? You clean your hands with it. A sink? Hand sanitizer. It's good after the impossible thing. Get that in there. Get it nice and clean. I've got a cut on my finger. We both suffered. I got burned, and you got... Sanitized. So there's two more? One more? One more? Two more. It's tidying up after you, because you're real messy in there. I'm sorry. Do you want to use a cloth? I don't know what this is. A cloth? Do you know what this is? I can't see it. I can't feel it. You're doing a very good job of keeping your eyes closed. Respect the game, son. Alright. Just checking. He really did. He really kept his eyes closed. My nose is running from the sausage. Me too. Why is that? Why is that? No, not that. Oh, this is the... The bear. The zero gravity... Thing. Indicator. Space puppy. You can just throw space puppy out. There you go. Didn't it float here? This is the final one. My nose is really running. Final one. I'm going to have to do it again. Final one. How does everybody feel about this one? Great. That was a mixture. Did you get that? I think Ricky said great and he can't be trusted. Richard! Okay. Nice and smooth, Stephen. Nice and smooth. Sorry. Touch it. I should just go whole hog into this one. Yeah, you should. Go for it, baby. I think I'm going to go whole hog. Oh! Okay. Is this gummy worms again? Yep, and? Go in. Go all in, baby. No, too far. You went too far in. That's a hot dog. It's a hot dog. What else? Is this just a mixture of all the things from earlier? Yeah! And that was Stephen Touches Things. We'll never do it again. Woo! Yeah, we are, baby! Are you going to open your eyes now? Yeah, I want to see what this one looks like in person. Do you? It's real bad, huh? I feel ill. Imagine, we all had to look at that. I'm going to get my hands off. Yeah, you go do that. Off he goes, everyone. That's Stephen Hackett. Woo! I'll tell you what I'm going to do, because he has done a lot of that. I'm going to do the Bean Boozled thing. If that feels fair. There's so much carnage now. In here. I feel like the clean up is going to take a really long time. If cables... Hold on. I'm trying to not destroy the microphone. I'm just going to hold these. Because I'm worried I'm going to knock them off the table and they feel expensive. Okay, so... It's going to be... It was... Oh, it's the worst one. Birthday cake or dirty dishwater. I think... No, the fish one is the worst one. Where is that one? Okay, so... Looks like this. You'll know immediately because I really like birthday cake. So it will be an immediate thing. Alright, I'll do another one. The thing is though, I don't know if there's some way to make them. Even the good ones, they have a hint of the bad. So there's something wrong with that. I don't think they'll make them in a very great way. Okay, so now... Toasted marshmallow or stink bug. Oh, that one is pretty bad. That one, when I ate that last time, Adina could smell it. So, get ready everyone. No? No, there it is. Yes, stink bug. You see, because at first, you get a little bit of the toasted marshmallow and it comes to you... Oh... Oh... I'm going to do one more. Why not? Let's make some up. We're getting all up in there. This one is either berry blue or toothpaste. Berry. I did three of the beans. That's not too bad. And I finished on the toothpaste, which is good. Yeah, it's a nice palate cleanser. So what we're going to do... I was just out there talking with the people in charge, who aren't us, to be really clear. We're going to do some wheel spins. We're going to finish this, because we raised $100,000. We're going to go in the balloon room, and then we're going to have a serious talk with everybody about the work of St. Jude. We have a couple minutes left, etc. We're going to do a couple wheel spins. There's some stuff up there we haven't done enough. So there may be some... Some gentle nudging of the wheels as we go. I also want to hit the thing with a sledgehammer. Oh yeah, we're going to do that for sure. I can't tell you how gross my hands feel after washing them twice. Oh, when is it going to end? PC Smash. Hey, whose turn is it? I feel like I haven't done one in a while. You do one, and we also have Jill's broken watch, which you said we could hit. Where should I hit it with? Obviously the sledgehammer, because there's a battery in it. You've got to put the fire out as you hit it. Was I hitting it hard enough? Yeah, it's fine. That makes sense. Oh no. Yeah, I'm putting my safety goggles on. So, standing at 6'2", we have Michael David James Hurley versus the HP Pavilion 8710. In three, two, one, go! Oh, right off the tarp onto the floor. Everyone who works here just had a heart attack. Why don't we just go down, and not towards... Oh no. It's fine, don't look here. I'm so sorry. Here, for the trouble of repainting the wall. You take it now. I'll take it. Here you go. I don't need this. We're just maximum destruction now. I would like to issue a formal apology for the wall. Are you going to aim for the watch? I'm aiming for the watch. Alright. Okay, and standing at 6'0". Stephen. Three, two, one. Oh, that was good! Did you see where you hit that? Yeah. Okay. That was a good one though. Are you going to give it another go? You missed the watch. Okay. In three, two, one. You missed the watch again. But it's fine. No, you missed the watch again. There you go! There you got it! There's a battery in that though, for sure. Okay. Oh, that was the dust. Did you see the dust? Okay. That's fine. Just don't breathe that in. Another spin. Oh! Bite the bear! Okay. Let's just leave it down there. Let me move my glasses because I need to use those again. What part? Face. Oh, yeah. I can't look. It's so gross. That's fine. Oh, my. It spins for so long now. How weird. Another swing at the thing. Very strange. Have we not done enough? We haven't done, but how about you just keep going until you're happy. How about that? I feel like it would still boot up, you know? Oh, it's so sharp inside. Of course it is. You know? Let's see. I think one more good hit. I would say that this is the 10-minute warning for the Buck-Ace-a-thon. How about that? Let's go home. Get these guys out of here. I'm going to hit this. Why don't you head to the balloon room? Love it. You have to talk, though, because I'm going to be busy. There he goes. This flower is really a nice look for you. Oh, my gosh. There are so many balloons in there. There he goes. Can you find the microphone, you think? The sound that's making in this room is incredible. I found the microphone. It's rustling and moaning. Did you find the mic? I can confirm I am inside the balloon room. Okay. Steven, if you're talking, I cannot hear you anymore. Oh, man. My AirPod is cutting out in here. This is hilarious. Hang on. Yo, what's up? Alright, go for it. Yeah. And again. You found the structural strength. Oh, man. Right in my ear. Oh, ho, ho, ho. Well, that goes to hearing loss. You know what I mean? Oh, my ears are ringing now. My watch keeps saying I'm falling down. That was so loud. Oh, yeah. This is our friend, Zach. Hi, everybody. You are all lovely people that have raised more than $100,000 for the kids of St. Jude just in the last eight hours, which is bonkers insane. It's good. So, I've been told you're not supposed to hit the wall. Don't look over there. This is... Fine. What is that? It's fine. That was my hand. Hang on. Let me get some more plastic in here. I feel like this piece has survived remarkably well. This piece is in incredible shape. I think it should go. I don't know what's going to happen. Why is my car not made out of this? Sorry. I was holding the microphone. Maybe he's about to find out. Why is my car not made out of this? To make the same joke twice. Okay. Nailed it. That is less impressive than I had hoped for. Yeah, maybe we just slowly walk away. Okay. Checking on Mike over here. Hey, how's it going? How are you doing, buddy? Oh, man. My air-pilot hates it in here. It's like everything's gone robotic. I cannot hear anything anymore. Okay. I'm sorry about that. No, I like it. Don't get me wrong. This is exactly where I want to be. We're going to let Jill come hit the PC, and I'm going to come talk to you. Oh, amazing. Come on, Jill. How's it going? It's good? So good. There's a few minutes left. You want to go to stjew.org. We will be raising money all month. There's a bunch of streams we've got to do at the end of the month. Come on. Do you want your Apple Watch on top of it? Sure, why not? I'm never going to get it. It took me like four tries. You know, that's got my battery in it. I just want to say I said it. I'm just going to be, you know. Oh! Wow! Good job. That was incredible. That's such a sharp piece of metal. That's like a firework show. Okay. That's good. I think Jill wins for best speed. Yeah, the watch is cooked. The whole back of the watch is missing. Look, you can see into the back of it. It's really good. It's good. That's good. That was the best one. That was the best one, I think. Steven, does anyone else want to have a go? If anybody else wants to have a go at the PC, come on. Anybody who's angry at us for what we've done to your studio. Hey. How are you doing? Pretty good, actually. Is it cozy? Yeah, this is everything I've ever wanted. Get in. We'll see if this microphone works in here. I have one, anyway. You can leave your mic out there. We can share this. Should I just force the issue? Yeah, you kind of just got to really make it happen. Alright, I don't like this at all. There is an issue now, though, with both of us in here. This thing might pop, you know what I mean? I'm feeling a real compression. All of a sudden. You in? I'm in. Alright, come find me. Hello. Oh, now I can't be seen. Hello. This is awful. It's fantastic. If one of these pops, I'm going to scream. It's real bad. My ear was ringing. It went right in my ear. So we are at the end of Pocket Academy 4. I think this has been the best one. How do you feel? I feel fantastic. I feel tired, but this is one of the greatest days of my life right now. So good. A huge thank you to everyone who has watched today, who has donated, who has sent links to their friends and family to give. Raising over $100,000 today was a real dream come true. Just thank you so much to everybody that's tuned in. Thank you to everyone that's made gifts. Thank you to everyone that's participated in the chat. Thank you to everyone that's been in the chat. Thank you to everyone that's participated in the chat. You're all the best. We love you so much. We're doing a lot of silly things here today, but the money that you give makes a real difference. It makes a massive impact. All of this money goes straight to St. Jude, and it's all for fighting childhood cancer. That's right. As someone who has been touched by St. Jude in so many different ways, it means the world to me and my family that you come alongside us in what we do in raising money and awareness for this organization that has not only changed the life of me and my wife and our family, saved the life of our son, but has done that for thousands of families around the world. It's absolutely incredible. The last thank you we have is to everyone just looking at us, to the crew that has helped us out today. Maybe we can get a shot of them on the stream. Mary and Adina, who have been helping us this week as well, who have really come through and been very forgiving of our antics and our planning over the last several months. Thank you all. This isn't it, though. We're still doing streams throughout the month. At the end of the month, on the 30th, we're going to be doing our first ever closing total stream. We'll be doing a final celebration stream. We'll be working on some fun stuff for that, too. Make sure you keep an eye out on Twitter and on our shows. We'll be talking about when that's going to happen. It will be on September 30th, right? That's the last day of September? 30 days of September? We're going to be doing it then. Obviously, I won't be here. We'll be doing that old-school podcast-a-thon style now. We're back together, baby. This is the best one. Thank you to everybody who helped. I guess... Well, I was thinking we would just slide into nothing. But whatever you prefer. I feel like that's good. Where is the zipper? Ah-ha! Woo! Thank you, everybody. Bye-bye. Good evening. Bye-bye. Thank you for being here tonight, and thank you for supporting St. Jude Kids like me. Thank you. . . . . .