Hello and welcome to Connected episode 314.

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My name is Stephen Hackett, and I am joined by Mr. Federico Vatici.

Hello. Hi. It's a big day for you,

my friend. I know, I know. I am ready, energized and waiting for the game. All right. We are also

joined by Mike Hurley. Hello, it's Jeremy Season, ladies and gentlemen. It is. We will get to that.

That's going to be the bulk of the show.

We're recording this on the last day of September.

So we are winding down our fundraising campaign for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

As of this recording, we are well over $400,000, which is really amazing.

We set our goal at 315, so we raised last year.

We hit that during the podcastathon, and y'all have not let up.

It's really been amazing to watch.

Currently, sort of in my life, we have several friends with kids at St. Jude and unfortunately a

couple of them have gotten some bad news recently and maybe like re-entering the treatment world

with with new tumors and stuff and that's really hard to process and hard to talk about but it's for me

I'm so glad that this campaign was going on during

the same time because the money that we raise and that y'all donate every year, it's

spectacular. It goes to treat kids with cancer from not just here in Memphis or in the

south part of America, but all over the country in the world.

Kids come to St. Jude for treatment, the research and treatment protocols that are developed as St. Jude's go back out into the world.

And this money is going directly to that.

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