Hello! Hello, everyone, and welcome to the champions cast here on Zelda Dungeon.

My name is Andy Spateri, and I am joined by the returning, the triumphant, Alison Alitha.

Al, how was your week at the Zelda Dungeon Marathon? And how you doing?

It was wonderful. I had a really good time. We did some awesome work and like we raised a

crazy amount of money that we've never done before. Almost 15 G's. Yeah. 15 grand. That's insane. Like I'm used to us

getting, you know, six, seven, eight thousand dollars, you know, which is always amazing. But we just

blew that out of the water. And I don't know what happened. I don't know if people were just

saving up money during, you know, their time away or time off or whatever, but it really paid off.

And it was, it, I'm still speechless.

Like, it was really good and really cool.

Yeah, just like a super, super great job.

I wish I would have been able to watch a little bit more than i

than i was able to but every time that i was watching was was a bunch of fun um yeah just uh

really awesome job like people were very generous with with their with their money and with their

time so almost 15 grand to games to grow. So that's, that is like absolutely

incredible. So congratulations to to everybody. And actually, I think that, uh, I was reading your post,

Al, I can't remember where you made it, but I was reading your post and I thought that it was just like

super well done about how like there's so much more that goes into the marathon than what you see on the camera.

Yeah, there really is. Like this this whole staff is more than anybody ever thinks about.

Like there's so many people in the background that you don't know about, you know, as a listener of the podcast, a reader of the site or a viewer of the guides, whatever, what have you.

You know, there's so many people that work in the background. And I feel like every one of those

people have a part to play in the marathon, too, whether they're there or not. You know, we have

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