Hey everybody this is a Ron and I'm here with my partner Jim and we're going to give a wrap-up

podcast for the Groundhog Day marathon that we just went through it's it's a

post-mortem post-mortem it didn't die a little morbid didn't die it it's in history books but it's

we we are going to as we've done in previous years we're going to talk about how the thing

went and how much money we raised and our experiences with it.

And we, this year, it's, so we're recording this on the Friday, seven days after we began the journey of 24 hours into disaster which

was the theme of this year's marathon and you'll probably be hearing it sometime

next week so this is just kind of we're seven days out of the

experience. There's still some money trickling in. We didn't have a true final

amount, but we've got a provisional total. Previous two years we the first year

we did a Groundhog Day marathon on Groundhog Day

from midnight to midnight and we watched the movie Grandhog Day starring

Bill Murray 12 times and it was a lot of fun huge success We raised a lot of money for the National Alliance to

in homelessness. Last year, we did the same thing except we did a 24-hour Star Wars marathon and we raised even more money for the National Alliance in homelessness and we had a lot of fun.

This year we decided to pick a new charity, something that we've been thinking a lot about,

because we have a lot of Australian fans and you know to pay

attention to the news was the Australian bushfires that were raging over the

subcontinent or the continent Australia is is a full on continent.

Uh, at this time of us podcasting, there's been 33 deaths, over a thousand homes burned. 42,000 square miles burned, which is a total area of destruction that's larger than the entirety of our home state of Indiana.

Over a million animal deaths estimated, which given the fragile nature of some of the species and the

ecology in Australia is a immense loss.

So we chose the Australian Red Cross as the beneficiary. We did a lot of research

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