After planning this from October 2008, Jay & Jack’s 25 Hour Marathon Podcast for Autism Speaks was finally this past weekend. It was awesome. We were aiming to raise $10,000 by April 20, but we managed to raise more than $12,000 for Autism Speaks by the end of the 25 hours!
Anyways, we had a lot of fellow podcasters and listeners come to Raleigh to hang out and get us through the entire 25 hours. I really cannot wait for Comic Con 2009 or for next year’s event. Here’s a picture from the end of the 25 hours. We started at 5pm on Saturday and finished up at 6pm Sunday night. Can you say exhausted?
So at about 2pm on Sunday, when we were in the home stretch, Jorge Garcia (Hurley on Lost) came on and kicked ass for 3.5 hours. Except for when I got totally p’wned:
D’oh! 
Donations are still coming in, via check to PO Box 40082 Raleigh, NC 27629 (made out to Autism Speaks) or via PayPal, by sending money to the email address LPDonate@gmail.com (we’ll have PayPal send us a check for the final total and then we send that check, along with the other checks, to Autism Speaks).
Thank you to everyone who came in person (I’m sorry if I left anyone out) and everyone who tuned into the live feed, whether it was for 5 minutes, an hour, 12 hours, or all 25 hours. Thanks Jana for keeping the riff-raff out of the chat room. Thanks Chris, Rob, Chris the Bostonian Banhammer, Jessica, Alirio, Sue, Robin, Mandy, Tommy, Michael, Daniel & his wife, Mark & his girlfriend, Allison & her friend, Elizabeth & the man in the Dharmalars shirt whose name escapes me right now (I’m sorry!)
I hope the dharma initiative kills him…
LOL
I wish I could say I had been pwned by Jorge Garcia.
My claim to fame is fist fighting one of the guys from Good Charlotte, and that’s not much to brag about.
Yeah but it’s still pretty bad ass! Details?
Haha, love the youtube clip. I’m from Jersey, so I had a lot of snow days in school but I also had good grades and when I felt like I needed a break, I took a break too. Haha.
Glad to know yall went over your initial 10k goal!
Until those Cali people know what it’s like to shovel snow they don’t get how much snow sucks. lol I had a blast. I can’t wait for next year. That’s awesome that you guys got so much. Keep us up to date on the totals.
When I saw this post, I was trying to remember what Jorge had said to you. But as soon as I heard it, I remembered hearing it live. That was pretty good. I’m so glad the podcast went so well. I can’t wait to hear the final tally!
Awesome, Col. Thanks for posting.
Jorge called me a red shirt before even seeing that I was wearing a red hoodie. But yeah, this was pretty dang hilarious. Not many people can say they’ve straight out been told to SHADDUP by Jorge Garcia. He’s such a nice guy. It would take A LOT to get under his skin! lol
lol Robin, you are a bigger attention whore than I am haha
Sorry, I overlooked your response.
Basically I called him out for being a phony and a chump.
One thing lead to another and I had to be pulled off of him by security.
I miss warped tour.
haha, that’s an awesome story!!