Derek Cole marks 500 episodes of his twice-weekly, ad-free podcast by thanking listeners and explaining his #OrangeOutMS campaign. During March, participants wear orange shoe covers and share photos to raise money for the National MS Society, donating $10 per photo. Cole was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2012.
Hey, this is Derek Cole, and welcome to episode 500 of the podcast. 500, you mean? It's unbelievable. Uh, thank you for your support. Thank you for listening. Thank you for those on YouTube watching. Uh, recently been publishing these on YouTube as well as the podcast. Because on YouTube we have over, at this point, over 500 subscribers on YouTube. Um, but I was doing some, I was doing some research. Uh, you know how I like to have, have numbers, uh, to back up what's happening. But, uh, according— I went to Google— according to Amplify and PodNews, 44% of podcasts have less than 3 episodes. Only 720,000 podcasts have more than 10 episodes, and of that number, only 156,000 release weekly episodes. And y'all know this, but this podcast drops twice a week. This is episode 500. Thank you for that. Uh, and I also wanted to spend some time this episode speaking of something special to my heart, which is during the month of March, which we're in currently as I speak, we do Orange Out MS. As you know, which is even better for, for you for listening, uh, I have MS. I have multiple sclerosis, so I have, you know, difficulty speaking slurring, um, are a few of the things I deal with. But, uh, during the month of March, our team, instead of wearing yellow shoe covers in the home, we switch out to orange shoe covers. Orange is the color of MS. So we have a campaign we call #OrangeOutMS. We encourage our customers to take photos with We have orange cards with some facts on them. Take a photo with the card. Take a photo wearing orange. Anyone, take a photo wearing orange. Hashtag it #OrangeOutMS on social media. We'll find it. For every photo we take, or you take, we donate $10 to the National MS Society. So last year, uh, 2022 was our biggest year. Uh, because of you, we donated $3,841. That's huge. So thank you so much for the support. But I thought no better way to spend episode 500 than talking about something very important and dear to my heart, uh, which is MS, of course. I was diagnosed in 12 with MS. So it's been, it's been quite a journey through the years of battling MS and still going through it and treatments and medications and kind of adjusting to my new normal of what life is. So I just want to say thank you for that. Thank you for your support. Thank you for everything you've done. Thank you for your prayers. And more importantly I know quite a bit of you are, are praying for me, uh, if not daily praying for me. Um, I really do appreciate that. Has been, it's been quite the journey. So, uh, thank you again for the support. Thank you for the support of this podcast, of this YouTube page, uh, if you're watching on YouTube. Um, I just kind of thank you enough for, for everything you've done for, for us and the support you've given us throughout the, uh, throughout the year. So thank you again for that. Um, we're gonna come back at episode 501 with the regularly scheduled, uh, home and energy comfort and, um, everything you usually listen for. But this, this time I want to take a timeout, celebrate episode 500, talk about Orange Out MS, and, uh, and Again, just come and say thank you to you, the audience, to you that listen every single time this mic turns on. Um, but reading of those podcast stats again, uh, we're in, we're in different territory than all the other podcasts out there. Um, only 156,000 podcasts released weekly. We do it twice a week. But so thank you for your support. Thank you for keeping this ad-free. Uh, as of yet, we have not put ads on our podcast. Um, we've not had sponsors on our podcast as of yet. Um, so thank you for that. Thank you for your support, and we'll talk to you next time.
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