 Hello it's me at Santa Claus. We're here with Wake the Elf as well. What we're doing is we actually have a ton of gifts that we're going to the Game Changer charity. They help provide us with a bunch of gifts and stuff. You know we do this every single year. We do our annual Santa Claus Christmas charity stream. This year Game Changer actually donated a ton of different gifts for us. You know they're actually they're outsourcing elf jobs. No one's talking about this. This happened totally under my nose. So the elves are kind of pissed about it. However, I'm very grateful. We're going to find these kids and gotta give them presents. I need to jolly up a little bit and sit it. I am probably the most violent looking elf. The elf is bigger than Santa. This is the meanest looking elf. Hello. Hi. Hello. How are you guys? Hello. I'm Emily. Yeah, good to meet you. Hi. Actually I was about to bring Samuel to meet you. He's one of our dads that's checking out today. Oh great. Santa Claus. Nice to meet you. Just gave him some games on the way out. Great. He's going to discharge from the hospital but okay great awesome. Y'all to meet on the way out. Yeah. Well, great. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Here we're going to go in and just give you two of these. Here you go. Merry Christmas. Appreciate it. Yeah. You're fantastic. Yeah, you are. You're amazing. I just showed up. That's all. I just show up. So what they do here at the Ronald McDonald house, it's like a place for like the whole family to sit. Right. The whole family comes in. They support them. They take care of them and we can actually talk to them and they can give like more of a rundown on like what they do. All right. Hey, how's it going? Derek Lesnau. Santa Claus. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Thanks for coming today. Yeah, thank you. And you brought your elf I see. Good to see you. Good to see you. So can you tell us a little bit about the Ronald McDonald house? Yeah. So Ronald McDonald house charities of central Texas provides lodging and support services for families who have kids who are being treated in Austin area medical centers. And so families who don't live in Austin but need to bring their children to Austin to receive medical care need to place a stay. They need a place to eat. They need a place to shower, sleep, do their laundry, maintain their work schedule, take care of the siblings and the rest of the family. And so while the medical professionals are taking care of the hospitalized kids in the hospital, we're taking care of the family. And so we try to provide all the comforts and the supports of home so the families can focus their entire energy on the children who are receiving treatment. So here at the Ronald McDonald house in Austin, we have 30 rooms. Currently we're all full. We have 100 capacity. We're turning away six out of every 10 families right now. So we're just really blessing at the seams. You're turning away six out every 10. Exactly. So it's amazing just the need that our community has for pediatric care right now. And so our goal is to grow our services so we can house those families and we're currently putting on a waitlist. We have this Ronald McDonald house that has 30 rooms. They're suites. They're all bigger than my first apartment. So they all have their own private living room. They all have a bedroom, separate private bathroom. We can show you one that actually has a space that's open right now and a family is checking in at 7 p.m. So if you'd like to see what a room looks like, we can walk and show you. Yeah, let's do it. All right. So this is the kitchen of the dining room. Kind of the heart of the house. Yeah. We have a group just arriving to make lunch for the families. Oh, nice. Every single day we have volunteers that prepare breakfast, lunch, and dinner for the families that are staying here. Okay. And so it really is an opportunity for the community to directly support the families that are staying in Austin, even though they don't live here. Yeah, it's amazing. You know, the compliments and the families that we have, they come in and when they come home from spending 12 hours at a hospital, they don't have to worry about going to the grocery store. They don't have to worry about going to a restaurant. They can just come in and allow themselves to take a homemade meal that was prepared for them by a community volunteer. And so these are what one of the rooms looks like. And the rooms, they're all energy efficient. This was the greenest, most environmentally friendly, raw McDonald's house that it opened when it opened in 07. And so one of those components is you have to turn the room on. So every family, when they enter the room, they stick their room in the key switch. They turn the room on so that way empty rooms aren't wasted in electricity. Energies aren't, you know, skyrocketing the costs for this 30,000 square foot facility to run. How big are, like, it's like the average family that comes and stays here? We would say probably three to four family members will stay here. You know, we serve families that have just, you know, a single caregiver here that needs a place to be while their child's in the hospital. And then we have families that have six family members that are staying here in addition to the patient that's in the hospital. So it really does run a pretty big spectrum. We're a two minute walk from where the children are being treated. We don't worry about the families. It's great for the families. But we don't only serve Dell Children's. We serve all of our else in area medical services. And that's one of the biggest needs or that's one of the biggest reasons why we have such a huge need for growing our services is because we have so many other hospitals that have come to Austin to care for kids. We now are trying to serve all of these hospitals with this one facility. So we need to expand. And so that's really one of our big focuses is making sure that we can meet the need because not families now who used to go to other cities to receive care, they're staying in Austin. And now those families that are coming from other cities are coming to Austin. So the need is just really growing. So Santa, thank you very much for coming. Absolutely. It's a busy time of year for me. I cleared a lot out of my schedule to do. Wake the elves the rest of the elves are on strike. You even have stuff laid out like by room two. That's for room 21. That's room 12. Exactly. You know, even like, hey, the kids, like, you know what they want. Yeah. So it's like, okay, they put this on their wish list. They wrote this out to Santa. So, you know, sometimes Santa doesn't have the opportunity to get with everybody because we're a little short on elves right now. You know, wake's been working very hard. But you know, we don't have that many elves. So we have to outsource, you know, we work with, you know, the Ronald McDonald house, and they get it all sorted out. So it's all good. Very good. He does need it elves for the season. Yes, very good. We appreciate that at the North Pole. We do a really good job at the community donating for kids. You know, obviously that's like the meaning of Christmas. The dads are really excited. Exactly. We don't have as much for them. Exactly. Yeah. So it's really special. Do the dads play World of Warcraft? That might be why. Oh, totally. They're all like video games? Yeah. For sure. That's hilarious. Dude, why should we show up when it's like half the dads or blabbers? We started Game Changer when my son battled cancer and a rare form of leukemia but also was hospitalized for a bone marrow transplant. I lived in a Ronald McDonald house with my son after his bone marrow transplant. So these people are angels. Paula right here, care they give these families for their love and really we're so lucky. But for the live stream, the one thing I really want to thank, Xbox for their years of donations of Minecraft goodies of the game passes, but also EA. EA gave us a ton of stuff here, all these beautiful games. And then all the EA employees and the CAP group employees wrapped these presents and wrote the beautiful notes on them. So we're simply a conduit of the good back to you guys and these families and these kids. But thank you, EA. Thank you, Xbox. Thank you for the folks up Pauera who donated all the headsets. They're beautiful. Yeah. So thank you. Most importantly, thank you, us and his beautiful community and for picking us this Christmas to work with Game Changer. So thank you guys. Yeah. No, thank you guys for having us. Hello. Good morning. How are you? Good. We're doing great. We got a chance to tour the building and see everything and see what all they're doing here. This is my head elf. This is Wake the Elf. Executive Elf. Yeah. Executive Elf. Yeah. You know, we partnered up with Game Changers to, or with the Game Changers charity to get all this stuff together for, you know, for the kids, for the families, for everybody to kind of provide as much as possible. Like we know it's a tough time right now for everybody here. So anything we can do to... That's for you too. There you go. Yeah, a little bit of extra PS4 stuff. So yeah, anything we can do to kind of help provide and give back and all that stuff, that's what we're all about. So like I said earlier, we, there's going to be, there's a bunch of families here if people are going to come down. We have gifts for them. You know, Wake the Elf, spent a lot of time actually building these gifts on his own. Yeah, because we're short-handed on elves, but Wake went, he built it on his own. And yeah. Haven't eaten in four days. Well, it's like three and a half. Oh, you used to watch my Elf? Yeah. I was trying to remember, you used to be a big boy now. You're out of your way. Yeah, we're joking. I was like, watch it. You know, we're going to run into people who like actually like know who I am. We're actually watching it. That's so funny. One of the videos was someone cooking for you. And Mia was like, who's that in the bag? And then everybody was like, yeah, who's in the bag? Oh, yeah. That cheerleader. Yeah. And you're like, yeah, some like more people in the kitchen cooking for me still. Yeah, that was a very interesting time. It's the height of COVID. Here's some gifts for you guys. Here's some clothes and some PS5. Thank you. Yeah, of course, of course. Hey, how's it going? Merry Christmas. How are you? Okay, we can give you one of these too. There you go. These are also more places to buy them. So even, even though you can't play now, whenever you go back home, you can have games to play and you can, you can do all that. So, and I think they have a, they have a game room upstairs where you can play too, right? Well, good. Yeah. Merry Christmas. Thanks. Appreciate it. There's no, there's no chat. There's no sponsor today. It's not, it's not like a sponsor thing. It's Microsoft and EA and they all hooked up Game Changer with GIFs and stuff, which then they give to us to give to these guys. So yeah, it's not like a, there's no sponsor or anything. Again, huge, huge, huge thank you to everybody involved chat. You guys donated a ton. 7.4K. That is unbelievable. Unbelievable. Unbelievable chat. That's amazing. Thank you guys so much for watching. Again, make sure to follow Wake Wilder, Wake coming in close with my, my head elf, executive elf, the executive. I had a great time. Love you Santa. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you so much for having us and chat. We'll see you guys later. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas.