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Todd S. Eury (0:43)

I'm excited to be back on the TWIRx sphere. I just made that word up, TWIRx sphere. I don't think it works. It stumbles. It's awkward.

Do a lot of awkward things live, but that's what we're bringing you. Live information today, September 11th, 2026, 25th anniversary of 9-11 and the horrible events that happened 25 years ago. That's crazy. I remember exactly where I was. AT&T business, downtown Pittsburgh, and then just everything that happened. Just thoughts and prayers and blessings to the families and to the health care workers and to the firefighters and everybody went through that. I just, I'm sure some of you that are listening remember where you were when that took place and yeah, oh, it's, it's a, it's a, it's something hard to think of. And, and I, there's always good that can come out of it. I don't know if you guys saw the drones that built a light of, and it was like 2960 some 60 lights that were there representing the lives that were lost. It was gorgeous. It was a great commemoration.

There's so much that we can do in lifting up our cultures as well as our society and merging together. That's what the United States has always been. I don't want anyone to forget that. We're celebrating what's coming at the end of September today, Inspire 2026

I'm so thrilled to be back. And guess what? We're in DC, DC with Sheila Arquette and the NASP team, the Pharmacy Podcast Network. I think this is our sixth year partnering with the NASP. We will be inside their booth. If you have not signed up for the press coverage, please do so. You can go to pharmacypodcast.com. Go to the blog section. I think they call it the PPN, the Pulse. Yeah. And click on the link with the Inspire picture of Sheila and I are sitting there in front of their booth. I'm excited. There's a lot going on in the news.

I'm going to do news today. I'm not going to do it by myself because I'm bringing back my friend and someone who's been on TWIRx many of times, support from Clearway Health. Allison Arant, get into the studio here. Let's get started with TWIRx.

Todd S. Eury (3:16)

Hey, Todd. Thanks for having me.

Todd S. Eury (3:18)

You're very welcome. It's nice to have you back in the studio and TWIRx in a way. What are you doing this weekend?

It's a big recovery week. Like I said, it felt like a five day week. I don't know how you're feeling, but it felt long to me.

Todd S. Eury (3:33)

I mean, or like a 10 day week. Sometimes it feels like the short weeks are two weeks crammed into one, but it's been a good week. It's been a good week at Clearway. This weekend, we have fall sports starting back. So I don't know how many listeners spend a lot of Saturdays on sidelines and bleachers. I certainly do. So doing a lot of sports this weekend and resetting for next week.

Todd S. Eury (3:58)

Yeah, football season's back. I'm so excited. This is the opening weekend of the NFL Ghost Dealers. And it's like for us in the pharmacy industry, when fall starts creeping up, the kids go back to school, football season comes back. I feel like it's our new year. It's never in January. I think with, I think pharmacy's year, to me, things start heating up in the fall of the year because we're getting ready for big conference seasons. We're getting ready for prepping for what's coming in the next new year. There's a lot of work to do in the fall and I get jazzed up. So I think the NASP Inspire helps us to do that. You're going to be there with your team.

You're going to be part of the podcast press coverage. We cannot wait to see you in person and not necessarily always on a Zoom. But hey, this week in Pharmacy, man, it's like, couldn't have picked a better time to get you guys on. We have a big announcement from Clearway Health and this came out on PR Newswire just this week in Pharmacy. Clearway Health scales operational excellence with appointment of a new chief operating officer.

Allison, tell me about this gentleman on the Clearway Health team.

Todd S. Eury (5:22)

We are really excited to welcome Richie Sepp as chief operating officer of Clearway Health.

Richie joined us on Tuesday. He has had a full week getting to know a lot of the team members across Clearway Health and preparing to meet a lot of our clients as a part of the client organization. We're just really excited about him joining. The timing of him being here is really his pivotal point where we are starting to scale so much more as our client organization grows and really bringing the connectedness of what a service organization requires to grow. We are a people first organization. We provide people that power the services that we provide to hospitals and health systems. It's backed by a lot of product, technology, strategy, and a lot of corporate support. So Rishi's guidance and leadership is going to be hugely important to carry us into this next phase of growth for Clearway Health. So excited Rishi is here.