# What we gonna do? ( Children's hospital ads on TV)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** commercials-ads\
**Created:** [November 8, 2023, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-we-gonna-do-childrens-hospital-ads-on-tv/992795 "2023-11-08T03:34:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-we-gonna-do-childrens-hospital-ads-on-tv/992795/21 "2023-11-09T04:51:39Z")

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I didn’t look at the date on the article (the one in the third post). It was from 2022 so he may have graduated by now.

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-we-gonna-do-childrens-hospital-ads-on-tv/992795/22 "2023-11-09T05:23:35Z")

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St.Jude and Shriners should be ashamed to keep using him like they are. I’m sure he gets paid. It seems he’s kinda wealthy.  
They should turn him into a Jerry Lewis type spokesperson. Let him have some dignity in his affliation with them. IMO

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-we-gonna-do-childrens-hospital-ads-on-tv/992795/23 "2023-11-09T16:01:37Z")

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> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> I read he graduated in 2020.

Pretty sure that originated with those fake obituaries.

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2023, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-we-gonna-do-childrens-hospital-ads-on-tv/992795/24 "2023-11-09T16:07:23Z")

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> [@needscoffee](#):
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> he was in a wheelchair accident in December where he broke his shoulder, hip, and knee. He’s been in hospital and rehab ever since.

If so, Alec was out of the hospital, probably rehab as well, by June. [He was an intern with the Indiana Pacers over the past summer.](https://ground.news/article/you-know-him-as-the-shriners-tv-spokesman-the-pacers-call-him-their-intern-extraordinaire)

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