August 14, 2025 • 10 mins
Bo and Beth welcome Emily Ratliff for another update on the 9th annual Claire's Army Gala this Saturday at The Casey in Charlotte. Visit Clairesarmy.org to learn more or text Claire to 79230 to take part in the silent auction.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Good Morning BET News Talk eleven ten, nine
to nine, three WBT. Just days away, hours away from
the ninth annual Claire's Army Gala, presented by Troy Meeks
Mortgage team. That's coming up. And I knew at one
point I was going to do this, and Emily's just
going to love this. Hopefully she wasn't listening. But a
(00:21):
few minutes I said ago, I said it was at
the Revelry. No, no, no, no, that's that's the Nary
Awards that I do in November. I confuse the two
of them. It is very much schular.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
You're getting things confused.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
No, I only do two, just two. The Casey, The
Casey North Tryon Street, eighteen thirty seven try On North
Tryon Street is where the gala is going to be
on Saturday night. So I don't want everybody showing up
to the wrong place. Emily, that's right.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
They're going to know where to go. They will.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
And it's such a really cool event. You had the
event there last year. It is just a lovely, lovely setting.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
It is. It's a lovely set and the team there
has done an exceptional job just working with us to
make sure that the experience our guests have and ultimately
the money that we raised for our patients that they
can help just maximize that because they know they're a
vessel for it. So they've done an incredible job and
it's been a pleasure working with them.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So Saturday Night is the big event, and this is
Claire's Army. If you don't know about Claire's Army, I
implore you to go to Claire's Army dot org. That's
c l a I r e. S Army dot org
serving families, loving kids and fighting cancer. And this all
stems back from the own the personal experience that Emily
and Kevin Ratliffe had with their daughter Claire back in
(01:41):
twenty twelve, and Claire passed away, but her legacy lives
on in this organization that really does what Emily and
Kevin experienced in the hospital back then, where families and
people they didn't even know, just a group of people
that rallied around them in the hospital and made sure
they had what they needed while they were fighting and
(02:02):
going through this worst of all imaginable experiences. And so
all these years later, nine years now, we've been doing
this and so the idea on Saturday Night is to
have fun, to celebrate the way Claire would, and to
raise money and help the organization do all the things
that you all do throughout the year. And Emily, we
talked about tickets and briefly about the online auction last week,
(02:26):
but now things are really cranked up. I've been watching
the social media channels for Claire's Army. What do we
need to know now that we're just a couple of
days away.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
So we sold out of tickets. There's unfortunately there's no
more space to join the party. But you can text
the word Claire in all caps C L A I
R to the number seven nine two three zero and
that will prompt you to enter and just look into
this Silent auction. It's free to register, but you can
(02:57):
this week and see what items we have and you
do not have to be present to win, so if
you're the highest bidder, we will absolutely get your winning
item to you, whether you're attending the gala or not
Saturday night. But it's I really encourage you because there
are so many local businesses and individuals who have given
so graciously to make this auction possible. There's one hundred
(03:17):
and twenty one silent auction items. It's I mean, it's
close to sixty seventy thousand dollars worth of items in there.
And we've got the live auction items that will be
happening on Saturday, but we do preview them so that
for some reason you see something in live auction and
you're not going to be there, you better send someone
or find out who's going to bid for you. So
(03:38):
silent auction easy way to participate and always, you know,
just on our website donate and for the radio listeners,
we love knowing when it just comes in from you,
and so we'd love for you to notify us either
you know, if you put a check in the mail
or when you gift give online, let us know that
you heard about us from from Bo and Beth and WBT,
(03:59):
because it makes us so happy to share those updates
with with Bo and Best and the radio family about
how you guys give.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Oh, it thrills us to know that you are impacting
so many families and that people are hearing about you
through our show. It really does our heart's good. But
I know that you do the hearts of so many families.
You do them so so so many good things for
people and I want to say it again so that
people know you text Claire C l A I r
(04:27):
E to seven nine two three zero. Is that right?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
That's right?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
So text Claire to seven nine two three zero, folks,
and you can take part in that silent auction and
preview those live auction items so that you can participate
in the silent auction, but also go to Clare'sarmy dot
org and just donate. And like she said, let let
us know, let her know that you found out about
Claire's Army through Bow, through us, through Good Morning BT.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
That's right, absolutely, Emily.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
What are you most excited about for Saturday night? Is
there an auction item? Is there something that's happening that
people need to know about? What are you excited about?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I mean, I'm just I'm always excited to see who's
there and see the neat connections that are made beforehand
and the people that don't realize they're both part of
the army but they know each other from other circles.
That's I always love that. But some new things we
have for this year. One of our areas, we really
want to connect the donors and the guests with our
(05:28):
mission and so we have this a neat, interactive, very
simple way for them to let let us know, you know,
their why and their inspirations for coming to the gala
and supporting us. So there's going to be a neat
kind of interactive piece that's the visuals to see how
the army has grown. And then also, I know you
know this though, but we've we've worked a little bit
(05:49):
on trying to introduce a few more people to who
Claire was. There's not a lot of videos of her
and there's not a lot of people that have seen
her kind of in action in her short life, and
so we've taken a number of those clips and we're
going to be able to show those to people. And
truly it's about celebrating her. It's not about being you know,
sad about what we see is seeing the joy on
(06:11):
her face and these videos and that she is our
why and she is our why that we want to
give as many of those moments to other families as
possible to really be with their child why while they're
going to do something hard, and so just you know,
having a chance to meet Claire get more involved in
our mission. And you know, always the food, I think
(06:32):
the food is so great. But what's so special about
it is the catering team played perfect in fs their
headshets come to the event. Their entire team just blows
it out of the water when it comes to the
food that displays their delivery. And they're the same people
who are making meals for our families all year long
through our meal programs, So that is super special and
(06:54):
I love to see them there and for our guests
to know who they are.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
We're on the same wave link because you said that,
and I had this ready to go. A few years ago.
I was standing with Emily and we were talking about Claire,
and we were mentioning the fact that enough years had
passed that a lot of people, you know, didn't know
Claire personally. It didn't even had not seen a video
of Claire. And Emily had this video on her phone
(07:20):
of Claire in the hospital dancing to this song by Beyonce,
and I said to her. We started talking. I said,
people need to see this. We need to play this
at the gala. And now we do play that every year.
And like you said, it's a fun night's a lot
going on, it's busy. It's like what Claire would want
(07:41):
I think at age sixteen because she loved a party.
But I think you need to stop and pause for
a second. I think I even said this last year
when I was doing the MC thing, I said, we
need to stop and think about the why. This is
the reason why we're all here. And there's that video
only less than a minute, it seems like, but it
just really rings home what this is all about about. Emily.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Absolutely, you're so right Bough, and that's that's the whole
reason why we do it. She's our inspiration. But what
we're trying to do is just give that as much
as we possibly can back to these families that you know,
we Kevna had moments clear that a lot of families
don't get to have because they had to choose between
going to work or make choices so that they had
(08:23):
to have someone else watch their child where they are
in treatment. And we just really want to make sure
that they have as many moments as possible.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
And one text I want to read to you that
Emily sent me after we talked on the air last week,
she said, Hey, enjoyed talking to you today. Had to
share that one of our recent donations from the mail
let us know that she heard about us on the
radio and had donated twenty five hundred dollars. Wow. So
you know, we talk about the power of the WBT
(08:52):
signal here and using it for the good for all
the various things over the years, and that's what I
always tell Emily. I said, we may have people that
don't get to come to the to the gala, and
I hope we have sent a lot of people there,
but people listening hear the story and want to help.
So we always say in any day of the year,
you can go to Claire's Army dot org and find
out about the mission and learn how to donate. But
I thought that was a really cool thing, and that
(09:14):
was my favorite text I got that day.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I hope so well. We are so grateful for you
guys and the radio family. I mean, it stretches far
and wide, and that's how we've grown up. How we
serve more families is getting the word out and every
single gift matters. It really does make a difference, all right.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
The Casey the case he said, that's right, the Ksey
on Saturday Night, it's the ninth Annuel, can't believe nine
years and I will see you on Saturday night. I'll
be back honor to be back m seeing again for
a ninth time, and we'll do what we always do,
raise as much money as we can and hopefully have
all kinds of awesome numbers to talk about on Monday.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
That's right. Thank you Bo, thank you Beth, Thanks to Emiling,
you
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Will that the mother
This is Good Morning BET News Talk eleven ten, nine
to nine, three WBT. Just days away, hours away from
the ninth annual Claire's Army Gala, presented by Troy Meeks
Mortgage team. That's coming up. And I knew at one
point I was going to do this, and Emily's just
going to love this. Hopefully she wasn't listening. But a
(00:21):
few minutes I said ago, I said it was at
the Revelry. No, no, no, no, that's that's the Nary
Awards that I do in November. I confuse the two
of them. It is very much schular.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
You're getting things confused.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
No, I only do two, just two. The Casey, The
Casey North Tryon Street, eighteen thirty seven try On North
Tryon Street is where the gala is going to be
on Saturday night. So I don't want everybody showing up
to the wrong place. Emily, that's right.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
They're going to know where to go. They will.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
And it's such a really cool event. You had the
event there last year. It is just a lovely, lovely setting.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
It is. It's a lovely set and the team there
has done an exceptional job just working with us to
make sure that the experience our guests have and ultimately
the money that we raised for our patients that they
can help just maximize that because they know they're a
vessel for it. So they've done an incredible job and
it's been a pleasure working with them.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So Saturday Night is the big event, and this is
Claire's Army. If you don't know about Claire's Army, I
implore you to go to Claire's Army dot org. That's
c l a I r e. S Army dot org
serving families, loving kids and fighting cancer. And this all
stems back from the own the personal experience that Emily
and Kevin Ratliffe had with their daughter Claire back in
(01:41):
twenty twelve, and Claire passed away, but her legacy lives
on in this organization that really does what Emily and
Kevin experienced in the hospital back then, where families and
people they didn't even know, just a group of people
that rallied around them in the hospital and made sure
they had what they needed while they were fighting and
(02:02):
going through this worst of all imaginable experiences. And so
all these years later, nine years now, we've been doing
this and so the idea on Saturday Night is to
have fun, to celebrate the way Claire would, and to
raise money and help the organization do all the things
that you all do throughout the year. And Emily, we
talked about tickets and briefly about the online auction last week,
(02:26):
but now things are really cranked up. I've been watching
the social media channels for Claire's Army. What do we
need to know now that we're just a couple of
days away.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
So we sold out of tickets. There's unfortunately there's no
more space to join the party. But you can text
the word Claire in all caps C L A I
R to the number seven nine two three zero and
that will prompt you to enter and just look into
this Silent auction. It's free to register, but you can
(02:57):
this week and see what items we have and you
do not have to be present to win, so if
you're the highest bidder, we will absolutely get your winning
item to you, whether you're attending the gala or not
Saturday night. But it's I really encourage you because there
are so many local businesses and individuals who have given
so graciously to make this auction possible. There's one hundred
(03:17):
and twenty one silent auction items. It's I mean, it's
close to sixty seventy thousand dollars worth of items in there.
And we've got the live auction items that will be
happening on Saturday, but we do preview them so that
for some reason you see something in live auction and
you're not going to be there, you better send someone
or find out who's going to bid for you. So
(03:38):
silent auction easy way to participate and always, you know,
just on our website donate and for the radio listeners,
we love knowing when it just comes in from you,
and so we'd love for you to notify us either
you know, if you put a check in the mail
or when you gift give online, let us know that
you heard about us from from Bo and Beth and WBT,
(03:59):
because it makes us so happy to share those updates
with with Bo and Best and the radio family about
how you guys give.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Oh, it thrills us to know that you are impacting
so many families and that people are hearing about you
through our show. It really does our heart's good. But
I know that you do the hearts of so many families.
You do them so so so many good things for
people and I want to say it again so that
people know you text Claire C l A I r
(04:27):
E to seven nine two three zero. Is that right?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
That's right?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
So text Claire to seven nine two three zero, folks,
and you can take part in that silent auction and
preview those live auction items so that you can participate
in the silent auction, but also go to Clare'sarmy dot
org and just donate. And like she said, let let
us know, let her know that you found out about
Claire's Army through Bow, through us, through Good Morning BT.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
That's right, absolutely, Emily.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
What are you most excited about for Saturday night? Is
there an auction item? Is there something that's happening that
people need to know about? What are you excited about?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I mean, I'm just I'm always excited to see who's
there and see the neat connections that are made beforehand
and the people that don't realize they're both part of
the army but they know each other from other circles.
That's I always love that. But some new things we
have for this year. One of our areas, we really
want to connect the donors and the guests with our
(05:28):
mission and so we have this a neat, interactive, very
simple way for them to let let us know, you know,
their why and their inspirations for coming to the gala
and supporting us. So there's going to be a neat
kind of interactive piece that's the visuals to see how
the army has grown. And then also, I know you
know this though, but we've we've worked a little bit
(05:49):
on trying to introduce a few more people to who
Claire was. There's not a lot of videos of her
and there's not a lot of people that have seen
her kind of in action in her short life, and
so we've taken a number of those clips and we're
going to be able to show those to people. And
truly it's about celebrating her. It's not about being you know,
sad about what we see is seeing the joy on
(06:11):
her face and these videos and that she is our
why and she is our why that we want to
give as many of those moments to other families as
possible to really be with their child why while they're
going to do something hard, and so just you know,
having a chance to meet Claire get more involved in
our mission. And you know, always the food, I think
(06:32):
the food is so great. But what's so special about
it is the catering team played perfect in fs their
headshets come to the event. Their entire team just blows
it out of the water when it comes to the
food that displays their delivery. And they're the same people
who are making meals for our families all year long
through our meal programs, So that is super special and
(06:54):
I love to see them there and for our guests
to know who they are.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
We're on the same wave link because you said that,
and I had this ready to go. A few years ago.
I was standing with Emily and we were talking about Claire,
and we were mentioning the fact that enough years had
passed that a lot of people, you know, didn't know
Claire personally. It didn't even had not seen a video
of Claire. And Emily had this video on her phone
(07:20):
of Claire in the hospital dancing to this song by Beyonce,
and I said to her. We started talking. I said,
people need to see this. We need to play this
at the gala. And now we do play that every year.
And like you said, it's a fun night's a lot
going on, it's busy. It's like what Claire would want
(07:41):
I think at age sixteen because she loved a party.
But I think you need to stop and pause for
a second. I think I even said this last year
when I was doing the MC thing, I said, we
need to stop and think about the why. This is
the reason why we're all here. And there's that video
only less than a minute, it seems like, but it
just really rings home what this is all about about. Emily.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Absolutely, you're so right Bough, and that's that's the whole
reason why we do it. She's our inspiration. But what
we're trying to do is just give that as much
as we possibly can back to these families that you know,
we Kevna had moments clear that a lot of families
don't get to have because they had to choose between
going to work or make choices so that they had
(08:23):
to have someone else watch their child where they are
in treatment. And we just really want to make sure
that they have as many moments as possible.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
And one text I want to read to you that
Emily sent me after we talked on the air last week,
she said, Hey, enjoyed talking to you today. Had to
share that one of our recent donations from the mail
let us know that she heard about us on the
radio and had donated twenty five hundred dollars. Wow. So
you know, we talk about the power of the WBT
(08:52):
signal here and using it for the good for all
the various things over the years, and that's what I
always tell Emily. I said, we may have people that
don't get to come to the to the gala, and
I hope we have sent a lot of people there,
but people listening hear the story and want to help.
So we always say in any day of the year,
you can go to Claire's Army dot org and find
out about the mission and learn how to donate. But
I thought that was a really cool thing, and that
(09:14):
was my favorite text I got that day.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
I hope so well. We are so grateful for you
guys and the radio family. I mean, it stretches far
and wide, and that's how we've grown up. How we
serve more families is getting the word out and every
single gift matters. It really does make a difference, all right.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
The Casey the case he said, that's right, the Ksey
on Saturday Night, it's the ninth Annuel, can't believe nine
years and I will see you on Saturday night. I'll
be back honor to be back m seeing again for
a ninth time, and we'll do what we always do,
raise as much money as we can and hopefully have
all kinds of awesome numbers to talk about on Monday.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
That's right. Thank you Bo, thank you Beth, Thanks to Emiling,
you
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Will that the mother
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