McGruff the Crime Dog

I have some, a resource slide at the end, but, uh, it's exponentially growing per year, and here's one of the reasons.

When you think about crime, okay, particularly fi- uh, specifically financially motivated crime, for any of us, uh, in this audience that grew up in the 1970s or '80s, you may remember something like the, uh, Officer McGruff campaign, right? Or the neighborhood crime watch signs in your neighborhood.

We used to think about crime as a physical have, physically having to protect our homes.

Lock your doors.

I know other famous birthdays include Ad Rock of the Beastie Boys, born on Halloween.

The Crime Dog, Fred McGriff, also born on Halloween.

And I'm thinking Walter Cronkite was born on Halloween.

Dan Rather.

I like that.

I will say when it comes to education, especially at that level, I mean, I still have a lot of fond memories of uh, yeah, a lot of people laugh about it nowadays, but yeah, Smokey the dog or Smokey the bear, uh, McGruff, the crime dog.

And, you know, even, you know, the, the old dare campaign from, from when I was a kid.

So this, when he handed me the book, when we saw each other at Archon, this is kind of what it reminded me of is all those old, you know, uh, awareness, uh, campaigns from, from when I was a youth and when I was in school.

Exactly.

So, as Jessica said, Outback is the next McGruff the Crime Dog.

Because Outback runs back in where Carval and Danny are.

And he has a loose finger.