Nine Years of Showing Up for Primary Children's

Every year, my friend Zach Reynolds and I come back to the same simple idea: play games, ask people to give, and send the money to Primary Children's Hospital. Zach started DigiWuts and I joined him about 11 years ago. It was fun, and honestly it helped guide us and start our lives in content creation. The fundraising is the part that stuck.

We do it through Extra Life, the gaming fundraiser for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. The format is not complicated. You pick a hospital. You play. You ask your people to donate. Then you do it again next year.

Zach's page is here: Zach Reynolds on Extra Life. Mine is here: Guy Warner on Extra Life. This year I am on Zach's team, Salty Life Gamers.

My personal number is the part I can prove from my own account: $11,924 raised, 147 donations received, 8 events finished. That number is mine. It is not the whole story, and I do not want to make it sound like it is.

The group effort has always been bigger than one page. Back in 2018, The Daily Utah Chronicle wrote about the DigiWuts, the crew Zach founded and still leads, doing our fourth year of 24 hour marathons for Primary Children's. The article had us at over $5,000 raised through the years at that point, with $2,570 already in toward that year's $15,000 goal. A week before that, the Deseret News ran its own piece on the same run, and KUTV 2News closed out the week with a Pay It Forward feature on the crew. That was years ago, and the point was never really the scoreboard. The point was showing up again.

That is still the point.

And for our family it is personal. When Kennedy was very young, she had what we thought was a traumatic head injury, and she spent about three days at Primary Children's. They took care of her, and honestly, they took care of all of us. They made sure we were good. When you are a parent in that room, the only thing you should have to think about is your kid. That is why we raise the money: for the parents and kids sitting in those rooms right now, so they can just take care of their kids.

I spent a decade as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in the credit monitoring space, and these days I run Warner Empire and the businesses under it. The work changes. The year changes. Some years are better than others. This one has been a lot. But this is one of the things that has stayed steady: once a year, we raise money for kids at Primary Children's.

For 2026, this is my ninth year. I set my goal at $1,500. If I hit it, my lifetime Extra Life total goes past $13,000. Zach is at $200 toward his $1,000 goal, and Salty Life Gamers is at $652 toward $1,500 as I write this. Donations stay open through the end of the year.

If you have given before, thank you. If you are one of the 147, you are part of that number. If you can give this year, give through my page or Zach's page or the team page. It all lands at the same place: kids and families at Primary Children's.

I put the longer record up at Warner Empire too, because this is part of what the company is supposed to stand for when it is working right. Make things. Tell the truth about the numbers. Show up for people.

Im here. We're here. For the kids, we keep showing up.