Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, December 9th, 2019 and I'm the host of the show, Kara Santa Maria.

Time traveling again this week and by my calculations I am just on an airplane coming home from Melbourne from what I have to assume was an incredible trip with the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.

Yeah, but I'm actually recording this a couple of weeks in advance so that I don't have to bring

my recording equipment with me halfway across the world.

Guys, I'm super excited about this week's show.

We get to talk to Dr. Darcy Lockman all about her newest book.

But before we dive into that, I want to thank those of you

who continue to make Talk Nertie possible each and every week to help me so that I can

offer this service for free to anybody who wants to listen.

So those of you who have pledged your support on Patreon, I thank you so much. Anybody who's interested maybe I don't know as a holiday gift to a loved one maybe in their name or just as a gift to everybody listening you can visit patreon

dot com slash talk nerdy and learn all about how to support the show this week's top

patrons include Sinai orica Hag, Pedro M Rosario Barbosa,

Dudas Infinitas, Phil T-Bere, the zombie drummer, David J. E. Smith, Brian Holden, and

Jeffrey Sewall.

And one of the things that's interesting about that list and also interesting

every time I do surveys on the show is that the vast majority of those names

were men's names.

Ulrika, thank you so much.

And also, I don't know, I don't know if Sinai is,

I don't know what gender Sinai is could be many things but I do really really

appreciate all of the supporters and all of the listeners of the show one thing that I've

struggled with from the beginning of Talk Nurdy,

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