Hello, everyone, and welcome to talk nerdy.

Today is Monday, June 2, 2025, and I'm the host of the show, Dr. Kara, Santa Maria.

And before we get into the show, I want to apologize that this episode may be up a little late,

late in the day, maybe even the next day.

I've been traveling quite a bit and trying to juggle my schedule and recording the intro for this one.

Fell through the crack, so my editor got it a bit late.

Not his fault, completely my fault.

But hopefully you're able to enjoy this episode soon.

We're going to talk a little bit about the show in just a moment,

but first I want to thank those of you who make Talk Nerdy possible.

Remember, Talk Nerdyism will always be 100% free to download as long as we keep

this train on the tracks. We are on episode 553 this week. And of course, to keep this going and

make it sort of worth our time, obviously we're all like grossly underpaid. But in order to

keep it going, we do have to compensate those who help out.

I host and mostly kind of executive produced this show, but of course, Noel Dilworth, who is

amazing, is the producer on the show who does all of the bookings, all of the back end.

I couldn't do it without her. And I've got my editor, Ryan at Pro Podcast Solutions, and yeah, I've got to make sure that

everybody is able to get paid in order to do their jobs. So the way that we raise money for the show

is every so often we sell ads. It's very rare. Like this year, we've sold two whole ads.

I haven't been prioritizing it, but also ad sales have been low. I mostly just keep this going by relying on the support of individuals

just like you. I use Patreon as the platform. That's P-A-T-R-E-O-N. All you've got to do is visit

patreon.com slash talk nerdy, and you can learn more about how to pledge your support on an

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