Hello friends. Welcome to Talk Nurdy dirty I as always am your host Kara

Santa Maria I want to right here at the very top go ahead and give a big shout

out a big thank you for all of you who support the podcast in your many ways

By rating and reviewing on iTunes and Stitcher by shopping in the talk nerdy store at

Karasanne and Maria dot com and of course by your generous donations to the podcast through my website portal.

So I want to start with Jonathan Oldfield from LaSalle, Ontario.

Oh my gosh, thank you so much, such a generous donation.

He left a note that it's for the laptop fund.

You were listening last week.

Again, thank you so much from the bottom of my heart. I also want to thank Daniel

Olivia Costa Lemos from Rio de Janeiro. I want to thank, let's see, Michael S Bigelow for your recurring contribution. I want to thank

Justin Ellison from Corona, California. I also want to thank, let's see here, oh, Rick Richardson, of course, from

Elma Washington. Thank you so very very much and

lastly I want to thank James Mitchell for your recurring contribution. It's

tips like these that keep the podcast going.

They keep it 100% free to download.

So again, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

All right, now I want to give you a heads up today

that this recording is just a teeny bit different because it's a remote recording

which allowed me to sit down with somebody that I've been wanting to sit down

with for quite a while but technically we were not in the same room and also

technically he was not wearing headphones so even though my voice is really quiet it comes up in his

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