Hello everyone and welcome to talk nerdy. Today is Monday, December 10th and

I'm your host Kara Santa Maria.

All right guys, I want to thank those of you who make Talk Nurdy possible each and every week.

Remember, there's a bunch of ways to support the show, but it really heavily relies on listener support and I use

Patreon in order to facilitate that process. So if you go to Patreon.com

slash talk nerdy you can pledge your support and help this independent

podcast stay alive can you believe that we are 237 episodes in. That's a really big deal and it's all because of support

from listeners just like you. I want to give a shout out to my top supporters this

week. They include Rob Schreck, Pedro

M Rosario Barbosa, Phil T Bear, the zombie drummer, David Jee Smith, Jeffrey Perez, Charles Payet, Jafe, Gabriel, Felipe, Hermio Gonzalez, Brian Holden, and Jeffrey Sewall.

But remember, that's not the only way to support the show.

There's a lot you can do. You can tell your

friends and family about it. You can share on social media. You can go to iTunes or

Google Podcasts or Stitcher or Spotify or wherever you listen to

a podcast and you can rate and review.

And the other thing that you can do and it's really exciting is you can visit

the new and improved TalkNurdy store by going to TalkNurdy merch.com and there I've got all

sorts of stuff t-shirts and mugs and tote bags and I actually have copies of both of the books I was involved in this year, The Skeptics Guide to the Universe, which I co-wrote.

You can buy a signed copy there. It makes a great holiday gift.

And the National Geographic Almanac 2019 I wrote the forward to that book

and I also am the Quizmaster so I pop up throughout the book at the beginning of the sections and kind of ask you some trivia to carry you

throughout signed copies of that I can subscribe or transcribe no neither of those

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