Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, February 27th, 2023 and I'm the host of the show, Kara Santa Maria and like always

before we dive into this week's episode I do want to

thank those of you who make Talk Nurdie possible each week. Sometimes you'll

hear me read ads, sometimes you'll you'll hear these programmatic pre-baked in ads that I'm not reading.

Those actually pay at a much lower rate.

But the bulk of the way that I can keep the show afloat is from support, from people just like you.

All you've got to do is go to go to Patreon.com

slash talk nerdy and you can read about the different tiers,

you can read about how to get an ad-free episode.

And yeah, it's just so lovely that you guys, year after year,

continue to make sure this show is possible

so that everybody can listen to it free and only those who can afford to support it are doing

it you're really kind of offsetting it for those who can't afford to pay.

So this week I do want to thank the top patrons they include Daniel Lang

David J. E. Smith, Mary Niva, Brian Holden, David Compton, Gabriel F.

Haryo Gonzalez, Joe Wilkinson, Pasqualee, Alati, and Ulrika Hagman.

Thank you all so much.

All right, so, again, before we get into this week's episode,

I do want to let you guys know that it's looking like

I'm not gonna have a new episode next week.

So we're going to be off the week of March 6th

and we'll be picking back up the week of March 13th.

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