Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, August 22 and I'm the host of the show

Kara Santa Maria and again or I should say as always, before we dive into this week's episode,

I do want to thank those of you who make talk nerdy possible. Remember, the show will always be 100% free to download as long as I'm able to make it.

And that's really because I rely on the support of both my advertisers and of listeners just

like you.

And you'll see that very often I have episodes where there are no

ads like this week there are still some dynamically inserted ads but none that I

read and the income from those are significantly lower, sadly.

And so, yeah, it's really the Patreon that keeps this thing chugging along.

It keeps my incredible assistant Noel Dilworth paid.

It keeps my incredible editors at Pro Podcast Solutions paid.

And it keeps me in a new laptop when mine shits the bed.

Yeah, that totally didn't just happen.

No, it did.

It did.

It was terrible.

Anyway, let's dive into this week's episode.

It's a really, really interesting one. It's a fun one. It's an

important one. So, oh no, wait, before we dive in, duh, I was just like giving a

shout out to the patrons and I didn't call you out by name. Let's do that first.

So I want to give a shout out to my top-tier patrons this week. They include Daniel Lang, David

J. E. Smith, Mary Niva, Brian Holden, David Compton, Dudas Infinitas, Gabriel F. Hormillo Gonzalez, Joe Wilkinson, Leonard Prince, Pasquale

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