Hello everyone welcome Welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, November 19th, 2018. Happy

American Thanksgiving to my American listeners and happy

belated Canadian Thanksgiving to my Canadian listeners. I hope you guys have a

really wonderful week. I'm super excited about today's show before I dive into all that good

content. I want to thank those of you who made Talk Nertie possible this week.

The kind of biggest supporters on Patreon right now include Rob Schreck, Pedro M Rosario Barbosa,

Phil T-Bare, the zombie drummer, David J. E. Smith, Jeffrey Perez, Charles Payette, Jafe, Gabriel, Felipe, Hermio Gonzalez, Brian Holden, and

Jeffrey Sewall. Thank you guys so, so very much.

I hope that you too are having a happy holiday this week.

And I wanted to let you know that there's a bunch of ways

that you can support the show.

You can go to Patreon.com slash TalkN nerdy or you can just visit my website

kara santa Maria dot com you can rate and review the show on iTunes on Google

podcasts on stitcher that's like a really big one. I don't, I have like a fair amount of

reviews which is great but apparently it really does something with the

iTunes algorithm and I think we could stand to boost that number a little bit.

Lastly I do have some new stuff in the Talk Nurdy store. I am starting

to offer for the holidays copies of all the books I've been involved in. So I wrote the forward

for the kids book, Charlie and the Tortoise by MJ Mouton. It's so in the for the new National Geographic Almanac 2019,

which is a beautiful coffee table book

just full of lovely photographs and infographics

and also super affordable.

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