Hello everyone welcome to talk nerdy I am your host Kara Maria. So I want to thank those of you who are patrons of today's episode. Those of you who went to Patreon.com, that's P-A-T-R-E-O-N-D-O-N-D-T-O-N-T-N-E-O-N-T-E-O-N-T-E-O-N-T-E-O-N-T-E-O-N-T-E-O-N-T-T-O-N-T-O-N-T-T-O-N-T-O-O-T-T-O-N. have pledged to support in a really substantial way. So thank you to Ron No Block,

Brian Holden, Jeffrey Sewell, and Chuck Pell. I also want to thank over there on the

PayPal. Let's see I want to thank Alex Keller

from Park City Utah and Jeremy Keat from Etewanda California Eteewanda, California.

Eteewanda.

Beautiful.

Thank you guys so much from the bottom of my heart

for supporting the show by making these financial donations that help me keep it going so that everybody can

download it and listen to it for free even if they're not in a position to be able to

support.

It's really, really huge of you guys.

And I invite the rest of you to help with the show by

reaching out to me on Twitter on Facebook giving me your insights your comments

by rating and reviewing on iTunes and Stitcher,

and just generally by being there.

I thank you so much.

You guys are amazing.

All right, screw it, let's get started. I am so excited about today's episode because I have

Sort of an old friend on the show, but definitely somebody who I just really admire and look up to and I've

learned a whole lot from. I've recommended his books to you in the past. Some of his books

even appear on my website under my recommendations page.

So he has written the Republican War on Science.

...