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thumb, subscribe to the beat. Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, June 12th,

2023 and I'm the host of the show, Kara Santa Maria.

And as always before we dive into this week's episode, I do want to thank those of you who make

Talk Nurdy possible each and every week. You'll realize that I don't have any host read ads this week.

I've been very, very slow this podcast year, and I'm seeing this across the

podcast that I work on and even when I talk to my friends and colleagues who are podcasters.

And so really a huge part of the way that we can financially keep this train on the tracks

is through our Patreon accounts. And so Patreon. on the

accounts and so Patreon of course is a service where you can pledge at a

for me it's a per episode basis for a lot of people it's monthly

I'm I'm open to ideas if you think that should change but

right now I've kept it as per episode because sometimes I don't air an

episode and I wouldn't want you to be penalized for that. And so what you do is you visit Patreon.com slash talk nerdy

You look through all the different tiers and the levels of support and what they offer and for as little as like a dollar an episode it can be a huge huge think of it I mean it's in the name

right patron you're a patron of the arts patreon yes p a r

can't spell p a t r e o n dot com slash talk nerdy so this week's top patrons include Daniel Lang, David J E Smith, Mary Niva, Brian Holden, David

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