Hello everyone.

Welcome to Talk Nurdy.

Today is Hello everyone welcome to talk nerdy today is Monday June 10th 2019 and I'm

Kara Santa Maria and this week we're going to be talking to Katie McKissick

also known as Beatrice, the biologist. But before we do, I want to thank those

of you who have made talk nerdy possible. So, as you know, I say it each week. I say it the same way each week too, which means they're probably fast forwarding through this right now, but hopefully or not.

Talk nerdy is it will always be 100% free to download and that's because of the model that I use which heavily relies on support

from patrons just like yourself.

Patron's a little week lately, not like Patreon the website, like my Patreon is a little week lately it's kind of a bummer but it maybe it's maybe it's a summer people got other things to do

If you want to support the show it'd be really cool. I'm really bad at asking for this kind of thing

it makes me super uncomfortable but the best way to do it is to go to patreon

com slash talk nerdy you can read all about how to pledge your support I do want to

thank the top patrons this week including Phil T Bear the zombie drummer David

J. E. Smith Gabriel Gabriel, Felipe,

Garmile Gonzalez, Brian Holden, and Jeffrey Sewell.

Thank you guys so, so very much.

We couldn't do it without your support.

And maybe I'll pick a few other patrons to thank, including Juan Gutierrez.

We've got Rob Schreck.

We've got, oh here's one, Kristen, no last name for Kristen. That's pretty cool. Jeremy Lemsoni, hopefully I'm

pronouncing that correctly. Let's thank Barb, also with no last name, and Jen Cross. Oh and Jacob Rochester and gosh there's so

many of you this is so cool. David Compton and Juan and Ken Fyfer and Dave Crane.

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