Hello and welcome've got a really

your host Kara Santa Maria and I've got a really exciting show for you guys tonight.

I say that every week but I learned a lot on this one. I thought it was

pretty cool. Before we get started talking about exoplanets I want to thank

those of you who keep talk nerdy going week after week.

As you know, TalkNurdy is both advertising and listener supported.

Lately it's been much more listener supported because I have been so overwhelmed with other work that I have not been able to chase down a lot of advertisers.

So I especially want to thank those of you who just, you know, you're so amazing for for giving for being so generous and for

ensuring that talk nerdy is free to download for everybody who would like to so

over on Patreon which you can visit by going to Patreon.com slash talk nerdy.

I want to thank Phil T-Bare and Timothy Glover. I also want to thank Ken Fyfer, Brian Holden, and Jeffrey Sewell. Thank you so much for your support.

And through the PayPal portal, which you can access at cara Santa Maria.com.

I want to thank Rob Miller and an incredible just incredible donation I received this week. I don't even know how to describe how

generous this support was but it came to the Talk Nurdy program from Mark Mursky. So generous in fact that I had to email you Mark from Minneapolis, Minnesota and make sure that you didn't accidentally

add a zero to this donation.

And if you did, no worries.

I will refund it back.

I totally get it.

If it wasn't an accident, oh my God,

I don't know how to thank you.

This is definitely the biggest listener supported donation that the show has received in its, I don't know, what is it now, year and a half history.

Thank you so much, Mark. This will go towards setting up the new studio when I move into my new house in about two months.

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