Hello everyone and welcome to TalkNurdy. It is Monday April 4th and I'm your host

Kara Santa Maria. I want to thank you guys for bearing with me last week. There was not a new episode of Talk Nurdy.

My grandmother just passed away and I've been struggling to manage a lot of things

in this world this week.

So I took a little bit of breathing time,

but I am back this week and I really appreciate all of your support.

I'm so excited about my guest this week,

but before we jump into that I want to

thank those of you who have made TalkNurdy possible over on the Patreon

portal and of course you can become a patron of TalkNurdy by going to

Patreon.com slash Talk Nurdy. I want to thank

Phil Tiber, Timothy Glover, the Honorable Husband, still love that name, Gabriel

Felipe Hermio Gonzalez, Ken Fifer, Brian Holden, and Jeffrey Sewall.

And I want to remind you guys that there are a lot of ways to support the show.

You can figure them all out by visiting Kara Santa Maria.com and I have just replenished the talk nerdy store.

So we now have t-shirts back in stock in every size. If you've been waiting, you can check them out there.

I also have a whole new batch of leather bookmarks that will be coming in soon.

They're being handmade just for you as we speak.

But in the meantime, I'm really excited to start the show.

This week I have a repeat guest, one of very few repeat guests

and somebody whom I respect very dearly.

He is the author of Fighting God, an atheist manifesto for a religious world.

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