Hello everyone.

Welcome to Talk Nurdy. I'm your host, Kara Santa Maria,

and we've got a really fun episode for you today.

I have a chance to sit down with Dr. Shini Samara

from Techno on Al Jazeera America.

And if you've heard of that before,

or you think you might have seen it, maybe you did,

because I'm on it too.

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