Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, July 3rd,

2023 and I'm the host of the show Kara Maria, and for those living in the United States, happy 4th of July,

for those who throw Kitchy America themed parties in other parts of the world, happy 4th of July. I hope that you guys are having a

wonderful summer. I am actually about to leave for a trip with my with a group at the university where I am currently doing my internship for another two

months because I'm almost done.

Woo-hoo.

We are headed to Eswatini in southern Africa to do some work with some, mostly adolescents, but some adults

to do some psychotherapeutic intervention there.

And so I'm going to be out of town for a bit, but don't you worry, I've got some episodes in the queue for you.

This week is a great one but before we dive in I do want to thank those of you who make

talk nerdy possible.

Remember talk nerdy is and will always be 100% free to download.

I do this on top of my full-time job as a psychology intern

and on top of all of the other work that I do,

finishing my dissertation, working on other podcasts, all that great

stuff.

And so it really helps me to be able to keep this train on the tracks by your support really helps me because it helps me pay my assistant

it helps me pay the editors who work on the show and do any other work around the

show that we need to do. Remember if you want to pledge your support on a per episode basis all you've got to do

is visit patreon.com slash talk nerdy. Today's top patrons include Daniel

Lang, David J. E. Smith, Mary Niva, Brian Holden, David Compton,

Gabriel F. Haramillo, Joe Wilkinson, Pasqualee,

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