Hello everyone and welcome to talk nerdy. I'm your host Kara

Santa Maria. I want to thank everybody who supports the podcast in the many ways

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So I want to give a shout out this week

to Brian Holden, Jeffrey Sewell, Chuck Pell,

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Patreon.com slash TalkNurdy and pledging to be a patron. Thank you guys all so much. Now I'm really excited about this

week's episode. You know how much I love it when I get to have a physicist

see I have so much to learn I can't even say the word when I get to have a physicist on the

podcast especially an astrophysicist and this week was just such a pleasure to have Dr. Kiyara Mingarelli to teach me everything, well actually probably honestly just scratched the surface of gravitational waves.

It's a real treat in In a couple places I got a little lost. I tried to stay on track and hopefully it all makes sense to you guys and it helps you delve a little bit into a topic that I don't know we just

don't often get to talk about so without further ado here she is Dr.

Kiyara Mingarelli.

Kiyara thank you so much for making the trek all the way from Pasadena land of the

big bang theory my pleasure I'm looking forward to our chat we let's see we met very very recently and our mutual friend David David David David

David Jason Goldman's birthday party yeah and you were there with Katie

Mac so funny because Jason and Katie have both been on the podcast Yeah, and you were there with Katie Mac.

So funny, because Jason and Katie have both been on the podcast.

Oh, I didn't realize.

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