Hi everyone right here at the top I just want to tell you how excited I am that my very own

podcasting platform Zencaster is now a sponsor of the show.

Check out the podcast download link in the show notes and stay tuned for why I love

using Zen for Talk Nurdy. Hello everybody and welcome to talk nerdy. Today is Monday, January 31st, 2022.

I'm the host of the show, Kara Santa Maria.

And before we dive into this week's episode, I do want to thank those of you who make

talk nerdy possible. Remember as always talk nerdy isn't will always be a

100% free to download as long as I can keep making this show. I'm going to make sure you

don't have to pay for it. But of course the costs of making the show are offset by ad sales and

by listeners just like you who want to throw a buck or two to each

episode and with it come quite a few perks, not least of which is an ad-free version of the show each week. So this week I do want to thank

the top patrons who pledge their support week after week. They include Daniel Lang,

David J. E. Smith, Mary Niva,

Brian Holden, Christopher Pitts, Dudas Infinitas, Gabrielle, F.

Hadamio Gonzalez, June Sappara, Leonard Prince, and O'Rika Hagman.

If you are interested in pledging your support and you want to see all of the cool perks that come along with it,

all you've got to do is visit Patreon.com slash TalkNurdy or you can just go to my

website talk nerdy.com and click through the links there. All right let's talk about this week's show.

It's a good one.

Okay, this is kind of weird, but we really haven't talked about COVID much on the episode and

for the next two weeks we're going to do just that.

This week, I had the opportunity to sit down

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