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

really excited about this week's episode. We're going to be talking all about

global health but before we do I want to thank a handful of people

who made this week's episode possible through the PayPal portal which you can

access by visiting kara Santa Maria dot com where you can make

one time or monthly contributions to the show. I want to thank Nick Ward for his

contribution this week, his very large contribution this week.

Thank you so much Nick, all the way from across the pond in the UK.

I also want to thank you for the wonderful email you wrote me and I promise you I am writing you back. I have been crazy this

past week from Austin to New York to Puerto Rico and back again.

Haven't had a moment to breathe.

I'm actually recording right now at one in the morning

after I just landed from my flight.

So sorry if this intro is a little bit loopy, but I will be sending you an email soon, Nick.

Thank you so much for your support.

Over there on the Patreon portal, which you can access by going to

www patreon.com slash talk nerdy. I want to thank all of you I mean there's too many

to list it's like I don't even know how many there are. I guess it actually

says if you go there. Let me see. Let me click on a different page here.

Patreon says that right now I have load 78 patrons holy crap you guys thank you all so much

that is absolutely huge and for those who are really supporting in a major way, I want to thank Timothy Glover,

Brian Holden, Jeffrey Sewall, and of course Chuck Pell.

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