Hello everyone and welcome to talk nerdy. Today is Monday, April 1st 2019 and I'm the host of the show

Kara Santa Maria and no this is not an April Fool's joke, it's just a typical show.

I always hate it when they do those April Fool's things like post fake science

stories and get people legitimately confused and they go, it was funny.

It's like, but is that a joke, really?

Is that funny?

I don't think we're gonna be doing much of that

in this episode.

I'm actually really excited

because I had a chance to sit down with a super cool guy on the show this week

but before we dive into that I want to thank those of you who have made TalkNurdy possible.

Remember TalkNurdy is and will always be 100% free to download and that's because the show really does rely on support from listeners just like you.

One of the biggest ways that you can support the show is by visiting Patreon.com slash talk nerdy

and pledging your support on an episode by episode basis.

So I want to give a shout out to the people in the top tier of that Patreon community right now and they include Pedro M Rosario Barbosa, Phil Tiber, the zombie drummer, David J. E. Smith, Jeffrey Perez, Charles Payette,

Gabriel Felipe Herr Emil Gonzalez, Brian Holden, and Jeffrey Sewall. Thank you all so much. And remember, there are a bunch of other ways. and podcast, any other podcast platform that you use. You can also share the show with

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store by visiting talk nerurdy merch.com.

All right guys, I'm really excited about this week's episode.

I do say that every week, don't I?

I'm like hearing myself say it.

It's funny because it comes out of my mouth but it goes into your

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