Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, July 5th 2021 and I'm the

host of the show Kara Santa Maria and as always before we dive into this week's episode, I want to thank those of you who help make Talk Nurdy possible.

Talk Nurdy is and will always be 100% free to download.

As long as I'm able to make this show,

you will not have to pay for it.

And that's because I rely on the support

from my advertisers and of course from listeners just like you,

just like our public television and

public radio models here in the United States. If you want to pledge your

support so that you can offset that cost for people who can't afford to, all you've got

to do is visit Patreon.

dot com slash talk nerdy. You can pledge as little as like a dollar an

episode. This week I thought maybe I would give a shout out to my newest

patrons first.

They include R. Maharaj, Tepo Seder, or Cedar, Palawador, Bobby Cox, Daniel R. Glenn,

Diana Hill, Daniel Haydock, Friedrich Vents, Marcus Hurler, and, ha ha ha, the great

dark Lloyd, Lord's toilet companion. I love that.

Let's also give a shout out to the top patrons

and you'll recognize these names for sure,

but I would feel terrible if I didn't say hello to Mary Niva.

Thank you so much Mary Rob Shrek welcome back.

Pasquale Jalati, Brian Holden, Christopher Pitts, Daniel Lang, David J. E. Smith, Dudas Infinitas, June Sappara,

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