Hello everyone and welcome to talk nerdy. Today is Monday, December 11th and I'm your host Kara Santa Maria. I'm really excited about this week's guest.

Honestly, he has been really influential in my work and I think a lot of other individuals who have ever studied neuroscience,

neuroendocrinology, or even biology

kind of writ large, know of Dr Robert Sopalsky. This one I actually have been holding on to for quite a while.

I had some editing issues, but now I'm working with a new editor, so I'm really excited that I can

finally unveil this short but very

sweet episode. All right before we dive into it I want to thank those of you who make

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and you do so every week. So I want to thank the big supporters of the show at

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I want to thank Phil T-Bare, Timothy Glover,

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I also want to let you guys know that there's another way you can support the show.

It's coming up on the holiday season and if you visit my website kerosanta Maria.com and you

click through to the talk nerdy store. I'm doing a fire sale. I'm clearing out all the rest of

my stock. It's all 15% off right now if you use the code nerdy holiday and the

proceeds from that go directly towards supporting the show and paying for things like that wonderful

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