Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, June 26th,

2023 and I'm the host of the show, Kara Santa Maria. And as always right here at the top of the show, I do want to thank those of you who make TalkNurdy possible.

You've probably noticed that there are fewer ads than recently.

We're still doing some of those pro-grammatic ads ads but fewer what we call host red ads so these

these advertisements that I partner with different companies to

kind of develop and work on together. That has always been a big heartbeat of the

payment structure of the show. This is how I pay my editor, how I pay my

incredible assistant who I couldn't live without Noel Dilworth.

And also keep this profitable for myself as well.

There are just fewer ads across podcast.

You're probably noticing that left and right.

And so because of that, Patreon has become much more important.

We're all kind of leaning on that a little bit more.

I really do want to thank those of you who are already patrons of the show and encourage you if you're in a position to do so that you can pledge as little as like a dollar an episode.

I think as little as two dollars an episode gets you an ad-free version of the show.

This week I want to thank the top patrons and they include Daniel Lange.

David J. E. Smith, Mary Niva, Brian Holden, David Compton, Gabriel F.

Haramillo, Joe Wilkinson, Pasqualee,

and Orica Hagman.

Thank you so much.

If you are interested, all you've got to do is visit Patreon.

dot com slash talk nerdy.

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