Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, September 24th, 2018 and I'm the host of the show, Kara Santa Maria, and as often, not always, not even usual, Lee, but often Lee, not a word, I am recording this intro from a quaint hotel room and hopefully the audio quality is a okay because I am

excited to announce this week's guest but before I do I want to thank those of you who are making talk nerdy possible.

Wow, this is what I get for recording these intro so late at night.

I want to thank those of you who continue to help out with the show. Remember this really is a

joint effort amongst all of us. I, you know, produce and host the show, I book the guests

and all that, but I have so much help from my incredible assistant

Noel Dilworth from the incredible team at Pro Podcast Solutions that helps me edit the show every

week and also from all of the feedback and the insights and the recommendations and like

the words of encouragement from all of you out there in the podcast diverse coining that one.

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awfully long way and the top patrons this week include Rob Shrek, Timothy Glover,

Pedro M Rosario Barbosa, Phil T Bear, The Zombie Drummer, David J. E. Smith, Jeffrey Perez, Charles

Payette, Jafe, Gabriel Felipe Hormillo Gonzalez, Brian Holden, and Jeffrey Sewall.

All right guys, this week I had the opportunity to connect with Dr Kevin Hainline.

He is a scientist doing some pretty cool stuff.

There's a nice pause there for emphasis.

He is actually now has recently moved to the Department of Astronomy at

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