Hello everyone and welcome to talk nerdy today's July 23rd 2018 and I'm

your host Kara Santa Maria I'm actually recording this intro from under a blanket in a very loud hotel room in Colorado.

Hopefully it's working out my little makeshift recording studio.

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And I know it means an awful lot to the listeners of the show.

I also want to thank Phil T-Bare, the zombie drummer,

sorry, zombie drummer drummer

I hate to say that wrong

David J. E. Smith

Jeffrey Perez Charles Pay It Jonathan Wright the honorable husband

Jafe Gabriel Gabrielle,

Felipe Hermio Gonzalez, Brian Holden, and Jeffrey Sewall.

And if my voice sounds tired right now, it's because I'm so tired.

I'm in Chicago, as I mentioned, for a week of school you know my PhD program in

clinical psych is a distributed learning model which means that we do a lot of

stuff online and then we get together

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