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featuring detectives Harry Bosch and Renee Ballard. Hey everyone. Welcome to Talk Nurdy.

Today is Monday January 21st and I'm

your host Kara Santa Maria. I'm actually recording this intro from

Under My Blanket in a hotel room in Santa Barbara. I'm here for a week of school because I go to a university

that's got a kind of distributed learning model. I do a lot of my work online, a lot of my work

direct with patients patients and I periodically go to these week-long intensive

sessions that require a bit of travel, a bit of get-up and go away from home.

Doing it right now but I'm double-dudying and recording. and TalkNurdie is and will always be 100% free to download.

And that's really because of the model

that I've set up here from the beginning

and as we've grown, about half of the income

from Talk Nurdie comes from ad sales

and the other half comes from my

Patreon account. So Patreon is a really cool program. Just go to

Patreon.com slash Talk Nertie and see how you can pledge your support, you know,

five dollars ten dollars even a dollar, all the way up to however much

you'd like per episode helps to keep this thing going and it's really cool because I know that

it's being funded directly by the people who listen.

There's forums for you to give suggestions, give feedback, let me know what you think.

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