Hello everyone and welcome to TalkNurdy. It's Monday December 19th and I'm your host Kara Santa Maria. This is our last Talk nerdy for the year.

As usual, we're going to take two weeks off over the holiday break and we'll join you again

in January.

We will be back on Monday, January 9th, and will continue our regular show after that time.

In the meantime, I want to thank those of you who have made TalkNurdy possible throughout the year,

remember there are a lot of ways you can support the show. You can find them all at

Kara Santa Maria.com, including the TalkNurdy store and

different portals where you can pledge your support.

One of which is the Patreon portal, which is where the majority of the listener support comes in.

I want to thank all of my patrons throughout the year. So many of you made

it so that I can continue producing this show all by myself and can continue to make it 100% free to download for anybody who wants to listen.

The top supporters this week include Mark Hepburn, Phil T-Bere, Timothy Glover, Christian Jeffrey, David Lacer, Jeffrey

Perez, Ron Canoblock, Pedro M Rosario Barbosa, Stuart Aug Og, the Honorable Husband, Charles Payet, Jace,

Gabriel Felipe Hormillo Gonzalez, Brian Holden, and Jeffrey Sewall. Thank you guys so much. Now this week's episode is a special

episode because it's an episode that has an important cause behind it. This week I have the opportunity to chat with Dr. J Wenger who leads the

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation polio eradication effort within their global development program.

He's an epidemiologist who formerly worked for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, who's also worked for the

World Health Organization, and who has really dedicated a huge part of his life to

surveilling and working towards the eradication of polio both

here in America and also in India.

Now he's dedicating all of his time towards these efforts for the

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and one thing I want to mention before we

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