Hi everybody welcome to talk nerdy I am your host

Kara Santa Maria and I've got a little bit of business to attend to here at the top of the show

as usual first and foremost I want to

thank those of you who go on my website kara Santa Maria.com and support the

podcast in all of the ways that you do.

You know you can do it by buying merch from the Talk Nurdy store.

And actually right now I have a great special going on for the holidays. If you go to the website and you

click through to the store, make a purchase, and then enter the offer code, ner holiday at checkout you will get 10% off and also if you spend $15 you'll get a free slap bracelet with your order.

So again that's offer code nerdy holiday at cara

Santa Maria.com and then click through to the talk nerdy store. I also want to

oh yeah I didn't even finish thanking you guys so I want to thank you by going to the website by making your purchases by going to iTunes and Stitcher rating and reviewing the show and for those of you who go to my website and contribute to the show to help keep it 100% free to download.

Three of you did that this week, so I want to give a big shout out to Nicholas Fry from Missoula, Montana. I want to thank Matt Miller from

Pearl and Texas and as always I want to thank Rick Richardson from Elma

Washington. I also want to make one more quick announcement before we launch into the show and that is that as you know

It's the holidays. Today is Monday December 15th and talk nerdy is going to take a little break. I apologize in advance. I love you

guys so much. I thank you guys so much for sticking with me. I'm going to take two weeks off and

I will be back in the new year with a brand new episode featuring Dr. P. Z. Myers.

So stay tuned for that one.

It's going to be a whole lot of fun.

But today I have a special guest for you. He is the Vice President and

provost of Keene University, Dr. Jeffrey Tony.

Jeffrey, thank you so very much for joining me today. It's a great pleasure.

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