Hey everybody. Welcome to Talk Nurdy. I'm your host, Kara Santa Maria.

And if you've noticed for the past few weeks I actually have not had any ads at the top of the show. There's a reason for that. It's kind of that I'm lazy.

No, it's actually not that I'm lazy. It's that I've been working an awful lot in my day job. You probably know if you listen to the show, but I am a full-time

freelance science communicator and that involves a lot of stuff. It involves doing

television work, web work, writing, also working on the podcast.

But I really make the money that gets me by from doing TV shows,

and sometimes when I am on a new project or I'm on a new shoot,

I am taken away from other things for long

stretches of time lots of filming lots of saying goodbye to my my little man

killer that's my dog if you didn't know. And so yeah I've been working on a

project recently that I will tell you about just as soon as I'm allowed to and I

just really haven't had the time to do some of the housekeeping that I have needed to do as sort of a one woman show here on Talk Nurdy.

So first and foremost, if you are interested in sponsoring an episode or you know working with me so

that I can read some ad copy for your business that you own you know give me a shout at

shop talk nerdy at gmail dot com but aside from that the reason I bring this up is that now more than ever I really appreciate all of my amazing

listener support because it's really what keeps the

podcast going you know it's free to download on iTunes on stitra on all the

different places uh... that pick up the rassess feed and where you can download and listen to.

I don't have a member's only section of the website.

It's just 100% free for everybody.

So the listener support is absolutely amazing. It's vital. It's so appreciated. It keeps us going, especially

in these times when I don't have a lot of advertisers on the podcast. It's not cheap, you know,

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