Hello everyone. Welcome to Talk Nurdy. I'm your host Kara Santa Maria. I want to

thank those of you who went and visited my brand new Patreon page. It's at

Patreon.com slash Talk Nurdie. That's P-A-T-R-E-O-N.

Patron's a really cool site that sort of has a hybrid model it's kind of similar to the PayPal button that I have on my

website there at kara Santa Maria.com to help support the show but it's it's sort of like an

indigogo or a Kickstarter like a cool crowdfunding thing

but instead of just being a single goal it's it's sort of ongoing and I've got all sorts of

milestone goals on there like getting a new laptop because as you probably don't know why would you know I had to restart this recording like five freaking times. It is time. My laptop, she's a dye in, but also like new

microphones and some things that I kind of think I need to do to upgrade now that

I am in you know my second 50, pretty crazy.

So there's a few of you, well thank you to everybody who visited

and to everybody who supported.

And one of the thank you levels is to give a shout out on the air. So I want to go ahead and give

that shout out to Jeffrey Sewell and to Chuck Pell. And also over on PayPal, because that portal

is still open there on my website. I want to give a

shout out to Amy Arnold. Thank you all so much for your really generous

donations. They really help keep the podcast going and keep it free for everybody to

listen to and thank you to everybody else who visited Patreon.com slash talk

nerdy I have a little gift for you guys who do make a pledge and you'll see what that is after you do it.

There will be a little thank you message there with a little gift.

I'll tell you that it has something to do with the talk nerdy store.

All right, what else? What else? I think that's really all the news this week.

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