Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday July 9th 2018 and I'm your host

Kara Santa Maria.

This week we have a fascinating show for you, but before we dive in, I want to thank those of you

who have made Talk Nurdy possible.

Remember, Talk Nurdy is and will always be 100% free to download.

This is my pledge to you. We've been going on over four years strong. Isn't that crazy?

We're already on episode. What is this? 215. We've never charged for an episode and the way that I'm able to do that being kind of a one woman band here is that I sell ad space of course and I use the

crowdfunding model.

All you have to do is go to Patreon.com slash talk nerdy. You can read all about it, and if you'd like to, you can pledge your support.

Because of the support from individuals like you who can afford to help the show out, you know, to help me hire the editor that I need to help

me pay my assistant and, you know, just cover some of the costs of doing a podcast week after week because of those of

you who can help out you make it so that people who maybe are less fortunate people

who aren't able to do so can continue to listen for free. So I want to give a special shout out to a

handful of you who are pledging at the top tiers. The very top tier is Rob Schreck.

Gosh, thank you so much Rob.

You are just incredibly essential to the show at this point.

It's just so wonderful that you've been able

to support the show in the way that you have.

Everybody really does thank you.

I also want to thank Phil T-Bare.

Same same, Phil.

You have been with us for such a long time.

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