Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, December 20th,

2021 and I'm the host of the show Kara Santa Maria and it's our last episode of the year. Can you believe 2021 is almost

over? It just blows my mind thinking about the fact that we are about to start year number 22 of this century.

What what? century. What? What? Of this millennium? What? What? It honestly sort of breaks my brain thinking about it. It's been a it's been a tough year for a lot of us and for those of you

who are able to be near to loved ones this holiday season I am so happy for you and I wish you a warm and loving holiday.

For those of you who unfortunately won't be able to be near your loved ones because you're

separated either by geographical distance,

by difficulties imposed by the pandemic, or by loss.

I do hope that you find peace during this holiday and that you are able to surround yourself with

with the things that you love

Hopefully with some of the people with whom you have a good relationship and you're not alone.

You're not alone.

I know the holidays could be a time of joy for many and a time of great suffering and so I just

want to let you know that I am thinking about you. We are

going to take a two-week hiatus so we will be back with a brand new

episodes of Talk Nurdy in 2022.

The first episode will air on Monday, January 10th,

and that will be episode 389.

What? Mind continues to be blown.

Before we dive into this week's episode,

I do want to give just like a big warm holiday shout out to those of you who make talk nerdy possible.

I know I say it so much that sometimes I feel like it loses its meaning so I've got to really break it down.

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