Hello everyone welcome to talk nerdy today is Monday March 4th 2019 can you

believe it and I'm the host of the show, Kara Santa Maria.

Before we dive into what we're going to do today,

I want to thank those of you who make Talk Nertie possible

each and every week.

And you know you can support the show in a ton of ways one of the most important is just

telling people about it it's listening to the show downloading it telling your friends and

family that they too should have a listen and and maybe they'll learn a or two. You can also buy super cool talk nerdy

merch at what do you know talk nerdy merch dot com. I've got everything under the sun from

hoodies to beanies to I don't know tank tops to socks even mugs and of course

three books that I've been involved in the National Geographic Almanac 2019, the Skeptics Guide to the Universe,

and Charlie and the Tortoise, a children's book.

And if you order one of those from my website instead of from Amazon or somewhere else where you can buy them

which is fine you should totally buy them anywhere you want but if you order one for my

website I'll I'll sign it and personalize it just to you before I send it out

but the other way you can support the show is by visiting patreon.com

slash talk nerdy is and will always be 100% free to download.

I might have already said that.

It's like it's like auto pilot at this point and that's because of support from

listeners just like you so this week I want to thank Rob Shrek Pedro M Rosario

Barbosa Phil T-Bare the zombie drummer David J. E. Smith, Jeffrey Perez, Charles Payet,

Gabriel Felipe Hermio Gonzalez, Brian Holden, and Jeffrey Sewell for their support of the

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