Hello everyone and welcome to talk nerdy. Today is Monday, December 13th, 2021 and I'm

the host of the show Kara Santa Maria and we've got a fascinating show for you today an important show for you today

But before we dive into that let's talk about some other important stuff namely

How grateful I am for the support of all of you.

I'm grateful for you for listening.

I'm grateful for you for sharing this little show

you know that I've been doing now for seven years is that right? Wow and for you

know sharing it with your friends and your family and across social media I'm also

grateful for those of you who support the show in the several different ways that you can.

Of course you can always rate and review on whatever podcast app you listen to the show,

where you listen to the show. You can also shop in the talk nerdy store by

visiting talk nerdy merch dot com and kind of the easiest way and a very

fruitful way is to visit Patreon.com slash talk nerdy and

pledge your support and there if you pledge as little as two dollars you will

get access to an ad-free version of the show.

But right now I want to thank my top-tier pledges,

and I'm going to start with the coolest people in the universe,

and they of course include Daniel Lang, Mary Niva, and Rob Shrack.

I also want to thank the coolest people in the galaxy.

They include Brian Holden, Christopher Pitts, David J. E. Smith, Dudas Infinitus, Gabriel, F.

Hadamio Gonzalez, Jun'sapara, and Orico Hagman.

Thank you all so much once again from the bottom of my heart. You are the reason I'm able to keep pressing on with this labor of love.

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