Well, hey there friends.

Welcome to Talk Nurdy. I'm your host, Kara Santa Maria, and I just want to thank

everybody for listening to the show. That's what I want to do. That's how I want to open the show. I just want to say

thanks. I want to give specific thanks to a handful of people who kind of go

above and beyond because they don't just listen to the show which you're all doing right now it's a huge

help it's a huge support I mean it kind of wouldn't work the podcast if I just

talked and nobody actually listened to it. I mean maybe it would work it would be a really

good kind of existential exercise I guess but it works a little bit better knowing that you guys so awesomely go to iTunes, go to Stitcher, go to

Podcatcher, all the different tools that you use, maybe just go to my website

and hit the little downloady button on SoundCloud and then my voice ends up in your earholes.

Man, technology is so cool.

And so above and beyond that, those of you who listen and hopefully tell your friends about

the podcast and maybe tweet to me about the podcast and maybe even go on to iTunes or Stitcher

and rate and review because believe it or not just that little step is really

helpful in getting the word out the more I get the word out the more I can get

advertisers the more I can get advertisers the easier it is for me to keep this going.

So those of you who do that, thank you so much.

But there's some of you who go above and beyond and what you do is you go to my website,

kara Santa Maria.com and you do things like buy a little merchandise or you look at my reading list which is

linked to an Amazon account and when you buy books that I recommend out of my reading list a little bit of

change goes to the Talk Nurdy Fund.

Also some of you will click through the little links to PayPal or even to Patreon and you'll actually donate to the show which is just so

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