Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, April 29th,

2024 and I'm the host of the show Cara Santa Maria and this week is our 500th episode

What can you believe it? That's 10 years, y'all, like I started this podcast in 2014.

I'm blown away.

So I wanted to do something special this week for the episode,

but before we get into that as always I want to thank

those of you who make talk nerdy possible

Remember talk nerdy is and will always be a hundred percent free to download and the way that I keep making these episodes, keep paying my incredible

assistant Noel, my editing team, I guess we could call them, and, you know, for the time that it takes and the equipment that it takes to do it is,

I rely on the support of listeners just like you.

I use Patreon as the platform, that's Patreon, P-A-T-R-E-O-N-D-O-N-T-E-O-N-T-E-O-N-T-E-O-N-T-E-O-N-O-N-T-O-N-T-T-O-N-T-N-T-O-T-O-N-T-O-T-O-N. donation to the show. This week's top patrons include Anu Barrowage, Daniel Lange, David J. E. Smith, Mary

Niva, Brian Holden, David Compton, Gabriel F F. Herrameo, Joe Wilkinson, Pasquale-Gilati, Riva Keith, and Ul Rica Hagman.

Thank you all so much for keeping the show going strong 500 episodes in.

So I did this I think maybe at 250 or 200 or 300 but I thought it might be a fun thing to do an AMA.

A lot of you had questions for me.

We elicited them via, I guess, the platform,

formerly known as Twitter,

Instagram and also through Patreon, and kind of collected them all.

And then I invited my good friend Eli Bosnick to the show. So those of you who listen to our crossover

events will be pleased to hear it. He was by far the most requested

interviewer for this episode. A little bit about Eli. He is a

comedian, podcaster, and magician and co-host a ton of podcasts in the sort of puzzle in a thunderstorm, I guess, world.

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