Hey everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, March 23rd, 2020 and I'm the host of the show, Kara Santa Maria.

Now, it's a strange time.

Obviously, everybody's really aware of that.

And it's a pretty bittersweet time because today we're celebrating the 300th episode of Talk Nurdy,

which is a big achievement that I'm honestly really proud of.

That means that I've been doing the show because I take two weeks off every

Holiday break in the winter so I've been doing the show now for 50 episodes a year, six years, 300 episodes on the show.

On my last kind of landmark episodes,

the 100th and the 200th I did an AMA, but I decided for this week I had done such a special

interview a few weeks back that I was holding on to, that I'm just, I don't know, know meant a lot to me so I figured I would share

that with you to kind of commemorate the 300th episode this really special day and

I want to thank Jose for your very very kind email that you sent me all the way from Spain,

congratulating me on this achievement and also just talking about what life is like out there during, during, as what we know now is the COVID-19

pandemic, you'll probably notice that I haven't talked much about it on the show,

partially because my last few episodes were recorded,

actually and the next few coming up were recorded before everything got to be really intense.

Even in this episode, I'm thinking we may have mentioned the coronavirus scare, but we didn't go into it in much detail

because it was still in the early days when we recorded.

Now, of course, life is upside down for most everybody on the planet. People are

losing the people that they love, people are afraid, they're experiencing a lot of acute anxiety. A lot of people are in lockdown or they are

you know in mandatory isolation and they're starting to feel the psychological difficulties that are associated with that.

And so I just want to say that my heart goes out to everybody.

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