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Hey pals, it's me, Ben Blacker, your pal.

Happy birthday, America, and Merry Christmas to everyone.

You may have heard the announcement at the end of last week's

your interview, par one, that starting next year,

we will be known as the Writers' Panel.

But the reason I'm talking to you today is to urge you to check out ATX festival and their pitch competition i know many of you are

writers and uh the winners from the past few years have all been nerdist writers panel listeners so

that could be you you're listening to it right now,

which means you could be a winner of the pitch competition.

First of all, go to ATXFestival.com.

It's the best television, possibly the only television festival around.

It's in June and Austin, and it's just the most fun.

And while you're there, click on programming, and then click on the most fun. And while you're there, click on programming

and then click on the pitch competition

if you have an idea for a TV show.

It's super easy to do.

You just make a 90-second pitch video.

90 seconds.

That's awesome.

Most pitches are like at least a half hour. So you make that

video and you upload it. Just follow the directions. You're not stupid. You downloaded this podcast,

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