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My name is Ben Blacker.

I'm the hosting creator of the Nerdist Writers Panel, which you are currently listening to.

I'm also a TV writer myself, having written for Supernatural, Super Ninjas, and currently

for the DreamWorks Netflix program Puss and Boots. Check it out. It's now available. I'm also

the co-creator of The Thrilling Adventure Hour, a stage program in the style of old time radio that is now

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nerdist writers panel. Now, here's the theme song. It's the nerdist writers panel and is hosted by Ben

Blacker where he gets a bunch of writers and he asks him lots of questions and it's starting now,

so this will be the end of the theme. Yeah. Again, thank you for taking the time. My pleasure.

We'll kind of start out talking about how it is getting back into, this is kind of a deep process question to get right into, but how it is to get back into the heads of these characters that you haven't written in 10 years, right?

Eight years was the movie.

Right, right, yeah.

And, you know, it's been,

I started working on the idea in 1992, so it's been a real long time for me, you know,

nearly 24 years, 23 years since the show first aired. Anyway, getting back into their head,

you know, you have to get back into the heads of

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