Hi guys, it's me, Ben. I gotta tell you about a couple of things. First of all, you may already know Seed and Spark as the crowdfunding platform for filmmakers. But did you know they've combined subscriptions streaming and crowdfunding in one membership? For $10 a month, you get unlimited streaming of all their bold movies and shows, and a portion

of your monthly fee is allocated to a new crowdfunding project of your choice. Every project on

the platform is actively working towards greater inclusion in front and behind the camera. So that's

something worth getting behind. You can vote with your dollars to change the ratio in entertainment and watch great stuff while you're at it.

First month is free.

Head to cedenspark.com slash nerdist.

That's cedenspark.com slash nerdist and help crowdfund some cool stuff.

Also, you may know that there have been some spin-offs of this writer's panel podcast,

including the Nerdist Comics panel.

We brought it back last year.

It's in its own feed.

Go search it on iTunes.

Find it on the Nerdist website.

It's the Nerdist Comics panel.

My pal Heath Corson and I sit down with comic book professionals to talk about the business and process of making comic books. We've had all new episodes for all of last year and we will be picking them up again this year, so don't miss out on that. Also, check out Dead Pilot Society on our rival, the Max Fun Network. It is a really fun show that I'm

lucky to be a part of in which we take scripts that were written by professional writers that

were bought and developed by studios and networks, but they were never shot, and we do live

table reads of them. We've had great writers like John Hodgman and John Francis Daly and his partner, and

just amazing writers have contributed to this thing.

Mike Royce and Kevin Beagle, lots of friends of the writers panel.

And we've put out three or four episodes already, and you can see Dead Pilot Society live on February 4th here in Los Angeles.

Largo at the Coronet, you'll see another live Dead Pilot Society with two really great scripts, one by Samantha McIntyre, who wrote the new feature Un Unicorn Store, which was Brie Larson's directorial debut, and one by Casey Wilson and June Diane Raphael.

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