Hey everyone, it's me, Ben Blacker, your friend, and host of this thing. Thanks so much for downloading

the podcast. It's a really fun one, a chat with the Matt Weiner and the showrunners and some of the

writers of Mad Men, all about this most recent season, which comes out on DVD this week, I believe, or next week.

So before we get to it, I need to tell you about my real podcast, which is the thrilling

adventure hour. I know a lot of you guys are familiar with it. You've told me on Twitter how

much you enjoy it, which I love hearing. You can tweet me

at Ben Blacker. So thank you so much for doing that. The Thrilling Adventure Hour is currently

running a Kickstarter campaign so that we can be more than just a stage show and a podcast.

We want to do a 136-page graphic novel with some

amazing artists, including my pal Ben Edland and Jackson Public, who is the co-creator of

the Venture Brothers, and then a bunch of other amazing people. And it'll all be stories from the show

and the world of the show like Beyond Belief in Sparks, Nevada.

These things mean nothing to those of you who have not heard the podcast yet.

So go check it out.

So we want to do a graphic novel.

We're going to do this behind the scenes scripted web series.

It's like the Muppet show behind the scenes during the show. Everyone's running around

and everyone has their own little dramas going on. It should be a lot of fun. We really want to do that.

We want to do a concert film. The show sells out at Largo every month. So we want to be able to

show people who can't get in, and also people around the world.

We have fans in London and New York and everywhere, Chicago, Alaska.

We want to show these people what the show looks like.

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