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Hi, everybody.

Happy holidays.

This is your host and creator of the Nerdist Riders panel, Ben Blacker. No real podcast today, but I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you all for making 2013 a really fantastic year. We had a lot of fun on these panels. I got to meet a lot of interesting people,

and hopefully you did too via the podcast. We are lining up some great panels for January and February.

So go check out Facebook.com slash nerdist writers panel. I'll be posting those up there once tickets

are for sale.

Also follow me on Twitter at Ben Blacker, where I'll be plugging those things.

They'll all be to benefit 826 LA, the national nonprofit tutoring program.

We have some really awesome people lined up,

including the creator of Sleepy Hollow, the co-creator of Masters of Sex, an evening with Brian Fuller, which will be mid-January, and some other really great folks.

I think you guys are going to enjoy the hell out of January and February panels, and we're already booking the March one.

So the live panels are back in L.A.

So I thank you guys who have been kind of pushing me to get back on those.

I know they're fun, but they are time-consuming.

As ever, if you enjoy the panels, the podcast, please leave a review on iTunes. It is always very helpful. Follow me on

Twitter and let me know who you want to see on these panels. I'm always interested. You know,

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