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Welcome to the latest podcast number 535. Thanks so much if you came out to the shows in Portland.

You guys were Portland-tastic. That is truly one of my favorite cities. The next time I will be

performing live will be in July at Comic Con on Friday, July 25th. We're doing At Midnight Live,

Bobo, a theater, and then the 26th. We're doing Nerdist Podcast Live. So go online, the URL's too long

for me to give here. So just search Nerdist Podcasts, SDCC, 2014, and you'll get the ticket links for it.

This episode of Nerdist Podcast is brought to you by the sci-fi film The Signal, which explores

what happens to a group of college students on a road trip when they are mysteriously lured into

the middle of desert by a hacker. And then stuff goes horribly wrong. Or great. I don't want to spoil

anything, but I feel like it probably wouldn't be a movie of everything just went rad. So it stars

Brendan Thweitz and Lawrence Fishburn, also Olivia Cook, and Sarah Clark. The Huffington Post says

the signal is as imaginative of a sci-fi tale since District 9. Go see the signal, trailer and

information are at focusfeatures.com slash the underscore signal. That's the signal now playing in

select theaters. This episode is The Sklar Brothers. I believe this is their three-peat. They've been on

three times. They've been on At Midnight a ton. They are hosting All Star Celebrity Bowling for AMC,

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