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Yeah, I remembered.

Nick, you had to win a satellite or at least get pulled from a satellite to audition to go to L.A., right?

What was the satellite one you won?

Yeah, they had, they get the funny bone here.

Okay.

And Omaha, and it was like comics from around the region.

How many, how many they picked from the Omaha Fony Bone? How big was the Omaha region? You can drive it away, why don't you, right? I think there were people from all over. Yeah, you didn't have to. People drove in from, I don't know, Ohio. Some people had traveled a ways to be here for that. How many communities were on that particular show?

Oh, I don't know.

Maybe 20, 25 maybe.

Okay. Some people had traveled a ways to be here for that. How many comedians were on that particular show? Oh, I don't know. Maybe 20, 25 maybe? Okay, all right. You beat them. They had producers there. Oh, so, yeah, you wanted, like, some locals that just knew you as Nick, so you didn't get a, like, nepotism at all, for that matter. Local nepotism. Nepo comedy.

Were you the only person?

chosen from the Omaha.

Richard Rees went and I think there were a couple others.

I don't remember who the other ones were.

You don't remember though.

But then from there, they went out to, they flew out to Los Angeles for like the next round.

See your asshole brother, right? Yeah. I cannot, that word, it never goes away. It's the only reason you fly to Los Angeles. Find your asshole brother. But they took care of all your travel? Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, they took care of all that. And then at the time, John Levitts had a comedy club that was right outside of Universal Studios. Okay. In like this little mall or whatever. And that, you just did a short set in front of like there were, I don't know, maybe a dozen people inside this comedy club. So you had to pass that one, too. Yeah. And it wasanda Sykes was, like, there's 12 people in this room.

Like, Wanda Sykes is one of them.

Her producer's one of them. And you're just telling your set to people that are just kind of like, ha ha. Did Wanda Sykes laugh at you? They laughed a little bit, but it's still 12 people laughing in a big comedy club. So there's no actual audience. No. Oh, see, that's tough.

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