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like later they were going to give you hot food.

That's how stupid and lost I was.

And I obviously was not going to tell anyone that I didn't know what I was doing.

Here's when I knew it was not going to work.

We shot it and the executive comes up to me and she goes, you know, whatever happens with this, this thing is a real feather in your cap.

And I thought, oh, we're doomed.

We're so doomed.

It's just like a thing someone only says to you when you're sort of like being flushed down the toilet.

And then we did another pilot.

that was a two-person comedy about a guy who was, a kid who was raised with privilege and a kid who wasn't and sort of they end up working in the same place and it was really interestingly like an examination of what it's like when you've sort of been carried around on a red pillow your whole life and when you haven't and who has a work ethic and who doesn't.

Well, we could not get them to cast anybody.

So then we cast the second lead and then we ended up making it a one-person show

And then we did it as it's called a presentation, not a pilot.

So it's much lower budget.

And we made this thing that's 11 minutes long.

That's complete nonsense.

That was the second one.

And then the third one was such a complete disaster every minute, every step of shooting that third pilot.

And I knew that one wasn't going to go.

And what I learned on that one, when things are going very badly, it's a very nice opportunity to be kind.