On a scale of one to awesome, I would give this moment a one. We sent out several forms of electronic cries for help and then left. The guard at the gate was not aware, and could not be convinced, of the level of celebrity and privilege that comes with winning a comedy hackathon and denied us entry. We had forgotten to pack our teleporters, so we didn’t make it in time. Soon after, Ansh and I got an email from Monica (who we later learned serves in the National Guard) telling us to be at the CBS studios in three minutes. Briefly, but for far longer than was reasonable, I considered the possibility that Nerdist was actually a multinational paramilitary organization, and not merely a digital media company. The recording cut out after a few seconds, and all we could discern was that Monica was in “the reserves,” had been “activated” and was currently in Korea. On Sunday afternoon, we discovered a voicemail from Monica, our contact at Nerdist. Rather than tell their story for them, we gave the Stanford students a little extra homework and asked them to share their account first hand. They arrived Sunday to join the audience of Hardwick’s other show Talking Bad, not without a dose of Korean military intrigue, then stuck around Monday to sit in on a recording of the Nerdist podcast featuring guest Jim Norton. Well, four months later we finally made good and sent Conor Doherty and Ansh Shukla of the winning Citation Needed team to LA last weekend. Loyalists and stalkers will recall the self-anointed “Greatest Hackathon Prize Ever” we awarded our Comedy Hack Day SF winners: an all-expense-paid trip to Los Angeles to meet Chris Hardwick and sit in on a recording of Nerdist.
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