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The Colin and Samir Show

A Hollywood Showrunner’s POV on YouTube

The Colin and Samir Show

Colin and Samir

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4.9665 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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This week, we interview Hollywood showrunner Scott Gimple in an audio-exclusive interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

And YouTube in creating those rituals, those habits, that's the expectation to what those kids

0:07.1

feel TV is to them or entertainment is to them. YouTube is training kids just by virtue of the

0:15.4

fact that it has more to appeal to them to watch it the rest of their lives.

0:20.4

Hey podcast listeners, it's Samir.

0:22.4

We're here with an exclusive episode for all of you.

0:26.3

We want to publish the full audio from our conversation with the Walking Dead showrunner, Scott Gimple.

0:33.5

Scott is a showrunner, which essentially in Hollywood means that he runs the show.

0:39.1

Basically, everything that has to do with getting the show up and running from the creative

0:44.1

to the logistics to producing, he is doing that.

0:47.1

We found out that Scott was a fan of the Colin and Samir show and wanted to bring him in

0:50.4

on this conversation.

0:52.2

And he really brings a different and fresh perspective to a lot of

0:55.9

the topics that we as creators think about every day. Scott went to USC film school and started

1:02.4

working in Hollywood as a writer after graduating. He then started writing for The Walking Dead during

1:08.1

season two and in 2013 became the showrunner for

1:11.6

seasons four through eight. In 2018, Scott became the chief content officer for the entire

1:16.4

franchise of The Walking Dead. The Walking Dead is obviously a huge franchise. Its IP has been turned

1:22.4

into several spinoff shows, as well as a video game. So our goal was to sit and talk with Scott

1:29.7

about his experience in Hollywood, his experience producing a franchise of this caliber and

1:36.5

understand his perspective on YouTube. Why did he start watching our YouTube channel? What

1:41.5

interests him about YouTube? And is there something that we'll start to see

1:45.3

of people like him and other people in Hollywood coming over to YouTube? So in this conversation,

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