Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld | Jake and Amir
The Watercooler
Watercooler Podcast
4.8 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2016
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Comedy writers and performers Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld join the show and talk about their early start writing for College Humor. They also recall some of their past jobs respectively working at an ice cream store and a gynecologist office. Plus they discuss the creation and finale of their very popular and long-lived webseries 'Jake and Amir.'
Host: Chris Laxamana
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For more with Jake and Amir, visit JakeAndAmir.com and listen to their podcast, 'If I Were You.'
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, it's Chris here. |
| 0:00.8 | Just letting you know that resume season two premieres Wednesday, August 10th with guest Adam Carolla. |
| 0:05.9 | So be on the lookout for that. |
| 0:07.2 | And until then, I thought it would be fun to dig into the archives and re-release some of the old interviews I've done for resume. |
| 0:13.8 | So please enjoy. |
| 0:14.9 | Thank you so much for listening. |
| 0:16.6 | And thanks for listening to the water cooler. |
| 0:18.2 | And make sure to tune in Wednesday, August 10th, for the rollout of Season 2. |
| 0:28.5 | This is Corolla Digital. Oh yeah, it's resume. |
| 0:53.2 | Welcome back to the show, everybody. |
| 0:55.6 | I'm Chris Lott Sama, your host, and this is a show where we talk about all the old jobs we had grown up and the crappy jobs, the embarrassing ones, the good ones, and how it led us here. |
| 1:05.7 | And I am very, once again, very excited to introduce my next guest for you. I have Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld. Nice, pronunciation. Did I do? Perfect. Wait, keep the music going throughout the entire show. It's going to go. Well, there's an ending, and I usually just let it go, and then it kind of naturally stopped, but nobody ever comments on it. It's a lounge. Yeah. Oh, yes. I told somebody on another show, like, I just want people to make love to my podcast. Yeah. I'm definitely, I'm hard right now. I thought that's why I was called resume, because it's like resuming to have sex with the podcast. Yeah, resume intercourse. Yeah. |
| 1:52.9 | So Jake and Amir, you might know from Jake and Amir, the long running web series on college humor.com. |
| 1:54.5 | Or college humor, I think I just called it. |
| 1:55.7 | I don't think I needed the dot com there. |
| 1:56.5 | That's how I know. |
| 1:57.5 | Because I want to go to the URL. |
| 1:59.0 | Yeah, you guys should check it out. |
| 2:00.0 | Or you can find it on YouTube. |
| 2:17.5 | It was eight years. That's right. Yeah, eight years. Eight short, long, medium years. It was, it was, shit. And it was a lot of content, too. You guys put out a lot of great videos. They're hilarious if you haven't seen them, which I doubt that's possible. It's possible. It's possible okay okay uh check them out there they're really really funny and all of them are that's |
| 2:22.8 | the craziest part that they're all really really good especially the early ones yeah yeah yeah |
| 2:27.2 | they were amazing at first and then they got better and then we ended we should have just kept |
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