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The Colin and Samir Show

Colin and Samir

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4.9 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This week we’re talking about our experience at Buzzfeed. As a quick refresher, we pitched our show, The Breakdown, to a program called Vertical U that’s run by Instagram and Buzzfeed. Out of over 300 creators, 15 were selected to spend the week at Buzzfeed developing their shows. After the last day of the program, we decided to pick up the mics and recorded our thoughts on the week. On this episode we take you through our experience at Vertical U, we talk about what we learned from the program and what we learned about ourselves from the experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week on the Colin and Samir podcast, we're talking about our experience spending a week at BuzzFeed.
0:11.0	As a quick refresher, we pitched our show The Breakdown to a program run by BuzzFeed and Instagram called Vertical You.
0:17.9	Out of over 300 creators, 15 were selected to spend a week at BuzzFeed
0:22.2	developing their shows for IGTV. And if you don't know what that is, that is Instagram's new
0:27.8	long form vertical video platform called Instagram TV or IGTV. We had a really interesting
0:35.2	experience this past week and on the last day of the program,
0:38.5	we came back to my place, picked up the microphones, and decided to record our thoughts on the week.
0:43.9	On this episode, we take you through the experience at Vertical You. We talk about what we learned
0:48.4	from the program and what we learned about ourselves from the experience. All right, this is
0:53.7	episode 32 of the Colin and Samir podcast.
0:59.7	All right, it's Friday night right now, and Colin and I are recovering from a two-hour-long
1:05.8	Uber ride, where the Uber driver started out by exclusively playing Shakira.
1:11.9	But like deep cut.
1:14.0	Deep cut, like dance house Shakira.
1:17.2	And we knew we had about an hour and 45 minute ride
1:19.9	from the west side of Los Angeles to the east side,
1:22.5	starts with Shakira, moves on to Ricky Martin.
1:24.7	Again, deep tracks, slow jams.
1:27.4	Yeah. It was not live Lovita Loka.
1:29.2	And he ended with Lady Gaga, but again, deep cuts.
1:32.6	Like tracks I had never heard before.
1:34.3	Yeah, it was tough.
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