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Thanks to its portable setup,Podcast But Outsideis malleable by design.
Van, youre famous?!
You didnt tell us!
Lathan opts to play it nonchalantly.
Im not burying the lede, he says.
You guys have a podcast, you asked me to podcast, and so Im podcasting.
Hersch starts making guesses: You do comedy?
You host a show?
At the reveal of the latter, Hersch bluntly asks, Van, who the fuck are you?!
As the interview winds to a close, Lathan decides to stop playing coy.
I just watched that!
It went viral the other day, Michaan says.
I think were watching someone go through an intellectual adolescence in real time, Lathan says.
But also, at a certain point, we have to decide what we let harm us.
But this is the appeal of the podcast in a nutshell.
Setting expectations ahead of any episode is pointless.
