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Podcast But Outside

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A podcast, but outside. Featuring fascinating interviews with random strangers who happen to walk by. Hosted by Cole Hersch and Andrew Michaan.

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  1. 235: Outside Elon Musk's Tesla Diner (w/ Fallout's Jon Daly!)

    235: Richest guy in the world's weird building alert! We set up in front of Elon Musk's futuristic Tesla Diner and tried to chat with the loyal patrons eating their Cybertruck burgers. Guests include a hunky food influencer exploring cuisines from around the world, an Australian actor navigating...

  2. 234: Outside Vegas Seafood Buffet w/ Dropout's Sam Reich

    234: Dropout's benevolent leader Sam Reich joins us for a very perfect episode of the show! We discuss Dropout, Game Changer, and mysterious health issues. Guests include a woman reinventing her life in her 70s, a librarian dishing on all the hot gossip from the local branch, and a father...

  3. 233: Outside LA's Hottest Restaurant w/ Mythical's Emily Fleming and Jordan Morris

    233: Do you want the scoop on who hangs out in front of LA's hottest restaurant? Well it's this podcast, plus guest cohosts Emily Fleming and Jordan Morris, who are Andrew's pals from Good Mythical Morning. Guests include a young misunderstood musician looking for love at the gas station, a...

  4. 232: Outside The Americana Mall w/ Dropout's Zac Oyama

    232: It's time to drop in to this great episode with Dropout's Zac Oyama. We set up in front of The Americana Mall in Glendale and got the scoop on a lot of lore from the Dropout Cinematic Universe. Guests include a strict father with a unique background, the most adorable tiny kid with a perfect...

  5. 231: Outside AGT Auditions w/ Howie Mandel and Bridger Winegar

    Does America have what it takes to be on a podcast??? America's Got Talent invited us to set up in front of an auditions taping to chat with contestants and fans alike. The fantastic Bridger Winegar guest cohosted the whole episode, and even Howie Mandel and Terry Crews hung out with us for a…

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  6. 230: In A Colorado Hippie Town With Andrew's Sweet Mom (R.I.P.)

    Some heavy stuff coming your way! Andrew's incredible and lovely mother passed away in April, and he's very thankful that he recorded this episode with her as a guest cohost in February. They set up in her small Colorado town and talked to some wild strangers who walked by. Guests include a young...

  7. 229: Fighting the Political Machine w/ Adam Conover and LA Mayoral Hopeful Nithya Raman

    Ready, set, VOTE!!! We've got a special episode this week as the politically savvy Adam Conover joins us to discuss the Los Angeles mayoral election with candidate Nithya Raman. If you don't live in LA, don't fret, the chats with strangers are all very fun and interesting to humans everywhere....

  8. 228: At Andrew's Brother's Very Fancy Wedding (w/ Johnny Pemberton!)

    Huge news for fans of episodes at Andrew's family weddings! Andrew's awesome younger brother Sam got married to his lovely fiancé Paige and they let Podcast But Outside memorialize their special day. Plus, the wonderful Johnny Pemberton stepped in to expertly cohost. Guests include Andrew's Dad...

  9. 227: Conquering Hollywood w/ Kylie Brakeman

    The great and hilarious Kylie Brakeman joins us on Hollywood Blvd for an instant classic of an episode. Guests include a confident woman from Fresno who is eager to cut people out of her life, a young screenwriter who mines his own tragic life for ideas, and a sweet loner accountant who sounds A...

  10. 226: At A Wild Music Festival (w/ Courtney Miller + Cole Hersch!)

    226: Are you ready for a blast from the past but also a brand new unreleased episode of our show!? Cole Hersch is resurrected for one hour and our old friend Courtney Miller drops by to chat with the patrons at a hip music festival. Guests include a young social worker trying to help the most...

  11. 225: Outside the Hottest Nightclub in Paris (CHAOTIC!)

    225: Bonsoir and happy new year to you all! Andrew's awesome girlfriend Lauren joins the podcast as they set up outside of the hottest nightclub in Paris and chat with wild French partygoers until 3AM. Guests include a young guy who gets kicked out of the club for a major party foul, two girls...

  12. 224: Outside Panda Express w/ Hollywood Handbook

    224: One orange chicken with a side of podcast, please. Sean Clements and Hayes Davenport from the amazing Hollywood Handbook podcast join us in front of Panda Express to talk to all the awesome people walking by. Guests include a musician / Uber driver who turned giving a ride with Lil' Flip…

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  13. 223: Chatting w/ Buff Olympians at a USA Track and Field Championship w/ Moshe Kasher

    223: Ready, set, PODCAST!!! The great Moshe Kasher joins us on an active track field to chat with athletes as they practice for a championship track event. Guests include a really fast young female runner who maybe didn't like us, a different really fast runner who for sure DID like us, and an...

  14. 222: Outside in Chinatown NYC w/ Gianmarco Soresi

    222: Ni hao, outsiders! The very talented Gianmarco Soresi joins us on the streets of Chinatown to interview some fascinating characters in the vibrant city. Guests include a recently divorced gaffer with a heart and hair of gold, two young actress roommates thriving in the big city, a formerly...

  15. 221: Outside A MASSIVE Premier League Football Game w/ Lisa Gilroy!

    Gooooooooal! Premier League, the world's eminent football club, invited us to a Summer Series game at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey! Guests included an uplifting father son duo, a young couple who both felt they had found their future spouse the night they first met, and a couple of scrappy lads...

  16. 220: Outside Headgum w/ Amir Blumenfeld, Nicole Byer, and Kristen Schaal!

    220: Very special episode time! The Headgum podcast network is turning double digits and to celebrate, cofounder Amir Blumenfeld joins us on the street to interview Headgum cohosts and some random strangers walking by. Guests include Nicole Byer, Kristen Schaal, two high school friends turned...

  17. 219: Outside Tokyo's Shibuya Crossing w/ Lyle the Therapy Gecko

    219: It's konnichiwa time yet again! Friend of the podcast Lyle the Therapy Gecko helps us interview folks on the busy streets near Tokyo's Shibuya Crossing. Guests include a Dutch author in a long distance friendship turned relationship, a young computer scientist with an impressive pokémon…

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  18. 218: Outside A Metrolink Train Station (Choo Choo!) w/ Lizzy Cooperman

    218: Trains: something you will mostly find outside! Our comedian pal Lizzy Cooperman joined us as we set up at a bustling local train station and met some locomotive commuters and enthusiasts. Guests include a young Honda employee looking for lesbian love in the desert, an aspiring pop solo…

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  19. 217: Outside A Phish Concert w/ Brent Weinbach (CHAOTIC)

    Attention Phish Phreaks: this podcast is for you! We set up in front of the jam band Phish's Sunday night show at The Hollywood Bowl and chatted with the wild crew in attendance. Guests include a government employee about to be fired by Elon Musk, two young curious guys exploring their first…

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  20. 216: Outside Another Public Bathroom w/ Nick Kroll + Owen Thiele

    Kroll fans rejoice, the king has returned! He brought along the very talented Owen Thiele and we met some really interesting strangers outside of the public bathroom in Griffith Park. Guests include a deadhead who walks way too much, a woman who worked for THE OBAMAS (yes, those Obamas), and a...

  21. 215: Our Creepiest Random Guest Ever! (w/ Katie Marovitch)

    215: Katie Marovitch from the Dropout world joins the pod to find a brand new cast of strangers to interview on the street. And only one of them is a total creepy weirdo! The rest of the guests are wonderful and include a talented sensitive poet who needs that extra push to put himself out there…

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  22. 214: The End of Capitalism w/ Ben and Emil

    214: Past guest cohosts Ben Cahn and Emil DeRosa return for a fantastic episode with incredible random strangers on the streets of Los Angeles. Guests include a young TikTok dancer trying to make it in the city of dreams, a video game voice actor who has some problems with the current political...

  23. 213: Our Guest Lost Everything After Coming Out (w/ Sophie Buddle)

    213: The wonderful Sophie Buddle cohosts this fantastic episode on the streets of West Hollywood. Guests include a once married family man who found out he was gay in a VERY Hollywood way and then lost everything when he came out, a young Instagram entrepreneur famous for engaging in a trendy...

  24. 212: Jack Quaid Gets Punched in the Face

    Actor and pal and great guy Jack Quaid joins us on a sunny day in the park to interview some really interesting and kind strangers. And most of those strangers end up punching Jack in the face (with his consent). Guests include a computer programmer on a fruitless job hunt, newly coupled up...

  25. 211: Another Perfect Episode w/ Garrett Watts

    Great news if you love perfect episodes of our show: this is one of them! Past guest and hero Garrett Watts sits at the table and helps find some really fun folks off the street. Guests include an accomplished screenwriter, a respectful gang of teen e-bike boys, and one of the most…

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  26. 210: A Guest Searches for His Missing Brother (w/ Carey O'Donnell)

    210: Get ready to get inspired. Carey O'Donnell joins us on the streets of Hollywood Blvd as we find some lovely guests on a path to change the world. We meet a young woman who had a spiritual encounter in a Tesla, an entrepreneur creating meaningful economic change in the black community, a...

  27. 209: On the Streets of Tokyo, Japan

    209: Konnichiwa, outsiders! We finally hopped on a plane and recorded an episode in the wonderful country of Japan. Co-hosted by comedian and friend Vinay Murthy, who has lived in Japan for 23 years! Guests include a young Japanese ramen maker looking for love, foodie brothers from Kuwait, and…

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  28. 208: Fixing the Broken Political System w/ Noel Miller

    Onward we must bravely march into the terrifying world of outside without our trusty companion Cole Hersch. Noel Miller co-hosts for a fantastic new episode where we solve all the problems in American politics by proposing a much better system of government. Guests include a nice young man we…

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  29. 207: Cole's FINAL Episode

    That's right. Cole is done with outside. Hear why and watch us talk to some strangers for the very last time together in our longest episode ever, at the spot where it all began. Guests include a confident young man who loves to approach women, a nice guy working for the city metro system, a…

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  30. 206: At the Exclusive VIP Section of a Music Festival

    Are you ready to hear what VERY IMPORTANT people have to say about life? Well then you're in the right place, because this week we chat with some real VIPs at the Outside Lands music festival. Guests include a 3D printing expert, an innuendo uttering 20-something cat lady, and FOUR awesome young...

  31. 205: Outside at Outside Lands Music Festival

    An outside podcast at Outside LANDS!? It sounds too good to be true, but it really is. We chat with the crowd at the San Francisco music festival and learn a lot about the outside vibe. Guests include a lovely young couple who eloped to Vegas while on psychedelics, a musician who gets hired to…

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  32. 204: An Olive Garden Waiter Spills All (w/ Johnny Pemberton from Fallout!)

    Get ready for an apocalyptic episode (in a good way)! Our Fallout pal Johnny Pemberton joins us as we navigate the desolate wasteland that is outside. Guests include a very candid celebrity stylist, a single mom to a diehard PBO fan, a Peruvian who used to design shoes for Kanye, and an Olive...

  33. 203: At A WeHo Gay Bar During Pride

    Happy pride! We finally decided to embrace the LGBTQ community and record our podcast in front of a wild gay bar on a Thursday night in West Hollywood. Guests include a gay adult entertainer and dancer, an intense guy who says he loves to ‚Äúturn straight men‚Äù, and a character from the…

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  34. 202: At A Dog Park w/ Cesar Millan

    Tsch! Be quiet, because our guest this week loves to whisper, specifically to dogs. Cesar Millan joins us at a dog park to help many lost dog owners make sense of their canine companions. Guests include a woman whose dog won't stop humping, another woman whose dog doesn't respect her at all, and…

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  35. 201: Atsuko Helps Us End a Man’s Toxic Relationship

    Watch out sucker: this episode is amazing. Our very special guest Atsuko Okatsuka helps us interview the whole darn neighborhood at our live show at the Netflix is a Joke festival. Guests include an incredibly funny woman who has been acting for 50+ years, an accomplished cheerleading vocalist…

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  36. 200: Outside Home Depot (w/ Trump's Biggest Fanboy)

    Wow, we did it. We did the impossible. We finally set up in front of Home Depot! This is our 200th episode but it's not our special 200th episode, that will come out later. But this is still a perfect episode! Guests include a Guatemalan Christian fianc√©, a brand new Dad dishing the dark truth…

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  37. 199: We Interview a Famous Tech CEO (+ Dulcé Sloan!)

    Strap on your business attire because we finally interview a CEO (Jack Conte from Patreon!). We learn all about what it takes to run a successful company while also trying to maintain your street cred as an artist. Guests include a rowdy bunch of rappers from Atlanta and comedian Dulc√© Sloan…

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  38. 198: At SXSW w/ Billy Eichner!

    Congrats, we snagged Billy Eichner for the show! The original King-Of-Chatting-With-People-On-The-Street shows us a thing or two about chatting with people on the street. We zip around Austin on a PBO branded pedicab and meet lots of interesting strangers, including a Dominican musician who uses...

  39. 197: Outside The DMV Again

    Episode 197: Beep beep! We return to everyone's favorite government institution for cars: the DMV! Guests include a man who pops his eyes out for views and his charmingly beautiful kinda-girlfriend, a young Filipino baseball player reluctantly returning to his high school to educate the next...

  40. 196: A Psychic Predicts Our Future

    Congratulations, we're back! It's time to turn our hiatus into a byeatus. Meaning, we're releasing our show again! We're so excited to see what's next for us that we invited a psychic to predict the future of our show. She also helped predict the future of some lovely strangers along the way....

  41. 195: At An All-Inclusive Beach Resort in Mexico

    Feliz Navipod! We're putting our hiatus on hiatus for one week only to gift you a one-off episode that will be our last of 2023. We gotflown across the border to record at the Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya-- an all inclusive resort in Cancun! Guests include a woman known as "The Pickle Lady" who's...

  42. Taking A Break...

    Apologies for the lack of crap lately! Here's a little explanation about what's been going on and what the future has in store for PBO. An endless thank you to you all. Heart emoji.

  43. 194: Daymond John from Shark Tank Hates Our Ideas

    And for that reason, we're out... side. This week we set up in front of what is perhaps humanity's most revolutionizing contribution to this world... the Pink Wall where influencers pose for the gram. Shark Tank's Daymond John joins us for an awkward episode and helps us interview those who may…

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  44. 193: At A Haunted Hayride

    Hay boos. It's that time of year where we're haunted by fear, and there's no better place for a scare than right here: at the Los Angeles Haunted Hayride! Friend and Otherworld host Jack Wagner joins us to talk to strangers about their creepy lives. Guests include a woman who only came to this...

  45. 192: Nightlife in Austin (w/ A Reality TV Star!)

    Boy howdy and yeehaw, we hit the dirty streets of Austin to see what the nightlife is like. Guests include a guy who has a huge problem with Jewish girls, a young man whose father is struggling with a certain X-Rated addiction, a comedian who explains the pros (and mostly cons) of being on a...

  46. 191: Exotic Car Meetup (w/ Moshe Kasher!)

    Vroom, but also, beep. And, in addition, honk. We spent the day talking to car people about their weird cars! Guests include a fashion influencer who thinks it's tacky to buy someone else's car, a guy who's proudly part of the ‚ÄúJurassic-Park-Modified-Vehicle‚Äù community, a man that calls…

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  47. 190: Outside a Hardware Store

    Oops! All Ads! We got a bit carried away with our favorite brands this episode, and our wallets don't regret it! We set up in Weho (the gay neighborhood) during pride month (the gay month). Guests include a pastry assistant who loves to go out by herself, a retail employee trying to break into…

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  48. 189: Creepiest UPS Driver Ever (w/ Blake Anderson)

    We recently switched to temporarily releasing episodes bi-weekly because posting every week made us feel like workaholics. So to tap into our former selves, we thought it only made sense to invite a co-host who's the biggest Workaholic we know— our friend Blake Anderson. Guests include a Gen Z...

  49. 188: At A Gay Wedding

    Strap in for thIs LGBTQ+ ride, because nothing says Pride like more than one bride. You read that right, we finally had the honor to do our podcast at a Gay Wedding! Guests include a 10-year-old flag expert, a psychologist and college professor teaching a course called ‚ÄúHow To Be Happy‚Äù, and…

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  50. 187: At A Playground w/ Recess Therapy

    Last one to listen to this episode is a rotten egg! We set up at a playground on the last day of school and Recess Therapy's Julian Shapiro-Barnum joins us for what is possibly our most wholesome episode yet! Guests include a boy with two father's who's the leader of his friend group, a gutsy…

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About this show

A podcast, but outside. Featuring fascinating interviews with random strangers who happen to walk by. Hosted by Cole Hersch and Andrew Michaan.

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Frequently asked questions

How many episodes does Podcast But Outside have?

Podcast But Outside has 241 episodes on PodParley. The most recent episode was published on November 4, 2026.

What is Podcast But Outside about?

A podcast, but outside. Featuring fascinating interviews with random strangers who happen to walk by. Hosted by Cole Hersch and Andrew Michaan.

How often does Podcast But Outside release new episodes?

Podcast But Outside publishes every two weeks, based on its 241 episodes since March 2019.

Who hosts Podcast But Outside?

Podcast But Outside is created and hosted by Headgum.
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