The Midnight Boys Origins?

Whenever there’s all an black (or almost black) team of hosts in a podcast, the show is inevitably about the black experience and the culture. I find The Midnight Boys refreshing because it’s a nerd show first, and them being black adds to it but isn’t the focus.

I wonder how the show started. Was it pitched by Van to Bill Simmons as “I want to do a nerd show from a black perspective” or it wasn’t intentional?