What is Caleb Hearon Even Doing?
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Comedian, writer, actor, podcaster, and fellow Overcompensating cast member Caleb Hearon joins Kyle in the studio to discuss how the women in Caleb’s family inspired his comedy, which life experiences inform his politics and activism, Caleb’s razor-sharp observation skills, and how he really feels about lists and Mr. Beast. The guys share their mutual gratitude and joy for getting to be entertainers, their approaches to social media, why learning to perform and seeing live entertainment is so important, Caleb’s HBO comedy special and upcoming projects, and play a riveting round of “Truth or Elaborate” that puts Kyle and Caleb’s acting chops to the test.
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Research by Kimberly Walls
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and on the new season of heavyweight... |
| 0:08.0 | And so I pointed the gun at him and said this isn't a joke. |
| 0:12.6 | A man who robbed a bank when he was 14 years old. |
| 0:16.0 | And a centenarian rediscovers a love lost 80 years ago. |
| 0:20.5 | How can a 101-year-old woman fall in love again? |
| 0:27.6 | Listen to heavyweight on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:34.9 | What do we even do? |
| 0:38.3 | No. What Are We Even Doing? What are we even doing? What are we even doing? |
| 0:43.3 | Welcome to What Are We Even Doing? |
| 0:47.3 | I'm Kyle, and you know the drill. |
| 0:49.3 | I've been talking to artists, actors, creators of all type, about their process, their creative process, and how they use social media. And today we have a very special guest. I don't have a good friend, but you're a friend. Close, long old friend. We work together. Long old friend. Overcompensating. Yeah. Because we are the stars. Not many. Yeah, forget them. Perfect person. Perfect opinions. Oh. Caleb, it's so nice to have you with us. Thank you very much. I'm so excited to be here. I always start questions off by asking you. You're a kid, you're like having fun. In a moment you realize, hey, this is something that I might want to do. Comedy is something that I might want to, there's a spark there, |
| 1:28.0 | I think. Or talk to me about that moment, if you can remember or can recall what happened. Yeah, totally. I mean, I truly, I think I say this all the time. And sometimes when I say it, I think people think I'm like, you know, clawing at like some kind of like performance of humility or something. But I'm like, the women in my family are like my biggest comedic inspirations. they're so funny and there's so much funnier than the men. |
| 1:47.1 | And so I was always just like trying to make them laugh at any given scenario. Like every family event, I would gravitate to wherever the women were because they were always talking about more interesting stuff. And I was like, I want to make you laugh, you know? And I remember when I was like eight, maybe we had a babysitter who, you know, we were all poor. So our parents went on like a shared babysitter for a couple of the neighborhood kids. |
| 2:04.8 | Right. And I remember when I was like eight, maybe we had a babysitter who, you know, we were all poor. |
| 2:01.6 | So our parents went on like a shared babysitter for a couple of the neighborhood kids and we all had to go to one house to get watched. Good idea. I understand that. We had the same experience. Yeah. And we would go over there and she made us these horrible meals. I'm like, I'm talking to Kyle. She one night, I remember she, this was the big one. She cooked spaghetti noodles and put |
| 2:17.8 | Thousand Island dressing on it. |
| 2:19.0 | Okay. |
| 2:19.5 | And she was like, dinner served. |
| 2:20.7 | And I was she, this was the big one. She put, she made, she cooked spaghetti noodles and put thousand island dressing on it. Okay. And she was like, dinner served. And I was like, what? And she made a sit at the table. I was like, eight years old. She made a sit at the table until we finished all of the gruel. And I, the next day was like, recounting to my mom. And we were at some family event, my aunt, my cousins were there. And my mom was calling people over. She was laughing so hard to hear the story of this thing that we were forced to eat. |
| 2:36.3 | And I was like, this feels good. |
| 2:37.9 | Like, I felt like, I felt like a monster or something. Like, I was like feeding off of it. Yeah, but I love that you took the material. Oh, I was like, crazy thing that you went through and suffered through. Yeah, I was like, let's eat this slop. |
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