What is Geraldine Viswanathan Even Doing?

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🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Actor, comedian, writer, and producer Geraldine Viswanathan gives Kyle the lowdown on how she caught the acting bug in 5th grade, the difference between soft and f*#@ boys, her strategy for working with her heroes, how to go viral with dalmatians on a red carpet, and what it’s been like playing a historical figure in the upcoming biopic about Merle Oberon, an Oscar-nominated Indian-British actor, writer, and producer with a prolific career. Kyle and Geraldine trade deep thoughts on life and death, and saddle up for an unbridled game of Horse Girling Around, sugar cubes included.

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Executive Producers: iHeart Media, Elvis Duran Podcast Network, and Full Picture Productions Executive Produced for Full Picture Productions by Desiree Gruber + Anne Walls Gordon

Produced by Ben Fingeret, Nora Faber, and Maia Mizrahi
Editing by Mikey Harmon and Nicholas Giuricich
Research by Kimberly Walls
Music by Yatta

Art by Danica Robinson

Additional GFX by Chris Olfers/The Southern Influence
Styling by Dot Bass

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0:00.0	The murder of an 18-year-old girl in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved for years,
0:09.6	until a local housewife, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story.
0:16.4	America, y'all better work the hell up.
0:18.1	Bad things happens to good people in small towns.
0:28.1	Listen to Graves County on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.
0:34.0	And to binge the entire season, ad free, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts.
0:44.6	What are we even doing?
0:47.8	Hi, I'm Kyle McLaughlin, and you're joining us on what are we even doing, where we talk with creatives, wonderful creatives in the world of film, art, television, the internet.
1:00.7	And we talk about what they're up to, listening about their creativity, trying to figure out what is going on.
1:06.6	And today we have a very special guest.
1:08.9	This is Geraldine, Vizwanthathan film actress dalmatian lover
1:15.8	them right internet star we're going to talk about australia too if that's okay because i'm i'm very i spent
1:22.0	some time there oh yeah i did recently but i want to start off by asking you about the moment where you were like,
1:28.4	ah, kind of your aha, this is going to be, this is what I should do, this is what I need to do.
1:33.6	Did you have one of those or was it a series or tell me a little bit about that first spark?
1:39.6	That one I called the bug.
1:41.0	You caught the bug.
1:41.7	I got the bug.
1:42.8	I remember it very clearly. Okay. I was, you know, in fifth grade, and there was a play. It was, what was it? I don't know. I just remember there was, like, penguins in it. And I auditioned to be, like, the lead girl. I didn't get it. And I was I was like totally cool, awesome. And then they like,
2:03.2	okay, you can say like one joke. You can have like one funny line. And I just remember very
2:08.4	vividly like being on stage. And it was a joke about how kids watch so much TV. They're always
2:14.6	watching TV. And it crushed.
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