What is Jordan Firstman Even Doing?
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Actor, writer, director, musical artist & producer Jordan Firstman joins Kyle in the pod stu to muse about being & having a muse, Jordan’s creative process & feature directorial debut with Club Kid, and his Laura Dern song & standom. Of course, the two discuss all things I Love LA, including Rachel Sennott’s spot-on depiction of the industry’s current vibe, what it’s like being Charlie, and getting a second season! Don’t miss a theatrical tribute to Jordan’s iconic album, Secrets, with Slammin’ Monologues: Secrets Edition! – a game where Kyle & Jordan perform dramatic readings of his song lyrics.
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Executive Producers: iHeart Media, Elvis Duran Podcast Network & Full Picture Productions
Executive Produced for Full Picture Productions by Desiree Gruber & Anne Walls Gordon
Produced by Ben Fingeret, Nora Faber & Maia Mizrahi
Editing by Mikey Harmon & 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 | This is an IHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human. We thrive on being amused, but we also like to be director daddy. Oh, thank you. My iced Ode Cortado. The hell were they thinking. Why didn't they cast us? That is my teeth. I think this is getting an Oscar? I like the muck. Directing is basically leading a military campaign. |
| 0:21.0 | Busted out CVS. They did comedy there. |
| 0:23.7 | He's acting pretty gay in that pose. |
| 0:25.7 | Once the gays find out you did theater, it's over. |
| 0:28.4 | I am a bitch. |
| 0:29.6 | Grab your Glock and shake your asses. |
| 0:32.4 | What are we even doing? |
| 0:40.3 | I'm Kyle McLaughlin. I'm the host of What Are We Even Doing? Where we talk with people and try to figure out what are we even doing? |
| 0:50.3 | Artists, musicians, Creatives of All Type, and we discuss the thing that interests me most, which is creative process. |
| 0:56.8 | So we're going to talk today with, you are multi-hyphenate. |
| 1:00.6 | I'm sorry, that's an overused word, but actor, comedian, producer, musical artist. |
| 1:05.2 | And according to Paper Magazine, I don't know if you remember this, your favorite celebrities' |
| 1:09.8 | favorite celebrity. |
| 1:10.7 | But I feel like there should be another layer. You are everywhere, Jordan. Jordan first was with it, ladies and gentlemen. Yahoo, Yahoo. I want to go back. I want to go back. All right, go back. Because I'm not, okay, it's like favorite celebrities, favorite celebrity, that doesn't really make sense because it's like everyone has a different |
| 1:28.5 | favorite celebrity. Right. Like I'm not Timothy Shalemi's favorite celebrity. Tell you that much. |
| 1:33.7 | We don't know. Are you sure? No, he hates me. |
| 1:35.9 | No. Tim. Impossible. No, I mean like, no, I think there's a couple people out there that like me. |
| 1:43.6 | So it would have to be their favorite celebrities. |
| 1:46.5 | It's the creative, because I've interviewed a few people now all kind of in the same creative community. |
| 1:53.9 | I don't know how to say it. |
| 1:55.3 | And you are everywhere. |
| 1:58.7 | And I think maybe what this is speaking to is more that your creative energy |
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