What is Maddie Ziegler Even Doing?
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Actor, author & dancer Maddie Ziegler joins Kyle this week and the two get right to unpacking Maddie’s incredible worth ethic & ambition, how she manifested her Pretty Lethal role & reconnected with dance, what it was like working with Uma Thurman, Kyle & Maddie’s love for tap dance, starting a dance career at age 2, therapeutic crafts, the one & only Shirley Temple, Maddie’s transition into acting & the magic of working with Steven Spielberg, her recent Coachella performance & more. Don’t miss Kyle & Maddie guess iconic lines that highlight the sisterly bond in a game of Sister Showdown!
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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 I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Hey, this is Robert from the Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast. |
| 0:07.7 | Joe and I are both lifelong Star Wars fan, so we're celebrating May the 4th with a brand |
| 0:11.8 | new week of fun, thought-provoking Star Wars-related episodes. |
| 0:15.5 | Join us as we tackle science and culture topics from a galaxy far, far away, such as the |
| 0:20.3 | biology of taun tons and wampas on the ice planet hot, or the practicality and corporate business sense of the Sith rule of two. Listen to Stuff to Bole Your Mind on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I just did a film where I had to sing, like, with a group of people. |
| 0:38.7 | And it's meant to be sweet and endearing and fun. |
| 0:40.8 | Like, I'm singing to, like, a baby. |
| 0:42.1 | And it was literally the day that I was dreading the most on the whole set. |
| 0:45.9 | And it was the easiest thing. |
| 0:47.2 | But for me... |
| 0:47.9 | You're very vulnerable when you sing. |
| 0:49.3 | Yeah, it's so vulnerable. |
| 0:50.4 | And I just was so embarrassed. |
| 0:53.2 | What do we even doing? |
| 1:00.1 | What are we even doing? |
| 1:02.9 | Yo, welcome to what are we even doing? |
| 1:07.6 | Where I, Kyle McLaughlin, am a host of this show. They've given me this responsibility. |
| 1:12.5 | I don't know why. We sit down with young creatives, Gen Z, young millennials. We talk about what they're |
| 1:19.0 | up to. We talk about their creativity. We talk about how they use social. And we do this all in |
| 1:23.7 | this fantastic format. We're sitting here with two microphones. And today we have a wonderful |
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