What is Owen Thiele Even Doing?
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Actor, comedian, writer, podcaster & breath of fresh air Owen Thiele mics up with Kyle to chat about how he turned his sleep troubles into a hit podcast, late night inventions, childhood & the core memory that led to Owen’s career, being part of the amazing Overcompensating community, the entrepreneurial spirit of millennials & Gen Z, Owen’s desire to be a Desperate Housewife (reboot alert!), podcasting styles, and the genius of Alex Cooper. Don’t miss a live call to Owen’s dad, a Facetune tutorial for Kyle, the scoop on Owen’s upcoming autobiographical Amazon show, and a sizzling segment inspired by Owen’s In Your Dreams podcast called “Even Hotter Takes!” served with truth & hot cocoa.
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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. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | What are we even doing? |
| 0:11.1 | What are we even doing? |
| 0:13.3 | Hi, I'm Kyle McLaughlin. |
| 0:15.3 | We are What Are We Even Doing show? |
| 0:18.0 | Host of The Show. |
| 0:19.7 | My grammar has completely changed this morning we are sitting |
| 0:23.0 | down with your favorite actors musicians and creatives to talk their creativity how they use social |
| 0:28.6 | media and this wild world that we're in we're going to get weird in a good way today we have |
| 0:33.9 | a very cool person with us oh stop on stop. O'Nthiel is here. |
| 0:37.9 | Hi. |
| 0:40.6 | You're a self-proclaimed nepo friend. |
| 0:40.9 | Yes. |
| 0:41.4 | I'm going to get into that. I'm going to say narcissists. But you also have this fantastic podcast. Which I was like, true. I don't know if I've said it, but true. No, no, no, no. Listen, everything works here. But your podcast and your dreams is really creative and smart. |
| 0:53.8 | And it's really, we were just talking about the setting, which is so cool. Like you sit in bed, just chit-chat. I'm in bed. Yeah, yeah. My whole thing is that I don't sleep. I sleep two hours a night. This is interesting because I want to ask you about that, too. As you can see, I'm, you know, I've got the aura ring on here. So you don't even bother with that, probably. Wow. No. So you sleep. |
| 1:14.5 | You're a sleeper. |
| 1:10.9 | No. too, as you can see, I'm, you know, I've got the aura ring on here. So you don't even bother with that, probably. Wow. |
| 1:11.4 | I know. |
| 1:11.9 | So you sleep. |
| 1:13.9 | You're a sleeper. No, no. No, I am not. And this is why I'm curious to talk about this, because I have tremendous anxiety, like, at three or four in the morning. I'm with you. Why don't you call me? Okay, because I'm up. |
| 1:25.6 | FaceTime me. |
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