What Are We Even Doing? with Kyle MacLachlan

This week on What Are We Even Doing? , we’re throwing it back to one knee-slapping episode with comedian, writer, actor, podcaster, and fellow Overcompensating cast member Caleb Hearon. He 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...

Welcome to the EXTRA SPECIAL finale episode of Kyle’s Korner , a solo series from Kyle filled with memorabilia, music obsessions, and beautifully unnecessary conversations. This week, Kyle talks about new memoir, Fictional Selves, releasing on September 29th. He then transforms into his alter-ego Lyle to answer YOUR hard-hitting questions about his favorite cocktail, supernatural experiences...

This week on What Are We Even Doing? , Kyle is joined by singer-songwriter, artist, and former competitive ski racer, Remi Wolf for a conversation about creativity and endurance. Remi looks back on trading the Junior Olympics for music, busking in high school, finding her voice (literally), and the wild path that led her to touring the world. They get into trusting your gut, navigating sobriety, a...

Welcome back to Kyle’s Korner , a solo series from Kyle filled with memorabilia, music obsessions, and beautifully unnecessary conversations. This week, Kyle talks about his iconic pin pad featuring David Lynch, Blue Velvet, and the Log Lady. He then transforms into his alter-ego Lyle to answer YOUR hard-hitting questions about his favorite place in the world, the secrets behind his youthful...

This week on What Are We Even Doing? , we’re throwing it back to one of our favorite episodes with comedian, writer, actor, podcast host, and producer Benito Skinner aka Benny Drama. They unpack what it’s like working together and growing up in the Northwest, ideas for the second season of Overcompensating , and how Benny created the original characters and viral celebrity impersonatio...

This week, Kyle chats with iconic singer, songwriter, and DJ, Tove Lo. Fresh off dropping her single “I’m Your Girl Right?” and gearing up for her next studio album Estrus , Tove breaks down the chaos, liberation, and unfiltered honesty powering her new music era. Plus, Kyle challenges Tove to a customized round of Wait Wait Who Sang That Tune? featuring oversized thinking-cap ea...

Welcome back to Kyle’s Korner , a solo series from Kyle filled with memorabilia, music obsessions, and beautifully unnecessary conversations. This week, Kyle talks about his itty bitty sheeps before answering YOUR hard-hitting questions about what takeout to order, his inspiration for the podcast, favorite memes, and new sidequests. Kyle also shares the artists who have been soundtracking hi...

This week on What Are We Even Doing? , we’re throwing it back to one of our favorite episodes with model, actress, voracious reader, and all-around force of nature: Kaia Gerber. Please enjoy these highlights from this knee-slapping episode! Kaia comes armed to the pod with book recs, Shakespeare burns, and the charisma of someone who once played Tree #2. The two chat about core memories that...

Welcome back to Kyle’s Korner , a solo series from Kyle filled with memorabilia, music obsessions, and beautifully unnecessary conversations. This week, Kyle talks about his extra special crochet Dale Cooper doll before transforming into his alter-ego Lyle to answer YOUR hard-hitting questions about dream podcast guests, the inspiration behind his memoir, the best Madonna songs, and Desperat...

This week on What Are We Even Doing? , Kyle is joined by Grammy-nominated electro-pop duo Sylvan Esso—Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn—for a conversation about creativity, collaboration, and why the best performances happen when there's a real chance everything could fall apart. The pair reflect on over a decade of making music together (and being married), what they've learned from works...

Welcome back to Kyle’s Korner , a solo series from Kyle filled with memorabilia, music obsessions, and beautifully unnecessary conversations. This week, Kyle talks about his love for Oklahoma before answering YOUR hard-hitting questions about the best episode of Twin Peaks, twerking skills, The Beatles, and velveeta. Kyle also shares the artists who have been soundtracking his week which you...

Actor, writer, comedian, musician, and internet icon Jaboukie Young-White joins Kyle for a conversation about the winding path that took him from Chicago to The Daily Show , Abbott Elementary , Only Murders in the Building , and beyond. They dive into why stand-up is his "first language," the rush of getting his first big laugh, the Twitter jokes that accidentally changed internet history, and why...

Welcome back to Kyle’s Korner, a solo series from Kyle filled with memorabilia, music obsessions, and beautifully unnecessary conversations. This week, Kyle talks about his extra special William Shakespeare statue before transforming into his alter-ego Lyle to answer YOUR hard-hitting questions about the differences between art films and blockbusters, the Blue Velvet chicken walk, Ohio, and...

Oscar-winning actor, singer, dancer & Broadway powerhouse Ariana DeBose syncs up with Kyle to discuss surviving the grind of eight shows a week, growing up as a dance kid,  fighting the Revolutionary War onstage and how therapy fits into the life of a performer. After riffing on why she doesn’t do small talk, the responsibility that comes with winning an Oscar and the joy of messy p...

Welcome back to Kyle’s Korner , a solo series from Kyle filled with memorabilia, music obsessions, and beautifully unnecessary conversations. This week, Kyle talks about his mini Criterion Closet van before transforming into his alter-ego Lyle to answer YOUR hard-hitting questions about being a trendsetter, most memorable cups of coffee, green eggs and ham, and his favorite planets. Kyle als...

Singer, songwriter, musician, composer & producer Finneas O’Connell syncs up with Kyle to discuss his creative process, the OG Dune , growing up in an artistic LA household, taking WAWED to Coachella, Finneas’ foray into acting then music, what inspired his brilliant score for Beef season 2, Kyle’s keyboard work in The Doors , and which musicians & instruments impress Fin...

Welcome back to Kyle’s Korner , a solo series from Kyle filled with memorabilia, music obsessions, and beautifully unnecessary conversations. This week, Kyle takes a tour through his Overcompensating memorabilia before welcoming an extra special guest, his son Callum, to answer YOUR hard-hitting questions about doughnuts, hair tips, pigeons, and the key to healing finger burns. Kyle also sha...

This week, Kyle enlists help from drag superstar, singer, actor, writer, producer, entrepreneur & podcast host Trixie Mattel to decipher what we’re even doing with a hilarious conversation about their creative processes, cougar catnip, algorithms, Kyle’s “babygirl” status, theater & performance art, Trixie’s improv prowess, the importance of The Rocky Horror P...

Welcome back to Kyle’s Korner , a solo series from Kyle filled with memorabilia, music obsessions, and beautifully unnecessary conversations. This week, Kyle tells us the history of his wizard statue before answering YOUR hard-hitting questions about actor personas, Spice Girls, being the funniest person ever, and Sex and the City vs Desperate Housewives. Kyle also shares the artists who hav...

Singer, songwriter & musician Ravyn Lenae visits the pod stu this week for a pitch perfect convo with Kyle about her creative process & classical training at a Chicago performance arts school, buying her first studio session at age 15, building her career as a young artist & manifesting beautiful music. After singing his praises for Ravyn’s brilliant work, acting potential &...

Welcome back to Kyle’s Korner , a solo series from Kyle filled with memorabilia, music obsessions, and beautifully unnecessary conversations. This week, Kyle takes a tour through his Fallout memorabilia before transforming into his alter-ego Lyle to answer YOUR hard-hitting questions about lessons from set, ducks vs hamsters, competitive eating, and hangover cures. Kyle also shares the artis...

Helping Kyle wade into the wonderfully weird this week is actor, writer & comedian Sarah Sherman! The two former theater students dissect the innards of Sarah’s creative origins & influences, what it’s like being on SNL & that time Kyle hosted in the 90s, growing up with Twin Peaks & Blue Velvet , a Kate Bush history lesson, Sarah’s debut comedy special Sarah Squi...

Welcome back to Kyle’s Korner , a solo series from Kyle filled with memorabilia, music obsessions, and beautifully unnecessary conversations. This week, Kyle reveals what that Subaru cassette tape is all about before transforming into his alter-ego Lyle to answer YOUR hard-hitting questions about self-love, coffee cake and candy, working with David Lynch, and movie snacks. Kyle also shares t...

Kyle hosts actor, author, activist & kindred spirit Rowan Blanchard to find out what it’s like being a Salem witch descendant, a 5-year-old child actor learning to ride a bike at an Advil shoot, the miracle who was David Lynch & his timeless legacy, starring in The Testaments & learning how to regulate creative energy, the cons of self-tape auditions, and Rowan’s iconic Luc...

Welcome to the very first episode of Kyle’s Korner , a new solo series from Kyle filled with memorabilia, music obsessions, and beautifully unnecessary conversations. This week, Kyle gives a tour of the Dune items around the set before transforming into his alter-ego Lyle to answer YOUR hard-hitting questions about TV, breakfast, Muppets, and M&Ms. Kyle also shares the artists who have b...