February 21, 2025 • 22 mins
Today, we meet the 2025 Spring interns of the Elvis Duran Morning Show, and find out how they all got hired! We debate if Bruno Mars’ new song is hot or not and the differences between the Elvis interview and AI interviews. We dive into everyone’s dream guest on the Big Show, discuss our favorite segments, and break down if Elvis should venture more into niche lesbians!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Guess what we gave the interns of podcasts?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Wait, we did?
Speaker 3 (00:04):
What? Whose idea was this?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
The Duran clan.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Hey, my name is Stephanie, I'm Leilani, I'm Ben, I'm Dylan,
and where the plan?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
All right?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
So today we're gonna be talking about kind of just
how we got started with iHeart, what led us here,
and just a little intro on who each of us are.
So I guess I'll go first. I've been here for now.
This is my second semester at iHeart working for Elvis Duran.
I'm the video production intern. I work under Deanna and
I've been loving.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It so far.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Obviously, that's why I came back. Everyone here is amazing,
But what really led me here is well, first off,
I go to Forardma University in the Bronx rose Hill campus,
go Rams and there I work for WFUV, the radio station,
and anytime any artist comes in to perform, I basically
record them and edit it and put on YouTube. So
I was really interested in that. I was also interested
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in athletics for the hockey team, but I ultimately decided
that I loved entertainment and that's how I ended up here.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
That's so crazy because my story's almost the exact same.
I go to NYU. I'm the audio intern. I work
under Josh. And the reason I came to iHeart is
because I work at my college radio station WNYU as
our engineering director, where I record all the artists that
come in and I edit the audio instead. Sometimes the
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video for staff is short. My mom was a radio
DJ when I was before I was born, so it
was in my blood. I knew I had to hang
out at a radio station, and I'm so glad I'm here.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I love it funny enough. I actually don't know if
Pace has a radio like I literally couldn't tell you,
but yeah, I go to Pace. I study film, and
last semester I worked on the iHeart promotion street team
and that was really cool. That was really fun. And
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then I'm played to this internship and that's where we
are now.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
I guess I love the background so far. My name
is Dylan. I'm a from Hallsher University senior. I got
into the iHeartMedia a little bit differently. I'm a social
video and phone op intern, so got a couple of
little hats to have on me. But overall, I've been
a journalism major at my school, I've gotten involved in
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our wh radio broadcast, where I've mainly done a lot
of our social media content. But I grew up around
the business. My dad was a major program director in
sports media, so he kind of helped get me involved
by teacher telling me a little bit about Elvis Durancho,
helped me figure out how to apply.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
And yeah, just kind of came here from there.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Oh yeah, you guys. I literally forgot to say what
my internship position is. That's so awkward. I am doing
digital and social and Abby is my supervisor.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Cute, that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Well, so I've been here already, but I want to
get to know you guys, and so first off, so
we just heard who your site super advisors are. Tell
me your favorite thing about them.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
So, I think the one thing I love is because
of being able to do so many internships roles.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Here, I have a couple of different supervisors.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
So I have been able to meet Andrew and Diamond
so far, who had been really great. But I was
able to meet Celia today for the first time. So
great thing I love. Everyone's been super nice. They've all
been very helpful. Was getting me started so far, So Honestly,
just the hospitality of being welcome here has just been
the best thing out of all my supervisors so far.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Josh is pretty cool. Even though this internship is really early.
Josh explained everything pretty clearly, and it's pretty cool hanging
out around him, even though I sometimes worry he thinks
I'm like an annoying little sibling. Hopefully we get past
that one day. I'm rooting for us.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, there's definitely a lot of hospitality from like all
of the supervisors, and everyone makes it feel very welcome,
which is really nice. Yes, with we go specifically, I
feel like we have such a similar understanding of like
pop culture and like just chronically online things that like
nobody else would ever need to know. But it kind
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of goes with like the position that you kind of
like need to know it, and yeah, so we just
like get it in that way.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, same with me and Deanna, Like we're always online,
We're always following the same pop culture stuff. So even
though it's spright and early, we get in that studio
and it's just the two of us, I'm reapping constantly
when we're not switching.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I've seen you two watch Dear van Hansen clips through
the window, so I know you're definitely on it. Yeah,
we definitely are.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
She also runs iHeart Broadway, so I help her out
with that too, and yeah, the two of us can
just talk all.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Day about it.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Why are you excited to come back this semester?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Honestly, Like I said this on the show the other day,
but I've been told that if you love your coworkers,
no matter what you're doing, you're gonna love your job.
So I've definitely found that home here with everyone, and
everyone's super supportive. And again, like I love Deanna and
I'm working the most closely with her, So I just
felt like this was a perfect match and if it
had helped me get into whatever I want to do
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later down the line.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Cool, what was everyone's hiring process?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Like I was like, I do remember this semester. I
was like, I'm gonna be so busy, like I don't
want an internship. And then I got on a zoom
with Andrew and Josh. And Andrew was like, do you
use pro tools? And I was like, yes, I do,
and then we talked about my job at WNYU and
then he was like, Josh, you got anything to say,
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and Josh goes, you use pro tools, and I was like, yes,
I do. And then that was it. That was just
fifteen minutes. And then I got a call from Andrew
and here I am. I think I got a really
good introduction of Josh at my interview. For sure.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Honestly for my process, it wasn't as exciting, didn't have
Josh be there for it. But no, honestly, it was
just going through LinkedIn. One day it popped up on
my feed seeing Elvis Duran, which not normally in my
background of stuff. Usually I'm looking for more sports media stuff.
But I had some other opportunities I looked into that
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just didn't come my way. And then my daddy was
calling me about saying, hey, you gotta have a plan
as your last semester. I was lucky to be off
from no internship last semester, but this one he really
hammered me down. And luckily everyone was here to be
nice enough to let me come in and start working
for him.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
So I, like I said, worked on the promo team
last semester. And yeah, I also I believe saw this
either on LinkedIn or just the career's website of iHeart
and yeah. I also got on a zoom with Andrew
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and Abigail, and I remember that being very like relaxed,
like almost as if it was like a FaceTime, which
I thought was like funny and just kind of gave
the tone of like what it is like to work here.
And they're basically like, so, what like social media do
you use? And this was right during the week of
TikTok like being banned, and I was like, well, I
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don't know, because who knows. And then yeah, they called
me like a week later, but my phone was on
doing not disturb from class, and it's so embarrassing. I
have a voicemail of like a song playing, and it's
a song by Little Mix called how You Doing? And
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it's like, Hey, how you doing? Sorry I can't get through.
Why don't you leave your name number and we'll get
back to you. So then I called him back and
he was like, do you have like some sort of
like voicemail going on. I was like, wait, yes, but
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I think they liked it, so it's fine.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Yeah you see, then I'm glad you answered one thing
for me. I was gonna ask if anyone else had
missed the phone call about getting higher.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I was in class too.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Yeah, so I'm I'm sorry to hear from the voicemail,
but A love it the I'm glad I'm not the
only one who missed the phone call.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yes, yes, I missed the phone call. Yeah, that is
too funny. My process was a little bit different. I
mean I had the like chill interview in all but
leading up to that, basically, I was abroad from January
to May of my junior year.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I'm currently a senior. I don't think I said that.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
And I was applying for jobs at that point for
summer and for fall, and I would get all these interviews,
but i'd be in different countries and they had like
the the interviews where you had to do it like
on your computer, like talking just to it, no one else,
and I hated it. And I remember it would only
give you like forty eight or seventy two hours to
do it. So I'd be like in a hostel, like
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in the bunk, like trying to do this interview. And
then I was like not getting responses from these people anymore.
And then I was like okay, like I'm just gonna
give up for this semester, like it's totally fine. It's
only the fault. I'll get something for the spring and
I'll just like work super hard at school. Then all
of a sudden, like Dylan, I saw on LinkedIn that
the Elvis Duran group was having internships. So I was like,
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you know what, this is awesome because I saw twenty
one Pilots come to iHeart in May for their album release,
So I was like, you know what, I love twenty
one pilots.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
They love iHeart, so do I.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
And also I grew up in New Jersey, so I've
listened to Elvis in the radio or on the radio
in the car, So there's that. And then I decided
to apply the day it came out, and I like
almost immediately got a response back saying, hey, like, let's interview.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Did that?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Talked to Andrew, talk to Deanna, very chill, like they
were asking who my favorite artist was, what platforms I'm using,
like what video production stuff I use? And it went
pretty well. Obviously, I mean I got the job and
I'm back again, but can't get rid of me.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
But yeah, I just thought that was funny. I mean,
going off of that, one of the reasons I was like,
this is gonna be a fun internship is that my
interview was a zoom and it wasn't like you have
unlimited tries to talk to this AI version of a
human being and tell us like, why do you think
you want to work in the music industry. I've done
so many of those and I hate it, and so
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I would rather just have like a fifteen minute zoom
that's like okay, cool, you're nice, Okay bye.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I have never gotten asked to do another interview after
doing the AI ones because they're so I don't know
if I just suck at them, or if it's just
like the ones I'm applying to, or maybe it just
wasn't the right fit, but they're literally awful.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
They make me so mad, and I always feel like
I am saying the dumbest stuff in the world when
I am doing them, I'm like, I make no sense.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Well, I've ever gotten caught like running out of tries
and like the try, like the last one you had,
you went like ah fuck at the end and you're like,
I have one more try, and it just it's I
think I did that for like a target application once
set to take the l on that one. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
So I've done a few of those like I said
and saying like I hate them. It just doesn't feel
real when you're doing it, so you're like like whatever,
I could do whatever I want. But then there was
one time I actually took it so seriously because like
I'm a video production intern and that's what I'm basically
applying to for everything else. I had the ring lights out,
I had everything, and that was the one time that
I made it through on one of those AI in radios.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
So just like put a ring light up, that's all
you need.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Noticed I was saying, I'm very lucky.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
I've never had to do any of these AI interviews before,
so these all just sound like incredible horror stories or
nightmares at the very least, So hopefully I never see
what it is as well, because they sound awful awful.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
So obviously they have Gusts in the studio all the time.
Who is everyone's dream Gust.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
So my music taste is very very off from what
normally he's played on Z one hundred, but like very
very slim chant.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
I'd love to see Haley Williams somehow from Paramore.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
I've always had a soft spot for Paramore ever since
I was a kid, and I always hear it every
time I listened to the show or anything, like the
first time I was listening after like applying, it was
the first song that came on, so I was like
that that would be kind of my cool connecting movement.
But anyone, I guess who shows up. I know they
had Shaggy here the other week and he played at
my canvas like last semester, so I guess I just
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can't avoid Shaggy. But yeah, anyone who walks in, I
guess it should be a fun surprise.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
But Haley Williams for sure.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I mean, I don't listen to a lot of top
one hundred artists. So if Elvis Duran ever wants to
veer into niche lesbians, I think he should bring on
Moona or like or like, let's get niches er, let's
bring in to a Bird. Maybe to a Bird can
bring in Rene Rap. I remember I interviewed To a
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Bird before they announced that they were dating for my
radio show at WNYU, And yeah I did know they
were dating before they announced it. Yeah I knew. So
maybe Elvis dran can get the next group. Who knows?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Wait, so you like Muna, do you know Katie Gavin. Yes,
I recorded her not too long ago.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Well, I've been trying to get her and do you
have her email? I will get there from you later.
Maybe I could find it. But yeah, we'll see what
we can do. We'll see what we can do.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I'd say for me obviously, I've mentioned twenty one pilots
just before this. I swear I'm not emo. I just
like the occasional alternative band, so them for sure, and
they have iHeart ties because jingle bawl and everything, so
we'd love to see them.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
And also Bruno Mars true, if they could ever get
him out of Vegas, i'd want to say that. Well, no, okay,
that was totally fake. Wait, so it was fake that
he's suck in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Yeah, I mean I don't know how how real this
like faith claim was, but I heard that it was
fake and that he actually has a residency there, So
if he's in that it's not because of him gambling,
it's because of whatever he's putting on.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I thought it was like like not Elvis Durant, but
Elvis Presley vibes where it's like, hey, I watched what's
what's his face something? Butler Austin Austin Butler love that man.
I watched that movie he got stuck because Tom Hanks
was gambling, right, so true. Yeah, I don't say.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
I just don't think Bruno was like that, I'm gonna
stand up.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
For my guy.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I think that my dream guests would be Megan the Stallion.
Oh yeah, Like I would just love to like chat
with her and be like what's to like literally just
like I'm obsessed. Circling back to Bruno Mars, what do
we think about the news.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Song is a sexy red one?
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I was like okay, I was like, okay, we're starting
off with Gaga and then it went to what apartment?
What that song is called? Yeah, Rose Rosie, this new one.
I don't think I was ready to hear Bruno Mars
talk about Kitty that hardcore.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah, I don't. I don't think we needed it. I
like the beat to be cute, you know, like I know,
I'm serious though, like when it plays like, I'm like,
it's kind of a bop. But I just like the
fact that it is Bruno Mars and he like said
these words like into a mic and maybe really makes
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me really uncomfortable to think about it.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
And you know that wasn't a first take, like he's
been saying those words.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
It's like finding out like my older brother actually like
does freaky ship on the side. Right.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
He had this written in his notes app for years.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
He got the hate circle this whole time, like ten years.
Now this is coming out.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
He's been waiting for the right moment. And then sexy
read blow up and he says.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Now I've been seeing all those post words like what
happened to the man that was buying your flowers?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yet what happened when I was your man? Like it God?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Really good song. Wow.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I forgot to mention this, But I'm from La so
I didn't grow up listening to Elvis. But when I
told my mom I got this job, she tuned in
for like the third shift I did here and like
as soon as Elvis ends, shows up like a block
of Ryan Seacrest and my mom calls me. She goes,
no way, that man is still on the radio. He
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was on the radio when I was a kid. Like
she was like, when you were a child, we would
drive to your elementary school and hear Ryan Seacrest in
the back. So hey, now I share a payroll. I
guess with Ryan Seacrest, and that was like the main
thing people were gagged by when I got this joke.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I also did not grow up listening to Elvis because
I'm originally from Massachusetts. So our morning show is Mad
in the Morning, which is like such a token of
like my childhood, like just like that like name. I
feel like it was literally always on. But yeah, so
that's like our equivalent.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
So I'm from New York.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
So I although didn't grow of listening to Elvis, I
know people who have, like my roommate when he found
out I got this job, he kept bringing up like
he knew everyone on the show. He knew like stuff
from ten years ago, and he's like, oh, is Foggy
still around. I'm like, I'm surprised, you know all these people.
And I would check on Instagram and there's people I
know who I go to school.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
And follow them now.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
But for me, like I grew up with sport stuff,
so it was like Mike an mad Dog more in
the middle of the afternoon. Eventually that phased out, but
so I never really was. Elvis is kind of the
type of a listener. But it's fun now seeing how
many people were like oh you know about this, Okay,
I can talk to you about this now.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
So both of my parents worked, and I'm from New Jersey,
so it would be on in the car on the
way to morning care and whatever early in the morning.
But when I was younger, like going to elementary school
and even middle school, my mom was afraid that they
were going to say something like crazy and out there,
so she would like switch the channel and all this.
But also Danielle is from the same area that I'm
from in New Jersey, so my mom actually went to
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her meet and great uncle Joseppi's.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Wow talking about small world, I know, right, jeez.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah. Well, a part of my internship is I have
to listen to almost the entirety of the show. I
get here at seven and I start listening almost immediately,
so I think I know every segment like perhaps the
back of my hand. And I think I think I
think my favorite segment would have to be when they
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do the around the room because it's just like, I mean,
sometimes they're like I hate this thing, and but like
usually it's like like today they were in Orlando, so
like today they were like I got to relive my
childhood and be on a theme park and like, I
wish I had kids because all the kids running around
are so cute.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
It's like, Oh, my favorite segment is the Danielle Report.
I just feel like she delivers the news, the story
or whatever it is so well and I just am like,
what's she gonna say about it? What's her thoughts?
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Well, I won't lie, Ben, you were better. You just
stole mine. If I do have to choose another one,
I do really love Whenever to do any of my
games on the show. It's just they have a rotating
I guess assortment of games and overall it's just been
so much fun just listening to how whacking you get
so probably games.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yeah, I love gandhis games. But also I was gonna
say the Sound with Garrett segment, yes, because I just
feel like I always learned the most from that one.
I was like, oh, I actually didn't know Kendrick was
going to be the halftime performer, thanks Garrett.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Fun fact, I was featured on Garrett Sounds Wait for
what they played? Okay, so fun fact. Over the summer,
I was on Jimmy Fallon for the Battle of the
Instant Songwriters where they pull up an audience member to
write a song in thirty minutes. And so I come
in on my second day ever, Garrett pops into my
studio and goes like, hey, I played your Jimmy Fallon
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segment on the air and he's like talking to me
about it, and then he's like, Okay, have a nice day,
and then he had I had never met him yet,
so I turn around, I must go what. He pops
back and he goes, I'm Carrott. By the way, I'm Garrett.
I was like, oh my god, hey, I'm sorry, and
it's like eight am. So fun fact I was featured
on your favorite segment. That is awesome.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
You love that.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
So what's everyone looking forward to with this internship?
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Honestly, I'm just excited to finally get to be here
and working. I got to do my first day and
then it was immediately sick right after, so I'm glad
to be back. I'm excited to actually get to do
task now. But overall, I'm just I'm excited to grow
of a new group of interns, my first time actually
being a part of a big intern team where I'm
actually in the studio.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Every day with interns as well. Besides myself.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
So overall, I'm just excited to learn and grow of
a great team and get to do some fun task hopefully.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
So yeah, circling back to what you were saying earlier,
I feel like the people that you work with make
such a big impact. So I'm looking forward to continue
working with everyone and just getting to know everyone even better.
And yeah, so I'm looking forward to right now.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Yeah, I think I'm looking forward to getting into the
routine and like knowing everyone, knowing what everyone does, like
catching up, hanging out, stuff like that. And it's really
nice to have like a space that's like my space
for the time i'm there that like I'm like, oh
my god, I get like a computer and a keyboard
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and a desk. It's it's wonderful.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
A lot of the internships that I've done in the past,
they didn't have interns really working together on anything. And
even last semester it just felt a little bit different
working here because they were all kind of individual since
we're all doing different things. But I love how this
semester we're really getting everyone together. I'm glad to be
working with you guys and getting.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
To know you guys.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Yay, all right, So again. I'm Stephanie. My instagram is
Steph Lane with two e's and an underscore.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
My name is Leilani. My instagram is Leilani Jay pTau.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
I'm Ben. My instagram is Ben Phifer fipro spelled p
f e I f e R with an extra R
at the end.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
And I'm Dylan and my instagram is Dylan two two
two one.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
See you next time on the Durand Clan
Guess what we gave the interns of podcasts?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Wait, we did?
Speaker 3 (00:04):
What? Whose idea was this?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
The Duran clan.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Hey, my name is Stephanie, I'm Leilani, I'm Ben, I'm Dylan,
and where the plan?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
All right?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
So today we're gonna be talking about kind of just
how we got started with iHeart, what led us here,
and just a little intro on who each of us are.
So I guess I'll go first. I've been here for now.
This is my second semester at iHeart working for Elvis Duran.
I'm the video production intern. I work under Deanna and
I've been loving.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It so far.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Obviously, that's why I came back. Everyone here is amazing,
But what really led me here is well, first off,
I go to Forardma University in the Bronx rose Hill campus,
go Rams and there I work for WFUV, the radio station,
and anytime any artist comes in to perform, I basically
record them and edit it and put on YouTube. So
I was really interested in that. I was also interested
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in athletics for the hockey team, but I ultimately decided
that I loved entertainment and that's how I ended up here.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
That's so crazy because my story's almost the exact same.
I go to NYU. I'm the audio intern. I work
under Josh. And the reason I came to iHeart is
because I work at my college radio station WNYU as
our engineering director, where I record all the artists that
come in and I edit the audio instead. Sometimes the
(01:25):
video for staff is short. My mom was a radio
DJ when I was before I was born, so it
was in my blood. I knew I had to hang
out at a radio station, and I'm so glad I'm here.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I love it funny enough. I actually don't know if
Pace has a radio like I literally couldn't tell you,
but yeah, I go to Pace. I study film, and
last semester I worked on the iHeart promotion street team
and that was really cool. That was really fun. And
(01:59):
then I'm played to this internship and that's where we
are now.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
I guess I love the background so far. My name
is Dylan. I'm a from Hallsher University senior. I got
into the iHeartMedia a little bit differently. I'm a social
video and phone op intern, so got a couple of
little hats to have on me. But overall, I've been
a journalism major at my school, I've gotten involved in
(02:24):
our wh radio broadcast, where I've mainly done a lot
of our social media content. But I grew up around
the business. My dad was a major program director in
sports media, so he kind of helped get me involved
by teacher telling me a little bit about Elvis Durancho,
helped me figure out how to apply.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
And yeah, just kind of came here from there.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Oh yeah, you guys. I literally forgot to say what
my internship position is. That's so awkward. I am doing
digital and social and Abby is my supervisor.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Cute, that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Well, so I've been here already, but I want to
get to know you guys, and so first off, so
we just heard who your site super advisors are. Tell
me your favorite thing about them.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
So, I think the one thing I love is because
of being able to do so many internships roles.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Here, I have a couple of different supervisors.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
So I have been able to meet Andrew and Diamond
so far, who had been really great. But I was
able to meet Celia today for the first time. So
great thing I love. Everyone's been super nice. They've all
been very helpful. Was getting me started so far, So Honestly,
just the hospitality of being welcome here has just been
the best thing out of all my supervisors so far.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Josh is pretty cool. Even though this internship is really early.
Josh explained everything pretty clearly, and it's pretty cool hanging
out around him, even though I sometimes worry he thinks
I'm like an annoying little sibling. Hopefully we get past
that one day. I'm rooting for us.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, there's definitely a lot of hospitality from like all
of the supervisors, and everyone makes it feel very welcome,
which is really nice. Yes, with we go specifically, I
feel like we have such a similar understanding of like
pop culture and like just chronically online things that like
nobody else would ever need to know. But it kind
(04:15):
of goes with like the position that you kind of
like need to know it, and yeah, so we just
like get it in that way.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, same with me and Deanna, Like we're always online,
We're always following the same pop culture stuff. So even
though it's spright and early, we get in that studio
and it's just the two of us, I'm reapping constantly
when we're not switching.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I've seen you two watch Dear van Hansen clips through
the window, so I know you're definitely on it. Yeah,
we definitely are.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
She also runs iHeart Broadway, so I help her out
with that too, and yeah, the two of us can
just talk all.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Day about it.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Why are you excited to come back this semester?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Honestly, Like I said this on the show the other day,
but I've been told that if you love your coworkers,
no matter what you're doing, you're gonna love your job.
So I've definitely found that home here with everyone, and
everyone's super supportive. And again, like I love Deanna and
I'm working the most closely with her, So I just
felt like this was a perfect match and if it
had helped me get into whatever I want to do
(05:11):
later down the line.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Cool, what was everyone's hiring process?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Like I was like, I do remember this semester. I
was like, I'm gonna be so busy, like I don't
want an internship. And then I got on a zoom
with Andrew and Josh. And Andrew was like, do you
use pro tools? And I was like, yes, I do,
and then we talked about my job at WNYU and
then he was like, Josh, you got anything to say,
(05:36):
and Josh goes, you use pro tools, and I was like, yes,
I do. And then that was it. That was just
fifteen minutes. And then I got a call from Andrew
and here I am. I think I got a really
good introduction of Josh at my interview. For sure.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Honestly for my process, it wasn't as exciting, didn't have
Josh be there for it. But no, honestly, it was
just going through LinkedIn. One day it popped up on
my feed seeing Elvis Duran, which not normally in my
background of stuff. Usually I'm looking for more sports media stuff.
But I had some other opportunities I looked into that
(06:16):
just didn't come my way. And then my daddy was
calling me about saying, hey, you gotta have a plan
as your last semester. I was lucky to be off
from no internship last semester, but this one he really
hammered me down. And luckily everyone was here to be
nice enough to let me come in and start working
for him.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
So I, like I said, worked on the promo team
last semester. And yeah, I also I believe saw this
either on LinkedIn or just the career's website of iHeart
and yeah. I also got on a zoom with Andrew
(06:52):
and Abigail, and I remember that being very like relaxed,
like almost as if it was like a FaceTime, which
I thought was like funny and just kind of gave
the tone of like what it is like to work here.
And they're basically like, so, what like social media do
you use? And this was right during the week of
TikTok like being banned, and I was like, well, I
(07:15):
don't know, because who knows. And then yeah, they called
me like a week later, but my phone was on
doing not disturb from class, and it's so embarrassing. I
have a voicemail of like a song playing, and it's
a song by Little Mix called how You Doing? And
(07:38):
it's like, Hey, how you doing? Sorry I can't get through.
Why don't you leave your name number and we'll get
back to you. So then I called him back and
he was like, do you have like some sort of
like voicemail going on. I was like, wait, yes, but
(07:58):
I think they liked it, so it's fine.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Yeah you see, then I'm glad you answered one thing
for me. I was gonna ask if anyone else had
missed the phone call about getting higher.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I was in class too.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Yeah, so I'm I'm sorry to hear from the voicemail,
but A love it the I'm glad I'm not the
only one who missed the phone call.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yes, yes, I missed the phone call. Yeah, that is
too funny. My process was a little bit different. I
mean I had the like chill interview in all but
leading up to that, basically, I was abroad from January
to May of my junior year.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I'm currently a senior. I don't think I said that.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
And I was applying for jobs at that point for
summer and for fall, and I would get all these interviews,
but i'd be in different countries and they had like
the the interviews where you had to do it like
on your computer, like talking just to it, no one else,
and I hated it. And I remember it would only
give you like forty eight or seventy two hours to
do it. So I'd be like in a hostel, like
(08:57):
in the bunk, like trying to do this interview. And
then I was like not getting responses from these people anymore.
And then I was like okay, like I'm just gonna
give up for this semester, like it's totally fine. It's
only the fault. I'll get something for the spring and
I'll just like work super hard at school. Then all
of a sudden, like Dylan, I saw on LinkedIn that
the Elvis Duran group was having internships. So I was like,
(09:17):
you know what, this is awesome because I saw twenty
one Pilots come to iHeart in May for their album release,
So I was like, you know what, I love twenty
one pilots.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
They love iHeart, so do I.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
And also I grew up in New Jersey, so I've
listened to Elvis in the radio or on the radio
in the car, So there's that. And then I decided
to apply the day it came out, and I like
almost immediately got a response back saying, hey, like, let's interview.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Did that?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Talked to Andrew, talk to Deanna, very chill, like they
were asking who my favorite artist was, what platforms I'm using,
like what video production stuff I use? And it went
pretty well. Obviously, I mean I got the job and
I'm back again, but can't get rid of me.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
But yeah, I just thought that was funny. I mean,
going off of that, one of the reasons I was like,
this is gonna be a fun internship is that my
interview was a zoom and it wasn't like you have
unlimited tries to talk to this AI version of a
human being and tell us like, why do you think
you want to work in the music industry. I've done
so many of those and I hate it, and so
(10:18):
I would rather just have like a fifteen minute zoom
that's like okay, cool, you're nice, Okay bye.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I have never gotten asked to do another interview after
doing the AI ones because they're so I don't know
if I just suck at them, or if it's just
like the ones I'm applying to, or maybe it just
wasn't the right fit, but they're literally awful.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
They make me so mad, and I always feel like
I am saying the dumbest stuff in the world when
I am doing them, I'm like, I make no sense.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Well, I've ever gotten caught like running out of tries
and like the try, like the last one you had,
you went like ah fuck at the end and you're like,
I have one more try, and it just it's I
think I did that for like a target application once
set to take the l on that one. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
So I've done a few of those like I said
and saying like I hate them. It just doesn't feel
real when you're doing it, so you're like like whatever,
I could do whatever I want. But then there was
one time I actually took it so seriously because like
I'm a video production intern and that's what I'm basically
applying to for everything else. I had the ring lights out,
I had everything, and that was the one time that
I made it through on one of those AI in radios.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
So just like put a ring light up, that's all
you need.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Noticed I was saying, I'm very lucky.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
I've never had to do any of these AI interviews before,
so these all just sound like incredible horror stories or
nightmares at the very least, So hopefully I never see
what it is as well, because they sound awful awful.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
So obviously they have Gusts in the studio all the time.
Who is everyone's dream Gust.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
So my music taste is very very off from what
normally he's played on Z one hundred, but like very
very slim chant.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
I'd love to see Haley Williams somehow from Paramore.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
I've always had a soft spot for Paramore ever since
I was a kid, and I always hear it every
time I listened to the show or anything, like the
first time I was listening after like applying, it was
the first song that came on, so I was like
that that would be kind of my cool connecting movement.
But anyone, I guess who shows up. I know they
had Shaggy here the other week and he played at
my canvas like last semester, so I guess I just
(12:36):
can't avoid Shaggy. But yeah, anyone who walks in, I
guess it should be a fun surprise.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
But Haley Williams for sure.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I mean, I don't listen to a lot of top
one hundred artists. So if Elvis Duran ever wants to
veer into niche lesbians, I think he should bring on
Moona or like or like, let's get niches er, let's
bring in to a Bird. Maybe to a Bird can
bring in Rene Rap. I remember I interviewed To a
(13:07):
Bird before they announced that they were dating for my
radio show at WNYU, And yeah I did know they
were dating before they announced it. Yeah I knew. So
maybe Elvis dran can get the next group. Who knows?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Wait, so you like Muna, do you know Katie Gavin. Yes,
I recorded her not too long ago.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Well, I've been trying to get her and do you
have her email? I will get there from you later.
Maybe I could find it. But yeah, we'll see what
we can do. We'll see what we can do.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
I'd say for me obviously, I've mentioned twenty one pilots
just before this. I swear I'm not emo. I just
like the occasional alternative band, so them for sure, and
they have iHeart ties because jingle bawl and everything, so
we'd love to see them.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
And also Bruno Mars true, if they could ever get
him out of Vegas, i'd want to say that. Well, no, okay,
that was totally fake. Wait, so it was fake that
he's suck in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Yeah, I mean I don't know how how real this
like faith claim was, but I heard that it was
fake and that he actually has a residency there, So
if he's in that it's not because of him gambling,
it's because of whatever he's putting on.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I thought it was like like not Elvis Durant, but
Elvis Presley vibes where it's like, hey, I watched what's
what's his face something? Butler Austin Austin Butler love that man.
I watched that movie he got stuck because Tom Hanks
was gambling, right, so true. Yeah, I don't say.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
I just don't think Bruno was like that, I'm gonna
stand up.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
For my guy.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
I think that my dream guests would be Megan the Stallion.
Oh yeah, Like I would just love to like chat
with her and be like what's to like literally just
like I'm obsessed. Circling back to Bruno Mars, what do
we think about the news.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Song is a sexy red one?
Speaker 5 (14:56):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I was like okay, I was like, okay, we're starting
off with Gaga and then it went to what apartment?
What that song is called? Yeah, Rose Rosie, this new one.
I don't think I was ready to hear Bruno Mars
talk about Kitty that hardcore.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah, I don't. I don't think we needed it. I
like the beat to be cute, you know, like I know,
I'm serious though, like when it plays like, I'm like,
it's kind of a bop. But I just like the
fact that it is Bruno Mars and he like said
these words like into a mic and maybe really makes
(15:33):
me really uncomfortable to think about it.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
And you know that wasn't a first take, like he's
been saying those words.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
It's like finding out like my older brother actually like
does freaky ship on the side. Right.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
He had this written in his notes app for years.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
He got the hate circle this whole time, like ten years.
Now this is coming out.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
He's been waiting for the right moment. And then sexy
read blow up and he says.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Now I've been seeing all those post words like what
happened to the man that was buying your flowers?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yet what happened when I was your man? Like it God?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Really good song. Wow.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I forgot to mention this, But I'm from La so
I didn't grow up listening to Elvis. But when I
told my mom I got this job, she tuned in
for like the third shift I did here and like
as soon as Elvis ends, shows up like a block
of Ryan Seacrest and my mom calls me. She goes,
no way, that man is still on the radio. He
(16:29):
was on the radio when I was a kid. Like
she was like, when you were a child, we would
drive to your elementary school and hear Ryan Seacrest in
the back. So hey, now I share a payroll. I
guess with Ryan Seacrest, and that was like the main
thing people were gagged by when I got this joke.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
I also did not grow up listening to Elvis because
I'm originally from Massachusetts. So our morning show is Mad
in the Morning, which is like such a token of
like my childhood, like just like that like name. I
feel like it was literally always on. But yeah, so
that's like our equivalent.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
So I'm from New York.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
So I although didn't grow of listening to Elvis, I
know people who have, like my roommate when he found
out I got this job, he kept bringing up like
he knew everyone on the show. He knew like stuff
from ten years ago, and he's like, oh, is Foggy
still around. I'm like, I'm surprised, you know all these people.
And I would check on Instagram and there's people I
know who I go to school.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
And follow them now.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
But for me, like I grew up with sport stuff,
so it was like Mike an mad Dog more in
the middle of the afternoon. Eventually that phased out, but
so I never really was. Elvis is kind of the
type of a listener. But it's fun now seeing how
many people were like oh you know about this, Okay,
I can talk to you about this now.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
So both of my parents worked, and I'm from New Jersey,
so it would be on in the car on the
way to morning care and whatever early in the morning.
But when I was younger, like going to elementary school
and even middle school, my mom was afraid that they
were going to say something like crazy and out there,
so she would like switch the channel and all this.
But also Danielle is from the same area that I'm
from in New Jersey, so my mom actually went to
(18:06):
her meet and great uncle Joseppi's.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Wow talking about small world, I know, right, jeez.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah. Well, a part of my internship is I have
to listen to almost the entirety of the show. I
get here at seven and I start listening almost immediately,
so I think I know every segment like perhaps the
back of my hand. And I think I think I
think my favorite segment would have to be when they
(18:34):
do the around the room because it's just like, I mean,
sometimes they're like I hate this thing, and but like
usually it's like like today they were in Orlando, so
like today they were like I got to relive my
childhood and be on a theme park and like, I
wish I had kids because all the kids running around
are so cute.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
It's like, Oh, my favorite segment is the Danielle Report.
I just feel like she delivers the news, the story
or whatever it is so well and I just am like,
what's she gonna say about it? What's her thoughts?
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Well, I won't lie, Ben, you were better. You just
stole mine. If I do have to choose another one,
I do really love Whenever to do any of my
games on the show. It's just they have a rotating
I guess assortment of games and overall it's just been
so much fun just listening to how whacking you get
so probably games.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yeah, I love gandhis games. But also I was gonna
say the Sound with Garrett segment, yes, because I just
feel like I always learned the most from that one.
I was like, oh, I actually didn't know Kendrick was
going to be the halftime performer, thanks Garrett.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Fun fact, I was featured on Garrett Sounds Wait for
what they played? Okay, so fun fact. Over the summer,
I was on Jimmy Fallon for the Battle of the
Instant Songwriters where they pull up an audience member to
write a song in thirty minutes. And so I come
in on my second day ever, Garrett pops into my
studio and goes like, hey, I played your Jimmy Fallon
(19:57):
segment on the air and he's like talking to me
about it, and then he's like, Okay, have a nice day,
and then he had I had never met him yet,
so I turn around, I must go what. He pops
back and he goes, I'm Carrott. By the way, I'm Garrett.
I was like, oh my god, hey, I'm sorry, and
it's like eight am. So fun fact I was featured
on your favorite segment. That is awesome.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
You love that.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
So what's everyone looking forward to with this internship?
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Honestly, I'm just excited to finally get to be here
and working. I got to do my first day and
then it was immediately sick right after, so I'm glad
to be back. I'm excited to actually get to do
task now. But overall, I'm just I'm excited to grow
of a new group of interns, my first time actually
being a part of a big intern team where I'm
actually in the studio.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Every day with interns as well. Besides myself.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
So overall, I'm just excited to learn and grow of
a great team and get to do some fun task hopefully.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
So yeah, circling back to what you were saying earlier,
I feel like the people that you work with make
such a big impact. So I'm looking forward to continue
working with everyone and just getting to know everyone even better.
And yeah, so I'm looking forward to right now.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Yeah, I think I'm looking forward to getting into the
routine and like knowing everyone, knowing what everyone does, like
catching up, hanging out, stuff like that. And it's really
nice to have like a space that's like my space
for the time i'm there that like I'm like, oh
my god, I get like a computer and a keyboard
(21:27):
and a desk. It's it's wonderful.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
A lot of the internships that I've done in the past,
they didn't have interns really working together on anything. And
even last semester it just felt a little bit different
working here because they were all kind of individual since
we're all doing different things. But I love how this
semester we're really getting everyone together. I'm glad to be
working with you guys and getting.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
To know you guys.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Yay, all right, So again. I'm Stephanie. My instagram is
Steph Lane with two e's and an underscore.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
My name is Leilani. My instagram is Leilani Jay pTau.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
I'm Ben. My instagram is Ben Phifer fipro spelled p
f e I f e R with an extra R
at the end.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
And I'm Dylan and my instagram is Dylan two two
two one.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
See you next time on the Durand Clan
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