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Welcome to this spinoff episode of the Daily Zekegeist.

We're calling tentatively the iconograph.

It's a show about icons.

My name's Jack O'Brien.

I co-founded the website Crack.com.

And for the past seven years, I've co-hosted a daily show with the comedian Miles Gray about

the zeitgeist, the news ghost spirit of the times. We cover what's happening in our shared

consciousness through the news and pop culture of today. And this spinoff version will cover the

zeitgeist through the people and characters who don't make the news every day, but they exist in our movies and on our bumper stickers and t-shirts and as reference points in our conversations.

But yeah, one of my criteria for whether someone deserves a TDZ icon episode is whether you could dress as them for Halloween and people would get it.

One of the recurring questions I want to ask in these episodes is if this icon existed today in our reality, how likely would they be to be on the Epstein flight logs? Um, that sort of thing.

And in this episode, we're talking about the Stein, Bert Einstein. We're starting with a big one.

Genius, visionary, silly billy, rogue, sex maniac. Uh, next week, I think we have Urkel. Uh, that should

give you a sense of the scope of our inquiry here.

But yeah, don't be fooled by the subject matter of our first episode.

It's a very stupid show still.

The format is simple.

Each episode, a different icon, Miles, a guest, and me talking geist through the lens of that icon.

We will start with the stuff that is part of the iconic image.

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