Icon #15 - Bart Simpson: The Yellow King

The Daily Zeitgeist

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News, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.5 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Jack and Miles are joined by writer/comedian Tamara Yajia to talk about the boy who taught us all how to, collectively, not have a cow:

Bart Simpson!

They'll explore his slapdash creation, Bartmania®, and who you can call if you have a problem with his attitude!

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:06.1	Hello, the internet, and welcome to this spin-off episode of Dirtyly Zekeyes!
0:12.4	Ica!
0:13.6	Which we're calling the iconograph, instead of looking at the zeitgeist through current events on Monday mornings,
0:19.2	we're looking at the zeitgeis through the powerful pop culture horrockses that are our icons.
0:25.7	We use these icons to create meaning.
0:27.8	Meaning.
0:28.5	To build identity.
0:29.7	Identity.
0:30.6	To learn whether or not to have a cow.
0:33.2	This is the part I don't know.
0:35.1	Oh,
0:35.3	to learn whether or not to get bent.
0:37.8	Yes, do.
0:39.2	And to learn that there's nothing in this world you can't do if you are yellow with a unique silhouette.
0:46.2	See, SpongeBob, the minions, Tweedy Bird, Pikachu, and our icon this week.
0:51.4	That's right.
0:51.9	It's a Bard episode.
0:53.4	We're talking about Bartholomeo Jojo Simpson, born in 1987, at age nine, and never got a day older.
1:03.0	Making him the envy of people with Peter Pan syndrome, by the way, everywhere.
1:07.0	Michael Jackson would go on to ghost write the song, Do the Bart Man and use him in the black or white video.
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