Icon #18 - Whitney Houston: The Voice

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🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Pallavi Gunalan to talk about the only person to turn 'The Star-Spangled Banner' into a star-spangled banger:

Whitney Houston!

They'll explore her musical upbringing, meteoric rise to fame, similarly meteoric fall and much more!

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:06.3	Hello, the internet, and welcome to this spin-off episode of Dernoese, Ikeyes.
0:12.9	Which we're calling the iconograph.
0:15.0	My name is Jack O'Brien, one of the founders of Crack.com, and I'm joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray.
0:20.6	Hey, great to be here. I hope we're talking my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray. Hey, great to be here.
0:23.2	I hope we're talking about cocaine today on some level.
0:29.5	Everything has to do with cocaine.
0:33.3	Keeps coming back to cocaine.
0:34.5	I've noticed that the icons, they have little runs,
0:37.9	you know?
0:39.6	Like we didn't intentionally do,
0:40.4	uh, the grays and leprechauns right next to each other,
0:43.7	but it just like happened.
0:44.9	Yeah.
0:45.4	And now we're doing two,
0:46.5	uh,
0:47.1	people who had some,
0:49.6	some scarface montage shit going on where a rise and fall and then the fall involves cocaine.
0:56.9	Well, at least this person had a lot of talent.
0:59.7	Oh my God.
1:01.2	Just wearing.
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