Icon #3 Ms. Piggy: Aging Like A Fine Swine
The Daily Zeitgeist
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4.5 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Hello, The Internet!™, and welcome to this spinoff episode of The Daily Zeitgeist we’re calling The Iconograph: a show about icons.
In this episode, Miles and Jack are joined by writer/actor/comedian/podcaster Jamie Loftus to talk about the woman. the pig. the legend:
Ms. Piggy.
They'll explore her origin story, relationship with Kermit (and lackthereof with Fozzie), and her status as a queer icon?
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. I got blueberry mango. I found it the other day. I was like, all right. Blue man group? Blue man group. Blue man group. Puller self. Blue man group. Remember those Intel commercials? I mean. Icons. Yeah. Oh. Blue man group is coming. Blue man group is coming. Is that on your list? Blue Man Group. |
| 0:24.6 | It's not, but it's just an added. Blue man group should, yeah. Blue man group should definitely be on it. Blue man grew? There's nothing funnier than a blue man group reveal. There's like a literary fiction writer who I really like, I was on her Wikipedia page and I was like, she was formally, she's divorced from a blue man and you're like, oh wow. You're like, that's who that book was about? That's crazy. Because they're all like these like art dudes from New York is how it started. And then it just turned into like a Vegas. It was like such a New York thing, I felt like. |
| 0:55.6 | Yeah, they're like, like ex-Brooklyn guys who like needed work. |
| 1:00.0 | And I was like, wow, she got her heart stomped on by a blue man. |
| 1:03.0 | I hear, uh, you ought to know is actually about a blue man. |
| 1:07.3 | Blue man. |
| 1:08.5 | Yeah, that's right. |
| 1:10.7 | Alonis Morris said of the founding Blue Man remember. Hello, the internet, and welcome to this spin-off episode of Derneliezer daily zeitgeist, which we're calling the iconograph instead of looking at the zeitgeist through current events, we're looking at it through the lens of the powerful pop-cultural |
| 1:29.1 | horrockses that are our icons. |
| 1:32.5 | We use these characters to create meaning, to build identity, |
| 1:36.8 | to learn conversational French, |
| 1:39.2 | to know the appropriate sound to make when beating the shit |
| 1:42.5 | out of our long-term boyfriend, which is, |
| 1:45.5 | there it is. That's right. In this episode, we're talking, |
| 1:50.0 | I'm Japanese. Miss Piggy, if you're nasty. And that's why I did leave it for you, Miles. |
| 1:54.8 | With apologies to Kermit, the Frog, and David Bowie's codpiece may be the most famous and beloved |
| 2:00.6 | of Jim Henson's |
| 2:01.6 | creations, Miss Piggy. |
| 2:03.6 | I'm thrilled to be joined as always by my co-host, Mr. Miles Gray! |
| 2:07.6 | Oh, I love this. |
| 2:10.1 | I love an episode starting off and I'm like, it's the, it's not, no, we're habitual, |
| 2:15.9 | habitual doing the show one way. |
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