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The Daily Zeitgeist

Icon #4 - Arnold Schwarzenegger: The Austrian Oak

The Daily Zeitgeist

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Comedy, News

4.54.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 91 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 comedian/podcaster Jon Gabrus to talk about the cybernetic organism (correction: body builder) sent from the future (correction: Austria) to take the world by storm:

Arnold Schwarzenegger!

They'll explore his rise to stardom, his STAGGERING horniness and why he snapped Barbara Bush's leg like a toothpick!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:05.1

Hello, the internet, and welcome to this iconograph episode of Dernelie Zeitgeist.

0:11.4

Oh, yeah.

0:12.3

He's horny to that.

0:14.6

Yeah.

0:16.3

Also, the noise you make when you're horny.

0:18.5

Instead of looking at the zeitichy's through current events,

0:21.8

once a week,

0:22.4

we're looking at the zeit guys through the lens of the powerful

0:25.0

pop cultural horror cruxes that are our icons.

0:28.4

Einstein, Erkel, Miss Piggy, so far.

0:31.3

We use these characters and celebrities to create meaning

0:33.7

to build identity to create the greatest soundboard

0:37.2

in the history of mankind.

0:39.3

Oh. Stop whining. I'm a cop, you idiot. To learn. I hope you leave enough room for my face

0:44.7

because I'm going to ram it in the stomach. To learn what a normal male human body is

0:52.7

supposed to look like was an early lesson I took from

0:55.3

our subject today. But most importantly, we learned that sometimes a Polish American small town

1:01.1

sheriff named Mark Kaminsky has a thick Austrian accent and you don't need to worry about why.

1:07.9

That's just how it is. That's right. Episode four, we're talking to Arnold Schwarzenegger,

1:12.4

the Austrian oak, a man who took over the film industry and pop culture for two decades,

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