Icon #5 Santa Claus: Ho Ho Home Invasion
The Daily Zeitgeist
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4.5 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 75 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, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian Blake Wexler to talk about the only man in history that people actually WANT to invade their homes in the middle of the night:
Santa Claus!
They'll explore his origins and evolution, where he got his iconic fit, and the true existential terror of being Santa Claus!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Hello, the internet, and welcome to this iconograph episode of Do Daily Zytheidgeist! |
| 0:12.5 | Ah! |
| 0:13.7 | Instead of looking at... |
| 0:14.6 | Oh, you just found out about this? |
| 0:16.0 | Instead of looking at the Zykegeist through current events, once a week we we're looking at the zeit guys through the lens of the powerful |
| 0:21.8 | pop cultural whore cruxes that are our icons. |
| 0:27.1 | We've done Einstein. |
| 0:28.4 | We've done Erkel. |
| 0:29.2 | We've done Miss Piggy with Jamie Loftus. |
| 0:31.5 | Arnold Schwarzenegger with John Gabris. |
| 0:34.6 | We use these characters and celebrities to create meaning to build identity to insert some pagan |
| 0:40.4 | black magic into our Jesusy holiday celebrations to learn that obesity can actually make you |
| 0:46.6 | immortal and to give old men something to do around the holidays when they'd otherwise be |
| 0:51.3 | watching Fox News that's right in episode five. |
| 0:54.6 | We're talking Sannie Claus. |
| 0:57.1 | Maybe the most recognizable figure on the planet. |
| 1:01.1 | In this context, I am now wondering, is this our most famous figure? |
| 1:06.8 | Visual. |
| 1:07.8 | Yeah, very recognizable. |
| 1:09.8 | And he's got a recognizable voice. |
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