Icon #8 Dolly Parton: WWDD?
The Daily Zeitgeist
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Miles and Jack are joined by comedian Lydia Popovich to talk about the closest thing we have to a living saint:
Dolly Parton!
They'll explore her rise to stardom/sainthood, her influence on the scientific community, her inimitable sense of style and so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.9 | 1969, Malcolm and Martin are gone. |
| 0:07.8 | America is in crisis. |
| 0:09.5 | At a Morehouse college, the students make their move. |
| 0:12.3 | These students, including a young Samuel L. Jackson, |
| 0:15.4 | locked up the members of the board of trustees, including Martin Luther King's senior. |
| 0:20.6 | It's the true story of protests and rebellion in black American history that you'll never |
| 0:24.9 | forget. |
| 0:25.9 | I'm Hans Charles. |
| 0:26.9 | I'm Minalik Lamumba. |
| 0:28.1 | Listen to the A building on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your |
| 0:33.5 | podcasts. |
| 0:36.1 | Hello, the internet, and welcome to this spin-off episode of |
| 0:40.6 | Der Daily Zeitgeist, which we're calling the iconograph instead of looking at the |
| 0:45.5 | zeitgeist through the day's news and current events on Monday mornings. |
| 0:49.5 | We're looking back at the zeitgeist through the powerful pop cultural horrocks that are our icons. |
| 0:56.7 | Icons. |
| 0:57.5 | We use these historical figures and famous characters to create meaning, to build identity, |
| 1:03.6 | to learn how to deliver the greatest career breakup of all time, |
| 1:07.5 | to know what the phrase over the shoulder boulder holder holder means in my case. |
| 1:13.5 | That's how I learned that phrase was Dolly Parton jokes when I was six years old. |
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