Icons #6: Elvis w/ Chris Crofton
The Daily Zeitgeist
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4.6 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 85 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/musician/podcaster Chris Crofton to talk about the (usurper) king of rock & roll/shooting televisions:
Elvis Presley
They'll examine his upbringing, his rise to stardom, and what he's got going on down there!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.6 | Hello, the internet, and welcome to this spin-off episode of Dern Daily Zytheidgeist. |
| 0:11.6 | Spin-off? |
| 0:12.5 | Which we're calling the iconograph, instead of looking at the Zykegeist through current events. |
| 0:16.1 | On Monday mornings, we're looking at the zeitgeist through the powerful pop cultural whore cruxes that are our icons. |
| 0:25.7 | We use these historical figures and famous characters to create meaning, to build identity, |
| 0:30.7 | to make our teens faint with sheer abject horniness, to test the human body's capacity to withstand taking enough pills to fill a large |
| 0:39.2 | ball pit to create a more definitive way to object to something on TV because why change |
| 0:44.9 | the channel when you can shoot the TV as our icon today did on multiple occasions. |
| 0:51.3 | Our first episode of the New Year. |
| 0:53.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:54.2 | I thought, wow, okay. You shot the new year. Yeah. I thought, wow, okay. |
| 0:55.5 | You shot the TV all the time. |
| 0:57.6 | That was just a thing this motherfucker did. |
| 1:00.7 | He didn't have a job. |
| 1:02.2 | He didn't really. |
| 1:03.6 | He also recorded some of his later tracks in the jungle room, in his TV room. |
| 1:08.8 | And you can like hear it. |
| 1:09.9 | Sounds like shit. Oh shit oh no we're talking |
| 1:12.5 | Elvis baby a whole uh Elvis Presley a pop culture icon who became an almost religious figure in |
| 1:19.4 | the US after being the first person to invent the idea that a white person could have charisma |
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