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The Daily Zeitgeist

Weekly Zeitgeist 412 (Best of 12/15/25-12/19/25)

The Daily Zeitgeist

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Comedy, News

4.54.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The weekly round-up of the best moments from DZ's season 419 (12/15/25-12/19/25)

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.3

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.3

Hello, the internet, and welcome to this episode of the weekly zeitgeist.

0:09.8

These are some of our favorite segments from this week, all edited together into one

0:16.2

non-stop infotainment laugh stravaganza.

0:22.6

Uh, yeah.

0:23.5

So without further ado, here is the weekly zeitgeist.

0:28.9

What is something from your search history that's revealing about who you are?

0:33.1

Well, very typically this week, I, uh, I searched the term space potatoes.

0:38.1

It is a term used to reference objects that are not large enough en masse to become round in space.

0:44.7

And I wanted to figure out how formalize this term as, because it's sort of a nickname for these objects, as it turns out.

0:50.6

I thought it might have, there are some sort of frivolous terms in astronomy that

0:55.2

get stuck pretty hard and become more official. Space potatoes, more of a dick name for these

1:00.2

objects that retain sort of an odd or lumpy shape. But in my search, I learned that the Fisher Cats

1:07.3

out of New Hampshire, a, I want to say double A baseball team did play as the

1:13.4

Space Potatoes for a few games. And I hope that that returns again next year. They did three

1:20.6

nights in 2025 as the Space Potatoes. The logo is sick. The merch sold out super fast. But in trying to learn how formal a name Space Potato

1:30.3

was, I learned that it was really only formal for a New Hampshire double-a baseball team for

1:36.4

three games this year. Still a good nickname, though, for objects that are not large enough to round out.

1:41.8

The logo is wild because it's like an angry potato

1:46.0

either resisting being beamed up from a spaceship

1:49.3

or getting set down and it's like got a baseball bat

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