How To Be An Icon

In what can only be described as a real mess of an episode for Halloween we try to get into the spooky season by jump scaring ourselves! We also take at look at previous Icons and see what they've been upto. Nigella Lawsons big bites on the Great British Bake Off, Tom Cruise starring in Warner Bros last movie and one of the biggest box office bombs of all time, Jeremy Strong in the Social Reck...

Are you a traitor....Yes... Oh.... Well anyways heres a mini episode all about national treasure Richard E Grant star of Withnail and I (1987), Saltburn (2023) and the greatest movie of all time Spiceworld (1997). From growing up in Swaziland to becoming one of Britains most beloved actors, and ruining this season of the Celebrity Traitors in episode one! We take a look in this mini episode all ab...

The Social Reckoning is upon us... Or maybe I just got tagged in a bunch of photos from last night 😅 Either way we're looking at the subject of the new movie David Fincher movie The Social Reckoning (starring Jeremy Strong and Bill Burr) Mark Zuckerberg. How did this Harvard dropout become the biggest social media emperor build Facebook from collages and University dorms, to being the most su...

I have nipples Greg, could you milk me? We look at the star of Meet the Parents (2000) and Zoolander (2001) Ben Stiller. Is he and Icon or a Merman? From growing up in Brooklyn with his famous parents Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara and sister Amy Stiller, getting his start writing for SNL, creating the Ben Stiller Show, directing movies like Reality Bites (1994) and Tropic Thunder (2008). Starting h...

Daddy would you like some sausage? It's the episode we know you've been waiting for, Canadian superstar actor and comedian Tom Green. Getting his start on the Canadian rap scene, having his own call in radio show, starting in public access television show, getting on to CBC and then MTV with The Tom Green Show, writing and directing the cult classic Freddy Got Fingered (2001) and then stre...

Love Never Dies but my god I wish it would... We have a Pateron exclusive episode today due to some technical difficulties with this weeks episode , so today we look at the musical Love Never Dies the most beautiful mess we've ever seen. Listen to Donna watch a feature length movie in an empty cinema and get WAY to excited about it. So get comfortable and see how this active hostage situation goes...

We're back from our unexpected month away from the show with a small update and the usual bonus episode content. Thank you for your for not forgetting about us, we have a full regular episode next week so keep your eyes open for that when it drops next week! Click our links to keep up to date👆 Patreon: https://patreon.com/HowToBeAnIcon Insta: How to be an Icon (@howtobeaniconpodcast) • Instagram...

Good Grief the comedians a bear!!! Waka waka we're talking about the comedic legend and star of the Muppet Show, Fozzy Bear! We take a look at how he met his long time friends and collaborators; Kermit the frog, Miss Piggy, The Great Gonzo and Beaker! Starting out in the woods and find his way as a bear, getting his comedy start in El-sleazeo cafe meeting his twin brother best friend Kermit and bu...

Look at us talking about current affairs! Yes in this episode of how to be an icon we look at the current Fifa situation and break it down as to why it could be disastrous for the game of football, we also have the latest Katy Perry News and Katy Perry index! We also look at the ongoing feud between the two big dogs of the Great British Bake Off between Paul Hollywood and Nigella Lawson. We also g...

Right Here, Right Now, we're taking a look at one of biggest dance music DJ's of all time Norman Cook AKA Fatboy Slim. Some people called him the band of the 90's "The band of the nineties, if you wanna call it a band, because it’s a one man name".- Brad (1997) with songs like Praise You, Gangsta Trippin, Weapon Of Choice, Right Here Right Now and The Rockefeller Skank. From his start with Paul He...

On todays episode we take a look at the domestic goddess Nigella Lawson! From writing newspapers columns to becoming the national treasure and host of the Great British Bake Off, and beyond. We explore her beginnings in Wandsworth England getting a start from the help from her journalist and politician farther Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby and mother Vanessa Salmon heiress to the J. Lyons an...

Today we take a look at the director of some the biggest movies of the past 20 years; The Dark Knight (2008), Inception (2009) , Batman Begins (2005) and Oppenheimer (2023). That's right we take a look at the auteur Christopher Nolan the power house director. With his upcoming adaptation of The Odyssey on the way starring Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Elliot Page, Zendaya, Anna Hathaway and Travis Scot...

We have to start with one of biggest mistakes that we've ever made! One of our most amazing listeners is an actual bonified expert and we totally forgot to ask her about our episode topic! We are very very sorry! We also talk about our thought on the World Cup, our reaction to the Jackass press tour plus the latest Katy Perry new and deciding how Iconic she really is with the Katy Perry index, is...

We're going on a journey home, or at the very least a journey through the classics. This week we take a look at Homers Odyssey the ancient Greek epic poem. This is your cheat sheet so that you can claim to know all about The Odyssey before the Christopher Nolan film comes out, you get sound super smart and well cool and not cringe because you know all about this story. This also does count as a tr...

It's coming home! Football is coming home but is it iconic? Well this week take a look at the beautiful game and the most watched sporting competition that has been enjoyed by over a tenth of the entire world population as we look at the FIFA World Cup. This year the tournament comes to us from the USA, Mexico and Canada so in honor of this we look at the cup competitions history, the failed attem...

The following show features stunts performed either by professionals or under the supervision of professionals and should not be attempted or recreated by anyone under any circumstances. As we take a look at Jackass, the stunts, the really stupid stunts and the really really stupid stunts! The history of the show and how it came to be starting in the 90's skater magazines and VHS tapes to become M...

Its another episode of How To Be an Icon Addition, Amendments, Extras and etc. This week we look at the UK's most abysmal 2026 Eurovision entry that scored a grand total of 1 points. We talk about the death of working class art and how we're actually sick of people claiming to have come from poverty when really they came from the 1%. Talk about the Met Gala, Jeff Bezos and his tasteless wife Laure...

Good Evening Vienna this is London Calling with How to be an Icon on Eurovision! In this weeks episode we talk all bout the history of the competition that started all the way back in 1956! we look at some of biggest successes from Abba to Celine Dion and some of the biggest flops like Scooch and Andy Abrahams (you know the bin man). The many rivalries and interesting voting patterns and surprisin...

This… “stuff”? Oh, okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You…go to your podcast app, and you select…I don’t know, that boring old politics/ finance / book recommendation podcast for instance because you’re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put in your ears, but what don’t know that podcast is not just educational, it’s not just e...

Strike a Pose! Because we're talking about Anna Wintour and Vogue. The fashion industries final Boss and the most influential woman in the world of magazine publishing and FASHION. Being part of the Wintour Dynasty with her father working for The Evening Standard and her brother who worked as political editor for The Guardian she became the most prominent of them all. From working in a fashion sto...

You got a friend in me! Because today we look at Pixar and Toy Story. With the newest movie coming out soon we look at the first fully 3D animated movie to ever be released, the man behind the movie, the troubled start to Pixar as company that was bought and saved by Apple CEO Steve Jobs and the struggles they faced trying to fully realise this incredible masterpiece! From the casting of Tom Hanks...

Happy Birthday our first year of podcasting! So lets party we take a look back at our highlights, talk about the process of how we make How to be an Icon, reflect on our favorite episodes, see if we can remember the lessons from our icons and reveal a fun birthday surprise! We also have some Katy Perry news and see how Katy stacks up to other musicians is she actually more of an icon then we think...

On our 50th episode we talk about the man who created Wrestlemania Vince McMahon! The billionaire wrestling promotor who changed the world of wrestling into Sport Entertainment, gave some of the most iconic people in world their start in wrestling like Stone Cold Steve Austin, Hulk Hogan, The Rock and John Cena, made billions of dollars and launched several businesses (not all successful). From th...

April fools is time for jokes, but not today. We're being very serious as we look at the titan of industry Logan Roy the CEO of Waystar Royco the media giant that controls US news, tv, film and media. From his tough childhood, starting a small business being to becoming a modern day media mogul and multi billionaire! With his three , sorry four children who all fought a tough Succession battle aft...

It's a meeeee... video game director at Nintendo Shigeru Miyamoto! We have a look at the life of the creator Super Mario Bros, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Mario 64 and Pikmin Shigeru Miyamoto. How he got his start and what inspired some of his creations, debunking some of the myths of Mario, going far to in depth on the character of Waluigi, and why he is such an influential figure in video...