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More David Icke: Cosmic Lizards and Carlin Ripoffs

from I Love Cons · #27

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8 min

Continuing the Icke bit, they play more clips of his 'closed off from cosmic awareness' lizard theories and note he closes his show with what sounds like a stolen George Carlin quote about speaking truth.

In this bit11 moments
  • 43:21David Icke's stadium entrance: bowing at Wembley after a two-and-a-half-hour set despite being worth ten million dollars.
  • 44:23Icke forgets his cosmic conspiracy narrative to reminisce about playing five-a-side football in 1967 and getting beaten 3-0 by Manchester City.
  • 45:31Tim notes Icke's actual opener at Wembley: 'The world is mad. That's it. That's the breakthrough—you're not crazy, the world is.'
  • 46:24Tim admires the grift: 'I've never loved anything more than a con, complete pandering—it's a different type of con.'
  • 47:00Icke relies entirely on inspirational quotes, reading 'It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society' at Wembley Stadium.
  • 47:39For ticket money, audiences get an hour of him reading what amounts to high school motivational posters about sunsets and integrity.
  • 48:52Icke pivots to 'cosmic communication' research and describes 'walls of illusion' but offers no actual evidence or specifics.
  • 49:43Tim: 'As a rational person, you don't go, All right, they're buying people lizards—fill in the gap.'
  • 50:23Two hours of Icke at Wembley and Tim never sees a single lizard, just quotes from William Blake and George Carlin.
  • 51:02Icke stops delivering the lizard material altogether—after ten years, no new subspecies or actual claims, just brief video clips of someone's eyelids changing color.
  • 51:18Tim: 'Give us the lizards. That's why they're paying the money'—Icke's abandoned his own hook.
Mentioned here

David IckeGeorge CarlinWembley StadiumWilliam BlakeChelseaManchester City

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