rant · moment 25 of 30
Sneakerhead Chris Hedges and David Icke's Retirement Tour
from #251 - Dirty Little Animals (ft. Ray Kump) | The Tim Dillon Show · #251
5 min
Tim invents a bit about Chris Hedges being secretly a sneakerhead collector who preaches doomsday while buying new colorful sneakers, then riffs on David Icke being displaced by QAnon as the craziest conspiracy figure and reminiscing about playing soccer.
- Tim creates the character of sneakerhead Chris Hedges, a doomsday preacher who owns 2,000 pairs of colorful sneakers and admits it's his one weakness.
- Chris Hedges never wears the same pair of shoes twice despite believing currency will fail and lecturing about extinction.
- Tim imagines Chris Hedges owning a $20 million Scarface estate in Miami where he hangs out with people doing crocodyl.
- Tim jokes about wanting to read an article where Chris Hedges reverses course and makes an intellectual case for Dogecoin.
- Writing the same article repeatedly makes you a whore for attention, Tim says, even if your job is teaching prisoners.
- Tim imagines Chris Hedges showing up to a prison reentry program and telling inmates the corporate oligarchs have pillaged all resources and all life on Earth will disappear.
- The prison might have to fire Chris Hedges after his last visit sparked riots because inmates decided nothing matters.
- Tim imagines Chris Hedges as a David Icke-style arena showman, walking out and screaming about the fifth-grade extinction.
- David Icke got displaced by QAnon—now the conspiracy guy who talked about reptiles is the one who makes sense.
- David Icke should do a retirement tour like Cher, one final run before hanging it up.
- Funniest thing was watching David Icke in a big UK arena wax poetic about his days as a striker instead of getting to the lizards.
- Everyone just wants to be famous—Chris Hedges and all these guys keep repeating themselves on Twitter to stay relevant.
- Tim suggests he'll know it's all over when Chris Hedges moves to Miami.
- Merch concept: Chris Hedges t-shirt advertised as official branded apparel for the show.