Renegade: The Life Story of David Icke

Twenty two minutes past 9:00,

this is Thursday morning. Very good to have you with us.

My next guest is David Icke.

He's a former footballer and sports broadcaster,

who's now known as a professional conspiracy theorist.

He describers himself as a full-time investigative journalist

searching for the truth of what's really going on in the world.

The author of over 20 books,

has lectured in over 25 countries, speaking for up to ten hours

to audiences all over the world and he's preparing,

appearing, I should say, in The Helix in Dublin

tomorrow night to talk about his book

Everything You Need To Know But Have Never Been Told.

David, good morning.

- Morning, Ryan. - Thanks for coming to see us today.

- Pleasure. - You're talk tomorrow

in Dublin is sold out.

Yeah, they're nearly all are these days

anywhere in the world.

You know, people will remember me

as the apparent nutter

subjected to historic levels of ridicule

and I think the mainstream media,

people in general, thought that a corpse

had been left in the gutter and that was it,

but the corpse got up, started walking,

started running, and now it's

sprinting, and suddenly there's been

this enormous explosion

of interest in my work in the last,

well, particularly, in the last three or four years.

Ladies and gentlemen,

can you welcome on stage David Icke?

Thank you. Thank you. Wow.

Thank you, thank you.

Thank you. Thank you.

Do you think there could be

- other life other than humans? - I do. I do. Yeah.

You're the one with the theory, not me.

- Yeah. - You don't even know what my theories are.

If you don't give them any reason

to believe in you, they will dismiss you as a crank.

'Cause they're laughing at you.

They're not laughing with you.

Fine.

If I have to be stopped...

- Just stop you telling lies. - ...answer the question.

Just stop you telling lies.

You're such a thickhead. You're a thickhead.

This is politics, ladies and gentlemen.

Yes, I know people put

a lot of work into conspiracy theories,

but I still think they're actually intellectually lazy.

My last book before

the present one is 1,000 pages. Have you read any of my books?

- No. - How do you know

that it's intellectually lazy?

Your story is extraordinary.

Do you mind if we go back to the beginning?

- No. - Because I think

it's a perfectly appropriate...

- Sure. - ...place to start,

'cause I remember watching you when I was a kid

on the morning television program.

That's right, during the television...

Well, I was born in Leicester

in the English Midlands in 1952.

It was, what they call in Britain,

a working class family.

That just means we never had the money.

I had a great childhood

'cause I didn't have phones

and I didn't have computers.

I just had the world to explore.

My time as a kid

was spent playing football and watching steam trains, basically.

I remember my first day at school,

a little infant school.

I went to school in the morning.

Me mother said I had to go.

I didn't know what it was all about.

School, what's all that about,

and at lunchtime I'd had enough,

so I ran home,

at lunchtime on my first day, and I said to me mother,

"No, I don't like that. I'm not going back."

I said, "I want to go down the shops

"like we always do," you know what I mean?

She said, "You gotta go, you gotta go, you gotta go,"

and so I had to go and stick it.

I wasn't a confident lad

and the good things in life

always happened to other people,

they're weren't gonna happen to me, 'cause you know what,

when you are brought up in a working class background

in the 1950s and 60s,

you are pretty much gonna go, often, work in a factory,

or you're gonna work in an office,

or something like that.

But from the earliest age,

when I realized these options,

I thought I'm not doing that.

Now, just to the right here

is Leicester City Football Club.

It's a new ground now,

but it's right next to the old one.

On Saturdays, I used to come down here

and watch Leicester City Football Club play.

I used to

get in the ground... One of the first people in soccer

to get right behind the goal,

and I watched Gordon Banks

at real close range for years

and that's how I learned to become a goalkeeper,

just watching him play,

and then, eventually, Leicester City

got interested in me as a player when I was in school,

and I used to come down here and train with them.

That shop over there, that everyday shop

used to be an electrical store

and myself and Linda,

back in the, what, 1970s used to live

above that in the flat, we used to rent it,

and it was so cold, I used to go to bed

every night in the winter in an overcoat.

It was all we could afford at the time.

I was working as a journalist

in Leicester in the local newspaper,

which didn't pay a lot.

The Kube, that's quite right, isn't it?

I set out on a world speaking tour in summer of 2016

because I could feel that more and more people

were starting to feel uneasy about the world.

They didn't like the way it was going.

I just felt that there was a...

There was an ever gathering number of people

who would be open to hearing

maybe what is going on.

Back in the day, obviously, it was a real battle

to try and get anyone to listen to be honest.

Like, you know, when dad was doing his talks,

he was talking to five, six,

seven people sometimes, you know,

and in a theater that held hundreds,

you know, it was a pretty,

quite an embarrassing scenario, really.

There was nobody hardly.

I mean, there was a really nice group of people around David

and when we used to go, and be part of the talks

and the workshops, yeah, there was man and a dog

quite often coming to these talks.

Putting out the chairs, no one comes.

Putting back the chairs

and leaving poorer than when you arrived.

But you always had a sense that something bigger

was gonna happen, you know, but it was tough back then.

I'm feeling quite emotional tonight, really.

To think

60 years later,

60 fucking years later,

I keep getting flashbacks

of people at...

People at school that I remember

and football games

that I've played in and

wondering where they all are now, you know?

They might be somewhere out there, I don't know.

It's almost like a circle complete coming back here.

I can't really explain it. I just feel very strange.

It's a special... It's a bit special moment for me.

It really is a very special night.

Cheers, folks. Thanks very much.

Ladies and gentlemen,

can you welcome on stage David Icke?

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you very much.

Hey, thank you.

Thank you so much. Thank you.

Whoa!

Back in Leicester after all these years. Bloody hell.

I love Leicester.

It's amazing to think that a snotty-nosed kid

on the Goodwood estate

with his shirt hanging out all the time, it seemed,

and 60 years later

is standing here, talking about this stuff.

Life's so funny

because you never know where

it's going until you get there, do you?

It's becoming more and more of

a challenge to find places to speak without being canceled,

and I just wanna pay tribute to my son Jaymie,

you've seen him, the big lad, who has this

uncanny ability to move the pieces around,

so that when people try to silence me

move a piece here, then he says

checkmate there and somehow finds another venue,

so I'd like to pay tribute to him.

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