- Hi, I'm Matt.
And lately, I've been wondering,
is there a secret race of reptile people
controlling our governments
and enslaving humanity?
We'll see.
Since I was a child, I've
been naturally inquisitive,
questioning anything and everything
that didn't quite make sense.
As I grew, I poured countless hours
into a number of conspiracy theories.
Some of these theories I believe
and some of these theories I don't.
But some of them I do.
Here, I'll be studying the
evidence for and against
all of history's mysteries,
doing the work so you don't have to.
But you really should do it on your own,
like check sources and all that.
Okay.
On today's episode, Reptilian Conspiracy.
If you've been paying attention,
you might have heard
more and more references
to a clandestine reptilian humanoid race.
Sound familiar?
It's showing up in pop culture
with increasing regularity.
You've heard it on podcasts, in politics.
The theory has even infiltrated
the hit romance reality
show, "Love Island."
Just what are all these
people talking about?
Let's get into it.
(mysterious music)
Okay, so as with nearly
any conspiracy theory,
there are usually variations in belief.
But for the most part,
the theory posits that there
is a race of reptilians,
or lizard people, if you
will, and you should,
that work in secret to dominate and rule
over humans like you and me.
Now while the suggested
origin of these lizard people
varies from theorist to theorist,
some say that they are from Earth,
some say that they are from space,
some say that they started
on Earth, went to space,
and came back, the one thing
that most folks agree on is
that these mother(beep)ers are evil.
So how do these lizard folk
go from ruling in secret
to getting brought up in "Love Island"
casual contestant conversation?
Well, the reptoids can
thank former soccer player,
sports reporter, and
hot-take haver David Icke
for absolutely and utterly
blowing up their spot.
It's also worth noting now
that David Icke's ideas
are kind of problematic
and borderline prejudiced,
but we'll get to that later.
In 1998, David Icke released a book
called "The Biggest Secret,"
where two people he
interviewed claimed that
the British royal family
were not in fact humans,
but lizard people.
Icke also claims that George
W. Bush, Henry Kissinger,
Bill and Hillary Clinton,
and Bob Hope are lizard people as well.
Icke says that the
reptoids are responsible
for the JFK assassination,
Princess Diana's death,
and even 9/11.
According to Icke, the Anunnaki,
an ancient species of
prehistoric alien demigods,
came from the Orion, Sirius,
and Draco constellations,
created humans, and then created
a reptilian/human hybrid.
Making sense, right?
Additionally, Icke
suggests that lizard people
drink human blood, which
allows them to shapeshift
into human form, allowing
them to I guess then
become a vaudeville legend
and have an airport named after them?
Icke has written that
presidents and prime ministers
have either been lizard people themselves
or have been possessed or
controlled by lizard people
and that they have had
control over powerful offices
since ancient times, like
when "Shrek" one came out.
Pretty heavy stuff, right?
So what is there that even
supports these wild-ass claims?
Well, a little bit, kind of, maybe.
Now while I'm not all-in on
the reptilian theory just yet,
I will say that it's not untrue
that some very powerful people
objectively look like lizards.
(light music)
And if you watch enough
footage of politicians
and high-level CEOs, you will
find at least a few frames
of them doing odd things.
Now maybe that's because to
achieve a high level of success,
you kind of have to just throw out
being an altogether normal person.
Or, maybe they're lizard people.
What's most interesting is
that, and this is a fact,
is that a lot of US presidents
and very powerful people
are related, very distantly, but related.
For example, President Barack
Obama is a distant cousin
of the Bushes, Gerald Ford,
Lyndon B. Johnson, Harry Truman,
and James Madison, as
well as Winston Churchill.
President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt was related,
again, very distantly, to
11 other US presidents,
including Madison, both
Adamses, Van Buren,
Harrison, Taylor, Grant,
the other Harrison, Taft,
and of course, the other Roosevelt.
I mean, his own wife,
Eleanor, was his fifth cousin.
Hell, according to genealogy
experts at Geni.com,
you go back far enough,
Hillary Clinton and
Donald Trump are related,
19th cousins.
So is that evidence of
ancient reptilian bloodlines
secretly infiltrating and
controlling our government,
or is it just kind of, you
know, how ancestry works?
I don't know.
Either way, you're gonna want
to know how to spot a reptoid.
And that brings us to Board Time.
Hiyah!
So let's start with the easy (beep), okay?
Obvi dead giveaways that
you're talking to a lizard.
We got the forked tongue,
blue or green scales instead
of skin, they lay eggs.
But those are easy.
According to one source at Alien Hub,
there are more subtle signs
that someone is a lizard person
or have been possessed by one.
Reddish hair.
I didn't say it, they did.
Keen eyesight or hearing.
And if I had keen eyesight,
I would be wearing glasses
to throw people off.
Low blood pressure.
Everything's chill, dude.
ESP, UFO connections.
A love of space or science.
Space.
A predominance of green or hazel eyes
that can change color.
A sense of not belonging
to the human race.
Aww, I don't belong to the human race.
A deep compassion for the fate of mankind.
Boo-boop.
Unexplained scars on the body.
An affinity for those chalky
Valentine's Day hearts.
That's not actually on the
list, but who likes those?
But even without that,
many powerful people
exhibit many of these signs,
but does that make them lizard people?
Okay, so here's a
conspiracy theory protip,
and this goes for nearly
any conspiracy theory.
If you present evidence in the right order
and don't present evidence against,
you can make a compelling case.
So now let's talk about the problem.
Back to David Icke,
the leading reptilian conspiracy theorist.
He was a famous soccer player in the UK
who had to retire after
developing arthritis at age 21.
He became political and
joined the Green Party
as a spokesman in the 1980s.
He resigned from the Green
Party in the early 1990s,
which later banned him,
and he toured the country telling people
he was the son of the Godhead
and was generally laughed
out of good favor in the UK.
His theories have often been
labeled as anti-Semetic.
While some of the people
on the list aren't Jewish,
Icke has stated that the Rothschilds,
a prominent and influential Jewish family,
are actually blood-sucking reptilians.
Icke claims that he's not
criticizing real Jews,
just many lizard people posing as Jews.
These are his words, not mine.
He's also seem labeled a Holocaust denier,
positing both that Jews may
have funded the Holocaust
or that it didn't happen at all.
In addition to that mess,
there also might be a scientific reason
why we might just not
like snakes to begin with,
making us very susceptible to a fear
of a reptile/human hybrid.
In 2013, scientists discovered
that we have certain neurons
in our brains that only respond to snakes.
According to their research
published in the proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences,
these neurons were very
important to our early ancestors,
who had to be wary of snakes
when they were a major threat to survival.
In a small study in 2014,
EEG meters were used to track
subjects' brain activity
when shown photos of snakes.
The study showed what we already know.
People for the most
part don't like snakes.
Could this be evidence of
a possible counter-theory
that we're predisposed
to be scared of reptiles
and therefore more likely to be paranoid
about lizard people?
I think so.
So are we under the rule of a bloodline
of reptilian aliens intent
on sucking our human blood
and shapeshifting their way
into our hearts and minds,
or is this just, and excuse my language,
a bunch of horse apples?
We may never know for sure.
But watching what our politicians
do with our tax dollars
isn't the worst idea.
And maybe when you're watching that,
you can keep an eye out for lizard tongues
or anything else on this list.
- [Producer] Matt, you
have a lot of those traits.
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