136 - The Moon Landing Conspiracy

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2019

⏱️ 143 minutes

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2019 is the 50th anniversary of the moon landing! Yip, yip, yaw! On July 20th, 1969, Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin, two American astronauts, landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on the moon. The Eagle has landed! And then, some six hours later, Neil became the first human to take one giant leap for mankind. And then Buzz followed Neil onto the moon's surface less than twenty minutes later. OR... did none of that ever happen? Did the several Apollo missions that followed NOT put ten other astronauts on the moon? This is what many people believe - that no one ever stepped foot on the moon. Today we examine a variety of moon landing conspiracies and also learn a lot about why landing on the moon was a cultural priority in the first place. And we go over so much more on this lunar-centric edition of Timesuck! THE GATHERING 2019 - Tickets go on sale HERE April 29th, Noon PST Only 55 tickets total! Happy Murder Tour Standup dates: April 26th Dallas, Texas The Texas Theatre CLICK HERE for tix! April 27th Houston, Texas The Secret Group CLICK HERE for tix! Second show added! May 1-4 San Francisco, CA Punchline Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! May 9-11 Boston, MA Laugh Boston Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! May 19th Spokane, WA Spokane Comedy Club LIVE ANT HILL KIDS TIMESUCK Click HERE for tix! Listen to the best of my standup on Spotify! (for free!) https://spoti.fi/2Dyy41d Timesuck is brought to you by Quip! Go to GETQUIP.com/TIMESUCK right now to get your first refill pack for FREE with a Quip electric toothbrush. Watch the Suck on Youtube: https://youtu.be/m58xCnWdd_w Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna be a Space Lizard? We're over 4500 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits.

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0:00.0	2019, the perfect year to talk about the moon landing.
0:03.9	It's the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing if we landed there at all.
0:09.2	Dun, dun, dun.
0:11.6	A lot of skeptics think that we did not, that we still have not.
0:14.3	And I like skeptics. Skepticism is good.
0:16.9	To a point. As the cliche goes, it's great to have an open mind as long as it's not so open
0:21.3	that your brain falls out. For this episode of the Suck, we're going to look at a lot of anti-moon
0:25.9	landing skepticism. And then you can decide if moon landing denial is reasonable skepticism
0:31.1	or if wackadoodle brains have indeed fallen out of wackadoodle skulls.
0:36.0	I get why people question the moon landing. I really do.
0:38.5	I think this belief is less about the moon and more about not trusting the government in general.
0:43.7	And the government has for sure lied to us from time to time.
0:46.3	And the circumstances surrounding the moon landing further fuel a fake landing scenario.
0:50.4	The United States was in the middle of the Cold War space race with the USSR and had everything
0:55.1	to gain from getting to the moon first. Getting there first meant winning an important national
0:59.6	morale race that had been ongoing for over a decade. The United States had incentive to fake
1:04.4	a moon landing. A lot of it. We were extremely concerned with the Soviet Union in the 1950s and the
1:08.8	1960s. The Cold War and the big red scare, very much a part of US national culture at that time.
1:15.2	The Russians making to the moon first, but a stabbed US national pride right in the middle of
1:19.2	its red, white, and blue heart. If democracy really was superior to communism, if the US really
1:24.4	was superior to the Soviet Union, then why did they make it to the moon? We couldn't. Are they better
1:29.0	than us? Might sound a little silly now, but the cultural stakes were high. And is it really past
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