How Filmmakers Faked the Moon Landing Inside Real NASA

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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For their second movie, Matt Johnson and Matthew Miller gave themselves a challenge: Make a period mockumentary about the faking of the moon landing, on a total shoestring budget. Johnson says the finished product, Operation Avalanche, wouldn't have been possible without the (unwitting) support of NASA, who let the filmmakers shoot inside the unaltered mission control from 1969. The film opens across North America this month. On the Spiel, Mike tries to get through to those millennials kicking the tires on Gary Johnson and Jill Stein. Today's sponsors: The Gist is brought to you by The Girl on the Train, in theaters October 7th. And by ABC's new series, Designated Survivor. Kiefer Sutherland stars as a Cabinet member who is thrust into the presidency after a devastating attack on the government. Designated Survivor premieres Wednesday night at 10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. CT on ABC. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, September 21st, 2016, from Slate, it's the gist I might pesca.
0:09.0	The father of the alleged Chelsea bomber is in the news because he, the father told police
0:14.0	years ago, his son might be a terrorist.
0:16.4	By the way, that plus beats his wife, trip to Pakistan, posting on YouTube songs of jihadi
0:22.4	anthems, come on.
0:23.4	It should have been major red flags.
0:25.2	I do not see what is wrong with taking that one data point, violence against women.
0:29.1	Many terrorists have that terrible thing into and of itself.
0:32.3	And if you get another one of these data points doing some serious monitoring on that individual.
0:37.0	Anyway, the dad was in the news for all that, but literally he was on the news wearing
0:42.1	a hat I could not place.
0:44.7	This is my thing.
0:46.1	When notorious people get arrested and are on the news wearing branded merchandise, I
0:51.6	always think to myself that the brand must be like, oh no, why can't Donald Trump's son
0:56.1	just use us in an analogy?
0:58.1	There are a couple examples when the South Carolina shooter, there are all these pictures
1:01.7	of him holding Confederate flags and he was wearing a gold gym tank top.
1:05.9	And the Orlando shooter was wearing an NYPD shirt.
1:08.6	That was just weird.
1:09.8	Anyway, this one, this is the dad.
1:11.8	It's not the bomber, alleged bomber, confirmed dad.
1:14.8	And he was wearing this hat that read either M HD or MD.
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