S6 Ep116: Copy, Moon Joy.

Michigan Monsters

Jenn Carpenter

True Crime, History

4.9 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

When a Michigander becomes the first woman in history to fly to the moon, you break protocol so you can feature her. No ghosts or gore, just magic and moon joy. This week's episode about Christina Koch and the Artemis II mission is unlike any other. Some might say it's out of this world.

Case: Christina Koch, Artemis II

Audio production by Bill Bee.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Not all monsters are myths.
0:06.3	This is Michigan Monsters.
0:12.0	A true crime gothic.
0:14.6	Oh, hi. Welcome to Michigan, where the lakes are salt-free, the monsters are human, and the sky is the limit.
0:24.0	I'm Jen Carpenter, and today we're going to talk about some good news for a change.
0:30.6	I know, weird, right?
0:32.4	But I feel like we could all use a little breath of fresh air.
0:36.6	And I initially had really different plans for
0:39.1	this episode, but as I sat down and started writing, when I got to the point where we were going to
0:45.1	kind of change gears and go from feel good vibes to dark and depressing, I just didn't want to do
0:53.3	it. I changed my mind. We can talk about Michigan history
0:57.1	that doesn't end in tragedy once in a while, right? I feel like this is episode 116, so one out of
1:05.2	116 episodes. That's not bad, right? All right. So as I'm sitting down to record this episode we are fresh off
1:17.3	NASA's successful Artemis 2 Michigan yep Artemis 2 Michigan there it is we are fresh Yep.
1:29.2	Artemis 2, Michigan.
1:30.1	There it is.
1:43.5	We are fresh off NASA's successful Artemis 2 mission, the first time that humans have been to the moon in over 50 years.
1:48.3	And we get to talk about it here on this Michigan-centric podcast because there just so happened to be a woman from Michigan on the mission. First of all,
1:56.5	okay, let's get this out of the way. I know nothing about space, and I'm also terrible at science.
2:05.9	Only class I ever failed in high school was physics.
2:10.0	I won every spelling bee that I was ever in, except one, because the word dissect has
2:15.7	no business having two S's in it, which come to think of it, that is a sciencey word dissect.
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