Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history.

My name is Jody Avergan.

This day, July 21st, 1969, Neil Armstrong on a sound stage in Pasadena with Stanley Kubrick

directing, no I'm kidding, it did not happen on a sound stage, it actually happened.

Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. He stepped out of the Apollo 11

lunar module at technically 256 a.m. coordinated universal time on the 21st, which is the evening of the 20th, much of the United States, but we're doing the show on the 21st.

You're already listening, so we're just going to go with it.

That a man walked on the moon on this day.

Let's talk about the Apollo 11 mission, the culmination of the famous declaration by

JFK eight years earlier that man would walk on the moon within the decade and let's

talk about why we don't go to the moon anymore. I'm joined as always by

Nicole Hammer of Columbia. Hello Nicky.

Hello Jody.

And our special guest all this week, Mayph Higgins contributing writer to the New York Times.

Her podcast is Mothers of Invention, one of my favorite people and a long time moon landing conspiracist, May Figgins.

Yeah, hi Jody, hi Niki, I'm really glad to take you both on over this controversial subject.

Fisticuffs abound.

So actually we're not going to really talk too much,

we're not going to really talk about,

unless you want to bring it up,

the conspiracy theory, but you know, I want to go through

a few of the sort of

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