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Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There is
Speaker 1: Chuck Britt. Why you tickled, Josh? I'm just you know
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Speaker 1: sometimes we bring it laughing. It's a rainbow kind of
Speaker 1: world out there. So Chuck, let's talk about whether or
Speaker 1: not we landed on the moon. I have no intro
Speaker 1: for this one. Let's just get into it. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's go to town. There are people that think that
Speaker 1: we did not land on the moon in nine that
Speaker 1: is true, and actually there is a guy who worked
Speaker 1: for oh, I don't remember. Maybe the rocket Dine Systems
Speaker 1: rocket Dine Systems, which I believe it's a private, private
Speaker 1: aerospace contractor UM. A guy named Bill Casing UH he
Speaker 1: wrote technical publications for that company, and in UH he
Speaker 1: calculated nine He calculated there was a point zero zero
Speaker 1: one four percent chance of landing a man on the
Speaker 1: moon and returning him safely home. He was wrong. Ten
Speaker 1: years later we had been on the moon returned him
Speaker 1: safely home, we think, or yeah, or did we UM?
Speaker 1: I don't think we should take a conspiratorial tone. I
Speaker 1: also don't think we should take pot shots at the
Speaker 1: crackpots who think this. So what are we going to
Speaker 1: talk about? Well, I think we can discuss the merits
Speaker 1: of this stuff. In my opinion, skepticism goes both ways, right,
Speaker 1: Skepticism is always focused on the people who question reality,
Speaker 1: and I think that's I think that's BS. I think
Speaker 1: I think there's plenty of times where you can question
Speaker 1: what's what's being VEGGI Yeah, So I'm I'm big on that. Actually,
Speaker 1: And if I was around in nineteen nine, I probably
Speaker 1: would have um, you know, not probably about in nineteen
Speaker 1: SI you would have been woodstock the whole ship bang
Speaker 1: maybe So yeah, so um, all right, let's get down
Speaker 1: to it. All right, let's do it. Do you want
Speaker 1: to tee off? Uh? Yeah, um, Like we said, a
Speaker 1: lot of people, well I don't know how many, but
Speaker 1: there was a conspiracy theory going around still is today
Speaker 1: that we never landed on the Moon. And there are
Speaker 1: quite a few points that people make to try and
Speaker 1: back this up from the footage of the moon landing,
Speaker 1: and they basically think it was staged for the purposes of, um,
Speaker 1: making the Russians so disheveled at the fact that we
Speaker 1: got to the Moon before they did that they would
Speaker 1: scrap their program and just say, you know, the Americans
Speaker 1: are so far ahead of us because they're already on
Speaker 1: the moon and we can't do that. Well, not just
Speaker 1: that now, chinal pride as well, like you know, back
Speaker 1: in the in the sixties. This is like at the
Speaker 1: height of the Cold War, and basically the Soviet Union
Speaker 1: and the United States spent much in political and actual,
Speaker 1: you know, financial capital to make one another look bad.
Speaker 1: It was pretty much the role of each of these
Speaker 1: nations that the world was polarized, and what better way
Speaker 1: to make the other one look like jackass than by
Speaker 1: beating him to the moon. There's the space race. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: so I see that the theory behind this, this whole thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, Kennedy said, in what nineteen sixty we're
Speaker 1: going to put a man on the moon, And by
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine we had that is enormous, Like, we
Speaker 1: had no moon landing program right by then, We've been
Speaker 1: shooting satellites into space and we had men who had
Speaker 1: orbited by then. But within nine years we actually landed
Speaker 1: somebody on the Moon. Right, And this is nineteen sixties
Speaker 1: technology too, so it's not I mean, today it would
Speaker 1: seem like that would be the hardest thing in the
Speaker 1: world to do, but back then it was just unheard of. Right. Okay, So,
Speaker 1: like you said, most of the bones of contention that
Speaker 1: people used to pick this idea apart um are are
Speaker 1: based on the footage, correct of you know, there's actual
Speaker 1: evidence here saying you know what, what what's going on?
Speaker 1: What does this explain this? Right? There's five main points
Speaker 1: that are generally brought up in this discussion. There's actually
Speaker 1: a few more, but yeah, in this article there, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's there's five are our esteem colleague John Fuller waited
Speaker 1: through the muck the muck and picked out the best ones,
Speaker 1: polished him off. There you go, let's talk about him. Okay,
Speaker 1: what's the first one. Well, the first one that I'd
Speaker 1: like to mention is actually not the first one. The
Speaker 1: first one I'd like to mention is the quote unquote
Speaker 1: sea rock is in the letter C. Yeah. Have you
Speaker 1: seen the C rock? Yeah? I looked up a picture
Speaker 1: today and uh, basically, there's a rock in the foreground
Speaker 1: of a photo and the shot is of one of
Speaker 1: the astronauts walking away from camera towards the lunar rover,
Speaker 1: and there's a big moon rock in the foreground that
Speaker 1: looks like it's got a very clear letter C on it.
Speaker 1: It is clearly a C. It's clearly I mean, it
Speaker 1: doesn't look like some sort of aberration or anything like that.
Speaker 1: It's just it looks like the letter C carved into it,
Speaker 1: or maybe like stamped with like metal and a chisel
Speaker 1: perhaps something like that. But it definitely looks like a C.
Speaker 1: I would agree with you, And so, of course, theorists,
Speaker 1: we're not going to calm conspiracy theorist's calm theorists. Theorists
Speaker 1: think that this could be a prop, like a stage prop,
Speaker 1: that was marked. You know, moon Rock Cy put it here,
Speaker 1: Moon rock By put it there, and then it just
Speaker 1: kind of got by the camera department who was filming
Speaker 1: this big hoax. And I like that you you put
Speaker 1: that one first, because this one, in my opinion, has
Speaker 1: the weakest explanation from the scientific community in NASA for
Speaker 1: that C on that rock spill it. And that is
Speaker 1: basically that there was a hair on the lens or
Speaker 1: something like that that had to do with UM when
Speaker 1: the photo was taking it. That's not really a C.
Speaker 1: It's like a hair or scratch. It doesn't look anything
Speaker 1: like a hair or scratch. It looks like clearly it
Speaker 1: looks like a cue. That that is definitely one UM.
Speaker 1: One that I like is the the different shadow lengths. Correct,
Speaker 1: have you seen pictures of them with the different shadows
Speaker 1: have not their wildly varying in length, And there's you know,
Speaker 1: they're there guys standing next to one another on the Moon,
Speaker 1: but and then one shadow is ten ft long the
Speaker 1: others is forty. So I guess the the the basic
Speaker 1: basic idea behind this is evidence that there the moon
Speaker 1: landing was faked, is that um, there was some sort
Speaker 1: of faulty studio light. Yeah, Like, the basic idea is
Speaker 1: that this is all done on a sound stage. Now,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, this one is actually the weakest argument
Speaker 1: for the moon landing being fake. Uh. The first of all,
Speaker 1: the moon is not a flat, smooth surface. It's very
Speaker 1: rock and dusty, and it has all sorts of features
Speaker 1: to it. Uh. And anybody who has ever stood, you know,
Speaker 1: on a along a desert or something similar to the
Speaker 1: moon and seen their shadow, they've noticed that the shadows
Speaker 1: don't always act the same way. Um. And what's more,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, if NASA was actually going to go
Speaker 1: to the trouble of faking a moon landing, they would
Speaker 1: have noticed this, and they wouldn't have released it with
Speaker 1: with the with the with the shadows like that badly off.
Speaker 1: That's my big point. As a matter of fact, they
Speaker 1: probably would have gone the other way and and the
Speaker 1: shadows would have looked uniform or something like that, right exactly.
Speaker 1: That's my point. This is ninety nine. This wasn't like
Speaker 1: n you know, they were actually making I looked up
Speaker 1: films that released in nineteen sixty nine, and you know
Speaker 1: some really good movies you got French connection was that
Speaker 1: sixty nine. No, like Putch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Speaker 1: that that kind of thing. But anyway, some really good
Speaker 1: movies and filmmaking an advance to the point where they
Speaker 1: could have easy easily gotten someone to make the shadows
Speaker 1: match and light it properly, and that they wouldn't have
Speaker 1: had some cracked team of like you know, interns out
Speaker 1: there filming the moon landing. You know, so I don't know.
Speaker 1: That didn't hold water with me. Well what's your what's
Speaker 1: your next best argument or a Well, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: ahead and skip over to um the American flag. A
Speaker 1: lot of people um seem to notice that when they're
Speaker 1: putting the flag up that it appears to flap in
Speaker 1: the breeze. Of course, this is on the Moon. There's
Speaker 1: no atmosphere, so there would be no breeze. Uh. But
Speaker 1: what they say, what the government says, is is that
Speaker 1: this was a special flag. And actually I didn't know this.
Speaker 1: I felt like a dummy. It's got a wire running
Speaker 1: across the top of it, which is why it hangs
Speaker 1: uh square, Otherwise it would just hang motionless. Right, So
Speaker 1: when you have a flag with like a taught wire
Speaker 1: and you're putting it up. It's it's gonna move around
Speaker 1: a little bit more, and it's not gonna look like
Speaker 1: a regular flag. So it's not, in fact the breeze blowing.
Speaker 1: It's just you know, by virtue of the fact that
Speaker 1: I had a wire running through it. Right. And as
Speaker 1: Fuller points out, if they if they had created a
Speaker 1: sound stage UM and filmed it like this and and
Speaker 1: the wire wasn't in there, they would have had to
Speaker 1: have created a vacuum in it, which would have been
Speaker 1: really difficult. Another part of that that has to do
Speaker 1: with that vacuum sound stage that would have been virtually
Speaker 1: impossible to do UM is the dust that's being kicked
Speaker 1: up right when they walk. When they walk or when
Speaker 1: the lunar rover is tires the tires are spinning. Um.
Speaker 1: This is not so much in a piece of evidence,
Speaker 1: but in an explanation or something that people have noticed
Speaker 1: is that supposedly it's it's kind of clouding UM and
Speaker 1: and apparently it hasn't. It doesn't cloud at all. The
Speaker 1: dust is kicked up and it runs its course in
Speaker 1: that thin atmosphere and then falls back down. And so
Speaker 1: that that kind of actually proves that this thing either
Speaker 1: was filmed in the sound stage, within a vacuumized sound stage,
Speaker 1: or on the moon. Acca Trazer would actually kind of
Speaker 1: suggest the vacuumized sound stage, I think at that point.
Speaker 1: But still, well, they can create an entire vacuum a
Speaker 1: sound stage, but they can't light it properly. Is that
Speaker 1: that's a great point, Chuck, Come on, that's a great point,
Speaker 1: and that kind of reveals what's going on with this.
Speaker 1: This is never going to be resolved to everyone's satisfaction.
Speaker 1: I think. I think people enjoy kind of poking at
Speaker 1: one another on this. Yeah, like making NASA scientists respond
Speaker 1: like they don't have anything else today. Yeah. The fact that, um,
Speaker 1: they could never have pulled this off though they can't,
Speaker 1: They couldn't have duped the entire scientific community all over
Speaker 1: the world. Not only that, yes, Russia as well, Like
Speaker 1: you would drink if Russia would go public with this
Speaker 1: faster than you could say, lick it split. Um, there
Speaker 1: is somebody has actually explained that as well. UM. Supposedly
Speaker 1: right after the moon landing, UM, a guy named Ralph
Speaker 1: Renee points out that UM, the US or did sending
Speaker 1: very secret humanitarian aid massive amounts of grain to the
Speaker 1: Soviet Union very quietly. Um, And basically that we wouldn't
Speaker 1: normally do that through our normal policy. We had no
Speaker 1: reason to send them humanitarian aid. They were our greatest enemy.
Speaker 1: But we're doing it secretly. And if we were doing it,
Speaker 1: wouldn't we have said, hey, you know, we're we're helping
Speaker 1: out our our enemy because we're all humans. That kind
Speaker 1: of thing, right, wouldn't have been more public. It's it's
Speaker 1: kind of a tenuous argument, but it's something to chew over.
Speaker 1: Right said, they could have kept the Russians quiet. To that, Josh,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm starting to you're starting to win me over, Chuck,
Speaker 1: you are. But you said one reason that that this
Speaker 1: whole thing would have been fake, the moon laning would
Speaker 1: have been faked, was um, because of of the space
Speaker 1: race the Cold War? What about money? Well, true, it
Speaker 1: would have cost a lot a lot of money to
Speaker 1: put in. In fact, did cost a lot of money
Speaker 1: to put someone on the moon. From from nineteen fifty
Speaker 1: eight to UM ninth or two thousand and eight, by
Speaker 1: my by my calculations, NASA has gotten about fifty billion
Speaker 1: dollars in change and funding over those over the fifty
Speaker 1: year period. That's a big slush fund. If you think
Speaker 1: about it, is it's just like you have no money
Speaker 1: to account for any longer. It's in space. That's our bailout,
Speaker 1: right now, Why isn't this settled? Think about this. We're
Speaker 1: going into space all the time. True. The reason why
Speaker 1: is that the last we went to the moon. Oh
Speaker 1: another explanations that it served as a distraction for the
Speaker 1: Vietnam War, right right, America is like, well, we're going
Speaker 1: to the moon, you know, forget about the American soldiers.
Speaker 1: They are dying over there and actually suspiciously. Um, the
Speaker 1: last time we landed on the moon was V two,
Speaker 1: towards the end of the Vietnam War, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, if you look at NASA's funding year
Speaker 1: by year, it drops in half for about a decade
Speaker 1: until it started up again in the eighties when you
Speaker 1: and I were very interested in it as youngsters. Right,
Speaker 1: So does the tail wag the dog, Josh, or just
Speaker 1: the dog wagged the tail? I don't. I can't answer that.
Speaker 1: But speaking of wag the dog, um, if it was faked,
Speaker 1: think about how many people were greased by the CIA
Speaker 1: right after They play their role as like a production
Speaker 1: assistant or a director or something like that and killed,
Speaker 1: I mean killed waxed. Yeah, but again, why why why
Speaker 1: isn't this salt? So we stopped going to the moon
Speaker 1: or stopped landing on the moon after women back. But
Speaker 1: we have sent some you know, uh, lunar orbiters around
Speaker 1: the Moon with really great cameras. So why don't we
Speaker 1: just say here is the lunar lander, dummy, and here
Speaker 1: are the footprints, dummy. Why why you know, why aren't
Speaker 1: we doing that? You know why? Because it's it's not
Speaker 1: worth the money to do that, right. No, they're actually
Speaker 1: going around the Moon and they're act they're they're taking
Speaker 1: photos of the Moon's surface and they're going over it.
Speaker 1: The problem is the the camera resolution, which are these
Speaker 1: incredible cameras are still not picking up They don't have
Speaker 1: the resolution to pick up these objects. On the sound,
Speaker 1: it does sound a little shady. So we'll see. There's
Speaker 1: a few out there right now. India has the Chan
Speaker 1: Drayon I believe is the Pronunciation orbiter. Japan has the
Speaker 1: cagu Ya orbiter. My Japanese is rusty sound, and then
Speaker 1: the US is the Lunar Reconnaissance orbiter. They're all orbiting
Speaker 1: the Moon right now, and they all possibly have good
Speaker 1: enough cameras to send back photos of the Apollo moon landings.
Speaker 1: Well hopefully that happens one day. Yeah, so you can
Speaker 1: just put this to bed once again. I still think
Speaker 1: people will just say, well, they fake those. You know.
Speaker 1: It's a good point. We've got India in there in
Speaker 1: our pockets. So that's it. Uh, well, not quiet. You
Speaker 1: want to oh no, you got to. No, you have
Speaker 1: reader mail, so you want to let the moon landing
Speaker 1: conspiracy one just kind of peter out a Moment's okay,
Speaker 1: all right, Listener mail times, listener mail time. Johsh I'm
Speaker 1: gonna call this one exceptional fan mail, as I like
Speaker 1: to do. Nice. Now, is this this isn't stuff we
Speaker 1: should have known? No, no, no, this is an actual,
Speaker 1: uh really kind of a cool story from Ben in Ontario, Canada.
Speaker 1: And you're gonna remember this one, Josh, is a good one.
Speaker 1: This guy listened to our exorcism podcast and uh I
Speaker 1: was talking about a positive possession, of beneficial possession, and
Speaker 1: he has a story about himself and I'm gonna summarize this.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Ben night. Uh he Ben says, eleven years
Speaker 1: ago he was in a bad bicycle accident and UH
Speaker 1: came between two busses and was hit by a car
Speaker 1: he was winning in high school. He says, it is
Speaker 1: a bad bicycle X. Yeah, he said he was fully
Speaker 1: conscious afterwards, even though I went over my handlebars and
Speaker 1: hit my head on the hood of the car. I
Speaker 1: was fully aware of the situation and what happened. But
Speaker 1: he was told he was completely coherent the ambul us
Speaker 1: in in the e r with the nurses, even okay
Speaker 1: with his parents. When he brought him home several hours later,
Speaker 1: they put him to bed and thirty minutes later he
Speaker 1: woke back up and didn't remember any of it, and
Speaker 1: it took him a full hour to even find out
Speaker 1: what had happened to him. So Ben says, I believe
Speaker 1: during this short time that I was actually possessed by
Speaker 1: the Egyptian god Horace. H O r U s Uh.
Speaker 1: I think that's the one with the dog's head. If
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken, I think so okay. So he was
Speaker 1: possessed by Horace or an ancient priest from the temple
Speaker 1: of Horace. Uh that this took control of him and
Speaker 1: kept his brain from shutting down and having more damage
Speaker 1: than it did. I know there are other medical explanations
Speaker 1: as to what happened. Heavy impacts can cause a short
Speaker 1: term memory to wipe out, et cetera. However, this is
Speaker 1: the belief that I have about it, and it's backed
Speaker 1: up to me by the fact that is where it
Speaker 1: gets good by About two years later, he went to
Speaker 1: an optometrist and he found marks on the lower outer
Speaker 1: edge of his eye is and there are similar marks
Speaker 1: and paintings of the eyes of Horace. And the doctor
Speaker 1: could not explain this. You've never seen it before and
Speaker 1: could not explain how it happened. So maybe I'm just crazy,
Speaker 1: but and I know some people think that, but it's
Speaker 1: what I believe happened to me. And then I wrote
Speaker 1: you back already. We don't think you're crazy. We think
Speaker 1: that anyone that thinks they had this whole big cosmic
Speaker 1: soup figured out doesn't know what they're talking about, and
Speaker 1: that who knows, you could have very well been possessed
Speaker 1: by Horace as far as I know, And that's a
Speaker 1: Thanks for sharing your story, Thanks for thanks for opening
Speaker 1: up for us, Ben and um anybody else you'd like
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