The Anthony Cumia Show - July 24, 2025


A Steady Stream of Government Lies ｜ 07-20-25


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9 minutes

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1,213

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61

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Did we go to the moon? Did the United States of America plop two astronauts down on the moon on this very day in 1969? I used to believe this with every part of me. Now, I don't know.

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00:01:10.920 The anniversary
00:01:11.840 of the moon landing.
00:01:14.560 Oh, I could hear
00:01:15.860 the people now.
00:01:17.760 What moon landing,
00:01:20.060 Anthony? I thought you were
00:01:21.560 smarter than that.
00:01:23.840 This is something I get into with people constantly.
00:01:28.840 Did we go to the moon?
00:01:32.680 Did the United States of America plop two astronauts down on the moon on this very day in 1969?
00:01:46.000 Boy, I used to believe this with every part of me.
00:01:53.100 Now, don't get me wrong. I am not saying the moon landing was faked. I still believe that that people went to the moon. But but man, the pushback, it has an effect. And it's not even the people that are, you know, the flat earthers, that collection of imbeciles or the people that don't believe we went to the moon.
00:02:19.360 That isn't who's swaying me or getting me to even doubt myself at all. 0.99
00:02:25.640 It's the lies that I see coming out of our government every single day.
00:02:33.940 And it makes me very, very, very, very leery about what I've been told by the government in the past.
00:02:45.200 Things I believed and didn't have a doubt.
00:02:48.780 Absolutely believed it.
00:02:51.580 And when you used to have to take that little bit of leap of faith,
00:02:56.440 you'd give the benefit of the doubt to the government?
00:02:58.880 Because, look, the moon landing is one of those things that we don't have tangible proof
00:03:09.680 where I can look at something or feel something
00:03:13.760 or have experienced something that guarantees we'd been on the moon.
00:03:19.280 I've seen pictures, and I believe them, videos, artifacts that are still on the moon
00:03:25.760 that have been seen by other spacecraft, by telescopes right here on Earth.
00:03:32.480 um so that would lead me to believe that yes we have been to the moon but you you have to have a
00:03:43.240 bit of faith in who's telling you that because everything you see is kind of second hand you
00:03:50.960 know you're not really seeing it for yourself i'm being told this is a moon rock when i go to the
00:03:58.780 smithsonian air and space museum and i take a look at a moon rock i'm being told that's a moon rock
00:04:04.940 so i have to have some faith that the people telling me this are telling me the truth
00:04:12.180 and uh you know that that that faith in the government has absolutely been eroded away
00:04:22.640 over the course of time.
00:04:25.880 So, you know, eight-year-old Lil Anthony
00:04:30.480 sitting there late at night
00:04:34.120 watching the coverage of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
00:04:40.840 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
00:04:43.100 with Mike Collins orbiting the moon
00:04:46.060 waiting for them to finish up, dock up again,
00:04:49.800 and then return safely to Earth
00:04:51.740 as heroes heroes and you know from that time or at least from the last apollo mission uh apollo 17
00:05:02.820 um i believe that was 72 we we just kind of had people saying it never happened
00:05:12.540 and and the one thing i always used as the argument is why why would they lie first of all
00:05:22.040 and um how could you get away with such a giant conspiracy we landed on the moon millions millions
00:05:31.320 billions the whole the whole planet watched and it went off without a hitch nothing a big
00:05:40.000 spotlight didn't fall when they were showing
00:05:44.300 Neil Armstrong taking those first steps on the moon.
00:05:48.640 I didn't see any strings. It looked
00:05:52.400 to me like I would have imagined a human being walking on the moon
00:05:56.360 would look with less gravity than we have here and
00:05:59.800 no atmosphere to speak of. So I believed
00:06:04.300 it. Now we're in 2025 and
00:06:08.240 And all I've heard about everything is how our government has lied to us.
00:06:16.440 And I want to believe we went to the moon, and I still do.
00:06:23.580 Like I said, I still do.
00:06:26.000 But I may be just banking all that on this nostalgic trust issue
00:06:31.740 and the fact that I want us to have gone to the moon.
00:06:38.240 And I don't want to, and I think this happens with a lot of lies that we get from the government. 0.99
00:06:44.820 You don't want to feel vulnerable or stupid. 0.99
00:06:49.620 I believed it. 1.00
00:06:50.920 And then if you're told it didn't happen, you're going to feel pretty stupid and naive. 0.99
00:06:58.800 And, you know, you believed someone, you trusted a government, but, you know, an entity. 1.00
00:07:05.440 and uh then you're told you're you're a jackass so you know maybe some of that factors in but 0.86
00:07:14.620 here's the other thing on the other side of it why i truly do believe we went to the moon and 0.97
00:07:21.300 and and it's not so much the the government just telling me and that's all the the proof i have
00:07:28.080 I enjoy science and astronomy and astrophysics and all the things that make it possible for space travel.
00:07:40.080 And it just makes sense.
00:07:43.120 Everything that was put out there that brought us to the moon makes scientific sense.
00:07:52.580 and everything i hear from the skeptics and from the people that say we never went and we definitely
00:07:59.980 didn't go it just seems like they're coming up with these uh reasons and pseudoscience to tell
00:08:08.700 you why we didn't go and a lot of these uh can be refuted without somebody having to just say
00:08:17.580 well, they told me, some of it is basic physics, some of it's common sense,
00:08:25.480 and a lot of the things that they use to try to tell people that we never went to the moon,
00:08:33.000 they can be easily, easily debunked.
00:08:39.640 so i do believe that in 1969 on this very date july 20th we did i believe we did go to the moon
00:08:53.680 and neil armstrong and buzz aldrin set foot on the moon did a couple of experiments plopped that
00:08:59.900 american flag down there took off linked back up with the command module and safely returned to
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