The Michael Knowles Show - April 10, 2026


Did We Go (Back) To The Moon？ Michael Knowles Investigates Artemis II

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America is going back to the moon
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Michael Knowles
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Neil Armstrong Michael Collins Buzz Aldrin Stanley Kubrick Bill Kaysing Best Western X. Look Suspicious Esoterica Gomorrah
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As the Artemis II launches into deep space and bangs a U-E around the moon, we will take a trip down memory lane and consider why we are so fascinated by Earth s favorite at rock. Since ancient times, man has looked up to the moon and thought, What is that? Why is it different shapes sometimes? And I wonder if I could get up there and walk on it. Then in the 1950s, American scientists and foreign communists figured out how to use rockets to explode our way into space. We began to race the Soviets, and while they got into orbit first, we set our sights on a higher, rockier goal: going to the Moon.

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00:00:00.000 NASA is going back to the moon, or, depending on your particular perspective, NASA is attempting
00:00:16.360 to go to the moon for the first time.
00:00:18.720 As the Artemis II launches into deep space and bangs a U-E around the moon, we will take
00:00:23.520 a trip down memory lunar lane and consider why we are so fascinated by Earth's favorite
00:00:30.140 at rock.
00:00:38.220 Since ancient times, man has looked up to the moon and thought, what is that?
00:00:43.660 Why is it different shapes sometimes?
00:00:46.240 And I wonder if I could get up there and walk on it.
00:00:50.100 Then in the 1950s, American scientists and foreign communists figured out how to use 0.69
00:00:55.160 rockets to explode our way into space. 0.88
00:00:58.820 We began to race the Soviets, and while they got into orbit first, we set our sights on 0.96
00:01:04.520 a higher, rockier goal. 0.93
00:01:06.500 We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they
00:01:12.400 are easy, but because they are hard.
00:01:15.320 In 1969, NASA launched Apollo 11,
00:01:18.220 the first mission to put men on the moon.
00:01:20.980 Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins
00:01:23.480 were strapped to the top of a Saturn V rocket,
00:01:26.340 then hurled toward the moon
00:01:27.960 using six and a half million pounds of kerosene
00:01:30.360 and liquid hydrogen fuel.
00:01:40.280 Four days and 13 hours later,
00:01:43.100 Armstrong set foot on the surface.
00:01:46.220 That's one small step for man,
00:01:49.160 one giant leap for mankind.
00:01:52.360 We went back five more times
00:01:54.280 with Apollo 12, 14, 15, and 17.
00:01:58.380 13 had a little bit of trouble so they didn't land,
00:02:00.700 but they did get a movie out of it.
00:02:03.020 Astronauts did experiments, played golf,
00:02:05.740 and a couple of times they even brought
00:02:07.300 a moon buggy with them.
00:02:09.080 It was at that point that everyone looked around
00:02:11.620 thought, okay, I think we're probably good with this for a while. Big budgets and waning public
00:02:17.220 interest ultimately shut down the Apollo program. Journeys to the moon changed from a lofty future
00:02:22.600 goal to a thing of the past. America had won the space race. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
00:02:29.120 became household names. Everyone seemed to look back fondly at the time the United States defied
00:02:35.260 the odds and accomplished what man had dreamt of for millennia. But the whole experience was so
00:02:41.800 incredible that some people began to doubt that it was credible. I believe that we didn't go to
00:02:47.820 the moon. So there was a documentary that came on on Fox. He might not have looked into it. I have.
00:02:52.500 No one went to the moon. I don't think we did. I think it was fake. In 1979, a former naval officer
00:02:59.200 named Bill Kaysing wrote a book subtly titled, We Never Went to the Moon, America's $30
00:03:05.960 Billion Swindle.
00:03:07.860 Four years after the final Apollo mission, Kaysing claimed that NASA simply did not have
00:03:12.760 the technology required to make it to the moon, that the entire operation was an elaborate
00:03:17.440 anti-Soviet propaganda hoax.
00:03:20.800 A small group of Americans began to examine the story closer and started to notice that
00:03:25.840 some things seemed a little strange.
00:03:29.860 Why aren't there any stars in the photos?
00:03:32.740 Do shadows appear from multiple light sources?
00:03:35.740 Why does the flag look like it's waving when there is no air on the moon?
00:03:39.820 One theory answered all of these questions.
00:03:43.780 The landing was fake.
00:03:46.080 It was filmed in a movie studio, possibly directed by Stanley Kubrick.
00:03:51.080 The conspiracy theories percolated for years among small numbers of weirdos,
00:03:55.340 mocked by polite society, which was delighted to gobble up the government slop story that they
00:04:01.420 had been fed, as the doubters would have it. But then the conspiracy theorists had an Apollo 8
00:04:07.040 moment of their own, the invention of the internet. I'm at the center of the web. In theory, I can
00:04:13.800 pull in information from any other point at the speed of light. All of a sudden, the people asking
00:04:19.420 questions about starless skies and wavy flags found an audience of millions of people eager
00:04:25.240 to listen to them. People started making whole online careers out of questioning the truth
00:04:29.840 of the Apollo missions. Then some other people made careers out of debunking those people.
00:04:42.620 Then a slightly smaller group of people made still smaller careers debunking the people
00:04:48.600 who were doing the debunking. People began to take sides. If you thought they were faked,
00:04:54.460 you're an idiot. If you thought they were real, you're a bigger idiot, and probably Jewish. 1.00
00:05:00.420 Everyone claimed secret knowledge. Esoterica abounded. Which brings us to today. Artemis II 1.00
00:05:07.660 took astronauts to deep space, around the moon and back, paving the way for future manned missions
00:05:13.020 to the surface. To many, this is a grand return, a triumphant message that we still possess the
00:05:19.800 skill and audacity to travel beyond this goodly frame, the Earth, into and beyond the brave
00:05:25.560 oar-hanging firmament, a mission that sets the stage for the future of space travel.
00:05:30.760 Others, however, will never be satisfied. Every frame will be analyzed, every assumption
00:05:36.760 questioned, every discrepancy will be evidence of another grand conspiracy.
00:05:43.080 Whoever you are, whatever you believe, everyone was waiting for this moment.
00:05:49.800 Two. One. Booster ignition.
00:05:58.520 Wow.
00:06:04.000 Unfortunately, NASA rejected my application to join the mission and see the evidence firsthand.
00:06:09.420 But they did invite me to come to Cape Canaveral for the launch.
00:06:12.880 I will admit, even though I am pretty Apollo-pilled, you know, I think it happened,
00:06:18.240 I have gone down the internet rabbit holes.
00:06:21.740 Now, of course, the question is just where are they going to ditch that rocket ship, you know,
00:06:26.220 so that they can pretend to go to the moon and, you know, I don't know, get on a boat or something.
00:06:29.200 No, I'm joking. I'm joking. I think that's real.
00:06:31.320 There have been several multi-hour-long blocks in which I was convinced that the whole thing was a big hoax.
00:06:39.100 I made it my duty not just to report, but to investigate.
00:06:41.940 For the benefit of all mankind, I would use my access to try to answer the truth of this
00:06:47.860 supposed launch.
00:06:48.860 Hey, what's up?
00:06:49.860 What's going on?
00:06:50.860 I arrived, and immediately set out to inspect the rocket up close, at which point NASA informed
00:06:56.460 me that I would be stationed three and a half miles away.
00:07:00.020 Something about safety, or whatever.
00:07:02.060 Suspicious?
00:07:03.060 Well, call me what you will, just don't call me late for dinner.
00:07:06.660 At the very least, I saw and felt a very large rocket go very high in the air.
00:07:14.640 If anything is going to the moon, I am confident that it is that.
00:07:20.280 From my first-hand experience, I thought the case was closed.
00:07:23.940 And then I opened X.
00:07:25.540 Look at this.
00:07:26.540 They're escaping through the side.
00:07:28.540 I enjoyed watching.
00:07:29.540 What is this?
00:07:30.540 Michael, go touch the grass.
00:07:32.020 It looks like a green screen.
00:07:33.140 Okay.
00:07:34.140 You know what?
00:07:35.140 Fine.
00:07:36.140 I did not intend to take any hard lines on this subject today.
00:07:40.440 This may come back to bite me when the truth of the universe is hopefully revealed to me after the particular judgment.
00:07:46.960 But I think that those guys and that lady and that Canadian went to the moon.
00:07:53.960 And that is very, very cool. 1.00
00:07:56.640 We're so used to the general incompetence and perfidy of our decadent, degenerate culture
00:08:03.320 that we doubt that people can do important, impressive things.
00:08:07.160 It's hard to believe because it is incredible.
00:08:10.200 Some apparently will never be convinced.
00:08:12.640 Once we have the moon base up and running, there will be Twitter sleuths breaking down
00:08:17.280 the doors of every movie studio, which is fine by me because Hollywood is Gomorrah by
00:08:22.360 the sea.
00:08:23.360 meantime, though, America is going back to the moon.
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