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00:02:39.560there's a lot to get to about this mission, about past missions, about the fact that a lot of
00:02:45.600Americans, especially younger Americans, don't buy that we went to the moon ever. And it's that
00:02:50.620the skepticism that we went to the moon is increasing. And people that I love, people I'm
00:02:56.340very close to, I'm not going to say who, but even said to me this morning, he said, hey, Matt, can
00:03:00.680you find out from NASA if we actually went to the moon? I'm not going to tell you who said that to
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00:04:01.740Maybe you have a little bit of time, actually, before the Artemis is going to take off.
00:04:05.140You don't have that much time, but a little bit.
00:05:00.320That obviously did not have a crew. And so this is really big. These astronauts will not be landing on the moon.
00:05:08.060But the whole point of this is to prepare another another, I believe, opinions may vary, land mission on onto the moon.
00:05:20.000Because what President Trump has said, what NASA has said, is that we're going to go back to the moon and we're not going to leave this time.
00:05:26.600We're not just going to go and take science experiments, take photos.
00:05:30.980There were six manned missions to the moon.
00:05:33.040By the end of it, they were playing golf.
00:05:35.320They were driving little dune buggies around the moon.
00:05:38.060I don't know, they ran out of things to do, and then we stopped going.
00:05:41.740Twelve astronauts have landed on the moon already.
00:05:45.680This will be a little more politically significant.
00:05:49.780Because the United States, just as we were in a space race with the Soviet Union back in the 20th century,
00:05:55.300Now we're in another space race with China, and so we want to claim the territory on the moon.
00:05:59.700Because even though the moon is pretty big, the territory that you would actually want to establish a base on is relatively small.
00:06:06.340And so what NASA wants to do is not just have these launches occur every few years.
00:06:11.220They want Artemis launches every 10 months.
00:06:14.220And they want to send people to the moon.
00:06:16.100They want to have people staying on the moon just as people will stay 100 days, 200 days, 300 days in the International Space Station.
00:06:21.900So, too, they want to do this on the moon.
00:06:24.480So, what is happening on this mission?
00:06:28.520The first and most important thing is that NASA brought me this donut.
00:06:32.800They brought me this delicious Krispy Kreme donut to celebrate Artemis.
00:06:37.480And, you know, look, I know that the astronauts on the spaceship have suffered a lot.
00:06:43.320They're going to be very physically uncomfortable.
00:06:44.960I don't think that compares to my physical suffering because it's still lent.
00:06:49.680And so, I'm not allowed to have this delicious looking donut right now.
00:06:52.720And so, you know, listen, while you're looking at the physical accomplishments and distresses of the astronauts, keep me in your mind, because it's very difficult to have that nice tasty NASA donut sitting right off to the side.
00:07:06.040I will go home after this. The astronauts will not.
00:19:53.580Maybe when the NASA astronauts are on that other side of the moon,
00:19:58.400and they are going to see parts of the moon that other astronauts have never been able to see before,
00:20:03.620maybe they'll see a little green man or a little gray man.
00:20:06.780But until then, I'm not really buying it.
00:20:09.140Now, many, many people hold the view that the NASA administrator does,
00:20:15.020including people like C.S. Lewis and a lot of people, including people even like Matt Walsh.
00:20:21.280Another political figure has taken the alien talk a little further.
00:20:26.660That would include former Congressman Matt Gaetz,
00:20:30.720who just claimed that the military is breeding aliens with humans
00:20:39.100to create a hybrid race of little green-ish men.
00:20:45.020I think the most important information will be the biologics that are not human that have been discovered.
00:20:52.220And even some of the briefings that aren't classified just need to be out in the public.
00:20:57.680I mean, I had someone come and brief me who was in a military uniform, worked for the United States Army,
00:21:03.400that was briefing me on the locations of hybrid breeding programs where captured aliens were breeding with humans
00:21:11.180to create some hybrid race that could engage in intergalactic communication an actual uniform
00:21:17.260member of the united states army briefed me on that what they explained is that the military
00:21:23.180ran a very secret program where uh aliens that were living were in forced breeding programs with
00:21:31.900uh humans that had been abducted from war zones and from even uh the caravans of uh of migrants
00:21:40.380Now, again, I didn't verify this, but what the whistleblower was telling me is that there were, like, between 6 and 12 locations around the country.
00:21:52.140So in case you missed that, in case you didn't, there are apparently 6 to 12, up to a dozen military bases, where the United States military is raping aliens.
00:22:08.940or humans with aliens, or aliens with humans.
00:22:13.620In any case, lots, it's a forced breeding, that's great.
00:22:18.580The former congressman, Matt Gaetz, is saying publicly
00:22:23.920that uniformed military personnel are claiming that the Army is raping aliens.
00:22:31.700And I don't, look, I've gotten along very nicely with Matt Gaetz,
00:22:35.960But I don't, color me a little skeptical.
00:22:40.240I don't really, I just don't, what I'm saying is I don't, look, I don't even believe in aliens.
00:22:45.120So I don't really believe in the hybrid programs about, okay, what is this about?
00:22:52.680Look, first of all, I'm not calling Gates a liar.
00:22:55.720There are lots of kooky people out there.
00:22:57.880First of all, it might just be that this guy who briefed him, he said this was not in a classified setting.
00:24:01.32020% of Americans wonder, are not totally sure, think that maybe we faked the moon landing.
00:24:10.520When you get younger and younger, those numbers go up and up.
00:24:14.600So when you get to millennials, 1 in 4, just under 1 in 4 millennials, thinks that the moon landing is fake.
00:24:21.700Those numbers hold firm with the zoomers as well.
00:24:25.000So when you look at Americans ages 50 and under, Americans 50 and under are three times as likely as other Americans to think that the moon landing was fake.
00:24:35.260You look at Americans 34 and under, that number jumps to six times as likely.
00:30:35.340Now, of course, the question is just, where are they going to ditch that rocket ship, you know, so that they can pretend to go to the moon and, you know, I don't know, get on a boat or something.
00:30:42.900No, I'm joking. I'm joking. I think that's real.
00:30:44.660Thank God, too, you know, there was this fear after, of course, the Challenger explosion in the 80s, after the Columbia re-entry disaster in 2003.
00:30:57.240There was a real fear, God forbid, something would go wrong on this mission.
00:31:02.900And it seems to have gone just perfectly.
00:35:38.940And the reason, as we mentioned in the incredible work that you guys did for me and with me on Apollo 11,
00:35:44.660what we saw is that the moon landing is presented to the public as something that just parachuted in out of space.
00:35:51.300Like we just decided we got up, we woke up, built a rocket, and we went and then we came back.
00:35:55.620But the thing that they're missing is the context of all of the years prior to the Apollo 11 launch.
00:36:00.680We were going to the moon every three months before we landed on the moon.
00:36:04.420We went to the moon in December of 1968.
00:36:08.020We were flying Apollo missions every three or four months.
00:36:10.900And so when you run into people who have a hard time believing it,
00:36:13.620you really have to kind of start with like the V2 rocket or a bottle rocket
00:36:16.780and ask them at what point does this not become real?
00:36:20.000We had a Mercury flight that went into suborbital flight.
00:36:22.700Then we did an orbital flight with the Mercuries.
00:36:24.320Then we did two people in the Jiminy's and then we tested out the Apollo command module in Earth orbit.
00:36:29.660Was that fake? We went around the moon. Was that fake?
00:36:32.600We tested the lunar lander in Earth orbit and then we tested it in lunar orbit.
00:36:37.420All of this happened before we landed.
00:36:39.540And so if you if you present the moon landing as sort of this one off thing, it becomes kind of easy to believe that it was a fake deal.
00:36:46.540But for those of us that grew up with it, Michael, it was just a regular event that happened every three or four months.
00:36:54.580And there was no point ever in the history of the space program where there was this incredible jump that happened.
00:37:01.420There was never a point when all of a sudden something magic entered the equation.
00:37:05.340So one in 10 Americans, and to be honest with you, it's a lower number than I thought, are mistaken, I'm afraid, although I understand why they're mistaken.
00:37:13.640And I understand why younger people tend to believe it didn't happen, largely because younger people have grown up with so much technology that they think it didn't happen because we didn't have enough tech.
00:37:26.180But as it turns out, on Apollo 11, we had the two most advanced flight computers, I would say, in the universe, walking that lunar module all the way down.
00:37:35.960And those two flight computers were named Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
00:37:43.640A very good point. And in fact, on the Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong took over manually.
00:37:49.820At the very last second, the kind of drama that could come out of Hollywood, which is maybe why people think it did come out of Hollywood.
00:37:57.360What do you make of the Artemis compared to Apollo? Obviously, very different tech.
00:38:04.040One of the arguments that the people who say we didn't go to the moon make is that it's crazy to think that we had the technology to do it,
00:38:11.760and then we just accidentally lost it, oopsie-daisy.
00:38:17.080and what does this mean for the future of American space exploration?
00:38:22.240Well, to be perfectly honest with you,
00:38:23.540the Artemis spacecraft is not really significantly different
00:38:28.880or at least not radically more advanced than the Apollo command service module.
00:38:34.920The answer to the question of why we didn't go back
00:38:37.400is always expressed as a we lost the technology.
00:38:41.760We never lost the technology. The space shuttle, which followed Apollo, was infinitely more complex than the Apollo program hardware.
00:38:50.580We lost the will. And to tell you something, you know, the best way I ever heard this, Mike, in terms of at least assuaging my, you know, my disappointment,
00:38:58.900was that America is such an amazing country that we got bored going to the moon.
00:39:03.440But that's exactly what happened. That's exactly what happened.
00:39:06.620By the time the second moon landing happened, Apollo 12, the ratings were way down.
00:39:11.700By Apollo 13 had the emergency, obviously.
00:39:15.000But by the time we got to Apollo 14, nobody was watching.
00:39:18.540And Richard Nixon was trying to cut budgets.
00:39:25.980And really heartbreakingly, 18, 19, and 20, which were canceled, were going to go to incredible places.
00:39:32.500They were going to go to the basin of this 200-mile-wide crater named Copernicus.
00:39:37.100They were going to go to all of these places.
00:39:39.500But they cut those missions because of lack of public interest and the sense that we needed to spend the money back here on Earth.
00:39:47.020It was sort of like the point where all of this social pressure and expectation and hope and pride had reached its pinnacle when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface.
00:40:01.320And after that was over, people started saying, OK, well, what's next?
00:40:07.740And it's an unfortunate reality that the 20 or 30 years that the space shuttle program ran, the space shuttle didn't fundamentally go anywhere different than John Glenn did on Friendship 7 in 1961 or 62.
00:40:23.660We just went in circles around the Earth again and again.
00:43:18.360is that we understand that this is a it has to pay its own way and if it does it'll stay
00:43:25.420it's a great point that you know even look we have a great nasa administrator now
00:43:33.340but i'm no expert on it but he seems to have done a great job and obviously we have a very supportive
00:43:37.860administration but you might not have a supportive administration soon enough and
00:43:42.280you know you don't want to uh leave this kind of thing just up to the caprices of federal
00:43:47.300bureaucrats. So I think you're totally right. The fact that you can get someone like Elon and others
00:43:52.240to add a little bit of a profit incentive here and to bring the private sector in more,
00:43:57.140it does make me feel a lot more confident about it. The mood is very bullish around here. I mean,
00:44:02.400people are talking about having a base on the moon by the early 2030s. They're talking about,
00:44:09.180you know, manned, landed missions and, you know, bringing resources, developing resources there
00:44:16.440on a very, very quick timescale. How realistic is that? When are we actually going to have the
00:44:23.300space colony up on Mars whenever Elon gets around to it, but up on the moon in the first place?
00:44:29.880There's a bunch of important things there. So let me just deal with them one by one. And let me
00:44:33.380first talk about the capriciousness of depending on government funding. We lost 14 astronauts killed
00:44:38.980on two different space shuttle missions. And on both of those cases, the shuttle didn't fail.
00:44:45.080The space shuttle was originally supposed to be carried aloft on the back of an airplane, should have been able to land at any large airport.
00:44:50.940You could have landed the space shuttle LAX or DFW.
00:44:54.960And over the course of the development of the space shuttle program, Congress kept cutting the budget for the space shuttle.
00:45:01.200So they had to go to the external tank and they had to go to the solid rocket boosters because they kept cutting the money.
00:45:09.960Well, it was a burn through in the O-rings on the solid rocket boosters that were a financial band-aid that destroyed Challenger.
00:45:16.120And it was foam coming off the external tank, which was also an external band-aid, that destroyed Columbia.
00:45:23.120So it's not only difficult to plan, it's deadly if you don't have confidence that the future is going to be as funded as well as the present.
00:45:31.340I personally think the most important tweet, certainly of the last year and maybe of the decade or even you can argue conceivably in human history, was when Elon Musk very quietly announced that SpaceX was going for a moon base instead of a Mars colony.
00:45:50.820But if you're just going to fly for six months, plant a flag, the ability to develop a moon base is essential to the exploration of the solar system.
00:46:01.400Getting something off the surface of the moon is hundreds of times easier than getting it off the earth.
00:46:07.020You don't have to fight the atmosphere.
00:50:27.760But in this moment, I felt it was important to go live because, you know,
00:50:32.160We had a first in 53 years historic event taking place as three Americans and one person from America's evil top hat decided to take a little vacation around the moon.
00:51:30.800You can go back and watch. Let's see. Lifetime members shouldn't hear promos, says Andy. Yes, Andy, the thing is I would have to change the fabric of space time in order to simultaneously do the live show for the hoi polloi and a different show for you.
00:51:48.260I agree with you, and look, maybe NASA, maybe President Trump, maybe Elon Musk will allow me to just grab hold of space-time,
00:51:55.040rip it apart, as I want to rip apart this delicious NASA donut that I cannot eat because it's Lent, but I can't quite do it yet.
00:56:39.100Matt, I was pointing out, the delay in our control room to the guests and to the hosts is much longer than the delay from the moon to Earth.
00:56:51.160I think the moon, they could broadcast in 4K on the moon.
00:56:54.700It would be faster than the Daily Wire control room.
00:56:59.420What do you make of the NASA administrator saying he believes in aliens?
00:57:02.160And what do you make of Matt Gaetz saying that the U.S. Army is raping aliens at a dozen sites around the United States to create alien hybrids in any order you like?
00:57:14.520Wow. Well, I mean, let's let's start with the fact that I just want to say that in case you were you were worried about it, Michael,
00:57:22.280just know that I'm not bitter at all about the fact that for some reason you're the guy that
00:57:27.300is there to watch the rocket launch and not me. Not me is the one who's known as the guy who cares
00:57:34.340about this stuff. So it's you. Can I tell you, they sent me here for the human launch and they're
00:57:41.400going to have you here for the alien landing. That's how it's going to be fair. We're going
00:57:45.900to split it up that way. I don't know. I don't know if I want to be there for the alien launch
00:57:50.860or the alien landing now you know i don't i don't know if i want to be because my feeling is a little
00:57:55.440bit hurt uh but anyway more more importantly like you know let me just say that i think that uh
00:58:01.940that before we get to the aliens you know watching the rocket launch which i just watched along with
00:58:07.700everybody else uh i i think it's extraordinary i think it's beautiful i think it really really
00:58:13.300matters a lot uh i know there are people who who think that this is a waste of money why we're
00:58:19.520spending all these billions of dollars uh going to the moon we've already been there or maybe we
00:58:24.760haven't been there you know there's a there's a is an interesting disconnect because a lot of the
00:58:28.300people that say we're wasting money going there because we've already been there are also the
00:58:31.620same people who say we haven't been there so by that logic actually this is our first time going
00:58:36.200so it makes an even bigger deal but no in fact we've already been there we're going again and
00:58:40.500that and it matters because uh we could get into all the scientific you know all the all the sort
00:58:46.160practical benefits of going to the moon and setting up lunar bases. And then you can go
00:58:50.980from there farther into space. And we can talk about all that stuff. And that's important. But
00:58:55.580I also think that as a civilization, as a country, as an empire, we need to be reaching out into the
00:59:04.320unknown, going beyond, exploring, trying to expand. I mean, this is what you do when you're
00:59:12.760a healthy and thriving nation. It's what America did when we were great, you know, when we
00:59:19.380were truly great. And so if we really want to make America great again, then I think
00:59:25.200relaunching the space program in earnest is one of the most important ways to do that.
00:59:31.780So I'm thrilled by the whole thing. I totally agree. I know, I remember in the Tea Party era,
00:59:39.620you had a lot of people on the right, but they were a little more libertarian, say,
00:59:44.100we don't need to waste money on these extraneous programs just to our own glory.
00:59:49.340We need to just save as much money as possible, shrink the government as much as possible.
00:59:54.360And I think, no, look, I want the government to be efficient.
00:59:57.180I don't want us to be wasteful, but I want to do big things.
01:00:34.440But you evaded the question about former Congressman Matt Gaetz's claim that the U.S. Army is raping aliens at a dozen bases around the country to create hybrids.
01:01:03.500I tend to be skeptical of that. What I believe to be nearly certain is that the universe is vast, and there are trillions upon trillions of planets, and it seems to me a near certainty that a lot of them have life.
01:01:25.720And whether that means intelligent life, life like our own or some other kind of form of life that we can't conceive of or some kind of rudimentary primitive, primitive life, much like what we find here at the bottom of the ocean or something.
01:01:37.940I think it could be all of the above. So that that feels certain to me. I'm skeptical of the idea that there have been aliens actually visiting Earth.
01:01:44.260I'm open to it. I'm open to actual I'm very open to it. And I'd be excited to learn that that was true.
01:01:51.060I hope that the aliens are not being sexually violated, as what you're describing.
01:01:55.660But if they're coming here, then it's great.