A Week of Conspiracies and Calls for War

David Gilbert: But, this is a really interesting conspiracy because it’s based on possibly the biggest conspiracy ever. The fact that the Moon landing was faked.

Leah Feiger: Oh, incredible. Good.

David Gilbert: Unless, maybe you don’t know about it, but there’s a new movie that’s out called “Fly Me to the Moon,” which stars Scarlett Johansson, and Woody Harrelson, and Channing Tatum. And it’s about the efforts to sell the idea of going to the Moon to the American people.

Leah Feiger: And I assume romance.

David Gilbert: I haven’t seen it, I don’t know. But, there’s one part of it where they decide in the movie to construct a fake Moon landing just in case the real Moon landing doesn’t happen. Just to be clear—

Leah Feiger: Oh. No.

David Gilbert: This did not happen, but this is the basis of some of the major Moon landing conspiracies. This goes back to what I was talking about last week, where it’s predictive programming. The Moon landing conspiracy groups on the internet have exploded claiming that this is what actually happened.

Leah Feiger: Oh, God.

David Gilbert: So, the Moon landing conspiracy, which they just take away, they’re there all the time, it’s fine. But, they’ve kind of exploded into life in the last week since this movie has been released. And they are absolutely convinced that NASA, or the U.S. government, or someone, or Nixon from beyond the grave maybe is telling them through this movie that what they believed all along is true and that the Moon landing is fake. But again, that’s not true.

Leah Feiger: Amazing. Oh, that’s such a good one. Wow. All right. Big fan. Makena, what do you have?

Makena Kelly: Wow. Mine is also centered around a movie that just came out. So, before everything happened over the weekend, I was going to … What my husband and I do, we love, if there’s nothing to do on a Saturday, we love going to Chili’s and then going to a movie.

Leah Feiger: Oh my gosh. Actually, I have to tell our listeners that when I called you and was like, “It appears that Trump was shot.” You’re like, “Okay, I’m leaving Chili’s now. I’ll be home in 10 minutes.” Arguably, one of my favorite things you’ve ever said to me. Continue.

Makena Kelly: And so, I had to cancel my tickets and get a refund. We were going to go see Long Legs with Nick Cage.

Leah Feiger: Oh, fun.

Makena Kelly: And this reminded me of an old Nick Cage conspiracy theory that he was born during the Civil War and is a vampire.

Leah Feiger: Oh, my God. Wait, this is not real. This is not a real conspiracy.

Makena Kelly: No, it’s 100% real. There was an antique seller 10, maybe 12 years ago or something, who found this old Civil War picture of a guy who looks remarkably like Nick Cage, and he went to the press, he was like, “Stop the presses. Nick Cage is a vampire.” And Nick Cage was forced to respond to it and be like, “I don’t drink blood.” And so, yeah, that’s what I was reminded of this weekend.