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America’s historic return to the moon after 57 years is about to launch · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  You're listening to the hidden lightness on America Out Loud Talk Radio.
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  I'm your host, Jimmy Hinton.
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  Sometimes we need kids to pull us back to reality and remind us that there's a world that exists outside of the world that's been created by the media.
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  I know I harp on the media a lot, but they really do influence us a lot.
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  Whether we know it or not, whether we like it or not, um, they really have a lot of influence on us, and they kind of shape our world view.
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  And they are um, shall we say, shapeshifters?
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  They they shift the way that we view people, they shift the way that we view society as a whole, and they really shift culture at least as much as possible.
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  Now, people still maintain individualism, but that's not celebrated, at least by a lot of people.
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  You know, you're supposed to go along with the masses, you're supposed to be outraged.
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  That's what we're told.
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  You're supposed to be livid at the things that are going on.
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  So at any rate, my oldest son, he made a comment just the other day, and it really uh I I've not been able to shake this, and it was really cool, but he had a lot of excitement, and he said, Dad, you know that we're sending people to the moon in just a few weeks.
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  And I was like, wait, what?
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  You would never know this.
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  And I I check the news, I mean, uh, multiple times every day.
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  I'm probably probably actually a little addicted to the news.
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  I read the news constantly.
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  I have new news feeds everywhere.
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  I check all kinds of different news sources, and I've not seen a single thing about this.
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  And I knew that this was coming.
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  I you know, my kids and I watch as many launches as we can.
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  I just think it's really cool.
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  We try to spot Starlink satellites.
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  That's always a really cool experience.
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  We got to to view Starlink satellites on a biking trip that I did with my kids, an overnight biking trip.
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  That was really cool.
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  We had peddled something like 27 miles, and we were just we were exhausted.
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  We had just cooked a big fat steak over a fire, and my goodness, the whole the whole day and and night were magical.
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  And what a cool experience for my sons.
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  And then we happened to be walking down to get showers, and we looked up, and there was zero light pollution whatsoever.
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  I mean, we're out in the middle of nowhere.
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  And we look up and we see just the most magnificent stars.
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  You can see the Milky Way just crystal clear.
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  Then you we we spotted this row of Starlink satellites, and it was just the neatest experience, and uh, you know, stuff that you don't get to see every day.
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  So we love all things related to space.
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  It's just it's really fascinating.
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  It's really cool, and it's a testament to what we're capable of whenever we are unified.
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  And it goes back and it reminds me of the Tower of Babel, right?
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  In the Bible, when God came down and confused the languages because people were working together to build this massive wall and to build it up to the heavens, and God confused the languages partially because uh, you know, this was idol worship.
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  They were they were uh turning inward.
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  And they were they were saying, look at look at what we can do.
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  Basically, we don't need God.
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  And uh my how prophetic that was thousands of years ago for what's happening today.
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  But at any rate, God confused the languages, and he said there's nothing that's impossible if man can come together and be unified, right?
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  If man comes together and they're unified, there's absolutely nothing that man can't accomplish.
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  And it's kind of scary when you look at some of the things that that we're accomplishing today.
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  Uh, but uh on the other hand, I'm not that fearful because number one, God is always in control, he always has been.
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  Number two, I don't think we're nearly as unified as what the people were when they were building the Tower of Babel.
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  There is a lot of unrest.
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  There are way too many people who are just pitted against each other, even though the technology is insane.
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  The the the amount of things that we're able to do today, it's just incredible.
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  But I want to do a little bit of a compare and contrast, lest we believe that we're smarter now than we've ever been before.
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  I don't think that's the case.
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  Now we're incredibly smart, don't get me wrong.
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  It's absolutely stunning what we're able to accomplish.
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  But I think this whole lunar landing is such a really cool phenomenon.
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  And it's been, yeah, this year will be in July, it'll be 57 years since we first landed on the moon.
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  57 years.
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  The last time we landed on the moon was 1972.
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  There have been a total of 24 people who've been to the moon, 12 of which, half of those have stepped foot on top of the moon.
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  I mean, uh incredible what we were able to accomplish in the 60s.
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  Absolutely stunning.
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  And no, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.
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  I don't think that uh we never landed on the moon.
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  There are plenty of people who are like, well, if we landed on the moon in 1969, and we last landed on the moon in 1972, why has nobody ever been able to do it ever since?
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  And it's a valid question.
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  It's a good question.
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  But on the other hand, Elon Musk has talked about this, and he talks about how we lose, we lose technology over time.
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  And that's just that's how mankind is.
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  But it talked about, you know, of course, the the whole movie is about the hidden figures.
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  The the genius mathematicians who are behind the impossible math that got us to the moon.
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  And of course, we were trying to beat the Soviets, right?
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  Well, we're trying to beat them to kind of flex our power as the the dominant world power and show that we had the the most uh the sophisticated the best programs on planet earth, literally.
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  And boy, did we prove it.
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  But Elon Musk talks about how over time we lose technology and we lose it actually a lot faster than what people think.
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  So, for example, he talked about the uh the pyramids, the adjustment pyramids that are 3,000 years old plus, and he said, if if we were to try to go back and build with the same tools that they had, if we were trying to try to build the pyramids today, we couldn't do it.
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  It's an impossibility.
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  We've lost the technology.
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  We don't have the math that they used.
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  Uh, we don't know what technology they used.
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  We have theories, we think we know-ish.
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  But he said when when push comes to shove, if we actually try to rebuild the pyramids or build them from scratch to mine the stones, to get the stones from the quarry to the middle of the desert, to uh to hoist them on top of each other, to do all the calculations and figure out how to get it just perfect, the way that they did, we wouldn't be able to do it.
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  And that's a really interesting phenomenon, and you hear me bark about this too.
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  It's kind of a kind of a soapbox of mine, but I talk about the technology of cars.
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  While cars are technically technological, right?
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  We have the the we have the computers and we have the touch screens and all the stuff that the cars do, and you know, they seem really sophisticated, or the self-driving stuff that they put in the cars.
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  They seem really, really sophisticated.
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  However, the general mechanics are absolutely terrible.
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  They're eighty thousand to a hundred thousand dollar pieces of crap that are on wheels.
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  I mean, essentially, it's it's what a lot of cars are now.
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  In fact, I would argue most cars.
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  They they've forgotten how to build a decent engine.
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  As we've quote unquote advanced, engines break down far more than they did 20, 30 years ago.
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  That's a fact.
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  Transmissions.
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  We uh can not build a transmission to save our lives.
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  Engineers have lost the ability to build a decent transmission that's going to last for three, four hundred thousand miles.
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  They used to.
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  They used to be able to build transmissions that didn't need rebuilt after 50,000 miles.
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  So we've really walked backwards when it comes to engineering because we're losing that technology.
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  We're losing the ability, and as as they put more and more regulations on cars.
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  We they're constantly tweaking and trying to make things better and more efficient.
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  We've lost the ability to build a really efficient, decent engine and transmission.
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  So that's you know, just a couple of examples.
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  So it kind of explains how we've lost the technology.
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  You know, it's not that we're not motivated, it's not that we don't want to, although the program has been radically defunded since the 60s.
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  You know, that was a huge part of our national budget.
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  And we can thank JFK for that.
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  And I'm not being sarcastic.
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  I mean, he legitimately wanted us to go to the moon, and he said, we need to make this happen before the end of the decade.
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  And lo and behold, they did.
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  They faced so many uphill battles.
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  And so many complications.
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  And uh, you know, they the if if you watch hidden figures.
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  I'm not a math genius.
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  My kids are, I'm not.
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  I I am not, I don't know, somehow it skipped a generation with me, but uh watching the movie, it just a lot of things were really over my head.
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  But my takeaway was they basically invented math that didn't exist to make this work, and they figured it out.
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  And it was a group of black women who figured this out.
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  You know, they were the true heroes in in the story of America making it to the moon, but they were the hidden figures.
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  Right?
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  It was right in the the heat of the civil rights movement.
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  And uh they didn't unfortunately didn't get the credit that was deserved.
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  But they were the real heroes.
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  And it's absolutely fantastic, and what a cool uh history and what a piece of history.
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  These are the things we ought to be talking about right now.
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  Then in just a few short weeks.
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  We are going to.
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  I mean, it's this is going to happen.
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  Now let's pray it's a successful mission.
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  But we're sending people to the moon.
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  They're not going to land on the moon.
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  They're just gonna orbit.
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  And so my son was explaining this to me, and he's like, Dad, how cool is that that they're they're we're gonna orbit the moon for the first time since the 1970s.
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  Humans are gonna orbit the moon, and they're gonna come back to Earth.
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  And uh, you know, in just a few short years, we will get to witness in our lifetime man setting foot on moon.
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  We'll get to watch it live.
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  Like they did in 1969.
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  Why are we not talking about this on the news?
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  Instead, it's you know, and Elon Musk plays a very big role in this.
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  I mean, very big role.
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  And his engineers.
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  And yet we get crickets.
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  The media is so bum hurt by Elon Musk.
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  They're still I mean, I'll be surprised.
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  This is my prediction.
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  Uh, the because, right, the the left-wing media, they're not gonna change.
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  They're not gonna have an aha moment and all of a sudden start to be fair and honest and uh cover news on both sides and cover big stories like this, even though the person behind it, they they really don't like right.
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  Honest journalism is it's just it's out the window with the mainstream media.
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  So my prediction is that most news organizations, they're not gonna cover this.
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  They're not gonna cover it in March or April, which is when it's slated.
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  I'll talk about the dates.
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  Uh there are very specific dates because they have to use very, very specific windows.
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  The moon has to be in the proper place in its rotation around the earth.
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  Everything has to be just perfect.
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  And that plays into these impossibilities.
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  You know, basically, a whole bunch of magic has to happen all at the right time.
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  All these dominoes have to be lined up.
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  They have to fall in exactly the right time in the right manner and the right speed for for any of this to happen.
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  I mean, it's absolutely miraculous.
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  But I'll bet you that most of the media is not going to cover this.
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  They're not going to cover it live.
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  Unless they think it's going to help their ratings.
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  But, you know, even then, I'll be surprised.
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  I think they're going to die on their hill that Elon Musk is just a he's a he's a Nazi, right?
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  That's that's what they covered.
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  That's what they were saying.
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  They covered his wave, you know, when he waved to his audience.
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  That was on a constant news loop.
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  And I just don't think they're gonna cover it.
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  Folks, we're going to the moon and we're going there soon.
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  By we, I mean humans.
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  And by we, I mean Americans.
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  We're going to be the first to step foot on the moon again.
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  Other countries don't have a date until after 2030.
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  While Americans are years ahead of that.
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  And I think it's really fascinating.
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  I think it goes back to this whole America First agenda.
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  And people are so livid about that.
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  And they don't want to hear it.
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  They they want to talk about how bad America is and how awful it is and how racist it is and how homophobic it is and how terrible and oppressive it is to live here in the United States.
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  And ironically, they want a whole bunch of illegals to rush back into the country.
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  The country that they hate, the country that's racist, the country that's awful and oppressive.
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  If it's so awful and oppressive, why do they want so many people to come here from so many different countries?
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  Now, I happen to believe that America is great, that we're blessed, that we're in a very good position globally to be a world leader on peace and order and economic success and intelligence.
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  And that's what Trump is talking about.
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  We're a great nation, and we welcome people to come here so long as they do it legally.
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  And uh anyway, that's another topic for another day.
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  But this America First agenda is not a bad thing because it shows what we're capable of, and it shows how we're able to research and we're able to look into space, and I get excited about this too because of the faith element, because I firmly believe that the more we look into space, the more it points to God.
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  And I know other people are they're scared of that, or they they kind of see the opposite.
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  The more we look into space, the more we see that there is no God.
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  But I really really think that it just proves how massive and immense and powerful God is and uh for us to have the ability to go there for Americans to lead the way, just shows how advanced we are.
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  And uh, I don't know if you saw this, but you know, I happen to love, I love the F-35.
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  The F-35 is just so cool.
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  But we just shot down just a few days ago.
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  We shot down an Iranian uh, it was a drone that refused to stand down, and it got a little bit too close to one of our our carriers, and so we launched an F-35 and shot the thing down.
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  It probably never saw what was coming.
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  The technology that's built into the F 35s is absolutely astounding.
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  It's incredible.
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  You know, America first means that we defend our nation, that we defend our allies, that we're positioned to be so advanced that we prevent world wars, and that's what this is all about to me.
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  This is this is about uh, and I think to not just me, I mean to to many, many, many people, including our president.
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  Technology, being advanced in technology means that we're not asleep at the wheel.
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  It means that technology is always going to advance.
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  Yes, we do forget certain technologies, but we also advance in other areas, and that means that we need to be on guard.
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  We need to be defensive, we need to play both offense and defense, we need to be prepared.
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  And that's exactly what Trump grilled NATO on.
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  He absolutely decimated them and said, You people are nuts.
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  You know, you're buddying up to Russia, you're striking all these oil deals with Russia.
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  He's like, Do you do you think that America's proud of this?
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  Do you think that we're gonna stand behind you?
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  He said, You guys are setting yourself up for absolute destruction.
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  And he was right, he was 100% right.
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  So being technologically advanced, it's it's really a power play.
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  And President JFK understood this, he got this.
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  So uh, you know, the Apollo 11 mission occurred just eight years after President JFK announced the national goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s.
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  And it's a shame that he didn't live to see it.
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  I think he would have been so proud.
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  And uh just such an honor to see what Americans are capable of.
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  Apollo 17, the final manned moon mission took place in 1972.
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  So JFK pledged to start the Apollo program, and boy did he.
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  In a joint uh special joint session of Congress on May 25th, 1961.
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  President Jeff K said, I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth.
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  At that time, the U.S.
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  was still trailing the Soviet Union and space development.
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  Cold war era, America welcomed Kennedy's bold proposal in 1966.
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  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, known as NASA, conducted the first unmanned Apollo mission.
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  It was testing the structural integrity of the proposed launch vehicle and the spacecraft.
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  That combination.
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  There was a tragedy on January 27, 1967 at Kenny's Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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  There was a fire that broke out during a manned launch pad test of the Apollo spacecraft and Saturn rocket.
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  Three astronauts were killed in that fire.
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  And I think this just shows you the sheer determination, the grit and determination that we were going to beat the Soviets.
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  We were, no matter what, we were going to beat them.
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  And we also developed the famous SR-71.
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  Uh one of the most beautiful planes that has ever been built.
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  Just such a modern marvel, and uh you really need to look that up and look at the history behind the SR-71 and how we were able to rob materials out of the Soviet Union.
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  We were able to literally steal metal, not steal, but uh we were able to get to purchase metals without them knowing that we were purchasing the metals because we needed those metals to actually build the spacecraft or aircraft.
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  I mean, absolutely incredible what the American people, when when we're determined and we put our mind to it, it's incredible what we can accomplish.
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  And that's why I can't, I can't stand all this rhetoric that you know uh America's a bunch of deplorables, Hillary Clinton, bunch of deplorables.
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  Really?
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  You know, they want you to believe that we're all a bunch of redneck banjo playing toothless people who we need the government.
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  We can't survive without the government.
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  That's what Mam Donnie is.
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  I mean, I did the the show yesterday about Mamdanny's New York.
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  At the heart of socialism, it's the belief of these power hungry people that people can't survive on their own.
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  They can't survive without the government.
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  And so we need to rob from the rich people who probably ripped people off to get wealthy anyway.
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  So, you know, it's our duty to take from them.
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  And we quote unquote give back to the poor people.
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  We just give all these freebies.
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  Meanwhile, the reality is that it's the poor people who suffer.
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  Look at Venezuela.
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  My goodness, look at Venezuela, look at Cuba.
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  Look at North Korea.
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  Look at China.
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  You know, it's the poor people who suffer.
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  And look at New York City.
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  Who were these 16 deaths?
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  It wasn't the wealthy people.
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  It's the most vulnerable.
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  It's the poor.
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  It's the homeless.
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  The people, the very people that socialism vows to protect and to give all these freebies to, you know, we're going to give free housing.
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  No, you're not.
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  We're going to give free groceries.
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  No, you're not.
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  We're going to give free transportation.
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  No, you're not.
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  Instead, what they get is Mam Donnie just, you know, accidentally, in air quotes, accidentally forgets to prioritize the homeless and to get them out of out of the cold.
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  We had this cold snap in the Northeast, very cold temperatures.
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  And you know, Ma'am Donnie says, well, um, I'm doing the best, you know.
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  I'm I'm new, I'm a new mayor, and I don't see how things can be any better.
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  We're doing the best we can do.
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  Meanwhile, his mansion is pristine, spotless.
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  And right across the street.
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  There are piles and piles of rat-infested garbage and mounds of snow that are eight to ten feet high.
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  You know, so you you look at the there can't be a stronger contrast, in my opinion.
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  There can't be a stronger contrast between the exceptionalism that President Trump is pursuing.
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  He wants us to be excellent.
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  He knows what we're capable of.
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  He knows what our military is capable of.
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  People flipped out with Pete Hagseth.
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  Right?
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  They were absolutely losing their minds because he's like, look, we can't have obese generals that can't do a single push-up, and they're leading an entire army.
• 31:48
  You can't do that.
• 31:51
  We got to be fit.
• 31:54
  Everybody, everybody needs to be in shape.
• 31:57
  We need to be fit mentally, physically.
• 32:01
  And people were losing their minds.
• 32:03
  That's that's so discriminatory.
• 32:07
  You can't do that.
• 32:09
  There's a trophy for everybody.
• 32:13
  Trump comes back and he's like, no, there's not.
• 32:16
  And I think honestly, JFK would have agreed.
• 32:22
  Do you think JFK wanted a bunch of people sitting around eating chips, bags of chips with crumbs all over their bellies that are hanging out because their shirt can't cover their belly.
• 32:31
  You know, they're sitting around chewing on chips.
• 32:36
  You know, saying, uh, we'll get there.
• 32:39
  We'll figure it out.
• 32:42
  No, he he ran a tight ship.
• 32:44
  He was like, we have got to beat the Soviets.
• 32:46
  We've we've got to do it.
• 32:49
  By the end of this decade, we will have man step foot on the moon and return home safely.
• 32:58
  Absolutely incredible.
• 33:00
  Absolutely inspiring.
• 33:04
  So at 9 32 on July 16th, as the world watched, Apollo 11 took off from Kennedy Space Center with Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins.
• 33:20
  Armstrong, 38-year-old civilian research pilot.
• 33:23
  He was the commander of that mission.
• 33:27
  They traveled 240,000 miles in 76 hours.
• 33:40
  At 146 p.m., the lunar module Eagle, which was manned by Armstrong and Aldrin is separated from the command module where Collins remained.
• 33:54
  This is an article from history.com.
• 33:58
  Excellent, excellent.
• 33:58
  I'll link to it in the show notes.
• 34:02
  Two hours later, the Eagle begins its descent to the lunar surface, and at 417 p.m.
• 34:10
  The craft touched down at the southwestern edge of the sea of tranquility.
• 34:17
  Armstrong radioed mission control in Houston.
• 34:22
  The Eagle has landed.
• 34:26
  At 1039 p.m.
• 34:29
  Armstrong opened the hatch of the lunar module, made his way down the ladder.
• 34:36
  There was a television camera attached to the craft that was recording it and beaming the signal back to Earth.
• 34:47
  And uh at 1056 p.m.
• 34:52
  Armstrong steps off the ladder and plants his foot on the moon's powdery surface.
• 35:00
  And he spoke his famous quote, that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
• 35:09
  Aldrin joined them 19 minutes later.
• 35:13
  And together, they snap some photographs and they plant the U.S.
• 35:18
  flag, which still sits on the surface of the moon.
• 35:26
  It's absolutely incredible.
• 35:27
  They spoke with President Richard Nixon via Houston.
• 35:33
  It's so cool.
• 35:34
  And we're coming back to this moment in history.
• 35:39
  And right now, look at what the news is covering.
• 35:45
  You know, there's there's hardly a whisper of this in the news.
• 35:50
  Almost virtually nothing.
• 35:52
  And I think it's gonna stay that way.
• 35:54
  And it's unfortunate because our kids, you know, my my son, he watches for this kind of stuff.
• 36:00
  I'm like, how did you hear about this?
• 36:02
  And he's like, well, I had to search because he's like, you know, I remember you talking about that we're going to the moon this year.
• 36:09
  It's the beginning of the year.
• 36:10
  He's like, I don't want to miss it.
• 36:13
  So even he knows, you know, if you're relying on the news, you're probably gonna miss it.
• 36:20
  There have been some really cool launches, and the news just doesn't cover it.
• 36:26
  You can find it on YouTube.
• 36:28
  That's where we watch our live streams.
• 36:32
  But we've gotten to see some live launches, and some of these are accidentally.
• 36:40
  We were watching back in the fall, we were watching a meteor shower, and we happened to watch uh uh we caught a really cool rocket launch.
• 36:51
  I forget which one it was now, but I mean it was stunning.
• 36:56
  Absolutely 100% stunning, and this is the kind of stuff that that parents ought to be encouraged to get their kids outside, and to watch these kinds of things.
• 37:10
  But sadly, virtually none of America knows about it because it's not being covered on the news.
• 37:17
  Instead, it's just it's the rage bait stuff about how awful America is and how racist we are and how you know we've gone back in time a hundred years because of racist Trump and you know, his side partner Elon Musk.
• 37:35
  And meanwhile, look at what's happening.
• 37:38
  Look at the advancements.
• 37:40
  It's so exciting.
• 37:40
  We're living in exciting times.
• 37:42
  So, you know, this is not to harp on the left and you know, the negative news, but instead it's it's it's just to say there is a contrast, and we're living in exciting times.
• 37:52
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• 40:04
  We're going to the moon, baby.
• 40:07
  This is the year that we're sending man to the moon.
• 40:11
  Now we're not going to land on the moon, but we're going to orbit the moon.
• 40:16
  And these are the first series of test runs before we actually do land on the moon.
• 40:22
  And it's been nearly 57 years.
• 40:25
  This July will be 57 years since we first landed on the moon in 1969.
• 40:31
  And I can't wait.
• 40:36
  So good for America.
• 40:39
  I can't get over it.
• 40:41
  And my son is the one who pointed this out to me because I just I don't see it in the news anywhere.
• 40:48
  It is in the news.
• 40:49
  Don't get me wrong, but it, but this stuff gets buried.
• 40:52
  So just in the last couple of days, this week, there have been announcements about uh about NASA's launch to the moon.
• 41:01
  So here we go.
• 41:02
  Here's an NBC news article.
• 41:05
  This uh pretty good article about this.
• 41:07
  NASA said on Tuesday that it was delaying its mission to send four astronauts on a journey around the moon.
• 41:15
  After issues arose during a critical test of its rocket.
• 41:20
  Um mission managers were conducting an elaborate launch day walkthrough known as wet dress rehearsal at Kennedy Space Center in Florida when engineers detected leaking hydrogen at the base of the space launch system rocket.
• 41:39
  NASA was forced to end the test with around five minutes and 15 seconds remaining in the simulated launch countdown.
• 41:49
  So yeah, kind of a sad day, but they'll figure this out.
• 41:55
  This uh these kinds of hiccups are not that uncommon.
• 42:01
  That's why they do tests.
• 42:02
  That's why they uh, you know, they're very, very cautious.
• 42:08
  And trust me, it's much better to delay a launch than to have one little mistake and to launch that you know and get ahead of yourself.
• 42:20
  So I like that they're being cautious.
• 42:23
  Uh I think they have to be cautious.
• 42:27
  And this just it's par for the course.
• 42:31
  Uh the article says shortly after 2 a.m.
• 42:34
  Eastern time on Tuesday, NASA announced that it would forego February's launch window, which lasted until February 11th for the Artemis 2 mission around the moon to allow teams to review data and conduct another wet dress rehearsal.
• 42:52
  The agency said it'll aim for March as the earliest possible launch opportunity.
• 43:00
  So it has launch opportunities available from March 6th through 9, and then on March 11th, and then a few additional dates in April if needed.
• 43:13
  So John Honeycut, the Artemis 2 mission management team chair said to me the big takeaway was we got a chance for the rocket to talk to us, and it did just that.
• 43:26
  It's kind of an interesting way to put it.
• 43:30
  Uh, he said, before we ask our crew to go fly on launch day, we've got to put the rocket through uh through a whole bunch of tests, right?
• 43:41
  The elaborate team, the elaborate practices.
• 43:45
  Um it's designed to put the rocket and the team through their paces before we fly on launch day.
• 43:52
  Well, that's pretty smart.
• 43:54
  Probably a good idea.
• 43:57
  But the NASA's wet dress rehearsals, it's a standard part of the process, right?
• 44:05
  The they do this all the time.
• 44:09
  And uh, yeah, NASA administrator Jared Isaac man wrote on X with more than three years between SLS launches, we fully anticipated encountering challenges.
• 44:24
  That is precisely why we conduct a wet dress rehearsal.
• 44:28
  These tests are designed to surface issues before flight and set up launch day with the highest probability of success.
• 44:38
  So there is 700,000 gallons of cryogenic propellant inside of this rocket.
• 44:48
  That is absolutely incredible.
• 44:52
  Absolutely incredible.
• 44:53
  This thing is massive.
• 44:57
  It takes a lot of fuel to get this thing into proper orbit to line it up for the moon.
• 45:05
  So uh man, I can't wait for this.
• 45:08
  I'm so excited.
• 45:10
  I literally can't wait.
• 45:12
  I'm I'm like a little kid on the on the edge of my seat, just waiting for this to happen.
• 45:20
  So let's look at who the crew is, and then talk about the possible launch dates.
• 45:28
  All right.
• 45:28
  So, first of all, who's the crew?
• 45:33
  It's a crew of four, made up of NASA commander Reed Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialist Christina Koch.
• 45:43
  I think that's how you say K-O-C-H.
• 45:47
  A second mission specialist, Jeremy Hanson of the Canadian Space Agency will also be on board.
• 45:54
  Wiseman's a U.S.
• 45:56
  Navy veteran of 27 years.
• 45:59
  He's a pilot and engineer.
• 46:00
  He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
• 46:03
  He was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 2009 and served as flight engineer aboard the International Space Station for Expedition 41 in 2014.
• 46:17
  Glover was selected as a NASA NASA astronaut in 2013.
• 46:23
  He previously served as the pilot of SpaceX Crew 1 and holds three master's degrees.
• 46:33
  He was born in California, is married with four kids.
• 46:37
  And Christina grew up in Michigan and became an astronaut in 2013.
• 46:43
  She worked on the ISS in 2019, setting a record for the longest single space flight by a woman.
• 46:55
  She also participated in the first all-female spacewalk.
• 47:00
  And Hansen joined the Canadian Space Agency in 2009 after a career as a fighter pilot.
• 47:08
  He became the first Canadian to lead astronaut training at NASA's Johnson Space Center and will be the first Canadian to go to the moon.
• 47:18
  So again, we hear about all these tensions with Canada and how you know Trump, Orange Man just ruined everything, and Orange Man got Canada to hate us.
• 47:35
  This huge event.
• 47:36
  We're going to the moon.
• 47:40
  And we're partnering with Canadians.
• 47:43
  And on board, we'll be the first Canadian ever to go to the moon.
• 47:49
  We're making history.
• 47:52
  We're literally making history.
• 47:54
  And yet you have orange man bad, orange man bad, like on the constant news cycles.
• 48:02
  And I get that there, you know, there are definitely big issues.
• 48:07
  There are big issues going on in the world.
• 48:10
  But it's just the constant negativity.
• 48:11
  There's no positive.
• 48:14
  This is huge.
• 48:17
  This is a huge news event.
• 48:20
  And again, it's one that unites families.
• 48:23
  I'm telling you, if you take your kids out and you even get into space a little bit.
• 48:30
  Do stargazing.
• 48:33
  Check for satellites.
• 48:36
  Get a star app on your phone.
• 48:39
  And just take your kids out.
• 48:41
  And if you live in the city, if you live in a place that has a lot of light pollution, take them out to the country.
• 48:45
  It's worth it is definitely worth the trip.
• 48:51
  I have a brother who lives in a city and he does this routinely with his kids.
• 48:56
  And I love it.
• 48:56
  I think it's the coolest thing.
• 48:58
  And I think part of that was driven by us growing up in the country.
• 49:02
  You know, you kind of take that for granted when you get into places where it has a lot of light pollution.
• 49:09
  And you forget that, man, when you're when you're a kid, the views are absolutely phenomenal.
• 49:14
  And I got to tell you about this.
• 49:15
  This is this was really cool the other day.
• 49:17
  So on Sunday, my my sons love the cold.
• 49:23
  We all love winter time.
• 49:24
  We just we're snow bunnies.
• 49:26
  We love it.
• 49:28
  Can't get enough of it.
• 49:30
  And part of that's because all these people are complaining all the time.
• 49:34
  And we just want to show people that you can actually go out and have fun.
• 49:38
  You should be outside more than you're inside.
• 49:41
  Doesn't matter the time of year.
• 49:43
  Doesn't matter how cold it is.
• 49:45
  We've had temperatures pushing 15 below zero.
• 49:51
  My kids and I are still outside.
• 49:54
  If 15 below, we we're outside.
• 49:56
  We have a hot tub.
• 49:57
  We go out, we hot tub, we sled.
• 50:01
  My boys like to snowboard.
• 50:04
  We just love the cold.
• 50:05
  We love the winter.
• 50:06
  So on Sunday, they were kind of restless after church, and they said, well, we want to go outside, and uh we want to play in the snow.
• 50:15
  All right, where do you want to go?
• 50:16
  Well, we don't know.
• 50:17
  They're kind of him humming around.
• 50:19
  Well, I had this idea.
• 50:20
  It's been so cold for so long.
• 50:22
  We like to go out whenever our our local lake freezes over.
• 50:26
  It's just a small man-made lake.
• 50:28
  And we love to go on top of the lake.
• 50:30
  It's just, it's it's kind of surreal and it's quiet.
• 50:33
  Nobody's out there.
• 50:34
  Nobody goes on top of the lake.
• 50:37
  So I said, hey boys, you want to go out to the lake?
• 50:40
  Yeah, let's go.
• 50:41
  So we went out by this time, it's late afternoon.
• 50:44
  And we go out there, and we got to see the most beautiful sunset on top of that lake.
• 50:51
  I mean, absolutely gorgeous sunset.
• 50:56
  And the sun is setting in the west, and there's uh the there's a mansion that sits on the hill, and so the sun is setting right next to this mansion, and it's just it's it's absolutely gorgeous.
• 51:08
  And we have our sleds, and we're sledding down the hill towards the lake and just kind of goofing off having a good time.
• 51:14
  Our footprints were the only footprints on top of the lake.
• 51:18
  Literally, not one person had walked across this lake.
• 51:22
  And uh we we walked the entire way across the lake, clear to the other side.
• 51:26
  And it's just it was so fun and so peaceful.
• 51:29
  And um as the sun sets, we see this gorgeous breathtaking sunset.
• 51:36
  I look over and I see a corner of the moon starting to rise above the trees.
• 51:43
  And I was like, boys, check this out.
• 51:46
  And it turned out that it was a supermoon.
• 51:49
  I didn't even know.
• 51:50
  Number one, I didn't know it was a full moon.
• 51:53
  And number two, I didn't know that there was a supermoon, so this was a complete surprise for us, which made it even better.
• 52:00
  And we just sat on the ground and we watched, we watched the moon rise as this supermoon just so huge and deep, deep red colors.
• 52:10
  We watched as the moon slowly rose over top of the treetops on top of this frozen lake.
• 52:17
  And it was just gorgeous.
• 52:18
  It was breathtaking.
• 52:20
  But these are the kinds of things, you know.
• 52:21
  If we get away from the madness of the media and talking about how awful the world is and how corrupt it is, and how we're all getting screwed over by everybody, and there are all these racist people and all these hurtful people and all these criminals that are out to get us.
• 52:36
  If we actually step away from that and walk out into the real world, and we do that with our children, we do it with our families.
• 52:46
  It's such a peaceful contrast.
• 52:52
  And what I felt in that moment as I'm sitting there with my two sons, and we're just we're taking in literally every breathtaking view from every angle.
• 53:03
  What I realized is that you know, life really isn't that bad.
• 53:11
  Now I know this, I already know this, but it's such a good reminder, and we need those moments.
• 53:18
  We need those moments to go out, and and you're making memories.
• 53:22
  My kids will never forget that.
• 53:26
  I'll never forget that moment.
• 53:30
  And it just it was it was a spur of the moment, like, hey, let's let's go out, let's goof off and go sit on the lake.
• 53:37
  It was it was something like I don't know, 13, 14 degrees whenever we went.
• 53:42
  I mean, it was cold.
• 53:45
  But it was it was wonderful, such a wonderful moment.
• 53:50
  Such a memory-making moment.
• 53:54
  And us going to the moon, just it reminds me of how insignificant all of our worries are.
• 54:03
  That the earth looks like this tiny little marble when you view it from the moon.
• 54:09
  And I can't wait to see the images that come from that.
• 54:13
  I can't wait to hear interviews from the astronauts and what that was like to experience that.
• 54:18
  I mean, it's just gonna open up a whole new world to us.
• 54:23
  It's so cool.
• 54:26
  So uh great, great crew.
• 54:29
  What a wonderful crew.
• 54:30
  Um let's see.
• 54:33
  Will Artemis 2 land on the moon?
• 54:35
  No, this mission is again to lay the groundwork for a lunar landing by astronauts and the Artemis 3 mission.
• 54:43
  Artemis 3 is going to be the one that will take astronauts and they'll actually step foot on the moon.
• 54:49
  That'll take place by 2028, even though experts think that's pretty ambitious.
• 54:59
  Um the spacecraft to actually touch down on the lunar surface has not been determined yet.
• 55:06
  It's either going to be SpaceX's starship lander or a craft designed by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin.
• 55:14
  My guess is SpaceX.
• 55:17
  It's in my opinion, much more advanced than Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin.
• 55:26
  New space suits made by U.S.
• 55:28
  company Axiom are not ready yet.
• 55:33
  But when Artemis 3 finally flies, the astronauts will be heading to the moon's south pole.
• 55:41
  After that, we will have a sustained human presence on the moon.
• 55:47
  Artemis 4 and 5 will begin building gateway, which is a small space station circling the moon.
• 55:55
  That will be followed by more moon landings, extra sections being added to gateway, and new robotic rovers operating on the surface.
• 56:06
  This is absolutely incredible.
• 56:07
  More countries are going to be involved in keeping people living and working on and around the moon for many, many, many years to come.
• 56:18
  I mean, how is this not news?
• 56:21
  How is this not dominating the national news?
• 56:26
  We hear crickets.
• 56:30
  Absolute crickets.
• 56:31
  Don't miss this opportunity, folks.
• 56:35
  Don't miss the time, the opportunity to watch this with your kids.
• 56:39
  Keep watching for the dates.
• 56:41
  There are very specific dates.
• 56:43
  I had a chart, but now I've seemed to have lost it.
• 56:48
  Um see if I can find it real quick.
• 56:51
  Nope.
• 56:52
  I lost the article.
• 56:53
  I don't know what I did with it.
• 56:55
  But the dates are in March and April.
• 57:00
  March and April.
• 57:02
  Check routinely.
• 57:04
  Check for these dates.
• 57:05
  You don't want to miss the live launch.
• 57:08
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• 57:25
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• 57:27
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• 57:29
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• 57:38
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