The Fun of Conspiracy Porn: "Ron Howard Says The 1969 Apollo 11 Moon Landing Was Faked In A Studio"

Ron Howard Says The 1969 Apollo 11 Moon Landing Was Faked In A Studio 
 

It's a good thing that this is such a crappy video. I mean, if you are attracted to this one because of its title, then you are hoping that it will deliver what it promises: proof, real proof that a good, solid conspiracy actually happened. This is one of those videos that makes you feel a little tingly because although we enjoyed suspecting that the moon landing was a hoax, we never really expected it to be proven ... but here you have it. So take that, Doubters!

Why would it be good that the video is crappy? Well, let's face it, if the sound is poor and you can barely hear what you're supposed to hear, and the editing and continuity are high school level and the logic of the points presented jumps around a lot... well, that contributes to its believability... It's as if you are eavesdropping on space aliens from under water. You can almost make out what they are saying... they're talking in a language you can almost understand... you are seeing things that almost come into focus... if you could just... Hey, this is Conspiracy Porn, and fuzzy and out of focus is good!

This one is so whacked out that I had to do considerable re-watching and re-listening and web research to piece together what it's even supposed to be showing us.

But let's be clear, if you can press through the problems with this video, you do see Ron Howard explaining that the 1969 Moon Landing was faked and that he knows this because he was on the set of the show Gentle Ben and witnessed something-er-other related to the faking, which proves... SOMETHING, I guess. After all, it makes good sense that (sarcasm alert) if NASA and the CIA and the American News Media Establishment are going to hoax the population of the world, then they are going to do it on the set of a heartwarming weekly television drama about a family and a wild bear. And to add some authenticity and gravity to this, the producer of this video shows us some photos of the cover of a TV Guide that references Gentle Ben. There you go!

By the way, the clip of Ron Howard revealing this secret to actor Jason Bateman is not surveillance footage. Rather, it's lifted from the TV show Arrested Development.  And  we can see why Mr. Howard, even though he stole our hearts as the little boy, Opie, in the Andy Griffith Show and again as an earnest, awkward teenager in Happy Days, left acting to become a director/producer. I mean, his acting, as he delivers the lines about the faking of the Moon Landing, is pretty poor.  It's not at all convincing. nor was it meant to be, it simply carries the story forward. That story was intended to be enjoyed as an over-the-top, audaciously fantastic bit of UN-believability delivered awkwardly, but in a straight ahead deadpan. But here the scene has re-emerged over a decade later in a new context,  one in which Howard, playing the part of a famous celebrity with insider knowledge, actually drops real proof that America's greatest technological achievement was just some TV special effects.

OK, so we're given Ron Howard's smoking gun statement and the cover of a TV guide... so far, so ridiculous, but  from there the level of proof goes precipitously downhill. And you gotta love it, as we are treated to additional proofs like the explanation that the play on words "AstroNOTs" is strong evidence that we've never been in Space or to the Moon. :) :) :)

But hey, it's not all conjecture. No, we are presented with science, too, real (4th  grade level) Astro-Physics, as the narrator here asks the essential question, "Just what exactly is it that rockets push against in Space? Rockets (have) never been in Space... period!" This line of "prooving" goes on and on for some 10 minutes plus. In the end, though, you gotta admire this effort at a documentary expose... some borrowed footage from a long forgotten TV show  some voice over narration done with a cheap microphone, some screen captures of photos of NASA projects and text explaining them, etc. etc. and 'Presto!' out comes a conspiracy video to upload to YouTube. And this one has garnered close to 400,000 views, mind you...

So, did the maker of this video actually believe his own thesis? Does he actually expect his viewers to be convinced? Does any of this matter at all? This is YouTube content, folks, that's what matters!

But wait, there's more! (as Ron Popeil would say); there are videos that prove that the Lunar Landing hoax isn't a hoax at all, it really happened. And who has the credibility bonafides to make this case? Well, for one, there's someone almost as famous as Ron Popeil, although not nearly as famous as Ron Howard, Dr. Michio Kaku. Which brings me to the video titled "Michio Kaku Owns Moon-Hoax Believer". 

In this video, Professor Kaku (futurist, physicist, popularizer of science, and professor of Theoretical Physics at the City College of New York), in what is actually audio lifted from one of his popular science radio talk shows, Science Fantastic, does, in fact, give more good reasons that the hoax interpretations of lunar landing news footage are WRONG and that the landing was genuine and wouldn't be doubted by anyone with half a brain, than we could ever hope or stay awake for. Period! Yes, the caller is sincere and articulate, but, alas, he's no match for a real  scientist. Sigh!