Moon Landing, Tomatoes, and the Death of Certainty | 1/16/25

Moon landing questions and cultural skepticism are no longer fringe ideas. They are quiet conversations happening everywhere.

On this episode of At The Mic Friday Happy Hour, Keith Malinak is joined by Brad Staggs and Kelly Smith for a winding, unscripted journey through nostalgia, government trust, real estate trends, AI, trivia, prohibition, technology, and personal stories. The conversation does not move in a straight line. It drifts, doubles back, stumbles into absurdity, then unexpectedly lands on something honest. What begins as jokes about tomatoes and microphones slowly becomes a reflection on memory, authority, and how easily truth bends when no one is looking too closely.

This is not an episode about answers. It is about the unease that comes when the story you were given no longer fits.

Chapters:

• 00:00 Nostalgia, Memory, and First Assumptions
• 10:05 When The News Sounds Fake
• 18:19 Why Everything Is Gray Now
• 43:00 Identity, Family, and Inheritance
• 46:51 America Tried To Ban Alcohol
• 48:15 Facts That Break Your Brain
• 01:00:51 Jail Stories and Human Reality
• 01:12:28 Technology Running Our Lives
• 01:22:30 Government, Trust, and Doubt
• 01:46:50 AI, Simulation, and What’s Next

So be honest. Did we land on the moon, or did we just land on a really confident story?

If this episode made you laugh, question history, or suddenly distrust tomatoes, tell us what moment sent you down the rabbit hole.