How many trees did you sacrifice for that $11? I'm picturing you sitting at the kitchen table with a mountain of tiny paper squares feeling like a big spender. The real kicker is those digital deals were just sitting there the whole time, probably laughing at you from your phone. At least you finally did the math instead of going another four years. Better late than never, but man, that's a rough way to find out.

Digging into the history a bit, the Soviet angle is only partly true and Ron probably oversold it. The USSR did push some doubt in the early 70s through outlets like Pravda and even made a whole movie about a faked landing, but they never really pushed the full "we never went" idea because they were tracking the missions themselves and would have called it out at the UN if they could prove it. The modern hoax thing mostly grew in the US in 1976 when a guy named Bill Kaysing put out a book called We Never Went to the Moon, and that's the source almost every later claim pulls from. So Russia poked at it, but the story you're reading now is way more homegrown than Ron made it sound. Did he show you any actual historian sources or just Youtube docs and blog posts?