In this September 2016 episode of the Stuff They Don't Want You To Know podcast, hosts Ben Bowlin, Matt Frederick, and Noel Brown discuss the moon landing conspiracy film Operation Avalanche with director Matt Johnson.

Did the U.S. government stage the 1969 moon landing?

In a 2022 rerun of a September 2016 episode of the Stuff They Don't Want You To Know podcast, hosts Ben Bowlin, Matt Frederick, and Noel Brown ask filmmaker Matt Johnson how the moon landing could have been faked.

Johnson is a director of documentary-fiction films designed to blur the lines between reality and fiction.

Johnson discusses his conspiracy thriller Operation Avalanche, a head-spinning documentary-fiction film about CIA agents faking the moon landing.

Operation Avalanche was released in 2016 against the backdrop of former President Donald Trump's election campaign.

This was a time when public distrust in the U.S. government was inflamed, and the term 'fake news' became key to the political zeitgeist.