Episode 277: Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood and Top 5 Kid POV Movies

Better bring a ladder to this episode, because we’re reaching new heights!  Join Robert and Ira as they discuss APOLLO 10 1/2: A SPACE AGE CHILDHOOD and share their top kids’ POV movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or Google Podcast Music.  So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a kid growing up in Houston in the late ‘60s and your dad has a not very interesting job at NASA, and you’re told by NASA officials the space capsule they built is too small to hold an adult astronaut, so they need you to ride it to the moon and it’s a covert operation so you can’t tell anyone, and you also reflect on what it was like growing up at that time and reminisce about sneaking into drive-ins with your family and playing with fireworks and riding in the back of trucks and all the TV shows including The Monkees and Janis Joplin on Dick Cavett, and so you went to the moon but you can’t tell your family, and finally it’s the big day of the Apollo 11 launch and you’re glued to the TV with your family watching Walter Cronkite, but of course you’ve already been there done that, and on the other big day when the astronauts set foot on the moon, instead of watching TV, you’re at an amusement park with your siblings riding a really cool ride on tracks in a fake mountain, then this podcast is for you!

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