Big whip, you say? Well, take a look at my location. The Bad Astronomer was on German TV.
One of the regional stations was running a show on the moon hoax last night. They spent a lot of time going over the “evidence” of a hoax, but did have interviews with debunkers scattered through the show.
I thought it was pretty cool. My (german) wife thought the moon hoax believers were idiots.
The hoaxers are just plain nuts. Our favorite one kept referring to the JFK assasination and the moon hoax as though they were related and that every one was aware of it. It atcually seemed that this clown thought that Kennedy was killed by his own advisors because he believed (as his advisors had led him to believe) that the US could reach the moon - and that they had him killed because they knew it was impossible and that he was on the verge of finding out that it couldn’t be done.
We laughed a lot, except for those moments when you sort had to think “Oh my fucking God, there are people that stupid out there?”
I had the unfortunate chance of meeting a moon hoax believer a few weeks ago. He was also a skinhead white supremacist, thought his best friend sitting right next to him was Iranian. I can’t imagine a person more lost to the ways of the world.
Anyway…cool that you saw the BA!
I did that interview last year, and was told the show would be skeptical. I have heard that it was actually more supportive of the hoax idea; the show last night must have been a repeat. Oh well. I’m glad you recognized me though. 
Well, you know that Iranians are the real Aryans, right? Heh.