The following recording may or may not include instances of words being said that the FCC would find me for if their long arm could ever reach.

Friday, July 19th, 2019 from Slated to the Gest-Dime Mike Pesca, man walked on the moon 50 years ago tomorrow, which is to say 49 years during the 60s.

It was a pretty huge event, I would say, in America's obituary, its first paragraph type stuff.

It was a strange event in that its promise and its execution are both marked by two extremely famous quotes that each have something wrong with them.

So Neil Armstrong is the execution part, said that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

But he meant to say that's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. Furthermore, it didn't just mean to say it, he says he did say it, and the audio equipment swallowed the A.

It does make sense, since generally speaking, man and mankind, similar, if not synonymous.

Then there was JFK in 1962 announcing the moonshot on a day so sweltering in Houston that behind him, Lyndon B. Johnson, was just frequently wantonly mopping his head with a curt chief.

We all remember, I think we remember, or at least have seen newsreel footage of JFK talking that day.

We choose to go to the moon.

We choose to go to the moon and disdicate and do the other thing, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

Decade, decayed, and like when he said, and the other things, some such, that grab bag of things.

What is that? What are these other things? I don't know, I'm too fixated on decayed. When we bring the moon rocks back, we hope they have not decayed.

And we will go right to the moon. We will not take a detour.

I don't know, no one does a JFK anymore, they do a mayor, Quimby.

Anyway, reading that speech, I came across this, right? This is, I was in 1962, September, 1962.

I came across this from the coverage of the rice student paper, while in Houston, the president also conferred for about 45 minutes with Democratic gubernatorial nominee John Connolly.

So in 14 months and 10 days from that moment, both of those men would be in the motorcade in daily plaza. One wounded, one killed. That is history.

Now, I was thinking back on that history, and when we had the anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, it was a big deal.

I think the moon landing is getting more coverage, and in general, the good things and the accomplishments are remembered more because they can both be remembered and celebrated and not just remembered and mourned.

And this is true with 9-11, which was of course a huge event, but I do not sense to this point that the anniversaries that are divisible by five have been that much more significant in terms of media coverage societal attention than the anniversaries that haven't been.

But I was talking to a publisher, someone who works in publishing the other day, and he notes that baby boomer nostalgia is waning.

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