Chuck Zito

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So Neil Armstrong died over the weekend.

He was 82.

He died after complications from open-heart surgery, which I have to say has got to be the worst because you have the surgery, you think you're fine, or your family thinks you're fine, and then boom, you're not.

Right.

Well, speaking of how dangerous it was, Nixon had a speech written for him in case it didn't work.

Yeah, in case it's in the event of moon disaster.

This was on BuzzFeed today.

This is what the speech would have said.

Yeah, I do.

Fate has ordained the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.

And it goes on.

But yeah.

And then there's even instructions at the bottom that say prior to the president's statement, the president should telephone each of the widows to be.

And then after the statement, so it was all sorts of instructions.

So they were ready for this whole thing to not go so well, to not be a giant leap for mankind.

Between you and me, he's a little more presidential anyway.

Yeah, it's smart.

And so now the two parties in my favorite joke are both dead.

So in honor of this passage, what's the difference between Neil Armstrong and Michael Jackson?