Le Show For The Week Of May 31, 2026
Le Show
Harry Shearer
4.6 • 972 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here it is! |
| 0:03.0 | From deep inside your audio device of choice. |
| 0:08.3 | Ladies and gentlemen, you know by now probably, |
| 0:11.6 | that two different rocket mishaps happened this week. |
| 0:20.5 | A rocket from the stable of rockets at SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk, didn't ace its splashdown. |
| 0:35.5 | And the competing rocket firm, Blue Origin, owned by Jeff Bezos, its rocket exploded in flames on the launch pad during a test in Florida. |
| 0:52.5 | Days before it was planned to launch internet satellites for Amazon, |
| 0:59.0 | also owned by Jeff Bezos. |
| 1:00.9 | How about that? |
| 1:02.0 | The company said it had experienced an anomaly during today's hotfire. |
| 1:07.7 | Hot fire! |
| 1:08.9 | That's a pre-flight procedure in which the rocket was loaded with fuel, |
| 1:13.3 | and its engines were fired to test systems. Blue Origins said all personnel were accounted for, |
| 1:20.1 | and it was investigating the incident. Multiple employees told Financial Times, |
| 1:24.6 | an initial assessment of the site showed severe damage to Blue Origins-only launch pad and other equipment, including a lightning tower, and transportor erector, pardon the expression, used to lift rockets into position ahead of launch. |
| 1:40.6 | The failure was expected to severely impact the company's launch plans this year. |
| 1:46.5 | Quote, very rough day, Bezos posted on X, quoting again, but we'll rebuild whatever |
| 1:54.9 | needs rebuilding and get back to flying. It's worth it. Unquote. Meanwhile, all of his cutbacks at the Washington Post, |
| 2:06.8 | which he also owns, remain in force. They won't rebuild that and get back to reporting, apparently. |
| 2:16.2 | And... |
| 2:17.3 | Bomb, bum, bum, bomb, bomb, I ran. Bam, bum, apparently. And... Bam, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, |
| 2:19.3 | bomb, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, |
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