The Feminist Celebrity Astronauts Who Saved the World | Episode 24
The Brett Cooper Show
Brett Cooper
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There is truly nothing more unsurious than a bunch of female celebrities flying into space in a dong-shaped ship while claiming that their astronauts saving humanity. |
| 0:09.5 | But alas, that is 2025. |
| 0:14.1 | So last Monday, we all watched as Blue Origin took its 31st flight into orbit with an all-female crew, which included Katie Perry and Gail King, |
| 0:24.4 | aka Oprah's best friend, because that's the only reason we know Gail King, and Lauren Sanchez, who is Jeff Bezos's fiancée. |
| 0:30.7 | And guys, this flight into space was propped up as some sort of historic endeavor, because this was Blue Origin's first female crew. |
| 0:37.8 | It was the first all female crew that had ever gone to space since 1963. |
| 0:42.3 | And because of that, it turned into a whole girl power movement. |
| 0:45.8 | And leading up to this trip has just been a lot. |
| 0:47.9 | Like, I have wanted to talk about this on the show probably for months at this point, |
| 0:52.0 | but I have been waiting to watch this actually transpire to see what happened when they went into space before we did an all-encompassing recap. |
| 0:58.7 | And, guys, it was better than I ever expected. I mean, the actual trip, the fallout, the PR crisis, it has been so juicy and incredible to see. |
| 1:07.6 | There was so much PR. We had been talking about it for months. Everybody was taking it so seriously because it was going to be this profound and impactful |
| 1:14.8 | endeavor on society, these six women being thrust into space. Like, I literally thought that they |
| 1:19.9 | were going to space for a few days. I thought that they were in training for months, that they were |
| 1:23.9 | going to go up to the International Space Station. Like, I've never paid attention to the Blue Origin flights like that's Jeff Bezos's company at space tourism. |
| 1:29.3 | I had no idea what was going on, but I literally thought that this was a serious endeavor. |
| 1:33.3 | But no. |
| 1:34.3 | The trip was 11 minutes long. |
| 1:36.3 | Just take a look at this graph. |
| 1:38.3 | They leave Earth, they pop right up just into orbit so that they can look down and see Earth, and then they immediately come back down. |
| 1:44.3 | Like, they experienced zero gravity and weightlessness |
| 1:47.0 | for about three minutes. |
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