Oh lord, I did not expect to be speaking about this topic for a second time this week. Heck, I didn't even think I was going to speak about it for the first time. But here we are. Because if you thought that the first time we spoke about it was a hard watch, it has somehow got even more embarrassing because now they've had the time to, you know, do interviews and those sorts of things. And man, one of the passengers, Gail, she straight up doubled down and called herself an astronaut. Have y'all been to space? But, you know, when we first spoke about it, I thought that it was more the media that was making these bold and massive claims and uh it was it was them hyping it up and then I assumed like when the actual passengers had their time to speak about it, there would be a lot more humility about what they did, more realism. But boy was I wrong. dare I say that it is now bordering on delusion. And I don't say that lightly. I still have a hard time calling myself an astronaut. And then there's also the whole side of things where the internet is now calling the whole thing fake. And they're saying that it was staged. Yes. They're pointing to things like the launch and descent looking AI generated that the landing was, you know, too hard for them to not get injured. And they're pointing out the fact that the door capsule was opened from the inside and then was quickly shut when they realized, oh no, don't do that. only for then Bezos to reopen it pretending that he had to use this whole like you know wench to to get it open. Now there are actually explanations for all of that which we will get into. Oh and also one thing that we have to address. Alex Alex made the allegation that I Katy Perry because yes if you've been an OG of the channel you'd know that I too didn't go to space but was in zero gravity. So we will address the heinous accusations from within. from within the News Daddy Empire. Unbelievable. Sad day. I never thought citizens would betray the Supreme Leader. So for that, Alex, put yourself there and let's stop the yapping and let's crack bad boy. Second one for you. Okay, so I want to start the video with uh an interview from one of the passengers, Gail King. Now, for anyone who doesn't know who she is, she's a presenter on CBS and quote an awardwinning journalist. And actually, the key point there being, you know, the word journalist, right? Because towards the end of the interview, she is asked by the interviewer how she feels about all of the criticism about, you know, it being a waste of money, a quote gluttonous expense or trip for the rich. To which she replied, you know, I think it's good that we can really address it. I really do love it because I was one of those people before I went on this flight and before I became educated in space. Why are we spending so much money in space when there's so much to do here on Earth? So, an award-winning journalist said, "I used to feel how you guys feel. Um, but then I got educated." And then she proceeds to only talk about the good things that Blue Origin is trying to do. She then continues by saying that every time they go into space, they get information and then drops the astronaut line. Every time a flight goes up, they get some type of information. Two of the astronauts, I still have a hard time calling myself an astronaut. Oh, this part is just so wild because like I said in the previous video, for the vast majority of astronauts, they spend their lives training to get that opportunity to go into space. And then when they actually do, it's usually for days, maybe weeks, or even months. like the astronauts that we've spoken about so many times on here and because of that the training that they would have to do on just the safety aspects alone would be years probably. I mean due to the fact that they themselves would have to manage and often times operate very intensely complicated machinery and craft like Alex show what the ISS looks like from the inside and the stuff that you have to operate that is insane and that's what they have to operate. The flight with Blue Origin is fully autonomous end to end. You don't have to do anything. You get in and you buckle up. Then when you get to space, you unbuckle. You float around. You get back in your seat. You buckle up again. So to double down in an interview after all the world has already made fun of you for saying that you're an astronaut to then say you have the same title as as someone who has trained for 20 years and has spent 9 months in space on the ISS and has received flat eyeballs is wild. I I don't like that people are calling it a ride. A ride. You know, you never see a man, a male astronaut who's going up in space and they said, "Oh, he took a ride." Oh lord. I guess we knew this was we knew it was coming. But yeah, she brought gender into it. I like I I don't even understand how this is about being a woman. Like women have gone and done this exact journey and no one has really said anything. It's the media that really made a big deal about it. And then obviously some of the passengers, everyone watching is like why is why is this what has this got to do with gender? In fact, I've watched this entire video of um this lady Emily Caladrreni, I think it is, and she literally did the exact same trip that they just went on 2 months ago and posted the whole video on YouTube. And when she was recording, she literally called everyone passengers. This is our space capsule. Every passenger has their own window. And in the comments after she posted the video, no one was mentioning the fact that she was a woman. In fact, it was overly positive because I guess she wasn't over dramatizing the trip that she just did or made it out to be some, you know, accomplishment for women around the world. Her comments were extremely positive. I just showed this to my fifth grade class. They were blown away. Thank you for creating opportunities for classrooms to have great discussions about remarkable things. And you know what it says on Emily's about section on Google. Emily Dawn Calendarelli is an American science communicator, engineer, author, spaceflight participant, and television presenter. You see, that's a better definition for this trip. Because if you think about it, the word astronaut, the definition of the word astronaut is probably before there was such a thing as space tourism. So Gail and Emily went on the exact same 11-minute flight, but only one of them came back down and called themselves an astronaut. And you can see the exact difference. Both of them TV presenters as well. Both of them women. And the reaction completely different. So, it's not anything to do with gender. Oh, but it it gets worse. We actually duplicated the route that Alan Shepard did. Oh my gosh. Do you know who Alan Shepard is, guys? Allan is the fifth person who walked on the moon. So, it's not just an astronaut. He Allan is not just an astronaut. He walked on the moon. It's It's just bizarre. Like it's so wild that you can watch something like this and it's it's nice to see that people aren't buying the delusion. This really kind of feels like it's either the, you know, the legacy media and the legacy personalities. They've either completely lost touch with the common man or this is the kind of stuff that they always tried to frame it as. But now maybe we've just come a long way from just like nodding and being like, "Yeah, amazing." Someone in the comments said, "The toxic positivity is real." And I'd actually never really heard that term before, but I feel like it matches this perfectly. She then goes to talk about how many young girls she is inspired to do the same. I mean, I feel like we would all want our youth to kind of maybe let's shoot for something higher than paying for a space tourism flight, but yeah. Okay. And then she says this, "I know there are cranky Yankees. I know there are some haters, but I'm not going to let people steal my joy and steal the joy of what we did or what we accomplished that day. I'm just not going to let it in. I am not going to let the haters take away what we accomplished." But I mean, that's that's the real question, isn't it? What what was the actual accomplishment? Because I am 100% in agreement. Like, you can frame it as a personal accomplishment. You know, you faced your fears. It was a It's objectively an insane mission to go on and a scary thing to do, but to be like an accomplishment and frame it as like for all of humanity and young girls that are being inspired, it's like getting into all of the moving vehicles that we get into all the time. If you are not the one operating that vehicle, then the accomplishment is not yours, it's the operators. And to be fair, it's worth mentioning I do kind of feel bad for the two women who are arguably the least vocal about the whole trip, but actually like have qualifications and backgrounds that make a lot more sense as to why they wanted to go. Aisha Ba, for example, is a former NASA rocket scientist and aerospace engineer. And Amanda Nuen has a degree from Harvard University where she studied national security and astrophysics. And she was training to become an astronaut. But now, unfortunately, uh, the internet has just labeled them with a flatout like, "Oh, the passengers that went on that that random time when Katy Perry went to space." Anyway, sorry. Let's let's let's move on from that part because we also got to talk about the next portion, which is why everyone's like, "Oh, it was fake. It was staged." Now, a couple of the main points here is that one, they say that the footage looks fake, that it was, you know, AI created. People have run these through AI detectors. It comes out at like 0%, maybe between 0 and 5%, nothing meaningful. I mean, you could make the case, oh, it's not AI, it's CGI, but at this point, it doesn't really matter because we've literally seen this Blue Origin trip multiple times now. This is their 11th journey. It's real. And one of the journeys, Emily, she filmed the whole thing. So, and it's not even unique to Blue Origin. There's many companies now that offer these, you know, commercial flights just into space. There was also that landing when they were like, "No way. That landing would have like broke your back." But in the actual capsule to kind of like break the landing, there is this shot of air that kind of pushes it up once and then it hits and so it kind of like breaks the fall. So, and you'll see in Emily's clip, she shows that there'll be those two jolts. So, it's one air and then two. A little bit more. You can hear the thrusters thrusting. That's stabilizing our capsule as we ascend back down to Earth. Wow. [Music] Yes. [Music] So, it softens the landing. And then the one part about the whole operation that I don't really have an answer for exactly is the door opening from the inside. So, as Alex is showing you right now, you can see someone open it from the inside. And then another lady comes, you know, says, "Close the thing." And then moments later, good old Jeffrey comes uh back and he uses this big old wrench and then he opens it and he says, "Welcome home." with all of the cameras there. Now, I don't really know why he wanted to pretend like he was the one that had to open it because this capsule can, as we just saw, be opened from the inside. I mean, if you go on the Blue Origin website, it literally says right here, "These astronauts conducted a series of tests from within the capsule, including coms check with the capsule communicator, procedures for entering and exiting the capsule, and pre-launch preparations within the capsule. So, the most likely answer to why they opened it from the inside is not that it's just completely fake, but more so that it was just one of those, you know, photo opportunities, video opportunities for Jeff to be like the guy that opens it, you know, he owns the company. Come on, Jeffrey, you can do it. And it's just ultimately PR. It's all PR. And that kind of summarizes the whole mission. They had all the right ingredients. You know, they didn't pretty much advertise all of the other ones apart from maybe their first or second. But then on this one, they obviously got the celebrities in there, which is what everyone was like, why have you got celebrities? They had the perfect politically correct tagline, which is like the all first all women's flight to space. You had Oprah crying in the footage to be like, "Oh my god." But despite all of that, you know, it's still a space tourism company that is selling space tourism for $500,000 a ticket. Everything else is just nice packaging, you know, to make it entertaining. And this time at least, it got called out hard. But then, hey, we got to we got to we got to address myself because as a I'm not even a journalist, but uh as a wouldbe journalist, um you got to you got to sort talk about the negative side, too, which I refute heavily. So, as you may know, I too went on a little mission. Try not to die. Oh my god. Oh my, you know where I am. Um whereas mine was like two and a bit hours and we've spoken about it before. You go up and you'd go down and you have about 20 seconds of zero gravity and you do this 31 times. When I got out, yes, I kissed the floor. All right. Well, I didn't I don't know if I kissed the floor, did I? I I laid on the ground. But that was because at about uh parabola 10 or 11, I started feeling incredibly [Music] sick. And so I sat in the thing and I had to go for another few more hours just dying of sickness and pain. So when I got to the ground, Alex, it was relief. It was pain relief. And I would also say that I'm pretty sure it was Alex that called us space daddy. All right, Alex's fault yet again. However, I did come back with two um from the European Space Agency, two badges which I proudly put on the wall. So, hey, maybe I'm just the problem as well, huh? No, I'm not. Alex is just trying to, you know, Alex is just trying to sew dissent inside from within inside the empire, which I'm cutting out right now. Alex, for that kind of descent from your supreme leader, I want a real juicy picture of you right there. Okay, no fluff. Don't try and be go easy on yourself and put a majestic picture with you and your fancy beard. No, I want to see you at your lowest. Put them Put yourself there, Alex. Descent and false claims of the empire. I sentence you to three whipping and to remind everyone to subscribe. God, the universe is trying to protect you, huh? Well, you can't. How dare you descent? The empire. Hope you learn from that, Alex. I slide neatly into a hole. I get longer if you pull me. I fit snug in between breasts. I choke people when used incorrectly. And I work well when I'm jerked. What am I, bro? This isn't even funny. That's actually shocking. All right, we didn't find out the answer. What was it? Obviously, I'm a seat belt. [Music] All right, that's the video. Stop the yapping and get wrapping up. That's pretty good. Stop the yapping and let's get wrapping up. I will see you for a actually, I might see you tomorrow. I might see you tomorrow. Maybe. If I don't see you tomorrow, I'll see you next week. Woo!