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April 14, 2025 - Info Warrior - Jason Bermas
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Katy Perry And The Space Babes Ready For Lift Off!!!
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We think too much and feel too little.
More than machinery, we need humanity.
We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, as if that's the way it's supposed to be.
We know things are bad, worse than bad.
They're crazy.
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My life has value!
You have meddled with the primal forces of nature!
Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives.
Tell you what to do, what to think, or what to feel?
Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder?
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Hey everybody, Jason Bermas here and it's time to talk Space Babes.
Now, I've talked about this briefly before and the fact that there was going to be this all-woman mission led by Bezos' girlfriend and Katy Perry in a star-studded Blue Origin rocket ship to the sky.
Now, here's the deal.
This is all about the perception by the public of what space travel is and can be.
Because at the end of the day, this isn't really quote-unquote space travel.
The people on board this ship are not classified as astronauts.
Creating a commercial industry for the wealthy based on very, very limited rocket technology.
It is also to highlight this amongst the public so that they can believe in fantasy land missions like human beings utilizing the same rocket technology to go to the moon or Mars.
It's a big, big part of that.
And, I mean, when you read some of these headlines, it's cartoon level, but this whole thing is cartoon level.
Now, first and foremost, I don't want people to think that I don't think that there could be an all-woman, quote-unquote, manned, yes, pun intended, mission anywhere in space.
That's not what I'm saying here.
Have the most qualified people, for sure.
And especially when you were talking about the realities of space travel and what occurs on the ISS, you're actually doing a lot of scientific work, okay?
That's the reality there.
So man, woman, whatever, I want the best people out there.
Just putting that out there for everybody who thinks, oh, he's a Masai.
He used the term babes, space babes.
Guys. This is a sexualized sell on one end for the guys.
Look, it's sex.
Katy Perry, it is like a rocket ship or whatever that song is, right?
A firework?
She's like a firework.
But then on the other side of this, it's also like the women empowerment thing, right?
It's like the Sandra Bullock thing that you were prepared for with gravity.
Is awesome.
I love that film, but it is fictitious sauce on so many levels.
On so many levels.
In fact, look, I realize that we have those pictures of those untethered astronauts.
For those that don't know what I'm talking about, is while you're working outside, I am extremely skeptical of that.
Every time I see it, or via the ISS, Which, again, is in low Earth orbit.
I think it's something like 240, 250 miles above the planet.
This journey is only going to be taking place, I think, about 60 plus miles, 61, 62 miles into the air, somewhere in like 100 kilometers.
And they'll probably talk about it in kilometers if they talk about it at all, just to kind of boost those numbers.
Low Earth orbit.
And really, what you could probably get in a non-commercialized, well, commercialized in some sense, but a militarized balloon, like a NASA balloon.
You get up there, no problem.
In fact, there's a whole array, a whole network of satellites that are on those type of apparatuses as we have covered here today.
So, for this story, we're going to hit just a few of the Prince stories, and then we're going to hit the national mourning story, because one of the other astronauts, you know, for the ladies, for that ladies' empowerment, especially the elderly boomer crowd,
is Gayle King, who made her bones as Oprah's best friend, has become a mainstream media narrative powerhouse.
Gayle King going on this thing, right?
And essentially this is, you know, a glorified trip to an amusement park.
Don't get me wrong.
You know, when I think about it, just to have that very, very rare experience of with my own eyes being able to see out of the capsule window, okay, and for myself see the planet in a way most human beings...
We'll only be able to see like this or eventually virtually.
Okay? I don't think that this is ever going to be commercialized to the point where everybody's just taking a trip and taking a ride, especially if we're dealing with rockets.
Okay? Rockets are expensive.
Rockets are dangerous.
Let me repeat that.
Expensive and dangerous.
And they continually talk when they're trying to sell this to you on the idea of reusable rockets, right?
And that's the other big...
So Blue Origin and SpaceX, although they have the same agenda, they represent very different things, right?
Like SpaceX isn't really talking about the commercialized aspects of these spaceships.
And there's one other point I want to hit on before we actually get to the stories and we get to the videos.
Is that in the 80s and 90s, right, you had the STS missions.
When you saw the STS, in fact, I have a little NASA rocket ship there.
You see it?
Let's bring it right over there.
See it?
Yeah, there it is.
It's on the rocket.
And it looks like a plane and a rocket.
And, like, my generation, like, envisions that, like, these are what the space missions look like.
They don't look anything like that.
They don't look at anything like that.
They're capsule missions.
You know, because that thing alone, you got to understand, it's on a rocket booster when it goes up.
And then that rocket booster goes up.
Bye-bye!
Later! Oh, bye-bye!
And that's if it doesn't explode.
And it's not just one rocket booster.
Again, these things go off in stages.
Boom, boom, boom.
Very complex.
Very volatile.
Very dangerous, throwing that out there.
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Putting the what in the where now?
Putting? The ASS in Astronaut.
Yes, that is an actual Daily Mail headline.
Okay, and I know it feels like idiocracy.
When you see things like that, and you even see Joker face there in the corner, Bezos' girlfriend, she frightens me.
To be very honest, she is a physically frightening woman to me.
I don't like picking on people's appearances, but I often tell people that, and look, I fixed my teeth.
I've got more work to do.
But at the same time, I look at my schnozola.
It could be a lot better.
I'm not itching to get something.
I'm going to die with this nose.
Hopefully. I have a very punchable face.
Hopefully it doesn't get broken over time.
And I have to do something with a dick a dick a do.
I didn't have the greatest ears as a kid.
They stuck out.
I can't see myself.
A lot of people ask me if I dye my hair because sometimes you don't see all these grays.
No, I just get a haircut.
Look on the top.
It's a little gel in there, a little water.
The grays are popping more and more because I'm aging.
I won't be dyeing my hair even.
I dyed my hair more as a teenager.
Than I ever will as an adult.
It just kind of creeps me out when I see somebody that is so, so, so heavily had work done.
And I get some.
I saw this one woman who had just an incredibly awkward nose and she transformed into a supermodel look.
Just like with the teeth thing.
Hopefully she's done.
When I see the fake lip filler stuff, when I see the Botox works, What does that say about the actual person?
But that's what they're selling you on.
And that's the new women empowerment, right?
Will Katy Perry sing in space?
And will the all-female Blue Origin rocket crew count as astronauts?
No, they won't.
And as I was telling you, if you take a look at this, here's the, you're going up ski.
And there it is at the peak, see?
So you go up ski, and there's a little, little thing, and that's you.
And the rocket goes boom!
And you go...
Wee down.
Little loop-a-de-loop.
That's what we're talking about here.
And a cover of Elle magazine for all womankind, the stars of Blue Origins, all-female flight.
By the way, it's taking place tomorrow.
All right?
And again, it's a PR stunt.
That's why we're highlighting it.
It's a PR stunt.
So that this is the focal point and the imagination land of Moon and Mars and all that is the focal point when we're weaponizing space, we're creating new communication systems there.
It's the new technology, right?
And we're pioneering other technologies vastly down the line through space and microgravity, right?
And we're told so little about it, but it's okay because there's a bunch of pretty ladies on the cover of Elle magazine that Big Daddy Bezos, you know, Papa Baze, is taken to space.
Not really, again.
So, with that being said, let's do it.
Let's play this.
And we had to cut some of the fireworks out.
But here's Katy Perry.
Talking fireworks.
Set to shoot across the sky Monday on Blue Origin's New Shepard Rocket alongside an array of accomplished women.
I am talking to myself every day and going, you're brave, you're bold, you're doing this to inspire so many different people, but especially young girls.
Oh, look at that walk!
Oh, oh, oh, oh, see what I mean?
This is a model shoot.
You're brave, you're bold.
I mean...
In one of these clips, they show the terrified look of William Shatner's face on this.
It is money, man.
Because Shatner's crying when he gets down.
Because it's so profound to him.
And who knows, again, what he believed before, what he believes after.
He's talked about it kind of almost as a religious experience.
But he just talks about how dark and grim and death-like space is.
And how this little blue thing.
On the bottom, this marble.
You know, that's where all the life is.
But we'll continue.
Their flight, the first with an all-female space crew since 1963, when the first woman in space, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, went up solo.
So, again, there is no all-female space crew.
And I talk about these things multiple times.
That no...
The Russians sent the first woman in space where they were kicking our butts well before Apollo took us to the moon.
And they also had the first multiple manned mission, which also included women.
This woman went up there a few times.
This was her solo flight.
It was about the best and brightest.
This mission led by pilot and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos' fiancé Lauren Sanchez, who spoke out recently on Today.
Jeff actually told me that.
He goes, you know you're an explorer.
And when he said, okay, why don't you take an incredible group of women up?
I was like, I'm picking all explorers.
Coming aboard, journalist Gayle King, producer Carrie Ann Flynn, scientist Aisha Bowe, and Amanda Nguyen.
So of those women, she's the leader.
The one.
That had her boobs out at the presidential inauguration.
She's here to lead.
Making history as the first Vietnamese and Southeast Asian woman in space.
My family are boat refugees from Vietnam, just like yours.
We came on boats and now we're on spaceships.
It means to me that within a generation we can do great things.
The 11-minute ride won't achieve orbit, but will send the crew soaring past the Carmen Line, the unofficial boundary of space, with sweeping views of Earth and about four minutes of weightlessness.
Now, I do want to say, because I know the crowd's going to get there, that picture, you don't see anything like that.
And actually, when you see the video from inside, we're doing two of these videos.
When you see the videos inside...
You know, the only curvature you maybe could get a little curve.
I mean, you're not that high up.
So the only curvature that you maybe, maybe get is emphasized by the fact that a lot of these, they're not fisheye cams, but they're often like 45 degree cams getting a little bit more in there.
So you'll see a slight, slight bend, but a lot of that's camera as well.
I mean, it's the same thing if you watch that Red Bull jump, where if you see the pictures, Pretty flat line.
And some of the, you know, depending on which picture you see, how bent that camera was via the lens and angle.
But let's get back.
Katy Perry, I mean, hey, we got some mid-boob here.
And she's going into space, everybody.
What I do when I reach weightlessness is just be present.
Taking the moment.
An unforgettable journey for six women ready for liftoff.
And Willie, these ladies will be going up in style.
Check out these new designer flight suits.
Blue Origins flights don't need the life support system of traditional astronaut suits.
And Lauren Sanchez said that she wanted to create something specifically for women.
And this is definitely that.
Willie? I mean, let's just stop it right there.
I mean, this is a Bernaysian PR cell.
1,000%.
I mean, is it anything else?
It's a fashion show.
I mean, we're at the cartoon level with our space program.
Now, that's the national stage.
On the more local stage, they're going to give it a little bit more time, and this is where they're going to emphasize the idea of commercialized space travel.
So let's take that away right now.
Countdown to liftoff, folks.
Monday morning, a historic space flight for Blue Origin is still on track.
That flight has a distinctive flight crew, an all-female crew, including one very popular and familiar, CBS Morning's Gail King.
Our Karen Borda speaking with CBS News correspondent Mark Strassman.
He is in Van Horn in West Texas, where he will watch that space flight.
Karen talking with him about the flight, what it means for so many, and what Gail's primary role will be.
She is a passenger.
She is just expected to do really no more than enjoy herself.
It's not all that dissimilar from being a passenger on a commercial plane, for instance.
No, it's more like a roller coaster.
Okay, because again, you are strapped in.
You are going to hit those high G-force moments.
Like, I would assume most of my audience has been on a plane at some point.
Yes, when you're doing that initial liftoff, do you feel a little bit of pressure?
Oh, we're moving.
Oh, we're moving.
And then that whoop, little lift, whoop, little liftoff.
Little liftoff.
From there, most of the G-forces are mitigated.
You really don't feel them, etc.
This is a very different thing.
I mean, the whole trip, I think, lasts like 11 minutes.
But I guarantee you, you are remembering those several minutes of...
Whoopity-uppity-doozy!
Guaranteed. She'll go up to the edge of space, about 62 miles above Earth.
At the top of the experience, she and the other five women aboard, and it is an all-female crew, are going to experience about four minutes of weightlessness, and then they'll come back down to Earth.
The parachutes will open.
They'll, with any luck, land gently in the desert a couple of miles from where they started on Jeff Bezos' ranch here in West Texas.
So it's going to be an 11-minute ride to remember for Gail and the other five women on board.
And Mark, as I mentioned, you have been covering Blue Origin since its first manned flight in 2021.
Tell us, how has the world of space tourism changed since then?
It's just taken off, Karen.
I mean, in the last four years, we've had more than 100 civilian astronauts on Blue Origin, on Virgin Galactic, in a more ambitious way on SpaceX.
They say more ambitious because with SpaceX, you actually had...
Did you see that?
Let's bring it back.
And here we are.
That's what I was talking about.
I mean, that's the kind of view you're actually going to get right there from space.
You see the line and maybe a little bit of curvature, but again, you could maybe attribute that to the type of lens.
But look at the look.
Look at the look on Shatner's face.
Blue Origin on Virgin Galactic in a more ambitious way on SpaceX, they say...
I mean...
Yeah. More ambitious because with SpaceX, you actually had civilian astronauts go into orbit.
This is a suborbital flight.
But for now, this still remains a very expensive individual thing to do.
It's mostly wealthy people who have been going through this experience.
And the theory, Karen, is that in time, with more regular launches on reusable spacecraft...
There is, again, no reusable rockets.
There's no regular missions.
The theory.
It's the theory of what we're going to do.
But again, this is to acclimate the public.
And by the way, showing them this, again, it's the final little booster on this thing.
It makes it look like a plane.
And rockets, that the price tag is going to begin to come down.
Not to the point where everybody can do it, but to the point where more people can do it.
It becomes more affordable as a price point for people who are looking for a very unusual experience as a tourist.
And Mark, just looking at the scenery behind you, it's clear that this launch site near Van Horn is so much different than what you'd expect to see at Cape Canaveral.
Can you describe what the scene's like typically on launch day?
Well, let me just stop you right there.
You know, one of the big reasons.
That, you know, when they're doing that over on the coastline, is they want their astronauts to land in the water.
And they're coming in from a much, much, much higher level.
There's a whole different aspect to that.
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, owns a massive ranch here in West Texas.
And in the middle of that ranch is what amounts to the Blue Origin spaceport, which includes the launch pad and the landing site.
And so it's very deserty.
You're right, it's not like Kennedy Space Center where you're used to seeing the water behind the rockets taking off.
This is much more of a desert environment.
It's very rural.
This town of Van Horn is a few thousand people.
It's about 30 miles from the launch pad or so.
But like everybody else, people here are excited just about what's happening with the launch because it brings a lot of excitement to a small town.
A lot of excitement to a small town.
And let me just say this.
Can you imagine all the black sites?
Why do you think Area 51 was in New Mexico in the desert?
Outside of rocket technology, they want large spaces that they can test these things on that are extremely rural.
That if something goes wrong, they can do recovery.
All right?
And we get a small, small sampler, if you will, of what's actually going on.
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