Joe Rogan mocks Blue Origin space flight guest Katy Perry: 'Basically a guru now'
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Joe Rogan has joined the long line of critics of the all-female Blue Origin space flight.
“Hey Tim Dillon, I’m much better now that the ladies are back from space, thank you,” Rogan said to guest and comedian Dillon at the beginning of his podcast released Saturday.
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“It was very profound. I don’t know if you’ve seen Katy Perry talk about it, but she’s basically a guru now,” he said sarcastically, the New York Post reported.
Perry was joined by former NASA engineer Aisha Bowe, astronaut Amanda Nguyen, CBS morning host Gayle King, film producer Kerianne Flynn, and Blue Origin founder-billionaire Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sánchez on the 11-minute fight April 14.
For starters, Rogan wasn’t impressed with Perry bringing a daisy along for the ride as her daughter with actor Orlando Bloom is named Daisy, and the flower itself is hardy.
“Daisies are common flowers, but they grow through every condition,” Perry said after the flight, calling them “resilient.”
Countered Rogan: “She brought a daisy, which is super important. It shows you how quick the flight was. The dead daisy that’s like snipped from its life source was still alive or still vibrant.”
Rogan also compared the female crew’s training to what other astronauts have to learn.
“Let’s celebrate female astronauts because a lot of men astronauts, they have to go to school, they have to learn to be a pilot first, then they have to join the Air Force or the Navy and then get appointed by NASA,” Rogan said.
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NASA has sent 64 female astronauts into space along with at least 11 more from other space agencies. The Blue Origin flight marked the 104th woman to travel past the Karman Line, which is the internationally recognized edge of space.
Officials weren’t sure to call the Blue Origin crew “astronauts” because they failed to meet certain Federal Aviation Administration criteria.
“The crew who flew to space this week on an automated flight by Blue Origin were brave and glam, but you cannot identify as an astronaut. They do not meet the FAA astronaut criteria,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said last week.
FAA guidelines say for someone to be considered under the Commercial Space Astronaut Wings Program, they must demonstrate “activities during flight that were essential to public safety, or contributed to human space flight safety.”
“They essentially got to the threshold of space,” said Rogan. “They did not get like way out there where re-entry is very traumatic. How great is it that they just get called astronaut?”
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