The Brett Cooper Show
The Feminist Celebrity Astronauts Who Saved the World | Episode 24
Mon, 21 Apr 2025
Last week, Katy Perry and 5 other feminist celebrities embarked on a groundbreaking, 11-minute trip into space. Brett breaks down this monumental expedition — and how it has forever changed the course of humanity. Stick around for a special message at the end!The Brett Cooper Show on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@bbrettcooperBy joining Cooper Confidential you are directly supporting me and my team. You’ll get ad-free episodes, exclusive ‘Dear Brett” videos, and a private newsletter Sign up now: https://cooperconfidential.supercast.com/Get 3 months free and check out over 10,000 guided prayers and meditations that will all help you grow closer to God when you sign up at http://hallow.com/cooperGood Ranchers: Get a year of FREE MEAT and $40 off with code BRETT: https://www.goodranchers.comTaylor Dukes Wellness: Go to https://shop.taylordukeswellness.com and use code BRETT for 10% offAn Evening With Brett Cooper Tickets Now on Sale!Austin: https://www.capcitycomedy.com/events/111681Atlanta: https://atlanta.heliumcomedy.com/events/111709Irvine: https://www.ticketweb.com/event/brett-cooper-irvine-improv-tickets/14302563?pl=irvineimprovHuntsville: https://www.ticketweb.com/event/brett-cooper-huntsville-levity-live-tickets/14302583?pl=sul-huntsvilleAddison: https://www.ticketweb.com/event/brett-cooper-addison-improv-tickets/14305563?pl=addisonimprovHouston: https://www.ticketweb.com/event/brett-cooper-houston-improv-tickets/14305603?pl=houstonimprovPhoenix: https://phoenix.standuplive.com/shows/309839Miami: https://www.miamiimprov.com/shows/309840FTL: https://www.daniaimprov.com/shows/309841#BrettCooper #TheBrettCooperShow #BrettCooperShow
Chapter 1: What was the Blue Origin all-female space flight about?
So last Monday, we all watched as Blue Origin took its 31st flight into orbit with an all-female crew, which included Katy Perry and Gayle King, aka Oprah's best friend, because that's the only reason we know Gayle King, and Lauren Sanchez, who is Jeff Bezos' fiancée. And guys, this flight into space was propped up as some sort of
historic endeavor because this was Blue Origin's first female crew. It was the first all female crew that had ever gone to space since 1963. And because of that, it turned into a whole girl power movement. And leading up to this trip has just been a lot like I have wanted to talk about this on the show
probably for months at this point, but I had been waiting to watch this actually transpire to see what happened when they went into space before we did an all-encompassing recap. 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. There was so much PR. We had been talking about it for months.
Everybody was taking it so seriously because it was gonna be this profound and impactful endeavor on society. These six women being thrust into space. I literally thought that they were going to space for a few days. I thought that they were in training for months, that they were gonna go up to the International Space Station. I've never paid attention to the Blue Origin flights.
Chapter 2: How long was the celebrity space trip and what did it involve?
That's Jeff Bezos's company. It's space tourism. I had no idea what was going on, but I literally thought that this was a serious endeavor. But no, the trip was 11 minutes long. Just take a look at this graph. 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.
Like they experienced zero gravity and weightlessness for about three minutes. And they did all of this in a spaceship that literally looks like a Wang. Like even their graph here looks like just the tip, which is basically what they did. They just got to the tip of space and then they came back down. Like basically in less scientific terms, this was the flight.
Just the tip, just the tip into space for Gayle King and Katy Perry. Now, I will not knock these women completely. Like going into space is obviously not a walk in the park. Would I ever do it? Abso-freaking-lutely not. I will not even get in a helicopter. So there is no way that I would be throwing myself into space even if it was only for 11 minutes.
But this 11 minute trip is certainly not what it was made out to be, nor did it really have the impact that they hoped for. Because while they were screeching about girl power and taking up space and inspiring women, we have been making fun of them for over a week.
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Chapter 3: Who were the key figures involved in this feminist space mission?
Now, again, guys, I thought that this was far more serious and intense than it actually was. Like, I thought that these women, I thought that Katy Perry was with NASA training for months and months, that they would be in space for days. And honestly, I think that they had also decided that this was a lot more important than it actually was.
And when I say they, I am specifically talking about Katy Perry and Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez, who are the real culprits here of this PR fiasco, because they were the ones who really turned this into their feminist rallying cry.
Like, this was their way to make their billionaire celebrity elitist joyride feel important and to garner more attention, and they were willing to do whatever it took to make that happen.
And the message that they landed on that was going to be so important and impact all of us was that them going on this, again, 11-minute joyride where they would experience three minutes of weightlessness in actual space was that they were going to teach women. They were going to teach all of us how to take up space. This was actually something that they were doing for all of us.
Truly, going to space was really for all of our benefit. It was constant. So now that we know that that was the intent, let's go see them actually in space. Let's see them in action, taking up all of that space for our benefit.
Deploy from the crew capsule. Those are like the guide parachutes.
I mean, it's pretty fabulous that we can literally hear them coming down to Earth. And these are not experienced astronauts. They don't know what they're... They're just screeching all the way down. They've been screaming up in space, screaming, oh my God, we're taking up space. And now they're screaming all the way down. Like, it was just complete... and utter female silliness.
Like, these are not serious people. These are not serious women. I mean, serious people would be thanking God that they're on their way home. They would be saying a prayer, possibly with their Halo app.
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Chapter 4: What was the public and media reaction to the celebrity space flight?
And that was her actual answer. She was like, I'm so into STEM. No, you're not. You're really not. You are a pop star. And you're saying that you feel connected to love because you went to space for three minutes. Like, it's just ridiculous. And again, guys, she really wanted to hammer in why this mission was so important, again, for women.
I hope they can see the unity that we modeled and replicate that and understand that we weren't just taking up space, we were making space for the future. My journey has always been about love and belonging. And I think that we have all felt that sometimes we weren't worthy or we didn't belong in certain ways, no matter all the accolades, no matter all the studying, no matter anything.
And I think today we all said it like we belong here.
I mean, guys, there's another minute in that clip, and I have no desire to continue watching it or showing it to you because she says nothing of any importance. She belongs. She made space. She felt love. She's inspiring change. She is bringing unity. I mean, that's the only thing she got right. She unified the entire country, the entire world, in laughing at this incredibly stupid flight.
But, again, I really don't think she cares because she took up space, and that is all that matters.
It's not about me. It's not about singing my songs. It's about a collective energy in there. It's about us. It's about making space for future women and taking up space and belonging.
I mean, again, it's a bunch of hubbub. It is literally a bunch of nothing. Her higher power to collective energy. She's singing in space for us. Are we all grateful? Do we feel the power of taking up space and belonging because Katy Perry went up into space for three minutes and sang Oh, What a Wonderful World and stared into the camera like she was on Xanax? That's literally what we saw.
And truly, guys, the story just kept growing from there on social media like they could not escape how ridiculous this was. And this was driven primarily by Katy Perry, unfortunately. And I think that she was hoping that this would really push her into new stardom, help the fact that her last album was a huge flop. She's trying to go on tour.
She needs to sell tickets like she was literally up in space holding up her set list for her new tour. This was all a marketing ploy, but it really just turned people against her because they realized that they were just watching some mixture of The Hunger Games mixed with Veep.
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Chapter 5: How did Katy Perry describe her experience in space?
No matter how old you were, no matter your background or who you voted for was fed up. And I mean everyone. There was not a quarter of the internet, not even the legacy media journalists that were supposed to prop up these feminists. Not even they could get behind this. And Megyn Kelly put it so well on her show.
We're supposed to be celebrating them. Somehow it's supposed to be empowering because not enough women have gone up into space. What we mean is not enough are astronauts. Not enough women are astronauts. That's what we mean. We don't mean, please put Gayle King in yet another opportunity for her to try to act like a star while she's next to Oprah. I don't feel empowered.
This is like another, it's female White House press corps day at the White House. If they had been six astronauts going up there, then yes, okay. What did they do? The one gal is engaged to a billionaire and these are a bunch of celebrities she wanted to befriend. Okay. Of course, Lauren Shands has, whatever her name, had to show off her tits.
Okay, it's a little early in the hour to be dropping the T word. Her breasts in her little fake astronaut outfit. Because, you know, what's a day if we don't get to see the girls on Lauren Sanchez?
I mean, it's perfect. And Megan made a great point. Like it's early in the hour to be talking about tits. It's so strange how the story is just accidentally sexual. Like the entire thing is just so weird. Like that is just another layer into this literally not being serious in the slightest. And she made a good point. Like, go have fun.
Show off the girls, Lauren Sanchez, if that's really what you want. Have a silly time. But don't pretend like you are empowering women or saving the freaking planet or moving space exploration forward in any way, shape, or form. Because again, this was a joyride.
Now, interestingly, the loudest voices that were critiquing this entire journey were from other rich female celebrities who were basically, in my opinion, just trying to virtue signal on top of the astronauts, the astronauts virtue signaling. And these are people like Olivia Munn and Olivia Wilde and Emily Ratajkowski who all had choice words for these crew members.
Now, Olivia Munn was one of the first to comment. This was way before they even got on the ship. And she said, quote, I know that this is probably obnoxious, but like it's so much money to go into space and there's a lot of people who can't even afford eggs. What's the point? Is it historic that you guys are going on a ride? I think it's a bit gluttonous.
Space exploration was to further our knowledge and to help mankind. What are they going to do up there that has made it better for us down here? Well, Olivia, they're taking up space for us. They're making space for us. That is really helping women all around the world who can't afford eggs, obviously. We should be very grateful. Now, Olivia Wilde also posted this on her story.
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Chapter 6: What criticism did other celebrities have about the space trip?
Have you been? Have you been? If you've been and you still feel that way after you come back, please let's have a conversation.
She's literally saying, have you been to space? All of the people that are criticizing her, that are criticizing Katy Perry and Lauren Sanchez, have you been to space? If you haven't, you can't talk about this. So you go ahead. You go ahead and pay a million dollars and go to space, and then we can talk. I mean, Gayle, that is the most tone-deaf thing you could have said.
You just made this PR crisis a hundred times worse. I think that her response there was really what did it for people. Like, that was just the end of this entire thing, and it also kind of did it for something else, which leads me to what might be the only positive outcome of this journey, this flight. I'm not going to say ride, to not offend Gayle King.
But that would be the potential death of pop feminism. And this pop feminism, that's the feminism that lacks all real substance. It grew out of women feeling bored 20 years ago and feeling like they needed to have some kind of fight and purpose because their lives were actually better than they had ever been, ever. It was the feminism that was about
girl power and things like taking up space and being connected to Mother Earth and having belonging. Like, people are done with that because it means nothing. And it's hilarious watching people on both sides of the issue of the political aisle help destroy this once and for all. For example, one NBC reporter wrote, space tourism is not feminism. It is consumer capitalism at its most inaccessible.
Businesses have for decades tried to sell us on this form of what feminist writer Andy Zeisler has called superficial marketplace feminism. Monday's historic mission is nothing less than a show of identity politics thinly cloaking the American capitalist impulse of the more is better mentality.
The glamour shots of the six women in their suits looking serious but sexy, their partly unzipped suits flashing just a bit of skin, are proof of how this faux feminism mutilates real feminist politics and turns it into an aesthetic posture. So in this writer's mind, this stunt is taking away from the real issues.
This faux feminism, this pop feminism is taking away from serious things that women should be talking about, which I think is something that everyone can agree on. Now where we would probably disagree is what those real issues are based on the fact that she's talking about real feminist politics. I'm guessing we would not be on the same page on any of that.
But the undertone of what she is saying rings true. Now, in some other writers' minds, this also signifies the misogyny of Trump's America. And yes, that is also coming from somebody who is against this girl power, is against the Blue Origin flight. This person in The Guardian wrote, It is not misogynistic to say that these women do not have their priorities in order.
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Chapter 7: Why was Emily Ratajkowski’s critique of the space flight significant?
A bunch of glammed up chicks with no real world skills get to just kick back in the space pod and enjoy the view while the unseen men do all the work to make sure that it goes right and that they don't die horribly. I mean, it's kind of right. Now, obviously I'm not saying that these women have no skills. They obviously do. Some of them are actually scientists.
Lauren Sanchez is actually a pilot, but the message still rings true. Like they're saying that they're doing all of this for women because women, that women are so important when they literally just went on a sexy joyride. Now, back to that blurb from The Guardian, all the political pandering about Donald Trump aside, she does have a point.
Like, is that how women want to be represented in the world? It's certainly not how I want to be represented. Because for me, this just makes all of us look bad. For me, it just signifies how silly and unnecessary feminism or even feminist politics actually are. Because we live in a world now where you have six rich, educated women flying to space for fun. in sexy spacesuits.
We have so few problems that they are literally making them up to make themselves feel important while they go on a glorified amusement park ride. Women are already taking up space. We're doing incredibly well. We are dominating the workforce. We are outpacing men in terms of academia and salary. We are making so much money. The space has been taken.
We literally have dominated the entire space and while this space trip might be the final nail in the coffin of this pop marketplace feminism. It certainly has been dying for a while because of this fact. Everybody is looking around at the world and going, actually, we don't really have anything to fight for. This is all kind of ridiculous. We're pulling things out of our ass.
Like, this is genuinely so absurd. We don't, we don't care anymore. And a lot of this is driven by class disparity in how out of touch these celebrity voices are. I mean, think about AOC from a few years ago wearing her tax the rich dress at the Met Gala. Like I genuinely cannot think of a worse, more out of touch place to share that message.
And she rightfully got reamed because it was so hypocritical and it did nothing to actually share her message. Now, another great example that we have talked about a lot recently is the new feminist Snow White movie that has absolutely tanked at the box office because shocker, nobody cares. Nobody cares anymore. It's shocking that this girl power rallying cry didn't work.
She's not going to be safe with the prince and she's not going to be dreaming about true love. She's dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be.
Weird. Weird. I mean, it never gets old because the writing was on the wall. People were simply not interested. They weren't interested three years ago when they saw these clips and they certainly weren't interested once the movie actually came out. I mean, guys, like across all party lines, across all backgrounds and creeds, everyone is searching for something deeper.
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Chapter 8: What is the overall impact and legacy of the feminist celebrity astronaut trip?
We don't care about this fluff anymore. We're done with the pandering from people who just want to feel relevant and important and are telling us that we have problems that we actually do not have. We're simply done.
And that's why, yes, this joyride was ridiculous, but it was also kind of harmful because while Gail and Katie and Lauren have been sucking up all the attention trying to save women and make space for us, they have actually just directed all the attention away from women who are actually trailblazers. I mean, think about Suni Williams, who was just stuck in space for literally nine months.
I would much rather hear her story and praise her accomplishments in exploration and science than hear about Gayle King getting over her fear of flying.
Now, to be fair, because most of this episode has been focused on these three celebrity ridiculous women, there were two women on the Blue Origin flight that have gotten very little attention, which kind of speaks to my point here, but they're the ones who I feel like actually deserved to be there in terms of creating inspiration and meaningfulness. For example, Ayesha Bowe was on the flight.
She is a former rocket scientist. She is an aerospace engineer who owns multiple companies with the goal of educating people and getting them into STEM. She is highly, highly engaged in this industry. She is a leader in this field, and so her being involved with Blue Origin, her being on this trip, makes complete sense. Now, the other woman that I want to talk about is Amanda Wien.
She was the other woman on this spacecraft, and she, again, is actually a scientist and she had always dreamed of going to space. She wanted to be an astronaut, but her plans were uprooted when in 2013, she was raped as a college student at Harvard University.
And although she had plans to go to NASA and become an astronaut, she instead dedicated the last decade of her life to fighting for other survivors. And in her words, she said, after my rape, I experienced a broken criminal justice system. I could accept the injustice or rewrite the law. So I rewrote it. So for her, this Blue Origin flight, this, you know, joyride, it was very full circle.
That was obviously incredibly meaningful for her. For her, this was the realization of a childhood dream, something that she had been actively pursuing for years, that she was actively studying in college, something that was derailed because of a tragedy that had happened in her life, something that she chose to walk away from because she wanted to do some good in the world.
And so for her, her mission was less about girl power and more about showing other survivors like her that your life does have meaning, that things will get better, even if you have faced something as awful as rape. And it might take time, it might be over a decade later, but you will be able to realize your dreams.
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