Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan ray On Dugi z Bonton video.
Speaker 2: All right, there was a trip into space last week.
Speaker 2: I'm sure some of you recall that half a dozen
Speaker 2: brave female astronauts climbed aboard the Blue Horizon Rocket on
Speaker 2: April fourteenth. They looked wonderful in their space suits. Amongst
Speaker 2: them was Gail King, she's one of the morning anchors
Speaker 2: on the CBS Morning News, along with the singer Katie Perry.
Speaker 2: There was also was a former NASA rocket scientist, Aisha Bow.
Speaker 2: I don't know, miss Bow. And in addition was it
Speaker 2: was also Lauren Sanchez. Sanchez is a guess is the girlfriend.
Speaker 2: I don't know that she's married to Jeff Bezos, but
Speaker 2: it's Bezos rockets Blue Origins. Now you have this battle
Speaker 2: between Bezos with Blue Origin and then Elon Musk and
Speaker 2: and I guess, I don't know if these celebrities pay
Speaker 2: for it. Yeah, Lauren Sanchez is bezos fiance. So I'm
Speaker 2: surprised that Bill Belichick hasn't been more of these these yet.
Speaker 2: But you have this battle going on between space X,
Speaker 2: which is Elon Musk's deal and Bezos. You know, multi
Speaker 2: multi billionaires. These trips in space as I understand it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there were was an actress also, No Perry,
Speaker 2: the singer I should say, I guess Perry. When she
Speaker 2: came back after this this trip in space, it was
Speaker 2: it was very an emotional moment for her. H. This
Speaker 2: was eleven minutes. Now, this is not a short flight. Okay,
Speaker 2: we're talking about There had to be preparations to put
Speaker 2: the the space suit on H. Then you had to
Speaker 2: climb up the gangway or whatever they call it. Then
Speaker 2: they have to get buckled in, and then the the
Speaker 2: space flight eleven minutes, which the sun might feel like
Speaker 2: a short period of time. But obviously when Katie Perry
Speaker 2: emerged from the from the Blue Origin after it had
Speaker 2: come back to Earth, it was so emotionally that she
Speaker 2: kissed the ground after she exited from the cap from
Speaker 2: the capsule, I can understand that. Anyway, there was a
Speaker 2: lot of criticism and Gail King took the heat. Now,
Speaker 2: remember this is in the context we have an eleven
Speaker 2: minute straight up. I think they get up about sixty
Speaker 2: four or sixty five miles and they enter space for
Speaker 2: four minutes. There's a little weightlessness going on, and then
Speaker 2: they come back to Mother Earth. So some people thought that, well,
Speaker 2: there was some criticism of this. I guess Gail King
Speaker 2: thought she was disrespected because some of her celebrity friends
Speaker 2: were throwing shade in her. But Gail King stood a ground,
Speaker 2: and we have some sound bites here from Gail, So
Speaker 2: we're going to take a little bit of this. This
Speaker 2: is uh, this is King responding in which she compares
Speaker 2: but she and her her colleagues on the flight. It
Speaker 2: was an all women's flight. I guess Bezos paid for it. Well,
Speaker 2: it's his rocket. It's it's unclear whether apparently they're saying
Speaker 2: that it costs that on a per person basis, it
Speaker 2: costs about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. So if
Speaker 2: you were going to buy a ticket on this eleven
Speaker 2: minute flight, it would cost you one hundred and fifty grand. Uh.
Speaker 2: If on the other hand, you were the guest of
Speaker 2: Jeff Bezos, you could be well, if you're in the
Speaker 2: media now accepting a gift of hunt of a value
Speaker 2: of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, that can present
Speaker 2: some ethical problems. But either way, Gail King rose to
Speaker 2: the criticism, and she asked, just anyone this question, which
Speaker 2: most of us are going to have to say. No.
Speaker 2: Cut sixteen A Please, Rob, have you been?
Speaker 3: Have you been?
Speaker 4: If you've been and you still feel that way after
Speaker 4: you come back, please let's have a conversation. Number three,
Speaker 4: Please don't call it a ride. That is not a
Speaker 4: friggin ride. Whenever a man goes up, you have never
Speaker 4: said to an astronaut, boy, what a ride? You know,
Speaker 4: we duplicated the same trajectory that Alan Shepherd did back.
Speaker 2: In the day.
Speaker 4: Pretty much no one called that a ride. It was
Speaker 4: called a flight. It was called a journey because a
Speaker 4: ride implies that it's something frivolous or something that's lighthearted.
Speaker 4: There was nothing frivolous about what we did.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they did eleven minutes, and I think four of
Speaker 2: the minutes were actually in space. I don't want to,
Speaker 2: you know, be critical here unnecessarily, but it seems to
Speaker 2: me that when you realize what Butch will Moore and
Speaker 2: Sonny Williams went through, they were stranded in space for
Speaker 2: nine months recently, as opposed to being on a mission.
Speaker 2: According to I don't know what mission was accomplished. They
Speaker 2: didn't touch the controls, they didn't conduct any experiments that
Speaker 2: I think broke any ground. I guess they floated a
Speaker 2: little bit, which I would do if I was up there,
Speaker 2: and I knew that I wouldn't float out of the
Speaker 2: capsule as long as the capsule wasn't closed. But it
Speaker 2: just it's it's just interesting that we're hearing all this
Speaker 2: talk about the wealthy the uber wealthy, and Bezos is
Speaker 2: uber wealthy, and Laurence Sanchez might assume be if she
Speaker 2: marries him, she might be uber wealthy unless there's a
Speaker 2: pre nup involved. But Gail King certainly is uber wealthy.
Speaker 2: She has done very well in the in the business.
Speaker 2: But she thinks she was really on a space mission
Speaker 2: for eleven minutes. Gail, I hate to tell you this,
Speaker 2: but it was a ride. It was up and back.
Speaker 2: It was that you went straight out. Yeah, you hit
Speaker 2: I guess sixty two miles above the ground, which you know,
Speaker 2: I'm sure was you know, higher than well, very much
Speaker 2: higher than airplanes. Okay, I'm sure it was a great experience,
Speaker 2: but it wasn't a mission. So I'm just going to
Speaker 2: open up phone lines and if you think I'm wrong
Speaker 2: on this, fine. There were a bunch of people who
Speaker 2: did throw some shade if gay, and that kind of
Speaker 2: got her going. Actress Olivia Mum said, it's so much
Speaker 2: money to go to space. There's a lot of people
Speaker 2: can't even afford eggs. I think it's a bit gluttonous.
Speaker 2: I think i'd agree with her, to be honest with you,
Speaker 2: There are King is well. We have some other sound
Speaker 2: bites here, and it's just interesting. She King saw it
Speaker 2: as being respectful and that if it had been men
Speaker 2: on that flight, people would have taken it more seriously.
Speaker 2: I don't think anyone takes these space flights seriously. On
Speaker 2: X or on Blue Origin Gale, you're not an astronaut.
Speaker 2: I hate to break it to you. Six one seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty six one seven nine three one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about it if if you think I'm wrong
Speaker 2: on this one, feel free and tell me why I
Speaker 2: think that to even try to apply that this involves
Speaker 2: what astronauts go through, not even close. Coming back on
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Speaker 2: ten o'clock with Greg Stoller. Let's get back to the phones.
Speaker 2: So if I'm wrong on this and you think that
Speaker 2: this was some sort of a heroic mission and it
Speaker 2: goes beyond the Gail Gael thing Protestations. You know, she
Speaker 2: kind of made it into some sort of a sexist
Speaker 2: attack because it was an all female crew. Some of
Speaker 2: the criticism came from women, so it wasn't quite as
Speaker 2: sexist as I think Gail would like us to think.
Speaker 2: But I just think it's it's a waste of money.
Speaker 2: It's a thrill ride for wealthy people, or people that
Speaker 2: Jeff Bezos wants to curry favor with, or Elon Musk
Speaker 2: wants to curry favor with. I mean, if someone offered
Speaker 2: you a ride on the Blue Horizon or SpaceX whatever,
Speaker 2: and they said, well, just we put you in a
Speaker 2: little uniform and you go up there and you're up
Speaker 2: for about eleven minutes, up and back. Yeah. Other than
Speaker 2: the fact that something could go wrong, would you want
Speaker 2: to do it? You tell me, I mean, something could
Speaker 2: go wrong on a roller coaster too. Let's go to
Speaker 2: Bill Bill Winnaker, Hey, Bill, looking forward to seeing you
Speaker 2: on Sunday out at Nari Restaurant in Westwood. How are
Speaker 2: you tonight?
Speaker 6: I'm great, looking forward to seeing you too. Did these
Speaker 6: women have to pay for this ride?
Speaker 2: It's a little unclear whether they were gifted with the
Speaker 2: ride or whether or not. They they had what we
Speaker 2: would call it freebie. You know, do you think Katy Perry,
Speaker 2: I suspect that, you know, they gland it up a
Speaker 2: little bit. And I suspect Bezos glanded up for his
Speaker 2: his fiance Lauren Sanchez was a very attractive looking woman.
Speaker 2: But Gayo King, uh, And there were you know, Katy Perry,
Speaker 2: you know, and there were three other women who I
Speaker 2: should know their names too, but I don't because you know,
Speaker 2: Gayo King has kind of been the hot button on
Speaker 2: this issue.
Speaker 6: Okay, Well here here's my opinion of this. If they
Speaker 6: had to pay, they shouldn't have gone on the trip.
Speaker 6: They should have given that money, whatever the cost was,
Speaker 6: it should have been given to charity. Right around the
Speaker 6: corner from where I live here in Brookline. I'm a
Speaker 6: cool it'st corner. There's a church around the corner, and
Speaker 6: once a week when bo and I drive by that church,
Speaker 6: we're always driving by. It seems that going as a
Speaker 6: gig or something and it's lined up, you can hardly
Speaker 6: get down the street.
Speaker 7: People are starving and getting food that all the money
Speaker 7: should go to food banks. I mean, there's so much
Speaker 7: there's a lot of poverty, even even a Newton, a
Speaker 7: Brookline and other all these surrounding towns.
Speaker 2: Absolutely money. Yeah, absolutely correct. Well, this is she was
Speaker 2: trying to justify this. I just feel that she was.
Speaker 2: You know, she's like caught off base, to use a
Speaker 2: baseball analogy, and she's picked off by about ten feet.
Speaker 2: It's not even a close call. Rob hit cut eighteen.
Speaker 2: I want Bill Winnaker to respond to this cut number eighteen.
Speaker 2: Please Rob.
Speaker 4: Every time one of those rockets goes up, they're doing research,
Speaker 4: they're collecting data. Ideally it's to benefit the planet.
Speaker 2: That wrong.
Speaker 4: So when I hear people say, oh, it's just a
Speaker 4: rich people saying, you're not looking at the bigger picture
Speaker 4: of what is happening here.
Speaker 2: Bill, Gail King thinks you're now looking at the bigger picture.
Speaker 8: This was a rich person, that's all it was.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's it's ridiculous. It was just a ride.
Speaker 6: And we you know, though everybody could help out some
Speaker 6: good causes rather than taking a ride.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean bezos. Obviously, I don't. I don't think.
Speaker 2: My suspicion is they didn't pay for it. I don't
Speaker 2: think Gail King and if if if anybody pay for it.
Speaker 2: It would have been CBS because that publicity would have
Speaker 2: been to them. But would Katie Perry pay for it?
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I think that they all. It
Speaker 2: gave Bezos a chance to sort of say, for one day,
Speaker 2: well I had an all female crew on Blue Origin,
Speaker 2: and what is what's Musk going to do to to
Speaker 2: to accomplish that. I'm in your corner completely, Bill, I am.
Speaker 2: And the fact that Gail King is howling with indignity.
Speaker 2: I think that, you know, Shakespeare said something about protesting
Speaker 2: too much. I'm not going to quote that, or ah,
Speaker 2: someone's gonna call me sexist. I'll just say that I
Speaker 2: think that somehow this has hit a nerve and miss King, Okay.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 6: I have nothing against Gail.
Speaker 7: I've enjoyed her TV works.
Speaker 9: She does a nice job.
Speaker 6: But it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Yep. I think it's I think it is. But I
Speaker 2: wanted to comment on it because I think the point
Speaker 2: you make is a good one, and that is that
Speaker 2: the billionaires are going to bring it upon themselves to
Speaker 2: be taxed more and more and more, because the more
Speaker 2: excesses that they engage in, the more that they could
Speaker 2: be criticized. And you know, I mean, Bezos has sent
Speaker 2: this rocket up now, I don't know six seven, eight times.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't follow it. But okay, we've
Speaker 2: seen that trick. Okay, now what you know. It's like
Speaker 2: you get a puppy and it's like, okay, sit sit,
Speaker 2: Rover sit, and Rover finally sits. At some point you've
Speaker 2: got to kind of teach Rover to roll over. You
Speaker 2: got to think, got to teach over to give the
Speaker 2: paw maybe stand up. I don't know. It's the same old,
Speaker 2: same old, simple as that. Hey Bill, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: We'll see you on this coming Sunday, August twenty seventh
Speaker 2: at the Naroli Restaurant in Westwood. I know you. I
Speaker 2: know that the Winnaker Band will be there. We're going
Speaker 2: to have a ball that day.
Speaker 7: And if anybody it's gonna be so much fun.
Speaker 6: If anyone hasn't signed up, they should, we're gonna have
Speaker 6: a great time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great it's you said, it's a great brunch.
Speaker 2: People can can have just a lighter breakfast or they
Speaker 2: can have a lighter lunch. It's not we're not no
Speaker 2: one's being charged. The only thing to do is just
Speaker 2: going and having a breakfast or brunch with a bunch
Speaker 2: of nightside listeners and the winnkers. And you can't get
Speaker 2: better than that. That's for sure. We'll talk during the week,
Speaker 2: I'm sure, my friend.
Speaker 6: Okay, oh yeah, I do have something that I do
Speaker 6: want to talk to you about during the week.
Speaker 9: Well, i'll give you all.
Speaker 2: Keep you called tomorrow. Absolutely, that'd be perfect, Bill.
Speaker 6: I will okay, thanks.
Speaker 2: Buddy, thank you much. Let me go next to who
Speaker 2: we got here. We got Frank in Boston. Hey Frank,
Speaker 2: welcome back. How are you, sir?
Speaker 10: He didn't even man. I kind of think it is
Speaker 10: being sexist and the criticizing the women. Oh, the women
Speaker 10: are being criticized when it should have been we should
Speaker 10: have been criticizing bezos who's using this as a way
Speaker 10: to ingradiate himself back with the public. I mean, with
Speaker 10: his support of arm Trump and his his not wanting
Speaker 10: his newspapers to endorse some hair res back then. I
Speaker 10: mean that's who we should be criticizing, not the women.
Speaker 10: I mean that that ride, I would say, it is scary,
Speaker 10: scary a ride going up there. You might not come down.
Speaker 2: But again so so so you think Frank, so you're
Speaker 2: telling me that that you think i'm I'm I'm all
Speaker 2: wet here, and that Gail and the others are most
Speaker 2: of the criticism, by the way, of this group came
Speaker 2: from other women. Okay, I'm gonna quote here an actress
Speaker 2: Olivia Munn. I couldn't tell you one movie she's been
Speaker 2: in her TV show, but the name is familiar. She said,
Speaker 2: it's so much money to go to space. Actress Olivia
Speaker 2: Mum said in appearance on The Today Show earlier this month,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of people can't even afford eggs. I
Speaker 2: think it's a bit gluttoners. I would agree with her.
Speaker 10: Well, I don't know. Women can be sexus. I mean
Speaker 10: at luc At how women fought for the right to
Speaker 10: vote back then, and how a lot of people didn't
Speaker 10: want to vote with women themselves. So women can be
Speaker 10: sexist too.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 2: But if at the point that, Frank, here's the point.
Speaker 2: Do you think that there was any thing that was
Speaker 2: discovered on this eleven minute flight? Do you think that
Speaker 2: there was any science, any research. It's nothing, but you
Speaker 2: identified it correctly. It's nothing but a publicity stunt. It
Speaker 2: it actually Bezos put his own fiance on the in
Speaker 2: the in the rocket. I mean, why would he put
Speaker 2: his fiance, why would he put Katie Perry, Gail King?
Speaker 2: They're not scientists, they're not astronauts. Come on, Frank, you're
Speaker 2: not that he's trying to.
Speaker 10: He's trying to ingrade himself with the people by saying, look,
Speaker 10: I'm for all women and giving them, uh the opportunity
Speaker 10: to go into space. He's just trying to get back
Speaker 10: on our good side.
Speaker 2: So well, who should look. I don't know whose side
Speaker 2: he's trying to get on, but obviously then what you're
Speaker 2: telling me is he's using the women for his own benefits.
Speaker 2: I think what you just said, right, yeah? Is that true?
Speaker 10: And look what we're doing. We're criticizing the women.
Speaker 2: No, I'm criticizing Bezos. I'm criticizing Gail King for thinking
Speaker 2: for let me ask you. I'll ask you this question.
Speaker 10: Anything.
Speaker 2: There's my question for you, Frank, Okay, you question before
Speaker 2: this call, Frank, No, I did mention Bezo. I mentioned
Speaker 2: his fiance. If you were listening, didn't even have to
Speaker 2: listen carefully to hear that. Let me ask you this.
Speaker 2: Gail King was upset that someone called it a ride.
Speaker 2: She considers it to be a mission, like a real,
Speaker 2: you know, mission to space. What do you consider it, Frank?
Speaker 2: Do you consider it a ride eleven minutes up and
Speaker 2: then back down, up and down in eleven minutes? Or
Speaker 2: do you consider it like a space mission? What's what's
Speaker 2: your characterization?
Speaker 10: I look at it as them being used as pawns,
Speaker 10: and they shouldn't have went up there in the in
Speaker 10: the first place.
Speaker 2: I agree with you. Now, why do you think they
Speaker 2: went up there?
Speaker 8: That was?
Speaker 2: Why were they? Are you telling me that they're not
Speaker 2: smart enough to realize that.
Speaker 10: It don't look like they were, because they should see
Speaker 10: that Bethels was using this to use them. They should
Speaker 10: then said.
Speaker 2: We're on the same path. We're We're right, you know, Frank,
Speaker 2: very really do you and I agree, But we're right
Speaker 2: on the same page here. And I think that that
Speaker 2: that Gail King, she's upset that another woman said that's
Speaker 2: not a mission, that's a ride. Give it to me again.
Speaker 2: I think I asked you a question. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: you answered it for me. Do you consider this eleven
Speaker 2: minute journey up and back? Do you consider that a
Speaker 2: space mission? Or do you consider it a ride?
Speaker 10: I'm no answering that question because it is irrelevant.
Speaker 2: You're not answered the question because you don't want to
Speaker 2: love the question. You're smart enough you know that's not
Speaker 2: a mission. All right, Frank, appreciate I appreciate you call.
Speaker 2: I got you in before the news. I hope you
Speaker 2: felt you got enough time to make your case. You're
Speaker 2: always welcome. I thought we actually almost had a had
Speaker 2: agreement tonight. I'm disappointed. I'm disappointed. Thanks, Frank, I appreciate
Speaker 2: you listening. I appreciate your calling. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Have a great one, man. I was that close. I
Speaker 2: was that close with Frank. We would have we would
Speaker 2: have been on the same page, probably for the first
Speaker 2: time in my night side career. It's uh. It was
Speaker 2: a ride. It was nothing more than an extra expensive
Speaker 2: Disney ride. Matter of fact, probably less dangerous than some
Speaker 2: of these rides that with the carnivals coming through town
Speaker 2: and and they they don't make sure that the Ferris
Speaker 2: wheel is safe. One line at six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty one line at six one seven, nine thirty. Uh.
Speaker 2: I consider what Sonny Williams uh and what Butch Whitmere
Speaker 2: did and experienced nine months in space that was a mission.
Speaker 2: This was a ride, no matter how much that offends Gail. Sorry, Gail,
Speaker 2: You're dead wrong. Coming back on night Side.
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Speaker 2: Oh, we were talking about the Blue Horizon Space mission,
Speaker 2: all eleven minutes of it up and back and the
Speaker 2: fact that Gail King is very upset that there were
Speaker 2: some women who thought it was much more of a stunt.
Speaker 2: And beneath her and beneath the other passengers again, it's
Speaker 2: how about this. I hit this one, Rob. This is
Speaker 2: cut seventeen. This is a short one. This is cut seventeen.
Speaker 4: And I'm so proud of us. I really am proud
Speaker 4: of me because I never in a gazillion years thought
Speaker 4: I could do this.
Speaker 2: Never thought you could do that. I wonder if you
Speaker 2: ever went to Disney and went like on what was
Speaker 2: that one ride? It was a horror was at the
Speaker 2: House of Horror? What was that with it? Take what?
Speaker 11: Well?
Speaker 2: It was a haunted mansion, but it was called it
Speaker 2: was it would bring you up slowly, the Tower of Terror,
Speaker 2: House of Horror. I knew it was alliterative. The Tower
Speaker 2: of Terror. That was tough. That that was about. It
Speaker 2: took about ten minutes to get you up there. Then
Speaker 2: it would open the door and you realize you were
Speaker 2: about five hundred feet of whatever off the ground and
Speaker 2: would then drop broom, and of course you know you
Speaker 2: stopped before you hit the ground the tower. Now that's
Speaker 2: a ride that took gots gale. Where we go next?
Speaker 2: Let me go to Lawrence in West Roxbury. Lawrence, you
Speaker 2: were next one night side welcome.
Speaker 11: Dam. It was learny pretext of why the mission was done.
Speaker 12: Nothing that I know of to the space system has
Speaker 12: been built by the American taxpayer and the American people
Speaker 12: since the nineteen fifties.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and the screw around with that system for personal reasons.
Speaker 11: It's beyond my it's just beyond I'm a farmer, military man.
Speaker 11: I spent a long time in the and uh, you
Speaker 11: know I used to apply the border of the Soviet Union. Yeah.
Speaker 11: Really that's a different task.
Speaker 2: And now that that's a mission, that's a mission. When
Speaker 2: you do that, the.
Speaker 11: Idea that you would actually use this system that the
Speaker 11: American taxpayer and the American people are paid for, well.
Speaker 2: It well let me Lawrence, let me just jump in
Speaker 2: for a second. This is the work of one of
Speaker 2: them is called SpaceX, and that's Elon Musks. It's his money.
Speaker 2: And the other one is Jeff Bezos, the publisher of
Speaker 2: the Washington Post and the owner.
Speaker 11: Of uh yeah, Anis Vehicles. But yeah, okay, any that
Speaker 11: we launched anything, there's five to six thousand people involved
Speaker 11: in that launch.
Speaker 2: I don't at launch. I don't mean to disagree with you,
Speaker 2: but I think that they have their own it's like
Speaker 2: their own little private toys.
Speaker 11: And uh uh, the system is built. They use the
Speaker 11: system to do what they wanted to do. But I
Speaker 11: just can't believe that that anybody would do this.
Speaker 2: No, But what I'm saying is they're not tied into
Speaker 2: Cape Kennedy, then Cape Canaveral. They're not tied into Houston
Speaker 2: to NASA or anything like that. They're totally separate. It's
Speaker 2: like they launched them. If they're in they're in a
Speaker 2: couple of spots in the desert of Texas. Then they're
Speaker 2: not at Cape Kennedy or anything like that.
Speaker 5: They have their.
Speaker 11: I beg to disagree with you, Well, I could just.
Speaker 2: Tell you where they launch it from. You could look,
Speaker 2: you can look them up the launch it.
Speaker 11: I know where they I know what you're talking about now.
Speaker 11: But the facts of any time we launch anything from
Speaker 11: any place, whether it's Vandenburg or Tavel or these places
Speaker 11: in Texas, there's four or five six thousand sable in
Speaker 11: place all over the world that are looking at this.
Speaker 2: Well, but why would they be in place? All these
Speaker 2: rockets do Lawrences? They go up straight up?
Speaker 11: Ah, you're mistaken, you you launch stuff into space. There's
Speaker 11: so many there's so many things that have to be
Speaker 11: taken into considerations.
Speaker 2: Okay, but here's but here's my question, here's my Lawrence.
Speaker 2: Here's my question for you. You know more about this
Speaker 2: than I do. I grant you you experienced it. Okay. However,
Speaker 2: they launched their rock it up. It goes up to
Speaker 2: about sixty miles up. Uh, it goes into technically space
Speaker 2: where they're where they're weightless, and it comes down. They're
Speaker 2: in space for like three four minutes. The whole up
Speaker 2: and down is eleven minutes. You know, they may have
Speaker 2: to coordinate with the FAA to make sure that they're
Speaker 2: not knocking some plan out of the air.
Speaker 11: But the fact that the reason when I heard about it,
Speaker 11: I thought it was a I thought it was a
Speaker 11: mission there was six women going to space.
Speaker 2: No, No, that's the point it was. It was a ride.
Speaker 2: It's a ride. It's eleven minutes in duration.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and UH must plan around.
Speaker 2: Exactly, that's it. And and they're using celebrities. If they
Speaker 2: if they sent six plumbers and electricians up or six
Speaker 2: school teachers whatever. But they had Katie Perry, the big singer.
Speaker 2: They had Lawrence Sanchez, who was the fiance of Bezos,
Speaker 2: and Gail King, and then there were three other women
Speaker 2: all you know, very they looked great in the spacesuits
Speaker 2: or I don't know how good you looked in your spacesuit, Lawrence,
Speaker 2: or in your in your flight suit.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: But I just man, your program man, which I listened
Speaker 11: to up from time to time, you know, just bought
Speaker 11: this to my attention to what really happened.
Speaker 2: That's that's all. I've only reported what happened. That's all
Speaker 2: eleven minutes, all the way up and back. It would
Speaker 2: take it, Lawrence, you're in West Roxbury. It would take
Speaker 2: longer for you to drive to Roach Brothers and buy
Speaker 2: a gallon of milk then it took them going up
Speaker 2: and back in space.
Speaker 11: I kind of had to find and wrote others.
Speaker 2: Could take longer, could take longer, Lawrence, I got a run,
Speaker 2: I got other bunch of other calls got to get
Speaker 2: to us. Always, thank you so much and thank you
Speaker 2: for your service. Thanks. I love to talk to you
Speaker 2: some night about that. By the way, thanks so much.
Speaker 2: Let's keep rolling here, gonna go to peg Is in
Speaker 2: New Hampshire. Peg Are you thrilled with this? You're the
Speaker 2: first female college tonight. Do you think that these were
Speaker 2: courageous women?
Speaker 3: No, Sunny Williams is.
Speaker 2: The courageous astronaut and happens to be a female. She
Speaker 2: spent nine nine months up in space on a mission
Speaker 2: that was gonna last eight days. That's that's an astronaut.
Speaker 2: And that's not her first time in space either.
Speaker 8: You imagine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my taking all this this is a little different.
Speaker 3: So you know, I work second shift, so I miss
Speaker 3: things at night and in the morning, I get up later.
Speaker 3: When I got up this morning, on the radio, not
Speaker 3: right away, and I heard about the co passing and
Speaker 3: I literally had to like grab my phone and say
Speaker 3: what and you know, just check it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I had the same yeah, the same reaction, Yeah,
Speaker 2: the same reaction. We talked about that for two hours.
Speaker 2: If you get a chance tomorrow, if you catch at
Speaker 2: nine o'clock hour, we had a really interesting priest who
Speaker 2: was had been Cardinal O'Malley's secretary, who was at the
Speaker 2: conclave with O'Malley back in twenty thirteen, Father Jonathan Gaspar,
Speaker 2: the pastor of Saint Mary's of the Assumption parish in Brookline.
Speaker 2: Really interesting guest nine o'clock hour. You get a chance
Speaker 2: to listen to that, I think you'd enjoy it.
Speaker 5: That would be good.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I caught the like from ten thirty on, But what
Speaker 3: I was thinking was I heard that a little bit.
Speaker 3: And when I finally got the news on and I
Speaker 3: heard about this.
Speaker 10: Space ride, right, I.
Speaker 13: Just find it amazing and how sad it is that
Speaker 13: the news and the people are putting more emphasis on
Speaker 13: somebody going up for a space ride. Yes, it is expensive,
Speaker 13: but you know it's it's not our money, it's their money.
Speaker 5: Whatever.
Speaker 3: You know, you spend your money the way you want him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm not even truly spent money Bezos money
Speaker 2: giving him a freebie. I don't know, because it's private,
Speaker 2: it's not going to be public. But I think they
Speaker 2: said that on a per person basis. It probably costs
Speaker 2: them about a million dollars to send that rocket up
Speaker 2: and bring it back. And you know, Gail King's making
Speaker 2: it sound like she's an astronaut. She's not an astronatist.
Speaker 2: I'm an airplane pilot. I get on a plane and
Speaker 2: I fly from Boston to New York, of Boston to Washington.
Speaker 2: I'm just a passenger. That's I'm not the pilot.
Speaker 3: No, I heard I heard your sound on that he
Speaker 3: saying that. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think she's looking for some sort
Speaker 2: of congressional medal of honor or something like that. I
Speaker 2: don't know. All right, beg I gotta run here. Only
Speaker 2: guess I got a whole bunch of calls and I
Speaker 2: gotta I gotta jump off. We'll and I got a break.
Speaker 2: I took you before the break. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: As always, we'll talk soon, Okay, night now, thanks big,
Speaker 2: good night. We'll take a break. Coming right back. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna get Jeff, Glenn and John in for sure, maybe
Speaker 2: even room for you. I got one in six months,
Speaker 2: seven two, five, four to ten thirty and one at
Speaker 2: six one, seven, nine, three, one ten thirty open lines
Speaker 2: right there. One and two lines open. Coming back on.
Speaker 1: Night Side Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: bes Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna get everyone in. It's gonna be quick.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Jeff and Maine. Jeff next on Nightsicker,
Speaker 2: Right ahead quick.
Speaker 8: My distant cousin, Sean Proctor, was the first female black
Speaker 8: spaceship commander, flew for SpaceX Private Mission in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 8: A famous person, Lance Baths. He was Backstreet boys or
Speaker 8: or one of the boys.
Speaker 2: I know who that was.
Speaker 8: Boy, But just imagine if Jeff Bezos hadn't been behind
Speaker 8: elon a little bit in the space race, Gail King
Speaker 8: could have been made mission commander. And if it had
Speaker 8: happened ahead of Sean, who was a qualified military pilot
Speaker 8: and also went to astronaut training and her father was
Speaker 8: one of the silent that they made the movie about
Speaker 8: with Kevin Costner with the Black Women. He was one
Speaker 8: of the six thousand that the former Colin Caller was
Speaker 8: talking about for Space mission. Actually Apollo eight in sixty nine,
Speaker 8: and Sean was born in seventy.
Speaker 2: Okay, So how does this compare to the Gail King experience?
Speaker 2: I'm trying to focus us on that.
Speaker 8: Well, it's it's like Sean's a qualified you know, astronaut.
Speaker 2: I got that. Yeah, I got that.
Speaker 8: When it comes down to it, you know, it's you
Speaker 8: don't necessarily have to touch the controls. And it was
Speaker 8: stated that it was you know, it was a private mission.
Speaker 8: It was a joy ride.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 8: You know there was a couple of billionaires for several
Speaker 8: hundred millionaires, you know, that paid their way on, and
Speaker 8: lands Baff paid his way on, you know, and you.
Speaker 2: Know, okay, so so so, so you got it.
Speaker 9: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: All I'm trying to do here is to be quick. Jeff,
Speaker 2: you're kind of supporting that. You're right, you think that
Speaker 2: Gail King was on a mission, not on just a ride.
Speaker 8: No, no, no, I think I think it was just
Speaker 8: a ridiculous joy ride.
Speaker 2: Gotcha, Okay, Okay, I got it now Now I was confused, Jeff, Thanks,
Speaker 2: thanks so much. I got three more I want to
Speaker 2: get to.
Speaker 8: Thanks.
Speaker 2: Man, I'm going all right get that Jack joy Ryder
Speaker 2: a courageous mission, John and Quincy. John, you got to
Speaker 2: be quick for me, Man, go right ahead.
Speaker 9: Hey, d happy easim under here you mentioned bezels and
Speaker 9: musket don't forget about the gentleman there with the Virgin
Speaker 9: Atlantic calines there Saturday.
Speaker 2: He's been really really quiet, right, I mean he's been
Speaker 2: kind of quiet.
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, he's a little smarter than the others. Everybody's
Speaker 9: toligent to a certain point. But you remember the inauguration,
Speaker 9: mister Bezel and mister Musket. It's kind of like the
Speaker 9: Seinfeld episode. They're not only realists, but tact one was
Speaker 9: looking at the other one's fiances this and the other
Speaker 9: one is looking at that one. But then it was
Speaker 9: when uh, Senator John Glenn, who was a pilot went
Speaker 9: up to the moon the prisoner ward. They were giving
Speaker 9: him a hard time because there was age, but he
Speaker 9: earned his keep. He went to like boot camp and
Speaker 9: training camp and all that. Oh yeah, probably he.
Speaker 2: Had flown in the Korean War. And by the way,
Speaker 2: you're talking about Richard Branson with Virgin Atlantic, but but
Speaker 2: Glenn had had flown in the Korean War alongside Ted Williams.
Speaker 2: Actually believe it.
Speaker 9: Or not right and tell a lot of people in
Speaker 9: really it's not only did Ted Williams give up path
Speaker 9: of his career during World War two, but the Korean
Speaker 9: War is absolutely.
Speaker 2: Two terms, John, I got to run here, I got
Speaker 2: you got to call early and give you more time. Okay,
Speaker 2: I get two more.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The Red Sox are just I hope. I'm so sad
Speaker 2: they're not going to be able to play the White
Speaker 2: Sox again until the playoffs. Talk to you later, by Glenn.
Speaker 2: Is it brighton? Glenn? Got to be quick. You're late,
Speaker 2: but you got to be quick, Glenn.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I told Rob, but I think it's a rich
Speaker 5: woman's joy right now. One's a libitarian. I don't care.
Speaker 5: Just tell the truth about it. Yeah, don't sea, we ride,
Speaker 5: Judy Redsnick, Krista mccrlofs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know you're talking. Yeah, well, Sonny Williams.
Speaker 2: Well recently listen.
Speaker 5: To Gail King. She's too old for me. I can't
Speaker 5: do it.
Speaker 2: We will note that, I promise appropriately noted. Okay, I'm sure.
Speaker 2: I'm sure. Is she You're going to break her heart?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Her heartbreaker? Glenn. Talk to you ter see say I'll
Speaker 2: talk to you Friday. Probably. Thanks good, Thanks all. The
Speaker 2: last one of the hour, last one of the night.
Speaker 2: Ron and Weymouth. Hey, Ron, welcome, How are you tonight?
Speaker 14: I'm very good, I hope you're feeling good too, very
Speaker 14: expensive suburban uh pr ride.
Speaker 5: Uh tell her that.
Speaker 14: Tell Gail King to go in the Empire Staple and
Speaker 14: go up and down. You get the same thrill.
Speaker 8: Not as good as you.
Speaker 5: But what the hell?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Now you know that's that's stupid.
Speaker 6: The whole thing is stupid.
Speaker 14: And if she expect to get a medal from uh
Speaker 14: President Trump, he's gonna off his butt off if she
Speaker 14: ever asked for one, because she'll never.
Speaker 2: Get She just what happened when she took she took
Speaker 2: the heat, you know was uh, she probably was used
Speaker 2: by Bezos. I'm sure Bezos invited her to go for
Speaker 2: the ride. He invited probably Katy Perry. I don't know
Speaker 2: this for sure. Maybe they paid the money. I doubt it.
Speaker 2: I doubt it. So he got a little bit of
Speaker 2: glam on his ride for eleven minutes, got some extra
Speaker 2: publicity out of it, and then Gaale took some sort
Speaker 2: of a burn because people called it a ride and
Speaker 2: not a mission. It was nothing more than a ride,
Speaker 2: that's all it was. So they said they called the
Speaker 2: Tower of Terrace it was dangerous.
Speaker 14: That's right, it is what it was. It was just
Speaker 14: a ride and it's a big, big pr that's all
Speaker 14: it was. And she's see, I'm an astronaut, now I'm
Speaker 14: a woman astronaut. She's not. She just went up and
Speaker 14: edge his face and came back and like I said,
Speaker 14: tell her to go in the ampstead and go up
Speaker 14: in the elevator, up and down, and she won't have
Speaker 14: a good deal. But what the hell will be the same.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I hear you. It would be like again
Speaker 2: if you took an airplane to New York of Washington
Speaker 2: and you just sat back and relaxed, and then you claimed, well,
Speaker 2: I was a pilot. I flew an airplane. No, you
Speaker 2: flew on an airplane. You didn't fly the airplane. Simple
Speaker 2: as that. Ron, thank you much as you call early,
Speaker 2: give you one time, thanks much.
Speaker 6: You have a great night.
Speaker 2: Done for the night, everybody. Rons you can still go
Speaker 2: in there, but we're just flat out of time. I
Speaker 2: will thank Rob, i will thank Marita, I'll thank all
Speaker 2: our guests. With a special shout out to my guest
Speaker 2: at nine o'clock, Father Jonathan Gaspar, the pastor of Saint
Speaker 2: Mary's Lady Saint Mary's of the Assumption Church in Brookline.
Speaker 2: I'll end, as always all dogs, all cats, and Pope
Speaker 2: Francis agrees with me. All dogs, all cats, all pets
Speaker 2: go to heaven. That's my pell. Charlie. Rays were passed
Speaker 2: in February of twenty fifteen. Yeah, that's twenty ten, fifteen
Speaker 2: years ago. Twenty ten, fifteen years ago. That's all your
Speaker 2: pets are past. They loved you and you loved them,
Speaker 2: and I do believe you'll see them again. We'll see
Speaker 2: again them all night. At night's out. I'll be on Facebook.
Speaker 2: Nice out with Dan rayin a couple of minutes. Love
Speaker 2: to say hello. I won't be long. Stop by, see
Speaker 2: you tomorrow. Everybody, have a great Tuesday. Thank you. Rup