Gayle King’s still riding high after that nerve-wracking Blue Origin mission -- but she’s bringing it back down to Earth just a bit to clap back at the haters saying the money could be spent elsewhere.
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00:00Emily Ratajkowski versus Gayle King, which is now really turning into quite a battle because
00:05Emily, who you know has been not really a fan of the Blue Origin mission, the all-female
00:12crew that went up on Monday, she continues to go in on them. And Gayle King, who we got
00:18out yesterday, has a defense. But first, here is Emily's new shot at the Blue Origin crew.
00:26We are absolutely living in an oligarchy where there is a very small group of people
00:30who are interested in going to space for the sake of getting a new lease on life, while
00:35the rest of the population, most people on planet Earth, are worried about paying rent
00:40or, you know, having dinner for their kids. I saw a creator on here who said that privilege
00:44is not an accomplishment. I think we're in a place in the world where we need to be able
00:48to discern what real progress looks like. And what happened yesterday was nothing, nothing
00:54like that. I got to say, yeah, we are in a democracy. And the idea is not everybody has
00:59to live the same way. And, you know, if somebody can afford a yacht or a private jet.
01:04And I might understand what she's saying if taxpayers were paying for what happened on
01:07Monday. They're not. And by the way, Jeff, my understanding is Jeff Bezos, when she's
01:12saying privilege is not an accomplishment, he built that from the ground up. Right.
01:16So this wasn't a privileged guy. This is a guy who built a company. Now, you may not like
01:20Well, I think she's saying the privilege of the crew that went up, that they, because
01:25as far as we know, nobody paid for that. This was, I mean, this is a billboard for Blue Origin.
01:30People get comped all the time. Right. They just do.
01:32And I would say this, just that Emily Ratajkowski certainly, as a celebrity, does certain things
01:39that most of the population can't do either.
01:41And there's nothing wrong with that.
01:42And there's nothing wrong with it. But what she's saying about them on Blue Origin, a lot
01:46of people say about her when she goes to Fashion Week. That's right. Right. Okay. So Gail King
01:50She's heard all of this. He's heard all of this. And it's pissing her off.
01:54I really resent that people are calling it a ride. We duplicated the trajectory of Alan
01:59Shepard's flight back in the day. No one called that a ride. A ride sounds frivolous. It sounds
02:05insignificant. This was a bona fide flight. The thing that most gets me is what it, the message
02:14that it sends to young women and young girls. I've had so many people, no exaggeration,
02:21reach out to me and say, because you did it, it makes me think I can do it too. We're not
02:27under any illusion that this one flight is going to change things. But what it does is
02:31it does open doors. We're the first, but my hope is it will not be the last.
02:35But again, it is part of commercial space tourism.
02:39Right. That's the whole point of that.
02:40That is the whole point. And the other thing, I'm sorry, but as somebody who was mesmerized
02:45by the space race in the 60s, when she mentioned Alan Shepard, which is true, Alan Shepard
02:50went up, he went out orbit, and he came down.
02:52And it's true.
02:53But that was a huge accomplishment.
02:54That was a huge accomplishment because we hadn't done that with a man yet, or a person.
02:58And that was the first manned space flight from the United States.
03:04Right.
03:04And it was a huge deal. And I'm not saying this isn't, but we have duplicated that many,
03:09many, many times.
03:10Right.
03:11And just to, you meant a manned space flight, not men as opposed to women.
03:16That's exactly what I meant.
03:17I know that's what you meant.
03:18Which is why I totally tried to correct myself and didn't do a good job at it.
03:21Good job.