"Blue Origin Sucks"

The Starship system is a fully reusable, two‑stage‑to‑orbit super heavy‑lift launch vehicle under development by SpaceX. The system is composed of a booster stage named Super Heavy and a second stage, also called "Starship".

Episode Transcript

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We be good, O6 says hello all much more fun watching Starship
than New Glenn. I think it's more exciting
because you never know what's going to happen with Starship.
We be good. So because it's still such a
prototype that it's so much morefun to just hope that everything
goes well. I do that with like every every

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rocket launch too. I want every rocket launch to go
well, I want everything to work out.
But Starship, if you're watchingStarship and you're like, oh,
this is going to be exciting andit's going to be it's kind of
reckless and it's kind of punk rock in a way.
But at the same time, it's like,man, don't blow up.
Just don't Rudd, please. I want cool stuff to happen in

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space. I don't want to rut for
Starship. I want cool stuff to happen.
I want us to launch and land these things.
I want six of these per per day to launch.
That'd be insane. 6 launches and12 landings would be insane.
They could rush it, but will they?
I think the. I think the program has matured

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enough and I think the, I think the head of Starbase in
engineering at Starbase, even though Elon is still the
engineer, right? He's the top engineer.
I don't think they're going to rush it because they have proven
to everybody so far that they know how to make prototypes.

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They haven't proven yet that they know how to make a fully
capable super heavy lift rocket that's orbital and is dependable
for missions other than prototypes.
They haven't done that yet. And I'm like I said before, I

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want SpaceX to succeed. I am not a hater.
I want them to succeed. I have a podcast called the Elon
Musk Podcast because I'm a fan of what the guy does.
You can check it out on all podcast platforms.
Look, for me, there's a stupid idiot out there that's trying to
RIP me off even though my podcast was there first.
But there's a pod. I have a podcast about the guy

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because I believe in the things that he does.
But the fact of the matter, and I've been doing that for five
years. I've been doing this channel for
five years. I wouldn't do this if I didn't
like it, and I wouldn't do it ifI didn't believe in it.
But I think the fact that it's still a prototype and you have
to think about this in your heart of hearts.
People think about this in your heart.

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It's going to take more time because they want to get it
right and they want to be at thecompany that sends the next
people back to Mars. It's going to be wild.
It's going to be wild in the next 6 months.
In the next year. Things are going to ramp up
dramatically for Starship. I think the ramp up for this is

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going to go like, because right now it's like going up and up
and up. And then I think this year is
going to go like straight up because once they hit orbit and
once they start doing missions in orbit, once they start
launching Starlinks, like dozensof Starlinks at the same time, I

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think people are going to reallypay attention.
I think people pay attention now, but they're like, that's a
prototype. You know, especially people that
know what's up, they, they thinkthey know it's a prototype.
They know things could go wrong.And if you don't think things
are going to go wrong, then you're just being naive.
But if the fact that Starship actually launches and

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successfully orbits and succeedsin their missions, whatever
those missions are for paid customers or for Starlink, by
the way, Starlink is a paid customer for SpaceX.
They're kind of two entities. So Elon does this really well.
He has a bunch of different companies and those companies
pay each other, so he keeps all the money.

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Basically. He's like, well, I need
satellites. So I'm going to make a company
called Starlink. And then I'm going to make this
company called I'm going to makeTesla robots.
I'm going to make parts from Tesla that work with Starship.
It's funny though. It's very funny.
I, I'm going to say nice things anyway, man, Blue Origin killed

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it last time they killed it, they got, they got a great
performance. I'm going to, I'm not a hater.
I if somebody does something well, I'm not going to be like
SpaceX #1 Blue Origin sucks. Like that's stupid.
Go back to high school. You know, what are you a jock?
Not you, zesty. I'm just saying like who's going
to take position? Who's going to take a side like
that? That's just silly.

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Not you, not you, zesty. I'm just saying people that are
like total haters of either company.
It's like, dude, one, it's a giant corporation.
You're you're literally rooting for a giant corporation.
It's like, dude, I want Walmart to win.
No, I want Target to win, not you, Zesty.

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I'm just reinforcing the fact that people that are tribal
about spaceflight, I don't get it.
I don't get it because you know,the whole team space thing.
I want everybody to go to orbit.I want everybody to go to space.
I want every company to succeed.I'm a fan of spaceflight am IA
fan of SpaceX, yes, am IA fan ofBlue Origin, absolutely.

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I want them all to succeed. I want all I the politics of it
suck. The politics of it or it's
stupid. It's stupid.
I don't know why people, not just us, but the other people
that are in charge, like the politics of the people in
charge, it's just disgusting. You know, there's, there's

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people and I don't care who's incharge.
Jared Isaacman is a good dude incharge of NASA.
Soon, hopefully, man, I hope he changes some stuff around
because there's some just some just negative, negative things
going on. And it's just politics, you

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know, like we were talking aboutearlier, Jim Bryan Stein and his
lobbying group making millions of dollars just to talk to
people about stuff, you know, and the, the fact that people
are like being so. And I've, I've had these people,
right? So I was on the side of Hwy. 4
while they were building the first iteration of Starship.

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I was there for like a year, right?
And people would come up to me and they would be very political
and they'd say things like, because this is when Elon wasn't
very political. Like he was, he was pretty like,
I don't know, pretty in the middle about stuff.
And people would come up to me and be like, Elon is just an

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idiot, whatever, You know, just talk about politics, about Elon
and about SpaceX and stuff. And I'm like, dude, don't you
want to see this rocket fly? I'm like, it's not about the, I
mean, sure, Elon has done some very questionable things.
He's a very questionable, he's avery, let's just say intriguing
person to see it nicely. But he like, we don't talk about

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that when we talk about rockets,right?
We talk about the Rockets. We talk about the things that
they do. We talk about the missions.
We talk about the important things that are going to be
happening, people living and working in space, people living
off Earth's gravity, like away from Earth's gravity and
somewhere in the solar system, like how many people have lived

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off of Earth, Zero, they've donework on the moon.
They haven't lived off the Earthonce somebody lives off the
Earth, like goes to Mars. And even I would say, I would
say do a little trip, a little camping trip on Mars for a week.

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That wouldn't be considered living off Earth.
I mean, you're, you're going to be out for a year or two, right?
Because you're going to have to fly there and back.
But that's, I don't know, it's atough one too.