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Speaker 1 (00:00):
As a female, I was not impressed with the Blue
Origin space ride, which included Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez aka
Jeff Bezos' fiance, and Gail King, along with three other women.
These are women who got to go on a ride
in low orbit for ten minutes, basically because they're either
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rich or well connected. Not prideful for women.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Really, I'm I'm looking at the picture right now, the
all female crew. The flight lasted around eleven minutes, traveled
more than sixty miles above the Earth. So the Carmen
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line is that how it's pronounced, which is at sixty
two miles above sea levels, consider the boundary between Earth's
atmosphere and outer space. You got to give it to
Blue Origin for knowing how to do some pr so,
and I also love that the the idea that they
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call it a crew. You know, a crew you think
does something. It's the cast and crew of whatever. And
a crew has a has a job, and the job is,
you know, to make the event happen. So this is
not a crew. This these are passengers. There is nothing
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that they do. They just get shot into space. Oh so,
as a passenger on Delta, I can say that I'm
now Delta crew exactly or better yet, please be part
of the Frontier crew because we could we could use
some service on Frontier. So I get, I get the
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imagery here, and they want to do it as as
as an all girl crew. But isn't this getting tiresome?
You know, the the first girls. This is not an
achievement for women. It's it's not like like women went
on went on the ride or or engineered it by themselves.
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There's certainly female engineers on at Blue Origin, but there
was there wasn't anything. But this is a girls party
in space, you know. And hats off to Bezos for
figuring out how to get us to talk about Bezos. Hmm.
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Upon landing back on Earth and exciting exiting the capsule,
Katie Perry raised her hand to the sky and then
hissed the ground. And so is so out of this
crew was also Bezos's hot fiance, the Trophy the Trophy
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wife Wow. In a separate interview, King said that Perry
sang what a word wonderful world while the group was
in space. Makes you wonder if they were like, hey,
shut up, Katie, I'm in space, this is my moment.
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But she's got to be a singer. Quote. I'm glad
I did it. I have no regrets. I'm stepping away
from my comfort zone. I may get my ears pierced,
King said jokingly, and then she paraphrased a quote from
Eleanor Roosevelt, who stole from other people. Courage is doing
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something that scares you, but doing it anyway. Hmm. Can
you think at one point the space tourism thing is
going to suffer a huge setback? Yep. What's interesting about
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Blue Origins way of doing this is it is an
amusement park ride, one that I would take in a second,
by the way, and that you you fly up and
you immediately fall back down. You fly up and you fall,
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so there's not a moment when you're really in space.
Most of the weightlessness that you feel is partly because
you've gone over the line and you are outside of
the Earth's larger gravity, but also it's because you're free falling.
And have you heard of the the Vomit Comet, That
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is the big plane that they train people on to
be in a weightless environment. They take the plane up
and then they let the plane, they let the plane fall,
and while it's falling, you have the sensation that you're weightless,
so you're floating around and you learn how to be weightless. Now,
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if they ever open up a window during that plane ride,
you realize, no, you're just plummeting to the ground. So
how different is it that you're you're you feel good
when you have the illusion of these walls around you,
of the plane. Oh look, but if if you, if
you instead, if you instead went oh, and there's Oprah Winfrey.
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Oprah Winfrey was there watching this, and she got tiary.
I've never understood how Oprah Winfrey becomes this this thing,
don't I don't understand the cult like appeal of Oprah.
But if you can explain it to me, please three
or three seven, one, three eight, two five five, I'd
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love to know. King addressed from the criticism the Space
Trip receives, saying that she had heard people refer to
the trip as a ride, a word she resents, adding
that journey is a better descriptor why because the left
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just loves to control your words. Quote, We've had some
cranky Yankees and haters, she said, I've heard you. I'm
not going to let you. I'm not going to let
you steal our joy. But most people are really excited
and cheering us on realizing that this mission means young women,
young girls and boys too. Uh is it really a mission?
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A mission in my mind is that you're you're doing something. Yeah,
I'm in the space station and uh and I'm gonna
do these experiments. All right, that's an emission. By the way,
this is the first all female space flight since before
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I was born Cosminov. Valentina Turislavka had a solo flight
in nineteen sixty three. I think she was a second
person in space. Hmm, would you go on this if
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someone paid for your for your lift, would you go
up on it? I sure would, Which is funny because
I don't think I could ever just fly out of
fly out of a airplane. I don't think I could skydive.
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I just don't think I could do it. And for me,
the most fascinating part of these flights is not the
capsule falling back down. It is watching a rocket like
science fiction land upright back on Earth. For me, that
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I could watch over and over and over again. It
just is in my mind, absolutely unreal. I don't think
people understand the technology involved in making making that happen.
To make something plummet to the ground upright and then
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land on its feet or being caught by the arms
of some some machine. It's just amazing. And why that's
important is they get to reuse the rocket, and that's
the most expensive part. And just how cool is that?
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So compared to what Elon Musk does, Elon Musk sends
people above the line to where they cannot come back.
That's truly terrifying. So if you go on the Blue
Origin flight, you're on top of a large firecracker. It
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flings you out sixty three miles up in the air, down,
up and down. While you technically go into space, you
don't orbit. You're not in a place where you get
fly around. You just go up and fall. Go ahead
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and take a rock and throw it up in the
air and let it drop. And that's basically this flight.
You know, it's not the it's not the capsule coming back.
That's wild. So that the rocket comes back, that's wild.
The SpaceX, however, sends people higher and into orbit, into orbit,
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which means you could easily get stuck there. You could
easily get stuck in orbit and you could not come back,
or you could burn up and re entry. I suppose
with the blue origin when it's possible the parachutes don't,
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don't do their thing. That would be kind of terrified,
but it is amazing. And then it lands, it lands
back on Earth, or should I say it crashes back
into earth a bit more gently? I would take this
a million times. Why do we care when women do this?
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So there's a book I think it's called Boys to
Men about the success of the STEM movement getting girls
involved in science, technology, engineering, and math, and how over
the last couple of decades it has been remarkable, just remarkable,
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how many women have gone into science and professions. The
other side of the story is how few men have
gone into these professions. It is now lopsided. The other
way that going into medicine, for instance, it's overwhelmingly female.
Going into the law, becoming lawyers is overwhelmingly female. So
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to have to have an all female flight which is
made to look like girl power, you know, in twenty
years when girls are running every office, every business, every
legal firm, it's it's gonna be like, wait, what are
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we doing to get men and boys into these sciences?
What we what are we doing? Then in the book,
the author made two observations that blew my mind. One
was how few boys are going to college because education
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has become so feminized, boys don't want to go to college.
There was a town in somewhere in the Midwest, and
a rich guy decided it's time to give back, and
so he used his wealth to start a scholarship fund
for every person who graduated the high school there to
get a free ride to scholarship or free ride to college,
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every everyone. What does that mean means people should go
to college. The amount of girls who ended up going
to school on that scholarship exploded. More and more women
went to college. More and more girls went to college
in that small town because of this scholarship. The number
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of boys, however, stayed exactly the same. I mean exactly
the same. So even with a free ride to school,
no more boys wanted to go to school. The other
part was the the author said he took his daughter
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for a round of doctor's visits. So they went around
and saw all the doctors, and on the ride home,
the girl, who was about six years old, said to
the dad, Dad, can girls bet or can a boy
be a doctor? Two? Because none of the doctors were boys,
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so how important is it that we have an all
girl flight on a ride. The girls on this flight
didn't do anything except sit in a chair and get
flung into space. It wasn't it wasn't anything other than that. Anyway,
if you haven't thought it, give me a call three
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or three seven one three eight two five five. I
agree with our caller on that one. Did you hear
in the news our our stamps are going up? A
first class piece of postage for one ounce is going
to go up nearly seven percent to eighty seven cents.
Excuse me, just seventy eight cents? Who love dyslexia? That
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is a huge increase. I remember when stamps were nine cents.
I remember, I think when they were eight cents. And
they're in this The postal service is in this terrible,
terrible death spiral. The more it costs, the more we're
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gonna find ways not to mail things. When was the
last time you used a stamp? It might be today
on tax day? And I love to watch the kids
who are trying to file their taxes or on voting
day try to get a ballot in and they try
to find a stamp. How many times have you heard
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around election time, some kid going that, why do I
get a stamp? They don't know where to get a stamp.
My favorite was this one. You love it. Guy calls
me up at the Independence Institute and tells me the
story about his son voting for the first time. All
mail in ballots, so they they went out, or he
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went out and then voted. He mailed in his ballot.
The ballot comes back to the guy's house with postage
dew on it. There's not enough postage on it. It's like
a twenty cent stamp or a twenty five cent stamp
on this ballot. My buddy grabs his son and says,
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a son, quick, quick question here. I'm just curious, why
why did you put a twenty cent stamp on this?
The son proudly said, oh, because, Dad, you told me
to go down to the post office. That's where I
buy a stamp to send in my ballot. So I did,
but the line there was really long, and I saw
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that they had a vending machine to sell stamps. I
was like, uh huh, so why twenty cents? And the
guy said, oh, come on, dad, you taught me better
than that. Why would I spend more on a stamp?
Than I would need to. So in other words, the
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cheapest stamp was was twenty Was it a twenty cent stamp?
And the kid bought it because it had no idea,
no idea anyway? Is it worth? Is it worth nearly
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eighty cents to get your to get your stamp in,
to get your letter in? Just curious? And what do
we think of check trophy? Oh? It wouldn't it been
nice if they were able to leave Katy Perry in
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space three or three seven, one, three eight two five
five seven to one three. Talking for the big man,
I'm John Caldero.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Hey, John, maybe we can get Katie Perry or Oprah
Winfrey to set a new free fall from the edge
of space record. Would that be something that would get
some real attention for him?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I like that. I like that. I want to know
how I can get on Bezos's screen to take a
ride into space. Again, it's just an eleven minute ride,
so you're talking about five and a half minutes up,
it hits peroge and then it starts falling down. And
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when you think about it, this is what Alan Shepherd did.
I'm pretty certain this is basically what Alan Shepard did
in sixty two sixty three. I don't recall I wasn't alive,
So now some sixty years later you can do that.
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The cost is rumored to be about one hundred and
fifty grand. So if you if you want to buy
me something for Christmas, this would be a wonderful gift.
I would take it. There's a story here. Let me
get wonky for a second, because I know you love
it when I do something ridiculously wonky. By the way,
my name's John Caldera. Please find me at Independence Institute.
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You can follow me on all the socials at John Caldera.
There's no h in John, there's no Ian Caldera, so
any hooseles. Why do we have all these competing private
sector space flights. You've got Bezos doing Blue Origin. You've got,
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of course Elon Musk with the most successful and profitable one, SpaceX.
You've got Boeing that has its what are they called,
not the star Liner, but I forget what they call
what they're putting up. Virgin Galactic also has Richard Branson's
outfit also has a way to get into space. They
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drop somebody from a rock from a plane and then
it shoots up to the higher part, because it's the
low level stuff that's hard to get going, Like, how
did they learn all this stuff? What was the incentive?
Well for that, let's go back to the crossing of
the Atlantic. Charles Limberg across the Atlantic in a solo flight,
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a non stop flight across the Atlantic, which had never
been done before. They don't tell you why he did it, though,
you just see the store glory of him doing it.
He takes his single engine plane and he flies and
flies and flies and flies and flies and makes it
to Paris. How why why did he do that? Nobody
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tells you why. The reason is for money. There was
a prize put out for the first guy who could
fly NonStop from New York to Paris. The money was
put up by a hotelier, a guy who owned a
bunch of hotels in New York. And his thinking was,
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you know, if there was a flight from Europe all
the way to New York, we'd be renting a whole
lot of a whole lot of rooms. It would be
worth it. So he put up a huge amount of
money and said, anybody who can do this gets the money.
And it was you know, you do it, you get
the money. Whoever does it first gets the money, and
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a race was on. And so all these different airlines,
manufacturers and engineers kept coming up with different ways to
do it. Some had multiple wings, some had multiple engines,
and all these different technologies were trying. Several people died
in crashes trying to build a tech get to get
across the Atlantic. Charles Lindberg said, wait a second. If
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I empty out everything for my plane and fill us
the full of gas to the point where I don't
even have a window to look out, if I can
get off, If if I can get off the ground,
I should be able to make it. And he's in
this tiny little plane, cramped in something. He defecates in
his pants, he peels in his pants. He's there with
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a bunch of coffee for a flight that just kept going.
He starts hallucinating, he almost falls asleep, he almost hits
the water, but miraculously he manages. But after that event,
the technology that was developed for the other their planes
went on to change aviation. Those other models of multiple
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engines and multiple wings and this and that, the trial
and error went on to do it. Fast forward to
the nineteen nineties. I think it was the nineteen nineties
a bunch of people to put together something called the
X Prize. Interesting that it's called SpaceX, isn't it. And
the X prize was for whoever could get a vehicle
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up past the Carmen line, that is the delineation of
atmosphere into space, have that same vehicle be used within
two weeks to go back up again. Would win ten
million dollars. And all of a sudden, all these companies,
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small little companies, are trying to compete for the money.
They are out there trying to find their techne Some
of them used rockets. A guy named Bert Rutan, a engineer,
came up with an idea of attaching a rocket to
the bottom of an airplane because getting that ship up
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past into thinner atmosphere was where most of the fuel goes.
And he said, well, if I can just get a
rocket up higher, it'll be easier. So he came up
with this idea, and the plane carried this rocket ship
on its belly. Once it hit as high as it
could go, it would drop the rocket ship. The rocket
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ship would ignite and then go up past the Carmen line.
And then it had these scissor wings because he was
watching a batmanden game, a bad Midden game, and he
noticed that the birdie would always fall in the right direction.
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And he said, wait a second, if we had a
plane that did that, it could fall down past the
atmosphere like a birdie from a batman in the game,
and then move the wings back into place, and then
it could fly down and land like a plane. Sure enough,
he builds this thing, and he wins the ten million
dollar prize. The other side of it was all these
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other companies came up with other technologies, many of which
are better, and you see him being used in places
like Blue Origin and SpaceX. It was the prize money
that helped spur transatlantic flight in its prize money that
helps spur this private race for space tourism, which makes
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you wonder why, And here's the wonky question, why in
the world don't we use prize money for all the
other things we need discoveries for. Could you imagine if
the United States government said we're going to give a
billion dollars to whoever comes up with a drug to
successfully treat Alzheimer's. You have all these companies competing, and
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they'd be leveraged. Which one wins is not nearly as
important as how many different ones are trying to get something.
You could try it for the cure of cancer, you
could try it for better electricity, cleaner products, whatever it is. Instead,
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NASA would use things like, well, let's get smart engineers
in a room and we'll fight and we'll come up
with the single idea we think government should build. Maybe
government shouldn't be building spaceships at all. Maybe government should
just put up the money and say, whether it's a
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spaceship or cure to a disease, whoever gets this gets
all the money, and incentivize engineers and researchers and universities
to compete. We get a bigger bang for the buck.
But then those people in government would not understand or
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would not have the power to choose the winners and losers.
And that's what government loves to do. Anyway, If you
have a thought three h three seven one three eight
two five five seven to one three talk you heard
Brenda Stewart at the top of the hour talk about DIA.
They're going to raise the price of parking again. Man,
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they hate cars. So the United States first class stamp
might go up seven percent to seventy eight cents. The
parking at Denver will be thirty five dollars a day,
twenty dollars a day in the economy lots to keep
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your car there. Now, I'll be honest, I usually drive
my car to the airport. If I've got a trip
that's just a few days, I will spend the money.
Why because it is worth it. When I get out
of my flight and I finally get home, I just
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want to get moving. I just want to leave. I
don't want to take a shuttle to yet another parking
lot to get my car and then drive. And I
know it's it could be, you know, just fifteen minutes extra,
especially when you go to that Pike's Peak lot, which
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is it's just hillaciously large, and it takes forever, seemingly forever.
I just want to get the heck out of Dodge.
I just want to get out of Denver. I want
to get out of da And so I understand I'll
pay the extra money. I usually park in the economy lot.
I'll could use the exercise. I just don't want to
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wait and wait and wait, because it tries me nuts,
and especially since you don't know when you're going to
get in. Having that there makes sense. RTD stops its
buses at a certain point at night. I just I
just want to go. Let me get out of here
and go. That makes any sense for you the same way?
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Would you like to get up and go? At what price?
Do you stop parking? The other thing they do to
try to get you out of your cars, They're not
going to widen penya penya gets slower. They're going to
force you onto that trolley car no matter what. Why
because they know how, they know how you should you
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should travel. Give me a call three or three seven one,
three eight two. There, I keep it right here. You're
on six point thirty k.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
How the Senator Michael Bennett, who's been in Washington, d C.
Well more than a decade now, is saying that he
can do Colorado.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
More good as our governor.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Can you please listen me all the accomplishments that Michael
Bennett did as a senator for anyone the US Colorado Coyotes.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
I think that's just a laughable statement from the Senator.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Michael Bennett. I think is going to be the odds
on favorite for for this governor's race. If you think differently,
please let me know, he will have the money, he
will have the name recognition. But we've got to remember
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why he's even there. It's because Republicans continued to led
him win by imploding on the Republican side. He is
by far the luckiest man in American politics. Hey, I'm
John Kelderic. Give me a call three h three seven
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I guarantee Michael Bennett is likely going to be our
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next governor. That's that's how I read it right now.
I don't think there is a Republican who can win.
I know we've got Scott Bottoms and I'm trying to
remember who else and Greg Lopez. Doesn't matter who wins
the nomination, they are all. They are all going to
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get destroyed. So whoever wins the Democratic primary is going
to win. Ah. But if you're unaffiliated, you can vote
in either primary, which means that those people running in
the Democratic primary are going to have to talk to
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people more in the middle. And I understand Phil Wiser
Michael Bennett. It's definitely a Mussolini or Hitler vote, But
I think I'd rather have Mussolini, and I think that's
what we get. Bennett is a bit more modest, moderate
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of a Democrat, I think. But how did he get
into office. Well, he was appointed there by Bill Ritter
when Ken Salazar got tapped by Obama to be Secretary
of the Interior, so he didn't have to run a campaign.
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His first campaign was against Ken Buck, who was a
good candidate but made a couple unforced errors. And then
and then we gave him more and more candidates he
could not lose to Republicans would not put up a
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winnable candidate, and now we're going to be stuck with
Governor Bennett for probably eight years. God help us. Brown
thank you for letting me sit in It's always the pleasure.
I'm John Caldera. Keep it right here.
As a female, I was not impressed with the Blue
Origin space ride, which included Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez aka
Jeff Bezos' fiance, and Gail King, along with three other women.
These are women who got to go on a ride
in low orbit for ten minutes, basically because they're either
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rich or well connected. Not prideful for women.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Really, I'm I'm looking at the picture right now, the
all female crew. The flight lasted around eleven minutes, traveled
more than sixty miles above the Earth. So the Carmen
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line is that how it's pronounced, which is at sixty
two miles above sea levels, consider the boundary between Earth's
atmosphere and outer space. You got to give it to
Blue Origin for knowing how to do some pr so,
and I also love that the the idea that they
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call it a crew. You know, a crew you think
does something. It's the cast and crew of whatever. And
a crew has a has a job, and the job is,
you know, to make the event happen. So this is
not a crew. This these are passengers. There is nothing
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that they do. They just get shot into space. Oh so,
as a passenger on Delta, I can say that I'm
now Delta crew exactly or better yet, please be part
of the Frontier crew because we could we could use
some service on Frontier. So I get, I get the
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imagery here, and they want to do it as as
as an all girl crew. But isn't this getting tiresome?
You know, the the first girls. This is not an
achievement for women. It's it's not like like women went
on went on the ride or or engineered it by themselves.
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There's certainly female engineers on at Blue Origin, but there
was there wasn't anything. But this is a girls party
in space, you know. And hats off to Bezos for
figuring out how to get us to talk about Bezos. Hmm.
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Upon landing back on Earth and exciting exiting the capsule,
Katie Perry raised her hand to the sky and then
hissed the ground. And so is so out of this
crew was also Bezos's hot fiance, the Trophy the Trophy
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wife Wow. In a separate interview, King said that Perry
sang what a word wonderful world while the group was
in space. Makes you wonder if they were like, hey,
shut up, Katie, I'm in space, this is my moment.
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But she's got to be a singer. Quote. I'm glad
I did it. I have no regrets. I'm stepping away
from my comfort zone. I may get my ears pierced,
King said jokingly, and then she paraphrased a quote from
Eleanor Roosevelt, who stole from other people. Courage is doing
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something that scares you, but doing it anyway. Hmm. Can
you think at one point the space tourism thing is
going to suffer a huge setback? Yep. What's interesting about
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Blue Origins way of doing this is it is an
amusement park ride, one that I would take in a second,
by the way, and that you you fly up and
you immediately fall back down. You fly up and you fall,
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so there's not a moment when you're really in space.
Most of the weightlessness that you feel is partly because
you've gone over the line and you are outside of
the Earth's larger gravity, but also it's because you're free falling.
And have you heard of the the Vomit Comet, That
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is the big plane that they train people on to
be in a weightless environment. They take the plane up
and then they let the plane, they let the plane fall,
and while it's falling, you have the sensation that you're weightless,
so you're floating around and you learn how to be weightless. Now,
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if they ever open up a window during that plane ride,
you realize, no, you're just plummeting to the ground. So
how different is it that you're you're you feel good
when you have the illusion of these walls around you,
of the plane. Oh look, but if if you, if
you instead, if you instead went oh, and there's Oprah Winfrey.
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Oprah Winfrey was there watching this, and she got tiary.
I've never understood how Oprah Winfrey becomes this this thing,
don't I don't understand the cult like appeal of Oprah.
But if you can explain it to me, please three
or three seven, one, three eight, two five five, I'd
(06:18):
love to know. King addressed from the criticism the Space
Trip receives, saying that she had heard people refer to
the trip as a ride, a word she resents, adding
that journey is a better descriptor why because the left
(06:39):
just loves to control your words. Quote, We've had some
cranky Yankees and haters, she said, I've heard you. I'm
not going to let you. I'm not going to let
you steal our joy. But most people are really excited
and cheering us on realizing that this mission means young women,
young girls and boys too. Uh is it really a mission?
(07:05):
A mission in my mind is that you're you're doing something. Yeah,
I'm in the space station and uh and I'm gonna
do these experiments. All right, that's an emission. By the way,
this is the first all female space flight since before
(07:28):
I was born Cosminov. Valentina Turislavka had a solo flight
in nineteen sixty three. I think she was a second
person in space. Hmm, would you go on this if
(07:49):
someone paid for your for your lift, would you go
up on it? I sure would, Which is funny because
I don't think I could ever just fly out of
fly out of a airplane. I don't think I could skydive.
(08:11):
I just don't think I could do it. And for me,
the most fascinating part of these flights is not the
capsule falling back down. It is watching a rocket like
science fiction land upright back on Earth. For me, that
(08:34):
I could watch over and over and over again. It
just is in my mind, absolutely unreal. I don't think
people understand the technology involved in making making that happen.
To make something plummet to the ground upright and then
(08:58):
land on its feet or being caught by the arms
of some some machine. It's just amazing. And why that's
important is they get to reuse the rocket, and that's
the most expensive part. And just how cool is that?
(09:22):
So compared to what Elon Musk does, Elon Musk sends
people above the line to where they cannot come back.
That's truly terrifying. So if you go on the Blue
Origin flight, you're on top of a large firecracker. It
(09:44):
flings you out sixty three miles up in the air, down,
up and down. While you technically go into space, you
don't orbit. You're not in a place where you get
fly around. You just go up and fall. Go ahead
(10:05):
and take a rock and throw it up in the
air and let it drop. And that's basically this flight.
You know, it's not the it's not the capsule coming back.
That's wild. So that the rocket comes back, that's wild.
The SpaceX, however, sends people higher and into orbit, into orbit,
(10:32):
which means you could easily get stuck there. You could
easily get stuck in orbit and you could not come back,
or you could burn up and re entry. I suppose
with the blue origin when it's possible the parachutes don't,
(10:56):
don't do their thing. That would be kind of terrified,
but it is amazing. And then it lands, it lands
back on Earth, or should I say it crashes back
into earth a bit more gently? I would take this
a million times. Why do we care when women do this?
(11:18):
So there's a book I think it's called Boys to
Men about the success of the STEM movement getting girls
involved in science, technology, engineering, and math, and how over
the last couple of decades it has been remarkable, just remarkable,
(11:40):
how many women have gone into science and professions. The
other side of the story is how few men have
gone into these professions. It is now lopsided. The other
way that going into medicine, for instance, it's overwhelmingly female.
Going into the law, becoming lawyers is overwhelmingly female. So
(12:06):
to have to have an all female flight which is
made to look like girl power, you know, in twenty
years when girls are running every office, every business, every
legal firm, it's it's gonna be like, wait, what are
(12:29):
we doing to get men and boys into these sciences?
What we what are we doing? Then in the book,
the author made two observations that blew my mind. One
was how few boys are going to college because education
(12:51):
has become so feminized, boys don't want to go to college.
There was a town in somewhere in the Midwest, and
a rich guy decided it's time to give back, and
so he used his wealth to start a scholarship fund
for every person who graduated the high school there to
get a free ride to scholarship or free ride to college,
(13:13):
every everyone. What does that mean means people should go
to college. The amount of girls who ended up going
to school on that scholarship exploded. More and more women
went to college. More and more girls went to college
in that small town because of this scholarship. The number
(13:34):
of boys, however, stayed exactly the same. I mean exactly
the same. So even with a free ride to school,
no more boys wanted to go to school. The other
part was the the author said he took his daughter
(13:55):
for a round of doctor's visits. So they went around
and saw all the doctors, and on the ride home,
the girl, who was about six years old, said to
the dad, Dad, can girls bet or can a boy
be a doctor? Two? Because none of the doctors were boys,
(14:16):
so how important is it that we have an all
girl flight on a ride. The girls on this flight
didn't do anything except sit in a chair and get
flung into space. It wasn't it wasn't anything other than that. Anyway,
if you haven't thought it, give me a call three
(14:37):
or three seven one three eight two five five. I
agree with our caller on that one. Did you hear
in the news our our stamps are going up? A
first class piece of postage for one ounce is going
to go up nearly seven percent to eighty seven cents.
Excuse me, just seventy eight cents? Who love dyslexia? That
(15:03):
is a huge increase. I remember when stamps were nine cents.
I remember, I think when they were eight cents. And
they're in this The postal service is in this terrible,
terrible death spiral. The more it costs, the more we're
(15:24):
gonna find ways not to mail things. When was the
last time you used a stamp? It might be today
on tax day? And I love to watch the kids
who are trying to file their taxes or on voting
day try to get a ballot in and they try
to find a stamp. How many times have you heard
(15:49):
around election time, some kid going that, why do I
get a stamp? They don't know where to get a stamp.
My favorite was this one. You love it. Guy calls
me up at the Independence Institute and tells me the
story about his son voting for the first time. All
mail in ballots, so they they went out, or he
(16:13):
went out and then voted. He mailed in his ballot.
The ballot comes back to the guy's house with postage
dew on it. There's not enough postage on it. It's like
a twenty cent stamp or a twenty five cent stamp
on this ballot. My buddy grabs his son and says,
(16:37):
a son, quick, quick question here. I'm just curious, why
why did you put a twenty cent stamp on this?
The son proudly said, oh, because, Dad, you told me
to go down to the post office. That's where I
buy a stamp to send in my ballot. So I did,
but the line there was really long, and I saw
(17:01):
that they had a vending machine to sell stamps. I
was like, uh huh, so why twenty cents? And the
guy said, oh, come on, dad, you taught me better
than that. Why would I spend more on a stamp?
Than I would need to. So in other words, the
(17:21):
cheapest stamp was was twenty Was it a twenty cent stamp?
And the kid bought it because it had no idea,
no idea anyway? Is it worth? Is it worth nearly
(17:44):
eighty cents to get your to get your stamp in,
to get your letter in? Just curious? And what do
we think of check trophy? Oh? It wouldn't it been
nice if they were able to leave Katy Perry in
(18:06):
space three or three seven, one, three eight two five
five seven to one three. Talking for the big man,
I'm John Caldero.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Hey, John, maybe we can get Katie Perry or Oprah
Winfrey to set a new free fall from the edge
of space record. Would that be something that would get
some real attention for him?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I like that. I like that. I want to know
how I can get on Bezos's screen to take a
ride into space. Again, it's just an eleven minute ride,
so you're talking about five and a half minutes up,
it hits peroge and then it starts falling down. And
(18:53):
when you think about it, this is what Alan Shepherd did.
I'm pretty certain this is basically what Alan Shepard did
in sixty two sixty three. I don't recall I wasn't alive,
So now some sixty years later you can do that.
(19:15):
The cost is rumored to be about one hundred and
fifty grand. So if you if you want to buy
me something for Christmas, this would be a wonderful gift.
I would take it. There's a story here. Let me
get wonky for a second, because I know you love
it when I do something ridiculously wonky. By the way,
my name's John Caldera. Please find me at Independence Institute.
(19:37):
You can follow me on all the socials at John Caldera.
There's no h in John, there's no Ian Caldera, so
any hooseles. Why do we have all these competing private
sector space flights. You've got Bezos doing Blue Origin. You've got,
(20:01):
of course Elon Musk with the most successful and profitable one, SpaceX.
You've got Boeing that has its what are they called,
not the star Liner, but I forget what they call
what they're putting up. Virgin Galactic also has Richard Branson's
outfit also has a way to get into space. They
(20:23):
drop somebody from a rock from a plane and then
it shoots up to the higher part, because it's the
low level stuff that's hard to get going, Like, how
did they learn all this stuff? What was the incentive?
Well for that, let's go back to the crossing of
the Atlantic. Charles Limberg across the Atlantic in a solo flight,
(20:48):
a non stop flight across the Atlantic, which had never
been done before. They don't tell you why he did it, though,
you just see the store glory of him doing it.
He takes his single engine plane and he flies and
flies and flies and flies and flies and makes it
to Paris. How why why did he do that? Nobody
(21:14):
tells you why. The reason is for money. There was
a prize put out for the first guy who could
fly NonStop from New York to Paris. The money was
put up by a hotelier, a guy who owned a
bunch of hotels in New York. And his thinking was,
(21:34):
you know, if there was a flight from Europe all
the way to New York, we'd be renting a whole
lot of a whole lot of rooms. It would be
worth it. So he put up a huge amount of
money and said, anybody who can do this gets the money.
And it was you know, you do it, you get
the money. Whoever does it first gets the money, and
(21:56):
a race was on. And so all these different airlines,
manufacturers and engineers kept coming up with different ways to
do it. Some had multiple wings, some had multiple engines,
and all these different technologies were trying. Several people died
in crashes trying to build a tech get to get
across the Atlantic. Charles Lindberg said, wait a second. If
(22:21):
I empty out everything for my plane and fill us
the full of gas to the point where I don't
even have a window to look out, if I can
get off, If if I can get off the ground,
I should be able to make it. And he's in
this tiny little plane, cramped in something. He defecates in
his pants, he peels in his pants. He's there with
(22:42):
a bunch of coffee for a flight that just kept going.
He starts hallucinating, he almost falls asleep, he almost hits
the water, but miraculously he manages. But after that event,
the technology that was developed for the other their planes
went on to change aviation. Those other models of multiple
(23:05):
engines and multiple wings and this and that, the trial
and error went on to do it. Fast forward to
the nineteen nineties. I think it was the nineteen nineties
a bunch of people to put together something called the
X Prize. Interesting that it's called SpaceX, isn't it. And
the X prize was for whoever could get a vehicle
(23:30):
up past the Carmen line, that is the delineation of
atmosphere into space, have that same vehicle be used within
two weeks to go back up again. Would win ten
million dollars. And all of a sudden, all these companies,
(23:53):
small little companies, are trying to compete for the money.
They are out there trying to find their techne Some
of them used rockets. A guy named Bert Rutan, a engineer,
came up with an idea of attaching a rocket to
the bottom of an airplane because getting that ship up
(24:15):
past into thinner atmosphere was where most of the fuel goes.
And he said, well, if I can just get a
rocket up higher, it'll be easier. So he came up
with this idea, and the plane carried this rocket ship
on its belly. Once it hit as high as it
could go, it would drop the rocket ship. The rocket
(24:37):
ship would ignite and then go up past the Carmen line.
And then it had these scissor wings because he was
watching a batmanden game, a bad Midden game, and he
noticed that the birdie would always fall in the right direction.
(24:58):
And he said, wait a second, if we had a
plane that did that, it could fall down past the
atmosphere like a birdie from a batman in the game,
and then move the wings back into place, and then
it could fly down and land like a plane. Sure enough,
he builds this thing, and he wins the ten million
dollar prize. The other side of it was all these
(25:22):
other companies came up with other technologies, many of which
are better, and you see him being used in places
like Blue Origin and SpaceX. It was the prize money
that helped spur transatlantic flight in its prize money that
helps spur this private race for space tourism, which makes
(25:46):
you wonder why, And here's the wonky question, why in
the world don't we use prize money for all the
other things we need discoveries for. Could you imagine if
the United States government said we're going to give a
billion dollars to whoever comes up with a drug to
successfully treat Alzheimer's. You have all these companies competing, and
(26:11):
they'd be leveraged. Which one wins is not nearly as
important as how many different ones are trying to get something.
You could try it for the cure of cancer, you
could try it for better electricity, cleaner products, whatever it is. Instead,
(26:31):
NASA would use things like, well, let's get smart engineers
in a room and we'll fight and we'll come up
with the single idea we think government should build. Maybe
government shouldn't be building spaceships at all. Maybe government should
just put up the money and say, whether it's a
(26:52):
spaceship or cure to a disease, whoever gets this gets
all the money, and incentivize engineers and researchers and universities
to compete. We get a bigger bang for the buck.
But then those people in government would not understand or
(27:12):
would not have the power to choose the winners and losers.
And that's what government loves to do. Anyway, If you
have a thought three h three seven one three eight
two five five seven to one three talk you heard
Brenda Stewart at the top of the hour talk about DIA.
They're going to raise the price of parking again. Man,
(27:37):
they hate cars. So the United States first class stamp
might go up seven percent to seventy eight cents. The
parking at Denver will be thirty five dollars a day,
twenty dollars a day in the economy lots to keep
(27:58):
your car there. Now, I'll be honest, I usually drive
my car to the airport. If I've got a trip
that's just a few days, I will spend the money.
Why because it is worth it. When I get out
of my flight and I finally get home, I just
(28:19):
want to get moving. I just want to leave. I
don't want to take a shuttle to yet another parking
lot to get my car and then drive. And I
know it's it could be, you know, just fifteen minutes extra,
especially when you go to that Pike's Peak lot, which
(28:40):
is it's just hillaciously large, and it takes forever, seemingly forever.
I just want to get the heck out of Dodge.
I just want to get out of Denver. I want
to get out of da And so I understand I'll
pay the extra money. I usually park in the economy lot.
I'll could use the exercise. I just don't want to
(29:03):
wait and wait and wait, because it tries me nuts,
and especially since you don't know when you're going to
get in. Having that there makes sense. RTD stops its
buses at a certain point at night. I just I
just want to go. Let me get out of here
and go. That makes any sense for you the same way?
(29:29):
Would you like to get up and go? At what price?
Do you stop parking? The other thing they do to
try to get you out of your cars, They're not
going to widen penya penya gets slower. They're going to
force you onto that trolley car no matter what. Why
because they know how, they know how you should you
(29:52):
should travel. Give me a call three or three seven one,
three eight two. There, I keep it right here. You're
on six point thirty k.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
How the Senator Michael Bennett, who's been in Washington, d C.
Well more than a decade now, is saying that he
can do Colorado.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
More good as our governor.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Can you please listen me all the accomplishments that Michael
Bennett did as a senator for anyone the US Colorado Coyotes.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
I think that's just a laughable statement from the Senator.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Michael Bennett. I think is going to be the odds
on favorite for for this governor's race. If you think differently,
please let me know, he will have the money, he
will have the name recognition. But we've got to remember
(30:53):
why he's even there. It's because Republicans continued to led
him win by imploding on the Republican side. He is
by far the luckiest man in American politics. Hey, I'm
John Kelderic. Give me a call three h three seven
(31:13):
to one three eight two five five. I always check
out Independence Institute, my little organization. Go to thinkfreedom dot org.
That's think Freedom dot org. It's not up for the
newsletter at the very least. Check out Complete Colorado every Day,
Complete Colorado dot com, where you've got an aggregation of
all the day's news, and you've got columnists like me
(31:34):
and Mike Rosen and all sorts of folks and unique reporting,
and best of all, there's never ever ever a paywall.
It's there for you to use. It's free. Complete Colorado
dot Com. Just give it a try. You'll you'll get hooked.
I guarantee Michael Bennett is likely going to be our
(31:56):
next governor. That's that's how I read it right now.
I don't think there is a Republican who can win.
I know we've got Scott Bottoms and I'm trying to
remember who else and Greg Lopez. Doesn't matter who wins
the nomination, they are all. They are all going to
(32:20):
get destroyed. So whoever wins the Democratic primary is going
to win. Ah. But if you're unaffiliated, you can vote
in either primary, which means that those people running in
the Democratic primary are going to have to talk to
(32:42):
people more in the middle. And I understand Phil Wiser
Michael Bennett. It's definitely a Mussolini or Hitler vote, But
I think I'd rather have Mussolini, and I think that's
what we get. Bennett is a bit more modest, moderate
(33:06):
of a Democrat, I think. But how did he get
into office. Well, he was appointed there by Bill Ritter
when Ken Salazar got tapped by Obama to be Secretary
of the Interior, so he didn't have to run a campaign.
(33:26):
His first campaign was against Ken Buck, who was a
good candidate but made a couple unforced errors. And then
and then we gave him more and more candidates he
could not lose to Republicans would not put up a
(33:47):
winnable candidate, and now we're going to be stuck with
Governor Bennett for probably eight years. God help us. Brown
thank you for letting me sit in It's always the pleasure.
I'm John Caldera. Keep it right here.
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