Joe Rogan roasts Katy Perry for all-female Blue Origin area flight

Joe Rogan ripped into Katy Perry and her all-female Blue Origin area flight amid intense backlash over the temporary journey aboard Jeff Bezos’ rocket.

“Hey Tim Dillion, I’m significantly better now that the women are again from area, thanks,” Rogan mentioned at the start of his podcast launched Saturday.

“It was very profound. I don’t know should you’ve seen Katy Perry discuss it, however she’s principally a guru now,” he mentioned.

Final Monday, Perry rode alongside former NASA engineer Aisha Bowe, astronaut Amanda Nguyễn, CBS morning host Gayle King, movie producer Kerianne Flynn, and the billionaire’s fiancée Lauren Sánchez.

Rogan mocked Perry for mentioning a daisy along with her throughout her journey, which she flashed to the cameras because the crew floated across the capsule.

“She introduced a daisy, which is tremendous essential. It exhibits you ways fast the flight was,” Rogan mentioned. “The lifeless daisy that’s like snipped from its life supply was nonetheless alive or nonetheless vibrant.”

Perry introduced the “easy flower” along with her as a tribute to her daughter, Daisy, and a symbolic gesture.

“Daisies are frequent flowers, however they develop via each situation,” Perry mentioned after the flight, calling them “resilient.”

The mission marked the 104th girl to journey previous the Karman Line, the internationally acknowledged fringe of area, earlier than returning to Blue Origin’s Texas facility for a complete flight of 11 minutes.

Rogan laid into the historic crew, evaluating their coaching to the method different area vacationers needed to endure.

“Let’s have a good time feminine astronauts as a result of loads of males astronauts, they must go to high school, they must be taught to be a pilot first, then they’ve to affix the Air Drive or the Navy after which get appointed by NASA,” Rogan mentioned.

Dillon identified that there have been feminine astronauts in area earlier than Monday’s all-women flight.

“Let’s not decrease this,” Rogan quipped.

NASA has despatched 64 feminine astronauts into area, together with not less than 11 others from numerous area companies around the globe.

Officers have been hesitant to name Perry and her crew astronauts as a result of they didn’t meet sure standards laid out by the Federal Aviation Administration.

“The crew who flew to area this week on an automatic flight by Blue Origin have been courageous and glam, however you can not determine as an astronaut. They don’t meet the FAA astronaut standards,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy mentioned.

FAA tips state that for somebody to be thought of below the Industrial Area Astronaut Wings Program, they need to reveal “actions throughout flight that have been important to public security, or contributed to human area flight security.”

The April 14 mission was accomplished via an automatic flight.

“They basically bought to the brink of area. They didn’t get like means on the market the place re-entry could be very traumatic,” Rogan mentioned.

“How nice is it that they simply get known as astronaut?” he added.

Rogan shared he was concerned about touring on a Blue Origin-like flight to area however wasn’t eager on the concept of deep area exploration.

“I wouldn’t go to area area however I might do the 80 miles,” he mentioned.

Perry confronted criticism for her response upon touchdown again on Earth.

The 40-year-old popped out of the capsule, dropped to her knees and kissed the Texas dust after the area journey.

Quick meals large Wendy’s mocked the singer over the stunt, asking if she could possibly be despatched again due to the gesture.

Perry described her quick journey because the second biggest factor she has accomplished.

“This expertise is second to being a mother. That’s why it was laborious for me to go as a result of that’s all my love proper there, and I’ve to give up and belief that the universe goes to care for me and shield me and likewise my household and daughter,” the “California Gurls” artist informed reporters, in accordance with Folks.

“I’m full up from with the ability to get that reward of being a mother, and to go to area is unimaginable, and I wished to mannequin braveness, worthiness and fearlessness.”