rant · moment 19 of 21
Mocking Katy Perry's 'Making Space' Speech
from Mistaken Deportation & Women In Space | The Tim Dillon Show #440 · #440
7 min
Tim plays and ridicules Katy Perry's post-flight remarks about unity and destiny, comparing the trip to a pointless lake house weekend and mocking her framing herself as history-making despite real astronauts having already been to space.
- Tim argues celebrities should keep their cool experiences secret instead of publicizing them immediately.
- The coolest people in the world keep things close to the vest, unlike modern celebrities who overshare.
- Katy Perry talked about her space trip as if it was an important sacrifice while people work supermarket shifts.
- Tim breaks down Perry's 'making space' speech—all she did was sit in a pod and float.
- Comparing the space trip to bragging about going tubing at a friend's lakehouse.
- Perry couldn't even be honest that the trip was a ride, not a journey or discovery.
- This echoes the problem with the 'Imagine' video during COVID, when celebrities sang from their mansions.
- If Perry had kept it quiet, no one would hate her—but instead everyone hates her now.
- Perry's claiming to do this for the common good while the economy is crumbling.
- Real female astronauts have been in space for months; Perry was up there six minutes and acts like she's a pioneer.