Fading Celebrity Influence in Politics and Astronauts' Space Dilemma

What happens when Hollywood’s glitter can't sway the political stage? Explore with me as we unravel the fading influence of A-listers like Oprah in Kamala Harris's campaign, challenging the very notion of celebrity power in politics. Reflecting on a particularly tough workday, I found unexpected comfort in recent political developments, sparking a deeper conversation about the public’s yearning for change and the true motivations behind Hollywood’s political endorsements. As skepticism grows, we ponder whether some celebrities might secretly celebrate outcomes that align with their financial interests, offering a fresh perspective on this cultural phenomenon.

Shifting gears, we face a real-world drama unfolding in space, where NASA astronauts find themselves in a precarious situation on the International Space Station due to technical mishaps. Concerns for their safety and well-being highlight the vulnerabilities of space exploration. But let's not forget the excitement on the horizon—tomorrow's feature, the Yo Carol, promises to be a standout segment. With gratitude, I thank you for your unwavering support and for making our community a vibrant place. Your engagement inspires these meaningful discussions, and I can't wait to share more with you soon!

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Chapters

• 0:00 Celebrity Endorsements, Astronauts, Jeopardy Follow-Up
• 13:55 Upcoming Yo Carol and Gratitude

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:19

Well, hello and welcome to Thursday. Woohoo. Yesterday I was in a mood. I was tired because I had stayed up a little later than I normally do. My workload was a little rough yesterday. I was just ill at everybody. I mean I don't really talk to anybody here where I work. Management kind of irritates me a little bit. I don't really interact with anybody, but still I watch how things are done in there and it's like whatever, uh, but my workload mainly um, but yeah, the only thing that kept my says it was a saving grace was I kept thinking about how trump won and how the american people came through and voted for the man. I mean it was the man, I mean it was. It was a tidal wave. Wow, I mean it was crazy. Thank you, thank you, thank you. American people, goodness gracious.

Speaker 1: 1:14

And some of my topics is going to be about the celebrities that endorse kamala and how I mean this really really is telling about where we are in American culture, where we really are, not what the media tells us, where we are. All right, let's start with that story. As a matter of fact, let's start with that story about the celebrity is over, how Kamala Harris killed the celebrity endorsement, parading A-listers instead of policies was always a recipe for disaster. Kamala Harris' candidacy is dead and so is the Hollywood celebrity endorsement. We all knew that, though we already knew that Cardi B, beyonce, jlo Did. Jlo look terrified up there speaking. She looked like her life depended on getting up there and endorsing Kamala. She looked terrified. You know there's some P Diddy tapes of her. You know there's some P Diddy tapes of her. You know there is.

Speaker 1: 2:25

I can't wait for it all to come unraveling and tumbling down. I know I probably shouldn't wish disaster on people, but come on, they brought it on themselves. I think they deserve it. And here's another thing when I was irritable yesterday on the drive home, I was thinking why am I? Why was I irritable today? And it's because I am sick and tired of the stupid. I am so tired of stupid GD people. I am sick of them and I'm ready for it to be a four years of stupidity. And I'm ready. I'm ready for Trump to get in there and fix everything or hopefully he can with the Congress and the House I mean the House and the Senate Please, please, please, make everything right again. Oh, I'm just so happy.

Speaker 1: 3:15

Okay, alright, sorry, back to the thing by turning her failed presidential effort into a three-month-long variety show with splashy performances. What performances? Nobody performed anything. Presidential effort into a three-month-long variety show with splashy performances what performances? Nobody performed anything. You call John Bon Jovi a splashy performance. Lord, have mercy.

Speaker 1: 3:32

Oh, okay, bold-faced speakers, bold-faced speakers, and it carefully rolled out succession of endorsements from La La Land's most coddled citizens. Why not? It worked for so well for hillary clinton and her fight song in 2016. Well, hillary still lost when a majority of the electorate overwhelmingly says the country is moving in the wrong direction and they're being financially crushed by inflation. Don't bother with policy. Offer a theme song. Oh, I hear sirens. Hope everything's all right.

Speaker 1: 4:08

Uh, so on the eve of election day, oprah introduced oh yeah, oprah. She has not been relevant since I don't know when, since what? The 80s, if. Then I I, when oprah first broke onto the scene, I did watch a few of her shows, but after a it kind of dawned on me. It's like she's really not inventing anything new. She's just rehashing something you know, spiritual, that has been around forever, ever and ever and ever. She's not doing anything new. Here comes the siren it's a fire truck. It's going right past me. Oh, it turned off its sirens, still has its lights flashing, all right, sign of the cross. Prayers hope everything's all right.

Speaker 1: 4:48

So, yeah, I think this whole this just is telling. It's a big, old, long article if you would like to go read it. But, yes, the celebrity endorsement is dead. The American people, they have spoken, they have made their opinions known. Hello, I would love to have been a fly on the wall in Julia Roberts' home, or who were some of these other ridiculous women that came out, celebrity women that came out to support her? I just wish I could have seen their face when the results came in. Do you think they care, though? No, do you think they care? I bet secretly they're like oh, thank God, I can keep my money.

Speaker 1: 5:30

All right, we're moving on to the next one. Oh, let's talk about the astronauts, shall we? Let's talk about the astronauts, and then we will end with a follow-up of a Jeopardy contestant. She breaks her silence over sexist clue that forced host Ken Jennings to apologize. I have a lot of opinions on that, all right, but first we're going to talk about the astronauts that are still stranded up in space, all right, and who they are. This used to have been. This would have been a story many, many years ago, but now it's like, okay, whatever, we've forgotten about them. It's been almost six months since technical issues stranded NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on board the International Space Station Since their Boeing shuttle malfunctioned in June. What was supposed to be just a short eight-day trip has turned into another disaster for the aerospace manufacturer, as the astronauts have many more weeks in limbo before returning home. The astronauts have many more weeks in limbo before returning home.

Speaker 1: 6:31

Most recently, a pulmonologist told the Daily Mail that recent photos of Williams, the woman, show concerning signs regarding her physique. What you're seeing is somebody that I think is experiencing the natural stresses of living at a very high altitude, even in a pressurized cabin, for extended periods. You think her cheeks appear a bit sunken, and usually it happens when you've had sort of a total body weight loss. This could be due to the impacts of life in space, resulting in her burning more calories that she is consuming. As astronauts are urged to eat well above average, of about 3 3500 calories per day, mostly of meat. Because of high exercise and activity, her body's probably working harder to do basic things because the partial pressure of oxygen is lower than it would be on sea level.

Speaker 1: 7:26

So let's talk about who is Suni and who is Butch. It's just real quick. So Suni Williams is a 59-year-old astronaut from Ohio who has flown two prior missions to the ISS in the mid-2000s and early 2010s, before re-embarking into space last June. She has previously worked with robotics on board the ISS. And who is Butch Wilmore? Barry Butch Wilmore is another seasoned astronaut who has flown two space missions in the late 2000s and mid-2010s, where he has done several spacewalks. The 61-year-old hails from Tennessee.

Speaker 1: 8:05

All right, so why are they stuck in space? We probably already know that Both astronauts were the first manned crew on a Boeing Starliner capsule. However, a week after docking, the ISS capsule began to undergo thruster failures and helium leaks that sent their mission into lengthy delays. Oh, what's the plan to get them back to Earth? Spacex Dragoncraft running test to the ISIS will more, but not until this February. All right, well, you can go finish reading that story. Looks like February. Spacex will attempt to go pick them up.

Speaker 1: 8:41

All right, we're going to do this follow up on the Jeopardy and then we're going to get to the question of the day. I have a lot of. I put the story out there. You can go read it. The gist of it is, you know, there's three contestants on Jeopardy this particular episode. There was two men and a woman. The woman was wearing eyeglasses. No big deal in 2024, right? Everybody wears glasses nowadays.

Speaker 1: 9:05

But there's a famous Dorothy Parker quote that she put in her book apparently a hundred years ago. Now when I read it was a hundred years ago I was like what? Oh, I'm still living in the eighties, all right. And the? The quote is men rarely make passes with women in glasses and women wearing glasses, or something like that, and that was it was like a rhyming quote category and that was it. The answer was finish this rhyming quote men seldom make passes. And one of the guys chimed in and answered it correctly and the answer was women who wear glasses. And immediately the host I think his name is Ken Jennings apologized immediately to, uh, the girl, the female contestant who was wearing glasses. He said something like, oh, I'm sorry, sounded kind of awkward, and then the guy contested who answered it quick, correctly, said oh, yes, very, you know. And she didn't say anything, but she is speaking out now.

Speaker 1: 10:10

Ryan, who works as a health program director from Binghampton, new York, thought the phrase made everybody on the stage and in the audience uncomfortable. It is definitely an odd choice, she said. I think it made everybody in the audience and on stage and the host, ken Jennings, little uncomfortable. It was like oh, that was unexpected. Maybe we choose better rhyming phrases in 2024.

Speaker 1: 10:37

Look I, you can go finish reading that. I'm not going to read much. I'm not going to read any more of that my but here are my remarks on that story. Look, it was written a hundred years ago, in a time when perhaps that was true because women maybe didn't wear glasses. Back then we did care a lot more about our appearances. Back then we it was imperative that we married back then. Um, today, in 2024, it's different. So, but also, they were referencing a quote from a hundred years ago, in a different time. What are we? Are we gonna erase all of history? We can't use it anymore. I mean, use your common sense. Have we lost all common sense? It was a reference, it was a quote that was actually written by guess what? A woman. Y'all, get over yourselves, get over yourselves.

Speaker 1: 11:29

My next opinion about this is well, yes, we do wear glasses, but maybe women should take a little extra time to care for themselves and wear contacts. Maybe you can't wear contacts, that's fine too. There is nothing wrong with wearing glasses. Men nowadays all right, men, I don't think, really care, they don't care, they don't care. I promise you they don't care. We're living in 2024. That's the least of their thoughts, their thoughts.

Speaker 1: 12:02

If you're wearing glasses or not, some men probably think it's sexy that that old, you know, school teacher, sexy school teacher, look, or whatever. Also, there are men who are not men anymore. They're, you know. They're not making passes at women anymore because they're scared to death to make passes at women because they might get sued or called out or canceled. It's y'all, get over yourselves, Get. It's not a thing. It's not a thing. I think she took it in stride. It's fine, it's no big deal. Hopefully these women and men can use common sense and realize that quote was written 100 years ago by a woman and it doesn't matter today. It doesn't matter today. It was cute, it was cute. I like the quote. All right, we're going to get to the question of the day.

Speaker 1: 12:54

My question of the day is give me your strangest food combination that you like together, not, you know. Some people like a frosting and french fries. I've recently discovered gravy on french fries oh my gosh, I love it. Now, that not. But that may not be a weird combination to you, because I think they do that over in england, but oh, I love it. Um, a chocolate sauce on a biscuit is good. Oh, I recently had that too. Instead of biscuit and gravy, it's biscuit and chocolate sauce. Oh, it's so good. That's also may not be a weird combination. I don't know. I really don't think I have a weird combination. I probably the french fries in my frosty might be the weirdest one. I just can't think of anything right off the top of my head right now. But what is your strangest food combination that you like that you would like to share? Maybe I will try it and give you my thoughts on it. All right, that's really all I have for now.

Speaker 1: 13:55

Tomorrow will be a Yo Carol. I'll talk about other things too, but I will also have the Yo Carol on there and I guess that's it for now. So thank you for listening. I appreciate everyone listening and sharing my content. You guys just don't realize how much that does make my day. So thank you so much. All right, gotta go Bye.