April 16, 2025 • 29 mins
On the show today, two juicy new trailers dropped onto our screens today, so now we need to discuss a slightly scandalous new movie and the return of a fav Aussie show.
Plus, once upon a time Addison Rae was just another girl riding the opening high of TikTok, now she’s cemented herself as the best kind of manufactured pop star and her recent stunt at Coachella deserves our attention.
And after 11 full minutes in space, the first all female space crew have returned to Earth, bringing with them an avalanche of memes and viral clips. Now we need to talk about how Katy Perry turned the event into a publicity opportunity, and the famous women who have slammed the trip as ‘irresponsible’ and ‘gluttonous’.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
So you're listening to a Muma Mia podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Mamma Mia acknowledges the traditional owners of land and waters
that this podcast is recorded on from Mama Mia. Welcome
to this Spill your daily pop culture fix. I'm Laura
Brodnick and I'm Cassena Kitch and coming up on the
show today, my two favorite things, space and entertainment have collided.
(00:36):
The all female Space crew has come back from their
eleven minute mission. Katie Perry has become a meme. Some
other celebrities have spoken out they're very angry about the
woman going to space. We're going to get into all that,
plus the evolution of our favorite pop girli Addison Ray.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
She has had a serious like skyrocketed, Yeah, absolutely skyrocketed.
So we have some great news on her. And then
we've got some trailers to talk about today.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
It's too exciting you to I love a good trailer,
you know, it's hype you up a little bit. It's like,
just give you a little taste. There's like actual cinemas
in the US you can go in and just watch
two hours of trailers, which I've never done, but I
might be kind of into it. It'd be very like
a sensory overload experience.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
That seems kind of pointless to me.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
So it's because trailers are kind of an art form,
and I guess as people get more into only watching TikTok,
maybe that's all they can take. Okay, so you've got
a trailer that you need to tell us about.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Okay, So we're going to start off with another simple favor. Emily,
how are you here?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I'm getting married? We be my maid of honor? That
I mentioned it was in Capri.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Capri, Yes, she is in. We're all in.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Obviously, simple favor. Massive cult hit directed by Paul fig
Blake Lively, and Anna Kendrick. And you know we have
spoken about this on the Spill a lot. Blake Lively
has had a lot of airtime on this pod over
the last few months. But the trailer has been released.
If you haven't watched the first movie, then you probably
(02:18):
should do that before you say this.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Well, you should watch it because it's an excellent movie.
It's so camp, it's so silly, the clothes are amazing.
So Anna Kendrick plays a mum blogger who's a widow
and she's trying to get her YouTube channel up and running.
The other parents at school don't like her, and all
of a sudden, the very glamorous Emily Nelson played by
Blake Lively arrives at the school with her son, and
she's very mysterious and the two women make friends, and
(02:42):
then when she goes missing, Anna Kendrick's character has to
kind of find out where she is. And it's just
this kind of like murder mystery crime. But also bloggers,
it's just it's so good and they just like they
can tell it's kind of silly, but they play it
so straight that it's just like it's such a watchable movie.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
And so this second movie has been really hyped up,
you know, We've a lot of people have really been
wanting it. So the plot for this go and have
a look at the trailer, but the plot for this
is bad. Basically, Blake Lively is getting married in Capri
to this rich Italian businessman and wants Anna Kendrick to
be her.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Maid of honor because she's messing with her.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
So and obviously, given the end of the movie, there
is a lot of like tension between these two and
the fact that there's been all these rumors that Blake
and and I don't really like each other in real life.
Kind of plays really well into this because it feels
like they don't have to act that much.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah, it's a really good promo. I think they do because,
as I said when the movie was announced, they've both got,
you know, enough money and enough projects on the boil,
probably more so Anna Kendrick than Blake Lively. But to
go back and sort of commit to doing this again,
you would have to not have had a terrible experience.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, I mean it looks great. I mean I always
love on location shoot, particularly somewhere like Capri. You know,
you've got it's kind of giving me like those white
Lotus vibes. So there's a mysterious murder there is is
like Blake Lively's character going to try and kill Anna Kendrick.
So there's a little bit of like dropping all of
(04:13):
those hints in there. But you know, Paul fag is
an incredible director. He has done so.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Easily one of my favorite directors. We've had him on
the spill before. I've interviewed him. Last time he came
to Australia, I fangirled so hard, like so hard.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I interviewed him too, and then I asked him about
Sabrina the teenage. That's a good question because that's kind
of where I first was introduced to him. But now
he's just this killer.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Reports and all that. Every kind of big movie romcom
especially like like female leg comedy he's done.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, and very very talented and immaculately dressed. So if
you guys want to watch this, Another simple Favor will
be out on Prime Video on May one.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I'm excited for that. Another trailer that came out today
that we have a bit of a vested interest in
is the trailer for season two of Strife, which is
coming to Binge on May eight. So Strife is based
on Miya Friedman's memoir work Strife Balance, and it's a
fictionalized account of her memoir where she talks about starting
Mama Mir in the early days digital publishing and building
(05:11):
that business up and sort of being this media personality
while she's doing that. And it is a fictionalized account,
but it does pull a lot, obviously from the origin
story of Mamma Mia and also stories that have happened
in the office over the years, which.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
There's been cameras around here. So I don't know what your.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Job is basically the Office Diva. So the first season
started Asha Ketty as Evelyn Jones, and she was starting
her website E which is women's website and all the
ins and outs of that, And the first season ended
on quite a cliffhanger because one of her staff members
left to go and start a rival website, so we
see a lot of that in season two. We see
(05:48):
the staff moving into brand new offices and starting podcasting,
which is so funny because one of the first promo
images that came out of Ashaketty as Evelyn shows her
recording a podcast with all the blankets around her and
the pillows kind of sitting on the floor, which is
how podcasting started everywhere but at Mama Mea, and also
how a lot of us recorded all of our podcasts
(06:09):
through the BANDIM make when we're at home.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Okay, but if you don't, if you've never done any
sort of audio stuff before, the reason that you have
to do that is because the echo reverberates, So anytime
that I've done like vos or talking on the road,
you basically have to create like a little cubbyhouse for
yourself under a doner and then try not to overheat
while you're talking.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yeah, exactly, very accurate.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It was.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
It's some one of the most accurate things I've ever
seen in a TV show about podcasting, because usually when
you see podcasting like nobody wants this or something like that,
they're just like laying back on a couch and like
these you know apartments and all the doors and windows
open and they're chatting away or it's Carry Bradshaw and
just like that taking live calls during her procast, which
I love because it's like this beautiful, glamorized, fictionalized look
at podcasts, but this is under the blanket, raw and real.
(06:56):
We love that. So it's bringing all the original casts back,
which is exciting, plus a few new members, Tim Minchin
and Alcott. And yes, the first trailer is out now,
so pop that up on the Spill Instagram if you
want to take a look. And the season will be
out on Binge on May eight.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
And also produce by brunapap Andrea, which is you know,
if you don't know, one of our most incredible producer
exports Big Little Lies, works very closely with Reese Witherspoon,
So you know that it's going to be good.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Absolutely, this is what we're going to do.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I gotta go back to the office and pretend everything's fine,
and it's not. My competition is launching and I clearly
need help regulating my emotions, which are my own on
hot topics, punch your headlines.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
So we have it on news coming out of Coachella.
So we've just had the first weekend, and on Monday's episode,
if you missed it, we delved into all the really
important celebrity issues from the first weekend of Coachella, including
some light devil worship that was a good time, and
also Timothy Chalomey's backpack. I love had everyone else was
talking about Kylie Jenner and Timothy Chalomey like passionately kissing
(08:06):
in the front row of Charlie XC.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I know you and I are like just the back
What is it in the backpack? Has anyone talked about
the backpack?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
No one has figured this out. I don't know where
are the internet slews? Where are the mouth reader as
almost said mind readers, but also get them into I
just think we need this question someone has. He's going
to start doing press for his next movie soon, so
someone has to ask him that very important but another
little interesting tibbit that came out was that young Addison
Ray was up on stage doing a little surprise appearance,
(08:34):
and she looked incredible because she had her hair out
just all like loose and wavy and these like very
kind of like like a tossle I just ran through
a fairy guarden kind of look. And she was wearing
this like flowing white gown, like a full gown, full
long sleeved neck, high neck, floating across stage. Honestly, again,
looked like an escape fairy, just trotting across the stage.
(08:56):
But at one stage she was, you know, dancing away
and she turned around to the audience and because the
dress was quite see through, she flashed her bit dazzled
underwear and on. It was the release date for her
upcoming album. So that's point everywhere.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Look well done, girl, well done, the right way to
release an album. So we've got that for June six,
which is awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Write that down every time you to remember that. Just
imagine the etherel dress partying to show the badazzle underwear
and that date will pop into your head.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I'm so fascinated by Addison Ray's sort of rise to fame,
to be honest, because she kind of she started in
twenty nineteen on TikTok. You know, twenty twenty was when
TikTok really took off during the pandemic, but Addison Ray
really started out as a TikTok dancer. She was the
one doing all of those like viral TikTok dancers. So
(09:47):
to see her go from that to now pop star
is quite incredible, and it's also done very very well.
I think she's done it right, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, exactly. It's been like quite the evolution to watch. Yeah,
it's really interesting because obviously there was just a handful
of girls at the time who were on TikTok when
it was first really picking up, and you had like
a Charlie t'milio and an Addison Ray, and they were
the ones who just were like, you know, obviously they
were cute and they you know, had cute dance moves
and audiences really liked them. But it was the classic
case of right place, right time. But also there are
(10:19):
a lot of girls who girls in particular who were
you know, dancing away who rode that rise to fame
and then didn't kind of see it through. Whereas a
few names have stuck around and Addison Ray is one
of those. So she became the most followed person on
TikTok for a long time, she was raking in the
cash with all these endorsement deals. She started doing like
you know, the mainstream press, like magazine covers and late
(10:40):
night talk show circuit. Very infamously was on the Kardashians
member when she and Courtney, which I actually do believe
they were friends, Like I do think it was friends
for press because they would spend all their time together
and they would always film and document everything. But I
thought they genuinely liked being each other's company, but they
also liked the hits from each other's audience because they
were coming from very different audience groups.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
And I think that that is such a great point
because what she's done is TikTok has become this kind
of community where people have found fame on TikTok but
then not on into mainstream fame. Yeah, you know, so
people will go, oh, well, these tick to people aren't celebrities.
It's not like a bride pit or something. But she
has managed to cross that boundary, get on the stage
(11:25):
at Coachella and create this like really great like pop
synthpop brand for herself.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah, it's interesting. I feel like there's like a kind
of like a very similar vein between her and like
a Sabrina Carpenter, because I think for a while there
we're very into this kind of pop stars who felt
like they were running their own empires, so like a
Taylor Swift or a Lord or even a Charlie XCX,
and you know that kind of vibe of I write
all my own songs, I put together my own like
staging and my concerts, and I'm sending messages to fans
(11:54):
and i pick what i want to wear, and I'm
not going to dress for you. I'm gonna dress or
like a Billie Eilish, like I'm not going to dress
for this kind of like ideal feminine version of a
pop star. And so we went really far that way.
And if at the time when that was kind of
all bubbling up, it felt like if you came out
and dress like an old school manufactured pop star, like
very sexualized outfits, sexualized dance moves, really like silly pop songs,
(12:17):
that would just feel so like jarring and a bit
embarrassing and cringing would feel really cringey. But then we
have this next wave of pop stars. And I feel
like Sabrina Carpenter really led that of just coming out
and like she's so she looks like a sexy baby doll,
like that's the only way to describe it. And she's
bopping around stage these silly little songs. But people are
just eating it up, like me included, because there's something
(12:38):
so like freeing and fun. It's like permission to like
delve back into manufactured pop, which is a lovely place
to be.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I actually quite enjoy a bit of manufactured pop. But
I think it's you know, it has its place in music. Obviously,
we're not here going to be They're not winning you
know these massive awards.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
For Sabrina Carpenter. Did She's not on the Grammy?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
No, not not like that. But what I mean is, like,
you know those websites that are like really analyzing music
and what is quote unquote good music. Yes, there is
room for pop, there is room for fun and joy,
and I think that that's kind of what Addison Ray's
album is going to be. Now, we don't know what
the name of the album is going to be just yet.
(13:18):
There's been a couple of hints that have been dropped
something with pink, because this pink wig, pink neglige. I
don't know, so maybe something around pink. Maybe she's doing
a whole lotoring.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Just imagine us having like one of those big boards
behind as well, like trying to patch together the name
were like something with pink. Again, what she wore in
Coachella I think really stood out. But every time she's
had a red carpet moment, especially in the last couple
of years, it's always been like quite a standout moment.
She's very open at the fact that her biggest success
was getting in the right team, which again I think
of a lot of pop stars want to be like, no,
(13:53):
it's just me writing my songs and bouncing around my
apartment and stuff, where she's like, no, I work with
these songwriters and I chose these people. And her stylist,
Dara has put her in all these incredible clothes. Remember
like when she went to the VMA's and she wore that.
It was like a white mini skirt with like a
full skirt attached and like almost a white bra top,
but it was meant to be ill fitting, so her
boobs was spilling out and it was honestly the best
(14:15):
look of the night because it just felt something about it.
Even though it was just a classic kind of pop
star with her boobs out, it was a It just
she stood out the most. I don't know, it felt
it felt weirdly authentic. You're like, that's this is a
girl who's dressed exactly how she wants to dress.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Except all those bra fitters at Daj's are like, oh, darling,
you're in the wrong side.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
I know that was spilling out the top. I do
think that was the vibe. But yeah, she's been kind
of open about like how she's kind of manufactured herself
a pop career, but I think it's worked. Also, her
songs are just bangers, like Diet Pepsi that is just
like I always have an a loop Apgarine all the songs.
So I feel like this she's kind of like now
switched over, Like from when she walked to the met
gala and all that sort of stuff, even though she
(14:56):
was wearing a dress like two thousand and three and
she's like it's a vintage and I was like, well,
go throwing myself off a building then. But apart from that,
I've really enjoyed watching her evolution and I feel like
this album's going to cement her as like a proper
pop star, not a TikToker.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Hy two Q nostalgia. She really leaning into it. Imagine
it's twenty twenty five and we're heading into space and
there are women.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
In space, groundbreaking.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Can you imagine it? A woman in space? How many
tampons would she needs?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
A joke? Twine sent one hundred tampons up with that
female astronaut, which she was up there for a while.
All men, you're silly things.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Men are silly things. But this is today. We are
very excited because some celebrities have gone up into space,
including Katy Perry and Gayel King. Now it's not just them.
I do actually really want to shout out the other
people that we're in space with them, because they are
really important as well. So we've got producer Kerrie and Flynn,
Aisha Bowen, a former NASA engineer who started her own
(15:55):
company to promote science education, and Aman Denwan, a scientist
who now advocates the survivors of sexual violence. So I
think super important to also mention the other women that
were on Blue Origin, because it's not just about Katie
Perry and Gayl King.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I know they had the best memes.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yes, so Katie Perry obviously had the best meme. So
this particular space launch is Blue Origin. It's Jeff Bezos's rocket.
So William Shatner went up in this rocket. It's kind
of like space tourism at this point. But you know,
it was the first time where they had an all
female crew. Can we call them crew?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Can we call them a crew? I think we can
really love that.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I mean, I'm not sure that they were driving the rocket.
Maybe the engineer.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
No, apparently no one in the rocket drives it. I
was like deep on this last night. It's like, I
feel it's quite interesting that no one really cared about
the build up to this. Everyone was just like, oh,
they're going to space, hilarious. And then when it actually
happened last night and we started getting the picks, I
think more very visual people we needed to picks, need
the videos, we all started caring for that. Eleven minutes
were up in space. Apparently it's like remote controlled from
(17:01):
the ground. Yeah, so they just go up.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
They flew, So a man was controlling it, thank God,
Heaven forbid the woman has to control it. I feel
like with my manne. But yeah, so basically they got
shot up into the atmosphere ten minutes in space. But
what was the most some of the really key moments
is Katy Perry announced her set list tour.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I'm sorry, I love her. I know people think that's cringey.
That's the whole point. She's up there for promo. The
girl's working. That wasn't a social day for her.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Will you write a song about this experience?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
For sure, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
And not only that, I got to reveal my set
list for the tour on a butterfly how apropole, just
flying in space. I don't know if anyone's ever anyone's
ever done that before, So.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I just I found that really cringey. Is that not cringey?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
It's so cringey. I'm just so impressed by how much
Katie Perry got done in eleven minutes. She took amazing
photos getting on. She rung the bell as she got
on the spaceship. She's strutting around looking like she's about
to drive the thing. Gail King's in front of her,
look terrified, like she's second guessing all her choices. Then
the ship goes up. Katy Perry is screaming and she's
(18:17):
floating around. She's the one who's yelling take up space,
which was their tagline, is about women taking up space.
I feel personally we probably could have left that out,
but anyway, then Katy Perry is smiling to the camera,
and then she's holding up a daisy daisy dove, and
then she also had like a little blue creature and
she's yelling at I've got you Flynn, and I think
it must have been a toy from Flynn, which is
(18:39):
Orlando Bloom who's the father of her daughter and Miranda
Curr's son. And then she was also holding up some
other items. The woman got shit done.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
She was very busy up there, and I mean, I
respect her for that. I just thought it was a
bit funny. So she had this like butterfly cut out
with the whole set listom. Yeah, so she's launching her
tour on April twenty third in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Well, the promo's worked.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I mean, we know what the set list is now,
so I mean, she's done it. The one thing that
I did really enjoy is when she got back down
to ground after the ten minutes in space and kids
to the ground.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Those interviews when they landed, because they come down there, guys,
I don't know space times. They come down like you
know how like the shuttle thing detaches and you fall
to Earth and that, and so people were waiting in
the drop zone. And it's so funny because, like they
say that you can hear them screaming inside, which I
guess you would. And then they all started giving like
fresh from their eleven minute trip to space, they started
giving these unhinged interviews. So to add to Katy Perry's
(19:35):
work of what she was doing, Gail King said that
she started singing as the rocket came down.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
The best part was when we got back in our
seats after zero g's Katie sang, what a wonderful world?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
She did that nice. She sang, what a wonderful I
see dreams. Oh yes, yes, yes, oh.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Because we'd been asking her to sing all the time
and she wouldn't and she wouldn't. And then because everybody
said sing raws, sing fire, and she said.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
It's not about me. I wanted to talk about the world.
I actually quite liked that she sung what a wonderful world.
I think that's a.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Nice way she planned that you can just see her
like in her she did.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
But that I think is that's really nice. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I think is stage mapped out her space time, which
means she got the most headlines, so that's important. She
stage mapped out when she dropped the setlist, when she'd
hold the daisy up, when she'd sing as they plummeted
back to earth, like the woman's a performer, do.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
You know what? I also really wanted to mention, So
Gail King, obviously Oprah's best buddy. Oprah was saying that
Gail King is terrified of flying, like really really scared
of flying, Like anytime there's turbulence on a plane, She's
like gripping the stage fair So that's actually an amazing
act of bravery to go even further and do something
like that when you are deathly afraid of flying.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Yes, she looked terrified getting on, like she looked like
she was regarding all of her life choices. And yeah,
I loved how they kept flicking to the in all
the coverage, they were flicking to the people like the
family members and the loved ones who were waiting on
the ground, And so you had like get Katie Perry's daughter,
Daisy Dove was there. Oprah was there, and she was
crying for Gail. I think she was crying because she
was proud of her, cute because they're besties, but also
(21:12):
crying because she was worried for her. And then Christianna
and Chloe Kardashian were there, which I saw some headlines
being like, oh, they're just trying to get in on it,
But it's because Lauren Sanchez, who's on the flight, is
a super close friend of their, so they were there
to cheer her on. But the no Kardashians in space yet.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
No, And I don't think we need to say anything
about the Kardashians in space. I'm sure there's lots of comments.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
He's in twenty five of the Kardashians.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
We'll be able to make that, but you know, I
do think it also raises a really interesting question about
this like space tourism thing. So Blue Origin. They didn't
say how much this flight as actually costs. It obviously
is going to cost a lot of money, but there
have been some criticisms of this. So em Radakowski was
not happy about this space flight. She had a lot
(21:57):
to say.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
That's space mission this morning, that's end time shit like
this is beyond you care about mother Earth and it's
about Mother Earth, and you're going up in a spaceship
that is built and paid for by a company that's
single handedly destroying the planet. At the state of the world,
and think about how many resources went into putting these
women into space for what for what was the marketing there?
(22:19):
And then to try to make it like I'm disgusted, literally, I'm.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Disgusted, And I kind of get her point. I understand
what she's saying, Like do we need to be spending
these I would say millions of dollars to do this?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Yeah, when it doesn't. I mean that's the thing. When
I was as the lead up to this was happening
and I saw some people getting quite angry about it,
I was kind of thinking if it was something that
deserved the amount of rage, and part of me thinks, like, yes,
like it is. It does feel so crazily tone death
to kind of wrap this experience so that these super
wealthy people are getting to wrap that up in empowerment
(22:53):
and a step forward for women, because like the women
on the ground, who are you know, don't have you know,
autonomy over their bodies and don't have health care and
in like desperate situations. And I know one of the
women did say this is for the survivors when she
was up there, because she advocates for survivors, and I
understand they're late to it, but I was like, oh,
this doesn't help, This doesn't help women, Like this is
(23:14):
for you, and it's okay to do it for you
as a selfish kind of thing. That's totally fine. But
then I think it was more like this huge expense
of money for entertainment value, and I think, like, how
is it any different to like the expenses of like
the Metgala red carpet, and you know, we get so
much like joy and content out of that, Like this
is just another kind of way of celebrities using their
(23:36):
wealth to entertain.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
But I think it's also you know, you're looking at
someone like Sunny Williams who was stuck in space for
you know, nine months, when she was supposed to be
up there for I don't know, a week or something,
and the amount of press that got versus the amount
of press that this particular incident got, so it's just
kind of it does sort of shed light on the
(23:59):
fact that a real astronaut who actually is an incredibly
intelligent woman who was up in space. She spent nine
months up there. She's you know, I worked very very
hard for this. They barely got I mean they got
media attention obviously, but you know, ten minutes in space
from Katie Perry and here we are chatting about it.
(24:22):
But it's and I mean, like, if you could, would
you go up in space?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I'd let a few more Katie Perrries test it out first,
just to make sure it was okay. Like when I
did see the rocket God, I was like, we'll just
see how this goes, maybe in a few years, because
eventually it will become one of those things where it's
just like how people do, like trips over and targer
on a plane now and that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
When you're going to see the Titanic.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Yeah, no, I'd rather go to space than go and
see the Titanic.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I think I would. I think I would. I think
I would find that really amazing to maybe.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
See booked on the next one we can announce like
the podcast upcoming episodes.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
No one's around space, no one cares.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
What I also thought was interesting leaning up to this
is like along with em Rata. There were quite a
few other celebrities, mostly women, all kind of speaking out
negatively about it, which I thought was interesting because they're
all looking at it from like I guess the kind
of same blendses us, but also coming at it from
being other famous women. So Olivia Munn went on the
Today with gener and Friends podcast and she said, I
(25:21):
know this probably isn't the cool thing to say, but
there are so many other things that are so important
in the world right now. Space exploration was to further
our knowledge and to help mankind and what are you
going to do up there that has made it better
for us down here? Which I think is a fair point.
And then she went on to say, I know this
is probably obnoxious, but like it's so much money to
go to space. That's a real comment, Olivia Mine. I
(25:42):
support you on that, and there's a lot of people
who can't even afford eggs. And then she said the
trip felt gluttnss. Now she just brought eggs into it,
like not even a joke, Like it is, eggs are
super expensive and they're hard to get.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
You've got to go first thing in the morning, you
have to go to this special place and then if
you go on the afternoon, You're not going to get
your dozen eggs. That's just the fact. No, But I
and I understand that, and I think that it's really
really difficult for people when we are struggling with cost
of living. Things are really tenuous at the moments, particularly
politically in the United States, and I think people think
(26:17):
that the only thing that you can focus on is
that there is space. And I've said this many times before,
but there is space for joy and laughter and enjoyment
in a world, even when it is dire circumstances.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Yeah, exactly. That kind of like you can make a
serious comment but see the funny side, which also is
kind of what Olivia Wilde did, the other famous person
who was calling out the trip, because she shared a
whole bunch of memes about the space trip to her
Instagram stories, and one of the main ones was that
photo which I think will go down history of Katie
Perry kissing the ground after she got back from her
(26:56):
eleven minute trip to space. And the image was accompanied
by the words getting off a commercial flight in twenty
twenty five, hashtag blue origin and that was the and
that was in reference to a lot of the aerial
disasters that have occurred in recent months. So that was cute,
and so Olivia Wilde shared all these like wild memes,
and then Olivia Wilde wrote across them billion dollars bought
(27:18):
some good memes, I guess, And look, the woman's not wrong.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
She's not wrong. We're talking about it right here. And
I love a good meme exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
I feel like, yeah, Katie Perry in particular is getting
a lot of heat for kissing the ground, But like
I get it, Like, you know, you're in a high
you just spend eleven minutes or I think it's four
minutes in space, right, because it took them a few
minutes to get up, they have four minutes in space
where they did their little like cry of women take
up space. They showed off their props, they floated around,
which looked fun. Then they plummeted back down to Earth.
They tumbled out. She kissed the ground, and I think
(27:47):
she was just really wanting to have those viral moments.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
But can you imagine the adrenaline rush after something like that?
One percent, Like, let's not forget about that. I mean,
even getting off a roller coaster, you get an adrenaline rush.
I've done skydiving before, and afterwards I was.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Like, yeah, kissing the ground.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I wasn't kissing the ground, but I was just soa
adrenaline is an incredible drug. Like ye, I don't fault
her for that, but it's.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Hilarious to look exactly. I mean, look, at the end
of the day, Katy Perry is a performer, and she
made this a performance. And as much as everyone's making
fun of her, she's kind of come out on top.
I feel literally on top because she was in space.
So I look forward to other celebrities going to space.
I'm sure a few more of them will do it now,
and they'll each try and sort of top with each
other with their viral moments, and like maybe this is
going to come out in new red carpet. It's like,
(28:32):
what did people do up in space? I also am
enjoying some of the headlines today, like Katy Perry was
talking about the eleven dollars setting spray that she used
to keep her makeup on in space. I'm like, girl,
it was eleven minutes. You didn't need setting spray for
your makeup. I'm sure it would have been fine.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I wonder if zero gravity setting spray is like, Okay,
there we go, don't steal my business idea.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
The endorsements are just endless love that. Well, thank you
so much for listening to the Spill today, and thank
you so much Tocka Senya for joining us the last
couple of days. Hitting all the big topics, but dazzled
underwear butterflies in space. It's been hard hitting news this week.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
You know what, I actually just love a little bit of.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Joy, me too, a little bit of space joy. Well,
the Spill we back in your feet at three pm
tomorrow and we'll see it the bye bye
So you're listening to a Muma Mia podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Mamma Mia acknowledges the traditional owners of land and waters
that this podcast is recorded on from Mama Mia. Welcome
to this Spill your daily pop culture fix. I'm Laura
Brodnick and I'm Cassena Kitch and coming up on the
show today, my two favorite things, space and entertainment have collided.
(00:36):
The all female Space crew has come back from their
eleven minute mission. Katie Perry has become a meme. Some
other celebrities have spoken out they're very angry about the
woman going to space. We're going to get into all that,
plus the evolution of our favorite pop girli Addison Ray.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
She has had a serious like skyrocketed, Yeah, absolutely skyrocketed.
So we have some great news on her. And then
we've got some trailers to talk about today.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
It's too exciting you to I love a good trailer,
you know, it's hype you up a little bit. It's like,
just give you a little taste. There's like actual cinemas
in the US you can go in and just watch
two hours of trailers, which I've never done, but I
might be kind of into it. It'd be very like
a sensory overload experience.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
That seems kind of pointless to me.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
So it's because trailers are kind of an art form,
and I guess as people get more into only watching TikTok,
maybe that's all they can take. Okay, so you've got
a trailer that you need to tell us about.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Okay, So we're going to start off with another simple favor. Emily,
how are you here?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I'm getting married? We be my maid of honor? That
I mentioned it was in Capri.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Capri, Yes, she is in. We're all in.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Obviously, simple favor. Massive cult hit directed by Paul fig
Blake Lively, and Anna Kendrick. And you know we have
spoken about this on the Spill a lot. Blake Lively
has had a lot of airtime on this pod over
the last few months. But the trailer has been released.
If you haven't watched the first movie, then you probably
(02:18):
should do that before you say this.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Well, you should watch it because it's an excellent movie.
It's so camp, it's so silly, the clothes are amazing.
So Anna Kendrick plays a mum blogger who's a widow
and she's trying to get her YouTube channel up and running.
The other parents at school don't like her, and all
of a sudden, the very glamorous Emily Nelson played by
Blake Lively arrives at the school with her son, and
she's very mysterious and the two women make friends, and
(02:42):
then when she goes missing, Anna Kendrick's character has to
kind of find out where she is. And it's just
this kind of like murder mystery crime. But also bloggers,
it's just it's so good and they just like they
can tell it's kind of silly, but they play it
so straight that it's just like it's such a watchable movie.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
And so this second movie has been really hyped up,
you know, We've a lot of people have really been
wanting it. So the plot for this go and have
a look at the trailer, but the plot for this
is bad. Basically, Blake Lively is getting married in Capri
to this rich Italian businessman and wants Anna Kendrick to
be her.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Maid of honor because she's messing with her.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
So and obviously, given the end of the movie, there
is a lot of like tension between these two and
the fact that there's been all these rumors that Blake
and and I don't really like each other in real life.
Kind of plays really well into this because it feels
like they don't have to act that much.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah, it's a really good promo. I think they do because,
as I said when the movie was announced, they've both got,
you know, enough money and enough projects on the boil,
probably more so Anna Kendrick than Blake Lively. But to
go back and sort of commit to doing this again,
you would have to not have had a terrible experience.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, I mean it looks great. I mean I always
love on location shoot, particularly somewhere like Capri. You know,
you've got it's kind of giving me like those white
Lotus vibes. So there's a mysterious murder there is is
like Blake Lively's character going to try and kill Anna Kendrick.
So there's a little bit of like dropping all of
(04:13):
those hints in there. But you know, Paul fag is
an incredible director. He has done so.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Easily one of my favorite directors. We've had him on
the spill before. I've interviewed him. Last time he came
to Australia, I fangirled so hard, like so hard.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I interviewed him too, and then I asked him about
Sabrina the teenage. That's a good question because that's kind
of where I first was introduced to him. But now
he's just this killer.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Reports and all that. Every kind of big movie romcom
especially like like female leg comedy he's done.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, and very very talented and immaculately dressed. So if
you guys want to watch this, Another simple Favor will
be out on Prime Video on May one.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I'm excited for that. Another trailer that came out today
that we have a bit of a vested interest in
is the trailer for season two of Strife, which is
coming to Binge on May eight. So Strife is based
on Miya Friedman's memoir work Strife Balance, and it's a
fictionalized account of her memoir where she talks about starting
Mama Mir in the early days digital publishing and building
(05:11):
that business up and sort of being this media personality
while she's doing that. And it is a fictionalized account,
but it does pull a lot, obviously from the origin
story of Mamma Mia and also stories that have happened
in the office over the years, which.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
There's been cameras around here. So I don't know what your.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Job is basically the Office Diva. So the first season
started Asha Ketty as Evelyn Jones, and she was starting
her website E which is women's website and all the
ins and outs of that, And the first season ended
on quite a cliffhanger because one of her staff members
left to go and start a rival website, so we
see a lot of that in season two. We see
(05:48):
the staff moving into brand new offices and starting podcasting,
which is so funny because one of the first promo
images that came out of Ashaketty as Evelyn shows her
recording a podcast with all the blankets around her and
the pillows kind of sitting on the floor, which is
how podcasting started everywhere but at Mama Mea, and also
how a lot of us recorded all of our podcasts
(06:09):
through the BANDIM make when we're at home.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Okay, but if you don't, if you've never done any
sort of audio stuff before, the reason that you have
to do that is because the echo reverberates, So anytime
that I've done like vos or talking on the road,
you basically have to create like a little cubbyhouse for
yourself under a doner and then try not to overheat
while you're talking.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Yeah, exactly, very accurate.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It was.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
It's some one of the most accurate things I've ever
seen in a TV show about podcasting, because usually when
you see podcasting like nobody wants this or something like that,
they're just like laying back on a couch and like
these you know apartments and all the doors and windows
open and they're chatting away or it's Carry Bradshaw and
just like that taking live calls during her procast, which
I love because it's like this beautiful, glamorized, fictionalized look
at podcasts, but this is under the blanket, raw and real.
(06:56):
We love that. So it's bringing all the original casts back,
which is exciting, plus a few new members, Tim Minchin
and Alcott. And yes, the first trailer is out now,
so pop that up on the Spill Instagram if you
want to take a look. And the season will be
out on Binge on May eight.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
And also produce by brunapap Andrea, which is you know,
if you don't know, one of our most incredible producer
exports Big Little Lies, works very closely with Reese Witherspoon,
So you know that it's going to be good.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Absolutely, this is what we're going to do.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I gotta go back to the office and pretend everything's fine,
and it's not. My competition is launching and I clearly
need help regulating my emotions, which are my own on
hot topics, punch your headlines.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
So we have it on news coming out of Coachella.
So we've just had the first weekend, and on Monday's episode,
if you missed it, we delved into all the really
important celebrity issues from the first weekend of Coachella, including
some light devil worship that was a good time, and
also Timothy Chalomey's backpack. I love had everyone else was
talking about Kylie Jenner and Timothy Chalomey like passionately kissing
(08:06):
in the front row of Charlie XC.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I know you and I are like just the back
What is it in the backpack? Has anyone talked about
the backpack?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
No one has figured this out. I don't know where
are the internet slews? Where are the mouth reader as
almost said mind readers, but also get them into I
just think we need this question someone has. He's going
to start doing press for his next movie soon, so
someone has to ask him that very important but another
little interesting tibbit that came out was that young Addison
Ray was up on stage doing a little surprise appearance,
(08:34):
and she looked incredible because she had her hair out
just all like loose and wavy and these like very
kind of like like a tossle I just ran through
a fairy guarden kind of look. And she was wearing
this like flowing white gown, like a full gown, full
long sleeved neck, high neck, floating across stage. Honestly, again,
looked like an escape fairy, just trotting across the stage.
(08:56):
But at one stage she was, you know, dancing away
and she turned around to the audience and because the
dress was quite see through, she flashed her bit dazzled
underwear and on. It was the release date for her
upcoming album. So that's point everywhere.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Look well done, girl, well done, the right way to
release an album. So we've got that for June six,
which is awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Write that down every time you to remember that. Just
imagine the etherel dress partying to show the badazzle underwear
and that date will pop into your head.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I'm so fascinated by Addison Ray's sort of rise to fame,
to be honest, because she kind of she started in
twenty nineteen on TikTok. You know, twenty twenty was when
TikTok really took off during the pandemic, but Addison Ray
really started out as a TikTok dancer. She was the
one doing all of those like viral TikTok dancers. So
(09:47):
to see her go from that to now pop star
is quite incredible, and it's also done very very well.
I think she's done it right, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, exactly. It's been like quite the evolution to watch. Yeah,
it's really interesting because obviously there was just a handful
of girls at the time who were on TikTok when
it was first really picking up, and you had like
a Charlie t'milio and an Addison Ray, and they were
the ones who just were like, you know, obviously they
were cute and they you know, had cute dance moves
and audiences really liked them. But it was the classic
case of right place, right time. But also there are
(10:19):
a lot of girls who girls in particular who were
you know, dancing away who rode that rise to fame
and then didn't kind of see it through. Whereas a
few names have stuck around and Addison Ray is one
of those. So she became the most followed person on
TikTok for a long time, she was raking in the
cash with all these endorsement deals. She started doing like
you know, the mainstream press, like magazine covers and late
(10:40):
night talk show circuit. Very infamously was on the Kardashians
member when she and Courtney, which I actually do believe
they were friends, Like I do think it was friends
for press because they would spend all their time together
and they would always film and document everything. But I
thought they genuinely liked being each other's company, but they
also liked the hits from each other's audience because they
were coming from very different audience groups.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
And I think that that is such a great point
because what she's done is TikTok has become this kind
of community where people have found fame on TikTok but
then not on into mainstream fame. Yeah, you know, so
people will go, oh, well, these tick to people aren't celebrities.
It's not like a bride pit or something. But she
has managed to cross that boundary, get on the stage
(11:25):
at Coachella and create this like really great like pop
synthpop brand for herself.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah, it's interesting. I feel like there's like a kind
of like a very similar vein between her and like
a Sabrina Carpenter, because I think for a while there
we're very into this kind of pop stars who felt
like they were running their own empires, so like a
Taylor Swift or a Lord or even a Charlie XCX,
and you know that kind of vibe of I write
all my own songs, I put together my own like
staging and my concerts, and I'm sending messages to fans
(11:54):
and i pick what i want to wear, and I'm
not going to dress for you. I'm gonna dress or
like a Billie Eilish, like I'm not going to dress
for this kind of like ideal feminine version of a
pop star. And so we went really far that way.
And if at the time when that was kind of
all bubbling up, it felt like if you came out
and dress like an old school manufactured pop star, like
very sexualized outfits, sexualized dance moves, really like silly pop songs,
(12:17):
that would just feel so like jarring and a bit
embarrassing and cringing would feel really cringey. But then we
have this next wave of pop stars. And I feel
like Sabrina Carpenter really led that of just coming out
and like she's so she looks like a sexy baby doll,
like that's the only way to describe it. And she's
bopping around stage these silly little songs. But people are
just eating it up, like me included, because there's something
(12:38):
so like freeing and fun. It's like permission to like
delve back into manufactured pop, which is a lovely place
to be.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I actually quite enjoy a bit of manufactured pop. But
I think it's you know, it has its place in music. Obviously,
we're not here going to be They're not winning you
know these massive awards.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
For Sabrina Carpenter. Did She's not on the Grammy?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
No, not not like that. But what I mean is, like,
you know those websites that are like really analyzing music
and what is quote unquote good music. Yes, there is
room for pop, there is room for fun and joy,
and I think that that's kind of what Addison Ray's
album is going to be. Now, we don't know what
the name of the album is going to be just yet.
(13:18):
There's been a couple of hints that have been dropped
something with pink, because this pink wig, pink neglige. I
don't know, so maybe something around pink. Maybe she's doing
a whole lotoring.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Just imagine us having like one of those big boards
behind as well, like trying to patch together the name
were like something with pink. Again, what she wore in
Coachella I think really stood out. But every time she's
had a red carpet moment, especially in the last couple
of years, it's always been like quite a standout moment.
She's very open at the fact that her biggest success
was getting in the right team, which again I think
of a lot of pop stars want to be like, no,
(13:53):
it's just me writing my songs and bouncing around my
apartment and stuff, where she's like, no, I work with
these songwriters and I chose these people. And her stylist,
Dara has put her in all these incredible clothes. Remember
like when she went to the VMA's and she wore that.
It was like a white mini skirt with like a
full skirt attached and like almost a white bra top,
but it was meant to be ill fitting, so her
boobs was spilling out and it was honestly the best
(14:15):
look of the night because it just felt something about it.
Even though it was just a classic kind of pop
star with her boobs out, it was a It just
she stood out the most. I don't know, it felt
it felt weirdly authentic. You're like, that's this is a
girl who's dressed exactly how she wants to dress.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Except all those bra fitters at Daj's are like, oh, darling,
you're in the wrong side.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
I know that was spilling out the top. I do
think that was the vibe. But yeah, she's been kind
of open about like how she's kind of manufactured herself
a pop career, but I think it's worked. Also, her
songs are just bangers, like Diet Pepsi that is just
like I always have an a loop Apgarine all the songs.
So I feel like this she's kind of like now
switched over, Like from when she walked to the met
gala and all that sort of stuff, even though she
(14:56):
was wearing a dress like two thousand and three and
she's like it's a vintage and I was like, well,
go throwing myself off a building then. But apart from that,
I've really enjoyed watching her evolution and I feel like
this album's going to cement her as like a proper
pop star, not a TikToker.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Hy two Q nostalgia. She really leaning into it. Imagine
it's twenty twenty five and we're heading into space and
there are women.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
In space, groundbreaking.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Can you imagine it? A woman in space? How many
tampons would she needs?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
A joke? Twine sent one hundred tampons up with that
female astronaut, which she was up there for a while.
All men, you're silly things.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Men are silly things. But this is today. We are
very excited because some celebrities have gone up into space,
including Katy Perry and Gayel King. Now it's not just them.
I do actually really want to shout out the other
people that we're in space with them, because they are
really important as well. So we've got producer Kerrie and Flynn,
Aisha Bowen, a former NASA engineer who started her own
(15:55):
company to promote science education, and Aman Denwan, a scientist
who now advocates the survivors of sexual violence. So I
think super important to also mention the other women that
were on Blue Origin, because it's not just about Katie
Perry and Gayl King.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I know they had the best memes.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yes, so Katie Perry obviously had the best meme. So
this particular space launch is Blue Origin. It's Jeff Bezos's rocket.
So William Shatner went up in this rocket. It's kind
of like space tourism at this point. But you know,
it was the first time where they had an all
female crew. Can we call them crew?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Can we call them a crew? I think we can
really love that.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I mean, I'm not sure that they were driving the rocket.
Maybe the engineer.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
No, apparently no one in the rocket drives it. I
was like deep on this last night. It's like, I
feel it's quite interesting that no one really cared about
the build up to this. Everyone was just like, oh,
they're going to space, hilarious. And then when it actually
happened last night and we started getting the picks, I
think more very visual people we needed to picks, need
the videos, we all started caring for that. Eleven minutes
were up in space. Apparently it's like remote controlled from
(17:01):
the ground. Yeah, so they just go up.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
They flew, So a man was controlling it, thank God,
Heaven forbid the woman has to control it. I feel
like with my manne. But yeah, so basically they got
shot up into the atmosphere ten minutes in space. But
what was the most some of the really key moments
is Katy Perry announced her set list tour.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I'm sorry, I love her. I know people think that's cringey.
That's the whole point. She's up there for promo. The
girl's working. That wasn't a social day for her.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Will you write a song about this experience?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
For sure, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
And not only that, I got to reveal my set
list for the tour on a butterfly how apropole, just
flying in space. I don't know if anyone's ever anyone's
ever done that before, So.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I just I found that really cringey. Is that not cringey?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
It's so cringey. I'm just so impressed by how much
Katie Perry got done in eleven minutes. She took amazing
photos getting on. She rung the bell as she got
on the spaceship. She's strutting around looking like she's about
to drive the thing. Gail King's in front of her,
look terrified, like she's second guessing all her choices. Then
the ship goes up. Katy Perry is screaming and she's
(18:17):
floating around. She's the one who's yelling take up space,
which was their tagline, is about women taking up space.
I feel personally we probably could have left that out,
but anyway, then Katy Perry is smiling to the camera,
and then she's holding up a daisy daisy dove, and
then she also had like a little blue creature and
she's yelling at I've got you Flynn, and I think
it must have been a toy from Flynn, which is
(18:39):
Orlando Bloom who's the father of her daughter and Miranda
Curr's son. And then she was also holding up some
other items. The woman got shit done.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
She was very busy up there, and I mean, I
respect her for that. I just thought it was a
bit funny. So she had this like butterfly cut out
with the whole set listom. Yeah, so she's launching her
tour on April twenty third in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Well, the promo's worked.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I mean, we know what the set list is now,
so I mean, she's done it. The one thing that
I did really enjoy is when she got back down
to ground after the ten minutes in space and kids
to the ground.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Those interviews when they landed, because they come down there, guys,
I don't know space times. They come down like you
know how like the shuttle thing detaches and you fall
to Earth and that, and so people were waiting in
the drop zone. And it's so funny because, like they
say that you can hear them screaming inside, which I
guess you would. And then they all started giving like
fresh from their eleven minute trip to space, they started
giving these unhinged interviews. So to add to Katy Perry's
(19:35):
work of what she was doing, Gail King said that
she started singing as the rocket came down.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
The best part was when we got back in our
seats after zero g's Katie sang, what a wonderful world?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
She did that nice. She sang, what a wonderful I
see dreams. Oh yes, yes, yes, oh.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Because we'd been asking her to sing all the time
and she wouldn't and she wouldn't. And then because everybody
said sing raws, sing fire, and she said.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
It's not about me. I wanted to talk about the world.
I actually quite liked that she sung what a wonderful world.
I think that's a.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Nice way she planned that you can just see her
like in her she did.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
But that I think is that's really nice. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I think is stage mapped out her space time, which
means she got the most headlines, so that's important. She
stage mapped out when she dropped the setlist, when she'd
hold the daisy up, when she'd sing as they plummeted
back to earth, like the woman's a performer, do.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
You know what? I also really wanted to mention, So
Gail King, obviously Oprah's best buddy. Oprah was saying that
Gail King is terrified of flying, like really really scared
of flying, Like anytime there's turbulence on a plane, She's
like gripping the stage fair So that's actually an amazing
act of bravery to go even further and do something
like that when you are deathly afraid of flying.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Yes, she looked terrified getting on, like she looked like
she was regarding all of her life choices. And yeah,
I loved how they kept flicking to the in all
the coverage, they were flicking to the people like the
family members and the loved ones who were waiting on
the ground, And so you had like get Katie Perry's daughter,
Daisy Dove was there. Oprah was there, and she was
crying for Gail. I think she was crying because she
was proud of her, cute because they're besties, but also
(21:12):
crying because she was worried for her. And then Christianna
and Chloe Kardashian were there, which I saw some headlines
being like, oh, they're just trying to get in on it,
But it's because Lauren Sanchez, who's on the flight, is
a super close friend of their, so they were there
to cheer her on. But the no Kardashians in space yet.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
No, And I don't think we need to say anything
about the Kardashians in space. I'm sure there's lots of comments.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
He's in twenty five of the Kardashians.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
We'll be able to make that, but you know, I
do think it also raises a really interesting question about
this like space tourism thing. So Blue Origin. They didn't
say how much this flight as actually costs. It obviously
is going to cost a lot of money, but there
have been some criticisms of this. So em Radakowski was
not happy about this space flight. She had a lot
(21:57):
to say.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
That's space mission this morning, that's end time shit like
this is beyond you care about mother Earth and it's
about Mother Earth, and you're going up in a spaceship
that is built and paid for by a company that's
single handedly destroying the planet. At the state of the world,
and think about how many resources went into putting these
women into space for what for what was the marketing there?
(22:19):
And then to try to make it like I'm disgusted, literally, I'm.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Disgusted, And I kind of get her point. I understand
what she's saying, Like do we need to be spending
these I would say millions of dollars to do this?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Yeah, when it doesn't. I mean that's the thing. When
I was as the lead up to this was happening
and I saw some people getting quite angry about it,
I was kind of thinking if it was something that
deserved the amount of rage, and part of me thinks, like, yes,
like it is. It does feel so crazily tone death
to kind of wrap this experience so that these super
wealthy people are getting to wrap that up in empowerment
(22:53):
and a step forward for women, because like the women
on the ground, who are you know, don't have you know,
autonomy over their bodies and don't have health care and
in like desperate situations. And I know one of the
women did say this is for the survivors when she
was up there, because she advocates for survivors, and I
understand they're late to it, but I was like, oh,
this doesn't help, This doesn't help women, Like this is
(23:14):
for you, and it's okay to do it for you
as a selfish kind of thing. That's totally fine. But
then I think it was more like this huge expense
of money for entertainment value, and I think, like, how
is it any different to like the expenses of like
the Metgala red carpet, and you know, we get so
much like joy and content out of that, Like this
is just another kind of way of celebrities using their
(23:36):
wealth to entertain.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
But I think it's also you know, you're looking at
someone like Sunny Williams who was stuck in space for
you know, nine months, when she was supposed to be
up there for I don't know, a week or something,
and the amount of press that got versus the amount
of press that this particular incident got, so it's just
kind of it does sort of shed light on the
(23:59):
fact that a real astronaut who actually is an incredibly
intelligent woman who was up in space. She spent nine
months up there. She's you know, I worked very very
hard for this. They barely got I mean they got
media attention obviously, but you know, ten minutes in space
from Katie Perry and here we are chatting about it.
(24:22):
But it's and I mean, like, if you could, would
you go up in space?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I'd let a few more Katie Perrries test it out first,
just to make sure it was okay. Like when I
did see the rocket God, I was like, we'll just
see how this goes, maybe in a few years, because
eventually it will become one of those things where it's
just like how people do, like trips over and targer
on a plane now and that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
When you're going to see the Titanic.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Yeah, no, I'd rather go to space than go and
see the Titanic.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I think I would. I think I would. I think
I would find that really amazing to maybe.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
See booked on the next one we can announce like
the podcast upcoming episodes.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
No one's around space, no one cares.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
What I also thought was interesting leaning up to this
is like along with em Rata. There were quite a
few other celebrities, mostly women, all kind of speaking out
negatively about it, which I thought was interesting because they're
all looking at it from like I guess the kind
of same blendses us, but also coming at it from
being other famous women. So Olivia Munn went on the
Today with gener and Friends podcast and she said, I
(25:21):
know this probably isn't the cool thing to say, but
there are so many other things that are so important
in the world right now. Space exploration was to further
our knowledge and to help mankind and what are you
going to do up there that has made it better
for us down here? Which I think is a fair point.
And then she went on to say, I know this
is probably obnoxious, but like it's so much money to
go to space. That's a real comment, Olivia Mine. I
(25:42):
support you on that, and there's a lot of people
who can't even afford eggs. And then she said the
trip felt gluttnss. Now she just brought eggs into it,
like not even a joke, Like it is, eggs are
super expensive and they're hard to get.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
You've got to go first thing in the morning, you
have to go to this special place and then if
you go on the afternoon, You're not going to get
your dozen eggs. That's just the fact. No, But I
and I understand that, and I think that it's really
really difficult for people when we are struggling with cost
of living. Things are really tenuous at the moments, particularly
politically in the United States, and I think people think
(26:17):
that the only thing that you can focus on is
that there is space. And I've said this many times before,
but there is space for joy and laughter and enjoyment
in a world, even when it is dire circumstances.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Yeah, exactly. That kind of like you can make a
serious comment but see the funny side, which also is
kind of what Olivia Wilde did, the other famous person
who was calling out the trip, because she shared a
whole bunch of memes about the space trip to her
Instagram stories, and one of the main ones was that
photo which I think will go down history of Katie
Perry kissing the ground after she got back from her
(26:56):
eleven minute trip to space. And the image was accompanied
by the words getting off a commercial flight in twenty
twenty five, hashtag blue origin and that was the and
that was in reference to a lot of the aerial
disasters that have occurred in recent months. So that was cute,
and so Olivia Wilde shared all these like wild memes,
and then Olivia Wilde wrote across them billion dollars bought
(27:18):
some good memes, I guess, And look, the woman's not wrong.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
She's not wrong. We're talking about it right here. And
I love a good meme exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
I feel like, yeah, Katie Perry in particular is getting
a lot of heat for kissing the ground, But like
I get it, Like, you know, you're in a high
you just spend eleven minutes or I think it's four
minutes in space, right, because it took them a few
minutes to get up, they have four minutes in space
where they did their little like cry of women take
up space. They showed off their props, they floated around,
which looked fun. Then they plummeted back down to Earth.
They tumbled out. She kissed the ground, and I think
(27:47):
she was just really wanting to have those viral moments.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
But can you imagine the adrenaline rush after something like that?
One percent, Like, let's not forget about that. I mean,
even getting off a roller coaster, you get an adrenaline rush.
I've done skydiving before, and afterwards I was.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Like, yeah, kissing the ground.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
I wasn't kissing the ground, but I was just soa
adrenaline is an incredible drug. Like ye, I don't fault
her for that, but it's.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Hilarious to look exactly. I mean, look, at the end
of the day, Katy Perry is a performer, and she
made this a performance. And as much as everyone's making
fun of her, she's kind of come out on top.
I feel literally on top because she was in space.
So I look forward to other celebrities going to space.
I'm sure a few more of them will do it now,
and they'll each try and sort of top with each
other with their viral moments, and like maybe this is
going to come out in new red carpet. It's like,
(28:32):
what did people do up in space? I also am
enjoying some of the headlines today, like Katy Perry was
talking about the eleven dollars setting spray that she used
to keep her makeup on in space. I'm like, girl,
it was eleven minutes. You didn't need setting spray for
your makeup. I'm sure it would have been fine.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I wonder if zero gravity setting spray is like, Okay,
there we go, don't steal my business idea.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
The endorsements are just endless love that. Well, thank you
so much for listening to the Spill today, and thank
you so much Tocka Senya for joining us the last
couple of days. Hitting all the big topics, but dazzled
underwear butterflies in space. It's been hard hitting news this week.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
You know what, I actually just love a little bit of.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Joy, me too, a little bit of space joy. Well,
the Spill we back in your feet at three pm
tomorrow and we'll see it the bye bye
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