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Don't Tell Me's guest writer, Vinny Thomas.Ĭopyright © 2021 NPR. I had a big day I didn't feel like shopping. Mostly, I'm just happy to be home in time for my Whole Foods delivery.
Yes, I headed to space, and I really stood up to Jeff Bezos. I'm humbled to have been part of such a rare experience. And then I laugh, too, you know, just to - just to fit in.īack on Earth, my tears flow. You guys could probably feed everybody down there if you really wanted to, huh? They laugh (laughter).
As a mid-tier Twitter personality, I feel compelled to be the voice of the people, so I take the deepest breath I can, encased in my teeny Patagonia vest, and find my voice. When I look around, I see two of the richest men on Earth have become two of the richest men in space. He closes his eyes and whispers, I am the CEO of the solar system. As we spin in the infinite abyss, Jeff tells me about his vision of building a fulfillment facility on the ice of Europa, his dream of a delivery fleet trawling the surface of Mars. And as we float high above all of humanity, the sun begins to twinkle delicately off the margins of the Bezos brothers' glistening scalps. We board New Shepard and soar past the horizon of the Earth. Jeff shakes his head no and, with a smile, hands me a plastic bottle. I slip it on and ask if I could use one of the land yacht's five bathrooms. Bezos the younger - whose name is, I want to say, Matt no, it's got to be Alan - presents me with a vest to match their own in a child-sized medium. So you must be our special winner, he says, caviar spilling from his lips. Jeff - he assured me I should call him Jeff - waves me over, and we all shake hands. The brothers Bezos are dressed in shimmering, skintight, silver Patagonia vests. Jeff Bezos and his brother arrive shortly after me in a vehicle that I can only describe as a land yacht. It looks incredible and not at all phallic. Hours later, I arrive at the launchpad for Blue Origin suborbital flight vessel, the New Shepard. I also grab a book called "Packing For Mars," which I saw in my local bookstore and then ordered online because, honestly, it was cheaper. What does one bring on a rocket into space with Jeff Bezos? I unzip my tattered Jansport and fill it with Tang and Dippin' Dots to start. I won Jeff Bezos' space flight sweepstakes. That's right, with Jeff Bezos and his brother, whose name I don't know yet. VINNY THOMAS: So long, broke people of Earth, I shout into the beef-stained streets of Chicago. He felt genuinely moved, so moved in fact. Chicago writer and comedian Vinny Thomas took this to heart. Jeff Bezos announced he and his brother are launching themselves off of Earth. There was a bit of news this week that might have seemed, well, more surreal than real.