The Broski Report with Brittany Broski - 101: I Love Woke Superman

Episode Date: July 15, 2025

This week on The Broski Report, Fearless Leader Brittany Broski discusses her experience at the Cowboy Carter Tour, talks about filming Royal Court with David Corenswet, determines the hotness of animated animal characters, and analyzes a series of Tomas Cole paintings. 👕 Get your merch here: https://broski.shop/ Listen to ‘Stained’ – https://brittanybroski.lnk.to/stained Texas Flood Relief Resources:United for Kerr County – https://fundraise.givesmart.com/e/RT0FIw?vid=1kjw7o Kerr County Flood Relief – https://cftexashillcountry.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create/fund?funit_id=4201 World Central Kitchen – https://wck.org Kerrville Rebuilding & Recovery – https://business.kerrvillechamber.biz/events/details/kerrville-area-rebuilding-recovery-fund-29188/ Follow The Broski Report:https://www.linktr.ee/broskireporthttps://www.tiktok.com/@broskireport https://instagram.com/broskireport Follow Brittany:https://www.tiktok.com/@brittany_broski https://instagram.com/brittany_broski https://youtube.com/brittany_broski Follow Royal Court:https://www.youtube.com/@royalcourt https://www.tiktok.com/@bbroyalcourthttps://www.instagram.com/royalcourthttps://www.twitter.com/bbroyalcourt ICE OUT OF OUR CITY / PROTEST RESOURCES:ACLU – https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights Immigrant Defense Project – https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids-toolkit Freedom for Immigrants – https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/resourcesImmigrants Legal Resource Center – https://www.ilrc.org/community-resources/know-your-rights Immigration Justice Campaign – https://immigrationjustice.us/ CREDIBLE RESOURCES TO HELP FREE PALESTINE:Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund - https://www.pcrf.net/UNICEF - https://www.unicefusa.org/stories/helping-gazas-children-cope-traumaDoctors Without Borders - https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.orgWorld Central Kitchen - https://wck.org/World Health Organization - https://www.who.int/Headcount - https://www.headcount.org/IG ACCOUNTS FOR A FREE PALESTINE:@eye.on.palestine@aljazeeraenglish@palestinianyouthmovement@byplestia@motaz_azaiza@impactLGBTQ+ RESOURCES:https://Translifeline.org https://Glaad.org  https://Pflag.org https://www.thetrevorproject.org/ REPRODUCTIVE RESOURCES:https://aidaccess.org https://plancpills.org https://Ineedana.com https://www.reprolegalhelpline.org/ https://heyjane.com Brought to You By: Rocket Money – Download the app and mention the show – The Broski Report with Brittany BroskiLiquid IV – Get 20% off your first order at https://liquidiv.com with code BROSKISeat Geek – Get 10% off tickets. Download the app and use code BROSKI2025CHAPTERS:00:00 – Intro00:31 – Coffee Cup Reveal01:46 – Goldilocks04:10 – Indian Independence06:10 – Being Single07:55 – Cowboy Carter Tour17:14 – David Corenswet / Superman27:55 – Zootopia 229:50 – Reading & Leeds33:26 – UK History36:35 – Book Haul / Connection to the Arts43:28 – Thomas Cole Paintings#brittanybroski, #broski, #broskination, #broskireport, #beyonce, #cowboycarter, #tour, #music, #davidcorenswet, #superman, #zootopia, #samfender, #unitedkingdom, #samfender, #thomascole

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This is the Brozky Report with your host, Brittany Broski. Guys! Three hundred, three hundred, four hundred, four hundred, four hundred, five hundred. Guys, you won. Gorge! I want to do a coffee cup reveal this morning. I don't know if you can see this, but my cup says,

why is that toilet paper bear keeps showing his whole ass on national TV? Damn, dude, we get it. You love to shit. Damn, dude, we get it. You love to shit. And some people do love to shit. And I'm one of them.

Some people love to shit. There are girls that pee, And there are girls that piss. Hey, am I right? Let me get an amen in the chat. Amen. All right, y'all, now there's still remnants of coffee in this shit mug, and I'm about to...

I'm about to... Hey, I'm about to click out on this shit. I'm about to click. Hey, make a crime scene. You know, that sound? That lovely, beautiful, distinctly American sound. When you pour your blueberry, red bull, your shit mug and you fucking handle it.

And you stand the hell up and you handle it. Mixed with coffee is nasty. Guys, I feel like Goldilocks this morning. I feel like Goldilocks. I feel like, this bad is too soft. Goldilocks is German, right? This bad is too soft. It hurts my lumbar.

It hurts my lower lumbar. Or this bed is very too hard. My shoulders are crapping up. Oh, my my bed is too hard. My God, my shoulders are cramping up. I told you, I told you fucking bears, that my shoulders get tight and spanned. Oh, my God, it's time. The alarm went off, it's time.

Oh, my God, my lumbar! What the fuck is a lumbar? Lumbar. Lumbar refers to the lower part of the spine, specifically the area between the thoracic region and the sacrum. Now, y'all, I had no idea. I had a sacrum. Also, thoracic? I thought that meant thorax.

And I did not know humans. Humans don't have a thorax. Or do I? Do I have a thorax? Do I? Yes, you have a thorax. What? In humans and other mammals,

the thorax is the region of the body between the neck and the abdomen. Neck. So my chest. It contains vital organs. like the heart and lungs and is protected by the ribcage spine and shoulder girdle. What the hell's a shoulder girdle? That's when I slept on that bed in that damn bear's house,

it had fucked up my shoulder girdle. And when I had gone in that damn bear's house and it let me sleep there and I fucked up my shoulder girdle because that shit was too fucking hard. Damn! Shoulder girdle. The bony structure that connects the upper limb to the axial skeleton, the torso. So it's composed of the clavicle. Oh my God.

The clavicle, the scapula, which is the shoulder blade on either side of the body. The shoulder girdle provides support, stability, and a wide range of motion for the arm. Wow. Did you all know we all have a shoulder girdle? The more you know, for real. Can't even begin to tell you how bad the inside of this coffee cup smells. Man, it's probably just my breath. All right, let's move on to, wow.

So much to talk about today. Before I get into Cowboy Carter, because of course we're going to talk about Cowboy Carter, I have to tell you all about something that happened last night. Something happened. You know, as some of us do, I was falling asleep to manufactured romantic fantasies in my head. But before that, actually, I was watching a bunch of videos on the British colonization of India. Holy shit, y'all. I mean, obviously we know empire is bad and we know colonization is that truly... the root of all evil in this world. Like all suffering and evil

comes from A, man being innately corrupt and B, fucking colonization. Holy shit, I had no idea. And I'll, look, I'm 28 years old. I can admit the American education system failed me. And it's never too late to start researching that shit on your own. Hey, I did. What the fuck?

That shit was horrible, dude, for 200 years. Did you know India only gained their independence in 1947? And then it split into, oh my God, the way that they like arranged it was by religion. And there are so many beautiful multitudes of different religions and ethnic backgrounds in the subcontinent there. And they just split it into two, Hindu and Islam. Which is crazy. Okay. So it was India.

And then other than India, they split up Punjab, I believe. into what was Pakistan and then Bangladesh. And they still war over Kashmir, which is just, I mean, all of this is a consequence of British colonialism. I mean, to completely rape the land and to devastate the people. I mean, just don't get me started. I watched shit on that, and then I watched shit on South Africa. Oh, and then I watched shit on Rwanda.

It was just, I was having a time last night. It was very informative. Anyway, on top of that, I went to bed and I was thinking about romantic fantasies because I had to, God, fuck, I was depressed as I went to bed last night. And I was, as I was, you know, sort of conjuring up this romantic fantasy, I started to get pissed off because I started to realize, I kind of dig being single. I kind of dig it. And that, look, I'm making progress. I'm making mental progress. Because, damn, I was imagining, like, okay, we've been not married, but we're

together for a long time. Okay, we're together for a long time. We know each other. And what about if I want to lay on my side of the bed and you don't touch me? Don't touch me. I know, we know we like each other. You don't have to touch me all the time. And then I was like, he's going to get mad at that. Now he's mad at me. Because I want to lay over here on my side of the bed. Don't touch me. I'm hot. Okay, and I like my, I like my shit a certain way. I got my pillow. I got my neck support pillow. I've got my Snoopy warmie. Okay, I'm over here. I got those, that fleece blanket, is it fleece? Like, I'm hot thinking about it, I'm mad.

And it's that side of the blanket that is soft. That's the side you put on your body, okay? And the rough side goes up. And I've just got a specific way I like things. It's got to be 69 degrees in that room, dark as hell, and I need to listen to waterfall noises. And if you so much as breathe heavy, I'm pissed off. I'm mad.

I'm actually really, really fucking mad at you. And we're going to fight about this tomorrow when we wake up. Anyway, I thought to fight with my boyfriend left. I was fighting with my domestic partner last night. Anyway, we can move on. There's so many things I want to talk about. And did I just wipe crust off my lip? Yeah, I did.

That's fucking gross. Let's talk about Cowboy Carter. I was at the Houston show where the fucking car broke. Okay? So if you don't know, Beyonce has put on what could be called, and I am calling the greatest show I've ever seen. And I'm going to say this. It's my opinion.

I think it's better than Renaissance. I think all the elements that she's combined. And she honors the Renaissance tour. She does a few songs from Renaissance. She does thick, by the way. Holy shit, we won. I wish she did it all up in your mind. But Calvin Carter is a perfect kind of summation

of everything Beyonce has worked towards, everything she is, everything they've said she's not. It was the most beautiful piece of living art I think I've ever seen. I just got chills thinking about it again. So much Black American history, so many important symbols and visuals in what I'm, because you know, Beyonce, every single thing that she shows on that screen, that she wears on that stage, that the dancers do everything was a decision that was made. Okay?

the highest level of polished pure craft. Okay. And by the way, goes without saying she's the greatest living vocalist. Okay. To do that level of vocal gymnastics every fucking night and keep a healthy voice. She's out of her mind, dude. She's out of her mind. All the visuals are so good and they're entertaining.

I mean, there's this one interlude cutscene transition as she's getting a costume change backstage of her like walking into this bar and you know she fights this girl and she does this like beer bottle smash on her head and the crowd goes crazy and then of course the safe to say I'm the biggest the largest best stepping us just as my mama living in an apartment regardless and then she does the little dance and then she's got the whiskey god the sir davis whiskey thank you amen it's just so good and then she honors you know the robotics of renaissance there was a part in some of the visuals she was showing that honestly I need to write a fucking dissertation on

and read about because that is the high level of art we're talking about here. Oh my God! Oh my God! I like genuinely get so fucking mad when people try to compare anyone to Beyonce. You wouldn't compare anyone to Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson is his own standalone, cultural icon.

So is Beyonce. It's not a conversation I'm willing to have with anyone. You're pissing me off. There's this cutscene that she does in some of the visuals where she is a white woman and she has blue eyes and white skin and blonde hair. And it is honestly, I hope she does a Cowboy Carter movie because I feel like I was watching it and I was so like, like, by it and I couldn't formulate the words of like there's so much to say about where she placed

that in the grand scheme of things and all the other incredibly important symbols that kind of bookend this and it's like there's so much to say that honestly I need to write it down very impactful and that's what it should be right like you're you're paying for a concert and you're not getting just a concert from Beyonce. She's not up there in fucking jeans and a guitar singing her songs karaoke style to you, like most men get away with. Beyonce is delivering a show. A cinematic show.

She's flying around the fucking stadium attached by wires on her belt. So here's what happened at the Houston show. Me and my friend Alyssa fly in. She lives in D.C. I'm in L.A. We fly into Houston because we're both from Houston for Beyonce's hometown show. Thinking, what if she brings out Big X. The plug? What if she brings out Meg the Stalian? She didn't. It's okay. We're on the floor. Hallelujah. We're on the floor. We are right in the middle of two walkways that kind of form a diamond pattern. Towards the end of the show, we've been, by the way, she's been performing for three hours. Three hours. And to have that much discography, by the way, you can sink for three hours and it doesn't

even scratch the surface of the art and music she's made. We're at the end of the show, 16 carriages. It's time for 16 carriages. A really emotional song about the struggle and hardship she's been through as a young black woman thrust into the industry. And now as, you know, a 45-year-old black woman who's still doing it to a degree that is untouchable and how so many sacrifices have to be made to live that life, you know, and it's kind of lamenting on that fact, but also look at all the fruits of what that labor has afforded me. She gets up on, at the Houston show, a car that starts on the main stage, gets lifted up into the air, and goes around the whole stadium. so that the nosebleeds can get a glimpse of B.

Y'all, this car makes it about a fourth of the way around the stadium. It's honestly right in front of us because we're, you know, we're turning around like this the whole time, following the car, makes it about a fourth of the way through, stops, starts to lean like this. And I'm thinking, that doesn't look. Okay, maybe it's part of the show. Maybe she's angling. No.

it starts to lean so bad that her body is torched like this and she's hold there's a flagpole on the car and she's holding on to that thing for dear fucking life and it's starting to lean she's only from what it looked like she's only buckled in by a waistbelt like to the car if that thing would have completely slipped or fall i mean what are we talking about it was horrifying If Beyonce Giselle Noel's car to falls from that motherfucking car 100 feet up in the air in front of us, that would have been, look, I would have canceled everything for the rest of the year. That would have been truly like, okay, it tilts.

She's still singing. She doesn't miss a fucking note. She doesn't miss a note because she is a professional. That song is hard to sing. She's completely sideways. And out of the blue, she goes, stop, stop, stop, stop. The music cuts. I'm horrified.

Then after that, she takes in a shaky breath. She's, stop. She's horrified. She's terrified. And she's not showing it. She's got that cool face. She always has that cool face on. You know, it's like this slight smile.

She's up there hanging on for dear fucking life. Smiling, because she's a professional. They lower her down. It takes them a second because what the fuck are you did? Someone got fired. I bet about 50 people got fired that night. They start to lower her down, and everyone's clapping because, oh my God,

and she goes, thank y'all for your patience. Patience? We're worried! And so they lower her down. She runs back up to the stage. We're all cheering. They've got some, like, ambient background music on. Runs up to the stage.

Keep singing. I have chills. Keeps singing. Says, and if I would have fall, if I would have fell, I know y'all would have caught me. Yeah.

With human, human trampoline. I would have ran my ass over there. I got you, I got you. I got you. Oh my God. If I would have fell, I know y'all would have caught me. Yes. Yes.

Beehive. Form up. I'm directing it. And one. Two, we're sork to solace. We're doing like cheerleader. I've got her like this. She's like, yeah.

She's balancing on my. on my hand, I go, one, two, hop, and I catch her. That's what I would have done. Now, if that would have happened, if I would have been sitting under her, that's what I would have done. I don't know about the rest of Beehive, I would have, one, two, hop, and she does a flip. Anyway, that was a fucking horrifying experience. I mean, Alyssa, we're looking at each other like, is this really happening?

And then later that night, she posted, you know, photos of all the outfits and the dancers from Houston, the very last picture is the cold. her tilted. And then the next day she posts it to Tipping on four fours. Are you out of your fucking mind? She is just, no one even comes close. So that's my Beyonce story. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance, Fiscally responsible, financial geniuses, monetary magicians. These are things people say about drivers who switch their car insurance to Progressive and save hundreds because Progressive offers discounts for paying in full, owning a home, and more. Plus, you can count on their great customer service to help you when

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We had had David Corencewet on Royal Court. And unfortunately, that's my best friend. We soul bonded. Some magic happened on that set. I don't fucking know. But we were tip for tat. I had a fucking blast. I have fun filming Royal Court in general.

You know, like that's kind of the point of the show, is I'm there to highlight the guest and how wonderful the guest is. And through banter, you know, and through relatability and finding those human points of connection. With David Gorenswat? hey, he's my best friend. Truly just like so deeply intelligent, very, very sweet.

Introduced himself to everyone on the set. Just completely a kind person. God, imagine. Imagine being kind in Hollywood. Yeah, we had David Gord. Saw Superman, by the way. We went straight from filming, both me and him.

Separate, of course. went straight from filming Royal Court to the Superman premiere and I had taken an edible, fine. Okay, I took an edible at the premiere. I was tweaking. I was being Tweeker McGee at the fucking Superfan premiere.

It was broad daylight, by the way. 4.30 p.m. sun's out. I decided to wear my hair big and curly that day. I looked like my mother. I looked like my mother if she were electrocuted. That's what I fucking looked like. And then all the pictures were backlit. Show the picture.

All the fucking photos were backlit. I looked like Brite of Frankenstein. Whatever. And I decided to wear this blazer that I thought was giving body tea. It wasn't. It was giving big fucking box. It was giving black box theater, unfortunately. You just kind of have to live and learn.

I got dressed off the edible and I go, oh my God. No one's ever looked more stunning than me in this moment. Got on the carpet, they took my picture. I saw it. E! Okay. They can't all be winners.

You know what I mean? You have to have some moments where it's clear you styled yourself. And that's fine. It's fine. I went with my twins, my little baby girls, my twins, the Metschkees, and we had a damn time. We had a damn freaking time at the Superman premiere. We were so early and we sat down in the chair. And it was about an hour that we were just,

Brah, brough, what the brough, what the bra, chungus moment, epic chungis, brough. It was like, shut the fuck up. All of us were off edibles. There's celebrities, there's all the people who worked on the movie, fucking James Gunn, all these people. It's like, oh, and we're literally probably fifth row doing, what the epic chungis? Are you serious? Sorry. Hey, Warner Brothers, I love you and I'm sorry.

But we did have a day. We had a damn good time. I'll tell you that. Anyway, Superman, very cute. A very cute movie. And I love the choice for the outfit. For the Superman suit, love it. Very camp.

I really enjoyed it. There is a scene in that movie where, you know, Clark and Lois are dating. Spoiler! Superman's been around for 75 years. Clark and Lois are dating, and she goes, can I interview Superman? And he goes, yeah.

She's like, really? Yeah. So she starts interviewing him. And she is a hard ass. I was like, my peener was kind of hard watching her do her fucking job. She, look, Rachel, you should be a lawyer girl. If acting is not, if you want to push that to the side, you have the cadence of a lawyer. I think you could really win some landmark cases for us.

If we need to get you in the Supreme Court girl, we need to get Rachel Brosnahan in the U.S. government. I think she could really affect real change. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. Fiscally responsible, financial geniuses, monetary magicians. These are things people say about drivers who switch their car insurance to progressive and save hundreds. Because Progressive offers discounts for paying in full, owning a home, and more. Plus, you can count on their great customer service to help you when you need it, so your dollar goes a long way. Visit progressive.com to see if you could save on car insurance. Progressive Casualty Insurance Company and affiliates.

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temporary dim or dark vision, headaches and eye redness. Talk to an eye doctor to learn if Viz is right for you. Learn more at Viz.com. Anyway, there is a scene between her and Superman where she's gritty. telling him, she's, get her, get him. Yeah, get his ass. And he starts to get frustrated because he has this idealistic view of what the world is and how things should be and what's right with no real thought for the ripple effects of his actions. You know, they have this conversation that's just, I was so locked in. I felt like I was watching my parents fight. I was so

locked into this conversation. I was like, and tell him. Well, he makes a good point. Okay, well, the question she's asking really makes you... No, that's actually it. Okay. Lois, what he's trying to say... Like, off the edible involving myself. I'm playing fucking mediator.

Anyway, really, really cute movie. Also, let's just say it, tackles Israel, Palestine, which was very brave and intentional. and an interesting take on, you know, there is no Superman in real life, and these conflicts are real and they're devastating and we're watching it happen in real time. So that was something that, I mean,

I was watching this movie and I was like, oh, my fucking God. So yeah, that kind of, it shook me a little bit. But I think that's good art. You know, that's great art, is that it takes inspiration from the real world. and shows you it through, yes, an artistic lens, but also through what's right. You know, through a character like Superman where it's all about, you know, he has these powers, but at the end of the day, his strength is humanity and his real affection for humanity.

And it's just, it was very well done. I really enjoyed the movie. I would definitely go see. Go see Superman in theaters, if you haven't already, I'd really recommend it. Okay, by the way, happy sinners on streaming for anyone who celebrates. I know that happened on July 4th. July 4th. Censoring July 4th.

By the way, if you celebrated July 4th for real, what are we doing? What are we doing? All right. Shoulder girdle. What I really wanted to talk about is many of you are asking me, have I seen the sexy horse from Zootopia 2? What do you fucking think? Yeah, of course I have.

And let's look him up. sexy horse from Zootopia. From Zootopia, too. Yeah, him. And a lot of people tagged me in this. And I don't know what that says about me. I don't know what that says about me. And I don't know if I'm ready to confront that side of me.

That people saw this. And they were like, at Britney Brosky. Hey, queen, making sure you saw this. Hey, queen, just putting this on your desk. Okay, thank you. What the fuck? Yeah, of course, his blowout. His, look, you can tell he had some braids in, his little Dyson blowout.

And who is this? An ard vark? An ant eater. Whoa. Now, he kind of looks like Mr. Big. This guy? Up top. He looks like Mr. Big from Saxon City.

And I'm kind of fucking with his vibe down here. The little ant eater. He's got these rings on, this gold jewelry. beautiful little middle part. I'm kind of, I like his vibe. A hot horse is confirmed to appear in Zootopia 2. Is this what we're reporting on? Is this what we're doing? When it comes to hot animated characters, you know I'm there. All right, you know that I'm, I'm here with you, spiritually, mentally. For me, I have an allegiance, a loyalty to Bojack Horseman. When it comes to sexy horses. I know where I stand. I know what team I bat for, and that's going to be Will

Arnett in anything, you know, and Jason Bateman doesn't really apply to that because he is a fox. He plays the Fox, Nick Wilde, if you will. BoJack Horseman to me, I like a man with some, you know, some grit and some trouble. I like a troubled man. But not really, okay, because no, I don't. And moving on from the sexy horse. I think I talked about it last week or the week before. I'm going to be at Reading and Leeds. I will not be singing at Reading and Leeds. I will be on a stage with Max Balegne and Charlie Molle.

That was Australian. Charlie Mollah. Charlie. Howie, man? Trying to work on my northern accent, my northern English accent. I've been watching a lot of Sam Fender interviews, a lot of Sam Fender interviews. And I'm perfecting. There's a very specific, it's almost like a glottal stop, but it's not.

Actually, it kind of is. When he says, like, thank you. He says thank you. Or he'll say, like, crackers. Crackers. I eat crackers and woola. I think that it's so close to Scotland. It really sounds Scottish.

And I just, I'm quite addicted to it. But it's amazing how much the accent varies within just like a five-mile radius. I mean, it's truly berserk. It's berserk. Bring back berserk. I mean, it is ludicrous. Yeah, he's from Newcastle. He's from Shields, which is Newcastle.

And Charlie is from Charlie Molo. I'm completely addicted to her. I got super high the other night. God, she's stunning, too. That's my twin. I got super high the other night and just went through her reels. So funny. She's just a charmer.

She is a freaking charmer. Very gay. Very gay. Warning gay. Charlie Marlow, where is she from? She's not from Liverpool. North Yorkshire. She identifies as scouse.

because her family is from Liverpool and she grew up there. She lives in Manchester. Yeah, and this is Google, by the way. I don't know if it's accurate. North Yorkshire. Now, don't get me... Actually, that's not even true. Where the fuck is...

Louis Tomlinson is from Doncaster. Is that Yorkshire? Doncaster map. Oh, that's nearer to Sheff... Where the fuck is Yorkshire? Sheffield. I know Sheffield, because that's where Alex Turner is from. Leeds...

is close to Doncaster, I guess. Where is Yorkshire? Or is Yorkshire more like a county? It's not a city. Oh, it's super north. Birmingham. Okay, now, I actually had no idea that Redding and Leeds were so far away. They're kind of far from each other.

Redding is like west of London. Leeds is so north. It couldn't be more northern. It's very, very north. And where the fuck is... Look, look how North Newcastle is. That's why... I mean, shit, girl.

I have beef with England. I do. I have beef with the UK. Not the current sort of, you know, the younger generation. You guys are, you know, we're on the same. We're on a similar mental wave. But, God damn. The more that I'm just, you know, tapping into...

world history and really, really learning from a perspective of wanting to know the truth. You have to remove this lens of nationalism or of pride, patriotism, that so often, I mean, of course, American history is taught that way, even state history. I remember learning when I lived in Virginia, we learned Virginia history and how just sugarcoded all of Jamestown and the first settlement and all of these like just how fucking brutal it was for the indigenous population. Like we did not learn that. And then Texas history, I had to take that when I was in seventh grade. And it's like you don't, you don't learn how brutal it was. And you only, you know, history is written by the victors.

sort of thing. So I am very intrigued, especially having been to the, I mean, the UK is fun. I love going to the UK. I think that British people are very kind and they're very, you know, I love the British sense of humor. I love the Irish sense of humor more, okay? You all know where my allegiances lie. However, when I was in London last time, I mean, I've been to the Imperial War Museum

before I've been to the World War One Museum and it's like they paint a picture of how brutal it was for the British people of the time. Living under

German air raids and threat of constant bombings and having to sacrifice daily luxuries, you know, small luxuries, having to cut back on food, you know, to put that money into machinery, like industrial production for wartime necessities.

It's like all that shit was real. And we're very lucky in America that I've never, you know, we've never had anything similar, knock on wood. And it's very harrowing to get a glimpse of what that daily life was. However, so much of British history is not accurately. reflective of the horrors that the empire inflicted on everyone else. You know, like truly an example of just a corrupt, crooked empire from the 1700s until arguably now.

But to think that India gained, again, back to India, gained its independence in 1947. Only after the empire had been weakened by war, they were like, yeah, I guess we can fucking the India question. I'm reading, I'm still reading Orwell, okay? By the way, went to the bookstore yesterday, got a haul. I got another Orwell book. It's called Cigarettes and Books, I believe. Oh, Books versus Cigarettes.

It is an essay published in 1946 by George Orwell. It compares the costs of reading to other forms of recreation, including tobacco smoking. Here's something that I'm, I struggle to put into, words, and I've mentioned it countless times on this podcast, but I still feel like I haven't quite struck the chord of the meaning that I'm trying to communicate. There are a few artists in this life that I feel like they think my thoughts. They're in my brain, and I'm in theirs. Like, when something that they've created or a phrasing that they've said or a feeling

that they're trying to transmit so perfectly is received on my end. It's like that's what true art is to me. It's a connective tissue between people. That's what art is. And when it happens, when you find that piece of art or that artist that just calls to you, it is a siren call of the mind and the heart, it's a magical feeling and it's intoxicating. I feel. I feel that you. I feel. that way when I read Orwell. I feel that way, and this is so glazing, I feel that way about Sam Fender's lyrics. There are some songs that he's written that I'm just like, it's like you took that out of, you know, it's just great songwriting when you feel you can relate to it and that's something very specific that he went through, but so much more than that. I mean, a song like Play God,

the lyrics in that song are, I know that he was inspired by Orwell. Maybe It's a, you know, it's all fucking come back. That song, he had read 1984 and it inspired him to write that. You know, it's about surveillance and about the creation of wealth gap and how all of it is really intentional. The subjugation of other human beings and how one person can rise to power purely by manipulation and propaganda and how propaganda plays a role in. I mean, there's so many things that he packs into a song like Play God that he wrote when he was like 19. Fuck you. Fuck you.

And that's just one example. I mean, TV dinner, white privilege, long way off, hypersonic missiles. All of these songs, he tackles so many other topics, but these are the songs that connect with me because they are political in a way that isn't attempting to answer a question. It's a reflective observation of the world that we're in and the hypocrisies. We're all hypocrites. All of us are hypocrites. But when you really laser focus in on hypocrisy within a governing body, it's very validating, you know, as a voter, as a young person, to hear a fellow young person also, you know, just to relate on the fuckery. And it's across an ocean.

You know, he lives in a totally different country, different political system than I do. But so many things connect us. And it's also very interesting to me how non-American people view American media. And how sensationalized it is, America's greatest export is Hollywood, is culture and media. and movies and TV and music, I mean, that is truly, it's such a dramatized sensation of what America is. And I find it so interesting when, you know, foreign,

I say that, but not with any negative connotation, when foreign artists kind of throw it back or process it and then put it into their art. It's very interesting. And so all of those songs that I mentioned are great examples of that. A is another one, A-Y-E by Sam Fender. That's just like to sit down and write a song like that is very inspiring. It's very, very inspiring.

And he's got so many others. I mean, spit of you? Fuck you. These songs are so good. And so Sam Fender, George Orwell, Thomas Cole is another person that I, I feel very spiritually. to, he was like nature's poet. No greater love has ever existed than the love between Thomas Cole and Mother Nature. Everything he did was in worship and in servitude of what nature has to offer. His art was just, it was almost a compulsion. He didn't have a choice he had to paint.

and he tried poetry and his poetry was beautiful, but Thomas Cole to me is someone that I look at some of his works, and I'm just like, yeah, yeah. And truly words fail me to describe how impactful it is. So I'll just kind of leave it at that. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance, Fiscally responsible, financial geniuses, monetary magicians. These are things people say about drivers who switch their car insurance to Progressive and save hundreds,

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God. Okay. It's called the Voyage of Life. This is a series of paintings, and it follows a boy into manhood, through adolescence, into manhood and into old age and eventually death. And so much symbolism and how these scenes are portrayed. We start at childhood. So here we see a little baby child and an angel guiding.

this baby on a ship, so many exotic plants around the symbolism of through the course of these paintings, it is always on a body of water, which I think kind of represents how transient life is and how it could take a turn at any moment. And it's just a constant flow until the stream stops. And they're on this boat with an hourglass at the helm held by an angel. and it's just stunning. I mean, the greenery, the flora is stunning. Next, we have youth. And here, I find it really emotional what this kind of represents. The angel has now exited the boat, has left this youth on the boat alone. And it's that excitement of being a child and your exploratory nature and being inquisitive and curious about the natural world around you.

I mean, not even turning around to wave goodbye to the angel, just so enamored with what life has to give. And of course, this sort of floating Taj Mahal-esque heaven, not really sure what that's about. Might need to Google it. In the distance, an ethereal citadel towers in the sky, a shimmering white beacon that represents the dreams and ambitions of humanity. Okay, next is manhood.

What I love about this painting is his penis. Just kidding. That was a manhood joke. What I love about this painting is up here in the top left. The angel is always there. The angel is always there. What a comforting fact, right? The angel cannot necessarily intervene, but she's there and she's watching.

Maybe she's guiding. maybe she's just a silent observer. She helped bring this boy into the world, and she will guide him through it until the very end. Here we see the man in the boat pleading. Maybe something in his life has gone awry. Maybe that curiosity that he once had as a boy has been beaten down by the harsh realities

and struggles of what a human life will endure. still at the helm of the ship is the hourglass, which we now see is kind of halfway, halfway gone. The river is turning into rapids, and we see, you know, a torrential downpour in the distance. He's caught in a storm, and I see him praying for assistance or guidance or help. But still, you know, this upturned cadence of, this is bigger than me. Like, I am not in control anymore. You know, maybe he's looking to the heavens seeking guidance.

I was so foolish as a youth. You know, I shouldn't have left you on the shore. I should, and here is just so, I mean, we all know this feeling. Now, this final frame is, it fucked me up the first time I saw it, okay? It really made me like, oh, God, oh, wow. This is old age. Oh, wow. Okay, so first of all, first of all.

all the lighting, the lighting in this painting, truly incredible. I mean, gag, gag, Caravaggio-level lighting. And I love it in the sense of this isn't a, Caravaggio would paint biblical scenes or scenes from whatever, but they were inspired by people he saw. So the visages, the settings were normal people that he would construct as St. Peter or whatever. And they were usually closer up, more, you know, bodies, rippling muscles and how the light hits the bridge of the nose and all this. This to me, this is a divine light. And Carvaggio painted with a divine light as well, a lot of depictions of Jesus and whatever. This is such a divine light calling him home. Oh, okay, I just got to chill. He's not ready to go. Look at the helm of the ship. The hourglass is gone.

It's been snapped off of the front of the boat. His time is up. The time has run out. The sand has reached the bottom of the hourglass. The angel is directing him home. And I don't think maybe I'm inflicting my own emotion on it, which is, you know, arguably the point of art. He's not ready to go.

Or maybe he's marveling at the fact that it's all over. What a beautiful life. And now it's over. If you follow this beam of light up, I mean, just Thomas Cole. you motherfucker. He is amazing. So we have this angel immediately by the old man. Then we have this angel, guiding. Then we have more. Do you see these tiny little angels up here? And it keeps going all the way up here. You can see all the little angels. I mean, just flex of paint. His canvases are so immersive. I just, I'm here. The clouds, the billowing clouds, I sometimes, I don't know if

maybe any art history freaking weirdos out there do this too. Sometimes I'll be on a plane or a train or fucking whatever. And I think, what a marvel. I am in the clouds. I'm in and above the clouds. And sometimes, you know, when you're landing or you're taking off and it's like the yellow golden light of the morning or it's the pink purple setting of the sun and you're up in the clouds, how do you not feel religious. I know I keep coming back to this fucking point, but so many points in my life, I get this sensation where I just, why is it beautiful? Why beauty? What's the point? I'm glad it's there, but it makes me freak out. Like, why are things beautiful? There's no inherent value to beauty. It's just lovely. It's just lovely. And so this is a canvas to me where I'm like,

Like, I see this. And then in my mind, I'm like, God, Thomas Cole, RIP Thomas Cole, you would have loved Delta. Oh, Thomas Cole, you would have loved first class in Delta for real. They give you these little pretzels, very delicious. Thomas Cole, you would have loved Carnival Cruises. Disney Cruise. Taking Thomas Cole on a Disney cruise. He has a heart attack. Anyway, this just, it stunned me the first time I saw this fucking painting because, oh my God, I don't want to die. Okay. Anyway, back to what the fuck I was saying. Seldom do I come across an artist of any medium or any, you know, specific type of art that moves me to the point of feeling seen. I love Fontaine's DC. I love, you know, so many of these bands or, you know, Beyonce, hosier, whatever.

Hosier's another one, actually. And actually, Beyonce's one. where I consume these people's art and I'm just like, these are all parts of me. Truly, they're parts of me. When you take a piece of art and internalize it because it means that much to you, that's the fucking point. And that is the hope of, you know, in the things I make. Like, what a beautiful, what a beautiful opportunity that. or lived experience that the comments under these stupid fucking podcast episodes are people feeling

seen and people feeling heard. And it's just me talking. It is completely by accident. I'm just, and people are like, oh my God, me too. And when you said, I have to agree because my mom used to tell me, it's like that shit. Or it sounds so stupid, but oh my God, it's the whole point of life. Broski Nation, maybe we found the purpose of life and it's to be together and be connected. Okay. Well, with that, I'll leave you.

I'll leave you with that to sort of finish out the rest of you today. Go watch David Courtsvote on Royal Court. Holy shit. We've got merch. Go to broskey.com. We've got some aid relief links in the description for multiple atrocities happening around the world.

Also, the floods in Texas, y'all, I was there. I was in fucking Canyon Lake when those were happening. And luckily, we were on the other side of the dam, but oh my God, it was, it was horrifying. And it's just devastating. I mean, not to rant politically for a second, but look at the effects of what fuck. Look at what Trump is doing. We are watching in real time the effects of dismantling, defunding, all of these public service entities.

Like, not once did we get an emergency notification, an evacuation notice. The river rose, getting flustered. That river rose and flooded in a matter of maybe an hour. And not once did we get a warning. I mean, it's devastating what's happening. And when that happens, the community, the community will always be there for each other. Texans are very resilient people. And they're, I mean, Southern hospitality is a real thing. These search parties that were happening, I have chills. Like, just families completely devastated. The girl, the girls camp, it's just, I can't.

And this was all happening and we had no idea. We were 20 minutes away. You know, selfishly like, oh, we wanted to float the river. Oh, my God, we had no idea what was happening because all of the programs that would warn us of what was happening have been dismantled and defunded. So fuck Donald Trump. And I love Texas. And Texas is ultimately my home. And I'm going to put some flood relief links in the description if you feel inclined to donate or help in any way. Sorry for that downer, but, dude, I was there.

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