The Broski Report with Brittany Broski - 106: I FOUND MY INNER SELF

Episode Date: August 19, 2025

This week on The Broski Report, Fearless Leader Brittany Broski enters her gothic era, discusses her recent movie watches, and researches Art Nouveau and Art Deco. The OFFICIAL Songs of The Week Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ULrcEqO2JafGZPeonyuje?si=061c5c0dd4664f01 👕 Get your merch here: https://broski.shop/ 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: Cash App – Get $10 for free – Download Cash App and use code BROSKILiquid IV – Get 20% off at https://liquidiv.com with code BROSKISeat Geek – Download the app and get 10% off tickets with code BROSKI2025Songs of The Week: Drumming Song by Florence + The MachineGold by 2hollisHeroin by The Tiger LilliesCHAPTERS:00:00 – Intro05:57 – Elvira08:29 – Addams Family13:50 – Pan’s Labyrinth 15:30 – Children’s Goals17:53 – Pan’s Labyrinth Cont. 28:50 – Addams Family Cont.30:26 – Victorian Era36:16 – Art Nouveau vs. Art Deco59:45 – Songs of the Week#brittanybroski, #broski, #broskination, #broskireport, #elvira, #addamsfamily, #rupaul, #panslabyrinth, #guillermodeltoro, #fairytales, #artnouvea, #artdeco, #arthistory, #music

Direct from the Brozky Nation headquarters in Los Angeles, California. This is the Brozky Report with your host, Brittany Brosky. They say you catch more flies with honey. Dead bodies also work. Though the question remains why you want flies at all. Trust me, they will come soon enough, and I've heard they go for the eyes first. Welcome! My dear fellows, ghouls, goblins and gals.

To the Brozky Nation Emporium and Macab Oddities Department. I am your host and owner, Brittany Brozky, and here today I'm enjoying a delightful oat milk vanilla cortado. A Victorian favourite. A Victorian favourite, a lavender, macha oak latte. Welcome, as I've previously studied. to the new and improved brusky report set. Here on my table you will find an eccentricity, an eclectic collection of Victorian auditors.

And can I just say I've never felt more myself. Look at this, unironically, this is my look. Are you out of your fucking mind? Look at me. I've never looked better. I've never looked better. In all my 20 years of living, I've never truly looked better. Wow.

Welcome back, guys. Is it even close to Halloween? No. And that's how you know I'm about this shit for real. This isn't a costume to me. This is what my soul looks like. And I've just now discovered it at the ripe age of 20. In my 20 years of living, this, it took me that long to figure out this is what it's

all about for me, truly. Okay, guys, things are happening. Things are always happening. Something, something amazing has happened and a shift is occurring and you are watching it in real time. I am delighted and also enthralled to welcome you to the new era of Broosky Report and of Brooski Nation as a whole. We are going back in time, as it were, to a much more hostile and dark, macab environment. Really a milieu few can survive in. One that dances with the macabre, one that invites in the spook of it all, really to connect with the spirituality of oneself is something not for the weak hearted. I've been down this fucking Gothic Victorian rabbit hole bitch. I fear I've connected with my inner self. I fear you're looking at my inner self. It's, uh, this is not what I

thought it was. You know what I mean? Sometimes you got to look at yourself in the mirror and go, oh, that's really what this shit's all about. Okay? What you buy one Nosephiratu inspired Victorian nightgown, and it's all downhill from there. Everything else just kind of falls into place after that. And by the way, shout out to La Feminuat. Got this. I did a shoot recently that. I I'm so excited for y'all to see. It will be coming out for the holidays. And I met a beautiful young woman there named Joanna. And she was wearing a nightgown like this.

And I go, bitch, where the fuck did you get that? Where did you get that? And she goes, oh, La Fémin noir, it's the Ellen nightgown. Oh, so my life is forever changed. Oh, so now I can walk around my house. On the door of the night. Look, for Halloween, what I'm thinking about is I'm going to do, remember when Pearl was on drag race and one half of her was fucking, it was like a showgirl and the other half was a gentleman. I'm going to do that, but one half is going to be nose fraud too.

And the other half is going to be Lily Rose Depp. That's what I see for myself, I'm already working on the fucking outfit. If there are any designers who want to help me do that, you know what business email to fucking hit. I need it split down the middle, count Orlock on this side, Ellen this side, okay? On the third night, this counts as the first night. Right. Deliver yourself to me. Her bitch-ass husband really went in there and said,

Yes, Count or not. Her submissive ass cuck husband said, whatever you want, catty wife, I don't care, please just don't kill me. Pussy, bro. Okay. Guys, like I'm saying, lots, lots happening. I'm discovering new interests I never thought I had. I've been, for the first time in my life,

watching movies that I've been putting off that I've really always wanted to see and I've never sat down to actually watch. Y'all know that I watched Coraline. You know that I loved it. You know that I watched... What the fuck else did I watch? Oh, I watch Corpse Bride every year

because that's one of my favorite movies ever made. Yeah. Better than Nightmare Before Christmas. I'll say it. Yeah, I'll say it with my fucking chest. The Corpse Bride is way better than Nightmare Before Christmas. Christmas. I think that that realm of movie, I was limiting myself, right? I'm like, oh, gothic, spooky, animated, whatever. Let's keep it there. No, girl. I listened to Bro Ski Nation, which I do sometimes, right?

And you guys recommended Pans Labyrinth. Also, my friend Elizabeth recommended Pans Labyrinth. I was like, let me give it a try. Dude? Hold on. I can't even get into Pans Labyrinth yet. I have so many other things. Okay, other movies that I've watched include Elvira. Let me tell you something about Elvira. Okay, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, Mistress of the Night. I had always seen Elvira as, you know, like a visual reference for a lot of, um... A lot of, like, glam. There's like, oh, what about, like, Elvira when it comes to a gothic, sexy, whatever.

But I'd never actually sat down and watched the movie. Oh, my God. Rupal? Rupal. Ruple is Elvira. Rupil stole her whole shtick from Miss Elvira girl. I was laughing! I was laughing out loud.

That movie truly, like that whole generation and era of kind of off the beaten path comedy, but when it, I mean, how do you even describe it? Like, overly sexual but deeply intelligent, witty women. the whole, like, I can totally see now as a fan of drag race, and I've been a fan of Rupal for so long. I'm like, ah, yeah, duh. Because he always references all those movies, and I'm like, yeah, I should watch that one. Or even shit like Joan Crawford or like Mommy Dearest, Elizabeth Taylor, all these, you know,

who's Jackie Kennedy's sister, who was an Edy, little Edy, like all these things. Of course I know them through the Great Vine, these pop culture references of a time way before hours now. And to be honest, like, very, to understand those references, you have to understand the cultural zeitgeist of like the 1940s, the 1960s, the 1980s. And like, unless you have a deep-rooted interest in understanding those things, you're not going to get it. Because some of the jokes that are made within those movies, within those whatever, it's like you have to know other things going on at the time. I digress. Elvira was one, bitch, I enjoyed every minute of it. Very, very funny to me. Very, very.

spooky, cookie, and the classic joke that, of course, all of us have enjoyed, me and and Coleman Domingo especially, of How's Your Head? That's from Elvira. I always knew that just because it's funny and because of, you know, whatever. But that is from Alvira. Oh my God, I had laughed so hard. Okay, Elvira is one I really enjoyed. She does this incredible brulessque routine at the end of the movie. Oh, wow. Go watch Alvira. Watch it on YouTube. Another one I want. that I've always wanted to see I've never seen the original is the Adams family. If you would say that the 1991 movie is the original Adams family movie, obviously the Adams family was a fictional family created by Charles Adams, who used to be a cartoonist for the New York, for the New Yorker

in like the 50s, 50s, maybe the 60s. No, it was the 50s. When was the first Adams family cartoon published. 1938. Damn! 1938. And they were just little blurbs published in The New Yorker. Well, they had a TV show. There was an Adam's Family TV show in the 60s. It was black and white. And then there was an animated series made in the 70s. I mean, this is IP that's been consistently recreated, recreated, recreated. But the 1991 Adam's Family movie, y'all, if you've never seen it like me, I was laughing.

That shit is still so fucking funny. That's my sense of humor, and I'm so glad I found it because I played grandma in the Adam's family musical when I was in high school, and the musical is very different from the movie. The musical, I honestly think grandma is funnier in the musical than in the movie. They kind of misused her character in the movie a little bit. Oh my God, there's this one scene in the Adam's Family musical that, yeah, I was killing the audience because I'm funny as fuck.

And guess what? Even as a 17-year-old, I was killing that shit. There's one line where she, they're at a family dinner. Okay, they're downstage. It's the whole family. It's Mortisha, Gomez, Pugsley, Wednesday, Fester, cousinette, whatever. We're all sat there.

And I'm at the end of the table. They're all fighting, okay? Everyone's fighting, whatever. And I stand up and I have something that I really want to say. And the character takes a pause. I just peed. That's the line, okay? and I would say it different every time that we did a performance,

and I would make my castmate's break, because that's the theater. Hey, babe, that's the theater. The goal of live, dramatic, theatrical comedy is to make your castmates break. That's the point, right? And so I'd say it different every time, or I'd act like I was trying to push out a fart,

or I would, you know, I'd check myself after I, whatever. And I delivered the line differently every night. That shit was so fucking funny. we had to literally pause and wait for the audience to stop laughing. And it's also one of those things where you're not supposed to do this. But girl, I'm an improv queen. I would improv after that. I'd be like, yeah, I just peed.

What can I say? Look, you serve me this. No, I don't want to hear, like that sort of thing. Every single time you're bantering with your castmates. Wow. I need to do community theater or something. I kind of miss being on stage. I hosted Brandcast, which was a, it's for YouTube.

It's like an advertising conference. and I hosted the live stage in front of all these advertisers. And obviously it's a stage production. So they were running it like a theatrical play. And there was a stage manager. There's all these cues. There's people on the headsets. There's whatever.

And I was like, wow, I miss this. Wow. I miss acting in a theater. I don't know if I don't want to act on screen. That's not a dream of mine. But one day, I'll return to the stage. I'm thinking about it. I've thought about it.

It would have to be the right show and it would have to be the right role. And I would also have to not do anything else for like, you know, the six to 12 months of however long the run is, however long rehearsals are, whatever. But I really do think about it a lot. Anyway, Adam's family movie. Wow. Wow. So funny.

Also, Raoul Julia? Hot! Sexy! Sexy! I was horny. Watch this fucking movie. Watch the Adam's Family movie. Hi, sir.

Oh, why's her? Wow. He is sexy. And Mortisha, I mean the Mortisha. Come on. Angelica Houston, said her name, Hustin? Come, like the iconic, the classic. That's Tish. Oh, you mean Tish, my mother? Wow, go watch the Adams in the movie. Then Adam's Family Values. The sequel, arguably funnier. Arguably in the way that grown-ups two is funnier than grown-ups one, okay? I was laughing. That she was laughing. That she was. shit is funny. Okay. Now I'm on this kick, right? I've watched Adam's family. I'm doing all this, whatever. I've been a long-time fan of the Twilight Zone. And I've always had this, you know, my mother is a damn ghost hunter. I've had this affinity for the macabre for a while, really. And it goes back to the dawn of time, really. Humans are quite intrigued by the macabre, the sco-the-cob, the coo-ke, the ooky, even. And so I'm trying to tap into like, what is it that like, oh my God, also reading a picture of Dorian Gray. I've loved Dracula.

Y'all know I was addicted to Nosephirotu. Come to me. So it's like, what, I'm trying to get to the bottom of it. And this is what I've settled on. This set is what I've settled on. Hit the wide, hit the wide shot. This is me now. So, with that being said,

because I have the features, I have the, actually, let me talk about Pans Laverance really quick, and then we'll move on. Pan's Labyrinth What is it? Labyrinth Labyrinth Labyrinth

Labyrinth Labyrinth Labyrinth Della Fona Labyrinth of la La Fona Laughan Fano

That's what that fucking movie was I thought this shit was so heavily re-blogged

on Tumblr You know the iconic guy with the eyes in his hands That's scary is fucked obviously

Hey, there's nothing more terrifying that's ever been made. This shit where he's staring at the table with his big fucking nose holes. Get your hole out of my face. I don't want to see your big fucking holes, okay? She runs into that room and the fairies are and there's the big feast and the big fawn is like, don't eat that shit. I'm telling you. Okay, let me explain the plot for people who haven't seen it. 1940s civil war Spanish civil war okay Franco as we know scary fascist dictator there are some loyalists

to Franco our main character is a young girl named Ophelia which by the way I don't ever want a child but if I were to ever have a child I have a list of things that I would want the child to learn being an instrument very very early because that taps into a part of your brain that most people never get to unlock, a second language, arguably even a third language. Imagine having a trilingual child. It's so much easier to learn those things when you're a child. And then I would have them, oh, I made a list, hold on. Oh, this is, this is, I literally wrote a note. What I'll teach my kid, second or third language, instrument of their choosing chess. They're learning all those things really young. I could give a fuck about putting my child in

sports. By the way, I'm not having a kid. I'm talking about my invisible imaginary never happening child. I'm not putting them in sports. To teach them such brutish, violent behaviors so young, for what? To be the most physically intimidating, the most physically agile? None of these things ultimately matter, in my mind, okay? It's such a brutish thing. Like, I don't want, that to me is not impressive. It's not something that should be lauded. It's not something that obviously I'm talking about like the competitive nature of children in sports. This idea of being better than someone because they're, you know, on varsity, JV, whatever. Y'V., whatever. Y'all know how I feel about the mind is the strongest muscle that we all have.

The mind is the greatest tool, the greatest weapon that we're all gifted. And it's about how sharp you keep that tool. Sports, I could give a fuck, okay? It's a complicated thing when you get into like the Olympics and whatever. There has to be the best of the best. And some people were born to be athletes. Sure, I believe in that. My kid?

No. If he's like, they. If my child, they are like, I want to do this. I want to do that. The only thing my kid's allowed to do is ballet. The only physical activity that I'm permitting is ballet. Okay? Get your ass in the point shoes and get out on that motherfucking stage.

And I mean that. I don't, we're not doing soccer. We're not doing football. We're not doing rugby. We're not doing whatever. If you can get hurt in a way, for what? At least with ballet, there's art involved, right? You have to learn the story of the ballet.

The ballet is telling through motion. It's telling a story that involves real human emotions, real relationship dynamics. It's to the most stunning music ever composed, like all these things. Okay, fine. If you get hurt doing ballet, that's understandable because it was in pursuit of, art. It was an artistic endeavor. If you get hurt smashing head first into someone playing football and your brain damage for the rest of your life, unforgivable. Why would you do that? What was the point? Okay. For entertainment? Okay. I digress. What the fuck was I talking about? Oh,

Pants Labyrinth. Oh, a labyrinth. Oh, a labyrinth. If I were, all that to say, if I were to ever have a kid, I would name them Ophelia. If I had a little girl, I would name her Ophelia. What a beautiful name. Ophelia. And it would be the Spanish version. It wouldn't be Ophelia. Ophalia. Wow.

Gorgeous. Okay, so we follow the story of a little girl, Ophelia. Her mom has just married a captain of the Franco loyalist army. Fash. And so she obviously doesn't want to go. She's being dragged along. She loves fairy tales. She's reading fairy tales.

The story opens with a retelling of a fairy tale, a princess of the underworld, okay, who's longing got trapped up in the mortal realm, who's longing to return home because she's a princess and she misses her family and whatever. The story goes that this new stepdad of hers is cruel. He is a cruel, sadistic, fucking weirdo. And it's always those men who are in charge of, you know, they have such power that they wield, ultimately for evil. A long story, I don't want to ruin the movie if you've never seen it. But Ophelia is running through this camp that the army has stationed at, and they find an old

abandoned labyrinth that's been there for centuries when it's, it's dilapidated, it's falling apart, but it's got these cool engravings and these, like, she's drawn to it. So she finds her way through the labyrinth, she goes all the way down, she meets this fawn, Okay, at first, scary-ass fawn. I don't like this fawn negative energy from the fawn. Then, hey, I trust the fawn. I trust the fawn almost a little bit too much. I trust the fawn more than I trust any of the humans in her world.

And the faun is telling her princess. Oh my God, we've been waiting for you, girl. Okay, you know the drill. To get back home to the underworld, you got to do three tasks for me. You got to do three prewebas. And here's the first one. You know, you got to go do this, do whatever. She's like, okay, yeah, for sure, 100%.

she's doing it, you know, other things are happening in the background of the movie. The second trial she has to do is she has to go to this scary, the fucking scared, put him up here. This scary ass dude with his holes. He's got his holes open and out. There's a child in the room. He's in front of the table, okay? His long ass fingers. Love Guillermo del Toro, by the way, because no one does a monster movie like Guillermo del Toro.

Wow! And y'all have been recommending that I watch the show. Shape of Water, I'll get there. Okay, I want to watch his other one first. Never. I need to look up the name. I'm going to watch that before I watch Shape of Water. I love a scary monster because they're scary and creepy and cute. They're kind of cute. The Fawn, after a while I was like, yeah, your ass is kind of cute. I trust you low key. Okay, so she goes in this room and the Fawn's like, okay, got to tell you something. Here's this key. You need this key to go in there. I need you to unlock this box.

Get me the shit that's in there. But don't eat shit off the table. There's going to be a big feast It's going to look really delicious Don't eat anything off the table I'm warning you okay You hear me? She's like yes I hear you He's like okay go She goes

What does her bitch ass do? She eats something From the table Bro the fault I'm gonna have to do that He's not the one they don't do is eat their shut off the table And so his scary ass The scary ass skin monster who eats kids He's sitting there at the table And she eats that grape off the table

And he does He takes the eyes and pops that shit in his hands and then does. That screenshot on Tumblr, all my spooky bitches, all my spooky friends in high school used to re-blogged that shit thinking they were so artistic and cool.

And I remember being like, y'all are fucked in the head. What is that? Who is voluntarily sitting down and watching... Me. Oh, me. Who's sitting down and being like, yeah, best movie ever!

Okay, me. And for the record, I'm sorry. Anyone who's ever told me to watch Pan's Labyrinth and I said, you bitches are weird, I take it back. I take it back because look at me now. Who's laughing now, y'all? Oh my God.

So the end of this movie, very, very tragic. I'm not even going to try to explain it because, holy shit. So tragic. And at the end, the fairy tale comes to life, right? Like this world that there are so many stories happening simultaneously where if you want to take the literary, like the critic in me, not the critic, but maybe the analytical side of me, this is what I want to talk about. Arguably, there is a conclusion or a deduction that can be pulled from this movie that everything that happened with the fawn, with these

trials, it was all in Ophelia's head because she was trying to construct a way in her, you know, the girlhood brain of how to cope with such unimaginable trauma. trauma and cruelty at such a young age. She loses her mother. Her stepfather is a cruel tyrant who is abusive, both physically, verbally meant everything, literally tells the doctor, his wife is pregnant, you know, Ophelia's mother, if it comes down to it, save the baby. Don't save her. You better save my fucking son. And the doctor's like, right. And Ophelia hears that. And she's like, what the fuck? So it's that. Like this, your face. with this unimaginable cruelty, like truly unfathomable to the average person, how as a young girl

are you supposed to make sense of that? There's no rhyme or reason to it other than the pursuit of power. But all of these concepts are kind of too cerebral and too adult, quote unquote, to give rhyme to reason. And so one can argue that she constructs this world in her head that's based on these fairy tales that she's been reading to make sense of it all. And as an escape. And I like this theory, because as fun as it is to think, oh, the fawn is real, you know, all of these trials and tribulations that she goes through with these scary monsters and these, you know, ethereal fabricated realities and whatever where she's going in and out of different dimensions and then coming back, not unsimilar to Coraline, where it's like, was that real or, you know, was that real or

was that just some form of a mental trick of, you know, be appreciative of what you have sort of thing, like a reminder to be present. At the end of the movie, she dies, but there are these beautiful, I mean, oh my God, it's just a fucking masterpiece. There's this beautiful back and forth of her dying in the real world to save her baby brother. And it's one of those bittersweet moments. I have chills thinking about it. It's one of those bittersweet moments of, they.

They've defeated the fascist. They've shot and killed, you know, this cruel stepfather and the rebels won. And not without a great cost, though. And Ophelia gave her life to protect an innocent, who was her baby brother. This ultimately was sort of her integrity and her understanding of like this is the right thing to do. no one had to tell her to do that. And in doing that, she's rewarded in the afterlife by returning home to her real, you know, ancestral family and maintaining the role of princess and finding, you know, it's her mother

from the real world who's down in the underworld with her and all this, where it's true happiness that she's been seeking the whole time that, you know, she lost her father tragically, her mother struggled with her health, her stepdad was cruel, all these external factors. for her to return to, you know, in her head, her real belonging, her happy place. This fairy tale that it doesn't really matter if it was real or not. It was in her head. And I just like this dichotomy of showing her dying and bleeding out on the ground and then the camera pans under, the camera pans down as her blood is dripping down into

the underworld where she meets her real father and she meets her mother. and it's just, it's, I can't even tell you. Instagram, I said, that's what that fucking movie was? With the whole man? Bro with his holes out? Oh my God! A masterpiece, a masterpiece, a masterpiece. Holy fuck.

Wow! So, all that to say, Jesus fucking Christ, what a masterpiece. What a masterpiece. What's the other Gerdem of Toro that I wanted to watch? Nightmare Alice. Some of y'all had recommended Nightmare Alley to me, because guess what? I believe it's not Gothic. I think it's World War II.

Yeah, here we go. In 1940s, New York, down on his luck, Stanton Carlisle, enders himself to a clairvoyant and her mentalist husband at a traveling carnival. Yeah, that's up my alley. Using newly acquired knowledge, Carlisle crafts a golden ticket to success by swindling the elite and wealthy, hoping for a big score. He soon hatches a scheme to... Shit's not loading. Awesome.

Oh, it's based on a book. It is a study of the depths of show business and its immoral inhabitants. The dark, shadowy world of a second-rate carnivalry filled with hustlers, scheming grifters, and Machiavellian femme fatals. Yeah, bitch! I need to tap the fuck into this, because guess who's in it? Guess who's in it? It's Bradley Cooper?

Tom Hiddleston, Victoria. Oh, sorry, I'm confusing the two. Crimson Peak is the one that I'm thinking of. Crimson Peak. Nightmare Alley is the Guillermo del Toro one I wanted to watch. This one is another one I wanted to watch. This is Mio, Wasikowska, and Tom Hiddleston. And this is based in...

It's English. It's English and fucking... Oh, he also directed this one. It's set in Victorian England. Yeah, I'm probably watching this one. No! Let's get my de Toto, man. Okay, yeah, I need to tap into both of those

because both are kind of freaky as fuck. They're freaky as fuck. Okay, let me go back to... What the fuck was I going to say? Oh, you want to know something else I wanted to Google? How did the Adams family get rich? This is from AI Overview. The Adams family's wealth primarily comes from a combination

of inheritance and savvy investments. They also come from a long history. of wealth, with Gomez being descended from both British aristocracy and Spanish royalty and morticia from a long line of witches. They owned a swamp and discovered an oil deposit underneath, according to Forbes. Hey Forbes, Gomez Adams isn't real. Okay, so he was doing swamp oil. So Gomez Adams knows about swamp oil, sure.

Okay, very, very interesting to me. Okay, so yeah, Pan's Labyrinth, wow. What else the fuck did I watch? Oh, you know, tonight I'm going to watch Crimson Peak. I'm going to watch Clue. Stanley recommended I watch Clue if I liked Adams family because I was like, I was laughing. He goes, bro, I promise you're going to love Clue, that shit's funny. Okay, fine, I'll watch it.

I literally feel like that meme of just got into movies. Just got into movies starting at the beginning and it's like that first ever, film where they filmed a train and the audience who watched it, like in the 20s, thought that the train was literally coming through the screen and everyone screamed. Just starting to watch movies. Getting into movies, let me know where to start. Anyway, um, okay, here's the little game that I wanted to play today, because as we all know, I, everything about me is Victorian, unfortunately, down to my forehead and the way that I smell.

Um, y'all are lucky I got all the teeth in my head because, Oh, y'all, if I would have been alive in the Victorian era, I'm telling you, you know this already. I would have been stinky and big and rotting. Oh, I would have had sores, just pussy sores. I would have been missing almost all my teeth. I want to talk like this. You're right. I would have sold Brett.

I would not have been an aristocrat. I would have wanted to be, and I would have acted like it, right? I would have been one of those hoity-to-y lower middle class people like, It just ain't right the way they're talking. It's no fucking decorum. Except I would have been like super lower middle class. My husband would have fucking hated me. I would have cheated on him.

I would have probably hung out around the mail brothels before that shit was kind of shut down. I would have been hanging out just for some friends, you know, all the gay people. I would have hung out because that's where the fun was. You know what I mean? I would not have been a homemaker. I would not have been,

because we wouldn't have been able to afford you know, a butler, a valet, a maid, a housekeeper. No, babe, it's me. And I wouldn't have done that shit. You fucking do it. You've got two hands and two legs. I ain't fucking doing it. Make your own fucking tea, darling.

I'll be back later. I'm going down to the brothel. I'm going to seat of boys. Hello, boys. But I'm not flirting with them. I'm hanging out. Okay, so here is essentially, something I've had my wonderful squire,

Elizabeth, research for me and compile into a document and I thought we'd go through them together. Okay? By the way, can you see my beautiful little teacup? It's a little sparrow with a bowler hat on. He's got a bowler hat on. I've all just think that's so fucking funny. That is quite funny that. And then this little Victorian letter.

This was from the Nevers, HBO The Nevers and Hendrix Gin did a collab and they sent me a PR package. adorable. I kept it. It comes with a teapot and it had this little, what are those called? A diffuser, you know, that you put the tea leaves in, you put it in. And then it's a little mini teapot. Oh, oh, my penis is hard. I love a fucking trinket, dude. I love a tiny, overly intricately designed. And oh my God, I have so much to talk to you guys about. This episode's going to be three hours long. I found out the difference between Art Deco and Art Nouveau. Remember I said that about 100 episodes ago. I was going to talk about it. I'll talk about it in a second. Let me go through this picture. Actually, no, I'll talk about it now. Because it's my fucking show. And you bitch just don't just tell me what I can talk about and what I don't talk about. Because it's my fucking show. Art Deco.

Okay. Let me kind of describe what I know. And then we'll go into the research portion, okay, to get some more specifics on it. So Art Nouveau and Art Deco are confused a lot because they have some similar design elements, but truly at their core, they're very, very different. Art Nouveau was turn of the century, 20th century. It began around the 1890s, ended 1910. So there was about a 20-year reign where Art Nouveau really was,

there was a reason it was called Art Nouveau, because Nouveau, in French, means new. And this was something new in terms of we've never seen something so whimsical before. Art Nouveau predates surrealism. And of course, all of this is kind of, I'm not an art historian, but this is just from, I love the game, the more you know about that time period and history, some art historians will say that

Art Nouveau paved the road for Art Deco and that that was the jump, but you're missing surrealism when you say that, because Art Nouveau, the argument for its emergence is, think about the 19th century. There are so many wars. There's so much destruction. There is so much civil unrest.

We're also dealing with the industrial revolution globally. Okay, some countries got it before others. Still, the impacts had a ripple effect on society, on culture, on the kind of mentality and the opinions of looking towards the future. We're now seeing things that are changing the very shape of our society, the fabric of how we interact and how we do things. So that coupled with the turn of the century, you know, the year 19. Like, all of these things are very symbolic.

You've got the American Civil War. You've got the Franco-Prussian War, I believe. You've got the French Revolution. You've got all these things that are really uprooting the fabric of society and changing things around. Liberty, freedom. All these things are concepts that we're really giving weight to. Moving into the next century, Art Nouveau kind of capitalizes on it.

all this, where people are so fed up with the destruction and the goariness of war and how it just shatters the human spirit, where there's now a pronounced inclination toward whimsy, towards fancy, towards fantasy, towards, you know, a rejection of the classicism that the 19th century kind of had, where it's religious, it's pastoral's, it's, you know, a rigid structure to how paintings and how architecture and all these things were being done. Art Nouveau was a departure from that because it was fun. It was fun. And for real, it was Art Nouveau.

It had never been seen before celebrating this almost kind of departure from what was acceptable. Art Nouveau was colorful. It was very curvy and windy. We can put some examples up here. It really focused on the female form in all of its curvaceous, you know, soft suppleness. And it bled into architecture. Art Nouveau architecture is so stunning.

If you've ever seen any of Gaudi's work, that's technically classified as Art Nouveau. I would kind of, look, here's where I'm kind of, my blind spot is, is Art Nouveau bleeds into surrealism for me, both in terms of art and in terms of architecture. Because they toy with the same idea, surrealism came about after World War I. Again, this utter confusion from how could humans do something like this to one another.

It was a rejection of sense and of logic. Because if you are capable of constructing a global war where the goal is to eradicate or to dismember or to cause as much, destruction as possible to another party, then just throw out all the concepts we have of human decency, because that's essentially what you're, you know, suggesting. This is very high, high concept. Obviously, I know global war is so much more complex than that. But on a philosophical level, that's kind of what these conclusions were being drawn. You know, like, if we're capable of such cruelty, then nothing fucking matters. Thus, surrealism comes about. Then you get into art deco

comes after that. Art Nouveau. If you've ever seen Casabayo in, I believe it's in Barcelona, this is, I think, one of the most pristine examples, anything Gaudi did. Oh, Gaudi's light posts, let's look at some of those, or I guess lamp posts, if you want to be European about it. Gaudi was commissioned to design some light posts for some public spaces, and I mean, look at that. It's just whimsical. It's fantastical. They don't do shit like this anymore. Dude, I'm pissed off. This modernism or this, it's not even modernism.

It's just this clinical, white, minimalist design that has, it's a plague on Western societies. I hate it. I hate it. I am so ready to go back to like maximalist, eccentric, ostentious interior design, architecture. There's a reason why people love shit like Art Deco is because it's so much. The design permeates every single area of a space of, you know, but at the same time, it celebrates a simplicity of design. I'll get into Art Deco, hold on.

Okay, so this is an example of Art Nouveau architecture. Wow. This is Casabayo from the outside. Just very, it's weird. It's new. It's colorful. It's whimsical. And then we all know the famous Art Nouveau ladies, the seasons, these seasons.

There's so much to say about Art Nouveau. It was, it celebrated the kind of Orientalism. Celebrate is one way to say it. It stole from a lot of Asian art and incorporated some of the shapes, the colors, the designs. also Art Nouveau was the main inspiration, or I guess it was a revival of the 60s flower power movement. You know, when you see like Grateful Dead posters and all like Woodstock, all this, really all that typography and the design structure comes from Art Nouveau. It's a revival. And then you continue to see that brought up again and again, same with Art Deco.

But Art Nouveau, I love, it's just this whimsical. There's a lot of fairies. There's a lot of like this collaboration almost between nature and humanity and industry. All these things were wrapped up in one. And a lot of Art Nouveau architecture, you'll see beautiful stained glass and winding metal, you know, it looks like leaves. It's all windy and curvy and asymmetrical, which I like. But at the same time, within all of these structures, there will be, iron rods and iron rivets that it's kind of an homage or a nod to the industrial age and how together we were entering into the 20th century with industry and with art combining to show us

something we've never seen before. And I just think that's wonderful. It's celebrating the future. This also predates, or I guess it's around the same time of like futurism and cubism and all these things swirl together in this beautiful, you know, you can try to identify, Okay, Cubism started at this year and ended it this year. Art Nouveau was here to hear, but I like to think of it as more of a fluid. Everything inspires one another. And this was the height of this design style. And then it gave rise to this design style and whatever.

There's no clear ending and beginning. So now we'll move into Art Deco. Art Deco was more global because Art Nouveau kind of began in Belgium, of all places. places it began in Brussels. And it was really popular in England, France, and America. Art Deco was way more global. This was a more simplified version of how ornamental and how decorative art nevo was. Art Deco really celebrated how industrial things had become. The sleek design of trains, the sleek design of air travel. You know, once that became, became popularized.

Cars, like all of these really, there's a futuristic element to Art Deco, which I think is why it's stood the test of time. You know, it's almost like the Jetsons, this idea of the future where it's not as clinical and medical and plain looking as the future, quote unquote, is now. But it was this whimsical version of a futurist society that is so cool to, there's a reason we still gravitate towards it. Art Deco Architecture is some of the most famous and popular in the world. When you think of cities like Miami or cities like Tulsa or cities, even like L.A., art deco is what comes to mind.

And it's affiliated with this golden age of the jazz age or of Gatsby or of, you know, this whole 20s, 30s, just luxury. Luxury, decadence in the newer definition of the term, you know, just some. something that is decadent, not so much that it's in poor taste or that it's like false luxury, just truly opulence. Theaters became very popular to decorate and construct in the Art Deco style when you think of kind of more simplified patterns and lines. Everything's very linear, not as many curves and asymmetrical design choices as an Art Nouveau. Art Deco is very, a lot of Chevron.

It's a lot of simplified curves. lot of right angles, and everyone knows the topography, the font style of Art Deco. You see it on travel posters, you see it in bars and speak-easies, you see it on diners, you see it on movie theaters, all of this. It's so recognizable because it's so fucking good. It's ostentatious, but it's not too much. It's luxurious, but it's not in poor taste. Around this time, a lot of theaters were being constructed because now we're talking about the golden age of Hollywood. We're showing movie screenings in these theaters. A lot of design elements were, I'll say stolen, inspired by or stolen from Egyptian culture.

This was around the time that King Tut was unearthed. A big fascination with Egyptian ancient Egypt came about. So the Egyptian theater here in L.A., I think the Pantages Theater, the Chinese Theater, all of these things started popping up. There's a famous place in Miami that was like one of the first super famous art deco buildings. The name escapes me right now. But Art Deco is what I think has stood the test of time is, like I'm saying, it's luxury element. For whatever reason, because this was in the 20s, even into the 30s, you know, after the stock market crash,

This was pre-World War II where people affiliate it with just easy living and almost this new hedonism and decadence and just it's accessible through its aesthetic. You don't have to actually be rich to enjoy the ostentatious design of what Art Deco offers. So I think it's important as all of these art movements happen to acknowledge where the design elements are coming from. And also, as it keeps coming back around, like Art Deco kept having a revival. It happened in the 20s originally. It came back in the 60s, then it came back in the 80s,

and then it came, you know, it's like, wow, all that to say, it kept having its moment because it's just so damn good. Art Deco architecture, one of the most famous examples, is the Chrysler building in New York City. I mean, it's just so classically art deco. The repeated patterns, the curved lines, the, I wouldn't say that Chevron, but like the use of geometry. It's not this free-flowing, curvaceous, aestheticness of Art Nouveau. It's very intentional. So, yeah, that's the main

difference between Art Deco and Art Deco. I am, obviously like most people, especially because I'm American, I love Art Deco. When I see it, you know, something, my heart opens to it. I see it. My eyes kind of gloss over. But there's something very near and dear to my heart about Art Nouveau. And the more I learn about it, the more I'm intrigued by it. And I think it's because it taps into this piece of my brain that's very whimsical and very fantastical. And it's excited. by all that, by I think nowadays it's easy to see something like that and think, oh, it's so, it's not professional or it's not, like there's some aversion to whimsy, or maybe the fact that it's a very effeminate design style. I love it. And there's a reason why it's affiliated with

things like Woodstock or things like when it had its revival in the 80s because there's a freedom that comes with, it's almost like a liberating visual component to what society is experiencing at that time. So around the time of Woodstock, 1969, this is like, you know, pre-Vietnam War, like the anti-Vietnam War protests were happening, like a lot of, especially in America, a lot of civil unrest towards the government. And so going back to the turn of the century

mindset of freedom and liberty and you know, this almost sensual quality of what Art Nouveau was, of course that's going to come back and they're going to revisit that. I love that shit. I love that shit.

So all that being sad. Oh, another thing. Art Deco. Travel posters, travel posters, travel posters, a huge component of what Art Deco was and its lasting impact. In college, I decorated my room unknowingly with Art Deco travel posters, just because I liked the colors and the aesthetic, and I had my bedspread was like a Malfi Coast themed,

and then I had all these really colorful, you know, Paris, Rome, whatever, on my wall. I didn't realize those were Art Deco. I just saw them on Pinterest and I liked them. And I framed them in these really nice wooden frames. names. All of these, I know you know these. And guess what? They're, oh, dude. And this company, if y'all are still around, please reach out to me because I loved you bitches. There was a makeup company, a cosmetics company called The Balm. In 2015, 2016, I was addicted to the balm because their design for one of their travel palettes, really smart, by the way. It was designed to be a travel

palette, like a one-stop shop. It was an eye shadow palette. It had blush, bronzer, highlighter, and it had a cream section that had a separate little thing that you put over it and you would, you know, lift the little top off. And then you would do the, it was like a cream blush and then a lipstick. And then it had a mirror. And the theme of the packaging was this. It was all these different travel posters that were Art Deco themed, but it was the ladies in it. So it would be like, Hawaii and it would have like a beautiful Hawaiian woman with the lay and whatever but it was in the Art Deco style you know with the really simplified lip shape and whatever all of I loved it and then all of the shade names were welcome or bon voyage in different languages oh my like my dick is hard

oh my god yeah I wish I could pull up a picture of this what was it called the balm I think it was call a Bon Voyage palette. Bro. Look at this shit. This was my favorite. Holy shit, I have to have. The bomb, if you're listening, please bring this back. Please bring this back and put new colors in it.

Can you make an all-cooled toned palette? Oh, my God. This was my favorite palette. Look at all the travel posters. Wow. Okay. Yeah, look, so you got nine eyeshadows. You got a highlighter, two different blush shades.

and you got two different cream. One was a pink base and one was an orange base. And then you had a bronzer. And get into this girl, you had, oh my God, you know. Welcome, bienvenu, bienvenuto. What language is that? Welcome, welcome, welcome in, welcome in. Felté.

Is Fylté Irish? I'm sure that's not how you pronounce Felté. This phrase or this word meaning welcome in Irish and Scottish as well as I said to say more Irish expressions meaning welcome falter, falter is how you say. Foltre, slancher. In Irish. Fulcher. Wow.

Oh, dude. Okay, anyway, Art Deco travel posters were a big, big, big thing because, and I just learned this last night, and I was like, damn, the point was to make it less scary. Around this time, the war was over. World travel was being encouraged. The introduction of the airplane of airlines like TWA were happening, so you now have passenger airlines, and they were trying to encourage global travel. in a simplified, safe, beautiful way. And so something like this, I mean, come on.

It nails just that. And at the same time, you have this opulence that's affiliated. So it's like the best of each city is being showcased and maybe what they want to be known for. It's just stunning. So around this time, the reason. that these also had a big boom is because these were everywhere. Really, really interesting. Also around, I think, 1933 was the World's Fair in Chicago. And so it's all these, you know,

it's just what a time. What a time. And I wish that eventually one day will make a return to a design that's supposed to be beautiful and colorful. We're going through such a tumultuous sociopolitical time right now. it's very curious to me, especially in the wake of AI and this argument or this fear that AI is going to replace the human artist, which I don't think will ever happen. Because the reason that art is art is because it's from the human spirit. And AI will never be able to recreate that. And we'll get bored of it eventually after it's done destroying the fucking Earth. We'll get bored of it.

And there will be a return to just like true art will flourish. and I'm excited to see what it'll be. But this to me is very, I wonder if we'll go back to this and we'll draw inspiration from this and put it to use in a different way, a new way. And I wonder what it'll be called because Art Nouveau had a bunch of different terms all in French before it was kind of settled on Art Nouveau just through happenstance. But yeah, I'm very, very excited to see the future of... When this period is over, you know, and that doesn't mean that when this period is over and we enter into the next period, what will this period be called?

All that to come. All that to be studied in sociology classes. All that is very, very interesting. Anyway, the bomb, please bring this shit back, bro. This is my favorite palette. I took it with me everywhere. Okay. Let's get into the songs of the week.

I don't even get in. I'll do my Victorian shit next episode, and I'm also going to wear this again. I'm getting aware this again because I have to. My songs of the week are drumming song by Florence of the Machine. Bitch, that shit came out in like, what, 2008? I'm still banging that shit like it came out yesterday. Drumming song! Next, gold by two Hollis.

Yeah, duh. Next, this is fucked up. This is fucked up and I know it's fucked up. But this song gets stuck in my head all the time. Don't even ask me how I came to find out about this song. It's a song called Heroin by the Tiger Lilies. I don't know. I don't know.

I love that fucking song. I love the tiger lilies. I think that they're, I put them on and they make me feel, hey, hey, ooh. Okay, I feel very ooh when I listen to the tiger lilies. I don't know. All right. If you guys want merch, go to brosky. Don't look at how greasy my hair is, please.

And I'll see you lovely people on the next. one, be good and keep a wary eye on the horizon. Bye.