The Broski Report with Brittany Broski - 28: I’m Malnourished & My Skin is Falling Off

Episode Date: December 5, 2023

This week on The Broski Report, Fearless Leader Brittany Broski DOESN’T discuss her Spotify Wrapped, unpacks her skincare routine, questions whether she is the next Virgin Mary, and introduces her newest musical obsession – Sam Fender. Follow The Broski Report: https://www.linktr.ee/broskireport https://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.tiktok.com/@bbroyalcourt https://www.instagram.com/royalcourt https://www.twitter.com/bbroyalcourt  Brought To You By: Tinder – Download the app NOW!  Songs of The Week: Long Way Off – Sam Fender Aye – Sam Fender Call Me Lover – Sam Fender White Privilege – Sam Fender That Sound – Sam Fender Howdon Aldi Death Queue – Sam Fender Getting Started – Sam Fender #brittanybroski, #broski, #broskination, #broskireport, #spotify, #spotifywrapped, #skincare, #virginmary, #accents, #samfender, #mattyhealy, #the1975, #loveifwemadeit

Direct from the Brozky Nation headquarters in Los Angeles, California. This is The Brozky Report with your host, Brittany Brozky. Hello and welcome back to another episode of The Brozky Report, starring me, your host, Brittany Brozky, the host of The Brozky Report. Guys, what a goddamn year. Year in review. Spotify Rap just came out as of what's today. November 30th. I will not be revealing. I will not. I know.

I know. Sh, guys, please, let's calm down. I can't talk about my Spotify round because I'm embarrassed. I will say, okay,

because it's embarrassment for a lot of different reasons because my hyperfixations, hey, as we all know, as we are very well aware, as we are very well acquainted. They happen in the blink of an eye, okay? You might miss one. If you're not here every week,

if you're not tuned in, if you're not plugged in, you will miss it. And there just so happened to be a month in April in the Year of Our Lord, 2003, where I listened to this artist so much that they took the number one spot.

Okay? And I don't like listen to them that often. But it was just this month I was like, holy shit, there's never been a better music than this. And it's like really not worth that. I'll reveal it. Fine. My number one artist was Midland. The country band, Midland.

You know, the people say I got a drinking problem. That ain't no reason to stop. That song? I listen to that song 85 times in the month of April. I don't know. Okay? I think April was stage coach and so I was like, I have got to see Midland. And I think Mark, the lead singer of Midland, came out during one of the sets and I was so fucking high. I was so high at stagecoach. I don't remember. Me and Bestie Taylor had a fight. I was so high. We ended up fighting.

Anyway, so that was my number one artist. I'm pissed off. Because no, it's not. That's not my number one artist. That girl who has a box fan as her number one artist every year. That is so me. You know what I did to counteract that? You have to watch it on YouTube. I bought YouTube Premium and I will die on this hill. I don't give a fuck, dude. YouTube Premium is worth every single dime.

It is worth it. YouTube Premium, I never watch ads. I never have to skip ads. It still plays when I exit the app. I can lock my phone. and it's still playing, it is glorious. So I'll do that when I'm like at a hotel or something like that. But when I'm home, I'll put it on my TV.

I've got YouTube on the TV and I'll just put brown noise black screen. Or occasionally, if I'm feeling a little frisky, I will do thunderstorm light rain, okay, black screen. And that's what I watch. So all you girls out there who get box fan or white noise as your number one artist and song every year. Listen to me. I fixed it.

But I don't know if I'm like, because why artists? It's going to post that people are going to be like, who the fuck is Midland? People say I'm just because I'm living on the rocks. That song? For some reason, my spirit needed to hear that. You know what it is? I was getting into Midland, like, exploring other albums and stuff.

And on my Google, I would go into the kitchen. And I'd say, you know, Google, because I don't want to trigger any Googles if you have, because every time I say that shit, everyone in my house goes off, every single one in my house. I would say, Google play Midland. And then that was the number one song that would play. And so every time, and I'd be like, skip, but it would still play. It's clocking in those hours, whether or not I want it to. Okay.

So whatever. Midland is my number one artist. I don't give a shit. I'm angry. I'm literally angry. Okay. Here's the number one thing on my mind today. I feel fucking ugly.

Do you ever have ugly? That TikTok there was like, I feel fat when I have oily hair. I feel fat when I have oily hair. Yeah, that's science, dude. I don't know how else to put that. Like, that perfectly sums it up. Like, I have a few zits on my face and I've just like, I have not been taking care of my skin.

I've been like really in the throes of seasonal depressive. like I just sit and stare. Just sit and stare at the wall. I have no motivation to do anything. It is currently 7 p.m. right now. I've been waiting around all day to do this. I've been putting this off. It's in my fucking house.

This studio is in my house. And I was like, I just can't do it. Like get a grip, dude. It's not that serious. Oh, you're sad because it's cold out coming motivation. It dropped below 60 degrees. Oh my. fucking God. Like, are you serious?

Oh, that's the problem these days. No one wants to get up in fucking work. Kim Kardashian is so... When you think about it, Kim Kardashian is a thought leader. When you think about it, Kim Kardashian really, like, we should really look to her. For her, for everything. Anyway, yeah, I feel fucking ugly. And also, my hormones are so off balance. They're so off balance. I just had this thought that on the bottom of my ghost, Funkal Pop. I need to write Brit, like Andy and Toy Story. I'm going to go on all my funkel pops and write Whitney on the bottom. This is property of Britney. Yeah, that's actually my ghost

vocal pop. This is actually my mandolian fungal pop. That's literally me. Okay. Yeah, I feel fat and ugly, dude. And there's nothing wrong with being fat and ugly. It's just, you know, I'm not feeling that great. It's not, not feeling my best. I've been breaking out everywhere. I have not been taking good care of in my skin. I tried out I got a free sample package from La Roche Pussy. La Roche Pousseille.

That company, everyone's like, Oh, La Roche Pouset, whatever, that, like, drunk elephant, all those brands where it's like, that is not, what do you mean you're paying $85 for a a moisturizer? Huh? I got a package from La Roche Pouset, and I was like, hmm, roach pussy. I would never pay for this.

myself. Let's give it a gander. I put on some of that nice cinemide bullshit on my face. The Wilhelm scream. That's how I felt in the bathroom. And thank God, I was about to shave my face, you know, with one of those little like microderm blades. Microderm blade blade, blade, microblade derm, microderm blade. Dermaplane razor. That. Where you just, it's like for your peach fuss. But you know, when you do that, sometimes I'll, I'll nick myself or whatever, like by act. accident, imagine if I would have shaved my face and then put that nice in my... Oh, on my face, little dude. I have such sensitive skin.

Do you all remember the video of Shane Dawson and Jeffrey Starr doing Kylie's skin? I know you do. I know you. What? You're going to point fingers at me? Like, I'm the only person that ever watched that video? Fuck off! That video of Shane Dawson would he put the Kylie skin all over his face and he turns beat red.

Like you put it in? I'm under a fucking heat lamp. He turns beat red. That's how I felt. I was in the bathroom in my little robe, and I was like, I'm going to be a skincare girl. I'm going to try out this roach pussy. This roach pussy cream.

And I put it on my face, my skin like peeled back. It was just exposed muscle. It was just exposed tendons and muscle and teeth. I'm morphed to Shane Dawson. It was up you guys. I was like, what the fuck? So I don't know if anyone else has had this experience with La Roche-Pousé.

But that shit had burned me. And then guess what? I go on the ingredient list, fragrance. Parfume? The fuck are you putting perfume and facial stuff for? It's 2023! Get that motherfucking fragrance out of my skin care! Oh, La Roche Hussein!

Oh! Oh! My skin is peeling all. My skin is flayed off the bone. I'm spinning everywhere. I'm so mad. I was like, this is so rich. I'm feeling rich.

I put it on acid chemical burn. Not really, but close. So I will not be using that brand again. You know, the only brand, and this is not sponsored. This is horse's mouth to the listening ear of Brokeke Nation. The only skin care line that I've found that actually works for my sensitive skin, literally like you breathe on me too heavy and I'll get a rash, is Tacha. And I use the Tacha cleansing oil and that exfoliating rice polish or whatever it is. And not once has it burned me.

Not once has it ever had like a negative effect. It keeps my skin smooth and clear. It is the only one I've really ever tried that like consistently does well for. me. And then I do use the Charlotte Tilbury moisturizer, which is so fucking expensive for no reason. It's a lotion. It's a lotion. Okay, why's the lotion? 98 fucking dollars.

But it's one of the only moisturizers I've found that isn't that greasy texture, but also isn't that, like I tried this Neutragina moisturizer that was this water gel shit. That just about dried me out like a strip of jerky. Like I was left

out to bake in the sun. I put it on and I was like, you couldn't even tell I put anything on. And I was thinking, well, is it like when you overwater a plant? Like, is it just so thirsty? My skin's like, please, please, please, please, please more, please more. And I'm like, uh, uh, uh, no, no. Anyway, yeah, I will not be, uh, continuing use of my, my roach pussy skin care line.

Anyway, I'm feeling just ugly and bad. And sometimes you have days like that, and that's fine. Also, like I was saying, my hormones are out of balance. And I guess there's a fucking Musinex family living in my throat. My hormones are out of balance. I don't know if this happens to anyone else, okay? And all of you bitches are going to try to diagnose me. And you know what?

I welcome it. At this point, fuck it. Diagnose me. Oh, you don't have a medical degree? I don't give a shit. Just diagnose me. Just tell me what's wrong. It is November 30th.

bordering on December 1 and I have not had a period since June so what's up with that do you think like that is so not good okay am I the next Virgin Mary am I the next Immaculate Conception y'all know I'm touch-starved I'm not getting it there's no way I'm pregnant

I'm the next Immaculate Conception I'm 34 weeks today holy shit it's almost Christmas I'm too that's why I've been bloated due Jesus, it's a boy, it's a twin, it's Trisha Padas, it's the queen. Okay, I haven't had a period since June.

The last time this happened was during the pandemic, and I literally was so, I worried myself sick and I went to the gyno during, this is TMI, I don't give a fuck, dude. I am so past the point of, like, trying to maintain boundaries. I switch back and forth on this, right? I'm like, my identity online and my presence online is rooted and based in sharing my life experiences and in seeking relatability and community in the things I go through and the joy of figuring out that people relate to what I'm talking about because no one's

ever lived a unique experience. And so there's a benefit and reward inherently in sharing these things, right? Especially normalizing it. When you talk about things like this, where, you know, it's health. This is health. It's women's health. In a way that isn't like, ew, periods. Boys, when they go to the supermarket, I have stink my penis in a football.

Girls, when they go to the grocery store, I have my period. In the produce section. If you are a person with a uterus, it's a scary, scary thing because you're like, livelihood and your quality of life is tied to what's going on in there. Like the hormone imbalances, the pain, like it affects everything in your body and it's just so scary. So not having a period for six months, that's like my hormones are very out of whack. And the last

time this happened, it was during the pandemic. And I was like, I really don't want to go to a fucking doctor's office during the pandemic. Like it was, it was the middle of COVID. But I had worried myself sick. I was like balding. I had anxiety rashes. I was like, I don't, like, I'm going to die. And so I booked an appointment and I went in and she did a blood test. And literally all it was, all it was, low on vitamins.

Bitch, I needed a, I needed a Flintstones gummy. I paid so much money to go to the doctor for her to be like, just take a vitamin D gummy. Oh, right. Oh, so I'm Maldori. dead ass, I was malnourished. She was like, you need vitamin C, vitamin D and like a B12. And I was like, that's it. Yep, just do a women's, women's daily vitamin.

And then for the next two weeks, take a supplement of vitamin D. You'll be good. Oh! It's also like, oh, I'm just not going out in the sun. Because of course not. It was the pandemic. I had to be in my cave. Anyway, I'm hoping that's a similar, I'm not hoping,

but like that would be a less scary alternative to, if there's something growing on my ovaries, or if there's something scarily wrong. I don't know. I have such bad, like, what's that called? Medical white coat anxiety. Not of seeing the doctor, but I'm just a hypochondriac,

and I think the worst is going to happen. I think a lot of people do. But just when it comes to, like, women's health, I'm like, oh, it's so scary. Because I always talk about, like, oh, I don't want kids. But what if I do one day? What if they have to take out my tubes? What if they got it?

take my tubes out. You ever seen a dad wrap an extension cord around his arm like this? Or like a hose from outside. My dad used, my dad does that. Like when he's, it's like to put it in a circle so you can store it on the wall. Uh, I'm just imagining they have to rip out my tubes and the doctor's going to and hang it on the wall. Or they're going to like put it in formaldehyde and be like, here you go. Here's your tubes. Ah, thanks. Thanks, Doc. Anyway, send me good vibes and good luck on that. I have an appointment on Monday. But yeah, in other news, I am the Immaculate Concept.

I am the Virgin Mary. So, okay, moving on to the songs of the week. Boy, oh, boy, oh boy. Do I have news for you guys? Oh, there's another fucking white man. It's another fucking white man of the month. And I just, at this point, I'm past apologies. I'm past apologies.

There's really nothing to apologize for. This is, I just need to hold up a mirror to my own face and just accept that I'm no better than this. Okay? I'm no better than this. White Boy of the Month is Sam Fender. Who's Sam Fender you may be asking? Great question. You guys are going to freak the fuck out.

Yeah, you guessed it. He's an emaciated pale English white. man. He's so hot. I don't care. He looks like, you know what energy he has? Uh, best friend's older brother. That's the fucking energy he has, dude. I don't care. And he is, he, here is, oh my God. Oh, my God. Okay. Sam Fender, or as he says it, Sam Finder. Sam Finder. He's from, he's from Newcastle. I've been trying to work on my Newcastle accent because I figured out when I do, when I am drunk, okay? Hey, I'll say it.

Hi, I'll say it. When I'm drunk and I lean into the British accent and I start talking like, I'm pretty apart each now. I mean, I'm like, I'm from Essex. My dad works for the Royal Air Force. Like, I don't know, I'm back and forth. I've always been back and forth. But I did go to college.

Sorry, not college, university in Essex. But I've gone back and forth to Texas a lot. Do you know what I mean? I really like Texas. It's really hot. And it don't get that hot. Like, if it is like my Bayer, like my Yorker, something like that. Like, when I go to Texas, it's really nice.

Like, I've perfected that, bitch. And that's from watching Towey, the only way is Essex, and Love Island. Okay? Now, mentioning Love Island. Newcastle. That's bad. Newcastle is such a specific. English accent.

And it's so, it's, it's Jordy, and it's close to Scottish a little bit, but it's also got some Welsh in it, and it's also got some Irish in it. And it's like very, I don't, like, I've been trying to pinpoint where I've heard it before. And I, oh my God, I made a list. Hold on. I have to share my list with you. Okay, so I watched this. I'm obsessed with accents.

Like, that's my, I think it's like a, it's a, a, a, a, a, product of the language thing. Like I'm obsessed with learning a second language and and, and dialects within different languages and all that. I watched this video of this dude on TikTok, who also has a YouTube channel, I think, called the accent guy. And he ran through all the different, uh, a few of the different UK accents. And all the comments are always like, y'all live two feet apart from each other. Why do the accents vary so differently? Great question. Answer. History. Okay. So, so. He went through all this, this like list of accents.

And it was so funny because as he was doing, I was like, okay, that sounds like this person. Okay, that's so-and-so's accent. So I was matching people with where they're from, and I didn't even know they were from there. And so he did a Darby accent, which I'm not going to attempt to do. But that's you and Mitchell, bitch. That's you and Mitchell. And then I looked it up. He's from Darby.

He did a Lancashire accent, right? Youngblood. Youngblood. Immediately as he did it, I was like, oh, that sounds like fucking young blood. He did a Yorkshire, a Doncaster accent, Louis Tomlinson, okay? It's so, like, friendly, friendly. But that's also, it could be, where's Zane from? Bradford.

It could be, I don't know, there's so many, like, overlaps, but they're also distinctly from that region. So he started doing Yorkshire, and I was like, that's Louis Tomlinson. And then H, H, the rapper, Manchester. Okay? So all of these, I was like, I know who talks like that. And from Newcastle, I can't, it's different from Youngblood. And two of the words that I'm like, what the fuck? Why is that part of the dialect?

Is when he talks, he'll be like, like, if he's saying, like, into it, like I got into it. I got into it. Like, they cut the tea out totally. I got into it. Or introspective. It's quite introspective. I was right in poetry.

Was right in poetry. It's so weird. I hate it. But I don't. I don't hate it at all. Do you? I'm in love with him, dude. It's actually, okay, so here, let me just, okay.

Who gives a fuck? Who gives the fuck? Raise your hand if you give a fuck. Sam Fender is very, very, very, very Maddie Healy coded. Hear me out. Hear me out. Okay? What I'm about to say, just hear me out, grain of salt.

The good parts of Maddie Healy, some of you guys would argue, hey, there are none. Okay, whatever, I'm not actually going to give my opinion. The good parts of Maddie Healy, the activism, the, um, cultural awareness, the woke liberal, I say that in heavy quotations, perspective that he brings to his art to write a song like Love It If We Made It, to Write a song like looking for somebody to love, which is a song about school shootings, by the way, which I could do a whole breakdown. I'll just do a breakdown really quick on Love It If We Made It. For those that, like, if you're one of those people that's like, I don't give a fuck about

Maddie Healy, he's problematic, whatever. Yeah, okay, get it. I totally get it. And I'm not going to stand up here and try to defend a white man. Like, I'm just really not going to put myself in that position. And I honestly, like, he's made mistakes. Okay, so Love It If We Made It is a sort of protest song. And the way that they went about writing it was they were pulling headlines from the news in 2016, which was the year Trump got elected.

And it just felt like the world was on fire, as it always is. And so many things were happening at once. once and you just feel so helpless. And they made this protest song where the chorus is, and I'd love it if we made it. You know, like this Hail Mary, everything's fucked. But wouldn't it be great if we figured it out if we made it, if we made it through it to the other side. And I'm just going to read it, okay?

Also, I need to highlight again, he used to be a heroin addict. Okay, just whatever. We're fucking in a car shooting heroin, saying controversial things just for the hell of it, selling melanin, and then suffocate the black men, start with misdemeanors, and we'll make a business out of them. We can find out the information, access all the applications that are hardening positions. All the applications that are hardening positions based on miscommunication. Oh, fuck your feelings. Truth is only hearsay.

we're just left to D.K. Modernity has failed us. And that is going to be the tattoo that I have because the first time I heard this song, I wept uncontrollably. And every time I hear it live, I have the same reaction. So all of that, like, it's based on, you know,

Q and on and fucking how scary it is when your truth really does become hearsay. When truth is brought into question, you know, that is terrifying. And poison me daddy. I've got the Jones right through my bones. Write it on a piece of stone, a beach of drowning three-year-olds. Rest in peace, little peep.

The poetry is in the streets. Jesus save us. Modernity has failed us. Beach of drowning three-year-olds. That was Maddie, like, tells this story of in the UK, the refugee crisis and how children are always the first victims. and how it really just shook the UK. Consultation, degradation, fossil fueling, masturbation, immigration, liberal kitsch, kneeling on a pitch.

That's about Colin Kaepernick refusing to stand for the pledge. I moved on her like a bitch, excited to be indicted. That's directly a reference to Donald Trump, his famous, I moved on her like a bitch, grab her by the pussy. Unrequited House with Seven Pools. Thank you, Kanye, very much. cool. The war has been incited and guess what? You're all invited. And you're famous. And you're famous. Modernity has failed us. All of that together. I just like, there's a certain, I always talk about

this. There is a certain level of artistic excellence that is, and I always describe it like this, that the art is in the marble. And the artist is merely just removing the excess pieces to reveal that art that had to be there. It was always there. That art always had to be made because of course it was going to be made. And this is one of those songs to me. It's like Maddie Healy, the 1975, this song means so much to me because it's a hard thing to encapsulate the feeling, that that Bo Burnham funny feeling of there's so much hypocrisy and injustice and joy and sorrow and despair. Always, that is the human experience, but we are witnessing it on a scale that has never been so visible to us before. And songs like this were it's just, it feels like a sucker punch. Just every verse is like,

oh yeah, and that happened. Oh, and did you forget about this? Did you forget about this? And why was Trump praising Kanye West? And why is this and that? It's just like, what the fuck? And then to throw religion into it. Jesus save us. Modernity has failed us. I just think that this song is a work of art. His personal politics and his, his bullshit aside, whatever Maddiehili's done, I'm not going to defend it. But this song changed me. So to bring it back to Sam Fender, he has a song called Hypersonic Missiles. Okay. This song is very, very, when I say Maddie Healy coded, that's what I'm referring to. It's very brave new world. you know,

Big Brother 1984, like this class consciousness, helplessness, but also being acutely aware of you know,

what role you might play. Because we all have played a role in colonization and in the patriarchy. And we have to unlearn those things. And Drew Afuolo has been really monumental in my sort of understanding of this,

of how you can think you're doing the best you can. But there are some things that are just so inherent in our culture that uphold colonization and uphold the patriarchy and uphold misogyny. And you have to make a concerted effort to unlearned effort to unlock. learn those behaviors. And it's a hard and messy process. And of course, I'm only speaking on it through the lens of a white woman. Like, I just, it's, it's so vastly different for so many people who live in America that I, you know, no one is free from the grasp of the patriarchal colonization. Of our minds. Anyway, this kind of is that. You know, it's this feeling.

that I feel like I'm failing to articulate, but you recognize all the things wrong with the world, and there is a sort of obeisance to these cruel elitists where we feel that sometimes our fate is in their hands because we feel so powerless. And I feel like something's similar, something's happening in the U.S. right now, where the cost of living is out the fucking roof.

and to be alive is just to suffer, you know? And I think the wealth gap has never been more clear in this country. And people are literally, it's approaching like revolution will not be televised sort of energy. People are fed up. And so that level of almost teetering towards that, but still just being, you know, feeling like you're powerless. and that's why people don't vote. And that's why people, even if you do vote, you're like, my vote doesn't fucking matter

because no real change is going to come from this. All of us being forced to vote for Joe Biden was a punch to the gut. It was the lesser of two evils. I mean, that's my opinion, you know. But it's like nothing, it's so easy to feel like, is anyone hearing me? Is anyone seeing this?

And with this song, I think it encapsulates that, of I'm seeing it, I'm watching it, but what the fuck can I do? What can I do? I'm one person. So anyway, hear the lyrics. I eat myself to death, feed the corporate machine. I watch the movies, recite every line and scene. God bless America and all of its allies. I'm not the first to live with wool over my eyes, period.

I'm so blissfully unaware of everything. Kids in Gaza are bombed and I'm just out of it. This also came out in 2019, by the way. The tensions of the world are rising higher. We're probably due another war with all this ire. I'm not smart enough to change a thing. I have no answers, only questions. Don't you ask a thing?

That's exactly what I'm fucking talking about, dude. He just, he fucking gets it. He gets it. Sam Fender, hey, do you want to come on the podcast and can we just talk for a second? I have so much I want to talk to him about. It takes such a level of awareness, and to incorporate that awareness into your art, I just have the, I just, I want to talk to him. I just love him. There, and this isn't, there are so many of his songs. Like, it really influences his lyricism and it bleeds into singing music with something to say, singing music with a message, which of course I love, y'all know I love that. All the silver-tonged suits and cartoons that rule my world, are saying it's a high time for hypersonic missiles. When the bombs drop, darling, can you say that you've lived your life?

Oh, this is a high time for hypersonic missiles. I have chills across my entire body. Like across my entire body. Cities lie like tumors all across the world. A cancer-eating mankind hidden in our blind side? They say I'm a nihilist because I can't see any decent rhyme or reason for the life of you and me, but I believe in what I'm feeling and I'm firing for you. This world is going to end, but till then, I'll give you everything I have.

I'll give you everything I have. He is one of those artists. He's one of those artists that fucking gets it. All the silver tongue suits and cartoons that rule my world. It's such a strange feeling. And like I hope that someone can like validate that feeling. Like if you know it of I'm just. smart enough to understand what's happening, and I'm smart enough to see that history is repeating

itself. All the bullshit that we're living through has happened time and time again. Now it's just tainted and poisoned by the idea of technology being a variable in it, of technology and cybersecurity and AI, all of these things now being influential elements and influential factors in these age-old conflicts, you know, human conflicts. I'm seeing all that happen, and I'm just like, I'm so removed, because you have to be. You have to be removed or you will literally go insane. Humans were not meant to consume media at the rate that we are today.

I don't know how anyone is, like, floating with their head above water. It is so all-consuming all the time. inundated with data and media and memes and articles and TikToks and videos and I can't eat a fucking meal without watching a tea spill video. Like I have got to be stimulated all the time. And when I'm not, I freak the fuck out. I freak the fuck out. This isn't new. I'm not the first person to talk about this. Everyone's talking about it. I just feel like this music makes it bubble up to the fucking top for me. And I know some people don't like to listen to music like that. Like I know that. I know that it's kind of, you know, that's why in the 2010s, or what's it

called, recession pop, like when the world is going to shit and the world's on fire, it's like clubbangers are coming out. Party rock is in the house tonight. You know, like, let's just party, party our cares away. And so I, like, this type of music, fuck me. Fuck me. And then his album that came out in 2021 was about the pandemic. And that's a whole, I could talk about it for hours of how that, it just on top of the technology aspect in global conflict, the pandemic, we've never recovered from it. If you think we've recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic, you are mistaken. We don't know how to treat each other. We don't know how to go out in public. Like, there are things that will never be the same, obviously. But it's like a, uh, uh,

loss for humankind. Oh my God, I watch these scary TikTok sometimes, and I have to stop myself of this is, technology is advancing faster than humans can keep up with, and we are on the brink of this fear of being thrust back into the dark ages because we can't keep up and we're going to let it divide us to a point that's not fixable. And that's a real scary thought that we,

will be our own undoing as humanity. Anyway, but then after that comes a beautiful Renaissance. Renaissance, the movie. Anyway, Sam Fender. Sam Finder. He is a song called How Down Aldi Death Q. And this gives me like, I don't know the exact nominor. Is that the word?

Nominor. Nomenclature. Nomenclature. Yeah, I don't know the term or terms applied to someone or something. I don't know the nomenclature for... What the fuck was I talking about? Oh, this sort of anti-establishment revolutionary Brit pop that was happening in like the early 2000s, late 90s. Like I don't really know what exactly that's called, but it gives me that.

Like early Arctic monkeys vibes. in the sort of like of like the constant guitar and the drums are just noise. You know, there's not really, it's kind of a rhythm, a melodic. It's just, oh, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da. With the guitar and the drums, it's very British. This song starts off with, get off the metro now! Rule Britannia, marmalade and jam.

Anyway, this is about COVID. And it says, I got a letter from the NHS, which is the National Health Service, I think, in the UK. National Health Service, which is what it sounds like in the UK. It's where everyone goes to the doctor. It's public health care. And I got a letter from the NHS. It said, it's here for 12 weeks or 12 weeks or summit.

I'm 25 going on 95. Yeah, I'm 25 going on 95 and I want to die. And a how'd an Aldi death queue. Howden Which Howden is a residential area In the northwest

Northeast of England Where the fuck is Newcastle This is like really showing My American Ignorance Newcastle map Sundaland No where the fuck is it

Yeah northeast Aldi like the grocery store And then Q is the British term for line And I remember, I literally remember at the beginning of the pandemic, I had never used Instacart before. I had never had like a grocery delivery service, anything like that. This is when they were saying like wear gloves and masks and like disinfect. Everything disinfect your milk carton disinfect.

Like it was such an anxiety inducing thing to go to the grocery store. And so this is crazy because it's like, oh my. my God, it made all those feelings come back of like the death queue, the Aldi death queue. Yeah, bitch, that's how it felt. Like going to Ralph's, going to Kroger's, like, I'm risking my life. And it was. And they would let old people go in first at like 6 a.m. God, that just feels like, I have to remind myself that it actually happened.

And we were in Los Angeles. I mean, it was like the worst of the world. We were still wearing masks into early 2022. which is just wild. Like, Los Angeles never really, it feels like the rest of the world opened up. Even New York would like open and close and opened and close. The South was totally open,

like three months into the pandemic, part of the problem. But then Los Angeles was so strict for so long, but there was no, like, adherence to it. You know, like it would be, oh, we're getting rid of the masks. Ah, the masks are coming back. It's like, that's not fixing it.

Whatever, I could rant about it. And at the end of this song, he says, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, that's less than two fucking meters. Because you had to stand two meters away from each other. Oh, I love him. Okay, so my favorite, I always do this. I have to give a 48-minute precursor to why these are my three favorite songs of the week. Fuck me.

Okay. Three favorite songs of the week. long way off actually it's going to be six long way off by Sam Fender I by Sam Fender Call Me Lover by Sam Fender White Privilege by Sam Fender

That Sound by Sam Fender How an Aldi Death Q by Sam Fender Getting Started by Sam Fender Like from both of the albums It's honestly for me The only skips are like the really slow, sad ones, because I'm just really not in the headspace to listen to that right now. Okay?

I'm just really not. I really not. And then I didn't know because my friend Kat got me into Sam Fender. Okay? Now hear me when I say that. Cat is like so plugged in to like British music scene. She's, she loves that shit. She's always like, we talk music all the time.

She told me about Sam Fender like two years. a year and a half ago. And I was like, yeah, I'm not really into. I have, you know, Arctic Monkeys, 1975, like my sort of Tumblr era of British pop rock, alt indie rock. I'm good. I like the wombats. You know, I like that sort of thing.

She was like, no, he said, trust me. And I was like, whatever. Girl, it came on shuffle. And I was like, now what have we here? And then I was like, holy shit. This is that dude cat told me about. And so I've been, of course. course, obsessively, obsessively to him watching all of his Redding and Leeds performances,

all of his Glastonbury Festival performances. He did a, you know how BBC Radio One does the live lounge covers where like Harry did Wet Dream and the Lizzo song and when people cover each other's songs, he did a cover of break up with your girlfriend. I'm bored by Ariana Grande. First of all, period. Second of all, he did one of Back to Black Baby Wine House, period. And he like Sam fenders it up. He like makes it sound like it's his song, which is such a skill. Like not only do you have a skill in identifying and branding your own sound, but to the point where you can take someone else's body of work, rearrange it and make it sound like your own song. That is talent. That is talent. That is talent.

The fucker! I love him! Get into Sam Fender, bitch, because it's gonna, it's gonna be a while. This is gonna be probably one of those, like, constant heavy hitters for me. I hope he doesn't do anything that's gonna make me upset. I love him. There's always a fear there of coming on record being like, I love this person, and then tomorrow he's gonna do some stupid bullshit. And now for the rest of time, I'm in my tombstone here.

Like, she loved Sam Fender. Fuck! I do think, and this is not the time to have this discussion, but we really should open up that wound of what do you do when your favorite person lets you down? Are you inherently tied to them forever? Or can you still be nostalgically sympathetic to what that piece of art has done for you in your life and be disconnected from the artist?

I feel like that it's a constant. Some people are like, he's a piece of shit. Never talk about him again. Oh, she still supports da-da-da. And it's like, well, I didn't know he was doing all that, girl. If I would have known that, you think I still what? You know, it's like there's no nuance in these conversations, and it's very hard to be a fan girl nowadays. Trust and believe.

You have to, I have to literally put these people through a fucking background check to make sure that it's okay to like them. It's crazy. Anyway, I've also been on my dark academia grind Aside from Sam Fender I've got this, there's a playlist on Spotify called Dark Academia. Dark academia studying and reading. Get into that.

I've been putting this on while I read and it's been great. All right, guys, I think that'll do it for me for this episode. Oh, next time I'll talk about Kingdom of Bash. And, because I finished, I finished the entire Throne of Glass series. Wow. emotionally void. Okay? I sobbed so hard.

I'll talk about it next episode. And I guess people who like are going to read it or don't want spoilers can skip ahead like in the next episode. But I want to talk about it. Okay? Because S.J.M. Wow. Period. Seraj Moss. What a universe builder.

I'm about to start. I want to start Crescent City because that's the third like installment in the Sarajemass. universe, like the sort of concentrated universe. But I kind of want to give myself a break from Sarah J. Moss because I went straight from Akitar into Throne of Glass. And I want to read Fourth Wing. And I'm going to read Fourth Wing. And then the sequel just came out.

And that's what I've been waiting for is I wanted to read them back to back. Then I'll go back to Crescent City. Yeah, that's kind of my game plan. So yeah, I love you guys. Thanks for listening. And I will see you next week. Go subscribe to the Brittany Brosky YouTube channel if you give a shit about if I live or die. Go subscribe to the Britney Brosky YouTube channel and this channel on YouTube if you watch.

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