The Broski Report with Brittany Broski - 30: Exchanging my Brain at the Brain Store

Episode Date: December 19, 2023

This week on The Broski Report, Fearless Leader Brittany Broski discusses her MyChart, appreciates Flamenco and Fandango, recounts her time in Spain, and celebrates Pink Friday 2. 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.tiktok.com/@bbroyalcourthttps://www.instagram.com/royalcourthttps://www.twitter.com/bbroyalcourt  Brought To You By:Hello Fresh – Go to https://hellofresh.com/broskifree and use code: BROSKIFREE to get free breakfast for lifeTinder – Download the App NowArticle – $50 off your first purchase – visit https://article.com/broski Songs Of The Week:South Dakota by Chris StapletonFandangos de Huelva de la Paquera de Jerez by La Paquera de JerezBig Difference by Nicki Minaj  #brittanybroski, #broski, #broskination, #broskireport, #pcos, #flamenco, #fandango, #rosalia, #nickiminaj, #barbs, #gagcity

Direct from the Brozky Nation headquarters in Los Angeles, California. This is the Brozky Report with your host, Brittany Brozky. Good morning, Brozky Nation. We are doing Juneberry Red Bull this morning. By this morning, I mean 12, 11 p.m. noon. My heart feels like it's going to explode. Okay? Oh, I didn't turn on this fucking light. Hold on, Broskey Nation. Jesus Christ, get it together, guys. Get it together!

Take a hard. How over 30 episodes in? I can't remember to turn it on a fucking light. This week has been the week from hell. Okay? Do you ever get in one of those moods where it's like, I cannot do anything right? I am a failure.

I am ugly. I'm a failure. Everyone's right. And then I wake up the next morning and I go, what the fuck was I talking about? I am taking, okay, not to get like two an update on my medical diagnoses. All right, guys, welcome back to my chart.

I'm going to give you my diagnosis. I went to the doctor about my irregular menstrual cycle. And dig, ding, ding, ding. You guessed it, I have PCOS. Now, what does this mean? Not much, okay? It's confirming what I kind of already knew. I knew there was something going on there

and all of my symptoms matched the PCOS diagnosis. And so now it's a matter of how do you fix it? And I know I asked for all y'all's comments in the last episode, but please don't this time. Just, hey, don't comment on my medical history, by the way, because I'm in a very fragile mental state right now. PCOS basically means that I'm growing chin hair. I'm growing chin here. My uterine, in the body, what's happening is the uterine walls are not shedding the lining properly. and complications with that can lead to eventual cancer in worst case scenarios,

but it can also lead to, I mean, just, you know, something's not regulating itself properly in my body. And that's a hormone imbalance. And it explains a lot of kind of what I've been experiencing the last, honestly, like two to three years. So I need to go back to the doctor and figure out the plan moving forward. I'm on these period pills. I'm on these period pills where it'll force you to have a period.

And hey, I feel like I need to be placed in an institute for many reasons. But for right now, it's like at the drop of a hat, I could start crying. I could start crying at any moment. I cried all night last night over nothing. I was just like, oh, and it felt so good to cry. And then it's so sad to cry. Because like, why am I crying? What's wrong?

And then that makes me cry too. And so right now I'm feeling very fragile. So don't, please don't be mean to me. Please, for the love of Christ, don't be mean to me in the comments. Please, I can't. I actually can't handle it. Okay. So I'm on my period pills.

And it's supposed to regulate my period at least like for this first time until we can. Also, it has a lot to do with diet. I'm now understanding. and my diet is, you guessed it, similar to a baby raccoon, abandoned by its mother, thrashing around and foraging in a New York City dumpster. Okay, thrashing around because my right hind leg is injured. And I'm rabid.

And I'm chewing on a Snickers bar. I'm chewing... Okay, and I've got my little raccoon hands. And I'm like ferociously trying to undo the Snickers wrapper because it's... Oh, and it was a Snickers ice cream, and so it had melted. it's seeping at this i'm licking it and then someone opens the dumpster thing okay so this is a dumpster bin outside of a restaurant in new york city someone opens the dumpster lid and sees me and i

actually maybe i'm a possum i'm not a raccoon raccoons are too cute i'm a possum i look up and it goes oh my god a baby possum and then it slings a thing of garbage on top of me and then they slammed the lid and i die okay that's kind of what was i talking about That's how I feel. Oh, my diet. Yeah, I eat like that. I eat like I'm licking the corners of a dirty trash can. Like, that's all the sustenance I can find.

Like, it is actually appalling and atrocious. If my doctor could see what I'm putting in my body, Popeyes once a week. We're rocking with probably Taco Bell maybe once or once every two weeks. Takeout probably twice a week. I'll cook a home cooked. I travel a lot. And so when I'm on the way back from the airport, I'll just doordash something.

And then I'm only home for like three days and then I'll leave again. So in my mind, I'm like, that's not enough to go out and grocery shop because it's just going to rot in my fridge. So I doordash. And it's just not anything nourishing or healthy by any means. And when you go on door dash and look up healthy options, it's like Chipotle. Oh! Chippola is healthy? What?

Are we living in Wally? Am I one of those people living in Wally? In my chair with my little screen on and I'm happy baby, eating my Popeye's Megan the Stalian chicken meal. And then I'm over here with my slurpy even went. I don't like this show next. And I think with my brain and it changes the screen for me. So I don't even have to raise my hands anymore to change the channel.

I just think with the chip in my brain. I want to watch below deck on Bravo TV Next! And then it'll pull it up, but I say, And then the overlord who's watching all of our screens from the control room sees my dopamine level hit a high, and he goes, yeah. And then I finish my chicken tinder.

No! Wally kind of had a point. If you think about it, Wally is not only a predictive movie, it's a prophecy. It's the prophecy. It's what is happening and going to happen. Okay, Disney did not know that they were, We're cooking up a modern 21st century prophecy movie with Wally.

And if you think about it, I'm the little cockroach. That's also actually the cockroach in Wally is my pet when I'm the possum and the dumpster. Okay, so I'm through the trash bags. And the little roach is like, okay? I don't know what that noise was. So that's the health update. Have been better.

Have been doing better. Every morning I wake up and my back is locked up. really need to take better care of myself. And like, I know that. But like the idea of going on a daily walk every day for some reason, I'm just like, why can't I do it? For someone who preaches about like, life is to be lived and it's so joyous and sorrowful and it to be experienced, hey, my lower back hurts and I don't go on walks.

So I need to really get into that. And you know what part of it is too is like, I think I haven't really admitted this to myself and I haven't even gone in to the doctor to have it confirmed or a therapist. I fired my old therapist. She was an enabler. I definitely think I'm experiencing some form of seasonal depression. And the only motivator that gets me out of bed to do things is my fear of disappointing

people. And you know what? If that's enough of a motivator, then fuck it. You know, like it's enough for me. but that is such an unsustainable life flow, you know, of like the only, I'm not, I'm no longer doing things for me. I'm doing things so I don't disappoint the people who love me and, like, care about me.

And then that's lying to myself. And I don't know. I just, maybe it's like just seasonal. I really don't, I'm not one to like self-pity and, you know, oh, woe is me. But sometimes, I don't know, I, it all has something. to do with like my hormones are so out of whack and I'm not feeding my body what it needs and I'm just like sad that I don't you know like it has nothing to do with circumstance or environment it has

everything to do with just my brain so don't know what's going on there hoping to get that checked out soon okay and go to the brain store and get a new one hey do you guys do exchanges and I rip my brain out and I hand it to them and it's dripping green ooze it's oozing green juice I say hey, do you guys do exchanges? And they're like, Oh, why does it smell like that? And I'm like, do you guys, I'm holding it like this from the sides and I'm juicing it?

Do you guys do brain exchanges? No, we don't do brain exchanges. Okay, ma'am, if you want to do a brain exchange, you have to have a receipt. I'm like, I lost the receipt a few years ago. I don't know, I had it in, you know, one of those like portfolio hanging things. folder things you can put in a file cabinet.

I don't know where it went. Ma'am, if you want to return your brain, especially in this condition, we are going to need to see some proof of purchase. Okay, do you guys do like Apple Pay? Like, could you just put the money back on my card? Because you put it in my Apple cash account? Ma'am, like I said, if you want to return your brain.

Okay, anyway. The thought of a new brain being squeaky clean and like pink and smiling and mine is just gray and soggy and like shaking and oozing green. It's got pimples. My brain has boils. And it's shaking and it makes this noise. Yeah. My brain, I hold it out.

Do you guys do brain exchanges? Yeah. Yeah. That's actually going to be a picture of my brain. So, all right. Let's move into Sogs of the week. Songs of the Week are going to be, number one, South Dakota by Chris Stapleton. This is off his new album, which I love.

And one thing about Chris Tableton is each album is going to have this like, and for some reason it just happens to be like a state name. I don't know if he's doing that on purpose. But the last album, there was a song called Arkansas, which kind of is a similar vibe. Let me pull it up. Might sound strange. I think I'm in love with you.

Yeah. Okay, so this song, it's called South Dakota. And I like the Chris Tampleton songs that are, because he does sad songs very well. Okay, sad songs. But this song is about, you know, like, or this album kind of explores falling back in love with a partner that you had previously had a large, emotional distance from.

a lot of the last album and the album before that are about like cohabiting a space and co-parenting with someone who you have fallen out of love with. And at this point, you're just roommates. You make sure the bills are paid on time, but you are not intimate. You are not affectionate. You have completely fallen out of infatuation and love with this person. Also, you know, through the lens of Christianity. And I know that there is marriage counseling through the church that a lot of Christians will utilize to get their marriage back on track or like refine that spark and I don't want to assume about you know this album but it gives me that sort of energy because I know that Chris Ableton's a very religious man and his wife is too and so to

to refine that stride you know of like it's honestly a beautiful concept to fall back in love with your wife and your life and your circumstance and find the joy in it and realize maybe you were a part of the loss of that joy. You know, like, it's not a, you can't fully cast the blame on your partner. It's partially your responsibility as well to rekindle that love and maybe admit that part of the reason it was lost

was because of you. And so this album is just celebrating that. You know, like just being, it's so cute to be in love with your wife, even after all these years, to be so in love with your wife. It's just so cute. Anyway, that's kind of the larger concept,

I would say, of the album. but this one is just fun. South Dakota is a fun song. Arkansas, the last album, is a fun song as well. And I tend to lean more towards those. He has a song called Midnight Train to Memphis, which I love. He's got a song called Outlaw State of Mind, second one to know.

I mean, the list goes on and on of just these like really great, I hate to say country rock, because it's not really country. It's like, I don't know, it's genre bending. I don't, but it definitely is more rock forward. and I just love those. I love a fast pace where he is singing his ass off

and there's these crazy guitar riffs it's just so, so good and one of my favorite Chris D'Amleton songs of all time which is kind of a deep cut is called Death Row and it is just the simplest track it's just a guitar on loop

and there's these sound effects of like a jail door swinging and creaking like that the hinge, the rusty hinge and it's like I don't even know if there's, there are drums on it, but it's almost like, it's just jazz drums almost. It's just like a basic beat and it's kind of slow. And he just shows his vocal range.

And it gives me very Johnny Cash vibes because it's talking about being on death row, you know, and he has this fascination with prisons and with how inhumane it is, you know, and jail culture, especially the sort of Johnny Cash Fulsom, Prism Blues, sort of, it's just all in my head a very similar type of art. So he's got this song called Death Row and I just, I'm obsessed with it. I don't know why. It's, it's, no one really talks about it. But the verses, the chorus, the outro is really long.

And I think it's just, it's one of those, I always say this. It's one of those songs that, of course it had to be made. Like, it makes perfect sense. And it was in the marble. and Chris Tableton had to remove the excess pieces of the marble to reveal the beautiful statue within. That is death row to me. He's also got a song called Sometimes I Cry, which is just, oh, oh! He is a once-in-a-lifetime voice.

I just am so in awe of him every time. And that's one of those songs where the first time I listened to it, I literally had to pause it and go, God, damn! Damn! He sang his pussy. Oh my God, his pussy fell out. Oh my God, he's saying his pussy off is on the floor. That SpongeBob picture of his vagina is just out touching the floor. His vagina.

All right, anyway. Okay, so that's going to be song number one. Song number two. And let me preface this really quick. Okay, I'm going to be doing a Google search while I'm explaining this to you. Okay, so I am not. I want to just also give a general disclaimer on this channel on this podcast as well. Anything that comes out of my mouth is from the point of view of a fan.

I am not an expert on these topics. I am not well-versed in these topics. I enjoy listening to this music and I love learning about it. That does not mean I am qualified to be explaining it to you. But unfortunately, that's where we've kind of found ourselves, okay? So if you have an interest in what I'm about to say, look it up on your own because, again, this is not my forte. This is not my milieu. What do you guys know about the word millieu?

M-I-E-U. Now let me make sure I spelled that right. Millie-U, a person's social environment. This is not, okay, maybe that doesn't make sense. More definitions. Usage examples. He grew up in a military milieu. He enjoyed the bohemian milieu, she introduced him to the city.

Yes, this is not the millie you I grew up in, but it's one that I enjoy nonetheless. Okay, here we go. Okay, so the artist is La Paquera de Jerez and Manuel Moreno, okay? These are broad term flamenco artists. La Paquera de Jerez is a famous cantorra de flamenco. and the Bularillas, which is the Spanish traveling Romani people's music from geographically, you know, Spain is what it's associated with a lot of the time. This is a whole album of La Paqueira de Jerez and Terremoto de Jerez, and the song I'm talking about is My Canto for Bullerillas. This song came on shuffle because I was listening to like a flamenco radio.

And the intro guitar with the like, is that a 12 string Spanish guitar? Um, flamenco guitar. How many strings does a flamenco guitar have? Six. No fucking way. The flamenco guitar typically has nine, six nylon strings. It's a lighter construction than a classical guitar. That is crazy.

Okay, so it's the same intro, which I'm now understanding she sampled it, for Rosalia's song, Can No Salga La Luna, which is one of my favorite songs of all time. And if you go back to my Rosalia episode, where I break down El Malquerre, which is about this forbidden, cursed wedding and marriage, and honestly an abusive marriage that she escapes. Go back and listen to that episode if you're interested.

I talk about this song on that episode where this is the night of their wedding. And it's so beautiful. And he's showering her with gifts and jewelry and rings and shiny things. And on this night, it is the last, you come to find out, it is the last night of unadulterated joy that she will experience. This is the beginning of the end. And this is her being blinded by the shine and the glimmer of all those jewels to where she could not see the darkness and the evil that was under, you know, all the ostentatious distractions. So anyway, if you want to listen to that, it's a very interesting, I mean, go back and listen to the episode.

Anyway, this song by La Paquera de Jerez is the sample that she used in the very beginning. Anyway, that, it came on Shuffle and I was like, oh my God, I love this song. And then it was the original and I was like, oh my God! And then I discovered this whole album, which is, and now here's the thing. Again, this is what I'm talking about. I don't know. I'm in no position to explain this to you because I'm still learning about it. The difference between a fandango, a bulerias, and a hota.

I don't know the difference. So let's Google it. Fandango versus flamenco. Okay, this is from generative AI. Fandango and flamenco are both traditional Spanish art forms. Fandango is a specific style of dance and music, while flamenco is a broader genre that includes many styles and forms.

Fandango is considered a fundamental style of flamenco, period. Vandango originated in the early 18th century as a dance and music craze in Spain and the Americas. It's a blend of cultures, including Mexican son Haro Salon and concert fandangos of Mozart and Scarlatti Andalusandongos Fandango has a 12-beat cycle

in three-fourth time for the first cycle or two-sixth for the first and fourth cycles. Flamenco is dramatic and solemn with gestures of pain, nostalgia, and affliction. Van dango, on the other hand, is pure teas and joy. That is tea. Okay. Flamenco is dramatic and solemn

with gestures of pain, nostalgia, and affliction. Vandango, on the other hand, is pure tease and joy, accompanied by whistling and song-long smiles. Vandango has given rise to other styles of flamenco singing, such as Malaguenia, Granayina, Taranta, and meaning. That is crazy. What is a jota? The music is an alternating fast and slow tempo similar to Spanish airs, which accompanied dances like the flamenco jolero, segidija, and fandango. I love the shit, dude. Gets me hard

I'm going to play Jota That is crazy to me That is crazy to me Carlos Montoya plays Jota And it's crazy how I mean as humans we're so And you know I always have to make this point

I always have to come back to this As humans we are so so so different But so similar We are so much more alike Than we would ever want to admit And that's just an inherent truth, this type of music where I'm sitting here in L.A. with a southern background appreciating how fast he's playing this guitar. And it's reminiscent to me of how fast banjo players

play. How when you really like a camera on their hands, it's like speed of light. It's so quick. And they're in tune and on beat the whole time. And they know what and it's like, they know how to sustain their energy and their rhythm and for like the whole length of the song. And it's insane. The skill level and the stamina. Stamina is the word I was looking for is crazy. And how that same skill can be found across any type of folk music, any type of folk music across the world. And it's such a cool thing to take all these different forms of music and culture and at the

core of it, you know, it's all like stringed instruments for the most part. Even like the mandolin in China. Isn't that or is it, hold on, that might be a different instrument. Yes, this one, the Chinese mandolin with a pear-shaped body. Okay, how do you say that? Lia chin. Okay, so the Lia chin. I want to watch someone play this.

Bat shit crazy. See what I mean? everything is so it's interconnected you can't tell me that that's that different from someone playing the flamenco guitar or from playing the banjo oh my god i love humans but humans will be the undoing of me humans both make and unmake me wow anyway back to what i was talking about that song mi canto por bullerias by la paqueira de jeres here is uh the sample Rosalia used in that's not the song of the week. The song of the week,

or number two song of the week, is Fandangos de Welva of La Paquere de Jerez. This one right here. And I probably can't play it because, again, YouTube will come to my house and snipe me with a weapon.

But this whole album is so... I mean, if you, like, care, if you like to put it on the background or whatever, if you're interested, these songs or any of this type of like fandangos or just flamenco in general on YouTube what are they called the flamenco clubs what are the flamenco hold on i know it i know it oh shit i forgot called tablao fuck i knew that if you can find a video that someone has recorded from a performance in a tablau,

and that's not really like recommended. Like all the shows I've been to at Tablau's are like, put your fucking phone away. Part of the experience is the ceiling is like kind of rounded, and so the singing and the guitar and the clapping echoes off the back and comes back to the dancers, and it's kind of a small enclosed space on purpose. You're supposed to be able to see the emotion and the passion

and the sorrow and the joy on these people's faces, by sitting that close and by having no external lighting, you know, the only lighting in the room is on their faces, and it's supposed to be intimate like that. And so having someone record it, it's kind of like, eh. But also I'm glad because we can watch it for an ever and ever amen. So, yeah, tablaos are places where flamenco shows are performed, and the platform floor where the dancers perform is also called a tablao.

We went to one in Madrid and one in Barcelona. And it was incredible. The one in Barcelona was a bit more. And I hate this because like I'm a white American and it's catered to people like me for us to marvel and be like, wow, so exotic. Fuck off. You know what I mean? Fuck off. the culture is so much deeper and more complex than that

for a bunch of whiteys to be like, ooh, they're dancing. Like I recognize that. And it sucks to like buy a ticket and be like, like, because I'm so excited for kind of a different reason of like, I feel like, y'all know how I feel about it. Of like flamenco is connected to all of these other forms of folk music and the human experience of expressing ourselves through,

folk music and I have such a love for the art form and to show up and you know be sat next to Karen from Ohio who's like I know about this flamingo shit it's like oh no but it's also like whatever so we went because this one in Barcelona is uh not one of the oldest but I think it might be one of the oldest still in operation what's that one called on la rambla la Tablao. Cordobes. Tablao Cordobes. That's where we went.

We went to this one. Open since 1970. This is where we went. It was fucking fantastic. Because shortly after, we went to a different tablau in Madrid, and it was so, like, I mean, it's fantastic.

I mean, the talent level is incredible. But the experience is more what I'm talking about. Like, the one in Barcelona we went to, we had a nice dinner beforehand. and they usher you in. And they're a lot more like, like, I would say quiet and respectful of like, turn off your phones, sit down, don't make a noise.

If you have kids, this is not a kid-friendly show. Like, I don't want to hear screaming crying babies while we're talking about singing and screaming about heartbreak on stage. Like, take your fucking kid out of here. Versus the one we went to in Madrid was like, you show up and they hand you a glass of wine. and here's champagne and here's this. Like the goal is to kind of get drunk.

And there's children and the room was way bigger. And it was a lot more like, you know, photos encouraged and come get your photo made with a flamingo dancer, that sort of thing, you know, like flirt with the boys. And I was just like, uh, and there was a merch shop. Uh, I just don't. I get it. Like it's part of the tourism 100%.

but as an art form, I feel like it kind of devalues it when you make it into a tourist stop. Even though I literally went as a tourist, whatever. You guys wouldn't understand the complexity of my juicy green oozing brain. But do you know what I mean where it's like there are some people there going to appreciate. There's also locals that go. You know, just like to the tableau. Like you live there. Like let's go see a show.

But at the same time, I don't know, maybe they're just smart and I'm just an idiot. You know, like, let's take this thing that has existed and is inherently, you know, arguably a part of the culture, and let's monetize the fuck out of it. And let's make it an absolute unmissable tourist destination, tourist stop. And let's sell merch. Yeah, I get it, dude. Get your money. But at the same time, I don't know.

It just made me feel kind of weird. Anyway, question for if I have any Spanish followers or if I have any followers who are fans of this type of music, if you have recommendation. Because my honest to God go-toes are Rosalia, of course, her earlier stuff. But even like on Motomami, she had Booladillas. And she incorporates it. I mean, it's forever, I think inherently a part of her that will always be an inspiration for her, which I'm so glad. then see tangana who i've talked about before but maybe he's like kind of machismo maybe he's kind of machista yeah well yeah sexist he kind of gives that vibe which fucking blows because his music is so

but i've seen interviews with him and i'm like why do you why did you say that hi sit tangana why did you say that. Anyway, those are the two only like, because obviously I'm kind of, I have the world at my fingertips with the internet, but I'm the type of person that when I find something I like, I just dive head first and I don't really, you know, expand beyond that. Well, that's not necessarily true. I just, I found Cittangano's music and I was like, I really am fucking with this. La Sobre mesa.

Let's go through his stuff. Yeah, El Madreleineo, La Sobremeza, this entire. entire album is so fucking good, dude. Now, when I was in Madrid, because El Madreleino means like the guy from Madrid, like Texan, but like Madridian. Anyway, he filmed a music video for this song, Comerte intera, at this like the oldest operating restaurant in Madrid. There's what they advertise it as.

and it's called L-H-A-R-D-Y, L-H-A-R-D-Y, L-R-D-Y, L-R-D-Y, and it's this beautifully, like, ostentatiously grand-lux decorated restaurant inside, and everything's that old type of, like, old-world feel, and you walk in, and it's, like, nice steaks and fish and wine and whatever, and, like, you're in the heart of Madrid, and we sit down, and I'm with, of course, Jack and Stanley, we're trying. Okay? We are day drunk. We have been in the park all day playing cards and getting blackout drunk. Not blackout, but damn near. And we're all sunburnt. It's like our last day in Madrid. And we're drunk and fat and happy. And we sit down at this restaurant because I begged them. Can we please go? Can we please go to this restaurant? Because I love this artist. Can we go? They're like, fucking fine. And we go in and I'm like, wow. And the entire time, like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm. I'm speaking Spanish to, you know, our waiters and our tour guides and our, the hotel staff and all that. But it has been years since I have been fully immersed in an entirely Hispanic like country. And so I'm walking around and I'm like, it's so frustrating too because I know what they're saying and I know how I want to respond. but it's been so long that I no longer am thinking, reading, speaking, and listening in Spanish.

I'm listening to them, speak in Spanish, I'm translating it to English in my head, and then I'm translating what I want to say from English to Spanish, and then I talk. Which is annoying, because when you're actually fluent in a language, you don't think in English anymore. You should be thinking in Spanish, listening, and responding in Spanish. there should be no disconnect. And I was like getting mad at myself because I'm like, I know what they're saying and I know how to respond. But it was this like my brain sputtering. My green oozing brain was like, help, help.

I was like, so I was getting so frustrated with myself. But I was trying because that's the way to learn is even if you're embarrassed and you're like, I'd rather just speak to you in English. I was like, I'm going to try. And if it's clunky and messy, whatever, dude, I never have to see these people ever again. And we're at this restaurant and we're sat down. Also, I'm drunk, so it's not helping. So the waiter comes over and they're dressed in like black tie. It's like a black tie restaurant.

And me, Jack Astale, you're like, Among Us! In the corner! Among us! I'm gritting on the park material. And it's like this nice restaurant. I feel so bad over in the corner. And he comes over and he's like speaking to us in Spanish, which is a compliment. Or maybe he was just like, fuck these whitties.

I'm like, even though he was white too. Like I'm going to speak in Spanish and you can speak back to me Spanish. Thank you so much. And I was like, hello, good no-noches. Okay. And he starts talking to me and I try to order and I'm like we order wine for the table or whatever. then I go, uh, Dima la Berta Tengana has

a gravado a video of his song, Aki, and he was like, yes. I said, is it true that Cetangana recorded a music video here? He said yes. And I said, wow, he cheeverly.

He goes, yeah. Do you want anything else? Like an appetizer? Like, oh my God. Is it true? Yeah. What do you want? I have 13 other tables I need to intend to. Yeah, dude, see Tangana was here. What else?

Can I, oh, can I actually get you something? Oh, no? Okay. I'm going to go do my job now. I was so nervous to ask him because like I said, in my head I was like, okay, I was rehearsing it. I was waiting for him to come over. I was like, I'm going to ask him. I'm going to ask him.

And then on top of that, I'm like struggling through this sentence in Spanish because I'm, fucking drunk and I'm talking to him and I'm whatever and then he responds really rapidly in Spanish with like I don't even remember what he said asking me something about the what Jack ordered or something and I was like uh uh-huh and he goes okay glado and he walks away and I was like absolutely 100% uh-huh I just felt so fucking oh god it's so embarrassing he could not have cared less if I had lived or died in that moment. Did Cite get up? Yeah.

Fuck off. Oh, right. That's actually going to be my fault. Sorry, sir. But here's the thing. Because in that moment, and there were so many other moments when we were in Spain, where I was like, I was getting embarrassed because I couldn't remember, you know, like, I'll remember really obscure vocab words that are hard to remember.

And then I can't remember the word for bill. Like, could we get the bill? And I would get so frustrated in a moment. it didn't help because freaking Stanley and Jack were bullying me. They were like, you're the one that speaks Spanish. Fucking speak Spanish. And I was like, I don't remember. I don't remember.

Okay? Also, we were drunk all the time, so it didn't really help. Oh, God, it's so embarrassing. But you know what? Oh, my God. What would it tell you guys? I, uh, because of that experience and because of, you know, like I, I, I, I, minored in this in college.

I'm 26, like turning 27 next year. This will forever be a part of my life. And I foresee myself, oh my God, I want to visit like all the country. First of all, I want to visit all the countries that my friends are from. I want to go to Argentina. I want to go to Chile. I want to go to Peru and Venezuela and all these places. I've never been to Mexico other than a fucking resort where I got blackout drunk.

You know, like I want to experience all these cultures. that I read about and I love the music and the art that comes out of these countries and I've never been. So to do that, I was like, before I do that, I want to be more secure in my Spanish speaking. And also, it's a shitty feeling to have once been fluent, not speak a language for four years, and then be like, yes, I speak Spanish. And then people speak Spanish to you. And it's like, fuck, damn it. But what's more infuriating is I understand you. I just can't respond. which I know a lot of first generation Americans feel that way. And I talk about this with my friends where Spanish is their first language,

but then they were forced to kind of forget it and speak English only because, you know, like, you're in America, speak English. And it just is so sad that you lose that connectedness with your grandparents and, you know, your parents and a lot of kids are used as translators for their parents and all that. I mean, I'm not, if you come from a family where English is not your first language, you know this, I'm preaching to the fucking choir. But that is a strange, you know, and sad experience to be forced to forget your native language. So, yeah, I'm, it just, it blows.

I've talked about it before here. I feel like every time we talk about Spanish language is white people are praised for speaking to languages and non-white people are, it's like the standard. Of course you should speak two languages. It's such a double standard. I've seen so many YouTube videos of like Timothy Shalameh or Gwyneth Paltrow or, you know, Ben Affleck, all these people being praised for speaking more than just English, praised and put on this pedestal. But then like non-white actors and singers and whatever, it's like, where are those YouTube videos of them being praised?

They don't exist. You want to know why? Because the Internet's racist. So all that to be said, I am now taking Spanish lessons again three times a week from Maddie, who's a TikToker, who teaches or gives kind of Spanish tips and tricks online. And I've been a fan of hers for a while and Maddie's Mundo. And she, a lot of her background is, it's Spain, Spanish, but also Chilean. She speaks more Chilean Spanish than Chinese. She leino Spanish than anything, which is crazy because, God, she talks so fast.

Oh, she talks so fast. But I love her accent. And it's so, so we're doing lessons three times a week. And I'm, I'm paying her. And it's like my, I'm more excited than probably she is because I love her. And it's great so far. Like I missed the sort of academic structure of taking classes of something. like three times a week

versus, you know, like, okay, yeah, when I have free time, I guess I'll sit down and do some dualingo, no bitch, we're doing three times a week, one hour a week, or one hour a day. So, yeah, that's kind of my, that's my New Year's resolution. I'm going to do that

until I get back to a level that I feel comfortable enough to, you know, navigate my way around a Spanish-speaking country by myself. And when I was in Spain, I got around fine, but it was just kind of like, I feel like the aunt with sack. Like, damn it. Damn.

Anyway, I think that I'll do it for me for this week. Oh, my God. Was that my second song? My third song of the week is, oh, my third time of the week is big difference by Nikki Minaj. Because, yeah, happy people. Pink Friday to release. Hi Barb's, happy Pink Friday to release.

Okay, did everyone book their flights to Gag City? Because if you didn't, I will do it and you could just Vimmo me. Like, seriously, we need to arrive at the same time because I have booked a car service to take us from the Gag City Airport to our hotel. So, guys, just please let me know. The Gag City Airport is under construction. So there will be delays. Anyway.

Yeah, big difference by Nikki. Bitch, are you joking? The album is so good. But big difference, I literally put it on my story. I was like, this might be her magnum opus, I fear. Her M.O. Her greatest work of all time. I am floored.

I am shocked. I am impressed. I am speechless. It's so good. It's been on repeat. The, the, whole album has been on repeat since it dropped. So I think that'll do it for me today, guys. Please subscribe to this YouTube channel. Please rate us five stars. I don't know who us is.

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