The Broski Report with Brittany Broski - 32: Never Drink with British People

Episode Date: January 16, 2024

This week on The Broski Report, Fearless Leader Brittany Broski teases her muumuu line, unpacks Iron Flame and the fantasy genre, recounts a drunken evening with some Brits, and shares her TBR list. ���� 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.tiktok.com/@bbroyalcourthttps://www.instagram.com/royalcourthttps://www.twitter.com/bbroyalcourt  Brought To You By:Tinder – Download the app nowStitch Fix – Visit https://stitchfix.com/broski Zocdoc – Visit https://zocdoc.com/broski Songs Of The Week:Rain by The Teskey BrothersPain and Misery by The Teskey BrothersThe Price by The SteeldriversDustbowl Dance by Mumford & Sons#brittanybroski, #broski, #broskination, #broskireport, #muumuu, #fantasy, #acotar, #ironflame, #teskeybrothers, #tbr, #booktok

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We are so fucking back. People say, oh, we're not back. We're never going to be back, okay? No, look at her. She's never going to, we're back. Welcome back. Okay? And guess what?

my merch dropped. If you missed last week's episode, if you for some reason skip over the first 30 seconds, I have Brosky Report merch. Get it. It's hot off the press. Okay, you guys sold out the first wave. Now we're on pre-order.

We're on back order. Get it, okay? Get it before we close it forever and ever. Amen. We've got a T-shirt. We've got a crew neck. We've got a hoodie. And it's gorgeous.

Okay? I'm not wearing it right now because I wore it in the last one. And I did spill food on it. Spilled some refried beans on it. Okay? Whatever, guys. All right, welcome back, guys. Go get your uniform.

I expect to see everyone in their uniform. It is mandatory. And eventually, I don't know, when I drop mumoos. When I drop mummoos! I expect to see everyone, whenever I do the next live show, or whatever we do any other type of show, my burlesque shows that I'm going to do, me and my burlesque shows with my nipple tassels and my moo-moo.

It's gonna be RuPaul's Drag Race, Mainstage Reveal, Reuville, Unzit my moo-oo, da-dun-d-ton-ton-ton-ton-ton-Bam! Size G-tits! Size G-tits in a tan, shapeless bra. And a tan, shapeless bra. And a boom, ace bandage. It's me. A guy what takes his time. I go for any time.

It's a fast. And I'm undoing my mumo. It's me in burlesque. It's Christina Aguilera. Got no room for fancy driving won't necessarily. Slovakia zificate. Riving in low. Bam!

Okay? Nipple tassels glued on, hot glued on to my nude tan bra. That has no underwire. It's flat against my chest and I have size G tits. That's my burlesque show. You know how they have clothes? clubs for like BBWs, big, beautiful women, okay? I'm going to do a show for, it's just me, okay?

It's just me and we only do the big tam bra bit. And then I come out and I do a full Christina Aguilic cosplay. This is after I get my BBL. This is after I get my, uh, uh, what's that called? Beriatric surgery. Bariatric, my Barry Manelow surgery. Anyway, yeah, we'll be selling tickets to, that. Anyway, back to what I was saying, mumoos. Mimus is the next drop, okay? So keep that on your

radar. We are going to have a couple color options and they're so cute, bitch. They're so, you know, I don't, I don't fuck around with my mumus, with my nightwear, with my sexy womanly nightwear. There's nothing sexy about it. Okay, yeah, the mumus are functional, they're useful. They've got deep pockets. They're thick and absorbent where they don't make you sweat, but they absorb the sweat. They're short sleeve. They're long enough where you can bend over, who's the, the sunscreen baby? With her cheeks coming out. By the way, what the fuck?

Hey, what the, put your baby ass away. I don't want to see your baby ass. That's gross, dude. Then being like, damn, people are going to love this. How cute. Little baby ass. I'm trying to put out sunscreen on my face, bro. I don't want to think about baby ass.

Gross. But that's literally me and my moo-woo. And I'm not wearing anything under it. My big tan bra. That's actually a bit me and Bestie Tato do, what me and Taylor do with each other. Every time we go to a concert, we're like, I'm going to throw my big tan bra on stage. Singing like, scream in the name of a foreigner's god. Like a really, like, intense, meaningful song.

And my, whoa! I'm choppless. I'm speaking, whoa! My big tan bra on stage. Who, whoo! Smacks him in the face. Okay, he gets pink eye. He gets pink eye.

Because my sweaty big damn bra hit him in the face. Ah! Anyway. So my burlesque show will be opening up. Oh, my mummoos. The mummoos are coming out later this year. And yeah, get excited for him, guys. I'm really excited.

We have been working on this for a really long time because I'm, like I said, I'm not fucking around. Okay? Mumus, I take the mummo game and the mumu business incredibly seriously. And in the South, sometimes they're referred to as housecoats. Okay, this is a housecoat, it's a moo-moo. They're kind of interchangeable. A housecoat, I think, has a zipper.

I think that's what distinguishes it from just like a mumu. It's just kind of a dress, like a night dress. At least I'm talking about in the context of Southern America. And a housecoat has a zipper. This has a zipper all the way down for, if you got to get out of that bitch really quickly. Okay, you don't have to, because I love. I love a moo-moo because, oh my God, I'm like shaking. I'm tweaking right now.

I had like four cups to coffee. Shut up! I like a moo-moo because you can unzip it all the way when you're doing your glam. Like it'll catch all the fallout from the powder or whatever. Like when you're brushing your hair and like, I don't know if this only happens to me. I brush my hair and it all breaks off. Hey, that's fun. Hey, that's really fun.

Happens to me. I'll brush it. I'm like, oh, the fucking hair and I'll, whatever. And then to put my clothes on, you just unzzy. Zip it. T-s-s-s-s-s-s-tun-t-t-k. Okay. That's why I like a moo-moo.

Because it's easy to get in and out of. Now, is it sexy? No. There's nothing sexy about a-m-moo, but you could make it sexy. Okay. What do I have underneath this? Baby ass. Stupid.

All right. What are we talking about today, guys? Oh, if you've bought the merch, thank you. I appreciate you. I live to eat another day. Okay, I can afford my groceries for another day. I really appreciate that. Yeah, the merch was really fun to make.

We worked with Brit Art on it, who's fantastic. She does pin up art who I just am obsessed with it. And really stoked to work with her on it. So go pick it up if you haven't. Go rip the pod. Okay? Why not, guys? Seriously.

Seriously. Okay. I am on a bunch of new, to switch into the health. Here's the health update. I am officially a PCR. girl like we've been talking about. Remy Ashton reached out to me, saved my life, recommended me a doctor. I'm on a bunch of new, they're already talk about this. I'm on a bunch of new medicine and I can't eat avocados or bananas or coconut water because it spikes my testosterone. Yeah, I talked about this last

time about how I have leg hair like a grown man. Yeah, we talked about this. I don't, I won't put you guys through it again. Okay, what I really want to talk about is we're going to move into book talk really quick. If you don't give a shit, I don't care, you will listen and you will like it. Because I don't make the rules. I know, oh, I don't care about book talk. Incredibly loud, incorrect buzzer. You're going to listen, okay? Fourth Wing talked about that last week as well. Fourth Wing is the Dragon Academy book. Oh my God, I ordered a sweatshirt that I should be wearing right now. It's the Dragon Academy book. And since finishing both Fourth Wing and Iron Flame, which is the sequel, which everyone was like waiting on for a really long time,

came out in, I think November, like late November. And Rebecca Yaros is the author. And the more that I've read and like consumed media about this book series, the more complaints I have, I fucking loved Fourth Wing. It is, me and Brooke A. Brick were texting about this the other day, Lady Ephron. We're texting about how, like, it is going to be so hard to read. read a non-fantasy novel moving forward because I love fantasy. I love getting lost in a fantasy world and like the world building and falling in love for the characters. And I can specifically

only read enemies to lovers fantasy books. Like I literally, I find it very hard to focus on anything else. And so, Fourth Wing really scratched that itch for me. And I waited to read it until the sequel came out, whatever, read it. Iron Flame, let's talk about it. What I loved about Fourth Wing is that it was standalone, it kind of left you on a hook, you know, whatever. The characters you fall in love with them really easy, your lead girl is a badass. She doesn't believe in her own potential until, you know, the mirror is brought up to her face. And then she does.

You know, she's a badass, and her secret weapon is not strength, it is not power, it is intelligence. And I love a storyline like that. similar one in throne of glass with aelin as the lead girl she's very very cunning very smart very witty she's always thinking six steps ahead of everyone else and that's why she wins she is strong and she is a great fighter but like first and foremost she is a great she plays the game and i love that about violet about violet soaringale and fourth wing she is smart and she outsmarts her way through life characters fucking wasted! In Iron Flame. Wasted!

Violet and Zayden have the same exact argument about six different times in Iron Flame, and it's a classic, which I fucking hate, miscommunication trope. They're not hearing each other when they talk, and they keep, and there's also, they're separated, okay, for a lot of the book, they're not together. And so when they are together, you want them to, you want them to get it on. Lay pipe. Okay, you're together? Oh, no.

Lay pipe. I'm not asking for much, Satan. Lay pipe. Why is that so fucking hard? But for, like, there literally would be times they'd be together. They'd have 24 hours together. Don't you want to make the most fit?

No, bitch, they would spend it fighting. And then, like, he would be gone before she wakes up. Oh, my God, I'm livid. Oh, my God, I'm actually livid right now, so. Oh, my God, I'm actually fucking raging. I'm feeling pipe. I've literally read 400 fucking pages I'm fuming

you're sleeping in the same bed and you're not fucking I don't want to read it and the magic doesn't really make sense it's like I wonder if she's one of those authors that and I guess I'm and I'm not saying that I'm an author

but like when I have written my fan fiction or when I have written lore okay when I've written little short stories or whatever one of the I think literary text as a writer is this is an air of mystery and it can stay like that because you haven't finished flushing out the lore. You know, like, okay, this is a mystery and it's all to be revealed later. But even you as the author, you haven't written it yet. So it's like, I feel that way reading her writing in Iron Flame. I'm like, I don't think this is really going anywhere because she hasn't

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I'm listening. I get it. But then like certain things are, and then certain characters will break rules and it's like, oh, well, you can do that because what, dude? It got a little, it wasn't hard to follow. It was just like, okay, but I thought you said, it was more that. Like, I have a complaint because you built the world this way. And now in the second book, it's this way.

And it's like, it's hard to reconcile. Anyway, there's this, like, epic fight that happens at the end of the book. And I do, I enjoy writing that's like, oh, my God, this is the end. This is where they die. Oh, no, they live. There's a crazy twist at the end of the second book. That is not. I was pissed. I finished them. Oh my God. And you, it's literally on like the fourth to last page.

So you learn it and you're like, what the fuck? And then it ends and not in a good way. Not in like a holy shit I never said it coming. I wouldn't say it was predictable, but it was like it pissed me off. It pissed me off because it didn't have to happen. There are so many other things that could have happened. You've built these incredible characters. like incredible characters with an incredible dynamic, this incredible world, and that's what you chose? I'm just like, where the fuck is it going to go from here? So I'm just mad. Like, I finished it and I'm mad.

And I've been reading a bunch of fan theories and like book talk reactions, and people hated this book. I didn't hate it. I felt like it kind of dragged. But it's characters in a world that I love, so I was like happy to read it. Like, it was definitely, it was entertaining and it was fun, but I was like, oh my God, I've read the same scene 10 times. Like they keep...

It's the same fucking shit. And there are certain characters. I'm like, oh, I hate you. I hate you. I hate you. I don't care about you. And then they got redemption arcs. And I'm like, you didn't deserve that.

I don't know. Okay, so that's my Iron Flame review. Still thinking about Sam Hartman. Okay? Sam Hartman is Zaden in my mind. I'm still thinking about Zadin, even with his stupid fucking plot twist at the end. I kind of have chosen to ignore that.

I'm living in like the last quarter of fourth wing, first quarter of, Iron Flame sort of world. That's where I've landed. I went on Etsy. Before I fucking finished Iron Flame, I went on Etsy and got a Basguath War College sweatshirt. Oh my God. Also, I saw a bunch of shit that Rebecca Yaros pulled from Gallic language, like the Gallic language, but used it incorrectly. And so people are mad at her about that, totally understandable. And that's also just like, damn, was there not enough? Like, I'm in. To give an author the benefit of the doubt of it will all resolve itself or if it hasn't yet, like, trust the author.

I just don't know. Like, I don't know what was on purpose and what was an accident or if it was just, like, messy writing. If the editor didn't really catch some stuff, I'm just disappointed. Like, I really, really was looking forward to Iron Flame. When When you're I've learned

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because now I have a fourth wing hangover. And a bunch of people, you know, I went on TikTok and they're like, I was like, how to cure the fourth wing hangover? People are like, read Akitar. Bitch, I started there! I started there. There's no going back!

Oh, me and Brooke are going to start Quarter of Silver Flames too because y'all ate my ass last episode when I talked about how I haven't read Silver Flames. Yeah, sorry, Nesta's a cunt. Nesta is a fron. fucking bitch. She ruined the Christmas special. Nesta is a cut!

But I'm going to start it for the sake of Cassian. Because once again, I want Cassian to lay pipe. I want to watch how this fairy fucks. I have got to see more of that fairy dick. Fake hawk. Fakeawk. I have got to figure that out. Okay?

So I'm going to start Silver Flames. I'm going to get back into that world. And I don't know if Silver Flames resumes after the Christmas special or after Court of Wings and Ruins. We'll see. I'm going to jump into it. Okay, I'm going to give it a chance. I want to go through my good reads because these are some recommendations

for anyone that's going through what I'm going through, if you've just finished Akita or if you've just finished fourth wing, whatever it may be, these are some wrecks that I've seen that are in the same vein that are either fantasy or dragons or enemies to lovers.

The first one is powerless by Lauren. Roberts. That one has been recommended to me a lot. Next is the Black Witch by Lorry Forrest. That one has been recommended a lot as well. Red Rising by Pierce Brown. This one, I saw a girl give a review on it and Red Rising is like, I don't, this may be wrong. It's more like Dune. Like it's kind of a dystopian fantasy. It's not so much like fantasy dragon fairies with their penises. It's like, let's Google it, actually. 94% liked this book. That's crazy.

Goodreads, it has a 4.3. Barnes & Noble has a 4.4 out of 5. It's really, really well rated. Red Rising is a 2014 dystopian science fiction novel by American author Pierce Brown in the first book and eponym of a series. Does eponym mean it's named after that? That's what that sounded like.

The novel set in the future on Mars, T, follows lowborn minor Dero, as he ends. infiltrates the ranks of the elite goals. Red Rising has received generally positive reviews. Yeah, I'm excited to read it, because I think it's a romance later on. Yeah. Oh, what? Darrow, what the fuck?

At this, oh, bro, what the fuck? No! At the start of Red Rising, Darrow and Eo are both 16 married, and presumably share an adult sex. life after Eos. What the fuck? Okay, I don't want to ruin anything. I don't want to read about 16 year olds fucking. Ah!

No! No! But Red Rising has really been recommended, so I'm going to do it because I honestly think I need a break from fantasy. I'm too obsessed. Let's take a step back. I tried to start Metamorphosis by Kafka. Couldn't get into it.

I read the first page and I was like, where are the dragons, bro? I don't give a single five. I don't care. Don't care. I can't keep living like this, dude. Like, Fourth Wing ruined my life. I think about it all the time. Every day, I need Zaden. I am Violet Soren Gail. I've got to, the dragon has to pick me with this fucking, oh my God. And then the dragon's going to talk to me in my brain. I've been trying to finish the bell jar by Sylvia Plath for fucking years. It's been on my nightstand. I cannot finish it because I would rather read about dragons.

than a depressed girl in the 50s. I know it's important. I just can't finish it. I will one day. Oh, God. Okay. Powerless, Black Witch, Red Rising. And then Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadman.

That one has really been recommended for fantasy. And here's my thing. Starting with Akatar, I feel like that's the best of the best. It's like not everything's going to be a poor comparison to that book. and I'm worried to start some of these books of like, it's not going to be risque enough, the plot's not going to be good enough. You know, a lot of these have like four out of five stars on Goodreads.

But it's not, actually, I wonder what Akhtar has on Goodreads. Let's see. Court of Lorns and Roses has 4.2. Interesting. 4.2 and Fourth Wing has 4.6. Spoh. Which is crazy because Akitar, well, the first book fucking sucks. Let's look up what Mist and Fury has because Miss and Fury is the, oh, it's stupid.

Mist and Fury. 4.65. Damn, I read it at four stars for some reason. Am I just a fucking idiot? Yeah, yeah, Missing Fury is, she's that girl. She really is that girl. I'm a Sarah J. Moss. Girl.

And I'm about to be, uh, I think. maybe a Red Rising girl because Red Rising, I'm excited about Red Rising. I'm going to go to Barnes & Noble tomorrow and buy all four of these. Also, one dark window by Rachel Gilling has been recommended. So I'm going to go buy all four of those, maybe the Rachel Gilling book, and start Silver Flames, Court of Silver Flames. And then, yeah, I'll keep you guys updated because I have got to have romance. I don't, like, if there's no romance in it, I'm bored.

I'm bored. Like, you have got to give me a reason to care. Do they make it? Are they going to fuck? If they don't, I don't care. Okay, here are my three songs of the week. Number one is Rain by the Teske brothers. I love the Teske brothers. I've talked about them before, I'm pretty sure,

and I saw them at ACL with Bestie. and wow, just wow, just holy shit. I think they're Australian. Yep, Sam and Josh Teske, two brothers from Australia, guess what, they're both hot, who have enchanted the hearts of many around the world with their soulful take on blues, folk, and rock. And that's exactly why I like it.

It's a great sort of, when I've Chris Stapleton myself out, like when I'm just like, God, I've been listening to Chris Tableton for 72 hours straight, I've got to switch it up. I'll do Teske brothers. and they've got a song called Rain that I've just been obsessed with. So Caught Up is one of my favorites and Pain and Misery. Pain and Misery is one of the most impressive vocal displays on a song I've heard in a long time. I mean, just that shit cannot be taught.

And I always find it interesting when people who weren't raised in the church, I mean, the church has so much to do with that spiritual feeling of you, the music just, it's in your bones. I don't know how to describe without it sounding cheesy and corny, but when it's in your fucking bones, it's in the very essence of you. It seeps out of you, out of your pores. And like you have no choice but to give into it.

That is, Tessie Brothers, that's how I feel about it. I mean, it's so, it cannot be taught. You can study music in an academic environment for 40 years and you wouldn't understand the soul what the Tessie Brothers sing with. And so much of that is taken from, I mean, the rock and roll was created by black people. You know, so much of that is from that inspiration, that whole era in the 40s and 50s and Robert Johnson and all the, you know, the legends and the beginnings of rock and roll music. And that blended with gospel and black gospel music and then also southern white gospel music.

and there's a beautiful blend and mesh there. I think it's just so intrinsic and you get it or you don't sort of thing and they get it and I'm getting it as they're singing it. So I'm so, so, so obsessed with the Teske brothers. They invited me to a show like a couple months ago and the timing didn't work out and I was so sad because they were like, you want to come backstage and I was like,

I love them. they're a big inspiration for me so they're go listen to pain and misery and rain by them my next song is the price by the steel drivers

now I've talked about steel drivers before uh they are that is Chris Tableton's bluegrass band that he used to be in they're still together I think today and uh it's just you know he does his own solo thing

but they still sing together this album came out in 2010 it's called reckless and uh Oh, there's some fucking bangers on here Where rainbows never die The Price, Can You Run? Midnight on the Mountain

Ghosts of Mississippi, Angel the Night All these are so, so, so, so, so good. And the price is about the wealth gap. It's about the rich 1% and the elite And like eat the rich sort of thing. Rich man rolls the dice, poor man pays the price. Love that. Damn.

And his vocals on here are, that shit should be. illegal, dude. It should be outlawed. I mean, he's almost like losing it. I love that vocal range where it's so gritty. It's like he's almost lost control of it. Like it's kind of out of tune or off pitch in the best way, like almost. It's still, of course, because it's professionally produced. It's fantastic. But it's like you can hear that grit. Damn. So good. The price is one of my my favorite steel driver songs. I also love if it hadn't been for love.

Never want to run tight to Birmingham if it hadn't been for love. Blue side of the mountain. Heaven sent. I know what days are heaven sent. Lord knows I know now where to be. The bartender. Bar-dinder. Oh my God.

I love the steel drivers. Okay, love that song. And then last one is, I mean, again, this, I've just been. on a kick lately, I guess. It's a Dust Bowl Dance by Mumford and Sons. And I was on my Mumford and Sons grind right after ACL in October. Like it was very, I was listening to Babel. I was listening to Lover of the Light, Whispers in the Dark, even like Delta and some of Marcus Mumford's solo stuff, which is so sad, but so good. Very much I'm on that train again. Dust Bowl dance is fantastic. Awake My Soul, White Blank Page. Yeah, this album's from 2009.

And it still stands. You bitches. I'm a Mumford girl. Okay. Oh, I wanted to go through the rest of my good reads. Sorry, I got distracted with the music stuff. The rest of my good reads, I'm going to read some of my, I don't know what TBR means.

To be read. I think that's what that stands for. I'm going to read off some of these, and I want y'all to give me your opinions because, like I said, I'm going to go and buy those that I talked about. Okay, fear the flames. This has been recommended to me, has not been.

So I don't fucking know. Oh my God, I want to talk to you guys about this. So as you know, I take Spanish lessons from Madis Mundo. And it's cool to see, like, I mean,

I've been taking lessons from her from maybe like a month and a half now, maybe two months. And I've improved so much and just the short amount of time that we've been taking lessons. She's good about, you know,

yeah, we'll review grammar and syntax and all that, but we go over cultural stuff too because she's much more well-traveled than I am. And I've been some places, but I've never been to South America, you know, like I would love to go. I've just never, life has never led me there. I've barely even been to Mexico, shockingly enough.

I've only been to Puerto Vallata, with the gay people. So I, she teaches me a lot about, you know, because she used to live in Spain and Chile, and she's been Argentina and all these, Cuba. She's been so many places for, and she's got friends there. So she knows a lot about the culture. and is very respectful of it and, you know, teaches me from a place of history. And she watched this movie recently that she recommended me,

and it was called Motorcycle Diaries. And it's got Gail Garcia Bernal in it who is hot, okay? Now, is he 5'6? Yeah. Okay? And is a man under 5'6 really a man? No. No, he's not.

You got to be at least my height. To be considered a man, brother, I'm more manly than you. Okay, my PCOS, I'm growing neck hair. I'm growing beard hair. Okay? I've got leg hair that could, I mean, you touch, ah, it'll cut you. Okay? If you're 5'6, I can tell you right now, I'm the man in the relationship.

And that's not going to go over well. Okay? If I'm the man in the relationship, I'm going to start, oh, oh, I would love to be a man for a day, bitch. Have you seen those videos of people like asking their incompetent, fucking stupid idiot husbands to do shit? Hey, babe, can you clean up this mess? and it's like ketchup on the counter. Now, have y'all seen that fucking video of the dude doing that?

He's like, I don't know how to. And he takes a paper towel and he just starts smearing it around. I have never felt more pure rage. Just white-hot rage. Because men do that shit on purpose. You know what I mean? They do that shit on purpose, so you'll do it for them. I've talked about this before, the weaponized incompetence.

I know they do it on purpose. No one's that fucking dumb. Is this how you do it? I'm going to literally knife you in your sleep. Shake, shake, shake. I'm going to gypsy rose you, bitch. I don't care. Clean the fucking ketchup!

I want to be a man for a day. I'll just have a mattress on the floor. I'll have one chair, one fork, one spoon, one bowl, one knife. And I'm playing my video game all day. And guess what? Women would still want to fuck me. I'd be like, this is a crib. makes of hum

you'd be like can I use the bathroom yeah go for it no soap no hot water no towel okay you've been to a man's house and that's the bathroom oh god you look at yourself in the mirror like that like I've got to get out of here

I've literally done that before in college right after college when I graduated I was like living in Dallas and I went on this date and I went to a guy's house and I was like can I go to the bathroom where's your bathroom?

He was like, yeah, I have shoes of there. And I was like, thanks. He was making me a drink in the living room, and I went in the bathroom. He had one of those, like, college dorm shower curtains that was too short for the shower. No liner, so it's like molded. Moldy toilet, beard hairs all over the sink, toothpaste splash on the mirror, no soap, pubes on the sink as well, and no towel and no hot water. And I go, so I literally like, I hovered.

peed, ran my hands with the water, and I go, I got to go, actually. And he was like, what do you mean? And I literally was like, it's nice to meet you by. And I walked out. And he like walked out and followed me to my car. And he was like, do I just I was like, no, I just forgot I had to be somewhere. It was really nice to meet you. Because at a certain point, what the fuck are you? Have some cell. Stand up. Stand up. bitch. I had to, I looked at myself in the mirror and said, you just hover peed at a man's house.

Because you didn't want to get his pubs on the back of your thighs. Oh, if I was a man and I didn't have to give a shit about, imagine how free, oh God, how free they must feel, be like, yeah, I got this hot bitch in my place. Yeah, you can use a bathroom. When she's in the bathroom, like, free, we, we, re, re, re, re, oh God. she's having a full-blown identity crisis in the bathroom because she's at your place because

she agreed to come over. That was literally me. That's happened to me twice. I was like, oh, God. And I always fall for it too because at least after college, like at that point in my life, I was like, I'm just looking for a conversation that isn't going to make me want to die. And so any witty man who could hold a semblance of a conversation with me, I was like, he's the one.

And so he'd be like, you didn't come back to Matt. Yeah, let's go back to my. to your place. Oh, there's roaches on the floor. I have to go. Oh my God. The clock struck midnight. I have to go, midnight. The clock struck a midnight. I'm thinking of the clock to come midnight. So that's happened to me a few times and it will never happen to me again. Also, now that I have, I like have my own house. It's decorated how I want. It's my Texan oasis out here in California. like I have spent a lot of time and money curating my space. I've had a, oh my God, me and Sarabasca.

Me and Sarabasco went out one night. This night was so stupid. I can't believe I'm about to talk about this. Me and Sarah Bosco went out. My friend, my friend's show, okay? He's a singer, and he's British. And we went out to the show, and she came with me. I was like, will you please come?

She was like, yeah, for sure. We go and he puts us in this, like, VIP section, and it's so fun and it's so like, ooh, we're getting drinks. We are drunk drunk, and we just keep drinking. One of those nights where I'm like, I'm fucked up. Are you fucked up? Yeah, okay, let's take a shot. That sort of thing. It was like, why would I ever do that?

We are at the, like, after, it wasn't an after party. We go to a bar after the show. We meet up with my friend and all of his friends. and all of his friends are so British, like so cockney British. And they can drink, bitch. You ever met a British person? They'll drink you under the table.

And so I'm going drink for drink with him and I'm just losing my mind. And we were like, you ever had a green tea shot? Because the drunker I get, the more my accent comes out, apparently. But also, that was in between me mocking him. Of course, I have to mock British people

when I'm around them. So no, I'm talking like this. I'm not going to have a fucking green t-shirt, darling. Darling, hello, mate. We're three more. We're three more green t-shirts. Thank you. So I'm yelling at the bartender.

I'm yelling at him. I'm yelling at this guy. I'm a, oh, you fucking more. Ola, all-la, all-la, oh, lay, oh, lay, oh, lay. Stupid. I'm talking to him. I'm flirting with him all night. This dude, okay, don't even remember his fucking name.

I wish I did. I'm flirting with him all night. we're at the bar, he's like touching my knee. He's like, he's, he's into it. He wants a piece of the bosky. He wanted a piece of the bosky, okay? He wanted a bite of bosky. And guess what?

The diner was open that night. And so I'm sitting there. Sarah's, uh, talking to someone else, one of his other friends, I think, or, or just another guy at the bar. Flirt with this guy and we're talking back and forth and he's asking me about Texas. I'm telling him about whatever. And I'm, I'm telling him to him. And he's like, you're really good at that for no reason.

And I'm like, yeah, fucking night. You know, we're made and we're back and forth. I'm ordering like 17 green tea shots. We're taking him. Like, I, whatever, he's taking them. Those shits are so sugary, okay? Huh. My gut starts to curdle.

Okay? Also, this night is when we stood in a section with Justin Bieber. I don't know if I told you told you about that. Sten to second of Justin Bieber, couldn't tell you. Okay. we leave this bar after Sarah and I see Dalton Gomez walk into this bar, Arina Grande's ex-husband.

The fuck? What? Me and Sarah, we're like, why is Dalton Gomez here? Anyway, we leave. And we're in the Uber and we're playing music and then after a while I'm like,

let's put on fucking Stormsy or Central Sea or Artie. or so, like, we're playing gross British, like, what's that called? What's British drill called? Grime. No, not grime. Maybe it's grime, it's like British drill. Anyway, we're playing that in the car, the buddy-oldy shaped that cola.

And so we get to my house for some reason. We all come back to my house. And all these fucking British men are in my house. They raid my fridge. They start drinking my liquor on my little bar car. and they're like pissing with the door open and the seat up and the what like there's piss on the floor and I was like what the fuck and at a certain point I I go to the I disappear I go to the bathroom because I was having diarrhea hey green tea shots and I come out and the fridge door is open they're blasting some other like gross British music like bad British trap on my Google and I look at stare at here we got to get them out And so I turn to me, I go, party's over.

Get the fuck out. I literally felt like frat guy. I was like, everyone, get that fuck out of my house. And they're like, oh, yeah, you fucking want. They get in Uber, they leave. Me and Sarah have an hour and a half long debrief. Like, what the fuck was that? What he was on?

Yeah, he was funny with you. Yeah, he was funny with you. But he touched my knee? Like that sort of girly debrief were also still very drunk. And like, I had just got these antique furniture pieces. Like, my house looked so cute. they left my, oh my God, they shattered a glass in my kitchen. I was just like, this is what happens when you let men into your space.

My space is feminine and sacred, bitch. And they came in here and without a second thought, disrespected it. Like, you've never met me before. I invited you to my house. This isn't like some fucking, you know, college frat house. This is like, you know, it's just disrespectful. So me and Sarah were like, what the fuck was then? night. What happened? Like at a certain point, I was like, how did we even end up at my house?

I was so drunk. And then the next morning, I was so hungover. And I think I cried because I was like, this is what happens when I, I open myself up to interactions with men, because I come on this podcast. I'm in my daily life. And I talk a lot of shit on men, because rightfully so. But in my real life, I try to stay open and curious to what an interaction with a straight man might bring me. Okay, I don't want to walk in with too much clouded judgment or be kind of shut it down before it can even begin because you never know. You can sort through a sea of shit and all it takes is one, right? That's what everyone says. It's just you only need to find the one good one and he's yours like that.

And he'll find you. Okay. So I tried to go into my life with an open mind. I had an open mind this night. at a certain point, should have shut my mind, should have closed my mind and fucking got in the Uber and went home with just me and Sarah. We should have had like a gross Taco Bell night. I let those fucking men into my space. And now I'm like, oh my God, I'm never doing that shit again, dude. It was just awful. Like, I don't, I don't, I didn't realize how sacred my space was to me.

Like, and I still think about it today. We're like, oh my God, I let them in my house. I would never do that again. Never. So, yeah, that's my story of when I went out with a bunch of British men. And there's not to say, and like, look, I would love to date a British man if he was like, I don't know, had a brain and was smart and respectful and, like, funny. You know, and wasn't like, oh, shut up. So anyway, why did I even tell that story? When

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please put your phones on silent and take a mental note. To focus on driving. Paid for by NHTSA. Oh my God, I was going to talk about the motorcycle diaries. Back to my Spanish class. So, Maddie was like, you should watch this movie. And it's called Diarios de Motocleclica.

And I was like, okay. And it's got, oh, we're talking about Gail-L Garcia-Bernal. Okay. This movie has him and one of the actors from La Casa de Papel from Money Heist on Netflix in it. He's the gay one. He's the gay one. that's in love with... What's his name?

What's the brother's name? La Casa de Papel brother. Berlin. Berlin. Andres. Andres de Fonogiosa. He's the half-brother to Sergio Marquina,

the mastermind, better known to Money High's viewers as El Prove-Sor. Yeah, Berlin. He's like in love with Berlin. And it's the same actor, and he's so cute in this movie, first of all. And it's a story about how a man named Alberto and a man named Ernesto go on a motorcycle trip around South America. You come to find out that this man, Ernesto, is Che Guevara. And I am woman enough to admit, I did not know a lot about Che Guevada. I know him as this sort of socialist symbol, an icon, a communist icon, in the ways that aren't fear-inducing, fear-mongering, you know, whatever.

Like, he really represents certain ideals to a movement that historically has been demonized. That's kind of the extent I knew about him. I've seen that picture of him in the beret and then, you know, like with the revolution fist and all that. But I didn't really know that much else other than the fact that my education as a American really demonizes those sort of figures in history. And I didn't really know why. And I never really took the time to figure out why. This movie doesn't really, this is like really young Che Guevada.

And Che I didn't know is a nickname because people in Argentina, Che is like their kind of filler word. In Mexico, a lot of the time it's poise. Like, Queuebo Poise. Poise is kind of a filler word. in Chile, I think Maddie told me it's po. Like, oh, see, po? Like, po is, you just put it on the end of a word.

I think Che is in Argentina. It's that. So they called him Che because as he was traveling through South America and through, you know, Central America, his Argentinian accent was so thick. They started calling him Che. This is before we knew him as Che Guevara. This is as Ernesto, I forget his last name.

And he's a young man. He is a medical student and he travels throughout South America and is shocked at, you know, the original idea for the trip is we're just going to see all the beauty that this continent has to offer and all the different cultures and food and whatever. And it turns into this sort of narrative of the suffering of indigenous people across South America, the suffering of poor indigenous. people who have been forgotten about, who have been kicked out of their homelands, who have been kicked around and disrespected and killed off, quite frankly, targeted and killed because they were an inconvenience to the rich elite who were trying to, you know, cultivate the area. And this really moves him. And it influences a lot of the work, the majority, all of the work that he does later in his life where he becomes this revolutionary icon. This really, you know,

because when you think about it, what can historically, just through all of the world, indigenous people have really been fucked, fucked over. And what can you do? You can't mobilize, they'll kill you off. You can't vote. They'll take away your voting rights.

You can't, you know, and it's like, and Alberto in the movie says that. He's like, I'm going to create like a union for indigenous people and poor people and we're going to vote. I'm going to get everyone to vote. what are you going to do? And Ennesto says, you're going to start a revolution without guns. Good fucking luck. You know, because it's kind of true. It's like people don't, they will find a way to silence you. So this influences the rest of his life in a major way. He abandons, you know, the idea of being a doctor and dedicates his life to being a revolutionary, starting rebellions and, you know, the socialist, communist movement in general.

I kind of want to stop there because a lot of my good reads actually is about Che Guevara. I added his journals to my to read list and a bunch of biographies on him. Because it's interesting, too, I really didn't know that much about Che Guevara because I think some historians would refer to him as a failure, as a failed revolutionary. He failed, he went to Congo and failed to incite, you know, enough revolutionary support there to really do anything. So he goes to Bolivia and then he goes to Cuba. And in Cuba, he's made like the head of the finance. He permanently fucked Cuba's finances.

Just by all means, kind of, it never really got the traction that he would have hoped for. And eventually he was assassinated, I think in Bolivia, by, with the. help of the CIA because he was considered dangerous. And I just want to learn all that I can about it. It's my new hyperfixation of, you know, where did it all go wrong? And when did it take a turn for the worst? Because what a pure thing in order to, with your privilege and with your coming from an aristocratic background, you know, you're studying to be a doctor. You're from a well-off family in Argentina. What a different way of life than seeing the quality of life that he saw, you know, on his little joyride through South America. And there's a scene where their motorcycle

breaks down and they're walking up this side of a mountain to get to wherever they're going. And they're carrying all their stuff and it's so heavy. And they're like, I can't do it. I can't do it. And he like drops to the ground and he passes out and they're kind of like heaving breath, you know, And then this indigenous man walks by them like no sweat. Because he does it every day with like equal amounts of shit on his back and just what and doesn't even look at him. He's like, whatever. Just going up the mountain. And it's so, the movie is really good.

I really enjoyed it. It was a great wreck from Maddie. And it honestly, like, that's a part of history that I just, the older I get, I'm like, God, how the American education system failed me. Time, time and time again. I'm knocking shit over. so mad just failed me and now it's it's on me to you know to educate myself and on things that like I should have known about and it makes me feel stupid honestly like that I didn't know this shit I don't know this history I don't know shit about Fidel Castro and all these major prominent

or pinocet and this you know because it's this American individualism that I always come back to that I really fucking resent I resent what was sold to me as a child of back-to-back war champions and a global power and you wouldn't want to ever live anywhere else. You know, you should be thankful that you. I am thankful I was born in America, but holy fuck, that doesn't mean I shouldn't learn about other places, you know, or how we fucked up other places. Cuba did not have the structure or the integrity of its system to support a communist, you know, takeover. And I want to read all of it. about it and I want to know everything and I just am it just pisses me off the more that I do learn

about it because I'm like I have never heard this like I've never heard about this it just makes me mad and it makes me feel dumb I hate feeling dumb dude hate it so that's on my I've got a bunch stuff of my goodreads about Che Guevara for no reason just like because I'm curious and the movie is actually based on the diaries and journals that he kept while they were driving through South America so I'm going to read those and And yeah, that's kind of been my fixation of the week. Okay, here are some other ones I've added to my want-to-read list. There are some classics on here.

And, okay, so there's, my dad made me watch this movie. And honestly, it was a great movie. But it's a classic novel that I've always heard of, but I was like, that sounds boring as fuck, dude. The movie was fantastic. And I'm so excited to read the book. Count of Monte Cristo. Count of Monte Cristo.

I've always heard of the Count of Monte Cristo, and I always thought it was one of those like, Tale of Two Cities, fucking, like, boring English literature major books, like Beowulf or any of those where you have to study it for the good of the, the academicism of it all, but not for like it's a great book. Count of Monte Cristo was a fantastic movie, and the lead guy, hot. And so I want to read it, and it's got a 4.3 on Goodreads, and it's a classic.

Like, it's an instant classic. Another one is East of Eden by John Steinbeck. And John Steinbeck wrote of Mice and Men, wrote, yes, of Mice and Men published in 1937. That's crazy. George Milton and Lennie Small. Yeah, that book fucked me up as a teenager, dude. Like, like really, really disturbed me. Honestly, in retrospect, a great book, though.

Like a crazy, sad, what the fuck type of book. I kind of want to reread it. And it's short, too. A lot of these, thank God, a lot of these older. books are shorter because I'm used to reading Kingdom of Ash, which is 900 pages, or Court of Mist and Fury, which is like 600 pages, or even Iron Flame was so long. And it's great, you know, it's entertaining, it's compelling, but there's something special about a really great story told in 150 pages.

So East of Eden is on there. I really don't know that much about East of Eden. In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden the first book. and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, the sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families, the Trask and the Hamiltons, whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve.

What the fuck? And the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Adam Trask came to California from the east to farm and raise his family on the new rich land. But the birth of his twins, Cal and Aaron, brings his sons, wife to the brink of madness and Adam is left alone to raise his boys to manhood. One boy thrives nurtured by the love of all those around him, the other grows up in loneliness, enveloped by a mysterious darkness. First published in 1952, East of Eden is the work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes, the mystery of identity, the inexplicality of

love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. A masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years, East of Eden is a powerful and vastly ambitious novel that is at once, a family saga and a modern retelling of the book of Genesis. Oh my God, I cannot wait to read that. Another one is, ooh, the Jakarta method. Washington's anti-communist crusade and the mass murder program that shaped our world by Vincent Bevins. Are you kidding?

I want to read all these. There's just not enough hours in the day. Oh, why I'm no longer talking to white people about race by Renee. Eddo Lodge, that's been on my list for a while. Ain't I a woman, black women and feminism by Bell Hooks. Revolution at Point Zero. Housework, reproduction, and feminist struggle by Sylvia Federici. All these are on my list. Ooh, this one, this one, dude. America's deadliest export, democracy, the truth about U.S. foreign policy and everything else by William Blum. Because in this vein of, you know, like, I'm so tired of feeling like, I mean, I don't defend America. I know,

never really do. But I recognize the inherent privilege in being born in America and being an American citizen, but also what I lack as an American citizen, which is like worldly awareness, fucking health care, you know, like love and respect for my fellow man, so many things that are deeply ingrained in American culture that like I have to actively unlearned. because it was taught to me. And I'm not even going to mention religion as it relates to that. But like, getting out of that mindset, I don't want to be just another stupid American. In that note, another one is Dear America, Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio

Bargas. And this one was recommended a lot on Goodreads, actually. I saw it as recommendations for some of the other types of books. I've got a bunch of Maya Angelou on here. It's just stuff, you know, that's like, yeah, girl, you should have read that. And I just haven't. A lot of these I read in school, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 1984 by George Orwell. I want to read them. Oh, Butchers Crossing by John Williams is one I want to read too. It's like a crazy, creepy thriller. Anyway, yeah, a lot of them are, I remember

studying them in school, but I want to read them as a pleasure read to see how I think about it as an adult, especially something like Animal Farm, because Animal Farm is about communism, isn't it? Animal Farm is a beast fable in the form of a satirical allegorical novella published in 1945. It tells the story of a group of anthropomorphic farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Guess what? They're not. Oh my God, I want to read Animal Farm again. I think I actually have it.

Anyway, guys, that is my... This was just a big, like, book review. Book review, book club. Thank you for coming to Brothky Nation Book Club. If y'all are readers, drop your thoughts in the comments on the YouTube video because I would love some thoughts on, first of all, the fantasy romance novels

that I mentioned, if they're worth my time before I go and spend. Books are like $1799 for that shit. So if I spend $17.99 on a book and it's ass, I'm livid. I'm going to be fucking mad. I honestly need to get a library card. But there's a magic. and owning the books and keeping them on my shelf.

Like, I love that. I love collecting books. Yeah, so yeah, let me know your thoughts. And on some of the classics I mentioned, let me know kind of what order I should maybe read them in because it's not like they're related, but, you know, if I'm reading America's Deadliest Export Democracy, maybe I should read that with, like, animal farm.

Or something like that. All right, thanks, team. Loving you. And get your merch. It's out, remember. and we'll see you next time. Godspeed, God bless. At the time,

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