The Broski Report with Brittany Broski - 80: Count Orlok Teaches Thermodynamics

Episode Date: January 21, 2025

This week on The Broski Report, Fearless Leader Brittany Broski addresses the TikTok ban, shares her personal convictions for the year, and researches thermodynamics. 👕 Get your merch here: https://broski.shop/ Follow The Broski Report:https://www.linktr.ee/broskireporthttps://www.tiktok.com/@broskireport https://instagram.com/broskireport Follow Brittany:https://www.tiktok.com/@brittany_broski https://instagram.com/brittany_broski https://youtube.com/brittany_broski Follow Royal Court:https://www.youtube.com/@royalcourt https://www.tiktok.com/@bbroyalcourthttps://www.instagram.com/royalcourthttps://www.twitter.com/bbroyalcourt Brought to You By: Stitch Fix – Personal Styling for Everyone at https://stitchfix.com/broski Honeylove – Save 20% site-wide at https://honeylove.com/broski Shopify – Sign up for your $1/mo trial at https://shopify.com/broski Song of The Week:When We Die (Can We Still Get High?) by YUNGBLUD feat. Lil YachtyReproductive Resources:https://aidaccess.org https://plancpills.org https://Ineedana.com https://www.reprolegalhelpline.org/ https://heyjane.com LGBTQ+ Resources:https://Translifeline.org https://Glaad.org  https://Pflag.org https://www.thetrevorproject.org/ Climate Resources:https://Oceanconservancy.org https://Climateemergencyfund.org Some helpful credible resources/links to help Free Palestine:Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund - https://www.pcrf.net/UNICEF - https://www.unicefusa.org/stories/helping-gazas-children-cope-traumaDoctors Without Borders - https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/secure/give-monthly-double-your-impact-search-onetime-reverse-mobile?ms=ADD2301U3U49&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=BRAND.DWB_CKMSF-BRAND.DWB-GS-GS-ALL-DWBBrand.E-BO-ALL-RSA-RSARefresh.1-MONTHLY&gclid=Cj0KCQjw6PGxBhCVARIsAIumnWZpQAMikxPIRiPMfAjYsJZ-eHiRQV2pw7tu2Jlo6YL8Gk_uaTSwH0MaAtFGEALw_wcWorld Central Kitchen - https://wck.org/World Health Organization - https://www.who.int/Headcount - https://www.headcount.org/IG ACCOUNTS TO FOLLOW:@eye.on.palestine@aljazeeraenglish@palestinianyouthmovement@byplestia@motaz_azaiza@impact  CHAPTERS:00:00 – Intro00:47 – TikTok Ban01:29 – State of The Union07:55 – SoCal Fires17:38 – Superstitions20:01 – Swedish Massage 23:47 – Personal Convictions28:46 – Bad Bunny29:51 – Self Identity32:03 – Bad Bunny cont. 36:11 – Superstitions40:52 – Thermodynamics55:10 – Stream of Consciousness57:56 – Songs of The Week1:03:35 – Outro#brittanybroski, #broski, #broskination, #broskireport, #tiktok, #climate, #fire, #palisades, #massage, #convictions, #resolution, #newyearsresolution, #badbunny, #muse, #physics, #thermodynamics

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I am your host, Count Orlock. You will address me by the honor of my family name. If you guys have seen Osferatu, you know that's really good. If you guys have seen Osferatu the way that I saw Nosferatu, You would say it's pretty good. Welcome back. Today we are talking about the TikTok ban. Three nights.

On the third night, Donald Trump will bring back TikTok. The ban will be buried in an aid bill. extension of 60 days and 60 nights. It's good. Oh, y'all. If there was any doubt or question that we were living in a fucking hellscape, let me go ahead and just confirm it for you. L.A. is on fire. Texas is frozen.

New York's under 45 inches of snow. Trump's going to be president again, and they banned TikTok, they brought it back, okay? And I cut my own bangs, whatever. It's just getting, it's not even like, I don't have jokes. You know what I mean? I used to make such intense fun of the millennials who used to do that. Everything is fine. That dog.

This is fine. Everything's okay. And now I'm like approaching my 30s and I'm like, dog-o. Yes, pupper, yes, okay, Wednesday be like. Yes, mustache moment, where did this mustache tattoo come from? Like, I'm, you know what I mean? I'm like, I get, I get why they act like that. I get why y'all do that, because it's a lot.

Oh, my God, I saw this video the other day talking about how we're like the last competent generation who like cares about, history and like, I don't know, the rise of fascism in the United States of America. For a country that will fall on its sword at the fucking mention of freedom, of the concept of freedom, right? We fight wars for freedom. The best of us have died in the name of freedom. My own dad was in the military fighting for our freedom. Like in a world where we've been bred, It's almost this fetishized concept we jerk off to. Freedom, freedom, freedom.

And while I am very, very lucky and grateful to have been born in the United States and live in the United States, okay? Do not take this as me being anti-American. I like my country. That's why I have such intense problems with it. That's why there is so much to change about it. A country founded on equality. What a fucking joke. What a laughable joke.

That's why it's like, you know, this, and there's people in my family who do it to me. I'm like, well, if you don't like it, then leave. I don't want to. You know what I mean? Like, that was never, that was never on the table. I want to fix it. And I want to fix it for not only me and my immediate circle, but every fucking person in the United States who feels like the government does not give a fuck if they live or die.

which if you're not a straight white man, they don't give a fuck if you live or die. It's just like getting to a point where it's always felt dystopian. Always. And y'all have heard me rant, now I'm mad. Y'all have heard me rant for literally months on this podcast

at this point of like reading Orwellian literature, reading Ray Bradbury, reading all of these, the greats that were so cognizant and observant in their time of the way that things were trending. These people lived through World War II. They saw the rise of fascism

and what it looks like and how scary the future looks. Book burning, book banning. Things are outlawed, stripped of your rights, women are not... It's just like we've seen this before and this is not to fearmonger

but it's to say the cycle can only repeat itself if you let it. I have never felt represented by my representatives ever since I've been a voting age damn near 10 years. 10 years.

this point since I turned 18. I have never felt represented in whatever state I've lived in, whatever fucking city, county, never. It's just, it's to a point where it's hard to have hope. But we do. But I do. I do have hope. And you know what part of that hope is, is that my hope is the pendulum will swing so far back to the left after this Trump bullshit's over. After he can no longer run, after we're done with this whole era, I'm sick of it, I want it behind us. My hope is that the pendulum will swing from alt-right all the way back to, let's get some freedoms going. Let's get some actual freedoms going if you look up what freedom actually means. it's infuriating and it's embarrassing

every time I leave this country and I go somewhere else I'm embarrassed to be American and I don't want to feel that way it's just a lot y'all and the TikTok ban is just you know it's icing on the cake I don't believe for a fucking second that the real reason for all this is national security while there may be some legitimacy to some of those claims

for a country that jerks off at the idea of freedom to strip something like this away from 170 million Americans are you out of your mind and then to bring it back the next day with a Trump propaganda and the fucking pop-up it's just a lot

it's a lot all the time there is never rest there's never recuse isn't that a word to excuse oneself excuse oneself because of a potential conflict of interest or lack of imparsher

impartiality, impartiality. Recuse. Recused. Recusing. Challenge as unqualified to perform legal duties because of a potential conflict of duty. Yeah, sure. It applies. It applies in a metaphorical sense.

I need to be honest with you guys, okay? Came in, hot off the press with that count or luck impression. I had a red bull about 45 minutes ago. And I had an edible about 35 minutes ago. And now with my body, okay, edibles take about, give or take 55 to 75 minutes to kick in. I'm a ticking time bomb right now. I am a ticking living time bomb when it comes to, you know, hybrid, sour, chewable gummy. So just prepare for that.

You've been warned. You've been briefed. And let's kind of launch into what we need to talk about. And actually, let me say something really quick, too. I live in Los Angeles. there was a reason there was done an episode last week. It was on fire, okay? The whole city is on fire.

Still is. They're still fighting the Palisades fire. This is a direct, you know, consequence of climate change. And that goes without saying. And it needs to be acknowledged. And it's going to keep happening. It's going to keep getting worse until it's your city that's, you know, on fire or underwater. And it's horrifying to watch.

But let me tell you something that is a very bright light through all of this. This city, I moved to Los Angeles five years ago, and it took me a minute to acclimate to the lifestyle here, to the type of people here. But I did, and I have, and I am. I have wonderful, some of my best friends are out here. This is my home. I feel so at home here. I love California. And there's something to be said about being a transplant to a state that you didn't grow up in,

you know, you really had no ties to, to feel such a part of the community that when something like this happens, to watch everyone band together, you know, L.A. gets a lot of shit. And L.A. is culpable for a lot of shit. But at the core of it, you have to believe that people are good. and they care about each other. And these fires have proven that 100%. It's going to make me cry, actually. The way people came together donating clothes, pet supplies, baby food, diapers to these people

who have lost everything they've ever had. Those firefighters are the bravest among us, the bravest most selfless, honorable people among us. I mean, just modern superheroes. It is insane. Some of these videos, some of this footage, these drops from helicopters with the water and the red fire retardant. It's just all of these things are just, it's unimaginable in the best way. It's unimaginable that that many people would band together and help each other. You don't see that.

When the government will not help you, your neighbor will. And it was like, you know, I'm so used to being in this state of the way that this state treats homeless people, the way that they treat people under the poverty line. It's just, it was such a breath of fresh air. And I, me and all my friends, you know, donated to a lot of the religious. relief funds, the mutual aid, the young women shelters. I mean, all these different people. The thing about natural disaster is it does not discriminate.

And they were saying that, you know, there could be arsonists involved in this, which let me just say, hell is hot. Hell is hot to exacerbate a problem like this or to start. It is unthinkable, that type of fucking evil. Anyway, I evacuated because my area was in the middle of three of the huge fires, because they just started popping up just every day, every few hours it felt like. The winds were getting up to 30, 40 miles an hour in my neighborhood. You never think that's going to happen to you.

You never think it's going to happen to your house. You're never going to have to pack a go bag and potable water. potable water and non-perishable foods. You never think that's going to be you until it is. We got up to an evacuation warning where I am, and I took that as, fuck you, I am out of here. I'm not going to be one of those rednecks that stays

or like, the storm will pass. It's a fire. Fires on the top of mountains with winds at 50 to 70 miles an hour blowing burning embers. It catches one palm tree and it'll burn down your neighborhood. It's just unthink.

I evacuated, and it's amazing how little, I mean, I sound like a broken clock at this point because I've been talking about it so much. But it is amazing how little matters when something like that happens. You know what I grabbed? When I was packing up quickly, I packed up in 30 minutes and I was out of here. Underware, my hard drives, some photos, and my laptop. Like, nothing, my Kindle. You know what I mean? Like it was all my, my tech and my memories, and that was honestly it.

This camera equipment, I don't give a fuck. The Royal Court Studio, I don't care. Like, it's just like, I want to make sure everyone I love is out of here. And I want to, nothing matters as much as your life and, like, the memories you've made. And it's something like that. It's unfortunate that a situation like that will remind you, you know. and it's very humbling and it's very human and it is so panicky. It was so scary.

And I can't imagine. I have a few friends who lost their homes. It is so scary. And multiple things can be true at once of like you can lose everything and be just grateful that you and everyone you love got out. You can rebuild, you know. It'll take. time and it'll be hard and it'll be it'll be devastating but you will be okay again

especially with the outpouring of support from a community like this i mean it's you will be fine you will be cared for it and taken taken care of oh but my god it was just unimaginable and it's still going on and i'm back and then it's another thing of like the air quality here who's to say there's fucking asbestos and microplastics in the air what are you going to do Life goes on. It's just been heavy, heavy hit after heavy hit after heavy hit. And it's, it's, so I just wanted to take a second and say if any of y'all have donated to any of those aid funds, I would keep it local. I would not go for one of those big, nasty non-profits, which are really for-profits.

You know, I would have faith in your fellow man before that. So I, it's just been a lot. Okay, let's move on to something a bit more positive. Okay. It's game day. Are you moderate to severe Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis symptoms keeping you from the action? Skyrizy, Rizzenkizumab Rizza, could help you get back to the game. Sky Rizzi is proven to help people feel significant symptom relief, achieve remission, and visibly

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We're at the top of the year. And I know I talk some shit on New Year's resolutions, okay? Which I am against because the winter is a time for rest. okay, not change, not radical change in the middle of when you're supposed to be dormant. But there is something to be discussed around look and setting off the year with good intentions, with good omens, with good luck. And I've always, I think I've talked about this before. I was raised very religious, but at the same time, superstition runs pretty deep in my family.

I was taught about a lot of different superstitions, you know, about knocking on wood and don't put a cowboy hat on a bed. Don't put any hat on a bed. It's bad luck. Don't walk under ladders. You know, don't do this. Don't do that. It's things that I keep with me. And maybe it's undiagnosed OCD, sure.

Who's to say? Not me. But part of that is, you know, it's this delicate balance. If I try to put out very positive energy into the world and you will get it. get positive energy back. And it's that simple. If you are a negative succubes of a person and you're like, why do bad things always happen to me?

Girl, look in the fucking mirror. Figure it out. Okay? It's about what you put out. And it's not always the easiest to put out good energy, but it pays. It more than doubles. Okay, if you invest a good amount of image, if you invest one eight ounce cap of good energy, I would say that return is going to be about a triple.

Okay, you're going to get about 24 ounces back of good energy back to you. Okay, and I would say that is sort of in the form of opportunity, money, friendships, beautiful days, okay? Things like that. I truly do think that it is a cyclical loop. And my edible just came up behind me and started to massage on my shoulders. Okay, so just know that. know that that's happening right now. The Ed Bull just walked in the room.

Hey, girl, how you do? Oh, I started massaging my shoulders. Okay. He's about to get a sexual misconduct charge in the workplace. Hold on. Don't start. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Speaking of massage, I got a massage the other day.

What are they called a Swedish, Swedish baliage massage or whatever the fuck it's called? Where they rub your feet and give you a baliage? No, what the fuck is it called? Swedish. Bolly massage. Balinese. Balinese. Okay, my Swedish spaghetti balinese, balinese. Okay, don't ask what goes into that. A Swedish massage. This is from Gemini, Google's AI overview. Swedish and Balinese massages are both types of massage that can help with relaxation and muscle tension, but they use different techniques. Swedish massage is more methodical, while Balinese massage is more holistic and uses a wider range of techniques.

Swedish uses long gliding strokes. What the fuck? Kneating, tapping, friction, and vibration. Focuses on improving circulation and muscle relaxation. Let me tell you some. I went to this place, had great reviews. I've gotten my legs waxed there once before, but it was kind of expensive, so now I go somewhere else. This spa, I walk in, and first of all, it's hot as fuck in there.

I'm mad. I'm pissed off. But I was like, whatever, hopefully they got a fan in the room. I go in the room, there is a fan, it's not on. I'm too embarrassed to ask her to turn it on. She goes, get naked. I said, okay, I got naked, get in the bed. And then she goes, tell me about the pressure, okay, if it's too deep, like, whatever.

And I'm like, no, because I've got this not. in my neck. I've got this knot on both sides of my neck that feels like a fucking golf ball. It's awful, and I've had it for probably eight years, and sometimes it pinches. It pinches my nerves. And I got to grab it, okay?

I was like, I'm finally going to go get this shit rubbed out. I need to rub down. I need to baliage, balanais, rub down. So I went in there, and I didn't tell her anything. She was like, you got any medical problems? I was like, no. And I should have told her I was sciatica because she was grinding her elbow into my sciatic nerve. And I said, it hurt.

But I was like, you know what? It's good. Let it happen because all of my muscles need, especially because I've been doing bar method, which is essentially it incorporates a lot of ballet, which is so hard on the muscles. Ballet is hard as fuck. Obviously, I talked about that two weeks ago. I love ballet.

still very into it. I can tell you, I can tell you and walk you through Nutcracker. Okay? I'm still going to see Swan Lake in February in New York.

Very excited about that. But yeah, bar method is like really, the next day you're sore on muscles you didn't know you had. Like the muscle right under your butt cheek to the back of your thigh.

That muscle? Whatever the fuck that is. It hurts. It's sore. Your inner thigh, your like gooch muscles, sore. Anyway, this massage, she was grinding that hoe.

She was grinding into my little golf balls. And so it's sore today, but it's not pinching. Hopefully it fixed it. But yeah, I didn't know. I don't know the difference between Swedish and Boulinets, Bolognais. Okay, even after. A lot of this time, this AI stuff doesn't, it even says it. Generative AI is experimental.

You can't really trust it. You still should be clicking on links, okay? Oh, and this is what I was going to say about back to the resolutions, because we'll get into, can I talk? Wellness, longevity, health as a lifestyle. Every week, a new trend explodes across the media landscape. And depending on who's talking, it's either a miracle breakthrough or just expensive hype dressed up as science. Enter Kara Swisher. She's here to cut through the noise with her signature edge, sharp, skeptical, and allergic to nonsense.

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I'm going to start with option A. New Year's resolutions, I have so new personal convictions that I would, would like to detail. And then option B, which we'll go down later, is I want to detail some superstitions and why they came to be. So we're going to do some research on that today, okay, because there are some superstitions that I believe, to my core, almost as pillars of my being. And they don't make any sense when you really think about them. So I want to Google it, do some research, figure out where they come from, why it started, if there's any validity to it, and if I can let it go. Okay, so let's start with A. Here are my new personal convictions.

be a student of what you admire. Love that. There are so many artistic disciplines and things I want to do in life. And part of the reason that the TikTok band was so confusing for so many different reasons and upsetting and frustrating,

but I saw a silver lining, which is, I'm free. Like walking out of the cave. You know what I mean? It was like here is genuinely five to six hours of my day just opened up. That's what it felt like.

And now TikTok's back and I'm like, yay! Shit. Ah, shit. So I think that it's going to be about balance for me in the new year, which it usually is about balance, but I have yet to strike that balance. So we're going to talk about the superstitions later. Here's my second personal conviction.

revel in the analog. Now this relates back to what I just said. Revel in the analog. Everything I do is assisted by technology in some way. The lights in my house are hooked up to Google. The music I listen to is hooked up to Google. My TVs have fucking voice recognition AI on them. My Google searches have AI.

My emails are being summarized by AI. everything has technology as it, and I'm not complaining, okay? I'm not complaining because it makes my life easier. But at the same time, you don't want to become dependent upon it. And there is beauty in the analog, and having an analog watch, and writing notes by hand, in typing in someone's phone number to call them, to memorize your friend's phone numbers. I mean, writing a journal entry with a pen and paper, which I don't do.

Sometimes, I mean, usually I type my journals. It's like there are so many things that I want to have a return to the physicality and materialism of certain aspects of life. I'm going to give away my curig. I think I'm done with it. I just, it's nasty. Curig is gross. I've never made a cup of curig coffee and been like, ooh, delicious. It's just like, well, guess I got to drink this.

glad that the curing itself is like $100 and that the K-cups themselves are like $700. Do you know how much money I've spent on curing K-cups in my life? How much plastic waste I've made. Stupid, stupid, stupid. It is, it's time to revel in the analog. So that's what I'm, that is something that I am going to really infokarme. I'm going to infocarm me. focus myself on it, okay? And my third one, action absorbs anxiety. Let me say that to you one more

time, church. Action absorbs anxiety. Anytime I'm anxious, anytime I'm panicky, any time that it feels too much, which that feeling happens a lot, almost every day. Doing something. Doing a physical task takes your mind off of it. You have something to do. Okay, if you have something to do, you can't think about that. And for a lot of people, me included, TikTok is that. It's something to do. It's not productive and it's not necessarily good for the brain. So with that being said, I think that action absorbing anxiety, there are things that I want to try that when I'm feeling anxious, I should probably sit down and attempt that because that takes a lot of brain power to sit down and figure out how to make something out of clay or how to crochet or how to do any

of these things. Cross stitching. I don't fucking care anything to take me out of that space. Action absorbs anxiety. That's going to be in my head. Okay? It's a quick fix. It is a quick fix remedy. And it works every time. Now let me tell you something about Bad Bunny's album. completely pivot, okay? Because I said Infocarmé. Bad Bunny's album. He, a long time ago for me, reached a level of artistry

that true artists can only hope to achieve. Bad Bunny has continuously put Puerto Rico on his fucking back. Bad Bunny has changed societal expectations. He's normal. We always talk about normalize this, normalize this, normalize that. Bad Bunny being himself is normal because he believes to his core that it is normal. Therefore it is.

Like he's not trying to convince you of anything. He's not trying to convince you that men can, it's none of that. He's going to do him and it's fucking cool. You know what I mean? There is release in just being yourself. I have so much to talk about. I have so much say I have so many opinions. I saw something else the other day that really struck a chord with me of people don't have personal style because they don't have an identity.

You don't have an identity based not on trends. You don't have hobbies. You don't have things that make you you. Everything about you is an imitation of someone else. You know, do you freak your own shit? Here are my, welcome back to welcome back. to my life advice section. Action absorbs anxiety.

Revel in the analog. Be yourself unabashedly. And if you don't know who you are, sit with that. Figure it out. Sit in the discomfort of not knowing yourself. And come back when you have an idea. You know what I mean?

We perform ourselves every day. We perform the ritual of ourselves and we have lost ourselves somewhere in that process. It's sickening to think about. And that's why these companies profit off of young people not having any personal convictions or an identity or something to base their worldview on. They're young, impressionable, and seeking dopamine hits.

It's just nasty. Anyway, figure out who you are. That's my mission for you guys in the 2025 year. In the year of Our Lord 2025, it's a hard task, and it's harder to start from zero. You know, there's a lot of cases where you can go back to who you were as a child and what you loved and what you did and what brought you joy and what you watched. And in my case and in a lot of my friends' cases, very minimal has changed. Very, very little has changed. You know, I am 14-year-old me.

I am 8-year-old me. And that is very comforting. And sure, there's parts of that that, you know, you don't want to keep around, and that's called self-improvement. It's called working on yourself, and that's okay. Anyway, back to Bad Bunny. Bad Bunny. Devi Tomar more photos. De when you te tuve.

Anyway, I think that bad bunny, like I was saying, is a, you know, true artista. He is the definition of artista. And to live, he's a shining example to me of someone who lives out loud. He's himself. He sings about what he wants to sing about. He's going to do what he wants to do. He had this great interview where he was saying, someone asked him, do you ever think about how, you know, your music does so well in these primarily English-speaking countries, do you ever worry that your fans can't understand or are you going to do an album in English? And he goes, my music isn't for them. If they like it, great. But I don't make music for English speakers. And I said, period. Yeah. Absolutely. You know, you don't mold yourself to

fit into a square hole. Square hole. Square. Square. You don't mold yourself to fit someone else as mold or idea of what you should be doing or what you are doing or, you know, make it more marketable. He doesn't care. And guess what? His music still does well, as it should, because it's fucking good. And emotion transcends language. You don't have to speak Spanish to feel a heart of what Bad Bunny's saying and the significance

of his music. And if you gave a shit to do any research into it, there is so much, I mean, just, there's so much to say. The album focuses on, well, debito on most photos is, is I should have taken. taking more pictures. And there was a trend on TikTok, which I'm sure y'all have seen, of people posting about, like, their relatives or their grandparents or their parents or their friends who have passed, or like even their siblings who are still alive, but just, you know, maybe they've drifted or it's any relationship that you wish you had taken more care to record the memories a bit better.

And it's so painfully human. We focus on the wrong things. You know, we record every concert we go to. We video every concert and fireworks show and this, that, and the other, and then we don't take pictures with our friends. You know, we don't take pictures with our grandparents and our aunts and uncles. And it's just such an, I think, timely reminder that the digital age just bleeds us dry. It bleeds us dry.

It unites us, it tears us apart, it bleeds us dry, it pours back into our cup. It is everything, everywhere, all it wants, all time. So, Bed Bunny's album, fantastic. My favorite song, Café con Rome. Fantastic. Baile Inolvibisable. Baile Inolvibable. No, no, I can't borrow.

Me ensignate to care. Me ensigniote, so good. The album is a perfect balance of like the fun songs with the horrifyingly sad songs with the culturally conscious songs. A lot of the themes in this album

are colonization, gentrification, these things that heavily impact Puerto Rico and how the people of Puerto Rico have endured so much and they will continue to endure because they're a strong, proud people. And he celebrates it at every chance he gets, and it's beautiful. I mean, even on however many albums ago, that was his song El Apagon, that means blackout, which is about the power grid

blackouts in Puerto Rico that they're used to because the United States doesn't give a fuck about Puerto Rico because it's racist. The United States government is a racist institution. Okay, anyway, let's go ahead and move on. Okay, here are some of my superstitions. I always knock on wood, so let's go ahead and Google that. Let's go to history.com. Okay. One common explanation traces the phenomenon of saying knock on wood or knocking on wood to ancient pagan cultures such as the Celts, who believed that spirits and gods resided in trees. knocking on tree trunks may have served to rouse the spirits and call on their protection, but it could have also been a way of showing gratitude for a stroke of good luck. Yet another theory is that people knocked on wood to chase away evil spirits or prevent them from listening in when they boasted about their luck,

thereby preventing a reversal of fortune. Damn, sounds like some shit I'd do. Christians, meanwhile, have often linked the practice to the wood of the cross from Christ's crucifixion. What? Other researchers consider knocking on wood a more recent phenomenon. In his book, The Lour of the Playground, British Folklorist, what a cool job. Holy shit, is that a real job? Folklorist?

A folklorist is a scholar who studies and documents traditional ways of life, including stories, music, and cultural practices. Folklorists analyze how these practices influence people's identities and worldviews. Holy shit! Other researchers consider knocking on wood a more recent phenomenon. Okay, British folklorist Steve Roud traces the practice to a 19th century children's game called TIGY Touchwood, a type of tag in which players were immune from being caught whenever they touched a piece of wood, such as a door or a tree. Given that the game was concerned with protection and was well known to adults as well as children,

it's almost certainly the origin of our modern superstitious practice of saying touch wood. Well, it's not touchwood. Is that a British thing? You all say touchwood. Me when I want to touch a penis, touchwood. The claim that the latter goes back to when we believed in tree spirits is complete nonsense. Well, I think that's a bit unfair, Mr. Folklorist. Aren't you supposed to be the, you're supposed to be the impartial third party.

Complete nonsense is crazy harsh. While the origins of knock on wood may never be known for certain, the superstition remains popular around the globe and has even given rise to several local variations. Turkish people often pull on one earlobe and knock on wood twice to ward off a jinx. Italians, meanwhile, say the phrase, touch iron when trying to avoid tempting fate. Now that is tea. Okay, history.com. So we think it's Celtish, which is Irish?

Or is that Scottish? Okay, I wasn't 100% wrong, but I was not 100%. percent right. The Celtic peoples were a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia. Where the hell is Anatolia? Oh, Asia Minor. Majority of the land area of Turkey. OKT.

Major Celtic groups included the Gauls, the Celtic, Celtiberians, and Galacy of Iberia. The Britons, Picts, Picts, and Gales of Britain and Ireland, the boy, and the Galatians. The interrelationships of ethnicity, language, and culture in the Celtic world are unclear and debated. For example, over the ways in which the Iron Age, people of Britain and Ireland, should be called Celts. And current scholarship, Celt, primarily refers to speakers of Celtic languages rather than to a single ethnic group. T. But you hear about, like, the Celtic not. Celtic, and I've always, these are always

associated with Ireland, and maybe Scotland. Celtic knots are intricate designs made of interlacing lines that symbolize eternity and the interconnectedness of life. Dude, I have to go back to school, because shit like this, this makes me think of the auroboros, which is Greek, which is the snake eating itself, which is another metaphor or image representing the cyclical nature of life and the interconnectedness of all things,

and how something cannot end without a beginning, something cannot begin with at the end of something else, and entropy in the fucking matter of the second law by muse. I just forgot what I was going to say halfway through. Hold on, actually, we're going to take a little field trip to Spotify. Second law by muse. I'll be given, no folks. We came in his money for fun.

What is the song I'm thinking of? The Second Law, Unsustainable. Yeah, dude. Unsustainable. This album changed me. We don't talk. Hold on. Because y'all need to shut the fuck up.

The album, The Second Law by Muse, which is based on the second law of physics, which is, I believe, hold on, let's do a little less. I believe the second law of physics is that matter cannot be created nor destroyed. Everything we have is fixed. Now let's see if I was right. No, that's second law of Newton's second law of motion. No, that's the fucking velocity equation. The acceleration of an object is directly related to the net force and inversely related to its mass. Yeah, girl, that's...

Force equals mass time to acceleration. Fuma. Second law of thermodynamics. Yeah. Intropy. No. First, second, and third laws of thermodynamics. What are we talking about?

The edible just came and patted me on the back and said, It's time to wrap. So I'd carve my asses on the line and let's go. But can I like... I have some stuff in the front? I don't care. Okay. Now this is your final one.

Okay, well, I'm going to run to the back. bathroom. We're like, okay, if you miss that car outside, it's out of my, because I put up with your shit for now. Okay, can we not do this right now? I'm recording. Get in the car. Okay. Guys, I got to go in like 10 minutes. Sorry, just got yelled out by my boss. Well, not my boss. She's my boss, but like, you know, you don't want it to get up to the big guy because he's got a scary, like, Transylvanian accent. And he's got pink and white, french tip nails that are in a coffin shape. And he's like, he's really, really scary. So, okay, the first law of thermodynamics. Okay, back to the first law of thermodynamics. I never thought for a fucking second when I was like,

I want to do a podcast called the Brosecure report that I would be looking up the fucking laws of thermodynamics. That's the stupidest bullshit. I'm mad. I'm mad. And you know what makes even more mad? Sometimes people comment, I learned more from this podcast and I've ever done it. in school. That's scary! That's scary! Did I ever think I'd be in charge of teaching the youth of America thermodynamics? No, but it's a burden I don't take lightly. Okay, we're going to learn this shit and you guys are going to be quizzed in the end. And I got a ghost movie. She's going to yell at me again, okay? Me meeting with my personalities to discuss a rebrand and do a physics teacher. Health is a lifestyle.

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my life for weeks. Don't learn about your shingles risk the hard way. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist today. Sponsored by GSK. My physics teacher in high school fucking sucked. He was mean to me. Well, not mean to me. He was just, he was apathetic. He was not a good teacher in the sense that, like, he yelled at us a lot over shit that we did not need to be yelled at about. And when it came to other students like your English lit teacher or, you know, your language teachers, your history teachers, they really usually care about how you're absorbing the material if you really care if you give a fuck. My A push teacher in high school loved U.S. history. My God, it was all he thought about. U.S. history.

Eat, breathe, shit, and slept U.S. history. That's what I'm talking about, okay? And when I become a nutty old professor, like Willem Defoe and Knows Ferratu, because guess what I will, I will, without a doubt, have thin, wispy white hair and a tuft of eyebrow hairs that are all white. And I'm going to be in my study like, yeah, what he goes there? Oh, my good boy, please come in. That's going to be me. And I already know that because that's kind of me right now. sometimes, you know, you slip into different characters.

Maybe that's just me. Okay, I don't know if you guys are doing backpocket characters in your homes. I'm always sort of practicing backpocket improv characters. Okay, and one of mine is going to be a sort of Einstein type. Nutty old, baddy old professor. Okay, here we go about the thermodynamics. Because I don't want to learn about this, but I think it's important that we all re-study it. I'm not doing this because I want to.

I'm doing this because you guys need it. Because I get a lot of comments. Brittany, what are the three laws of thermodynamics? What are the second law of physics? Okay, and my answer is, well, those are different, okay? Because if you're talking about Newton's second law of motion, that's going to be force equals mass time of acceleration. Okay, phuma. But if you, okay, okay, now understand you're talking about the second law of thermodynamics,

which is basically, if something's hot, it's going to transfer it to something cold. Okay, that's the second law of thermodynamics. And all you physicists, weirdo dorks out there, let me know if I got that wrong. And what is the, what is, I may have answered my own question. The third law of thermodynamics, I'm going to put, I'm going to put $50 on the fact that the third law of thermodynamics is that matter cannot be destroyed or created. Let's see. The first law of thermodynamics, energy can't be created or destroyed. But it can change form.

This law is also known as the law of conservation of energy. You can't want them all. I'm down 50 bucks. Now my boss is going to fire me and I'm out of 50 bucks. So, how's your Tuesday going? The third law of thermodynamics is a perfect crystal at absolute zero has zero entropy. What does that mean? What the fuck does that mean?

entropy approaches zero as temperature approaches absolute zero. Entropy is like atoms bumping around into each other, right? Let me get this. Let me get this straight. Entropy definition. A thermodynamic quantity representing the unavailability of a system's thermal energy for conversion into mechanical work, often interpreted as the degree of disorder or randomness in the system.

system. Entropy, lack of order or predictability, gradual decline into disorder. Unsustainable. That's that muse song. A logarithmic measure of the rate of transfer of information in a particular message or language. Now that doesn't make any damn sense to me. I guess I get it a little bit. Like chaos. Intropy is a measure of of the disorder of a system or energy unavailable to do work. Examples of entropy in everyday life include a drop of food coloring spreading out in a glass of water, a hot cup of coffee cooling down in a room, which means the heat goes everywhere into the air,

a punctured tire releasing air, a burning piece of wood turning to ash and smoke, a messy room gradually becoming more disorganized, or a deck of cards naturally shuffling into a random order. the lower the entropy, the more ordered and less random it is. So that's why, and it has something to do with heat as well, right? Second law of thermodynamics, entropy increases over time in a closed system. This means that heat doesn't spontaneously move from a colder to a hotter region.

I feel like I need to talk to a damn physicist because this is starting to make sense. It's probably why in like a Yeti or any sort of, of insulated cup that's supposed to keep heat in, the entropy is less. Right? The entropy increases over time in a closed system. So it increases. What the fuck? I don't give a shit.

Who the fuck cares about this shit? I care. I cared all along. That's why I googled it. That's why I read out the answer. That's why I included it in this episode. It's because I care deeply. And it infuriates me that I don't understand it.

Okay? You want a rare moment of vulnerability on this podcast? I googled it because I didn't know. How about that? The second and third law are both about fucking entropy? Who gives shit? Entropy approaches zero as temperature approaches absolute zero, which is zero Kelvin or negative 273 degrees Celsius.

This law sets a limit on a limit how cold something can get. That's crazy. How cold... Wait, the center of the earth is hot. How cold is space? The average temperature of space is about 2.7 Kelvin.

Damn. So it's close to... It's close to Absolute Zero. Where is Absolute Zero? Is anything Absolute Zero? What about dry ice? No, nothing can be at Absolute Zero

because it's a theoretical temperature that's impossible to reach. That's stupid as thought. Absolute zero is the temperature at, why does it have to be a finite scale? Why does temperature have to be this is the absolute cold? This is there an absolute heat?

Is there an absolute heat? Yes. According to current physics theories, the absolute hot is referred to as the plank temperature. P-L-A-N-C-K, which is considered the theoretical maximum temperature possible, estimated to be around 1.417 to the 32nd degree Kelvin. At this temperature, our current understanding of physics is believed to break down

due to extreme quantum gravitational effects. It's such a number that it's difficult to comprehend, essentially representing a temperature where the laws of physics, as we know, them might not apply. I just got to chill. Ew. It's theorized that the universe may have been at this temperature for a brief moment right after the Big Bang.

Scientists cannot currently describe what matter would behave like at such an extreme temperature. Why give it a scale? I really don't understand that. Why does... I understand it, I guess, in terms of what could thrive in a temperature like that, but what... what fun are we have in trying to sort of pontificate on that, folks? I'm not, I'm not understanding. Let's go back to, let's go back to the three laws thermodynamics,

because I guess, actually, let's go back to Celtic knots. Shit. Damn. How? Oh my God! Actually, if anyone is a psychiatrist or a psychologist or, like, if you want to study me like a monkey in a zoo, please do.

Because I think something might be, really, really knocked loose. But I don't want to fix it. I just want to know it. Yeah, I've been thinking about that a lot recently. What if something's really for real wrong with me? Should I take some medicine? No.

No. You know? Like, no. Because I don't want to shut her up in here. That's a scary thought to me. If I don't have me, who the fuck do I have? If I don't have me,

who's got me? You know? Let's go back to Celtic Nott. There's a Trinity knot. Okay, you guys might have seen this one before. It's the three, it looks like Zelda. Okay, and maybe I made that up. Zelda logo.

Zelda symbol? Oh, well, yeah, I'm not too far. Triforce, I'm not too far off. What is the Triforce? You know what? How did I know that? And why am I right? That's crazy.

I think about this a lot. I don't ever remember other than like three times in my life, very specific songs, I don't ever remember going and memorizing lyrics to a song. Like, I just pick it up. It's something that I just, I think a lot of comics mimic. That's how they get their start. That's how they are able to deliver a joke well,

is you mimic people. You mimic accents and voices and songs and impressions. You know, if you're a comic that does impressions, that you get what I'm saying. I think that subconsciously I do that and it lends itself to comedy sometimes. It also lends itself to singing. It lends itself to being musical. But this shit kills me. When I'm like, how did my brain, I've never played Zelda.

I have no familiarity with Zelda. And my brain pulled that out of the ether to be like, that looks like the Zelda symbol. What the fuck? Who cares? I don't care about Zelda. What have I been talking about? And I'm still thinking about that conversation I have with my boss. She's mad at me.

Shit. When we die. Okay, let's talk about my songs of the week. Because I've got a new sort of thing going on. I don't know. I'm on a new wave. I'm freaking my shit kind of different this time. Can I say something and you guys not like have any hard opinions on this?

Can I say something and have you guys not like give your opinion? Because it's, this is about. me. It's about me, in my opinion. I don't need anybody in comments on it. Imagine me right now. I'm limiting comments on this post. I'm limiting comments on my next statement. Thank you very much. Here we go. Youngblood has a song with Lil Yachty, little boat, if you will. That is called When We Die. Tell Me Can We Still Get High? Okay. The title is stupid. The song is a transformative mental experience. Spiritual. I was hovering above my vehicle as I was driving down the highway. This song is so good. I'm scared. I'm scared and it's such a like stupid

concept and I can imagine like them being in the studio being like, I don't know if we die Can we still get high? Come on do drugs with me A real lyric What Yaddy says? I don't give a fuck This song is incredible

Go give it a listen now It's been on a cyclical Repeat process I love that song I knew that Yadi did Like sort of Tame Impala type vibe A few years ago or a few albums ago And I heard one song from it

And I was like Oh this is good and I never like listened to the full thing. I went back and revisited it. What is it called? What's the name of the album? It's called Let's Start Here, and it came out in 2023. And the song that I love.

I love this song. It's called The Ride. Three minutes long, it's amazing. I listen to The Ride, and what's the other one I like? The Alchemist. And when we die, every single day for the past like week and a half. I'm addicted to it.

I don't know what it is. It's so, because I love Tame and Pala. Like every single year they're in my top artist because it, uh, the end, what is that album called?

Never ridden. Tame and Pala has an album, what the fuck was I talking about? Their album's Slow Rush, the Slow Rush. It's like one of my most listened to ever, because I used to fall asleep to it on plane. because it's very like, it's like one long song, it feels like.

And I just love him. I love Kevin. He's such a genius visionary. And I'm, I know that him and Yadi have done some collabs before and they're always good. And the visuals are always amazing. And so I was like, okay, let me lock in. Let me lock in. So good.

Love that album, Yadi. Well, Yaddy, I'm sending this to you. That was a big hand heart. What the fuck else? Never end up. Yeah, and I don't know. Youngblood is so genuine and himself. You can't help but like him.

You know what I mean? He is so intentional and loving with his fans and the community he's built. he put on like a music festival. I love him. I love him and I find him very entertaining. And his music is... I've been banging it. I've been bumping that.

Bumping that. I've also been listening to a lot of ballet music because, duh, a lot of Tchaikovsky. A lot of Tchaikovsky. What's his first name? Dmitri, Theodore. Should we... Should we make some...

some more bets. I'm already down to 50 fucking dollars. I'm never in time. This is Chikovsky. I think that wasn't anywhere close. Pioter Ilik Chikovsky. Peter Ilik Chikovsky. How do you say his name? Piotr?

Piotr Ilyche Chikovsky. Piotr O'Leach? Okay, we're gonna watch a YouTube video. Peter Ilych Chikovsky. Peter... Iliich. That's crazy. Oh, I forgot when we were talking about thermodynamics.

That's about to piss me off all over again! Absolute hot, the plank temperature. Okay guys, I think that'll do it for me to be completely honest and serious with you. I think I'm just about talking up. Thank you for joining me today. If you are desperately needing a Brodsky Report hoodie in your life, go to broskey. Dot shop. If you need a Moomoo to sleep in, do housework in, sweat your balls off in, go to broskey.

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Hold on. Little Jonas Brothers for you. Let me do that again. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.

Hold on. Cut that. I'm mad. I just made myself mad. Cut that. I just pissed myself out. Ow. What the fuck.

Okay, guys. Thanks for listening. Thanks for watching. I don't know why. I don't know why you watch. I don't know what possibly. could interest you. Unless it's thermodynamics, then guess what? You're in luck. All right, y'all. I'll see you next week. Kisses. Kisses to me. Bye. Bye. By the time I hit my 50s,

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