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COVID-19 and flu viruses disguise themselves to fool your immune system. That's why COVID-19 and flu vaccines are updated to protect you. Stay up to date on COVID-19 and flu vaccinations. Sponsored by Champions for Vaccine Education, Equity and Progress. Direct from the Broski Nation headquarters in Los Angeles, California. This is the Broski Report with your host, Brittany Broski. Good morning, Broski Nation. We are doing Juneberry Red Bull this morning.
And by this morning, I mean 12:11 PM noon. My heart feels like it's going to explode. Okay? Oh, I didn't turn on this fucking light. Hold on, Broski Nation. Jesus Christ. Get it together, guys. Get it together! Wake! God, is it that hard? Episode's in, I can't remember to turn on a fight!
This week has been the week from hell, okay? Do you ever get in one of those moods where it's like, I cannot do anything right? I am a failure. I am ugly. I'm a failure. Everyone's right. And then I wake up the next morning and I go, what the fuck was I talking about? I am taking, okay, not to get like to an update on my medical diagnosis. All right, guys, welcome back to my chart. I'm going to give you my diagnosis.
I went to the doctor about my irregular menstrual cycle. And ding, ding, ding, you guessed it, I have PCOS.
Now, what does this mean? Not much, okay? It's confirming what I kind of already knew. I knew there was something going on there and all of my symptoms matched the PCOS diagnosis. And so now it's a matter of how do you fix it? And I know I asked for all y'all's comments in the last episode, but please don't this time. Just, hey, don't comment on my medical history, by the way, because I'm in a very fragile mental state right now.
PCOS basically means that I'm growing chin hair. I'm growing chin hair. My uterine, in the body, what's happening is the uterine walls are not shedding the lining properly and complications with that can lead to eventual cancer.
cancer in worst case scenarios but it can also lead to I mean just you know something's not not regulating itself properly in my body and that's a hormone imbalance and it explains a lot of kind of what I've been experiencing the last honestly like two to three years so I need to go back to the doctor and figure out the plan moving forward I'm on these these period pills
I'm on these period pills where it'll force you to have a period. Hey, I feel like I need to be placed in an institute for many reasons. But for right now, it's like at the drop of a hat, I could start crying. I could start crying at any moment. I cried all night last night over nothing. I was just like, oh, and it felt so good to cry. And then it's so sad to cry because like, why am I crying? What's wrong? And then that makes me cry too. And so right now I'm feeling very fragile.
So don't, please don't be mean to me. Please, for the love of Christ, don't be mean to me in the comments. Please, I can't. I actually can't handle it. So I'm on my period pills and it's supposed to regulate my period at least like for this first time until we can. Also, it has a lot to do with diet. I'm now understanding and my diet is, you guessed it, similar to a baby raccoon abandoned by its mother
uh, thrashing around and foraging in a New York City dumpster. Okay? Thrashing around because my right hind leg is injured. And I'm rabid. And I'm chewing on a Snickers bar. I'm chewing...
Okay, and I've got my little raccoon hands. And I'm like ferociously trying to undo the Snickers wrapper because it's... Oh, and it was a Snickers ice cream and so it had melted and now it's seeping out the side. I'm licking it. And then someone opens the dumpster thing. Okay, so this is a dumpster bin outside of a restaurant in New York City. Someone opens the dumpster lid and sees me and I... Actually, maybe I'm a possum. I'm not a raccoon. Raccoons are too cute. I'm a possum. I look up and it goes, oh my god, a baby possum. And then it slings a thing of garbage on top of me. And I...
And then they slam the lid and I die. Okay, that's kind of... What was I talking about? That's how I feel. Oh, my diet. Yeah, I eat like that. I eat like I'm licking the corners of a dirty trash can.
Like that's all the sustenance I can find. Like it is actually appalling and atrocious. If my doctor could see what I'm putting in my body, Popeye's once a week. We're rocking with probably Taco Bell maybe once every two weeks. Takeout probably twice a week. I'll cook a home cooked meal. I travel a lot. And so when I'm on the way back from the airport, I'll just door dash something.
And then I'm only home for like three days and then I'll leave again. So in my mind, I'm like, that's not enough to go out and grocery shop because it's just going to rot in my fridge. So I DoorDash and it's just not anything nourishing or healthy by any means. And when you go on DoorDash and look up healthy options, it's like Chipotle. Chipotle is healthy? What? Are we living in Walmart?
I'm gonna get Wally in my chair with my little screen on and I'm maybe eating my Popeye's Megan Thee Stallion chicken meal. And then I'm over here with my, ooh, my Slurpee from when, ooh. I don't like this show, next! And I think with my brain and it changes the screen for me so I don't even have to raise my hands anymore to change the channel. I just think with the chip in my brain and I say, I want to watch Below Deck on Bravo TV, next! And then it'll pull it out, but I say, ah.
And then the overlord who's watching all of our screens from the control room sees my dopamine level hit a high and he goes, yeah. And then I finished my chicken tender. No! WALL-E kind of had a point. If you think about it, WALL-E is not only a predictive movie, it's a prophecy. It's the prophecy.
It's what is happening and going to happen. Okay? Disney did not know that they were cooking up a modern 21st century prophecy movie with WALL-E. And if you think about it, I'm the little cockroach. That's also... Actually, the cockroach in WALL-E is my pet when I'm the possum in the dumpster. Okay? So I'm... Through the trash bags. And the little roach is like...
Okay? I don't know what that noise was. So that's the health update. Have been better. Have been doing better. Every morning I wake up and my back is locked up. I just really need to take better care of myself. And like, I know that. But like the idea of going on a daily walk every day for some reason, I'm just like, why can't I do it? For someone who preaches about like, life is to be lived and it's so joyous and sorrowful and to be experienced. Hey, my lower back hurts and I don't go on walks.
So I need to really get into that. And you know what part of it is too is like, I think I haven't really admitted this to myself and I haven't even gone in to the doctor to have it confirmed or a therapist. I fired my old therapist. She was an enabler. I definitely think I'm experiencing some form of seasonal depression. And the only motivator that gets me out of bed to do things is my fear of disappointing people.
And you know what? If that's enough of a motivator, then fuck it. It's enough for me. But that is such an unsustainable life flow. I'm no longer doing things for me. I'm doing things so I don't disappoint the people who love me and care about me. And then that's lying to myself. And I don't know. Maybe it's just seasonal. I really don't... I'm not one to like...
self-pity and, you know, oh, woe is me. But sometimes, I don't know, it all has something to do with like my hormones are so out of whack and
And I'm not feeding my body what it needs. And I'm just like sad that I don't, you know, like it has nothing to do with circumstance or environment. It has everything to do with just my brain. So don't know what's going on there. Hoping to get that checked out soon. Okay. I'm going to go to the brain store and get a new one. Hey, do you guys do exchanges? And I rip my brain out and I hand it to them and it's dripping green ooze. It's oozing green juice. I say, hey, do you guys do exchanges? And they're like, no.
Why does it smell like that? I'm like, do you guys, I'm holding it like this from the sides and I'm juicing it. Do you guys do brain exchanges? No, we don't do brain exchanges. Okay, ma'am, if you want to do a brain exchange, you have to have a receipt.
I lost the receipt a few years ago. I don't know I had it and you know one of those like portfolio Hanging folder things you can put in a file cabinet. I don't know where it went ma'am if you want to return your brain Especially in this condition we are going to need to see some proof of purchase. Okay, do you guys do like? Like Apple pay like could you just put the money back on my card? Could you put it in my Apple cash account?
Ma'am, like I said, if you want to return your brain! Okay, anyway. The thought of a new brain being squeaky clean and like pink and smiling and mine is just gray and soggy and like shaking and oozing green. It's got pimples. My brain has boils and it's shaking and it makes this noise. My brain, I hold it out. Do you guys do brain exchanges?
Yeah, that's actually going to be a picture of my brain. So...
Start a show together with your included Paramount Plus subscription. Walmart Plus members save on this plus so much more. Start a 30-day free trial at WalmartPlus.com. Paramount Plus is central plan only. Separate registration required. See Walmart Plus terms and conditions. All right, let's move into Sogs of the Week. Sogs of the Week are going to be... Number one, South Dakota by Chris Stapleton. This is off his new album, Sog.
which I love. And one thing about Chris Stapleton is each album is going to have this like, and for some reason it just happens to be like a state name. I don't know if he's doing that on purpose, but the last album, there was a song called Arkansas, which kind of is a similar vibe. Let me pull it up. Might sound strange. I think I'm in love with you. Ignore it at the time.
Yeah. Okay. So this song, it's called South Dakota. And I like the Chris Templeton songs that are, because he does sad songs very well. Okay. Sad songs. But this song is about, you know, like, or this album kind of explores falling back in love with a partner that you had previously had a large emotional distance from.
A lot of the last album and the album before that are about like cohabiting space and co-parenting with someone who you have fallen out of love with. And at this point, you're just roommates. You make sure the bills are paid on time, but you are not intimate. You are not affectionate. You have completely fallen out of infatuation and love with this person. Also, you know, through the lens of Christianity.
And I know that there is marriage counseling through the church that a lot of Christians will utilize to get their marriage back on track or like refine that spark. And I don't want to assume about, you know, this album, but it gives me that sort of energy because I know that Chris Staples is a very religious man and his wife is too. And so to, to refine that stride, you know, of like, it's honestly a beautiful concept to fall back in love with Christ.
your life and your circumstance and find the joy in it.
and realize maybe you were a part of the loss of that joy. You know, like it's not a... You can't fully cast the blame on your partner. It's partially your responsibility as well to rekindle that love and maybe admit that part of the reason it was lost was because of you. And so this album is just celebrating that. You know, like just being... It's so cute to be in love with your wife, even after all these years, to be so in love with your wife. It's just so cute.
Anyway, that's kind of the larger concept, I would say, of the album. But this one is just fun. South Dakota is a fun song. Arkansas off the last album is a fun song as well. And I tend to lean more towards those. He has a song called Midnight Train to Memphis, which I love. He's got a song called Outlaw State of Mind, Second One to Know. I mean, the list goes on and on of just these like really great... I hate to say country rock because it's not really country. It's like...
I don't know, it's genre bending. I don't, but it definitely is more rock forward.
and I just love those. I love a fast pace where he is singing his ass off and there's these crazy guitar riffs. It's just so, so good. And one of my favorite Chris Stapleton songs of all time, which is kind of a deep cut, is called "Death Row" and it is just the simplest track. It's just a guitar on loop and there's these sound effects of like a jail door swinging and creaking like that, the hinge, the rusty hinge.
And it's like, I don't even know if there's, there are drums on it, but it's almost like, it's just jazz drums almost. It's just like a basic beat and it's kind of slow. And he just shows his vocal range. And it gives me very Johnny Cash vibes because it's talking about being on death row, you know, and he has this fascination with prisons and with how inhumane it is, you know, and, and, uh,
jail culture especially the sort of Johnny Cash Folsom Prison Blues sort of it's just all in my head a very similar type of art so he's got this song called Death Row and I just I'm obsessed with it I don't know why it's no one really talks about it
But the verses, the chorus, the outro is really long. And I think it's just, it's one of those, I always say this, it's one of those songs that, of course, it had to be made. Like, it makes perfect sense. And it was in the marble. And Chris Stapleton had to remove the excess pieces of the marble to reveal the beautiful statue within. That is Death Row to me. He's also got a song called Sometimes I Cry, which is just, oh, oh.
He is a once in a lifetime voice. I just am so in awe of him every time. And that's one of those songs where the first time I listened to it, I literally had to pause it and go, God damn, damn. He sang his pussy off. Oh my God, he sang his pussy off. It's on the floor. That SpongeBob picture of his vagina is just out touching the floor. His vagina. All right, anyway. Okay, so that's going to be song number one.
Song number two, and let me preface this really quick, okay? I'm going to be doing a Google search while I'm explaining this to you, okay? So I am not, I want to just also give a general disclaimer on this channel, on this podcast as well.
Anything that comes out of my mouth is from the point of view of a fan. I am not an expert on these topics. I am not well versed in these topics. I enjoy listening to this music and I love learning about it. That does not mean I am qualified to be explaining it to you, but unfortunately that's where we've kind of found ourselves, okay? So if you have an interest in what I'm about to say,
Look it up on your own because again, this is not my forte. This is not my milieu What do you guys know about the word milieu? M-I-L-I-E-U. Now let me make sure I spelled that right. Milieu. A person's social environment. This is not, uh, okay, maybe that doesn't make sense. More definitions. Usage examples.
He grew up in a military milieu. He enjoyed the bohemian milieu she introduced him to the city. Yes, this is not the milieu I grew up in, but it's one that I enjoy nonetheless. Okay, here we go. Okay, so the artist is La Paquera de Jerez and Manuel Moreno. Okay, these are broad term flamenco artists. La Paquera de Jerez is a famous artist.
Cantahora de Flamenco and de Bulerías, which is the Spanish traveling Romani people's music from geographically, you know, Spain is what it's associated with a lot of the time.
This is a whole album of La Paquera de Jerez and Terremoto de Jerez. And the song I'm talking about is Mi Canto por Bulerillas. This song came on shuffle because I was listening to like a flamenco radio. And the intro guitar with the like, is that a 12 string Spanish guitar? Flamenco guitar.
How many strings does a flamenco guitar have? Six. No fucking way. The flamenco guitar typically has nine- six nylon strings.
It's a lighter construction than a classical guitar. That is crazy. Okay, so it's the same intro, which I'm now understanding she sampled it for Rosalía's song, Que No Salga La Luna, which is one of my favorite songs of all time. And if you go back to my Rosalía episode,
where I break down El Malquerer, which is about this forbidden, cursed wedding and marriage and honestly an abusive marriage that she escapes. Go back and listen to that episode if you're interested. I talk about this song on that episode where this is the night of their wedding and it's so beautiful and he's showering her with gifts and jewelry and rings and shiny things and
And on this night, it is the last-- you come to find out it is the last night of unadulterated joy that she will experience. This is the beginning of the end. And this is her being blinded by the shine and the glimmer of all those jewels to where she could not see the darkness and the evil that was under, you know, all the ostentatious distractions.
So anyway, if you want to listen, it's a very interesting, I mean, go back and listen to the episode. Anyway, this song by La Paquera de Jerez is...
the sample that she used in the very beginning. Anyway, that, it came on shuffle and I was like, oh my God, I love this song. And then it was the original and I was like, oh my God. And then I discovered this whole album, which is, and now here's the thing. Again, this is what I'm talking about. I don't know. I'm in no position to explain this to you because I'm still learning about it. The difference between a fandango, a bulerias, and una jota. I don't know the difference. So let's Google it.
Fandango versus flamenco. Okay, this is from Generative AI.
Fandango and flamenco are both traditional Spanish art forms. Fandango is a specific style of dance and music, while flamenco is a broader genre that includes many styles and forms. Fandango is considered a fundamental style of flamenco, period. Fandango originated in the early 18th century as a dance and music craze in Spain and the Americas. It's a blend of cultures, including Mexican son jarocho,
Salon and concert fandangos of Mozart and Scarlatti, Andalusian fandangos. Fandango has a 12 beat cycle.
in three fourths time for the first cycle or two sixths for the first and fourth cycles. Flamenco is dramatic and solemn with gestures of pain, nostalgia, and affliction. Fandango, on the other hand, is pure tease and joy. That is tea. Okay. Flamenco is dramatic and solemn with gestures of pain, nostalgia, and affliction. Fandango, on the other hand, is pure tease and joy accompanied by whistling and song-long smiles.
Fandango has given rise to other styles of flamenco singing such as Malagueña, Granaina, Taranta, and Minin. That is crazy! What is a Jota? The music is an alternating fast and slow tempo similar to Spanish airs which accompany dances like the flamenco Jota Bolero, Seguidilla, and Fandango. I love this shit dude. Gets me hard. Now I'm going to play Jota.
That is crazy to me. That is crazy. Carlos Montoya plays Jota. And it's crazy how, I mean, as humans, we're so... And, you know, I always have to make this point. I always have to come back to this. As humans, we are so, so, so different, but so similar. We're so... We are so...
so much more alike than we would ever want to admit. And that's just an inherent truth. This type of music where I'm sitting here in LA with a Southern background appreciating how fast he's playing this guitar. And it's reminiscent to me of how fast banjo players play. How, when you really like a camera on their hands,
It's like speed of light. It's so quick and they're in tune and on beat the whole time. And they know it and it's like they know how to sustain their energy and their rhythm and for like the whole length of the song. And it's insane the skill level and the stamina. Stamina is the word I was looking for. It's crazy and how that same rhythm
skill can be found across any type of folk music, any type of folk music across the world. And it's such a cool thing to take all these different forms of music and culture and at the core of it, you know, it's all like stringed instruments for the most part, even like the mandolin in China or
isn't that or is it hold on that might be a different instrument yes this one the chinese mandolin with a pear-shaped body okay how do you say that liao chin okay so the liao chin let's i want to watch someone play this that is crazy that is batshit crazy see what everything is so it's interconnected
You can't tell me that that's that different from someone playing the flamenco guitar or from playing the banjo. Oh my god. I love humans, but humans will be the undoing of me. Humans both make and unmake me. Wow. Anyway, back to what I was talking about. That song, Mi Canto por Bulerías by La Paquera de Jerez, here.
is the sample Rosalía used in "Que no salga la luna". Anyway, that's not the song of the week. The song of the week, or number two song of the week, is "Fandangos de Huelva" de La Paquera de Jerez. This one right here. And I probably can't play it because, again, YouTube will come to my house and snipe me with a weapon. But this whole album is so... I mean, if you like care, if you like to put it on the background or whatever, if you're interested,
these songs or any of this type of like fandangos or just flamenco in general on YouTube. What are they called? The flamenco clubs. What are the flamenco? Hold on. I know it. I know it. Shit. I forgot. Called. Tablao. Fuck. I'm back.
If you can find a video that someone has recorded from a performance in a tablao and that's not really like recommended, like all the shows I've been to at tablaos are like, put your fucking phone away.
Part of the experience is the ceiling is like kind of rounded and so the singing and the guitar and the clapping echoes off the back and comes back to the dancers and it's kind of a small enclosed space on purpose. You're supposed to be able to see the emotion and the passion and the sorrow and the joy on these people's faces by sitting that close and by having no external lighting
you know, the only lighting in the room is on their faces and it's supposed to be intimate like that. And so having someone record it, it's kind of like, eh, but also I'm glad because we can watch it for an ever and ever amen. So yeah, tablaos are places where flamenco shows are performed and the platform floor where the dancers perform is also called a tablao. We went to a
One in Madrid and one in Barcelona. And it was incredible. The one in Barcelona was a bit more, and I hate this because like I'm a white American and it's catered to people like me for us to marvel and be like, wow, so exotic. Fuck off. You know what I mean? Fuck off.
The culture is so much deeper and more complex than that for a bunch of whiteys to be like "ooh they're dancing" like have I recognized that?
And it sucks to like buy a ticket and be like... Because I'm so excited for kind of a different reason of like... I feel like... Y'all know how I feel about it. Of like flamenco is connected to all of these other forms of folk music and the human experience of expressing ourselves through folk music. And I have such a love for the art form. And to show up and...
You know, be sat next to Karen from Ohio who's like, I don't know about this Flamingo shit. It's like, no. But it's also like, whatever. So we went, because this one in Barcelona is not one of the oldest, but I think it might be one of the oldest still in operation. What's that one called on La Rambla? La Rambla Tablao. Cordobes. Tablao Cordobes. That's where we went.
We've been doing this one. Opened since 1970. This is where we went. It was fucking fantastic.
Because shortly after, we went to a different tablao in Madrid and it was so like... I mean, it's fantastic. I mean, the talent level is incredible. But the experience is more what I'm talking about. Like the one in Barcelona we went to, we had a nice dinner beforehand. They usher you in and they're a lot more like, I would say, quiet and respectful of like, turn off your phones, whatever.
Sit down. Don't make a noise. If you have kids, this is not a kid-friendly show. Like, I don't want to hear screaming, crying babies while we're talking about singing and screaming about heartbreak on stage. Like, take your fucking kid out of here. Versus...
The one we went to in Madrid was like, you show up and they hand you a glass of wine and here's champagne and here's this. Like the goal is to kind of get drunk and there's children and the room was way bigger. And it was a lot more like, you know, photos encouraged and come get your photo made with a flamingo dancer, that sort of thing. You know, like flirt with the boys. And I was just like, and there was a merch shop, uh,
I just don't, I get it. Like it's part of the tourism, a hundred percent. But as an art form, I feel like it kind of devalues it when you make it into a tourist stop. Even though I literally went as a tourist, whatever. You guys wouldn't understand. You guys wouldn't understand the complexity of my juicy green oozing brain. But do you know what I mean? Where it's like,
There are some people there going to appreciate. There's also locals that go, you know, just like to the tablao. Like it's, you live there. Like, let's go see a show. At the same time.
I don't know, maybe they're just smart and I'm just an idiot. You know, like, let's take this thing that has existed and is inherently, you know, arguably a part of the culture and let's monetize the fuck out of it. And let's make it an absolute unmissable tourist destination. Tourist stop. And let's sell merch. Yeah, I get it, dude. Get your money. But at the same time, I don't know. Just made me feel kind of weird. Anyway.
Question for if I have any Spanish followers or if I have any followers who are fans of this type of music, if you have recommendation, because my honest to God go-tos are Rosalia, of course, her earlier stuff, but even like on Moto Mami, she had Bularillas and she incorporates it. I mean, it's forever, I think inherently a part of her that will always be an inspiration for her, which I'm so glad. And then
Si Tangana, who I've talked about before, but maybe he's like kind of machismo. Maybe he's kind of machista. Yeah. Well, yeah. Sexist. So he kind of gives that vibe, which fucking blows because his music is so good. But I've seen interviews with him and I'm like, why did you say that? Hi, Si Tangana. Why did you say that? Ugh.
Anyway, those are the two only like because obviously I'm kind of I have the world at my fingertips with the internet But I'm the type of person that when I find something I like I just dive headfirst and I don't really you know expand beyond that Well, that's not necessarily true. I just I found C. Tangano's music and I was like I really am fucking with this. La Sobremesa Let's go through his stuff. Yeah, El Madrileño, La Sobremesa. This entire album is so fucking good, dude
Tú me dejaste de querer comerte entera. Now when I was in Madrid... Because el madrileño means like the guy from Madrid. Like Texan, but like Madridian. Anyway.
He filmed a music video for this song, Comerte Entera, at this like the oldest operating restaurant in Madrid is what they advertise it as. And it's called Lardy Restaurant. L-H-A-R-D-Y, Lardy. And it's this beautifully like...
ostentatiously grand luxe decorated restaurant inside and uh everything's that old type of like old world feel and you walk in and it's like nice steaks and fish and wine and whatever and like you're in the heart of madrid and we sit down and i'm with of course jack and stanley and we're drunk
We are day drunk. We have been in the park all day playing cards and getting blackout drunk. Not blackout, but damn near. And we're all sunburned. It's like our last day in Madrid. And we're drunk and fat and happy. And we sit down at this restaurant because I begged them, can we please go? Can we please go to this restaurant? Because I love this artist. Can we go? They're like, fucking fine. And we go in and I'm like... And the entire time, like I'm speaking Spanish to...
you know, our waiters and our tour guides and the hotel staff and all that. But it has been years since I have been fully immersed in an entirely hispanohablante, like, country. And so I'm walking around and I'm like, it's so frustrating too because I know what they're saying and I know how I want to respond. But it's been so long that I no longer am
thinking, reading, speaking, and listening in Spanish. I'm listening to them speak in Spanish. I'm translating it to English in my head. And then I'm translating what I want to say from English to Spanish. And then I talk, which is annoying because when you're actually fluent in a language, you don't think in English anymore. You should be thinking in Spanish, listening and responding in Spanish. There should be no disconnect. And I'm
I was like getting mad at myself because I'm like, I know what they're saying and I know how to respond. But it was this like my brain sputtering. My green oozing brain was like, I was like, oh, so I was getting so frustrated with myself. But I was trying because that's the way to learn is even if you're embarrassed and you're like, I'd rather just speak to you in English. I was like, I'm going to try. And if it's clunky and messy, whatever, dude, I never have to see these people ever again.
And we're at this restaurant and we're sat down. Also, I'm drunk. So it's not helping. So the waiter comes over and they're dressed in like black tie. It's like a black tie restaurant. And me, Jack Estadley, you're like, Among Us. Among Us. I'm gritting on the park material.
And he's like this nice restaurant. I feel so bad. And we're in the corner and he comes over and he's like speaking to us in Spanish, which is a compliment. Or maybe he was just like, fuck these whiteys. I'm like, even though he was white too, like I'm going to speak in Spanish and you can speak back to me in Spanish. Thank you so much. And I was like, buenas noches. Okay. And he starts talking to me and I try to order and I'm like, we order wine for the table or whatever. Then I go, okay.
"Dime la verdad, ¿este tangana ha grabado un video de su canción aquí?" And he was like, "Yes." I said, "Is it true that C. Tangana recorded a music video here?" He said, "Yes." And I said, "Wow, que chevere." He goes, "Yeah, do you want anything else? Like an appetizer?" And I was like, "Is it true that-" Yeah.
What do you want? I have 13 other tables I need to attend to. Yeah, dude, see Tangana was here. What else? Can I? Oh, can I actually get you something? Oh, okay. I'm going to go do my job now. I was so nervous to ask him because like I said, in my head, I was like, okay, I was rehearsing it. I was waiting for him to come over. I was like, I'm going to ask him. I'm going to ask him. And then I'm like struggling through this sentence in Spanish because I'm fucking drunk.
And I'm talking to him and I'm whatever. And then he responds really rapidly in Spanish with like, I don't even remember what he said. Asking me something about what Jack ordered or something. And I was like, uh-huh. And he goes, okay, claro. And he walks away. And I was like, absolutely. 100%. Oh, God. It's so embarrassing. He could not have cared less if I had lived or died in that moment. Did she take it? Yeah. Fuck off. Oh, fuck.
That's actually gonna be my fault. Sorry, sir. But here's the thing, because in that moment, and there were so many other moments when we were in Spain where I was like, I was getting embarrassed because I couldn't remember, you know, like, I'll remember really obscure vocab words that are hard to remember. And then I can't remember the word for bill. Like, could we get the bill? And I would get so frustrated in the moment. And it didn't help because freaking Stanley and Jack were bullying me. They were like, you're the one that speaks Spanish. Fucking speak Spanish. And I was like, I do.
I don't member okay. Also. We were drunk the whole time so it didn't really help. Oh god It's so embarrassing, but you know what? Oh my god. What would it tell you guys? I because of that experience and because of you know, like I minored in this in college I'm 26 like turning 27 next year. This will forever be a part of my life and
And I foresee myself, oh my God, I want to visit like all the countries. First of all, I want to visit all the countries that my friends are from. I want to go to Argentina. I want to go to Chile. I want to go to Peru and Venezuela and all these places. I've never been to Mexico other than a fucking resort where I got blackout drunk. You know, like I want to experience that.
all these cultures that I read about and I love the music and the art that comes out of these countries and I've never been. So to do that, I was like, before I do that, I want to be more secure in my Spanish speaking. And also it's a shitty feeling to have once been fluent, not speak a language for four years and then be like, yes, I speak Spanish. And then people speak Spanish to you and it's like, damn it.
But what's more infuriating is I understand you, I just can't respond. Which I know a lot of first generation Americans feel that way. And I talk about this with my friends where Spanish is their first language.
But then they were forced to kind of forget it and speak English only because, you know, like, you're in America, speak English. And it just is so sad that you lose that connectedness with your grandparents and, you know, your parents. And a lot of kids are used as translators for their parents and all that. I mean, I'm not if you come from a family where English is not your first language, you know this. I'm preaching to the fucking choir.
But that is a strange, you know, and sad experience to be forced to forget your native language. So yeah, it just blows. I've talked about it before here. I feel like every time we talk about Spanish language is white people are praised for speaking two languages and non-white people are, it's like the standard. Of course you should speak two languages. It's such a double standard. I've seen so many YouTube videos of like,
Timothy Chalamet or Gwyneth Paltrow or, you know, Ben Affleck, all these people being praised for speaking more than just English. Praised and put on this pedestal. But then like non-white actors and singers or whatever, it's like, where are those YouTube videos of them being praised? They don't exist.
You want to know why? Because the internet's racist. So all that to be said, I am now taking Spanish lessons again three times a week from Maddie, who's a TikToker, who teaches or gives kind of Spanish tips and tricks online. And I've been a fan of hers for a while. And Maddie's Mundo.
And she, a lot of her background is, it's Spain Spanish, but also Chilean. She speaks more Chilean Spanish than Chilean Spanish than anything, which is crazy because God, she talks so fast. Oh, she talks so fast.
But I love her accent. So we're doing lessons three times a week. And I'm paying her and it's like my – I'm more excited than probably she is because I love her. And it's great so far. Like I missed the sort of academic structure of taking classes of something like three times a week.
versus you know like okay yeah when I have free time I guess I'll sit down and do some duolingo no bitch we're doing three times a week one hour a week or one hour a day so yeah that's kind of my uh that's my new year's resolution I'm gonna do that until I get back to a level that I feel comfortable enough to you know navigate my way around um a Spanish-speaking country by myself and
Bane, I got around fine, but it was just kind of like, I feel like the ant with the sack. Like, damn it. Damn. Anyway, I think that'll do it for me for this week. Oh my God, was that my second song? My third song of the week is... Oh, my third song of the week is Big Difference by Nicki Minaj. Because yeah, happy Pink Friday 2 release. Barb's happy Pink Friday 2 release!
Okay, did everyone book their flights to Gag City? Because if you didn't, I will do it and you can just Venmo me. Like seriously, we need to arrive at the same time because I have booked a car service to take us from the Gag City airport to our hotel. So guys, just please let me know. The Gag City airport is under construction, so there will be delays. Anyway, yeah, big difference by Nikki. Bitch, are you joking?
The album is so good. But big difference, I literally put it on my story. I was like, this might be her magnum opus, I fear. Her M.O. Her greatest work of all time. I am floored. I am shocked. I am impressed. I am speechless. It's so good. It's been on repeat. The whole album's been on repeat since it dropped. So...
I think that'll do it for me today, guys. Please subscribe to this YouTube channel. Please rate us five stars. I don't know who us is. It's just me. Rate me and the boys, Kylo Ren, Mando, Night King, and Ghost, five stars on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. And we'll see you guys maybe next week. Yes, maybe not. I'm taking a holiday break because, like I said, my brain is sputtering and oozing green. I've got to take it to the...
I've gotten to take my brain to the equine hospital. I've got to take my brain to the horse doctor now. It needs immediate surgery. All right. Love you guys. Have a great one. Bye-bye.