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at Grammarly.com slash podcast. That's G-R-A-M-M-A-R-L-Y dot com slash podcast. Grammarly. Easier said, done. Direct from the Broski Nation headquarters in Los Angeles, California, this is the Broski Report with your host, Brittany Broski. Bienvenidos al reportaje Broski. Okay, guys, welcome to the Broski Report. 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 Bro's Key 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 Moomoos. When I drop Moomoos!
I expect to see everyone, whenever I do the next live show or whenever we do any other type of show, my burlesque shows that I'm going to do, me at my burlesque shows with my nipple tassels and my muumuu. It's going to be RuPaul's Drag Race main stage reveal, ru-veal, unzip my muumuu, bam, size G tits.
Size G tits and a tan bra. And a tan, shapeless bra. And a boom, ace bandage. A guy, what takes his time?
I'd go for any time. It's a fast moving girl who likes them slow. And I'm undoing my muumuu. It's me in burlesque. It's Christina Aguilera. Got no room for fancy driving. Won't necessarily. Slowly, uncivicate. Driving 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 sh- You know how they have clubs for like BBWs? Big, beautiful women. Okay? I'm gonna do a show for- It's just me. Okay? It's just me and we only do the big tan bra bit. And then I come out and I do a full Christina Aguilera cosplay. This is after I get my BBL. This is after I get my- What's that called? Bariatric surgery. Okay.
Bariatric, my Barry Manilow surgery. Anyway, yeah, we'll be selling tickets to that. Anyway, back to what I was saying. Moo moos.
Moomoos 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 fuck around with my moomoos, with my nightwear, with my sexy womanly nightwear. There's nothing sexy about it. Okay, yeah, the moomoos 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. Ooh!
Bend over like the, 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 moo. And I'm not wearing anything under it except 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 gonna throw my big tan bra on stage. She's in the middle of singing like, Scream in the name of a foreigner's god. Like a really like intense, meaningful song. And my, whoa! I'm topless. I'm swinging, whoa! My big tan bra on stage. Smacks him in the face.
Okay? He gets pink eye. He gets pink eye. Because my sweaty big tan bra hit him in the... Anyway. So my burlesque show will be opening up. Oh, my moomoos. The moomoos are coming out later this year.
And yeah, get excited for them guys. I'm really excited. We have been working on this for a really long time because like I said, I'm not fucking around, okay? I take the Moomoo game and the Moomoo business incredibly seriously. And in the South, sometimes they're referred to as housecoats, okay? This is a housecoat. It's a Moomoo. They're kind of interchangeable. A housecoat, I think, has a zipper. I think that's what distinguishes it from just like a Moomoo is just kind of a dress, like a nightdress.
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 a muumuu. Because, oh my god, I'm like shaking. I'm tweaking right now. I had like four cups of coffee. Shut up!
i like a muumuu 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 and i'm like oh the hair and i'll whatever and then to put my clothes on you just unzip it okay that's why i like a muumuu because it's easy to get in and out of now is it sexy no
There's nothing sexy about a muumuu, 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. Not, guys. Seriously, seriously. Seriously.
Okay, I am on a bunch of new, to switch into the health, here's the health update. I am officially a PCOS 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, did I 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 health.
About how I have leg hair like a grown man. Yeah, we talked about this. 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 Efron. We're texting about how, like, it is going to be so hard to read a non-fantasy novel moving forward because I've
fantasy. I love getting lost in a fantasy world and like the world building and falling in love with 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 Sorengale in Fourth Wing. She is smart and she outsmarts her way through life.
What incredible 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? Lay pipe. I'm not asking for much, Zayden. 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 of it? 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 fuming, babe. 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 fanfiction or when I have written lore, okay? When I've written little short stories or whatever...
One of the, I think, literary techniques 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 developed the world yet.
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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 of 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're alive. There's a crazy twist at the end of the second book. That is not necessary. 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?
And then it ends and not in a good way. Not in like a holy shit, I never saw that 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 hate you. I don't care about you. And then they got redemption arcs that 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 Zayden in my mind. I'm still thinking about Zayden, 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 Basgiat War College sweatshirt. Oh my god. Also, I saw a bunch of shit that Rebecca Yaros pulled from Gaelic language, like the Gaelic 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 inclined 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. Save on O'Reilly Brake Parts Cleaner. Get two cans of O'Reilly Brake Parts Cleaner for just $8. Valid in-store only at O'Reilly Auto Parts. Oh, oh, oh.
Oh, I wanted to go through my Goodreads 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 ACOTAR. Bitch, I started there. I started there. There's no going back. Oh, me and Brooke are going to start Court 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. Nest is a cunt.
Nesta is a fucking bitch. She ruined the Christmas special. Nesta is a cunt! But I'm gonna 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. Fake hawk!
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 Ruin. 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 Goodreads because these are some recommendations for anyone that's going through what I'm going through. If you've just finished ACOTAR 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 laurie forest 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 uh let's google it actually
94% liked this book. That's crazy. Goodreads has a 4.3. Barnes & Noble has a 4.4 out of 5. Like it's really, really well rated. Red Rising is a 2014 dystopian science fiction novel by American author Pierce Brown. And 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 miner Darrow as he infiltrates the ranks of the elite ghouls. 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? 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 EO's- The fuck? Okay, I don't want to ruin anything. I don't want to ruin about 16 year olds fucking- Oh no!
But Red Rising has really been recommended, so I'm gonna 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 fuck. 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 Zayden. I am Violet Sorengale. I've got to, the dragon has to pick me when it's fucking, oh my god. And then the dragon's gonna talk to me in my brain. Move on! 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, but 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 ACOTAR, I feel like that's the best of the best. It's like 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 ACOTAR has on Goodreads. Let's see. Court of Thorns and Roses has 4.2. Interesting. 4.2. And Fourth Wing has 4.6, bro. Okay.
Which is crazy because Akatar, well, the first book fucking sucks. Let's look up what Mist and Fury has because Mist and Fury is the stupid Mist and Fury. 4.65. Damn, I rated it four stars for some reason. Am I just a fucking idiot? Yeah, yeah. Mist and Fury is, she's that girl. She really is that girl. How about Sarah J Maas? Girl.
And I'm about to be, 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 gonna go buy all four of those, maybe the Rachel Gillings 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 gonna 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'd myself out, like when I'm just like, God, I've been listening to Chris Stapleton 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 let 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, Teske 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 that the Teske 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 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 and I they get it and and I'm getting it as they're singing it so I'm so so so obsessed with the Teske brothers uh 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 at those times I love it 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. They are... That is Chris Stapleton's bluegrass band that he used to be in. They're still together, I think, today. And 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...
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 of 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 fu- 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 favorite Steel Driver songs.
I also love If It Hadn't Been For Love. Never would have run back 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 they've been. The Bartender. Bartender. Oh my God. I love the Steel Divers.
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 Dust Bowl Dance by Mumford & Sons. And I was on my Mumford & 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, 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 Goodreads. Sorry, I got distracted with the music stuff. The rest of my Goodreads, I'm gonna read some of my... I don't know what TBR means. To Be Read. I think that's what that stands for.
I'm gonna read off some of these and I want y'all to give me your opinions because like I said, I'm gonna go and buy those that I talked about. Okay, Fear the Flames. This has been recommended to me, but also it 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 Marismundo.
and it's cool to see like i mean we i've been taking lessons from her for maybe like a month and a half now maybe two months and i've improved so much in 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 to 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 Vallarta with the gay people.
So I, she teaches me a lot about, you know, cause she used to live in Spain and Chile and she's been to 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, and, uh, is very respectful of it. And, and, you know, teaches me from a place of, of history. And she watched this movie recently that she recommended to me and it was called, uh, Motorcycle Diaries.
and it's got Gael 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 gotta 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 it, 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 gonna go over well, okay?
If I'm the man of the relationship, I'm gonna 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. 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. Make some hum. She'd be like, can I use the bathroom? Yeah, go for it. No soap, no hot water, no towel. Okay. You ever been to a man's house and that's the bathroom?
You look at yourself in the mirror like that, like, what the fuck am I doing? 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, sure, it's up 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 hover peed ran my hands in the water and I go I gotta go actually but he was like what the fuck what do you mean and I literally was like it's nice to meet you bye and I walked out and he like walked out and followed me to my car and he was like did I do you 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 self stand stand up bitch I had I looked at myself in the mirror and said stand
You just hover peed at a man's house because you didn't want to get his pubes on the back of your thighs. I hope 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 the bathroom. When she's in the bathroom, like, 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. 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 my, yeah, let's go back to your place. Oh, there's roaches on the floor. I have to go. The clock struck midnight. I have to go. Midnight. The clock struck midnight. Ha ha.
I'm thinking the clock is coming late. 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. Oh my God. Me and Sarah Vasco. Me and Sarah Vasco went out one night. This night was so sick. I can't believe I'm about to talk about this. Sarah Vasco 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 uh all of his friends are so british like so cockney british and they're 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
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 giving a fucking green tea shot, darling. Three more green tea shots. Thank you. So I'm yelling at the bartender. I'm yelling at him. I'm yelling at this guy. I'm like, are you fucking kidding me?
Stupid. I'm talking to him. I'm flirting with him all night. This dude. Okay. Don't 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 broski. He wanted a piece of the boski. Okay. He wanted a bite of boski. And guess what? The diner was open that night.
and so i'm sitting there sarah's uh uh talking to someone else one of his other friends i think or or just another guy at the bar flirting 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 throwing the accent back to him and he's like you're really good at that for no reason and i'm like yeah you know we're made and we're back and forth i'm ordering like 17 green tea shots we're taking them like i whatever he's taking them those are so sugary okay
My gut starts to curdle. Okay? This night is when we stood in a section with Justin Bieber. I don't know if I told you about this. Stood in a section with Justin Bieber. Couldn't tell you. Okay. We leave this bar after Sarah and I see Dalton Gomez walk into this bar. Ariana Grande's ex-husband. The fuck? What? 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 Stormzy or Central Sea or RD or something. 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 body will be shaped like cola. And so we get to my house for some reason. We all come back to my house and fucking British men are in my house. They raid my fridge. They start drinking my liquor on my little bar cart. 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, 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 Sarah and I go, get them out of 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 the fuck out of my house. And they're like, oh yeah, you fucking, what are you doing? They get in the Uber, they leave. Me and Sarah have an hour and a half long debrief. Like, what the fuck was that? What, he was, yeah, he was flirting with you too. Yeah.
he touch my knee? I don't like that sort of girly debrief. We're also still very drunk. 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 was that 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 the next morning I was so hungover. And I think I cried because I was like, this is what happens when 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. That's it. Yeah.
Okay. So I tried to go into my life with an open mind. I was, 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 that,
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 a bunch of British men and there's like 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 oh Shut up. So anyway
Why did I even tell that story? 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 Motocicleta. And I was like, okay. And it's got, oh, we're talking about Gael 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 Fonoyosa. He's the half-brother to Sergio Marquina, the mastermind better known to Money Heist viewers as El Profesor. 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 Guevara. 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 an American really demonizes those sort of figures in history. And I didn't really know why. And I never really, you know, took the time to figure out why. This movie doesn't really
really this is like really young Che Guevara and Che I didn't know uh is a nickname because people in Argentina Che is like their kind of filler word in Mexico a lot of the time it's pues like que hubo pues um pues is kind of a filler word in in uh Chile I think
Maddie told me it's po. Like, oh, si, 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 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 throughout 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 gonna vote. I'm gonna get everyone to vote. We're gonna do a revolution. And Ernesto says, you're gonna 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 Goodreads actually is about Jacob.
I added his journals to my to read list and a bunch of biographies on him. And 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 went to Congo and failed to incite 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, it never really got the traction that he would have hoped for. And eventually he was assassinated, I think in Bolivia, 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 where did it all go wrong? And when did it take a turn for the worst? Because...
What a pure thing, you know, 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 joy ride 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, whatever. 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 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 rec 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. I'm so mad. Just failed me. And now it's on me to, you know, to educate myself 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 Pinochet 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 country.
you know, takeover. And I want to read all 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. Cause I'm like, I've 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 of stuff on my Goodreads about Che Guevara for no reason. Just like, cause I'm, 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 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'd 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 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.
Uh, 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. Uh, and John Steinbeck wrote of Mice and Men, uh, wrote yes of Mice and Men published in 1937. That's crazy. George Milton and Lenny Small. Yeah. That movie or 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 Trasks 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 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 inexplicability 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 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. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Renee Edo-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 Silvia Federici. All these are on my list. Ooh, this one! This one, dude! America's Deadliest Export: Democracy: The Truth About US Foreign Policy and Everything Else by William Blum.
in this vein of you know like i'm so tired of feeling like i mean i don't defend america i 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 unlearn 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 Vargas. 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 it'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, Butcher's Crossing by John Williams is one I want to read too. It's like a crazy, creepy thriller book.
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 Broski 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 $17.99.
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 in owning the books and keeping them on my shelf. Like, I love that. I love collecting books.
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.