62: Let the Minions Unionize
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Direct from the Broski Nation headquarters in Los Angeles, California, this is the Broski Report with your host, Brittany Broski. Guys, hold on. He wants to say something.

Guys, Remy wants to say something. Okay, this, imagine this. Hey guys, welcome back to the Broski Report, starring me, your host, Brittany Broski. Imagine me two blunts deep at the party. Suddenly, out of nowhere, I pull this plush Remy from Ratatouille out of my satchel, okay? Out of my handbag.

And I start whispering to it. I start, what is he saying? Guys, welcome freaking back to another episode. We are, for lack of a better word, struggling. Everyone, I also need to tell you that that's Brett Newstrom. When I do that bit, I am, that is Brett Newstrom. And in my head, I've turned into Brett Newstrom and I look just like him.

He does this bit where he's like, yeah. And he does it. It makes me fucking pee myself. It's so good. And I've started adopting it and I just need to, Brett, I would never, ever, Lord, want to steal from a white man. Please, Brett, forgive me. Oh my God, I'm so sorry. I'll give credit where credit's due to a beautiful white man. I love Brett.

What do you think, Remy? Okay. Lots to show you guys today. First of all, this hat lights up. I won't do that to you, though. Okay? I won't do that to you. Because for all the people in the comments that are like, I'm sorry. I couldn't focus on a single thing she was saying because the hat lights up. You're 30. You've no-called, no-showed to work four times this month. Okay, moving on. I have some really, really fun STEM items that I'd like to show.

Massive massive news for the nation today folks. My hair is about as greasy as you can imagine it to be I smell like a construction worker after a particularly hot day and I've got a bunch of stuff to show you guys. I want you to be here with me I want you to imagine you're here with me. Okay, you've got Remy on the shoulder You've got Mickey Mouse sorcerer hat on your head You've got crochet friends down here that I'm gonna show you here in a second and you've got

And you've got a bucket full of STEM toys, okay? I want you guys to POV, imagine yourself, you're sitting right here and you can really smell the full essence of me. That's what I want you guys to have. Okay, to begin, I purchased some crochet friends, okay? From someone named Aqua, I believe her username is Aqua9creations, okay? Now, me and my young gentleman friend love smiling friends, okay?

Check this shit out. Oh, Mr. Frog, hello. Oh, Mr. Frog, hello. I'm not sorry. Okay, if you guys are rocking with Smiling Friends, this is the one it is. She really put her puss into this. Oh, Mr. Frog, hello. I love Smiling Friends. She did a great job.

Okay, that's one. I'm gonna go ahead and put that by the Mickey Mouse phone. There is so much happening on this table. There's so much happening in my mind. It's about 100 degrees in this room. I've got sweat dripping from my underboob. Here's mine. Okay, this one is mine. It's Glepp. It's Glepp. And if you guys don't watch Smiling Friends, whatever, okay? Just let me have my little moment. It's Glepp. That's my Glepp impression. Just caught a glimpse of myself in the feedback monitor. Yeah.

Yeah, that's gonna be untreated, aggravated mental illness. Okay, something clearly, what's that Drewski audio? He says, yeah, he's lost, man. Yeah, yeah, that man is lost. He doesn't know what the fuck going on. That's literally me. He's lost. He doesn't know who he is. Okay, that's me with my crochet stim toy and my bag full of different toys.

I went to Disneyland recently. That's a great Glepp if you actually know what I'm talking about. Look at how beautifully made this is. She made the characters so well. You know, you can hold them in a bunch of different ways. It's real, real fun. I sleep with these every night, okay? And it's just so cute. 'Cause I looked for a bunch of different Smiling Friends crochet and none were as well made as Aqua Nine Creations. Go check her out real quick. Go check out a real one real quick. Okay, moving right along.

If you've tuned in previously to this podcast, you know that I'm a very tactile person. I like touching stuff. I like fiddling with buttons and switches and...

I just like to get my hands on stuff at the end of the day. I like to just sort of get my hands on anything that is touchable. And I like small things. I like small things I can mess with and fiddle with and dick around with. I have mentioned previously that Mooncat is the creator of something called a Taba Squishy. What's a Taba Squishy? If you are interested, go back and watch that episode because I'm not going to sit here and re-explain myself.

I am sick and tired of having to explain myself as a woman. As a woman, I should not have to explain which stim toys I am using at the moment and where I got them from. Okay? The internet is a public place. You can discover that on your own. Me getting mad because people are like, where did you get your waffle stim toy? Okay, please don't ask me that. That's a very sensitive subject. Let me know if it's too great. Okay? Because they want to be as easy as roomie in this bucket.

Okay, all that being said, Remy is going to stay on my shoulder for the time being. I might put him under the hat for a second. Do you think ever, like, in Ratatouille that Remy and Luigi, sorry, Linguini, which his name is not fucking Linguini, by the way. Check this shit out. What is Linguini real name? Ratatouille. Ratatouille. Alfredo Linguini. Now, how funny is that, dude?

His name is Alfredo Linguini. Lou Romano plays him as Alfredo Linguini, the illegitimate son of the deceased famous chef Auguste Gusteau and the restaurant's hapless garbage boy who befriends Remy. Illegitimate son, that's crazy to me. Bastard! He's the bastard son of the great chef Gusteau and he's wreaking havoc on the family name. Why does he have a different last name? Linguini, was that the mom's last name?

And why do they call him Linguini? His name should be Alfredo. I'm just all over the place today. I hope you guys can keep up, okay? I'm ping, ping, ping, zow! Bam! Zap! Like those comic books. Like a comic book. Bam! Zap! Wabow! That's what my brain's doing right now. That's what Remy's whispering in my ear. Kill them. Kill them. Kill them. Burn them! And I say, shh. Okay, I was watching Pirates of the Caribbean last night.

And there was a line that a one Captain Barbossa delivers that just about had me in stitches. And it's really not that funny, but I need to incorporate this in my daily life. And I wanted to share it with y'all. He went over to his crew and he called them a feckless pack of ingrates. You feckless pack of ingrates.

Isn't that good? 'Cause scallywag, you know, that's just not gonna do it for me. I need feckless pack of ingrates. Now see, this hat is wanting to balance on my head like a sort of fascinator, like something like this, like what Kate Middleton might wear to a nice soiree. And you wanna know something in French? You wanna know something in French? Welcome back to French lessons with Britney. What the fuck have I been talking about for 10 minutes? Could you name one thing? Here's a French phrase, okay? A French phrase.

Now, if you're bidding someone like a good evening, like enjoy your evening, the real thing is a bonsoir. Okay, bonsoir, bonsoir. But you say bonsoir. That's the sort of clipped version. Okay, it means the same thing. Bonsoir. It means good evening. It doesn't mean like good night, like I'm going to bed. It means enjoy your evening. Bonsoir. Now, let me double check that because I could be lying to your fucking faces and you wouldn't even know.

Bonsoir. Yeah. Good evening. Yeah. Good night is Bonne nuit. Bonne nuit. Bonsoir. Have a good evening when you leave the conversation. You're saying goodbye to your friends at that same bar. Yeah. Bonsoir. Oh, I love French. I would like to learn French. It's very similar to Spanish and Italian at the core of it. You know what I mean? The romance languages. Yeah. I'm fucking with the romance languages. You know what I'm talking about? Okay. What the fuck was I talking about?

Oh, feckless pack of ingrates. Yeah, that's a good one. Okay, let's get into the Stem Toy Haul. Let's stop fucking around. I know what you guys wanna see. I'm here to show you what you wanna see. I showed you the crochet animals. I showed you Remy. I'm gonna try to get through this without succumbing to the evil nothings that Remy's whispering into my inner ear. Okay, this one is the noisiest one, so I'll do it first.

This thing is nasty. I think it gave me a cold because I've been gripping and rubbing on this thing in public. I bring this shit in public with me. Now, if you can hear it in the mic, can you guess what it is? Correct, pearls. This is pearls encased in a gooey, slimy ball.

Okay, you can stretch it out like this. This was white when I got it. This was white when I got it and it's yellow now. And there's little black hairs all over it. So if you guys are mad at me about that, I don't know what to fucking tell you because I brought this with me. We were doing edibles in public the other day. We went shopping at the Grove. We were doing edibles in public and I brought this. And in the Grove, if you've ever been to Los Angeles, in the Grove, there is this beautiful little water feature and there is a beautiful little bench.

with like this public art display of the owner of the Grove or the founder of the Grove, his kids. You sell lemonade out the Grove, okay, back in the 50s.

And there is a bronze statue of all the little kids and their lemonade stand and a little dog and a little kid fishing and the little water feature. It is adorable. And so we did some eddies and we went to the Grove and it was the most fun I've ever had. Because here's the thing. It's not about where you are. It's about who you're with. And if you can have a blast with the person you're with anywhere, even shopping, oh, bitch.

Okay, so yeah, here's the first here's the first stem ball. This is a pearl stem ball This one is a 9 out of 10 and I mean that this one is real real great Even if you're new to stem toys, you're gonna want it. You're gonna want to fondle this thing Okay, moving on. This is Mach 2. This is Mach 2 of the pearl ball a smaller pearl ball Okay, now that sound is really fucking gross and I should have warned you and I did it and I'm sorry Okay, and there it is again. I'm sorry about that

This one is smaller. And have I left this one outside and it kind of baked in the heat? Yeah. And now there's weird bubbles in it and I'm kind of afraid to touch it. Yeah. Okay. Because BPA, what the fuck is BPA? That shit's in like receipts. What is BPA? Bisphenol A. Bisexual A. It's a chemical compound called bisexual A.

Okay, so what the fuck is it in? Is it harmful to humans? Uh, yes.

Exposure to BPA is a concern because of the possible health effects on the brain and prostate gland of fetuses, infants, and children. Shit. There's a link between BPA and blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Awesome. You know they always say like don't drink water bottles that have been out in the sun like baking. Okay. If I'm thirsty, I'm sucking on that thing, okay? Ain't no BPA gonna stop me.

Okay? Ain't no BPD gonna stop me sucking on that hot water. Because I'm thirsty. Okay. What is BPA found in? Shatterproof windows, eyewear, water bottles, epoxy resins that coat some metal food cans, bottle tops, and water supply pipes. Oh, perfect. Yay! So fucking everything. Woohoo! What's that shit on receipts? What is on receipts? Receipt

Paper. That is bad for you. What chemicals are in receipt paper? Oh, BPA. I'm so smart, dude. Thermal receipt paper is often coated with chemicals called bisphenols, such as BPA and BPS, which help with the heat-activated printing process. These chemicals are endocrine disruptors that can be harmful to human health and wildlife and are linked to health issues. Itchies?

such as cancer, obesity, and attention disorders. BPA can be absorbed into the body through the skin. And studies have found that thermal receipts can contain BPA levels that are 250 to 1,000 times higher than the amount in a can of food.

BPS is a toxic variation of BPA, and some researchers say it can be harmful to the reproductive system. Awesome. Scientific studies have linked BPS to developmental and reproductive toxicity, including low birth weight, preterm birth, and reduced fertility. Fucking hell. 80% of paper receipts from large retailers in the U.S. contain BPS. Decline. Okay, here's what you can do if you're concerned, because I am very concerned.

decline printed receipts when possible, wash your hands after taking a receipt, fold the receipt with the printed side in, since the backside of the paper typically isn't coated with the chemicals. Y'all, why do we live in a fucking carcinogenic wasteland? Why is everything...

truly bad for you like I don't think any other country suffers from this predicament the way that America does like and I mean that like truly why is everything have toxic dyes why is everything GMO why is everything plastic why is I just truly every time I go to Europe I'm like oh my stomach doesn't hurt anymore when I eat lunch I'm trying to find a healthy truly healthy you know

There's sulfate-free, paraben-free, all this bullshit. It's like, I didn't know I had to worry about that. And it becomes so overwhelming to try to take care of yourself when I can't even take a receipt from a store I'm shopping at because it's got a fucking BPA in my uterus. Because I'm going to have BPA babies, bro, because I touched the uterus from CVS. I mean, I touched the receipt. Because when I picked up my uterus from CVS pharmacy, it had freaking BPA, BPS on it. What the fuck? Shit.

It sucks. Like, I don't want to have to be like, I'm sorry, does the receipt have microplastics on it? I can't touch that. It's bad for my diabetes. You sound like a freaking dork. But you really do have to be like, I get it. The older I get, those ladies that are like, I do everything organic, natural. I use natural deodorant. Babe, we know.

Hi, y'all. We know. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We know. Yeah, girl. No, you're fucking crazy. Yeah, I don't want to be one of those, you know.

Where they have that real, you know this archetype of woman. It's like a thread witchy skirt, like Fleetwood Mac skirt. And then they've got one of those long satchel bags and like beads in their hair. And they smell like incense and BO. Like I get it. Trust. Trust I get it. But my God, it's just not doable. Like-

I remember learning about sustainability and, you know, water conservation and energy conservation in high school. And I remember sitting there thinking, no one, like everyone, won't do this. You know what I mean? Like, there is no way, unless the situation gets absolutely dire, which arguably it is and has been for a very long time.

Where you can get everyone to change their lifestyle, especially Americans, to change their lifestyle around being conservative with our limited resources. There's no way. It's the tragedy of the commons. And I think I've talked about this before. Let's go ahead and look it up.

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is an economic and environmental theory that describes a situation where individuals act in their own interest and deplete a public resource.

The theory was first conceptualized in 1833 by British writer William Forster Lloyd, and then it was first used in 1968 by an American ecologist. The tragedy of the commons can occur when a common resource, such as water or land, is rivalrous in consumption, non-excludable, scarce, and a common pool resource. So essentially, it's like you can't trust people to not be greedy.

And it's a larger conversation, I think, about human nature and greed and being selfish and, you know, not being able to self-regulate to preserve something for your neighbor. And is this part of me is like this isn't a uniquely American thing. It's a human thing. We just see it on the world stage in a much grander way.

in America. I mean, especially shit like during the beginning of the pandemic when toilet paper ran out. Why the fuck? Why? That still baffles me to this day. Other things to try to stock up on. Butt wipes? You're gonna deplete the fucking Tragedy of the Commons toilet paper edition? What? Tragedy of the Commons Charmin.

I just don't get it. Like, I really don't get it. And I was raised in a household that was like, if you're in a restaurant and you have a to-go cup, you go fill that bitch up before you leave. You know? Like, you've paid for your drink. Maybe you've drank the whole Coke. You've drank the whole whatever. You're going to go fill up that trough of sugar water before you leave that facility because you paid for it. That was the sort of environment I was raised in. If you touch it,

you know, on the table or at a buffet, you take it and you have to finish it. And that's part of the reason why I struggled with my weight. And I still do and have for so long because it's this idea of being wasteful, which is a problem, of course. But instead of, you know, trying to solve this issue of like, let me finish everything so nothing goes to waste. That's just greed, you know, and it's overconsumption and it's not healthy and it's bad for you. I didn't really, uh,

I know a lot of people can relate to this. I don't have a good relationship with food. I do not have a healthy relationship with food. And part of that stems from this idea of not being wasteful of, uh, I have a very distinct memory of as a child, I had to sit there and finish my food when I didn't want to. What I don't understand. And look, I love my parents. I love my parents. And I know that they tried to do right by me and they did. I turned out fine.

But things like that, I'm like, if I'm telling you I'm full, I don't want to eat this, and I put it on my plate, I shouldn't have to finish it. I'm full. Can I get it from the table? You know, maybe I'll finish it tomorrow. It was always like, what a strange, I look at it now through adult lens and adult, yeah, an adult lens. And I'm like, that's a crazy thing to implement as a rule. And I don't really have an alternative for, you know,

trying not to be wasteful or teaching people or children the value of waste, the value of look what you have and you should be grateful that you have it and you shouldn't waste it. Of course you can teach that, but it ended up in me having a really strange and at times like self harm relationship with food. And I don't, I don't think that that's a unique experience. I know a lot of our parents sort of raised us like that.

But yeah, as it relates back to this, you know, tragedy of the commons, it's like, I don't know if being American influences that in a much more negative way. I'm sure it does where that's mine and I'm taking it and it's because I paid for it. You know, this thing of like back to the soda example of like, if you go out to eat one soda is enough. In fact, half of that cup is enough.

You know, it's just something a little sweet to have with your salty meal. That's good. You don't need to fill up the extra large trough of a Slurpee from 7-Eleven with Coca-Cola because you paid for it. You know, I don't. It's just such an unhealthy way of viewing food and sustenance as it relates to money. And I know it's hard to separate the two, but what is fueling my body?

in a positive and active way versus am I getting a bang for my buck? I just don't think that food, that should apply to food. I don't know. Y'all, let me know what you think. Let me know if I'm just talking out of my butthole, okay? Because my butthole is yapping sometimes. The theory of the tragedy of the commons

Highlights the conflict between individual and collective rationality. It can be explained by individuals' tendencies to make decisions based on their personal needs, regardless of the negative impact it may have on others, or their belief that others won't act in the best interest of the group.

Yes, it's crazy. And what's the solution? Regulate it? I don't know if you can. So, I don't know why the fuck I brought that up, by the way. Okay, back to the stim toys. Pfft.

Back to the stem toys. This one I'm about to introduce is, it's very special to me. It's very special to me and I need y'all to treat it with respect and kindness. And sorry if the second camera's been out of focus. I was preaching. This is going to be a like pineapple upside down French toast. Can you see that?

It's going to have a pineapple on top like that. And it's a piece of toast. And this is a fit girl. When you get to squish in that, it goes everywhere. Okay. It's real gorgeous. And if you can hear it. Oh yeah, it's real good. And it's real sticky too. This one's good. This one, I do find myself gravitating towards this. I'll give this one an eight. This one's an eight. Okay. This one I was very excited about.

Moon Cat, I love you. I love Moon Cat. I love Top of Squishies. I don't give a fuck. I'm like 48 years old. I love Top of Squishies. This one's an ice cream. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. It's an ice cream with a little fork on it. That's real great. You see that? Are you rocking with that? Can't really see it. It's an ice cream and it's going back to its shape. I just, oh my God. I'm gonna need to get an ice cream tattoo, I think. Here are the next tattoos I'm gonna get. The Pirates of the Caribbean skull and crossbones. Somewhere on my arm. An ice cream.

Pain and Panic from Hercules. You ever painted Hades little minions? They're worms! And they turn into worms. And then this scene where they're both wearing Hercules merch. You bought his merch! I love Hercules, it's one of my favorite Disney movies. Okay, so those are three tattoos I'm getting pretty soon. I'm so excited for the Pain and Panic one, I'm gonna get it in color 'cause they're like pink and purple or blue and purple. Hello? Okay.

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Me with BPA in my blood like, and this plastic one squishes so good with the other plastic one. Okay, let me show you my other piece of plastic. Okay, this one is a mochi plastic and it's got this gorgeous little fuzz ball on it. Look at the way that it drips off the side. It's got a little cum drizzle off the side and I just think that's real, real adorable. This one's good to...

to squish, but I will say it's got these like razor sharp edges on the plastic. Fuck all that noise, dude. Fuck that. I'm not rocking with that. It hurts. It hurts my hand. I tried to squish it. I think that's it. Those are my squishy toys. Yeah, the pearl...

Get into the pearl ball, dude. It's really, really life-changing. It's been very, very important for me these past few days to get that. I got that in the mail and I was like, oh, when life is beating your ass, when life is just wham, wham, okay? The one-two punch, the twofer, the twofer one.

invest in a stem toy because I promise you it brought a lot of joy to my week. I was having a tough week and I got that shipment in the mail and I said, maybe, maybe it'll all be okay. Maybe everything's gonna be fine. I don't know. I'm just sort of spitballing it. It might be okay. I don't want to, you know, put too much in the universe, but it might be okay in the end.

I watched Despicable Me the other day as well. We didn't talk about Despicable Me enough as a society. I think that we glossed over it really quickly. I think that, you know, we made fun of people for liking the Minions, this, that, Vector, fucking whatever. Rewatch Despicable Me for me and tell me it's not, you know, an hour and 30 minutes of some of the greatest cinema you've ever seen. A story of love, of adoption, you know, of humor, of we're going to steal the moon.

Hilarious, a hilarious concept. And here's my pitch to you guys, okay? And hear me out. He created minions. Dr. Gru, of course, I'm speaking about Dr. Gru. And what is Gru's first name? Dr. Gru first name. Thelonious Gru Senior? He has a son? Thelonious Gru, what the fuck?

In the third film, Gru discovers he has a twin brother named Drew, whom he never met because their parents divorced and raised each child separately. That is drama, bitch. That is tea. Gru eventually meets Drew at his mansion in Fredonia, and they form a brotherly relationship. Did I not see the third Despicable Me? I mean, there's only about 19 movies. How did I miss that? I know what I'm doing tonight. Despicable Me 3? 3.

Okay, this went ahead and came out in 2017. I'm sorry about that. Oh my God, he's got a damn brother. Oh, and he's gay. He's gay and he looks like Elton John. That's nuts. Okay. That is not the first time I've done that on this podcast and it won't be the last. So you've been warned. Okay, Despicable Me 3 came out in 2017. Here's my question. The difference between Despicable Me and the Minions movie.

Because Gru is Gru in the Minions movie. Minions movie. Minions 4? See, what the fuck are we talking about? The film is a prequel to Despicable Me. And the third installment overall in the Despicable Me franchise. Okay, then there was another one that came out in 2015. Minions. Wait, that's the same one. Hello?

Travel back in time with Kevin, Stuart, and Bob in this prequel that follows the Minions as they try to win the favor of supervillain Scarlet Overkill.

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my overall mission as an entertainer, as a researcher, as an academic, I need to rewatch all of the Despicable Me franchise in order, take heavy notes, and give my thoughts and criticisms on here, you know? Now, they don't make statues of critics. They don't make statues of critics, but they make statues of Minions fans, okay? And you can take that to the, you can run that to the bank.

They make statues of minions and they're everywhere. All you gotta do is open your eyes. There's one in Hollywood, put it up here. There's one in Hollywood, it's a big fucking minion that's on top of a building over on the Universal lot. It's a big fucking minion. Hello? Forever. The minion overlords. Imagine, imagine if there was a minion uprising and we just had to sit back and watch.

If there was a Minion uprising, I don't think they would ever turn on Gru. It would be after Gru died. Like, if Gru ever passed, does he die? Does Dr. Gru die? And now where did he get his degree?

Oh, this is his dad. Robert Grew, also known as the Bald Terror, that's what they call me as well, is a legendary supervillain and the father of Drew and Thelonious Grew. In the Despicable Me franchise, he was born in 1943 and died in 2005. He was born in 43. He's a baby boomer. Okay. He was created during a war. Okay. Yes. So his father probably fought in World War II. Yes.

Wow. It's safe to say that Gru's granddad, Gru's granddad probably is a war vet. If not the First World War, then the Second World War. We don't know which side he was fighting on. Because I'll be honest, I can't place the accent. I cannot place Gru's accent. It kind of stresses me out.

Because it's a little bit like this, girls. Girls, we're going to be going to bed. It's like Russian, but it's a little German as well. I think they just looked at Steve Carell and said, just do whatever. And he was like, I will be doing the whatever. What is that? It sounds like Trixie Cher. Swedish Cher. Okay. Did Gru's grandfather fight in the war?

What the fuck? Here we go. Oh, okay. It's officially Reddit hour! Pew, pew, pew, pew! Reddit hour, where we consult Reddit for the greatest mysteries of the entertainment industry. Let's go! Today's episode, r slash movie details. In Despicable Me, we get to see a glimpse of Gru's family tree. One of his ancestors was some sort of wolf, apparently. Okay, here we go. The Gru family. We're going to zoom in on this.

Okay, yep, that is a wolf. Damn, this goes crazy. Okay, some of them look like mad scientists. Some of them look like they were in like, what era was the crucible? Crucible was like the 1600s. Two of them look like maybe some royalty. A lot of evil in this photo. Yeah, and then that is actually going to be a wolf right there. That's some sort of wolverine creature that procreated with a human.

And then, you know, through the grapevine, Robert and what's her name? Marlena had Gru. So let's go back to the Reddit thread. Now, this was five years ago. So this has been a topic of discretion for a long time. And a pig over his father? Is it a pig man? Yeah, that's a pig. What the? Holy shit. His name's John. It's John Pork. Holy shit. Are we to believe that John Pork is the paternal grandfather of Thelonious Gru Sr.?

This is nuts. Okay, back to the Minion Uprising. Because this Reddit thread's not giving me what I need. You can see the tree in more detail at Universal Studios. Looks like one doesn't have a name far left. How very, very interesting. What a great find from some freaking dork who's watching Despicable Me. Like, you know, I'd really like to know more about this family tree. Okay, who is his granddad? Who is his great uncle? And why is he a wolf? People marry into the family all the time. It doesn't mean they're blood related. Okay.

Let's move on. Yeah, minion uprising. I would want to see a show of hands of who would be in support of the minions. If there was a minion uprising, if Gru died and they were like, you know, we're seeking some form of rebellion for liberation, you know, like, would you guys join that cause? I just I find it very interesting. I find it very interesting because.

You have to regulate the minions at a certain point. Where do they live? Are they shopping at Whole Foods? I don't speak minion, okay? I don't speak minion. Me at Whole Foods yelling at a minion, go back to where you came from! Them like, meh, meh-lo. Go back to wherever you and your freak-o people came from! Banana! Okay. Being racist towards minions. What?!

Moving right along. I've wanted to Google this for a while, actually. It has nothing to do with what I was just talking about, but we're going to Google it. What is a Charlie horse and why is it called that? Why? Y'all are going to learn something today. Why is Charlie horse called a Charlie horse? Oh, this is so interesting to me, dude. The term Charlie horse, which is a cramp if you guys have ever had one.

is believed to have originated in the 1880s among baseball players and is used to describe a painful muscle cramp in the leg, calf, or thigh. The origin of the term is uncertain, but there are multiple theories. I love this shit. I love how phrases kind of develop and then change over time and the original meaning is lost, but you still get what they're trying to say. Like the original...

Origin becomes a lost sort of piece of culture, but the phrase remains very usable. Like this, like I know exactly what a Charlie horse is, but I don't know where it comes from and I don't know why it's even called that. Like did a horse bite someone's leg? I don't know. One theory is that the term comes from a lame horse named Charlie that helped groundkeepers at the Chicago White Sox's ballpark in the late 19th century.

Charlie would pull a roller across the infield and his limping stride and stiff muscles became familiar to the players. When a player would get a cramp that made it hard to walk, they would call it a Charlie horse. Okay. Okay. Okay. I like that.

Another theory is that the term comes from a National League pitcher named Charlie "Old Hoss" Radbourne who suffered from leg cramps and muscle pain in the late 1880s The term "Charlie Horse" may combine Radbourne's first name with an altered version of the second part of his nickname

The first known use of the term Charlie Horse was in 1886 in a West Virginia newspaper, and some credit baseball players Jack Glasscock and Joe Quest with originating the phrase. Like most good things in this country, it's come from that damn American pastime of baseball, am I right? Charlie Horse. That's nuts, isn't it? What do y'all think about that? Oh, should we scroll r slash etymology? I could spend years on this.

What's going on here? Oh, there's some real nerd shit going on in here, dude! Oh my god! My god! The freaking dorks are in this! I'm joining this Reddit thread. Subreddit, sorry. Are the names Frayer and Priapus cognates? Here's a fun one about bread, okay?

I was playing Medieval Dynasty and prepping for winter when a realization hit me. Unlike most of my other food sources, my flour doesn't rot. I've been informed that flour lasts much longer when stored as forms of bread, like hardtack. That's not super important in this spectacular world of refrigeration, but if you were living in a medieval society...

And most of your other food sources are gone over winter. Bread would probably be pretty important, right? Yes. Bread is so crucial that we get two very important words from it. Lord and lady. What? Loaf guardian and loaf maker, respectfully. Isn't that incredible? Respectively. No wonder they make you traverse across the entire supermarket for it. If you have any cool bread facts or know some neat stuff about the history,

I'd like to know. It seems like any big deal before I look into it. Who is this freakard? If you have any cool bread facts or know some, if this ain't me, if this is not fucking me, dude, I guess this is pretty well-known etymology, but your companion is who you eat your bread with.

Years ago, I worked in a group home and one of my patients was a Cuban immigrant. He took to calling me panaterita and I had no idea why. The minimal Spanish I speak told me it was bread shop with a diminutive, diminutive, diminutive, diminutive. He spelled that wrong. Diminutive, small. Diminutive suffix. Finally met a Cuban Spanish interpreter and asked. Turns out,

And it's a casual word for friend. Someone you go to the bakery with and eat bread. How freaking cute. I just listened to a podcast about this. The History of English, episode 133. Breaking bread with companions. Yeah, dude, write that down. Yeah, new favorite podcast alert. Are you serious? The History of English?

Weevils. Flour won't last long. The better the flour, new grains with the germ, the faster it is infested. You will find most bread is preserved as a double baked knacker brat or something like that. Bread brat. Taking the Portuguese word. That is something I did. Okay. Okay. Now we've got some fucking wise guys in this Reddit thread. Now this is something I needed to know. Thank you. It was the yeast they could do.

Have any of you young gentlemen ever felt the warm touch of a woman? Have you ever smelled the sweet perfume of a real-life human lady? Just let me know in the comments. Want really old history of bread? Oh my god, I just knocked my damn Funko Pop off the shit. I just knocked the damn Funko Pop off the damn stand like an idiot. If you want really old history of bread and beer, Seamus Blackley isolated with help and revived sourdough yeast from Egyptian tombs. What?

Scientists found and translated calculations for daily bread and beer rations for the workers on the Giza and older pyramids. What? And probably a receipt or offer for sweet and spiced breads in the household of Ian Nasser in Ur. The Stone Age excavations in Bavaria had grindstones and bread ovens, mostly protein-rich breads with nut meals in addition to starchy roots and seeds.

Etymology wise, a loaf of bread in German is a Leibbrot, which Leib is an old word for body. They're pronounced the same and the distinction in spelling is consistent only in modern times. Oh, this is my shit, dude. I may have. I know. OK, I'm sorry I called you guys freaking dorks, nerds who'd never touched a woman before. But can you let me in your club? Can you let me in your bread club?

Can you let me in your Reddit thread? I really want to talk about etymology with you guys too. I want to learn stuff. I'm sorry I called you freaking gay dorks. I'm sorry I called you guys gay dorks. Can you let me in your club? This is so interesting. Atlas Obscura article. You know what's crazy to think about is, damn, the Egyptians were really drinking beer after a long day's work.

The Egyptians, they were laying those stones. Pyramid of Giza, Pyramid of this, Tomb of this, right? All just, we're making history forever. They're gonna go to the pub at the end of the day and have a fucking Guinness and have a fucking Guinness. They're going to the pub and having spiced bread and a damn bush light. They're having nana bread and bush light. I had a good job on them pyramids today, boys. Natty light on the house.

That's nuts. What else? Oh, y'all get into this. Okay. Focaccia, right? The Italian bread. Italian from the word for hearth or fireplace, which was the focus of the home. Ciabatta, Italian for bedroom slipper for its shape. How cute. Pumpernickel, German meaning farting rascal. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

No, I'm not laughing at that. That's not funny at all. That's not funny at all. And I'm going to read it again. Pumpernickel. German meaning farting rascal because the roughage causes gas. Farting rascal? What if that was your nickname? Oh, das ist Pumpernickel. It means farting rascal. He is so scary and he farts really loud. He is farting so loud. Pumpernickel, come over here. Fart for the friends. How do you say friend in German? How to you say it?

Oh, friend in German. Freund, Freund, Freundin, Freundin, Freund, Freundin, Freundin, Fräulein. That means mess. Fräulein. No, I think it's Fräulein. Thank you for your input, but it's definitely Fräulein. Okay, let's keep going. So pumpernickel, German meaning farting rascal. Okay. Bagel, Hebrew for round. Love that.

Baguette, French for rod or stick. Croissant, French for crescent, for its shape. That's gonna make me feel like a fucking idiot. Of course it's called a croissant, because it looks like a crescent, dude. Croissant. Word nerd clarification. Okay, so the girls are fighting, so maybe that's not, maybe farting rascal is not pumpernickel. Pumpernickel is analyzed as pumper, agent noun form of dialectical German, pumpen or pumpern, to fart.

nickel, a form of Nikolas, and here referring to an uncultured person. The word apparently first shows up in print in 1628 in reference to exactly that. A boar, a knob, a hoser, a farting nick. The bread is traditionally made of rye. Okay, I liked the first one better. I like farting, rascal. This freaking nerd ruined it. Wow, r slash etymology goes crazy. You guys need to tap into this.

Let's move on to the songs of the week. Seriously. I've been pumping some new music. So let's, let's lock into this, but it's not new music. Okay. First of all, I need to highlight the Post Malone country album. Are you out of your goddamn mind? It is so good. The song with Chris Stapleton, the song with Luke Combs. It's so good. And the whole B side is just him. It's no features. It's just him. It's so well done. It's so exciting. It's so, I think it's very genuine and,

Because he's always been a Texas boy. Like, he's kind of redneck. And when he fucked off to Utah and started talking about aliens, I was like, yeah, he's Texan. So I like Go to Hell. And I like California Sober. Those are two. I also have been listening to Red Red Wine by UB40. Someday by Sugar Ray. Sugar Gay.

And because Hosier released that new EP, which can he take a nap? Can you take a nap? Hosier take a nap. Damn, lay down. He just had to postpone two shows because he's been singing just nonstop. And of course, you can take the best care of your voice. But if you're performing a two hour sold out show every single night singing like that, girl, you're going to run ragged eventually.

July by Hosier. It's so good. It's so good. It's off the unaired EP. July by Hosier and then Empire Now is still one of my favorite Hosier songs of all time. Of all time. It's so well done. And then also there's another throwback too. Two new throwbacks. Pictures of You by The Last Good Night. Pictures of you. Pictures of me. Remind me of the good times.

Yeah, get into that. Get into Someday by Rob Thomas. ♪ And maybe someday we'll figure all this out ♪ ♪ Try to put it all out ♪ ♪ Try to find a way to make things better now ♪ Love Rob Thomas. And then Should I Stay or Should I Go by The Clash. ♪ Darling you've got to let me know ♪

Should I stay or should I go? Those are my songs of the week. I just, I really, I'm hung up on the Post Malone album. I really am. I find it very, very good. Sorry. Okay, guys, that might do it for me this week. Glad that we talked about the really important stuff. Tragedy of the Commons, Minions, Bread Lore. I really just love spending this time with you guys. I love spending this time with my people.

And, you know, with that being said, I just want to say I love y'all so much. And I've been I've really been like off the grid. I've been not posting YouTube videos. I've been not really doing TikTok. I've not been doing anything because it's rotting my fucking brain. It's rotting my brain. There's mold growing in my fucking frontal cortex. It's been bad. It's just it's just not good. There's there's very few things on the Internet that are good for you, you know?

So I just it just really caught up to me after a while. I've just been going nonstop and it's such a fun life and a fun job. But when you're burnout and when you're just, you know, even the things that bring me joy don't really bring me joy. It's been a weird headspace to be in. So I've been trying to take it slow, you know, not be online as much. And it's been it's been good. It's been working. So, yeah, thanks for your patience on that front. YouTube videos. I'm taking a pause on that for a second. So.

Go rewatch the old ones. There's some goodies out there. Go watch the old ones. I've been doing YouTube every fucking week for like four years. So there's plenty of videos to go watch there. We'll still be doing "Broski Report" every week. "Royal Court" is about to go nutso for the rest of this year. So go subscribe to that channel if you haven't already. If you are not registered to vote, get over here, I'm about to beat your ass. Get over here, okay?

I'm going to take you out back and I'm going to spank you if you're not registered to vote. And I say that with love in my heart. Okay. Headcount.org is a very easy way to get yourself registered to vote. Okay. Go do that for me right now.

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What is that about? Figaro? It's not Figaro. VeggieTales upon my hat, upon my hat. Larry's high silk hat, is that it? Oh, I'm gonna watch this later. VeggieTales really is the core of me, I think. I never really got past

how deeply VeggieTales really affected me. I love VeggieTales. I love the animation style. I think they're entertaining. I think that they were really witty on like, they made Minnesota Cuke, which is where they made Larry the Cucumber, Indiana Jones. And it's all about him being, ♪ Manasota Cuke, Manasota Cuke. ♪ So well done, okay?

And the soundtracks always went crazy. Okay. Yeah. Go register to vote. Go watch VeggieTales. Go watch all the Despicable Me movies back to back to back to back. And rate me five stars. And I love y'all. Seriously, I do. Seriously, I mean it. And thanks for rocking with me even while I'm... Yep. Love you. Bye.

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