49: Me vs. Crab Rangoon & Bridgerton

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Hey, guys. Welcome back to another episode of the Broski Report, starring Meet your host, Brittany Broski. Before we get into this week's episode, which we're 50 something deep at this point of this godless podcast, thanks for rocking with me this long. I want to connect with you sort of human to human about state of the world in light of this past week, of the disturbing and haunting dichotomy of seeing both the Met Gala and the ongoing bombings in Rafa happening at the same time and in the same breath of scrolling through the Internet, I just want to do a pulse check with you guys that these ongoing horrors that are happening in Palestine and the protests across the nation that are so empowering to watch, watching the youth of America take control of where their money's going and demand answers, and to see that support be seen by the palestinian people is. It's a beautiful exchange.

That's just. It makes me wish I was still in college, to be honest, to be a part of that. And I just want to connect quickly because the UN is calling this a humanitarian nightmare, because it is. And it's every day, it's ongoing. I mean, we're almost 300 days into this, and it's just continues to be the most jarring thing I've ever seen in my life.

So I just want to encourage everyone to stay informed, stay curious, and stay up to date. Because if you think as an american, this does not affect you. You are so wrong. You are so wrong. And it's a blissful ignorance you get to have if you think that what goes on overseas does not affect you or does not concern you in any way, because that's just not the truth.

Palestinians have nowhere to go. And I want you to think about how chilling and truly terrifying that is. They have nowhere left to go. I urge you, because, trust me, this is coming from someone who, like, I'm right there with you, of feeling powerless and hopeless. I'm sitting in my house watching the same things you're watching.

Feeling hopeless. So I want to talk to you, and I mentioned this in the last episode, and I will continue to mention it every podcast episode that comes out this year until election day, that if you are not registered to vote or if this is your first election that you've ever actually participated in, what an election to participate in. I'm linking websites to help you register to vote. If you don't know how, if you're confused, because there's really no excuse at this point, at this point in the game, if, like me, you don't feel properly represented by a government that is using your tax dollars to fund a foreign genocide, this is the year to vote. This is the year to contact your representatives.

This is the year to just be more vocal than you've ever been in your entire life. Tensions are rising and it's bubbling over, and it's also one of these things of just, like, how deep does this shit go, dude? We're realizing this across these universities and just businesses and the monopolies. It's just, how deep does it go? And it's just.

It's happening. You know, it's happening and it's happening, starting with the young people, and it's spreading and it's. It's a. It's a beautiful thing to watch under such horrible circumstances. So I just wanted to connect with y'all on a human level of please stay up to date of what is happening in Palestine.

And I may not talk about it all the time, but just know that I am always watching and I am always consuming. And I will always advocate for harassing your representatives, because who are they representing? Truly, truly, who are these representatives representing? I don't feel represented. So with that being said in the description of every episode I'm going to put out this year, there will be links to headcount and other websites to help you register to vote.

So love you guys. Get on that. Okay? And in true dystopian fashion, I'm just gonna, I guess, move on to other topics. And the number one thing that's kind of on my mind right now and on my gut, is I did have food poisoning last night.

It was truly horrific. I doordashed, you guessed it, $38 worth of crab rangoons. Why? What's wrong? Why?

What's wrong? Doordashed. Crab rangoons at 11:55 p.m.. Yeah. And did I find a thick black hair in it?

Yeah. And did I just pick it out and continue to eat it? Yes, I did. Yes, I did. And God bless that young gentleman who delivered my doordash at 11:55 p.m.

God bless him and his family. I hope he had a great night because he's a God warrior. I bodied some crab rangoons and some padsyou and then put it in the gut factory. Put it in the gut machine. And about 5 hours later.

Yeah, shit started churning. So literally, like, 05:00 a.m. This morning, I was like, oh, I don't think I've ever felt worse in my fucking life. And it was that upset stomach of like, you can't lay on your side. You can't lay flat, you can't.

It was like, I have to stay in this position right now or, like, the world is going to end. I'm going to shit blood all over this bed. And then I started, you know when you get those sour belches? Oh, that's going to make me actually, my mouth had to water. When you do those sour belches, it's like, oh, oh, I'm going to vomit.

Oh. And it's not even like a. Am I going to vomit? It's like, I'm going to vomit. It's just a matter of when.

There's no going back after that point. And sure enough, 20 minutes later, puke town. Population me. It was quick and easy, though. I don't.

I'm. I can never eat a crab rangoon again. Sorry if this is graphic. Crab rangoons officially outlawed in Broski Nation. You had your time.

You had your chance. Wasn't even real crab, dude. Wasn't even real fucking crab. It was just imitation crab with. I guessed, I guess poo poo and the cream cheese, too.

Tasted good, though. Damn, that shit tasted good. Anyway, I have not been feeling the best today, but I gotta get this pot episode out to y'all. I gotta get the good word out to the people. So thanks for rocking with me, team.

Okay, here is something that I'm late to the game on this, okay? I'm late to the game, and I want to talk about it, and I'm sure a lot of you will be able to understand, and I'm sorry that I'm late. I'm sorry that I'm late. I started Bridgerton. Well, yeah.

Why? Quite. Yes. Quite possibly. Should I.

Yes. Oh. Oh, yes. It's got me walking around my house talking like that. Should I probably be inclined to disagree with your.

Yes, sir. Yes, your grace. Yes, your grace. Damn. Why are their tits pushed up to their chin?

That is so me, a big bosomed woman. I hate those empire gowns, though. Those empire neck, Empire. What are they called? Empire gowns?

Empire waste, but period peace. Who? Queen Charlotte. When was she alive? Oh, she wasn't real.

Or was she? Yes, she was Queen Charlotte. In 1761, Charlotte found herself chosen by George III as his bride. Queen Charlotte rain. Or was she not real?

Who is the real monarch? Oh, there's some historical truth. Oh, fuck. All right, never mind. Um, that's also a Bridgerton spinoff.

It's not even the first one. I'm on season one of Bridgerton, season one, episode five. Don't spoil anything for me, dude. Simon and Daphne just got married, okay? And they had just made passionate love.

Oh, my God. It was literally like an enemies to lover romance that, of course, everyone here knows I love and impartial to. I am very partial to an enemy's true lover's period piece. Now, now, there is one scene where they're in an art gallery. Stay with me, stay with me.

They're in an art gallery, and they're standing there admiring a piece. And, you know, the fricking man is like, I don't like this one. This one's ugly. This one, I know this one was my mother's, but she was a bitch, or whatever. He didn't say that, but something in that fashion.

Like, I don't like this one. And then, of course, the woman. The woman comes in and she goes, I rather like it. Well, I quite like it. It reminds me of waking up in the countryside, quite serene.

The colors almost draw you in. I mean, she's, like, truly narrating this piece. And you just see him turn and, like, realize, oh, fuck, I'm in love with her. Oh, my God. What?

Is it gonna be my turn? When is it gonna be my turn?

When am I gonna stand in front of a Francis bacon piece and be like, yeah, and then he tried to kill himself, and then he wanted to die. And then he was gay. And then he literally. Yeah, and then he used to beat himself up and beat other people up, too. And Nick crazy.

And then the guy next to me is like, oh, God. I'm like, and then. And then Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, they're both gay. Nate went to prison for sodomy. Isn't that funny?

And then I look at him, and he's like, why do you know that? And then my understanding of our history is through the lens of the macabre. Okay, I'm not doing Daphne Bridgerton. I'm not doing. And it reminds me of the elk's cry that pierces the morn and quite literally, the dove.

Oh, and the dove represents peace and love and an olive branch. My ass is like, yeah, and then he killed three people after he paid a test. Yeah. Then he went deaf and blind in the country. Killed himself.

Anyway, how do you feel about Andy Warhol?

Okay. Anyway, there's this scene, okay? So they're standing in the art gallery, and she's like, well, I rather think it's quite beautiful and lovely and wonderful. And then he looks over at her like, oh, my God, I'm in love with her. And then they.

They do one of these. They brush knuckles. Horny. If I had a dick, I would pull it out.

Didn't they do one of these? Their knuckles touch. I'm hard. Their knuckles touched. You can see her neckline and her ankles.

I'm hard. I'm about to bust. Lord have mercy. I'm about to bust. I miss Leslie Jordan.

I miss him. Anyway. Yes. Their knuckles brush. And then he grabs her hand.

I'm 27. And then, and then, and then, and then, of course, they get interrupted. They get called away. And also, this makes it even more romantic is that they're not looking at each other while this happens. And you can see the.

The rapid rise and fall of her bosom as she's breathing heavily. And you can see him sort of slack jawed like all fucking men are. Men are beastly, ghastly creatures. Truly, to be locked up in a cage and fed raw meat like a wild steer. Does steer eat meat?

A steer is a cow, is it not? Steer meaning animal? Male cattle. Okay, so male cattle is actually not going to be eating meat. Take that back.

Male cattle that are castrated before reaching sexual maturity. Who's ripping the steers penises off? Y'all are cutting their dicks off. How are they supposed to. What's the difference between a cow and a steer?

Ranchers are crazy. A steer is a male bovine who cannot reproduce. He's being snipped. He's been sneaked. Why would they do that?

A heifer is a female bovine who has not given birth to a calf. A cow is a female bovine who has given birth to a calf. Now that is interesting. So most bovine that you see are not cows. Beef and dairy cattle.

This is a conversation for a different time. I'm talking about my penis being hard. Okay, so they brush knuckles and they're. And then they get called away. And then, of course, she's the first one to be like, oh, fuck.

Runs out of the room so all that's happening, okay. And they have cheeky little kisses here and there. Okay. I am burning with desire. I am bursting and burning with desire.

Oh, my God. Cause this is a different type of hee hee hoo hoo than when I watched little women. Little women was, oh, God. Oh, Jesus. It's a yearning, sorrowful, Sylvia plath type of.

Type of womanhood, right? This is a gleeful girlhood, I would say, of like, the first time that a man truly sees you, you know? And little women was that. I mean, Timmy, Timothy, and little women, of course, was so enamored with Joe, but just like, it was never going to work out. And so I thought that's how this was going to go because I was like, if they do that shit where it's just going to be enemies to friends and never to lovers.

Oh, boring. Boring. You know what else I love? Obviously, I love the romance part of it, but I just love a period piece. My God.

Oh, my days. I just do. And it's all the, like, historically accurate furniture and the sideboards and I just find it so interesting. I'm sweating under my boobs, by the way. Just gonna go ahead and tuck this sweatshirt under there.

I find it so interesting. All the terminology of, like, my lord, that's just like a normal lord. Your Grace, that's a duke. Okay. And then your majesty.

Yes, majesty, that's the king and queen. Okay. And I always thought they were interchangeable. There's. There's levels to this shit.

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Right. I would have served as a ladies maid. The girl who would come in and like, braid your hair and get you dressed. Cause I would have been. I would have been making him giggle.

So you couldn't have been mean to me. If I'm making you giggle, you wouldn't have been like, lady Brittany, you stupid idiot. Are you simple? Is she simple minded? Such a fun way to call someone a fucking idiot.

Is he simple? Is he simple minded? Yes. Yes. That Patrick meme.

Put it up here. Yes. Yeah. I would have slayed as a ladies maid. I just would have slayed in sort of victorian England in general.

I've said this before. I think that I was destined for it. I was destined to smell bad, have bad teeth, and eat a lot of sugar and die prematurely. Probably around 40, after failing to sire an heir for my man. And I probably would have been paired with some ugly motherfucker.

They would have married me off like a heifer. Truly. Some ugly motherfucker. I would have been like, oh, no. It appears I'm infertile.

Don't touch me. I need to go. Let my teeth rot by the sun take me to the seaside so that I may have my teeth rot in the sunlight. God, I would have loved it there. Rip Britney Broski.

You would have loved Victoria in London. Seriously. Damn. You know, my ass would have been sat in that movie theater that the first ever movie of the train coming through the screen. I would have been sat there scared out of my fucking mind.

Shit. I literally would have shit my pants. Cause I'm stupid. I'm simple. I'm simple minded.

Me back then, like, it's clearly AI. Yeah, bro. That's AI. It's not real. What's AI?

You would never understand. 2024, bro. Okay, so there's this poggers guy named Mark Zuckerberg. Ever heard of him? Yeah, bro.

Ever heard of meta aivr? Yeah, you never would have did shows anyway. Bridgerton goes crazy, dude. I love Bridgerton. It's so cheesy.

Corn ball. Oh, my sweet lord. It is so corny. But I love it. I need it, because if.

If the set design and the larger plot wasn't so intriguing, I would have clicked off by episode two. Okay. Because even though the dialogue is, I guess, quote unquote historically accurate, it's just like, older English. Whatever. It's just proper English.

Even though it's fun to watch, like, oh, my God. When you actually boil it down, it's like, this is so bad. This is so bad. Because here's the difference. I watched Downton Abbey.

Right? Downton Abbey, that fuckery. I stopped watching Downton Abbey after cousin Matthew died because I was in love with him and he was so right for her. And guess what? The girl who plays.

Who's the rotted. Who are the sisters? Who are the sisters in, uh, Downton Abbey? Lady Mary. Oh, my God.

Sybil's the one that dies. Lady Edith. Yeah, Lady Mary. She. The actress who plays her, Michelle Dockery, I think, would play an incredible nesta.

Lady Mary and Nesta have very strikingly similar characteristics and facial features, to be honest. Like, in my head, when I was reading court of silver flames and on all of acotar, I was like, this has to be the most strikingly beautiful, bitchy woman you've ever seen. And I remember thinking that about Lady Mary when I was watching Downton Abbey. I was like, God, she's so hot. But that's why she can be a bitch.

It's because people are like, no, it's fine. She sure is lovely to look at, isn't she? Quite beautiful. What she lacks in character, she makes up for in beauty. But she has an arc the way that Nesta has an arc, because all characters are redeemable.

All women are redeemable. Let me sort of correct myself there. All women characters are redeemable. Yeah. I think she would play a crazy Nesta.

Michelle dockery. Yeah, that's my Nesta girl. Okay. Yeah. Downton Abbey, when cousin Matthew died.

I'm also not spoiling anything. If you're planning on watching down to Dabby, it came out 1520 years ago, bro. At this point, go watch it. I stopped and everyone's like, no, you have to keep watching. Don't care.

And you're gonna kill cybill and cousin Matthew. I don't care about this show anymore. Sorry. I don't have an attachment to any else of the characters, any other of the characters. The show sucks now.

So I never finished it. I made it, like, three seasons in now I'm on Bridgerton, okay? And I. Probably me in two weeks is gonna come back and film an episode and be like, you idiot. Because I've been seeing all the press runs of Penelope and the guy who plays Colin, Colin Bridgerton.

They're so in love, or whatever, or they're really pushing that for the press tour. And. Okay, here's also a tangent, because in the season that I'm in right now, it's clear that she has a crush on him, but he's betrothed to another one of those classic she tries to sabotage because her sister, quote unquote, is to be married. To be married to the love of her life, and she is forever due to sit aside to stand idly by and watch as they have a love she can never have. Gut wrenching.

Been there. Um, anyway, what was I gonna say? Oh, my God. Okay, so I had this tangent. I'm on a medicine, by the way, that makes me neurotic.

Laundry's done. I'm on a medicine that makes me so emotional, and I don't know when the outbursts are going to happen. It just kind of strikes me. And the sensitive chord that always gets stricken is when it comes to femininity and womanhood. And a big theme in this show, as well as little women, is do not dare try to put me in a box as a woman.

How fucking dare you? Which I love. And I love that strong character that's like, I reject this. I reject everything society is trying to force me to do and every box they're trying to fit me into. Anyway.

Sorry. Frog in my throat. There was a frog in my throat. I love this narrative of, like, of course there's a beautiful lead character that's like, oh, who will I marry? And then there's the secondary, like, boss bitch character that's like, fuck you, and fuck him and fuck that and fuck my mom.

I like books that's truly. I don't know why. In every period piece like this, there's always that character that's like, but I just want to be a writer. Oh, mother, I can't even imagine marrying and bearing a child. I want to write.

Oh, how I want to write. And play the pianoforte by the sunlight, by the window. In the sunlit balcony of the window. God, if that ain't me. So I.

It sent me on a spiral, watching Bridgerton crying in a good spiral of like a. Oh, how I love being a woman. That sort of spiral. Because Penelope, who's a character of course, the sisters poke fun at her for being heavy, for being two stone more than she should be or fucking whatever, being fatphobic. And like, I.

God, there's so many thoughts in my head, how do I want to articulate this? Having shows that display in a non, like, oh, wow, that's a choice. You know, like, almost making a spectacle out of, like, oh, and the fat girl can be loved, too, because that's what it feels like sometimes is. Like, let me throw this curveball at you. She's actually lovable girl watching a show that's actually, like, you see all these societal standards and whatever being thrown around, but then she wins in the end, and it isn't in that cheeseball way of like, girl, this would never happen.

It's like, truly, Penelope is such a sweet girl. As of right now, I don't know what her character's gonna do in the future. Okay? I don't know if she's wretched and horrible, but as of right now, she's so pure and so beautiful in every sense of the word. And she is the sweetest of her sisters and a true friend.

And watching, obviously, this happen to her of, like, her crush picking someone else. Yeah, been there. We've all been there. Maybe. But, like, the hope that in this storytelling, I'm hoping that they do it in a beautiful, convincing way that's like, there are men out there that don't give a shit, that don't give a shit, that see you for your soul and who you are and your mind.

Now, have I met any men like that? Very few. Okay. Even less that want me. So I know that men out there exist like that, where, of course she is beautiful.

Of course she is beautiful. And I talk about this a lot. I think I talked about this two episodes ago where I was like, I'm accepting that I am not Instagram beautiful. There are different types of beautiful, and that is an umbrella term that can mean so much. And Instagram beautiful.

You know, this Kardashian style standard of beauty that they set that they can't even live up to is the new norm. And seeing beautiful women like Penelope on this show, who plays her? Like, I think she is so fucking classically beautiful. Featherington. Nicola Coughlin.

She's irish. Thank fucking God. Oh, my God. She was in dairy girls. Oh, my God.

She is so beautiful. And I just don't. I mean, I know that, like, what am I trying to say? I'm trying to say that it angers me trying to put a woman that looks like her as the, like, fat, ugly, undesirable character. In what fucking universe is that?

Any of those words true about her? It just makes me. I'm watching it, like, being angry. I'm angry that that's the narrative that's being told. But I don't know.

I'm also pissed off that they're trying to, like, pull the rug out from under us by being like, but look, she's lovable. No fucking shit she's lovable. I'm just. I don't know how the season's gonna end. I don't know how her story is going to end.

Uh, but I'm very excited because I'm. I'm such a fan of her. I love her. I think she's so classically gorgeous. So.

Oh, I also wanted to talk about this, dude. I wanted to talk about this. Okay, so obviously, Bridgerton and these sort of shows focus on the, like, upper middle nobility of victorian or edwardian or fucking. Whenever british society. And back then, even as it bled into american society in the late 18 hundreds, whatever, there was such an emphasis on being cultured.

And I say that in heavy quotations because that is through the lens of imperialism and colonialism and learning things from cultures that you have stolen and tried to colonize and et cetera, et cetera. So that being said, something about this show that Daphne and so much of them trying to sell off their daughters. Cause that's what it is. You're trying to sell off your daughter, and you're paying them a dowry so that they may be provided for, and it's worth your time to court her and marry her.

So much of that is like, you have to be the package. You have to have a musical talent. You have to speak multiple languages. You have to be well read. You know, you have to be able to hold a witty conversation, but not outshine the man.

You can't be too loud, but you can't be too timid and quiet. It's all. It's this perfect balance of what a woman should be. And there's this beautiful line that Daphne says somewhere in, like, the third episode where she says she's talking to her brother, who is hot. The eldest brother going to inherit the family name, money, title, everything, whatever.

He is free to do whatever he wants. And there's this interaction between them where she goes like, you don't fucking get it, do you? This is all I have. If I don't get married, I'm nothing. I'm worthless to this society.

Scary, scary. Sirens. Sirens. Scary alert. Scary alert.

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You can't get a job. You can't be a writer. You can't hold a position of power. You know, it's like I anyway, so all that's very upsetting to watch and be like, damn, love being a woman. But like damn, we're still fighting today, aren't we?

Like we're still, the march continues on that mixed with I love the idea and I wish we would bring it back of it should be a standard in in just to be a well rounded person, to have a musical talent, to study an instrument to 100% baseline, speak more than one language. That should be the absolute bare minimum. And not even like, oh yeah, I took a spanish class. Like, to be fluent in another language, perfectly fluent. That should be a requirement.

And then to be well read. And I know that school is supposed to accomplish that, but the american education system is fucking joke. And if you're privileged enough to go to a higher university, people don't take it seriously that you have access to a professor that is an expert in this subject that you can ask questions to, and you can have meaningful academic conversations with this person who is paid to stand in front of that room and teach you the subject matter. And I know that across different majors, it's not that easy. I'm a liberal.

I was a liberal arts major, but I was communication. I took a lot of english lit classes and some of the best memories I have from college are going to my professor's office hours and sitting there and being like, this isn't a matter of, I don't understand what the text is saying, but rather I want to hear your interpretation and analysis and let's discuss it because mine is different. Because in class, you can't really do that. I mean, I want to have a one on one conversation in class. It's like, are you all getting it?

Okay, great. This is going to be on the test. And why do you think this? And why do you think that? And, like, thinking critically about it, but then a one on one conversation.

This is the person that has read all the critiques, all the analyses, all the different angles of this text, while meanwhile, the students are just trying to understand what the fuck Beowulf is saying, you know? So I would go to office hours and I'd be like, but what was the meaning of this to there? Why couldn't the main character have done this? Or why did the author use that? Why did the author use that wording instead of just saying this, that sort of more a deeper level.

Let's talk about the impact of a work like this versus what's going on in the work. We also did that with heart of darkness. I remember going to his office hours and being like, the structure of heart of darkness is so strange. I've never read a book like that. And so we talked a lot about that, of using literary devices like that.

Structuring a novel of letters within letters. It's confusing on purpose, almost, and even carrying that into secret history. I've talked about secret history before. It's my favorite book ever, other than angels and demons by Dan Brown, which I need to reread, by the way. Secret history.

The whole crux of the story is that Richard is an unreliable narrator. I always talk about this interesting way to tell a story that we don't trust bro. Bro sucks, you know? And, like, bro wants to fit in so bad, we can't even trust him to tell us accurately how these characters are behaving. And you don't get multiple points of view.

You get him and he sucks. So all that, like, I just loved. And I miss it. I miss being academically challenged in a setting like that, where it's competitive, because say what you will about that, it encourages you to be better. It encourages you to study more and learn more so that you can win.

And I think that academic competition is a great thing to chase and a great thing to want to win at, even though it can give you a superiority complex, and it can be. It can create some of the most insufferable people you've ever fucking met. I think if it's in good, good spirits and it's in a good hearted nature of. You just want to learn, and you just want to discuss what you've learned with other people and therefore learn from them and their brains, and they can learn from you. That's that exchange.

I miss that exchange. And you don't get a lot of it online. Fucking Christ. You don't get any of it online. You don't get meaningful academic discourse.

Oh, it's just brain rot. You get brain rot and gutless bottoms online. And I know that's true. And that came from Trixie Mattel's mouth, which, by the way, new video up with her on her channel. And I have a video with her coming up this Thursday, the 16th, May 16, video with Trisha coming out.

Look out for that. So back to Bridgerton. To bring it back to Bridgerton. The society, with all of its flaws and all of its inherent injustices and all of its double standards and all of its hypocrisy, I do think that forcing young people to study an instrument, study someone else's language, and to be well read, are three pillars that we should absolutely bring back. Because those are, I think, if anything, kind of made fun of.

Now, I don't know. It's not. Maybe I'm talking out of my ass. They're not made fun of, but there's not an emphasis put on that. It's like you're a fucking nerd if you're good at school and it's encouraged to not try.

And it's like college is now referred to. It's like a party thing. Like, it's. You go to college to party and make friends and not to have an intimate relationship with your studies, which is what it used to be. I miss school because I feel like I got all of it, and I will never once again, never again experience it all at the same time like that.

And it also sucks being your own professor now, because you can only vet the material so much. And even if you find professors online that are teaching it, it's like, well, who's this fucking guy? So I don't. It's a weird thing. I miss school, but I don't have the self discipline to sit down and put myself through school again.

I'd love to get my master's degree someday, and I would probably do it in Spanish. I would do it in spanish and spanish literature or spanish phonetics, but that's a. I have my whole life ahead of me. You know, I've thought about this a lot of, like, this Internet shit. God, I love it, and it's a fucking trip.

But what's the age out on it? And will y'all follow me? It's a real concern I have. It's a real concern that I don't think a lot of people talk about enough of. I've built this wonderful community that I am so grateful for, and we have a lot of fun here, y'all.

Seriously. We have a lot of fun. Okay, I'm shooting some of you out into space. I'm shooting some of you out into space. And that is a risk we have to take.

Space, the final frontier of Broski nation. But, yeah, it's a concern of mine, dude, of what is the lifespan of a job like this and where do you go? Do you just sort of fall into the back, the background of you go behind the camera and you start producing things for other people? Or is this a community that, you know, I'm sure a lot of y'all are college age, maybe younger and older. You know, I just turned 27, and I know I have fans that are into their upper thirties.

And my question is, so much of this job is cementing myself into part of your routine. You watch my YouTube videos once a week. You listen to my podcast episodes once a week. You can count on. Usually I've got some new TikToks up.

I post on instagram every fucking day? What happens when that stops? What happens when I turn a certain age or I have a new career path or I'm doing something else where I can't afford that level of interactiveness every day? Will I lose you? Will you continue to follow me wherever I go?

What if I do something else? What if I fuck off for a year and I write a book and I come back and I go, here's my book. It's an enemies to lovers fantasy novel. Will everyone have forgotten? It's a scary thing to.

You have to constantly be in the audience's eye, constantly pumping out good, new, innovative, relatable content. And I'm not complaining. I am not complaining at all. I'm more so pontificating about, where does this lead to? Will y'all still be watching me seven years from now?

Imagine seven years from now. Imagine four years ago. I've been doing this for four or five years. I started late 2019 and then the pandemic, really, my career shot off because everyone was forced to be on their phones. So seven years from now, I don't know.

But then you see some youtubers that have been doing this for damn near 15 years, but YouTube has changed so exponentially in the last five years than it did maybe between 2010 to 2018. So I don't know. I think about that a lot, and I'm perfectly content with what I do right now. And I'll say it every episode. I'm so incredibly grateful for the comments under every YouTube video and the TikTok comments and the DM's I get.

And when I meet y'all in person, and you're just. You're just like me for real. That's the beautiful part of this, dude, is you're like me for real. And I don't know, sometimes I'm intimidated by that because it's so real. This connection is so real, but it's so parasocial and it's so curated sometimes.

You know, it's very curated. And at what point does it get dangerous? Because it can get dangerous. So I don't know. I think about it a lot, and not in a way of calling for.

This is not a. It's more so in an academic, you know, zooming out not just me, but any Internet creator who does something similar to what I do. We're already seeing that we're very disillusioned with celebrities, traditional celebrities, and times like the ones we live in right now, the wealth gap has never been more staunch and more blatant. And so with that sort of happening of this fall off of the traditional celebrity of the Paris Hiltons and all this, no one wants to see that anymore. And then the rise of the relatable influencer, quote, unquote.

But then what happens seven years from now? When do we return to, like, really sensationalized content? Or are we staying in this sort of, hey, guys, get ready with me. We're just craving connection on such a human basis, on a human level. I just want to feel like there's someone in my house with me because I'm so fucking lonely.

Everyone works from home now, you know? Everyone works from home. No one can afford their fucking groceries. It's like companionship is truly a lost art. It's a lost necessity on the James Maslow hierarchy of needs.

I don't know. Is this making sense? Do you all understand what I'm saying? Maybe I'm just talking out of my butt. I'm talking out of my b.

Hole. Let me know if you get what I'm saying. Cause even I, like, I do this as a job. And when I'm cleaning my house, I have on Hamza and Martin to keep me company as I fold my laundry. And that's real.

That's real. Like, I'm lonely in my own house, and I'm the one that's providing comfort and companionship to other people. But for me, I'm seeking that other places as it's just this loop of. I like where we've landed of this laid back, mostly, you know, lifestyle, sometimes reactionary based content that's just like, hanging out. We just want to hang out, dude, that's seriously.

Damn. Take me back to victorian London. I would have hung the fuck out. We don't hang out in parks anymore. God.

Watching Bridgerton and Dowsen Abbey and all that. They would just go to the seaside and just sit. They would just, hey, we're all going to the picnic today at the park, going on a stroll. When was the last time you went on a stroll with your friends through the park? It's been years for me to miss it, need it.

It just truly is. It's this lost pillar of human connection and humanity that just makes me sad. And I'm right there with you. You know what I mean? Right there with you.

I'm sat up in my house being like, I'm lonely. So all that to say, go pick up an instrument, go learn a second language, go pick up an instrument and go read a classic novel. Today I finished my series, and I am now starting east of Eden by John Steinbeck. Me and Stanley are gonna book club. I think Stanley's reading Game of Thrones.

He's literally reading the books game of Thrones. And he also read Metamorphosis by Kafka. And he also read. He's been trying to get me to do way of kings. And I was like, uh, way of kings?

He's like, you would love it. If you like Game of Thrones, you'd love it. And I was like, okay, fine, but way of kings is like this thick. But then again, when you think about Throne of glass and acotar all the way through, that's like 8000 pages. So I think I could get through way of kings easily.

I just need to buy it. It's just traveling with. It's a fucking bitch. I don't travel with a 4000 page book, but I will. Yeah.

So Bridgerton, Simon. Need Simon. I just got dizzy thinking about him. I need him so bad. It's criminal.

It's sickly. It's disgusting how much I need him. They did one of those shirtless shots. They showed his titties. Oh, my God.

I'm not. I'm not usually like that. I'm not like, oh, look at his man boobs. He's got some. He's got a rack on him.

Stop trafficking.

Hey, guys. Welcome back to rack reviews. Welcome back to male rack reviews with me, Brittney Broski. I vomited crab Rangoon 6 hours ago. Alright, pull up Simon's boobs.

Like, are you serious? Do I have a lisp? Here are the songs of the week. Bogus by Don Tolliver. This song goes nutso.

Bogus by Don Tolliver. There's this one lyric in it where he goes, speed up in the lambo. You hear the bass bussin. It's constantly in a loop in my head. You know, like when you.

The way bbl drizzy was stuck in my head last week. Now it's here to bass Bussin. He hits the bees so crispy. Beat up in the lamb. Or you get bass bussin.

That's number one. Number two is a rec from my new friend Oliver. And it's called Texas sun by Leon Bridges. Shout out Oliver Mills. He recommended that song to me.

Really, really gorgeous. And then the third one is. It's a TikTok song. It's a TikTok. So it's a TikTok song I got from a hot edit.

Even worse, a hot ev. Here's the new fucking guy. I thought I was past this. I'm not, because House of the dragon's coming back. How's it.

Oh, my God. I'm going to the house of the Dragon premier.

Y'all, we. Y'all, this is. It's truly. Okay. Okay.

I'm going to the House of the Dragon premiere. House of the Dragon is my favorite tv show. Are you serious? House of the Dragon, my favorite tv show. Other than the Mandalorian.

What? Actually, maybe. Well, Game of Thrones and then House of the dragon, obviously under that. My favorite tv show. Yeah, that's pretty accurate.

House of the Dragon is my favorite tv show. I got invited to the premiere. We're trying to see Donald Trump. If you can hear me, let me interview you and Mitchell. Please, God.

Please, God, let me interview Rhaenyra and Daemon Targaryen. Seriously? Jesus Christ. If you can hear me and if I don't get to, totally fine. Because just being there and being able to see Matt Smith irl.

Oh, my God. Being able to see Queen Alicent in real life. My God. So all that to say, I got this fucking song from an edit of Tom Glynn. Is that his name?

Tom Glynn Carney. The guy who plays Egon. Egon, please. Tom Glynn Carney. Eager for Egon to cause more havoc and have the dragon season two.

I'm so fucking excited. He is such God. Egon is the worst. He's the worst. But Tom Groen is so hard.

I'm gonna freak out. I'm gonna go. Because if y'all remember, there was a time this time last year when I would not shut the fuck up about you and Mitchell. Okay. Ewan Mitchell plays Aemond Targaryen.

Y'all need to lock in. If you're not caught up with Targaryen lore, lock in, dude, this is Aegon. That's Aemond. Now let's pull up Aemond Targaryen. 00000 emergency siren me.

When I'm about to bust me, I be in her ear like, what are you talking about? Okay, this is Eamonn. Y'all know I've talked about Ayman before. If you get it, you get it. If you don't, you don't.

I don't give a shit, dude. Here's my man. Oh, God. Okay, so, yeah, dude, house of the Dragon season two comes out soon, I hope, because here's my concern, fan to fan, let me level I. I don't know if they continued production through the strikes, through the writers strike and the sag strike.

I don't know what the sort of situation was there. And so if they continued producing this or writing it, at least with the writers gone, oh, it's gonna suck. I hope it doesn't. I don't think it will. I don't think it will because they had so much writing.

Season one was so good. The end of season one, holy shit. What was I gonna look up? Oh, the song. Sorry.

The song is called Fall back by life, by leave.

Got that from a sexy, horny amend and Aegon edit on TikTok. I'm no better than anyone. I've never claimed to be. I don't think I'm better than anyone. If I see a horny Game of Thrones edit on TikTok, I'm throwing that shit alike.

I'm not above it. I'm also not above commenting. Oh, my God. Or commenting. Need him.

Or commenting. I love this one. Christ.

Anyway, I'm so excited for it, dude. I'm so excited for season two. I'm gonna freak out. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Who?

Who wrote that? Rage against the dying of the light that song's about resisting death. Do not go gentle into that good night. Did I say song? I meant poem.

Do not go gentle into that good night is a poem in the form of a villanelle by welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Dylan Thomas? Sounds like a country star. It's one of his best known works. Though first published in the journal Botteg Osce in 1951, the poem was written in 1947.

Do not go gentle into that good night old age should burn and rave at close of day rage, rage against the dying of the light let's do a poetry reading. Though wise men at their end know dark is right because their words had forked no lightning they do not go gentle into that good night good men, the last wave by crying how bright their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay rage, rage against the dying of the light wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight and learned too late they grieved it on its way do not go gentle into that good night grave men near death who see with blinding sight blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay what? What? Rage, rage against the dying of the light rip Dylan Thomas, you would have loved Charlie xx rip Dylan Thomas, you would have loved Charlie XCX von Dutch featuring Addison Rae the remix and you, my father, there on the sad height curse bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light now, if I am not mistaken, that's about not wanting to die. What is rage, rage against the dying of the light good night is an acknowledgement of the bittersweet relief of the struggles and hardships of life that come with death. While fierce tears and the repeated lion rage, rage against the dying of the light show that the speaker sees the act of dying as a much more passionate, sad and angering experience. Yeah, like resisting death. You don't want to die.

That's my biggest fear, dude. Death is truly my biggest fear. For that reason. Exactly. I don't want to die.

I love life. I love living life. I'm scared of it hurting. I don't want death to hurt. It's not even like I'm scared of what happens after peace.

Peace happens after peace. Rest is what is to be expected. I'm scared of the process of dying, the frailty of old age, my body failing me, my mind failing me, being in constant pain, my loved ones having to watch me be in constant pain, an illness that eats away at you. That's my biggest fucking fear. The speaker sees the act of dying as a much more passionate, sad, and angering experience.

It is. It's angering. What do I do? I've spent so much time. I've spent so much time and energy on this earth.

I'm not ready to give it up. I'm not ready to go. Every single day, every week, I discover something new that I love, that I really like. Every month I meet people. Every year, I meet people that are blessings to my life, that I never thought I would have someone like that in my life.

And I don't want that to ever end. But then this is what we talk about, okay? Immortality is not the solution either. If we can make life, like, what, biblical times? Like, 300 years.

300 years, I'd be ready to fucking go. Shoot me out into space, dude, at 300 years. But, like, 75. 75 is not long enough. I'm just getting started, okay?

I'm only getting started. I won't back down this time. It's gonna break. I wanna get started. I won't black out.

Okay, that's. That's literally me. That's me in the nursing home at 75, pissing my pants. I'm only getting that clip of Cody Cohen talking about, um. He was talking about djing and how he's not good at, like, the DJ ad libs.

Like, let's go jump. One, two. And he's, like, trying to get better at it. And he said that after one of his sets, Kelsey came over to him and was like, why did you say, yeah, baby into the mic? That was weird.

Why did you do that? And he was like, don't know. I don't know. Yeah, baby. Don't know.

Anyway, I think that'll do it for me. Team, I love y'all. Go check out the links in my description like I talked about. Go register to vote. Please drop a comment if anything that I talked about today struck a chord with you or if I need to check out any pieces of media.

Cause now that I'm in this Bridgerton hole, bitch, let me finish Bridgerton and then recommend me some more like this. Cause now I'm gonna be in a hole. Little women started it. Okay. Merch available.

Broski shop. Go get you sweatshirt, girl. Go get you sweatshirt. Go get you hoodie. Go get you a gift card.

We got t shirts. Moomoo is dropping soon. Y'all are not ready for the moomoos. The moomoos are perfect. They're done.

They're perfect. And then some more exciting drops later this year, okay? Love you guys. Be good. Do not go gentle into that.

Good night. Love you. Bye.

49: Me vs. Crab Rangoon & Bridgerton

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1: Introduction to the Crab Rangoon Incident

2: Diving into Bridgerton

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