88: Left My Gallbladder in Italy

This week on The Broski Report, Fearless Leader Brittany Broski discusses her gallbladder removal in Italy, unpacks her first music release, and returns to the topic of The Roman Empire. 👕 Get your merch here: https://broski.shop/ Follow The Broski Report: https://www.linktr.ee/broskireporthttps://www.tiktok.com/@broskireport https://instagram.com/broskireport Follow Brittany: https://www.tiktok.com/@brittany_broski https://www.tiktok.com/@brittanybroski https://instagram.com/brittany_broski https://youtube.com/brittany_broski Follow Royal Court: https://www.youtube.com/@royalcourt https://www.tiktok.com/@bbroyalcourt https://www.instagram.com/royalcourt https://www.twitter.com/bbroyalcourt Brought to You By: Hungryroot – Get 40% off + Free Item For Life at https://hungryroot.com/broski with code BROSKI Tinder – Download the app now – https://open.tinder.com/9K8a/broski Seat Geek – Download the app and get 10% off tickets using code BROSKI2025 Reproductive Resources: https://aidaccess.org https://plancpills.org https://Ineedana.com https://ineedana.com https://www.reprolegalhelpline.org/ https://heyjane.com LGBTQ+ Resources: https://Translifeline.org https://translifeline.org https://Glaad.org https://glaad.org https://Pflag.org https://pflag.org https://www.thetrevorproject.org/ Climate Resources: https://Oceanconservancy.org https://oceanconservancy.org https://Climateemergencyfund.org https://climateemergencyfund.org Some helpful credible resources/links to help Free Palestine: Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund - https://www.pcrf.net/ UNICEF - https://www.unicefusa.org/stories/helping-gazas-children-cope-trauma Doctors Without Borders - https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/secure/give-monthly-double-your-impact-search-onetime-reverse-mobile?ms=ADD2301U3U49&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=BRAND. DWB_CKMSF-BRAND. DWB-GS-GS-ALL-DWBBrand. E-BO-ALL-RSA-RSARefresh.1-MONTHLY&gclid=Cj0KCQjw6PGxBhCVARIsAIumnWZpQAMikxPIRiPMfAjYsJZ-eHiRQV2pw7tu2Jlo6YL8Gk_uaTSwH0MaAtFGEALw_wc https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/secure/give-monthly-double-your-impact-search-onetime-reverse-mobile?ms=ADD2301U3U49&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=BRAND. DWB_CKMSF-BRAND. DWB-GS-GS-ALL-DWBBrand. E-BO-ALL-RSA-RSARefresh.1-MONTHLY&gclid=Cj0KCQjw6PGxBhCVARIsAIumnWZpQAMikxPIRiPMfAjYsJZ-eHiRQV2pw7tu2Jlo6YL8Gk_uaTSwH0MaAtFGEALw_wc World Central Kitchen - https://wck.org/ World Health Organization - https://www.who.int/ Headcount - https://www.headcount.org/ IG ACCOUNTS TO FOLLOW: @eye.on.palestine @aljazeeraenglish @palestinianyouthmovement @byplestia @motaz_azaiza @impact CHAPTERS: 00:00 – Intro 01:01 – Italian Vacation 05:41 – Gallbladder Removal 27:25 – Music Release 38:54 – Roman Empire 47:28 – Song of Achilles 52:42 – Roman Collessium 1:00:34 – Charcuterie Nachos #brittanybroski, #broski, #broskination, #broskireport, #italy, #rome, #romanempire, #surgery, #gallbladder, #harrystyles, #music, #songofachilles, #collessium

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 0:35Speaker 01

  Direct from the Broski Nation headquarters in Los Angeles, California, this is the Broski Report with your host, Brittany Broski.

• 0:46Brittany Broski?

  Whipping that bitch like a rental. I'm dragging my nuts, got my dick out the dirt. Y'all know that song?

• 0:54Brittany Broski?

  Guys! Guess who they let back in the United Mother-tucking States of America? Me! Y'all! For a fucking two weeks, this has been! Oh my God! Oh my God! So much has happened in the last, what? Not even 14 days? I guess it has been 14 days. Oh, my sweet Lord! Y'all need to strap in for what I'm about to lay on you, okay?

• 1:30Brittany Broski?

  Have mercy. Okay, let's start with, you're looking at a woman that is one less organ than now I was two weeks ago, okay? What the fuck? You always hear, "Oh, she had her gallbladder out, she had her pancreatic removal surgery, it went great." Who the fuck is that ever about? Because it's, you think it's not gonna be you. You know what I mean? "Oh, it's now about me." Gallbladder surgery? Goofy-ass surgery. What the fuck?

• 2:04Brittany Broski?

  I couldn't even have a cool one. Oh, I tore my, I tore my nabiscus. I, I tore my,

• 2:14Brittany Broski?

  I tore my hibiscus muscle during bar method because I was going so hard because I'm so ripped and muscled that it, it just snapped. It's never that. It's, she had a gold bladder out. What the fuck goofy ass surgery is that? I'm humiliated. Unserious ass surgery, bro. Except it was very serious. It was actually kind of like really super scary. Okay, let's talk about it, I guess. So, um, you might be wondering why I got here. Rewind the clock two weeks. I'm in Rome, Italy. By the way, I literally got back last night, so this is hot off the motherfucking press for y'all.

• 2:59Brittany Broski?

  Okay, so I'm on a family vacation. All goes well. We, uh, start in Paris and we take the Orient Express from Paris to Verona, Italy. One of the most magical experiences ever. It is an overnight train. And you literally wake up in the Swiss Alps. Like it is just, it's psychotic. It's something that was a real bonding experience for me and my whole family. It was so neat and it's such a unique preservation that they've done of these train cars. I mean, from the, the twenties and thirties, they've restored them to their original artisan craftsmanship and

• 3:40Brittany Broski?

  the original, it's like the grandsons of the guys who made the cars or the ones who serviced them. It's spectacular. Okay. Not to nerd out, but like, wow. Dining cars, bar car. It was amazing. Okay. We get off the train in Verona. Walk around for a little bit. Shout out Verona, Italy, which has the, and I might be wrong. Second largest Roman amphitheater ever found besides the Colosseum. Okay. Amphitheater meaning two theaters. Amphy meaning two, right? Like amphibian. So, second largest Roman amphitheater ever found. Really, really neat. They do like opera concerts there now. Um, we walked around the city in literally an hour and a half.

• 4:21Brittany Broski?

  And oh, this episode is gonna have some severe Roman Empire undertones, by the way. I, it's on, it's fresh on the mind. I also started reading Song of Achilles. Okay, I'll get back to my gallbladder in a second. Started reading Song of Achilles. What the fuck? We'll get there, okay? But the Roman Empire weaves its way into this story, so mind you. We get out in Verona, really cute town, old as fuck. Every city in Italy is old as fuck. And like, and this building was built, when can I remember? 1200 AD. What the fuck are you talking about? That's not real. Made up year. Um, so then we take a commuter train from Verona to Rome.

• 5:04Brittany Broski?

  We have a beautiful time in Rome. It rains the whole time, but it honestly was super aesthetic, super ambient, okay? Do a walking tour of Colosseum, of the Roman Forum, of all these magnificent places. I've been to Rome before, probably 10 years ago. This was, to see it through like adult eyes and as an appreciator of history and, and someone who sees history as not only um, a direct informer of how we behave today, but of like what could have been. Oh, it was just, it was psychotic. Uh, me and my brother were geeking, tweaking out. We do all that, whatever. It's the final day. We're supposed to leave for the airport at 5:00, okay? This is on Saturday morning. We're supposed to leave 5:00 AM.

• 5:50Brittany Broski?

  Well, around 1:00 AM, my tummy starts to rumble, okay? And not only does my tummy start to rumble, my mouth starts to water. And I said, oh, fuck, I know what this is. So I'm nauseous. I go and puke in the bathroom and it does not stop. And usually when I have food poisoning, I have given it to myself by eating, I don't know, rice or pasta that's been left out. Or, you know, eating at some unsavory places, cuz I, at the core of my being, want to be Anthony Bourdain. And so I get real adventurous with food. My tummy can't handle it, girl. My tummy's like, no, no, no, no!

• 6:33Brittany Broski?

  And then I, and then I spew from both ends. All that to say, I know what food poisoning feels like. I know what it sounds like in my body. I'm well acquainted with it. This was different, okay? I start puking.

• 6:45Brittany Broski?

  And it does not stop. And immediately after puking, this intense pain in my upper abdomen starts. And it's something I have never experienced in my life. I mean, it felt when they say knives in your stomach, when they say writhing in pain, there is not a better descriptor. There's not a more apt description than what that experience was. Nothing would relieve it. I couldn't lay flat. I couldn't like use my abdominal muscles to get up. It was horrible. I couldn't lay on my side. After a while of getting up and down, up and down, the nausea wouldn't stop. My mom, bless her, she stayed behind because I was like, I'm not making it on that plane, girl.

• 7:27Brittany Broski?

  So my dad, brother and sister went home and my mom stayed behind and got me some Italian version of Gas-X. I was popping that. I think it's called Geffer. They call that shit Geffer. I was huffing the Geffer. I'm a Geffer queen, okay? I took it, uh, like you, you drink it, you mix it with water and it helped with the nausea, but the pain would not go away. I was doing Tylenol. Thank God. I always traveled Tylenol and Ibuprofen. It was the only thing that could, like, it still hurt, but I could like drift off to sleep a little bit

• 8:06Brittany Broski?

  until the Tylenol would wear off and then I would be brought back to the suffering reality of my abdominal pain. After a while, where I was like, this is not normal. It's been 24 hours. It's not going away. The pain then spread to under my right, uh, rib cage. And it got hard to breathe. And that's when I started to freak the fuck out. I don't smoke weed. I don't smoke cigarettes. I don't do anything that involves my lungs because there is nothing scarier to me, like very genuinely, nothing is scarier than not being able to breathe. Uh, not being able to take a full breath, not being able to meter your breathing. And so when I couldn't do that, I was like, absolutely fucking not.

• 8:50Brittany Broski?

  I called my doctor back in America and luckily with the time difference, they were up. And, uh, the hospital answered and they were like, Here's what I recommend. He said, "Describe exactly where the pain is." I was like, "You know, it's right under my right rib cage and it's piercing stabbing pain. I cannot lay, I cannot do anything, I can't even take a full breath." He goes, "Okay, that sounds like your gallbladder." And I said, "What the hell is that? Of course I've heard of a gallbladder before, but not in my body, not on me." He was like, "Sounds like either your gallbladder or your pancreas." Because I had WebMD'd myself down a hole and I had diagnosed myself as having pancreatic cancer, of course.

• 9:33Brittany Broski?

  And so he was like, "Sounds like your gallbladder." I said, "You sure doc? It sounds like pancreatic cancer to me." He said, "No, it's probably your gallbladder." And he was like, "Okay, here's what I would recommend. You need to go to an English-speaking hospital nearby and you really need to get this checked out." And I was like, "Hospital, bro, what the fuck? This can't wait until I'm back in the States." Fast forward, no it could not wait. So what I actually was about to experience was acute cholest- cholestitis. Acute cholestitis. An inflammation of the gallbladder typically caused by a gallstone blocking the cystic duct.

• 10:16Brittany Broski?

  So here's what I've come to learn about gallbladders. I'm super versed in it now.

• 10:23Brittany Broski?

  Gallstones develop on their own and they can be unproblematic until they are. What happened in my gallbladder, so the gallbladder produces bile. And bile sits in your stomach and helps digest the food that you eat. My gallbladder had been blocked, okay? That's what was causing the sharp pain. And not only was there a blockage, it was perforated. The walls were super thick, it was inflamed, and necrosis had set in.

• 10:55Speaker 03

  Oh, okay. What the fuck are you talking about?

• 10:59Brittany Broski?

  All of that happened. We made the decision to go to the hospital because I was like, this pain is, it is unimaginable. We went in, I described all my symptoms. And to the doctor, the Italian doctor, God bless. The name of the hospital I went to, and I'm about to say everyone by name because they were so fantastic. This hospital was, I mean, truly, how scary is it to be in a foreign country? You don't speak the language. And now you're being told you have to undergo a surgery. This hospital was so lovely to me. In the grand scheme of things, I was like, go time decision mode when it came time to, you know, have this conversation with the doctors.

• 11:44Brittany Broski?

  But like, grand scheme of things, God, it was terrifying. But I wasn't really terrified in the moment. So I go into the doctor and he's like, you know, what's wrong? We just went to the ER. And I was like, food poisoning. I gave myself food poisoning, you know, we had sushi, I had tuna, like it was raw and whatever. He goes, what, what is wrong? And I was like, oh, food poisoning. He goes, no, no, no, no, tell me what is wrong. And I said, okay, so you have a good point. I said, I have abdominal pain. I've been vomiting, but no diarrhea. Sorry to get super graphic. Do y'all care about me or not? No diarrhea. And he said, that's a telltale sign that it's not food poisoning. Because it would be evacuating the premises at all costs if it was food poisoning.

• 12:28Brittany Broski?

  This is actually going to be something completely different. And so he goes, okay, uh, lay down and I'm going to do an abdominal exam. So I lay down off the Tylenol, off the perk 30, Tylenol 500 milligram. And for the first time ever, I could lay flat because I was on so much Tylenol. I'm overstimulated. I'm overstimulated right now, by the way. There's a screech in my throat. I got scritches in my throat. The lawn guys are doing that out there. It's hot in here. My water's lukewarm. There's a lot going on. I feel really actually overstimulated as fuck right now, but I'm going to power through.

• 13:05Brittany Broski?

  And so he lays, he tells me to lay down and then he does an abdominal exam. And when he pushed on my gallbladder, oh my fucking god, I have no, I wanted to scream. And he goes, okay, we're gonna have you do an ultrasound. And I'm not joking, when we showed up to this hospital, no one was there. No one. There was one other person in the waiting room and it was an old guy with his wife.

• 13:31Brittany Broski?

  We were seen immediately. Uh, it was the doctor and then nurses who took all my vitals and did whatever. I was in an ultrasound within two hours, maybe an hour and a half.

• 13:43Brittany Broski?

  And she did the ultrasound and sure enough, on the, the monitor, you can see little gallstones. Oh, okay. And so she goes, this looks like, uh, inflammation of the gallbladder. We're gonna send you to have a CT scan. What the fuck bitch? I've never been a sickly person, okay? I've never had to do the in and out of hospitals, doing this, doing all these scans and whatever. I've never had to do it. Thank god. I mean, I've been so lucky. And to me, that's always been like, you know, oh, you hit 55 and you start doing all that stuff. This was very scary as like a 27 year old, relatively healthy person. Like I really take care of myself, at least I try to.

• 14:25Brittany Broski?

  This was like, bitch, what the, so did the CT scan. And what, they don't tell you about a CT scan? That they, it's, it was all IV, it was all intravenous, intravenous. They put this solvent or whatever through the IV. And she goes, bless her, because she spoke broken English, she was speaking Italian. She goes, going to be hot. And I said, oh, just like the temperature of the room? Okay, it's no worries. I can sweat. I sweat all the time. She puts that shit in my, oh my god, it was the weirdest feeling. So did the IV. Puts me in the CT scan where it's, it's over, you know, it's circling around you.

• 15:11Brittany Broski?

  When that shit, when it, the machine mixed with whatever the fuck was in my veins, it burned. It was hot. I literally, I felt like such a puss because she warned me going to be hot. I go, ow.

• 15:27Brittany Broski?

  Ow. Like a baby. And then from the fucking mic speaker in the room, she goes, are you all right? And I said, yeah. Humiliating. But they do that, I guess, so it illuminates the veins and you can see the inflammation. I don't know. Uh, regardless, got out of the CT scan and they were like, yeah, it's bad. They show all these images to the doctor. We wait around, uh, they decide to admit me. And they start administering antibiotics. I'm thinking, oh, okay, it's just inflamed. Give me some antibiotics. I'll probably be here overnight. They'll release me tomorrow. We can leave the next day. Well, girl. Later that night,

• 16:12Brittany Broski?

  the doctor comes in. The same one, God bless him, Dr. Carlo. Dr. Carlo. Cons, Consani? By the way, this hospital was, uh, UPMC Salvator Mundi International Hospital in Rome. Spectacular, fantastic care. Um, and shout out Dr. Carlo because he for real was like, tell me what is wrong, not you diagnosing yourself, you know, like I want to see it all laid out so I can properly diagnose. And he did. He came in and he was like, here's the deal. Gallbladder's super inflamed. Every, the walls are super thick. You have a blockage.

• 16:58Brittany Broski?

  Now, we have two options. We can keep you here for four or five days. Five days. Just pump you full of antibiotics. And you can have the surgery when you're back in America. And I go, okay, hold on one second. The surgery? What do you mean? Like to remove the gallstone? He said, no, no, no, to remove your gallbladder. And I say,

• 17:20Speaker 03

  Alright, could you just go ahead and point one more time to where that is on my body? Cause I'm not really understanding. I ask him to pull up one of those like infographic charts on the wall. I'm like, could you just point to where on my body where it would be? Okay, I get it now. I get it now. Thank you.

• 17:34Brittany Broski?

  And so he comes in, he goes, that's option one. Option two, the surgeon is gonna come in in a little bit and like most surgeons do, he's gonna tell you, you need surgery. I would hear him out, uh, because it's a lot worse than I I initially thought. And I'm like, okay. The surgeon comes in and he's immediately like, we need to do this tomorrow. He said, it is re- super inflamed. Uh, there is a blockage and I cannot put you on a plane in good conscience. He goes, I understand, you know, I know this is scary. You probably want to do this in America, but I really recommend you do it here. And I'm like, okay.

• 18:17Brittany Broski?

  So I'm on the phone with my dad back in the States. Uh, my mom is there with me. I've talked to both the doctor, the surgeon, and I call my American doctor. And I'm like, here's the status. Here's what they're telling me. What do you recommend? Because ultimately, you know, you listen to everyone's advice, but you have to weigh it all. And it's your decision ultimately. And that's what Dr. Carlo said. He was like, it's your choice. Uh, it's your body. You do what you think is best. I called my American doctor and he goes, you really need to do it there. And I go, okay, that's the decision, I guess. And so the next morning, early, like 7:30 AM, the surgeon and Dr. Carlo come in and they're like,

• 19:02Brittany Broski?

  well, what do you think? What have you decided? And I go, let's do it. Let's do it here. Girl, I was, that was probably what, 7:30, 8?

• 19:15Brittany Broski?

  I was under anesthesia by 12:45. It was immediate. And it's such a blessing because as I was running around doing all the tests, like the CT scan and whatever, the hospital was packed. It was packed. Not an open seat in the waiting room. And so what was, it, it just feels, this whole experience felt so like, okay, it was at the tail end of my vacation. It was, I had a quiet day on, in the hospital and they were able to operate immediately. Like all of these things lined up. I feel so fortunate and so blessed that it was just like, this is happening now. It's happening now.

• 19:58Brittany Broski?

  They take me in, they do it laparoscopically. So right now I have about five wounds on my stomach where, laparoscopic surgery, by the way, is a marvel of modern medicine. I mean, I'm, I am one to marvel at the, in awe of human innovation always. And this is one of those things. It's literally robot surgery. They did surgery on a grape. They did surgery on Brittany Broski. They did robot surgery on Brittany Broski. It was crazy. I was watching these videos of, not on me, because hey, I'm going to vomit. I was watching these animated videos of what a laparoscopic gallbladder removal surgery looks like.

• 20:39Brittany Broski?

  It, you, it might as well have been magic. It looked like magic. It is amazing what they can do. By the way, this was only like first properly characterized and described in like 1934. So this has been around less than a hundred years that this was even a, a, a problem point that they know how to fix. So whatever. They do the surgery. Everything goes fine. They do anesthesia via IV. Hey, what the fuck? There's nothing scarier. There's nothing scarier. One minute I'm awake, next minute, dead. Dead in the fucking water. Girl, the next thing I know, I woke up and it was immediate. My teeth are.

• 21:22Brittany Broski?

  I don't know what it is. I started looking up all these symptoms of, you know, coming out of anesthesia and it can last for weeks after you go under general anesthesia, where all these side effects can happen. And mine was teeth chattering. They put a breathing tube down my throat, which is so scary. And I was coughing because I imagined them like ripping it out of my throat really fast. That's how it felt. Like, my fucking head lolled back when they pulled it down. I was coughing so bad. And then I started to cry, just because, of course I did. And one of the sweet Italian nurses, old woman, she goes, "Don't cry. Don't

• 22:07Brittany Broski?

  cry." And I was like, "Yeah, lady, I didn't want to. I'm humiliated. I'm crying." She goes, "Don't cry. Not cry." And I was like, "Yeah, you're so right." And so I bossed up, stopped crying. But I was shivering so bad, and I wasn't cold. I don't know what it was. And so they put a space blanket on me, under my hospital blanket. And then they wheeled me back into my room. And my mom got it on video. I immediately in my hospital bed, I said, "Ciao." In front of all these lovely Italian people, "Ciao." Making fun of their language. What the fuck? Me off the perk thirty anesthesia. "Ciao bella. Oh bella,

• 22:48Brittany Broski?

  ciao bella, ciao bella, ciao ciao." And so they will be back in. And Dr. Carlo is in the corner. And he's watching me. And he's like, "Okay, all good." And I give him a thumbs up. And then he comes over and he goes, "You made the absolute right decision." And I was kind of out of it still, but my mom caught it. And he goes, "If this would have been 24 hours later, would have been a much different story." And I was kinda still out of it and I was like, okay, good. Like that relief came over me of like, that needed to happen. I'm glad that I made that decision. Well, later that day, um, one of the, one of the surgeons, his name was Dr. Papa Luigi.

• 23:29Brittany Broski?

  Shout out. Or wait, Luigi Papa. Dr. Luigi Papa. Dr. Papa comes in and he was like, oh girl, gutted, rotted, like truly necrosis. Like it was so much worse than we thought. They pulled it out and they told me that, that truly like, if I would have gotten on that plane, if I would have been like, ah, just pump me full of antibiotics, put me on the plane, my gallbladder probably would have burst midair. Hey, that's terrifying. It, it, it would have ruptured, which is so scary because then bile goes everywhere and then you're dealing with sepsis and infection. It was just horrible. Um, so thank God I decided to have it done there.

• 24:12Brittany Broski?

  And then I was in the hospital for two more days after that, cause they were administering me antibiotics, uh, via the IV. I had this drainage tube out of my gut. What the fuck? I had a sack. I had a sack. They gave me a sack. And when I had to go to the bathroom, I had to go to a sack. When I had to pee, I had to pee right after the surgery. Then one of the nurses came in and I go, uh, pee pee. She goes, and holds her finger up to me, leaves the room, comes back with a bedpan, and I'm not joking, a doggy piss pad. Put the piss pad on the bedpan, told me to lift my butt up, and I had peed on the pad.

• 24:59Brittany Broski?

  Pissed on a pad? Check. Pissed on a pad like a puppy? Check.

• 25:07Brittany Broski?

  What the fuck? And I have a sack? No! Every time after that I'd have to use the bathroom, I had to get up out of the hospital bed with these fresh stitches and take my little drainage sack and hold it. It was so embarrassing! And it's also just frustrating, like, not being mobile, you know, like, not being able to move how you usually do. It was just like, I was getting so frustrated. Um, and so they eventually removed my tube, my sack tube, and, uh, I didn't feel any pain after the surgery, which is such a miracle. Um, there was just antibiotics they were giving me,

• 25:51Brittany Broski?

  and I couldn't eat normal. They were, they fed me, like, bread and the most bland chicken soup you've ever, ever one could imagine. Just to make sure, they did that just to make sure that, you know, things were going smoothly, I wasn't nauseous, um, it wasn't putting too much strain on that newly formed, you know, track that my digestive system has to go through now. It's now double hard on my liver, which kinda sucks because, uh, no alcohol for a month, no fatty foods, probably ever, because I, my body just can't handle it. So it's, yeah, it's stuff like that that,

• 26:33Brittany Broski?

  you know, you think it won't happen to you until it does. And it's very scary, and I'm so thankful that I had my mom there and the doctors were amazing. There was a nurse named Ilaria, shout out Ilaria. She used to live in Ireland, that's my queen. All the nurses were so kind and so attentive, and the room was private, I had a balcony. I mean, it was just...

• 26:58Brittany Broski?

  When socialized medicine works. So they discharged us from the hospital on Wednesday morning and I wasn't cleared to fly until Sunday. So I literally got back yesterday, last night at like 8:00 PM. And I had a post-op appointment today where they did my blood work and whatever and I'm fine. Everything is fine. It's just, I'm exhausted, obviously, from jet lag and from having a surgery. I have to give myself these weird, which I guess is normal after any surgery,

• 27:37Brittany Broski?

  these weird anti-blood coagulant shots. And they're self-administered and I hate doing it. But I don't want blood clots, bro. So I have to do that. But honestly, guys, to make a long fucking story short, I am minus one gallbladder, plus one Harry Styles cover release. Okay. So with that, let's go ahead and transition. Talking about the music. Thank you so much.

• 28:13Speaker 04

  Hi, I'm Jenna Oshkowitz. You might know me from Glee. This is At the Table, the food allergy podcast, a show about food, connection, and what it really looks like to live with food allergies. Each episode, we hear stories from real people like Daniel.

• 28:27Speaker 05

  People would always think I was lactose intolerant. So I just kind of shortened my explanation to I'm deathly allergic, in a big way that defined a lot of my childhood.

• 28:38Speaker 04

  And while there are challenges, there are moments that remind you you're not alone.

• 28:44Speaker 06

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• 30:40Brittany Broski?

  Okay, so, if you missed it, I had gone ahead and released a sort of cover of Adore You by Harry Styles, reimagined with the broski special on it. Okay. This has been in the works, and by this I mean, a much larger project, has been in the works for, I'm not joking, five years. It's been, damn, it's been five years. From when this process started to finding the sound, honing the sound, and perfecting,

• 31:21Brittany Broski?

  not perfecting, but I guess mastering the craft of not blowing your voice out when you sing, how to get into the mindset of writing and co-producing and...

• 31:37Brittany Broski?

  Being an active participant in this creative process, because of course, because it's it's my project, it's me. But it's such a creative collaboration every step of the way. And it's so much fucking fun. It's so much fun. Like, I talk a lot of fucking bullshit on this podcast about everything. But like, one thing that I hope rings true is my passion for the arts and my passion for music. And how everything and every fiber of my being is informed by that passion for music. It's something I feel in my soul.

• 32:21Brittany Broski?

  It's something that's in the very bones of people that get it. You know what I mean? And from everything I've talked about of being raised in the church and all of my inspirations and the sonic universe that I exist in in my mind, that I wanted to, you know, breathe life into this project. It's happened and it's here and it's so exciting, truly. It's it's so overwhelmingly exciting. And also nerve wracking, right? Because you share something that intimate with an audience and you're subjecting yourself to criticism and commentary, and I'm not worried about that.

• 33:03Brittany Broski?

  I have my fair share of opinions on music and I urge people to listen and develop their own opinions. That's that's what it's there for. But at the same time, it's there for me. You know what I mean? I talk about this all the time of art is for the artist as much as it is for an audience, for the the voyeur as much as the creator. And this to me was

• 33:29Brittany Broski?

  The process of even creating this Harry Styles cover. And of course, it was a Harry Styles cover. It had to be a Harry Styles cover. Harry Styles and One Direction is quite genuinely one of the pillars of who I am, why I am the way I am, my friendships, the connections I've made, both professional and personal, who I, who I am on a personal, social level. Treat People With Kindness was my first ever tattoo. Like, there are so many reasons why this had to be a Harry Styles song. And not only that, but it was also to show as a proof of concept, look what is going on up here.

• 34:14Brittany Broski?

  You know what I mean? Like, the lyrics to Adore You are devastating if you think about it like that. Just like the lyrics to You Are My Sunshine are devastating if you think about it like that. And I knew that I wanted to flip it and make it this, you know, whimsical, ethereal, rock song. And we did it and shout out Scott Hoying, holy fuck, because he completely rearranged it with me and we just brought a new life to it. And it's so exciting because here's this song that was top of the charts. Everyone knows it. Everyone knows the words. And it's totally different and it has a different meaning now, too.

• 34:58Brittany Broski?

  That is what, it makes my penis rock hard. So this whole process, plus the visuals, oh my fucking god, Paige, Sarah, my creative director, Elizabeth Youngling, my, my love, all of the people who worked on this project with me. It, the best is yet to come, truly the best is yet to come. And this was just the fucking smorgasbord, the, the aperitivo of what's to come. It had to be a cover. It had to be Harry and I just knew that. And I'm so happy with the release. I'm so shocked by the outpouring of love that y'all have, I mean, it's, it's, I am blown away.

• 35:42Brittany Broski?

  I did not think it was gonna be like that. I thought I was gonna release it and people were gonna do that, another fucking TikToker making me, yeah, you think I haven't gone through that fucking conversation with myself? You bitch. I fully understand.

• 35:57Brittany Broski?

  The optics on this, okay? And I saw someone comment and I damn near cried. Someone commented

• 36:06Brittany Broski?

  uh, under a video where someone said, "Not everyone needs to make music." Someone commented, "Why?" But it's such a good question! You would not look at someone who's trying to paint, or someone who's trying to learn how to fucking hopscotch and say, "No, there's too many. We don't need you." That's not how art works. It's not how life works. Like, truly, anyone, anyone, can buy a fucking microphone or use their iPhone microphone and make a song. Dochi is a living example of that. Dochi is such an inspiration. It's like,

• 36:47Brittany Broski?

  that I knew that was gonna be a part of the conversation because of who I am and my background and how I came up on the internet. Completely fine. But when that's used as a weapon, as to why someone shouldn't make art, or someone shouldn't express themselves through art, what are you even talking about? It sounds stupid as fuck. Because it's not hurting you. If it annoys you, okay, don't listen to it. Sorry. It's not for you. You know what I mean? Art isn't for everyone. But when it connects how and when it's supposed to connect to that, that person or that demographic, it's fucking magic. It's magic.

• 37:31Brittany Broski?

  So I just can't thank y'all enough. I mean, it truly, it's been, it's been psychotic. Watching everyone's reaction videos and TikToks and edits. It's an art. It's just been...

• 37:49Brittany Broski?

  Better than I ever hoped because I tried to keep my my expectations realistic and temper my my reaction to a release because it's something even though it's I didn't write that song. It's very personal, you know, when it's being sung from a place of connection. And, uh, yeah, I'm just I'm over the moon with the fact that y'all like it. So if you like that one, that's just sort of the appetizer. So I I'd sort of hit lock in. I'd lock the fuck in and get ready. So that's all I'm gonna say on that right now. That's all I'm gonna say right

• 38:33Brittany Broski?

  now. Okay.

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• 39:06Brittany Broski?

  So I've kind of been dancing around this subject and I'm gonna sort of lock in and get to it. The Roman Empire. Have we talked about it enough? Yes. Who gives a fuck about the Roman Empire? Me! Me! So let's talk about it. Okay? Are you mad? Here is the thing.

• 39:30Brittany Broski?

  I thought I was, okay, I have about 107 things I want to say and also I'm sweating. Sometimes I catch a glimpse of myself when I do my hair a certain way and I'm like, God, you're like Queen Victoria. Like that fuck ass hairstyle they used to do where it was just like, I just look like, I just look so British. It scares me sometimes. That's not me. But it is me.

• 39:54Brittany Broski?

  Fuck. Okay. The Roman Empire. What the fuck was I gonna say? Oh, it's been a long damn time since I've come on this podcast and talked about a man. Okay?

• 40:12Brittany Broski?

  It's been a long damn time, but I'm about to do it. And it's not, it is not. And I, I say that and mean it. It is not out of a place of yearning. Okay? It is out of a place of academic curiosity.

• 40:34Brittany Broski?

  There is a TikToker by the name of Frederick Atkinson. Is he British? You may be asking, yes. Okay, of fucking course he is. Frederick Atkinson, he does a lot of different content, but I would describe it as being, and shout out Frederick because he's definitely gonna see this, pretentious, okay? And that's fine, because guess who's watching it? Big forehead meat, okay? Big cavern of empty that I am just frothing at the mouth to fill with the classics, to fill with literature, to fill with Greek and Roman mythology. And guess who is at the metaphorical tap on TikTok of that wealth of information? Frederick motherfucking Atkinson.

• 41:21Brittany Broski?

  And I'm under, I'm under the spigot of the faucet. Okay? He does videos on, like I said, English literature, classics, even all the way back to like The Odyssey, Beowulf, any of these classic, John Milton, Paradise Lost. He's talked about Dante Alighieri, like all of these tomes that you would study in a, in a classics class. And I like his style of content because he does it in a way that's digestible. He puts pictures up on the screen so I can look at them. And he tells it like a story. He also does stuff sometimes where he'll go on the road.

• 42:05Brittany Broski?

  And he went to, uh, who the fuck's grave? He went to Oscar Wilde's grave and, and showed it there and, and talked a little bit about his life and his end and his legacy and, and I enjoy videos like that, okay? I find them highly entertaining. Now, does he look like Milo from Atlantis? Yeah, he does. Does that intrigue me? Yeah, it does. You motherfuckers, y'all hate me.

• 42:37Brittany Broski?

  Y'all hate me and it shows, damn. Can I talk? Can I speak? I look like Queen Victoria, no!

• 42:48Brittany Broski?

  And what the fuck is a Queen Victoria sponge cake? Y'all did not have to eat like that. The menu on the Titanic was fucked up. Can't believe y'all were eating like that. R.I.P. Queen Victoria, you would've loved Tostino's Pizza Rolls.

• 43:05Brittany Broski?

  You would've loved fucking Tyson entisers. Okay, anyway. Frederick Atkins.

• 43:14Brittany Broski?

  I enjoy his content, okay? On one video, I left a comment and then I immediately deleted it because I'm humiliated. Okay, I left a comment like, I left a comment like, "Love your content, keep it up." What the fuck? Hey, go ahead and log out for me. "Love your content, keep it up." I turned 28 in a month. Figure that shit out, dude. And I come out here and I'm like, "Men, I hate men." I turn into fucking Godzilla on this podcast and I'm, "Koo, koo, men." And I breathe fire and I burn everything down and then I'm like, "Love your content."

• 44:00Brittany Broski?

  I'm such a fucking tool.

• 44:05Brittany Broski?

  I am such a tool. Chat, can girls be tools? Damn. Anyway, I've really, that's been my addiction lately. And he talks, so, hold on, I was getting somewhere with this. He talks about Greek and Roman mythology, okay? And he will tell the story of these gods or goddesses and, and how they came to be, what they're known for, who their lineage is. And of course, this has got me thinking, okay? Song of Achilles has been sitting on my shelf for the past three years. And I read the first five pages and then I got sucked into another book. So it's been there.

• 44:47Brittany Broski?

  And I know Circe is another one that, uh, that same author wrote, that they're both just people love those fucking books. Well, it got me thinking because I was like, I just finished my Viking smut book, uh, Faded Fate of Ink and Faded in Ash. And I don't fucking know, bro. I don't know. I gave it three stars on Goodreads. It wasn't my favorite, but it definitely kept me entertained. And did they have sex? Yeah, they did. Okay. And was it in a, a hot spring? Yeah, it was. And would I have gotten a UTI? Yeah, I would have. Anyway. That one I finished and I was like, I want something that, because I don't want to jump right back into Sherlock Holmes. Okay. I, Sherlock Holmes, I gotta, I gotta take a break from every now and then.

• 45:31Brittany Broski?

  I love Sherlock Holmes and y'all know I'm, I'm powering through it, all of them. Uh, and I just finished, um,

• 45:40Brittany Broski?

  what's the one of the, the redhead, the redheaded Sherlock Holmes? Redheaded, the redheaded league. That one was crazy. Okay. Just finished that. And I don't want to read nonfiction. I don't want to read, you know, George Orwell's Why I Write. That's been on my nightstand for a long time. I started it and I, I just, I find myself yearning for, uh, fantasy. Because when I sit down to read Orwell, I love Orwell, but I, I want to take notes. And I'm not always in a place where I can annotate and like, study the text the way that I want to. And I'm also not always in the mindset to do it, you know, like I want to be locked the fuck in when I do that, not like, oh, I gotta read duties. I want to enjoy it.

• 46:24Brittany Broski?

  So it's been sitting on my nightstand for a long time. I digress.

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• 46:59Brittany Broski?

  I started Song of Achilles because of one Frederick Atkinson, who by the way, is writing a book. Hey Freddie, go ahead and send that shit to me. I'd love to read it. Song of Achilles. I'm about 60 pages in. It's incredible. It's incredible. I get it. I get it now. I'm not even, I'm not even a third of the way through the damn book. And I'm like, just the best book I've ever. It's, I really am enjoying it. And it's gay. Gay. Uh, I didn't know Greek and Roman mythology was so freaking gay. It's really, really a beautiful story. So that's Song of Achilles. And now I'm down this rabbit hole of that

• 47:44Brittany Broski?

  is the telling of Achilles from a obviously positive portrayal. Now there is a book that is a retelling of the story of Achilles from the opposite perspective called The Silence of the Girls. And this says, throwback to 2021, when we, when we all went from, "He is half of my soul," as the poets say, to, "We called him the butcher." Damn. So after I finished Song of Achilles, naturally I have to hurt myself and read The Silence of the Girls. Then I'm gonna read Cersei. And I also bought a Clem, Clem and, Clem and anestra? Clem, Clem and anestra? Clemnestra?

• 48:31Brittany Broski?

  The daughter of Helen? Clytemnestra. Clytemnestra. Greek mythology was the wife of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, like the Mycenians, and the half-sister of Helen of Sparta. Okay, right. Uh, there is a book by this name, yeah, this one, Clytemnestra, a novel. I started this one, and by started, I mean I'm on page six. Uh, and I started it on the plane, and I like her writing. It's very easy to follow, very descriptive, very, um, um, I love a book. I've told you all this, like, books like The Secret History and any Dan Brown book, I'm like, yes, teach me new words, teach me new words!

• 49:16Brittany Broski?

  I want to be reading a book and be like, right, and have the dictionary open, the dictionary app open on my phone. That, to me, is, there's nothing better. Okay, I got my peppermint tea, I got my reading ambience on my TV screen, I'm in my bed, okay? Candle lit, lights off, reading lamp on. I'm locked the fuck in. There is no other place I want to be than, boom, book that is both feeding my brain and my heart and my dictionary app open. That is paradise to me, okay? Anyway, Song of Achilles. I'm down this rabbit hole now of, I'm, I'm gonna pick a god or a goddess and fixate.

• 50:01Brittany Broski?

  It all kind of started back when I read The Secret History years ago, because it's based on a, a group of classic students. And it's based around Bacchus, Bacchus, and, uh, the Bacchanal, Bacchanal, where it's basically like a big pleasure orgy, uh, in many senses of the word, and, uh, everything spirals out of control from there. And, uh, it's just very interesting, because it's all in, a lot, all of these authors, right? When you talk about someone like a Donna Tartt, or a Pierce Brown, or even, you know, Madeline, who wrote Song of Achilles?

• 50:40Brittany Broski?

  Madeleine Miller. These people are clearly fanatics of the classics of Greek mythology and are well researched. And Pierce Brown, I mean, he loves the Roman Empire almost to a degree that is, you know, "You're a freaking nerd. You're a nerd." But it makes for great world building. And I really, really admire that, where you are writing a fiction, or, you know, in this case, a sort of retelling of a very popular story, from the perspective of an academic. So interesting. I love it. I think it's a great way to sell, resell these stories to a new generation

• 51:25Brittany Broski?

  and to keep them alive. Because, damn, there's a reason they're still around. You know what I mean? There's a reason people just cannot get enough. The gods were tea. The gods were tea. That's probably why. They were fucking. Capital F. Fucking their brothers, their sisters, their mothers, their... Everyone. They were drinking wine and fucking. And afterwards, they would have an olive. "Yeah, I'm interested." "You're gonna look at me and tell me you're not interested? That you wouldn't partake?" Anyway. Yeah, that is, it's been my latest thing. Okay? And in that vein, because I was just in Rome, for way longer than originally intended, I had some time to sort of marinate in it.

• 52:10Brittany Broski?

  Okay, I was, I was in it. I was all up in there. My God. I mean, I could just talk for hours of all the stuff that I learned. We did this tour of, um, of the Colosseum, and of, like I said, the Roman Forum, the Circus Maximus, all of these places that are, uh, still standing. I'd been to the Pantheon before. I'd been to these places. But to see it now and marvel at it, for different reasons, you know, you... I remember 10 years ago, I was 18.

• 52:44Brittany Broski?

  My initial sort of wow was that it's still there, right? That's the initial reaction is holy shit. This is from, the Colosseum was finished in 80 AD, 80 AD. And it's still around. That is something in and of itself to marvel at. The next thing is that they were able to build it. And not only able to build it, but with better materials than we use today. You can see where they've done repairs on the Colosseum to either make it look, you know, more presentable, make it look whole, or just to repair damage that tourists have done. And even the building materials that they use and their repairs do not hold up.

• 53:27Brittany Broski?

  They don't hold up against weather the way that the Roman materials still do. That shit makes me just, and so if you've ever wondered why the Colosseum looks like that, it's because, uh, people recycled the marble. When they were building new buildings, no one gave a fuck about the Colosseum after the empire fell and they used the marble, they repurposed it. And so they would go up there and just destroy it. And they'd take down the marble pieces and there are holes all in it because inside of any of the arches or the columns or, or, uh, the seating was iron that they would

• 54:07Brittany Broski?

  use and they would, uh, it would be a sort of indent or a groove in the flat marble. And they would pour hot iron into it and it would go down into a little hole and it would, it would bind it. And so when it cooled and solidified, everything was held together. It's amazing. It's amazing. Well, when, like I said, the empire fell. People were not impressed with these buildings anymore, or rather, these buildings were negative reminders of what life under an empire was, or under a certain ruler. Also, the reason it was called the Colosseum is because there was a giant statue of Nero

• 54:52Brittany Broski?

  right outside of it, that they called Coloso, Colosseo, okay? And then the building right next to it became referred to as the Colosseum. Now, that statue was taken down, I'm sure melted down and again repurposed, but why does the Colosseum look like that? That is not its original design. The way that it slants off to the side, the other half of it is missing. It used to be one giant building, similar to how the amphitheater in Verona looks. You put all that up here. And it's incredible to think that entire structure used to be covered in the whitest,

• 55:33Brittany Broski?

  purest marble, polished, shone, gold statues, bronze statues, in each of the openings above the seats. There were clear, and still are, clear markings above each of the entryways that corresponded to your ticket, where you would sit, where your entrance was. And of course, it was stratified. The emperor had his box, and then all of the nobles or well-to-do sat in sort of the 100 section. The 200 section was, you know, servant men, and then the higher up is slaves, women and children. So it's just incredible that this shit still stands and what they were able to do.

• 56:13Brittany Broski?

  And it makes me, I did a lot of reflecting on the Roman Empire while I was in Rome, because what else is there to do? And I came to this conclusion that's kind of like, you know, when I think of the Roman Empire, I think what a tragic waste of potential. That's what I think. I think it was a waste of what could have been the closest thing we could have had to a utopia. But if you said, when could the go, yes, but would?

• 56:53Brittany Broski?

  When you, when, when?

• 56:57Brittany Broski?

  Shut up! I think about the Roman Empire as what could have been a beautiful society, but instead was the very definition of empire. It was a horrible tragedy and it was succumb or die. And when you, I mean, look at this image of what the Roman Empire covered at one point in time. Do you see this? All of the red is the Roman Empire. This goes all the way up from the UK, from, from, what is that? Wales, all the way down to the Nile. All the way down. I mean, it's incredible.

• 57:41Brittany Broski?

  It is incredible what they were able to do, but it's so devastating because to what end? Right? To what end? Where you make the emperor a god, where, where all of these people are forced to succumb and become Roman citizens and these Roman structures pop up. For what? Like when you lose beauty and, and individual culture and customs and dress and religion and all of the things that make humanity human, when it all just becomes homogenized, what a loss.

• 58:20Brittany Broski?

  Even if you're providing them with benefits like aqueducts, bathhouses, entertainment, food, all of these things, you know, you get all the benefits of the innovation of the Roman Empire, but they're built with slavery. And that's not, it's just, I, I could write a paper on it of like the epic tragedy of the Roman Empire. And I fail to see how it was ever going to succeed. Right?

• 58:51Brittany Broski?

  So much to think about. Anyway, I think that that mixed with when you think about even then, Romans, Roman mythology is stolen directly from Greek mythology and they just changed the names and warped the stories and and made it fit. I mean, what's new about that? You know, taking a religion or or a ideology and warping it to fit your political propaganda? Okay, it's not new. We haven't not heard of that. But it's just, it's like, to what end? That's my question. To what end? Anyway, to be able to go to where the Circus Maximus used to be, like the chariot racing and

• 59:32Brittany Broski?

  where the the marble seating was and in the Colosseum, you can actually see they have a little mock up in one section where marble remains of what, you know, if you imagine that all the way around the amphitheater, what it used to look like. There is a huge spider in the corner of the room. And I'm trying really hard not to actually piss my pants right now. So, oh, my God, it's huge. Ew!

• 1:00:01Speaker 03

  Okay, okay. So I'm just gonna go ahead and wrap up the episode right now, so.

• 1:00:05Brittany Broski?

  I gotta let y'all know one one last thing that I've really been addicted to lately. It's charcuterie nachos. Oh, my God, I can't get enough of them motherfuckers. That that motherfucking thing!

• 1:00:18Brittany Broski?

  Low-fat, salt and vinegar chips, pepperoni. Now, this is my dairy-free, low-fat, you know, bullshit, because I can't eat like an all human! Salt and vinegar, baked lays, salami, turkey breast, turkey, like deli meat,

• 1:00:37Brittany Broski?

  banana peppers, olives, crushed up, salted pistachios, and to finish it all off, dill, fresh dill, and a drizzle of hot honey. Go ahead and go ahead and make that in your kitchen tonight and tell me that's not the most delicious bullshit you've ever had in your fucking life. I was blown away. Okay?

• 1:01:00Brittany Broski?

  It's my latest obsession. Now, I'm gonna see y'all next week because I feel like I talked for about 35 minutes about my gallbladder and I feel real sorry about that, to be honest. Thank you for listening to the music. If you want some merch, go to broski.shop, get you a mu mu, get you a t-shirt. Uh, probably more to come soon, by the way, so keep your eyes peeled on that. I love and appreciate y'all more than you will ever know, okay? You listen to me ramble about the Roman Empire, you listen to me ramble about Frederick Atkinson, and you listened to me ramble about Call of Duty Masked Men, okay? And by the way, don't even get me fucking started on Pedro Pascal and this Last of Us campaign that he's doing. I don't want to talk about it.

• 1:01:41Brittany Broski?

  Don't ask me about it. I don't want to talk about it. It's too much. New Royal Court episode's coming out very soon. Keep your eyes peeled. There's some fun ones coming up. I will see y'all next week. Goodbye.

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  your business loan may be issued by OnDeck or Celtic Bank. OnDeck does not lend in North Dakota. All loans and amounts subject to lender approval.