118: This Still Keeps Me Up At Night

This week on The Broski Report, Fearless Leader Brittany Broski answers journal prompts, discusses the age of brainrot, and analyzes trends in the horror genre. Watch The Broski Report AD FREE: https://patreon.com/broskireport The OFFICIAL Songs of The Week Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3ULrcEqO2JafGZPeonyuje?si=061c5c0dd4664f01 👕 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 Royal Court: https://www.youtube.com/@royalcourt https://www.tiktok.com/@bbroyalcourt https://www.instagram.com/royalcourt https://www.twitter.com/bbroyalcourt Follow Brittany: https://www.tiktok.com/@brittany_broski https://www.tiktok.com/@brittanybroski https://instagram.com/brittany_broski https://youtube.com/brittany_broski ICE OUT OF OUR CITY / PROTEST RESOURCES: ACLU – https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights Immigrant Defense Project – https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/raids-toolkit Freedom for Immigrants – https://www.freedomforimmigrants.org/resources Immigrants Legal Resource Center – https://www.ilrc.org/community-resources/know-your-rights Immigration Justice Campaign – https://immigrationjustice.us/ CREDIBLE RESOURCES 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 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 FOR A FREE PALESTINE: @eye.on.palestine @aljazeeraenglish @palestinianyouthmovement @byplestia @motaz_azaiza @impact LGBTQ+ RESOURCES: https://Translifeline.org https://translifeline.org https://Glaad.org https://glaad.org https://Pflag.org https://pflag.org https://www.thetrevorproject.org/ REPRODUCTIVE RESOURCES: https://aidaccess.org https://plancpills.org https://Ineedana.com https://ineedana.com https://www.reprolegalhelpline.org/ https://heyjane.com Brought to You By: Etsy – For gifts that say “I get you,” shop: https://etsy.com Aura – Get $45-off https://auraframes.com with promo code BROSKI Hungryroot – Get 40% off + free item for life at https://hungryroot.com/broski with code BROSKI Songs of The Week: Parting Glass by The High Kings Falling Down A Well by Jack J Chittlin’ Cookin’ Time In Cheatham County by Sierra Ferrell Dracula by Tame Impala CHAPTERS: 0:00 – Intro 0:38 – Brittany in FNAF 1:43 – Journal Prompts 3:28 – Song Synesthesia 10:16 – Brainrot & Learning 21:48 – Journal Prompts Cont. 25:50 – Horror as a Mirror 34:07 – Blair Witch 45:38 – Horror as a Mirror Cont 58:54 – Dua Lipa & Books 1:01:29 – Outro & Songs of the Week #brittanybroski, #broski, #broskination, #broskireport, #fnaf, #journaling, #hozier, #brainrot, #learning, #music, #synesthesia, #horror, #movies

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 0:29Brittany Broski?

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• 0:42Speaker 02

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

• 0:51Brittany Broski?

  Hola a todos y bienvenidos al Broski Report con tu estrella, Brittany Broski. Guys, welcome back. My battery died. Welcome back. If I was a Finaf animatronic, that would be gag. Can someone draw me as a, can someone draw me as a Finaf animatronic? And why did they give Chica BBL? And what, do you think in Finaf 2, they're gonna have the BBL Chica? With the like, hourglass and kinda like B-cups, maybe?

• 1:36Brittany Broski?

  I don't know, food for thought. If I was a Finaf animatronic, I think I'd be one, I would be a good one. I'd be like, guys, we can't keep doing this, we're kids. Guys, come on, we're just kids, why are we killing people? But honestly, if I was, actually, if I was a Finaf animatronic, I'd go along with the flow. I feel like I'd be kinda spineless. I'd be like, oh, we're all killing people? Well, I don't wanna be bullied for like, not killing people. There's, nothing is worse, murder can't be worse than being bullied. Okay, you got murdered, okay, well, I got bullied. So, come on, you have to understand where I was coming from, at least. You have to understand where I was coming from. Okay, guys, what are we doing today?

• 2:19Brittany Broski?

  While I wait for you guys to draw me as a FNAF animatronic, I'm gonna go ahead and jump into something that I've been trying to do to check in with myself, okay? And that is journal prompts, but like lighthearted, easy ones. It's not like, when did it begin? It's not that, and it's not like, when was the last time you felt whole? Okay, those ones are, or what can you release? What can you? That shit is heavy. I want to start with something that is...

• 2:50Brittany Broski?

  Basically, how I want to structure this is I'm gonna say the prompt, and then I'm gonna give my answer. And then I need you guys to maybe in your head, think about it as well. Just let's have a little exercise, you and me. Whoever, wherever you are, if you're driving, if you're running, if you're walking, if you're working, if you're stealing company time, period, let's do it together, okay? We're gonna start with this little exercise, and then I'm gonna go into why this headpiece I've donned today, why I have elected this headpiece today, okay? So, let's go ahead and get started. And by the way, if you're not subscribed to the Broast Group Report YouTube channel, what the fuck are you doing? Like, actually, that's gonna piss me off. You're, you're rock with me for 115 episodes, and you're not subscribed to the Bro-

• 3:36Brittany Broski?

  So you fucking hate me. I know y'all don't particularly care for me, but I didn't know you hated me. Okay? I'll keep that in mind when I cut the rations this month. Yeah, when you bitches are eating moldy biscuits. Yeah, I remember that. Okay, let's move on.

• 3:56Brittany Broski?

  Okay. Here's the first prompt, and I don't remember where I got these. I'm sure they're somewhere, maybe I got it from TikTok. Maybe I got it from the godforsaken app TikTok.

• 4:06Brittany Broski?

  What color is your favorite song? Okay, now I've gone ahead and written an interesting question, right? Where are the synesthesia people at? Phineas, I'm looking at you. I've gone ahead and written three answers. And I'm gonna go through those now. Movement by Hosier. This is one of my all time favorite songs. It's a song that whenever I hear that first zing, zing, zing, I like something, my spine is a little straighter. I'm looking around like I'm kind of panicked like this song is a sleeper agent for me. And when I hear it, I feel like myself. Does that make sense? Do you guys understand?

• 4:50Brittany Broski?

  Movement by Hosier to me is the perfect song. The progression of it, the way that it ends, the

• 5:09Brittany Broski?

  He did his thing on that fucking song. Also, the lyrics, fantastic as per usual. We expect nothing less from a Hosier record. Movement by Hosier to me is blue. Okay? The beginning of the song opens with,

• 5:26Brittany Broski?

  you are the rite of movement. No, sorry. How does it, how does it begin? Never heard it, actually.

• 5:34Brittany Broski?

  Never heard it, need to listen to it. It's like the light through the water from the bottom of a pool. Those are the lyrics. As if you are like on the bottom, laying flat on the bottom of a pool, staring up. And there, to me, there's this beautiful mixture of comparing that to how you view, how a love will move through you and in you, and how you witness it, how you bear witness to that love. Actually, yeah, we have to look up the lyrics really fucking quick.

• 6:08Brittany Broski?

  Right. I still watch you when you're grooving, as if through water from the bottom of a pool. You're moving without moving, and when you move, I'm moved. You are a call to motion. There, all of you, a verb in perfect view. If a man said, "I was a verb in perfect view." Like, the depths of how you have to see isn't even, see doesn't capture what that means. You know what I mean? Like, to be seen and to see your partner, to, like, utterly bear witness

• 6:47Brittany Broski?

  to the beautifully tragic existence of someone that you fucking love, not even love, that you worship, that you worship as a, an elemental deity. You, you witness their act of being as an elemental phenomenon. Like, what the fuck is wrong with him? There, all of you, a verb in perfect view, like Jonah on the ocean, "When you move, I'm moved." "When you move, I'm put to mind of all that I want to be." "When you move, I could never define all that you are to me." Oh, my god! My nipples just got hard.

• 7:33Brittany Broski?

  "When you move, I could never define all that you are to me." Okay, okay. So, "Move me, baby, shake like the bough of a willow tree, you do it naturally, move me, baby." You are the right of movement, the right, R-I-T-E. It's reasoning made lucid and cool. "I know it's no improvement. When you move, I move." "You're less paloonin', leepin', or Fred Astaire in sequence, honey, you, you're Atlas in his sleepin'." What the fuck? Now we have to look up Atlas. Okay, so here is my question, right? Atlas in his sleepin'. Atlas, as we know, holds the world up, right? That's, that's Atlas.

• 8:17Brittany Broski?

  I don't want fucking OpenAI, I'll kill you! This, this is Atlas. Atlas who, who holds the world. Story of how the Titan god Atlas held up the world. So, when Atlas sleeps, does he ever sleep? Does Atlas sleep? Atlas is a Titan condemned to hold up the heavens or sky for eternity after the Titanomaki. Titanomaki. Atlas also plays a role in the myths of two... Once again, we're looking at Greek mythology on Wikipedia! Atlas also plays a role in the myths of two of the greatest Greek heroes, Heracles, Hercules, and Perseus. According to the ancient Greek poet Hesiod,

• 9:02Brittany Broski?

  Hesiod, Atlas stood at the ends of the earth in the extreme west. Later, he became commonly identified with the Atlas Mountains in northwest Africa, and was said to be the first king of Mauritania. Why was he, why was he condemned? When the Titans were defeated... Oh, because Atlas and his brother Minosius sided with the Titans in their war against the Olympians. Many of them were confined to Tartarus, but Zeus condemned Atlas to say...

• 9:36Brittany Broski?

  Titans were...

• 9:41Brittany Broski?

  Okay, what the fuck?

• 9:46Brittany Broski?

  A common misconception today is that Atlas was forced to hold the earth on his shoulders.

• 9:55Brittany Broski?

  But classical art shows Atlas holding the celestial spheres, not the terrestrial globe. Now, what the fuck are the celestial spheres? The solidity of the marble globe borne by the Pharnes Atlas may have aided the conflation reinforced in the 16th century by the developing usage of Atlas to describe a corpus of terrestrial maps. The celestial spheres were the fundamental entities of the cosmological models developed by Plato, Eudoxus, Aristotle, Ptolemy, and Copernicus. In these celestial models, the apparent motions of the fixed stars and planets are accounted for by treating them as embedded in rotations. I don't give a fuck.

• 10:40Speaker 03

  Hey, it's Niall Rogers, host of Before the Moment, a Lincoln original series. I'm driving across the country, meeting some of today's most fascinating artists. We're exploring the stories before the moment that changed everything. This week, I'm joined by my friend, John Ledger. What still makes you just sit down at the piano?

• 11:02Speaker 04

  If you sat down at 9:00 a.m. and then at noon, you had a full song that you recorded and put in your voice recorder or you recorded at your studio. You just created something brand new that didn't exist when you woke up. What a beautiful feeling it is. I'm always excited to write something new. I've been writing for Broadway, which has been a new challenge with new collaborators and these amazing performers who are triple threats, who can sing and dance and act and do all these amazing things. And I want to keep feeling that. And so that means not resting on my laurels, going out there and continuing to create something new.

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• 12:18Brittany Broski?

  Okay, you know what, actually? While I was eating my beautiful lunch I made for myself today, I watched a YouTube video about brain rot.

• 12:29Brittany Broski?

  I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I watched a video about brain rot, attention spans, and how we need to put more emphasis on learning. And of course, I agree with all these statements. And a big theme of this podcast is I come on here and I talk about the importance of learning and continuing to be a student of life. And how if you find something that interests you, learn everything you can about it and, you know, teach about it and seek community that finds out. You know, there is such an important nugget of identity to be found in learning and continued education. At least for me, speaking for me personally. Growing up, education was a big part of like, how I identify who I am. I pride myself on these pillars of my personality. One of those things is being smart.

• 13:14Brittany Broski?

  I like the feeling of being smart. When it comes, however, to social media and to algorithmic based interests and algorithmically curated media. And by that, I mean, you know, like things that are fed to you, like on TikTok, Instagram, whatever. Like, I'm not seeking that shit out. It just comes to me. And I guess you could say the same about YouTube. Obviously, there's a YouTube algorithm. But at least on YouTube, I go to YouTube to search shit mainly. And from there, of course, it recommends, like on the browse feature. These videos come up for me because I like

• 13:56Brittany Broski?

  some of the commentary channels that post these videos. And I can't remember her name, but she posted this one about how brain rot was like the official Oxford Dictionary Word of the Year for 2024. And how that really signals something about society, which I also want to talk about in a second, about fears, like sociological fears, and how monsters of the time are reflective of those fears. Monsters in media and creatures and, you know, like things to fear. How there is a physical embodiment of all the taboos and maybe things that are...

• 14:39Brittany Broski?

  Shunned in that era of media, of society, in American society, of course. So, all these things are very topical to me, and when it comes to shit like this, where, obviously, I Googled Atlas because I wanted to know. I click on all this shit, I go, okay, now I'm on a rabbit hole because this shit interests me. But there is like, I feel like, there is a shackle around my waist. Where I start to run towards something, and the shackle, like, it's like a dog collar. It like, lurches me back. And it's like, you don't, what about other stuff over here? And I'm like, yeah, there's stuff over there.

• 15:23Brittany Broski?

  Hold on, let me go back to this bullshit I was trying to, I wanted to know about. Like, leave me alone, why are you try, I want to know about this, because I clicked on it. And now I'm over here too. Like, shut up! It for real pisses me off, dude, it pisses me off. And I'm mad at myself, because I pride myself on being smart. And when you are smart, or identify as smart, and you are fooled by something, someone, clickbait, whatever it is, we're all victim to it, it happens to the best of us. But I'm left with this residual feeling of like, shame, and embarrassment of, like, what I just did just there.

• 16:07Brittany Broski?

  Celestial spheres, celestial spheres don't give a fuck. But I do give a fuck, right? Because learning about celestial spheres is something that, in five years, I wish I could bring up in a conversation. Well, obviously Plato and what's his name worked on the celestial spheres. Like, I have a really, it's similar to, maybe in high school or college, you would like, learn a bunch of shit, not even learn, you would memorize a bunch of shit, dump it out on the test, and then never think about it ever again. I feel that way today. When I click on a Wikipedia link, or a Google search, that I actively sought out, because I want to know, I don't remember it. Because halfway through, I'm like, I don't give a fuck.

• 16:51Brittany Broski?

  And that is so bad. And I'm actively, like, actually, today, I'm making a decree to myself, enough. Enough, I have to fight through this. And then I watched this other YouTube video that was like, she was talking about, how to rewire your brain into... Not even wanting to scroll, like scrolling will soon feel foreign because of these drastic, yet slight changes. And by that, I mean like a long-term plan to drastically change your toxic relationship to social media. And while you can still engage with the media you like,

• 17:31Brittany Broski?

  I feel very fortunate because podcasts and, you know, longer-form content is a direct rebellion and reaction to this just inundation of short-form media. I'll be watching a TikTok and I'm like, it hasn't even been two seconds. And I'm like, I know, I'm not going to care about that. I didn't even give it a chance and I'm already scrolling. And also TikTok got rid of the feature where you can, um, you can click not interested and it'll, like, the video as a whole, you're not interested in. Now you have to go in and then select, I'm not interested in either this creator, this hashtag, or this, you know, whatever the fuck it is. I don't even know. I don't, it's never that. It's like, the whole

• 18:21Brittany Broski?

  I'm so pissed off. It is the whole concept of what this video represents, that you thought, TikTok algorithm, that I would like this. Fuck you and I'm not interested. And I actually, I'm not even going to watch this to the very end because I know I'm not interested. And so I click it, I want to hit not interested. And you used to be able to do that, so you could train your algorithm. Now you can't. Now I have to say, I don't like this. It's nothing against the creator, it's nothing against the fucking hashtag. That's not the problem. The problem is the algorithm. And it's just getting worse and worse and worse. Every fucking video is creator earns commission, promoted, it's an ad, it's an unskippable ad. It's, or even the fucking videos that you can't do 2X on, which is a whole other thing. Why do I

• 19:05Brittany Broski?

  have to watch everything in 2X? I'm not retaining any of that. I'm not retaining any of that fucking information.

• 19:11Brittany Broski?

  Am I finding community here? I am so over it. I'm over it with myself. And I feel like this is an opportunity. Like, we're at a turning point with our relationship to social media. And it's a tricky thing, right? Because my job is on social media. But that doesn't mean I don't have fatigue from it. That I don't have fatigue as a consumer of social media. I love my job and I'm very, very grateful that this is what I get to do. There's nothing else in this world that would satiate my soul than doing what I do right now. But there are also things that you can critically call out of the severe issue with these platforms.

• 19:54Brittany Broski?

  Tumblr, Pinterest, Instagram, TikTok. Everything that used to bring me joy as an internet user is so inundated with ads. And I understand, people need to make money. Okay, of course, I get it. And again, I am a creator. The whole reason I get to do this job is because brands pay me money so that I can put that money into a set like the Broski Report set or the Royal Court set. Or, you know, accommodating, dealing with Hollywood. Like, there has to be a reinvestment into your business, of course. But when it starts to affect, like, the actual usability of your app, and I'm looking at you, Pinterest. I love Pinterest.

• 20:38Brittany Broski?

  If you do that shit with an ad blocker, half, maybe three-fourths of the tiles are blacked out. They're blacked out because it's all ads. It's just so frustrating. It is so... And it's like a necessary evil. So when I sit down to watch these YouTube videos that are like, brain rot this, attention span that, whatever, and then I like actively try to rectify it, I feel like I'm in therapy. This is how I talk in therapy. Sorry, guys. Are y'all rocking with me? Are y'all fucking with me? When I try to rectify my relationship to and my behavior towards social media and my addiction to it, because I do have a tech addiction, duh.

• 21:22Brittany Broski?

  Okay, I have a tech addiction, but it's like functioning. Because it has to be, because this is my job. Doesn't mean it's not an addiction, it is.

• 21:32Brittany Broski?

  When you try to rectify it and you get nowhere, or what I just ran into where I'm trying to rectify it and I get frustrated with myself because my attention span is telling me it's the shackle is pulling me back. I don't know what to do. I, I, I get so frustrated because I don't know what to do and it makes me feel bad about myself.

• 21:50Speaker 05

  Okay. Is that what y'all wanted to hear?

• 21:55Brittany Broski?

  I'm sure the majority of you guys can relate. I mean, it's so, it really starts, it fucks with your, your self-image. It fucks with your self-image. I don't know. Okay, let's go back. Damn, I made it, I made it one question to the journal prompts and I've talked for 20 minutes. Like, what the fuck?

• 22:15Speaker 03

  Hey, it's Niall Rogers, host of Before the Moment, a Lincoln original series. I'm driving across the country, meeting some of today's most fascinating artists. We're exploring the stories before the moment that changed everything. This week, I'm joined by breakout singer-songwriter Alex Warren.

• 22:36Speaker 06

  I'm like a kid when, when I play music and I make music and I'm constantly asking questions, you know, whether it's an instrument I haven't played or it's a melody that seems foreign, you know, there's every night you play a show and, and it's the same set, but it's not the same show. At a certain point, your brain kind of goes on autopilot. When I'm in the studio or if I'm making music, that's where that curiosity kind of comes back, you know? I haven't lost it yet, but I'm also on my sophomore album, so, and you, you obviously are, are expert here.

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• 24:18Brittany Broski?

  Another one of my favorite songs.

• 24:21Brittany Broski?

  "Georgia on My Mind," specifically the Michael Bolton version. It's one of my favorite songs ever. That song is green. And then "Play God" by Sam Fender, that song is gray. That song is like industrial gray. Another question. When you look at the stars, what do you feel? What do you feel when you look at the stars? My answer: small. I feel infinitely small, in both the best way and the worst way. And I have this feeling, because again, I don't know if we've covered it already on this topic. Megalophobia, hey, I have that. Megalophobia is so fucking for real for me. And the stars aren't necessarily something that's large that I'm afraid of,

• 25:06Brittany Broski?

  or like, something that intimidates me or scares me by its physical size. But it is like, it is so incomprehensible that when you start to partially comprehend it, it overwhelms my nervous system and I genuinely start to freak out. I feel the same way about like, heights. I feel the same way about the universe, about death, obviously. Like, anything that just makes me... So, the stars make me feel small. In a great way that's like, wow, how lucky am I? How, how random is my existence? And, you know, the whole point of life is living and whatever. But, when I look at the stars,

• 25:48Brittany Broski?

  I, I think it's also kind of meaningless.

• 25:55Brittany Broski?

  It's also kind of meaningless. Okay, moving on. Um, who would you have narrate your autobiography? Josh Gad. Does love conquer all? Does love conquer all? My answer: yeah. Of course it does. You have to, you have to choose to believe it does. What is your golden rule? What's your golden rule? I have two. Number one is leave it nicer than you found it. I always clean up after myself. Because there's nothing worse than someone coming into your space and disrespecting it. Even when like when I'm in a public bathroom, if there's, you know, if I'm washing my hands and I have the paper towel and I see a paper towel on the floor, I'll use the paper towel to pick it up and put it in the trash can. Like, leave it nicer than you found it.

• 26:39Brittany Broski?

  Fix the throw pillow, fold a blanket, you know what I mean? Just like, leave it nicer than you found it, okay? Another golden rule? Do it now so you don't have to do it later. Just do it now, just get over with, you don't have to worry about it later. And now that one is easier said than done. Way easier said than done. But again, do it now so you don't have to do it later. What's something about yourself you find hard to understand? This is a great question. And I wrote some kind of crazy shit down. I wrote some crazy shit. What's something about yourself you find hard to understand? Damn, okay, we're kind of getting into it.

• 27:22Brittany Broski?

  I wrote, "I'm someone else entirely when you remove the need to be loved. Trying to meet that person every day and my brain fog makes it hard." That's what I wrote. "I am someone else entirely when you remove the need to be loved." Because so much of a woman's existence, you can de-center men, you could, but this shit is wired into our blood. If I am not desired and loved, who am I? Right? And of course, I know who I am. But there is this monster, this monstrous part of me, that so deeply desires love,

• 28:07Brittany Broski?

  that it's almost like when I get it, I worry I won't know how to hold it. You know what I mean? Y'all rocking with me? I also, let me move on for a second. We're gonna go away from the journal prompts and we're gonna go through this crazy Instagram carousel that I found, that I felt we needed to touch on, what I talked about about five minutes ago. This is from an Instagram account called Pop My Bub.

• 28:36Brittany Broski?

  Pop my bub. Pop my big fat bub. Horror as a mirror. Okay, how interesting is that? We're just gonna scroll through it and I'm gonna read it and then we'll discuss it at the end, okay? And I'll get to why I'm wearing the dragon helmet in a second. Every generation creates the monster it needs. The idea goes back centuries. Horror has always been a way to externalize fear. Before therapy or social media, stories were how we processed collective anxieties. We couldn't talk openly about taboos like sex, disease, or power, so screens turned them into beasts. How do I stop this? I fucking, I hate it.

• 29:20Brittany Broski?

  Okay, and then it takes us chronologically. 1800s, the birth of the modern monster. The Gothic era introduced creatures like Frankenstein. Not a creature, Frankenstein was the doctor, okay? Dracula, and Dr. Jekyll, and Mr. Hyde. People feared what human ambition might unleash. Frankenstein's creation reflected the fear of invention. A symbol of the outcast, the unnatural, the consequences of playing God. Dracula, on the other hand, embodied everything Victorian society repressed. Sexuality, foreignness, disease. Monsters became metaphors for everything polite society couldn't name aloud. And I wonder if this will get into this of

• 30:04Brittany Broski?

  why the resurgence of telling these stories now? It's so interesting to think about, like, the immigration crisis, quote unquote. I say that in very thick quotes because it is a crisis completely created for political propaganda. When you think about this idea of otherness, of an unwanted monstrous presence who's wreaking havoc on like Nosferatu being told now, Frankenstein, and then Robert Eggers' werewolf movie coming out, like all of these, it just feels so because this is always the question, right? Like, I love to ask this question to actors and directors and any creative.

• 30:49Brittany Broski?

  The question is, why now? Why make this art now? And sometimes it's

• 30:56Brittany Broski?

  You know, just unfortunate timing for when a project gets greenlit, when you get funding for a project, whatever. You can be ruminating or ideating on a concept for a long time before it actually gets picked up. Of course, I understand that. But it's also like these executives who are greenlighting these projects. Why now? It's such an interesting question.

• 31:18Brittany Broski?

  1950s, fear of the outsider. Again, post-war America was obsessed with order, conformity and the enemy within. It's like McCarthyism and all that. Enter alien invasions. Invasion of the body snatchers, the blob, the thing from another world. The plots were about aliens, but they were really about communism, infiltration and the terror of losing your individuality in a collective. Cold War paranoia turned the monster into the outsider, something that looked like us, but wasn't. Even Godzilla, born in Japan after Hiroshima, was a walking metaphor for nuclear trauma.

• 31:58Brittany Broski?

  It's also so interesting around this time of like how it was always the monster and a woman. And I really, really, really loved that aspect of Frankenstein, of Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, of there is a reflective, almost like affinity between Elizabeth and her acutely feminine energy and how she is the only one, other than the old man, to see Frankenstein's creature as a gentle, almost child, like as a newborn, and to treat that with the gentleness that it deserves.

• 32:43Brittany Broski?

  I also love Guillermo said that on set, was there a name for the creature? Was there a name? And they called him Adam, because Adam and Eve, because it was God's creation. Because it was God's first creation. So basically that's, it made me cry, first time I heard that. So, but again, very interesting that there is such a distinct relationship between the creature and Elizabeth and how they almost seem to complete each other. They see each other. And it's also very interesting around, you know, these movies, like it's always the woman. It's always the monster and the woman. Because women have empathy.

• 33:21Brittany Broski?

  1960s, the birth of psychological horror. The monster moved inside the mind. The decade that gave us Psycho and Rosemary's Baby. The fear came from the familiar. Mothers, husbands, neighbors, and ourselves. Psycho exposed the split between repression and desire. Rosemary's Baby turned domestic life into a trap of paranoia and control. Holy shit. Psycho exposed the split between repression and desire. God. I was, by the way, I was addicted to Bates Motel. When that shit first came out, dude. I would rush home from class in college to go watch Bates Motel on my laptop.

• 34:07Brittany Broski?

  And I would go reblog that shit. I had it bad for Officer Romero. Wasn't that his name? Officer Romero Bates Motel. Yeah, Sheriff, Sheriff Alex Romero. Dude. Nestor Corbonel. I needed him bad. Cause he protected, oh my God, he knew what was up. He knew what was up and he tried to protect the mom. Dude. And he played such a good, uh, who's the Freddie? He played the good doctor as well. Freddie Highmore, is that his name?

• 34:41Brittany Broski?

  Freddie Highmore. Yeah, he was scary as fuck in this show. Yeah, I, I loved that show. And there's also like the aesthetics of Bates Motel. It was very satisfying for like any of the weird bitches that like that dark, macabre. You know, just like the spooky, cause it kind of leans a bit Gothic in whatever you want that to mean. Gothic has such a wide array, like myriad of meanings and definitions at this point. Gothic can mean anything. So, yeah, it has that very dark, um, like haunted neon vibe. And it's like in modern times, but it feels like it's from a different time. Just, it was very well done. I enjoyed it.

• 35:25Brittany Broski?

  1970s, 1980s, sex slasher and suburbia. When cultural norms cracked civil rights, feminism, sexual liberation, horror shifted from outer space to the body itself. Damn. Films like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Carrie, The Exorcist, The Fly were all obsessed with flesh, puberty, and control. The Final Girl became the moral anchor, the pure one who survives. It reflected both fear of women's power and guilt about repressing it. Bro. 1990s, fear becomes entertainment. Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, urban legend.

• 36:09Brittany Broski?

  Characters joked about horror rules while still dying by them. It was irony era horror, fast, pop culture savvy, built to entertain as much as scare. Underneath the quips was a new unease. The rise of 24/7 media and reality TV blurred what was staged versus real. The Blair Witch Project turned that tension into a phenomenon that felt like found footage, almost too real to be just a film. I watched The Blair Witch Project when I was in 7th grade? And I genuinely like, absolutely not. Absolutely not. To this day, I haven't finished it. And I know that it's not that scary, but it's one of those things that's like, the

• 36:53Brittany Broski?

  unknown, it's like Lovecraftian a bit, like what I'm imagining is actually so much worse than probably what it is. Because the human imagination, why can we scare ourselves so bad? What is that? What is that? How does The Blair Witch Project end? The Blair Witch Project ends with the camera dropping to the floor after an unseen force attacks Heather in a creepy abandoned house's basement. There was, okay, you know what actually scarred me, which I'm gonna try to Google in a second? That scene where they find like, it's human teeth? Do you remember that?

• 37:32Brittany Broski?

  It's in like a leaf or like a piece of cloth and it's human teeth and it was like, as a 12-year-old, 13-year-old, I remember being like, oh, so there's nothing scarier. I don't know why that scared the living fuck out of me. I don't know why.

• 37:50Brittany Broski?

  I'm actually gonna, I'm gonna read the premise. Blair Witch Project, Wikipedia. 1999, psychological horror film. Written, directed, and edited by Daniel Merrick and Eduardo Sanchez. One of the most successful independent films of all time. I wonder why that is? Maybe it's because this kind of like summed up an era. Also, like, maybe this fear of turn of the century. I know a lot of people were freaking the fuck out. They thought the world was gonna end in the year 2000. Like, maybe this was one of those things. It's a found footage pseudo-documentary in which three students hike into the Appalachian Mountains, haunted, near Burkittsville, Maryland, to shoot a documentary about a local myth known as the Blair Witch.

• 38:33Brittany Broski?

  I don't want to watch it! I don't want to! They conceived of a fictional legend. Oh, it's not even real. They developed a 35-page screenplay with a dialogue to be improvised? Whoa. A casting call advertised on a magazine was prepared by the directors. About 20 hours of footage was shot, which was edited down to 82 minutes. Damn. Shot on an original budget of $35,000 to $60,000. The film had a final cost of $200,000 to $750,000 after post-production and marketing. $750,000 to make a movie and they made $250 million?

• 39:17Brittany Broski?

  That's gag! That's gag! Oh, it went to Sundance. It was a sleeper hit. Okay, here's the plot. And for any of you guys who have seen it, sorry, I haven't seen it all the way and I want to watch it. I'm not, I don't want to watch it, but I want to know. The film purports to be footage found in the discarded cameras of three young filmmakers who had gone missing. In October 1994, film students Heather, Mike, and Josh set out to produce a documentary about the mythical Blair Witch. Locals tell them of Ruston Park, this is in Maryland, a hermit who lived deep in the forest and abducted seven children in 1941. He murdered them all in his basement, killing them in pairs while having one stand in a corner facing the wall. Eww!

• 40:05Brittany Broski?

  The students explore the forest in North Burkittsville to research the myth. They meet two fishermen, one of whom warns them that the forest is cursed. He tells them of a young child named Robin Weaver, who went missing in 1888. When she returned three days later, she talked about an old woman whose feet never touched the ground. I don't want to read this. Hey, I'm actually alone and I'm actually getting scared in my dragon hat. I was supposed to talk about dragons this episode. That's what I wanted to do. I wanted to talk about dragons. Now I'm scaring myself. I'm reading wikipedia.gov and I'm getting scared as fuck in my own house.

• 40:43Brittany Broski?

  The students hike to Coffin Rock, where five men were found ritualistically slaughtered in the 19th century. Their corpses later disappeared. Okay, perfect. They camp for the night and the next day find an old graveyard with seven small cairns. Now, what is a cairn? A human-made pile or stack of stones, raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound. The word cairn comes from the Irish. Everything goes back to fucking Ireland. They find seven small cairns, one of which Josh accidentally knocks over. Fucking dumbass Josh. Dumbass bitch-ass Josh. Dumb a pumpkin. That night, they hear the sound of sticks snapping.

• 41:28Brittany Broski?

  The following day, they try to hike back to the car but cannot find it before dark and make camp. They again hear sticks snapping. No. In the morning, they find three.

• 41:43Brittany Broski?

  In the morning, they find three cairns built beside their tent. Heather learns her map is missing. Mike reveals he kicked it into a creek out of frustration, which provokes a fight between the trio as they realize they are lost. They head south. Why would you ever watch this movie? Why would you ever watch this movie? I'm getting scared as fuck. They head south. They head south, using Heather's compass, and discover stick figures hanging from trees.

• 42:11Speaker 05

  I don't like it!

• 42:13Brittany Broski?

  They again hear mysterious sounds at night, that night, including children laughing and an inhuman groan. After an unknown force shakes the tent, they run outside and hide in the forest until dawn. Upon returning to their tent, they find their possessions have been rifled and Josh's equipment is covered with slime? They come across a river identical to the one they crossed earlier and realize they've been walking in circles. Josh vanishes the next morning and Heather and Mike try vainly to find him. That night, they hear Josh's agonized cries but are unable to find him. They theorize that his yells are a fabrication by the Blair Witch to draw them out of their camp.

• 42:54Brittany Broski?

  Like Hunger Games, like mocking Jay Jabber, Jay Hunger Games, Peter! Peter! Heather discovers a bundle of I just gotta chill, nobody's spying, dude. What sick fuck came up with this? You bitches are sick in the fucking head! Heather discovers a bundle of twigs tied with fabric from Josh's shirt the next day. Upon opening the Upon opening the bundle, she finds a blood-soaked scrap of his shirt containing bloodied teeth and hair.

• 43:33Speaker 05

  So that's actually making sense, because that's the part I've seen.

• 43:40Brittany Broski?

  Although distraught, she does not tell Mike. That night, she records herself tearfully apologizing to her, Mike's, and Josh's families, taking responsibility for their predicament. She admits that something evil is haunting them and will ultimately take them. Is it almost over, bro? That same night, they hear Josh calling out to them again and follow his voice to the abandoned ruins of the House of Rusten Par. Of course, they find it. Featuring children's bloody handprints on one of the walls. Trying to locate Josh, they first go to the attic but do not find him. Mike then hears Josh's voice in the basement and quickly heads downstairs. I'm gonna, I'm gonna speedrun this because I'm actually, I'm, like, I cannot express how fucking scared I am right now, and I'm just reading the Wikipedia.

• 44:24Brittany Broski?

  Mike then hears Josh's voice in the basement and quickly heads downstairs where an unseen force assaults Mike, causing him to drop his camera. Heather enters the basement yelling and her camera captures Mike standing in a corner facing the wall. Heather calls out to him, but he does not react. The unseen force assaults Heather, causing her to scream and drop her camera. The camera continues to record for a few seconds and then cuts to black. Okay, perfect. So actually, I actually, there's goosebumps all over my legs. Damn, they marketed this with missing person posters. That's scary as fuck. What the hell? To portray it as real? Bruh. For its basic cable premiere in October 2001 on FX, two deleted scenes were reinserted during the end credits of the film.

• 45:08Brittany Broski?

  Neither deleted scene has ever been officially released until second sight film's Blu-ray release in November of 2024. What the fuck? What the fuck scenes are those? What's the response? It drew acclaim from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gave it an 86%. Full of creepy campfire scares, mock doc, The Blair Witch Project keeps audiences in the dark about its titular villain, proving once more that imagination can be as scary as anything on screen. Is that not exactly what I said? Is that not exactly what I said? Okay, going back, I'm, why do I keep scaring myself? I don't like it! I don't like it!

• 45:52Brittany Broski?

  And what the actual fuck was I talking about to get us here?

• 45:55Speaker 03

  Hey, it's Nile Rodgers, host of Before the Moment, a Lincoln original series. I'm driving across the country, meeting some of today's most fascinating artists. We're exploring the stories before the moment that changed everything. This week, I'm joined by my friend, John Legend. So you're helping Will.i.am write hooks? What made Ordinary People become the one song from those sound checks you knew you had to make your own?

• 46:24Speaker 04

  I was just writing for the Black Eyed Peas. I wasn't expecting to write something for myself in that session, but I wrote the hook for Ordinary People and I recorded a demo and I'm like, I would rather... Keep ordinary people for myself. The station in Chicago, WGCI, they start playing it before we're promoting it. The song spoke for itself. It became the defining song for my first album. I knew it was special, but you never know how special it's going to be and how much impact it's going to have in people's lives. And you never believe that you're going to actually change people's lives with a song.

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• 47:33Brittany Broski?

  I was talking about Hosea about 20 minutes ago. How did I start talking about the Blair Witch Project? Oh, we were reading that Instagram thing. Yeah, here we go. "The Blair Witch Project turned that tension into a phenomenon that felt like found footage, almost too real to be just a film. This was fear becomes entertainment." Okay, now we're in the 2000s. "Entertainment turned cruel." Dude. Oh my god, I've never thought about it through this like critical lens before. You know what I mean? Like, all of this is true. All of this to me feels true. "After 9/11, fear and violence was everywhere. On TV, in the news, in video games, and horror dropped the irony mirrored..."

• 48:15Brittany Broski?

  And horror, "in video games and horror dropped the irony mirrored that saturation." Dropped, horror dropped the irony mirrored that saturation. Drop, and horror dropped the irony mirrored that... What the fuck? I feel like I'm having a stroke. That sentence, this sentence doesn't make sense, but I'm gonna read it anyway. "After 9/11, fear and violence was everywhere. On TV, in the news, in video games and horror..." "In video games, and horror dropped the irony mirrored that saturation." "And horror dropped the irony mirrored that saturation." Okay, that doesn't make sense to me, but okay. Suddenly, death had no logic.

• 48:57Brittany Broski?

  This is so tea when you think about like how humans en masse react or respond to like a, a uh, widespread nonsensical tragedy. I'm thinking immediately of like surrealism after World War I. How so many people across the globe literally were like, that should not have happened. It makes no sense that that happened. This was entirely avoidable. The severe loss of life, the suffering, the like loss of norm- normalcy. There is no way to make sense of it. So I guess nothing fucking matters.

• 49:40Brittany Broski?

  And then that's when surrealism became a huge trend or a huge um, source of inspiration for a lot of artists because yeah, it doesn't make sense and you're valid as fuck for saying that. And this honestly kind of mirrors that. It's so funny how we find these cycles like history and art just constantly repeat and repeat and repeat. And it's new versions and it's through a different lens and it's through whatever, but it's the same. It's the same because we don't learn. Suddenly, death had no logic. Final Destination. Pain became the point, like Saw and Hostel. And terror spread like a virus. The ring, the grudge. Found footage movies like Paranormal Activity or Cloverfield blurred the line between fiction and reality.

• 50:24Brittany Broski?

  Do y'all remember um, what's the other one? Not Paranormal, Insidious, dude. Insidious, Paranormal Activity and The Conjuring all like, I am not, absolutely not. I don't like scary movies. I don't. I know some people love horror movies. Like I can watch a campy horror film like, oh, this is, it's gross. And it's like kind of fun to laugh at sometimes. Those kind of movies freak me the fuck out. I can't do it. I genuinely cannot do it. I'm not the one. Turn it off. Turn it off now. I'm leaving the room. I'm so serious. And turn it down. Even quieter films like The Others and The Orphanage carried the same dread.

• 51:05Brittany Broski?

  Is The Others the one where they stand outside of your fucking house with the The audience stopped laughing. Damn. Yeah, whoever wrote this is period. Even quieter films like The Others and The Orphanage carried the same dread. The audience stopped laughing. 2010s, the horror within. Movies like The Babadook, Hereditary, and Midsommar made grief, loss, and codependence feel more terrifying than any ghost. Damn. Critics called it elevated horror, but it was really emotional realism, fear that looked like everyday life. Get Out turned racism into psychological horror, polite, liberal, and suffocating.

• 51:47Brittany Broski?

  It Follows turned sex and anxiety into a slow, inscapable dread. The genre became a way to talk about depression, trauma, and inherited pain, things that don't die but linger. Even in death, they linger. 2020s, digital horror, identity horror. Our fears went virtual. Now the monsters are algorithms, influencers, clones, and AI companions. Black Mirror, Megan, Swarm, Smile, Companion, all ask the same thing: What happens when we become our own creation's prey? What the fuck? What the fuck are we talking about?

• 52:32Brittany Broski?

  I'm posted up in the crib scared shitless. I'm scared shitless. Visibility has replaced violence as the new terror. We fear being watched, misrepresented, duplicated, or worse, forgotten. The monster is no longer a stranger. It's our reflection?

• 52:55Brittany Broski?

  The monster is no longer a stranger. It's our reflection. Okay, that does, the way she worded that seems a little cringe. I will, I will admit, it seems a little cringe. Even if it's true, okay? And I've been seeing a bunch of critiques about Frankenstein as being the same thing of like, it's because the real fucking monster is us, is humans. Yeah, okay, duh, right? But at the same time, valid point. Same time, valid point. This to me is very interesting because what's left? I almost, right? Like, I almost feel like that's the eternal question. What's left? Have we explored all these other facets or even sub-genres of scary movies, of horror, of, of

• 53:40Brittany Broski?

  the different ways to play with the human psyche? What is left other than we've pushed it too far? We have pushed it too far. I worry about this, honestly, a lot. I worry about the literacy of the youth. I worry about social skills of the youth.

• 54:01Brittany Broski?

  Decorum, you know, concert etiquette, meeting people in person. I've had people come up to me on the street and just like, they talk to me like I am not a real person. And this isn't like a complaining thing, but it's to serve as an example of life now is through a screen and it is not interpersonal. It's not interpersonal in a way that actually facilitates connection and empathy. I genuinely think that this is the final stage of like deterioration. Like, we are deteriorating as a society and this is, again, cyclical and a dark age is probably coming. And I don't say that to scare anyone, but just look at the trends.

• 54:46Brittany Broski?

  And that's why it's important to resist and it's important to do things that are analog and to find human connection in ways that don't revolve around social media or around, you know, Capturing the moment digitally? This to me is very interesting because it is true, we fear being watched. The way that I am spoken to sometimes as almost a video game character or like a chatbot, where it's a complete disregard for my humanity. It's just, "Take this fucking picture with me." It's not a hello, it's not a please, it's not a "I love your videos." It's no humanity behind the eyes. And I mean this for the younger fans, which I don't...

• 55:26Brittany Broski?

  If you're under the age of 17, watching my videos, thanks for being here, I guess, but that's not... There... I have a lot of feelings on that, okay? And it is a scary thing to think that you could be influencing the youth. I hope that I'm a "Oh, for the love of Christ, I hope I'm influencing the youth in a positive way." But these things scare me, right? Like, your sense of reality is so warped. I don't know if it's fixable. You have to have hope that it is fixable. But, oh my God, this question of filming strangers? I've had people take photos of me and then DM it to me.

• 56:09Brittany Broski?

  "Hey, queen, didn't want to come up to you, but saw you. Here's a picture I took." That is very odd. Constantly being surveilled. And what does that do to your psyche? And you don't even have to be famous to be surveilled. Everyone, we live in a surveillance state. Everyone is being watched all of the time. Your phone watches you, your laptop watches you. It's never-ending. This is, to me, the final stage. And you know what's gonna be interesting is what comes after this? I don't know. Is shit gonna collapse? Are we gonna go back to... Right? Like, what I was trying to say is we've been desensitized to so much. Watching a movie from the 50s? I bet that shit was fucking horrifying back then. We watch it today, child's play.

• 56:55Brittany Broski?

  Blair Witch Project, shit like that where it's psychological horror to me, I think is more evergreen because we're scared of what we don't know and that will always be true. But in the age of infinite access to information and you think you know everything, or even worse, AI tells you this is a definitive truth, when that's not how the world works. Even like scientists and scientific research, you can establish something as a theory and years later, it can be disproved, once we have more information. So all of these things wrapped up into what scares the society that has seen it all. We have seen it all. I watch war crimes on my fucking Instagram feed every day.

• 57:38Brittany Broski?

  How do you sit here and say that doesn't desensitize you to some things? And that makes me feel sick. I don't want that to be the case. So you have to actively work against those things where this isn't just content. This isn't something to pass the time as I'm sitting on the toilet. This is real fucking life and the social media, I feel like is a reality, but it's not our reality. It's not a true reality. It's a virtual reality and some people are trapped in it. It's just a lot. It's a lot. It's a lot. The monster is no longer a stranger. It's our reflection. Perfect. Every generation rewrites its nightmares, but they always point back to us.

• 58:22Brittany Broski?

  From Frankenstein's ambition to Midsummer grief, to Midsummer's grief, to Together's disintegration of relationships, fear has always been a portrait of the moment. Horror changes shape, but the instinct remains the same. To name what we cannot face and to see what we pretend to hide. Whoa. This was tea. Ooh, someone commented and said, so fascinating. I wonder what the next decade will bring. Fear of loss of resources, us against them, like leave the world behind. Yeah, I feel like the dystopian thing happened in 2012, 2013, which also would have been, I wish they had included that. I mean, this is horror, I guess, but more so like trends of. What's, what's on the collective psyche?

• 59:06Brittany Broski?

  What's on the collective mind? There were a lot of dystopian novels being written around that time of like, you know, the 2012, the Mayan, the Aztec calendar, world's gonna end. Like, there was a real frenzy, a fear of that being for real. Like, there is any time. There's like, the rapture, the rapture shit happens every couple of years. We know the crazies are there. We know the crazies believe this shit. And we know the crazies are gonna try to force this down everyone's throats. They're gonna buy up a bunch of their resources and then the shit doesn't come and they're humiliated. You never hear from them until the next time it happens where they're convinced it's... We are so hell-bent on like, we know the world is ending. So, I'm gonna save myself. You know, so it's, it's interesting to...

• 59:51Brittany Broski?

  I mean, that's, I love dystopian, uh, and I need to get more into it, like dystopian fiction. Because while it makes me sad and it kinda scares me, as an adult now, that I'm not like in high school or I'm not having to study this for a class or whatever to write on it, it's interesting from one adult to another adult to think, this is your thesis or your theory or your fanciful imaginative scenario of how you think this shit's gonna go down. How do you think this shit's gonna go down for real? Margaret Atwood style, Susan Clark style? Like, it's crazy to think, even like, science fiction dystopia,

• 1:00:35Brittany Broski?

  something like A Dune or Red Rising where, what in that author's life have they seen? That might be different from what I've seen or, you know, age gaps, whatever. But like, what have you lived personally where it would move you to write this piece of fiction? And I've been, oh my God, do y'all follow Dua Lipa? Dua Lipa interviews these authors. I'm just, I am in awe of her. She, to me, is like, the perfect woman. She is kind, she's smart, she's thoughtful.

• 1:01:07Brittany Broski?

  Obviously, she's incredibly talented. She's beautiful. She's fashionable. She is so, she leads with her heart as well. You know, like she has these genuine conversations with these authors seeking to find connection. And it is from such a place of fandom, you know, like you can tell that she's a true fan of these people she's talking to and interviewing. And it's such a joy to watch. What a gift we have in Dua Lipa. I watched her talk to Margaret Atwood, and I was gagged, completely gagged. I need to watch the whole thing because I was, I just saw clips on Instagram. And I was like, also, what a blessing to have Margaret Atwood.

• 1:01:52Brittany Broski?

  I want to read Beloved. I really want to read Beloved by Toni Morrison, 1987 novel by American novelist Toni Morrison, set in the period after the American Civil War. The novel tells the story of a dysfunctional family of formerly enslaved people whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit. Obviously, I need to read it. This has been, it's on my shelf. I bought it a few months ago. I just think that these, like, it's interesting to start viewing literature and fiction specifically through that lens of like, it tells you so much about their lived experience and what maybe haunts them and what plagues the mind. And it's, you

• 1:02:35Brittany Broski?

  know, to be moved to the point where you have to write it down. I just, I don't know, I've been thinking about that a lot lately. Okay, so I guess next episode, I'm also going to wear this dumbass fucking dragon helmet because I wanted to talk about dragons. I'm so bad at talking about the end of the world. Sad. Classic, classic Bruce Springsteen moment. What the fuck?

• 1:02:57Brittany Broski?

  Okay, guys, is Beloved a horror novel? That's a good question. It's considered a horror novel by many, though it's also a work of historical fiction and literary fiction that uses supernatural elements to explore the deep-seated trauma of slavery. It contains classic horror elements like a ghost story in a haunted house, but its most terrifying aspects are the realistic horrors of slavery, say that, and its lasting psychological impact on individuals and a nation. Yeah, I have to read it. Um, okay, guys.

• 1:03:27Brittany Broski?

  Let's do the plugs. Josh Hutcherson on Royal Court. Go watch it. Just go fucking watch it. I love him down. I couldn't love him more if I tried. He is so, that's my brother. That's twin. Um, go watch that. We have an exciting one coming out this week. Okay. So keep your eyes peeled for that. We have broski.shop for mumus and for podcast merchandise. Keep your eyes peeled on that the next week or two. Something's dropping soon. We have an official Patreon. If you want this episode ad free, go ahead over, go go on Patreon. We've got it there for you. We have an official broski nation playlist. Speaking of which, I have some songs of the week for you.

• 1:04:13Brittany Broski?

  Uh, I've been doing the High Kings recently, the Parting Glass by High Kings. It's stuck in my head all the time. I found this song recently and I was like, you know what? How fucking? Yeah. It's called Falling Down a Well by Jack J. I love that song. It came on randomly. I do love, um, obviously looks, we have to talk about looks. Give me a moment. Okay. I know y'all want the review. I need to spend quality time with this album and I'm not done yet. I'm not done yet because what is going to piss me off is if I come on this podcast and I start flapping my fucking gums. And then a month later I come back and, and I have a much more in-depth, um, soul bond, like in-depth connection, understanding and soul bond to the album. And I have already done the, the Rosalie episode.

• 1:04:58Brittany Broski?

  You know what I mean? Like I want to really sit with it, have it seep into my pores and then I will give y'all my review. I promise, I promise, I promise I will. Okay. The last song that I will give you is, I don't know if I said this a few weeks ago. I've been, I've still been on this kind of like, not country, but more like Tyler Childers, Ciara Farrell, maybe Ty Myers, like this kind of kick. Ciara Farrell has this song called Chittlin Cookin' Time in Cheatham County. That's one of my favorite songs ever. I love that damn song. I don't know why. Don't ask me why. It's so good.

• 1:05:36Brittany Broski?

  I do love Dracula by Tame Impala as well. That's been on my list. Okay, guys. Thank you so much for listening and sorry that we kind of, we really, really, really hit that rabbit hole today. So. I appreciate y'all listening and I will see you next week. Love you. Bye.

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