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This week on The Broski Report, Fearless Leader Brittany Broski (finally) reacts to Heated Rival, reviews fidget toys, and discusses what’s in her travel bag. ICE OUT OF OUR CITY / PROTEST RESOURCES: Script to Contact Your Representatives – 5calls.org http://5calls.org 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/ National Immigrant Justice Center – https://immigrantjustice.org/ MINNESOTA SPECIFIC RESOURCES: Stand With Minnesota Vetted Resource Hub – https://www.standwithminnesota.com/ MPLS Mutual Aid – https://linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota – https://www.ilcm.org/ International Institute of Minnesota – https://iimn.org/ ICE OUT / Mutual Aid – https://linktr.ee/ICEOUTmutualaid 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 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/ 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: Shopify – Sign up for your $1/mo trial at https://shopify.com/broski CHAPTERS: 0:00 – Intro 1:38 – YouTube Channel 2:58 – Royal Court Tease 3:44 – Heated Rivalry 14:51 – Knight of the Seven Kingdoms 19:28 – The Witch 25:20 – Needoh Review 39:56 – What’s In My Travel Bag? 49:37 – Book Club 55:48 – Fashion 59:54 – Texas A&M 1:06:06 – Outro #brittanybroski, #broski, #broskination, #broskireport, #spongebob, #youtube, #heatedrivalry, #hockey, #gameofthrones, #knightofthesevenkingdoms, #hbo, #roberteggers, #travel, #bookclub, #needoh, #stimtoy, #fidgettoy, #emilyinparis, #fashion, #paris

Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.

• 0:00Brittany Broski?

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• 0:42Speaker 01

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

• 0:51Brittany Broski?

  And it's a big guy meal. Sponge my pants, okay? And it's a big guy meal. Sponge my pants, okay? Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun. Big guy meal. Dun dun dun dun. Big guy meal. Hello, hello, hello. Guys, welcome back to the podcast. That just made me dizzy. I have many, many, many, many things

• 1:34Brittany Broski?

  to talk to you guys about today, okay? So I get up on it and I take a deep bite of my big guy meal and say, at the top of my lungs, sponge my pants, okay? And I said, big guy. I watched heated rivalry.

• 2:03Brittany Broski?

  Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on, let's not get ahead of ourselves. Okay. Let me get a fucking grip. Before we get into this episode, I need everyone to listen up and pause the video really quick. I uploaded on the main channel. We're back on the Brittany Broski channel. So go, pause this, go watch that. Leave a comment, come back. I'll wait. Unpause. Welcome back. Thoughts? Hope you enjoyed. It was a little speed running of, of some trends that I missed and some new trends. Okay. So we're so back. Stanley, Stanley, we're so back. He makes fun of me. It's hilarious. It's hilarious how he makes fun of me.

• 2:43Brittany Broski?

  Um, no one does it better than Stanley, quite frankly. So, yeah, we're so fucking back, actually. So come on and let's get those subs up. Guys, if you're not subscribed to this channel or Royal Court, please. What are we doing? Come on. I've been doing this for like 130 years at this point. I am life eternal. I am immortal. Okay. I'll be here forever, but I need you guys sustain me, my life source. You know, similar to the fountain of youth is kind of like a YouTube subscription. So you don't have to, but it's, it's nice if you want to subscribe, but you absolutely don't have to. I understand. Okay. That's out of the way. Um.

• 3:25Brittany Broski?

  I, okay. When does this come out? This comes out February 1, 2, 3, February 3rd.

• 3:34Brittany Broski?

  I need you guys to like, there is something coming on Royal Court that you have genuinely no fucking clue. Like, none of you would ever guess what it's about to be at the end of February. So just keep that in mind and talk to me very nicely because something is about to hit Broski Nation HQ. I wish I could say more. I can't. Just be very, very on edge. I need everyone to be very anxious, be very on edge. Okay. For the next, mm, give or take two or three weeks. I need everyone riddled with anxiety. Can you guys do that for me? Can you do that for me? Thanks. Okay. Go watch the video on the main channel. Um, that's pretty much it. Let's get into it.

• 4:20Brittany Broski?

  I watched it. I watched cheated rivalry and, um. Um.

• 4:29Brittany Broski?

  I have a lot to say on that front. Obviously, it's gut wrenching in the best way. Okay? It took me a while to watch it because I think when there's an initial reaction to something like that, anything like that, that's like, oh, my God, you have to watch. Odds are, I'm not watching that shit. Also, my tastes are very like, if I'm in a gothic mood right now, pretty much that's all I'm watching. You know what I mean? Last night, I watched The Witch by Robert Eggers. Hey, I'll talk about that in a second. Okay? Wow. We'll talk about that in a second. He did rivalry. I was like, you know what? I'm taking a break this week. I have not taken a week off since probably August of 2024. So I took, I'm on a hiatus right now. This is the one thing that I'm doing this week.

• 5:14Brittany Broski?

  And I was like, you know what? Let me go ahead and sit down, watch this gay show. I'll watch the gay show. I love the gays. I might as well sit down, see what they're doing. Gut wrenching, obviously. But like, so everyone was right. Like, it is such a good story and it's so deeply romantic. And can I say something that half you bitches are gonna be mad at me and half the other of you bitches are gonna agree? Okay, in, in the crowd of you bitches, half are split, okay? This story and the reason why it works is because it's a grumpy ex-sunshine trope from fucking Wattpad. Are you mad at me? Is it not?

• 5:58Brittany Broski?

  For all of my fanfiction girls, this is a grumpy ex-sunshine trope. Meaning, one of the characters is, you know, yeah, grumpy, like, hard into the world, cynical, everything's a joke. The other one, deeply earnest, okay? Lightness. Everything is, is very positive and like, feels things very deeply, is very joyous, okay? And not to bring it back to Laura Olympus, but similar to Laura Olympus, okay? Grumpy ex-sunshine. I read so many One Direction fanfictions that were grumpy ex-sunshine, okay? This is literally that! Not to mention Mandalorian fanfiction. We won't even get there, okay? And I've still got my little Mandalorian bobblehead Funko Pop back there. He's always with us. And Kylo Ren. That's to commemorate when I was so horny for those Star Wars characters.

• 6:42Brittany Broski?

  I just can't, I genuinely can't talk about it anymore, okay? But that's, there is an eternal reminder. Heated rivalry is literally grumpy ex sunshine. Who's my bias? Who's my bias? Can anyone fucking guess? Yeah, you guessed it. It's Connor Story. Can anyone? Yeah, it's actually Ilya. Holy shit. Yeah, that's actually my bias. That's my bias. I'm gonna get one of those little K-pop playing card things with all the like, it's got Miffy on it and it's just him. Like, it's literally actually gonna be Connor Story. Yeah, that's my bias. Oh, my God. Hi!

• 7:20Brittany Broski?

  That's my bias. I'm front row at the Hudson Williams Connor Story meet and greet.

• 7:25Brittany Broski?

  That's literally me. I feel like... Okay. Many things stand out to me. Number one, let's just, let's just talk about it, okay? Number one. When Bro gets in the elevator, when Shane gets in the elevator, after that like, kind of distant hookup, all right? They hooked up and he goes to text, "We didn't even kiss." Oh, my God. Oh? When he's in the elevator and he's like, trying to text him because he wants to talk to him so desperately and like, it was, yes, it was sex, but it wasn't like fulfilling and connective in the way that their sex usually is. And he's got his head against the elevator door and he's like, "We didn't even kiss." Backspace, backspace. I literally said,

• 8:10Brittany Broski?

  "Oh, my God!" That was, that was the first one where I was like, fuck this dumbass stupid show. The second one was, um... Fuck, it was just on the tip of my tongue.

• 8:23Brittany Broski?

  The phone call in Russian. Oh! Oh, oh, oh!

• 8:30Brittany Broski?

  That bitch, if this was a motherfucking fanfiction, you remember on Wattpad, when a section like that would happen, I'm literally like, my voice is going out. I'm so excited. And like, there would be, the old Wattpad, I don't know what it looks like today. At the end of like a gag paragraph or a gag chapter, you could leave comments and it would literally say like, "4,000 comments." But a bitch, on the original after, at the part, and if you've read after, you know the part. When that's all revealed, that thing had like 45,000 comments. And it was so fun to scroll through and be like, like, like, like, like, because it was the equivalent kind of to like TikTok comments today, where they were so funny and they were so topical and so like...

• 9:16Brittany Broski?

  Like valid reactions, relatable reactions. I genuinely, during that conversation where they're on the phone and he's saying how he really feels in Russian, I was like, what I would give to, me watching heated rivalries, seeking community, like what I would give to read the comments section under this as a fanfiction. Like what the girls are saying. Oh my God, it was just, and Shane, it doesn't even matter. Like it didn't matter what Ilya was saying. It was just listening to his voice and like the emotion in his voice. And when he says, "I love you in Russian, bitch," I almost fell out. I almost fell out. Damn. Okay. And here's my, here's my hot take. Okay. Sure.

• 10:01Brittany Broski?

  Shane Hollander, Ilya Romanov, yay. Don't give a fuck. Scott Hunter. Scott Hunter. That shit? That whole like, was it episode three, episode four, where it's all about their story? I genuinely was like, mm, I'd watch a spinoff show of just them. Literally just them. Fuck the other two. I like them. Oh my God. And when he kissed them, I'm like, ahhhh. Wow. And you know what's so like, never thought about it in this context? Because for me, I guess as an American, we're Americans, even though we're in the most, mm, one of

• 10:42Brittany Broski?

  the most regressive stages of like, public displays of self-expression, I guess. Like it's never, in recent years, been more censored or policed than it is now. In recent years. It's like we made such historic landmark changes when it comes to DEI or with the legalization of gay marriage, like all of these things that felt so irreversible. And now here we are with Roe v. Wade overturned, with like the fucking Gestapo knocking on the doors of American families. It's just like.

• 11:20Brittany Broski?

  We are in such a regressive state that it's scary to think about this in that context. But I kind of mean before that, like, well, 2016, Trump was elected. I mean, like, and when this story is set, 2016, 2017, the idea of a gay hockey player like kissing his partner on national television, it shouldn't be that gag. Like, that, in my, maybe this is my naivete speaking, but that's not that gag. It's like, yeah, love. How is that any different than kissing your wife or your girlfriend? Or what? It's just like, what a historic moment. You want to celebrate that with the love of your life. Bitch, I understand, obviously, that it's, it'll never be that normalized.

• 12:05Brittany Broski?

  And it's so crazy to be reminded of that. Obviously, like, that's so many people's lived experiences every day of, of that genuine fear of being able to live out loud. And you would think in a country like America that, in theory, really, one of the pillars of this nation is freedom and the freedom of speech and the freedom to live out loud. And it's just not. It is just not. And it is horrific to be reminded of that. And of course, it's not as regressive as some other countries, but even then, it's like, oh, my God. You would think that as a human race, we're, we're over it. I'm over having to argue that gay rights are human rights, that trans rights are human rights.

• 12:50Brittany Broski?

  I'm, I'm so sick of this being a talking point when it's just common sense. So watching a show like this, it is kind of like, oh, yeah. You know, we are Neanderthals in the grand scheme of things, how this is so off-putting and like really hard for some people to grasp. And I know it's a TV show, but of course, it's a TV show modeled off of real life and real politics and whatever. So that was just, you know, something that is this really important undertone of the whole show of. Here are two young gay men afraid of the repercussions of living out loud. And I think that's also why this show is so red hot right now is because it's like,

• 13:34Brittany Broski?

  for so many people, it's seeing love on a, an equal footing. You know, where it's not a man and a woman having a weird power imbalance or having a toxic relationship. I mean, Illyun Chan's relationship is toxic in a different way, almost, in like a, separated by distance, or maybe they push each other away, but eventually, obviously, it doesn't matter. It's just, you know, I understand why people are so addicted to this show. I enjoyed it. Obviously, it made me sob at certain parts. And I need a spinoff of Scott Hunter. I need one. Okay, that's my heated rivalry review. I give it nine out of 10 stars. Very excited for season two.

• 14:20Brittany Broski?

  The ending of the last episode, yeah, I was sobbing my little fucking eyes out. Okay, and every edit I get of Connor's story, I throw it a like. Okay? And they're both so fucking charming on these carpets and whatever. They're just normal. They're just normal people. And I will say, the acting in this show kind of blew me away. I was expecting like, oh, you know, what? I know people like the two main guys, but like, what about the rest of the? Great, fantastic. I never once was I pulled out of it. You know, like, I was very locked in. I think that the pacing was great. I think that the editing was great. Like, what a, a hidden treasure chest is HBO sitting on with this, this show?

• 15:05Brittany Broski?

  So, can't wait for season two. Sorry it took me so long to watch it. Hudson and Connor, if you would like to come on Royal Court, you just let me know, okay? I know we're kind of working on it, but I would love to talk to you. I'd love to speak with you, young gentlemen, about some things. So. Everyone talks about how challenging it is to raise kids, but what about protecting them? Outlet covers, kitchen cabinet locks, baby gates. Where do you even start? Well, protecting your home and auto is a great place to start. Progressive offers customized coverage options so you can be sure you have the right coverage for you and your loved ones. They're basically the outlet covers, kitchen cabinet locks, and baby gates of insurance. Don't wait. Get your quote today at progressive.com.

• 15:48Brittany Broski?

  Progressive Casualty Insurance Company, affiliates and other insurers. Not available in all states.

• 15:55Speaker 02

  Hey, I'm Niall Rogers, producer, songwriter, guitarist, and co-founder of the group Sheik. A great song has a way of defining a moment. A moment of joy, heartbreak, or anything in between.

• 16:11Speaker 02

  This fall, I'll be driving across the country, dropping in on some of the coolest, most fascinating artists working today. We'll go deep into their lives and careers and hear what it was like before the moment that made them. From hitmakers like Miguel.

• 16:28Speaker 03

  That last year, finishing that record was the hardest experience of my life. Regardless of how everyone else buys into this, I believe in this and I'm gonna push.

• 16:40Speaker 02

  To rising stars like Alex Warren.

• 16:43Speaker 04

  You know, a song is a story and the verse is setting the scene. And for me, at least, it's allowing me to be personal and vulnerable with the audience, whether it's about my wife and I'm being vulnerable about her, or it's about, you know, my parents and I'm being vulnerable to them. And it's almost like a cinematic piece in a way where each song tells that beautiful story.

• 17:01Speaker 02

  It's gonna be one hell of a trip. Experience Before the Moment, a Lincoln Original Series on the iHeartRadio app, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.

• 17:14Brittany Broski?

  Okay, another thing I watched, another thing I watched.

• 17:29Brittany Broski?

  Night of Seven Kingdoms, Seven Kingdoms. What the fuck? Oh, I'm Sir Duncan D'Tol. Okay. You're out of your fucking mind if you think me and Drew aren't going as Duncan Egg for Halloween. You're out of your gob if you think I'm not throwing that bald cap on my big ass head and wearing a cloak and going as Egg from Night of the Seven Kingdoms. There is nothing to me more gender-affirming. I have never experienced gender euphoria quite like when I put on a bald cap. I texted Drew immediately, "Hey, I love this fucking show, so does she. One thing about Drew, that bitch is a nerd, she's a nerd. She's a nerd."

• 18:12Brittany Broski?

  And I know she fools you guys because she's so stunning and slay and outspoken and normal. She's not normal, don't fall for it. That bitch is a nerd. That's why we're best friends. Obviously, we were texting about it because it's so good. And like having Jorah Mormont at the helm, like steering this ship, so to speak, it really shows. And it's like, wow, to see the Game of Thrones universe and like Westeros and everything through the lens of a non-noble, I really enjoy. Like, all the set design and, and the, the set dressings and the costumes and the, you know, like you're seeing Baratheons and you're seeing Lannisters and Targaryens,

• 18:57Brittany Broski?

  but it's in such a, I guess, more rural lens. You know, you're not at their family castles or the strongholds or whatever. Like, you're seeing them out in these fields, eh, eh, the knight, whatever, like jousting. It's so fun. And I really enjoy Egg's character. I think that whoever, the, the little kid actor who plays him, fantastic. I think he's amazing. Also, shout out Peter, uh, Sir Duncan D'Tol. And I, and guess what? Having an Irishman at the helm of the fucking Gerdodun show! Up the parish, up the parish, up the parish. We're so up. Ireland, stand up. I'm not Irish. Ireland, get the fuck-

• 19:44Brittany Broski?

  I love this damn show. And while I was a bit shocked at, um, there was some full frontal dong. In episode two, there was kind of a 11 inch dong that was on the screen that I did have some follow up questions on. Ultimately, doesn't really matter. And him full blown shitting, having diarrhea, uh, in the first episode. Okay.

• 20:07Brittany Broski?

  No, yes, yes, sure. You know, he was like, I'm the leading Game of Thrones TV show. We're gonna have you shit and blow mud. First episode, first five minutes of the show. Yeah. So is that all right with you? Um, so can we talk about the shitting part? Yeah, no, I'm very excited. Thank you for having me. I'm obviously so excited to kind of go on this Game of Thrones journey. Yeah, can we go back to the sort of scene where I'm shitting, where I'm blowing shit out of my ass in the first five minutes of the show? Yeah, thank you. Um, I'm really enjoying it. I love this damn show. I think they could keep it going for however long they want. I mean, it's such a, uh,

• 20:48Brittany Broski?

  so much creatively to play with. I haven't read the book that it's based, the little novella that it's based on. Uh, I mean, I still need to get through the original Game of Thrones books. And then, uh, yeah, of course, I'm like House of the Dragons season three. Yeah, I'm ready. I'm completely ready. I've heard it's so heavy. I've heard that it's very battle heavy. So we're really kind of getting into it. The dance, the dance of the dragons begins. Yes. The dance of the dragons, Targaryen versus Targaryen. But who will come out on top? Time will tell. What's, uh, Varys's speech? It's a funny thing.

• 21:31Brittany Broski?

  Varys, uh, Lord Varys's speech. Power is a funny thing. Hold on, where is it? Power resides where men believe it resides. It's a trick. A shadow on the wall and a very small man can cast a very large shadow. Amazing. Okay. I'm really, really, really loving Night of the Seven Kingdoms. I'm tuned to every single, I'm there every week. Okay, now that that's all out of the way, oh, let me talk about The Witch really quick. I'm trying to power through all the Robert Eggers movies because I'm so excited for Werewolf. And obviously Love Knows Faratu, but

• 22:12Brittany Broski?

  that's kind of like the tip of the Eggers iceberg because Stanley's my film bro friend who's like, you'd love this, you'd love that. So need to watch The Lighthouse, need to watch The Northman. I watched The Witch. Who is that guy? He's in every single Eggers movie. I don't know if you pronounce his name Rafe or Ralph. Rafe Innison? Ralph Innison? He's an incredible actor. I, I love him. Every time he pops up, I'm like, oh, it's bro. It's literally bro. This movie scared the living shit out of me. I watched it alone. Thank God I wasn't high when I watched it. I thought it was gonna be like, you know how Crimson Peak by Guillermo del Toro is very like, oh, it's kind of spooky, but it's not a scary movie?

• 22:56Brittany Broski?

  I mean, there's definitely like jump scares in it, but it's not a scary movie. It's kind of a love story, if anything. This was a scary fucking movie and I watched it alone at night with the windows open, bitch. This is very, I will say, he nails the imagery and the, the tropes and the themes of like witchcraft and all this without making it cheesy, without making it corny. I enjoyed it. I think that I gave it, I think I give it a three and a half, four. It's somewhere between there for me on Letterboxd where I enjoyed the pacing. I enjoyed the casting. Fantastic acting. Fantastic acting in this movie. Uh, I think the end was a bit like,

• 23:42Brittany Broski?

  okay. Okay. I liked that they never showed the witch's face. I like that because I think that would have given, you know, there's something, what's that Lovecraftian shit of like, the scariest thing imaginable is that which we cannot imagine. Like, if you show me the monster, it's almost less terrifying than if I don't know what the monster looks like, but I know it's there. So that was kind of this, it's funny how Eggers does that. Like, you don't see Nosferatu's face for a pretty long time in Nosferatu. In The Witch, you never see, you know, the witch's face. It's kind of implied that it's, it's Thomason.

• 24:25Brittany Broski?

  Or that maybe that's foreshadowing for what her ending will be. I think that what I find endearing about Guillermo del Toro's monsters is he does give it a face. And there's a whole different takeaway to be gathered from that of like, you put a face and a name on the monster and it makes it less scary. And I think that's kind of the point. It's the goal, right? Is to humanize or to give a soul to this thing that's supposed to be utterly terrifying. And it endears you to it. You know, this concept of what he always talks about of, there's monsters within all of us. Anything can be made to be a monster with the right propaganda, with the right, you know, positioning. So,

• 25:10Brittany Broski?

  yeah, I, two very different directorial takes on what to be scared of and why. And I just am loving it. So, that movie scared the fuck out of me and I'm afraid of goats, um, naturally. And other than that, I liked this. At first I was like, oh, I really don't like this era. The Puritan, you know, New England, like witch hunt, middle of the Salem witch trials type shit. I really don't. Gravitate towards that. I much more gravitate towards Victorian stuff, but about halfway through the movie, I was like, you know what? You know what? Hell, yeah. Hell, yeah. We're so fucking back. So, uh, yeah, I enjoyed it. Next, I'm gonna watch The Northman. Then

• 25:54Brittany Broski?

  I'm gonna watch The Lighthouse. What's The Northman about? Yes. Okay, it's Viking. Oh, and it's on Netflix, period. Damn, this has great reviews. Okay, I'll watch The Northman probably tonight. Everyone talks about how challenging it is to raise kids, but what about protecting them? Outlet covers, kitchen cabinet locks, baby gates. Where do you even start? Well, protecting your home and auto is a great place to start. Progressive offers customized coverage options so you can be sure you have the right coverage for you and your loved ones. They're basically the outlet covers, kitchen cabinet locks, and baby gates of insurance. Don't wait. Get your quote today at progressive.com. Progressive Casualty

• 26:37Brittany Broski?

  Insurance Company, affiliates and other insurers, not available in all states.

• 26:43Speaker 02

  Hey, I'm Nile Rodgers, producer, songwriter, guitarist, and co-founder of the group Sheik. A great song has a way of defining a moment, a moment of joy, heartbreak, or anything in between. This fall, I'll be driving across the country, dropping in on some of the coolest, most fascinating artists working today. We'll go deep into their lives and careers and hear what it was like before the moment that made them. From hitmakers like Miguel.

• 27:17Speaker 03

  That last year, finishing that record was the hardest experience of my life. Regardless of how everyone else buys into this, I believe in this and I'm gonna push.

• 27:28Speaker 02

  To rising stars like Alex Warren.

• 27:31Speaker 04

  You know, a song is a story and the verse is setting the scene. And for me, at least, it's allowing me to be personal and vulnerable with the audience, whether it's about my wife and I'm being vulnerable about her, or it's about, you know, my parents and I'm being vulnerable to them. And it's almost like a cinematic piece in a way where each song tells that beautiful story.

• 27:49Speaker 02

  It's gonna be one hell of a trip. Experience Before the Moment, a Lincoln Original Series on the iHeartRadio app, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.

• 28:02Brittany Broski?

  All right, let's get into it. Um, why are there 1 billion Neatos on the desk? Well, Neato sent me a PR package. Okay, this isn't, this isn't promo for them. I'm not getting paid. I genuinely unboxed this Neato shit and I was like, obviously I'm gonna have to do a review on the podcast. So that's what we're gonna do. There are so many and I'll try to make this quick, but ultimately this is supposed to be helpful for you guys, cuz I don't fuck around with my STEM toys. I don't, I'm not joking about my fidgets. What I've been really into lately, which I don't know if Neato makes these, I think they're more into the squishables. I think they're more into the squishable region of a fidget toy. I've been into those little magnet sliders. I like them, okay?

• 28:43Brittany Broski?

  And yes, I got them off TikTok Shop! Fine! Fine! I got it off TikTok Shop! Are you gonna beat me upside the head? Okay. Let's get into it. This is a Neato gumdrop. Now, you know who has one of these and let me play with it? Drew. Drew has a gumdrop. One of the last times I was at her house, she, I was like, can I play with your gumdrop? She was like, yes. She has an orange one, though. This one's blue. This one's good. Um, yeah, there's some shit on it because I did, I opened this one cuz I was excited about it and then I was like, enough, I have to do it on the podcast. So I've genuinely been saving this for the pod to share with you guys. So this is my gumdrop. This is kind of, uh, what it's looking like.

• 29:25Brittany Broski?

  It does have this texture on the outside like a gumdrop. This is just a solid, classic one. I'll rate this a, this is a seven. This is a absolute classic seven. I, I think I prefer this to the Neato cube, the ice cube, uh, just because this fits my hand a bit better, okay? This is a seven out of 10. I'll put her right there.

• 29:51Brittany Broski?

  Okay, let's get into big fucking Bertha. This huge ass one. This is a, like, this going in my travel carry-on. Like, who is pulling this out at the function? This is a super Neato ripple.

• 30:06Brittany Broski?

  Super Neato Ripple, and by the way, couldn't be bigger. Whoa! Ew, ew, ew! Eww! Okay, this, this is kinda making me tingle bad. This is making me tingle real bad. What the fuck is in it? Ew, there's something floating in it. Does it light up? What the hell? Ew, it's like leaking. Why is it wet? Maybe that's just my hand sweat. No, it's definitely wet. Oh, I don't, I don't like, okay, well, maybe I do like this.

• 30:40Brittany Broski?

  This I give, just because maybe it's leaking, um, it does kinda stress me out. But I give this one, this'll be a 6.5, okay? Sure, if you need something to really grip on, here's my thing. These are two, I have nails and I really like, I like to go in on my stem toys. They need to have some resistance to them. Cause I'm really giving these handies, okay? I am giving these hand jobs like you just could not believe. This is, this is a 6.5, this is definitely for a different clientele than me. Okay, so we're gonna put her right there. Next. This one's bad. This one's bad. And I don't mean that in like, oh, she's bad.

• 31:22Brittany Broski?

  This one is horrific and some of you guys like this, I've seen, this is the Neato Snowball. This is the Neato Snowball. The super chill, cool crunch, groovy glob.

• 31:34Brittany Broski?

  This texture, I genuinely like, don't even wanna, I don't wanna, it makes me cringe. I like the feeling on the outs, I don't wanna crunch it. I like the feeling on the outside, but listen.

• 31:51Brittany Broski?

  It's like, ew, I, that's the only one you get. That literally, it's like cornstarch on the inside. That feeling of cornstarch, I just, I actually can't do it. And I know it's supposed to feel like snow and it does. If you're into that, if you're maybe from the east coast, you grew up with snow, you love making a snowball, but you wish you had the comfort of that in your house? Boom, get the snowball. Get the, what's this bullshit called? Get the, the snowball Neato Crunch. I can't do it. I wish you the best in your life, get that bullshit away from me. Uh, it makes me tingle bad. Tingle negative. Okay, obviously next, we're actually gonna go for the Neato Spleet Splat.

• 32:34Brittany Broski?

  Okay, clearly next, we're actually gonna grab the splute splat. So. Let's kind of unbox her. This is giving me very Nickelodeon vibes. Here is the splute splat. If you guys can see that. Um, okay, this one's good. Squish, stretch, and splat.

• 32:56Brittany Broski?

  Okay, it doesn't really, doesn't really splat that, that well, but I guess you can pull it. I'm gonna destroy this in a matter of moments. I mean, truly, like, you can only squeeze it so far. For, for a rough handed, I'm kind of like Lenny from Of Mice and Men. Like, I, if this were an animal, it would be dead. Because I, I really like to splute and splat in my free time, so this is like, can, can I be rough with it? Can I be rough with it? Because sometimes I get real stressed out and I want to be able to splute and splat everywhere without it kind of dying in my hand. Dying by my hand. I'm like a, I'm like a dog that goes in and removes the squeaker from the toy and kills it. And then never touches it again. That's what my family dog does. That's what Missy Do does.

• 33:40Brittany Broski?

  We give him a toy and he's like, he's addicted to it for 30 minutes and he rips the squeaker out and he never touches the toy again. So that's kind of, this is a, this is a five. This is not. Yeah, this is a five. For me. Also, I've been playing with it for two seconds and it's dirty, so. Five. Right now, the gumdrop's kind of taking it. Okay. Next. Ooh, this is Neato. Good vibes only. Every day is a good day for that squishy Neato sensation. Let the good vibes flow. I know that's right, Neato. And it says peace. It says peace. This Ringo, they got the Ringo Starr fidget.

• 34:23Brittany Broski?

  By the way, those pictures of Barry Keo, Keohan? Because I figured out in Irish, it's not Keogan. It's Keohan. Keo, Keohan. Irish people in the comments, please let me know. Barry Keo Hen. Okay, this one's great. This one's a bit too hard. Alright, look, I hate to be this kind of hard on Neato, but you've got this many options. I feel like I get to be a little critical. I get to be a little critical. This one's good. I'll definitely, you know, you can kind of flatten this one out into a bowl. This one, it's got good resistance. It's just a bit too hard. And let me go ahead and compare with the, yeah, I prefer the gumdrop. They're very similar. The gumdrop just has a bit of texture, which I like.

• 35:09Brittany Broski?

  Cause the issue with this is, I mean, my greasy ass, big guy, big guy, big guy, big guy, big guy. SpongeBob big guy Neato hands, they're gonna get dirty ultimately. But I like this one. I give this one a seven. This is a seven. Okay.

• 35:29Brittany Broski?

  Moving on. This is the Neato Cool Cats. Oh my god, it's a cat. Oh my god, it is a little kitten cat. Pet me, pinch me, squeeze me, squish me, touch me. Sounds like a Sabrina Carpenter song. Okay.

• 35:52Brittany Broski?

  Sorry. This, this does have a soft texture. Okay, I do, I do enjoy petting it. It does have a cute little cat face. Can you see the cat face? This one you gotta be gentle with. You know what?

• 36:06Brittany Broski?

  For a soft Neato.

• 36:10Brittany Broski?

  For a soft Neato, I don't mind this. I do like this. I'll give this one a seven as well. This one's good.

• 36:21Brittany Broski?

  Yeah, I give this one a seven. I'll put, I'll put her, them. The cat has no gender. Oh my god, I'll put the, I'll put the cat. On the, okay. Next up, Neato Fuzzball. You know, fuzzball. I know some of you weirdos have been wondering about this. The velvet squeeze, the velvet squeeze. Let's see what's going on here.

• 36:45Brittany Broski?

  Oh, oh, yeah. Yes. See, this isn't gonna pop. I say that as it almost pops. I like the texture. It's got enough resistance. This is an eight. This is an eight for me.

• 37:04Brittany Broski?

  I don't know why I smelled it. Sometimes I think, I, sometimes I wish that they were scented. I do wish they were scented like their color. Like, this should be grape scented. This should be like strawberry scented. This should be thrown away. Oh, I touched it again. I'm not joking, it's since they chilled on my fucking spine. It's just a child on my spine. I hate it. I hate it. Okay. This is an eight. I do like the velvet, the velvety kind of, you know, this reminds me of like a toy you would get at Chuck E. Cheese. For like one, one billion tickets and all you get is that. Neato Nice Cube Swirl. Now, I already have a Nice Cube. I have two, actually. I have a mini one and I have a normal sized one. But I, I, this looks like just a squirrel, a swirl.

• 37:51Brittany Broski?

  Like, hello, open. Okay, let's see it. Nice Cube Swirl.

• 37:57Brittany Broski?

  Ooh. Why is it sticky? Why is there shit in it? This is very beautiful. Okay, this is very beautiful. It's stickier than my other one. And honestly, it's a little softer. I might give this one away. We know that the Nice Cube is a classic, like it always returns to its shape. I like that it's a bit see-through. I like that it's a bit psychedelic. I might be giving this one to Tato. Okay, Tato, expect this in the mail. Um, and if there's shit on it, that's my fault. You know, I'll, I'll kind of own that. That's my fault, but just give it a little rinse. Um, I get that this is a classic. This is a, a seven. Okay? Now. The fuck bullshit is this? The Groovy Glo-

• 38:39Brittany Broski?

  Lob. Is this kinda similar to the cat, I'm assuming? The groovy glob, neato. Let's see. Says the same. Touch me, pinch me, lick me, fuck me, squeeze me, squish me. Ugh.

• 38:58Brittany Broski?

  I'm sorry. Yeah, this is just like my cat, but I'm keeping my cat. It's better than this. I mean, they're, they're kind of, you know, this one is amorphous. This one is a beautiful little cat, so I'm keeping the cat. This one, I'll give this one away as well. Uh, this is, what did I give the cat? This is a seven as well. Get back in your dumbass box. Okay, now these. These I'm excited about. This. Neato donut holes. Bruh. Are you, are you freaking serious, bro? Six squishy, squeezy donut holes. Neato donut holes. The delectable, non-edible, teeny weeny, squishable donut.

• 39:43Brittany Broski?

  And it's a six pack, in case you eat the other five. You can still have one left. Okay, now I'm gonna be really honest with you guys. I did remove a purple one and I've kind of been, I've been playing with it. I've been playing with it in the comfort of my home. So this is all movie magic, okay? I, I did test drive one or two of these and I did. Oh.

• 40:04Brittany Broski?

  Oh. Oh. Ew.

• 40:08Brittany Broski?

  Okay, these are the, these are the squatters. These are the farters. I like this one. It's got little sprinkles on it, if you can see that. This one's like a more powdered donut thing. One, like, intense squeeze of this, if I went Lenny from Of Mice and Men on this, it's popping. And I don't like that. And I will say, I've been, I've been playing with these. I've been playing with these kinda crazy and they get really sticky. And again, I don't know if that's user error. I don't know if that's just maybe I'm sticky and I'm touching them and they're getting sticky. Or if it's, you know.

• 40:44Brittany Broski?

  Yeah, that's gross. You know what I mean? I might give these away as well. These are, these are not durable. These are not durable enough for Bowsky hands. Bowsky hands need something with a bit more resistance, but I do like the concept of the donut, of the donut hole. So if you guys can make something that's a bit more resistant, I'm rocking with it. This is donut holes. Okay, what are the winners? The winner is gonna be the Neato gumdrop, I believe. I also just like food themed ones. This one is great. The velvety groovy ball. The groovy ball. Fuck the snowball one. I'm so deadass. Fuck that one. It made me tingle bad. I like the kitty.

• 41:28Brittany Broski?

  I like the kitty.

• 41:31Brittany Broski?

  And then I like this one's, this one's good. This one you can also use as a paperweight. The piece. Piece. Alright. Thank you guys for tuning into that. This big ass one. Me in a serious business meeting. Okay, so Q1 report. Talk to me. My feet are up on the table.

• 41:51Brittany Broski?

  See, what the fuck is that? What's in that? I've seen people cut these open and it worries me. Cause it's gonna come open one day when I don't want it to. Okay. That's my Neato review. Thank you, Neato, for sending me those. That was a, an honest, from the soul, a truthful unboxing and review. So, yeah, I really appreciate you guys and please make some magnet sliders. I would encourage Neato to move into something that's a bit more hard plastic, even though I know you're supposed to need it. That's kind of the whole idea. So actually, maybe don't listen to me. Cause you guys know your brand better than I do. Now, I didn't prepare accurately for this next segment, but I did wanna kind of tell y'all. And there's gonna be no visual aids, so kind of like imagine it with your own

• 42:35Brittany Broski?

  two eyes and, and one brain. Imagine it with your two eyes, one brain, one mouth, one tongue. I'm addicted to what's in my travel bag videos. I'm addicted to them, okay? For people flying in economy, for people flying in business, whatever. I like to watch what's in my travel bag because for each person, I glean something different. Okay, I steal something different from each person. And it's also tea to see how, what each person needs when they travel. Or what they deem the most important thing is. And I would much rather overpack, over prepare than travel, especially a long haul flight. Cause I'm back and forth to Europe all the time. And from LA too, like even from LA to New York, that's a five and a half hour flight. So it's a long haul flight.

• 43:20Brittany Broski?

  Here, here is what's in my travel bag, okay? I always travel with a pillow of some kind. My dad got me a cool one a few years ago for Christmas. It's by Samsonite and it's one that, it's just a traditional neck pillow. It's not one of those fancy ones where you wrap it around and it's hard and you can like lean your whatever. I feel like I'm fucking choking in those. Okay, if you like that, do it. They also sell these ones that you strap to the headrest. And it like goes around your forehead and it keeps your fucking head in place. But then I'm thinking, my neck's gonna slide back like this and I'm gonna be, my jaw is protruding. And also my, my neck is gonna be like this the whole flight. Like, yes, it keeps your head up, but it doesn't keep your head erect.

• 44:05Brittany Broski?

  You know what I mean? Like, I'm gonna wake up with neck pain either way. And I don't wanna feel like I'm being choked. So I have one that's, it's just a traditional neck pillow with the beads in it, but it's reversible. So there's a little zipper on the outside and you can stuff the head, the neck pillow inside. And it's a little square pillow. So if you wanna do it against the, um, like window, like the side of the plane. Or, you know, if you wanna shift in your seat like this and then lean your head against the, the. My god, lean your head against the backs of that fucking address like this. Speak English, big guy, big guy, SpongeBob, okay.

• 44:48Brittany Broski?

  So I like that. I've been traveling with that for years and I just kind of, you know, attach it to the outside of my uh, carry on. Now let's talk carry ons because I'm very passionate about this. I've tried a few different carry ons. Uh, this is controversial to say because like transparently, I know that they've thrown a lot of money into uh, marketing. And I will say this is the only item I've tried from them. I know that their luggage is a bit different. The base weekender bag. Girl, I'm gonna be completely honest with you. That shit sucks.

• 45:28Brittany Broski?

  I tried, okay, I tried because in theory it looks like it works. It's got a whole compartment under it that's a zipper for you can put shoes, you can put, you know, a laptop, whatever. The closure of the top of the bag is like one of those old doctor's bags. You know where they market it as, oh, you can fit all this shit in it, but in order to close the bag, the like wire, hard wire on the top needs to be able to come together so you can zip it and you, so you can't fit that much shit in it. Open, you can fit way more in it, but it's just not practical. The handles are hard to grab. It's got a, a long one, a long strap that you can, you know, like a shoulder strap. It's not comfortable.

• 46:12Brittany Broski?

  You can't really fit a laptop in it, at least the one I got, you can fit an iPad, but not like my MacBook. And it was just, I tried, okay. I also got a white one. Don't do that. That shit is yellow now. I just was like, this bag is lacking in a lot of ways. Sure aesthetically, it's, it's cute. I know it comes in different colors. I think their actual luggage is better, but this weekender girl, don't waste your money. It's also expensive. A brand that I, this is my opinion. I'm not sponsored, okay. This is just genuinely what I use. I wanted for my carry on, like a ballet bag. Okay, I wanted something that looked like the Rapetto pink, uh, dance bag.

• 46:55Brittany Broski?

  And they don't sell them anymore, or they sell the one that I want, but it's only available in navy. And it's too small for like the shit that Big Mama carries with her. And so I was looking at alternatives and there are all these like Amazon brands that I didn't want to do. And then there were some TikTok shop brands where they're like, this is the best.

• 47:16Brittany Broski?

  I actually ended up buying a Calpak one and Calpak is, you know, a good travel brand. I know a lot of hikers use Calpak. Um, what's the other one that's made? I, I got a backpack, like a carry on backpack that I traveled around Europe with. It's got the llama as the logo. Come on, they use like scraps from other bags to make them and it's, it's got a llama as the whatever. You, you guys know what I'm talking about. That's also a good brand, but this was something I was looking, I had a very specific thing in mind where I was like, I want a bag with a bunch of compartments that's cute, simple and has shoulder straps. Like you can use the two straps on your shoulder or it comes with a long one that you can do over your shoulder.

• 48:00Brittany Broski?

  Calpak and it comes in that pretty pink ballet color that I wanted. I got it, bitch, it's awesome. I started with the small one and then I quickly realized, mm, this isn't big enough for like the flights that I'm taking and all the bullshit that I need to carry with me. So I got the bigger one. It's been great. I've been using it for like four months. It does get a little dirty naturally, just because I got a light color and I'm using it, you know, on the dirty floors of airplanes, but it's great. It fits my laptop or iPad. Um, it's got a little compartment on the side. If you want to bring shoes, I don't bring shoes in my carry on. Like that's just not, and, and I'm not packing this as like a weekender bag. I'm using it as my flight carry on. Okay. So that's the bag.

• 48:43Brittany Broski?

  In it, I always, always bring my candy bag. Okay. Now my candy bag's actually gonna be my medicine bag. I am a very sickly or hypochondriac-esque person. If I'm in a foreign country, if I'm in a different state, and they don't have things that I'm used to or my creature comforts, I freak out. So in my little candy bag, uh, which is just a, I think I use a, um, old makeup bag. I use, or in that I have extra tampons, pads, panty liners, flossers, hydrocortone, because sometimes I get itchy.

• 49:24Brittany Broski?

  I have some, uh, leftover prescription meds for, um, a UTI. I have Zofran for if I get nauseous. I have my gabapentin for if I get anxious. I have, um, from all my gallbladder shit, my, my stomach used to cramp really bad and I got prescribed Robaxin, which is like a, a muscle relaxant. And so it's because sometimes I get these like phant- is that what it's called? Phantom cramps? And if it's really bad, then I'll take that. I keep allergy meds. Oh my God, I keep allergy meds because when I've been in Europe or whatever, finding an antihistamine, they just don't, they don't got it like we got it over here.

• 50:08Brittany Broski?

  Melatonin, they don't got it like we got it over here. Um, Tylenol, Ibuprofen, always have that shit on me. I just have all of that in the bag because you never know. I also keep Dayquil with me. Just because it's my intention of if you start to feel sick, oh, and I keep electrolytes on me too. If you start to feel sick, you at least have something to help in that moment, you know, of course you'll come home and like treat it properly, but just immediate relief is what I'm looking for, especially when I'm traveling. So that's my candy bag. I keep a separate, separate bag that's a snack bag. Because on these flights, sometimes, like, I travel for a living. I'm always on the road.

• 50:48Brittany Broski?

  You land at an airport at 11:00 PM in a small-ass town. Mama, they're not doing DoorDash. The hotel's not doing room service. You're not, you're doing McDonald's or you're doing Wendy's. You know what I mean? And it's like, that's why I, I feel like shit when I travel sometimes. It's just not a satiating meal. I feel bad about that choice, but sometimes it's like, girl. So I travel with snacks, protein bars. I travel with those That's It bars that's just fruit. Because you, it's good to pair like carbs or fiber with a protein snack. It'll, you're, you're more filled. It's more filling. Um, but it's hard to find protein bars that aren't filled with bullshit, that aren't packed with bullshit.

• 51:32Brittany Broski?

  Yeah, so that's in my snack bag. Then I carry books. I carry multiple books, okay? In my carry-on, I usually keep one book that I'm reading, one from a different genre. And I keep one, sometimes that's like a, an easy read, kind of like a romanticy. So recently I traveled with, I'm reading Turn of the Screw by Henry James right now. Um, I traveled with The Monk, which I'm about to start. Very excited for that. Bitch, that's a Gothic horror, a Gothic horror romance, I think. Very excited. And then I traveled with, I think, De Profundis by Oscar Wilde. Because I wanted something to kind of break up the heaviness of Gothic, whatever.

• 52:17Brittany Broski?

  Uh, and then Heavenly Bodies. I've been trying to read that for forever. Heavenly Bodies, uh, was really highly recommended on Booktop. Also, bitch, I'm back on Booktop. I'm, Booktop, I'm saving all these recommended books. Here are some ones I saved recently. Oh, this was Guillermo del Toro's Book Recs. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte. Oh my God, by the way, next episode, I have to do a whole tell-all on the Bronte sisters. I watched this crazy documentary that's on YouTube and I'm like so addicted. The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins, Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde. Obviously, Bleak House by Charles Dickens.

• 52:53Brittany Broski?

  Heavenly Bodies, but this is cult treasures and spectacular saints from the catacombs. It is not the romanticy that I'm talking about. The Vampire is Kith and Ken by Montague Summers. For horror, The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce and The Vampire Tapestry. And then fantasy sci fi, The Neverending Story, The Chrysalids by John Wyndham and The Book of Three. So those are recent saves. I also saved The Small Room by May Sartain.

• 53:35Brittany Broski?

  Those are kind of my, I'm always adding to my TBR on Goodreads, but those are in the rotation. I also want to start Cata bassus by, Cata, Cat, Catibet, Cata bassus by R.F. Quang and The Poppy War and Beloved by Toni Morrison. Like, there's so many books I want to get. Anyway, I always travel with books, uh, physical, but I really should start traveling with my Kindle again. I just prefer the feeling of a in-person book. In that vein, I always travel with Sharpies, um, highlighters and pens and pencils and chapstick. And I keep all those in my little side pocket.

• 54:14Brittany Broski?

  In my front pocket, I keep STEM toys, Clorox wipes, very important, eye mask, hand sanitizer, and my passport. I usually keep my passport just in the front pocket of there just because it's easy access. In my bag, I keep, uh, next to my iPad, I have Converter because I'm always, you know, traveling to different countries. I found this one on Amazon. That is one of those, like, wherever country you're in, you just pop out that adapter. It's really great. And it came with extra fuses in case you blow a fuse. Then I have a backup one that's just for the EU.

• 54:57Brittany Broski?

  I have extra charging cables, both for my iPad and one that you can put, you know, whichever one on, whether it be a USB C, whether it be the Android one, just whatever. I keep my Apple Pencil. I keep extra hair clips. I keep playing cards. Very important. I always whip out playing cards. Like, they all, I'm always like, ah, do I need these? Yeah, you need them. Keep them with you. I keep wired headphones. I keep my AirPods. But honestly, I'm in the market for, like, AirPods. I think I've talked about this before. Like, I don't know if they're worth the hype. I got actually sent my AirPods by Quinn, which is so humiliating, because everybody knows I'm jerking it.

• 55:42Brittany Broski?

  Like, oh, I'm just gonna wear my Quinn headphones in public? Oh, that bitch is jerking it. Uh, yeah, I saw your pink ass headphones, pervert. She's, she's getting her nut off. Anyway. Anyway, so I, I put a little sticker over the Quinn logo. I love you, Quinn. Thanks for sending me that, but I'm, I get embarrassed sometimes. Um, I think that's pretty much it. Oh, I finished Emily in Paris. Girl. I talked shit on Emily in Paris for so long, and don't get me wrong, it is a juvenile show, but I am addicted to Emily in Paris. I'm addicted to Emily in Rome, Emily in Paris, and I'm excited for season whatever the fuck they're on now, season 12. I can't wait.

• 56:26Brittany Broski?

  I can't wait. The twins called it Edible in Paris. Because it's fun to take an edible and watch Emily in Paris and be like, oh, my close personal friend Emily Cooper, what is she gonna do? And Mindy and Alfie were hooking up. Oh my god, the tea, it was tea. Anyway. Um, Edible in Paris, I downloaded all of that on my iPad. I also downloaded Heated Rivalry on my iPad. I started it on the plane, and then I was like, obviously, I'm not watching this on the fucking plane. Softcore porn? Nope, not gonna do it. And then it turns into hardcore. Anyway.

• 56:59Brittany Broski?

  I think that's pretty much it for what's in my travel bag. Those are my, I don't keep like skincare and all that shit. I know some people go crazy on that. I feel weird um doing that. It's also just not hygienic. Like it's not hygienic. Even if you go into the airplane bathroom and like wash your hands in the shit. I just, I don't know. I do my skincare before and after I'm on the plane. Um, oh, I always keep my water bottle. I keep my water bottle with me and I fill it up with ice water before the flight. Just like at a restaurant or in the lounge or whatever in the airport. And then I also keep a hand lotion. I keep hand lotion and cuticle oil with me at all times.

• 57:41Brittany Broski?

  I also have literally in my carry on alone, six chapsticks. Dude, this pocket, that pocket, that one, just in case, I cannot be without chapstick. Um, also if I'm doing like a quick trip where I have my actual carry on luggage uh that I've packed to kind of fit through TSA, then I'll put my personal item on there and then I'll put my purse in that. And I like that about the Cal pack because you can fit your actual purse inside of it if you pack accordingly. Because it's just big. I love it. I love it. And I wish Repetto would make one that's like durable and not, you know, they're so pretty. I love Repetto's stuff, but for that price point, it should be durable. It should be long lasting and you should make it in every colorway imaginable. So Repetto, listen to me.

• 58:27Brittany Broski?

  I'm telling you, bro, I could put you on. Okay, a small little update as well. I was just in Paris for Paris Fashion Week. Very much fun, very stunning and gorgeous. I did the Patou show and I did um, I got invited to a Jimmy Choo dinner. So much fun, so well done, just like, I love Patou. They're so, they had me back for a second year, which I'm so honored. But there's so much whimsy in everything that Patou does between the ruffles, between the colorways, between like,

• 59:03Brittany Broski?

  Who they invite to the shows, I feel so honored and it's, it's very feminine in a way that is classic, which is so, so, so me. I love a plaid. I love a, a well-fitted coat. I love a beautiful crop. They do the balloon sleeves so well with the ruching. Oh, it's just stunned. And their shoes amaze, jewelry amaze. I had a damn blast. And then Jimmy Choo invited me to a dinner where, uh, I got to, oh my God, me and Gigi Good got to catch up. Just so fun, so intimate and really cool. Like for me who, I mean, obviously I could talk about this for hours of growing up as a big fatty and still being considered

• 59:48Brittany Broski?

  kind of plus, you know, like I lost a bunch of weight. I went from a size 18 to a size 12. You're still seen as a big fatty in the fashion world. Sorry. And you're not like a size 12, even a size 18, I don't believe is a big fatty. Like it's just so, and even if you are a big fatty, period. There is nothing wrong with being a big fatty. Being demonized in the fashion industry and the fashion world, like that's a whole other separate discussion that I just, I can get into at a later date if y'all would like me to. But this feels very, it's just nice, you know, to be still the size that I am.

• 1:00:28Brittany Broski?

  I am not stick thin. I've got curves and to be invited and seen in these places. It's like, it's, it's good. It's great. And it feels like a step in the right direction through this like heroin chic thing that we're all living through again, where we're watching celebrities literally deteriorate in front of our eyes. It's like, what does the average woman look like? Like, isn't the average size of an American woman a size 12? I'm pretty sure it is. If not, then it's bigger than that. Especially in like recent years, it's just the access to healthy food and then the GLP ones and everything. It's just, there's a lot going on. So to be invited to these places where historically, maybe it's felt like your body is demonized or your body is other, you

• 1:01:13Brittany Broski?

  know, it just feels, I am honored in a lot of different ways to be invited to these rooms. And it's, it's a lot of fun too, because I love fashion and you know, you're, it, it's, it would be a lie to say that I Not just me, but any bigger woman or person feels excluded. And that's on purpose, you know? So to be in those rooms is, it's cool and I don't take it for granted. And it's a lot of fun. It's also fun to just talk with like-minded people and people from all over. You know, we're, here we are in Paris and I'm sitting next to Gigi Good and like, all these people that are just from such different walks, different walks of life. And to compare and come together for the love of like fashion and shoes.

• 1:01:58Brittany Broski?

  It's, it's just cool. I felt very much Kira Bradshaw. So yeah, that was a lot of fun. I am hoping that for March, I'll be back in Paris. And you know what's crazy is like, I don't, no one recognizes me in Paris, which is, it's like period. It's actually kind of period. So yeah, love Paris, love Paris Fashion Week. I also wanted to say that, oh, just something kind of as a downer to end the episode on, but I want to talk about it. Y'all know I went to Texas A&M. I'm wearing an A&M sweatshirt, literally not even on purpose.

• 1:02:43Brittany Broski?

  I historically have been very proud of A&M. You know, they, up until a few years ago, were making steps in the right direction and fostering an environment that any higher education should foster of academic discourse, of a safe space for curiosity. And A&M prides itself on creating future leaders. The steps and the, the, I don't know. Texas A&M is embarrassing. It's very embarrassing nowadays and they cower to the administration, to the, the right-wing fascist administration.

• 1:03:27Brittany Broski?

  They fire professors for teaching women and gender studies, anything centering DEI, anything centering religion or ethics, all of the things that are incre, have never been more important in recent history. Firing professors for teaching that, those.

• 1:03:46Brittany Broski?

  Points on a syllabus. And it's humiliating. It is humiliating to watch this happen. And all of this is in the midst of Texas A&M doing a rebrand called Force for Good. And this isn't, look, I understand what I'm doing by coming on this podcast and talking about it, but like, this is humiliating. I'm gonna, I'm gonna be around the world, wearing my Aggie ring, wearing Texas A&M merchandise. And that's the state of what's happening on campus is you are firing professors for talking about gender? In a women and genders, in a women and gender studies class.

• 1:04:28Brittany Broski?

  I mean, I'm like literally struggling for words. I'm so angry. And of course, this isn't, change happens on college campuses. College campuses, academia is where leaders are truly born. Educated protesters who are rebelling against the powers that be. That's how it should be. Cause they're armed with knowledge and it's not, I say this pretty much every fucking week. It's not by mistake that the administration at large is targeting research institutions and places of higher learning. It's not by mistake that they're targeting education.

• 1:05:12Brittany Broski?

  And not just colleges, everywhere. Putting the 10 commandments in classrooms. Oh, it's just like, where are the people resisting? So at A&M, there is a resistance happening, which I'm very, very proud of. And I'm, I'm watching it. And they have my full support and I'm just like, I watched this devastating video of this philosophy professor speaking in front of the academic building in the middle of campus, saying, "They are telling me, as a philosophy professor, I cannot teach Plato." Because Plato had ideas on there being more than two genders. This isn't even, it's not left wing, right wing, this, it's Plato.

• 1:05:56Brittany Broski?

  Like, one of the pillars of human philosophy, and you're going in and saying that Plato had it wrong? It doesn't even fucking matter, like, if we're going on that cellular of a level of what can and cannot be taught, that is cowardice. It is so fucking enraging to me that at a place like Texas A&M, a research institute, you are going in and censoring and policing what can and cannot be taught? Are you out of your gob? And it's one of those things where it's like you think that it won't happen to you. You think that, you see it in the news and it's like, oh, I would never have it. Yeah, and it's happening. It's happening now. Force for good, sure.

• 1:06:41Brittany Broski?

  Who, what good is that serving? Firing professors for teaching things that have actually never been more important to teach. I'm also thinking, you know, like, A&M, this is just me bitching now. A&M, donors and funding, all of it goes to the business school, to engineering, to agriculture, all these things that A&M is known for. Sure, great. I went to school, I attended class in a building that flooded every time it rained, that had black mold growing in the ceiling. Liberal Arts College. And it's like,

• 1:07:16Brittany Broski?

  you know. I've always, like, one of my dreams, one day, if I do this for long enough, like, when I'm in my 40s, I want to create, I want to give back to A&M and create a building and provide funding and scholarships, whatever, for the Liberal Arts College, the things that, like humanities and the arts, I, it actually is gonna make me emotional. Like, that's where the money should be going. In the age of AI and like, tech taking over, like, where is the humanity? And it's like, I'm watching this be, the flame is being extinguished,

• 1:07:58Brittany Broski?

  you know, for, it's, you're almost being told not to have those passions or not to explore those passions when that's what makes us. It's infuriating. So.

• 1:08:10Brittany Broski?

  I don't know, I'm at a crossroads now where I want to, that's where I want my money to go. And I don't want to give my money to a school like A and M at this point, like fucking figure it out. They've been through five presidents in the last five years. Get it together. Humiliating. I think it's also stupid as fuck to think that any college, any place of higher education would ever be right leaning. That's an academia is if you are educated, how would you ever be right wing? I just can't, it actually is so maddening to think about. I'm very frustrated with A and M.

• 1:08:48Brittany Broski?

  I'm frustrated with the attack on education and on censorship and on telling educated professionals with PhDs what they can and cannot teach.

• 1:09:00Brittany Broski?

  Thanks for listening, guys.

• 1:09:03Brittany Broski?

  Go watch the new YouTube video if you give a shit.

• 1:09:08Brittany Broski?

  And um, I really appreciate you listening and fuck ICE and fuck Donald Trump and fuck this entire administration. But I have hope, I cling to hope. Of course I have hope, you have to, there's no other option. This is such a period of growing pains and of the old dying out and the new being ushered in. And we have to make sure that what's being ushered in is not some diluted, distorted version of what freedom looks like. Or, or freedom, some are more equal than others. This Animal Farm bullshit, it's so terrifying to watch every single day. Oh, okay. Thanks for listening.

• 1:09:52Brittany Broski?

  Sorry, I got all riled up. I love you guys. Finally watched heated rivalry, hope you're happy. Needle review in the bag. I'll see you next week. Very exciting episode of Royal Court this week as well. So go check that out. Love y'all. Talk to you soon. Bye bye.

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