87: Gabagool & the French Revolution

This week on The Broski Report, Fearless Leader Brittany Broski discusses her Italian vacation, researches the circadian rhythm of birds & Italian dialects, and updates the nation on her book club. 👕 Get your merch here: https://broski.shop/ Follow The Broski Report: https://www.linktr.ee/broskireporthttps://www.tiktok.com/@broskireport https://instagram.com/broskireport Follow Brittany: https://www.tiktok.com/@brittany_broski https://www.tiktok.com/@brittanybroski https://instagram.com/brittany_broski https://youtube.com/brittany_broski Follow Royal Court: https://www.youtube.com/@royalcourt https://www.tiktok.com/@bbroyalcourt https://www.instagram.com/royalcourt https://www.twitter.com/bbroyalcourt Brought to You By: PDS Debt – Get your free debt assessment at https://pdsdebt.com/broski Shopify – Get your $1/mo trial at https://shopify.com/broski Rocket Money – Reach your financial goals at https://rocketmoney.com/broskireport Reproductive Resources: https://aidaccess.org https://plancpills.org https://Ineedana.com https://ineedana.com https://www.reprolegalhelpline.org/ https://heyjane.com LGBTQ+ Resources: https://Translifeline.org https://translifeline.org https://Glaad.org https://glaad.org https://Pflag.org https://pflag.org https://www.thetrevorproject.org/ Climate Resources: https://Oceanconservancy.org https://oceanconservancy.org https://Climateemergencyfund.org https://climateemergencyfund.org Some helpful credible resources/links to help Free Palestine: Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund - https://www.pcrf.net/ UNICEF - https://www.unicefusa.org/stories/helping-gazas-children-cope-trauma Doctors Without Borders - https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/secure/give-monthly-double-your-impact-search-onetime-reverse-mobile?ms=ADD2301U3U49&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=BRAND. DWB_CKMSF-BRAND. DWB-GS-GS-ALL-DWBBrand. E-BO-ALL-RSA-RSARefresh.1-MONTHLY&gclid=Cj0KCQjw6PGxBhCVARIsAIumnWZpQAMikxPIRiPMfAjYsJZ-eHiRQV2pw7tu2Jlo6YL8Gk_uaTSwH0MaAtFGEALw_wc https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/secure/give-monthly-double-your-impact-search-onetime-reverse-mobile?ms=ADD2301U3U49&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=BRAND. DWB_CKMSF-BRAND. DWB-GS-GS-ALL-DWBBrand. E-BO-ALL-RSA-RSARefresh.1-MONTHLY&gclid=Cj0KCQjw6PGxBhCVARIsAIumnWZpQAMikxPIRiPMfAjYsJZ-eHiRQV2pw7tu2Jlo6YL8Gk_uaTSwH0MaAtFGEALw_wc World Central Kitchen - https://wck.org/ World Health Organization - https://www.who.int/ Headcount - https://www.headcount.org/ IG ACCOUNTS TO FOLLOW: @eye.on.palestine @aljazeeraenglish @palestinianyouthmovement @byplestia @motaz_azaiza @impact CHAPTERS: 00:00 – Intro 01:57 – Italy Trip 05:35 – Drink of The Day 09:10 – Andrea Bocelli 10:28 – Learning Italian 21:13 – Birds 31:30 – Italian Dialects 51:53 – Book Club 59:00 – Outro #brittanybroski, #broski, #broskination, #broskireport, #italy, #redrising, #rome, #andreabocelli, #birds, #italian, #language, #booktok, #reading, #acotar, #throneofglass

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

• 0:05Speaker 00

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

• 0:14Brittany Broski?

  Cause I could be a freak all through the day, all through the day. That's not right. To the early morn. What's that fucking TikTok sound? And I could be a freak all through the day, all through the day. Do you know what I'm talking about?

• 0:33Speaker 02

  And I can be a freak until the day, until the day. And we can walk through the night to the early morn.

• 0:44Brittany Broski?

  This is on a constant loop in my fucking head.

• 0:49Brittany Broski?

  And I could be a freak all through the day, all through the day. It's not right. Hold on. I can get it right. Play it again.

• 0:59Speaker 02

  I'm a thing, yeah, I'm a hood, on a gangsta league.

• 1:03Brittany Broski?

  On a gangsta league.

• 1:07Brittany Broski?

  He's got that church wail. He's got that gospel wail. I cannot do it.

• 1:13Speaker 02

  Anytime of day, it's all good for me.

• 1:17Brittany Broski?

  All good for me.

• 1:21Speaker 02

  And I can be a freak until the day, until the day, the day.

• 1:28Brittany Broski?

  Wait, me really trying? All through the day. That was good. Who is that, by the way? Oh, it's I've I've watched him on on YouTube. What is the fucking name?

• 1:42Brittany Broski?

  Uh, Durand Bernard? I love it. I love it, y'all. Oh, my God. I love it, y'all. Hey, guys. Welcome back to the Broski Report. This week, we are actually time traveling, okay?

• 2:03Brittany Broski?

  Because if you're watching this right now, I am in Italy. If you're listening to this right now, as of the week of March 10th, I'm actually in Italy. So if you see me in Italy, mind of my business, I'm actually gonna be with my family. So we're doing a family vacation to Rome. We're actually doing the Orient Express, which is super fun. I have never, ever, never in a million years that I think I would be on the Orient Express. So it's, it's really fun because me and my dad love trains. Me and my, and my dad and my brother love trains. So naturally, we're gonna be doing the Orient Express into Rome or into Verona, actually. And then we're taking a car to Rome and then we're gonna, I'm going to live my red rising fantasy.

• 2:48Brittany Broski?

  Okay, my Greco-Roman Hellenistic Futurism fantasy. All, all in this little nugget up here. Because life is something that, stay with me, life is what you imagine it to be. Life is what I've created up here. And what I've chosen to see up here when I go to Rome, Italy is red rising. Okay, it's actually gonna be, what's the fucking name? It's actually gonna be the Phobos. Phobos? That's the moon. That's the moon that, no. What's the one they blow up? Ganymede? The duckyards of Ganymede. Where, where are my red rising bitches at? Guys, Cassius Allbalonas razor master class.

• 3:32Brittany Broski?

  Razor master course, steel sharpened steel. You guys don't get red rising the way I do. Holy shit. Okay, that uh is sort of my mindset going into my Italy trip. Of course, yes, I'm going to soak up all of the history. However, it's a bit tainted right now because a lot of uh my past year has been consumed by, genuinely, and I don't mean this is like, are you on TikTok? I've been thinking about the Roman Empire a lot. I watch a lot of National Geographic uh YouTube specials on the Roman Empire. Not even the Roman Empire. I watched one last night about the fall of ancient empires. So we discussed the Persian Empire. We discussed um Egypt.

• 4:17Brittany Broski?

  We discussed how there was at one point in uh in history.

• 4:23Brittany Broski?

  Egyptian and Greek cultures kind of lived simultaneously. And while I say simultaneously, I don't necessarily mean peacefully. Okay, again, I need a linguist in the corner and I need a historian in the corner to be like, eh, you're lying. And then I'll be like, and then I'll, I'll sit here in silence and I'll listen to him talk. And then I'll just regurgitate what he said. One of these days I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna be like, welcome to my home, sit in the corner and I'm just gonna talk. And if you find any incorrect information or I misspeak maybe, then just go ahead and jump in and correct me. If anyone knows any historians, uh, send them my way. Cause I, I'd like to employ them for a day on one of, one of these podcast episodes.

• 5:04Brittany Broski?

  Anyway, I thought it would be fun to sort of deep dive into some, I'm gonna practice some of my Italian sayings and phrases. Because recently, as we all know, I, I had this little stint where I said I was gonna learn, uh, I was gonna learn French. Okay, now, ask me if I've gotten anywhere on there. No, I have not made any progress on my French. So, oh, I forgot to tell you what I'm sipping on today. Here in my water, in my water, in my water is what I can only assume to be expired Liquid IV that was in my pantry because I ran out of Red Bull.

• 5:48Brittany Broski?

  I ran out of Red Bull and I leave today for my trip. So I'm not gonna go buy a bunch of groceries because that is wasteful. My fucking Red Bull ran out. So I, I had to go to my last resort. I had this, this capsule. I have a capsule in my pantry of emergency things if I have no food in the house. And guess what's in there? Canned tuna. Cause I usually always have gochujang and mayonnaise in the fridge. So I will make a spicy tuna with seaweed. That's a classic lunch in the broski household. I always have tuna. I always have butter beans. Great source of protein. Okay, you just chop up some pepperoncini. This is a recipe I got from Alyssa's Magic. Shout out. It's butter beans, it's pepperoncini's.

• 6:32Brittany Broski?

  Or banana peppers, if you will, and a little bit of apple cider vinegar and olive oil and salt, and that's literally it. And you mix it all up, bean salad, fucking yum. And I keep Liquid IV packets in my pantry at all times because sometimes I'm just super dehydrated. You know what I mean? Also, look, if we're talking like friends, I did a brand deal with them a while ago. They sent me a bunch of product. I'm still working through it. You know what I mean? So that is actually what's gonna be in here is their version of an energy drink Liquid IV. And I Googled it. Each one, each packet is 100mg of caffeine. In a Red Bull, it's about 110, 120mg caffeine in the sort of 12 ounce ones. And this is my second

• 7:16Brittany Broski?

  one. Cause I'm just, I'm telling y'alls, I have fuckered my system. We're fuckered. I tried out this new place recently. It's not new. It's new to me. Coffee bean and tea leaf. That's like an LA staple. Everyone knows about that place. I never go. I've never been. I went yesterday. I said, give me three shots of espresso with a little bit of hazelnut in it and a little bit of oat milk. And he said, sure. That shit had me jacked up. I was, I should clean my toilets. I should, I should scrub the walls. I should, I vacuumed every corner of my room. And well, the reason I did that, do you guys even

• 7:54Brittany Broski?

  give a fuck? I'm serious. Who gives a fuck? Who gives a fuck? Holy shit. Last night, I got my fucking vacuum because there was a big ass spider in my bathroom. And I am the man of the house. I am the patriarch. Okay. You're looking at the face. You're looking at the patriarch of the household. And that's just how it is. That's just how I've designed it to be. So yeah, I turned around and I was also naked. I was naked about to hop in the shower, big ass brown recluse. Naked, ran through my house, grabbed the vacuum, sucked him up. There is a graveyard of scary big spiders in my vacuum bag because I don't

• 8:39Brittany Broski?

  want to kill it. And I don't want to smush it. What if it's pregnant? Do spider have puss puss? Can spider get preggnart? Y'all remember those Reddit searches? Or those, those, well, no, what was that? Quora?

• 8:52Brittany Broski?

  You guys don't get me. Okay. What the fuck was I about to Google, dude? Seriously? And I can be a freak, go to the night, until the night.

• 9:05Brittany Broski?

  To the early morning. Okay. Oh, you know what? Actually, I've been practicing this. I've been practicing this for when I'm in Italy. Ready? Time to say goodbye. It's Andrea Bocelli.

• 9:42Brittany Broski?

  Wait, here's the actually Italian words. Con te partirò. And who performed at my wedding? Andrea Bocelli. Who performed at her wedding? Andrea Bocelli.

• 10:00Brittany Broski?

  What the fuck? Anyway. Sweating under my boobs challenge.

• 10:08Brittany Broski?

  Shot snot everywhere. Jesus Christ.

• 10:15Brittany Broski?

  Off the Liquid IV Energy Pack geeking. Um, I, I had two Liquid IV Energy Packs and now I'm geeking.

• 10:28Brittany Broski?

  Okay, here is the extent of my, my knowledge of Italian phrases. Ready?

• 10:35Brittany Broski?

  Buongiorno. Buongiorno. Buonasera. Arriverci. Do they do the R, the R roll like Spanish? Arriverci, arriverci. Arriverci, re, rerci, arriverci. Ciao, ciao Hila. Per favore, mi dispiace. How do you say, uh, I don't understand. No, non, non incuso, non.

• 11:04Brittany Broski?

  How to say "I don't understand" in Italiano? Non capisco. Oh, capisce? What the fuck is capisce? Capisce? No capisce. And I can be a freak until the day, until the day. Capisce is an informal pseudo-Italian slang term used to ask if someone understands. It can also be used as a threat.

• 11:32Brittany Broski?

  How it's used? You must use this knowledge for good, not evil, never for personal gain. Capisce? I'm not in the mafia, never was. Capisce? That's, I get it. What do you think? This is a stupid question, because here's my frame of reference, right? Actually, a lot of you, you young, young women in the comments could, could answer this. Also, by the way, young woman is fully encompassing, okay?

• 12:01Brittany Broski?

  As long as you're not a straight man, you're a young woman. You have the soft and gentle nature of what a young woman represents, okay? So do you know how like?

• 12:13Brittany Broski?

  Quebecois, right? Quebec is a province in Canada. They grow up speaking French as their first language. Correct me if I'm wrong. French and English are, are both, I guess, the national language? Let's Google it instead of just talking out of my ass.

• 12:32Brittany Broski?

  Official language of Quebec. French, French is the official language of Quebec. Only French has that status. French is the only common language of the Quebec Nation and constitutes one of the foundations of its identity and distinct culture. Now, is that because Quebec was a French colony? Was Quebec colonized by France? Yes, Quebec was colonized by France as part of New France. France claimed the area in 1535 and it remained a French colony until 1763. Then it became a British colony known as the Province of Quebec. Now, that makes total sense because Canada and Australia, and maybe New Zealand, are part of the British Commonwealth, okay?

• 13:18Brittany Broski?

  And was Australia a prison colony? Yes. And was Canada? No. So Quebec, they grow up speaking French. When? A person from Quebec goes to France, and this is what people have told me, okay? And they speak Quebecois French, which is essentially like a, I mean, it's a dialect. It's a form of French, right? The way that British English is different from American English is different from Australian English, you understand. When a Quebecois person goes to France and they speak French, the French person will respond in English because it's almost like this redneck version of French to them, that

• 14:03Brittany Broski?

  it's not a purist. So if you're not going to speak pure, I will speak back to you in English. That is what my Canadian friends have told me. And first of all, fucked up, right? Second of all, ugh. Third of all, I am trying to relate this to whatever that, and I'm sure there's a term for it, I'll Google it. That generation of Italian immigrants that came to, you know, New York, Jersey, wherever, through the ports, what's the famous one in New York? Ellis Island. Ellis Island in New York was the main immigration port for Italians and other immigrants from Europe from 1892 to 1924. That's what I'm talking about.

• 14:47Brittany Broski?

  That generation of like Italian-Americans, a very interesting form of English and Italian came from that group, that specific region and that specific time period. And I want to know, is there a word for that language? The way that like Quebecois is used to refer to French spoken in Quebec? I want to know, the Italian that was spoken in those early days of like trying to acclimate to American culture and with that and with any immigration to America comes this kind of, and I'm speaking historically, loss of culture, right?

• 15:29Brittany Broski?

  Like you abandon it, I won't call it whitewashing, I'm going to call it like Americanizing, the Americanization of immigrants during this time period.

• 15:40Brittany Broski?

  It was almost a intentional firsthand thing to not be, you know what I mean? And the time has changed now where of course, culture is embraced, or at least we're moving towards that where it's cool to have a culture because what we're realizing is America is void of of culture. And what I mean by that is a distinct, well, actually, hold on, let's talk about this. There are aspects of American culture that are distinctly American. Right? When you go to Europe, when you go to Asia, when you go anywhere and you ask a local, what do you think about Americans? Like, what is a standout quality of Americans? A lot of them will say they're very friendly, they smile a lot, and they're loud.

• 16:26Brittany Broski?

  Okay, there are worse qualities generally that Americans could be described as, and they are described as them racist, fat, right? All those things. Where those are reflective of we are such a young country, truly, like in the grand scheme of things, we are such a young country. When you think of cities like Rome, Paris, London, Shanghai, all of these cities are centuries old. And by that, I mean like 1200s is around the time where we started to recognize it as the city that that we know it as today. You know what I mean? Especially when you think of Rome or London as cities that were under the Roman Empire, like

• 17:11Brittany Broski?

  old as fuck. We went, I was in London recently, we went into a building that had been there since 1066. That shit does not exist in America. So it's hard to compare, you know, culturally speaking, the things that determine why there is a cultural practice, like Ireland has such a deep, rich history that goes back so long. A language, you know, all these things, America doesn't really have that. And while we have distinct characteristics and features, I wouldn't say that there's one universal American culture. Correct me if I'm wrong, right? I probably am wrong. But the beautiful thing about America is it's a melting pot

• 17:55Brittany Broski?

  of cultures from all over the world. It's the American dream, right? Anyone can come to America and become an American and whatever that means, freedom to do X, Y, and Z. But in in that, you know, Especially with a history of slavery that is really not that far removed. And arguably, you know, slavery still exists in America today in the prison system. Whole other conversation. This sort of context makes conversations like these around language specifically, to bring it back to language, very, very interesting to me because it was an attempt to Americanize, but not fully let go of that culture.

• 18:36Brittany Broski?

  And so you're left with this cool half and half, you know, where you get capisce. And regionally, that's understood as the same or a similar meaning to non capisco. Non capisco. Non capisco in Italy. So it's, it's very, I love stuff like that, especially, I think, the biggest and coolest example in my eyes is the whole city of New Orleans or just Louisiana in general. So many different countries have colonized or, you know, put their flags into the state of Louisiana and what comes from that is such an interesting blend of culture.

• 19:17Brittany Broski?

  When you walk down the street, you know, in Bourbon Street, that is not, while it's funny, you know, that people get drunk and it's a drinking street, the same way Sixth Street is in Austin, Bourbon is actually from the Bourbon Dynasty, which was the Spanish monarch, right? Bourbon Dynasty or Spanish or French, Bourbon, France. The House of Bourbon was a royal dynasty that ruled France, Spain, Naples, Sicily, and Parma. I'm so smart. They were one of the most important ruling dynasties in Europe. The Bourbon Dynasty originated in France in the 16th century as a branch of the Capetian Dynasty. The dynasty's name comes from the Bourbon region of France.

• 20:02Brittany Broski?

  The Bourbons also ruled Navarre in Spain. So when you think of this, especially as cities and tourist destinations that we know today, this really isn't that long ago. You know what I mean? Like their rule in France ended in 1848. So when you talk about Bourbon Street, it's interesting because this is the French Bourbon Dynasty, but it'll say Calle de Bourbon, Bourbon Street. It's in Spanish. I love that bullshit. I love that shit. History's all around you if you know where to look. History's everywhere if you just have a researcher's eye. Nuts. Yeah, I thought that was really, really interesting.

• 20:46Brittany Broski?

  Okay, so, eh, meh. I had some stuff that I wanted to Google with you guys because what would a Brosky Report episode be without me Googling shit that I don't know? And the first one, completely unrelated to anything, but I was just thinking about this last night. How do birds know when it's night-night time? How do birds know when it's time go night-night? Like, they stop chirping and they, they rise with the early dawn. Now, I know that nature is wonderful and beautiful and magical and symmetrical and everything is for a purpose and everything exists in harmony and balance, right? Why do birds not chirp when it's time go night-night?

• 21:31Brittany Broski?

  Why don't birds sing at night? Birdbot. Should we, should we hit birdbot.com? Birdforum. What time do birds go sleep and stop singing?

• 21:47Brittany Broski?

  Welcome to Birdforum, the internet's largest birding community with thousands of members from all over the world. The forums are dedicated to wild birds, birding, binoculars and equipment and all that goes with it. Hell fucking yeah. Okay, this user writes, "Hello, I am from Poland. I need to record the sound of a stream in a forest. Since I need pure sound of falling water without birds in the background, I'd like to know, what hour do birds stop singing? I do not want to go to a forest at night, so maybe birds stop singing in the evening when it's light. Thanks in advance for your answer." Now, someone replied and said, "It depends on the species." Duh. Right, eh, hey, everyone knows that.

• 22:29Brittany Broski?

  "Some songbirds, especially during the breeding season, sing well into the night. Others, particularly hole nesters." Generally, I'll show you a hole nester.

• 22:40Brittany Broski?

  Generally stop singing long before dark. Most owls, of course, sing mainly at night. Okay, let's hit this AI overview. Most birds don't chirp at night because they get nervous.

• 22:55Brittany Broski?

  Most birds don't chirp at night because they have performance anxiety. Oh, okay, that makes sense. No, it's because they're primarily diurnal. What the fuck? Diurnal. Meaning? And how the fuck do you say that?

• 23:13Speaker 03

  Diurnal.

• 23:13Speaker 04

  Diurnal.

• 23:16Brittany Broski?

  I have diurnal about once a week. I have diurnal after I eat spicy food. Speaking of which, I had some of the worst stomach cramps I've ever had in my fucking life about two nights ago. I mean, I was up at 4:00 AM. Heating pad on my stomach. Took a Tylenol. I was doing breathing exercises. I couldn't stand up straight. I've never had that happen to me in my life. And what did I eat that night? Spicy chicken. And when I had Googled it and I said, what the fuck's wrong with me? Why is my upper abdomen cramping? They said, well, it could be two things. One, you ate spicy food. Two, it's stomach cancer. And I said, well, time will tell. Luckily, I think I just had a diurnal. Okay.

• 24:00Brittany Broski?

  I had to go to the turtleneck and have diurnal.

• 24:07Brittany Broski?

  Yeah, that's two poop jokes so far. We are young. Hey, there's a fire in our soul. We go big or go home together.

• 24:24Brittany Broski?

  And Kyle Gordon's going on tour and he's coming to LA. Yeah, you bet your fucking ass I'm going to that show. I would miss a Kyle Gordon show for the life of me. We are young. Hey. He's so fucking funny. Diurnal. Of or during the day?

• 24:43Speaker 03

  Diurnal.

• 24:44Speaker 04

  Diurnal.

• 24:46Brittany Broski?

  Why don't birds sing at night? Because they are of or during the day. Meaning they are active during the day.

• 24:54Brittany Broski?

  Sometimes I think back to elementary school or whenever the fuck I was in class. And when teachers were like, "Don't ask me, ask a friend." I get it. Because that was as simple, if I would have just kept reading one more sentence, I would have answered my own question.

• 25:13Brittany Broski?

  Instead of stopping, every time I'm like, "What that mean?" Just spit everywhere, by the way. "What that mean?" I Google it. And then context clues are a beautiful thing. "Don't ask me, ask a friend." "Before you ask me, make sure you've asked two friends." They were serious about that shit too, and I get it. "Oh my god, if I was a teacher, I would shoot my kids with water guns." Sorry, that sentence started way different than, you probably thought it was going somewhere. "I would shoot my kids with water guns." If you raise your hand and ask me a stupid question, boom, water to the face. Okay, now sit down, use your resources, and if you really can't figure it out, ask me again.

• 25:55Brittany Broski?

  Right, it's harmless. If you stand up, "Okay, what does Dyerno mean?"

• 26:02Brittany Broski?

  Because, look it up, ask a friend. Keep reading the sentence.

• 26:08Brittany Broski?

  You know what one of my favorite parts of history class was? Was getting into, and this is when I realized, okay, learning can be fun. It's the fucking tea, girl. When the royals would fight, or like any story of revolution, when I learned about the, um, French Revolution, when we learned about the French Revolution, I was like, "This is tea."

• 26:34Brittany Broski?

  Wait, wait, why do they low-key kind of eat, why is it literally tea? Why is this drama get in part four? Okay, why is no one talking about the fact that the French Revolution was literally fucking tea?

• 26:49Brittany Broski?

  Um, no, queen, that's actually gonna be the American Revolution, because they threw tea in the harbor, like...

• 27:02Brittany Broski?

  Sometimes I see a vision of my true self. And she's floating somewhere up high. And she is a vision of golden light. Yet she is shackled by her wrists and her ankles to this version of me. She is, she is trying to get away and she's shackled and weighed down by iron chains of this version of me. Where, where I'm sitting on this podcast like, okay, why was the French Revolution low-key tea? We are young. Hey, there's a fire in our soul. You guys are not paying attention.

• 27:47Brittany Broski?

  If you, everyone clap three times. Okay, and if you didn't clap, do it with me now. One, two, three. Get up. Pay attention. You've been slacking off. We're learning about why birds don't sing at night. And say it with me, because they are diurnal.

• 28:07Speaker 04

  Diurnal.

• 28:09Brittany Broski?

  Because the Google pronunciation always says it's so fucking sensual.

• 28:12Speaker 04

  Diurnal.

• 28:14Brittany Broski?

  Meaning they are active during the day and sleep at night. So their singing behavior is mostly concentrated around dawn and dusk, when they are most active in searching for food and mates. However, a few species are nocturnal and will vocalize at night, like owls and whippoorwills? No, I thought a whippoorwill was a tree. Am I, whip or will? It's a bird! Oh, that's kinda cute. Eastern whippoorwill. Whip-poor-will. Now, why the fuck is it named that? The whippoorwill got its name from the male's familiar call, a three-note series that sounds like it's wailing. Whipoorwill. Oh. Global warming threatens the birds we love.

• 29:01Brittany Broski?

  Okay, this is from fucking Facebook. Okay, enough about that. I want to look up, is there a name for the English spoken by Italian immigrants? Whoa. Sic- Siculish? Siculish is the macaronic Sicilianization of English language terms and phrases by immigrants from Sicily to the US in the early 20th century. The fir- the term Sic- Siculish, however, is rather recent, being first recorded in 2005.

• 29:39Brittany Broski?

  Etanglise, which is also known as Englitaliano, or in the United Kingdom, Britannian, refers to multiple hybrid terms, hybrid types of language based on Italian and English. There are numerous portmanteau terms that have been used to describe and label this phenomenon. This is what the fuck I'm talking about. Now, portmanteau is also a great word. Portmanteau. Portmantou.

• 30:06Speaker 03

  Portmanteau.

• 30:07Brittany Broski?

  Portmanteau. A large trunk or suitcase? Or a word blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two others. For example, motel, from motor and hotel. What? Or brunch, from breakfast and lunch. Podcast is a portmanteau, a made-up word coined from a combination of the words iPod and broadcast. No way!

• 30:35Brittany Broski?

  iPod and broadcast. Don't ever tell me you don't learn something from this podcast. Damn, is portmanteau a French word? Yes, the word portmanteau comes from the French words porter, to carry, and manteau, cloak. It originally referred to a suitcase with two compartments for carrying coats and other clothing. Is Netflix a portmanteau?

• 30:58Brittany Broski?

  Internet and Flix, yes! Is ginormous a portmanteau? Yes, gigantic and enormous, ginormous! Turkey duck chicken, turducken, is cheeseburger a portmanteau? Burger can produce a word referring to seemingly any noun between two halves of a round bun. Baconburger, blackburger, turkeyburger. In fact, it's so liberated from the original word hamburger that it's also a word in its own right. Is Velcro a portmanteau? Velcro was developed as a portmanteau of the French words velours, or velvet, and crochet, or hook. Wow, this is crazy. This is absolutely crazy, bruh.

• 31:43Brittany Broski?

  Okay, it, I wonder what it's called? What is Italian-English called in, on the East Coast? Oh, just American-Italian. While Italian-English is widely used, there isn't a single universally accepted term for this dialect. The specific Italian-influenced English spoke on the East Coast can vary depending on the region, with New York and New Jersey having notable differences. Linguists sometimes use the term "ethnolekt" to describe a variety of English spoken by a specific ethnic group, which applies to Italian-English. How cool.

• 32:23Brittany Broski?

  How capicola became gabagool, the Italian-New Jersey accent explained. Mozzarella became something like muzdel. Ricotta became rigote. Prosciutto became prosciutto. There's a mangling of the language in an instantly identifiable way. I love this, my heart just started racing. I love this shit, dude! I need to go back to school. Final syllables are deleted. Certain consonants are swapped with others. Certain vowels are mutated in certain places. Most immigrant groups in the US retain certain words and phrases from the old language, even if the modern population can't speak it. But for people outside those groups, and even often inside them, it's next to impossible

• 33:06Brittany Broski?

  to pick out a specific regional accent in the way a Jewish-American says "challa", or a Korean-American says "ge-gang".

• 33:15Brittany Broski?

  How can someone who doesn't speak the language possibly have a regional accent? Yet Italian Americans do. It's even been parodied. On an episode of Kroll Show, comedian Nick Kroll's character Bobby Bottleservice, a Mike the Situation Sorrentino type, describes his lunch in this thick accent, eliminating the final syllable of each item. "Capocol," he says, pointing at "Capicola." "Mordedel," he says, as the camera pans over a thin, pale arrangement of "Mordedella." "Cocacole," he finishes, as the camera moves over to a glass of Coke. "Capicola," made famous in its mutation by The Sopranos, gets even more mutated for comedic effect on The Office, where it becomes "Gaba Ghoul." Now, I did not know The Office had made "Gaba Ghoul." I spoke to a few...

• 33:59Brittany Broski?

  Okay, this is also from atlasobscura.com, which I fucking love Atlas Obscura. If you ever are visiting a new city and you want something weird or fun or silly to do, go to atlasobscura.com. They'll give you the recommendations for, like, the best museums. I just realized how fast I'm speaking and how speaking any language is a feat of...

• 34:18Brittany Broski?

  Sorry, I'm like having an existential moment right now, if you guys don't mind. Like, language and how fucking different languages anywhere you go. And you want to know something I learned in my sociology class way, way back when? I took it in a college summer course in, like, 2017. One shared commonality amongst every single culture on this planet is not what you would think it is, which is, you know, language, or sayings, or phrases, or metaphors. It's not that. It is funeral rites. In every single culture, we have a practice for how we honor the dead. Isn't that beautiful? Okay, I'm going back.

• 35:01Brittany Broski?

  Uh, yeah, dude, this shit makes me like... I'm like up here, looking down. Damn, the liquid I be is talking to me. Hold on, it's whispering to me. Sorry, sorry.

• 35:13Brittany Broski?

  Hold on, I'm getting messages from the gods, one second.

• 35:17Brittany Broski?

  Okay, I'll tell them. I think that humans are divine creatures and at the same time very of the earth. My heart's beating 100, 175 beats per second. I think that humans are so intriguing and it makes it even more sad and barbaric that we are so violent towards each other, that we have so much hate in our hearts for each other, when like we serve a higher, not serve, but we are destined for, you know, a higher purpose of like achievement and progress, like the bounds of what the human mind can

• 35:58Brittany Broski?

  create, we won't know, because we're too busy being racist.

• 36:06Brittany Broski?

  Anyway, I spoke to a few linguists and experts on Italian-American culture, anyway, capo gho, to figure out why a kid from Patterson, New Jersey, who doesn't speak Italian, would earnestly ask for a taste of muzze dell. The answer takes us way back through history and deep into the completely chaotic world of Italian linguistics. "One thing that I need to tell you, because this is something that is not clear even for linguists, let alone the layperson, the linguistic situation in Italy is quite complicated", says Maria Paola di Imperio, a professor in the linguistics department at Aix-Marcelle University, who was born in Naples and studied in Ohio before moving to France. Crazy. "The situation is so complicated that the terms used to describe pockets of language

• 36:51Brittany Broski?

  are not widely agreed upon. Some use language, some use dialect, some use accent, and some use variation. Linguists like to argue about the terminology of this kind of thing." The basic story is this: Italy is a very young country made up of many very old kingdoms, awkwardly stapled together to make a patchwork hole. Before 1861, these different kingdoms, Sardinia, Rome, Tuscany, Venice, Sicily, they were called different things at the time, but roughly correspond to those regions. Now, those were basically different countries. Its citizens didn't speak the same language, didn't identify as countrymen, sometimes were even at war with each other.

• 37:31Brittany Broski?

  The country was unified over the period from around 1861 until World War I. And during that period, the wealthier northern parts of the newly constructed Italy imposed unfair taxes and basically annexed the poorer southern parts. As a result, southern Italians ranging from just south of Rome all the way down to Sicily fled in huge numbers to other countries, including the United States. About 80% of Italian-Americans are of southern Italian descent. That's crazy. About 80% of Italian-Americans are of southern Italian descent, says Fred Gardafi, a professor of Italian-American Studies at Queens College. Ships from Palermo went to New Orleans, and the ships from Genoa and Naples went to New York.

• 38:16Brittany Broski?

  They spread from there, but the richest pockets of Italian-Americans aren't far from New York City. They're clustered in New York City, Long Island, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and in and around Philadelphia. Yet those Italians, all from southern Italy and all recent immigrants in close proximity to each other in the US, wouldn't necessarily consider themselves countrymen. That's because each of the old Italian kingdoms had their own, well, d'Imperio, who is Italian, calls them dialects. But others refer to them in different ways. Basically, the old Italian kingdoms each spoke their own languages that largely came from the same family tree, slightly, but not all that much closer than the Romance languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese.

• 38:59Brittany Broski?

  The general family name for these languages is Italo-Dalmatian. Dalmatian, it's probably not Dalmatian. Dalmatian, it turns out, refers to Croatia. The dog is from there, too. Dalmatians are from Croatia? Martin Hamza. Martin, Martin and Hamza. They were not all mutually comprehensible and had their own external influences. Calabrian, for example, is heavily influenced by Greek. I love their shit! Just yelled so loud it bounced off the metal in here. And I, it was like this shing after I did that. Damn.

• 39:45Brittany Broski?

  Studying sociolinguistics off the liquid IV pineapple yuzu energy drink.

• 39:52Brittany Broski?

  When you start tweaking so bad, you start studying sociolinguistics? Like? Calabrian, for example, is heavily influenced by Greek, thanks to a long Greek occupation and interchange. In the northwest, near the border with France, Piedmont, with its capital of Turin, spoke a language called Piedmontese, which is sort of French-ish. Sicilian, very close to North Africa, had a lot of Arabic qualities to it. I use the past tense for these because these languages are dying quickly. "Dialects do still exist, but they're spoken mainly by old people," says D'Imperio. Sicilian put up more of a fight than most. During unification, the northern Italian powers decided that having a country that speaks about a dozen different languages

• 40:37Brittany Broski?

  would pose a bit of a challenge to their efforts. So they picked one and called it Standard Italian and made everyone learn it. The one that they picked was Tuscan, and they probably picked it because it was the language of Dante, the most famous Italian writer. You can see why calling these languages dialects is tricky. Standard Italian is just one more dialect, not the base language, which Calabrian or Piedmontese riffs on, which is kind of the implication. That is nuts! Yeah, it really is that. I mean, English is English because some king was like, "And now everybody's gonna speak English, but I don't give a fuck." Okay? And now, as of right now, everyone speaks English because that's what I speak. And everyone was like, "Fine." Well, actually, they weren't like, "Oh, fine. It's either succumb or die."

• 41:23Brittany Broski?

  So. Standard Italian has variations, like any other language, which we'll call accents. Someone from Sicily would have a Sicilian accent, but when speaking Standard Italian, a person from Milan will hopefully be able to understand them, because at a basic level, they'll be using a language with the same structure and a vocab that is mostly identical. Yeah, we know that. But this gets weird because most Italian Americans can trace their immigrant ancestors back to that time between 1861 and World War I, when the vast majority of Italians, such as Italy even existed at the time, wouldn't have spoken the same language at all. And hardly any of them would be speaking the northern Italian dialect that would eventually

• 42:05Brittany Broski?

  become standard Italian. Linguists say that there are two trajectories for a language divorced from its place of origin. I need to linguistics studies near me. If I enroll myself in University of California, Long Beach to study linguistics and I can't do the podcast for like six months, you guys gonna be mad at me? My semester starts soon. Okay? I can't keep up the podcast and study sociolinguistics. I'm gonna, I'm gonna look into that. Do people even give a fuck about an associate's degree anymore? If I get an associate's degree in linguistics. I think it's also, there are so many different ways you can study linguistics of like, obviously

• 42:48Brittany Broski?

  you can just learn a new language, which I remember this and I was like, what the fuck? When I was in college, my, one of, one of my Spanish professors, who was a white dude from Ohio, spoke five languages. And he was, while he was teaching our Spanish phonetics class, he himself was studying, it was so cute. He'd be like, okay, guys, I'm not having office hours today, so just email me if you need him because I have to run to my Romanian class. I need, I, I need to be, I need to speak to a gay person. I need to speak to a gay person. That's how I feel, but I need to speak to like a college professor. I need to speak to a professor. I need to speak to a professor. I can't do office hours. I'm running late to my Romanian class. He was probably like 56.

• 43:30Brittany Broski?

  I love that. It's gonna make me cry. Never stop learning. There is so, this life is so rich and fucking cool. There's so many cool things to do. And we're on TikTok all day.

• 43:46Brittany Broski?

  Okay.

• 43:48Brittany Broski?

  Linguists say that there are two trajectories for a language divorced from its place of origin. It sometimes dies out quickly, people assimilate, speak the most popular language wherever they live, stop teaching their children the old language. But sometimes, the language has a firmer hold on its speakers than most, and refuses to entirely let go. The Italian dialects are like that. Period. I grew up speaking English and Italian dialects from my family's region of Puglia, says Gardafe, Gardaf. And when I went to Italy, very few people could understand me. So she grew up speaking English and Italian dialects from Puglia. Even the people in my parents' region, they recognized that I was speaking as if

• 44:29Brittany Broski?

  I was a 70-year-old man when I was only 26 years old. Italian-American Italian is not at all like standard Italian. Instead, it's a construction of the frozen shards left over from languages that don't even really exist in Italy anymore, with minimal intervention from modern Italian. That is crazy! Y'all don't even give a fuck how crazy that is! You know what? To sort of contextualize this sort of phenomenon in America, there are, the southern dialects are dying. Southern dialects are a direct, you can trace them back to the English settlers who came, uh, once the colonies were set up. And there is

• 45:13Brittany Broski?

  a very clear connection between the sort of high society British received pronunciation to when you get down to the South, it's a little similar in terms of vowels and the lilt to it. It's a very, uh, clear, I'm about to say this word, but I don't mean it, um, de-evolution of the English language. Okay, I don't mean that in a negative sense, but more so just like this, this change. It was morphed and molded into something way different because of a similar thing like this, where all these different people from, uh, different backgrounds, and if you've been in America for longer at the time, and you're hearing

• 45:55Brittany Broski?

  that all day, you'll lose your accent. I mean, it happens to everyone. But, there used to be this guy I followed on TikTok, and I wish I could remember his name, where he was from Mississippi.

• 46:07Brittany Broski?

  And he was probably 24 and he was raised by his grandparents. And so when you think about that, his grandparents are probably in their late 70s, early 80s. And that means they were born in the 40s, uh, and grew up in the 50s, 60s and maybe even early 70s. Now, when you think about the deep south in America, an accent like that, surely you would think is preserved and there are still those small towns where everyone sounds like that. And it is true to a certain extent, but it's definitely dying out with our grandparents' generation. And it kind of makes me sad, but at the same time, there are so many fucking horrific worldviews that are, that come with that accent. That's just like, okay.

• 46:51Brittany Broski?

  But he was saying that his accent and his grandparents' accents are classified as a, an endangered, regional dialect. And it is, uh, in like historical, he did some work with some historical society in Mississippi. I, I believe it was Mississippi where he went in and like recorded some of just him speaking or reading certain lines. And it's to, uh, preserve that dialect, which is so fun and cool that we have that technology now. Because imagine, I mean, when you get those videos on TikTok or YouTube or whatever of like, this is what so and so sounded like in 1891.

• 47:33Brittany Broski?

  I love that shit and it's so rare and I don't know if it's, you know, to be trusted or not. I digress. But the fact that we have the forethought to do that now of like, we recognize that, first of all, small town America is dying. Everything is becoming big and with the introduction of things like, you know, Amazon and all these things, the reliance on a community or a small town is dying. It's going away. And there are two sides of that, you know, where we're more connected than we've ever been. And the other side of that is we do not rely on community at all.

• 48:14Brittany Broski?

  I mean, it, not even closely to the way that my grandparents did when they were growing up. So. I've talked about that on this podcast before of like, you know, I don't know my neighbors, shit like that. Anyway, that accent, the fact that even in America, one of the youngest countries, we have accents that are dying out is just very, it makes me sad, right? But at the same time, as those die out, new accents are evolving. And while it sounds funny, it's very real that this influencer accent is a real thing. And it's very closely tied to, you know, the valley girl accent, whatever, just this sort of west coast thing, this west coast development of the regional

• 48:58Brittany Broski?

  dialect. But yeah, I've seen some people on YouTube be like, what is the influencer accent? And like, let's study it in an academic setting. So how, how things are always happening. Things, people, always happening. Okay. Now, how the fuck did I get on this when I was Googling, why don't birds sing at night? Like, are you serious? Okay, I'm gonna pause and we'll come back next week and I'm gonna finish my Google searches. But in the meantime, I wanted to update y'all on, I started a new book that is, me and Drew are book clubbing. Thank you. Thank you.

• 49:38Brittany Broski?

  We're book clubbing this fucking Viking smut book. Yeah. Yeah, dude. It's called From Fucking Ash and Until the Dawn. It's called A Fate Inked in Blood by Danielle L. Jensen. It's a Viking book, and it's nutso, dude. I, there's, sometimes I get like bogged down by how much I don't know. Anyone else, anyone else feel that way? Like, I'm reading this book and she's talking about

• 50:20Brittany Broski?

  all these Norse gods and I did not know that Balder, as in Baldur's Gate 3, was a god. And it's making complete sense now that I'm thinking about it. Balder was a god. We know the ones like Odin and Thor and Tyr and Hylend and all these ones. Like, I've, I've heard those before. And is the majority of it through Marvel movies? Yeah, it is. Okay, I don't give a fuck. Or is it through God of War soundtrack? Yeah, it is. Ragnarok.

• 50:50Brittany Broski?

  Anyway, it's shit like that where I know about it from references in pop culture, but it's this phenomenon where I only know about it through that. I'm not familiar with the original legend, or tale, or lore, or mythology of the Norse mythology. It's more so I know only about it through pop culture references to it. You get me? You get where I'm going? So, reading this book, which is clearly a fantasy book, it's, you know, fiction. Very interesting. And I was intrigued in the same way by when I read Red Rising. He had a super intense understanding, like an academic understanding, as you should,

• 51:33Brittany Broski?

  of all these Roman historical figures, and military leaders and whatever, and all the gods as well. Like, it was very clear that he did his research in terms of how the planets are named, like, how the Roman-esque society was structured, whatever. It's very clear in this one, too. And again, maybe I'm speaking out of my ass, because I don't know jack shit about Norse mythology, but I'm loving it. I'm loving it so far. It's definitely giving, like, "I'm just a girl, and I have this power, and I need a man to help me realize the full extent of my power." Like, it's that, you know? So, it's a delicate balance now when I approach a fantasy book, because I've read so fucking many,

• 52:17Brittany Broski?

  where it's like, I want that Aelyn Galathenius Throne of Glass, like, her and Rowan Whitethorn, their balance, I've never read anything like it. And you would think that, you know, Rysand and Feyre from Ectar is that. No, it's a bit different, because Aelyn and Rowan, Rowan never, ever, tried to impede or step on Aelyn's freedom.

• 52:45Brittany Broski?

  Aelyn made decisions for herself. Rowan respected all of those decisions. And it was never this like, you're a woman and I'm the man and I know you can do it, but I'm still gonna protect you, okay? Even if it's not what you wanted. Like, and that's the Tamlin of it all, okay? Fuck all that. I fucking hate that dynamic. The dynamic between Aelyn and Rowan, to me, is the perfect, like, it's how a relationship should be, man. It's how a relationship should be. So, reading these fantasy books is fun, but I'm already kind of calling out, like, the guy is kind of older than her. She's the novice where like, ah, I was just thrown into this and I have this power and these people have a use for my power.

• 53:29Brittany Broski?

  And he's the son of some like, you know, evil king, but he's good. But he's not that good. It's, okay, fine. Like, of course I'm gonna finish it to the end and eat up every fucking page. Yeah, I'm gonna read it. But in terms of dynamic, I just... Throne of Glass, that Throne, the Throne of Glass series is a series that just stuck with me. And in that, on that note, I need to read Game of Thrones, okay? Stanley's been up my fucking hole about reading Game of Thrones. Because it's like the book. It's the book. It's the fantasy series. So, it's on my list. It's just, like, taking that on, it's so many fucking books. And who am I? Throne of Glass was eight books. So, it's not like I can't do it.

• 54:13Brittany Broski?

  It's not like I'm not interested. It's, and it's also, you know, with Game of Thrones, you already have a jumping off point because of the show. Like, I already have faces to, you know what I mean? It's, it's on my, it's on my infinitely to read list. Oh, my God, I read thirty books last year. How crazy is that? I read thirty books. Go me. Go me, dude.

• 54:37Speaker 04

  Okay. Um, I think that'll pretty much do it for me this week. So, like, thanks for listening. Thanks for tuning in. You guys are seriously, like, so awesome.

• 54:54Brittany Broski?

  That's the influencer accent. Got ready with me to end the podcast today on the Broski Report.

• 55:03Brittany Broski?

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• 55:06Brittany Broski?

  Keep your eyes peeled. Y'all don't even, hold on, can I just like, let me brief you guys for a second. There are a few things happening later this month, and I mean in the next two weeks, that are going to, you are going to freak the fuck out in terms of what Broski Productions is pushing out into the universe, okay? You've been warned. Know that.

• 55:35Brittany Broski?

  That's all I'm gonna say on that. If you want podcast merch, go to broski.shop. And I'll leave you with that and I will see you next week, okay? Loving y'all, be good, be safe, bye.