91: I AM OFFICIALLY IRISH

This week on The Broski Report, Fearless Leader Brittany Broski shares her new obsession with the film Sinners, discusses the social activism of Irish rap group Kneecap, and updates the nation’s 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: Rocket Money – Reach your financial goals: https://rocketmoney.com/broskireport Hungryroot – Get 40% off at https://hungryroot.com/broskireport with code BROSKI Songs of the Week: The Bell by Yeat Emergence by Sleep Token Worst Behavior by kwn Do What I Say by kwn STREET SWEEPER by Gunna & Future Anything by The Band Sports Sinners Soundtrack 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 01:12 – Health Update 02:32 – Sinners 13:11 – Kneecap & Irish Liberation 27:50 – Beautiful Creatures 34:10 – Book Club 53:12 – Self Love 55:16 – Orville Peck on Broadway 58:16 – Songs of the Week 1:00:08 – Sinners Cont. 1:05:26 – Outro #brittanybroski, #broski, #broskination, #broskireport, #sinners, #michaelbjordan, #ireland, #kneecap, #beautifulcreatures, #booktok, #fantasy, #romance, #romantasy, #orvillepeck, #broadway, #cabaret

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• 0:00Brittany Broski?

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• 0:41Speaker 01

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

• 0:50Brittany Broski?

  Rocky road to doubling, one, two, three, four, five. Hunt the hare and turn around the rocky road and all the way to double and rock for lolita. Guys, get up. Get the fuck up. We are so back. Hunt the hare and turn around the rocky road to doubling. All the way to doubling. Fuck you. There are so many things to be said, so many things that I will try to get to in this episode. My God, I've been gone for two weeks. What have y'all done without me? Seriously, be honest. Have y'all missed me? Did you miss me bad? If the answer is no, keep it to your fucking self. I missed you guys. It's

• 1:30Brittany Broski?

  been two weeks plus. Guess who had pancreatitis? Me. Guess who did a little time share staycation at Cedar Sinai? Me. What the fuck? Like, I feel 65 years old. I'm good now. I am all good now. Hallelujah. Amen. He is risen. He is good. Happy late Easter. Yeah, I had pancreatitis. Here's what, here's the long and short of it all. I put a whole bag of jelly beans up my ass. Basically, they removed my gallbladder a month ago, right? Because I had a bunch of gallstones causing a blockage. Well, a little fucker was left behind. A gallstone was left behind in my bile duct. Okay, my, the bile duct helps bring bile

• 2:12Brittany Broski?

  to stomach, so you can digest food. It was lodged in my bile duct. They had to go with a scope down my throat, go grab it, cut open my bile ducts because it was closed, put a stent in it, remove the gallstone, and then that caused pancreatitis.

• 2:29Brittany Broski?

  Perfect. So I was in the hospital for a week dealing with that, but I'm good now because it just was kind of inflamed. It was kind of irritated. It was agitated. And now it calmed down a little bit. Only thing is different in my life now is my diet's all fucked up now. I can't, I can't eat like a normal person. I'm on a super low fat diet. Who gives a fuck? Anyway, I'm all good. That's just, you know, the story of the never ending gallbladder continues. Uh, I hope it's done. All that to say, that's why I was gone. Thank y'all for being so patient. And we have a lot to get into today, so I hope you guys are locked the fuck in because holy shit, Sinners? Sinners? Sinners? What the fuck? Okay.

• 3:15Brittany Broski?

  I've seen Sinners in theaters three times now. If y'all thought I was annoying about Elvis in the summer slash autumn of 2022, you've got a new fucking thing coming. Okay? I was, I was addicted to the Elvis movie in a way that was suggesting I had some unhealed trauma, right? Like, why, why did I see Elvis in theaters nine times? I didn't need to do that. That's also really expensive, not a great like way to spend money, but I just, I really needed to see it. And then once it hit streaming, I never watched it again. It was something very special to me about going to see it in the theater. Okay? I'm feeling a little similar about Sinners. I don't know what it is. I don't know what

• 3:58Brittany Broski?

  it is. It stirred something in my spirit. It was, I think it's just the nature of the storytelling and it being a musical movie. Not, not it being a musical, but like the same deal with the Elvis movie where it was so musical, obviously, I fell in love with Sinners. So the majority of this episode is going to be about Sinners. So if you haven't seen it, fucking grow up, go see it. There might be spoilers, but it's not enough to like ruin the movie for you. Okay? Let's begin. Now let me go ahead and give a disclaimer that I wrote notes. Okay? I, I love this movie so fucking much. I wrote notes on it of what I wanted to talk about when I talked about it on the podcast. So if you see me

• 4:41Brittany Broski?

  reading, or if it feels like I'm reading, it's because I fucking am because I typed all this up at 1am last night. Okay, so let's get into it. To start, it doesn't even need to be said, but it does need to be said that Ryan Coogler is a fucking genius. He is a fucking genius. And to have accomplished so much so young, and every project with Michael B. Jordan, hallelujah, thank you, amen. He is just leaps and bounds ahead of everyone, I think. Like, there was so much packed into this movie. Every time I see it again, I'm like, that's another thing I didn't catch. Like, I'm just blown away. So, flowers for him. This, I mean, it was just so well done.

• 5:22Brittany Broski?

  There are so many symbolic topics that, I mean, I'm just gonna rattle them off. Like, as I was watching it, as I was watching reviews afterward, as I was reading more about the influences and inspirations that he drew from to tell this story in a new way, you know what I mean? We're dealing with cultural vampirism, religious vampirism, vampirism as a symbol for colonization, of course, Jim Crow and its lasting effects, what we're still dealing with today, the fact that Jim Crow is recent history, this isn't even 100 years old. This shit was 61 years ago.

• 6:07Brittany Broski?

  Not when this movie takes place, but Jim Crow was only repealed 61 years ago. Like, in our grandparents' li-- okay. This movie deals with assimilation, community, freedom, true freedom. And what does that mean? And is religion a type of spiritual subjugation when it is an evangelical religion, right? Black expression, black joy, black ownership, and Ryan Coogler's respective deal with the studio, that in 25 years, he will own this movie outright, which most directors don't own the movies that they make. Black ownership and its attempted destruction.

• 6:47Brittany Broski?

  So many things come to mind, like Tulsa and all of the-- how Central Park used to be a hub of black business, and these things are wiped from the historical record, they're wiped from a collective memory, and we know why. But projects like this really just, it's such a beautiful thing to witness and to call attention to.

• 7:14Brittany Broski?

  You know, especially, we're living through this horrific period right now of just rewriting history as it's happening in a truly 1984 fashion. So, stories like this are just, I mean, you don't need me to tell you that it's important. This is really the meat of what I wanted to speak about. We know that in Jim Crow era, specifically 1930s here, the blues as a genre of music was seen as a black form of art, and it was the devil's music, right? Then, 20 years later, if even, you see it co-opted and stolen by people like Elvis, and they are singing the blues, performing the blues, a watered-down version

• 7:59Brittany Broski?

  to the mass public to an incredible level of success, okay? Even when you talk about bands, or movements, so to speak, musical movements, like The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The British Invasion, these things, I mean, Mick Jagger will literally say this in interviews, like, "The reason that The Stones, I think, were so successful in the States is because they were not stealing, but heavily borrowing from the black American blues scene, repackaging it as a white British guy singing it, and reselling it to the white American public,

• 8:40Brittany Broski?

  and they bought it." And that's just this, I mean, we see this cycle constantly through history of black people make, they're trendsetters, the black community create culture, and everyone else is sort of like, second to catch up to it. And so, that, just, the blues being the central, the central message of this movie was really beautiful and really well-done. And the soundtrack, I know that Ludwig Goransson, is that his last name? He's quickly shaping up to be the Hans Zimmer of our time. Hello? He did Oppenheimer. Pretty sure he did Mandalorian. He's done so many other like super famous soundtracks that are just

• 9:25Brittany Broski?

  heavily ingrained in the culture of the story that, you know, the storyteller is trying to tell. And he just nails it every time. I'm blown away. The soundtrack to this fucking movie is half the reason that I'm like hard. It's ridiculously well done. Here is what I think draws me to this movie and to the soundtrack so soulfully is to sing the blues, to love the blues,

• 9:56Brittany Broski?

  to relate to the blues. I truly believe to my core that the blues is a way, music in general, is a way to process what we otherwise cannot process emotionally, mentally, socially, physically sometimes. I mean, we carry stress in the body. And there is something therapeutic and very cathartic and very medical about singing and dancing as a form of release, as a form of stress relief, as a form of of community bonding. And the solidarity of of sharing a live music session

• 10:40Brittany Broski?

  with other people, with a community, with your community. It's beautiful. And the reason I'm trying to, I'm struggling to put this sentiment into words and I've, I guess I've talked about it before on this podcast, but music is deeply spiritual

• 10:59Brittany Broski?

  for those who allow it to be. The blues specifically, knowing what we know about the origin of the blues, that it is from the black community that evolved and turned into rock and roll. And then that evolutionary lineage down the road. It is all American black music. And it's so beautifully celebrated in this movie. But with that history in mind, knowing that the blues is related to slave hymns, and how hymns are a sort of spiritual salve on a wounded soul. And the collective trauma that the American black community collectively has,

• 11:44Brittany Broski?

  it is just, it was so well done. The storytelling, the music. And as someone who loves the blues, and I think being from the South really connects me to it, because the blues is in everything, right? It's in, you can hear it in church music, you can hear it in country music, you can hear it in some forms of traditional bluegrass. I mean, there are, you just start getting into this chord progression or this turnaround, and it's like, God, it's just right. It feels right. I felt that way so many times watching this fucking movie, because it's in our bones. I truly, truly, I've talked about it before, like, if it's in the makeup of our being.

• 12:28Brittany Broski?

  I believe that humans are musical creatures. And to sing and dance is such a human thing. And there's a reason why dance is so heavily ingrained in every ancient culture on earth. You know, like, each culture has its traditional dances and traditional music. It's because that is what we are. And this was just, oh my God, I cannot rate this movie enough, okay? The message at the end of the movie, I think, especially with the post-credit scene, are these fleeting moments of joy worth all of the pain?

• 13:10Brittany Broski?

  And is that not kind of what the blues sums up?

• 13:18Brittany Broski?

  Had this great thing and now it's gone. Pain and misery. And you spend the rest of your life like reflecting and longing for that joy that you once had. And now that joy informs the art you make. And that in itself is a type of joy. And so it's just, I mean, come on. Now, here is what I wanted to segue into from the beginning. Okay. 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.

• 14:01Brittany Broski?

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• 14:23Speaker 02

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

• 14:37Speaker 03

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

• 14:48Speaker 02

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

• 14:54Speaker 04

  One of the best guys that I dated, he made a point to memorize all my food allergies.

• 15:00Speaker 02

  So join us and hear their stories and more, because living with food allergies isn't just about what you can't eat. It's about still having your seat at the table. Brought to you by Genentech and Novartis. Listen to At the Table, the food allergy podcast, on America's number one podcast network, iHeart. Follow At the Table and start listening on the free iHeart radio app today.

• 15:20Brittany Broski?

  Here's some background.

• 15:22Brittany Broski?

  For the last week or two, I've been getting a lot of kneecap stuff on my For You page, okay? Who's kneecap? Kneecap is a rap group from Ireland. They're Irish. And they are so political, as they should be. And as an Irish person, how can you not? Your existence is political. You know what I mean? They did a set at Coachella and a bunch of people turned up for it. It went great. At the end, they put up a message on the screens that was like, "Israel is committing a genocide. We stand with the Palestinian people. Free Palestine, free Palestine, free Palestine." Chills all over my body. Everyone in the crowd like went crazy cheering.

• 16:07Brittany Broski?

  It was so, like, the videos I was seeing, I was like, "This is incredible." Then, of course, the backlash online comes. They get dropped by their US agent. Like, all this fucking tea has been happening. And I'm, I'm thinking also, by the way, you signed them knowing that like their whole thing is standing against the oppressor, right? Like, no one understands that more than fucking Ireland, living under the, the iron fist of the British Empire for 900 years. Like, to have your lineage wiped out, your native language, your dance, your music, your traditions, your customs, by an occupation, like to be occupied.

• 16:52Brittany Broski?

  For them to do that, of course, they're gonna do that. Why are you shocked? Like, all this fucking tea's been happening of people, "The political ban is being political? What? What the fuck?" Like, what? So, it's been fun to keep up with it. And then, of course, that got me started on a rabbit hole down, uh, kneecap. And I followed them on Instagram and they followed me back. And I kind of freaked the fuck out, okay? I kind of freaked the fuck out. Anyway. I got started on a rabbit hole down their whole ethos and their whole sort of mission statement of reclaiming the Irish language as a form of, it's like a generational push

• 17:36Brittany Broski?

  for reclamation and for continuing on for those who couldn't. And it's like a duty and a weight that rests on the shoulders of this next generation of Irish youth that is reconnecting with their heritage that, I mean, just, and then that sent me down a whole rabbit hole of the origins of the conflict between, you know, the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, the UK, which of course, I knew the basics, but again, the American education system has failed me. And so that's been like my hyper fixation of the last two weeks has been the nationalists

• 18:21Brittany Broski?

  first, you know, even going back to like the Bloody Sundays and the 1920s and then into the 1970s when the for real Bloody Sunday happened and how this is not ancient history. Once again, you know, we're talking about these things and then you cut to Palestine right now, like this shit is still happening and we haven't found a way, or at least our governments have not found a way to put the ego aside and like save human lives. And so going back into the, the sort of historical archive of where are relations today between the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, especially in the wake of Brexit, it's all

• 19:04Brittany Broski?

  just very fascinating and it feels like it's, it's very tense and it's very, it is a wonderful time to start learning Irish, reconnecting with, you know, me speaking to my Irish fans, this is for you guys, to reconnect with your Irish heritage because. Try as they may, or, or attempted as they have, it wasn't wiped out, not completely. And that's such a testament to the strength and the will of the Irish people. Also, like, learning about all the sort of paramilitary and how the famine wasn't, I mean, Sinead O'Connor talks about this in her song, like, the famine wasn't real.

• 19:49Brittany Broski?

  The famine was created by British negligence. I'm fired up, like, I'm fuck, actually, let me tell you something. I did my 23andMe, and guess what, bitch? I'm 90% Irish. I'm 90% Irish and English. But I don't know what that means, right? Like, is that 50% Irish, 50% whatever? And, and actually, I'm lying. It was 99% British and Irish. And the rest of it was Scandinavian. So you guessed it, I'm fucking white. So, race reveal, I'm white. 99.9%. 0.01, we don't know. We don't know, okay? Two different types of Caucasian, yeah.

• 20:32Brittany Broski?

  Actually, Caucasian, what does Caucasian really mean? Caucasian definition? Because I don't even know if I'm Caucasian, I'm just white. White-skinned, of European origin, a white person, a person of European origin, a, a person from the Ca-Caucasus. Now, that's what, that's a mountain range, is it not? Caucasus. Yes. Now, see, look, the Ca-Caucasus is a geographically diverse region straddling Eastern Europe and Western Asia. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia. Now, see, I don't claim that. I am not Caucasus. Caucasus. I am a white skin from Europe.

• 21:17Brittany Broski?

  Anyway, yeah dude, I've been down this fucking rabbit hole of like, the IRA and, and speaking to, I watched this crazy documentary on a man who served like 16 years in prison for his involvement and participation in Bloody Sunday in 1972, which was a, uh, when a bunch of British specially trained fighters opened fire into a crowd of civilians, um, and I think it was Dublin or Belfast. It was in Derry, that's right.

• 21:54Brittany Broski?

  Yeah, British, specially trained British soldiers opened fire on unarmed civilians during a civil rights march, during a protest. Oh my God, this fucking documentary was tea, and this is just history, but I'm like, hello, the specifics of it. Opened fire into unarmed civilians peacefully protesting. And then because this atrocity was committed, and it wasn't the first, and it wasn't going to be the last, the British Empire, the British government was asked to, um, conduct an investigation on what really happened on January 30th, 1972.

• 22:34Brittany Broski?

  And it took them until the fucking 90s, 1998, I think is when they like reopened the investigation, and it ended in 2010, where they actually admitted fault that the force used was unnecessary and, uh, inflammatory and all these things. And I'm like, fucking, what is that, 2010 to 2017, 40 years later? It's not like, Neecap always jokes about any fucking British person who buys a ticket to their show, that's reparations. It's funny, but it's like, what could ever be an apology? What could ever, other than, other than a united Ireland?

• 23:19Brittany Broski?

  Anyway, been really, really locked the fuck into Irish history. Also because hello, my people.

• 23:29Brittany Broski?

  I guess I've been Irish all along. On my mom's side, my whole maternal line is last name Riley. And it was O'Reilly because they dropped the O when they immigrated to the United States. They immigrated to Texas. Uh, and I don't know how many generations back it was, but now I'm, now I'm like intrigued by all this shit because especially learning about the famine. And how the famine was completely avoidable and how the British Empire used the potato blight. As a justification for God wanting to wipe a whole population of people off the fucking planet.

• 24:10Brittany Broski?

  Just when you think the British Empire couldn't be more evil, they're more evil. Anyway, all that to say, around the time of the famine, those fortunate enough to scrap together enough money. Sailed to America or they sailed to Liverpool, you know, mainland UK. And then they also sailed to a port in Canada and then some, you know, to the southern United States. The, the conditions were horrific. A good percentage of them did not make it. And if they did, it was a, a whole new set of struggles that they were about to be faced with.

• 24:51Brittany Broski?

  In these countries that were not kind to Irish immigrants, any immigrants at all, actually, if you can go ahead and just put an asterisk there. And, uh, who, who created almost a new social class that was lower than poverty. That's what the Irish immigrants lived in. So all that, it's just got me really interested in how psychotic that. And I mean, this isn't like, let me just say it. And I know it sounds stupid and I know you're going to be like. But the United States of America, a country full and built by immigrants, all of us are immigrants. None of us are, other than indigenous Native Americans,

• 25:36Brittany Broski?

  none of us are from here. So to think that a country that's barely 200 and something years old, has such a strict, like, anti-immigrant sentiment, or such harsh prejudices, like, where the fuck do you think we came from? Anyway, that's neither here nor there. I'm just fucking mad. Anyway, I learned a lot about the IRA and selfishly, not even selfishly, just ignorantly, I will admit, the first time I heard about the IRA, picky blinders. And they're kind of a villain. Like, the IRA is kind of a villain in Tommy Shelby's story, because he's from Birmingham and it's whatever. Like, they're just kind of a terrorist group. And a lot of people saw the Irish Republican Army as terrorists,

• 26:19Brittany Broski?

  but they're not. Like, are, you know what I mean? Like, anyway.

• 26:27Brittany Broski?

  This is another episode where I should have just put up the Irish flag behind me. 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 Insurance Company, affiliates and other insurers, not available in all states.

• 27:08Speaker 02

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

• 27:23Speaker 03

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

• 27:34Speaker 02

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

• 27:39Speaker 04

  One of the best guys that I dated, he made a point to memorize all my food allergies.

• 27:45Speaker 02

  So join us and hear their stories and more because living with food allergies isn't just about what you can't eat, it's about still having your seat at the table. Brought to you by Genentech and Novartis. Listen to At The Table, the food allergy podcast on America's number one podcast network, iHeart. Follow At The Table and start listening on the free iHeart radio app today.

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• 29:06Brittany Broski?

  Okay, here's something completely unrelated, but it's just been on my heart. It's been on my heart.

• 29:14Brittany Broski?

  There's something about Sinners and the cadence of the movie with the time period that has me really thinking about, this is a deep cut. So any, like, I need you fucking weirdo bitches to lock in with me right now because I'm gonna throw you a curveball and I need you to catch it, okay? Do you remember the 2013 movie called Beautiful Creature? Please tell me someone remembers. It's like, I think it was a book that was adapted into a movie and the whole premise is like.

• 29:55Brittany Broski?

  She's a witch, like she moves into this town, she's a new girl, she's a fucking witch. And then of course, the popular hot guy takes an interest in her and he's like, I'm seeing you around here. And she's like, you can't come to my house. And he's like, what, what do you mean? I love you. And she's like, don't fucking come, I told you. And it's because she's like

• 30:16Brittany Broski?

  a born again, like she's condemned to keep living the same life over and over and over through generations in this same city, but she's got to move away, she's a witch, I don't fucking know. And it has to do with the Civil War. And I didn't know why, I cannot remember, but this movie just popped into my head. And I'm like, holy fuck, I have to watch that movie. What? It's like, it was the same era of, what's that Nicholas Holt movie, Warm Bodies? Like these freako monster magic movies were coming out, there were romances and like, it was around the time of Divergent and Hunger Games and fucking Fault in Our Stars, like that, it was this era.

• 30:59Brittany Broski?

  Beautiful Creatures just feels like one that people just like, for some reason forgot about. I remembered. I remembered. Why? I don't know. It's not really an impressive movie and the ending is kind of stupid and doesn't make sense. But it's, I just remember it vividly being a Civil War, like reenactment movie, is what it fucking felt like. But it's not, like it has something to do with where they have been lovers in the past life. And where they met and how they tragically died was in the Civil War. Now, on which side they were fighting for, I do not know. I do not know, okay? No, I'm not, I don't know if it's a problematic movie, I haven't seen it in a long time, but

• 31:44Brittany Broski?

  he's sexy in it. She's a witch. And it's that classic like, just let me in. She's like, come on, why? And then her magic explodes and like fucking hurts him and she's like, I told you I was gonna hurt you.

• 32:03Brittany Broski?

  One of those fucking movies. Which like, whatever trope that is, I love it. Whatever fucking trope that is, I'm drooling thinking about it. "I told you being with me was gonna get you hurt." "I don't care. I'll do whatever it takes. I just love you. I'll be with you." "Ah!" And then she explodes and then like, she hurts him, but he's like, "I'm fine. I'm fine." Right? Like, whatever the fuck trope that is, need more of that, need to write a book with that in it. So, Beautiful Creatures, I don't know why Sinners made me think of that movie. Maybe it's just because it's like, in the fucking boonies in the south. I mean, Sinners takes place in Mississippi, uh, Beautiful Creatures takes place in like,

• 32:49Brittany Broski?

  North Carolina or something like that. Beautiful Creatures. This beautiful thing of God is, eh?

• 33:03Brittany Broski?

  Benson Boone.

• 33:06Brittany Broski?

  No comment.

• 33:09Brittany Broski?

  Her name in the show is Ridley Ducanis. That's not right. Okay, now this movie doesn't have horrible reviews. Now, they're not great. Forty-eight percent on Rotten Tomatoes, six point one out of ten on IMDb. It could have been worse. In the small town of Gatlin, South Carolina, teenage Ethan Waite, who is played by Alden Ehrkenreich, and he is sexy, and I don't know what he's doing nowadays. Oh, he's five nine. Okay, he's actually five nine. Holy fuck, that's right, he's in Solo: A Star Wars, he plays fucking on Solo! Yes, dude! Yes, dude!

• 33:51Brittany Broski?

  Yes, he plays on Solo. Oh my god, I need to re-watch Solo, because I'm... You know, I had a real addiction to this man as a sixteen-year-old. I was sixteen when this movie came out. Yeah, I was addicted to him. I was also addicted, I watched that Dune prophecy show when it came out. I didn't finish it, just because life. But I loved it while I was watching it. Uh, the guy who plays...

• 34:17Brittany Broski?

  The Atreides, the Atreides lineage, who's like a spy. I was addicted to him for a second and he's married and like fully has a child, but I was like, God, for him alone, I'm gonna keep watching this show. They're, they look similar. What's his fucking name? Um, Dune prophecy cast. And the guy who plays Desmond Hart, he's hot. Chris Mason, this guy, he plays Kiran Atreides. They're like, you know, just attractive white guy, just dime a dozen. I'm, I am locked into him though. Like I really, I was addicted to him in this show, cause he looks like Harry Styles a little bit. Okay. Going back.

• 35:01Brittany Broski?

  Yeah, Beautiful Creatures, I know what I'm doing tonight. I'm gonna go re-watch Beautiful Creatures, cause what the fuck? I might have to re-watch Warm Bodies as well. Okay, here are some extracurriculars before we get back into Sinners. Because I, I figured y'all did a break. Okay, I've been talking about it for too long, cause then I'm gonna really get into it. But here are some other things I wanted to talk about.

• 35:26Brittany Broski?

  Let's book club for a second. I am currently reading Game of Thrones. I started it. I'm currently reading Anthony Bourdain's book, one of them. I'm also currently reading that book I bought on priests and poverty in post famine Ireland. It's a book I bought from this used bookstore by my house, like a while ago. And because I've been so fucking into Irish history from pre famine to now, it's like, I think it covers like 1847 to 1890 something? And how just...

• 36:08Brittany Broski?

  The Irish Catholic Church versus the Protestant is such a point of tension in like all of the history. And this is specifically how, you know, the churches on both sides are just, there's so much abuse in the churches, which we know, this isn't shocking to anyone, but it is just disturbing every time you have to hear about it, or every time it's relevant. And so, reading this book, it is relevant, and it's also always disturbing when you hear about a church being used as a sort of, a way to control people.

• 36:48Brittany Broski?

  And unfortunately, around the time of the famine, or leading up to the famine, or post famine, Protestants were offering food to Catholics, but you had to convert if you wanted to eat, if you wanted to feed your family. And for some, it's like, I'll tell you whatever you want to fucking hear, as long as I can eat tonight, you know, and you can promise food for my whole family. But for others, it wasn't worth it, you know, and I, my feelings on religion aside, like that is, that's tough. And it's admirable to believe in your faith so fervently that you would forego, you would be without.

• 37:32Brittany Broski?

  And then a lot of them eventually passed, and it's just, the church should never, I mean, that is quite literally the antithesis of what religion, especially an Abrahamic religion, stands for, which is, "Love thy neighbor." Like, give them the clothes off of your back. In what fucking universe is that? It's just sick. And reading this book is, it just makes my stomach turn, and it doesn't make me miss the church. But at the same time, I do have a deep-seated, I guess, sensitivity to religious folk, to

• 38:13Brittany Broski?

  people who have strong religious devotion, who are rich in faith, because I've been the opposite for so long. But I used to be, and I remember what it feels like, and I remember the...

• 38:31Brittany Broski?

  I wouldn't call it peace, but the comfort that being faithful and praying, what that gives. And I, you know, as I'm reading this book, I'm just like, it's taking me somewhere else and it's somewhere that I don't like to visit and, and it makes me sad. Anyway, I'm reading, I'm currently reading those three books, but at the same time, sometimes when it's too, you know, intellectual and heavy like that, I mean, a book like that is so fucking heavy. Sometimes I want to cut up the heaviness with a romanticy. Okay, fucking sue me. For the longest time on my Goodreads,

• 39:15Brittany Broski?

  on my whatever, like whenever you scroll through those book talk recommendations, if you liked Akatar, you'll love. Can I just say, you bitches are smoking something cheap. You're smoking something cheap because I got one of those fuck ass slide shows of some aesthetic woman who had put her, all her books on her bed and had done flowers around it, perfect lighting. If you're a fan of Throne of Glass, you will love these books. Guess what the one I picked was? Cruel Prince.

• 39:51Brittany Broski?

  You bitches make me angry. Y'all make me mad. I'm mad. I read, I paid for The Cruel Prince. Two stars. A two star read. I was a hundred pages into the book and they talked about leaving the fairy realm and going to a human mall and the main character was wearing sparkly Converse. I said, I am fucking livid. I'm mad. What is wrong with y'all? That can't, this can't be what we're reading. This can't be it. Am I being, am I being punked? Like I'm, I'm so mad. I paid eleven ninety-nine for a two star read. Fuck you bitches. I'm mad.

• 40:39Brittany Broski?

  Prince. Okay, here we go. I wish I had my, my review in front of me. The Cruel Prince was an unbelievable dynamic to begin with, okay? First 10 pages, sorry, I'm gonna spoil it for you. Their parents get murdered, okay? She's like six. And her sister is like half magic. I don't know. This guy comes in, murders their parents, and then is like, "Guess I have to take care of you now. It's my duty." After he just mur- okay. Kidnaps the kids, takes them to fairy, and of course, he is a, a general. So like, he's very well off, he's very well to do. They, they're never taken into poverty, right? They're taken into the palace.

• 41:23Brittany Broski?

  And so, he steals them and raises them as his own, and he loves them. What? So like, from the very beginning, I don't believe this dynamic, I don't believe this. Like, I, I don't know what... Here's a, a small accolade I will give to this book is, I think the author described the fairy realm, and I, I say that as like F-A-I-R-I-E. Like fairy is the name of the land that they, they exist in, right? And it's sort of like a platform nine and three quarters, where if you see it, you can go. You know, like you can pass. Or maybe a fairy will make a bargain with you and you can interfere. But other than that, it's invisible to the human eye, okay?

• 42:08Brittany Broski?

  What I appreciated about her describing fairy is that the fairy realm is incredibly morally gray. They do not have a set of moral guideposts or standards that they live by. Sure, there are things like honor and power and fame and glory and, and, uh, control. All these things exist at the same time, but... To be morally good is not really a concern for anyone in fairy. And of course, this is part of the ride that our female main character takes is that the longer she spends in fairy, the less human she becomes.

• 42:52Brittany Broski?

  And therefore, is that inherently wrong? Is her assimilation into the fairy realm positive because she's finally accepted into something or she's, you know, this is the whole point of the book is she's proving her worth. She's proving that she's, even though I'm a human, I can, I'm still badass. I can kick some butt. I can kick some ass. Sorry for cussing. Like, that's how this fucking book felt. Um, yeah, I'm a badass who can kick some ass. Sorry, mom, if you're listening. Like, bro. And so that was one aspect that I actually found intriguing is the way that she would

• 43:31Brittany Broski?

  describe, um, some of the royals, how they acted or just general fae. They steal, they lie, not unlike humans, but at least humans try to act like we're, we're, we feel guilt about it. You know what I mean? Or that there's a sense of shame. There's no shame in fairy. They are, uh, they have no insecurity, I guess, about their, their naked forms or their, like, everyone in fairy is beautiful. So why would you need to feel insecure? And there's so many different types of flora and fauna based beings, which was also a fun element of the book. Everything else was so unbelievable, bro.

• 44:11Brittany Broski?

  The enemies to lovers that they, this feels like she wrote that, she wrote the book with that in mind, like, I'm gonna write an enemies to lovers and then make it not make sense. So just, I don't wanna read a book for the sake of tropes. If it just feels like a bunch of tropes that you've mashed together in like a casserole and then published it for me to read. It's a two star read. It's a series. I'm not interested in continuing the series because I read it and I'm not joking. When they went to the human mall and they went to her sparkly converse, I said, I can't fucking do this, dude. I can't fucking do it. So they talk about like Auntie Anne.

• 44:53Brittany Broski?

  In the fucking book, because they're in the mall. I'm mad. But yeah, the morally gray thing I found intriguing because what a cool set of rules, or I guess a lack of rules to play with. And I guess she kind of does in terms of what the main character is willing to do, what she, the lengths she goes to. You have to play by their rules to win the game, sort of thing. You know what I mean? And that was kind of, okay, sure. But there's a part at the end of the book where it's like, literally, we're talking about the next monarch of fairy.

• 45:32Brittany Broski?

  They're having, she's trying to do this like political succession type of thing, and it just falls flat because it's not. It's like I see, I can see through the words on the page into how the author planned to write it. Do you know what I mean? Like it, I can see the vision. It just wasn't executed very well, which makes me sad because I think it could have been a much better book. But maybe it's one of those where the second and third book gets better. I don't know. I'm not really interested in reading it. And this is honestly the first read for me in a long time that I've genuinely like, I didn't want to finish it.

• 46:13Brittany Broski?

  But I did, I finished it because I don't think you can give a fair review of a book if you haven't read all of it and you haven't paid attention. So I finished it, but like, that's just not, that's not my type of book. And so to go from this sort of faux intellectual, political, scheming, strategy, landscape that The Cruel Prince tries to offer, I'm just going straight into fucking Game of Thrones. Like truly, I was so over Cruel Prince. I was like, I have to start Game of Thrones. Like I, I need something that is. That is, I know will not lead me astray. Cause I have so many romantises in my To Be Read and I didn't want a romantisy per se.

• 46:54Brittany Broski?

  I didn't want another commitment like a Red Rising, even though I love Red Rising. That's a six book, you know, probably 4,000 pages of reading. And I didn't want a heavy political historical book like my Ireland book. And then I didn't really want a memoir like Anthony Bourdain. And so here we are at Game of Thrones. And I'm on page like 40 or 50 and it's, it's so good. Like, of course it's great. I fucking love Game of Thrones. And so I'm going to power through all of them. Um, I know he's not done with, what is it? The Winds of Winter, Ways of Winter. That's fine. Cause I'm going to go and read the Targaryen books, which is Song of Ice.

• 47:37Brittany Broski?

  Or Song of Ice and Fire is the main six books, right? Five books. What's the Targaryen one? George R R Martin books. Okay, this is the one I'm talking about. It is Fire and Blood.

• 47:57Brittany Broski?

  And it's a history of House Targaryen. Rather than a novel, Fire and Blood takes the form of a scholarly treatise about the Targaryen Dynasty, written by a historian within the world of A Song of Ice and Fire. Archmaester Gildean. Gildean. Gildean cites a variety of fictional primary sources for the historical events he describes, whose accounts sometimes conflict with each other, reflecting medieval methods of historiography and thus making Gildean an unreliable narrator from the reader's perspective.

• 48:29Brittany Broski?

  Whoa. Okay, so now this is what House of the Dragon is kind of based on, right? Because I don't know if these are done. I don't know if he's done with the second Fire and Blood. It's called The Princess and the Queen or something like that. Aegon's Conquest describes Aegon Targaryen, the first conquest of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. More or less the same version was published in the, okay, Reign of the Dragon, The Wars of King Aegon the First, Three Heads Had the Dragon, Governance Under King Aegon the First. I need to lock the fuck into this. This shit is real to me, dude. If you don't know your history, what do you know? If you don't know the history of your king.

• 49:09Brittany Broski?

  By the way, I cannot fucking wait for House of Dragon Season 3 because Season 2 just felt like you bitches are edging us. You are edging us. And Rhaenys did not need to die. I need to speak to the showrunner because you bitches, I am livid. I'm mad.

• 49:31Brittany Broski?

  Anyway, anyway, free Prince Aemond. He didn't do nothing wrong. He's just trying to lead the kingdom. He did free my king, my king. Okay, yeah, so I may have went a little bit too in on Cruel Prince. Sorry. If you liked that book, my fault. My fault. Okay, to each their own. But you know what I was thinking the other day? Just a tangent for a second. My favorite books that I've ever read are not romanticy. And that, I think, says a lot. But it doesn't say anything at all, really, because I really enjoy romanticy. Like, duh. That shit is so fun. One Dark Window, Two Twisted Crowns. That was a fun read. I

• 50:16Brittany Broski?

  loved those books. And it was just enough. It was original. It was cute. It was intelligent. It was just the right amount of intimate, right? It was a dynamic that I believed. It was an interesting magic system. 4.5 stars. I loved that duology. Cruel Prince just fell flat for me. I don't, you know. Anyway, I love reading romanticy every now and then. But my favorite books of all time, The Secret History, Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, Red Rising, the whole Red Rising series. Like, these are not really anywhere even touching

• 50:56Brittany Broski?

  romanticy. The Secret History is a fiction thriller, I guess, like a dark academic thriller. Angels and Demons is similar. It's a historical fiction. Red Rising is sci-fi.

• 51:11Brittany Broski?

  Like a political sci fi and I'm sure when I finish Game of Thrones, that'll be, you know, up there with my favorites ever, which is high fantasy. So yeah, I find it very interesting that maybe it's just because I haven't found a romance book that gives me everything that I want. I loved Akatar and Akatar, I truly I can credit to getting me back into reading. I've read like nine or 10 books this year so far and it's April. Like I'm very proud of myself. That is not, I have not been that woman since high school. Like I'm so fucking back and it makes me feel smart.

• 51:51Brittany Broski?

  It makes me feel accomplished and you know, I like discussing the stories and the books and like online and with people, it's fun. But I don't know, I, I don't know if I've ever read, like I loved Akatar, but some of the war felt a little, okay, to me, you know, versus like when you read a book like Game of Thrones, when you read a book like Red Rising where it's like, holy fuck. Yeah. I mean, we're doing military strategy. Like that is, you know. But yeah, that's my one thing. I've also been toying with the idea of if I were to write a book,

• 52:36Brittany Broski?

  would it be fantasy? And I don't, I don't know. It would be fiction for sure. And it would, it would be a thrilling fiction. Uh, not in contemporary times. It would, it would probably be a historical fiction. But even then, like I, to write a fantasy novel, I just feel like the space is so oversaturated and you're competing with the heavy hitters. Like immediately it's going to be compared to the top three most famous book talk books that are in that trope or that genre. And it's like, I don't, I would love to write a book someday, but what is?

• 53:16Brittany Broski?

  What feels the most authentic to the story that I love? And a story that I would want to tell and that I could tell well? I get all these inspirational bullshit, like, slideshows on TikTok that are like, "You'll never have something to critique if you don't just start." Like, "You can never finish if you don't just start." And I'm like, "I'm not writing my book yet." "Stop, I don't want to fucking write my book yet." But yeah, I don't know, it's, it's something that like, maybe that would be a really fun outlet, never to be released. But maybe I need to, maybe I need to, like, I don't know, start typing.

• 54:00Brittany Broski?

  Maybe I need to open a Word document.

• 54:04Brittany Broski?

  Anyway. Yeah, I just thought, you know, I'm, I've just been thinking about it a lot lately, like, I've always thought, "Oh, I'll write a romanticy, I'll write a romanticy." I don't know if I will, I don't know if I want to, I don't know if that calls to me. I like reading them, but I don't, I don't know. Also, here's another thing that is completely just tangent, irrelevant to anything I've been talking about. I have spent a lot of time with myself the last two weeks, through the hospital stuff, whatever. And I'm realizing some, like, "My favorite this, my favorite that." I didn't know some of the things about myself, like, I took some time to sort of answer those questions. Does this make sense?

• 54:49Brittany Broski?

  Like, "What's your favorite flower? What's your favorite season? What's your favorite this?" You know what I mean? And I landed on, this is huge. And I want you guys to sort of, you know, have this conversation with yourself because it's fun to know these things. So when you know them, you can treat yourself. Because I'm on this whole fucking journey of like, I don't need someone to buy this shit for me, I can get it for myself because I like it, you know what I mean? It's a whole thing.

• 55:18Brittany Broski?

  My favorite flower is lily of the valley. Because they look like fairy hats.

• 55:29Brittany Broski?

  This is my favorite flower. Lily of the valley, look how freaking cute. They're just so... Like, how does this just grow naturally? Nature is amazing and so cute, and they make fucking vases and lamps that look like this! I need a lily of the valley lamp now, now, now, now! Cause they're fairy hats.

• 56:01Brittany Broski?

  They're so cute. I don't know. Yeah, these are my favorite flowers and they're so small. I just love them. Lily of the valley. Lamp. Look at this one.

• 56:16Brittany Broski?

  Like, I'll cry. Okay, fine, I'll cry.

• 56:21Brittany Broski?

  So anyway, just big news, discovered that's my favorite flower.

• 56:25Brittany Broski?

  And my favorite food, crawfish etouffee, but we knew that. Okay, a few more things and then I'll let you guys go. Okay, here's, here's one. I saw Orville on Broadway in Cabaret, and I don't know if I ever talked about it on here. That bitch needs to be put down. He is so talented. It makes, like, I'm angry. It makes me mad. He, it is so much fun, and I, I told him this afterward. I was like, there is not a better joy for, like, me as a person than watching my friends and people I love, like, do what they were meant to do.

• 57:10Brittany Broski?

  It is a beautiful, magical thing when you see someone walk in their purpose. And that's me sort of projecting, I guess, of like, he's just really fucking good at it and I can tell it brings him joy and it just feels right. It was like a heavenly spiritual experience watching him do that. And to be like, I know that, him? The most annoying man I've ever met, Orville Peck? He's so good. It was so good. And who said gay people can't be talented? Good for you. Good for him. Amazing. Yeah, I, I would, I don't know how much longer they're doing their run, but

• 57:55Brittany Broski?

  for the love of God, if you can go, please go. I had a fucking blast. A blast. And the woman who plays opposite him?

• 58:08Brittany Broski?

  I'd never seen Cabaret, by the way. I had never seen it in my life addicted. I might have to go and watch a little bootleg version with Alan Cumming in it. Thank you and amen. But wow, I didn't know Adam Lambert, Adam Glambert was the emcee before Orville. Fucking gag. Like, just amazed. And I saw it with my writers, the Dometsky Twins, and they were like, "This performance and production of Cabaret, I've never seen anything like it." Like, they've both seen Cabaret before. They were like, "This was really immersive and really kind of bare bones, and you're so close to the stage." It was just, it was amazing. Had a freaking blast. Also, walked by John Waters, couldn't say hi. Got nervous.

• 58:54Brittany Broski?

  Thought about saying hi, and I was like, "I, I, that's not gonna happen, actually." And they put, "Listen to this seating arrangement, girl. Fucking Orville." He was like, he invited me to come, and I was like, "Oh, my God, I would love to." I show up, Katya to my left, Trixie to my right, Jinx down there. I said, "Oh, and Chapel, Chapel was behind us." I was like, "He put all the fucking annoying people front and center."

• 59:22Brittany Broski?

  I shut up, I said, "Oh, my God." I don't know, it was a stupid bitch club meeting. Meet up, front row. Anyway, so fun. Here are my songs of the week.

• 59:36Brittany Broski?

  "The Bell" by Yeet. I don't know. I don't know. "The Bell" by Yeet is a great song. When I'm driving, I'm just doing Yeet, okay? And I missed his Coachella set, and I'm literally sad. Y'all, y'all care if a white girl turns up for a second? Can, can a white girl turn up one time? I've also been doing "Emergence" by Sleep Token. Okay, where's the album? Where's the album? I like "Emergence" better than "Caramel," but "Caramel" is good. And also, I say, I say, what do I say? Well, here's that age-old thing, right? Is it caramel or is it caramel? Because it's a caramel apple, but I want caramel sauce on my ice cream, so don't even get me started on that. I like "Emergence" by Sleep Token.

• 1:00:19Brittany Broski?

  The whole center soundtrack goes without saying. And here are two more. "Worst Behavior" by K1. I just, I have sort of a fixation on K1 right now.

• 1:00:33Brittany Broski?

  "Worst Behavior" and "Do What I Say." I'm actually, I don't, I'm not gonna start squirming in my feet. Moving on, um, street sweeper by Future is gonna.

• 1:00:47Brittany Broski?

  I don't know. I look, I'm just, this has been what's on my repeat lately. Also, I've been really, I know I talk about them a lot, but the band Sports. They're just, I like to take a little edible and listen to sports. I don't know. That's how I have fun. I like to dance around in my kitchen to Sports. You are the rider for me to come down.

• 1:01:15Brittany Broski?

  They need to tour. They need to tour and I'm gonna take an edible and go non-verbal in the crowd. That's what I, that's what I need in my spirit. Holy fuck, hold on, I have a few more things to say about Sinners. I completely, I completely missed this. Hold on. Holy shit, how did I miss this? Oh, cause I started talking about Ireland. I started talking about Ireland, I went on a tangent. Okay, here's what I wrote.

• 1:01:36Brittany Broski?

  Uh, my ears sort of perked up at the Irish element of this movie, how Remick is of Irish descent. Uh, but he is a, a southern white man in the movie. Remick and the whole crew, the whole, um, cast of characters in the juke joint have more in common than is comfy to admit. Both have been touched by colonization, stripped of their heritage and native tongue, complete lineages wiped out, broken and beaten, and yet, he becomes what he despises most, the colonizer.

• 1:02:18Brittany Broski?

  He also fell for the grand lie that is colonization. But I think he sympathized because there's this whole scene. Uh, uh, what I'm saying is I think he sympathized and wanted more so to offer them freedom through vampirism, becoming a vampire versus just killing them, killing them to kill them. Does that make sense? There's this whole scene where Remick kind of goes into his background of Sammy starts saying the Lord's Prayer and he finishes it for him and he goes, "Yeah, they tried that on my people too." You know what I mean? Like to come in and completely just wipe the slate, instill a new religion, a new

• 1:03:01Brittany Broski?

  language, a new schooling system, a new way of dressing, a new way of speaking and praying. Just wipe it.

• 1:03:10Brittany Broski?

  Like, what a, what a interesting and true parallel of colonization doing its fucking thing, you know? And this great lie that it's better this way. So it was such a strange, full-circle thing to watch. You know, here's Remick talking about what happened to the Irish people, which is not dissimilar to how slavery began and ended in the United States. So, and arguably is still happening. So I found that parallel really like, an interesting way to move the story along, or

• 1:03:53Brittany Broski?

  I guess to resolve the story of why, what is Remick's motivation, other than the fact that he's a vampire, to do that, you know? And what a weird place of sympathy to come from as the villain that just, it's just genius. And to think that Ryan Coogler wrote this, and he wrote in the Irish, sort of the Irish of it all, and then Jack O'Connell comes in and can do traditional Irish dance, he can speak in the Irish accent flawlessly because he himself, I think half of his family's Irish or something like that. Like, it was just so well done and it felt very respectful, but it was also like, you

• 1:04:36Brittany Broski?

  know, what a symbol for colonization and how you can sort of carry on.

• 1:04:44Brittany Broski?

  That negative cycle and the horrific cycle, even having experienced it, being on the receiving end of it. It's just wow. Also, I don't know where this was. I think it's in the soundtrack, maybe in the album artwork for the soundtrack. But it explains more of Remick's background of, we don't know when he became a vampire. We don't know when he immigrated. We don't know. But there was a ship that sailed from Ireland to Boston, I think. And it was like spooky circumstances, how the ship arrived, how things were on fire.

• 1:05:25Brittany Broski?

  There were no remnants of human beings, but there was blood everywhere and destroyed furniture. And there was a small evidence of a fire had occurred. And people saw one man who was steaming like he was burned, exiting the ship and, you know, wandered river. And then the first time you're introduced to Remick, it feels like he drops from the sky and his, his skin is sizzling and it's, you know, so that can kind of explain, I guess, his, his background or how we come to know him. That we don't know how long he's been a vampire, but we know that from when he touched down in the US, this has been his MO.

• 1:06:06Brittany Broski?

  Also, loved the cameo from the native population. They were like, okay, this is your problem now. Okay, we were trying to help you, lady. I just saw you're actually a Klan member. Fuck you and goodbye. Good luck with all that. Fucking crazy. Anyway, yeah, that was what I, I had to speak about that of what an interesting way to paint a villain. And you almost like feel bad for him until you don't because it's like, oh.

• 1:06:36Brittany Broski?

  Anyway.

• 1:06:38Brittany Broski?

  Okay, I think that'll do it for me, team. New Royal Court, pretty much every week. And if you want merch, go to broski.shop. Subscribe to this podcast if you want. We've also got some crazy guests coming up on Royal Court soon. Also, go stream my music if you give a shit, if y'all care at all. And if you want another song, I don't know, let me know. It's kind of up to you guys. Um, I will see you next week. Y'all be good. Okay, bama.

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