82: Sherlock Holmes Crash Course

This week on The Broski Report, Fearless Leader Brittany Broski discusses milk alternatives, hosts book club, and provides a crash course on Sherlock Holmes. 👕 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: Seat Geek – Download the app and get 10%-off with code BROSKI2025 PDS Debt – Get your free debt analysis at https://pdsdebt.com/broski Zocdoc – Stop putting off the doctor – https://zocdoc.com/broski Songs of The Week: CAFé CON RON by Bad Bunny Arm’s Length by Sam Fender 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 01:35 – Milk Alternatives & Caffeine 08:17 – State of The World 09:43 – Beyonce 11:00 – Instrumental Music 12:00 – Ballet Warm-Ups 15:04 – Mustache Man 18:35 – Book Club 22:40 – Historical Book Store 26:02 – Sherlock Holmes 42:45 – Success Analysis 44:50 – Sherlock Holmes Cont. 45:52 – Maximalism in Prose 49:50 – Sherlock Holmes Cont. 54:28 – Book Club Cont. 59:44 – Paris Fashion Week 1:05:04 – Outro #brittanybroski, #broski, #broskination, #broskireport, #cortado, #espresso, #caffeine, #beyonce, #ballet, #paris, #sherlockholmes, #victorianengland, #paris, #fashionweek

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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.

• 0:51Brittany Broski?

  Hey guys, just doing a quick millennial cringe warmup this morning. Okay, guys, here's my five step millennial cringe facial warmup for the morning. You're gonna hit one of these. Then you're gonna hit one of these. Oh my God, they used to love that one. Where you tuck your front, your front lip. So if you've got a front lip, where's your back lip, do you think? I could show you some back lips. Anyway, sorry. Anyway, um, yeah, they used to tuck their top lip up under their gums. So their teeth, it looks like a rat. Yeah, I used to hit that one in middle school sometimes. I'm not even gonna lie. I used to hit that one. And I was like, God, I'm killing them. I'm killing

• 1:35Brittany Broski?

  them. And can I be honest? I get some of those millennial cringe compilations on Instagram. I watch them all the way through every time. And I'm just, I am overcome with a sort of primal rage. It's like a train wreck, though. Like I have, I have to watch them. I don't really have a choice. Okay, guys, lots, lots, lots to cover today. Welcome back to the Broski Report starring me, your host, Brittany Broski, occasionally Timothy Chalamet. Okay, only other person who's ever been on the show, Timothy Chalamet. So just note that. Some things really quickly.

• 2:12Brittany Broski?

  I did have a quartado this morning. Okay, now I've figured out what that is. That's gonna be three shots of espresso, steamed oat milk. And if you have never smelled what heated up oat milk smells like, I wouldn't recommend it. That shit made me gag. Okay, tastes fine, but then again, oat milk, I guess, is bad. Because there's, there's palm, uh, palm tree oil in it.

• 2:40Brittany Broski?

  I don't know. Everything I consume is made of plastic. I'm turning into a fucking plastic carton. There's plastic in my blood. I don't know. Everything's like, have you tried the viral milk replacement? Fucking, fucking macadamia nut milk. And I'm like, oh, great. So I guess oat milk's out. So I go look up what's in macadamia nut milk, plastic. Oh, perfect. So this plastic's better for me than the other, than the other plastic. Okay, thank you for clearing that up. What the fuck? And also, what are you gonna do? Go to a coffee shop and be like, one little, half a teaspoon of macadamia nut milk, please? I hate that feeling.

• 3:24Brittany Broski?

  Can I get the milk alternative? My tummy, I be shitting.

• 3:31Brittany Broski?

  Like, that's the, like, when you order a milk replacement, a milk alternative, you are admitting to the cashier that you are of a weak breed. Could I get the oat milk? Okay, you are at the bottom of the food chain. That's what you're admitting. Okay? My gut bubbles when I smell milk. That's what you're telling them. You're communicating that in a roundabout way. And there's something very humiliating about that. It's a humiliation ritual. Okay, when I'm like, could I get the almond milk? Oh, you're a puss? Yeah, yeah, sometimes, sometimes my, my butthole kind of bleeds when I poop. Sometimes I have milk and then the rest of my day is ruined. I have to stay home.

• 4:17Brittany Broski?

  Oh, not the cow milk for me. I'll actually have a fucking reaction. Yeah, I had a Cortado. I guess it was okay. Three shots of espressos, you know, that'll do it. And I had that about 30 minutes ago. So I don't know, how long does it take coffee to kick in? For real? How long does it take coffee to kick in? Within 10 to 30 minutes, but can take up to 60 minutes. Okay, great. The peak concentration of caffeine in the blood occurs after about 45 minutes. Y'all, once again, on this podcast, I am a ticking time bomb. Also, the last two episodes, I filmed in the same day. Surprise.

• 4:57Brittany Broski?

  I took an edible for one of them and then I filmed and it kicked in halfway through and then I filmed the second episode. So I was just about ironed a damn kite. And I did not even, I washed it back and I was like, good lord. I really thought I was like, they can't tell. Yay, you can tell. Hey, yeah, you can tell. Anyway, did a Cortado and now I'm doing, I'm working through these. Okay. Red Bull sent me these for free, these watermelon fucking, and I made the mistake. Because I'm only human and I bleed when I have a milk. They sent me these. It's watermelon Red Bull. Well, of course, the first time that I had ever tried this was in a sort of

• 5:38Brittany Broski?

  watermelon Red Bull vodka that I made myself that I almost puked up later. So naturally, when this sort of flavor combo hits my palate, I want to gag. And that is not Red Bull's fault. It's certainly a sort of Pavlovian conditioning that I've done to myself. Where now every time I taste the watermelon Red Bull, I also taste Tito's vodka. And I am a fan of both of those things individually, but not together. I would not recommend. Cause on TikTok, people were like, Watermelon Red Bull vodka. It's basically like a watermelon Jolly Rancher. And I was like,

• 6:14Brittany Broski?

  And me as a 27 year old woman was like candy in my drink. Yes, candy, candy. 27. Okay, walk, don't run. Wait, run, don't walk to try the watermelon Jolly Rancher fucking sugary drink. Sugary puffle in your diaper drink. Me like, okay, where can I find that? I just picked a wedgie. Okay, so. Update on that is I'm about three espresso shots and a watermelon Red Bull deep. And once again, how much caffeine is in a Red Bull? 80 milligrams per 8.4 fluid ounces. What is this? This 8.4 fluid ounces? What 80? That's really not a lot. That's less than a cup of coffee.

• 7:00Brittany Broski?

  How much caffeine? In an espresso? Shot 64. Okay, so let's do 64. Calculator. 64 times 3 plus 80. Fuck me. Okay, so.

• 7:22Brittany Broski?

  Okay, so I've got 272 milligrams of caffeine right now in my system. Okay, yay. Wait, that's awesome. What's the daily max 400? I've Googled this countless times.

• 7:39Brittany Broski?

  Daily caffeine limit.

• 7:44Brittany Broski?

  400. Can pregnant ladies not have caffeine? What is that gonna make your baby like have ADHD? Can pregnant ladies, can pregnant women have caffeine? Yes, pregnant women can consume caffeine in moderation. Excessive caffeine consumption during pregnancy over 300 milligrams a day has been linked to an increased risk of premature birth. I did not know that. Don't think I'm not pregnant.

• 8:12Brittany Broski?

  Okay. What the fuck was I talking about? Okay, so those were the sort of things I wanted to get out of the way before we get into the actual meat and potatoes of the episode, because I have, I'm about to, I'm about to go hog wild. I'm about to go pork and beans on this microphone. If y'all could sniff this microphone, I don't think you'd ever listen to this podcast again. Actually, it doesn't smell that bad. That was sort of just an intrusive thought of like, I've actually spit on this thing. What? I've hucked to it on this thing? Like, what the hell? So many times, it doesn't smell that bad, but like, surely no one else would want to sit here. You know what I mean? Okay. Here's some housekeeping, very, very quickly.

• 8:56Brittany Broski?

  Um, of course, the last two episodes were pre-Trump inauguration. Hey, I didn't realize how bad it was gonna get, okay? But a message to the general populace, especially during Black History Month, is that he does not have as much power as he would like us to believe. There are still laws and regulations in this country to keep him in check. Of course, he's sort of blasting through these executive orders, but ultimately, there are three branches of government to keep that power in check. So.

• 9:29Brittany Broski?

  I know it's a hard sort of piece of advice to be like, trust in the powers that be, because of course, you know, they're not really looking out for her best interest, and that's just sort of well-known. But at the same time, all these fucking, you know, constitutionalists, and all these like, freedom, freedom is the biggest. Okay? Just, we have to have faith that like, he will not win, is what I'm trying to say. You know what I mean? So my message is have have faith and keep the hope and we move forward. And that's honestly a segue point into something I want to talk about later, which is books,

• 10:12Brittany Broski?

  because I have book recommendations, but we'll find we'll move on from fuck Donald Trump to happier news. Congratulations to Beyonce, Gisele, Knowles Carter for winning the Grammy for Album of the Year after four snubs, four snubs. She has been nominated four times for Album of the Year, four years snubbed. Lemonade did not win Album of the Year the year that it was nominated. I digress. Cowboy Carter had one. Okay, now the cultural significance of Cowboy Carter. I'm not the one to actually speak on it. You know what I mean? Well, actually I have.

• 10:56Brittany Broski?

  Go watch the Cowboy Carter episode because I spoke on it. This is so like, you want to talk about deserving. You want to talk about the most like heavily awarded Grammy winning artist of all time. Thank you, Beyonce. Okay. And there's really nothing else to say. How about the look of shock on her face? I love her so much. I love her so much. And the tour was announced. Okay.

• 11:24Brittany Broski?

  Yeah. Yeah. Let me see if I can go. Yeah, I'm going. Yeah, I'm probably gonna hit two or three dates. Okay. What the fuck? Okay, two more things really quick that are just completely unrelated.

• 11:40Brittany Broski?

  In the vein of music, there is a YouTube video called Morning Jazz Playlist to Start Your Day, and the thumbnail is Snoopy making a sandwich. And I cannot recommend this video to you people enough. This video provides me a sense of calm and peace in the morning that I just cannot. I'm on this wave now where I'm trying not to listen to music with words in it.

• 12:08Brittany Broski?

  I'm trying not to listen to too much music with words in it. Okay, I'm doing a lot of classical. I'm doing a lot of exciting classical, Tchaikovsky and like Bach. Okay, and Str- Stroud- Stroudberg. And I'm also doing a lot of bossa nova. Then I do some of this, like smooth jazz for cooking. Or morning jazz to get your day started. And I'll do my little ballet stretches. Because here's another thing that I've discovered. Because I haven't talked to you in a while. I've been gone. I was in Paris and now I'm back, stateside. There is a plethora of YouTube videos on YouTube that I just get recommended on my homepage.

• 12:53Brittany Broski?

  But essentially, it's a morning warm-up bar. Because you know how ballerinas will warm up at the bar? That little bar?

• 13:04Brittany Broski?

  Doing the little plies and stretching or whatever and warming up their ankles and whatever. They put those for the Royal Ballet School in London. And I think two other ballet schools. Sometimes they'll put the full hour-long warm-up on YouTube. Of course, I don't really know what they're doing, so I can't follow along. But it's a good sort of motivator while I'll put that on while I'm in bed, still waking up in the morning. And I'm like, okay, let's, let's do it. Get up, let's stretch. You know what I mean? So I'll do that. And they always play classical, like piano in the background to warm up to, like exciting piano. And it's good. It's good for me, I think. Because here's my, my one qualm I've had with Bar Method. I love Bar Method.

• 13:46Brittany Broski?

  But they play like, fuck it.

• 13:53Brittany Broski?

  That sort of shit. Like, I, I don't want to hear Bad Habits by Ed Sheeran dubstep remix while I'm trying to work out. I don't want to hear that. Bar Method also is very ballet-inspired. Like, you do have to fucking work out on the bar? I don't want to, I love Florence and the Machine, but I don't want to hear Dog Days Are Over Radio Z remix. You know what I mean? No, what's that? They, they play that one song. Say my name. They play that song and I say, huh. Because I love Florence and the Machine. But I don't want to hear Florence Welch at 8 a.m. when I'm like, oh, fuck. Okay, I have to be tapped the fuck in to listen to horns of the machine.

• 14:36Brittany Broski?

  Okay, anyway, I digress. Yeah, I wish they played more classical music, which I'm not gonna sort of fall on that sword. I'm not gonna go up to the instructor and be like, hey, love what you're doing up there. A bit more Tchaikovsky would be nice. Thanks. I'm not gonna do that. Also, I'm not gonna say I'm the youngest woman in my bar method class, but I look around a lot and I'm like, all these women are forty and fifty. Like, older than me, doing it easier than I am. I'm huffing and puffing.

• 15:04Brittany Broski?

  Oh, fuck, oh, my sciatica. They're in the corner with their leg wrapped around their neck and they're doing this and they're in a full split and I'm like,

• 15:13Brittany Broski?

  but it's possible. You can get there. And I would get there faster if they could play Tchaikovsky while I'm trying to do my shit, while I'm trying to freak my shit on the bar, okay? While I'm busting my shit open on the bar, just play Tchaikovsky. Okay, anyway, yeah, I just think it's good for me. I think that type of music's good for me. It calms me. Because I'm a very, I'm pretty high strung these days. I'm pretty high strung. I can't really, I can't really get my shit under control. The first order of business for real that I like to bring to y'all's plate is I need a man with a mustache to worship the ground I walk on. Let me indulge you. I saw this TikTok, okay? And then I saw a YouTube short of the same sort of digital creator. And he was British.

• 15:59Brittany Broski?

  And he looks like Tom Selleck. And he was doing like a running video, but it was like a meme. Can I say like one more time? I'm about to piss myself off. Caffeine's about to kick in. I'm gonna watch this back and say, why, I need to go to a speech therapist. Like?

• 16:18Brittany Broski?

  But here's the thing too, is like, okay.

• 16:22Brittany Broski?

  It's so ingrained in our vernacular, I can't stop saying it. It's a crutch word. It's how I communicate. And now I'm hyper aware of it.

• 16:34Brittany Broski?

  And I'm gonna struggle for the rest of this episode to not say like every fourth word.

• 16:40Brittany Broski?

  Shit. It's like when you become.

• 16:45Brittany Broski?

  It's like when you become aware that you're saying, uh, uh, uh, uh, shut up. Okay. What was I gonna talk about? Oh, yeah, this dude, I don't even know his name, but I saw him and I got pissed off. Cause I was like, I was doing, I was doing so good. I'll come on this fucking podcast and speak into this very microphone that I'm speaking into right now. I'll be like, men are the bane of society. The world would be better without fucking men. And then I see one video of a man with a mustache and I say, oh, fuck. Oh, God. Oh, Jesus. Men to me are, uh, like mythical creatures.

• 17:28Brittany Broski?

  I do not interact with them in the wild. I leave them be. I don't really want to hear from them, but I will admire their beauty from afar. Cassie, a young gentleman with a sort of really nice upper body build. Beautiful hairline, great mustache. I'm looking, I'm.

• 17:47Brittany Broski?

  I'm staring from across, I'm across the street and I'm staring at you like this. POV, you're a man with a mustache. I'm across the street. Okay. We lock eyes and I'm doing the Miley Cyrus stare with blue eyes. And then a bus passes in front of us and then when the bus passes, I'm gone. That's, that's how I feel towards men these days. I'm like.

• 18:10Brittany Broski?

  And then the bus passes and then I'm gone. And then he's like, what the fuck?

• 18:15Brittany Broski?

  And then he looks behind him, I'm behind him, but I never say anything. I'm sort of, I'm moaning Myrtle. I'm like floating around him in a circle. I'm Nosferatu. You will bounce on it. That audio is the funniest thing I've ever heard. Shout out to whoever made that. Shout out to the creator who made the POV Nosferatu saying, you will bounce on it.

• 18:45Brittany Broski?

  Okay. Uh, yeah, so just wanted to get that out of the way as I saw TikTok this morning that about brought me to my knees. I need a man with a mustache, bad, but not that bad. Not that bad. I'm not willing to do anything for it or risk anything for it. If it happens, it happens. Okay, and I can admire beauty when I see it, but I don't need to own it. I don't, I don't need to be in a situationship with it and have it lead me on and leave me. You know what I mean?

• 19:12Brittany Broski?

  Okay, moving on to what I really, really want to talk about. Now here's the mother tucking meat and potatoes of the episode that I really wanted to get into. Book club, book club, book club. Okay, this is the book club episode where I didn't tell you what books to prepare for. So if you've read them, great. If you haven't, you should. That's sort of what the Broski Nation Book Club is, is it could be any book in existence and you come to book club and I'm like, you did the assigned reading, right? And you're like, ah, what, what is I reading? And I'm like, that just docked you pay. That just docked you pay and food. Your rations were just slashed in half because you didn't read Sherlock Holmes. And did I ever tell you to read Sherlock Holmes?

• 19:53Brittany Broski?

  No, but you should just know to, because I'm sin, I'm consistently sending out telepathic messages to all of Broski Nation. Okay, if you feel a brain zap one day, that's me trying to get in there. That's me trying to get up in there and you're resisting. And for that, I'm cutting your pay. If you're, ah, ah, my, my right temple is pulsing. That's me being like, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes, you will bounce on it.

• 20:19Brittany Broski?

  And that's y'all resisting. Okay. That's me. If, if you see me appear to you in a dream, that's for real. I've taken on my final form, which is Nosferatu. 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.

• 21:00Brittany Broski?

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• 21:07Speaker 02

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• 21:43Speaker 03

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• 22:03Speaker 04

  My first ever In the World show was when I was 10, and I sang at a park called the Georgian Devonshire. I was so nervous. I was 10, so they let me in only to sing my song, and they kicked me out right after. And then I remember I wrote, I've been writing since I was 10, so I wrote this song called "Lady in the Mirror", made this little track with it. But I just pressed it. And I remember I sang this song, and there was like five people in there. And I remember how myself I felt, and I felt like I understood myself and understood what I needed to do.

• 22:29Speaker 03

  So does that take us back to, "I sing just to know I'm alive"?

• 22:33Speaker 04

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• 23:16Brittany Broski?

  Let's get into it. The first book that I really want to talk about is... I recently was in... Well, when I was in Paris, there is a super famous old bookstore.

• 23:27Brittany Broski?

  An English language bookstore called Shakespeare and Company. And you know how like every city has that, it's like the famous bookstore. In New York, it's The Strand. One of them is called The Strand. There's some other super famous ones in like London. Uh, in Austin, there are some. And there's one super cool in downtown Los Angeles that, oh, it's. I could describe it, but I don't know if you guys would know the name. It's like multiple stories and it's got an arch that's made of books. Anyway, you know, it's like an iconic bookstore. Well, it's called Shakespeare and Company in Paris, and I went with my mom. There is a line out the door to get in, first of all.

• 24:10Brittany Broski?

  And I was like, well, what the fuck's so special about this place? It's got great history there. Walt Whitman, I believe, used to frequent it. Now let me go ahead and fact check that. Shakespeare and Company, why, why famous? I love, why use many word when few word do trick? Ah, I'm more than I can do a million of you.

• 24:37Brittany Broski?

  My final four.

• 24:39Brittany Broski?

  What the fuck? I have a fuzzy mustache and glasses. A Harry Potter scar appears on my forehead. Yo, please. That's how I feel. When you start quoting The Office, I've never even fucking seen The Office. That actually, I just pissed myself off. I just made myself very, very irrationally mad. Ignore that. Shakespeare and Company in Paris is famous for being a literary haven for writers and a center for innovative publishing. The store has been a refuge for generations of writers, including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Joyce. No fucking way. It was originally opened in 1919. It closed in 1941 during the Nazi occupation of Paris.

• 25:23Brittany Broski?

  The current incarnation of the store opened in 1951 and was renamed Shakespeare and Company in 1964 by George Whitman. Okay, so is George Whitman Walt Whitman? Walter Whitman Jr. Okay, so that's actually not, maybe George, maybe it's his son. It's his sibling. George, George Whitman. It's his brother.

• 25:46Brittany Broski?

  How cool.

• 25:49Brittany Broski?

  Oh Captain, My Captain is by Walt Whitman? I had no fucking clue. I seriously had no fucking clue, y'all. Okay, back to Shakespeare and Company. So we go in and it's relatively pretty small. Like, it's not the biggest bookstore you've ever been in, but it's honestly a great collection of a bunch of different genres, both old and new. There's a whole separate section for like prose and theater and plays, uh, music. And then there's a whole section for like children, young adult, and then there's mystery, then there's philosophy and whatever. Then there's actually an upstairs area where you can just go read. And of course, there was a line to get up there too, which is also pressure.

• 26:34Brittany Broski?

  Like, I'm sitting up here reading. I don't want, why is there a line of people coming up to be here? Like, I, like, I have a time slot. And so we go in and I was looking for some more Orwell and I was also looking for, oh, I read this cute other book called Half a Soul. I'll get there in a second. But I was looking for some more books like that, you know, like a sort of romanticy, but also any classics I could find if they were printed in a cool, um, cover. So I'm just sort of perusing and I come across A Study in Scarlet, which is a Sherlock Holmes novella. Uh, one of the first major ones that sort of everything after that

• 27:16Brittany Broski?

  started the Sherlock Holmes franchise, so to speak. Uh, at least the massive popularity of it. Studying Scarlet was published in 1887, I want to say. 1887, I'm a genius. It was published in 1887 and honestly, so Arthur Conan Doyle, you hear about him a lot. He is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He's the famous creator of the Sherlock Holmes character and world. And he himself was a very interesting person, trained as a doctor.

• 27:51Brittany Broski?

  He was a military man as well. And a lot of the, I would say, of course, you know, you write what you know. A lot of the wherewithal that both Holmes and Dr. Watson have come from Arthur Conan Doyle, because of course they do. And the actual character of Sherlock Holmes and all of his eccentricities was based on an old professor that Arthur Conan Doyle had when he was in school. Just this sort of baddie old professor who could make incredible conclusions or deductions from the smallest of details. And that's sort of the whole idea of what Sherlock Holmes is. If you've never read any of his stories, if you've never seen the show or any of the

• 28:36Brittany Broski?

  movies, if you just know him as, you know, the silly character with a pipe and a, the little hat. It is so worth the read. Sherlock Holmes, y'all know that I love a quirky, hyper-intelligent protagonist. And not in a sort of cringe way, but in a he's so genius, he's misunderstood type of way. I think those characters are so magnetic. And a few off the top of my head are sort of gonna be like a Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean, definitely like a Sherlock Holmes, definitely like, um, and I'm gonna throw another Robert Downey Jr. in there. I'm actually going to, oh, Mando, Mandalorian's another one.

• 29:21Brittany Broski?

  These, these characters that just like seem to have all the answers. And even if they don't, they fake like they do and then they figure it out. And they do that using the information available to them. Like at any given time, you're capable of, you know, it's just, okay, you get what I'm trying to say. So Arthur Conan Doyle creating Sherlock Holmes.

• 29:44Brittany Broski?

  Was a sort of passing, it was a short story at first that he published in a, either a newspaper or a magazine, people fucking loved it. He was a man of many different disciplines. I mean, he lived many lives in the 60, 70 years that, that he lived and just through all those different fields of study or interest, like chemistry, like medicine, like language, like travel, he was, all of these things, he was very well traveled, had a good grasp of understanding on the world. Later in his life, however, he had a very intense interest

• 30:24Brittany Broski?

  in spiritualism, which honestly, the more that I was reading about Arthur Conan Doyle, I was like, that makes so much sense because there is this sort of mysticism to Holmes, where he is, of course, a realist and he's very tapped into human nature despite being so unhuman himself. You know, he doesn't give in to the temptations or even have the urges of like a romantic relationship or any desires that the normal person would have of like greed, envy, this, that, but he, his mind rebels at the idea of what a Victorian English society is, you know, and he was able to look at it with a critical eye while

• 31:07Brittany Broski?

  at the same time, because no human is, is truly black or white, it's very nuanced. He's able to look at society with a very critical eye and in fact, give more credibility to the lower classes than the upper classes because the lower classes, you know, he, he had a sense of, um, shared, shared sense of identity with them, I guess, where, you know, he was well-to-do because he was a detective, a private consulting detective, that he made a livable wage, of course, but yeah, I mean, I think he finds that there's an, a raw honesty and a respectable sort of struggle within the lower class that he

• 31:49Brittany Broski?

  was much more willing to take on those cases, uh, of course, with a, a shared interest in the upper nobility cases as well, because those are fucking tea. And across the board, human nature is the same. And those are sort of the conclusions that he's able to come to. It doesn't matter if you're rich, if you're poor, whatever, human nature is human nature. 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

• 32:34Brittany Broski?

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• 32:45Speaker 03

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

• 33:05Speaker 06

  To this day, Ordinary would not have done anything, and I would have not been able to put it out if Book Talk didn't back it up, and if my wife and her friend didn't back it up. So, pretty crazy how like, just one thing.

• 33:17Speaker 03

  Right.

• 33:17Speaker 06

  I mean, you, I bet you, we could point to nine different things in our careers where it's just one thing, all of a sudden, if that one thing didn't happen, then I wouldn't be here.

• 33:24Speaker 03

  What you're talking about right now is what I've been talking about since the beginning of my career. There's these things outside of you that make everything happen. These other forces somehow came into contact with each other and helped propel you to this place.

• 33:42Speaker 06

  It's just insane.

• 33:43Speaker 03

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• 33:52Brittany Broski?

  Conan Doyle's interest in spiritualism, while at the same time, the natural sciences, whatever, make for a very interesting character, because those two things are opposed. And the beautiful thing about Sherlock Holmes, and the way that these stories are told, is that it differs from the sort of contemporary detective novel of the time, which, by the way, most were written by women. Love and love.

• 34:21Brittany Broski?

  But there are two sort of distinctive ways of writing a detective novel. And there was the sort of archetype that a lot of these women followed. And then there was Arthur Conan Doyle's, which was told through the lens of Sherlock Holmes's counterpart, Dr. John Watson. And they come to know each other through a sort of seeking a roommate arrangement, where they actually move in together. They meet each other and get along quite well, move in. And Dr. Watson, who is an Afghan war veteran, used to be a doctor in the military, becomes taken with Holmes. He is a mystery to him. He's intrigued by Sherlock Holmes, his comings and goings.

• 35:06Brittany Broski?

  He starts studying him almost as a sort of patient. And all the while, he's recording the escapades that Holmes goes on, the cases that are brought to him, how he reasons through them using purely logic and observation. And Holmes's whole philosophy is you see, but you do not observe. And one of the examples that he gives in, I think it's Scandal in Bohemia, he says, "How many times have you walked up the stairs, the staircase here at this apartment?" And Watson's like, "Hundreds of times. I mean, I lived here for, you know, however long." And Holmes goes, "How many steps are on the staircase?" And Watson's like, "I don't fucking know. I didn't count." And he goes, "Oh, yes, exactly." That's it.

• 35:51Brittany Broski?

  You see, but you do not observe. A lot of the time, what Holmes's process is, is you take in the, I'm addicted to Sherlock Holmes. I have a tattoo about it. You take in the details of someone from the details of markings on someone's skin, the state of their shoes, of the knees of their trousers for a man, or the gloves of a woman, things like this. Ink stains, anything like this can really give you insight into who is this person? What do they do? I've just met them. They're a stranger to me. But off the bat, give me five minutes of observation and I can tell you most likely their occupation, what troubles them and...

• 36:38Brittany Broski?

  As they're describing the predicament they're in, context clues of what they have on, or the particular ways in which they're behaving, can lend itself to you figuring, helping figure it out. You know what I mean? It's as much a game of criminal investigation as it is just deducing human nature and how we lie. We think we're really sneaky when we lie. We're not. You know, if, if to the trained eye, you know when someone is lying and there's telltale signs. So he incorporates all of these things and he reveals his method at the end. So he, here's an example as well. I was like, I love him so much. Dr. Watson and Holmes are no longer roommates. Watson moves out, he gets married.

• 37:23Brittany Broski?

  He comes back to visit Holmes and Holmes is, you know, a tweaker like always. He's on coke or he's doing this. He was addicted to opium. He's whatever and he's, "I've come across this incredible discovery." Just like super, I love a character like that. You know, he's not really there with you, but at the same time, he's very there. And Watson walks up the stairs. They haven't seen each other in a few months. And the first thing Holmes says is, "You've gained weight. Seven and a half pounds. And I see you're back in practice." And, you know, something, something, "And you've been experimenting with something." And Holmes, Watson goes, "How the fuck did you know that?" "Oh, and he said, you've been out in the country. It's been wet recently.

• 38:09Brittany Broski?

  Where did you go?" And Watson's like, "What the fuck?" He had a top hat on that had a bowl ginnet at the top, slight smell of,

• 38:22Brittany Broski?

  I forget the exact term they used, but it's essentially like a cleansing agent, like a chloroform or like a formaldehyde type of smell that was used a lot back then in laboratories. And Holmes goes, I see what could only be a stethoscope, hidden secretly in your top hat protruding and making a weird mark. You smell like whatever this chemical was that is used in medical offices. Your shoes have some scoring on them from where it looks like your housemaid tried to scrape off mud, but she's not skilled, and so she scraped your shoes. There's still mud left on them. On top of that, something like one of your hands is more swollen than the other.

• 39:07Brittany Broski?

  It's all these different things where he's like, it's very easy really with if you know what to look for. And of course, he has an existing relationship with Watson where he knows he's been a doctor. He just got married, all these things. So it's using logic as well as deductive clues. Like he's married, of course, he's probably put on some weight because when you're in a happy relationship, he probably gained weight. He's moved out, so he's no longer assisting Holmes in his investigations and getting some of that money. So he's supporting himself somehow. It must be through the medical profession because that's what he is. He's a doctor. And so, you know, it's all these things where it all just comes together. But when he delivers that, I say you've gained weight and you're back in practice again.

• 39:50Brittany Broski?

  And I say the, uh, there's some where he's like, I mean, it's just psychotic. He's like, and the carriage that got here, the carriage that brought them here, the front left horse had a lame leg, shit like that. And he sees it all from just the carriage wheel markings in the mud and how the horse was standing and holding his leg, just shit like that. Where I'm like, okay, girl, it's fantastical because it's a book and it's fun to read. I don't know how realistic that is, but it definitely makes for a fun story. Anyway, I finished studying Scarlet and there is a whole collection of Sherlock Holmes novels.

• 40:29Brittany Broski?

  And to be frank, Sherlock Holmes was a creation that Arthur Conan Doyle kind of came to resent. Sherlock Holmes kept the lights on for him, but he did not really enjoy returning to Holmes. He tried to kill him off. I mean, this isn't a spoiler because this book is about 200 years old almost. He kills off Holmes and his greatest adversary, Professor Moriarty.

• 40:56Brittany Broski?

  But then later, at the request of, I think, one of the publication houses, or just the fanbase, I guess, revived him and started writing some form of prequel books to his death, like some additional stories, like right before he died and things like that. And I, it's definitely interesting to think what an incredible character that he created, inspired by someone he knew in his real life and elements of himself. What an incredibly interesting thing. And the reason it works, okay, let's break this down. The reason that it works is because Sherlock Holmes' escapades are told to you

• 41:38Brittany Broski?

  through the lens of awe of Dr. Watson. Dr. Watson is so taken by Holmes, both in a sort of, this guy's really fucking weird sort of way. And also, he is just in constant awe of the talent and skill and intellect that Holmes possesses. And so, the publications of, you know, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes are detailed in the diary and journals of Dr. Watson. And he recalls where they were, what Holmes was wearing, where Holmes disappeared to, and when he came back, and what he was doing, and what they talked about, and all this. I think that that really gives Holmes an air of mystery. And you would not

• 42:22Brittany Broski?

  be able to get that same air of mystery if it was written from Holmes' perspective. And I think that's what a lot of other detective novels do. And I'm not going to say that that's what they get wrong, but I'm going to say that's what makes Arthur Conan Doyle's work stand out, is that here is this intriguing, mysterious, elusive figure that you want desperately to know more about. But you can only know as much as Dr. Watson gives you, because it's really limited to the interactions they have. We don't have a firsthand account. He even says that in some of these stories, you know, "It was months in between me seeing Holmes, and other than the occasional murder case solved in the paper, he didn't know

• 43:06Brittany Broski?

  what Holmes was up to." And it's a fun check-in every time they get back together. And Watson joins him on another adventure, is what's he into now? What's he been studying lately? What's new? How have world crises changed it, you know? If he writes in any of the wars, or... Whatever. So it's just very, I am loving it. Okay. I love your homes. 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

• 43:50Brittany Broski?

  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.

• 44:09Speaker 03

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

• 44:31Speaker 07

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

• 45:07Speaker 03

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• 45:16Brittany Broski?

  And this was another, because I read like an introduction to one of these books. One of the people who wrote the introduction said something to the effect of, it is quite often the works that took minimal effort, almost a lazy sort of effort.

• 45:36Brittany Broski?

  Versus the works that you pour your heart and soul into. The relationship that those two variables have to commercial success. It is astounding how the least amount of effort you put in, those go, those are what do well. And I, that really struck a chord with me because I remember during 2020 or even 2019, like when TikTok had just happened and I was just posting shitty little stupid videos and people were loving them. I would sit down and be like, okay, I'm going to take this shit serious. Right after I got fired, I got my first brand deal. I was like, okay, here we go. I'm locking in.

• 46:15Brittany Broski?

  I would write out skits or I would find one of those stupid AR filters and write an entire skit around it. I would write bullet points down, multiple different alternate takes of the whatever. And I would film it and edit it and upload it. And that wouldn't do as well as me being on the toilet, being like, I'm shitting my fucking brains out. And then me burping, like those would do millions and then me doing an actual skit, you know? And that's not to say that some of the skits didn't do well as well, but it was just this, I remember being so frustrated. Or even tweets, like I would tweet and be like something really stupid and that would go viral.

• 46:56Brittany Broski?

  And then I'd actually sit down and think of a punchline and my comedian friends would be like, this is so funny. And then the general public would be like, not, not loving this one. And I remember being like, am I just an idiot? Am I not that funny? But no, it's something to be said about, I think when you reach the most people. And unfortunately, as we know, the sort of general voting populace is quite stupid. I think it's that. I think Arthur Conan Doyle wanted to make these hyper intellectual novels about shit. No one cared about. No one gives a fuck. But it was important to him. And so he wrote that shit for himself and probably for

• 47:37Brittany Broski?

  other academics in his community who were interested in spiritualism and whatever. No one gives a fuck, okay? He wrote Sherlock Holmes as a sort of, yeah, I give this to whatever. And then it had immense success. And he was almost pissed off that that's what struck the fancy of the public and not this actual work that he cared about. And I would say by and large, most artists have that experience where it's like, really? This is what y'all are liking? That's my least everything I've ever made. But this kept Holmes' lights on. It paid him very well. He lived a very comfortable life. So, yeah, I don't know. It's a very interesting thing.

• 48:20Brittany Broski?

  So I bought Studi and Scarlet, finished it in what, two, three days? Love. Love. And I think also, I mean, you know, the older you get, you never stop meeting yourself. You never stop meeting yourself and finding out things about you and who you are and what you like. And I've always had a flair for maximalism. If you can't tell. I love just like almost annoying, superfluous, ostentatious maximalism. Gilded ceilings, you know, suede velvet walls with paintings everywhere and Wayne Scotting

• 49:05Brittany Broski?

  and this and that. Like, that's the sort of interior that I like. I like art that's maximalist and impressionist and hyperrealist and this and that. Books and prose like this, as it tells a story, because there's two different sides of it, right?

• 49:27Brittany Broski?

  Arthur Conan Doyle, or a compelling adventure novel from the 19th century, is different in terms of like being verbose than like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. If y'all ever had to read that book in school, oh my fucking god. Who gives a shit? 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, I'm talking like 75 pages straight of describing kelp. It was so verbose, it like pissed me off. So there's a balance, right, of maximalism and of using the English language as a form of an artistic medium.

• 50:10Brittany Broski?

  The way that an artist paints onto a canvas to create something that is artistic and beautiful, an author uses the English language, or whatever language, to do the same in literature. And it really takes an artist to craft a story in a way that is compelling, makes me want to read it to the very end, and incorporates just honestly, really great language. Because you can read as many romanticy novels as you want, but I don't know if that's improving your brain, if that's, you know, creating neural pathways in your brain. I read books like this and I finish it and I'm like, that was compelling.

• 50:52Brittany Broski?

  It kept my attention and I learned something along the way. I keep my phone nearby as I'm reading these, because I've got that dictionary app open. I am dictionary app-ing it. I'm probably the number one user of the dictionary app. Like, I think that as time progresses, and of course, Arthur Conan Doyle was an English author, the sort of choices that an English author uses to write a story versus what an American author uses, of course, they're distinct, they're not that different, but it's noticeable for me. It makes me glad that I have at least a sort of contextual understanding of how they spoke.

• 51:38Brittany Broski?

  Because otherwise, if I was just reading this like raw dogging Sherlock Holmes and I wasn't familiar with British culture, or especially Victorian culture, I'd be like, why do they talk like that? Like, it does not make sense. But of course, that's one of my special interests is etymology and how syntax and grammar and all these things come to be and how they come to be out of fashion and how we change and swap things out to make it more modern and, you know, what our vernacular is and how, you know, we lost the British you and like color and glamour. Actually, it's still in glamour. But you know what I mean? Where, why do these changes happen? And what is the significance of them? And it's very interesting to read these because it's so indicative of its

• 52:22Brittany Broski?

  time. And I love that. I want to feel like I am existing in the world that Holmes is in. And I think he, Doyle did a great job of really throwing you headfirst into nasty Victorian London. And that's another thing that he gets praised for is, he's not showing you like, like, for example, there's a Sherlock Holmes short called Scandal in Bohemia, which Bohemia is now, I believe it's in the Czech Republic, but it's been owned by a few, you know, it's kind of like a Texas, like Texas has been owned by so many different countries and now it's Texas, but now Bohemia is in the Czech Republic. Anyway, there is a story

• 53:03Brittany Broski?

  where the king of Bohemia comes to consult Sherlock Holmes, because there is a compromising photograph of him and a woman. And he needs Holmes's help locating the photograph and destroying it. Because so as it cannot be used as blackmail later. It shows the scandal of the upper, you know, nobility and things like that, where these matters must be handled privately, you see. It shows that while at the same time showing the really dirty unseen corners of Victorian London. Like I mentioned earlier, sort of like the opium crisis that was happening and other sort of

• 53:45Brittany Broski?

  Just taboo things. They talk about brothels and some known streets where madams are and, you know, the sort of underbelly of London, of industrial London, that is not, it's not a shining example of what the British Empire wanted to be known for, you know? And I think that that's, it's an important choice that Doyle made to be like, this is what I want to talk about. And it's shocking and it's real. And although these stories are set, they're fictitious stories, they're in a very real circumstance, in a very real narrative context. So I really, I appreciate that because, yeah, I don't want to hear about how fucking great the British Empire

• 54:28Brittany Broski?

  is. I want to know about how it sucks and the forgotten corners of it. Another thing I was gonna say about Holmes is, uh, he's so incredibly beautifully critical of Victorian society and, you know, how people compose themselves and behave, while at the same time, being a loyalist to the king. Very complex, very nuanced, very, you know, you want to love Holmes and all of his eccentricities, but that's one I can't really get behind. And it's, it's at odds with everything about Holmes. You know, he's always, I don't know, just to be for, for father and country.

• 55:05Brittany Broski?

  It's just a crazy choice, which makes me think was Arthur Conan Doyle, a monarchical loyalist, who's to say? Okay, anyway, here are some other just book related things that I kind of wanted to get into. Another thing I learned from Sherlock Holmes, again, just like a living and mentally living in this Victorian time, women who have been married would sign their name like this. So let's say, who the fuck am I marrying? Um, sort of like a, a Killian Murphy type situation,

• 55:46Brittany Broski?

  okay? So this would be how I would type my name if I was recently married in Victorian London. If you guys care. Brittany, sorry, if I was recently married to Killian Murphy in Victorian London, okay? Brittany Murphy.

• 56:06Brittany Broski?

  Nay, broski. Okay, that is how it keeps your maiden name, so it's not confusing. Now, listen to this. Then I started to wonder, did this come from? Because Nay means born, which honestly makes sense because in Spanish it's nati, like I was born here, or I was born this name, I was born whatever, nati. This is, to me, when I hear Nay, I think of someone being like, spoiled, Nay, rotten, you know what I mean? Where it's like, you have a word and then you've thought of a better word, or you've thought of a contracting word, a contradicting word, and you say Nay, this.

• 56:51Brittany Broski?

  But it's not, because that's spelled N A Y. So I don't know why I brought that up, because I thought they'd be related and they're not. Okay? So that's a cute little fun fact for you guys. Okay, here are two other books that I want to talk about, very quickly. I finished this book that was just a cute little recommendation from TikTok called Half a Soul. Oh my God! Y'all, five stars, five stars. It's a standalone book, this author, so this book is a Regency fairy tale. Hey, I'm locked the fuck in. Regency era fairy. My penis just got hard. My dick just got hard because the wire just hit.

• 57:36Brittany Broski?

  You know what I'm saying? This book was so fucking cute. It was so well-written. It is about a Regency era London, where this family lives in the countryside, and they're brought to London for, what's that called? For the season and the town. It's very Bridgerton-coded, okay? Uses all the same terms, all the same sort of social. Expectations and faux pas, whatever. It kept my attention the whole time. It is a not enemies to lovers, but I would say it's a sort of strangers to lovers. Strangers to friends to close confidant to lovers. And it's just a very simple, well-written story.

• 58:21Brittany Broski?

  The magic is easy to understand. They play with different realms without it being too overwhelming. The love story is so cute. It's not smutty. It's just a cute little story. And I was like, oh, my God, I wish these characters would continue into a second and third book and they don't. But this author, let me look up her name. This author does a series called Regency Fairy Tales. And so there's other Olivia Atwater. So there's other stories, but they don't have my beloved characters who are named Dora and Elias Lord, Lord Socia. Elias.

• 59:05Brittany Broski?

  Anyway, this book, I cannot recommend it enough. If you're looking for just a short little palate cleansing read, loved this. Loved it. I also read, let's talk about this for a second. Okay. I will not be reading Onyx Storm. And let me tell you why. Not a big fan of Rebecca Yaros as a person. Some of her politics are kind of concerning to me. And then I have heard nothing but negative reviews about Onyx Storm. They're saying that this feels like they're calling it. They're calling it the ninth Star Wars movie. They're saying it's very bad, very bad.

• 59:46Brittany Broski?

  And I was like, I don't want to spend 30 fucking dollars on a hardback copy of Onyx Storm just for it to piss me off. People are saying that it is no more storyline than Iron Flame, which is about to piss me off because Iron Flame was bad. It felt like she wrote herself into a wall when it came to the magic system. I don't know how your magic system works because you don't know how your magic system works. How am I supposed to follow along with you? What the fuck is a ward? What is a ward? And then the dragons are mad at each other and then they they're mad at each other and then they're fucking and then they're horny and then they're but they won't fuck. And then I also saw some spoilers, because who gives a fuck?

• 1:00:30Brittany Broski?

  That she writes it in like a Gen Z vernacular.

• 1:00:36Brittany Broski?

  That part. Um, that's not how I expected my Monday to go, like that type of shit. Where I'm like, I don't want to. This is a romanticy. Put me in that world. I'm trying to escape from my world. I don't want to read TikTok language on my fucking book. For that reason. Uh, it doesn't expand upon the narrative that they the cliffhanger left us on an iron flame. It's more miscommunication trope, which is my worst. It is my least favorite thing you could ever put in a book. It's two characters willfully misunderstanding each other with no conflict resolution skills. That's going to piss me off.

• 1:01:16Brittany Broski?

  I don't even know if I think I was seeing some notes about it being smutty, but it's like almost forced like it felt. I just. I'm not interested. And that is such a shame because I really enjoyed Fourth Wing. I think it set up a beautiful world and and a cool place for the story to go. There were some unnecessary tragedy in Iron Flame. Onyx Storm, I really don't, I'm not interested. And it's so thick. And so I'm seeing these, these people finish the book and be like. What the fuck happened? And that is a poorly written book. If you're at the end of the book, like, what the fuck did I just read? That's bad.

• 1:01:56Brittany Broski?

  And then I saw another stat the other day that was like, Onyx Storm is the fastest selling book in the last 20 years. And I was like, what? What a fucking joke. So I'm not really interested. If y'all are, well, what's her onyx storm? Not reading it. I don't really give a shit. Okay, some other things really, really quick. I went to Fashion Week. What the fuck? Who let me into Fashion Week? I went with Patou. The most fun you could ever think of. Went with Patou, they dressed me and my mom, so sweet. We had a blast. It's also, can I just say?

• 1:02:38Brittany Broski?

  Like, as a child of Tumblr, where I've been exposed to like. Jean Paul Gaultier, Runway 2003, fucking all that shit since Tumblr and thinking, this feels like a different world. I will never be in this world, especially as a bigger person. It is psychotic to now be like, I'm sitting front row at some of these shows. Pato is, I love Pato. I felt like a bad bitch in that outfit. And it's so playful and fun and it plays with shapes and textures and Zoe Deschanel was there and Mindy Kaling and it's just cool. It was very, very cool. And I'm just shocked that like, I'm in that

• 1:03:23Brittany Broski?

  conversation, you know what I mean? I'm so grateful. I had such a fucking blast. But, yeah, that was something that, shout out Pato for being size inclusive because that's a, a big thing, you know, with, we've been talking about this for a while, me and Team Broski of like, I've always been interested in fashion and it's fun. Fashion is fun. It's fun to take risks in and do something interesting. No one wants to see you in a body con dress on the fucking carpet, girl. Give us something and some fun glam. Like, that's why people gag for chapels because here's someone with a fucking vision. Here's someone with a vision.

• 1:04:03Brittany Broski?

  Please, God. So I think that's, it's fun, you know, like, when I do a carpet, when I did the Wicked carpet or Gladiator or any of the Star Wars carpets I've been to, play with that. Don't make it a costume, but play with it as a sort of visual inspiration. And me and my stylist, Kat Pollo, we fucking eat. It is fun. And I'm not really worried about being like, the most glamorous in the carpet. I want to be the most interesting, like, but with a very polished taste level. That's where I'm coming from. Growing up and trying to find brands that first of all, even give a shit about big fat bitches like

• 1:04:46Brittany Broski?

  me. It's like, I can't understand for the life of me why it's so fucking hard. Just make it a little bigger. It's because some of these companies have a complex about dressing fat bodies and they need to get over it. It's really nasty. So shout out to Patu because they have a pretty size inclusive um range. I was shocked that it fit me and I was like, this is great. So I think more of these designer houses need to, oh my God, Go TA actually did a, uh, they had a bigger girl in their runway show and I was like, thank fuck. My God, it's just awesome.

• 1:05:26Brittany Broski?

  It's awesome to see because and, and I, I don't want to say this in a way that uh pits bodies against each other. That's not what I mean by this, but what I mean to say is sometimes a garment can be sold better if it's on a curvy body. I believe it. You know what I mean? It's all the sensual, the sensual essence of a woman in couture like that or, or in a gown or a garment that just, there's something about a fuller body that shows it off. You know what I mean? Like the, the beautiful shapes and, and textures.

• 1:06:07Brittany Broski?

  And I, I think that for whatever reason, we're back in this like Kate Moss coke head runway model era where it's all about getting thin, get skinny, get skinny, get skinny. And I don't know if that's, you know, like it's, we're just really not in a mental head space right now as a country to bring that back when, you know, it's just overwhelming and exhausting all the time. Eggs are about to be $15 a carton and gas is going to be $150 to fill up your fucking tank and it's just like, and we're having an ED crisis on top of that? Give me a fucking break. So I don't know. The one good thing I will say about uh whatever the fuck is about to happen in politically

• 1:06:52Brittany Broski?

  and in the country is hopefully recession pop is back. Bring back recession pop. We need to get back into the club. I've been seeing a lot, lot of sort of, you know, we're all in agreement here that when shit like this happens, there needs to be an outlet of joy. There needs to be an outpouring of love in a community and celebrating life with people that give a shit about you. And then we tackle the problems of tomorrow together. You know what I mean? Like it goes hand in hand. It can't just all be doom scrolling and fucking, ah, this country's where it all the time. Like find pockets of joy for yourself.

• 1:07:30Brittany Broski?

  So I will leave you with that. And I want to say the song of the week is one second. Okay, I've got two songs of the week. One of them is CAFé con Ron, Porta by Boni. And the other one is Arms Lengths by Sam Fender. Those are my two songs of the week. Sam Fender going on tour.

• 1:08:00Brittany Broski?

  Okay, I love you guys. If you want merch, go to broski.shop. That's pretty much all I have to say. Go watch Royal Court. Go watch Royal Court. Please go watch it. Go subscribe to it. I'm not joking anymore. Okay, love you guys. Bye.

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