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Headquarters in Los Angeles, California, this is the Broski Report with your host, Brittany Broski. Well, in a merry month of May from me home I started live the girls at home nearly brokenhearted saluted by their dear Kiss me darling Mother drank a pint I bear my grief and here she was Mother then off to sleep the card leave where I was born. Guys. Oh, my God. Guys, it's official. I have a yeast infection. It's official. I do have a yeast infection. And I just got back from Ireland. Air from air. Isn't that how you say it? E I R E. E I R E. Pronunciation. In English, it is said as ayra. Ayra. British. Once you know, aira. And now you know. Oh, I'm so sorry, guys. I just got back from Ida and let me tell you something, like, actually lock in, because what a trip this was. So if you don't know, I did Reading and Leeds. I performed. I say performed in heavy quotations, Reading in Leeds, because what the fuck was that? That wasn't a performance. That was a Broski Nation meetup. That's all that was at Reading and Leeds. I was on the aux stage. And in Reading, Max Bagdex had hosted Love him Down, Love him to Death. And what a time we had in the south. And then went up north to Leeds. What a time we had up north with Charlie Mallow and I. It's kind of, you know, that north versus South England shit is. That's intense. You guys really hate each other, like, for real. That's your brother. There's not many of y'. All. Actually, there are. There's a lot of. There's a difference between English people and British people. Okay, now that's a lot of fucking English people. But at the same time, Tiny Ass Island. Very tiny island in the grand scheme of things. I had a time at Reading and Leeds. God. Chapel. Eight Down. Hosier. Eight down always does. Hozier gave a fantastic, beautiful speech about Palestine, which I think the BBC had censored. What's up there? Obviously, we know what's up there, but that was nuts. We watched it happen, like, in real time. And I remember thinking, is this gonna air? And something happened where they like, knew it was coming and they censored it, or I don't think they censored his whole set, but it's fucking T. Regardless. But, yeah, you know, during his shows, he has that. All these super. Just. I love him to death. He has these infographics and these. This imagery on the screen behind him of, like, Lockheed Martin share prices and all the fucking billions. Trillions of dollars that these companies make and how they funded genocide and all this. It's just, like, I never get tired of watching him. I've seen his set before, like, at other festivals, and then I've seen him on tour, and I don't. It doesn't change that much, but he does kind of switch up what he says a little bit depending on the city that he's in. And so Reading and Leeds. Wow. Amazing. I just. I couldn't love him more then after Reading in Leeds. But by the way, British festivals. What the fuck are y' all on? Like, British teenagers, like, camping, freaking your shit. Something's in the water. I don't. Y' all are built different. I don't know. There is a drinking culture in the United States of America, but it doesn't even touch British and Australian drinking culture and Irish fuck. Y' all got golden silver livers. Y' all got fucking titanium livers. I don't know how you do it. I'm serious. Everybody there was 16. I was like, what am I doing here? What? What am I doing here? I'm working, okay? I'm working. I'm actually clocked in on the job. I'm actually clocked in on the job. Had a damn blast. Okay? So after the uk, I headed over to Ireland with my girls. Yes, with my girls, Paige and Elizabeth and y'. All. Hozier has this interview with Zane Lowe for Unreal Unearth, where he says when talking about Ireland, he says there is a meadow in County Wicklow where he's from that he says, I swear to God, it hums. And I had that in my mind as I was, like, cruising around Ireland, because we did Dublin to Galway. Like, flew into Dubway, drove to Galway, did Galway for three days, drove to the cliffs of Moore and then across the island horizontally to back to Dublin to be there for, like, five days. And, man, I really don't know. Paige, Elizabeth, and I were talking about this the entire time. There is a whimsy in that fucking country that I don't think I've been able to put my finger on until now, because previously, I mean, I went to Ireland last Year, I did a show at Vicar street, and it was obviously the most fun I've ever had, but my trip there was very short, and I just hit the kind of tourist spots in Dublin, the ones that I could. And then we left, and I had a great time, but it just felt really condensed this time. We had more time to explore, to just like, sit at pubs and just talk. We played card games, whatever, met friends of friends, and it was. It was a time. I swear to God, there is something in fucking, like. There's a reason. There's so much folklore and so many myths and just legends and, like, just magic. I don't know, it seems cheugy to say it, but it is a magical place. Galway was. Was beautiful. It was. It was a time very. I kept seeing. Y' all know I have this psychosis with swans. Why are there swans all over fucking Ireland? It's like the only fucking bird there. Only fucking bird. Only fucking bored. I kept seeing swans. And I. And Paige and I have the same thing where we see swans. We're like, what? It's a fucking message. And so we kept seeing him, and I was like, I think, honestly, I'm choosing to believe that this is a message that we should be here. That's what I'm choosing to believe. I don't give a fuck if it's. I don't know if swans are just native to that region. I don't give a fuck. Kept seeing swans. I think I was supposed to be here. We did Galway. We did a whiskey tour of a few pubs in Galway. We did Oconnells shout out. Oconnells in Galway. That place is a fucking maze. First of all, got lost. And second of all, what a vibe. Met up with my friend Emily. Shout out Emily Galway girl. What else did we do in Ireland? Oh, my God. We saw. In Galway, we did a traditional dancing and. Or I guess, yeah, a traditional dancing moment where at Oconnells, we had Ronan shout out. Ronan. I don't know his last name. He came and danced for us. He did a little jig for us. Oh, my God, I got my life. And then another young gentleman, I cannot remember his name. He played the. The way he described it is at Irish bagpipes. But there is a name for it. And it's very different than the Scottish bagpipes that you blow into. This is like the elbow is doing all the work. It was so beautiful, and it was unlike. Well, it was similar to Scottish bagpipes, but it's very different in the sense of there's a constant. The way that he lifts up one of the things. One of the things. And then the thing that he's playing actually does have a reed. It's crazy. So I don't know. It's called a elin pipe. Ilan pipes. Ilan pipe. Now, what beautiful person submitted that pronunciation to Wikipedia? Ilan pipes, also known as Union pipes, sometimes called Irish pipes, the characteristic national bagpipe of Ireland. Their current name is a partial translation of the Irish language terms, literally pipes of the elbow, from their method of inflation. There is no historical record of the name or use of the term Illen pipes before the 20th century. It was an invention of Grattan Flood, and the name stuck. Grattan Flood. A guy. He was a noted Irish author, composer, musicologist, and historian. Shout out. Anyway, we went to o', Connell's, and there were two different types of songs that he would play. One is called a. I think it is called a jig. And one was called something. Oh, fuck, hold on. Maybe it says it on here. A real. Is one. Okay. Not. Sean knows it was a real. And then I think one was a jig, basically. One was more emotional and sad, and the other one was, like, more upbeat. And it also. They were varying depending on the time signature. Like, I would watch them talk to each other, the. The dancer and the backpack player. And he would say, do you have one in six, eight? Do you have one in three? Four. Do you have one in 4.4? Whatever. And it was like, wow, they speak that. And he would know what variations of the movements of the foot or the combinations of the moves to do depending on the time signature. Obviously, like, they study this and they know this, but for me, I was like, what? It was beautiful, bro. It was beautiful. I was having my. Oh, I was having a time. We did that and that hit, by the way, off the whiskey. I don't even like whiskey. And I was gulping that shit down, sucking it down with a damn straw. We did that, and then we did a. On the whiskey tour. Learned a lot. We had such incredible tour guides. One of our tour guides names was Danny. Another tour guide's name was Colleen. She was in Dublin. And our other tour guide's name was. It'll come back to me. And I'm gonna say it. Okay, I'll say it later. They were all fantastic. Very, very kind, very informative. And they. They sat down and actually, like, talked. You know what I mean? Like, of course, tour guides, they'll answer questions or whatever. But this was. I have Very specific questions. And I wanted to make the best use of their time. And there are such sensitive issues in Ireland because this has never been like a, you know, I'm making fun or I'm taking the piss, or I'm like trying to make light out of something that's obviously very still. It's very much still an active issue in Ireland. When you talk about, like a unified Ireland or when you talk about how recent British rule was, when you talk about the Troubles, when you talk about Belfast, when you talk about any of these things, it's like, I want to be very sensitive and intelligent in the way that I ask these questions. And sometimes I let that get in the way of me just asking, you know. And so we actually sat down with our tour guide in one of the churches in Galway and we talked about it. And it was one of the most enlightening, beautiful conversations I've ever had. And it's moments like that where I'm in a foreign country, albeit an English speaking foreign country, but again, that has an asterisk by it as well, because why is that? Right? Why is it English speaking. A magnifying glass comes upon my American education. And while I like to think of myself as a smart person, as a worldly person, as a culturally curious person who's always learning and who's always, you know, trying to understand things that I wasn't taught well or at all initially, it's. It's an embarrassing thing, especially as like a former gifted and talented student. I say that in quotations where you're told that you're special for your whole life and then you go out in the world and you realize, oh, you're really not sitting down. And having those kinds of conversations are really, really impactful. And it was. I just learned a lot, you know, about the troubles and about what the long lasting effects of something like the man made famine in Ireland in the 1840s. Like how just none of it is by accident, none of it is. All of it is puppeteered. And the evils of something like colonialism and colonization is. Of course we know it's evil, but it really. Remember a few weeks ago when I talked about the British colonization of India and how that only ended in 1947, like just raping the land and the culture and pillaging and taking and just bleeding a stone with no regard for the native people and their culture and their language. Obviously this isn't right. Like, okay, I know y' all know this, but to be there firsthand and to see these Monuments and to see the names and to see, you know, the Easter rebellion that was. Or the Easter rising that was 1916, like, the troubles is an issue that is still. It's not gone from, like, the living generations. So this isn't ancient history. It's in fact current history. And I just really, you know, I went into this trip with a mindfulness of. I've learned so much about Ireland and I'm very curious about the history of the nation and the people and the divides between the people and how sensitive things are, like North Northern Ireland versus Ireland and what are the public sentiments? What's the consensus on the potential in the near future of a unified Ireland? Is that something that, you know, people in the north of Ireland want? There are still fault lines between the Catholic and the Protestant communities in the north of Ireland. Like, Belfast is just such a. I'd love to go there next time. Next time I go to Ireland, we're going to do Belfast and Cork, Waterford, maybe. I just have such a deep rooted interest and admiration for the resilience of a people. And, you know, when you talk about Kneecap and when you talk about. And obviously this is kind of tied to. It is inherently tied to Palestine, and there is a reason why the Irish people are so heavily empathetic towards the Palestinian people is because this is not new. It's not new. We know genocide when we see it. We know occupation when we see it. We know denial of aid and resources when we see it. So, you know, it just. That was also heavy on my mind. Of course, it's always heavy on my mind. But in Ireland, it was just at the forefront, Very much at the forefront. And it's such a beautiful display of solidarity, seeing Palestinian flags everywhere, everywhere versus here, you know, and then you're talking about reading in Leeds and on the BBC and censoring the Palestinian flag and when people say free Palestine and all these things, it's like. It's just watching it happen in real time. It's. It's. So while we were there, I went to Electric Picnic, which is a music festival in Stradbali, and Kneecap performed. That shit was nuts. Kneecap performed and one of the biggest crowds I've ever seen, by the way. Nuts. And what Kneecap is doing, showing up to. By the way. When I landed in London, we drove by the fucking magistrates court that Mokara was being tried at or was having his hearing at. Like, as I drove by, I saw on Instagram that morning that he had showed up. And, you know, there was a Big protest outside and whatever. All the Palestinian flags and Irish flags and whatever. And I was like, damn, that's crazy. Then we drove by it and there was traffic. It was nuts. And I was in the car with some friends, and they were like, what is all that? And I was like, it fucking is Mokara. It's Mokara. He's in there watching that happen. And the context of that being. He requested an Irish translator. He can speak English. He requested an Irish translator, and they were unable to find him one. That's a statement in and of itself. The buzz around Kneecap is not the story, but the buzz around Kneecap is Palestine. That is all they're bringing attention to. But in doing so, they're highlighting all these other, you know, just like, yeah, throw that shit in there as well. What do you mean you can't find an Irish translator? Wonder why that is. There's so many things that, like, I'm taking from this UK and Ireland trip that's just like. I don't know. I'm always fucking thinking, aren't I? I'm always thinking up here. So we went to Dublin. We had a ball of a time. If you're ever in Dublin, please do the Viking splash tour. I'm putting that shit on the map. I know. It's like a local thing. If you ever go to any city that has a splash boat tour, which is a duck boat tour, which is duck boats From World War II, like from the 40s, are boats that drive on land. And then it's a floating device. Like, the wheels go up into it and then it floats. The most fun I've ever had, the guy who gives that tour. It's like a rotating list of people. By the way, I'm sweating like a hog. This is in my front room. The podcast room is in the front room of my house. It is, I promise, 88 degrees in here because the sun is. I'm just like. My back is wet and I can't focus on anything. They have a rotating, I guess, group of tour guides who will give this tour. And they are so dry, so witty, so funny. I'm bricked up the whole time. It was so much fun. I did it last time I was there. I did it again, and I'll do it again next time I go. Amen. Amen. Amen. So much fun. Dublin is a magical place. Dublin has so much history. I mean, that the. The. The. That island used to be connected via land bridge to Scotland. And we're actually going to Google this because I might Be talking out of my ass. There was a land bridge. And that's why the Celts, Celtic Celts, they share so much history. Land bridge between Ireland and Scotland. Ireland was connected to Great Britain via land bridges during the last glacial maximum and the subsequent period of lower sea levels. Though the connection was likely a fragmented one across the northern North Channel, rather than a continuous dry land bridge across the entire Irish Sea. These connections allowed people and animals to cross before rising sea levels eventually submerged these land masses, creating the Irish Sea. Okay, maybe I just lied. This is from 2004, the Irish Times. A scientist at the University of Ulster. There was never a land bridge between Ireland and Britain. If there was never such a land bridge, how did plants and animals arrive in Ireland in such an ecologically orderly way? Biologists and geologists have found their ideas on this totally at odds. One or more land bridges across the Irish Sea have seemed vital to explain the onward distribution of species from Europe via Britain. I'm reading this like Tucker Carlson. I just realized that the Irish seafloor has a great trough 100 meters deep running up the center, shallowing only at the northern end. At an important conference on post glacial colonization in 1983, UCC geographer Robert Devoy thought the most that must be granted was a low score, soggy, possibly shifting and partially discontinuous linkage. Okay, I just remembered. I don't care. I care, but not enough to keep reading. Anyway. My trip to Ireland was very magical. I met some very cool people. We had sisterhood. It was filled with sisterhood. Dude, I mean this is your sign. If you've been waiting on a sign to book the girls trip, I'm so serious. Take it out of the group chat. If you have friends that are worth going on a group chat on a girls trip with, please do it. Life is fleeting. Moments are fleeting. All we have is right now wearing my nice coat and great jewelry and lashes to cvs because today is all we have, right? Make a girls trip and it doesn't have to be expensive. Fucking drive somewhere. Like when you really. And when you spend an extended amount of time with people, the conversations can get really deep. It can. They can really progress to a level that you know, getting dinner or having the sleepover, like it can't always progress to that level. And this was just so bonding. I mean we soul bonded in Ireland. What else could you want? What else could you want? It was a dream. So yeah, I got back on Wednesday. I've been feeling like dead ass. I've been feeling depressed. I'VE been putting off filming the podcast because I'm like, I can't. I'm not in the right space to come back to fucking America where Trump is making the Department of War and sit here and try to be happy, like to be very, very transparent with you all. I am not feeling like it. I don't fucking feel like it. But it's this question of I will try because today is all we have. I refuse to let the powers that be win and I refuse to let the powers that be create a truth that is not truth. I reject that truth. We live now in a time where truth is subjective and it is terrifying to me. So I don't know, I'm reflecting on the Ireland trip and I'm just like, I am so grateful that I have people in my life and I have the means to have those life altering experiences of like, the world is so much bigger than me, so much bigger than my circle, it's so much bigger than my wants and my desires, you know, which sounds very duh, fucking duh. But at the end of the day, this is also something I've had to face and journal about. At the end of the day, I am American as much as I don't want to be, sometimes as much as it embarrasses me. I've talked about this at length on this podcast before. You know, being American has such a negative connotation. And while I don't think the world views Americans as bad, evil people, I do think that we are the laughingstock. And I do think that when I travel abroad, I almost go out of my way to make sure people don't notice I'm American until they speak to me, of course, and they hear my accent. But it's like, why is that? Of course we know why it is. But I want to be a part of the change that alters that perception. But in order to do that, you have to be honest about the state of what that perception is right now. What are we doing? I don't think the world faults the American people for what the American leaders, governmental figureheads are doing. But, like, it's regardless. It's just a deeply uncomfortable reality that every time I go abroad, I'm faced with, you know, like, ah, fuck. And we were joking about, you know, finding an apartment in Dublin, but I also don't want to be a part of the problem of reduced housing and, like, spiked housing, the housing crisis that is everywhere, arguably. So, yeah, Ireland, 10 out of 10 would recommend and taught me a lot about myself, taught me a lot about the troubles, taught me a lot about the history of British rule. You can make a difference in someone's life, including your own, with a job in home care. These jobs offer flexible schedules, health care, retirement options and free training. They also provide paid time off and opportunities for overtime. Visit oregonhomecarejobs.com to learn more and apply. That's oregonhomecarejobs.com.