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But I wanted to make this point because I kind of had this realization to myself the other day, and it feels a little juvenile, but it's still true. I think that when it comes to like studying literature or people who do English lit degrees or anyone who's ever had to take like a British literature class in college or whatever, even Shakespeare in high school, like, you see this as such a daunting task. It feels insurmountable. It feels unapproachable, inaccessible. Like, this isn't for me. Okay? This is for scholars. This is for people who. I don't get this. I think that once you this is a message of hope for anyone who's ever felt that way. Because I sure I've felt this way. And I love reading. I love literature. There is a barrier sometimes between, like reaching across the table and saying, I understand this. Because what's important to understand is that every story that's ever been written, even the ones that are written hard on purpose, you know, like to okay, we get it, you're smart. They've all come from a human. And there is always going to be a touch of humanity to every story. That is a linking factor that I recently, because I've been, you know, studying Frankenstein and I've been obsessed with it since I saw the fucking movie. And I just like. It's always on my mind and I'm like, you know, I've always thought of these stories like Frankenstein, Jekyll and Hyde, Picture of Dorian gray, Moby Dick, 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, like Count of Monica. All of these novels, that's like, these are the most famous books ever to be written. They feel so, like, untouchable. And that's intimidating as someone who's just like, pleasure reading. But I think the older I get, the more I'm like, these were just normal people who had an idea and thought to write it down and look at the lasting impact that it had. And it's honestly really inspiring as a creative, because it's like, I just have this idea and I have to get it out. They had no idea they were gonna become some of the most famous, well loved, most important novels in all of human history of all time. I think that. That as an adult, I'm like, I remember being in school and feeling like, this isn't for me. You know what I mean? Like, this level of literature, this level of scholarship is not for me. This is for academics. And that couldn't be farther from the truth. These are human stories. And Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, all these people, they've become almost these infamous characters in history. They were humans. They died very tragic deaths due to natural ailments, like most of us will. Most of us do. I think that that kind of, when you bring them down on this human level where they're not so different from you and me, they just lived 200 years ago. They didn't have access to. You know, I think Lord Byron and Percy Shelley both died of fever. Like, very curable things that we are so lucky to live in a time now where we don't lose some of the best creatives to ever live to something as curable as a fever. So I think that's helped me kind of break this down. And Frankenstein is not an inaccessible story. I think also because it's so fantastical, it's a bit easier to sink your teeth into. However, I didn't always feel that way. So if you've ever felt intimidated by reading something that feels a bit, you know, beyond your reading level, try it. There are plenty of resources online, and when you finish it, feel proud of yourself. It's a feat. You know, this was written 200 years ago. Like, take a second, sit with the material and remember that it's for everyone. So that being said, let's talk about it. Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein really closely follows the original book, the original text. It is a series of letters that this ship captain is writing to his sister, I believe. And in the letters lies Victor Frankenstein's story and the creature's story. Okay, so the long and short of it is Victor Frankenstein, scientist, sets out to create human life without a womb, without any of these things. He sets out to create and to successfully render a reanimated corpse. He's successful. But here we are again with this moral question of when science outpaces morality, what happens? He's met with this predicament face to face. You've done it. You've reanimated a corpse. What now? You have to teach it how to be human. You have to teach it how to philosophy. You have to teach it morality. You have to teach it how to function. It's not a baby, but mentally it is. How do you teach it tenderness and kindness and how to care, how to have empathy without turning it into a monster? Because, again, it's a man. And what Guillermo del Toro really injects into this story, because like any director, you put your own lens on, on the story, is the relationship between a father and son and generational trauma, cycles of trauma, these sort of things. I think that the. The creature. Because I don't. I don't care to call it a monster, right? The creature is innocence personified. That's how I saw it. I think that when you have created innocence, it is only a matter of time before that innocence is corrupted, because I don't think in this world that we have, innocence can be untouched. I wish that weren't the case, however, in his story, at the end of it. And of course, I'm not going to ruin it, but there are themes of forgiveness, how difficult forgiveness is, even when maybe they don't deserve it, offer it anyway. The relationship between father and son, the relationship of femininity, femininity to innocence and to gentleness. Color, okay? Color is a big theme in this movie. He really uses red, by the way, Oscar Isaac. Oh, okay. Let me talk about the fucking movie for a second. That's kind of the general structure of the story, is that it's a series of letters that details the creation of Victor Frankenstein's creature and how he escapes and the eventual, you know, tying up of a bow of the creature story. So Oscar Isaac plays Victor Frankenstein. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, by the way, Oscar Isaac plays Victor Frankenstein. Y' all know that one of my favorite movies of all time is Robert Downey. Junior Sherlock Holmes. Hello. And can Guillermo del Toro do Sherlock Holmes? Please, for the love of God, please, can we just, like, find a way? I'll. I'll help finance it, okay? Now, I don't have the money for it, but I will find a way. I'll sell something. I'll figure it out. Just leave it to me. I think that while I'm drawn to female madness, I'm also drawn to the idea of the mad genius. Okay? Two separate ideas that overlap. It's a Venn diagram, okay? This idea of you have reached a different level of consciousness because you're so damn smart, because you're so damn tapped in, you're not here with us anymore. Or what's worse is, like, almost on this level of fake. Fake genius. Like, just delusion. And I think that that's a whole other Venn diagram, okay? So anyway, the reason I love Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes is because he plays that genius, that madness, so well. Jack Sparrow's probably another example. Maybe. Like, the character of Captain Jack Sparrow is so, like, you think he's aloof, you think he's crazy, but that motherfucker is smart. He's always scheming. He always finds a way out. He's very charming. He's very slim. Like, all of these qualities, I just. I. I love it in a main character. I froth at the mouth for it. It's some of my favorite shit ever in storytelling. Just like a charming gift. And I know I need to read whatever the fuck that book is. Six. Six of Crows? Is that what it's called? Six of Crows? I know a lot of y' all are like, you would love this fucking. And I watched that TV show way back when. Shadows. Six of Crows. Yeah. Leigh Bardugo, she also wrote. What else did she write? Ninth House. And see, I didn't like Ninth House. I did not like Ninth House. It felt forced, and it felt like there was really sensitive graphic subject matter that had no. It served no purpose in propelling the story along. It was kind of like trauma porn. That's how the Ninth house felt to me. To me. Shadow and Bone. That's what I'm talking about. Shadow and Bone. 2012 is crazy. That TV show came out, and I liked that TV show. Cal. What's his name? Yeah, I'm into that. Isn't that his name? Six of Crows is about Kaz. Yeah, Kaz. Not Cal. I'm into that. Okay, hold on, hold on. I need to tap into this. If any of y' all have read this. Tell me if this is too ya. And even if it is ya, that's fine, because I. Sometimes ya really hits. However, Oscar Isaac's portrayal of Victor Frankenstein is unlike any Victor Frankenstein I've seen before. It felt more. Less like mad scientist and more like I believed him. He was mad. He played madness so well. And the way that it spirals out of control to the end, it almost returns him to his humanity. Like, I don't know at what point along the way along the arc he lost his humanity, but at the end, you return to it and what a beautiful homecoming to humanity. It is heartbreaking. And so. And honestly, you know, the whole. For any conversations around Frankenstein, a lot of it will say the creature, the monster, is more human than Victor himself. Which is true. Which is completely true. Which is true of any story. Of someone who has experienced oppression, you learn your oppressor. It's true of anyone who has undergone a level of trauma that almost like knocks you back a few paces. It's like you look at the world through a different lens and that's what the creature goes through of. You are hyper aware of not only the cruelty around you, but the beauty. And watching Frankenstein's creature learn the world and the small things to find beauty where usually we don't pick up on it. It was so. It made me cry. It was so good. It's gonna make me cry again. So good. Oh, and Jacob Elordi. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I don't think I talk shit on Jacob Elordi at all, but now I'm crying over him, so that's awesome. He did such a good job. He was such a good monster. He made me cry. Why are they mean to him? Why are they mean to Frankenstein Monster? Oh. Oh. Anyway. Anyway. Okay. This movie is so good. Wow. I love this movie. Oscar Isaac did a fantastic job. This episode is sponsored by Rocket Money. Ever feel like your money just disappears each month? 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Make sure you click the link in the description to download the app and have the code automatically added to your account so you can use it later. Thanks SeatGeek. The use of color in this movie is something I really want to talk about. Also. Sorry I'm from the South. I say movie. I don't give a fuck if it's a film. I don't give a fuck if it's a film. It is a movie to me. It's a movie. And I saw it at the movie theater, and I didn't see a film at the cinema. Okay? I think that the usage of color in this movie is. It's like a little treat for an audience. And can I just say really quick for any actual. I don't want to hear it for any film bros. Any film ladies out there, you take this shit serious. You do the journal. Okay, okay, okay. I'm not a huge moviegoer, but I can appreciate the artistic. The artistic choices made in a movie like Frankenstein. It's for me. It's for me. Okay? I know Guillermo del Toro is talking to me. To me specifically. It's that sort of. Okay, I get it. I get that there's other. There's better movies. There's this, there's that. You like this director, then you should. This one's actually better. I don't give a fuck. I don't give a fuck. I loved this movie. This was for me. That being said, red, the first time we see red is Victor Frankenstein's mother who dies tragically. There's always a dead mom. There's always a fucking dead mom. Okay? That's how these stories start. Dies very tragically. Childbirth. Red, throughout the rest of the movie kind of symbolizes. It could symbolize so many different things. And again, like, I could write. I could write a paper on it. Sometimes we see Victor Frankenstein with red gloves. That could be blood on his hands. Sometimes we see it as a neck scarf around his neck, maybe something strangling him. I chose to see it as each scene that we see him in a new costume, it's a piece of his mother. That's how I chose to see it. How through all of life's cruelties and what hardens you and maybe callouses your soul, you always, deep down, have this touch of softness. Because humans are soft creatures. We are frail. Human life is so frail, and it's mortal, and it is finite and it ends. And isn't that the greatest tragedy and the greatest blessing? And so the red. The red to me symbolizes this feminine softness that as Victor goes through the rest of his life, that occurrence of losing his mother, he's never the same. And maybe that in some fucked up way, influences or informs why he is so fixated on reanimation, why it's so important to him to bring someone back from the dead. This is his instigating action. This is what, for the rest of his life, is his mission. And there are a few points in the movie where I'm like, God, it's so good where you see him kind of question, what am I doing? Like, I have lost the plot, but I'm way too far. I'm too far gone. I have to finish this. I have to see it through. What I found interesting in this version is there's no Igor. There's no Igor character. There's no, you know, evil assistant like Marty Feldman or, you know, whatever. This type of, like, crazy, kooky character. That's his assistant instead. Christoph Waltz plays the rich patron, the rich funder of Victor's scientific experiment, which is crazy because I don't know if that's in the book. It's been a long time since I've read the actual book, but I think that that choice lended itself to telling this Guillermo's version better. So color red. With Victor, the creature is first. When we first meet the creature, he's swathed in white, almost like a baby. He's wearing a diaper and white bandages. You know, it's very like, white is purity, white is innocence. Towards the end of the film, completely black, completely fur black, almost like balaclava gloves. Everything is just. We see him hardened. And also through the story, we see that these pieces of clothing are acquired through maybe some trespasses that he's done, maybe things that have been gifted to him by a kind passerby, like the people he meets along the way. I. It's just there's so much to say. There's so much to say. Okay. Mia Goth. Wow. And can I say wow, I haven't seen. What's the famous one Mia Goth is in? That's like her. Her famous role. Pearl. Yeah. Maxine X. Oh, my God. She's gonna be the Odyssey. Don't get me started on the Odyssey. What's the one where she's in the blue dress? You know the one I'm talking about. She's in the blue dress and it's one of her famous. Maybe it's Maxine. I don't know. Anyway, I've never seen her before, and I'm woman enough to admit that. She blew me away in this mood, Ray. She blew me away. I believed every word that came out of her mouth. I believed every word. She played softness so well, so well. But also very articulate, very sure of herself, very real. The use of color with her so smart. She is always either in this really vibrant teal or green. We also see, which was gag. And I read this after the fact, and I was like, God, we know that Guillermo del Toro is a super fan of Frankenstein, like, addicted to it, obsessed with it. In the scene where Elizabeth is her name, where Elizabeth's getting married, Mia Goth's character, her wedding dress resembles the bride of Frankenstein's dress. That is the. It's almost like bandage wrapping around the arms. And it's just so good. It's so good, dude. Her hair, the feather, it felt very. What I love about his costume design is it feels very period piece, but it also feels very fantastical. It feels whimsical, physical and fairy tale. And it's, like, a bit drag. It's a bit drag. I wouldn't say it's campy, but it's definitely, like, a bit over the top, which I love, because I'm of the opinion. I'm on the side of the table that's like, this is a movie, okay? This isn't a historical documentary. This isn't a historical retelling. This is a creatively curated, personal view of the story of Frankenstein. So if that version is very whimsical and very, you know, the costuming, the set design, the fucking ship, I'm just like, I cannot believe it. It's the best movie ever. And did I say that about Elvis when it came out, too? Yeah. I honestly, I wonder, like, if I rewatch Frankenstein in six months, I think I'm gonna feel the same way. This movie, it moved me. It moved me. I don't know, because, you know those type of movies where at the end, it's almost like. Like, fuck the screen. It should just be a mirror. Like, metaphorically, it is a mirror. And this feels kind of like, all right, we get it. Queen. Hey, Queen. We get it. But it does. Like, these stories. Any story. Like, Picture of Dorian Gray or what Am I? What did I just read? Babel? Like, these stories genuinely pick anything where at the end of it, you are left feeling with the question of, what am I? Who am I? Is this what I want to be? Is this what I want to emit? What I. What I want to reflect back to the world. Like, any story that holds a mirror to humanity and the cruelty and kindness of humanity. And how do those two. It's oil and water. And we are so complex, and we're so fucking hypocritical. All of us, every single one of us. And it's like, how can all of that so perfectly fit within the eight pounds that the human head is like, I don't. It's amazing. I literally. I sat in the theater afterward, I saw it with Stanley and I was just sobbing and I was like, I cannot believe. I can't believe it was so well done. Like, I genuinely. Okay, let me move on. Damn. Let me move on. Okay, this was a question I had that of course, we're going to kind of dive into. Is reanimation possible now? Don't laugh, don't laugh. Because you'd Google it too, and you'd Google it too. And I'm going to Google it. This is from palatinate.org.uk it's not just on a dreary night in November that science fiction can come close to reality. Mary Shelley's most famous novel, Frankenstein, depicts a man so obsessed with life and death that he tries to make life from the remains of cadavers. The endeavors Shelley envisioned may not be so far from modern day scientific accomplishments. From organ transplants to the restoration of activity to dead brains, the question on everyone's thoughts is, will it ever be possible to create Frankenstein's creature? In 2019, the concept of reanimating life was taken to be something close to reality when scientists from the Yale University School of Medicine were able to revive function on a cellular level in 32 pig brains. What? The pig brains were acquired from animals who were already deceased. And the restoration was assisted using a machine, Brain X, which encouraged fluids and oxygen to flow back through the cells. Brain X acts as an artificial pump, supplying the brain cells with a fluid similar to blood. But how far dead do you have to be also similar to blood? Why wouldn't you just use real blood? The team man. Okay, because here's the deal. I ain't no scientist. I don't know what you're doing in there when them pigs ain't putting in the pig brain. I really don't know. I know some people who got a pig brain. Most of them got a painter between their legs, too. I got it. I got. Oh, yeah, I got a pig dick for brains. Scientists at Yale still insisted this is not a living brain. And while this is still a far call from the assemblage of multiple body parts into a new being, it does allow multiple avenues of research. There are applications for the treatment of heart attack sufferers and the study of brain disorders and brain diseases. A central theme of Frankenstein is morality. And as with any groundbreaking research, the reanimation of the brain cells does raise ethical questions on the Definition of death and the extent to which brain X could be used to restore brain activity, as well as the use of animals in their research. Yeah, that's a whole. Talk amongst yourselves with that. You know what I mean? With like the mice and the pigs and the rats and the cats and it's like, is it. Is it ethical? Is it in the name of science? What do you do with animal rights activists? Would it rather be on a human cadaver? Is it ethical if a human in death or not in death, consents or does not consent to being used as a scientific prop? And what about the people who do consent? How would their family members feel about that? I mean, there's just so. There's so many gray areas. The Yale team insists that they are not attempting to restore consciousness in dead brains and took steps to prevent this too. Instead, their focus is on investigating the brain's activities and structure. The reanimation of these cells is still a far call from the creature Mary Shelley imagined. This is not the first time scientists have tried to preserve tissue after death. At the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Alexis Correll worked on maintaining small tissue samples in petri dishes by supplying them with oxygen and nutrients. He was even rumored to have kept a chick's heart tissue alive after death. The focus of Carell's work was investigating a way to grow organs artificially for transplantation. Whoa. A concept that is even beyond the creativity of Frankenstein. But today is very much a reality. Teclasenbet Bayan was the first man to receive a windpipe transplant grown from stem cells in 2011. Why did I not know this? I feel like this would have been a. A global. The creation of new organs from stem cells is not the same as reanimating dead cells. The Franken concept of creating from nothing is an ever growing field. Could these grown organs ever be considered the same as those we were born with? Or are we just creating many new variations of ourselves? So while the answer to the question are we able to create Frankenstein's creature? Is still a strong no, the reality of distinguishing between the nature of life and death is not so clear cut in biology. Cells, tissues and organs are just one part of the equation of creating life and the part they play in conscious and sentience Is just as debatable as when Shelley first questioned it in 1818. It is uncertain if other cells could similarly be revived after death. But if brain cells are only the start, it is impossible to say what other organs could be revived long after the tissue has died. I just saw something on God's Internet that was. Some famous composer has hooked up some of his brain tissue to, like, musical instruments. And I'm not sure what exactly the science is there. And of course it's all kind of gimmicky, but essentially forever he will be creating music. His cells will create music. And it's in some art gallery. Composer who. Here we go. Artificial brain. In Australia, a team of artists and scientists have resurrected the US composer Alvin Lussier. It raises a storm of questions about AI and authorship. And it's also incredibly beautiful. This is crazy, guys. In a darkened room, a fractured symphony of rattles, hums and warbles bounces off the walls like an orchestra tuning up in some parallel universe. But there's not a musician in sight. If you look closely, there's a small fragment of a performer, albeit one without a pulse. Whoever wrote this is so dramatic. In the center of the room, visitors hover around a raised plinth, craning to glimpse the brains behind the operation. Under a magnifying lens sit two white blobs, like a tiny pair of jellyfish. Together they form the lab grown mini brain of the late US musician Alvin Lussier, composing a posthumous score in real time. Lussier was a pioneer of experimental music who died in 2021. But here, in the art gallery of Western Australia, he's been resurrected with cutting edge neuroscience. First, his white blood cells were reprogrammed into stem cells. Then, led by Hodgetts, the team transformed the cells into cerebral organoids, clusters of neurons that mimic the human brain. What are we talking about? Hey, hey. What are we talking about? The revivification team used custom technology to bring the work to life. Lussier's organoids were grown onto a fine mesh of 64 electrodes developed with a German bioengineer, allowing neural signals to be captured from multiple layers, much like a developing brain. They then adapted an open source platform to interpret this activity and generate sound, turning the artificial brain into a live, responsive performer. Importantly, Lucier's organoids don't just produce sound, they also receive it. Microphones in the gallery pick up ambient noise, including human voices and the resonant tones of the plates. And that audio data is converted into electrical signals and fed back into the brain. We're very interested to know whether the organoid is going to change or learn over time. Organoid. What are we. This is freaking me out. The project raises timely ethical and philosophical questions. Yeah, about biology, artificial intelligence and authorship. But according to the team, revivification is an art first and Science. Second, what. Where does creativity lie? As cultural workers, we are really interested in these big questions, but this work is not giving the answers. Instead, we want to invite conversations. Can creativity exist outside of the human body? And is it even ethical to do so? You want my opinion? Sorry, do you want my opinion? No. Creativity doesn't exist outside of the human body in the sense that we're talking about it as in a creation, not as in nature. Nature is its own creation. Nature is its own beast, its own entity. I don't involve nature and natural processes like bird song and the growing of a flower. I don't consider those things to be creativity, okay? Because it is, but something divine, okay, that's something not of, of a human. This is of a human music as they're talking about it. Everything involved in this has to do with human science, humans harnessing science. And in that sense, if we're talking about human creativity, no, this is not creativity. This is science. Because there wasn't a person behind it who's. Who translated their idea into this. However, someone had the idea to do this. So I guess it's creative in that sense. But is it art? I guess everything's art. Damn. What the fuck? Can creativity exist outside of the human body? I'm gonna take a hard stance and say no, even though there's. There are caveats and there are asterisks and there are exceptions. And you know what else I saw recently? Something said it's not a rule if there's an exception to the rule. Shut the up hoe. You're pissing me off. You're pissing me off. Because. Rules. Now I'm worked up. Now the red bull's talking. Now the monk fruit's got me gapping. There are rules to society because that's how we qualify everything in life. Rules, consequences, rewards. That's how we compartmentalize things. It's how society functions. It's how we're kept in line. It's how we keep out trouble, which is an impossible task, okay? But it is close to achievable, okay? If we don't have a risk and reward and consequences system, things like prison, things like punishment, things like rewards, then there is no society. There's no civilization. You know what I mean? There's no social. Not hierarchy in the sense of like that kind of hierarchy, but like the things we need and the things that are important, security, all of these things. Like, I think that in that sense, I don't know, creativity exists outside the human body. Who fucking knows? Who fucking knows, is it ethical to do so? I'm going to also say no with a caveat. Oh, yeah, that's what I was saying. That bullshit of it's not a rule if there's an exception. Let's read about that. Okay, we're on Reddit. R, slash. Explain it like I'm five. What do people mean by the exception that proves the rule? If you claim that an exception to a rule exists, that must mean you accept the rule itself also exists. If you put up a sign saying no parking on Tuesday, then you are tacitly acknowledging that parking is permitted other days. Okay? Period. Okay, so I saw some rage bait shit online. It fucking rage baited me and it got me. An exception to the rule doesn't disqualify the rule. We have to have the rule. Here we. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. In 1984, this is what some. Some Reddit user says in 1984. Orwell occasionally mentions that nothing is illegal in Oceania because there are no laws. Your example is the reason why. If Big Brother made a rule prohibiting parking on Tuesdays, it might carry an implication that parking was allowed on the other days. But if no parking law exists, then parking is neither legal nor illegal, and the party can arrest you for parking on any day for any reason they choose to build on this. The common use can still be viewed this way. In this case, the rule would be parking is allowed. Technically, no parking on Tuesday is an exception that disproved that the rule is always absolutely true, but does prove that outside of that exception, a general rule exists, period, period and period. That. That makes sense to me. That's completely valid. Technically, no parking on Tuesday is an exception that disproved that the rule is always absolutely true, but does prove outside of that exception, a general rule exists. That's what I'm trying to get at, is that we need general rules that are evergreen, but there are moments when it doesn't apply. Sure. Fuck it. Okay. Anyway, what the fuck was I talking about? Off. Off the monk fruit Red Bull. I am philosophical. I am thinking, and y' all don't want me to start thinking. My big beluga whale brain, it's pulsing. I'm sending out sonar, I'm sending out echolocation with my fucking beluga whale brain. And that's scary. Okay? Don't. Don't get me on my sonar. Okay? You know another question that I, I consider a lot, you know what I consider a lot is are they the villain or are they just misunderstood? Right. Is Victor Frankenstein the Villain is Frankenstein's monster. The villain. Neither of them are. Well, Victor Frankenstein is Victor. Here's the takeaway, right? The classic kind of cliche, only because so many pieces of artistic. So many artistic endeavors have landed at this conclusion that is a bit cliche and a bit corny of, like, the monster was Victor all along. The real monster wasn't the creation, it was the creator. Right? It's kind of cliche. It's kind of corny. It's kind of like. Like, rip off the mask at the end. It was him all along, like, that kind of thing. However, I personally. I personally, because maybe I'm a traditionalist, I think that plot point, that conclusion to a story is evergreen and it stands because humans are monsters. We are capable of such unbelievable cruelty. Right? It's important to acknowledge that. And if. If that's the first time, if watching a movie or reading a book like Frankenstein is the first time that you kind of have this. This realization dawns on you, then, sure, sure, it's fine. It's like, okay, I think there are much deeper conclusions from Frankenstein than that. But it's a good one. It's a good baseline. Any retelling of Frankenstein has to nail that. And Guillermo did it so well. So, so well, so well. Okay. I think, though, I've pretty much yapped Yalls fucking ear off about this damn movie. It's so good. And I think that the idea of a villain in a movie like this, the real villain, is. It's up to personal interpretation. But generational trauma might be the real villain. The human instinct occasionally to inflict pain, like, that's the villain. Like us warring with our own emotions. Who is the villain? This alter ego in you, sometimes that might take over or might have these nasty impulses that you are constantly yanking the chain back on. You know, it's like Hades. What's. What's the monster with the dog with the three heads? Dog with three heads. Cerberus. I got a Cerberus in my beluga whale brain, bro. This dog yanking the chain back. I'm like, that's not me. That cannot be what rears its ugly head. That cannot be how I face the world. But sometimes it comes out, and I cannot. I cannot control my own. You know what I mean? Like, it's so difficult to explain why I think that's the villain is we're at war with ourselves, you know, I think that humans are the monsters. That's kind of an easy conclusion. I think it's a bit more. It's a Bit more intricate than that. Are y' all rocking with me? Y' all get what I'm saying? All right, let's do songs of the week. I actually have a playlist of the week and I found this on TikTok. It's called Space Age Vintage Cocktail Basa Mambo, Muzak. Muzak and Jazz. It's by Hunter John Tree. This playlist, fantastic. Really, really, really great. Great to dissociate. Too. Great to just think about nothing. I'm kind of over at the moment. As I wait for Rosalia's album, as I wait books. I really don't care to listen to other music. I really don't give a. I'm not even. I put on Fontaine's DC the other day and I was like, I just. Not right now. Not right now. Grand. I can't do it right now. I love and I love them, but I just. Music with words. I'm not really doing it right now. Like, I need. I listen to a lot of Shout out, by the way, to KUSC FM. That's my favorite FM radio station, and I think it's on iHeart. I listen to that all the time. It's just classical music. It's just classical music. I listen to it all the time. It actually really helps me. I don't know when I hit the age where I'm like, this shit's awesome. This shit is so awesome. I love classical music. I listen to it all the time. As I wait for Rosalie's album. Genuinely, that is the only piece of musical art that I really am like. It's all I can think about right now. Very important to me. This playlist has been helping as well because it's just like bossa nova, mambo, whatever. Guys, the Broski Report is available ad free on Patreon, if you give a fuck. Okay? And some of you guys like the ads. And I shout. Shout out to you. Shout out to you guys, okay? But if you would like an ad free experience, go over to Patreon. You'll get every episode moving forward ad free. And it's a beautiful opportunity. We also have merch. And guys, something special is dropping soon for the holiday. Happy Holidays. Broski Shop for that. We have an official Broski Nation playlist on Spotify. Go check that out. Broski Report playlist. And that's pretty much it. I mean, you guys know what's going on here if you've made it this far. We're like 113 episodes deep. If you don't know what's going on here. It's too late. It's too late for you. We're talking about my swollen Beluga whale brain and Cerberus Hades three headed dog. Okay, I love you guys. Thank you for letting me yap about the things that I deeply care about and for exploring these ethical non questions. I really appreciate it. I'll catch you guys next week. Be good and bye bye. Foreign.
