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Los Angeles, California, this is the Broski Report with your host, Brittany Brosi. Hola, todos bienvenidos al Broski Report. Contue Brittany Broski. Guys, welcome back. My battery died. Welcome back. If I was a FNAF animatronic, that would be gag. Can someone draw me as a Can someone draw me as a FNAF animatronic? And why did they give chica a BBL? And what do you think in FNAF 2, they're gonna have the BBL chica with the, like, hourglass and kind of, like, b cups maybe? I don't know. Food for thought. If I was a FNAF animatronic, I think I'd be one. I would be a good one. I'd be like, guys, we can't keep doing this. We're kids. Guys, come on. We're just kids. Why are we killing people? But honestly, if I was actually. If I was a FNAF animatronic, I'd go along with the flow. I feel like I'd be kind of spineless. I'd be like, oh, we're all killing people. Well, I don't want to be bullied for, like, not killing people. There's nothing is worse. Murder can't be worse than being bullied. Okay, you got murdered. Okay, well, I got bullied, so come on. You have to understand where I was coming from. At least you have to understand where I was coming from. Okay, guys, what are we doing today? While I wait for you guys to draw me as a FNAF animatronic, I'm going to go ahead and jump into something that I've been trying to do to check in with myself, okay? And that is journal prompts. But, like, light Hearted easy ones. It's not like when did it begin? It's not that. And it's not like when was the last time you felt whole? Okay, those ones are. Or what can you release? What. What can you. That shit is heavy. I want to start with something that is basically how I want to structure this is I'm going to say the prompt and then I'm going to give my answer. And then I need you guys to maybe in your head, think about it as well. Just let's have a little exercise. You and me, whoever, wherever you are, if you're driving, if you're running, if you're walking, if you're working, if you're stealing company time period. Let's do it together. Okay? We're going to start with this little exercise. And then I'm going to go into why this headpiece I've donned today, why I have elected this headpiece today. Okay? So let's go ahead and get started. And by the way, if you're not subscribed to The Broski Report YouTube channel, what the fuck are you doing? Like, actually, that's gonna piss me off. You. You're rock with me for 115 episodes and you're not subscribed to the bro. So you fucking hate me. I know y' all don't particularly care for me, but I didn't know you hated me. Okay, I'll keep that in mind when I cut the rations this month. Yeah, when you bitches are eating moldy biscuits. Yeah, I remember that. Okay, let's move on. Okay, here's the first prompt. And I don't remember where I got these. I'm sure they're somewhere. Maybe I got it from TikTok. Maybe I got them from the godforsaken app. TikTok, what color is your favorite song? Okay, now, I've gone ahead and written an interesting question, right? Where are the synesthesia people at Finneas? I'm looking at you. I've gone ahead and written three answers, and I'm going to go through those now. Movement by Hozier. This is one of my all time favorite songs. It's a song that whenever I hear that, first. I like something, my spine is a little straighter. I'm looking around like I'm kind of panicked. Like, this song is a sleeper agent for me. And when I hear it, I feel like myself. Does that make sense? Do you guys understand? Movement by Hozier to me is the perfect song. The progression of it, the way that it ends, the. He did his thing on that fucking song. Also, the lyrics. Fantastic. As per usual, we expect nothing less from a Hozier record. Movement by Hozier to me is blue. Okay. The beginning of the song opens with. You are the right of movement. No, sorry. How does it. How does it begin? Never heard it, actually. Never heard it. Need to listen to it. It's like the light through the water from the bottom of a pool. Those are the lyrics. As if you are like on the bottom, laying flat on the bottom of a pool, staring up and there. To me, there's this beautiful mixture of comparing that to how you view how a love will move through you and in you. And how you witness it. How you bear witness to that love. Actually, yeah, we have to look up the lyrics really fucking quick, right? I still watch you when you're grooving as if through water from the bottom of a pool. You're moving without moving. And when you move, I'm moved. You are a call to motion. There, all of you a verb in perfect view. If a man said I was a verb in perfect view. Like the depths of how you have to see isn't even see doesn't capture what that means. You know what I mean? Like to be seen and to see your partner. To, like, utterly bear witness to the beautifully tragic existence of someone that you love. Not even love. That you worship. That you worship as a. An elemental deity. You. You witness their act of being as an elemental phenomenon. Like, what the fuck is wrong with him? They're all of you a verb in perfect view. Like Jonah on the ocean. When you move, I'm moved. When you move, I'm put to mind of all that I want to be. When you move, I could never define all that you are to me. Oh, my God, my nipples just got hard. When you move. I could never define all that you are to me. So move me, baby, shake like the bough of a willow tree. You do it naturally. Movie baby. You are the right of movement, the right R, I, T, E. It's reasoning made lucid and cool. I know it's no improvement. When you move, I move. You're Les Palloonin Leapin or Fred Astaire in sequence. Honey, you. You're Atlas in his sleeping. What the f. Now we have to look up Atlas. Okay, so here is my question, right? Atlas in his sleeping. Atlas, as we know, holds the world up, right? That's. That's Atlas. I don't want fucking open. AI. I'll kill you. This. This is Atlas. Atlas who. Who holds the world story of how The Titan God Atlas held up the world. So when Atlas sleeps, does he ever sleep? Does Atlas sleep? Atlas is a Titan condemned to hold up the heavens or sky for eternity. After the Titano Titanomachy. Titanomachy Atlas also plays a role in the Myths of Two Once again, we're looking at Greek mythology on Wikipedia. Atlas also plays a role in the myths of two of the greatest Greek heroes, Heracles and Perseus. According to the ancient Greek poet Hesiod, Hesiod Atlas stood at the ends of the earth in the extreme west. Later, he became commonly identified with the Atlas Mountains in northwest Africa and was said to be the first king of Mauritania. Why was he. Why was he condemned when the Titans were defeated? Oh, because Atlas and his brother Minotius sided with the Titans in their war against the Olympians. Many of them were confined to Tartarus, but Zeus condemned Atlas just to. Titans were forgotten. Okay, what the fuck? A common misconception today is that Atlas was forced to hold the Earth on his shoulders. But classical art shows Atlas holding the celestial spheres, not the terrestrial globe. Now, what the fuck are the celestial spheres? The solidity of the marble globe borne by the Farnese Atlas may have aided the conflation reinforced in the 16th century by the developing usage of Atlas to describe a corpus of terrestrial maps. The celestial spheres were the fundamental entities of the cosmological models developed by Plato, Eudoxus, Aristotle, Ptolemy, and Copernicus. In these celestial models, the apparent motions of the fixed stars and planets are accounted for by treating them as embedded in rotations. For I don't give a.
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Dude, this new bacon, egg and chicken biscuit from AM pm. Total winner, winner, chicken breakfast. Chicken breakfast? Come on. I think you mean chicken dinner, bro. Nah, brother. Crispy bacon, fluffy eggs, juicy chicken and a buttery biscuit.
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That's the perfect breakfast.
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All right, let me try it. Okay.
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Yeah, totally.
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Winner, winner, chicken breakfast. I'm going to have to keep this right here. Make sure every breakfast is a winner with the delicious new bacon, egg and chicken biscuit from AM pm AM pm. Too much good stuff. Okay, you know what? Actually, while I was eating my. My beautiful lunch I made for myself today, I watched a YouTube video about brain rot. I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I watched a video about brain rot, attention spans and how we need to put more emphasis on learning. And of course, I agree with all these statements and I. A big theme of this podcast is I come on here and I talk about the importance of learning and continuing to be a student of life and how if you find something that interests you, learn everything you can about it and, you know, teach about it and seek community that finds that, you know, there is such an important nugget of identity to be found in learning and continued education. At least for me, speaking for me personally, growing up, education was a big part of, like, how I identify who I am. I pride myself on these pillars of my personality. One of those things is being smart. I like the feeling of being smart when it comes, however, to social media and to algorithmic based interests and algorithmically curated media. And by that I mean, you know, like things that are fed to you, like on TikTok, Instagram, whatever. Like, I'm not seeking that shit out, it just comes to me. And I guess you could say the same about YouTube. Obviously there's a YouTube algorithm, but at least on YouTube, I go to YouTube to search shit mainly. And from there, of course it recommends, like on the browse feature, these videos come up for me because I like some of the commentary channels that posts these videos. And I can't remember her name, but she posted this one about how Brainrot was like the official Oxford Dictionary word of the year for 2024, and how that really signals something about society, which I also want to talk about in a second about fears, like sociological fears, and how monsters of the time are reflective of those fears. Monsters and media and creatures and, you know, like, things to fear. How there is a physical embodiment of all the taboos and maybe things that are shunned in that era of media, of society, in American society, of course. So all these things are very topical to me. And when it comes to shit like this, where obviously I. I Googled Atlas because I wanted to know, I click on all this shit, I go, okay, now I'm on a rabbit hole because this shit interests me. But there is like, I feel like there is a shackle around My waist where I start to run towards something and the shackle, like, it's like a dog collar. It like lurches me back and it's like, you don't. What about other stuff? And I'm like, yeah, this stuff over there. Hold on, let me go back to this bullshit I was trying to. I wanted to know about. Like, leave me alone. Why are you. I want to know about this because I clicked on it and now I'm over here, dude. Like, shut up. It for real pisses me off, dude. It pisses me off. And I'm mad at myself because I pride myself on being smart. And when you are smart or identify as smart and you are fooled by something, someone, clickbait, whatever it is, we're all victim to it. It happens to the best of us. But I'm left with this residual feeling of like, shame and embarrassment of like what I just did just there. Celestial feel. Celestial spheres don't give a fuck. But I do give a fuck, right? Because learning about celestial spheres is something that in five years I wish I could bring up in a conversation. Well, obviously Plato and what's his name worked on the celestial spheres. Like I have a really. It's similar to, maybe in high school or college you would like learn a bunch of shit. Not even learn. You would memorize a bunch of shit, dump it out on the test, and then never think about it ever again. I feel that way today when I click on a Wikipedia link or a Google search that I actively sought out because I want to know. I don't remember it because halfway through I'm like, I don't give a fuck. And that is so bad. And I'm actively like, actually today I'm making a decree to myself, enough, enough. I have to fight through this. And then I watched this other YouTube video that was like she was talking about how to rewire your brain into not even wanting to scroll. Like scrolling will soon feel foreign because of these drastic yet slight changes. And by that I mean like a long term plan to drastically change your toxic relationship to social media. And while you can still engage with the media you like. I feel very fortunate because podcasts and you know, longer form content is a direct rebellion and reaction to this just inundation of short form media. I'll be watching a TikTok and I'm like, it hasn't even been two seconds. And I'm like, I know I'm not going to care about that. I didn't even give it a chance. And I'm already scrolling and also, TikTok got rid of the feature where you can. You can click not interested and it'll like the video as a whole. You're not interested in. Now you have to go in and select I'm not interested in either this creator, this hashtag, or this, you know, whatever the fuck it is. I don't even know. I don't. It's never that. It's like the whole. I'm so pissed off. It is the whole concept of what this video represents that you thought, TikTok algorithm that I would like this. Fuck you. And I'm not interested. And I actually. I'm not even going to watch this to the very end because I know I'm not interested. And so I click it. I want to hit not interested. And you used to be able to do that so you could train your algorithm. Now you can't. Now I have to say, I don't like this. It's nothing against the creator. It's nothing against the fucking hashtag. That's not the problem. The problem is the algorithm. And it's just getting worse and worse and worse. And every fucking video is. Creator earns commission, promoted. It's an ad. It's an unskippable ad. It's. Or even the. The fucking videos that you can't do 2x on, which is a whole other thing. Why do I have to watch everything in 2x? I'm not retaining any of that. I'm not retaining any of that fucking information. Do y'. All. Am I finding community here? I am so over it. I'm over it with myself. And I feel like this is an opportunity. Like we're at a turning point with our relationship to social media. And it's a tricky thing, right, because my job is on social media, but that doesn't mean I don't have fatigue from it, that I don't have fatigue as a consumer of social media. I love my job, and I'm very, very grateful that this is what I get to do. There's nothing else in this world that would satiate my soul than doing what I do right now. But there are also things that you can. Can critically call out of the severe issue with these platforms. Tumblr, Pinterest, Instagram, TikTok. Everything that used to bring me joy as an Internet user is so inundated with ads. And I understand people need to make money. Okay, of course, I get it. And again, I am a creator. The whole reason I get to do this job is because brands pay me money. So that I can put that money into a set like the Broski Report set or the Royal Court set or, you know, accommodating dealing with Hollywood. Like, there has to be a reinvestment into your business, of course. But when it starts to affect, like, the actual usability of your app. And I'm looking at you. Pinterest. I love Pinterest. If you do that shit with an ad blocker, half, maybe three fourths of the tiles are blacked out. They're blacked out because it's all ads. It's just so frustrating. It is so. And it's like a necessary evil. So when I sit down to watch these YouTube videos that are like, brain rot this attention span that whatever. And then I, like, actively try to rectify it. I feel like I'm in therapy. This is how I talk in therapy. Sorry, guys. Are you. Y' all rocking with me? Are y' all fucking with me when I try to rectify my relationship to and my behavior towards social media and my addiction to it? Because I do have a tech addiction. Duh. Okay, I have a tech addiction. But it's, like, functioning because it has to be. Because this is my job. Doesn't mean it's not an addiction. It is when you try to rectify it and you get nowhere or what? I just ran into where I'm trying to rectify it and I get frustrated with myself because my attention span is telling me it's the shackle is pulling me back. I don't know what to do. I get so frustrated because I don't know what to do and it makes me feel bad about myself. Okay, is that we all wanted to hear. I'm sure the majority of you guys can relate. I mean, it's so. It really starts. It fucks with your. Your self image. It fucks with your self image. I don't know. Okay, let's go back. Damn, I made it. One question into the journal prompts and I've talked for 20 minutes. Like, what the fuck? Look, y' all know I'm an Etsy girl. Discover original gifts that will make anyone feel seen on Etsy. No matter who you're shopping for, it's easy to find something that feels personal. Original, handmade, and special. Everything on Etsy feels one of a kind, just like the people I'm shopping for. 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You can't wrap togetherness, but you can frame it for a limited time. Visit auraframes.com and get $45 off Aura's best selling Carver mat frames named number one by Wirecutter by using promo code Broski at checkout. That's a U R A frames.com, promo code Broski. This exclusive Black Friday Cyber Monday deal is their best of the year, so order now before it ends. Support the show by mentioning me at checkout. Terms and conditions apply. Another one of my favorite songs, Georgia on My Mind. Specifically the Michael Bolton version. It's one of my favorite songs ever. That song is Green. And then Play God by Sam Fender. That song is Gray. That song is like industrial Gray. Another question. When you look at the stars, what do you feel? What do you feel when you look at the stars? My answer? Small. I feel infinitely small in both the best way and the worst way. And I have this feeling because, again, I don't know if we've covered it already on this topic. Megalophobia. Hey, I have that. Megalophobia is so fucking for real for me. And the stars aren't necessarily something that's large that I'm afraid of or like something that intimidates me or scares me by its physical size. But it is like, it is so incomprehensible that when you start to partially comprehend it, it overwhelms my nervous system and I genuinely start to freak out. I feel the same way about, like, heights. I feel the same way about the universe, about death, obviously, like anything that just makes me so. The stars make me feel small in a great way. That's like, wow, how lucky am I? How random is my existence? And you know, the whole point of life is living and whatever, but When I look at stars, I think it's also kind of meaningless. It's also kind of meaningless. Okay, moving on. Who would you have narrate your autobiography? Josh? Gad. Does love conquer all? Does love conquer all? My answer? Yeah, of course it does. You have to. You have to choose to believe it does. What is your golden rule? What's your golden rule? I have two. Number one is leave it nicer than you found it. I always clean up after myself because there's nothing worse than someone coming into your space and disrespecting it. Even when. Like when I'm in a public bathroom, if there's. You know, if I wash my hands and I have the paper towel and I see a paper towel on the floor, I'll use the paper towel to pick it up and put it in the trash can. Like, leave it nicer than you found it. Fix the throw pillow. Fold a blanket. You know what I mean? Just, like, leave it nicer than you found it. Another golden rule. Do it now so you don't have to do it later. Just do it now. Just fucking get over with. You don't have to worry about it later. And now that one is easier said than done. Way easier said than done. But again, do it now so you don't have to do it later. What's something about yourself you find hard to understand? This is a great question. And I wrote some kind of crazy shit down. I wrote some crazy shit. What's something about yourself you find hard to understand? Damn. Okay, we're kind of getting into it. I wrote, I'm someone else entirely when you remove the need to be loved. Trying to meet that person every day, and my brain fog makes it hard. That's what I wrote. I am someone else entirely when you remove the need to be loved. Because so much of a woman's existence. You can decenter men, you can, but this shit is wired into our blood. If I am not desired and loved, who am I? Right? And of course, I know who I am. But there is this monster, this monstrous part of me that so deeply desires love that it's almost like when I get it, I worry I won't know how to hold it. You know what I mean? Y' all rocking with me. I also. Let me move on for a second. We're going to go away from the journal prompts, and we're going to go through this crazy Instagram carousel that I found that I felt we needed to touch on. What I talked about about five minutes ago. This is from an Instagram account called Pop My Bub, Pop My Bub, Pop My Big Fat Bubble. Horror as a mirror. Okay, how interesting is that? We're just gonna scroll through it and I'm gonna read it, and then we'll discuss it at the end. Okay? And I'll get to why I'm wearing the dragon helmet in a second. Every generation creates the monster it needs. The idea goes back centuries. Horror has always been a way to externalize fear. Before therapy or social media, stories were how we processed collective anxieties, we couldn't talk openly about taboos like sex, disease or power. So screams turned them into beasts. How do I stop this? I fucking. I hate it. Okay, and then it takes us chronologically. 1800s, the birth of the modern monster. The Gothic era introduced creatures like Frankenstein. Not a creature. Frankenstein was a doctor. Okay? Dracula and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. People feared what human ambition might unleash. Frankenstein's creation reflected the fear of invention, a symbol of the outcast, the unnatural, the consequences of playing God. Dracula, on the other hand, embodied everything. Victorian society repressed sexuality, foreignness, disease. Monsters became metaphors for everything polite society couldn't name allowed. And I wonder if this will get into this, of why the resurgence of telling these stories now. It's so interesting to think about, like the immigration crisis, quote, unquote. I say that in very thick quotes because it is a crisis completely created for political propaganda. When you think about this idea of otherness, of an unwanted, monstrous presence who's wreaking havoc on, like, Nosferatu being told now Frankenstein and then Robert Eggers werewolf movie coming out, like all of these, it just feels so. Because this is always the question, right? Like, I love to ask this question to actors and directors and any creative. The question is, why now? Why make this art now? And sometimes it's, you know, just unfortunate timing for when a project gets greenlit, when you get funding for a project, whatever, you can be ruminating or ideating on a concept for a long time before it actually gets picked up. Of course, I understand that. But it's also like these executives who are greenlighting these projects. Why now? It's such an interesting question. 1950s, fear of the outsider again. Post war America was obsessed with order, conformity, and the enemy within. This is like McCarthyism and all that. Enter alien invasions, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the Blob, the thing from another world. The plots were about aliens, but they were really about communism, infiltration, and the terror of losing your individuality in a collective Cold War paranoia. Turned the monster into the outsider, something that looked like us but wasn't. Even Godzilla, born in Japan after Hiroshima, was a walking metaphor for nuclear trauma. It's also so interesting around this time of, like, how it was always the monster and a woman. And I really, really, really loved that aspect of Frankenstein, of Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, of. There is a reflective, almost like affinity between Elizabeth and her acutely feminine energy and how she is the only one other than the old man to see Frankenstein's creature as a gentle, almost child, like, as a newborn, and to treat that with the gentleness that it deserves. I also love. Guillermo, said that on set, was there a name for the creature? Was there a name. And they called him Adam because Adam and Eve, because it was God's creation, because it was God's first creation. So basically, that's. It. Made me cry first time I heard that. So. But again, very interesting that there is such a distinct relationship between the creature and Elizabeth and how they almost seem to complete each other. They see each other. And it's also very interesting around, you know, these movies, like, it's always the woman. It's always the monster and the woman, because women have empathy. 1960s, the birth of psychological horror. The monster moved inside the mind. The decade that gave us Psycho and Rosemary's Baby. The fear came from the familiar. Mothers, husbands, neighbors and ourselves. Psycho exposed the split between repression and desire. Rosemary's Baby turned domestic life into a trap of paranoia and control. Holy shit. Psycho exposed the split between repression and desire. God, I was, by the way, I was addicted to Bates Motel when that shit first came out. Dude. I would rush home from class in college to go watch Bates Motel on my laptop, and I would go reblog that. I had it bad for Officer Romero. Wasn't that his name? Officer Romero, Bates Motel, yeah. Sheriff Alex Romero, dude. Nestor Corbonel. I needed him bad because he protected. Oh, my God. He knew what was up. He knew what was up. And he tried to protect the mom, dude. And he played such a good. Who's the Freddie? He played the good doctor as well. Freddy Highmore. Is that his name? Freddie Highmore? Yeah. He was scary as fuck in this show. Yeah, I love that show. And there's also, like, the aesthetics of Base Motel. It was very satisfying for, like, any of the weird bitches that. Like that dark macabre, just like the spooky. Because it kind of leans a bit gothic in whatever you want that to mean. Gothic has such a wide array, like, myriad of meanings and definitions at this point, gothic can mean anything. So yeah, it has that very dark like haunted neon vibe and it's like in modern times, but it feels like it's from a different time. Just it was very well done. I enjoyed it. 1970s, 1980s sex, slasher and suburbia. When cultural norms cracked civil rights, feminism, sexual liberation, horror shifted from outer space to the body itself. Damn. Films like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Carrie, the Exorcist, the Fly were all obsessed with flesh, puberty and control. The final girl became the moral anchor, the pure one who survives. It reflected both fear of women's power and guilt about repressing it. Bro. 1990s fear becomes entertainment. Scream I Know what yout Did Last Summer Urban legend characters joked about horror rules while still dying by them. It was irony era horror fast pop culture savvy built to entertain as much as scare. Underneath the quips was a new unease. The rise of 247 media and reality TV blurred what was staged versus real. The Blair Witch Project turned that tension into a phenomenon that felt like found footage. Almost too real to just. To be just a film. I watched the Blair Witch Project when I was in seventh grade and I genuinely like. I. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. To this day I haven't finished it and I know that it's not that scary, but it's one of those things that's like the unknown. It's like Lovecraftian. A bit like the. The. What I'm imagining is actually so much worse than probably what it is because the human imagination. Why can we scare ourselves so bad? What is that? What is that? How does the Blair Witch Project end? The Blair Witch Project ends with the camera dropping to the floor after an unseen force attacks Heather in a creepy abandoned house's basement. There was. Okay, you know what actually scarred me, which I'm going to try to Google in a second. That scene where they find like it's human teeth. Do you remember that? It's in like a. A leaf or like a piece of cloth and it's human teeth. And it was like as a 12 year old, 13 year old, I remember being like, oh, so there's nothing scarier. I don't know why that, that scared the living out of me. I don't know why I'm actually gonna. I'm gonna read the premise. Blair witch Project Wikipedia. 1999 psychological horror film written, directed and edited by Daniel Merrick and Eduardo Sanchez. One of the most successful independent films of all time. I wonder why that is. Maybe it's because it kind of like summed up an era. Also, like maybe this fear of turn of the century. I know a lot of people were freaking the fuck out. They thought the world was going to end in the year 2000. Like maybe this was one of those things. It's a found footage pseudo documentary in which three students hike into the Appalachian mountains, haunted near Burkittsville, Maryland, to shoot a documentary about a local myth known as the Blair Witch. I don't want to watch it. I don't want to. They conceived of a fictional legend. Oh, it's not even real. They developed a 35 page screenplay with the dialogue to be improvised. Whoa. A casting call advertised on a magazine was prepared by the directors. About 20 hours of footage was shot which was edited down to 82 minutes. Damn. Shot on an original budget of 35 to 60 thousand dollars, the film had a final cost of 200 to 750,000. After post production and marketing. 750,000 dollars to make a movie and they made 250 million dollars. That's gag. That's gag. Oh, it went to Sundance. It was a sleeper hit. Okay, here's the plot and for any of you guys that have seen it, sorry, I haven't seen all the way. And I want to watch it. I don't want to watch it, but I want to know. The film purports to be footage found in the discarded cameras of three young filmmakers who had gone missing in October 1994. Film students Heather, Mike and Josh set out to produce a documentary about the mythical Blair witch. Locals tell them of Ruston Parr. This is in Maryland. A hermit who lived deep in the forest and abducted seven children in 1941. He murdered them all in his basement, killing them in pairs while having one stand in a corner facing the wall. Ew. Ew. The students explore the forest in North Burkittsville to research the myth. They meet two fishermen, one of whom warns them that the forest is cursed. He tells them of a young child named Robin Weaver who went missing in 1888. When she returned three days later, she talked about an old woman whose feet never touched the ground. I don't want to read this. Hey, I'm actually alone and I'm actually getting scared in my dragon hat. I was supposed to talk about dragons this episode. That's what I wanted to do. I wanted to talk about dragons. Now I'm scaring myself. I'm reading wikipedia.gov and I'm getting scared as fuck in my own house. Gulp. The students hike to Coffin Rock where five men were found. Ritualistically slaughtered in the 19th century. Their corpses later disappeared. Okay, perfect. They camp for the night and the next day find an old graveyard with seven small cairns. Now, what is a cairn? A human made pile or stack of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound. The word cairn comes from the Irish. Everything goes back to fucking Ireland. They find seven small cairns, one of which Josh accidentally knocks over. Dumbass. Josh dumbass bitch ass. Josh dumb a punkin. That night, they hear the sound of sticks snapping. The following day, they try to hike back to the car, but cannot find it before dark and make camp. They again hear sticks snapping. No. In the morning, they find three. In the morning? No. In the morning they find three cairns built beside their tent. Heather learns her map is missing. Mike reveals he kicked it into a creek out of frustration, which provokes a fight between the trio as they realize they are lost. They head south. Why would you ever watch this movie? Why would you ever watch this movie? I'm getting scared as fuck. They head south. They head south using Heather's compass and discover stick figures hanging from trees. I don't like it. They again hear mysterious sounds at night that night, including children laughing and an inhuman groan after an unknown force shakes the tent. They run outside and hide in the forest until dawn. Upon returning to their tent, they find their possessions have been rifled and Josh's equipment is covered with slime. They come across a river identical to the one they crossed earlier and realize they've been walking in circles. Josh vanishes the next morning and Heather and Mike try vainly to find him. That night, they hear Josh's agonized cries but are unable to find him. They theorize that his yells are a fabrication by the Blair Witch to draw them out of their camp. Like Hunger Games. Like mocking Jabber J. Hunger Games. Peeta Peter. Heather discovers a bundle of. I just gotta chill down my spine, dude. What sick fuck came up with this? You bitches are sick in the fucking head. Heather discovers a bundle of twigs tied with fabric from Josh's shirt. The next day, upon opening the. Upon opening the bundle, she finds a blood soaked scrap of his shirt containing bloodied teeth and hair. So that's actually making sense because that's the part I've seen. Although distraught, she does not tell Mike that night. She records herself tearfully apologizing to her, Mike's and Josh's families. Taking responsibility for their predicament, she admits that something evil is haunting them and will ultimately take them. Is it almost over, bro? That Same night, they hear Josh calling out to them again and follow his voice to the abandoned ruins of the house of Rustin Parr. Of course, they find it featuring children's bloody handprints on one of the walls. Trying to locate Josh, they first go to the attic, but do not find him. Mike then hears Josh's voice in the basement and quickly heads downstairs. I'm gonna. I'm gonna speed run this because I'm actually, I'm like, I cannot express how fucking scared I am right now. And I'm just reading the Wikipedia. Mike then hears Josh's voice in the basement and quickly heads downstairs where an unseen force assaults Mike, causing him to drop his camera. Heather enters the basement yelling and her camera captures Mike standing in a corner facing the wall. Heather calls out to him, but he does not react. The unseen force assaults Heather, causing her to scream and drop her camera. The camera continues to record for a few seconds and then cuts to black. Okay, perfect. So actually I actually. There's goosebumps all over my legs. Damn. They marketed this with missing person posters? That's scary as fuck. What the hell to portray it as real, bruh. For its basic Cable Premiere in October 2001 on FX, two deleted scenes were reinserted during the end credits of the film. Neither deleted scene has ever been officially released until Second Sight film's Blu ray release in November of 2024. What the fuck? What the fuck scenes are those? What's the response? It drew acclaim from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gave it an 86% full of creepy campfire scares. Mock doc. The Blair Witch Project keeps audiences in the dark about its titular villain, proving once more that imagination can be as scary as anything on screen. Is that not exactly what I said? Is that not exactly what I said? Okay, going back, I'm. Why do I keep scaring myself? I don't like it. I don't like it. And what the actual fuck was I talking about to get us here? This episode is sponsored by hungryroot. As we all are acutely aware, I do not have a gallbladder, I'm missing an organ, and I eat like a rehabilitated animal at the zoo. Okay. My diet is very specific and Hungry Root helps me eat well and reach my health goals. So whether you're gluten free, dairy free, high protein, focused on gut health, whatever is wrong with you, just take a quick quiz. And their smart cart technology recommends groceries and recipes tailored to your tastes and needs. 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This was Fear becomes entertainment. Okay, now we're in the 2000s. Entertainment turned cruel. Dude. Oh my God. I've never thought about it through this, like, critical lens before. You know what I mean? Like, all of this is true. All of this, to me, feels True. After 9 11, fear and violence was everywhere. On TV, in the news, in video games and horror dropped. The irony mirrored. And horror and video games and horror dropped. The irony mirrored. That saturation dropped. Horror dropped. The irony mirrored. That saturation dropped. Horror dropped. The irony mirrored. What the fuck? I feel like I'm having a stroke. That sentence. This sentence doesn't make sense, but I'm going to read it anyway. After 9 11, fear and violence was everywhere on TV, in the news in video games. And horror. In video games. And horror dropped. The irony mirrored that saturation. And horror dropped. The irony mirrored that saturation. Okay, that doesn't make sense to me, but okay. Suddenly death had no logic. This is so t. When you think about, like, how humans en masse react or respond to like, a widespread nonsensical tragedy, I'm thinking immediately of, like, surrealism after World War I. How so many people across the globe literally were like, that should not have happened. It makes no sense that that happened. This was entirely avoidable. The severe loss of life, the suffering, the like, loss of normalcy. There is no way to make sense of it. So I guess nothing fucking matters. And then that's when surrealism became a huge trend or a huge source of inspiration for a lot of artists. Because, yeah, it doesn't make sense. And you're valid as fuck for saying that. And this honestly kind of mirrors that. It's so funny how we find these cycles, like history and art just constantly repeat and repeat and repeat. And it's new versions and it's through a different lens and it's through whatever, but it's the same. It's the same because we don't learn. Suddenly death had no logic. Final destination. Pain became the point. Like Saw and hostile and terror spread like a virus. The Ring, the Grudge. Found footage. Movies like Paranormal Activity or Cloverfield blurred the line between fiction and reality. Do y' all remember? What's the other one? Not Paranormal Activity. Insidious, dude. Insidious. Paranormal Activity and the Conjuring all like, I am not. Absolutely not. I don't like scary movies. I don't. I know some people love horror movies. Like, I can watch a campy horror film like, oh, this is. It's gross and it's like kind of fun to laugh at sometimes. Those kind of movies freak me the out. I can't do it. I genuinely cannot do it. I'm not the one. Turn it off. Turn it off now. I'm leaving the room. I'm so serious. And turn it down. Even quieter films like the Others and the Orphanage carried the same dread. Is the Others the one where they stand outside of your fucking house with the. The audience stopped laughing. Damn. Damn. Whoever wrote this is period. Even quieter films like the Others and the Orphanage carried the same dread. The audience stopped laughing. 2010s the horror within movies like the Babadook Hereditary and Midsommar made grief, loss and co dependence feel more terrifying than any ghost. Damn. Critics called it elevated horror, but it was really emotional. Realism, fear that looked like everyday life. Get out. Turned racism into psychological horror. Polite, liberal, and suffocating, it follows, turned sex and anxiety into a slow, inescapable dread. The genre became a way to talk about depression, trauma, and inherited pain. Things that don't die, but linger. Even in Death, they linger. 2000-20s Digital horror, identity horror. Our fears went virtual. Now the monsters are algorithms, influencers, clones and AI. Companions, Black Mirror, Megan, Swarm, Smile, Companion, all ask the same thing. What happens when we become our own creation's prey? What the fuck? What the fuck are we talking about? I'm. I'm posted up in the crib, scared shitless. I'm scared shitless. Visibility has replaced violence as the new terror. We fear being watched, misrepresented, duplicated, or worse, forgotten. The monster is no longer a stranger. It's our reflection. The monster is no longer a stranger. It's our reflection. Okay, that does. The way she worded that seems a little cringe. I will. I will admit it seems a little cringe even if it's true. Okay? And I've been seeing a bunch of critiques about Frankenstein as being the same thing of, like, it's because the real fucking monster is us as humans. Yeah, okay, duh, Right? But at the same time, valid point. Same time, valid point. This, to me is very interesting, because what's left, right? Like, I almost feel like that's the eternal question. What's left? Have we explored all these other facets or even sub genres of scary movies, of horror, of the different ways to play with the human psyche? What is left other than we've pushed it too far. We have pushed it too far. I worry about this, honestly, a lot. I worry about the literacy of the youth. I worry about social skills of the youth, decorum, you know, concert etiquette, meeting people in person. I've had people come up to me on the street and just like, they talk to me like I am not a real person. And this isn't like a complaining thing, but it's to serve as an example of life now is through a screen. And it is not interpersonal. It's not interpersonal in a way that actually facilitates connection and empathy. I genuinely think that this is the final stage of, like, deterioration. Like, we are deteriorating as a society, and this is, again, cyclical, and a dark age is probably coming. And I don't say that to scare anyone, but just look at the trends, and that's why it's important to resist. And it's important to do things that are analog and to find human connection in ways that don't revolve around social media or around, you know, capturing the moment digitally. This, to me, is very interesting because it is true we fear being watched. The way that I am spoken to sometimes as almost a video game character or like a chatbot, where it's. It's a complete disregard for my humanity. It's just, take this fucking picture with me. It's not a hello. It's not a please. It's not a I love your videos. It's. It's no human, no humanity behind the eyes. And I mean this for the younger fans, which I don't. If you're under the age of 17 watching my videos, thanks for being here, I guess, but that's not there. I have a lot of feelings on that. Okay. And it is a scary thing to think that you could be influencing the youth. I hope that I'm. Oh, for the love of Christ. I hope I'm influencing the youth in a positive way. But these things scare me. Right. Like your sense of reality is so warped. I don't know if it's fixable. You have to have hope that it is fixable. But. Oh, my God, this question of filming strangers. I've had people take photos of me and then DM it to me. Hey, Queen. Didn't want to come up to you, but saw you. Here's a picture I took that is very odd. Constantly being surveilled and what does that do to your psyche? And you don't even have to be famous to be surveilled. Everyone. We live in a surveillance state. Everyone is being watched all of the time. Your phone watches you, your laptop watches you. It's never ending. This is, to me, the final stage. And you know what's going to be interesting is what comes after this? I don't know, is shit going to collapse? Are we going to go back to. Right, like, what I was trying to say is we've been desensitized to so much. Watching a movie from the 50s, I bet that shit was fucking horrifying back then. We watch it today. Child's Play, Blair Witch Project, shit like that, where it's psychological horror, to me, I think is more evergreen. Because we're scared of what we don't know. And that will always be true. But in the age of infinite access to information and you think you know everything, or even worse, AI tells you this is a definitive truth when that's not how the world works, even like scientists and scientific research, you can establish something as A theory, and years later, it can be disproved, which once we have more information. So all of these things wrapped up into what scares the society that has seen it all. We have seen it all. I watch War Crimes on my fucking Instagram feed every day. How do you sit here and say that doesn't desensitize you to some things? And that makes me feel sick. I don't want that to be the case. So you have to actively work against those things where this isn't just content. This isn't something to pass the time as I'm sitting on the toilet. This is real fucking life. And the social media, I feel like, is a reality, but it's not our reality. It's not a true reality. It's a virtual reality. And some people are trapped in it. It's just a lot. It's a lot. It's a lot. The monster is no longer a stranger. It's our reflection. Perfect. Every generation rewrites its nightmares, but they always point back to us. From Frankenstein's ambition to Midsommar's grief to together's disintegration of relationships, fear has always been a portrait of the moment. Horror changes shape, but the instinct remains the same. To name what we cannot face and to see what we pretend to hide. Whoa. This was tea. Ooh. Someone commented and said, so. Fascinating. I wonder what the next decade will bring. Fear of loss of resources, us against them. Like, leave the world behind. Yeah. I feel like the dystopian thing happened in 2012, 2013, which also would have been. I wish they had included that. I mean, this is horror, I guess, but more so, like, trends of what's. What's on the collective psyche, what's on the collective mind. There were a lot of dystopian novels being written around that time of, like, you know, the 2012, the Mayan, the Aztec calendar world's gonna end. Like, there was a real frenzy, a fear of that being for real. Like there is anytime there's the Rapture, the Rapture shit happens every couple years. We know the crazies are there. We know the crazies believe this shit. And we know the crazies are gonna try to force this down everyone's throats. They're gonna buy up a bunch of their resources, and then the shit doesn't come and they're humiliated. You never hear from them until the next time it happens where they're convinced. We are so hellbent on. Like, we know the world is ending. So I'm gonna save myself. You know, so it's. It's interesting to. I mean, that's. I love dystopian, and I need to get more into it, like, dystopian fiction, because while it makes me sad and it kind of scares me as an adult now that I'm not like, in high school or I'm not having to study this for a class or whatever to write on it, it's interesting from one adult to another adult to think this is your thesis or your theory or your fanciful, imaginative scenario of how you think this shit's gonna go down. How do you think this shit's gonna go down? For real? Margaret Atwood style, Susan Clark style. Like, it's crazy to think even, like, science fiction dystopia, something like A Dune or Red Rising, where. What in that author's life have they seen that might be different from what I've seen? Or, you know, age gaps, whatever, but, like, what have you lived personally, where it would move you to write this piece of fiction? And I've been, oh, my God. Do y' all follow Dua Lipa? Dua Lipa interviews these authors. I'm just. I am in awe of her. She, to me, is, like, the perfect woman. She is kind, she's smart, she's thoughtful. Obviously, she's incredibly talented. She's beautiful. She's fashionable. She is. So she leads with her heart as well, you know, like, she has these genuine conversations with these authors seeking to find connection. And it is from such a place of fandom, you know, like, you can tell that she's a true fan of these people she's talking to and interviewing. And it's such a joy to watch. What a gift we have in Dua Lipa. I watched her talk to Margaret Atwood, and I was gagged. Completely gagged. I need to watch the whole thing because I was. I just saw clip clips on Instagram, and I was like, also, what a blessing to have Margaret Atwood. I want to read Beloved. I really want to read Beloved by Toni Morrison. 1987 novel by American novelist Toni Morrison. Set in the period after the American Civil War, the novel tells the story of a dysfunctional family of formerly enslaved people whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit. Spirit, obviously. I need to read it. It's on my shelf. I bought it a few months ago. I just think that these. Like, it's interesting to start viewing literature and fiction specifically through that lens of, like, it tells you so much about their lived experience and what maybe haunts them and what plagues the mind and it's, you know, to be moved to the point where you have to write it down. I just. I don't know. I've been thinking about that a lot lately. Okay, so I guess next episode I'm also going to wear this dumbass fucking dragon helmet because I wanted to talk about dragons. I'm so bad. Talking about the end of the world. Classic classic Broski Report moment. What the fuck? Okay, guys. Is Beloved a horror novel? That's a good question. It's considered a horror novel by many, though. It's also a work of historical fiction and. And literary fiction that uses supernatural elements to explore the deep seated trauma of slavery. It contains classic horror elements like a ghost story in a haunted house, but its most terrifying aspects are the realistic horrors of slavery. Say that. And its lasting psychological impact on individuals and a nation. Yeah, I have to read it. Okay, guys, let's do the plugs. Josh Hutcherson on Royal Court. Go watch it. Just go watch it. I love him down. I couldn't love him more if I tried. He is so. That's my brother. That's twin. Go watch that. We have an exciting one coming out this week. Okay, so keep your eyes peeled for that. We have Broski Shop for moomoos and for podcast merchandise. Keep your eyes peeled on that in the next week or two. Something's dropping soon. We have an official Patreon. If you want this episode ad free, go ahead over. Go. Go on Patreon. We've got it there for you. We have an official Broski Nation playlist. Speaking of which, I have some songs of the week for you. I've been doing hikings recently. The Parting Glass by Hikings. It's stuck in my head all the time. I found this song recently and I was like, you know what? Hell yeah. It's called Falling down a well by Jack J. I love that song. It came on randomly. I do love, obviously, looks. We have to talk about looks. Give me a moment, okay? I know y' all want the review. I need to spend quality time with this album and I'm not done yet. I'm not done yet. Because what is gonna piss me off is if I come on this podcast and I start flapping my gums and then a month later I come back and I have a much more in depth soul bond. Like in depth connection, understanding, and soul bond to the album. And I have already done the Rosalie episode. You know what I mean? Like, I want to really sit with it, have it seep into my pores and then I will give y' all my review. I promise. I promise, I promise I will. Okay, the last song that I will give you is. I don't know if I said this a few weeks ago. I've been. I've still been on this kind of like not country, but more like Tyler Childers, Sierra Farrell, maybe Ty Myers. Like this kind of kick. Sierra Farrell has this song called Chitlin Cook in Time and Cheatham County. That's one of my favorite songs ever. I love that damn song. I don't know why. Don't ask me why. It's so good. I do love Dracula by Tame Impala as well. That's been on my list. Okay, guys, thank you so much for listening and sorry that we kind of. We really, really, really hit that rabbit hole today. So I appreciate y' all listening and I will see you next week. Love you. Bye. Thank you to Etsy for supporting the Broski Report. For special and personalized gifts this holiday season, shop Etsy.
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