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Broski Report with your host, Brittany Broski. Hey, guys, just doing a quick Millennial cringe warmup this morning. Okay, guys, here's my five step Millennial cringe facial warmup for the morning. You're gonna hit one of these, then you're gonna hit one of these. Oh, my God, they used to love that one where you tuck your front. Your front lip. So if you've got a front lip, where's your back lip? Do you think I could show you some back lips? Anyway, sorry. Anyway, yeah, they used to tuck their top lip up under their gums, so their teeth. It looks like a rat. Yeah, I used to hit that one in middle school sometimes, I'm not even gonna lie, I used to hit that one and I was like, God, I'm killing them. I'm killing them. And can I be honest? I get some of those Millennial cringe compilations on Instagram. I watch them all the way through every time. And I'm just. I am overcome with a sort of primal rage. It's like a train wreck, though. Like, I have. I have to watch them. I don't really have a choice. Okay, guys, lots, lots, lots to cover today. Welcome back to the Broski Report. Starring me, your host, Brittany Bro. Occasionally, Timothee Chalamet. Okay. Only other person who's ever been on the show is Timothee Chalamet. So just note that some things really quickly. I did have a cortado this morning. Okay. Now, figured out what that is. That's going to be three shots of espresso, steamed oat milk. And if you have never smelled what heated up oat milk smells like, I wouldn't recommend it. That shit about made me gag. Okay. Tastes fine. But then again, oat milk, I guess is bad because there's. There's palm. Palm tree oil in it. I don't know. Everything I consume is made of plastic. I'm turning into a fucking plastic carton. There's plastic in my blood. I Don't know. Everything's like, have you tried the viral milk replacement macadamia nut milk? And I'm like, oh, great. So I guess oat milk's out. So I go look up what's in macadamia nut milk? Plastic. Oh, perfect. So this plastic's better for me than the other, than the other plastic. Okay, thank you for clearing that up. What the fuck? And also, what are you gonna do? Go to a coffee shop and be like, one little. Half a teaspoon of macadamia nut milk, please. I hate that feeling. Can I get the milk alternative? My tummy. I be shitting. Like, that's the. Like. When you order a milk replacement, a milk alternative, you are admitting to the cashier that you are of a weak breed. Could I get the oat milk? Okay. You are at the bottom of the food chain. That's what you're admitting. Okay, My gut bubbles when I smell milk. That's what you're telling them. You're communicating that in a roundabout way. And there's something very humiliating about that. It's a humiliation ritual. Okay? When I'm like, could I get the almond milk? Oh, you're a puss. Yeah, yeah. Sometimes. Sometimes my. My butthole kind of bleeds when I poop. Sometimes I have milk, and then the rest of my day is ruined. I have to stay home. Oh, not the cow milk for me. I'll actually have a reaction. Yeah, I had a cortado. I guess it was okay. Three shots of espresso, you know, that'll do it. And I had that about 30 minutes ago, so I don't know. How long does it take coffee to kick in? For real? How long does it take coffee to kick in? Within 10 to 30 minutes, but can take up to 60 minutes. Okay, great. The peak concentration of caffeine in the blood occurs after about 45 minutes, y'all. Once again, on this podcast, I am a ticking time bomb. Also, the last two episodes, I filmed in the same day. Surprise. I took an edible for one of them, and then I felt. And it kicked in halfway through. And then I filmed the second episode, so I was just about. I heard a damn kite, and I did not even. I watched it back, and I was like, good Lord. I really thought. I was like, they can't tell. Yay, you can tell. Hey, yeah, you can tell. Anyway, did a cortado, and now I'm doing. I'm working through these. Okay. Red Bull sent me these for free. These watermelon. And I made the mistake because I'm only human and I bleed when I have a milk. They sent me these. It's watermelon Red Bull. Well, of course, the first time that I had ever tried this was in a sort of watermelon Red Bull vodka that I made myself that I almost puked up later. So naturally when this sort of flavor combo hits my palate, I want to gag. And that is not Red Bull's fault. It's certainly sort of Pavlovian conditioning that I've done to myself where now every time I taste the watermelon Red Bull, I also taste Tito's vodka. And I am a fan of both of those things individually, but not together. I would not recommend because on TikTok people were like, watermelon Red Bull vodka. It's basically like a watermelon Jolly Rancher. And I was like, candy. And me as a 27 year old woman was like candy my drink. Yes, candy. Candy. 27. Okay. Walk, don't run. Wait, run, don't walk. To try the watermelon Jolly Rancher. Fucking sugary drink. Sugary poo poo in your diaper. Drink me like, okay, where can I find that? I just picked a wedgie. Okay, so update on that is I'm about three espresso shots and a watermelon Red Bull deep. And once again, how much caffeine is in a Red Bull? 80 milligrams per 8.4 fluid ounces. What is this? This is 8.4 fluid ounces. What? 80. That's really not a lot. That's less than a cup of coffee. How much caffeine in an espresso shot? 64. Okay, so let's do 64. Calculator. 64 times three plus 80. Fuck me. Okay, so, okay, so that 272 milligrams of caffeine right now in my system. Yay. Okay. Yay. Wait. That's awesome. What's the daily max? 400. I've googled this countless times. Daily caffeine limit 400. Can pregnant ladies not have caffeine? What is that going to make your baby like have adhd? Can pregnant ladies. Can pregnant women have caffeine? Yes. Pregnant women can consume caffeine in moderation. Excessive caffeine consumption during pregnancy over 300mg a day has been linked to an increased risk of premature birth. I did not know that. Good thing I'm not pregnant. Okay, what the fuck was I talking about? Okay, so those were the sort of things I wanted to get out of the way before we get into the actual Meat and potatoes of the episode. Because I have. I'm about to. I'm about to go hog wild. I'm about to go pork and beans on this microphone. If y'all could sniff this microphone, I don't think you'd ever listen to this podcast again. Actually, it doesn't smell that bad. That was sort of just an intrusive thought of, like, I've actually spit on this thing. What? I've hucked to it on this thing. Like, what the hell? So many times. It doesn't smell that bad. But, like, surely no one else would want to sit here, you know what I mean? Okay, here's some housekeeping. Very, very quickly. Of course, the last two episodes were pre Trump inauguration. Hey, I didn't realize how bad it was going to get, okay? But a message to the general populace, especially during Black History Month, is that he does not have as much power as he would like us to believe. There are still laws and regulations in this country to keep him in check. Of course, he's sort of blasting through these executive orders, but ultimately there are three branches of government to keep that power in check. So I know it's a hard sort of piece of advice to be like, trust in the powers that be. Because of course, you know, they're not really looking out for her best interest. And that's just sort of well known. But at the same time, all these fucking, you know, constitutionalists and all these like, freedom. Freedom is the biggest. Okay, just we have to have faith that, like, he will not win is what I'm trying to say. You know what I mean? So my message is, have, have faith and keep the hope and we move forward. And that's honestly a segue point into something I want to talk about later, which is books, because I have book recommendations. But we'll find. We'll move on from fuck Donald Trump to happier news. Congratulations to Beyonce, Giselle Knowles Carter for winning the Grammy for Album of the Year after four snubs. Four snubs. She has been nominated four times for album of the Year. Four years. Snubbed Lemonade did not win album of the Year the year that it was nominated. I digress. Cowboy Carter had one. Okay. Now, the cultural significance of Cowboy Carter. I'm not the one to actually speak on it. You know what I mean? Well, actually, I have go watch the Cowboy Carter episode because I spoke on it. This is so like, you want to talk about deserving, you want to talk about the most, like, heavily awarded, Grammy winning artist of all time. Thank you, Beyonce Okay. And there's really nothing else to say. How about the look of shock on her face? I love her so much. I love her so much. And the tour was announced. Okay. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Let me see if I can go. Yeah, I'm going. Yeah. I'm probably going to hit two or three dates. Okay. What the. Okay. Two more things really quick that are just completely unrelated in the vein of music. There is a YouTube video called Morning Jazz Playlist to Start yout Day. And the thumbnail is Snoopy making a sandwich. And I cannot recommend this video to you people enough. This video provides me a sense of calm and peace in the morning that I just cannot. I'm on this wave now where I'm trying not to listen to music with words in it. I'm trying not to listen to too much music with words in it. Okay. I'm doing a lot of classical. I'm doing a lot of exciting classical Tchaikovsky and like Bach. Okay. And Straussberg. And I'm also doing a lot of bossa nova. Then I do some of this, like smooth jazz for cooking or morning jazz to get your day started. And I'll do my little ballet stretches because here's another thing that I've discovered because I haven't talked to you in a while. I've been gone. I was in Paris and now I'm back. I'm stateside. There is a plethora of YouTube videos on YouTube that I just get recommended on my homepage. But essentially it's morning warm up bar. You know how ballerinas will warm up at the. The bar, that little bar doing the little plies and stretching and whatever, and warming up their ankles and whatever. They put those for the Royal Ballet School in London and I think two other ballet schools. Sometimes they'll put the full hour long warmup on YouTube. Of course, I don't really know what they're doing, so I can't follow along, but it's a good sort of motivator. While. I'll put that on while I'm in bed. Still waking up in the morning and I'm like, okay, let's. Let's do it. Get up, let's stretch. You know what I mean? So I'll do that. And they always play classical, like piano in the background to warm up to, like exciting piano. And it's good, it's good for me, I think, because here's my. My one qualm I've had with bar method. I love bar method, but they play like fucking. If I let that sort of like, I. I don't want to hear Bad Habits by Ed Sheeran dubstep remix while I'm trying to work out. I don't want to hear that. Bar method also is very ballet inspired. Like you do have to work out on the bar. I don't want. I love Florence and Machine, but I don't want to hear Dog Days are Over Radio Zed remix. You know what I mean? No, what's that? They. They play that one song, Simon name. They play that song. And I said because I love Florence of the Machine, but I don't want to hear Florence Welch at 8am When I'm like, oh, okay. I have to be tapped the in to listen to Florence the Machine. Okay. Anyway, I digress. Yeah, I wish they played more classical music, which I'm not going to sort of fall on that sword. I'm not going to go up to the instructor and be like, hey, love what you're doing up there. A bit more Tchaikovsky would be nice. Thanks. I not going to do that. Also, I'm not going to say I'm the youngest woman in my bar method class, but I look around a lot and I'm like, all these women are 40 and 50, like older than me, doing it easier than I am. I'm huffing and puffing in the corner. Oh, my sciatica. They're in the corner with their leg wrapped around their neck and they're doing this and they're in a full split. And I'm like, oh my God. But it's possible you can get there. And I would get there faster if they could play Tchaikovsky while I'm trying to do my shit. While I'm trying to freak my shit on the bar, okay. While I'm busting my shit open on the bar, just play Tchaikovsky. Okay? Anyway, yeah, I just think it's good for me. I think that type of music's good for me. It calms me because I'm a very. I'm pretty high strung these days. I'm pretty high strung. I can't really. I can't really get my shit under control. The first order of business, for real, that I like to bring to Yalls plate, is I need a man with a mustache to worship the ground I walk on. Let me indulge you. I saw this TikTok, okay? And then I saw a YouTube short of the same sort of digital creator and he was British and he looks like Tom Selleck and he was doing like a running video, but it was like a meme. Can I Say, like, one more time. I'm about to piss myself off. Caffeine's about to kick in. I'm going to watch this back and say, why the. I need to go to a speech therapist. Like, but here's the thing, too, is, like, okay. It's so ingrained in our vernacular, I can't stop saying it. It's a crutch word. It's how I communicate. And now I'm hyper aware of it, and I'm going to struggle for the rest of this episode to not say, like, every fourth word. It's like when you become. It's like when you become aware that you're saying, shut up. Okay, what was I going to talk about? Oh, yeah, this dude. I don't even know his name, but I saw him and I got pissed off because I was like, I was doing. I was doing so good. I'll come on this podcast and speak into this very microphone that I'm speaking into right now and be like, men are the bane of society. The world would be better without fucking men. And then I see one video of a man with a mustache and I say, oh, fuck. Oh, God. Oh, Jesus. Men to me are like mythical creatures. I do not interact with them in the wild. I leave them be. I don't really want to hear from them, but I will admire their beauty from afar. Cassie, a young gentleman with a sort of really nice upper body build, beautiful hairline, great mustache. I'm looking, I'm staring from across. I'm across the street and I'm staring at you like this pov. You're a man with a mustache. I'm across the street. Okay? We lock eyes and I'm doing the Miley Cyrus stare with blue eyes. And then a bus passes in front of us, and then when the bus passes, I'm gone. That's. That's how I feel towards men these days. From like. And then the bus passes and then I'm gone. And then he's like, what the fuck? And he looks behind him, I'm behind him. But I never say anything. I'm sort of. I'm Moaning Myrtle. I'm like, floating around him in a circle. I'm Nosferatu. You will bounce on it. That audio is the funniest thing I've ever heard. Shout out to whoever made that. Shout out to the creator who made the pov. Nosferatu saying, you will bounce on it. Okay. Yeah, so just wanted to get that out of the way is I saw a tick tock this morning that about brought me to my knees. I need a man with a mustache bad, but not that bad. Not that bad. I'm not willing to do anything for it or risk anything for it. If it happens, it happens, okay? And I can admire beauty when I see it, but I don't need to own it. I don't. I don't need to be in a situationship with it and have it lead me on and leave me. You know what I mean? Okay, moving on to what I really, really want to talk about. Now, here's the mother tucking meat and potatoes of the episode that I really wanted to get into. Book club. Book club. Book club. Okay, this is the book club episode where I didn't tell you what books to prepare for. So if you've read them, great. If you haven't, you should. That's sort of what the Broski Nation book club is. Is. It could be any book in existence. And you come to book club, and I'm like, you did the assigned reading, right? And you're like, what is I read? And I'm like, that just docked. You pay. That just docked. You pay. And food. Your rations were just slashed in half because you didn't read Sherlock Holmes. And did I ever tell you to read Sherlock Holmes? No, but you should just know to, because I'm sin. I'm consistently sending out telepathic messages to all of Broski Nation. Okay? If you feel a brain zap one day, that's me trying to get in there. That's me trying to get up in there. And you're resisting. And for that, I'm cutting your pay. If you're my. My right temple is pulsing. That's me being like, Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes. You will bounce on it. And that's y'all resisting. Okay? That's me. If. If you see me appear to you in a dream, that's for real. I've taken on my final form, which is Nosferatu. This episode is sponsored by SeatGeek. It's a new year, and I'm hellbent on leaving my house more, which I really don't do. So enter today's sponsor, SeatGeek. With over 28 million downloads, SeatGeek is the number one rated ticketing app. And to celebrate the new year, SeatGeek gave me a special hookup where anyone can use my code BROSKI2025 for 10% off their next purchase on SeatGeek. There are more than 70,000 events listed on SeatGeek, including concerts, sports, festivals, comedy, and more. Right now, you can use my code and get tickets to the recently announced Kendrick Lamar SZA or Post Malone tours. 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Well when I was in Paris there is a super famous old bookstore, an English language bookstore called Shakespeare and Company. And you know how like every city has that. It's like the famous Bookstore in New York, it's the Strand. One of them is called the Strand. There's some other super famous ones in, like, London, in Austin, there are some. And there's one super cool in downtown Los Angeles that it's. I could describe it, but I don't know if you guys would know the name. It's like multiple stories, and it's got an arch that's made of books anyway, you know, just like an iconic bookstore. Well, it's called Shakespeare and Company in Paris. And I went with my mom. There is a line out the door to get in, first of all. And I was like, well, what the fuck's so special about this place? It's got great history there. Walt Whitman, I believe, used to frequent it. Now, let me go ahead and fact check that. Shakespeare and Company. Why? Why famous? I love. Why use mini word when few word do trick more thing. I do a millennial. My final four. What the fool? I have a fuzzy mustache and glasses. A Harry Potter scar appears on my forehead. No, please. That's how I feel when you start quoting the Office. I've never even fucking seen the Office. That actually. I just pissed myself off. I just made myself very, very irrationally mad. Ignore that. Shakespeare and Company in Paris is famous for being a literary haven for writers and a center for innovative publishing. The store has been a refuge for generations of writers, including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Joyce. No fucking way. It was originally opened in 1919. It closed in 1941 during the Nazi occupation of Paris. The current incarnation of the store opened in 1951 and was renamed Shakespeare & Co. In 1964 by George Whitman. Okay, so is George Whitman Walt Whitman. Walter Whitman Jr. Okay, so that's actually not maybe George. Maybe it's his son. It's his sibling, George. George Whitman. It's his brother. How cool. Oh, Captain, My Captain is by Walt Whitman. I had no clue. I seriously had no clue, y'all. Okay, back to Shakespeare and Company. So we go in, and it's relatively pretty small. Like, it's not the biggest bookstore you've ever been in, but it's honestly a great collection of a bunch of different genres, both old and new. There's a whole separate section for, like, prose and theater and plays, music. And then there's a whole section for, like, children, young adult. And then there's mystery. Then there's philosophy and whatever. Then there's actually an upstairs area where you can just go read. And, of course, there was a line to get up there, too, which is also pressure Like, I'm sitting up here reading. I don't want. Why is there a line of people coming up to be here? Like, I. Like I have a time slot. And so we go in. And I was looking for some more Orwell. And I was also looking for. Oh, I read this cute other book called Half a Soul. I'll get there in a second. But I was looking for some more books like that, you know, like a sort of romantasy, but also any classics I could find if they were printed in a cool cover. So I'm just sort of perusing and I come across A Study in Scarlet, which is a Sherlock Holmes novella, one of the first major ones that sort of everything after that started the Sherlock Holmes franchise, so to speak, at least the massive popularity of it. Studying Scarlet was published in 1887. I want to say 1887. I'm a genius. It was published in 1887. And honestly. So Arthur Conan Doyle, you hear about him a lot. He is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He's the famous creator of the Sherlock Holmes character and world. And he himself was a very interesting person. Trained as a doctor, he was a military man as well. And a lot of the. I would say, of course, you know, you write what you know, a lot of the wherewithal that Both Holmes and Dr. Watson have come from Arthur Conan Doyle, because of course they do. And the actual character of Sherlock Holmes and all of his eccentricities was based on an old professor that Arthur Conan Doyle had when he was in school. Just this sort of batty old professor who could make incredible conclusions or deductions from the smallest of details. And that's sort of the whole idea of what Sherlock Holmes is. If you've never read any of his stories, if you've never seen the show or any of the movies, if you just know him as, you know, the silly character with a pipe and the little hat, it is so worth the read. Sherlock Holmes. Y'all know that I love a quirky, hyper intelligent protagonist, and not in a sort of cringe way, but in a he's so genius, he's misunderstood type of way. I think those characters are so magnetic. And a few off the top of my head are sort of gonna be like a Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean. Definitely like a Sherlock Holmes. Definitely like. And I'm gonna throw another Robert Downey Jr. In there. I'm actually going to. Oh, Mando Mandalorian's another one. These. These characters that just, like, seem to have all the answers, and even if they don't they fake like they do, and then they figure it out and they do that using the information available to them. Like at any given time you're capable of, you know, it's just. Okay, you get what I'm trying to say. So Arthur Conan Doyle creating Sherlock Holmes was a sort of passing. It was a short story at first that he published in either a newspaper or a magazine. People fucking loved it. He was a man of many different disciplines. I mean, he lived many lives in the 60, 70 years that he lived. And just through all those different fields of study or interest, like chemistry, like medicine, like language, like travel, he was all of these things. He was very well traveled, had a good grasp of understanding on the world. Later in his life, however, he had a very intense interest in spiritualism, which, honestly, the more that I was reading about Arthur Conan Doyle, I was like, that makes so much sense because there is this sort of mysticism to Holmes where he is of course, a realist and he's very tapped into human nature. Despite being so unhuman himself. You know, he doesn't give in to the temptations or even have the urges of like a romantic relationship or any desires that the normal person would have of like, greed, envy, this, that. He. His mind rebels at the idea of what a Victorian English society is, you know, and he was able to look at it with a critical eye, while at the same time, because no human is. Is truly black or white, it's very nuanced. He's able to look at society with a very critical eye and in fact give more credibility to the lower classes than the upper classes because the lower classes, you know, he, he had a sense of shared, shared sense of identity with them, I guess, where, you know, he was well to do because he was a detective, a private consulting detective, that he made a livable wage, of course. But yeah, I mean, I think he finds that there's an. A raw honesty and a respectable sort of struggle within the lower class that he was much more willing to take on those cases, of course, with a shared interest in the upper nobility cases as well, because those are fucking tea. And across the board, human nature is the same. And those are sort of the conclusions that he's able to come to. It doesn't matter if you're rich, if you're poor, whatever. Human nature is human nature.
