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Angel Reese (0:00)
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Brittany Broski (0:28)
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Angel Reese (0:30)
Foreign nation headquarters in Los Angeles, California. This is the Broski Report with your host, Brittany Broski. Good morning and welcome back Broski nation. It is 7:45am Hallelujah. There is what I would describe as a squadron of chickadees outside my window this morning. So if y'all hear some. Some faint whimsical chirps from the birds. Hope you don't mind. Oh, you mind. The whimsical musings of the birds outside my window this morning. Fuck you. Fuck off. Do you wanna know my stem of the week? Because it is Valentine's week. And the crowd makes no reaction. It's Valentine's week. That fucking video of that girl with her friends in the hotel room. She goes, It's St. Patrick's Day. And her friends say, we really don't give a. It's not even a major holiday. Acted like it's Christmas or something. You and St. Patrick's Day. In her face. She said, what the. You and St. Patrick. Fuck you and Valentine's Day, bitch. It's Valentine's Day. I. No one really gives a fuck. We don't really give a fuck. That's how I feel. I think. Oh, God. Let me rant for a second. Oh, God. Here. Oh, God. I know. I come on this podcast and I just. I just hate men. Okay, not all men. Yeah, pretty much all men. Okay. I think that Valentine's Day, speaking from a personal experience, speaking from a personal experience, historically, has been just so upsetting, right? My first ever boyfriend that I had, I had to beg him, beg him to get me flowers. And I. He came to pick me up, he was gonna take me to a nice dinner. I got all dolled up. I spent probably three hours in that glam chair. The glam chair being my college dorm. I spent so long getting dressed, doing my makeup, and I got him something. And I was like, all I ask of you is just get me Fucking flowers. This motherfucker. This motherfucker thought it would be funny. I'm getting mad all over again. This motherfucker thought it would be funny to get me one plush flower. And so I, I hop in his truck because y'all forget I'm from Texas. I hop in his truck. Derogatory. Because some. Some pickup trucks. Trucks. Top. President Tomp, if you can hear us, I get in his pickup truck and in the passenger seat is a plush flower. And he goes, so I never have to buy you ones ever again. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, okay. Motherfucker. Fuck you and Valentine's Day. Men are so. You're. Hey, babe, you're missing the point. You're missing the point also. It's not like, you know what I mean? Like, I'm so sick of just accepting or a lot of the older women in my family being like, that's just men. They just don't get it. They don't get it. No, they get it. They just don't want to fucking do it. No, they understand very clearly. They just don't want to do it because they don't give a fuck about you. They don't give a fuck. Plush flower. It was one of those plush flowers that's like wire inside. Bendable. So I never have to buy you flowers ever again. Ah, okay. Oh, yes, thank you. I do have just qualms with Valentine's Day in general because why were we giving Valentine's to each other as children? Okay. I don't understand the. The significance of what a valentine is. Or as we used to say it in third and fourth grade, Valentine. Okay? Happy Valentine's Day. It's not even a major holiday. Fuck you and Valentine's Day anyway. Shit, girl. You want to know something else about Valentine's Day? You get all dolled up to go to dinner, to go to an expensive dinner with your mid ass boyfriend, to sit in the booth and eat gut bubbling pasta and milk sauce fettuccine alvareto, okay? With some burnt chicken. And then you go home and have the most vanilla sex of your life. And then you go to bed unsatisfied because he had busted and then gone to sleep. That. That is Valentine's Day for the majority of American women. Okay, now some of you are being spoiled. Some of you actually have men that care about you. I don't want to hear about that. I really don't give a fuck. We really don't give. Act like it's a major holiday, you and Valentine's Day, okay? Yeah, I don't want to hear about that. I think the majority of women, at least for me, you know, there's not a worse feeling than laying next to someone or sitting next to someone or having someone hold your hand. And you just know in the back of your head that, like, they don't. They don't see me. Do you know what I mean? Like this little summer fling that I had. I don't know why I keep. I keep talking. I'm feeling really vulnerable with you guys as of late. This little summer fling I had, I don't know, like, I'd be with him and I'd be like, I have no doubt that he enjoys my company because I'm fun to be around. And I light up a room. I know this about myself, so that's not. You know. I'm not bewildered by the fact that a man wanted to be around me. Of course you fucking do. But it's to steal my personality, right? Because men like that, who want to be entertainers, they want to be charming and likable so fucking bad. They think that latching onto a bad bitch with a stellar personality who is intensely successful, they think that just by being around me, it's going to rub off on them. Guess what, babe? It's not because you are deeply insecure, okay? You don't know who the fuck you are. And you're getting a little too old for that to be cute. You know what I mean? So over the summer, I'd be laying next to him and I remember thinking he doesn't, like, understand. Like he's not in tune with my emotions in the way that he thinks he is. And I don't know if he ever was because he was such a fucking weirdo, liar, manipulator. I don't know. And there's not a worse feeling than, like, laying in bed next to someone and feeling alone. I have never felt more alone. I would rather be by myself than sleeping in my bed next to a man who makes me feel alone. And that's what it was. So thought Valentine's Day, it's not even a major holiday, but I do wanna read sort of the history of it, so. And we're going to go to history.com Red Bull. If you want to send me more Red Bull, that is not watermelon Red Bull. I've been powering through these suckers for the last, what feels like 16 years. Go ahead and send me whatever Red Bull you want because. Look, okay, I can't. I can't do Much more of this. This feels like holographic meatloaf again. I've had a watermelon Red Bull every time I filmed the Broski Report for the last six months. Red Bull. If you don't. If you wouldn't mind sending me some more fuel. Shout out to Red Bull, though. Okay. Remember when I figured out the Red Bull logo was actually a bull? That was a big day for me. That was a big day in Broski Nation history. Okay. It's St. Patrick's Day. Valentine's Day is a holiday celebrated every February 14th across the United States and in other places around the world. Candy, flowers, and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of saint. But who the is this mysterious saint? And where did these traditions come from? Find out about the meaning and history of Valentine's Day. From the ancient Roman ritual of Lupercalia that welcomed spring to the card giving customs of Victorian England. Why does every thing go back to Victorian England? Oh, my God. You want to know some valor recently? Okay, just pause for a second. This is not interesting at all, actually. This is not like a fact that should be shared amongst friends, but like, I. I guess I care, so I'm gonna. This is my podcast. I'm fucking talk about it. I'm still reading Sherlock Holmes. Okay, we get it. I was confused around the succession of the British monarchy, right? Because around the time of. Well, honestly, sort of the height of late stage British imperialism, so 1860s to like 1900. I mean, I know that it continues into. I know, okay? And I know that in a certain sense it's still happening. I know that I'm talking about a specific time period. Okay? 1860s, like 1900, Queen Victoria's reign. Now, you always hear about Victorian, Victorian, or sometimes you hear about Edwardian or Georgia, and I'm always like, who the fuck? Because, you know, there's always like George V. And then now we're. It was Elizabeth ii, but then we're up to Edward vii. It's like, who the fuck? And so I finally. I was actually sitting on my couch and I was having a conversation with Google because I was like, I don't want to Google this. And my phone was in the other room, and so I was talking to Google, my little speaker, and I was getting. I was getting the information, okay. I was studying, I was doing some research, and I figured out that Queen Victoria's reign is the longest in British monarchical history, with Elizabeth II coming, just shy, okay? That bitch reigned. May she rest in peace, I guess. Actually not really. Because she was horrible. She reigned for damn near six, 60 years. Let me. Let me fact check myself. How long did Queen Victoria rule? That bitch reigned for 63 years, seven months and two days. 1837. Damn. 1830. Damn. She was born in 1819. She became queen at age 18 after the death of her uncle, William IV. Okay, anyway, yeah, 63 years and some change. The longest reign in British history. Oh, just kidding. Queen Elizabeth II surpassed her in 2015. My fault. My fault. Because. Oh, that is actually true, because Queen Elizabeth was. What is that called? Coronated. Coronated definition to put a crown on someone's head in an official summary. I am a genius. And you know what? That comes from the stem corona, which means crown in Spanish, which is in Latin, because it's a Romance language. So coronated corona. Okay, okay. Anyway, Victorian England, you always hear about that. It's because that was for over 50 years that Victorian England was a thing. Queen Victoria died in 1901, and her son Edward took over for nine years. Edward was a playboy king. He didn't give a fuck about England or the English people. He didn't give a. He reigned for nine years. Died shortly after that. George took over, I believe. King George the 6th. Let me see if I'm wrong. Boom. I'm a genius. King George vi. And when King George. So King George ruled during World War I and World War II. And so when you hear them talk about God save the King, the king, that's King George vi. And he wasn't the ugliest monarch that the UK in Northern Ireland has ever had. Okay. He wasn't. He wasn't fugly. I'll say that. He was Queen Elizabeth II's father. Okay? So we have Victoria and Albert. Albert. If you ever hear about the Victoria and Albert Theater, very famous venue in London, that's actually going to be Victoria and Albert, because that was the king and queen. Okay? Queen Victoria, then we have King Edward, then we have King George, then we have Queen Elizabeth, then we have King Charles. Okay? So that's the sort of succession of the British monarchy for the last. God, what is that, 200 years? And I was reading during. I was reading Sherlock holmes into the 1900s. He refers to the king, and I was like, what fucking king? And then they would also refer to Victoria. And so that's what kind of led me to Google it. Y'all really don't care. And I also stumbled my way through that, and for that, I apologize. So if you were ever wondering, when you hear about Victorian England. Oh, Victorian. Victorian. It's because it lasted for, you know, just shy of 70 years. So that's a long time to rule. And it's also a long time to commit atrocities under your name in service of the British Empire. So, okay, pardon me. There were two Georges. Holy shit. There were two Georges. King George V ruled the UK from 1910 to 1936. So I wasn't wrong. There was a King George. And then right after that, king George the 6th, from 36 till 52. And then 1952 was Queen Elizabeth II. This is tea, though, because, God, this is. I mean, obviously imperialism is the bane of. I would say most atrocities globally and internationally can be traced to imperialism. I think that is a fair statement. Like, most of the evil between peoples historically has come from imperialism or empire and trying to own. Own, slash, destroy other. Other countries and other cultures and other peoples to subjugate them, that has been the bane, the bane of the human existence is the desire for power and the acquisition, the struggle for acquisition of power. I think most things can be traced back to that. I need to take a sociology course, right? I feel like I would. I'd eat that shit up. I took a sociology and psychology course at a community college when I was in college just to, like, get my credit. So I did it locally and I was tapped the fuck in. No one else in that class gave a fuck. But it was like me and the professor locked in because he would teach other. I'd be like, well, obviously I have a question. Hey, obviously that doesn't make sense. What are you fucking talking about? Because. And I would sit there and, like, reason with him and not argue, but, like, discuss. And at one point he literally goes, I don't know. Okay, sorry. I said, well, how can that be true if he said, I don't know? I didn't. I didn't know you weren't doing questions right now. I'm so sorry about that. This poor guy, a community college professor, he goes, can I just get through the fucking lesson? I don't know. My fault. Continue. Anyway, most struggles between humans, Homo sapiens, if you will, has been for power. And even when you reduce it down to, like, economics or religion or goods and services, whatever, it comes down to power. Who holds the power? And I remember in AP Environmental Science, my senior year of high school was when I learned about the tragedy of the commons, right? That in nature, all things are balanced. There is a natural homeostasis balance to the animal kingdom, to the food chain, that when there is shared resources amongst a community, everyone only takes what they need. And Native American culture is this way. A lot of pagan cultures were this way. Where you only take what you need out of preservation for your community cause it's a very community focused and community based environment. Well, introducing ideas like this, where I will own the land, the resources, the people, the rights, the this, the that, the the other, that introduces this new mindset of me, myself and I. Selfish. What? And so that when I learned about the tragedy of the commons, I was like, that's so fucking true. That is so true, dude. And we see it right at the beginning of COVID when everyone bought up all the toilet paper and they were selling it for $50 a fuck. What are we talking about? It's no respect for your fellow man. And then it spirals into, you know, the British Empire. So going back to Valentine's Day. Okay. This episode is brought to you by Tindor. It's February and love is in the air all month long. Don't wait around for it to fall in your lap. When you've got Tinder's first impression feature, you can now send a message before you even match. Whether it's calling out their taste in music, hyping up their adventure pick, or dropping a funny line they won't forget, it's low pressure and an easy way to put yourself out there. This is your month to make romance happen. And there's no better place than Tinder for all the possibilities. Whether it's meeting someone new or finding someone to share late night memes with, Tinder makes it easier than ever. Explore all the possibilities for yourself on Tinder. It starts with a swipe. Download Tinder today. So this Valentine's Day, developed during the Victorian era, did not know that the history of Valentine's Day and the story of its patron saint, Saint Valentine, is shrouded in mystery. We do know that February has long been celebrated as a month of romance and that St. Valentine's Day as we know it today contains vestiges of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition. The Catholic Church recognizes at least three different saints named Valentine or Valentinus, all of whom were martyred. One legend contends that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men. What? Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. Oh, my God. When Valentine's actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death. Still others insist that it was St. Valentine of Tourney, a bishop who was the true namesake of the holiday. He too was beheaded by Claudius II outside Rome. And fuck Claudius ii.
