106: I FOUND MY INNER SELF

Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Direct from the Broski Nation headquarters in Los Angeles, California, this is the Broski Report with your host, Brittany Broski. They say you catch more flies with honey. Dead bodies also work. Though the question remains why you want flies at all. Trust me, they will come soon enough, and I've heard they go for the eyes first. Welcome, my dear fellows, ghouls, goblins, and gals, to the Broski Nation Emporium and Macabre Oddities Department. I'm your host and owner, Brittany Broski, and here today I'm enjoying a delightful oat milk vanilla cortado. A Victorian favourite. A Victorian favourite, a lavender matcha oak latte. Welcome, as I've previously stated, to the new and improved Broski Report set. Here on my table you will find an eccentricity, an eclectic collection of Victorian oddities. And can I just say, I've never felt more myself. Look at this. Unironically, this is my look. Are you out of your fucking mind? Look at me. I've never looked better. In all my 20 years of living, I've never truly looked better. Wow. Welcome back, guys! Is it even close to Halloween? No. And that's how you know I'm about this shit for real. This isn't a costume to me. This is what my soul looks like. And I've just now discovered it at the ripe age of 20. In my 20 years of living, it took me that long to figure out this is what it's all about for me. Truly. Okay, guys, things are happening. Things are always happening. Something amazing has happened and a shift is occurring and you are watching it in real time. I am delighted and also enthralled to welcome you to the new era of Broski Report. And of Broski Nation as a whole. We are going back in time, as it were, to a much more hostile and dark, macabre environment. Really, a milieu few can survive in. One that dances with the macabre. One that invites in the spook of it all. Really, to connect with the spirituality of oneself is something not for the weak-hearted. I'm not going to say anything about it. I've been down this fucking gothic Victorian rabbit hole, bitch. I fear I've connected with my inner self. I fear you're looking at my inner self. And it's, uh, this is not what I thought it was. You know what I mean? Sometimes you gotta look at yourself in the mirror and go, "Oh, that's really what this shit's all about." Okay? What you buy one Nosferatu-inspired Victorian nightgown and it's all downhill from there. Everything else just kind of falls into place after that. And by the way, shout out to La Femme Noire. Got this. I did a shoot recently that I'm so excited for y'all to see. It will be coming out for the holidays. And, um, I met a beautiful young woman there named Joanna. And she was wearing a nightgown like this. And I go, "Bitch, where the fuck did you get that? Where did you get that?" And she goes, "Oh, La Femme Noire. It's the Ellen nightgown." Oh! So my life is forever changed. Oh, so now I can walk around my house. Come to me. On the third night. Look, for Halloween, what I'm thinking about is I'm gonna do -- Remember when Pearl was on Drag Race and one half of her was fucking -- It was like a showgirl and the other half was a gentleman? I'm gonna do that, but one half is gonna be Nosferatu. And the other half is gonna be Lily Rose Depp. That's what I see for myself. I'm already working on the fucking outfit. If there are any designers who want to help me do that, you know what business email to fucking hit. I need it split down the middle. Count Orlok on this side, Ellen this side, okay? Come to me. On the third night. This counts as the first night. Right. Deliver yourself to me. Her bitch-ass husband really went in there and said, "Yes, Count Orlok." Her submissive-ass cuck husband said, "Whatever you want, Count Orlok. Take my batty wife. I don't care. Please just don't kill me." Pussy, bro. Okay. Guys, like I'm saying, lots, lots happening. I'm discovering new interests I never thought I had. I've been, for the first time in my life, watching movies that I've been putting off, that I've really always wanted to see and I've never sat down to actually watch. Y'all know that I watched Coraline. You know that I loved it. You know that I watched -- What the fuck else did I watch? Oh, I watch Corpse Bride every year because that's one of my favorite movies ever made. Yeah. Better than Nightmare Before Christmas. I'll say it. Yeah, I'll say it with my fucking chest. The Corpse Bride is way better than Nightmare Before Christmas. I think that that realm of movie, I was limiting myself, right? I'm like, "Oh, gothic, spooky, animated, whatever. Let's keep it there." No, girl. I listened to Broski Nation, which I do sometimes, right? And you guys recommended Pan's Labyrinth. Also, my friend Elizabeth recommended Pan's Labyrinth. I was like, "Let me give it a try." Dude. Dude. Hold on. I can't even get into Pan's Labyrinth yet. I have so many other things. Okay. Other movies that I've watched include Elvira. Let me tell you something about Elvira, okay? Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, Mistress of the Night. I had always seen Elvira as, you know, like a visual reference for a lot of, um, a lot of, like, glam. They're like, "Oh, what about, like, Elvira?" When it comes to a gothic, sexy, whatever. But I never actually sat down and watched the movie. Oh, my God. RuPaul? Rupal. Rupal is Elvira. Rupal stole her whole shtick from Miss Elvira, girl. I was laughing! I was laughing out loud. That movie truly, like, that whole generation and era of kind of off-the-beaten-path comedy. But when it -- I mean, how do you even describe it? Like, overly sexual, but deeply intelligent, witty women. There's the whole -- like, I can totally see now, as a fan of Drag Race, and I've been a fan of RuPaul for so long, I'm like, "Oh, yeah, duh." 'Cause he always references all those movies, and I'm like, "Yeah, I should watch that one day." Or even shit like Joan Crawford or, like, Mommy Dearest, Elizabeth Taylor, all these. You know, who's Jackie Kennedy's sister? Who was Edie? Little Edie. Like, all these things, of course I know them through the grapevine, these pop culture references of a time way before ours now. And to be honest, like, very -- to understand those references, you have to understand the cultural zeitgeist of, like, the 1940s, the 1960s, the 1980s. And, like, unless you have a deep-rooted interest in understanding those things, you're not gonna get it. Because some of the jokes that are made within those movies are just, like -- Within those movies, within those whatever, it's like you have to know other things going on at the time. I digress. Elvira was one bitch I enjoyed every minute of it. Very, very funny to me. Very spooky, kooky, ooky. And the classic joke that, of course, all of us have enjoyed, me and Colman Domingo especially, of How's Your Head? That's from Elvira! I always knew that just because it's funny and because of, you know, whatever. But that -- it's from Elvira! Oh, my God! I had laughed so hard! Okay, Elvira was one I really enjoyed. She does this incredible burlesque routine at the end of the movie. Oh, wow. Go watch Elvira. Watch it on YouTube. Another one I watched that I've always wanted to see, I've never seen the original, is The Addams Family. If you would say that the 1991 movie is the original Addams Family movie -- Obviously, the Addams Family was a fictional family created by Charles Addams, who used to be a cartoonist for the New York -- for the New Yorker in, like, the '50s? '50s. Maybe the '60s. No, it was the '50s. When was the first Addams Family cartoon published? 1938! Damn! 1938. And they were just little blurbs published in the New Yorker. Well, they had a TV show. There was an Addams Family TV show in the '60s. It was black and white. And then there was an animated series made in the '70s. I mean, this is IP that's been consistently recreated, recreated, recreated. But the 1991 Addams Family movie, y'all, if you've never seen it like me, I was laughing! That shit is still so fucking funny. That's my sense of humor. And I'm so glad I found it because I played Grandma and the Addams Family musical when I was in high school. And the musical is very different from the movie. The musical, I honestly think Grandma is funnier in the musical than in the movie. They kind of misused her character in the movie a little bit. Oh, my God, there's this one scene in the Addams Family musical that, yeah, I was killing the audience because I'm funny as fuck. And guess what? Even as a 17-year-old, I was killing that shit. There's one line. where she they're at a family dinner okay they're downstage it's the whole family it's morticia gomez pugsley wednesday fester cousin whatever we're all sat there and i'm at the end of the table they're all fighting okay everyone's fighting whatever and i stand up and i have something i really want to say and the character takes a pause i just peed that's the line okay and i would say it different every time that we did a performance and i would make my castmate break because that's the theater hey babe that's the theater the goal of live dramatic theatrical comedy is to make your castmates break that's the point right and so i'd say it different every time or i'd act like i was trying to push out a fart or i would you know i'd check myself after i whatever and i i delivered the line differently every night that shit was so fucking funny we had to literally pause and wait for the audience to stop laughing and it's also one of those things where you're not supposed to do this but girl i'm an improv queen i would improv after that i'd be like yeah i just peed what what can i say look you serve me this no i don't want to hear like that sort of thing every single time you're bantering with your castmates oh wow i need to do community theater or something i kind of miss being on stage i hosted brandcast which was a it's for youtube it's like an advertising conference and i hosted the live stage in front of all these advertisers and they obviously it's a stage production so they were running it like a theatrical play and there was a stage manager there's all these cues there's people on the headsets there's whatever there's what and i was like wow i miss this wow i miss acting in a theater i don't know if i don't want to act on screen that's not a dream of mine but one day i'll return to the stage i'm thinking about it i've thought about it it would have to be the right show and it would have to be the right role and i would also have to not do anything else for like you know the six to twelve months of however long the run is however long rehearsals are whatever but i really do think about it a lot anyway adam's family movie wow wow so funny also raul julia hot sexy sexy i was horny watch this fucking movie watch the adam's family movie hi sir oh hi sir wow he is sexy and morticia i mean the morticia come on angelica houston is that her name huston come like the iconic the classic that's tish oh you mean tish my mother wow go watch the adam's family movie then adam's family values the sequel arguably funnier arguably in the way that grown-ups two is funnier than grown-ups one okay i was laughing that shit is funny okay now i'm on this kick right i've watched adam's family i'm doing all this whatever i've been a longtime fan of the twilight zone and i've always had this you know my mother is a damn ghost hunter i've had this affinity for the macabre for a while really and it goes back to the dawn of time really humans are quite intrigued by the macabre the spooky the kooky the okay even and so i'm i'm trying to tap into like what is it that i like oh my god also reading picture of dorian gray i've loved dracula y'all know i was addicted to nose for a two come to me so it's like what i'm trying to get to the bottom of it and this is what i've settled on this set is what i've settled on hit the wide hit the wide shot this is me now so with that being said because i have the features i have the actually let me talk about pan's labyrinth really quick and then we'll we'll we'll move on pan's labyrinth what is it labyrinth de la fauna de la fauna labyrinth de la fauna el labyrinth del fauno fauno that's what that fucking movie was i thought this shit was so heavily reblogged on tumblr you know the iconic guy with the eyes in his hands that's scary obviously hey that's there's nothing more terrifying that's ever been made this shit where he's staring at the table with his big fucking nose nose holes get your hole out of my face i don't want to see your big fucking holes okay she runs into that room and the fairies are and there's the big feast and the big faun is like don't eat that shit i'm telling you don't okay let me explain the plot for people who haven't seen it 1940s civil war spanish civil war okay franco as we know scary fascist dictator there are some loyalists to franco our main character is a young girl named ophelia which by the way i don't ever want a child but if i were to ever have a child i have a list of things that i would want the child to learn being an instrument very very early because that taps into a part of your brain that most people never get to unlock a second language arguably even a third language imagine having a trilingual child it's so much easier to learn those things when you're a child and then i would have them i made a list hold on oh this is this is i literally wrote a note what i'll teach my kid second or third language instrument of their choosing chess they're learning all those things really young i could give a fuck about putting my child in sports by the way i'm not having a kid i'm talking about my invisible imaginary never happening child i'm not putting them in sports to teach them such such brutish violent behaviors so young for what to be the most physically intimidating the most physically agile none of these things ultimately matter in my mind okay it's such a brutish thing like i don't want that to me is not impressive it's not something that should be lauded it's not something that obviously i'm talking about like the competitive nature of children in sports this idea of being better than someone because they're you know on varsity jv whatever y'all know how i feel about the mind is the strongest muscle that we all have the mind is the greatest tool the greatest weapon that we're all gifted and it's about how sharp you keep that tool sports i could give a fuck okay it's a complicated thing when you get into like the olympics and whatever there there has to be the best of the best and some people were born to be athletes sure i believe in that my kid no if he's like they if my child they are like i want to do this i want to do that the only thing my kid's allowed to do is ballet the only physical activity that i'm permitting is ballet okay get your ass in the pointe shoes and get out on that motherfucking stage and i mean that i don't we're not doing soccer we're not doing football we're not doing rugby we're not doing whatever if you can get hurt in a way for what at least with ballet there's art involved right you have to learn the story of the ballet the ballet is telling through motion it's telling a story that involves real human emotions real relationship dynamics it's to the most stunning music ever composed like all these things okay fine if you get hurt doing ballet that's understandable because it was in pursuit of art it was an artistic endeavor if you get hurt smashing headfirst into someone playing football and you're brain damaged for the rest of your life unforgivable unforgivable why would you do that what was the point okay for entertainment okay i digress what the fuck was i talking about oh pain's labyrinth oh a labyrinth if i were all that to say if i were to ever have a kid i would name them ophelia if i had a little girl i would name her ophelia what a beautiful name ophelia and it would be the spanish version it wouldn't be ophelia ophelia wow gorgeous okay so we follow the story of a little girl ophelia her mom has just married a captain of the franco loyalist army fascist sympathizer and so she obviously doesn't want to go she's being dragged along she loves fairy tales she's reading fairy tales she's the the story opens with a retelling of a fairy tale a princess of the underworld okay who's longing got trapped up in the mortal realm who's longing to return home because she's a princess and she doesn't want to go home because she's a princess and she's a princess and she's a princess and she's a cruel sadistic fucking weirdo and it's always those men who are in charge of you know so they have such power that they wield ultimately for evil a long story i don't want to ruin the movie if you've never seen it but ophelia is running through this camp that the army has stationed at and they find an old abandoned labyrinth that's been there for a long time and they find an old abandoned labyrinth that's been there for centuries when it's it's dilapidated it's falling apart but it's got these cool engravings and these like she's drawn to it so she finds her way through the labyrinth she goes all the way down she meets this faun okay at first scary ass faun i don't like this faun negative energy from the faun then hey i trust the faun i trust the faun almost a little bit too much i trust the faun more than i trust any of the humans in her world and the faun is telling her princess oh my god we've been waiting for you girl okay you know the drill to get back home to the underworld you got to do three tasks for me you got to do tres pruebas and uh here's the first one you know you got to go do this do whatever she's like okay Okay, yeah, for sure, 100%. She's doing it. You know, other things are happening in the background of the movie. The second trial she has to do is she has to go to this scary, the fucking scary, put him up here, this scary-ass dude with his holes. He's got his holes open and out. There's a child in the room. He's in front of the table, okay? His long-ass fingers. Love Guillermo del Toro, by the way, because no one does a monster movie like Guillermo del Toro. Wow! And y'all have been recommending that I watch The Shape of Water. I'll get there, okay? I want to watch his other one first. Never. I need to look up the name. I'm going to watch that before I watch Shape of Water. I love a scary monster because they're scary and creepy and cute. They're kind of cute. The faun, after a while, I was like, yeah, your ass is kind of cute. I trust you, low-key. Okay, so she goes in this room, and the faun's like, okay, I got to tell you something. Here's this key. You need this key to go in there. I need you to unlock this box. Get me the shit that's in there, but don't eat shit off the table. There's going to be a big feast. It's going to look really delicious. Don't eat anything off the table. I'm warning you, okay? You hear me? She's like, yes, I hear you. He's like, okay, go. She goes, what does her bitch ass do? She eats something from the table. Bro, the faun literally doesn't have to do that. He's like, what they don't do is eat their shit off the table. And so his scary ass, the scary ass skin monster who eats kids, he's sitting there at the table, and she eats that grape off the table, and he does, he takes the eyes and pops that shit in his hands and then does, that screenshot on Tumblr, all my spooky bitches, all my spooky friends in high school used to reblog that shit thinking they were so artistic and cool. And I remember being like, y'all are fucked in the head. What is that? Who is voluntarily sitting down and watching me? Oh, me. Who's sitting down and being like, yeah, best movie ever. Okay, me. And for the record, I'm sorry. Anyone who's ever told me to watch Pan's Labyrinth and I said, you bitches are weird, I take it back. I take it back because look at me now. Who's laughing now, y'all? Oh my God. So the end of this movie, very, very tragic. I'm not even going to try to explain it because holy shit, so tragic. And at the end, the fairy tale comes to life, right? Like this world that there are so many stories happening, simultaneously, where if you want to take the literary, like the critic in me, not the critic, but maybe the analytical side of me, this is what I want to talk about. Arguably, there is a conclusion or a deduction that can be pulled from this movie that everything that happened with the fawn, with these trials, it was all in Ophelia's head because she was trying to construct a way in her, you know, the girlhood brain of how to cope with such a situation. It was such unimaginable trauma and cruelty at such a young age. She loses her mother. Her stepfather is a cruel tyrant who is abusive, both physically, verbally, meant everything. Literally tells the doctor, his wife is pregnant, you know, Ophelia's mother, if it comes down to it, save the baby. Don't save her. You better save my fucking son. And the doctor's like, right. And Ophelia hears that and she's like, what the fuck? So it's, it's that like this, you're faced with this unimaginable cruelty, like truly unfathomable to the average person. How as a young girl, are you supposed to make sense of that? There's no rhyme or reason to it other than the pursuit of power. But all of these concepts are kind of too cerebral and too adult, quote unquote, to give rhyme to reason. And so one can argue that she constructs this world in her head. That's based on these fairy tales that she's been reading to make sense of it all. And as an escape. And I like this theory because as fun as it is to think, oh, the faun is real, you know, all of these trials and tribulations that she goes through with these scary monsters and these, you know, ethereal fabricated realities and whatever where she's going in and out of different dimensions and then coming back, not unsimilar to Coraline, where it's like, was that real or was that just some form of a mental trick of, you know, be appreciative of what you have sort of thing, like a reminder to be present. At the end of the movie, she dies. But there are these beautiful, I mean, oh my God, it's just a fucking masterpiece. There's this beautiful back and forth of her dying in the real world to save her baby brother. And it's one of those bittersweet moments. I have chills thinking about it. It's one of those bittersweet moments of they've defeated the fascist. They've shot and killed, you know, this cruel stepfather and the rebels won and not without a great cost though. And Ophelia gave her life to protect an innocent who was her baby brother. This ultimately was sort of her integrity and her understanding of like, this is the right thing to do. This is the right thing to do. No one had to tell her to do that. And in doing that, she's rewarded in the afterlife by returning home to her real, you know, ancestral family and maintaining the role of princess and finding, you know, it's her mother from the real world who's down in the underworld with her and all this, where it's true happiness that she's been seeking the whole time that, you know, she lost her father tragically. Her mother struggled with her health. Her stepdad was cruel. All these, you know, external factors for her to return to, you know, in her head, her real belonging, her happy place. This fairy tale that it doesn't really matter if it was real or not. It was in her head. And I just like this dichotomy of showing her dying and bleeding out on the ground and then the camera pans under, the camera pans down as her blood is dripping down into the underworld where she meets her real father and she meets her mother. And it's just, it's, I can't even tell you how hard I was crying. I literally went on Instagram. I said, that's what that fucking movie was. That's what that movie was. With the, with the whole man, bro, with his holes out. Oh my God. A masterpiece, a masterpiece, a masterpiece. Holy fuck. Wow. So, all that to say, Jesus fucking Christ. What a masterpiece. What's the, what's the other that I wanted to watch? Nightmare Alley. Some of y'all had recommended Nightmare Alley to me because guess what? I believe it's, it's not gothic. I think it's World War II. Yeah, here we go. In 1940s New York, down on his luck, Stanton Carlyle endears himself to a clairvoyant and her mentalist husband at a traveling carnival. Yeah, that's up my alley. Using newly acquired knowledge, Carlyle crafts a golden ticket to success by making a movie by swindling the elite and wealthy. Hoping for a big score, he soon hatches a scheme to shit's not loading. Awesome. Oh, it's based on a book. It is a study of the depths of show business and its immoral inhabitants. The dark, shadowy world of a second-rate carnival filled with hustlers, scheming grifters, and Machiavellian femme fatales. Yeah, bitch. I need to tap the fuck into this because guess who's in it? Guess who's in it? Tom Hiddleston! It's Bradley Cooper? Tom Hiddleston. Victoria. Oh, sorry, I'm confusing the two. Crimson Peak is the one that I'm thinking of. Crimson Peak. Nightmare Alley is the Guillermo del Toro one I wanted to watch. This one is another one I wanted to watch. This is Mio Wasikowska and Tom Hiddleston. And this is based in. It's English. It's English and fucking. Oh, he also directed this one. It's set in Victorian England. Yeah, I'm probably watching this one. No, yeah, it's Guillermo del Toro también. Okay, yeah, I need to tap into both of those because both are kind of freaky as fuck. They're freaky as fuck. Okay, let me go back to. What the fuck was I gonna say? Oh, you want to know something else I wanted to Google? How did the adaptation. The Addams Family Get Rich. This is from AI Overview. The Addams Family's wealth primarily comes from a combination of inheritance and savvy investments. They also come from a long history of wealth with Gomez being descended from both British aristocracy and Spanish royalty and Morticia from a long line of witches. They owned a swamp and discovered an oil deposit underneath according to Forbes. Hey, Forbes, Gomez Addams isn't real. Okay, so. Okay, so he was doing swamp oil. So Gomez Addams knows about swamp oil, sure. Okay, very, very interesting to me. Okay, so yeah, Pan's Labyrinth, wow. What else the fuck did I watch? Oh, you know what I'm. Tonight I'm gonna watch Crimson Peak. I'm gonna watch Clue. Stanley recommended I watch Clue if I liked Addams Family because I was like, I was laughing. He goes, bro, I promise you're gonna love Clue. That shit's fun. funny. Okay, fine, I'll watch it. I literally feel like that meme of just got into movies just just got into movies starting at the beginning and it's like that first ever film where they filmed a train and the audience who watched it like in the 20s thought that the train was literally coming through the screen and everyone screamed just just starting to watch movies getting into movies let me know where to start anyway um okay here's the little game that i wanted to play today because as we all know i everything about me is victorian unfortunately down to my forehead and the way that i smell um y'all are lucky i got all the teeth in my head because i oh y'all if i would have been alive in the victorian era i'm telling you you know this already i would have been stinky and big and rotting oh i would have had sores just pussies pussies sores i would have been missing almost all my teeth i want to talk like this you're right governor are you fucking all right i would have sold brett i would not have been an aristocrat i would have wanted to be and i would have acted like it right i would have been one of those hoity-toity lower middle class people like it just ain't right the way they's talking it's no fucking decorum except i would have been like super lower middle class my husband would have hated me i would have cheated on him i would have uh probably hung out around the mail brothels before that shit was kind of shut down i would have been hanging out just for some friends you know all the all the gay people i would have hung out because that's where the fun was you know what i mean i would not have been a homemaker i would not have been because we wouldn't have been able to afford you know a butler a valet a maid a housekeeper no babe it's me and i wouldn't have done that shit you fucking do it you've got two hands and two legs i ain't fucking doing it make your own fucking tea darling i'll be back later i'm going down to the brothel i'm going to see the boys hello boys but i'm not flirting with them i'm hanging out okay so here is essentially something i've had my wonderful squire elizabeth research for me and compile into a document and i thought we'd go through them together okay so , by the way can you see my beautiful little teacup it's a little sparrow with a bowler hat on it's got it's got a bowler hat on i've all just think that's so fucking funny that is quite funny that and then this little victorian this was from um the nevers hbo the nevers and hendrix jinn did a collab and they sent me uh they sent me a pr package adorable i kept it it comes with a teapot and it had this little uh what are those called a diffuse you know that you put the tea leaves in you put it in and then and it's a little mini teapot oh oh my penis is hard i love a fucking trinket dude i love a tiny overly intricately designed and oh my god i have so much to talk to you guys about this episode's gonna be three hours long i found out the difference between art deco and art nouveau remember i said that about 100 episodes ago i was gonna talk about it i'll talk about it in a second let me go through this victorian actually no i'll talk about it now because it's my it's my fucking show and you bitches don't get to tell me what i can just talk about what i don't just talk about because it's my fucking show art deck okay let me kind of describe what i know and then we'll go into the research portion okay to get some more specifics on it so art nouveau and art deco are confused a lot because they have some similar design elements but truly at their core they're very very different art nouveau was turn of the began around the 1890s ended 1910 so there was about a 20-year reign where art nouveau really was uh there was a reason it's it was called art nouveau because nouveau in french means new and this was something new in terms of we've never seen something so whimsical before art nouveau predates surrealism and of course all of this is kind of i'm not an art historian but this is just from i love the game that the more you know about that time period in history some art historians will say that uh art nouveau paved the road for art deco and that that was the jump but you're missing surrealism when you say that because art nouveau the argument for its emergence is think about the 19th century there are so many wars there's so much destruction there is so much civil unrest we're also dealing with the industrial revolution globally okay some countries got it before others still the impacts had a ripple effect on society on culture on the kind of mentality and the opinions of looking towards the future we're now seeing things that are changing the very shape of our society the fabric of how we interact and how we do things so that coupled with the turn of the century you know the year 1900 like all of these things are very symbolic you've got the american civil war you've got uh the franco-prussian war i believe you've got the french revolution you've got all these things that are really uprooting the fabric of society and changing things around liberty freedom all these things are uh concepts that we're really giving weight to moving into the next century art nouveau kind of capitalizes on all this where people are so fed up with the destruction and the goriness of war and how it's so important to us that we're really giving weight it just shatters the human spirit where there's now a pronounced inclination toward whimsy towards fancy towards fantasy towards you know the a rejection of the classicism that the 19th century kind of had where it's it's religious it's pastorals it's you know a rigid structure to how paintings and how architecture and all these things were being done art nouveau was a departure from that because it was fun it was fun and for real it was art nouveau it had never been seen before celebrating this almost kind of departure from what was acceptable art nouveau was colorful it was very curvy and windy we put some uh some examples up here it really focused on the female form and all of its curvaceous you know soft suppleness and uh it it bled into architecture art nouveau architecture is so stunning if you've ever seen any of gaudi's work uh that's technically classified as art nouveau i would kind of look here's where i'm kind of my blind spot is is art nouveau bleeds into surrealism for me both in terms of art and in terms of uh architecture because they toy with the same idea surrealism came about after world war one again this utter confusion from how could humans do something like this to one another it was a rejection of sense and of logic because if you are capable of constructing a global war where the goal is to eradicate or to dismember or to cause as much destruction as possible to another party then just throw out all the concepts we have of human decency because that's essentially what you're you know suggesting this is very high high concept obviously i know global war is so much more complex than that but on a uh philosophical level that's kind of what these conclusions were being drawn you know like if we're capable of such cruelty then nothing fucking matters thus surrealism comes about then you get into art deco comes after that art nouveau if you've ever seen casaballo in i believe it's in barcelona um this is i think one of the most pristine examples anything gaudi did oh gaudi's light posts let's look at some of those i guess lamp posts if you want to be european about it gaudi was commissioned to just to design some light posts for some public spaces and i mean look at that it's just whimsical it's fantastical they don't do shit like this anymore dude i'm pissed off this modernism or this it's not even modernism it's just this clinical white minimalist design that has it's a plague on western societies now i hate it i hate it i am so ready to go back to like maximalist eccentric ostentatious interior design architecture there's a reason why people love like art deco is because it's so much the design permeates every single area of a space of you know but at the same time it celebrates a simplicity of design i'll get into art deco hold on okay so this is an example of art nouveau architecture wow this is casaballo from the outside just very it's weird it's new it's colorful it's whimsical and then we all know the famous art nouveau ladies the seasons these seasons there's so much to say about art nouveau it was it celebrated the kind of orientalism celebrate is one way to say it it stole from a lot of uh asian art and incorporated some of the shapes, the colors, the designs. Also, Art Nouveau was the main inspiration, or I guess it was a revival of the 60s flower power movement. When you see Grateful Dead posters and Woodstock, all this, really all that typography and the design structure comes from Art Nouveau. It's a revival. And then you continue to see that brought up again and again, same with Art Deco. But Art Nouveau, I love. It's just this whimsical. There's a lot of fairies. There's a lot of this collaboration almost between nature and humanity and industry. All these things were wrapped up in one. And a lot of Art Nouveau architecture, you'll see beautiful stained glass and winding metal. It looks like leaves. It's all winding. And curvy and asymmetrical, which I like. But at the same time, within all of these structures, there will be iron rods and iron rivets. It's kind of an homage or a nod to the industrial age and how together we were entering into the 20th century with industry and with art combining to show us something we've never seen before. And I just think that's wonderful. It's celebrating the future. This also predates, or I guess it's around the same time of like futurism and cubism and all these things swirl together in this beautiful, you know, you can try to identify, okay, cubism started at this year and ended at this year. Art Nouveau was here to here, but I like to think of it as more of a fluid, everything inspires one another. And this was the height of this design style. And then it gave rise to this design style and whatever. There's no clear ending and beginning. So now we'll move into Art Deco. Art Deco was more global because Art Nouveau kind of began in Belgium of all places. It began in Brussels and it was really popular in England, France, and America. Art Deco was way more global. This was a more simplified version of how ornamental and how decorative Art Nouveau was. Art Deco really celebrated how industrial things had become. The sleek design of trains, the sleek design of air travel, you know, once that became popularized. Cars, like all of these really, there's a futuristic element to Art Deco, which I think is why it's stood the test of time. You know, it's almost like the Jetsons, this idea of the future where it's not as clinical and medical and plain looking as the future, quote unquote, is now. But it was this whimsical version of a futurist society that is so cool. There's a reason we still gravitate towards it. Art Deco architecture is some of the most famous and popular in the world. When you think of cities like Miami or cities like Tulsa or cities even like LA, Art Deco is what comes to mind. And it's affiliated with this golden age of the jazz age or of Gatsby or of, you know, this whole 20s, 30s, just luxury. Luxury, decadence in the newer definition of the term, you know, just something that is decadent, not so much that it's in poor taste or that it's like false luxury, just truly opulence. Theaters became very popular to decorate and construct in the Art Deco style. When you think of kind of more simplified patterns and lines, everything's very linear, not as many curves and asymmetrical design choices as an Art Nouveau. Art Deco is very, a lot of chevron. It's a lot of simplified curves. It's a lot of right angles. And everyone knows that topography, the font style of Art Deco, you see it on travel posters, you see it in bars and speakeasies, you see it on diners, you see it on movie theaters, all of this. It's so recognizable because it's so fucking good. It's ostentatious, but it's not too much. It's luxurious, but it's not in poor taste. Around this time, a lot of theaters were being constructed because now we're talking about the golden age of Hollywood. We're showing movie screenings in these theaters. A lot of design elements were, I'll say stolen, inspired by or stolen from Egyptian culture. This was around the time that King Tut was unearthed. A big fascination with Egyptian, ancient Egypt came about. So the Egyptian theater here in LA, I think the Pantages Theater, the Chinese Theater, all of these things started popping up. There's a famous place in Miami that was like one of the first super famous Art Deco buildings. The name escapes me right now. But Art Deco is what I think has stood the test of time is, like I'm saying, it's luxury element. For whatever reason, because this was in the 20s, even into the 30s, you know, after the stock market crash, this was pre-World War II, where people affiliated with just easy living and almost this new hedonism and decadence. And just, it's accessible through its aesthetic. You don't have to actually be rich to enjoy the ostentatious design of what Art Deco offers. So, I think it's important, as all of these art movements happen, to acknowledge where the design elements are coming from. And also, as it keeps coming back around, Art Deco kept having a revival. It happened in the 20s originally. It came back in the 60s. Then it came back in the 80s. And then it came, you know, it's like, wow. All that to say, it kept having its moment because it's just so damn good. Art Deco architecture, one of the most famous examples is the Chrysler building in New York City. I mean, it's just so classically Art Deco. The repeated patterns, the curved lines, the, I wouldn't say that chevron, but like the use of geometry. It's not this free-flowing, curvaceous aesthetic-ness of Art Nouveau. It's very traditional. So, yeah, that's the main difference between Art Nouveau and Art Deco. I am obviously, like most people, especially because I'm American, I love Art Deco. When I see it, you know, something, my heart opens to it. I see it, my eyes kind of gloss over. But there's something very near and dear to my heart about Art Nouveau. And the more I learn about it, the more I'm intrigued by it. And I think it's because it taps into this piece of my brain that's very whimsical and very fantastical. And it's excitable by all that by, I think nowadays, it's easy to see something like that and think, oh, it's so, it's not professional or it's not, like there's some aversion to whimsy or maybe the fact that it's a very effeminate design style. I love it. And there's a reason why it's affiliated with things like Woodstock or things like when it had its revival in the It's almost like a liberating visual component to what society is experiencing at that time. So around the time of Woodstock, 1969, this is like, you know, pre-Vietnam War, like the anti-Vietnam War protests were happening. Like a lot of, especially in America, a lot of civil unrest towards the government. And so going back to the turn of the century mindset of freedom and liberty and, you know, this almost sensual quality of what Art Nouveau was, of course, that's going to come back and they're going to revisit that. I love that shit. I love that shit. So all that being said, oh, another thing, Art Deco, travel posters, travel posters, travel posters, a huge component of what Art Deco was and its lasting impact. In college, I decorated my room unknowingly with Art Deco travel posters, just because I liked the colors and the aesthetic. And I had my, my bedspread was like a multi-coast themed. And then I had all these really colorful, you know, Paris, Rome, whatever on my wall. I didn't realize those were Art Deco. I just saw them on Pinterest and I liked them. And I framed them in these really nice wooden frames. All of these, I know, you know, these, and guess what? They're, oh dude. And this company, if y'all are still around, please reach out to me because I loved you bitches. There was a makeup company, a cosmetics company called The Balm. In 2015, 2016, I was addicted to The Balm because their design for one of their travel palettes, really smart, by the way, it was designed to be a travel palette, like a one-stop shop. It was an eyeshadow palette. It had blush. bronzer, highlighter, and it had a cream section that had a separate little thing that you put over it and you would, you know, lift the little top off and then you would do the, it was like a cream blush and then a lipstick and then it had a mirror and the theme of the packaging was this. It was all these different travel posters that were Art Deco themed, but it was the ladies in it. So it would be like Hawaii and it would have like a beautiful Hawaiian woman with the lei and whatever, but it was in the Art Deco style, you know, with the really simplified lip shape and whatever. Oh, I loved it. And then all of the shade names were Welcome or Bon Voyage in different languages. Oh my, like my dick is hard. Oh my God. I wish I could pull up a picture of this. What was it called? The Balm. I think it was called Bon Voyage palette. Oh my God. Yes, this is it. This is it. Bro. Look at this shit. This was my favorite. Holy shit. I have to have the Balm. If you're listening, please bring this back. Please bring this back and put new colors in it. Can you make an all cool tone palette? Oh my God. This was my favorite palette. Look at all the travel posters. Wow. Okay. Yeah. Look, so you got nine eyeshadows. You got a highlighter, two different blush shades, and you got two different cream. One was a pink base and one was an orange base. And then you had a bronzer. And get into this girl. You had, oh my God. Welcome. Bienvenue. Bienvenido. Benvenuto. What language is that? Welcome. Welcoming. Welcoming. Failte. Is failte Irish? Irish. I'm sure that's not how you pronounce it. Failte. This phrase or this word meaning welcome in Irish and Scottish, as well as how to say more Irish expressions, meaning welcome. Foulter. Foulter is how you say it. Foulter. Slancher. Welcome in Irish. Foulter. Wow. Oh, dude. Okay. Anyway, Art Deco travel posters were a big, big, big thing because, and I just learned this last night, and I was like, damn. The point was to make it less scary. Around this time, the war was over. World travel was being encouraged. The introduction of the airplane of airlines like TWA were happening. So you now have passenger airlines, and they were trying to encourage global travel in a simplified, safe, beautiful way. And so something like this, I mean, come on. It nails just that. And at the same time, you have this opulence that's affiliated. So it's like the best of each city is being showcased and maybe what they want to be known for. It's just stunning. So around this time, the reason that these also had a big boom is because these were everywhere. Really, really interesting. Also around, I think, 1933 was the World's Fair in Chicago. And so it's all these, you know, it's just what a time. What a time. And I wish that eventually one day we'll make a return to a design that's supposed to be beautiful and colorful. Going through such a tumultuous sociopolitical time right now, it's very curious to me, especially in the wake of AI and this argument or this fear that AI is going to replace the human artist, which I don't think will ever happen. Because the reason that art is art is because it's from the human spirit. And AI will never be able to recreate that. And we'll get bored of it eventually after it's done destroying the fucking earth. We'll get bored of it. And there will be a just like true art will flourish. And I'm excited to see what it'll be. But this to me is very, I wonder if we'll go back to this and we'll draw inspiration from this and, you know, put it to use in a different way, a new way. And I wonder what it'll be called because Art Nouveau had a bunch of different terms, all in French, before it was kind of settled on Art Nouveau just through happenstance. But yeah, I'm very, very excited to see the future of when this period is over, you know, and that doesn't mean that when this period is over and we enter into the next period, what will this period be called? All that to come, all that to be studied in sociology classes, all that is very, very interesting. Anyway, the balm, please bring this shit back, bro. This is my favorite palette. I took it with me everywhere. Okay. Let's get into the songs of the week. I didn't even get in. I'll do my Victorian shit next time. Next episode, and I'm also going to wear this again. I'm going to wear this again because I have to. My songs of the week are Drumming Song by Florence and the Machine. Bitch, that shit came out in like, what, 2008? I'm still banging that shit like it came out yesterday. Drumming Song! Next, Gold by Two Hollis. Yeah, duh. I did it in my gold team. Next, This Is Fucked Up. This is fucked up and I know it's fucked up, but this song gets stuck in my head all the time. Don't even ask to find out about this song. It's a song called Heroin by the Tiger Lilies. I don't know. I don't know. I love that fucking song. I love the Tiger Lilies. I think that they're, I put them on and they make me feel, hey, hey, ooh. Okay. I feel very ooh when I listen to the Tiger Lilies. I don't know. All right. If you guys want merch, go to broski.shop. Don't look at how greasy my hair is, please. And I'll see you lovely people on the next one. Be good and keep a wary eye on the horizon. Bye.