101: I Love Woke Superman

[PHONE RINGING] Direct from the Broski Nation headquarters in Los Angeles, California. This is the Broski Report with your host, Brittany Broski. Good morning, guys. [INAUDIBLE] We're at the 300th and the 300th and the 300th and the 400th and 400th and 300th and the 300th and the 300th and the 300th. Guys, you won. Gorgeous. Guys, I want to do a coffee cup reveal this morning. I don't know if you can see this. But my cup says, why is that toilet paper bear keep showing his whole ass on national TV? Damn, dude, we get it. You love to shit. Damn, dude. We get it. You love to shit. And some people do love to shit. And I'm one of them. Some people love to shit. There are girls that pee. And there are girls that piss. Hey, am I right? Let me get an amen in the chat. Amen. All right, y'all. Now there's still remnants of coffee in this shit mug. And I'm about to-- I'm about to-- Hey, I'm about to click out on this shit. I'm about to click. Hey. Make a crime scene, you know? That sound. That lovely, beautiful, distinctly American sound. When you pour your blue bear red on your shit mug, and you fucking handle it. And you stand the hell up, and you handle it. Mm, mixed with coffee is nasty. Guys, I feel like Goldilocks this morning. I feel like Goldilocks. I feel like this bed is too soft. Goldilocks is German, right? This bed is too soft. It hurts my lumbar. It hurts my lower lumbar. Oh, this bed is very, too hard. My shoulders are cramping up. Oh, my God. I told you-- I told you fucking bears that my shoulders get tight and spare. Oh, my God, it's time. The alarm went off, it's time. Oh, my God, my lumbar. What the fuck is a lumbar? Lumbar. Lumbar refers to the lower part of the spine, specifically the area between the thoracic region and the sacrum. Now, y'all, I had no idea. I had a sacrum. Also thoracic, I thought that meant thorax. And I did not know humans-- humans don't have a thorax. Or do I? Do I have a thorax? Do I? Thorax. Yes, you have a thorax. What? In humans and other mammals, the thorax is the region of the body between the neck and the abdomen. Neck. So my chest. It contains vital organs, like the heart and lungs and is protected by the ribcage spine and shoulder girdle. What the hell's a shoulder girdle? That's when I slept on that bed and that damn bear's house who had fucked up my shoulder girdle. And when I had gone in that damn bear's house and it let me sleep there, and I fucked up my shoulder girdle, because that shit was too fucking hard. Damn. Shoulder girdle. The bony structure that connects the upper limb to the axial skeleton, the torso. It's composed of the clavicle. Oh, my God. The clavicle, the scapula, which is the shoulder blade on either side of the body. The shoulder girdle provides support, stability, and a wide range of motion for the arm. Wow, did y'all know we all have a shoulder girdle? Then where you know, for real. Can't even begin to tell you how bad the inside of this coffee cup smells. Man, it's probably just my breath. All right, let's move on to-- wow, we've got so much to talk about today. Before I get into cowboy Carter, because, of course, we're going to talk about cowboy Carter, I have to tell you all about something that happened last night. Something happened. You know, as some of us do, I was falling asleep to manufactured romantic fantasies in my head. But before that, actually, I was watching a bunch of videos on the British colonization of India. Holy shit, y'all. I mean, obviously, we know empire is bad, and we know colonization is that truly the root of all evil in this world, like all suffering and evil comes from a man being innately corrupt and be fucking colonization. Holy shit, I had no idea. And I'll-- look, I'm 28 years old. I could admit the American education system failed me. And it's never too late to start researching that shit on your own. Hey, I did. What the fuck? That shit was horrible, dude, for 200 years. Did you know India only gained their independence in 1947? And then it split into, oh my god, the way that they arranged it was by religion. And there are so many beautiful multitudes of different religions and ethnic backgrounds in the subcontinent there. And they just split it into two, Hindu and Islam, which is great. OK, so it was India. And then other than India, they split up Punjab, I believe, into what was Pakistan and then Bangladesh. And they still wore over Kashmir, which is just-- I mean, all of this is a consequence of British colonialism. I mean, to completely rape the land and to devastate the people. I mean, just don't get me started. I watched shit on that. And then I watched shit on South Africa. Oh, and then I watched shit on Rwanda. It was just-- I was having a time last night. It was very informative. Anyway, on top of that, I went to bed. And I was thinking about romantic fantasies, because I had to-- god, fuck, I was depressed as I went to bed last night. And I was-- as I was, you know, sort of conjuring up this romantic fantasy, I started to get pissed off because I started to realize I kind of dig being single. I kind of dig it. And that-- look, I'm making progress. I'm making mental progress. Because damn, I was imagining-- like, OK, we've been not married, but we're together for a long time. OK, we're together for a long time. We know each other. And what about if I want to lay on my side of the bed and you don't touch me? Don't touch me. I know we know we like each other. You don't have to touch me all the time. And then I was like, he's going to get mad at that. He-- now he's mad at me. Because I want to lay over here on my side of the bed. Don't touch me, I'm hot. OK, and I like-- I like my shit a certain way. I got my pillow. I got my next-port pillow. I've got my Snoopy Warme. OK, I'm over here. I got those-- that fleece blanket. Is it fleece? Look, I'm hot thinking about it, I'm mad. And it's that side of the blanket that is soft. That's the side you put on your body. OK, and the rough side goes up. And I've just got a specific way I like things. It's got to be 69 degrees in that room, dark as hell. And I need to listen to waterfall noises. And if you so much as breathe heavy, I'm pissed off. I'm mad. I'm actually really, really fucking mad at you. And we're going to fight about this tomorrow when we wake up. Anyway, I'll fight with my boyfriend left. I was fighting with my domestic partner last night. Anyway, we can move on. Here's-- there's so many things I want to talk about. And did I just wipe crust off my lip? Yeah, I did. That's fucking gross. Let's talk about cowboy Carter. I was at the Houston show where the fucking car broke. OK, so if you don't know, Beyoncé has put on what could be called-- and I am calling-- the greatest show I've ever seen. And I'm going to say this. It's my opinion. I think it's better than Renaissance. I think all the elements that she's combined. And she honors the Renaissance tour. She does a few songs from Renaissance. She does thick, by the way. Holy shit, we won. I wish she did all up in your mind. But Cowboy Carter is a perfect kind of summation of everything Beyoncé has worked towards. Everything she is, everything they've said she's not. It was the most beautiful piece of living art I think I've ever seen. I just got chills thinking about it again. So much black American history, so many important symbols and visuals in-- because you know Beyoncé, every single thing that she shows on that screen, that she wears on that stage, that the dancers do everything was a decision that was made. OK? The highest level of polished pure craft. OK? By the way, goes without saying she's the greatest living vocalist. OK. To do that level of vocal gymnastics every fucking night and keep a healthy voice, she's got her mind, dude. She's out of her mind. All the visuals are so good, and they're entertaining. I mean, there's this one interlude cut scene transition as she's getting a costume change backstage of her, like walking into this bar, and she fights this girl, and she does this like beer bottle smash on her head, and the crowd goes crazy. And then, of course, say to say, I'm the biggest, the largest best stepping on this is my mama living in an apartment. Regardless. And then she does the little dance, and then she's got the whiskey. God, the Sir Davis whiskey. Thank you, amen. It's just so good, and then she honors, you know, the robotics of Renaissance. There was a part in some of the visuals she was showing that honestly, I need to write a fucking dissertation on and read about because that is the high level of all we're talking about here. Oh my God. Oh my God. I like genuinely get so fucking mad when people try to compare anyone to Beyonce. You wouldn't compare anyone to Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson is his own standalone cultural icon. So is Beyonce. It's not a conversation I'm willing to have with anyone. You're pissing me off. There's this cutscene that she does in some of the visuals where she is a white woman and she has blue eyes and white skin and blonde hair and it is honestly, I hope she does a cowboy Carter movie because I feel like I was watching it and I was so struck by it and I couldn't formulate the words of like, there's so much to say about where she placed that in the grand scheme of things and all the other incredibly important symbols that kind of book into this and it's like, there's so much to say that honestly, I need to write it down. Very impactful and that's what it should be, right? Like you're paying for a concert and you're not getting just a concert from Beyonce. She's not up there in fucking jeans and a guitar singing her songs karaoke style to you. Like most men get away with. Beyonce is delivering a show, a cinematic show. She's flying around the fucking stadium attached by wires on her belt. So here's what happened at the Houston show. Me and my friend Alyssa fly in, she lives in DC, I'm an LA, we fly into Houston because we're both from Houston for Beyonce's hometown show. Thinking what if she brings out Big X the plug, what if she brings out Megastallion? She didn't. It's okay. We're on the floor, hallelujah. We're on the floor. We are right in the middle of two walkways that kind of form a diamond pattern. To the end of the show, by the way, she's been performing for three hours, three hours. And to have that much discography, by the way, you can sing for three hours and it doesn't even scratch the surface of the art and music she's made. We're at the end of the show, 16 carriages, it's time for 16 carriages. A really emotional song about the struggle and hardship she's been through as a young black woman thrust into the industry and now as a 45-year-old black woman who's still doing it to a degree that is untouchable and how so many sacrifices have to be made to live that life. And it's kind of lamenting on that fact, but also look at all the fruits of what that labor has afforded me. She gets up on, at the Houston show, a car that starts on the main stage, gets lifted up into the air and goes around the whole stadium so that the nosebleeds can get a glimpse of B. Y'all, this car makes it about a fourth of the way around the stadium. It's honestly right in front of us because we're turning around like this the whole time, following the car. It makes it about a fourth of the way through, stops, starts to lean like this and I'm thinking that doesn't look okay, maybe it's part of the show, maybe she's angling, no, it starts to lean so bad that her body is torqued like this and she's hold, there's a flagpole on the car and she's holding onto that thing for dear fucking life and it's starting to lean. It's only, from what it looked like, she's only buckled in by a waist belt like to the car. If that thing would have completely slipped or fall, I mean, what are we talking about? It was horrifying. It was horrifying. If Beyaz and Giselle knows car to fall from that motherfucking car a hundred feet up in the air in front of us, that would have been, look, I would have canceled everything for the rest of the year. That would have been truly like, okay, it tilts. She's still singing. She doesn't miss a fucking note. She doesn't miss a note because she is a professional. That song is hard to sing. She's completely sideways and out of the blue, she goes stop, stop, stop, stop. The music cuts. I'm horrified. Then after that, she takes in a shaky breath. She stops. She's horrified. She's terrified. And she's not showing it. She's got that cool face. She always has that cool face on, you know, it's like this slight smile. She's up there hanging on for dear fucking life, smiling because she's a professional. They lower her down. It takes them a second because what the fuck are you, someone got fired? I bet about 50 people got fired that night. They start to lower her down and everyone's clapping because, oh my God. And she goes, thank you all for your patience. Patience. Why? And so they lower her down. She runs back up to the stage. We're all cheering. They've got some like ambient background music on. Runs up to the stage. Keep singing. I have chills. Keeps singing. Says. And if I would have fought, if I would have fell, I know y'all would have caught me. Yeah. With human, human trampoline. I would have ran my ass over there. I got you. I got you. Oh my God. If I would have fell, I know. Y'all would have caught me. Yes. Yes. Behind. Farma. I'm directing it. And one. Two. We're sook to sole. We're doing like cheerleader. I've got her like this. She's balancing on my hand. I go, what? Two. I catch her. That's what I would have done. Now, if that would have happened, if I would have been sitting under her, that's what I would have done. I don't know about the rest. I would have won. Two. She does a flip. Anyway, that was a fucking horrifying experience. I mean, a listen. We're looking at each other like, is this really happening? And then later that night, she posted photos of all the outfits and the dancers from Houston. The very last picture is the car tilted. And then the next day, she posted to tipin' on four fours. Are you out of your fucking mind? She is just. No one even comes close. Sam, that's my Beyonce story. I'm sure by now, y'all have probably, if you're not aware, I'm about to make you aware. We had had David Corn sweat on royal court. And let me tell you something. Okay. Let me take a breath. I need to call myself. And unfortunately, that's my best friend. We sold bonded. Some magic happened on that set. I don't fucking know. But we were, we were tipped for tat. If I had a fucking blast, I have fun filming royal court in general, you know, like, that's kind of the point of the show is I'm there to highlight the guest and how wonderful the guest is. And through banter, you know, and through relatability and finding those human points of connection. If David Corn sweat, hey, he's my best friend. Truly just like so deeply intelligent, very, very sweet, introduced himself to everyone on the set. Just completely a kind person. God imagine, imagine being kind and Hollywood. Yeah. We had had David Corn sweat on royal court, saw Superman, by the way. We went straight from filming, both me and him separate, of course. Get straight from filming royal court to the Superman premiere and I had taken an edible fine. Okay. I took an edible, the premiere. I was tweaking. I was being tweaker McGee at the fucking Superman premiere. It was broad daylight, by the way, 4.30 pm, suns out. I decided to wear my hair big and curly that day. I looked like my mother. If she were electrocuted, that's what I fucking looked like. And then all the pictures were backlit, show them, show the picture. All the fucking photos were backlit. I looked like brighter Frankenstein, whatever. And I decided to wear this blazer that I thought was giving body tea. It wasn't. It was giving big fucking box. It was giving black box theater, unfortunately, you just kind of have to live and learn. I got dressed off the edible and I go, oh my god. No one's ever looked more stunning than me in this moment. Out on the carpet, they took my picture, I thought, eh. They can't all be winners. You know what I mean? You have to have some moments where it's clear you styled yourself. And that's fine. It's fine. I went with my twins, my little baby girls, my twins, the Metskies, and we had a damn time. We had a damn freaking time. That's a superman premiere. We're so early and we sat down in the chair. and it was about an hour that we were just brap, brap, what the bruh, what the bruh, chungus moment, epic chungus brap. I was like, shut the fuck up. All of us were off-edibles. There's celebrities, there's all the people who worked on the movie fucking James Gunn, all these pites like, oh, and we're literally probably fifth row doing what the epic chungus? Are you serious? Sorry. Hey, Warner Brothers, I love you and I'm sorry. But we did have a dance, we had a damn good time. I'll tell you that. Anyway, Superman, very cute, a very cute movie. And I love the choice for the outfit. For the Superman suit, love it, very camp. I really enjoyed it. There is a scene in that movie where, you know, Clark and Lois are dating, spoiler, Superman's been around for 75 years. Clark and Lois are dating. And she goes, can I interview Superman? And he goes, she's like, really? Ow. So she starts interviewing him. And she is a hard ass. I was like, my painter was kind of hard watching her, do her fucking job. She, look, Rachel, you should be a lawyer, girl. If acting is not, if you want to push that to the side, you have the cadence of a lawyer. I think you could really win some landmark cases for us. If we need to get you in the Supreme Court, girl, we need to get Rachel Brosnahan in the US government. I think she could really affect real change. Anyway, there is a scene between her and Superman, where she's grilling him. She's getting her-- get him. Yeah, get his ass. And he starts to get frustrated, because he has this idealistic view of what the world is, and how things should be, and what's right, with no real thought for the ripple effects of his actions. They have this conversation that's just, I was so locked in. I felt like I was watching my parents fight. I was so locked into this conversation. I was like, and tell him, well, he makes a good point. OK, well, the question she's asking really makes-- no, that's actually it-- OK, Lois, what he's trying to say, is like, off the edible, involving myself. I'm playing fucking mediator. Anyway, really, really cute movie. Also, let's just say it, tackles his real Palestine, which was very brave and intentional, and an interesting take on, you know, there is no Superman in real life, and these conflicts are real. And they're devastating, and we're watching it happen in real time. So that was something that-- I mean, I was watching this movie, and I was like, oh, my fucking god. So yeah, that kind of-- it shook me a little bit. But I think that's good art. You know, that's great art is that it takes inspiration from the real world and shows you it through, yes, in artistic lens, but also through what's right, you know, through a character like Superman, where it's all about-- you know, he has these powers. But at the end of the day, his strength is humanity, and his real affection for humanity. And it's just-- it was very well done. I really enjoyed the movie. I would definitely go see Superman at theaters, if you haven't already. I'd really recommend it. OK, by the way, happy sinners on streaming for anyone who celebrates-- I know that happened on July 4th. July-- since the ring, July 4th. By the way, if you celebrated July 4th for real, what are we doing? What are we doing? All right, shoulder girdle. What I really wanted to talk about is many of you are asking me, have I seen the sexy horse from Zootopia 2? What do you fucking think? Yeah, of course I have. And let's look him up. Sexy horse from Zootopia. From Zootopia 2. Yeah, him. And a lot of people tagged me in this. And I don't know what that says about me. I don't know what that says about me. And I don't know if I'm ready to confront that side of me. That people saw this. And they were like, @BretnieBrosky. Hey, Queen, make sure you saw this. Hey, Queen, just putting this on your desk. OK, thank you. What the fuck? Yeah, of course, his blowout. His-- look, you can tell he had some braids in. His little Dyson blowout. And who is this? An Art of Arc? An Ant-Eater. Whoa. Now, he kind of looks like Mr. Big. This guy, up top, he looks like Mr. Big from Zootopia City. And I'm kind of fucking with his vibe down here. The little Ant-Eater. He's got these rings on, his gold jewelry. Beautiful little middle part. I'm kind of-- I like his vibe. A hot horse is confirmed to appear in Zootopia, too. Is this what we're reporting on? Is this what we're doing? When it comes to hot animated characters, you know I'm there. All right, you know that I'm here with you, spiritually, mentally. For me, I have an allegiance, a loyalty to Bojack Horseman. When it comes to sexy horses, I know where I stand. I know what team I bat for. And that's going to be Will Arnett in anything, you know. And Jason Bateman doesn't really apply to that because he is a fox. He plays the-- Nick Wilde, if you will. Bojack Horseman to me, I like a man with some grit and some trouble. I like a troubled man. But not really. OK, because no, I don't. And moving on from the sexy horse, I think I talked about it last week or the week before. I'm going to be at Redding and Leeds. I will not be singing at Redding and Leeds. I will be on a stage with Max Balegne and Charlie Mallow. That was Australian. Charlie Mallow. Charlie, how am I? I'm trying to work on my Northern accent. My Northern English accent. I've been watching a lot of Sam Fender interviews. A lot of Sam Fender interviews. And I'm perfecting-- there's a very specific-- it's almost like a glottal stop, but it's not. Actually, it kind of is. When he says, like, thank you, he says thank you. Or he'll say, like, crackers. Crackers. I eat crackers and wool. I think that it's very-- it's so close to Scotland. It really sounds Scottish. And I just-- I'm quite addicted to it. But it's amazing how much the accent varies within just like a five-mile radius. I mean, it's truly berserk. It's berserk. Bring back berserk. I mean, it is ludicrous. Yeah, he's from Newcastle. He's from Shields, which is Newcastle. And Charlie is from-- Charlie Mallow. I'm completely addicted to her. I got super high the other night. God, she's stunning, too. That's my twin. I got super high the other night and just went through her reels. So funny. She's just a charmer. She's a freaking charmer. Very gay. Very gay. Warning, gay. Charlie Mallow, Charlie Mallow, where is she from? She's not from Liverpool. North Yorkshire. She identifies as Scouse, because her family is from Liverpool. And she grew up there. She lives in Manchester. Yeah. And this is Google, by the way. I don't know if it's accurate. The North Yorkshire. Now, don't get me. Actually, that's not even true. Where the fuck is-- Louie Thompson is from Don Kaster. Is that Yorkshire? Don Kaster, map. Oh, that's near the chef. Where the fuck is Yorkshire? Sheffield, I know. Sheffield, because that's where Alex Turner is from. Leads is close to Don Kaster, I guess. Where is Yorkshire? Or is Yorkshire more like a county? It's not a city. Oh, it's super North. Beaming him. OK, now, I actually had no idea that Redding and Leads were so far away. They're kind of far from each other. Redding is like west of London. It couldn't be more Northern. It's very, very North. And where the fuck is-- look, look how Newcastle is. That's why-- I mean, shit, girl. I have beef with England. I do. I have beef with the UK. Not the current sort of, you know, the younger generation. You guys are-- you know, we're on the same-- we're on a similar mental wave. But god damn, the more that I'm just, you know, tapping into world history and really learning from a perspective of wanting to know the truth. You have to remove this lens of nationalism or of pride, patriotism that so often, I mean, of course American history is taught that way, even state history. I remember learning when I lived in Virginia, we learned Virginia history and how just sugar coded all of James town and the first settlement and all of these, like, just how fucking brutal it was for the indigenous population. Like, we did not learn that. And then Texas history, I had to take that when I was in seventh grade and it's like, you don't, you don't learn how brutal it was. And you only, you know, history is written by the victors sort of thing. So I am very intrigued, especially having been to the, I mean, the UK is fun. I love going to the UK. I think that British people are very kind. And they're very, you know, I love the British sense of humor. I love the Irish sense of humor more. Okay. You all know where my allegiance is lie. However, when I was in London last time, I mean, I've been to the Imperial War Museum before I've been to the World War one museum. And it's like, they paint a picture of how brutal it was for the British people of the time. Living under, you know, German air raids and threat of constant bombings and having to sacrifice daily luxuries, you know, small luxuries, having to cut back on food, you know, to put that money into machinery, like industrial production for wartime necessities. It's like all that shit was real. And we're very lucky in America that I've never, you know, we've never had anything similar knock on wood. And it's, it's very harrowing to get a glimpse of what that daily life was. However, so much of British history is not accurately reflective of the horrors that the Empire inflicted on everyone else. You know, like truly an example of just a corrupt crooked empire from the 1700s until arguably now. But to think that India gained again, back to India gained its independence in 1947, only after the Empire had been weakened by war. They were like, yeah, I guess we can fucking, the India question. I'm reading, I'm still reading Orwell, okay? By the way, went to the book story yesterday, got a haul. I got another Orwell book. It's called "Cigarettes and Books," I believe. Oh, books versus cigarettes is an essay published in 1946 by George Orwell. It compares the cost of reading to other forms of recreation, including tobacco smoking. Here's something that I'm, I struggle to put into words. And I've mentioned it countless times on this podcast. But I still feel like I haven't quite struck the chord of the meaning that I'm trying to communicate. There are a few artists in this life that I feel like they think my thoughts. They're in my brain, and I'm in theirs. Like when something that they've created or a phrasing that they've said or a feeling that they're trying to transmit so perfectly is received on my end, it's like that's what true art is to me. It's a connective tissue between people. That's what art is. And when it happens, when you find that piece of art or that artist that just calls to you, it is a siren call of the mind and the heart. It's a magical feeling, and it's intoxicating. I feel that way when I read Orwell. I feel that way, and this is so glazing. I feel that way about Sam Fender's lyrics. There are some songs that he's written that I'm just like, it's like you took that out of, you know, it's just great songwriting when you feel you can relate to it. And that's something very specific that he went through, but so much more than that. I mean, a song like Play God, the lyrics in that song are, I know that he was inspired by Orwell. Maybe it's a, you know, it all fucking come back. That song, he had read 1984 and it inspired him to write that, you know, it's about surveillance and about the creation of wealth gap and how all of it is really intentional. The subjugation of other human beings and how one person can rise to power purely by manipulation and propaganda and how propaganda plays a role. And I mean, there's so many things that he packs into a song like Play God that he wrote when he was like 19 fuck you, fuck you. And that's just one example. I mean, TV dinner, white privilege, long way off. Hypersonic missiles. All of these songs, he tackles so many other topics, but these are the songs that connect with me because they are political in a way that isn't attempting to answer a question. It's a reflective observation of the world that we're in and the hypocrisies, we're all hypocrites. All of us are hypocrites. But when you really laser focus in on hypocrisy within a governing body, it's very validating, you know, as a voter, as a young person, to hear a fellow young person also, you know, just to relate on the fuckery. And it's across an ocean, you know, that he lives in a totally different country, different political system than I do, but so many things connect us. And it's also very interesting to me how non-American people view American media and how sensationalized it is. America's greatest export is Hollywood, is culture and media and movies and TV and music. I mean, that is truly, it's such a dramatized sensation of what America is. And I find it so interesting when, you know, foreign, I say that, but not with any negative connotation, when foreign artists kind of throw it back or process it and then put it into their art, it's a very interesting. And so all those songs that I mentioned are great examples of that. A is another one, A-Y-E, but it's just like to sit down and write a song like that. It's very inspiring. It's very, very inspiring. And he's got so many others. I mean, spit of you, fuck you. These songs are so good. And so Sam Fender, George Orwell, Thomas Cole is another person that I feel very spiritually connected to. He was like nature's poet. No greater love has ever existed than the love between Thomas Cole and Mother Nature. Everything he did was in worship and in servitude of what nature has to offer. His art was just, it was almost a compulsion. He didn't have a choice he had to paint. And he tried poetry and his poetry was beautiful, but Thomas Cole, to me, is someone that I look at some of his works and I'm just like, yeah, yeah. And I truly words fail me to describe how impactful it is. So I'll just kind of leave it at that. There was a painting that I did want to talk about that I recently discovered. It's kind of in the vein of Thomas Cole. Oh my fucking god. It's by Thomas Cole. That's why God. Okay. It's called The Voyage of Life. This is a series of paintings. And it follows a boy into manhood through adolescence into manhood and into old age and eventually death. And so much symbolism and how these scenes are portrayed. We start at childhood. So here we see a little baby child. And an angel guiding this baby on the ship. So many exotic plants around the symbolism of through the course of these paintings. It is always on a body of water, which I think kind of represents how transient life is and how it could take a turn at any moment. And it's just a constant flow until the stream stops. And they're on this boat with an hourglass at the helm held by an angel. And it's just stunning. I mean the greenery, the flora is stunning. Next we have youth. And here I find it really emotional what this kind of represents. The angel has now exited the boat, has left this youth on the boat alone. And it's that excitement of being a child and your exploratory nature and being inquisitive and curious about the natural world around you. I mean, not even turning around a wave goodbye to the angel, just so enamored with what life has to give. And of course, this sort of floating Taj Mahal-esque heaven, not really sure what that's about, might need to Google it. In the distance, an ethereal citadel towers in the sky, a shimmering white beacon that represents the dreams and ambitions of humanity. Okay, next is manhood. What I love about this painting is his penis, just kidding. That was a manhood joke. What I love about this painting is up here in the top left. The angel is always there. What a comforting fact, right? The angel cannot necessarily intervene, but she's there, and she's watching. Maybe she's guiding. Maybe she's just a silent observer. She helped bring this boy into the world, and she will guide him through it until the very end. Here we see the man in the boat pleading. Maybe something in his life has gone awry. Maybe that curiosity that he wants had as a boy has been beaten down by the harsh realities and struggles of what a human life will endure. Still at the helm of the ship is the hourglass, which we now see is kind of halfway gone. The river is turning into rapids, and we see a torrential downpour in the distance. He's caught in a storm, and I see him praying for assistance or guidance or help. But still, this upturned cadence of this is bigger than me. I am not in control anymore. Maybe he's looking to the heavens seeking guidance. I was so foolish as a youth. I shouldn't have left you on the shore. I should, and here is just so, I mean, we all know this feeling. Now this final frame is it fucked me up the first time I saw it. Okay, it really made me like, oh god. Oh wow. This is old age. Oh wow. Okay, so first of all, the lighting, the lighting in this painting, truly incredible. I mean gag, gag, caravaggio level lighting. And I love it in the sense of this isn't a caravaggio would paint biblical scenes or scenes from whatever, but they were inspired by people he saw. So the visages, the settings were normal people that he would construct as Saint Peter or whatever. And they were usually closer up more, you know, bodies rippling muscles and how the light hits the bridge of the nose and all this. This to me, this is a divine light. And caravaggio painted with a divine light as well. A lot of depictions of Jesus and whatever. This is such a divine light calling him home. Oh, okay, I just got a chill. He's not ready to go. Look at the helm of the ship. The hourglass is gone. It's been snapped off of the front of the boat. His time is up. The time has run out. The sand has reached the bottom of the hourglass. The angel is directing him home. And I don't think maybe I'm inflicting my own emotion on it, which is, you know, arguably the point of art. Or maybe he's marveling at the fact that it's all over. What a beautiful life. And now it's over. If you follow this beam of light up, I mean, just Thomas Cole, you motherfucker, he is amazing. So we have this angel immediately by the old man. Then we have this angel guiding. Then we have more. Do you see these tiny little angels up here? And it keeps going all the way up here. You can see all the little angels. I mean, just flex of paint. His canvases are so immersive. I just, I'm here. The clouds, the billowing clouds. I sometimes, I don't know, maybe any art history, freaking weirdos out there. Do this too. Sometimes I'll be on a plane or a train or fucking whatever. And I think what a marvel. I am in the clouds. I'm in and above the clouds. And sometimes, you know, when you're landing or you're taking off and it's like the yellow golden light of the morning or it's the pink purple setting of the sun and you're up in the clouds, how do you not feel religious? I know I keep coming back to this fucking point. But so many points in my life, I get this sensation where I just, why is it beautiful? Why beauty? What's the point? I'm glad it's there, but it makes me freak out. Like, why are things beautiful? There's no inherent value to beauty. It's just lovely. It's just lovely. And so this is a canvas to me where I'm like, I see this. And then my mind, I'm like, God, Thomas, all right, P. Thomas Cole, you would have loved Delta. Oh, Thomas Cole, you would have loved first class in Delta for real. They give you these little pretzels. Very delicious. Thomas Cole, you would have loved Carnival Cruises. Disney Cruises. Taking Thomas Cole on a Disney cruise. He is architect. Anyway, this just, it stunned me the first time I saw this fucking painting because, oh my god, I don't want to die. Okay. Anyway, back to what the fuck I was saying. Seldom, do I come across an artist of any medium or any, you know, specific type of art that moves me to the point of feeling seen? I love Fontaine's DC. I love, you know, so many of these bands or, you know, Beyonce, Hosey or whatever. Hosey is another one, actually. And actually, Beyonce's one. Where I consume these people's art and I'm just like, these are all parts of me. Truly, they're parts of me. When you take a piece of art and internalize it because it means that much to you, that's the fucking point. And that is the hope of, you know, in the things I make, like what a beautiful, what a beautiful opportunity that, or lived experience that the comments under these stupid fucking podcast episodes are people feeling seen and people feeling heard. And it's just to be talking. It is completely by accident. I'm just, yeah, people are like, oh my god, me too. And when you said, get it, get it, get it, I have to agree because my mom used to tell, it's like that shit. It sounds so stupid, but oh my god, it's the whole point of life. Roeskination, maybe we found the purpose of life and it's to be together and be connected. Okay. Well, with that, I'll leave you, I'll leave you with that to sort of finish out the rest of your day. Go watch David Cornsword on RoealCourt. Holy shit. We've got merch. Go to broski.shop. We've got some aid relief links in the description for multiple atrocities happening around the world. Also, the floods in Texas. Y'all, I was there. I was in fucking Canyon Lake when those were happening. And luckily, we were on the other side of the dam, but oh my god, it was horrifying. And it's just devastating. I mean, not to rant politically for a second, but look at the effects of what fuck, look at what Trump is doing. We are watching in real time the effects of dismantling, defunding, all of these public service entities, like not once did we get an emergency notification, an evacuation notice, the river rose, getting flustered. That river rose and flooded in a matter of maybe an hour, and not once did we get a warning. I mean, it's devastating what's happening. And when that happens, the community will always be there for each other. Texans are very resilient people. And there, I mean, Southern hospitalities are real thing. These search parties that were happening, I have chills, like just families completely devastated. The girls, the girls camp, it's just I can't. And this was all happening and we had no idea. We were 20 minutes away. You know, selfishly, like, oh, we wanted to float the river. Oh my god, we had no idea what was happening because all of the programs that would warn us of what was happening have been dismantled and defunded. So fuck Donald Trump. And I love Texas and Texas is ultimately my home. And I'm going to put some flood relief links in the description if you feel inclined to donate or help in any way. Sorry for that downer, but dude, I was there. it's just it's too much um all right i'll love you guys and thanks for listening and i'll see you next week and bye