94: Leg Cramps & Bird Anatomy

Direct from the Broski Nation Headquarters in Los Angeles, California. This is the Broski Report, with your host, Brittany Broski. Well in a merry month of May, from my home I started, left the girls at home nearly broken, hard it's a lute and fathered air. Kiss my darling mother, drink a pint of beer, my grief and tears smothered then off to reap the corn, leave where I was born, cut to stab black thorn to banish coast and cobbled to brand new pair of rocks, fragile in all the box, frighten in all the dogs on the rocky road to double in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, hunt the hair and turn around on the rocky road and all the way to double in rock for lolly ra in my lingerie. The accent wasn't great, okay here are my notes, okay I'm doing notes, gays, please I just said gays, gays give me notes. When I know you bitches have them, notes are the Irish accent is not that strong, really needs to be better. I can't nail a singular Irish accent, which is hard for me to admit because I like to think I'm an accent queen. I like to think I'm a character queen. Takes a long time, okay in the lifespan of Brittany the Ireland thing is relatively new. I've been doing Tauy and Essex South London way longer than I've had this Irish fixation and now I've come over, okay I've switched sides. But I find it hard, I find it kind of hard, right it's not good. And the north of Ireland is so much different than like the Dublin accent from cork. When you get all the way down there to like kill Kenny, hey what the fuck are you guys saying? But I'm going to decode it, I'm going to figure it out because I care, it's tough. Then off to reap the cards, a brand new pair of brohugs, I love Jack O'Connell, what the hell? I love Jack O'Connell, I love Jack O'Connell, I love Jack O'Connell, I love him dude. He has a grip on my life right now and please just keep with me guys, I'm sorry, I will be over it. Give it another week or two, I'll be done I promise. Do you remember in 2022 when I had that Robert Pattinson fixation, that lasted for I'm not joking about two, three months, whenever Batman came out, that y'all stuck with me through that, okay. Now do you also have the Pedro Pascale face, that was a long one. And then I gave it up and now he's back, okay and I've relapsed. It comes in waves, I had an oscar Isaac phase short lived, so sometimes it's short, sometimes it's long. Sebastian Stan, he came out of nowhere, when I met him for Sundance last year or two years ago, that took over me like, and then I was with it for like a week and then it was gone. Jack O'Connell? I've seen every movie he's ever been in, I've seen every Vimeo student film project, he's never even gotten near. Oh, it's a level that's just, it's obsessive to a point that I can't even speak about it. I'd like to apologize. Guys, welcome back to the broski report, um, long time no see, many things on my mind today. Many a silly or serious topic. You guys pick one, two, three, hope you said serious because that's what I want to start. There's something that's been on, on my brain, on my noggin, see what is that? Expand on my fucking brine, see that feels more natural, but it's not. Some of you freaks are doing AP testing right now. I remember when I took my AP test, I passed all of them because that was my life's worth, you know what I mean? As a high schooler, as a child, if I wasn't smart, what was I? If that was just kind of how my relationship with my brain was in high school, I didn't have time to be depressed or anxious because I was studying. You know what I mean? Then I hit 21, 22 and I was like, oh, this is what you guys are talking about. Oh, I'm actually, I've arrived at the party now. Anyway, so AP testing for me, I did all AP classes in high school. I never took one regular class because I was like, I, that's not my destiny. Okay. I have to be really good at this one thing. The only, and this checks out, now that I'm thinking about it, the only class that I took that I did not place in, like that I didn't get college credit for was my calculus class. I hate math. I'm not good at math. I've never been good at math. And it makes me feel stupid because I am, what is that? I'm right-brained, what side of the brain is creative? Right. According to popular view, according to popular view, creativity is a product of the brain to write MSV. Innovative people are considered right brain thinkers, while left brain thinkers are sought to be analytical and logical, "Zer is a rat in the kitchen." Hey, that was good. That was really good. While it's a popular misconception that math is primarily a left brain function, it's more accurate to say that mathematical processing involves both the left and right hemisphere of the brain. Crap. What the flip? Okay. Fine. Well, whatever. I'm not really. I'm not into that. I'm not. I'm not into all that. So I thought it would be fun today to do some sample free response questions. Let's see what we've got here. I'm just going to kind of free-ball these, and if there are any teachers in the audience in the crowd, this is a recorded podcast. If there's anyone in the live audience right now who would like to grade this, just keep in mind that I'm not all there. If anyone's thinking about being critical of me or mean to me, just consider the fact that my screws are loose and something is wrong. Keep that in mind before you move forward. Okay. Here we go. Many works of literature explore a character's sense of lacking something important in life. The character perceives an unfulfilled need, which may be emotional, spiritual, financial, or something the character does not understand or cannot articulate. Either from your own reading or from the following list, choose a work of fiction in which such a feeling is explored. In a well-written essay, analyze how the character's sense of an unfulfilled need contributes to an interpretation of the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot. Okay. You want to know what came to mind immediately reading this prompt? Lightning McQueen and Cars. Let me restate the prompt. A character's sense of lacking something important in life. Choose a work of fiction in which such a feeling is explored. Analyze how the character's sense of an unfulfilled need contributes to an interpretation of the work as a whole. So here's the thing about Lightning McQueen. And again, English teachers take it easy on me and just, you know, don't go in heavy-handed with that red pin because no, this is off the dome. I'm free-balling. I'm spit-balling here. Lightning McQueen, to me, represents a big pocket of something missing in American culture. And I think like the McQueen represents the American dream for a lot of people, right? NASCAR or the American racing circuit being the sort of symbolism here. You get money, fame, fortune, girls, access. What are you critically lacking, community, right? You start running in these 1% circles, you start brown nose and bump in elbows with people that you use to idolize, you used to look up to, and it's disappointing. And what you were hoping to find, what you were seeking, which is acceptance, belonging, birth, self-efficacy, self-self-importance, a purpose, that doesn't necessarily go hand-in-hand with achieving success, okay? Now, to break apart achieving success, I think there are levels to it. Success can be financial success. I think that's the one that we think of the most. But there is a level there of, you know, we're talking James Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Big time rush. This is what I'm always coming back to, guys. Big time hierarchy of needs. What's at the very top community, self-love, knowing yourself, all of these things that are abstract, high-level, humanoid, wants and desires to complete that trifecta of what delivers happiness and purpose. I think Lightning McClure. Queen and his journey through Radiator Springs sort of summarizes, you didn't even know that was missing, but you knew that you weren't happy. So life has a way of forcing you down that road that you would never choose yourself. You would never choose to literally and metaphorically go down that road, that dirt road into a small town and meet these wonderful people who teach you more about yourself than you never knew before or that you probably ever would come to know. And I don't think it is a mistake that this message was delivered to Lightning McQueen, Lightning McQueen through this idea of a small abandoned town, this town that was developed around. It was Stanley, he found oil reserves, was that what it was, Stanley's oil caverns. That was a boom town that, you know, suddenly when they built the highway, when they built Route 66, it diverted tourist traffic or the people who live there and, you know, now it's just all these people that are left, that serve as sort of relics of the golden age of America when business was booming and life could be a dream, boom, do, do, do, do, so boom. Right? That's kind of behind us and what's left is this like bluesy forgotten, sandy, dirty, rusted town. So the fact that Lightning McQueen finds a family, found family and people with real grit and personality and stories and love, he's lacking that in his real life. So back to the question at hand, analyze how the character sense of an unfulfilled need contributes to an interpretation of the work as a whole, did I not just fucking do that? I kind of ate, I kind of ate. Under Springs represents the American small town and how it is dying and with that dialects culture, traditions are dying. As people move into big cities, you know, suburbia, whatever, you lose the connection with your community and your neighbors and therefore kind of your humanity. Lightning McQueen represents the closest thing that Americans have to royalty, which is celebrity and celebrity, of course, there's different levels to celebrity, but Lightning McQueen's case is being famous for being really good at what you do with that comes arrogance, with that comes a fan base, with that comes, you know, all the negative and positive sides of fame, but it is empty. And so that is the larger whole that Radiator Springs fills for Lightning McQueen. This has been my AP response. Thank you so much. Let's do one more. Okay, okay, okay, okay, and many works of fiction, houses take on symbolic importance. Such houses may be literal houses or unconventional ones, like hotels, monasteries, or boats. Either from your own reading or from the list below, choose a work of fiction in which a literal or unconventional house serves as a significant symbol. Then in a well-written essay, analyze how this house contributes to an interpretation of the work as a whole off the bat. I'm thinking of psycho, Norman Bates. I'm also thinking of Bates Motel, which is the same story. It's just the hotel that they own and how obviously the hotel is the not only the literal scene, but the metaphor for people passing through, these people who are maybe hoping to remain anonymous, who are on the run, who are, there's something to be said about the motel, the American motel. An Orville pet has some really good thoughts on this concept, and I kind of heard it from him for the first time of, there's a unique quality to an American motel and how so many walks of life have passed through some of these iconic buildings and what it represents and what it means, you know, the working class or scraping together the money that it takes for one night in a motel, families, single women, single men, it's just like what a strange liminal place that is somehow very American. I think that could be one, I'm also, I'm thinking I'd like to say actually Dracula's castle. Houses take on symbolic importance. I would say Dracula's castle represents the ancient and older than old nature and almost adherence to tradition that Count Dracula has. All the different interpretations from Bram Stoker's Dracula to Robert Eger's Noose Faratu, I think that obviously because that's the most recent one on my mind. This insistence on you will refer to me by my family's name. This is how he does things and has always does things for someone who cannot die. This castle represents him and his being and his mission, which I think as long as Count Dracula stands, so will this castle, right? And maybe one of them will outlive each other. I think that's a very interesting parallel or I guess mirror of the castle is that way because Dracula is that way and Dracula is that way because Castle is that way. What it represents, a loan on a hill untouchable, he will come to you and if you happen to wander into his, you know what I mean, there's so much symbolism in what a castle represents. Also an abandoned sort of decrepit castle. Dracula's whole thing is he turns people, right? He captures people and makes them his servants. I think in a mansion as infinitely large as Dracula's castle, there will always be room for his victims. He is forever asserting himself as the Lord of the Manor by turning all of his minions. There's a symbolic nature there of being trapped where you can enter but you may never leave or you will never leave the same. Man, I'm kind of cooking. Let's move on to some stuff that I've been meaning to Google lately. What the fuck is a Charlie horse? Have I already looked this up? A Charlie, okay now it's spelled C-H-A-R-L-E-Y. Is a common term for a muscle cramp, particularly in the calf muscle. Caff is my, my calf is not my thigh. It is lower. Caff. Why is it called a calf? Why is my leg meat called a calf? The word calf to describe the back of the lower leg likely comes from old Norse Calfi. The word might share a root with the Germanic word Calb, which is also used for young Cal. And a proto-indo-European, whoa! Proto-indo-European word, gilb, meaning swell. The swelling or rounded shape of the leg muscle might have influenced the naming of both the area of the leg and the young Cal. So it's Nordic and proto-indo-European, crazy. Early 14th century. That's nuts. Now I did just read that from Reddit or slash etymology, which I will be subscribing to actually. That's nuts. Yeah, my leg meat, my leg, I get these sometimes out of nowhere. And I guess that's the whole point, right? But when you get a Charlie horse, isn't that because, well, I do want to know why they call it a Charlie horse. Is it because a horse, it feels like a horse is chomping on your leg meat? Is a horse like kind of going to town on your leg meat? Did that happen to one guy? And they were like, "Fucking Charlie." The horses love Charlie. You know that meme that's like, when I get real mad, I print out this photo of Louie Thomas in a chew on it. I used to pour milk on my Hannah Montana pillow and throw it against the wall, it would make a loud thwop sound. You all know that meme? Guys, don't leave me out. Hannah Montana pillow meme. Yeah, that's one. I used to have this Hannah Montana pillow that I used to pour milk on and suck the milk back out of it. And it was something went all the time. I used to slam it against walls and it would make a loud thwop sound. What is wrong with you guys? I used to suck the milk back out of it. Okay. Where's the Louie Thomas in one? Louie Tomlinson biting. me maybe maybe I made this up maybe this was like a doctor something this girl would print out this one out Louis time was in a chew on it I don't know I don't know the bullshit on my Instagram explore page could probably put me in an institution I'll be honest look at this crazy screenshot I grabbed the other day it is it my explore page explore page like what is that stutter I've never heard anyone else who has that stutter that's just me flip it my tongue like one of those fucking goats okay now clearly it's not him making that noise but I do want to show one of them who does make the noise girl that's the stutter why do I do that yeah and here come the linguist in the comments well it's actually because you're speaking at the front of your mouth and this actually happens a lot with okay just tell me I have the goat stutter and move on we actually call this the goat stutter okay I checked 23 in me and it's like is prone to have the goat stutter fine okay a Charlie horse who the hell was Charlie team side note this summer we don't have time to be tired or thirsty okay we're booked we're busy we're running around the city we're running on vibes the fumes of vibes however to keep those vibes refreshed we're gonna need some say it with me Duncan refresher is good a Duncan refresher is your secret weapon for staying energized and refreshed for whatever Tom foolery you guys get up to this summer seriously let me show you how this rice horse runs okay see my my beautiful cup here it's an ASMR that's good here's the deal a Duncan refresher is customizable starts with five different options for a base green tea water sparkling water black tea oat milk okay then from there stay with me walk with me from there you pick your favorite flavor and the current options are strawberry dragon fruit mango pineapple raspberry watermelon tropical guava now what I'm rocking with here to date right now is actually going to be a water base water with the strawberry dragon fruit in it but you got to get it ice cold it's filled to the it's filled to the brim with ice and then I do you know the normal amount of strawberry dragon fruit because I'm normal very normal and then water and that's it for me but I've been feeling a little bit like I might need to do oat milk same because oat milk with that strawberry and you do a little bit more strawberry dragon fruit and then it's going to be given kind of like strawberry milk which I like strawberry milk because I'm a big baby because I'm strawberry milk what's that in your cup is it coffee now that's actually going to be strawberry milk okay like a baby so I'm doing strawberry dragon fruit water right now but maybe one day soon when I'm feeling crazy I'll do strawberry dragon fruit and milk okay let your creativity run wild with the perfect go-to summer sip thanks Duncan I love you guys you guys are you guys are like a father and mother to me and a brother and sister to me and and like a refresher you're like a refresher to me all right let's get back in the episode dehydration age pregnancy and certain medical conditions may increase the risk of Charlie horse massage can relieve cramping pain stretches and hydration during exercise or work okay should you rub a Charlie horse hey watch out me see I don't even need a boyfriend for real I just need somebody to rub out my Charlie horse I get a Charlie horse who's there to rub it okay sometimes I can sometimes I'm locked up I'm stove up I can't get down there and rub my horse sometimes the horse needs to be rubbed I was off a gummy the other day just in my home I was simply in my home and I was making myself dinner and I what came to mind is 10,000 years will give you such a prick in the neck and then when he goes uh did you rub my lamp did you wake me up did you bring me here that's probably him says the genie that wasn't my head and that's how I feel about this did you rub my horse did you wash me up you guys win last one day in my mind mister Aladdin sir want to be your pleasure please let me take your other shot it down you ain't never had a friend like me life is your restaurant I'm your maid indeed when are they gonna let a bro girl do the genie live action remake we'll spit at his time as the genie it's my turn let me do except it's just me doing a robin Williams impression the whole time come on whisper ready this you look you ain't never had a friend like try some of column A try all of column B come on guys I'm in the mood to help you dude I'm in the mood to help you dude because he's a goat that's not the part where he's a goat that's when they're in the city prince I live I really see all your bar war strongest ten regular men definitely he faced a girl up in hordes a hundred big guys with swords and brought those ghouls to their lords I print solly he's got dinner got him he got the monkeys and the monkey I have to watch Aladdin when it comes to exotic type mammals that's what they're the balloons because he's got to do and I'm telling you it's a one-class manager you guys don't get it you guys don't get a lot my two favorite Disney movies ever ever Aladdin and Hercules are you kidding me it doesn't they peaked they peaked and when Disney listen to me manifest this right now listen to me speak this into the wide vast universe when Disney decides to do a return to 2d animation and I mean 2d 90s era animation by popular demand I will be acting I will be voice acting in that revival trust trust when I speak this into the universe oh my god I guess I can talk about this now I was in uh I voice acted in something Disney I voice acted in um hamster and gruddle with like gag hamster and gruddle which is kind of like a finneasant verb spinoff I was grandma trudy I believe it's on Disney xd is that not gag I cried I cried I call my parents I sobbed uh what a dream come true and I got a picture of me in front of the Disney animation studio like this come on guys okay who the hell is Charlie horrors massage helps to increase blood flow to the area which can help to deliver oxygen and nutrients to the muscle and remove waste products that may be contributing to the cramp there's a bunch of poop in my arteries so there's a bunch of poop in my leg um you I'm how did that get there I've never once tried to rub out a Charlie horse I just sit there well that's what I do for a Charlie horse where did the term Charlie horse come from I'm sweating down my back I'm sweating down my back did I already look this up like a hundred episodes ago one theory suggests that it refers to a horse named Charlie that was used to pull the grounds keeper's cart at a baseball field the horse was known to have leg cramps which the players would jokingly call Charlie horses another theory attributes the term to a baseball player named Charlie Radborne who was known to suffer from leg cramps during games then why is it called a Charlie horse regardless of this exact origin the term Charlie horse has become a common colloquial term for a sudden painful muscle cramp typically in the leg Nessie I would believe that it was from a grounds keeper's cart at a baseball field Charlie horse I got a Charlie horse also not very inventive for the name right I've got I've got a Charlie knuckle I'm going Charlie mode destination is said I'm busted a fat Charlie I'm busting a Charlie that's what they should have said but they didn't late 19th century they never would have understood busting a fat Charlie they never would have gotten that but they did that so that I could come on here today and say I had busted a fat Charlie and you know what I mean okay it means I got a Charlie horse it means my legs cramp and roll bad I need somebody to rub me out my family and I have this inside joke that's like I remember where it came from actually I do my mom's brother growing up I guess while he was being potty trained would sit on the commode and when he was done he'd go somebody come wipe my butt okay and so we say that that when my dad gets too old to wipe his butt he's gonna start doing that so I don't know why I brought that up oh Jen needs somebody to come rub out my Charlie horse and I need somebody to come wipe me that's what when dad when dad starts you know being dad we're like remember we're gonna be the ones wiping you so unless you want to be in an old folks tell me better be nice to us I'm not wiping you if you talk to me like that I might not wipe in period I'm gonna pay my siblings to wipe my my dad's butt because that's the ultimately I am the oldest that's not on me I've done enough that's on you guys figure it out best to look okay one more thing I've been meaning to google male and female hummingbirds how do hummingbirds breed male hummingbirds are typically more vibrant often with a bright red iridescent throat patch called a gorge females on the other hand usually have a white or pale throat with less intense colors that is very interesting to me that is very interesting to me because something similar is with ducks with mallards I'd hate if my if my what's that called scientific etymological name is mallard you might as well call me a bastard bastard oh my god I'm reading game with their own right now like I'm reading it busted I forgot how like god they hate bastards at this show in this book they are so mean to the bastards so I'd be nice to bastard if I because I saw his fault it's not his fault his dad and his mom worked together okay that his dad's a hooker come over here bastard you're good with me you're he's good with me bastard I was about to look up duck bastard duck bastard duck mallard oh the mallard is the man the mallard is a dabbling duck that breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical America's Eurasia and North Africa has been introduced into okay don't care is a female duck a mallard the female duck is called a hen or a duck the male is called a Drake mallards are a species of duck okay I had no idea the female is called a hen that's not right domestic duck yeah these white ducks I don't like white ducks because you might as well just be a damn swan at that point but look how why are they like that domestic ducks are ducks it have been domesticated and raised for meat and eggs that's crazy oh I like these Indian runner duck oh my god wait I love them they're the they're the real skinny ones and they like it looks like they're on segues like they lean forward and they run and they like maybe I need a duck maybe I need a pet duck the next time I film look they're so cute why aren't where are they going where are you guys going the British Walter Fowell Association now you know these brits go nuts about ducks you know they don't they don't mess around if it is the British water foul association look don't don't ever go against them and some trivia against ducks let me let me just read we're gonna read this paragraph just so I show you guys I know they're not messing around this breed was formerly classified as a light duck but it's now generally in a class of its own due to its popularity interbred with other types the runner contributed to the ancestry of nearly all the light duck breeds which have a lower carriage than it there are now 14 standard colors in the UK and several more in Australia and Germany the ballet is a crested runner but is still judged as a light duck the crest being an important additional criterion in judging judging they're doing duck shows duck shows okay so I type in duck shows and Daisy duck daffy duck who is plucky duck I didn't mean actual do they do duck shows like dog shows yes there are dog and duck shows oh this is not what I mean often sheep dogs demonstrate their herding skills by rounding up ducks now I mean are we showing off ducks the way that this British site is claiming that they are prize pigs wow this is a whole world who would know text taxonomic classification that's what I wanted to call it not etymological that that is the name origin itself the word origin taxonomy is what I was looking at how is it classified what is the species how is it classified is that called taxonomy taxonomy the scientific study of naming defining and classifying groups of biological organisms based on chair characteristics I'm a genius okay okay yeah get into the Indian running duck Indian runner duck shout out major shout out to those guys and you want to know something that show duck dynasty yeah I was raised on that show and I found the fact that they were doing all that for some ducks if you were eating duck it's very duck is very gaming and they always to here's what I found interesting as well every time I go to Europe okay Paris Barcelona Rome London for God's sake Dublin any of these cities that are either a historically working class be by a body of water see used to be used primarily as agricultural slash farming land okay meaning this was not territory historically occupied by the ruling class like for example Paris a palace at Versailles Versailles what an hour away from Paris by car I could be talking out of my ass how close is palace of Versailles from Paris yeah it's like a 38 minute drive in Rome well I mean I guess it goes how far back do you want to go because of course Rome was the capital the Roman Empire I mean more so like very recently let's say 1700s onward a lot of the local cuisine that you will find in these places is working class people food when you have something a la Romana or something that is historically localized to that region like bass country in Spain or whatever it is incorporating ingredients from that region which at the time would have been ingredients that are available to the working class so when you're dealing with you know any dish that's a la Romana a lot of the time it incorporates like entrails and the parts of the animal that were not used so you know you'd get the main meat from the cow or the sheep or the goat or whatever you would sell that and then the family would be left with the rest of the animal and that's what these these recipes really come from which is very interesting because you know us as Americans or Westerners whatever it's like your gut reaction is to be like yeah but it's not you because when you try it it's actually pretty good and the flavors are so hearty and so complimentary to the natural flavors of these entrails and whatever part of the animal that has been used and it's been passed down through family lineages these recipes it's part of the culture now and it's part of the the personality of the cuisine that's in these cities so I always found that very interesting when you look at like French cuisine like what's that seen in Ratatouille that's two two Ratatouille references in this episode it's a poor it's a working class dish I mean it's just garden vegetables you know with some sauce and he makes fun of it right he's like there's a peasant dish whatever he says and it's fucking good anyway very interesting very interesting and it also makes a lot of sense when you think about your cook what you got and how amazing that these recipes now define these cities and the people and the culture of these cities speaking of which Stanley Tucci has a new cooking show on Disney plus yeah I'm watching that not even an ad this is not even an ad for it I'm just going to start watching it because he had that other show that was called searching for Italy, searching for Italy, starring a one Stanley Tucci. He's also got that show that he has celebrities on where they cook and they all sit and they eat and they talk. Oh, I want to go on it so bad. I have a fascination and fixation on Stanley Tucci. I think it's because I want to be him when I grow up. There's something very magnetic about Stanley Tucci to me that I don't think a lot. I think a lot of you guys act like you get it, but you don't get it. You don't get where I'm coming from with Stanley Tucci, seriously. He just, I love him. I love him to death. He is in that class of person, almost like Anthony Bourdain to me, where they see the world so clearly for what it is. There's no prejudice. There's no, I guess, reservations about what it is we're living through and what we're looking at. And yet through all of it, they're optimistic. I really, really look up to that. They're cultured. Here's something else I wanted to bring up to you guys. I hosted Brandcast, which is a celebration of YouTube, really. This marks 20 years that YouTube has been around and has been this monolith of media and entertainment and culture, and epicenter of culture, really. And so they asked me to host this event, which is put on for the sponsors. YouTube is the number one streaming platform ever for the last two years in a row. I mean, beating even these streaming, other more famous streaming platforms. And so it's a big honor to be a part of that conversation, of how YouTube is changing not only the game, but the world access to these type of creator-led videos and channels and projects. And it's just very exciting. So they had me host and it was so much fun. I got to meet Sean Evans. Who remembers this video? When I made Bestie Taylor dress up with Sean Evans and we ordered Aspern chicken wings. And she asked me some horrible questions. I've loved Sean Evans for so long and I say this every chance I get, but Royal Court, from the beginning, when we started to make Royal Court, I absolutely had hot ones in mind. I have never seen anything like hot ones. And not only have I seen it, what hot ones has accomplished by shattering this glass barrier between, I guess, just average viewer, American viewer, and international celebrity. And they've always felt so untouchable. And I think that really started to shift during COVID in a major way. But hot ones, honestly, is part of that conversation of like tearing down this wall of really researching the guest, bringing them down from God level to human level and making them suffer eating hot chicken wings. It's like there's nothing more normal and human than eating something way too spicy and freaking out. And watching someone suffer in that way, I think that it's just genius and it's so simple and it works. And so a lot of that realm of interview, meaning humanizing the guest, I wanted to bring into Royal Court. And I think we've done that in a unique and personalized way that's personal to me. It's my ability to find common ground with that guest and to humanize them to y'all, the way that I am human to you guys. And it's such a fun endeavor. And sometimes it's incredibly successful. And sometimes I feel like, you know, I need to work on myself as an interviewer. And that's part of the process is there are so many different types of personalities and backgrounds and people come into it with a willingness because I don't have the high stakes that Hot one has. But Royal Court works in its own way and it's so much fun to do. So yeah, I got to meet Sean Evans and I kind of told him that in so many words because we were only together for so long. Of like he's such an inspiration and I think that his respect level for the guest that he has on is that's king to me. And it is my humble mission to emulate what he has kind of built. Not rip off the bit, but Sean Evans has such a gentle demeanor, a gentle approach where he just really wants to make you feel comfortable and ask you some great questions, great research questions and it's just really great guy. So that was kind of gagged to get to meet him because love him to death. Also met Johnny Harris, freak the fuck out. Love Johnny Harris. Yeah, it was crazy. Such a really, really cool opportunity. And I felt very, very loved by YouTube. I mean, I love this platform and I love being a creator on here and it's changed my life in so many ways. And so to have that love be kind of reciprocated from the platform, it means a lot, especially as a woman. I, a lot of them major famous creators who we know from YouTube are men who run these multi million, billion dollar production companies or are operating at this level it's just unheard of before it's majority men and that's upsetting and frustrating, you know. So to even have my hat in the ring of someone who is attempting to climb that ladder of building this into something way bigger, you know, and arguably where to kind of have, I mean, I have a full team and crew that works on pretty much everything except this. This is just me and my house with four walls, but you'd never know, you'd never know. The way I'm looking around, talking to myself, talking about some stuff off the what, yeah. All my personalities are in this room with me here. Okay, so I'm never alone, I'm never alone. Anyway, to Brinkass, that was really, really fun. Also, they had Lady Gaga close the show. Okay, the girl I flipped out, I flipped out. Perfect celebrity. That song is a work of art. I was, (singing in foreign language) Are you out of your mind? She, Gaga is just truly a generation defining talent. She is a one of one lady Gaga. Are you out of your mind? I was blown away. I've seen Gaga live before I saw her during the art pop ball. I saw that, which was in like, what, 2014? 2015? That was the last time I saw Gaga live. So this was like, wow, wow, wow, wow. I love her freaked out. Okay, that just about does it for me team. I'm gonna leave you with my songs of the week, which are all Irish songs. Just, I don't wanna hear it. I don't wanna hear it. You're gonna get cultured one way or another, and it's whatever I'm hyper fixating on that week. So I don't wanna hear it. You guys don't have the mic. I have the mic. So pull up Spotify and play this song. ♪ Traveling ♪ ♪ It feels like some time ♪ Dammit, so I'm gonna pull up 'cause my shit hasn't updated. ♪ Okay, where the fuck is it? ♪ ♪ Where is it? ♪ Here we go. Okay, here are a few. Star of the County Down by the High Kings. Whiskey in the jar, the Dobliners. Rocky Road to Doblin Lives, the Dobliners. Which by the way, that version, the Rocky Road to Doblin Live by the Dobliners was in Sherlock Holmes. Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes. Did I recognize it? Yes. Because it's when he finishes in the fighting ring and he goes behind the bar and grabs a bottle of wine and opens it with his mouth and starts drinking it, and it's done, done, done, done, done, done. Anyway, I wish Rover by the pokes and the Dobliners. The parting glass by the High Kings and alternately, let me suggest, Hozier's version of the parting glass and Ed Sheeran's version of the part. You wanna know one of my favorite songs of all time. It's Make It Rain by Ed Sheeran, which was on some soundtrack. "Sounds of Anarchy." That "Sounds of Anarchy" was on that soundtrack. And I don't know if you wrote it for that soundtrack or if it was just on the album and they put it on this. I don't know. That is one of my favorite songs ever. I like weird, bluesy, I don't even know what you would call it. Just like, damn. Another song like that is by Chris Stapleton. It's called "Death Row." "Death Row by Chris Stapleton." Oh, it's one of my favorite songs ever. Not commercially successful songs by any means. Just, they speak to me. And one more for you, "Wisky or the Devil" by the Clancy Brothers, Tommy, Meckham, and Liam Clancy. Those are my songs of the week. And next week I'll have something a little different for you, but right now we're just doing Irish. Right now we're doing Irish traditional. Thank you so much. If you want merchandise, go to broskey.shop. We've got moon moves, we've got t-shirts, we've got hoodies. If you want music, go search Britney Brosky. Or wherever you listen to music, come on. I've got a single out. I've got a Harry Styles cover out. Maybe someone else coming later this month. Whatever, go listen to it, go do what you need to do. I'm gonna leave you to it. I will see you guys next week, y'all be good, bye-bye.