86: Red Bull Turned me into Iron Man

Direct from the Broski Nation headquarters in Los Angeles, California. This is the Broski Report with your host, Brittany Broski. I found my loving Porto Fino, a Porto Fino, a Porto Fino, a Porto Fino, a Porto Fino. I found my love. Now if you know that song about it, actually you're really good. If you know Dahlia, whatever her name is, Dahlia, I found my loving Porto Fino. Guys, what are we sipping on this morning? First of all, welcome back to the Broski Report. Second of all, check out this Coca-Cola can mug. The bounds of human innovation, we really hit it with this one. We really did it with this one. Now what's in there? You may be asking. A little bit of lead, a little bit of cyanide, right? I'm trying to do this thing where I'm doing small doses. You got to work yourself up. Every morning I take a capsule of lead, a capsule of red forty, a capsule of microplastics, and a capsule of cyanide. Because apparently cyanide is in tampons, right? What are we talking about there? And why is that? Why is that even. Why is there cyanide in tampons? Cyanide. Cyanide made that up. Arsenic. Sometimes I get arsenic confused with arsonists, and I was like, "That surely, that's not it. It's arsenic. Sorry. I'll be taking an arsenic pill at my party." Arsenic in tampons. Arsenic is a naturally occurring element that can be present in soil, water, and plants. It is believed that arsenic may inter tampons through the cotton or rayon used in their production. Studies have detected arsenic levels in tampons raging from 0.002 to 0.035 nanograms per gram. These levels are generally considered low, but they're still higher than the maximum allowable level of arsenic in drinking water. Yay! The long-term health effects of exposure to low levels of arsenic through tampons are not well known. However, arsenic is a known carcinogen, yay, and can cause a variety of health problems, including skin lesions, cancer, and cardiovascular disease. Awesome. If you are concerned about the presence of arsenic in tampons, consider using organic or bamboo tampons, which may have the lower levels of arsenic, but never or free of it, right? Never truly free. Choose tampons made from materials that are not bleached or treated with chemicals. Wash your hands before and after, insert it, yeah, we get that. Here's my thing, though, is even things that are sold as organic or marketed as organic or sustainable or all this shit, who is to really say, and of course there are measuring techniques to measure a company's sustainability. It's actually called a CSR, a commercial sustainability report, consumer sustainability report, CSR, corporate social responsibility. Well, I was in the world. I was on the planet, but I wasn't in the city, okay? Corporate social responsibility is based on the idea that businesses have a duty to society beyond making profits. These practices should include being transparent and ethical and complying with laws and international norms to that point, to that point. I've talked about greenwashing on here before, where companies, specifically car companies, just to highlight one, will do this thing, where they'll put a little green leaf next to an option or planes do it too. Like, we're going in carbon free by, hey, no, you're not. And also that's not going to fix anything. It's a step in the right direction. It's not going to fix anything. Maybe I'm just being doom and gloom today. I don't fucking know. But CSR was my introduction to, oh, everyone's lying to you. When we studied this in college, I was like, I've just sort of been lied to. And how naive to trust that these brands who want me to buy their products would be telling me the truth about what they're doing with my money. You know what I mean? That's on me, actually, that's on me for being naive and trusting a corporation. And to that point, saw this TikTok the other day not to get political. Saw this TikTok the other day that said, why are we treating the US government like a business? Because if there is one thing that we know to be true about businesses is they don't care about the consumer. And also, I'm not a consumer. I'm a citizen. I have rights. I'm not just. Anyway. And I was like, it's some fucking trail, some fucking trail. She's spitting. That is so true. Okay. Let's move on. I don't know why the fuck I was talking about. I had to talk about my little cocaine. Okay. Let's get into the serious shit. You may be wondering, Brittany, did you go to the New York City? New York City Ballet? Brittany, I just had the feeling that you went to the New York City Ballet. I want to put all of your worries to ease. I did go to the New York City Ballet. And I did actually buy this beautiful blouse, this beautiful sweatshirt, that has all the positions. Okay. First position, second position, fifth position. And you dirty gutter-minded bitches are not, I'm not talking about sexual positions. I'm not talking about use sexual by FKA Twigs, which by the way, that album is crazy. That album is crazy. Sometimes I'll get super high and listen to it and I get scared. Sometimes I get high, listen to FKA Twigs and get scared. But it's all love. It's all in a good way. Sometimes it's just a bit too much for me when I'm in that mental state. I tried to get high and listen to sleep talking to you today, almost had a fucking panic attack. Damn near how to take myself to the hospital. So don't do that. I like to reserve, you know, still woozy in sports, the band sports, and California honey drops for those sort of scenarios. They make just great. Oh, who's another one? I, uh, stop, bap, bap, bap, bap, yeah. I, k, bap, bap, yeah. Who sings that? Disco, surf, disco, disco. Surf, curse. The song is disco by surf curse, k, bap, yeah. That song, look, if you have the means, if you're in a state where it's deemed safe and doable, go ahead, pop a little Eddie for me and listen to this song and just close your eyes and dance. When was last time you bitches had just danced just with reckless abandon, just close your eyes and dance in the kitchen. Have you done that? Have you thought about dancing to disco by surf curse? Release state 2019. Just close your eyes and dance around for a second. Might help. Look, it's not gonna fix it, but it might help. Now back to, uh, you sexual, yeah, that is kind of freaks me out sometimes because she is, and I, and I know this to be true, um, a goddess locked in human form. Do you remember from parts of the Caribbean? I leap so how she was like a goddess and she was trapped in a human body and her and Davy Jones had been lovers and they had been torn apart. That's I, I imagine F.K.A. Twigs, her energy and her being is too divine and it is too sacred and I think her creativity is just like she is leaps and bounds ahead of the rest of us. Someone put a curse on her and trapped her in human form and I'd like to get to the bottom of that. So we're going to get the brosciation research team on that really quick and we'll get back, we'll get, we'll give you progress and updates as they come in back to the ballet. Oh, the fuck that I can't tell you about that. I went to the New York City Ballet. You held a mucus on my throat. So me and Stanley went and it was in the Lincoln Center, the Lincoln, the David H.Cock Theater. Of course, of course me and bro went to the cock theater. Yeah, he loves that one. He loves that theater, his favorite theater. So we went and first of all, super busy, completely sold out, which is so heartwarming and I, there's a part B to what I'm about to say. Actually, I'm going to, I'm going to address that first and then I'm going to get into the part A. There is clearly, when it comes to the arts like Broadway, any live play that's in a professional capacity, any musical, any ballet, any opera, things like this that are live performance theater, there is a barrier to entry. These tickets were so expensive and it really just, I don't know when this happened, because I remember going to see like. Lion King the musical with my mom in middle school and being blown away. We were pretty close up and I can't imagine they were that Expensive of tickets. You know what I mean because that had to be like 2009 2010 These fucking ballet tickets one ticket was $250. What are you talking about? All of this ties into the monopoly that live nation and ticket master have on literally everything How that form of art should not be gate-kept because of finances it actually enrages me like it actually makes me so upset that you cannot spend $40 on a ticket to go see a ballet and like that may spark something in you that You would never otherwise know like there is a barrier to entry on the arts and it's something that really really bothers me It's just been something I've been thinking about and thank fuck for YouTube and all these things where you can see Some of these most famous ballerinas in the world from Russia or France or London wherever and you can watch their Variations and you can watch their performances in live like 4k but nothing beats watching it in person and hearing like the tap of the the point shoe box on the stage and Seeing the makeup and the sweat and like remembering that these people They're doing it right there and they do it every single day. They do it sometimes multiple times a day I mean, it's just it's psychotic and also swan lake. It's the same ballerina that dances for Odette and Odiel It is nuts. It's nuts to me Me just marveling at like live performance. It's crazy to do it right there. It's not even on YouTube on my phone It was fantastic. I cannot Like I just don't I was so excited and the excitement did not stop after it. I was like And Stanley kept asking me all these questions Sorry, my mouth is watering crazy right now. I had I'm trying this new Red Bull flavor and it's kind of making my throat close up Strawberry apricot what like my throat is kind of closing up. It's kind of Maybe we might need to take a break Yeah, not loving this flavor Me looking at the thing like it's I can read it. It's just my coke mug Yeah, strawberry apricot Red Bull. I don't know what you put in there. It's anti-Britany venom You put anti-Britany venom in there because you know I flock I flock to Red Bull like a snake to a rodent You you put Red Bull within a 10 mile radius of me. I'm gonna sniff it out and I'm gonna sink my teeth and do it This I don't know man. My tonsils are kind of swelling. I don't know what you're doing What's going on with strawberry apricot team See this what I get for for restraining from blueberry blueberries my go-to. It's my tried and drew I know it well. I know the effects. It's it's almost a part of me You know, I've got however many arteries coming out of my heart. There's a fifth one. Aren't there four? There's a fifth one there And that's just sort of straight red bull up to the heart and it just I'm like iron man I'm like iron man in iron man - and he creates that new that new element. He discovers that new element And they're running tests on it and he goes oh, there's like coconut metal And if you've seen iron man - he's It was a great impression Y'all don't get me God, I'm leaking my tonsils are swelling up my nose is running. I'm drooling Okay Like I sang in iron man - and he discovers that new element and he's like He puts it into the arc reactor in his chest Which of course is a part of him because it's keep it's magnetically keeping the shrapnel from going to his heart Are you guys keeping up? Because when there was that bomb blast in iron man one which was and not to get too deep into iron man because I will Because remember Tony Stark goes out to the desert In the Middle East to go see what Stark industries weapons to give a weapons display Right an exhibition of what the new Stark industries Weapons of mass destruction can do and he is getting a contract with the US government well Of course it goes wrong And of course there's other things that work but he watches in a very like dramatic hyper-political scene He watches the same weapons that he designed To kill and maim foreign humans Kill American servicemen And he has this full circle moment of like I'm part of the problem Right and so therefore from then on out when he gets back to the US everything's fine Sorry if I'm ruining the plot it came out in 2008 fucking watch it maybe When he gets back to the US He immediately gets this press conference. He gives a press conference where all these reporters are there and he completely uproots and remolds the The mission statement of Stark industries to be that they are going to be focusing on scientific research They are no longer going to be creating these weapons of mass destruction because He's seen firsthand the ripple effect right and now how How ridiculous is that that you have to be over there and be personally affected by it to realize? I'm aiding the war effort negative connotation right Anyway, I mean love that movie great movie now in the bomb blast Part of the whole thing is when he's giving this crazy Stark industries weapons display something explodes and he's in the splash zone so to speak He gets riddled with shrapnel and someone takes him in a sort of like prisoner of war type of thing Realize he's a scientist and they want him to recreate a missile And in the meantime because he's he's my goat because he's Tony Stark. He's my goat He creates the Iron Man suit Which is this prototype with the help of the scientists to save his life and Thus we have Iron Man. So he gets out. He goes back home. He escapes and he starts making, you know Mach 2 Mach 3 Mach 4 and that's how we end up with the red and gold Iron Man suit. Now the integral part of Iron Man is that that scientist that was in the cave with Tony puts this Ark reactor in his chest and it's a magnet. It's an electro magnet that keeps the shrapnel from going to his heart. It like suspends it and He realizes that this is something he's going to have to deal with And so when in Iron Man 2 stay with me And Iron Man 2 His blood toxicity is increasing so He recognizes his conditions getting worse. He starts really Doing some self-destructive behavior because he knows that he's dying. He knows that he's dying and there are Tonics and things like this that he's created to quell the symptoms But ultimately his blood is being poisoned and he is dying because of all the metal in his body towards the end He discovers slash Yeah, he doesn't invent. He rediscoveres an element that his dad Had actually made a sort of prototype for back in the 40s 50s 60s And he discovers it Because Howard Stark left behind all of these things for him to use as tools to finish because of course He was limited by the technology of his time and he knew that Tony Being his son and being a genius would be able to complete the plans that Howard put in place, you know 80 years ago so he does Discovers his new element and it completely fixes the shit going on with whatever and then in Iron Man 3 Of course he gets the arc reactor taken out Now any questions for me about the planet Anyway While in Iron Man 2 and he's testing that new thing That's what I was likening it to is this new red bull flavor. I'm not liking it Okay, there's our coconut That's it. It's what I I was juicing up this morning And it comes out of my chest the the arc reactor beam comes out of my chest That's how I feel on this podcast You give me one and a half red bulls. Oh, and mind you. I did have an espresso this morning as well I'm realizing that I'm It's not really sustainable what I'm doing Because I have to come in this room juiced the fuck up and usually I am usually about 85% of the time on this podcast the juice is flowing And by juice, I do not mean liquor. I mean strawberry apricot red bull that makes my throat close up Okay, anyway, let's move on Back to the ballet Swan Lake Now for anyone who has not seen Barby and Swan Lake go watch this pause this episode right now go watch Barby and Swan Lake I don't give a fuck if you're driving. I don't give a fuck if you're at work I want to see an extra monitor pulled up with Barby and Swan Lake now go watch it and then report back So for those of you cultured citizens who have seen Barby and Swan Lake And shout out to my sister because that's one of our favorite movies That movie Honestly did a fan-tastic job of telling the plot of Swan Lake because think about it ballet. There's no dialogue It's a lot of a lot of this, okay? It's a lot of signaling and no, and heart and want. Okay, it's all miming. There's no words, there's no dialogue, there's no mowing. It's hard to tell a story that way. You are genuinely telling a story through the classical music, accompaniment, and the dance. It's hard and set design and all that, you know, whatever. Yeah, okay. You fucking bitches, I know, I know. I feel the need to qualify every single statement I make because people in the comments are going to be like, "Well, actually, part of what goes in this right now." Shut up! I feel like HRH collection sometimes. There's a little bug in the back of my brain that's like, I can predict, I'm six steps ahead, right? I know, I know what people are going to be mad about. 'Cause I didn't say the stage design is also a vital part of ballet, the fuck ever. Okay, Swan Lake, if you've seen Barbie and Swan Lake, very, very accurate telling of the plotline of Swan Lake. So, essentially, I'm going to do this for memory and then we're going to fact check it on Wikipedia, okay? And is Wikipedia real reliable? No, it's not reliable, but it's all we have. It's all, I feel, let me be honest. It's all I feel like referencing at this point in time, okay? So Swan Lake is about a young woman who is cursed by a sorcerer into becoming a Swan. And she's only human for a few hours at a time. Other than that, she's a Swan on the lake. Simultaneously, there is a prince. He is the queen's son and it's his name day, it's his birthday. And it's about time for him to select a wife. He doesn't want to do that. They bring six maidens in front of him. They all do a crazy little dance for him. He's not fucking with it. He is not rocking with the six maidens. For his birthday, his mom, the queen, gives him a crossbow, okay? Loves the crossbow. Him and the boys are going to go out and hunt. So they take the crossbow. He's like, fuck all this party. I know there's a bunch of bad bitches in the throne room. Don't care, I want to go be with my boys, okay? Right? Him and his friends go out and go into the woods for a hunt. They go on the hunt with this beautiful golden crossbow. And as he's about to boom, shoot a swan, which first of all, why are you shooting, are you eating swan meat? What the fuck? Why would you shoot a swan? Oh, the most majestic creature probably to ever live. Yeah, let me, let me gun it down. It's got to get that barbecue swan meat. Yeah, just the pulled swan meat for me. Yeah, on a brioche bun. Thank you so much. Can I get a side of waffle fries with the swan meat? Oh, you're out of swan. Fuck. All right, we're gonna go somewhere else. Swan meat. Leg, oh, swan. What does swan legs look like? Swan legs. Oh, there's absolutely no meat on that, but that's not a swan, that's a swan. Goofy, all legs. Goofy all legs, bruh. That is so, it's just tendons, no meat on the swan bone. I wonder what that, I wonder what that feels like on the hand. Like, if you were to grab a swan by the legs, would it be, would it be rubbery? What does a duck foot look feel like? Is it, is it rubbery or is it like a dolphin skin? You know where it's kind of like smooth and shiny? Or 'cause they gotta have some grip on there, right? Also, I'm seeing some crazy talon action. What the fuck? Swans have talons? Oh my God, swans are dinosaurs. That's a dinosaur. Ew. What? There's talons. Just wants to have talons. What the fuck? Relaxed, webbed foot of a mute swan. Hind, toe, claws can scratch. Swans have claws that can scratch. Why is no one, why is no one talking about the fact that a swan's foot is called the webbed or palmated feet of birds can be categorized into several types. Paul, Paul mate, only the anterior digits are joined by webbing found in ducks, geese and swans, goals and turns and other aquatic birds. Ox flamingos, full Mars, jagers, loons, petrels, sheer waters and skimmers. Birds are crazy. But you want to show pretty? They're pretty but they've got, they've got razor sharp, banshee-like talons and claws. Knee, hip, ankle. Why? God, that is just beautiful, though, isn't it? Look at that wing. It's like an angel wing. Do you think angel, the modern understanding and depiction of angel wings is based on swan wings? Where do angel wings come from? Angel wings are a symbolic representation of qualities like guidance, protection and purity. Okay, anyway, back to the prints. Prints is on the hunt. Ames the crossbow at the swan. Before he can do that, stop, it's a woman, okay? He goes and dances with the woman because she is beautiful, stunning, the most gorgeous creature he has ever seen. They dance in the wood. And it's a, it's a pa-pa-du-du pa-pa-du-du. It, two, two people dancing together. Pa-du-du, du, on, du, pa-du-du, pa-du-du. (laughs) We have got to get a linguistic guide just sitting in the corner in here, who's just a polyglot who speaks every language for language, for every time I have a question, I can just be like, "Right, pa-du-du." Anyway, now hiring, if anyone is a polyglot, go ahead and let me know. We can just zoom you in. Anyway, they dance. It's wonderful. And then she has to go because she turns back into a swan at night, okay? Well, he returns to the castle. Oh, he's in love. He's sars, sars, sars in love. And they promise each other that there are each other's only ones, they're in love, whatever. And also it pays to mention now that the only way to break the sorcerer's curse is true love, duh, duh. Is it your first day on Planet Earth? Yeah, true love's kiss. Anyway, opening of Act Two is another birthday celebration for my young boy, another birthday celebration for Bra. Bra is, again, dancing with all these maidens, who gives a fuck, he's thinking about Odette. And there's all these, actually, the top of Act Two is really fun because all these different countries or cultures, so to speak, come in and do a little jig for the prince and the queen. And they incorporate, I was trying that means Stanley, we're like, who is who? There was a Spanish one, there was like a Russian one, there was a German one, there was, oh, there was like an arabesque one, really gorgeous. And they do all these and they're all in their respective little outfits and it was so much fun and the music is so good. So that's kind of a break up of the, (humming) (humming) 'Cause that music is so, it's so heart-wrenching, it's so dramatic and whatever. And then the top of Act Two is like, they have tambourines. Anyway, so at this little ball, right? Roth, Roth, Gart, Rothbart, Vaughn Rothbart, the sorcerer, okay, the sorcerer who cursed Odette, he's off number one. He comes in and disguised with his daughter named Odiel. Now Odiel is dressed just like Odette, but in all black. Well, the dumbass stupid ass prince thinks that that's his woman. So they start dancing together. Oh, they're so in love, oh, they kiss, oh, they're well. I just missed you so much, you went to be my girlfriend. Yes, I'm gonna be the king. Okay, they are betrothed. Then during the ball, a vision of Odette appears above the throne room. And it's her dancing like this, okay, because she's the swan and her wings, bra, her wings. And he sees the vision and realizes what he's done. This is not Odette. Shorty is not Odette. So he runs, he flees from the building. He knows what he has to do. Oh, he's gonna apologize to Odette. Oh, my God, I'm so sorry. I'm gonna do that. I did not know it was you. I did not know it was not you. Okay, I saw another daddy and she was dancing with me. Ponder, duh, Ponder, duh, and I didn't know. So he runs back into the forest. They start fighting. Yeah, they dance together for a second. And Odette and all her little swan girls are just mourning, they're lamenting. And it's actually so cute because the swans like protect her. When the prince comes around and when Vaughn Rothgart, Rothbart comes around, they protect her for a second. And then of course the prince and her find each other. They do a little dance, they're in mourning, and then Rothbard comes out, they all start fighting, they're fighting, they're fighting, they're fighting, they're fighting. And then towards the ends, and this is the fun part about Swan Lake is different companies do different endings, which is, I think, fun and sleigh. It's kind of like that episode of SpongeBob when you have the DVD where you could pick your own ending, the Flying Dutchman episode, hello, does anyone get me? Remember you could pick your own ending? Where one of them, like Patrick was in that fruit smoothie, another one with, do you remember that? I had that DVD. Anyway, it's very much that. And so some iterations will have Odette and Prince, I think his name is Sig Freed, up on this hill, this cliff, and they know that the only way to break to curse is they have to die, one of them has to die, right? Because she can never be free, because he picked Odiel. And so she jumps, she jumps from the cliff, and Sig Freed follows her, and that's the end. This one we went to, the end was, it was beautiful. I just got a chill thing about it. There is this light coming from staged lift. It's just this like big spotlight, and it's very minimal lights above the dancers, and it's almost this godly omnipotent light, and the swans form a line around Odette, and her and the prince embrace one last time, and then she does that crazy, like where it looks like they're floating across the stage, like, do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do with the little feet. And she does it backwards, and she's doing her hands like this. Oh, I love spotlight. And she just disappears into the light, and she's smiling, and she like waves him goodbye. And then of course, he's heartbroken, devastated. And then it ends. So like she had died. So good, it's so good. And there's also this move that they all do, they all, it's Odette and Odiel. And some of the backup swans, where they do their hands like this in front of them, and that's to represent the dying swan. They also do this crazy move, where I was like, what are you doing? They do this crazy move. Sure, it looks like it looks like when swans sort of fly, and then like get in the water and just sort of coast, like, you know what I mean? You guys, you guys just don't, okay. You know, or when birds flap and then they get in the water, then they kind of like float on the water. They would do a dance move that looked like that, where they would do this, and then they would like hop on one leg, and it looked like they hit the water, and they were just coasting along the water. I'm picking up on this shit. I'm watching on that one, it's like a swan. Yeah, that was like a swan in the lake, yeah, yeah. I can't be hitting, I get it, I get it. I get it, 'cause they're swans. Stanley, okay, so here's a, I'm talking the whole time, narrating it. Okay, so that's actually called a foetage. He did 32 of them. (laughing) I didn't say that. I leaned over, I said she's about to do 32 foetays. Foetays are spins with your leg up in the air, and it's completely balanced, and you spin around, you get back on point every single time. She does it 32 times in a row. Also, Chakowski did the, he composed the music for swan lake, and for the other two famous ones, not cracker, and the third one. And that music that the 32 foetays are to, oh my God, go watch it. Go watch swan lake 32 foetays compilation on YouTube. It is gag, how the fuck also to practice that, one of your, you have to be really careful not to let one of your legs become more powerful or muscular than the other, especially for any combinations that require spinning around the stage. I forget what that's called. You're spinning around the whole stage really quickly, and it's on one leg that you do the actual spin on, but you're on two, but okay, hello. That, how can you not just like, your right leg is broided up, just like rippling with muscle, and then your left leg is a little noodle? Like, how is it not that? It really takes so much behind the scenes, obviously rehearsals in practice, but these people are athletes, they are athletes, bro. I'm telling you, it is so impressive. And then they look pretty, they look pretty well, they do it. I literally went home that night and I said, this is going to take over. And did I email a local dance company around my neighborhood, yeah, I did. (laughing) Yeah, I did. To do an adult ballet class, yeah, I did, because I had a moment of just blissful inspiration, where someone commented, under a brush, your board video, dude, hit up a local dance studio and say, do you do adult ballet intro classes? And guess what I did? And then I got kind of scared and I didn't respond. But they were so nice, they were like, hi Brittany, yes, classes on Monday. And I said, nervous. Not never mind, I don't even like ballet. I don't want to do that. That is nerdy. But what time is it and what do I need to bring? Sir and Andrew Fee, do I need to pay? Do I need to have point shoes? I don't know, my toes are sensitive. I don't have my toes. And my toenails sometimes hurt. I can't go to toenails, I can't spend around 32 front days on my ingrown toenail, I'll be going to the ER. They're like, that's okay, you don't have to buy. You don't have to bring point shoes. Just, we're just gonna be stretching for first come. Okay, well, I don't want to spend 32 front days. I already have a nose one like. I never see this one like, I don't like it. Okay, just being way too defensive. Anyway, yeah, I had emailed a local dance company because I don't give a thought. But I do, ultimately I do because there's something very humiliating about. And rewind to me 30 minutes ago being like, just try to dance in your kitchen. I don't know, I'm really fixed. I'm really wrong in your life. Stupid. No, I think it's something embarrassing about. It's like singing in front of your parents. Like, I don't want to do that if I don't have to. I don't want to do that if I don't have to, but I want to. Yeah, I'd like to, one of these days, I'm gonna work up the courage and I'm gonna go. I'm gonna get some of those little dance shoes and I'm just gonna go, not point shoes, the other ones they wear, that they don't have a box in it. But it's like, it's still got the elastic on it. I just really think that that's in my future. It's something that I see for myself. So yeah, also, you know, in this theme, this ever-present theme of Renaissance Woman that I want to have lived a full life and tried anything that interests me to give it a shot. Y'all hear how cotton-mouthing I am? Fuck this Red Bull Flavor, bro. I'm telling you, it's not good. I'm gonna finish it though. Yeah, I don't know what's going on with that Red Bull Flavor. Pull it off the shelves, team. It's making my tonsils touch. Jack of all trades, master of none. That's really, and I know there's like a negative connotation to that a little bit, but also, no, there's not. Someone who's competent in many different skills but not an expert in any single one. Essentially, someone who dabbles in a variety of things without achieving mastery in any particular area, (laughs) without achieving mastery. That's tough. That's tough to read. It implies that while a person can perform any tasks, they lack the depth of knowledge and expertise to be considered a true master in any of them. Yeah, because that takes a lifetime of work. I just wanna be an appreciator of a simple bystander, right, and a true fan of that art form that I like. And you don't have to be great at something to appreciate it. You don't have to be great at something to say that you do it, okay, and hear me when I say that. It's not even like a New Year's resolution. It's just sort of my, Jesus Christ, I am so sorry for all the flim in my throat this episode. Yeah, that's just sort of my personal doctrine moving through the rest of my life. Because some of the people that I look up to the most or really idolize are that they are so cultured in a lot of different ways and a lot of ways that are not related, you know, to know so much about this one thing that is completely disjointed from Swan Lake or it's just like to have, I think to have it across the board knowledge is signs and evidence of a life well-lived and yeah, just to say that you've tried everything. Okay, here's something completely separate that I also want to talk about. Okay, completely separately. I went to NASA this past week. Hey, the most fun I've ever had. Shout out to the team at NASA because I got a cold DM from them. It was like, "Bready, we'd love to have you." If you're ever in Houston, just come to it and I was like, "I'm literally gonna be in Houston in two weeks." And so we coordinated and I went, I got to go with Tato, Bestie Tato and my mom and dad. How fun is it? We got a VIP tour of NASA [BLANK_AUDIO] let me tell you something. A lot of people think that NASA shut down after they stopped the shuttles and it's just simply not true. It's not true. You know, for people like me, like on the fringes of the scientific community, I try my best. I try my damnedest to understand, but sometimes that shit is not for me, okay? Because I'm actually studying on a very hyper intensive level, the plot of Iron Man 1, 2, and 3. And as that relates to, you know, a lot of my scientific understanding comes from the Iron Man universe. And that's not easy for me to admit. It's not fun for me to admit, but it's kind of, you know, so it's just very my worldview and scientific understanding is very limited because that's not the part of my brain that is there, okay? When when God was sort of cooking me up in the oven, forgot that ingredient. He forgot the science ingredient because you all watch me struggle through these Google searches. What is centrifugal force? Centrifugal motion. Centrifugal motion. Centrifugal. I'm not getting physics. I'm not getting electricity. I'm not really understanding any of it. So a tour like this, imagine my awe and wonder because so much of NASA and what their current missions are, which is, by the way, establishing a home base on the moon, slay, maintaining the ISS, International Space Station, slay. And third of all, the long term goal of establishing something on Mars, okay? Some form of like, like, we're still, and think about this. They've only been really freaking their shit like this for probably 25 years. Space exploration is so new. And I know that sounds like a stupid statement, but you would think that, okay, first man on the moon, 1969, we've made great discoveries and breakthroughs since then, but it's really not as much as I thought. Like, it's crazy. And a lot of the equipment that is up there and even some of the government buildings that NASA's housed in, and I went to the Johnson Space Center. There's another one in Florida, the Kennedy Space Center, and there's another one in Alabama. And there's another one in Arizona, or is it New Mexico? There's one in Canada. There's one. I mean, there's all over, right? International Space Station, of course, has a bunch of different points globally of, if it were to go down if anything were to happen, it is an international effort, which is truly beautiful. We got to walk through a mock-up of the ISS, which is so neat. And there are different segments, different areas, they're called nodes of which country sort of not donated, but contributed, what? And there's an American side, there's a Russian side, a Japanese side, this, that, the other. And it's just all that this stuff interests me, where our tour guide was saying that it is common courtesy on the ISS, which at any one time probably has about 11 people on it. I think there's seven up there right now. About 11 people can fit on the ISS, crazy, by the way, because you think it's this huge warship like aircraft carrier that has 250 people working on it, like, I don't know, I don't know why I think they're in Star Wars. I mean, it's very small and contained, and think about how much preparation and training goes into sending people into space to go be up there and collect samples, and do this, do all that. It is so intense. And so, yeah, the 11 people, it is so specific and selective and for a good reason, right? Okay, so many variables that could go wrong, you need highly trained individuals. 11 people up there, and when you're going back and forth or for whatever reason, like if you're an American in the Russian node, all of the controls and the signs in the Russian node are in Russian, and obviously all the ones on the American side are in English. And they said that it is common courtesy when you enter into the Russian side, you should speak Russian, and when Russians come to the American side, they speak English. And it's just this sort of common curtain, like there's there's some banners on the space station. How cute is that? What else? They showed us, oh, you know, that scene from the Martian where he, those little plant incubator things where he grows that potato. And that it's the most emotional scene in the movie when he runs out of ketchup on that one potato. Yeah, I almost turned the damn movie off. I couldn't handle it. It's too much. That is so scary. Matt Damon is my hero. Matt Damon is just on my fucking hero. That scene where it's that wall of all the planters. In this mockup, they had one of those so cool to see where it's like the sun lamps and, you know, there's water and you keep them hydrated, just crazy. We're growing shit in space. And I also did not know that there is evidence on Mars of moving water. Again, I'm not tapped into this shit. I'm not, I'm not really, that's not for me. It's I'm not being targeted. And when I get tick talks about space, I scroll because they freak me out. But that's the shit I want to see. And so all these formations on Mars, I could be talking out of my ass. Let's Google it. Almost all water on Mars today exists as polar permafrost ice, though it also exists in small quantities as vapor in the atmosphere. What was thought to be low-volume liquid brines in shallow Martian soil, also called recurrent slope lene, maybe grains of flowing sand and dust slipping downhill to make dark streaks. While most water ice is buried, it's exposed at the surface across several locations on Mars. And the mid-latitudes, it it is exposed by impact craters, steep scarps and gullies, steep scarps and gullies. Fuck you wrote this, a pirate. Water ice is also visible at the surface at the north polar ice cap. Abundant water ice is also present beneath the permanent carbon dioxide ice cap at the Martian South Pole. More than 5 million cubic kilometers of ice have been detected at or near the surface of Mars. Enough to cover the whole planet to a depth of 35 meters? Wait, that's scary! Even more ice might be locked away in the deep subsurface. Wait, I'm scared! Some liquid water, some liquid water, may occur transiently on the Martian surface today. But limited to traces of dissolved moisture from the atmosphere and thin films, which are challenging environments for known life. No evidence of present-day liquid water has been discovered on the planet's surface because under typical Martian conditions, an ambient atmospheric pressure, warming water ice on the Martian surface would sublime at rates of seat you're losing me. You're losing me right here. Before about 3.8 billion years ago, Mars may have had a denser atmosphere and higher surface temperatures, potentially allowing greater amounts of liquid water on the surface, possibly including a large ocean that may have covered one-third of the planet. Water has also apparently flowed across the surface for short periods at various intervals, more recently in Mars history. See what I'm saying, dude? Because he was saying that some of the movement or tracks in the sand are not even sand. The surface of the planet indicates moving water. And I was like, that is crazy. Red rising is happening. It's real. It's real. We're terraforming Mars. We're terraforming the planet. It's just crazy. So yeah, I think, honestly, here's one of my reflections from going to NASA. First of all, humans are amazing. When we work together, there are truly no bounds for what we can accomplish that it left me feeling hopeful. And second of all, we are so limited and bogged down by red tape because NASA is a government agency that contracts companies, you know, commercial, you know, like SpaceX and blue, whatever the fuck Jeff Bezos says, like all these sort of private companies that they contract to either build craft or things like the technology like Velcro was made for space. I'm pretty sure. You're not a lot to say Velcro though, because that is a, it's copyrighted, the way that Kleenex is copyrighted. Velcro for space. Okay, so I had lied. Essentially Velcro wasn't developed for NASA, but NASA used it in the Apollo missions. Velcro is used in many products, including clothing, footwear, packaging, medical supplies. NASA used Velcro to secure equipment during the Apollo missions. The Velcro brand of hook and loop was invented by a man named George Mestrel in the 40s, while hunting in the Dura Mountains in Switzerland. He was a Swiss engineer and he realized that the tiny hooks of the, the burrs stuck in his pants and in his dog's fur, he wondered how they attached themselves. Because nature is the greatest inspiration. Nature is the blueprint. Have you all seen those things of like stars in nature? How sometimes on a cellular level? It's, it's a star or how [BLANK_AUDIO] forms stars, star fruit, this, that, yeah, it's like some of these patterns or shapes are truly natural. Like they occur naturally in nature. And it's just amazing. Even when you think about things like a spider web, like, why is it so complex and beautiful? If the goal is just to trap food to eat, why does why is it beautiful? Why is it so intricately designed and and symmetrical? That's the craziest bullshit is that Nate there is a symmetry in nature. And that gets back to like Fibonacci sequence and all this where for whatever reason, nature is mathematical. And a lot of like this is a perfect example of he recognized something like why do birds get caught on things? And what is that technology? And how can we harness that and use it for other purposes? But it was naturally occurring. So some fucking cool, some fucking cool. Yeah, that's what I'm fucking talking about. Things NASA invented. Memory foam, camera phones, freeze drying, insulation, solar cells, foil blankets, food safety, water filters, ear thermometers, wireless headphones, cochlear implants, shoe and souls, prosthesis, athletic shoes, lacycch, scratch-resistant lenses, baby formula, cordless tools, dustbusters, smoke detectors, computer mouse, cordless vacuums, Nike airs, what? See, this is just, I love this shit. Anyway, the whole NASA trip was so fun, learned a lot. And I guess I just misunderstood where we're at in the grand scheme of things when it comes to space exploration and space travel. We're not that far. And I let me qualify that statement with, we have made a leaps and bounds, right? Like we have done things that people 400 years ago would call magic. Like, and it is magical. And so of course, recognizing how incredible, especially when internationally these teams work together, what we can achieve and how far we've come since the 60s or the 70s, especially through all the government red tape, what we've been able to accomplish. However, it just makes me so upset. Like, what are we missing out on? Because NASA and what it's able to do and what it's able to green light is limited by who the fuck sits in the oval office. Like, it's just so endlessly annoying and makes me mad. So very cool, though, very, I got my little NASA sticker on the thing, got my little NASA sticker on the fan. 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