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Chapter 1: What are Brittany's New Year's resolutions?
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Chapter 2: How does Brittany view consumerism and overconsumption?
Bonjour, bonjour tout le monde, bonjour à tous et bonne année. Bonne, bonne année. Happy New Year. Bonne année. Bonne, bonne année. ¡Y feliz año nuevo a todos! ¡Feliz año nuevo! ¡Feliz año nuevo! ¡Feliz año nuevo! ¡Feliz año nuevo! ¡Y año nuevo ano! That means asshole. Happy new asshole to everyone listening! Dang! Shit! Guys, it's been a hot minute. And also, bonjour to you and yours, okay?
I've been really intense into this, like, French face. Just see me through it, okay? Just let me get through it and out of it. There is a light at the end of the tunnel, okay? Guys, lots, lots to catch up on for serious, bro. Lots of things to be grateful for. Lots of things to... reposition your mindset on, okay?
Now, I just want to disclaim this episode by saying I know my bangs are really fucking thin and I'm self-conscious about it, okay? It's called having PCOS and it's called I think I'm going fucking bald. Also, it's called I've been dyeing my hair since I was in the seventh grade. Fuck you! If anyone wants to comment about my stringy bangs, you're going to have to talk to officer and sheriff.
That's my two manicured nails, two manicured fists, okay? I'm going to throw a punch and then start crying because I broke a nail. Anyway, officer and sheriff, shut the, that's not even funny. Like, it's not even funny. Because the thing about this podcast is I say a joke and then it's like, if it's not funny, it just stays.
That's sort of like, you know, it's a time capsule for me in a year to look back and be like, oh, I hate myself, but I don't. I actually cut all that. Cut all that. I want to restart the episode. Hey guys, welcome back to the Broski Report. First of 2025. If you made it this far, God bless you.
And look, let me just sort of spew some inspirational bullshit really quick before we get into some more inspirational bullshit, okay? Because I've been watching those Hope Corps videos y'all make, and that shit goes crazy, okay? That one of me ranting about there being shit in my E. coli and my baby carrots from Whole Foods.
Yeah, you put it over some of that, like, ransom note text over a picture of some mountains. I'm crying. Because it's a reflection on the current state of the world. Oh, you can't even buy fresh produce. I'll be a fucking shit on it because you can't trust these factories and the man who's giving you food. They feed us their poison so they can sell us their medicine that makes us sick. Right?
Whole Foods baby carrots. Okay. Guys, Happy New Year. Happy New Year for real. And I just want to take a quick moment to say, look how far we've come. Look how far you've come. And take a quick moment today to pat yourself on the back. Because look back on all the hardest days of your entire life. The hardest moments you've ever struggled through and been like, I cannot survive this.
And you fucking did. So... How about one of these? Okay, one of those little shitty inspirational messages. And now let's get into the real fucking tea. Let's get into the real mother tucking tea of 2025. Okay, 2025. You know, everyone talks about New Year's and like, New Year's resolution.
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Chapter 3: What are Brittany's thoughts on reading and literature?
New Year's resolutions are not realistic in the very essence of what they are, because the wintertime, we find ourselves at the top of the new year in the middle of winter, if you're on the Western Hemisphere. It is the middle of cold, dead winter. This is a season of rest and of hibernation, if you want to speak in a primal sense, and
where this is not a time for radical change and uprooting yourself and making these insane life decisions just because it's a cultural shift. You know, like around the new year, it's always like, I'm going to start prioritizing my... If that doesn't make sense for you right now, I would say wait until it's more feasible.
And of course, that's also at the same time that, you know, I believe in this mentality of do it now. Do it now because you don't know if tomorrow's promised. Nadie sabe lo que va a pasar mañana. Nadie sabe. No one knows what's going to happen tomorrow. So, like, do it today. You know what I mean? Just, like, jump off the cliff. Take that risk.
Because you don't know if you're going to fucking live tomorrow. Like, yes, that is true. But at the same time, you cannot live an entire life that is based on you know, radical change. There needs to be periods of rest and resetting. And I think that that is the new year for me. And I think historically, I've always sort of been like, time to become the best version of myself.
I shave my head and I start a Fresh and Fit podcast. It's time to become the best version of myself. I'm bald the next episode and all of this is like, it's like seven dudes and me around this small little table, but it's still my little laptop and my Mickey Mouse phone. But you know what I mean? It's like, that is not, I think that the new year is not this grind mindset.
The new year is a chance, if you've never tried it before, to rest. And be gentle with yourself because these two weeks, and I'm speaking generally, I know that most, honestly, most jobs do not have two weeks off at Christmas and New Year's. I mean, that is such a privilege. And I think it's also a very like white collar thing.
It's this, I mean, even when I worked my white collar job, quote unquote, I was making $39,000 a year at the insurance company. I had to ask off on Christmas Eve so I could fly to Florida to go see my family. Like, are you at it? Christmas Eve? Who the fuck is calling to talk about their insurance policy on Christmas Eve? Like, sorry, girl. And you'd be shocked. A lot of people were, okay?
Because disasters happen all the time because that's just the insurance business. And so I would have to be on the phone and be like, oh, we actually don't cover that. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. And a Feliz Ano Nuevo to you. Okay, bye. Ridiculous.
So, like, trust me, I've been through the corporate trenches of, like, having to fight, genuinely fight with your boss tooth and nail to get a semblance of time off. Like, the concept of time off. So, I know that, you know, I recognize I'm speaking in platitudes here, but generally speaking, during this time... When it's about the holidays and family and, you know, being home.
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Chapter 4: Why is Fahrenheit 451 relevant today?
And then at the same time, it's like, you need to run, not walk, to get this absolutely meaningless piece of plastic you're going to forget about in five days. Guys, I'm serious. It changed me life. Until next month when I forget about it and buy something else. It's so wasteful. And I hope that the bubble's about to burst. You know what I mean?
Of this just, we're buying to fill the void of everything else, I guess. I don't know. It's not the solution, though. I can tell you that right now. Like retail therapy, I know that's always been, it's just not going to fix the hole. It's just a sickness. I really do think it's a sickness that like, This under-consumption core thing, I'm fucking with that. I'm really fucking with that. It's nice.
The de-influencing, I watch every single one of those. It's also kind of satisfying to be like, oh, and Project Pan, that's another one where people on TikTok specifically are pledging to use the products that they have to completion instead of buying this new palette or this new lip gloss or this fucking, that girl who had like 107 lip oils. What are you bitches doing? Genuine question.
What are you doing? There is no way, very realistically speaking, that you could use all of those always in rotation before they all expire and go bad. Like, there is no reason for you to have 107 lip oils. What are you talking about? It has gotten to a point that is, it makes my stomach turn. So this Project Pan and under-consumption core, I love it.
I'm really here for it because I find myself falling victim to the, you know, run, don't walk to get this shit. And I'll get it. And I'm like, why the fuck did I buy this? And then it sits in my cabinet or I give it away or I throw it away. And it's just like such a horrible feeling. I'm done with it. Like I am contributing to the problem actively. So I'm done.
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Chapter 5: What insights does Brittany share about social media?
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Okay, this is a rough transition, but hear me out. Going from under consumption core to the books I've been reading and what I want to talk about. So over the Christmas break, I went to my family's, my cousin's got like a ranch out in Hearn, Texas, and we went out there and just sort of disconnected, rode four wheelers with my pawpaw and, you know, really just tried to revel in the analog.
And I brought Fahrenheit 451 because I've talked about this before. I never read it in high school. And I mean, we focused on, you know, I took an AP Lit class, and we did stuff like Edgar Allan Poe and Brave New World and Heart of Darkness, a lot of things to do with colonialism.
The sort of censorship that 1984 and Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 tackle, even Animal Farm, all those books tackle that. I feel like we didn't really touch on that that much, and I'm wondering why, sort of in my adulthood days, that my school district picked that curriculum. Anyway, not to say that what we did study was meaningless.
I mean, I really learned a lot from Heart of Darkness and all those sort of, I mean, even in college, we read Beowulf and all that, not to do with colonialism. But I'm saying there is a wide scope of what I absorbed from my English classes. or my lit classes that, you know, of course you can't cover it all. So I've taken it upon myself as an adult to sort of go back through the classics.
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Chapter 6: What is Brittany's newfound love for ballet?
And over the break, I read Fahrenheit 451. I want to read you my... Goodreads review that I wrote on it. And stop fucking asking me for my Goodreads. Let me have one thing that's private. I'm begging you, for the love of God, let me have one thing, okay? That's for me and my friends. And I really like Goodreads.
It feels like the one social media that doesn't have, it's not inundated with ads, and I can connect with my friends. Goodreads, please, if you are listening, do not sell out. I'm begging you on my bended knee. Anyway, I really enjoy Goodreads because on top of reading what other people have to say, it's hard. My brain has 100 different tabs open right now.
I've been seeing a lot of discourse about You know, this idea of rating and ranking books on a five-star basis and how limiting that is to sort of categorize the purpose and importance of books and what they represent to each person by making it a popularity contest and only giving five stars, not even half, not even 0.5.
option to rate these books and how kind of unfair it is to the author and to the collective human history, human archives, like knowledge, to give the rating process a bit more grace. You know what I mean? Anyway, that's something I've been really tapped into is that whole discourse because I agree. I think that in a lot of ways, as much as I love Goodreads, it is changing the way we think about
literature and how we view how truly written word and novels and books are the collective history that humans have. Arguably, it's all we have because who knows the longevity and the dependability of things like servers or even this topic of TikTok being banned. It's like,
Everyone should save their videos now, save your drafts, like things like this, that we don't know where these videos will go. We know that they're stored, but do we have access to that? And what does that really mean? I just, you know, the tangibility of having something in your hand that is as precious as a book that has been beloved for decades.
centuries even, some works where they continue to stand the test of time like Shakespeare or, you know, Victorian literature. It's like these things are so much more important than just a story. It is a telling of what humanity is and what it's been through and how we've come here and how certain people predicted that we'd be here. It's so interesting.
And we're doomed to repeat the cycle of history if we don't read. I mean, I've been reading – I don't want to freak myself out, but a lot of these dystopian novels and how authors from the 30s and 40s who lived through World War I and World War II and eventually the Korean War, the Vietnam War, all of these things influence how you see the world. And I feel very lucky, knock on fucking wood –
To not have lived through an active war zone, in America at least, where there's bombs falling and, you know, to fear for my life and my family every day. I mean, we have plenty of disaster in this country, don't get me wrong. Enough things to have intense and overwhelming anxiety about. But an active war zone, my God. And so to hear from people like Orwell,
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Chapter 7: What messages does Brittany want to leave with her audience?
Like, we know that authors steal from each other. It doesn't make it okay, but it's a known phenomenon. And it really sucks as a reader to read a book and be like, God, this is genius. I really loved it. And then come to find out he stole it from a Russian author. It's like, fuck! Anyway, I want to read you my review of Fahrenheit 451. I really enjoyed it, and it opened my eyes.
So for reference, this said that this is rated as a 3.96 on Fahrenheit 451. 2.5 million ratings. And who's to say also, you know, I always think about this with apps like this and things like Spotify, Apple Music. We equate cultural relevancy and cultural significance with these numbers on these apps. Oh, they're the most streamed. Oh, this is one of the most rated. Oh, this is the best rated.
And it's like, how is that truly an example of the sort of collective opinion? I don't think it is. You can manipulate numbers. You can manipulate streams. Some of these things are not genuine. I mean, like the cultural impact of... people like the Beatles or Elvis or Michael Jackson. I don't think that's reflected in Spotify stats. They are and will forever be some of the most famous people ever.
Whitney Houston, Beyonce, these people that have changed the industry and how we view art. And their art shaped the world. Like, I don't think that's enough to sum it up in streaming numbers or albums sold. It's so much more than that. And so I want to take that mentality into Goodreads, even Letterboxd, you know, things like that. Formulate your own opinions.
And if art means something to you, don't let numbers or outside influences take that away. If it means something very special to you, that's what it is for. It was successful in its endeavor. I also, there's so much I want to talk about. This episode is going to be an hour and a half long.
I have been reading a lot about this lately, which I agree with too, of art is not to be made for consumption. Art is for the artist. It is a means of expression. It's how to interpret and translate the world. It is that artist's translation of what they're feeling, what they experience and what they're feeling. And if that connects with another person, great, right? Art brings us together.
But art is for the artist. until the artist passes, then it's for posterity. That's my opinion. And I really, I read that the other day and I was like, God, that's so fucking true. Because so much of what we see on social media, and I'm guilty of it too, right?
Because of the job that I do and the crossroads that I find myself at culturally and time period wise, where everyone is trying to sell themselves as an art piece, as an artist, as something to admire, something to buy, something to believe. It's exhausting. And it takes away from, I think, the intrinsic feeling of art.
And when you walk through a museum or when you discover a new song and it's like, fuck, that's good. Damn, that's good. That really connects with me. That's the point. And it happens by accident. You should not be creating things with the intent that it's going to do well. Did I just make the song of the summer? Fuck you! That's not the point! Did you make a song that reveals your spirit?
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