This week on The Broski Report, Fearless Leader Brittany Broski dissects her Greek Mythology-themed books, reveals some recent signs from the universe, and outlines her songs of the week. 👕 Get your merch here: https://broski.shop/ Follow The Broski Report: https://www.linktr.ee/broskireport https://www.tiktok.com/@broskireport https://instagram.com/broskireport Follow Brittany: https://www.tiktok.com/@brittany_broski https://instagram.com/brittany_broski https://youtube.com/brittany_broski Follow Royal Court: https://www.youtube.com/@royalcourt https://www.tiktok.com/@bbroyalcourt https://www.instagram.com/royalcourt https://www.twitter.com/bbroyalcourt Brought to You By: Galatea – Get an extra 25% off at https://galatea.com/broski Acorns – Start investing today: download the app now or go to https://acorns.com/broski Tinder – Download the app now – https://open.tinder.com/9K8a/broski Songs of the Week: dandelion by Ariana Grande Butchered Tongue by Hozier Reproductive Resources: https://aidaccess.org https://plancpills.org https://Ineedana.com https://www.reprolegalhelpline.org/ https://heyjane.com LGBTQ+ Resources: https://Translifeline.org https://Glaad.org https://Pflag.org https://www.thetrevorproject.org/ Climate Resources: https://Oceanconservancy.org https://Climateemergencyfund.org Some helpful credible resources/links to help Free Palestine: Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund - https://www.pcrf.net/ UNICEF - https://www.unicefusa.org/stories/helping-gazas-children-cope-trauma Doctors Without Borders - https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/secure/give-monthly-double-your-impact-search-onetime-reverse-mobile?ms=ADD2301U3U49&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=BRAND.DWB_CKMSF-BRAND.DWB-GS-GS-ALL-DWBBrand.E-BO-ALL-RSA-RSARefresh.1-MONTHLY&gclid=Cj0KCQjw6PGxBhCVARIsAIumnWZpQAMikxPIRiPMfAjYsJZ-eHiRQV2pw7tu2Jlo6YL8Gk_uaTSwH0MaAtFGEALw_wc World Central Kitchen - https://wck.org/ World Health Organization - https://www.who.int/ Headcount - https://www.headcount.org/ IG ACCOUNTS TO FOLLOW: @eye.on.palestine @aljazeeraenglish @palestinianyouthmovement @byplestia @motaz_azaiza @impact CHAPTERS: 00:00 – Intro 02:00 – Health Update 05:23 – Broski Nation Library 09:18 – Song of Achilles 15:45 – Circe & Greek Mythology 32:47 – Fragrance 33:45 – Dating Experiences 49:08 – Songs of The Week 52:32 – Purgatory vs Hell 57:33 – Hozier 01:04:40 – Outro #brittanybroski, #broski, #broskination, #broskireport, #greekmythology, #library, #books, #booktok, #dating, #arianagrande, #hozier, #purgatory, #dante, #dantesinferno, #music
Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode of The Broski Report?
Direct from the Broski Nation headquarters in Los Angeles, California, this is the Broski Report with your host, Brittany Broski.
Your eyes, I will drive them home. I am by your side when time is up. I'm free Hey guys, welcome back to the Broski Report.
I'm off the Paul Meskel water cup today. I'm off the P-P-P-P-Paul Meskel pack. I love Pop Mascot. Guys, the energy of today is feeling a bit like Mad Scientist. I'm feeling a bit like, ah, yes, welcome to my show. Who are you, boy? Ah, yes, welcome. That's how I'm feeling, okay? Because let me sort of give you an update on what's... Let me give it to you. Why does that come out sometimes?
Let me go down there and give you. This is a constant exercise in what I like to call the be normal experiment where case after case, day after day, episode after episode, I fail. And it's a beautiful study on the human, the human brain. Guys, what the fuck was I about to say? Oh yeah, I'm feeling, here's what's going on in my body right now.
Chapter 2: Why is Brittany Broski avoiding caffeine?
I can't have caffeine, I guess, question mark, because my gallbladder, or lack thereof, and at least for like four to six weeks is what all of the websites and the doctors and surgeons are telling me, okay? It's what they're telling me, and it has something to do with the liver. There's a lot of stress on my liver right now, okay? My liver just got promoted.
My liver just sort of got promoted to COO of my body because gallbladder quit. Gallbladder went ahead and stood up and said, I can't fucking do this anymore. I quit and stormed out. Didn't even take her stuff with her. Actually, she did. She took her gallstones with her. And so now there's extra stress on my liver. And because of that, I can't drink.
I can't have fatty foods because I don't want a fatty liver. Okay, last thing you want. The last thing you'd want in your body chemistry is a fatty liver. Turns out that might be exactly what you get. You can't have a fatty liver. What? Fatty liver! So I'm really trying not to put too much stress on my body and on the detoxifier in my body, which is my liver.
And because of that, they've told me to limit caffeine. So I'm doing that. I'm raw dogging this today, okay? That's a lie. Actually, because what I did, what I did just now is I had a drink. I don't know this brand. I literally saw it on Instacart and I said, let's figure out what's going on there. It's called Haywell. This is not sponsored, okay?
I just saw this and it was marketed as like a, it's a sparkling water. Because now I have to look at the ingredients, okay? You know, I love Red Bull. You know, I could just, with my mouth closed and eyes shut and with just my nose, I could be like, that's a blueberry Red Bull. I don't know if I can do it anymore. There's so much extra ingredients in Red Bull. I miss it, though.
For at least the next month, I need to take it easy. I'm not really doing battery acid on the stomach right now. I can't really do that. Even coffee, I'm like, am I going to die? Because if I start vomiting with no... Oh, I can't imagine. It's going to be so painful. Anyway, I tried one of these because it said that it's got... It's all like... organic fucking, I don't know.
And so I tried one, tasted good. I got the cherry limeade one and it's got 75 milligrams of caffeine in it. I don't really feel any different, but then again, I just cooked, I just Anthony Bourdain-ed it up in the kitchen for about two and a half hours off the hay well. So maybe I expended all my energy there.
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Chapter 3: What does Brittany's dream library look like?
Okay, I'll be 42 in 15 years. I'll be 42. And here's my dream, okay?
I have a home library. Library. I have a home library, and in this library is all the books I've collected over the last 15 years. I've kind of got something going here, okay? I just went to the bookstore today, picked up the Iliad, the Odyssey. I picked up Sunrise on the Reaping. Thank you. I picked up, what else? Oh, Circe. I went to the bookstore with one book in mind.
I was like, I'm only getting Circe because I just finished Song of Achilles. I will get to that. I will get to that. Let me get to it. And I was like, I'm on this Madeline Miller kick. I got to go pick up Circe because all the girls are telling me you got to read Circe. It's even more devastating. It's their favorite book of all time. Okay, I believe you.
So I went to my local Barnes and Noble and I went ahead and picked up Circe and then about six other books. Fuck! So what else did I get? I got... I got another, it was like for fans of Song of Achilles. It was another sort of modern retelling of Greek mythology. And I can't remember the name. I wish, it's in my office.
Anyway, my dream in 15 years is I have a home library that's full of both the classics. I'll have a classics shelf. I'll have a shelf for like my favorite books and then all the other ones. You know what I mean? And then the beautiful thing about that is I have always wanted my home to be like the hosting home. You know what I mean? I want all my friends to come over and just like...
My home is your home sort of thing. Whenever I have a friend stay with me, I'm like, that is your wing of the house. You go ahead, just do whatever you need to do to that bathroom. You need a drink, go get you one from the fridge. I hear where all the glasses are. Like, make yourself at home, you know what I mean? The library situation, I see this being a sort of gentleman's lounge vibe.
Wooden walls, wooden bookshelves, deep mahogany, leather covered chair, big desk, those brass banker's lamps, lots of natural sunlight, nice like mahogany or not mahogany, maroon rug and curtains. Like I want it to feel luxury, like old British smokers club, not smokers, like, you know, like a gentleman's smoke room. art on the walls. Like, that's my vibe. And right now, I'm kind of working.
I've got my little, you know, I got my little shelf from Facebook marketplace, and I've hung up my stuff on the walls, whatever. But it's not there. This room over here, this house, I'm renting this house. Love it. Okay, I'm very comfortable here. But at the same time... it's not exactly where I want it to be.
And so that is my dream in the next 15 years is that I have established that room that is the perfect creative space to just go in there and do whatever I need to do. And it can be messy. In fact, the messier, the better. Because when you go in to someone's study and it's perfectly clean, hey, you're not studying in here, man.
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Chapter 4: Why should you read 'Song of Achilles'?
Sorry. Anyway. I'm really not, you know, I've never been a Greek mythology girl. I've never been like, oh, yes, Helios, the brother of, I don't give a fuck. I've never, it's been too much. Anytime I sit down to watch one of those four-hour YouTube videos where I'm like, time to lock in, time to learn. They're like, and then Athena is the sister of. I fall asleep.
Because it's always those, like, the cadence of those videos is... And then in the 100th century BC, Athena. It's just like I'm... They don't even try to make it interesting. It's almost like a spitting off, spewing off facts about it. Tell it to me like a story so I know these gods and goddesses and these nymphs and the story. Like, I want to be involved.
Song of Achilles is the first ever retelling of a story that's made me have a personal stake in these characters. You know what I mean? And of course, because it's a modern thing. Anyway, Song of Achilles. is about the companionship, and by that I mean homoerotic gayness shared between Achilles and his companion Patroclus, okay?
It is told from Patroclus' perspective of how he comes to meet Achilles. They were boys together, and he loved him through his whole life till the very fucking end. And it is a beautiful, beautiful story. And it's devastating. And I really like Madeline Miller's writing. I think it's very straightforward. It's very to the point. And it's very... packed with emotion.
I found myself wanting to get through the story really quickly, not because, you know, I was bored or I wanted to finish, but because I was excited, like I needed to know what happened next. And in doing that, I found myself missing some of these really impactful, beautifully worded, straight to the point sentences.
She would end a paragraph with just something that was so profound, and you miss it if you're just like, okay, I'm going to get on to the next fucking, okay, the Trojan War, when does the Trojan War start? Like, zoom out, or actually zoom in. Take a second to sit with some of the prose that she's created, and it...
it made it even more enjoyable and even more heart-wrenching towards the end where these small little statements like, I would know the sound of his feet pounding the pavement with my eyes closed. Like, I would know it's him. I would know him in any lifetime. It's just, it's devastating, like, the attention to detail because you know if you've ever been
in love with someone, infatuated with someone, obsessed, addicted to someone. It is the little things like that that you revel in. You know what I mean? Maybe this is just me talking about from a lover girl's perspective. Keep that in mind. I'm a lover girl to my core.
It's the small things like that of the shape of their eyelashes and how the eyelashes rest against their cheeks, you know, the curl of their hair, the smell of them in the morning, things like this that are so intimate and so mundane. And
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Chapter 5: How does Brittany navigate Greek mythology in 'Circe'?
Circe, so far, is, I'm like 20 pages in, sad. And there's a lot of... This one feels like there's a bit more world building in terms of like I'm having to Google more. You know, who is Helios and who was he the son of? And, you know, the Titans. Like I'm very loosely familiar with all these things because I studied it on what's that fucking app called? Nibble. Y'all know about Nibble?
I had this phase where I was like, I'm going to be an academic. Paid for this fucking app for a year. It was like a hundred something dollars for the year. And I was like, I scroll too much. I doom scroll. I'm going to feed my brain. I fell for one of those traps. I used this app maybe four times. Never used it again. And good thing I still pay for it. That's awesome.
Because it's just like, you know, in my, when I'm feeling brain dead, the last thing I want to do is go learn something. I want to scroll and I want tea. You know what I mean?
Say you know what I mean one more time. You guys don't fucking know what I mean.
No one knows what I mean because I'm saying it for the first time. I don't even know what I mean.
So when I did one lesson on Nibble, it was because I wanted to learn about the Greek gods. And it's also super fucking confusing because the Roman gods that they literally stole from the Greek gods and renamed and made it worse or made it mid is like you learn one story and then you hear it in another name and then you're like, well, who the fuck is that? Oh, it's the same.
Oh, but it's slightly different because it's Roman. It's just too much. So I'm very loosely familiar with... the Titans, the story of Kronos. Everyone's seen that painting, let me pull it up, of Saturn eating his son. See, like, are Saturn and Kronos the same? Yes, the Roman god Saturn is the equivalent of the Greek Titan Kronos. See what I mean?
Kronos, both representing the same figure in their respective mythologies. In Greek mythology, Kronos was a Titan, the father of Zeus and other Olympian gods, and the ruler of the cosmos before the Olympians. Okay. So keeping that in mind, Saturn devouring his son by Goya. I'm sure y'all have seen this painting before.
I think I mentioned it in that old YouTube video I did of why were Goya's paintings so dark. He painted this one kind of later on in his life when he was descending into madness. And this is the story of Kronos originally, the Greek Titan.
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Chapter 6: What are Brittany's current favorite snacks?
And it's really interesting because Madeline Miller explains the backstory pretty well. Like, it's pretty understandable. There's a lot of characters. But then again... any fantasy novel or Game of Thrones type book is like, there's so many characters and there's so many lineages and family trees that, okay, you know, I can keep up.
And she includes an appendix in the back for if you forget who so-and-so is or whatever. So yeah, that's, I'm enjoying it. And after I finish Cersei, I'm going to go back to Clytemnestra, whatever the fuck her name is. And who is she the daughter of? Cly... Nestor, wife of Agamemnon. No way, the king of Mycenae, Mycenae, and the half-sister of Helen of Sparta.
That's big tea, because in Song of Achilles, if you've read Song of Achilles, you know about King Agamemnon. This is so ridiculous. Okay, I wanted to talk about some of my favorites, because that's the fucking point of this podcast at the end of the day. I want to talk to y'all about some of my favorite things right now. Here are some of my favorite things as follows.
I can't get enough of dried figs and dried apricots. Apricots. I'm loving them. They always put them on those dinky little charcuterie boards. I eat them bitches raw. I eat them out the bag. I love a dried apricot. I love a dried fig. And I made, I think I mentioned this briefly last time, I made charcuterie nachos. Fucking delicious. So good.
And then on the side, you put a little dried fig, dried apricot, a little bit of honey. Okay. Wow. Really, really yum. I've been loving that. I've been trying to eat more... Whole foods. I'm not doing Whole30 and all that horse shit, but because my diet is so strict, I'm trying to do, you know what I mean? Oh, my ears just started ringing. That's cool. Am I dying? Ahoy, all ye listeners!
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Charcuterie nachos, I'm doing the dried fruit, and I like a green juice. I never thought I'd be one of those bitches that's like, I make my own green juice, and I don't, okay? I buy the green juice, but I enjoy it, and it makes me feel good about myself. Do you know what I mean? Do you know what I mean? I watched these, I need y'all to know this.
I watched these episodes back and I'm like, you sound like a babbling idiot. You know what I mean? Like, like, like, mine, mine, mine. Shh, I, I'm at my wits end with y'all. I'm serious. I cannot deal with it. I'm so sorry. I'd like to apologize a hundred million times. Anyway, I've been loving green juice and what the fuck else? This right here, I literally brought it because I wanted to show you.
I think I've talked about Salt and Stone before, and I tried their deodorant. That shit did not work, and I'm so sorry to whoever was around me that day that I tried it out. That shit did not make my BO go away. I would just say it sort of made my BO smell like vetiver. Anyway. This shit right here, it's the hand cream, bergamot and hinoki. Get into this, girl. I love this. I'm addicted to it.
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