This week on The Broski Report, Fearless Leader Brittany Broski shares her new obsession with the film Sinners, discusses the social activism of Irish rap group Kneecap, and updates the nation’s Book Club. 👕 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: Rocket Money – Reach your financial goals: https://rocketmoney.com/broskireport Hungryroot – Get 40% off at https://hungryroot.com/broskireport with code BROSKI Songs of the Week: The Bell by Yeat Emergence by Sleep Token Worst Behavior by kwn Do What I Say by kwn STREET SWEEPER by Gunna & Future Anything by The Band Sports Sinners Soundtrack 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 01:12 – Health Update 02:32 – Sinners 13:11 – Kneecap & Irish Liberation 27:50 – Beautiful Creatures 34:10 – Book Club 53:12 – Self Love 55:16 – Orville Peck on Broadway 58:16 – Songs of the Week 1:00:08 – Sinners Cont. 1:05:26 – Outro #brittanybroski, #broski, #broskination, #broskireport, #sinners, #michaelbjordan, #ireland, #kneecap, #beautifulcreatures, #booktok, #fantasy, #romance, #romantasy, #orvillepeck, #broadway, #cabaret
Chapter 1: Who is the host of The Broski Report and where is it recorded?
Direct from the Broski Nation headquarters in Los Angeles, California, this is the Broski Report with your host, Brittany Broski.
Rocky Road to Dublin, one, two, three, four, five. Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road. And all the way to Dublin, walk for Lolita. Guys! Get up. Get the fuck up. We are so back. Hump the hair and turn it down the rocky road to Dublin. All the way to Dublin. Fuck you.
Chapter 2: What health challenges did Brittany Broski recently face?
There are so many things to be said. So many things that I will try to get to in this episode. My God, I've been gone for two weeks. What have y'all done without me? Seriously, be honest. Have y'all missed me? Did you miss me bad? If the answer's no, keep it to your fucking self. I missed you guys. It's been two weeks. Plus, guess who had pancreatitis? Me.
Guess who did a little timeshare staycation at Cedars-Sinai? Me. What the fuck? Like, I feel 65 years old. I'm good now. I am all good now. Hallelujah. Amen. He is risen. He is good. Happy late Easter. Yeah, I had pancreatitis. Here's the long and short of it all. I put a whole bag of jelly beans up my ass. Basically, they removed my gallbladder a month ago, right?
Because I had a bunch of gallstones causing a blockage. Well, a little fucker was left behind. A gallstone was left behind in my bile duct, okay? The bile duct helps bring bile to the stomach so you can digest food. It was lodged in my bile duct.
They had to go with a scope down my throat, go grab it, cut open my bile duct because it was closed, put a stent in it, remove the gallstone, and then that caused pancreatitis. Okay, awesome. Okay, perfect. So I was in the hospital for a week. dealing with that, but I'm good now, because it just was kind of inflamed. It was kind of irritated. It was agitated, and now it calmed down a little bit.
Only thing that's different in my life now is my diet's all fucked up now. I can't eat like a normal person. I'm on a super low-fat diet. Who gives a fuck? Anyway, I'm all good. That's just, you know, the story of the never-ending gallbladder continues. I hope it's done. All that to say, that's why I was gone. Thank y'all for being so patient.
What the fuck?
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Chapter 3: Why is Brittany obsessed with the movie Sinners?
Okay, I've seen Sinners in theaters three times now. If y'all thought I was annoying about Elvis in the summer slash autumn of 2022, you've got a new fucking thing coming, okay? I was addicted to the Elvis movie in a way that was suggesting I had some unhealed trauma, right? Like, why did I see Elvis in theaters nine times? I didn't need to do that.
That's also really expensive, not a great way to spend money. But I just, I really needed to see it. And then once it hit streaming, I never watched it again. It was something very special to me about going to see it in the theater, okay? I'm feeling a little similar about Sinners. I don't know what it is. I don't know what it is. It stirred something in my spirit.
It was, I think it's just the nature of, of the storytelling and it being a musical movie. Not it being a musical, but like the same deal with the Elvis movie where it was so musical, obviously, I fell in love with Sinners. So the majority of this episode is going to be about Sinners. So if you haven't seen it, fucking grow up, go see it.
There might be spoilers, but it's not enough to like ruin the movie for you, okay? Let's begin. Now, let me go ahead and give a disclaimer. that I wrote notes, okay? I love this movie so fucking much, I wrote notes on it of what I wanted to talk about when I talked about it on the podcast.
Chapter 4: What are the key themes and symbolism in the movie Sinners?
So if you see me reading or if it feels like I'm reading, it's because I fucking am, because I typed all this up at 1 a.m. last night. Okay, so let's get into it. To start, it doesn't even need to be said, but it does need to be said that Ryan Coogler's a fucking genius. He is a fucking genius.
And to have accomplished so much so young, and every project with Michael B. Jordan, hallelujah, thank you, amen. He is just leaps and bounds ahead of everyone, I think. Like, there was so much packed into this movie. Every time I see it again, I'm like, that's another thing I didn't catch. Like, I'm just blown away. So, flowers for him. This, I mean, it's just so well done.
There are so many symbolic topics that, I mean, I'm just going to rattle them off. Like, as I was watching it, as I was watching reviews afterward, as I was reading more about the influences and inspirations that he drew from to tell this story in a new way, you know what I mean? We're dealing with cultural vampirism, religious vampirism, vampirism as a symbol for colonization, of course.
Jim Crow and its lasting effects, what we're still dealing with today. The fact that Jim Crow is recent history, this isn't even 100 years old. This shit was 61 years ago. Not when this movie takes place, but Jim Crow was only repealed 61 years ago. Like in our grandparents' life, okay. This movie deals with assimilation, community, freedom, true freedom. And what does that mean?
And is religion a type of spiritual subjugation when it is an evangelical religion, right? Black expression, Black joy, Black ownership, and Ryan Coogler's respective deal with the studio that in 25 years, he will own this movie outright, which most directors don't own the movies that they make. Black ownership and its attempted destruction.
So many things come to mind, like Tulsa and all of the, how Central Park used to be a hub of Black business. And these things are wiped from the historical record. They're wiped from a collective memory. And we know why. But projects like this really just, it's such a beautiful thing to witness and to call attention to
You know, especially we're living through this horrific period right now of just rewriting history as it's happening in a truly 1984 fashion. So stories like this are just, I mean, you don't need me to tell you that it's important. This is really the meat of what I wanted to speak about.
We know that in Jim Crow era, specifically 1930s here, the blues as a genre of music was seen as a black form of art and it was the devil's music, right? Then 20 years later... if even, you see it co-opted and stolen by people like Elvis, and they are singing the blues, performing the blues, a watered-down version to the mass public to an incredible level of success, okay?
Even when you talk about bands or movements, so to speak, musical movements like the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, the British Invasion, These things, I mean, Mick Jagger will literally say this in interviews. Like, the reason that the Stones, I think, were so successful in the States is because—
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Chapter 5: Who is Kneecap and why are they politically significant?
It was so like the videos I was seeing, I was like, this is incredible. Then, of course, the backlash online comes. They get dropped by their U.S. agent. Like, all this fucking tea has been happening. And I'm thinking also, by the way, you signed them knowing that, like, their whole thing is standing against the oppressor, right?
Like, no one understands that more than fucking Ireland, living under the iron fist of the British Empire for 900 years. Like... to have your lineage wiped out, your native language, your dance, your music, your traditions, your customs, by an occupation, like to be occupied. For them to do that, of course they're going to do that. Why are you shocked?
Like all this fucking tea's been happening of people, the political band is being political. What? What the fuck? Like what? So it's been fun to keep up with that. And then, of course, that got me started on a rabbit hole down kneecap.
And I followed them on Instagram and they followed me back and I kind of freaked the fuck out, okay?
I kind of freaked the fuck out. Anyway, I got started on a rabbit hole down their whole ethos and their whole sort of mission statement of reclaiming the Irish language As a form of it's like a generational push for reclamation and for continuing on for those who who couldn't. And it's like a duty and a weight that rests on the shoulders of this next generation of reclamation.
Irish youth that is reconnecting with their heritage that, I mean, just, and then that sent me down a whole rabbit hole of the origins of the conflict between, you know, the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, the UK, which of course I knew the basics, but again, the American education system has failed me. And so that's been like my hyper fixation of the last two weeks has been
The nationalists first, you know, even going back to like the Bloody Sundays and the 1920s and then into the 1970s when the for real Bloody Sunday happened and how this is not ancient history. Once again, you know, we're talking about these things. And then you cut to Palestine right now, like this shit is still happening. And we haven't found a way or at least...
Our governments have not found a way to put the ego aside and save human lives. And so going back into the sort of historical archive of where our relations today between the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, especially in the wake of Brexit, it's all just very fascinating. And it feels like it's very tense and it's very... It is a wonderful time to start...
Learning Irish, reconnecting with, you know, me speaking to my Irish fans. This is for you guys. To reconnect with your Irish heritage because try as they may or attempted as they have, it wasn't wiped out. Not completely. And that's such a testament to the strength and the will of the Irish people.
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Chapter 6: What is the history behind Irish-British relations and how does it connect to current events?
But I don't know what that means, right? Like, is that 50% Irish, 50% whatever? Actually, I'm lying. It was 99% British and Irish. And the rest of it was Scandinavian. So you guessed it. I'm fucking white. Race reveal. I'm white. 99.9%. 0.01, we don't know. We don't know, okay? Two different types of Caucasian, yeah. Actually, Caucasian, what does Caucasian really mean? Caucasian definition.
Because I don't even know if I'm Caucasian. I'm just white. White-skinned, of European origin. A white person, a person of European origin, a person from the Caucasus. Now, that's a mountain range, is it not? Caucasus. Yes. Now, see, look, the Caucasus is a geographically diverse region straddling Eastern Europe and Western Asia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia.
Now, see, I don't claim that. I am not Caucasus. I am a white skin from Europe.
Anyway, yeah, dude, I've been down this fucking rabbit hole of like the IRA and speaking to... I watched this crazy documentary on a man who served like 16 years in prison for his involvement and participation in Bloody Sunday in 1972, which was when a bunch of British specially trained fighters opened fire into a crowd of civilians in... And I think it was Dublin or Belfast.
It was in Derry, that's right. Yeah, British, specially trained British soldiers opened fire on unarmed civilians during a civil rights march. During a protest. Oh my God, this fucking documentary was tea. And this is just history, but I'm like, hello, the specifics of it. Opened fire into unarmed civilians peacefully protesting.
And then because this atrocity was committed and it wasn't the first and it wasn't going to be the last, the British Empire, the British government was asked to conduct an investigation on what really happened on January 30th, 1972. And it took them until the fucking 90s. 1998, I think, is when they reopened the investigation and it ended in 2010 where they actually admitted fault.
that the force used was unnecessary and inflammatory and all these things. And I'm like, fucking, what is that? 2010 to 2017, 40 years later? It's not, like, Mecap always jokes about any fucking British person who buys a ticket to their show, that's reparations. It's funny, but it's like, what could ever be an apology? What could ever, other than a united Ireland?
Anyway, been really, really locked the fuck into Irish history. Also because, hello, my people. Yeah. I guess I've been Irish all along. On my mom's side, my whole maternal line is last name Riley. And it was O'Riley because they dropped the O when they immigrated to the United States. They immigrated to Texas. And I don't know how many generations back it was.
But now I'm like intrigued by all this shit because especially learning about the famine. And how the famine was completely avoidable. And how the British Empire used the potato blight as a justification for God wanting to wipe a whole population of people off the fucking planet. Just when you think the British Empire... Couldn't be more evil, they're more evil.
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Chapter 7: How did Brittany discover her Irish heritage and what does it mean to her?
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That's HungryRoot.com slash Broski. Code Broski to get 40% off your first box and a free item of your choice for life. HungryRoot.com slash Broski. Code Broski. Okay, here's something completely unrelated, but it's just been on my heart. It's been on my heart. There's something about Sinners and the cadence of the movie with the time period that has me really thinking about, this is a deep cut.
I need you fucking weirdo bitches to lock in with me right now because I'm going to throw you a curveball and I need you to catch it, okay? Do you remember the 2013 movie called Beautiful Creature? Please tell me someone remembers. It's like, I think it was a book that was adapted into a movie. And the whole premise is like, she's a witch. Like, she moves into this town. She's a new girl.
She's a fucking witch. And then, of course, the popular hot guy takes an interest in her. And he's like, I'm seeing you around here. And she's like, you can't come to my house. And he's like, what? What do you mean? I love you. And she's like, don't fucking come. I told you. And it's because she's like a born again.
Like she's condemned to keep living the same life over and over and over through generations in this same city. But she's got to move away. She's a witch. I don't fucking know. And it has to do with the Civil War. And I don't know why, I cannot remember, but this movie just popped into my head. And I'm like, holy fuck, I have to watch that movie. What?
It's like, it was the same era of, what's that Nicholas Holt movie? Warm Bodies? Like, these freako monster magic movies were coming out that were romances. And, like, it was around the time of Divergent and Hunger Games and fucking Fault in Our Stars. Like, it was this era. Beautiful Creatures just feels like one that people just, like, for some reason forgot about. I remembered. I remembered.
Why? I don't know. It's not really an impressive movie. And the ending is kind of stupid and doesn't make sense. But I just remember it vividly being a Civil War, like, reenactment movie. That's what it fucking felt like. But it's not. Like, it has something to do with they have been lovers in the past life. And where they met and how they tragically died was in the Civil War.
Like, I don't know.
It's one of those fucking movies. Which, like, whatever trope that is, I love it. Whatever fucking trope that is, I'm drooling thinking about it. I told you being with me was going to get you hurt. I don't care. I'll do whatever it takes. I just love you. I'll be with you. And then she explodes. And then, like, she hurts him. But he's like, I'm fine. I'm fine. Right?
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Chapter 8: What is Brittany's take on the 2013 movie Beautiful Creatures and how does it relate to Sinners?
I paid $11.99 for a two-star read. Fuck you, bitches. I'm mad. The Cruel Prince. Okay, here we go. I wish I had my review in front of me. The Cruel Prince was an unbelievable dynamic to begin with, okay? First 10 pages, sorry, I'm going to spoil it for you. Their parents get murdered, okay? She's like six, and her sister is like half magic. I don't know.
This guy comes in, murders their parents, and then is like, guess I have to take care of you now. It's my duty. After he just murdered, okay, kidnaps the kids, takes them to Ferry. And of course he is a general. So like he's very well off. He's very well to do. They're never taken into poverty, right? They're taken into the palace.
And so he steals them and raises them as his own and he loves them. What? So like from the very beginning, I don't believe this dynamic. I don't believe this. Like, I don't know what, Here's a small accolade I will give to this book is I think the author described the fairy realm, and I say that as like F-A-I-R-I-E, like fairy is the name of the land that they exist in, right?
And it's sort of like a platform nine and three quarters where if you see it, you can go, you know, like you can pass. or maybe a fairy will make a bargain with you and you can interfere. But other than that, it's invisible to the human eye, okay? What I appreciated about her describing fairy is that the fairy realm is incredibly morally gray.
They do not have a set of moral guideposts or standards that they live by. Sure, there are things like honor and power and fame and glory and control. All these things exist at the same time, but...
To be morally good is not really a concern for anyone in Faerie, and of course, this is part of the ride that our female main character takes, is that the longer she spends in Faerie, the less human she becomes, and therefore, is that inherently wrong? Is her assimilation into the Faerie realm
positive because she's finally accepted into something or she's, you know, this is the whole point of the book. She's proving her worth.
She's proving that she's, even though I'm a human, I can, I'm still badass. I can kick some butt. I can kick some ass. Sorry for cussing. Like, that's how this fucking book felt. Yeah, I'm a badass who can kick some ass. Sorry, mom, if you're listening.
Like, bro. And so that was one aspect that I actually found intriguing is the way that she would describe... some of the royals, how they acted, or just general fae. They steal, they lie, not unlike humans, but at least humans try to act like we feel guilt about it, you know what I mean? Or that there's a sense of shame. There's no shame in Faerie. They have no insecurity, I guess, about their
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