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Chapter 1: What are the latest updates on Arctic Monkeys?
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Direct from the Broski Nation headquarters in Los Angeles, California, this is the Broski Report with your host, Brittany Broski.
I thought you were my favourite worst nightmare. Ask if we could have six in. If not, we'll have to have two. Well, you're coming up on our end, aren't you? Will I get one with you? Ask if we can have six in. Especially not with the food. Could have just told us no, though. He didn't have to be rude. You see her with the green dress. She talked to me at the bar. I miss the Arctic Monkeys.
2023?
Yeah. They came to Dallas. We saw them. Which, by the way, that was 10 years in the making because they stopped touring in 2015, which I hadn't even graduated high school yet. And Artsy Monkeys were like, fuck you, bitches. You will never get to hear Arabella live. And I said, okay. And I begged my parents to go. I said, you don't understand.
They're going to go on a hiatus after this. I don't know whether they're going to make music next to this. He's doing a fucking solo project that I don't like.
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Chapter 2: What is The Current War about?
Have you ever heard Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secured? Have you ever heard Favorite Worst Nightmare? Let's go through that album. I've been addicted to that album. I remember in high school when I was like... I like to act like monkeys. Because I heard Do I Wanna Know and I heard Are You Mine and I was like, oh, I'm fucking with this. Fucking with a capital F and a hard G, okay?
Then I was like, oh, they have more albums. And the first one came out in 2007 and I went back into it and I was like,
that jay-z gif of him like okay and then i got into it of course it's so interesting as like a middle schooler high schooler being like do i like this or do i just think that i should like this based on what everyone else is saying you know what i mean uh but i like it i do like it what's it called arctic
guys the beverages today what's on the menu today for the broski report we're doing sugar-free red bull because i ran out of my chocolate premier protein hydro flask full of lukewarm water because all my ice melted and earlier i had a hazelnut coffee with a bit of pumpkin spice creamer dairy-free mind you What is this album called? Favorite Worst Nightmare. Yeah.
And then the next one was, I don't know, the first one is Whatever People See I Am, That's What I'm Not. This album goes crazy too. I bet that you look good on the dance floor. I don't know if you're looking for romance or I don't know what you're looking for. Red Lions, Gates, Roads to Security, yes. From the Ritz to the Rubble, yes. Where are my Arctic Monkeys girls? Okay, anyway.
So here's actually what I wanted to talk about. Okay? New special interest unlocked! Guys, it's time!
It's time!
I watched this movie that I can't stop talking about. And I wouldn't say it's particularly critically acclaimed, but somehow it's the most me movie I could have found because I was doing some research, just general research, okay, on something we may or may not be working on. I was doing some research on it. And I watched this movie called The Current War, okay? Have you heard of it?
No, probably not. This movie came out, and I want to say 2017. Yep, 2017. Okay, now this movie stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Nicholas Holt. Who's the guy that plays, oh, Tom Holland's in it. Matthew McFadden is in it. Shout out. And who's the guy who plays Westinghouse? I guess we'll never know. This chronicles the race to power America, meaning in the most physical sense of electricity.
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Chapter 3: How does George Orwell's 1984 relate to modern society?
Because when a science is discovered or an invention is like ready to be presented for whatever reason, I don't know why I've talked about this before, but I feel like I have. The science itself is not inherently good or evil. It's just science. It's just nature. When it's placed in the hands of the wrong people, that's when there's the sort of ethical code, right?
Fuck.
Fuck.
Chapter 4: What is the significance of Dystopian Novels today?
Oh, the technology depends on who owns it. So you see it go from the light bulb to the electric chair. The electric chair is introduced. This shit is so interesting to me, but it's like the movie was, it wasn't very well received. I enjoyed it. Benedict Cumberbatch is in it. He played Sherlock in it, which is fine. They're like, we need a quirky, smart white guy. He was like, I know just a guy.
His name is Sherlock Holmes. I'm going to play him. I enjoyed it, though, because I liked Sherlock. It's this sort of ethical dilemma of, I have discovered this technology, and I say that in quotes because Edison probably didn't, right? It's just his name attached to it. And other scientists were working on it at the same time.
He was just the first one to kind of be like, and then I introduced the light bulb. The electric chair is this dilemma, ethical dilemma of, is this how I want my technology to be used?
And when the government or a private company is offering you millions of dollars to use your technology, have your name on it, or not have your name on it, but you still get paid for their use of the technology, is that worth it? How does that sit with you as someone who's created this beautiful thing to give light, to literally bring light to the darkness? How do you sit with that?
Chapter 5: What are the themes explored in 1984?
And so that's a big plot point that was kind of tea. And of course, they end up creating the electric chair and it goes horribly wrong. Like the first ever humane death that they use on a murderer. It was someone who killed his wife, I think, is what the plot line in this movie is. I don't know if that's historically accurate. They go, we're going to privately kill.
execute this man, capital punishment, by electric chair, death by electric chair. And they do it. And Edison promises it's going to be humane. It's going to be quick. You know, you put the little probes on the temple, you strap them into the chair. They show the selection process of finding a chair with the right conductive materials and this and that, whatever. They assemble it.
They said it was one of the most gruesome deaths imaginable. First, it was the smell, burning skin, burning hair. Then it was the screaming because the wattage was not enough to kill him. They were just torturing him. It was a torture chair. And after that, it became this thing that Edison's name was attached to it. It was kind of tea. Like, this movie was tea. All the while...
Nikola Tesla is creating the most impressive technology, to be honest, and he's being pushed to the wayside. The story of Tesla is actually very, very sad. He died alone in debt in a hotel room, and he lost the patent war for his own technology, which was an improvement upon both Westinghouse and Edison's technology. It was tea.
Chapter 6: What new book series is Brittany excited about?
It's crazy, you know, how the true contributors to the collective history of humankind are rarely credited. It's always just the big names who can attach themselves or who have the most money or who, you know what I mean? It's a name game. And it's not really giving credit where credit is due. And the fact that he died
Chapter 7: Why is Paul Mescal trending?
not a penny to his name, in fact, indebted, not even owning a home of his own, as an immigrant into the United States who contributed this thing to American history. It's just really sad. And Nicholas Holt plays Nikola Tesla. I loved his performance. OK, I loved it. I love this movie. I don't know why. It's like it was like a hyper fixation movie.
And you go and you look on Rotten Tomatoes and people just were not loving it. And that's OK. Hey, that's OK with me because I like movies like this. And then I looked up who the director was and I didn't recognize any of the other movies he had done. Alfonso Gomez Rejon. And he looks just like Javier Bardem. he did Meet Earl and the Dying Girl, which I have not seen. He's from Laredo.
Chapter 8: What are the Songs of The Week?
1984.
Because the last time we checked in about a month ago, sorry, I've been gone for a while, team. The last time we talked, I was about a third of the way through 1984. I finished it. I remembered that I had read it in high school. And because I thought I was like, they didn't make us read this in high school. I lied. Yes, they did. Because I was like, oh, yeah, that part.
The book in and of itself stands the test of time, in my opinion. It was written in the 40s. It was written in like 1949. So this is like directly after World War II. And he's seeing all these visions of like what the world will come to if they continue on in this way. And the whole premise of 1984, if you've never read it, is this idea of an omnipotent, all-powerful government.
They live in a society that is referred to as Ingsoc, which is English socialism. But the term socialism has been so bastardized, so watered down, so mutilated that you wouldn't even recognize it. It is totalitarian, but it's to a figure that doesn't exist, right? So this, like... almost dictator position is Big Brother, but Big Brother's not a real person. It is a construct.
And I'm fairly sure that Orwell based it off of Stalin, you know, this big, just loving guy with a mustache, just like averagely handsome mustache, strong features, and that he's always watching you and that you need to behave like you are always being watched. And the extent of the monitoring that happens in this book is just, it's psychotic.
And it's very weird to think about how all of us have kind of accepted this idea that our phones listen to us. You know what I mean? I've been thinking about all this shit. It's been cooking around in my brain. It's been swirling around in my little crock pot of a brain. We just acknowledge that our phones listen to us and it's really not.
And there is, at least for me, a sense of detachment of like, I don't really care. I don't really care anymore because my personal information personally has been online since I was 11. So, you know what I mean? Like my, all my private information, I was given that shit out for free to webkins.gov. I don't give a fuck.
They're going to get it another way or the, like, if you are completely off the grid, never had any social media, never, that is the only way to avoid this idea of like being monitored, being listened to. And it's not necessarily in a, you know, and I say this, I guess in quotes, it's not in a dangerous way.
You know, the fact that my TikTok algorithm listens to me when I talk, it benefits me, I guess, because it is a very highly personalized algorithm. But at the same time, you got to just know that when you use this technology, when you use your phone, when you use whatever, and you agree to those terms and conditions, it voice monitors and whatever. Whatever. The world's on fire.
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