The Broski Report with Brittany Broski
84: Started My Period in Churchill’s War Room
Tue, 18 Feb 2025
This week on The Broski Report, Fearless Leader Brittany Broski discusses the Mickey 17 premiere, shares her most recent London experience, examines fragrances, and holds a book club session. 👕 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: Zocdoc – Find your doctor today: https://zocdoc.com/broski Acorns – Start investing today: https://acorns.com/broski Shopify – Get your $1/month trial at https://shopify.com/broski Songs of The Week: High Fashion by Addison Rae Too Far Gone by Ty Myers 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 00:45 – Mickey 17 03:18 – A Streetcar Named Desire 17:23 – Churchill’s War Room 32:55 – Fregrances 44:39 – Book Club 58:50 – Songs of The Week & Outro #brittanybroski, #broski, #broskination, #broskireport, #mickey17, #london, #robertpattinson, #stevenyeun, #paulmescal, #astreetcarnameddesire, #wwii, #worldwarii, #winstonchurchill, #wwi, #theater, #perfume, #fragrance, #bookclub, #booktok
Chapter 1: Who is Brittany Broski and what is the Broski Report about?
Direct from the Broski Nation headquarters in Los Angeles, California, this is the Broski Report with your host, Brittany Broski.
Guys, good morning. Don't talk to me until I've had my diarrhea. Don't talk to me until I've had the squirts. What a blessed morning it is, team. Haven't washed my hair in a week. You couldn't tell though. I'm training my hair. I don't think that's a real thing. I'm just, my hair stinks. You know what I mean? I'm back from London town.
Chapter 2: What happened at the Mickey 17 premiere in London?
I was in London, weren't I? I was in London and I was at the premiere of Mickey 17. Mickey, I so love him. Robert Pattinson. Hello, darling. We had a fucking laugh.
Yeah, guys, I was in London. And I don't really have... Hey, did I meet Robert Pattinson and Steven Yeun? Yeah. And am I okay? No. No. No. But is it just, you know, this is the life, hold on tight.
That's how I feel lately. And this is the dream, it's all I need.
I feel like Hannah Montana sometimes. So yeah, I was just in London and I was supposed to only be there for like less than 72 hours for the Mickey 17 premiere. But I ended up extending because someone who we all might know in Broski Nation was in a play. And that's going to be Paul Maskell. And he was going to be in a little production called Streetcar Named Desire.
Chapter 3: Why is A Streetcar Named Desire significant?
And all my theater bitches, you know about that play. Dude. Yeah, he was, the premiere was on the 13th. and his play was all that week, but there was a showing on the 15th, and I was like, motherfucker, should we stay? But it was sold out, and then we figured it out, and I got tickets, and me and Stanley went, oh my god. Hold on, let me go back to Mickey 17. So much fun. So much fun.
The movie's fun. It was... freezing fucking cold in London because duh. And yeah, it was a blast. I think, oh, I wore this crazy fit, okay? One of the best fits me and my stylist have ever cooked up. That fit, it was very like, menswear is back. Let me sort of put y'all, let me guide y'all's finger to the pulse, okay? Menswear is so back.
And it's fun to experiment with not only just like the suit and tie sort of thing, but incorporating interesting shapes into the red carpet space. You know what I mean? And I know people kind of do that with the structured gowns or like when they have stuff come up over the bodice and it's, you know, really structured and whatever. That's one thing is like evening wear. But this sort of
cocktail, business casual, fun take on menswear is really, I just, I'm having fun. Me and my stylist, Kat Spaldos, we have a fucking blast. When we do fittings, we just yell. And then what if we did the, yes, yes! It's so much fun. So we stuck around and we saw Streetcar Named Desire. Now, let me sort of reveal my soul for a second.
I never actually saw A Streetcar Named Desire when I was in high school. It's one of those that's always in rotation for one-act plays or for community theater, or it's always, it feels like it's showing on Broadway or whatever. I've never actually seen it. And I actually went into it not knowing the plot or even the setting or anything, just that it's super famous.
When we were in high school for our one-act play, we did Bus Stop, which is by William Inge. And him, Tennessee Williams, who wrote Streetcar Named Desire, and Arthur Miller, who wrote The Crucible and Death of a Salesman, they were all contemporaries. This is in like the 30s, 40s, 50s. Arthur Miller was famously married to Marilyn Monroe. So that's kind of this time period of post-war America.
And there are so many social constructs and social context that people are trying to return back to a normal life. But how can you, you know, in this post-war state? So Streetcar Named Desire is set in the 50s, I want to say. Yeah, in the 50s in New Orleans. And it is... Okay, so, Paul Mescal, right?
I thought he was going to be the lead because the way that they marketed it and all this, it's like, and Paul Mescal is brilliant, which he was, by the way. This play... I can't even tell you. I saw it with Stanley. And for the next hour after we saw this play, we went to dinner and we just could not stop talking. That is a good piece of fucking media, dude.
When we're talking about it, you know, because you can go see a musical or a play or whatever, and you can be like, oh, that's good, and then move on with your day.
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Chapter 4: What insights can we gain from Churchill's War Rooms?
And if you can, you know, buy a war bond, buy it and all these things. It's just that history is not far away. And this is unrelated, but very related at the same time. When you think about segregation and things like the Civil Rights Act, all of these things are not ancient history. This was in our grandparents' lifetime. So when you go to museums like this, don't think that this is too far off.
And I don't say that to scare you, but it's, you know, you need to be acquainted with these things because we are living through unprecedented time after unprecedented time. And it's just important to be aware of what we're living through right now and the real risks that having a leader, the fucking sitting leader of the free world like Donald Trump, what life under his regime could turn into.
Okay, anyway, they went to the war rooms. And I think that this museum is very well done. And it's a museum, but it's also the actual place where Churchill and his cabinet, quote unquote, met and it was literally, a bunker isn't even an accurate description. This was just the basement of some government building. It was not safe. It was not reinforced.
The attempt they did at reinforcing it with this slab of concrete, that wasn't going to keep them safe. It is a miracle that this place was not bombed and everyone in it died. And from this little bunker, People lived there. They slept there. They had fake sunlamps because they spent so long underground. They had one—and this was like a super secret. Whoa.
They had a direct phone line for Winston Churchill to speak to the American president in the 40s, and they would discuss plans and—
And they would have these meetings in these rooms that were probably 15 by 15 feet, and they would cram 20, 30 people in there, all of these desks, and every single morning update everyone on the location of German troops, the location of British troops, the evacuation of Dunkirk, all these things. This was... It was real. And that sounds so stupid to say because, of course, it was real.
But when you are standing in the room where these briefings were giving, I can't. It's like you have to really focus to make it connect in your brain. Like, I... I am here. I have the privilege of standing here and witnessing this. And they have it all behind glass in the map room. It's called the map room.
And it's kind of at the heart of the basement of this building where there's maps on every wall from everywhere from all of Europe to granular London to Japan, Korea, all of these places where you can see all the little pinpricks in it where they would move the... the little pins and update positioning. And there's a big desk in the middle with all these telephones on top and they wouldn't ring.
They would light up different colors because obviously it's the ringing would be loud. And it's just, it's unreal because it's all just how they left it on what? August 16th, 1945. Like the day the war was over, everyone left and it's left just like that. There's still pencils on the table. There's, you know, all the equipment, the telephones and the bedding and the newspapers.
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Chapter 5: How does ZocDoc make finding doctors easier?
The brand, originally founded as a barbershop in 1870, immediately made people interested, attracting the curiosity of the English nobility, and in particular, that of the crown. So it's been around for a super long time. Anyway, so we go in and I'm like, let me smell Halfeti. Halfeti is their most successful, like, bestseller. And Halfeti is a city in Turkey, if I'm not mistaken. Turkey, yes.
That was going to be humiliating if that was wrong. Halfeti is in Turkey. And... Of course, everything relates back to imperialism. And halfetti is this really beautiful, it's like there's notes of coffee in it. There's, it's very woody. Here are the accords. Woody, aromatic, warm, spicy. I'm into that. I'm into that. And here's another thing.
Okay, this is kind of separate, but warm florals, I'm trying to get into. Fuck me, dude. Warm floral. I want to smell like a hotel lobby. I don't want to smell like a model. Does that make sense? And I don't even think, like, models don't even wear, like, models wear some weird-ass shit. So, I don't know.
Like, when you go into Sephora and all those fragrances, it's like warm floral, light floral, clean floral. I don't give a fuck about floral! What? I like woody. Woody, oud, musk, all that, that's my shit, okay? Halfeti, it is a mature fragrance, I would say, but it's so good. Here are the top notes. Cypress leaf, saffron, cardamom, artemisia, bergamot, grapefruit.
Heart notes are Bulgarian rose, nutmeg, jasmine. I don't like rose. You know, here's another thing. There are some perfumers or some fragrance TikTok people where I'm like... I don't know if I can trust your opinion because we don't have the same taste. If you are a person who loves florals, I don't really trust your opinion.
If you love sugary sweet, if you like anything from Kayali, we're not on the same page. Kayali is like teenager Victoria's Secret sweet. I'm not into that. If you're into that, slay. Go do your thing. If you love Parfums de Marly, all those rose perfumes or those sickly sweet, whatever. Parfums de Marly isn't sickly sweet. Those are more, you know, mature, beautiful, sugary fragrances sometimes.
But there's depth to those. Kayali, it's just sugar. And if you're into that, slay. And, you know, if you want to layer it with something deeper, slay. Not for me. Michelle Visage, her taste, we're on the same page, where if you're going to do a gourmand, it has to be a very interesting gourmand. And so that's, I would describe Helfetti as that.
Base notes are agarwood, agarwood, leather, cedar, sandalwood, amber, tonka bean, vanilla, musk. Yeah! Launched in 2015. This one is, it's just a classic. Like, Halfetti's a good one for every day, I would say. It's definitely a nighttime fragrance, but any gourmand is. In my opinion, the gourmand of all gourmands, this is my opinion, is Angel's Share by Killian. That motherfucker...
You want to go out clubbing. You want to go to a nice dinner. You're on a date. You want to do this. You want to do that. If it's at night and you're feeling sexy, you do angel share. It'll last for seven years. One spray lasts seven years. And if you spray it on your clothes, even longer. And that one to me is like there's not a richer, more interesting, lustful gourmand. It just is.
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