This week on The Broski Report, Fearless Leader Brittany Broski dissects her writing experience on her first original song and explores coping mechanisms for the fear of death. 👕 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 – Go to https://zocdoc.com/broski Blissy – Get additional 30% off at https://blissy.com/broskireport with code: BROSKIREPORT SeatGeek – Download the app now and get 10% off with code BROSKI2025 Songs of the Week: Exile by Saint Levant Adventure of a Lifetime by Coldplay Paradise by Coldplay Anything But by Hozier Shrike 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 – Sandwiches 03:48 – Original Music 17:08 – Loving Lately 21:54 – Deja Vu 24:08 – Mortality 58:27 – Songs of The Week 01:03:42 – Outro #brittanybroski, #broski, #broskination, #broskireport, #music, #beyonce, #sandwich, #scents, #perfume, #dejavu, #mortality, #hozier, #coldplay
Chapter 1: Why is Brittany Broski obsessed with sandwiches?
Hey guys, major heads up for this episode. I had a crazy sandwich from some local deli that I tried out, and I've been having, sorry, TMI, nonstop diarrhea for the last, give or take, five, six hours. Just up and down, up and down, back to the turlet, back to my bed, back to the turlet. You know what I mean?
It's just, okay, one of those days. I'm having one of those freaking days.
It's so good, though. I don't know what was on this damn sandwich. It was because everything in life for me, I'm just trying to chase the high of Jimmy John's Italian nightclub. And I try to recreate it in other sandwich shops. And I just I don't come close. You know what I mean? But I can't. There was. And if I'm allowed to bare my soul, there was a string of days. Can't remember when. Oh, yeah.
Last week when I ordered Jimmy John's four days in a row. I had Jimmy John's four days in a row and I don't feel good about it. I don't feel proud or happy to say that. If you're my doctor and you're listening, no, I did not order Jimmy John's four days in a row. I had some whole meals. Think green, leafy greens, baby butter, Jim lettuce, lots of protein, very low fat diet.
That's actually what I was eating. Now, if you're not my doctor, I need you to know that I had Jimmy John's four days in a row. Yeah, Jimmy Johns. And those damn Jimmy Peppers are so damn good. What do they put in them? What are Jimmy Peppers? I see that on the fucking modifications. Add Jimmy Peppers. Yeah, add as many Jimmy Peppers as you possibly can. Stutter one more time.
Stutter one more time. Jimmy Peppers. Ermagerd Jimmy Peppers on my Jimmy Johns. Shut the fuck up, Jimmy Peppers ingredients. Jimmy Peppers are a sweet, mild fire engine red pepper variety, or Jimmy John's Jimmy Peppers, a hot cherry pepper mix used in their sandwiches. Hot cherry pepper mix? Hot cherry pepper mix? I hardly know her. Oh my god, I found my fucking people on Reddit.
I found my community on Reddit. Did you know you can get a gallon of Jimmy John's spicy peppers for $20 and they're delicious on everything? Where the fuck do you buy this? You can get one pound of Mama Lil's, which are the same thing for a little cheaper. Now, Mama Lil's is what Alyssa's Magic uses. If y'all know my girl Alyssa on TikTok, she does the snack plate.
She introduced me to those snack plates. Those damn snack plates. She'll cut up some Mama Lil's peppers and some pepperoncinis. Pepperoncini, pepperoncini, banana pepper. They're all the same thing, right? I love a damn banana pepper. Anyway, I am coming to you today to tell you that I have a fucking problem, okay?
And I also need you to know that this is the third piece of media that I have talked about Jimmy John's on this week. We just filmed a bunch of Royal Court episodes. I brought it up in at least two of them. And at least two episodes, I'm like, you know about Jimmy John's. I made it in a TikTok, Jimmy John's. Just now, Jimmy John's. Fuck off! I'm not even, like, being paid.
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Chapter 2: What inspired Brittany Broski's first original song?
We'll say, they'll be like, oh my God, how was your meeting? How was whatever? I'll be like, it was great. But you know, like you give a shit. Actually, that's my friend Channing's bit. It's my friend Channing and Tristan's bit. And I kind of had poached it from him. I stole it from him. They all be like, well, Brittany, we know you don't give a shit, but last night went great.
Like, I didn't ever say I don't care.
I dropped a single. Like, y'all give a fuck. No one gives a fuck. It's a joke, okay? Okay, let's talk about it, because I feel like I've been talking about it nonstop, but not to my people, not to the people that actually matter to me. Y'all, you know what I mean? Broski Nation... This single has been a labor of love, and I feel that it embodies the core, the heart of what I am introducing you to.
And it's this delicate balance, right, where I don't want to come on here and be like, this song means this, and let's go through it lyric by lyric what I meant, because that takes away the fun. And I'm now understanding that, where when I was younger, or even by that I mean a year ago, I always want artists to come out and just tell me, right?
When Florence Welch sits down to write a song and it's packed with all this imagery and it's a clear reference to something, but I feel like I'm not quite getting it, but I'm getting it in my own way, that's the point, right? If she was to come on and be like, this is what this line means and do it line by line by line, it ruins the mystique, it ruins the ambiguity of what that art is.
And while I think that there's a balance between speaking to the inspirations and the sentiment that informs the song, the specifics of the lyricism, I really offer that up to y'all. You know what I mean? And I already saw... Y'all are just, I just love you guys. Like you're picking up on things that I don't have to tell you, you know? And it's really nice. It's really validating.
But the most validating thing about it is it is done. It's done. And the people that I want to have it, it's yours. You know what I mean? Like broski nation, my fucking people, my municipality, city, state. Do we have clean water? No. Do we have healthcare? No. Do we have fresh crops? No. But do we have a fucking single? Yeah, and y'all are getting fed regardless.
And you're getting fed again soon, okay? So keep those baby bird mouths open. But here's the sort of thing, right? The Sun, the single, wrote that song about a year ago. And I came in just like with a heaviness on me the day that we wrote it. And I was in the room with my co-writers, Sissy and Emily and my producer, Luke.
And we talked for half of the session because I was just like, this has been my experience with this fucking dude that's like, It extends so much farther beyond just like this one interaction with a man though. Because while that solidified my feeling in that moment, zooming out a bit, it's like he wasn't the first one to make me feel like that. And this goes so much farther beyond him.
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Chapter 3: How does Brittany Broski feel about personal authenticity?
And when you find the people that do and can and they can keep up with you and they sharpen your knife and you sharpen theirs, it is incredible. So yeah, the sun to me is that. And I know it's not a unique experience, so I hope you enjoy it and it's finally yours to have. And more music coming very soon. So I need y'all to sit with it for a moment though, okay?
I feel like I've bombarded you, okay? We're doing Adore You, we did The Sun, we've got the video, the visualizers doing all this fucking bullshit, whatever. Enjoy it because the storm is coming. The storm is coming, girl. But yeah, so just need to talk about that, that's out of the way. Here's some stuff to completely pivot. This episode is sponsored by ZocDoc.
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Chapter 4: What are Brittany Broski's thoughts on deja vu?
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. As you'll swiftly appreciate, there is an intractable contradiction right at the center of this first actionable item. You cannot imagine what it would be like to be dead because death is an absence of existence. There is literally nothing to imagine because nothingness itself cannot be imagined.
That's horrifying!
This isn't helping! There is no perspective, no view from nothingness, nothing to which it can be approximated. So that is the first recommendation. Realize that being dead isn't an experience. Death itself isn't really a thing at all. In Epicurus' words, death is nothing to us. To drive the point home, let's turn to the Roman poet Lucretius.
He was a saltier and more ironic Epicurean of a later generation, the first century BCE, whose unexampled poem, On the Nature of Things, fell afoul of early Christians because of its crypto-atheism.
In the poem, Lucretius proposes an idea, later termed the symmetry argument, that hints at the second thing you should do to overcome the fear of death, which is try to recall what it was like before you were born. Okay, I can't do that. I was baby. I don't remember. Okay, Lucretius, that's stupid as fuck. I don't remember.
Not how the world was, which is the task of historical imagination, but what it was like to be you before you were created. You'll discover that prenatal existence isn't something that can be thought about, much less experienced. The symmetrical part of the argument, of course, is that you have the very same difficulty in imagining what it is like to be dead. Okay, but here's my thing.
I've already got notes and I've got questions and I've got commentary. That does scare me of like there being nothing before and nothing after. And it makes the miracle of life that much more of a confusing, confounding miracle that like against all odds, I should not be here. You should not be here. We should not be here. Yet life prevails. Beauty prevails.
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Chapter 5: How does Brittany Broski cope with the fear of mortality?
It is crazy to think that I ever was doing anything else because this is just... It's it. No, but I mean it. This is... the happiest I've ever been. And it is the most fulfilled I've ever been. And it's the most connected to a community I've ever felt. And I'm just infinite. There are no words. There are no words. The best I can give you is myself, you know, as a form of thanks.
I'm going to keep leveling up and I'm going to keep creating because that's what I have to give you in exchange for your love. So. I just, I'm so grateful. And I don't say it enough. Okay, team, with that, fuck off. And I'll see you next week. Bye-bye.