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I'm tweaking. I'm tweaking. I'm geeking. I can't say no, huh? Okay. Shout out, first of all, today, this is the unofficial, unofficial sponsor. Okay? If you, guys, serious, if you're watching this Red Bull, you better fucking hit my line. Red, Blueberry Red Bull. Blueberry Red Bull, dude!
It's my life force right now. Today has been stressful. I think I'm balding. That apparently is a symptom of the PCOS. Hair loss. Awesome. That's actually really fucking awesome. Awesome, awesome. My friend Channing does that. They're like, oh, our Uber went ahead and it left. And we got charged $10. She said, awesome, awesome. Awesome, awesome. Yay. It's another Channingism. Y'all ever have that like nucleus of the friend group?
That is my friend Channing and Tristan. They are the fucking center of the friend groups universe. Like all of us just were in awe and, and shock and horror of them a lot of the time, but the world revolves around them truly. And I mean that they're my guiding star. I love them to goddamn death. That is a awesome. Awesome. Okay. So what,
Blueberry Red Bull. It's flowing through my veins. It's flowing through my piss. It's flowing through probably some major arteries that it shouldn't be. Okay? I had a friend in college named John, and he used to drink straight up taurine. Okay? What's taurine, you might ask, and it's worth a Google. Taurine. What is it?
taurine or here we go two amino ethane sulfonic acid now i think this is actually what you put into a diesel truck okay amino ethanosulfonic acid yep that's gonna be what you put into a diesel truck that's leaded fuel is a non-proteinogenic protozoic what is protozoic doesn't that mean dinosaurs protozoa it really is stressful sometimes being this smart
a swollen, like, oozing brain? Is it painful? Yes. Does the weight of the world weigh heavy on my shoulders? Yes. Do I know what protozoa is? Yeah. Protozoa are a polyphletic group of single-celled eukaryotes. Do you remember fucking eukaryotes, bitch? From biology? My biology teacher from high school died recently. He was a cunt, so. He was also, like, 89, so. RIP to bro.
And he was mean, he was like really mean. And he used to talk about aliens. Anyway, non-protein, oh, proteinogenic amino sulfonic acid, protein as in protein, not as in protozoic as in a dinosaur. Okay, so we're not doing protozoic era right now. If you think about it before eras existed, before the eras world tour existed, there were classes of dinosaurs that were categorized by their eras.
Protozoic era. Proterozoic. The Proterozoic is the third of the four geological eons of Earth's history, spanning the time interval from 2500 to 530.8 MYA. Now, I'm going to go ahead and assume that means million years ago. Take me back. Oh, God, y'all. That's actually going to make me so nostalgic. Take me back to 2500 to 538.8 million years ago.
the longest eon of the Earth's geological timescale. It's preceded by, of course, everyone say it together, Archean, and followed by the Phanerozoic. And, of course, this actually goes without saying, the most recent part of the Precambrian super-eon. Okay, so this is what I'm talking about. Look, eras, Paleoproterozoic, Mesoproterozoic, Neo... Let's go ahead and break this down. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
It is etymology time with Brittany Broski. Etymology, the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed through history. Okay, we're going to look at the prefixes here. Now that we know what Proterozoic means, it's referring to a period of the Earth's history, geologic timescale.
Paleo-proterzoic. Now, if we think about a paleo diet, which is usually veggies, okay? I'm gonna assume that's when vegetation started to grow. These are my bold predictions and we're gonna check it afterward, okay? Meso-proterzoic. Now, meso, queso. You guys watch queso? How many, can I get a show of hands? Again, take your hands off the wheel if you're driving. Can I get a show of hands?
All the girls that actually watch Twitch streamers that aren't fucking Hasan Piker. How many girls actually watch Twitch streamers? Or gays. I'll open this up to gays as well, temporarily. Gay people, watch your fucking mouth. Okay? Anyway. KSO. You guys watching KSO? I recently... This is the thing about Twitch is like, oh, yes, white guys. Oh, you guys know about this white guy?
I do love Kaisenet, but I do love Duke Dennis, and I do need Duke Dennis terribly. I need Duke Dennis. I need Duke Dennis terribly. I am so down bad for Duke Dennis. It's going to make me, I'm going to start salivating. Kaisenet had Drewski on. I think I've talked about this. That clip of Drewski, they had a sleepover. Y'all are not plugged into this the way that I am, okay? Then what happens when I want Kaisenet and Drewski on Royal Court? Are you bitches going to be mad?
I love them. Okay. What was I saying? Oh, do y'all be watching Twitch? Let me know. Okay. Let me know. Mesoproterozoic. Don't know what that means. Neoproterozoic. I'm going to Neanderthal. And also Neo. I think that prefix means new.
So like new age. So I would say newest of categorizing these eras in this sort of time scale. I'm going to say neoproterozoic is when humans... Let's check. Paleoproterozoic. Oh, I just figured out I don't care, actually. Oh, y'all, this is gut-wrenching. It's way too many long words that I just figured out I don't give a shit about. I do want to know what neoproterozoic... I think I just had a stroke. Okay.
The Neo-Proteorozoic Era is the unit of geological time from 1 billion to 538 million years ago. This is actually going to be the first one. Damn, I really thought I was on to something. Subdivided into the Tonian, Cryogenian, and Ediacaran periods. Someone open Google Docs right now and write the next fantasy novel that is Star Wars and Dune adjacent.
We're writing this right now, dude. Tonian? These are gonna be all different planets of people. Tonian, Cryogenian, and Ediacaran. Okay? Lisa no gaip. Oh, I haven't even started to talk about Dune. Dude, don't get me started on Dune! I love Timothee Chalamet. I love Timothee.
The interviews! That motherfucker needs to be muzzled and contained. The interviews of him speaking French. Are you on fucking crack? Him speaking French? When he switches in between like... Monsters, Inc. This video. Monsters, Inc. I love him. I love him. He has one of the arguably craziest...
digital footprints of any like A-list S-tier actor celebrity like he has been online as long as a lot of us have because he's what 29 28 he used to like sell modded Xbox controllers or something he would like decorate them he used to be what he used to do Call of Duty mods or something Red Dead Redemption 2 Red Dead Redemption 2 yeah dude he's like a gamer
We need to get Timothee Chalamet on royal court now. Expeditiously, Expedition Everest. We have got to get him on. Anyway, Dune. Let's go back to Dune. This is actually going to be called the I'm sorry, Timothee Chalamet episode because I have, I wouldn't say I've been a hater, but I have been not on the train. I let the train pass me by. Okay, everyone's Timothee Chalamet!
That is one of the most ridiculous videos. I'm drooling. Oh my God. That, if that ain't me, if that is not me, seeing yourself represented in media is so, so, so nice.
That video kills me. That is literally the energy that people have towards this man. And I never understood it. I had a similar thing with Killian Murphy before I started watching Beaky Blinders. I was like, what? What are we doing? I don't understand. And then I watched one episode and I was like, I'm right there. See, I was here. Now I'm there. Okay. I was far away, but I have returned. I was far away from you. I found my path. Okay. I feel the same way about Timothy. I was just like this little twink.
This little fucking twink! And then I watch it. I watch Dune 2. What's happening to me? The voices! The voices! La la la. I love Timothee Chalamet. It's The Shining, but at the end of the hallway instead of the twin girls, it's Zendaya and Timothee Chalamet. It's fucking Austin Butler's bald ass. Fade, Ratha. May thy knife chip and shatter.
Oh God, I have so much to say, I'm fucking, I'm tweaking, I'm geeking. I'm starting chewing on this wire. I do think as an adult, like an oral chew toy would be really, really nice. Why don't babies get to have all the fun? Babies get to gum the shit out of those teething toys. I wanna teethe. What if I'm teething? Don't look at her, she's teething. I hate getting dinner with Britney, she teethes before she eats.
Teething as a treatment for binge eating disorder. Oh, I gotta chew on my microplastics. Dude, teething? Teething as a 26 year old, sorry. Sorry, I'm teething. No, it's okay, it's okay. Not a lot of people understand it. Yes, it's part of my condition. What's your condition? My gums. What's wrong with your gums? Well, I just have to chew on stuff sometimes.
Why? Cause good! Damn! Shit! What else you wanna know? My bra size? Cause I like to chew. How come at a certain age it's just like, no more chewing? Get that shit out of your mouth and if I catch you with a binky, it's over. What if I want a binky? We all hate it on the rave girls who've got the binky in their mouth cause it's, what is that about? Molly that makes you wanna suck?
I don't know bullshit about rave culture. Why do rave girls suck on binkies? What are pacifiers for at raves? The pacifier helps protect the teeth, gums, tongue, and inner cheek and just deters the annoying effect of constantly grinding your teeth. Oh, Molly jaw. I did actually forget about Molly jaw. That makes sense.
And what does TIL mean? TIL, people suck on pacifiers during raves in order to satiate the need to grind one's teeth after consuming MDMA. I did think MDMA was actually going to be a fighting ring. What is MDMA? Is MDMA not what Stone Cold Steve Austin fought in? It's actually going to be methylodeonoxymethylamine. Oh, ecstasy in Molly and Mandy. Miley and Mandy is a potent empathogen...
Intactogen. Hell yeah. Actually, not hell yeah. I take that back. Boo. What did Stone Cold Steve Austin fight in? WrestleMania. What's the one I'm thinking of? MMA.
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Price after $10 monthly bill credit while you maintain a nationally available postpaid voice line. Qualifying credit required. Regulatory fees included for qualified accounts. Plus $5 per month without auto pay. Debit or bank account required. Y'all remember when Stone Cold Steve Austin did MMA? MMA, mixed martial arts. Okay, never mind. I'm tweaking, I'm geeking. I have a question. Have y'all ever seen Stone Cold E.T.? And before I show you this, you need to be somewhat familiar with Stone Cold Steve Austin. Okay, Stone Cold Steve Austin is a wrestler.
And he's got certain catchphrases. And they're unimportant to this. Because what I'm about to show you, you'll get it. Okay? You'll get it if you understand that he's doing an impression of a wrestler. And if you are an audio-only listener, let me go ahead and visually describe what I'm about to show you. This is going to be a young gentleman who is pulling through the White Castle Burger drive-thru. Doing a Stone Cold Steve Austin impression. Again, not important. You don't need to know who he is. Wearing an E.T. mask.
and a gray hoodie, okay? Now with that in mind, let's go ahead and watch it. - This is Stone Cold ET, and I just wanna order a couple White Castles to go. - So sorry, can you repeat that again? - I said Stone Cold ET would like a couple cheeseburgers and maybe a drink, and I'd like to get out of here as soon as possible, and that's the bottom line.
Okay. Okay. Okay.
What? What?
The fucking drive-thru worker just like,
sitting through this monologue, this rehearsed monologue. Whooping the Texas rattlesnake's ass, give me a oh hell yeah, what, oh hell. This, when I, my friend Connor showed me this video about
What is that? Probably 12 years ago when we were in high school. Funniest thing I've ever seen. What'd you say, E.T.? What? What'd you say, E.T.? What? I said I want to order two cheeseburgers and that's the bomb blast. That's Stone Cold E.T. I don't know how the fuck we got there. But, um... Oh, we were talking about, uh... We were talking about MDMA fighters. That's gonna be MMA fighters who have taken Molly. MDMA fighters.
And then we were talking about what is TIL? What does TIL stand for? Do you think? Today I learned that makes sense. Okay. Anyway, I was talking about, I need a binky. All right, guys, welcome back. I was talking about, I need a binky. I'm teething. We need to start MDMA fighters and Stone Cold ET should host this year's Golden Globes. Okay. Go back to Tareem. What is it?
Non-proteinogenic amino sulfonic acid. What the fuck does that mean? Do y'all ever, I get real worried sometimes that we are, we are purposefully, they don't want us to know. They don't want us to know what two amino ethane sulfonic acid is. Okay? Because big pharma, okay? Tic-tac-toe, winner. Tic-tac-toe, it's a winner.
What did she think she was accomplishing with that? That is art. Like I watched that and a part of me died. These people, oh, we're going to die. Tic-tac-toe, a winner. We're going to fucking die. This is not an attempt to ban TikTok. It's an attempt to make TikTok better. In the next 15 years, you guys better make the most of it. Tic-tac-toe, a winner. There are literal walking dead corpses everywhere.
in Congress that are currently kind of deciding the fate of the country, living corpses that are arguably too old to be able to live alone, okay? Too old to drive a car, too old to wipe their ass on their own. One fall, it's over. And yet they're determining
really, really crucial things about my well-being as an American citizen. And quite frankly, I love it. I love it, y'all. Yay. Yay. Tic-tac-toe. Oh, winner. I'm going to kill you. Seize her! All right. Taurine. What is it? Will we ever fucking figure it out, dude? Taurine is a major constituent of bile and can be found in the large intestine. You're telling me I got taurine in my body? I am a Taurus.
That actually makes sense. I've got taurine in my body. I am a Taurus. Y'all ever get those psychic readings on your For You page? It's like, check the description. No hashtags. This is meant for you. If you scroll, you're going to fucking die. And I'm like, well, shit. I guess I got to watch it. Okay, I'm sensing this person. This person wants you. This person wants you. Me like, yes, yes, they do. Yes.
I'm sensing that there's a complicated relationship with this person and I'm watching it like, "Anything else?" Okay, I'm sensing, okay, hold on, hold on. I just pulled the seven of penises? Okay, they're about to text you in the next 30 minutes. Trust me, all you have to do is interact with this video three times. Bomb them, bomb them, keep bombing them, bomb them again.
Airstrikes! All you have to do is save this sound, use this sound, post it, like my video, follow me, give my cousin a poke on Facebook. I'm gonna kill you! Hey, I'm gonna get you. You ever watch the office bloopers? Have I ever seen the office? No. Do I care to? No. I know all I need to know about the fucking office. I know everything I could ever need to know. You bitches, you bitches don't know how to act. And by you bitches, I mean my fellow whiteys.
My fellow whiteys, stand up. We have got to get it together. New girl, new girl, the office. Hi, how are you? Guys, guys, work with me. We have, guys, seriously. There's this blooper from one of the seasons of The Office where he goes, of course, Steve Carell. He goes, working on a new one, Scranton Strangler.
"Hey, I'm gonna kill you." Play it. "Oh, I'm working on a new one. It's 'Grand Strangler.' "I'm gonna kill you!" And then of course John Krasinski's laugh is the cutest thing I've ever heard. John Krasinski, smash or pass? Smash, Hulk smash. Hulk smash. Hulk smash. Smash to the point where like, I've got my fists and I pull them down the table and it goes to slow motion and the desk breaks apart.
And everything's in slow motion and it's, and suddenly all my clothes rip off and I'm shirtless and I've got a six pack and pecs and I've just got on ugly brown cargo shorts. Why did they give the Hulk cargos? What's he storing in there? And they're all ripped off all sluttily. No way he's like bending over, lifting up cars and throwing that shit and the cargos aren't ripping.
The Hulk is not, in my opinion, really built for the type of work that they employed him to do. You know what I mean? He's not very like aerodynamically designed. He's just a big fucking dude. He's a big fucking guy who just needed a hug. No one listened to the Hulk. No one ever listens to Mark Ruffalo and it really, really upsets me. Y'all don't listen to Mark Ruffalo. He's just misunderstood. Y'all want him to be what you want him to be. You don't respect Mark Ruffalo.
Justice for Mark Ruffalo. What happened? Nothing. Okay, taurine. Okay, now if you are not a taurus, you actually don't have this in your body. So sorry. I wonder if they have like scorpioine, virgine. The appearance is colorless or a white solid. Ew. Ew, it's like cum. Ew, taurine's like cum. Taurine occurs naturally in foods with protein, such as meat or fish. How much taurine is in a can of Red Bull, do you think? It doesn't say.
How much taurine can a man take? One 2019 report suggests that the highest daily dose of taurine you can safely consume is three grams a day. How much taurine in Red Bull? 1,000 milligram. Isn't 1,000 milligram just one gram? 1,000, one, how many milligrams in a gram? 1,000 milligrams. Why wouldn't you just say one gram, dude?
Red Bull is 1,000 milligrams of taurine. Monster is 1,000. 5-Hour Energy is 480 milligrams of taurine. Caffeine content varies between drinks. Red Bull... Okay, now, here's the question. What the fuck is the difference between caffeine and taurine? Because I'm about to overdose on both. Caffeine versus taurine. Interestingly, taurine and caffeine appear to have opposite effects on the central nervous system. What?
As caffeine is a stimulant and taurine is an agonist for the inhibitory gamma amino butyric acid, GABA receptors. Gamma receptors. I am the fucking Hulk. Okay, you drink Red Bull, you become the fucking Hulk? What the fuck, scientist? That's stupid. Is taurine more potent than caffeine? If your primary goal is to feel more energized, just do Coke. Oh, crazy. Google says that.
It's a joke! If your primary goal is to feel more energized, it appears that you're better off choosing caffeine instead of taurine. Okay. Oh, taurine may help to reduce muscle damage and fatigue. Caffeine stimulates the nervous system more directly to reduce fatigue and increase alertness. We're actually going to play a game really quick called How Fast Can I Read This? How fast can I read out loud? Challenge. Can you keep up? Speed reading and RSVP.
Hello, everyone. We will be talking about Rapid Serial Visual Presentation, or RSVP for short. Okay, this is 150 words per minute, okay? It eliminates the need to move your eyes across text when reading and increases the number of words you can read per minute. Right now, we are reading at a third grade pace. So let's speed this up a bit. Okay, this is 257 words per minute.
Still with me? Now we are reading at an eighth grade pace. In addition to reduced eye movement, RSVP, sub-vocalization, fuck! I don't have a fucking panic attack! Read out loud in your head. With this method, you simply don't have the time to process sub-vocalization. You also don't have the chance to backtrack and check words you may have missed. Like...
Catch that? No, of course not. In one study, Elizabeth Schroeder and colleagues tested participants' reading competence when they were to reread words that was taken away. The researchers did this by using an eye tracker and replacing the words the participant already looked at with Xs. They found that when the participants could not reread words in a sentence, their comprehension of the sentence suffered.
Now we are reading at an average adult speed. If you don't think I'll push the bounds of your reading speed by the end of this video, you are sadly mistaken. Despite the research suggesting RSVP leads to poor reading comprehension, companies like Spritz and Spritter have spreader of speed, and RSVP needs to possibly help consumers read faster on more devices. Particularly RSVP companies that have benefited from this technology as their screens cannot fit many words at one time. Is this meaningless innovation since reading faster doesn't mean reading better? Maybe. We are reading at an average consumer speed at this point. I think we can agree this is hard. If you
I'm impressed. Is it easy to do on the first try? Which leads to the thought that maybe all we need to do is learn how to read this way in practice. The average positive speed. Unless I'm about to... I feel like Trisha Paytas on that one fucking clip. Oh my god, I almost just had a damn stroke. Oh my god, if y'all can feel how fast my heart is beating right now, I almost just had the big one. Yeah. Alright.
We're gonna move on from that. That almost just sent me over the edge. 600 words per minute's crazy. That's the average reading speed of a college professor. See, I wonder what mine would be if I wasn't having to say it out loud. Okay, I'm actually... Can everyone shut the fuck up? Y'all are in my head. Y'all are in my head, and I have... I had one thing I wanted to talk about, and that was Timothee. Timothee Chalamet. Chalamet! That's me.
Okay. Woo! Wake up! Wake up! Good morning, Vietnam! Where is Vietnam on a map? There. Where is Vietnam on a map? I know this. Vietnam. It's right next to Cambodia. It's right here. It's right here. Oh, this map isn't that accurate, is it? Y'all been yelling at me for a while about how much this map fucking sucks. It really does. Is that supposed to be the Philippines, dude? They fucked that up.
I think that's supposed to be, where the fuck is Sri Lanka? Right there. Laos. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. It's right here. Vietnam's right here. Vietnam's right here, guys. I was watching someone play, I'm not going to say his name. I was watching someone play Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader the other day, and one of the questions was, what country had this name change of their capital? And it was Ho Chi Minh City and Saigon. And I was like, it's Vietnam.
And he was really struggling. And I was like, if I was there when I catch you, if I was there, shit would have gone differently. Men really need help. And I'm done giving it. Okay. If we were on a live version of, are you smarter than a fifth grader? His ass would have lost and I would have stolen and I would have beat the shit out of him.
With my fists. I would've started wailing on him. Wham, wham, it's Saigon, wham, wham. Now it's Ho Chi Minh City. Ho Chi Minh City. Ho Chi Minh City, Saigon. Why did the name change? Commonly known as Saigon, is the most populous city in Vietnam with a population of around nine million. Why did the name, is Ho Chi Minh City the same as Saigon?
During the Second Indochina War, or the Vietnam War, I've never heard it referred to as the Second Indochina War. Whoa. In the 1960s and early 70s, Saigon was the headquarters of U.S. military operations. Parts of the city were destroyed by fighting in 1968. On April 30th, 1975, North Vietnamese troops captured Saigon and the city was subsequently renamed Ho Chi Minh City. Whoa! History.
Why was Saigon renamed? Saigon fell to the advancing Northern Army with little resistance and few casualties. But the next decade wouldn't be so easy for the capital of the now vanquished Southern regime. Saigon's name was changed to Ho Chi Minh City to honor the revolutionary leader who had declared independence back in 1945. That's crazy. Can I wear shorts in Vietnam? Remember that short shorts, crop tops, and tank tops are not considered appropriate in Vietnam. You know, when we went to... When I went to...
I've got sweat under my boobs. Sorry if you see me adjusting. Sorry, it's hot as fuck in here. When we went to the Vatican, when we went to Vatican City, me and my mom in 2015, and I should have said my mother and I, okay?
It's American colloquialism. That is how I speak, and I have no intent on changing it, because for me, it is accurate, okay? I will die on this hill that sociolinguistics, there is not a wrong way of someone speaking, okay? There is a formal way, and there is an informal way, but never incorrect, okay? And I fucking hate when people will adjust how some people speak. No, no, no, no, no, okay? Okay, so...
Me and my mom, we were in Vatican City and I literally remember having to have this conversation. I mean, it's not like we were we were dressed like hoochies, but it was like you need to be fully covered and it was hot as fuck outside. And like if you're going to enter the Vatican.
Which was the thing I was the most excited about on this entire European trip because I had just taken an AP European history course and an AP art history course in high school. And I was obsessed with the Vatican, with the Sistine Chapel ceiling. I was obsessed with Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, which is all about the Vatican and about cardinals and all this. Like I learned so much about Catholicism. Yeah.
And I was obsessed with the Renaissance and the Renaissance and the Enlightenment and all of these, you know, this transitionary period in Italian and I guess European as a whole history of the 1400s and the 1500s of just how much life changed and how those changes still affect life today, you know, that we still implement some. And I remember thinking,
Being like, I think seeing the last judgment by Michelangelo in real life will fix me. That will fix me. And arguably it may have. One step, one more step towards healing. When we went in, it was this tour guide who I could barely understand her. And it made me really sad because I was like, I was so excited to learn. But her Italian accent was so thick. And I was like, I can't.
I'm trying to be here with you, girl. I'm trying to be here with you, mom. I can't really hear you. We're at the back. You're speaking way too Italian, okay? And so I was really struggling to understand what she was saying. And I was reading all the, because you know, they'll have them in Italian and English. And I was reading it and I was like, this is crazy. We walked into that room and it is, I mean, nothing prepares you. Let me pull up a picture so you can see it. You walk into this room and
And I mean, this is it, dude. This is from the door in which you enter the room. And this is kind of, I mean, it's like a 0.5, you know, blown out photo, but it is just floor to ceiling covered in Michelangelo's art. And it is, when I say breathtaking, I truly, in the most literal sense of the word, like took the air out of my lungs. It was everything I had studied. It was everything that,
You know, it's a story. It is why the church commissioned Michelangelo to paint all of this was to tell the story of, because you have to think about in this time, the 1400s and the Renaissance,
I don't even, the printing press hadn't been invented yet. So the monks and the church held all of the biblical stories and all of the history, you know, of the teachings of the Bible. And a lot of the way, the main way that the masses learned the Bible and religious teachings were through pictures because they couldn't read.
When you have an illiterate populace, you have to teach them the morals and the stories through photos and through murals. And so that's what this sort of, you know, it was for that purpose. And it was supposed to be the most impressive divine, you know, for the Pope, to honor the Pope and also to honor the church and honor God and honor whatever. Michelangelo, let's look up how long it took him. It took him four years. And this man, they had him up on scaffolding
laying on his back, painting the ceiling like that. Hours. Every day. And he was an old man, I think, at this time as well. And it's way the fuck up there. From July of 1508 to October of 1512, Michelangelo had never painted frescoes before and was learning the craft as he worked. That is so impressive. That is so impressive. And all the... I remember watching some documentary about how they restored it because, you know, it falls victim to history and it falls victim to...
wear and tear and when major historical events happen like war or revolution or overtakes or, you know, anything where the goal or what's happening in society and in history isn't, you know, the, what the fuck am I trying to say? When the instinct is not preserve the art for the love of Christ, preserve the art.
Things like World War II, you know, where the Nazis stole so much art that, and I will die on this fucking hill, dude, and it makes me so upset. I think no art that is of historical significance should be privately owned. I don't think that that should, it's just not right. I think that for the sake of humanity and for the sake of sharing art and learning from art,
It should not be owned in the private sector. It should be in a museum and it should be on rotations and it should be touring different museums so that people in all different parts of the world can see it. And we have the technology, we have the means, we have it down to a science now of how to do that in a way that preserves the art, honors the artist, and, you know, maximizes the
People seeing it and experiencing that art in real life. That shit, dude, all those movies and documentaries about how the Nazis just stole shit and it just sat in warehouses. It's just, oh my God. Stanley and I recently were in New York and we went to, oh, what's the fucking museum called? New Gallery. This one right here. The New Gallery. This building was owned by the Rockefellers and it's just beautiful inside.
And you can go to so it's half of like an art museum. It's a very small art museum. And then there's a little cafe in the bottom half. And it's gorgeous. It's got these all wooden walls, real high ceilings and a mirror wall. And it's these cute little iconic lamps that you can actually buy in the gift shop. They're so fucking expensive, but they've got great dessert.
great drinks, coffees, machos, whatever. And we went there kind of like later in the day, they were about to close. And cause he was telling me about it. He was like, we've eaten there, but I've never seen the art there. And I was like, I Googled it. Bitch, there's Klimps. There's Gustav Klimps there. And I was like, oh, we should go in. And so we bought a ticket. We went in. Bitch.
It is the portrait of, and this is so, this is my art history nerd coming out, sorry, indulge me. Oh, you don't care? I don't give a fuck. Listen, you're going to learn something today. It is the stolen and returned portrait of Adele Blockbauer 1, which is this one by Klimt. This one
Assuredly, you've seen this photo before, this painting with the gold leaf on it. This painting is so iconic and the Nazis stole it during World War II and it became a legal battle between Klimt's
offspring, like I don't know if it was, I think it was his daughter. It became a legal battle between like his estate and her. And then because it's this incredibly famous portrait and work of art that arguably belongs to history or whatever, it was a war or a legal battle between her and like the United States. And then like some committee in Europe to get it back in her possession because it belonged to her father.
Or maybe it was her grandfather. I'm not sure. And I know that kind of, uh, anyway, that kind of goes against what I just said of like, it should be in the public eye, but it is. And that's what I was, I was getting at is that yes, you know, because it belonged to Klimt's estate and then it was stolen and then returned, but then she couldn't get it. I think it's, it's exactly where it belongs now on display for the public to see along with a bunch of other claims. It's this beautiful Klimt exhibit, uh,
in the new gallery. And I'm like, it's just breathtaking. Me and Stanley were geeking out. That shit is crazy. And it's big. It's big in person. There were a bunch of other Klimts. Klimt did landscape paintings, which are some of my favorites. I bought a whole book on it. Some of his landscapes are just insane because you think of this when you think of Klimt. You think of the kiss. You know, you think of this...
You think they're so in love, whatever. There's a whole history behind this painting that I won't even get into. But a lot of Klimt's landscapes are breathtaking because it's not really stippling. And it's not even like impressionism. It's like, I'm just obsessed with it. I'm obsessed with it. It's gorgeous. I need one on every wall in my house. Anyway.
Back to what I was saying. The new gallery. If you're ever in New York, go there. It's gorgeous. I mean, there's so many art museums in New York. You've got the MoMA. You've got the Met. You've got... The other ones. Those are the main two. Oh, we went to the Guggenheim. That one was cool. There's not a lot of historical works there. It's a lot of contemporary. I definitely like stuff like this. Like older, historical, whatever. But...
I am very much of the opinion, and I will die on this hill, that art like that, like the portrait of Adele Blockbauer, any pieces that, yes, I guess the artist's estate has first rights to it, of course. And a lot of those are privately owned if you're related to the guy who wrote it. I'm talking more so of like,
art auctions where it's a tax write-off for a lot of rich people. That's the shit that makes me, my blood actually boil because you are hiding that away from the world and it's not yours to hide. You know, it's just, it makes me, it pisses me off. So anyway, back to the Sistine Chapel as I was talking about, this shit was absolutely breathtaking in real life. And this on the back wall
This is called the Last Judgment. Okay, so imagine you walk into the Sistine Chapel. It's kind of a small room square footage wise, but it's very tall. And there's multiple levels that I'm honestly not sure if it's, if they, I do think they do service in there. Because we had to be quiet when we went in. And this whole back wall is supposed to be
the judgment day, which is when Christ comes back to earth and the sinners are picked apart from the believers and you know, all whatever, they're cast down to hell and then Jesus will take everyone who accepted him into their hearts up to heaven. We know the story. There are so many, I think I've talked about this in an art history video before on my YouTube, where there's so many little details in here that's like Michelangelo painted himself in as like this little nasty skin over here.
This right here. Where'd it go? Right there. That's bro. He painted himself in as like a nasty spineless skin. And that was truly like in my life, there's been a lot of art that's impacted me, but like being in this room, it was like truly tears in my eyes.
Because you think of how old it is and you think of all the history that's come before you and all the history that will happen after you and all the history we've lived through. And it just makes you feel so, so, so small. And not in a scary, you know, I'm ultimately insignificant type of way. But in a, I don't know, I would say like an optimistic, nihilistic way of thinking.
I am so small. And that's the beautiful part of it. When you, you think that you are the most important person in the world and you think that life revolves around you and
fucking the sun rises and falls for you every day. And it's just not true. There is so much life that just doesn't concern you. And the most we can do is just be kind to each other because you stand in a place like that and you think this is nothing like I've ever, ever experienced, nor will I ever experience it, usually as an American. America is such a paradox, this country, being so young as it is, but at the same time, so much
history packed into being such a young country. Ultimately, we are at the tail end of world history. And when you think back to the 1500s, dude, that's not even, I can't even conceptualize that. And then you start thinking about the philosophers of the time and then back even further, thousands of years, the Roman and Greek philosophers, and you just start to feel so small.
And I can't really accurately put it into words unless you felt that feeling too. I don't know if for me, it happens at art museums. For other people, you know, it could happen if you've ever been to the Coliseum or if you've ever been to like a historical location.
especially historical locations where a lot of suffering has happened, you know, where, where a lot of, and it's important to keep visiting those places to remember that that history is not that far behind us. Like visiting plantations in the South. I visited the Whitney plantation, uh, which I believe is in, it's in Louisiana. That's right. We drove there, me and my mom, um, when we went to NOLA one time and we went to the Whitney plantation and it's so important for, um,
And let me get sort of, you know, serious for a second. It's so important as a white person from a white family from the South to go to these places because for some fucking reason, debutante balls and like this sort of Civil War era culture is still celebrated in the South. And obviously that's the conversation around like the, um,
Confederate flag and shit like that. It is the strangest thing when, you know, I grew up not really having people worship those figures, like the Confederate soldier, Confederate army leaders, but like there is a reverence for those characters and those historical figures. And the older you get, it's like, why the fuck? And you're taught it in school. We had to teach, we had to take Texas history.
In middle school, when I was in Texas for middle school, we had to take Texas history. Why? That's very odd. I mean, I understand like Texas is its own. It was its own country at one point. And, you know, there's it's got kind of a deeper history than maybe some other American states. But it's taught from such a strange place.
I'll say it, white supremacist point of view. And when you visit places like the Whitney Plantation, where the story is from the slave perspective, it's like, why? And this is, I know that I'm preaching to the fucking choir with my audience, but still, why is that shit not highlighted? And why do you have to seek it out? I mean, we are still so...
ass backwards. And it's important to tour places like this. And it really, I mean, it's a somber experience, much like if you've ever been to Auschwitz or any concentration camps or any Holocaust museums, it is very, very sobering. You don't go there for like a, you get a similar feeling. It's just heavy. It's so heavy. And it should be, you know, you should really have to ponder how fucking cruel we are to each other.
And hopefully that'll affect with an A, A-F-F-E-C-T, how you vote and how you go out in the world and how you treat other people because we are not far from this. And there is some rhetoric both in the news and online that fans the fire, it fans the flames of some of these sentiments. And these sentiments still live in our day and age and it's fucking terrifying.
If you're ever in Louisiana, I would definitely recommend going to the Whitney Plantation. It's a history that is not far behind us. Anyway, last judgment. Yeah, dude, Sistine Chapel was insane. And the older I get, it's like I want to create a list of places that I think would give me a similar feeling. And I want to see as many as I can before I can't. You know, I think it's so backwards that
For decades, the American dream, the American MO, way of life has been you work, you work, you work, you dedicate your life to a singular company, a singular job with the hopes of ascending in the ranks. Maybe you do. Usually you don't. And then you retire. And by that point, you barely can afford health care that you've been paying into your whole life, Social Security, and you are not in a condition to travel the world.
I think that is such a shame. And I'm always such a big proponent for, yes, save money, absolutely save money, because that's a responsible thing to do is to have a nest egg. But when you can, fucking get out of your hometown. It's worth it. It's worth it. I know that sometimes, especially in the economy today, it's just not realistic. But even a road trip somewhere, get in the car with some of your friends and just get out of your fucking town.
There's so much to see, even in America. I mean, when Europeans come over here and they're like, I get why Americans never leave. Most Americans, I don't know if that's true, not most Americans, but a lot of Americans don't even have a passport because there is so much. The United States is so big and there's so much history and there's so many different cultures, state to state, community to community, that it's so much to see. Go out and see it, you know?
Uh life can get so depressing and so cyclical and so trap trapping Uh where you feel trapped just get out even if it's by yourself Go somewhere. You've never been before that's within driving distance. Just go. All right, guys I think that'll do it for me. I guess i'll finish my timothy chalamet Rant next week because I watched little women And I watched little women as I was about to start my period and I had never seen it before I got 10 minutes into the movie and I was crying
Just seeing a bunch of sisters happy together, cried. That's all it takes. I love being a woman. Oh my God, happy International Women's Month. International Women's Day. It was Friday, March 8th. International Women's Month, March. Yup. Yup. All right, guys, I'm loving you. Be good. Be safe. Broski Report merch is still live. Broski.shop, please, for the love of Christ. Royal Court, um...
Go watch that. You can check out my YouTube videos on the Brittany Broski YouTube. You can follow me on Instagram if you want to see what I'm listening to, what I'm doing. Oh my God, my songs of the week. I'll go through these quickly. My songs of the week are, in no particular order, Big Stepper by Big X the Pluck, Another Texas King, As We Speak by Yeet and Drake. Love that song.
been listening to a lot of don tolliver lately as well don tolliver and him and caliuchi just had a baby period don tolliver uh the album his album from 2021 life of a dawn love that album uh and then the last one is get up off of that thing by james brown okay and that is from the movie robots the movie robots starring robin williams okay guys love you bye-bye
