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I just heard that FX has a new original comedy series coming out called Adults, which after watching the first episode feels all too familiar. Adults is a comedy that will feel relatable if you too ever find humor in the struggles of being an adult in 2025. You know, like,

Remembering your full social security number or remembering to drink water or perhaps having had your third existential crisis of the month. Best part is that all episodes are ready for your next weekend binge. Watch FX's Adults, Wednesdays on FX. All episodes now streaming on Hulu. Direct from the Broski Nation headquarters in Los Angeles, California. This is the Broski Report with your host, Brittany Broski.

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If there's anything we can do to make your flight more enjoyable, please keep it to yourself. Thank you and enjoy the flight. Me if I was a flight attendant. Oh no! I don't know! Can I have a vodka and tonic? What is in that? Can I have a gin and tonic? Yeah, let me get out my fucking chef's book. Let me get out my bartender manual. No, you can't have it. Do you want beer or wine? Gin and tonic.

Yeah, hold on, let me go put on my chef's apron and hat. Would you like a fucking chive garnish? Get the fuck out of here. Just being mean to first class. Can I get you any beverages before we take off? Yeah, just like a whiskey on the rocks. What the fuck? Whiskey on the rocks. Sure, what else? What else? The steak and lobster?

What else? The fucking surf and turf? Fuck you! Coke, Diet Coke Sprite. What do you want? There is something to be said about there not being rules at an airport. If you want a whiskey at 8 a.m., sir, that's all you. Okay? Coming right up. Just don't ask me to make it. I one time went to Vegas to see the Rolling Stones and we were...

God, our flight was at like 8 p.m. leaving Vegas. And yeah, I was drunk on the flight. Yeah, because we got drunk as shit in the airport. You would think I live in an airport hangar.

Like with the amount of planes that fly over my head at any given, the choppers that fly over this house, the window shake. I mean, it's every 45 minutes. Los Angeles, Los Angeles, LA, LA, baby. She's my, she's my, oh my God, my Mickey phone. Caution, president at work.

There has been an occasion where I've gotten a little drunk at an airport. But I've never missed a flight from being drunk. I've missed a flight from being hungover. Yes. Yes. Say that. But never from being drunk. Okay, guys. What are we talking about today? If you guessed World War II, you're right! It's another World War II episode.

Sorry. Sorry. Actually, I'm not fucking sorry because I'm coming to terms with the fact that this is a, it's a special interest and that's fine. Maybe not. It's not a special interest more so as it keeps coming up because yeah, it does. We are living through a highly tumultuous and scary political climate right now. When you start to see history repeat itself,

Not to say the F word, but fascism. It's a scary thing. And to think that we are in a similar place, but in our country, you know, 80 years later, it's just, it's harrowing. It's a lot to sort of think about. I digress. Let's move on. So, as we all know, I apologized for it last week and the week before that, and I believe the week before that, Jack O'Connell, it's still happening. The obsession is still strong. I...

Because you guys know how I get, right? I like an actor or an actress and I can't like something normal. I have to watch everything they've ever been in and everything they've ever said online. And unfortunately, I'm still in the depths of the waters of Jack O'Connell. My metaphorical pirate ship has been attacked by the Kraken and sunk to the depths of the Jack O'Connell sea. I'm kind of interred here.

Interred? That's right. Interred. Interred. Interred. In a grave or tomb, a corpse typically with funeral rites. Interred. I'm a genius. Yeah, I'm interred in the watery depths, the watery graveyard of Jack O'Connell's sea. The Sea O'Connell. Okay? Okay.

I've gone down a rabbit hole of everything he's ever been in, every project he's ever said yes to, any actress he's ever, any co-star interview ever given. It's just, here we are. Here I am. What's that camp rock song? This is real. I'm in stock. They really made her hold back on some of those riffs. She would do it.

And then they were like, don't overpower Joe. You're the voice I hear inside my head. I need to find you. Gotta find you. Nick Jonas in those movies was so sexy, but I wasn't a Nick girl. I was a Joe girl. And we all know that. And it shows. Okay, moving on. Jack O'Connell. A show called SAS Rogue Heroes. I'm back on my bullshit.

Can someone pull the clip from a hundred years ago when I said I was listening to Big X The Plug and who's the other one? Who sings, um, I would never ever put a bitch before my money. I would never put a bitch before my money. Who the fuck sings that? Before my money.

Key Glock. I was listening to Key Glock. And now everybody loves Big X the Plug. Yeah, he's from Texas. Moving on.

Okay, I'm watching my war show. Okay, SAS Rogue Heroes. What is it about? Thank you for asking and I appreciate your innate curiosity. I appreciate your curiosity about the world in which you live and you know history and specifically history as it pertains to World War II and the Allied Forces. Thank you so much for your inquiry. I will attempt to answer it to the best of my ability. Thank you. SAS Rogue Heroes is a BBC production.

Centering in and around the courageous and miraculous story of the SAS Special Air Service. Now, this was a special ops group in the British military during World War II that served as a form of, to put it quite bluntly, attack dog. They would drop these dudes behind enemy lines and tell them to just do their thing.

They had very little provision in the early days from the British government, from General Montgomery.

They were allowed to operate kind of at their own leisure as long as they got the job done, which the job was securing the front lines, essentially. For a long time, how they started out was a paratroop. They were paratroopers. So they would jump out of planes somewhere behind enemy lines, assemble all their gear, rendezvous at a point, and then go and blow up Axis power planes and supplies and tanks and whatever.

You know, these weapons that were being used to torture and torment and wreak havoc. And so if you attack them at their strongest yet most vulnerable point,

which is these, you know, airfields in the middle of nowhere. This campaign started in like Northern Africa. And once the SAS helped secure that, like for the allies, then they began their European invasion. It started in Italy and all this. So they would literally, they would send the SAS in just like, we'll see if our boys can do it. If not, no, well, like truly expendables. And these men, I mean, of course, all this is through the lens of a TV show, but it's heavily, uh,

researched and predicated on the bravery and, uh,

I guess, innovation of what this group was doing and how it slowly became an official regiment within the British military and I guess the larger allied forces and just some... I mean, they call them madmen because you got to be kind of fucking crazy to do that and to put yourself even in that position. So...

I find it very intriguing as an American to watch shows like this about World War II or World War I or any war where Americans are involved, but it's not like, so to speak, an American war. I find it very interesting to watch from a perspective that is not my own nationality just because it puts things in context. And of course, other countries have pride in their war effort and all that, but

visiting things like Churchill's war rooms or the Imperial War Museum or any of the Blitzkrieg bombing sites in London or anywhere in the UK. I mean, this is not ancient history and this was truly a global war. So to think that we've never experienced what wartime really feels like, knock on wood, fucking hell, is

Like to have enemy fighter planes flying overhead in fear for your life and have, I mean, it's just something that I cannot conceptualize. Even, I think I've talked about this before, the Imperial War Museum has this setup of what, you know, an average, quote unquote, British single family household looked like in the 30s, 40s with like complete with,

A small little television or radio that was constantly updating on the progress of the war or setbacks of the war, simulated flyovers, simulated. But I mean, it's just to live in fear while at the same time getting the message from your government, keep calm and carry on. How the fuck are you supposed to carry on like life is normal? But then again, the flip side of that is, do you have a choice? What are you going to sit around and be scared all day? Life goes on.

Even if you're terrified, life goes on. So you might as well, you know, make the most of it. So it's just all these things really are put into perspective. And when I watch shows like this, where there's such a pride for the British military, the British war effort, but ultimately how the war really shifted when the Americans joined, not to be patriotic, not to sound patriotic.

But the Americans really won the war for the Allies. Okay, I think any historian would kind of agree. It was much needed reinforcement, much needed backup, much needed supplies, men, you know, morale. I think it was just, wow. And the Allied forces up until then had been holding the line. I sound like my dad. They'd been holding the line as well as they could, as best they could. And what I like about this show is...

You know, you get all the bureaucratic nonsense, the bureaucratic red tape and, you know, how these soldiers are just ordered around. And I guess that's what you signed up for. But at the same time, are you allowed to ever question authority? And what are the real disciplinary actions that are taken when you question your authority in the military? So all that was very interesting to watch. But at the same time,

I found it interesting because I've never really focused much on, for whatever reason, the war effort in Northern Africa and Egypt and all the strongholds that were there and how crucial it was that the Allied forces kept hold of some of the cities like Cairo because...

If all of those, you know, canals or ports of trade or any of those really significant cities in that area were to have been claimed or taken over or occupied by the Axis powers, we would have been talking about a very different war, a very, very different war. So the SAS, and of course, this is from the lens of the TV show, the SAS really helped in that effort, at least.

Spend a lot of time in the desert. A lot of fucking time in the desert. And I also like this show because halfway through season one, because of course I've watched all the way to season two. I love Jack O'Connell! I love Jack O'Connell! Okay? Halfway through season one, who pops up except my king, Aegon Targaryen, Tom Glen Kearney. I literally said, oh! I was like...

It was like seeing an old friend. Tom Glingarny. He popped up after season one. I was like, yeah, he is the Brit that keeps Britting. If you know what I mean. I was watching Dunkirk. His ass is in that movie. I was watching some other movie. He popped up. I'm like, if you look for him, he will appear.

Tom Glenn Carney, he's everywhere. So he plays a soldier that's in this sort of troop that specializes in scouting the desert. Like they know the desert better than anyone. They know how the weather moves, how the wind blows, when the sun sets, where to find certain things, the likelihood of where things are going to be. I mean, just like a true expert knowledge of this terrain that they're navigating. And so his team combines with...

Jack O'Connell's team. And they sort of team up and kiss and sort of kiss and make out. So not really, but kind of. And there is a very important scene to me in this show where Jack O'Connell poops on camera. And that is, I think, what cinema is about. He sort of drops trowel and takes a big stinker and then wipes his ass with military orders. I love that. Personally, I love that. And that's cinema to me. That's film.

That's television history on the BBC One. Is that BBC One?

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I just heard that FX has a new original comedy series coming out called Adults, which after watching the first episode feels all too familiar. Adults is a comedy that will feel relatable if you too ever find humor in the struggles of being an adult in 2025. You know,

like remembering your full social security number or remembering to drink water or perhaps having had your third existential crisis of the month, best part is that all episodes are ready for your next weekend binge. Watch FX's Adults, Wednesdays on FX. All episodes now streaming on Hulu. What are the different BBCs? Let's go ahead and give that a Google. What are the different BBCs?

BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three and Four, and international news channels like BBC News and BBC World News. Okay, BBC One. This is from bbc.com. You'll find news and current affairs, drama, comedy, and entertainment programs.

BBC Two, factual programs are at the heart of BBC Two, including arts, history, science, and human interest documentaries. I like that. So that's probably going to be like David Attenborough and all that sort of stuff. BBC Three is never afraid to try new things, broadcasting, comedy, entertainment, and docs. BBC Four provides an ambitious range of innovative, high-quality programming that is intellectually and culturally enriching, taking an expert and in-depth approach to a wide range of subjects.

Now, very, very interesting. You've also got CBBC. It's for kids. CBeebies. That's for, that's what is sounding like cocomelon. BBC News and then BBC Parliament. Did I tell y'all about when I went to Parliament? That shit's crazy. We went to the House of Lords and the House of Cummins. Shit is nuts. And it gets hot in there. I wonder if they're cranking that AC in the summertime.

Yeah, Parliament was nuts, dude. Me and Stanley were walking around like, what the hell's going on in here? What the hell? What the hell-y? What the hell-y, auntie? What the hell-y, House of Commons? Okay, the network radio BBC One is, we broadcast a distinctive mix of new music and entertainment for 15 to 29 year olds, plus news documentaries and advice for young adults. Interesting. So they're targeting the younger demographic. Got it.

BBC Radio One Extra is a digital station that plays contemporary hip-hop and R&B with a strong emphasis on new and live music. The digital station blends the best black music with entertainment, documentaries, and news for 15 to 24-year-olds. Cool.

BBC Radio 2, 13 million of you listen to us broadcast a distinctive mix of music and speech programs covering a mix of live pop and rock concerts, comedy, documentaries, religious output, crazy, as well as running social action campaigns. BBC Radio 3 is arts and cultural broadcasting. Damn, there's so many. I guess that kind of answered my question. I don't know where this show lives because I watched it on YouTube because it's with a...

MGM Plus subscription? I'm so deep in the throes of this Jack O'Connell shit, man. I was like, whatever. $4.99? Fuck it. Sure. $4.99? I'd have paid $19.99. I don't give a fuck. I'm watching this show one way or another. I'm gonna get a damn VPN. Watch this shit on BBC itself. That's how I used to watch Love Island. Before it would come out in the US, I'd watch it on a VPN. Don't tell anyone. Don't tell anyone. And if I did, no, I did not. Okay, so...

That's SAS Rogue Heroes. Been loving that. I have been loving that. I finished it. However, here's one note that I'll give if you're taking notes. For me to watch a war show, I think it has to toe that line of, is this majority respectful and is the storytelling nature of it dominating any glorification that could be happening?

Are you with me? If a war show or war movie too heavily glorifies the art of war or romanticizes this idea, it's such a, only men, only men could create war. War is such a distinctly male thing. Women would never invent war. Anyway.

I think that if there was one note that I had with this show is that at times it felt like it was glorifying it a little bit. You know, these crazy sequences of shit blowing up or them doing this, whatever. Then ACDC starts to play in the background. It's like, okay, guys, sure.

Sure, I guess. And there are things, I mean, you really root for these characters, these small wins that they get because they're just little fish in a big pond of soldiers, you know? And when they get a win or when they're recognized or when they get promoted or when they all this, it's like, you really feel it when there's loss, you really feel it. So that's my one concession that I'll give, I guess, is that when it started to feel like, okay, this is glorifying, it was,

this very delicate balance of such horrible shit has happened to not only these individuals, but to the allied forces as a whole and the civilians as a whole, right? Like that's what we're talking about here is like, there's nothing to glorify because war in everything that it encompasses is horrific. It is horrific and avoidable. But within this microcosm of

you know, the daily life of an allied forces soldier in 1944, like you take it hour by hour, you take it day by day. And those are, you know, in the context of this storytelling, I understand some of the choices made creatively, even though large scale, it's like, all right, guys, why are we really glorifying this? I digress.

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saw Good Night and Good Luck, George Clooney's Broadway debut. As I've spoken about, as most of you know, my family and my best friend know more than anything that

There were a certain collection of movies when I was in high school that really shaped who and what I am today. Why I behave the way I do, why I speak the way I do, why my sense of humor is the way that it is. First and foremost, my father contributes to that. If nothing else, I am Jeffrey Jr. My dad's name is Jeffrey. Second of all, the Rolodex of movies are as follows. Ocean's Eleven, Born Identity, Sherlock Holmes, Robert Downey Jr. version, Pirates of the Caribbean,

movies like Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Star Wars. A lot of these movies involve George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Johnny Depp. For some reason, me as a high schooler, I was like,

That is who I am. I think I might be George Clooney. It's just this wicked wit that is, they're pranksters, but at the core of it, very, very smart. George Clooney, to me, has always been sort of the pinnacle of that. It's not necessarily...

the movies he's been in. I mean, it is the movies he's been in and the TV shows, but I don't think that's what makes him the star that he is. I think it's just his being, his aura. It's his aura that makes him the star that he is. And so when I saw he was doing Good Night and Good Luck, which I love that movie, Edward Murrow, I mean, I've talked about it before on here, like McCarthyism and

the whole fear mongering of that era and how it relates to today and whatever. I think I've spoken about it in some of my art history videos too. That's always intrigued me, that period post-war, right? We're talking mid fifties. We're not even 10 years out from World War II. And what type of society is left? There's a vacuum.

right? There is a vacuum and there's a lot of fear. There's a lot of relief. There's a lot of complicated, complex emotions swirling in the American public, specifically the American public is what I'm limiting this to. Good night and good luck. For those who have not seen the movie, if you are, you know, you should definitely go watch it. Like, pause, let's go watch it, come back. But for those who have no plans to watch it, I'll give you a short little summary.

Good night and good luck was the famous sign-off of Edward Murrow, who was a reporter, newscaster in the 50s for CBS. He became very famous for his wartime reports from London, I think with the BBC, for World War II. You know, how the Allied forces were progressing.

Updates on the Axis powers. This was an international broadcast. And so he kind of rose to acclaim because of people's familiarity with him and almost trust in him during such an uncertain time. Edward Murrow became...

a figure that a lot of people looked to for integrity within the media. And that's what the movie centers on. It's this sort of three-act structure of Edward Murrow's, what comes to be a personal beef with Senator McCarthy, because McCarthy's whole thing was rooting out the communists, right? Your neighbor might be a communist. You might be a communist. Your wife, this, that, the other. It was to turn us against each other and

in a time where we should have been unified and it's a power play and it's to propel his name forward and it's to create unrest and to create fear so that one of the only people who can alleviate that fear is him or his party, fucking whatever. So Edward Murrow on CBS makes this bold choice to call out McCarthy and what he's doing and how it's just not right.

And so it starts with one case that turns into him kind of, you know, just pointing the finger at McCarthy saying this isn't right. And this situation is not right. And the minute that the media starts cowering to the powers that be in fear of losing their job and fear of X, Y, Z, that's when we have a problem. And I actually wrote down a quote from the play that I was just like, damn. And of course, I,

I'll continue explaining the plot and the storyline, but the reason that bringing a script or a story like Good Night and Good Luck to Broadway in a time like this, like in 2025, it is so timely and it is so correct. And it is so just on the nose of what Edward Murrow represented, which is fearlessness in the face of a fear mongerer.

It's just an energy that needs to be just handed out to everyone that's willing to listen. And I literally, I left this play being like, God, change is now, you know what I mean? Like just inspired. Here's one of the quotes that I wrote down.

We have a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. TV in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us. Have I not spoken about that ad nauseum on this podcast?!

about how TikTok is a necessary evil. It feels like, like it's a way that we connect with each other and we have information and we, it is truly democratic. And this whole TikTok ban and all this of just like brain rot and doom scrolling. And it's no longer this tool, arguably if it ever was to just connect on a human level with people, it's now turned into this tool to either numb yourself or

or to just inundate yourself with things that do not help. Distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us.

The line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one, which Senator McCarthy has overstepped repeatedly. Dissent does not mean disloyalty. Accusation does not equal proof. Are you out of your fucking mind? By the way, Good Night and Good Luck, the play, is just the movie script. It's just the movie script adapted for the theater.

So if you can't make it to Broadway, which the barrier to entry on Broadway or any live art right now is just don't even get me started. I think I ranted about it when I was talking about ballet, how that is such a crime. Don't even I'll get pissed off. Don't get me started on it.

I was lucky enough to be able to afford tickets to go see this fucking show. And it was amazing. But luckily, if you cannot go see it, it is the exact script of the movie. But this time, instead of playing, I think his name is Fred Friendly, George Clooney doesn't play him. He plays Edward Murrow in the play. So...

It's the same three-act structure, and by that I mean Murrow calling out McCarthy, McCarthy's response, which in true Trump fashion doesn't really address any of the things that Murrow says. He goes straight for his character. Well, did you know he was a part of this workers' union? Did you know that he himself is a communist? Yes, it's true. He's been a communist since the 30s, but you never hear about that. You never talk about that.

Okay, so he does his whole thing, which, of course, so much of the draw and the pull of a character like McCarthy is how eloquent he is. How his words are so slippery and they're so smooth that you just, I mean, it's easy to believe him, right? Unless you apply a critical thinking treatment on the situation where it's like, well, hold on.

He didn't address any, any of the things that Murrow brought up. So is that not like a, why didn't you? Is it because he's right? Is it because you don't know what you're talking about? Is it because you know you'll lose? So that's act two. Act three is Murrow's response again, where he eats the fuck down. He eats him up.

And the whole movie slash play is sandwiched in between at the very beginning and the very end is the beginning and end of an acceptance speech that Murrow is giving at this, I guess it's like TV presenters and American media, whatever. And he's accepting an award for being fearless, so to speak. And I believe it's in 1958. And that's when he gives this incredible monologue, this incredible speech.

well-written speech talking about the dangers of censorship and the dangers of if media is no longer used as a tool to serve the people, you know, if it's used as a tool to exploit, to distract, to numb, to insulate, you know, like then we are, it no longer becomes this incredible tool. It's just wires in a box. And what a shame.

It is such a well-done story and it honors someone who was so incredibly important to the history of media and news reporting. And I think he's just incredible. There's been a string of...

I guess just super famous actors that I personally love that have been on Broadway. I saw, it started with RDJ. I saw RDJ and McNeil on Broadway. I saw Paul Meskel in London in Streetcar Named Desire, George Clooney in Good Night and Good Luck, which is so, I cannot believe. I saw him in person. I saw it with Stanley, of course. And he walks out on stage and I'm slapping his leg. I'm like, he's like, I know, I know. He's right there. I'm

right there. Because he's right there. We were second row. He's right there, bro. Please. Danny Ocean. Danny Ocean was freaking the hell out. I got merch. I got a mug and I got a magnet. If there's a merch stand, you're going to have to pry me away by my cold, dead hands. I love a merch stand. A merch stand hates to see me coming.

Okay, all roads lead back to Jack O'Connell. Let's go back to Jack O'Connell. I watched Lady Chatterley's Lover. What the actual fuck is wrong with you guys? Why would you know it? Knowing how intense my thing is for Jack? Lady Chatterley's Lover? A movie centered around female pleasure?

lead star lead starring man Jack O'Connell you bitches hate me y'all hate me I almost watched that on a plane I almost watched it on a plane and I think I was talking about it on something on on TikTok stories or is it by the way my new favorite thing is to take an edible and post my favorite TikToks on TikTok stories okay so go check that out not on the on lost my marbles again do that one

And I'll do it just, I don't know what you need to do, but I really enjoyed that the other day. And I wish I could read comments on TikTok stories because I was like, hey guys, starting segment one of this new series I'm calling TikToks that I laughed at while I was on the edible. Enjoy. And then I posted like six TikToks back to back. I don't know if any of them were funny, but they had made me giggle. So I reposted him. So that's something I'm doing.

Next time I'm going to do TikToks that made me horny and I'm going to post those on my TikTok stories. And then if you... And you guys are unfollowing me. Why? Okay, well, I told you I was going to do it. Why are you unfollowing me? No. 32 Jack O'Connell edits in a row. But it was literally... But did you watch it? Did you watch it? That's what I'm saying. Anyway. Okay, Lady Charlie's Lover. Can I say something? Can I speak freely? Great movie. Enjoyed it probably way more than I should have. Great movie. And...

I love something that is a period piece like that. That is so like, yeah, break the social norms. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Get yours, queen. Get yours. And he better give it to her. Yup. Yup. Yup. Wow. I think that's why Bridgerton is so fucking teased because it's like, yes, do it. Do it. Just do it.

I love that. Also, Emma Corrin, slay. I had no idea that she played Lady Di in The Crown. The Crane. That was my best Belfast. Crane. Card. The tallest tar. Thoughts on that? The Irish accent has not gotten better. I'm trying my damnedest. It's hard. It's hard. It's hard.

All right. So I watched Lady Chantelise Lover alone in my hotel room. Amen. Hallelujah. And then I watched Godless. Okay. Now he doesn't fucking talk for the first two episodes. I'm pissed off, but I do like to see him in sort of Western gear. I like that. I like that a lot. He doesn't talk for the first two episodes. And Jeff, Jeff Daniels is in this show and I like him. Okay. That's, that's my guy.

And Dumb and Dumber, one of my favorite movies ever. And he's scary as fuck in this show. He's so scary. Also, it's a limited series. And I'm wondering, like, what's the gag? What's the rug pull? Because right now it just feels like a Western. And I don't really love Westerns. I find them to be repetitive and unnerving.

overly violent with no payoff. Like if you're going to be that violent in a context like Game of Thrones, okay, yeah, I'm there. I'm with you, right? Because I'm like, oh, it's war. It's violence. It's dragons. It's for the throne. It's this and that. Just Westerns just killing each other because you...

accidentally bumped elbows with my wife and now we're gonna pistol draw out in the street and kill civilians and each other. Stupid as fuck. Again, only men, only men could create a society like that. Anyway, selfish bastards. I'm not loving the, maybe I just don't like Westerns. Jack O'Connell, I'm gonna keep watching because I love him. I'm gonna keep watching.

But it is not my favorite piece that I have seen from him. I would say, honestly, what I enjoyed the most, SAS Rogue Heroes. I love that TV show. I watched another Jack O'Connor movie called Startup in which he is a 19-year-old jailbird. And there's a lot of commentary to be had about this role, right? Let me go ahead and get comfortable.

This movie is about a complicated dynamic between a father and a son, a father who has been in jail for a long time. And, you know, the inevitable damaging tragic effects that that has on your familial relations. In his dad's prison cell, he has a little drawing that this 19 year old shithead that Jack O'Connell plays.

a little drawing that he made that says, I love my daddy. And it's like stick figures and it's whatever. And now, you know, that's this young, sweet, innocent boy who did not know that his father was this convict. Now, 19 years old, replicating the cycle, repeating the pattern and look where it landed him. At least he's with his dad now. And now there's this complicated dynamic within the prison of his dad's trying to like protect him.

Hey, not the environment, right? Because that makes you look in this, again, men! In this horrific social construct that only men could create. If your dad protects you, it makes you look like a pussy. It makes you look weak, right? What the fuck ever. And so he's acting out

Jack's character goes into this therapy group session, which is really beneficial, really helpful. Reminded me a little bit of Sing Sing, but Sing Sing obviously is so much more. I just, wow. Sing Sing was a movie that changed me truly, like changed how I thought about things. It tried to have an element of that.

tender nature that a supervisor or a guidance counselor, quote unquote, tries to foster with these inmates of it's a safe space to be soft and to experience emotions and process those emotions with, quite honestly, the best people in the world to understand and to sympathize. And they try to do that, but

Ultimately, it's not successful and the ending is kind of sad. It's just a commentary on that culture of, I guess, how prison is cyclical and how it preys on youth like Jack's character and families like Jack's character's family and intergenerational trauma. I would say that's the top line of the movie. He's sexy and it goes, oh, hello!

Hello! And he's a little shithead in this movie. I watched Startup. What the fuck else did I watch? I've watched so many Jack O'Connell movies. Next I'm gonna do... Oh, he's in this movie that Angelina Jolie directed called Unbroken. Oh, girl. I can't watch it. I can't watch it. It's another war movie, but it's like a prisoner of war movie. I can't. I saw a clip of it and I was like, yeah, I...

I don't know if I'm going to sit through that. Because it's hard to watch. It's hard to watch. And maybe one day I'll get around to it. I just, I don't know. It's tough. So.

Right now, I'm good with Lady Chatterley's Lover. I'll just keep rewatching that one. Thank you so much. And off to reap the corn thing where I was born. This episode is sponsored by Hungry Root. I'm always running around like a chicken with its head cut off. And the last thing I want to do when I get home is go grocery shopping. That's why I use Hungry Root. Hungry

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because obviously love the TV show love House of the Dragon and so I'm reading it and right now it's like oh my god it's so nice to be back in this universe like in the George R.R. Martin verse and it's got me thinking because god damn I love Tyrion Lannister shit he's the best character and so I want to take this and I hope I get Tyrion and if I get some fuck-ass knight I'm gonna be mad we'll take the BuzzFeed one and then we're gonna do a different one okay

Pick a movie. The Omen, Cruel Intentions, War Horse, King's Speech, Hunger Games, How to Train Your Dragon, Aladdin, Braveheart, The Iron Giant. Well, obviously we're picking Aladdin. Next. Which statement most applies to you?

You believe in the one. You don't mind paying for love. You tend to only want people you can't have. You find it really hard to talk to the opposite sex. Boys slash girls are stupid. First of all, boys, girls is crazy. You're too busy to think about settling down. You like people who remind you of your parents. You're the strong, silent type. You like to be worshipped. I believe in the one. Call me a hopeless romantic. Pick a Simpsons character. Done, Lisa.

Pick a song. Crazy horses don't speak. I know it's just fun to- I just can't wait to be king. See, now this is why I don't fuck with Buzzfeed quizzes. You're being too literal. I'm actually- I'm not gonna finish this one. You're pissing me off. Actually, I'm gonna finish it. Killing Me Softly. He ain't heavy. He's talk dirty to me. I'm not a girl yet, not a woman. We'll do Killing Me Softly by the Fugees. Pick an emoji. See, what the fuck quiz is this? This is not- George R.R. Martin would not like this quiz.

I'm going to pick the turd. Pick a sport. Weightlifting, Quidditch, shot put, horse racing, fencing, archery, rugby. To put things in context here, what's a sport with a skill that you would probably need? I'm going to, it's either horse racing or archery. I'm going to go archery.

Pick a Mr. Min character. Little Miss Trouble, Mr. Snow. Oh, I do love Mr. Snow. Mr. Mean, Mr. Small, Little Miss Magic, Mr. Strong, Mr. Quiet, Little Miss Fickle, Mr. Perfect. We'll do Mr. Snow. Why not? See, and they gave me Jon Snow. That's stupid as fuck. That's stupid as shit. That's stupid. God, I'm mad. I'm not Jon Snow, dude. I love him to death. We're going to do mygotcharacter.com.

Okay, here we go. You are a black brother of the Night's Watch out north of the wall in a ranging party. Wilding raiders ambush your group. Only you and one of your black brothers survive. Your supplies were lost during the attack and you have nothing left to eat. The wall is days away. Shivering and starving, you make your- This is what I'm talking about, for reals.

This is what I'm talking about. One, give him a proper send-off by burning the body. It's dangerous, but his watch, after all, is ended.

Two, eat your companion. No. Three, leave the body where it is. You don't want to risk lighting a fire. Four, carry his body back to Castle Black. Men of the Night's Watch never leave their companions behind. Oh, God. Am I a coward? I'm going to leave the body where it is. Because I... I'm going to leave the body where it is. I'm a coward. Next. Also, I'm not a knight of the Night's Watch. I didn't sign up for that, okay? Fuck your traditions. Fuck your whatever. If I light this fire, I could be killed.

Is that horrible? Moving on. You are a hedge knight traveling along the king's road by foot. You happen upon an unconscious man lying- Why is everybody dead on the road?! Seeing his bloodied appearance and lack of clothing, you quickly determine that he was assaulted by bandits. You see no one else on the road except you and this unfortunate stranger. The nearest town that can help this man is still miles away. What will you do? Yo.

Draw your sword and kill the man. He stands little chance of surviving and you reason it an act of mercy. Two, hunt down the men responsible. The wounds are fresh and the bandits are likely nearby waiting for another victim. No. Leave the man but rush to the next town to alert the local small folk. That's what I'm doing.

Four, carry the man to the nearest inn. He may be able to receive some medical attention there. Okay, it's between three and four. Carry the man. Am I a man in this scenario? Because if I'm a man, sure, I'll help this other dude. But if I'm a woman, I'm not this fucko. No, because what if he wakes up and tries to kill me? Also, why did they beat him up? Maybe he was doing something. I'm doing three. Leave the man, but I am going to tell people about it. Go help bro.

You are the Lady of Castamere, enjoying a feast with your lord and his bannermen. Your older brother, a constant source of vexation, is offended that he wasn't invited. He crashes the event and becomes drunk and quarrelsome, even going so far as to draw his blade and threatening to kill you. He's quickly apprehended. Your lord is furious and decides to punish your brother by executing him? How do you react? Do nothing and watch as your brother is summarily executed. This is like a fucking trolley problem!

He has always been a problem and you'll be better off without him. That's not true. Intervene, begging for a change of punishment to exile, period. Your brother won't be causing any more problems for you. Intervene, suggesting a trial the following week. Calmer tempers will prevail and he will receive a lighter punishment. Your brother will continue to be a thorn in your side. Intervene, begging forgiveness. No, intervene, begging for... You're getting the fuck out of here, okay? I saved your life. I don't want to hear from you ever again. Next.

You are a lord on the coast of the Westerlands, charged with the protection of your people and defense of your lands. The recent war of your liege, lord, has depleted your levies, and your only remaining soldiers are garrisoned in your castle. Seeing your weakness, ironborn raiders invade and are pillaging your lands. Your people flee to you for safety. Do you arm all your available men and take the fight to these ironborn scum? Despite your weakness, this is your best chance to repel the invaders, but you risk it all if you lose.

Two, take all the refugees that you can inside your castle and wait until the raiders leave. No, because they'll stake you out. Your farms and the wealth of your lands will be destroyed. Ask your liege to provide you with assistance. It will take some time for help to arrive and your people and lands will suffer in the meantime. Four, offer no assistance, allowing the ironborn to gain in confidence. When they overextend themselves, strike powerfully with your remaining forces. It's bold.

But I'm going to arm all my men and take the fight to the Ironborn. It's either that or it's the fourth.

Right? Because you either meet them where they are and you say, you're not invading here. And then you clash or you let them wreak some havoc. So you have to, it's one of those things where you're rationing in your mind, like is little injury worth a big victory? Or do you just give it all you got from the jump and then see what happens? It's tough. And I'm not a military strategist. Again, I'm Tyrion Lannister, I think. Offer no assistance. No, I'm going to arm all my men and we're going to do it.

Okay, I'm going to do the rest of these kind of quickly so we can wrap up. A few moments later. I'm back.

You are a sworn brother of the Kingsguard, stationed in King's Landing during a violent rebellion. The enemy has breached the gates and is sacking the city. In the midst of the chaos, the king summons the Grand Master of the Alchemist's Guild. You overhear that he has planted caches of wildfire all over the city and plans to ignite it. It will leave the city in ruins and claim countless lives. What will you do? Number one, protect the king.

I'm a sworn brother of the king's guard, after all. It's not your place to interfere with the king's battle plans. Two, try to dissuade the king from this course of action. Three, kill both the grandmaster and the king to make sure this plan is not implemented. Four, desert the king and abandon king's landing. I wish there was a fifth option, which is tell somebody else. Desert the king, protect the king, dissuade the king. If I try to dissuade the king, I'm getting my head chopped off.

Kill both the Grandmaster and the King to make sure the plan is not implemented. Another trolley problem. Do you kill two to save all? Or do you kill none and everyone dies? Because this is fantasy, I'm saying I'm going to kill both the Grandmaster and the King. But in reality, I'd probably protect the King. It's not my place to interfere. Desert the King. Yeah. Okay, here's my report. If this is a paywall, I'm going to freak out. I'm Robb Stark? What? No!

I'm king of the north. Strong, just, honorable. Yeah, look where that fucking got him! Your primary character is Robb Stark. You have a keen sense of honor and justice. You are fair and compassionate and place a high priority on keeping your family safe.

You show determination in the tasks you take on and often surprise others in the manner in which you achieve your goals. Generally, others underestimate your intelligence, and this provides you with the opportunities to surprise those around you. Your weakness is in diplomacy and political skills, as you're a straight talker who likes to speak truthfully and directly. They read me, bitch. It's true. And why is that a weakness?

Unfortunately, that's a weakness because you have to play the political game. And I am not one for the political game. I'm not one for sneaking and treachery and doing this. I'm a very direct communicator. And if that makes me Robb Stark, so fucking be it. Holy shit. Look, it does a little breakdown. Me and Robb Stark are so similar. I'm sane. I'm generous. I'm compassionate. I'm intelligent. Our honesty is kind of lacking.

And my honor is lacking. Shit. My loyalty is top. My sanity is top. Generosity top. Compassion top. Intelligence top. Honesty, cautiousness, and seriousness are top. My secondary character is Robert. Fuck! Jovial, charismatic, gluttonous. God damn it! The usurper.

Your secondary character is Robert Baratheon. You're brave, generous, compassionate, honorable, loyal, honest, and traditional. A veritable laundry list of good qualities for those seeking power. However, you lack in leadership and intelligence? Sometimes unable to get others to follow you, and sometimes falling victim to traps that others have set for you. Fuck! However, you're well-like as you... You're well-like as you are charming and outgoing.

T. What the hell? My tertiary character is Maester Aemon. What?

it never Tyrion, Dany, and like Jorah Mormont? It's never Brienne of Tarth with a little bit of Tyrion with a little bit of Jon Snow. It's not that. I got fucking Master Aemon, his old ally.

Your tertiary character is Maester Aemon, Aemon Targaryen, wise, humble, capable. You are both wise and humble. You don't seek the limelight, preferring to use your gifts as an advisor and confidant to the powerful. Interesting that they made me Maester Aemon and not fucking Tyrion. You have a strong sense of duty, but of duty to the greater good rather than to those whom you are close to personally, and period on that.

You prefer to serve people rather than leading them. You are gentle and kind in all of your dealings with others. You are driven from within and do not seek the approval of others. Damn. I'm going to take this again and go a little crazy on it. I'm going to take this again and kind of be more honest. All right, guys.

I think that'll do it for me this episode. What did we cover? World War II. A little bit more of World War II. McCarthyism. Game of Thrones. Jack O'Connell. Really nothing else to talk about. Oh, me on the Iron Throne here. All right. I'll see you guys next week. Love you. Bye.

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