Brilliant Observations

The Lost Episode! In our original, we asked: do Millennials ruin everything? To which the world answered, kinda. Featuring your favorite replay of Cowboy Twitter. Reposting this episode that was briefly tainted by, then sanitized safe from Covid-19. If you missed it, enjoy. If you've heard it, enjoy it again. Or maybe share it with someone you love. Would it kill you to talk to another person? I m...

Listen up, Quitters! Missy digs deep with a sudden realization about giving up on things, habits, emotions, and yes, people that just might turn that L into a great big WIN. All that, plus mocking the physically fit. Why, what are you doing with your stay at home order? Skip the judgment and pass the donuts. It's Brilliant Observations. 

What day is this? Oh, RIGHT. It's time to feel every single emotion simultaneously day. Join us as we process all the madness that is life in the slow, sad, solo lane — complete with noisy visits from suddenly emboldened wild animals. Join the conversation, connect with us online (on Facebook, our private group is called BrillObsPod Groupies #BrillObsPodGroupies) and share your love for the Brilli...

With so much extra content, I got ahead of myself... and then fell behind. Thankfully, a few blessed fans reminded us both to look at a friggin calendar. Apologies, friends. Call it a covid-fart. 

As if we didn't have enough to deal with, good ole Kenny Rogers up and cashed in his chips. (He always said you gotta know when to fold 'em.) Hear the shocking degree of investment Melissa has in the Gambler, while Interrupting Amy bumbles and stumbles her way through a handful of Kenny Rogers favorites. Sort of.  Beyond that sad bit of news, we do our best to keep the topics light, the conversati...

Not gonna lie, kids. This covid thing is making us all a little skitchy. We take a stand on paper displays of affection — public displays of affliction? — throughout our respective neighborhoods and generally talk ourselves into a lockdown stupor. Good thing we round it all out with a trip in the 'Member When machine, courtesy of our boundless post-1970s network TV knowledge.   So hunker down, lis...

Neighbor Rage | Brilliant Observations Podcast 131 Coronavirus Bonus Episode! What's more fun than a bucket of rocks? Throwing them at your bat sh*t neighbor. It's a Social Distancing, Shelter-In-Place BONUS edition of Brilliant Observations, courtesy of the worldwide pandemic known as Melissa's Crazy Neighbor. Join us as we jump head first into an old-fashioned rock fight (only with words). Spoil...

Talk about social distancing... What do you do with a neighbor who throws rocks at your dog BEFORE we even start to quarantine? Gear up for a bumpy fence line, kids, it's going to be a loooong shelter in place. It's the Hatfields and the McCoys, presuming one of those families was Blameless and the other was Effing Crazy. Hear the whole unbelievable tale as Missy describes her Neighbor From Hell. ...

My Hero & Covid-19  |  Brilliant Observation Podcast 129 Novel Coronavirus Quiz: Should You Stay or Should You Go? If you thought the novel coronavirus was confusing, imagine how you'll feel when Missy's Mom unexpectedly pays her a high (and seemingly honest) compliment. We frankly can't wrap our heads around either idea. Listen for the latest as the Mother of All Brilliants lays bare her thoughts...

Potatoes are not suppositories. If that's where we start, you can imagine where the conversation flows on the latest episode of your favorite comedy conversation podcast, Brilliant Observations. In Tales of the Male Tail, Part 2, Missy unpacks the surprise popularity of inserting cold potatoes into one's rectum. Hint: don't. From there, we move on to the sheer stupidity of the Skull Challenge, fol...

What's better than a vagicle? How about a chocolate boob? Good news, dear listener! In this episode of your favorite chat podcast, Melissa and Amy serve up BOTH! It all starts when Amy accidentally drops a poop-shaped chocolate blob betwixt her breasts at a formal event (and puts the FUN in fundraiser). You'd think she would have noticed with all the accidental flapping, courtesy of a complete fai...

Hard N'oitch  |  Brilliant Observation Podcast 126 Penis Beacon, Facebook Flooding and Doggy Nose Juice Wanna take your Facebook page from 82 followers to 1,764 in four days? Use the hashtag #porn in your podcast! Listen with horror as Amy unwittingly sends a #PenisBeacon into the airwaves, and receives cliterally hundreds of international masturbation videos in return. (And thus our new favorite...

Sh*tting Rainbows  |  Brilliant Observations Podcast 125 Money, Milkshakes, Beauty Pageants and Porn It's the humiliation episode, friends! Listen with judgy fascination as Missy shares tales of friends who Sh*t Rainbows, enjoy perfectly sparkly little lives and somehow still don't find what they're looking for. Then, things take a turn after a tough week as Amy's train falls off the rails (again)...

Like fruit… a lot? We give #FoodPorn a whole new meaning in our latest Brilliant Observations comedy chat cast featuring cohosts and NSFW friends Melissa Brilliant and Amy Fugazi. We're talking bananas, banana peels, grapefruit holes, cannoli… and anything else you can think to use for that special sexy time (or lunch time, evidently). Follow that up with some mouthwatering ASMR courtesy of an ins...

New driver, who dis? No really, who dis, said the woman renewing her license who happens to be LEGALLY BLIND. Host Melissa Brilliant spins a horrifying tale of DMV-induced woe as she witnesses a mistake-in-the-making, while Amy Fugazi recaps a dog snoring, dog farting, dog keg pulling weekend away with her newest besties.   It's friendship meets a mountain of madness, with a few laughs thrown in f...

Ever wonder what Gwyneth Paltrow's privates smell like? I sure didn't. Unfortunately for us both, the Goop Guru has answered all our unasked, self-involved questions once again with a whole new product designed to titillate and enrage. (She really is a lovely woman.) Follow that up with a rousing game of Guess Whose Dik Pick Is Coming To Dinner, and you've got a freewheeling episode chock full of...

It's a Bonus Boogies Bonanza as Amy unwittingly discovers the joys of grooming the facial hair of a neighboring labradoodle. Follow that with some mouthwatering birthday party recipes and a drunken texting spree, and you've got the makings of a fine Friday night. It couldn't get any better if it was hand-delivered to your bedside in a thin-walled glass. Join the conversation and experience the cha...

Melissa and Amy dive deep into holidays past… and delight as Stuart throws himself out of the frying pan and lands nut-first into the firey hot, soup-making, song-singing blender. (To be fair, the nut butter was extraordinarily smooth.) Listen in as your favorite chat cast covers holiday gifts and visits, sickness and health, selling Yeezy's, feeling sleazy, saving versus spending versus smoking v...

What are you looking at, listener? Melissa and Amy ask and answer one of the world's most infamous questions with a veritable smörgåsbord of viewing options. Browse their top picks for streaming, binging, videoing and voh-dee-oh-doh-ing your way through the last vestiges of 2019. Happy watching, perverts! Have an iPhone and want to subscribe? Just say this: "Hey, Siri, subscribe to Brilliant Obser...

Merriest of Christmas Memories from Brilliant Observations! On today's chat cast, we hear the tale of a REAL LIFE CLARK GRISWALD, complete with a nonsensically disastrous, everything-but-the-live-squirrel Christmas tree. Then, Missy recalls how Old Man Stuart resets the ticker on our "Days Since He Made A Mistake" wall counter. It's an episode of holiday disasters you won't want to miss, especiall...

Happy Holidays from Brilliant Observations! On today's chat cast, co-hosts Melissa and Amy heat things up with a delicious exploration of the sweetest treats this side of 1942. Save the diet for next week and binge on family favorites from a bygone era...who knows. If you write-in with feedback, we might even send you some. Join us as we extend the holiday season one decadent bite at a time, on th...

Happy Holidays from Brilliant Observations! On today's chat cast, co-hosts Melissa and Amy discuss which of their college friends had (has?) a sexually-transmitted disease. Spoiler alert: it's not who you think. Plus continued hate for gender reveals, catching up with the college application madness, and embracing the future for students of all shapes and sizes. All this and more on the 5th of 8 F...

Happy Holidays from Brilliant Observations! On today's chat cast, co-hosts Melissa and Amy discuss the unintended awkwardness of "have you lost weight?", courtesy of J.K. Rowling. Plus, Missy discovers an alarming misunderstanding of the phrase "Vegan leather." All this and more in our 4th of 8 FREE mini-episodes, all perfect for the holidays. Enjoy the Brilliance, friends. And Happy Hannukah!

Happy Holidays from Melissa & Amy! Today we explain the difference between a Snafu, Shit-show, and Cluster-fuck, plus a few other holiday chuckles for good measure. You're welcome. This is the 3rd of 8 mini-holiday episodes. Have a listen now or enjoy any time of year.