Brilliant Observations
Real friends. Real funny. We swear. Like, a lot. Join us for unscripted, uncensored, and definitely unsuitable-for-work comedy conversation about relationships, marriage, friendship, sex, hope, parenting and prospering at midlife. It's like grabbing a weekly cocktail with your favorite girlfriends for a candid look at life that lifts you up as it pulls you in. From religion to porn to money, fears, our bodies, our brains, secrets, failures, food, family and finding your path, almost nothing is off-limits (except politics — gross). Longtime friends Melissa Brilliant and Amy Fugazi overshare about everything with the love and trust that only comes from a lifetime of being there for each other. So cut through the fake friends who try to glamourize all the BS masquerading as midlife. We're the bawdy, brutally honest best friends you never knew you had. And we always pick up the check. Love us? Tell your friends. Hate us? Tell your therapist.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 63 minutes
- Episodes
- 419
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Supplement Nation
Only hear one side of the audio? Delete the download and retry. Instructions follow. Our two favorite Pauses are back (Peri and Meno), Dear Listener, and Amy and Melissa are •here• for it. It's heat…
Hindi Schmidts the Bed
You’re a mean one, Rupert Grint. Mallory has a surprise Harry Potter sighting — or does she? — while shopping for back to school supplies at her local Target.
Melissa wanders down Pet Peeve Lane wit…
Vabbing. You Heard Me.
Oh, dear. Yes, vabbing means what you think it means. Listen and learn, perverts.
Stupid Todd and the KKK
Oh, Todd. You heard it here first, gang: there are LIT terally card carrying members of the KKK. And yes, they’re recruiting. Stupid Todd makes an appearance on the golf court with a relationship dra…
Jersey Jews and Old Coots
Jersey Jews and Old Coots
Turns out I’m a pecker. Things are getting a little passive aggressive at the Target checkout… but then again, who am I to tell you what kid of day to have? Missy buys all t…
You Talking To Me?
Geico done lost its mind. What do you do when one person in the conversation suddenly becomes revolted by the conversation? Missy has a strategy that just might poke the bear. Amy offers a different …
Oops! All Politics
Serruptitious OnlyFans accounts? Orthodontists Gone Wild? You'd think we'd have enough to talk about without slipping into a political sandtrap. Try as we might, we couldn't resist a little light ban…
Thoughts Become Things
It’s the Metaphysical Manifestation meets PBJ recipes episode, gang, or as Melissa likes to say, “I OWN No.” Missy deals with a sudden and alarming loss of vision. Amy riffs on the classic peanut bet…
Pee Beach
The Multiverse makes an appearance at the Jersey shore, prompting us to ponder, who is real — Regular Melissa or Beach Melissa?
Amy suffers the perils of peeing while visiting the Country Club pool.…
Over Yessed
What happens when you agree to everything? You guessed it. A whole lotta nuthin.
Amy loses her voice screaming her support, praise and constructive opinions at various public facing events. Stuart fl…
Doom Piles
"Your inaction is making my daily life uncomfortable" and other divorce prompts.
Join us as we tackle life with adult ADHD, ulimited funds and the complete autonomy.
As always, Fuck Putin.
Glory to…
Love Is Like Diarrhea
Happy Mother’s Day, kids! Missy flies down to Floriduh to experience the warmth of her familial bonds first hand (and earns a Triple Word Score from her kids in the process). Stuart tries, again, and…
Upping the Stakes, Prom Edition
Whassup, Tennessee? Nice laws you got there. We endorse!
Brian drops the goods on Amy’s complete lack of accountability. Isn’t he cute? Strangers routinely misgender Butters. And Missy celebrates Ma…
Hamilton!
Five thousand dollar blow job anyone? It’s the Hamilton episode, gang, complete with tears in the theatre, inappropriate husband car talk, cotton mouth dental surgery, and an impromptu self actualiza…
And Now... We Fight
Amy returns from her ridiculously luxurious trip to Italy, complete with a Five Star Fist Fight™, accidental opiod exposure and a new interpretation of her already iconic last name.
Meanwhile, back …
Ciao, Anxiety!
Come again, my Lord? It’s the Bridgerton Heavy Sighs episode, gang, replete with steamy references to that lake scene, that garden scene, that art studio scene, and that bedroom bedroom bedroom bedro…
The Slap Meets The Toe
The slap heard round the world still lingers, friends, only this time we’re doing the slapping. Missy disgusts us all with tales of her swole toe. Amy plots a new plan for the Brilliant Family Passov…