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Brilliant Observations is a society podcast hosted by Melissa Brilliant, Amy Fugazi. It has 452 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.

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.

society ·en ·452 episodes

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1

Get Drunk for Free

2

Latrelle and the Double-Double

3

Sauna Drama!

4

Payback Meets Manic Toddler Energy

5

Police on the Front Porch

6

Disney after Dark

7

Mold Mouth

8

Missy's Talking To Herself

9

Love Bomb Butter Porn

10

Often, Sometimes, Rarely, Never

11

Syphilis!

12

Millenials Behaving Badly

13

Heated Rivalry Mental Overload

14

It Tastes Too Much Like It's Not Supposed To Smell

15

Stranger Things than Purposeful Culinary Insults

16

Delusional Optimism and Cheezits

17

Gifts, Gaffs and Belly Laughs

18

Missy Really Did It This Time

19

The Son Saves a Life

20

Nipple-icious

21

Gobble Gobble Gratitude

22

Of Chairs and Ukuleles

23

Celebrating Children (and Questioning Taco Bell)

24

AirB&Behaving Badly

25

Secrets of a Mob Wife

26

She Doth Protest Too Little

27

Oh Those Merry Marrying Men!

28

Robot Fight Club

29

Dental Dammit

30

He Likes To Grab All the Things

31

Gaycation in Ibiza

32

Tennis, Horrible Mothers and Beach Magic

33

All Aboard the Trans Vaginal Express

34

Choking Up on the Bald Man

35

Did I Drunk You?

36

Dildos and Edibles

37

I Think I'm a Lesbian

38

Doggy Drama and Childhood Trauma

39

My This Is Great

40

Vibe Check: Summer Bubble Goes to Mexico

41

Fork You, Cheese Ball

42

Two Dumps Too Far

43

Dear Listener Strikes Back

44

Hip Twist Speed Walk Race Off

45

Poetry, Teeth and Cheerful Theft

46

Sleepy Weed

47

Boundary Police and the Philadelphia Sidecar

48

Karma at the Beach

49

Dry Hump Roundup

50

Egg Salad Tacos and Other Hate Crimes

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