*SPONSOR* SHEATH Support the show and get 20% Off and Free Shipping with the code BS at https://www.SheathUnderwear.com *** Brian and Rob are sick as hell this week, but we've got a new episode made with love! Featuring Brian's review of the Diablo 4 beta, Advice Champ answers to mailbag questions, and a voicemail from Tony from New Zealand. Music: Griff Parker, "Wet Envelope" If you'd like your track featured on BS with Brian Simpson, send it to BSwithBrianSimpson@gmail.com with "music track" i...
Mar 30, 2023•58 min•Season 2Ep. 56
*SPONSOR* SHEATH Support the show and get 20% Off and Free Shipping with the code BS at https://www.SheathUnderwear.com *** Topics for this week: - Joe Rogan opens his new "anti-cancel culture comedy club," The Comedy Mothership - SVB, Silvergate, Signature, and Credit Suisse go down - Why there's no homelessness in Saudi Arabia - America is a cowboy with shaky hands Music: Griff Parker, "Fudge Rounds" If you'd like your track featured on BS with Brian Simpson, send it to BSwithBrianSimpson@gmai...
Mar 23, 2023•1 hr 40 min
*SPONSOR* SHEATH Support the show and get 20% Off and Free Shipping with the code BS at https://www.SheathUnderwear.com *** Topics this week: Brian and Rob give their book recs - Murderbot Diaries - AWE - Clinton Bush and CIA Conspiracies: From The Boys on the Tracks to Jeffrey Epstein - Redwall - Edible Economics - Berserk - Jujutsu Kaisen - Lazarus - Old Man’s War - Quantum (Einstein vs. Bohr) - Sabriel - Debt - Her (dir. Spike Jonze) Spooky action at a distance Luka and the evil of Replika AI...
Mar 16, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 54
*SPONSOR* DISPLATE Support the show and get up to 33% off some sweet new metal art with code BS at https://displate.com/bspodcast?art=63c19f9849fa4 *** This week we talk about the "slap heard 'round the world" from Chris Rock's POV, why good morals don't fit on bumper stickers, and why young men aren't dating (if that's what's REALLY happening). Articles referenced: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-state-of-our-unions/202302/why-are-so-many-young-men-single-and-sexless https://nypos...
Mar 10, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Season 2Ep. 53
In this week's episode, it's apologies all around as Rob apologizes for mangling "Cuyahoga," a fan apologizes for lambasting the show, and Brian apologizes (preemptively) to the robots who plan to kill us all. Thank you again to Griff Parker for this week's music track, "Fudge Rounds"! If you'd like your track featured on BS with Brian Simpson, send it to BSwithBrianSimpson@gmail.com with "music track" in the subject line. And a special thanks to Josh Cabaza and Comedy Frequency. *** We have a V...
Mar 02, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 52
This week we have a quick update on the Norfolk Southern Railway debacle, followed by a longer conversation about Hogwarts Legacy, so-called cancel culture, and what our purchasing habits say about us. Thank you to Griff Parker for this week's music track, "Fudge Rounds" *** We have a VOICEMAIL now! Call 323-451-1980 to leave us a message. We'll listen to them all and play some of the good ones on the show. Follow Brian @BScomedian Find Brian's tour dates at briansimpsoncomedy.com Email the show...
Feb 24, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 51
We have a VOICEMAIL now! Call 323-451-1980 to leave us a message. We'll listen to them all and play some of the good ones on the show. Today's topics: Rihanna did a whole halftime show pregnant Corporate cost-cutting derails Norfolk Southern train in East Palestine Almost every politician is either lying or incompetent Follower =/= Fan Advice on moving to Texas Feeling grief over bad people Big big thanks to Griff Parker for this episode's music track, "Dirty Dishes" *** Follow Brian @BScomedian...
Feb 16, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 50
This week Brian talks about the murder of Tyre Nichols, how the police lied about it until they got caught, and whether there's anything we can do to prevent the same thing from happening all over again. *** Follow Brian @BScomedian Find Brian's tour dates at briansimpsoncomedy.com Email the show at bswithbriansimpson@gmail.com Check out comedyfrequency.com *** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 09, 2023•59 min•Season 2Ep. 49
This week on BS with Brian Simpson: Is Mr. Beast the Anti-Christ?!?! (No, he isn't) Serial killers Why crime happens Diversity hires *** Follow Brian @BScomedian Follow Rob @NerdyPaperGames Find Brian's tour dates at briansimpsoncomedy.com Email the show at bswithbriansimpson@gmail.com Check out comedyfrequency.com *** Support the show and get up to 33% off some sweet new metal art with the code BS at https://displate.com/bspodcast?art=63c19f9849fa4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...
Feb 03, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 48
This week on BS with Brian Simpson: A moving broker nightmare (check out https://www.bluetapeblades.com/ to help a fan out) The Virginia Calculator Is Mr. Beast a sociopath? https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2023/01/08/ai-will-be-used-as-legal-assistant-in-court-for-first-time-ever-in-february The Singularity and Ray Kurzweil https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2023/01/17/boston-mlk-statue-criticism/ *** Follow Brian @BScomedian Follow Rob @NerdyPaperGames Find Brian's tour...
Jan 27, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 47
Comedian Ehsan Ahmad (@EhsanJAhmad) joins Brian in the studio to discuss: Hot Sauce Conspiracy Theories Buccal Fat Removal (https://www.womenshealthmag.com/beauty/a42447081/buccal-fat-removal/) The Tylenol Murders Foreign Comics Is a Redskins-Themed Man Cave Racist? Fan-Casting Admiral Thrawn *** Follow Brian @BScomedian Follow Ehsan @EhsanJAhmad Follow Rob @NerdyPaperGames Find Brian's tour dates at briansimpsoncomedy.com Email the show at bswithbriansimpson@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast...
Jan 20, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 46
This week on BS with Brian Simpson: Arguing on the internet Digg is still around?! Google Plus drops the bag “Maryland Lawmakers Want to Stop Criminal Cops From Getting Their Pensions”: https://www.vice.com/en/article/z349w5/criminal-cops-pension-payments “Orphaned neurological implants”: https://doctorow.medium.com/orphaned-neurological-implants-3f0b7918553f The Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 "TikTok Promoted ‘Deepfake AI Porn’ of Billie Eilish to People's For You Pages": https://www.vice.com/en/...
Jan 13, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 45
This week on BS with Brian Simpson: Talking on set Unreasonable riders Should you tip a racist? Bill Cosby plans return to the stage *** Follow Brian @BScomedian Follow Rob @NerdyPaperGames Find Brian's tour dates at briansimpsoncomedy.com Email the show at bswithbriansimpson@gmail.com For the Best High visit https://www.dietsmoke.com/?utm_source=Fannie&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=BSwithBrianSimpson and use code BS for 20% off. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat...
Jan 06, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 44
This week on BS with Brian Simpson: Hannibal Barca had Rome shook How the Great Depression shaped people’s DNA https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03789-z Are there bidets in the White House? What have you changed your mind about? Equilibrium “The only way I can make a billion is if I make someone a trillion” Solving the housing crisis: “Someone should do something!” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/08/sexual-choking-is-now-so-common-that-many-young-people-dont-think-it-...
Dec 30, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 43
This week on BS with Brian Simpson: 4k vs 8k Standup advice Steel Beans “Google rivals join forces in online maps” https://www.deccanherald.com/business/technology/google-rivals-join-forces-in-online-maps-1172260.html “Google to pay $391.5 million in location tracking settlement with 40 states” https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/14/google-pay-391-5-million-location-tracking-settlement/ Elon has lost Brian How did Alexander the Great die? Badass Genghis Khan quotes *** Follow Brian @BScomedian Follow...
Dec 23, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 42
This week on BS with Brian Simpson: Apologies to Iowa Complaining about the Atlanta airport Watching movies by yourself The last time we talk about Marvel Snap Path of Exile is perfect The FTC wants to stop Microsoft from buying Activision Brian solves a smelly mystery New York rats Downtown Raleigh https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/11/12/artificial-intelligence-grief/ The Fermi Paradox Nuclear Close Calls The Dark Forest Hypothesis Mapping the radio sphere Anti-natalism Billionaires ha...
Dec 16, 2022•1 hr 42 min•Season 2Ep. 41
This week on BS with Brian Simpson: Fast and slow brain Rob issues a chess challenge Flow state Playing board games African people eating cocoa beans https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/25/heidi-crowter-woman-downs-syndrome-loses-court-of-appeal-abortion-law-case How religion justifies ridiculous beliefs The Four Horsemen of Atheism The Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell Struthless on fonts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVfRxFwVHQc&ab_channel=struthless *** Follow Brian @BScom...
Dec 09, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 40
More Elon talk (against our better judgment) Sleep Deprivation Love vs. Justice vs. Revenge JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Methed-up Monks Secret social media accounts The Advice Champ helps you quit smoking *** Follow Brian @BScomedian Follow Rob @NerdyPaperGames Find Brian's tour dates at briansimpsoncomedy.com Email the show at bswithbriansimpson@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 01, 2022•58 min•Season 2Ep. 39
Scientists feed cows hemp... for science! Frank Castillo hops on the phone for a quick neurobiology lesson Louisiana voters decide to keep slavery around KFC promotes N@zi chicken A demonic conundrum White rappers: are they any good? Please don’t sunburn your taint The life and legacy of Isaac Burns Murphy *** Follow Brian @BScomedian Find Brian's tour dates at briansimpsoncomedy.com Email the show at bswithbriansimpson@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nov 24, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 38
RIP Kevin Conroy Brian’s growing movie collection The fish are addicted to meth (https://boingboing.net/2022/11/02/new-study-fish-can-get-addicted-to-meth-after-eating-human-poop.html) Brian’s runs down his top ten apocalyptic crises Why smart people do drugs Reliving the Daigo Parry Why do e-sports players retire so young? *** Follow Brian @BScomedian Find Brian's tour dates at briansimpsoncomedy.com Email the show at bswithbriansimpson@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more ...
Nov 18, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 37
Brian and Rob discuss Jordan Peele's NOPE (skip to 28:15 to avoid spoilers) with a slight detour into Game of Thrones and "The Long Night." Elon finally takes control of Twitter. Police taser a man who immediately bursts into flames. Three men survive a shark attack in the Gulf of Mexico. Rob tests Brian's moral parsimony with an online test. *** Special thanks to Permanent RCRD. Follow Brian @BScomedian Find Brian's tour dates at briansimpsoncomedy.com Email the show at bswithbriansimpson@gmail...
Nov 11, 2022•1 hr 35 min•Season 2Ep. 36
Brian finds Halloween nerve-wracking. Is "not voting" ever the right choice? Americans are not scientifically literate. Ford targets "quiet quitters": https://fortune.com/2022/10/31/ford-quiet-quitting-severance-package-performance-improvement/ RIP Takeoff Why you should mind ya business The dangers of Nextdoor Space Ads could generate up to $2M a day: https://www.freethink.com/space/space-advertising#:~:text=Based%20on%20those%20estimates%2C%20they,raises%20some%20obvious%20aesthetic%20concerns...
Nov 04, 2022•56 min•Season 2Ep. 35
Brian is back from London with some feedback on the food. Marvel Snap snaps up all of Brian and Rob's free time. The Advice Champ tells a fan how to talk to his girl about money. Brian's Blu-Ray collection grows. Missouri police ignore black women going missing: https://www.blackenterprise.com/black-woman-escapes-basement-after-missouri-police-allegedly-dismissed-claims-about-nearby-abductions/ The James Webb Space Telescope gives us the best image of the "Pillars of Creation" yet: https://www.n...
Oct 29, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Season 2Ep. 34
Sorry y'all, no brick wall today because guest Deric Poston (@dericposton) wore green AND blue. Topics today include: Kanye wants to buy Parler Becoming an A/V fanboy is expensive Telomere length and racism: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7373166/ Does your childhood shape your personality? JP Chase doesn’t want Kanye’s money Politician releases own sex tape: https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2022/10/manhattan-congressional-candidate-publishes-porn-video-highlight-his-sex-pos...
Oct 21, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 33
Overwatch 2 is awesome "Elon Musk’s texts shatter the myth of the tech genius" Tala the Alien freaks out British TERFs Kanye has lost his mind Herschel Walker's baby mama drama "Why don't the presidents fight the wars?" Man sells fake guns to gun buyback program *** Special thanks to Mike from Permanent RCRD. Follow Brian @BScomedian Find Brian's tour dates at briansimpsoncomedy.com Email the show at bswithbriansimpson@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 14, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 32
Moving to the country, and *out of* the country Dragonball Z fan fiction Cynic vs. Pessimist vs. Misanthrope Introvert vs Extravert Love on the Spectrum Revealed preferences Worry is a waste of imagination (Walt Disney) Wringing humans out for water Living underground “The United State is a poor country with rich people in it” - John Burn-Murdoch https://www.ft.com/content/ef265420-45e8-497b-b308-c951baa68945 The post-war middle-class consensus “It’s inevitable” Adventure Capitalism by Raymond C...
Oct 06, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Season 2Ep. 31
This week on BS with Brian Simpson: Cops leave woman handcuffed, in a car, on the train tracks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vISSDzz079o Some More News: Uvalde https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ioaBG3K_dk Cat Food Revenge That time Drake put hot sauce in the condom DART mission https://www.npr.org/2022/09/27/1125314926/nasa-dart-asteroid-photos Fascism returns to Italy https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/09/giorgia-meloni-italy-election-fascism-mussolini/671515/ Citizen Digit...
Sep 30, 2022•51 min•Season 2Ep. 30
How did Andrew Tate get canceled? Why the dislike button doesn’t work Securing your social media Northern Boys “Party Time” Edutainment *** Special thanks to Mike from Permanent RCRD. Follow Brian @BScomedian Find Brian's tour dates at briansimpsoncomedy.com Email the show at bswithbriansimpson@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 23, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 29
Back in hi-def this week now that Brian is in his new Austin studio. This week's topics: Chess News https://kotaku.com/chess-champion-anal-bead-magnus-carlsen-hans-niemann-1849542639 Black Hobbits https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/lord-of-the-rings-rings-of-power-fantasy-sci-fi-racist-criticism/671421/ The Golden Age of Anime China Plans on Three Moon Missions https://www.businessinsider.com/china-plans-three-moon-missions-after-discovering-new-lunar-mineral-2022-9 FN Meka https:...
Sep 17, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Brian is still completing his move to Austin, so this week he calls in to churn through the backlog at BSwithBrianSimpson@gmail.com, featuring: - Fascism and IQ - Alien kingmaking - MRE reviews - The worst Best Buy in the world Follow Brian @BScomedian Find Brian's tour dates at briansimpsoncomedy.com Email the show at bswithbriansimpson@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Sep 09, 2022•49 min•Season 2Ep. 27
