Brian Brushwood

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Brian A. Brushwood
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Born January 17, 1975
Known For His unique brand of bizarre magic, including fire-eating, and his community building through authentic podcasts.
Podcasts Night Attack, Cordkillers, Weird Things, Scam School


Brian Brushwood (born 17 January, 1975) is a magician who performs nationwide. He is the host and creator of BBLiveShow, NSFW and Night Attack along with co-host and right hand man Justin Robert Young with whom he also does the Weird Things podcast, along with fellow magician Andrew Mayne. He is especially well-known for his display of bizarre magic. He is known to perform fire-eating, escapes, breaking a cinder block over his head, sticking nails in his eyes and nose, sticking needles through his palm, reading minds, and "The Human Crazy Straw". He frequently releases podcasts and vlogs of himself on the road. He has performed on The Food Network, CNN and The Tonight Show, as well as performing special demonstrations at The University of Texas. Brian is a regular on the college circuit.

On April 7, 2008 Brushwood's new internet television show Scam School launched on the Revision3 network. BBLiveShow launched out of his Austin, Texas home on January 1, 2009. This was followed by his second live streaming show, NSFW on November 24, 2009.

Aliases

Brian performing at Rivier College in 2008.
  • BriBri (alternatively Bri)
  • Shwood
  • Stabby Hair
  • Pinko
  • B4
  • The April Fool (alternatively The Maypril Fool)
  • Mt. Brushmore

Podcasts

Brian addresses the Scam School audience directly: answering questions, giving advice and behind the scenes looks into the machinations of the BB Empire.
Brian and Tom discuss what you watch, and how you can watch it when you want to watch it.
Brian and Justin congregate every Tuesday night to burn the Internet down with laughter.
The only show dedicated to social engineering at the bar and on the street.
Brian, Justin, and Andrew discuss all things weird.

Hacking the System

On February 27th, 2014, Brian's show Hacking the System premiered on NatGeo. The premiere consisted of two back-to-back, half-hour specials titled "Hack your Home" and "Hack your Car". In the show, Brian (along with friend of the BBverse, Jason Murphy) shows you various "hacks" that you can use to improve your life as well as hacks that criminals can use to take advantage of you. To celebrate realizing his dream of having a television show, Brian did a livestreamed viewing party with for both the premiere and re-airing.

Books

Demo

The demo includes footage also seen in:

Keen-eyed viewers will notice that one of the quotes in the video is from Chad Johnson.

Fun Facts

Brian was kicked from the chat room for spamming
  • Brian is apparently a huge American star in a small village with no modern conveniences located 4 hours outside of La Vega in the Dominican Republic. There, Mr. Happy Pants is also known as "El Diablo de Mano".
  • He is married to an invisible woman named Bonnie who is presumably the daughter of Susan Storm of the Fantastic Four.
  • The Brian Brushwood action figure was pulled from shelves after a little boy in Wyoming used it to set fire to his sister's hair.
  • When asked why he "brushed off" the Haiti earthquake by not donating, he said "I shouldn't have to give money every time IJustine takes a step and crushes a city thousands of miles away"
  • Brian, Brett Rounsaville and JammerB share a birthday (January 17). So does Benjamin Franklin. Who knew?
  • Brian admitted that he has a partially unraveled testicle in the episode All the Right Notes.

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