No Brains, No Lightbulbs

This week, the No Brains, No Lightbulbs hosts formally recognize Beth for once, those jerks. Then the crew invites radio icon Henry Lake into the studio to discuss Atlanta restaurants and colleges, Kansas City barbecue, and the 1997 cinematic classic "Love Jones." Sean labors through some baby-name trivia (2:55), Chuck explores the history of so-called "national teams" (18:22), and Sean tests Henry Lake's "Love Jones" knowledge with our grossest round title yet (24:11). Finally, Sean rallies the proletariat for Labor Day with some semi-rapid fire union trivia to close the show (37:22).

This week, the No Brains, No Lightbulbs team invites Trivia Mafia editor (and our first heckler) Ruby onto the show to stump the chumps, flex her New England accent, and destroy some movie and etymology trivia. Chuck kicks off the trivia with a brainy round called "Yes Brains" (3:32), and then checks in with a fill-in-the-blank round called "Blank Check" (15:23). Sean brings Ruby a word-origins round called "After-and-Before" (19:37), and then he sticks the landing with a round of biopic trivia called "Stick to the Subject" (35:01).

This week the No Brains, No Lightbulbs team invites Trivia Mafia alum Colin Buell to rate things, answer things, and dole out some presidential facts. Chuck starts us off with a trivia round called "-illa Communication" (3:40). Colin packs his bags and goes to movie trivia camp (13:58) and then share some Dai-queries with Sean (19:40). Chuck wraps things up with a visit to "Alliteration Nation" (33:16).

This week the No Brains, No Lightbulbs team invites Trivia Mafia writer, editor and host Megan Olson in to demonstrate her absurd real-names-of-celebrities knowledge and her even absurder love of the '90s band Jellyfish. Chuck cashes in some questions on world currencies (03:48). Sean and Megan get Hamburgled (18:33) and Megan demonstrates her superior knowledge of the real names of famous people (22:08). And to close, Chuck knocks it out of the park in a round called Hometown Derby (32:58).

This week the No Brains, No Lightbulbs crew embarks on a largely accidental Trivia Mafia road trip. Chuck gets us rolling with a round about the geography of art museums (02:32). Steve McPherson—writer, musician and brother of Sean—rides shotgun and answers some deep musical questions (5:56), handles some brotherly trivia (16:04) and crushes Sean's musical genre trivia (21:40). Then Chuck and Sean take the wheel to discuss the many cons and the one single pro of prescription drug television ads (27:00). And Sean steers Chuck through a trivial tour across America to wrap up the trip (31:30).

Chuck gets the trivia started with a round about the origins of sports team names (01:40).Then Trivia Mafia Executive Vice-President Brenna Proczko joins the pod to rate some things on Chuck & Sean’s favorite scale: 1 through 10 no 7s (06:09), while calling out Sean's love of viscous fluids. Chuck combines trees and tears for a trivia round called “Arboretum and Weep” (11:07). Then Sean goes on the record with a round about vinyl (17:14). Chuck and Sean tackle the topic of locker room wang etiquette (22:37) and Sean elects to hit Chuck with some rapid-fire presidential trivia (25:00).

Poet extraordinaire Claire Wahmanholm joins the No Brains, No Lightbulbs crew to discuss crabs, vegetable orchestras, cocaine, citrus fruits, berets... pretty much everything except poetry. Sean celebrates the joys of watching cable TV (01:53). Chuck serves up a recent general knowledge round from Trivia Mafia (07:38) and then gives everybody crabs (mostly false crabs) in a round called "Crabfest Is Back!" (22:38). Sean cooks up some wordplay foodie trivia (31:40), Claire peels off some facts about vegetable orchestras (36:38), and then Chuck just barely survives a rapid-fire round of "Dead or Alive" (39:53). 

 It’s the debut episode! What a treat. Chuck and Sean introduce us to this new thing of theirs, and Chuck grills Sean on some barbecue trivia (04:02). Then they invite Trivia Mafia writer, editor, and social media manager (and Jeopardy alum!)  Mia McGill to play a round of “trivia golf,” whatever that is (15:39), followed by a round of movie before-and-afters (23:22). Finally, Sean makes Chuck answer a bunch of questions while he juggles four balls (33:37). (Chuck made sure we mentioned it was four balls so people wouldn’t think it was only three 🙄)

Chuck and Sean, the founders of Trivia Mafia, started a podcast. It's called No Brains, No Lightbulbs. Each week you can play a few rounds of trivia with Chuck and Sean plus a guest. In addition to trivia, the crew will field the sort of goofy questions your trivia team might ask you while you're waiting for your host to score your sheet. It's your trivia night, except now it’s a podcast.