No Brains, No Lightbulbs – Détails, épisodes et analyse

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.

 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 🙄)

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). 

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).

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).