The Benchwarmers Trivia Podcast

Scott and Markkus sit down and talk about the upcoming NFL Free Agency frenzy. Who is a good fit for your team? Where will they go?? Join us for a discussion about this wonderful time of the year. 

Scott Grimes hosted this unconventional game in which a last-second player scratch led to the rare 1 vs 1 vs 1 game with Tako vs. Markkus vs. Luks. The lack of traditonal team talk-outs didn't prevent our players from citing noted feminist, Eric Ede, noting that several people do have stupid faces, or discussing people that may have cheated on Eva Longoria. We also witness Scott work a pro wrestle...

Eric, Mat. & special guest Josh discuss these episodes. EP 239: Famous Luchador Elle Woods (featuring Asistant Coach Dave Brown) EP 240: Little Heroes (featuring Equipment Manager & host of The Sports Trivia Face-Off Podcast Brent Bollmeier) EP 241: Summer Sander... NOW! (featuring guest Zach Gozlan) EP 242: Uncontroversial White Guys (featuring Assistant Coach Scott Hyland)

Assistant Coach Scott Hyland returned to the Bench for this Josh-hosted game. In it we learned that Ede is finally aware that not all questions are about men (he is also herpes-free and pro-women in 2024) and doesn't want to sit here and talk about punters, that a particular celebrity-athlete couple (not named Traylor, Tavis, or Swelce) are both too hot and probably awkward in bed, that it's prono...

Guest Zach Gozlan teams up with Scott to face Ede and Dougherty in this unequivocally white episode hosted by Matt Takimoto. In it we search for a chicken chunk sponsor, we invent Scandinavian Ryder Cup golfers, Dougherty's face lights up as he's asked two old timee baseball questions, Matt pontificates about Pakistani Politics, and we constantly ask ourselves "is that part of Wrestlemania?" #Roge...

Equipment Manager and Sports Trivia Face-Off host Brent Bollmeier joins the Benchwarmers to team with Eric Ede, facing Josh and Markkus. As to be expected, Luks faces the eyerolls from Josh and the hatred from Eric Ede. This was probably well deserved since Luks nerds out. We find out which major league baseball players can play in a war, and still be answers. By the end, Ede can only say of his p...

Assistant Coach Dave Brown joins the Bench and teams up with Eric Walling to face off against Scott and Matt in this Matt Takimoto hosted episode. In it we learned who Eric's go-to Spanish woman is, the difference between Santo and Diablo in Spanish, the teams reminice about the Real American Hero commercials, Tom Hanks did NOT play Don King, the teams discuss a new jouneyman Spanish/French wine r...

Eric and Matt are joined by Mason & the infamous David Luks (and maybe some Lavid Duks also....) to discuss these episodes:  Dan's Fireside Trivia EP 235: The Nick Anderson Butterfly Effect (featuring assistant coach Vinnie Iyer) EP 236: Making out with Strangers in West Virginia EP 237: Shirtless Movie EP 238: A Racehorse named Philadelphia Turkey (featuring guest Meesh Resnick)

Guest Meesh Renick returned to the Bench for the 2023 Year in Review episode hosted by Josh. In it we learned that that name Hanks was not a reference to multiple guys named Hank, that the Benchwarmers should invest in a racehorse (re: episode title), that Markkus can never get off of Mo Alie-Cox, that Matt's thoughts on the FIBA World Cup champions is that "they're just German," that Mason finall...

Matt Takimoto wrote a great all-Benchwarmer competitive game pitting Matt D and Eric W against Scott & David. The teams contemplated more of life's most difficult questions: Could Martin Sheen really own a Dojo? Is Impact Point the worst name for a wrestling PPV? Just when is the time for Kenny Lofton to show up as an answer for a question? Who is Tom Liverpool? Just how many Hulls are there?...

Eric & Matt discuss these episodes:  EP 232: Bruce Bochy's Husky Head (featuring Assistant Coach Dave Wortz) EP 233: Honey I Shrunk Juan Antonio Samaranch (featuring Assistant Coach Josh Snyder) EP 234: The Mustache That Transcends Time (featuring Assistant Coach Matt Coleman) 2023 BTP Holiday Trivia

David hosted this (debatably) amazing all-Benchwarmer game with Matt Takimoto still searching for his first win as a Benchwarmer. The teams posed several important questions: Is it time to bring back the backup truck? Is Luc Longley ever going to be a right answer? Who, besides Russell Westbrook, could have a line of 20 points, 20 assists, and 20 turnovers? And of course: How many brothers are the...

Eric Ede hosted this fun game pitting David & Walling against Scott and Assistant Coach (and long-time Sporting News writer) Vinnie Iyer. From the jump, David had some internet issues, which led to the inevitable team name. Walling & David were threatened early by Ede's potential bonus points for wrong answers. The teams also discussed Billie Joe Tolliver (and as Ede pointed out, it's some...

For the third year in a row, Dan leads a Fireside Chat with his trivia friends Graig Zethner, Scott Barber, and Gary Middleton with Matt joining late to ad nothing to the conversation. Enjoy and happy holidays from BTP!!!  https://www.patreon.com/benchwarmerstp https://www.facebook.com/benchwarmerstp https://www.twitter.com/benchwarmerstp https://www.instagram.com/benchwarmerstp/ https://www.teepu...

BTP Holiday Trivia is Back!!! Celebrate the 2023 Holiday season with us along with a very special guest host. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from your favorite Sports Trivia Podcast! https://www.patreon.com/benchwarmerstp https://www.facebook.com/benchwarmerstp https://www.twitter.com/benchwarmerstp https://www.instagram.com/benchwarmerstp/ https://www.teepublic.com/stores/benchwarmers-trivi...

Assistant Coach Matt Coleman returned to the Bench for this Matt Takimoto-hosted game. In it we learned that Warriors "Legend" Donyell Marshall is THE Splash Daddy, that Minnesota has never hosted the Winter X Games (Who knew?), that Josh gives an entire corporation a "Whooo?!," that David can't get off of an entire country, that A League of Their Own is not to be confused with an episode of Happy...

Eric & Matt discuss these episodes:  EP 228: The Flaming Thumbtacks (featuring Assistant Coach Adrian Bias and Equipment Manager Joe O'Brien) EP 229: Wendell Scott Legend Wendell Scott (featuring guest Jake Manne) EP 230: Balls Ede has seen EP 231: Quarterback Breeding with Philip Rivers (featuring Assistant Coach David Fudor)

Assistant Coach Josh Snyder joined the bench and hosted this game that featured all-benchwarmer players with teams of Eric Walling & Scott Grimes versus Matt Dougherty & Matt Takimoto. In it, we learned about uncastrated wild boar Wednesday, Vodka Drunkinski to wash down your Drysdale Chicken, D2 the Mighty Ducks makes a comeback, Josh discovers a new way to monetize leisure activities, sp...

Assistant Coach Dave Wortz returned to the Bench for this thicc game hosted by Josh. In it we learned that Bruce Bochy's hat size is 8-1/4 (thus the episode title), that Steve is a good dad name, that Dave DeBusschere's last name shoud be pronounced Début Chéri, that a certain Husky quarterback has "Big Penix energy," that it's pronounced "Garbage," that there was entirely too much How I Met Your...

Assistant Coach David Fudor returned to the Bench for this Matt Takimoto-hosted game. In it we learned that the Benchwarmers are looking for an apple sponsor (like the Buffalo Bills), that USC is STILL cheating, that the ACC will have to change its name when Cal and Stanford join their conference (All Coastal Conference; All Country Conference; Any College Conference); that Matt's Halftime Show wa...

David hosts this engaging all-Benchwarmer episode with Ede & Matt D teaming up against Matt T & Josh. Ede continues a theme with his team name, and it's all uphill from there. One benchwarmer poses the all important question: Just who is Geddy Lee? And that was before anyone had drunk their befuddlejuice. Ede throws out the answer of Sheryl Dimaggio, and not suprrisingly, it doesn't land....

Scott hosts this edition of the BTP podcast, in which Jake Manne finally shows up to pay the piper (though honestly his only crime was carrying an undfeated record). In this game, the Benchwarmers tried diligently to help Mason name his to be child. The teams also discussed Omaha Palm Trees (as if), and concluded that Josh Allen has all the personality of an only child. One benchwarmer asserts, I...

Eric & Matt discuss these episodes:  EP 224: Serbian Power Forward Danny Demogorgon (featuring guest Sam Collins) EP 225: Haiku Imposter Syndrome (featuring Assistant Coach Marc Grenier) EP 226: Wealth is a Super Power (featuring Assistant Coach Scott Hyland and guest Andrew Vahlenkamp) EP 227: Spin Urkel (featuring Head Coach Philip Sanford)

Assistant Coach Adrian Bias and Equipment Manager Joe O'Brien returned to the Bench for this Walling-hosted game. In it, we learned that Walling and Joe were both suffering from jet lag from recent European trips, that Joe couldn't get Jonathan Cheechoo out of his head, that there should be a penalty box for BTP players (e.g., two minutes for skimming), that David could only get the rhythm of a pl...

Head Coach Philip Sanford returns to host his (almost annual) all-basketball Benchwarmer game. The teams degenerate quickly into a discussion of just how many food pantries are in the state of Iowa (they still don't know). In an effort to help his teammate, Mason attempts to give a police sketch description of one answer. Ede also has many opportunities to overthink NBA answers. And of course, in...