The Benchwarmers Trivia Podcast

Scott permanently joins the OT crew and we hope to get back in a monthly routine. But for this episode we discuss:  EP 289: Clicks are Clicks, Right? (featuring Head Coach Dave Wortz & Assistant Coach Tim Geving) EP 290: Mitch TrubiSky Dome (feaeturing Assistant Coach Josh Snyder) EP 291: Pimp My Face (featuring Equipment Manager Yael Wylie) EP 292: You're the Man Now, Dog! (featuring Jake DeA...

First timer (and yet another guest who did better on Jeopardy! than Tako) Jake DeArruda joins for a Scott-hosted game. In this episode, Scott tries to set a record for the longest Curriculum Vitae of all time, Markkus feels young for coaching but old for his body, we discover a sports movie Mason has seen but Markkus has not, Tako shows off his voice acting skills, we find the baseball equivalent...

Firstime guest and Equipment Manager for our Patreon Team Yael Wylie joined the Bench for this Ede-hosted game. In this episode, Ede stumped both teams with his Missing Link (Hint: It was not that they were all running backs or that they're all black), we came to an agreement that there is no such thing as Alvin beans, we reminisced about Hall of Fame pitchers Jack Ass and Milfred Hunter (whose ca...

David hosts this game with Matt D and Mason teaming up to face Markkus and Assistant Coach to our Patreon Team, Josh Snyder. David clearly had returning player Josh in mind when wrote this game, which featured a Dad joke inspired hafltime, and a return of the Missing Limerink.  Mason and Matt tried their best to throw David off his game out of the gate with their team name. David gets his revenge...

Josh hosts the first recorded game of 2025, and the teams set all kinds of milestones checking in. In this episode, all the players fight the cold weather (especially Tako in mid-50s California). We try and guess Eastern European first names (and are somehow aided by Gilbert Arenas?), create adult film parodies, and talk a lot about meats, including wondering what cut of steak the Donovan cut woul...

Walling finally professionally hosts his contractually obligated yearly game pitting Assitant Coach Matt Coleman and Mason vs Markkus and Dougherty. In it, Walling kicks us off with a top tier dad joke, Mason raises some Ds throughout the game, we discuss pricey players and former Yankees, and the players attempt to get inside the mind of an enigma. In spite of all of his efforts to maintain profe...

In this all-Benchwarmer game hosted by Josh, we discover that old Venezuelans are not Tako's forte, we imagine a world where Alan Rickman played a Batman villain, Ede asks "Is it a stupid face?" and informs us that his dad only watched Hunter and M*A*S*H, we were slightly surprised that Mason has never watched The Goonies, we speculate that Ice Pirates would be a great name for an EDM band and sho...

David hosts this all-Benchwarmer game that sees Eric Ede team with Matt Dougherty to take on the formidable team of Scott and Mason.  Despite the fact that David is hosting and Ede is playing, David avoids getting fired.  Ede declares that since 2024 has come to an end, he can stop the charade, and he doesn't have to be pro-woman any more.  However, he thinks that Dak Prescott still stinks.  If yo...

This 90s-heavy game was an all-Benchwarmer affair hosted by Eric Ede. In this episode, Josh opined that Tina Turner's calves should qualify her as an athlete, we discuss at length the sad history of child stardom that led Gentle Ben down a dark path (re: Cocaine Bear), it was discovered that David played the electric triangle (with a crank) with rockabilly pioneer Gene Vincent (Whooo?!), and Ede t...

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

Friend of the pod Jane posted on social media some holiday movie hot takes which got Matt into a tizzy and motivated him to pull together a last minute holiday movie bracket. Other friends of the pod Trevor Hogg and David Kantorski joined in to discuss the bracket and thus whatcha got here. Happy holidays to all and enjoy!    https://dobosdelights.com/ Promo Code: CheckYourTaint https://www.patreo...

Christmas is here! What do we love what do we hate and what Christmas movie did we over look a murder? Josh Mason and Eric sit down and just talk about the most wonderful time of the year. Happy Holidays to All from the Benchwarmers Trivia Podcast   https://dobosdelights.com/ Promo Code: CheckYourTaint https://www.patreon.com/benchwarmerstp https://www.facebook.com/benchwarmerstp https://www.twitt...

Nick Arno and Harrison Smith (we found him!) from the Rounding Third Baseball Podcast join us for a podcast vs. podcast showdown against Scott and David, and it's a baseball-only episode! In this episode, we fix Major League Baseball by creating the Oakland Rays and Vancouver Eh's, we reinforce the mantra that every answer comes from baseball cards or video games, things get all Fricked up, halfti...

Equipment Manager Hugh Gitlin teams up with Josh to face the self-proclaimed math nerds David and Mason. In this episode, we ask whether a hockey player is 130 years old, David talks Mason into an answer while simultaneously talking himself out of it, we get our directions and continents all mixed up, and we need multiple spellings of Korea, in a manner of speaking. #Math #BigMacs #Asia #WestGeorg...

Assistant Coach Marc Grenier teamed up with Walling to face Mason and Josh in this Matt-hosted game. In it, we learned that salty Mason threatened to rage quit, ChatGPT can't do much with opposite TV show summaries, toast is the best meal for an Olympic athlete, Walling repeatedly interrupts Mason, and "idiot number 29" triggers an answer. #FillTheGaps #FillMoreGaps #FillEvenMoreGaps #TedLasso #Le...

Assistant Coach Trevor Hogg and Benchwarmer Emeritus Dan Lundberg returned to the Bench for this Scott-hosted game. During this game, Scott appeased Matt with some old-school baseball names, autocorrect posed an alternate name for a podcast favorite for when they are slightly less than hot on the court, Dan stated "This is dumb" about an answer because he couldn't get Chicago out of his mind, Scot...

First timer (and Jeopardy! TOC semifinalist) Jared Watson joins The Bench in this Tako-hosted game. In this episode, we debate how big goggles have to be to be considered Rec Specs, practice our Jamaican accents, create a dentist from Sheboygan, wonder about the longevity of the the Insight.com bowl, and swear in the chat about the final question of the fourth quarter. Additionally, Markkus gets s...

David Luks hosts this all-Benchwarmer game with Eric Walling & Josh teaming up to face Tako & Mason. It was a grouchy game all around as we learn early on that Mason is playing with a double ear infection, Walling has a hate scale, and Josh, well, Josh isn't a big fan of a David clue. Luckily (or Luksily?), most of that hits the cutting room floor before David and Josh have to make semanti...

Head Coach Philip Sanford hosts this game with Head Coach Dave Wortz teaming up with Tako to take on Matt D and Markkus. In this episode, we cast Jon Gruden in Goodfellas, try our best not to be anti-Semitic, give David Luks a new nickname, name some white NBA legends, and try to get Markkus hired by Ben and Jerry's. #danboysenberry #kiwikarlsson #birdracing #jeopardyrules #mikebreen #jongruden ht...

Markkus joins Matt and Walling in their triumphant OT return!  EP 273: All my Expos live in Texpos (featuring Assistant Coach Adrian Bias) EP 274: The next Cars is Dak Prescott (featuring Front Office Member Riley Scherer) EP 275: Locker-Sized Luks (featuring Assistant Coaches Trevor Hogg and Marc Grenier) EP 276: The Age of Abredarrious (featuring Assistant Coach John Ross) EP 277: Menu Item F1 -...

Assistant Coach Tim Simplot returns to the Bench for this Josh-hosted game. In this episode, one team's name is directly connected to the answer to the first question of the game, Rickey Henderson gets added to Josh's Knucklehead Rolodex, Scott proclaims he had an answer "once you got to White Chicks," we decide that there is an "Aaron Rodgers Zone" which is the entire space between Knucklehead an...

Assistant Coach John Ross hosts this fabulous game pitting Mason and Tako against Matt and Markkus. In this episode, we make a lot of noises, John has some legendary Pre and Post Games, we mention little-known Morehouse College quarterbacks, imagine a muscly Drew Bledsoe, try and avoid sneaky Canadians, spell lots of complicated names very poorly, and Markkus is hardcore triggered into another ran...

Assistant Coaches Trevor Hogg and Marc Grenier team up to present a game all about non-Big Three sports! In this episode, we wonder if colds are transmissable via Zoom, Walling has white guy country club problems and wishes death on an entire family, Josh declares war on Louisiana and is sent into a midlife darts crisis, and Luks and Tako fail to think about women, and have a "good talk". #sumo #p...

Head Coach Riley Scherer joins the bench and teams up with David to face Matt & Walling in this Ede hosted episode. In it we try to identify the guy with the neck, or does he have a neck, and which quarterback is the best to get stuff off of the top shelf. Also, David sets a record for being fired twice in one episode, Ede breaks everyone with his missing link, and Riley forecasts a future que...

Assistant Coach Adrian Bias returns to the bench for this Tako-hosted game. In this episode, the players are immediately put on edge with an all-golf first quarter; we discuss Scandanavian name origins, and how "it's gonna have a lot of vowels in it"; Scott and Adrian create the first all-athlete boy band, The Really New Edition; we play a quarter that is somehow five different quarter styles; and...