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Holy Diver at the Mayo Clinic: Trivia with Randball's Stu
May 16, 2026
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Chicken Alfredo Isn't My Worst Food Take: Trivia with the Inventor of the Pepperoni Quesadilla
May 9, 2026
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Timm Sharp Check Your Messages: Trivia with an Apatow Nerd
May 2, 2026
50m 54s
Campy Bird Decoration: Trivia with a Vibes-Based Trivia Host
Apr 25, 2026
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Never Get a Shave from a Guy Named Nick: Trivia with Our Favorite Barber
Apr 18, 2026
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| 5/16/26 |  Holy Diver at the Mayo Clinic: Trivia with Randball's Stu | A great writer. A passionate but measured lover of Tom Petty. A baseball sicko. Randball's Stu contains multitudes, and we did our worst to contain him for some rounds of trivia. Chuck starts us off with a Patently Obvious round (02:18). Chuck also rolled in with a round called "Famous People Whose Last Names Are Adjectives" or FPWLNAA for short (12:45). After that, Sean challenges Stu on his Minnesota sports knowledge (18:44). And we wrap it all up with a trip around the Art-A-World (34:06).Read RandBall's Stu's writing at Midwest Excellence.👉 No Brains, No Lightbulbs is a trivia podcast produced by the world’s greatest trivia company, Trivia Mafia, in the great state of Minnesota.📍 Find a Trivia Mafia trivia night near you!📥 Sign up for “The Morning Rounds,” Trivia Mafia’s amazing daily Trivia trivia newsletter!🫶 Join our Patreon for exclusive member perks and other goodies! | — | ||||||
| 5/9/26 |  Chicken Alfredo Isn't My Worst Food Take: Trivia with the Inventor of the Pepperoni Quesadilla | Imagine your worst food take. Megan Olson's is worse. This self-avowed picky eater is a world-class trivia writer and host for Trivia Mafia, making her return visit to No Brains, No Lightbulbs to further sully her reputation by sharing more of her favorite foods. Chuck starts off with a round for the board game fans called "What's In the Box?" (02:39). Then Megan and Sean face off in a game of "Trivia Chicken" (18:13). Sean pulls up some '70s music questions (24:48), and the wraps up with a round all about old country borders (42:55).👉 No Brains, No Lightbulbs is a trivia podcast produced by the world’s greatest trivia company, Trivia Mafia, in the great state of Minnesota.📍 Find a Trivia Mafia trivia night near you!📥 Sign up for “The Morning Rounds,” Trivia Mafia’s amazing daily Trivia trivia newsletter!🫶 Join our Patreon for exclusive member perks and other goodies! | — | ||||||
| 5/2/26 |  Timm Sharp Check Your Messages: Trivia with an Apatow Nerd✨ | triviaJudd Apatow+5 | Ethan Yeshaya | Trivia MafiaApatow Nerd+1 | — | triviaJudd Apatow+5 | — | 50m 54s | |
| 4/25/26 |  Campy Bird Decoration: Trivia with a Vibes-Based Trivia Host | What makes a great trivia host? Knowledge? Content? Vibes? Jon Hoffmann has vibes by the pound and he displays them every week at Broken Clock on Tuesdays in Northeast Minneapolis. Chuck puts us on a Steak-Out for National Steak Day (03:02). After that it's a movie round strictly for the birds (15:20) and then a round with political implications (30:22). And finally we discover that Chuck indeed does Know Ball (44:02). 👉 No Brains, No Lightbulbs is a trivia podcast produced by the world’s greatest trivia company, Trivia Mafia, in the great state of Minnesota.📍 Find a Trivia Mafia trivia night near you!📥 Sign up for “The Morning Rounds,” Trivia Mafia’s amazing daily Trivia trivia newsletter!🫶 Join our Patreon for exclusive member perks and other goodies! | — | ||||||
| 4/18/26 |  Never Get a Shave from a Guy Named Nick: Trivia with Our Favorite Barber | Have you ever wondered how Chuck and Sean stay so ruggedly handsome? Don't answer that. The secret is our barber, Mike Haeg. He's the mayor of the smallest small town in Minnesota and his only social media platform is his barber's chair. Plus he's not half-bad at trivia. Things kick off with an alliterative science round (02:13). Then we welcome the Mayor of Mount Holly with a "Mayoral Exam" (21:51), and Sean drops some album cover poetry on our municipal leader (29:16). We close the game with a round that is very "Tip"ical (46:20). 👉 No Brains, No Lightbulbs is a trivia podcast produced by the world’s greatest trivia company, Trivia Mafia, in the great state of Minnesota.📍 Find a Trivia Mafia trivia night near you!📥 Sign up for “The Morning Rounds,” Trivia Mafia’s amazing daily Trivia trivia newsletter!🫶 Join our Patreon for exclusive member perks and other goodies! | — | ||||||
| 4/11/26 |  It's Pronounced "Res·tau·ra·teur": Trivia with a Chief Trivia Editor | We're keeping the fun in-house today: Our guest is Aaron Retka, Trivia Mafia's chief editor and a man knows how to write a trivia round, sort of remembers how to spell "restaurateur," and definitely remembers an uncomfortable amount about Middle Earth. Chuck kicks things off with a company-building exercise called "Two's Company" (02:51). In honor of National Pet Day, he offers up a set of "Serpentine Stumpers" (17:20). Then Sean tries his best to stump at least one of Chuck, Beth and Aaron (24:14). Finally Aaron turns the tables, bringing his own rounds to our hosts, both of which are called "Chuck Sean"(33:03). And Sean closes things out with a round about "PP"s (50:43).👉 No Brains, No Lightbulbs is a trivia podcast produced by the world’s greatest trivia company, Trivia Mafia, in the great state of Minnesota.📍 Find a Trivia Mafia trivia night near you!📥 Sign up for “The Morning Rounds,” Trivia Mafia’s amazing daily Trivia trivia newsletter!🫶 Join our Patreon for exclusive member perks and other goodies! | — | ||||||
| 4/4/26 |  The Chicken Alfredo Ceiling: Trivia with a Rollercoaster Lawyer | Bill Childs has worn down the hosts of "No Brains, No Lightbulbs" long enough, and they've finally let him on the podcast. But first: Chuck celebrates Easter with a trivia take on a classic egg hunt (03:22). Then we welcome Bill, a renowned lawyer/radio host/father to doom metal bass clarinetist, for a risky round of Risk-themed trivia (15:34). Sean tests Bill's knowledge of kids music (24:12), and end things with a round called, appropriately enough, "Ends in 'S'" (36:22).👉 No Brains, No Lightbulbs is a trivia podcast produced by the world’s greatest trivia company, Trivia Mafia, in the great state of Minnesota.📍 Find a Trivia Mafia trivia night near you!📥 Sign up for “The Morning Rounds,” Trivia Mafia’s amazing daily Trivia trivia newsletter!🫶 Join our Patreon for exclusive member perks and other goodies! | — | ||||||
| 3/28/26 |  A Human Being with A Type of Bread in His Name: Trivia with a Sports Writer | Do you care about baseball? Don't answer that. Just listen. Trivia host, baseball writer and enchilada master Patrick Donnelly joins us in the outfield for some trivia innings. Chuck kicks things off with a round of starch madness (01:51). Sean and Patrick get pitched a couple innings of trivia baseball (13:53). Sean brings us a round called "Canadask You a Few Questions" (26:12). And we finish up out in the field with a round all about pitchers (35:43).👉 No Brains, No Lightbulbs is a trivia podcast produced by the world’s greatest trivia company, Trivia Mafia, in the great state of Minnesota.📍 Find a Trivia Mafia trivia night near you!📥 Sign up for “The Morning Rounds,” Trivia Mafia’s amazing daily Trivia trivia newsletter!🫶 Join our Patreon for exclusive member perks and other goodies! | — | ||||||
| 3/21/26 |  An Uncomfortable Amount of Fish Knowledge: Trivia with the Toilet Paper Lady | Do you rate toilet paper professionally? Of course you don't. Do you want to listen to a TP expert play trivia? Heck yeah! This week's guest Amber is the Toilet Paper Lady and she's pretty incredible. Chuck starts off with "Some Things Fishy" (01:26), then he gets us "On a Roll" (14:04). Sean brings us some Madlibs about 2010s celebrities (20:38), and then he wipes up with a "TP" initials round (33:30).👉 No Brains, No Lightbulbs is a trivia podcast produced by the world’s greatest trivia company, Trivia Mafia, in the great state of Minnesota.📍 Find a Trivia Mafia trivia night near you!📥 Sign up for “The Morning Rounds,” Trivia Mafia’s amazing daily Trivia trivia newsletter!🫶 Join our Patreon for exclusive member perks and other goodies! | — | ||||||
| 3/14/26 |  2 Forest 2 Gump: Trivia with a Jeopardy Contestant | The Jeopardy contestant returneth! Our first return guest is Trivia Mafia's own Mia McGill. Chuck starts off with a Pi/e friendly round (01:15). After that Mia joins to provide One Answer After Another (08:55) and a round where everything ends in -mia (21:25). And Chuck dirties things up by saying several four letter words (30:41).👉 No Brains, No Lightbulbs is a trivia podcast produced by the world’s greatest trivia company, Trivia Mafia, in the great state of Minnesota.📍 Find a Trivia Mafia trivia night near you! (Catch Sam every Tuesday at Arbeiter Brewing.)📥 Sign up for “The Morning Rounds,” Trivia Mafia’s amazing daily Trivia trivia newsletter!🫶 Join our Patreon for exclusive member perks and other goodies! | — | ||||||
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| 3/7/26 |  Hot Albanian Sausage Party: Trivia with a World Traveler | An extra piece of bread rips! Albanian men are uniquely foxy! Plan your next vacation in Georgia (the country)! These are just some of the gems shared by world traveler, double-decker sandwich connoisseur, and trivia team "glue guy" Casey Peterson. Chuck kicks things off with a cereal round (01:55). After that we call on Casey with a round about the history of famous phone calls (13:25) and then we explore "country" music (20:23). To close things off, Chuck enters the 100 year zone (32:05).👉 No Brains, No Lightbulbs is a trivia podcast produced by the world’s greatest trivia company, Trivia Mafia, in the great state of Minnesota.📍 Find a Trivia Mafia trivia night near you! 📥 Sign up for “The Morning Rounds,” Trivia Mafia’s amazing daily Trivia trivia newsletter!🫶 Join our Patreon for exclusive member perks and other goodies! | — | ||||||
| 2/28/26 |  Get Bizzy: Trivia with a Sales Rep | This week we’re bringing in one of Trivia Mafia's not-so-secret weapons: our Sales and Account Director, Sam Wilczyk! First Chuck brings in some dam trivia and Sean floods the reservoir with bad answers (02:37). We then move into some hockey-adjacent trivia (16:03) and we let Sean's neighbor Donny take us to the movies (19:42). Because of Sam's love for the Initials Game, Chuck pulls out an “SW” round (27:20), and Sean closes things out with round about the "key" to good trivia (40:28). 👉 No Brains, No Lightbulbs is a trivia podcast produced by the world’s greatest trivia company, Trivia Mafia, in the great state of Minnesota.📍 Find a Trivia Mafia trivia night near you! (Catch Sam every Tuesday at Arbeiter Brewing.)📥 Sign up for “The Morning Rounds,” Trivia Mafia’s amazing daily Trivia trivia newsletter!🫶 Join our Patreon for exclusive member perks and other goodies! | — | ||||||
| 2/21/26 |  Special Ed: Trivia in the Year of The Horse | A radio legend is in the building! Ryder is the producer of Gorman in the Morning on KQRS and she rocks. Chuck runs some trivia and Sean draws a blank (02:37). Then Chuck celebrates the Lunar New Year with a complicated game of H-O-R-S-E (16:51). Sean brings out some alliterative sitcoms and somehow forgets about Bosom Buddies (22:15). And Sean finishes us off celebrating the great day of February 21 (33:42).👉 No Brains, No Lightbulbs is a trivia podcast produced by the world’s greatest trivia company, Trivia Mafia, in the great state of Minnesota.📍 Find a Trivia Mafia trivia night near you!📥 Sign up for “The Morning Rounds,” Trivia Mafia’s amazing daily Trivia trivia newsletter!🫶 Join our Patreon for exclusive member perks and other goodies!No Brains, No Lightbulbs is a trivia podcast produced by Trivia Mafia in the great state of Minnesota. Click the link to find a Trivia Mafia trivia night near you! | — | ||||||
| 2/14/26 | The One Thing I Want Is a Wheel of Brie: Olympic Valentine Trivia with Beth | Welcome back to our producer Beth Gibbs! Great to have her back producing and joining us as a guest. We start off by getting to the Olympics (02:08). Then Chuck gets poetic over romcoms (12:30) and Sean brings in some famous couples (16:30). Finally, Sean makes Chuck get Sirius (29:40) and then gets heartfelt (32:50).👉 No Brains, No Lightbulbs is a trivia podcast produced by the world’s greatest trivia company, Trivia Mafia, in the great state of Minnesota.📍 Find a Trivia Mafia trivia night near you!📥 Sign up for “The Morning Rounds,” Trivia Mafia’s amazing daily Trivia trivia newsletter!🫶 Join our Patreon for exclusive member perks and other goodies! | — | ||||||
| 2/7/26 | The Burgers of Music: Trivia with a Music Writer | Do you know everything about music? Our guest this week, Keith Harris from Racket does! Chuck starts us off with a round celebrating Superb Owls (01:39). After that Keith and Chuck jump into Oscar history with a round title Who's the BOS (19:29) and Sean chimes in with a round all about two-band wonders (28:28). Sean brings it home with a series of Brief Statements (39:42).No Brains, No Lightbulbs is a trivia podcast produced by Trivia Mafia in the great state of Minnesota. Click the link to find a Trivia Mafia trivia night near you! | — | ||||||
| 1/31/26 | Poop-prietary Questions: Trivia from Omaha | Omaha is like San Antonio but slightly more boring. Our guest this week is Greg Harries and guess what, he's not boring at all. Greg is the Private Events Manager for Trivia Mafia as well as trivia host. Chuck starts us off a rotten round of trivia (01:48). After we jump backforwards into a a round play word (14:48). After that Greg does a pop music vocab check with Sean(20:55). Greg brought us a poopy round first written for a microbiome company (24:25). And things get peninsular for the last round (36:36).No Brains, No Lightbulbs is a trivia podcast produced by Trivia Mafia in the great state of Minnesota. Click the link to find a Trivia Mafia trivia night near you! | — | ||||||
| 1/24/26 | Tropical Storm Belvedere: Trivia with a Super Bowl Savant | This week on the podcast we welcome the legend Manny Hill. Manny is a wildly talented broadcaster and a deep sports trivia savant. Chuck kicks things off with a year-in-review round called "Search Party" (02:03). Then we pivot to sports with Manny, with a round about Super Bowl records called "Superlative Bowl" the he absolutely crushes (16:19), and a Sean round about great third-places in sports history called "Go for the Bronze" (25:36). Then we run out the clock with a round about (very) obscure apple cultivars (39:07).👉 No Brains, No Lightbulbs is a trivia podcast produced by the world’s greatest trivia company, Trivia Mafia, in the great state of Minnesota.📍 Find a Trivia Mafia trivia night near you!📥 Sign up for “The Morning Rounds,” Trivia Mafia’s amazing daily Trivia trivia newsletter!🫶 Join our Patreon for exclusive member perks and other goodies! | — | ||||||
| 1/17/26 | Carrying on Like a Pork Chop: Trivia Down Under | Welcome to season two! This week we are joined by the quite famous John O'Sullivan. John is a professional tour guide and the driving force behind One Minute Tours. He’s also a former Trivia Mafia host! Chuck kicks things off with an emergency call to the Intensive Karaoke Unit (02:50). We go down under for some Australian trivia and crikey, it was awesome (16:34). After that it's off to Washington, D.C. for a round about the West Wing (28:12). And we wrap things up with a round where Chuck has to look a "LIVE" (39:12).👉 No Brains, No Lightbulbs is a trivia podcast produced by the world’s greatest trivia company, Trivia Mafia, in the great state of Minnesota.📍 Find a Trivia Mafia trivia night near you!📥 Sign up for “The Morning Rounds,” Trivia Mafia’s amazing daily Trivia trivia newsletter!🫶 Join our Patreon for exclusive member perks and other goodies! | — | ||||||
| 1/10/26 | Get Keanu Reeves Away from this White Woman: Trivia with a Podcaster | Welcome to the podcast, Sarah Lemanczyk! Sarah is an award-winning broadcaster and the "old lady" emeritus of Radio K. She doesn't like Japanese food and you should hold that against her. We also welcome our interim producer, Davis Steen, to fill in for Chuck as host. Davis starts us off with a round that's "Apro-BRO of Nothing" (01:50). Then Sarah joins the fun with some trivia that combines Shakespeare with world geography (16:02). Appropriately enough, the results are both comedic and tragic. We finish things off by crossing the Rubicon and entering the tricky world of river trivia (36:12). Well, tricky for Davis, anyway. 👉 No Brains, No Lightbulbs is a trivia podcast produced by the world’s greatest trivia company, Trivia Mafia, in the great state of Minnesota.📍 Find a Trivia Mafia trivia night near you!📥 Sign up for “The Morning Rounds,” Trivia Mafia’s amazing daily Trivia trivia newsletter!🫶 Join our Patreon for exclusive member perks and other goodies! | — | ||||||
| 1/3/26 | The Ship of Theseus for Soups and Stews: Trivia with a PhD | Welcome to the podcast, Dr. Katie Sisneros! Today Chuck and Sean welcome a dear old friend, former trivia host and writer and all around great human being into the studio!Chuck drives us around for a little geography trivia by way of car makes (02:12). After that, Chuck bets his bottom dollar that you'll know about some good things that are only a day away from some really bad events (15:36). Sean brings Katie a round that celebrates the heyday of Nickelodeon (20:40). We finish things off with a round about celebrities who are part of the "26 Club" (34:00). No Brains, No Lightbulbs is a trivia podcast produced by Trivia Mafia in the great state of Minnesota. Click the link to find a Trivia Mafia trivia night near you! | — | ||||||
| 12/20/25 | Pre-Dessert: We Play Trivia with A Legend | What kind of idiot would marry Sean McPherson? Today you'll meet said idiot! Her name is Rachel Levitt and in what she calls "her largest act of public service," she married Sean in 2013. Chuck takes some movie titles around the globe to check their translations (01:20) and then we celebrate Hanukkah with 8 Crazy Questions (15:48). Rachel flexes her People magazine "knowledge" by talking about the Sexiest Man Alive (22:31). Rachel dominates a rerun of "X Marks the Stop" (30:41) and Sean finishes things off with a round called "Capital Effort" (42:02).No Brains, No Lightbulbs is a trivia podcast produced by Trivia Mafia in the great state of Minnesota. Click the link to find a Trivia Mafia trivia night near you! | — | ||||||
| 12/13/25 | Bready Mercury: We Play Trivia with an Adult Named Eyeball | Do you know Eyeball? If you play trivia in the Twin Cities you might? Eyeball is a trivia nerd and trivia host and a co-protectorate of two sourdough starters. This week we kick it off with a round inspired by the film Clue! Chuck pulled out a round called "Anatomy of a Moniker" (14:33) and Sean brought a Simpsons Before and After (19:51). To close the show Sean gets Chuck lost in translation with some German and Spanish words (33:15). No Brains, No Lightbulbs is a trivia podcast produced by Trivia Mafia in the great state of Minnesota. Click the link to find a Trivia Mafia trivia night near you! | — | ||||||
| 12/6/25 | Bum Pop Era: We Play Trivia with Photographer Mike Madison | We've got one of the most celebrated photographers in the Twin Cities with us in the No Brains No Lightbulbs studio today. Mike Madison aka Bump Opera aka Mad Son aka Bum Pop Era. First Sean flexes his taxonomy ignorance in a round called "Tax-On-A-You" (01:46). Then we hit Mike with some trivia about two of his favorite things: '80s hair metal (24:41) and food (29:45). To close the show, Sean hits Chuck's achilles heel: actual trivia questions (41:12). Check out Mike’s incredible photography work at his website and on Instagram!No Brains, No Lightbulbs is a trivia podcast produced by Trivia Mafia in the great state of Minnesota. Click the link to find a Trivia Mafia trivia night near you! | — | ||||||
| 11/29/25 | Jackin' for Burgs: Food Trivia with Em Cassel | This week’s episode is all about food! Racket editor/owner and City Cast Twin Cities contributor Em Cassel joins NBNL to flex her love of fast food, raw pork, and great oldies. First Chuck sweetens the deal with a round of assorted chocolate trivia (02:11). Then we serve up some fast food questions for Em (13:48), and Chuck dishes out some movie/restaurant trivia with "Second Yelpings" (24:18). Finally, Chuck bites off a little more than he can swallow when he samples a round about alphabetical cooking techniques (37:46). No Brains, No Lightbulbs is a trivia podcast produced by Trivia Mafia in the great state of Minnesota. Click the link to find a Trivia Mafia trivia night near you! | — | ||||||
| 11/22/25 | A Limp Ding: Beatles and "Simpsons" Trivia with Holly Roberts | Celebrated radio personality and Trivia Mafia host Holly Roberts joins the NBNL team for some awesome rounds of trivia about a few of her favorite things: The Beatles and "The Simpsons." First Chuck deals us a round of questions about playing cards (02:33). Then we drag a few Beatles song titles through the thesaurus for "Thesaurus Abuse: The Beatles Edition" (17:14). Sean sets Holly up to flex her knowledge about all things "Simpsons" (19:52). Sean closes up the episode with some questions from Camelot (29:32).No Brains, No Lightbulbs is a trivia podcast produced by Trivia Mafia in the great state of Minnesota. Click the link to find a Trivia Mafia trivia night near you! | — | ||||||
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