The Benchwarmers Trivia Podcast

EP 60: Who's Good in the Water? (featuring Equipment Manager Mike Khoury)

Equipment Manager Mike Khoury joins the Bench once again to team up with Markkus against Scott and Josh. Josh gives a detailed explanation of the Minnesota version of a children’s game, Lynn Dickey seems to come up once again, Markkus tells everyone his favorite Gatorade flavor of all-time, and Scott and Markkus really enjoy the Missing Link theme (while Josh most certainly does not). 

EP 59: Home Court Advantage #1 (featuring Kyle Kondor of Jomboy Media)

Kyle Kondor of Jomboy Media was the guinea pig used to test a new game style for the BTP called Home Court Advantage. In the game one guest faces two benchwarmers where every question is in the guests wheelhouse. In this game Kyle's wheelhouse was: The New York Yankees and NBA/NFL from 2005 to 2015. In this game we heard a lot about Phil Rizzuto, the teams got their Buck's confused, and they also reviewed every Yankee utility infielder they could think of. 

EP 58: The Book of Dick (featuring Head Coach Brandon Reese)

Head Coach Brandon Reese rejoins the Bench to host this time, the Benchwarmer teams Eric & Markkus take on Josh & Mason. In this episode we learn about Augusta National’s various holes, a coin decides a question, Josh lodges a formal complaint and gets a case of the whistles. Also, Brandon almost gives away his Missing Link but it went unnoticed, and we get festive in the fourth quarter! 

EP 57: She's Probably Dead (featuring guest Jake Freudenberg)

Guest Jake Freudenberg joined the bench and teamed up with Dan to face Eric & Matt in a game hosted by Scott. In it we learned a lot about 90's and early 2000's female R&B singers, that there are a lot of candy related sports names, and of course that everyone knows Brad Daugherty is related to Matt. Eric also evidently enjoys talking about crack and booger sugar, and NOBODY knows who Mary Pierce is.

EP 56: Super Bowl 50...not L for Loser (featuring guest Mike Schneider)

Guest Mike Schneider joins the bench and teams up with Mason tp face Markkus & Josh in this game hosted by Dan. In it we learn about the lyrics from the Rocky theme song, who the last switch hitter to win the AL MVP was, Jim Brown was REALLY good, and who played the characters in the SNL Da Bears skit. 

EP 55: Tony Gwynn Karate Champion (featuring guest Bevan Narinesingh)

Although he claimed that he wasn't much of a sports trivia person, evidently our guest Bevan had competed on Sports Jeopardy, and it definitely showed! Bevan took up residence in Dan’s Mind Palace as he teamed up with him to face Scott and JJ in a game hosted by Matt. In it we learned a little bit about trick plays, that Matt is unable to count syllables, and that there may have been a movie where Air Bud was a washed up wide receiver. Also, surprise surprise! Matt can ACTUALLY write questions about modern sports topics! 

EP 54: Famed Defenseman Bea Arthur and Legendary European Footballer Peter Criss (featuring Equipment Manager Pate Hogan)

Pate Hogan joins the Bench to team up with Eric against Mason and our newest official Benchwarmer, Markkus Ellis. Josh hosts a game that includes flavor text about Ice Dancers(Yes, Ice Dancers), MORE Minnesota questions, and a new way to identify Snowboarders, courtesy of our guest. Josh also debuted a brand new quarter style, so follow along and enjoy!

EP 53: Matt's Mind Closet (featuring guest Ian Hollenberg)

Equipment Manager Ian Hollenberg joined the bench and was unfortunately teamed up with Matt to face Dan & Scott in a game hosted by JJ. In it we learned that Ian and Matt are NOT a good pair for pre & post game, evidently Ferrari has a nickname and a very clever missing link round causes Matt to come to a harsh realization.

EP 52: Darryl, Doc & Dinos (featuring Assistant Coach Markkus Ellis)

Assistant Coach and, spoiler, then future Benchwarmer, Markkus Ellis joined the bench and teamed up with Scott against Eric & Josh. Mason hosts and in this episode we learn: which Roy Williams was a bust, Nadia and Young & The Restless had the same theme song, Jamal MaGloire's last name is not pronounced MaGLaurie, and the 1986 Met's had a lot of fictitious thoughts about dinosaurs. 

EP 51: You've Never Heard of Ben Hogan? (featuring guest Brandon Reese)

Head Coach Brandon Reese joined the bench teaming up with Scott to play a game hosted by Dan. JJ and Matt team up to face them and in this episode we learn: It's never too late for water polo, Scott read a book as a kid, Bobby Boucher played for the Oilers and somehow Wile E Coyote gets his first mention on the show.