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WVFRM PodcastThat's a Totally Normal Thing to Say! (Trivia Extravaganza 2026)
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Trivia Extravaganza returns: spooky vibes, scorekeepers, and a new team-based scoring twist
Marques Brownlee, Andrew Manganelli, and David Imel kick off the Trivia Extravaganza and set the stage for a competitive episode. David explains the rotating team mechanic where two players answer together and the odd person out gets points if the team misses, with Ellis, Rufus, and Adam helping keep score honest.
- •Marques introduces the concept: accumulated baseline points plus new trivia to determine a winner
- •David announces most games will be played in rotating two-person teams with an odd person out
- •Scoring twist: correct answers reward both teammates; wrong answers reward the odd player
- •A “spooky” theme is joked about even though the questions aren’t actually spooky
- •Ellis, Rufus, and Adam are introduced as the scorekeeping panel
Keyword Search game rules: answer questions by crafting a Google query (without using question/answer words)
David introduces Adam’s game “Keyword Search,” where teams must come up with three search words that reveal the answer on the first page of Google. The catch is they can’t use any words from the question or the answer, turning each round into a strategy puzzle about phrasing and inference.
- •The team must propose exactly three search words to surface the answer on Google’s first page
- •They can’t use words from the question or the answer in their query
- •David gives an example to illustrate indirect searching and word substitution
- •The group debates edge cases like using “podcast,” spelling conventions, and how strict results should be
- •David frames it as a test of real-world ‘being good at Googling’
Keyword Search warm-ups: finding the show name and the EU-mandated charging port
The first Keyword Search prompts are designed to ease everyone into the format. The teams argue through word choice and ambiguity (like what counts as one word), but manage to surface the intended results on the first page.
- •Team Missing President tries to surface the Waveform podcast name while avoiding banned words
- •They debate whether to search using platforms like Spotify or Pocket Casts and how “Pocket Casts” counts as words
- •Team Lawn Sports tackles the EU-mandated device charging port question by triangulating through iPhone and Europe-related phrasing
- •David confirms success based on first-page visibility, noting how results can be ‘low on the page’
- •The group briefly discusses alternate scoring ideas (like extra points for first-result accuracy) but keeps rules simple
Keyword Search gets harder: Apple’s VR headset, the T‑Mobile HipTop alias, and design trivia
As the Keyword Search round continues, the constraints start to bite: common tech terms become banned and searches drift into irrelevant results. The players learn that overly technical or ambiguous terms can backfire, and sometimes the best strategy is to go broad and let the search engine do the rest.
- •Phone Zone struggles to surface Apple’s VR headset name without using key words, and their search gets derailed by unrelated results
- •David and Andrew field the T‑Mobile HipTop question, while Marques knows the answer but the query constraint complicates it
- •Marques suggests creative indirect hooks (like pop culture references) but they don’t land on the page
- •Lawn Sports nails a design-history question by going deliberately vague (“famous product designers”), leading to Dieter Rams
- •Marques and Andrew successfully link Marques’ old Aero Snap video to Windows XP via broad Windows-related searches
Keyword Search wrap-up: Apple router naming, a Google acquisition miss, and an Apple design icon
The final Keyword Search cycle includes a quick win on Apple’s router branding and a stumble on a Google acquisition question that flips points due to the team rule. The round ends with a smoother question about a well-known Apple design figure connected to “LoveFrom,” before the episode pivots to the next game.
- •The team identifies Apple’s old router line (Airport/AirPort Extreme), with David allowing a broader accepted response
- •A Google acquisition question trips up the team when they guess Fitbit instead of Waze, triggering the odd-man-out scoring rule
- •Marques reacts to the Waze reveal, acknowledging he uses it frequently
- •Phone Zone uses “LoveFrom” to surface the iconic Apple designer referenced by David’s description
- •David transitions to the next game and keeps the same rotating team structure
“That’s a Totally Normal Thing to Say”: identifying who said wild CEO quotes (and the tweeting dare)
David introduces a quote-guessing game where players identify which tech leader said a line taken out of context. A risky twist offers bonus points if someone tweets the quote verbatim out of context immediately, prompting debate about reputational fallout and whether it’s worth it.
- •David explains the new twist: bonus points for tweeting quotes out of context right away (sometimes scaled)
- •Marques pushes back on tweeting and jokes he’d rather post on LinkedIn
- •The game alternates between multiple-choice and open-response depending on how recognizable the speaker is
- •They correctly identify several quotes, including a Craig Federighi line and Marc Andreessen statements
- •A longer “infinite bowl-making machine” quote leads them to the correct person and sparks discussion of what Wonder is
The barefoot interview quote: identifying Palmer Luckey and arguing with the premise
To close the quote game before break, David reads a long monologue about solving obesity using petroleum-derived synthetic foods. The group guesses wrong at first, then David reveals the speaker, and they pick apart claims in the quote and react to the absurdity of it.
- •David reads an extended quote about petroleum derivatives, zero-calorie synthetic foods, and anti-plant framing
- •Marques and Andrew initially guess Elon Musk, but it’s revealed to be Palmer Luckey
- •Marques challenges the logic, including the claim about building materials and rubber origins
- •The panel raises issues with the quote’s assumptions and correctness, riffing on how extreme it sounds out of context
- •David explicitly says he does not recommend eating gasoline as they head into the break
Tech Taboo (Waveform-style): three-clue guessing with Slack prompts and one-shot answers
After returning from break, David launches a Taboo-like game: one player receives a secret term over Slack and must give exactly three clues for their partner to guess. The round highlights how clue selection can either make a prompt instantly solvable or accidentally misdirect into the wrong domain.
- •Rules: one player gets a Slack word, provides three clues, and the partner gets a single guess
- •Team Missing President starts with an Apple-device generation prompt leading to an iPhone model guess
- •A keyboard prompt leads to discussion of Apple’s “butterfly keyboard,” and how clues can drift into niche jargon
- •Phone Zone gets a rapid guess on the Humane AI Pin from broad negative framing and familiarity
- •The round includes miscues (like guessing AMD/Arm) and a film prompt solved immediately with “The Social Network”
Tech Taboo chaos and side tangents: Claude, “Claude Glass,” Retina display, and micro-debates
As Tech Taboo continues, the game produces very easy solves and a few frustrating near-misses. The group spins off into a discussion about the term “Claude Glass” and whether it connects to Claude’s naming, then returns to a Retina display prompt where a close-but-wrong guess costs the point.
- •A ColorWare prompt is solved quickly via “device painting company,” and Claude is guessed immediately from “Anthropic’s LLM name”
- •A speaker shares a tangent about the historical “Claude Glass” used to view sunsets, and others wonder if it relates to Claude’s name
- •They joke about how Google names products compared to more referential naming ideas
- •A Phone Zone prompt aiming for “Retina display” gets guessed as “iPhone XR,” prompting discussion of pixel density and ‘Retina’ as a moving target
- •David calls the segment and sends them to break before the final game
Reddit Feud begins: Family Feud-style gameplay and the “one-way ticket to Mars” board
David introduces Reddit Feud, where a Reddit post’s comments are analyzed to find the most common themes, not the most upvoted. They play a buzzer-driven round on whether someone would take a one-way ticket to Mars, discovering typical Reddit patterns and repeatedly negotiating what counts as a distinct answer.
- •David explains the format: top comment themes by frequency, control of the board, and play-until-wrong flow
- •Adam adds an editor-style note explaining score display complexity and confirming the winner is accurate
- •They play the Mars one-way ticket question and uncover common responses like survival concerns and waiting for later missions
- •The group debates how to treat overlap between broad answers like “no” and more specific reasoning
- •David reveals remaining slots and nudges them toward Redditor-style concerns like internet access
Reddit Feud continues: “electric cars are evil,” “afraid of 5G,” and the MKBHD–Elon thread
The next boards shift quickly between tech-culture flashpoints and conspiracy-adjacent comment patterns. They surface themes around EV criticism, 5G fears, and then pivot to a subreddit-specific prompt about MKBHD unfollowing Elon Musk, including a reveal about how the buzzer system behaves under ties.
- •On EV backlash, they hit themes like mining/batteries, cost, infrastructure issues, and political/cultural framing
- •On 5G fear, they land conspiracies like COVID links and mind control, plus distrust of telecoms/authority and health anxieties
- •David distinguishes between different categories of fear (health concerns vs other conspiracies) and reads out missed board items
- •They play an r/MKBHD thread prompt about unfollowing Elon Musk, landing themes like political concerns and “who cares?” reactions
- •David admits the buzzer system defaults to Marques if multiple people buzz simultaneously, changing how players approach buzzing
Final Reddit Feud decider: hidden futuristic tech, jetpacks, and crowning the Podman’s Cup winner
For the last board, they tackle a futurist prompt about technology supposedly being hidden from the public, yielding a grab bag of sci-fi answers. After a tense endgame with strategy and buzzer disputes, they finally land the top answer and close out with final scores and the season’s winner.
- •They identify high-ranking ‘hidden tech’ themes like AGI, anti-aging, mind uploading, teleportation, holograms, and nuclear fusion
- •The room debates whether the subreddit is effectively a conspiracy forum based on the answers it rewards
- •A late-game standoff emerges where David needs specific board answers to have a shot, while Andrew protects his lead
- •A personal mobility device hint leads to the top answer: jetpacks
- •Final scores are announced, Andrew wins the Podman’s Cup, and the hosts close with production credits and scheduling remarks
