Good Job, Brain!

Part quiz show, part fact dump, entirely nerdy in the best way. Karen Chu, Colin Felton, and Chris Kohler have been running Good Job, Brain! since 2012, and each week they bring custom trivia quizzes on themed topics. One person might present a round on the history of board games, another on unusual Olympic sports, and then they hit each other with lightning rounds and word puzzles. Episodes run about an hour to an hour and twenty minutes. The show recently crossed its 300th episode milestone, and the format has stayed remarkably consistent over the years. Each host prepares their own quiz segment with questions, fun facts, and tangents, and the result feels like the best trivia night you have ever attended — except nobody is fighting over whether the answer sheet was graded correctly. The hosts are clearly friends who enjoy stumping each other, and that competitive but affectionate energy carries the show. With 312 episodes and a 4.7 rating from over 1,800 reviews on Apple Podcasts, this is one of the more established trivia podcasts around. It is completely free and comes out weekly, though the hosts take occasional seasonal breaks. If you are the type of person who loves pub quiz nights, word games, and collecting random facts about everything from Renaissance painting to 1980s video game history, Good Job, Brain! was basically designed for you.