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2:48 Speaker 02 Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host Spencer Newheart and today we're joined by Yanis, Brody, Randall, Cal, Corey, Sarah and Max. This is a 10 round quiz show with questions from Meat Eater's four verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation and cooking. And there is a prize. Meat Eater will donate $500 to the conservation organization of the winners choosing. Now this week we have a big announcement. Phil, can we get a drum roll?
3:18 Speaker 02 Meat Eater Trivia is moving to the Outdoor Channel. Yes, congratulations Yanis. You'll be on the Outdoor Channel.
3:25 Speaker 03 We have to pick all this stuff up?
3:27 Speaker 02 What does that mean?
3:28 Speaker 03 And move?
3:28 Speaker 02 No, we're gonna stay right here. We're just expanding. Exactly. You can still find us where you always find us.
3:34 Speaker 03 Do we need to like up our hygiene game and stuff like that?
3:39 Speaker 02 Yes, you can smell through the TV now.
3:41 Speaker 03 I don't understand Spencer. Tell me about, tell me more about this.
3:44 Speaker 02 This does not impact the other ways you consume Meat Eater Trivia. It'll still be available via podcast apps, our website and the Meat Eater Podcast YouTube channel. But in addition to those, you can now watch a condensed version of Meat Eater Trivia on Saturday nights, starting August 16th at 6:00 PM Central Time. This episode you're watching or listening to right now will be the first to air.
4:09 Speaker 04 That's exciting.
4:10 Speaker 02 They say there's nothing good on TV anymore.
4:12 Speaker 03 We got to 7:00 PM on Saturday night?
4:14 Speaker 02 On a Saturday night.
4:15 Speaker 03 That seems good.
4:16 Speaker 02 Now, I haven't, the Outdoor Channel, I haven't had cable in a while, so it hasn't been on my radar for a little bit, but that used to be the slot for Westerns. They put on, uh, like some John Wayne show, where you're shooting up bad guys on Saturday nights. Now it's Meat Eater and Meat Eater Trivia, 6:00 PM Central. So Meat Eater Trivia has a 30-minute time slot, uh, and that'll be followed by a one-hour time slot of the OG Monday Meat Eater Podcast. Beautiful.
4:45 Speaker 05 So you're saying we're gonna be on television?
4:46 Speaker 02 We got 90 minutes every Saturday night on the Outdoor Channel.
4:50 Speaker 03 How do you make this a 30-minute show?
4:52 Speaker 02 Uh, someone's gonna do a lot of editing, because a 30-minute show was really, what, 23 minutes? Uh, 22 to 23, yeah.
4:58 Speaker 05 Phil, they're not gonna make you do that, are they?
5:00 Speaker 02 Oh, hell no. We negotiated that beforehand. We said, Phil, the engineer will not have to edit this. All right, if you're new to the show, here are some things you need to know about Meat Eater Trivia. As I said earlier, it's 10 questions about the outdoors, specifically about Meat Eater's four verticals: hunting, fishing, conservation, cooking. The first question is always multiple choice, and if there's a tie, we settle it with a numerical question in overtime. Brody, do you wanna, uh, tell folks what the 10 questions are actually about, since you seem to think they're not about hunting and fishing?
5:32 Speaker 05 Well, it's often questions about, um, modern country music, old stupid a-
5:40 Speaker 02 Oh, yeah.
5:41 Speaker 05 Old TV shows that no one watches.
5:44 Speaker 03 There's other pop culture stuff, too, that's not really always related.
5:48 Speaker 02 Celebrity, yeah. Yep, exactly.
5:51 Speaker 05 Um, cooking questions that don't have really anything to do with wild game.
5:56 Speaker 02 Yes, now everyone fully understands, uh, what, what the questions are.
5:59 Speaker 05 Loaded up with some good ones today?
6:01 Speaker 02 You know what? I was, I was extra conscious. Since this is our debut, I'm gonna give the Outdoor Channel the best that I got. Yeah.
6:07 Speaker 05 Woo!
6:08 Speaker 02 Now, every episode has a $500 donation to a conservation group via Meat Eater, and that org is chosen by the winner. We are in year four of Meat Eater Trivia, and every year, there's a tournament to determine that year's champion. The 2022 winner was Brody Henderson, 23 was Steve Rinella, and 24 was Randall Williams. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you remember now, uh-huh. Each episode has a Shelby index. Shelby is my wife, and I- Test these questions on her before each game. Her score typically reflects how easy or hard a round of trivia is. And for many listeners at home, it's a good benchmark to compete against. If you want to listen to old episodes, then go check out the Meat Eater podcast feed on iHeart,
6:51 Speaker 02 Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes drop every Wednesday. And if you want to participate in the show by sending a question or feedback or correction, then email me at [email protected] . That's [email protected] . And if you enjoy this trivia, then make sure you check out the Meat Eater Trivia Board Games, which there are over a thousand questions, like the ones you'll hear today. There's a standard version, collector's edition, and two expansion packs. They're available at store dot themeateater.com. Anything else you think we need to tell listeners who may be new to this show? Spelling. Spelling does not matter. Thank you, Maxwell. Our players are writing their answers on whiteboards. Spelling doesn't matter until sometimes it does.
7:35 Speaker 04 Now, we face a paradox here. Because that all is information that's needed for the TV audience. But now we only have about 14 minutes to play the game of trivia.
7:46 Speaker 02 Yeah, this is gonna be a weird edit. None of this may make it on the TV show. This may just be for all the folks who already know what's going on.
7:53 Speaker 05 Yeah, they're gonna lose like some of the most entertaining stuff on the show, like the banter between questions.
8:00 Speaker 02 I think they'll still get the flavor text. I don't know what this edit will look like yet.
8:05 Speaker 05 Yeah, they could just edit the game part out and it could just be us arguing.
8:09 Speaker 04 Yeah, exactly.
8:11 Speaker 05 Like a Seinfeld.
8:11 Speaker 04 Then be like, oh, Cal wins. He's donating to VHA.
8:15 Speaker 02 There we go. We're glad you're here. If this is your first time joining us, thank you for playing along. I think you're gonna like this. If you like hunting and fishing, if you like all the other programming on the Outdoor Channel, I think you're gonna like Meat Eater Trivia. All right, the Shelby Index for today is a four, so our winner should get eight correct answers. And with that, we're on to the game of trivia. Play the drop, Phil.
8:39 Speaker 04 People should also know that everybody interrupts the drops.
8:45 Speaker 06 What drop?
8:46 Speaker 02 Well, the poor outdoor channel audience doesn't get the drop. So licensed, so sound.
8:54 Speaker 05 You know how we're not allowed to say naughty words, Spencer?
8:56 Speaker 02 Yeah.
8:57 Speaker 05 What about naughty words on the back? Does anyone have naughty words on the back of their board?
9:02 Speaker 02 We'll find out.
9:04 Speaker 04 We need to say all of our naughty words during the drop because that can't be played on television.
9:08 Speaker 02 Yeah, Meat Eater can give the outdoor channel some bleeps. They probably had a shortage of bleeps. We'll provide them. Question one, the topic is cooking, and this will be multiple choice. Which of these raw foods has the most calories? Is it crayfish, pheasant breast, brook trout, or morrel mushrooms?
9:31 Speaker 06 Great question.
9:33 Speaker 02 And this is if you take a raw three ounce serving of all these foods, which one has the most calories? Crayfish, pheasant breast, brook trout, morrel mushrooms.
9:46 Speaker 07 And just to show the new audience how professional this operation is, you've probably noticed by now that Spencer is not centered in the frame. Because I had to move the camera because Yanis kept leaning out of it during Radio Live the other day, so I'm gonna go move that right now.
9:59 Speaker 02 Okay. Phil, I can do it. You can't trust Corey or Randall to push the camera around? We can put our heads together. This is the kind of engineering quality you get here at Meat Eater Trivia.
10:10 Speaker 04 Just throwing you under the bus, Yanis.
10:12 Speaker 02 Again, question one, which of these raw foods has the most calories? Your four choices: crayfish, pheasant breast, brook trout, morrel mushrooms.
10:24 Speaker 04 You're probably just tired from running too much.
10:28 Speaker 05 You think I was like...
10:29 Speaker 04 You couldn't hold up straight.
10:31 Speaker 05 That was it.
10:32 Speaker 02 Is everybody ready?
10:33 Speaker 07 Oh wait, hold on, I'm not.
10:34 Speaker 02 Okay, one person is not, and he's a very...
10:36 Speaker 07 You want the all-time sound effects?
10:38 Speaker 05 What do you got there?
10:38 Speaker 02 Important part of the show. I don't know.
10:41 Speaker 05 I was tempted with that one.
10:43 Speaker 02 Oh, I just... Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Yanis saying crayfish, Cal says brook trout, Sarah says crayfish, Randall crayfish, Corey brook trout, Max crayfish, Brody brook trout.
11:00 Speaker 02 The correct answer is pheasant breast. Nobody got it right. Are you kidding me? All seven players were wrong.
11:09 Speaker 02 A raw three ounce serving of pheasant breast has 113 calories. That's followed by brook trout at 94, crayfish at 65, and morel mushrooms at 26. The nutritional value for leg meat is almost identical to breast meat, with a three ounce serving of pheasant leg meat having one more calorie than pheasant breast meat.
11:29 Speaker 00 Great start, everyone.
11:31 Speaker 02 A promising beginning for our outdoor network. Question two, the topic is hunting. This next great question is via Lucas Harris. NSSF defines this 12-letter word as, quote, "The process of aligning the center of the barrel of a gun with the sights on your firearm."
11:55 Speaker 02 NSSF defines this 12-letter word as, "The process of aligning the center of the barrel of a gun with the sights on your firearm." Randall, the first player to come up with an answer.
12:12 Speaker 02 How do you feel about your answer, Randall? I feel great.
12:16 Speaker 02 Phenomenal, really. This is a definition from NSSF. It's a 12-letter word, "The process of aligning the center of the barrel of a gun with the sights on your firearm." Yanni, do you have this one right? Yes. Okay, Brody also looks confident. I'm wondering about Max over here.
12:33 Speaker 00 Maybe? I don't have anything yet, Brody.
12:36 Speaker 02 That's why he's wondering.
12:37 Speaker 00 He's a shotgun guy. I'm trying to, trying to remember what N-S-S-F is. National Shooting Sports Foundation.
12:46 Speaker 02 Don't worry about that. Yeah, you're hung up on the wrong part of the question. NSSF defines this 12-letter word as, "The process of aligning the center of the barrel of a gun with the sights on your firearm."
13:00 Speaker 02 NSSF is who puts on the shot show, Maxwell. If that helps you, which I don't think it will.
13:07 Speaker 00 I got eight letters.
13:09 Speaker 02 Okay. Add a few more vowels.
13:12 Speaker 04 Four more.
13:13 Speaker 02 It's not like it doesn't count, remember? Corey, do you have an answer? I do. Okay, we are just waiting on Max.
13:18 Speaker 00 The question's throwing me off.
13:19 Speaker 04 Just add a prefix like semi.
13:21 Speaker 05 Max just takes his rifles to the gun store and has him do it. He just borrows his buddy's rifles, is what I heard.
13:29 Speaker 04 Well, if it stays zero, you never have to sight it in.
13:32 Speaker 02 Max, do you give up?
13:34 Speaker 00 Yeah, I do.
13:35 Speaker 02 Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Yanis saying boresighting. Cal and Sarah and Randall and Corey all saying boresighting. Max, without an answer. Brody says boresighting, they got it. The correct answer is boresighting. That's a 12-letter word. Uh, some places break it up into two words.
13:56 Speaker 00 Thank you.
13:56 Speaker 02 Others have it as one. Boresighting is how you get a gun to hit paper, a step that comes after installing optics, but before getting your gun to zero. There are tools that make this job easier, such as laser boresiders that go in the gun's muzzle or chamber. There's also the old school method, which just involves looking through the barrel at a distant target.
14:16 Speaker 05 That's how I do it.
14:17 Speaker 00 Should've got that one.
14:18 Speaker 02 You feel, feel pretty good about that process after you boresighted?
14:22 Speaker 05 Works pretty good. Oh, definitely.
14:25 Speaker 02 But once you have that laser, also.
14:27 Speaker 00 Frickin' laser.
14:27 Speaker 04 Or you just, or you just put out a piece of cardboard at like 15 yards. Yeah. Shoot that.
14:32 Speaker 05 Exactly.
14:33 Speaker 02 Many ways you can get that gun to zero. Question three. The topic is conservation. This bacterial disease, which a terrorist used to kill five Americans in 2001, also killed 50 hippos in the Congo in 2025. These are some great questions, Spencer. Wow, thanks, Max. That's awful complimentary for a guy who's about to start 0 for 3. 0 for 3?
14:58 Speaker 00 Really?
14:59 Speaker 02 What was the category here? This is conservation. Conservation. This bacterial disease, which a terrorist used to kill 5 Americans in 2001, also killed 50 hippos in the Congo in 2025. Hippos are a vulnerable species, so when 50 of them just die one day, that's a conservation topic. And the German word for hippo is Flussferd, meaning river horse. Oh, very good. Okay, I'm surprised horse is where that translates to. I know, it's odd. 2001, that was a rough year.
15:36 Speaker 02 I was 5 years old. Yeah, this story got extra play because of what else happened in 2001. This bacterial disease, which a terrorist used to kill 5 Americans in 2001, also killed 50 hippos in the Congo in 2025. Yanis, do you have this one right? I don't think so. Okay. Randall was confident, now he's revisiting his answer. Yeah. Sarah, do you have this one right?
16:06 Speaker 08 I have a bacterial disease that has killed people.
16:10 Speaker 02 How about you, Cal? He's thinking.
16:13 Speaker 03 I can't remember it. I know it, I know it, it's in there somewhere.
16:16 Speaker 02 This is question 3. This bacterial disease, which a terrorist used to kill 5 Americans in 2001, also killed 50 hippos in the Congo in 2025.
16:29 Speaker 03 I feel like you could have told us how many letters this bacterial disease is.
16:33 Speaker 02 I could have, but I didn't.
16:42 Speaker 02 Brody looks stumped. He wants to do good on his TV debut.
16:47 Speaker 05 I remember the whole thing.
16:51 Speaker 02 Wait, he can see it. It's welling up in there. Bubbling to the top. This bacterial disease, which a terrorist used to kill 5 Americans in 2001, also killed 50 hippos in the Congo in 2025.
17:09 Speaker 02 How many letters is it? Not gonna give you any hints.
17:12 Speaker 08 High drama in that corner.
17:14 Speaker 02 That's right. Oh, he's now going to his whiteboard. Yeah, good job, bro. Oh! And he spill the drink. Not even drinking. In the meantime. Is everybody ready? Yeah. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Yanis saying anthrax. Oh. Cal says botulism. Sarah, anthrax. Randall? Anthrax. No, Randall says anthrax.
17:42 Speaker 04 No, no, I didn't.
17:43 Speaker 02 Without an answer, Brody says anthrax. Don't go writing on your board right now, anthrax. What did you cross out, Randall?
17:49 Speaker 04 I crossed out ricin.
17:51 Speaker 02 The correct answer is anthrax. Yes! Did very well. I remember the whole envelope thing. I was trying to jog my memory. Powder, envelope.
18:02 Speaker 04 Yeah.
18:02 Speaker 02 Anthrax is caused by a bacteria that is naturally found in soil across the globe. It sometimes kills livestock, such as cows and sheep, as well as wild animals, such as moose and bison. The 2001 anthrax attacks were carried out by sending letters that contained anthrax spores. The FBI determined in 2008 that Dr. Bruce Ivins was the culprit, but the man killed himself right before charges were filed. Hmm, damn. I, uh, I, when I was in elementary school, I was one of the last classes in my school to interview people who lived during the Dust Bowl, uh, in the, that was during the Dirty 30s. The old lady I interviewed, Beulah, was her name, she talked about all the cows dying
18:44 Speaker 02 one year from eating anthrax in the soil because the wind just blew away all the topsoil, uh, and there were livestock in the area. Uh, also in Wyoming, uh, they just had some deer and a moose die, I think, from anthrax last year, so it, uh, can show up anywhere. Question four, the topic is wildlife. This family of salamanders is named after the creatures in Greek mythology that lure sailors to their death.
19:12 Speaker 08 Gosh, Spencer.
19:15 Speaker 02 Did Anthrax sound familiar to you Max?
19:17 Speaker 03 Dragon going today, Matt.
19:18 Speaker 02 Once you heard that?
19:19 Speaker 03 No.
19:19 Speaker 02 No.
19:20 Speaker 04 It's a band too, isn't it?
19:22 Speaker 02 Oh, I didn't know about that.
19:23 Speaker 07 Yeah. Signed by Scott Ian, he's got a mean beard.
19:26 Speaker 03 That's a little, I don't know.
19:27 Speaker 02 Wow. Do they, I imagine they sing very angry music.
19:32 Speaker 07 It was metal.
19:33 Speaker 04 Yeah, yeah.
19:35 Speaker 02 Again, we're on question four, the topic is wildlife. This family of salamanders is named after the creatures in Greek mythology.
19:43 Speaker 03 That's not even a salamander.
19:44 Speaker 02 They were sailors to their death.
19:47 Speaker 08 How's it going over there, Max?
19:48 Speaker 00 Not well.
19:49 Speaker 07 I think their hit song is called Caught in a Mosh.
19:51 Speaker 02 Hmm. Oh wow.
19:52 Speaker 04 Caught in a mosh. We've all been caught in a mosh at one point.
19:55 Speaker 00 I feel like I'm caught in a mosh right now.
19:56 Speaker 07 You're telling me.
19:57 Speaker 00 I don't know if that's.
19:58 Speaker 04 Whether we knew it or not.
19:59 Speaker 03 Lot of great memories of the old mosh.
20:01 Speaker 04 Oh yeah.
20:02 Speaker 02 No, you've never been in a mosh pit.
20:04 Speaker 03 Dude. Come on.
20:05 Speaker 02 Okay, tell me about it. When and where?
20:08 Speaker 03 Uh, huh?
20:09 Speaker 02 When and where?
20:10 Speaker 03 When and where? Probably most of them were at the State Theater in Calms in Michigan, which I recently heard. Which is where we've done live shows, yeah, and I recently heard that it might be closing down.
20:20 Speaker 02 Hmm.
20:20 Speaker 03 Oh, it should be sad.
20:21 Speaker 02 That was one of the prettiest theaters that we, uh, that we went to.
20:25 Speaker 03 Gorgeous, yeah, and we had it slam packed full.
20:28 Speaker 04 So you're part of the scene back then?
20:29 Speaker 03 But, uh, I'm trying to think, Seven Seconds, anybody remember that band?
20:33 Speaker 02 No.
20:34 Speaker 03 No? They did a cover of, uh, 99 Red Balloons.
20:38 Speaker 02 Oh, did they do a German version or English?
20:41 Speaker 03 Uh, I think English. I almost got trampled to death in a mosh pit.
20:45 Speaker 02 Wow, by who was singing?
20:47 Speaker 03 Uh, it was at the first ever Lollapalooza.
20:51 Speaker 02 Whoa.
20:51 Speaker 03 When Jane's Addiction came on.
20:53 Speaker 02 Damn bro, that's some, uh, that's good street cred to carry here.
20:56 Speaker 03 We were in the seats and everyone from the lawn.
20:59 Speaker 02 Hmm.
21:00 Speaker 03 Rushed.
21:00 Speaker 04 Were you a guy, were you one of the guys that uses elbows or one of the guys just swings their arms wildly?
21:05 Speaker 03 Just jumped straight up and down.
21:06 Speaker 04 Yeah.
21:07 Speaker 02 Oh, that's good.
21:08 Speaker 04 We got into a pretty good mosh when, uh, when Offspring played Jammin' on Main back in Cincinnati, my senior year in high school.
21:16 Speaker 02 Okay.
21:17 Speaker 04 And they're giving out.
21:17 Speaker 02 That had to be about their peak, uh, music career.
21:20 Speaker 04 It might have been a little past their peak.
21:22 Speaker 02 Okay.
21:23 Speaker 03 I don't think they ever had a peak.
21:24 Speaker 04 But they were giving out, they were giving out huge pizzas and people were just throwing the pizzas and a pizza functions much like a banana peel does. So.
21:34 Speaker 09 I'd say it might be even more dangerous.
21:36 Speaker 04 Yeah, yeah.
21:37 Speaker 09 More surface area.
21:38 Speaker 04 And remind me sometime to tell you about my banana peel story.
21:41 Speaker 02 Okay.
21:41 Speaker 04 Good one, too.
21:42 Speaker 02 Wow. Again, we're on question four. This family of salamanders is named after the creatures in Greek mythology that lure sailors to their death. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Yanis and Cal and Sarah and Randall saying sirens. Oh. Corey says axolotl. Uh, Maxwell says Loch Ness monster. Hey. Brody says sirens. He got it. The correct answer is siren. The siren family of amphibians refers to aquatic salamanders that have small forelimbs, no hind limbs, and long bodies. They also possess external gills that look like those of an axolotl.
22:24 Speaker 02 Sirens are native to the southeastern United States and northern Mexico. Question five, the topic is fishing. This next great question is via Brian Pruska. This is my turn. Brian Prusa. This five-letter word is used to describe the type of in-person survey where anglers answer questions about their fishing experience.
22:48 Speaker 09 One, two, three, four, five. Max?
22:51 Speaker 02 It's, yeah.
22:51 Speaker 09 Just done one of these this past weekend.
22:53 Speaker 02 Oh, okay.
22:54 Speaker 09 Yeah.
22:55 Speaker 02 This five-letter word is used to, used to describe the type of in-person survey where anglers answer questions about their fishing experience.
23:03 Speaker 05 Very nice old gentleman.
23:05 Speaker 02 Oh.
23:06 Speaker 09 Uh, this year, this dude and his wife, very, very nice people from Kentucky. He, uh, burned out hard on his pro music career.
23:16 Speaker 05 Mm-hmm.
23:16 Speaker 09 And is a recovering musician. We're doing Creoles. Uh.
23:25 Speaker 05 Everyone.
23:27 Speaker 09 Fudge, the wheels have come off. Editing team. Thanks for centering that, Cal. Want me to turn it off now?
23:32 Speaker 04 Anybody who changes their answer, wrote their answer down after Cal said it.
23:35 Speaker 02 I should get it.
23:36 Speaker 09 Yup.
23:36 Speaker 02 I should not get that one. I don't think anyone should be threatened by Max's score. Hey, Cal.
23:41 Speaker 09 There's always a chance. And no one knows what the real answer is.
23:44 Speaker 02 Now, finish your story here, Cal, and tell the rest of it.
23:47 Speaker 09 Emmy, Emmy Award, or Emmy nominated singer songwriter, and now all he does is survey fishermen on the lake. And he's like, it's the best job I've ever had.
23:58 Speaker 02 Yeah, I did it in college for a summer. And anglers, be nice to the people who are doing these surveys.
24:06 Speaker 05 I don't think people are mean to those guys.
24:08 Speaker 02 Listen, as someone who did them, Brody.
24:09 Speaker 05 I think, I think you weren't trained well.
24:11 Speaker 09 What was young Spence's memory of the team victim blaming?
24:14 Speaker 02 There was one, one specifically problematic demographic, and it was old men. Old men, it was never women, it was never young men, it was never middle-aged men, it was the old men.
24:24 Speaker 05 They don't like giving away what they...
24:26 Speaker 02 They, they thought I was trying to, you know, get them and like, I was gonna call the game warden because of something and that. I was gonna tell the next fisherman where this guy just caught his three 16-inch walleye at.
24:39 Speaker 09 I am gonna victim blame here, Phil. Okay, let's hear it. I want, I am dying to know what your, what your pitch was.
24:46 Speaker 02 My pitch to what?
24:47 Speaker 09 Yeah, give me, give me the, "Hey, fellas."
24:49 Speaker 02 Oh, yeah. Well, I was specifically doing AIS work, aquatic invasive species. So I'd have to go ask them, like, "What was the last lake you visited? How many days ago?" Were you checking boats or anything?
25:01 Speaker 05 That's different.
25:02 Speaker 04 I think Cal's more interested in your disposition.
25:04 Speaker 02 Mm-hmm. I had so much charisma, Cal.
25:07 Speaker 05 When I see that guy standing there with, with the clipboard, I just walk right to him, because I want to talk to him.
25:13 Speaker 02 There you go. Brody's not, not quite an old man yet, but he's getting there. Then maybe he'll be... I'm showing everyone my answer. All right, go ahead and reveal your answers. Fill the screen as blank. Yanis and Cal and Sarah, everybody says Creel. The correct answer is Creel Survey. And how do you spell it? C-R-E-E-L. During a Creel survey, interviewers will ask about the duration of the trip, how many fish they caught, and if they were satisfied with their experience. Some surveys include fish measurements and boat counts as well. This data helps biologists make management decisions about bodies of water.
25:51 Speaker 05 You know, I'll bet to the younger anglers out there, maybe even Matt.
25:55 Speaker 03 Don't even know what a Creel is.
25:57 Speaker 04 Yeah.
25:57 Speaker 03 Nobody carries them anymore.
25:58 Speaker 04 That's what I was wondering.
25:59 Speaker 02 Do you know what a Creel is?
26:00 Speaker 00 Yes, I've done a couple before.
26:02 Speaker 04 No, then you don't know about it.
26:04 Speaker 00 What?
26:04 Speaker 03 What a Creel?
26:05 Speaker 04 An object known as a Creel.
26:08 Speaker 00 Ever seen a river runs through it?
26:09 Speaker 04 Yes, I have.
26:11 Speaker 00 They carry the wicker. The wicker baskets. Put their fish in.
26:15 Speaker 04 Okay.
26:16 Speaker 02 That's what inspired the name of a Creel survey.
26:19 Speaker 03 That's my, my favorite line is when he busts open that Creel and he's like, looks like the good Lord has bust us all today, but he's been extremely or. Some better than others, more than others. Yeah.
26:32 Speaker 02 All right, we're halfway through the game of trivia, Phil. Give us a scoreboard update.
26:38 Speaker 07 Here we are at the halfway mark. We have Max with one point, but he's got a big old Barry Bonds asterisk on there. Coming up next is Cal and Cory with three points apiece. And then all tied up in first place are Yanis, Sarah, Randall and Brody with four points apiece.
26:55 Speaker 03 Wow.
26:55 Speaker 02 Untracked.
26:56 Speaker 03 Good work, Delaney.
26:58 Speaker 02 Max is still in it.
27:00 Speaker 00 I'm always in it, Brody.
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29:38 Speaker 02 Question six, the topic is public lands. Forbes defines this term with an anatomical name as, quote, "the weeks before and after the peak season of any destination."
29:53 Speaker 02 Forbes defines this term with an anatomical name as "the weeks before and after the peak season of any destination."
30:02 Speaker 08 It's the best time to be in Montana.
30:04 Speaker 02 Okay, there's a hint.
30:06 Speaker 03 I don't feel like we have it anymore.
30:09 Speaker 04 No.
30:10 Speaker 08 Really?
30:10 Speaker 03 I remember when it happened to the valley that Brody and I used to live in.
30:14 Speaker 02 Hmm.
30:15 Speaker 03 When I was a young twenty, early twenties, it was the best, the place to just clear out. But I was too young to really appreciate it.
30:21 Speaker 04 Some places in Montana still have it.
30:23 Speaker 08 Mm hmm.
30:24 Speaker 03 But.
30:25 Speaker 02 So it's all relative.
30:26 Speaker 03 Yeah, it's relative, yeah. But here where we live.
30:29 Speaker 04 In the greater metropolis of Bozeman, no.
30:32 Speaker 03 No.
30:32 Speaker 08 I guess hunting kinda eliminates it a little bit. So the other activities, we're kinda looking at like October, November.
30:40 Speaker 04 I don't even think it's hunting. I think it's just general.
30:43 Speaker 03 It's any kind of recreation.
30:45 Speaker 08 Hmm.
30:46 Speaker 02 Again, question six. Forbes defines this term with an anatomical name as the weeks before and after the peak season of any destination.
30:55 Speaker 03 Yeah, a lot of places just invent shit to draw people in. Oop, I can't swear.
31:02 Speaker 09 The Bozeman Airport right now, it's like fighting for your bag at the luggage carousel is a real thing. Like you're getting in between somebody and their vacation and they're gonna let you know it.
31:13 Speaker 08 Is the carousel still under construction?
31:15 Speaker 09 Oh, yeah.
31:15 Speaker 04 Yeah.
31:16 Speaker 09 Yeah.
31:17 Speaker 08 A lot of airport cowboys.
31:18 Speaker 03 This editor a lot to work with.
31:22 Speaker 02 Is everybody ready?
31:23 Speaker 06 Oh, gosh.
31:25 Speaker 02 Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Yanis and Cal and Sarah and Randall saying shoulder season. Corey says off season. Max, without an answer. Brody says shoulder season. The correct answer is the shoulder season. Shoulder season is a touristy name for the period that exists between peak season and off season. These windows offer a more peaceful time to visit places while amenities are still available. Shoulder season varies by location. In Yellowstone, for example, shoulder season is April and October, but in Great Smoky Mountains, it's March and November. Question seven, the topic is hunting. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Bruce Weiss for sending this
32:10 Speaker 02 great question. Bruce is going to get a board game signed by the crew. If you want a chance to win our listener question of the week, then send your question to [email protected] . Tommy tells his mom he needs to borrow a kitchen knife to hack off the paw of a deer in this Martin Scorsese film.
32:30 Speaker 02 Not my day Spencer.
32:33 Speaker 02 Tommy tells his mom he needs to borrow a kitchen knife to hack off the paw of a deer in this Martin Scorsese film.
32:42 Speaker 09 Did you know?
32:45 Speaker 03 I think I did.
32:48 Speaker 02 Tell it to us Cal.
32:50 Speaker 09 Don't say the answer though.
32:51 Speaker 03 Creel survey.
32:53 Speaker 09 That this scene is uh Scorsese's mom.
32:57 Speaker 02 I did know that. It's in my flavor text. Yes. Uh, and, and paw, if you're, if you're listening to this paw is in quotation marks because that is what Tommy calls it. That is not my phrasing. Tommy tells his mom he needs to borrow a kitchen knife to hack off the paw of a deer in this Martin Scorsese film.
33:17 Speaker 03 Do you know Brody?
33:18 Speaker 09 I'm pretty sure I do.
33:19 Speaker 03 You know, we're, we're normally in the uh hunting, fishing, conservation or culinary category. This category that we're in now falls outside of mine.
33:35 Speaker 02 Do you have this one right Yanis?
33:36 Speaker 03 It's just not a category that I'm, I'm well versed in. So probably not. I have a movie written down.
33:41 Speaker 09 What you mean is it's not a category in this trivia game?
33:44 Speaker 02 I just told you butchering, hunting, wildlife.
33:46 Speaker 03 If it was a film that maybe Clay Newcomb had made, then I'd have a chance.
33:51 Speaker 09 A film.
33:51 Speaker 03 Yeah.
33:53 Speaker 09 By Clay Newcomb.
33:54 Speaker 03 Oh, good. Look at that giggle I got out of Randall. I love it.
33:57 Speaker 02 Question seven, the topic is hunting and this was our listener question of the week. Tommy tells his mom he needs to borrow a kitchen knife to hack off the paw of a deer. This is Martin Scorsese film.
34:08 Speaker 09 I hope old Martin's not listening.
34:10 Speaker 02 Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Yanis saying Deer Hunter. Cal says Goodfellas. Sarah, The Godfather. Randall, Goodfellas. Cordy, The Departed. Max.
34:23 Speaker 03 Oh, that's a good movie.
34:24 Speaker 02 Eskenaba Into Moonlight. Brody, Goodfellas. The correct answer is Goodfellas. Cal, Randall and Brody got that one right. James, Henry and Tommy stop at Tommy's mother's home to get a knife. As they're on their way to bury a mobster, they accidentally wake up Tommy's mom who's actually played by Martin Scorsese's own mother. She then insists on feeding them, which is when Tommy says he needs the knife. Much of this scene was improvised. Play the clip Phil.
34:54 Speaker 07 Speaking of giving the editor a lot to work with, this is about the seventh thing we'll have to cut from the show.
35:00 Speaker 10 This stuff is great, but it's like a lead. So tell me, tell me, where have you been? I haven't seen you. I haven't even, you haven't even called or anything. Where have you been? Well, I've been working nights. And? Um, well, tonight we were out late. We took a ride on the, out to the country and we hit one of those deers that I scored a blood tape for. I told you, Jimmy told you before. Anyway, no, remind you, my need is.
35:22 Speaker 03 Kind of looks like Mark Scorsese with a rig on.
35:24 Speaker 10 Okay, yeah, just bring it back though, you know. Well, the poor thing, you know, we got, I hit him in his, uh, we hit the deer in his paw, what do you call it? The paw. The paw.
35:32 Speaker 00 Paw.
35:34 Speaker 10 The hoof got caught in the grill. I gotta, I gotta hack it off. Ooh. Ma, it's a sin. You're gonna leave it there, you know, so anyway, I'll bring your knife back after that. Anyway. Delicious. Thank you.
35:45 Speaker 02 Yanis, have you seen that movie?
35:47 Speaker 03 Oh, oh, many times, but I do not, did not remember this thing.
35:51 Speaker 02 Question eight, the topic is cooking. This next great question is via Mike Tenet. This thin steak, which comes from an animal's shoulder, shares its name with an antique appliance and New York City building.
36:08 Speaker 02 This thin steak, which comes from an animal's shoulder, shares its name with an antique appliance and New York City building. This is question eight. We will get another scoreboard update from Phil after this.
36:23 Speaker 02 Our players look stumped. Don't see any. Oh, Sarah has an answer. Sarah, do you have this one right?
36:29 Speaker 08 I believe I do.
36:30 Speaker 02 Okay. Brody now has an answer. Brody, do you have this one right?
36:33 Speaker 00 Yeah, right after Sarah.
36:35 Speaker 02 Oh, Max, okay.
36:35 Speaker 00 Did you ask me if I got it right? I don't think so, but it's the first thing that came to my mind.
36:40 Speaker 03 You're really having a tough day.
36:41 Speaker 00 Yeah, God, I should not have accepted this invite to come play.
36:45 Speaker 02 Brody, which part of the, is it the antique appliance, the New York City building, or uh, that it's a thin steak?
36:51 Speaker 03 Wasn't the New York City building.
36:53 Speaker 08 Mine was, I was, mine was the New York City building.
36:55 Speaker 02 Okay. This thin steak, which comes from an animal's shoulder, shares its name with an antique appliance and New York City building.
37:04 Speaker 03 Oh my gosh, I cooked this thin steak for Jason Phelps in an episode. You sure did. And I cannot remember the name.
37:12 Speaker 02 Brody knows it so intimately that he knows that you know it.
37:16 Speaker 03 I never, ever take this thing out of the shoulder.
37:21 Speaker 02 You don't know. Here's another hint from Brody. It's like, I feel like there's a lot of other good stuff. Like, I don't, like, it's okay, but... This thin steak, which comes from an animal's shoulder, shares its name with an antique appliance in New York City building. Randall, slow to answer, do you have this one right?
37:41 Speaker 04 I believe so.
37:41 Speaker 02 Okay.
37:42 Speaker 04 I think so.
37:43 Speaker 02 You really had to stew on it, though.
37:44 Speaker 04 I did. I had a, I had an initial guess that I didn't like. And, uh, because I'd never heard it used in the context of a steak.
37:52 Speaker 02 Hmm.
37:53 Speaker 04 But I think I'm on the right track now.
37:55 Speaker 02 Okay. Speaking of stew, that's where mine ends up a lot. Oh.
37:58 Speaker 06 Oh, so I'm way off. Yeah. I'm not cheating, Max, but I'm telling you, you're way off.
38:05 Speaker 02 Oh, do you have this one right, Corey?
38:06 Speaker 06 No, I got nothing.
38:07 Speaker 02 Okay.
38:07 Speaker 06 At least I got an answer down. I had to come up with something funny, because I don't know.
38:10 Speaker 02 Uh huh.
38:11 Speaker 06 I've eaten it a thousand times.
38:13 Speaker 02 Can I give Max a clue, please? I mean, Yanni still has a blank whiteboard and he is in the running here. Okay, Brody is going to Max's ear.
38:21 Speaker 06 Oh, I can hear him.
38:22 Speaker 02 This is for Max, well, only.
38:23 Speaker 04 I think Sarah's the most confident.
38:26 Speaker 02 She is. She was, I think. She's finished writing before I finished the question.
38:29 Speaker 04 As soon as I remember the word, I'm gonna be very confident, too.
38:32 Speaker 03 Funny how that works.
38:36 Speaker 04 Oh, come on.
38:37 Speaker 02 Yannis?
38:38 Speaker 04 Is this question eight?
38:39 Speaker 02 This is question eight.
38:40 Speaker 04 Oh, jeez.
38:41 Speaker 02 It's really coming down to the wire here.
38:43 Speaker 04 We're gonna get a score update here.
38:44 Speaker 02 Mm-hmm. Yannis Putilas, how we doing?
38:48 Speaker 04 Oh, not good. I don't even have a letter yet.
38:51 Speaker 02 Smash your board on the, on the table a few times. That should help. Oh, okay. Smashing it on his buzzed head.
38:58 Speaker 04 Oh, jeez. This is exciting. Sorry, gotta get in the mic.
39:05 Speaker 02 Yanni? Gonna have to get the shot clock out.
39:09 Speaker 04 Yeah.
39:09 Speaker 02 Cal, do you have this one right?
39:11 Speaker 09 I don't think so.
39:12 Speaker 02 Okay.
39:12 Speaker 04 Go ahead and...
39:13 Speaker 02 Go ahead and reveal your answers. Yannis, without an answer.
39:16 Speaker 04 Oh.
39:17 Speaker 02 Cal says, "Howzer steak." Sarah and Randall say, "Flatiron." Corey says, "Guggenheim." Max says FLA blank.
39:28 Speaker 05 Yeah. I told him he had blank and I told him he had the first three letters.
39:33 Speaker 02 Yeah, it's a good hint. And Brody says flat iron. The correct answer is the flat iron steak. I wish it was a Guggenheim steak, though.
39:42 Speaker 06 Yeah. Do you take compliance? Hell of a steak.
39:45 Speaker 02 That's what came before a clothes iron was the flat iron. Chris Calkins, a former Meat Eater podcast guest, helped market the steak in the late 90s. His team chose the name because it resembles an old fashioned flat iron for clothes. The cut of meat gained popularity in the early 2000s after Applebee's added it to their menu and Kroger started selling it in grocery stores. It's known as the butler steak or feather steak in the UK and oyster blade steak in Australia. For a flat iron recipe, check out Danielle Pruitt's recipe on the meat eater.com for venison steak sandwiches. All right, Phil, we have two questions left. Give us a scoreboard update.
40:25 Speaker 06 Well, not in the game.
40:26 Speaker 07 Well, Taylor's old as time is coming down to Randall and Brody. You have seven points apiece, but hot on their tail is Sarah with six.
40:35 Speaker 02 Yeah.
40:36 Speaker 07 Coming up behind Sarah, Yanis and Cal is five. Corey has three and Max has one.
40:42 Speaker 02 Question nine, the topic is fishing. The Georgia Wildlife Network defines this seven letter word as, quote, "a fishing method that uses lines suspended from floating bottles to catch fish."
40:57 Speaker 06 Oh.
41:00 Speaker 02 Randall has his answer already. Corey is now joining him. The Georgia Wildlife Network defines this seven letter word as "a fishing method that uses lines suspended from floating bottles to catch fish."
41:17 Speaker 02 Randall knew it immediately. Brody, how do you feel about your answer?
41:21 Speaker 03 Pretty good.
41:22 Speaker 02 Okay.
41:26 Speaker 02 We'll get another scoreboard update after this.
41:28 Speaker 06 Seven letter? I might actually have a chance. Alright dude, all on your own too. Way to go.
41:35 Speaker 03 I like your answer.
41:36 Speaker 02 Oh wow, alright, okay.
41:38 Speaker 04 I don't like that Brody likes Max's answer.
41:41 Speaker 02 Yanni, how we doing over here?
41:42 Speaker 03 What do you think about my answer, Brody? I like that.
41:45 Speaker 02 Okay.
41:46 Speaker 04 Our TV audience should know too, that sometimes these shenanigans go on during the game. It's a point of contention among those of us who value the integrity of this contest.
41:56 Speaker 03 And those of us that value the entertainment value.
41:59 Speaker 04 I think we can just get away with some witty banter and some jokes.
42:04 Speaker 02 More stories about Europe. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Uh, we have the entire room saying jugging and they got it. The correct answer is jugging or jug line. Jugging is primarily used to catch catfish. The setups are usually simple and consist of a baited hook, sinker, line, and two-liter bottle or pool noodle. State regulations vary from Michigan where it's not legal to Mississippi, where anglers can use 25 jugs at a time. Has anyone jug lined in here?
42:36 Speaker 03 Oh, we did a great meteor episode with Kevin Murphy.
42:39 Speaker 02 I didn't know if that was set lines or you guys did.
42:42 Speaker 03 We did both.
42:43 Speaker 02 Okay.
42:43 Speaker 03 We went jogging with, uh, Leon, uh, I can't remember Leon's last name now, but, uh, quite the character.
42:49 Speaker 02 I remember the episode. Great episode. Uh, what, what kind of jugs did you use? Were they just like a standard two-leedle, two-liter pop bottle?
42:56 Speaker 03 Uh, Leon is not your average juggler. He might be the best juggler on that river. Um, which I wish I could remember exactly which.
43:05 Speaker 02 You were in Kentucky, right?
43:06 Speaker 03 Yeah, so what's the river that's on the border there of Kentucky and Indiana?
43:10 Speaker 02 Is it Kentucky?
43:11 Speaker 03 The Ohio River? I think it's Ohio. But, um, he welded together two two-liter bottles for his jugs.
43:21 Speaker 02 Wow.
43:21 Speaker 03 Melted? I don't know exactly how. Yeah, plastic welding. Yeah, plastic welding. But yeah, that was, that was his technique. We had a couple of pool noodles out there too, maybe. But most of them were two liter bottles, two of them.
43:34 Speaker 02 All right, here's a correct answer review so far. One was pheasant breast, two boar sighting, three anthrax, four sirens, five creole survey, six shoulder season, seven goodfellas, eight flatiron, nine jugging. Phil, let's get one more scoreboard update.
43:51 Speaker 00 I should have at least five.
43:54 Speaker 07 Well, with everyone getting that last question correct, the standings remain the same.
43:58 Speaker 02 Oh, God.
43:58 Speaker 07 However,
44:01 Speaker 07 we have more eliminations because the only players that are left in the game are Randall and Brody with eight and Sarah with seven.
44:05 Speaker 00 Right.
44:06 Speaker 02 Question 10. The topic is conservation.
44:10 Speaker 00 At least I tied Shelby.
44:11 Speaker 02 This EPA program, which was established in 1980, is designed to pay for the investigation and cleanup of contaminated sites. Randall already has his answer. Brody is now joining him. Looks like they are both confident and we will be going to overtime. This is question 10. The topic is conservation.
44:33 Speaker 03 I don't know.
44:34 Speaker 02 This EPA program, which was established in 1980, is designed to pay for the investigation and cleanup of contaminated sites.
44:45 Speaker 02 Sarah, do you have a chance at getting this one right? Maybe Brody and Randall get it wrong and you can tie them.
44:50 Speaker 03 No, I won't get it wrong.
44:52 Speaker 08 Yeah, I know.
44:53 Speaker 02 Randall answered for.
44:55 Speaker 08 I think I'm hosed.
44:56 Speaker 02 Okay.
44:56 Speaker 03 See, that's the kind of fun and games you can have to keep your banter going without showing our answers across the table.
45:02 Speaker 02 Oh, man, that was a lot of fun.
45:05 Speaker 02 Yanis, you seem to have this one right. I believe so. Cal, do you have this one right?
45:10 Speaker 09 I believe so.
45:11 Speaker 02 This EPA program, which was established in 1980, is designed to pay for the investigation and cleanup of contaminated sites. It's done. Go ahead and reveal your answers.
45:26 Speaker 00 You said it.
45:28 Speaker 02 As Cal said, uh, super fun. Yannis says, "Super fun."
45:33 Steven Rinella? I didn't cuss, I blasphemy.
45:36 Speaker 09 I took the lower's name in vain.
45:38 Speaker 02 Randall, "Super fun." Corey, "FEMA." Max, "Clean Waters Act." Brody, "Super fun." The correct answer is, "Super fun."
45:47 Steven Rinella? That was good.
45:47 Speaker 06 That's brutal, Cal.
45:48 Speaker 02 The Super Fund was formally established as the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980. It forces parties responsible for contaminated areas to either perform cleanups or reimburse the government for their cleanup work. New Jersey, California, Pennsylvania, and New York have the most Super Fund sites, while North Dakota, Nevada, South Dakota, and Wyoming have the fewest. Alright, Cal, uh, excuse me, Randall and Brody.
46:19 Speaker 09 The state of Montana makes the record book for Super Fund sites, right? Because our Super Fund site runs from Butte to Missoula on the Clark Fork. So it's 107 mile long. Super Fun site, pretty sure.
46:33 Speaker 02 Randall and Brody are tied, that means we're going to overtime. Play the drop, Phil.
46:39 Steven Rinella? Tiebreaker. If you ain't first, you're last. I think just cut it at, "If you ain't first, you're last," and then like go into other stuff that's funny. I never liked it. Hey Phil, [bleep] off, man. Were you sniffing your marker? Yeah.
46:54 Speaker 02 We settle a tie with a numerical question. Whoever is closest between Brody and Randall will be declared the winner, but the rest of the room will play along, because if somebody gets it right on the nose, Meat Eater will add an extra $100 donation to today's game. The tie-breaking topic is fishing. And what a coincidence, here it is. What year was the movie "A River Runs Through It" released? We had some "River Runs Through It" banter earlier this episode.
47:25 Speaker 02 What year was the movie A River Runs Through It released?
47:29 Speaker 03 This is tough because Brody's got the experience of a fly fishing guide and when we started fly fishing, it was uh not long after this movie was released.
47:39 Speaker 02 Okay, there's a hint.
47:41 Speaker 03 People talked about it a lot.
47:43 Speaker 06 The movie that ruined fishing.
47:45 Speaker 02 Wow. Randall, how do you feel about your answer?
47:48 Speaker 05 We used to call it.
47:49 Speaker 02 Oh, you did?
47:50 Speaker 05 Yeah.
47:51 Speaker 02 The movie that ruined it.
47:52 Speaker 03 I'm fairly certain that I have it right.
47:55 Speaker 02 Wow, right on the nose.
47:57 Speaker 03 Yeah, I mean, you can't read an article about tourism in Montana without encountering this date.
48:04 Speaker 05 Seems awful confident.
48:05 Speaker 02 So.
48:06 Speaker 03 I mean, I could be off by a year or two, but. I mean, we uh that that is the historian.
48:12 Speaker 02 Is everybody ready?
48:12 Speaker 03 There. Also, big uh big Brad Pitt guy.
48:16 Speaker 02 Okay, we did know that about you. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Yanis.
48:22 Speaker 03 Oh.
48:23 Speaker 02 What's your answer, Yanis?
48:24 Speaker 03 Oh, no answer.
48:25 Speaker 02 Why don't you write down an answer?
48:26 Speaker 03 Uh, I forgot, sorry.
48:28 Speaker 02 Cal saying nineteen ninety-four. Sarah says nineteen ninety-two. Cory says nineteen ninety-four. Max says nineteen ninety-six and our two players left. Randall says nineteen ninety-one. Brody says nineteen ninety-two.
48:44 Speaker 03 Uh-oh.
48:45 Speaker 02 One of you, Randall and Brody, has it dead nuts.
48:49 Speaker 05 It ain't Randall.
48:50 Speaker 02 The correct answer is nineteen ninety-two making Brody our winner.
48:56 Speaker 06 Nice.
48:57 Speaker 02 By nailing the overtime question right on the nose, that means it will be a six hundred dollar donation today. A River Runs Through It was nominated for three Academy Awards and won the Oscar for Best Cinematography. According to one source, the fly fishing industry grew by sixty percent in nineteen ninety-three, the year after the film was released. That sounds right based on your guys' account. Sarah also had that.
49:23 Speaker 05 Yeah, I shouldn't be complaining. I mean, it. Sent a lot of work to be honest.
49:28 Speaker 03 Oh, yeah, I've never complained about it. Hey, when I picked up that fly rod, I was trying to cast just like that.
49:34 Speaker 05 Oh, yeah.
49:34 Speaker 03 Son of a gun.
49:35 Speaker 05 Giant stalker that he lands at the end of the movie.
49:39 Speaker 03 But how did, is that, that's not the end, is it?
49:42 Speaker 05 It's near.
49:43 Speaker 03 Near the end.
49:43 Speaker 04 Near the end. I think it's the last, it's the last trip that they go on before old, uh, hmm, Brad gets, right?
49:50 Speaker 05 But on a bunyan bug, which is a imitation of a salmon fly.
49:55 Speaker 04 Hmm.
49:56 Speaker 02 All right, Brody, what are you gonna do with your $600?
49:59 Speaker 03 I wanna know how Brody knew the exact year.
50:02 Speaker 05 I just do. Stuff that sticks in my head.
50:05 Speaker 02 He just knew it.
50:06 Speaker 05 I was at Penn State, I remember.
50:08 Speaker 04 I was in kindergarten. I remember we were doing some projects.
50:13 Speaker 05 Trying to see my thunder here.
50:14 Speaker 03 To do math.
50:15 Speaker 05 Trying to see my thunder.
50:18 Speaker 02 All right, Brody, what are we doing to $600 today?
50:20 Speaker 05 Well, in honor of a river runs through it, we'll donate it to Trout Unlimited.
50:24 Speaker 02 Trout Unlimited, $600 coming from Brody Henderson and Meat Eater. Join us next week for more Meat Eater trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins.
50:33 Speaker 05 Woo!
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50:48 Speaker 11 And he likes taking those two and three year old bucks. And he's an avid amateur. Rockhound.
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