Pod Insights The MeatEater Podcast Ep. 659: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CL About this episode Spencer Neuharth https://www.instagram.com/spencerneuharth/?hl=en hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella https://www.themeateater.com/people/steven-rinella, Janis Putelis https://www.themeateater.com/people/janis-putelis, Ryan Callaghan https://www.themeateater.com/people/ryan-callaghan, Brody Henderson https://www.themeateater.com/people/brody-henderson, Randall Williams https://www.themeateater.com/people/randall-williams, Seth Morris https://www.themeateater.com/people/seth-morris, Maggie Smith https://www.themeateater.com/people/maggie-smith, and Jon Montresor.
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1:13 Speaker 03 Welcome to MeatEater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host, Spencer Neuharth. Today, we're joined by Steve, Yanis, Cal, Brody, Randall, Seth, Marge, and John. John, this is your first time on the show. Tell folks what you do here at MeatEater.
1:29 Speaker 04 I am the retail associate at the MeatEater flagship store in downtown Bozeman.
1:34 Speaker 03 But what kind of folks do you deal with in there? Are they like, what percentage of people come in there who are like MeatEater fans versus they have no idea what the store is?
1:43 Speaker 04 Uh, I would say probably 70% are MeatEater fans.
1:46 Speaker 03 Okay.
1:47 Speaker 04 Uh, but once we get into like tourist season here in Bozeman, uh, it's kind of like an even 50/50.
1:52 Speaker 03 Yeah.
1:53 Speaker 04 Then, like, we've always had people coming into the store thinking it's a restaurant. Believe it or not, we actually had somebody ask for a menu at one point.
2:01 Speaker 03 Wow.
2:02 Speaker 04 Yeah.
2:03 Speaker 03 Do they all ask if Steve is in there?
2:05 Speaker 04 Oh, all the time. Number one question.
2:07 Speaker 03 He sewn the shirts in the back of the store? Yep. We always have people, where's Rinella at?
2:13 Speaker 05 That'd be great. We just had a little VO booth in the back. They could like look in through some glass and you could see Steve in there talking into one of these.
2:21 Speaker 03 Yeah. And what's, what's the status on the bison skull? That thing is still getting fingered on a daily basis?
2:27 Speaker 05 Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's seen fingers from around the world.
2:29 Speaker 03 Wow.
2:30 Speaker 05 Yes.
2:31 Speaker 03 All right. 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. For the stat of the week this week, we're looking at the most common category for question 10. In a recent episode, Randall and Phil proclaimed that I too frequently end the show on a fishing question. So.
2:55 Speaker 05 Because why?
2:57 Speaker 03 Because why what?
2:58 Speaker 05 Why were they complaining?
2:59 Speaker 03 Well, they were, they think it's giving an advantage to, to Brody.
3:03 Speaker 06 Not, not necessarily an advantage. It's just kind of anticlimactic when we know Brody's going to get the answer right.
3:09 Speaker 03 Well, I looked at the last 10 episodes to see if they're right.
3:12 Speaker 05 That's not representative.
3:14 Speaker 06 That's a small sample size Spencer.
3:16 Speaker 03 They're saying that right at the end, you throw a fishing question if Brody's. They, they think question 10 is always a fishing question. So then it's already like, we already know what's going to happen. Dang it. Brody's going to get this one right. Uh, conservation was the final question twice. Woodsmanship was twice. Hunting was three times and fishing was three times. So hunting and fishing have been the most common category for question 10 with conservation and woodsmanship right behind them. You, you think I need to get a bigger sample size though? And that's going to prove you right?
3:45 Speaker 05 I, I think that 10, the, the prior 10 episodes tell us nothing.
3:50 Speaker 03 Okay.
3:51 Speaker 05 I think that's like walking around a diner and asking people who's going to be president.
3:55 Speaker 03 That probably works.
3:56 Speaker 05 Hmm. Depends where the diner is.
3:58 Speaker 03 We'll get a bigger sample size, uh, to, to see if you're right. But I think, I think Brody is on to something.
4:05 Speaker 06 Doesn't matter what's true Spencer. What matters is how I feel.
4:09 Speaker 03 All right, here's our infrequently asked questions segment. If you have a trivia related question for our crew, send it to trivia at the meat eater dot com with the subject line IFAQ. Devon Med says, me and a buddy are avid listeners and have agreed on a bet. We are having a year-long competition and whoever loses the most games has to get a tattoo on their ass cheek. Originally, the rules were that the winner would pick the tattoo, but we'd really love for you guys to decide. We want it to be something related to the four verticals. What are your ideas? What's the room think?
4:45 Speaker 03 A trivia loser is going to get a butt cheek tattoo. Just a game on suckers. Game on suckers. Then there'd be a few of us walking around the world with that tattoo. Yeah, I'd get rid of the banner because that's not going to tattoo well. Hmm.
4:58 Speaker 07 Who else has that tattoo?
5:00 Speaker 03 Me and there's some other listener who's wrote in. Mine is, I can't hardly see it, but it's back there. Oh yeah. So you went without the banner? I went without the banner. Uh, like two years old. I don't know if that's new. I think they should get Steve's face on their butt. Wow.
5:18 Speaker 03 Maybe one of them gets the squirrel and one of them gets the sucker. Then it's like, it's like Power Rangers.
5:28 Speaker 03 And then we're like seeding a future segment for Media to Radio of Tattoos I Regret. Yeah, just keep that thing going. Uh huh. Devin, we'll throw some ideas at you over the next month or so on the show here. People are going to think on this and, and we're going to make some suggestions. All right, we have some housekeeping. On a previous episode, we had a question about the state knife of Texas and this caused some angry Texans to write in about our pronunciation. Apparently, the man who the knife is named after pronounced it Bowie, like the thing that floats in a lake, not Bowie, like the glam rocker who wondered if there's life on Mars. But the most confusing part in all of this is that David Bowie actually created
6:10 Speaker 03 that stage name because of the knife. He said the big giant blade is very Americana and then it signified his music was quote, "cutting through the lies." Bowie said in a 2000 interview that he's heard it said differently across the globe and that quote, "I don't even know how to pronounce it anymore." But when it comes to the knife, the answer is firmly Bowie. My apologies to our Texan listeners. Oh yeah, if I'd have been here, I'd have jumped on you about that. You knew it was Bowie. Of course. I would just, you know, the most famous Bowie we have is David Bowie. No, Jim Bowie.
6:46 Speaker 03 Bowie.
6:48 Speaker 03 David Bowie. Phil, you ever sing some David Bowie at karaoke?
6:52 Speaker 06 I was in a David Bowie cover band.
6:53 Speaker 03 What? I didn't even know that.
6:55 Speaker 06 I was.
6:56 Speaker 03 Were you David Bowie? What was it called?
6:58 Speaker 06 Uh, Queen Bitches.
7:01 Speaker 03 And what was your role in the band?
7:02 Speaker 06 I played bass.
7:04 Speaker 03 Okay.
7:04 Speaker 06 I mean, it was kind of, it was started as a joke and we only ever played one show, but it was, it was for, it was, it was an opening act for a porn movie. So it was, it was a blast.
7:14 Speaker 03 All right. You tell us more about that later.
7:16 Speaker 06 Okay. You were crazy at 14.
7:19 Speaker 03 All right. The Shelby index for today is a three. So our winner should get six correct answers. And with that, we're on to the game of trivia. Play the drop, Phil.
7:30 Speaker 08 Look, I need to know what I stand to win.
7:33 Speaker 09 Everything.
7:35 Speaker 08 How's that?
7:36 Speaker 09 You just tend to win everything.
7:44 Speaker 10 I feel like Steve just does not come in with his swagger of old anymore.
7:50 Speaker 03 What was his swagger of old?
7:51 Speaker 10 He'd come in just talking shit to everyone.
7:53 Steven Rinella? I wasn't planning on being here.
7:55 Speaker 03 Yeah.
7:55 Steven Rinella? My body's still get, trying to get used to my brain's decision.
7:58 Speaker 03 Yeah. We gotta be out of here by three o'clock. Uh, otherwise Steve can't join us. All right. Question one. The topic is fishing. This will be multiple choice. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by J D Miller for sending this great question. J D 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] . Which state is the brook trout not native to? Is it Virginia, Iowa, Arkansas, or Connecticut?
8:33 Speaker 03 Which state is the brook trout not native to? Virginia, Iowa, Arkansas, Connecticut?
8:42 Speaker 03 Cal, how do you feel about your answer?
8:45 Speaker 12 Fair to middling.
8:46 Speaker 03 Okay. Brody, the second quickest player to have an answer. Brody, you got this one right? I'm pretty sure I do. Okay. Brody and Cal confident. Which state is the brook trout not native to? Virginia, Iowa, Arkansas, Connecticut?
9:05 Speaker 03 Is everybody ready?
9:07 Speaker 12 It's too long of an answer, Seth.
9:10 Speaker 03 Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth saying Iowa. Steve says Iowa. Yanis, Iowa. Randall, Iowa. John, Iowa. Cal, Iowa. Marge, Iowa. Brody, Arkansas. The correct answer
9:29 Speaker 03 is Arkansas. Oh, bitch! Only Brody. I changed it. Got that one right.
9:34 Speaker 10 Suspicion questions. I thought of them. That down too, man.
9:38 Speaker 03 Brook trout are native to the Great Lakes region, New England, and the Appalachian Mountains. The closest their native range gets to Arkansas is about 400 miles east in northern Georgia and eastern Tennessee.
9:52 Speaker 03 Question two, the topic is gear. This nine-letter word is defined as, quote, "a knitted covering for the head and neck with an opening for the nose and eyes worn for protection against the wind and cold."
10:08 Speaker 03 This nine-letter word is defined as "a knitted covering for the head and neck with an opening for the nose and eyes worn for protection against wind and cold." Who's got the squeaky pen?
10:25 Speaker 03 Someone writing, I think it's Steve.
10:26 Speaker 10 He's real good at making those squeaky noises.
10:30 Speaker 03 Uh, Brody, you're confident in your answer. You got this one right?
10:33 Speaker 12 Yeah.
10:33 Speaker 03 Steve, you got this one right? Mm-hmm. Did you know it immediately? Mm-hmm. Okay.
10:41 Speaker 03 Players.
10:42 Steven Rinella? God, man, I wish I got that first one right. I can tell you that.
10:46 Speaker 03 Is everybody ready?
10:48 Steven Rinella? I'd have a perfect game right now.
10:49 Speaker 03 Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth and, what's your board say, Steve? It's upside down. What the hell does that say? Uh, we have Seth and Steve and Yanis and Randall and John. The entire room got it right. The answer is balaclava.
11:07 Speaker 03 The balaclava is named after a Sure it's a balaclava? I'm not sure, no. It's, it's, it's clava.
11:12 Speaker 06 I think it's clava.
11:13 Speaker 03 The balaclava is named after a Russian village where British soldiers wore them during the Crimean War. They are commonly used by people who are hunting, fishing, snowmobiling, skiing, or snowboarding.
11:26 Steven Rinella? Or being out in the cold.
11:27 Speaker 03 They are often associated with criminals who want to hide their identity. Mm-hmm.
11:31 Speaker 06 But then they're just called ski masks.
11:33 Speaker 10 Yep.
11:34 Speaker 03 Doesn't first light have a
11:35 Speaker 10 Nobody holds up a liquor store with a balaclava.
11:40 Speaker 03 Unless you're in Russia. Question three. But what's the Greek, uh, treat? Baklava. That's off by one letter, yeah. Question three.
11:50 Steven Rinella? Yeah, it'd be cool to eat like baklava through a balaclava.
11:55 Speaker 03 Question three, the topic is hunting. A hunter named Van Pelt is the antagonist in this 1995 Robin Williams movie. Oh my god.
12:05 Speaker 06 Jesus, I hate this movie once.
12:08 Speaker 03 A hunter named Van Pelt is the antagonist in this 1995 Robin Williams movie. Brody and Randall are very confident they're the only players with an answer so far.
12:21 Speaker 10 I don't know how confident I am.
12:22 Steven Rinella? Extremely confident Spencer, thank you.
12:24 Speaker 10 Seems like a long ass time ago.
12:26 Speaker 03 Well, thirty years ago, a hunter named Van Pelt is the antagonist in this 1995 Robin Williams movie.
12:38 Speaker 03 Mork from Mork?
12:39 Speaker 10 How long ago did he die?
12:42 Steven Rinella? It's been a while.
12:43 Speaker 03 Google that, my guess is like, what, 2005?
12:46 Speaker 06 Twenty-four, twenty-fourteen.
12:47 Steven Rinella? Kind of some weird shit going on around then, wasn't there? He had some, I don't know.
12:53 Speaker 03 He died in 2014. Phil, why'd you know that immediately?
12:57 Steven Rinella? Oh, a while.
12:58 Speaker 06 Because I, I, I have a memory about reading the news when I lived in Missoula and I only lived in Missoula for a short amount of time, so I knew it was 2014.
13:07 Speaker 03 A hunter named Van Pelt is the antagonist in this 1995 Robin Williams movie.
13:13 Speaker 10 Here's a hint. No one
13:16 Steven Rinella? Oh, I know I got the wrong answer now, because
13:20 Speaker 10 You know that one?
13:20 Steven Rinella? Ah.
13:24 Speaker 03 Why do you know you have the wrong answer? Because he's the antagonist in the movie I wrote down. Oh, Mrs. Doubtfire.
13:34 Speaker 10 He didn't play too many bad guys.
13:36 Speaker 03 No, I know. He did one I'm thinking of. He's the antagonist. A hunter named Van Pelt is the antagonist in this 1995 Robin Williams movie. Do our other players give up who don't have an answer? Cal, you know this one?
13:52 Speaker 12 Yeah.
13:52 Speaker 03 Go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth, without an answer. Steve, what's that say, Steve? He was the... Insomnia. Yeah, he was... Damn it! Al Pacino was the protagonist. He was the antagonist. Yanis and Randall say Jumanji. John, without an answer. Cal says Jumanji. Marge says Hook. Brody says Night at the Museum. The correct answer is Jumanji. It's good to see Brody falter a little bit. Three players get that one right.
14:21 Speaker 07 What's the latest one that has the video game that Rock and his buddies go into?
14:26 Speaker 12 That's Jumanji.
14:26 Speaker 03 Jumanji. Well, let me tell you about it here.
14:28 Speaker 07 Okay.
14:29 Speaker 03 Jumanji was a box office hit as the 10th highest grossing film of 1995.
14:34 Speaker 12 Oscars.
14:35 Speaker 03 It's about a supernatural board game that releases jungle-based hazards on its players. Jumanji sequels were released in 2017 and 2019 with another coming in 2026. A little-known addition to the franchise came out in 2005 called Zathura. The spin-off film is about a space-themed board game that releases meteor showers, aliens, and astronauts into your living room. Phil, did you love Jumanji?
15:02 Speaker 06 Yeah, yeah, it was a heavy rotation at my babysitter's place back in the day.
15:05 Speaker 03 Have you seen Zathura?
15:07 Speaker 06 I have not seen Zathura, no. Yeah, it's like sci-fi Jumanji, but the, uh, the, the remakes are, I guess, sequels with, with The Rock and Kevin Hart and everything. They're not bad. They're solid.
15:15 Speaker 12 Jack Black, too, right?
15:16 Speaker 06 Jack Black, yeah, yeah.
15:17 Speaker 12 Everybody likes that guy.
15:19 Speaker 03 Well, not everybody. Question four. The topic is public lands, and this next great question is via Derek Moran. New England's tallest mountain, Mount Washington, is located in this state.
15:37 Speaker 03 Players have their confidence back. A lot of quick answers. New England's tallest mountain, Mount Washington, is located in this state.
15:47 Speaker 06 Should be called Mount Buzzkill. You can drive right to the top of this thing.
15:51 Steven Rinella? Yeah, but it kills a lot of people.
15:53 Speaker 06 It does kill a lot of people.
15:55 Steven Rinella? So it's called the buzzkill that kills.
15:58 Speaker 06 Yeah. Yeah, it's a real letdown.
16:00 Speaker 12 People hiking in crocs.
16:02 Speaker 06 Till you get frozen.
16:03 Speaker 05 Or just driving up it.
16:06 Speaker 03 Randall, I bet you loved Jumanji.
16:09 Speaker 05 You know, I'm, I actually, my memory is very faint. I could picture Van Pelt, great mustache on that guy.
16:14 Speaker 03 He did have a good mustache, yes.
16:16 Speaker 05 Uh, I didn't like the little boy that turned into the creature when he got, didn't, it wasn't.
16:22 Speaker 06 Oh yeah, that's upsetting. He gets very hairy.
16:24 Speaker 05 Yeah, he becomes a monkey. I didn't like that. I didn't like, there's like, uh, bugs that come after him. Creepy, crawly things. Don't like that. Um, but yeah, all in all, you know, I think it's serviceable, uh, light fare for the cinema goer.
16:38 Steven Rinella? This, this review can wrap up anytime.
16:42 Speaker 06 Oh.
16:43 Speaker 03 Well, we're writing on a few players.
16:45 Steven Rinella? Your, your line of questioning is striking me as odd.
16:48 Speaker 03 Okay.
16:48 Steven Rinella? Like, like I would say, let's say something weird happened. Like, let's say you see two dogs, like, you know, right? And you might say, I might say to Seth, like, I bet you like that, don't you Seth? Right? So, but for you to say like, well, I bet you liked Jumanji, don't you?
17:02 Speaker 03 How old were you in 1995, Randall?
17:04 Speaker 05 I would have been nine years old.
17:05 Speaker 03 Nine years old when they like a zoo-based haunting wildlife movie came out.
17:11 Speaker 06 You do this exact same thing. You just phrase it differently. You'll go like.
17:14 Steven Rinella? Bet you liked Jumanji, don't you?
17:15 Speaker 06 No, you'll, you'll, you'll look at Yannis and go, Yannis, you'll appreciate this. And then you say something that he doesn't really appreciate at all.
17:24 Steven Rinella? But I stole that from Brian Callen.
17:26 Speaker 06 Oh, okay.
17:28 Speaker 03 Again, New England's tallest mountain, Mount Washington.
17:31 Steven Rinella? Cause Brad Calvert's sitting there and it was like a, we're at Doug Durand's house. There's like a farmer comes in and no one knows anything about it. Brad Calvert's telling like one of the most grotesque stories. He's like, this dude just come in the door. Brad Calvert goes, you'll appreciate this.
17:50 Speaker 07 Another friend of ours starts, not every story, but a lot of them by saying, "You'll like this story. It's really funny." And then he tells you the story.
17:58 Steven Rinella? He says, "Yeah."
17:58 Speaker 07 Yeah.
17:59 Steven Rinella? Yeah. Cause then, yeah, he gets in your head, maybe you do wind up liking it.
18:03 Speaker 03 Primes the pump. I think assuming a nine-year-old Randall Williams would have liked that movie. Alright, does everyone have an answer for New England's tallest mountain, Mount Washington? It's located in this state.
18:14 Steven Rinella? Oh, I smudged my letters.
18:17 Speaker 03 Okay. What, what's your, what's your deal with your micro writing today?
18:21 Steven Rinella? I just feel like a lot of cheating potential.
18:23 Speaker 03 Okay. He's got Seth and Yanni on each side of him. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth and Steve saying New Hampshire. Yannis says Vermont. Randall, New Hampshire, John, Vermont, Cal. New Hampshire, Marge, crossed out New Hampshire and wrote down Vermont. Brody says New Hampshire. The correct answer is New Hampshire. About half of our room got that one right. Thirty-one of New England's thirty-four tallest peaks are located in New Hampshire. Mount Washington is 6,288 feet in elevation, which is 500 feet taller than the second-place Mount Adams.
19:07 Speaker 03 At the Mount Washington Observatory in 1934, a 231 miles per hour wind speed was recorded, which was the world record until 1996.
19:18 Speaker 06 You know, Keene, New Hampshire was the primary filming location for what movie?
19:23 Speaker 07 Lake Placid?
19:23 Speaker 06 Jumanji.
19:24 Speaker 03 Hmm. Oh, I did not know that. Why did you know that?
19:27 Speaker 06 Because I, I went there with Steve and we had dinner with Duncan, uh, Duncan Dayton? Dayton Duncan? Ken Burns' guy? And he told us all about it.
19:36 Speaker 03 Wow. And he didn't get Jumanji right. Question five. The topic is cooking. Who is the author of Mastering the Art of French Cooking?
19:51 Speaker 03 Steve and Yanni and Brody and Randall and Cal go into their whiteboards. Who is the author of Mastering the Art of French Cooking?
20:02 Speaker 03 Let me see what you got. Yeah, let me see too. Nice. I would say you're throwing Steve a bone, but you know he was gonna be here, so. I did not know Steve was gonna be here. How's that throwing me a bone? Have you read this book, Steve?
20:13 Steven Rinella? I'm aware of it.
20:14 Speaker 03 Okay. Do you own it?
20:18 Steven Rinella? I may.
20:18 Speaker 03 Could it be cited?
20:22 Steven Rinella? No, I honestly don't own it. I mean, I've held it, but I don't own it.
20:26 Speaker 03 Who is the author of Mastering the Art of French Cooking?
20:30 Steven Rinella? You know, it's like, to be honest with you, it's a lot of...
20:34 Steven Rinella? It's not a favorite of mine. When we get done, I'll tell you. If you wanna, I'll tell you. If you wanna start doing that, I'll tell you who to read.
20:40 Speaker 03 Okay, we have the time for you to, uh, make that declaration.
20:46 Speaker 03 We do have to be out of here by 3. We do. I'll do it quick. It just takes two words.
20:53 Speaker 03 I thought Brody was confident. He picked up his whiteboard awful fast, but now, now he's floundering. Who is the author of Mastering the Art of French Cooking?
21:05 Speaker 07 Just to make it fun, Brody, flounder.
21:08 Speaker 03 Hold on, shush. What is this? What does that mean? He wants it to get it wrong.
21:14 Speaker 03 He's telling Brody, "Don't try too hard." Alright, let's go. Brody, do you have an answer?
21:21 Steven Rinella? Sure.
21:22 Speaker 03 Is everybody ready?
21:23 Steven Rinella? Show, everybody show your answer.
21:24 Speaker 03 Go ahead and reveal your answer. Seth without an answer. Steve and Yanni and Randall say Julia Child. John without an answer. Brody got it wrong. Cal says, what's that say? Julia Chiz. Uh, Marge says Julia Child. Yeah, that's what I wrote. Brody says Julia Child. No. The correct answer is Julia Child. About half of our players got that one right. Southern Living magazine called that the most famous American cookbook, while a PBS documentary declared her America's favorite chef. Child won multiple awards for her TV shows and cookbooks before dying at the age of 91 in 2004.
22:07 Speaker 03 Danielle Pruitt said Child was the inspiration for her duck à la bourbon recipe that you can get on the meat eater.com. Steve, what do you have to say about that cookbook?
22:17 Steven Rinella? Uh, I don't want to go negative, I'll go positive.
22:20 Speaker 03 Mm-hmm.
22:21 Steven Rinella? I think that for, uh, for like a somewhat proficient home cook who wants to make some French dishes, I would recommend the works of, uh, Jack Peppin, otherwise known as Jacques Pepeen.
22:31 Speaker 03 Okay.
22:32 Steven Rinella? Jacques Pepeen. P-E-P-I-N.
22:35 Speaker 03 What would get, what's the name of his book?
22:37 Steven Rinella? He's got Encore with Claudine, he's got, uh, Jack Peppin Celebrates, I call him Jack Peppin. Jack Peppin Celebrates, he's got a whole shitload of books, I can't name them all.
22:50 Speaker 03 Phil, we're halfway through the game of trivia, give us a scoreboard update.
22:55 Speaker 06 There we are.
22:57 Steven Rinella? Oh, man, two people ahead of me.
22:59 Speaker 06 John in last place with one point, coming up next are Margin Seth with two. Tied up are Steve, Yannis and Cal with three, and in first place, neck and neck are Randall and Brody, they have four points.
23:10 Steven Rinella? Hmm. Question. I can't believe I stayed, man. I was like leaving.
23:16 Speaker 10 He got half the game last, man.
23:18 Speaker 03 Steve had his coat on, he was walking out the door.
23:20 Speaker 12 That close to being happy.
23:21 Speaker 10 When your kids are playing, uh, like a sports game and they're losing at halftime, do you just leave?
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24:56 Speaker 03 Question six. The topic is hunting and this next great question is via Tyler Hockaday. Easton Archery defines this as an arrow's quote "measurement of its stiffness."
25:11 Speaker 03 Easton Archery defines this as an arrow's measurement of its stiffness.
25:18 Speaker 03 We're gonna need to get Steve a new marker. I can already see the complaints.
25:22 Speaker 10 Can count the letters he's writing.
25:26 Speaker 03 Yeah, if you were good, you'd tell what I wrote based on the. Randall, could you grab a new marker? I'd be happy to.
25:32 Steven Rinella? No, I do that on purpose to annoy you. I might knock over the shelf.
25:35 Speaker 03 It doesn't bother me, but it bothers our listeners.
25:38 Steven Rinella? The trick is you just press extraordinarily hard on your marker. Anybody can do it.
25:43 Speaker 03 Okay. It's a little hot tip for our other trivia.
25:46 Steven Rinella? Remember Sling Blade? And there's that, uh, when he, the dude in the insane asylum, like whenever he goes in where he drags his chair behind him? I'm kinda going for that.
25:59 Speaker 03 French fry taters.
26:00 Steven Rinella? I like mustard in my taters.
26:02 Speaker 03 Easton Archery defines this as an arrow's measurement of its stiffness. Is everybody ready?
26:09 Speaker 10 I'm nervous.
26:10 Speaker 03 Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth and Steve and Yanis. No, you're not gonna give it to him this time. And Cal saying spine. Marge says flex. Brody says spleen? Spine? We're not gonna give it to you. The correct answer is spine.
26:29 Speaker 03 Simply put, the lower the spine rating, the stiffer the arrow. Also, the more spine and arrow has, the heavier it gets. Spine ratings usually fall somewhere between 260 and 500, with the most common sizes being in the 3 to 400 range. Question seven, the topic is natural history.
26:50 Steven Rinella? So if you're having ED, do they use that same?
26:54 Speaker 12 This is your number? It's a little high.
26:59 Speaker 03 Question seven, the topic is natural history. The song Blank in the Sky with Diamonds was the inspiration for the famous skeleton that was discovered in an Ethiopian cave in 1974.
27:14 Speaker 12 She just got moved, set up in a new, uh... I'm especially gonna squeak my marker.
27:20 Speaker 03 Steve is mad, he thinks this is too easy, but I think a few of our players may not get this one. The song Blank in the Sky with Diamonds was the inspiration for the famous skeleton that was discovered in an Ethiopian cave in 1974.
27:38 Steven Rinella? You don't even need to read, just end the question at, at the sixth word.
27:43 Speaker 03 Tell that to Seth.
27:47 Steven Rinella? I just told him.
27:48 Speaker 03 Tell that to John. I don't know it. Tell that to our listeners who are, uh, under the age of 30.
27:54 Steven Rinella? I would've said, what song was the inspiration for the famous skeleton that was discovered in Ethiopian cave in 1974?
27:59 Speaker 03 Trying to make a fun game for everybody. Well, it wasn't inspired by.
28:04 Speaker 12 Did Shelby get this one?
28:06 Speaker 03 She did not.
28:07 Speaker 10 Oh.
28:08 Speaker 12 Really?
28:09 Speaker 10 It's funny, cause when we were kids, we always thought it stood for something else.
28:13 Speaker 03 Hmm. The song Blank in the Sky with Diamonds. That's just an old wives' tale. The famous skeleton that was discovered in an Ethiopian cave in 1974.
28:25 Steven Rinella? Homer, give it to me hints.
28:26 Speaker 03 Yeah, we're giving a lot of hints, guys.
28:28 Steven Rinella? I hummed it, he said, oh, I didn't even do that. Let's show the answers quick.
28:32 Speaker 03 I didn't say anything. Go ahead and reveal your answer. Seth, without an answer, we have Steve and Yanis and Randall saying Lucy. John, without an answer, Cal says Lucy. Marge and Brody say Lucy. They got it. The correct answer is Lucy. Lucy was a human ancestor that lived about 3.2 million years ago. Her skeleton was the first of her species to ever be found. She's been called anthropology sweetheart, has been shown in museums across the globe. The archaeologists who found her named her after that Beatles song that they'd been singing all week. I'll give you a bonus point right now. Last name of Leaky.
29:14 Speaker 03 Is it? What's the, what's the question? That's who found it. Oh. Australopithecus? Is that the? That's right. That's the, that's like, but then there's another, there's another thing after that. Who found it?
29:25 Speaker 12 I have not looking this up. A blurb this morning on, on the bog man that's called Cheddar Man. They did a DNA analysis and they found a, like basically a direct relative living in the same town next to the bog.
29:42 Speaker 03 Whoa.
29:42 Speaker 12 Yeah, 300 years later.
29:44 Speaker 10 No way.
29:44 Speaker 03 Damn.
29:45 Speaker 12 Which is fantastic. Yeah.
29:48 Speaker 03 Question eight. The topic is fishing. This next great question is via Michael Groh. This 10 letter word is defined as quote, "A device which places a lure at the desired depth while the boat is moving."
30:03 Speaker 03 This 10 letter word is defined as a device which places a lure at the desired depth while the boat is moving.
30:13 Speaker 03 Hated a question seven. Hates question eight.
30:18 Speaker 12 I gotta say, it's a lot of fun to have Steve back. I, I mean that sincerely.
30:22 Steven Rinella? Well, I'll tell you all why I don't like it.
30:25 Speaker 03 Okay.
30:26 Steven Rinella? Later.
30:26 Speaker 03 This 10 letter word is defined as a device which places a lure at the desired depth while the boat is moving. Yeah.
30:35 Speaker 10 Keep talking.
30:36 Speaker 03 Dude.
30:38 Speaker 03 What's your problem?
30:39 Speaker 12 Well, because there's some other things out there.
30:41 Speaker 03 Hmm, okay.
30:43 Speaker 12 That also place your lure at a desired depth.
30:47 Speaker 07 But they're not ten letters.
30:49 Speaker 03 And they have ten letters.
30:50 Steven Rinella? I got it right. If I didn't get it right, you'd be in hot water right now. Because I just did some adding.
30:55 Speaker 03 Okay. Got a threat.
30:58 Speaker 12 Maybe there's more than one.
30:59 Steven Rinella? There is.
31:00 Speaker 12 Spencer's already come up with it.
31:01 Steven Rinella? There is.
31:02 Speaker 10 Like it got a hole in my memory.
31:04 Steven Rinella? You ever been punched in this game?
31:07 Speaker 03 This would be the first time.
31:12 Speaker 03 This ten-letter word is defined as a device which places a lure at the desired depth while the boat is moving.
31:19 Steven Rinella? Could think of a couple things.
31:21 Speaker 12 Yeah, sound of a gun.
31:22 Steven Rinella? I got a trivia question.
31:23 Speaker 03 Okay.
31:25 Steven Rinella? Who screwed up this one?
31:28 Speaker 03 This is an exact definition from someone who makes this thing. This ten-letter word is defined as a device which places a lure at the desired depth while the boat is moving.
31:42 Speaker 07 The other one I can think of is not ten letters.
31:45 Speaker 03 Hmm.
31:46 Steven Rinella? I'm circled.
31:48 Speaker 03 Okay.
31:50 Speaker 10 See, not all fishing questions.
31:52 Speaker 03 Wow. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth saying downrigger. Steve says downrigger.
32:02 Steven Rinella? And he says...
32:04 Speaker 03 I can't, what's that say?
32:04 Steven Rinella? Cannonball.
32:05 Speaker 03 Yanis says downrigger. Randall downrigger. John downrigger. Cal downrigger. Marge downrigger.
32:12 Steven Rinella? Also dipsy diver for a third answer.
32:14 Speaker 03 Brody says cannonball.
32:16 Speaker 10 I couldn't remember downrigger.
32:17 Speaker 03 The correct answer is downrigger. Downriggers are used...
32:22 Steven Rinella? Or cannonball.
32:23 Speaker 12 Right, dipsy diver would work, right?
32:25 Speaker 10 Are those brand names?
32:27 Steven Rinella? Or just a line counting reel.
32:30 Speaker 03 What do you got, Phil?
32:31 Speaker 12 I'm just asking Maggie if you got one.
32:32 Speaker 03 Marge got that one right.
32:33 Steven Rinella? Awesome. You can set your depth with that.
32:35 Speaker 03 Downriggers are used by freshwater and saltwater anglers to catch everything from salmon to stripers to walleye. Downriggers are most useful when fishing in deep water or when you're trying to target fish that are spread out in the water column. A number of baits can be pulled behind a downrigger such as spoons, swimbaits, live baits, and crank baits. Phil, we have two questions left.
32:57 Speaker 10 For sure is right.
32:58 Speaker 03 Give us a scoreboard update.
33:00 Steven Rinella? Yeah, yeah. I give, I got it right, but man, I'd be having a, I'd be.
33:03 Speaker 12 Well, this says dipsy diver is two words.
33:06 Steven Rinella? Hmm.
33:07 Speaker 12 By the lure Jensen company.
33:09 Speaker 03 Come on.
33:10 Speaker 06 We've got, uh, John with three points. He is out of the game as are Marge and Seth with four points.
33:18 Speaker 12 So unlike the downrigger, which is a ball that just sits there.
33:22 Steven Rinella? How Brody started doing so bad?
33:24 Speaker 12 Water tension.
33:25 Speaker 10 You mean, I just had the same answer as you in a squeaky marker. Alright, Phil, carry on. It's a scoreboard update.
33:31 Speaker 06 Oh, no, I'll, I'll wait till everyone else is done. Brody has five points. Steve, Yanis and Cal are tied up with six. And in first place, all by his lonesome is Randall Williams with seven points.
33:41 Speaker 03 Randall, Steve's gonna punch you the end of this game. Well, wouldn't be the first time. Question nine, the topic is conservation. Noah defines this as quote, soil that has sand, silt and clay in equal amounts.
33:57 Speaker 12 Whoa.
33:58 Steven Rinella? Whoa.
34:00 Speaker 03 Noah defines this as soil that has sand, silt and clay in equal amounts. Seth, very quick to answer. Seth, do you have this one right? I don't know. It's just the, the only thing that I was gonna come up with that might work. Why don't you gloat in Steve's face?
34:17 Speaker 12 When someone says soil, this pops into Seth's brain.
34:21 Speaker 03 Noah defines this as soil that has sand, silt and clay in equal amounts.
34:31 Speaker 03 Seth is our only confident player right now. Can you, are you reading my body language? Oh, I didn't know that you have an answer. Are, are you confident, Randall? No. Okay. But I just thought that was an interesting pronouncement.
34:44 Steven Rinella? The shit in my garden.
34:47 Speaker 03 Soil that has sand, silt and clay in equal amounts. Steve, do you have this one right?
34:54 Steven Rinella? Man, I don't think so.
34:56 Speaker 03 Okay.
35:01 Steven Rinella? Oh.
35:02 Speaker 03 Maybe.
35:04 Steven Rinella? God, but it's like.
35:05 Speaker 03 So Randall, are you confident or not?
35:07 Steven Rinella? I have a word that popped into my head.
35:10 Speaker 03 Okay.
35:11 Steven Rinella? Uh, I wouldn't bet my life on it, but I'm feeling good compared to the rest of our contestants here.
35:18 Speaker 03 Brody now has come up with an answer. Brody, did you get this one right?
35:21 Speaker 10 Nah, I don't even care anymore.
35:25 Speaker 03 I think Steve's marker squeaking worked on you.
35:28 Speaker 10 Nah.
35:28 Speaker 03 Wasn't that long ago.
35:29 Steven Rinella? Started to wear and balance psychologically.
35:31 Speaker 10 Nah, I've been on a tear lately. You gotta lose once in a while.
35:34 Speaker 03 Okay. Noah defines this as soil that has sand, silt, and clay in equal amounts.
35:43 Speaker 12 Well, I don't know.
35:46 Speaker 12 I don't know how to spell it.
35:48 Speaker 03 This might change up the scoreboard.
35:53 Speaker 03 Cal, do you have an answer?
35:57 Speaker 12 Well, I do. It's not.
35:58 Speaker 03 Yanni, do you have an answer?
35:59 Speaker 12 I do have an answer.
36:00 Speaker 03 You boys ready?
36:01 Steven Rinella? Yep.
36:02 Speaker 12 Not really.
36:03 Speaker 03 Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth saying loam. Steve says, what's it say, los? Los?
36:10 Steven Rinella? Well, I couldn't, I don't know how to spell it, man.
36:13 Speaker 03 Yanni says loam. Randall, loam. John, without an answer, Cal, loamy. Marge, without an answer. Brody says sediment. The correct answer is loam or loamy soil.
36:25 Steven Rinella? Can I get it with this? Cause you can tell I knew the word.
36:27 Speaker 03 No.
36:28 Steven Rinella? That is the word though.
36:30 Speaker 10 Yeah.
36:31 Speaker 03 That's, I think that's part of like soil nutrients. That's some other thing. In nature, loam is found from the plains to the forests. It's considered the finest soil for farming, which is why it's so concerning that topsoil is disappearing 10 times faster than it's being replaced. Native plants are an important part of soil conservation because they provide windbreaks and riparian buffers. Here's a correct answer review. So far, one was Arkansas, two was Balaclava, three Jumanji, four New Hampshire, five Julia Child, six Spine, seven Lucy, eight Downrigger, nine Loam. Phil, give us one last scoreboard update before we do question 10.
37:14 Speaker 06 Whoops. Sorry, video people. I just faded to black. Uh, here we are. It's down to Randall, Yannis, and Cal. Yannis and Cal have seven points apiece and Randall has eight.
37:25 Steven Rinella? Yeah, I wasn't gonna bring this up, but I actually knew that last one. Listen, man, call me a liar all you want. I had written it down and then I took it away and wrote something different.
37:35 Speaker 03 Question 10.
37:36 Steven Rinella? So, if you think about it, if Randall gets this one wrong, it could have been that I won.
37:41 Speaker 03 Well, think about it. Here's question 10. The topic is conservation. Name two of the seven states that have exactly two national parks.
37:55 Speaker 03 Name two of the seven states that have exactly two national parks.
38:03 Steven Rinella? Exactly.
38:05 Speaker 03 Exactly. Don't put down one that has 10. Don't put down one that has one. States that have exactly two national parks.
38:21 Speaker 06 He's like, he's like Quinton Jaws coming into the chalkboard.
38:30 Speaker 03 Randall, do you have this one right?
38:32 Steven Rinella? I believe so.
38:35 Speaker 03 Steve even mentioned in the last question that it's what he has in his garden, which I bet he's correct there. I'm sure you are using Lo. I told you I had it right.
38:44 Steven Rinella? Shouldn't I be able to just go off that comment?
38:46 Speaker 03 Name two of the seven states that have exactly two national parks.
38:52 Steven Rinella? God, I want to win so bad.
38:54 Speaker 03 Do you have this one right, Steve?
38:56 Steven Rinella? Oh shit, no, I don't have this one right.
38:58 Speaker 03 Okay.
38:59 Steven Rinella? I didn't really think about it too terrible hard either, because I don't think I can win no matter what. I mean, I can.
39:03 Speaker 03 That's right.
39:04 Steven Rinella? It's a fact.
39:05 Speaker 03 Randall, how do you feel about your answer?
39:08 Steven Rinella? I feel like if I get it wrong, I'm gonna feel very stupid.
39:12 Speaker 03 Okay.
39:12 Steven Rinella? But I feel fairly confident.
39:14 Speaker 03 Yanni, do you have this one right?
39:16 Speaker 12 I've got a good guess going.
39:18 Speaker 03 Okay. Cal, do you have this one right?
39:21 Speaker 12 I feel stupid already.
39:22 Speaker 03 What and what, who are we down to again, Phil?
39:25 Speaker 06 Randall has eight, he is in first place, and then Giannis and Cal are tied up with seven behind.
39:29 Speaker 03 Yeah, I kind of feel like Randall was calling everyone who gets his question wrong stupid.
39:33 Speaker 05 Hmm. No, I'll just.
39:36 Speaker 03 We're against that kind of language here, Meat Eater Trivia.
39:38 Speaker 05 No, no, it's just, it's the particulars of my answer, I think.
39:42 Speaker 06 Uh, for the sports people, Randall Spencer in the room, is there some sort of analogy we could make about like a player or coach who was like, you know, just, they're just in, in their prime and they stepped away from the game and came back and the game had changed and left them behind?
39:56 Speaker 03 Uh.
39:57 Speaker 05 I don't know where, where's this going?
39:59 Speaker 06 Oh, I don't know.
40:01 Speaker 03 It'd be like if Michael Jordan wasn't good after he came back from playing baseball. Yeah, there you go. Name two of the seven states that have exactly two national parks. Is everybody ready?
40:13 Speaker 03 Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth saying Montana and Wyoming. Steve says South Dakota, Maine. Giannis says Colorado, Montana. Randall says Montana, Wyoming. John says Montana, Arkansas. Cal says Montana, Washington. Marge says Montana and North Dakota. Brody says Michigan and Maine. The seven states are Nevada, Hawaii, Montana, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. Meaning Randall got that one right. Damn, Randall.
40:54 Speaker 05 So did I, Spencer.
40:56 Speaker 03 I'd have it right.
40:59 Speaker 03 Randall is our winner today with, what, nine correct answers? Which one did you miss? The first question?
41:05 Speaker 05 The first question, yeah.
41:05 Speaker 03 Those damn mission questions.
41:07 Speaker 05 I know.
41:07 Speaker 03 We shouldn't have put them at the beginning or the end.
41:09 Speaker 05 You sabotaged me at the beginning right off the bat. How unusual, given your propensity to put them at the end.
41:16 Speaker 03 Randall, you get to choose where the $500 donation from Meat Eater goes. What's it gonna be today?
41:21 Speaker 05 Um, I'd like to give the $500 to our friends at Backcountry Hunters and Anglers.
41:26 Speaker 03 Hmm, okay.
41:28 Speaker 05 A lot of land transfer talk back on the table and they're out there on the front lines.
41:34 Speaker 03 $500 going to BHA via Randall and Meat Eater. I'd like this knuckle sandwich to go to Randall. Yeah, we actually, we beat the three o'clock buzzer by 17 minutes. Everyone can get a knuckle sandwich. Phil, Phil, keep the cameras rolling. I need evidence, sure. Join us next week for more Meat Eater trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins.
41:54 Speaker 05 Thank you, Spencer.
41:55 Speaker 03 Thank you, Spencer.
41:55 Speaker 14 Thanks, Spencer. Yeah, Spencer from South Dakota, he's the host. Using those smooth mellow tones, he lays them questions down.
42:10 Speaker 14 And he likes taking those two and three-year-old bucks.
42:14 Speaker 14 And he's an avid amateur.
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