Pod Insights The MeatEater Podcast Ep. 624: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CXXXVIII About this episode Spencer Neuharth https://www.instagram.com/spencerneuharth/?hl=en hosts MeatEater Trivia with Ryan Callaghan https://www.themeateater.com/people/ryan-callaghan, Randall Williams https://www.instagram.com/randall__williams/, Cory Calkins https://www.instagram.com/cman_calkins/?hl=en, Alyssa Smith, Matt MIller, Tressa Croaker, and Nate Mason.
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2:22 Speaker 04 Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host Spencer Newharth, and today we're joined by Randall, Cal, Alyssa, Matt, Cory, Nate, and Tressa. 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. And today's episode is brought to you by Yeti, whose hard coolers are built to keep ice for days and live on for decades. For the stat of the week this week, we're looking at the number one. That's how many days there are until the Meat Eater Trivia Board Game Collector's Edition is available. It will go on sale tomorrow, November 14th,
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3:11 Speaker 04 Mm-hmm. That's right. The whole thing is in an ammo can.
3:15 Speaker 05 How many cards fit in this ammo can, Spencer?
3:17 Speaker 04 There are 1,300 cards in there. Let me tell you about them. The Collector's Edition comes with all 800 questions from the original board game, all 200 questions from the Hunting Expansion Pack, all 200 questions from the Fishing Expansion Pack, and 100 questions that are only available in the Collector's Edition. That's a total of 1,300 questions about hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking. It also comes with a game board, game tokens, and ammo can that are exclusive to the Collector's Edition. It costs $50, and as always, we're donating a portion of sales to conservation. That means your purchase helps fund things like land access and wildlife habitat. It's quite literally the only board game where conservation always wins. Now, last year, we sold out of the board game
4:01 Speaker 04 well before Christmas, and we anticipate the same thing happening again this year, so go get yours before it's too late. The Meat Eater Trivia Board Game Collector's Edition is available tomorrow, along with the Hunting and Fishing Expansion Packs, at store.theatler.com.
4:19 Speaker 05 Now, for our listeners, as opposed to the viewers, I just want to... I'm holding the board game right here. Do you hear all the fun in that box?
4:29 Speaker 04 That sounds like fun.
4:30 Speaker 05 Knowledge, entertainment for hours. Oh, that's good.
4:34 Speaker 04 Thank you, Randall. And for the watchers, you got to see him do a little Van White impersonation over here. Really, really showing off the Meat Eater Trivia Collector's Edition. Now, here's our infrequently asked question segment. If you have a trivia-related question for our crew, send it to [email protected] with the subject line IFAQ. Corey Hoggland says, "Who do players consider to be their biggest rivals?" Randall, who do you think your biggest rival is?
5:07 Speaker 05 I mean, I think we know the answer that...
5:09 Speaker 04 Is it Brody? Is that what you want to say?
5:11 Speaker 05 Not really.
5:12 Speaker 04 Oh, Steve?
5:13 Speaker 05 I don't really think I... My biggest rival's me, I think.
5:16 Speaker 04 Oh, okay.
5:18 Speaker 05 I think I trip over my own shoelaces, metaphorically speaking.
5:21 Speaker 04 Very meta.
5:22 Speaker 05 But, uh, yeah, I think, I think we'd all like me to say Brody and Brody to say me. And, but, you know, we're just friends. Good, good colleague competition.
5:33 Speaker 04 Cal, do you have a rival you think in Meat Eater Trivia?
5:36 Speaker 06 Uh, no.
5:37 Speaker 04 No?
5:37 Speaker 06 No, I don't.
5:37 Speaker 04 No rival, okay. Phil, have you identified any rivals? Uh, you've, you've watched all
5:42 Speaker 06 Identified rivals for Cal?
5:43 Speaker 04 Well, just anybody in the room in general. Who is my rival? Hundred forty.
5:47 Speaker 06 I would say your rival is your email account.
5:51 Speaker 06 No, I mean, Nate's, Nate's kind of stepped... I think Nate's trying to make rivals for himself. And it hasn't really caught on yet, but I believe in him. I think he'll, he'll get there.
6:00 Speaker 05 I, I think of Nate not merely, not like a rival, but like, uh, and... I'm like a young lion. I'm like, I'm coming up on the old lions.
6:09 Speaker 06 Yeah, usurpers.
6:10 Speaker 05 Trying to take the herd. Yeah, like you're a... The pride. You're working behind the scenes to overthrow the regime.
6:16 Speaker 04 Hmm.
6:17 Speaker 05 And so we need to clamp down with an iron fist.
6:20 Speaker 04 I think the goal is to just spread fun knowledge.
6:22 Speaker 05 Definitely not.
6:23 Speaker 04 Everybody wins. Nate, Nate declared him and Corey, they're the featherweights, uh, going up, uh, against some of the heavyweights in Meat Eater Trivia. Sting like a bee. Float like a butterfly. There we go. I was gonna go with the Mike Tyson.
6:39 Speaker 04 We have some housekeeping to get to. In a previous episode of trivia, we had a question about how many gizzards a male pheasant has. The correct answer was one, and in the follow-up factoid, I said that all birds have one gizzard. But about a dozen listeners wrote in to say that there is a bird that lacks a gizzard, and it's a game bird. Does anyone know what it is?
6:58 Speaker 06 Sage grouse, greater sage grouse.
7:00 Speaker 04 Now, despite all these emails, uh, well, that's correct, Cal. A lot of folks were saying that the sage grouse does not have one. Good guess. Despite those emails, sources like Pheasants Forever say sage grouse do have a gizzard, but it's described as, quote, "not well-developed," or, quote, "not muscular." Because of this, sage grouse can't eat seeds or grain, and most of their diet consists of sage and insects. William Clark even noticed this when gutting his first one, writing, quote, "The gizzard of it is, the gizzard of it is large and much less compressed and muscular than in most fowls. It resembles a stomach as much as a gizzard."
7:42 Speaker 04 So, they do have a gizzard, uh, but it is not like other birds.
7:46 Speaker 06 I have six-pack abs. They're, they're just not well-defined.
7:50 Speaker 04 Not like the other six-pack. That's right.
7:52 Speaker 06 Okay.
7:53 Speaker 04 Uh-huh. Now, did you, uh, have you ever gutted a sage grouse, Cal?
7:56 Speaker 06 Oh, yeah. Many times. Yeah.
7:58 Speaker 04 Did that, uh, did that, like, get your attention when it didn't have a well-defined gizzard inside?
8:03 Speaker 06 The smell gets your attention.
8:05 Speaker 04 Oh.
8:06 Speaker 06 It's a stinky, inside of that bird's stinky.
8:08 Speaker 04 Stink like what? Bad sage?
8:11 Speaker 06 No, I mean, all game birds, I think, really do have a nasty smell if you clean enough of them. I've often said I'd rather clean a deer or an elk than a pile of, uh, stinky birds. But I love the meat. Meat's great.
8:26 Speaker 04 So, a lot of folks say you get the, the gutting bird farts, uh, after.
8:30 Speaker 06 Yeah, which is ridiculous.
8:33 Speaker 04 Not you, though.
8:35 Speaker 06 No, that, I mean, that-
8:35 Speaker 04 First of all, they don't get it either. Like, your farts don't smell like game bird through osmosis. That's right. They covered this on a fact checker on the meat eater.com. And that was the verdict. It's all in your head and nose is one of the strongest things that's tied to memory. So now the Shelby next for today is a five, so I'm putting us on perfect score alert. And with that, we're on to the game of trivia. Play the drop, Phil.
9:04 Speaker 07 Look, I need to know what I stand to win. Everything. How's that? You stand to win everything.
9:18 Speaker 04 Game on, suckers. Question one, the topic is wildlife and this is multiple choice. Which of these national parks does not have bison? Is it Rocky Mountain, Badlands, Glacier, or Theodore Roosevelt? Which of these national parks does not have bison? Is it Rocky Mountain National Park, Badlands National Park, Glacier National Park, or Theodore Roosevelt National Park?
9:51 Speaker 04 Three have bison, one does not.
9:56 Speaker 04 Corey, quick to answer. Corey, you got this one right? Man, I think so. 25%. Okay. Has anybody been to all four of these places?
10:05 Speaker 05 Nope.
10:06 Speaker 04 Besides me? No. Rocky Mountain, Badlands, Glacier, Theodore Roosevelt, which one does not have bison?
10:15 Speaker 04 Nate, I think we're waiting on you.
10:21 Speaker 04 You stuck between two of them? Yep. Cal, are you, are you wrestling with the same thing?
10:26 Speaker 06 I am.
10:27 Speaker 04 Okay.
10:31 Speaker 04 Which does not have bison? Rocky Mountain, Badlands, Glacier, Theodore Roosevelt?
10:43 Speaker 04 Nate, are you ready?
10:44 Speaker 06 I mean, the proximity of bison.
10:47 Speaker 04 Cal, are you ready?
10:49 Speaker 05 Sure.
10:51 Speaker 04 Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Matt saying Theodore Roosevelt. Randall, Rocky Mountain. Cal, Rocky Mountain. Cory, Rocky Mountain. Alyssa, Glacier. Nate, crossed out Theodore Roosevelt, wrote Glacier. Tressa, Glacier.
11:10 Speaker 06 Where is Theodore Roosevelt?
11:11 Speaker 04 North Dakota. The correct answer is Rocky Mountain National Park. I think we had three players get that one right. Bison are found in about 10 national parks from Alaska to Arizona. Bison are native to the Rocky Mountain. Bison are native to the Rocky Mountain National Park, but were extirpated there between the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The park is also missing grizzly bears and gray wolves, but has gained moose, which biologists say aren't native to that area. Question two, the topic is conservation. This next great question is via Cooper Gresham. What federal agency goes by the acronym USA-CE?
11:57 Speaker 06 Well.
11:57 Speaker 04 What federal agency goes by the acronym USA-CE?
12:07 Speaker 04 Nobody, looking very confident. I don't think I've seen any answers yet. What federal agency goes by the acronym USA-CE?
12:16 Speaker 06 What category are we playing in again?
12:18 Speaker 04 The topic is conservation.
12:19 Speaker 06 Conservation.
12:22 Speaker 04 Nate, do you have this one right? I do. Nate, the only one confident in the room.
12:30 Speaker 04 I would give a hint, but I won't. Okay, it's probably in your best interest. You could be the only one who gets this one right.
12:39 Speaker 04 Again, the topic is conservation. What agency goes by the acronym USA-CE?
12:50 Speaker 04 Randall, is anything coming to mind?
12:52 Speaker 05 I don't think I've ever seen him take this long. No, no, nothing's coming to mind.
12:57 Speaker 04 Okay.
12:58 Speaker 05 Playing around with some
13:00 Speaker 05 words that begin with those letters.
13:02 Speaker 04 Hmm.
13:05 Speaker 04 U S A C E. Alyssa, how do you feel about your answer?
13:11 Speaker 00 Um, 70%.
13:14 Speaker 04 Okay. That's, um, better than the other side of the table is feeling.
13:19 Speaker 05 Yeah.
13:21 Speaker 04 Nate, show your answer to Alyssa, see if she, uh, if she agrees.
13:26 Speaker 04 Be real sneaky.
13:27 Speaker 00 Yep.
13:27 Speaker 04 Oh, Alyssa agrees with Nate. And Randall still has a blank board.
13:33 Speaker 05 Randall does have a blank board.
13:37 Speaker 04 I think, uh, the other five players are right there with him. Does everybody give up?
13:42 Speaker 05 Yeah. Yeah, I guess.
13:44 Speaker 04 Go ahead and reveal your answers.
13:46 Speaker 06 Oh, son of a bitch.
13:49 Speaker 04 Matt says agriculture something. Randall without an answer. Cal says United States Admin Conservation Environment. Cory.
13:57 Speaker 06 You know that old age.
13:58 Speaker 04 United States Ace. Alyssa, United States Army Corps of Engineers.
14:04 Speaker 06 Wow, son of a gun.
14:05 Speaker 04 Nate, United States Army Corps of Engineers. Tressa.
14:08 Speaker 06 Oh, right there.
14:09 Speaker 04 United States American Conservation Entity. The correct answer is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Nate and Alyssa got that one right.
14:19 Speaker 00 So who's the threat now? Oh.
14:22 Speaker 06 Damn, man, you just called the Corps. It makes sense. It makes sense that they just refer to themselves as the Corps.
14:28 Speaker 04 Mm-hmm. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is one of the world's largest public engineering, design, and construction agencies. They manage about 12 million acres of land and water, much of which you can hunt and fish. This is why the Army Corps calls, that calls themselves, quote, "the country's leading provider of recreation." Question three, the topic is hunting. This next great question is via Alex Luster. What does the R in 17 H M R stand for?
15:00 Speaker 04 What does the R in 17 HMR stand for? Randall, this time, is the confident player. Cal, do you have this one right as well?
15:11 Speaker 06 I have an answer.
15:12 Speaker 04 Okay. Randall, do you own a 17 HMR?
15:18 Speaker 05 I don't. I don't.
15:19 Speaker 04 Aspiring owner of a 17 HMR?
15:22 Speaker 05 Not really. Not really. Buddy just got one and we bought a couple boxes of ammo for it, actually. We go today.
15:30 Speaker 04 Does anyone in here own a 17 HMR? No. What does the R?
15:36 Speaker 06 You know what I've always wanted is a 222.
15:39 Speaker 04 Hmm.
15:40 Speaker 06 I'd put, yeah, the old triple, triple deuce.
15:44 Speaker 04 My grandfather didn't have many guns, but he had a 222. I was always amused by that. What does the R in 17 HMR stand for? I've seen the 222 referenced in some states' regbooks about like the minimum caliber for deer hunting, which is funny that that's where they would like draw the line.
16:07 Speaker 05 Yeah.
16:08 Speaker 04 222. What does the R in 17 HMR stand for? Is everybody ready? Alyssa might make a final change.
16:19 Speaker 04 No? Yeah. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Matt and Randall and Cal saying rimfire. Cory says round. Alyssa says round. Nate, rimfire. Tressa, recoil. The correct answer is rimfire. The 17 represents the caliber of the bullet and HMR stands for Hornady Magnum Rimfire. The cartridge was developed by Hornady in collaboration with Marlin and Ruger in 2002. To see how it stacks up against the 22, read Jordan Siller's article on the meat eater.com called Caliber Battle. 22 long rifle versus 17 HMR.
17:00 Speaker 04 Question four. The topic is fishing. This next great question is via Richard Anderson. What two animals cross to make a sawguy?
17:12 Speaker 06 What was that noise?
17:15 Speaker 04 The noise of someone who doesn't feel confident about answering what two animals cross to make a saw guy?
17:26 Speaker 04 Now Nate, on the US Army Corps of Engineers one, what was the hint that you didn't want to provide? Oh, just that, uh, my previous occupation gave me a uh, heavy advantage. Every day I would walk by this project that was, it was like, US Army Corps Engineers, like, spelled out. And with a little, you know, cross stick. Completion 2035. Oh, that's fun. Wow. They got a great logo, the little red, like, castle-looking thing. Yeah, it's like the engineers, Army Engineers.
17:57 Speaker 06 I would argue that your previous occupation, like, the amount of acronyms that you've been exposed to greatly outweighs that of everyone else.
18:05 Speaker 04 Yeah, yeah.
18:06 Speaker 05 Yeah, but he might just be drowning in acronyms.
18:08 Speaker 04 Nah, too many. Got them all locked in.
18:11 Speaker 06 Yep.
18:12 Speaker 04 Again, we're on question four.
18:14 Speaker 06 Brain's just a crazy crossword puzzle.
18:16 Speaker 04 But fishing, nothing. Mm-hmm, the topic is fishing. What two animals cross to make a saw guy? Do you have this one right, Nate? Definitely not. The topic is fishing.
18:26 Speaker 05 I totally missed that one.
18:29 Speaker 04 Corey, you have this one right? Yeah. Cal, you have this one right?
18:32 Speaker 06 I believe so.
18:33 Speaker 04 Randall?
18:33 Speaker 05 Oh, yes.
18:34 Speaker 04 Okay, Matt?
18:35 Speaker 06 Don't bore me. Next question.
18:39 Speaker 04 Topic is fishing. What two animals make a saw guy?
18:45 Speaker 04 Listen Nate, are you ready? Give me like 10 seconds. 10 seconds, okay, we can do that. Randall said he had 10 seconds of material before we started the show in case this very thing arrives.
18:56 Speaker 05 It's not gonna do you any good. Did I get it?
19:00 Speaker 04 I think so. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Matt and Randall and Cal and Corey saying walleye and saugey. Alyssa says walleye. Nate says walleye and saugey. Tressa says saugey and gill.
19:22 Speaker 05 That'd be badass fish.
19:23 Speaker 04 The correct answer is walleye and saugey. About half of our players got that one right. What's a saugey? Well, I'll tell you about their hybrid. Unlike many hybrids, saugey can reproduce with walleye, saugey, and even other saugey. They are most common in river systems that offer fast turbid water for saugey and slow clear water for walleye. Some ways to spot a hybrid are by the low white marking on the tail fin or a dorsal fin that has a black blotch at the base and spots running across it.
20:00 Speaker 06 So saugey can reproduce with saugey?
20:03 Speaker 04 With saugey, with saugey, or with walleye.
20:06 Speaker 06 Young that then can reproduce.
20:08 Speaker 04 Saugey can reproduce.
20:09 Speaker 06 That's wild.
20:10 Speaker 04 Yeah, which is unlike a lot of hybrids.
20:12 Speaker 06 Well, yeah, is that like a fisheries anomaly too? You have a fisheries background?
20:16 Speaker 04 Uh, it's unusual, yes, but that probably tells you how closely related a walleye and a saugey are. And the difference Nate, just the visual difference is usually that saugey are very blotchy on the side. And they're smaller and they grow in rivers. Are you saying saugey or saugey? Is saugey a real thing? Saugey's salmon. Okay, and that's different than saugey? Saugey, S-A-U-G-E-Y.
20:42 Speaker 06 It's about the same.
20:44 Speaker 04 Question five. The topic is cooking.
20:46 Speaker 06 No.
20:47 Speaker 04 What is the seven-letter Polish word for dumpling? Oh.
20:55 Speaker 04 What is the seven-letter Polish word for dumpling?
21:01 Speaker 04 Randall, very quick to answer. Corey joining him, as well as Nate. I'm just drawing the seven. Oh, okay, yeah. It always helps. The grin looked like you had it. Nate, you have this one right.
21:16 Speaker 05 Yeah, spelling's way off.
21:17 Speaker 04 Okay, Matt, you have this one right. Maybe. It must be really easy. Seven-letter Polish word for dumpling.
21:27 Speaker 00 I think I might have.
21:28 Speaker 05 What was the name of that dumpling or the bun place? Bow bun. Oh, the. Yeah, what was the name of the place? The place, Moshi Food Truck.
21:36 Speaker 04 This was the 10 seconds of material in your head.
21:39 Speaker 05 It's seasonal.
21:40 Speaker 04 Oh.
21:41 Speaker 05 Yeah.
21:41 Speaker 04 Oh.
21:42 Speaker 05 I mean, they'll be back. They'll be back.
21:45 Speaker 04 You remind us next year. You send a Slack message to the whole company.
21:48 Speaker 05 I believe they closed on October 13th.
21:51 Speaker 06 With the greening of the grass and budding of the trees.
21:54 Speaker 05 We were there for the last night.
21:56 Speaker 04 Oh, wow. Did you know it was the last night?
21:58 Speaker 05 Oh, yeah.
21:58 Speaker 04 Okay.
21:59 Speaker 05 Yeah, we'd been counting down to it for about two weeks.
22:01 Speaker 04 Oh, wow.
22:03 Speaker 04 They say you don't know that you had the good old days.
22:05 Speaker 05 It was nice because we just kept ordering things and then you get this little, uh, this little thing would flash on the register that said friends 50% off.
22:13 Speaker 04 Wow.
22:14 Speaker 05 Yeah.
22:14 Speaker 04 Were you a friend?
22:16 Speaker 05 Yeah, I guess so. It meant a lot to me.
22:18 Speaker 06 Yep. You spend enough money someplace.
22:20 Speaker 05 Yeah, yeah.
22:21 Speaker 04 And Randall did know he was in the good old days.
22:23 Speaker 05 Oh, man.
22:24 Speaker 04 While he was living them there.
22:25 Speaker 05 Yeah.
22:25 Speaker 06 The salad days.
22:26 Speaker 05 We went heavy, heavy on Moshi and then Hot Dog Champion closed about a week later, so.
22:31 Speaker 04 Oh, yeah. We lost our favorite Taco Bus a few weeks ago in Belgrade. They're also seasonal.
22:35 Speaker 06 Grease fire.
22:37 Speaker 04 No, they're just, they're just closed when they're like after the first snow.
22:40 Speaker 05 You like that better than Ramirez?
22:42 Speaker 04 Yeah, I'm a big Taco Bus stan.
22:44 Speaker 05 Okay.
22:47 Speaker 06 Dude, Albertano's in the gas station. I mean, come on. That place is awesome.
22:51 Speaker 04 There's good options, but they, they are the best. Does everyone have an answer for the seven letter Polish word for dumpling?
22:59 Speaker 05 Yes.
23:01 Speaker 04 Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Matt and Randall and Cal saying pierogi. Cody says biscuit. Alyssa and Nate and Tressa say pierogi. They got it. The correct answer is pierogi. Let's check your spelling. It's P-I-E-R-O-G-I. Nate and Cal.
23:25 Speaker 05 I got it right.
23:26 Speaker 04 Right, and Ren.
23:27 Speaker 05 I just. I have these in my. Freezer right now.
23:30 Speaker 04 Oh, no.
23:31 Speaker 06 Really?
23:31 Speaker 05 Costco.
23:32 Speaker 04 Pierogies are made of unleavened dough that's filled with meat, vegetables, or fruit. The dumpling was introduced to Poland by a Dominican missionary who brought the recipe with him in 1257. For a great, great pierogi recipe, check out Lucas Leaf's article on the meat eater.com called the Shantrel Pierogi.
23:51 Speaker 05 My mind just, when you said Dominican missionary, I thought about a person from the Dominican Republic. And I was envisioning that.
24:00 Speaker 04 Phil, we had.
24:00 Speaker 05 The date got me back on track. Thanks.
24:02 Speaker 04 We are halfway through the game of trivia. Give us the scoreboard update.
24:07 Speaker 06 Oh, let's see. Everyone's on the board. Tressa has one. Alyssa and Corey have two points. Nate and Matt have three and tied up in first place are Randall Williams and Ryan Callaghan. Still so shaken by Army Corps of Engineers.
24:20 Speaker 05 Yeah.
24:20 Speaker 06 Like, I don't know.
24:21 Speaker 05 What was the second one I got wrong? Sockeye? Yeah, there it is.
24:26 Speaker 06 Also, they have four points. I don't know if I said that.
24:28 Speaker 05 Yes.
24:29 Speaker 06 Great.
24:29 Speaker 05 Thank you.
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26:55 Speaker 04 Question six. The topic is gear. A ratchet strap wrapped around this submersible stayed intact after the vessel imploded during a 2023 Ocean Gate Expedition.
27:11 Speaker 04 A ratchet strap wrapped around this submersible stayed intact after the vessel imploded during a 2023 Ocean Gate Expedition. Randall, the only player to come up with an answer so far. Randall, do you have this one right?
27:29 Speaker 05 I believe so, although I'm.
27:33 Speaker 05 I'm recalling a conversation at a bar, overhearing a conversation at a bar, and the guy claiming that this was fake.
27:41 Speaker 04 Oh, interesting. What would be the motivation for faking this?
27:46 Speaker 05 I think, because I think his belief was that since COVID was over, they needed something new to keep us distracted.
27:55 Speaker 04 You know what? That was pretty distracting for like 48 hours.
28:00 Speaker 06 It was very exciting.
28:01 Speaker 04 A ratchet strap wrapped around this submersible stayed intact after the vessel imploded during a 2023 Ocean Gate expedition.
28:11 Speaker 06 What's nice about that is they know it had nothing to do with the ratchet strap.
28:15 Speaker 04 That's right. The ratchet strap did not fail.
28:17 Speaker 06 That part kept it intact.
28:18 Speaker 04 Mm-hmm.
28:19 Speaker 05 No, well, that's...
28:21 Speaker 04 Anyone besides Randall feel good about their answer? No.
28:26 Speaker 06 We talked about this a bunch because it was like, God, who would ever do that? And like, rich people are so crazy and stuff. And I'm like, oh, I wouldn't pay for it. But if somebody was like, hey, do you want an open seat? I'd be like, yeah, okay.
28:38 Speaker 04 Okay. Could have been Cal. Could have been Cal. Corey, I feel like you usually get these types of questions correct, and then you followed up saying, yeah, I read the news. Yeah, you're right. Not confident in this one. Not sure what's going on. Guess I was so wrapped up in the COVID, you know, COVID-19.
28:58 Speaker 05 No, it was over.
28:59 Speaker 04 Is it over?
29:01 Speaker 05 But I wish, I wish I could remember. I'll explain this later.
29:05 Speaker 04 A ratchet strap wrapped around this submersible stayed intact after the vessel imploded during a 2023 Ocean Gate expedition. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Matt without an answer. Randall says Titania. Cal says Titan. Corey says submarine. Alyssa without an answer. Nate crossed out Titan and wrote discovery. Tressa says yellow.
29:36 Speaker 04 The correct answer is Titan Cal. Got it right. And Nate crossed it out.
29:43 Speaker 06 In Randall's defense, he's thinking of that pop star with the song. Titania. That one?
29:50 Speaker 05 Oh, yeah. Yeah. No. So the guy, so the guy was, he was like, how stupid do they think we are? He said they couldn't even come, because he was claiming that the submersible was also named Titanic.
30:01 Speaker 04 Ah.
30:02 Speaker 05 And that was what, and I was like going back in my head, was he, like, which one was he saying? But he's like, he's like, they're so, they think we're so gullible that they'd name the thing after the thing it's going to look. And I was like, that makes sense to me, actually.
30:15 Speaker 04 Yeah. Again, the correct answer was Titan. Ocean Gate's Titan submersible imploded on June 18, 2023, killing all five people on board. The event created 1.5 billion joules of energy, which is the equivalent of 1,400 hand grenades going off at the same time. I reached out to Ocean Gate to find out what brand of ratchet strap they used on Titan, but they haven't gotten back to me, and I suspect they never will. Now, if you look at Phil's TV, he's got a picture of said ratchet strap on the screen.
30:47 Speaker 06 What a ballsy advertisement for that ratchet strap.
30:51 Speaker 05 I was gonna, I was gonna guess it was a Harbor Freight, but it's not orange.
30:55 Speaker 04 Maybe if one of our listeners with a keen eye can recognize the brand, we're gonna shout them out. That ratchet strap stayed intact despite 1,400 hand grenades going off inside of the submersible. Why didn't they have it around it?
31:10 Speaker 06 Hold that baby together?
31:11 Speaker 04 I think people were speculating that it was to, uh, it was something to grab onto and they'd get back to the surface.
31:17 Speaker 05 Hmm, that makes sense.
31:19 Speaker 04 Ideally related to that. Hopefully it wasn't for the structural integrity of the submersible.
31:23 Speaker 05 With the submersible, you're worried about the pressure from the outside. You're not worried about it exploding.
31:29 Speaker 06 Right. So it would have gotten looser. And that was the straw that broke the.
31:33 Steven Rinella? Titans back.
31:33 Speaker 04 The ratchet strap stayed intact.
31:36 Steven Rinella? Also, I heard they put out a statement, they don't blow up submersibles just for the PR.
31:43 Speaker 04 Question seven.
31:45 Speaker 06 That is interesting, though, because it should have gotten looser.
31:48 Speaker 04 Oh, Calvin on the conspiracy.
31:50 Speaker 06 There's your conspiracy theory. The deeper, like, it's on the bottom, and it looks top to me.
31:56 Speaker 03 It's just on a shell, so the shell doesn't compress. It's like, you can see, it's just like a skin. The inside structure is what.
32:02 Speaker 06 You gotta get on that mic, Matt, I can't hear you.
32:03 Speaker 04 Regardless, it's, it's survived, and I'm very impressed by it. Question seven, the topic is wildlife. Northern flicker, red-bellied, red-headed, red-breasted sap-sucker and yellow-bellied sap-sucker are all species of what animal?
32:25 Speaker 04 Northern flicker, red-bellied, red-headed, red-breasted sap-sucker and yellow-bellied sap-sucker are all species of what animal?
32:38 Speaker 04 If I was giving examples of Labrador Retrievers saying black, yellow, chocolate, your answer would be lab. That is the amount of specificity you need to have for this question. Northern flicker, red-bellied, red-headed, red-breasted sap-sucker and yellow-bellied sap-sucker are all species of what animal?
33:04 Speaker 04 Nate, are you confident? Yep. Alyssa, are you confident? Pretty confident. Okay. Rest of our players, how about you, Matt? You got this one right?
33:11 Speaker 05 Not even a little bit confident.
33:13 Speaker 04 Okay, Nate, or excuse me, Randall, do you have this one right?
33:15 Speaker 05 Hmm. Not so confident.
33:18 Speaker 04 Maybe, okay. Northern flicker, red-bellied, red-headed, red-breasted sap-sucker and yellow-bellied sap-sucker.
33:26 Steven Rinella? It's a great Calvin and Hobbes.
33:28 Speaker 05 Comic about this.
33:30 Speaker 04 Okay, about, about this animal.
33:32 Speaker 05 Mm-hmm.
33:33 Speaker 04 Interesting. Maybe I'm wrong. You don't think they'd cover this animal, Alyssa?
33:37 Speaker 05 Different, different animal.
33:40 Speaker 05 Not, not a tiger.
33:42 Speaker 04 Show your answer to Alyssa again, see if you two agree. No, that's not what I have. Okay. Yep. That's what I have. I'm wrong. Oh, Cory agrees with Nate, though. Oh, you.
33:53 Speaker 05 Oh, geez.
33:54 Speaker 04 Is everybody ready?
33:56 Speaker 05 The lightweights.
33:56 Speaker 06 Man, I really, I thought flickers were like their own thing.
33:59 Speaker 04 Northern flicker. Bit of a surprise to me. Is everybody ready?
34:05 Speaker 04 Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Matt saying woodpecker, Randall and Cal and Cory say woodpecker. Alyssa says hummingbird. Nate, woodpecker, Tressa, woodpecker. Like cannot believe I screwed that up. The correct answer is woodpecker. The room did pretty well. According to the American Bird Conservancy, there are 23 woodpecker species native to the United States. The most common type of woodpecker is the red-bellied woodpecker, which is found in nearly every state east of the Mississippi River. They have a population of 15 million, followed by downy woodpeckers at 13 million and yellow-bellied sap-suckers at 12 million.
34:48 Speaker 04 Question eight, the topic is camping. According to campspot.com, these are the three most booked holidays at campgrounds in America. Ooh.
35:02 Speaker 04 According to campspot.com, these are the three most booked holidays at campgrounds in America. These are the three weekends I don't go camping.
35:15 Speaker 04 The three most booked holidays at campgrounds in America. Quick answers from Alyssa, Randall, Tressa and Matt.
35:27 Speaker 04 Nate, Cal, and Corey searching for that last one.
35:32 Speaker 04 Three most booked holidays. Nate, are you done?
35:37 Speaker 05 Yep.
35:38 Speaker 04 Corey, are you done? Ready. Okay, go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Matt saying 4th of July, Labor Day, Memorial Day. Randall with the same answer. Cal with the same answer.
35:52 Speaker 06 We don't celebrate the 4th of July, Spencer.
35:55 Speaker 04 Cal has Independence Day.
35:56 Speaker 06 Thank you.
35:57 Speaker 04 Corey has the same answer. Alyssa has the same answer. Everyone has that answer and everyone got it right. The three holidays are Labor Day, 4th of July, and Memorial Day in that order. Campspot.com says the other two most booked holidays at campgrounds. Do you guys want to guess what the other two most booked holidays are?
36:21 Speaker 06 President's Day weekend?
36:22 Speaker 04 No.
36:22 Speaker 05 Arbor Day?
36:23 Speaker 04 No.
36:23 Speaker 05 Are we doing real holidays or made up holidays?
36:26 Speaker 04 No and no. Indigenous Peoples' Day? That is one of them. That is, that is fifth.
36:31 Speaker 05 Thanksgiving?
36:32 Speaker 04 No. So we're searching for fourth, the fourth most booked holiday. Wow. Veterans' Day. No.
36:37 Speaker 05 Not Easter.
36:38 Speaker 04 The fourth most booked holiday is Father's Day.
36:43 Speaker 04 Besides holiday weekends, they say the-
36:45 Speaker 05 That's not a real holiday.
36:48 Speaker 04 Besides holiday weekends, they say the busiest campground weekends are the 4th of July, or the fourth weekend in July, the second weekend in August, the third weekend in July, the first weekend in August, and the second weekend in July. So basically the busiest times from the beginning of July to the middle of August.
37:07 Speaker 05 Not what I expected.
37:08 Speaker 04 Yeah, that's not what you expected? I'm just joking. Yeah. Phil, we have two questions left.
37:12 Speaker 06 That we accept the 4th of July over Independence Day?
37:15 Speaker 04 Give us a scoreboard update.
37:16 Speaker 06 I'm shocked.
37:17 Speaker 05 I do, I do kind of agree with that argument.
37:19 Speaker 06 Kind of? Come on. It's a pretty good scoring game, guys, but unfortunately, we have to say goodbye to Corey, Alyssa, and Tressa. They cannot catch up. But Nate and Matt have five points. Randall has six, and in first place with seven is Ryan Callaghan.
37:36 Speaker 04 Question nine. The topic is conservation. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Sam Weingart. For sending this great question, Sam 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] .
37:54 Speaker 04 This ice cream brand donates a portion of sales from their fish food flavor to the Lake Champlain Initiative. And fish is P-H-I-S-H.
38:05 Speaker 06 I never liked this particular group.
38:09 Speaker 04 This ice cream brand.
38:12 Speaker 06 Named Fish. And inevitably.
38:15 Speaker 04 PH Fish?
38:16 Speaker 06 Absolutely not.
38:18 Speaker 04 I can't see that.
38:21 Speaker 06 People would be like, "Yeah, brother, bro." And I'd be like, "No, bro, no." This is my favorite, like, mass-produced ice cream.
38:30 Speaker 04 Oh, really?
38:31 Speaker 06 I love it.
38:32 Speaker 04 Interesting.
38:33 Speaker 06 This particular flavor? Fish food. Really?
38:36 Speaker 04 Has anyone else had it in here?
38:37 Speaker 06 What's in it?
38:38 Speaker 04 Yeah. Okay, Alyssa, Corey, what's your review of it? Yeah, whatever.
38:41 Speaker 06 It's really decadent, but I think it's just perfectly balanced. You got chocolate ice cream, you got little fudge pieces that are shaped like fish, marshmallow and caramel. It's kind of overdoing it, but it's very good.
38:54 Speaker 04 A good review from Phil. This ice cream brand donates a portion of sales from their fish food flavor to the Lake Champlain Initiative. Is everybody ready?
39:05 Speaker 06 What is the Lake Champlain Initiative? Anti-basin species?
39:08 Speaker 04 We'll tell you about it in the flavor text. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Matt, Randall, and Cal. Everyone said Ben and Jerry's. Everyone got it right. The correct answer is Ben and Jerry's. Ben and Jerry's collabed with the band Phish to create the fish food flavor in 1997. Phish elected to funnel their royalties to Waterwheel, a conservation group dedicated to cleaning up Lake Champlain. The popular flavor is chocolate ice cream with marshmallow swirls, caramel swirls, and fudge fish. So, it's a group dedicated to cleaning up Lake Champlain. Phil, we have one question left. Who remains in the game?
39:48 Speaker 06 Oh, yeah, sorry. Let's update the score here. Scoreboard is right here.
39:53 Speaker 00 Uh, it's just down to Cal and Randall. Cal's got eight, Randall has seven.
39:58 Speaker 06 Another super annoying fish story.
40:02 Speaker 06 When I, it's only annoying if you don't like the band Fish. When I was working on the east coast doing the Warren Miller tour and we'd go into all these old houses that were, were super cool. But that's like where Fish comes from. And everybody would be like, super pumped to be like, so little secret here. This is the theater where they did their first trampoline show. And I'd just have to be like, wrong audience dude, where do you want me to hook this stuff up?
40:32 Speaker 04 You should go tell that to Hillary after.
40:33 Speaker 06 And Hillary again.
40:34 Speaker 04 Hillary's a big Fish fan.
40:35 Speaker 06 Well, she's from that part of the world. Yeah, they don't have, brains are wired differently. Long history, you know, they don't, they don't remember the cool stuff that happened over there.
40:45 Speaker 04 Question 10, the topic is fishing. Six of Iowa's record Fish have been caught in this river that's named after their state capital.
40:58 Speaker 04 If Cal gets this one right, he wins the game of trivia, but if he gets it wrong and Randall gets it right, we'll go to a tiebreaker. Six of Iowa's record Fish have been caught in this river that's named after their state capital.
41:13 Speaker 05 Spelling counts.
41:15 Speaker 04 Always counts, that's right Cory. Cory, do you have this one right?
41:18 Speaker 05 Man, I, I hope I know the state capital.
41:20 Speaker 04 Randall, do you have this one right?
41:22 Speaker 05 I do, I do, but I'm afraid Cal has it right.
41:25 Speaker 04 Cal, do you have this one right?
41:27 Speaker 06 It's gonna be embarrassing if I don't.
41:29 Speaker 04 Oh, why is that?
41:30 Speaker 06 Well, is the body of water named after the state capital, like actually the same name as the state capital?
41:36 Speaker 05 That's what I'm worried about.
41:37 Speaker 04 Well, the question said, uh, six of Iowa's record Fish have been caught in this river that's named after their state capital.
41:45 Speaker 05 Is it like the Titan in the Titanic? Or the Titania?
41:48 Speaker 06 Or the Titania some call it.
41:51 Speaker 04 Is everybody ready?
41:54 Speaker 04 We're gonna let Alyssa come up with her answer? No, I have no answer. No, okay, go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Matt saying Cedar River, Randall and Cal and Cory say Des Moines. Alyssa without an answer. Nate says Des Moines. Tressa without an answer. The correct answer is Des Moines, making Cal our winner with nine correct answers.
42:18 Speaker 04 The state record fish that have come out of the Des Moines River are big head carp, northern hog sucker, sawguy, which was a reference to a question earlier, shovel nose sturgeon, silver carp and walleye. The Des Moines River is the 35th longest river in America and the longest river that's named after a state capital.
42:38 Speaker 05 Is there something, sorry?
42:40 Speaker 04 What do you got?
42:40 Speaker 05 Is there something that like makes that river real productive?
42:44 Speaker 04 No, I, I think Iowa's just not a, a real, uh, they're not a real rich place with lakes and rivers. So the Des Moines River has a lot of species and six, the record fish have come there. Cal, you get to choose with a $500 donation from Meat Eater Goes. What's it gonna be?
42:59 Speaker 06 I'm gonna go to backcountry hunters and anglers again.
43:02 Speaker 04 Okay.
43:02 Speaker 06 Because we got, yeah, exactly. We got a big fight ahead of us, uh, trying to keep our public lands in the public estate. Can't let these, uh, very,
43:16 Speaker 06 um, I would say selfish folks from Utah.
43:19 Speaker 04 Hmm, un-American.
43:20 Speaker 06 Un-American.
43:21 Speaker 04 That's right.
43:22 Speaker 06 Want to parcel off, um, our federal estate to the highest bidder, line their own pockets. Un-American. It's a tragedy.
43:31 Speaker 04 Cal with his second straight Meat Eater trivia victories now sent a thousand dollars to BHA to fight that fight. And don't forget the Meat Eater Trivia Collector's Edition and Hunting and Fishing Expansion Packs.
43:44 Speaker 06 I thought it was $500. How'd I get to a thousand dollars, Spencer?
43:47 Speaker 04 Well, last game, you won two straight games.
43:49 Speaker 06 Oh, Randall must not have been here that first game.
43:52 Speaker 04 Oh, he was.
43:53 Speaker 06 Oh, what?
43:55 Speaker 05 Cal, you're blowing up the ad spot.
43:57 Speaker 04 And don't forget the Meat Eater Trivia Collector's Edition.
44:00 Speaker 06 Buy yourself a Meat Eater trivia game.
44:01 Speaker 04 And Hunting and Fishing Expansion Packs are available. Available right now at store dot the meat eater.com. Go get yours before they're gone. The expansion packs are available right now. The collector's edition though, available tomorrow, November 14th.
44:13 Speaker 06 Only game show where conservation always wins.
44:17 Speaker 04 And thanks to Yeti for sponsoring today's episode of Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins.
44:24 Speaker 05 Thanks Spencer, thanks Yeti.
44:26 Speaker 06 Way to go Cal.
44:28 Speaker 07 Yeah Spencer from South Dakota, he's the host. Using those smooth mellow tones, he lays them questions down.
44:41 Speaker 07 And he likes taking those two and three year old bucks.
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