Ep. 741: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CLXXV

Spencer Neuharth https://www.instagram.com/spencerneuharth/?hl=enhttps://www.themeateater.com/people/randall-williams hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Janis Putelis, Randall Williams, Seth Morris, Tressa Croaker, and Nate Mason. Connect with MeatEater on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/meateater, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/StevenRinellaMeatEater/, Twitter https://twitter.com/MeatEaterTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAaa0mleeU128Ad5iM1RFIg, and YouTube Clips https://www.youtube.com/@MeatEaterClips Subscribe to MeatEater Podcast Network on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@MeatEaterPodcastNetwork Shop Trivia Merch https://store.themeateater.com/collections/meateater-trivia/?lang=en_US See omnystudio.com/listener https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 0:04Steven Rinella?

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• 1:29Steven Rinella?

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• 2:13Steven Rinella?

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• 2:53Speaker 02

  Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host, Spencer Neuharth, and today we're joined by Steve, Yanis, Randall, Seth, Tressa and Nate. 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 winner's choosing. Steve back on trivia after a long hiatus. Steve, welcome to the show.

• 3:21Steven Rinella?

  Thanks, man.

• 3:22Speaker 02

  How, uh, how was Africa?

• 3:23Steven Rinella?

  Dude, it was great.

• 3:24Speaker 02

  Two weeks on another continent. Do you think you're going to do better?

• 3:27Steven Rinella?

  I was there a month. I cut my fingernails twice while I was gone.

• 3:29Speaker 02

  Oh man, that's a good measurement of time.

• 3:31Steven Rinella?

  Isn't it? I got there on a new moon and left after a full moon.

• 3:34Speaker 02

  Okay. Uh, so you think you're, you're ready to do better or worse at trivia?

• 3:39Steven Rinella?

  Well, I would do good, but here's the problem. Here's why I might not. Me and Randall been in here eight hours a day.

• 3:46Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 3:47Steven Rinella?

  So like, I've kind of used up a lot of the power in this room.

• 3:53Speaker 03

  I had my two, possibly my two worst performances ever in trivia last week. Just because I don't have.

• 4:00Steven Rinella?

  Using up so much power.

• 4:02Speaker 03

  The power, yeah. My stores are depleted.

• 4:04Steven Rinella?

  Yeah, I've smoked a lot of my power.

• 4:06Speaker 02

  Okay. Or is it that you missed Seth and Steve? That's why you've been doing poorly lately.

• 4:10Steven Rinella?

  Nothing to fight against.

• 4:11Speaker 03

  That's probably it. I did miss you guys.

• 4:13Steven Rinella?

  No dragon to slay.

• 4:14Speaker 03

  No, no, except for Brody.

• 4:17Speaker 02

  And Yanis?

• 4:18Speaker 03

  He's a formidable dragon.

• 4:19Steven Rinella?

  And Yanis.

• 4:20Speaker 02

  Yanis, Yanis whooped you the one day.

• 4:23Steven Rinella?

  I know.

• 4:24Speaker 03

  Every time I glance over there, I'm like.

• 4:28Steven Rinella?

  I think there's like

• 4:29Speaker 02

  An angry, angry guy.

• 4:31Steven Rinella?

  Do you have your earbuds in listening to corn? You look at a guy like that, you're like, dude's not gonna You're drawing like devils on your backpack, you know, and Well, I don't know, would Guy Fieri do good? He's kind of got that same groove going on. He would, he's an outdoorsman. He might do good at trivia.

• 4:46Speaker 02

  That's right, he'd know the question about

• 4:48Steven Rinella?

  We should have a trivia show where it's just dudes that look like Yanni. So it'd be like, Yanni, Guy Fieri, old Eminem. I can't think of anybody else. Yeah, who else?

• 4:57Speaker 02

  Yeah, probably somebody from like the Red Hot Chili Peppers or Sublime.

• 5:00Steven Rinella?

  Oh, yeah, yeah.

• 5:02Speaker 04

  Yeah, Linkin Park, I think a lot of those guys went through that hair.

• 5:06Steven Rinella?

  Oh, you know what I've been thinking of for you that'd be great for you?

• 5:08Speaker 02

  Oh, okay.

• 5:08Steven Rinella?

  A thing called, like a bonus thing, called Dead or Alive Three Packs.

• 5:13Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah, okay.

• 5:14Steven Rinella?

  But it's all people with the same name.

• 5:17Speaker 02

  Hmm, give me an example.

• 5:18Steven Rinella?

  As an example. Johnny Cash.

• 5:21Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 5:22Steven Rinella?

  Johnny Carson. Johnny Ringo.

• 5:25Speaker 02

  All dead, right?

• 5:26Steven Rinella?

  Correct. Yeah, but in this, in the real game, one of them would not be dead.

• 5:31Speaker 02

  Oh, okay, yeah, well, that was a trick question then.

• 5:33Steven Rinella?

  Yeah, wouldn't that be a good, like, Dead or Alive Three Pack? And you have like a very limited time to be like, D A D, or whatever.

• 5:41Speaker 02

  We just need to have this pop culture spinoff of this show, then, then we could do that. Do you have any, any trivia from Africa that you brought home with you?

• 5:49Steven Rinella?

  Yeah, Black Mambas are, um, just impressive, impressive snake.

• 5:56Speaker 02

  Is that one that they, uh, that they play music to, or not? Is that?

• 6:00Steven Rinella?

  No, that's Cobra. We saw one of those Egyptian Cobra.

• 6:03Speaker 02

  Snake charmers?

• 6:04Steven Rinella?

  We saw three mega deadlies. We saw a puff adder, which you'll, you'll live, probably.

• 6:08Speaker 02

  Never heard of it.

• 6:10Steven Rinella?

  We saw an Egyptian Cobra, you'll live. And we saw a Black Mamba. Me and Dirt were assaulted by a Black Mamba.

• 6:17Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 6:17Steven Rinella?

  That's, that's a little bit of a, that's a little bit of a stretcher. But you don't live with those. But you just got to find a comfortable tree to lean against because you're dead.

• 6:25Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 6:26Steven Rinella?

  There's nothing you can do.

• 6:27Speaker 02

  Did they have any firsthand accounts of like knowing folks?

• 6:30Steven Rinella?

  Yeah, a guy died where we were two weeks before we got there.

• 6:32Speaker 02

  Whoa.

• 6:32Steven Rinella?

  A guy died where we were two years before we got there and a guy died where we were two weeks before we got there.

• 6:38Speaker 02

  I I've heard, um, it was a game ordiner or park ranger who is telling me that, um, most rattlesnake strikes that they encounter are on like.

• 6:48Steven Rinella?

  I'm not talking about rattlesnake.

• 6:49Speaker 02

  I'm just saying like below someone's elbows because they're messing with the snake. Do you know if that's the case?

• 6:53Steven Rinella?

  That's why mambas are a bitch.

• 6:55Speaker 02

  They'll just come at you.

• 6:58Steven Rinella?

  He's like Loch Ness monster.

• 6:59Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 7:00Steven Rinella?

  A black mamba can cruise around.

• 7:04Speaker 02

  Terrifying.

• 7:05Steven Rinella?

  With half of himself up in the air. When that son of a bitch was going through the woods that me and Dirk saw, when that son of a bitch is going through the woods, he's going through the woods with his head at your belt buckle.

• 7:13Speaker 02

  Ugh.

• 7:14Steven Rinella?

  He can cruise like that.

• 7:16Speaker 02

  Uh huh.

• 7:16Steven Rinella?

  And they're attack snakes.

• 7:20Steven Rinella?

  This snake is going away from us down the road. He sees the truck. And.

• 7:25Speaker 02

  Son of a.

• 7:27Steven Rinella?

  He sees the truck.

• 7:32Steven Rinella?

  It turns around and comes at the truck.

• 7:34Speaker 02

  No way.

• 7:35Steven Rinella?

  Listen, I'm sitting there, Dirk, okay, we were already laughed about how the only thing Dirk ever spotted was anything directly had and it was a warthog. So all of a sudden Dirk's like pointing at head and he's, he's, Dirk's sitting on the cab of a truck. Like on the cab, I'm in the bed of the truck.

• 7:52Speaker 02

  As one does.

• 7:53Steven Rinella?

  I'm leaning on the bed of the truck, basically my resting my chin on Dirk's knee. Okay.

• 8:00Steven Rinella?

  All of a sudden Dirk's pointing out ahead and I'm looking for like whatever the hell some animal way out ahead and all of a sudden he's like beating on the cab of the truck like he's not using his words, meaning stop the truck. Then I realized what he's doing is this black mamba is coming back. It looks like he's gonna get on the truck.

• 8:19Speaker 02

  What do you think is going through its mind? Like it's like there's humans there?

• 8:22Steven Rinella?

  He's like, no, he's like any, he's just like, get out of my area.

• 8:25Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 8:26Steven Rinella?

  It's like, you know, it's what difference between a grizzly bear and a black bear, right? Black bear, he sees trouble, he's gonna smoke out. Grizzly bears like whatever, five percent of the time. They get scared and they. Do you know what I mean? Hate that. They chase people through the woods. Like they legit chase people through the woods.

• 8:43Speaker 00

  What's their, like, what's their top speed when they're in that attack mode?

• 8:46Steven Rinella?

  No idea.

• 8:47Speaker 00

  Can you outrun them?

• 8:48Steven Rinella?

  I don't know. I doubt it.

• 8:50Speaker 00

  You didn't ask that question?

• 8:52Steven Rinella?

  We did, but I can't remember what you said. You might be able to. The trouble with them is the sons of bitches are so high up. That they, they, the trouble with them is when they strike people, there are, and whatever, however their mind works. They strike you in the torso. They strike you where you can't turn a kid, generally. So this dude that got killed opened up a beehive.

• 9:13Steven Rinella?

  I could talk about this for 10 days.

• 9:16Steven Rinella?

  There you don't keep bees. You make beehives out of bark, like you, you, your girdle cut a tree and skin the bark off and make a cylinder and cap the ends. Or you just use plankwood and hang it. 10, 15, 20 feet in a tree and leave it for a year. Cause the bees, the wild bees will colonize it and then you come up there, make a fire, get it all smoky. Climb up the tree, lower the hive down, open it up and harvest the honey. But mambas like to hang out in trees. This dude opens up his hive, flap, right on the neck.

• 9:50Speaker 02

  You can't get away from them if they go up trees too. Uh, it says their cruising speed, three to five miles per hour, but they can go 10 miles per hour for short distances.

• 9:58Steven Rinella?

  So he'd catch Seth no problem. No, I can not run that. Just cruising, he would catch Seth.

• 10:03Speaker 00

  So the one that came out of the truck, how close did he get to the truck?

• 10:06Steven Rinella?

  To the truck.

• 10:07Speaker 00

  He came to the grill.

• 10:08Steven Rinella?

  Oh yeah, but it was a bluff charge. Then he turned.

• 10:11Speaker 02

  Do they call it a bluff charge?

• 10:13Steven Rinella?

  No. What they call it. Well, I'll tell you, one of the trackers, here's the thing that's cra- here's the cra- I'm done talking about after this. Here's the craziest thing.

• 10:22Steven Rinella?

  When you get hit, you die. Okay? This tracker jumps out of the truck. With a machete.

• 10:31Steven Rinella?

  And you think he's gonna go kill it with a machete, but it's not what he does. He takes the machete and cuts a whooping stick.

• 10:39Steven Rinella?

  Because they have a way. And they're pointing out it's a short whooping stick. And there's some logic I don't understand. When you go to attack a mamba. Like the mamba, because his ass is way up in the air, he can't shoot out.

• 10:53Speaker 05

  Hmm, yeah.

• 10:55Steven Rinella?

  Okay, like you look at like, like a puff adder can. Right, like a punch. A mamba, his ass is already up in the air, so he's got a cock.

• 11:03Speaker 05

  It's the, yeah, lined up.

• 11:04Steven Rinella?

  And they're trying to explain to me, there's like a lot of shit that you get lost in translation. They're explaining to me that somehow, I don't get it. Somehow when he cocks back, that's when you make your move. And you jump in, they were adamant. You jump in with a short stick.

• 11:20Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 11:22Speaker 05

  Yeah, they're saying, yeah, they're saying like, you gotta stay close to them. That way they can't like, strike you, cuz.

• 11:28Steven Rinella?

  If you think that you're just not engaging this, and so. Our professional hunter, Morgan, is demanding. Demanding to the tracker. Get back. In the truck. And ostensibly, he's like, the tracker, even though they're kinda like, they're not charged, but they're. A lot of stuff is sort of at their discretion. A little bit.

• 11:54Speaker 02

  There's a lot of negotiating.

• 11:55Steven Rinella?

  There's like, they, they. Yeah, there, it's a, between the professional hunter and the tracker, it's not like a report structure. It's like, there's like a collaborative quality to it. But in this moment, it was get your ass into the truck.

• 12:11Speaker 02

  So did he make a swing at the black mamba?

• 12:13Steven Rinella?

  He got called off. He got called off.

• 12:16Speaker 05

  Mamba went down a hole.

• 12:18Speaker 00

  Are we gonna record a meteor podcast where we just get to quiz you on Africa?

• 12:22Steven Rinella?

  Dude, I'd love it, man. You don't need to ask me anything.

• 12:25Speaker 02

  Uh, Google says you'll die in three to 16 hours after a strike. And yeah, you'll be paralyzed for half of that time.

• 12:31Steven Rinella?

  And Kill Bill, he gets paralyzed.

• 12:33Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 12:34Steven Rinella?

  But he gets struck twice.

• 12:35Speaker 02

  Okay. Yeah. Seth, was your life changed?

• 12:38Speaker 05

  I didn't, no, I didn't get any life changing.

• 12:40Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 12:40Speaker 05

  Thing.

• 12:42Steven Rinella?

  Did you at least have fun?

• 12:44Speaker 05

  I, I, there was.

• 12:46Steven Rinella?

  You're kind of a baby.

• 12:46Speaker 05

  There was times it was cool.

• 12:48Steven Rinella?

  You should have brought me.

• 12:49Speaker 05

  Listen, you don't know what life was like in the back truck.

• 12:51Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 12:52Steven Rinella?

  No, I got an idea. I sat back there. Dusty, you can't see shit. All the animals are already scared off.

• 13:01Speaker 05

  It was terrible.

• 13:04Speaker 05

  My, my African, my African experience was wildly different than.

• 13:08Steven Rinella?

  People riding in the first vehicle. We saw a grasshopper.

• 13:13Speaker 02

  Did, uh, did anyone acknowledge the Fourth of July while you?

• 13:16Speaker 05

  Yeah, they made us a cake.

• 13:17Steven Rinella?

  They made us a cake.

• 13:18Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 13:18Steven Rinella?

  And we lit, we lit some, we lit a fire. The likes of which have man would, has not seen.

• 13:25Speaker 02

  For what purpose?

• 13:27Steven Rinella?

  Cause you burn everything.

• 13:28Speaker 05

  Yeah, you just go around all day starting.

• 13:29Steven Rinella?

  All you do is burn.

• 13:30Speaker 05

  Wild fires.

• 13:31Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 13:31Steven Rinella?

  Anytime you want, you can sit in back of the truck, well, off the side, whatever. Anytime you want, you can flick matches anytime you want. All we did was flick matches. I'd sometimes flick three boxes of matches on a drive.

• 13:45Speaker 02

  Just for funsies.

• 13:46Steven Rinella?

  Anytime you want.

• 13:47Speaker 02

  I assumed they'd have the opposite perspective over there.

• 13:50Steven Rinella?

  No, no, they want low intensity grass fires. This, we were there at the time you burn.

• 13:54Speaker 02

  Hmm.

• 13:55Steven Rinella?

  You like, you wanna burn right, like the wet season ends, the dry season begins, it just starts to dry off. And then you wanna burn because it just, like you can hop the fire. So I'm kinda joking, but you could mostly like drive over or hop the fire.

• 14:10Speaker 05

  There's multiple times we drove through them.

• 14:12Steven Rinella?

  They just creep along, they don't hurt the trees. And then, I'm not kidding you, there's residual moisture. That's the other thing about doing it now, there's residual moisture in the soil. You do a burn, you come back four days later, it looks like a lawn. And, and let me tell you something, there's some shit there eating that grass.

• 14:28Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 14:28Steven Rinella?

  Yeah.

• 14:29Speaker 02

  Tell me about this Fourth of July cake. Very interested in that.

• 14:31Speaker 05

  I can show you a picture.

• 14:32Steven Rinella?

  Yeah, it said something like, um, what is saying, happy America independence.

• 14:39Speaker 02

  Uh, more Fourth of July should have a cake.

• 14:41Speaker 05

  Happy, happy Fourth of July, US Independence Day.

• 14:44Steven Rinella?

  Great cake.

• 14:45Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 14:46Steven Rinella?

  Cooked in, on, cooked in an oven, which is sheet steel, that you pile with charcoal from the fire. You throw a scoop under it, you throw a scoop on it and baked inside that.

• 14:57Speaker 02

  Hmm.

• 14:57Steven Rinella?

  Changed my life. If his life wasn't changed, he wasn't paying attention. You changed your life, Seth. Stop lying.

• 15:05Speaker 02

  Mildly.

• 15:06Steven Rinella?

  They're missing, they're just missing an end. With a bad attitude. Yeah.

• 15:09Speaker 02

  They're missing an end in independence.

• 15:11Steven Rinella?

  Oh, did you?

• 15:12Speaker 05

  The best, oh, hands down, the best part of it was, uh, the track, like hanging out with the trackers. And then like.

• 15:18Steven Rinella?

  Welcome, good job.

• 15:19Speaker 05

  Yeah. Going, going to the village and stuff, yeah, and starting fires.

• 15:24Steven Rinella?

  Oh, we started some fires.

• 15:25Speaker 05

  Everything else was just. Just work moments in time, you know.

• 15:29Steven Rinella?

  Here's the best thing about starting those fires. Let's say you're going along, you light some, you just get some giant rippers going. And all of a sudden you get to where the road's like destroyed. And then your eyes like, oh.

• 15:41Speaker 05

  We gotta turn around.

• 15:43Steven Rinella?

  I'd kinda like to know what. Couple dudes gotta jump up and beat back the fires. Beat back the fires that are coming while you try to.

• 15:50Speaker 05

  One time, one time we we lit a fire and then immediately got stuck. So there's people beating the fire down. There's people trying to get unstuck. It was, it was chaos.

• 16:00Steven Rinella?

  I'd kinda like to know the sensation of like flicking a cigarette and watching. It doesn't work. It's a lie. It's a lie? Yeah. Morgan Potter has for 10 years been flicking cigarettes. Targeted cigarette flipping. This was a fellow in Africa. Cannot get one going. It is an absolute lie. It's a lie. Okay. This is places where, listen.

• 16:21Speaker 03

  If we should, we should add the caveat. People shouldn't flick cigarettes driving around Forest Service.

• 16:26Steven Rinella?

  Say something.

• 16:27Speaker 05

  We should just turn this into a podcast.

• 16:30Steven Rinella?

  We hit some areas so prime, so prime for burning. That you'd flick a match out of the trunk. You kinda do like.

• 16:39Steven Rinella?

  And that son of a bitch, as it would start a fire as it's going through the top grass. It would start a double fire. It would pass, it'd like bounce, like, like pinball. But beeping, beeping, through the grass, start a fire, bam, hit the bottom, start another fire.

• 16:58Steven Rinella?

  You can't do it with a lit match. You can't do it with a cigarette. Maybe they have the wrong cigarettes. It's a lie. That's one of the biggest things I learned while I was there. You don't, you don't actually believe that's a lie, right? Seth?

• 17:09Speaker 05

  What about the wind conditions? I imagine wind conditions play a big part of that.

• 17:13Speaker 03

  That's a great point.

• 17:14Steven Rinella?

  We're generally lighting in low wind, but it's a lie. It's just, it's fake news. It's from the mainstream, uh, legacy elite media.

• 17:22Speaker 05

  I, I.

• 17:23Speaker 03

  Smokey the bear?

• 17:24Speaker 05

  I didn't hear this while, while we were over there. I didn't hear the whole cigarette.

• 17:29Steven Rinella?

  His plate where he was was too dusty.

• 17:32Speaker 02

  All right. Happy you boys made it home. All right, no housekeeping today, so we can get to the trivia. The Shelby index for this episode is a four, so our winner should get eight correct answers.

• 17:42Steven Rinella?

  You know I'm 2% African. Never tell you that?

• 17:45Speaker 02

  I think I've heard that, yeah. And I feel like I've also heard your wife say, "Don't advertise that, Steve." It's not how cool you think it is to be telling folks. All right, the Shelby index for today is a four.

• 17:57Steven Rinella?

  Now you're making my wife seem racist. That's not what her point was.

• 18:01Speaker 02

  Okay, well, yeah, you go ahead.

• 18:02Steven Rinella?

  Her point was, she's like, knowing you, you're gonna start leveraging us as giving you some authority to speak on behalf of people of African descent. That's what her point was. Not like it makes you-

• 18:13Speaker 02

  It's a good point. Yeah, it's a good point.

• 18:14Steven Rinella?

  Very certification. She didn't want me to run around being like, "As an African."

• 18:23Speaker 02

  All right, the Shelby index 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.

• 18:32Speaker 06

  Look, I need to know what I stand to win. Everything.

• 18:38Speaker 06

  How's that?

• 18:39Speaker 05

  I stand to win everything.

• 18:47Speaker 05

  Game on, suckers!

• 18:49Speaker 02

  Question one, the topic is conservation, and as always, this will be multiple choice. This first great question is via Jeff L. What state is Congaree National Park located in? Oh, come on, what? Is it Mississippi, New Mexico, Wisconsin, or South Carolina?

• 19:09Speaker 02

  What? What state is Congaree National Park located in? That's C-O-N-G-A-R-E-E. Mississippi, New Mexico, Wisconsin, or South Carolina? Randall, very quick answer.

• 19:28Speaker 02

  Even worse, that Randall apparently knew it without choices. Yeah, it stinks. What state is Congaree National Park? I glanced at the choices. Mississippi, New Mexico, Wisconsin, South Carolina.

• 19:45Speaker 02

  Does anyone besides Randall like their answer? I'm like 80%. Pure guess. I'm not a, I'm not 100%. Tressa, you're waiting on you. Congaree National Park, Mississippi, New Mexico, Wisconsin, South Carolina.

• 20:01Steven Rinella?

  This makes my smack Spencer in the face so hard dude to hit me with like a, just the thing I don't know.

• 20:07Speaker 02

  I feel like I'm driven by this.

• 20:08Steven Rinella?

  Right off the bat dude.

• 20:10Speaker 02

  Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Yanis saying, "South Carolina." Yes! Seth. The broom! And Randall. And Nate, and Tressa, and Steve saying, "South Carolina." They got it! I'm back in the game! The correct answer is, "South Carolina." Congaree was designated as a national park in 2003, making it one of the youngest national parks in the country. It preserves the largest track of old growth, bottomland hardwood forests left in the United States. Some of the park's cypress trees are thought to be over 500 years old. That's interesting. Wonder if they let you squirrel, huh? I think the park is quite limited to walking on a boardwalk. Uh, you have to be engaged in walking through knee-deep swamp if you want to see a lot of that park.

• 20:54Speaker 02

  Question two, the topic is hunting. What protein is the main component of horns, hooves, and feathers?

• 21:06Speaker 02

  What protein is the main component of horns, hooves, and feathers? Steve and Randall, quick to answer. Our other four players have a blank whiteboard. They're off to a hot start after everybody getting that right on question one.

• 21:24Steven Rinella?

  In the case of Yanni, a blank white head.

• 21:28Speaker 02

  Steve had some advice for Yanni's blonde hair. What did you tell him, Steve?

• 21:32Steven Rinella?

  To cut it off.

• 21:33Speaker 02

  To cut it off. He said you can't fish in Alaska with that kind of hair. It's more of a marlin haircut, I was explaining.

• 21:42Speaker 02

  What protein is the main component of horns, hooves, and feathers? Is everybody ready?

• 21:50Speaker 02

  Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Yanis saying keratin. Seth says collagen. Randall and Nate say keratin. Tressa, bone marrow. Bone marrow? Steve, keratin. The correct answer is keratin. The room did well. Keratin is the structural material that makes up scales, hair, nails, claws, and more. It also helps support your skin and heal wounds. Some foods that help boost keratin production include eggs, salmon, liver, carrots, and onions. Question three, the topic is woodsmanship. This next great question- Why salmon but not other fish? I don't know. The article I found specifically said salmon.

• 22:33Speaker 02

  The topic is woodsmanship. This next great question is via Addison Moyer. What's the ten-letter name for, quote, "a mineral formation that grows upward from the floor of a cave"?

• 22:48Speaker 05

  Dude. Fifty percent chance.

• 22:51Speaker 02

  What's the ten-letter word for "a mineral formation that grows upward from the floor of a cave"?

• 23:00Speaker 02

  Randall, do you know this or were you guessing?

• 23:02Speaker 03

  I believe I know this. I mean, I think we all know what we're choosing from.

• 23:10Speaker 03

  I was just in a cave.

• 23:12Speaker 02

  Oh, doing what?

• 23:13Speaker 03

  Looking at ice.

• 23:15Speaker 02

  Speed locking.

• 23:15Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 23:17Speaker 02

  What's the ten-letter name for "a mineral formation that grows upward from the floor of a cave"?

• 23:23Speaker 00

  There's probably some kind of rhyme or saying.

• 23:25Speaker 02

  There's something. It's like one of them like King Philip. I will tell you in the flavor text. Whatever the hell. A way that you'll never forget this. You know, Tom, about Seth, kingdom filing. I've heard this, so I probably will forget it. I don't remember that one either, though. Is everybody ready?

• 23:41Speaker 02

  Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Yanis saying stalagmite. Seth says stalagtite. Randall stalagmite. Nate stalagmite. Tressa moissanite. Steve stalagmite. The correct answer is stalagmite. Uh, the room did well. I asked a similar question where the answer was stalagtite 60 episodes ago and everyone in the room got it right. The easiest way to recall the difference between a stalactite, is it stalactite stalagtite?

• 24:18Speaker 03

  Well, what I learned, what I learned in that episode is that it's a C.

• 24:22Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 24:23Speaker 03

  Cause I spelled it stalagtite in that episode and I was embarrassed.

• 24:27Speaker 02

  You remember that a stalagtite is C for ceiling and stalagmite is G for ground.

• 24:33Speaker 00

  You know, I remember it.

• 24:34Speaker 04

  It holds tight to the ceiling.

• 24:36Speaker 03

  Or stands up mightily from the floor. People say stalagtite more.

• 24:41Steven Rinella?

  Know why? Because it's at eye level.

• 24:44Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 24:46Steven Rinella?

  You'll never forget that now.

• 24:47Speaker 00

  Fresh set of eyes, always finds stalagmites.

• 24:51Speaker 02

  Question four, the topic is fishing. Also known as the bonito shark and blue pointer, this is the fastest shark in the world.

• 25:06Speaker 00

  Fishing.

• 25:06Speaker 02

  Yanis is grumbly on question four, even though he got the first three right. Also known as the bonito shark and blue pointer, this is the fastest shark in the world.

• 25:21Speaker 02

  Randall and Steve, quick to answer. Again, Steve, do you have this right?

• 25:26Speaker 03

  Uh, yeah, I might.

• 25:27Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 25:28Speaker 03

  It's just flashed, flashed into mind and I don't think I'm gonna get anywhere by grinding my gears, so.

• 25:34Speaker 02

  Yanis, how do you feel about your answer?

• 25:36Speaker 00

  I had a similar experience as Randall just now.

• 25:39Speaker 03

  What?

• 25:41Speaker 00

  The, the name of a shark came to mind.

• 25:44Speaker 02

  Also known as the bonito shark and blue pointer, this is the fastest shark in the world.

• 25:51Steven Rinella?

  Let me tell you a little so, well, I'll tell you a little something.

• 25:54Speaker 02

  Okay. Seth, Tressa, do you give up?

• 25:57Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 25:58Speaker 00

  Write down a shark.

• 25:59Speaker 02

  Write down a shark, kids!

• 26:00Steven Rinella?

  Man, write down a fast ass shark.

• 26:02Speaker 00

  I think they're all fast, except the big one.

• 26:04Steven Rinella?

  Not as fast as all each other.

• 26:07Speaker 00

  Hey, I don't know anything about sharks.

• 26:11Speaker 02

  Seth, who has been bullied into writing down an answer.

• 26:15Steven Rinella?

  I'm not gonna change my stuff.

• 26:16Speaker 05

  I'll wait till Seth's done.

• 26:17Steven Rinella?

  I think this is a shark.

• 26:19Speaker 02

  Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Yannis saying Mako. Seth says black tip. Randall, black tip. Nate, reef shark, he crossed out black tip. Tressa, hammerhead. Steve says Mako.

• 26:36Speaker 05

  And in parentheses, well, that's just because I don't know if I want that there or not.

• 26:40Speaker 02

  The correct answer is the Mako shark.

• 26:45Speaker 02

  Steven Yanni.

• 26:47Steven Rinella?

  I knew I was gonna get it right, but I'm happy that Randall got it wrong.

• 26:50Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 26:50Speaker 02

  The short fin Mako shark can swim forty-five miles per hour, which is about half the speed of the ocean's fastest animal, the black marlin. The world record short fin Mako was caught off the coast of Massachusetts in two thousand and one. It weighed over twelve hundred pounds.

• 27:06Steven Rinella?

  You know, uh, when I, in my early magazine writing days, one of my first cover story assignments was the thing about a tournament called Mako Madness.

• 27:15Speaker 02

  Hmm.

• 27:18Speaker 02

  Do you have any more on that? Question five, the topic is biology. This mosquito transmitted disease with a colorful name contributed to twenty, to the twenty-five thousand deaths during construction of the Panama Canal.

• 27:35Speaker 02

  Nate, very quick to answer, this mosquito transmitted disease with a colorful name contributed to the twenty-five thousand deaths during construction of the Panama Canal.

• 27:46Speaker 00

  Colorful name.

• 27:47Speaker 02

  Colorful name.

• 27:51Speaker 02

  Randall, do you have this one right?

• 27:54Steven Rinella?

  I think I have a good answer.

• 27:55Speaker 02

  How about you, Yanni?

• 27:57Speaker 00

  I'm feeling about like Randall again.

• 27:59Speaker 02

  Okay, not even gonna ask Nate, who had his answer written down before I finish reading the question. This mosquito transmitted disease with a colorful name contributed to the twenty-five thousand deaths during construction of the Panama Canal.

• 28:13Steven Rinella?

  What do you, what do you got that little shitty grin on your face for?

• 28:17Speaker 00

  I feel like I've got the color right, but whether or not I have the, uh, the name of the, the disease part.

• 28:25Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 28:26Steven Rinella?

  You gotta have the.

• 28:28Speaker 00

  Cause I feel like I've gotten a shot.

• 28:30Speaker 05

  We just had to take a bunch of meds for mosquito. Transmitted diseases, but the that disease wasn't colorful.

• 28:37Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 28:38Speaker 00

  Really? I'm surprised.

• 28:39Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 28:40Speaker 02

  How many shots did you get?

• 28:42Speaker 05

  Not shots.

• 28:42Speaker 05

  No shots, just pills.

• 28:44Speaker 00

  Oh, no kidding? You didn't have to take any shots to go over there?

• 28:48Speaker 05

  No.

• 28:48Speaker 02

  Did you have to?

• 28:49Steven Rinella?

  There was a they you could the the health department recommends typhoid. I already had typhoid, but I already had, sorry, not the disease.

• 29:00Steven Rinella?

  I had typhoid vaccine, but uh.

• 29:02Speaker 00

  Typhoid, Stevie?

• 29:03Steven Rinella?

  You didn't need where we were, you didn't need malaria meds. There's no, there wasn't.

• 29:08Speaker 02

  Did you have to take the pills again?

• 29:11Steven Rinella?

  You were just seeing mosquitoes at night.

• 29:13Speaker 05

  Yeah, but uh, George got malaria from that camp last year.

• 29:18Steven Rinella?

  Oh, I didn't know that. Maybe I got malaria. I quit taking them. I took them when I was in Zanzibar, because all you did was get bit by mosquitoes, but then I quit when I got to the desert.

• 29:25Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 29:26Speaker 02

  So you had to keep taking them while you were there?

• 29:29Speaker 05

  I took them up until like three days before we left and I quit taking them.

• 29:33Speaker 02

  Again, we're on question five. The topic is biology. This mosquito transmitted disease with a colorful name contributed to the 25,000 deaths during construction of the Panama Canal.

• 29:45Speaker 05

  I don't have.

• 29:45Speaker 02

  Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Yanis saying yellow fever. Seth, without an answer. Randall says scarlet fever. Nate, yellow fever. Tressa, Lyme's disease. Steve, black water. The correct answer is yellow fever, Nate, and Yanis.

• 30:07Steven Rinella?

  What's that? What's that old timey word for uh?

• 30:11Speaker 02

  Black plague?

• 30:12Steven Rinella?

  No, and there's an old timey like something water term for malaria or something. I thought that's what.

• 30:16Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah, that, yeah, they use it in um, in uh, in Old Yeller.

• 30:21Steven Rinella?

  Yeah, what do they call it? Black water?

• 30:25Speaker 00

  Damn it. Yeah, cuz it's like spreading and like they're talking about it and then all of a sudden Dog gets in.

• 30:29Speaker 02

  Blackwater fever is also known as blackwater illness. It's a rare and severe complication of malaria. Oh, okay. We may have to give it to you though, because malaria. Oh, you should. Killed as many people as as yellow fever. Alright, sweet. Um, blackwater fever is a complication of malaria infection. I, I think Steve got that one right. Cuz it's colorful. Oh, hold up. The top causes. During the construction of the Panama Canal?

• 30:53Speaker 00

  But yeah, did it contribute?

• 30:55Speaker 02

  Let me read you the flavor text. The top causes of death during construction of the Panama Canal were malaria, yellow fever, and industrial accidents, followed by typhoid fever, pneumonia, dysentery, sunstroke, tuberculosis, landslides, snake bites, and suicide. Cuz that's what they used to call when you died from malaria. During 1906, it's estimated that 80% of the project workforce was hospitalized at some point for malaria or yellow fever. Sweet. We'll give it to Steve, who took a backdoor way of getting that one right.

• 31:27Speaker 00

  I should get it too cuz we were talking about malaria.

• 31:30Speaker 02

  What'd you write?

• 31:30Speaker 00

  I didn't write anything down because.

• 31:35Speaker 02

  But why don't we fill in the water right away? Why is my board all like that?

• 31:38Speaker 04

  Uh, here's a fresh one.

• 31:40Speaker 02

  Phil, we're halfway through the game of trivia. Give us a scoreboard update.

• 31:43Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 31:45Speaker 02

  Wow, leak.

• 31:46Speaker 04

  Here we are.

• 31:46Speaker 02

  He's got five.

• 31:47Speaker 04

  At halftime, Seth and Trust are tied up with one point and last place. Coming up next is Randall Williams with three points. Nate Mason has four.

• 31:55Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 31:56Speaker 04

  And tied up in first place with perfect games are Steven Rinella and Yanis Patelis. A little asterisk by Steven.

• 32:03Speaker 02

  Yanis with the least.

• 32:04Speaker 02

  I was more right than those guys. I think malaria killed more people than yellow fever. Um, so Steve got that right with authority. Yanis currently has the least confident perfect game ever going, I think.

• 32:17Speaker 00

  Least confident?

• 32:18Speaker 02

  I feel like you've hated half of your answers.

• 32:20Speaker 00

  Oh, right. No, no, I'm just, yeah, you're right. It's, it's been, I've had a lot of luck so far.

• 32:27Steven Rinella?

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• 33:54Steven Rinella?

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• 34:31Steven Rinella?

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• 35:14Steven Rinella?

  This is a rock solid clip. It's not the kind of clip that you're going to use a couple of times and it bends and get all loose. The blade goes back into the mill after heat treatment for its most critical surfaces. That's the kind of step nobody else takes. That same standard applies to every part of the Montana. That's the name of the folder, the Montana, from start to finish. The wait is over and I've been waiting a long time to get one of these suckers. MKC launching their first folding knife. It's dropping extremely soon, so make sure you sign up for email and SMS to be the first to know. These are going to sell out quick. Head to MKC.com today. That's MKC.com.

• 35:54Speaker 02

  Question six. The topic is outdoors. Seth Green stars in this 2004 comedy about a group of friends who canoe a remote river in search of D.B. Cooper's treasure.

• 36:09Speaker 02

  Randall and Seth know this one. Seth Green stars in this 2004 comedy about a group of friends who canoe a remote river in search of D.B. Cooper's treasure.

• 36:23Steven Rinella?

  No idea.

• 36:24Speaker 02

  Steve says he has no idea. Yanis, do you have a shot at this one?

• 36:29Speaker 00

  Nope.

• 36:30Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 36:30Speaker 00

  Not, not my strong, uh...

• 36:34Speaker 02

  Randall, do you like Seth's answer?

• 36:36Steven Rinella?

  I don't know who the hell Seth Green is. There was a, there was an ichthyologist named Seth Green who was largely responsible for introducing carp into the Great Lakes.

• 36:44Speaker 00

  Hmm.

• 36:45Steven Rinella?

  Can I get the, can I get a point for that?

• 36:46Speaker 02

  No, no, but I like that.

• 36:48Speaker 00

  Seth Green had his own, uh, talk show, right?

• 36:50Steven Rinella?

  The best way, the best way I can describe Seth Green is the son of Dr. Evil in the Austin Powers movies.

• 36:57Speaker 02

  Oh, wow. There's quite a hint for you.

• 36:59Steven Rinella?

  Remember that guy?

• 37:02Speaker 04

  EP of Robot Chicken?

• 37:05Speaker 02

  I feel like Seth Green's not known for many things. Um, so he's now provided.

• 37:09Steven Rinella?

  That's why I had to go all the way back to the Austin Powers franchise.

• 37:12Speaker 04

  Chris Griffin in Family Guy?

• 37:14Steven Rinella?

  Oh, yeah.

• 37:14Speaker 02

  Seth Green stars in this 2004 comedy about a group of friends who canoe a remote river in search of D.B. Cooper's treasure.

• 37:23Speaker 00

  I gotta say, he's a guy that I don't really have any strong opinions on.

• 37:26Speaker 02

  Hmm. Yeah, I feel like he exists exactly in that space.

• 37:31Speaker 00

  Yeah, and I don't think of him.

• 37:32Steven Rinella?

  What's you talking about? You're talking about a 23-year-old, a, a movie from 23 years ago that probably wasn't even that good.

• 37:39Speaker 00

  Twenty-three?

• 37:40Speaker 02

  Seth, do you like this movie?

• 37:41Speaker 00

  It wasn't that good, no.

• 37:42Speaker 02

  Okay, Randall, do you like this movie?

• 37:44Steven Rinella?

  I don't think I've seen it.

• 37:45Speaker 00

  Whatever the hell, it's old enough for Drake.

• 37:46Speaker 02

  Phil, do you like this movie?

• 37:48Speaker 03

  No. I feel like I see it when I scan through streaming services.

• 37:51Steven Rinella?

  If you're gonna do a movie, a old movie that old, it should be a classic or a cult classic.

• 37:56Speaker 02

  Hmm. It made a lot of money.

• 38:00Speaker 02

  Is everybody ready?

• 38:01Speaker 03

  Maybe it's a classic, then.

• 38:02Speaker 02

  Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Yanis saying treasure hunt.

• 38:06Steven Rinella?

  Oh.

• 38:07Speaker 02

  Seth and Randall say without a paddle.

• 38:09Speaker 00

  Oh, I had the other half.

• 38:12Speaker 02

  Nate took the other side of that saying. He says up a creek.

• 38:17Speaker 02

  Tressa says, "Without a paddle." Steve, "Without an answer." Oh, I got an answer, come on. Why couldn't you put it away? "The River Wild." The correct answer is "Without a paddle."

• 38:26Speaker 05

  Dude, if there's a half point, that is a half point.

• 38:28Speaker 03

  Yeah, but that would be a terrible movie title.

• 38:31Speaker 02

  Unlike Steve Rinella, the trio does find D.B. Cooper's skeleton and suitcase. They determine that Cooper burned his money to stay warm while camped in a mineshaft. The movie has a 15% critic score from Rotten Tomatoes and got a direct-to-DVD sequel in 2009. Despite that, I think it made $60 million.

• 38:51Speaker 05

  Wow.

• 38:52Speaker 02

  For them.

• 38:52Speaker 03

  What's the sequel called?

• 38:54Speaker 02

  Um, I think it was like, "Without a paddle, nature calls," or something like that. It had no one from the OG cast.

• 38:59Speaker 03

  I would've gone with "Without a paddle," again. I don't think people would use that variety of title.

• 39:05Speaker 02

  Question seven, the topic is fishing. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Madison Terlizzi. Presenting this great question, Madison 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]. Waiter's souls made of this material are banned in places such as Maryland, Nebraska, and Yellowstone National Park. Waiter's souls made of this material are banned in places such as Maryland, Nebraska, and Yellowstone National Park. The room is very confident. This may be another 100 percenter. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers.

• 39:48Speaker 02

  We have Yanis and Seth and Randall saying "felt." Nate says "lead." Falling apart. Falling apart. My lead soul boots.

• 39:57Speaker 03

  I envisioned like, way down in a creek somehow. It's like an old-timey diver suit. Yeah, that's what I was thinking, dude.

• 40:04Speaker 02

  Tressa and Steve, what are those belts?

• 40:07Speaker 05

  That's a good idea. Just holds you right to the bottom.

• 40:09Speaker 03

  You've been getting judy?

• 40:10Speaker 02

  Yeah, you could walk through some heavy, heavy turbulence.

• 40:13Speaker 00

  I think that's what the mafia puts on you when you go fishing with them.

• 40:16Speaker 03

  Dude, you'd never fall.

• 40:17Speaker 02

  Uh, the correct answer is "felt." Tressa, do you own any felt souls?

• 40:22Speaker 07

  Uh, I do, yeah. My son's ones.

• 40:25Speaker 02

  When, when do you reach for those instead of, uh, your regular boots?

• 40:28Speaker 07

  Uh, usually when we're on like... Probably like the Upper Madison, like slippery rocks.

• 40:33Steven Rinella?

  Mm-hmm.

• 40:34Speaker 03

  I feel like the way things were going for a while, I thought there wouldn't be any felt allowed anywhere.

• 40:39Speaker 02

  Other states with felt soul bans include Alaska, Minnesota, Missouri, Rhode Island, and South Dakota. Most of these laws have been created in the last 15 years as a way to combat the spread of invasive species. Biologists say felt souls can harbor whirling disease, rock snot, and zebra mussels. On that note, I think it was actually Vermont who had banned felt and then overturned it a year later. So I also felt like that was heading a direction where there would just be no more felt souls. But it's actually only like six states.

• 41:08Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 41:09Steven Rinella?

  He also felt.

• 41:10Speaker 05

  That is good.

• 41:11Speaker 02

  Question eight, the topic is cooking. These Czech pastries are traditionally filled with sweetened cheese or fruit, but Texans serve a savory version with sausage or ham.

• 41:25Speaker 02

  This is question eight. We'll get another scoreboard update.

• 41:28Speaker 03

  We made these with Jesse, Steve.

• 41:29Speaker 02

  Get another scoreboard update from Phil after this.

• 41:34Speaker 02

  These Czech pastries are traditionally filled with sweetened cheese or fruit, but Texans serve a savory version with sausage or ham.

• 41:44Speaker 03

  I don't know how to spell it.

• 41:45Speaker 02

  Yanis thinks he's made these before.

• 41:47Steven Rinella?

  Well, can't remember the name.

• 41:50Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 41:51Steven Rinella?

  It's killing me, dude. Yeah, we've eaten them down there.

• 41:55Speaker 02

  Uh, no one in the room has an answer yet.

• 41:59Speaker 03

  Hmm.

• 42:02Speaker 02

  What do you got, Randall?

• 42:02Speaker 03

  I have, I have a, something I want to write down, but it's, it's not right.

• 42:07Speaker 05

  I know, I know a couple, uh, Czech pastries that you put that stuff in.

• 42:13Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 42:14Speaker 05

  So I'm trying to figure out which one you're thinking of.

• 42:16Speaker 02

  And the question is number eight. The topic is cooking. These Czech pastries are traditionally filled with sweetened cheese or fruit.

• 42:25Steven Rinella?

  If I have an hour, it'll, it'll come to me.

• 42:27Speaker 02

  Texans serve a savory version with sausage or ham.

• 42:34Speaker 02

  I can give a hint.

• 42:35Steven Rinella?

  Yes, please.

• 42:36Speaker 03

  Uh, I don't think that's how we play this game.

• 42:39Speaker 02

  If everyone's not in agreement, I won't say it.

• 42:41Steven Rinella?

  I would like a hint.

• 42:42Speaker 00

  Yeah, I'll take it.

• 42:43Speaker 03

  I mean, these guys are saying, oh, we know this, we know this.

• 42:46Speaker 02

  Randall, if you don't want a hint, I won't say it. Because you have an answer.

• 42:49Steven Rinella?

  Let's take a vote.

• 42:52Speaker 00

  Okay. What was the vote? But you don't have to.

• 42:53Speaker 02

  Tressa, do you know this?

• 42:54Steven Rinella?

  Don't upset.

• 42:55Speaker 00

  I think so.

• 42:56Speaker 02

  You know it? Okay, Tressa thinks she knows it too.

• 42:58Steven Rinella?

  What'd you write down?

• 43:02Steven Rinella?

  I don't know. That's it. I don't know. That's it, but I would've never gotten it, so I can't steal it from you.

• 43:08Speaker 02

  Steve has seen Tressa's answer, and Steve likes it.

• 43:11Steven Rinella?

  Don't give a hint, don't give a hint, she's got it.

• 43:13Speaker 02

  Okay, no, we're not going to give a hint. Uh, and I will say that, uh, Tressa is right. I saw Tressa's answer, she is correct.

• 43:21Speaker 07

  They're very good.

• 43:22Speaker 02

  So what is Steve writing now?

• 43:23Steven Rinella?

  Oh, just something.

• 43:24Speaker 02

  Okay. These Czech pastries are traditionally filled with sweetened cheese or fruit, but Texans serve a savory version. I have like, the sounds right.

• 43:34Speaker 03

  Yeah, I got it now.

• 43:36Steven Rinella?

  You looked at the board.

• 43:37Speaker 02

  Steve has it after seeing the right answer.

• 43:39Steven Rinella?

  Well, not because of that. I thought about it a little bit more and it occurred.

• 43:43Speaker 02

  I can see my friend's mouth saying this word, and I cannot.

• 43:47Steven Rinella?

  I got a hint.

• 43:48Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 43:49Speaker 07

  I have a huge hint, right?

• 43:50Steven Rinella?

  Can I give my hint?

• 43:51Speaker 02

  Steve has declared no hints. Uh, he said, give a hint, then he said, no hints. Now he wants to give his own hint.

• 43:57Steven Rinella?

  Pinky Tuskegee roo.

• 43:58Speaker 02

  I don't know how that helps him.

• 44:01Speaker 07

  I have a big hint.

• 44:02Speaker 02

  That one, that just made it worse. Yeah. I'm, I'm losing confidence in my answer now that you've said that. Is everybody ready? No, like 10 seconds. Okay, Nate, give me 10 seconds. Yanni, do you like your answer?

• 44:16Steven Rinella?

  Pinky Tuskegee roo.

• 44:17Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 44:18Speaker 00

  I think it's gonna be, uh, you know, how, how close does the spelling have to be, kind of a thing?

• 44:23Speaker 07

  Do you want me to give my hint?

• 44:24Steven Rinella?

  Duh.

• 44:25Speaker 02

  Is everybody ready? Yeah. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Yanis saying.

• 44:30Speaker 00

  Oh.

• 44:30Speaker 02

  Kloski. Uh, Seth, do you have an answer? Seth without an answer. Randall says eclair. Nate says chillapi. Tressa says kolachi. And Steve, wow, he says kolachi.

• 44:43Steven Rinella?

  Dude.

• 44:44Speaker 02

  The correct answer is kolachi. Now, let's look at Yanis here. Uh, it is.

• 44:48Steven Rinella?

  No.

• 44:48Speaker 02

  K E L O S K I.

• 44:51Steven Rinella?

  That's close.

• 44:52Speaker 02

  The correct spelling is K O L A C H E.

• 44:56Steven Rinella?

  Dude, phonetically, I'm like, close.

• 44:58Speaker 02

  I don't think we're gonna give it to you, Yanis. It's, uh, it's close.

• 45:02Steven Rinella?

  It's just me and Tressa got it.

• 45:03Speaker 00

  That might be Polish, the Polish version.

• 45:06Speaker 02

  Uh, my hint was gonna be that, uh, Texas gas stations often serve.

• 45:10Speaker 00

  Kolachi.

• 45:11Steven Rinella?

  That wouldn't have got me anywhere. Can I explain my hint?

• 45:13Speaker 02

  Yeah, go for it.

• 45:14Steven Rinella?

  In Happy Days, Pinky Tuscadaro

• 45:18Steven Rinella?

  was friends with the Malachi brothers.

• 45:22Steven Rinella?

  And we all know the Malachi Crunch.

• 45:24Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 45:24Steven Rinella?

  So, if you're thinking the Malachi Crunch, what are they crunching on? Kolaches.

• 45:29Speaker 02

  Uh, write in if Steve's hint helped you. Trivia at the meadbeater.com. I'm sure there's like four people who, uh, got that.

• 45:36Speaker 07

  If you.

• 45:36Steven Rinella?

  The Malachi Crunch was in, uh, they used to do, um, Smash 'Em Up Derby in Happy Days. And the Malachi Crunch was the Malachi brothers would, would sandwich.

• 45:46Speaker 02

  Hmm.

• 45:48Steven Rinella?

  I, I believe they might have sandwiched Pinky Tuscadaro's.

• 45:51Speaker 02

  Okay, of course. Tressa, what's your hint?

• 45:54Speaker 07

  Um, Raleigh Poly, the coffee shop here, they have kolaches that they make fresh and they change the flavors like every day.

• 46:00Speaker 02

  Are they good?

• 46:00Speaker 07

  They are very good. You can get the meat ones, you can get matcha.

• 46:04Speaker 00

  Where is this coffee shop?

• 46:05Speaker 07

  Uh, they have two locations. One's on Main Street next to 317, and then one's over by like Bridger Brewery.

• 46:12Speaker 02

  A classic kolachi has a sweet filling such as cream cheese, blueberries, cherries, peaches, and poppy seeds. But the just as popular American versions are savory, using ingredients such as sausage, ham, bacon, brisket, and jalapenos. These are especially popular in the Czech belt of central Texas, where some folks refer to themselves as Czechs.

• 46:35Speaker 00

  Doesn't, uh, Pattery Potts family, doesn't he, he, he and, uh, his wife make these?

• 46:43Speaker 03

  There's a big check.

• 46:44Speaker 02

  No.

• 46:45Steven Rinella?

  I'm not familiar with them making those.

• 46:46Speaker 03

  Oh, there's a big check community in Nebraska, which makes sense.

• 46:49Speaker 02

  And in South Dakota.

• 46:50Steven Rinella?

  Maybe he does run around with a big old Ziploc full of those things now and then.

• 46:54Speaker 02

  They make them savory, I think, with like hamburger and onion and stuff.

• 46:58Steven Rinella?

  I was over there for lasagna two nights ago. That was pretty good.

• 47:01Speaker 02

  All right, Phil, we have two questions left. Give us a scoreboard update.

• 47:03Steven Rinella?

  You want to see something ironic? My, my eraser does this to my board.

• 47:07Speaker 02

  Wow. We'll get rid of that whiteboard.

• 47:09Steven Rinella?

  Expect that from an eraser.

• 47:10Speaker 03

  You're erasing too hard.

• 47:12Speaker 02

  Phil scoreboard update.

• 47:15Speaker 04

  After question eight, the only player who has not made enough of a dent in the scoreboard to win is Seth. He has three points. That's great.

• 47:22Speaker 03

  I came in, I came in like a mamba. Last time I played, I won though.

• 47:28Steven Rinella?

  There you go.

• 47:28Speaker 03

  Yeah, Seth won one.

• 47:30Steven Rinella?

  He did.

• 47:31Speaker 04

  Tressa and Nate have, Tressa and Nate have four points. Dr. Randall has five and still tied up in first place with six points are Yannis and Steve.

• 47:40Speaker 02

  Oh, Nate, what's happened here?

• 47:41Speaker 04

  Dude, I'm what?

• 47:43Speaker 03

  Yeah, falling apart. Well, it's, you know, Seth Green's body of work. That's what threw me off. I've been, I've gotten two half points.

• 47:52Speaker 02

  Uh, someone said talk show. I think you're thinking of Seth Meyers. Was that you, Yannis? No, that's not who I'm thinking of. Okay. There was a Tom Green. Tom Green. That's who I'm thinking of.

• 48:01Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 48:02Speaker 02

  Question nine, the topic is natural history. This next great question is via Kenny Frederick. Lewis and Clark traveled in this type of eight letter boat that was 55 feet long and eight feet wide.

• 48:17Speaker 02

  Hmm. Lewis and Clark traveled in this type of eight letter boat.

• 48:21Steven Rinella?

  Why are you always telling them how many letters are in stuff?

• 48:24Speaker 02

  Fifty-five feet long and eight feet wide. Uh, not always, twice this game.

• 48:28Steven Rinella?

  See, it's kind of stupid.

• 48:29Speaker 02

  Well, I feel like it would leave some wiggle room, um, that it's like, well, some people called them this, this way.

• 48:35Steven Rinella?

  Yeah, I got you.

• 48:36Speaker 02

  There's only one answer.

• 48:37Steven Rinella?

  That's smart.

• 48:38Speaker 02

  Lewis and Clark traveled in this type of eight letter boat that was 55 feet long and eight feet wide.

• 48:45Speaker 02

  Randall and Steve like their answers.

• 48:48Steven Rinella?

  Randall, you know Jimmy, uh, for listeners, I'm talking about my son.

• 48:51Speaker 02

  Mm-hmm.

• 48:51Steven Rinella?

  Jimmy thinks that our Hyde hunters.

• 48:54Speaker 02

  Mm-hmm.

• 48:55Steven Rinella?

  American history is going to do better than the mountain men.

• 49:01Speaker 02

  Hmm.

• 49:02Steven Rinella?

  Cause he told me, besides us, no one really cares about beavers.

• 49:08Speaker 02

  So he thinks this is a much better idea. You boys are, uh, holding the hosti- or holding the studio hostage for the next couple of weeks to, to record those. When will that be out? Not sure. Uh, October 14th. Oh, it's got a quick turn. Yeah, because you don't have to send it off to get printed. Sure.

• 49:27Speaker 02

  Lewis and Clark traveled in this type of eight-letter boat that was 55 feet long and eight feet wide. Steve and Randall, the only confident players right now. This is question nine.

• 49:42Speaker 02

  Randall?

• 49:45Speaker 02

  Could pull up and tie Yanni after this one. If Yanni doesn't come up with an answer. I don't think this is natural history. I think of anything in the Natural History Museum and, uh, they have a very, very loose definition of what qualifies and humans are part of natural history. So. I would just call this history. But. It's your game.

• 50:09Speaker 02

  Lewis and Clark traveled in this type of eight-letter boat that was 55 feet long and eight feet wide. Yanni, are you going to come up with anything? Eight-letter boat.

• 50:23Speaker 02

  Yanis?

• 50:26Speaker 00

  Hmm.

• 50:29Speaker 02

  Not using his words.

• 50:31Speaker 00

  Hmm, probably not.

• 50:35Speaker 07

  I didn't write that.

• 50:37Speaker 02

  Come on.

• 50:41Speaker 02

  So everybody ready?

• 50:44Speaker 02

  Nate? Yep. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Yanis without an answer, Seth without an answer. Randall says keelboat. Nate says poleboat. Tressa.

• 50:57Speaker 07

  I said pontoon.

• 50:58Speaker 02

  Pontoon and Steve, what does Steve say? Steve, show us your whiteboard. Oh. He says keelboat. The correct answer is keelboat. I thought keel, but I was like, that's, that's four letters. The keelboat was made in Pittsburgh, although Louis doesn't say the boat builder's name.

• 51:19Speaker 05

  It can't be that.

• 51:21Speaker 02

  Although Louis doesn't say the boat builder's name, he tells Thomas Jefferson through letters that the man is quote constantly either sick or drunk. Louis also complains that the builder struggled to procure lumber and had a hard time keeping employees. Despite Louis's skepticism of the project, the keelboat successfully sailed for 2,000 miles. All right, here's a correct answer review so far. One was South Carolina, two, Keratin, three, Staleagmite, four, Makoshark, five, Yellow Fever, six, Without a Paddle, seven, Felt, eight, Colachi, nine, Keelboat. All right, Phil, let's get one last scoreboard update.

• 52:03Speaker 03

  Well, Nate's really taking it hard.

• 52:06Speaker 05

  Dude.

• 52:07Speaker 04

  He pulled ahead with seven points. Steven Rinella is in the lead.

• 52:12Speaker 04

  And one point behind him are Randall and Yannis with six. Well, he was, he didn't pull ahead. He maintains his lead. Well, he pulled ahead of Yannis.

• 52:20Speaker 02

  He was tied with Yanni.

• 52:21Speaker 04

  Oh, oh, no, that's a good point.

• 52:24Speaker 02

  Question 10. The topic is hunting. Wildfowl Magazine says this type of goose call, which shares its name with a musical instrument, is quote, "more difficult to learn, but offers a greater sound portfolio."

• 52:42Speaker 02

  Steve.

• 52:42Steven Rinella?

  I have one.

• 52:43Speaker 02

  Has a blank whiteboard. Wildfowl Magazine says this type of goose call, which shares its name with a musical instrument, is more difficult to learn, but offers a greater, greater sound portfolio.

• 52:57Speaker 03

  Steve, you have it?

• 53:00Steven Rinella?

  Uh, I'm working on it, buddy.

• 53:03Speaker 02

  Randall, do you have it?

• 53:05Speaker 03

  No, I don't. I, but I know a few musical instruments. So if Steve was very confident, I'd write down a joke answer to try to get some semblance of satisfaction out of this.

• 53:14Steven Rinella?

  A goose banjo.

• 53:16Speaker 02

  Randall and Yanni trail Steve by one point. If they can get this right and Steve gets this wrong, we will go to overtime. Yanni, do you like your answer? I do. Okay. Steve even thinks he owns one of these. Wildfowl Magazine says this type of goose call, which shares its name with a musical instrument, is quote, "more difficult to learn, but offers a greater sound portfolio." Is everybody ready?

• 53:43Speaker 02

  Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Yanis saying flute. Seth says short read. Randall trumpet. Nate trumpet. Tressa harmonica. Steve flute. The correct answer is flute. Taking Steve our winner with eight points. Goose flutes have a long barrel, which is how they, which is how they got their name. Although they offer dead on pitch and good volume, they are difficult to control during fast paced calling. For this reason, they are significantly less popular than short read calls. Steve, do you in fact own a goose flute?

• 54:24Steven Rinella?

  I do.

• 54:24Speaker 02

  How do you sound on it, you think?

• 54:26Steven Rinella?

  You know, I've really messed with that much, but you know, they, they're like real popular out in Chesapeake Bay and whatnot.

• 54:31Speaker 02

  Yeah, I think if you're like a real sophisticated caller.

• 54:34Steven Rinella?

  But I feel like it's easier to make a basic like, I feel like it's easier on that to make a basic note. Than it is on, and then the thing is out here in the West, like the guys I know that are really good goose callers don't use flutes.

• 54:50Speaker 02

  Again, Wildfowl says they give dead on pitch.

• 54:52Steven Rinella?

  You know what I'm saying?

• 54:54Speaker 02

  But hard to use during fast paced calling.

• 54:56Steven Rinella?

  It's also about that long.

• 54:58Speaker 02

  They're, they're big.

• 54:59Steven Rinella?

  Yeah.

• 54:59Speaker 02

  Yeah. All right, Steve, what are you going to do with the $500 today?

• 55:07Steven Rinella?

  I'm going to go with, there's a couple of things brewing right now. I'm going to go with our own land access initiative.

• 55:12Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 55:13Steven Rinella?

  Cause we haven't done an auction house of oddities in a long time.

• 55:16Speaker 02

  Is there one coming up this year?

• 55:17Steven Rinella?

  Well, the thing I had for it is gone. My kid lost it.

• 55:20Speaker 02

  Oh, well, can you tell us what it was?

• 55:23Steven Rinella?

  It's kind of weird, but it's a water bottle I had for a long time, lost a long time, spent in multiple continents. Filmed many, many shows with it. My kid lost a son of a bitch.

• 55:31Speaker 05

  Is that the blue one with the tape around the ball?

• 55:33Speaker 02

  Which kid lost it?

• 55:34Steven Rinella?

  John Hayes's daughter took it on vacation to Europe.

• 55:38Steven Rinella?

  I left it in his truck. She took a shine to it. She took a shine to it. And then he like brings it back to me, leaves it down at the store. My kid works down there. The manager store gives it to my kids, says, hey, give this to your dad, never to be seen again.

• 55:52Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 55:52Steven Rinella?

  Dude, I am on his ass about that.

• 55:55Speaker 05

  Multiple times he's dropped that out of his backpack and I picked it up.

• 55:59Steven Rinella?

  Wow. That's why I like it.

• 56:01Speaker 02

  It's a good water bottle.

• 56:03Steven Rinella?

  Anyways, I'm gonna go with our land access initiative. We need to work up a pot of money. And I'll let you know too, that the corner crossing issue. Might be going to the Supreme Court. They're petitioning the ranch, Iron Bar Holdings is petitioning the Supreme Court to take the case. And when that attorney came on the show, all those like years ago, 18 months ago, whatever the hell it was. And he's talking about like, I don't know, would it go to the Supreme Court? I was like, come on, the Supreme Court?

• 56:29Speaker 02

  You were skeptical.

• 56:30Steven Rinella?

  I just felt like, how does that make it there? But now I see how. It just seemed like, you know, how do you, I don't know, it just seemed like a very. A lot at stake, a lot at stake, I think that's why. You know. All right. But I mean, I can't believe that he's spending money on this because. Um, he hasn't gotten, he hasn't gotten even sort of favorable.

• 56:56Steven Rinella?

  Response from any court. And these aren't softy courts.

• 57:01Steven Rinella?

  These aren't like lefty courts.

• 57:02Speaker 02

  Sure. $500 via Steve and Meat Eater going to the Meat Eater Land Access Initiative. Welcome back Seth, welcome back Steve. Join us next week for more Meat Eater trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins.

• 57:16Speaker 05

  Thanks Spencer.

• 57:18Speaker 08

  Yeah, Spencer from South Dakota, he's the host. Using those smooth mellow tones, he lays them questions down.

• 57:31Speaker 08

  He likes taking those two and three-year-old bucks. And he's an amateur.

• 57:43Steven Rinella?

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• 58:23Speaker 09

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• 59:22Steven Rinella?

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