Pod Insights The MeatEater Podcast Ep. 797: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CXCII About this episode Randall Williams guest hosts MeatEater Trivia with Spencer Neuharth https://www.instagram.com/spencerneuharth/?hl=en, Ryan Callaghan, Nate Mason, Logan Dove, Hilary Byrne, and Roman Schnobrich.
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3:12 Steven Rinella? Phil, what do you say we pull the old starter cord on this bad boy?
3:23 Speaker 04 That was if it didn't work, but it's working. We're recording.
3:26 Steven Rinella? We're recording right now.
3:27 Speaker 04 Yep.
3:28 Steven Rinella? I wanted to start before I said that.
3:30 Speaker 04 Okay.
3:35 Steven Rinella? I was waiting for the music to play.
3:37 Speaker 04 No, I had that in post, Randall.
3:39 Steven Rinella? Yeah, I know. I know. It's off too bad.
3:41 Speaker 04 Should we start? Should I play the theme live?
3:45 Steven Rinella? I think it'd be a nice touch.
3:46 Speaker 05 You don't have to. Do whatever you'd like.
3:48 Steven Rinella? This is a good entry point. Welcome to MeatEater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your guest host, Randall Williams. Today, I'm joined by Cal, the birthday boy, Spencer, not birthday, Hillary, not birthday, Logan Roman, and the big dog Nate Mason.
4:11 Speaker 06 Wow.
4:12 Steven Rinella? This is a 10-round quiz show with questions from MeatEater's four verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking. There is a prize. MeatEater will donate $500 to the conservation organization of the winners choosing.
4:26 Speaker 06 Here's our infrequently asked questions segment. If you have a trivia related question for our crew, send it to trivia at the meat eater.com with the subject line IFAQ. Today's IFAQ is from Nick Halverson. Longtime listener, first time caller. I wanted to address some members of the team and quote, give them their flowers, if you will. This is in response to episode 719 of Radio Live, where I heard a lot of shade being thrown at Dr. Randall from some listeners. Dr. Randall has become one of my favorites to listen to. He is very smart. Sometimes-
4:59 Speaker 05 You picked this randomly?
5:01 Speaker 06 Sometimes articulate, which I thought was a nice qualification. And often very funny. His quick, dry and dark sense of humor is an excellent addition to the show, along with Phil, the engineer, who could be the funniest, most interesting member of the whole crew.
5:16 Speaker 04 Yeah. Wow. I like this, Nick.
5:18 Speaker 06 I especially enjoyed episode 713 of Radio Live, which has to be one of the most hilarious and creative episodes that you guys have done yet. More, excuse me, more like that, please. My favorite hunting podcast is becoming my favorite comedy podcast. Color me entertained. All that to say, more Phil, more Dr. Randall, and more Spencer. I don't know why he included you.
5:42 Speaker 05 Yeah, he didn't say anything about me beforehand.
5:44 Speaker 06 Did you tell this guy that coloring people's kind of out of vogue these days? I, that's, that's edgy.
5:52 Speaker 04 That's why, that's why this is his favorite comedy podcast.
5:55 Speaker 06 Spencer, I think he included you so that you would read this email.
5:58 Speaker 05 That's right.
5:59 Speaker 06 Thank you. Great work on all the shows. You guys are doing the Lord's work. Sincerely, Nick Halverson. Thank you, Nick. Everybody here at the table appreciates your comments.
6:09 Speaker 05 That's a good question.
6:12 Speaker 06 I need to look up episode 713 of Radio Live. I didn't, uh-
6:16 Speaker 04 Apparently you were on fire.
6:18 Speaker 06 I meant to do that.
6:18 Speaker 05 I would imagine that was the Hundreds of Beavers episode, but I do not know.
6:22 Speaker 06 Yeah, that was very funny. Especially the bit about hundreds of beavers. Did you guys do the Idaho Bee-
6:27 Speaker 04 Beaver drop deal, is that what you're covering?
6:29 Speaker 06 No, no, I, I, uh, it's hard to explain.
6:32 Speaker 05 Weird indie film.
6:33 Speaker 06 It's conceptual.
6:34 Speaker 05 Has nothing to do with.
6:35 Speaker 06 And there's a very conceptual comedic bit in the middle of it. That was a two-part play between me and Phil.
6:40 Speaker 04 I was every, they rehash the Idaho Beaver Drop every year or a couple of years. And people love it, like the articles.
6:50 Speaker 05 I'm gonna rehash it at some point, so be careful.
6:53 Speaker 04 Yeah, but it's amazing, like, that was done, what, like nineteen forty-nine?
6:57 Speaker 05 Long time ago.
6:58 Speaker 04 Yeah.
6:58 Speaker 06 Uh, for the record, I'll point out that I did not select this email. Spencer selected this email. And Spencer thought it would be funny if I read it. I agreed. I agreed to read it and I, it's fun reading it aloud, actually. It's more meaningful than when you just look at it on your phone briefly on the couch. Now for housekeeping today, let's address that I am losing one of my all-time favorite trivia competitors, Ryan Cal- Callahan. No, he's not dying.
7:31 Speaker 06 He's just taking a new job. Cal, why don't you tell folks what's next?
7:36 Speaker 04 I, I can't participate in trivia. We have guests all the time.
7:40 Speaker 06 Uh, Spencer actually.
7:40 Speaker 05 Oh, you can chill, okay.
7:42 Speaker 06 Spencer wrote, Spencer wrote that too. I wonder who'll donate to.
7:45 Speaker 05 I, I was saving myself the rejection, you know, going forward. I just assumed, you know.
7:50 Speaker 04 Oh.
7:50 Speaker 05 This couldn't fit in your calendar.
7:52 Speaker 04 The calendar's not fun at all, but, uh, yeah, incoming CEO at BHA. So January first, I'm gonna start, uh, uh, CEO gig, which is an acronym.
8:03 Speaker 06 You're gonna be a suit.
8:04 Speaker 04 Well. Yeah, I've, I've, I quit wearing ties in DC quite a while ago, cause I just, it takes me, I gotta relearn the YouTube video every time.
8:13 Speaker 06 Uh, yeah. We tied our ties together with YouTube that one time.
8:16 Speaker 04 Oh, yeah, that's right, yeah.
8:17 Speaker 05 My wife asked me, uh, over Halloween, she had a costume that involved a tie, uh, how to tie a tie. And I said, just go to YouTube, there's the one video that this guy did it first on YouTube and now.
8:28 Speaker 04 Nice little background music.
8:30 Speaker 05 Every man under forty years old has watched that video.
8:32 Speaker 06 And that dude's a millionaire.
8:33 Speaker 05 Yeah, he's gotta be.
8:34 Speaker 06 Multiple times.
8:35 Speaker 05 And it's not even a good video. He was just the guy to do it at one point, and then it became the video that everyone watches the day of a wedding.
8:41 Speaker 06 Has anybody made a shoe tying video yet?
8:44 Speaker 04 Oh, get on it.
8:47 Speaker 04 Yeah, man, I'm I'm super stoked. Public lands, waters and wildlife, big, big part of my life. And I'm very excited to ensure any way I can to make sure that that people stand up for those things and the proper management of those things and then continued access to those things. Ideally, ideally expanded opportunities out there.
9:14 Speaker 04 Cause yeah, man, I think that right now there's definitely, we're being force fed a bunch of BS on how these places don't have value, or they could be better served in a certain way. And something I'm reminded of all the time, just like driving around the home state here is I feel like we're just really being force fed this idea that people don't get along and can't come to terms on this stuff. I talk to people I disagree with all the time and it's always a good conversation. So I think there's a lot of positive work to be done on on building big coalitions of groups that all these people tell us can't get along.
9:58 Speaker 04 And I just think that's a bunch of crap.
10:02 Speaker 06 As a follow up, who are you going to miss the most as a trivia competitor?
10:07 Speaker 04 Well, you guys do nothing but produce media. How could I ever miss someone? You'll be in my ears. Already saying you guys. You people.
10:21 Speaker 04 No, plus I'm going to be participating a bunch over here. I want to maintain the podcast and and jump in on some some projects here and there. So.
10:31 Speaker 06 Are you still going to share an office with Randall? Randall, are you going to keep his seat?
10:33 Speaker 04 I was gonna say, I guarantee nobody remembers to turn off my key fob.
10:40 Speaker 04 It's like anytime I need to use a copy machine.
10:44 Speaker 06 Anytime mail in the office today.
10:46 Speaker 04 Anytime I need. pans, stuff like that. Rinse something. Yeah, sausage stuff.
10:50 Speaker 06 I am thinking about making Cal's
10:52 Speaker 04 Commercial kitchen.
10:53 Speaker 06 Cal's workspace, just sort of a communal sitting area where we can air our grievances.
10:58 Speaker 04 I like that.
10:59 Speaker 06 With the next great film idea.
11:01 Speaker 05 Okay.
11:02 Speaker 06 Now, the Sydney index for today is a four, so our winner should get eight correct answers. And with that, we're on to the game of trivia. Play the drop, Phil.
11:11 Speaker 05 Didn't say please.
11:14 Speaker 07 Need to know what I stand to win to everything.
11:18 Speaker 07 How's that? Just tend to win everything.
11:27 Speaker 06 Game on, suckers. Question one in the category of cooking. According to the CDC, which pathogen is the leading cause of hospitalization due to foodborne illness in the United States?
11:43 Speaker 04 Salmonella.
11:45 Speaker 06 Your options are salmonella, E. coli, norovirus, or botulinum.
11:52 Speaker 04 Whoa.
11:53 Speaker 05 That's a good question.
11:58 Speaker 04 Man.
11:59 Speaker 06 According to the CDC, which pathogen is the leading cause of hospitalization due to foodborne illness in the United States? Again, your choices are salmonella, E. coli, norovirus, or botulinum.
12:16 Speaker 05 Randall, you said you were coming up with questions at Deer Camp with your buddies. Did you credit them for any questions in the script?
12:22 Speaker 06 Uh, no, I will do that, though. That's a nice touch.
12:25 Speaker 05 Come up with any?
12:27 Speaker 06 Oh, yeah.
12:27 Speaker 05 Okay.
12:28 Speaker 06 I pulled probably five or six of these off my phone.
12:30 Speaker 05 Man, okay, good.
12:31 Speaker 06 Uh, yeah, including the one that I had to cut. So.
12:35 Speaker 05 This is a good question.
12:36 Speaker 04 It's always better to start things off on the right foot.
12:38 Speaker 06 Yeah.
12:38 Speaker 04 With the, with the check in the old got it column. But I'm torn.
12:47 Speaker 05 Has anybody had one of these?
12:49 Speaker 06 Anybody had one of these?
12:50 Speaker 04 I have. Well, that's what, what makes me torn is half the frickin' office got tapped out last year with one of these.
12:57 Speaker 06 But did they go to the hospital?
12:59 Speaker 04 And does the CDC say it's a foodborne illness thing?
13:02 Speaker 06 Hmm.
13:03 Speaker 05 Okay.
13:04 Speaker 06 Interesting. Interesting.
13:07 Speaker 04 And who goes to the hospital?
13:09 Speaker 06 Old people.
13:10 Speaker 04 Great question.
13:11 Speaker 06 A lot of times.
13:11 Speaker 04 People who want to die. Yeah.
13:13 Speaker 05 Hillary when she's breaking bones.
13:15 Speaker 06 Yeah, I've been to the hospital.
13:16 Speaker 04 Yeah, Hillary's a frequent flyer at the hospital.
13:20 Speaker 06 Just the orthopedic surgeon's office. Do we have, uh, do we have answers, gang?
13:25 Speaker 04 Yeah.
13:26 Speaker 06 Flip them over.
13:28 Speaker 06 Roman says E. coli. Hillary says Salmonella. Spencer says Salmonella. Logan says E. coli. Nate says Salmonella. Cal says E. coli.
13:39 Speaker 04 Oh.
13:39 Speaker 06 Oh geez, guys.
13:41 Speaker 04 Split.
13:42 Speaker 06 The answer's norovirus.
13:44 Speaker 04 Damn, that's what I had. Damn. That was the other one.
13:48 Speaker 06 According to CDC data, there are 9.9 million cases of domestically acquired foodborne illness in the United States, resulting in 53,000 hospitalizations and 931 deaths. While Salmonella was the leading cause of death in these cases, norovirus was responsible for more than half of all cases overall and nearly half of all hospitalizations. Symptoms of norovirus include nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, stomach cramps, diarrhea, headaches, diarrhea, and muscle aches. And diarrhea.
14:19 Speaker 04 But it's still just not as sexy as E. coli. No. Dude, I got, I got norovirus coming home from Western Hunt, and it was the worst plane ride of my life.
14:29 Speaker 05 Is there a specific food people get it from?
14:31 Speaker 04 I had a bison steak the night before, so maybe that one.
14:34 Speaker 05 Oh.
14:35 Speaker 06 I got it from a, a bagged salad one time, I think.
14:38 Speaker 05 I feel like that's every foodborne illness comes from bagged lettuce.
14:42 Speaker 06 Yeah. And we haven't been back to bagged salads, which is a real shame for the, the produce folks at Costco.
14:48 Speaker 04 That's the sad truth of the trade show circuit. Is like the whole time you're like, I want to be healthy, I need to get a salad.
14:55 Speaker 05 Mm-hmm.
14:56 Speaker 04 But then you're like, that salad will kill you.
14:58 Speaker 05 Yeah.
14:59 Speaker 04 Get something deep fat fried, just muscle through.
15:01 Speaker 05 Yeah. That salad has to fend off the shot shield flu.
15:04 Speaker 04 Mm-hmm.
15:05 Speaker 05 So.
15:06 Speaker 06 Our next question, that's question two for those of you following along, comes to us in the category of hunting. Rank the following from densest to least dense. Lead, tungsten, steel, and bismuth.
15:23 Speaker 06 Hmm. Rank the following from densest to least dense. Lead, tungsten, steel, bismuth. And you can just use the first letter of each word, which will make it easier for me to read your answers.
15:44 Speaker 06 Rank the following from densest to least dense. Lead, tungsten, steel, and bismuth.
16:00 Speaker 06 Folks are working hard here. Do some math.
16:03 Speaker 04 That's a list.
16:05 Speaker 06 You got your answer, Cal? Do you feel good?
16:08 Speaker 04 Uh, yeah, pretty good. I mean, you can't feel good after missing the first answer.
16:13 Speaker 06 No, but everybody missed it, so you're all still on the same page. Let's just consider this the first question.
16:18 Speaker 05 Did Sidney get that one right?
16:19 Speaker 06 She did.
16:21 Speaker 05 Cause she knew about the...
16:22 Speaker 06 She also partook in that bagged Caesar. It hit me first. And there was a night of me... She probably got it from me, cleaning up the bathroom after me.
16:34 Speaker 04 You're like, "Well, I gotta go to work."
16:36 Speaker 06 No, no, I did not go to work for like three days. Uh, yeah. Was this the Costco bagged Caesar? It was. It was. I know, I love that sound. It's kind of like a standby for us when we need just something to throw. I think, I mean, they're batting a pretty high percentage, Phil.
16:54 Speaker 05 Did you go to the doctor?
16:55 Speaker 06 Uh, no. No.
16:57 Speaker 05 So it was never reported? You might have just let, you know, millions of other people get it.
17:01 Speaker 06 Yeah, that's one case that throws off the CDC data. Looks like we all have answers, gang. Flip over those boards.
17:09 Speaker 06 Roman says bismuth, tungsten, lead, steel. Hillary says bismuth, lead, tungsten, steel. Spencer says tungsten, bismuth, steel, lead. Logan says tungsten, steel, bismuth, lead. Nate says lead, tungsten, bismuth, steel. Cal says lead, tungsten, bismuth, steel.
17:33 Speaker 06 Phil, I don't know if you're following along, but I'm fairly certain that that's another zero percenter.
17:38 Speaker 05 You'd be correct, Randall.
17:40 Speaker 06 The correct answer is tungsten. Lead, bismuth, and steel.
17:45 Speaker 04 Really? Steel's at least dense?
17:47 Speaker 06 Yep. Lead has long been used, and I have the grams per cubic centimeter, but I don't think that's very interesting, nor is it easy to read. Lead has long been used as the gold standard for firearm projectiles, but it is illegal to use lead shot for waterfowl hunting due to its toxicity. Steel is the most common non-toxic alternative, but it is less dense than lead, so typically hunters will choose a larger shot size to maintain energy. Bismuth is closer to lead's density than steel, but it is more expensive. Tungsten is the densest, but again, its cost is a significant factor.
18:24 Speaker 05 The pheasant hunters, the old guys where I grew up in South Dakota, if you hunt public land, you have to use steel. If you hunt private, it's your choice.
18:31 Speaker 04 Non-toxic, right.
18:32 Speaker 05 Non-toxic. The common choice was always steel.
18:35 Speaker 04 Right.
18:36 Speaker 05 But dudes would complain, usually old men, that the steel flew too slow for them. So that's why you weren't getting any birds.
18:44 Speaker 04 It significantly drops off the table.
18:46 Speaker 06 Yeah.
18:47 Speaker 04 Out there at 30 yards.
18:49 Speaker 06 Something like that.
18:50 Speaker 04 Something like that, yeah. Bismuth's a hot commodity right now. Chinese.
18:55 Speaker 06 Hmm.
18:56 Speaker 04 Getting us.
18:56 Speaker 06 Yeah, especially at 9.8 grams per cubic centimeter. Tungsten almost has twice the density of lead.
19:03 Speaker 04 Hmm.
19:04 Speaker 06 Fascinating.
19:06 Speaker 06 Question three. Natural history. What 11-letter word refers to the geological time period that ended 11,000 years ago, characterized by the presence of large land mammals and birds, as well as extensive ice sheets and glaciers in North America?
19:27 Speaker 04 Eleven letters.
19:28 Speaker 06 What eleven letter word refers to the geological time period that ended eleven thousand years ago, characterized by the presence of large land mammals and birds, as well as extensive ice sheets and glaciers in North America?
19:43 Speaker 05 You know this one Hillary?
19:44 Speaker 06 Hillary's got an answer.
19:45 Speaker 05 That was way quick.
19:46 Speaker 06 Nate's got an answer. Spencer's got an answer. Yeah, especially for eleven letters. I got eleven letters. Cal's got an answer. Wait, wait. Roman's got a blank board.
19:57 Speaker 06 Logan's tapping his board and looking at me.
20:01 Speaker 05 I was just in Utah and we found a new spot where you can see dinosaur prints.
20:06 Speaker 06 Ooh.
20:07 Speaker 05 In the ground that it's been there.
20:09 Speaker 04 I, uh, on Sam's antelope hunt, I found this like big mud spire that was
20:20 Speaker 04 solid, um, uh, fossils.
20:24 Speaker 06 Hmm.
20:24 Speaker 04 Yeah. Yeah. And I was like, it's so illegal, but I just want to destroy this whole thing. Uh, but I'm pretty sure they were, they had to be like bison antiquus is kind of what my guess was. It was amazing.
20:38 Speaker 06 Dude, that petrified wood that I sent you, the landowner wanted it.
20:42 Speaker 05 Oh, Nate.
20:44 Speaker 06 I know, dude. It was the right thing to do, but it hurts.
20:48 Speaker 05 But I, I feel like that's a rare, um, occasion where the landowner was like, yeah, give me that.
20:53 Speaker 06 The worst part is, he's like, oh, I'm real interested in rocks.
20:56 Speaker 05 Nate found some great petrified wood.
20:57 Speaker 06 Oh dude, it stands up. It is a perfect built bookend. It stands up. It's amazing. Anyways. It's like, I really love rocks. It's like, all right, hey dude, your property, do whatever you want. He takes it from me. He's like, let me show you my other ones I got.
21:10 Speaker 05 Oh.
21:10 Speaker 06 Tosses it by the side of his, like next to his hose, like just on the side of his house. He's got a chunk this big that looks like some dinosaur.
21:19 Speaker 04 Or a billion years ago, split it for firewood. It looks like firewood. And then he's got another chunk even bigger than his buddy found and gave to him. It hurt my soul.
21:27 Speaker 06 Logan, do you have an answer?
21:29 Speaker 04 I do, yeah.
21:29 Speaker 06 Roman. I got nothing. Are you gonna come up with an answer? Uh, how much time do we have? Would you like to just take a few seconds and? I'm still reeling from that hangman comment that someone made recently. So no, nope. Alright, Kang. Sorry, I used the word gang again. And you know, the YouTube comments don't like it. They think it's a bad word to use.
21:54 Speaker 06 He says it too much, gang and team. In any event, Roman doesn't have an answer. Hillary has Paleolithic. Spencer has Precambrian. Logan has Paleolithic. Nate has Paleolithic and Cal has Pleistocene. Which is not right. The correct answer is Pleistocene.
22:14 Speaker 06 It's one of Stephen Reynolds' favorite words. The Pleistocene epoch spanning from 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago was characterized by repeated glaciations across much of North America and Eurasia. This geological period saw the evolution of many modern mammal species, including early humans alongside iconic megafauna like woolly mammoths, saber tooth cats and giant ground sloths. Uh, that's, that's Pleistocene, the Ice Age. I like to call that the Ice Age. I thought that was gonna be a I thought that was gonna be a higher percentage. Tough room.
22:50 Speaker 04 How does the Sydney index compare to the Shelby index?
22:53 Speaker 06 Sydney.
22:54 Speaker 05 She might win.
22:54 Speaker 06 The Sydney index actually is, is pretty, it's pretty competitive.
22:58 Speaker 05 We might have to call her and see where she wants to donate that money.
23:01 Speaker 06 I got a couple, I got a couple gimmies coming up, so don't worry too much about it. Twist. That'd be great.
23:06 Speaker 04 Or call her for overtime.
23:08 Speaker 06 So that's, so we have six contestants so far have offered 18 answers and one of them has been correct.
23:14 Speaker 04 That's true, yes.
23:15 Speaker 06 This is a smashing success.
23:17 Speaker 04 Gang.
23:18 Speaker 06 Gang. Come on, team.
23:19 Speaker 04 What the hell's the matter? I know, if you've, if you've ever, if you are a person who's ever complained about Randall saying gang.
23:25 Speaker 06 Or team, I want you to just stop listening to meat eater content.
23:29 Steven Rinella? I just think it's a funny word.
23:30 Speaker 06 Tell that to the CEO. I don't care.
23:32 Speaker 04 I, I think it's they're very inclusive terms.
23:36 Steven Rinella? Yeah.
23:36 Speaker 04 We're all in it together, folks.
23:39 Steven Rinella? It's not going to bother Randall at all.
23:41 Speaker 04 Yeah, nope.
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26:12 Speaker 06 Folks, question number four comes to us in the category of woodsmanship. How many gunshots or blows of a whistle constitutes the international distress signal?
26:26 Speaker 06 How many gunshots or blows of a whistle?
26:33 Speaker 06 I guess it should be constitute the international distress signal.
26:39 Speaker 06 Phil, if we ever do this again, we should cut that S.
26:43 Speaker 04 You know what? I can change it live. You wanna see this?
26:45 Speaker 06 Yes.
26:49 Speaker 06 Oh, wow. That's much better.
26:51 Speaker 04 The font's got bigger too.
26:53 Speaker 06 Did it? That's much better. Looks like most folks have an answer. Logan, you ready? We'll flip them over, team. Roman says three. Larry says five. Spencer says three, Logan three, Nate three, and Cal three. The correct answer is three. Three whistles or gunshots in succession has become widely recognized as an international distress signal in wilderness and outdoor settings, allowing people to communicate that they need urgent help even when visibility is poor or across long distances. The universal signal is taught in wilderness survival courses worldwide and is distinctive enough to be recognized as intentional rather than environmental noise. Though in modern times, it's often
27:34 Speaker 06 supplemented by other emergency signals like mirrors, flares, and satellite communicators.
27:40 Speaker 05 I think there's a guy in Oregon right now, missing. They're looking for, and they heard his three shots, or they heard gunshots. I assume it was three, which is kinda scary that, like, they know he's out there and he wants to be found and they haven't found him.
27:54 Speaker 06 Dave. Oh, really?
27:56 Speaker 04 No way.
27:57 Speaker 06 Yeah. Oh.
27:58 Speaker 04 Whoa.
27:59 Speaker 06 Devin Dobek.
28:03 Speaker 04 Crazy. That's a, that's a bummer. That dude in California spent three weeks in his truck. Did you guys read that one?
28:10 Speaker 06 The snowstorm?
28:11 Speaker 04 Um, yeah, snowstorm and, you know, it was like the three hour tour scenario. And it was like, okay, I gotta stay here.
28:20 Speaker 06 Mm hmm.
28:20 Speaker 04 And then eventually, um, and he knew the, like the hunting calendar of like when the next opener was and stuff. And so he's like, I have got to hike out at this point or else nobody's gonna be up here.
28:34 Speaker 06 Damn.
28:35 Speaker 04 Yeah. Yeah. Pretty interesting.
28:38 Speaker 06 On to question five. Which comes to us in the category of plants and stuff. This type of grass can only be spread by seeding or new shoots from the base of an existing plant, which results in the tufts or clumps of growth that give it its name.
28:58 Speaker 06 This type of grass can only be spread by seeding or new shoots from the base of an existing plant, which results in the tufts or clumps of growth that give it its name.
29:11 Speaker 06 Cal's got an answer.
29:12 Speaker 04 I do have an answer.
29:14 Speaker 06 Feel good about it?
29:16 Speaker 04 Yeah, I thought it was something else, but then I had to listen to the rest of your, uh, voice there and then. I changed my answer.
29:24 Speaker 06 There are actually two acceptable answers, only one of which is related to the final clue in this question.
29:33 Speaker 06 But hang on, hang on. I'll tell you all about that in a little bit here. Nate's got an answer.
29:39 Speaker 04 I have a word.
29:41 Speaker 06 Hillary's writing something, shrugging.
29:45 Speaker 06 Frowning, shaking her head.
29:48 Speaker 04 There's a possible answer in. That's what I'm going with. Yeah. Yeah, I gathered that.
29:56 Speaker 06 Oh geez.
29:56 Speaker 04 Well, hey.
29:57 Speaker 06 Maybe I've overlooked something.
30:00 Speaker 04 Five whistle blasts. There's some options, though.
30:05 Speaker 06 This type of grass can only spread by seeding or new shoots from the base of an existing plant, which results in the tufts or clumps of growth that give it its name. Nate's got an answer. Logan?
30:20 Speaker 04 Yeah.
30:21 Steven Rinella? I don't know if it's even. I just have a word.
30:26 Steven Rinella? Dude, I thought we were gonna be much more aligned and I'm not with you today.
30:30 Speaker 06 Yeah. Sidney got this.
30:32 Steven Rinella? We're the same shirt.
30:33 Speaker 06 Sidney got this one. I was gonna say you look good today.
30:35 Speaker 05 What are you gonna have to take it off? I think it's getting too confusing.
30:38 Steven Rinella? No, dude.
30:39 Speaker 06 Well, I can't.
30:39 Speaker 04 Family show.
30:41 Speaker 06 I can't take it off due to the shirt I'm wearing underneath it. It doesn't align with our corporate values.
30:49 Steven Rinella? Got a bear canoeing under this.
30:51 Speaker 06 That's pretty sick. Show that one.
30:53 Steven Rinella? No.
30:54 Speaker 06 Take it off.
30:55 Speaker 04 It's a tattoo.
30:56 Speaker 06 I'm the host today, Nate. Take your shirt off.
31:00 Speaker 06 Yeah, I thought that was interesting. No, I can't. I literally can't show my.
31:04 Speaker 04 Come on.
31:05 Speaker 06 It's gonna get me in trouble.
31:06 Speaker 04 Come on.
31:08 Speaker 06 Uh, do we all have answers before Nate?
31:10 Speaker 04 Yep.
31:11 Speaker 06 Bears, the bear on its chest?
31:12 Speaker 04 I'm gonna change real quick.
31:14 Speaker 06 Spencer's changing real quick.
31:16 Steven Rinella? Your shirt?
31:19 Speaker 06 That's good. This is a great episode. Flip them over, everybody. Roman says seed grass. Hillary says tuft grass. Spencer says clump grass. Logan says cheat grass. Nate says fescue. Cal says bunch grass. Now, the answers I was looking at, looking for.
31:38 Speaker 04 What about buffalo?
31:39 Speaker 06 Bunch grass or tussock.
31:41 Speaker 04 Oh, tussock.
31:44 Speaker 06 Fescue is a type of bunch grass.
31:46 Speaker 04 Oh, I'm right.
31:47 Speaker 06 It's a type of bunch grass. I don't necessarily know that I could.
31:53 Speaker 04 Here we go.
31:54 Speaker 06 Rule that out there because I didn't specify like the, the level.
31:57 Speaker 04 Oh, he's going to his phone.
31:58 Speaker 06 Here we go. Here we go. Well, you can, uh, bunch grasses are perennial grass species that grow in discreet clumps or tufts rather than forming continuous sod, creating distinctive rounded shapes with deep root systems that make them exceptionally drought resistant and valuable for erosion control.
32:14 Speaker 04 That's what all of our lawn should be in Bozeman.
32:17 Speaker 06 These ecologically important grasses, which include varieties like blue gramma, fescue, and wheatgrass, provide critical habitat for grassland wildlife and can survive in challenging environments.
32:27 Speaker 04 Hmm.
32:28 Speaker 06 What do we think? Should we give it to Nate, gang?
32:30 Speaker 05 You should give it to him, yeah.
32:32 Speaker 06 I think we give it to him. Thank you.
32:33 Speaker 04 Yesterday was Veterans Day.
32:34 Speaker 06 Where I got that from. Yep, yep.
32:36 Speaker 05 Veterans Week.
32:36 Speaker 06 So Phil, chalk that as a, uh, point for Nate there.
32:39 Speaker 04 Point for Nate.
32:40 Speaker 06 And for Cal.
32:41 Speaker 04 Yep. If we can give him a good loan rate, we can give him a extra answer.
32:46 Speaker 06 Indeed. Yep, I will take both. We, we are now halfway through our game of trivia, Phil. May I please have a scoreboard update?
32:54 Steven Rinella? No, thank you for saying please. So kind of you. I love it when you host. We've got Roman. Oh wait, Hillary has zero points. Roman, Spencer, and Logan are tied up with one. Nate has two, and in first place, it's Ryan Callaghan with three points.
33:07 Speaker 06 Hmm. Sidney's still in it.
33:11 Speaker 06 Question six. Which of the quote, "big three catfish species native to North America does not have a forked tail?"
33:20 Speaker 04 Oh, that's great.
33:23 Speaker 06 Which of the big, Spencer's got an answer.
33:24 Speaker 04 Spencer's got an answer.
33:25 Speaker 06 Which of the big three catfish, Nate's got an answer. Big three catfish species native to North America does not have a forked tail.
33:33 Speaker 04 How long did it take Spencer to write that?
33:36 Speaker 05 Hmm, I don't know.
33:38 Speaker 06 Hmm.
33:38 Speaker 04 And how fast does he write?
33:41 Speaker 06 But there are also two catfish species that have a very similar number of letters. In fact, they have this.
33:48 Speaker 04 Wow. Shush it, Randall.
33:49 Speaker 05 He held it out the room.
33:51 Steven Rinella? I've just been sent a message from one of the suits upstairs.
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34:10 Speaker 06 That's getting some great reviews.
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34:31 Speaker 06 Man, you just warmed some suit's heart, dude. Question six, which of the big three catfish species native to North America does not have a forked tail? Are those who do not have answers, are you still, why don't you guess? Just name a catfish. Give us a multiple choice.
34:48 Speaker 04 I think all I know is catfish.
34:51 Speaker 05 Yeah, it's just a catfish.
34:52 Speaker 04 I don't like my answer, but I don't know for certain, so.
34:57 Speaker 06 Spencer, you're confident.
34:58 Speaker 05 I have this one right.
34:58 Speaker 06 Nate, how are you feeling? Oh, it's exactly how I felt the last one, but I got the last one right. God, I really screwed up this game. I'm not a big fisherman, if you didn't know. No, but you don't have to be a fisherman to appreciate catfish or know what they look like.
35:12 Speaker 05 Yeah, you grew up in Ohio.
35:14 Speaker 06 I did not grow up in Ohio.
35:17 Speaker 06 All right, well, let's flip over those boards. Roman says.
35:21 Speaker 04 Shit!
35:23 Speaker 06 Roman says the southern catfish, Hillary the eastern, Spencer the flathead, Logan the southern catfish, Nate says the blue cat, and Cal says the channel cat.
35:31 Speaker 04 See, the flathead is my favorite, so that's what I was inclined to go.
35:35 Speaker 06 Yeah, they had those, I mean, the correct answer is flathead catfish. Nice. Flathead, blue, and channel catfish make up the quote, "big three distinct species found in North American waters." Flatheads, also known as shovelheads, are distinctive from the other two, both in the shape of their head, their brown and yellowish coloration, and their squareish tail. Both blues and channels have forked tails, with channels' tails more deeply forked than blues.
36:02 Steven Rinella? White tail I sent you a while back.
36:05 Speaker 04 I picked the worst.
36:08 Speaker 06 Yeah, yeah. And the funny thing is.
36:10 Speaker 04 The most forked.
36:11 Speaker 06 You've heard this question before.
36:13 Speaker 05 Oh.
36:13 Speaker 06 I asked it when I hosted BHA rendezvous trivia in Minneapolis. And because I had to cut out a question at the very last minute, I thought I'd go back and pick a question from that event. And I said, well, cows heard them.
36:27 Speaker 04 I was too anxiety ridden because I had to do the scorekeeping. I really.
36:31 Speaker 06 Yeah, and I just thought it was very low odds that you remembered hearing this question.
36:35 Speaker 04 Good job.
36:35 Speaker 06 Even though it's such a good question.
36:37 Speaker 05 Blues and channels that they're, uh, tail fin is almost identical and a lot, in a lot of ways, they're almost identical. The way you tell them apart is their anal rays. One has more anal rays than the other.
36:46 Speaker 04 Which one?
36:48 Speaker 05 God, I don't remember now. I think it's a blue is like between twenty-two and twenty-four and a channel is like eighteen to twenty.
36:56 Speaker 06 But you don't have to count them because you can just show a photo of it to somebody and tell them it's a channel or a blue and they likely can't tell the difference.
37:03 Speaker 05 Yep.
37:04 Speaker 06 On to question seven, in the category of geology.
37:08 Speaker 04 I got everybody and a bonus. Uh, trivia question right there. Send a thank you, Zan. Go ahead.
37:18 Speaker 06 Question seven, geology. Name two of the three types of rocks.
37:24 Speaker 06 I thought this was fun.
37:26 Speaker 04 This is really funny.
37:28 Speaker 06 I actually thought about making an entire trivia episode based off of elementary school science.
37:35 Speaker 04 This is gonna be embarrassing if I get this one wrong.
37:40 Speaker 05 Wait, are you gonna get this one wrong, Spencer? You're a rock guy.
37:43 Speaker 06 Let's see.
37:44 Speaker 05 That's your thing.
37:47 Speaker 06 Hillary's got an answer.
37:50 Speaker 06 Logan's got an answer. No. Nate's got an answer.
37:55 Steven Rinella? The first one I felt good about.
37:57 Speaker 06 I thought everybody would just laugh at this. But I also thought this game would be better. It's going poorly.
38:05 Speaker 04 Well, just by the scoreboard.
38:07 Speaker 06 Wait till you get the net, the next.
38:08 Speaker 05 It's your buddy's fault. Your buddies came up with these questions. Do we get bonus if we?
38:13 Speaker 06 List all three? I thought about having people list all three. You won't get a bonus, but you'll just, you'll display your, uh.
38:21 Speaker 05 You'll flex.
38:22 Speaker 06 Yeah, you'll flex on the listeners. The, uh, the shot density question, I'd like to credit to Christian Hughes of Seattle, Washington. Longtime listener of the program and my best friend since the age of nine. Uh, Pleistocene was also Christian.
38:39 Speaker 05 Wow.
38:39 Speaker 06 Uh.
38:42 Speaker 06 Yeah.
38:43 Speaker 05 Best friend.
38:44 Speaker 06 Yeah.
38:45 Speaker 05 What do you like so much about him?
38:47 Speaker 06 Uh.
38:49 Speaker 05 It's taking you a little too long to answer this.
38:50 Speaker 06 We share, we share a certain sensibility about the world. We have a lot in common. Uh, he's owned more guns than he can remember.
38:59 Speaker 05 Oh, you'd more than you.
39:00 Speaker 06 He's the one who got the locker full of guns, uh, burglarized from his home.
39:05 Speaker 05 Mm-hmm.
39:07 Speaker 06 He collects weird stuff. We all, uh, we all got answers.
39:14 Speaker 06 Turn them over. Sorry for the dead air. Roman says sedimentary, igneous, igneous.
39:19 Speaker 04 Yeah.
39:20 Speaker 06 Hillary says sedimentary, metamorphic, igneous. Spencer says sedentary, but he crossed it out and he wrote igneous metamorphic. Logan said sedimentary and igneous. Nate said igneous metamorphic and crossed out sedimentary. And Cal wrote sedimentary and volcanic.
39:38 Speaker 04 I had all the other words rattling around my brain.
39:42 Speaker 06 Yeah.
39:42 Speaker 04 I just couldn't. What about Mafic and Melfic? Those are two excellent geology terms, too.
39:49 Speaker 06 I don't know. I don't know. Uh, I was hoping that someone would write sedentary, but you saved your ass by drawing it out. Igneous rocks form from cooling magma.
40:00 Speaker 05 What are the, what's the answer?
40:01 Speaker 06 Oh, igneous metamorphic and sedimentary. Igneous rocks form from cooling magma while sedimentary rocks develop from compressed layers of debris. And metamorphic rocks result from existing rocks transformed under heat and pressure.
40:16 Speaker 04 Igneous.
40:17 Speaker 06 Igneous.
40:17 Speaker 04 Is a volcanic one.
40:18 Speaker 06 That's what you were thinking of?
40:19 Speaker 04 Yeah.
40:20 Speaker 05 Budge.
40:21 Speaker 06 Question eight comes to us in the category of high cinema.
40:26 Speaker 06 What, what 1972 feature film?
40:29 Speaker 04 I was doing that the other night.
40:31 Speaker 06 Follows the.
40:34 Speaker 06 What 1972 feature film follows the horrific misadventures of four Atlanta businessmen? Who decide to canoe down the fictional Kahuluiwasi River? Before it is dammed.
40:47 Speaker 06 What 1972 feature film? Follows the horrific misadventures of four Atlanta businessmen? Who decide to canoe down the fictional Kahuluiwasi River? Before it is dammed. Roman's writing an answer. Hillary's writing an answer.
41:02 Speaker 04 Not right.
41:04 Speaker 06 Cal's. Cal started writing an answer really aggressively and then I looked over and he's just got his eyes closed.
41:10 Speaker 04 Because I had, I was like, oh, is this? And then when I went to put it on the thing, I just.
41:16 Speaker 06 You lost it?
41:17 Speaker 04 My brain just totally went away. I can name the actors.
41:21 Speaker 06 Mm hmm.
41:22 Speaker 04 I can tell you the entire movie.
41:24 Speaker 06 Mm hmm.
41:25 Speaker 05 Oh, wow.
41:26 Speaker 04 Is there a remake? God almighty, no. I don't think there is.
41:30 Speaker 06 I don't think so.
41:31 Speaker 04 Nobody's been bold enough.
41:32 Speaker 06 Yeah.
41:32 Speaker 04 It's not what I'm.
41:38 Speaker 06 What 1972 feature film?
41:40 Speaker 04 This is so stupid.
41:42 Speaker 06 Follows the horrific misadventures of four Atlanta businessmen? Who decide to canoe down the fictional Kahuluiwasi River? Before it is dammed.
41:51 Speaker 05 You know the slogan?
41:52 Speaker 06 No.
41:53 Speaker 04 I don't think so. I wrote the only movie I can think of that is a river related. I see what Cal's writing on his whiteboard and he's. He's getting there.
42:04 Speaker 04 This is so bad.
42:08 Speaker 06 I, I, I could offer a hint, but it.
42:11 Speaker 05 No.
42:12 Speaker 04 No hints. No, don't do it. No.
42:15 Speaker 06 I think it'd be too obvious if I gave a hint.
42:22 Speaker 06 Cal's crossing out an answer and he's written another answer. How are you feeling? Did you get it?
42:26 Speaker 04 Yeah.
42:27 Speaker 06 Come back? We ready to flip over the boards?
42:31 Speaker 04 I spelled it wrong, but you'll get it.
42:33 Speaker 06 Roman says without a paddle. That's what I said. Hillary blank, Spencer blank, Logan blank. I'm sorry, Logan without a paddle. Nate, River Rapid, Cal says Deliverance. The correct answer is Deliverance. Burt Reynolds stars as an avid-
42:50 Speaker 04 Burt Tom Leon Reynolds.
42:52 Speaker 06 An avid outdoorsman and survivalist who leads a group of city slickers through the remote Georgia wilderness. Along the way, they are tested by the natural elements and hostile locals. Every now and then, I consider doing a special 60-minute movie club episode on the film, but I don't think it would be good for our company. Has everybody seen Deliverance at least?
43:12 Speaker 04 I haven't seen it.
43:13 Speaker 05 No.
43:14 Steven Rinella? Cal, you didn't mention that Cal originally wrote down banjo music and crossed it out.
43:19 Speaker 06 Yeah, banjo music.
43:21 Speaker 04 Well, then I was like-
43:22 Speaker 06 Dooling banjos?
43:23 Speaker 05 I recognize that.
43:24 Speaker 06 Squeal like a penguin?
43:26 Speaker 04 I blanked on everything in there.
43:27 Speaker 06 Ned Beatty, John Voight, Burt Russell?
43:30 Speaker 05 Nope. Saying a lot of words I don't know.
43:31 Speaker 06 Nope.
43:32 Steven Rinella? Well, have you seen Without a Paddle Randall?
43:35 Speaker 06 Yes.
43:36 Speaker 05 Former trivia answer.
43:37 Speaker 06 It was a former trivia answer.
43:38 Speaker 04 This is back when Burt Reynolds was like on like Playgirl magazine.
43:42 Speaker 06 And he's got-
43:42 Speaker 04 He was peak Burt Reynolds.
43:43 Speaker 06 He's got this crazy like life jacket survival suit that just looks like space armor. He shoots a compound bow.
43:51 Speaker 04 It's like the top, you know what a Farmer John?
43:53 Speaker 06 Yeah, yeah.
43:56 Speaker 04 Neoprene wetsuit looks like, where it's, it's like-
44:03 Steven Rinella? Like a tank top.
44:04 Speaker 04 Tank top.
44:04 Speaker 06 Somebody falls on an arrow. It's, it's right up our alley, gang, but it's also really, really disturbing.
44:11 Speaker 05 The swimsuit in Borat, is that making fun?
44:13 Speaker 06 No, that's not making fun.
44:14 Speaker 05 No, no, no. What movie is that making fun of? I forget.
44:17 Speaker 06 I don't know.
44:17 Speaker 05 I feel like it's Burt Reynolds wearing that. Never mind.
44:20 Speaker 06 No, don't worry about it. Burt Reynolds could pull that one off. Phil, we've got two questions left in our game of trivia. Oh, how's the scoreboard now?
44:30 Steven Rinella? If only Sydney were here to help us out. Got Hillary has one point now on the board. Roman and Logan are tied up with two. Spencer and Nate have three and Ryan Callaghan still in first place by a mere one point. He has four.
44:45 Speaker 06 Well, good thing he came up with Deliverance.
44:49 Speaker 06 I'm shocked, guys. Take for granted that people like watching really disturbing movies.
44:58 Speaker 06 On to question nine, I suppose.
45:01 Steven Rinella? Anyway.
45:01 Speaker 06 This comes in the category of fishing.
45:02 Speaker 04 I am the oldest person in the room.
45:05 Speaker 06 Yeah, I just feel like Deliverance is such a classic cultural reference.
45:10 Speaker 04 Well, I think times have changed, bud.
45:12 Steven Rinella? I guess.
45:13 Speaker 06 Well, what the question nine comes in the category of fishing. What is the five letter term for the membrane or sac that hold together the eggs of fish like salmon and steelhead?
45:25 Speaker 04 It's a term?
45:27 Speaker 06 It's a word, a word.
45:29 Speaker 04 I feel like Randall wrote all these questions, like, yeah, everyone's gonna know these. I know, dude.
45:33 Speaker 05 Is Sidney gonna answer if you have to call her and figure out what her answer is in overtime?
45:41 Speaker 06 Oh, you know, I could text her. I'll just text her the question without any.
45:48 Speaker 05 She's gonna Google it, but that's okay.
45:51 Speaker 06 Hopefully she doesn't.
45:53 Speaker 04 I don't know how to spell this either.
45:57 Speaker 06 What is the five letter term for the membrane or sac that hold together the eggs of fish like steelhead and salmon?
46:06 Speaker 06 God, I thought I was getting better at this hosting thing, but this is going very.
46:09 Steven Rinella? Randall, you're doing great. Don't blame yourself.
46:11 Speaker 06 Thanks, Phil. I think folks will still think this is a fun episode. And there's gonna be a lot of people, I think, that will, will. How did they not know Deliverance?
46:20 Steven Rinella? I'm right there with you.
46:21 Speaker 06 It's like Jaws.
46:23 Speaker 05 That'll make you feel better?
46:24 Speaker 06 Yeah.
46:24 Speaker 05 That comment, okay.
46:25 Speaker 06 Yeah.
46:25 Speaker 05 Everyone should comment then. How, how the hell did they not know that?
46:29 Speaker 04 It's a horrible spelling.
46:30 Speaker 06 Um, what?
46:39 Speaker 06 Sorry for the dead air. I'm texting my wife a question.
46:43 Speaker 05 Is she gonna have any idea why you're asking that question?
46:46 Speaker 06 No, I'll do it later.
46:48 Steven Rinella? The gang?
46:48 Speaker 06 I'll do it later if we need to go to overtime. Cal's still got a one point lead, but boy, everybody's in it except for Hillary because so few of these questions have been answered correctly.
47:01 Steven Rinella? You always have, you know, whenever I feel bad about, you know, a performance behind the microphone, not that I get a lot of opportunities. Yanni's, Yanni's first game that he hosted, maybe second.
47:11 Speaker 06 Oh, that was the worst.
47:12 Steven Rinella? I mean, wasn't the highest, was it like a three? That was the highest score?
47:16 Speaker 06 Yeah.
47:16 Steven Rinella? That was tough.
47:17 Speaker 06 Yeah.
47:19 Speaker 06 Does anybody feel confident about their answer?
47:21 Speaker 04 Yeah. No.
47:22 Speaker 05 Hmm, no. Cal might win it here.
47:24 Speaker 04 I think Spencer, you gotta feel confident.
47:26 Speaker 06 Are we ready to turn them over?
47:27 Speaker 05 Don't have it.
47:29 Speaker 06 Roman? See what you got there, buddy.
47:31 Speaker 05 Creativity.
47:32 Speaker 06 The baggy. Hillary's blank. Spencer's is paper. Logan says.
47:38 Speaker 04 Nothing.
47:38 Speaker 06 He crossed out a eight letter word. Nate says scrote. Cal says skein. Correct answer is skein.
47:47 Speaker 04 Wow. How do you spell it?
47:49 Speaker 06 S K E I N.
47:50 Speaker 04 Wow.
47:51 Speaker 05 Yeah.
47:51 Speaker 04 Got it. All right.
47:52 Speaker 05 Double point.
47:53 Speaker 06 A skein of eggs refers to clustered mass of eggs produced by some fish species, particularly salmon and other anadromous fish that resemble a loose intertwined bundle. The sticky membrane connecting these eggs helps keep them together during deposition in gravel stream beds.
48:08 Speaker 05 Hmm.
48:09 Speaker 06 Nothing?
48:10 Speaker 05 I'm not a cold water guy. I'm a warm water guy.
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49:56 Speaker 06 One Pay is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by Coastal Community Bank or Lead Bank, members FDIC. Cash back is earned as points. Go to onepay.com/rewards/terms for redemption options and additional details. Before we move on to our final question, here's a quick recap of our answers so far. Question 1: Norovirus. Question 2: Tungsten lead, bismuth, and steel. Question 3: Pleistocene. Question 4: 3. Question 5: Bunchgrass or tussock. Question 6: Flathead. Question 7: Igneous metamorphic sedimentary. Question 8: Deliverance. Question 9: Sken.
50:40 Speaker 06 Now Phil, do we have a change in the scoreboard? Are we still playing here?
50:46 Speaker 04 The game is effectively over because Ryan Callahan has 2 points in the lead and cannot lose.
50:52 Speaker 06 Why do we throw out a lame duck here? And I'll tell Sydney, she doesn't need to tell me what percentage of drowning victims weren't wearing life jackets.
51:02 Speaker 06 Our listener question of the week comes from Luke Billingsley. For submitting this great question, Luke will receive a signed board game from the crew. If you have a great idea for a trivia question, email trivia@themeat eater.com. Is that the correct script?
51:19 Speaker 05 That's right.
51:19 Speaker 06 I did that from memory. I forgot to add it here.
51:23 Speaker 06 Somebody's not screwing it up today.
51:26 Speaker 04 Randall was just looking at Spencer the entire time.
51:28 Speaker 06 Luke Billingsley, I was looking for affirmation.
51:32 Speaker 06 On a compass, north, south, east, and west are referred to as cardinal directions. What is the term for the halfway points between each cardinal direction? For example, southwest, southeast, northwest, or northeast?
51:49 Speaker 05 Two ways to go about this.
51:50 Speaker 06 We shouldn't have asked this question. Just another complete flop.
51:56 Speaker 06 Oh, gosh.
51:56 Speaker 04 Seems like a real waste to name that.
52:00 Speaker 05 Randall, when I was putting these questions into the slideshow for the game today, when I read this question, I thought, wow, I learned something today and I'm a better person for it.
52:10 Speaker 06 Phil, that's the best thing anybody could have said to me right now, other than,
52:13 Speaker 05 I mean it.
52:14 Speaker 06 You can go home early.
52:14 Speaker 04 Is it bird related?
52:16 Speaker 05 Or is it bird related?
52:18 Speaker 06 I thought about asking, I literally Googled quotes from people about how dumb birds are. And I was trying to find someone in the meteor universe who had said something bad about birds.
52:31 Speaker 05 Hmm.
52:32 Speaker 06 Just to play on that theme.
52:34 Speaker 05 Mm-hmm.
52:35 Speaker 06 I thought that would delight some people, but I failed in that too.
52:40 Speaker 04 I walked six miles, got one pheasant on Sunday, and I love that bird. Just bird.
52:47 Speaker 06 Again, Luke Billingsley. It's a great question. On a compass, north, south, east, and west are referred to as cardinal directions. What is the term for the halfway points between each cardinal direction? For example, southwest, southeast, northwest, northeast.
53:02 Speaker 05 I feel like I learned this in middle school.
53:05 Speaker 06 You remembered the rock thing. Why couldn't you do this one too?
53:11 Speaker 06 You haven't used the rock thing once.
53:13 Speaker 05 I do, often. Instead of apologizing, Randall, you should just get mad at us.
53:18 Speaker 04 We'll do another. I showed up today.
53:20 Speaker 06 We'll do another, we'll do another episode of this.
53:22 Speaker 04 Huh?
53:23 Speaker 06 Actually, Phil, we could just do the whole thing over, because we did that change in the slide where you cut out the
53:28 Speaker 04 That's right.
53:28 Speaker 06 unnecessary S.
53:30 Speaker 04 That would be really fun to just do this episode over right now and see how many of us can remember all of them.
53:37 Speaker 06 Yeah.
53:37 Speaker 04 And then you could really put people.
53:39 Speaker 06 If you got questions wrong, then that'd be the best way to do it.
53:43 Speaker 06 Do we have answers? If we're gonna get answers? I mean, I know this is all just a futile exercise and we're sort of putting on this charade for the listeners who are playing at home. If their games haven't already been ruined by my questions.
53:56 Speaker 05 I am interested in the life jacket drowning percentage. I wrote down my answer for that as well.
54:02 Speaker 06 Oh, let's do that, yeah. Cause there's probably, there's probably a lot of listeners playing along with their friends who are at zero or one and need a tiebreaker.
54:10 Speaker 04 We're wearing a life jacket or we're not wearing a life jacket?
54:12 Speaker 06 We're, we're not wearing a life jacket. Are you asking about the question we're doing or the question that I read earlier that we're gonna do later?
54:21 Speaker 06 On a compass, north, south, east.
54:24 Speaker 06 Do we have our answers to this question?
54:32 Speaker 06 I'll give you a, I can give you a hint. Actually, I can't really give you a hint. It's tough to give a hint for this one.
54:40 Speaker 04 This is so bad.
54:45 Speaker 04 But I don't wanna-
54:45 Speaker 06 You're talking about your memory, not my episode.
54:49 Speaker 04 The host.
54:50 Speaker 05 I don't think it's the host's problem.
54:51 Speaker 06 This is so bad. It's so bad.
54:54 Speaker 04 Can't make chicken soup by chicken poop.
54:56 Speaker 06 If you got a perfect game on today's episode of trivia, email me at trivia at the meat eater dot com.
55:02 Speaker 04 Let's hang out.
55:03 Speaker 06 And yeah, I'd like to know you.
55:06 Speaker 04 Randall was the best person at Meat Eater until that episode.
55:11 Speaker 06 Alright, gang, let's flip him over.
55:16 Speaker 06 Roman says raven. Hillary says medial. Spencer says eagle. Yeah, that's good. Logan says tertiary. Nate says bishop. I like that. I thought quite a bit about that joke. Cal has nothing. Sydney said papal. Yeah, I was going one of two ways. Uh, the correct answer is ordinal.
55:37 Speaker 06 Ordinal directions are the points that fall between the four cardinal directions on a compass rose. East, northeast, or west, northwest, are secondary inter-cardinal directions that provide even more precise navigational references, points on a 16-point compass rose.
55:54 Speaker 04 Ordinal Cardinal Inter Cardinal?
55:58 Speaker 06 Inter Card- Secondary Inter Cardinal. It's easy to remember. You just think C O S I C.
56:07 Speaker 04 Cossack.
56:08 Speaker 06 C O S I C. Should be pretty straightforward.
56:11 Speaker 04 Well, I'm embarrassed.
56:12 Speaker 06 If you're playing along at home, let's hit this tiebreaker.
56:16 Speaker 04 All right. Do you want the drop? Play the drop.
56:18 Speaker 06 Yeah, let's do it for the listeners.
56:25 Speaker 06 I'll read it. Don't worry.
56:29 Speaker 04 Oh, you want me to put it on the screen, Randall?
56:30 Speaker 06 Yeah. Tiebreaker. According to a 2024 U.S. Coast Guard report, what percentage of drowning victims in recreational boating incidents were not wearing a personal flotation device? And don't go to a decimal, just go to a round number. According to a 2024 U.S. Coast Guard report, what percentage of drowning victims in recreational boating incidents were not wearing a personal flotation device?
56:59 Speaker 04 You should just go full, uh, like SNL, uh, Trebek here and be like, or you could just write down a number, any number, and I'd be proud of you.
57:10 Speaker 06 I'll give you a hint. It's not higher than a hundred.
57:16 Speaker 06 I think there, I think there are a lot of purists that are gonna hate this episode.
57:19 Speaker 05 Sure.
57:20 Speaker 06 I think there's a lot of, uh,
57:23 Speaker 04 anarchists.
57:24 Speaker 06 Yeah, there's, there's a lot of sort of iconoclasts and, and
57:27 Speaker 05 randoms.
57:28 Speaker 06 Randoms that are gonna love the chaotic nature of this episode.
57:32 Speaker 05 I don't think we'll put this one on the outdoor channel, though.
57:35 Speaker 06 Yeah.
57:35 Speaker 05 I think, I think we'll skip this one.
57:37 Speaker 04 Are you serious?
57:39 Speaker 06 I didn't say anything.
57:41 Speaker 04 Spencer kicked mine off the, I can't, I don't know, I don't know why.
57:46 Speaker 06 Okay. We all have answers.
57:50 Speaker 04 Right.
57:51 Speaker 06 To our superfluous tiebreaker. Roman says seventy-seven, Hillary says a hundred, Spencer says ninety-four, Logan says ninety, Nate says eighty-eight. Cal says seventy-four. If you could tell by the intonation in my voice, Nate's real darned close. Eighty-seven percent. Eighty-seven percent.
58:11 Speaker 04 I still didn't get it.
58:12 Speaker 06 Wear your life jacket.
58:14 Speaker 05 I imagine that other thirteen percent like got a concussion or something.
58:17 Speaker 04 Yeah, or like. Well, I think.
58:19 Speaker 05 Slipped out through the.
58:20 Speaker 04 Alcohol factor and a lot of this stuff's pretty high.
58:26 Speaker 04 Yeah, so they're kinda splitting hairs. Getting caught in.
58:30 Speaker 06 As you know from several minutes ago, today's winner.
58:33 Speaker 04 Chopped up.
58:34 Speaker 06 Is Ryan O'Call Callahan. Yeah, where will he donate? To which worthy cause would you like to donate your five hundred dollar winnings?
58:41 Speaker 05 There's so many conservation groups out there.
58:44 Speaker 06 But only one would be a true conflict of interest and self-dealing.
58:49 Speaker 04 I know, um, we have a, a super awesome person who's currently working the phones that uh, got a master's degree and a bachelor's degree. Um, in conservation related things in four years at the University of Montana. Deer Lodge native, uh, not the penitentiary, but actually the, the school.
59:09 Speaker 05 Good.
59:10 Speaker 04 Uh, that I would like to get off of the customer service end of things at BHA. So I'm gonna donate five hundred dollars to.
59:18 Speaker 05 Oh, wow.
59:18 Speaker 06 This person?
59:19 Speaker 04 That, that position.
59:20 Speaker 06 Oh, okay, I get it.
59:21 Speaker 04 Yeah.
59:21 Speaker 05 I like that.
59:22 Speaker 06 So you are donating it to BHA?
59:23 Speaker 04 I am.
59:24 Speaker 06 Okay.
59:24 Speaker 04 Yeah.
59:25 Speaker 06 I will make more of that than.
59:27 Speaker 05 I always like when someone explains why they're donating to a place. Uh, that's the most specific example we've ever gotten.
59:34 Speaker 04 Yeah.
59:34 Speaker 05 So that's good.
59:34 Speaker 06 Yeah, yeah, that's great. That's great.
59:36 Speaker 04 Just the, the future of conservation who just wants to be working on good stuff.
59:42 Speaker 05 Mm-hmm.
59:42 Speaker 04 Um, and yeah, work and work, she's the face of BHA, Maisy, working the phones.
59:48 Speaker 06 Well, congrats Cal on, I assume what might be one of your final appearances as a, as a meat eater crew contestant and not a guest contestant.
59:59 Speaker 04 Is that because I've just won so much in my last two or three appearances?
1:00:03 Speaker 06 No, I just figure you'll be gone a lot coming up.
1:00:06 Speaker 05 Mm-hmm.
1:00:07 Speaker 04 Yeah.
1:00:07 Speaker 06 It's November. I wanted to do that in a special way, but now I think we just pulled the plug on this.
1:00:13 Speaker 04 No, I've never been so embarrassed to win.
1:00:16 Speaker 06 Yeah.
1:00:22 Speaker 06 Folks, thanks for listening. Thanks for watching. Promise to do better next time. Cal, congratulations. Nate, you did great on that tiebreaker that didn't get you anything and have a good day.
1:00:37 Speaker 07 Yeah, Spencer from South Dakota, he's the host. Using those smooth mellow tones, he lays them questions down.
1:00:51 Speaker 07 And he likes taking those two and three year old bucks.
1:00:55 Speaker 07 And he's an avid amateur. Rockhound.
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