Pod Insights The MeatEater Podcast Ep. 839: 2026 MeatEater Trivia Tournament, Round 3 About this episode Spencer Neuharth https://www.instagram.com/spencerneuharth/?hl=en hosts the Final Round of Championship MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Seth Morris, and Cory Calkins.
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1:58 Speaker 05 Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host Spencer Newharth and today we're joined by Steve, Yanis, Randall, Brody, Seth and Corey. This is episode three of the Fourth Annual Meat Eater Trivia Championship. This competition will span three episodes. Whoever has the most points after thirty questions will be declared the newest Meat Eater Trivia Champion. We will crown that person today. Now, there will be spoilers from the first two episodes, so if you haven't listened to those yet, then pause this show and go back to hear episodes eight three three and eight three six. Okay, everyone's caught up. Phil, please pull up the scoreboard so we can see where our players stand going into questions twenty-one through thirty.
2:44 Speaker 06 Before the last round here, we have Cory Calkins in last place with seven points. Next in line are Seth and Yanis with ten. Brody Henderson has eleven.
2:54 Steven Rinella? I feel like I had twelve last time.
2:55 Speaker 06 Nope. Randall Williams has thirteen.
2:58 Steven Rinella? Like someone went into there and took one away. Phil's messing with him.
3:02 Speaker 06 And in first place is Steven Rinella with fourteen points.
3:06 Steven Rinella? God, it was Randall didn't have thirteen. Was he had like a lot less?
3:10 Speaker 05 Anybody's game, but it's kind of a two horse race at this point. Steven, Randall.
3:14 Steven Rinella? That's good that you're sitting next to each other. Brody's in there, dude. It's good that you're sitting next to each other. Yep. Yeah, Yanis and Seth. Steve's got the Can-Am hat on today. Well, I'm doing this. It's like poker. This is like, fuck, yeah. Like I'm doing like a poker face, dude. Like you're not gonna know if I know it or not.
3:30 Speaker 05 Mm-hmm. You guys did trade that hat after, uh, episode one of the championship.
3:34 Steven Rinella? It didn't serve me well in round one.
3:37 Speaker 05 Worked for Steve in round two.
3:40 Steven Rinella? When Kevin Murphy dies, I'm gonna be in here with his hat on.
3:44 Speaker 05 Which hat is that?
3:45 Steven Rinella? So his hat, his cowboy hat he always wears. I didn't realize. He told me a long time ago, I could have it when he dies. He got it from a dead man.
3:53 Speaker 05 Wow. You gotta start thinking about the succession then after you're gone.
3:58 Steven Rinella? I'll get it to my kids. My daughter can have it. Yeah, but how long does everybody have it?
4:02 Speaker 05 I mean, is it good vibes or bad vibes?
4:04 Steven Rinella? No, no, no. This guy had it like it was an old man, died an old man.
4:08 Speaker 05 Yeah.
4:09 Steven Rinella? He didn't die tragically. You know, the Jews, when uh, um, they'll retire a name.
4:15 Speaker 05 Okay.
4:15 Steven Rinella? Like, for instance, we name our kid, our, our first born was James. Well, the three Jameses, it's a family name. The three Jameses in our family all had early, somewhat tragic deaths.
4:29 Speaker 05 Oh, no.
4:31 Steven Rinella? But we still went ahead with it.
4:33 Speaker 05 Okay. Did you think twice about it, though?
4:35 Steven Rinella? Yeah, we talked about it. In Judaism, you would, um, my understanding is if it's a, if something bad happens, you don't, you retire the name.
4:44 Speaker 05 Sure.
4:44 Steven Rinella? Yeah.
4:45 Speaker 05 If, if Steve, if we were on a news station right now and Steve was on the camera, below him would say, Steve Rinella, Judaism expert.
4:53 Steven Rinella? Oh, yeah.
4:53 Speaker 05 Yeah.
4:54 Steven Rinella? For sure.
4:54 Speaker 05 Something you claim.
4:55 Steven Rinella? For sure. That's, that's because you dated. Unlikely. Are you an expert because you dated a gal that was a Jew one time? Yeah.
5:03 Speaker 05 Yeah.
5:03 Steven Rinella? Yeah, I picked that a lot.
5:04 Speaker 05 You know so much about him.
5:06 Steven Rinella? I'll listen.
5:06 Speaker 05 The Shelby index for today is a three, so our winner should get six correct answers.
5:11 Steven Rinella? Ooh.
5:11 Speaker 05 That gives us a total Shelby index of eleven for the whole tournament, meaning our winner should end with a round twenty-two points. And with that, we're on to the game of trivia. Play the drop, Phil.
5:24 Speaker 05 Three on this one. Three. It's a tough round. We'll see about that. We're gonna have to earn it today.
5:31 Speaker 05 Just tend to win everything. Man, you were decked out with your deal up pretty good, though.
5:41 Speaker 05 Final round. Question one, the topic is hunting and this will be multiple choice.
5:47 Steven Rinella? What are you smirking about? That's the fact that it said, oh, you didn't, you don't have your, you don't wear headphones anymore.
5:53 Speaker 05 It's a little secret Steve can't join us on. Question one, the topic is hunting. Which of these states does not have snowshoe hairs? Is it West Virginia, Washington, New Mexico, or Nebraska? Three of those states has snowshoe hairs, one does not. Brody already has his answer, so does Randall. Which of these states does not have snowshoe hairs? West Virginia.
6:20 Steven Rinella? God, his chair sucks.
6:22 Speaker 05 New Mexico, Nebraska. You're referring to the location, how you have to do a, a one eighty to see the question?
6:28 Steven Rinella? Yeah, that's why I left that chair. I should have said, I should have.
6:31 Speaker 06 That location of this.
6:33 Steven Rinella? Cause I felt, I really felt like it was like.
6:35 Speaker 05 Hmm.
6:36 Steven Rinella? Like that move.
6:37 Speaker 05 Hmm.
6:38 Steven Rinella? You kind of lose your answers.
6:39 Speaker 05 Yeah. Which of these states does not have.
6:42 Steven Rinella? Come over here, Yan.
6:43 Speaker 05 Snowshoe hairs. Your four choices, West Virginia, Washington, New Mexico, Nebraska. Some confident answers in the room.
6:52 Steven Rinella? You know, if we had a mirror, no, cause then he'd be cheating on me.
6:55 Speaker 05 Hmm.
6:56 Steven Rinella? I had a mirror over here and he could look in the mirror and see what was going on.
6:59 Speaker 05 But then would it be backwards for him?
7:01 Steven Rinella? Yeah, he had backwards answers for everything.
7:04 Speaker 05 Sounds like we just need another TV. There we go. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answer. Seth says New Mexico. Steven says Nebraska. Randall says West Virginia. Corey, New Mexico. Yanis, Nebraska. Brody, Nebraska. Wow. Everyone but Washington is represented. The correct answer is Nebraska.
7:27 Steven Rinella? Yeah, I'm two points ahead of Randall. Why would you put that down, dude? You know, they're all through the Appalachian, the high elevations.
7:35 Speaker 06 He doesn't know that.
7:36 Speaker 05 Don't, don't know that. About half of the states have snowshoe hairs with their range stretching from New Mexico to Alaska.
7:44 Steven Rinella? Two points, buddy.
7:45 Speaker 05 To New England, to the Appalachians.
7:47 Steven Rinella? Right out of the gate.
7:48 Speaker 05 The closest snowshoe hairs to Nebraska are in central Wyoming, northern Colorado, or central Minnesota.
7:55 Speaker 06 Good thing they don't give out or subtract points for sportsmanship in this game.
8:00 Steven Rinella? What, gloating? Why would I, is that a sportsman?
8:02 Speaker 06 Do you ever watch any pro, pro football or basketball?
8:06 Steven Rinella? Tackle the quarterback and they're like.
8:07 Speaker 05 Typically is a penalty.
8:09 Steven Rinella? You think they were like the green Hulk Hogan guy?
8:11 Speaker 05 There typically is a penalty for touching your opponent during a celebration.
8:15 Speaker 06 But they have to do it in a direction away. They gotta do it in a direction away from the quarterback. If you were to stand over the quarterback.
8:22 Speaker 05 Taunting is a penalty.
8:23 Steven Rinella? You don't do that, do you?
8:24 Speaker 05 I think, I think Steve might have.
8:26 Steven Rinella? Phil, can you rig up a camera out in the green room so I can go out there and.
8:31 Speaker 05 Give me nine minutes. The threshold.
8:32 Speaker 06 Is that, is that our green room?
8:35 Steven Rinella? That's a wasted space.
8:36 Speaker 06 That's hilarious.
8:36 Steven Rinella? We actually paid money to close that. Yeah, it's called the junk room. You have this idea that people are gonna be out there in green room?
8:44 Speaker 06 There's a college dorm fridge. In there.
8:47 Speaker 05 That's the best part.
8:48 Steven Rinella? I had a bid, I had a bid on getting that, the thing we paid to have put up, taken down.
8:57 Steven Rinella? I'm about to just take it down.
8:58 Speaker 05 Question two, the topic is wildlife.
9:02 Speaker 06 Yeah, we could probably get that down.
9:04 Speaker 05 This six letter word is defined as, quote, pests or nuisance animals that spread disease and destroy crops, livestock and property such as termites, rats or foxes. Brody already has his answer. This six letter word is defined as pests or nuisance animals that spread disease and destroy crops, livestock and property such as termites, rats or foxes.
9:32 Speaker 06 Not now, but.
9:33 Speaker 05 Steve, do you like your answer?
9:36 Steven Rinella? Well.
9:36 Speaker 05 Okay, Randall does ha- not have one. No, I'm having trouble thinking here.
9:40 Speaker 06 Oh man, that'd be great, dude. I'm just gonna like be taking a big old nap.
9:46 Steven Rinella? God, man, just nailed on that Nebraska deal, you know? What were you thinking when you, when you got to my board and saw the name on there?
9:53 Speaker 05 Well, I could, I could also see.
9:55 Steven Rinella? First thought popped in your head?
9:55 Speaker 05 I could see beyond yours to Randall's that he had New Mexico.
9:59 Steven Rinella? Yeah, what'd you think?
10:00 Speaker 05 This is gonna be a less interesting game.
10:02 Steven Rinella? Strong game?
10:04 Speaker 05 This six letter word is defined as pests or nuisance animals.
10:09 Speaker 06 Oh, it's vegan a young man, happy birthday.
10:12 Speaker 05 And destroy crops, livestock and property.
10:15 Steven Rinella? Halfway to a hundred and four.
10:17 Speaker 05 Today's also, is it the Chinese New Year today?
10:21 Speaker 06 Year of the what?
10:23 Speaker 05 I don't remember, flaming horse?
10:24 Steven Rinella? Do I look like a big Chinese New Year guy? I know that in Hanoi, they're eating a bunch of dogs.
10:29 Speaker 05 And you're not supposed to today, uh, take a shower, cut your hair, cut your fingernails, take out the garbage, none of that stuff.
10:36 Steven Rinella? I haven't done that yet.
10:38 Speaker 05 Bad luck if you've done that today. This six letter word is defined as, quote, pests or nuisance animals that spread disease and destroy crops, livestock and property such as termites, rats or foxes. Randall still has a blank board. This could be a three point lead for Steve.
10:55 Steven Rinella? Wow, I think I got it.
10:57 Speaker 05 You must have cut your fingernails. Nails this morning, huh?
11:00 Steven Rinella? Hmm, no.
11:01 Speaker 05 Took a shower. Uh oh.
11:02 Steven Rinella? I didn't do that either.
11:05 Speaker 05 Bad luck for Cory. Yeah. Yannis, do you have this one right?
11:09 Speaker 06 I just came up with a six letter word that seems to fit that description, so.
11:14 Speaker 05 Oh, you're not gonna tell me? Seth has not picked up his whiteboard yet.
11:18 Steven Rinella? I don't like his whole leaving it blank, dude, just put something down.
11:23 Steven Rinella? Like a joke or something.
11:25 Speaker 06 You'd think, you'd think that the business that you're. I know. That is in, you'd have a good idea. I'm gonna see it and hate myself.
11:32 Speaker 05 Wow. Randall's still with a blank whiteboard.
11:36 Steven Rinella? It had a lot of thinking time here. Let's go, that's enough time.
11:40 Speaker 05 There's been a lot of time, maybe not labeled as thinking time, though.
11:46 Speaker 06 Hmm, Brody and I are gonna catch up with Randall now.
11:49 Speaker 05 Wow. I already am.
11:50 Speaker 06 It's gonna be a.
11:51 Steven Rinella? You already caught him?
11:52 Speaker 05 Oh, maybe not. Was he two ahead of me or one?
11:54 Steven Rinella? Two.
11:55 Speaker 05 He had two points on you. Randall, do you give up?
11:57 Steven Rinella? I'm just gonna play my game, dude.
11:58 Speaker 05 Seth is just thinking about bass fishing right now. He wishes he got a turnip trail.
12:03 Steven Rinella? I'm not gonna do anything emotional, just like I'm playing my game, man. Quiet professionally, ready?
12:08 Speaker 05 Hmm, Randall, do you give up?
12:10 Steven Rinella? I guess.
12:11 Speaker 05 Go ahead and reveal your answer, Seth.
12:15 Speaker 05 Steve says vermin upside down. Uh, Randall without an answer, Cory without an answer.
12:20 Steven Rinella? I kept thinking varmint.
12:21 Speaker 05 Yannis and Brody say vermin. The correct answer is vermin.
12:26 Speaker 06 Sorry, did Seth get that?
12:27 Steven Rinella? What'd you put for the first one?
12:28 Speaker 06 What's that?
12:28 Steven Rinella? You probably had it.
12:29 Speaker 06 I got nothing down, Phil. Okay.
12:31 Speaker 05 Vermin are simply any animal that creates problems and are difficult to control, from lice to pigeons to feral dogs. The word is often used interchangeably with varmint. It's a good word.
12:41 Speaker 06 Yeah.
12:42 Speaker 05 Question three, the topic is fishing. This brand sells, quote, "America's favorite minnow bucket that's famously highlighter yellow." Oh.
12:52 Steven Rinella? Oh.
12:52 Speaker 05 Minner bucket.
12:55 Speaker 05 This brand sells America's favorite minnow bucket. That's what they say about it. That's famously highlighter yellow.
13:02 Speaker 06 I own that damn bucket.
13:03 Speaker 05 I bet everyone in this room owns that damn bucket. Seth, do you have this one right?
13:07 Speaker 06 I don't own it.
13:11 Speaker 06 The thing that's throwing me off is I think several companies make these now.
13:14 Speaker 05 Hmm, knockoffs, huh? But do they make America's?
13:18 Speaker 06 Does it come with a little aerator or what?
13:20 Speaker 05 I'm not giving you any hints.
13:22 Speaker 06 I can't think of it.
13:25 Speaker 05 Seth, favorite only player.
13:28 Steven Rinella? Quiet, so that our competitors can think on this one.
13:33 Speaker 05 This brand sells America's favorite minnow bucket. That's famously highlighter yellow.
13:39 Speaker 06 What'd you put?
13:42 Speaker 06 Do you really wanna know? I'm not changing mine.
13:44 Speaker 05 Answer locked in.
13:48 Speaker 05 Do you agree with him, Seth?
13:50 Speaker 06 Something similar?
13:53 Speaker 06 You don't spell it different?
13:57 Speaker 05 Again, this is question three.
13:58 Speaker 06 Same basic idea.
14:00 Speaker 05 The topic is fishing. This brand sells America's favorite minnow bucket. That's famously highlighter yellow. But everyone here can picture it. Most of the room probably owns one.
14:14 Speaker 06 I can't remember meeting some of the first, like, serious fishermen outside of my family and being the dude's house. It must've been in his garage, but like, he didn't even have any fishing plans for days, but there was like minnows in coolers and buckets, you know, being aerated. And I was like, oh, this is interesting. Yeah.
14:33 Speaker 05 He's ready to go. He hears about a hot bite, he's going.
14:36 Speaker 06 You got an answer written down? Huh? You got an answer? Yeah.
14:40 Speaker 05 Randall, do you like your answer?
14:42 Speaker 06 No, I don't. I got an answer. Oh, really?
14:44 Speaker 05 Randall, in jeopardy of starting over.
14:46 Speaker 06 Dude, you wrote your answer down immediately.
14:48 Steven Rinella? He's like that quad god figure skating dude in the gold medal Olympics.
14:51 Speaker 06 Randall, don't let it get in your head. I was so worried.
14:53 Speaker 05 Because I thought you had it immediately.
14:55 Steven Rinella? He's like, he's like, he's like Michaela Schifrin in the Olympics, dude, like, he chokes up and the big champ comes.
15:01 Speaker 05 I feel like I've heard Steve declare in the past that his favorite time of day for working and being productive is like 10 a.m. to noon o'clock. And we're at 11. Shooting turkeys. 11 a.m. right now. So we're right in his sweet spot.
15:13 Steven Rinella? Hmm.
15:15 Speaker 05 I don't know. This brand sells America's favorite. Why are we going so long every time? Highlighter yellow. Cause it's the championship.
15:22 Steven Rinella? Thinking time earlier.
15:24 Speaker 05 Cause people are here for the chit chat, not the actual trivia.
15:27 Steven Rinella? I don't know. That'd be an interesting survey. You should do a survey of listeners. Would they prefer if no one said anything and it was just the show? Or do they prefer that there's any kind of talk?
15:39 Speaker 05 I'll tell you this. Yanis has proposed this question in the past, or people annoyed that we're talking so much. People will chime in and say, no, they like that. So I never hear the inverse of it. Uh, nobody's ever saying, please shut up.
15:50 Steven Rinella? They also do complain when there's no chit chat.
15:52 Speaker 05 Plus it would only last 10 minutes if there is no chit chat. That's right. Is everybody ready?
15:56 Steven Rinella? Book too.
15:58 Speaker 05 Go ahead and reveal your answers. Set says Plano. Oh, yeah, baby. Let's go. Says Plano.
16:05 Steven Rinella? Randall.
16:05 Speaker 05 Corey says gulp. He was fooling with us, saying he didn't know. Brody says Berkeley. The correct answer is Frabel.
16:14 Steven Rinella? Oh, no, no, no.
16:16 Speaker 05 That's right.
16:17 Steven Rinella? Oh, yeah, man.
16:19 Speaker 06 See, I knew several companies make them.
16:21 Speaker 05 The bait bucket is called the Flo Troll and is designed to give your minnows non-stop natural aeration. The six quart option holds four dozen minnows and retails for 11.99. Frabel was founded in Wisconsin in 1938 and acquired by Plano in 2012. So Plano is the mother company. We're not going to give it to you though. You will not find Plano's name on that.
16:45 Steven Rinella? They kept Frabel. I know. Yeah. You know what? I'm not saying I knew it. I didn't know it. And you could have given me three days and I wouldn't have come up with it. But you know, it's the kind of thing, hearing it, I'm like, damn it.
16:55 Speaker 05 You'll never forget it, that highlighter yellow minnow bucket.
16:57 Speaker 06 See the Plano logo on one of those minnow buckets.
16:59 Steven Rinella? Parent company. That's what I was thinking of us.
17:02 Speaker 05 Question four. The topic is gear. Ducks Unlimited defines this as, quote, "A soft coating that is used on the head, tail, and body of decoys, which makes them more realistic and expensive."
17:19 Speaker 05 Seth, quick to answer. Yanni and Steve joining him.
17:22 Steven Rinella? No, no, no, no.
17:23 Speaker 05 No. Okay, Steve's thinking a little harder. Ducks Unlimited defines this as, quote, "A soft coating that is used on the head, tail, and body of decoys, which makes them more realistic and expensive."
17:42 Steven Rinella? Get it?
17:45 Speaker 01 I know what letter it starts with.
17:47 Speaker 05 Hmm, okay. Randall with a blank whiteboard. Yanni, do you have this one right?
17:53 Speaker 01 What do you got, Randall?
17:54 Speaker 06 Do you know it?
17:54 Steven Rinella? No.
17:56 Speaker 06 I'm afraid I'd say too much.
17:58 Speaker 05 Okay.
17:59 Speaker 06 But, I got it. Do they put it on turkey decoys too?
18:03 Speaker 05 Not gonna help you there. Ducks Unlimited defines this as a soft coating that is used on the head, tail, and body of decoys, which makes them more realistic and expensive. Hasn't changed much since last week, to be honest.
18:18 Speaker 05 Steve really enjoying himself, just holding court in here.
18:20 Speaker 06 Wow, I just feel like I'm winning. Have you been watching? I might have got this. Have you been watching the Olympics much?
18:26 Steven Rinella? No, but the other night, I kinda had a little...
18:34 Steven Rinella? Had a little skirmish with the missus and we wound up down in the restaurant and there was...
18:40 Steven Rinella? She was there, but we wound up in a restaurant that was playing the Olympics, so we were watching some bobsledding. It was split screen to curling and the bobsledding. And I was sharing with my family that it's two games that I don't think would exist were it not for the Olympics.
18:55 Speaker 05 No.
18:55 Steven Rinella? Like, there's no, like, other... Like, you know, like, skiers, they're always competing.
18:59 Speaker 06 I think you're right about the bobsled. I think you're not correct in that about the curling, because there's, like, people love to curl.
19:06 Steven Rinella? Yeah. Also, there's, like, other... You know, like...
19:08 Speaker 06 Yeah, there's, like, beer leagues all over the... I say the beer leagues.
19:11 Steven Rinella? Yeah. No, I mean, like, seriously.
19:13 Speaker 05 All over Minnesota, Wisconsin.
19:14 Steven Rinella? You're reading about a skier and it'd be like, you're... You're reading about a skier and you realize that, like, that one woman, she's won, like, you know, like, seven of the eight World Cups, which is a major...
19:25 Speaker 06 Right.
19:26 Steven Rinella? And then you get into these other disciplines where I'm like, I don't know, I think it's four years of nothing. Like just, you know, I mean, maybe I'm wrong.
19:34 Speaker 06 Right.
19:34 Steven Rinella? But I don't, I don't know.
19:37 Steven Rinella? What are they doing?
19:38 Speaker 06 But you're right. If they took away the Olympics, it's hard to see that bob setting would be a thing.
19:42 Steven Rinella? Right. I know that people recreationally curl, but I don't know if they have like the, the, the examples of like in figure skating and skiing. I'm sure they have world championships every.
19:53 Speaker 05 I went to the curling mixed qualifier in Denver last year.
19:56 Steven Rinella? Oh, you did?
19:56 Speaker 05 I was in Denver.
19:57 Steven Rinella? An Olympic qualifier?
19:58 Speaker 05 The Olympic, I saw the Corey's compete, who represented the United States there. Ducks Unlimited defines this as a soft coating that is used on the head, tail and body of decoys, which makes them more realistic and expensive. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answer. Seth says flocking. Steve, it's upside down.
20:18 Speaker 06 Whackin'.
20:18 Steven Rinella? Damn it.
20:19 Speaker 05 Steve says flocking. Randall without an answer. Corey says lacquer. That's right.
20:24 Steven Rinella? Why would that be fuzzy?
20:26 Speaker 05 Yanis.
20:26 Steven Rinella? That would be shiny hard.
20:27 Speaker 05 Blocking. Where does it say fuzzy? Brody says over mold.
20:31 Steven Rinella? Lacquer.
20:33 Speaker 05 The correct answer is flocking.
20:35 Steven Rinella? Soft coating maybe? Why would lacquer?
20:38 Speaker 05 Seth and Steven Yanis got that one.
20:40 Steven Rinella? But it says soft. So do you say throw those flockin' decoys out there?
20:44 Speaker 06 Flock.
20:44 Speaker 05 Flockin'. Flocking is typically made.
20:47 Steven Rinella? Might be that he's not reading the question.
20:50 Speaker 05 Flocking is typically made of nylon fibers that, that's applied to a specialized adhesive. Ducks Unlimited says it's most beneficial on dark surfaces, such as the black necks of Canada geese or the green heads of Drake mallards. The advantages of flocking are extra noticeable on sunny days or when your decoys get wet. There's a Dave Smith decoy that has flocking on the black part of the back.
21:15 Steven Rinella? Forgot about that. When Corey said that, I was gonna ridicule him, but I would have been wrong.
21:20 Speaker 05 So yes, some turkey decoys do have flocking on them. Doesn't that look nice? Out in that cut corn.
21:25 Speaker 06 Yeah, I was thinking of only the heads. I forgot about the.
21:29 Steven Rinella? My whole goose spread is now fully flocked. All flocked.
21:33 Speaker 05 Professional. Question five. Topic is conservation. This man who married the daughter of Walmart's founder became America's largest landowner after a 2025 purchase.
21:46 Steven Rinella? Yeah. Just saw it. Yeah, I just saw it too.
21:49 Speaker 05 We have six blank whiteboards in the room. This man who married the daughter of Walmart's founder, became America's largest landowner after a 2025 purchase.
22:00 Steven Rinella? Be like Seth and not write anything down. Come on.
22:04 Speaker 05 He ridiculed Seth.
22:05 Speaker 06 Something over two million acres, I think.
22:08 Steven Rinella? I'll write down a different.
22:10 Speaker 06 The piece that he just bought. Well, I'm sure he owns.
22:13 Speaker 05 I can share it with you in the flavor text. This man.
22:15 Speaker 06 But that, that's the piece is two. Oh, you're gonna tell us how big the piece is?
22:18 Speaker 05 I'll tell you in the flavor text.
22:21 Speaker 06 Let's get on with it. No one knows it.
22:23 Speaker 05 This man.
22:23 Steven Rinella? I might write a letter and see if I can get information.
22:26 Speaker 05 Of Walmart's founder. Married.
22:29 Steven Rinella? Go ahead.
22:30 Speaker 05 Became America's largest landowner after 2025 purchase.
22:34 Speaker 06 I'm sure Spencer's already written him a.
22:36 Speaker 05 I was gonna say that same exact joke afterwards that I'm gonna ask.
22:39 Steven Rinella? He's like, you know, no one's ever asked. You go ahead.
22:42 Speaker 06 Come on in. Bring your friends.
22:44 Steven Rinella? My only rule is get them all.
22:46 Speaker 05 I've been in the same room as this man a few times.
22:49 Steven Rinella? Oh geez.
22:50 Speaker 06 Oh, there's a little hot tip, maybe?
22:54 Speaker 05 I'm not gonna tell you.
22:55 Speaker 06 Walmart. He's been in the same room with this man.
22:58 Steven Rinella? Did you say many times?
23:00 Speaker 06 A few times.
23:01 Speaker 05 Is everybody ready?
23:02 Steven Rinella? So it's kinda like a little pet question relevant only to Spencer. I'm trying to think about. I read this though. I read this.
23:07 Speaker 06 Which likely means it's got something to do with South.
23:10 Speaker 05 Go ahead and reveal your answer. Seth, without an answer. Steve says Cox. Randall says Arthur Blank. Corey says Murdoch. Yanis and Brody without an answer. Nobody got it. The correct answer is Stan Kronke.
23:24 Steven Rinella? Yeah.
23:25 Speaker 05 Stan Kronke's purchase of a million acre New Mexico ranch in December moved him from number four to number one as the country's biggest landowner. He now has about 2.7 million acres of land spread across the West. His portfolio also includes the Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche, Los Angeles Rams, Outdoor Channel, Sportsman Channel, and more than a dozen outdoor magazines.
23:48 Steven Rinella? Man, now I'm bummed because I remember um making that connection when I read that article.
23:56 Speaker 05 Hmm.
23:56 Steven Rinella? But I wasn't gonna come.
23:57 Speaker 05 Stan Kronke. I used to work for him for some of those outdoor magazines, plus bended Denver Nuggets games that he was also attending. Phil, give us a scoreboard update. We're halfway through the final round of trivia.
24:10 Speaker 06 You don't even have to.
24:13 Speaker 02 Surely a battle for second at this point, boys.
24:16 Speaker 04 Uh, Corey has yet to get a point this third round. He's still at seven points. Seth Morris is up next with 11 points and now all tied up are Yanis, Brody and Randall Williams with 13 points apiece and with a four-point commanding lead at halftime.
24:35 Speaker 05 Five questions left.
24:36 Speaker 04 Steven Rinella is in first place with 17 points.
24:39 Speaker 02 I could, I could see him choking.
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26:58 Speaker 05 Question six, the topic is cooking. This nine letter word, which is commonly used to describe scallops or a sliced pork tenderloin, is defined as quote, "a small, round or oval serving of meat or fish."
27:17 Speaker 05 This nine letter word, which is commonly used to describe scallops or a sliced pork tenderloin, is defined as "a small, round or oval serving of meat or fish."
27:30 Speaker 05 Yanni, do you have this one right?
27:32 Speaker 06 I believe I have a nine letter word.
27:34 Speaker 05 Okay.
27:35 Speaker 06 Fits this description kinda.
27:38 Speaker 05 Steve, do you like your answer?
27:41 Steven Rinella? I don't want to brag, but uh.
27:43 Speaker 05 It's nine letters.
27:44 Steven Rinella? I know, and I had it without even realizing I didn't even pay attention to the nine letter part. Not to toot my own horn.
27:51 Speaker 05 This nine letter word, which is commonly used to describe scallops or a sliced pork tenderloin, is defined as "a small, round or oval serving of meat or fish."
28:04 Speaker 06 One day in the future, we'll sit around saying, you know, we were in that same room with that genius, Steven Rinella. You remember those performances of his trivia 26?
28:15 Steven Rinella? You know, that's what I'm saying. I didn't appreciate it at the time.
28:17 Speaker 05 Yep.
28:20 Speaker 06 The mood in this room has soured.
28:25 Speaker 06 Well, Randall's just awfully quiet, which takes, takes it out of the way.
28:31 Steven Rinella? He took a real kick to the nuts back there after the second or third question, man.
28:35 Speaker 07 German question really just I don't want to use the F word again on this show. I met some folks who said their daughter, their eight year old daughter watches every episode while they prepare dinner on repeat and I just thought.
28:50 Steven Rinella? Well, you could get, you could use the F word like where it's not the main part, but like deflated.
28:56 Speaker 07 Yeah, they really.
28:58 Steven Rinella? B word.
28:59 Speaker 07 They really shook me up. The second question really shocked me up.
29:04 Speaker 05 This nine letter word, which is commonly used to describe scallops or a sliced pork tenderloin is defined as a small, round or oval serving of meat or fish.
29:15 Speaker 07 Are you not getting this?
29:16 Speaker 06 You gotta answer Corey.
29:18 Speaker 07 What?
29:18 Speaker 04 Making sure I spelled my name right here.
29:20 Speaker 06 Come on, you're a cook.
29:22 Speaker 04 I know, I know what I'd call it didn't end up being nine letters.
29:25 Speaker 05 Corey, do you give up?
29:26 Speaker 04 Yeah.
29:27 Speaker 05 Go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth and Steve and Randall say medallion. Corey, without an answer, Yannis and Brody say medallion.
29:38 Steven Rinella? I just threw an E at the end.
29:39 Speaker 05 The correct answer is medallion. To spell that, it is.
29:43 Steven Rinella? It's French.
29:44 Speaker 05 M E D A L L I O N. Medallion. A medallion is something that's hockey puck shaped similar to a filet mignon. If you took a deer's backstrap and then cut it into two inch pieces, those individual steaks would be medallions. Other wild foods you might turn into medallions include puffball mushrooms, tuna, or lobster. Question seven. The topic is hunting. This next great question is via Hayden Randall. This hunter who has a national park named after him in India is most famous for targeting man eaters.
30:19 Speaker 07 Oh.
30:23 Speaker 05 Brody and Randall have an answer. This hunter who has a national park named after him in India is most famous for targeting man eaters.
30:37 Speaker 05 With Steve getting that last one right, he would need to get every question wrong.
30:41 Steven Rinella? Well, I'm starting right here.
30:45 Speaker 05 And he has a blank whiteboard.
30:47 Steven Rinella? How many questions are left?
30:48 Speaker 05 We have four questions left and you have a four point lead.
30:53 Speaker 05 This hunter who has a national park named after him in India is most famous for targeting, and this is a quote, man eaters.
31:04 Speaker 06 Yeah, I don't, I don't think that one's.
31:07 Steven Rinella? Brody.
31:08 Speaker 06 Yeah. No, you don't have an answer.
31:10 Speaker 05 Randall, do you have this one right?
31:11 Steven Rinella? I do.
31:12 Speaker 05 Okay.
31:13 Steven Rinella? That's, that's the kind of question I'm after.
31:15 Speaker 05 Yanis and Brody have answers that.
31:17 Steven Rinella? D core tech.
31:18 Speaker 05 Disagree with each other.
31:21 Speaker 06 I think Yanis is. Problem. Did you listen to those telepathy tapes? Podcasts? Are you going to?
31:29 Speaker 05 Um.
31:29 Speaker 06 This would be a good moment that if you had telepathy.
31:32 Speaker 05 I'd say there's a thirty percent chance I will tune into those.
31:35 Steven Rinella? You can send me the message through telepathy?
31:37 Speaker 06 Well, or if I was thinking of the right answer, you could just read my mind. Um, that's a bummer.
31:44 Speaker 05 How long are they?
31:45 Speaker 06 I don't know. Each episode's thirty, forty-five minutes, maybe. I mean, just listen to the first one and see if you can still be a, a skeptic. Do you know who it is? You just can't think of it?
31:57 Steven Rinella? Oh, yeah. What's the explanation for telepathy?
31:59 Speaker 06 There is, I don't think they have come to an explanation, but she has some very impressive, uh, examples of telepathy where you're, it's, as long as it's not a complete hoax, it's very, uh, impressive.
32:13 Speaker 05 I'll listen to it, Yanis, uh, not because I think it's going to make me a believer, uh, just so I have some banter with you about the subject.
32:20 Speaker 06 Yeah, that'd be good.
32:21 Speaker 05 This hunter, who has a national park named after him in India, is most famous for targeting man-eaters.
32:27 Speaker 06 Ooh, I can't wait for the flavor text.
32:29 Speaker 05 Is everybody ready?
32:33 Speaker 05 Steve?
32:34 Steven Rinella? I don't have, I was gonna write something dumb down.
32:36 Speaker 06 Write down a.
32:37 Speaker 05 What is that dude's name?
32:38 Speaker 06 Write down a famous hunter.
32:40 Speaker 05 And reveal your answers. Seth, without an answer. Steve says Seton. Randall says Jim Corbett. Corey says Val Kilmer. That's right. Yanis says Corbett.
32:51 Steven Rinella? I like, yeah.
32:52 Speaker 05 Brody says Capstick. The correct answer is Jim Corbett.
32:55 Speaker 06 That's what I was gonna put Capstick, but.
32:58 Speaker 05 Corbett targeted his first man eater in 1907 when he went after a Bengal tiger that supposedly killed over 400 people. The female tiger was claiming a victim once every three weeks with its final kill being a 17-year-old girl. To find the man eater, Corbett organized a drive using 298 people that eventually flushed the tiger from cover. After a post-mortem, Corbett theorized that the tiger was wounded by a gunshot to the jaw years prior, which hindered its ability to hunt and caused it to target humans. Jim Corbett. Or was he getting revenge? That's right. He went on to target all kinds of man eaters across the globe, leopards, more tigers. Here's question eight. We'll get another scoreboard update after this. The
33:42 Speaker 05 topic is fishing. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Aaron Cross for sending this great question. Aaron is going to get a board game signed by the crew. If you want a chance to win our listener question of the week, send your question to [email protected] .
33:58 Speaker 06 He's vulnerable.
33:59 Speaker 05 This freshwater bottom dweller, which is also known as a pleco, arrived in Florida via aquarium trade in the 1950s.
34:11 Speaker 06 This is like a fish question, not fishing.
34:15 Speaker 05 And Randall answered with some confidence.
34:18 Steven Rinella? This is a word, if it's what I think it is, it's a word that I'll never forget.
34:22 Speaker 05 This freshwater bottom dweller, which is also known as a pleco, arrived in Florida via aquarium trade in the 1950s. Pleco is P-L-E-C-O.
34:36 Speaker 05 Randall, the only player with an answer. Again, Steve would need to get every question wrong, and Randall and Yanis would need to get every question right for these final three.
34:50 Speaker 05 This freshwater bottom dweller, which is also known as a pleco, arrived in Florida via aquarium trade in the 1950s.
35:00 Speaker 06 I just need any aquarium bottom dweller feeder to come into my head and I'll be very happy.
35:07 Speaker 05 Randall, how confident are you that you have this one, right?
35:10 Steven Rinella? 110%.
35:11 Speaker 05 Okay.
35:14 Speaker 05 The word you'll never forget is pleco, is that what you're saying?
35:16 Steven Rinella? No, the answer.
35:17 Speaker 05 Oh, okay. This freshwater bottom.
35:19 Steven Rinella? Fun word.
35:20 Speaker 05 Which is also known.
35:22 Speaker 06 I would not have said that if I was trying to climb up the leaderboard.
35:26 Steven Rinella? I don't think there are a lot of aquarium men here.
35:28 Speaker 05 Arrived in Florida.
35:30 Speaker 06 Oh, I know that. You're a zoo man and an aquarium?
35:32 Steven Rinella? No.
35:33 Speaker 05 There's an aquarium in every room at Steve's house.
35:35 Steven Rinella? No, all that, it's, we're done with the fish business, they're all gone.
35:39 Speaker 06 You don't have a menagerie anymore?
35:41 Steven Rinella? We had to get rid of all that junk.
35:42 Speaker 04 I'm getting ready to get back in the fish aquarium business.
35:45 Steven Rinella? No, we, it got out of control and then we had like a big spill and just like.
35:51 Speaker 05 How did the spill happen?
35:53 Steven Rinella? Um.
35:56 Speaker 05 Trying to remember how that happened. Was there a broken tank? Did it take a tip forward?
35:59 Steven Rinella? Pump put in the wrong way or something. It was a mess.
36:03 Speaker 05 I would do it.
36:03 Steven Rinella? It's like, it's, we hadn't even put, we still haven't replaced all the, like the, you know, the carpet baseboards, just everything.
36:10 Speaker 06 You know how, uh, we inherited your gecko, our kids' geckos? Yesterday I was walking around the house and like, what's that burning plastic smell?
36:20 Steven Rinella? Yo.
36:21 Speaker 06 Went in the room and.
36:22 Steven Rinella? They put the heat lamp on something.
36:23 Speaker 06 Put the lamp, like two, like it wasn't on the metal screen, it was on the edge.
36:27 Steven Rinella? That's another thing is the model almost fires the kids create by setting those lamps down on tables and stuff. And you dig downstairs, you like smell like burnt. Yeah, we had to get rid of all that junk. Then one of the lizards is still at large.
36:43 Speaker 05 You think it's still alive?
36:44 Speaker 06 No.
36:45 Speaker 05 No, okay.
36:45 Speaker 06 It's not at large.
36:46 Steven Rinella? Every time I move something, I'm like expecting to something.
36:50 Speaker 05 Your nose is gonna find it.
36:51 Steven Rinella? Is that large in the same way that someone who went missing 70 years ago is still at large?
36:55 Speaker 04 I one time put a bunch of salamanders in the fish tank and they all got out and I'd find them like throughout the year, just like pull out something.
37:03 Steven Rinella? It's back there all shriveled up.
37:05 Speaker 05 Hmm. Again, question eight, this is our listener question of the week via Aaron Ross. This freshwater bottom dweller, which is also known as a pleco, arrived in Florida via aquarium trade in the 1950s. Is everybody ready? Brody, do you like your answer?
37:20 Speaker 06 Oh wait.
37:22 Speaker 06 He just came up with something.
37:24 Speaker 05 Okay.
37:26 Speaker 06 Ooh, that's a much longer word than I wrote.
37:28 Speaker 05 Yeah. Go ahead and reveal your answer, Seth.
37:31 Speaker 06 Oh.
37:31 Speaker 05 Without an answer, or no, Seth says.
37:33 Steven Rinella? Algae.
37:34 Speaker 05 Algae eater. Steve says.
37:36 Speaker 06 Aran.
37:37 Speaker 05 Aran.
37:37 Steven Rinella? That's not right.
37:38 Speaker 05 Randall says.
37:38 Steven Rinella? Placostomus.
37:40 Speaker 05 Corey, without an answer. Yanis says guppy. Brody says armored catfish. The correct answer is an armored catfish or sucker mouth catfish or sail fin catfish. Now, pleco is short for their scientific name, which I'm gonna look it up right now.
37:55 Steven Rinella? It's a placostomus.
37:56 Speaker 05 It could be.
37:58 Speaker 06 Oh, come on, that's not what he meant.
38:00 Steven Rinella? It's a placostomus.
38:01 Speaker 05 No, I, I, that, I mean.
38:02 Steven Rinella? That's if you go into a pet store and buy one of these, it's called a placostomus.
38:05 Speaker 05 It is a placostomus.
38:06 Steven Rinella? Yeah, thank you.
38:07 Speaker 05 That is what pleco is short for, so we're gonna give Randall.
38:10 Steven Rinella? Yeah, no shit.
38:11 Speaker 05 Randall was the most correct.
38:12 Steven Rinella? Randall almost got real bad.
38:14 Speaker 05 Of anybody.
38:14 Steven Rinella? That was like me with that cordwood deal, which could wind up being something I need to revisit.
38:20 Speaker 05 Yeah. Armored catfish are native to Central and South America, but have shown up in about a dozen states, including the Carolinas, Texas, Louisiana, Nevada, California, and Hawaii. They have no natural predators here and increased shoreline erosion by burrowing into banks. Armored catfish are popular in home aquariums for algae control.
38:40 Speaker 06 And they don't also call them guppies?
38:42 Speaker 05 No, it is not.
38:43 Steven Rinella? Are those some things?
38:44 Speaker 06 Do they call them cleaner fish too?
38:45 Speaker 05 Phil has a photo of an armored catfish for us.
38:49 Steven Rinella? Yeah, it's a placostomus. Yeah, we just call those algae eaters.
38:52 Speaker 06 You call them cleaner fish, is that?
38:54 Speaker 05 I mean, I don't think that would be what you would specifically refer to them as, but maybe there is in a group of cleaner fish or algae.
39:01 Speaker 06 Hmm.
39:02 Speaker 05 That is an armored catfish.
39:03 Steven Rinella? Yeah, my buddy had one of those that got pretty big and whenever we caught weird shit in the river, we'd just be like, that's a goddamn placostomus.
39:11 Speaker 05 Phil, we have two questions left, give us a scoreboard update. Yeah. Well, the game is still. Alright, man. Not over. Randall's doing everything. He needs to do to stay in it and Steve is also doing that. Corey, um, he's here. We've got Seth Morris with 12 points.
39:31 Steven Rinella? I'm trying to understand, man. It's like my problem. Like, I don't think I would have known those. I don't think it's just psychological, dude. I think I didn't know those.
39:40 Speaker 05 Yanis and Brody have 15 and the two players, yes, two that are still left in the game are Randall Williams, who has pulled up with 16 points and Steve is at 18 points. Here is question nine. The topic is butchering.
39:55 Speaker 06 I'm, I'm, I can't believe the confidence that Steve has lost. You're still winning by two.
40:00 Steven Rinella? Cause those questions, I didn't even kinda know.
40:03 Speaker 05 That's part of trivia.
40:04 Speaker 06 There was no humunculus.
40:05 Steven Rinella? No, there's no like, oh, I should have known that.
40:07 Steven Rinella? Placostomus and humunculus are pretty close.
40:09 Speaker 05 This next great question is via Andy Harrington. This bone, which is named after the Greek god who's portrayed carrying a spear on his back, is the first vertebrae of the neck behind a deer's skull. Randall already has his answer. This bone, which is named after the Greek god who's often portrayed carrying a spear on his back, is the first vertebrae of the neck behind a deer's skull.
40:44 Steven Rinella? Yeah, placostomus is just a fun word to say. It was probably like.
40:49 Steven Rinella? Say it again. Everybody at my high school knew the word placostomus. I'm not joking.
40:53 Speaker 05 Basically your mascot.
40:55 Steven Rinella? It was like one of our, it was like one of our funniest words to say. No, and we just would be sitting around just placostomus.
41:05 Speaker 05 Again, question nine. Randall has his answer. He, he put it down before I finished the question. Steve with a blank whiteboard. He is panicked.
41:13 Speaker 06 Yo, Corey.
41:15 Steven Rinella? God, this is getting weird, isn't it?
41:16 Speaker 05 Dude, I need a bone here. This bone, which is named after the Greek god who's often portrayed carrying a spear on his back, is the first vertebrae of the neck behind a deer's skull. We have two questions left. On the line is the title of Meat Eater Trivia Champion and a $2,000 conservation donation. We have never gone to overtime in the Meat Eater Trivia Championship. If Randall can get these last two right and Steve can get them wrong, that will happen.
41:46 Steven Rinella? I'm still kicking myself about vermin.
41:49 Speaker 06 Like.
41:50 Steven Rinella? My head was just.
41:50 Speaker 06 Steve had to read all of these books about the gods.
41:56 Steven Rinella? I couldn't even get a thought in my head during that question.
41:58 Speaker 06 You gotta be living in the future, not the past, Randall.
42:01 Steven Rinella? I know.
42:03 Steven Rinella? Well, I also feel liberated. I'm a man. I'm a man with nothing to lose now.
42:10 Speaker 05 Brody, do you like your answer?
42:11 Speaker 06 I mean, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but it popped into my head.
42:16 Speaker 05 Yanni, do you like your answer?
42:18 Steven Rinella? Yeah.
42:18 Speaker 05 Do you think Steve has this one right?
42:21 Speaker 06 No.
42:21 Speaker 05 No.
42:22 Speaker 06 Just judging by his posture.
42:24 Steven Rinella? What?
42:27 Steven Rinella? Easy breezy?
42:30 Speaker 05 Steve, are you ready?
42:31 Steven Rinella? Well, I'm ready, buddy.
42:32 Speaker 05 Go ahead and reveal your answer, Seth, without an answer. Steve says Atlas, but without is.
42:41 Steven Rinella? Well, you got me thinking.
42:42 Speaker 05 What's it say?
42:43 Steven Rinella? What was Sisyphus always rolling up? Boulder.
42:45 Speaker 06 Yeah, that's different.
42:46 Steven Rinella? I know, but who is?
42:47 Speaker 05 He says Atlas, but who is?
42:49 Steven Rinella? Damn it.
42:50 Speaker 05 Randall says Atlas, Corey Atlas, Yannis Atlas, Brody Atlas. The correct answer is Atlas.
42:57 Steven Rinella? So yeah, Sisyphus, he wasn't rolling the planet up the hill. No, no. Just the boulder.
43:01 Speaker 05 That gives Steve the victory.
43:03 Steven Rinella? Really?
43:04 Speaker 05 One question left.
43:07 Speaker 05 The Atlas bone, which is also known as C1, is what you cut in front of to detach a deer's head from its spine. Although most think that Atlas is carrying the earth on his back, it's actually the heavens. This is his eternal punishment from Zeus for leading the Titans against the Olympians during the 10 year battle of the gods.
43:27 Speaker 06 I could swear though, that I've seen statues where it is depicted as the earth. Yes.
43:31 Speaker 05 That those are supposed to be.
43:33 Steven Rinella? Isn't that that that weightlifting? That weightlifting competition, their trophy's that?
43:40 Speaker 06 Right? Yeah. Like isn't carrying the world on your back a saying or something? Brody, uh, showed me.
43:47 Speaker 05 Instead of going right through there where you do the detachment to come in from the bottom this year. And I gotta say it's I haven't done enough times to say for sure if it's faster.
43:59 Speaker 06 Oh, it's faster.
44:00 Speaker 05 It's definitely. That was one of Brody's hot tips, I think.
44:02 Steven Rinella? Come from the bottom, huh?
44:05 Speaker 06 Yeah, you just follow that jawline and it takes you right to where you there's no like digging and finding.
44:11 Steven Rinella? That's one of those things where I'm like, it's like taking the femur out of the hip socket. It's like when you get it on the first try, it just.
44:21 Speaker 05 And the nice thing is if you do it.
44:23 Steven Rinella? Coming from the coming from the underside. Oh, that what you're gonna do?
44:26 Speaker 06 Yeah.
44:27 Steven Rinella? A lot of people are always sawing away from the top.
44:29 Speaker 06 Was he not listening?
44:31 Steven Rinella? When you said come in from the jaw.
44:32 Speaker 06 Yeah, like that.
44:34 Speaker 05 What about when I say come in from the underside?
44:38 Steven Rinella? Yeah, but I was just thinking about winning.
44:39 Speaker 05 Yeah, I know. I think the best way to do it is just come in from the bottom.
44:43 Steven Rinella? Celebration from anybody else over here, you know?
44:44 Speaker 06 And the great thing is if it's like a barker, a bull, you can prop that head.
44:48 Steven Rinella? It's like one guy. Gave me a handshake, you know, it's like.
44:51 Speaker 05 Visions of grandeur over there. All right, here's a correct answer review so far.
44:56 Steven Rinella? A little more like.
44:58 Speaker 05 Let's finish that. Let's finish the game. He did. He secured the victory. All right, here's a correct answer review so far. Number one.
45:06 Steven Rinella? You hoping confetti was gonna fall?
45:07 Speaker 05 Nebraska doesn't have snowshoe hairs. Two was Vermin.
45:11 Speaker 06 Vermin, Randall.
45:12 Speaker 05 Frabell. Four, flocking. Five, Stan Crocky. Six, medallion. Seven, Jim Corbett. Eight, armored catfish or? Plicostomus. Nine, atlas bone. Here is question 10. The topic is conservation. This seven-letter chemical is what M44 bombs spray in the face of coyotes that activate the trap.
45:38 Speaker 05 This seven-letter chemical is what M44 bombs spray in the face of coyotes that activate the trap. Brody, excuse me, Steve, do you have this one right?
45:48 Steven Rinella? Yeah, I got it right. Who cares?
45:51 Steven Rinella? It's not a game he's gonna be happy.
45:54 Speaker 05 You have to choose.
45:55 Speaker 06 I'm glad you won. I'm happy for you, man.
45:57 Steven Rinella? Oh, you are?
45:57 Speaker 06 Yeah.
45:58 Speaker 05 Where your $2,000 donation goes.
46:00 Speaker 06 Yeah.
46:01 Speaker 05 After this final question.
46:02 Speaker 06 I wasn't gonna win, so you know, why not have fun? Root for the guy.
46:06 Speaker 05 Brody, do you have this one right?
46:08 Speaker 06 I got a seven-letter poison.
46:10 Speaker 05 Yanni, do you have a seven-letter poison?
46:11 Speaker 06 So, yes. I'm in the same boat.
46:14 Speaker 05 This seven-letter chemical is what M44 bombs spray in the face of coyotes that activate the trap.
46:23 Speaker 06 Hmm.
46:24 Speaker 05 Randall, do you have this one?
46:26 Steven Rinella? I've got a seven-letter poison.
46:28 Speaker 05 Okay.
46:31 Speaker 05 Steve is now going to be the two-time Meat Eater Trivia Champion, the only player.
46:35 Speaker 06 Imagine just not anyone can get their hands on an M44 bomb.
46:39 Steven Rinella? I'm guessing not.
46:40 Speaker 05 No, it's outlawed in multiple states.
46:42 Speaker 06 Hmm.
46:43 Speaker 05 By multiple federal agencies as well.
46:46 Speaker 06 Was this round intended to be so difficult?
46:48 Speaker 05 Yes.
46:48 Steven Rinella? Yeah, Shelby.
46:49 Speaker 05 We're in the Meat Eater Trivia Championship.
46:51 Speaker 06 Maybe Shelby just didn't know.
46:54 Steven Rinella? Yeah. Oh, yeah, were you thinking I'm gonna make a real doozy?
46:58 Speaker 05 No, I just wanna, you know, keep it very core to the Meat Eater four pillars. Hunting, fishing, conservation, cooking. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth, without an answer, Steve says cyanide.
47:13 Steven Rinella? Oh, god, Randall falters even more.
47:15 Speaker 05 Arsenic. Corey says strychnine. Yannis, cyanide. Brody, cyanide. The correct answer is cyanide.
47:25 Steven Rinella? Of course it is. Randall's comeback was just fizzled. Well, I thought about leaving that blank as a statement. Comeback. Can we get the final scoreboard up there just to?
47:34 Speaker 05 Let me give you some flavor text first. M44.
47:37 Steven Rinella? I haven't paid attention.
47:39 Speaker 05 M44 bombs are spring-loaded spikes that are driven into the ground. They have a plunger at the top, which is baited with scents that coyotes find attractive. When a coyote pulls the plunger, a cloud of cyanide explodes in their face and kills them shortly thereafter. But these traps are highly controversial and have been banned by several state and federal agencies. In 2017, a 14-year-old in Idaho came across one that he thought was a sprinkler head. He accidentally triggered it, which temporarily blinded him and killed his dog. And there is a diagram showing you how these traps work. If you ever come across one on some public lands in the West, don't go messing with it. Bart Phil, give us a final scoreboard update after 30 questions to determine the Meat Eater Trivia Champion.
48:22 Speaker 06 Final scores for this year are Corey Colkins with eight points, Seth Morris has 12, all tied up with 17 points apiece for Yanis, Brody, and Randall. And with a three-point lead and 20 points, Steven Rinella is the winner.
48:40 Steven Rinella? Wow.
48:40 Speaker 07 Congrats, Steve.
48:41 Speaker 05 Dominant. Didn't even need to argue his way.
48:44 Steven Rinella? Just run away, bitch.
48:45 Speaker 07 What force?
48:48 Speaker 05 $2,000, Steve.
48:49 Steven Rinella? You know.
48:50 Speaker 05 What do you do with that $2,000 donation?
48:51 Steven Rinella? I knew that I wanted to play a strong game. I knew I wanted to get ahead early and maintain that win.
48:59 Speaker 05 Yep.
49:00 Steven Rinella? You know, this isn't a team sport.
49:02 Speaker 06 Maintain the lead.
49:03 Steven Rinella? Say, you maintain that lead. It's not a team sport.
49:06 Speaker 05 Right.
49:07 Steven Rinella? You know, it's mono, imono.
49:09 Speaker 05 Mm-hmm. Very lonely out there.
49:11 Speaker 07 Mono, imono, imono, imono, imono.
49:14 Speaker 05 Yeah.
49:14 Speaker 07 Technically.
49:15 Steven Rinella? So I can't thank the team, you know?
49:19 Speaker 06 Who do you thank, Steve?
49:24 Steven Rinella? I'll dedicate this to my wife.
49:25 Speaker 05 Wow.
49:30 Speaker 05 This might change the dynamic at home now after having the argument that led to you going to watch the Olympics the other night.
49:36 Steven Rinella? She was there.
49:37 Speaker 06 You know, I actually liked those fleas.
49:41 Speaker 05 $2,000 that Steve is dedicating to his wife, where would she like that money to go?
49:46 Steven Rinella? Can I split it?
49:47 Speaker 05 Sure. Yeah, you could split it four ways.
49:48 Steven Rinella? I would like, no, no, I just want to split it two ways. I would like to split it between the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership.
49:54 Speaker 05 Okay.
49:55 Steven Rinella? Where I'm a board member. And I would like to put, send the other half where I recently joined the board of sharing the land.
50:03 Speaker 05 Hmm. Doug will love that.
50:05 Steven Rinella? Doug made a board. Doug is getting official. Doug has established a board.
50:09 Speaker 05 That's right.
50:09 Steven Rinella? I am on that, that inaugural board. And so I'd like half my jingle to go there.
50:14 Speaker 05 One thousand dollars to TRCP, one thousand dollars to sharing the land.
50:18 Steven Rinella? Sharing the land, of course, an organization that pairs landowners with access seekers, um, where the access seekers have an opportunity to do habitat work on that land as payment for hunting, fishing, permission.
50:33 Speaker 06 They so badly need, uh, the landowners, more of them.
50:37 Steven Rinella? That's what, that's what needs to be tackled.
50:39 Speaker 05 Stan Cronky should get, hold the dug.
50:42 Steven Rinella? Yeah, yeah, obviously you got a lot, there's a lot of access seekers, what we need to, uh, what we'll, a thing that the organization will have to tackle is finding, um, landowners who have conservation projects, putting in stream crossings, uh, invasives work, um, planting willows along streams, tearing up old fence that doesn't serve any purpose anymore, thinning.
51:09 Speaker 06 Burning.
51:09 Steven Rinella? Burning.
51:12 Speaker 05 One thousand dollars.
51:13 Steven Rinella? Putting in, putting in wood duck nesting boxes, whatever.
51:17 Speaker 05 One thousand dollars going to TRCP, one thousand dollars going to sharing the land.
51:21 Speaker 06 Fixing fence.
51:23 Speaker 05 Steve, the two-time champion.
51:26 Steven Rinella? Placostomus.
51:27 Speaker 05 First, first person to claim two Meat Eater Trivia Championships, that's right. Poor Randall and Brody only have one.
51:35 Speaker 06 Good job, Steve.
51:36 Steven Rinella? I don't think I'm. Yeah, poor them.
51:39 Speaker 05 Yeah. We'll see if Steve, we'll see Steve again in a year when he joins us for the next, uh, the fifth.
51:44 Steven Rinella? I'm excited about it.
51:45 Speaker 05 Meat Eater Trivia Championship. All right, join us next week for more Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. Congratulations.
51:53 Speaker 06 Thanks Spencer.
51:54 Steven Rinella? Thanks Spencer.
51:55 Speaker 07 Yeah, Spencer from South Dakota, he's the host. Using those smooth mellow tones, he lays them questions down.
52:08 Speaker 07 He likes taking those two and three year old bucks. And he's an avid amateur. Rockhound.
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