Ep. 856: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CCX

Spencer Neuharth https://www.instagram.com/spencerneuharth/?hl=en hosts MeatEater Trivia with Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Max Barta, Cory Calkins, Nate Mason, and Laura Mascari. Connect with MeatEater on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/meateater, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/StevenRinellaMeatEater/, Twitter https://twitter.com/MeatEaterTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAaa0mleeU128Ad5iM1RFIg, and YouTube Clips https://www.youtube.com/@MeatEaterClips Subscribe to MeatEater Podcast Network on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@MeatEaterPodcastNetwork Shop Trivia Merch https://store.themeateater.com/collections/meateater-trivia/?lang=en_US See omnystudio.com/listener https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host Spencer Newarth, and today we're joined by Yanis, Brody, Randall, Max, Laura, Cory, and Nate. This is a 10-round quiz show with questions from Meat Eater's four verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking, and there's a prize. Meat Eater will donate $500 to the conservation organization of the winners choosing. After the last few stats of the week, we looked at player performance by category in 2025. As a reminder, Yanis leads in hunting, where he gets 80% of questions correct. Brody leads in fishing, where he gets 72% of questions correct. This week, we'll look at conservation, and he guesses as to who leads the conservation category.

• 2:44Speaker 05

  Randall.

• 2:44Speaker 04

  Brody. Randall, unanimous, Randall and Randall is correct. No, I said Brody. Okay. Why did you say that? Because you win all the categories. Here are the results.

• 2:57Speaker 05

  Not hunting.

• 2:58Speaker 04

  Steve is the fifth best, getting 53% of questions correct. Then it's Nate at 56%. Nate, aren't you proud of that? 3% better than Steve. Yanis at 58%, Brody at 67%, and Randall at 72%. Holy cow.

• 3:16Speaker 05

  That's a gap.

• 3:17Speaker 04

  That's pretty good. Randall is the most consistent player across categories, with his worst category being 68%, and his best being 72. How about that? You'd think I'd win more games then.

• 3:28Speaker 06

  What's your worst category?

• 3:31Speaker 04

  Uh, must have been fishing, at 68%.

• 3:34Speaker 05

  Does that mean you have like a not even dispersion of categories in the average game?

• 3:39Speaker 04

  Uh, cooking has the least representation in the game.

• 3:42Speaker 05

  So like Brody's fishing excellence outweighs?

• 3:45Speaker 04

  Hunting, fishing, conservation are all very equal. Those all have about the same sized pool of questions, and then cooking, uh, you know, is probably 40%.

• 3:55Speaker 07

  I would like to request more cooking questions Spencer because I am better at cooking.

• 4:01Speaker 08

  We already, we already used all the good cooking ones. Let's just stick to the basics.

• 4:04Speaker 04

  I have a great cooking one in the docket. This week we have a foraging and a cooking. So you'll have a chance, two different spots. So Randall, 72%.

• 4:14Speaker 07

  I still feel like we're underrepresented then. It's only 20%?

• 4:18Speaker 04

  Well, there's other, besides like the four tent poles, you know, we have like woodsmanship, gear, wildlife, biology, ecology, natural history. So it's not-

• 4:30Speaker 07

  What do you call the, the, um, the group of like when you talk about movies and popular culture?

• 4:36Speaker 04

  And I believe that falls under conservation.

• 4:38Speaker 07

  Oh, great. Bullshit. But I can't wait to hear it Spencer.

• 4:44Speaker 04

  Love it. For housekeeping today, we're going to talk about turkey week. We are a couple of days into turkey week here at Meat Eater. Yanis, tell folks what that's all about.

• 4:55Speaker 07

  I can tell you that Max and I just got back from Texas. We started our turkey season off pretty good. We're even in the same spot. Were they gobbling good for you?

• 5:04Speaker 09

  Yeah, they definitely were. Uh, not, I mean, on the limb, they definitely were, but it seemed like, um, the first couple of hours was hit or miss. So.

• 5:13Speaker 04

  How many dead turkeys between the two of you?

• 5:16Speaker 09

  I shot one.

• 5:17Speaker 07

  I shot two. That makes three Spencer.

• 5:19Speaker 04

  One and a half for our stats this week.

• 5:22Speaker 07

  No, we had just, uh, Jesse Griffiths and I hosted a sweepstakes hunt for the National Wildlife Turkey Federation. Um, and-

• 5:31Speaker 10

  Seems like you're doing a little more hunting and hosting there. You shot two of them.

• 5:36Speaker 07

  You know, it's funny. You're not the first person to say that, Brody. No, it just so happened that, uh, they, the Holly was the gal that won. She brought her husband Zendel with her. They wanted to hunt together and we figured four was a crowd. And so Jesse took them the first morning. I happened to shoot a bird the first morning and then I hunted with them the second morning. And Holly shot a bird that day and so did Jesse. And then Zendel and I doubled on, in the ninth inning. On the, technically we were almost supposed to hunt through Thursday evening, but we, Zendel didn't have a bird yet. So we went out Friday morning. And, uh, yeah, we had a heck of a hunt. I'll save that for another.

• 6:16Speaker 04

  Good start to turkey season.

• 6:17Speaker 07

  Oh, it's awesome. But yeah, turkey week is here at Meat Eater. Think the most exciting part about Turkey Week for me is this awesome ultimate turkey giveaway that our buddy Cody Dinsmore has put together over from First Light. If you're interested in submitting your name to win this, you need to go to The Meat Eater Store. It's important to go to the store. If you just go to TheMeatEater.com, it's gonna be kinda hard to find how to get there. Go to the store. Um, sorry, my phone, my uh... Brody was making eyes around the room. I was looking for... I was looking for Steve. That was my dings. Yeah. My wife is cussing over texts. She's not much of a cuss or something. Let's be wrong.

• 7:02Speaker 07

  Too much time turkey, honey, already. Probably. Um, but yeah, the ultimate turkey giveaway, like I said, you can sign up at the store, at TheMeatEater.com. You can also sign up at First Light. Logan Dove actually told me there's four different pages where you can sign up. So if you do a little bit of searching, you'll find it. But let me tell you about this ultimate turkey giveaway.

• 7:27Speaker 07

  Starting off, there's a Texas Rio Grande Turkey Hunt that's being donated by Bird Dog Outfitters. It's in the hill country. Three days, three hunters, five times total. So not everybody gets to shoot two, but two of you can shoot two, or you can just go by yourself.

• 7:45Speaker 08

  That sounds like last week, not everybody shot two, right?

• 7:48Speaker 07

  Exactly. I was very fortunate, Randall.

• 7:52Speaker 08

  You just gotta wear your Yanis Patelis mask and you'll be fine.

• 7:54Speaker 07

  You gotta be in the right place at the right time. Um, there are, there is a Benelli 12-gauge Super Black Eagle First Light gift card. A little combo from Sig Sauer, which, listen, those, those, um, image stabilized binoculars, they're not great for everything, but you know where they are just absolutely perfect? Where at? Just for hunting turkeys. They're light, you can just get them into a pocket of your turkey vest. Yeah, and just one-handed, it's super stable. You can tell exactly how long those spurs are before you shoot them. Yeah, you can, you can do a little Spencer, you can gauge the trophy quality of those gobblers.

• 8:37Speaker 07

  Along with that from Sig, there's a Romeo X Pro. A whole flock of DSD decoys, a Magpul Dakka kit. There's some TSS, uh, ammunition, turkey ammunition from, how do you, uh, pronounce the company? MIGRA?

• 8:56Speaker 09

  Yeah, I used that, um, uh, 410 stuff and it was like lethal.

• 9:00Speaker 07

  Hammered them.

• 9:00Speaker 09

  Liked it.

• 9:01Speaker 07

  Uh, a whole package of Phelps game calls, a pair of Christie boots, crispy boots. Three Multrie Edge 3 trail cameras. You know what you can do on those things now? They have a smart capture thing where if you turn it on and then you just tell it, only take a picture of deer and turkeys. And that is really cut down in all of the

• 9:23Speaker 04

  No more squirrels.

• 9:24Speaker 07

  Leaf photos.

• 9:25Speaker 04

  No more magpies.

• 9:27Speaker 07

  Yeah, it's pretty slick. I mean, it's not perfect, but it's doing pretty good. A couple of case knives, FHF bino harness. There's still more. It keeps going. And Onyx, uh, uh, premium, uh, elite membership for a year. Uh, Mountain Ops gift card. It's a lot. It's over thirteen thousand dollars in value.

• 9:46Speaker 09

  For one person to win?

• 9:48Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 9:49Speaker 04

  Wow. You could come into this owning zero pieces of turkey gear, win the sweepstakes and you'd be set for the rest of your life.

• 9:55Speaker 07

  You'd be totally decked out and you'd be going on a turkey hunt.

• 9:58Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 9:58Speaker 07

  And knocking the old Rio. Just don't go with the honest because they'll shoot them right out from underneath you.

• 10:04Speaker 04

  Now, one of the ways that you can get ten extra entries is for every twenty-five dollars you spend at First Light, uh, you get those ten extra sweepstakes.

• 10:12Speaker 07

  So you can just go in here and sign up. One time you get one entry. If you go and spend twenty-five bucks, you get ten more, but during Turkey Week, it's actually double entries. And so, April, until April 5th, for every twenty-five bucks you spend, your name goes in the pot twenty times.

• 10:30Speaker 04

  Wow. Maximus, if you were trying to up your odds and you were gonna drop a little money at First Light for Turkey Week, what would you be buying?

• 10:37Speaker 09

  Number one, a tree line turkey vest.

• 10:39Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 10:39Speaker 09

  I never used to be a vest turkey guy. Like I used to keep all the stuff in my pockets and it was all cluttered and unorganized. Uh, tree line turkey vest, uh, game changer. Um, next couple of things, I'm a big fan of the Brambler, uh, Gators. Um, I just don't like my feet getting wet, pants getting wet. So I wear those.

• 11:01Speaker 07

  Keeps ticks out a little bit too.

• 11:02Speaker 09

  Yeah, that too.

• 11:03Speaker 04

  Any part of the country, you'd be wearing those.

• 11:04Speaker 09

  Yeah, I wore them in Texas. I'll wear them up in Montana, um, everywhere. Just helps keep your boots dry and clean and ticks out. Um, and then one thing I think a lot of turkey hunters sometimes forget and lose is just a neck gator too. Um, First Light makes the Arrow Wool neck gator. Pick up two or three of those and you'll be set for the season.

• 11:25Speaker 07

  Speaking of neck gators, I wore the approach hoodie this week that has the built in face mask. And I like that one because it sits off your face a little bit more than the neck gator. So it's not quite as tight, a little bit cooler. What are you smirking about?

• 11:36Speaker 04

  Randall has something to say because he's.

• 11:37Speaker 07

  Oh, I'm getting a look at these guys. You guys are freaking. Yannis, did you cut your little, little hole?

• 11:43Speaker 07

  Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. From my cigarette.

• 11:48Speaker 07

  I don't want to have to drop my mask down to have my, my smoke, you know, sitting out there.

• 11:54Speaker 04

  You probably don't even have to do it anyway. You can probably still inhale through that thing.

• 11:58Speaker 07

  You're right, you're right. But I like to feel the filter between my. First light should just make that a standard feature for all the smokers.

• 12:05Speaker 08

  Are you really smoking if you don't feel that paper?

• 12:07Speaker 07

  Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So besides the giveaway, um, bunch of turkey content on the, uh, website. I even wrote a couple of articles. Tony's got one out there right now. It says how to figure out how to cut through all the gobbler gibberish and figure out what you really need to know to talk to turkeys. So. Any Tony rights, I think you should read and learn something.

• 12:28Speaker 08

  Yanni worked really hard on his articles last week. He was sweating it.

• 12:32Speaker 07

  Yeah. And then Randall put in basically the prompts to AI, which then promptly wrote an article better than the one I had spent a day on.

• 12:41Speaker 08

  But he went with his own. He didn't even want to look at it.

• 12:43Speaker 04

  That one didn't have personality.

• 12:45Speaker 07

  Screw AI. No, it kinda did because he even prompted that, like, said it to write it like Yannis and it did.

• 12:52Speaker 04

  Okay. Well, you can get that content at the meat eater dot com. You can learn more about the Turkey Week Sweepstakes at store dot the meat eater dot com. It's happening right now. All right. The Shelby index for today is a four, so our winner should get eight correct answers. And with that, we're on to the game.

• 13:08Speaker 07

  Oh, we're here for trivia. I forgot.

• 13:10Speaker 08

  You're gonna need to close that laptop.

• 13:13Speaker 01

  I need to know what I stand to win, everything.

• 13:18Speaker 11

  Just tend to win everything.

• 13:27Speaker 12

  Game on, suckers.

• 13:29Speaker 04

  Question one, the topic is wildlife. This first great question is via Zach Johnson and it will be multiple choice. Which of these animals is monogamous? Is it garter snake, bison, orca, or sandhill crane?

• 13:49Speaker 04

  Which of these animals is monogamous? One of them is, three of them are not. Is it garter snake, bison?

• 13:57Speaker 07

  I like this question Spencer.

• 13:59Speaker 04

  Or sandhill crane? A quick and confident room.

• 14:04Speaker 08

  I really like Turkey Week Max. This is a good Max.

• 14:08Speaker 04

  He is chipper.

• 14:09Speaker 08

  He's very happy, but also I like when Max gets serious about stuff like when you brought up the shot. Max is just like, that kills, that kills good. This is a good Max. If I had to deliver some bad news to Max.

• 14:25Speaker 04

  Do it during Turkey Week.

• 14:25Speaker 08

  I would do it during Turkey Week.

• 14:27Speaker 07

  I would like to see more Max in front of the camera, as we all would, I think. So if you're out there in the meat eater world and you agree with me, write in, because we need a little pressure.

• 14:37Speaker 08

  You just, you just ruined my happy Max.

• 14:40Speaker 07

  I'm not looking at him.

• 14:41Speaker 08

  His face just turned.

• 14:42Speaker 07

  I'm not looking at, but I think I figured out a way to his heart, to get his heart in front of the camera. Cause he's like, when are we gonna go on a hunt and to see Jay Scott in Mexico for Gould's turn? And I was like, well Max, as long as you get in front of the camera, you can come along anytime.

• 14:59Speaker 04

  Again, which of these animals is monogamous?

• 15:02Speaker 09

  I did a little self filming in Texas. So that's also coming out this Turkey Week.

• 15:06Speaker 04

  Garter snake, bison, orca, sandhill crane.

• 15:10Speaker 04

  Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says Sandhill Crane, Laura and Randall. Uh, the whole room says Sandhill Crane. The whole room got it right. The correct answer is Sandhill Crane. Did Shelby get that one right? Uh, she did. Yes, she got that one right. Sandhill cranes begin breeding at age two or three, but some won't start until they're age four or five. Both parents help with incubating the eggs and raising the chi- and raising the chicks. Marriages can last for as long as 30 years. Divorce is very rare, but sometimes it happens if the duo is unable to successfully raise young. Or if Randall shoots one of them.

• 15:48Speaker 07

  Listen, in our happy little valley where I live, the neighbors have been watching this pair. They think the entire time they've, they've lived there, which is almost 15 years. And the pair has never been able to raise, um, a single colt to, uh, what do you call it? Flight hood? Um, to be able to escape predators. We watch them for like a month and then eventually there's no, no babies, no baby sandhills.

• 16:14Speaker 04

  They're on divorce watch then?

• 16:16Speaker 07

  Maybe, yeah. They just got, they just came back to town like in the last week and it's lovely. I like when it's a quiet evening, uh, and listening to them squawking. It's great.

• 16:25Speaker 04

  It's make or break, uh, season for them then. If they're gonna stay together.

• 16:29Speaker 07

  I know. I'm gonna go to the neighbors and say, look, I, I think I know how to help this along, but I don't know if they're gonna be into like predator watch.

• 16:39Speaker 07

  But hey, depends on your goals, you know?

• 16:42Speaker 04

  Question two, the topic is hunting. This brand calls itself, quote, America's master gunmaker and has a logo that features a T over top a C.

• 16:55Speaker 04

  This brand calls itself America's master gunmaker and has a logo that

• 17:00Speaker 07

  Maybe you could throw a few more clues in there.

• 17:02Speaker 04

  A T over top of a C.

• 17:05Speaker 04

  I hope Brody doesn't win today.

• 17:07Speaker 07

  What's that?

• 17:08Speaker 04

  Nothing.

• 17:11Speaker 04

  This brand calls itself America's master gunmaker and has a logo that features a T over top a C. If you're watching this on YouTube, you'll notice we are in a new studio. Got a game job.

• 17:26Speaker 12

  Yeah, Steve was in here 15 minutes before we hit record, hanging stuff up and we're not done. So it looks, the walls are a little bare.

• 17:33Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 17:33Speaker 07

  What color would you call that?

• 17:37Speaker 12

  You know, it was kind of a mistake to have it pretty close to some first light colors because Randall is almost just sinking into the wall right now. But it's not quite the same shade.

• 17:45Speaker 07

  Tarmac. I actually like it the way that it's not cluttered like it was.

• 17:51Speaker 12

  I like it not cluttered too. Well cluttered is better for sound and it's better for the camera, so.

• 17:56Speaker 04

  So we won't do that.

• 17:57Speaker 07

  I think we should just do more, it should just be all hides.

• 18:01Speaker 12

  Dude, it's been a long day.

• 18:04Speaker 04

  America's master gunmaker that has a logo that features a T over top a C. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says Colt. Laura without an answer. Randall says Thompson Center. Corey says Thompson. Two Turkey Yanni says Thompson Center. Max and Brody say Thompson Center. The correct answer is Thompson Center.

• 18:26Speaker 04

  Thompson Center was founded.

• 18:27Speaker 07

  Wait, wait, wait, wait.

• 18:28Speaker 04

  What's up?

• 18:28Speaker 07

  Does Corey get it or not?

• 18:29Speaker 04

  No, he does not. That's only half the answer.

• 18:31Speaker 12

  Whoa, whoa, Mr. Muscle Guy.

• 18:34Speaker 04

  Thompson Center.

• 18:35Speaker 12

  That's rich.

• 18:37Speaker 12

  From last week.

• 18:38Speaker 04

  Do you guys think Corey should get that point for having Thompson?

• 18:41Speaker 12

  Your Prince Island muscles or whatever?

• 18:43Speaker 04

  No.

• 18:44Speaker 07

  Oh, yeah.

• 18:45Speaker 12

  Dude, I'm just saying, man.

• 18:46Speaker 04

  Now, now Brody, when four out of seven people get it correct, that's like the perfect trivia question. So you, you thought it was too easy.

• 18:52Speaker 07

  I did. Still do.

• 18:53Speaker 04

  I'd say that was just right. Thompson Center was founded in 1965 by Ken Thompson and Warren Center. In 1970, they created the Hawken muzzleloader. According to the NRA, the gun was so popular that it helped launch a muzzleloader hunting revolution in America.

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• 21:40Speaker 04

  Question three, the topic is foraging. Burdock is commonly referred to as Wild Blank because of its elephant ear leaves that resemble this garden perennial.

• 21:54Speaker 04

  The room is stumped. Burdock is commonly referred to as Wild Blank because of its elephant ear leaves that resemble this garden perennial.

• 22:10Speaker 04

  Brody, the only player to put marker to whiteboard. But look at his, but look what he's doing now. But he doesn't, doesn't love what he wrote.

• 22:18Speaker 12

  Ooh.

• 22:19Speaker 04

  Wow, that was nice Max.

• 22:21Speaker 06

  I was looking at your face.

• 22:23Speaker 12

  For those, for those not watching, Max is rubbing his whiteboard on our podcast table here.

• 22:28Speaker 04

  It's the new Phelps. That's gonna be a favorite among the audio only listeners. Maxwell Podcast Studio Call. Stop it. Yeah, we've had enough Max. Burdock is commonly referred to as Wild Blank because of its elephant ear leaves that resemble this garden perennial. Yanni has now come up with an answer. Yanni, do you like your answer? Not really. Okay. Does it have elephant ear leaves? Is it a garden perennial? Yes. Okay. Burdock is commonly referred to as Wild Blank because of its elephant ear leaves that resemble this garden perennial. Players slowly locking in their answers, but nobody seems to love what they wrote.

• 23:14Speaker 10

  Oh man, I remember running around the woods calling it.

• 23:18Speaker 04

  Hmm, which woods?

• 23:20Speaker 10

  Back in, back in the old days, in the neighborhood woodlot.

• 23:23Speaker 04

  The old day woods.

• 23:25Speaker 10

  Ye old woodlot. One little woodlot that seemed like it was the size of Montana back then. It was probably like two acres.

• 23:31Speaker 04

  Burdock is commonly referred to as Wild Blank because of its elephant ear leaves that resemble this garden perennial. Hmm, is everybody ready? Are you okay Nate?

• 23:42Speaker 07

  No.

• 23:44Speaker 04

  I'm, I, I had a big ol' test this morning, so I'm pretty tired.

• 23:47Speaker 09

  Okay.

• 23:48Speaker 04

  Is everybody ready?

• 23:49Speaker 07

  Hold on, I'm changing.

• 23:50Speaker 08

  I ate a Sonora hot dog covered in steak about fifteen minutes ago, so I'm also tired.

• 23:55Speaker 04

  Yanni making a last second change. Yanni, you good? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says tulip.

• 24:01Speaker 10

  Hey!

• 24:02Speaker 04

  Without an answer, Randall says rhubarb. Corey says tulip. Mmm, rhubarb. Yanni says parsnip. Max says onions. I changed it. Brody says rhubarb.

• 24:13Speaker 10

  I had rhubarb.

• 24:15Speaker 04

  The correct answer is rhubarb. Oh, yeah. Brody and Randall got that one right. Well done. Although burdock looks like rhubarb, it doesn't taste like it. The flavor of its edible taproot is described as nutty or earthy, often compared to celery or artichoke. Ideally, it's harvested before flowering in its first or second year of growth. It's found across the continent, growing in disturbed areas like pastures, parks, and ditches. There's a canal that runs by my neighborhood that has a prolific amount of burdock. I'm gonna harvest some this year.

• 24:49Speaker 08

  I think we should call it ditch rhubarb.

• 24:51Speaker 04

  Ditch rhubarb, that's good.

• 24:52Speaker 08

  I feel like that's better.

• 24:53Speaker 04

  Mm-hmm. Ditch barb.

• 24:54Speaker 08

  Ditch barb.

• 24:55Speaker 04

  Question four. The topic is fishing. Mmm. What is the color of a boat's starboard side light?

• 25:01Speaker 10

  Oh. Oh, it's either one or two.

• 25:06Speaker 04

  What is the color of a boat's starboard side light?

• 25:13Speaker 04

  Lot of quick answers. Do you have this one right, Captain Randall? Yes. We're gonna have to take away your captain's, your expired captain's license. It's expired, long expired. If you don't get this one. Is it still in your wallet? Uh, no, it's actually, it's a, like a passport book.

• 25:28Speaker 10

  Oh.

• 25:28Speaker 04

  Yeah. Corey, do you have this one right?

• 25:30Speaker 10

  I'm fifty-fifty.

• 25:32Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 25:32Speaker 10

  Yeah, I'm fifty-fifty.

• 25:33Speaker 04

  We're gonna take away your expired fishing guide license. Oh, no, you don't need to know this crap at all, wanna row a boat down the river. Brody, do you have this one? It's nice to know which that's.

• 25:44Speaker 10

  I don't know. Like, I'm just not out at night enough to, like, have this all.

• 25:49Speaker 04

  And you don't know if the boat's coming up river at you. What is the color of a boat's starboard side light?

• 25:54Speaker 10

  Oh, I better actually play it safe. I wonder if we should technically be using. Hmm? I wonder if we should technically be using lights on the, on the.

• 26:04Speaker 12

  Is this something you should be saying on mic? I can hear you.

• 26:09Speaker 04

  Get around question four. You're gonna need to bleep that out. The topic is fishing. Nah. What is the color of a boat's starboard side light? Maxwell, you ready?

• 26:17Speaker 09

  No, uh.

• 26:20Speaker 04

  How many answers? How many colors could there possibly be?

• 26:23Speaker 09

  I'm trying to. Brody, you have.

• 26:26Speaker 12

  At least three.

• 26:27Speaker 04

  I'm calling. Ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says green. Laura says red. Randall says green. Corey, red. Yanni, green. Max, what did you?

• 26:40Speaker 09

  I circled green.

• 26:40Speaker 04

  Okay, Brody, red. Red port return. The correct answer is green. I think half the room got that one right. When standing inside of a boat and looking forward, the port side is on your left. The left light is red. The starboard side is on your right. The right side is green. Each color is supposed to form a 112 degree arc of light that's visible to approaching vessels. And Phil has a diagram for us of the different lights that you would see.

• 27:12Speaker 10

  Running lights is just a good way to get caught doing something you're not supposed to be doing.

• 27:19Speaker 12

  Still recording.

• 27:20Speaker 04

  Good advice from Brody. Question five, the topic is conservation. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Nate Murphy for sending this great question. Nate is going to get a board game signed by the crew. If you want a chance to win the listener question of the week, then send your question to trivia at the meat eater.com. In fisheries management, what does the acronym Y O Y stand for that indicates a fish is a juvenile?

• 27:48Speaker 04

  In fisheries management, what does the acronym Y O Y stand for that indicates a fish is a juvenile? Brody and Nate, quick to answer. Nate, do you have this one right? No, I mean, maybe, I don't know. Okay. You just wanted to get it over with. Yeah, dude. And it off. Yep. I gotta go put on more deodorant.

• 28:10Speaker 04

  It's kinda mailed this one in.

• 28:11Speaker 05

  Geez.

• 28:11Speaker 04

  Starting. Nate. One for four. Smile. Thank you. You're just like. Yeah, it's Turkey Week Nate.

• 28:19Speaker 05

  Come on. Dude, I know. I know, test's over. I'm just tired. Drained. What kinda test was this? PMP exam. Let me give a PSA to all the people on Reddit. It's not that hard. And why are you so tired? Well, taking the test is draining, but the prep for it, people are like, oh, I studied for four months. Hours every day. What is? Dude, I was just gonna ask the same thing.

• 28:43Speaker 04

  People on Reddit.

• 28:44Speaker 12

  Tell the people.

• 28:45Speaker 05

  I studied for four months, buddy. Hey there, Mac. It's like, uh, you know how you, when you're in high school, you take like the SAT or the ACT to get in college? This is like a test Army nerds take when they're getting out of the Army to get a job. Oh. But I, I just waited a long time.

• 29:01Speaker 04

  Management professional?

• 29:03Speaker 05

  That's the one. To get a job with the Army? No, no, like to, because you don't have like a real resume coming out of Army. So guys are like, what do I put on my resume? You take this random test and hopefully it does something. But Nate, you have a job. That's a great point, Randall. So you're not planning on sticking around here very long. I am. Well, that's the thing is I am, but I ha- we'll talk about it offline.

• 29:22Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 29:22Speaker 05

  No, I know, you explained this to me last week and just give me a hard time. Thank you.

• 29:26Speaker 04

  What does the acronym Y O Y stand for?

• 29:28Speaker 05

  A little disappointed in you, Mac.

• 29:30Speaker 04

  That indicates a fish is a juvenile. Don't, oh.

• 29:36Speaker 05

  You can't write it down.

• 29:38Speaker 04

  That was kinda mean, Yanni. Yeah. Yanni showed the right answer to Max. I saw one word, but. Done brainstorm. I don't have any of those words, so I'm good. Everybody here ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says young of year.

• 29:51Speaker 05

  Let's go.

• 29:52Speaker 04

  No. Laura says year over year. Randall, young of the year. Cory, year over year. Yanni, young of the year. Max, year of yearling. Brody, young of the year. The correct answer is young of the year. Yeah, I should've had that.

• 30:08Speaker 05

  Let's go.

• 30:09Speaker 04

  Young of the year is a catch-all term that refers to fish that are in their first year of life. Biologists do Y O Y surveys during the spring and summer to assess the success or failure of that spawning cycle. This data is collected for both saltwater and freshwater fish and can impact regulations. Phil, we're halfway through the game of trivia. Give us a scoreboard update.

• 30:30Speaker 05

  I suppose we are.

• 30:31Speaker 12

  Here at halftime, we've got Corey and Laura on the board with one point apiece.

• 30:36Speaker 09

  Randall.

• 30:36Speaker 12

  Nate and Max are tied up with three. Yannis and Brody have four points each and in first place with a perfect game. Yes, that's right. It's Dr. Randall Williams. Oh.

• 30:45Speaker 04

  A turkey week, perfect game. Could it be? Boy, that would be huge.

• 30:48Speaker 10

  The second half's always tough, Randall.

• 30:52Speaker 04

  Question six, the topic. I've been starting out pretty slowly in the past few weeks, so. This did well. Question six, the topic is ecology. This next great question is via Jay Rose. Cultivate and propagate are synonyms for this nine-letter word that's defined as, quote, "to cause a seed to start growing."

• 31:15Speaker 04

  Cultivate and propagate are synonyms for this nine-letter word that's defined as

• 31:20Speaker 09

  Wow.

• 31:21Speaker 04

  "to cause a seed to start growing." What was that wow about?

• 31:25Speaker 09

  I'm actually just, I suck at spelling and.

• 31:27Speaker 04

  Are you impressed with yourself here?

• 31:28Speaker 09

  Yeah.

• 31:29Speaker 04

  Oh, okay. Max did it.

• 31:30Speaker 09

  It's nine letters. Usually it's like one or two more or one or two less.

• 31:33Speaker 12

  As well, give yourself an extra point for that.

• 31:35Speaker 10

  Max was just hoping for seven to 11 letters and like.

• 31:39Speaker 07

  Randall's thinking.

• 31:40Speaker 04

  The perfect game for Randall.

• 31:42Speaker 07

  Or he's messing with us. He wrote it down and now he's messing with us.

• 31:45Speaker 09

  No, by his face. He doesn't have it.

• 31:47Speaker 04

  No, look at my face getting red. I can feel it getting red.

• 31:50Speaker 10

  Well, we should probably wrap this one up.

• 31:52Speaker 04

  Yeah, it stands out nicely against our new paint job in here. Cultivate and propagate are synonyms for this nine-letter word that's defined as "to cause a seed to start growing."

• 32:05Speaker 10

  The reason I felt like you should have gotten the last one is you hear young of the year a lot and bird hunting.

• 32:11Speaker 04

  We have six players who like their answer and then Randall. No, yeah. Corey, do you have this one right? Maybe.

• 32:21Speaker 09

  You're gonna hate me.

• 32:23Speaker 10

  Quit flashing that thing around, man.

• 32:25Speaker 04

  Max is so proud. He's just strung Dobbler over here with his correct answer.

• 32:30Speaker 03

  I could see in the reflection of the window.

• 32:32Speaker 04

  Oh, wow. That could unlock something new in here. We'll give Randy a few more seconds. Cultivate and propagate.

• 32:39Speaker 10

  Oh, sure. Just give him all the time in the world.

• 32:41Speaker 04

  Are synonyms for this nine-letter word that's defined as "to cause a seed to start growing."

• 32:47Speaker 09

  He's like a Tom's head when it changes colors.

• 32:52Speaker 04

  We're beyond red, we're entering the white phase.

• 32:57Speaker 08

  It's all changing color to the right color at the right time.

• 33:00Speaker 10

  Yeah.

• 33:00Speaker 08

  Oh, God.

• 33:02Speaker 04

  Randall, do you give up?

• 33:04Speaker 09

  Right before his head explodes.

• 33:07Speaker 04

  Before Max shoots him. No, I'm not gonna shoot Randall.

• 33:12Speaker 04

  Randall?

• 33:20Speaker 04

  Do you give up?

• 33:21Speaker 09

  He's a good guy, you guys, be nice.

• 33:24Speaker 04

  Hey, don't show him.

• 33:25Speaker 09

  Oh, well.

• 33:26Speaker 04

  Or he's getting a little loose with the whiteboard over there. Go ahead and reveal your answers. The whole room says germinate, besides Randall. The correct answer is germinate. Germination is the process where a seed wakes up from dormancy and sprouts into a new plant. This is triggered by water, oxygen, and temperature. Typically, when a seed germinates, it begins to swell, then it ruptures, then a root emerges, then a shoot emerges. He's pulling out his phone. What are you looking for?

• 33:59Speaker 08

  Am I, cultivate and propagate, I understand is like, I cultivated this.

• 34:06Speaker 04

  Okay. There, if you were to look at synonyms.

• 34:09Speaker 08

  If a seed germinates, are you saying that seed cultivated?

• 34:12Speaker 04

  But a synonym's not necessarily an exact matching definition.

• 34:15Speaker 08

  No, it is.

• 34:16Speaker 04

  It's just like.

• 34:16Speaker 08

  That's exactly what it is.

• 34:18Speaker 04

  The source, like the source would list.

• 34:19Speaker 08

  That's exactly what it is. Phil?

• 34:20Speaker 04

  Something similar.

• 34:21Speaker 08

  What are we talking about here?

• 34:22Speaker 12

  I would agree with you, but I'm not a scholar of any kind.

• 34:25Speaker 08

  This is, this is.

• 34:26Speaker 04

  If you go to like thesaurus.com, it'll give you like fifteen, um, you know, examples of synonyms for germinate.

• 34:33Speaker 07

  Give us the definition of synonym.

• 34:35Speaker 12

  A word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase.

• 34:40Speaker 08

  No, that's not the same.

• 34:41Speaker 04

  Nearly.

• 34:43Speaker 08

  So, when you say germinate, it talks about, it talks about a seed growing. Cultivate, to prepare or prepare for the use of raising of crops, to foster the growth of. Fostering the growth of something isn't the same as something growing.

• 34:58Speaker 04

  Listen, those, those are both listed as synonyms.

• 35:00Speaker 08

  You should end this episode now, you're gonna get destroyed. But I think, no, because. You're gonna get destroyed.

• 35:05Speaker 12

  I think Randall does have a point here.

• 35:06Speaker 08

  Uh, Phil has.

• 35:08Speaker 07

  But to germinate a seed is to, what?

• 35:11Speaker 12

  Cultivate a seed.

• 35:13Speaker 10

  Propagate.

• 35:14Speaker 08

  You definitely, it's definitely.

• 35:16Speaker 07

  It's like preparating.

• 35:17Speaker 08

  You are germinating, or the seed is germinating. Are you germinating a seed?

• 35:24Speaker 08

  Who, what, what, this is, these are verbs. No, the seed itself is germinating. Yeah, so, so the seed is germinating, the seed does not cultivate anything. No, you're cultivating. The seed does not propagate anything. You're doing that yourself. That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about. Baseballs fly when you hit them.

• 35:41Speaker 04

  I am, I-

• 35:42Speaker 08

  I hit the ball, the ball flies. When you cultivate something, it germinates.

• 35:46Speaker 04

  Yeah. Do we respect Merriam-Webster in this room? I would say, yes, we do. They list both of those as synonyms.

• 35:52Speaker 08

  Merriam-Webster.

• 35:52Speaker 04

  Germinate.

• 35:53Speaker 10

  Horse shit.

• 35:55Speaker 04

  Question seven.

• 35:57Speaker 10

  You better be careful after this game is over, Spencer. I feel like he's gonna find you and kick you right in the nuts.

• 36:01Speaker 08

  Synonyms, synonyms for cultivate are promote, nurture, foster, nourish. Germinate.

• 36:07Speaker 04

  Again, uh, Merriam-Webster lists cultivate and propagate.

• 36:11Speaker 05

  One-way street or two-way street? Cause he says they're synonyms for his word.

• 36:15Speaker 00

  It's a roundabout.

• 36:16Speaker 05

  Not necessarily the other way. You know what I'm saying?

• 36:20Speaker 08

  But do you understand what I'm saying here? Yes. That the subject-

• 36:23Speaker 04

  The other six players got it right, though.

• 36:25Speaker 08

  If you use the word in the sentence, you can't have the same subject, then it's not a synonym.

• 36:31Speaker 04

  Question seven.

• 36:34Speaker 08

  Phil knows I'm correct.

• 36:35Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 36:35Speaker 08

  That's why I wrote down gardening. Because cultivating is more like gardening than it is germinating. I can garden, I can cultivate.

• 36:44Speaker 04

  You take this up-

• 36:44Speaker 08

  A seed cannot garden.

• 36:45Speaker 04

  You take this up with Merriam-Webster.

• 36:48Speaker 08

  This is insane. You're insane right now. I actually think this is the most intellectually bankrupt question and answer you've ever asked on this show.

• 36:57Speaker 05

  What about the revolver one?

• 36:58Speaker 08

  That, that was just dumb. Shots fired. This is wild.

• 37:03Speaker 04

  I think Randall still has a nice lead going into question seven.

• 37:07Speaker 10

  I'm catching up, I'm catching up.

• 37:08Speaker 05

  No, it's tied up now.

• 37:10Speaker 10

  Do you think he'd be fighting like this if he had the lead?

• 37:13Speaker 04

  Yes, I, I do.

• 37:14Speaker 08

  Oh, wait, wait. There's an alternate definition for germinate.

• 37:17Speaker 04

  Uh-oh.

• 37:17Speaker 08

  Let's hear it.

• 37:20Speaker 08

  No, I still don't.

• 37:21Speaker 09

  Oh, see.

• 37:22Speaker 04

  It turns out he agrees with himself on this one. Question seven, the topic is conservation.

• 37:28Speaker 08

  Phil, you know what I'm saying.

• 37:29Speaker 09

  Randall's gonna quit.

• 37:30Speaker 08

  I was thinking of agriculture. I was thinking of gardening, farming. Because cultivating and propagating are things you do to seeds and plants.

• 37:39Speaker 04

  Did anyone ever walked out?

• 37:39Speaker 01

  But you weren't thinking about germinate.

• 37:41Speaker 08

  Let's just keep going.

• 37:42Speaker 04

  It is, I mean, what a specific definition to cause a seed to start growing. Wow, germinate. Question seven. The topic is conservation. This TV secret agent who worked cases saving wolves, golden eagles, and black rhinos is best known

• 38:00Speaker 08

  Hold on, can we go right, can we go back?

• 38:01Speaker 04

  For his resourcefulness and mullet. No.

• 38:05Speaker 08

  We're gonna pick it up after we write down the answer.

• 38:08Speaker 04

  This TV secret agent who worked cases saving wolves, golden eagles, and black rhinos is best known for his resourcefulness and mullet. I think, but now that I read it again, I'm kind of questioning. Brody and Nate both have an answer. What would you like to discuss on that last one, Yanni?

• 38:28Speaker 08

  Well, I need to write down an answer first.

• 38:30Speaker 10

  I'd like to discuss the definition of a mullet, Spencer.

• 38:35Speaker 04

  And, secret agent.

• 38:39Speaker 04

  This TV secret agent I don't know if I have the right, this right anymore. Who worked cases saving wolves, golden eagles, and black rhinos is best known for his resourcefulness and mullet. Now Randall's

• 38:52Speaker 10

  I don't think that's

• 38:53Speaker 04

  Hey, let me, hey.

• 38:54Speaker 10

  I just don't.

• 38:55Speaker 09

  You wanna peek?

• 38:56Speaker 04

  Swappy, swappy.

• 38:56Speaker 09

  You wanna peek?

• 38:57Speaker 04

  Ready?

• 38:58Speaker 10

  I don't think he was a secret agent.

• 39:00Speaker 04

  A secret agent?

• 39:01Speaker 09

  I don't care, it's the first thing I thought of, but.

• 39:03Speaker 04

  The same, I'm in your, I'm in the same boat, first thing.

• 39:05Speaker 09

  I like your answer.

• 39:07Speaker 04

  Brody, do you have this one right? The first qualifier's throwing me off. Brody, the only player who likes his answer.

• 39:13Speaker 09

  Yeah. I li- I like Nate's answer.

• 39:16Speaker 04

  Did you see Brody's answer?

• 39:17Speaker 09

  No, I don't want to.

• 39:18Speaker 10

  I'm not gonna show anyone my answer.

• 39:20Speaker 04

  Alright.

• 39:21Speaker 10

  I feel like it's dangerous. Nope.

• 39:23Speaker 09

  I shouldn't have.

• 39:24Speaker 10

  Show it to me.

• 39:28Speaker 10

  Um, you know what?

• 39:29Speaker 07

  Randall, in his question, he says the definition is to cause- I know, I know dude. A seed to grow.

• 39:37Speaker 10

  Oh, you know what?

• 39:38Speaker 07

  We should call your wife- Just by that definition.

• 39:40Speaker 10

  It's not right.

• 39:40Speaker 07

  Yes, you are germinating the seed.

• 39:43Speaker 10

  There's a key detail in there that would make your answer wrong.

• 39:46Speaker 07

  I know. You are causing the seed. When the seed grows, is the seed germinating?

• 39:52Speaker 10

  Key detail, uh, uh, wait. Unless Spencer like really messed this question up.

• 39:56Speaker 07

  Unless he's doing one of his like flavor town things, you know? But I think it can maybe be applied both ways.

• 40:03Speaker 10

  If I'm prop-

• 40:04Speaker 07

  Alright.

• 40:05Speaker 10

  You guys are still arguing about that?

• 40:07Speaker 07

  I think that the seed can't cultivate itself. That's what I'm saying. It can germinate itself. That's what I'm saying. That's my whole argument. But I'm saying that you can germinate the seed and the seed can germinate itself.

• 40:17Speaker 04

  And you can also cultivate-

• 40:18Speaker 07

  I can germinate a seed. Mm-hmm. Okay. That's all I was, that's all I was asking for. Because it says in his question, to cause a seed. My argument is that may, we're, if we're using his question as the source of all original truth.

• 40:31Speaker 10

  Man, there hasn't been a question like this in a long time, Spencer.

• 40:36Speaker 04

  And it was, uh, what is six divided by seven? It was like a ninety percenter for the room.

• 40:42Speaker 07

  Yeah, if the question had said, uh, here's where I think of the question, if this, if the question had said like, this nine-letter word. Can't change it now. Uh, it's a synonym with, with sprout or whatever.

• 40:55Speaker 10

  You know Spencer, I don't know if you've noticed, but I've turned over a new leaf. I don't argue about questions anymore.

• 41:01Speaker 07

  Hmm, since, since this episode?

• 41:02Speaker 04

  I'll shut it down. Again, question seven, this TV secret agent who worked cases saving wolves, golden eagles, and black rhinos is best known for his resourcefulness and mullet. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says Ace Ventura. Laura, without an answer. Randall says MacGyver. Corey Ace Ventura, Yanni MacGyver, Max Joe Dirt, Brody MacGyver, the correct answer is MacGyver.

• 41:31Speaker 10

  I almost wrote down MacGruber, but then I realized that was MacGruber.

• 41:35Speaker 04

  I'm coming back. She was too embarrassed to show the answer.

• 41:38Speaker 10

  Ace Ventura is a pet detective.

• 41:40Speaker 07

  I know.

• 41:40Speaker 04

  She didn't think it was right.

• 41:42Speaker 07

  And I honestly, it's been so long since I've seen MacGyver. I didn't know that he was a special agent. I'm gonna give everyone.

• 41:47Speaker 04

  MacGyver ran.

• 41:48Speaker 01

  He told me that was wrong.

• 41:48Speaker 05

  Dude, you shouldn't trust him.

• 41:50Speaker 07

  He didn't use weapons.

• 41:50Speaker 04

  They give Laura that point, Phil. Yeah, you give Laura the point.

• 41:54Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. No doubt, no doubt.

• 41:55Speaker 04

  MacGyver ran from 1985 to 1992 and got a reboot in 2016. He is a secret agent who uses unconventional tools for genius level problem solving. MacGyver refuses to carry a gun, instead arming himself with a Swiss Army knife, duct tape, matches, paper clips, and chewing gum. At an unspecified point in the series, he becomes a vegetarian and starts working cases that involve endangered species. Here is a trailer for episode 19 from season three, where MacGyver reunites with an ex-girlfriend who is a park ranger. They spend the episode battling grizzly poachers and rekindling their flame. Play it, Phil.

• 42:36Speaker 06

  You didn't just expect to fly back into my life after three years, did you?

• 42:40Steven Rinella?

  Somebody's been on this trail since we came through. Could be a ranger trap.

• 42:44Speaker 06

  You and I closed the book a long time ago.

• 42:46Speaker 07

  I wouldn't have come at all if you told me about Sam.

• 42:49Steven Rinella?

  What are you doing to me? I have been.

• 42:51Speaker 06

  Do you mind telling me what you're doing here? Park service.

• 42:55Steven Rinella?

  Tell him.

• 42:56Speaker 07

  Oh, we're getting out of here together.

• 42:57Steven Rinella?

  You shot the ranger, Ed. What do you mean we're out of there?

• 43:00Speaker 07

  What would you say if I made it a little longer?

• 43:02Speaker 06

  I'd say you had your chance once.

• 43:05Steven Rinella?

  Tell him.

• 43:07Speaker 07

  At least let me help.

• 43:11Speaker 07

  But we're gonna have to get moving.

• 43:14Steven Rinella?

  Freeze. Go on, shoot. You're gonna hang me out to dry anyway.

• 43:18Speaker 10

  We go in and we finish them both off. That's our.

• 43:27Speaker 04

  Never seen it. Wow. Nope. Brody, Yanni, did you boys watch MacGyver when it was on TV?

• 43:31Speaker 10

  Oh, I'm sure I watched it a handful of times.

• 43:33Speaker 07

  Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

• 43:35Speaker 04

  Did you love MacGyver?

• 43:36Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 43:38Speaker 04

  It's darker than I.

• 43:39Speaker 07

  I don't remember. Hold on, was that the reboot or is that from?

• 43:42Speaker 04

  No, that was like, uh, that was in season three, episode 19. So that must've been like 1988.

• 43:47Speaker 07

  Hmm. I don't remember the whole life.

• 43:49Speaker 12

  My prime TV years.

• 43:51Speaker 10

  Wildlife savior thing.

• 43:52Speaker 07

  Before you were born. Yeah. Uh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, his resourcefulness, right? That's what, that's what everybody loves.

• 43:59Speaker 04

  Yeah. He could like create a stick of dynamite.

• 44:01Speaker 09

  Oh, you're MacGyver-ing something?

• 44:03Speaker 04

  Oh, now you know.

• 44:04Speaker 09

  Yeah. I never knew it was an actual show.

• 44:07Speaker 04

  I didn't know. He would consider that a mullet. Oh, it's like a feathery mullet. Yeah. I liked his parka.

• 44:13Speaker 09

  Apparently I got a mullet right now.

• 44:14Speaker 04

  What? I noticed that at dinner the other day. That's good. It seems like it would be bad for sneaking around in the woods.

• 44:20Speaker 07

  What was the spoof of MacGyver, MacGruber?

• 44:22Speaker 04

  MacGruber, that SNL still does.

• 44:24Speaker 10

  They still do it?

• 44:26Speaker 04

  I think they pulled it. Who's the, who's the one who does?

• 44:28Speaker 12

  It's Will Forte. He's been off the show for a while, but they, they just, they, they did like a surprise with the, uh, they did one a few, uh, episodes ago with Will Forte as like a guest star. It was pretty fun.

• 44:38Speaker 00

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• 46:35Speaker 04

  Question eight, the topic is woodsmanship. This planet, which is the fourth brightest planet in our night sky, is seen in retrograde multiple times each year.

• 46:47Speaker 09

  Fourth brightest?

• 46:48Speaker 04

  Fourth brightest. This planet, which is the fourth brightest planet in our sky, is seen in retrograde multiple times each year.

• 47:00Speaker 10

  Wish I knew what that meant.

• 47:02Speaker 04

  We can talk about it in the flavor text. I, oh, nevermind, I'm not getting any hints.

• 47:10Speaker 04

  Nate, very quick to answer. The side of the table with Brody, Max, Yanni, and Corey is crossing some stuff out, erasing. Yanni, do you have this one right?

• 47:23Speaker 07

  Um, I don't know.

• 47:25Speaker 04

  Okay, we'll get a scoreboard update.

• 47:27Speaker 07

  I'm writing down a planet that I feel like I've seen a few times over the years.

• 47:32Speaker 04

  Phil the engineer after this. This planet, which is the fourth brightest planet in our night sky, is seen in retrograde multiple times each year.

• 47:44Speaker 04

  Cory's got a whole solar system on his board.

• 47:49Speaker 04

  Max pointed out he has a one in nine chance.

• 47:51Speaker 08

  Does he include the ninth planet? No, he doesn't. No. Cause there's not nine planets.

• 47:55Speaker 04

  Well.

• 47:56Speaker 09

  I still have one in nine chance.

• 47:58Speaker 04

  He's not sure which one.

• 47:59Speaker 09

  Think of one you don't know.

• 48:02Speaker 08

  It ain't the earth.

• 48:04Speaker 04

  This planet, which is the fourth brightest planet in our night sky, is seen in retrograde multiple times each year.

• 48:12Speaker 07

  Oh, unless retrograde is somehow like a mirroring and he is talking about earth.

• 48:18Speaker 04

  Could it be?

• 48:19Speaker 07

  Hmm.

• 48:20Speaker 04

  Laura, do you have this one right?

• 48:21Speaker 07

  Real trick question. Maybe.

• 48:22Speaker 08

  Yeah. What's the definition of retrograde?

• 48:25Speaker 07

  Yeah, I don't know.

• 48:26Speaker 08

  Sorry about the outburst on Germinate earlier.

• 48:28Speaker 04

  Yeah, I think it was one episode ago, Randall, you issued an apology for your attitude. We could just schedule in a new segment up top that's a Randall apology.

• 48:37Speaker 07

  If I was you, Phil, I would already start working on the new intro for trivia and kind of rework what we just saw there into that. That will get.

• 48:48Speaker 08

  I just thought I was right.

• 48:50Speaker 07

  I thought.

• 48:51Speaker 08

  Dude, that seems like a great segment for auto. And you guys were all making fun of my appearance during the question, remember that? You guys were all making fun of how my face looks?

• 49:00Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 49:00Speaker 08

  And you just struck a nerve with me, you know? I'm sorry I made funny you, Randall. No, that was actually very funny, Max. That's the kind of Max I'm hoping for.

• 49:09Speaker 04

  It softened the whole thing, actually, believe it or not.

• 49:11Speaker 07

  Didn't you have to recently read an apology?

• 49:15Speaker 08

  Yeah, but that wasn't because of an outburst. That was because I was in a bad mood.

• 49:19Speaker 07

  Oh, there's a difference?

• 49:21Speaker 04

  Yeah, he's in a great mood today.

• 49:22Speaker 08

  Yeah.

• 49:23Speaker 04

  It's Turkey Week!

• 49:25Speaker 08

  I was having a perfect game until then.

• 49:27Speaker 04

  Is everybody ready?

• 49:28Speaker 08

  Remember how fun that was?

• 49:29Speaker 09

  Sure.

• 49:31Speaker 04

  Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says Mercury. Laura, Mercury. Randall, Mercury. Cory, Venus. Yanni, Saturn. Max, Neptune. Brody, Venus. The correct answer is Mercury. Let's go. Mercury is the fourth brightest planet after Venus, Jupiter, and Mars. You're able to see it with your naked eye around sunrise and sunset with it hovering close to the horizon. Retrograde is an optical illusion that makes it appear as though the planet is moving backwards. This phenomenon happens for a few weeks about every four months. Despite no scientific evidence, some believe that Mercury in retrograde causes animals to have a chaotic period where they're extra anxious and territorial.

• 50:16Speaker 04

  I feel like you'll hear about pet owners saying that it must be Mercury in retrograde.

• 50:21Speaker 07

  But yeah, how come the drurys don't cover retrograde? I mean, that's gotta, the drurys, I mean, that's gotta affect buck movement just as much as the moon.

• 50:31Speaker 10

  I find that gobblers are much, they gobble way more during.

• 50:34Speaker 08

  I think it's more of an astrology thing. Yeah, dude, if you have like some astrology people.

• 50:39Speaker 12

  Oh yeah, they're way into that.

• 50:40Speaker 08

  They know it. Yeah, they're like, I knew something was happening in my life and then I realized it was Mercury in retrograde.

• 50:45Speaker 05

  I got this right because like my mom used to say this to justify like her doing crazy stuff.

• 50:51Speaker 07

  I wonder if Randall's outbursts are tied to Mercury.

• 50:55Speaker 04

  While Phil gives us a scoreboard update, we have two questions left. Every two weeks or every week sometimes.

• 51:02Speaker 12

  Corey is in last place with two points. Laura and Max have four. Nate has five. Yanis and Brody have six and Randall Williams pulled back ahead. He's in first place with seven points after that last question.

• 51:17Speaker 04

  So we have three retrogrades this year, February 26th to March 20th. So we just missed that window. The next one is June 29th to July 23rd and then October 24th to November 13th.

• 51:31Speaker 08

  My previous outburst was during retrograde.

• 51:35Speaker 05

  Wow.

• 51:36Speaker 08

  That was March 13th.

• 51:38Speaker 05

  Friday to 13th.

• 51:39Speaker 04

  But we're gonna have an article on the meatdeater.com this year about how Mercury in retrograde affects the whitetail run. Here's question nine, the topic is cooking. This nine-letter word is defined as, quote, "The empty space between the top of the food or liquid and the underside of the canning lid."

• 52:03Speaker 07

  Don't know this one, Laura.

• 52:05Speaker 04

  This nine letter word is defined as the empty space between the top of the food or liquid and the underside of the canning lid. Brody very confidently put his whiteboard down.

• 52:18Speaker 07

  Oh yeah, so confident.

• 52:20Speaker 04

  The only one of the seven players.

• 52:24Speaker 10

  What are you drawing there, Max?

• 52:25Speaker 09

  Drawing a can in the space. Hopefully it comes up with the nine letter word.

• 52:31Speaker 04

  This nine letter word is defined as the empty space between the top of the food or liquid and the underside of the canning lid.

• 52:43Speaker 04

  We'll get another scoreboard update after this. Find out where we stand going into question 10.

• 52:50Speaker 10

  What you got in the can there, Max?

• 52:55Speaker 09

  Bear grease. No, it doesn't look like bear grease.

• 52:58Speaker 10

  Pickle pipe?

• 52:59Speaker 04

  It's chunky for that.

• 53:01Speaker 09

  It's long and stringy, maybe doodles?

• 53:03Speaker 04

  Mmm. Dilly beans.

• 53:05Speaker 10

  Canned ramen?

• 53:06Speaker 09

  No.

• 53:06Speaker 04

  Asparagus.

• 53:07Speaker 09

  Beans would be good.

• 53:09Speaker 04

  This nine letter word is defined as the empty space between the top of the food or liquid and the underside of the canning lid.

• 53:16Speaker 07

  What a question.

• 53:17Speaker 09

  I was gonna come up with some scientific name and then what a question, scientific word and just...

• 53:22Speaker 07

  I know, this is, this is my cooking bone, you know?

• 53:25Speaker 04

  Mm-hmm, yeah.

• 53:26Speaker 10

  There's a time when Yanis was a big canner too, he's making canned deer meat all the time, I remember.

• 53:31Speaker 04

  Dang, Yanis, you should have this one.

• 53:33Speaker 07

  I do like me some canned deer meat. I don't think I've ever heard a name for this, Reddit.

• 53:40Speaker 04

  Brody's probably said it to you in the kitchen.

• 53:43Speaker 09

  I made it to the Shelby index, so I'm happy.

• 53:45Speaker 04

  Okay, on turkey week.

• 53:48Speaker 10

  I could be way off, Spencer.

• 53:51Speaker 04

  Does anyone else like their answer?

• 53:52Speaker 09

  Not as off as me. No.

• 53:53Speaker 04

  No.

• 53:53Speaker 10

  You've, you've, you've drawn it very well there, I like that.

• 53:57Speaker 04

  This nine letter word is defined as the empty space between the top of the food or liquid and the underside of the canning lid. Is everybody ready?

• 54:06Speaker 07

  Uh, let me write something.

• 54:09Speaker 04

  This is question nine.

• 54:13Speaker 04

  Nine letter word for question nine, Yanni? Huh?

• 54:15Speaker 07

  Yeah, go ahead.

• 54:16Speaker 04

  Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says negatives. Laura says, what's that say Laura? Meniscus. Randall says bean vapor. Corey says empty air. Yanni says uncanned. Max drew us can. Uh, Brody says headspace. Brody got it. The correct answer is- He's got a chance. Headspace. Damn it. If you don't leave enough headspace when canning, you risk liquids seeping through the lid and preventing a good seal. Some general guidelines are to leave a quarter inch of headspace for jellies and jams, a half inch for tomato products, and one inch for meat.

• 54:55Speaker 12

  Is there any relation to gun headspace there?

• 54:59Speaker 12

  Should you have gotten that?

• 54:59Speaker 07

  Not really, but had he, had he connected the two somehow, then Randall would have gotten it.

• 55:04Speaker 08

  I did think about head. Hmm, like, like, like on a beer, yeah.

• 55:09Speaker 04

  Here's a correct answer review so far.

• 55:11Speaker 08

  Five letters, so I made a joke.

• 55:12Speaker 04

  One was sandhill crane, two Thompson center, three rhubarb, four green, five Y O Y is young of year, six germinate, seven geyver, eight mercury, nine headspace. Phil, scoreboard update.

• 55:32Speaker 12

  It is down to Yannis. He's still in the game with six points, but Randall and Brody are tied up in first with seven.

• 55:41Speaker 04

  Question 10. The topic is fishing. This next question is via Kyle Luke's. The Salish Sea consists of the Strait of Georgia, the Strait of Juan de Foca, and the blank blank.

• 55:58Speaker 04

  Bean vapor. The Salish Sea consists of the Strait of Georgia, the Strait of Juan de Foca, and the blank blank. Randall, do you have this one right?

• 56:13Speaker 04

  I do. Okay.

• 56:17Speaker 04

  Brody has a blank whiteboard. I'm feeling pretty good about my answer. Okay, Max is going to beat the Shelby index. You saw it. Yanni, who's one point behind, would need to get this right with Brody and Randall to get it wrong to go to overtime. But Randall likes his answer. Oh, I'll probably screw it up.

• 56:40Speaker 04

  Randall, how confident are you have this one?

• 56:42Speaker 08

  Probably ninety-seven to ninety-eight percent.

• 56:46Speaker 04

  The Salish Sea consists of the Strait of Georgia, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the blank blank. I don't feel confident anymore.

• 56:56Speaker 08

  You're on the wrong continent.

• 56:58Speaker 04

  Yeah, I am too.

• 57:02Speaker 04

  Oh, Brody, still confident.

• 57:05Speaker 08

  You're right, Max.

• 57:05Speaker 09

  Ah, me.

• 57:10Speaker 04

  Oh, I just want this so bad.

• 57:15Speaker 04

  Corey, do you have this one right? It's all I want for Turkey Week.

• 57:19Speaker 04

  I got a body of water written down. I feel pretty good.

• 57:22Speaker 08

  I don't think I'm eligible for the giant sweepstakes.

• 57:25Speaker 07

  No, I asked Logan Dove and he said you can play, but you can't win.

• 57:30Speaker 08

  I was ready to spend all of my money on vests and neck gaiters.

• 57:37Speaker 04

  The Salish Sea consists of the Strait of Georgia.

• 57:40Speaker 08

  I was gonna buy at least five.

• 57:41Speaker 04

  The Strait of Juan de Fuca and the blank blank. Nate, do you have this one right?

• 57:47Speaker 05

  No, I think I'm in the right part of the world, but probably not.

• 57:51Speaker 04

  Randall may be the only one to get this one.

• 57:53Speaker 08

  Oh, no, I really hope I got it.

• 57:57Speaker 10

  I don't have an answer.

• 57:59Speaker 04

  Okay, do you give up, Brody? Yeah, I give up. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says Baltic Sea. Laura without an answer. Randall says Puget Sound. Corey says Indian Ocean. Yanni without an answer. Max says Nile River. Brody without an answer. Randall got it. The correct answer is the Puget Sound.

• 58:20Speaker 08

  I'm exhausted now.

• 58:21Speaker 04

  He wins the game.

• 58:22Speaker 07

  What a dramatic victory.

• 58:23Speaker 05

  Wrong Georgia.

• 58:24Speaker 04

  Eight correct answers.

• 58:27Speaker 10

  The name "The" in front of Puget Sound threw me off. You know, if I was gonna argue about something, that's what I would argue about. Nobody says "The Puget Sound."

• 58:35Speaker 08

  You're past that now.

• 58:36Speaker 10

  They just say "Puget Sound."

• 58:38Speaker 04

  The name Salish Sea was formally established in 2009 by the U.S. Board of Geographic Names. It is a 6,500-square-mile international water body that stretches from British Columbia to Washington. The Puget Sound refers to only the southernmost water that is often associated with Seattle. Phil has a map there to show you where the Strait of Georgia, Strait of Juan de Foca, and Puget Sound all fall.

• 59:04Speaker 10

  Where does it say "The Puget Sound" on that map?

• 59:07Speaker 04

  Well, it doesn't say the Salish or the, uh, the Strait of Georgia.

• 59:10Speaker 08

  Doesn't say the Olympic Peninsula.

• 59:12Speaker 04

  The Strait of Juan de Foca either. All right, Randall. Good job, Randall. Eight correct answers. The Turkey Week victory. What are you gonna do with that $500 today?

• 59:24Speaker 08

  Oh, man.

• 59:25Speaker 04

  Not going to Turkey.

• 59:26Speaker 08

  It's tough, because I want to give it to conservation groups that I respect, but I also don't think anybody would want to be associated with my behavior from this episode, so... Land access. Let's donate this to the, uh, National Fish Habitat Partnership.

• 59:40Speaker 04

  Oh, that's a new one, okay.

• 59:41Speaker 08

  Yeah.

• 59:42Speaker 04

  Uh, were they gonna, are they gonna put a stamp of approval?

• 59:45Speaker 08

  I don't know. I don't know. We'll have to reach out to our friends there.

• 59:49Speaker 04

  What do you like about them?

• 59:50Speaker 08

  Uh, they just do a lot of habitat work all across the country. Um, it's, it's like an umbrella organization that, that fosters partnerships for improving and restoring fish habitat.

• 1:00:01Speaker 04

  Hmm, okay. They probably save a lot of Y-O-Y fish.

• 1:00:04Speaker 08

  Yeah.

• 1:00:05Speaker 04

  To give you guys good angling in the future. Join us next week on More Beater Trivia.

• 1:00:10Speaker 08

  What a game.

• 1:00:11Speaker 04

  The only game show where conservation always wins.

• 1:00:13Speaker 10

  Thanks, Spencer.

• 1:00:14Speaker 04

  Bye, Randall.

• 1:00:15Speaker 08

  Thank you, Spencer. Suck it, Duke.

• 1:00:20Speaker 11

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

• 1:00:33Speaker 11

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

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