Ep. 665: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CLII

Spencer Neuharth https://www.instagram.com/spencerneuharth/?hl=en hosts MeatEater Trivia with Brody Henderson https://www.themeateater.com/people/brody-henderson, Randall Williams https://www.themeateater.com/people/randall-williams, Max Barta, Cory Calkins https://www.themeateater.com/people/cory-calkins, Tressa Croaker, and Logan Dove. 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 our new MeatEater Podcast Network on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@MeatEaterPodcastNetwork Shop Trivia Merch https://store.themeateater.com/collections/meateater-trivia/?lang=en_US See omnystudio.com/listener https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 3:03Speaker 02

  Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host Spencer Neuharth. And today we're joined by Randall, Brody, Corey, Logan, Tressa, and Max. This is a 10 round quiz show with questions from Meat Eaters four verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking. And there is a prize. Meat Eater will donate $500 to the conservation organization of the winners choosing. And for the stat of the week this week, we're looking at the overtime drought that we're currently in. We haven't had a game go to overtime since December 4th, meaning we're on an 11 week overtime drought. This breaks our previous record of 10 straight weeks without overtime. That's serious stuff.

• 3:45Speaker 02

  It's been a while. The last time we actually went to overtime, the question was how many teaspoons are in 1.25 cups?

• 3:52Speaker 03

  I think I got that right.

• 3:53Speaker 02

  What was the answer, Brody? Do you still know it?

• 3:55Speaker 03

  Forty-eight?

• 3:56Speaker 02

  It was 60, but you got it dead nuts that day. We had an $1,100 donation because we went to overtime with Randall and Brody having perfect games. And then you got the overtime question exactly. Oh.

• 4:08Speaker 03

  How did you like calculate that? What was your logic? Mine like this. I think it comes out to, is it three per?

• 4:15Speaker 02

  I don't remember.

• 4:16Speaker 04

  There's three teaspoons and a tablespoon. And I don't remember how many tablespoons.

• 4:22Speaker 02

  Your kid sure likes measuring stuff at home in the kitchen. So you said they gave you a big advantage. And it did.

• 4:27Speaker 03

  Oh yeah. He just made me a nice loaf of banana pecan bread last night. Shit's great.

• 4:37Speaker 02

  So 11 straight weeks with no overtime. All right, here's our infrequently asked question segment. If you have a trivia related question for our crew, send it to [email protected] with the subject line IFAQ. John Schlesinger says, "What kind of PhD does Dr. Randall have? And more importantly, where can we read his dissertation?" He'll tell you.

• 5:02Speaker 00

  I find it hard to believe that that's an infrequently asked question.

• 5:05Speaker 02

  It is.

• 5:06Speaker 03

  Does PhD mean professional hunting degree?

• 5:09Speaker 00

  That would be nice. That would be nice. Steve has another acronym that he likes to do.

• 5:14Speaker 02

  What is it? Can't say it?

• 5:16Speaker 00

  Pretty huge.

• 5:18Speaker 02

  Okay. Fill in the blank.

• 5:21Speaker 00

  No, I have a PhD in history from the University of Montana. I earned that in 2015. And if you'd like to read the dissertation, you'll need to contact the University of Montana Library because it's not publicly available. I have

• 5:40Speaker 02

  We could publish it on our website. How about that, Rand?

• 5:42Speaker 00

  I have vague aspirations at some point of reworking it into something that would be for popular consumption.

• 5:49Speaker 03

  You can actually see Randall and right after, it's probably right after you got your PhD

• 5:56Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 5:56Speaker 03

  On Stars in the Sky.

• 5:58Speaker 00

  Oh, no, that was, that was

• 6:00Speaker 03

  Is that prior to your PhD?

• 6:02Speaker 00

  No, that was like a year or two afterwards. But I did do a Meaditor podcast, like episode 12 or something. Right af- probably a month after I finished.

• 6:13Speaker 02

  Okay, fresh doctor.

• 6:14Speaker 00

  Yeah, one of the first, very first Meaditor episodes.

• 6:18Speaker 02

  But what was your dissertation about?

• 6:21Speaker 00

  Uh, hunting in American politics and culture in the 20th century.

• 6:26Speaker 05

  Yeah, he talked about it last night in the live tour.

• 6:29Speaker 03

  You should do an addendum to that for the 21st century.

• 6:32Speaker 02

  There you go.

• 6:33Speaker 03

  Lots changed.

• 6:33Speaker 00

  Oh.

• 6:34Speaker 02

  A lot has changed. What's above a doctor? A double doctor?

• 6:37Speaker 00

  No.

• 6:38Speaker 02

  What can you do? A good doctor?

• 6:39Speaker 00

  I mean

• 6:41Speaker 02

  Great doctor.

• 6:41Speaker 00

  I don't think there's anything better than a PhD, Spencer.

• 6:45Speaker 02

  Uh huh.

• 6:45Speaker 00

  But yeah, I mean, advanced, uh, advanced degrees in humanities, just a ticket to

• 6:52Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 6:52Speaker 00

  a lucrative and fulfilling life.

• 6:54Speaker 04

  Brody, you're disrupting the camera shot right now. Do you want to move your hand?

• 6:57Speaker 00

  And that's, that's my camera, too.

• 6:59Speaker 04

  Yes, you're covering Randall perfectly.

• 7:02Speaker 00

  Heavens.

• 7:03Speaker 02

  That is an IFAQ from our trivia question goat, John Schlesinger. Uh, him and Leland Hart send me more questions than, uh, probably every other listener combined.

• 7:12Speaker 04

  Leland Hart's, uh, he tunes in every week for Radio Live as well.

• 7:15Speaker 02

  Thank you, John. Thank you, Leland. All right.

• 7:18Speaker 00

  Love you guys.

• 7:19Speaker 02

  We have some housekeeping. The long awaited Meat Eater Tournament is on the horizon. We expect to have the three-episode tournament out between the end of February and the beginning of March, where we'll crown a 2024 Meat Eater Trivia Champion. So, coming soon.

• 7:35Speaker 00

  Oh, that's exciting.

• 7:37Speaker 02

  It's, it's like, it's, it's weird that it's, you know, obviously happening in March the year after. It's, we'll act like it's like, um, you know, the NBA Finals during COVID, where they had to like push it back a few months.

• 7:47Speaker 04

  Postpone it.

• 7:48Speaker 00

  It would be fun to go into a bubble.

• 7:51Speaker 02

  The trivia bubble.

• 7:52Speaker 00

  With the gang.

• 7:53Speaker 02

  Uh huh, Disney.

• 7:54Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 7:54Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 7:55Speaker 00

  Good bass fishing.

• 7:56Speaker 02

  Yeah. So that, that is coming soon. All right. The Shelby Index for today is a four, so our winner should get eight correct answers. With that, we're on to the game of trivia. Play the drop, Phil.

• 8:11Speaker 06

  I need to know what I stand to win. Everything. How's that?

• 8:16Speaker 07

  Just tend to win everything.

• 8:24Speaker 03

  Before we start, Spencer, I was thinking for that, for that, uh, for that tournament, you know how, um, for like football games, they do like the little player profiles where the dudes come out and like do a little dance or like go like that with the football?

• 8:39Speaker 02

  Right.

• 8:40Speaker 03

  You and Phil should do some of those for the tournament.

• 8:42Speaker 02

  Okay, some, some B-roll of you guys looking all smart. Yeah, we could pull that off. All right, question one. The topic is ecology and this will be multiple choice. Which state is not included in the Corn Belt according to the USDA? Is it Nebraska, Ohio, Minnesota, or South Dakota?

• 9:07Speaker 02

  Three of those states are part of the Corn Belt, one is not. Is it Nebraska, Ohio, Minnesota, or South Dakota? Max wasn't supposed to play trivia today, and when he found out that he was, he says, "Well, then you ought to throw me a bone." And I had this question written before Max was going to show up, but he's lived in Minnesota, he's lived in South Dakota. Uh, question one is firmly a bone. I haven't lived in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana. I assumed you spent some time in Minnesota.

• 9:37Speaker 04

  But your grandma's place is in, uh...

• 9:39Speaker 02

  Right on the Red River.

• 9:40Speaker 04

  Yeah, I knew that.

• 9:41Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 9:41Speaker 04

  Could this be a bet from the game you won trivia?

• 9:44Speaker 02

  There you go.

• 9:44Speaker 05

  I wonder if this is a bone for anybody from Ohio.

• 9:47Speaker 02

  Yeah, is there anyone from Ohio here? I don't know.

• 9:50Speaker 04

  Logan must be you. I guess we'll never know.

• 9:52Speaker 05

  Nope.

• 9:53Speaker 02

  Which state is not...

• 9:54Speaker 03

  There's a lot of corn in Ohio.

• 9:55Speaker 02

  Included in the Corn Belt. Just so you know. According to the USDA, Nebraska, Ohio, Minnesota, or South Dakota. Is everybody ready?

• 10:07Speaker 03

  No, are we?

• 10:09Speaker 02

  Max was quick to answer. You feel good about your answer, Max? Yeah. How about you, Randy? Brody, let me see your answer.

• 10:14Speaker 04

  I actually don't feel great about my answer.

• 10:16Speaker 05

  Hmm, that's a good question.

• 10:17Speaker 02

  Again, three of these states are part of what the USDA defines as the Corn Belt. One of them is not: Nebraska, Ohio, Minnesota, South Dakota. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Tressa saying Nebraska. Cory says Ohio. Randall says Ohio. Logan says Minnesota. Max says Ohio. Brody crossed out Minnesota and wrote down South Dakota. So we have every answer, I think, represented in here today. We got one correct answer. The correct answer is South Dakota. Brody, what? Only Brody. How? Got that one.

• 10:56Speaker 04

  I don't know if you guys caught this, but, but Max made a funny little joke and asked to see Brody's answer, which is normally what Brody does to Max. And then after, after Brody showed Max his answer...

• 11:06Speaker 02

  Switches it.

• 11:07Speaker 04

  I don't know what face Max made, but Brody, you changed your answer after that.

• 11:10Speaker 02

  But I didn't think he was gonna write down South Dakota. In 2006, the USDA declared the Corn Belt to be a six-state region consisting of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Ohio. Encyclopedia Britannica disagrees slightly, saying Ohio isn't in the Corn Belt, but Kansas is. Neither place includes South Dakota in the Corn Belt, though.

• 11:34Speaker 00

  I was thinking of the encyclopedia Britannica.

• 11:37Speaker 02

  You knew that definition.

• 11:38Speaker 08

  Well, isn't the states like?

• 11:41Speaker 03

  What are we?

• 11:41Speaker 08

  South Dakota?

• 11:42Speaker 03

  What are we doing?

• 11:43Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's not much of a belt.

• 11:44Speaker 02

  That's where South Dakota is.

• 11:45Speaker 08

  Yeah, South Dakota's right here. Ohio's way.

• 11:48Speaker 02

  Way over there.

• 11:49Speaker 08

  Over here.

• 11:50Speaker 02

  It's, it's like a contiguous region, the corn belt that they define. And then I, I was like.

• 11:55Speaker 08

  I'm like.

• 11:55Speaker 02

  I was also surprised about their definition, so I looked at like what states produce the most corn. And Minnesota actually produces twice as much corn as South Dakota. So, South Dakota not part of the corn belt.

• 12:06Speaker 08

  Wow, if I was putting money on that, I would not put money on South Dakota.

• 12:09Speaker 02

  Question two.

• 12:11Speaker 03

  That's why you got the question wrong.

• 12:12Speaker 08

  Yep.

• 12:12Speaker 05

  South Dakota has the corn palace.

• 12:14Speaker 08

  I know.

• 12:15Speaker 00

  Yeah, that's what's so counterintuitive.

• 12:16Speaker 02

  That's, that's, that's like in the middle of the corn belt of South Dakota, though. You start getting west of there and you lose all that darn corn.

• 12:23Speaker 08

  You do, it's east river and west river, but still.

• 12:27Speaker 02

  Question two. The topic is fishing. This next great question is via Jacob Arnold.

• 12:32Speaker 03

  There goes my bone.

• 12:37Speaker 02

  Merriam-Webster defines this seven-letter word as quote, "A water passage where the tide meets a river current."

• 12:47Speaker 02

  Randall and Brody already have their answers. Merriam-Webster defines this seven-letter word as "A water passage where the tide meets a river current."

• 13:00Speaker 02

  This is question two.

• 13:02Speaker 03

  If there's another seven-letter word, I'm not gonna think about it.

• 13:06Speaker 02

  Brody, how'd you end up choosing South Dakota for not being part of the corn?

• 13:09Speaker 03

  Honestly, man, it's all based on driving across the country.

• 13:13Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 13:14Speaker 03

  Like, that's, like, yeah, I don't remember seeing a whole lot of corn in South Dakota.

• 13:19Speaker 02

  Corn.

• 13:21Speaker 02

  Merriam-Webster defines this seven-letter word as "A water passage where the tide meets a river current."

• 13:29Speaker 00

  Yeah, I remember, I remember seeing a lot of corn growing up, you know?

• 13:33Speaker 02

  In Ohio.

• 13:34Speaker 00

  Obviously, like, I can visualize that, but I just never thought of being included in the corn belt. Perhaps I underappreciated our contribution to the, to the nation.

• 13:44Speaker 02

  I'd say Ohio has some of the best corn because they also have a lot of timber. And it's, uh, like, I think I've said this before about Ohio, but they've got this, the right amount of rolling hills to make that.

• 13:54Speaker 00

  Yeah, I appreciate that.

• 13:55Speaker 02

  Nice topography for hunting whitetail deer.

• 13:57Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 13:59Speaker 02

  Merriam Webster defines this seven-letter word as a water passage where the tide meets a river current. Anyone besides Brody and Randall confident?

• 14:07Speaker 03

  No. I didn't say I was confident.

• 14:09Speaker 02

  Okay, but you have an answer that's seven letters.

• 14:11Speaker 03

  He's got it, come on. He's just playing coy.

• 14:17Speaker 03

  You never know.

• 14:18Speaker 02

  Do our other players.

• 14:19Speaker 05

  Didn't you have a similar question to this?

• 14:21Speaker 02

  Um, well, I do a lot of things where I say.

• 14:24Speaker 03

  I know what you're talking about.

• 14:25Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 14:25Speaker 05

  Wasn't it like a seven-letter and it was?

• 14:27Speaker 03

  It was where two rivers, it was where two rivers meet and there was a Greek letter?

• 14:31Speaker 02

  Yeah, delta. Oh, that was delta.

• 14:33Speaker 03

  Yeah. So it's not delta.

• 14:34Speaker 05

  Oh, okay.

• 14:35Speaker 02

  That was from a Gibroni episode recently. Yeah, sure.

• 14:39Speaker 08

  No, that's saltwater.

• 14:43Speaker 02

  Brody got a good chuckle from watching Max.

• 14:45Speaker 08

  I wasn't even done with my word and you started chuckling.

• 14:49Speaker 02

  All right, does everyone else give up?

• 14:50Speaker 03

  See, there's different ways to go about this. There's like thinking of the right word or starting with seven letters and being like.

• 14:56Speaker 08

  Oh, yeah, feeling like.

• 14:58Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 14:59Speaker 08

  Well, I'm just making sure my answer has seven letters.

• 15:02Speaker 02

  Maxwell, do you give up? Uh, yeah. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Tressa saying whirlpool. Corey says estuary. Randall says estuary. Logan says causeway. Max without an answer. Brody says estuary. The correct answer is estuary. Estuaries are some of the most productive environments on earth based on how much organic matter they produce. They also are enormous economic drivers through recreation and shipping. Some notable estuaries are Chesapeake Bay, San Francisco Bay, and the Hudson Bay. Question three, the topic is natural history.

• 15:44Speaker 02

  This dog breed, which is named after a monk, was bred to rescue avalanche victims in the Swiss Alps.

• 15:53Speaker 02

  This dog breed, which is named after a monk, was bred to rescue avalanche victims in the Swiss Alps. Brody and Randall already have their whiteboards down with an answer that they seem to like. Corey has now joined them. Corey, do you have this one right?

• 16:10Speaker 05

  I believe so. Gotta add to it.

• 16:12Speaker 02

  Corey came up with estuary on our last question. He didn't seem to like his answer very much.

• 16:16Speaker 05

  That was the same answer I had in that Greek.

• 16:19Speaker 02

  Oh, the Delta.

• 16:20Speaker 05

  Where the answer was Delta, I said estuary.

• 16:22Speaker 00

  Oh, so we gave you a hint? Try, try again.

• 16:23Speaker 05

  No.

• 16:24Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 16:25Speaker 05

  I was very nervous though. It was like, shoot twice, aim once.

• 16:29Speaker 03

  Strong answer, Max. Wrong? Strong answer. Strong.

• 16:32Speaker 02

  Strong answer. Brody likes Max's answer.

• 16:34Speaker 05

  You know, I wrote down.

• 16:37Speaker 02

  Again, the topic is natural history. This dog breed, which is named after a monk, was bred to rescue avalanche victims in the Swiss Alps.

• 16:49Speaker 02

  Logan, do you have an answer?

• 16:50Speaker 05

  That's not the answer.

• 16:51Speaker 02

  I do, but I know it's wrong. I'm trying to think of a better one. Tressa, do you have an answer?

• 16:55Speaker 08

  Same.

• 16:56Speaker 02

  Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Tressa saying Husky. Corey says Bernie's Mountain Dog. Randall says Saint Bernard. Logan says Buddha.

• 17:08Speaker 05

  Hey.

• 17:08Speaker 02

  Max and Brody say Saint Bernard. They got it. The correct answer is the Saint Bernard. It's believed that Saint Bernards are the descendants of Roman war dogs. The breed was shaped by monks in the Swiss Alps to go on search and rescue missions and guard property. It was common for the dogs to work in teams of two. Once they found a victim, one dog would stay with the person to provide them with warmth, and the other dog would go get help. One Saint Bernard, Barry, saved 40 human lives between the years 1800 and 1812.

• 17:40Speaker 03

  You're not gonna get, I thought you'd have a little flavor text on the little.

• 17:44Speaker 02

  The barrel?

• 17:45Speaker 03

  Little jug of booze they carried around.

• 17:46Speaker 02

  That wasn't true. I saw something that said that that wasn't the case. They weren't carrying around little barrels of whiskey.

• 17:52Speaker 00

  That's no fun.

• 17:52Speaker 02

  I'm sure some Saint Bernards have at some point, but that wasn't, uh, that wasn't like their thing. You guys remember the Big Dogs brand of shirts?

• 17:59Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 18:00Speaker 03

  Oh, that's one of my favorite cultural artifacts.

• 18:03Speaker 02

  Those are everywhere.

• 18:04Speaker 00

  It's a Big Dogs world? Big Dog Fire Department?

• 18:09Speaker 02

  Did you own some of those, Randall?

• 18:10Speaker 00

  No, but there is a Big Dog Outlet.

• 18:12Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 18:13Speaker 00

  Yeah, there's a Big Dog Outlet. Trying to remember. There was one in Spokane. There was one in Gresham, Oregon, that I would. Yeah. I had a buddy who just had all these Big Dog shirts.

• 18:25Speaker 02

  Yeah, those were cool and then incredibly uncool. And I bet like Gen Z and what's below, it's a Gen Alpha? I bet they would love Big Dog.

• 18:33Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah.

• 18:34Speaker 02

  Stuff right now. That'd be pretty sweet.

• 18:36Speaker 00

  Didn't know I was gonna think about Big Dog brand today. I didn't either.

• 18:39Speaker 02

  What a treat. Question four. The topic is conservation. This next great question is via Kale Carlin. What lake is Isle Royale National Park located in?

• 18:53Speaker 02

  What lake is Isle Royale National Park located in?

• 19:00Speaker 02

  Randall, very quick to answer.

• 19:03Speaker 00

  Been there.

• 19:04Speaker 02

  You have?

• 19:05Speaker 00

  Spent some time on this lake.

• 19:06Speaker 02

  Okay, there's a hint.

• 19:08Speaker 00

  Getting there.

• 19:08Speaker 02

  You know Randall's travels.

• 19:12Speaker 02

  What lake is Isle Royale National Park located in? We've got Cory searching the room, looking for a piece of art or map.

• 19:22Speaker 00

  Yeah, I need a map.

• 19:23Speaker 02

  That might help him.

• 19:25Speaker 02

  Are you finding anything?

• 19:26Speaker 05

  No, nothing. This Nebraska map always throws me off.

• 19:29Speaker 02

  Mm-hmm. Oh, you could have seen that they're part of the Corn Belt if you looked at that closely, I imagine. They got a big, there's a John Deere logo on there. You'd have to.

• 19:37Speaker 05

  Oh, that's the big giveaway.

• 19:38Speaker 02

  Then you'd know that, hey, that state's part of the Corn Belt.

• 19:43Speaker 02

  What lake is Isle Royale National Park located in? Brody, how do you feel about your answer?

• 19:49Speaker 03

  Man, I think I'm in danger of a slip up here.

• 19:51Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 19:52Speaker 00

  That's exciting.

• 19:54Speaker 02

  Is everybody ready?

• 19:56Speaker 08

  You know what I was thinking about? My Family Feud. No, my Family Feud episode, does that count as a trivia one?

• 20:03Speaker 02

  Sure, Max.

• 20:03Speaker 08

  Sweet, I can do that.

• 20:05Speaker 02

  Actually, yeah, well, you each have to divide it by how many people were on your team.

• 20:08Speaker 08

  Four.

• 20:09Speaker 02

  Four, so you got one and a quarter wins then.

• 20:11Speaker 08

  They're the most.

• 20:13Speaker 02

  Maybe someone from your team would donate their other, like, quarter to you though.

• 20:17Speaker 08

  Maybe Yanni will.

• 20:18Speaker 02

  Does everyone have an answer for question four?

• 20:24Speaker 02

  Max.

• 20:25Speaker 00

  You were thinking about family.

• 20:26Speaker 02

  Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Tressa. Corey saying Michigan. Randall says Superior. Logan says Michigan. Max says Erie. Brody crossed out Huron and wrote down Superior. The correct answer is Lake Superior. Located about 20 miles off the shore of Minnesota, Isle Royale is one of the least visited national parks in America. The only way to get there is via plane, boat, or ferry. I already have a ferry reservation for this June when I'll plan to visit the park for the first time.

• 21:01Speaker 00

  Lovely.

• 21:01Speaker 02

  When did you go?

• 21:02Speaker 08

  I should have got that one.

• 21:03Speaker 00

  Uh, when I was in high school.

• 21:06Speaker 02

  Did you take the ferry there?

• 21:08Speaker 00

  We came from the Minnesota side on a boat. Uh, it was a very rough. It was one of the roughest boat rides I've been on.

• 21:16Speaker 02

  Oh, just like a civilian's boat or you guys took a ferry?

• 21:20Speaker 00

  No, it's, well, I wouldn't call it a ferry.

• 21:23Speaker 02

  Like a tour boat?

• 21:24Speaker 00

  Yeah, it was kind of a tour boat. It was probably, it had like an interior cabin with seating for 40 people, maybe.

• 21:30Speaker 02

  Yep.

• 21:30Speaker 00

  Um, and then we backpacked from the east side of the island to the west side of the island.

• 21:36Speaker 02

  What, what's your review of it?

• 21:37Speaker 00

  Oh, super cool. Saw a lot of moose. Uh, I wish I had fished. I didn't bring, I didn't bring, uh, fishing equipment. The, the problem with that trip was that, uh, I had a one man tent and my brother had a one man tent. My parents had a two man tent and my brother forgot his tent poles.

• 21:55Speaker 00

  Uh, so.

• 21:55Speaker 08

  He's bunking with you.

• 21:56Speaker 00

  So we had a three, three men tent.

• 22:00Speaker 02

  Sure.

• 22:00Speaker 00

  Combined for four people. So, yeah, one of those, one of those fun trips.

• 22:05Speaker 02

  The bad reviews I've read about Isle Royale is just a hellacious amount of mosquitoes.

• 22:09Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 22:09Speaker 02

  So I'm, I'm preparing myself for that.

• 22:12Speaker 08

  Do you go from Duluth or Grand Marais?

• 22:15Speaker 00

  I think.

• 22:15Speaker 08

  Or neither?

• 22:16Speaker 00

  Well, I think we went from Grand Marais.

• 22:17Speaker 08

  Okay.

• 22:18Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 22:19Speaker 02

  Question five. The topic is cooking. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Jennifer Silverberg. For sending this great question, Jennifer is going to get a board game signed by the crew. If you want a chance to win our listener question of the week, then send your question to [email protected]. What state produces 99% of America's stone crab harvest?

• 22:45Speaker 02

  What state produces 99% of America's stone crab harvest? Brody, very quick to answer. The rest of our players have not yet put marker to whiteboard.

• 22:58Speaker 02

  Brody, you know this with certainty.

• 23:01Speaker 03

  You know.

• 23:04Speaker 03

  I, I'm 99%.

• 23:07Speaker 02

  Okay, 99% sure that he knows where 99% of America's stone crab harvest comes from. I think there's two different names for this crab.

• 23:17Speaker 08

  Hmm, okay. I've never heard of a stone crab.

• 23:19Speaker 02

  Something else.

• 23:23Speaker 00

  Brody's just staring lasers.

• 23:26Speaker 03

  I mean, maybe I'm learning something. I don't know yet.

• 23:31Speaker 02

  Could be wrong. Question five. It's cooking. After this, we'll get a scoreboard update from Phil. What state produces 99% of America's stone crab harvest? I don't know, we could call it fishing if you'd like, if that makes you feel better.

• 23:46Speaker 08

  Crabbing.

• 23:46Speaker 02

  Crabbing. Topic is crabbing. I know, that's a blue crab.

• 23:51Speaker 08

  Yeah. I can answer that one.

• 23:56Speaker 00

  I just don't know my crabs.

• 23:59Speaker 02

  How do you feel by your answer, Randall?

• 24:00Speaker 00

  I don't feel great, Spencer.

• 24:02Speaker 02

  If you got to name five states, do you think you'd be guaranteed to get it then?

• 24:05Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 24:06Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 24:06Speaker 00

  I mean, how many states touch the ocean?

• 24:10Speaker 02

  Is everybody ready?

• 24:11Speaker 08

  Truth.

• 24:13Speaker 02

  Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Tressa Sang, Washington. Corey says Alaska. He crossed out Maine. Randall says Alaska. Logan says New Jersey. Max says Alaska. Brody says Florida. The correct answer is Florida. Only Brody got that one right. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the stone crab market is one of the state's five biggest fisheries. Everglades City is the hub, claiming to be the stone crab capital of the world. Stone crab flavor has been described as being similar to lobster with a slightly sweeter taste.

• 24:54Speaker 03

  Those are the ones where they're only allowed to pop the claw.

• 24:57Speaker 02

  Yeah, and I think they like, it's like almost catch and release with those things. Have you caught stone crabs before?

• 25:02Speaker 03

  I've eaten them down there. I haven't caught any.

• 25:04Speaker 02

  What's your review of stone crab meat?

• 25:06Speaker 03

  They're very good. It's real good. It's not as good, like, I don't think it's as good as Dungeness, but it's good.

• 25:11Speaker 02

  Phil, we're halfway through the game of trivia. I was wrong, Brody. Give us the scoreboard update.

• 25:15Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 25:18Speaker 04

  It's looking rough out there, guys. What just happened? I'm sorry.

• 25:22Speaker 00

  Sorry, I just knocked a whiteboard off the thing here.

• 25:24Speaker 04

  Oh, that's fine.

• 25:25Speaker 00

  Lost all control.

• 25:27Speaker 04

  Tressa and Logan are not on the board yet with zero points. Cory and Max have one point apiece. We're not scum. Randall has three and Brody is up by two at halftime with a perfect game. It's hard to see a reality where anyone catches up, but stranger things have happened.

• 25:44Speaker 03

  Randall came back and beat me last week. Or a few days ago, didn't he?

• 25:48Speaker 00

  No, he's talking about like one of us.

• 25:51Speaker 04

  Yeah, he's not worried.

• 25:52Speaker 00

  I think Phil was insinuating that I can't catch up.

• 25:55Speaker 03

  That's what I said.

• 25:55Speaker 04

  I definitely was.

• 25:58Speaker 00

  I was gonna, I had a feeling on that last one that it was coming from the Atlantic and I was thinking Florida, but I just didn't have enough courage of conviction to go with Florida.

• 26:09Speaker 02

  Looking unlikely that we'll have overtime again this week.

• 26:12Speaker 00

  If he, if he put two points on me in the first five, why can't I put two on him in the second?

• 26:17Speaker 03

  That's true.

• 26:18Speaker 02

  Well, you're gonna like question six. Question six, the topic is mountain men. Oh. There you go.

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• 29:15Speaker 02

  There's one. Feed me, baby. This state's capital is named after mountain man Kit Carson. Good God. So you tell me the state, not the capital. This state's capital is named after mountain man Kit Carson. Corey, you have this one right? Yeah. Randall also looks confident. Brody had a quick answer, but now... I do, I'm just like... He's doing whiteboard osmosis where he's got it pressed against his temple.

• 29:48Speaker 02

  This state's capital is named after mountain man Kit Carson.

• 29:52Speaker 03

  I'll make it interesting. Maybe I'll get it wrong.

• 29:55Speaker 02

  Alright.

• 29:56Speaker 03

  Hmm.

• 30:01Speaker 02

  Did you talk about Kit Carson in the recent audiobook?

• 30:05Speaker 00

  A little bit.

• 30:06Speaker 02

  What do we have to say about Kit Carson without giving it away?

• 30:10Speaker 00

  Uh, he ran away from an apprenticeship as a saddle maker.

• 30:14Speaker 02

  Oh, did that get him in trouble?

• 30:16Speaker 00

  Uh, I don't know that anything came of it, but it's a no-no.

• 30:20Speaker 02

  Hmm.

• 30:20Speaker 00

  It's a no-no.

• 30:23Speaker 02

  This state's capital is named after mountain man Kit Carson.

• 30:29Speaker 00

  We also have an anecdote of a field amputation conducted in a little party that Kit Carson was traveling with.

• 30:37Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 30:38Speaker 00

  Yep.

• 30:40Speaker 02

  Is everybody ready?

• 30:41Speaker 00

  It's one of multiple field amputations covered in Meteor American History.

• 30:45Speaker 02

  It's either the state he's from or the state he spent most time in. I don't remember if it was Kit Carson, but I previously had a trivia question about a mountain man's last quote. And it may have been Kit Carson on his deathbed. He said something like, "I wish I just had time for one last bowl of chili."

• 30:58Speaker 03

  That's, I think that's supposed to be Kit Carson. I don't know if it's tr- I remember Steve talking about that.

• 31:04Speaker 02

  Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Tressa and Cory and Randall saying Nevada. Logan says Nebraska. Max says Idaho. Brody says Nevada. The correct answer is Nevada. Reno.

• 31:22Speaker 03

  Nevada, Nebraska, same thing, right?

• 31:24Speaker 02

  Carson City. Carson City. There it is. See, that's what I wouldn't have got it.

• 31:28Speaker 03

  I was gonna write down Idaho. I was like, Boise, there's no, there's no way.

• 31:32Speaker 02

  Reno. John Fremont named the Carson River after Kit Carson, who was a scout for Fremont's expedition through the area. The city's population boomed when gold was discovered nearby in the 1850s, but slowed down after the mines dried up. Carson City has 58,000 people, making it the third smallest state capital after Pierce, South Dakota and Juneau, Alaska.

• 31:56Speaker 03

  How much, uh, how much time does Shelby have to answer these questions?

• 32:00Speaker 02

  Um, if, if she doesn't know it, she moves on pretty quickly. Uh, so we wrap up a trivia test run in probably five minutes. It goes quick. Question seven. The topic is conservation. North America's most common rat is named after what Nordic country?

• 32:20Speaker 08

  What?

• 32:21Speaker 02

  Max, you should know this. Why? Why should Max know this? I'll tell you later. Okay.

• 32:27Speaker 03

  I'm on the edge of my seat.

• 32:28Speaker 02

  North America's most common rat is named after what Nordic country?

• 32:36Speaker 02

  Is Maxwell Nordic? Is that? Does he have pet rats? I'll tell you later. Okay.

• 32:41Speaker 05

  I think he's just calling me a rat.

• 32:43Speaker 02

  Randall, you know this one? I do. Brody, you know this one? Yes.

• 32:48Speaker 02

  North America's most common rat is named after what Nordic country?

• 32:57Speaker 02

  We've got Max writing down as many Nordic countries as he can come up with. Not a bad strategy. Now our other players are doing the same. And Max, cover your board up. Geez. Hey, don't you want to beat Logan?

• 33:13Speaker 02

  It should be pretty easy at this point.

• 33:16Speaker 02

  North America's most common rat is named after what Nordic country? This is question seven, and the topic is conservation.

• 33:28Speaker 02

  Max declared he has three Nordic countries written down.

• 33:31Speaker 08

  I'm trying to think why I should know this.

• 33:34Speaker 02

  I think, I think Brody's just trying to mess with you. He's gonna say that every time. Where are your ancestors from?

• 33:43Speaker 08

  Nowhere near there.

• 33:45Speaker 02

  Yeah, this is puzzling. Nowhere that has rats. Corey, are you writing down Nordic countries? Yeah, I got four. Okay. Oh, I got three. Tressa, is that your strategy as well?

• 33:53Speaker 08

  Uh, I don't even know if this is a Nordic country.

• 33:55Speaker 02

  Okay, okay, we've got. Corey has outright just shown his whiteboard to Max.

• 34:02Speaker 02

  Does anybody have a globe?

• 34:03Speaker 05

  I wonder if that's, we'd need a globe.

• 34:05Speaker 02

  We should have a globe. Now what are you doing?

• 34:07Speaker 08

  Writing down an answer.

• 34:11Speaker 02

  Max has erased all three Nordic countries he can think of.

• 34:14Speaker 08

  Oh, it ain't that one. It's not that one.

• 34:17Speaker 02

  Logan, are you ready?

• 34:18Speaker 03

  I mean, I've got a Nordic country.

• 34:19Speaker 02

  Corey, are you ready?

• 34:20Speaker 05

  What do you need to know?

• 34:22Speaker 02

  You were writing down one country. North America's most common rat is named after what Nordic country? Tressa, are you ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers with Tressa saying Poland. Corey, he wrote down Finland, Ireland, Sweden, and then he picked Norway.

• 34:40Speaker 00

  You wrote down Iceland, I think.

• 34:42Speaker 05

  You did.

• 34:42Speaker 02

  Oh, Iceland. I thought he said Ireland.

• 34:43Speaker 00

  I wanted him to get credit.

• 34:44Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah.

• 34:45Speaker 00

  The listeners will be chuckling.

• 34:47Speaker 02

  Randall says Norway, Logan says Norway, Max says Norway, Brody says Norway. They got it. The correct answer is Norway. Now, why should Max know that?

• 34:57Speaker 03

  Because he's from a part of the country where there's a lot of Norwegian immigrants.

• 35:02Speaker 02

  Yeah, that's true. That's what I thought you were going with. Max is basically made of ludefisk. Is that what it's called, right?

• 35:09Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 35:10Speaker 02

  Norway rats are also known as brown rats, sewer rats, and street rats. They arrived to North America via ships in 1775 and are now found in all 50 states. A two-year study of New York City's rats determined that the uptown population is genetically different than the downtown population with midtown acting as a barrier that largely keeps them from mixing.

• 35:34Speaker 03

  Wow. How did they not get here until 1775?

• 35:38Speaker 02

  I don't know. They just kept clean ships before that, I suppose.

• 35:41Speaker 03

  No, come on. No way.

• 35:43Speaker 02

  Question eight. The topic is fishing. Oh, speaking of the devil, this next great question is via Leland Hart.

• 35:49Speaker 03

  Hey.

• 35:50Speaker 02

  What was the name of the Wheeler Playmate 38 boat from Gilligan's Island?

• 35:56Speaker 05

  Wow. Really taking us back here.

• 36:01Speaker 02

  What was the name of the Wheeler Playmate 38 boat from Gilligan's Island?

• 36:07Speaker 04

  That was Brody's proudest whiteboard slam so far.

• 36:11Speaker 02

  Randall also seems to know it, though. How confident are you, Randall?

• 36:14Speaker 03

  Phil, can you play the song after we're done?

• 36:17Speaker 04

  Uh, for copyright reasons, no. But I did, I did pull a clip from this theme song for last week's episode of Cal's Week in Review. Check it out.

• 36:25Speaker 03

  Oh, step right up and you'll hear a tale.

• 36:28Speaker 02

  Keep going.

• 36:30Speaker 03

  I don't know the words to that.

• 36:31Speaker 05

  I don't want to violate any copyright laws.

• 36:32Speaker 02

  How much of Gilligan's Island have you seen, Brody?

• 36:35Speaker 03

  I mean, when I was a little kid, it was like, you know, you don't remember back when there was only three channels.

• 36:42Speaker 02

  You're right. I do not remember that.

• 36:44Speaker 03

  That was the show that was on after school.

• 36:46Speaker 02

  But I remember Nick at Night. I watched a lot of Dick Van Dyke.

• 36:48Speaker 03

  Yeah, this was pre Nick at Night, buddy.

• 36:51Speaker 02

  I also loved the monkeys. Oh, the monkeys? Yeah. I've recently gotten served some content on Instagram showing just how stoned the monkeys were when they were filming that. It's like so obvious now when you watch a clip and you see one of the monkeys is clearly very high while they were filming that show.

• 37:13Speaker 02

  You know what surprises me about Gilligan's Island when I was researching this question? Only had three seasons. That seems like a show to me that had 20 seasons.

• 37:21Speaker 00

  When you asked Brody, how much of Gilligan's Island have you seen? I thought even if I could name every episode I've watched, I'd have no idea how much of Gilligan's Island I've seen because it just exists.

• 37:31Speaker 02

  Just washed over you.

• 37:32Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 37:34Speaker 02

  Did you watch a lot of Gilligan's Island, Randall?

• 37:36Speaker 00

  I used to watch a lot of Nick at Night.

• 37:38Speaker 02

  What did you like from Nick at Night?

• 37:41Speaker 00

  I'm not even going to remember what was on.

• 37:42Speaker 02

  I liked Mary Tyler Moore because it was Minneapolis she was in. Sure. I watched a lot of I Dream of Jeannie. That was Bill.

• 37:48Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah.

• 37:50Speaker 02

  Brady Bunch.

• 37:50Speaker 00

  Lucy.

• 37:52Speaker 05

  Can we talk more about this boat? Did the, is, did the boat fail them and is that why they're stuck on the island?

• 37:58Speaker 03

  Well, if you knew the song, you'd know what happened.

• 38:02Speaker 00

  It's, the skipper had a boat.

• 38:06Speaker 02

  And they were supposed to be on, what, a three hour tour?

• 38:08Speaker 03

  A three hour tour.

• 38:11Speaker 02

  And then what happens? There's a storm, right?

• 38:12Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 38:13Speaker 02

  Okay. And for some reason, this tropical island they wash up on, it has a lot of monkeys, right? Or am I thinking of a different show?

• 38:19Speaker 03

  I don't remember monkeys playing a big role.

• 38:21Speaker 02

  I feel like they were getting harassed by monkeys.

• 38:22Speaker 00

  There's Lord Howell, right? Who's the aristocratic character.

• 38:26Speaker 03

  Ginger and the doctor. Or was it the professor?

• 38:30Speaker 00

  The professor.

• 38:31Speaker 03

  The professor and Mary Ann.

• 38:33Speaker 00

  Yeah, there's, if you.

• 38:35Speaker 03

  Heer.

• 38:36Speaker 00

  On Love on the Spectrum, I think one of the seasons of Love on the Spectrum, one of the guys loves Gilligan's Island. And he goes to a Comic Con convention to meet the actress who played Mary Ann from, and it's. I mean, I'm surprised she's alive, but it looks great.

• 38:55Speaker 04

  We need to bring back TV theme songs where they just explain the entire premise of the show.

• 39:00Speaker 02

  It's pretty convenient.

• 39:00Speaker 04

  It's very convenient.

• 39:01Speaker 02

  You can tune in at any time then, I know what's going on. I'm almost certain they're like gorillas were weirdly on that island. You're probably right. I mean, I. Again, the question is question eight. The topic is fishing. What was the name of the Wheeler Playmate 38 boat from Gilligan's Island? Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Tressa saying aloha. Corey says SS Suzie. Randall says SS Minnow. Logan says Little Skipper. It was Little Buddy, Logan.

• 39:33Speaker 05

  Oh.

• 39:34Speaker 02

  Max says Little G. Brody says SS Minnow. The correct answer is the SS Minnow. The original owner of the 38 foot boat called it the Blue Jacket, but the show renamed it after TV producer Newton Minnow. The Wheeler Playmate is the same model that Ernest Hemingway owned, which he equipped without rigors for fishing. On that very boat, he caught one of his biggest tuna and wrote The Old Man in the Sea. What does SS mean? And like. Isn't like service ship or ship?

• 40:06Speaker 05

  Captain Randall.

• 40:07Speaker 02

  And it technically wasn't an SS. It should have been like an MT. Yeah. MT motor, motor. I don't remember.

• 40:14Speaker 04

  This is, this is Google AI, so take it with a grain of salt, but it says it's an acronym for screw steamer?

• 40:20Speaker 02

  Maybe. It technically, it was not an SS. Like that's, that's designated for big old ships. FB maybe fishing vessel or something like that.

• 40:29Speaker 04

  Yeah, it says a single screw steamship.

• 40:32Speaker 02

  Hmm, okay. Phil, we have two questions left. Give us a scoreboard update.

• 40:35Speaker 05

  Let's take a look.

• 40:37Speaker 02

  Oh, I thought that was the end.

• 40:38Speaker 04

  Everyone's on the board now. Tressa and Logan have one point. Max has two, Corey has three, Rainbow has six. And still two points ahead is Brody Henderson with eight points and a perfect game.

• 40:48Speaker 05

  Wow. Hot dog.

• 40:50Speaker 02

  Question nine. The topic is cooking.

• 40:54Speaker 05

  Still in it, Randall.

• 40:54Speaker 02

  McCormick describes this six letter spice as quote, sweet, peppery, and a bit floral with a hint of citrus.

• 41:05Speaker 02

  McCormick describes this six letter spice as sweet, peppery, and a bit floral with a hint of citrus.

• 41:16Speaker 02

  Phil, I like the Brady Bunch movie a lot more than I like the Brady Bunch.

• 41:20Speaker 04

  Oh yeah, well, I mean, that was, that was a great idea because the Brady Bunch movie is just like a, it's pretty much a spoof of the Brady Bunch. Cause it was the Brady Bunch living in modern times, if I'm correct. So it was like all of their TV sitcom mannerisms in the real world.

• 41:33Speaker 02

  And I think they went to Hawaii and there was like a cursed.

• 41:36Speaker 04

  That was a real episode of the Brady Bunch. The Hawaii episode with the cursed, cursed, like tiki statue or whatever the hell it was.

• 41:43Speaker 02

  Got all my Nick at Night mixed up. Again, we're on question nine. Brody, who has the perfect game going, does not yet have an answer.

• 41:52Speaker 03

  Oh, I'm struggling on this one.

• 41:53Speaker 02

  McCormick describes this six-letter spice as sweet, peppery, and a bit floral with a hint of citrus.

• 42:01Speaker 03

  Is this one that everyone has in their cupboard, Spencer?

• 42:04Speaker 02

  I don't know. I do not know.

• 42:09Speaker 02

  Does anybody feel good about their answer? Corey?

• 42:12Speaker 05

  No.

• 42:12Speaker 02

  No.

• 42:13Speaker 05

  Not yet.

• 42:18Speaker 02

  McCormick describes this six-letter spice as sweet, peppery, and a bit floral with a hint of citrus.

• 42:24Speaker 05

  Citrus. Hmm.

• 42:27Speaker 02

  This may be a zero percenter in Roone Brody's perfect game.

• 42:32Speaker 08

  I already tried that more than six letters.

• 42:33Speaker 04

  Oh, is it?

• 42:35Speaker 02

  Same.

• 42:39Speaker 02

  This is question nine.

• 42:44Speaker 04

  Hmm. Real stumper here. Jeez.

• 42:47Speaker 02

  But if Randall could get this right and Brody get it wrong, we'd have a game going into the final question. Brody now has an answer. Brody, do you like your answer?

• 42:56Speaker 03

  Hmm. It's got six letters.

• 42:59Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 43:01Speaker 02

  McCormick describes this six-letter spice as sweet, peppery, and a bit floral with a hint of citrus.

• 43:13Speaker 02

  Randall, do you have an answer?

• 43:15Speaker 00

  Yeah, I do. I don't really know. You can get it in a spice. Yeah, I'm not sure if I believe this.

• 43:21Speaker 05

  Keep going.

• 43:25Speaker 00

  Long story short, I'm not sure if this is a spice.

• 43:28Speaker 02

  Okay, do our other players give up? No, but yeah. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Tressa saying Mesquite. Corey, without an answer. Randall says Ginger. Logan says Cayenne. Max, without an answer. Brody says Garlic. The correct answer is Ginger. Randall got that one right. Did you deliberately put that right after the Gilligan's Island? But it was very ironic that somebody said Ginger was one of the characters in our previous question.

• 44:03Speaker 04

  Also, Randall's the only one who got it right.

• 44:05Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 44:07Speaker 04

  Anyway, sorry. Ginger. Ginger, yeah.

• 44:10Speaker 02

  Ginger is a common ingredient in Indian and Caribbean cuisine. The ground product comes from the underground stem of a plant that grows two to four feet tall. Wild ginger is found in 34 states, according to the USDA. It can be identified by its heart-shaped leaves and brown flowers that grow at ground level. All right, here's a correct answer review so far. One with South Dakota, two, Estuary, three, St. Bernard, four, Lake Superior, five, Florida, six, Nevada, seven, Norway, eight, SS Minnow, nine, Ginger. Phil, let's get one final scoreboard update before we do question 10.

• 44:49Speaker 04

  Yeah, like you already said, it's still a game now. Brody has eight points. Randall has seven.

• 44:55Speaker 02

  Question 10.

• 44:56Speaker 00

  Apologize.

• 44:59Speaker 00

  Apologize for your earlier skepticism.

• 45:01Speaker 02

  The topic is hunting. This brand debuted their seven-foot Sasquatch archery target at the 2017 ATA show.

• 45:15Speaker 03

  This question is dumb.

• 45:18Speaker 02

  This brand debuted their seven foot Sasquatch archery target at the 2017 ATA show. Brody, our leader, does not yet have an answer, but neither does Randall, who is one point behind. Corey, do you think you have this one right?

• 45:36Speaker 08

  Fifty fifty.

• 45:36Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 45:38Speaker 08

  Just throwing it out there.

• 45:40Speaker 02

  This brand debuted their seven foot Sasquatch archery target at the 2017 ATA show.

• 45:50Speaker 02

  If Randall could get this right and Brody get this wrong, we would snap our overtime drought.

• 46:00Speaker 02

  But it looks like right now that Randall is not going to get it right, and neither will Brody.

• 46:08Speaker 02

  Max, you like your answer?

• 46:10Speaker 05

  It's the only one I could think of.

• 46:11Speaker 02

  Okay, did you put down Dave Smith decoys?

• 46:13Speaker 05

  No.

• 46:14Speaker 08

  I did not.

• 46:15Speaker 02

  This brand debuted their seven foot Sasquatch archery target at the 2017 ATA show.

• 46:22Speaker 05

  Corey, let me see what you have.

• 46:24Speaker 02

  Well, I don't know. I don't want to go there. Randall, do you have an answer down there?

• 46:28Speaker 00

  No, I hope Brody out. This is just not my forte here.

• 46:34Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 46:36Speaker 02

  Brody now, now has an answer. Brody, do you like your answer?

• 46:39Speaker 03

  No.

• 46:42Speaker 02

  Max, do you like his answer?

• 46:43Speaker 03

  It's an answer. Same one as mine.

• 46:45Speaker 02

  Oh, wow. All right.

• 46:46Speaker 05

  Oh, man, I kind of want to show you what I got now.

• 46:50Speaker 02

  I'm real close.

• 46:51Speaker 03

  I want to see what Randall has.

• 46:52Speaker 05

  There's maybe one letter.

• 46:53Speaker 08

  You can't show it.

• 46:54Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, no, let's see if this overtime happens naturally.

• 46:58Speaker 05

  How many points do we get if we get it right and they get it wrong?

• 47:02Speaker 02

  Still one.

• 47:02Speaker 05

  Five points?

• 47:03Speaker 02

  This brand debuted their seven foot Sasquatch archery target at the 2017 ATA show. Is everybody ready?

• 47:10Speaker 08

  Brody gave me a half a point last game. I pled.

• 47:14Speaker 02

  Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Tressa saying Caldwell, Corey says Delta, Randall says Jack links, Logan says Reinhardt, Max says Block, Brody says Block. We have a correct answer.

• 47:32Speaker 02

  It's Reinhardt. Oh, Logan. And that makes Brody our winner.

• 47:37Speaker 03

  Never got that.

• 47:38Speaker 08

  Yeah, I've never even heard that before.

• 47:40Speaker 02

  The Sasquatch stands seven feet tall, weighs 250 pounds, and costs $4,300. It's by far the biggest and most expensive 3D target that Reinhardt sells. Other unique offerings from them include a mosquito target, velociraptor target, African lion target, black cobra target, and alligator target. That makes Brody our winner with eight correct answers. He got the Shelby index right on the nose. Brody, where is the $500 from MeatEater going to go?

• 48:10Speaker 03

  Um, well, you boys are headed to the National Wild Turkey Federation shindig, so let's, let's donate it to those guys.

• 48:20Speaker 02

  Okay, $500 going to NWTF via Brody and MeatEater. You got some turkey hunts planned this year, Brody?

• 48:29Speaker 03

  Well, I mean, I'm definitely gonna go. I haven't ironed out any details. I got two kids that can hunt now, man. It's like...

• 48:35Speaker 08

  It's fun watching them go.

• 48:37Speaker 02

  They both got dibs on pulling the trigger over you?

• 48:40Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm.

• 48:40Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 48:41Speaker 03

  Yep. One of them will be his first, you know...

• 48:43Speaker 02

  Don't sound so excited about it. It's why me and Randall are dads. We're too selfish.

• 48:47Speaker 03

  It's just like a lot, man. You're like, like everybody, in Montana, everyone's like, "I'm gonna fill all five of my tags this year." And whatever, it's like, good luck, man. I got, I don't even know if I'm gonna get to hunt.

• 49:00Speaker 08

  Do they shoot 20s or 12s?

• 49:02Speaker 03

  20s. I don't even shoot a 12 at turkeys anymore. There's no need, man.

• 49:06Speaker 08

  No, there's no need, but...

• 49:08Speaker 02

  Brody sending $500 to NWTF so his boys can kill all them turkeys this spring.

• 49:12Speaker 03

  That's right.

• 49:13Speaker 02

  Join us next week for more MeatEater trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. Pow! Thanks, Spencer. Good one.

• 49:21Speaker 07

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

• 49:35Speaker 07

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

• 49:46Steven Rinella?

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