Ep. 800: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CXCIII

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

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 1:58Speaker 02

  Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host Spencer Newhart, and today we're joined by Brody, Corey, Alyssa, Logan, Nate, and Sarah. 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. For the stat of the week this week, we have a visual stat. This is via a Reddit user named Keith who listens to the show. He tracked down over $100,000 in trivia donations and made this chart showing

• 2:38Speaker 02

  who gives money to where. Take a look at that. What stands out to you, Brody, about your donations? You've given $30,000 to conservation.

• 2:51Speaker 02

  You love mule deer.

• 2:52Speaker 03

  Well, yeah. I'm trying to figure out how this thing is like set up.

• 2:56Speaker 02

  Well, you're the top line. Everything in that top line is money you have given. You are single-handedly, you've given 90% of Meat Eater's trivia donation money to the Mule Deer Foundation. 90% of the money that's gone there has been via you. Wow.

• 3:11Speaker 03

  I like mule deer, Spencer.

• 3:13Speaker 02

  You do? You and Yanni and Randall really liked Colorado, trying to fight the lion hunting.

• 3:19Speaker 03

  Land Access Initiative is where I gave the most.

• 3:21Speaker 02

  You have given a lot of money there. That's right. The LAI should be thanking you.

• 3:27Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 3:28Speaker 02

  Man, that's an impressive grab.

• 3:29Speaker 03

  Other people.

• 3:30Speaker 02

  This is good. Keith did wonderful work there. Randall, this stuck out to me. He's given the most money in the organization to NWTF, and he killed his first turkey last spring. That's a guy who just loves turkeys for the love of turkeys, not even killing them. So that's Kentucky blood in him. Hmm. Must be. You, you, Yanni and Randall though, Brody, you guys.

• 3:54Speaker 03

  I'd like, you know what I'd like to see is how many different ones we've donated to like in total, like including all the little guys.

• 4:01Speaker 02

  Sure.

• 4:01Speaker 04

  What's impressive is Brody and Randall have donated more individually than 30 other people combined.

• 4:08Speaker 02

  Oh, you know what? I didn't notice that until now.

• 4:10Speaker 04

  Big brains over there.

• 4:11Speaker 03

  Still haven't gotten that hat from Mule Deer Foundation yet.

• 4:14Speaker 02

  Oh, okay. Well, you just remind him, you've sent him $4,500.

• 4:19Speaker 04

  You should group them and then do a lifetime membership and get like a free gun or something.

• 4:24Speaker 02

  Now Randall's, Randall's given a lot of money to his former employer there, TRCP.

• 4:30Speaker 03

  That's a call it kickback.

• 4:33Speaker 02

  He just really respects the work they're doing over there. That's what that chart tells us. All right, IFAQ this week. Send me your IFAQs at trivia at the meat eater.com. Chris Rail says, can Canadians, can Canadians win listener question of the week? Yes, they can, Chris. They have won it in the past. If we can't, we've had people win beyond North America. If we can't get you the board game, we will get you a gift card instead, because I know shipping to Canada is like, what, $35? Some of you commerce people?

• 5:04Speaker 05

  It is $35.

• 5:05Speaker 02

  So we'll give you a nice hefty gift card if we can't get you that board game. That way you don't have to think about shipping so much. How much FHF stuff do you send to Canada, Nate?

• 5:14Speaker 04

  Uh, almost all of it's through wholesale.

• 5:18Speaker 02

  So Canadians, they can get some FHF.

• 5:22Speaker 02

  All right, the Shelby index today is a four, so our winner should get eight correct answers. And with that, we're on to the game of trivia. Play the drop, Phil.

• 5:32Speaker 06

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

• 5:38Speaker 07

  Just tend to win everything.

• 5:47Speaker 08

  Game on, suckers.

• 5:48Speaker 02

  Question one, the topic is fishing and this will be multiple choice. According to San Juan Rod Works, this is the most common fly rod length. Is it seven foot, eight foot, nine foot, or 10 foot? Ugh. According to San Juan Rod Works, this is the most common fly rod length. Seven foot, eight foot, nine foot, 10 foot?

• 6:16Speaker 03

  That seems like kind of like I'm not trashing this company. I don't know them, but it's kind of an obscure, um, according to.

• 6:24Speaker 02

  Hmm. Well, uh, there were a lot of fly rod brands that, uh, would say this same exact thing. I just assigned it to San Juan Rod Works. I had to pick somebody. A lot of fly fishing companies too. I would see it on their website, uh, saying this same thing. So this is the most common fly rod length. Your four choices. Seven foot, eight foot, nine foot.

• 6:47Speaker 03

  Corey, did you really sweat this one hard?

• 6:50Speaker 02

  Man, dripping over here. Brody and Corey, quick to answer. Nate has no confidence going into question one. I have a hunch Sarah's got this one too.

• 6:59Speaker 05

  Yeah, I think so.

• 7:01Speaker 02

  Is everybody ready?

• 7:02Speaker 08

  Oh.

• 7:03Speaker 02

  Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says nine foot. Let's go. Logan says eight. Sarah and Corey say nine. Alyssa, seven. Brody, nine. The correct answer is nine foot. Oh, it's two C's.

• 7:19Speaker 08

  I was thinking seven weights.

• 7:20Speaker 03

  I bet it wouldn't have been like 50 years ago.

• 7:22Speaker 05

  That's probably not the most common weight either though.

• 7:24Speaker 08

  You don't think it's seven weight? No.

• 7:26Speaker 02

  What, what do you think it would have been 50 years ago? According to Wild Water Fly Fishing, six to eight foot rods are short rods. Nine foot rods are standard rods and 10 plus are long rods. Field and Stream calls the nine foot five weight, the classic all around trout rod. They say that length and weight is big enough to handle a 20 inch trout while still being light enough to have fun catching eight inchers. How many nine foot rods, uh, do you own, Brody?

• 7:56Speaker 03

  I don't know. I mean, I, I don't have as much stuff as I used to.

• 7:59Speaker 02

  Is that the most common rod?

• 8:00Speaker 03

  Probably half a dozen.

• 8:01Speaker 02

  Is that the most common rod you don't know?

• 8:03Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's what you're gonna put in your client's hands every time, unless you're fishing like some teeny little stream or something like that.

• 8:09Speaker 02

  Same for you, Corey?

• 8:11Speaker 09

  Yeah, man, I probably have half a dozen, but I probably have another half a dozen that are just broken, collecting dust in my garage.

• 8:16Speaker 03

  Me too!

• 8:17Speaker 09

  Cause I don't wanna pay the, the stocking fee to have them warranted.

• 8:20Speaker 03

  It used to be like you just sent them in and you got a brand new one.

• 8:23Speaker 09

  Yeah, well, it's expensive now. Yeah, you can just buy a brand new cheapo that's gonna break just as hard as an expensive rod.

• 8:29Speaker 02

  So our former Fly rod guides agree, nine foot, most common length. Question two, the topic is the outdoors. This next great question is via Greg Parsons. This candy was invented in 1931 and has a wrapper that features outdoor scenes such as fishing, archery, and hiking.

• 8:50Speaker 03

  Huh.

• 8:52Speaker 03

  What's the category?

• 8:53Speaker 02

  Outdoors.

• 8:53Speaker 03

  Outdoors.

• 8:56Speaker 02

  This candy was invented in 1931 and has a wrapper that features outdoor scenes such as fishing, archery, and hiking. The room is stopped. We have six blank whiteboards among our players.

• 9:14Speaker 02

  This candy was invented in 1931 and has a wrapper that features outdoor scenes such as fishing.

• 9:21Speaker 03

  Is this candy still around?

• 9:23Speaker 02

  And hiking.

• 9:25Speaker 03

  Is this candy still around?

• 9:26Speaker 02

  Not going to give you any answers. But do you think I would ask the question if this candy disappeared in like the 1950s?

• 9:33Speaker 03

  Well, I don't know.

• 9:33Speaker 05

  I mean, like, maybe.

• 9:34Speaker 02

  Maybe.

• 9:35Speaker 09

  I think I got this one.

• 9:36Speaker 03

  Does it still feature outdoor scenes?

• 9:38Speaker 02

  Not going to tell you anything else.

• 9:40Speaker 09

  Or I'm like adjacent to it.

• 9:42Speaker 02

  Nate thinks he has it now.

• 9:43Speaker 09

  I'm like, oh.

• 9:44Speaker 02

  Did you get question one right, Nate?

• 9:45Speaker 09

  Yo.

• 9:46Speaker 02

  Okay. This candy was invented in 1931 and has a wrapper that features outdoor scenes such as fishing, archery, and hiking. Nate's the only player to come up with an answer so far.

• 9:59Speaker 10

  I've got one.

• 9:59Speaker 02

  Okay, do you like your answer, love?

• 10:02Speaker 10

  No, but I'm just trying to think of something that might've been from 1931.

• 10:05Speaker 02

  What you got?

• 10:06Speaker 10

  Which I wasn't around there, so I don't know.

• 10:08Speaker 02

  Nate is anxiously wanting to see your whiteboard.

• 10:11Speaker 03

  Oh, that's a...

• 10:12Speaker 02

  And they disagree.

• 10:14Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 10:17Speaker 10

  I think that one might be more right.

• 10:18Speaker 02

  Okay, Logan likes Nate's answer. This candy was invented in 1931 and has a wrapper that features outdoor scenes.

• 10:29Speaker 10

  Yeah.

• 10:29Speaker 02

  Such as fishing, archery, and hiking.

• 10:33Speaker 10

  Yeah.

• 10:34Speaker 04

  I wanna give a hint, but I don't wanna give a hint.

• 10:35Speaker 10

  Yeah, don't give a hint.

• 10:36Speaker 02

  You should give a hint, Nate.

• 10:37Speaker 04

  Well, I don't know if I'm right.

• 10:39Speaker 02

  Nate would prefer to win the game than give a hint.

• 10:47Speaker 02

  Brody's struggling.

• 10:48Speaker 10

  The more I think about it.

• 10:49Speaker 04

  Ah, dude.

• 10:50Speaker 02

  Okay, Logan and Nate have declared Nate's answer correct.

• 10:54Speaker 04

  I'm pretty excited about this.

• 10:56Speaker 02

  Do you have an answer, Brody? I do, I don't think it's right. Is everybody ready?

• 11:01Speaker 10

  Yeah.

• 11:01Speaker 02

  Sure. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says Tootsie Pop. Logan says Good and Plenty. Sarah, without an answer. Corey says Werther's. Alyssa says Bazooka Gump. Brody, Tootsie Roll. The correct answer is Tootsie Pop. Oh, damn it. Nate got that right. Now, I think it's technically a Tootsie Roll pop. Yeah, like, listen.

• 11:28Speaker 04

  You're talking about that little thing, dude. Nope, nope, nope, nope. Dude, I just remember you had to like find a star or something.

• 11:37Speaker 10

  Back in 1931.

• 11:39Speaker 02

  Tootsie Rolls is a brand. We are not, we are not going to give that to Brody. Because he is Brody, yeah, and he's, he's just. I forgot about those. The most famous scene on the Tootsie Pop packaging is the little boy dressed as a Native American who's shooting an arrow at a star. About 30% of Tootsie Pops have it. It's just an urban legend that Tootsie Pop would give you a free sucker in exchange for the special wrappers, and no one is sure how the tall tale started. Adding to the confusion is that some businesses do actually honor the fake promotion, but it's not endorsed by Tootsie Pop.

• 12:16Speaker 04

  My barber did growing up.

• 12:18Speaker 02

  Oh, okay, he was just doing that out of the kindness of his heart.

• 12:20Speaker 04

  Well, she, you know.

• 12:22Speaker 02

  Tootsie Pop, she, she was not getting any kickbacks from Tootsie Pop.

• 12:25Speaker 04

  What a lady.

• 12:26Speaker 02

  Good for her. Good for you, Nate.

• 12:27Speaker 04

  Thank you.

• 12:28Speaker 02

  For getting that one. Question three, the topic is wildlife. What continent are Burmese pythons native to?

• 12:37Speaker 10

  Well.

• 12:39Speaker 02

  What continent are Burmese pythons native to?

• 12:48Speaker 02

  Alyssa has an injury. What happened Alyssa? I heard an ouch.

• 12:52Speaker 08

  I was just, nah, I'm missing, klutz.

• 12:54Speaker 02

  The markers. What continent are Burmese pythons native to? This is question three.

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  You have this one right Nate?

• 13:02Speaker 04

  I feel like you're trying to trick me, but you're never trying to trick me. What do you think? Is this trick question or no?

• 13:10Speaker 03

  I don't, I don't.

• 13:12Speaker 03

  I'm not gonna answer, like, how could it be a trick question? It's one of seven continents.

• 13:16Speaker 04

  Yeah, but I think he's trying to...

• 13:17Speaker 03

  It can't be like, oh, they're actually from Mars.

• 13:21Speaker 02

  That would be me trying to trick you.

• 13:22Speaker 04

  The Sea of Tranquility.

• 13:24Speaker 02

  What continent are Burmese pythons native to?

• 13:31Speaker 02

  Sarah, do you have this one right?

• 13:34Speaker 08

  I don't know. Yeah, I don't know.

• 13:36Speaker 02

  Cory is torn down there.

• 13:38Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 13:38Speaker 02

  How many, how many continents do you have written down? Two. Two, okay.

• 13:45Speaker 02

  It's not too late Alyssa, you can change your answer.

• 13:47Speaker 08

  I know, every time I do that, I end up being wrong.

• 13:50Speaker 02

  Right. What continent are Burmese pythons native to?

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  Cory, are you ready?

• 14:03Speaker 04

  Let's go.

• 14:03Speaker 02

  Alyssa, are you ready?

• 14:04Speaker 08

  Sure.

• 14:05Speaker 02

  Go ahead and reveal your answers Nate, and Logan, and Sarah, and Cory say Asia. Alyssa says Australia. Cory says Asia. The correct answer is Asia. Burmese pythons are named after the country of Burma, which is now known as Myanmar. Although they are one of America's most destructive invasive species, they are listed as vulnerable in their native range. Their populations in Southeast Asia are down 30% in the last few decades due to habitat loss and over harvesting.

• 14:39Speaker 02

  Question four, the topic is cooking. This next great question is via Chris Rose. Serious eat defines this culinary technique as, quote, "slow cooking a steak or roast before finishing it off on a hot surface."

• 14:57Speaker 02

  Serious Eats defines this culinary technique as "slow cooking a steak or roast before finishing it off on a hot surface."

• 15:09Speaker 02

  Logan, Nate, Sarah, all quick to answer. They all look confident. Corey, do you have this one right? I believe so. Okay, Brody has now joined them.

• 15:20Speaker 05

  What are your answer? No, I'm just theorizing.

• 15:24Speaker 02

  Huh. Is everybody ready? Serious Eats defines this culinary technique as "slow cooking a steak or roast before finishing it off on a hot surface." Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Nate, and Logan, and Sarah. Everybody says reverse sear. Everybody got it right. The correct answer is reverse sear. Serious Eats claims this is the best way to get a medium rare steak that also has a crisp crust. Danielle Pruitt says it's best done with a thick cut steak, whole tender loin, or backstrap. For more on this process, go read her article on the meat eater dot com called "The Correct Way To Reverse Sear A Steak."

• 16:07Speaker 04

  I end up splattering oil all over my kitchen when I do this.

• 16:09Speaker 02

  Mmm.

• 16:10Speaker 10

  Yeah.

• 16:10Speaker 04

  What am I doing wrong?

• 16:11Speaker 10

  Yeah, it just happens.

• 16:12Speaker 05

  Nothing.

• 16:13Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 16:13Speaker 08

  You just need to get a grease cover for your pan.

• 16:16Speaker 02

  Boom.

• 16:16Speaker 04

  There you go. Thank you.

• 16:18Speaker 10

  It only kinda works, though. Cause then, I don't know, it's just, I feel like it kinda steams it a little bit more when you do that.

• 16:24Speaker 02

  Hmm.

• 16:24Speaker 08

  And then you have to... You get the, the like grated one?

• 16:26Speaker 10

  Yeah, yeah. But I mean, you're still like, you put it on, it splashes, then you put that on. It does help, for sure.

• 16:32Speaker 05

  You're still getting grease on something that you have to clean.

• 16:34Speaker 02

  Just part of cooking.

• 16:35Speaker 05

  Might as well just be the stove, you know?

• 16:37Speaker 02

  Question five, the topic is woodsmanship. This forestry term refers to the cut that kills a tree by removing a strip of bark around the entire circumference of a trunk. Brody and Nate had their answers before I finished the question. This forestry term refers to the cut that kills a tree by removing a strip of bark around the entire circumference of a trunk. Brody, have you ever done this to a tree?

• 17:08Speaker 03

  Hmm, like not re- like maybe as a kid, I like messed around and did to a sapling or something. No, not intentionally like kill a tree.

• 17:17Speaker 02

  Yeah. This forestry term refers to the cut that kills a tree by removing a strip of bark around the entire circumference of a trunk. My dad would always warn me when I was mowing the lawn, uh, not to get too close to the, the small like pop can sized trees. Cause it'd be pretty easy to rub all that bark off there and do this exact thing accidentally.

• 17:40Speaker 03

  Kind of crazy that kills a whole tree.

• 17:42Speaker 04

  It's where the nutrients go up and down.

• 17:44Speaker 02

  Sensitive.

• 17:45Speaker 04

  Xylem and flow them.

• 17:48Speaker 04

  Wow.

• 17:48Speaker 03

  Trivia question.

• 17:49Speaker 02

  Nate's trying to get to be a host over here.

• 17:53Speaker 02

  What flex? This forestry term refers to the cut that kills a tree by removing a strip of bark around the entire circumference of a tree. We have a picture after this to show you what that looks like. See if anyone in this room has seen that before.

• 18:08Speaker 04

  When I was, I was driving back from Michigan yesterday and to stay awake, I was thinking of trivia questions I would do.

• 18:14Speaker 02

  Wow. Okay. Nate, you're going to host someday.

• 18:15Speaker 04

  Wow.

• 18:16Speaker 02

  You start writing those down.

• 18:17Speaker 04

  That's a dream come true.

• 18:18Speaker 02

  When you're ready, this will be your seat.

• 18:19Speaker 04

  I got four good ones. I had about 12 bad ones.

• 18:22Speaker 02

  Forty percent of the way there.

• 18:25Speaker 02

  Nate and Brody, very confident, or other four players not so much?

• 18:31Speaker 02

  Do you guys give up?

• 18:33Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 18:33Speaker 02

  Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says girdle, Logan, stripping, Sarah without an answer, Cory, pudding, Alyssa, debark, Brody says girdle.

• 18:47Speaker 02

  The correct answer is girdle cut or ring barking.

• 18:52Speaker 05

  So I was gonna try to guess.

• 18:54Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 18:54Speaker 04

  Oh.

• 18:54Speaker 02

  A girdle cut kills a tree within a couple of years, but leaves it standing. It's more cost effective, requires less labor and is safer than dropping an entire tree. It also creates better habitat for some animals that use dead trees, such as cavity nesting birds and mammals. Additionally, the slow death of girdle cut trees make them prime hosts for oyster mushrooms and chicken of the woods mushrooms. There is a look at a group of very mature hardwoods that have been girdle cut and they are now going to die a slow death. That's an aggressive girdle cut. I feel like sometimes you see girdle cuts that are like an inch. That dude did like a whole foot.

• 19:31Speaker 04

  I feel like you gotta do, cause I tried it when I was a kid. We moved out after a year, but I don't think I got deep enough.

• 19:37Speaker 02

  Why were you trying it? Just, just for fun?

• 19:39Speaker 04

  I learned about it and I thought it'd be cool.

• 19:41Speaker 02

  Yeah, you're gonna go girdle your trees. Alright Phil, we're halfway through the game of trivia. Give us a scoreboard update.

• 19:47Speaker 11

  Here at halftime, everybody is on the board. Alyssa has one point, Logan has two, Sarah and Cory have three, Brody Henderson has four, and with a perfect game at halftime, it's Big Nate Mason with five.

• 20:01Speaker 02

  Wow, they do call him that, Big Nate.

• 20:04Speaker 11

  I mean, I've only heard Randall call him that, but I'm, you know, Randall's not here. I'm trying to bring his spirit into the room.

• 20:08Speaker 02

  Brody, how are your headphones?

• 20:10Speaker 03

  I got some phantom like clicking and buzzing going on in my right ear.

• 20:14Speaker 02

  Hmm.

• 20:14Speaker 05

  Is that why you're not winning?

• 20:16Speaker 02

  Hmm.

• 20:17Speaker 03

  Is it headphones related? I can't figure it out. I think so.

• 20:21Speaker 11

  Huh.

• 20:22Speaker 02

  Well, you hear it too.

• 20:23Speaker 11

  I'll test him afterwards.

• 20:25Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 20:25Speaker 11

  You guys are getting static?

• 20:26Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 20:26Speaker 11

  Oh, I'm not getting any static. It must be the headphone amplifier.

• 20:28Speaker 02

  I got nothing.

• 20:29Speaker 11

  Okay.

• 20:30Speaker 02

  Alright, question six.

• 20:31Speaker 03

  Oh, I'm gonna have to play it without it. I can't stand it.

• 20:34Speaker 02

  Question six, we've now, uh, we've now tied a hand behind Brody's back. He's gone headphonesless.

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• 21:11Steven Rinella?

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• 22:33Steven Rinella?

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• 23:18Steven Rinella?

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• 23:52Speaker 02

  Question six, the topic is natural history. This next great question is via Judd Kautz. Blank Biosciences grabbed headlines in 2024 when they claimed to de-extinct dire wolves.

• 24:09Speaker 02

  Blank Biosciences grabbed headlines in 2024 when they claimed to de-extinct dire wolves.

• 24:16Speaker 04

  We were talking about this this week, too.

• 24:18Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 24:19Speaker 04

  Dude.

• 24:19Speaker 02

  I sat in a room with the guy. You have, Brody, actually.

• 24:23Speaker 04

  Put those headphones back on.

• 24:25Speaker 02

  For you. Nate is confident he is starting the game six for six. Blank Biosciences grabbed headlines in 2024 when they claimed to de-extinct wolves.

• 24:40Speaker 04

  I'd love if they did the Ivory Build Woodpecker.

• 24:44Speaker 02

  Maybe they gotta see how they do with the dire wolves.

• 24:48Speaker 05

  Do you have it?

• 24:49Speaker 02

  Brody was within arms reach of folks from this company. And I can't figure it out.

• 24:56Speaker 04

  Which one, what are you most excited about? Like, if you could, if you were in charge?

• 25:00Speaker 02

  Hmm.

• 25:02Speaker 02

  I don't know. Um, Ivory Build Woodpecker is a good one. That one seems like it would be low stakes, like we're not going to, uh, set North America on fire if those just come back.

• 25:11Speaker 04

  I feel like bringing back stuff that just died out because it just died out.

• 25:14Speaker 02

  Hmm.

• 25:15Speaker 04

  I don't know, but things that we like actively whacked.

• 25:17Speaker 02

  That's, that's a good way to look at it. Ivory Wood, Ivory Build Woodpeckers, um, we interviewed the guys who made the documentary Listers on Media Radio a few months back, and they are now in search of an Ivory Build Woodpecker. They started their next documentary, so we'll hear from them at some point on the show. I'm not gonna get it. Brody has given up.

• 25:39Speaker 04

  Tough.

• 25:40Speaker 02

  Is everybody ready?

• 25:41Speaker 04

  Don't care.

• 25:42Speaker 02

  Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says colossal. I can think of it was massive. Mammoth, Sarah without an answer, Corey says colossal, Alyssa and Brody without an answer. The correct answer is colossal biosciences. Colossal Biosciences has created two litters of supposed dire wolves with the first born in October 2024 and the second in January 2025. The pups are being cared for at a secret facility and the chief animal officer, Matt James, wouldn't let me guess its location even after the microphones were off. For more on this story, go listen to episodes 564 and 711 of the Meat Eater Podcast.

• 26:25Speaker 02

  I think I know where those dire wolves are. Matt wouldn't even, usually if I, if I am trying to get info out of someone, I'm like, just let me guess.

• 26:33Speaker 10

  Are they north of the wall, Spencer?

• 26:35Speaker 02

  I don't know. Anyway, they'll let me guess, but Matt, he was tied up tight, would not, would not entertain my guess. Question seven, the topic is gear. This is the product recommendation service from the New York Times, which has reviewed items such as headlamps, tents, pocket knives, hiking boots, and fishing reels. Sarah has her answer.

• 27:01Speaker 05

  I do.

• 27:03Speaker 02

  Logan and Nate joining her. This is the product recommendation service from the New York Times, which has reviewed items such as headlamps, tents, pocket knives, hiking boots, and fishing reels.

• 27:16Speaker 10

  People like read the New York Times to...

• 27:20Speaker 02

  This thing is, is highly respected.

• 27:22Speaker 05

  It's a pretty decent gift guide, too.

• 27:24Speaker 02

  Okay, yep. I can see its layout. I have looked at their reviews for these items and they did a decent job. It was like probably a little far afield for them to tell you what the six best fishing reels are this year, but they didn't look dumb.

• 27:41Speaker 05

  I mean, if you're looking for like a mattress recommendation.

• 27:44Speaker 02

  I think mattress, if you want a slow cooker, exactly like that, a rice cooker.

• 27:50Speaker 05

  It's not even a hint. It says it's a product recommendation.

• 27:54Speaker 09

  Yeah, keep talking.

• 27:55Speaker 10

  I would say though, it is all still affiliate based. The only things are including they make them on a off.

• 28:02Speaker 02

  Anything that you look at.

• 28:03Speaker 10

  Yeah.

• 28:04Speaker 03

  Apparently I don't use this service to do my shopping. I don't know what the hell it is.

• 28:08Speaker 02

  No. If you want to find your next power bank to charge your phone, this is probably the thing that you would find if you Google your question. Top result. This is the product recommendation service from the New York Times, which has reviewed items such as headlamps, tents, pocket knives, hiking boots, and fishing reels.

• 28:31Speaker 02

  Logan, do you have this right?

• 28:32Speaker 10

  I think so.

• 28:33Speaker 02

  Nate, do you have this right? Ah, no. Okay.

• 28:35Speaker 08

  Didn't Yanni have a review podcast?

• 28:38Speaker 02

  He did. Yeah. That was not, they did not make it to the New York Times, though.

• 28:45Speaker 08

  What was it called?

• 28:47Speaker 02

  Gear Talk.

• 28:47Speaker 08

  Gear Talk.

• 28:49Speaker 02

  Is everybody ready? Yanni and Jordan, but. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says Wirecutter. Logan and Sarah say Wirecutter. Corey, Ask Jeeves. Alyssa, Consumer Reports. Brody, The Daily. The correct answer is Wirecutter. This side of the room got that one right. Never heard of it. Wirecutter was founded by Brian Lamb in 2011 and sold to the New York Times in 2016 for $30 million. Their stated goal is to combine independent research with over the top testing, so you can make quick and confident buying decisions. Question eight, the topic is hunting. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Eric Jennings.

• 29:33Speaker 02

  For sending this great question, Eric 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]. And as a reminder, Canadians can win this. So all of our friends north of the border should send their questions as well. Daniel Day Lewis attempts to buy an oil-rich ranch under the ruse that he'll use it for quail hunting in this 2007 movie.

• 30:00Speaker 02

  This might be where the perfect game comes to an end.

• 30:03Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 30:03Speaker 02

  For poor Nate.

• 30:04Speaker 04

  I always die. I just don't know cultural references.

• 30:07Speaker 02

  Daniel Day Lewis attempts to buy an oil-rich ranch under the ruse that he'll use it for quail hunting in this 2007 movie. Phil, you love this movie, right?

• 30:18Speaker 11

  It's in my top 10 for sure.

• 30:19Speaker 02

  Okay, wow, there's a big hint. Top 10 movie.

• 30:22Speaker 03

  There's only nine other ones.

• 30:23Speaker 02

  Mm-hmm. You think it's in the, like, closer to 10 or closer to 1?

• 30:28Speaker 11

  Closer to 10. But, I mean, it's still, it's up there. It's, yeah. Well, you already said 2007. I saw this movie and, uh, and, um, No Country for Old Men in the same week, and it kind of rewired my brain a little bit.

• 30:43Speaker 03

  Dropping hints over there.

• 30:45Speaker 10

  So it's not.

• 30:45Speaker 11

  It's 2007!

• 30:47Speaker 02

  Did No Country for Old Men make it in your top 10 as well?

• 30:50Speaker 11

  Uh... I don't have a definitive top 10, Spencer. It's a fluid, it's a fluid list.

• 30:55Speaker 02

  You could be like 14 in your top 10.

• 30:57Speaker 11

  Yeah, my, 14 in my top 10, that's right.

• 31:00Speaker 02

  Daniel Day Lewis attempts to buy an oil-rich ranch under the ruse that he'll use it for quail hunting in this 2007 movie. Brody, you have this one right?

• 31:10Speaker 03

  I think so.

• 31:11Speaker 02

  Okay, you need to do some catching up to Nate over here.

• 31:13Speaker 03

  Well, you know.

• 31:14Speaker 02

  Who doesn't think he has it.

• 31:18Speaker 02

  Anybody besides Brody have it right? Logan?

• 31:21Speaker 03

  Potentially.

• 31:21Speaker 02

  Sarah? Nope. No. Cory?

• 31:25Speaker 09

  I've seen this movie a handful of times. In the back of my butt somewhere.

• 31:30Speaker 02

  Is everybody ready?

• 31:31Speaker 08

  Is he still alive?

• 31:32Speaker 02

  I think so. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says tycoon. Logan, there will be blood. Sarah, without an answer. Cory, without an answer. Alyssa, last of the Mohicans. Brody, there will be blood. The correct answer is, there will be blood. Daniel Day Lewis and his son hike to the Southern California ranch in 1911 and ask the landowner for hunting permission. Although he's there to secretly look for oil, which he finds, he does kill a handful of quail with his side-by-side 12-gauge. Day Lewis then tells the rancher that he'd like to buy the place so he can keep bird hunting here with his son. There's a que, there is a picture there. Daniel Day Lewis with his, uh, pretty shotgun.

• 32:15Speaker 11

  Fantastic film.

• 32:16Speaker 10

  But yeah, didn't no country for old men come out like at the same time? Or like a similar time? Cause I saw those movies very close to each other too.

• 32:23Speaker 11

  They were both vying for the Oscar for sure.

• 32:26Speaker 02

  When Phil told his story there that he watched them in the same week.

• 32:29Speaker 10

  Well, no, I just, I had the very similar experience where I saw those movies really close together and that affirmed that what I had written down was in line.

• 32:37Speaker 02

  Top 10 movie from Phil Taylor over there. Alright Phil, give us a scoreboard update with two questions to go.

• 32:44Speaker 11

  Uh, well.

• 32:45Speaker 10

  Ooh.

• 32:45Speaker 02

  Hmm.

• 32:46Speaker 11

  The game unless Nate blows it. He's working on it.

• 32:49Speaker 02

  Been done it before, I'll do it again.

• 32:51Speaker 11

  I will say effectively over, but I can't play the sound effect yet because Brody has five points and Nate has seven.

• 32:57Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 32:58Speaker 11

  There is a two point difference with two questions left.

• 33:00Speaker 02

  Uh, Steve has demanded that this room needs more paper towels and so someone has hooked him up.

• 33:06Speaker 11

  Do you know why? Because he's the one who's always spilling every gosh darn thing he puts in front of me.

• 33:12Speaker 02

  Who put that up there Phil?

• 33:13Speaker 11

  I think it was him. It was either him or Randall.

• 33:15Speaker 02

  We have a roll of paper towels. How tall are these ceilings? 10 foot ceilings?

• 33:19Speaker 11

  They're pretty high. Yeah. I mean, it's high enough that it's not on camera for anybody. So nobody can see it.

• 33:24Speaker 02

  Paper towels are nine feet in the air.

• 33:25Speaker 11

  Hanging from a spear.

• 33:26Speaker 02

  Question nine. The topic is fishing. These two states are responsible for 94% of the country's American lobster harvest.

• 33:36Speaker 10

  Hmm.

• 33:40Speaker 02

  Brody, very quick to answer. Oh, he's revisiting his answer though.

• 33:45Speaker 11

  Question.

• 33:46Speaker 02

  This is question nine. We would need Nate to get these wrong and you to get these right to go to overtime. But if Nate can get this one correct, he'll have secured the victory. These two states are responsible for 94% of the country's American lobster harvest.

• 34:03Speaker 11

  Hmm.

• 34:06Speaker 02

  Nate, you love your answer?

• 34:07Speaker 04

  I'm good on one, I'm iffy on the second.

• 34:10Speaker 02

  Okay. Corey, do you have this one right? Ah, doesn't matter.

• 34:17Speaker 02

  Still keep up with Brody over here. Oh, yeah. Who doesn't love his answer.

• 34:20Speaker 03

  I'd love to ask a couple of questions.

• 34:22Speaker 02

  These two states.

• 34:24Speaker 03

  You got your answers written down?

• 34:25Speaker 04

  I do.

• 34:26Speaker 02

  For ninety-four percent of the country's.

• 34:28Speaker 03

  Recreational or commercial?

• 34:31Speaker 02

  I think the answer would be the same either way. This is counting commercial, certainly.

• 34:37Speaker 03

  I don't know that it would be if it was great, like.

• 34:40Speaker 04

  I know, dude.

• 34:41Speaker 03

  Recreational.

• 34:44Speaker 04

  They get after it.

• 34:45Speaker 02

  These two states are responsible for ninety-four percent of the country's American lobster harvest. Not Montana.

• 34:52Speaker 05

  Not Montana. Montana, Wyoming.

• 34:55Speaker 02

  Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Nate saying Maine and Massachusetts. Logan, Maine, Louisiana. Sarah, Maine, Massachusetts. Corey, Alaska and Maine. Alyssa, Maine and Maryland. Brody says Minnesota.

• 35:13Speaker 03

  No, no, Maine.

• 35:15Speaker 02

  Maine, well, that's Maine is M E and then New Hampshire.

• 35:19Speaker 04

  We knew it was Maine.

• 35:20Speaker 02

  Minnesota, Maine and New Hampshire.

• 35:22Speaker 04

  It was Maine.

• 35:24Speaker 02

  The two states are Maine and Massachusetts.

• 35:28Speaker 03

  Oh, hey.

• 35:29Speaker 02

  Nate has won himself the game.

• 35:31Speaker 04

  Ayo.

• 35:32Speaker 05

  There's no coastline. There's hardly any coastline in New Hampshire.

• 35:35Speaker 02

  Yeah, get him, Sarah.

• 35:37Speaker 05

  It's like, it's like, it's like twenty miles.

• 35:40Speaker 02

  Maine alone.

• 35:41Speaker 03

  It's just ports. Where we at on this, like?

• 35:44Speaker 02

  I think you guys are actually tied. Maine alone produces.

• 35:48Speaker 05

  Oh, we are tied, Brody.

• 35:49Speaker 02

  Eighty-two percent of the country's lobster harvest with Massachusetts responsible for twelve percent. That's followed by New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Connecticut and New York. It's estimated that Maine's lobster economy is worth over half a billion dollars. So, New Hampshire was in third place, Brody, but a distant third.

• 36:08Speaker 03

  See, what?

• 36:08Speaker 05

  Distant third.

• 36:09Speaker 03

  If it was recreational, man, I bet you Florida would be number one.

• 36:13Speaker 02

  But that's what I was saying, dude. That's not an American lobster.

• 36:16Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 36:16Speaker 05

  It's a different species.

• 36:17Speaker 04

  It's fine, yep.

• 36:18Speaker 02

  Hmm.

• 36:20Speaker 04

  I didn't even catch that you said American in there.

• 36:21Speaker 02

  It's an Ameri- that's the big red one.

• 36:23Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 36:24Speaker 02

  That you pick out of your tank when you go to a nice seafood place. All right, here's a correct answer review so far. One was nine foot rod. Two, tootsie pop. Three, Asia. Four, reverse sear. Five, girdle cut. Six, colossal biosciences. Seven, wire cutter. Eight, there will be blood. Nine was Maine and Massachusetts. Phil, let's look at the scoreboard one more time before question 10.

• 36:51Speaker 11

  There it is. Nate has secured the victory and behind him are Sarah and Brody with five.

• 36:56Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 36:56Speaker 11

  Logan and Corey with four and Alyssa with one.

• 36:58Speaker 02

  Question 10, the topic is conservation. When is Earth Day?

• 37:03Speaker 09

  Oh, every day.

• 37:04Speaker 02

  Looking for the exact date. When is Earth Day?

• 37:12Speaker 02

  Brody, do you have this right? I do. Oh, wow. Nate, do you have this right?

• 37:16Speaker 04

  Total guess.

• 37:17Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 37:20Speaker 02

  Is anybody as confident as Brody? Nope. No. Gonna have five guesses. One guy who knows it. Why do you know the Earth Day date? I think everybody should know it. Good. Come on. A little disappointed in this room. Good, good. Yeah, Sarah. Do you know when Earth Day is?

• 37:40Speaker 05

  No, I don't.

• 37:41Speaker 02

  Okay. I think you've asked the same question in trivia. Everyone knows when Christmas is. Hmm. I asked a similar question. That was what month is Arbor Day? Nate, that's what I'm thinking. Okay. When is Earth Day?

• 37:57Speaker 02

  Is everybody ready? See Nate is in his phone. You trying to figure out where you're gonna donate?

• 38:01Speaker 04

  Yeah, I'm never prepared for this.

• 38:03Speaker 02

  Go ahead and reveal your answers. Oh, Corey, close. That's close, Corey. Nate's saying June 6th. Uh, Logan, April 19th. Sarah, May 15th. You guys are close. Corey, April 20th. Alyssa, April 20th. Brody, April 22nd. Brody got it. The correct answer is April 22nd. And a handful of you were within, uh, what, three days of the right answer? Yeah. Earth Day was created by Senator Gaylord Nelson in 1970. The first Earth Day saw an overwhelming turnout with an estimated 20 million Americans participating. The movement was so powerful that the Environmental Protection Agency was created later that year. Thanks to the public's support of the first Earth Day. April 22.

• 38:49Speaker 02

  All right, that makes Nate our winner with eight correct answers. Nate, where is your $500 donation going?

• 38:55Speaker 04

  Um, I'm gonna, this might be a misfire. Their website looks a little out of date, but we're gonna go with Hunters of Maryland.

• 39:03Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 39:03Speaker 04

  Maryland's always pushing kinda some BS, like anti-hunting, anti-gun type stuff. And these guys look like they're, uh, doing the Lord's work out there.

• 39:12Speaker 02

  What do you mean, Maryland's always pushing?

• 39:13Speaker 04

  Like, Maryland as a whole is just, it's a, it's a mess, dude. Like, the state of Maryland.

• 39:19Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 39:20Speaker 09

  Lot of trash.

• 39:21Speaker 02

  Nate grew up in Ohio, so he knows a lot about Maryland.

• 39:24Speaker 04

  Spent most of my time in Maryland.

• 39:25Speaker 02

  Hunting politics.

• 39:26Speaker 04

  Um, so yeah, dude, hopefully they're a good organization.

• 39:29Speaker 02

  Okay, $500 going to, what's it called? Hunters, Hunters of Maine?

• 39:34Speaker 04

  No, Hunters of Maryland.

• 39:36Speaker 02

  Hunters of Maryland, I'm sorry. This might be the biggest donation they get this year.

• 39:40Speaker 04

  Based on their website, most likely.

• 39:42Speaker 02

  Nate Mason's name. Well done, Nate. Uh, good victory, eight points.

• 39:46Speaker 03

  Enjoy the beer, Hunters of Maryland.

• 39:50Speaker 02

  Join us next week for more Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins.

• 39:55Speaker 04

  Oh, thanks, Spencer.

• 39:56Speaker 09

  Way to go, Nate. Thank you, Spencer.

• 39:58Speaker 12

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

• 40:11Speaker 12

  And he likes taking those two and three-year-old bucks.

• 40:15Speaker 12

  And he's an avid amateur.

• 40:19Speaker 12

  Rock how?

• 40:23Steven Rinella?

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• 41:03Steven Rinella?

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