Pod Insights The MeatEater Podcast Ep. 697: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CLXII About this episode Spencer Neuharth https://www.instagram.com/spencerneuharth/?hl=enhttps://www.themeateater.com/people/randall-williams hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Randall Williams https://www.themeateater.com/people/randall-williams, Nate Mason, Logan Dove, Matt Miller, and Nic Tapia.
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2:44 Speaker 03 Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host Spencer Newarth and today we're joined by Steve, Randall, Nate, Logan, Matt, and Nick Tapia. Nick, this is first time on the show. Tell folks what you do here at Meat Eater.
3:03 Speaker 04 First of all, thanks for having me. It's been, it's been a long time. I've been waiting for this invite. Finally got it, but I'm, I'm the senior brand producer. I work really closely with the folks at First Light, FHF, Phelps, DSD, Meat Eater Store, but I've worn a lot of hats here, but working kind of with, with a camera in hand. So that's kind of what I do.
3:28 Steven Rinella? I'll tell you one hat you ain't worn. Trivia champion.
3:32 Speaker 03 He has not worn that hat. Let me tell you my favorite thing about Nick. My favorite thing about Nick, he's a Nuggets fan. Nick is the only other Nuggets fan in my life. Whenever I want to talk about the Nuggets, I gotta text Nick about it. So it's, Nick, glad you work here.
3:46 Speaker 04 It's, it's on my text. It's my wife and Spencer is a close second. It's bad.
3:52 Speaker 03 I'd be a lonely Nuggets fan.
3:53 Steven Rinella? So you guys say, you guys will say stuff like, hey, they won.
3:57 Speaker 03 Yes, exactly like that.
4:00 Speaker 05 Spencer gets deep into the analytics. It's very nerdy.
4:04 Speaker 03 Yeah, I need an outlet and Nick is that outlet for Nuggets chatter. Now, this is a 10 round quiz show with questions from Meat Eater's 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 winner's choosing. For the stand of the week, this week, we're updating our donation tracker through the podcast board games, expansion packs, live tour and sponsors. Meat Eater Trivia has now donated $160,000 to more than 20 different conservation organizations. A big thanks to our partners at OnX, Yeti, Athletic Brewing, and of course Meat Eater for making sure that conservation always wins.
4:44 Speaker 03 $160,000 to conservation. Here's our infrequently asked questions segment. If you have a trivia related question for our crew, send it to [email protected] with the subject line IFAQ. Tom Stanford says, is the Shelby index still accurate? I looked into that in the past and it was accurate then. I think it's still probably accurate enough now. More so, one of the most common pieces of feedback I get about the Shelby index is that is what people compete against that week. If they are, if they don't feel like they're strong players, they just want to beat the Shelby index. So that now exists as much for those folks. It gives them a barometer as it does for predicting the outcome of a game.
5:26 Speaker 05 Nate's drawing a little blue crab.
5:28 Steven Rinella? Yep.
5:29 Speaker 03 And Nate.
5:30 Steven Rinella? He's struggling with the back legs.
5:32 Speaker 05 They're tough, man.
5:34 Speaker 03 We have another new player in the room this week. It's fancy Nate.
5:38 Speaker 05 Ah.
5:39 Speaker 03 Nate, for those, for those aren't watching, tell them what you're wearing.
5:42 Speaker 05 Ah, shout out to my Korean tailor, Lim. Sending a Christmas card every year. I'm wearing some linen pants, a vest and a tweed jacket and a wool tie.
5:52 Speaker 03 Korean tailor.
5:54 Steven Rinella? The Lin back in linen.
5:55 Speaker 03 I was gonna say, you, you sort of lost your underdog status when you.
5:59 Speaker 05 Told people that you have a tailor. It's not very relatable. Listen dude, the only reason I have a tailor is because labor in Korea is like an eighth of the price as it is in the States.
6:10 Speaker 03 You, you do not get a Christmas card from your tailor in Korea.
6:14 Speaker 05 I will find it and bring it in.
6:16 Speaker 03 Okay, please do that.
6:17 Speaker 05 It's one of the greatest.
6:17 Speaker 03 And do you?
6:18 Speaker 05 Oh, we could hang it in here.
6:19 Speaker 03 Do you send your tailor a Christmas card as well?
6:21 Speaker 05 I don't because I can't figure out the postal service going back.
6:24 Speaker 03 Oh, wow. Okay, one way street that relationship, I guess.
6:28 Speaker 05 Well, I did, I do give him money for a jacket, so. Two-way street.
6:33 Speaker 03 We have some housekeeping to get to.
6:34 Speaker 05 Are you regretting your choice yet? No, no, I've confirmed my choice.
6:38 Speaker 03 Nate said he's gonna upgrade his wardrobe every time he wins trivia. Uh, so I don't know where this ends at.
6:43 Speaker 05 A monocle?
6:44 Speaker 03 He's already elevated to a three-piece suit.
6:48 Speaker 05 I need some, some beaver for a top hat. He's gonna look like the Monopoly man?
6:52 Speaker 03 We have some housekeeping to get to. In previous episodes, we've talked about the potential thievery by the New York Times and Jeopardy, with clues that were suspiciously similar to those on Meat Eater Trivia. Well, it happened again. On the January 15 episode of the podcast, I had this question, quote, "This Kentucky bourbon fittingly got its name after a distillery executive went on his annual bird hunt in 1940." The answer was Wild Turkey. Then, on the March 18 New York Times crossword, they had a clue that said, quote, "Bourbon brand whose name originated from a hunting expedition." The answer was, of course, Wild Turkey. So, two months later, for the second time, they had a clue that was almost word for word.
7:35 Speaker 05 Those mother liquors do that all the time. We'll have, we'll cover subjects on the podcast a bunch, and then they'll, we'll be like, like, Wyoming corner crossers, Wyoming corner crossers, and all of a sudden they'll, all time.
7:47 Speaker 03 Yeah.
7:47 Speaker 05 All time.
7:48 Speaker 03 Now, here's my offer to you, New York Times.
7:49 Speaker 05 I'm gonna prank them.
7:50 Speaker 03 Since I know you're listening.
7:52 Speaker 05 Talk about something that's not real, and watch them come up with the article.
7:56 Speaker 03 I won't sue you for stealing my trivia, and you don't sue us for having a new game called Meat Eater Turtle. It's like Wormo, but better. You can go play it right now at themeateater.com/games.
8:09 Speaker 05 It is better.
8:10 Speaker 03 It is better, says Nate, a daily Wordle player, and now a weekly Turtle player as well. Now, the Shelby index for today is a four, so our winner should get eight correct answers. And with that, we're on to the game of trivia. Play the drop, Phil.
8:25 Speaker 06 Look, I need to know what I stand to win. Everything. How's that? Just tend to win everything.
8:39 Speaker 07 Game on, suckers.
8:41 Speaker 03 Question one, the topic is wildlife and as always, this will be multiple choice. Which state is the American bullfrog not native to? Is it Oregon, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, or Illinois?
8:58 Speaker 03 I did an abbreviation. Decibel meter high on that one. Very quick to answer. Which state is the American bullfrog not native to? Your four choices, Oregon, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Illinois. Steve is confident. Nate, do you have this one right?
9:16 Speaker 05 I gotta guess.
9:17 Speaker 03 How about you, Randall?
9:19 Steven Rinella? Gotta guess.
9:19 Speaker 03 Okay. Steve, the only confident player. Is everybody ready?
9:24 Speaker 05 Mm-hmm.
9:24 Speaker 03 Go ahead and reveal your answers. We've got Randall saying Oregon. Nick says Oregon. Matt says New Hampshire. Logan and Nate and Steve say Oregon. They got it. The correct answer is Oregon. Bullfrogs, go for it.
9:41 Steven Rinella? I had a conversation about this today.
9:44 Speaker 03 Oh.
9:44 Steven Rinella? But not about that specifically, but bullfrogs.
9:46 Speaker 03 Okay. I wrote this trivia question last week, so maybe you're.
9:49 Steven Rinella? I mean, not about like Oregon or anything, but about bullfrogs.
9:52 Speaker 03 Bullfrogs are native to 38 states with their native range stretching from central Maine to eastern New Mexico. They are considered a significant invasive species in the western US where they prey on and outcompete native animals. Question two, the topic is conservation. This 11-letter word is defined as the, quote, "practice of growing a single crop species in a given area for a consecutive number of seasons."
10:24 Speaker 03 This is question two. The topic is conservation. This 11-letter word is defined as the practice of growing a single crop species in a given area for a consecutive number of seasons. Randall, the only player with an answer. Steve has joined him now.
10:42 Speaker 05 Me and Randall are neck and neck.
10:44 Speaker 03 Okay, you got this one right.
10:45 Speaker 05 Mm-hmm.
10:47 Speaker 03 It seemed like you had to think about it a little longer.
10:49 Speaker 05 No, I didn't.
10:49 Speaker 03 Than Randall. No, okay, you were just counting your letters.
10:51 Speaker 05 No, I, I.
10:52 Steven Rinella? He wrote slow.
10:52 Speaker 05 Not only that, I write the numbers out.
10:54 Speaker 03 Okay.
10:55 Speaker 05 Just to prove it.
10:56 Speaker 03 11-letter word.
10:58 Speaker 05 Show my word.
10:59 Speaker 03 Defined as the practice of growing a single crop species in a given area for a consecutive number of seasons.
11:09 Speaker 03 Our other four players are stumped.
11:13 Speaker 03 Nate, did you come up with an 11-letter word?
11:15 Speaker 05 Yeah.
11:17 Speaker 03 Okay. You don't care for that 11-letter word.
11:20 Speaker 05 I can't, you'll see.
11:21 Speaker 03 Mm-hmm. Nate even did his hair today, too.
11:23 Speaker 05 Did you find yourself trying to add letters that you didn't know were in there? Yeah, I, I kinda changed the, like, format of the word.
11:30 Speaker 03 Uh-huh. 11-letter word.
11:37 Speaker 03 Matt, Logan, how you doing? One second, I'm counting. One second, okay. Nick, how about you? Do you have a chance?
11:44 Speaker 05 No, I'm way off.
11:45 Speaker 03 Okay.
11:48 Speaker 03 Logan, do you give up? No, I, I've got it good. I think I've got it. Good, you think you got it?
11:53 Speaker 05 Good.
11:53 Speaker 03 Okay.
11:57 Speaker 03 Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Randall saying monoculture. Nick, uh, says, what's that say?
12:05 Speaker 05 Hair to Jack's wise. I think, I think that's 11 letters.
12:08 Speaker 03 Matt says no idea. Logan says monoculture. Nate says monocropping.
12:13 Speaker 05 Cropping.
12:14 Speaker 03 Cropping. That's what I had down. And Steve says monoculture. The correct answer is monoculture.
12:21 Speaker 04 Hold up. I had monocropping, but I had two Ps in there. I was like, well, it's not.
12:25 Speaker 03 Monoculture.
12:28 Speaker 03 Monoculture farming has become a more, has become more popular since the advent of low-cost nitrogen fertilizers. However, the practice is largely contrary to the principles of ecology. Monocultures reduce biodiversity, increase a crop's vulnerability to pests and disease, and cause soil degradation. But for farmers, having a monoculture increases efficiency, is easier to manage, and has higher profits.
12:55 Steven Rinella? And you don't gotta wonder what you're gonna plant next year.
12:57 Speaker 03 That's right. It's a pretty simple rotation if you're, or not a rotation at all. Question three, the topic is fishing. This next great question is via Rob Frey. This New England state has a rifle hunting season for pike and pickerel. What? This New England state has a rifle hunting season-
13:20 Steven Rinella? Did you know this, Randall?
13:21 Speaker 03 For pike and pickerel.
13:22 Steven Rinella? I think so.
13:23 Speaker 03 This is question three. Randall and Logan have an answer. Steve does not. I've never even heard of this.
13:31 Steven Rinella? Oh, you know, I have heard of this. Now, think about it.
13:33 Speaker 05 I've heard of it in this room.
13:35 Speaker 03 Oh, wow.
13:36 Steven Rinella? Trivia?
13:37 Speaker 03 There's a hint.
13:38 Speaker 05 No.
13:39 Speaker 03 No.
13:40 Speaker 05 I think we talked about it on a podcast at some point.
13:42 Speaker 03 Hmm.
13:44 Speaker 05 I don't know why I'm helping you.
13:46 Speaker 03 Only the host of that podcast is here. Maybe he'd get that right. This New England state has a rifle hunting season for pike and pickerel.
13:57 Speaker 05 There was one trivia question where they asked what state something was, and I put New England as a state, and Brody was like, "That's not a state, Logan." So, apparently, my knowledge of New England is poor, so we'll see if the state that I wrote down is actually in New England.
14:10 Speaker 03 You were very quick to answer. Did you just not want to think about it too hard?
14:14 Speaker 05 No, you know, I based it off of something that I've read on the website.
14:17 Speaker 03 Oh, okay.
14:18 Speaker 05 I don't know if it's in New England, probably.
14:21 Speaker 03 All right. Steve, how do you like your answer?
14:24 Steven Rinella? I'm just trying to think. There's one little place. I don't know if it counts as New England.
14:29 Speaker 03 Okay. Is everybody ready?
14:32 Speaker 05 One sec, one sec.
14:33 Speaker 03 Do you know the New England states, Nate? Yeah. Okay.
14:38 Speaker 05 He's got a tailor in Korea, of course.
14:40 Speaker 03 Of course he knows the states. He has a summer home in one of them. Come on.
14:48 Speaker 03 See, I feel like this is where I falter.
14:50 Speaker 05 Oh. Randall's gonna pull ahead.
14:52 Speaker 03 Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Randall saying New Hampshire. Nick says Maine. Matt says Massachusetts. Logan says New Jersey. Nate crossed out New Hampshire and wrote Vermont. Steve says New Hampshire.
15:08 Steven Rinella? Can I tell you my thinking?
15:09 Speaker 03 Yes.
15:10 Steven Rinella? You gotta think of a state. What state could be in New England where they would let you shoot guns at fish?
15:15 Speaker 05 The freedom state.
15:16 Steven Rinella? It's not gonna be Massachusetts. That's a great. They won't let you shoot guns at targets, though.
15:22 Speaker 03 The correct answer is Vermont.
15:24 Steven Rinella? Let's go!
15:26 Speaker 03 Nail!
15:26 Steven Rinella? Transfer success!
15:28 Speaker 03 Fancy Nate got that one right.
15:30 Speaker 05 Transfer the score you want, not the score you got.
15:32 Steven Rinella? Hell, yeah, brother.
15:33 Speaker 03 The Vermont. The Vermont rifle fishing season runs from March to May and allows hunters to shoot pike, pickerel, gar, carp, shad, bofin, suckers, bullhead, and other species labeled as coalfish. The season was killed by lawmakers in 1969, but then revived the following year. For more on this practice, go read Pat Durkin's article on the meat eater.com called America's Strange History of Rifle Hunting for Pike. And you have talked about that on the podcast before briefly, and we do have an article on our website that covers the whole thing.
16:08 Steven Rinella? I was thinking the same thing as you. Live free or die.
16:11 Speaker 05 What score? What score you got now?
16:12 Speaker 03 Good for Vermont. Question four, the topic is cooking.
16:16 Steven Rinella? Nick, Nick.
16:17 Speaker 03 These places gained notoriety in 2020 and are defined as, quote, "A market where fresh meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, and sometimes live animals are sold."
16:32 Speaker 03 These places gained notoriety in 2020 and are defined as "A market where fresh meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, and sometimes live animals are sold." Steve, Nate, Randall, all look confident. Matt, you have this one right as well?
16:47 Steven Rinella? I'm sitting on a joke. I'm sitting on a joke because I don't want to reveal any answers.
16:52 Speaker 03 Okay. Steve's got a joke, if that helps you, Logan or Nick. This is question four, and the topic is cooking. These places gained notoriety in 2020 and are defined as "A market where fresh meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, and sometimes live animals are sold."
17:12 Speaker 05 This is a great question.
17:13 Speaker 03 Oh, thank you, Nate. Nick, we're waiting on you.
17:16 Steven Rinella? Would you say the same thing if you didn't know the answer?
17:20 Speaker 05 Probably not.
17:25 Speaker 03 Logan, how do you feel about your answer? Uh, I'm between two of them, but I feel like the one I wrote down is, seems more reasonable. Okay. But I feel like they've been around for longer than 2020. Well, gained notoriety in 2020.
17:39 Steven Rinella? Cut the chit-chat.
17:42 Speaker 03 Waiting on Nugget Superfan Nick.
17:47 Speaker 03 Do you give up?
17:49 Speaker 04 I just have market stuck in my head, because that's where you would buy those things.
17:53 Speaker 03 A market where fresh meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, and sometimes live animals are sold.
17:59 Steven Rinella? Let's go.
18:01 Speaker 04 Okay.
18:03 Speaker 03 Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Randall saying wet markets, Nick says farm, Matt says farmer's markets, Logan, farmer's markets, Nate says wet market, Steve says wet market. The correct answer is wet market. While wet markets serve fresh foods, dry markets sell household goods such as fabrics, kitchenware, and electronics. They also play a crucial role in the exotic animal black market. The Wuhan lab that some agencies believe was the source of COVID is located about 10 miles from the wet market where the first cases were detected. Steve, would you like to share your joke?
18:44 Steven Rinella? I hadn't really gotten it all to be worked out, but I was gonna tie it into Nate here going to the tailor in Korea.
18:50 Speaker 05 Yeah, Lim also owns a wet market.
18:52 Steven Rinella? You know, I don't know. I hadn't worked it out yet.
18:54 Speaker 03 What about your tailor, would you say?
18:55 Speaker 05 Yeah, he also owns a wet market.
18:57 Speaker 03 Oh, owns like the whole property or like a little booth? Okay. Question five, the topic is hunting. This next great question is via Brad Hankins.
19:06 Steven Rinella? I noticed you said some people think it was lab leak. What do you think?
19:10 Speaker 03 Uh, no, I said the Wuhan lab that some agencies believe.
19:13 Steven Rinella? Yeah, what do you think?
19:14 Speaker 03 Well, when I read the thing last year, I felt like they polled on eight agencies or something like that. And I think it was kind of split on the answer. And the people who did give an answer, who didn't just like say, I don't know, said low confidence. And so I think it was like split in that.
19:31 Steven Rinella? It's becoming, I think when you look at the scan of agencies that have looked into it, it's coming, I think it has definitely tipped.
19:40 Speaker 03 Seems like it has.
19:41 Steven Rinella? It's a lab leak, yeah.
19:42 Speaker 03 I think it'll, uh, also-
19:43 Steven Rinella? It used to be naughty to say that. This is over observed, but it was naughty to say that.
19:47 Speaker 03 It'll also depend what political parties in the White House, I think, uh, based on what those agencies will say it was.
19:54 Steven Rinella? But doesn't it seem like a bat market would be a good place to get sick?
20:00 Speaker 03 Question-
20:00 Steven Rinella? I mean, it's not illogical, right? I got sick at the bat market.
20:05 Speaker 03 Well, it is-
20:05 Steven Rinella? I feel like, yeah.
20:06 Speaker 03 It could, it could have still come from the lab and then got like-
20:09 Steven Rinella? Jump to the bat market.
20:10 Speaker 03 Jump to, uh, there's like, what, raccoon dogs or something like that? Or a bat or a pangolin. Question five, the topic is hunting.
20:16 Steven Rinella? Can I sample the bat, please?
20:19 Speaker 03 This next great question is via Brad Hankins. This duck is named after its long pointed tail feathers that make up 25% of a Drake's body length.
20:29 Steven Rinella? Oh my god.
20:33 Speaker 03 Steve thinks it's stupid and too easy.
20:37 Speaker 03 Nate and Matt and Randall and Steve all appear to be confident.
20:42 Speaker 05 If I get this wrong, I'm walking out.
20:44 Speaker 03 Okay. You're making our newest player Nick feel bad about himself.
20:48 Speaker 05 That's, that's- I'm sorry. That's an unusual thing to happen. Rarely do people walk out of this, just so you know.
20:55 Steven Rinella? After this one, I might.
20:57 Speaker 03 This duck is named after its long pointed tail feathers that make up 25% of a Drake's body length.
21:08 Speaker 05 And here I was thinking the Drake was a type of duck.
21:11 Speaker 03 Hmm. Logan revisited his wife, or did you change your answer? I did.
21:16 Steven Rinella? I heard the chit chat.
21:17 Speaker 03 I don't know. No, it was, it was him reading the question again. Oh. No, I, I've never duck hunted, so I don't really know much about ducks. Aspiring duck hunter.
21:26 Steven Rinella? I've never penguin hunted, but I know a penguin.
21:29 Speaker 03 You know what?
21:30 Speaker 04 I think you spend a lot more time thinking about animals than I do.
21:33 Speaker 03 This duck is named after its long pointed tail feathers. That make up 25% of a Drake's body length. Is everybody ready?
21:44 Speaker 03 Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve, or excuse me, we have Randall saying pintail. Everyone says pintail. Everyone got it right. The correct answer is a northern pintail. Now, what did you know about pintails, Nick? You impressed me there.
21:59 Speaker 04 I at least gotta get, I at least gotta get that, but I'm curious, Steve, have you read The Endurance? Where those guys go around clubbing?
22:07 Steven Rinella? No.
22:08 Speaker 04 Penguins?
22:09 Steven Rinella? I'm aware, but no.
22:10 Speaker 04 I would like to, to try that out.
22:13 Speaker 03 It's on my to be read list.
22:15 Speaker 04 I played a lot of baseball. I'm good, good with the club.
22:18 Steven Rinella? Do you, do you feel drawn to fur seal, you know, that too? Just hitting them on the head?
22:25 Speaker 03 The Shackletonian impulse?
22:26 Steven Rinella? Yeah, like a certain tourism, a certain type of tourism, which is all based around a stick harvest.
22:32 Speaker 03 Pintails are one of the continent's most widespread ducks, ranging from Alaska to Central America. The pintails with the longest tail feathers are breeding males. Phil has a picture of one to show you their iconic tail feathers.
22:45 Steven Rinella? Hell yeah, Phil.
22:46 Speaker 03 There's a pretty pintail.
22:49 Steven Rinella? Now, didn't, you know, I was wondering if it'd maybe throw anybody off is, you know how old squaws were renamed, at least by the, you know, by the ornithological society into, weren't they renamed in a long tail? What's an old squaw now?
23:05 Speaker 03 I don't know.
23:06 Steven Rinella? Long-tailed duck, I think. Or is that, is that wrong?
23:08 Speaker 03 The other part of the question you would have to satisfy is that it makes up 25% of a Drake's body length.
23:14 Steven Rinella? Well, notice I didn't write it down. I'm saying.
23:16 Speaker 03 Okay. We're halfway through the game of trivia. Phil, give us a scoreboard update.
23:21 Speaker 04 Last place, he got mad. He has, he has one point.
23:25 Steven Rinella? Yeah, the old squaw is now a long-tailed duck.
23:28 Speaker 03 Okay.
23:29 Speaker 04 Coming up next is Nick, new player Nick with two. Then Logan has three points and tied up in first place with four points apiece are Randall, Steve and new money Nate. I was thinking about Nepo Nate, but I didn't know if his parents had any power generational wealth, so.
23:47 Steven Rinella? Definitely not.
23:48 Speaker 03 He's Nate with benefits, no longer the intern.
23:52 Steven Rinella? Flashy.
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27:00 Speaker 03 Question six. The topic is cooking. Paul Ryan, who served as this state's congressman for 20 years, shared his venison meatloaf recipe in the 2017 cookbook, "A Meatloaf in Every Oven."
27:17 Speaker 05 What's the question?
27:19 Speaker 03 You're looking for the state. Paul Ryan, who served as this state's congressman for 20 years, shared his venison meatloaf recipe in the 2017 cookbook, "A Meatloaf in Every Oven." Randall, very quick to answer. Randall, you have this one right?
27:36 Speaker 04 Yes.
27:37 Speaker 03 This is question six.
27:42 Speaker 03 Paul Ryan, who served as this state's congressman for 20 years, shared his venison meatloaf recipe in the 2017 cookbook, A Meatloaf in Every Oven. I'm jealous we didn't come up with that cookbook idea first. A Meatloaf in Every Oven into a cookbook of just meatloaf recipes.
28:04 Speaker 03 Steve, do you have your answer nailed, narrowed down to something?
28:07 Steven Rinella? Well, I got it narrowed down to three states.
28:09 Speaker 03 Okay.
28:11 Speaker 03 Paul Ryan, who served as this state's congressman for 20 years, shared his venison meatloaf recipe in the 2017 cookbook, A Meatloaf in Every Oven. Nick, you have an answer. Are you confident or are you just guessing?
28:22 Speaker 04 Just throwing a dart.
28:24 Speaker 03 Just guessing. 1 in 50 chance.
28:26 Speaker 04 Little better than that.
28:27 Speaker 03 Okay. Nate, do you have something written down?
28:31 Speaker 05 Two somethings.
28:32 Speaker 03 Gotcha.
28:34 Speaker 03 Randall, concerned about Nate. No, he's just, it's a very
28:38 Speaker 04 That sweat on your
28:38 Speaker 03 non-committal.
28:40 Speaker 04 Get nervous?
28:41 Speaker 03 No.
28:42 Speaker 05 No, and actually I probably need to back off. I've seen some comments to the effect that I give Nate too hard of a time.
28:47 Speaker 03 Oh, really?
28:48 Speaker 05 I'd just like you to tell the audience that we actually have a very collegial relationship.
28:52 Speaker 04 Yeah, Nate, tell that.
28:53 Speaker 05 I'd like to tell the audience to stop being soft.
28:57 Speaker 03 Bully Nate into telling people how nice you are, Randall.
29:00 Speaker 05 Yeah, do it. Do it now.
29:03 Speaker 05 Help.
29:03 Speaker 03 Again, we're on question six. We're trying to figure out who Paul Ryan served as a congressman for. Is everybody ready?
29:12 Speaker 03 Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Randall saying Wisconsin. Nick says Ohio. Matt says Minnesota. Logan, Texas. Nate crossed out Florida and wrote down Texas. Steve says Minnesota. The correct answer is Wisconsin. Randall got that one right.
29:33 Steven Rinella? I had that written down. I wrote down Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota.
29:37 Speaker 03 The cookbook also had meatloaf recipes from other politicians such as Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. Ryan's was the only one that featured Venison though. He's an avid bow hunter, spending most of his deer hunting time in his home state of Wisconsin and Oklahoma, where his in-laws own a ranch.
29:54 Speaker 05 He, uh, when he was interviewed, uh, as a vice presidential candidate as to what his favorite thing to read was, he said, uh, quality deer management.
30:03 Speaker 03 Oh, I didn't know that about him. He's also famously got a picture of a bow drawn back in, uh, while he's sitting in his office.
30:10 Speaker 05 And he's, he once told an interviewer that his two, the two landmarks that were most core to his identity were his tree stand and, uh, the local Catholic church.
30:20 Speaker 03 Wow.
30:20 Steven Rinella? See, I've wanted to have him on the show and now it's not gonna look good. Can you give me the point and make it look like I got it right?
30:27 Speaker 03 We will make sure to remind him that Steve didn't know where he was from.
30:31 Speaker 05 Saint Vianney Parish, I believe.
30:32 Steven Rinella? I mean, I know, but I just kind of forgot for a minute, you know what I mean?
30:35 Speaker 03 You knew three states that he could be from. Question seven.
30:37 Steven Rinella? Yeah, but then I knew it wasn't one of them. I had it down to two.
30:40 Speaker 03 The topic is conservation. IWVC stands for blank Wildlife Violator Compact.
30:51 Speaker 03 IWVC stands for blank Wildlife Violator Compact, and the topic is conservation.
31:02 Speaker 03 This is question seven. Randall has now separated himself from Randall and Steve with three questions to go.
31:10 Speaker 05 You made it sound like I dissociated there.
31:14 Speaker 03 Four questions to go. Trying to figure out what the I stands for in IWVC.
31:24 Speaker 03 Nate, do you have this one right?
31:26 Speaker 05 Uh, sixty-five percent.
31:29 Speaker 03 Okay, you got a word that starts with an I?
31:31 Speaker 05 Yup.
31:32 Speaker 03 All right, got a chance. IWVC stands for blank Wildlife Violator Compact. Is everybody ready?
31:40 Speaker 03 Go ahead and reveal your answers.
31:42 Speaker 05 What's the C stand for? Because what's the I stand for in everything?
31:45 Speaker 03 We have Randall saying interstate.
31:47 Speaker 05 Well, I think it did go international because they added some Canadian provinces.
31:50 Speaker 03 Matt says international. Logan says international. Nate says interstate. Steve says international.
31:56 Speaker 05 Because they add some provinces.
31:57 Speaker 03 The correct answer is interstate.
31:59 Speaker 05 There we go. There we go.
32:01 Speaker 03 It's not, it's not international.
32:03 Steven Rinella? I messed my board up. I thought it was because they like, damn, they added, they added some Canadian provinces.
32:08 Speaker 03 But they didn't change the name of the thing.
32:11 Speaker 05 Like a, like a college kid with some apartment drywall there.
32:15 Speaker 03 Multiple states started working on the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact in the 1980s, but it wasn't until 1999 when the database was built. Its purpose is to alert all other states when someone loses hunting and fishing privileges in one state. This often means violators will be treated like violators across the country. Hawaii and Massachusetts were the final states to join the compact in 2022.
32:40 Speaker 05 See, I was, when I hosted trivia the other day, I had a question about how many were in there.
32:45 Speaker 03 Oh.
32:46 Speaker 05 And, and I cut it because it was the status of those two, like they'd passed the legislation empowering the, the fish and game agency, but it.
32:56 Speaker 03 So I, I'm, I actually think there may be a correction coming on this in the future because Massachusetts, it was, it was clear that they did join. Hawaii, like you said, it was passed. And then I can't find anything else further saying that it like was actually put into action. So the best I can tell is that Hawaii is part of it, uh, but there is a chance that they're not.
33:14 Speaker 05 And I didn't want to get correction emails for my episodes.
33:17 Speaker 03 It was in 2021 that they had like, uh, approved to join in 2022.
33:20 Speaker 05 Phil, can you tell everybody who I am beating?
33:24 Speaker 03 I'd love to, yeah. We're at question eight. We'll get a scoreboard update after this.
33:28 Speaker 05 Can we, uh, talk about me and Randall's friendship again?
33:32 Speaker 03 The topic is fishing. The Sea of Cortez is more commonly known by this name.
33:43 Speaker 03 This is question eight. The topic is fishing. The Sea of Cortez is more commonly known by this name. Randall and Steve are at their whiteboards. Matt is joining them as well.
33:57 Speaker 03 Randall looks unsure of himself for the first time in a little while.
34:04 Speaker 03 I'll get a scoreboard update from Phil after this.
34:10 Speaker 03 What are you so amused about over there, Logan?
34:12 Speaker 04 Oh, I just know so few sea names.
34:14 Speaker 03 Okay.
34:15 Speaker 04 I wrote down the one that I knew.
34:16 Speaker 05 There's only seven of them.
34:17 Speaker 03 And he's the only surfer in the room, but he doesn't know his seas.
34:21 Steven Rinella? Man, if I wouldn't have screwed up those two, dude.
34:23 Speaker 03 Mm-hmm.
34:25 Speaker 04 Same here.
34:26 Steven Rinella? If I would have screwed up, you know, 20% of the questions, you know?
34:31 Speaker 03 The Sea of Cortez is more commonly known by this name.
34:37 Speaker 03 I also like how Steve declared that last question to be dumb, because every time there's an I, it's international.
34:42 Steven Rinella? Well, not every, I mean, you know, well, it should be. Because if I'm not mistaken, uh, I think there's some Canadian provinces.
34:50 Speaker 03 If that's not the case, it should be.
34:51 Speaker 05 Your reasoning made sense to me, so much so that my heart rate spiked.
34:55 Steven Rinella? I'm sure that it actually maybe isn't that.
34:57 Speaker 03 Okay, you do that. Does everyone have an answer?
35:01 Steven Rinella? I'll do it.
35:01 Speaker 03 Question Nate. The Sea of Cortez is more commonly known by this name. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Randall saying Gulf of California. Nick says Baja. Matt says Baha Sea. Logan says Caspian Sea. Nate says Gulf of Mexico. Steve says Baja California. The correct answer is the Gulf of California.
35:24 Speaker 04 Oh, damn.
35:26 Speaker 03 The Sea of Cortez name.
35:26 Steven Rinella? Dude, Randall's kicking everybody's ass. I'm just rooting for Randall.
35:32 Speaker 03 He may have wrapped it up with two questions ago.
35:35 Steven Rinella? Oh, my God.
35:35 Speaker 03 The Sea of Cortez name comes from explorer Hernan Cortez, who helped the Spanish claim the area in the 16th century. It's also been called the Vermillion Sea, or the World's Aquarium, a nickname given to it by oceanographer Jacques Cousteau.
35:50 Speaker 04 Hmm.
35:51 Speaker 03 Phil, give us a scoreboard update with two questions left.
35:54 Speaker 04 Uh, well, with three, three and one point respectively. Logan, Nick and Matt are out of the running, but they have been defeated handily by Steven Rinella. Who has four points?
36:08 Steven Rinella? Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
36:11 Speaker 04 And then in second place is Nate with five and in first place with seven is Randall Williams. Nate can still catch up to Randall technically.
36:21 Steven Rinella? Can I, can I, can I team up with Nate just to close her out?
36:24 Speaker 05 I don't want to be on your team.
36:25 Speaker 03 Question, you didn't dress well enough today. Question nine, the topic is gear and this next great question is via Caleb Stevens.
36:32 Steven Rinella? I'm not coming down here and playing no more.
36:36 Speaker 03 These YouTubers set eight Guinness World Records for archery in 2022, including the record for the world's longest archery shot to hit a target.
36:49 Speaker 03 This is question nine, the topic is gear. These YouTubers set eight Guinness World Records for archery in 2022, including the record for the world's longest archery shot to hit a target. If Randall gets this one right, he will wrap up the game. Randall, do you have this one right?
37:08 Steven Rinella? I do.
37:10 Speaker 03 Nate, do you have this one right?
37:11 Speaker 05 Ah, I think.
37:13 Steven Rinella? Yeah, I knew, if you remember, I knew I wouldn't win, remember that? Cause I was saying if it was the morning, I'd win.
37:19 Speaker 03 That's right, here he is now, only three answers short of our leader.
37:23 Steven Rinella? That should count as getting one right, knowing that I would win.
37:26 Speaker 05 Know thyself.
37:29 Speaker 03 Does everyone have an answer? These YouTubers set eight Guinness World Records for archery in 2022, including the record for the world's longest archery shot to hit a target. Logan, you ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Randall saying dude perfect. Nick says Robin Hood and Little John. Matt says dude perfect. Logan says extreme archery. Nate, dude perfect. Steve, dude perfect. The correct answer is dude perfect. That archery shot was 361 yards. The other archery records dude perfect set include most balloons burst simultaneously by arrows.
38:07 Steven Rinella? But these are, these are things that they beat or that they just made up?
38:11 Speaker 03 Well, Guinness was there to recognize them and so I think they were already records that existed that they beat.
38:17 Steven Rinella? Oh, they were.
38:17 Speaker 03 Here are the other ones they beat. Farthest distance to hit a target while looking in a mirror. Fastest moving target hit with an arrow. Farthest target hit by bouncing an arrow off water and greatest height to shoot and catch an arrow. They set all those world records. We have one question left and Randall has gotten himself the victory already. We'll finish the game anyway. Question 10, the topic is hunting. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by David Appleton for sending this great question. David is going to get a board game signed by the crew. If you want a chance to win the listener question of the week, then send your question to trivia@themeat eater.com.
38:56 Speaker 03 The topic is hunting. Name two of the five states with the most acres enrolled in the USDA's CRP program.
39:08 Speaker 03 Name two of the five states with the most acres enrolled in the USDA's CRP program.
39:20 Speaker 03 For the Dude Perfect world record of greatest height to shoot and catch an arrow, I had to go watch that. The arrow was not a traditional arrow. It had a blunt end on it that had just like a giant piece of rubber. So, no one was going to lose any eyes or fingers that day.
39:36 Speaker 03 Again, question 10, name two of the five states with the most acres enrolled in the USDA CRP program. Nate, are you ready? Yup. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Randall saying Minnesota, Kansas. Nick says Wyoming, Nebraska. Matt says Montana, Wyoming. Logan, Montana, Wyoming. Nate, California, South Dakota. Steve, North Dakota, South Dakota.
40:02 Steven Rinella? Lot of disagreements in this room. No one's got the same answer.
40:07 Speaker 03 The five states, I think Matt and Logan do. The five states are Colorado, South Dakota, Nebraska, Texas, and Kansas. I was close. Did anybody get that?
40:20 Speaker 04 Nobody got it.
40:20 Speaker 03 Nobody?
40:21 Steven Rinella? Geez, Randall's falter's in there.
40:23 Speaker 03 Correct.
40:24 Steven Rinella? I would have traded my board for yours once I saw it.
40:27 Speaker 03 As of November twenty twenty four, Colorado leads the country in acres of enrolled CRP with just shy of three million. That's followed by South Dakota at two point six million acres, Nebraska at two point four, Texas at two point two, and Kansas at two. Those five states have forty seven percent of the nation's twenty six million acres that are enrolled in CRP.
40:52 Steven Rinella? If I was a sports writer who covered this trivia game, I'd have a headline like, seemingly, you know, seemingly unbeatable Randall shows cracks.
41:04 Speaker 03 Yeah, you're setting the stage.
41:07 Speaker 05 On the zero percenter.
41:08 Steven Rinella? You know what I'm saying?
41:09 Speaker 03 You're setting the stage for him to really have a bad spring.
41:12 Steven Rinella? People be like, I don't want to read about Randall winning again, but I'd write that headline and get like, people be like, oh, Randall's showing signs.
41:18 Speaker 05 See what happens in the next game.
41:19 Steven Rinella? Randall's cracking.
41:20 Speaker 03 Phil, give us one last scoreboard update before Randall makes his donation.
41:23 Speaker 04 Oh, God, it's Nick with three points. Logan with three as well. Matt had two. Nate had six. Steve had five. Randall was in first place with eight.
41:35 Speaker 03 And in the, in the world of sports, Phil has himself, what's that called?
41:40 Speaker 05 Telestrator.
41:40 Speaker 03 Telestrator over there.
41:42 Speaker 04 I've never used it before. I thought this would be the first.
41:43 Speaker 03 Circled Steve's.
41:44 Speaker 05 And, and as in most.
41:47 Steven Rinella? It's over and Randall won.
41:49 Speaker 05 Most good telestrations that vaguely resembles an anatomy.
41:52 Speaker 03 That's right.
41:53 Speaker 04 Not on purpose.
41:55 Speaker 03 As the winner with eight correct answers, Randall gets to make the five hundred dollar donation from me. Did Randall, where's that money gonna go?
42:02 Speaker 05 This one comes to us from Brandon Lur or Luray.
42:06 Speaker 03 Okay.
42:06 Speaker 05 He would like me to donate to the Back River Restoration Committee, which works on Chesapeake Bay watershed quality issues.
42:15 Speaker 03 There's a new one.
42:15 Speaker 05 They do fantastic work and he's got a video here that shows some of the work they do. So he noted that I don't give the East Coast enough money.
42:24 Speaker 03 Okay.
42:25 Speaker 05 And I took that to heart. And so there you go, Brandon.
42:28 Speaker 03 Five hundred dollars going where?
42:29 Steven Rinella? This whole thing that Randall's got going on right now, like, he's like, gives so much money away that like. People are like, Randall, Randall, please.
42:40 Speaker 03 Yeah. He's a real Robin Hood over here. Tell us the name of the organization.
42:45 Steven Rinella? Knowing you're coming on, suggestions about what to do with your winnings?
42:49 Speaker 05 It's not a single one. It's the Back River Restoration Committee.
42:52 Speaker 03 Back River Restoration Committee, $500 going their way via Meat Eater and.
42:57 Steven Rinella? Yeah, old faucets over there.
43:00 Speaker 05 Hey, who knows, someday maybe I'll have a tailor in Korea.
43:04 Speaker 03 Join us next week for more Meat Eater trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins.
43:11 Speaker 06 Yeah, Spencer from South Dakota, he's the host. Using those smooth mellow tones, he lays them questions down.
43:24 Speaker 06 And he likes taking those two and three year old bucks.
43:28 Speaker 06 And he's an amateur rock hound.
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