Pod Insights The MeatEater Podcast Ep. 781: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CLXXXVII About this episode Spencer Neuharth https://www.instagram.com/spencerneuharth/?hl=en hosts MeatEater Trivia with Randall Williams, Brody Henderson, Cory Calkins, Nate Mason, Alyssa Smith, Alex Plachta, Sarah Delany, and Anthony Finissi.
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1:59 Speaker 03 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, Alex, Alyssa, Anthony, Sarah, Corey, and Nate. This is a 10-round quiz show with questions from Meat Eater's four verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking, and there's a prize. Meat Eater will donate $500 to the conservation organization of the winners choosing. For the stat of the week this week, we're looking at the performance of our favorite jabroni, Nate Mason.
2:28 Speaker 04 Oh.
2:28 Speaker 03 Nate, what do you think your strongest category is in Meat Eater Trivia?
2:33 Speaker 05 Hunting.
2:34 Speaker 03 Um, that's correct. Do you want to guess what percentage of hunting questions you get right?
2:38 Speaker 05 Like, 40?
2:40 Speaker 03 Uh, 60%. You're selling yourself short. All right, worst category, what do you think your worst vertical is? Fishing is your worst. What do you think the percentage is on that one?
2:49 Speaker 05 Oh, like 12.
2:50 Speaker 03 Uh, 45%. So, you're better than you thought. Want to take a guess at conservation and cooking?
2:57 Speaker 05 Uh, well, they're around 50 then. 55?
3:02 Speaker 03 Uh, yeah, so we've got conservation at 51%, cooking at 53%. Nate gets 53% of questions correct, which is 10% worse than Steve, but 10% better than Clay. How's that make you feel, Nate?
3:15 Speaker 05 I'll take that.
3:16 Speaker 03 There you go.
3:16 Speaker 05 I really was hoping you'd say better than Steve, but...
3:19 Speaker 03 Not this time.
3:20 Speaker 05 I know, dude. Yeah, I think you kind of rocked me now.
3:23 Speaker 03 Hmm.
3:24 Speaker 05 You kind of...
3:25 Speaker 03 Is this going to be good or bad for your performance?
3:27 Speaker 05 Uh, who knows?
3:28 Speaker 03 Okay.
3:29 Speaker 05 It'll be good at the beginning. Yep, and then crash and burn.
3:31 Speaker 03 If history tells us anything. Here's our infrequently asked questions segment. If you have a trivia-related question for the crew, send it to [email protected] with the subject line IFAQ. Wayne Ostrom says, "What species of bear is in the studio you record in? Your bear has far longer fur than the Manitoba black bear on my wall." Uh, I don't know what he's referring to. I assume that. What, tell us about that, Randall?
3:56 Speaker 04 It's a musk ox.
3:57 Speaker 03 That is a musk ox indeed. It has much longer hair.
4:00 Speaker 04 It's in a Meat Eater episode, Newtback Island.
4:03 Speaker 03 There you go. Do we know what season?
4:04 Speaker 04 I got the head from that thing.
4:06 Speaker 03 Season six?
4:07 Speaker 04 The skinned-out head Steve gave me for my kids for a Halloween mask one year.
4:12 Speaker 03 Hmm. Give us an estimate on the hair length there, Alex or Randall. How long of hair are we talking?
4:17 Speaker 05 Oh, I'd say a healthy...
4:21 Speaker 06 Eight inches.
4:22 Speaker 03 Eight inches.
4:22 Speaker 06 But then it's got this nice under fur that's called kivviet. As I've heard Steve say many times here.
4:28 Speaker 04 The long hair is really good for time, big ass streamers.
4:32 Speaker 06 It is.
4:32 Speaker 07 A bucktail alternative?
4:34 Speaker 03 It'd be a scary bear coming through the woods.
4:36 Speaker 06 Yeah.
4:37 Speaker 03 The eight inch hair. All right, on a previous episode of trivia, Randall made a reference to tequila making clothes fall off, to which I said those were the wise words of Luke Bryan. But about 50 of you wrote in to tell me that was Joe Nichols, not Luke Bryan, who sang that song. My bad. It's especially embarrassing because Broken Heartsville is one of my favorite songs ever. Uh, so to confuse Joe Nichols and Luke Bryan, very sorry. Hmm. 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.
5:09 Speaker 06 Spencer, if I may, if I may, I also have a, a correction.
5:13 Speaker 03 Okay.
5:14 Speaker 06 On a previous episode of trivia, I referenced the film Batman Forever and erroneously claimed that George Clooney played Batman in said film.
5:23 Speaker 03 Oh.
5:24 Speaker 06 Uh, he did not, and I've had dozens and dozens of people reach out to me. And I just want to address this publicly.
5:30 Speaker 03 Okay.
5:31 Speaker 06 I'm sorry.
5:33 Speaker 06 Val Kilmer played Batman in Batman Forever, George Clooney played Batman in Batman and Robin.
5:38 Speaker 04 May Val rest in peace.
5:40 Speaker 06 So.
5:42 Speaker 06 Sorry, guys.
5:43 Speaker 03 Two very important pop culture corrections.
5:45 Speaker 06 We won't do it again. Phil, please play the drop.
5:50 Speaker 08 Oh geez, I was ready, then you threw me off completely.
5:54 Speaker 09 Look, I need to know what I stand to win, everything. How's that?
6:00 Speaker 10 Just tend to win everything.
6:09 Speaker 07 Game on, suckers.
6:11 Speaker 03 Question one, the topic is woodsmanship, and as always, this will be multiple choice. What is the state tree of Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming? Is it oak, mulberry, elm, cottonwood?
6:29 Speaker 03 What is the state tree of Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming? Oak, mulberry, elm, cottonwood?
6:42 Speaker 03 Brody and Anthony have their answers. We have a full room today. Eight players in the studio.
6:49 Speaker 06 I'll point out too, that the first person to highlight my error was my own boss here at
6:55 Speaker 03 Oh, no.
6:56 Speaker 06 Said, listening to trivia this morning, George Clooney was not in Batman Forever. And I just knew that a wave of messages was coming over.
7:05 Speaker 03 I'm surprised Phil didn't catch that in the moment.
7:08 Speaker 08 I have only ever seen the first, the Tim Burton Batman. As far as those stretch, that sort of 90s stretch of movies.
7:14 Speaker 06 Batman Returns?
7:15 Speaker 08 Never seen it.
7:16 Speaker 06 Oh, that might be one of the best ones. One of the best ones.
7:20 Speaker 08 Sounds like a movie date, Randall.
7:21 Speaker 06 Yeah.
7:22 Speaker 03 What is the state tree of Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming? Oak, mulberry, elm, cottonwood? Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says cottonwood. Corey, elm. Sarah, cottonwood. Randall, cottonwood. Alex, elm. Alyssa, elm. Anthony and Brody say cottonwood. The correct answer is cottonwood. About half of the room got that one right. It is the eastern cottonwood in Kansas and Nebraska and Plains cottonwood in Wyoming. Those are the only three states with the cottonwood as their state tree.
8:03 Speaker 03 Kansas was the first to make that designation in 1937 and Nebraska was the latest in 1972. Question two, the topic is conservation. This next great question is via Titus McKenty. President Donald Trump called the Delta blank a quote worthless fish in a 2025 social media post regarding California's water management.
8:30 Speaker 03 Need you to fill in the blank. President Donald Trump called the Delta blank a worthless fish in a 2025 social media post regarding California's water management. Nate, the only player so far to come up with an answer. Do you have this one right, Nate? There's, it's, I think. Okay. President Donald Trump called the Delta blank a worthless fish in a 2025 social media post regarding California's water management.
9:06 Speaker 03 Girl, there's seven players still have blank boards. Alyssa has now come up with an answer.
9:13 Speaker 03 A delta blank, a worthless fish.
9:17 Speaker 04 What's the category?
9:18 Speaker 03 Conservation.
9:21 Speaker 03 Did that help you out?
9:22 Speaker 05 Pop up on your news app, Brody?
9:27 Speaker 03 Tough. Brody is not responding.
9:30 Speaker 04 I love how you talk trash and just have no reason to, because you never win.
9:36 Speaker 05 There's an old saying, when you get in the end zone, act like you've been there before. Dress for the job you want.
9:42 Speaker 04 You ain't there, buddy. It's first and 20 for you.
9:47 Speaker 03 President Donald Trump called the delta blank, a worthless fish, in a 2025 social media post regarding California's water management.
9:59 Speaker 03 Is everybody ready?
10:02 Speaker 03 Randall, do you have this one right? No, I don't like my answer. How about you, Brody?
10:06 Speaker 04 I don't like my answer. Keep talking for a while.
10:09 Speaker 05 No, I think we're wrapping up.
10:11 Speaker 03 This may be a one for eight in the room, if Nate does indeed have it right.
10:16 Speaker 04 I mean, I can get four or five wrong and still beat Nate.
10:19 Speaker 05 That's true. That's true.
10:20 Speaker 03 Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Nate saying smelt, Corey, catfish, Sarah, bass, Randall, shad, Alex, striped bass, Alyssa, pike, Anthony, trout, Brody, striped bass. The correct answer is smelt. Nate, got that one right. It's the delta smelt. The delta smelt is an endangered fish whose population has declined in California by 90% since the 1970s. It has been at the center of political disagreement for decades, with policymakers referring to it as the farmers versus fish dilemma.
11:00 Speaker 03 Basically, when water is redirected out of the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta, it's good for farmers but bad for smelt. Water managers are being forced to choose between a functionally extinct prey fish or the nation's biggest egg industry. Question three, the topic is cooking. Finish this quote from the Food Network. Sometimes called a full boil, a blank boil, occurs when large bubbles burst on the surface of a liquid.
11:32 Speaker 03 This is a direct quote from the Food Network. "Sometimes called a 'full boil,' a 'blank boil,' occurs when large bubbles burst on the surface of a liquid."
11:43 Speaker 05 No me, first five, I'm good.
11:44 Speaker 03 Players are more confident on question three than they were on question two.
11:52 Speaker 03 "Sometimes called a 'full boil,' a 'blank boil,' occurs when large bubbles burst on the surface of a liquid."
12:02 Speaker 03 Alex and Anthony, struggling on this one.
12:08 Speaker 03 Who does most of the cooking at your house, Anthony?
12:13 Speaker 11 Rather not answer that.
12:14 Speaker 03 Okay, how about you, Alex? I would say I do. Okay. Yeah. "Sometimes called a 'full boil,' a 'blank boil,' occurs when large bubbles burst on the surface of a liquid."
12:30 Speaker 03 We're waiting on you, Alex. Alright.
12:36 Speaker 03 Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Nate, and Cory, and Sarah, and Randall, saying "rolling boil." Alex says "bubble," Alyssa says "rapid," Anthony says "hot," Brody says "rolling." The correct answer is "rolling."
12:54 Speaker 11 I've never heard of a rolling boil.
12:57 Speaker 03 "Simmering happens at about 180 degrees Fahrenheit."
13:01 Speaker 11 No.
13:02 Speaker 05 Okay. You got an Italian last name.
13:05 Speaker 05 The guy just said he doesn't do any of the cooking himself.
13:08 Speaker 07 Take it easy, Nate. We abstained from answering that.
13:12 Speaker 03 It's just boiling water, Anthony, it's all boiling. "A simmering happens at about 180 degrees Fahrenheit, a low boil at 200 degrees, and a rolling boil at 212 degrees." The Food Network says that if you can stir a pot of water and it continues to boil, then you've reached a rolling boil. A rolling boil is best used when you need sustained heat, such as when canning or cooking shellfish. Question four, the topic is fishing. "The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department collects thousands of these every January, which they sink to create, quote, 'reef-type structure.'"
13:52 Speaker 03 The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department collects thousands of these every January, which they sink to create reef-type structure.
14:04 Speaker 03 You look at mine?
14:07 Speaker 04 Why would she?
14:09 Speaker 03 This is not cooking. I've never got a cooking question even remotely.
14:16 Speaker 03 The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department collects thousands of these every January, which they sink to create reef-type structure.
14:27 Speaker 03 Not Nate's strong suit. Do you have this one right though Nate?
14:30 Speaker 05 Definitely not.
14:34 Speaker 03 I don't think you need to be a fisherman.
14:36 Speaker 04 Nope, you're going too far there Brody.
14:40 Speaker 03 You should know this one Nate.
14:43 Speaker 04 Let's not do this thing.
14:45 Speaker 05 Dude, I got it. Aw dude.
14:48 Speaker 03 I don't know how.
14:48 Speaker 05 Fabulous work.
14:49 Speaker 03 Do you guys want him to win?
14:51 Speaker 05 Yes, keep it coming.
14:53 Speaker 03 Again, we're on question four. Boy needs all the help he can get.
14:57 Speaker 05 That's true.
14:58 Speaker 03 Fishing. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department collects thousands of these every January, which they sink to create reef-type structure. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Nate and Cory saying Christmas trees.
15:13 Speaker 05 Nice.
15:14 Speaker 03 Sarah says milk cartons. Randall, Christmas trees. Alex says mussels. Alyssa, what's that say? Alyssa says tumbleweeds. Anthony says Christmas tree. Brody, Christmas tree. The correct answer is Christmas trees.
15:31 Speaker 03 Game agencies across the country do this every year. Texas biologists say that fish will show up on the trees within 15 minutes of sinking them, and that they work as habitat for one to five years. This structure is commonly used for spawning and feeding by a variety of warm water species.
15:48 Speaker 05 If you guys hadn't said anything, I would have stuck with battleships.
15:51 Speaker 03 Thousands, thousands of those.
15:53 Speaker 05 That's why I wasn't confident. He meant the board game.
15:55 Speaker 03 I didn't give you a hint. I just said, you should know this. And then you got it.
15:58 Speaker 05 The trees sink on their own?
16:00 Speaker 03 Uh, they usually will put like a cinder block.
16:02 Speaker 05 Okay.
16:03 Speaker 03 Towards the bottom. They do it at Canyon Ferry in the spring. Um, they sink them up in like five, six feet of water. And that's right, perch will use.
16:11 Speaker 05 Would you have accepted cinder blocks?
16:13 Speaker 03 Uh, no.
16:14 Speaker 05 Cause I almost wrote that.
16:16 Speaker 03 No. Uh, they would have to, do they collect thousands of those every January? Maybe. They get them from somewhere. If you put cinder blocks.
16:24 Speaker 05 Who can say?
16:25 Speaker 03 We're just going to assume they have a stockpile of those. They don't have to collect them.
16:28 Speaker 05 I guess we'll never know.
16:30 Speaker 03 Question five. The topic is hunting. This next great question is via Aaron Keaton. According to Project Upland, the blank blank grouse is second only to the wild turkey as North America's biggest upland bird.
16:48 Speaker 03 According to Project Upland, the blank blank grouse is second only to the wild turkey as North America's biggest upland bird.
17:04 Speaker 03 Sarah and Nate, the great upland hunters.
17:07 Speaker 07 I don't know about great.
17:08 Speaker 03 Did you guys get a limit this weekend?
17:10 Speaker 05 Close.
17:11 Speaker 03 Okay.
17:11 Speaker 07 Had Nate hit more pheasants, we would have shot a limit.
17:14 Speaker 05 Listen.
17:16 Speaker 03 The good upland hunters.
17:17 Speaker 07 I don't know, man. You missed a couple of chips.
17:19 Speaker 03 He just got a Christmas tree. Get off his back. He just got Christmas tree.
17:21 Speaker 05 I missed two wide open shots.
17:23 Speaker 03 Oh.
17:24 Speaker 05 But hey, you know?
17:25 Speaker 07 Which is how many birds we were short of our limit.
17:27 Speaker 05 But I wouldn't have been able to kill both those because I had to. So.
17:31 Speaker 07 Well, it's a group limit thing.
17:33 Speaker 03 Is that how that works?
17:34 Speaker 07 That is how that works.
17:35 Speaker 03 This is getting recorded. Sarah, do you have this one right?
17:38 Speaker 07 I am 80% confident.
17:39 Speaker 03 Okay. Nate, the good upland hunter.
17:42 Speaker 05 The decent.
17:45 Speaker 03 Doesn't love his answer. Come on Nate. According to Project Upland, the blank blank grouse is second only to the wild turkey as North America's biggest upland bird.
17:58 Speaker 03 Brody, do you have this one right?
18:02 Speaker 04 We're gonna find out. Like, I know what it is, but I, I'm not gonna lie, that the, uh, there's something in there that threw me off a little bit.
18:10 Speaker 09 Yep.
18:13 Speaker 03 The blank blank grouse is second only to the wild turkey is North America's biggest upland bird. Randall, do you like your answer?
18:23 Speaker 06 I mean, I think I'm in the same boat as Brody, proverbially speaking.
18:27 Speaker 03 Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Nate saying Greater Prairie. Cory says Prairie Sage. Sarah Prairie Sage. Randall Western Sage. Alex Sharptailed. Alyssa Ruffed. Anthony Greater Sage. Brody Greater Sage.
18:50 Speaker 03 The correct answer is Greater Sage. Anthony and Brody got that one right. The Cornell Lab describes the Greater Sage grouse as having, quote, "a chubby, round body, small head, and long tail. Males grow up to seven pounds with a 38-inch wingspan." As their name implies, Greater Sage grouse rely on sagebrush habitat with 38% of the world population found in Wyoming. All right, Phil, we're halfway through the game of trivia. Give us a scoreboard update.
19:20 Speaker 08 Well, at halftime, nobody has a perfect game. Alex and Alyssa have zero points. Cory and Sarah are tied up with two. Anthony and Randall are tied up with three. And what seems to be a new, uh, sort of, I don't know.
19:34 Speaker 11 Bromance?
19:35 Speaker 08 Yeah. That's, that's a better word than what I was gonna use. Nate and Brody are tied with, uh, four points.
19:42 Speaker 04 Well, I did give Nate a clue, so, you know.
19:44 Speaker 03 What was the clue?
19:45 Speaker 04 It's my own fault.
19:47 Speaker 03 It's a tough game, exciting game, going into question six.
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21:43 Speaker 03 Question six, the topic is fishing. Name one of the two states that Bull Shoals Lake borders.
21:53 Speaker 11 This is an obvious one.
21:55 Speaker 03 Hmm. Name one of the two states that Bull Shoals Lake borders. It's Bull, B-U-L-L, Shoals, S-H-O-A-L-S. Name one of the two states that Bull Shoals Lake borders. Bull Shoals. Bull Shoals. Never heard of it. It's like the rural juror. Bull Shoals.
22:18 Speaker 03 She's the new O'Mary. Did you see that, Phil? I did. Do you like that casting? That is perfect casting. That it seems appropriate. Randall, you had this right?
22:27 Speaker 06 I'm second guessing myself, but I had something that flashed to mind.
22:31 Speaker 03 All right. Brody, you have this right. Right. Has anybody been there? Did that give anything away? No. No. Okay. 0 for 8 in this room. Name one of the two states that Bull Shoals Lake borders.
22:46 Speaker 05 Just one.
22:47 Speaker 03 Just one state.
22:50 Speaker 05 Overachiever. I don't know. I'm looking at Cory's face and... Does that help him? Yeah, you answered it pretty quickly.
22:56 Speaker 03 Oh.
22:57 Speaker 08 Oh, you're giving us a solid hint?
22:59 Speaker 03 Got a 1 in 25 chance.
23:02 Speaker 03 Is everybody ready?
23:03 Speaker 05 Can't wait.
23:04 Speaker 03 Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says California. Cory says Missouri. Sarah, Alabama. Randall, Alabama. Alex, Montana. Alyssa, Texas. Anthony, Wisconsin. Brody, Arkansas.
23:23 Speaker 03 The correct answers are Arkansas and Missouri. So we have Brody and Cory get that right, each providing the other state. At 71 square miles, Bull Shoals is the 72nd biggest lake in America, third biggest lake in Missouri, and biggest lake in Arkansas. The reservoir is known for its largemouth landing on Bassmaster's list of 100 best bass lakes in the country.
23:49 Speaker 06 I think the river below is even more popular.
23:52 Speaker 03 Is that the White River?
23:53 Speaker 06 Mm-hmm.
23:54 Speaker 03 Yeah.
23:55 Speaker 06 Is that how you knew it?
23:57 Speaker 05 No. I've seen it on a map.
23:59 Speaker 03 He just knows it. Now, is a reservoir a lake the same thing? No, but it's called Bull Shoals Lake. Not gonna find any technicalities there, Anthony.
24:10 Speaker 06 I was thinking of Muscle Shoals.
24:12 Speaker 03 Hmm.
24:13 Speaker 06 Whenever I see the word Shoals, it's just the first thing that comes to mind.
24:15 Speaker 07 That is in Alabama?
24:17 Speaker 06 Yep.
24:17 Speaker 03 Question seven, the topic is woodsmanship. UC Davis defines this six-letter word as, quote, "A general term that categorizes several unrelated but similar groups of predator birds, such as falcons and eagles."
24:34 Speaker 04 What was the category?
24:35 Speaker 03 Uh, woodsmanship.
24:37 Speaker 04 Woodsmanship.
24:38 Speaker 03 UC Davis defines this six-letter word as, quote, "A general term that categorizes several unrelated but similar groups of predator birds, such as falcons and eagles."
24:52 Speaker 06 Bird people got this.
24:54 Speaker 03 Randall, big bird guy, do you have this right?
24:56 Speaker 06 If I have it right, I went to this, well, I won't say that.
25:00 Speaker 07 Yeah, no, no, no, Randall, no. That was a stumble there. That was a stumble.
25:07 Speaker 03 UC Davis defines this six-letter word as a general term that categorizes several unrelated but similar groups of predator birds, such as falcons and eagles.
25:18 Speaker 05 God, that question's like a roller coaster.
25:20 Speaker 03 Hmm. It's locked on there.
25:22 Speaker 04 That's a great way to describe that. Your hands up and hang on.
25:28 Speaker 07 Randall, have you seen the Muscle Shoals documentary?
25:30 Speaker 06 Yes.
25:30 Speaker 07 Very good.
25:31 Speaker 06 Very good.
25:32 Speaker 03 What's it about?
25:33 Speaker 07 It's about the, all the famous, like, soul and R&B recording studios that are in Muscle Shoals.
25:39 Speaker 03 Hmm.
25:40 Speaker 07 Like, the Supremes recorded there, and Stones are recorded there.
25:45 Speaker 06 It's a music, an undersung music, kinda undersung music capital. That's good.
25:50 Speaker 07 No, I don't. It's like Nashville, but cooler, more relevant.
25:54 Speaker 03 Seems out of place there. And six-letter word, a general term that categorizes several unrelated but similar groups of predator birds, such as falcons and eagles. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says raptor. Corey murder. Sarah and Randall say raptor. Alex without an answer. Alyssa says clutch. Anthony prey. Brody raptor. The correct answer is raptor. Examples of raptors are hawks, eagles, kites, falcons, vultures, kestrels, owls, osprey, and buzzards. The single most obvious distinguishing feature between those predatory birds and
26:36 Speaker 03 others, such as herons or penguins, is that the is the presence of talons. Raptors are also the birds that are most likely to prey on mammals and other birds.
26:46 Speaker 06 Hmm.
26:46 Speaker 03 You've been to a raptor center?
26:48 Speaker 06 Well, we went to Raptor Fest.
26:50 Speaker 03 Oh.
26:51 Speaker 06 Couple of weekends ago.
26:52 Speaker 03 I didn't know about this.
26:53 Speaker 06 Up at Bridger Bowl.
26:53 Speaker 03 Okay.
26:54 Speaker 06 Yeah, I saw some raptors up close.
26:56 Speaker 03 What kind of raptors did they show you?
26:59 Speaker 06 I don't want to get into specifics. There were owls there.
27:02 Speaker 03 Mm hmm.
27:02 Speaker 06 Uh.
27:03 Speaker 03 He doesn't want to get into specifics.
27:06 Speaker 06 Yeah, clearly I remember. I remember what a big bird guy.
27:10 Speaker 03 Yeah, they were raptors.
27:11 Speaker 06 I saw what I saw. I made a note.
27:14 Speaker 04 Were you spending more time at the beer tent than with the birds, Randall?
27:17 Speaker 06 Well, there was supposed to be an Oktoberfest.
27:21 Speaker 03 I was told there would be an Oktoberfest.
27:23 Speaker 06 There would be an Oktoberfest and I did not engage in any of, well, no, I take that back. I did eat two hot dogs. They had the the Bridger Bowl hot dog cart going. So I did have a German sausage and just a normal hot dog.
27:34 Speaker 03 You got that detail down.
27:36 Speaker 06 Yeah.
27:37 Speaker 03 Question eight. The topic is hunting. This next great question is via John Hibbert. Adams, Brown, and Pike Counties in Illinois form this world famous whitetail region.
27:50 Speaker 06 My goodness. Wait, what?
27:53 Speaker 03 Adams, Brown, and Pike Counties in Illinois form this world famous whitetail region. This is question eight.
28:01 Speaker 08 What's the question? What is the question?
28:03 Speaker 03 Yeah, we were looking for the name of the world famous whitetail region.
28:07 Speaker 06 Hmm.
28:08 Speaker 03 Adams, Brown, and Pike Counties in Illinois form this world famous whitetail region.
28:15 Speaker 04 Apparently it's not very world famous after all.
28:18 Speaker 03 For whitailers.
28:19 Speaker 06 Have you been there?
28:22 Speaker 04 I don't know.
28:26 Speaker 06 Certainly haven't hunted there.
28:29 Speaker 03 Adams Brown in Pike Counties in Illinois.
28:32 Speaker 04 Pike County.
28:33 Speaker 03 Form this world famous whitetail region.
28:38 Speaker 08 I don't really know what the question.
28:40 Speaker 04 I can't decide if I want to make.
28:42 Speaker 03 Name of the region.
28:43 Speaker 04 Can't decide if I want to make a serious guess or just write buck truck.
28:49 Speaker 08 Who calls it this?
28:51 Speaker 05 Lot of whitetailers.
28:52 Speaker 03 Everybody. Your in-laws who live there.
28:55 Speaker 08 Well, they're south.
28:56 Speaker 03 They call it this.
28:59 Speaker 03 Adams Brown in Pike Counties in Illinois. Form this world famous whitetail region.
29:05 Speaker 07 It's probably a bad time to say I'm from Illinois and don't whitetail.
29:11 Speaker 05 I'm like 50 50. I feel like there's two good options.
29:17 Speaker 03 Brody, you have this one right.
29:18 Speaker 04 Oh, I don't know. I feel like I took a real good guess. I like my answer, but I don't like I didn't know this before. I've heard that.
29:27 Speaker 03 Get a scoreboard update after this from Phil.
29:30 Speaker 08 Like it felt right.
29:31 Speaker 06 I kind of like my answer now.
29:34 Speaker 08 Buck truck?
29:35 Speaker 06 No, I went with a serious guess.
29:37 Speaker 08 Ooh.
29:38 Speaker 06 I kind of like it.
29:39 Speaker 03 Is everybody ready? A, an example would be like the Arizona Strip. That would be the name of a region famous for a thing in the hunting world.
29:49 Speaker 04 I feel like that was a little too much.
29:51 Speaker 03 A little too much. Okay, is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Nate saying Golden Triangle. Big buck country. Sarah without an answer. Randall says Golden Triangle. Alex says.
30:07 Speaker 04 I must have intuited that.
30:08 Speaker 03 Armpits.
30:09 Speaker 07 That was a master.
30:09 Speaker 03 Alyssa says deer. Anthony says land of giants. Brody says Golden Triangle. The correct answer is Golden Triangle. So Randall, Brody and Nate got that one right.
30:20 Speaker 04 Not back in it.
30:21 Speaker 03 The Golden Triangle is located in western Illinois and is nestled between the Illinois River and Mississippi River. Those three counties rank second, third and 10th in the state for Boone and Crockett whitetail entries. Region is known for its perfect mix of timber and egg, making it a deer hunter's dream.
30:39 Speaker 04 Have you hunted it?
30:40 Speaker 03 I have not, I'm going to hunt it this year.
30:42 Speaker 06 Oh, really?
30:43 Speaker 03 I have a buddy there, um, who I've got the invite from. So I've got myself a firearms tag. I will be there in December. I'm very excited.
30:51 Speaker 06 You shooting a shotgun or a straight wall?
30:52 Speaker 03 Uh, straight wall, 350 Legend.
30:54 Speaker 08 Ayo. When you go to a world famous region like that, is it just overcrowded and swamped with other hunters?
31:00 Speaker 03 Well, well, if it was a bunch of public land, that would be the case. Uh, but it's mostly private, so you have to have a connection there. And if a place is world famous like that, it probably doesn't have enough pressure to make it not world famous. So in this case, no, it is not too crowded. All right, Phil, let's get a scoreboard update.
31:19 Speaker 08 Uh, here we are.
31:22 Speaker 08 Uh, Alex and Alyssa have still, um, not got, gotten a question right. I'm just gonna say it. Um, zero points for them. Scory, Sarah. You have three points apiece. You're welcome. Uh, but the three players left in the game are Randall Williams with five, Nate Mason with six, and Brody Henderson with seven.
31:41 Speaker 03 Question nine, the topic is conservation. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Justin Jelsma for sending this great question. Justin 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 [email protected] . This type of precipitation is formed when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide react with water in the atmosphere.
32:09 Speaker 03 Again, the topic is conservation. This type of precipitation is formed when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide react with water in the atmosphere.
32:22 Speaker 03 Nate, you have this one right? Oh, yeah. Okay. He is one point behind Brody, and Brody doesn't yet have an answer.
32:28 Speaker 11 Don't give a hint.
32:29 Speaker 03 I'm not, I'm not. It's totally different.
32:31 Speaker 11 You're about to say something, I can tell.
32:32 Speaker 03 My only prayer...
32:33 Speaker 11 I can tell you're lean.
32:34 Speaker 06 Is if that light fixture falls on Brody in the next five to 10 seconds.
32:39 Speaker 08 Should I hit the kill switch?
32:43 Speaker 05 Can I give a shout out to a previous Meat Eater episode?
32:46 Speaker 03 Yes.
32:47 Speaker 05 The one where the lawyer was on, talking about permissions?
32:49 Speaker 03 Go for it.
32:49 Speaker 05 I used his little formula, got three permissions this weekend.
32:53 Speaker 03 I, I forget what it was. He, he just like, you wanna butter him up.
32:56 Speaker 05 You don't, no, you just go straight up. Yeah, you, you don't like go in there talking about his truck and farm. You just say, hey, this is me. This is what I'm about. I'd like to talk.
33:04 Speaker 03 Three permissions. Well done.
33:06 Speaker 05 I mean, granted, birds.
33:07 Speaker 03 Okay, tell, tell me, tell me how it goes. Give me an example. I'm the landowner.
33:10 Speaker 05 Okay, I'm now, now to all my, uh,
33:14 Speaker 05 you know, I'm just gonna go in for it and all the veterans can write in and be pissed at me.
33:17 Speaker 03 You know what? If I was a veteran, I think I would play that card too.
33:20 Speaker 05 I listen, hear me out. I don't get 15 cents off at McDonald's, but I will use it to milk a landowner.
33:27 Speaker 03 That you do.
33:27 Speaker 05 I'll just be honest.
33:28 Speaker 03 You do that now. That's good for you.
33:29 Speaker 05 And so I say, hey, my name's Nate. I got out of the army last year, moved out here. I haven't had any luck killing bu- killing birds on public land.
33:36 Speaker 03 Play that card for like a year.
33:37 Speaker 05 I know.
33:37 Speaker 03 Okay.
33:38 Speaker 05 And I'm really cashed in.
33:39 Speaker 07 We just hammered her this year.
33:41 Speaker 05 Yep. Um, and, uh, I'd like to ask permission to hunt upland birds on your land. Can we have a discussion about that? Or should I come back another time?
33:48 Speaker 03 Uh, no, I'm a communist, so.
33:50 Speaker 05 Well, hey, good on you. I respect all walks of life.
33:52 Speaker 11 You should add that you miss most of the birds.
33:54 Speaker 05 Yeah.
33:56 Speaker 11 I won't hit that many.
33:57 Speaker 05 I'll just walk around and shoot lead in there.
33:58 Speaker 06 This weekend, you should try a, a variation on that. Say, I got out of the army the year before last. And just see if.
34:06 Speaker 05 It's like three, four score years ago.
34:08 Speaker 06 If there's a recency.
34:10 Speaker 11 Wait, what was the 15 cents at McDonald's?
34:13 Speaker 05 Like, you know, guys will go around like on Veterans Day and be like, I want, I'm a veteran. I want free Bob Evans.
34:18 Speaker 11 I thought there was an ongoing, a rolling discount at McDonald's.
34:22 Speaker 05 I don't think so.
34:22 Speaker 11 You don't go to Applebee's on Veterans Day?
34:25 Speaker 05 No. Do you go to Applebee's on Veterans Day?
34:27 Speaker 11 Damn right.
34:27 Speaker 05 Is it a free meal? See, that's why you got the golden turkey question wrong. Cause you aren't hunting whitetails on Veterans Day.
34:34 Speaker 03 Again, we're on question nine. The topic is conservation. This type of precipitation is formed when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide react with water in the atmosphere. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says acid rain. Corey says fog. Sarah and Randall and Alex say acid rain. Alyssa says hail. Anthony says acid rain. Brody says snow. The correct answer is acid rain. Here we go, boys! We have a game going into question 10. Although some acid rain is naturally produced through rotting vegetation and volcanoes,
35:17 Speaker 03 the biggest source is burning fossil fuels. Encyclopedia Britannica says it was one of the most well-known environmental problems in the 1980s, but acid rain in America has significantly decreased in recent decades thanks to the U.S. Clean Air Act of 1970 and U.S. Air Quality Agreement of 1991. Brody, you're probably the only person in here old enough to remember acid rain ever falling.
35:42 Speaker 05 That's like how you got, you lost all your hair.
35:44 Speaker 03 And you got it right, or wrong, excuse me.
35:47 Speaker 04 I don't necessarily remember it falling. I remember the after effects of it in like watersheds in Pennsylvania.
35:54 Speaker 03 There was, I think, I was reading the Guinness Book of World Records, Pennsylvania, I think for a short period, held the record for the most acidic rain ever. It had a pH level of like 1.5 and I think normal rainwater is like a 6.
36:07 Speaker 04 That may have been related to, there's a lot of coal mines in Pennsylvania back in the day. It might have been related to that. I'm not sure.
36:14 Speaker 03 All right, here's a correct answer review so far. One was cottonwood. Two, smelt. Three, rolling boil. Four, Christmas trees. Five, greater sage grouse. Six, Arkansas and Missouri. Seven, raptor. Eight, golden triangle. Nine, acid rain. Bill, give us a scoreboard update.
36:35 Speaker 08 I just want to point out that Alex is on the board now, so congratulations.
36:38 Speaker 03 Well done, Alex.
36:39 Speaker 04 Thank you.
36:40 Speaker 03 Our favorite veteran in the room.
36:45 Speaker 04 I am a Marine, so I'm not real smart, but I got that one right.
36:49 Speaker 08 Yeah, I noticed it's, it's hard for me, I trip over my words when I have to try to think of like a kind way to say that you're doing very poorly. So it's, I always just love, you know, juicing someone up. So way to go, Alex.
36:59 Speaker 04 Thank you.
37:00 Speaker 08 Also, on the topic of juicing.
37:03 Speaker 05 Brody. No, it's not that kind of juicing. Brody missed that question, still at seven points. Nate got it correct. They are now tied up with seven points apiece and Randall is hot on their tails.
37:14 Speaker 06 Within striking distance.
37:15 Speaker 05 Striking distance.
37:16 Speaker 06 I feel like there's a question there.
37:20 Speaker 03 Question 10. The topic is gear.
37:23 Speaker 04 Ooh.
37:24 Speaker 03 What do the letters in the hunting brand Q A D stand for? And it appears as though Nate knows this. What do the letters in the hunting brand Q A D stand for?
37:40 Speaker 04 Were you in the industry or something?
37:41 Speaker 05 Something.
37:42 Speaker 03 Do you have this one right Nate?
37:43 Speaker 05 Oh yeah.
37:44 Speaker 03 Okay. Puts a lot of pressure on Brody.
37:49 Speaker 06 I mean, the unfortunate thing is if Nate wins, there's a giant asterisk next to his win because Brody gave him an answer
37:55 Speaker 04 I did.
37:56 Speaker 06 on question four. Hey, as we all remember.
37:59 Speaker 05 A win's a win. You know?
38:01 Speaker 04 This is what I would call it.
38:04 Speaker 06 No, I definitely don't know this.
38:05 Speaker 03 What do the letters in the hunting brand Q A D stand for? Brody's gonna see if he can work this one out without just knowing it off the top of his head. Does anyone else besides Nate know this one?
38:19 Speaker 04 No.
38:21 Speaker 06 I know Q E D.
38:24 Speaker 04 What's that?
38:28 Speaker 03 What do the letters in the hunting brand Q A D stand for?
38:36 Speaker 03 Do you own something that is Q A D brand Nate?
38:40 Speaker 05 Yeah, I just switched back to it this year.
38:42 Speaker 03 Alright.
38:43 Speaker 04 That's a big hint.
38:44 Speaker 05 What's item? I'm not gonna tell you. Sorry. I will not be Brody in a tiebreaker, so I can't, I can't give them up.
38:52 Speaker 04 You're gonna win if you know it, because I don't.
38:55 Speaker 05 Well, I'm not gonna give you a hint. Or, or we'd even it out. A little tit for tat.
39:01 Speaker 04 Listen.
39:03 Speaker 04 You need this win more than I do.
39:05 Speaker 05 That's a hundred percent true.
39:06 Speaker 03 Have you beat the big dogs before Nate?
39:08 Speaker 05 Uh, I can't remember. I know I beat Cal. I don't know who else was in the room when I won. So I don't know if you consider Cal a big dog.
39:15 Speaker 06 Cal's not a big dog.
39:16 Speaker 03 What do the letters in the hunting brand?
39:18 Speaker 05 Uh, I think Randall was there that day. But I haven't beat both big dogs at the same time.
39:22 Speaker 08 If Nate wins this, he can no longer be considered a jabroni.
39:26 Speaker 03 Monumental.
39:27 Speaker 04 Oh. Yeah, I feel like if you've won.
39:29 Speaker 06 He got Raptor.
39:30 Speaker 03 I mean, the king jabroni right now is Corey.
39:33 Speaker 06 He got Arkansas.
39:34 Speaker 03 So.
39:34 Speaker 07 Arkansas was hard. Raptor wasn't that hard.
39:37 Speaker 05 Yep, sharp.
39:38 Speaker 03 How we doing over there, Brody?
39:41 Speaker 03 Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says Quality Archery Designs. Corey, Quarter After Dark. Sarah, Quality Aero Development. Randall, Quality Archery Development. Alex, Quality Ammunition Designs. Alyssa, Quality and Design. Anthony, Quiet and Deadly.
40:04 Speaker 04 That should be the right answer.
40:06 Speaker 03 Quality and, what's that say? Quality and Design. The correct answer is Quality Archery Designs giving Nate the correct answer. Eight points and the victory. QAD was founded by Dan Summers in 1992 in Virginia. They are best known for their aero rests, broadheads, and other archery accessories. Their Ultra Rest MXT was named the best overall aero rest by Outdoor Life for 2025. All right, Nate, what are you gonna do with your $500 today?
40:40 Speaker 05 Uh, I think in honor of, uh, some pheasants we whacked this weekend, we'll do Pheasants Forever.
40:46 Speaker 03 Hmm, that's a, that's a good, good way to replace those birds.
40:49 Speaker 04 I thought you were gonna donate it to Texas Parks and Wildlife so they could dump some more battleships.
40:56 Speaker 05 I hear they're expensive.
40:58 Speaker 03 $500 going to Pheasants Forever, bein' Nate and Meat Eater. Join us next week for more Meat Eater trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins.
41:07 Speaker 05 Congratulations, Nate.
41:10 Speaker 10 Yeah, Spencer from South Dakota, he's the host. Using those smooth mellow tones, he lays them questions down.
41:23 Speaker 10 He likes taking those two and three-year-old bucks. And he's an avid amateur. Rockhound.
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