Ep. 929: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CCXXXIII

Spencer Neuharth https://www.instagram.com/spencerneuharth/?hl=en hosts MeatEater Trivia with Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Seth Morris, Cory Calkins, Nate Mason, Laura Mascari, and Logan Dove. Find our favorite ATVs, SxS, and Utility Vehicles at www.can-am.brp.com http://www.can-am.brp.com Presented by Busch Light Connect with MeatEater on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/meateater, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/StevenRinellaMeatEater/, Twitter https://twitter.com/MeatEaterTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAaa0mleeU128Ad5iM1RFIg, and YouTube Clips https://www.youtube.com/@MeatEaterClips Subscribe to MeatEater Podcast Network on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@MeatEaterPodcastNetwork Shop Trivia Merch https://store.themeateater.com/collections/meateater-trivia/?lang=en_US See omnystudio.com/listener https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. There is a prize. Meat Eater will donate $500 to the conservation organization of the winners choosing. I'm your host, Spencer Newarth, and today we're joined by Brody, Randall, Seth, Laura, Corey, Nate, and Logan. This is a 10-round quiz show with questions from Meat Eater's four verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking. Meat Eater Trivia is brought to you by one of my favorite beers, Busch Light. Busch Light, head for the mountains. All right, we are starting today's episode with a mailbag question. If you have a question you want the crew to answer, then send your question with the subject line mailbag to trivia@themead eater.com. This is probably the toughest one we've gotten so far.

• 2:29Speaker 05

  It's not tough.

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  Okay. Let me, let me tell you about it, audience.

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  I think it is.

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  This is from Josh in Illinois. "My mother, who is in poor health, recently moved into my wife and I's place that is really only big enough for the two of us. Hunting season here in Illinois is right around the corner. I've been picking it back up here in my mid twenties after around a decade of not having the ability to do it much. My mother is staunchly against hunting. She can't stand the idea of killing, quote, innocent animals for anything other than pure last resort survival purposes. In fact, years ago, I came home with a squirrel I had killed and she didn't talk to me for a week. All that to say, while I am prepared to debate the topic, and obviously I am right, she's not in good health, and I'd rather not

• 3:15Speaker 04

  rock the boat at such a sensitive time. How would you approach either talking to her about the topic or sneaking out before the sun several days a week this fall?"

• 3:26Speaker 05

  Send her to a vegan nursing home.

• 3:28Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 3:29Speaker 06

  My, my house, my rules.

• 3:31Speaker 04

  Okay.

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  I'd encourage you to ask your wife how she feels, because if it's two-on-one, tough odds, but if you two are together, then I think it's fine.

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  If he, so he's in his mid twenties.

• 3:41Speaker 04

  He says mid twenties, and this is his mom, to be clear.

• 3:44Speaker 07

  But did, did he grow up with her when they hunted? Like, did his dad hunt?

• 3:49Speaker 04

  He says he's been out of the game for a decade. So I, I don't know. I, I assume this isn't like a household thing.

• 3:54Speaker 07

  Yeah, I mean, I would ask her if she eats meat and then kind of like bring up the ethical question there.

• 3:58Speaker 06

  I wouldn't get into debates with my mother who's in ill health.

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  I agree.

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  I would either make it invisible to her, or I would take a season off. It's your mother.

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  Yeah. I think the right answer here is to lie.

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  Brody, it's your mother.

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  The right answer is to lie.

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  My mom ate game meat. She didn't have a problem with it.

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  Yeah, you just tell her you're really low on money and that this actually is a survival situation.

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  Okay, uh huh, yeah.

• 4:28Speaker 06

  And then she might write you a check as well, so it's a win-win.

• 4:30Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 4:31Speaker 06

  I just watch every single crime movie you can find where someone hides evidence of violence. You know, like, I'd buy a lot of drop claws for the garage.

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  Yeah.

• 4:42Speaker 06

  Bleach. I would, yeah, exactly. I just become very clinical in my cleanup. Yeah. And I don't know, does she, if she, if she sleeps late, maybe you go out for an early hunt. If she gets, if she goes to bed early, maybe you hunt the evening. It could be like a fun little game, like, what can I hide from mom? Yeah.

• 4:57Speaker 04

  Yeah, okay.

• 4:58Speaker 06

  It's like your high school. One of my favorite games of my life. She's really bad at it, but nonetheless.

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  I think you just gotta lie to mom. She doesn't know where you're going. You kill a deer, maybe there's a buddy's house you can hang it in his garage to take care of it. I understand, though, like, you don't want to make your mom sad in the last months of her life, assuming that's what's going on here.

• 5:20Speaker 06

  You don't want to get into arguments around the dinner table with your mother in ill health.

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  While eating a deer.

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  Let's keep, let's keep the things in perspective.

• 5:28Speaker 05

  That won't happen if she's eating dinner somewhere else.

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  Everybody remembers the quiet thrill of flushing a few cigarette butts down the toilet when they were 15, you know?

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  Josh must be the, the golden child if mom is living with him. So I think he can kind of guilt-free hunt. Sorry about that, Josh. That's a tough one.

• 5:46Speaker 06

  That's a heavy question, heavy one to begin with.

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  All right, some housekeeping. In a previous episode, I had a question about the homophone that is organic material and soil and a Middle Eastern dip. The correct answer was humus, which is spelled with one M or two, but as about a dozen listeners pointed out, and Randall, I was wrong in calling it a homophone. Apparently, the two M dip is pronounced humus, and the one M soil is pronounced humus, similar to how you pronounce human. My bad, but the whole room got it right, so it won't affect the outcome of the game. Yannis was still the big winner. Randall, you would have, you would have caught on to that if I, if you'd have been in the room for that episode, I take it.

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  I think so, yeah.

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  Humus.

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  Humus.

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  Damn it. Sounded like an idiot. Also, an announcement. I will be coming to the Minnesota Meat Eater store on October 22nd for Meat Eater Trivia. The event will run from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. The grand prize is a $1,000 gift card to the Minnesota Meat Eater store. Teams of up to four can compete, but solo players are also welcome. Spots are limited, and you need to sign up. When we did this at the Milwaukee store, we were sold out in less than 48 hours, so act fast. It costs $10 per person, and at the end of the game, all of that money will be donated to a conservation organization of the winners

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  choosing. If you want to play, go to themead eater.com/events to register. That is October 22nd at the Minneapolis Meat Eater store.

• 7:17Speaker 05

  When are we gonna do a team trivia?

• 7:19Speaker 06

  Hmm, when are we gonna win $1,000 gift cards?

• 7:22Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 7:23Speaker 06

  This was the first thing I thought of.

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  It's a good idea, Brody. We've only done teams when it's like ganging up on Randall or ganging up on Brody. We could introduce.

• 7:31Speaker 06

  We all love those games.

• 7:32Speaker 04

  We do love those. All right, the Shelby index for today is a five, so I'm putting us on perfect score alert. And with that, we're on to the game of trivia. Play the drop, Phil.

• 7:43Speaker 04

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

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  Game on, suckers. Question one. The topic is hunting, and as always, this will be multiple choice. When did California ban mountain lion hunting? Was it 1980, 1990, 2000, or 2010?

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  When did California ban mountain lion hunting? 1980, 1990, 2000, or 2010?

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  Randall, without choices, how close do you think you would have gotten? You're picking up your board pretty fast. I thought you just knew this one.

• 8:34Speaker 06

  No, no, I didn't. Okay. I, I could have gotten, I'm still not sure of my answer.

• 8:40Speaker 04

  Just an educated guess. When did California ban mountain lion hunting? 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010?

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  Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Laura says 2010, Logan, 2010, Seth, 2000, Randall, 2010, Corey, 2010, Nate, 1990, Brody, 1990. The correct answer is 1990.

• 9:13Speaker 06

  Let's go, baby.

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  Just Nate and Brody got that one right. California went from having a bounty on mountain lions to closing mountain lion seasons in just nine years. Here's that timeline. Until 1963, the state paid hunters to kill cougars. From 1963 to 1970, the state allowed year-round mountain lion hunting with no bag limits. Then California made mountain lion seasons for 1970 and 1971. In 1972, they put a moratorium on lion hunting. Then in 1990, by a vote of 52% to 48%, California voters passed Proposition 117 to outlaw mountain lion hunting.

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  Question two. The topic is woodsmanship. The Bureau of Land Management defines this nine-letter type of camping as, quote, camping on public lands away from developed recreational facilities.

• 10:12Speaker 04

  BLM defines this nine-letter type of camping as camping on public lands away from developed recreational facilities.

• 10:22Speaker 06

  You know what you do for teams?

• 10:23Speaker 04

  What could we do?

• 10:24Speaker 06

  You could do it by like pursuit, like Laura's like a bird hunter.

• 10:27Speaker 04

  Hmm.

• 10:28Speaker 06

  You know? Logan's a bow hunter.

• 10:32Speaker 06

  Seth's a fisherman.

• 10:33Speaker 04

  So you want to put the anglers together?

• 10:34Speaker 06

  I don't know.

• 10:35Speaker 04

  Or you want to like put an angler with a big game hunter? Oh. With a dog owner. I think you gotta like mix them up.

• 10:40Speaker 06

  No, I think you go, you specialize and see who knows more about other stuff.

• 10:44Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 10:45Speaker 07

  I feel like Seth's got more diversity than just fishing.

• 10:48Speaker 06

  Well, what do you call, what do you think yourself as?

• 10:51Speaker 04

  Trapper.

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  Seth this morning was checking his fantasy fishing standings when I walked into the office at seven fifty AM. He has a team of eight professional anglers. He was doing really well, except he forgot to submit his picks. Five, he forgot to submit his picks when he went up to Alaska to go fishing. So he lost that week's fantasy fishing and it really hurt him in the overall standing. So I would.

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  Yeah.

• 11:16Speaker 06

  I think it, the shoe fits.

• 11:17Speaker 04

  Fishing interrupted his fishing. Get her on question two.

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  Cause I have too much to do.

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  The BLM defines this nine-letter type of camping as camping on public lands away from developed recreational facilities. Is Brody Henderson stumped?

• 11:36Speaker 05

  Dude, I have a word that I know is right and it's not nine.

• 11:40Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 11:41Speaker 05

  It's not nine letters.

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  Hmm.

• 11:42Speaker 05

  Yeah, I had to dig deep for this one.

• 11:43Speaker 04

  Corey, did you find the answer?

• 11:44Speaker 05

  This is the only type of camping I do. The answer you're looking for is in my head somewhere, but I don't have it.

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  Is everybody ready?

• 11:50Speaker 05

  And yeah. And I'm gonna fight this one.

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  Go ahead and reveal your answers. Laura and Logan and Seth and Randall say dispersed. Corey says primitive.

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  I like his answer too.

• 12:02Speaker 04

  Nate dispersed. Brody boondocking. The correct answer is dispersed.

• 12:08Speaker 05

  Look it up. See if boondocking, boondocking is one.

• 12:11Speaker 04

  But that's not nine letters.

• 12:12Speaker 06

  But it's not nine letters.

• 12:12Speaker 05

  I know.

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  Dispersed camping is anytime you camp somewhere that's not a campground. This term is used by the BLM, Forest Service, National Park Service, and many state agencies. According to a 2026 survey, dispersed camping is now the most popular camping style in America, ahead of traditional campgrounds for the first time ever.

• 12:33Speaker 06

  Which makes dispersed camping not quite as dispersed.

• 12:36Speaker 05

  Not quite as cool.

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  Not as fun anymore. Everybody's doing it. Question three, the topic is conservation. This conservation group, which sells lifetime memberships for dogs, is headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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  The room is stumped. This conservation group, which sells lifetime memberships for dogs, is headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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  Nate and Logan locked in their answers and Brody.

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  Did someone restain this table? It's like the same table, but it's just.

• 13:18Speaker 05

  No, it's a different table.

• 13:19Speaker 07

  No way.

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  Yeah.

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  Nathaniel.

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  We painted the walls a few months ago. That's, that's it.

• 13:26Speaker 04

  Nathaniel and his wife stained it and Nate said it was a thirsty table. How many coats you put on here?

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  Three.

• 13:32Speaker 04

  Looks good.

• 13:32Speaker 06

  Three of gel stain and two, three of poly. So six total.

• 13:36Speaker 05

  Was your wife wearing a mask?

• 13:38Speaker 06

  No, she, she was coaching me. She didn't actually come.

• 13:40Speaker 05

  Oh, I gotcha.

• 13:42Speaker 04

  She stood in the other room and watched through the window.

• 13:44Speaker 06

  No, every now and then I'd be like.

• 13:45Speaker 05

  You're concerned about your, your future heir.

• 13:47Speaker 06

  Right, that's, no, I've been doing all her staining projects recently.

• 13:50Speaker 07

  Yeah, when you said Nathaniel, I was like, who is that?

• 13:52Speaker 04

  Yeah. Yeah. We'll never know.

• 13:54Speaker 07

  Is that actually your full name?

• 13:55Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 13:55Speaker 05

  Who's this sophisticated man? We don't know.

• 13:57Speaker 06

  Too pretentious. We don't use that.

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  This conservation group, which sells lifetime memberships for dogs, is headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota. Everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Laura says pheasants forever. Logan, ducks unlimited. Seth, pheasants forever. Randall, rough grouse society. Corey, pheasants forever. Nate, ducks unlimited. Brody, pheasants unlimited. The correct answer is pheasants forever. Or quail forever.

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  Damn.

• 14:35Speaker 04

  The pheasants forever.

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  Pheasants unlimited.

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  The pheasants forever dog life membership is $500 and it comes with a Yeti dog bowl and framed certificate. That is half the price that it costs for a human life membership, which comes with a Yeti Go box, framed certificate and calendar. Pheasants forever says that more membership equals more habitat, more birds and more public access. So bang for the buck, a human lifetime membership, you know, humans live a long.

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  I was gonna say, yeah.

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  Than dogs.

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  Lifetime membership for a dog. When, depending on what the annual is, you might be better off with.

• 15:10Speaker 04

  There is no annual membership. It's a lifetime or nothing. So you gotta get it when you're a puppy.

• 15:14Speaker 06

  Hmm.

• 15:15Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 15:15Speaker 06

  Should be one seventh the price.

• 15:16Speaker 07

  Does your dog need a membership or?

• 15:18Speaker 04

  Doesn't need one, uh, but it's, it's good.

• 15:20Speaker 06

  I think Max gets them.

• 15:21Speaker 04

  Max also buys duck stamps for his dog.

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  That's what it is. That's what I was thinking of.

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  Question four, the topic is cooking. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Mike Batson for sending this great question. Mike is going to get a $150 first light gift card. If you want a chance to win the listener question of the week, then send your question to trivia at the meat eater.com. This nine-letter word refers to a Cajun cooking technique where fish is dipped in melted butter, coated in bold spices and seared in a hot pan to build a dark crust.

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  Corey and Randall were racing and Corey is the winner.

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  It's not a race.

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  This nine-letter word refers to a Cajun cooking technique where fish is dipped in melted butter, coated in bold spices and seared in a hot pan to build a dark crust.

• 16:13Speaker 07

  This is like one of my dad's two dishes that he cooks. Doesn't do much cooking.

• 16:17Speaker 04

  So is he good at it?

• 16:18Speaker 07

  Yeah, it's pretty good. We do it with salmon and.

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  Good job dad. I feel like salmon is not a popular way to, uh, or this is not a popular way to make salmon.

• 16:28Speaker 07

  Yeah, it tastes pretty good though.

• 16:29Speaker 06

  The last meal I ate with my grandfather as, at a restaurant and he got really mad because they blackened his salmon.

• 16:37Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 16:38Speaker 06

  And he was like, you burned this. Oh, really? And then.

• 16:43Speaker 06

  Roger.

• 16:43Speaker 07

  Yeah, cool. Way to just give the answer away.

• 16:46Speaker 04

  Oh, fuck.

• 16:49Speaker 05

  I thought that was intentional. And he really thought it was intentional.

• 16:52Speaker 04

  Wasn't gonna call it out either.

• 16:54Speaker 06

  We're gonna need to bleep all that out, Phil.

• 16:57Speaker 04

  Yeah. Wow. Laura, did you hear what? I was not. Oh, no. Laura had her ears closed.

• 17:04Speaker 06

  Can we bleep all that out, Phil? That was a bad showing. That was a bad showing on my part. He's got a lot on his mind.

• 17:10Speaker 04

  I couldn't even focus on the rest of your story. What happened? He got served a salmon and.

• 17:14Speaker 06

  In this style and he was mad.

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  Okay.

• 17:17Speaker 05

  It's okay, you can say it again now.

• 17:19Speaker 06

  We tried.

• 17:21Speaker 04

  Laura got it.

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  We tried, we tried to like, talk him down, but he was very mad at the waitress.

• 17:30Speaker 05

  Oh man, there's angry people out there right now.

• 17:32Speaker 04

  Is that what killed him?

• 17:33Speaker 06

  No.

• 17:33Speaker 04

  No. Is everybody ready?

• 17:36Speaker 06

  Don't joke about that, Spencer.

• 17:37Speaker 04

  Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have the whole room saying blackened. How'd they know it? The correct answer is blackened.

• 17:46Speaker 06

  I'm off my game. Sorry, everybody. It's really embarrassing.

• 17:49Speaker 05

  That's great.

• 17:50Speaker 04

  This cooking technique was introduced in New Orleans in the early 1980s. Blackened red fish became so popular that it caused state and federal agencies to alter fishing regulations. In the Gulf, commercial red fish harvest spiked from 2.7 million pounds in 1980 to 8.3 million pounds in 1986. To learn how to make it, check out Danielle Pruitt's recipe on the meat eater.com called blackened fish tacos with corn salsa. Wow. There's a picture of Danielle's tacos.

• 18:21Speaker 06

  I took that picture.

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  Yum.

• 18:23Speaker 04

  Oh. Where at Seth?

• 18:24Speaker 05

  Picture boy.

• 18:27Speaker 05

  That's a pretty picture there. I think so.

• 18:30Speaker 04

  Uh, we'll, we'll say that was Seth Morris' handiwork.

• 18:32Speaker 06

  In focus?

• 18:33Speaker 04

  What if it's not Seth?

• 18:34Speaker 05

  It might not be actually.

• 18:36Speaker 04

  I said Danielle took her own photos. I'm gonna reach out.

• 18:39Speaker 06

  Oh, is that in your cookbook?

• 18:40Speaker 04

  Yeah, did you shoot the cookbook? This is on our website.

• 18:43Speaker 06

  I'm pretty sure I've taken photos of her, uh, making that same thing though.

• 18:47Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 18:48Speaker 06

  No, that's not my photo. You can say what it is. They already said. On that table too.

• 18:52Speaker 04

  We're on to question five. The topic is public lands. This next great question is via Greg Knutson. What does WPA stand for? As in the land managed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service?

• 19:08Speaker 04

  WPA, what does that stand for? We are referring to the land that's managed by the Fish and Wildlife Service.

• 19:18Speaker 04

  Nate locks in his answer. Do you have this one right Nate?

• 19:21Speaker 06

  I think, I feel good. I could be wrong.

• 19:24Speaker 04

  How about you Randall?

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  Would you like to tell folks what it is?

• 19:27Speaker 06

  I feel pretty good, but I've been showing my ass already on this episode a little bit. So I'm not gonna make any bold predictions here.

• 19:35Speaker 04

  Corey and Seth and Brody now putting down their whiteboards. What does WPA stand for?

• 19:41Speaker 06

  My first job at Meeter was WPA.

• 19:43Speaker 05

  Same here.

• 19:44Speaker 04

  Oh, Wilderness Production Assistant?

• 19:47Speaker 06

  Mm-hmm.

• 19:48Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 19:50Speaker 06

  That's not the answer though, guys.

• 19:52Speaker 04

  You made me nervous Randall though when you did that.

• 19:56Speaker 06

  Taste of your own medicine.

• 19:57Speaker 04

  What does WPA stand for?

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  Yep, good old days of lugging batteries around and making sandwiches for Steve and complaining about your sandwich.

• 20:08Speaker 06

  Sandwiches are just never quite right.

• 20:13Speaker 04

  Corey, are you ready?

• 20:14Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 20:16Speaker 04

  Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Laura says wilderness prevention, protection area. Logan, wetland protected area. Seth, wildlife protection area. Randall, waterfowl production area. Corey, wildlife protection area. Nate, wildlife protection area. Brody, waterfowl production area. We have a correct answer in the room.

• 20:45Speaker 06

  That's right.

• 20:46Speaker 04

  It's waterfowl production area. Randall and Brody.

• 20:51Speaker 06

  See if I had been confident like Nate. Big duck guys.

• 20:54Speaker 07

  Big duck guys.

• 20:56Speaker 04

  WPAs are small, natural wetlands and grasslands that provide breeding and nesting habitat for millions of birds. There are about 3 million acres of WPAs with the vast majority located inside the prairie pot hole region. Refunding to preserve these areas largely comes from duck stamp sales.

• 21:17Speaker 04

  And now it's time for our Can-Am question of the week. Thanks to Can-Am. You get some bonus trivia in this week's episode. This does not count towards your score. It's just we're bragging rights. Here's the question. The topic is gear. The five letters you'll find on most four-wheel-drive ATV gear selectors are P, R, N, blank, and blank.

• 21:45Speaker 04

  Randall, who's an expert at making dropping noises over there. Knew it right away.

• 21:52Speaker 06

  This one doesn't count.

• 21:53Speaker 04

  This does not count, but you should still try Seth. Let's see how much you know about gear. The five letters you'll find on most four-wheel-drive ATV gear selectors are P, R, N, and blank, blank.

• 22:09Speaker 04

  Randall, could we hear if someone was driving an electric ATV around? What would that sound like?

• 22:16Speaker 04

  Okay, very good. How about if they were going through water? What would that sound like, you think?

• 22:20Speaker 06

  Ooh, that's, that's tough.

• 22:24Speaker 04

  Pretty good.

• 22:25Speaker 06

  Sorry to the listeners.

• 22:28Speaker 04

  What if the exhaust was broken? What would that one sound like?

• 22:32Speaker 04

  Yeah, all right, wow, real jukebox over there. Five letters you'll find in most-

• 22:38Speaker 06

  For a new job here.

• 22:39Speaker 04

  Four-wheel-drive ATV gear selectors.

• 22:41Speaker 05

  Sound effects, what's that?

• 22:43Speaker 07

  Foley?

• 22:43Speaker 05

  Foley, that's right.

• 22:44Speaker 04

  Foley artists. We had that as a prior question that nobody got right. P, R, N, blank, and blank. Is everybody ready?

• 22:53Speaker 04

  Go ahead and reveal your answers. Laura says D and four. Logan, H L. Seth, H L. Randall, H L. Corey, L H. Nate, L H. Brody, D L. The correct answer is H for high and L for low. I think we had five of our seven players get that right. That was our Can-Am question of the week. Can-Am.

• 23:18Speaker 05

  To be fair, I don't have a Can-Am sitting in my driveway like some people in this room.

• 23:23Speaker 06

  Randall?

• 23:24Speaker 07

  Randall still got it wrong because he had four high and four low.

• 23:26Speaker 04

  Shut up, Seth. All right, Phil, give us a scoreboard update. We are halfway through today's game of trivia.

• 23:33Speaker 07

  Not as tight as last week, but still pretty tight here at halftime.

• 23:37Speaker 06

  How is it not as tight as last week?

• 23:39Speaker 04

  Last week-

• 23:40Speaker 06

  It's so tight.

• 23:41Speaker 04

  We had seven players who had three points going into question six.

• 23:45Speaker 07

  Logan and Corey have two points apiece. Everyone else, Laura, Seth, Randall, Nate, and Brody have three.

• 23:51Speaker 04

  Okay, there will be no perfect game today.

• 23:53Speaker 05

  What are we, two more only? Are we halfway?

• 23:56Speaker 04

  We're halfway through the game.

• 23:59Speaker 05

  I thought I got more than that wrong.

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  Send Brody to the vegan nursing home.

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  No, I thought I had way more than that wrong.

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• 25:42Speaker 04

  Question six, the topic is fishing. President Trump said in an August 2026 Truth Social post that he is, quote, "giving serious consideration to changing the name of [blank] to Lake America."

• 25:58Speaker 06

  Oh, good God.

• 26:02Speaker 07

  Have you read the news today, Spencer?

• 26:04Speaker 04

  I wrote this question yesterday and then Brody sent a text to our news group today and maybe spoiled this for some folks in the room. President Trump said in an August 2026 Truth Social post that he is giving serious consideration to changing the name of [blank] to Lake America.

• 26:28Speaker 04

  Corey, do you have this one right?

• 26:30Speaker 05

  If this was in a SNL skit, nobody, like, it seems like that's where it came from. Like, he got that idea from an SNL skit.

• 26:39Speaker 04

  Logan, do you have this one right?

• 26:40Speaker 07

  I don't think so. I'm trying to think of unpatriotic names of lakes, but-

• 26:43Speaker 04

  Pretend this is an SNL skit then. See what you can come up with.

• 26:47Speaker 06

  Yeah, it's a joke, right? The whole thing?

• 26:50Speaker 04

  President Trump is giving serious consideration to changing the name of [blank] to Lake America. Is everybody ready?

• 26:59Speaker 04

  Go ahead and reveal your answers. Laura says Lake Superior. Logan, Lake Michigan. Seth and Randall and Corey and Nate and Brody say Lake Ontario. They got it. The correct answer is Lake Ontario.

• 27:14Speaker 05

  Did he not sign an executive order?

• 27:17Speaker 04

  He tweeted about, oh-

• 27:18Speaker 07

  No, he signed it.

• 27:18Speaker 05

  It happened now?

• 27:19Speaker 04

  Oh, okay. I only saw the tweet about it yesterday. I hadn't heard that update. Okay. President Trump floated the name change as a retaliatory move in the country's ongoing trade war with Canada. His reasoning was, quote, "We don't expect to be doing much business with Ontario any longer." His last name change from Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America has received mixed adaptation. The federal government, Apple Maps, and Google Maps now call it the Gulf of America, while most foreign governments, Encyclopedia Britannica, and the Associated Press have stuck with Gulf of Mexico. Some groups like Southwest Airlines and Royal Caribbean Cruises have scrubbed both names from their maps and promotional materials as to not take a side.

• 28:03Speaker 04

  Question seven, the topic is wildlife. They just don't label it, or they'll say like, the Caribbean seas.

• 28:09Speaker 06

  Just the southwestern Atlantic, the central western Atlantic.

• 28:14Speaker 04

  Question seven, the topic is wildlife. This five-word business, which refers to its museums as auditoriums, owns unbelievable taxidermy like a cyclops shark, two-headed snake, and blue lobster.

• 28:33Speaker 04

  The topic is wildlife. This five-word business, which refers to its museums as auditoriums, that's O-D-D, auditoriums, owns unbelievable taxidermy like a cyclops shark, two-headed snake, and blue lobster.

• 28:54Speaker 04

  Nate, do you have this one right?

• 28:55Speaker 06

  I got a good guess.

• 28:56Speaker 04

  A five-letter business?

• 28:58Speaker 06

  I, that's the thing that's throwing me-

• 28:59Speaker 04

  Or, excuse me, five-word business, five-word.

• 29:01Speaker 06

  Oh, five-word.

• 29:02Speaker 04

  Not five-word, it's five-word.

• 29:04Speaker 06

  Dang, thank you.

• 29:05Speaker 04

  Five-word business, which refers to-

• 29:08Speaker 05

  That's making a lot more sense.

• 29:09Speaker 06

  No, I still got it, I still got it.

• 29:11Speaker 04

  Museums as auditoriums, owns unbelievable taxidermy like a cyclops shark, two-headed snake, and blue lobster.

• 29:18Speaker 06

  I think I still have it. Have we thought about adding words to the name of our business?

• 29:24Speaker 04

  You think how we could get to be a six-letter or six-word business?

• 29:27Speaker 06

  It's just impressive when you think about it.

• 29:29Speaker 04

  Yeah, not a lot of five-word businesses out there. So Nate and Brody and Randall, they all think they have it. Laura, Logan, Seth, and Corey appear to be stumped. Five-word business, which refers to its museums as auditoriums, owns unbelievable taxidermy like a cyclops shark, two-headed snake, and blue lobster. Wait a minute. Okay. Laura found it.

• 29:58Speaker 04

  Corey, do you have this one?

• 29:59Speaker 06

  Oh, I'm waiting for Randall to spill the beans.

• 30:04Speaker 06

  What do you got?

• 30:06Speaker 06

  Any hints?

• 30:08Speaker 04

  It's only

• 30:10Speaker 06

  It's one of the few five word businesses I can think of.

• 30:13Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 30:14Speaker 07

  Any grandpa stories?

• 30:17Speaker 06

  Not a fan of this.

• 30:19Speaker 07

  Oh, oh. He wasn't?

• 30:21Speaker 06

  No.

• 30:22Speaker 04

  Okay, Laura and Logan disagree and they both liked their answers. We'll find out who has it.

• 30:28Speaker 06

  Oh geez.

• 30:29Speaker 04

  Well, I like your answer.

• 30:29Speaker 07

  Two different five word businesses?

• 30:32Speaker 06

  Yeah, yeah, now I know.

• 30:34Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 30:34Speaker 06

  That's the second five word business I can think of.

• 30:37Speaker 04

  Oh, I don't even know what it could be. I'm excited to see these. Corey, do you give up?

• 30:42Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 30:43Speaker 04

  I think Marshall would get this. You do?

• 30:46Speaker 05

  Is it still a thing?

• 30:48Speaker 04

  Go ahead and reveal your answers. Laura says Ripley's Believe It or Not. Logan, Guinness Book of World Records. Seth, without an answer. Randall says Ripley Believe It or Not. Corey, without an answer. Nate, Ripley's Believe It or Not. Brody, Ripley's Believe It or Not. The correct answer is Ripley's Believe It or Not. This feels like auction house about these. Oh yeah, I mean, I'd love to have the collection of things that they have.

• 31:15Speaker 07

  Spencer's Believe It or Not.

• 31:18Speaker 04

  Ripley's started as a newspaper cartoon in 1918. By the 1930s, the business was making books, radio programs, and museums. Ripley's has since expanded into aquariums, mirror mazes, movie theaters, wax museums, mini golf courses, haunted houses, and science centers. There's some business ideas for us. Where are these places? All over. Uh, I feel like they've got like dozens of museums in the United States and then also like dozens more uh, worldwide auditoriums. And they have a, an aquarium, I think in Myrtle Beach and uh, Gatlinburg. We're on to question eight. The topic is conservation. This next great question is via Nate Powitski.

• 32:04Speaker 04

  What tool has Smokey Bear held since 1951?

• 32:10Speaker 07

  Now, this is a question.

• 32:12Speaker 04

  Okay. The room has their mojo back. A lot of quick answers. What tool has Smokey held since 1951? Very quick answers in the room.

• 32:25Speaker 04

  We're gonna give our audience a chance to think before we flip over the whiteboards though. Has anyone ever been to a Ripley's?

• 32:30Speaker 07

  Mm-mm.

• 32:31Speaker 04

  Mm-mm. Boring.

• 32:32Speaker 06

  I think I had a book or something. Do they make books?

• 32:35Speaker 04

  They made books. That's why I think Marshall might know it. I assumed in Marshall's library, he's got a Ripley's Believe It or Not book somewhere.

• 32:41Speaker 07

  No, he's been into the Guinness Book of World Records recently.

• 32:45Speaker 06

  Nice.

• 32:45Speaker 07

  Been looking at the 2009 Guinness Book of World Records.

• 32:48Speaker 04

  Oh, way out of date. What tool has Smokey Bear held since 1951? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Laura saying a shovel. Logan, shovel. Seth, shovel. Randall, shovel. Corey, shovel. Nate, shovel. Brody, shovel. The correct answer is shovel. When Smokey Bear debuted in 1944, he was holding a bucket of water. But a 1951 redesign replaced the pail with a shovel, which he has posed with ever since. Smokey said in a 2020 Facebook post that he carries a shovel so that he can stir and bury his campfires. And there is a, a very handsome Smokey shirtless uh, holding his shovel.

• 33:31Speaker 06

  No, I had to fit to those pants.

• 33:34Speaker 04

  Yeah, a little too long. He needs a, needs

• 33:37Speaker 06

  They're blousy in the front, but it seems like it fits his body.

• 33:40Speaker 07

  It's like they're on backwards.

• 33:41Speaker 06

  Yeah, it does look like they're on backwards.

• 33:44Speaker 04

  Uh, we'll figure it out, Smokey. Alright Phil.

• 33:46Speaker 05

  A little critical of a bear wearing a pair of pants.

• 33:49Speaker 04

  Scoreboard update.

• 33:50Speaker 06

  He put them on.

• 33:51Speaker 04

  Two questions left.

• 33:53Speaker 05

  Uh, we've got a three-way tie up at the top between Randall, Nate, and Brody.

• 33:57Speaker 04

  Oh, I shouldn't have screwed up those questions.

• 33:59Speaker 05

  Behind them are Laura and Seth with five, Corey with four, and Logan with three.

• 34:06Speaker 04

  Question nine, the topic is hunting. This next great question is via Charlie McDonald. The 300 WSM, which debuted in 2001, stands for Winchester Blank Magnum.

• 34:21Speaker 07

  Randall definitely doesn't have this.

• 34:23Speaker 04

  Another confident room. The 300 WSM, which debuted in 2001, stands for Winchester Blank Magnum.

• 34:32Speaker 06

  When I hosted trivia at the uh, at the ELR match.

• 34:36Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 34:37Speaker 06

  Some of our questions where we gave people like five different 30 cal cartridges.

• 34:41Speaker 04

  Hmm.

• 34:42Speaker 06

  And we had people, you had to put them in order of their

• 34:46Speaker 06

  market debut.

• 34:47Speaker 04

  Oh.

• 34:48Speaker 06

  Oh, that's cool. Among one, among the 30 cows was this.

• 34:50Speaker 04

  Okay. Do you have an opinion you can share in the, on the 300 WSM after this?

• 34:56Speaker 06

  Not firsthand.

• 34:57Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 34:58Speaker 06

  I had, well, yeah, I have thoughts, but I've never owned one. I owned a barrel.

• 35:02Speaker 04

  Hmm, okay, that's a weird thing.

• 35:04Speaker 06

  I owned an unfired barrel.

• 35:05Speaker 05

  Janus used them, used one for

• 35:07Speaker 06

  And then I sold the action I was gonna put it on. And now I got another action like that and I wish I still had that barrel. It was fat.

• 35:15Speaker 04

  Winchester Blank Magnum.

• 35:17Speaker 06

  Shit thing wasn't cheap.

• 35:19Speaker 04

  Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Laura says standard. Logan, Seth, and Randall, and Corey, and Nate, and Brody say short. The correct answer is short. The WSM family is a series of short action rifle cartridges introduced by the Winchester, introduced by Winchester in the early 2000s. These were made to rival traditional long action Magnum ballistics in a short action gun. Of the newly formed cartridges, the 300 WSM became the most popular. To see how it stacks up against more conventional rounds, go read Jordan Siller's article on the meat eater.com called Caliber Battle. 30 odd six Springfield versus 300 Winchester Short Magnum.

• 36:05Speaker 04

  Alright, here's a correct answer review so far. One was 1990. Two, dispersed camping. Three, pheasants forever. Four, blackened fish. Five, waterfowl production area. Six, Lake Ontario. Seven, Ripley's Believe It or Not. Eight, shovel. Nine, Winchester Short Magnum. Phil, scoreboard update.

• 36:29Speaker 05

  Randall, Nate, and Brody all got that one correct, so they're still tied up. Now with seven points, Seth is just behind them with six.

• 36:36Speaker 04

  Question 10, the topic is fishing.

• 36:39Speaker 06

  Oh, classic dude. I knew it.

• 36:43Speaker 04

  Wells catfish have been compared to killer whales because of how they haunt their six-letter prey on the banks of France's Tarn River. Brody had his answer before I finish the question. If Brody can get this one right and Nate and Randall can get it wrong, he will be today's victor.

• 37:04Speaker 06

  That pheasants forever question's haunting me.

• 37:07Speaker 04

  Wells catfish have been compared to killer whales because of how they haunt their six-letter prey on the banks of France's Tarn River. Seth, do you have this one right?

• 37:20Speaker 06

  I don't know, but I've seen a video before.

• 37:23Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 37:24Speaker 07

  I see that's somehow it is.

• 37:26Speaker 06

  Now I know.

• 37:28Speaker 04

  Oh, really?

• 37:29Speaker 06

  No.

• 37:32Speaker 04

  Wells catfish have been compared to killer whales because of how they haunt their six-letter prey on the banks of France's Tarn River.

• 37:45Speaker 04

  Seth is uh, watching every move that Randall makes.

• 37:49Speaker 04

  He'll be watching you. Every step you take, every breath you make.

• 37:54Speaker 06

  I gotta think about it for a second. I'll show you.

• 37:57Speaker 04

  Six-letter prey on the banks of France's Tarn River.

• 38:04Speaker 04

  Do you have an answer, Randall?

• 38:06Speaker 06

  Not yet. I mean, I'm thinking of things that by rivers.

• 38:13Speaker 04

  Okay, Corey thinks he has it right now.

• 38:15Speaker 07

  Dude, I got less pressure against me though.

• 38:17Speaker 04

  Nate needs to get this to uh, stay even with Brody. Nate, do you have an answer?

• 38:22Speaker 06

  I got an answer, but I don't like it.

• 38:23Speaker 04

  Okay, it's a six-letter, uh, six-letter answer.

• 38:25Speaker 07

  It's singular?

• 38:27Speaker 04

  Not giving you any, any more hints. Wells catfish have been compared to killer whales because of how they haunt their six-letter prey on the banks of France's Tarn River. Brody's in great spirits over here. He's doing a little jig.

• 38:40Speaker 05

  Maybe I got it wrong. Maybe I, maybe I'm way off.

• 38:44Speaker 05

  But I'll go down knowing I'm an angler, unlike Nate.

• 38:48Speaker 06

  You don't, yeah, you got me.

• 38:51Speaker 04

  How's it looking over there, Seth?

• 38:54Speaker 06

  It's not great.

• 38:55Speaker 07

  He should be turning red at any moment.

• 38:57Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 38:58Speaker 06

  No, I don't care.

• 39:01Speaker 04

  Is everybody ready?

• 39:02Speaker 06

  Give me, give me like 10 seconds.

• 39:03Speaker 04

  Okay. Laura, do you have this one right? No.

• 39:07Speaker 06

  I'm pulling for you, Randall.

• 39:09Speaker 05

  Boy, it's been a while since that number 10 fishing question came through for me.

• 39:14Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 39:15Speaker 06

  Something has, I've been thinking about Wells a lot. Actually saw some at a fish market.

• 39:21Speaker 04

  A Wells catfish?

• 39:22Speaker 06

  Yeah, smaller ones.

• 39:24Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 39:24Speaker 06

  Like, like two and three footers. But I've been thinking about them a lot.

• 39:31Speaker 04

  Do you give up now?

• 39:33Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 39:35Speaker 04

  Nate? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Laura, without an answer. Logan says shrimp. Seth says pigeon. Randall, rabbit. Corey, salmon. Nate, turtle. Brody, pigeon. The correct answer is pigeon. Brody, got that one right, making him today's big winner with eight correct answers. And Seth, he's gonna tie for second place.

• 40:03Speaker 06

  You said you'd tie me today. Yeah. Remember that? I knew this was rigged. That's a good job.

• 40:08Speaker 04

  Growing up to nine feet long and 300 pounds, the whales catfish is Europe's biggest freshwater fish. They are native to Eastern Europe and Western Asia, but have been introduced to waters across both continents. Whales were put in the Tarn River in the early 1980s and have been flourishing there ever since. That unique population is famous for hunting pigeons on shore. The catfish will wait in shallow water, then propel themselves onto dry land to grab a pigeon before slithering back into the river. A 2011 study filmed 54 of these encounters, of which 28% were successful. This type of whales catfish behavior has rarely been seen elsewhere.

• 40:48Speaker 04

  So 28% of the time, when one of those things goes for a pigeon on dry land, they eat that pigeon.

• 40:54Speaker 06

  I knew it was a bird, but I just couldn't think of a six-letter bird. I was going through duckling, ducks. Yeah, cuz I told you, I couldn't think of a six... Would I should have put down a five-letter bird?

• 41:08Speaker 04

  Alright, Brody is today's winner. Eight correct answers.

• 41:10Speaker 07

  Do you think there's any correlation between the heat in this room and like the angstiness?

• 41:14Speaker 06

  There might be. No, it has to do with deadlines.

• 41:18Speaker 04

  Brody, $500 donation, what's it gonna be?

• 41:20Speaker 05

  Oh, let's, let's go to Pheasants Unlimited, I mean Pheasants Forever.

• 41:26Speaker 04

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• 41:50Speaker 06

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• 41:55Speaker 06

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