The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 339: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia XI

Episode Date: June 8, 2022

Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Dustin Huff, Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Ryan Callaghan, Mark Kenyon, Hayden Sammak, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider. Thanks to listener Ed Neumann for making us a Trivia Trophy!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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without cell phone service as a special offer. You can get a free three months to try out OnX if you visit onxmaps.com slash meet. Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host, Spencer Newhart, and today we're joined by special guest Dustin Huff, who killed the biggest whitetail buck in America, and Mark Kenyon, who did not. You're really proud of that line, aren't you? Very proud of that.

He was laying in bed a couple nights ago. You woke up. I got it. Just started laughing. I got it. Dustin and Mark, welcome to the show. In addition to those folks, we got Steve, Hayden, Cal, Brody, Corinne, and Giannis. Dustin and

Mark, how do you guys feel about trivia? I'm fired up about it. Yeah? I'm ready. I got an announcement to make. Yeah, let's hear it. From now on, instead of talking about how many times someone won, it's your batting average, your percentage. So, it's your batting average,

your percentage. So it's blank at blank percent. So it's like, you know what I'm saying? The percentage of times you've played, then you've won. What am I trying to say? Yeah. The number of times you've played.

Yeah, the percent. What's your success rate? Your success rate. Because the way you're doing it is stupid well you're really not gonna like remember like clay played one time but he and he he gotta win so you're like clay won once well it's like doesn't tell a full story because clay it's a hundred percent i think folks yeah but you also need like a pool to draw like if you only play one time that's not really yeah full story. Yeah, you're right.

It's not percent. It's one for blank. There you go. Because that way people can go like, okay, he had a lucky day. Yeah. But like when it was me, it'd be like, he's like 90 for 100. Wow. Or whatever I'm at.

Then that like really tells the story. Just got to do Vegas odds for. That's my announcement. Go on. Now, if you're not familiar, this is a 10 round quiz show with questions born out of That really tells the story. Just got to do Vegas odds for... That's my announcement. Go on. Now, if you're not familiar, this is a 10-round quiz show with questions born out of Meadeater's four verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking. And there's a prize. Meadeater will donate $500 to the conservation organization of the winners choosing.

And here's Steve's favorite part. Steve has won five times. Brody's won four. Giannis has won two. Clay, Seth, Corinne, and Chester have each won once. But Corrine didn't win once. That was a cheat. That was the April Fool's Day joke. Listen, I gave you both a victory, and I'm maintaining that.

I feel strongly that Corrine gets a victory. Steve and I are just going to start cheating. But you should say, like, you could be like, because you haven't implemented my thing, you could be like, and Dustin's never won. Can I Google the answers? No, you can't do anything like, you could be like, Dustin's never won. Can I Google the answers? No, you can't do

anything like that. Oh, shoot. Dustin's never won. Dustin's never won. Now we have two surprises to announce before we get to trivia. Here's the first one. Phil, you got a drumroll over there? It'll be in the show. Alright. Drumroll happening.

Meteater Trivia is going to become a weekly podcast. Woo! Oh! So what's that mean? Every Wednesday going forward until I run out of trivia questions, we are going to be releasing new episodes of Meat Eater Trivia right here on the Meat Eater Podcast feed, and I'm absolutely thrilled about it.

I love hosting these and coming up with questions, but to make these episodes great on a weekly basis, I'm going to need a lot of help from listeners. So here's my plea. If you have a question you think is right for Meat Eater Trivia, you can send it to trivia at themeateater.com. Every email you guys send is much appreciated.

Yeah, and I'll point out that now that it's weekly and it's going to occur when I'm not there, I have been sending Spencer great questions for when I'm not in the room. So other players in the room here can say, hey, when I'm not around, here's a doozy. That's right. And I sent gold.

We'll even acknowledge when we get a steep question. So first announcement, media trivia happening weekly. Here's the second announcement. And this is a surprise that no one in the room knows except for me. Sitting in front of Brody on the podcast table under a blanket is a giant object that we're about to reveal. You guys have any

guesses as to what it might be? Picture of the Huff Buck. Oh, I like that. Nothing? Nothing else? Is it something we talked about in the past? It's got to have something to do with meat eater trivia. Game show accessory is what I'm

going to go with. Am I close? We're on the right track. Hit us with another drumroll, Phil. We got two of them. Alright, reveal for us, Brody, what we have. Don't break it. This is a custom meat-eater trivia trophy. Oh, look at that.

Game on, suckers. Now, it was built by podcast listener Ed Newman. Kel's never won. Zero percent. There was three, four. Wow. Four times. Wow, that's a huge. This was built. Wow. Four times. Wow.

This was built by podcast listener Ed Newman. Ed is the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics coordinator and engineering design and development master teacher at Belleville High School in Wisconsin. Ed created this trophy with the help of some students in one of the manufacturing classes he teaches. Here is Ed to tell us more about that process. A few months back, I was listening to meat eater trivia with my son when I thought that you mugs needed a trophy. So I sent a message to Spencer and he told me he loved the idea and we began the collaborative secret project immediately. The process for creating a trophy

started by using a live edge slab of hemlock that was harvested from a buddy's property in northern Wisconsin. On the front of the trophy you'll find an updated scoreboard for each member of the crew. The back of the trophy has a list of conservation organizations that you may choose to donate to. The base of the trophy has the meteor's four pillars and the bottom of the trophy has a message from me to the crew as well as the latitude and longitude of where the tree came from pockets on the trophy were cut with a cnc router making chips at 20 000 revolutions per minute the orange game on suckers is an epoxy inlay that i did by hand all other texts and graphics were engraved or cut using a laser engraver some of my current students got in on the fun and helped with laser engraving, installing

magnets and post production work on game pieces. I've also videoed the entire process so that future classes can see how many steps go into finishing a major project like this. After two full months of working on the trophy, it was ready to travel from Wisconsin to Montana. I've worked on a lot of projects, but nothing like this. I was a touch emotional packaging up the trophy, and I have felt some separation anxiety since. Thank you, Meteor Crew, for having me be part of the show.

You have no idea how much this has meant to me. All right. No, thank you, Ed. That is awesome. For this amazing gift. I do have one question. What does God get? Like a large badge.

So, at the top of our trophy, which if you want to see the trophy, go to Instagram, check out at Spencer New Arthur at MeatEater. We'll post pictures of it there. At the very top of the trophy, there is a little game piece that says Giannis Futelis and has a big old eagle on it. That is because Giannis was the last winner of Meat Eater Trivia. But every name that's on the trophy also has a game piece that you guys helped me pick out without even knowing. And whenever we have a new winner, they will get to fly their flag on the trophy until they're unseated. I got a mountain goat. There you go. I got a mink. This is like that fantastical thing from goat. There you go. I got a mink.

This is like that fantastical thing from Harry Potter. I think I picked, oh, did I pick a mink or an otter? You picked a mink. That's a mink. A little mink. He's burly. He's been eating good. So after this game of trivia, if Giannis loses,

we will replace that game piece with someone else's so that everybody who sees the trophy knows who is the reigning champion. Oh, there's even one for, um, oh, Brody. Is that the Huff Buck on yours? No, man, that's the Ranella Buck. Oh, I didn't see it. But there's, uh, there's one for the trivia guest.

We have never had a trivia guest winner. Yeah, if you win for us, then you get to proudly place Bigfoot up there. But we're ready just in case. If next year when he gets a new class in, he might consider a thing that shows how many times they've played. I love it. Tally marks. That's what we'll do, hash marks.

It could just be better. That's a great idea, hash marks. Now let me try to describe the size of Ed's trophy. This thing is heavier than Pete Alonzo's home run derby trophy, taller than Bo Jackson's Heisman trophy, and wider than all of Luke Combs' CMA awards. So all this is to say is that this is a damn big trophy and a real work of art. Now, if you want your own custom trophy,

you can contact Ed, whose email address we'll put in the description of this episode. Ed is the advisor for Wildcat Manufacturing, which is the school student run business. They will open up shop this fall and plan on selling steel fire pits, cocktail smokers, custom sides, laser engraved trophy plaques, cribbage boards, candy machines,

bottle openers, fire claws, and more. Ed actually sent me one of their cocktail smokers and turkey plaques, and both are phenomenal. If you have any custom creations you need done, I can't recommend Ed and Wildcat Manufacturing enough. Ed is awesome to work with, their products are impeccably made,

and you're supporting a good cause by doing business with a student-run business. Jeez. Well done. Bravo. That's awesome. Now, we also need to shout out to Hunter Spencer here. i brought him in uh to help with some text stuff but it ended up being that hunter almost designed the whole trophy and then ed executed it so well done to hunter and ed now corinne on your game piece did you

see what that is it's a dairy call it's a what it's a dairy call it's the bird from harry potter that's right that's that's what uh corinne requested for her game piece instead we gave her the dodo bird which is what the deer claw is based off of all right we are now on to meat eater trivia play the drop phil look i need to know what i stand to win. Everything. How's that? You stand to win everything. Game on, suckers! Question one, the topic is cooking. This first great question comes to us via Peyton Snyder.

If you have a question you think is right for Meat Eater Trivia, you can send it to trivia at TheMeatEater.com. And as always, this first question will be multiple choice. Which of these wild meats is highest in calories? Is it squirrel,

black bear, bluegill, or moose? Again, which of these wild meats is highest in calories? Squirrel, black bear, bluegill, or moose?

Do you mean like flesh or an average cut that would include fat? This is what the USDA has to say. So however they grade their nutritional value. Didn't like that one? No, I liked it. Does everybody have an answer? Yes. Corinne, scribbling.

Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying bear, Hayden saying bear. No, how do you know he's not saying bluegill? What the hell does B mean? Multiple choice, A, B, C, D. Going forward, we're going to write out the whole word. Cal saying bluegill. Dustin saying bear.

Brody saying bear. Corinne saying moose. Mark saying bear. And Giannis saying squirrel. The correct answer is black bear. That's right. God. According to the USDA, raw black bear meat has 161 calories per 3.5 ounce serving.

How could you guys not put that together? It's like they got a ton of fat. So does a squirrel, Steve. No, it doesn't. You ever hear of being starving, like rabbit starvation? There's a term for it. What is the term? Yeah, that's right.

That's how you can starve to death, eating rabbits? Yeah, rabbit wasn't on there. It was squirrel. It's like flesh like a rabbit, though. Squirrel comes in at 120 calories. Oh, so squirrel was number two. Moose at 103 and bluegill at 89.

Squirrel scores better than moose. It does. Now, it can send a shitload of black bears, and I'll tell you, not every black bear is fat. Right? Right? I mean... Fatter than a bluegill. All I'm saying is I got it right

Carnivore diet Fish flesh Has a super high fat to protein ratio What'd you put down? Bluegill The room did pretty well Super subjective That's true

Steve is just smitten over there After one I feel like going and getting them bag with badass boots and pulling them boots on, man. We're on to question two. The topic is fishing. In 1998, Congress voted to make this body of water the sixth Great Lake, but the status was removed 18 days later after a nationwide uproar. In 1998, Congress voted to make this body of water the sixth Great Lake, but the status

was removed 18 days later after a nationwide uproar. Well, if it ain't multiple choice, I ain't got a prayer. There are five Great Lakes, but at one time for 18 days, there were six. I think I got it, Spencer. I think you think you got it, but you didn't get it. Oh, that was a good little hint. Let me think. I would have said that either way, regardless of the question. Oh, you would?

That wasn't a hint? No. Does everybody have an answer? No. Well, I'll tell you what it should have been. So will I. Again, looking for the sixth Great Lake that existed for 18 days in 1998. Yanni, we're running out of time.

Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. I wonder what the economic benefit to having a body of water called a Great Lake is. You are setting the table nicely for the follow-up factoid. Thank you, Cal. I'm ready. I'm going to have you reveal your answers in three,

your tip, two, one. We have Steve saying Lake St. Clair. Hayden saying Tahoe. Cal without an answer. Dusty without an answer. Brody saying Lake St. Clair. Corinne without an answer. Mark saying Lake St. Clair.

Giannis without an answer. Nobody got it correct. The correct answer is Lake Champlain. Oh! Why do people have a shit fit about that? Here's what happened. A routine funding bill was created in 1998 that would provide $300 million

to research centers near the Great Lakes. But Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy slipped a sentence into the final bill that also declared Lake Champlain as the sixth great Lake. And it passed with no one noticing the New York times classic pork barrel. That's what gives pork barrel a bad connotation. The New York times broke the story shortly thereafter,

bringing national attention to the issue. Predictably policymakers were furious with Leahy and had Champlain's great Lake status rescinded just 18 days later. That's a good little tidbit. I thought the obvious answer that people would move with is Lake of the Woods. I thought maybe folks would have... I thought St. Clair because it's connected

to the highlands. St. Clair is a very good answer. Let's move on. No one got us on that. No one got it on that map. We're on to question three. But you're from a Great Lakes state. Kind of.

Like Michigan? Kind of. A little sliver. Just a... The topic is conservation. How many days is the drying period before antlers, horns, or skulls are officially scored by Boone and Crockett

or Pope and Young? Dustin, you get this wrong, we're going to throw you out of the room. I think I might know this one. Now, are you putting this in the conservation category because you had to say Boone and Crockett or Pope and Young? Yeah, those are conservation organizations that started to track big game, antler growth and horn growth, things like that. So yeah, I think it's a conservation question.

I'm with you, Cal. I'm with you. I feel you. I feel you. But this is a criticism I brought up 100 times. I gave up. Listen, if we're going to make a board game that has 3,000 questions, this has got these styles.

I don't have a problem with this one, Spencer. I think you're right. Thank you, bro. I love this. My issue. Does everybody have an answer? Yeah, I think you're right. I love this one. My issue. Does everybody have an answer? Yeah, I got it. Go ahead and reveal your answers.

We have Steve saying 120. Hayden saying 60. Cal saying 100. Dustin saying 60. Brody saying 60. Corinne saying 60. Mark saying 60. Giannis saying 60.

The correct answer is 60. I don't think that's long enough. No. Let him go three years. I think it should be one. I was putting out what it should be. Now, this rule also applies to deadheads. One of the most extreme examples is a dead bighorn sheep that was found in an Alberta snowdrift in 2014.

It originally green scored at over 209 inches, which at the time would have made it the world record. But after the 60 day drying period, it shrank four inches and cause it to fall to sixth in the record books. Wow. That's really something. So that's why this exists. Why do they attribute, like what,

why did it, it was in a snow bank and they said it had so much moisture in it that the 60 days, well, like, like, is it like a, the circumference?

I wonder if like, I wonder what measurements shrink the most. I imagine it's not getting longer. It's probably just losing mass. What'd you have, Brody? 60. Now, Dustin, did your deer shrink at all after the 60 days? Not an inch.

Nope. That's great. Well, a lot of guys tell me what you do is you age them in a bucket of water. That's right. Oh, but there are very specific rules about it has to be at room temperature. It has to be in a dry environment. Folks are very passionate about making sure that standard is met. Did anybody like give you a hard time about that?

And so you just like stored it right in your living room or what? I just had it in the barn. In the barn? Yeah, I just had it in the barn. That's awesome. Had it locked up in the barn. You didn't try gluing a couple more times on there? I should have tried, I guess.

Or knock that little kicker off. Knock the little kicker off. Were you nervous for that 60 days? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's all I was thinking about. Spencer, I just learned that a buddy of mine is the new world record Sitka Blacktail Deer holder. Oh, that's cool.

And that happened. And he shot the deer, left it with his friend in Alaska. About 10 years later, his buddy is like, I'm going to get this scored. And he just found out that he is the world record, non-typical Sitka black tail deer. I'm only impressed if he didn't shoot it on Kodiak.

I want to say he was on Sitka. It's a non-typical and the bases on it are like as round, as big around as this microphone, like five inch base. You're going to write an article about that one, Spencer? I don't know. I like the idea that he did the 3,000 day drying period though. That thing was bone dry.

Run to question four. The topic is biology. This next great question comes to us via Ryan Nicoletti. This is the only person so far that we've used two questions from. Thank you, Ryan. If you have a question

you think is right for Meat Eater Trivia, you can send it to trivia at themeateater.com. Known as the texas speed bump this is one of the only animals in the world that carries leprosy known as the texas speed bump this is one of the only animals in the world that carries leprosy you're wrong, Corrine. I remember talking about this in Texas.

What's the Harry Potter name? Hey, did you know the last one, Corrine, because you were researching the Huffbook? Because I talked to Austin. Oh, you got that right? It was in the document, Steve. Oh. It was on paper. I had a backup question in case that specific thing came up. We didn't need to use the backup question, but I was prepared, and it never did.

Oh, yeah, I got you. Does everybody have an answer? Yeah, I feel pretty good about it. What do you got, Brody? I got an answer. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying armadillo, armadillo, armadillo, armadillo. Everybody got it right.

The correct answer is armadillo, armadillo, armadillo, armadillo. Everybody got it right. The correct answer is armadillo. Other animals that have been known to carry leprosy include chimpanzees and red squirrels. Although the disease is quite common in armadillos, the CDC says the odds of a human getting it are incredibly low because about 95% of people have natural immunity. You should have left out the Texas speed bump thing. It's like a cutesy thing. You're like, no, no shit. It's going to be an armadillo. But you want me to say what's one of the only animals in the world that carries leprosy? Yeah. But that's like

pretty subjective. Okay, you should have said whatever the hell. I would have thought of something. I would have said a tiger or something. Question five. The topic is woodsmanship. We will get a scoreboard update from Phil after this. How many leaves does poison ivy have? Oh, shoot.

How many leaves does poison ivy have? That doesn't make any sense. It absolutely makes sense. If you took a poison ivy plant and figured out where it's terminus and beginning is it counting how many leaves it had? It's just the way the question's worded. It's stupid.

You could have framed the question a little better, Spencer. This is the episode where we're just going to pick on Spencer. I know we just announced weekly, but are you running out of good questions? Nobody would disagree with this. Oh, come on, Steve. I know what you're going at, but it's a stupid question. If I said, how many needles are on my Christmas tree?

Not even close to the same thing. Do people mean, do I have to count up every needle on the Christmas tree? Or do I have to be like, oh, it's a three-needle pine. So it's three or a five-needle pine. You got an answer yet? Yeah. Does everybody have an answer? I guess.

Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying three, three, three, three. The whole room got it right. The correct answer is three. Still a stupid question. But they could have 216. That's a big plan. Who knows? Highly variable.

There's even the rhyme that's... Yeah, whatever it would be, it'd be divisible by three. Leaves of three, let it be. Have you ever heard that one? No. Leaves of three, let it be. Now, I am part of the 15% of Americans that are immune to

poison ivy, but if you're part of the other 85%, then you should check out Mark Kenyon's 2019 article on TheMeatEater.com called How to Identify, Avoid, and Treat Poison Ivy. It'll tell you everything you need to know about this itchy plant. Well, the plant's not itchy. I mean, I don't know. Is poison ivy itchy? When you talk to poison ivy, you'll be like, is there a worse thing know. Is poison ivy itchy? If you could talk to poison ivy,

it would be like, the worst thing about being a poison ivy? Now, Giannis, you just had like a brutal run-in with poison ivy, right? I itch constantly. Poison oak, yes. Oh, poison oak. Are you going to elaborate or no?

Oh, I mean, I could. It was bad. It lasted months. Don't geneticists think that poison oak and poison ivy are the same? Isn't that a thing now? I think it's the same kind of like oil or whatever. Yeah.

I thought it was something where they're like phenotypes. I'll have to look it up. Put that in a future question. Phil hit us with a scoreboard update. Third place with two points is Cal. Then we have Corinne, Dustin, Giannis, and Steve, all with three points in second place. And then in first place, tied for first place,

all with four points, Brody, Hayden, and Mark. Oh. Anybody's game. Hey, folks. Exciting news for those who live or hunt in Canada. And boy, my goodness do we hear from the Canadians whenever we do a raffle or a sweepstakes. And our raffle and sweepstakes law makes it that they can't join. Whew, our northern brothers get irritated. Well, if you're sick of, you know, sucking a high-end titty there, OnX is now in Canada.

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As a special offer, you can get a free three months to try OnX out if you visit onxmaps.com slash meet. OnXMaps.com slash meet. Welcome to the OnX club, y'all. We're on to question six. The topic is public lands. This next great question comes to us via Michael Patak.

If you have a question you think is right for MeatE trivia you can send it to trivia at the meat eater.com what type of federal public land has the most visitors per year i'll give you a hint it's not the national park service what type of federal public land has the most visitors per year and the answer is not the National Park Service. Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got to run that TikTok noise for a long time, so I got to think this through.

Is this total number of visitors? Yeah, what would be the other option? I don't know. Children count the same as adults. No, I'm just the other option? I don't know. Children count the same as adults. No, I'm just... But it's like... You could do a number of days. I wish I could take Spencer outside and ask him a couple questions.

Well, I know, because the Park Service... Yeah, they manage the blank. Yeah. I think that would mean that it's part of the National Park Service, though. I don't think you can call that separate. I'm not going to say anymore. There might be a real problem when he gets the answer. I will tell you this. And I am going to have can call that separate. I'm not going to say anymore. There might be a real problem when he gives the answer.

And I am going to have an absolute shit fit. The answer is not the National Park Service. What type of federal public land has the most visitors per year? I'm going to have an absolute shit fit. Does everybody have an answer? Yes. Wait, no. Hayden, you're running out of time.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying the National, what do you got here? Monument National Forest? Oh, no, that was my answer. No, this. National Forest. Hayden saying BLM.

Cal saying USDA. Dustin saying State. Brody saying National Forest. Corinne saying National Forest. Mark saying National Forest. Giannis saying BLM. The correct answer is Army Corps of Engineers,

which nobody got. Because they drive them over the bridges? Well, the reservoirs, I suppose. The Army Corps of Engineers, who manages many of America's major water bodies, has about 370 million visitors per year. That's followed by the National Park

Service at 331 million, U.S. Forest Service at 148 million, and BOR at 90 million. Do you know what else I'm going to have a shit fit about? If it was like refuges or something? If you were going to say monuments. It was not. Because those are administered by mostly Park Service.

Again, Army Corps of Engineers. It's a great question. No one got it right. It's the first good question of the day. We, Army Corps of Engineers. It's a great question. No one got it right. It's the first good question of the day. We're on to question seven. The topic is hunting. It was a phenomenal question. Now I know you're not going to like this one.

The Outdoor Channel acquired the rerun rights to Duck Dynasty in 2016. What network did it originally air on before that? The Outdoor Channel acquired the rerun rights to Duck Dynasty in 2016. What network did it originally air on before that? Oh, I cockily wrote my answer down. Does everybody have an answer? I think I got it too

Is there like a specific amount of time you're allowed? Or you just go by feel? Just feel I think that's Steve saying hurry up Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers We have Steve saying A andE, Hayden saying E, Cal saying... What are we saying, Cal?

ESPN. ESPN. Dustin saying A&E, Brody saying the History Channel, Corinne saying TLC, Mark saying Travel Channel, and Giannis saying A&E. What did Brody put? Oh, sweet. The correct answer is A&E. That's all put? Oh, sweet. The correct answer is A&E. That's alright,

we're tied now. Yeah, well, that's where I want to be. Duck Dynasty aired on A&E for 11 seasons between 2012 and 2017. The season 2 finale was a Christmas special that became the most watched A&E episode in network history, a record the show ended

up breaking three more times. I saw one episode while I was sick in a hotel room in Vegas during shot show. And, uh, well, Phil described, uh, this. Phil the engineer. Nope. Phil Robertson described his dispute he was having with his neighbor over a barking dog and his. Whose dog was barking?

Phil's dog. Okay. And his explanation was just that the dog was barking phil's dog okay and his explanation was just that the dog was happy to be an american living in america and i thought that was great and i never never watched another episode but the show didn't have anything to do with hunting uh i mean they shot they didn't like show guys shooting ducks it was kind of a soap opera wasn't it yeah it was a spin-ff of Duck Commander, which then became Strut Commander and Buck Commander. We'll get another scoreboard update after this.

The topic is cooking. The world champion squirrel cook-off is held every year in what state? Oh, my. The world champion squirrel cook-off is held every year in what state? We've even been invited. I'm just going to guess. Ain't got a clue. Can we get a multiple choice?

Yeah. You got 50 choices. Yeah. Hawaii. Alaska. Alaska. Again, the world champion squirrel cook-off is held every year in what state? Does everybody have an answer?

No. Put a state. Do you know it, Brody? I don't. Like, I, yeah. We'll see. Oh, me and you are close. Yanni?

I was going to say that, too. That's what I was thinking, too. Son of a bitch. I even had a t-shirt about it. Everybody reveal your answers. We have Steve saying Missouri, Hayden saying Missouri, Cal saying Virginia, Dustin saying Arkansas, Brody saying Mississippi, Corinne saying Arkansas, Mark saying Missouri, Yanni saying Mississippi.

We do have a right answer in the room. It is Arkansas. Boom! Dustin coming in on the scorecard. Let's go, let's go. Our very own Clay Newcomb covered the competition in 2019. The teams who won first, second, and third were generous enough to share their recipes with Clay,

which you can find on TheMeatEater.com. If you want to learn how to make their award-winning squirrel tacos, squirrel dumplings, and squirrel enchiladas, then go to our website and type in winning recipes from the world champion squirrel cook-off. Hey, you know when you do, like, listener feedback and corrections up top? How come you didn't do where I wrote in about how you pronounce Jaguar? We're backed up on that kind of thing. Yeah.

I do pronounce that wrong. I've noticed that... I say Jaguar. Folks who talk about sports, it's very common for someone to say Jacksonville Jaguars. But when you hear I'm serious

the worst offenders are people who talk about sports and say Jacksonville Jaguars and have just been exposed to it so much I can't help it that's what I say Jaguar Phil hit us with a scoreboard update we have two questions left alright

everyone is still in it, except for Cal. I'm sorry, Cal. I'm going for the fences. That's my guy. But tied for second place, we have Brody, Corinne, Hayden, Giannis, Mark, and Steven. And first place is Dustin Huff. Whoa! We have never had a trivia

guest winner. This might be the first time. I had one out of 50, and I just picked Arkansas. Two questions left. This might be the first time. I had one out of 50 and I just picked Arkansas. Two questions left. This is question nine. The topic is conservation. This next great question comes to us via Mike Stephan. If you have a question you think is right for Media to Trivia, you can

send it to trivia at themedia.com. This animal was removed from the endangered species list in 1987 and can now be hunted in nine southern states. What is it? This animal was removed from the endangered species list in 1987 and can now be hunted in nine southern states. Southern states. What is it?

Nine southern states. I don't know. Can it be hunted in any northern states? Not giving any feedback. This animal was removed from the endangered species list in 1987. Can now be hunted in nine southern states. I might be having a shit fit about something in a minute, man. Nine southern states.

Not northern states. I believe I said southern. Southern, yep, I said southern. Southern states. Those are states where you can't ice fish, Steve. Does everybody have an answer? You got an answer written down, though? I got one.

Okay, we need you to keep up this pace. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying, what do we got? Cormorant? Hayden saying alligator. Cal saying alligator. I thought he said a bird. Dustin saying pheasant.

Never said a bird. Oh, hold on a minute. Cody saying alligator. I thought he said a bird. Nowhere did I say a bird. Oh, I wouldn't have put that down. Nobody said bird. Corinne saying dove.

Mark saying sandhill crane. Giannis saying black bear. It's this. The correct answer is the American alligator. Dude, you said bird. I never said bird. Son of a bitch. What'd you write, Brody?

Comes down to the last. We are down to our last question. Phil, one more scoreboard update. Let's see. We've got Brody, Dustin, and Hayden now all tied for first with five points. And then Corinne, Giannis, and Mark and Steve with four.

So if I had listened properly, if I had been listening as intently as I was talking, I'd be tied for first. That is correct. That's going to put a big asterisk. Would be. The last question,

the topic is fishing. This California city has a knot named after it that was invented by offshore tuna anglers who tied it on heavy iron jigs. This California city has a knot named after it that was invented by offshore tuna anglers who tied it on heavy iron jigs.

Has a what named after it? A knot, like a fishing knot. K-N-O-T. I'm going to disappoint you. Oh, give me a second. Really? It's like one of two things. I'm pretty sure I'm picking the wrong one.

Let's not give any hints. This California city has a knot named after it that was invented by offshore tuna anglers. There's a lot on the line here. We may go to a tiebreaker with like four or five folks. I got a wicked sunbird and blood knot California. Did some unspeakable things there. Does it work if I just tie the knot? No.

Again, looking for the California city that has this knot named after it. Does everybody have an answer? Wait, wait. I got a wrong answer. I got to change it. Is it a California city? Hey, you can't be, like, changing this late in the game. Not yet. I got a wrong answer. I got to change it. Is it a California city? Hey, you can't be like changing this late in the game. Come on. The clock's still ticking.

Literally. All right. Is everybody good? Marcus, you look like you're thinking real hard. I'm just trying to think of a better answer than what I have. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying, let's see it. I didn't write it, but I can tie it.

What's your answer? Palomar. Steve says Palomar. Hayden says Palomar. Steve says Palomar. Hayden says Palomar. Cal saying Palomar. Dustin saying Sacramento. Brody saying Santa Barbara. Corinne saying Malibu.

Mark saying San Diego. And Yana saying San Diego. We do have a correct answer in the room. Do you guys have any guesses as to who it is? Palomar. The correct answer is San Diego. San Diego. Yanni.

It is the San Diego. Is Palomar even a town in California? No, but I think it is a mountain. Now, it is the San Diego Jam or the San Diego Knot. Where does that leave us, Phil, for an ending score? I could not have tied that for you. This leaves us with a five-way tie between Brody, Dustin, Hayden, Giannis, and

Mark. Game on, suckers. This has never happened. Hold on, Steve's not in it? No, because I was too busy talking. This is getting crazy. Okay, repeat one more time. For you at home, Steve is taking off his earphones.

He's walking out. He's walking out. Sweat running down his temples. No, I'm my own worst enemy, man. I'm my own worst enemy. I just need to focus on playing and not try to play Spencer's game too, man. One more time. Who do we got going to the tiebreaker?

Brody, Dustin, Hayden, Giannis, and Mark. Incredible. Never been done before in trivia. I'm rooting for Dustin big time. Phil, do we have a tiebreaker brody dustin hayden yannis and mark incredible never been done before in big time phil do we have a a tiebreaker you know this is expensive we will win it tiebreaker if you ain't first you're last but that doesn't make any sense at all you first you're last you can be second you You can be second. You can be third, fourth. Hell, you can even be fifth. The topic for the tiebreaker is hunting. The heaviest turkey in NWTF's record books

was killed by David Cody Guess in Kentucky in 2015. How much did it weigh? The heaviest turkey to the nearest one. So the way you will write your answer is point something. So you'd write 5.5, not 5 pounds and 8 ounces. You'd write 5.5. So I got to write 62.0? Yes.

Again, the heaviest turkey in NWTF's record books. Now they go to two decimal places. So, write your answer to do two decimal places. Killed in Kentucky in 2015. How much did it weigh? We may have Mark take a victory on his first ever episode. We may have Dustin, who is representing every trivia guest that's ever joined us, who has never won, taking victory.

Hey! Brody's an old head. That wouldn't be very interesting if he won. Hayden has never won either. And Giannis, who would be going for his third victory. Hey, did Tommy Edson already come on and play? No, he hasn't been here yet. According to him, he wins every game.

Does everybody have an answer? I'm waiting for you, Tommy. I do. Oh, and I played at home. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Hayden saying 31.61 pounds. Dustin saying 37.86. Brody saying 39.25. Mark saying 32.25. Brody saying 39.25. Mark saying 32.25.

Giannis saying 39. Now, one of you is within a pound. Not. Oh, way closer than a pound. Just come not in it. You're not counting it. Hold up your answers one more time. Let me see them.

Somebody is within 0. two of the correct answer Steve who do you think it is? Yanni. You think it's Yanni? And the winner is Dustin! Oh my god! The correct answer was 37.61 He was damn near on the nose.

Well done, Dustin. The man can sing, he can kill big deer, and he's damn smart. How do you think I passed high school? Awesome. Now, Dustin, our winner gets to choose where the $500 donation from Meat Eater will go. So who are you going to give? You can pick outside of that too. I can? As long as you're involved in

wildlife conservation. Well shoot, we'll just do the National Deer Association. Oh, that's great. How's that? That is perfect. Unbelievable game, man. Unbelievable game. Well played. I about put 40-something, but I was like let's go 30-something. That was a phenomenal game.

You know, that was a lot of pressure, but as we heard from the earlier podcast, Dustin is comfortable in high-pressure situations. Yeah, it was a big, big moment. And he was playing across a pretty big variety of subject matters there. I was nervous. That was. Would you like to replace Giannis up there? Yes.

And it's a stacked field that he's playing against. It's not like he's got Clay Newcomb and whoever else in here. Whatever other dumb birds we know. There we go. Oh, guess. You know what? Do us a quick favor.

Throw your initials on the back of that guess. We should do that. Can we make this the Huff Buck now? We need space for other people. Well done, Dustin. Thank you for joining us, Mark. Thanks for coming.

Join us next time on another round of Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. Well, Dustin won. Thanks, Spencer. Appreciate it. That was a phenomenal performance, Dustin. I'm very deeply impressed, man. Come in cold off the street, dude.

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