The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 376: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia XXIX

Episode Date: October 12, 2022

Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, NY Mets players Pete Alonso, Chris Bassitt, Tyler Naquin, Tommy Hunter, David Peterson, Stephen Nogosek, and Sean Weaver, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider. 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 meat. It's a meat-eater podcast. Welcome to Meat-Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host, Spencer Newarth, and today we're joined by Stephen Rinella, Sean Weaver, Corinne Schneider, and a whole bunch of special guests from the New York Mets.

Fellas, please go around the room and introduce yourselves. Hey, I'm Tommy Hunter, pitcher with the Mets. Stephen Nigosik, pitcher with the Mets. Chris Bassett, pitcher with the Mets. Steven Nigosic, pitcher with the Mets. Chris Bassett, pitcher with the Mets. Pete Alonzo, first baseman for the Mets. Steve Rinella, I played T-ball but dropped out. Tyler Naquin, outfielder for the Mets. David Peterson, pitcher for the Mets.

Give us a better intro than that now we're gonna go around the room again tell us some of your bona fides when it comes to the outdoors what you like to do hunting fishing things like that uh tommy hunter again um i uh i just i just like to get outside um whether fishing um uh going offshore uh bass fishing tarpons the tarpons. Where'd you grow up? I grew up in Indiana, Indianapolis. But my parents live in Port Charlotte.

So we go down there, get offshore, love doing that. But I also live in Ohio now, and I've got a few acres in my backyard. I've got a few deer that run back, so we do that. And then being in baseball, it's pretty much exposed me to the hunting world with all these guys and just getting out in the off season and visiting with guys and going and killing shit. Now, that was a good introduction. Everyone needs to match that now going forward. All right, Steven Nigosik.

I grew up waterfowl hunting in Northern California. I moved to Oregon and started my big game journey and been getting my ass kicked ever since. Pete was predicting that you might win trivia. There's a chance.

Where in Northern California? Just north of Sacramento. I grew up in Roseville and then we did all of our hunting in calusa winters gotcha and up by klamath at all no i actually lived in klamath that's where i went uh when i moved to oregon that's where i killed my first buck uh took me three years but got him with a bow yeah and elk i've been getting my absolute ass kicks i can't i haven't even been close but that's a sneaky duck hunting area though too man i mean it used to be i would rate klamath one of the best places when i had water when i had water when we get water but i also love just like natural flood rivers yeah uh i'm not a big like sitting blind in a rice field

i grew up doing it but now it's like I can't do it anymore. When I get older, I'm definitely having a Tommy Hunter blind. What do you like doing instead? Me and my pops got a duck boat, and we started doing that, and that's a lot of fun. Getting out on the river and moving around. Yeah, it's much more like go out the day before, find where the ducks are at, and put your boat close and so I built

like handmade long lines oh my language now yeah just I put paracord tight swivels on there hooked to the decoys and then weights on each side and what's the time we're hunter blind he's gonna have to explain that explain that white collar it's a would you explain as a Ritz Carlton talking propane yeah we're not getting cold where would you want there's gonna be a cooler there's gonna be ice I mean we're gonna have it we're gonna yeah I'm not well i mean it's yeah we're not doing yeah no this body doesn't walk too far so yeah but when i get older i'll have that but right now it's i want to go out and find it nice so uh chris bassett um mostly whitetail hunting um got into waterfowl uh last last year and

fell in love with it i love it um been out west elk hunting mule deer hunting but uh mostly mostly i just chase around whitetail bear a little bit just because we have a season but for the most part whitetail where'd you go duck hunting uh north carolina last year was was horrible there were just weren't ducks at all there um that was kind of everywhere we went like um where i live now is like 45 minutes from like hyde county uh in north carolina so big time black bear hunting there um but yeah for the most part i said just whitetail steve i just want to let you know that uh strange creature on the on the trail cam I asked you about, that was his property.

Oh, okay. Yeah, so he had some sort of strange mythical creature on his trail cam. Yeah, Pete wanted me to sell my hunting spot just because I had some. You had a chupacabra? Yeah, I had two of them. I had two of them on there. He said, you got to sell that thing right now, but I didn didn't i'm going with it i'm pete alonzo um i grew up tampa florida i grew up doing the whole snow redfish and trout inshore fishing um super easy it's a great fishery super easy to get

offshore um still i've not landed a tarpon yet. I know that's, that's weird because tarpon season's always, uh, in baseball season, but I've done my fair share of hooked into them, but, um, sucks not landing one. And also when I was younger, I used to go whitetail hunting a lot with my grandpa and, um, because of baseball and the, and not the season just being super long and, uh, time consuming, I haven't really had enough time to really go out and explore the big game hunting. I didn't really get a chance to do it until 2019 when Steve and I went in Colorado. He was nice enough to take me out. I went back the year after in Colorado, got a really nice elk,

and it's just been something that I'm itching to do, continuing to do, and just broadening my experience outdoors. And then hopefully this offseason I get to do some spearfishing, some free diving, and go offshore. Pete, when you win your next home run derby, are you going to make another request to go hunting with Steveve i mean i could probably just call him now what you what if i was you i would make a request to go spearfishing with cameron kurt connell all right then that's it that might be smart because he's down in your neck of the woods where's he at well he's he's fishes out of florida okay you know it

would be easy what part of what part of flor? Where do we meet up when we're down? For Lauderdale. Yeah. Okay. So I'm just saying for expertise and local convenience, that'd be the call out to make. Yeah, absolutely. I'm down.

Write that down somewhere. Do you guys ever hope that you don't make it into the playoffs and shit so you can hunt more? Fuck no. No. playoffs and shit so you can hunt more fuck no play to win baby a lot of people will say like we better win this whole damn thing or we better lose really fast I want to bass it says that I want to get home or I want to win the whole damn thing like if you've taking second, that sucks. Yeah, wasting all your time, man.

You could have been off. You could have been doing something different. Tyler Naquin, I'm from Texas. And as far as I could remember, I've been whitetail hunting many, many years with my family just growing up. And waterfowl hunting as well. We actually, my dad and brother, flew up here Wednesday night and we flew in early yesterday and we went to Prodigy down here in Jasper, Georgia. It's a duck hunting.

They make all those custom boats out there. And so we went over a couple duck hunting builds and stuff like that for the off day yesterday. And I don't know i'm just extremely my my first thing would probably just extremely addicted to uh bow hunting like whitetail and getting up in the tree and and you know just learning how to track these animals and learning how they work and see where they bed and and things like that and getting to tune your own bow and build all your own arrows and just every little aspect of that um goes a long way for me um and probably my favorite would

probably be elk hunting and stuff I've watched countless YouTube videos and hours of you guys doing all your stuff and I just but I mean we're always playing so it's probably that would probably be my number one is you know the big game stuff but mine has always been whitetail and and ducks to to this point all right great uh David Peterson um from Denver Colorado um say I'm probably the the new guy in terms of hunting uh grew up fishing a little bit in Florida and then always loved being outdoors and never really had anybody close to me who was an influence hunting wise. And then I had some friends, Nogo and I went to school together at Oregon. He kind of started to plant the seed a little bit with another teammate of ours and then had a buddy buddy one of my best friends from back home got me into

uh started with small game and did a bunch of pheasant and then had another friend from uh texas who took me out on my first uh deer archery hunt so um kind of similar to what pete said looking forward to um getting some time outside of baseball season once we're done and get out there a little more. So you guys went to college together, then wound up with the same team? That's cool. Yeah. We spent two years at Oregon together.

Nogo got drafted by the Red Sox. I got drafted by the Mets, and then he ended up getting traded over. Oh, great. Yeah, so I was drafted in 16. He was drafted in 17. And then, right, because the draft was in June of 17. And then I was traded August of 17 over. And, yeah, so he was the young buck, this little guy,

even though he's not very little. But, yeah, he came in, and i kind of was talking about hunting with uh one of our catchers who we were from the same area hunted the same area and then he started to it was like throwing a little worm out there and he started taking it little by little and now now i'm excited for when season's over we can start going on hunts so yeah good luck and we're sitting in atlanta right now about to watch you guys play the braves tonight i saw an espn headline this morning that called this the biggest regular season series in a decade so obviously really important games tell folks what's on the line here tonight well uh what's on the line is, so both teams have clinched a playoff spot. So both teams are

in. It's just a matter of whoever basically wins this series gets to win the division. And winning the division, we are rewarded by five or six off days before uh before playing the divisional series and the loser um if we lose this i mean we still have games after this but basically the loser of this series still goes to the playoffs but we only have one off day and we play in a three game series uh as opposed to a five game series with five off days. So off days are very, very rare in the baseball world, and take them while you get them, and especially now going into the postseason, getting guys healthy, getting guys back ready to go,

and full power for us, that's going to be huge. So if we win, also get to have a hell of a champagne shower. Yeah, you were describing this as the playoffs before the playoffs right i mean essentially yeah yeah all right but for now we got to focus on the media trivia who do you guys think is going to win pete already predicted that steve is going to be the the mets champion how does everyone else feel that folks are going to do i i never claimed that i'm going to say that first i i gotta i'm not the sharpest tool in the shed and i just like to read and learn but i never said i could remember it on the spot i got naquin if i had to pick yeah i think i got naquin as kind of a sleeper but

no goes sort of getting all the hype right now and he could run away with this thing but it wouldn't be surprising what are we it? You can't tell us the questions before, but what are we? Yeah, what's the category? What are we? Oh, this is all random, fellas. If this is like Disney movies, Pete might win, but...

If you're not familiar, this is a 10-round quiz show with questions from meat eaters for verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking. And there is a prize. Meat eater will donate $500

to the conservation organization of the winner's choosing. So this is testing your knowledge of hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking. Does that change anyone's answer now about who's going to win? I double down, Naquin. All right. Now, every episode here on MeatEater Trivia, we reveal a new stat. This week, we're looking at our only trivia advanced stat, which we'll refer to as war. This was inspired

by baseball's advanced stat called war. So will one of you guys please explain to Steve what war means? Steve, to be honest with you, no one knows what the fuck war means. War is a made-up number, so they could make us not that expensive. That's what it is.

Or if your war is low you become expensive it's a crazy they use it opposite so if you have a high war they try to pay you less you have a low war they try they give you a little more it's a weird it's an it's an it's crazy it's supposed to be there's a set dollar figure until you get above what they think you should be making, basically. Steve, there's a stat out there. I'll put it in the hunting world like this. Say you and two guys are going on an elk hunt, right? Yeah. And you kill a bigger bull, and you do it smooth, clean, perfect.

But the other guy on the other side of the mountain does it a little bit quicker. They're going to be like, well, yeah steve was a little bit slower so uh we're gonna have to knock some dollars off his thing even though you were better you're just not as good you're just slower and like there's there's stats and stuff like that so the war they're just poking holes in the lid of that coffee can just to not give you what you need in a way and now meat eater trivia has a war number love that this number was generated by taking a player's average score and dividing it by the average points needed to win this is a leveling factor that takes into consideration how difficult rounds of trivia are and how different players compete in them simply put the higher the number the stronger the player so our leader in war is

brody with 7.2 that's followed by steve with 6.3 yannis with 5.8 callen hayden with 5.5 and rick with 5.0 those are our only competitors with a war above five so steve how do you feel about our advanced stat well i think it uh i don't mean to dog on, you know, I don't mean to criticize these guys' criticisms about whatever war means in their world, but war in the trivia world is pretty reflective of performance in general. So you support our war stat? It seems reasonable to me.

It's weird that Sean, as an emerging threat, didn't make it in there. He's under five. I think he's right around our war stat. And with that, we are on to meat eater trivia play the drop i got one quick question before you play the drop uh can you walk me through like you'd like to throw a bone to guess how are you how are you approaching that question two you'll know pretty quickly so it's only you're only throwing them one bone they get one bone It didn't flavor the whole thing. We also have a question about the NFL,

which I realize these guys don't play football, but I think it would give them a leg up over you as well. Did our guests' occupations flavor the entire suite of questions? Not the entire thing, no. Did it flavor eight? I would say it flavored all ten, but not in a significant way. Okay. A little pinch. That's right.

One of them will heavily favor them for being MLB players, but the rest, they're going to have to earn it. Because I view anything that favors them as being not favoring me. That's very true. Look, I need to know what I stand to win. Everything. How's that? Just tend to win everything.

Game on, suckers! Question one. The topic is fishing, and this is multiple choice. Which of these invasive species was last to arrive in America? Is it lionfish, common carp, zebra mussels, or northern snakehead? Which of these invasive species was last to arrive in America? Your choices are lionfish, common carp, zebra mussels, or northern snakehead. Steve, how do you feel about this one?

I know I got it down to two. Okay. Does the rest of the room feel that confident that you got it down to two of them? Yep. One more time. Choices are lionfish, common carp, zebra mussels, and northern snakehead. Does the rest of the room feel that confident that you got it down to two of them? Yep. One more time. Choices are lionfish, common carp, zebra mussels, and northern snakehead. Are you all wanting us to write out D, or do you want us to write out the whole answer?

So if you think it's lionfish, write out lionfish. He won't bone you on spelling either. Even though someone here has requested it before. Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We got Tommy. Tommy saying Northern Snakehead. Steven saying Snakehead. Chris saying Snakehead.

Pete saying Zebra Muscles. He was still right in the way. Yeah, yeah. It's a long answer. I had D on there. It's a long answer I had D on there It's a long answer We got Pete saying zebra mussels Steve saying snakeheads

Corinne saying lionfish Sean saying snakehead Tyler saying snakehead David saying snakehead The room did very well The correct answer is northern snakehead Pete's already behind Common carp arrived on America's east coast in 1831.

Shame. Shame. Thank you for that. That was great. Common carp arrived on America's east coast in 1831. The first lionfish here was spotted in Florida in 1985. The first zebra mussels showed up in a Lake St. Clair cargo ship in 1986, and the country's first northern snakehead was caught from a California pond in 1997. Oh, it was California?

California. A lot of people think it would be Maryland with the Potomac, but it was actually California that started the invasion. 97? 97. So that's 11 years after zebra mussels showed up. What are the fish that jump with a boat mortar? Silver carp. Asian carp. That's what I was I was like all right maybe those are new

those are new brand new right new ish they the whole carp invasion sort of happened at once and finding like firm dates on when all no common car we're like not I mean the the the the Asiatic carp having at once right well but the problem is like when you look at the literature there's like the asian carp are broken up into black grass silver big head so you'll find dates like asian carp arrived now uh but then silver carp right now it's just like too hard common carp though firmly in 1831 on purpose oh yeah they were just like throwing them off of trains to stalk them in every pond. The government was giving them away.

They wanted them in every body of water. They thought everybody would just be loving it, eating them. Yeah. It never caught on. Question two. The topic is hunting. This state, whose MLB team has a moose for a mascot, has the fourth highest moose population in America. This state, whose MLB team has a moose for a mascot,

has the fourth highest moose population in America. Most of our baseball players seem like they have it. Pete looks stumped. What is next? Pete, what in the world? You guys are ridiculous right now. Mo right now If y'all get it wrong Come on Fourth highest in the country

Just the way their face is extorting right now Dude, what fucking team has a moose? I mean, this is Here's the question one more time This state Whose MLB team This state whose MLB team This state whose MLB team has a moose for

a mascot has the fourth highest moose population in America. I'm trying to picture him on the dugout. No, no, no. Keep your answer on there. Don't change it. Got a lot of coaching going on from Tommy here. Fourth highest in America. Fourth highest

moose population. I'm looking for the state. You need to tell me what state this is. And their MLB team has a moose for a mascot. What all states don't have a team? Don't tell him that. MLB players, this is your best chance to pull ahead of Steve. I would say that northern states

have very limited teams. We're just supposed to write down the states, right? Just write down the states, right? Just write down the states. That's right. Don't help out Steve. Yeah, do not help him. This is your chance to get a lead.

Yeah, don't help him at all. Keep your answers because I want to see this. Does everybody have an answer? Looking for the state whose MLB team has a moose for a mascot and the fourth highest moose population in America. Steve is stumped. I love that he's stumped right now. If he just stripped all the other bullshit out and just said fourth highest moose population in America, I'd be stumped, man.

Looking for the state. Did I spell right? Kiss my ass. I think this is an American League question. You would be right with that. That's not going to help Steve either. You guys are talking in riddles right now to Steve. Listen, I don't think I got it, but I got it pretty close.

Okay, does everybody have an answer? That's what I wrote. Yeah. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We got Tommy saying Washington. Stephen saying Washington. Chris saying Washington, Washington. Steve saying Minnesota. That's Washington, apparently.

Corinne saying Wisconsin. Sean saying Wisconsin. Tyler saying Washington. What are you doing? Why are you erasing the answer? And David saying Washington. Because it's wrong. It's wrong.

The correct answer is Washington. Damn it, man. The Seattle Moose. Dude, I've never played in Seattle. They haveose. Dude, I've never played in Seattle. They have the Moose. I've never played in Seattle. That's such a... All over the dugout.

Their mascot is Mariner Moose. He be jeebies towards you. Oh, it is? Mariner Moose. It doesn't even make any sense. I mean... I've been to their game. Hey, the Seattle Manors have the coolest camera in the big leagues.

Oh, yeah. The one that tracks... Oh, the surround? Oh, baby. That thing's cool. That field is sick, too. Yeah. have the coolest camera in the big leagues oh yeah one that tracks oh the surround that field is sick too yeah no yeah I've been there man my kids thought it was a cuz they like do the fireworks after every homer you know my kids thought it was a fireworks show that played out very slowly when did you go when did you go it would have been like probably four or five years ago okay because now they're selling like like crickets and all that stuff at the ballpark.

Eating crickets? Oh, man. Crickets. To eat? Yeah. Like put chocolate on them? I think so. Mariner moose.

So it's a moose dressed up like a mariner? Yes. Exactly. Sure. You knew this film? I'm from Washington. I was a diehard Mariners fan for a while. I just want to let you guys know that this question was completely unfair to those who did not play in the American League.

I'm only a National League guy, and I went over my fucking head. Has anyone here ever played for Seattle? Why do you have it right there, though? Because I was my best educated guess. Washington. Oh, he just had to use the fourth highest moose population. He still got it right. Well, I'm saying, why does it he's you're complaining even though you won no it's oh because chris gets fucking giving me a hard time over here alaska has 200 000 moose which is followed by maine with 65 000 idaho with 10 000 washington

with 5 000 and minnesota with 4 700 the Seattle Mariners, who have the only Moose mascot in baseball, has been proudly represented by Mariner Moose since 1990. So how many does Washington have? Washington has 5,000. And how many does Minnesota have? 4,700. So I was only off by 300 if you think about it. The Twins mascot is a bear.

TC Bear. He had a mammal. Question 3. The topic is wildlife. This next great question comes to us via Cody Rowe. If you have a question you think is right for Meat Eater Trivia, you can send it to trivia at themeateater.com. Now, this is a visual question. If you want to see what the room is seeing, then go to Instagram and check out at Spencer Newharth. I'll make it my most recent post. This famous bear from Georgia died in 1985 after eating 76 pounds of what? You can pass around if you need to see the photo. This is the taxidermied bear.

Again, this famous bear from Georgia died in 1985 after eating 76 pounds of what? Some quick answers in the room. You want his name or what he ate? No, no, no. I want to know what he ate. after eating 76 pounds of what? Some quick answers in the room. You want his name or what he ate? No, I want to know what he ate. This famous person in Georgia died in... You know his name? Yeah.

Died in 1985. There was a couple quick answers before the question was even done. He ate 76 pounds of what? How'd you guys even know that's what he was gonna ask well he i kind of could see the picture got it i thought we were going with a name and the only bear name i know is smoky the bear so it's what he ate.

Can we see the picture again? Here you go. You can see the picture. Here's the question one more time. This famous bear from Georgia died in 1985 after eating 76 pounds of what? Will you accept his name? No. No.

You need to tell me what this bear ate. Does anybody besides Steve think they know it? Sean, you know it? Yeah. I'm 96.7% sure I got it. I like that number. Definitely spelt it wrong, though. Oh.

There's a hint. If you trust that he has the right answer yeah don't trust that that really throws me off if he was like oh I know one what did he put it at 90 what 96.7% does that high of a chance that it's a hard word to spell

no I spell like a four year old does everybody have an answer looking for what this bear ate 76 pounds of that killed him? I'm good. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We got Tommy saying peaking. Yeah, Pablo Escobar, right?

Steven saying cocaine. Chris saying beef jerky. Cocaine? Pete. Pete. Pete, what's your answer? Pete saying spoiled food. Steve saying cocaine.

Corinne saying hot Cheetos. Sean saying cocaine. Tyler saying... Dude, whenever Nogo said it's tough to spell, I was like, we're in Georgia. It's freaking kudzu. It's an invasive plant that's... Dude, I had this whole plan. I was like, Steve and Pete texted, and he said, make us about kudzu at some point, because Pete loves kudzu.

No, the New York Metropolitans love kudzu. It's our favorite vine or form of ivy. David sang tobacco. The correct answer is cocaine. Oh, my gosh. I think you should have said the bear's name. It was Pablo Escobar. He has multiple names.

This critter who ate $14 million worth of blow is known as the Cocaine Bear or Pablo Escobar. He stumbled on a duffel bag of coke that fell from a smuggler's plane over the Chattahoochee National Forest. The Cocaine Bear was taxidermied and is now on display at the Kentucky for Kentucky Fun Mall in Lexington

because I remember reading an article about that and they mentioned that like he was the most apex predator on planet earth at that time imagine running into that bear it's amazing I mean I would it be just so bluntly quickly toxic or would it be that he was that he had some hours he got a rampage yeah it was just like it's just like so much that you're just dead there's also theories uh there was somebody who did uh necropsy on this bear and they only found like four milligrams of coke in its system so now people actually suspect that somebody luckily just showed up on this duffel bag of Coke, took it with them, and the bear died anyway from only a sniff of it. Oh, I got you. That's not near as fun as imagining a bear on 76 pounds of cocaine.

Yeah, so the bear got the credit, but some dude ran off with all the stuff that was in it. That's right. But with his name and the display where he's taxidermiedied it says he ate 76 pounds of cocaine good for that bear there's a brand new house mansion right up the hill yeah some local derelict also just living the life and shit he won the lottery but no one ever saw the ticket you know question four the topic is cooking the flintstone steak is a nickname for what cut of meat the flintstone steak is a nickname for what cut of meat some quick answers you know this one tommy no how about you pete you got this one? What the Flintstone steak is? I think I have a strong educated guess, but probably not.

This is question four. Again, the topic is cooking. The Flintstone steak is a nickname for what cut of meat? A lot of writing from Steve over there. Does everybody have an answer? Well, I've actually drawn a picture. Oh, okay. That won't help there. Does everybody have an answer? Wow, I'm actually drawing a picture. Oh, okay. Because. That won't help you.

Does everybody have an answer? These guys are showing each other the answers. He ain't changing. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We got Tommy saying tomahawk. Steven saying ribeye. Chris saying T-bone. Pete saying bone-in ribeye.

Steve saying, what's that say? Rib chop. And then I got, there's the loin and there's the upper ribs. I can show it. Corinne saying T-in ribeye. Steve saying, what's that say? Rib chop, and then I got, there's the loin, and there's the upper rib, so I can show it. Corinne saying T-bone. Sean saying bone-in ham. Tyler saying rib. And David saying tomahawk. The correct answer is ribeye or tomahawk.

So the room did fairly well. This is definitely acceptable. I would give that to you. This is, of course course named after Fred Flintstone it's basically a ribeye steak that wasn't cut off the rib bone if you want to learn how to remove one of them from a deer then go to TheMeatEater.com

and watch Ryan Callahan's video called How to Cut a Tomahawk Steak question 5 the topic is hunting this next great question comes to us via Colin Connor if you have a question you think is right for MeatEater Trivia you can send it to Trivia at TheMeatEater.com Question five. The topic is hunting. This next great question comes to us via Colin Connor. If you have a question you think is right for MeatEater Trivia, you can send it to trivia at themeateater.com. There are five animals you can hunt in the 1985 video game The Oregon Trail. Name three of those animals.

Three? Three of them. There are five animals you can hunt in the 1985 video game The Oregon Trail. Name three of those animals. Tommy's got this one in the bag. This is actually hilarious because I just downloaded Oregon Trail on my iPad two days ago. Have you had a chance to dig in? I grinded it all off yesterday. Now, I feel like there's been like 20 versions of the Oregon Trail. The 85 is kind of one of the OG versions.

Do you know which one you're playing? I have the modern version. Okay. I listed every animal just in case. Only list three. Only list three of them. Can't have you just shotgunning out answers. There are five animals you can hunt in the 1985 video game,

The Oregon Trail. Name three of those animals. Steve, did you ever game The Oregon Trail. Name three of those animals. Steve, did you ever play The Oregon Trail? Nope. Do you know what it is? Yep. It's a video game. Does everybody have an answer?

Looking for three of the five animals that you can hunt. Waiting on David. David, you can come up with the third one. You went to school there. You should know it, buddy. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We got Tommy saying buffalo, elk, moose. Stephen saying moose, deer,

bison. Chris saying elk, bison, deer. Pete saying deer, fox, bear. Steve saying bison, deer, turkey. Corinne saying turkey, bison, deer. Sean saying deer, squirrel, bear. Tyler saying deer, fox, bear. Steve saying bison, deer, turkey. Corinne saying turkey, bison, deer. Sean saying deer, squirrel, bear. Tyler saying deer, rabbit, beaver.

Bear. Deer, rabbit, bear. David saying bear, deer, squirrel. The five animals you can hunt are squirrels, rabbits, bison, deer, and bear. The room did fairly well. Dude, I don't know where

that turkey thing came from, man. All of a sudden in my mind... I got the more modern version. I got into the politics of that they're like, well, it can't be a bear because people think it's mean. Do you know what I mean? I got like two...

I brought too much into the table, man. I know, and it was like the old days, right? I died of dysentery. During the popular hunting minigame, players had to type bang to fire their gun at the five different animals. The Oregon Trail entered the World Video Game Hall of Fame in 2016.

It was the only educational video game to receive such an honor, until Where in the world is Carmen San Diego was inducted in 2021. Bass, this was not what I was thinking. You picked me to win in this like cooking and stuff, brother. No, I'm bringing it. I'm gonna bring it in, but I ain't cooking it up. We are halfway through the game of trivia. Give us a scoreboard update, Phil. Yeah, we'll do in last last place but still on the board we have corinne schneider with one point so shocking coming up next with two points uh he's

got a high ass we've got pete alonso tied for we got a four-way tie for the next spot here we got tommy hunter stephen ranella sean weaver and ch Chris Bassett all with three points and then tied for first place with four points apiece we've got Tyler Naquin Dave Peterson and Steve Nigosic

wow I was really hoping Pete's in the lead right now? no no Pete's got two Pete's almost in last oh almost in last okay so hold on

who's it's a reverse order then he's almost in first yes yeah exactly who's in the lead? Tyler, exactly. Who's in the lead? Tyler, Steve, and Dave are in the lead. Not Steve.

Not Steve. I was hoping, because usually when we do this and someone's got a perfect score, we say they're throwing a perfect game. Would have been a perfect metaphor, but unfortunately, you got the wrong version of Oregon Trail, so I couldn't throw that out there. Juan, you screwed up Oregon Trail?

Yeah. I went with the modern version that I've been playing for the past two days. Apparently has moose, but the 1985 version did not. That's a tricky question. I don't remember the squirrels at all. Shame. In Oregon Trail? Squirrels?

I don't remember them at all. They were there, but it was a very poor yield for meat. You could only take 100 pounds of meat at a time on a hunt, so you were wasting your time if you were shooting bullets at uh squirrels also like bullets are expensive you got to really plan out and they take up a lot of room and i'm not shooting a damn squirrel when i have seven i'll shoot i'll shoot the elk good strategy 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.

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The topic is conservation. Although this marsupial wasn't declared extinct until 1982, the last known one of these died at a zoo in 1936. What is it? Although this marsupial wasn't declared extinct until 1982, the last known one of these died at a zoo in 1936. What is it? Steve has his fist in the air.

He knows this one. The rest of the room, not as confident. I think there's a good bit of us who are wondering what a marsupial is. I think like a kangaroo, but not a kangaroo. There you go. Jeff McNeil. He's a flying squirrel.

Flying squirrels are marsupials. I can't even remember what this thing's exactly called. I'm just... They're marsupials. Man. This is fun. Extinct in 1936? Again, the topic is conservation.

Although this marsupial wasn't declared extinct until 1982, the last known one of these died at a zoo in 1936. I think you should throw a little more in. What other detail would you add? I think that you could go so far as to narrow, like maybe... Multiple choice? No, like can I do language origin? You could help geographically. I do language you could you could help

geographically I'll tell you what zoo it died at it was an Australian zoo were there conservation efforts made to try to

save this species but it was too late I would say very minimal like it was

too late minimal to non-existent okay that doesn't help me do you guys know any marsupials? Besides a flying squirrel.

I think you could even say something like that. I don't even know where it's from, but I can't remember what the actual name of it was. I think you could even say... Here's why I feel okay about it. There's hardly any marsupials in the world. Correct. So to figure out which one went extinct, it's a short list.

No, you're right. Declared extinct in 1982, but the last known one died at a zoo in 1936. I'm going to give a hint. Ready? I know the hint, I think. I'm going to give a hint. Willem Dafoe. I don't get that hint at all

that was foreign language I have the answer in front of me and that didn't help me does everybody have an answer who's going to come up with an answer go ahead and reveal your answers we got Tommy saying Capybara Wombat

Chris without an answer Pete saying giant wombat. Steve saying Tasmanian tiger. Corinne saying some kind of sloth. Sean saying Tasmanian tiger. David saying albino kangaroo. Steve got it, and Sean got it.

It's a Tasmanian tiger. There's a Willem Dafoe movie that came out not too long ago about a guy, these guys that are these evil scientists well okay back up man there's a term called the lazarus species and as we all know in the old testament lazarus no he's a new testament or old testament lazarus in the bible as we all in the bible lazarus dies and he's brought back to life so with a lot of endangered species we have like certain lazarus species and for the most noteworthy in our continent is the the uh black-footed ferret everybody thought it went extinct then all of a sudden a rancher's dog is standing there with

a dead one in his mouth and they realize that holy there's this population in matisse wyoming that no one knew about uh the tasmanian tiger has this long it's people there's people that just do not accept that it's gone there's sightings every year willem defoe did a movie where these evil bio engineers were gonna they found out about a last one and and he was hired to go get it so they could make an evil medicine and in the end he kills it and burns it. The last Tasmanian tiger. The last Tasmanian tiger. It's like they find out that there's one still running around. And there's every year you got people who are like, I saw one crossing the road. Most biologists believe Tasmanian tigers went extinct sometime in the 1950s,

while others think they might have held on into the 21st century. One of the most optimistic researchers is Barry Brook, a mammal ecologist from the University of Tasmania. He believes there's a 10% chance that the Tasmanian tiger is still alive, but is ready to admit they're extinct if a clear photograph isn't produced by the year 2031. How the hell did he come up with that date? He said, if I don't see a clear photograph in the next decade, this is a quote he had last year, then they're extinct.

Then there's no chance. He said, photographs are too easy to take anymore. If they're out there, we're going to know. Sounds like he's just spitballing it. Ten years from now, if I don't see a good picture. I know, it's so academic, right? Yeah. All kinds of other shit could emerge, like hair samples.

But he'd be like, duh. Haven't got the photo. I the cool thing about a tasmanian tiger is anybody could be an expert because they just like don't exist question seven the topic is fur bearers this next great question comes to us via colton winkler if you have a question you think is right for meat eater trivia you can send it to trivia at the meat eater.com two southern states list the raccoon as an official state mammal name one of those states two southern states list the raccoon as an official state mammal name one of those two states did you say a fur bear? A fur bearer. Oh. Fur bearer.

We call them trash pandas in Texas. Yeah, bear like an animal that produces. I didn't know what he was saying. I was like, yeah. Fur bearer. There's even a minor league baseball team, right? Is it Anaheim's? The Rocket City Trash Pandas?

Yeah. That's cool. That's great. Two southern states that have the raccoon as an official state mammal, you need to name one of those states. I'm just going to go with the worst one. Just picking the worst southern state?

Does everybody have an answer? Two southern states. just looking for one. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We got Tommy saying the worst southern state, Alabama. Stephen saying Alabama. Chris saying Mississippi. Pete saying Arkansas. Steve saying Georgia.

Corinne saying South Carolina. Sean saying Mississippi. Tyler saying Texas. And David saying South Carolina, Sean saying Mississippi, Tyler saying Texas, and David saying Alabama. Nobody got it. What? The correct answers are Oklahoma and Tennessee. You guys named almost every southern state.

Since when is Oklahoma part of the South? I thought Arkansas was a great guess. Said almost every southern state. Oklahoma's more of like the plains. That's not, when you say the south, I don't think that really. I looked at the U.S. Bureau of Maps, and they identify that as the south. Anything below the Mason-Dixon, as far west as Oklahoma. That is not.

I personally don't believe Alabama's the worst. I just think other people think it's the worst. That's why I said it needed to relate. Still roll tide, boys. Tennessee declared the raccoon their official state mammal in 1971, and Oklahoma declared the raccoon their official state fur-bearing mammal in 1989. Oklahoma is the only state with an official state fur-bearer. Question eight, the topic is cooking.

Awesome. What meaty monstrosity was popularized in America by NFL commentator John Madden? What meaty monstrosity was popularized in America by NFL commentator John Madden?

Oh, Chris knows. A villainous laugh from Chris who thinks he knows the answer. Got it. A meaty monstrosity was popularized in America. 100%. By NFL commentator John Madden. I've seen some answer sharing being done over here,

but Chris is keeping this one to himself. He put his board on the ground. We got it. This is question eight. We'll get a scoreboard update from Phil after this. I don't even have, like, something to write down. What meaty monstrosity was popularized in America by NFL commentator John Madden? Do you know who John Madden is?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But this is a... This is your NFL question. It's a... So it's a food. It's a food. It's a meaty monstrosity. Why are you giving hints? Are we able to ask if it's like a single big item? Or is it like...

That's a great question. I'll tell you this. It's a meaty monstrosity. Whatever you think that means. John Madden popularized. I'll give a little hint. I don't know. You might want to hold on to this one.

Take your win on this. You're the only one who knows it. It could put you in the lead. You're only a one-eyed man. Give me the hint. Okay. Can we ask if it's an animal? Or like... Not giving any hints. It's a meaty monstrosity steve do you have an answer yeah but that's not that's not the right answer okay

i'm drawing a total blank man i just wrote down something i think of as a meaty monstrosity okay go ahead and reveal your answers we got tommy saying alligator. Stephen saying meaty milkshake. Chris saying turducken. Pete saying big Buford burger. Steve saying turducken. Corinne saying sloppy joe. Tyler saying ribs. David saying giant turkey legs. Chris

got it. The correct answer is a turducken. Steve also got it. It's a turkey. They took a big turkey, put a duck in the turkey, and then put a chicken in the duck. It's like one big meatball. But it's all boned out. Yeah.

Madden was introduced to the turducken at a Ram Saints game in 1996. A few weeks later, during the NFL's Thanksgiving game, Madden gave the meal national attention by calling it one of the best things he'd ever eaten. One Turducken seller from Louisiana said that the following year, his sales went from 200 to 6,000, all because Madden evangelized about the unusual dish.

Madden reportedly ate one every year for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Phil, we have two questions left. Give us a scoreboard update. Alright, Corinne still has one point. Pete Alonzo still has two points, and unfortunately, they are out of the running.

But, still in the running, with two questions left, we have Tommy Hunter with three points, and all with four points, we've got Tyler, Stephen Gosick, Sean Weaver, David Peterson, and Chris Bassett. And in first place, pulled ahead five points, we have Stephen Ranella. This is so boring.

Two questions left. Shocker. Don't blow it. I'm going to throw the game. Question nine. The topic is gear. This next great question comes to us via Ben Rohde. If you have a question you think is right for MeatEater Trivia, you can send it to trivia at themeateater.com.

Besides a blade, name two of the three tools that the first Swiss army knife had. Besides a blade, name two of the three tools that the first Swiss Army knife had. A lot of thinking going on. I just hate that you threw that out there and got that. That's a good guess, though. I don't even know what another option would be. I was thinking like some super ham.

I was just thinking it was option would be. I was thinking like some super ham. Yeah. I was just thinking it was going to be some super stacked burger that's like, you know, a bunch of bacon and eggs and all that stuff. So besides the knife, two or three things to have. Besides the blade, name two of the three tools that the first Swiss Army knife had. It's really not surprising that John Madden was a big Turducken fan. Not at all. There was another time on Monday Night Football where he ate one with his bare hands, and

then somebody came in to the, like, press booth where he was at. I think it was, like, somebody very important, a Saints owner or something. And they said that he just went and shook his hand full of grease. That's right, we're looking for two of the three tools from the first Swiss Army knife besides the blade Are you able to say how many how many tools were on it total? Well, there were three tools I need you to name two of those three Well count the knife there's four counting the knife there would be four Besides a blade named two of the three tools

that the first Swiss Army knife had. How do you feel about this one, Steve? Is this going to keep you in the lead? No. Well, I feel strong. Okay. No. I really need the last question to be a doozy.

These guys are just flat-out conferring over here. They're flat- out conferring over here. They're flat out conferring. Everyone versus you. It's like barely even being whispered. They're consulting. Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We got Tommy saying spoon and

flathead. Stephen saying screwdriver and saw. Chris saying corkscrew and file. Pete saying corkscrew and saw. Chris saying corkscrew and file. Pete saying corkscrew and screwdriver. Steve saying corkscrew and scissors. Corinne saying screwdriver and file. I screwed myself. I didn't listen to the question.

Tyler saying screwdriver and what's that say? He said it about 30 times. A Phillips head and a screw pick. And a David saying scissors and bottle opener. I don't know if anybody got it. The correct answers are reamer, screwdriver, and can or bottle opener. I don't think anybody got that right. See, I always laugh at those things because how many people need to open wine?

I feel like corkscrews are so common on those things. Not on the first one. The first Swiss Army knife was produced for soldiers in 1891. The officer's version came out six years later, which included a second knife blade and corkscrew. That was the officer's version? The officer's version. A second corkscrew?

That'll help. That doesn't create division in the ranks, right? More modern iterations include saws, pliers, scissors, compasses, lights, tweezers, whistles, fish scalers, files, pens, and wire cutters. Those guys had their lunch eaten so bad by Leatherman. Do you know what I mean? Oh, yeah. Passed him up.

Just blew them away. Did anybody get that right, Phil? No. So we have no change to the scoreboard. We are on to our final question. Question 10. The topic is conservation. Five of America's 10 tallest dams are found in this state west of the Mississippi River. Five of America's 10 tallest dams are found in this state west of the Mississippi River. Phil, how many people do we have left in the game?

Everyone except for Pete, Corinne, and Tommy. Wow. Can tie it up right now if Steve gets this wrong. It's a good game. One more time. Five of America's 10 tallest dams are found in this state west of the Mississippi River. I'd love to see a map right now. Steve, how do you feel about this one?

Rubbing his head. It's one of those ones where I feel like I should know, but it's like I just don't know. It's not like that turducken shit where I just pull it out of my turducken. This feels like it should be right there, right? It's not like that turducken shit where I just pull it out of my... Turducken. Pull it out of my turducken. This feels like it should be right there, right? But I don't know. I'm trying to figure it out, but it seems like it would just be a no. So we need Steve to get it wrong and the rest of the room to get it right.

Does everybody have an answer? I hope everyone's wrong and I'm right. Five of America's ten tallest dams are found in this state west of the Mississippi River. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We got Tommy saying Nevada. Stephen saying California. Chris saying Utah. Pete saying Nevada.

Steve saying Washington. Corinne saying South Dakota. Sean saying Washington. Tyler saying Oklahoma. And David saying California. We have a correct answer in the room. It's California. So we now have

three-way tie going to overtime. Hold on, what state was it? It was California. California has the first, fifth, sixth, eighth, and ninth tallest dams in the country. The tallest dam is the Oroville Dam on the Feather River at 770 feet tall.

It's 44 feet higher than the Hoover Dam, which is in second place. I don't know the other four. You see my line of reasoning, though, right? All those big dams on the Columbia. Sure. I think everybody had a reasonable guess there. The whole thing with California is it's constantly in a drought, so I was like,

they gotta have it in its biggest state. You mean like because they need to retain more water? Yeah. And they suck on it. Who do we have going to overtime in this three-way tie? We got the two Steves and David Peterson.

David Peterson. How this works. Now explain how overtime works. Sleeper. We have one final question. And this is a numerical question. Whoever is closest to the right answer will be declared our winner. So just these three, obviously.

Just those three. And none of this like without going over bullshit. It's just like closest. Just the closest. If everyone else wants to play along, you're welcome to. 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 can be third fourth hell you can be fifth the topic is conservation according to the usda how many states have confirmed populations of feral hogs as of 2021?

According to the USDA, how many states have confirmed populations of feral hogs as of 2021? Are you counting on your fingers over there, Steve? No, I'm going to write them down. Okay. Confirmed populations. I'm going to make some blocks and then I'm going to write some shit. According to the USDA, how many states have confirmed populations of feral hogs as of 2021? Stephen, how are you feeling about this one?

I'm not going to lie. It's like a 38% chance. Okay. 38% chance that what? I'm being correct. lie. It's like a 38% chance. Okay. 38% chance that what? Being correct. Good on you. If you feel 38% confident.

Steve, how you doing over there? I don't want to. I really want to distract you. I'm not feeling terrible. Okay. But I'm not going to. I'm guessing. Uh-huh.

And I have theories about whether I'd want to go right. I can walk you through it. Sure. Now, David, you declared yourself the newest hunter in the room, and now here you are at the tiebreaker. How are you feeling about this one? Do you think you're doing okay? Should I do better? I mean, I've got to guess, but

I don't know if I have any chance. Stick to your gut. Now, you're basically competing about three of your teammates on this couch, competing against them. They're all sharing answers. How much time do we have? You got an answer? We're going to reveal here soon. Oh, if you're ready, I'm ready.

But if not, I'll just sit here and name every damn state. David, you have an answer? Then scratch them off. Steve, you have an answer? Yeah, I got an answer. Okay. Ready? Yeah.

Go ahead and reveal your answers. You got Steven saying 32, Steve saying 35, and David saying 12. One of you got it right on the nose. It's gotta be 12. The correct answer is 35. Breaking Steve Rinella. our very humble winner great guess there 32 see he gave us too much time man I was able to make a

little American math shit first guess 40 because here's the deal it's like it's there's like some real sleeper wild pig populations you know about it and then I had 31 and then I forgot about Hawaii or Hawaii and so I had to add it and then I still lost great guesses though

here's what I'm going to donate in honor of my friend Pete Alonzo I'm going to donate to captains for clean water and why is that in honor of Pete Alonzo, I'm going to donate to Captains for Clean Water. And why is that in honor of Pete Alonzo? Because he pees in Florida. He fishes in Florida. He wants to catch a tarpon and actually land it.

So I think that Everglades restoration and water quality around Florida will continue to matter for Pete. So I want to go to Captains for Clean Water. I like it. Are you guys worried at all that tonight you're going to be up to bat and just be messing with you in your head that you didn't get Tasmanian Tiger and it's going to distract you? Is Buck Show Walter going to be okay with this? I hope I'm a Tasmanian Tiger

in the fucking box today. That'd be great. That'd be great. It's hard to get a better nickname than Polar Bear, but Tasmanian Tiger would be right up there. That's pretty sick. I don't want you extinct in the batter's box stay being the polar bear no it's well if he bombs the beginning of the game and comes back he'll be Lazarus Pete man yeah that's right that's right Pete Chris Dave Tommy Steve

Tyler thank you for joining us there's a lot of fun look forward to the game tonight uh I haven't been to an MLB game in a minute it's gonna be fun Steve hasn't been to one in a while Steve, Tyler, thank you for joining us. It was a lot of fun. Look forward to the game tonight. I haven't been to an MLB game in a minute. It's going to be fun. Steve hasn't been to one in a while either. Steve, are you excited? I am very much excited, especially if we have good enough seats where I can see some of the intricate interplay. Yeah.

The intricate interplay you don't understand. Yeah, but I just like to know it's there. I like to know it's there. I like to catch the glances and steely eyes and whatnot. Then we can like rub elbows with people and be like hey we play trivia with them this morning so who you ask about the tasmanian tiger so who you rooting for i know that uh not to put you on the spot i'm rooting for you guys okay okay just flat out just flat out that's good because you guys are uh talking with austin aust tomorrow. Really good guy. Avid outdoorsman. If you guys get me a hat or something, I'm going to wear it when I do that.

Fucking A. Are you guys coming to BP or batting practice? I don't know. Are we? Yeah. Sick. Awesome. No, I'm rooting for you guys, man.

All right. Let's go Mets. Don't tell anybody. I keep the secret. Again, thanks for playing. Join us next time for more Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. Hey folks, exciting news for those who live or hunt in Canada. You might not be able to join our raffles and sweepstakes and all that because of raffle and sweepstakes law, but hear this.

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