The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 424: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia LII

Episode Date: March 22, 2023

Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Brody Henderson, Hayden Sammak, Randall Williams, Sam James, Dan Chumbler, Chester Floyd, and Phil TaylorSee 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. It's a meat eater podcast. 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 Stephen Rinella, Brody Henderson, Chester Floyd, Hayden Samick, Randall Williams, Dan Chumbler, and Sam James. 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. For the stat of the week this week, we're looking at the Shelby Index. Shelby is my wife, and as someone who isn't much of a subject matter expert, she tends to get about half as many questions right as the winner of each episode. But usually more than some people in the room. That does happen. Yeah. Quite often.

That's my number to hit. She would be like a, like a, she'd be like a pretty good player. There was, there was one episode actually, um, where she had gotten six and our winner had gotten six.

And then when I went home, I gave her the tiebreaker and she beat Yanni on the tiebreaker. Wow. Hmm. So that's happened one time. Yeah, she's like a pretty legit player. Now, I introduced this barometer last year as a way to gauge how difficult rounds of trivia are. And here are the results.

The Shelby Index has been dead nuts nine out of 19 episodes, which is 47% of the time. Her average score for those 19 episodes was 3.8, while the average winning score for those episodes was a 7.3. That means her average score is 52 percent of the average winning score. So it's pretty close. I'll say that again. I got lost. So her average on those 19 episodes was 3.8 and the average winning score on those episodes was 7.3. So she's getting 52% of the amount of points that our winner gets. That's what you always say.

That's what I say, but now we have the data to prove it. It was just anecdotal before. Now we know. It's there. It's a good stat. Here's our 0% question of the week. This is a question that nobody got right from episode 349. Here it is. According to Anthony Bourdain, you should never order seafood from a restaurant on what day of the week? Monday.

Monday, you're right. The incorrect answers we had given that episode were Thursday, Friday, and Sunday. The correct answer, though, was Monday. That was a quote from Bourdain's 2000 book, which he later retracted, saying that seafood markets and restaurant standards have changed in the last two decades. Now, we also have some housekeeping to get to before we play. In a previous game of trivia, I asked what gender-specific term refers to an uncastrated adult male horse. The correct answer was stallion, but about a dozen listeners wrote in asking if I'd also accept stud. I looked it up, and the definition of a stud is, quote, a stallion kept especially for breeding. So if you said stud, I'd consider that a correct answer.

I don't think we had anybody in the room, though, who said stud that day. If you hadn't been riding on a Tennessee stud. What's that song? Just listening. Keep going. Johnny Cash. Well, I don't know who wrote it. I's that song? Just listening. Johnny Cash. Well, I don't know who wrote it. Maybe.

I don't think he wrote it. Probably not. What's his name? He had the nerve. He had the blood. Doc Watson. Maybe. No, probably not.

He was probably older. Chester, tell us about that hat. You look like you wrote in on a Tennessee stud. I didn't. Just to clarify. But Steve got me a beaver hat. It's really nice and warm. Good ice fishing hat.

Yeah, there's going to be sweat rolling down your face at the end of this episode. Well, he's going to be pulling, like, all those hairs pull information out of the atmosphere, man. It's like little antennas, dude. If I win today, I'm wearing this for every single trivia episode. You can't take it off. Man, my kid just had to, like at my kid's school, they have a project where they got to bring in a thousand of something. Like a collection of 1,000 of something. What are some examples of

what other kids are doing seashells okay real standard i had a big patch of deer hide about 18 inches square that a dude gave me that was from a melanistic deer so you would like like just a knotty, like off the edge. I took a pair of, uh, fly tying scissors and just off the edge removed a thousand hairs off the edge. How do you know that? Counted them.

What do you think? No, no, no, no, no, no. We made a pile of a hundred and then we eyeballed that pile real careful and

made nine more piles that looked exactly the sameed that pile real careful and made nine more piles that looked exactly the same as that pile. So then he brought those in in a baggie, but with the hunk of deer hide. And he's like, here's my collection. Now I ask you, how many hairs around this chunk of deer hide? Right, how many hairs around this chunk of deer hide?

And then he got sent to the principal no to which the answers be like uh millions i don't know a million yeah that's a thousand thousand easy that's pretty cool that's just a little hunk of height it's different did you feel bad cutting hair off the melanistic you don't understand it's like you can't tell it was just like we went along the edge oh it was like an you can't tell it was just like we went along the edge oh it was like an inch of hair no it wasn't that we went along the edge like you would you you could just with one little tip of the just went along the edge you can't tell like there's a border we just went along the one not even like one wall of one border. And did he get some white ones in there or not?

No, it's like, it's pretty dark. Good on you. Now also in a previous game, we learned. No, I was just thinking this may not be right, but I remember, I recall reading or hearing that the fur on a seal is so dense that there's 20,000 hairs per square inch. I think otters may have the densest. Good on you, Brody. We had somebody write in suggesting that as a trivia question as to what mammal has the densest hair. I tried to fact check it.

Damn it, I would have gotten that one right. I didn't feel good about the sources. I'm glad that that one right. I didn't feel good about the sources. I'm glad that wasn't today. I didn't feel good about the sources, but they said sea otter. Well, the reason we wound up with that deer, if you want to actually hear more about this. We tried it with coyote. Impossible. Impossible.

Just too fine to deal with. Yeah. There's so much of it. You can't, it's like, you could never, it would, you can't do it. We looked at, we looked at a muskrat. We looked at a coyote. We looked at, we looked at a muskrat. We looked at a coyote. We looked at a skunk's tail. And the reason we had to go with that deer is because you can't, you can't like.

You can't separate them. Yeah. You, you take a little snip of it. You can't, you're like, I don't know, thousands. Yeah. Wow. I wonder how many fibers there is in a turkey beard. Now, if we did Brody's head, dude, we'd have had the whole damn head.

He's scalped. You wouldn't have gotten to 1,000, that's for sure. But his beard, I don't know, man. Well, that's what I can't get over about that hat of Chester's, is it looks as much like a beaver wig as it does a hat. It fits so perfectly. It fits good. Chester needs some big old buck teeth now, man.

Now, also in a previous game, we learned that squirrels cause the most power outages in America and that jellyfish are also near the top of the list. Steve wanted to know how jellyfish can pull that off, so I looked it up, and here's what I found. Jellyfish can cause major power outages by getting clogged in the intake pipes of power plants. This can happen worldwide, but the most extreme example was in the Philippines in 1999. That's where a bloom of jellyfish drifted too close to a coal power plant and got sucked into its pumps. The event knocked out power for 40 million people and wasn't remedied until cleanup crews extracted 50 tons of jellyfish from the plant's pipes. A bloom of jellyfish. A bloom of jellyfish.

I'd read that they can be a swarm, a bloom, or a swat. Something like that. Interesting. Some weird group names for jellyfish. How about a group of rhinos? Do you know what that is? I don't know about that one. That was a real popular poster for a while, but I can't remember what it is.

It's a crash. Crash. That's good. I got trivia. But that's not a question for today either, Randall. So I'm kind of screwed. What do you got, Steve?

I got a trivia question for you. In terms of pounds consumed per person, per annum in America. Per annum. Per year. Okay. Pounds consumed per person per year in the United States. Mm-hmm.

What do you think the top four classifications of fish are? It's probably small stuff like anchovies. Nope. Sardines. Nope. Pollock. Nope. Tuna. Cod. Mmock, tuna, cod, tuna, salmon, bass, tilapia. Number four. Catfish.

Number four. Catfish are in the top four. Shrimp is number one. Okay. Shrimp, tuna, salmon. Now, if that question has been asked to you and shrimp was the answer, you'd argue that shrimp wasn't fish. I agree. Yeah.

They're bugs, right? I didn't tell you. I was telling you. I was shocked to see tilapia on there, number four. Now, the Shelby Index for today's episode is a three, so our winner should get about six correct answers. And with that, we're on to the game of 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 woodsmanship. Which of these outdoor magazines is not real? Is it fins and feathers, fur fish game, game and fish, or fish fur feather? You might want to write these down. Which of these outdoor magazines is not real? Fins and Feathers, Fur Fish Game, Game and Fish,

or Fish, Fur, Feather. Three of them are real. One of them is not. Again, your four choices. Fins and Feathers, Fur Fish Game, Game and Fish, Fish, Fur, Feather.

Steve, do you know this one yeah I think I do but I got a problem but I don't want to bring it up because it'll help people all right Brody's still thinking did you write them all out Brody I'm writing okay I'll say this somewhere in there you missed a conjunction. Mm-hmm. Okay. Know what that is? Yes. Conjunction, junction, remember that?

Mm-hmm. Is everybody ready? Let's do it. Chester, go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying fish, fur, feather. Dan saying fish, fur, feather. Hayden saying fish, fur, feather. Brody saying fish. Just to help you out, the whole room said that. The whole room said fish, fur, feather. Dan saying fish fur feather. Hayden saying fish fur feather. Brody saying fish. Just to help you out, the whole room said that.

The whole room said fish fur feather. They got it right. The correct answer is fish fur feather. I still have subscriptions to the other three. You do? Furfish and game, not furfish game. It's furfish game. It's a dash between each of the words. Furfish game. There you go.

I used to love that i still love that magazine dude that was when i was a kid man that was the yeah i can't remember who their fur analyst was parker dozier was trap or predator caller and i can't remember who that probably the market analyst at fur fishing game that was a good magazine they had uh strictly illustrated covers right they didn't do photos did they. I feel like they cornered the market on folks who liked to trap, right? Well, yeah, but Trapper and Predator Caller got good for a long time. They also had a good classified section where you could send away for all kinds of weird stuff. No.

You don't remember that? Like the sea creatures? Like in the back? No, like traps and... Oh, okay. Fins and Feathers was a national publication that ran from the mid-1970s to late-1980s. Fur Fish Game printed its first magazine in 1925 and still publishes 12 issues each year.

Game and Fish has been around since 1976 and still publishes 12 issues each year. Fish Fur Feather is a magazine that I made up by combining the other three titles. Question two topic is fishing. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Caleb McLean for sending this great question. Caleb is going to get a book signed by Steve. Name two of the seven States that lists the striped bass as their official state fish.

Hmm. Hmm. Name two of the seven states that list the striped bass as their official state fish. Hmm. Good on this crew for getting question one right. That is a hard-ass question. Looking for two of the seven states. Steve, did you ever write for Furfish Game?

I don't think I've ever published in Furfish Game. I thought they had your first byline, no? Who had your first byline? Trapper and Predator. Maybe that question again? Name two of the seven states that list the striped bass as their official state fish.

Not a very confident room. Randall with the quickest answer. Doozy. I don't know if he's confident or he just wants to intimidate folks. That is a doozy. Randall, how do you feel about this one? I feel reasonably confident. Okay.

Two of the seven states. I'm just okay. Seven of them. Brody, how you doing over there? I feel like it can only be a certain number of states, right? Seven of them. It can only be seven of them. Brody's like, Oklahoma.

That's true. Like in a certain, I'm not, you know. Okay. It's like he said too much, he thinks. Does everybody have an answer? Yeah, Brody. Why are you walking everybody through it, man? I didn't.

I could have kept going and then I'd have ruined it. Chester, how we doing? Not very good. Sam? Trying to get something down here. Give me a sec. Okay. Steve, you think you got a chance?

Oh, yeah, man. I'd be shocked if I didn't get one of them right. Mm-hmm. Chester? I'm left-handed, and I just keep smearing everything. Are you ready? I'm ready. Go ahead and reveal your answers.

We have Steve saying Rhode Island and New York. Dan saying Alabama, Mississippi. Hayden saying Rhode Island, New Jersey. That's good. Brody saying Maryland, New Jersey. That's good. Sam saying Maryland, Massachusetts. Reasonable.

Chester saying New York, Delaware. Could be. Randall saying Massachusetts, Maryland. The seven states are Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Virginia. I think the room did pretty well. Again, the seven states, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia. After brook trout, striped bass are the most common state fish in America. Maryland was the first state to declare the striped bass their official state fish in 1965. But they don't call it a striped bass.

That's the weird thing. I know. That's why I didn't put them suckers down. New Jersey is the latest state to do so, making the striped bass their official saltwater fish in 2017. I think there are two states that designate it as a rockfish, but that's a striped bass. Linesiders. 2017. I think there are two states that designated as a rockfish, but that's a striped bass. So what I'm saying, if you were in Maryland right now and you looked up their state, all their state this and that's, would it say rockfish or striped bass? I can get back to you later on that. I remember sitting there and we were watching some fish crash bait in a little estuary.

And they're like, look at them rockfish. I was like, man, you guys are smoking. Was that on that Sika hunt? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You guys are smoking. Was that on that Sika hunt? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You guys been smoking some of that wacky tobacco. Yellow eyes in there busting baits. Question three, the topic is conservation.

Johnny Horizon and Seymour Antelope are the official mascots of what federal agency? What? Can you read that again? What? Topic is conservation. Nobody knows this one. Right off the bat, folks are just going to be taking a stab. Again, Johnny Horizon and Seymour Antelope are the official mascots of what federal agency?

Hmm. Hmm. Steve, with a quick answer, how do you feel about it? Well, let's take a broader look. Mm-hmm. I've got a perfect game so far. Okay. Two for two.

So, even if I falter right now, it's like, you know, whatever. Sure. Again, Johnny Horizon and Seymour Antelope. Randall with a quick answer. Randall, do you know this? I do not. I'm just making a guess based off of context. And I'm really curious to know what Johnny Horizon looks like.

Yeah. Kind of like Johnny Bravo but flatter. He's very, like, he's very, very level. He's short. He's, like, very short and wide. Johnny Horizon and Seymour Antelope. Sam, you gonna come up with an answer? Yeah, I mean, I think I can

guess at a government agency. Okay. You'll have to do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes. Yep, yep, here it comes. Chester, you ready? Hayden, you ready? I'm pretty sure I just made something up.

Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying BLM. Dan saying Game Commission. Hayden saying Federal Prairie Reserve. Brody saying BLM. Dan saying Game Commission. Hayden saying Federal Prairie Reserve. Brody saying BLM. Sam saying BLM. Chester saying National Wildlife Federation. Randall saying BLM.

Why don't you guys are naming agencies that aren't agencies? Yeah. The correct answer is the Bureau of Land Management. Room did pretty well. Johnny Horizon was a cowboy who made his debut in 1968. He campaigned for picking up trash, putting out fires, and leaving gates how you found them. Johnny retired in 1976. BLM then debuted their new mascot, Seymour Antelope, in 2008.

Seymour is considered an ambassador to young people, encouraging them to connect with nature and explore public lands. Question four. Has he got a cousin, Shootmore? Yeah, exactly. I think those are pretty good mascots for the BLM. Yeah. Question

four of the topic is public lands. This next great question comes to us via Carl Gustafson. If you have a question you think is right for MeatEater Trivia, you can send comes to us via carl gustafson if you have a question you think is right for meat eater trivia you can send it to trivia at the meat eater dot com what state is home to the nation's smallest national park which is just 91 acres brody with the quick answer again the question is what state is home to the nation's smallest national park, which is just 91 acres? Brody, do you know this one? Well, I'm going with the answer that popped into my head real fast.

No one else has the answer yet. Brody's got it, though. Again, looking for the smallest national park, which is 91 acres. In a state. You need to tell me what state it's in. The room is struggling, minus Brody. Is the perfect game going to continue, Steve? No, it's not. Your confidence is like one out of 50.

Is that what you think? No. Okay, you got a better chance than that? Yeah, but the one I'm thinking of isn't technically... So that can't be right. He wouldn't make a... I mean, he makes some dumbass mistakes, but he wouldn't make a mistake that bad.

I've got a 1 in 50 shot here. Okay. 2% chance for Chester. Dan, do you have an answer? I do. Okay, Sam? Yep. Randall.

I'll just leave it. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying New York. Dan saying California. Hayden saying Rhode Island. Brody saying California. Sam saying Rhode Island. Chester saying Florida.

Randall saying Massachusetts. Sam sang Rhode Island. Chester sang Florida. Randall sang Massachusetts. Nobody got it right. The correct answer is Missouri. Missouri? Gateway Arch National Park in St. Louis is 5,000 acres smaller than the next smallest national park, which is Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas. The Gateway Arch is 630 feet tall and 630 feet wide. It was built in 1965 and is meant to symbolize

America's gateway to the West. Why is that not a monument? That is a weird one. Very strange. I thought there was some little island off the coast of California that was a national park. Catalina? No.

Has anybody been to Gateway Arch? Oh, yeah, I've been there. Yep. Was it worth it? I've been to. Oh yeah, I've been there. Yep. Was it worth it? I've been to all that. I've been to that Hot Springs, Arkansas. Yeah, if you ride

the little elevator up to the top, you can look over the beautiful scenery of Western Illinois industrial plants. It's gorgeous. Perfect.

Clay's working on a bear grease about the stigmatism of Arkansas. Like for a long time, Arkansas was the most ridiculed state in the nation. And as is like in refuting that stereotype, he's spending some time on Walmart and Clinton.

She's very proud of her. I should say in refuting it, but in complicating it. Yeah. He's getting into Walmart, Clinton, and some fancy ass art museum. Crystal Bridge. What is it? Crystal Bridge. That episode came out.

Like complicating factors of Arkansas, you know. It came out? Yeah, it came out at the time of recording. So on March 8th. Oh. There you go. on March 8th. Oh. There you go. Go listen to it. Yep, go listen to Bear Grylls.

They seem pretty proud of Walmart. Dude, Clay, one time someone was telling us about Walmart's, like Walmart's, someone that works in manufacturing and supply was telling us about how good Walmart is about ensuring worker conditions overseas. Clay perked right up, dude. He was glowing. He loved hearing it. State pride.

He's like, can you tell us again about Walmart? That's funny. I get giddy now when I encounter just a regular Walmart instead of a super Walmart. Every now and then, I feel like in the Midwest or the South, you come across one, just a regular old Walmart without the grocery store. It's a real treat. Feels like you time traveled. Yeah. Walmart's pulling out of Portland.

Why? You know when you see an article, but you don't read it? Question five. I always start, because I always tell people I read it. I'm going to start changing what I say. Yeah. Okay. Headline.

Question five. Yeah, I was reading about the article in the headline the topic is cooking this cheese which is often used in lasagna has a name that means recooked in italian quick answer from the entire room this may be a hundred percent correct like the first question this, which is often used in lasagna, has a name that means recooked in Italian.

I definitely didn't spell it right. Okay, is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Ricotta, ricotta, ricotta, ricotta. Chester. That was one of the more off, you're going to do a little time, that was one of the more off, you're going to do a little time. That was one of the more dumber off-brand questions you've ever done.

Yeah. Everybody says ricotta. It's like the al dente. Ricotta is correct. Ricotta cheese is made by recooking the whey left over from making other cheese, which is often mozzarella. It can be used as a substitute for cottage cheese, cream cheese, and mayo. If you want a great lasagna recipe that uses it, then go to TheMeatEater.com and check out Lucas Leaf's recipe for venison fennel lasagna. I get it. Steve, when else do you use ricotta besides lasagna?

Give me an example. Omelette? Canola. Yeah, but you'd use it in other things that involve, you'd use it in other concoctions that involve, like, some sort of pasta and tomato kind of thing. I don't like that question. I got it right. How bad can it be?

That's right. Phil, we are halfway through the game of trivia. Give us a scoreboard update. Sure thing. No one's running away with the game, but we have Chester and Dan tied up with two points. Sam, Randall, and Hayden

have three points apiece. And tied for first place, four points, are Steve and Brody. You don't say. Yeah. You gotta take advantage of a one-point lead over Randall, man. Well, he came in hot, you know. Like a long time ago.

I told my wife this. I said, Randall won't admit it, but 1% of the reason that he's moving here is so he can play Meat Eater Trivia. And then last episode,

Randall says, yeah, I'm just moving here so I can play Meat Eater Trivia. And now I don't think it's a joke anymore, Randall. I don't know that it has like a causal effect, but it's certainly like confirmed'm it's only 200 miles it's not like that

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you can send it to trivia at themeateater.com. 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 former NASCAR driver is famous for wearing cowboy hats that often feature pheasant feathers, rattlesnake skins, and raccoon baculums. Pass that around the room. Again, this former NASCAR driver is famous for wearing cowboy hats that often feature pheasant feathers, rattlesnake skins, and raccoon

baculums. Randall and Brody didn't even need the picture. I've seen that guy a million times. I don't know his name. I know. Brody, is it who you thought it was? Yeah, I think so. I mean, hopefully I'm remembering his name right.

It's not Mario Andretti, is it? No, he did not look like an Italian. This former NASCAR driver is famous for wearing cowboy hats that often feature pheasant feathers, rattlesnake skins, and raccoon baculums. We will do Jeopardy rules. If you have the last name, we'll take that. You don't need first name. I don't really know NASCAR.

Okay. I would suspect that Brody and Randall don't know NASCAR either, but they might recognize this fella. Oh, yeah, dude. They make a movie about this guy? I don't know. Ricky Bobby? Yeah.

No, I recognize the Dickens. I can't remember his damn name, man. I know. Randall, is that who you thought it was? I believe so. Okay. Unless I'm getting the name wrong. Again, if you want to see this fella and his hat, go to Instagram.

Check out at Spencer Newharth. What are you seeing on those hats there, Steve? He's looking for the guy's initials on those hats. Is that Jimmy? Oh, yeah. I blurred them out. Any indicators of who he is? An embroidered shirt.

Has been blurred out. What's this saying, Steve, that you say? Is it like your hat personality can't be? Never wear a hat that says hello before you do. Okay. Or, no, no. Never wear a hat that has more personality than you do. While Chester is sitting here in a beaver hat.

But I don't think that that violates that because I'll wear one of those, but I would never be able to wear that crazy-ass hat that guy's got on. I would say that the beaver hat says hello before you do that. I think so, too. It's cold out. It says the weather. I mean, it says the weather. I'm wearing it in a podcast studio.

It does. It says I'm a practical fella who knows how to trap. Does everybody have an answer for who this former NASCAR driver is? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Okay. It just occurred to me. Was this Divine or Humunculus? What happened?

You didn't see my board. Let that one go on a long time, didn't you, Spencer? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying Petty. Oh, man. Dan saying Richard Petty. Hayden saying Rick Thomas. Brody saying Petty.

Sam saying Earnhardt. Chester saying Dale Earnhardt. Randall saying Richard Petty. The correct answer is Richard Petty. God, just came to me like it floored through Chester's hat. To me. Right out of it.

Well, missing Chester. You know when someone gets struck by lightning and he doesn't get zapped but the dude next to him does? It was like the information came into Chester's fur hat, floored down the table and up my leg, into my head. Although Petty's racing career began in 1968, he didn't start wearing the famous Charlie One horse hats until 1980. The flamboyant hats made him a fan favorite,

helping him win the most popular driver award nine times. Petty's hat is so iconic that a signed version is on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. We're going to get back to hunting and fishing on the next question. Question seven. The topic is fishing. What body of water

is often referred to as Florida's inland sea? What body of water is often referred to as Florida's inland sea? Quick answers from most of the room. Did not take into account that Steve got off a plane from Florida yesterday. Is that going to help you? Well, no, because no one told me that. I think he might have known this before he... Okay.

Again, what body of water is often referred to as Florida's inland sea? Does everybody have an answer? Give me a sec here. Okay. I'm just writing it down. Very confident room. Chester, what did you just add there to your whiteboard? Just a letter.

Go ahead. Reveal your answers. Okeechobee. Dan saying Okeboge, which is in Iowa. Hayden saying Okeechobee. I don't know that that says that. Brody saying Everglades. Sam saying, boy, these are some creative spelling.

Sam saying Okeechobee.. Sam saying Okeechobee. Chester saying Okeechobee. No, what does that say? Let's see it. Okeedobee? Okeechobee. I added the H in it. Okay.

Okeechobee. Randall saying Okeechobee. They got it. The correct answer is Lake Okeechobee. We were right there. I don't think we're going to give it to Dan, who said a lake that is in Iowa. I think he's thinking of Lake Okebogee, which is in the northwest corner of the state, I believe. Brody said the Everglades, which is not right.

The Everglades are not the same as Lake Okeechobee. Well, I didn't think they were. Okeechobee is the head of the Everglades. That's right. At 734 square miles, Okeechobee is the 10th largest natural freshwater lake in the United States. It's a relatively young lake forming just 6,000 years ago when ocean waters receded from the minor depression that is the lake bed. Amazingly, the average depth of Lake Okeechobee is 9 feet and the deepest part is 13 feet. I was on that mother liquor last week. Yeah, we had a Airbnb

and there's this, what river was that? Caloosahatchee. Caloosahatchee, which connects to Okeechobee and we were out there trying to catch some bass and Steve said we never would catch a bass. And did you? Chris Gill caught a

bucket mouth. That's not what happened. Let's hear Steve's side of the story. bass. And did you? Chris Gill caught a bucket mouth. It's not what happened. Let's hear Steve's side of the story. Do you want to hear my side of the story? There's a little dock on the river and there's some cattail ponds and they come back all excited. $23 Walmart.

They go to Walmart, buy a rod for $22 and buy a bunch of 10 inch artificials. And I went down there to survey the situation. It's the kind of place you can't dock hop. You got one damn dock. Okay? And I just said, I don't think that's how it's going to go down.

Give us some specifics, Chester, of what you guys purchased. We purchased a spinning rod. Okay. Like a Shakespeare, just a standard Shakespeare spinning rod. Okay. We purchased. Like a Shakespeare, just a standard Shakespeare spinning rod. Yeah, just like a real cheap $23 spinning rod with mono. Gil said he's never going back to Good Rods. I can guarantee you I'm going back to Good Rods. And what were these artificial lures that you had?

It was just a big, long, eight-inch worm, and we were Texas rigged. Texas rigged, so they had a bullet sinker, they had a bullet sinker on there and a big old Texas rig. Man, they should have got some live shine. I told them, and I came up with a fishing quote. I said, you're fishing the way you wish the world was and not the way the world is.

And I said, you go get some crawlers, I'll show you some fish, which they did, and then they started breaking and everything under the sun. I love that about Okeechobee is they're unabashed by using bobbers

and live bait. That's like a standard guiding technique there. I was with a guy and he was booking a client. I was with a bass guy. We were out in his airboat and we went shooting

tilapia with our bows. But he got a call and was booking a client and the client is paying airboat. We went shooting tilapia with our bows. But he got a call and was booking a client. And the client is paying Captain Bob Stafford. The client is paying to go out bobber fishing with shiners.

Yeah, man. That's how they get the giants. 30 to 40 bass days. That's awesome. Wow. Circle hooks. And he's on some body water just north of Okeechobee. Catch and release only circle hooks on live bait. Isn't it amazing to look out over that whole sea and think that at 13 feet, it's the deepest it gets? Key.

Question? We caught tilapia, catfish, and a largemouth. And were those all on the bobber worms as well? Yes. How big was the bass? Some folks call it a Steve rig. How big was the bass? Like an 18, 17, 18 inch.

Good bucket mouth. When they come running back from there, they were thinking they were going to get some 16 pounders out of there. Question eight. The topic is conservation. White-nose syndrome is a disease that's killed millions of these animals in the last decade. Did you notice I didn't even wait for you to finish? I did. A couple other folks equaled Steve's confidence. Again, the question is, white nose syndrome is a disease that's killed millions of these animals in the last decade.

I think in the race between Brody, Steve, and Randall, Steve won with the quickest answer. Randall and Brody also look quite confident. This is question eight. After this, we will get a scoreboard update. Maybe we should do a version of trivia with the buzzer deal, whoever rings in first. Well, we did the holiday edition that was tight. That's right, Family Feud. I don't like that idea.

But then it gets into just ding. And not the buzzer technique. It gets complicated because you ring and you're wrong. I don't know. I think at some point this year, we're going to try something where you have to wager throughout the game. You can wager your points. We'll see if we like it or not. What do you mean? Like, I have five

answers, right? Yeah, you can wager all five that you want. Like Final Jeopardy. But do it throughout the game. Again, question eight. The topic is conservation. White Nose Syndrome is a disease that's killed millions of these animals in the last decade. How specific do we have to be?

If you think the answer is white-tailed deer, you can just say deer. How long do people have? Because I got a little announcement to make. Go ahead. If anyone out there has a print of Eric Von Schmitz, here fell Custer. Can you send Spencer a note? Why,

why is that? I want it for the new studio. Okay. Send it to trivia at the meat eater.com. Kylie's been trying to track one down for me, but it's hard to find. What's it called again? Here fell Custer by Eric Von Schmitz.

Here fell Custer. You know where to get it. Send us trivia. Trivia to MeatEater.com. We got room for it. Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answer. We have Steve saying bats. Dan saying mink. Hayden saying fish.

Brody saying bats. Sam saying bats. Chester saying possums. Randall saying bats. But he didn't even say possums. Randall sang bats. But he didn't even say possums. It was singular. He said crinner. Just one of a millions of possums.

The correct answer is bats. White-nose syndrome was discovered in America in 2006. It arrived here from Europe or Asia and has been devastating bat populations ever since. It's estimated that about 7 million bats have died from the fungal disease in the last 15 years, and biologists now consider it the greatest threat to North America's native bats. Phil, give us a scoreboard update. We have two questions left. We must say goodbye to Hayden, Dan, and Chet, who played valiantly but are no longer in the running. Sam has five points. Randall and Brody have six. And in first place is Steve with seven points.

Two questions to go. Anybody's game, man. I could falter. Question nine, the topic is cooking. Listen, if you'd have called it sooner, I'd have been... I was already savoring that point. Oh, man, so was I. The topic is cooking. What coastal American city is famous for its hot dogs that are served with cream cheese and sautéed onions?

What? Coastal American city? What coastal American city is famous for its hot dogs that are served with cream cheese and sautéed onions? Randall looks like he might make up some ground here on steam. Randall, are you some kind of hot dog aficionado? Oh, really? You're a big hot dog guy.

Wow. What does that mean exactly? They just taste great. Okay. Isn't this our second hot dog question? They serve them in fun places. We had a question about Red Snappers. Yeah.

Probably a month ago. This one, though, is what coastal American city is famous for its hot dogs that are served with cream cheese and sautéed onions? This is where I feel the cooking questions wander way outside the focus of this. How famous? If you Google cream cheese hot dog, every single result is going to be this. It's famous. There is a restaurant in town that sells one of these,

and it is called the blank dog. It's a thing. Is everybody ready? The blank dog. Give me a sec here. Yeah. Randall, have you had one of these dogs? He's giving hints. Only a few, though.

Are they good? We're really helping out the room here. Lifetime. Is that a question? We got a lot going on here. There's a lot on the line, mind you. It's a tight game. Does everybody have an answer? I just need to beat Shelby.

Shelby in X is three. we've already surpassed that with steve's seven and two questions to go brody are you gonna get this one i have no idea okay but i'm still thinking is everybody ready hmm brody no god i'm struggling to see what this question has to do with anything. Yeah. Well, it's about a regional preparation, just like we talk about lobster rolls. Of like the thing least likely to be made from wild game. I bet you somebody has wild game. Besides asparagus. That's a recipe coming up.

Our website has plenty of hot dog and sausage recipes. It's hard to pull off. All right. Whatever. Brody, you ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve. What's that say?

Saying Philly. Dan saying Philly. Hayden saying Coney Island. I think it's Coney Island. Brody saying Boston. Sam saying Atlantic City. It's got to be Philly. Chester saying Seattle.

Randall saying Seattle. The correct answer is Seattle. Damn. Randall and Chester got Seattle. Randall saying Seattle. The correct answer is Seattle. Randall and Chester got it right. I lived in Seattle, dude. I didn't eat hot dogs with cream cheese on them. You got this wrong. I think that says more about you than Seattle. Here's why.

The Seattle dog was invented in Pioneer Square in the late 1980s. It became a late-night staple for food carts to sell to bar goers, becoming the unofficial drunk food of the Emerald City. The hot dog is typically a Polish sausage that's split down the middle and served on a toasted pretzel bun. Randall, did you have a Seattle dog in Seattle? Yes. Did you get it like off a food cart, at a ball game, a restaurant? What was going on? I don't remember. They all kind of run together. I've had a couple of them.

Not my favorite. I'm more of a traditional mustard, ketchup, onions, relish guy. And Phil, as our person from the Pacific Northwest, what's your familiarity with a Seattle dog? It's the best hot dog I've ever had was a Seattle dog. Really? It's so indulgent. It's really, really good. And do you just do like a classic cream cheese and sautéed onions?

Yep. Or do you do sriracha, jalapenos? Nope, that's it. Pull a sausage, cream cheese. What brought you right now? The pretzel bun is big too. Chester, did you know that or were you just guessing? Or did you cheat off Randall?

I didn't cheat. Okay. I was going to guess Portland or Seattle because I feel like I've just heard that before. Like Portland dog, Seattle dog, and I just guessed Seattle. You know what's funny, man? I put down all, so I just realized I put down a non-coastal. Yeah. We had a couple folks who said Portland.

I did too. I wasn't going to shame them. I was thinking of the Philadelphia tea party, man. Philadelphia cream cheese. When I saw the two Philly answers, I'm like, man, I am pretty ignorant about that part of the country, not knowing that it's on the coast. I don't even want to. I got too focused on cream cheese and not focused enough on it. Same.

Phil, we have one question left. Where do folks stand? It's a good one. We've got Brody with six points and tied up in first place now are Randall and Steve. Question 10. The topic is hunting. Am I still in it? You need these other two to get it wrong and you to get it right.

Oh, that's not going to happen. This next great question comes to us via Kevin Nowak. If you have a question you think is right for MeatEater Trivia, you can send it to trivia at themeateater.com. Kevin, I'm going to kick your ass if I don't get this right. How many states east of the Rocky Mountains have huntable populations of mule deer? Come on. What's the come on?

You don't like the question? Does the state have to have... What if the state has Rocky Mountains in it? Well, then that wouldn't be east of the Rocky Mountains. Yeah, it would. No. So the entire state has to be east of the Rocky Mountains. Yes.

No problem. Looking for how many states east of the Rocky Mountains have huntable populations of mule deer? Just looking for a number. Just looking for a number. Brody, how do you feel about this one? Pretty good, as long as my definition of east of the Rocky Mountains is correct. Okay. This takes quite a bit of knowledge about where mule deer live,

where the Rocky Mountains are, et cetera. Good on you if you get this right. Again, how many states east of the Rocky Mountains? This is more of a tiebreaker, buddy. It's more of a tiebreaker. I think you'll be surprised at how well folks do with this question. Randall, how do you feel about this one? I think I'm plus or minus three.

Okay. I'm plus or minus one. Okay. And Brody thinks he has it. This is shaping up for maybe a three-way tiebreaker. Does everybody have an answer? Listen, man, it should be like name blank number of them. You can't expect people just to have this right.

We'll see. I think it's reasonable. Does everybody have an answer? Did you just change your answer, Randall? Randall, you changing your answer? Yeah, I did. Okay. Hayden's changing his answer.

It's non-consequential. I'm out. Go ahead and reveal your answer We have Steve saying 5 Dan saying 4 Hayden saying 4 Brody saying 6 Sam saying 5

Chester saying 4 Randall saying, is that a 4 or a 9? That's a 4, I changed it from a 5 Randall saying 4 We have a correct answer in the room. It's six. Sending us to a three-way tiebreaker. Tell me the six.

Tell me the six. Oklahoma has it. I think that's what you missed. Oklahoma. The six states extend from Canada to Mexico. They are North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. Mule deer are occasionally reported in states like Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and

Missouri, but they are often young bucks that wandered in from neighboring states to the west. Man, if I'd have wrote down Oklahoma, it would be over. It would be. Now, did you not think they had mule deer? Did you forget about Oklahoma? Did you think Rocky Mountains went there? I didn't think they had a season.

They do. So we are going to a three-way tiebreaker. Play the drops, Phil. Have we ever had a three-way tiebreaker? You ain't first, you're last. That doesn't make any sense at all. You're first, you're last. You can be second. You can be third. Fourth. Hell,

you can even be fifth. Phil, when do you get a minute? Can you redo that? I don't like that one. That's Ricky Bowdy. I know, but it's like too much of the same thing. It's just a long passage. Yeah, I thought it might have been. Yeah, sure.

You send me some ideas. Brody, Steve, and Randall going to our tie-breaking question with seven correct answers. I never liked it. The tie-breaker will be a numerical question. Whoever is closest to the correct answer will be declared the winner. The tiebreaking topic

is hunting. What is the last year that ESPN ran hunting content on their network? Brody with a quick answer. No, I'm just getting my pen ready. You will not catch Brody with a quick answer. No, I'm just getting my pen ready. You will not catch Brody sleeping over there.

He's moving the pen over into the area where he's going to write. That's right. Again, the topic is hunting. What is the last year that ESPN ran hunting content on their network? The only answers that matter are Randall, Brody, and Steve, but the rest of the room can play along if they'd like. Looking for the last year that ESPN had hunting content. Brody, how do you feel about that guess?

I think I'm close. Okay. Randall? See, this one's weird, though, because there's no decimal point shit to fall back on. We've done years before. If we need to go to a second tiebreaker, we can do that. Oh man, it could go on all day. Then what's Phil going to play?

Is this like regular? He'll play the clip you don't like twice. This is like regular programmed material. Yeah, like the last time you turned on ESPN. On ESPN 1 or 2? Are we including the spin-off networks? It's their whole network. The Ocho.

I think just cut it at, if you ain't first, you're last. Cut. And then, like, go into other stuff that's funny. Steve, I'm worried you're not focused

on our tie-breaking question here. I'm not thinking about it. Okay. Have you come up with an answer yet? Oh, yeah. Okay. For the last year

that they ran hunting content on ESPN, Randall, do you have an answer? I've seen you change it a few times now. I'm working on my third. Is everybody ready?

I got to do a little edit. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Is everybody ready? I'm ready. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Dan saying 1987.

Hayden saying 2005. Sam saying 2011. Hayden sang 2005. Sam sang 2011. Chester sang 2007. And the answers that matter... Why don't you name what Brody has? We have Brody sang 2008. Randall sang 2001. Steve sang 2005.

One of you is within two years of the correct answer. The right answer is 2010, making Brody our winner. What a comeback. Amazing comeback. Brody came through clutch with the six Mule Deer states and then got within two years. And he was saying it can't be done.

He did feel that way. You know, never give up, Steve. That was an amazing performance, man. That was solid finish. I was so distracted by the fact that I was going to lose, I didn't even think of someone to donate to. You know what?

Brody exemplified right there my maxim. This is be a pessimist in your head, but an optimist in your actions. That's right. I like it. But I feel like he was being a pessimist in his actions as well. Well, I kept answering the questions. He got everything right from that moment on. Now, while you think of a donation, Brody, let me tell you this.

ESPN announced in a 2010 press release that it was cutting all outdoor television except for bass tournaments by the end of the year. The last hunting show I can find that aired on ESPN was Bill Jordan's Realtree Outdoors, where David Blanton goes on a once in a lifetime elk hunt in Wyoming. That episode aired on December 19, 2010. What made it once in a lifetime? I think it was, you know, a tag that was like

took him 16 years of drawing. He hired an outfit or something like that. Brody, what happens next is you get to choose where the $500 donation goes, so what's it going to be? I'm going to do the Mule Deer Foundation. Ooh, because you came in on that mule deer question. That's right. Well done, Brody.

Besides it being question 10, what else do you like about the Mule Deer Foundation? Oh, habitat work, access, hunter advocacy, all that stuff. Well done, Brody. Amazing game, Brody. Come back for the ages. When it's deserved, I'll hand it out. Hell of a comeback. Well done, Brody. Join us next time for more

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