The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 426: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia LIII

Episode Date: March 29, 2023

Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Brody Henderson, Janis Putelis, Hayden Sammak, Dan Chumbler, Tressa Croaker, Carl Young, and Phil Taylor.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. 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 Ranella, Giannis Poutelis, Brody Henderson, Dan Chumbler, Hayden Samick, Tressa Croker, and Carl Young.

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. Me, Dieter, will donate $500 to the conservation organization of the winner's choosing. Can I interject for a minute? What do you got? My boy, his friend Teddy, makes stop motion

Lego videos on YouTube. Really? That takes some talent. And he was very excited because he hit 38 subscribers. Is he monetizing that yet? No And his dad, he wants a new huge Lego set But his dad won't get it to him Until he hits a thousand subscribers

His channel I was wondering where this was going Mac Mac M45 Uppercase M Uppercase M Then lowercase A-C-M-4-5. Mac M45 on YouTube. You can watch all of Teddy's.

Listen, this kid's name is Teddy Roosevelt. You can watch all. That's his real name. You can watch all of his stop motion Lego videos. Subscribe now Very good use of this platform The name was relevant though Are you going to tell his dad

That you just plugged this Or are you just going to let it happen On Wednesday morning Teddy's going to be able to go to his dad And be like okay I get the huge Lego set It's going to go way above What do you say, a thousand?

So I think he should maybe leverage it. Jimmy said, Teddy's so, because like the other day I got a couple people to subscribe at dinner and he's like,

Teddy's up to 38. All right, don't let him down. I would go to dad and say, do I get a new set for every thousand? They're really good videos.

It's painstaking. Jimmy will help him with it now and then. You gotta set it all up, take a picture, move it around, take a picture. He does fights and concerts. What should he invest in, Phil, when he gets that new set? What would be your pick if you were getting a new Lego set right now and you were Teddy? You know what I

did when I was a kid? One thing, it's fun. You can get a really clean piece of glass, and what you do is if you angle it right, you can tape your Legos to that and make them look like you can make them fly. Oh, I don't think he knows about that. Oh, yeah. I got some tips from back in the day. Oh, wow.

Now, for the stat of the week this week, we're looking at what's the easiest and hardest category in meat eater trivia. Steve, do you have any predictions as far as what would be the easiest category versus the hardest category? I'll tell you the stupidest category. Some of the culinary ones are such a stretch. Is that all right? I'd say that's fair. So is that...

Yeah, that's my answer. For hardest or easiest? Stupidest. Okay, stupidest my answer For hardest or easiest Stupidest Okay stupidest How about hardest or easiest I'm going to ask Yanni If you're not going to play along I don't know Because I feel like

You told me Ask Yanni Because I think you told me In my stats I think I was like I think I do worse on I think the hunting questions Is where I fail

This is for the entire room though For every question ever asked In the history of meat eater trivia In our four verticals How well for our four verticals Oh culinary for sure. Easiest? Hardest or easiest?

Oh, hardest. Because it's all that stuff like if you put vinegar on lobster, it's like stuff that no one. How about easiest? What do you think is the easiest category? Conservation. Any other predictions? Hunt and easiest.

I thought the conservation was going to be the hardest. Yeah, I was going to say conservation hardest, hunt and easiest. Here's what we have. I got these numbers by tracking total correct answers given against total questions asked in each of our four verticals. The easiest category is cooking where players have a 49% chance of getting the right answer. That's followed by conservation at 46% and hunting at 45%. The hardest category is fishing, where players have a 42% chance of getting the right answer.

So the easiest category, cooking. Hardest category, fishing. But there is only a 7% difference in player performance between the two. You know what? It does make sense. Because the cooking questions rarely have anything to do with hunter-fishing. That's right. Teed you up, Brody.

Now here's our zero percenter question of the week. Did you lose your statistic? Softball for Brody there. Still have him. Oh. Why? Are you concerned? So I thought you just said you ran it.

Well, so he compiles stats for me. Does a great job. His name is Matthew. Every now and then we send him a little meat eater care package, things that you signed or things we have coming out. And then Matthew puts all these stats together for me in an Excel sheet. Some things I have to go in and manually track. Other things he just tracks for me.

Gotcha. Now here's our 0% of the question of the week, which tests how much knowledge our players have retained from previous games. I'm terrible at these. This was from episode 357 and the topic is hunting and nobody got this question right. 357. What state has

the highest population of bighorn sheep? Does anybody know it? Steve? Can't remember. You weren't here that episode. Oh, that's why. Oh, so this is fresh. For you. Are you ready?

Colorado. No. Arizona. No. Nevada. Mexico. Yes, Nevada. Yanni, you were here that episode.

The incorrect answers we had given were Idaho, Montana, and Colorado. Nevada has 12,000 bighorns, which is nearly twice as many as states like Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and Arizona. Should be easy. Draw odds are terrible. I wouldn't even look into it. Draw odds are terrible. They do give away... They do give away the most non-resident tags in Nevada,

but Yanni said draw odds are terrible. Don't bother. We have some house keeping to get to. In a previous game of trivia, we had a tie-breaking question about where the Secretary of the Interior falls in the line of presidential succession. As we learned, that person is 8th out of 18 in line for office. Listener Leland Hart wrote in to add some clarity on how we got there. He said that the order of presidential succession has been updated many times with the most recent change happening in 2006. And although it's assumed that the order is determined by some amount of prestige, it's actually much simpler than that.

For most of the list, the order goes by the age of the department and almost everything after the third position reflects that. So when a new position is added to the cabinet, that position is slotted in at the end of the list. That's why the last person in order of succession is the Secretary of Homeland Security. It's the newest cabinet position. Huh. Huh. So there you go.

Each time they add a new cabinet position, goes to the end. Thank you, Leland. He wrote in from Egypt, even, to point that out. Well, I wouldn't send him a signed hat, then. That's too far away. I'd send that guy an email. Too far away. Also, in a previous game, we had a question about what food item Spoon University likened

to a campfire panini. The answers given were hobo pies, iron pies, and pudgy pies. But about 20 listeners wrote in asking if we'd also accept the answer mountain pie, which is what many folks in the Appalachian region like to call them. Mountain pie does seem to be synonymous with those other uses. That's why it was a dumb question. So yes, if you said mountain pie, that would be a correct answer. You want to know what's hilarious?

When we were working on our outdoor cookbook, we have a big, we have a hobo pie section and everybody's like, oh, you talking about this? A little bit but go ahead it's just you know times change and uh if you search hobo pie uh you'll get all kinds of hits of hobo pie makers you'll get the hit but it's not in the product description so they're like everyone knows what they are but no one wants to say it so you search hobo pie maker you'll pull up a mountain pie maker or you'll pull up urban dictionary or something like that so what is the new cookbook call them what we settle on it was content settled on iron pies. Iron pies. Iron pies. Like it.

Which doesn't sound that tasty, but you're just making a pie out of a hobo. Now, the Shelby index for this round is a three, meaning our winner should get six correct answers, but I'm actually predicting they'll actually get eight. 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 what I stand to win. Everything.

How's that? You stand to win everything. Game on, suckers! I got a stat for you to look at. How many people in the room, right? How does that affect high score, ties? It's a good question. Because if you had 50 people in here,

someone's going to get a perfect score. Which is why I think today's winner could get an eight. We have some heavy hitters playing along. I want another stat. I want to know if I've ever won after getting the first question wrong. Because I don't feel it. I feel like it's all over. No, I mean, that's why yesterday I was out at the eight point thing. Because the first question wrong, because I don't feel it. I feel like it's all over. No, I mean, that's why yesterday

I was out at the eight-point thing, because the first question was wrong. Yeah. Question one, the topic is foraging. What state produced the most maple syrup in 2022? And this is multiple choice. Your options are Maine, Wisconsin, Vermont, or West Virginia.

What state produced the most maple syrup in 2022? Maine, Wisconsin, Vermont, West Virginia. Some quick answers from folks. Is this like commercially sold maple syrup? Yes. All right. Room looks fairly confident. Brody, how does that change your answer?

You're looking around this room right now. You see confidence, huh? Well, there were quick answers. I saw some folks putting marker to board before I even gave the choices. One of four. Again, what state produced the most maple syrup in 2022? Maine, Wisconsin, Vermont, West Virginia. Does everybody have an answer? You know that little arrangement we have where you read the one I crossed out to?

Would you mind doing that? Okay, did you cross out three of them? I haven't crossed one out yet. Okay. What are you looking at here, Yanni? In a minute. I feel like I'm being baited into something here. I'm good. The confidence is now leaking.

Does Canada count? I see folks changing answers. I'll accept it, Brody. Steve, are you ready? Yeah. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying Wisconsin crossed out Vermont. Hayden saying Vermont. Dan saying Wisconsin crossed out Vermont. Hayden saying Vermont. Dan saying Wisconsin, crossed out Vermont.

Brody saying Vermont. Tressa saying Maine. Carl saying Maine. Randall saying Vermont. Giannis saying Wisconsin. There's a right answer in the room. Well, nobody said West Virginia. West Virginia wasn't right.

The correct answer was Vermont. Damn it. Damn it. Damn it. I crossed it out. There correct answer was Vermont. Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! I crossed it out. There are no trick questions. That question was rigged to make you give the wrong answer. I know, but I thought

Wisconsin was like a sleeper state. I know. In 2022, Vermont produced 2.5 million gallons of maple syrup, which is half of the entire country's production. That's followed by New York at 845,000 gallons, Maine at 672,000 gallons, Wisconsin at 440,000 gallons, and Michigan at 190,000 gallons. If you want to learn how to tap a tree, then go to TheMeatEater.com and check out Jenna

Roselle's article called How to Make Maple Syrup. Question two. Man, we were kids. We would drill holes into every tree but sugar maples. Question two. The topic is conservation. This next great question comes to us via John Schlesinger. If you have a question you think is right for MeatEater Trivia,

you can send it to trivia at themeateater.com. What late night comedian had his show submit absurd drawings to the 2021 federal duck stamp competition? No answer from the room quite yet. The question is what late night comedian had his show submit absurd drawings to the 2021 federal duck stamp competition? When you say late-night comedian, do you mean late-night host? Correct. Okay. I feel like the game's changed a lot, man. This is very conservation-centric.

What would be your issue with this question? Just kick it. I'd come and kick everybody's ass. Okay. Now it's just like, it's not even fun anymore. What late night comedian had his show submit absurd drawings to the 2021 Federal Duck Stamp Competition? You know, Phil kind of always roots against me. He does.

I feel like he might start. It's been so bad. He might start rooting for me. You're having a heel turn in wrestling, Steve. The bad like he might start. It's been so bad, he might start rooting for me. Yeah. You're having a heel turn in Rasslin, Steve. The bad guy is the heel. Steve, that turn for me happened a few weeks ago. I've been witnessing it. It's become like a pity.

I'm on your side now, yeah. In Rasslin, Steve, it'd be the heel is the bad guy, and then they can have it turn to a baby face. So you're now in your baby face era? Is that where we're going? Mm-hmm. Okay. I missed everything there. What kind of wrestling?

WWE. Let's get on with it. Does everybody have an answer for the late night host? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying Conan O'Brien. Hayden saying Jimmy Kimmel. Dan saying Leno.

Brody saying Jimmy Fallon. Tressa saying Colbert. Carl saying John Oliver. Randdy saying Jimmy Fallon. Tressa saying Colbert. Carl saying John Oliver. Randall saying Jimmy Fallon. Giannis saying Kimmel. We have a correct answer in the room. It's John Oliver. Oh, I knew that. Why would he care? He's not even American. That seems like a John Oliver. John Oliver's HBO show last week tonight submitted five drawings to the Duck Stamp competition and then auctioned off the originals. The five pieces of art sold for nearly $100,000, which was donated to the federal duck stamp program. The satirical paintings included things like ducks hunting humans,

ducks judging duck stamps, and the laughing dog from the 1984 video game Duck Hunt. Question three. The topic is biology. About 80% of people who contract this viral disease develop a fear of water or flying as a symptom. About 80% of people who contract this viral disease develop a fear of water or flying as a symptom. The topic is biology. Quick answer from Brody and Steve. Rest of the room.

No, I think Randall would have been pretty speedy about it. Randall, you got this one right? I think so. Me and Randall are on it. We're on it. Giannis hasn't even picked up his board. My worlds are colliding right now in such a weird way. I'll tell you in a minute.

Okay. That might help some folks out. No, they're never going to. No. Okay. No, they'll never make the connection. About 80% of people who contract this viral disease develop a fear of water or flying as a symptom. Does everybody have an answer?

Who's going to come up with an answer? Brody, you good? Oh, yeah. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying rabies. Hayden saying rabies. Dan saying Lyme. Brody saying rabies. Tressa, without an answer. Carl saying rabies. Randall saying

rabies. Giannis saying hepatitis. The correct answer is rabies. Why is that funny? It's estimated that... Because if you read Old Yeller, you get the hydrophobia.

But why flying? It's estimated that 80% of human rabies cases... Back when everybody had rabies, you couldn't fly. Everyone knows. I'm not going to hate to be up there. It's estimated that about 80% of human rabies cases are labeled as furious rabies, which causes hydrophobia and aerophobia. Hydrophobia is a fear of water and aerophobia is a fear of fresh air drafts

or flying between 2009 and 2019. There were 25 cases of human rabies in the United States, with only two of those people surviving. Boone, he was camping with some guys one time, and a rabid wolf ran into their fire circle. And witnesses commented that it was fixated on a particular guy. Whoa. Bit him. Developed rabies. They were night hunting for deer, just drifting down rivers with pine knot fires in a dugout canoe.

And he went berserk from hydrophobia. Man. Had to be constrained. They brought him home and he died in his bed. You see videos sometimes of people who have the hydrophobia and it's scary to watch them be scared. Hydrophobia.

Can I tell you about my worlds, Clyden? I thought that was your world. I have a friend, Tim Collins. He sends me Vermont honey every year. Sorry, Vermont maple syrup every year from his sugar shack. Okay. And guess what?

He had a bat in his house and grabbed the bat and got scratched and had to do the rabies treatment. That's how my worlds are colliding. Those are some big needles that come with the rabies treatment, I think. He talked about that. Terrible. Question four. You get what I'm saying, right?

Rabies, maple syrup. Yeah. The topic is hunting. It's almost like this is Meat Eater Trivia. This next right question comes to us via Ben Long. If you have a question you think is right for Meat Eater Trivia, you can send it to trivia at themeateater.com. Ben Long.

Our Ben Long? Ben is a contributor to our website. You can read a lot of his articles. He's got a new book coming out. At themedia.com as well. What famous firearms writer has a museum named after him in Lewiston, Idaho? What famous firearms writer has a museum named after him in Lewiston, Idaho? Steve, did you know this? No. Okay, but a quick answer.

Also quick answers from Randall and Brody. Did a little deductive reasoning. This is question four. Again, the topic is hunting. What famous firearms writer has a museum named after him in Lewiston, Idaho? Giannis, how do you feel about that answer?

I took the same approach as Steve. Okay. Probably the exact same approach. It's a good chance. I almost went with my old nickname. Oh, yeah. Just for fun. But I want to get one point, so I'm going to stay in the game here.

Does everybody? Is your old nickname still right? He is, isn't he? I don't know. Yanni Vanswall? Yeah. Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers.

We have Steve saying O'Connor. Hayden saying Jack O'Connor. Dan saying no idea. Brody saying Jack O'Connor. Dan saying no idea. Brody saying Jack O'Connor. Tressa without an answer. Carl saying Hornady. Randall saying O'Connor. Giannis saying O'Connor.

They got it right. The correct answer is Jack O'Connor. The Jack O'Connor Hunting Heritage and Education Center opened in 2006. It has the complete collection of O'Connor's books and articles, as well as some of his taxidermy, photographs, and guns. O'Connor is best known for being Outdoor Life's firearms editor for over three decades.

You know what the best thing about his writing was? 270. They'd be like, we saw a flock of sheep, so we all started shooting into it. And he'd be like, I got one in his rum. And he'd be like, I got one in his rump. And then a couple shots. The second shot took his nose off.

The fourth shot was in his butt. The fifth shot really anchored him. Just goes to show what you can do with a.270. He loved the.270. I think a lot of folks shoot a.270 today. You guys are being disrespectful to a person that's, you know, dead. That has a museum named after him.

We're not being, it's like, read his stuff. I've read plenty of them. Although Yanni loves that stuff. It was different times. No, because he had a very precise system for aiming. At what distance? He developed the max point blank range system.

Oh, did he? Oh, yeah. So he'd know like 270, 300 yards, he's good. He developed the max point blank range system Oh did he? Oh yeah So he'd know like 270, 300 yards he's good 400 he holds X high Man he used to go down into Sonora Back in the old days They'd drive down there in like a Model T

And shit in the 20s And go and knock on doors They drank warm beer back then That's how long ago that was. Question five. The topic is fishing. What ocean is the Great Barrier Reef in? What ocean is the Great Barrier Reef in?

This is question five. We will get a scoreboard update from Phil the Engineer after this. Some quick answers in the room. Some slow answers. Giannis has not come up with one yet. What ocean is the Great Barrier Reef in? Dan, you had the quickest answer.

Do you know this one? I think I do, but I've got zero right so far, so don't bank on me. How about you, Hayden? You were quick to draw. Yeah, I think I got it right. You know, I'm not great at these geography questions, though. I got it narrowed down. It's our toughest category.

You have a 42% chance of getting it right. Yana's doing a lot of writing over here. You going to start eliminating? I got two answers. Okay. Do you mind reading? We can do that. Yanni, did you pick an answer?

Is there a world map in here anywhere? Does it matter? Can you run a stat on whether it matters if you read the ones I cross off in terms of my reputation? Is it hell or earth? What's the stat? Do you want us to poll listeners? Does it make me seem petty and competitive? Okay.

We'll get that stat. Does everybody have an answer? No. No. I've got to choose one. Which one should I choose, Spencer? Yanni, you even capped your marker. You're not very close to even picking an answer. Oh, I'm just going to use my finger to cross one out.

Oh, man. He wrote them all. He wrote down the seven C's. And then he's going to be like Mediterranean. All right, let's go. Tressa, are you ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying South Pacific.

Hayden saying Indian. Dan saying Indian. Brody saying Pacific. Tressa saying Atlantic. Carl saying Pacific. Randall saying Pacific. Giannis saying South Pacific. The correct answer Carl saying Pacific. Randall saying Pacific. Giannis saying South Pacific. The correct answer is the Pacific.

If you said South Pacific or Pacific, we will give it to you. That's bullshit. The Great Barrier Reef is in the Coral Sea, which is located off the northeastern coast of Australia in the Pacific Ocean. It's the world's largest coral reef system, spanning across

133,000 square miles. It's home to over 1,700 types of fish, sharks, raids, dolphins, and whales. Right in the South Pacific. You should conclude that in the end of them. Phil, we are halfway through the game of trivia. It'd be like accepting America for if you had a continent question. Yeah. What if someone said, you know, where is this in,

what state is this in? And you said, Eastern Montana. Yeah, exactly. Good point, Randall. Phil, I'm not going to say that South Pacific is wrong. Not the same.

Let's get a world map out and see if it says South Pacific. It just says Pacific. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm telling you. Phil, that's how good your map is.

Phil, what is the leaderboard after five questions? Dan and Tressa are still scrapping to get on that board. They've got zero points. Giannis Poutelis has two points. Steven Rinella has three points, as do Hayden and Carl. And then tied for first place with four points are Randall and Brody. Seems familiar.

It's still a game. I'm nipping at their heels, man. Nipping at their heels. 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

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Name one. I hate these, man. Name one of the three states with the most meat eater podcast listeners. Bullshit! Now, before Steve or Dan get concerned, I cleared this question with the suits here at MeatEater to make sure I wasn't giving away any classified information. They said it was a fine question to ask, and here it is. Name one of the three states with the most MeatEater podcast listeners. Steve, are you going to get this one right?

I got a good chance of getting it right. Okay. If you said the state, that'd be tough. One of the three. Giannis, without an answer. And you can't list two, hoping that one of them is right. Just one. You're going to get it wrong.

Randall, you've had the shortest lifespan here in Mediator. How do you think your chances are on this question? Yeah, I don't think I have any access to this data, so it's 150. If I write down four and scratch out three. If you emailed the data person, he would have just emailed you the answer.

I didn't have that foresight. Poor Carl. Had I known, this would be a question. It's not an access. It's not an access. It's a lack of curiosity. You can do better than 150, Randall. Poor Carl doesn't even work at Meadeater. He works at FHF, but you handle the customer service costs, so maybe that gives you the greatest advantage in the room.

That's a good point. I don't know if it gives me that big of an advantage, but I'm hoping that my answer's right. I literally look at these metrics daily and I don't know the answer. Does everybody have an answer? One of the three states with the most media podcast listeners.

It's not per capita, it's the most. Are you ready, Carl? Yep. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying Texas. Hayden saying New York. Dan saying Minnesota. Brody saying Texas, Tressa saying Wisconsin, Carl saying Pennsylvania, Randall saying Pennsylvania, Giannis saying California. We have some correct answers in the room. The three states are Texas, California, and Michigan.

Damn it. Damn. Michigan, Michigan. I was going with California. Home state. It's nice of you to see your home state up in there. So me and Randall are neck and Michigan. Damn it. Damn. Michigan. I had Texas. Home state. It's nice to see your home state up in there. So me and Randall are neck and neck. Texas has the most Meat Eater podcast listeners and that's followed by

California, Michigan, Washington and Colorado. Similarly the cities with the most listeners are Denver, Seattle, Minneapolis, Dallas and Chicago. MacM45 on YouTube. I knew Minneapolis was up there. Question seven.

The topic is cooking. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Shelby Acker. For sending this great question, Shelby is going to get a book signed by Steve. That's not your wife, is it? No. Sometimes referred to as the butcher's tenderloin,

this steak dangles from an animal's diaphragm. Steve thinks it's a race. If it was, he did win. Quick answer from Steve, Brody, Randall. Again, the question. Sometimes referred to as the butcher's tenderloin. This steak dangles from an animal's diaphragm.

Steve, you know this one. I've got no idea. Oh, Spencer, thank you for that, man. That was the funniest thing I've heard today for sure. Your joke just now that Steve is still laughing at. Oh, the race? Okay.

Yeah. I thought this question... My board flew out of my hands. I thought this question hit home in some way. Again, looking for the name of the steak that's sometimes called the butcher's tenderloin. Oh, it is good too, man. I used to cook a pile of them down there

at Tuscany. Oh, come on! It is not giving any tips! man. I used to cook a pile of them down there at Tuscany. Let's save the chitchat, man. Oh, come on. It is not giving any tips. How do you know Randall wasn't like, that's like his favorite restaurant? Long Tong Yanni was flipping those things with his long tongs. That was back before he became Yanni

Van's wall. He was Long Tong Yanni. Sometimes referred to as the butcher's tenderloin, this steak dangles from an animal's diaphragm. Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying hanger. Hayden saying hanger. Crossed out, skirt.

Dan saying brisket. Brody saying hanger. Tressa saying filet. Carl saying skirt. Randall saying hanger. Brody sang hanger. Tressa sang filet. Carl sang skirt. Randall sang hanger. Giannis sang hanger. The correct answer is hanger steak. We'd also accept butcher steak or bistro steak.

Man, a friend of mine owns North Bridger Bison. And the other day, you know, he does custom, like you buy one, like he just goes out and shoots it and it goes to the slaughter plant and then you get it. And I was out there and he shot one and he gave me the hanger steak off that thing. And we made like a. How big is it off a bison?

Oh, it was sizable, man. We made, well, so for six of us at dinner, we did fajitas with it and had a little leftovers. Oh, that's good. Very nice. I used to package all their bison. Oh. Yeah, when I worked in Manhattan. Yep. I worked out there for a while. He's a good leftovers. Oh, that's good. Very nice. I used to package all their bison. Oh. Yeah, when I worked in Manhattan.

Yep. I worked out there for a while. He's a good dude. Yeah, he is. You're going to see us at the North Bridger Bison Ranch pretty soon here on YouTube where we butcher a bison using Clovis tools. Now, the butcher's tenderloin nickname comes from butchers setting the steak aside for themselves because customers found it too unattractive to purchase.

It is not the same as the flat iron steak, flank steak, or skirt steak, but can be cooked in a similar way. If you want to learn how to prepare one, then go to TheMeatEater.com and check out Danielle Pruitt's recipe for venison steak sandwiches. Question eight, the topic is conservation. The Three Mile Island incident, which is considered America's worst nuclear power plant accident, occurred in 1979 in what state? The Three Mile Island incident, which is considered America's worst nuclear power plant accident, occurred in 1979 in what state? Quick answer from Brody and Steve and Randall. Giannis were you alive in 1979? Yes. How many years old

were you? One. Okay. How you doing there Hayden? Three mile island incident. I watched like an hour and a half documentary on this not six months ago. I can't remember the state. I watched like an hour and a half documentary on this not six months ago. I can't remember the state. There's like an emerging pattern with Hayden where he explains why he's... He explains his proximity to the answer. Steve declared Hayden an emerging threat

in December, but he has yet to actually emerge. I'm a receiving threat now. He's the waning threat. No, no. Then I re-declare him the waning threat. Okay. Again, the Three Mile Island incident, which is considered America's worst nuclear power plant accident, occurred in 1979 in what state? Steve, do you have this right?

I keep vacillating between two answers. Mm-hmm. Does everybody else have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying New Jersey. Hayden saying Pennsylvania. Dan saying Pennsylvania. Brody saying Pennsylvania.

Treston without an answer. Carl Randall saying Pennsylvania. Giannis saying New York. The correct answer is Pennsylvania. I don't know. Damn it. It's like 10 miles down the road. It's because I watched that documentary six months ago.

What kind of islands they got? Hayden, what state were you born in? I don't know. Islands that are three miles long. He got it right. That was why I was looking at you in disappointment. Carl was hinting at him. On the seven point international nuclear event scale, the accident

was labeled a five. It took 14 years to clean up and cost $1 billion. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission denied that the accident had any effect on wildlife, but locals reported an increase in animal mutations, stillbirths, mass deaths, and in one case, a glowing fish. Haven't they not built another nuclear power plant of that ilk since? I don't know about that. It, it set into motion though, a lot of, uh,

things to prevent it from ever happening again. Do you have any, uh, recollection of that event, Brody? Oh, no, it was just a little, I mean, I remember vaguely like seeing it on the news, but, um, I think that's a lot of the Simpsons stuff is based on that. They've asked them before uh which springfield is uh is the simpsons set in they've always denied the answer um but i think

they narrowed it down to like kentucky uh was maybe like the the springfield it's oregon it's outside eugene where but but i mean like you know how there's a three-eyed fish in it? And like... He works at a nuclear plant. Exactly. Phil, we have two questions left. Where do we stand? Tressa, Dan, Giannis, and Carl are no longer in the running. Steve and Hayden are hanging on by their fingernails with five points apiece.

Randall has six points, and Brody is in first place with seven points. Two questions left. We're already coming out of nowhere. Question nine. The topic is hunting. The seeds of this plant, which is the Illinois state wildflower, are often used by deer hunters as wind indicators.

The seeds of this plant, which is the Illinois State Wildflower Are often used by deer hunters As wind indicators Listen bro, as soon as you get this right That means you can't catch them A very confident room Except for Randall

Am I doing my math right? He can't be caught We've got two left, I'm down one But Randall may not get this right By we I mean me left, I'm down one. But Randall may not get this right. Oh, yeah. Very confident, Rune. Dan, you know this one. I know this one. I have them in my bino harness right now.

Maybe Carl helped Dan set up his bino harness. Cut the chit-chat. Again, the seeds of this plant. Which pocket are they in, Dan, in his bino harness. Cut the chit-chat. Again, the seeds of this plant. Which pocket are they in, Dan, in the bino harness? We'll get to that. Which is the Illinois state wildflower are often used by deer hunters as wind indicators. Randall, do you have an answer?

Or windicators. Windicators. Yeah, it's not a good one. It's not a good one. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying, Milkweed, Milkweed, Milkweed, Milkweed. Tressa without an answer.

Carl without an answer. Randall saying, Cottonwood. Giannis saying, Milkweed. The correct answer is Milkweed. Brody wins. Does Brody indeed win, Phil? He can't be caught. Yeah, he can't be caught.

Ah, damn it. What a lackluster ending. We still got some more to go. In 2017, Illinois became the first state to list the milkweed as its state wildflower. The flower comes in various vibrant colors and produces silky seeds in late summer and early fall. Bow hunters like to pick those pods, then release the seeds from their tree stand to watch them float on airstreams. If I was you, I would have gotten into monarch

butterflies a little bit there. That's right. Very important for pollinators. Not many states have a state wildflower. Good on Illinois for picking one. Well, no, milkweed has to do with pollinators, but it's the only source of food for monarch butterfly caterpillars.

The only thing they eat. You should work on your research a little bit, huh? Well, I wanted to tie it into hunting more than monarchs. Phil, will you give us one more scoreboard update before we do the final question? Sure thing, yeah. I'll give you the top few. Giannis has five points.

Steve, Randall, and Hayden all have six points. And Brody is two points ahead with eight. Oh, man. Just an authoritative lead. Question 10. The topic is fishing. This next great question comes to us via Andrew Walker. If you have a question you think is right for MeatEater Trivia, you can send it to trivia at themeateater.com.

In Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, what fish does Santiago battle with before losing it to sharks? Here's how specific I need you to be. You don't have to name the species. Oh, come on. Yeah, that's bullshit, dude. Seth, if he was here, he'd be like, it's got to be a walleye. Quick answers from the room. Seems as though folks have read this book looking for the fish that Santiago battles with. Okay, just to make sure my average stays good. What are you changing there, bro?

I'm not changing anything. Okay. Again, you don't have to go to species. You can just write the family. Does everybody have an answer? Who's going to come up with an answer? You honest? Mm-hmm.

Go ahead and reveal your answers. Steve sang marlin. Hayden sang marlin. Dan without an answer. Brody sang blue marlin. What else does that say? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's not what helin. Dan without an answer. Brody saying Blue Marlin. What else does that say? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's not what he wrote.

What does that say, Brody? He circled Billfish. Billfish, Blue Marlin. That was, no, he faltered. Trout. We'll see. Carl without an answer. Randall saying Sailfish. Giannis saying Marlin.

The correct answer is Marlin. I think you gave too much information there, Brody. Why'd you do all that? Take that. Marlin is I think you gave too much information there, Brody. Yeah, why'd you do all that? Take that. Marlin is a member of the Billfish family. But that's not... You're the one who said family. That's not to the family level, because I looked this up.

Then I got it wrong. I still won, doesn't matter. Now, most folks assume... I do want the clarification. Here's why I didn't want to go to Blue Marlin. He never writes Blue Marlin, but everyone assumes because of the size and Hemingway liked Blue Marlin, that it was going to be a Blue Marlin. But he only ever says Marlin, which is a family of fish. You're pointing at me as if I'm arguing with you.

No, no. Giannis asked for the clarification here. God, what a sore loser, bro. Sore winner. Sore winner. If you said Marlin or Sail. Sore winner. If you said marlin or sailfish, I would take that, but I would not accept swordfish,

which is in a different family. Why would you take sailfish? Because sailfish is part... I looked all this up. Listen here. I went with sailfish rather than marlin. The marlin family includes marlins and sailfish. Swordfish are in their own family. And in Hemingway's novel, he never says blue marlin. He always calls it a marlin. Then why would you take sailfish?fish are in their own family and in hemingway's novel he never says blue marlin

he always calls it a marlin then why would you take sailfish because marlin is in sailfish is in marlin family okay but okay listen you're doing you're he never says what kind of marlin is totally cockeyed what's the what's wrong okay i'm trying to think of how to explain this to you It'd be like If I said It would be like If Hemingway Was battling a black bass And you said

Largemouth bass or smallmouth bass I would take that as a correct answer It's more specific than a black bass But black bass is as specific as Hemingway But you're saying give give me the family. You're accepting a member. You're accepting a member of the, a different member of the family.

You're not saying, give me the family. But it could have been a sailfish. If I said, what is the fam- It could have been a blue marlin too. It wasn't a sailfish. But you, Brody, you- It wasn't a sailfish. The thing's like a thousand pounds.

It drags them around for days on end. But he never says it's a blue marlin. But I can, I know, everybody knows days on end. But he never says it to Blue Marlin. But I know, everybody knows what it is. But he never says that. Listen, a sailfish isn't going to drag him around for days on end. Hemingway published The Old Man and the Sea in 1952. I lost. Brody won

fair and square, but you need to do a little research, buddy. I couldn't have researched this any deeper than what I did. Good game, Brody. Hemingway published The Old Man and the Sea in 1952 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for it the following year. Hemingway was a fanatical saltwater angler. Once catching a marlin that weighed over 1,000 pounds,

he actually set a world record in 1938 by catching seven marlin in one day. My dad read that book aloud to me as a kid, and I really liked it read aloud to me as a kid and I really liked it read aloud to me as a kid. I'm going to do that for my kids now. Have you done it yet? My wife just read aloud to him the whole day on my side of the mountain. How'd they like that?

They liked it a lot. I can tell the guy just got one of those How to Survive in the Woods books and just wrote it based off that. Brody is our winner with eight correct answers no game brody thank you well done where is the 500 donation going to go you were right we're still collecting we're still collecting for uh media their land access yeah it'd be a good idea all All right, there we go. What do you like about them, Brody?

You ask me that every time I donate to them. Well, it's important to talk about it. Providing increased hunter access. Well done, Brody. Slipped up on the old man in the sea, though. Yeah. According to you. Was. Join us next time for more meat eater trivia,

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