The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 449: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia LXIV

Episode Date: June 14, 2023

Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with the kids of MeatEater: Jimmy Taco, Rosemary Slim, Matty Meatball, Teddy, Aina, Mabel, Con Man, and Gobbler Fever. 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. This episode is brought to you by Seafoam Motor Treatment, a proud podcast sponsor of Meat Eater. Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host, Spencer Newharth, and today we're joined by Steve Ranella, Giannis Poutelis, Brody Henderson, and a whole bunch of special guests. We'll go around the room and have Steve, Giannis, and Brody introduce who they brought with them today. We'll start over here. Brody, who are these two special guests you have with you? We've got Conley and Hayden, my two sons.

I'll let Conley introduce himself. Say hello, buddy. Hi, I'm in second grade. Second grade. How old does that make you, Conley? Eight. Do you know any other Conleys in your school, or are you the only one? I think I'm the only one. I like that. That's a good name. I'm Hayden, and I'm in sixth grade, 11 years old.

11 years old. You're right in the middle of the field here. We've got a few that are younger and a few that are older. Hayden, how do you think you're going to do today? Pretty good. Pretty good? Okay. Moving on to Yanni. Yanni, who do you think you're going to do today? Pretty good. Pretty good? Okay. Moving on to Yanni. Yanni, who do you have with you today?

I've got my two daughters, Ina and Mabel. You guys want to introduce yourselves? Hi, I'm Ina. I'm 11 years old and I'm in sixth grade. Hi, I'm Mabel. I'm in third grade and I'm nine years old. Wrapping up school, right? We heard that you only have a few days left. Yes.

Then what's happening this summer? I'm going to go to a Michigan overnight camp and to North Carolina. Same thing? Yeah. Steve, who do we have with you? You brought three plus one. Yeah, I brought my three kids. I have my oldest son james my daughter rosemary my younger boy matthew and then we brought um jimmy's best

friend teddy now people that do you remember when i was telling everybody to follow someone on youtube yep how many followers you got now? 7,000 something. So you're up from 48. Yeah. Are they sending you checks yet? Not yet. You're not getting monetized? Nope.

What do you got to do to be monetized? I wish I knew. And what was the original goal from dad before you got the new Lego set? How many followers did you have to get? A thousand, I think. Oh, so you whooped it. You went way beyond. dad before you got the new lego set how many followers did you have to get a thousand oh so you whooped it you went way beyond did you have any accelerators in this uh contract where you got another lego set or anything like that i got a couple extra oh okay tell us about the lego set

because phil is into legos i got some big haunted house mansion, nice. An Easter basket, a little house, and then just a polybag of some extra pieces. Okay. James and Theodore, who is the oldest between you two? Because there's going to be a lot of pressure on the oldest in the room. Okay, Teddy, a lot of pressure. James, are you second oldest in the room? Yes, I am. Okay.

Rosemary, how's school going for you? You're about wrapped up as well, right? Yeah. I've got like three and a half days left of school. Dang. That's a good schedule. Matthew, what do you got going on this summer? Anything fun?

Well, I don't really know. Steve hasn't told you about the summer schedule yet? No. Oh, okay. We're going to go to our fish shack for two weeks. Oh, yeah. That's the only thing I remember. Oh, is that coming up soon?

Later. Yeah. Okay.'s the only thing I remember. Oh, is that coming up soon? Um, later. Yeah. Okay, it'll be a good summer. Now if you haven't figured out, today's episode is going to be a little different. Here's why. Catch a crayfish, count the stars, which is MeatEater's first book that's just for kids came out yesterday. You can get

your copy on TheMeatEater.com right now, and in honor of that we're recording MeatEater's first game of trivia that's just for kids. So rather than Steve, Yanni, and Brody playing today, it's going to be these bright young minds they brought with them instead. Now, I want to get to know our players a little better. So we're going to go around the room and have them all tell us about their favorite thing to do in the outdoors. Maybe it's turkey hunting or camping or walleye fishing or skiing. We'll start over here, Conley.

What's your favorite thing to do in the outdoors? My favorite thing is probably fishing. Fishing for what? Like pike and stuff like that. Who catches the most fish in the boat? My dad. Really? That's good.

Is that good? I don't know much about parenting, but is that good? Oh, yeah. If Brody's catching the most fish? That way they're like, man, this guy's outstanding. That's what they think. I want to be like him. Uh-huh.

Hayden, do you agree? Does dad catch the most fish in the boat? I don't think he catches the most. He does a lot of helping other people. Mm-hmm. Aw. You sold him there. That was a good help out.

Hayden, what's your favorite thing to do in the outdoors? I like camping outdoors and fishing. Camping, like, in a tent? You guys have a camper? What do you prefer? We have a camper. Sometimes we go in a tent, like, when we can't bring the camper. Good stuff.

Going over here, favorite thing to do in the outdoors? I really like to horseback ride. Really? How many times have you been horseback riding? We're going this summer, actually, and I've done some lessons with some friends and stuff. Have you ever asked Dad for a horse? Yes, multiple times. How's that conversation usually go?

Our land is not, it's really steep, and so horses would not be a good thing to add on our land. Okay, you know what? I think if you guys lived in a flat pace, I think Dad would say that your land is too flat and the horses need to be someplace that's a little more steep. My mom said if we had a better landscape, she would buy me a horse. Really? Yeah. Okay. You're going to hold them to that.

How about your favorite thing in the outdoors? Probably either tree climbing or doing hammocks. Tree climbing? Your dad likes to climb trees for whitetails. Did you say to do hammocks, Mabel? Yeah. Make hammocks? No, no. I like to swing in hammocks and set them up

in trees. Oh, you like to put up a hammock and swing. Yeah. Your property's pretty good for those two things, tree climbing and hammock swinging. Yeah, right outside my window there's a lot of aspens and they're really good climbing trees. Jimmy, favorite thing to do in the outdoors? So I love hunting and fishing.

Those are both probably two of my favorite things. But lately I've been getting really into spearfishing, and over the years I like that because it's like combining hunting and fishing. And there's just something about being able to like swim and kind of like hunt at the same time is really fun. I really enjoy that. Dad, was that the expected answer that you thought you'd get? Yeah, he got two suckers last night.

Whoa. And those are going to be turned into fish cakes. You're going to smoke them. What's going on? Fish cakes. Fish cakes tonight. Teddy, favorite thing to do in the outdoors? I really like to camp.

And then I also like to fish. Right on. Well, I think you'll do well in trivia then if you like camping and fishing. Rosemary, favorite thing in the outdoors? There's, like, a lot of things. Like, I really like hockey and skiing. And then when Ina and Mabel brought up climbing trees and riding horses, yeah, and turkey hunting. But if you were picking one, what do you think it would be?

Well, either skiing or hockey, I think. Okay. Matthew, what would you say your favorite thing to do in the outdoors is? Well, I like soccer and I like skiing. Good answers. Matthew, how many times have you been hunting so far? I think Steve pinched him when he gave that answer. No, I know.

Can't win them all. All right. You guys ready to play trivia? You feel like you're ready for this? Yes, sir. Yeah. Okay. Now, I tested these questions on four of my nieces and nephews who range in age from 8 to 13 years old.

Their average score was 6.4. But don't turn off the show if you're not listening with kids because today's game isn't just for them. I also tested these on my wife who is 28 years old and she got 8 correct answers. So maybe if you're an adult listener who likes the outdoors

but isn't a strong performer at meat eater trivia, then today's round will be more to your liking. 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! We have never had the person in the room who says game on, suckers. Can you give us one that's live in person, Rosemary? Game on, suckers! Sounded just like it. We had a guy at the local Sleddon Hill recognize her voice. How'd that conversation go, Rosemary? This random stranger just came up and said.

No, he came up to me. Okay. And recognized your voice. Well, he recognized my dad, and then he recognized my voice. You do it well. We're very fortunate to have you doing the game on suckers for us. Question one. The topic is fishing, and like all of them on this episode, it will be multiple

choice. What's the longest river in North America? Is it the Yellowstone, the Amazon, or the Missouri? What's the longest river in North America? Is it the Yellowstone, the Amazon, or the Missouri? What if we don't know how to spell it? Spelling doesn't matter. You just get close enough so that I can read your board. That's a good thing. That means Jimmy's still in the game. That's a good thing because the other day

I was doing a science project. No, it was English Languages Archive. Oh, he'll appreciate this. You know what his science project was about? What is it? Pick it. It was assigned to him. Anzick 1. The Clovis Child. Very cool. And we were learning about him and my

dad, he's like, alright, he's like my, I was like, I don't, I can't spell very well. He's like, well, you're getting a lesson right now. And we get to the word America. Can't spell his own damn country i messed up so bad and my dad said my dad said i'm i am gonna ground you for life wow if you cannot spell the country you live in and that was the luckiest thing that's ever happened to me that i got that

right because i i i didn't know he switched itM-A-R and in a moment of genius, when the face was being ground for the rest of his life, he's like, E? You can remind dad you live in a generation of spell checker,

so you don't have to learn how to spell. Yeah, it's, yeah. Does everybody have an answer for what is the longest river in North America? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Conley saying Amazon.

Hayden saying Missouri. Ina saying Missouri. Mabel saying Yellowstone. Jimmy saying, which one, Jimmy, are we saying? Yellowstone. Jimmy saying Yellowstone. Teddy saying Missouri. Rosie saying Missouri. Rosie sang Missouri.

Matthew sang Amazon. The correct answer is the Missouri. A few folks got it right. At 2,350 miles long, the Missouri is the longest river on the continent. That's followed by the Mississippi River and Yukon River. The Missouri and Mississippi together create the fourth longest river in the world behind the Nile, Amazon, and Yangtze. Can I tidbit on top of that for a minute?

What do you got? One, they messed up. The Mississippi flows into the Missouri. Depends what perspective. Absolutely. And then what perspective. Absolutely. And then what's that? I said everybody knows that. No, the other little tidbit I'll provide here is that the Yellowstone is what, Spencer?

The longest undammed river. Yep. Longest freestone. I don't know if it's in the country or the continent. Longest freestone river. No, the longest freestone river in the lower 48. In the lower 48. Conley, why'd you get that one wrong, do you think?

Look at the question. Where's the Amazon? South America. South America. Different continent. Who in this room is fishing the Missouri River? I would bet dang near all of you. Every hand went up when I asked that.

We were fishing the Missouri the day Chester's baby was born. Wow. It's too little to be here today. About a decade when we do this again. Question two. The topic is hunting. What is the name for an immature male turkey? Is it a Jake, a Johnny, or a Joey?

What is the name for an immature male turkey? Jake, Johnny, or Joey? I bet some of you would have gotten this without even having choices. How are the Patelis girls going to do? Are you both going to get this one right, you think? Yes. Okay, they're confident. How about the Henderson clan?

Are you guys going to get this one right, you think? I think so. Okay, pretty confident. This side of the room was also confident. We may have 100% of our players getting this one right. Teddy's not going to get that. Teddy, you don't have this one? Shaking his head.

I can't tell if he's shaking his head that he won't get it or that he disagrees with Steve. I got a tidbit for you. I ain't getting it. Teddy raises turkeys. I was just about to say that. Now listen, we went over there one time to get two turkeys, and we got our two turkeys, and you know what those two turkeys weighed combined? I am not joking.

Jimmy, tell them what those turkeys weighed. I think it was 60 pounds. Wow. No, they were each 50 pounds. My goodness. I told them it was on Thanksgiving. I told his dad I want to come get it for Christmas. His dad said, you wait till Christmas they're not going to fit in your oven.

And it was so funny because when we were just, I was just shooting him with a.22. And I shot him with a.22. My dad's like, well, grab it around the neck. And this thing's neck is huge. You can't get your hand around it. You can't fit his head around it. He's like, well, stomp on it. I couldn't stomp on it either because all the other turkeys in the pen are trying to beat the crap out of this thing.

So my dad had to come and, like, tackle it and get it in the back of the car. Quite the turkey harvest. Teddy, those are some massive birds. You feed those things lead or what? I have no clue. Okay, does everybody have an answer? A Jake, a Johnny, or a Joey? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Conley saying a Joey.

Hayden saying a Jake. Ina and Mabel and Jimmy saying a Jake. Teddy saying a Jake. Rosie saying a Jake. And Matthew saying a Jake. They got it. The correct answer was a Jake. A mature male is called a Tom.

A mature female is called a hen. A mature female is called a hen. An immature male is called a Jake. An immature female is called a Jenny. A chick is called a poult. And a group of turkeys is called a flock, rafter, or a gang. Who in this room has shot a Jake turkey before? A few of you. Was the Jake that you shot Teddy's bird?

Or you shot a Jake that wasn't raised on lead? I've shot a couple of Jakes in the wild. Okay. Tell me what you got, Rose. Last year. Oh. What was Mommy's nickname? The bearded hen.

That's great. Rarest of all. Okay. Bearded hen. Question three. The topiced hen. That's great. Rarest of all, bearded hen. Question three. The topic is conservation. This is an audio question. Phil is going to play you one minute of a song,

and you need to tell me what movie that song is from. Take it away, Phil. How bad can I be? I'm just doing what comes naturally. How bad can I be? I'm just following my destiny. How bad can I be? I'm just doing what comes naturally. How bad can I be? How bad can I possibly be?

You know this one, Conley? I don't think your dad would get this. No, I would not. Do you see the choices, Matthew? Trolls, the Lorax, or Shrek? I've seen the movie like five times. Really? I haven't seen any of these.

Oh, I don't know this. Corinne, do you know this one? No, I do. Okay. Don't help anybody. Your choices are Trolls, The Lorax, or Shrek. You need to tell me what movie that song is from. I can tell Ina don't have it. She's got to think it through.

Mabel, you on it? Oh, man. Yanni, would you get this one right? No. Okay, Brody wouldn't have gotten it. Steve, would you get this one right? No, man. I'm familiar with the Lorax book, but it doesn't have the tunes in it.

Conservation. The topic is conservation. Oh. Then. Oh. Then. Oh. Okay. Dad, you just gave the answer away. Really?

It's so much easier. Yeah. Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk. Does everybody have an answer? That's what Steve usually does when someone gives away the answer like that. I lose my mind normally when it's funny. He makes this funny noise. He goes deep sleep.

I did have an answer, but then when he said that, I changed my answer. Too much shit. Well, no, because that's what he's supposed to say. They just didn't make the connection. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Conley saying Lorax. Hayden saying Lorax.

Ina saying Lorax. Mabel saying Lorax, Ina sang Lorax, Mabel sang Lorax. Everybody said the Lorax. Everybody got it right. Lorax was the correct answer. I would have said Trolls. Yeah, same. I was going to say. Yeah, I almost said it.

I said Lorax. Controversial stuff here. I don't think it's from Trolls. Meatball Man had Lorax from the start. Really? The reason I know it's from the Lorax is the one reason... I don't know how I keep hearing it, but it's... Isn't the song, Let It Die?

Let It Die? Let It Shrivel to Die? Isn't that from the Lorax? That's the one thing I know. That just reminded me of it for some reason. The conservation thing. Steve helping out the room. The Lorax movie came out in 2012,

and it's based on Dr. Seuss' children's book of the same name from 1971. The book and movie deliver a message of conservation with the original version directly calling out how polluted Lake Erie was in the 1960s. Here's what the Lorax had to say when the hummingfish couldn't survive anymore because a factory was polluting their water. Quote, Hummingfish couldn't survive anymore because a factory was polluting their water. Quote, oh, their future is dreary. I hear things are just as bad up in Lake Erie. So a few of you have seen The Lorax. Have any of you read it? I feel like it's a popular book on Earth Day.

I have definitely read it. I think I've watched one of the older, older versions, but I've never watched almost the book before. I've read the song in it. A book and a movie. This one that you played must be from a new version, right? That song's not in the version that we watch as kids. Yeah, it's not the old one.

The 2012, I think that was Ed Helms that sings that, which, Yanni, you are a fan of, you've declared before. And you didn't know that answer. Question four. The topic is cooking. How many ounces are in a pound? Is it 16, 12, or 10? How many ounces are in a pound?

16, 12, or 10? You got this one, Rosemary? Well, I mean, we studied it for three months. You guys are slow learners. If it took you three months to figure that out. No, we were just doing different stuff with it, but I still don't know this answer. Again, how many ounces

are in a pound? 16, 12, or 10? Is everybody ready? This is more stressful than playing trivia. Is it? Wait, one sec. You know, I think on our trophy, we will give a win to whoever's child comes away with a victory.

Giannis and Brody only brought in two kids each, though. Steve doubled them up, brought in four. I can't tell you what it is, dude. That's a good strategy, though, Matthew. I think that means your dad doesn't know. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Conley saying 12.

Hayden saying 16. Ina and Mabel saying 16. Jimmy saying 10. Teddy saying 16. Rosie saying 16. And Matthew saying 16. They got it. The correct answer is 16. I sang. 16. Rosie sang. 16. And Matthew sang. 16. They got it. The correct answer is 16. I had that down.

I was about to say, oh, she's a kid. That's backwards. My math teacher's going to be so ashamed of me that I didn't know that off the top of my head. If you can remember that there are 16 dry ounces in a pound, then you can also remember that there are 16 fluid ounces in a pint. All you have to do is memorize this phrase, quote, a pint's a pound, then you can also remember that there are 16 fluid ounces in a pint. All you

have to do is memorize this phrase. Quote, a pint's a pound, the world around. That means that both a pint and a pound have the same amount of ounces. Sounds British. Pint's a pound, the world around. That's why they say the rhyme is so good.

You'll remember it no matter where you're at. Question five. The topic is wildlife. What kind of animal is Puxatawney Phil? Is it a woodchuck, a prairie dog, or a capybara? What kind of animal is Puxatawney Phil? Woodchuck, prairie dog, or capybara? Phil, was it tough being named Phil when

Puxatawney Phil was relevant once a year? Oh, man. Every groundhog day was like a second birthday. Yeah. Really? No, not at all. Okay. Phil helped him out there. He said groundhog day. That wasn't a question. But again, what kind of animal is

Puxatawney Phil Phil, Woodchuck, Prairie Dog, or Capybara? Did anybody know this one right off the bat? There's spelling up there. Not a very confident room. Katie, how are you doing so far? Have you gotten every one? You have a perfect game

going? I was just a silent observer and you've blown my cover. Yes, I've gotten every single one, Giannis. Really? No. I didn't know the Lorax. Oh, you didn't? What about after Steve's hint? Did that help you or not? My hint? Yeah, he gave me a hint.

What do you mean yours? Everybody called you out on it. I didn't do any hints. You were like, oh! I read the Lorax, but it never said the songs in it. No. That's literally giving away the answer. I didn't say that. Yes, you did.

Later I said that. It's too bad this isn't recorded, so we can't go back and pin down just exactly what happened. I thought that his hint was when, I thought what tipped you off was... The wildlife. Yeah, he said, oh, the... No, he said that. He said it once, but then you... He said it in the beginning, because he was like, this is a wildlife, or a conservation...

You repeated it with much enthusiasm. I think we blamed Steve. He said, conservation, to which I said something like, oh, or something like, oh! Or something like that. That's not giving it away to me. Does everybody have an answer for what kind of animal Puxatawney Phil is?

Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Conley saying Woodchuck. Hayden and Ina and Mabel and Jimmy saying Woodchuck. Teddy says Prairie Dog. Teddy says prairie dog. Rosie says prairie dog. Matthew says, what's that say, Matthew?

I can't quite read it from here. What's it say? Capybara. Capybara. The correct answer is a woodchuck. Did pretty well. Puxatawney Phil is a marmot, but is more commonly referred to as a groundhog or woodchuck. According to the Puxatawney Phil Groundhog Club, Phil is a marmot, but is more commonly referred to as a groundhog or woodchuck.

According to the Puxatawney Phil Groundhog Club, he lives at Gobbler's Knob and is named after King Philip. They claim he's the same groundhog that's been forecasting weather since 1886, and he gets his longevity from drinking the elixir of life. He's married to Phyllis, but she hasn't drank the potion, so she's not immortal like Phil. Do you guys do anything at school for Groundhog Day? No. No? We've watched it quite a few times, but I've never done anything more than just watch it.

You think it's legit? Do you think he knows if it's going to be a long spring or a long winter? No. Not buying it. You don't ask him. We don't do anything at school. You don't ask him. We don't do anything. You don't ask him.

It has to do with what happens when he comes out. Sure. We've watched. He doesn't make the call. There's obviously some magic there. He's like drank from the fountain of youth. Oh, yeah, that part.

That seemed to play a role. Are we also positive? I lived in Pennsylvania and never heard this fountain of youth stuff once. You got to go to the Puxatawney Phil Groundhog Club website. That's where they have all the FAQs about the marmot.

Did I hear it correctly that a woodchuck and a marmot are the same thing? Yeah. Woodchuck, rockchuck, they're all marmots. You just learned this? Whatever he calls a rockchuck here is a yellow-bellied marmot. Right, but I felt like

back east there was a different critter. I think they're species of ground squirrel each, but I don't know that they're the same exact species. I feel like marmot, woodchuck, rockchuck, they're all used interchangeably. No, they're not. No, no, no.

You don't call woodchuck a rockchuck. It's not a yellow-bellied marmot. No, no, no, I'm saying marmots a woodchuck a rockchuck. It's a yellow-bellied marmot. No, no, no. I'm saying marmots. Phil, we're halfway through the game of trivia. No, no, no. We can't let this go. What do you want to know? A woodchuck is not the same as a marmot.

They're two different things. Yes, it is. They're not. No, they're the same thing. I think, though, there are types of marmots, obviously. Yellow-bellied marmots do not live in Pennsylvania. They are woodchucks. We can revisit this later.

Phil, we are halfway through the game of trivia. I see we have Steve Googling something. We should have an answer soon. What does the scoreboard look like? We've got Conley with two points. Matthew and Jimmy both have three.

Mabel, Rosie and Teddy all have four and tied up with a perfect gamer, Ina and Hayden with five points Wow, do you know what happens if we have a perfect game? We double the donation, so instead of a $500 donation, it'll be a $1000

donation, a lot of pressure We have a tiebreaker Uh oh Update me, what is. Really? Update me. What's the problem? Well, groundhogs and marmots, groundhogs are slightly larger and are less colorful. In addition, yellow, so we have two marmots, and there's two marmots in the West,

the hoary and yellow-bellied. Yellow-bellied marmots are in the western U.S. Groundhogs are more widespread so it might be like uh i don't know if it can well we'll dig into it further you can do a correction later i don't know if it's entirely can it if it's entirely just regional variations on the same thing when you google it uh this is from the audubon Society. It is a woodchuck, a marmot that says the woodchuck belongs to the marmot family. Got it. It goes by many names, including groundhog, whistle pig.

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Kentucky, Georgia, or New York? Since I'm here, I want to just say that you guys are all doing such a good job. Doing very well. Two perfect games halfway through and a lot of folks with only one or two wrong. And Conley, you were going to say something earlier, honey. What were you going to say? It was about something about seeing the groundhog, maybe? We've seen it, but like it was like a week after it actually happened.

Was it forecast right? Was it cold? Was it hot? How did that go? Do you remember? No, I don't remember. Not sure. My grandma has got me a subscription to The Week Junior for my birthday, I think two years ago now.

And they had a groundhog issue. Not like a problem, but like a story in there. Yeah, a special edition of groundhogs. And it said that he's only been right like 20% of the time.

God dang. You have to try that hard to be that wrong. Matthew had a question for you. He just asked me. What do you got, Matthew? I don't want to say. You don't want to say. He just asked me. What do you got, Matthew? Meat. I don't want to ask you. You don't want to say it. He whispered to me,

do you get money if you win? Because I heard about the $500 and then the $1,000. You get to choose where some money goes. So, Meat Eater, where we all work, is going to give a donation to a conservation organization. So, Matthew, you pick who gets the money.

But you can't pick you. Maybe you really like turkeys. So, you win this pick who gets the money. We can't pick you. Maybe you really like turkeys. So, you win this game. You're going to decide that that $500 goes to a group that does a lot of work with turkeys. You can think about that while we play, where your donation will go. Does everybody have an answer? I don't know if I'm going to get to go. We'll see.

Never know. Does everybody have an answer about which state has a hunting season for alligators? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Conley saying Georgia, Georgia, Georgia, Georgia, Georgia. Rosie saying Kentucky. Matthew saying Georgia. The room did well. The answer is Georgia. Some of the other states with gator seasons include Florida, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas. During the 2022 season in Georgia, hunters harvested 390 gators, which was one shy of

the record that they set in 2021. Matthew, can you walk me through how you arrived at your answer? Which was correct. Which was correct. What did you, what were you thinking about? I was just thinking about like what the places like in my head looked like and would be a place that where they would have like alligator hunting. And like, I just thought like Kentucky wouldn't have that. And I thought the only one I thought was Georgia because like in my head like i just thought like kentucky wouldn't have that and i thought the only one i thought was georgia because like in my head it just looks like a place that

it would have good reasoning and he has crocs on his feet gives you kind of a reptilian advantage there matthew question seven the topic is cooking how many wishbones does a turkey have? 1, 2, or 5? How many wishbones does a turkey have? 1, 2, or 5?

Steve, when you brought that turkey home from Teddy, did the wishbone come with it? The whole turkey came with it. Okay The whole damn turkey came with it. Okay, the whole turkey came with it. We can talk about the wishbone situation after. Yanni, was there a wishbone or two or three or five in the Putella's household this last Thanksgiving? Keep it rolling, Spencer.

Yes, yes. There was. All of our turkeys had some number of wishbones in them. Does everybody have an answer for the number of wishbones a turkey has? One, two, or five.

Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Conley saying two, Hayden saying one, Ina and Mabel saying one, Jimmy saying one, Teddy saying one. Jimmyna and Mabel saying one. Jimmy saying one. Teddy saying one. Jimmy's saying, like, period. You kind of ran out of steam on your one there, buddy.

Rosie saying one. Is that better? And Matthew saying two. The correct answer is one. The room is pretty well. If there's ever been a wishbone in the turkey He didn't say more He just said is there a wishbone Did it come with the wishbone

Spencer is usually smoother You guys have him on edge I think He's never been around this many young people You know what that's true Yanni I was more stressed writing these questions Than I am for a regular batch or tournament episode Any of that Very very important to me that this was fun

and that these made sense. I just messed up there. I want to ask, yeah, kids, are you guys all having fun? Yeah. Is this better than school, or is this like, oh, we've got to go do this test thing? This is way better than school.

I would do this. Conley, his sons are doing a good job hosting. He nodded his head. Yeah, Con man. He's nodding his head. Con man, how much rate is Spencer's hosting? One to ten. Five.

Okay. Wow, a lot of room. What we agreed on was five was the high score. What he says, it could be worse. A lot of room for improvement. That's right. How does the wishbone usually go over in the Putellis household, Yanni? Can you tell us about what it's like when that comes out?

Honestly, good thing you didn't ask my kids, or the question wasn't, what do you do with a wishbone? Because I don't think that we've actually. Once. We've done it once? Once. On like New Year's Eve or something. No, it was a chicken wishbone.

That's the only kind of wishbone we've ever split. Oh, yeah. It was a chicken wishbone. We just throw the rest out. Okay. I assume there was like some extra pagan wrestling that happens when a wishbone comes out, no? You hold it up to a light to predict your future. Spencer's been to our house for the Christmas celebration.

For the holidays. Holiday, New Year celebration. Very good time. The furcula or wishbone is found in most birds and some dinosaurs. The purpose of the unique bone is to strengthen the chest during flight. The tradition of breaking the wishbone dates back to the 1400s

when it was referred to as a merithaut. What was it called? Fercula? No, no, no. Merithaut. That was a good little tidbit. Same thing you did. You'd break it off

and then whoever won would get the merithaut. I'd move him up to a six in hosting after good little tidbit. Same thing you did. You'd break it off and then whoever won would get the merry thought. I'd move him up to a six in hosting after that little tidbit. Question eight. The topic is fishing. Which of these is considered a cold water fish? Catfish, trout, or crappie?

Which of these is considered a cold water fish? Catfish, trout, or a crappie? Room looks stumped. Jimmy, you look like you might have this one right. You got it for sure? 92% sure.

We will get a scoreboard update from Phil after this to see if the perfect game continues. Catfish, trout, or crappie, which one is a cold water fish? Waiting on a putellis, which is typical in a game of trivia. That's how it usually goes. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Conley saying crappie. Hayden saying trout. Ina saying catfish.

Mabel saying crappie. Jimmy saying catfish. Teddy saying catfish. Rosie saying catfish. Matthew saying catfish. The correct answer is trout, which I think Hayden was the only one to get right. Hayden, did you know that one or were you just guessing? My dad was talking about that like a week ago. Really?

Oh! And he just got off the phone with Spencer? Yeah. We were at like Fort Peck a week ago or something. You were talking about that. It wasn't on Friday when I sent Brody what the questions would be by chance, was it? What day was that, buddy? I don't remember.

Fish can be broken down into groups that are cold water, cool water, and warlore eggs with me. Besides trout, some other cold water fish are salmon and burbot. Some cool water fish are walleye and smallmouth bass. And some warm water fish are bluegills and bullheads. These designations tend to be informal, with the cool water category being the one that's

most disagreed on. We were talking about lakers at Fort Peck. That's what we were talking about. Okay. I'm confused because a lot of the times I see, like, I guess it's all stocked, but the amount of trout in warm ponds, I don't know why, but that and just I recently in Seattle caught a bunch of crappie in a warm pond, and that just kind of threw me off just thinking because catfish,

I always seem to find kind of the bottom of the river. It can be confusing. A lot of it might be about what temperature they spawn at. Catfish are very warm. They have one of the warmest spawning triggers. I think it's like 72 degrees, which is probably like 20-some degrees higher than it would be for a trout.

Phil, we have two questions left. Where does the scoreboard stand? We've got Conley with three points, Matthew with four, Teddy and Jimmy with five, Rosie and Mabel with six, I aina has seven and still with a perfect game in first place is hayden hayden apple does not fall far from the old tree man crying out loud two two talking about that just the other day Question nine. The topic is woodsmanship.

Arachnophobia is when you're scared of blank. Is it snakes, mice, or spiders? I got this one. I have arachnophobia. You got that one right. I have this really good one. A confident room. I have arachnophobia.

You're talking about it all the time. Arachnophobia is when you're scared of snakes, mice, or spiders. A very confident room. Hayden, is this going to keep the perfect game going? Do you have this one right? Okay. He's confident. Is everybody ready?

Go ahead and reveal your answers. Spiders. Spiders. Spiders. spiders, spiders. Everybody said spiders. Everybody got it right. Well done. What's the fear of snakes?

What is snake-ophobia? Aphodia-phobia is a fear of snakes and moosophobia is a fear of mice. Some other animal phobias include spexophobia, which is a fear of wasps, entomixophobia which is a fear of wasps Entomophobia which is a fear of insects. Ornithophobia which is a fear of birds and Equinophobia which is

a fear of horses. What's fear missing out? Foma. They're big and they're tall and they're scary. Are your dads scared of any of these animals? Have you witnessed them get really wigged out by a certain animal in the woods? One time.

Come on, now. No, wait, listen. Listen, let me explain. Let me explain. My mom hates worms or anything that has... Anything swarming. Yeah. Slithers.

Okay. But my dad one time, it was once, Dad, this was one time, there was a big spider and it was, like, right above my dad and he didn't like that

and he killed it. Really? Yeah. Usually, my sister's scared of spiders and he makes me kill them, but that one he killed. So that was, that could have been,

I was right next to him. Okay. That could have been... I was trying to protect you, son. Nah me kill him. But that one he killed. So that was, that could have been, I was right next to him. Okay. That could have been. I was trying to protect you, son. It counts. He's scared. Thanks, Dad. Scared of spiders.

If moose phobia is mice, what are mooses? I don't know the answer to that one. It's a good one. It's mice phobia is a fear of moose. Yeah, and then moose phobia is mice. Is Yanni scared of anything, or is he pretty tough? I don't think so. No, not at all? Nothing. No. What about Brody? Do you ever

see him get scared of stuff? Hooks, ticks, okay, that's a reasonable one. Nothing though? You got something to add there, Hayden? Nope. He's not scared of nothing. Never seen it. Not scared of cheating. Those are fighting words, buddy.

Phil, we have one question left. Where does the top of the leaderboard stand? Everyone got that last question right, so it stands pretty much the same, but we've got Hayden with nine and Ina with eight. Okay, down to Hayden and Ina. Question 10. The topic is biology. Which of these animals is fastest? Is it polar bear, cottontail rabbit, or elk?

Which of these animals is fastest? Polar bear, cottontail rabbit, or elk? I know what I'd write down, man. You think you'd get this one right? Mm-hmm. Okay. Down to two players left. Hayden, do you think

you're going to get this one right? Do you feel good about your answer? Not very. Not very. Not real kind. He's faltering in the end. Ina, how about you? You think you can get this one right? I don't know. I'm still choosing between two. Okay. Ina, you realize if he gets it wrong, you gotta get it right.

No pressure. No, they could go to a tiebreaker. And then we would go to a tiebreaker. Dang, I thought I'd do better. Hey man, that feeling runs in the family. Again, which animal is fastest? A polar bear, a cottontail rabbit,

or an elk? Does everybody have an answer? I think I'm going to get it wrong. I think I'm going to get this wrong. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Conley saying polar bear. Hayden saying rabbit. Ina saying elk.

Mabel saying cottontail rabbit. Jimmy saying an elk. Teddy saying a polar bear. Rosie saying cottontail rabbit. Jimmy saying an elk. Teddy saying a polar bear. Rosie saying cottontail rabbit. Matthew saying elk. Steve, what would you say? What do you think it is? I think it's going to be one of those spurts of speed. I think a polar bear

would have a faster top speed for a very short period of time. Yanni, what do you think? I would have gone bear. Brody, what do you think? I would have probably thought. Brody, what do you think? I would have probably, I like thought about what Steve was saying, but I'd probably go elk. The correct answer is an elk.

That means we are going to overtime. Hayden and Ina both have nine correct answers. Oh my gosh, Ina. I have eight. The top speed of a polar bear is about 20 miles per hour. The top speed of a cottontail rabbit is 30 miles per hour, although because they often zig and zag, they rarely exceed 15 miles per hour. And the top speed of an elk is 45 miles per hour,

which is similar to that of greyhounds, coyotes, and kangaroos. Dude, I wanted there to be a tiebreaker bad. Wait, what? Hey, I wasn't rooting against you, buddy. I was rooting for a tiebreaker. I was rooting for a tiebreaker. We're going to the tiebreaker. Play the drop, Phil.

Tiebreaker. If you ain't first, you're last. I think just cut it at, if you ain't first, you're last, and then go into other stuff that's funny. I never liked it. Hey, if you ain't first, you're last, and then go into other stuff that's funny. I never liked it. Hey, Phil, f*** off, man. Uh-oh. The tiebreaker question.

What? The tiebreaker question. What was that? You didn't know that was in there? I didn't catch it. No, I did, but I didn't catch it. What was it? There was a bleep in there.

Oh, okay. I got it. It was bleeped. I didn't know it was bleeped. No bleep in there. Oh, okay. I got it. It was bleep. I didn't know it was bleep. No, it's bleep. I mean, I was hoping it was bleep. The tiebreaker question is numerical. That means you will answer with a number.

Whoever is closest to the correct answer between you two will be declared the winner. The rest of the room, however, can play along because if one of you gets this right on the nose, we will add an extra $100 to the donation. Does everybody understand what's going on? Here is the tie-breaking question. The topic is fishing. What percent of kids age 6 to 12 went fishing in 2021? What percent of kids age 6 to 12 went fishing in 2021?

Matthew's wondering if you could explain what that means. Your answer will be between 1 and 100. What percent means this, bud? Let's say there was 100 kids, okay? If 90 of those 100, if 90 of those 100, if 90 went fishing, the answer would be 90% of kids went fishing. That's what percent means.

If one of them went fishing, then it would be 1%. If there's 100 kids. In the country, there's a lot more than 100 kids, but the concept stays the same. Out of all kids in the whole country, how many of them went fishing? Did you get the question? But not the real number, the percent number.

It was the communist thing. Meaning, here's the thing. Let's say there's only 10 kids. Well, I don't want to make a comment. Again, here's the question. The topic is fishing. Out of every 100 kids, think about it like this. Out of every 100 kids, how many do you think went fishing? Is it just one time?

That's all it takes. One time, and you count towards this survey. Hayden, how do you feel about your answer? Meh. Okay. Ina? Ina, how do you feel about your answer? I don't know. I'm still kind of thinking. And dads, how do we feel? Are you guys nervous?

Does it feel like you're in the tiebreaker? They're looking for anecdotal cues that are going to send them in the very wrong direction. Yanni, how we feel over there? I feel great. This is fun. Okay, good. Do you watch the kids play sports like volleyball?

Does it compare to that? Is it similar? The volleyball and basketball are a little more physical. Yep. Man, we had a nail biter on Sunday at the baseball tournament. Does everybody? Wow, Stephen almost sounds like he enjoyed it. Almost.

James' mother was pacing around. Really? Couldn't sit down. I was pacing around. Really? Couldn't sit down. I was pacing around. And how did it end? Eh. Okay. Again, does everybody have an answer?

Because one of you could get it right on the nose and add an extra $100 donation. Did you write something down? Is everybody ready? Conley, how are we doing? Do you have an answer? Okay, go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Conley saying 8. Mabel saying 65.

Jimmy saying 62. Teddy saying 63. Were you two copying off each other over there? Rosie saying 57. Matthew saying 99. A lot of fishing going on, man. And our two competitors left. We have Hayden saying 12.

And Ina saying 23. Before we get there. 53. I'm sorry. 53. Can you walk me through what you guys are thinking? Random numbers. I first was like, it was 2021. There was COVID. So first was like, it was

2021, there was COVID, so I was like, it should be a lower number, but then I was like, but maybe kids were going outside more, because they couldn't go to stores, I guess, or couldn't go in communal places, so they went outside more, and were more fishing kids, so I was just like, let's go more.

So you jacked your number up. That's good. How about you, Hayden? How'd you come up with 12? COVID and thinking about how a lot of stuff's getting modernized, I guess. Not a lot of kids are doing stuff outside, I feel like. A lower number than the rest of the room. Very sound reasoning, though.

We got a book for that. Catch a crayfish, count the stars. Good book. I got one more question, because Matthew came in at 99. I don't understand it. Oh, okay. Reasonable explanation. Again, the question is what percentage kids between age 6 and 12 went fishing in 2021?

The correct answer is 28% making Hayden our winner. He was 16. 16. I would have thought. Well done. Hayden with the victory. He put his hands up over his head. How does it feel, Hayden, to win at meeting or trivia?

Good. Got any more words than that? Keeping, continuing the legacy. There you continue. Okay. Oh, my God.. There you continue. Okay. All right, buddy. That's good stuff. We should do this again.

Dude, I thought con man might have it on the nose with eight. 28% was the right answer. Hayden, can I ask you how you, so your dad wrote the book with Steve. So how do you feel about the book? Do you like the book? Yeah, I've read a little bit of it. I read some of it.

It's really good. It's a good book. Available yesterday. It came out, Steve, this was the first children's book you've ever worked on. How was it different than like every other book that you've created? It was for kids.

Mm hmm. Besides that? Did you find it was easier to make or was it harder because you didn't know what they would know? Where did that stand? No, because we

I worked on it with Brody. We've been in the kid raising business for a long time. I always point out to people that I'm anything but a parenting subject matter expert, but I have achieved subject matter expertise on the trials and tribulations of getting your family outside and what goes into that and all the wins and losses um and when we did uh when we did outdoor kids in the inside world all through that time which is a book for parents to read um all through that time we talked about doing a companion book. A lot went into it because you're explaining.

I discussed this with my kids last night. The only kind of scalers that we ever had growing up was bottle cap scalers. And you just know about that bottle cap scaler. And we've been making those, you know, various goofy, various versions of blowguns, you know, your whole life, whatever. But to then try to get it down where you're explaining things that you never thought to explain before. It'd be like if you could make something

all the time at dinner, and then someone's like, no, tell me exactly how you make it. Sure. You'd be like, I don't know, man. It's like, I put like water in there till it looks like the right amount of water we asked yannis to help us uh with the kit the bow making thing the pvc bow which like when you think about it's very easy to make but when you try to write the instructions for a kid it it's like yeah how

to cut how to cut the pvc and tie it why is it being like, oh no, just tie it on the ends. Leave me alone. No, Brody, Steve just gave the example of the bottle cap scaler. There's the PVC bows. What are some other activities that kids should expect to find in this book? It's not all hunting and fishing. No, not at all. There's gardening stuff in there, foraging stuff in there.

There's a lot of like thing i really like about it is um there's a lot of like cool factoids and sciencey stuff so it's not just like make a bow there's all kinds of history and science and so they're like learning more than just the activity and there's stuff for doing inside uh bringing the outdoors inside and there's other things are just good skills to have but we turn them for instance recognizing basic uh celestial navigation markers right so you can think of a project but it's just a thing where it might even a parent might be reminded right just reminded that the next time you're sitting there looking at the stars to explain how do you find the north star well what's the big dipper look like and how do you go off that to find a thing or you there's

things that you carry in your head that you might not think to share with your kids like you carry in your head what the sun does, you know, and trusting that you're not at the equator, that it's going to look different, come up in different places throughout the year, and you carry it with you. But then a good vocabulary with which to then bring your kids into that and start being aware of it and noticing it and again a lot of it's stuff it's just it's lifestyle issues you know but it's framed as these very achievable very inexpensive projects to work on um even though in my personal life we tackle a lot of them not really as gather around for project

time sure you know but it's it's like it's great things for kids to work on but it's also all these things that that a parent might sort of tuck away or a caregiver would tuck away in their mind to to remember that when the time's appropriate to have this little lesson or do this little project, and it might not occur in a, you know, at 8 a.m. on Monday morning, we will do this project, but you weave it into life. Yeah, and I'm sure you're aware of this, but I think, you know, when I've seen the book, I think one thing you accomplished was that I have nieces and nephews from a wide range of backgrounds, from ones that have like helped gut a deer and love to go fishing to other ones who just like to go on walks, um, around their neighborhood, uh, from like that spectrum of outdoor involvement.

And your book would be great for either one of them across that entire spectrum, uh, whether they have a rudimentary understanding of the the world around them um or their parents live and breathe this stuff like you guys do uh it would be fun for either one of them to pick this up there's a lot of stuff in that book that people that that enjoy and appreciate hunting and fishing and physical activities like gardening there's a lot of things and they're gonna like but a lot of it's i mean a lot of its observational and just in is meant to is meant to get you and through your your kids to be to gain out of a bit of environmental awareness that that you live like that you live in a habitat you live in a habitat, you live in a home environment,

and there's dynamic things occurring around you in the home environment. And it's like, it's not, the outdoors isn't chaotic. You know, there's like, there's these understandable patterns and predictable things. And when you have a garden, neglect death right caring is life you know so a lot of things that are just helpful life you know helpful life lessons and and and and also an awareness that uh an awareness that we utilize resources and that that our utilization of resources isn't negative, right? It's not like a dirty secret that we utilize resources.

So it's like, how do you access and use resources in a way that, that, that breeds a level of understanding and responsibility? Something that can teach them that beyond just the Lorax. Sure. Catch a crayfish, count the stars is available on themeadeater.com right now.

It came out yesterday. So grab a copy for the outdoor kids in your life. You'll be happy they have it. They'll be happy they have it. It's a win for everyone. Again, Catch a Crayfish, Count the Stars is out right now. Jimmy, Rosemary, Matthew, Ina, Mabel, Hayden, Conley, Teddy, thanks for coming in and playing.

We're going to do this again next year, I think. Oh, hey, what about his money, man? Oh, I'm sorry. The $500 donation. Hayden, have you thought about where your $500 donation from MeatEater is going to go? Not really. Okay. Do you have a, you know what might be helpful?

Is there a thing you like, an animal or fish that you like the most? And you'd be like, man, I wish there was a way to help out or a type of whatever, you know, I don't know. I heard of this thing. It's called the Ocean Cleanup Project, I think. That's perfect. It helps clean the ocean up. It like stops, they got these machines that like

stop the ocean from being polluted in the first place and they've like, they've developed a ship and a thing to get the litter out of the ocean. That's perfect. Kids, what do you all say to Spencer? Thank you, Spencer. Thank you for coming. Are you going to

come back next year if we do this again? Definitely. Tell everybody your YouTube handle, bro. MacM45. Say it again one more time. MacM bro. Mac M45. Say it again one more time. Mac M45. Mac M45. Did you make any hunting ones

or anything? He did, but it's too fast-paced. Yeah, I'm going to slow it down and make a new one. Join us next time for more meat-eater trivia, the only game show

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