The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 487: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia LXXXII

Episode Date: October 18, 2023

Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Max Barta, Anna Borgman, Randall Williams, Chester Floyd, and Kevin Pearson. Connect with MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Trivia MerchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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without cell phone service as a special offer. You can get a free three months to try out OnX if you visit onxmaps.com slash meat. It's a meat-eater podcast. Welcome to Meat-Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host, Spencer Newarth, and today we're joined by Stephen Ranella, Giannis Poutelis, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Max Barta, Chester Floyd, Steve's Dentist, Kevin Pearson, and Anna Borgman.

Anna is a culinary contributor to TheMeatEater.com and has butchered more critters than everyone in this room combined. Anna, how do you feel about playing Meat Eater Trivia? I feel okay. I realized the other day because I listen to this most weeks, but I've never actually kept score. I just kind of like, you know. Does it feel like you're doing good? It depends on like fishing questions.

I just, I don't have a a clue i couldn't know less about it but everything else i usually feel yeah tell folks tell folks what you do for your day job and why you are one of our favorite culinary and butchering contributors on the website um i'm a butcher i mostly do slaughter so i worked for two years on a slaughter floor and now I just do on-farm slaughter. Do you do the slaughtering? I do. And do you have like the nail gun or what do you use? Captive bolt?

Captive bolt, yeah. Sure. It's a DeWalt. Got it tied to the whole deep end. The no country for old men tool. There we go. So it's like that. It's not air powered. We just use a blank, basically. It's a 25.

Oh, because I was going to say, sometimes the air powered are called a pneumatic bolt. Right. Yeah. No, we have a blank. So it's gun powered. It's 22 powered? 25.

25 powered. Yeah. So we do that on, because at the shop that I was at, it's state inspected. So that's technically the stun method. They say it doesn't kill them, but it definitely does. It shoots like a five inch rod into their head.

So you stun them and then you bleed them out. And the bleeding out is what kills them, you know, like officially. And that's like, I just killed 400 chickens a couple Mondays ago. And it's the same thing. Not with that strat. No. Just blast their head straight off. With that, we used a knife that has

an electric current going through it. So you stun it, and then after it's stunned, then you cut its throat. Do they run around with their head cut off? No, they're upside down in a little cone, fortunately, but I have a pretty good, I got a good scar from it. One of them kicked me pretty good.

Does that ever weigh on your conscience, just killing 400 chickens in a day? You know, I've spent a lot of time thinking about it, and it's like, oh man, I think about, I have so many books on death. I'm kind of obsessed with the topic. I know a guy you might get along with.

Yeah. I literally, I think about it all the time. No, the chickens, I guess with livestock slaughter, I don't worry about it too much because if I don't do it, someone else is going to do it. That's why those animals were raised. And so I don't feel like I'm doing something

that wouldn't happen otherwise. And I know I do a good job, so I don't worry. There you go. Killed more and butchered more than everyone in this room combined probably in the last week yeah yeah last two weeks for sure if you're not familiar this is a 10 round quiz show with questions from meat eaters four verticals which are hunting fishing conservation and cooking and there's a prize meat eater will donate 500 to the conservation organization of

the winners choosing for the stat of the week week, we're looking at the win percentage for players who have been on five or more episodes at the top of the leaderboard. Do you want to take a guess? Say that again? Win percentage. Who do you think is the best? Hope he had to play five.

It's not going to be me. I'll tell you that. Randall is not it. Brody. Steve. Brody is right. Brody has won 41. See, I would have guessed me.

I would have guessed Steve because he's been playing. He's back in it now, but he was not playing for a while. Brody's won. Yeah, but he's saying percentage. I know. Oh. I would have thought your percentage would have been good. Me too.

Brody's won 41% of games he's played. That's followed by Steve at 38%. Wow. Clay at 33%. Randall at 32%. Oh, Randall's for all the show. It's like not that great of a percentage. No, it's declined precipitously. How

many games has Clay played though? I think it was like seven or something like that. He probably got a bone. He probably caught a bone off one. So he's won like two games. So Randall at 32% and then Giannis at 20%. Tyler Jones has won 50% of his games and Tony Peterson has won 25% of his games,

but they've both only played four times each. Good stop right there. I don't even want to know mine. Your percentage just went up a little though, Giannis. That's right. Thank you. Here's our zero percenter question of the week, which tests how much knowledge players have retained

from previous shows. This question was from episode 469. The topic was cooking, and nobody got it right. I'd also declare this the hardest question ever asked in the history of meat-eater trivia. It was asked by Yanni. It was, when butchering an animal, what is the process of

removing the trachea and esophagus called? Before Anna or Yanni answers, does anyone remember? I've got it because I was on that episode. And you remember? Weasening. Weasending, right? Yep. Weasending. Look at the retention! After that question. I never even heard

that word. I didn't know that was a thing. I tried to Google it and Google was like, you're not even close to whatever we think you're trying to find. And it just wasn't spitting out many results. How do you spell this, Anna? It's W-E-A-S-A-N-D. No wonder I wasn't. I was way off.

I had an ancient there. Yeah, I was going to say, because I went to Merriam's and it had the definition. That's why I was so far off. Because I know the word, the Scottish word for when you remove everything from the diaphragm down. What's that word? It's like a glat or something like that. That would never be on an episode, Yanni. That's way too hard.

Yeah, I had no idea there was a word for that. I'm hoping to do a little weasening this weekend. What's your reason for that, bro? The diaphragm down thing is how we gut them, usually. Like, pull everything out from the diaphragm and then cut into the diaphragm, reach down,

pull everything back after that. Now, Yanni got that question from watching you butcher a sheep, I believe. Oh. Yeah, or we were talking about it.

I dropped it off here. The incorrect answers from that show were tracheotomy, plum, roadhousing, neckotomy, dethroting, and throatbotomy. Roadhousing.

I roadhoused him. We're just going to call it roadhousing now. Maybe Hansi's answer was roadhousing. We have some housekeeping to get to in a previous game. There should be something that's called roadhousing. I think we have it now. I think it was Hansi. In a previous game of trivia, we talked about Canadian Thanksgiving,

which prompted some questions from players in the room about how our friends north of the border celebrate. Well, about a dozen listeners from Canada wrote in to educate us. Similar to America, the holiday is supposed to be celebrating, is supposed to be a celebration of being thankful for all the blessings of the previous year. The most popular foods served on Canadian Thanksgiving are turkey, ham, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie, and apple pie.

And just like Americans, they love their football. The Canadian Football League usually has a nationally televised double header that afternoon called the Thanksgiving Day Classic. And the most common decorations are very familiar with cornucopias and pumpkins lining the front porches that time of year only about a half dozen other countries celebrate thanksgiving like germany liberia granada and portions of the netherlands and australia i don't think it's like such as i thought we went over this.

We have, and I'm sorry. My deepest, my apologies, Steve. I will fix that going forward. You'll never hear like used incorrectly again. It'll just be such as. Unless you're going like, you know, people like Brody. Right? Like, I know what you're talking about. Spencer, is that your first strike

today? Randall's going to keep track of the complaints for us. That's not a complaint! Now, the Shelby Index for today's round is a four, so our winner should get eight correct answers. And with that, we're on to the game of trivia. Play the drop, Phil. Look, I need to know what I stand to win.

Everything. How's that? You stand to win. Everything. How's that? You stand to win everything. Game on, suckers! Question one. The topic is fishing, and this will be multiple choice. Which state is the largemouth bass not native to? Is it Iowa, New York, California,

or Arkansas? Which state is the large mouth bass not native to? It's native to three of these. It's not native to one of them. Your choices are Iowa, New York, California, or Arkansas. You boys are confident, huh? Oh, yeah. You too? Oh, yeah. You guys used to fillet a large mouth and eat them? Oh, yeah. My neighbor down the beach, John Gary, I'm not going to tell you what state I grew up in.

You know how everybody runs around calling it on the half shell now. Which is not, you know. You don't think that was a thing then? No. He would cook bass, he would flay his bass, leave the skin on them, soak them in milk and grill them. But we would just add it to the pile of

everything else you caught. Yeah. It's just like cubed up, so bullhead, perch, largemouth. I mean, it's all the same. Yep. They're not as good to eat a smallmouth. No, no.

They're definitely not as good to eat a smallmouth. But you would throw it in and just mix it in to the fish fry, right? Which state is the largemouth not native to? Iowa, New York, California, Arkansas. Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Anna saying Iowa. Randall saying

California. Max saying Iowa. Kevin saying California. This whole side of the table. Chester, Brody, Giannis, and Steve all saying California. They got it. The correct answer is California. I got to remember that little move. They got it. I told you. Fishing

questions are not. Largemouth bass are native to every state east of the Rocky Mountains, except for portions of New England. The furthest west that native populations in America got were West Texas. Despite this, the fish has now been observed in all 50 states. Phil has a map there on the screen that shows you the native and non-native range. Oh, thanks, Phil. Thank you, Phil. Largemouth bass.

Did Phil draw that up, that graphic? The USGS did. The yellow is their native range. The maroon is where they are found but not native. What sticks out to you, Steve, when you look at that map? Virginia. Where they're native to and not native to. That's the most noticeable thing.

Well, I'm surprised that they're not native in the Northeast. Sort of creep up there, but not far at all. Are you referring to their ubiquity in Hawaii versus Alaska? What's your question? I don't know. You're asking me what sticks out to me. I'm telling you what.

I'm asking like when you look at that map, you're like, oh, I'm very surprised. It's right about the 100th meridian. The 100th meridian is basically the divider okay question two the topic is conservation this next great question comes to us via kara wagner i was just asking you to look at the map and make an observation like oh oh that's funny that about the hundredth meridian the great plains like barely get any or oh look at that if you look at the mule deer range, it plasters right around that same meridian. There you go.

Same as the largemouth bass. There's a Canadian, speaking of that, you know that Canadian thing you had earlier, that little tidbit about Thanksgiving? Canada's REM is tragically hip. They have a song, The 100th Meridian. Is there more? The 100th Meridian.

Oh, okay. Where the great plains begin. It's good. Go on. Question two. Topic is conservation. This next great question comes to us via Kara Wagner.

This invasive bird, which was introduced to North America by Shakespeare enthusiasts, is known for its synchronized flight. Steve has it. Brody

thinks he's got it right. They're the only ones who seem confident. Anna, coming up with an answer. Here it is again. This invasive bird, which was introduced to North America by Shakespeare enthusiasts, is known for its synchronized flight. I hated that Shakespeare class in college. Yeah.

I don't like them at all. You know how many times I had to take that? I think I had to take it in high school, college, and graduate school. It was specifically on Shakespeare? Oh, like they force that stuff down your throat, man. I feel like that went away at some point. It must have. I don't know.

One of the things I want to do when I retire, you know this? I want to write a book. You know how Shakespeare, when they're mad at each other in Shakespeare, they will say, knaves! It's like an insult. I don't know. It's an insult. A knave. K-A-N-A-V.

I'm going to write a book called Knaves in defense of not loving the bard. And it's going to write a book called Naves In defense of not loving the bard And it's going to be a book defending Hating Shakespeare Because you're meant to They try to make you feel bad for hating them And it's going to be a book that like

Supports Not liking that stuff That seems worthwhile There's an author that he writes about Shakespeare Specifically You should have him on and talk to him He loves him That seems worthwhile. There's an author that he writes about Shakespeare specifically. You should have him on and talk to him. And you like him. He loves him, yeah.

Yeah, I'll have him on when I do my book. Here's the question one more time. This invasive bird, which was introduced to North America by Shakespeare enthusiasts, is known for its synchronized flight. I used to like to joke that Shakespeare stole all of his stuff from Three's Company. Because there's always like people are overhearing conversations, but they get it wrong.

And it winds up being like a big deal. And that's like Three's Company. That's a big part of Three's Company, man. Steve was talking about how when he hosted Trivia, he avoided doing pop culture because it favors the old folks too much. And then someone pointed out,

well, Steve, that's just your pop culture. Spencer, could you name a couple stars of Three's Company if you had to? John Ritter. There's one. He's dead. The kids love Don Knotts. Don Knotts. I wouldn't have come up with that,

but I know who that is. Suzanne Somers. That's it. Mr. Roper. The only reason I know John Ritter is because he, what was his show? Eight Simple Rules? Eight Simple Rules, yeah.

He had a sitcom where he was a classic TV dad. Does everybody have an answer? What bar did he used to drink in? I have no idea. The Regal Beagle. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Anna saying European Starling. Randall saying Starling.

Max saying Mockingbird. Kevin saying Starling. Chall saying starling. Max saying mockingbird. Kevin saying starling. Chester saying pigeon. Brody and Giannis and Steve all saying starling. Chester pigeons were introduced along the St. Lawrence Seaway by the French. The correct answer is starling. Heads up. In the late 19th century, a New York City pharmacist came up with the idea to introduce every bird that Shakespeare

ever mentioned in his writings. Of the 60 species that Shakespeare wrote about, the man released about a half dozen of them. Starlings were only talked about by Shakespeare once in Henry Act I, but that single mention got the man to release 60 starlings in Central Park, and there are 150 million starlings in North America today. I should have known that because on my way home from fishing and hunting with Cal this weekend, I saw these big old flocks of starlings doing their dance. Synchronized flight.

Now, I recently read that there's only five species of birds that they estimate number in a billion globally. Oh. Of which these are one. But then an ornithologist I told that to seemed to have a real problem with that. I was trying to look up some numbers because I was potentially going to word this differently about they're like the fourth most populous bird in North America. But you find wildly different estimates um well for for bird populations i think starlings some said they were 150 million others said they were 400 million a lot of states they're fair game open season now the most abundant bird in the world with the widest home range of any bird in the

world is the english sparrow fair get those are fair game. Oh yeah. You can eat them anytime you want. Question three. My boy hunts, he's been hunting a lot of starlings right now because they're in the choke cherries and he fries them in oil. Really? Uh-huh. Fries the breast in water.

Does his whole family eat them? Well, no, it's usually him and his buddies do. It's like not a big meal. Question three. The topic is cooking. What roast is sometimes referred to as the hidden tenderloin? What roast is sometimes referred to as the hidden tenderloin?

Is the tenderloin not hidden? I feel like it's kind of tucked away. The answer is not tenderloin. Anna, this is a bone I'm throwing to you. I'm counting on you to get this correct. What? What roast is sometimes referred to as the hidden tenderloin? I know I've probably cut it out before, but I don't know.

The room is stumped. We may have a 0% right here. Yanni, as you're looking it up. I think we call these G-steaks. I don't know the name of them. I'd advise if you know it, don't. G-steaks. We've been talking about it a whole bunch.

We knew it. I don't know the name, but I think that's what we call it. Does anybody feel okay about their name? What roast? What roast? What roast? not what cut, what roast. What roast, sometimes referred to as the hidden tenderloin. So this is a very wild game cooking question, I feel like.

I don't know. I don't think so. You don't think so? It's the same on cattle, huh? I think this is pretty universal. I would encourage you after this to go to Google and type in hidden tenderloin. I think you would be impressed with how often this phrase is thrown around about this roast.

Can you, uh, you know. Sure. Yeah. Steve has multiple answers. I'm spoken now. Brody. I'm, there's a cut called the mock tender, but that's all it is.

There's no other. Yeah. There's no other yeah there's no brody is arguing with his whiteboard spencer if you google g sticks you know what i will spencer which of these should i cross out yeah i don't know i got some banner for you you know i spent a spent a week with Garrett Smith in Colorado, and I was doing most of the cooking last week for him and my dad. And that guy, you can count on him.

Whatever you make, he puts it in his mouth. He's going to make that loud noise. It's just like, oh, yawning. Wow. Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. He's a good dinner companion.

Yeah. Oh, my God. You're like, yeah, thanks, Garrett. You could give him that banana sitting in front of Yanni Yanni you brought that in To have for your lunch I'm going to always have a banana with me now Good luck thing Does everybody have an answer Go ahead and reveal your answers We have Anna saying, I have round.

Randall saying, inside round. Max saying, flank. Kevin saying, sirloin. Chester without an answer. Brody saying, I round. Giannis saying, I have round. Steve saying, football. We have a correct answer in the room.

It's I have round. Brody, Giannis, and Anna got it right. Thank God. The Eye of Round is an elongated muscle that's tucked inside a deer's hind quarter. It's sandwiched between the top round and bottom round along the femur. According to Danielle Pruitt, it's a roast that you should save for a special occasion and treat like a steak. Would you have accepted triangle? Would you have accepted triangle? I you have accepted triangle? No.

I wouldn't have. That's from the other side. I disagree. How about football? About what? It looks like the tenderloin. It is nowhere near. Well, I didn't name it, Yanni. No, I know. I'm disagreeing. Not that you shouldn't treat it as

a steak. It's a nice cut of meat. But like, if someone was like, oh, this It's a nice cut of meat. But like, if someone was like, oh, this is like a tenderloin, bro. Here, I'm treating you right. Take this thing home and cook it. You gotta, that thing's al dente.

I'm with you on this. You gotta chew it, man. It's a leg muscle that gets worked pretty good, man. I do my around for like chicken fried steaks. Pound it out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Pound it or run it through the grinder. Yeah. The cuber. Very opposite of a tenderloin. Good steak when you grab it. Question four. Huge steak. Yeah.

The topic is biology. I want that steak ground. This next right question comes to us from Nick Sikoski. What element in skunk spray is responsible for its pungent smell? What the hell? What is the definition of element? Not giving you any hints. What element in skunk spray is responsible for its pungent smell?

So the room is not confused. I'm referring to like an element from the periodic table. Like a literal element. What element in skunk spray is responsible for its pungent smell? That's the definition. You should know this. I just ran over a skunk on Sunday. I thought I could smell that when you walked in, Randall. Yeah, it stuck around.

I didn't hit, I didn't kill it. The person in front of me killed it. Oh, that's what Anna says when she does the no country for old men bolt in the cows. I didn't kill it. Just stunned it. Yeah, exactly. What element in skunk spray

is responsible for its pungent smell? This is question four. The room is not very confident. I wish I had a periodic table. Kevin, how are you feeling about it? I feel pretty good. Do you know your periodic table well?

As a doctor. At one point, I knew it all. Randall, do you know your periodic table well? No, it's been a while. It's been a while. The noble gases. That's where he got lost I like it when you get to the elements

That are obviously named after other things Like Einsteinium I helped my I think it was 7th 7th or 8th grade class Remember Antimony Which was S.B. By telling him to remember S.B.

Anthony. Susan B. Susan B. Anthony. Trapper Steve is stumped. Oh, yeah. Bad. Matter of fact, when I wrote down, I'm not convinced it's an element. Neither am I. I don't know if this is a word.

Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Anna saying... That's what I meant. What's that saying? Ferris? I don't know. Randall saying sulfur.

Max saying sulfur. Kevin saying sulfur. Chester saying methane. Brody saying ammonia. Crossed out sulfur. Giannis saying ammonia. I meant sulfur with this. Steve saying phosphorus.

Blake, sulfur. The correct answer is sulfur got it right why why would we give it to you for phosphorus because i think sulfur is a phosphorus old-timey but i was asking for the element so if it is uh let me look unless you don't want to argue with me okay you looked at a skunk spray is a feel, which is an organic compound with sulfur as the principal component. Sulfur has a rotten egg smell and is what gives a feel. It's gag inducing power. Skunks can accurately,

accurately hit a target from up to 20 feet away. What are we learning? Steve? Does this count as an argument? Well, a hundred percent. What are we looking up? Phosphorus is an element So then you named a different element

We're not going to accept that Question 5 The topic The topic is Hunting That's a compound. Phosphorus is the same. Name the two most owned dog breeds by upland hunters in America.

Oh, hold on a minute. What? Topic is hunting. Name the two most owned dog breeds by upland hunters in America. This is via the North American Upland Bird Hunting Survey. As of when? 2023. Is this like really specific?

Here's how specific you should be. If you think the answer is white-tailed deer, you can write white-tailed deer. You wouldn't need to write coos deer. I'm sorry. If you thought the answer was coos deer, just write white-tailed deer. That's good enough. That's not really helpful. Name the two most owned dog breeds by upland hunters in America.

According to whom again? This is the North American Upland Bird Hunting Survey, 2023. I have a feeling. A good feeling? Yeah. You need two answers for this. If you think the answer is Coos Deer, you can just write Whitetail Deer instead. This is so confused.

God. What's everybody got? What's the score right now? This is question five. We'll get a scoreboard update after this. Steve is expressing confusion. I will let our listeners know that prior to the game, Yanni looked at Steve's whiteboard and said,

Steve, why did you write Seth's name on your board? Yeah. So it started off on a bad foot. Something happened in my head. I wrote someone else's name down. For Steve's whiteboard, he literally wrote Seth's name, and we have no explanation as to why. Here's the question again.

Name the two most owned dog breeds by upland hunters in America. So I need two answers from all of our players. Is everybody ready? Dude, this sucks. Ready? It's so hot in here. Anna is making one change. Go ahead and reveal your answer.

We have Anna saying German wire hair and English setter. Randall saying German short hair pointer and lab. Max saying GSP and lab. Kevin saying GSP and lab. Chester and Brody saying GSP and lab. Giannis saying lab and English Pointer. Steve saying Brittany and Springer. The two correct answers are German Shorthair Pointer and Labrador Retriever.

The room did pretty well. This is via the North American Upland Bird hunting survey that was conducted by Project Upland. Their polling found that 21% of Upland hunters have a German short hair pointer, 19% have a Labrador retriever, 14% have an English setter, 11% have a Brittany, and 11% have a German wire haired pointer. See, I wrote down Lab and I could just picture some some snooty some snooty orbs guy being like

so I changed it. That's actually why I asked when I asked who it was according like where you're getting this from I was wondering if they would include lab or not and I thought it seemed like sufficiently I know, I thought, I know but still, I wouldn't have wrote the other thing down though.

Wrote? Is that a word? You're really fading, man. Phil, we are halfway through our game of trivia. Give us a scoreboard update. We have Anna, Chester, Max, and Steve all tied up with two points. Giannis has three and four points apiece are Randall, Kevin, and Brody,

all in first place. Kevin just needed me to write the episode to perform well. I was gunning for Steve when he hosted. I couldn't beat him. There we go. Kevin has you patterned, Spencer. Yes. Hey folks, exciting news for those who live or hunt in Canada. And boy, my goodness do we hear from the Canadians

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The topic is cooking. This next great question comes to us via Steve Bemke. This mushroom, which is sometimes referred to as a lawyer's wig, commonly grows in parks, backyards, and ditches. Topic is cooking. This mushroom, which is sometimes referred to as a lawyer's wig. Commonly grows in parks, backyards,

and ditches. Steve is confident he has the right answer. Steve, you have this one right. Brody, you look like you fell asleep in a marker. Oh, and he's making it worse. But for us, that means he's making it better. He likes to smell that marker.

Is this an edible mushroom? Yeah, just go with what he's got. Well, the topic is cooking. Like what not to cook. Brody, how do you feel about your answer? Oh, man, I'm not a mushroom. Like if it's not a morel or a chanterelle, I don't really care. Okay.

He's trying to put it like that it doesn't matter. Sure. Not that he doesn't know. Mm-hmm. This mushroom, which is sometimes referred to as a lawyer's wig, commonly grows in parks, backyards, and ditches. We got a lawyer coming up as a guest here. Mm-hmm.

A lawyer's wig. Does that change your answer, Chester? Yeah, I mean, yes, for sure, but I can't think of what I want to write down. What's the lawyer coming up? Is it the Corner Crossing lawyer? That's great. Is that fella an outdoorsman himself? Don't know any about him.

Okay. We'll all learn something. I'm fixing to find out. Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Anna saying puffball. Randall saying crusties. Max saying a little brown mushroom.

Kevin saying chanterelle. Chester saying turkey tail. Brody saying shaggy mane. Giannis saying shaggy mane. And Steve saying shaggy mane. It's that time of year. I saw one today. They got it.

The correct answer is shaggy mane. They could come up They could come up Through broken asphalt Very impressive And that time of year Is like any time of year That it's even remotely warm They like now

They'll grow any time When you got rain Between spring and fall If anybody in this room Is interested I have a big old patch Available Shaggy manes

They taste like asparagus And they do not freeze well You have to pre-cook them And then freeze them If anybody in this room is interested, I have a big old patch available. Shaggy Mane's? They taste like asparagus, and they do not freeze well. You have to pre-cook them and then freeze them. If you freeze them, they'll just turn to ink. Yanni, do you spray the area where these things are located? No, they're at my neighbor's. Oh, I'd be interested. Love Shaggy Mane's.

As the name implies, they have a textured cap that resembles the lawyer's wig that used to be common in British courtrooms. Shaggy Mane's regularly show up after rain and are just as common in urban areas as they are in nature. They are considered a choice edible mushroom and they work great on steaks or burgers. Cook them in butter. Can I tell you something? I never heard lawyer's wig. I just inferred But they look like a lawyer's wig

And they're one of those Few edible mushrooms that grows right in your backyard I feel like you do a lot of those To be honest with you Where you have a Known as And your known as is not something that is known as It's part of trivia

Question 7 The topic is conservation. You didn't get him to bite on that one, Steve. Name one of the two federal agencies that administer the endangered species list. Name one of the two federal agencies that administer the endangered species list. The room is very confident unlike the mushroom question that we just had i need you to name one of the two federal agencies that administer the endangered species list i'm on fire now dude coming back because it's hot in here

is this question seven how do we do that Phil? Are all podcast studios just warm by nature? I mean, yeah, there's usually a lot of expensive air circulation happening. Did you notice that when we were in Sirius's studio? Spotify studio?

It's wonderful in there. It's not going to feel like that in here. I don't know. It doesn't help that air to this room is just connected to the whole building. So if it's cold outside, it's just going to heat the whole building, including this room where we've got lights and cameras and 10 people sitting around. A lot of breath.

Everybody have an answer. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Anna saying EPA. Randall saying U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Max saying U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Max saying U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Kevin saying U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Chester saying the Department of the Interior.

What did Kevin say? It's a federal one. Fish and Wildlife Service. Brody saying U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Yanni and Steve saying U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. I'm reading into what someone wrote. The correct answer is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. I still like you reading into what someone wrote. The correct answer is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

or the National Marine Fisheries Service, which is also known as the NOAA Fisheries. The National Marine Fisheries Service, which is part of the Department of Commerce, manages the marine portion of the endangered species list. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which is part of the Department of the Interior, manages everything else.

The two agencies are responsible for decisions like listing and delisting, designating critical habitat, and developing recovery plans. Question eight. The topic is woodsmanship. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Evan Hartle for sending this great question. Evan is going to get a book signed by Steve. If you want a chance to win the listener question of the week, then send your question to trivia

at themeateater.com. The topic is woodsmanship. Name two of the five states with the most tornadoes since 2008. Max is very confident. Max, you got this one right, you think?

I think so. Topic is woodsmanship. I need you to name two of the five states with the most tornadoes. What puts us in the woodsmanship? Since 2008. So you know your risk factor when you're going into the woods. Uh-huh. Yep.

Like, am I going to get hit by a hurricane? Is there going to be a blizzard coming?, am I going to get hit by a hurricane? Is there going to be a blizzard coming? Or am I going to get struck down by a tornado? Name two of the five states with the most tornadoes since 2008. Our room looks like they're feeling good. Kevin, are these trivia questions more your speed now that I'm in the host seat instead of Steve?

Are you asking me if Steve's questions suck? You can answer it however you'd like. I mean, you are his dentist. That gives you some power to, yeah. To lose a client. What I have always enjoyed about your trivia show is I can do very well on average and then drop a two. I can drop a deuce like that. Usually I feel like I'm

still around at question eight. I don't know if I'm going to be there today. This is question eight. We'll get a leaderboard update from Phil after this. Does everybody have two states written down? Oh, shit. You got to have both? Two states. Name two of the five states. I thought you said one out of two states written down. Oh, shit. No. Oh, man. You gotta have both? Come on.

Yeah. Two states. Says two out of five. Name two of the five states. Oh, I thought you said one out of the two. I wasn't listening. I'm having a hard time

with reading comprehension. I was gonna say something. You and Steve have been working too hard. I was gonna say something, but then that would reveal that I'm looking at your board. Yeah, now Max was watching Randall

that whole time with a grin on his face because he knew Randall only had one answer. Good looking out, Max. It's everybody. I was already down. Go ahead and reveal your answers.

We have Anna saying Kansas and Oklahoma. Randall saying Missouri and Kansas. Max saying Oklahoma and Kansas. Kevin saying Alabama and Kansas. Chester saying Florida and Kansas. Brody saying Kansas and Illinois. Chester saying Florida and Kansas. Brody saying Kansas and Illinois.

Giannis saying Oklahoma, Kansas. Steve saying Arkansas and Missouri. The five states are Texas, Mississippi, Kansas, Alabama, and Louisiana. Oh! I think, did anybody get it right? Kevin was the only one. Kevin, well done. Kevin with the Alabama.

All the hurricanes. Everybody here is singing about that movie about that gal that wants to kill that witch. That's why everybody wrote Kansas. I know, strong Kansas bias. Hold on. Hurricane, tornadoes. This information is via a study done by the Insurance Information Institute. Since 2008, Texas has averaged 100 tornadoes per year, which leads the country.

That's followed by Mississippi with 102, Kansas with 87, Alabama with 83, and Louisiana with 63. Just missing the top five were Illinois, Iowa, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Nebraska. Where's our Tornado Alley? Tornado Alley, I think it's from like Texas to, I don't know, Illinois and the Great Plains. I think it's the whole Great Plains. Yeah, it's through Oklahoma. Don't worry about it. I wrote Arkansas because down by clays, there's all those trees leveled down by the tornado.

You ever hear the Brent Reeves story about killing a gobbler in a tornado? That's right. Yeah. Phil, we have two questions left. Film. More reason to put it down. We have two questions left. Where does our leaderboard stand? Jeez. Brutal.

Chester and Anna have two points apiece. Max has three, and all of them will not be able to catch up. But Steve has four points. Randall and Giannis are tied up with five. And tied up in first place are Brody Henderson and Kevin, the dentist and the guest, playing a great game. How many do they have? Six points.

Six points. Two questions left. Question nine. The topic is fishing. This five-letter word refers to the fixture on docks and boats that acts as a tie-down point for rope. Randall's got it.

Steve and Brody and Giannis and Kevin all have it as well. Yeah, not a big game-changer kind of question. Yeah, that's not what I was looking for. I feel like we need to get questions 9 and 10 need to bring the heat. Well, he should have 9s and 10s in his pocket for when there's like a, you know. When we need Steve to catch up. When I need to catch up. When Steve's down.

Yeah, he needs to shave some points. That's what I meant. That's what I was getting at. There's some questions where he's like, just things that only I'll know from when I'm behind. As reading the room here, it looks like five people have this right. Three will not. Here's the question again. This five-letter word refers to the fixture on docks and

boats that acts as a tie-down point. I'm going to laugh. Chester can't figure this out. Chester, you've been warned that Steve is going to laugh. If you can't figure it out, give us a preview. I'm going to go, nah. Okay.

Chester, that's what's on the line here. Chester's been pouring all his energy into taking care of my little Chester. How old is that little one now? Have you seen those videos of guys throwing the ropes around these things, and they're so good at it? What things? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, Max drew one.

We're not going to give him credit, but he did draw one. He drew one. You drew? You drew? Chester, what do we have for lunch today? I didn't eat anything. I came from a shoot. Dang, Chester.

I ate a piece of chocolate. Steve's working you too hard over here. It's why Yanni brought up banana. I had two, so I don't need the second one. He does actually want the banana. I feel like giving up, just walking up. Okay. Is everybody ready?

There's only one more after this. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Anna without an answer. Randall saying cleat. Max drew what appears to be a cleat. Kevin says cleat. Chester without an answer. Brody and Giannis and Steve all say cleat.

They got it. The correct answer is cleat. I think you got to give it to Max. Boat cleats have been around for thousands of years and were independently developed by different cultures. The most popular cleat today, which is known as a horn cleat, dates back to the 18th century. Some other modern iterations of the cleat include the jam cleat,

the clam cleat, and the zigzag cleat. I like zigzag cleats quite a bit, but I like them on the boat. Mmm. I wish you had a picture of a zigzag cleat. I'll show you one. Steve's going to draw one for us while Phil gives us a scoreboard update. Steve has erased his name from his board because he's

given up. We've got Giannis and Randall with six points and Brody and Kevin with seven. Here's a top-down view of a Z cleat. Let's see it. Your rope lays in. It's exactly what it looks like. And that's all you got to do?

You don't even have to throw it. These are grooved on a side view. These look like this. As long as there's pressure from both sides. So you lay the rope in that, like the rope lays like this You want to hold that up for the class The YouTube audience

Very good Question 10 The topic is shooting This last great question comes to us Anyone who's looking at that picture knows exactly what they're looking at Right Tell me what one of the H's in 4-H stands for. This is the organization that holds the youth shooting competitions.

Oh, my God, man. I'll give you the pledge. Oh, look. These guys aren't sure. Well, Steve has all the confidence. I think he's the only one. I know all the H's. Really?

Really. Very impressive. Again, the topic is shooting. I need you to tell me what one of the H's in 4-H stands for as in the organization that holds youth shooting competitions. Hey, hell raisin. Steve is very sure of his answer. Is anyone else competent? Anna, do you have this one right?

You do. Were you in? I was a 4-H-er. Okay, what did you do in 4-H? Sheep. Oh. And baking, yeah. Sheep doesn't start with an H. one right you do were you in i was a 4-h okay what'd you do in 4-h sheep oh and baking yeah she doesn't start with an h did you ever win any sheep or bacon competition i think i won a blue at state for like peanut butter cookies or something oh wow legendary baker then here is yannis still in this yannis is in it. I think we have Kevin, Randall, Brody, and Giannis left.

Well, never mind. Those two got to get it wrong. Randall, do you have one of the H's? No, I don't. I'd rather tell you what the four stands for. I think I have a pretty good guess. Kevin, do you have one of the H's? No.

Brody, do you have one of the H's? I have no idea. Gianni, do you have one of the H's? I believe so. Okay. This would have almost caught me up if this had happened twice. Maybe if we'd have made it a four-pointer, I think you'd be right there. I will say I've killed a lot of 4-H animals, so I don't know if that helps at all.

Is everybody ready? Randall? I'm adding to my answer. I'm adding letters to my answer. Okay, just one word, though though is all we're looking for. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Anna saying heart. Randall saying home

making. Hey. Max saying harvest. Kevin saying home maker. Chester saying heart. FHA. Brody saying home. Cross out horticulture. Giannis saying horse. Steve saying heart. Steve, tell them what the four H's are.

Isn't it hands, heart, head, and health? Head, heart, hands, and health. I pledge my head for greater thinking, my heart to greater loyalty, my hands to... You're getting to the factoid, Jesse. Keep going, Jesse. I don't even have to read. I pledge my head to greater thinking, my heart to greater loyalty, my hands to larger service. Maybe something like that.

You're doing great. Keep going. And my health to better living. And my health to... Greater living? To better living for my club, my community, my country, and my world. The one error you had, Chester,

was I pledge my head to clearer thinking, not greater thinking, but I'm very impressed that you and Anna knew that much better. He's not done with the banana yet. You remember thinking, but I'm very impressed that you and Anna knew that much. He's not done with the banana yet. Remember that, but you couldn't remember cleat. Hey, he ate a banana. That could have been anybody's game.

They teach six disciplines in shooting that are archery, air rifle, air pistol, shotgun, muzzleloader,.22 rifle, and.22 pistol. Phil, I don't even know what happened there. Do we have a winner? It didn't move the needle for our leaders, so Brody and Kevin are tied up with seven points. And nobody joined them then. Nobody joined them.

Okay, Kevin and... What would I come in at? Are you sure horses are... You got six. It's worth... You might want to point out where I closed out at. Steve, Giannis, and Randall all have six points, and they did a very good job, and we're all proud of them. I think all four of those H's are off-brand.

I'll be honest. But we're down to Brody and Kevin going to overtime. Play the drop, Phil. Possible guest winner. If you ain't first, you're last. I think just cut it at if you ain't first, you're last, and then, like, go into other stuff that's funny. I never liked it. Hey, Phil, f*** off, man.

The tiebreaker is a numerical question. Before we get started, the first time I ever met Kevin was, like, a week ago. Yeah. A little over a week ago. And he walks up to me, he's like, I really like beating you at trivia. Oh. I had no idea who he is. And here we are now with his chance.

I'm glad you remembered that. Brody, you have a board marker on your face. Brody, you want to add some red in here? Kevin will have his chance here. The tie-breaking topic is hunting. This is a numerical question. Whoever is the closest between Brody and Kevin will be declared the winner. Here it

is. How many animals in the Boone and Crockett record book are split into typical and non-typical categories? Everyone in the room should play along. If somebody were to get it right on the nose, we will add an extra $100

donation at the end of the game. The only answers that we really care about are from Kevin and Brody, though. I'm making a list too. Okay. Randall with a quick answer He doesn't care for the extra $100 donation He just wants to get it over with How do you know Are you sure I just don't know it I was just able to come to my guess

I know you're not going to answer this But you know What I'm wondering about is how much Split is going on here This is a Boone and Crockett record book. You need to tell me how many animals they have split into typical and non-typical categories. Kevin,

do you have any critters in the Boone and Crockett record book? I've never submitted one. I got a mountain goat. That's worthy. Five, six years ago that I green scored. Okay. Any other animals that would make it in there?

I've got about 120 Sitka blacktails, but I've never scored any of them. Okay. One of them, maybe. I grew up up there. Brody, have you ever killed a Boone and Crockett critter? Yes. Two. Okay.

Really? It's not... not, uh. Oh, I forgot about Mewdier. I mean, a boot crock at minimum, right? Yeah. But, uh, is everybody ready with an answer? No. With the deductions and everything?

Well, then maybe not. I don't know. But a black bear for sure. Yeah, there's no deductions. Was that a non-typical black bear? Yeah. Actually, mine was pretty non-typical. He's lopsided.

Is everybody ready? Hold on, hold on. I feel like people kill three-legged bears every now and then. Tripod. Down to Brody and Kevin. Giannis, how do you feel about... Steve didn't make it very far. How do you know he doesn't have it?

Would you ask me? How do you feel about your answer? Solid. Okay. You think you have it on the nose? No. Brody, are we ready? Yeah, sure.

I came up with a number and then added three. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Anna saying four, Randall saying nine, Max saying nine, Chester saying seven, Gianna saying twelve, Steve saying eight, we have Brody saying fourteen, and Kevin saying seven.

One of you is one off from the correct answer between Brody and Kevin. The correct answer is sixdy and Kevin. The correct answer is six. Kevin is a winner. Oh, man. Congratulations. Well done. I want to point out that I

got closer than Brody. Okay. Well, thank you for pointing it out. Steve? Yeah. That's great. The six animals are, do you want to name them? Do you think you know them, Kevin? Roosevelt, Rocky Mountain, and Thule elk, Sitka blacktail, mule deer, and white tail. American elk, Columbia blacktail, mule deer,

Sitka blacktail, white tail deer, and Coos white tail. Moose isn't on there. Moose is not a typical. I had caribou in my seven. Well done, Kevin. Doesn't matter how you get there. I had eight. Winning is not a thing eight I had four Kevin announced

Before the mics were on That on his drive over here He started to think about who he would donate to But he was worried he was getting too far down that path So he stopped himself From coming up with a final answer Kevin you've now had a chance to think about it Where is the $500 donation from me,

Dieter, going to go? The Rocky Mountain Goat Alliance. What do you like about them? My happy place is looking down on mountain goats, and I've been fortunate enough to do it a lot. They're actually indirectly why I'm here. The founder, Pete Munich, was on your show years ago, and talking about the Alliance, I became a. Uh, the founder, Pete Munich was on your show years ago and talking

about the Alliance. I became a life member the next day and, uh, continue to support him. They go out and try and support, um, fishing biology departments by doing annual counts every

year and working on research. Well done, Kevin. Steve talked you up as a valid competitor and here he is now in the winner's chair. Well done, Kevin. Steve talked you up as a valid competitor and here he is now in the winner's chair. Well,

appreciate the invite. You'll be right down the road. We'll have you back again sometime. Thank you, Kevin. Join us next time for more Meat Eater Trivia. If your tooth falls out,

go see Dr. Kevin Pearson. That's right. DDS. The only dentist who kills Boone and Crockett. Is there a discount code? Meat Eater 20 for 20% off your next filling. Three fillings.

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