The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 503: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia XC

Episode Date: December 13, 2023

Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Seth Morris, and Hanzi Deschermeier. 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. Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host, Spencer Newarth, and today we're joined by Stephen Rinella, Brody Henderson, Giannis Poutelis, Randall Williams, Hansi Deschermeyer, and Seth Morris. This is a 10-round quiz show with questions from Meat Eaters 4 Verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking, and there is a prize.

Meat Eater will donate $500 to the conservation organization of the winner's choosing. But this isn't just any regular old game of MeatEater Trivia. This is episode four of the 2023 MeatEater Trivia Tournament. There are four episodes total. So by the end of this one, we'll have crowned a champion of Meat Eater Trivia for 2023. Now this game will have spoilers. So if you haven't heard the last three shows, then pause this and go back and listen to those. All right, now that everyone's caught up, we're ready to declare our second ever Meat Eater Trivia champion.

Here's a reminder of how we got here. We started with 20 players and have worked our way down to just 6. These 6 competitors have survived 3 rounds of elimination to make it here today. What's on the line is a $2,000 donation to the conservation organization of the winner's choosing and the title of

2023 Meat Eater Trivia Champion. I don't know if we've shown this on the show before but we have a plaque that will be hung up here in the studio to show off our winner. Remind everyone who the reigning champion is. Right now

that's Brody Henderson. He had the 2022 title. Brody? Remember that? Does this make you proud? Does this make you proud, Brody, looking at this? Did he choose like Mule Deer Foundation or something to give his money to last year? No, the Mule Deer is his icon from our trophy next to you. It was made by the same trophy maker, the late, great Ed Newman.

And our winner will be honored as the 2023 champion after this episode. Did you forget what your icon was, Giannis? I did. I did because Spencer never put mine up there in my last win. What is it? An eagle. That'd be an eagle.

Do you already foresee this going to 26? 2026? That's all you can fit on the trophy. Maybe. Maybe. That seems like about the right amount of questions from our universe. Now, Phil, give us a scoreboard update

for our six remaining players. We have ten questions left. Yeah, we'll do. We've got Randall and Hansi, who fought it out in the tiebreaker in the last episode. They have four points apiece. Seth and Giannis have six points. Steve has eight, and Brody is in first place. He got nine points in the first half of the game.

Brody, nine points. That's a hell of a start. Randall, there's your score. Yeah, I didn't make this adjustment. Plus five, I somehow did the math wrong. Randall declared it's not even fun anymore. No, no. I just hope to get a couple good quips in.

Think about what would have to remind them steve bro like me and brody would just have to start getting all of them wrong i've gamed out all the scenarios yes it wasn't difficult you're getting all of them right no i know i don't even want to be here, you know, but here we are. Here we are. Now, we aren't doing any stats, zero percenters, or housekeeping today, so we can get right into the questions. And with that, we're on to the game of trivia.

Play the drop. Well, I have a quick question for you. Oh, what do you got? Why did you do a zero percenter the other part of the championship? Right? What's different? It felt like it was more laid back there was like uh the stakes weren't high yet as you could see if you listen to our last episode

uh tensions were were up there yeah a lot of those tense people the temperature a lot of them about 50 of them are now out of here. So, yeah, we're just going to go right into the questions. I'm ready to declare a champion. You introduced him in the last episode as the guy who doesn't care, who says he doesn't care about trivia. That's true. If he's losing, he doesn't care. Stakes were high.

It was on the nose. It was very on the nose, Spencer. 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!

Final round. Question 11. This will be multiple choice. Let me just throw something out there. Let's just say, if Brody was paying for a couple questions every game, what do you think the price would be per question? Yeah, tell me. What would it matter?

What would move the needle for Spencer? Yeah. What would he be willing to pay and say you say some guy comes up and he says hey i got a couple hundos here that wouldn't be enough fossils would it would access to like some i have a t-Rex tooth. That's it. It was just done for one dinosaur tooth. Now, Brody's speaking my language. He said access to a whitetail property. That would get you pretty far. A cubic ton of petrified wood.

Nah, no. I actually need to be getting rid of some. What do you got? Did you already reveal it on Instagram? Did your circle of rocks turn into something special? We don't know special or we don't know yet you don't know yet still waiting to go visit the site with the archaeologists who i think are as excited as i am to to go see it in person soon i hope question 11 this is multiple choice and the topic is fishing which of these lures was not on Field and Stream's list of the 25 greatest flies of all time.

Is it the Happy Madison, the Clouser Minnow, the Dahlberg Diver, or the Griffith's Gnat? Three of these were on Field and Stream's list of the 25 greatest flies of all time. One of them was not. Is it the happy Madison, the clouser minnow, the Dahlberg diver, or the Griffith's gnat? A confident Brody, who's one of the only folks to have an answer. Giannis, do you have this one right? I'm 50%.

Okay. I've got it narrowed down to two. I like when you go fishing question, but then when that fishing question is a fly fishing question, it's just terrible. Oh, I like it. He pumps you up and then knocks you down. The topic is fishing.

And then it's fly fishing. You're like, oh, shit. Three of those flies made field and streams list. One of them did not. Again, such a saint. You need to be a more rounded fisherman. That's how you get to be a trivia champion like Brody over here.

Man catches walleye and he catches trout and everything in between. Does anybody have an answer? I catch plenty of trout too, Spencer. It's just not on the fly. He just hates them. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth saying happy Madison.

Yana saying happy Madison. Yana saying Happy Madison. Randall saying Happy Madison. Brody, everyone says Happy Madison. They got it right. The correct answer was Happy Madison. Well, I guess. The Clouser Minnow was named the best fly of all time, while the Griffith's gnat was eighth,

and Dahlberg Diver was 24th. Happy Madison is the name of Adam Sandler's production company, which combines the name of two moviesler's production company which combines the name of two movies happy gilmore and billy madison you could have stuck something better in there for the one that was wrong well what i had going for is it's a famous trout river yeah i got a few folks down to a 50 percent madison around here the happy hey listen i didn't write it down dude i'm just saying it's got it going no i just think, I just think it was a bad choice. Question 12.

This is our listener question of the week. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Drew Young for sending this great question. He's going to get a book signed by Steve. What Tennessee lake was the site of a duck hunting double homicide in 2021? The topic was hunting. What Tennessee Lake was the site of a duck hunting double homicide in 2021? The room looks torn. I remember reading this article on TheMeatEater.com.

Definitely followed this. Don't know it. Good on you, Seth. I just didn't retain the info, Spencer. I hunted this light one time. Oh, that's a hint. Quite a hint. This is the kind of chit-chat

I just hate. Oh, come on. I thought it through. There's no way that's going to help you. Or anybody in this room. That's the state I was born in. I feel like Steve and Brody probably have an intimate knowledge of where you've hunted and where you haven't. In Tennessee, no. I don't.

Not that intimate. What Tennessee lake was the site of a duck hunting double homicide? Do you know, Brody? No. Now, Steve. I don't know. Here we go. Okay.

I don't know, but I just need him to not know. I don't care about you. If Randall knows, I'm like, I don't care. Who cares? It's not going to do anything for him. I might just erase my answer. But if I know and you don't know. That's bad.

Then I'm scratching. That's how the game works. I hope no one knows. I need you to come scratch. Oh, it's. Give me another second. don't know that's bad then i'm i'm scratching that's how the game works you come scratching oh it's give me another second give me another hint this is from meat eaters fifth vertical murders in the outdoors which i think we have a book coming out about murders in the outdoors what tennessee lake was the site of a duck hunting double homicide in

2021? I feel like Brody's been writing for the last 10 minutes. Yeah, Brody doesn't like the extra time. He's been granted some extra time here. I'm trying for a Giannis answer here. I think you're the only one we're waiting on right now. Alright, that's fine. Let's go. So everybody's writing. Hansi?

Okay. We're going to let Hansi finish writing and then we're going to flip over the boards. Do you mind? You know that little thing you have. Okay, sure. Hansi? I love that it's unspoken now. We'll have the usual.

Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth saying Brown Lake. Giannis saying Real Foot. Randall saying Real Foot. Hanzi without an answer. Seth crossed out, or excuse me, Steve crossed out Tender Foot and wrote Real Foot. Brody saying Cumberland. What?

The correct answer is Real Foot Lake. Yeah, call it the Brody. Steve likes what has just happened. Chance Black. All that talking. Not that it gave me a hint, but it bought me time. Okay. How close were you to sticking with?

I had tender foot till the very end. Oh, wow. Chance Black, Zach Grooms. Would you have given that to me? No, no. Certainly not. False foot. Chance Black, Zach Grooms, and Jeff Crabtree were duck hunting on real foot when 70-year-old David Vowell approached their blind.

He killed Black and Grooms with his shotgun before Crabtree shoved Vowell into the lake. Vowell's body was recovered a few days later with the coroner determining that he died of hypothermia and or drowning. Authorities later learned that a week before the incident, Vowell told his wife that he had dementia, which he self-diagnosed by Googling his symptoms. Wow. Question 13. I didn't know that last little tidbit. I can't remember who wrote it.

Somebody for Outdoor Life interviewed the third hunter. They did a phenomenal job of telling the story. Obviously very sad, but for all parties in this case. Should we put that in the Sportsman's Atlas, Brody? Well, we just told the whole damn thing. No, I mean, there's a lot of the story.

The lake has a lot of- You know what we can do is for the Sportsman's Atlas, we could go through all of the trivia questions forever and probably find things that we want to put in the spores. That lake has a fascinating history about how it was formed. In case you want to use this for the Atlas, we won't talk about it. But it's a relatively young lake. All those blinds that they were hunting out of are public blinds.

That's like a draw system. There might be something there for you. Question three. Did you hear about me and Randall's long hunters project? Slightly. I came and butted in on it a few times that was that was about as much as i know we recorded it the other day when does that come out i think it might be the best audio thing i've ever been involved in wow

that's great better than excited this now is that inclusive of audio what if you win better than the last episode question 13 of our audio books. But it's our first audio book, though, so that's not saying a whole lot. Yeah, I guess you're right. This is the best. I wonder why it felt so good. This is the best championship episode we've ever recorded in 2023. That is the fourth and final episode of the tournament.

So, yeah, same thing. Congrats. Question 13. The topic is woodsmanship. The scientific name for this foolproof four mushroom roughly translates to giant bald head. The topic is woodsmanship. The scientific name

for this foolproof four mushroom roughly translates to giant bald head. Hold on. I need to look close. The room looks stumped. Brody is the only person to come up with an answer thus far. The scientific name for this foolproof four mushroom roughly translates to giant bald

head. This is question 13. Can I just write down a couple of the things in the foolproof four and have it be fine? We're not going to count that. You can cross them out until you're down to one. What does it tell us what the foolproof four are?

Oh, man. The room is stumped. Like the Linnaean name. The scientific name for this foolproof four mushroom roughly translates to giant bulb head. But do they need to write down? Do we need scientific name? No. Oh, I just need the mushroom.

That's right. If the answer was largemouth bass, you would just write down largemouth bass. I don't need to. Okay, I thought I had to know the Linnaean. I need to. Okay. I thought I had to know the Linnaean. I need more time now. I thought I had to know the Linnaean name. No. No.

That, I think, would be impossible. You need to tell me the common name for the mushroom. Seth, do you have this one right? You're pretty quiet and laid back over here. I don't know. You just kind of accepted your fate on this question. Maybe the game in general. Hey. Not yet? Not yet. Okay, good.

Jeez, Spencer. Okay, if the answer was largemouth bass... Mm-hmm. You would need to write down largemouth bass. And not only bass. No. Not like bucket mouth.

The scientific name for this foolproof four mushroom roughly translates to giant bald head. You know what it is, Steve? We trust Hansi. I don't know. Is everybody ready? Hold on. I got to change my answer real quick is everybody ready oh man she's like maybe hansi knows it and he's sitting there she's going steve such an idiot well there's like a little part here i gotta do that that's appreciated Don't get too specific. Really? Is everybody ready?

That's what you changed yours to? No. Give me five minutes. Oh, that's exciting. Wow. That's exciting. We have Randall disagreeing with whatever Yanni did. No, no, I'm not disagreeing.

No. No. Okay. No. Giant bald head. Brody, I think we were just waiting on you. Hold on one second. I'm finishing up.

Okay. Is anybody confident? Steve? Okay. It's more complicated than that, to be honest with you. Okay. Brody, you ready? I don't want to explain it because it's the kind of chit-chat.

Yeah. Do you know what I'm saying? No, I'm changing mine. Okay. No, no, no, no. He saw something or cheated on something. Why would you change it now? I'm very confident he did not.

Because another mushroom just popped in my head. I'm very confident he did not see anything. Ten seconds before he did. Well, how long does this go on for? Until Brody writes something. Long enough to get real foot lake instead of tender foot lake. anything. 10 seconds before he did. How long does this go on for? Until Brody writes something. I was done before Seth. Go ahead and reveal your answers.

We have Seth saying puffball. Giannis, I can't even tell what the board says here. Puffball. Randall's saying puffball. Hansi's saying giant puffball. Steve's saying giant puffball. Brody's saying bullet. The correct answer is puffball. Yeah! Giant puffball. We're not going to go to giant. Yeah! Giant puffball. We're not going to go to giant.

Why not? That's what I got. What do I get next point? The double points if you get giant puffball. We're just going to do puffball. Puffballs are round white mushrooms that can reach soccer ball proportions, which explains the meaning of their scientific name. See, Randall, listen, buddy, I want you to look and be inspired by this, man.

Well, I was about to change to Plus three but then I realized since you got it right I'm just exactly where I was But I want you to look and be like man anything's possible I appreciate that A lot of talking going on The biggest puffball ever found was discovered in 1987 It was over eight feet

In circumference and weighed nearly Fifty pounds If you want to learn how to cook with them 1987. It was over 8 feet in circumference and weighed nearly 50 pounds. No way. If you want to learn how to cook with them, then go to TheMeatEater.com and check out Rick Matney's recipe for Puffball Mushroom Pizza. I'll tell you right now. Did they eat that big one? It's a, listen, it's a I've gotten in my

at my age, I don't even slow down for them. Oh really? Well tell me where they're at. I would love to go get some. They're all over the place. I was looking at a bunch the other day. I don't even slow down for them. Oh, really? Well, tell me where they're at. I would love to go get some. They're all over the place. I was looking at a bunch the other day. I don't even slow down for them because it's just always a disappointing feed. It's always a disappointing feed. Now, did you find them in an open meadow?

Were they in timber? Yes, grass. They're kind of like tofu, I feel like. Take on whatever flavor you want. I don't even slow down for them. The texture's not right. When I find a mushroom, I want to be excited. And when I bring home a puffball, I'm just not excited.

An eight-foot one, you could cut a mattress out of that. That'd be a comfy mattress. That'd be a great mattress. You could shoot it up with a punt gun, too. You'd probably climb up in there, hollow it out. It'd just suck all that.

It'd absorb all that business. Well, you'd wait until it turned into powder. Oh. Oh. It's like poor man's tannerite. Question 14. The topic is biology. What city is home to the American Museum of Natural History?

This is question 14. What city is home to the American Museum of Natural History? An exciting round so far. Brody had a little bit of a cushion. Now I think he may be in second place. Is one question a cushion? I feel like it's got to be multiple. I said a little bit. You feeling good about your answer?

Mm-hmm. Randall, you've gotten three correct in this game so far. Am I right with that? That would be all three. To be honest, I'm not paying attention. I just, listen, I okay. How many questions are we on? I just know this is the championship and I don't want to screw anything up. So he's not screwing with

I thought he was just screwing with you You're just trying to check his scoreboard I mean I'm not really paying attention to be honest The answers we've had so far were Happy Madison, Real Foot Lake and Puffball This is question 14 Oh I thought you meant the whole day

No no no Just in this game that we've... Here's the question again. Last few minutes. What city is home to the American Museum of Natural History? Maybe. Is everybody ready? Mm-hmm. He said maybe with a smirk on his face. I think that's

more than a maybe. Go ahead and reveal your answers. That's called the shitty grand is what that was. We have Seth saying New York City. Giannis saying Washington, D.C. Randall saying New Yorkork city yana saying washington dc randall saying new york city hansi saying chicago steve saying new york city brody saying washington dc the correct answer is new york city two point lead the boy oh boy brody is faltering bad. We found... It's like, listen, it's interesting to have found his weak spot.

Stamina. Oh, okay. Stamina. How many years difference are you two in age? Neck and neck. Dave Smith older than us. What are you doing on Sunday? Something hard.

I was going to ask if you wanted to run a half marathon with me. No, you won't be hunting that thing Sunday. The American Museum of Natural History is located on the upper west side of Manhattan in Theodore Roosevelt Park. The museum has 35 million specimens of plants, fossils artifacts and more it gets about 5 million visitors each year including my wife and i on our honeymoon in 2017 case in point that was delightful unless you question that they get visitors you know what sometimes you're doing a question and and you start And I know I know it Okay

Based on Vibrations The last two Somehow you hadn't said the question Your voice started And I was like visited With the realization that I knew the answer You got them with what city

Your humunculus chiseled through your ear infection. Question 15. The topic is conservation. This type of federal land often has welcome signs that say, quote, your public lands. Question is behind you, Steve. This type of federal land often has welcome signs that say, quote, your public lands. Hmm. And Steve, you said two point lead. Right now I have you with a one point lead.

No. That might be my mistake. No, I caught him and then passed him and then passed him more. Let's revisit. So Steve got New York City. I've got Steve with 12 and I've got Brody with 11 currently. No, he's up by two. I'm up by two.

You screwed up. That means I gave Brody an extra point somewhere. Wow. I want it back. Oh, what was the question? Question 15. Topic is conservation. This type of federal land often has welcome signs that say, quote, your public lands.

The room is torn. Randall, do you have this one right? I think so. This is question 15. We will get an official scoreboard update from Phil after this. How could during a championship game, Phil be having so many questions about who's got what? I'm trying to make sure things are square.

I'm doing this for you, Steve. He's counting above 10 for the first time. That's true. Not that Phil's bad at doing what he does, but you should keep a tally. Sure. Well, I never knew. He's never done this before.

He's never demonstrated fallibility. And then he seeks a tally. Sure. Well, I never knew it. He's never done this before. He's never demonstrated fallibility. And then he seeks a clarification that's wrong. Ever since we brought the cameras and the TV in here and I'm doing eight things at once, I've asked people to keep their own score just in case. I'm imperfect. Someone else made the observation, Phil looks like he is a 911 operator back there.

Does Phil ever play? It's a more stressful job. He has played before. He played during the Wives and Girlfriends episode. Yeah, when his wife won. His wife won. She put up an impressive nine, I believe. What did Phil get that day? I don't remember. We've had a stat in the past about Phil's

performance because he played like the first four or five episodes. I don't recall what his average was. It wasn't tremendous. So when his wife beat him was it like Did he do real bad? No I want to say I got like a 7 or something How'd that go at home Phil? I don't think she's brought it up once since

To be honest Spencer we just don't care about it Here's the question again This type of federal land often has welcome signs That say your public land. Phil, do you ever miss it? Playing trivia? Do you miss the thrill? Not at all.

I was horrified. When there was a cooking question, I was like, okay, I've got a fighting chance here. But everything else is, nope, right over my head. Does everybody have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth saying Forest Service. Giannis saying National Forest. Randall saying

BLM. Hansi saying National Forest. Steve saying National Forest. Brody saying BLM. He crossed out National Forest. The correct answer is BLM. It's going to make the game interesting again. Brody catches back up a little bit.

That was question 15. The BLM branding is big on hammering home the concept that public lands belong to you. Their signs often contain slogans like, Help maintain your property, keep your land clean, and entering your public lands. The agency says that their signs act as silent employees. Phil, we have five questions left. Give us a scoreboard update. Yeah, sure thing.

We've got Hansi, who has six points, and I don't believe can catch up. I'm pretty sure you're right. Yeah. I'm pretty sure you're correct. Like mathematically impossible. Mathematically impossible. Yeah. Giannis, Randall, and Seth all have nine points apiece. I'm pretty sure you're correct. Like mathematically impossible. Mathematically impossible. Giannis, Randall, and Seth all have nine points apiece.

Brody has 11, and Steve has run away with the lead. He's got 12 points. Wow. I lost track of where we're even at. You got five questions left. I wouldn't exactly classify it as running away, Phil. Well, he was behind. Now he's in front.

I didn't use that term correctly. You're right, Brody. There's a lot of turf out there, dude. This is like on a normal show. This is like being that you're halfway through with a one-point lead. That doesn't mean that much. That's a good way to put it.

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Welcome to the, to the on X club. Y'all question 16. The topic is gear USA archery CEO CEO Denise Parker said their membership doubled thanks to the release of this 2012 movie. The room is very confident. USA Archery CEO Denise Parker said their membership doubled thanks to the release of this 2012 movie. Seems like we may have a 100 percenter here. That was kind of a dumbass question. It's going to keep you.

Everybody knows it's Godfather. Hansi is the only one a little stumped. Yeah, he's like, oh, shit. I can't think of the name. One, two, or three. One, two, or three. One, two, or three. Is everybody ready? No. Sure, whatever. Hansi, we don't

have to pressure you. You've needed a few seconds. You can finish writing. USA Archery CEO. Now see if all of the rest of our ears work. We can't have you pounding noise into the mic usa archery ceo denise parker said their membership doubled thanks to the release of this 2012 movie hansi

are you ready sure go ahead and reveal your answers we have seth and janice and randall and steve and brody all saying hunger games. Hansi saying the one with I'll Tribute. Which is right. Which is correct. The correct answer is The Hunger Games. I said we'd give it to them. The Hunger Games features Katniss Everdeen, who's played by... Give it to me, I'll be thankful and you guys won't be any off,

any worse off. Who's played by Jennifer Lawrence, using archery equipment in a dystopian universe. According to a 2016 report, approximately half of the girl archers surveyed said that they were influenced by the movie to take up the sport. USA Archery CEO called it their got milk campaign for the archery industry. Question 17. The topic is fishing. This river, which is the second longest tributary to the Mississippi, flows through states like Colorado and Oklahoma. This river, which is the second longest tributary to the Mississippi, flows through states like Colorado and Oklahoma.

This is question 17. Giannis, do you have this one right? Pretty sure. Okay. Brody also seems confident as well as Randall. Seth has not picked up his board. I might have fished this one once.

That's a hint. But then maybe I didn't. Enough chit chat. Have you hunted this river yet? Don't answer it. Come on. Seth, I think we are waiting on you to tell us the second longest tributary to the Mississippi.

I don't know. Or shoot, I don't know. That helps. It actually erases the bad word you said when you say, oh, shoot, I meant. Steve, are you changing an answer? Well, just, yeah. Okay. But can you do our little special?

Yeah, sure. A little special thing. This river, which is the second longest tributary to the Mississippi. If we change it to the right answer and that thing dragged out forever. Like Colorado and Oklahoma. And this hint? Yeah. There's no hint.

Yanni, like, did or didn't fish it. Come on, let's go. How are you ready? It didn't land, Yannis. Steve got it. No, no, no, I know. On some people, it didn't land. Gonis. Steve got it. No, no, no. I know. On some people, it didn't land. Oh.

Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth saying Platt. Giannis saying Platt. Randall saying Platt. Hansi saying Missouri. Steve saying Arkansas. Brody saying Arkansas. And Steve crossed out the Platt. He said, like, Arcazes.

The correct answer is the Arkansas River. Oh, sons of... We're out. At 1,400 miles, the Arkansas River is the 6th longest river in the United States and 45th

longest river in the world. Its origin is the Rocky Mountains and it flows through Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas before dumping into the Mississippi. The river's watershed extends all the way into New Mexico, Texas, and Missouri. Would you stop saying states

like? We could make that change. These states. You know what? That's a good critique. We can fix that. Such as? Question 18. The topic is woodsmanship. This next great question was sent to us by Shallon Tichy.

What navigational term refers to the angle of difference between magnetic north and true north? Steve thinks it's a race. He's very confident. This could be the end of me. Brody is ready to have his obituary written for trivia. God, I'm just having such a strong game, dude. I mean, like it started out weak, you know? Uh-huh.

And it got strong. Here we are. What navigational term refers to the angle of difference between magnetic north and true north? Did they teach you that at that forestry school of yours, Seth? They probably did, yeah. Giannis and Seth have not picked up their boards. Randall, just now coming up with an answer. Randall, do you have this one right?

I don't think so. Let's talk about who should know it. Brody, he is pointing at Brody. Did a little writing about it at one point. Brody, do you have an answer? I have an answer. I just don't know if it's a complete answer. I swear to God I won't touch my board.

Let me see what you wrote. No. Hansi, do you have an answer? I do. Is it the right answer? There's a chance. Okay. Hansi, look at you here. In the final six of Meat Eater Trivia, we should acknowledge how exciting that is.

Still having a hell of a good time. I am having a good time. Good on you, Hansi. There's no pressure. There's been no pressure on this side of the table. When you've already lost, you're lost, you're sailing, I guess. What navigational term refers to the angle of difference between magnetic north and true north? Giannis, do you have an answer yet? No. This is question 18.

After this, we only have two questions left. I'm starting to feel a little better about my answer, but there's just no payoff. Okay. Steve could terribly falter here. We'll get a scoreboard update from Phil after this. No, I could still falter. Sure. But I'm just happy.

Even if I lose, I'm just happy that I've gotten in there and held my own. I don't think that's true. A guy like Randall over here, big-time winner and all that, I'm just happy that I've gotten in there and held my own. I don't think that's true. You could be a guy like Randall over here, big-time winner and all that, but then when it counts, you know what I mean? You know, the problem is he's a rookie, Steve. He wasn't here for the tournament last year. He wasn't involved in the high stakes of the 2022 tournament.

This is where your veteran – Let me put it to you like golf. Say you got a guy that always does really good at golf. I'm excited to hear this. This will be good, yeah. Always does good at golf, and then he gets the final championship. And he doesn't do good at golf. You know what? That's exactly what it's right.

What an analogy. Brody, do you have an answer? I have an answer, but I don't think it's right. Giannis, do you have an answer? Are you going to come up with an answer? I'm not going to. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth and Giannis without answers.

Randall saying declination. Hansi saying declination. Steve saying declination. I don't think that was right. Brody saying drift. The correct answer is declination or magnetic variation. Put your boards in, guys. You can determine declination by using a map or declination chart.

If your compass needle is clockwise of true north, then you have a positive declination. If your compass needle is counterclockwise of true north, then you have a negative declination. Declination tends to be more variable the closer you get to the magnetic pole yeah people write it off but you get up you get up uh like around in the brooks range you could have a declination in the 20s sure you could like seriously miss something and a storm can change it changes by the year so your maps could be out of date you want me to tell you a little tidbit? Yes. Periodically, throughout geologic history, the magnetic poles have switched.

There have been times your compass would have pointed south. It's inexplicable why it happens, but when they were still trying to solve the mystery of seafloor spreading and continental drift, they would find these crystallized minerals that would come out of rifts in the bottom of the ocean and you could go back in time on the same place where seafloor spreading is occurring sure it's spreading two directions you can go back in time and look in these parallel strips of magnetic South magnetic magnetic north, magnetic south, magnetic north as it switches inexplicably.

Put that in your – like when I host this show, that's going to be a lot of stuff like that. Really good. Are you familiar with the show Doomsday Preppers? Have you ever heard of them? It's like these people who show off their prepping for the end of all times. Okay. And they always present the scenario that they're preparing for why they think the world is going to end. It could be a pandemic.

It could be a third world war. That'd be a good one. Very common. Not very common. The one that people bring up is the pole switching. It'd be like a Y2K scenario. It's going to mess everything up, throw us into chaos. Phil, we have two questions left.

Where does the leaderboard stand? Hansi has seven points. Yes! Giannis and Seth have 10 and Randall has 11, but unfortunately, it is not enough to continue and we have to say goodbye

to those four players. To all of them. All of them. It's not looking good for me either. God, it's like a... It's like a morgue around here, man. Brody, Henderson... It's like late shift at the morgue Where it's just like the one guy there

And everybody's dead Be careful I'm going to take this table And throw it across this whole room This coffin shaped table At the morgue Katie said how can you be a bad winner This is the kind of thing that was happening When she threw that board

Steve found extra time for chit chat It was just the chastising she didn't like How can you be a bad winner? This is the kind of thing that was happening when she threw that board. Steve found extra time for chit-chat. It's just the chastising she didn't like. She just didn't like the chastising. Brody has 13 points, and Steve is in first place with 15, so Steve would have to really trip up, and Brody would have to bring it. But that could happen. Question 19.

The topic is cooking. This female name refers to when a steak is served with a pan sauce that's often made of mustard, cognac, cream, and mushrooms. What? This female name refers to when a steak is served with a pan sauce that's often made of mustard, cognac, cream, and mushrooms. Randall and Brody are confident things would get very interesting if Brody could get this right and Steve could get

this wrong. Now I think I dated a girl whose mom's name was... I had this for dinner three months ago. There's a hint. And Brody is so confident. I didn't even finish the question, and he had come up with an answer.

This female name refers to when a steak is served with a pan sauce that's often made of mustard, cognac, cream, and mushrooms. How long are we going to give him? Well, Steve, are you doing this for the drama, or are you actually? No, I honestly don't know the answer. Okay. It's a little bit messing me up. That would be incredible.

This is just what I was talking about when I was talking about faltering in the end. It would be incredible. That I don't know it. I would be very satisfied. How much would you pay for this board? You'd be very satisfied? It would make it more interesting for our audience. Look at the question.

Yes. This female name refers to when a steak is served with a pan sauce that's often made of mustard, cognac, cream, and mushrooms. And I'll tell you this. If we go to a tiebreaker, we are going to do three tiebreakers. It will be the best of those three to declare a winner. That's cool. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. We are very thorough.

Let's ask for an answer. We're declaring a 2023 champion. Steve, I think we are waiting on you. It is silent. I know what it is, dude. It's just, it's like, I know what it is. It's not even last shift at the morgue anymore. The morgue is closed is what's just happened here.

It is silent. You're the only person working at the morgue. Spencer, how long is closed is what's just happened here. It is silent. You're the only person working at the morgue. Spencer, how long are you going to let this go on? I don't know. Lost consciousness. Steve, are you going to come up with an answer? The problem is I know it. Can I just get the point? I just can't.

I just can't think of it right now. Are you going to come up with an answer? I have one written down. Okay, go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth saying Heather. Giannis saying Diane. Randall saying Diane. Hansi, what's that say?

A-poov. Steve. Steve saying... Salisbury. You don't know her, do you? My old girlfriend. Brody saying Diane. He got girlfriend. Brody's saying Diane. He got it. The correct answer is Diane.

Dude, listen. When I said I knew it, I have never heard that. You've never heard of Steak Diane? No, never. Some say the recipe is named after the Roman goddess Diana and was first served with venison. Others believe it was created for English actress Lady Diana Cooper and was made with beef. If you want to learn how to make it with waterfowl, then check out our recipe on TheMeatEater.com called Snow Goose Steak Diane.

We are on to question 20. With Brody losing to Steve by one point, we would need Brody to get this right. Steve to get this wrong to go to our three question tiebreaker. Good question. The topic is conservation. Oh, what is the name of America's largest aquifer, which stretches from South Dakota to Texas? It seems as though Steve has it right.

It's over. 1000%. There's no chance you got this wrong. I didn't get it wrong. Here's the question again. What is the name of America's largest aquifer which stretches from South Dakota to Texas? Brody also looks confident. Brody, do you have this one right?

I'm pretty sure I do. Okay. I mean. God, stressful there. I think there's only one real answer. You see me had to lay down. A lot of times I rest my head on my mic. That was like we were at the morgue, but one of the bodies that we saw was dead.

It was actually still, yeah. At least we made it a good one. I would really like to go to this time. God, that was stressful. I'd really like to go. Oh, hold Hold on Yanni We're not ready yet Is everybody ready?

Randall do you have an answer? Go ahead and reveal your answers We have Seth saying Mississippi watershed Giannis saying great Randall saying Ogallala Hansi saying Ogallala Steve saying Ogallala Brody saying Ogallala

Don't you dare try to question what I have written down. It's just poor. Don't you dare try to put any shred of doubt into my victory. Someone of your knowledge and writing experience, come on. Ogallala? The correct answer. What'd you write, Oaxacan? The correct answer is the Ogallala Aquifer or the High Plains Aquifer.

At 174,000 square miles, the Ogallala Aquifer is one of the biggest aquifers in the world. Good game, Brody. It covers portions of South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas. Dude, I was sweating it, man. We just had Steve shake Brody's hand, which Brody offered up first. I feel like we should have confetti falling upon Steve right now. Dude, I started out. Let's recap. His relief is like

palpable. Let's recap. I started out where I wasn't doing that good. Brody started out real strong, you know. Then I slowly, slowly caught up. And then I started to just dominate. And then I faltered. But then I recovered. You didn't stick to your game plan.

No. That wins a win. Made it interesting. The 2023 Meat Eater Trivia Champion, Steve. Well done. We've had less Steve this year. It's harder to get this guy on a schedule to come play. But he wins when he does show up, and now he's the

2023 champion. Put that on my grave. He wins when he shows up. He wins when he shows up, and he's a sore winner. That's a full headstone. I don't think we can fit anything else on there. Steve, we will get your name on this plaque as the champion,

and you get to choose where the $2,000 donation from Meat Eater goes. What's it gonna be? Tough choice. Biggest donation in Meat Eater trivia history. We'll give you time. Make it fun.

We just blew a lot of money. Not blew. We just blew a lot of money Not blew We just raised a lot With our land access initiative We just raised a good pot of money For a land acquisition project On the lower Yellowstone And that dwindled the stock That dwindled the pool

So I And I know we have some other Projects That Cal's eyeballing. Sure. So what I would like to do is I would like to put my winnings into the land access initiative. It's probably the first $2,000 in there now of whatever's going to be our next project, right? So, yep.

So in the past we've contributed on a project in Maine. We contributed on a project in Northwest Montana. We contributed on a project in Eastern Montana. And I would like to kick the money in there for that reason. We don't know what project four. Just keep the fires burning. We don't know what project four will be quite yet. But the LAI is still going.

No end in sight, right? Some dude just dropped off a healthy donation today without even buying an auction item. Okay. Yeah. Good on him. 5,000 bucks. Whoa. Drove it over.

Yeah, they were coming out to Elkhart. Did he hand you cash or what? No, check. Okay. That's great. But yeah, he felt really good about it. His company donates every quarter, and he felt like this was great because it was just very tangible. Sure.

You could really see the results of his money. Phil, could you humor me and tell me a full leaderboard update at the end of the game to see where second, third, fourth place lies? Just how bad Steve works. Please. I mean, bumpall got 13 points, only three behind Steve at 16. Got seven wrong. So would I have won that game? No. It's one way to look at it.

Randall got nine points that game. Let's not call it that game. Randall, what? I think that it was made quite clear that it was not that game. Let's not call it that game. I think that it was made quite clear that it was not that game. That's one way to look at it. That's one way to look at it. There was the game.

Nine out of the last ten questions. No, you lost that game. By a lot. The game that Cal wasn't here for. My mistake is Cal left early in the game, which you then lost. So he left halfway through the game.

You know the game. The one you lost. Randall, we won the second half, team. How exciting would it have been if you got a perfect game and still lost the championship? Listen, if a football team... Let's say a football team. I'll put a team in sports. Let's say there's a football team.

And at halftime, the football team is losing 100-0. Yeah. And then the second half, they win a touchdown. Would they say, oh yeah, but we won that game. No. They lost a hundred to seven. They would not go, we won that game.

The coach would sit down with these broken, inconsolable youth and he'd say, guys, it was a rough one. But we won the second half and if we get him again I think we can win both they might say if the ref came at the beginning game and said hey instead of playing a whatever four-quarter game we're gonna play an eight-quarter games could be twice as long as it normally is mm-hmm they might

be like well the second half was actually a real game, we would have won that one. Next year we'll go to 30 questions. We'll put you in golf terms. I just thought it was a neat observation, Phil. I appreciate you pointing it out. Yeah, of course. Giannis had 11 points. I'm heartened by my relative success.

Seth had 10. Hansi had 8. How long was it going to take you to get that little name tag deal worked up? Did I lose by one or two, Phil? You lost by one point, Brody. I don't have an answer to that. I think about that all year long. Do you get to hang it in your office area? No, we'll hang it right in here somewhere.

We'll find the appropriate wall space. Where would you like it, Steve? Would you like it to remind people every time they watch the show, right over Steve's right shoulder? Right above the Folsom. You can put it on the door. Right above the Folsom points. Right on the back of the door.

We'll hang it above a urinal. Then people can always be reminded. Because my here fell custer is above the urinal. That's right. I'd like to hang it right above my head there. Your what, custer? You don't notice when you're taking a leak down the hall, that here fell custer?

The giant painting on the wall? I just didn't understand what you said. You said here fell. I have. Yeah, you caught one. You said here fell. I have. Caught one right in the sternum. This has now turned into something else. The 2023 champion, Steve, well done.

Join us next time. Yanni started some clapping, but I don't think we ever got to hear it. Yeah, sure. I'm clapping for everybody and me. I think we should also clap for Spencer for hosting another eight years.

Well done, Spencer. Thank you. We know to his credit, if someone had put down earlier, I'm talking about the earlier episode, just to revisit, probably one of your biggest mistakes. First half. But if

here's why i'm gonna give you credit sure because i think you would have given the player credit if what i think that if the answer was el capitan and someone had written down the captain i like to think you'd have given it to him so if that's the case i would extend that courtesy to you no he was saying states like is just not good. It'll be fixed. Listen, 2024, you'll never hear that phrasing again.

Well, hosts like Spencer are so good at what they do. Thank you, Hansi. It's excusable sometimes. Join us next time for more meat eater trivia, the only game show

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