The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 519: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia XCVIII

Episode Date: February 7, 2024

Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Corinne Schneider, Sam Bates, Garrett Long, and special guest, Rich Froning. Connect with MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Trivia MerchSee 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 Steve, Yanni, Brody, Samantha, Randall, Garrett, Corinne, and our special guest, Rich Froning. Rich is the fittest man on earth. That's a real title. Rich, tell folks what it means to be the fittest man on earth. It just means you're really

good at working out um and that was a long time ago okay uh yeah i competed for shoot 14 years last year was the first year i didn't compete so um yeah tell folks what you got to win though to be the fittest man on earth uh basically there's a hell it's changed over the last couple years but four or five day competition where basically they just give you a bunch of workouts and you don't know what you're showing up for. So I did that for five years and then I competed on a team for seven years. I won four times as an individual and six times on a team. But you said you're part of the old guard. I'm old, man.

In CrossFit years, you're like, what, 35? Yeah, they're like dog years. Okay. Yeah, I don't know. And then we actually have our own unit of measurement in Tennessee with CrossFit Mayhem years. And they're actually even harder than actual CrossFit years. So yeah, I'm probably about 64. Okay.

When it takes like joints and joint space and all that type of stuff, that's where I'm at. Sure. And you're a hunter. Does being the fittest man on earth help you with hunting? Oh, absolutely. You know, the mental side of it, the physical side of it. Yeah, it's been the ultimate competition. That's kind of the draw for me in the last couple of years.

But you were saying before the show that some of your competitors really struggle on a mountain. I would say some of the newer, younger athletes. No, you said it's struggling. Oak brush. Oak brush. Oak brush and blow down is some of the worst mental grind stuff ever. We've run into a lot of that the last couple years. And how would your competitors do in meat eater trivia, you think? Probably better than me. We'll see.

I have read Long Hunters and I have read American Buffalo. And he has a board game, so he's been studying, he said. Trying to get my kids, trying to get the kids to where they, you know, know what's going on. Now 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 Eaters will donate $500 to the conservation organization of the winner's choosing. And for the stat of the week this week, we're looking at the average score for all players in the first 45 games versus the last 45 games.

This will tell us if rounds of media or trivia have gotten harder or easier over time. Or if everybody got older. Maybe. Or smarter. Or smarter. We had better players. Or the older, like more forgetful. Okay.

What's your prediction? Do you think trivia has gotten harder or easier since we've started? I bet it's not statistically significant. Okay. Any other guesses? Harder or easier? Yanni, you've been playing since the beginning. Brody, you've been playing since the beginning.

Harder or easier now? I would have also tried to say statistically significant. Well, I didn't say that. I said statistically insignificant or not significant. All right. The average score for players in the first 45 games is 4.48. The average score for players in the last 45 games is 4.95. That means over time our player scores have improved by half a point.

Would you call that significant or not? Yeah, insignificant. Insignificant. Okay. All right. Now you call that significant or not? Yeah. Insignificant. Insignificant. Okay. All right. Now, Steve, you may not be familiar, but we have a new segment here on trivia at the beginning. It's IFAQs.

This is our infrequently asked questions segment. If you have a trivia related question for our crew, send it to trivia at the media.com with the subject line IFAQ. This first one is from Rowdy Doolard. This is for Steve. That's a great name, man. He says, Steve seems like- Rowdy Doolard? Rowdy, maybe that's just how he signs his emails.

Yeah, Rowdy Doolard. This is for Steve. It's like his drinking name. What's your drinking name? They're like, oh no, here comes Rowdy Doolard. What's your drinking name? I don't know. I never had one.

I quit drinking too, so. But what was your what's your drinking name i don't know i never had when i quit drinking too so uh-huh but what was your rock rock band steve arino maybe that no you remember when uh no i don't know okay no maybe you'll think i just always have been yeah i just always been my name steve's nicknames he doesn doesn't really receive them. Okay. Well, no, I have an alias. Silent Killer. An alias isn't a nickname, though. No, you're right. And I came up with it. Are you going to share it or wouldn't it be an alias anymore? No, I'm not going to share it, dude. It's like, if you're

sitting on a plane and you go to airdrop, you're not going to find my ass airdropping. Do you know what I mean? There's some big movie that came out right now where the, what is it, Phil? Maybe you know this. The writer, the producer is an alias.

Nobody knows who it is. No, no idea. I know that the Coen brothers will often, they'll edit their own movies and then they'll make up a fake name as the editor. Steven Soderbergh does the same thing and stuff like that.

Here's our question for Steve. My buddy Ben Wallace, he wrote Billionaire's Vinegar and he's been on the show before because he wrote about he wrote about the fend cash uh he's doing a book he's well into it now and he didn't he didn't want released they only just now announced the book but he's been working on it a long time and he didn't want anyone to know he was working on it because he didn't want to screw up what he was trying to find. But he's doing a book about who invented crypto. No one knows who the individual is.

Does Ben know? He's got ideas. But it's more like what he does is I haven't talked to him about it in a long time. At the time I spoke with him about it the last time i met with him he was spending a lot of time on explaining who it's not of the many people who've come forward to say okay it's a japanese name which certainly it's an alias it's like yeah just look it up yakima like do we even know what crypto is? No. I told him. In this book up top, you should probably explain. What is it?

Alright, Steve, this question is for you. What? From Rowdy. Steve seems like he couldn't have cared less about organized sports growing up. Why then is he so competitive at trivia? Why does he fight tooth and nail when he thinks an answer is correct?

What the hell does one have to do with the other? I don't know. Maybe it's a lack of competitive sports in your life make you so competitive here. I learned on the live tour, Steve is so competitive. I'm not interested in organized I'm not interested in organized team sports, particularly

watching other people play a game. Okay. Do you know what I mean? Like, I just rather play the game. Do you know what I mean? I'd just rather play the game. Do you think you're a competitive person? I told my daughter the other day, I forbade her from cheerleading. I support that. You're going to watch boys play a game and yell about it? No.

Do you think you're a competitive person? Yeah. Steve is so competitive. I don't see what the overlap is we're watching me my older boy right now are watching masters of the air masters of the sky master of the air there's a pilot in there they're always teasing because he doesn't like organized sports but he's a highly competitive b17 pilot well steve is competitive everything in the live tour he would get competitive about who made the best order at dinner.

Oh, yeah. I get stressed about that. I want to place the order that winds up having thought through everything and why everybody ordered the wrong thing, and I got the right thing, and they're all like, dude, you got the right thing. The other night, we all shared plates. That must have been stressful. Yeah, and Yanni picked it

so I didn't want to tease it. I don't want to hurt his feelings. Do you watch Lumberjack games? I feel like that'd be something you'd get into. No, because I like to kind of watch. No, I don't watch stuff. I mean, I watch a lot of stuff, but I wouldn't watch that.

But it's like a competition where folks are actually doing something you would deem as useful. Yeah, but I wouldn't even watch a squirrel hunting contest, probably. Probably. I barely snuck in. Rich, just being a CrossFit world champion, is it safe to assume that you're a competitive person? You could say that. Okay. Can you analyze why Steve doesn't care for competitive sports, but he's a competitive person?

I mean, hunting's the ultimate competition, right? You know, when you think about it, it's you versus the animal. That's the draw to me. I'm not kissing ass. I'm just like, literally, that's what I always equate it to. Ultimate competition. Yeah. How did, so you think that, just in your little mind there, you think that competition in

humans didn't emerge until organized sports? No, rowdy does though. And I just wanted to have something. Because you're looking at like a 75,000 year gap of no competitive spirit in humans, yet somehow the species survived. Honestly, Steve, I wanted to tell a story about you getting competitive over dinner orders, so I picked this question. And here we are now.

15 minutes later. Now, we have some housekeeping to get to. In a previous game of trivia where Steve hosted, he had a question about states with manatee sightings. About a dozen listeners wrote in saying Steve's phrasing was wrong. Here's an email from Logan Patterson with context. While the text of the question in the video correctly uses incident. That's because I changed it.

Oh, okay. So I would have been more wrong? We can address that after. Can we hear the question? While the text of the question in the video correctly uses incidents, Steve does not. An incident with a T refers to an event or occurrence, while incidents with a C refers to the frequency or rate of an occurrence. Rarely does someone use incidents in its plural form correctly or purposefully. So if one is ever unsure of which to use, the answer is almost always incidents with

a T. God, I gotta look this up. While Steve's first incident of misuse did not initially spur me to write in, as he continues to repeat the question, his incidents of misuse caused me to compose this email. And as we just learned, Phil correctly did it in the question. So you fixed me up, Phil, but only partially. Yeah, I did. You've been doing a great job, Phil. Hey, did you see that

dude that just tattooed that logo on himself? We did. It's great. Now there's two of us dummies in the world who have the Game On Suckers logo. Can you forward me that feedback? What you just read? Yeah, I need to make sure I'm understanding. Well, no, I'm not going to fact check it. I just need to

understand. I want to correct it, and I need to understand better what he's saying. Did you read the reply when we asked how it saved the fellow's life? Tattooed that onto his body? I did a minute ago. I read the whole, I didn't know, I read the whole thing a minute ago. That's pretty cool. But you were just going to gloss over that part

of it. I didn't want to get into the guy's personal information. I just was observing. I don't know. Do you feel like it's worth talking about, Corinne? Don't you feel like you should? I feel like that's a little too personal. It would be kind of personal. I mean, I really appreciated it, but I didn't want to, you know,

I mean, the guy, I feel like he's kind of writing a personal email. I see. Right? Yeah. That's your cue. Okay. The Shelby Index.

I recently shared about having a sonogram done on my scrotum. That's personal. Yeah. But that was your choice to reveal that. I shared it on the air. Been there. The Shelby Index for today's round is a three, so our winner should get six correct answers.

And with that, we're on to the game of trivia. Play the drop, Phil. Look, I need to know what I stand to win. Everything. How's that? You stand to win everything. Game on, suckers! Question one.

The topic is hunting and this is multiple choice. Which of these states harvested the most elk between 2018 and 2020? Is it Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, or Oregon? The topic is hunting which of these states harvested the most elk between 2018 and 2020. Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Oregon.

Our players were quick to answer. They seem confident. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Rich saying Colorado. Sam saying Wyoming. Corinne saying Wyoming. The rest of the room says Colorado. They got it. The correct answer is Colorado. Colorado leads the nation in elk harvest, averaging nearly 40,000 filled tags per year between 2018 and 2020. That's followed by Idaho with 30,000, Montana with 27,000, Wyoming with 25,000, Oregon with 16,000, and Utah with 15,000.

Can you hit me with the top two again? Colorado. Colorado, 40,000, followed by Idaho with 30,000, Montana with 27,000. I would have thought the spread would be even wider. Colorado's got twice as many elk. Quarter million, yeah, like twice as many elk. Don't they harvest the most mule deer as well in Colorado? Biggins.

Question two, the topic is cooking. I don't think most. I think they harvest more. Most Boone and Crockett, I know that one, but I would assume there's a correlation there. They're not there anymore. I bet you this state, I bet you this state, I'd be curious to know, I bet you this state does more.

Pure numbers. You can shoot does on general tags. Pure numbers, yeah. Address that in a future house. And in all the do-tag allocations, which Colorado doesn't do, right? Right. Question two, the topic is cooking.

According to Eater eater the key difference between these deli meats is that one comes from brisket and is boiled while the other comes from a shoulder and is smoked so you'll have two answers here according to eater the key difference between these deli meats is that one comes from brisket and is boiled while the other comes from a shoulder and is smoked two answers i'm sorry i thought do it again according to eater okay the key difference between these deli meats is that one comes from brisket and is boiled while the other comes from a shoulder and is smoked. Yanni, do you have this one right? Good guess.

Got a good guess. Corrine is shrugging her shoulders. You don't think you have this one, Corrine? Man, I don't want to chit-chat about it, but I got a couple. All right. You're going to have to argue with E eater if you don't like how they defined these Was that was that what happened to that jump trap? There was an incident

I was gathering up the whiteboards and bumped into it and now it lays on the ground below and Steve There's there's a no shortage of 100 things on the wall in here and Steve noticed one of them Oh, there's one that I noticed. Phil lost my favorite quote of all time. Let's keep bringing that up. You can't find it online. I've been trying very hard to find it. You won't find it online. ChatGPT can't find it.

Steve just dreamt this quote up. Which one? In the New Yorker, I was reading a review of an of like it was like a it was like a write-up of a bunch of irish novelists and of one of these obscure irish novelists the author said of seeing his children born he blank and he had said how they emerge streamlined by time like ancient pharaohs. And then in an instant, they become young. But it was a lot better than that.

And Phil lost it. Does everybody have an answer? I had it framed. Everybody ready? I think he started a fire with it. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Rich saying corned beef and roast beef. Sam saying pastrami and roast beef.

Corinne saying corned beef, pastrami. Randall saying pastrami, corned beef. Steve saying pastrami, corned beef. Garrett saying pastrami, roast beef. Yanni saying corned beef, pastrami. Brody saying pastrami, corned beef. Yanni saying corned beef. Pastrami. Brody saying pastrami, corned beef. The two answers are pastrami and corned meat.

Corned beef is good enough. You know, I think according to who's the guy that did Charcuterie? He's been on the podcast before. Ruhlman. Michael Ruhlman. He points out that it's like doesn't have to do with when you put all that coriander on the outside.

Like he points that out as a defining difference. The spice is on pastrami. The rower. Eater says that pastrami and corn meat use a similar brine, but really start to differ after that. Pastrami often uses shoulder meat, has a heavy spice coating, and is smoked, while corn meat often uses brisket, has no applied spice coating, and is smoked, while corn meat often uses brisket, has no applied spice mix, and is boiled.

If you want to learn how to make these, then go to TheMeatEater.com and check out our recipe for elk pastrami or corned goose breast. Really quick, Rich, did you get that one? Over here, sorry. We're not taking roast beef. If you said roast beef, we're not accepting that. Pastrami and corned meat. Question three.

The topic is fishing. This next great question comes to us via Jack Grinblatt. Sometimes referred to as, quote, a double-handed fly rod, this piece of gear is named after a river in Scotland. Brody and Yanni and Steve are confident. Randall, do you have this one right? I do. Guys who use these things don't use bobbers.

Sometimes referred to as a double-handed fly rod, this piece of gear is named after a river in Scotland. I've never heard that double-handed flyer out of you. Throw that name. You've never heard of one? I don't dabble in these spaces. I know what he's talking about, but I've never heard someone say a double-handed flyer out of you. Two-handed, I've heard.

Is everybody ready? Garrett, are you going to get this one right? Yanni's board looks rough, dude. That's when competitive people I don't know You know, slam them on the table That kind of thing happens And they have little tantrums

Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers We have Rich saying Braveheart Sam saying Argyle Corinne saying Shinkaku Oh no, you're thinking of Tenkari. The rest of the room says Speyrod.

They got it. The correct answer is Speyrod. Speyrods are often 11 to 15 feet long, and casting them is very reliant on line weight and water resistance. Speyrods can cast great distances, making them a popular choice for salmon and steelhead anglers. To learn about this technique, go to TheMeteor.com and read Kubi Brown's article called How to Get Started Spaycasting. Has anyone used a spay rod in this room?

What were you doing with that, bro? How to get started being pretentious. What were you doing with that spay rod? Fishing steelhead. Okay, being all pretentious, fishing steelhead. No, I'm not like, no. Okay. I'm not like No Okay I'm not in the spay crowd

I've done it but Those guys Those guys don't like Nymph fishermen Who use bobbers man You know what I want to get a new one up I tried someone's

Tenkara Is it a year Tenkara I had one but it was like A ten footer Eleven footer Yeah But for

Where I You know They're practical No I want a I want a seven Footer Is that such a thing Just get a ten footer 11 footer yeah but for where i you know they're practical no i want i want a seven footer is that so get a 10 footer and cut the bottom three feet off well it wasn't mine so i was borrowing i was borrowing it i'm like i see the idea but this isn't the one i'm sure they make shorty yeah i'm on shorty question four the topic is public lands. What state is home to Cherokee National Forest, Trail of Tears National Historic Trail,

and David Crockett Birthplace State Park? What state is home to Cherokee National Forest, Trail of Tears National Historic Trail, and David Crockett Birthplace State Park? David, not Davey? They call it David Crockett Birthplace State Park. David, not Davey? They call it David Crockett Birthplace State Park. Different guy. I'm respecting what this state refers to it as.

That name reminds me of Davey Crockett. Just a coincidence. We have a very confident Steve. Steve, you have this one right. Uh, yeah. Okay. Well, Steve, you have this one right. Yeah. Okay. Well, no, I honestly don't know.

I was going to put something down, and then I thought better and put something different down. Okay. Is everybody ready? So, no, I'm not there. Not like the other questions. This is question four. We're waiting on Corinne to finish her answer. Oh, Brody is rethinking.

Steve, speaking of things on the wall, is that one of our coyotes up there? Can you read the three things again? Cherokee National Forest, Trail of Tears National Historic Trail, David Crockett Birthplace State Park. No, those are all last year. Those are all tanned up. I haven't sent anything in yet. Rich is doing a quick change of answer over here,

and then we're going to flip over the boards. Do a quick internet search. That's going to be really embarrassing if I missed it. So I just need to go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Rich saying Tennessee. Sam saying Arkansas. Corinne saying Missouri. Randall saying Georgia.

Steve saying Tennessee. Garrett saying Tennessee. Yanni sang Oklahoma. Brody sang Oklahoma. Born on a mountaintop in Oklahoma. We have a correct answer in the room. It's Tennessee. Steve and Rich got that right.

I'm from there. And Garrett. And Garrett. Yeah, Garrett, how'd you get that one? Born on a mountain. That song. Tennessee is home to David Crockett Birthplace State Park in the northeast part of the state and David Crockett State Park in the southern part of the state.

David Crockett State Park was home to a powder mill, grain mill, and distillery that Crockett owned, but all three were washed away in a flood in 1821. The financial hardship of that event caused him to move to West Tennessee, which is where he was elected to Congress. Now, our guest, Rich, is from Tennessee. Rich, that was the bone I was throwing you. Thank you. I appreciate that. Have you spent much time in Cherokee National Forest or David Crockett State Park?

No, but Daniel Boone National Forest, just a little bit north of me. What did you change your answer from when you said you were going to be embarrassed? North Carolina, because it's right there in the close. National Forest is where I was going to start. And then the Davy Crockett birthplace, you know, it was tough. Now, North Carolina. I got a trivia question for you. What do you got? Why

wouldn't Crockett eat potatoes? I don't know. Because he once had to eat potatoes boiled in human fat. Ooh. Whoa. Cured him of it. How did that come up? Because we had a guy on the show

that was a baby crocodile. Why was he like served potatoes that were cooked in human fat? Oh, during one of the, I can't remember if it was during the Seminole Wars. What war was it? They burned a huge building

full of captives. Mm-hmm. And there was a root cellar below the building and all those cooking bodies, all that rendered fat dripped down through the burning structure. And later they were starving to death and returned to that site and had to go down there

and eat those taters. Mm-hmm. Huh? You think you could eat taters cooked in human fat? No. Okay. Not even if you were starving. Oh yeah. If I was starving. I'd eat you cooked in human fat no okay not even if you were starving oh yeah i was starving i'd eat you cooking human fat if i was starving uh now north carolina would be a logical answer because cherokee national forest bleeds into there and the trail of tears national

historic trail goes through there but only david crockett birthplace state park what war was in tennessee not the seminal wars I'm not sure. Question five. The topic is conservation. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Nick Sikoski for sending this great question. Nick is going to get a board game signed by the crew. If you want a chance to win our listener question of the week, then send your question to trivia at the meat eater.com.

What animal is featured in the U.S. Department of the Interior logo? The topic is conservation. Steve and Randall are so confident they already have their whiteboards down. What animal is featured in the U.S. Department of the Interior logo? Man, now I'm second guessing. What do you got there, Randall? Born on a mountain top. Steve declared he's in the power corner

next to Randall at the end of the table. The foot of the coffin. The foot of the coffin. I like to think of him. I'm going to tickle his boots. What animal is featured in the U.S. Department of the Interior logo? Brody looks stumped.

Over here. Steve, we had a different... I just had a question recently that's causing me angst. Okay. We had a different infrequently asked question from a listener who wanted to know who you most enjoy beating at trivia.

We assumed your answer would be Brody. Is that correct? It's getting old now. Just beating him is getting old? Okay. It used to bring me a thrill, but like everything, you know, it wears off.

Does beating Randall give you more satisfaction now? More than... I feel like I've been beating Brody longer. Okay. Is that right? Does everyone have an answer for the animal?

No, the main thing that brings me a thrill if he really wants to know, is when you screw something up and I catch it. Yeah, that brings me a thrill. Steve really lights up. Hey, Steve, how many incidents of Spencer screwing up do you think you've caught? Two or three.

A little twinkle in his eye. Is everybody ready? Hold on. Waiting on Brody. The animal featured in the U.S. Department of the Interior logo. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Rich saying bison. Sam saying eagle.

Corinne, bring it aboard, saying eagle. Randall saying bison. Steve saying buffalo. Garrett saying bear. Yanni saying Canada goose. Brody saying bald eagle. The correct answer is bison. Rich Steve Randall.

Get that one right. The bison seal was created in 1917, which replaced the eagle seal. The eagle logo was temporarily reinstated in the 1920s and 1960s, but only for a couple of years. The current bison logo, which shows a bull standing in front of snow-capped mountains, is nearly identical to the one that was created over 100 years ago.

It's on the TV there next to Phil. Oh, was that the whole time? No. No wonder Richard. The side of the room did phenomenally well. Phil, we're halfway through the game of trivia. Give us a scoreboard update. Yeah, sure thing.

We've got Sam with zero points. Corinne has one. We've got Brody, Garrett, Giannis, and Rich all with three points apiece. Randall has four. And, hey, with a perfect game, five points. In first place is Steven Rinella. Everyone's happy for him. Tall has four. And hey, with a perfect game, five points. In first place is Stephen Rinella. Everyone's happy for him. Tremendous.

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onxmaps.com slash meet. Welcome to the OnX Club, y'all. Question six. The topic is gear. Oh, can I interrupt real quick? What do you got? Phil, are you aware that there was a bunch of wood paneling left over from the... No.

From what? You should talk to Chili about that. Like to put up and on the walls in this room? I guess there's a whole bunch of wood paneling somewhere over from the... No. From what? You should talk to Chili about that. Like to put up and on the walls in this room? I guess there's a whole bunch of wood paneling somewhere. That'd be fun. Yeah, I'll ask him. Go on. Question six.

Proceed. Definitely worth bringing that up in the middle of an episode. Steve said he's getting so forgetful that he forgets what he forgot earlier. So he just had to get that off his chest right now. Question six. the topic is gear what sporting goods store made national headlines after it destroyed five million dollars worth of semi-auto rifles in 2018 what sporting goods store made national headlines after after it destroyed five million dollars worth of semi-auto rifles in 2018.

Confident Brody, Steve. Well, not really. I didn't, like, the verb there caught me by surprise. Yeah, destroyed. Yeah. Destroyed. Really? I just thought they removed them.

They didn't do, like, steep discounts? Two for ones? I don't know. Garrett, do you have this? Two for ones? I don't know. Garrett, do you have this one right? No, I don't. Randall, do you have this one right? Fairly certain. Is everybody ready?

Go ahead. Oh, I'm sorry. Yanni hasn't even come up with an answer yet. Oh, you cheater. Go ahead and speak up, Yanni. He wrote something dumb. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Rich saying Dix.

Sam saying Bob Wards. Corinne saying Bob Wards. Randall saying Dix. Steve saying Dix. Garrett saying Dix. Yanni saying Cabelas. Brody saying Dix. The correct answer is Dix Sporting Goods or Field and Stream.

Dix stopped selling semi-auto rifles in their stores in 2012 and stopped selling them at their Field & Stream stores in 2018. The company's CEO said they had the option of selling the guns back to manufacturers for an 80% refund but decided to destroy them instead. A 2019 book on the subject said that the guns were sawed into pieces and turned into scrap metal. I bet you that guy's never heard that detail. Never heard that detail. I know they got out of the biz,

but I know they really went and chopped them up. Aggressively got out, turned them into scrap metal. Made a point on it. Question seven, the topic is biology. Good thing they didn't sell them to the hooties. This next great question comes to us via Josh Ringsmooth. Encyclopedia Britannica defines this nine-letter word as, quote, a relationship between two organisms of two different species in which each benefits.

The topic is biology. Encyclopedia Britannica defines this nine-letter word as a relationship between organisms of two different species in which each benefits. Players are quick to come up with answers. Garrett has drawn out his hangman check marks to make sure he hits nine letters. And I got 11 letters. Okay. That's too many. Maybe you misspelled it.

I'd erase two of them. I'd just take out the first two. Random ones. I, like, really have no idea. Are there any you can combine? He's going to try to nickel and dime that word down. Everybody wrote it so fast. He's just spelling it wrong with two extra letters.

Nine-letter word. A relationship between two organisms of different species in which each benefits. Is everybody ready? I have too many letters. I want to make a point. This is embarrassing here soon. Everybody just looks at their weight. Hold on a minute.

So, Kate. You're over. I got it, but no, I just want to. Hit me again with a minute. You're over. I got it, but no, I just want to... Hit me again with a question. Encyclopedia Britannica defines this nine-letter word as, quote, a relationship between organisms of two different species in which each benefits. Sam, are we ready? It's nine letters.

You know what I'm thinking. Okay. That's not right. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Rich saying symbiotic. Sam saying neutralistic. I was thinking symbiosis, too, which would still be nine, right? Randall saying symbiotic.

Steve saying symbiotic. Garrett saying cohabitate. Yanni saying symbiotic. What do you got, Brody? Brody doesn't get it. What's his answer? Symbiosis. Symbiosis.

How is that not right? Because that's like a, that's like a, it's just different. Nine. It's just different. The correct. Mutualism is also nine. The correct answer. So what's your answer, Brody?

Symbiosis. The correct answer is mutualism. Sam Bates got it right. Oh my God. I did. You're not accepting symbiotic? The key difference between a mutualistic relationship and symbiotic relationship

is that mutualistic relationships are always beneficial for both parties, while symbiotic relationships can be beneficial for one party or unfavorable for the other. No, that's not true. That is true. A parasite can be a

symbiotic relationship. That be a symbiotic relationship. No, that's a parasitic relationship. That's a symbiotic relationship, though. It's parasitic. A parasitic relationship is a symbiotic relationship. I think you should look it up. I looked this up in studying for this question. I'm telling you guys it's wrong.

I just saw. Symbiotic can be positive, negative. Mutualistic is positive, positive. So which of Brody's answers? The circle one or the not circle one? No, I circled symbiosis because I just read recently that symbiosis is a form of mutualism. Yeah, you're wrong, dude. I wrote down mutualistic, but there are too many letters.

I was writing about something else. Mutualism. Mutualistic. So is Sam the only one that got it right? They wouldn't have the word parasitic relationship if it was covered by symbiotic relationship. Okay, hold on. A parasitic relationship is a type of symbiotic relationship. It's where one benefits and the other one does not.

There's another difference about how close they have to be to each other. Like a pollinator is not a symbiotic relationship. Excuse me. What is it? That's a direct mutual, indirect mutualistic relationship. I looked this up, both parties benefiting,

that's only mutualism. The internet will tell us too, so. Now some famous examples of mutualism are the oxpecker birds that eat ticks off the backs of zebras, bees that eat a flower's nectar, while also spreading their pollen, and sea anemones who provide shelter for clownfish,

and in return the clownfish will clean the anemones' tentacles. So mutualistic. Sam Bates got that one right. Question eight. The topic is cooking. I got a real problem with that. Bon appetit refers to this dish as cooked eggs swaddled in sausage meat, then breaded and fried. Bon appetit refers to this dish as cooked eggs swaddled in sausage meat, then breaded and fried.

Mutualistic relationships, again, are an example of symbiotic relationships, just like parasitic relationships are an example of symbiotic relationships. So how can symbiosis not be an example of a mutual relationship? Because I said that both parties benefit. Some of us are trying to think of cooked eggs swaddled in sausage meat, then breaded and fried. Cut it for a minute. Okay, okay. Again, we're on question eight. The topic is cooking.

Bon appetit refers to this dish as cooked eggs swaddled in sausage meat. Oh, these sons of bitches are good, too. I make them now and then. I haven't made one in a long time, though. What are they called? Brody, do you have this one right? Randall, do you have this one right? I've been known to down a few of these every now and then. Yanni, do you have this one right? Yes. been known to down a few of these every now and then.

Yanni, do you have this one right? Yes. I've never made them, though. I need to do that one day. You probably have, dude, with me. No, I know what you're... What are they called? I'll tell you what state it happened in.

No, that might be, but I personally haven't made them at home. I want some fan art of Randall just downing a glass of these like Rocky. Please, no one create that image. Is everybody ready? Next T-shirt. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Rich saying Notre Dame. Sam saying Toad in the Hole, but not that.

Corinne saying Scotch Egg. Randall saying Scotch Egg. Steve saying Scotch Egg. Garrett saying Dutch egg. Yanni says scotch egg. There's a breakfast called a Dutch baby. Yanni and Brody said scotch egg. They got it.

The correct answer is scotch eggs. Scotch eggs were invented in the early 1700s. They were conceived as a convenient traveling snack for london's wealthy class if you want to learn how to make them then go to themeateater.com and check out our video called wild boar scotch eggs it's in the we put it in the book april bloomfield from uh hunting guide book right yeah from a spotted pig was a spotted pig what was her restaurant in New York? That I can't remember. She contributed to the book. She could also learn how to make scotch eggs in which book?

Big Game Hunt Guide book, I think. No, I think it was in, I think we put it in the wild game book. Phil, we have two questions left. Give us a scoreboard update. Sam, Corinne, Rich, Giannis, and Garrett are no longer in the running for the victory. We've got Brody with five points. Randall has six. Steven Rinella has seven.

Question nine. The topic is wildlife. This next great question comes to us via Dan Patterson. What 1988 comedy starring John Candy and Dan Aykroyd ends with an Alaskan brown bear breaking into a Wisconsin cabin? Oh, God. Come on, dude. What 1988 comedy starring John Candy and Dan Aykroyd ends with an Alaskan brown bear breaking into a Wisconsin cabin?

Garrett, do you have this one? I would like you to feed us more of these type of questions. Wait, is this like a movie or a TV show? It's a movie. It is a movie. This is not the right answer then. I feel like you've asked questions based off this before. Not

this, but other details. You know, like when we're hiring around here, I think this should be a question that we ask to decide if they should work here or not. If they can come work or not. I guess I'd be like, is mutualism, I'd ask them that. I'd ask them that question. None of you would be working here.

Is everybody ready? We have a confident room. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Rich saying wild outdoors. Sam saying cocaine bear. Corinne without an answer. Randall saying flames, trains, and automobiles. That's not what that's about.

What's the steak they gotta eat in the great outdoors? The old 96? I'd like to point out I didn't like this answer. Steve saying great outdoors. Garrett saying great outdoors. Yanni saying great outdoors. Steve's saying Great Outdoors. Garrett's saying Great Outdoors. Yanni's saying Great Outdoors.

Brody's saying Great Outdoors. They got it. The correct answer is The Great Outdoors. Yeah, like, it's a little, the plot's a little,

uh, John Candy takes his family up. Dan Aykroyd's kind of a blowhard. Rich? No, he's not. He pretends to be rich,

but he's low on jingle. Okay. And, like, comes up there and... He's over leveraged. The bear is the bald-headed killer bear from Clare County. That he shot with a shotgun and then they make him the bald-ass bear. Yeah, at the end he shoots him with a lamp shotgun. One of the funniest parts is that dude gets struck by lightning all the time.

66 times in the head. Besides Candy and Ayk akroyd the movie stars bart the bear who played the grizzly that destroys the family's cabin bart was known as the john wayne of bears appearing in films with movie stars such as robert redford morgan freeman ethan hawke stephen seagal brad pitt and anthony hop. Bart died in 2000 at the age of 23. Did he do Grizzly Adams? I don't know. He was in everything.

He was the bear from Hollywood. The John Wayne of bears. Phil, we have one question left. Who remains in the game? He probably didn't get a penny of that money. Sad. You know what I mean? Hate to see it.

Steve has eight points and is two points ahead of Brody and Randall, but... Oh, wait, no. they can't come back. Steve wins. Steve wins. Already? He already wins. We will do question 10 anyway. Question 10.

Nothing sucks the air out of the room like an early win, man. Question 10. The topic is conservation. According to a 2023 Wall Street Journal article, this new type of mining used 591 billion gallons of water last year. Let's see if maybe Steve can win by three instead of just two. Run up the score a little. Maybe he'll just win by one. According to a 2023 Wall Street Journal article, this new type of mining used 591 billion gallons of water last year.

Brody, you have this one right. Does it really matter? Just trying to fill the airwaves with something besides that ticking clock, Brody. Fill it with explaining symbiosis and mutualism a little more. Would you like that? Boy, you know what? I think it wouldn't have done anything for you, man, because I had it too. It could have changed, but it could have left.

But I had it too. If we gave you that point, well, maybe you'd get a perfect game here, Steve. Maybe you could argue your way. Well, that's what I'm going to change, because it's like a legacy. It's a legacy thing at this point. Okay. Is everybody ready? And aren't you short?

By doing that, aren't you short-changing the conservation group? We are. We are. Is that what this is about? Everybody ready? The only game show where conservation gets short-changed? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Because of bad hosting?

We have Rich saying fracking. Sam saying crypto, bitcoin, whatever it's called. Corinne saying fracking. Randall saying hydraulic fracture. Steve saying hydraulic fracking. Garrett saying hydro mining stuff. Yanni saying fracking. Randall saying hydraulic fracture. Steve saying hydraulic fracking. Garrett saying hydro mining stuff. Yanni saying fracking.

Brody saying fracking. The correct answer is Bitcoin or cryptocurrency. Steve doesn't get his imperfect game either, but we had Rich and Sam get that one. Oh, that was good. I was like, why are you calling fracking new? Bitcoin miners use water directly to compute their computer servers and indirectly by drawing power from gas and coal-fired power plants. Environmental groups have been especially concerned that the U.S. Bitcoin capital is in Texas, a state already faced with water shortages.

It's estimated that Bitcoin mining in America uses enough water for 300,000 households each year. That was a good one. That redeemed you off that other one that I didn't like. That was a good question. That really threw me for a loop. And I thought to myself, fracking

has been around a long time. A couple hints, it's new mining and the Wall Street Journal covered it. That was a great question. That's what borders his bread right okay thank you questions like that as the winner with eight correct answers you get to choose where the 500 donation from meat eater goes what's it gonna be uh i would like my 500 donation um to go to the national wild turkey federation only because this morning I was eyeballing my turkey calls in the butter tray of my fridge wondering how they were doing in there okay and I meant to

grab them out but like I said I keep forgetting shit and never grabbed them out uh-huh does the butter tray also house butter or is it just turkey turkey calls and butter okay good use of that space I keep it in its own little private container in there. And if not, I gotta hit Phelps up for some new ones, but I'm hoping those are good. Will you explain that? Well, why you put them in there? Yeah. Because you don't want them going, you don't want them getting all hot.

Just gives them a stable, dark environment. Steve puts them in there in case there's a house fire. He won't lose his valuable turkey. No, like if they get too dried out, or that they get too hot, which leads to that. So just a stable, generally dark. Fluctuations. I mean, my kids leave the fridge door open for like 20 minutes at a time.

But generally, you know, I don't know. Even Phelps says to do that. Rich, you did well. Thanks. Rich, how many did you get right? Five or six? Four, something. Well, you did well. Thanks. Rich, how many did you get right? Five or six? Four, something. Well, you got the crypto one right.

No, I ended on a high note. Oh, I'm sorry. Just Sam then. Sam. Sam, against the odds, you had multiple questions where you were the only one to get it right.

I know. I have weird information in my brain. Sam is also the biggest CrossFit fan in here too. I'm the only one that does CrossFit. No, Corinne used to be big time. Oh yeah, and Corinne did it too. Locally?

That's why I'm the one in here. That's why I'm even in here because I'm the only one in the office that does it. Which gym do you go to? It's called True Spirit CrossFit. It's a small gym. We went to CrossFit Bozeman this morning and High Elite. Oh yeah, High Elite. We went to both of those. High Elite? Yeah.

You guys went to both of them? We just dropped in. They use our programming and so both those gyms are Mayhem affiliates. Our gym is CrossFit Mayhem and we do programming for people. So they follow our programming. Hey, stop in. Super nice people. Well done, Rich. The fittest

man on earth. Or formally. I thought we'd get some CrossFit questions. hey, stop in. Super nice people. Yeah. Well done, Rich, the fittest man on earth, and he can play meat eater trivia. Formally. I thought we'd get some CrossFit questions. No, you got a question about Tennessee.

Oh, yeah, you know, Tennessee. You got a true bone. Tennessee, which is where he lives. I've got a bison farm, so that was a bone. Oh, and he's got a bison farm. Yeah.

There you go. Two bones. Two bones. Double bones. Two bones. Join us next time for more meat eater trivia, the only game show

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