The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 543: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CVIII

Episode Date: April 17, 2024

Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Tressa Croaker, Max Barta, and Seth Morris. Connect with MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Trivia Merch Use code MEATEATER to get 15% off your first order at athleticbrewing.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey folks, exciting news for those who live or hunt in Canada. You might not be able to join our raffles and sweepstakes and all that because of raffle and sweepstakes law, but hear this. OnX Hunt is now in Canada. It is now at your fingertips, you Canadians. The great features that you love in OnX are available for your hunts this season. Now the Hunt app is a fully functioning GPS with hunting maps that include public and crown land, hunting zones, aerial imagery, 24K topo maps, waypoints and tracking. You can even use offline maps to see where you are

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, Cal, Randall, Tressa, Max, and Seth. 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 because this episode is brought to you by Athletic Brewing, they're matching our $500 donation as well as sponsoring a Moneyball Question of the Week.

Thanks to Athletic Brewing, today's episode has potential for a $1,500 conservation donation. For the stat of the week this week, we're looking at player performance in the fishing category. In the history of all Meadeater fishing questions, the player average is 44%, which is 3% lower than the hunting category. At the top of the leaderboard, do you guys have any guesses who is our best performer

in fishing? Brody. Brody is at the top of the leaderboard. He gets 72. 72% of all questions. Why doesn't he just win all the time? He does win a lot, Steve. Maybe he's just

the most consistent. I'm not even going to talk this episode. At the top of the leaderboard is Brody who gets 72% of all fishing questions. How many did Steve get right? That's followed by Randall with 67%. Steve with 61%. Pretty good. Cal with 58%.

And Yanni with 57%. They are our only players who average above 50% in the fishing category. Steve, 61% of fishing questions. Still pretty good. Yeah, still. Good enough for third. There's nothing wrong with a bronze medal. Then why am I always down here beating Brody?

I mean, doesn't that directly correlate to your, like the overall standings? I think we'll have to find out what our performances are like in the other categories. There's still two more categories. Now here's our infrequently asked question segment. If you have a trivia related question for our crew, send it to trivia at the meat eater.com with the subject line.

I FAQ Ben Utley wants to know who is your favorite guest of all time on trivia. The one that gets talked to me the most about from like when we're at a live show or emails and stuff are the wives and the girlfriends and the boyfriend of a meat eater trivia. So we'll bring that back. We'll do that again sometime this summer. Uh, so that was one of my favorites, uh, playing with the Mets was great because they were super competitive. Uh, they were like pissed off with the results after the show. Uh, they talked about it as they

exited the hotel to go to a game that actually mattered against the Braves that night. So that was fun. Uh, my favorite one though, was Dustin Huff, who was our first guest winner ever. He came in having no confidence in winning and then whooped our crew. So I'd say those are my favorite guests. Was he the first guest winner? He was the first guest winner. We've only had a handful of them.

Dustin was the first. Didn't Tucker Carlson win before him? He didn't win. He was our first ever episode of trivia. He was competitive but didn't get the victory. And we have some housekeeping to get to. Your dentist won one. Yeah.

He had a lot of dentists reach out to him. Oh, really? Like other dentists would call him to check in with him. He got hunting invites off that win. Wow. Really? Oh, man. From other dentists.

We have some housekeeping to get to. In a previous game of trivia, we had a question about the movie The Great Outdoors. In the follow-up factoid, I talked about

Bart the Bear and all of the A-list actors he starred opposite of, but I was accidentally combining the careers of Bart the Bear and Bart the Bear 2. Bart the Bear

starred in movies... It's like they all look the same to you, Spencer. Mm-hmm. Bart the Bear starred Bart the Bear 2. Bart the Bear starred in movies. It's like they all look the same to you, Spencer. Bart the Bear starred in TV and movies from 1978 to 1998, while Bart the Bear 2's career ran from 2001 to 2015. But I believe there should only be one Bart, so today we're going to determine who has the better Hollywood resume. So listen up here.

You guys are going to decide if it's Bart one or Bart two for cinema. Bart the bear was in movies such as the great outdoors, homeward bound, homeward bound to, and legends of the fall. Bart, the bear too, was in movies such as Dr.

Doolittle too, without a paddle, Evan almighty. And we bought a zoo. Are you kidding? Definitely. The great outdoors. So, uh Zoo. Are you kidding me? Definitely not. Why did you talk about it? It's the great outdoors. Are you kidding me?

Bart the Bear 1 wins in the topic of movies. With all due respect to We Bought a Zoo. Oh. It's not. I've got a whole story about that. I think Bart the Bear started with Anthony Hopkins and... Ooh, The Edge? Yeah, The Edge.

That's what I'm thinking of. I think both Bart the Bears have actually been in movies with Anthony Hopkins they're contemporaries oh sure oh oh I see I thought you were gonna say

they were both in that movie no no no each Bart the Bear has been in a movie with Anthony Hopkins did their lives overlap uh maybe slightly oh now okay

here's television that would be very for television I think my wife ran PR for We Bought a Zoo, the book. Oh. Who was in that?

I actually met that dude. Matt Damon. I met the dude that wrote it. Didn't meet Bart the Bear, though. Now, for television. No, am I at him? For television, Bart the Bear was in TV shows such as The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams and The Young Riders.

Barthie Bear, too, was in TV shows such as CSI, Scrubs, and Game of Thrones. So who gets the victory there? It's just like a bygone era anyway because it's all CGI shit now. Like, they don't use real animals anymore. Well, that's not what we're talking about. I know, I'm just saying. Grizzly Adams, dude. That's a long run, man. You would pick the life and times of Grizzly Adams and the Young Riders over CSI, Scrubs, and Game of Thrones.

Hell, yes. I'd say the Game of Thrones. I never watched any of those shows. Okay. Well, I don't know if you're- But we used to watch Grizzly Adams when we were kids. Phil, what would you say? Which Bart the Bear?

Phil, I bet you're a Scrubs guy. No, Phil's going to pick new stuff. You know, honestly, Game of Thrones is the only thing I, and it was just one episode. I can tell you which one it was. Really? Yeah. Why do you know that? Because there's only one episode where they fight a bear.

Oh, okay. Bart the Bear 2 has a way more impressive TV resume there. No, because he's going up against Grizzly Adams. Yeah, I'm actually going Bart the Bear 1 there, Spencer. Wow, okay. Well, Bart the Bear 1 may make a clean sweep because for commercials, Bart the Bear was the spokesbear for Labatt Blue

and Tums, while Bart the Bear 2 was the spokesbear for Kodiak Pancakes. Bart the Bear 2 could go to hell. I'm a Bear 1 demographic on this one. Well, Bear 2 is dead, so maybe he's in hell right now. Are we working on a Bart 3?

I found a Twitter account for Bart the Bear 3, but I haven't seen his Hollywood resume quite yet. Well, maybe Brody's correct to tell you. So maybe Bart the Bear 3.

Bart the Bear 1 is the winner. Bart the Bear 2, you're irrelevant. We don't, we don't, we don't give you credit. We spit on your memory. That's right.

Now, the Shelby Index for today's round is a 4, so our winner should get 8 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? Just tend to win everything. Game on, suckers! Question one. The topic is hunting. Which of these shotgun choke tubes produces the tightest pattern? Is it modified, improved cylinder, full, or cylinder? Which of these shotgun choke tubes produces the tightest pattern?

Modified, improved cylinder, full, or cylinder? Max was writing down his answer. Steve's going to write down the one that he has in his gun right now. Okay. Shoot's tight pattern. On our last episode of trivia, the multiple choice question. Dude, the pattern in my shotgun. Told you.

Is it tight or loose? I sent my shotgun into the famous shotgun mechanic, Rob Roberts. Ah, Rob Roberts, yeah. He's the only famous shotgun mechanic. Okay, go ahead. Listen, tell him, Yanni. It must be tight. Not just that.

Perfect. At how far? Yeah, there's no flyers. No flyers. It's like perfectly distributed. Like if you told a computer to perfectly distribute a bunch of holes on a sheet of paper, perfectly spaced in a perfect circle, that's what that computer would make.

At how far? Doesn't matter. I only saw it at 30, but I could tell you that it was tight enough at 30 that it would make me worried shooting it at 15 and 20 because it's tight. Is it like a golf ball probably? Is everybody ready?

Steve is showing up. That's why you got to go with the over and under, right? A salad plate size shape with his hands. Is everybody ready? Not too often. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth saying full, full, Tressa saying modified, everyone else saying full.

The correct answer was full. He got all written down there, Max. He got excited because of shotguns. I was like modified, improved cylinder, full. I was just writing down my options. I thought that was like a secret symbol for full. I don't know if I'm buying.

Did you see what he had on his board there? I was writing down my options and then I circled my answer. In order of loosest pattern to tightest pattern. You circled an F. Yeah, for full. Oh, full. No. We'll give it to you, Max.

Are you kidding me? No other Fs up there. Next time, just go ahead and write out full. Okay. Yeah. I don't think there's any other. Well, there could be an F for modified. Holy cow.

That means every answer you got a one in 24. Just put a letter down. No. It could have been F for modified. Holy cow. That means every answer you got a 1 in 24. Just put a letter down. No. It could have been F for modified. In order to lose this pattern to tightest pattern, it goes cylinder, improved cylinder, modified, and full. Some turkey hunters go beyond a full choke. Don't put a Z down. That's not going to be right. By using turkey

chokes or extra full chokes, which are meant to produce tight patterns beyond 40 yards. Oh, gee. He's a little rattled from the last game. Question two. Hey, Cal, we're going to have you settle something here. No one else chime in. We don't want to poison the well.

We had a question about... Can I tell about how pissed I am about this still? We had a question about what type of... Chubby Chernobyls? What type of public land is Devil's Tower and the Statue of Liberty. Somebody in the room wrote down a federal monument. Would you say that is correct? The correct answer was national monument.

Yeah. You'd give it to him for federal monument. Yeah, I would. Good thing you weren't here, Cal. Steve would have gotten second place if you had given him that point. He threw so much of a fit. We gave him the point anyway, and he still lost. We did give him that point. He threw so much of a fit. We gave him the point anyway. He still lost.

We did give him the point. By then, my whole game would unravel because I was so mad. I imagine you probably would have given it to somebody if you would have said monument only. Yes, or M, apparently. Oh, come on. Question two.

The topic is cooking. Did anybody write in on the chernobyl deal i feel like that had to have gotten some people fired up no got me fired up no just you guys well people wrote in uh they called you guys names actually uh whiny b words is what a few folks said so i could pull up wh email. Whiny Brainiacs? Exactly. They said, I host with a room full of whiny Brainiacs. I feel like we moved on real quick for everybody being in consensus. Clearly we haven't moved on. Question two, the topic is cooking.

The Food Network divides this type of sausage into two major categories, Spanish and Mexican. The food network divides this type of sausage into two major categories, Spanish and Mexican. Everyone except for Seth and Tressa are looking confident. Seth, do you have a prayer on this one? No. The Food Network divides this type of sausage into two major categories, Spanish and Mexican. You're not thinking. I usually get, like, I divide sausage into, like, breakfast and Italian.

Ground and links. Breakfast and dinner. Yeah, but there's mild italian and there's spicy sweet italian too sweet italian that all goes in italian yeah no one ever eats lunch sausage uh yanni how we doing you have an answer i got something written down you and i want to learn how to make man has you ever had a Chinese sweet sausage? It's real red. God, this stuff is good, dude. I'm going to start making that.

Never have tried that. You know what I'm talking about? They eat in Hawaii all the time. Oh, yeah. It's in the Hawaii grocery stores and stuff. And even in the gas stations. It's in the non-refrigerated section, too, which I enjoy. That's what drew me to it.

Is everybody ready? Shelf-stable sausage? That's what I want. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth saying chorizo. Cal saying chorizo. Tress is saying links. Everyone else saying chorizo.

They got it. The correct answer was chorizo. Spanish links and Mexican links. Spanish chorizo is usually made with pork or beef, has other ingredients like smoked paprika and white wine, and is stuffed in links that are then fermented and slowly smoked. Mexican chorizo is usually made with pork, has other ingredients like chili peppers and

vinegar, and is stuffed in casings that are then air dried for a week. What do you guys in the room, do you know if you're usually making Spanish or Mexican chorizo? Mexican. Definitely Mexican. Yeah, if you're cooking it.

I just make mine bulk. Because I think the Spanish stuff is like a cured- It's like a charcuterie almost. It's like salami. Yeah. Question three. The topic is conservation. This next great question comes to us via Austin Jackson.

A mule deer tag for this state set a record by getting auctioned off for $725,000 at the 2023 Western Hunt Expo. Brody and Ianni appear to know it. A mule deer tag for this state set a record by getting auctioned off for $725,000 at the 2023 Western Hunt Expo. Do you want me to spell out the state? Yeah, let's go with the... We're not going to do abbreviations. Cal has burned us with abbreviations before.

Too late, I already did. He did the abbreviation for Missouri and he said he meant Mississippi. Or vice versa. I don't remember which it was. We know how that one happened. We're going to write out the whole state. Yeah, like, am I?

Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri. Yeah. A mule deer tank for this state set a record by getting auctioned off for $725,000 at the 2023 Western Haunt Expo. Is everybody ready? When I was working in Alaska, this guy asked us why we registered all our boats in Arkansas.

Because he saw the AK number. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth saying Arizona. Cal saying Arizona. Tressa saying Idaho. Randall saying Arizona. Brody saying Utah. Steve saying Arizona. Brody saying Utah. Steve saying Utah.

Yanni saying Utah. Max saying Arizona. The correct answer is Arizona. About half of you. Those are new whiteboards, Steve. Give it a few weeks. Arizona's strict. Yeah, but that Antelope Island tag.

I thought it was Antelope Island. That's what I thought. The 2023 Expo set the mule deer tag auction record twice the first time was when jimmy john bought utah's antelope island mule deer tag for half a million dollars the following night the record was shattered when an unknown buyer spent 725 000 on a statewide year-long tag for ari Then, just a year later, the Arizona Game and Fish Commission voted 4-1 to abolish the state's practice of auctioning off big game tags. Many now assume that coveted tag will be part of a raffle going forward.

I love how Jimmy John's like Elvis. Well, you don't need to use the last name. I'm not italian enough to pronounce it i think it's like uh something with a lot of vowels i bet you he bought the unnamed tag too well no it was a guy from nevada um and to like that community story to that community was kind of an unknown figure who spent the seven and then i think so that that was in 2023 2024 both tags sold for like a hundred thousand dollars less. So they, they haven't beat the record. You know, we were talking about people before

did, were we talking about people in Mississippi thinking about how their turkeys are tougher than everybody's turkeys? Yep. Yanni said specifically the Southeast thinks that they have the toughest turkeys. The thing I liked about hunting down there though, is that they get two syllables out of

the word hen. Hen. I fucking love that, man. That's my favorite thing about that state. Cause we just kind of the word hen. Hen. I love that, man. That's my favorite thing about that state. Because we just kind of burn through it. Hen, right? Uh-huh. We just get it done.

Hen. They savor it. Yeah. Hen. Question four. The topic is woodsmanship. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Kelly Williams for sending this great question.

Kelly is going to get a board game signed by the crew. If you want a chance to win our listener question of the week, send your question to trivia at themeaddeeter.com. This eight-letter ecological word is defined as, quote, the transition zone between fully terrestrial and fully aquatic. The topic is woodsmanship. This eight-letter ecological word is defined as the transition zone between fully terrestrial and fully aquatic.

Brody looking like he might have it. Yanni, first one to have his board down. Yanni, did you get this one right? I believe so. Do you think Steve or Max saw your board? They wouldn't look. Okay, Max. I had to make sure I had eight letters in there. The transition zone between

fully terrestrial and fully aquatic. An eight letter word. Sorry, Phil, I tapped my wire here. Thank you for admitting to it. We'll talk after the show. Nope, just me. Eight-letter word.

Brody, do you have eight letters? I got eight letters. I'm not used to the dimensions of these new words. I didn't have to add any extras or take any away. Yeah, you didn't have to make it plural. I need a six. I can't. I got to count them up.

Okay. I currently have zero letters. Seth hasn't. He's picked up his athletic beer. Hasn't picked up his whiteboard. Yeah. I drink these two most often. Randall, where's your confidence at here?

This is my first one. I feel pretty good. I have eight letters. I feel like there's several words that I can. What is it again? Fully what? The transition zone between fully terrestrial and fully aquatic. It's an eight-letter ecological word.

So you're talking about the zone. It's the definition is the transition zone between fully terrestrial and fully aquatic. I think if we want to throw Randall off his game, we just need to put him in a different chair. Him and Brody most often get their chairs. Steve was saying last game, Steve was saying last game he's thrown off because he's in a new position here. I'll sit wherever you want me to sit. I'm further from the cameras.

So. Like racehorses, they have certain positions they prefer. Sometimes I play pretty good in Yanni's seat, but that's also the seat where I lost my perfect game on the final question. A lot of history. I got all right answered, Alan. I'll tell you that, buddy.

Is everybody ready? Man, I'm blank. We may have blank boards from Seth and Cal. This one's going to kill you guys because you guys know it. Yeah, I know. 100%. Come on, let's move along. Go ahead

and reveal your answers. We have nothing from Seth. Nothing from Seth, Cal, or Tressa. Randall. Randall says riparian. Brody says riparian. Steve says literal. Littoral. Look it up. Is it eight letters?

Okay, well, that has to be the definition of it i'll remind you yanni says riparian uh max said what's that say max littoral refers to coastlines shorelines tell me the uh how do you spell that i've heard that before many like there's an ecological term called the littoral zone. It is the definition is relating to or situated on the shore of a sea or a lake, a region lying along a shore. Well, it's not the exact definition that I was looking for. It's pretty damn right, though. I don't know. I don't think that's right.

Did we... You didn't even say what is right yet. The correct answer is riparian. Riparian is used when it comes to streams and rivers. The definition was the transition zone between fully terrestrial and fully aquatic. You're going to tell the dictionary. Yeah, a riparian area is long-moving water.

Mm-hmm. If you would have just put L down, you would have been wrong too. Conservationists sometimes refer to riparian zones as the ribbon of life because of the disproportionate importance they have for wildlife. Healthy riparian zones help filter water, control erosion, manage floods, and provide habitat. According to Watersheds Canada, if you manage land that has a riparian zone, the best thing you can do for it

is allow native plants to grow there. What do we think of Steve's answer? I was going to, that was one of my choices. You have a better argument here than Federal Monument, I would say. I would give it to him. Oh, Spencer, you need to lay down the law. I think I did lay down the law last time.

I think that's correct. Is it an ecological term? Yes. Here, this says... I don't know that... So that's one thing. Of or relating to the region of freshwater lake beds from the sublatoral zone up to and

including damp areas on shore. There you go. Not quite. It seems like a transition zone. Not quite riparian. We'll give it to you. It was eight letters. That makes up for the time you didn't

give me something. It was eight letters. Blue horizon. Give me a break. It was right there. Blue horizon. Give me a break. It was right there. When we use aquatic and terrestrial, though, how are those being used? Is it describing land and water?

Well, it's describing upland, and it's describing water that's more than a few inches deep. Other definitions will specifically call out like upland. It's below the upland. So an area that's not going to flood. See, this was awesome. And you guys just were quiet and I got to learn. That's a big part of this that I enjoy.

The reason I'm saying littoral. I wasn't listening to anything you said. Littoral isn't fully ecological. I'm going to let I'm thinking Latoral. I wasn't listening to anything he said. Latoral isn't fully equal. I'm gonna let it go. Oh yeah. Almost learned something there. Latoral combat ships.

Question five. I'll say this before we move on. If you had some kind of river reference in there, that's not what Steve would have written down.

Nope. I think you're right. I was trying like hell to fit amphibious in there. Different spellings. I wrote down amphibian. I was you're right. I was trying like hell to fit amphibious in there. Different spellings. I wrote down amphibian. I was like, eh. Let me try it with an F and see if that works.

Question five. Squeaky wheel gets the grease. The topic is gear. Oh, don't say that. Although this brand is best known for its red-handed fillet knives, it dropped the word blade from its name in 2019. Max is authority. I got a story about this company.

I can make more noise. Although this brand is best known for its red-handed fillet knives, it dropped the word blade from its name in 2019. Fairly confident room except for Yanni and Tressa. Don't know about softballs today, man. Max is trying to help.

Makes me think old Shelby's not. Shelby's lost the edge. Four was the Shelby index on this one. She's getting bored. Like Maverick after Goose died. The first one? Oh, yeah, I saw that.verick after Goose died? I haven't seen that. The first one? Oh, yeah. I saw that.

Yeah, after Goose died. Oh, that's right. He ejected into the canopy. Is red-handed supposed to be red-handled? Or is it something different? Maverick was devastated. Red-handled. Red-handled.

Red-handled. Red-handled fillet knives. Okay. There's a typo on the television. Known for its red handled Is that going to help you, Yanni? Well, no, I just Maybe it was something

You going to come up with an answer? Yeah Dropped the word blade from its name In 2019 Real softball, this one Well, Yanni's not going to get it right Well, Yanni's not a true angler 2019. Real softball, this one. Really? Well, Yanni's not going to get it right. Well, Yanni's not a true angler either.

No, he's not a waterman. Definitely not. Yeah. He's up out of the riparian zone. He's an upland fella. He's a terrestrial man. Yeah. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Yeah. Is everybody ready?

Go ahead and reveal your answers. If Seth sang Bubba, Cal sang Bubba, Tress is saying MKC, Randall and Brody and Steve sang Bubba, Yanni sang, what's it say, Yanni? Victorinox. Max sang Bubba. The correct answer is Bubba. Most of you got that right. Bubba Blade was founded in 2009, but underwent a rebrand a decade later when they became just Bubba.

Their CEO said the new name casted a wider net and better supported their water-to-plate lifestyle. They now sell everything from lithium batteries to fishnets. Brody, are you going to share your story about the Bubba Blade? Last summer at Steve's Steve's fish shack His kid was out paddling around the canoe Fishing silver salmon And Bubba makes a pair of Saltwater pliers And Steve's kid dropped those things

Right in the ocean And Steve was out where you're shrimping or something Yeah yeah And Jimmy came back and he's like Man I screwed up i don't know what to do like he was telling this to you i think he might have been angling for me to help him come up with some oh yeah i was like look man you gotta take it he even came over to my place he's like hey seth whoa what would you do if you lost your dad's pliers i mean he was sweating

yeah he was gathering a committee and i decided to take pity on him without telling him i sent steve a text while steve was out and i was like listen jimmy's really worried he deep sixed your pliers so you softened the blow yeah that's good. And what was the messaging you got, Steve? I had time to cool off out in the boat. Oh, come on. You wouldn't have ripped him one for that, would you? It's like a $35 play. It would depend on where it fit in the context of him losing all my other stuff.

It was like if it was just part of the third thing that day, you know? Phil, we are halfway through the game of trivia. Give us a scoreboard update. Dress says zero points. Giannis Petelis has three. Steve, Seth, Max, Cal, and Brody all have four points apiece. And with a perfect game in first place,

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Question six. The topic is hunting. I got to get up my averages. Pheasants Forever declared this state capital, quote, the best bird hunting town in America. You need to tell me the state capital, not the state. Pheasants Forever declared this state capital the best bird hunting town in America. Max is the only one to have come up with an answer yet. Pheasants Forever declared this state capital the best bird hunting town in America.

This is question six. A group of folks complaining about too many softballs now appears to be stumped. Brody, do you have this one right? We'll find out. Okay. Does anyone want to give any hints to Steve? His board is still blank. Wish I knew my capitals a little better right now.

Yeah, me too. Worries me now. The best bird hunting town in America. I think we've had one other state capital question on this show, and it was Via Yanni asking which one had the highest elevation to which everybody got wrong. I got this right, but I got two answers down right now.

Okay. They're both right. They're both the best bird hunting town. Not the state and pheasants forever declared this state capital, the best bird hunting town in America. Is everybody ready? It's just Pheasants Forever.

Pheasants Forever. We're not talking. And it's just birds. Pheasants Forever. They made this declaration and their quote was the best bird hunting town in America. And when did they do this? Yeah, is this recent? 2013, I believe it was. So it might no longer hold that distinction. It's been a decade.

Alright. Is everybody ready? Don't like it. Brody? Yeah. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth saying Sioux Falls. Cal saying Pierre. Tressa saying Helena. Randall saying Pierre.

Brody saying Pierre. Steve saying Bismarck. Wow, and I had Pierre. He crossed out Pierre. Yanni saying Sioux Falls. Max saying Pierre. The correct answer is Pierre. I had it written down. Weller. It has written down.

Well, Steve had it written down. He'd like you to know. It's very important. Spencer, these new boards seem pretty sturdy. They're passing. The rimless design, I think, distributes the blow better. When we make the board game, the factory does a drop test

where they dropped it 1,000 times to make sure it can withstand that sort of wear and tear. We'll just send them to Steve from now on. He can beat around on them. See what they do. I'll tell you why I wrote down what I wrote down. Yeah, sure. Because you were wrong? I felt

that it was too obvious. Sure. Well, it was really a question, do you know the capital of South Dakota? I do. I know, and you know the capital of South Dakota? I do. I know, and you do. And I was like, well, of course they're going to say that, so they're trying to throw a bone in North Dakota. Uh-huh.

Remember years ago, North Dakota was going to get rid of North, and South Dakota got pissed. North Dakota was going to become Dakota, and South Dakota cried foul. It should really be East and West Dakota. Hmm. I don't know about that. Yeah. Because the West side of North Dakota and the South side of South Dakota are very similar.

And then the East side of North Dakota, East side of South Dakota are very similar. Peer is the correct answer. Oh, you should read about it. Split at the Missouri boundaries. You should do that. Pheasants forever praise South Dakota's state capital for having ample public land, as well as healthy populations of pheasant, grouse, and partridge. The region is also home to one of the nation's biggest flocks of greater prairie chickens, which have been extirpated from about 95% of their original range.

Probably not a whole big good chance of me winning, huh? Question seven. You'll just slide out of here? We'll find out at question eight. You sounded so sad. The topic is biology. This next great question comes to us via Josh Recker. What's the name for the vent that

birds use to reproduce, urinate, and defecate? What's the name for the vent that birds use to reproduce, urinate, and defecate? Are we allowed to use a slang term that Steve coined? I don't think you should. Seth and Tressa and Max have blank boards.

I mean, Brody just gave me the biggest hint ever, Seth. Event. Event. Not an event. What's the name of the vent that birds use to reproduce, urinate, and defecate? You'll have to tell us

what that nickname is after. I don't know what you're... I don't think... Just so you know, I got it down in parentheses so you know it's not my answer. I'm doing the same thing because I feel like

there's two answers here. Really? Steve, do you think there are two answers? How's that cold beer? No, I don't think there's two answers. There's a answer. An answer. Is everybody ready?

Go ahead and reveal your answer. Seth, without an answer. Cal, saying cloaca. Tressa, without an answer. Randall, saying clo without an answer. Cal saying cloaca. Tressa without an answer. Randall saying cloaca. Brody saying cloaca. And in parentheses, he put uni-hole. Steve saying cloaca.

Yanni saying cloaca. Max saying cloaca. They got it. The correct answer is cloaca. You came up with uni-hole? I don't think so. No. That might have been the first time bro plug that in there i think

that unihole is uh it would be a correct answer no it's not a correct answer google it in a second uh i might have you might not like what you find the first time i ever heard it was oh i got a story about typing something oh i can't tell is a back-to-back episode. Steve has teased stories that he can't tell. You're not even going to look it up? I will in a sec. The word has Latin origins that mean to cleanse or drain. Besides birds, all amphibians, reptiles, and marsupials have a cloaca,

as well as a few fish. Some turtles have a specialized cloaca that helps them breathe while underwater. We are now going to Google uni-hole bird. I'm just curious. The term vent. Like, I'm seeing nothing. Do we have vents? No results of uni-hole.

I can kind of tell my story if you care to hear it. Yeah, yeah, we do. I think that's pretty explicit. What distinguishes a vent from an orifice? I think how much is going on. An orifice and a vent aren't the same thing. Your mouth is, your nostril is an orifice. Your mouth is an orifice.

No one says your mouth is a vent. You're not venting. Shut your vent. You might spit out of it, but a vent is like for poop and pee. Well, that's what I, so do i have a vent or vents yeah you'd be okay that's that's what i've just never heard i've just never heard a physician tell me that your vent my vent's working fine or something like that with fish we would exclusively call it a vent i've never thought about my dogs having vents what do you got? My wife, a couple of her friends were debating one time whether the movie Die Hard counted as a Christmas movie.

Because it's sometimes bucketed as a christmas movie because of the inclusion of a word they knew to be said in the movie someone retorts uh i don't remember that word being in that movie and they said look it up so she types in die hard then the word and thereby was shocked and also felt that the uh user history she had very carefully cultivated on the internet over the years had been changed fundamentally blame it on somewhere somewhere, someone was like, somewhere,

someone was like, we got a hot one, boys. They slipped up. What was the determination, Christmas movie or not? We played it for our kids this Christmas. And a lot of times

you remember movies different than they are. And we're like, oh yeah,, you guys are going to love this. We'll watch it. And then a couple minutes into it, the guy gets the back of his head shot out into a glass window and stuff, and we didn't finish it. Merry Christmas. Question eight, the topic is fishing.

This is the Athletic Brewing Moneyball Question of the Week. For every correct answer provided, Athletic Brewing is going to make a $100 donation that's capped at $500. This week, Athletic Brewing is giving to the conservation group American Rivers. Here is the Moneyball question. The second longest river in Texas and the river that forms the North Dakota-Minnesota border both share this name. The second longest river in Texas and the river that forms the North Dakota-

Minnesota border both share this name. Max is confident. He is the only one right now who appears pretty Dakota heavy. I love it. This game. Well, this one is also for Texans and Minnesotans.

Second longest river in Texas and the river that forms the North Dakota-Minnesota border. They both share this name. Randall, let's now come to him. As a reminder, this is the Moneyball question. So for every right answer, $100 is going to the American Rivers. Brazos.

Say that again? Okay, there's a hint. If you know Max's family, the Brazos. If you know Max's family, it's the Rio Grande. There you go. See, I was thinking you could just write Grande

and there's probably something in that Minnesota-Dakota world. Second longest river in Texas and the river that forms the North Dakota-Minnesota border. It's the Waco. Do you have this one right, Steve? The length of the border? The whole damn thing? I can't say with certainty that it's 100%, but it's

like 90%. It goes to Canada, doesn't it? Well, I didn't say that. Is everybody ready? Is everybody ready, Cal? I don't have it. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth saying

red. Cal without an answer. Tressa saying Missouri. Randall saying red. Brody saying red. Steve saying red. Yanni saying Missouri. Max saying red. Looks like rep.

The correct answer is the Red River, meaning athletic brewing, is making a $500 donation today to the American rivers. The red river that flows through Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana is the eighth longest river in America. The red river that flows through North Dakota, Minnesota, and Manitoba is the fort 34th longest river in America. Both rivers are famous for their red silt and great catfishing.

Thanks again to athletic brewing for our Moneyball Question of the Week. Tell you one thing about drinking Athletic Brewing and A beers is if I was sitting here drinking a couple A beers, I wouldn't be kicking as much ass. Phil, we have two questions left. How much ass is Steve kicking? Well, this is going to be exciting

because we're going to find out in real time how much because my marker stopped working again. So please raise your hand if you got that last question correct. We had five people get it right. He didn't have it. Seth. Randall.

I actually didn't know what you put down there. Steve's acting like he's drinking beer. Some bitch didn't have it. Steve. If I throw a can across the room and storm out Max Does that river flow north Out of the US

Into Lake Winnipeg There's a whole style of There's a cart and a whole style of Hunting named after that river Red River carts And the Red River hunts The north one or the south one? The north one.

It comes from the north one, but it's funny as both buffalo hunters, but yeah, the Red River Hunts. The north one is supposed to be the best channel catfish fishery in the nation. Phil, who is left in the game? Tressa, Giannis, and Seth are no longer in the game. Steven Rinella has six points, as well as Ryan Callahan.

Max and Brody have seven, and in first place, with a perfect game still, is Randall Williams. Wow. Six points is not good. Max is, wow, you got all of them decoded. Yeah, Max got a couple. We're asking about Grandma's backyard over here. Question nine.

Max's mother's maiden name. Randall's got a perfect game going. Two questions. Let's not dwell on that. Let's just keep going. Question nine. The topic is conservation. This conservationist, who goes by the nickname Jungle Jack,

is best known for his appearances on The Late Show and Good Morning America. Randall finished his answer before I finished the question. Brody is also confident. This conservationist who goes by the nickname Jungle Jack is best known for his appearances on The Late Show and Good Morning America. What? Brody is staring into Steve's eyes trying to intimidate him. No, I'm not. I like watching his slow process.

Okay. No process right now. Jungle Jack. Jungle Jack. Brody wants to see if your humunculus is going to visit. What's best known? Who goes by the nickname Jungle Jack. Goes by.

Not going to change anything about the question. Yeah, I think Mr. Sixpoints, you should just go with a jack that has animals on TV.

Can we stop with the coaching? This is literally coaching. It is literally coaching. It is, but everybody likes to come from behind victory, Randall. Not all of us. So a guy named Jack who's got a bunch of animals. This conservationist who goes by the nickname Jungle Jack

is best known for his appearances on The Light Show and Good Morning America. Cal, do you have this one right? I went with the only Jack that I know that goes on. Okay. All right. Jack Black? No. Jack O'Connor?

He only plays a panda, Steve. Jack Card? Jack Sparrow? Jungle Jack. Jack Sparrow. Very confident, Randall. This should give him nine correct answers in the perfect game. You know what's funny is that it's occurring to me now that I have,

in this very episode, referenced losing a perfect game on question 10. Here we are. So that adds another level of drama to this whole thing. Have you lost perfect games on other questions in the past? Oh yeah, I lose perfect games all the time. Yeah, because I lost a lot of times

when I'm on second question. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth without an answer. Cal saying Jack Hanna. Tressa without Seth without an answer Cal saying Jack Hanna Tressa without an answer Randall saying Jack Hanna Brody saying Jack Hanna

Yanni saying Jack Smith Max saying Jack Irwin the correct answer is Jack Hanna three of you Jack Squad's what I just got for points but no Randall you've had multiple games where you've lost a single question on three, four, five, and then you end up with nine, correct?

Yeah, I feel like, I don't think that's that common. Nine is a common score. I would say that happens. I mean, I think it's happened a handful of times. Losing them on question 10 hurts the most. Let's not dwell on this. Let's continue on. Hannah grew up in Tennessee and Pennsylvania and went to college in Ohio while in a fraternity at Muskingum College. Muskegum.

Muskegum. Oh, he got in trouble for keeping ducks in his room and a donkey in the frat house shed. Hannah served as the director of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium from 1978 to 1992, which is when he started making TV appearances with his animal ambassadors. Steve, do you now know who Jack Hanna is? Nope. No idea. I know Barry Hanna. Jack Hanna now lives in Hanna-Barbera.

Hanna-Barbera, Barry Hanna, who wrote Testimonia Pilot. Daryl Hanna. Daryl. I'd like to dwell for a moment on Testimonia Pilot. Everyone wantsl Hannah. I'd like to dwell for a moment on Testimonia Pilot. Anyone who wants to read a hell of a short story, read Testimonia Pilot.

Thank you. Southern writer. Jack Hanna lives in Montana now. Man of letters. But he has dementia. Another fellow Buckeye transplant. Oxford, Mississippi. Phil, we have one question left.

Who remains in the game? That was in the collection Airships. Phil. It's down to Randall and Brody. Brody's got eight points and Randall's holding on to that perfect game going into question 10. Did you add the fact that he has dementia because you're like, he lives in Montana now. But he really could live anywhere?

Was that your point? Then maybe it'd be like, well, we should have him on the podcast. And I'd be like, you're right, except for he has dementia. So I don't think he'd be a good candidate. Named after a fictional creature, this popular sushi roll features shrimp, avocado, eel sauce, and sesame seeds. Randall, he looks stumped. This is... His face is turning a deeper red.

No, it's not. It hasn't started yet. I can feel it. Okay. Named after a fictional creature, this popular sushi roll features shrimp, avocado, eel sauce, and sesame seeds. Brody is looking confident. He has his whiteboard down with an answer. Brody, do you know this one, or is it just a guess?

It's the very first thing that I don't know if it's right. Okay. I know what it is. We could have, again, in the same game, Randall lose a perfect game and then go to a tiebreaker with Brody, which the last time this happened. I don't feel bad about not knowing that. Okay, the last time this happened. No, I don't eat rolls.

Steak Diane. Don't eat rolls. Sashimi man. I want someone to go like, why not? Why don't you eat rolls, Steve? I'll tell you later. The last time Randall lost the perfect game on question 10, we had Brody get it right and force the overtime

in which Brody was then the winner. It's hard to root against Randall getting a perfect game and an extra five hundo. Phil, you're really staring me down here. I don't find it hard. i'm just anticipating this outcome named after a fictional creature this popular sushi roll features shrimp avocado eel sauce and sesame seeds yanni do you know this one i do not Steve why don't you eat sushi rolls we got the time well we shouldn't dwell on it

I mean he'll eat all the individual things but if you put them all together when you go down to a sushi restaurant just eat the fish stop screwing around all kinds of just like are you there or not those rolls are delicious.

Yeah. Get some raw fish. Eat a little rice. Stop messing around with all the rolled up garbage. Cream cheese? That's why. Steve also doesn't like license plates. They dip in a deep fryer for a little bit.

Randall, do you have an answer? I do. Okay, is everybody ready? Yep. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth saying Bigfoot. Damn it, Randall. Cal saying dragon.

Tressa, you weren't really listening to the question. Tressa saying California roll. Randall saying dragon. You're aware of a fictional creature called California? Steve saying dragon. Yanni saying kraken. Max saying dragon. The correct answer is dragon roll.

Randall gets the perfect game. Nice work, Randall. Oh, Randall. Ten correct answers. Other popular dragon roll ingredients include cucumber, mango, and spicy mayo. The roll was created in the 1970s in California and was given this name because the avocado on top resembles dragon scales. The School of Sushi declared it the fourth most popular sushi roll in the country.

Randall, we're going to make a $1,500 donation today. Meat Eater is doubling their amount to $1,000. Athletic Brewing is kicking in $500. Where is this $1,500 donation going? Let's give it to an old favorite, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership. TRCP. What do they got going on right now?

All kinds of stuff. Super exciting. Steve Vignani just got back from A turkey hunt with the Winner of the last year's raffle And they've got Their big conservation award Dinner coming up so

Isn't that raffle still live right now There's a new one Yeah for 2025 you can buy Some tickets right now yeah you can go and buy your tickets Right now good call When this comes out maybe it'll be closed I don't know Yeah, for 2025, you can buy some tickets right now. Yeah, you can go and buy your tickets right now. Good call, Seth. Although, when this comes out, maybe it'll be closed. I don't know.

Well done, Randall. $1,500 going their way, and then another $500 going to American Rivers. $2,000 handed out today. Now, thanks to Athletic Brewing for helping us make one of our biggest donations ever. Join us next time for more meat eater trivia. Impressive, buddy. The only game show where conservation always wins. Woo-hoo! Thank you.