The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 550: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CXI

Episode Date: May 8, 2024

Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Ryan Callaghan, Clay Newcomb, Randall Williams, Chilly, Marco Gill, and Ryan Thompson. 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 meet. Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host, Spencer Newharth, and today we're joined by Steve, Cal, Clay, Randall, Chili, Ryan Thompson, and Marco Gill. Ryan and Marco, this is your first time on the show. Tell folks what you're doing here. This is Ryan, RT. I'm the tour manager for the Meat Eater Live tour

that we're currently rolling through. That's right. This episode is live to you from the Meat Eater Live tour. We're currently sitting in the Wilma Theater in Missoula, Montana, waiting to take the stage for our seventh of ten shows. Marco, how'd you get wrapped up in this deal? Well, I normally tour with bands. Here I'm a promoter rep for AEG.

Just helping out Ryan here, making sure the shows go smooth. Steve made an observation the other night that we're now more band than we are anything on this tour at this point. I don't remember making that. You told somebody, you're like, we're now more, it was at the Anaheim show

where Steve's buddy joined us. He said, we're now mostly band around here. You must be thinking someone else. I mean, I feel like me and Phil are a band. It's like Merle Haggart and Merle Haggart's

harmonica player. Hey, did you know that Marco's middle name is Elvis? Yeah, I told you clay i know i mean marco elvis marco was born in the bronx what else do we know about mark well i know he's gonna get beat bad right now oh it's gonna be awful man it's gonna be pretty bad marco how do you feel about your chances at meat eater trivia not good good, but I'm happy to be here. Okay. But just think about how self-confident he is. Just to walk in the room knowing you're just going to get spanked. Do you know what I mean?

Smile on his face. Ignorance is bliss. Smile on his face. He doesn't care. Marco joined the band about halfway through the tour. What do you call that fancy instrument you play? It's a little cajon. It's a little box drum. Steve was very impressed yesterday by the uh the music you

had coming out of that oh you know he's got a little box you sit on it looks like an apple crate and dude it's like a whole drum set yeah if i was the drum industry i'd be intimidated by that box because why buy drums when you get that little little box? It's called a what? It's called a cajon. C-A-J-O-N. It comes from flamenco music. That's where it originated from. It's just used to accompany dance performances.

You can throw him a bone. You wouldn't even know where to start. I thought about it, but then I didn't. I had something music related. Pull pulled it out of the game. RT, how do you think you're going to do at Trivia today? He'll do good. Fair to Midland.

Okay. No, he's going to do good. All right. Good. This is a 10-round quiz show with questions from Meat Eaters 4 Verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking. And there is a prize. Meat Eater will donate $500 to the conservation organization

of the winner's choosing. Clay, how are you holding up on the tour so far? Man, it's a lot of fun. It's taxing. I just feel like this is my new life. It's just like, I don't know. It's just like I sleep on a bus. I talk to my family on a phone.

I play music. Phil observed this morning that he's at about 62% this morning. Oh, really? Yeah. Could you put a number on it, Clay? Man, I'm running like 83. Oh, that's pretty good. I feel pretty good.

Good for you, Clay. Now, on the tour, we've been polling our audience each night and using that data as part of a live game show. So nearly 1,500 people have taken our survey. Here are five things we've learned so far. When it comes to believing in Bigfoot, Boise was the most likely to believe in Bigfoot, with 36%

of audience members saying they think he's real. Sacramento was the least likely to believe in Bigfoot at 29% and in between them was San Diego at 34%. You recognize that's people being cute. Explain.

They're just being cute. They're out at night. They're having fun. They're just being cute. They're out at night. They're having fun. They're putting down cute answers. If you know that, though, then why don't you answer more accurately? Because I don't know how cute they're, like, it's hard to anticipate how cute they are being. Okay, but you know they're being some level of cute. They don't act like that percentage of people doesn't actually believe that.

I'll tell you, it's an anonymous survey they're taking. I don't know who's answering what. It just goes into a big pot. Steve is convinced they're trying to manipulate the results. I think that's part of the game. They're just being cute. It's definitely part of the game. But what Steve's saying is, if you were to put a gun to those people's heads

and say, hey. I was envisioning just that scenario. Is that the new game we play? It'd be good, yeah. Let me ask you again. I got a game. Yeah, do a survey. Then put a gun to their head and do it again.

Now, when it comes to wanting grizzly bears. A survey with a gun to your head. When it comes to wanting. No, who are you really voting for? When it comes to wanting grizzly bears in their home state san diego and salt lake had very different responses 49 of salt lake outdoorsmen said they wish grizzlies were in utah compared to 73 of san diego outdoorsmen saying they wish grizzlies were in california yeah a lot tougher crowd in san diego in what way because they can they can hack it they can hack a little risk

probably got a lot of military there so they're like we had tons of veterans and tons of military in san diego and they're not scared of bears well and then you get salt lake city and they're scared i thought it was because the bears would, even if they were in California, they'd go nowhere near San Diego. So they felt comfortable saying they could come in. I think it has to do with California having an affinity for grizzlies because it's on their flag.

State animal. State animal. I'll tell you another thing. We had a ton of spear fishermen in San Diego. So they're already used to dealing with the mental stress of great whites. Tons of spear fishermen at the show. They're used to the mental stress of dealing with great whites. And they're like, okay, a bear, big deal.

I'm with RT. I think it's a proximity thing. I think it could also be that people in very urban places really don't have to deal with the consequences of it. And people in very urban places may be thinking of something else when you say bears in the state. Have you been to the Bay? Yeah, man, I don't know if I need it.

I already have a lot of pop bears. I don't know if I need a grizzly bear throwing up the banks. Now, when it comes to largemouth bass, we learned that about half of the anglers in Mesa and Sacramento have eaten one. 55% in the Sacramento audience have eaten a largemouth, and 58% of Mesa anglers have eaten a largemouth. Is that what you about expected, Clay? I didn't have any context for that question.

Okay, what if we asked that in Arkansas? I was like saying, how many people in here have eaten a hamburger then i'd be like it'd be 100 i think yeah so but i knew that the question i knew it was like oh wait a minute people don't eat large mouth bass there must be something here this is not a gimme so i didn't have a lot of context for clay when was the last time you ate a large mouth bass? I mean, most of the fish that I'm catching and eating in Arkansas would be catfish and crappie, stuff that people give me. It's been a while since I've eaten bass. So no one brings you a bass flay?

No. You wouldn't think it's weird, though, if they did either. Not at all. Not taboo in your neck of the woods. No. All right. Now, when it comes to America's most popular big game animal, we learned that 24% of folks at the Anaheim show have killed a whitetail,

which is about twice as many as I expected. Were you guys surprised by that number, 24% of them killed a whitetail? No. You thought that was right on brand? I think I had a higher number. Okay. What if we asked that question in Arkansas? Oh, of sportsmen?

It would be 100%. 100% of them. No, it wouldn't. It would be in the 90s. It's not going to be 100%. Well, but just like the people that took the survey, if you had a room full of people that bought tickets to Meteor Live, I mean, if you put 98.

You know what 100% means, right? Well, but I mean, I'm just saying, it'd be 98. He's being cute. 98%. That's not what you said. And then Cal put the gun in. And then Cal held the pistol to his head, and there he comes out with 98. He comes out with 98.

And finally, the last notable thing we learned is that Clay Newcomb knows his fellow hunters and anglers best. Of the six survey game shows so far. He's won three of them. Clay, what do you think makes you so good at this show? You're just a man of the people? Well, Steve is unwilling to play the game. I know that people

are trying to be cute. I'm kind of an underground social scientist in a way. So I'm kind of an underground social scientist in a way. Okay. So I'm like reading the room. I have them bring

the lights up so I can look in people's eyes. And I listen to that Aussie Wind podcast. You know, The Magician.

Okay. So I kind of know what's up. Clay's a mentalist. Yeah. Clay not only wins but he dominates too. Well,

man of the people, Clay. Now the Shelby Index for today's show 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? Just tend to win everything. Game on, suckers! How's the Shelby Index holding up these days? Pretty accurate. Is it?

Yeah. We'll look at it again, but it was just a few months ago we visited, and it was pretty dang close. Okay. Question one. This will be multiple visited, and it was pretty dang close. Okay. Question one. This will be multiple choice, and the topic is fishing. Which of these lures has caught the most world record fish? Is it spoons, crankbaits, poppers, or jigs? Which of these lures has caught the most

world record fish? Spoons, crankbaits, poppers, or jigs? Dude, I might go out on a limb here. Okay. Marco, do you fish at all? He's shaking his head no.

He's going to put down that drum he's got. Which of these lures has caught the most world record fish? Spoons, crankbaits, poppers, jigs. Now, Randall, I've got to hold my board up here like this to block, so I can't. I'm not looking. The giant mirror? No, I just don't want to look at yours.

I'm trying to. It's very honest. There's a reason I'm putting down in the giant mirror. No, I just don't want to look at yours. I'm trying to. It's very honest. There's a reason I'm putting down what I put down. Okay. And he's going out on a limb, he declared. Is everybody ready? Randall? Yes.

Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying poppers. Can I tell you why? Sure, go ahead. What do you got? Because I think all the salt water stuff, dude. Marco saying jigs. RT saying spoons.

Randall saying spoons. Chili saying jigs. Cal saying spoons. Clay saying spoons. The correct answer is jigs. Marco and Chili. Got it right. Let's go.

According to the IGFA record books, It's Jiggs, Marco, and Joey. Got it right. Let's go. And Joey. According to the IGFA record books, Jiggs have caught over 1,000 world records. That's nearly five times as many as second place, which are spoons. After that, it's plastic worms, crankbaits, spinners, swimbaits, and poppers. Well, Marco's got a perfect game.

Wow, Marco. I wasn't thinking about the sheer. How can you have a thousand records? Like how many records are there? Brown bullhead, yellow bullhead. A lot of freshwater. They track every fish in the world. Yeah, I should put that down. Question two.

White perch, yellow perch, surf perch. Go ahead. How long can you go, you think? Question two. The topic is gear headquartered in vermont this legendary company says quote at our core we are a fly fishing and wing shooting brand the topic is gear headquartered in Vermont, this legendary company says, quote, at our core, we are a fly fishing and wing shooting brand. Marco, who made that drum you got? What brand?

Tycoon. Might be it. Did you come up with an answer, Cal? You got this one right. Randall, you got this one right. I need to come up with an answer. Yeah, I got it right. I got it right. I would have had that last one right, too,

if I hadn't started thinking the wrong thing. How about you, RT? You got this one right? I do. All right, about half the room is quite confident. Headquartered in Vermont, this legendary company says, at our core, we are a fly fishing and wing shooting brand. How do you find legendary?

Like this legendary animal. That's just my little superlative. Is it wrong to think that you can cover more water with a spoon than you can a jig? Like the math. Don't you think? I think you could vertical the same amount of water. You could horizontal the same amount of water. It's all the dinky fish, dude, all came out.

See, I was going, my. Steve Galaxy brained it. Dog tooth tuna. Yeah. And Spencer's going like, I don't know, just everything. Crappy. Line class. Does everybody have an answer for the company that says,

at our core, we are a fly fishing and wing shooting brand? Clay, you got an answer? I have an answer. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying Orvis. Marco saying Ben and Jerry's. Ben and Jerry's. RT and Randall and Chili and Cal saying Orvis.

Clay says Filson. The correct answer is Orvis. The room did very well. Charles Orvis founded the company nearly 170 years ago in Manchester, Vermont. Although the brand is best known for their fly fishing gear, they also sell shotguns, knives, dog beds, and more. Orvis has been privately owned since 1965 and today they employ over 1500 people question three the topic excellent conservation record too oh i mean what do they do um everything from stream bank restoration to

advocacy um work with a bunch of rough grouse society, Pheasants Forever, they do a lot. That's why they're a legendary company, Steve. Question three, the topic is conservation. Dictionary.com defines this nine-letter word as, quote, a person who hunts for food or for profit without regard to the rules of sport. This is question three dictionary.com defines this nine-letter word as a person who hunts for food or for profit without regard to Randall, you got this one? Hmm.

What? I'm thinking. Read it again, because I'm not getting the right letter count here. Dictionary.com defines this nine-letter word as a person who hunts for food or for profit without regard to the rules of sport. Nobody appears to be confident. I don't know how to spell it. Well, I won't hold that against you if you got the right answer. You could be a letter or two off, Clay. That's just fine.

I'm a terrible speller. Okay. Nine-letter word we're looking for. Is everybody doing little hangman etches on their board? Randall, you haven't answered Randall. I've got one coming in at eight. I've got nine letters. Okay. Randall may be the only one who gets this right.

I'm not quite sure this is how I would define it. Well, this is how dictionary.com defines it. That's right. The definition is a person who hunts for food or for profit without regard to the rules of sport. It's a nine-letter word, and the topic is conservation. I'm trying to think of one of my friends who's got nine letters in their name. Yeah.

This is a stumper. Randall may be the only one who has it. Are we going to, when we hear it, going to go like, oh, shoot. Not going to tell you that, Clay. Are we going to go, I've never heard that word before. Not sure. If my answer is correct, everybody's going to go, uh. It's kind of that questioning. Oh. Dictionary.com.

But I don't know if I have the right answer. Do the others give up yet? Nine letters. Steve, you have nine letter answers. I got a seven. I got an eight. Okay. I got a ten. Make it an eight. Okay. I got a 10. Make it plural.

Just put an S on the end of it. But it's singular, right? A person? That's right. It's a singular. This isn't a plural answer. I'm not trying to trick you guys. If your 10-letter one is plural, you can just hack that S off.

Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve without an answer. Marco saying Trophyman. Wow. RT saying, what's that say, RT? It says sellsword. Randall saying Pot Hunter.

Chili saying Robin Hood. Cal saying Long Hunter. Clay saying Substance. Subsistence. subsistence. Subsistence. Subsistence. Oh. Randall got it.

The correct answer is pot hunter. No way. Pot hunter. So, Clay, what was your reaction when you heard pot hunter? A pot hunter hunts for food. What's that for food or for profit without regard to rules of sport? I just didn't know there was such definition around that. Where'd you go to find that? Dictionary.com.

Who cares about dictionary.com? How does that change for a long time? Not that who cares about it, but it's not even like, you're just drawn from, according to some AI-generated BS I found, this blankety-blank, I have to assign it to somebody so that there's a right answer. It's like an authoritative...

Is it peer-reviewed? Go to Miriam's right now on your little computer. Go to Miriam's right now or any dictionary that's a dictionary. Go to the Oxford English Dictionary. O-E-D. Okay, which one is it? Oxford English Dictionary and type in pot hunter, please. Okay. We're working

on this. And it's going to tell you not a word no it'll give you a very different definition it'll have its earliest usage too it would have helped if you would have said this is a colloquial term or something like i was looking for like uh i was thinking of like a more concrete term. Well, I gave you the definition, and Randall got it. I mean, Randall's Randall. Yeah, he's a doctor. Oxford English Dictionary makes me have a subscription, Steve. So we're going to have to...

Will Merriam satisfy you? Okay. Sure. We'll try that out. Here we go. Merriam-Webster defines pot hunter as a person who hunts game for food or profit without following the rules of sport. It's like three words different than dictionary.com's definition.

And what are the other? It was long hunter in there, too. Well, long hunter is 10 letters. And we're going for the exact definition. Not the way he spells it. Do you count the apostrophe? So, Steve, do we respect Merriam-Webster, or they're on the outs as well? Yeah, whatever.

Okay. All right. We're calling that one a valid question, I think. Question four. The topic is hunting. This potential Donald Trump running mate wrote in her book that she killed a 14-month-old hunting dog for having, quote, an aggressive personality. Straight from the headlines. Oh.

There's a little hint, Randall. Oh, come on. This potential Donald Trump running mate wrote in her book that she killed a 14-month-old hunting dog for having an aggressive personality. This is question four. Randall has it. Chili seems like he has it. Cal, you have it right. Steve, you have it right.

Oh, yeah, buddy. Okay. Clay, how we doing over here? I got it. what do you what are we snickering about cal oh the justification of like why it's in the book is the justification of why it's in the book is is funny to me yeah there's a little bit if i can do this lead to crunch i can you know i can yeah exactly is everybody ready about that i don't pass the If I can do this. Lead to a crunch. Yeah, exactly. Is everybody ready?

How about that? I don't pass the buck. Is everybody ready? Yep. Clay, go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying, no. Marco saying, Nikki Haley. Dude, Nikki Haley and Trump are way on the outs, man.

RT saying, Elise. Marco. Staphanic. Randall saying, no. Chili gnome cal saying gnome clay saying sd gov gnome they got it the correct answer is christy gnome this story comes from gnome's new book which the guardian obtained a copy of last week gnome tells of a young wire-haired pointer named cricket who she took pheasant hunting one fall day. Nome said the dog was, quote, untrainable and that it chased up birds before the hunters could get to them. After the hunt, Nome was driving home when she stopped to

chat with a neighbor. That's when Cricket got out of its kennel and killed the family's chickens. Nome then went home and led the dog to a gravel pit where she killed it. Since the story broke, the Guardian has reported that Trump's campaign now views it as impossible that she could be his running mate. Really? What? Dude. I'm telling you what the Guardian reported.

That's not. That's ridiculous, dude. They think it makes her unelectable. No, it does not. That makes me like her even more. I already like her. That she killed the 14-month-old hunting dog? Yeah, people need to do more of that.

There's a lot of dogs out there flushing birds way too far out. There's probably some steps in between, I think. Well, the piece of information. What would have been the difference of her taking it to the vet and having him put it down? No, no, I'm not saying it. Dude, you know what this means for Ronnie Bame's political prospects? If that kills your political prospects. What it means is she gave up on training a dog is one way to look at it, which would be very negative.

No, because if you look into that dog's soul. That's right. She said she looked it in the eye and you know that it was evil. She said she hated it. But there's another piece of information in there that in my mind does justify it. And it's the fact that the dog tried to bite her when she tried to get it from chasing the chickens. And then it becomes very tricky. It's like getting rid of a bad mule, right? It bucked everybody off. But now I'm going to try to sell it because I mule, right? It bucked everybody off.

But now I'm going to try to sell it because I can't have it around because it bucks everybody off. But how do you give a liability to the next person? Same deal with a dog who bites things. She did the right thing. Yeah, but I think it's an asinine thing to be like, it's untrainable. According to who? I think there's steps in between.

Here's the thing too, though. There's a lot of people that enter the political sphere that like the posture about their blue collar agricultural upbringings. That's a real issue right now in politics. The reason I was reading about another politician who talked about growing up on the family farm. And he'd be like, no you didn't.

Your parents were academics. They owned a little piece of property where the mom raised prized show horses. You didn't grow up on a farm. You didn't grow up there. Or I made a couple of billion dollars and bought a big-ass ranch in Montana, and now I'm a big-ass rancher in Montana

talking about how I ranch in Montana. Sure, and this gal, this gnome, like legit, came from what she said she came from. And this demonstrates even more. She also killed the family goat that day. They had a goat that she didn't like. And he was stinky. She was on one. I didn't pick up that.

It was the same day. But that one, she had to deliver two shots to because the first one didn't kill it. Listen. When you take a trip to the gravel pit, you maximize it, okay? Going all the way out there. I got no... Listen, I think the campaign...

I think the Trump campaign would be foolish not to pick her up. Question five. The topic is cooking. Who else is going to go with it? I don't know. I can think of a couple people. Was she at the top of the list?

Yeah. Really? Yeah. I didn't know. The Guardian says it. Well, I don't know. No one knows. But, I mean, it's pundits.

Pundits feel that she was at the top of the list. But, I mean, there's one person that knows. And they haven't said. Question five. The topic is cooking. Confit, steak frites, and tartar sauce are this country's cuisine. You said it wrong. How would you say it?

Confit. You said it wrong. How would you say it? Con-fee. Con-fee, steak frite, and tartar sauce are this country's cuisine. Marco's going to bang this one, dude. Okay, Marco's in the running, man. We'll get a scoreboard update after this. Haley, they were at each other's throat. No way she's getting the nod. I like her.

This is question five. I'm ready. I'm ready for him. I'm ready for him. What about Arkansas's governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders? Did she go to the Coon rally that you guys do? She was not there. Okay.

Yeah. This is question five. Did she go to the Coon Rally that you guys do? She was not there. Okay. Yeah. This is question five. No comment. Steak frites and tartar sauce are this country's cuisine. Oh, wait. Is this being filmed? It is being filmed.

Would you just make a bad gesture? No. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying France. Marco saying France. Marco. I forgot to answer.

No, too late now, buddy. Unless you're going to write down France, it's too late. Clay's been hiding that trick up his sleeve for years. He was too busy about it. I'll forfeit. If France is the answer, I'll forfeit. What were you going to say, you think? Well, I was thinking about a European country, but... Everybody says France.

Everybody got it right except for Clay. Count me out. Clay, a little too late. Because I wanted to wait until we... I pretty much cheated the system the last time. I wasn't going to say anything until I already got the point. Okay. I don't know if you noticed, but I wrote in in a bunch of scribbles.

Yeah, I saw that. I actually didn't remember her name. I knew it was a South Dakota governor. I saw that on your board, and I was like, I can't believe that Spencer read that. I know. So honest. But Randall just put French down as his answer.

How did he have known? I can't cheat. But Randall just put French down as his answer. French is not a country. How did he have known? He wrote SDGov and then N with a little, like a snake. Are you going to accept that? I already did. Clay realized he was caught on camera. I did that. What did he do?

I wrote French. I don't think that's wrong. Is French a country? I think you're right. French is not a country. Well, no, it's not, because here's the problem. Senegal, French is their national language. Okay.

Quebec? You ever heard of Quebec? We're going to give it to you, Randall. When he says French, is it Quebec? Randall, were you thinking of Quebec? Did you think of that? No, I wasn't. You can't ask someone what they're thinking of. Well, I was thinking of Jigs earlier you think of that? No, you can't ask someone what they're thinking of.

Well, I was thinking of jigs earlier. Let's get a little eye detector out. Other popular French dishes are French onion soup, chocolate souffle, crepes, and creme brulee. You can get some of these recipes on TheMeatEater.com, like Jenny Gwynn Wheatley's duck frites and Wade Trunk's duck confit. Phil, we are halfway through the game of trivia. like Jenny Gwynne Wheatley's duck frite and Wade Trunk's duck confit. Phil, we are halfway through the game of trivia. I'm going to read us a leaderboard update. In last place, we have Clay with one singular point, and he had to cheat to get it even.

Wait a minute. I didn't cheat to get it. Chris, you know? I had another point. Well, okay, I didn't cheat to get... Kristi, no. I had another point. Well, okay, you didn't get Orvis, you didn't get Jiggs, you didn't get Podhunter, so you have one point. One point. Well, that's a really painful

way to do that. Next up, with two points... Maybe y'all can give me the French. I mean, I did. Next up, with two points, we y'all can give me the French. I mean, I did. Next up, with two points, we have Marco and RT. Marco's beating me? Marco, he's got way more points than you.

Twice as many, to be exact. He knows twice as much as Clay about this area of inquiry. With three points, we have Steve and Cal. And in first place, with four points, are have Steve and Cal. And in first place, with four points, are Randall and Chili. Wow. Four points. Wow.

Chili, have you won before? Now I know why Chili tried to stab me in the back by pointing out the French. France. No, I've never won. Actually, to date, I have the most correct answers. I've only ever had four ever right. Wow. Not going to mess with your perfect game.

And he declared he gets one more right each game, so it went like two, three, four. And so he said, he told me before, today he's getting five correct answers. At a minimum. At a minimum. At a minimum. Okay. This is fantastic.

I'll tell you guys something about Chili that'll surprise you. Yeah, you don't need to we'll go ahead if you feel inclined question six wait a minute you're not gonna do it hey folks exciting news for those who live or hunt in Canada. And boy, my goodness do we hear from the Canadians whenever we do a raffle or a sweepstakes. And our raffle and sweepstakes law makes it that they can't join. Whew, our northern brothers get irritated. Well, if you're sick of, you know, sucking high and titty there on x is now in canada the

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was shot on this mountain that the movie is based on. This is question six. The topic is public lands. No, the topic is cinema. Okay, let's be honest about it. Part of the 1997 film Dante's Peak was shot on this mountain that the movie is based on. Dante's Mountain. Randallall do you have a correct answer or are you just guessing

Pierce Brosnan I'm not well you're handing out hints here to the room I don't think that's confirming or denying people that get scalded in the creek you just say handing out all sorts of hints the most badass suburban build ever I just assumed

well, maybe I'm making too many assumptions. Randall has now provided two hints to the room. Part of the 1997 film Dante's Peak was shot on this mountain that the movie is based on. Randall, do you love that movie? You don't have to keep giving details

if you don't want. It's been a while. There's another film that was released at the same time he's just gonna keep going go on i think it's a weirder movie because i have no idea about the same okay i'm gathering because it's public lands i'm gathering it's not the madahorn or something um well i don't want to yeah i don if that's where Steve's head's at, then we should just leave alone. Part of the 1997 film Dante's Peak was shot on this mountain that the movie is based on.

Appears as though Randall is the only one who's confident. You say this is bucketed under what? Public lands. I don't know that my answer is correct. I know the film. RT, are you familiar with this movie? I am.

Do you have the answer? I have an answer. I couldn't have told you that the film was filmed at this place. Marco? I have three answers. It was filmed at the place. That's the question. That's right.

Part of the 1997 film Dante's Peak was shot on this mountain that the movie is based on. Oh, okay. So it's based on and shot there. RT, did you watch this movie in high school? What year was it? 1997. Yep. Okay. watch this movie in high school uh what year was it 1997 uh yep okay and i think i remember the name of the other one as well that ran was referencing but what was that again that would be too much of a hunter can you read both mine we can read you know you know the one i'm talking about no one

no one likes that movie i felt felt like this was a real hit in this neck of the woods. In 1997, I was one years old, by the way. Okay. Wow. Is everybody ready? When I was in high school and got bored in class

and wasn't doing very good, I doodled. So I'm just kind of like working on my name up here. Okay. Yeah, he drew us a spoon before. working on my name up here. Okay. Yeah, he drew us a spoon before. It was a big hit around that area.

Wow, Steve is sussing out all the hints you guys are handing out. I got the author, dude. Okay, is everybody ready? Yeah. Go ahead and reveal your answers. I can't even tell what you crossed out. I crossed out El Capitan, which is more like a face than I wrote Denali. Okay, we have Marco saying Mount Rainier. RT saying Mount St. Helens.

Randall saying Mount St. Helens. Oh, that makes sense. Chili saying Mount Rainier. Cal saying Lolo. Clay saying Mount Rainy. I saw you change your answer. Mount Rainy. Let me see how he's got it spelled.

Well, I was trying to. Let me see. Mount Rainy. No, that ain't going to fly. The correct answer is Mount St. Helens. Of course, because it's all smoky. And Randall. Plus it's got all that road infrastructure.

Was it that he was volcano? Was it that they were up there when it blew? Is that what it was? The movie stars Pierce Brosnan, who plays a USGS scientist who's monitoring a dormant volcano in Washington. Rotten Tomatoes ranked it as the 41st best disaster movie of all time, losing out to films such as Sharknado, Sharknado 2, Sharknado 3, Sharknado 5, and Snake's Out of Place.

Sharknado was a natural disaster? Isn't the town, wasn't it Wallace? Wallace, that's what it was. Yeah, isn't it the 25th anniversary? No, it's the something anniversary, May 18. I don't know. Was it 83 that it blew? 1980.

I know it's May 18. Yeah, I lost that on a tiebreaker, I think, in one of the first games that I played. Randall handed out so many hints there, I thought more folks would have got it you know the scene i'm talking about yeah the scalding woman they're going to the hot springs and it gets uh oh yeah and the old they're not going to make it through and grandma gets out yeah no no so there's that yeah i was talking about at the beginning there's like some skinny dippers that go to a hot spring but it's hotter than it should be.

What's the other volcano movie? Volcano. Okay. And they get boiled to death? Yeah. I think they find them there. They find these people boiled in the hot spring and they're like, oh, something is going on with the geothermal activity. It's classic.

He's the authority and he's reading everything and nobody believes him yeah he's crazy and he finds a love interest after his last partner died because they were escaping a volcano and uh magmarot comes through the roof of the pickup and just uh decapitates her so that's why his previous wife his previous wife and then then he finds new love in a similar situation. You know, he's a real cowboy of the USGS world. I really wanted to be a volcano scientist after that. Volcanologist. You're always around erupting volcanoes.

Took her head right off. Through the top of the truck. It didn't take her head off, but it, like, went through her brains. Something like that. Question seven. The topic is hunting. What does the 10 in Ruger 1022

represent? This is question seven. I don't know. I mean, it depends what you think the answer is. What does the 10 in Ruger 1022 represent?

The topic is hunting. This is question seven. Cal, you knew the movie, but you didn't know it was Mount St. Helens. I was just thinking like infrastructure, which so Mount St. Helens and Mount Baker and Mount Rainier were all three of my top choices. Oh, Randall said he saw you cross St. Helens off, right? No, Chile. Chile had the right answer and he changed it. And then I thought maybe you might just be doing something Montana local.

Classic case of once you overthink these things, you're screwed. If I wasn't out living on that bus and everything, I think you'd be doing well. I would have got that right. And part of the movie was filmed there. Wrong question. Who started Volcano? Was that

Tommy Lee Jones? I only ever saw Dante's Peak. Phil is a Dante's Peak kind of guy so when his wife gets killed is it like a back is it a backflash no I think that's how the movie starts yeah it establishes

his kind of like cowboy you know like the rogue agent right you got too close it's one of those plots the plot is both man versus nature and also man against bureaucracy no and also finding love yeah was he bummed that his wife got killed or was he glad i think it like makes him a little disinterested

in the whole thing he like loses a little passion for a second when his wife gets killed yeah you should just turn it on for you we We got a few hours today to kill. I'm not going to watch it. Spencer, would you look up who stars in Volcano? I can do that. That was also a 1997 release. You know, real quick, I'll tell you. At the very least, we could watch the scene where the wife gets killed.

It seems like you've clung on to that. No, I would like to see that. Here's the thing I do, though, and I think that the world would be a better place if more people did this. It's Tommy Lee Jones and Anne He more people did this it's Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche I knew did I not say Tommy Lee Jones

you did God give her an extra point yep yep Anne Heche I wouldn't have I wouldn't have gotten that

is it Heche no that sounds French I'm trusting Phil Steve what do you do that more folks need to do oh if someone says like oh you should listen to him

you should listen to that musician You should listen to that musician. You should watch the movie. You should read that book. Instead of grin-effing them, I'll go, to be honest, I'm not going to do that. Do you know what I mean?

It's just like the stress levels go down for everybody. Yeah, you no longer have that chore on your plate. I'm like, to be honest with you, I'm never going to read that book. It's like, okay, everybody walks away. I would prefer not to.

Does everybody have an answer for the 10 in Ruger 1022? Yeah, I got it. Go ahead and reveal your answer. We have Steve saying magazine capacity. Marco saying millimeter. RT saying gauge. Randall saying 10 round rotary magazine. Chili saying mill. Cal saying 10age. Randall saying 10-round rotary magazine. Chili saying mill.

Cal saying 10 rounds. Clay saying 10-round magazine. The correct answer is 10 rounds of ammo. The room did very well. The Ruger 10-22 is a.22 long rifle rimfire that has a patented 10-round rotary magazine. The gun made Jordan Siller's list of the six best.22 long rifles. To find out what the other five are, go read his article on TheMeatEater.com. I'll throw in a quick plug here.

If you're a.10-22 person, you should be checking out the product line at TAC Seoul. What are they doing for the line? They make all kinds of souped up 10-22 components. They make really souped up 10-22 components, but you can actually assemble pretty much the whole damn gun out of super souped up components.

They're nice. Man, I'm a big 10-22 man. If I could take two firearms, aside from it being a 22, you couldn, aside from it being a.22, like you couldn't really use it on big game, I'd grab my 10-22, man. I just feel like it's an extension of my body.

If I remember correctly, in that article of Jordan Sillers, you said that was your favorite.22 to shoot. Yep. He used to comment that the commonality amongst our neighborhood, if you went from house to house to house and found the things that gelled everybody together it'd be the big chill soundtrack and a ruger 1022 question eight the topic is fishing if you cross the state fish of wisconsin with the state fish of north Dakota, you'll get this hybrid.

I'm coming back. I'm coming back. Steve is feeling confident. If you cross the State Fish of Wisconsin with the State Fish of North Dakota, you'll get this hybrid. I'm coming back. How long do I got to come back, Phil?

This is question eight. Okay. You got it, Randall? I think so. Who's winning right now? We'll get a scoreboard update after this. Phil, when was Volcano made? This is a Volcano episode now. Can I do a side bet and get a point?

I haven't seen it in forever. If I say that Marco doesn't have it and he doesn't can i get an extra point uh i think the odds on that randall i was actually a geology major at the university of montana for a short window and was kicking ass and then got to the class that i wanted to take the most which was volcanoes and earthquakes and i was like you know nerding out on all this geology stuff on the high of also doing very well academically and i got into that class and just every day could not fathom how like the professor's job was to make volcanoes and earthquakes the most boring, hated subject on the planet. I never got through it.

And you were done after that. I was done after that. Does everybody have an answer for the state fish of Wisconsin with the state fish of North Dakota that creates this hybrid? I'm on a hot streak. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying tiger musky. Marco saying on a hot streak. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying Tiger Muskie. Marco saying the Cheese Curd Sandwich. RT

and Randall say Tiger Muskie. Chili says Sturgeon. Cal says Tiger Muskie. Clay says Hybrid Striper. The correct answer is Tiger Muskie. What the hell is he speaking about? I don't know. I think we need to talk to Chili about this. I don't know.

I don't know anything. I'm just here. I don't know anything about fish in North Dakota. Chili. He quit playing once he got his five correct answers. That was enough. I only got four. You jinxed it by bringing that up.

And now I need one more. Wisconsin made the muskie their state fish in 1955, and North Dakota made the pike their state fish, in 1955, and North Dakota made the pike, their state fish, in 1969. Tiger muskie are rare in nature because they're sterile, and pike tend to spawn earlier than muskie. Tiger muskie are found in about 40 states. Phil, we have two questions left. We are now going to get a leaderboard update.

In last place are Marco and Clay with two points. We're going to have a race to see which one of you knows more about hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking with two questions left. Next up, with four points, we have Chili and RT. Four points for Chili and RT. Next up with five points are Cal and Steve. They have five. And Randall is running away with it.

He has seven correct answers. Randall. If Randall gets his next question right, it is all over. Man, think about it. If Randall wasn't here, it'd be like neck and neck. And Randall's the only one that hasn't been sleeping on a tour bus. Oh, you're right. That's true.

A lot of folks have been. I'm like Mark Wahlberg in the movie Rockstar when he joins the band as the band has already been a band for a long time. I think Phil's the only one who got that reference. What year did that movie start, Randall? 96, I think. It's a good one. The band Steel Dragon.

The soundtrack is excellent. Question nine. The topic is cooking. Native to Africa, this is the third most commonly eaten fish in the world. Yeah, buddy. The topic is cooking. If Randall gets this right, the game is over. He's sealed the victory.

The topic is cooking. Native to Africa, this is the third most commonly eaten fish in the world. I'm now more invested in the race between Marco and Clay. Clay, do you have this one right? You know this one? No. No, he doesn't. Clay, do you?

I don't know anything. This is what he's got a chance, he says. I know native fish to Africa. I can't imagine how it can be the third most consumed fish in the world. That's right. Third most eaten fish in the world that's measured by weight. Is everybody ready? Do you got it, Randall?

Yes, I think so. Damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying tilapia. Oh, Marco! Marco saying tilapia. RT says perch.

Randall says tilapia. Chili, without an answer. Cal saying tigerfish.all says tilapia. Chili, without an answer. Cal saying tigerfish. Clay saying tilapia. Hey, listen, Marco and I had coffee this morning, and I gave him like a – I wish somebody had been recording it. It was like a compelling spiel on the North American model of hunting. I think it like zapped all of my knowledge.

Well, I got a square with you, though. I didn't think you'd have it, so I told him what it was. Oh, no. Dirty, dirty cheater. The correct answer is tilapia. Isn't tilapia a type of perch? Yeah, Nile perch.

That's what I was going to bring up. The integrity of this game is... RT, if you want to point, I won't argue with you. Actually, I think it's a... It's a Nile perch. Is it a cichlid? I was going to say Nile perch. I won't argue with you. I mean, I wouldn't. Actually, I think it's a Nile perch. Is it a cichlid? I was going to say Nile perch. I think it's a cichlid.

It's a Nile perch, but I wouldn't give it to him. Yeah. I'm not in the running, but I'll take the point. But I put down Nile perch. You did put down Nile perch. And tilapia. Both of them. The only fish ahead of tilapia on the worldwide consumption list are tuna and salmon.

After tilapia on the list are Alaskan pollock, cod, and catfish. It's believed that tilapia were the second fish in the world to be raised in aquaculture with tilapia farming starting about 1,000 years after carp farming.

Wow. You know, I was in the highlands in Luzon Island, like in the Philippines. Okay. And they have these big terraced rice gardens, rice beds. And part of their crop rotation is to flood it and raise tilapia in it. So when it's out of production production it becomes a tilapia pond even though they're not native there but that's what they use now out of production becomes a tilapia pond then you and that like fertilizes when did aquaculture start in the uh philippines

and the hawaiian islands because the that started a long time ago i don't know i think you said carp was like 3 500 years ago or something like that. Tilapia came about 1,000 years after that. Randall has wrapped up the victory, but we have one question left. We'll finish the game. Randall. The topic is conservation. How many of California's national parks are named after a plant?

Come on, dude. What don't you like about this one, Steve? It's just nothing. You got to know a lot about California. How many of California's national parks are named after a plant? This will not change the outcome of the game. Randall has secured the victory. He has eight points right now.

How many of California's national parks are named after a plant? Do y'all like how I kind of made my name look like a wave? I didn't notice that, but I do like that. Is it because we're by

the wave here in Missoula? It's because I am bored with this question. Clay is searching for praise. He's like, well, I can't get the question, but look at my artwork. I mean, okay. Uh-huh.

How many of California's national parks are named after a plant? Does everybody have an answer? Yep. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Steve saying one.

Marco saying four. Artie says three. Randall saying two. Chili, four. Cal, one. Clay, two. I want to go with two, even though I wrote one. Okay.

Because there's probably two. One of you. There's Redwoods. Somebody has the correct answer in this room. Only one of us. The correct answer is three. Oh! RT, got it. Right. Can you guys name all three of them?

Joshua Tree. Oh. Sequoia. Oh. Redwood. Is that a National Park or a monument? That's the three of them. Sequoia. Oh. Redwood. Is that a national park or a monument? That's the three of them. You got them. I forgot about that. I wasn't thinking of that. California has nine national parks, with three of those being named after a plant.

Those are Redwood National Park, Sequoia National Park, and Joshua Tree National Park. Joshua Tree is the most popular, ranked ninth on the list of the most visited national parks in the nation. Randall is our winner with eight correct answers. Got my buns kicked. Randall, where is the $500 donation from Meat Eater going to go? The $500 is going to go to the Mayfly Project, which that's a new one i think teaches foster kids and foster

care how to fly fish and about the world of conservation why can't they go jigging like can't they vertical jig i got some world records there might be another project out there that comes from josh merkel that's project lead head so what's the organization one more time? The Mayfly Project. $500 going their way. If you have an organization that you'd like me to donate to. Wow. See, I thought Randall wins so much, I thought he was going to have his own conservation organization.

Do you win so much that people come to you looking for the money? I've got two more in the hopper here. This guy emailed me about my hat. This is a Missoula osprey minor league baseball team hat before they changed the paddle heads and he emailed to ask how he can get an osprey it's a good way to get while i got you yeah he was like while i got you next time you win think of the mayfly project well all joking aside i do think they should i mean yeah i applaud the mission um it's spinning tackle well you kids should have the you know you teach a kid to fish I applaud the mission.

But spin and tackle. Well, you teach a kid to fish, right? Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Feed him for a lifetime. Well done, Randall. How guilty do you feel about rolling in here after sleeping in a nice bed last night? Freshened up. Well, I compare it to the NBA playoffs.

I came in after some rest. You guys have been grinding it out, seven-game series. Are you saying you somehow earned a bye in the first round? Yeah, somehow. Yeah. I'm unproven, but it worked. You should have been on the bus last night. We had Steve trying to make NBA comparisons to members of the crew

and what they were doing on the stage. He said we were slam dunking it all night um did anybody else get up in the middle of the night to hit the head and note the increase in smell oh it was wicked last night so bad that day break it was wicked oh yeah yeah yeah randall be more powering a day break the bus has some fumes and uh okay that maybe that gave you a much bigger advantage than we know.

Are they biological or petrochemical? You'll find out soon. Join us next time for more Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. Thank you.