The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 561: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CXVI
Episode Date: June 12, 2024Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steve Rinella, Janis Putelis, Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Seth Morris, Mackenzie Elmquist, and Max Barta. Connect with MeatEater on�...�Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop Trivia MerchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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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, Giannis, Brody, Max, Randall, Mackenzie, Cal, and Seth.
This is a 10-round quiz show with questions from Meat Eaters for Verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking.
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Beautiful.
Good job, Spencer.
Beautiful.
Now here's our infrequently asked questions segment.
If you have a trivia-related question for our crew,
send it to trivia at themeateater.com with the subject line IFAQ.
Holly Roberts wants to know
is Steve as fiery,
feisty, and grouchy when he's not playing
trivia? I can't tell if
he's putting on a show or if that's how
he behaves around the office all the time.
It's even worse when he's not
Not only is it just in his office
but at his home as well.
It's the same person.
Steve, it depends if I've been wronged.
I mean, if I get wronged at home, I don't let it fly.
Yeah, Steve, he's just always walking around being wronged
and a little fiery, feisty, and grouchy.
I'll tell you this.
I recently got a hug from Steve.
That doesn't sound like a grouchy guy to me.
Did I just won?
Who else in here got a hug from Steve recently?
Nobody.
Not me.
I'm giving him a few hugs.
Oh, yeah.
You and me are hugged all kinds of times.
Maybe we need a little hug after this.
I could hug Max right now.
Okay, all right.
Now Max is the favorite.
Oh, yeah.
Mackenzie.
Okay, look at that.
Me, Max, and Mackenzie.
Should have sat on the other side of the table today.
Randall, yours is coming.
Now, for the housekeeping portion of today's show,
we're going to rewind all the way back to February
when Brody hosted an episode of Meat Dealer Trivia.
If you'll recall, Brody wore a suit that day and left his hat at home.
This inspired a lot of comedians to comment on YouTube and Instagram about
Brody's look.
So today our crew is going to pick their favorite comment.
And then I'm going to send that person a signed copy of the board game.
So we're like,
we've got,
we've gotten so low that we're making fun of people's physical appearances.
Thanks Spencer.
I know this is like good old-fashioned 1980s bullion right now.
You've opened up
a door here.
Classic shithead bullion
right here.
Let's do it.
And as a refresher,
Phil has put a picture
of Brody
from that episode
up on our TV screen.
So as I read our comments,
you can look at that.
All right, here are the comments.
You guys need to remember
your favorites
and we'll pick the best one at the end
Brody will pick the best one
But the other seven folks in the room
Will provide their input
Brody looks like a southern baptist preacher
Yeah not that
Brody looks like Professor X
If Professor X became a politician
That one didn't land
Who's Professor X, Phil?
He's part of the X-Men.
Professor Charles Xavier.
I forgot you pronounced the X and that Xavier.
Here's the next one.
It's nice you guys let a mortician host this week.
Brody looks like Boss Baby.
That one's for younger children.
Recent kids. I think he looks like
the guy, one of the sports guys.
Oh yeah, we're getting there.
It's cool you got
the guy from the Six Flags commercials
to host.
Brody takes it so
seriously that he went with a
Windsor knot.
That's the only knot he's
got.
It's like Brody wakes up trying to decide what not he's gonna put on his tie brody probably had hair until he started playing trivia no it
was gone a long time brody looks like what i imagine the banker from neil deal or no deal
looks like no okay i've never seen Mr. Clean in a suit.
Brody could definitely pass as a hockey coach.
Here's the one that Steve was referencing.
You guys got Scott Van Pelt to host this week.
He is the guy from SportsCenter.
My man Brody looks like he's heading
to a traffic ticket hearing.
I like that one.
That one was actually funny.
Like, calling these people comedians is a stretch so far.
No, that's like the exact opposite of the job I want.
Brody looks like a high school sub who takes his job way too seriously,
but also doesn't want to be there.
So what,
what was the favorites among the room?
Brody,
you pick that one as well.
All right.
That was from Tanner Ballers,
1403.
We're going to send you a signed copy of the board game for saying my man,
Brody looks like he's heading to a traffic ticket hearing.
That guy's funny.
Now, was that tie tied when you put it on that morning?
No.
Oh, nicely done.
And the Shelby index for today is a three and a half.
So our winner should get seven 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.
What?
So weird.
It's time to win everything.
Game on, suckers!
Question one.
The topic is fishing, and this will be multiple choice.
Which of these fish is not part of the sunfish family?
Is it smallmouth bass, black crappie, pumpkin seed, or white bass?
Which of these fish is not part of the sunfish family?
That means three of them are sunfish, one of them is not part of the sunfish family. That means three of them are sunfish. One of them is not.
Is it a smallmouth bass,
black crappie,
pumpkin seed,
or white bass?
Brody, Seth, Yanni,
they all look confident.
So easy this one.
So easy.
Steve must really think
that I'm trying to cheat today.
He just hears.
Okay.
Oh, sorry.
Smallmouth bass, black crappie, pumpkin seed, white bass.
Which of those four fish is not in the sunfish family?
Does everybody have an answer?
No, give me a minute.
What do you got, Max?
Do you like his answer, Brody?
Too late to change it.
Brody does not approve of Maxwell's answer.
We have a new fun thing we do where if you promise not to change it,
you know Brody knows it.
You just flash it to Brody and he gives you the yes or no.
Mackenzie, are you ready?
Yeah.
Is everybody ready?
Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth saying white bass. Mackenzie, are you ready? Yeah. Is everybody ready?
Go ahead and reveal your answers.
We have Seth saying white bass.
Yanni says white bass.
Cal says smallmouth bass.
Randall says smallmouth bass.
Mackenzie, black crappie.
Steve, white bass.
Max, smallmouth.
Brody, white bass. The correct answer is white bass.
I think three of you got that one right.
Four.
Four of you.
Seth, Yanni, brody.
Educate me.
What's the deal?
Well, the white bass are part of the temperate bass family,
along with striped bass, yellow bass, and white perch.
Besides smallmouth, crappie, and pumpkin seed,
other members of the sunfish
family include bluegill, green
sunfish, warmouth, rock
bass, and as Steve said,
largemouth bass.
White bass are like true bass.
Question two.
The topic is conservation.
This next great question is via
Paul Graken.
If you remove the last letter of the Western Hemisphere's most diverse desert,
you'll have a dog breed instead.
For your answer, you could write down the desert or the dog breed, whichever you'd like.
If you remove the last letter of the Western Hemisphere's most diverse desert,
you'll have a dog breed instead randall very quick to answer
he knows this one i'm gonna need a few minutes the rest of the room it's yet to put marker to
whiteboard randall you know this one i believe so if you remove the last letter of the western
hemisphere's most diverse desert,
you'll have a dog breed instead.
Hopefully knock down a couple of these white bass people.
We have a lot of heavy hitters in the room here today.
Yanni, who's won two straight games.
When you say diverse, you mean biologically diverse?
I am quoting a source.
I will tell you the source
afterwards, but this is a
direct quote from them. Most diverse
desert.
Randall's here today. Yanni's
won two straight games. We got
Steve, Cal,
Brody. Don't forget about me now, Spencer.
Maxwell over here. Yanni's coming off
a perfect game. Oh, and a perfect game.
That's right. Maxwell will clean up if we have any North Dakota questions today.
If you remove the last letter of the Western Hemisphere's most diverse desert, you'll have a dog breed instead.
Randall may be the only one who gets this one right.
Cal, do you have-
Did you come up with this question?
Well, Paul Graykin sent in the inspiration for it,
and then I had to massage it to get it to a point
where I felt like I could give our players a chance.
What does diverse mean?
I will tell you.
As the guy asking the question,
you should probably have some idea what the hell you're talking about.
I know what I'm talking about.
Are you choosing between two deserts that both,
when you remove the last letter, they...
I think I can tell you all this. No, but I'm trying to figure out how hard I need to think about Are you choosing between two deserts that both, when you remove the letter, they...
I think I can tell you all this.
No, but I'm trying to figure out how hard I need to think about that super dry-ass desert in Chile.
Do I need to spend a bunch of time thinking about that?
That's damn dry.
There's no life in places.
You should.
There's places that has been rain in over 150 years.
Maybe never.
The only moisture ever... Dude, That doesn't sound very diverse.
That's what I'm saying.
Do you mean diverse by how damn dry it is?
Why would it mean diverse?
Now, why would it mean diverse because of how dry it is?
I don't know.
You'd need to come up with a desert that's one letter away from also being a dog breed.
Cal, do you have this one right?
Yeah, I do.
Okay.
Cal and Randall may be the only ones,
and they did not get question one right.
Could tie it up here.
Time to wrap this up, Spencer.
I was dragged out for a while.
I'm thinking here.
So on the bass question,
like when they talk about bass conservation in North America,
they refer to as green bass or black bass.
You should call them all black bass.
Black bass.
Yeah, but bass is a family of fish, like striped bass, white bass.
Temperate bass.
That's completely different than freshwater sunfish.
Yeah, but I always thought smallmouth were Lumped in with the black bass
They are a black
They're part of the sunfish family
So it would be sunfish and then you have black bass
It's like calling brook trout trout
But they're not trout
Is that where the red eye comes from?
Is everybody ready?
Go ahead and reveal your answers.
Oh, son of a bitch!
We have Seth without an answer.
We have Yanni saying the Mojave.
I guessed it last second.
And Mackenzie saying Chihuahua or Chihuahuan.
Max, he's being a good sport.
He shows Shih Tzu.
Steve is not being a good sport.
I had Mojave.
Mojave.
And Brody
The correct answer is
The Chihuahuan Desert
Or the Chihuahua Dog
When I was in graduate school
I even wrote a paper
For my Western History seminar
About the Chihuahuan Desert
Being like a biological barrier
For the spread of hallucinogenics
Out of Mesoamerica
Into the American Great Plains
And it didn't
Didn't stick with you.
That's a real catchy title.
Both the Chihuahuan Desert and Chihuahua dog breed
are named after the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
According to the National Park Service,
not only is it one of the most diverse places in the world,
but it's also one of the most endangered.
The region's unique plants and animals there
are threatened by overgrazing,
water depletion,
invasive species,
and urbanization.
Damn.
Question three.
The topic is hunting.
This is our listener question of the week,
which was won by Ben Cosgrove
for sending this great question.
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You know how you're generally resistant to change?
I feel like a good line of-
Spencer or just people in general?
Spencer?
Okay.
The other day, you know what I was thinking about?
That'd be a good little thing for you to explore.
Tell me.
Is that you bring in a stuffed fish
or just have a picture of a fish.
What fish is this?
Well, you should have been here about three
weeks ago.
We had a picture of a hybrid fish.
We did.
And you had to identify what two fish created
that fish.
Oh, I was texting you about that idea.
He did not.
What was the fish?
Right after you hugged him.
The fish, the fish was a sturdle fish and that
was an American paddle fish.
You did a photo thing. We did do a photo thing. Here's the question number three. The fish was a Sturtlefish and that was an American Paddlefish And a Russian Sturgeon
We did do a photo thing
Here's the question number three
In what decade did JCPenney
And Sears stop selling guns?
In what decade did
JCPenney and Sears stop
Selling guns?
Your answer, if you thought they stopped selling guns yesterday, you'd say the 2020s.
That's how you should write your answer.
In what decade did JCPenney and Sears stop selling guns?
So we have to have four digits is what you're saying.
I think you should.
That's correct.
Did anybody in here ever buy a gun from JCPenney or Sears?
That'd be quite a clue, wouldn't it?
Sure looked at it.
Yeah, no kidding.
Oh, wow.
I sure looked at a lot of those old catalogs.
Wasn't J.C. Higgins one of their brands?
I think that was it.
That was the, well, I'm not going to tell you any hints.
Is everybody ready?
No.
Oh, Yanni, making a little change.
I have a Sears boat.
A Sears boat?
Yep.
Tell me about that.
Came with my shack.
It's a boat.
Is it like a Sears-branded boat?
Yeah, it says Sears right on the side.
Matter of fact, Seth, I think you wanted me to find out what kind of boat it was.
I was going to say, who made that for them?
I dug down in all the moss and shit, and lo and behold, it was Sears.
Do you know who made it for Sears?
No.
Okay.
Is everybody ready?
No.
Brody is thinking hard.
You know, in the old days, you could send furs into Sears.
They were fur buyers.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
At one point, they were the biggest department store in the world.
So I imagine anything that you could name, they would buy or sell.
Is everybody ready?
I'm changing.
Mackenzie making a last second change.
Go ahead and reveal your answers.
We have Seth saying the 1980s.
Giannis says 1990s.
Cal, 1990s. Randall, 1980s. Mackenzie the 1980s. Giannis says 1990s. Cal, 1990s.
Randall, 1980s.
Mackenzie, 1980s.
Steve, 1970s.
Let's take a look what they're...
Crossed out an 80.
Max.
Look how my eight is shaped.
Max, 1980s.
Brody, 1960s.
We have a correct answer in the room. It's 1980s, Brody, 1960s. We have a correct answer in the room.
It's 1980s.
We had three of you get that one right.
A 1976 JCPenney ad lists the Remington 870 on sale for $148
and the Winchester 94 for $89. And a Sears ad from 1975 lists a 25-count box of 12-gauge shotgun shells on sale for $2
and a 20-count box of.243 shells for $6.
Besides those stores, you could also buy guns at Kmart, True Value Hardware, Montgomery Ward Furniture, and Western Auto.
For more on this era, read one of my favorite articles from TheMeatDeeder.com called An Ode to Department Store Guns.
Well, didn't you say the ads were listed in the 70s?
Those were ads that I found from the 70s, but they sold into the 80s.
Oh, that's a weird way of doing things.
I couldn't find an ad from the 80s.
Now, Brody, you were talking about Higgins.
They were JC Higgins guns, which I think there was the Ted Williams brand.
Was it the Ted Williams brand?
I don't know.
I just read that had a JC.
Sold at Sears.
I have a JC Higgins.
I think it says Sears on it.
I've got a Western Auto.
You do?
Yeah, that I bought at the Capital Sports in Helena.
Maybe the most shocking thing besides prices when I was looking at those catalogs was how prevalent the 16-gauge was.
You could buy all kinds of ammo, all kinds of guns that were 16-gauge.
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Here's question four.
The topic is natural history.
The Amazon's Marubo tribe became hooked on social media and porn after getting Wi-Fi from this internet provider.
The Amazon's Marubo tribe became hooked on social media and porn after getting Wi-Fi from this internet provider.
I was going to say, does this have like a connection?
This feels like something that would be
addressed on the Me, Deidre podcast.
Is this recent, Spencer? Not going to give you any
hints. Honestly, I'm surprised
we haven't covered it. It's the first I've heard of
an Arubo tribe.
We're watching
natural history unfold with this
subject.
Some point, they'll look back
on this in 80 years and be like,
oh, that was when that tribe got
internet. Is everybody ready?
And you don't say. Porn and social media
they got into. Social media, they
took a real liking. Not engineering.
I want to know
the search terms they used.
Did they have the device
before the Wi-Fi, I wonder?
I don't know the answer to that.
The
Amazon's Marubo tribe
became hooked on social media
and porn after getting Wi-Fi
from this internet provider.
Is everybody ready?
Go ahead and reveal your
answers. We have Seth
and Giannis and Cal and Randall saying Starlink, McKenzie, Telecom, Steve, Starlink, Max, Google, Brody, Starlink.
They got it.
The correct answer is Starlink.
The reclusive Amazon tribe received Internet from Starlink about nine months ago. Initially, the Wi-Fi was heralded as
a positive, helping the isolated Marubo gain educational resources and contact authorities
during emergencies. But it has since divided the 2,000-member tribe that lives deep inside
Brazil's rainforest. Elders in the community complained that some members have developed a
social media and porn addiction with 173 year
old saying quote young people have gotten lazy because of the internet they're learning the ways
of the white people he's like dan did you hear about this biden guy
brody i feel like that's very relevant to me de Dieter. Like I said, that was a turning point for this very...
Just a joke.
Just a joke.
I think that was good because I got a...
I like that.
Got that one right.
Question five.
I'm interested in that area and I'm interested in those tribes.
In fact, I got a whole book I'll tell you about later.
The topic is conservation.
This next great question is via Randy R.
What's the colorful nickname for the harmful algae blooms
that occur nearly every year in
the Gulf of Mexico?
What's the colorful nickname for the harmful
algae blooms that occur nearly every year in
the Gulf of Mexico?
So this guy's Randy R.
Nice.
Is that, uh, I don't know Is that... I don't know him.
No, I don't know him.
Brody has this one right. Max looks
confident. Randall looks confident.
Yanni joins them with an
answer. This is question five. We'll get
a scoreboard update from Phil the Engineer
after this.
What's the colorful nickname for
the harmful algae blooms that occur
nearly every year in the Gulf of Mexico?
I know this, man.
Steve knows it.
We've done podcasts on this.
Which is odd because he hasn't come up with an answer yet.
No, I know.
I can't think of it because my recall is not what it once was.
He knew the Chihuahua Desert as well.
He's over 50 now.
No, I didn't know that.
You wrote a whole paper about it.
Well, I know, but it didn't occur to me, so my recall is not what it once was.
What's the colorful nickname for the harmful algae bloom that occurs nearly every year in the Gulf of Mexico?
The topic was conservation, and this is question five.
Is everybody ready?
Is it harmful for animals or harmful for people?
I'm sure he'll tell us that, Max.
I bet he is.
I think Randall is right.
Oh, Max just, oh, look, he could kill.
That was brutal.
Is everybody ready?
No, give me a sec.
Oh, cripes.
Colorful nickname for the harmful algae blooms.
Sorry, Max, I didn't mean to.
Don't let it happen again.
There's just a lot of, you know, a lot of question asking going on these days.
Too many questions in this room.
Sometimes you're warranted.
Is everybody ready?
Yep.
Go ahead and reveal your answers.
We have Seth and Giannis and Cal and Randall saying Red Tide.
This is my ad.
That's not it, though.
Mackenzie says Black Algae.
Steve says Red Tide.
Max says Red. Broenzie says black algae. Steve says red tide. Max says red.
Brody says red tide.
The correct answer is red tide.
Most of the room got that one right.
That's my first spearfishing nickname.
Is red tide?
Does Max get a point for red?
Because he always had blood coming out of his nose.
Max does not get a point. And coming up he always had blood coming out of his nose.
Max does not get a point.
And coming up with fish being like, what is this?
This is toughy for you right now.
Red tide happens when algae multiplies to higher than normal concentrations that cause the water to turn red or brown.
These events cause large-scale die-offs of shrimp, crabs, and fish.
Red tide occurs worldwide but has become more frequent in recent years due to increased nutrient pollution.
Phil, we're halfway through the game of trivia. Give us a scoreboard update.
Well, the chance of a perfect game was gone by question two, but we still got a couple strong players.
Max has one.
Max has one. Max has one.
Mackenzie has two.
Steve, Giannis, Cal, and Brody all have three points
and tied up in first place are Randall and Seth with four points.
Ooh, Seth.
A little taste of the winner's circle.
I don't know why you're making it so real.
Getting a little lick of the winner's circle.
Even Seth.
Be careful, Seth.
Spencer will start making fun
of how you look
question six
the topic is woodsmanship
and this next great question is via Janet
Staples
this nine letter word refers
to a plant that grows somewhere
it wasn't deliberately planted
such as corn growing
in a bean field.
This nine-letter word refers to a plant that grows somewhere it wasn't deliberately planted,
such as corn growing in a bean field.
The room looks very confident on this one.
We may have a 100 percenter.
Well, I don't know about that.
Oh, okay.
How many letters?
Nine letters. If you drop one, it may have a 100 percenter. Well, I don't know about that. Oh, okay. How many letters? Nine letters.
If you drop one, it sounds like a dog.
Okay, everybody on the-
Did you get that, Spencer?
I did get that.
Everyone except maybe Mackenzie and Brody.
I don't know.
I thought I was convinced I had it, but then I got to count.
Okay.
Maybe you just got to spell it differently.
Randall, do you have this?
I don't.
That's the approach I always take.
This nine-letter word refers to a plant that grows somewhere it wasn't deliberately planted,
such as corn growing in a bean field.
Are you sure it's not eight letters?
That's what I'm wondering.
I am certain.
Are there any dashes?
Not ten. I just recounted.
It's still nine.
Just like it was yesterday
when I wrote this question.
Very good, Yanni. This nine-letter
word refers to a
plant that grows somewhere
it wasn't deliberately planted,
such as corn growing in a bean field.
The topic was woodsmanship.
This is question six.
Seth and Yanni, very, very confident.
Cal, you have this one right as well.
I feel like it.
Okay.
They may be our only three.
I'm packing it in for this round of trivia.
We threw them off with the housekeeping section.
It was mean.
It was never the same after.
Is everybody ready?
I was catching crap for my bright top of my head the other day, too.
I was like, well, that's the way it's supposed to be.
I spelled it wrong.
Steve is now revisiting a previous answer, it appears.
Well, how the hell?
One, two, three, go.
Everybody?
Is everybody?
I don't know.
How many letters?
Or Max was just showing him his board,
and Steve took a little sneak peek.
No, I counted it wrong.
One.
Go ahead and reveal your
answers. We have Seth and
Giannis and Cal saying volunteer.
Randall, without an answer.
Mackenzie says non-native.
Steve and Max
say volunteer. Brody,
without an answer. The correct answer
is volunteer.
The room did pretty well.
Seth jumps into the league.
It's not the first time counting.
Another name for volunteer plants is rogue plants.
Volunteer plants are often spread by wind and birds
or when seeds from a previous crop rotation grow the following year.
Some examples of volunteer plants are soybeans growing in a ditch,
sunflowers growing in a wheat field,
or marijuana plants growing in a pasture.
Legal language has had to be created for volunteer plants
because marijuana is so prone to growing where it wasn't planted.
Out here, decorative lilies.
There's tons of them.
Tulips.
Your compost pile will have a lot of volunteers.
I've got some volunteer lettuce
i got a buddy who's a surveyor and uh one time they were out surveying this area ahead of these
guys clearing a lot and um he's out surveying this realizes this area's just all weed plants
and they're working and guys are clearing he's just checking some stuff as they clear
and so he's like i'm gonna come back after work and gather all that up.
And he goes home, and by the time he could get back,
it's all gone.
Question seven.
That same guy told me a story.
They were surveying a line in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
And to cut the line, they had to go through the hemlocks,
you know, and they're running a
chainsaw and the deer were real starving that year he says you'd clear that line and then you
couldn't look down with the equipment because deer would be blocking it and then he'd have a guy run
down and try to shoo the deer out of the way so you could wow that guy had all the scouting on
weed and deer he's there's another story okay just go out there and run the chainsaw and the deer come running.
Let me tell you this last thing.
It's very similar to the weed story.
He had a job for a while doing fish surveys for the state, gill net surveys,
and they were not allowed to keep the fish.
They had to dump the fish.
So he would do the same thing.
You'd go home, get your own truck and your own ice box, and go back out and pick up all the fish you weren was the same thing you'd go home get your own truck in your own ice box and go
back out and pick up all the fish you weren't allowed to keep he was living the high life man
weed deer and fish question seven the topic is public land podcast title this week-long
family event has been held on forest Service land since 1972.
This week-long family event
has been held on Forest Service
land since 1972.
Randall and Steve have an answer.
Yanni joining them.
Brody is exasperated.
Yeah, this is bizarre.
I'm...
It's a week-long family event. Brody is exasperated. Yeah, this is bizarre.
It's a week-long family event.
It's been held on Forest Service land since 1972.
Steve, do you have this one right?
No, unless you're being kind of cute.
Oh, okay.
Randall, do you have this one right?
Yeah, that's the answer.
He's never cute.
That's the answer I'm going with, too. He's never cute, though.
Well, I mean, anybody can go get an extended use permit for any chunk of forest service ground.
And if you want to have a family reunion since 1972.
A cow's family reunion.
Right.
And it's like, is everybody supposed to know about that?
Uh-huh.
Yep.
Yanni Randall Stevens.
If I got it right, I'm going to fight with you. Yeah, just wait. I'm at. Yanni Randall. If I got it right, I'm going to fight with you.
Yeah.
Just wait.
I'm telling you.
Normally I get to fighting when I'm wrong.
No, it's better to fight when you're right.
No, I'll be fighting when I'm right.
Sure.
I'll be like, sure, I got it right.
But let's talk about how stupid that was.
Is everybody ready?
I think there's ways you could massage this to make it a.
This week long family event. Family event
has been held on Forest
Service land
since 1972. Like, this is a national
thing? Should it be called
this federally endorsed
family activity? I feel like there's
gotta be more than one. I've given you
all the information you need. Oh yeah, that's a great question.
More than one
that's been since 1972.
Yeah, I'd be Yanni's turkey hunt.
And a week long.
Oh, no, 72.
Since 19, and it's always on Forest Service land.
Memorial Day weekend.
Hmm.
Is everybody ready?
Labor Day weekend.
Yeah, but.
I don't like it.
I think you should have.
Go ahead and reveal your answers.
We have Seth saying Burning Man.
Yanni says Rainbow Gathering. Cal
without an answer. Randall,
Rainbow Family Gathering.
Is this Burning Man BLM?
Is it for it?
Steve says Rainbow Gathering.
Max says Church Camp.
Brody says Rainbow Festival.
The correct answer is the Rainbow
Gathering.
I think there's been years when they've had it on private land. The long answer is the rainbow gathering. I think there's been years when they've had it on private land.
The long answer is the rainbow family of living light national gathering.
So that's why the question said a week-long family.
Is that a lot?
I feel like they've had it on private land.
Shame on me for thinking hunting and fishing.
You know?
Shame on me.
Well, it has implications for hunting and fishing because there's been a lot of controversy about how degraded those landscapes can get.
The rainbow gathering attracts about 7,000 people each year.
All the free oatmeal you can get.
It's a celebration of utopian impulses, bohemianism, and hippie culture.
The Forest Service says the group has no leaders or organization, but does have a vision council who picks where each event will be held.
Despite the next rainbow gathering being less than a month away, no official location has been selected yet.
A Facebook group I found strongly suggests it'll be in Washington or California, but there are rumors that Oklahoma is a dark horse candidate.
I feel like you're using a little subterfuge in that.
Yeah, you might want to check your facts, too, because I don't think they've always
had it on Forest Service land.
From what I could find, from where they have it, it's always been forest.
Do you know that drugs aren't allowed?
But if you want drugs, it's a good place to find it.
Do you want more feedback?
Sure.
So it'd be like this country in general.
I think if you put quotation marks around family event.
I originally had.
Yeah, it is the
rainbow family.
I originally had
the quotation marks.
But I removed it
because I thought
it made it too easy.
So I rolled it
back to this.
And I'll point out,
I think four of you
got that right.
So I feel good
about how I worked it.
I'm feeling great.
Questioning.
You're not giving it to me?
You get it.
You got it.
Yeah, I think we had,
yeah, rainbow.
Rainbow festival. Close enough. Like I think we had Rainbow Festival.
Close enough.
Like I said, the short answer is the Rainbow Gathering.
The long answer is the
Rainbow Family of Living Light.
I've never heard no one call it Festival.
The Rainbow Family of Living Light
National Gathering.
How many points has he got anyway?
Does it matter?
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The topic is fishing.
I do not like that.
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Monkfish, cod, halibut, pike, and burbot all go by this three-word nickname.
Monkfish, cod, halibut, pike, and burbot all go by this three-word nickname.
The room seems pretty stuffed.
I just want to shout it out after that last one.
Cal, I'll remind the listeners, Cal got that one wrong.
But I knew the answer.
He knew the answer, but he didn't write the answer down.
That's right, because my God.
Cal and Steve appear to be confident On question eight No no no
Cal doesn't have anything
We're sorry
How many weeks
Yanni
Yanni
And Steve
Monkfish
Cod
Halibut
Pike
And burbot
All go by this
So to use the bear defense
That we talked about earlier
Big ol' bunker
Had I been like
Well
The Johnsons
Have been
Partying on Forest Service land
Since 1972 Sure You could have gotten that right Cal If you could If you could have proved that Well, the Johnsons have been partying on Forest Service land since 1972.
Sure.
You could have gotten that right, Cal.
And you'd be like, well, no, not that family.
If you could have proven that, I'd give you the point.
The week-long Johnson family gathering on Forest Service land.
So Cal has a plea to the audience.
If you know a family that started an annual gathering.
It was a Forest Service lease cabin since 1972.
Since 1972.
Please notify him.
On a lake, off a lake.
I mean, come on.
Did you have that as your answer then?
What?
He did not write that.
This is a hypothetical family gathering.
It's been occurring since.
No.
They're like, prove their wrongs.
Again, question eight.
Go state by state. F johnson monkfish cod halibut pike and burbot all
go by this three-word nickname a lot of these i have not heard yeah yeah that's what's throwing
me off but i'll play your game yeah but i can for sure know that two
out of this list I've
heard call what I'm going with.
The Rainbow Gathering. They have the National
Gathering, right? And then I think there's some smaller
local ones as well.
Is it the Rainbow Gathering or the Rainbow Family Gathering?
The Rainbow Gathering. I told you the long
name. I wouldn't have
stirred the hornet's nest again here
with an additional little...
Last year was a real upset.
It was held in New Hampshire, which nobody saw coming.
It's a real upset when it's in your home state.
Oh, yeah.
Has it ever been in Montana?
Oh, twice in my lifetime.
Yeah, I remember it being a big old deal out.
Everybody got work.
It was like them and the Hells Angels all came one summer, man.
Remember that?
Yeah.
That was a wild summer.
Does everyone have an answer for the three-word nickname?
What happens when the Hells Angels come?
Monkfish, cod, halibut, pike, and bird.
Oh, everybody gets all worked up.
They do.
Yeah, but they're not out there messing up public land, I bet.
Well, listen, man, there was a lot going on.
The Forest Service website said that the Rainbow Gathering Vision Council
now sticks around for weeks afterwards to help clean up.
Yeah, a guy wrote in.
Was he writing in about the Rainbow Gathering or Burning Man
where they take those squares and to monitor the cleanup,
eventually you have to get where you can throw a meter square out
randomly on the ground, and then
within that meter square
only one piece of
detritus is
permissible or something like that.
Weird. Is everybody ready?
Like microtrash? Yeah.
Go ahead and reveal your answers.
We have Seth and Giannis and
Cal and Randall saying,
poor man's lobster. Mackenzie without an answer, and we have Steve, Max and Bro Randall saying poor man's lobster. Mackenzie without an answer and we
have Steve, Max and Brody saying poor man's lobster. They got it. The correct answer is poor man's
lobster. The poor man's lobster nickname tends to be region specific for fish with firm white
fillets. A typical recipe calls for boiling the fish in a pot of water with sugar and salt and
then dipping it in butter.
But if you're making the real thing, check out Jenna Roselle's recipe on TheMedia.com called How to Make the Perfect Lobster Roll.
Phil, we have two questions left.
Give us a scoreboard update.
I got to get up there now.
Mackenzie and Max, you're no longer in the running for the victory.
Cal and Brody, you have five points apiece. Then we have a four-way
tie for first place.
Steve, Seth, Randall, and Giannis all have
six points.
So me and Cal have only one back?
That's right, Brody.
Here's question nine. The topic
is hunting. What state
leads the world in
Columbia, Blacktail, Boone, and
Crockett entries?
What state leads the world in Columbia blacktail Boone and Crockett entries this is question
nine we have a four-way tie currently we haven't had a tiebreaker in quite a
while I'd love to see that happen today.
What state leads the world in Columbia
Blacktail Boone and Crockett
entries?
Has the rainbow gathering
been to this state?
I'm not going to give you any hints.
If Randall
making a change, maybe
he's thinking about making a change.
Steve's noises imply he's thinking about making a change. Maybe. He's thinking about making a change. Steve's noises imply he's thinking about making a change.
What state leads the world in Columbia, Blacktail, Boone, and Crockett entries?
Brody, how do you feel about your answer?
I feel awesome.
Real good. Really? Yeah. Yanni? I'd like to know what you feel about your answer I feel awesome Real good
Yanni
I'd like to know what you know about this
I feel awesome
Have you ever killed a Colombian black tail
Nope
Don't even know if I've laid eyes on one
We're laying around some hints
You've killed one
What state was it
California Is everybody ready You've killed one. Uh-huh. Steve asked, what state was it?
California.
Is everybody ready?
But it ain't what I got.
Really?
Okay, ready?
Okay.
Better golly.
Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth and Giannis and Cal and Randall saying California.
Mackenzie says Arizona.
Steve says Oregon. Max, says Arizona. Steve says Oregon.
Max, Washington.
Brody, Oregon.
The correct answer is California.
We had Steve, Yanni, Cal, and Randall get that one right.
California has 908 Boone and Crockett entries for typical and non-typical black-tailed deer.
That's followed by Oregon with 524.
Not even close.
Washington with 268 and British Columbia with 50.
Although California has the most entries,
the world record typical black-tail was killed in Washington
and the world record non-typical black-tail was killed in Oregon.
The reason I didn't put California down is all they do is complain about their deer hunt.
Well, if you add up all the other states.
But they also stretch a lot of tape in California.
This is my thought.
And things that you're like, that is a mule deer.
They're like, nope, it was west of the highway.
That's what I was thinking of.
That was question nine.
Here's a review of our nine correct answers so far for the listeners at home.
One was white bass.
Two, chihuahuan.
Three, 1980s.
Four, Starlink.
Five, red tide.
Six, volunteer.
Seven, the rainbow gathering.
Eight, poor man's lobster.
And nine, California.
Phil, give us a scoreboard update.
Let's see.
Brody is now eliminated.
But we have Steve
and Cal with six points and then
tied up in first place with seven are Giannis,
Randall, and Seth. Okay.
I can totally picture just a crazy
question that only I know, man.
Brings you back into the game.
Question 10. The topic
is cooking. Go ahead and grab
that one out of your little sidebar
there. You have those special Steve questions.
If you want another hug.
Topic is cooking.
Name all three parts of
poultry that are defined as
giblets according to the
USDA.
If you'd like to
argue with this one, Cal, you argue with the USDA.
Getting ahead of it.
Name all three parts of poultry that are defined as giblets.
This could make your situation tough, Steve.
Yeah, I know.
We have...
What is that called?
What is that called, Max?
Well, we have three people tied in first place right now that's right Seth Rangel and Janos
two people right behind them
putting on Parsons nose boys
name all three
parts of poultry that are
defined as giblets
is this
stuff that comes in that paper package,
that soaked bloody paper package inside a store-bought turkey?
No, it's never.
It's like that wax.
Yeah.
Put down a foot.
Do you guys think that's what it is?
Steve, do you think you have this one right?
Yeah, I got it right.
Okay, Yanni, how do you feel about your answer?
I got two out of the three okay
how you sitting seth is that don't isn't there usually four things that come out
well according to the usda three i got a lot to say about it later three are officially giblets.
Randall, how you doing down there?
I've erased all three of my answers and rewritten.
I've written down five answers total,
and I've just erased each one of them and replaced one with another.
God, I might pull ahead.
Not pull ahead, but catch up. All parts of a turkey.
Is everybody ready?
I'm sticking with it.
Randall?
Yes.
Go ahead and reveal your answers.
We have Seth saying heart, gizzard, liver.
Yanni says gizzard, liver, heart.
Well, story to you guys, they throw that little neck in there.
Right.
Cal says gizzard, heart, liver.
He crossed out neck.
Randall says gizzard, liver, heart. He crossed out neck. Randall says gizzard, liver, heart.
Mackenzie says gullet, heart, liver.
Steve says gizzard, heart, liver.
Max says liver and gizzard.
Brody says liver, heart, gizzard.
What's the difference between a gullet and a gizzard?
I don't know.
I feel like a gullet's like a pelican. So it's not right? That thing a gullet and a gizzard? I don't know I feel like a gullet's like
Like a pelican
That thing's gullet
Well, no, it's not right
The three correct answers are heart, liver, and gizzard
I think we had everyone in first place
Get that one right
That means we're going to overtime
Play the drop, Phil
You know, I had not a bad little second place finish there
One of the best I can remember Going to overtime. Play the drop, Phil. You know, I had not a bad little second place finish there.
One of the best I can remember.
If you ain't first, you're last.
And then, like, going to other stuff that's funny.
I never liked it.
Hey, Phil, f*** off, man.
Now, back to question 10.
The USDA made an official statement on this in March of 2024 with a question on their website. They declared that although the neck is often packaged with the heart,
liver,
and gizzard,
it's not technically a giblet for a great giblet recipe.
Check out Danielle Pruitt's recipe on the meat eater.com called the wild
giblet gravy here.
What's up?
Just saying.
Just how,
how I was saying a really pretentious person,
like a court of law,
you know,
technically that's not a giblet.
Who's in the overtime round here?
It's Giannis Randall and Seth.
Giannis Randall and Seth.
So you were saying you were eating giblets on the night of March 7th.
Did that include...
I understand you were seeing nibbling on a net.
The tie-breaking topic is fishing,
and this tie-breaking question is via Steve Hanrahan.
How many rivers in America share a name with a state?
We'll have everybody write down an answer, because if somebody can put it right on the nose,
Meat Eater will add an extra $100 to the donation at the end of the game.
The three people left, though, competing for the victory
are Randall, Giannis, and Seth.
How many rivers in America share a name with a state?
We'll give you some time to think about this.
Brody was quick to answer.
Brody, tell me about your strategy here.
No, I can't.
Oh, okay.
I don't want to give it away.
Doesn't want to give away his strategy.
In case I'm right.
Exactly right.
I see Seth is making check marks.
Yanni, are you writing down the states that you know of?
Okay.
Yes.
Randall, what's your strategy down there?
Started writing down states that I know of, okay? Yes. Randall, what's your strategy down there? Started writing down states that I know
of.
How many rivers in America share
a name with a state?
What was the winning score there, Phil? Was it
seven or eight? Eight points. Eight points
for Randall,
Yanni, and Seth.
This is a numerical question, so whoever
is the closest between those three will be declared the winner.
You know, something that's never happened
is we've never had to go to a tiebreaker off of a tiebreaker.
That'd be kind of fun, but I'm always ready with two backup tiebreaker questions.
Seems unlikely.
Seems unlikely, Randall has declared.
How many rivers in America share a name with a state?
How much time you think you boys are going to need?
I started West Coast and I'm on the East Coast right now.
Oh, okay.
I could only think of four, but I put a way higher number.
Oh, okay.
That's cheating.
Who's cheating?
Oh, wow.
You can't name it, don't put it down.
How many rivers in America share a name with a state?
What's the podcast you guys got to record after this, Phil?
The Musky Guy.
Oh.
Is it Larry?
What's his name?
Okay.
He's joining virtually?
Is he in the office today?
A lot.
All right.
That would be a good show.
Yanni is done with his answer.
Seth is done with his answer. Seth is done with his answer.
Randall, we're waiting on you.
I'm done.
Is everybody ready?
Cal?
Sure.
Oh, and Randall is making a last second change.
I don't know why it matters.
I'm just going back and forth one digit.
Are you ready?
I'm ready.
Go ahead.
You like to win, Randall?
Go ahead and reveal your answers.
We have Cal says 7.
Mackenzie says 12.
I actually have those.
Steve says 6.
Max says 13.
Brody says 47.
And our three players remaining in the game.
We have Seth saying 8.
Giannis saying ten.
Dude, I got way more.
Don't do my number.
Don't put my number in there.
Randall saying 11.
The correct answer is 16, making Randall our winner.
Yes.
He was five off from the correct answer.
That final answer change won it for me.
Otherwise, you'd have had 10?
I had 10.
And then we went to another tiebreaker.
Those 16 states are Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware,
Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri,
Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.
Those are the 16 states that Sherry made with a river.
Did you have Florida in there?
Did not have Florida in there.
Randall, you are our winner.
Where is the $500 donation from Meat Eater going to go?
It's going to go to the Missouri chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers.
Very specific.
Why the Missouri chapter?
We met a river named after him.
We met, yes, indeed.
And we met a very nice gentleman at BHA Rendezvous who shared with us some pawpaw pudding.
I think you're wrong about those answers.
Really?
Okay.
I was trying to pull up his name real quick and I couldn't.
But shout out to that man and his kids.
They're passionate trivia followers.
And he asked that we make a donation at some point.
It looks like you're right.
It appears there's a Florida River.
It doesn't matter.
Then it'd be 17 instead.
Really stole the thunder from that generous donation.
I think there could be dozens more.
We could.
Well, Randall still had the highest answer.
It's probably a future housekeeping section, we've realized.
Randall has given the $500 donation.
Well, he did say rivers, so you could go find a bunch.
You know what I'm saying?
You could go find a bunch of obscure little trickles.
But yeah, he said rivers.
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