The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 609: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CXXXIII

Episode Date: October 9, 2024

Janis Putelis guest hosts MeatEater Trivia with Spencer Neuharth,  Randall Williams, Brody Henderson, Corinne Schneider, Nate Mason, Tressa Croaker, and Alec Zimmer. Connect with MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and Youtube Clips Subscribe to our new MeatEater Podcast Network on 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. And mostly Randall.

I'm your guest host, Giannis Patelis, and today we're joined by the regular host, Spencer Newharth, Brody, Randall, Corinne, Nate, Tressa, and Alec, who controls access to the buffalo skull that you can stick your finger into in the meat eater store? Alex, how many folks have fingered the buffalo skull now? I couldn't even tell you. It's probably a couple hundred at least. Really? At least.

I know we have pictures of probably like 60% of them on the social media pages. Okay, that was my next question. Do you ask them to do like a special hashtag for like buffalo finger or buffalo finger hole what is the hashtag if you go in and take that picture well right now they were sending it to the regular meat eater uh um social media but now that we have our flagship store social media they are sending it to the flagship meat eater store instagram page and what does that handle that That's a good question. I know I asked you this last time you gave an update,

but have you found any band-aids in there yet? We have not. We have not found any band-aids. And also in the era of global pandemics, do you disinfect that finger hole now and then? We do occasionally now more than we did at the beginning. I will say that. There's a lot more people.

If someone cuts their finger while they're putting it into that buffalo skull, you might want to have a band-aid on hand for them. Yeah, probably. Hopefully we don't get there, though. Are you asking about new band-aids or used ones? Yeah, old band-aids. Like, band-aid on the finger.

It just seems like the perfect place to cut your finger, you have a band-aid on there, and you go, and then you come off and you have like band-aid on the finger seems like the perfect place to like cut your finger You have a band-aid on there, and you go and then you come off and have a band-aid You're right That's the first thing I thought it someone's gonna find the handle yeah It is meat-eater flagship store is the handle there you go so search it up. What kind of stuff do you post there a Bunch of whether it's sales or stuff that's going on in the store, it's kind of just random, but it has all the stuff that you would need. So check it out.

Okay. There you go. This is a 10-round quiz show with questions from Meteor's four verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking. And there's a prize. MeeEater will donate $500 to the conservation organization of the winner's choosing. This week's stat. For this week's stat, we're looking at player performance from the first two times I hosted trivia.

The winning score from the first episode was four and from the second episode was eight. The average player's score from those episodes was 3.28. And combined, those two episodes had five, five, zero percenters. I'm pitching softballs today, kids. Okay. It's better to do well. Phil, you saw the questions. How do you think the players will do? I don't know about a perfect game, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a nine for sure. That's terribly exciting. Well, that's perfect because then we don't have to go perfect game, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a nine for sure. That's terribly exciting.

Well, that's perfect because then we don't have to go to overtime tiebreaker. What if we tie a nine? What if Tressa and Brody get nine? Yeah, that's true. But at least he's putting it out there that we're not going to have five perfect games because it's not that easy. All right. Okay.

On to infrequently asked questions segment, which is a way that Spencer usually just plugs stuff that we need to talk about here at MeatEater. But today... This is one we needed to talk about. But today, this is a real one. But if you want to send in an infrequently asked question, send it to trivia at themeateater.com. This person, I guess a fella, could have been a gal,

wrote in and said, my wife and I were flipping through the channels and came upon none other than the Latvian Eagle shopping for a house in Montana on one of those home improvement channels. Why hasn't Giannis ever talked about this? Question mark exclamation point. When did this happen? This is about five years ago. And I know it because I was working on this show when

I left the company that produced the show. I was. Yeah. What was it called? Mountain Mamas. I thought they didn't stick with that. They didn't. They changed it to something else. Yeah. Like boring, like Montana home or something like that. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. I'm going to call you Mountain Mama from now on. How did you get mixed up in that? Oh, boy.

Trying to make this concise as possible. No, no. I prefer all of the embarrassing things. A friend of ours, there is a learning moment here in this story i will tell you but a friend of ours uh brady had done uh the pilot episode for this show as the con is the contractor that actually did the work and the contractor that acted as the contractor because a lot of times for these shows you have one of each there's like an acting contractor and then someone that's behind the scenes doing the work we at the time were talking with him about remodeling our place.

And as we're talking with him about that, he got approached by Warm Springs to do a whole season of the show. And then they said, hey, do you know anybody that might have a place that kind of fits what we're looking for, which a you know montana looking house and this is like 2018 2019 early early 2019 maybe late 2018 yeah okay i can't remember but uh our place fit the bill log cabin on the side of the hill right and uh so we interviewed and and it was pretty easy for me because I was, you know, working, I was kind of working both sides of the camera or the coin or however you want to put it. And so all the questions they're asking, I'm like, oh yeah, Jennifer, just tell them that and we'll be in.

Because we were looking at it as a way to, we knew there was some incentive for the homeowners to get some money towards their project. Right. So long story short, I think it worked out. Jennifer says she would not do it again. I would have done it again. We did save some money, but also there were other costs and just time when they wanted to come and produce television. They're kicking you out of your own house. Because the whole deal with that episode was meant to be that like,

we just leave. And then the mountain mamas re remodel our place. And we come back and we're like, Oh my God, it's totally different. You know, we lived through it, you know? And the,

the, the, the learning teaching moment was uh that the cash that was put into that project uh was not tax-free and and we were not like we didn't learn about that until march of you know when the taxes came due all of a sudden, there was a giant lump sum. We're like, ah, okay. So it would have been nice if the producers would have been like, hey, you're going to get this money. It's not taxed.

You better think about having some money set aside. So anyways, yeah, we did it. I don't know. I think I watched the episode. I can't remember. I know a lot of people have. Every now and then I get an email or a text. Phil, are you able to find this so that we can share?

I still have a man on the inside. Yeah, I'll try to find some clips. That'd be great. Yeah, we need a watch party. Yeah. It's like every three months I'll get an email about it. I'll be like, we just saw Yanni remodeling a home. I'll see a comment somewhere about it.

So now it's been addressed. Yeah. No, The project came out super nice. We were really happy with our place. Kind of sad sometimes we're not still living there. But that's another story for another day. Housekeeping. No housekeeping this week.

But I will say again that the last two games I hosted were deemed hard by the contestants. It seemed like no one had fun, especially Brody. So this one is loaded with softballs. Jennifer Index is four. So our winner should get

about eight correct answers. And with that, play the Dropville. Look, I need to know what I stand to win. Everything. How's that? i stand to win everything how's that you just tend to win everything game on suckers question one as always multiple. What state has the most mountain ranges? Alaska, California, Nevada, or Montana? And, you know, I even miswrote this question a little bit. It's actually, what state has the most mountain ranges in the United States. One of these four has the most mountain ranges

in all of our lovely country. It's a tricky one. Okay. Okay. That makes me think differently about it. Good, good. I want you to think. Yanni declared last week's multiple choice question

a trick question. It was. But I don't think it, because you were like. I know, the trick kind of goes both ways. Okay. You're like, is it too obvious or is it the least obvious? Yeah, the trick is thinking it's a trick question.

Yeah. Like I said, tricky. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Again, what state has the most mountain ranges in the United States? Alaska, California, Nevada, or Montana? Does everybody have an answer?

We do. Corinne, do you have an answer? Okay. Yeah, there's four up there. You just got to pick one. All right. Everybody reveal their answers. Nate goes Nevada.

Randall, Nevada. Corinne, California. Spencer, Nevada. Alec, Alaska. Tressa, Montana. Brody, Montana. There are a few correct answers, which is Nevada. Nevada has 314 named mountain ranges.

Basin and range country. That's right. Good job. That's all the only extra two words I had in my flavor text were basin and range. And actually work technically in the basin and range country too. I mean, it's pretty much the Rocky Mountain West. I feel like that part of the continent has like a lot of sky islands

that just like, this is a mountain range, that's a mountain range, that's a mountain range. And they're all like within sight, but not connected. John McPhee, Basin and Range. Just read it. It'll tell you everything. I'll put that on my list. Add that to the flavor text, actually.

John McPhee is a, one of my, I just had to order a bunch of Audible books, and I've got like, I think, two more from him. Oh, he's fantastic. Did you get the one about the oranges? No. Did you get the one about the ship? No.

I think I went with Pine Barrens and- Coming Into the Country? No, I already had read that one. I don't know anything about the Pine Barrens except for Sopranos episode. Sopranos. Yeah. Is it the same Pine Barrens?

Are they the only Pine Barrens? Yes. Yeah, New Jersey. Yeah. It's my favorite episode of the show. That's where you find the Pine Devil. We're on to question two. What does-

Trying to flavor text it up. What does Grand Teton mean in English? You know this, Brody? Yeah, I do. So does Randall. Took two years of French in high school and two years of French in college, but I knew it before then. I had a coach who came back from a trip to the Grand Tetons, and he brought everybody together, and he goes, Hey, guys, do you know what Grand Teton means in French?

Hey, you're really dishing it up right there, Randall. I didn't. It's like a little naughty. I asked the question as it's. Yes. Actually, I was going to ask Phil to read this question in his best sort of fake French I'm sure we have

I've learned from Radio Live we have a lot of Canadians that listen to our content and I'm afraid some of those French Canadians will be offended if I try to pronounce it I don't even know how to no but you're going to just do it for fun yeah there you go

do you want to take a crack at it Brody? even know how to like no but you're gonna just do it for fun titan yeah there you go yeah you want to take a crack at it brody brown titan there you go that was way good yeah i mean uh phil you can do better than that i don't think i can the question is what does grand titan mean in english do you have flavor text for this one? Yes. Okay. I was just trying to come up with more John McPhee books. Please add. Travels with the Archdruid. Panels of the Former World.

Then he has a great book on writing. That's the other one I got. I think it's draft number four is the book on writing. It's a fantastic book. Okay. Are we going to give out any more clues? I'm just trying to have fun here, guys. The room is down.

I didn't know this was French either until Brody revealed that. That didn't help me. Okay, everybody reveal your answers, please. Nate says large breast. Randall says large breast. Corinne says big hill. Spencer says big meat. Randall says large breast. Corinne says big hill.

Spencer says big meat. Alex says big sheep. Tressa, big peak. And Brody, big breast. The correct answer is large teat or breast. Grand Teton is the highest

mountain of the Teton range in Grand Teton National Park at 13,775 feet. The mountain is a classic destination in American mountaineering. It provides a lovely view as you float down the Snake River catching cutthroat trout. More than likely, French, Canadian, or Iroquois

members of an expedition led by Donald McKenzie of the Northwest Company named the mountain All that but while they're in Jackson or View I think that it refers to the Idaho side. Yeah. Like whenever fishing in Idaho, you can see them. I thought everyone said that.

I will now. Next time I'm over there, I'll remember to say that. Question three. The process of binding meat with kitchen twine to hold it together in a compact shape before cooking is called what? I think this is already a question. No. I searched the spreadsheet with all the questions and I could not find it. I'm afraid that it was a question.

Those spreadsheets are up to date as of like early spring and I think I might have had this as a question this summer. Too late now. It's too late now. So it's just a... Bonus! Yeah, it's right. If you pay attention to media trivia, you'll get it right.

Randall, do you feel like you're answering this for a second time? Unless you can come up with a question. The book about the oranges is great. Unless you can come up with a question. The book about the oranges is great. Unless you can come up with a question right on the fly. Come on. I do have one. Do you want it? It's up to these guys.

No. No, no, no. I think last time when I did this, I feel like 80% of the room got it anyway. Yeah, and look, I want everybody to have a good time today. So yeah, we should just do a whole round where we do repeat questions. There'll be all zero percenters and Yanni will have five of them to contribute. Um, again, the question was the process of binding meat with kitchen twine to hold it together in a compact shape before cooking is called what? guys ready to reveal your answers go ahead nate says trusting randall

trusting corinne netting spencer trusting alec bunching tressa no answer brody trusting the room did fairly well trusting is their correct answer. In the case of a turkey breast, which is fat and plump at one end and tapered thin at the other, trusting will assist in more uniform cooking. If you'd like to learn how to trust a turkey breast or any chunk of meat for that matter, check out the brine and smoke turkey breast recipe

on page 128 in the Meat Eater Outdoor Cookbook. That's hosting, Yanni. You guys having fun? Yes. Three questions in? Good. Love it. All right.

Number four. This one falls under hunting. Bifurcated antlers are most common to what North American deer species? Brody writing, Nate writing, Spencer writing, Randall writing, Alec writing, Corinne and Tressa thinking. I've never heard that word. Jennifer did not get this one correct.

Oh, okay. There's a hint. Bifurcated antlers are most common to what North American deer species? Yanni, when do you guys start the meat eater experiences? You leave soon? I leave on Monday, which is four days from now. Yeah, I'll be down there three days ahead of time to make some content, and then we get on with it.

Fishing has been dynamite. Oh. Chewing the paint off the boat, as they say. I've never heard that. I like that. Yeah. Unfortunately, I think this place is so good that even my unlucky ass can't change the good fishing. But multiple times in my life.

Oh, I was going to say, great. Yeah. We're going to catch our fill. Oh, buddy. But yeah, my father-in-law is always telling me that they're chewing the paint off the boat. And then when I get there, it just goes. And at some point at Cypress Cove, they're going to record an episode of Trivia Randall's going to host. Yes.

I'm looking forward to that. Is this hurricane messing up your deal at all? They had another storm come through like a month ago that was not quite a hurricane but close and I guess since then better fishing has only been like it's been just nutty so I hate to be talking too much about good fishing but here we are. Does anybody need me to repeat the question one more time? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says Mule Deer.

Randall, Mule Deer. Corinne, Mule Deer. Spencer, Muley. Alec, Whitetail. Tressa, Blacktail. Brody, Mule Deer. The room did pretty good. The answer is Mule Deer. What about Blacktail? They are sometimes, but

I see a lot of three-pointers. I won't argue too much, but they're like, see a lot of three pointers. But like who, I won't argue too much, but I feel like you'd have to assign this to someone like, according to Encyclopedia Britannica, you know, this Mel Bandearspeed. Yeah, that's better hosting. If I was Tressa, I'd say I got that one right. Yeah, I'm very happy to give it to Tressa. Because you're right. When I typed it in just into the internet, there was multiple places like that.

I could have just said the Mule Deer Foundation. There you go. Then Tressa couldn't argue with you. She'd be like, yeah. Bifurcated is defined as divided into two branches or parts. Mule deer have tines that split. The G2 splits from the main beam. I think we have one in here. Yeah, right there above my left shoulder.

So the G2 splits from the main beam and then the G3 splits off of the G2. Whitetail deer antlers typically just split once when the tines split from the main beam. But a split G2, even on a whitetail, would be considered a bifurcated antler. I always liked

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Welcome to the OnX club, y'all. All right, we're on to question five. Speaking of offshore fishing in Louisiana. Oh. This cylindrical-shaped device found on offshore fishing boats that tart. Don't look. Stop looking. Stop looking. Stop looking.

What happened? Oh, no. We didn't see any answers. We just saw future questions. Oh, okay. Technical difficulties. Just keep reading. You read the question.

I'll do some live editing. Question five. This cylindrical-shaped device found on offshore fishing boats that target marlin and other big game fish keeps big baits alive by pushing salt water across a fish's gills apologies janice you got this one right oh i

thought brody was going to write i'm good anybody nobody writing yet brody's thinking about it again the question is this cylindrical shaped device found on offshore fishing boats that target marlin and other big game fish keeps big baits alive by pushing salt water across a fish's gills. The room is stumped, as Spencer would say. Some grunting, some humming, hawing. Brody's drawing, I think, not writing, drawing. You got this one right, Randall?

No. Oh, okay. No, no, no. Oh, I'm gonna be mad. I don't even like my guess. It's not funny. We'll give the room a few more seconds here. Brody, do you like your answer?

No. I like my answer. I thought it was pretty inventive, but it's not going to be right. Again, a cylindrical device found on offshore fishing boats that target marlin and other big game fish and keeps big baits alive by pushing salt water across the fish's gills. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate goes with salt can. Randall, live pod Corinne Drum, Spencer, Dr. McGillicuddies,

Alec without an answer, Tressa without an answer, Brody with Tuna Tube. We do have one correct answer in the room. It is Tuna Tube. You're kidding. I thought that was a joke. You knew that? Tuna Tube's revolution. You're not. I thought that was a joke. You knew that? Tuna Tube's revolution... You're not even going to give us a quip? He's just

basking in it. I feel like I set it up pretty good already. Tuna Tube's revolutionized offshore big game fishing by allowing fishing captains to keep big baits alive as they traveled from the bait fishing grounds to the fishing grounds.

They're pretty sweet. How big is it? Show me with your hands. Yeah, I mean it's literally just like the fish is just in there. It's jammed in there and they actually make them in dark colors like a dark blue or even a black so that when the fish

is put in there, it stays calm and just chill and it literally just has water pushing up through it. And it's all regulated because you don't want too much, you don't want too little. Is it like one fish per tube? Yeah, one fish per tube. Like a little capsule hotel.

Yeah, because these days, they'll just be pulling teasers behind the boat with no hooks in them at all. And then once they see that fish coming into the teasers, they will have these pre-rigged. Like the fish will already be rigged in the tuna tube and they'll literally take it out of there and just drop it behind the boat and just feed line.

And that live fish just is all of a sudden back in the teasers and the teasers all get reeled in real fast. So the fish is in there looking at all this action and then all of a sudden there's a live bonita this big just looking at him, just swimming around and he just... Are we going to use that technique when we get

like a big ass marlin in Louisiana? We're not going to be targeting marlin. We're going to be targeting the yellowfin tuna, but they also do use this technique for that. So you might get to see tuna tubes in action down there. Did you hear that, Randall and Phil? It's like a torpedo of meat.

Making notes. That was question five, which means we need a scoreboard update. Phil? Let's see if I can go to the right slide this time. Okay. Alec and Tressa have zero points and are tied for last place.

Then we got Corinne coming up next with one point. Spencer has three points and all tied up in first with four points apiece are Brody Henderson, Randall, and Nate. I felt real confident coming into this game. Nice work, Nate. Full-time Nate now. Full-time Nate. Hey-o. That's real confident coming into this game. Nice work, Nate. Full-time Nate now. Full-time Nate.

Hey-o. That's what they call him around here. Not internate anymore. Call Nate with benefits. Hey-o. Oh, Randall. Randall. Witty.

Yeah, I should go out to the river more often. I come back refreshed. I was not at the river with him. Did you win that last game? No, but I made a lot of funny quips. Okay, we're on to question six. A mnemonic used to teach the tying of this knot is to imagine the working end of the rope as a rabbit.

The knot can be taught to children with the rhyme. Up through the rabbit hole, round the big tree, down through the rabbit hole, and off goes he. Step one of tying the knot, a loop is made into the standing part of the line, which will act as the rabbit's hole. Step two, the rabbit, the end of the line, comes up the hole.

Step three, it goes around the tree, which is the standing part of the line. Step five, goes back down the hole. Name the knot. I almost brought in a length of rope to show you guys tying it. Brody, you got this one? Would that have been too much? I think so. Brody's got it. It says two to two. Randall you don't have anything. But I'm not a big knots guy. I'm more of a don't know knots tie lots kind of guy. Me too.

Granny knots just like seven of them. This is one of these on a hitch. We'll call that. Yes. Wait you got this Randall? Spencer don't you know I'm an Eagle Scout? Of course I know this. When did you achieve Eagle Scout status? Before my age of maturity, as is required by the code of the Boy Scouts. What is the age of maturity?

18? Yeah, the clock runs out. I only made it to Life Scout, which is the one right before Eagle Scout. I know. I made it there too. On my way. Too much Randall in this episode. I'm not. We gotta cool it. It's impossible.

Would you guys like me to reread the question? Yeah, I think I would. Twice. Twice. Two more times. Is it gonna help you? Yeah, we'll get another ad break in this episode.

A mnemonic used to teach the tying of this knot is to imagine the working end of the rope as a rabbit. The knot can be taught to children with the rhyme up through the rabbit hole, round the big tree, down through the rabbit, and off goes he. Down through the hole and off goes he. Come on, Spencer.

Step one, a loop is made into the standing part of the line, which will act as the rabbit's hole. Step two, the rabbit end of the line comes up the hole. Step three goes around the tree, standing part, parentheses. the line, comes up the hole. Step three, goes round the tree, standing part, parentheses. Step five, and back down the hole. That's you. Nailed it. No, no, you go name the knot. Name the knot, folks.

All right, Spencer's not going to have an answer. No, I got an answer. Oh, you got an answer? Okay, go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says bowling Bolin. Randall says, Bolin. Corinne says, Hopscotch. Spencer, Hair Knot.

Alec, Rabbit Knot. Those are good answers. Tressa, Fisherman's Knot. Brody, Bolin. The correct answer is Bolin. One of the greatest knot, I have nothing written for flavor text. This is off the top of my head.

But everybody loves this knot because of its ability to come undone after being under severe load. So this knot can be pulled on, pulled on, pulled on, and yet when you want it to come undone, you just push the little loop over and it comes undone. The downfalls of the bowline is that sometimes with repeated loading and offloading it can become loose and actually undo itself when would you use it oh buddy i use it all the time um

probably the most common use for me is uh i have ap, 10 by 10 foot tarp that I pack around a lot. And it's got, I don't know, maybe four loops along each side. But I don't really ever need all four loops, you know, with a guy line, right? And so I only have, I don't know, let's say six or eight total for all four sides. And I will use the bowline to attach my P-cord to those loops. And so that whenever I pitch it, I can go, oh, I don't need it here. I take it off real quick, move it around to a different one and attach it. Okay.

But anytime I need to just attach a quick, you know, a rope to anything and I want to undo it, the bowline's your man. Or you're not. All right, we're on to question seven. This seven-letter word is defined as a narrow strip of land between bodies of water connecting two larger land masses.

Again, question seven. This seven-letter word... Oh, I didn't even notice that. Seven letters for question seven, Randall. Ooh, now that's hosting. Is defined as a narrow strip of

land between bodies of water connecting two larger land masses. You got this, Randall? I do. Hmm. I'm going to give you guys a hint. Nope. No, no.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think you need to. Giannis really wants his high-scoring game. Nate, you really already are this comfortable that you wrote Brody sucks on the back of your board? I was thinking the same thing. It's not personal. We just don't have enough smack talk right now. Oh, okay. I see. I left my last fantasy football league because there wasn't enough smack talk.

All right. You know, no one ever attacks Randall because he's a nice guy. I'll change right now. You know what? I'm not. You'll do better if you do. I think being complimentary to me counts as teasing me because it ultimately backfires. Oh, I would never.

I don't discriminate. I'll make fun of them. Question seven. This seven-letter word. What's your clue? You want it? Oh, yeah. No. No.

Take a vote. You can't offer it up and then recite it. I don't think you should if Randall already has it. And this comes from someone who does not even have a good guess. Oh, come on. Let's have some fun. Okay, do it. What is fun about giving a hint?

Mr. Two Games and a Row. I don't like to do it. You are doing this to me. The past few episodes, I've had to put my foot down, and now I'm getting a reputation as a stickler, and I don't like that. I just want to play my game of trivia. I think it's one of those hands that everybody's

going to go, ah, and they're still not going to know. I hope that's how it works. And if a couple people get it, I will be happy. A very prominent... No, no, no. No, no, no. That's way too obvious.

That is way too obvious. Oh, really? Yes. Don't give in to him. Oh, even Phil says yes? Okay, sorry. It's the only one I know. Oh, okay. Well, no, I feel like I know where you're going with this now. Oh. Sorry for you folks at home if you're not following along here.

I was gonna give the room a slight thought. I thought it was a slight hint. The knowledge that they're bringing to the game without any evidence. But Randall believes it's going to be a heavy hint. But the question is

the seven letter word is defined as a narrow strip of land between bodies of water connecting two larger land masses. Everybody that is going to have an answer, have you written it down? Okay, Nate needs just a sec.

Brody, do you have this? I don't know. But something popped into my head right away, and I can't justify trying to think about something to change it to. All right, just a sec is over, Nate. Go ahead and reveal your answers. A lot of no. Nate, no answer.

Randall says isthmus. Corinne, sandbar. Spencer, earthen. Alec, no answer. Tressa, channel. And Brody, isthmus. The correct answer is isthmus. Dang.

The Panama isthmus connects the North and South American continents. Steven Brunella grew up on Middle and North Twin Lakes, which are separated by an isthmus. In the book Home Ground, edited by Barry Lopez and Deborah Gwartney, a wonderful collection of definitions... Gosh, guys, I'm sorry. I didn't finish that sentence. Gwartney. A wonderful collection of definitions. Gosh, guys. I'm sorry. I didn't finish that sentence. It's okay.

Emily Heiston. It'll be future housekeeping, Yanni. Just move it along. It's a great book with a lot of land terms in it. Yeah, I was going to say it's a wonderful collection of definition of landscape terms. Emily Heiston writes,

While many landscape terms derive from analogy to our own anatomy, neck, mouth, finger, etc., isthmus seems to be the rare case in which a geographic term is applied to an analogous feature of the body. Grand Tetons. Anatomically, an isthmus is a narrow band of tissue connecting two larger parts of some corporeal structure.

Now, I didn't know what the hell corporeal meant, so I looked that up. Randall would have known. Merriam-Webster defines it as having, consisting of, or relating to a physical material body. But then it says, such as not spiritual and not intangible. So a synonym would be substantial. Are you following?

Still uncontent, I asked my doctor for an example of an isthmus in the human body, and she replied, thyroid isthmus, the tissue that connects the two thyroid lobes. That was very interesting. Thank you. What was her hint going to be? That this very prominent person at our company speaks about this landform often because he grew up very close to one. I thought you were going to say

the most prominent of these is the isthmus of Panama. That's what I thought. Should have been a giveaway. What did you think the hint was going to be, Phil? I thought it was going to be, just because I had read your thing, I thought it was going to be Panama as well. Oh. No, I

thought that's why this was going to be a softball because Steven Rinella has said isthmus, you know, he says it at least a dozen times annually, I feel like. That was question seven. We don't need a scoreboard update, right? Not until the next question, Giannis. All right. We're definitely going to get that.

Second mid-roll. Let's go to eight. Am I taking too long? No, it's going great. I love it. Let's keep it rolling. Getting hot in here, though. I've been here since 845. Well, listen. You want to talk about getting hot? When we were recording that live show, somebody dropped

a little stinker in here and nobody raised their hand. So it was hot and stinky. There's not too many suspects. I know, I know. I'll be the first one to say, hey man, it just slipped. Anywho.

Was Max in there? He wasn't. Oh, poor Max. Leave him alone. Question number eight. What six-letter word describes the line that is attached to the end of a tapered leader, most commonly used by fly anglers? What six-letter word describes the line that is attached to the end of a tapered leader,

most commonly used by fly anglers. Tressa? I better get this one right. You know it. I think Brody knows it. Just started fishing a month ago. So you're learning these terms. Yes. Oops. Corinne? It's a shame. You need to start fishing more. You and my dad. I'm ashamed. Corinne you need to start fishing more you and my dad for those of you that didn't listen to

I don't know if it's going to be last week two weeks ago live show radio episode my dad volunteered himself for one minute fishing and proved that he's yet to become an angler

I would like a redo himself for one minute fishing and prove that he's yet to become an angler. I would like a redo in a better spot. We'll get you out there again, Tressa. Tressa's been one minute angler before. Close. It was close. Yes, I heard that you also brought in a fish into the studio afterwards. Now it goes against... I don't care. Sorry.

It took two seconds, but now we have a fish tank. That's right. We have an aquarium. So if it happens again, someone catches one, then they come in here and show us. Where's the aquarium? Sitting on top of the fridge in this packaging. Oh, okay. But like Spencer said, it's like three feet away.

Yeah, that's not against any Montana laws, is it? To drop that thing in an aquarium, run it in here and run it back. I don't think a trout's going to do too good in an aquarium, be too warm. Yeah, no, he's not living in an aquarium, run it in here, and run it back. I don't think a trout's going to do too good in an aquarium. Be too warm. He's not living in the aquarium. It's like someone catches it at the pond outside of our back door, drops it in the aquarium, runs it in here, and then runs it back. You're just going to

shock the shit out of his system for a little bit. Why wouldn't you just take a bucket out with you and bring him in in a bucket? It's a clear bucket, that's all. Okay, yeah. I think if you know if you're into torture and fish for fun that's great.

If you use the water from the pond I think you'll survive his little journey. Okay. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Nate says Tippett. Randall, Tippett. Corinne, question mark. Spencer, Tippett. Alec, no answer. Tressa, Tippettett, Brody Tippett, the room did pretty well.

The answer is Tippett. Is your flavor text Tressa's dog's name? No, I didn't even know that. But Tressa does have a license plate that says 5X. Oh, yeah, I wasn't going to dox her and say that. What is that? What would you do to her if you said that? That'll be a future pop culture question from...

Doxer? Doxing. Doxing is being like, if you want to know where Yanni lives, you can go watch his Mountain Mamas show. You can go knock on his door and throw a stink bomb in there. Just say howdy.

Yeah. Bring some beer if you do that. According to the Missouli and Angler Fly Shop, Tippett is sized by diameter, not pound test, which is expressed as an X value. The smaller the X value, the thicker the Tippett. So 5X Tippett is thinner than 2X. Computer keeps going dark.

This sizing system dates to the time when liters were made of gut. I try to find out what they're speaking of when they say gut. Brody? Like intestines? Dried intestines, I would expect. There you go.

I mean, horse hair was a thing, too. Still is a thing if you're a violinist I'm not Or a bow Or a cellist So gut pieces came in very few diameters To make your piece of gut thinner You pulled it through a V shaped razor

One pull through the razor The gut piece is now thinner 1X Two pulls through the razor Gut is now thinner, 1X. Two pulls through the razor, gut is now even thinner, 2X. So on. That's good. In my opinion, the most common tippet size for western trout fishing is 5X,

which is about 4.75 pound test. Tippet can be made of monofilament or fluorocarbon. Did you ever buy into that, that the fluorocarbon wouldn't work for dry flies because it sank below the surface a little bit?

Especially in faster water, I think it's the case. It sinks. There you go. Fluoro sinks. Hot tip from Brody, don't fish fluorotip. What do I know? I got rid of five, six. I stopped carrying that shit after a few years ago and I was like four and up.

Just straight ten pound test. Which is a good I shouldn't even say this because I worked in a fly shop for so long. Go buy a 300 meter spool of Stren or some shit Trilene instead of buying a $10

spool of Tippit. You'll save yourself a lot of money. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Two hot tips and one go from Brody here. All right, that was the end of question eight. So another leaderboard update, scoreboard update. Oh, heavens. What a surprise. Let's see here. Alecc Tressa, Corinne

And Spencer are no longer in the running For the win But we've got Nate with 6 points Holy cow Randall and Brody are tied up in first place with 7 Bull time Nate I'm rooting for you buddy Appreciate it And for those of you that are not in it for the win, stick around.

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Alright, question nine. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by David Smith. For sending this great question, David is going to get a board game signed by the crew. If you want a chance to win the listener question of the week, then send your question to trivia at themeateater.com question is what six letter word indicates a male goose what six letter word indicates a male goose brody spencer cor, Corinne, Randall, all quick to answer. But Corinne thinks she wrote down the wrong answer.

I don't know about this one. I don't know. As in you don't know about the phrasing of the question? No, I'm just not sure about my answer. Oh, really? Yeah. Come on. I'm gonna guess that you got it. Yeah. Three straight questions, but Yanni's told us how many letters the answer has. I think that's a fun twist. At the end of this, you guys go, man, it was really too easy.

Then no, I won't have a perfect score. So a perfect score. We should have a fun round of trivia where each sequential question increases the number of letters in the answer. Maybe we do a thing where I give you clues and the answers are in a grid and then it's like you get clues along the way as you

fill in the grid. Oh, I love that. And then there's a secret message at the end. We call it a crossword puzzle. Oh, I love that. And then there's a secret message at the end. Yeah, we call it a crossword puzzle. Oh, wow. You know, I got to say, you've made me kind of into a crossword guy. I was really surprised. Yeah, because I just didn't know that you could do them that quickly. Because all I remember is my great aunt, who sort of took place of my grandmother when I was a kid.

And she'd be on the couch for hours And I always thought she was doing it cuz you want to do on the New York Times Sunday edition and it takes Well, she'd have those books. It just had yeah, you know one after another and I think she probably did ten in a day That's right books take a long time. I think for a lot of people it is like a leisure hobby But like when we do it online the software use kind of gamifies it And you're trying to beat Randall So it's like more stressful I think Than your normal crossword puzzle You don't have to treat it that way

Where you're trying to catch Dr. Randall We're still going off his fixed The fixes in on Randall's scores No well Randall had a soft score lately And he said guys I had five pieces of pizza For lunch I wasn't right And I had five pieces of pizza for lunch. I did.

I wasn't right. And I had to play two in a row because I was out of the office. I wasn't right that day. Give me a break. No, Jennifer's requested that I don't play without her. Oh. Because she enjoys it. Glad to hear that.

Fun for the whole family. My boys want you to do a kid's version. Okay. Okay. Let's go ahead and do a kids version. Okay. Let's go ahead and reveal your answers for question nine. Nate says Honker, Randall Gander, Corinne Honker, Spencer Gander, Alec Honker,

Tressa Tommy, Brody Gander. Tommy the Tiger. The correct answer Tommy the tiger. The correct answer is what's good for the goose is good for the gander. Good job.

We did pretty well here. Gander. A female goose is simply called a goose. Baby geese are goslings. A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle. When in flight, they are called a

skein, a team, or a wedge. Even farther, when flying close together, they are called a plump. A skein? Like S-K-E-I-N? E-I-N, yeah. Interesting. Never occurred to me that Gander Mountain Oh. I like that. A skein, like S-K-E-I-N? E-I-N, yeah. Huh.

Interesting. Never occurred to me that Gander Mountain was like a male goose mountain. I always thought it was like you look out and you gander upon the landscape. So I don't know which one it is now. Could be both. I'm thinking about it. Good point, Spencer. That'd be clever. How do you think they decide who's at the front of the V when they're flying?

Seniority. That's a dad joke, the V when they're flying? Seniority. That's a dad joke, isn't it? No, it's not. Why does one side of the V longer than the other? There's more geese on that side. There's more geese on that side. That's the dad joke you're looking for, Ronnie. But I think that they are constantly rotating.

But that's what I'm wondering. Are they forcing them? Does he try to stay there longer to be more valuable? I'm just thinking about the mind of a goose. Don't spend too long on it. Interns at the back of the V. Well, full-timers, though. Moving up.

Well, that was my joke about seniority early on, as soon as he said that, you guys. Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry, Randall. Do we get another scoreboard update, Phil? You gotta review answers. Let's go to question 10. Oh yeah, you can review the answers. Oh, thanks. Review the answers.

Probably should have written them down. What was Nevada? 1. Nevada. 2. Large teat do that. Yeah. One, Nevada. Two, large teat or breast. Three, trussing. Four, mule deer. Why are you giggling, Spencer? Five.

I forgot about question two. Five, tuna tube. Six, bowling. Seven, isthmus. Eight, tippet. Nine, gander. question ten brumation is the word that describes the hibernation of what animal i saved my hardest for last just in case we were in a tie so i'm hoping that this one is a little trickier

again question 10 is brumation is the word that describes the hibernation of what animal how specific are you looking for here not very specific um

if the answer was dog you could just say dog alright go ahead and reveal your answers Nate goes bear Randall salamander Corinne bear Spencer snakes Alec bear

Tressa bear Bro. Brody, bear. We have a correct answer. Spencer got it with snake. I was thinking reptiles. I would have also accepted reptile. So salamander? Amphibian. Yeah.

Okay. Analogous to hibernation, one key difference is that hibernation relies on stored fat, where brumation relies more on reduced metabolic activity. That's the end of the game. Is there overtime? No, we're tied. We're still tied?

Yeah. We are tied? Phil, we're tied, right, Phil? Randall and Brody are tied at eight points. All right. Play the drop, Phil. Hopefully it was fun for everybody. I just accidentally faded to black,

but I might keep it that way. I never liked it. Hey, Phil, f*** off, man. You guys seem to be enjoying yourselves. I don't know why we're going to ditch this one. That's not very nice to say, Randall. No, it's not you. It's us.

It's everything. Okay. The tiebreaker question. Let me get it right. If we get it right on the nose. We'll add an extra $100 to the donation. $100. Okay, great.

So everybody can play along, but for the win, it's just Brody and Randall. What is the weight of the heaviest buck ever recorded in Maine's biggest buck club? I think last time Yanni hosted, he had a question about

what the weight has to be to qualify for the big buck club. That's correct. The answer does not need any decimal points. Just a nice round number. Give you a hint. It'll be three digits. Minimum.

What is the weight of the heaviest buck ever recorded in Maine's biggest buck club? Let me tell you, he's a big old boy. You weigh the deer off of your Wisconsin property that's getting timbered, Yanni? No, but that is something. You don't remember I was asking you about that deer log book that I'm making about what entries. I'm thinking about doing the weights and adding a spot in for that.

I think that'd be good. Does everybody have an answer? Randall and Brody, why don't you guys hide yours for a second. Everybody else reveal theirs. I like your answer, Corinne. Nate, 317. Corinne, 306. Spencer, 313. Corinne, 306. Spencer, 313.

Alec, 300. Tressa, 271. Randall? Your answer, please. It's a big boy. 342. Brody? 353.

One of you is within two pounds. The correct answer is 355 pounds. Making Brody the winner. This was field dressed, killed by Horace Hinckley in 1955. Fat boy. 355 pounds. Can you imagine? He was $2 off on the tiebreaker last week and he was 2 pounds off

on the tiebreaker this week. He knows his numbers. I mean, that's like a regular size cow elk. That's enormous. It was gutted. There's another like 35 pounds. Goodness gracious.

Brody, where do you want to give the $500 to? I don't know. What should

we do? Are they still fighting that battle in Colorado? Buddy, are they ever?

I've actually received two, one text, one email recently from, I don't know if I can say,

like a prominent organization agency in Colorado. People working for them saying, hey, we could really use some op eds in Colorado right now saying why mountain lions should stay status quo and be managed by CPW. So if anybody listening has that power to write an op-ed to Colorado, please do it. So yeah, Coloradans for Responsible Wildlife Management. There you go. Yeah, I think it made it.

I'm going to forget it now. The ballot initiative now is 127. Did you get the new number? I'm not sure what the number is. 126. I can't remember. We'll get that. Anyways, it's still a thing.

It's on the ballot. Do not vote for it Keep mountain lion management In the hands of CPW Thank you for listening Join us next week for more meat eater trivia The only game show where conservation Always wins

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