The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 612: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CXXXIV

Episode Date: October 16, 2024

Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Chilly Chleborad, Tressa Croaker, Reva Hansen, and Nate Mason. 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 meat. It's a meat eater podcast. 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 Brody, Randall, Cal, Chili, Riva, Tressa, and Nate. This is a 10-round quiz show with questions from Meat Eaters 4 Verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking.

And there is a prize. Meat Eater will donate $500 to the conservation organization of the winner's choosing. And for the stat of the week this week, we're looking at the average winning score and if it's changed over time. Some folks ask if the show has gotten easier or harder, so this stat might answer that. For the first 60 games of

MeatEater Trivia, the average winning score was 7.32. And over the last 60 games of MeatEater Trivia, the average winning score was 7.32. And over the last 60 games of meat eater trivia, the average winning score is 7.62. That's a.3 correct answer increase, which is about a 5% raise.

So I would say it has not gotten harder or easier. What's going on with these glasses over here, Randall? Well, before the game, Chili said he had to go

out to his truck to get his glasses so that he looked smarter. Okay. So I had these glasses over here, Randall? Well, before the game, Chili said he had to go out to his truck to get his glasses so that he looked smarter. Okay. So I had these glasses that I found, and I thought I'd get these too. Mine are actually prescription. Might be backfiring on you, buddy. Do you think you look smarter? I don't know. They make me really dizzy when I look

through the top, but through the bottom, they're not bad. They make you look older. I don't know about smarter, though. I think they make me look uncannily like Jeffrey Dahmer. Ah, yeah. I can see that. So for the stat, again, a 5% rate. Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt that.

Well, I interrupted it because I was jarred when I looked up. You weren't wearing those five minutes ago. No. Little treat for the YouTube audience. See Jeffrey Dahmer playing trivia. Tune in on YouTube. Meteor Podcast Network YouTube channel. Yeah. Tune in on YouTube. Meat Eater Podcast Network YouTube channel. 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. Josh Dowsey wants to know, how many user-submitted questions do you get each week? I looked back through the inbox and did the math. We get about 110 questions submitted each week? I looked back through the inbox and did the math, and we get about 110 questions submitted each week. I use four or five of those in each show, and then I use another four or five for the board game and expansion packs that don't make it into the show. So your chances of having a question used on the show or in the board game are about 9%.

You use four or five every show? Usually four is the number that I use from listeners, and then I do six of my own. I thought there was just one. Well, there's one listener question of the week, but then we have other questions that make the cut that don't win the board game signed by the crew. So when you email in a question,

you've got about a 10% chance of having that question used somewhere and getting that credit. Now, for the housekeeping this week, I want to circle back. Spencer, who am I? What's up? It's almost time. Oh, okay. Now I see it.

We now, Jeffrey Dahmer has actually entered the room. I was going to say Ted Kaczynski. Ted Kaczynski. Come on. I'm sorry. That's good Montana trivia. Come on. Yeah.

Very good. Pass the glasses to Nate now and see what he looks like. Keep going around the room. I'm going to guess Napoleon Dynamite. Sure. Yeah, I see that as well. Okay. The brotherhood of the traveling glasses.

For housekeeping this week, I want to circle back to the board game offerings from Meat Eater Trivia this year. A few weeks ago, I told you about our hunting and fishing expansion packs and how there's a third product coming this fall. So today, I'm thrilled to announce the Meat Eater Trivia Board Game Collector's Edition. I'm holding it in my hand right here, so you should go to YouTube so you can see Ted Kaczynski and Jeffrey Dahmer and the MeatEater Trivia Collector's Edition. The Collector's Edition is jam-packed with new items. You'll get the entire OG board game plus both expansion packs and 100 additional questions that are only available in the Collector's Edition for a grand total of 1300 questions the game also comes with a physical board game for scorekeeping which tressa is holding up over here uh game tokens that we've

scattered around the room and those are bigger than 50 cent pieces and an additional whiteboard and marker and for my favorite part the whole thing comes in a custom built meat eater trivia ammo can you can see again right on YouTube. Now, this was a prototype, Brody. I noticed you opening it. It will open differently, like a traditional ammo can. I think you should.

The next one, that's right. You got to get a little seal in there, like the real ones. See, that one's got a little dent, too. Is that... Well, it's been traveling around the office. So, yeah, you could give her a good dent if you're not careful.

I maybe wouldn't plan on storing ammo in here that you're floating down a river with um but you could store ammo in there that sits in your sits in your gun safe or you keep the mediator trivia collector's edition in there i thought it was gonna come pre-dented like uh that's right the jeans you buy with the holes already in it. That's right. Well, it does come with messy spray paint on there. So yeah, maybe the dent was not organic, came from the factory like that. The Meat Eater Trivia Collector's Edition Meat Eater Trivia Hunting Expansion Pack and Meat Eater Trivia Fishing Expansion Pack will be available soon. Nicely done, Spencer. Nicely done.

I love these tokens. When we were designing them, I said, make them bigger than 50 cent pieces. And somebody should have told me no. They didn't. They just actually executed them that way. And now they are enormous. These are the biggest game pieces you'll find anywhere on the market. Coming very soon.

Coming this fall. Now, the Shelby Index for today is a five. So I'm putting us on perfect score alert. And with that, we're on to the game of trivia. Play the drop, Phil. Look, I need to know what I stand to win. Everything. How's that?

You stand to win everything. Game on, suckers! Question one. The topic is public lands, and this first great question is via Eric Jennings, and as always, it will be multiple choice. Which state contains the most miles of the Appalachian Trail? Is it Virginia, New York, Georgia, or New Hampshire? Randall with a very quick answer.

It's almost as though he didn't even need the multiple choice question and choices. I benefited indeed from the choices. Virginia, New York, Georgia, New Hampshire. Which state contains the most miles of the Appalachian Trail? Nate, you know this one? I've got it

down to two. Okay. Anybody through-hiked the Appalachian Trail here? No, I've had a job. Huh? Just thought we could really uncover something interesting. Thru-hikers are strange people. Oh, yeah. Right?

It's like... The nicknames? They don't get to just sit there and enjoy nature. Yeah. They're going through. I'm glad they exist, though. I like those folks. Yeah, no, they're bumped into quite a few in the bob.

Does everybody have an answer for which state contains the most miles of the Appalachian Trail? Virginia, New York, Georgia, New Hampshire. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Chili saying Virginia. Tressa says Virginia. Reva, Virginia. Randall, New York. Cal, New York, Nate, New York, Brody, New York. One of the two groups in the room is right.

It is either New York or Virginia. The correct answer is Virginia, Chile, Tressa, and Riva. Got that one right the appalachian trail passes through 14 states there are 550 miles of trail in virginia which is nearly double that of second place tennessee with 293 miles of trail that's followed by maine at 281 miles miles, Pennsylvania at 229 miles, New Hampshire at 161 miles, and Vermont at 150 miles. West Virginia has the least amount of trail with just four miles. Question two. The topic is hunting. This dog, which is Mickey Mouse's pet, has hunted moose and quail in Disney cartoons.

This dog, which is Mickey Mouse's pet, has hunted moose and quail in Disney cartoons. Randall, Nate, and Cal appear to know this one. Riva, Tressa, and Chili not as confident. I think I do. That's my best Mickey Mouse. Watched a lot of Mickey Mouse when my boys were little. You did.

Mickey Mouse on South Park. I mean, that's the best. The Jonas Brothers episode. Oh, God. That was fantastic. And the Star Wars episode as well. And the Imaginationland three-part feature. Oh, boy.

The copyright is now expired on the OG Mickey Mouse, and it's about to expire on some other characters as well. Is this like a name or a type of animal, type of dog? We're looking for a name, proper noun here. This dog, which is Mickey Mouse's pet, has hunted moose and quail in Disney cartoons. Canine. I bet you're not recent cartoons, though.

We'll talk about it in the follow-up factoid. Waiting on Tressa and Chili, are you two going to come up with an answer? I didn't even know he had a dog, so... Imagination. Oh, we could clear out for two minutes and let you sing that, Randall, if you'd like. Imagination. Are we ready?

Yep. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Chili and Tressa without an answer. Reva says Doug. Randall says Goofy, to which Nate said he does not own Goofy. Cal says Pluto.

Nate says Pluto. Brody says Goofy. The correct answer is Pluto. Damn it! Cal and Nate got that one right and that's correct he does not own goofy and goofy is also not technically a dog he's just identified as a canine what's the distinction well if you look up i think some people think he's a cow and some people think

he's a dog but if you look up what he actually is it just says canine. Whereas Pluto, it says Pluto is a dog. Huh. Pluto's first ever appearance is in a 1931 seven minute video where he and Mickey are moose hunting. His next hunt would come eight years later in a video called The Pointer where Mickey tries to teach Pluto

how to flush game. In that video, Mickey promises Pluto that if they're successful, Mickey will cook, quail on toast and maybe a nice big juicy bear steak. The early versions of Pluto had him drawn as a bloodhound

but was later changed to a generic mixed breed dog. Sobering beginning to our contest here. So much for that perfect game. Perfect game in the room. And we have Randall and Brody over two question three the topic is cooking and this next great question is via ali spangler the spruce eats defines this culinary word as quote melting and clarifying hard animal fat for cooking purposes the spruce eats defines this culinary word as melting and clarifying hard animal fat

for cooking purposes phil do your kids enjoy uh mickey mouse uh not really they never really got into the whole mickey mouse thing but um disney has had some like really some modern mickey mouse cartoons that are incredibly right no that's mic right? No, that's Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. That's a toddler show, but there's a more recent animated short sort of series that are really clever and hilarious. And there is a more recent Christmas special with Pluto that I think was done in the 80s where he really wants to eat Chip and Dale. And he trees them at one point and it's it's not i wouldn't say it's hunting yeah but it's it's it's hunting related you know there's some dark conspiracies around like pluto uh behaves like a dog and doesn't talk

right but goofy is a canine who does talk and like has some sort of intelligence inside yes like uh goofy has a soul uh but Pluto does not. What happened there between the two of them? Again, we're on question three. The Spruce Eats defines this culinary word as melting and clarifying hard animal fat for cooking purposes. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Chili and Tressa and Reva.

The entire room said render or rendering, and they got it. Correct answer is render or rendering. Thanks, Clay. You can render the fat of basically any game animal from turkey to deer to duck. During the rendering process, you remove any water or debris from the fat via cooking and straining. To learn the steps of rendering, read Danielle Pruitt's article on TheMeatEater.com called What to Do with Wild Game Fat. Question four, the topic is conservation.

Name one of Texas's two national parks. Question four, name one of Texas's two national parks. Question four. Name one of Texas's two national parks. Brody and Randall appear confident the rest of the room has not come up with an answer yet. Could you do both of them if you had to, Brody? I'm not sure about the second one. Okay. How about you, Randall?

Yeah, I don't want to talk more about it. Do you know both? I feel very confident about one, less confident about the other. Name one of Texas' two national parks. Shoot. The room is fairly stumped. We're going to have a pretty even game after question five,

but this is question four. Name one of Texas' two national parks. You ever see Randy Marsh and Mickey and the Wuhan Bat? Of course, yes. I mean, if your kids don't like original Mickey, I'd point them to that. Yeah. I mean, if your kids don't like original Mickey, I'd point them to that. Self-forked Mickey.

Yeah. Oops. Yes. That Mickey also lacks a soul. I would say for sure. He's got dead eyes. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Still enjoy Nate's correction of Randall that Goofy is not owned by Mickey. I mean, I like to learn something every day I come in here. I'd like to watch the show, though, thinking of that dynamic. Yeah, yeah. Goofy being the pet dog of Mickey. Name one of Texas's two national parks. Folks are struggling to come up with an answer. Is everybody ready?

Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have up with an answer. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Chili without an answer. Tressa says Petrified Forest, which is in Arizona in a national park. Reva without an answer. Randall says Big Bend. Cal says, what's that say? Great Bend? I wrote Big Bend.

But then I was like, great band. And I couldn't remember. So I wrote great over, but then I was like, maybe it's Great Bend, and I couldn't remember. So I wrote Great over the top of Big. Nate says Sam Houston. Brody says Big Bend. The correct answer is Big Bend, or what would be your second guess, Brody? Great Bend.

I think it's not a national park, but I was going to say Padre Island. And Randall, what do you think the second one is? Yeah, Padre Island is a national seashore. I don't know. It's escaping me now. Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountains. Guadalupe, that was an answer on here at one point, wasn't it? I'm sure we've referenced it before, but I don't think it's been an answer.

Both national parks are located in West Texas and are known for their mountains. Guadalupe Mountains contains the highest point in Texas at 8,751 feet in elevation, and Big Bend is the only national park in America that contains an entire mountain range. Question five. The topic is biology. And Big Bend's a big clock.

There you go. What happened with Cal's answer on that one? I got it wrong. Don't think he gets that one right. Great Big Ben. Great Ben. I was hoping to start some shit. I've sat there and stared into

the part. It's hunting season, so Cal's feeling less fiery today. He just wants to get out. Question five, the topic is biology. But somebody had to do a trivia at noon on a Friday. Listen, it's hard to schedule this time of year

because half the company is in Venice, Louisiana next week, so we had to fit this one in while we could. Question five, topic is biology. This next great question is via christy holmes this nine-letter word is defined as quote the hardened outer protective layer of a pupa of a butterfly this nine-letter word is defined as the hardened outer protective layer of a pupa of a butterfly. Brody has his answer complete.

The rest of the room is making their hangman dashes. Nate, you have this one right? Full-time Nate over here. Nate, you are, I think, probably the first meat-eater intern to turn full-time employee. Maybe I shouldn't say it, but I think we've only had like five interns ever, so there hasn't been much competition. But the first intern turned full-time employee. And soon to be trivia champion. That's right.

There you go. That's right. Nate has put up some good performances lately. This nine-letter word is defined as the hardened outer protective layer of a pupa, a butterfly. I'm at like four. Three. I'm tied for first right now. Phil put up two fingers

in the back. I kind of want to pipe in here. I know we normally do the score checkup after question five. Everyone's tied for first. Everyone in the room has two points right now. Okay. No way. Some folks may be separated here on question five. everyone's tied for first everyone on the room has two points right now okay no way some folks may be separated here on question five this is killing me i know this the hardened outer protective layer of a pupa of a butterfly nate and brody are the only two with any confidence

randall is it there is it on the tip of your tongue i feel like i know the noises so i'm trying to come up with a word that i'm trying to just go through the the syllables in my head i'm gonna go with this i don't think it's a word oh chili tressa riva are going to come up with an answer? I got one. Okay. Do you have a right answer, Reva? I mean, maybe.

Okay. Cal, do you give up? Sure. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Chili without an answer. Tressa says cocoon. Reva says cacophony. Randall says

chrysalis. Cal says sarcophagus. Sarcophagus. Nate says chrysalis. And Brody says chrysalis. We got a controversy. Keep your answer up, Randall. Keep your answer up. The correct

answer is chrysalis, which I don't know. I don't think so. Boy, that's real darn close for a hardened outer protective layer of a pupa of a butterfly. I will spell it for you, and you tell me how many letters you have right. C-H-R-Y-S-A-L-I-S. I have heard you tell contestants on this show upwards of dozens of times. R-Y-S-A-L-I-S. I have heard you tell contestants on this show upwards of dozens of times that spelling does not count. But when you're not... Randall, what you wrote down is the name of a young lady who's lost her way and dances for money.

I would say if you only have 50% of the right letters, that's not... All of the syllables, just with a T in the middle. Which I think... I'll let it slide. Phil chimed in pretty quick with a no. That's what I'm talking about, dude. Suck it, Randall. I'm going to go with Phil on this one.

Phil, why did you jump in so quick? I mean, you add a T and you throw in a consonant. It changes the game completely. Chrysalis. Chrysalis. That's not simply a misspelling. Phil, I was going to start griping about how filthy your table is, but now I'm not because you did the right thing.

It's like that scene in Get Smart when he's trying to say the dude's name. Not even close. We're not going to give Randall the point on that one. The answer was... I think that's about as damn close as you can get. The not even close does not apply. The T was a large problem. If you had put a K

instead of a C, that would be different. I was moving things around a lot. Because initially I spelled it with a C-H-R and then I had like, I had 11 letters at first and so I just started cutting letters. Wow. Phil, give us a scoreboard update.

Oh, that's kind of you, Randall. In my chair of power. Let's see. We've got Chili, Tressa, Reva, Randall, and Cal all with two points. This is a crazy game. Nate and Brody, just one point more than them. They've got three. They're tied up in first place. a crazy game. Nate and Brody, just one point more than them. They've got three. They're tied up in first place. Anybody's game.

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subscription company has shipped 11 million boxes since its creation in 2012 chilly quickest to answer question six

this fishing gear subscription company has shipped 11 million boxes since its creation in 2012. God, I see ads for this stupid thing all the time. I've been scrolling too fast.

I thought the whole box subscription thing kind of didn't exist anymore. I think it hit its climax during COVID and is coming down ever since then. I still get emails. If it's the box I'm thinking of, there's some interesting information I found out over the weekend about it. Oh, okay. What's it named? Yes.

Was that an interesting bit of information? I can tell you, but, you know, we're tied right now. This fishing gear subscription company has shipped 11 million boxes since its creation in 2012. Tressa, do you have this one right? I know it is a fishing gear subscription. Okay. But it might not be. I gave one of these to my nephew and was, you know, i dropped stuff off and then don't ever ask about

it again but i was pretty excited to see you know what he would get and how excited he would be uh lost the entire box oh like like fishing or just like wound up in the just like who knows okay yeah who knows i think these exist to be given to nephews Yeah I never understood the subscription box Thing cause it's like It's for people who want to spend money But don't know what they want to spend their money on Well I think the other value is like Say it's a $10 subscription

They guarantee $50 in gear Oh I see that I stand corrected Gosh that does sound like a good deal How we doing over there buddy It's everybody ready? Nothing. Yeah, you're looking flustered.

I love when someone who never wins... That's the only angle I have. Okay. You need to earn the ring to heckle Brody, okay? That's what he's saying. Nate, do you have this one? The door's not open to everyone. No.

Okay. This gets given in our white elephant every year. The same box. So Nate and Brody are not confident this is going to make it a tighter game. Confident isn't even part of it. I'm pretty sure box is in the name. Just don't add a T. Don't add a T, boys.

All right, do we give up yet? Crystal. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Chili saying Rapala. Tressa says Yakota. Riva says Angler's Anonymous. Randall says Flybox.

Cal says Mystery Tacklebox. Nate says Anglerbox. Brody says Lurebox. We have a correct answer in the room. It's mystery tackle box. Cal got that one right. A mystery tackle box subscription ranges from $20 a month to $40 a month

with pursuit-specific boxes for bass, panfish, trout, walleye, and saltwater. Field and Stream declared the box as the best way to test out new baits. Question seven. How you feeling now, buddy? Brody reminded Jimmy that he got that one wrong with Rapala.

What would you like to share about Rapala that you learned? I don't know. It's a guy that works with us. Not works with us. He's done some stuff for us. Casey Underwood. I don't know if this is factual.

I don't know if this is actual, like legit. But Casey is known for making stickers and drawings of fish, birds, dogs. Really great art. Very great art. Very great art. Local to Montana. He's got an awesome public land creator coffee mug that he's doing with pheasants quail forever. Yes, he does. I think they just dropped it not too long ago. But anyways, I think he was walking around and Rapala had a box, a fishing box, and it

was for smallmouth and largemouth bass, and they used his sticker. Yeah, they have his art. Have his art on their box, and Casey went on his Instagram, posted about it, and he said, Rapalo, like, what the hell, or some shit. Yeah, one of the biggest fishing companies in the world. According, I don't think so. I texted him to do something, and he goes, yeah, I should. This has all happened in, in like the last three days.

The story, there's more to be told. Question seven, the topic is conservation. This is our listener question of the week, which was won by Terry DuPont for sending this great question. Terry 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. This author has written 25 novels about the fictional game warden, Joe Pickett. Randall has this one right. Nate

and Cal. I knew I just had to put the glasses back on. Randall has reclaimed the glasses, and just like that, the answers are flowing. I had to change had to put the glasses back on. Randall has reclaimed the glasses and just like that I had to change the energy in the room. The topic is conservation on question seven. This author has written 25 novels about the fictional game warden

Joe Pickett. Have you read any of these books, Randall? We had them on the podcast. Oh, there's a little hint that had yet to be said I can't remember A buddy of mine just got checked by a Wyoming Game warden and had

They were They put this big long stock on a bull Way in the Wilderness And shot the bull It's his cousin's first six point Ever he's super excited he's like hey validate your tag and he stopped and and did that and he's like yeah like 20 minutes later here

comes this lone dude hiking up to us and uh just had very favorable things to say about the game warden he like he was like guy obviously loved his job he was super respectful of our hunt he sat there we had no idea he was there watched the whole deal stayed way out of the way waited until everything was was over and then he came up and said hi and he um had tied his horse up a long way away and hiked a long way to get in there and stuff and so it was a good deal i've never read uh one of the books about the fictional game warden joe pickett but he's never in an ordinary situation like that he's always like dealing with an oil tycoon or a serial poacher who shot the world record moose well if you ever get a hankering

to read one of the books it doesn't take long yeah randall real fast uh Uh, I, I read, uh, yeah, I read a few, I think I just read a few excerpts. Uh, I checked a few books out from the library in preparation for the podcast just to get a good feel for it. Brody, have you come up with an answer? No, I can't remember his name. My apologies.

I can't see, I can't say, uh, anything else. I mean, he was a, he was a wonderful man. I really enjoyed that morning. Brody has now gendered him as well. Said he's a man and he was on the Meat Dealer podcast, but he still can't come up with an answer. No, it's not going to happen. Is everybody ready?

Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Chili without an answer. Revo without an answer. Tressa says John Grisham. Nice. Randall says CJ Box. Cal, CJ Box. Nate, CJ Box.

Brody, TJ. Did you spell Box right? I couldn't get past the initials. I said don't add a T. I knew it was initials. I just went as far as I could get. The correct answer is CJ Box. Box describes the Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett as, quote, an everyman hero with a

penchant for stepping into trouble. A TV series about Pickett was created by Paramount in 2021, but was canceled after two seasons. For more on the book series, listen to episode 525 of the Meat Eater podcast, where C.J. Box was a guest. Question eight, the topic is cooking. Southern Living Magazine describes this baked dish as a pan of ground meat and vegetables that's covered with a layer of mashed potatoes Brody and you had turned the page for the gravy recipe mmm because it's Southern Living mm-hmm that's right I think every edition of their magazine probably has to come with a gravy recipe and grits the room looks confident except for Brody and Reva. Southern Living Magazine describes this baked dish as a pan of ground meat and vegetables that's covered with a layer of mashed potatoes.

This definitely exists in Iowa. Yeah, I know. Chili it. I've made it, like, within the last year. I was going to return your wink, but in these glasses I thought I might just pass out. My optical nerves are overloaded at the moment. Iowa has the caucus casserole

that they make because they always get to be the first state that votes in the caucus. I feel like if you were to What's in the caucus cassero feel like if you were to... What's in the caucus casserole? I think it's like more of a fictional dish than a real dish. It's kind of whatever you want it to be. You're just making a casserole. Hot dish.

Yeah, I was going to say, I feel like if you were to change the way you described the potatoes in this question, you could have a completely different dish. Sure. But that's why we say it's covered in a layer of mashed potatoes. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal

your answers. We have Chili and Tressa saying shepherd's pie. Reva without an answer. Randall and Cal and Nate saying shepherd's pie. Brody without an answer. The correct answer is shepherd's pie or cottage pie.

It's believed that this dish was created in Ireland or England as a way to repackage leftovers from a Sunday roast. Danielle Pruitt has a venison shepherd's pie recipe in her new cookbook, Wild and Whole, which is out right now. She says that dish from page 78 of the book is one of her favorite meals for a cold day. And we actually had a little snafu today. Phil came in and he says, I'm about to eat lunch, but just so you know, I brought a shepherd's pie in today. And Phil did not know that this question existed. That was the non-hot dog you were smoking. Brody declared that the studio smelled like hot dogs.

And Phil covered his tracks by claiming it was goulash of some sort. I was trying to throw up. I didn't want Phil to have the opportunity to say shepherd's pie. I thought that was odd that you just pulled goulash out and it caught

my ear. I panicked. This is like one of the two things my dad could make. So growing up. Was it good? But see, he would call it hamburger gravy because it was shepherd's pie inverted. Oh. Yeah. Yeah.

I like it. Instant mashed potatoes. Oh, wow. Frozen veggies. So it wasn't good though. Oh, I ate a ton of it. I'd eat it right now. Left leg is made out of it. Phil, we have two questions

left. Give us a scoreboard update. Reva is the only person who is not in the game anymore, but we've got Chili Tressa and Brody with three points. Randall Williams has four. Now, tied up for first place

are Ryan Callahan and Nate the Knot Intern. They've got five points. Nate kind of called it. Question nine. Reba, did you think you'd be taken out by Shepherd's Pie? No. That was the way you were going down today? Yep.

The topic is hunting. Winchester debuted this round in 2019, calling it, quote, the fastest straight walled hunting cartridge in the world. Randall, with an answer before I even finished the question. This is number nine. The topic is hunting. Winchester debuted this round in 2019, calling it the fastest straight-walled hunting cartridge in the world. I was at SHOT Show and shot this thing during Range Day in 2019. Okay.

Do you remember what it is? Not at all. Randall, do you own one of these, or is that going to be too much of a hint if you say your name? I do not. I've moved on from my straight wall days headed west became a bottleneck man okay but when we talked about time when we talked about where we'd want to own a hunting property did you not pick a straight walled state or no i did i did kentucky okay well they also allow center fires there yeah actually i guess kentucky

isn't a straight wall state. I just killed deer with a straight wall there, but Indiana is a straight wall state. Ohio became a straight wall state after I left. When I was there, it was all slugs and muzzleloaders. I wrote down the straight wall cartridge that this came out to beat

because it's the only straight wall cartridge I can remember. I'm fixing to maybe hunt Illinois or Iowa here soon, so then I have an excuse to get a straight-walled cartridge. You could just bring your shotgun out there. I could, or I could just get a new gun. Yeah. It's a good excuse to get a.45-70.

Winchester debuted this round in 2019, calling it the fastest straight-walled hunting cartridge in the world. Brody, how do you feel about your answer? You know, maybe. Okay, maybe. Is everybody ready? Nate, how do you feel about your answer? I think I'm one character off. Okay.

It's not a T. Also, when they're running for this episode, Shelby could win this one. She'd be tied up in the lead. Now, can I ask a question? Are you looking for... How do I ask? It's a proprietary cartridge.

It's very straightforward. I'm not talking to you right now. Yeah, I'll tell you. The answer is not 30-odd-6, but you would write down 30-odd-6 if that was the answer. I'm just at like i can't yeah like if the answer was 223 you would write down 223 yeah is everybody ready go ahead and reveal your answers we have chili without an answer tressa says 308 riva without an answer randall says 350 Legend. Cal says Bushmaster. Nate says 350 Legend.

Brody says 350 Legend. They got it. The correct answer is 350 Legend. So would you accept it 350 is what I was thinking? No. No, I don't think so. That's a board I am. Yeah, because it's 350 Bushmaster too, right?

Oh, it's 450 Bushmaster. I can remember if it was.350 or.450 Legend. The.350 Legend has more energy than a.30-30 Winchester and less recoil than a.243. Since its inception, the.350 Legend has become one of the most popular rounds for deer hunters in states that only allow straight-walled cartridges. To see how it stacks up against its predecessor, read Jordan Siller's article on TheMeteater.com called Caliber Battle, 30-30 Winchester vs. 350 Legend. Here's a correct answer review so far.

1. Virginia 2. Pluto 3. Render 4. Guadalupe Mountains or Big Bend 5. Chrysalis 6. Mystery Tackle Box 7. CJ Box 8. Shepherd's Pie or Cottage Pie

9. 350 Legend Phil, give us a scoreboard update with one question to go. Oh man, I'd say it's still anybody's game, and by anybody, I mean Randall, Cal, or Nate. Let's tiebreaker this up. Randall and Cal are tied up with five, and Nate pulled ahead. He's got six points. One tie, we all tie. One tie, we all tie.

Question 10. The topic is wildlife. The National Audubon Society believes that sightings of this West Virginia cryptid are actually an owl. The room is stumped. Brody going to his whiteboard as well as Randall now. Doesn't matter, but, you know. The National Audubon Society believes that sightings of this West Virginia cryptid are actually an owl. Nate, do you have any chance of getting this one right?

Got a chance. Okay, do you have an answer? But it's small. Let me see your answer. It's in my mind right now. Can you tell us what a cryptid is? No, I'm not going to tell you what a cryptid is unless another player would like to help you out,

but I'm guessing they don't want to give any hints. You already got your answer? Yeah, I do. Do you have this one right, Rand, but I'm guessing they don't want to give any hints. You already got your answer? Yeah, I do. Do you have this one right, Randall? I'm pretty sure. Okay, Brody, how do you feel about your answer? I don't have very many West Virginia cryptids in my... Yeah.

In your Rolodex. Oh, Reva thinks she knows this one. The National Audubon Society believes that sightings of this West Virginia cryptid are actually an owl. We have Nate with a one point lead over Randall and Cal.

I have no idea. And with a blank whiteboard for Nate, we are fixing to go to overtime. He said he has an answer, but it's in his mind. We're going to need that to wind up on the whiteboard pretty soon phil would have you gotten this one right yeah yeah yeah i knew you would and i know why oh i don't know why you would know that he would know why so maybe you can tell us afterwards i

will yeah i'd love to know if my answer Phil, do you know why Randall knows why? I have no idea. I'm excited to find out. Cal, do you give up? I wrote something down. Okay, Nate, are you good with your answer? Yeah, I know, but I have one. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Chili without an answer. Tressa

says Yeti. Rebo says Mothman. Randba says Mothman. Randall, Mothman. Cal, Ivory-billed woodpecker. Nate, dragon. Brody, Mothman. The correct answer is Mothman, meaning Randall got it right,

and him and Nate are going to overtime. So the movie, Moth'm off man prophecy yeah which was a fun movie a lot of fun uh what what is cryptid that's like bigfoot like a chupacabra like a cryptozoologist studies animals that don't really exist like that the but a cryptozoologist or like studies animals that did exist no no no no a cryptozoologist studies animals that did exist. No. No. A cryptozoologist studies animals that don't exist. They probably.

It's like a cryptogenic stroke is a stroke of an unknown cause. At least as far as we know. They're probably studying an animal that's real thinking it's, you know, oh, I got Bigfoot hair here, but it's actually from a domestic cat. That kind of thing. It's like a mystery. It's good job security there. I don't think you can get a degree in cryptozoology. Oh, there's guarantee there are like undergrad classes for it, but maybe not degrees.

I bet you could get it on a web browser and have a degree in cryptozoology. Because like every Loch Ness show has a cryptozoology. Or have a museum exhibit about it. There were more than 100 reported sightings of Mothman between November 1966 and December 1967 near Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Witnesses described the winged creature as being tall and muscular with glowing red eyes. Some believe that seeing Mothman is a bad omen because of its connection to the Silver Bridge collapse in 1967. Locals reportedly saw the creature flying over the bridge before it fell into the ohio river and killed 46 people now randall why do you know that phil knew the

from the mothman prophecies i just assumed that phil is a fellow cinemaphile no i was just into really like weird spooky creatures because they draw it a lot in that the the bridge disasters referenced that film and then I just remember laughing at the drawings. Sure. But I don't recall who starred in it.

We'll never know. Until we do it after this. We're going to overtime. Play the drop, Bill. I feel like if it was important to you, you'd look out for

that. That's that British dude. I think just cut it at if you ain't first, you're last. And then, like, go into other stuff that's funny. Oh, you know who it was? It was Richard Gere.

Yeah, there you go. He was going to pull up the IMDB while we do the overtime question. And I always get it confused with the butterfly effect. But that's Ethan Supley. He's looking great these days. Oh, he is. He's trim. At boxing.

The overtime topic is hunting. and this is a numerical question. So whoever is closest between Randall and Nate will be declared the winner, but the rest of the room is going to participate and come up with an answer because if somebody gets it right on the nose, Meat Eater will add an extra $100 donation to the end of the game. Here's the tie-breaking question. How many states have a moose hunting season?

How many states have a moose hunting season? Nate is openly okay, there he is. He's hit his whiteboard. He was listing the states for all to see. Phil, have you seen the Mothman Chronicles? The Mothman Prophecies?

No, I have not. It was one of those movies that I'd see on a blockbuster shelf, like, you know, in the early 2000s. And because it's got a very kind of striking box, and I would always wonder what that movie's about. Yeah. Well, now you know. Now I know. It's Richard Gere and Laura Linney. Laura Linney.

Oh, Jurassic Park. Dr. Ellie Sadler. That's a paleobotanist. Is Laura Linney in Jurassic Park? No, no. I always get her confused. She's in Congo. Laura Dern.

Yeah, she's in the two Lauras, the blondes. Yeah, Laura Linney's in Congo. Yeah. How many states have a moose hunting season? Chilly, you got an answer? I do. Okay. Tresa, Reva, you got answers?

And if somebody gets it right on the nose, Meat Eater is generous enough to make it a $600 donation instead of a $500 donation. A little unknown fact about the donations that you're not aware of. Okay. So since we pay when we the donation gets routed through my card. Oh, I didn't know that. I get about. I'm always glad

that when I'm reminded that Chili has a company credit card. I hope my credit score is just going through the roof right now. Company credit card. But I get about, I'd say,

close to a hundred letters a month from all these organizations that we don't, like, it's like, Thank you, Chili. Yeah, it's like,

thank you for your contribution, Austin. I'm like, so, I'm building bridges with a lot of people right now. Randall, do you have an answer?

What's that? I do. Nate, do you have an answer? What's that? I do. Nate, do you have an answer? I do. Is everybody ready? Cal, are you ready? Yeah. Go ahead and reveal your answers.

We have Chili saying seven. Tressa says three. Reva says five. Cal says ten. Brody says eight. And our two players remaining We have Nate saying 8 Randall saying 13 8 is not correct

One of you has it right on the nose Meaning this will be a $600 donation The correct answer Is 13 Making Randall our winner Did you have the right 13 as well here they are the 13 states are alaska maine vermont new hampshire north dakota colorado idaho montana utah washington wyoming and nevada minnesota also has a moose hunting season that's only for tribal members.

So they're counted in the 13. Oh, yeah. I had Minnesota instead of Nevada. Well, that was part of the 13. Oh, I see. Where did I get it wrong then? Doesn't matter. You had 13. I'm not concerned about it, Spencer.

Thank you. Well done, Dr. Randall. Wow. He couldn't let Nate have his first. Came back from some serious adversity. Oh, God. Best belated birthday present ever. He was a simple

caterpillar who went into his chrysalis and became a butterfly. Randall, where is the $600 donation from you and me, Dieter, going to go? I'm going to give it to the Montana Wild Sheep Foundation. They are

currently working on a land acquisition project. And I got an email the other day that they had a certain target amount they're looking to raise. I believe it's some land outside of Anaconda, some lambing ground. And so I'd like it to go there and support that work. I imagine that'll benefit more than just some sheep. Indeed. $600 going there from Randall and Meat Eater. I think that's a new group for us to donate to.

Fantastic. Join us next week for more Meat Eater trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. Yeah, Spencer from South Dakota, he's the host. Using those smooth, mellow tones, he lays them questions down. And he likes taking those two- and three-year-old bucks. And he's an avid amateur rock hound. Hey, folks, exciting news for those who live or hunt in Canada.

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