The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 615: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CXXXV

Episode Date: October 23, 2024

Randall Willams guest hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Janis Putelis, Ryan Callaghan, Clay Newcomb, Brent Reaves, and Chilly Chleborad. 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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Whole, seasonal recipes for the conscious cook, and it's an ode to cooking seasonally with wild and foraged ingredients. Now, let's get to what you'll find in this book. This cookbook contains more than 80 recipes inspired by what you can hunt, fish, forage, or grow in your garden each season. Often, Danielle will pair her ingredients to reflect both the hunting season and the growing season. So her turkey cutlet is combined with springtime morels. Her Gulf Coast redfish with summertime sweet corn. She cooks venison with pumpkin for a tasty fall stew. If that all sounds complicated, trust me, it is not complicated. Danielle has a knack for creating recipes worthy of a five-star kitchen, but accessible to two-star cooks. And you'll come away armed with techniques that will make you a better cook all around. This book is also beautiful to look at with gorgeous full-color photographs

that inspire you to take a real hard look at your kitchen's output. It's Meat Eaters Wild and Whole, Seasonal Recipes for the Conscious Cook by Danielle Pruitt. It is out now and it's available at TheMeatEater.com or wherever books are sold. Welcome to meat eater trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I am not your host, Spencer Newharth. I'm your guest host, Dr. Randall Williams. Today we're joined by Steve, Giannis, Cal, Clay, Mr. Brent Reeves, and Chili. Now as you know this is a 10-round quiz show with questions from meat eaters for Verticals which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking. And there is a prize. Meat eater will donate $500 To the conservation organization

Of the winners choosing Now for our housekeeping today We have a correction to make From the episode of Trivia That aired on October 9th That episode if you'll recall Was guest hosted by Yanis Petelis Question 10 of that week's episode

Read as follows Brumination is the word that describes The hibernation of what animal? The answer given was snake, but Yana said he would have also accepted reptiles. Spencer was the only contestant to receive a point. Heading into question 10, Brody and I were tied in first place.

He answered bear and I answered salamander, neither of which received credit. So we entered a tiebreaker, which Brody then won. At 9 51. that day, I received a text. This is all the same letter. Yes. This is, I've composed this.

This is my own. This is from you. Yes, yes. You're reading your own letter to Spencer. No, he's just telling us the story. This is, I'm telling the story. I will have some... Okay, I thought you were reading some dude's letter. No, no, no.

I was starting to really like this guy. This is housekeeping. I think you misspelled... You misspelled... Wasn't it brumation, not brumination? Brumation? Later that day, at 9.51 p.m., I received a text message from Spencer Newharth

that read, oh no, and included a screenshot of a Google search with the phrase, do amphibians brumate? The results of the search indicated definitively that amphibians, including salamanders, do indeed brumate. Our subsequent text exchange read as follows. Randall, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, exclamation point, exclamation point.

Spencer, I thought that seemed wrong. Randall. When you said ho, ho, ho, ho, did you mean ha, ha, ha, ha? No, no. It's a ho, ho, ho, ho, ho. Oh. Yeah. Randall, yeah, I did too.

Spencer, this can be your housekeeping when you host trivia in Louisiana. You will be able to declare yourself the winner of that episode. Wow, so you won. So, to sum all of that up, Spencer has officially added a victory to my career total and taken one away from Brody. Wow. Now, we've not reached out to brody yet for comment i do like this story what do you uh do you how do you think brody will react to that he'll take it he'll he'll be very reasonable about it yeah very much well he'll bruminate on it a little bit but he also but he did win the tiebreaker he did but we shouldn't

have gone to a tiebreaker. It's like having an overtime that you won in regular time. Yeah, but the crowd's gone home. Half the kids cried. Half the kids cheered. Got on separate buses. What counts is the record books. History.

History. History, yeah. History will erase the feelings. Congratulations on the win, Randall. Good job, Randall. And I will respect Brody's donation to Coloradans for responsible wildlife management. There you go.

You're not going to send them a letter that you need the money for. A cease and desist. What do they need money for, Randall? Oh, I don't know. Something called Proposition 127. Nailed it. Yep. Yep.

Vote no. Vote no if you Yep, yep. Vote no. Vote no if you're in Colorado. Vote no. I met multiple Coloradans this very week, and the first thing I asked them was, I said, how are you voting on Proposition 127? They all answered right. You know, the organization that's behind that

is getting a lot of mileage now out of, they're getting a lot of mileage that the great hunter Dan Ash is coming out in Pro Proposition 127. Who's Dan Ash? No, he hunts a pheasant now and then. One of those bird hunters. Yeah, he used to be interior under who? No, he had a wildlife service under Obama.

So like even a hunter. They always find one of those. They found all of those. They got both of them. Well, now that we've all had our fun for the day and gotten through that important item of business, let's just get through this game of trivia, shall we? Phil, please play the drop.

Look, I need to know what I stand to win. Everything. How's that? Just tend to win everything. Game on, suckers! That was good and loud. Question one. This is a multiple choice question.

According to the University of Florida, what percentage of alligator attacks are fatal? Hmm. Your options are A, 4%, B, 17%, C, 30%, or D, 43%. I'll read those again.

This isn't like including dogs and possums and whatnot. This is humans? Human alligator attacks. A, 4%, B, 17%, C, 30%, or D, 43%? Is it an attack? Well, this directly pertains to what just happened in Colorado with the mountain lion.

Colorado State doesn't recognize the lion attacking the dog and the human interfering and beating the lion to death with the shovel as an attack because it was attacking the dog and the human interfering and beating the lion to death with the shovel as an attack because it was attacking the dog not the human yeah i see both sides of that because if you picture like let's say you looked out your window and there's a bear mixing it up with your dog yes and you ran out there and mix it up with the bear i can see how you yes but i would see that if you were walking your dog, then I would be like that, you know what I mean? That I would be like, I would say that is an attack.

Yes. Because it's in your immediate proximity and it's your property that you're kind of hooked to by a cord. Yeah. You know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And like, yeah, did the lion come from 90 degrees and T-boned the dog? Or did it come straight at the both of you

and encountered the dog first? Sure, or the dog jumped in front of it. Yeah. So does a gator attack mean that a gator touched a human with his snout, with his teeth? Don't overthink. I think that's a fair characterization. Just pick a number, man.

For you listeners at home who are in love with, you listeners at home who are in love with, you ladies at home who are in love with Chili, he's not saying anything because you don't have a mic. But I'm here to speak for him. You're his interlocutor, I think is the term. I've already written my name, I think, Chili. Can I see what you got down there? Do we all have our answers?

Oh, Chili has come up with a wonderful answer. All right. I can see how he would arrive at such a number. Right or wrong? Why don't we flip those cards? Steve says 17%. Chili says 17%. Giannis says 4%.

Clay says 4%. Brent says 4%. And Cal says 4%. Clay says 4%. Brent says 4%. And Cal says 17%. The correct answer is 4%. Yes! I knew it'd be something like that. Son of a bitch. It's because they're kind of going like,

oh, I didn't know it was that low. Unprovoked alligator attacks do occasionally happen and should not be downplayed. However, most are preventable, and the fatality rate is low most attacks are characterized by a single bite what do you mean most are preventable that's you know who wrote this an alligator yeah i mean wally i mean alligators do only live in a very specific region of the united states i think most are preventable implies that stupid behavior If you stayed in your house it wouldn't have happened.

Do you live in Montana? Well They could have all moved to Montana They would have never been attacked by an alligator. Most people who get stomped by a bison in Yellowstone Park I would say that most bison unpleasant bison encounters are preventable. Absolutely. Yeah I think a lot of

alligator attacks probably come from being like oh my god check out that alligator. I'm going to gonna go over by that alligator hey y'all watch this in in all the in all the animal human attack conflict videos that you watch that you see like bison or whatever gators are some of the worst because what they'll when they do you guys agree with me like the gruesome factor because they'll grab somebody's hand and then roll. Yeah, I don't think there's a way for a gator to get you a little bit. You want to hear a noise that'll keep you up at night? Yes. Yes, we do.

My roommate just – So my buddy in Yazoo County, Mississippi just sent me a video of – it's on my Instagram, at Steve Morinella, of a gator coming up and grabbing a raccoon underneath a corn feeder. I wonder if I got a good enough connection to play it. I should have recorded chilly last night. Listen to this noise. Because my roommate, chilly, woke me up with what was not a classic snore.

Come on, play the noise. I looked over, and he's up in bed like this with his hooded sweatshirt on. And he's trying to snore, but he's got his wind... Phil, play this noise on your... Come on, I can't play it off. It's making more of a... Everybody listen. Type of noise.

That was scary. Take it off the internet. Who's real good at phones? Take it off. It's making more of a... Everybody listen. There we go. Mm, type of noise. That was scary. Take it off the internet. Who's real good at phones? Take it off the internet. Well, question two. I deleted, no. Alexander Graham Bell.

I deleted, who's good at phones? I deleted the video, hold on a minute. What I mean is like, turn off your wifi. Just give me a second here. Oh, that's what's throwing it off? Yes. Bill, did you pause the recording? No, we're still rolling.

Good. Okay. He hasn't caught it yet. You'll know when he catches it. This is a gator catching a coon. That's not the gator making that noise. Yeah, that sounds like when you squall one down a tree. Man, just know you're hosting randall but no no next week one of our raccoons i remember one time we were out me and all our neighbor kids and everything we're out swimming in the lake and

we're on our raft which is like way out in the lake playing ball tag and from there you had to go like across the water up the hill to the house up the hill to the garage and you could hear from playing ball tag that noise and it was because someone had hit the automatic garage door this is right when garage doors becoming a thing and caught the raccoon like he was trying to get in or get out before the door shut and it got him right around the midsection and you could hear that noise from the raft. Wow. And I thought it killed him, but you hit the button,

the door opened back up, and he just ran off. Trying to get to the sim. He never went through. He's trying to make it to the mortuary. He never went through a big opening again. Our dog, dude, when you hit the garage door button at our house, our dog immediately goes the other direction. He heard about it.

He wants nothing to do with that door. Question two. hit the garage door button at our house our dog immediately goes the other direction he heard about question two what seven letter french term refers to a small boat often a dugout canoe and is commonly associated with the cajun culture of the louisiana marsh what seven letter french term refers to a small boat often a dugout canoe and is commonly associated with the cajun culture of the louisiana marsh um what a timely question how important is spelling yeah seven letters what if you only can do it with six letters, but you know what it is? Just add in. It's French. Add a vowel. Add a vowel somewhere.

Put an X in there. We'll be generous, I think. Yeah, this is sort of a thematic episode, given our surroundings. Steve objected to this. Did we tell everybody we're in Louisiana? We are. No, he didn't set that up. And then he's doing it regional, which I told him I thought was a dumb idea.

And then I had several people come up to me saying, I heard Steve thinks this is a bad idea. I think it's a good idea. I think it's good. Like, who does people walking by? No, one has the initials JP. One has the initials... The guy that owns Chase Bank.

One has the initials PT. PTSD. PTSD. Do we all have our answers here? And then there's this Cajun guy. Steve, is Chili still working on his answer? Chili, how you doing, buddy? He don't have it. He's not going to get it.

Why don't we flip those cards over? I feel like there's two answers for this one. Steve says P-Rogue. Everybody except for Chili says P-Rogue. Everybody except for Chili says P-Rogue. Everybody except for Chili got it right. And how do you spell it? Have you accepted Bat-Toe? Different.

How? I don't know. Why is the sun in the moon different? You don't know because I believe that you should accept Bat-Toe. Is it seven letters? I think so. because I believe that you should accept Battelle. Is it seven letters? I think so. B-A-T-T-O-U?

E-A-U. E-A-U. E-A-U. Is there not an X? There's no X on Battelle. Well, typically used to refer to narrow flat-bottomed boats used in the marshes of the Gulf, a P-Rogue can actually apply to any number of vessels. Meriwether Lewis used the term to refer both to the Cottonwood dugout canoes

as well as two large rowboats utilized by the Corps of Discovery. Hank Williams Jr. mentions these boats in his 1969 hit song, Cajun Baby, which includes the line, eat lots of shrimp and crawfish, ride around in my old P-Rogue. Gets right to it in that one, don't he? It's pretty straightforward the the other line that's what he said song it's like her teeth are white her hair is black it's i mean it's very it's just very descriptive die in the back of a cadillac question three

this fishing tackle manufacturer founded in... Question three. This fishing tackle manufacturer founded in Philadelphia by German immigrant Otto Henze boasts that its famous saltwater reels have caught more than 1,400 world record fish. This fishing tackle manufacturer founded in philadelphia by german immigrant otto henzey boasts that its famous saltwater reels have caught more than 1400 world record fish easy easy easy easy i'm trying to do the thing where you you want everybody to get a point.

Oh, Chili, you didn't. I don't know this one. Chili, you didn't get. Give me your little card. Question one, did you? You used one yesterday. Come on. Chili, you still got zero, right? I'm scorekeeping today for those at home.

Do we all have an answer here? Yes. Why don't we flip those cards over? Steve says pen.ve says pen chili says pen i'm i'm raising an eyebrow at that janice says pen clay says shimano i was gonna say zeb grant says pen cal says pen the correct answer is pen henzie founded the pen fishingle Company in 1932, only 10 years after he arrived in the United States at the age of 25.

Among the many notable records caught on a Penn reel is the 1,080-pound Mako shark landed in 1979 by Frank Mundus, who later served as the inspiration for the character played by Robert Shaw in the film Jaws. Question four. served as the inspiration for the character played by robert shaw in the film jaws question four you know uh mundus he caught a he caught a big one that igfa didn't accept because they handed the rod he i can't remember if he hooked it or his mate hooked it i think mundus hooked it but then he he wanted the boat turned like in a particular fashion and at some point hands it to his mate or vice versa i can't remember and igfa rejected the thing because he had went and harpooned like a 3000 or some

obscene great white off a whale carcass uh and then people were looking down on it well you didn't actually catch it you harpooned it so he's like oh go catch one so he goes on catches one off a whale carcass now it's been commented that frank mundus had an uncanny ability to locate whale carcasses uh to then fish white sharks off yeah catches this giant, and they do a switcheroo, and the record was rejected. Huh. Question four, speaking of the IGFA.

Question four, how many species must an angler catch in a single day in order to achieve an IGFA inshore grand slam? How many species must an angler catch in a single day in order to achieve an IGFA inshore Grand Slam? Take a good guess.

I got a good guess. I thought this was going to be a question that received ridicule for its level of difficulty. It is a highly difficult one. It's what you got, Chili. It's not going to change my mind. I feel like, well, I'll comment after you reveal the answer.

You're just taking a stab. You're just taking a stab. We're not... You don't have to name the species, correct? Correct. The number of how many species. How many different species do you need to catch in a single single day so really brent you've got a one an infinity chance of getting it right i'm guessing so far i've got them all well that's assuming there are infinity different species i think if you guys think about the question and the words and the

question are you helping your competitors yeah Yeah. I mean, like. Do it again. Read it again, Randy. But I feel like there are how many species. Son of a bitch. How many different species must an angler catch in a single day in order to achieve an IGFA inshore grand slam? Where are they talking about? It doesn't matter. I'm going back with my original answer.

Do we all have? Because. Do we all have answers i do why don't we turn our cards over steve says three i'm thinking bonefish permit tarpon steve says three chili says four yana says four clay says four brent says four and cal says four we have a correct answer in the room it's three whoa that's not a grand slam a grand slam a grand slam is defined as an individual angler catching at least three of the eligible species within a category a super grand slam requires catching four different species within a category oh that's what i thought yeah is there a super grand slam requires catching four different species within a category oh that's

what i thought yeah is there a super duper no any other guesses on what you get when you get five the ultimate super slam the fantasy slam it comes with this is where the marketing department they're like the slam thing's really catching on how can we how can we do some expansion jaws five so they're i'm writing a letter to them because where it all started was a baseball grand slam and how many runs that's four right in a baseball yeah but i think but a grand slam of sheep but it's like bonefish permit tarpon i think it's out of the keys so they have they have all these different categories you can have a tuna grand slam a trout grand slam an inshore grand slam so turkey anything within those categories it's like pick three if you caught them

in a single day you can get recognized for an inshore grand slam the species in the category as follows bonefish snook kubera snapper tarpon permit snub-nosed pompano giant trevally roosterfish bluefin trevally, and milkfish. Hey folks, exciting news for those who live or hunt in Canada. And boy, my goodness do we hear from the Canadians whenever we do a raffle or a sweepstakes. And our raffle and sweepstakes law makes it that they can't join. Whew, our northern brothers get irritated. Well, if you're sick of, you know, sucking high and titty there,

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They don't build up lactic acid so they don't wear down. Not a big fan of these questions today. Sport fish. No, that's fine. I thought you had to have higher spirits after that last one. Name every state that borders the Gulf of Mexico. That's a pretty good one. Thank you, Clay.

Did you make that up? I did. Name every state that borders the Gulf of Mexico, which happens to be very near our current location. How many are there total? That's part of the question. I initially included the number, and then I thought about who was playing today, and I thought we needed to make a couple of these questions

a little trickier. United States states. United States states. United States states. I feel pretty good about it. I could keep going and start getting it wrong if I tried to move down into Old Mexico. That'd be challenging. But I couldn't fact check you.

Yeah, that'd be challenging. So just go ahead and do it. I noticed you're not doing little tidbits. Oh, you are doing little tidbits. I'm trying to keep them short. I'm trying to keep them short. Hey, I'll tell you the tidbit I'd like on this one. Yes.

Is the history of the Florida Panhandle. It's kind of an awkward geographical. Well, they're like, we need even more coastline. We didn't get enough. The reason I recently read about it, but I forgot, but it was something pretty interesting. Somehow Florida was just like, you know what? And we're going to take all this.

You know what book you might enjoy, Clay? We have a book at our house called How the States Got Their Shapes. Really? And you can do any state, and it talks to you all about how the states got their shapes. And I think that's also like a TV series on the History Channel. It was. I don't know which came first.

Do we all have answers here? We flip our cards over. One second. I dropped mine in the crack. Steve says Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. Chili says Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Georgia. Yana says Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas Chili says Texas, Florida, Louisiana Georgia Giannis says Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas Clay, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi

Louisiana, Texas Brent says Florida, Alabama, Mississippi Louisiana, Texas Cal says Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas Mississippi The correct answers are Louisiana, Florida Texas, Alabama and Mississippi Why do you keep doing it out of order?

I can see doing it west to east or east to west, but I don't get the whole jumping around. I'm reading them as you have them on the card. It's easier for me. I know your answer. You even jumped around, buddy. Well, I read those in the order of their – Admission into the union?

The length of their coastline, which is my fun tidbit. Oh! Wow. We're playing chess. He's playing checkers. All the way around. So Steve, Clay, Brent, and Cal got that one right. That's crafty, Randall.

So Louisiana has, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the shoreline mileages of these five states are as follows. Louisiana, 7,721. Florida, 5,095. Texas, 3,359. Alabama, 607. And Mississippi, 329. What I don't understand is how Louisiana has 7,000 miles of coast.

Yeah, it's's crazy isn't it there's there's different ways you can measure it depending on tidal inlets and so i think this i think like if you're measuring it based on tidal inlets and what's touching water then that's that's how you get that high number but if you're drawing a line around the edge of the body of water, there's something called a shoreline paradox, which is that there's no real way to measure coastline. Really? That's a man who's explaining that. That was an in-depth tidbit right there.

That's a man explaining something he doesn't know much about. We are now halfway through our game of trivia. Phil, I will update the scoreboard here as our official scorekeeper for today. In last place, we have Chili with one. We have a three-way tie for third with Giannis, Clay, and Cal with three points apiece. We have Brent and Steve in a two-way tie for first with four points apiece. Anybody's game. Shall we continue on with this game of trivia?

Chili says yes. Question six. What four-letter term, and I will specify that's a plural term what four-letter plural term refers to the bony or soft spines that support the membranes of a fish's fin say it again what i got confused about the whole plural and not plural thing. Well, I wanted to just... What four-letter term refers to the bony or soft spines that support the membranes of a fish's fin? Hmm.

Yeah. Anybody need that one again? I don't like this one. Four letters? Four letters, plural. Let's see there. See? I don't like this one. Four letters? Four letters, plural. Let's see there. See? I knew I'd win you over.

Read it again, Randall. There are 20. Let's do some quick statistical math. Four letter term, and that's a plural term, refers to the bony or soft spines that support the membranes of a fish's fin okay listen guys no there's 26 letters in the alphabet and how many options are yeah like so statistically i would say if we just and we assume it's plural since they gave that in the question. So we know it ends in an S.

So we're, okay. I tell you guys the world. I think Clay's going to get, what's that? Uh, shoreline paradox. No.

So I went, uh, skydiving. Yeah. It's subjective. I just want to tell you right now. No, hear me out.

There's hard math problems for math people, and then there's hard math problems for me. Very different things. This is the hardest one, though. Okay. Let's say you're a skydiver and you have two parachutes. You've got your main chute and your reserve chute, and there's a one in blank.

I can't remember what the number is, but let's say there's a one in blank okay i don't know what i can't remember what the number is let's say there's a one in four thousand that your main shoot will fail and there's a one in four thousand don't blush that your secondary shoot will fail how would you ever figure out what the odds are that those 1 in 4,000 and 1 in 4,000 would intersect? You don't need to answer that. That is a hard math problem. Yep. Go on.

I'm sure someone will write in to tell us that it's not that hard. There's someone that already has figured it out. I think I know the answer, but I don't want to get into it. There's someone that already has figured it out. I think I know the answer, but I don't want to get into it. There's someone that's already figured it out. Do we have our answers? My blood pressure started going up by about the time you got to the second shoot. It's like, ugh.

Too many numbers. Flip those cards. Steve says, raise. Chili Steve says, raise. Giannis says, tits. Steve says Rays. Giannis says Tits. Clay says Buse. Those are not the three.

I know you're just going for random letters. Brent says Fins and Cal says Rays. The correct answer is Rays. Chili, nice work. Steve, Cal and Chili Steve. And Chili Nice work, dude. Steve, Cal, and... Chili, Steve.

And Chili. That's right. To count the rays on a fish fin, you should count the base of the fin as the rays branch out away from the body. The last two rays coming from the body are often counted as one because they may sprout from a single place under the surface. Rays are

not connected to the spine and are controlled by the muscles to which they're attached. Hmm. Did not know that. Did you get it right, Brent? No. Oh, I knew that. I didn't.

What? Question seven. So did Chili. I didn't know that. No, I knew the answer. I didn't know that little tidbit. I'm trying to think of when you clean the fish. Yeah.

Yeah. When the backbone falls apart, it doesn't have that little problem around it yeah what 1999 this is question seven what 1999 film starring bill pullman as u.s fish and wildlife service investigator jack wells depicts the hunt for a giant crocodile that is terrorizing the fictional community of Black Lake, Maine? Oh, my God. What? It's a film starring a Fish and Wildlife Service investigator. I feel like it's within the universe. Chili?

Read the whole thing again? Chili's got it. Chili's got it. What 1999 film starring Bill Pullman as U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service investigator Jack Wells depicts the hunt for a giant crocodile that is terrorizing the fictional community of Black Lake, Maine? It's a crocodile. It's a crocodile. Can you just picture everything about how that movie would go?

Terrible. I've never heard that it exists. Somebody gets killed. I think you've heard of this one. Well, it starts with old Bill Pullman going about his normal routine. Yeah. Yeah. Goes into the coffee shop.

He's jaded. He's jaded after a long career of seeing the darkest underbelly of the world. Maybe he just got a roadkill deer off the road. There's also a quirky scientist who... His wife's nice as shit. His kids miss him because he's always working. Yes. And then

for some reason, they have to find a crocodile expert. That's how they always go. I picture that someone finds a body. I bet one of his kids got killed. It's a crocodile? It's a crocodile terrorizing the fictional community of Black Lake, Maine.

I'll give you a hint. The first two words are after a while. You should know this. I feel like you're not trying. Is that not it? I can't read the last word. I know this film. I've never seen it.

Are we ready to flip our cards? No one's... Phil's juiced up. Look at Phil back there. He's excited. Steve. Steve says croc. Chili says Lake Pl He's excited. Steve says croc. Chili says Lake Placid.

Giannis says croc. It's Black Lake. Let's just continue. Clay says after a crocodile in Maine. Brent says croxilla. Cal says what lies beneath. Here's the deal. There is an alligator crocodile Movie that is

Lake Placid But you said The name of the lake Which the name of the lake in that movie Is Lake Placid The fictional community of Black Lake, Maine What's the name of the show? The answer is Lake Placid What's the name of the show?

The answer is Lake Placid. What the hell are they calling it Lake Placid for? Explain this. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Nicely done, Chili. Let me add that one to the total. Well, it's sort of a haunting name, and it also is sort of ironic because it's not a calm it's about a shark it's a killing everyone in the atlantic ocean the name of the movie the pacific

it's like is this out of the realm of your expectations for hollywood give me the question again i'm so confused what 1999 film starring bill pullman as U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service investigator Jack Wells depicts the hunt for a giant crocodile that is terrorizing the fictional community of Black Lake, Maine? Well, I mean, they live in Black Lake, but Lake Placid is like right over there. Lake Placid was among several campy 90s creature features,

including Deep Blue Sea and Anaconda. Betty White steals the show as the foul-mouthed Dolores Bickerman, an eccentric local who it is revealed has been secretly feeding the creature cows for years. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film one out of four stars, describing it as, quote, completely wrongheaded from beginning to end. The woman's name is Bickerman? Yes. And the Simpsons, the woman's name is bickerman yes and the simpsons the

principal is mr bitterman so you what you're saying is lake placid isn't the name of any lake in this fictional world that's the stupidest question that is a yeah that was so misleading i feel like it's a question about an investigation of animal it's a movie about animals attacking people and the investigators from the fish and wildlife service i feel like that's a question about an investigation of animals. It's a movie about animals attacking people and the investigators from the Fish and Wildlife Service. I feel like that's a squarely. Spencer would. No, no, no. Spencer.

Let's move on. What makes it dumb is the answer. Good job, Chili. Good job, Chili. Question eight. Yeah, had you said, name this movie that has this fictional crocodile. That's named all wrong. I'd be like, oh.

I feel like I gave you the name of the main character, the plot of the movie. But then you told us that it's not the... You literally said the name of the lake, which... I said the community of Black Lake, Maine. You said Lake Placid. Yeah, but then you said Lake Out West. Or New York.

It's a lake in the same region. Question eight. The Cajun term for what flowering plant? You don't handle being bad at this well. I think that was a perfectly worded question about something that you didn't know much about. I believe What Lies Beneath is a movie about ghosts. We can talk about it later.

The Cajun term for what flowering plant, native to East Africa and sometimes called Lady's Fingers due to the shape of its long, slender seed pods, gives its name to the dish of gumbo? Oh, my God. The Cajun term for what flowering plant, native to East Africa and sometimes called lady's fingers due to the shape of its long slender seed pods gives gumbo its name oh i need to look at this question should i say it like six more times i'll rephrase it please the cajun term for what flowering plant gives gumbo its name

hint this plant is native to east africa and sometimes is called lady's fingers due to the shape of its long slender seed pods one more time gumbo okay takes its name from the Cajun term for a flowering plant that is native to East Africa and sometimes called lady's fingers due to the shape of the long, slender seed pods. We need to know the name of this plant. The Cajun term for what flowering plant gives gumbo its name? Hint. The plant is native to East Africa and sometimes is called lady's fingers due to the shape of its long, slender seed pods.

And no matter what you do with gumbo, it always turns out real brown. There is a plant that is native to East Africa. It is sometimes called lady's fingers due to the shape of its long, slender seed pods. The Cajun term for this plant gives gumbo its name. What is the name of the plant? Is this plant used in gumbo?

Objection. Did you just do a slight nod? He did. Objection. He did like a quarter inch nod. Like a quarter inch secret nod you're over here writing answers on chili's like now and then if he answers my hint everybody gets the hint do we do we all have answers here oh no No.

There's a lot happening. Yeah, I do. Why don't we flip our cards over here? Steve says okra. Chili sort of waves. Yana says okra. Clay says okra. Brent says okra. And Cal says sassafras.

The correct answer is okra. And Cal says sassafras. The correct answer is okra. Okay. What threw me off, though, is that that's not a Cajun. Is that a Cajun name? What's the Cajun name for okra? The Cajun name for okra is gombo. Oh, see, I thought you were looking for that answer. That's why it's a poorly.

I got it right, which is cool. The Cajun term for ok it was it was poorly crafted here i'll i'll the cajun term for okra gives gumbo its name yeah does that make sense it's a great question the question is the cajun term for what plant gives gumbo its name oh it's like a downward spiral great question great subject it was very poorly worded yeah and coming off the back of that other one it's like which is just a dumb question where do we go next so it's like there's a dumb question then there's a good question poorly worded the question randall how did you get so much sun today the cajun term for what flowering plant gives gumbo its name okra is a cajun term or i'm sorry gumbo is the case

exactly he got his wrong he got his own question i've had to rephrase this question five times is a Cajun term. I'm sorry, Gumbo is a Cajun term broker. Exactly. He got his own question. I've had to rephrase this question five times. You all got it. You know how Randall wrote that question? He wrote it out on a piece of paper and then tore each word out and then put it in a bowl and stirred them up

and then put the words back and then wrote all those words down on his computer. Gumbo is the Cajun term for okra. It comes from the word gombo in the Bambara language spoken by many of the enslaved people in Louisiana. Other African languages have similar terms for the plant, which serves as a thickening agent in many gumbo recipes. What exactly is, why is Spencer not here?

Oh. So Cajun folks are no okra then. Is it Creole or pro-okra and Cajun folks are opposite? I don't know. I don't know. Well, see, Cal, I was thinking filet, which is made out of

sassafras. Right, but it's not the Cajun term that gives gumbo its name. Filet gumbo. Yeah. We've got two questions left in our game of trivia. If anybody can understand them. I think you're being obtuse. I don't even know now if I wrote down.

You were badgering me so much. These guys all got it. Right. Not Julie. So, Steve, you have six points or seven? Well, don't ask him. I got a lot. I'm trying to do a lot here.

Brent, you got it. Clay. Clay got it. You got it. What happened to your normal scorekeeper? He doesn't have a headset. He's in the same room. I've been only watching Brent, and I should have pulled out and lead.

Steve, yes. Steve, I believe you have seven points. Yeah, I believe I pulled out and lead because he faltered. Yes. On the fish fan. Chili has three points. Cal has four points. Giannis, Clay, and Brent have five and steve has seven that doesn't sound right no i have six i should have him by one point brent has six steve

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onxmaps.com slash meet. Welcome to the OnX Club, y'all. Question nine. Which sitting American president undertook an 11-day fishing trip in the Gulf of Mexico while in office,

setting out from New Orleans on April 29, 1937 and wrapping up in Galveston, Texas on May 11. Which sitting American president undertook an 11-day fishing trip in the Gulf of Mexico, setting out from New Orleans on April 29, 1937, and wrapping up in Galveston, Texas on May 11th? Oh, we ran out of our ticker. Oh, shoot.

Again. More ticker. Which sitting American president undertook an 11-day fishing trip in the Gulf of Mexico while in office, setting out from New Orleans on April 29, 1937, and wrapping up in Gavelston, Texas on May 11. Give me a minute. This is really showing a gap in my presidents here.

God, just who I'm... I know what you're thinking, Steve. But it doesn't make sense. Yeah. That's enough. You know it, Brent? I don't have any... Yeah, I think I do. I think I do.

I mean, yeah. We have our answers. I can reword the question if you'd like. Somehow interject ochre. No, this is a great question. Well worded. Thank you. I was pleased with this one.

That's well crafted. It's sort of fun, too, because it's not really a hunting and fishing question, but it expands your understanding. Yeah. But it doesn't require... So it's a man. It doesn't require specialized...

That's too much hint. I should change my answer. It's a dude. Are we ready here? Flip your cards. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, sorry. What's he got going on over there?

Steve says FDR. Chili waves off. Giannis says cleveland clay says fdr brent says fdr and cal says cleveland the correct answer is franklin delano roosevelt was he an angler he was uh he was wheelchair bound yeah but he spent a lot of time fishing while he was president. Did he have polio as a child? FDR was a passionate angler, and when he first ran in 1932 against the incumbent Herbert Hoover, the humorist Will Rogers quipped that the election, quote, will be settled on fish.

Setting aside economic policy and the Great Depression, Rogers wrote that voters faced a clear choice between the two candidates. Quote, do you want a deep sea fisherman in the White House, flounders and cod, meaning Roosevelt, or a big trout and perch man like Hoover? So I would have said, well, probably Hoover. Yeah, I'd like a trout and perch man. Would you like to know how I knew that one because he was president in 37 well but yeah but but what

confirmed about the great depression in world war well what confirmed it for me was the the the flood control acts of 1938 put in effect by roosevelt were the basically started the whole process of the Army Corps of Engineers having this like incredible amount of power and damming all the rivers. It wasn't that he presided over the country during the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II.

Well, I mean, it was that's just what I remember. It was the Flood Control Act of 1938, which was spawned from the great Mississippi River flood of 1927 that shifted the course of America. But anyway. And we're sitting on that river right now. Happened to be there.

That's a far better method than your random alphabet letters. Man, I got a chance. I know, because it was FDR, which is three. Now, before we move on to our final question, here's a quick recap of our answers so far for the listeners at home. Question one, 4%. Question two, P-Rogue. Question three, Penn.

Question four, Three. Question five, Louisiana, Texas, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi. Question six, Rays. Question seven, Lake Placid. Question eight, Okra. Question nine, FDR. Question ten, name three of the five largest tributaries of the Mississippi River measured by volume of input. Tell me that one again. Name three of the five largest tributaries of the Mississippi River, measured by volume of input. Hmm.

Excluding the upper Mississippi, because I'm just counting that as the Mississippi. If that makes sense. So we're looking for three of the five largest tributaries of the Mississippi River measured by volume of input. There's a couple chip shots in there, and then it gets a little tricky. That's why it's fun.

If y'all listen to the four-part burglary series on the Mississippi River. I did. Two years ago. We would know it. I participated in that and I can't remember it. Hmm.

Name three of the five largest tributaries of the Mississippi River measured by volume of input. Is that right? Damn. Let me see what you got. You're not going to change your answer. I'm going to show him my card, and then he's going to change his answer. I could be wrong. I'm confident on two.

Yeah. Yeah, I saw what you got. I like what you got. And I think at this point, Steve still has a one-point lead. No matter what. If I falter, I'm still good, but I don't know. Unless I get it right. If you falter but Brent gets it right, I think we move on to the tiebreaker.

Do we really? If I falter and he gets it right? I believe you have a one-point lead on Brent. Hmm. Lots of pressure, Brent. How's Chili doing? Let me see what you got, buddy. Come on.

Let me see what you got. Although that's sort of a hint. What are the consequences of like real cheating that means Steve loses? What are the consequences of that? Oh, listen, man, I'm not going to cheat right now. I don't know. You can see how hard we beat up Randolph.

Do you have your three, Brent? I've got two. You're on the path. You've got one more very obvious one that you need to put down. But if you're a criminal, you kind of know what you're up against.

You know what the charges are. So you weigh if it's worth it or not. What'd you get again? What'd you put again? I haven't shown anybody what I put. I know. Is everyone done? I want to get you.

I'm going to flash it real quick. Brent needs one more answer here. That is the river. He wrote down the... Oh, hi, Ryan. The Allegheny and the

Monongahela. The Allegheny and the Monongahela. The Allegheny and the Monagahela. Don't even want to change the answer. Come together to form this river. You've got to come up with a third one here, Brent. No, the Allegheny and the Monagahela. You've got to try. You can't fly the white flag.

Oh, hold on. No, no, no. Is he? He's not even got his third answer. That's what forms what you need to write down. I've already got that one that you're talking about. I'm not trying to encourage him, but I don't want him to just give up.

It was known for a long time as the dark and bloody river. What is that? I'm ready. All right, why don't we flip those cards over? Steve says the Missouri, the Ohio, and the Illinois. Okay, okay, okay. Chili says the Missouri and the Illinois. Giannis says the Missouri, the Illinois, and the Ohio.

Clay says the Missouri, the Ohio, and the Arkansas. Brent says the Missouri, the Ohio, and the Arkansas. Cal says the Missouri, the Ohio, and the Arkansas. Cal says the Ohio. I'm too embarrassed. Don't read it. What did you say? I'm just overthinking. I'm going to just spiral over here.

We got to hear what it was. The answer is the Missouri. I have the Arkansas, the Ohio, and the Cumberland. The Missouri, the Ohio, the Arkansas, the Ohio, and the Cumberland. The Missouri, the Ohio, the Arkansas, the white, and the red. Oh, damn it. You got it, Brent. I did write down the White River, too. Can we go back and check and make sure he did, in fact, tie up with me?

We'd have to go back to the tape. Oh. I mean, so, Brent, tally up your right answers here okay and steve you tell your answers question one four percent question two oh i can't remember you did not you got wrong grant got that p rogue yeah penn yeah three louisiana texas florida alabama mississippi rays yeah lake placid okra fdr and then this last question missouri ohio arkansas and red. What do you got, Brent? I got seven. I got seven. Ooh. Oh, boy. Tiebreaker. Do-do-do-do-do-do.

Now for our tiebreaker. What does the Illinois do? Does the Ohio pick up the Illinois or something? So the Illinois is the next one down. Oh. Hold on. Doesn't it go something like, tiebreaker? That is good.

Yeah, I didn't beat him in regular.'ll beat him in overtime i don't care tiebreaker according to the world wildlife foundation what percentage of shrimp produced globally are farm raised you got to do a different one because i already know this but i mean i just learned it yep yep all right but i feel like you just told me this wait a minute we're i've got illusion i've got i think i was present when he learned this i've got another one which is a little bit unfair wow that was really honest steve how about this that's cool let's run with it wait tiebreaker tiebreaker there we go the 220s it's 65 right didn't we just learn this 55 oh okay sorry i messed up i would have said 65 wow that was the most chivalrous thing i've

seen steve nicely done the 220 swift remains the fastest commercially produced centerfire rifle cartridge how fast did the original factory load from Winchester push a 48-grain bullet? Closest one gets the... Closest to the... And we're just going to a... No decimal points. Just a straight feet per second.

The.220 Swift remains the fastest commercially produced centerfire rifle cartridge how fast did the original factory load from winchester push a 48 grain bullet i mean how fast could it be that's a good question that's kind of what he's kind of building out the parameters how fast could it be How fast couldn't it be? Like, what's the ceiling? Maybe you can work from there. Yeah.

I know what it couldn't be. What are you putting down, Brent? I'll tell you in a minute. Do we all have answers here? Call me tonight. Oh, I guess I'll write one down just for fun. Yeah, yeah. I'm a little over, I think, but let me change mine a little bit.

The original. How fast? The original factory load. The original commercially available factory load. Push a 48-grain bullet. What do you got? Play. You got play?

I think I'm going back home. I'm changing it again. Okay, I'm settled. Yeah, so your original brand. Final answers here? Not that crap you can buy now. All right, flip them over. I'll read our final contestants last.

Cal says 4980. Chili says 3700. Giannis says 3450. Clay says 35,500. And our final two contestants, Steve says 4,500. And Brent says

2,500. The correct answer is 4,100 feet per second. Making Steve our winner. Damn. Oh, you go over. The 220 Swift.

Did I win? You won. Oh, okay. The 220 Swift was the first commercially available rifle cartridge to break the 4,000 foot per second mark. A prototype was developed in 1934 by a man named Grosvenor Watkins who necked down the.250-3000 Savage. And the.220 Swift was developed by Winchester and introduced in 1935

as a new caliber for their Model 54 bolt-action rifle. Steve, you are our champion of today's trivia game. To which worthy cause would you like to donate your $500 prize? I want my money to go to Meat Eaters Land Access Initiative because I've been I haven't been able to pay attention to it lately because I've been working on a thing that's taken all my time up. So this is a way of assuaging your

conscience? Yes. Alright. $500 to Meat Eaters Land Access Initiative. Gentlemen, thanks for playing. Thanks for hosting, Randall. Good job, Randall. Chili says goodbye, everybody. I had a great time. Beach next time is what Chili said.

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- three year old bucks And he's an avid amateur Rock hound Hey folks, exciting news for those who live or hunt in Canada You might not be able to join our raffles and sweepstakes and all that because of raffle and sweepstakes law, but hear this. OnX Hunt is now in Canada.

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