The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 674: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CLV

Episode Date: March 12, 2025

Spencer Neuharth hosts MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Janis Putelis, Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, and Seth Morris. 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.

Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host Spencer Newarth and today we're joined by Steve, Yanis, Cal, Randall, Brody and Seth. This is the final episode of the 2024 meat eater trivia championship this championship will span three episodes Whoever has the most points after 30 questions will be declared the 2024 meat eater trivia champion So if you're behind on the show pause this one and go back and listen to the other two Alright, everyone's caught up. Well, what if they're not behind and are you just gonna are you gonna address the elephant in the room? What's the elf? Yeah, like if they can do math. I think he's gonna do that. We're getting we're getting yeah

Yeah, we'll get in just a second sound like you're gonna run. No, I would play how would you do this? I would have done it where? Picture this uh-huh you do it with everyone privately mmm mmm So no one has any idea how anyone else is doing. And meanwhile, you're doing like little reality TV interviews with them where they're like, I feel like I'm doing really good. Uh huh. I just worried about what Randall's doing and like cut to Randall,

like all sweaty trying to answer a question. Do you know what I mean? And no one knows everyone's in a, everyone's in's in in a they don't know what's going on so we're so we're answering the questions privately privately that's an interesting thing going ding ding ding ding ding ding I do think we should add a real-world style confession booth to most of our content yeah we can just put up like classroom dividers between you guys you can't see each other's answers. All right, maybe in 2025. Yeah there day I Was overheard Spencer telling some people how like even when I'm wrong. I'm usually right, you know, mm-hmm. Oh, yeah But I had some legit wrong answers last time I was in here.

Yeah. Couple. Well, see how you do in round three. I want to remind people the entire championship is sponsored by Athletic Brewing, who will be matching MeatEater's donation and sponsoring three Moneyball questions. The winner will get to choose where the $3,000 donation goes. The biggest in MeatEater trivia history and combined with the moneyball questions, this year's championship has a donation potential of $4,100. Now there are no stats, IFAQs, or housekeeping this week, but we will get a scoreboard update

from Phil the Engineer. Phil, what does the leaderboard look like after round two of the championship? Here's where it stands. Last place we have Seth Morris with eight points. After that, Giannis Pitellis has 10. Just happy to be here. That's the spirit. Cal has 13 as well as Brody.

Brody Henderson also has 13. Steven Rinella has 14 and with a three point lead with one round to go. Randall Williams is in first place with 17 points So you got any lime lime wedges cuz I'm having a Mexican style copper over here You know, we do have a brand newly refurbished industrial kitchen just right down the hallway Oh and it's fully stocked because we're shooting an episode of meat eater roasts today So there's probably is a wedge of lime in there I'm excited to see what fully stocked means mm-hmm to you guys well

Brody pretty well stocked. I mean it's pretty well. It's in the eye of the beholder Yeah, it's pretty homey compared to what it used to be that's you can't have everything sure There's an ephemeral quality to being fully stocked because stuff rots used you know Let's go all right Kelsey Brody, can you guys see a path to victory to know listen if you get a perfect game and Randall gets seven? Which is that's enough then you tie and it's he doesn't ask the kind he likes to ask the kind of questions at random He likes to ask the kind of questions at random. If I get a perfect game,

then Randall gets a six. I know when Randall don't know. Keep in mind, for the final game, Spencer has implemented the classic one tie, we all tie rule. So, I have not done that. I have not done that.

Then what are we doing here? Spencer? One tie, we all tie. One tie, we all tie. I mean, theoretically, anybody could beat me. You know, if I was a kid who me you know I wouldn't know if I Sports I wouldn't want Steve as my dad because at halftime. He'd be like don't even Sit here not answer these questions

Theoretically really so funny is it's coming through in his kids my wife was skiing with his kids the other day and Rosemary and some of the other girls that were skiing they all play on a hockey team together and Jennifer's like oh hey we'll come watch you we'd love to come support you and root you on and Rosemary replies with nah you really shouldn't we suck we're not good don't come let me tell you about my daughter's hockey team one on Friday so the last game, she got two goals. Hey, all right. Nice.

She plays strong hockey. Now, the way it works is, has taken you to get into this, at times, so it's intramural, okay? At times, my daughter's team, there's five, six girls on the ice. The other team would be all male. They have like their crew, right?

All is on the same team. Okay. Her and her like friend group are all on the same team. They hold their own, but I mean, at a point, you know. They don't have like a- You start seeing a real divergence in athleticism between boys and girls at a- They don't have a thing where there must be X

number of... No. That's weird because that's usually... On her team it's like all big long blonde ponytails hanging out the backs of them helmets. They hold their own, they do good, but it's like, it's tough. Even in the adult kickball league in Bozeman, we have to have a certain amount of women on the field at once. I'm surprised they don't have well They got that amount. It's all on my daughter's team Six girls on there. Hey, they're all one team. Mm-hmm. Oh, they do good now a path to victory He could have been if Randall just gotten a car accident this morning, but he didn't know it was very safely navigated I left very early. I drove very slowly

No, it was very safely navigated. I left very early. I drove very slowly Made it here with plenty of time. Are you nervous today Randall three-point lead? I'm not nervous, but I There is the potential for just in one of the worst defeats of all time We're talking Tom Brady Atlanta Falcons Super Bowl. Whatever that was. Yeah you know it's it's never over till it's over Tom Brady Did but they're down 28 3 is that right 28 3 yep now after episode 2 we had Steve Kind of joking kind of not saying now you should have some questions next time I know that that Randall doesn't yeah, I'll be great And then afterwards Randall said kind of joking kind of nod he said now You know you got to play it straight right Spencer. You can't you can't come in here

Just do that. I'll have you know I'd come up with these questions before We have a few episodes one or two That's what you'd claimed previously, but Phil wasn't in possession of the questions at the time that I asked you well Yeah, Phil's not in possession until he asked me like 30 minutes before show is like hey you got those questions You have no alibi. Yeah, Randall. I'm rooting for you although usually I root against you But Steve's the reigning champion, and I couldn't stand to listen to him if he won back-to-back years I hope you boys just have fun today. Hey listen. There's a good chance of it Yeah, the Shelby index for today is a three. So our winner should get six correct answers.

That's a tough round. And with that we're on to round three of the championship play the drop film. Oh jeez. Look, I need to know what I stand to win. Everything. How's that? You just tend to win. Everything. How's that? Just stand to win everything. Game on, suckers! Final round. Question one, the topic is hunting and this is multiple choice.

Which state has the most gun manufacturers? Is it California, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, or Texas? Hmm. This is according to 2022 data. A lot of recent, wait, 2020, 2022, which state has the most gun manufacturers California in the gun, Tennessee Pennsylvania like people this is piling component parts and the custom rifles are like manufacturing This is how the FFL defines a gun manufacturer. I'm not going to go into any more details, but this is their definition

Which state has the most gun manufacturers? California, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, or Texas? We would need Steve to get three more correct answers than Randall today. Would you write down Randall? To give us a tiebreaker. Or Brody to get four. Or Brody or Cal to get four. That's right. It's interesting because there's been a lot of migration of Like classic firearm manufacturers indeed not even necessary. Randall, how you feeling about this one?

I feel pretty good. I think I'm gonna take on the role of co-hosting instead of really playing Yeah, Phyllis, you're feeling pretty good. I like your the script that you're using for your name today It's sort of like a mmm Soviet brutalist Aesthetic don't associate me them fuckers State has the most gun manufacturers, California, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Texas is everybody ready? Yeah, I'm ready Steve you ready nope Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Texas, is everybody ready? Yeah, I'm ready. Steve, you ready? Nope.

Still thinking. How many you got in narrow town, too? Still the four, or you got it tighter than that? I wish it was 20 years ago and the word Connecticut was up there. Yeah. Okay. That would've been nice. We're running out of time, Steve.

Everyone else has an answer. Which state has the most gun manufacturers? Oh, I think in the spirit of competition, you ought to give Steve a little extra time. California, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, or Texas. I mean, this is the championship. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth saying California, Yanis, California,

Randall, Tennessee, Cal, Pennsylvania, Steve, Texas, Brody, Texas. The correct answer is Texas. Oh, there is one point for Steve. He's a champion. According to FFL data from 2022, there are 2,400 gun manufacturers in Texas. That's followed by Florida with 1, Arizona with 1000, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania

with 700, and Georgia, California and Colorado with 600. First place Texas has more gun manufacturers than the second and third place states combined. Texas leads the country in manufacturers because of its strong gun culture and no state income tax Gotta be a lot of like small AR a lot of mon pop things people doing stuff out of their office and home long-range mom pop shops Question two the topic is conservation The Colorado Department of Ag uses this seven letter word to describe weeds that are, quote, aggressive invaders that replace native vegetation.

The Colorado Department of Ag uses this 7 letter word to describe weeds that are aggressive invaders that replace native vegetation. You know, yeah, it is kind of tricky because Tennessee would have been my next guess because there is such a big push from the state to incentivize firearm relocation. Didn't some major company move there? I think Kimber moved a bunch of people there. And there's some, historically there's some larger brands that have based out there

I've also I mean Seth knows this but I've been researching a particular firearm Was it project in the past few days and a lot of those companies that involved in this particular I'm singing Smith and Wesson maybe move there Randall. I was exciting project. I got a lot of shotguns that have Pennsylvania I got a lot of shotguns that have Pennsylvania. What's this new project? Do I know about it? No, no, it's just it's kind of a stupid project. No, it's not stupid. Is it a private side job? He's not making any money off of these spending You're pursuing personally. Yes. Yes, it's unrelated to my professional aspirations

But yeah, a lot of the companies that do this custom work are based in Tennessee. Okay. P.C.C. Pistol Caliber Carbine. Well, Cal Tennessee, I don't think it was even in the top ten. I know. Who was in that is Dre. I don't know, you know my buddy Dre. Yeah, I know Dre. Again, wrong question to Colorado Department of Ag.

Uses this seven-letter word to describe weeds that are aggressive invaders that replace native vegetation. Oh god, for a second I thought I had eight letters there. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have the entire room saying noxious. They got it. The correct answer is noxious. Noxious weeds are invasive species that cause physical and economic damage.

They are bad for wildlife, humans, and agriculture. Some of America's most common noxious weeds are kudzu, Canadian thistle, and Japanese honeysuckle. I'll tell you what's crazy is I was texting about noxious weeds this morning. Oh, to who? Not someone in this room? A neighbor. Okay, and you said the word noxious?

No, I said Canada thistle. What about cheatgrass? They don't have axious? No I said Canada thistle. What about cheatgrass? They don't have a cheatgrass problem they got Canada thistle. I'm asking that would be considered noxious weed. I was sad to learn that Canadian thistles come from Europe. Otherwise I would have liked them a little more if they were just a neighborly plant to us. Cross Canadian ragweed? I like them too I think they're from Oklahoma which also makes that weird question three the topic is cooking this next great question is via Leland Hart this is the

Hindi word for fat which is clarified butter used in Indian cuisine Leland another great Leland Hart sends in a lot of questions. We may have another 100%er. No, maybe not. Okay, except for said. That's why you guys are in the championship though. You're so dang good. A trivia. This is the Hindi word for fat, which is clarified butter used in Indian cuisine. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have the entire room getting it right by saying ghee. That's G-H-E-E. Ghee is the result of separating milk solids and butter fat in processed butter while cooking out the water. This process gives ghee a richer, nuttier flavor

than regular butter. Danielle Pruitt says since it has a high smoke point, it's a good option for pan roasting and sautéing meat. Question 4. The topic is fishing. This is our listener question of the week which was won by Ryan W. for sending this great question. Ryan is going to get a board game signed by the crew.

If you want a chance to win our listener question of the week then send your question to trivia at TheMeatDator.com. The National Park Service says the function of this prehistoric structure is to quote guide fish into a situation that facilitates capture. This is question four. The topic is fishing. The National Park Service says the function of this prehistoric structure is to quote guide fish into a situation that facilitates capture. Like you're telling me there's a specific name. Yes. This is what the National Park Service says it's designed to do.

And does it involve any of the words that are already on that board there? Not giving you any further hints. I hate these questions. I like that you're still trying to think of them. Oh, I don't think I'm on to what he's thinking. Steve, do you have this one right? That's what it is.

I feel like I might. A prehistoric structure that is used to guide fish into a situation that facilitates capture Randall. Do you have this one, right? Not sure two points now separate you I can think of a I can think of what cows thinking of I Think I think Randall's got it right. Okay. Have you seen his whiteboard? Yes. Okay, huh? You guys cheating? Got it right okay. Have you seen his whiteboard? Yes, okay? Oh you guys cheating no We're not cheating right yeah, and he said he's co-host. Do you write what he do you have what he has? Yeah? Well, he also could be but it's only to make sure he's got it right He could be undermining me by giving me a false sense of confidence and cause me not to rethink my answer you guys are sharing answers

No, he looked at my answer But no doesn't like it when I do this but oftentimes I'll just give Brody a little peek like this and that can and then he reacts It's a whole thing after the answers have been cemented on their what how often are you sharing with him? Never start. I don't look at it There's no conspiracy when I do look at other people's boards, I don't tell anybody. Also, I went through all trivia scripts trying to find if I have used the word rostrum somewhere. I have not. So you let us astray, Randall, by saying that I had used that question or that terminology before.

Not in a flavor text? I could not find anything. You'll have no results. But you're a paddlefish guy. Like, what would you do? You put an AI crawler through all the episodes that we've printed online no Google Docs It's very good at just crawling all my scripts all my scripts live in one place and I can type in Yeah, but what you're saying right now is not on your script

What do you mean? It's a good point You are right about that does everyone have an answer for quite a lot say the word Pee-Nuckle. I swear I heard the word Pee-Nuckle you wouldn't find that. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth saying fish trap. Yannis, Randall, Cal, Steve and Brody say we're they got it. The correct answer is fish weir or fish Garth and I've never heard gar is Weir I think most you got that right w e I before e except after C Spencer But a fish trap is correct. This is exactly what it is The National Park Service isn't saying it is a fish trap, but that we're not gonna give it to Seth

I think that's crazy. It's it'd- You know what? I agree with Cal. No, I know. Let's keep going. Fishing weirs can be used on streams or tidal waters. The stream version is essentially a funnel-shaped rock fence with a hole in the middle. The tidal version is often made of rock or wood that is underwater during high tide, but cut off from the ocean

during low tide. This ancient technique is still used today by biologists who capture migrating fish during the spawn. You know what I, you know what I, go ahead. When I was, what I never know, I never noticed before, but I was with Heather Duville on Prince of Wales Island. Okay. And there's something I never noticed until her and her dad were showing me at the Creek mouths. You can see like once you look at like, holy shit. You can see the old weirs. How old do you think like 50 years old or no older 500 years? What do they call probably like from thousands to 100 years ago? What do they call them? probably like from thousands to a hundred years ago. What do they call them? What's that?

Fish traps. Fish traps, yeah. Yeah. That's the word they use, but I don't know what the clinget word would have been for them. Not weir, but they wouldn't have said fish trap. Anyhow, not only that. Say no.

Not only that, now that you know what you're looking for, you can see the old, if you put a drone up and look down, it's so obvious, the old weirs. And then in addition, you can look at the creek miles and find the canoe landings, where you'll see these runways, look like almost like beaver runs, where all the big rocks are moved out to the side.

And it's like kind of smooth and straight. And you see where they would pull up and drag those big wooden canoes up on rollers Mm-hmm, and you just like if you didn't know to look you'd never look but once someone points it out to you like holy shit Man, yeah Satisfying to look at one of those weirs and you see one with that just satisfying to look at one of those weirs the way They would function there is you know the fish run the when they're spawn and they like to go in on a high Mm-hmm a lot of times they're going to mingle and come back out so on a high they go right over the top without even right and in no way

And then when they push out on low It'll be rock walls Okay, and then they you can just go out and spear them. That's where that phrase comes from we're in fish And that's where that phrase comes from we're in fish Like you know No, have you heard a trapping fish? What'd you have yada feel again? Well, i'm just gonna say this is I feel like this is similar to the grizzly bear brown bear

where uh Not all grizz are brown but all brown are grizz and not all fish traps are weirs, but all that's great like if I said 330 in a fish traps through weirs but all that's 330 in a in a drainage ditch and pick up a you know Spencer's straight brown trout Spencer could have you know what I mean question get them all right the topic is wildlife the greatest showman is about this man who opened America's first public aquarium in? 1857 no shit

Not giving you any hints What's your right you got? Bro, do you you have this one right? No, chit chat Steve do you have this one right? I mean I don't want just when you when everybody's done I'll tell you how I Alright, I'd like to do it before the reveal. Okay, but after everyone's done got it. Yeah, I don't answer But do you have this one right? No, I don't have it, right? But I feel like you're allowed to

Say whatever you want to say if all sudden Randall wants to change his answer. He can that'd be pretty chicken No, okay Steve you can do your big big reveal on how you know to reveal I'm not gonna say I mean this just like it's this is one of those questions where there's only sort of like one name Mmm, that would fit sure. I think there's two. Oh there is oh like his body Isn't well no the you know the small town north of here No Used to have a steakhouse now doesn't use to have a bar Is everybody ready?

Go ahead and reveal your answers we have Seth without an answer we have Yanni saying Hugh Jackman Randall and Cal and Steve and Brody say PT Barnum. They got it. The correct answer is PT Barnum. Cal, are you thinking of Bailey? Ringling! Ringling! Oh, Ringling! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The aquarium was located inside his museum that also had a freak show, flea circus, the trunk of a tree that Jesus' disciples supposedly sat under, a rifle range, taxidermy, pretty baby contests, mummies, and hordes of animals including beluga whales, elephants, bears, and a hippo. The museum was one of New York City's most popular attractions averaging 15,000 visitors per day until it burnt down in 1865. That's a shame. If you radiocarbon dated that tree round,

I'm guessing it did not match up with biblical times. Very specific. Phil, give us a scoreboard update. We have five questions left in the 30 question meat eater trivia championship. Oh, hello. Wouldn't be a podcast if that didn't happen, so that's good. Seth, you have 10 points. Giannis Pitellis has 13. Brian Callahan has 17.

Brody Henderson has 18. Steven Rannella has 19 points. And now with only a two point lead, Randall Williams has 21 points in first place. Just establishing more of a spread. You know what I don't like about this is it's hard to note that I'm having a perfect game right now. Because it's not like a clean slate.

It's been noted. Well, I mean, I noted it. If Randall wins. I'd like to hear it acknowledged by you. And Steve and me get perfect games. Yeah, we'll put another $500 into the coffee. Will we have an extra tiebreaker? Are you going to perfect game? One tie we off.

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correct answer provided, athletic brewing is going to make a $100 donation that's capped at $500 this week athletic brewing is giving to the National Wild Turkey Federation Here is your moneyball question This is the biggest type of grouper which has a world record of 680 pounds. Which name would you like? The one name that it has. I still don't understand your problem, Cal, with the fish weir question. It'd be like saying an animal trap. Okay, thank you, Steve. This is the biggest type of grouper which has a world record of 680 pounds. We have four confident players. Brody is tapping his whiteboard to his head. I'm just trying to figure something out. Phil, what's the name

of the movie that's very recent that has the monkey, has the pop star, chimpanzee as a poster? Oh, Better Man. That's the Robbie Williams movie. That's all I could think of when I saw Greatest Showman. Oh, sure yeah similar energy yeah in it the internet burned that movie to the ground as well like you know hated the internet doesn't always get it right but sometimes it hits it right on the head I want all of our wildlife folks to write him text biologists etc and just tell us how many times you've corrected anyone when they're like, oh fish trap Service definition, I like the cows. I encountered one of these spear fishing. What's oh this thing fish trap. No

I'll tell you you also wrote about them in your in your book scavengers guide. Oh Invanted to Randall who read it? Answers Everyone says Goliath. Everybody got it. Right. The correct answer is the Goliath group conservation's big win That means a $500 donation to the National Wild Turkey Federation via athletic brewing Goliath grouper are found from Florida to Brazil and favor reefs, bridges, and shipwrecks. They are a sluggish fish that opportunistically feed on crustaceans, turtles, and fish.

The 680 pound world record was caught using Spanish mackerel off the coast of Florida in 1961. What do you got about Goliath grouper, Steve? Oh, just that it was laying on the bottom on a, laying on the bottom on an oil rig, just under some structure. Okay. And it took me like, he was,

he was, they'll clack at you. Oh, like he was threatening you. There was a moment when I, like I couldn't comprehend what I was looking at. Like the head, you know what I mean? Sure. I was like in a moment where I couldn't understand or organize what I was seeing until I realized, oh, that is a head that's 16 inches wide, whatever,

going with his mouth going. How far away? Oh, I mean, me to you. That make you comfortable. No, it didn't. But I thought, how would you even begin to try to kill something like that? What they're saying is they used to use a power heads. Hmm. What's a power head? Like a, you can get different calibers, but a lot of them are like pictured down the end of a spear gun. There was a, there was like a firing pin mechanism and

you tip it with a two, two, three round. So the, the, the, the two, two, three hitting something by inertia just drives the firing pin in. It's like a bang stick that you're shooting at the fish. Yeah. On a spear gun. That's how, when they used to commercial, when they used to commercial dive for those, that's the only, I mean, cause you on a spear gun. That's when they used to commercial, when they used to commercial dive for those. That's the only, I mean, because you put a spear shaft in that thing. I mean, sure. What's he gonna carry? Question seven. The topic is conservation. What color represents extinct species on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's color-coded chart? That's a good question, Spencer.

We're running out of time for Steve to catch Randall. Do you know what is Randall? No. What color represents extinct species on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's color-coded chart, also known as the IUCN? Hmm. Brody, do you know this? He shrugged his shoulders. So we've got a meat eater championship on the line as well as a perfect game on the line. A lot at stake. What color represents extinct species on

the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Color-Coded Chart? They're allowed to, you're allowed to take those in like one a year or something in Florida now? I think they're open, I'm not clear on it, but there's some tag thing. Yeah, tag system. Yeah. Is everybody ready? Quick to answer, but not a lot of confidence.

No, it's just, I just walked through my own little logic on it. Are you ready to change my answer? You guys literally sit and watch each other answer. Why, why do you feel that this isn't like an unfair advantage? I've been, I've been protesting this vehemently for months now. How is it like, how is it even a game anymore? Yanni didn't pick up his whiteboard and change his answer. I feel like you and Brody are often flashing your whiteboards at each other.

Dude, never. Never. No, Steve doesn't like doing that. It's me and Yanni. Well, don't sit by Yanni then. Go ahead and reveal your answers. We have Seth saying yellow. Yannis says red.

Randall, black. Cal, purple. Wow, we got the whole rainbow here. Steve says black, Brody cross out red and put black. The correct answer is black. Steve, Brody and Randall got that one right. What did you change your answer for? I had red, I went black,

because red seemed to be more of an alarmist color. Because of what? Red seemed to me to be more of an alarmist color whereas I'm looking for something that just extinct what he have read the IUCN refers to this as their red list which they say is the most comprehensive list of endangered Species in the world on their chart represents extinct, red represents critically endangered, yellow represents vulnerable, and green represents least concern. Question 8. The topic is hunting. Also known as skin beetles, hide beetles, and leather

beetles, this is the most commonly used beetle by taxidermist all of our players quick to answer also known as skin beetles hide beetles and leather beetles this is the most commonly used beetle by taxidermist I think this is a little more core to hunters and anglers which gives someone like her a big disadvantage Randall do you have this one right I do okay this is uh this could I'll get it right up someone hadn't told him black nectar right up that's like neck and neck no well you would have been one back. Eh, it's close.

I was gonna adjust my answer too, but then you started throwing a fit and I was like, Eh, it's just not worth it. Also known as skin beetles, hide beetles, and leather beetles. This is the most commonly used beetle by taxidermists. Yanni, do you have an answer? Yeah, I think I have a lot of the right letters in the words That's what I'm at right now Go ahead and reveal your answers

We have Seth saying Dermastis Beatles Yannis says Dermid Randall says Dermisted Cal says Dermasted Steve says Dermifold Dermifted Cal says Says derma full

Dermis did the correct answer is dermis did that's D er me St. Id are we giving that if spell doesn't count I got it no oh during that dirt there's an F in there I got the beginning the end I don't think that or what Seth had dermistis you're you're rolling out dermist did dermist did you're Mr. Mr. it's a sharp assess S. It's like in old timey days when two S's were an F, right? I think we're too far away from dermistid. Spelling doesn't matter and I have dermith. But that's a different...

Dude, there's an F in there. You're forgetting about your F. I know, but spelling doesn't matter. There's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. There's a letter off. Sure, you get it right. We'll keep the game interesting. I got it right.

Everyone got it right. Everyone got it right. 100% are edible. Everyone got it right. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. We'll have to implement. One letter off. If you're going to be...

I know 100% what it is. It's just lazy cursing. Dermage. Maybe we need to implement a view rule in the future. Which letters are those at the end? 80% of the letters. But you had a pass. You had enough. No, you just got a say at the beginning. Spelling counts.

I can see what you're saying. It also looks like an O-R-L. Yeah, you could have said- Well, it doesn't matter. You could have said, must be spelled right. And then what would have happened? I know that. They ran the last number. I said but spelled right there, and then what would have happened? Dermatid beetles are scavengers that will eat lint wool fur feathers and meat according to some sources it takes about 3,000 beetle larvae to clean one deer skull

Taxidermists try to keep their beetle colonies between 65 degrees and 80 degrees below 65 degrees They aren't very active and above 80 degrees. They will take flight making this 15 degree window the sweet spot They'll give us a scoreboard update with two questions left. Sure. I will just say that if Steve does catch up somehow There will be a riot Mostly started by me if because that was a different word that Steve put on his board but you know no I had one letter wrong so like take a dog for example if you had one letter wrong I wrote Doug or Duff scoreboard up no I had to end the beginning right I had one letter wrong, if I wrote Doug Or Duff Scoreboard update. No, I had to end the beginning right. I had one letter one letter

Seth has 12 Yannis has 15 Ryan Callahan has 19 Brody Henderson has 21 Stephen Rannella has 22 Randall Williams has 24 and is the perfect game still going for Steve and Brody? Yes. Okay question No, did they get it wrong? I don't I don't remember. Oh, yeah In my mind I knew Brody had a perfect game I hadn't made that association Let's go with the last answer that Steve gave question The topic is ecology in which ocean is the Marianna Trench In which ocean is the Marianna Trench This is the kind of dumb question Randall's gonna have right but not you or will you have it right as well?

Yes, if Randall gets this right, he is the champion He's the game by definition. I have to have it right Okay, but this is a game out of 30 questions That's not how I'm looking at this today I see that I'm on a sort of different trip in which ocean is the Mariana Trench We have perfect games going by Brody and Steve, but if Randall gets this right, he will have separated himself enough from those two to be declared the winner. I really want to peek at your board, but I'm afraid it's upsetting that guy over there. He's not having a good time. We need to get some alcohol in that beer maybe, Steve.

I don't mind. Let me give you a couple parameters for peaking. If you do like you just did and you set that thing down, I don't care about peaking. But you gotta say I'm out, I'm setting my thing down. Yeah, of course. Yanni did not change his answers the last few times he's peaked. Spencer, did you know that? For instance, water covers two-thirds of the earth's surface and Dion covers the rest I'm surprised of all the sports things that would stick with you that that's one of them, but I was a poster in our high school weight room Good in which ocean is the Mariana Trench? This is question nine I can't tell you Steve's right real small now, so you can't say spelled something

I can't tell you Steve's writing real small now so you can't say spelled something wrong You do like Cal and have a hybrid cursive We're just like it's a little you don't know what I want to see what's going on around the room I could be like, yeah Go ahead Your answers we have said that saying Atlantic Janice says Indian Your answers. We have Seth saying Atlantic. Janis says Indian. Randall says Pacific. Cal says Atlantic.

Steve says Pacific. Brody crossed out Atlantic and put Pacific. The correct answer is Pacific giving Randall our 2024 Meat Eater Trivia title. Well done, right? Right out of the clock one more question to go, but he has now been declared the winner. You cannot catch We've got two perfect games in the line. We'll see if we can up the donation way to spend that Randall The Mariana Trench is located between Australia and Japan in the Western Pacific Ocean

It is seven miles deep making it 1.5 miles taller than Mount Everest. Animals that live in the Mariana Trench include Dumbo octopus, angler fish, goblin shark, and sea cucumber. Me and Satherga deep drop that trench. It's tough, wait. It is, if you put Mount Everest in the trench, you'd still have 1.5 miles of ocean above it. It's 1.5 miles taller than Mount Everest My wife hates deep drop and she'd especially get bored

Take a drop in the trench. I wonder if there's a reel out there that could handle that Probably like a bunch of real the line James Cameron was the challenger that he sent down there That's what you'd have to have. I think yeah, the line alone would probably Sink your boat in Alaska. All right, here's a correct answer review so far. One was Texas, two, Noxious, three, Gee, four, Fishweir, five, PT Barnum, six, Goliath,

seven, Black, eight, Dermastid, Beatles, nine, Pacific Ocean. Here's question 10. This 10-letter word, which has synonyms such as puckery, tart, acidic and bitter is often used to describe the taste of sour berries. This 10 letter word, which has synonyms such as puckuckery, tart, acidic, and bitter is often used to describe the taste of sour berries. Oh, is it maybe? We still have a perfect game available.

Like often in what century? Perfect game available for Steve and Brody. The topic is forges. I mean, that's a major asterisk. Do you have this one right? You're going to live with that. What did I do wrong now? It's not something in addition to, but your little dermis did.

I mean, come on. It's a nine letter word. I spelled one letter wrong. I do. Yes. Do you have this one right, Steve? Yes. Okay. This 10 letter word which has synonyms such as puckery, tart, acidic and bitter is often

used to describe the taste of sour berries. Haters are gonna hate man. You know what I mean? Did you just come up with that? Listen. You're the only one that's gonna have to live with this. Everybody else is gonna forget. You're the only one that's gonna have to live with this. Everybody else is gonna forget. You're gonna remember.

Wordsmith over here, my good. You and Cal can come up with some meat eater sports posters. I wear this perfect game like a badge of honor, man. There you go, that's the next edition of the poster. Along with Cal's, two thirds of the earth is covered by water, the rest is covered by Dion. This 10 letter word, which is synonyms such as puckery, tart, acidic, and bitter is often used to describe the taste of sour

berries. Randall, do you have this one right? I'm not sure. God, if we could keep going I would wind up winning. Kind of like my answer. 40 questions. Like I would overcome him and take him if we had more time. You're on that that trajectory Trying to think of a parallel can't wait till we're just back to a regular game Walking out of here with all that money Must know it Go ahead and reveal your answer I'm gonna go ahead and reveal your answer. Yes, I'm about a Randall says a stringent Cal says unripened Steve says a stringent Brody without an answer

The correct answer is a stringent And Randall got that one that a What made you call that astringent flavor? Well, it's because the berries not ripe yet. Astringent taste is a flavor of dryness that is generally produced by tannins in the bark, leaves and rinds of plants and fruits. Some things associated with astringent flavor include citrus rinds, wine, green tea, cranberries, persimmons, coriander, cabbage, and radishes.

All right. Randall is our winner of the entire championship. It's Steve is the winner today. And we're now going to add. You won or what? Oh my God. I was actually, no, no, I was going to call her just live on the, like the guy from who wants to be a millionaire.

We, uh, so we're going to make a, let's see, we had $3,500. Steve and I tied today. No, he got a perfect game. I beat you. Without the Dermefted. That's right, we would have tied. One letter wrong, he says spelling don't count. For conservation, no, we're gonna give Steve

the perfect game. I don't disagree with that. So you have a $3,500 donation to take. That is $1,500 via athletic brewing and two thousand dollars via meat eater what are you gonna do with all that money hmm I'd like to I'd like to split that money okay I'd like to give so long have you been thinking about this well just since this morning okay only since then I'd like to give half of it to the land access initiative

So you're gonna make me we're doing or could we do thirds? Sure Do whatever you like it's $500 a third to the land access initiative a third third of $3,500. Okay, so I don't know What one third do going to let's do half to land access initiative and half to backcountry hunters and anglers Half to the land access initiative and half to be a can do that. Sure you do whatever you want The meat eater trivia champion we had Brody is the 2022 champion Steve is 2023 now Randall is 2024 2025 is gonna be fun that we're gonna we're gonna finally have one of you separate yourself

All the money is getting all the money's getting donated Via Randall as the way I got you Randall. He's kind of doing it in my honor I He's kind of doing it in my honor. Yeah. In your name. Mm-hmm. I had a whole speech prepared, but the whole dividing the money up thing sort of stole the thunder and then the Dermefted thing. Take a shot at it. Yeah, let's hear it. I just want to say, we talk a lot about ring culture in the modern NBA, and there's a

lot of guys that just never made it over the hump. A lot of great players out there. And so this means a lot to me that I can now be counted among the greats uh-huh who can who can say they won it all and Just shout out to all my supporters out there the random als There are many of us But their passionate fiery bunch and so you know this one's for you guys describe the average random all to me They just they like a clean fair game

They appreciate quips uh-huh, and they like references to bad movies, okay? Yeah, well, they'll very niche audience Randall the 2024 champion Brody Steve you boys want to say anything nice or mean to him? No, I mean he, he, he earned it. Wire to wire had to lead the entire game. I came in focused 26 on last year. Last year I really blew it in the first two rounds. Yeah. So, uh, just glad I could come in and take care of business.

Well done, Randall. We have picture like, you know, I think of it like picture. It's like a hundred yard dash, right? Okay. And like he jumps the, he, he jumps to the thing. Right. Start early. It starts early. Yeah. And then towards the end he blows a hammy, right? But just makes it across. Okay. And I just ran like a clean game. You know what I mean? That's what happened. Just a slower caught another two steps out of blasted past him at the end of the tournament.

We have $1,100 going to NWTF. Running an allergy. $1,750 going to the LAI and $1,750 going to beHA. That's $4,600 for conservation. $4,600. My goodness, Spencer. Well done, everyone. Thanks for organizing this. Play a good game, Randall. In all seriousness, that was a good game.

Tune in next week for conservation. More meat eater trivia. That's what they say. The only game show for conservation. If you're taxidermist and you have any dermifid beetles, please shoot me a note. Yeah, Spencer from South Dakota, he's the host. Using those smooth mellow tones, he lays them questions down.

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