The MeatEater Podcast - Ep. 833: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia CCIII

Episode Date: February 11, 2026

Spencer Neuharth hosts Round 1 of Championship MeatEater Trivia with Steven Rinella, Janis Putelis, Brody Henderson, Randall Williams, Seth Morris, and Cory Calkins. Connect with MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and YouTube Clips Subscribe to MeatEater Podcast Network on YouTube Shop Trivia MerchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. It's a meat eater podcast. Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I'm your host, Spencer Newark, and today we're joined by Steve, Janice, Randall, Brody, Seth, and Corey. This is episode one of the fourth annual Meat Deeder Trivia Championship. The competition will span three episodes. Whoever has the most points after 30 questions will be declared the newest meat eater.

trivia champion. I answer my own question. When Phil had that little tissy, the listeners won't be able to, yeah. You know, we had a false start on media trivia. When Phil was having that tissy, I answered my own question. You need to write

your name down on your board. At this point, he knows. I put like big, big Steve on there. It's because this way you get three episodes out of the championship. We get three episodes of the championship. That's right, yeah, whole months of content. I would prefer if you put your name on the wipe.

I'm just more efficient. Steve. Yeah. Steve, we had to pause a story he was telling before the mics turned on because it seemed too good to not be recorded. Steve got an angry text from his wife. Yeah. Which I get off.

Is that where it all started? It was with the text? No, it started. So if I was going to tell the story, it'd be this. Okay. It'd be like we're having an exceptionally mild winter. I've extended my, we've been. catching some coyotes and some foxes and they are I don't know if this is the function of the mild winter they I have never seen fleas ever I mean you've ever seen fleas like what you're seeing what you've seen no never seen fleas like this okay so bad well yeah so bad that I I cut my hand okay so I

to have this but my story's out of order so bad that we were skinning one and I had my shop vac running to shop back fleas hmm I'm skinning one in my garage I'm skinning a cow at my garage my protocol normally is I I would like bring them into the garage quickly skin them bag them throw them in the freezer because the the freezer will the freezer will kill the fleas and then pull them out flesh and stretch them so my kid distracts me. I'm in the garage working. My kid pokes his nose in the garage says, hey, dad, whatever. And I looked up and

cut myself good. And got 10 stitches across the back my thumb. It's actually your kid's fault. Yeah. Yeah. Distracted me. I keep, you know, I try to tell him that too much. But I honestly, I don't even know how I did it. I'm joking about his being his fault. He said something and I'm like talking to him and not paying attention. Cut my hand. So here I

leave a half-skinned coyote hanging there all day. When I'm skinning, I like to put my, I put a one piece, it's like a knockoff Carrhart one piece, like a walls. Zip up one piece. It's got cuffs on it.

Cover all. Cover all. Latex gloves, right? Like a hazmat suit. Yeah. Do it. I'll hang it up outside, whatever. You know, and I try to do some management, tick management, flea management. I wasn't when this happened.

I was being quick about it. And then it hung there all day because my wife had to take me to the emergency room to get stitched up. So then I get home and I got to get my neighbor to help me

because I can't pull on anything. So then that night I'm laying there in bed. See, this is the part my wife doesn't know. This is my favorite part of the story. She does not listen to the show. She doesn't know this.

This is a funny part. So I'm laying there that night and I'm you know I'm hurting and I'm laying there and I can feel those sons of bitches like up in my hair and stuff. And I'm not like a big shower guy. I know I'm not always running around taking showers for no reason, you know, but I'm laying there and bed next to my

beautiful wife and I'm like yeah I'm gonna take a shower. It's like so, you know, like no one gets in bed, right? Like no one gets in bed and he lays there a while and then like it's going to go take a shower. shower. Yeah. And when you said this.

She doesn't even like click with it. She doesn't even think to be like a wine in the world. She's probably like, oh, he got hurt. Whatever. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. So I put my hand in a sandwich bag, you know, my cut in the sandwich bag and I'm in there

washing up. I never mention it. Well, I'm aware that I'm like getting, I'm worried I got a lot of flea bites. But I'm thinking it's just on me, you know, so we're laughing about getting this. So I get these all time stuff of this name. nature. She sends me a text. I wish I could find one from when we were messing with these skunks. It was like the same basic text. And how many days or hours later was this text sent you? Several days. Several days since you were laying in bed with fleas. Yeah. And you know what? It wanted to be in like it kind of blew over. She says, escaped. She says, I am a tennis and can't figure out why my ankles are so itchy. I have small itchy bumps on both ankles. If you brought fleas into our house.

because of the things you trapped, you need to figure that out. Like, before work, I am not going to live like this. That's a good threat. But, you know, as the guys are pointing out, like... How many years have you been married? Yeah, I'd be like, yeah, you are. I thought I was in bad shape. I thought I was going to be in a lot of trouble.

And we had this happened before, and she had already forgotten about it. So I'm like referencing, I'm like, the last time this happened, if you remember, I said, it's like some mosquitoes get in your house. You get bit, but it's not like, it's not that way for the rest of your life. It's just for like whatever period of time, they're in the house. So I'm like, they're here like last time. She's like, what do you mean last time? I'm like, the last time you freaked out about the flea bites. So is a flea infestation, is it like not a thing?

Like when you get like when you have bed bugs, right? Like you get them and then they get in your pro. And like all of a sudden you have to make big changes, right? I have you found. I have never found. Well, think of when you're hunting cottontails. Yeah. When you're hunting cottails.

Yeah. You can't go hunting cottontails without getting your wrist bit up. But you don't then have them in your house. That's what I was telling her. Because she like right away starts doing internet research. They could, you know, about all their like magical capabilities. I'm like, dude, it's not like that. It's already over.

Can I tell you something that's, you know. not going to like to, you're not going to want to hear. Sure. My old man who's been in the pest control industry for a long time has seen some infestation. A fleas. A fleas in people's houses. But they're like carpets crawling with fleas. Yeah, don't tell her that.

Especially when you've got a dog, they can breathe. Yeah, we got a dog. It's always in houses that have a lot of animals. Well, the last time I got busted, I left a Kyle. on the floor, the garage, and had to run off to work. So our dog's out there, like, associating with it. Yeah. And the text message then, the first text message is, what's wrong with our dog?

Mm. And I play it dumb. Like, I don't know. Could be anything. And then she starts putting together, you know, there's got to be a court, like, if there's a coy in the garage, and they're always full of fleas, as you like to point out. And our dog now has fleas. Don't act like you don't know what's going

What's the current status of the flee situation? They're gone. Okay. She changed the betting out. All right. Do you give the dogs some flea and take every once in a while? She takes care of all that. I'm assuming she does.

She's a very responsible dog owner. Miraculous. Yeah. Good story. There's no way our dog doesn't have that. Because it has things it doesn't need. It has everything it needs. See, our, Kelsey doesn't give, we don't give our dog flea intake unless

we have to. So when I'm doing, don't you just bathe them to get them off? Well, yeah, but. I don't know what they do. I honestly don't know. So I'm always worried about giving that dog fleas. Seth declared that we should see Steve's pickup. It's so flea infested.

That's still the gaze? Yeah, the bag. Oh, sure. I don't know. Go lay back there. I'm already planning on pressure washing. My neighbor gave me a real heavy wool felt carpet pad that I like to have back there

but I'm gonna pressure wash that mother liquor Is your neighbor feeling better about our little situation that we had? I haven't talked to me about that He got a little mad at it Me and Yanni All right another story for another episode

For the sad of the week this week I still haven't told him what you told me So he's still mad Let's recap last year's Let's recap last year's tournament Which was also a three episode series Randall won with 26 points, followed by Steve with 24 and Brody with 22. Randall had a wire-to-wire victory leading after episode 1 and 2 before winning the whole thing in episode 3.

Let's get some predictions. Who do you think will be this year's champion? We asked Doug Duren on last year's episode. He thinks it's going to be Brody or Randall this year. That's stupid. Why doesn't you think of me? He said you'll probably argue your way into a top finisher, but he doesn't think if you have to come by it on your own accord with just providing correct answers that you

can do it. Doug's, oh, Doug. Bubbly Doug one being so bubbly there. Corey, who do you think's going to win this year? Oh, I'd have to put my money on Brody. Brody, okay. Why don't you look at Randall when he said Brody? He's trying to get me out. Oh, that's what you're doing.

Do you have it in you? Are you going to win it this year? I mean, I don't know. I'd have to wait until the game's over. All right. Brody. Brody's been on a heater as of late, really crushing Randall whenever the two of them are in the room at the same time.

Brody, is that going to carry over? I'm keeping my mouth shut. Spencer, you know the questions. I know the questions. And so I think that you have a pretty good idea about how I will fare. These questions are more core to meat eater than sometimes I get like go to the edge of our universe to make a topic work. That's music to my ears. I think for these 30 questions, you've just got to be like a pure, knowledgeable outdoorsman to win.

So that's what it's going to take. Seth, that means you could win it all, right? One that can identify a mountain lion track compared to a wolf track. I used to say, because Yana skied a bunch, he wasn't a true outdoorsman. Is he now a true outdoorsman because he spends all winter chasing lions? He's becoming a true outdoorsman. And there's no snow. And I'm still doing it.

Thanks to global climate change. Gianni is a true outdoorsman. Randall, Yanni, any predictions this year's tournament? 30 questions. I know. I know the desired outcome didn't you win. Yes. I think Janus is going to be a top contender this year. What is the winner again?

Well, the winner will get to make, just like last year, we're banking all the money to the end. It's going to be a $2,000 donation after episode 3. But that could be influenced if somebody throws a perfect game, for example. If we have someone who hits it right on the nose, if we do go to overtime, which is not

happened in the meat eater trivia tournament history. So $2,000 is the donation. Plus we have the plaque that will get their name on it. My name is throwing on it. What do you got? They, uh, because I cut it, uh, skinning something. They put me on a antibiotic for two leremia. Okay.

And I'm, and I'm sitting there and I'm kind of trying to argue with them, you know. I'm like, come on. Katie, who's already annoyed, she's like, are you like, by what position? do you think you're in that you're like debating I'm surprised that's the one they would go for Well I know that's what I was kind of one fever I was kind of one that was kind of like why that Yeah like rabbit I said you ever heard of rabbit fever? She's like no

I'm like well ha Either of the doctors All right like last year And I said it's a $2,000 donation that would be banked until the end I had all these questions fact checked by Maggie Haudelaar director web content, so I'm confident that Steve won't do any arguing today. It wouldn't be a,

it wouldn't be like a factual issue. It would be like a wording issue. Sure. Well, Maggie was also okay with these. All right, the Shelby Index for this episode is a five, so I'm putting us on perfect score alert. And with that, we're on to the game of trivia. Play the drop, Phil.

Look, I need to know what I stand to win. Everything. How's that? Just tend to win everything. Randall sounds nervous. You look great to that hat, Reynolds. Thank you. Question one, the topic is fishing, and this is multiple choice.

Which of these rivers is longest? Is it Rio Grande, Ohio River, Columbia River, or Tennessee River? Which is longest? Rio Grande, Ohio, Columbia, Tennessee. Nobody has wrote down an answer yet. You just got to be a regular, old, good outdoorsman and have really good geography

skills. That's right. I think they go hand in hand. Which of these rivers is longest? Rio Grande, Ohio, Columbia, Tennessee. Still have six blank whiteboards in the room. Randall and Steve coming up with their answers.

Steve writing in a manner that ensures nobody can cheat off him. Which is longest? Rio Grande, Ohio River, Columbia River, Tennessee River. Nobody knew this right off the bat. Six educated guesses in the room. I think we're waiting on Brody.

I got something written down. I'll stick with you. Everybody ready? Corey? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Set. And Janus say Rio Grande. Randle. Columbia. Corey crossed out Rio Grande said Columbia. Steve says Columbia. Brody. Rio Grande. The room is split. The correct answer is the Rio Grande. Right off the bat.

Right off the bat. At 1,800 miles, the Rio Grande is the fourth longest river in America. I was going to put that down. The Columbia is 7th at 1,200 miles. The Ohio is 10th at 1,000 miles. And the Tennessee is 12th at 900 miles. So the Rio Grande trumps the Columbia by 600 miles. It says it right in the name.

That's right up in there. I do. Me too. Question two. The topic is biology. This four-letter word is defined as, quote, an insect in the stage of development after it has been a larva and before it becomes an adult. Ooh, good fly fisherman question here. Four-letter word is defined as an insect in the stage of development after it has been a larva and before it becomes an adult.

Steve and Brody and Randall and Janice now have their answers. You boys have this one right? I hope so. Got a four-letter word that makes sense. Seth's going to write B-U-G-G-G. Four-letter word is defined as an insect in the stage of development

after it has been a larvae and before it becomes an adult. I don't remember the last game of trivia Steve was on where he didn't just make fun of Sathma for most of the episode. Completely ungold for me. You could just write that down, Seth. Corey, do you have an answer? Man, I do.

I'm going to be really embarrassed if I get it wrong. Yeah, as an ex-fly fishing guide. I like questions that would be like in a sixth grade biology class, and I feel like this is one of them. Oh, yeah, my daughter is a freshman now, the oldest one. She's already talking and learning and studying about stuff. I'm like, yeah, I wasn't paying attention. attention back then when they taught it to me.

I didn't retain it. And I'm telling her, I'm like, you're already becoming smarter than your old man. Now you get a second chance. You can just absorb some of that knowledge. You're right. I could. I could apply myself like that. She studies a lot harder than I do. Seth, are you ready?

I think. I don't know. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth says Pup. Yonis. Pupé. Pupé. Yonis.

What's right? The whole room says, As pupa, the whole moon got it right. We'll give it to him. The correct answer is, pupa. Pupae. Insects that enter a pupa form are those that are undergoing metamorphosis. It's French.

Such as butterflies, moths, lace wings, house flies, and ladybugs. During this stage, the insect is immobile and protected by a hard covering. It's at this point when the insect develops its wings, legs, and sexual organs. This month, IHeart Radio, is celebrating the stars of the 2026 Winter Games. Raised in the mountains of Silverthorn, Colorado, Red Girard is a snowboarder snowboarder. After shocking the world with a gold medal as a teenager in 2018,

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He's a professional hunter with Robin Hurt Safaris. Great guy. Well, he and I were doing an event in Nashville on February 19th at the Safari Club International Convention. Even when we were hunting, we're like, man, we should do a presentation about our time in Africa at SCI. So we're doing that. This is February 19th, Safari Club International Convention in Nashville. We're going to do two things. From 930 to 1030, we're going to do a meet and greet at the Robin Hurst.

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Question three, the topic is hunting. This three-volt battery, which is the most commonly used battery in range finders, has a name that combines two letters with a number. Corey locks in his answer first. Didn't even need to finish the question. He added this three-volt battery, which is the most commonly used battery in range. Finders has a name that combines two letters with a number. Go get your gut, Brody. I did.

Yeah, don't change it now. Steve, do you have this one right? Yeah, I'm pretty close. He's got a couple letters. I don't think this is a pupae, pupa situation. Yeah, you're going to have to dead nuts nail it. This three-volt battery, which is the most commonly used battery in range finders, has a name that combines two letters with a number.

Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answer, Seth. Without an answer, Janice says, CR2. Randall, CR24. Corey, CR2. Steve, CR1, 225. Brody. No, CR 123.

123. Brody, CR 2032. The correct answer. The correct answer. is CR2. So Janice and Corey. Wow. Look at the CR 1, 2, 3.

Because you're talking about this, because some range finders run on the CR 1, 2, 3, and some run on that little smaller one. Most commonly used battery range finders. Come on, man. There's a picture of it. The CR1, 2, 3 is the Sterripen battery. Yes.

Now, if you accepted, if you accepted Pupé for Pupa, CR24 in a game where spelling doesn't count. You're not going to give me that? No, we're not going to give it to you. This is the most commonly used battery in range fighters. I've got a range finder that runs on a coin battery. Well, that's what pisses me off. A CR2.

You're right. I actually not think about it. I don't think I've seen a range finder with the CR 123. The C stands for lithium chemistry. The R stands for round, which is its shape. And the two is the number it is in the manufacturer series. CR2 batteries look like smaller version of D batteries. Their most common uses are digital cameras, flashlights, and rangefinders, as well as security systems and medical equipment.

Phil has a picture of one of them up there right now. Thanks, Bill. That is a CR2. Question for the topic is public lands. Aaron Ralston cut off his right arm in 2003 while trapped in Blue John Canyon in this state. We're looking for the name of the state. state. Dang.

Aaron Ralston cut off his right arm in 2003 while trapped in Blue John Canyon in this state. Brody, Steve, Randall already have their answers. I was at Brody's house last night for a minute and his son had to do a report in school. And one of his examples or subjects was Aaron Rawlston. And we talked about this little event last night. Serendipity. Wow. But the state that he cut his arm.

off in was not mentioned. Brody, did you need your son having that subject come up? You just knew this without that. No. Steve, you have this one right? Who knows? Aaron Rolston cut off his right on

2000. I thought I knew the last one. While trapped in Blue John Canyon. Steve should have been there for that discussion last night because it was about when you go on adventures and you have to overcome risks and adversity. What were other examples given besides Aaron Ralston. Oh, did he?

Oh, he had to do like eight or ten different ones. Wow. Mm. All right. Is everybody ready? Go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth says Arizona. Janice and Randall and Corey and Steve and Brody say Utah.

They got it. The correct answer is Utah. You almost put it. My brain is splitting in half. The accident happened on the border of Canyon, Land's National Park in southeast Utah, Ralston was solo canyering when an 800-pound boulder was dislodged and crushed his right hand against the canyon wall. After five days of being trapped, he noticed his arm was starting to decompose due to a lack of circulation, and that's when he decided

he needed to cut it off. So he broke his arm and then used a multi-tool knife in pliers to cut his skin and tendons. He then hiked six miles before encountering a family from the Netherlands who called for help. Phil has a picture that he's going to show us. This picture was taken after the accident. You're about to see Aaron's blood that was left on the canyon wall and border. This is your last chance to look away if you don't want

to see it. All right, Phil. Let's see that picture. That was taken by a crew of 13 federal employees who went there to move the boulder. That's his arm in there? That's his arm in there, yep. So they had to move the boulder. It took 13 people

a hydraulic jack, a winch, and you can still see the blood there after this picture was taken. They said you can see the blood in the canyon for years afterwards. His memoir is, isn't it between a rock and a hard place? I think so. And then he had the movie.

127 hours. James Franco, yeah. It's great airplane fare. That's a good endorsement. What was, Brody gave me a little tidbit that you didn't mention and the reason it took so long for anyone who noticed he was gone

or to find where he was even at. To tell folks where he was. Well, and the day before he went there, he had climbed Mount Sopras in Colorado and literally walked off the mountain, which is a pretty big feat. It's not like just a little hike. Did that and then literally jumped in his car

and drove to the desert without saying nothing. He didn't tell folks, yeah, where he was going to be. There's a good lesson to be learned. You might have just said it and I just wasn't paying attention, but he was just in there and all of a sudden this boulder just comes crashing down. he's in the wrong place I saw that it said

he dislodged it but I don't know what that means what his involvement was or use it as a handhold I don't know Question five The topic is conservation The stop aquatic blank

campaign that targets anglers and boaters was created by the aquatic nuisance species task force in 2002 We'll get a I'll get a scoreboard update from Phil the Engineering

after this. They'll do it where I had real loud writing. The stop aquatic blank campaign that targets anglers and boaters was created by the aquatic nuisance species task force

in 2002. And that three word quote, stop aquatic blank has an exclamation point at the end of it. I'm trying my old joke out. Saskin-write. B-U-G-G-S.

You're not going to tell us how many of that time. In that word. Not telling you how many letters. Stop Aquatic Blank campaign that targets anglers and boaters was created by the Aquatic nuisance species task force in 2002. Yanni, waffling on an answer. Do you have a guess, Yonnellis? Waffling Yonny.

Seth, do you have this one right? I don't know. Pretty educated, guess. Okay. Randall revisiting his whiteboard. Do you have this one right? Well, if I was revisiting my whiteboard, Spencer, do you really think I'd be... His face isn't red.

He looks very confident. No, I have two. I have two. I'm going back and forth between here. Okay. I'm ready. You have yours locked in. Corey, are you ready?

No. His brain split. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth says invasives. Oh, you're out of here. Yes, he's hitchhikers. Randall says invasives. Corey says spread.

Steve and Brody say hitchhikers. The correct answer is hitchikers. Half of the room got that one right. Stop aquatic hitchikers is responsible for the aggressive signage around boat launches and fishing areas that tell you to clean, drain, and dry. And if you're an angler, they also ask that you dispose, which means putting unwanted bait in the trash instead of in the water. All right, we are one. You know, they give you that little passport. for your boat and you probably lose it.

Sure. Is that what it says on there? What? Stop aquatic hitchhikers? It says hitchhikers on there? Yeah, all the signs. All the signs. They got like a little passport for your boat.

All I ever see is the clean, drain, dry thing. Stop aquatic hitchhikers. All right, well, one six of the way through the tournament. Phil, give us a scoreboard update. At halftime in round one. Jesus. Wow. We are at Seth.

Thank you. And Randall. with two points. Oh. See, I said you guys. They're turning a new one. I don't even know. Steve and Corey have three points a piece.

Brody Henderson has four, and the only person matching the Shelby Index currently, and with a perfect game is Janice Putelle is five points. This is fun. Oh, and Shelby rolled a 10? No, no, she rolled a five. Oh, yeah.

Johnny, geez. What question are we on? We're going to question. Yonnie's kind of a creeper over there. Not a creeper, but like a sleeper. Yeah. Both. Question six, the topic is hunting.

Just so they're kind of quietly kicking an ass, you know? This condition causes ringing in your ears and is defined as, quote, the perception of sound when no actual external noise is present. Oh, darn it. We've got five confident players and Corey. Yeah. This condition causes ringing in your ears.

Oh, Brodia. I spoke too soon, four confident players, and Corey and Brody. This condition causes ringing in your ears and is defined as... Everybody in this room. The perception of sound on the way of the actual noise is present. We'll give you a point for it. I had it so bad here and I couldn't sleep. Really?

Did it wake you up or just not let you go to sleep? Just won't let me go to sleep. The folks in this room have made me very good about ear protection because of their experience with this. this condition My cause is ringing in your ears Like with my kids I pounded in doing it And is defined as

The perception of sound When no actual External noise Is present You know he's not a hunter But is really good at Good about it With construction equipment and stuff

Yeah And is and it's so good about it That it sort of It inspires you to be good about it But it's Travis Barton When you're hanging out At him and his shop I mean

It's like he's gonna go pick up A Phillips screwdriver He probably got that in the fire department, too. Oh, yeah. A lot of equipment. I'm sure. Because they just run around, you know, they drive with them on and stuff. So he probably just became used to doing it.

Yeah. But I mean, like, he's like a guy where you're like, ah, it's just one cut. And he's like, yep. No, it's not going to pop in. Like, it's just one of those things. You know what you have it. I have a pretty dumb. I have a really dumb answer.

Let me see what you got. Yeah. I think I got the first letter. It's the only thing I don't. You ever heard of that? I fail to on that. No. Is everybody ready?

Okay. Go ahead. And reveal your answers. You could have written that for every word. Spence three different ways. That's what I meant. Seth, Janus, Randall say tinnitus. Corey,

Appulation. It depends on what part of the region you're from. Steve, Tinnitus and Brody. Can I tell you a good tinnitus story? Without an answer. Correct answer is tinnitus. Tinnitus.

I'm talking to a doctor and he says, he keeps saying tinnitus. Tinnitus. And I'm like, is that how you say that? He goes, I don't know how you say it. Good for that doctor. Tinnitus affects about 20% of people and is more common in older adults.

It is typically caused by age-related hearing loss in ear injury or a circulatory problem. Mayo Clinic says those who are exposed to heavy equipment, chainsaws, or firearms are the most likely demographic to have tinnitus. Oh, just I would do anything to go back in time and protect my ears, man. Question seven, the topic is fishing.

Not anything, but. This fishing brand with a cartoony name is best known for the castmaster and little Cleo. This fishing brand with a cartoony name is best known for the castmaster and little Cleo. Seth has his answer. He's the only one. One of my favorites. Okay. One of those lures or the brand itself makes?

Well, for ice fishing, the cast master, but the brand as a whole. This fishing brand. with a cartoony name is best known for the castmaster and little Cleo. Do you got it on? No. Seth, maybe

I'm gonna need a while. Good. It's this one right. Oh, a cartoony name fishing brand. Now this is a fishing question. There you go.

I mean, I owe nothing to do with the NBA. No sports involved. No geography. Mm-hmm. This is a good old fishing question. This is a good old fishing question. I bet you'd have got this immediately if you wouldn't have put cartoonie in there. Oh, okay.

Just forget I said that part. This fishing brand with a name is best known for the castmaster and Little Cleo. That's right. They have a name. Brody, do you own some castmasters and Little Cleo? We used to use Little Cleos for salmon in Lake Erie. I don't use them around here for anything. So there's a lot of Castmaster and Lerner.

Little Cleo ownership in this room, but only Seth is confident that he has a right. I still buy, like when we go down to Baha, I like buy castmasters, dude. This could ruin the perfect game for Janus. This is question seven. What is a, I don't know, the adjective cartoonie? This fishing brand with a cartoony name is best known for the castmaster and little Cleo. Phil, would you say, would you say that's a cartoony

Oh, totally. I thought that was very clever. Totally. Totally. It's cartooning. It's clever. Randall, do you have this one right? I'm not sure. Okay.

Is it a cartoony name you have? Yes. Okay. I think so. Fishing brand with a cartoony name is best known for the castmaster and little Cleo. I think that's plenty of time, Spencer. I tend to agree with you, Seth.

Oh. Are you all there for? I just got to come up with one. Going to give up. The castmaster in Little Cleo. Do you give up? Janice, writing down a cartoony name. It's not cartoony at all.

My name, what I wrote down? Yeah. Well, at least I wrote down something. Do you have it, Randall? I'm not sure. Okay. Randall kind of needs this one to hang around. You're telling me, Spencer.

You're telling me. Brody now has an answer. Brody, you like your answer. He just gives up. Steve, do you give up? No, I got some, but it's not right. Go ahead and reveal your answer. Seth says, Acmey.

Yonis, Meps, Randle, Daredevil, Corey Ugly Stick, Steve, Daredevil, Brody's don't. Wildy Cowdy's brand of choice. The correct answer. Ian Frazier wrote a piece one time. It was a lawsuit when Wiley Coyote sued Acme. Oh. How did that end?

It was Coyote v. Agmy. And there's a movie. It was like the whole script. There's a movie coming out based on that. Oh, the most option. That's cool. Acme Tackle Company was founded in 1952 by two brothers, one of which held the Rhode Island State Record for a nine-pound largemouth bass.

Warner Brothers made the Acme name famous in the 1930s as the brand that provides faulty equipment for Wiley Coyote. They chose the name Acme because it was a popular, generic business name at the time, which got your company better placement towards the front of phone. books. Mm. Yeah, I don't think I knew of this fishing brand until now. No, I wouldn't have got that.

You could have given me all day and I wouldn't know. No. You could give me all week. Question. Locked in a room and I wouldn't come up with that. His cooking. I'm Dylan Clayfair. And I'm Tyler Smith.

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or wherever you get your podcast. Hey, this is Steve from the Meat Eater podcast. Listen up, if you tuned into YouTube and watched our Africa series, we were hunting in Tanzania, well, if you did so, you know that the dude I'm hunting with is Morgan Potter. He's a professional hunter with Robin Hertz Safaris.

Great guy. Well, he and I were doing an event in Nashville on February 19th at the Safari Club International Convention. Even when we were hunting, we're like, man, we should do a presentation about our time in Africa at SCI. So we're doing that. This is February 19th, Safari Club International Convention in Nashville. We're going to do two things.

From 930 to 1030, we're going to do a meet and greet at the Robin Hertz Safari's booth. Our actual events at 2 o'clock in the Omni Ballroom, after the event, I'll be happy to sign any books or take pictures, whatever's on your mind if you come on down. To get tickets, you've got to go to the Safari Club International website and get a ticket to the convention. Convention. Once you do that, you're prompted to go get a ticket to our event. All the ticket price goes to SCI. It's a nonprofit conservation group. All ticket prices go to SCI. They don't go to Meena Morgan. But we're going to be there. Guaranteed laughs. Come check it out. Can't wait to see you. February 19 Nashville Safari Club International Convention. This next great question is via Aaron Shelton. This six-letter word is defined as, quote, a fish, especially a herring that has been cured by. splitting, salting, drying, and smoking. Six-letter word is defined as a fish, especially a herring, that has been cured by splitting, salting, drying, and smoking. Steve, do you have this one right?

And chobie. Randall, do you have this one right? I think so. Six-letter word. A fish, especially a herring that has been cured by splitting, salting, drying, and smoking. This is question eight. another scoreboard update from Phil Lee Engineer after this.

I can fucking count better than you. Oh. What do you mean count? Six letters. Let me see. I'm not letting you look. I'm not going to change it. You have to see mine.

This dumbest thing I've ever seen. Six-letter words. I don't know what he said. Oh, wait. Six-letter word is defined as. What is? I said was I could count better than you in my set.

I wasn't paying attention to the sixth letter thing. A fish, especially a herring that has been cured by splitting, that's why she's ever sharing and smoking. Yeah. Lesson learned for Steve. Well, you did tell me you can count better. Randall, do you have this one right? I don't know.

And we get a scoreboard update. Is that hat too tight? That's, yeah. I'll be honest. It's not comfortable. You know what Charles Portis's novel, True Grit? A guy says, someone has an injury. Can't remember if he gets bit by a snake.

And he says, it's swelled up, tighter than Dick's hat band. What does that mean? That's a good trivia question for you. His hat's too tight. And what? Tighter than Dick's hat band. Yeah. Then there's no character named Dix.

Dick? No, that's that I can think of. I don't have you ever read that now. There was a character named LaBeef though. LaBeef. No, they call him LaBeef in a movie. Sixth letter word. A fish, especially a herring that has been cured by splitting, salt and drying, and smoking. He's everybody ready.

Dude, I don't have anything. Yanni can't find a six-letter word. Brody, you need you put like a credit. Like a thanks, too. I will. I owe it all to Steve. Corey, do you have this one right. I'm like, 62% confident. Janice, do you give up?

Yeah, I'm not to give up. Go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth, without an answer. Yonis, without an answer. Randall says, Kipper. Corey says, pickle. Steve and Brody say Kipper. They got it.

The correct answer is Kipper, K-I-P-E-R. That's what I thought. I looked at Brody. What did he like? He had kippered. Well, I didn't look like a kippard snack. Oh, sure. Kippers.

You'd give it to them. Even though it was a letter. Yeah, it would cause some drama, I'm certain. Kippers are traditionally served as a breakfast item in the UK, but are more popular as a canned snack in the United States. This word can be used as a verb, kippering, which just means that you salt something and air dry it. The USDA even provides a definition for kippered beef,

which they say is a less dry version of beef jerky. Yeah, that's what had me confused was I was thinking about the verb. He'll have to care of the brush card herring. He talks about a guy trying to have a plan to kill cattle and inject the cattle's vascular system with brine. Oh. Thinking he could figure out how to preserve whole cattle. Didn't work. Kipper it.

He'll give us the scoreboard update. Two questions left. Oh, have a lot. Oh, drop two. Oh, man, I'm creeping up. I'm tiptoeing up on old yon. Corey's holding on the last place with three points. Seth and Randall are up next with four points apiece.

We're tiptoeing on old Steve. Then comes Stephen Brody with five. And Janice doesn't have the perfect game anymore, but he's still in first place with six points. Two questions left in episode ago. Anybody's game. Question nine, the topic is conservation. Are there sub-winners?

Did you cover this? No, it's just one big winner. One big winner. You know, we count like, say, Seth wins this episode that he gets a win. in the in the tally book. Oh, he does? He will.

So there is a suburb. There is a suburb. I thought you meant like a third, fourth place. No. Question nine, the topic is conservation. This 2,000 mile pipeline, which shares its name with a beer, carries oil from Alberta to Texas.

Oh. Brody and Randall and Seth and Corey have their answers. Steve and Janus do not. Give me a second. This 2,000 mile pipeline, which shares its name with a. beer carries oil from Alberta to Texas. Steve, do you like your answer?

Yeah. Okay. Yanni, you like your answer? I got an answer. I'm going to stick with it unless something pops in my head. I think the beer clue is a bit much. 2,000 mile pipeline, which shares its name with a beer. Carries oil from Alberta to Texas.

Go ahead and reveal your answers. Seth says Keystone. Giannis says Canadian. That's a big stumble for you. Randall, Corey, Steve, Brody, Keystone. The correct answer is the Keystone Pipeline. The Keystone Pipeline was commissioned by TransCanada in 2010, with the third phase being completed in 2016.

It carries about 600,000 barrels across eight states and three provinces each day. A fourth phase of the pipeline called the Keystone XL was paused by Obama in 2015, then resurrected by Trump in 2016 and then paused by Biden in 2021. Trump said in 2025 that he'd like to revive the Keystone XL, but the company in charge of it has reportedly moved on from the idea. Phil has a picture of it there showing us its current route. If the XL were to be completed someday,

which their website doesn't even exist for it anymore, so I think that is a sign. That would be the green pipeline that you see there. Everything else is already done. All right, Phil, give us another scoreboard update before we do question 10 and wrap up episode one. Yanni slip up there made the game more interesting. Yes, for very interesting. Tightening up.

Because everyone got a point except for Yannis. So now we've got Corey with four, Seth and Randall with five, and all tied up with six points a piece are Yanni, Steve and Brody. There's no need for like a tiebreaker. We will do if it comes down to a tiebreaker after episode three, there's going to be three tiebreakers to see. Wow. But at the end of this, there's no need for one or two. You don't give out any prize money? No.

Do you have two questions? Do you have all the other questions selected already? I have 24 of the 30 written. Okay. So I have six to go out how I can get a look at those. I don't need to ask the second question is, does anybody have to go anywhere after this? So we could just play straight through. No, we go.

Episode two is tomorrow. You're going to have to go home, wash off the fleas and come back. I never thought of that. Let's see. You can still just do it on one shabang And then break it up to get your shows You just don't want to do it that way Well, someone's schedule in this room didn't allow for that

I could get tired Here in the correct answer review so far One was the Rio Grande 2 Pupa 3 CR2 battery 4 Utah is where Aaron Ralston cut off his arm 5 is stop aqua quatic hitchhikers 6 tinnitus

7 Acme Tackle Company, 8 Kipper, 9, Keystone Pipeline. Here's question 10. And this last great question is via Cole Wagner. A blank cord is a single row of firewood that's four feet high and eight feet wide, making it about one third the size of a full cord. Oh, Steve has told us about this. I got a lot to say on this subject.

A blank cord is a single row of firewood that's four feet high. and eight feet wide, making it about one-third the size of a full cord. Steve knows it. Seth, do you have this one right? I think so. Dude, I'm like that tortoise, dude. Yanni's like that hair, man. Do you know what I'm saying? No, what are you saying?

Maybe we'll decide that, like, after the third game. I know you've said this to me. I always got it. This is one of the main things I talk about. Yeah. This is a pillar of Steve's conversations. If I were running with... Like when I go to go to a party, dude. Spencer, if I were running this game, I would have looked at this question and thought,

Steve will know this. Yeah, like, if I was at a party making small talk, this is something I would be like, you know. I was an employee of Steve, so I was going to butter him up a little bit. put this question into the tournament. A blank cord is a single row of firewood that's four feet high and eight feet wide, making

it about one third the size. Took a look to see what he wrote. Of a full board. Do you two agree? You don't? You do know, you said. Suss of Woodman. He's got a major, he's majored in forestry. Yeah. Yeah, but Janus

has been chopping wood all, cutting wood all wet. And I've been hanging out. with Steve for a dozen years. Not in the biz, dude. He can chop all the wood in the world and never have reason to talk about this. He probably just looks at the pile and he's like, that looks about right. Yeah. That looks like about the pile I had last year.

A blank cord is a single row of firewood that's four feet high and eight feet wide, making it about one third the size of a full cord. If you fill up an eight foot bed, standard pickup truck with rounds, not

split yet, you reckon you got over a cord full full yeah because I used well yeah so if you put what's funny is you know when you load full rounds it looks like you have more air gaps but they're so densely packed that when you split it go to pack it in

um it's out what's that it evens out yeah like it looks like any efficient but it's efficient to put rounds in there but it's it's heavy but you can carry a full cord in a truck Oh, yeah, it sagged my three-quarter time. But you'd have to have racks on the sides. Yeah. They come up to about the height of the cab.

Oh, to get a cord? Yeah. Oh, really? Yeah. Well, four feet high. Is everybody ready? I remember cord of oak was, buddy mine had it weighted on a scale one time.

A quarter of oaks like five thousand pounds or something like that. Where you give up? I got an answer. You know, I'll tell you this, too, man. Can I tell these guys a little tidbit? Yes. Let's get the answer up first. Go ahead and reveal your answer.

Seth says face. Yonis says Rick. Randall says half. I've heard that. I am. I am. Steve says face. Brody says half.

The correct answer is face or a Rick. A Rick. No, not spelled like that. You don't say a Rick chord. Spelling doesn't count. It's a Rick of Wood is R-I-C. Not a Rick-C-C-C-. We're going to give it to Y-N-H-N-E-N-R-S.

You wouldn't say a Rick-C-C-R-R-R-Bord. A Rick of Wood is the same. measurement as a face cord. A blank cord, a Rick cord is not a thing. If I Google Rick cord, I bet I see that. Rip cord is a thing.

Google Rick cord in quotation marks. Isn't that that action? Isn't that also the action of stacking wood? I think we're going to give it to Yonis. Dude, you cannot give it to him. It's face cord. That's what I was going to put. If it said a blank,

and it's not a row, a Rick you sell independently. Here on the spruce, they call it a face cord or Rick cord. So there's someone, Timberwolf, firewood processing equipment. Call it a Rick cord. They call it a Rick cord. Well, they're wrong.

Let me tell you about the flavor text. Rick cord. A full cord is also four feet high. Said you're a wood man. Has anybody ever said you a Rick cord? No. A Rick? We never used Rick either.

We never used Rick. A full cord is also four feet high and eight feet wide. but is four feet deep, which usually means it has three rows of wood. A face cord is the same measurement, but with a single row instead of three. A face cord is also known as a Rick of Wood. There is a Sheldon cord, which is bigger than a full cord, a stove cord, which is a face cord with shorter logs, and a running cord, which is a long stack of wood that hasn't yet been sorted. So we're going to give it to Yanni for the Rick cord.

That is stupid. Because the timber roll. Firewood processing equipment agrees. Why would I not be the person that decides? I was in the firewood business, man. Woodchuckersfirewood.combed. They call it a Rick cord as well. R-I-C-Gord.

Wedgers Firewood, they call it a Rick-Cord. You bring in one serious woodman into this room and you say to him, have you ever uttered the word Rick Cord in your life? Mm-hmm. It's not the same thing. Bill, give us a scoreboard out day. We are one-third of the way through our fourth annual meat eater trivia championship. It's a close game.

Corey's got four. Randall Williams is next with five. Seth and Brody have six points a piece. And tied for first place. They once ran for the White House on the same ticket. Now they find themselves at odds. Like Trump and Pence. It's John Putelles and Stephen Rinella.

Yeah, we're the Trump and Pence of Trivias. Can I tell you my tidbit? Danny's reading this book. He's got this book. It's like about firewood. It's like a Norwegian book or something. It's like the whole subject is firewood. Everything you could ever want to know about firewood.

Anyways, in there is something I didn't realize. You talk about BTUs. When they do wood BTUs, it's wood by volume. So when you rank wood and it's BTUs, it's wood by volume. If you go wood, if it's by weight, all wood is the same. B-TU. By weight. Hmm.

You follow me? That makes sense. Yes. Because it's the same chemistry. Because oak log would weigh twice as much as whatever. Yeah. So by volume, they vary. By weight, they don't vary.

And I think Osage Orange is like one of the highest. Locusts. Black locusts. So it'd be like, it's dent. That means it's like, it's not there's something special about the cellular. It's like, the book could be wrong. My dad always warned me about books.

I'd say that's just one man's opinion. All right. Trump and Pence tied up going into episode two. We'll see you back here for the second part of the media trivia tournament. Join us next week for more meat eater trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. Thanks, Spencer. Horse. Yeah, Spencer from South Dakota, he's the host.

Using those smooth mellow tones, he lays their. questions down. And he likes taking those two and three-year-old bucks. And he's an avid amateur. Hey, this is Steve from the Meat Eater podcast. Listen up, if you tuned into YouTube and watched our Africa series, we're hunting in Tanzania, well, if you did so, you know that the dude I'm hunting with is Morgan Potter.

He's a professional hunter with Robin Hertz Safaris. Great guy. Well, he and I were doing an event in Nashville on February 19th at the Safari Club International. Convention. Even when we were hunting, we're like, man, we should do a presentation about our time in Africa at SCI. So we're doing that. This is February 19th, Safari Club International Convention in Nashville. We're going to do two things. From 930 to 1030, we're going to do a meet and greet at the Robin Hertz Safari's booth. Okay. Our actual events at 2 o'clock in the Omni Ballroom. After the event, I'll be happy to sign any books or take pictures, whatever's on your mind if you come on down. To get tickets, you've got to go to the Safari Club International website and get a, ticket to the convention. Once you do that, you're prompted to go get a ticket to our event. All the ticket price goes to SCI. It's a nonprofit conservation group. All ticket prices go to SCI. They don't go to Mia Morgan. But we're going to be there. Guaranteed laughs. Come check it out. Can't wait

to see you. February 19, Nashville, Safari Club International Convention. This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human.